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! 10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JAXTXAKY 22, 1910. DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING ATTEMPTED HOLDUP BY AND SHOOTING OF ROONEY, PORTRAITS OF PLANS MADE FOR RENAMINGSTREETS DEAD ROBBER AND OFFICER WHO KILLED HIM. Policeman Who Shot Robber Rooney Did His Duty Within the Law. City Engineer Works Out a Plan Which Street Com mittee Approves. SHOOTS FACING DRAWN GUN NEW NUMBERING INCLUDED CHIEF COMMENDS PATROLMAN STAHL Dead Stan Im Identified as Outlaw Who Held TJp Iirugstoro on How j thorn -Avenue Roommate i la Detained as Suspect. I That ratrolman Stahl, In shooting to fieath Eugene S. Rooney aa the young nun attempted to hold up the Last Chance Saloon, at Twenty-eighth street and Sandy road, a few minutes be fore 1 o'clock yesterday morning acquitted himself In a maner reflecting increased respect for the Police Department, and that the victim of his well-directed shot was -a dangerous man with a criminal record, despite his youth, was borne out In yesterday's investigation 'of the case. It was not only shown that the police officer did not ehoot from ambush, but that he was under cover of the cocked weapon of the masked robber when he fired. Cliief of Police Cox, who instituted Inquiry to see whether Stahl had acted well within his rights aa an officer of the law, was elated at the etatements ef the several eyewitnesses of the trag edy, and took occasion personally to commend the officer for the way in which he performed his duty. The dead boy robber was identified by his brother. R. J. Rooney, a Postoffice employe, early yesterday morning. R. J. Rooney and his family and Mrs. Rooney, their mother, who Is a nurse by occupation, live at C92 Michigan eve Siue, Sellwood. Itooimmite Heltl as Suspect. The next sensational development was the positive identillcation of Rooney by "W. C Witzel, the druggist, who w as held ip and robbed of money and jewelry at the Hawthorne Pharmacy, East Thirty Blxth street and Hawthorne avenue. Mr. Witzel visited the morgue and was mOBt vmphatlo In his recognition of young .Rooney. Following this waa the arrest of Theo dore Brant, who had been living with Rooney in room 89 at the Cadillac rooming-house. Third and Clay streets. De tectives Coleman and Snow took Brant Into custody after searching the room end finding a boat of caxtridifefi, the long coat supposed to have been used OS the flight of the Hawthorne-avenue pharmacy hold-up, a dark cap and a blue polka Bot handkerchief, which were also no ticeable articles in the dress of the drug Store robbers. Brant is being held as a euapect, though tha authorities have not fceen able to secure any positive evidence to show that Brant was implicated in the thieving expeditions of Rooney. Brant is several years older than Jtoouey and has been working as second Aook In a small restaurant at Fourth and Salmon streets. He maintains his inno cence stoutly, and even denies that he kta aware of the character of his room mate. Brant was seen yesterday by (druggist Witael, who said Brant looked Something like the second robber, but he coul not be ure. ! Stahl Tells His Story. R. Q. Conklin, a real estate dealer, m-hose offLce is close to the Hawthorna Pharmacy, and who saw the two robbers peering Into the window of the store that Bight shortly before the robbery, was of the opinion that Brant greatly resembled the man he say there, but would not m nice a nositlve Identification. Patrolman Btahl, who was summoned before Chief of Police Cox early yester- dav morning, sold: "I was standing In the rear of the fwjoon between the stove and the wall. I had lust looked at my waicn wnen me masked man entered with his gun pointed. "Throw up your hands and line up, lie shouted. The three men in the saloon Jiut up their hands. As soon as I saw that it was a robber, I dropped my fwatch and grasped the handle of my gun rwhich I carry in a scabbard in front. I rocked the hammer. Both of the men in (front of the bar were between me and the robber so I did not dare fire. Btupped out into the open, going behind the stove so that I would have a chance to : have him In the clear. As I moved nut, he must have seen that I did not have my hands up, for turning the muzzle of his gun toward me he cried: 'Put em up.' "I was covered. There was nothing left for me to do. In quicker time than 1 can tell you I pulled my irun and tired. He fell and his gun lay within a few Inches of his hand. I told him to put up his hands. I did. not know whether ne had been struck or not. I advanced toward him and he muttered that he couldn't put up hie hands. When I picked up his gun I found it cocked. I then gave mo gun to one 01 xne men, Bnd we raced outside and around the block to see if the robber might have a confederate. We saw no one else. In the saloon at the time were John Collins, the bartender; J. T. Cawood, conductor on the Kos-e City Park line. who Uvea at 201 East Twenty-eighth street North, and W. S. Dryden, a laborer who lives at East Twenty-eighth end Thompson streta. These men all tell the same story. Rooney Previously Paroled. Rooneiy was arrested by Detective Price bout. two years ago In company with Ueoree McCarthy, a burglar, for the burglary of Nudlemane cigar and candy store, at 2874 First street. Because Mc Oarthy was wanted for six burglaries in Seattle whre the evidence was strong gainst him, the local police waived their right to prosecute him. McCarthy is now serving an eight-year sentence. Rooney woo tried and convicted, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Owing to his extreme youth. Judge Gautenbein paroled lilm. AXter lite release, Detective Price be came Interested In the youth because he fcelloved Rooney was In earnest In his pro testation for reform and secured him a position as driver for a grocery store near Nudlomarfs place. Rooney later xircrro a wagon for G. Covach, at First and Jefferson streets, and up until De cember toad been driving the. delivery wagoa for the Bay City Market, at JTourth and Yamhill streete. He had been living at home with his mother until about a year ago when he left and took up his lodgings at various rooming- honses. The Rooney family came to Portland from Kansas in 1003. F. G. McPherson, a real estate dealer, has started a subscription paper In cir culation for a fund to be presented to Patrolmen Stahl and Croxford. Croxford recently killed a robber in the Last Chance saloon, at the north end of Union avenue, under circumstances similar to the killing of Rooney. FIXES rt'RKI) lit a ta 14 DAYS. FAM) OINTMKNT i Biiarmnteed to our any mm of Itchlnx. Blind. BlerdlnK or PrrrtrudiDS ,pila In to it aaza or ;mopjy..rXanJel. BOo i C ASTORIA'S DEMAND jfl i S) NOT REASONABLE Text of Interstate Commerce Commission's Decision Makes This Clear. EVIDENCE IS REVIEWED, oould be taken to Portland without Interstate movement. It was alleged in complaint that the rail roads unduly favored Portland against Astoria by paylngr the towage and pilotage on grain veawls between Astoria and Portland. It wa. however, shown at the hearing that while euoh practice had obtained in years gone by, none such now exists. The principal witness for complainant In oase No. 2288 (Farmers' Co-operative Edu cational Union) was of the opinion that in or der to export grain from Portland It was nec essary for a vessel to partly load at Portland and for part of her cargo to be taken to As toria on lighters and be there taken on board. The record, however, shows that that practice Grain Handling Facilities Are at Present Terminals and Xo Obli gation Is on Roads to Dupli cate Them at Astoria. That an obligation does not rest upon the railroads of duplicating- facilities for exporting grain at Astoria that have been established at Portland, Se attle and Tacoma, is a specific finding of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion In the Astoria comnon rate case decided January 4 as shown by the full text of the decision received In Portland yesterday. , The commission In its opinion re views the evidence submitted before Commissioner Clark In Portland last September In considerable detail, be fore denying to Astoria the only rul ing with which the Astoria Chamber of Commerce announced it would be satisfied. While the commission orders the establishment of Joint rates from the grain producing territory of Washing- - ton and Idaho to Portland, the rate ; ordered is not the rate common to Portland, Seattle and Tacoma, as prayed for by Astoria, but a rate of not more than 4V4 cents per 100 pounds higher than the rates contemporane ously in force from the same points to Portland. It is left to the railroad companies which were defendants In the proceeding to agree upon the di vision of the new Joint rates, the com mission reserving the right to enter a supplementary order If the defendants are unable to agree. Who Commission Holds . Tha opinion of the commission fol lows in part: 'The distances via the direct lines from the parts of the wheat-growing sections to Seattle and to Astoria do not differ greatly. The dlBtance to Astoria, however, la some what greater In practically every instance. The direct lines of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern to Seattle and Tacoma are acroia the Camsade Mountains. They have a longer grade route by using the Spokane, Portland & Seattle to Vancouver, Wash., and the Northern paoiflc, thence to Tacoma and Seattle. The direct route to Astoria is down and along the Snake and Columbia Rivers. No railroad reaches As toria except the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad, and no grain could reach that point all rail except by pasBlng through Portland. The Oregon Railroad. & Navigation Company has no line to Tacoma or to Seat tle, although it Is understood that arrange ments are about perfected for It to reach those points over Joint track arrangements with the Northern Pacific "Grain was exported from Portland before any railroad was constructed to that point. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company was the first line from the .wheat belt to Portland and the first through line from the East. Prior to 1887 the Northern Pa cific had its line from the East through Spokane to a connection with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation at Wallula Junction. In that year its line over the Cascade Moun tains to Tacoma was completed. In 1893 the Great Northern completed Its line to Seattle. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern desired to build up ports and com mercial centers at' Tacoma and Seattle, and they established at those points the same rates as were applicable to Portland. The Astoria & Columbia River road was com pleted in 18!tO, and it is therefore seen that Portland was an Important grain-exporting port before any railroad reached Astoria. "The business portion of the City of As toria is largely built on piling. Much testi mony was offered as to available room for suitable facilities for an export port, from which it appears that trackage room would not be available immediately at Astoria, hut that a reasonable amount would be avallble between Astoria and the ocean on what Is commonly termed Warren ton peninsula. A large portion of the present main track and Bidings of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad In Astoria rests on piling. Faculties Are at Terminals. The Oregon Railroad A Navigation Com pany, the Northern Pacific, the Great North ern and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle have their respective tracks, warehouses and wharves at Portland, Seattle and Tacoma for the purpose of handling this export grain. The warehouses are either owned by grain exporters or are owned by the rail roads and leased to the exporters. Such fa cilities are not available at Astoria, and if Che aefenuants were to arrange to haul large quantities of export grain to Astoria It would be necessary to construct tracks, warehouses, wharves and other necessary facilities for handling it. The grain rates from producing points In Washington to Seattle and Tacoma. were, un til June. 1009. fixed by the matute of the Btaite of Washington and are now subject to regulation by the Washington State Commis sion. In fact. Important reductions therein have but recently been made in accordance with the order of that Commtsaionw Neces sarily, If the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Coimmny desires to participate in hauling grain from producing points in Washing to a to a port of export it must make aa kw rates to Portland as are fixed by the State of Washington to Seattle or Tacoma. The rates from producing points is Oregon to Portland are In control of the Oregon Oommlwion and have recently been reduced. If the Northern Pacific and Great Northern desire to haul grain from producing points In Oregon to a port for export they must make as low rates o Seattle or Tacoma as the State of Oregon makes to Portland. All of the grain raised 1n Washington could be taken to Seattle or Tacoma uA all She grain raised) in Oregon - li - : , ., ' INCREASE IS DENIEO Mayor Simon Vetoes Advanced Pay for Police and Firemen. BURDEN FOR TAXPAYERS Theodore Brant. Suspected of Be ing Rooney's Accomplice. . wsu9 discontinue! years ago and- that any vesesel which can load at Astoria, can load to the same depth at Portland. Portland ILaa Improved River. Iirtervenor, the City of Portland, -haa done much to Improve navigation on the Columbia Klver. A municipal corporation known aa the Port of Portland haa been established by law. It haa power to levy taxes upon the property In a large portion of Multnomah County, Ore gon, which district embraces all of the City of Portland, for the purpose of deepening; the river and operating pilotage and towage serv ice between Portland and the sua, and, for cer tain other purposes. Through this means the City of Portland has expended $2,000,000 In Improving the conditions of navigation be tween Portland ani Astoria. It Is shown that steamship charter rates from Portland and from Astoria to foreign porta are and for a long time (have been the same. There is no evidence that grain would be taken by vesasela from Astoria cheaper than from Portland, except one hearsay state ment that a certain vessel owner had eaid that he would be willing to take it at a some what lower figure. It is shown that between 1903 and lt07 a differential existed on sailing vessels In favor of the Pupet Sound ports aa against Portland, which was principally be cause of the compulsory pilotage over the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River and the cost of discharging ballast In the river, where It must be taken from the ship in lighters, whereas on the Sound the water is so deep that vessels are perm itted to d um p bal last from the ships side. The compulsory pilotage has been abolished and the commercial Inter ests of Portland pay the cot of hauling the ballast from the ship's side. The differential therefore no longer exists. But while these conditions did exist they operated against As toria the same as against Portland. Dcunand Not Reasonable. It is alleged In complaint that by virtue of Its location the City of Astoria Is en titled to the same rate adjustment that la given to the other so-called Pacific Coast terminal cities. Does the fact that the de ferdants, the Great Northern, Northern Pa cific, Spokane. Portland &. Seattle and Ore gon Railroad & Navigation Companies have, under the circumstances recited, established arrangements for exporting grain at Port land. Seattle and Tacoma impose upon them the obligation of duplicating such facilities at Astoria? If so. would not the obliga tion also extend to any other point on the Columbia River between Portland and the sea, or to any point on Puget Sound between Blaine and Olympia? We do not think such obligation rests upon these defend ants or that we can reasonably or lawfully impose it upon them. Complainant argues that inasmuch as the Northern Paeinc and Great Northern own the stock of the Spokane. Portland & Seattle Railway, which latter owns the stock of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad, the entire line to Astoria, in fact and in effect. Is and should he treated as a con tinuous line of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. We are not able to ac cept the full measure of this contention. In Interstate Commerce Commission vs. Stlck ney and Smith, receiver, decided November 29, 1909, the Supreme Court of the United States said: "The Union Stockyards Company is an independent corporation and the fact. If it be a fact, that most or even all of its stock is owned by tha several railroad companies entering into Chicago, does not make its lines or property part of the lines or prop erty of the, separate railroad companies." In making the through rates from the grain fields to Astoria defendants add to the rate to Portland for the additional haul of 100 mileirto Astoria, lO cents per 100 pounds. This is equivalent to $2 per ton. or two cents per ton per mile an abnormal rate for transportation of grain, abnormally high aa compared with defendant's rates for like service elsewhere, and Its use in constructing rates on through shipments re sults In unreasonable rates from the grain fields to Astoria. The order of the commission then follows reducing the rate between Port land and Astoria to 4 cents on inter state grain traffic. Granting: of Time Off to Firemen Means Additional Expense to City of $3 0 ,000 Plenty of Men Seek Police Jobs. Believing the City Council made a mistake in fixing" the salaries of new recruits to the Police and KIre De partments at $90 a month for the first year, $95 for the second and $100 there after, Mayor Simon yesterday afternoon vetoed that item of the appropriating ordinance and filed with City Auditor Barbur messages containing his rea sons for bo doing. The measure passed the Council by a vote of nine to six and it is believed the veto will be sub tatned, probably by a larger vote. The Mayor bases his objection on the recommendation of the police and fire committees of the Executive Board. They asked the Council to grade the salaries of new men at $80, $90 and $100. They declared they can get plenty of first-class men, willing to work at those rates, but the Coun eilp in acting upon the report of the ways and means committee, voted the higher scale. Councilmen Baker and Rushlight .led the forces in the fight xor tne schedule of $90. S95 and S100. There are 30 new firemen and 20 new policemen to be added, and the Mayor points out in his veto message that it is a great additional burden to taxpay ers, and the item of salaries should re ceive very serious consideration. What the Mayor will do regarding other increases of salary voted by the council, is not yet determined by him He has until next Monday night to approve or disapprove. The points of his veto are contained in the following message, concerning the firemen: It Is an indisputable fact that an Inex perienced employe securing appointment as a firemen will not render as efficient and valued services to the city in the early stages of his employment as he will be able to after he haa had one, two and three years experience, and then an opportunity should be afforded, the fire committee of the Executive Board and the chief engineer of the department to determine the character and value of the services per formed by an employe before he receives an increase of salary. Another and equally potent reason for dis approving the Items seferred to is the neces sity for retrenchment in the expenditure of municipal funds, to the end that the rate of taxation may be reduced and kept aa low as powible consistent with good business policy and the requirements of a growing city. To meet the demand that firemen should be allowed 24 hours off every eight days, 30 additional firemen are to be provided. The expense incident to this large addition to the force has Induced your honorable body to add $30,000 to the appropriation for the Are department. It will thus be seen that the utmost care should be exercised in fixing the scale of salaries for the new men, in order to avoid the payment of unnecessary or exces sive salaries. SLEEPING CARS. Portland to Seattle and Tacoma. The Pullman sleeping car for Seattle and Tacoma on the Oregon & Wash ington oWl train leaving Portland at 11:45 P. M. is at the disposal of pas sengers after 9:30 P. M. This car may be occupied until 8 o'clock the fol lowing morning, thus enabling travel ers to obtain a full night's sleep with out the loss of an hour. Reservations and tickets. City Ticket Office, Third and Washington streets, or Union Depot. Nearly 30,000 beds in London hr!pitals ere daily occupied by the efck and maimed poor. Members of Committee, .Except Rushlight, Enthusiastic for Plan Which Will Go Before Coun cil Next Wednesday. City Engineer Morris yesterday aft ernoon submitted to the street com- ittee of the Council a plan for the wholesale renaming of streets and ave nues in Portland and for a new system of numbering, 100 numbers to the block. The plan was unanimously approved by the committee, and in its entirety recommended to the Council for adop tion. It will be acted upon next Wednesday. Mayor Simon is not fully favorable to the proposed system, thinking the new numbers xe necessary, but scarce ly helievins: in the renaming of streets. Under- the proposed plan, the city would be divided into four sections, Burnside street would be used as .one base and East Water street for the other. All thoroughfares running east and west would be called avenues and all those running north and south streets. Burnside would be renamed Central avenue and East Water Division street, to denote the dividing lines either direction. North of what is now Burnside street and west of what is now East Water street would be called "Northwest"; south of Burnside and west of East Water would be designated as " South west": east of East Water and south of Burnside, "southeast," and north of Burnside and east of East Water would be "Northeast." Following this system, south from "Central avenue" (Burnside), the num bers of the avenues would run so that what is now Washington street would be "Sixth avenue." Morrison would be "Eighth avenue," and so on down the list, the most radical changes occur ring in the renaming of the present streets. Some Streets Unchanged. Owing to the peculiar situation de veloped by the course of the Willamette River, the streets lying west of that stream and up to and including Front on the West Side, would not be changed, but remain as at present. This would make possible the begin ning of the numbering system of streets from First street west to the city limits, so that there will e no great change in that direction. Under the new plan what is now designated as "Fifth and Washington streets would then become "Fifth street and Sixth avenue," followed by the desig. natlng of the particular Bub-district, as "Fifth street and Sixth avenue, North west." On the East Side, beginning with "Division street" (East Vater), two changes would be made in existing con ditions. It would be necessary to make Union avenue "Fourth street" and Grand avenue "Fifth street." Those aro the only ones that would be changed, as the others are numbered properly now, the first street east of Grand ave nue being Sixth street, Slorris Father of Scheme. City Engineer Morris submitted this plan to the street committee because of strong demand for some simple and practical system of naming and num bering the streets. It was begun when a petition of Mount Scott people came in, asking that the subject be dealt with promptly, so they, might have their mail delivered by the Government carriers. Mr. Morris has been working on his scheme for a long time, and when it was laid before the members of the committee yesterday they unani mously recommended it to the Council for adoption. The committee overruled remon strances against the proposed opening and extending of Mill street, and rec ommended for passage an ordinance adopting within the fire limits of the East Side a design for lamp-posts similar to those now being installed on the West Side. Councilman Rushlight opposed the proposed ordinance, but he stood alone, and was out-voted four to one. CONCORDIA CLUB TO ELECT Max Flelschner, After Six Years, Wants to Give Vp Presidency. The board of governors of the Con cordia Club will meet on the evening of February 2 to elect a president to succeed Max Fleischner, and also to select other officers of the organiza tion for the coming year. Mr. Fleisch ner has been at the head of the organi zation for the past six years, and be lieves it is time to step aside for someone else. At a meeting of the organization Tuesday night, six new members of the board of governors were elected to take th places of those who retired. Six other members of the board hold over. Those elected at the last meeting are: Newton Bisslnger. Alexander Bernstein, Sol Blumauer, J. Louisson, Milton Markewitz and Fred H. Rothchild Affairs of the club are in excellent shape, Mr. Flelschner said, and an ex tensive programme of entertainment features has been outlined for the com ing year. It is expected that the next formal gathering of the organization will be on St. Valentine's night. HfirURESlCUBE FOR BLOOD POISON $500 Jesse French Piano Free. 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