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PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1915.
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RAILWAY PROPOSED
IN CENTRAL OREGON
ft E. Strahorn Favors
Independent Line.
BANKERS PLEDGE THEIR AID
Co-operation of Other Roads
Declared Assured.
COST PUT AT $6,000,000
Promoter Sajs 100 Miles Would
Connect Lxisliug Links in Vast
Territory and Assure Port
land Klch Trade Now Lost.
BOtTKS OIi" RAILROADS THAT
ROBERT K. itTRAHORN PRO
POSLIS TO BUILD I.V CEN
TRA L ORKGO.V.
From Bend lo Klamath Falls
via Fort JJock and Silver Lake.
From Silver Lake to Lakeview
via Summer Lake and Paisley.
From Bend to connection with
O.-W. It. & N. line now building
west from Vale.
Aggregate length of proposed
roads 400 miles.
Estimated cost $6,000,000.
To be financedaby independent
capital but to have co-operation
with all existing railroads with
which new lines will connect.
To Central Oregon at last is offered
an opportunity to get adequate railroad
facilities or. it might butter be said,
to Portland is offered the opportunity
of providing adequate railroad facilities
for Central Oregon.
Hobert 13. Strahorn. tlie man who
conceived and built the North Coast
railroad project in the state of Wash
ington and who directed the Southern
Pacific's recent electrification projects
in Oregon, yesterday outlined to a
large group of representative Portland
business men and financiers a definite
plan for the early construction of 400
miles of new railroad that will con-
nect all existing lines in the state's
interior.
F.Dtrrprlu Const rfrrrd F'eaalhle.
For the last few months Mr. Stra
horn has had a crew of engineers at
work determining the physical and eco
nomic conditions of possible railroad
construction in Central Oregon. The
engineers have completed their esti
mates and Mr. Strahorn is convinced
of the feasibility of the enterprise.
He proposes, in brief, to build a new
road from Bend to Klamath Falls via
Fort Kock and Silver Lake, connecting
with the O.-W. n. & x. Company and
the Oregon Trunk at Bend and with Mie
Southern Pacific at Klamath Falls; to
build another line from Silver Lake
via Summer Lake and Paisley to Lake
view and Warner Valley, connecting
with the proposed Bend-Klaraath line
at Silver Lake and with the Nevada,
California & Oregon Railroad at Lake
view. ana tinauy, to build from a point
midway between Bend and Silver Lake
a line eastward to connect with the
O.-W. It. & N. Company's extension now
being built westward from Vale.
Total rut at .ooo.ooo.
This work can be done, Mr. Strahorn
estimates, at an average of not to ex
ceed tlS.000 a mile, or a total of $6,000,
00 for the entire project. .
The natural resources of the country
to be served and the agricultural and
industrial possibilities that the new
road can develop are so enormous that
thry cannot fairly be estimated.
Portland business men long have
realized the opportunities for substan
tial state development in the railroad
less areas of Central Oregon. A fer
months ngo a number of the leading'
bankers joined with other business men
in an appeal to Mr. Strahorn to in
vestigate the territory south, east and
west of Bond with a view to deter
mining what railroad construction l.i
economically possible.
Yesterday's meeting was Mr. Stra
horn's first formal reply to their ap
peal. Bankers Voire Approval.
When he concluded presentations of
his plans and purposes he was en
thusiastically applauded. A. L. Mills,
president of the First National Bank;
W. M. Ladd. president of the Ladd &
Tilton Bank, and others spoke in
liearty support of the project.
W. P. Cheney, of Bend, who has been
influential in interesting Mr. Strahorn
in the undertaking, spoke earnestly of
tho need of railroad development. He
likened the Central Oregon country to
a great funnel, with the Deschutes
Valley as the neck. Bend as the head
rid the Immense territory beyond Bend
as the hopper of the funnel. The rail
roads already have been built through
the neck, he said, so it remains only
to supply the lines for the hopper,
and all the wealth of the great interior
will flow down through the natural
course of the funnel into Portland.
Both Mr. Strahorn and Mr. Cheney
emphasized that this is peculiarly a
Portland project. It is incun brnt on
the people of Portland to aid substan
tially in prosecuting its development
if Portland is to have the benefits of it.
Rallroad Co-operation Assured.
Mr. Strahorn declared that he has
the assurance of every one of the rail
road with which it is proposed to con-
iCououacd oa i's a, Cuiuwa v.).
HARVEST IS MOST
VALUABLE KNOWN
WHEAT AND CORS WORTH MOKE
TH.VX THREE BILLIONS.
Record Production or Oats. Barley,
Rye, Sweet Potatoes, Rice, Hay
and Tobacco Is Shown.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. .American
harvests this year will be the most
valuable ever produced. With tho
wheat crop exceeding a billion bushels,
the largest ever turned out in one sea
son by any nation; a corn crop which
also may prove to be the largest ever
grown, the Government's October crop
report, issued today, announced prelim
inary estimates which indicate record
harvests of oats, barley, rye, sweet
potatoes, rice, tobacco and hay.
Corn still is king of crops, with in.
dlcations of 3,026.159,000 bushels. While
that is 98.000,000 bushels below the rec
ord of 1912, the higher prices this year
assure the most valuable corn crop
ever grown. At prices to farmers pre
vailing October 1 the corn crop is
worth $2,133,000,000.
Today's preliminary estimate of
wheat production was placed at 1,002,-
029,000 bushels. At prices prevailing
October 1 the farm value of the crop
s $910,844,000, considerably more than
ever was paid for a. wheat crop before.
September weather was particularly
destructive to potatoes, causing a re
duction of 37,758.000 bushels, or 10 per
cent in the forecast of production.
Oats will exceed the record crop- of
1912 by almost 100,000,000 bushels. Bar
ley will exceed Its record by 13,000.
000 bushels, sweet potatoes by 5,000,000
bushels, rice by 500,000 bushels,. and
hay by 8,000,000 tons.
'FAMILY SCALP' IS BARRED
Office of Weights and Measures
iFinds Many Weighing Devices Bad.
SALEM. Or.. Oct. 7. (Special.) The
"family scale" is barred foV use in
trade in Oregon. Orders issued today
by the state office of -weights and
measures condemn all such types of
scale and prohibit their use by dealers
in commodities.
The quarterly report, from May 22
to August 22, says that 624 scales were
corrected and 593 scales were con
demned. Out of a total of 958 scales
tested throughout the state, 1117 were
Incorrect,
In addition, . many scales of the computing-
type, having charts of obsolete
construction, were required to be re
charted correctly or have the computa
tions covered.
OREGON WAR NURSE BACK
Miss Connor, Who Survived Lusitania
Disaster, to Return to Mcdford.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Oct. 7. Miss Dorothy Connor, of
Medfovd. who survived the Lusitania
disaster and spent the ensuing five
months in English and French field
hospitals, landed in New York Tuesday
and will leave for Oregon next week.
Lr. Howard Fisher, of this city. Miss
Connor's brother-in-law. who went
abroad, with her and has been doing
hospital duty in France, returned to
Washington today.
Dr. Fisher said today that Miss Con
nor, who is with relatives in New York
is in good health, notwithstanding her
strenuous experience in the army hos
pitals. She 'oes not expect to return
to Europe.
GOAT AND BUFFALO FIGHT
Smaller Animal Gets In Wrong En
closure and Clash Is Fatal. -
A shaggy-haired goat over estimated
his fighting ability at Washington
Park zoo yesterday when he wandered
into the buffalo paddocks and gave
battle to one of the big male buffa
loes. The consequence was that the
goat's battered remains were taken to
the city incinerator for cremation last
night.
The goat got into the buffalo pen.
The leader of the herd took exception
to the invasion and charged. The goat,
instead of running, turned about and
putting down his head met the enemy.
The two animals clashed with a thud
and the goat was knocked about 20
feet with nearly every bone in his body
broken.
MRS. EMMA KLINE TO WED
Gorvallis Woman and San Francisco
Man Obtain License.
EXPOSITION GROUNDS. San Fran
cisco. Oct. 6. (Special.) William N.
Haliin. 30, of the Bruce Hotel, this city,
and Mrs. Emma T. Kline. 44. Corvallis,
Or., obtained a marriage license here
yesterday.
Mrs. Kline is the widow of the late
Simon L. Kline, of Corvallis, a wealthy
merchant and prominent Republican
party figure.
Mrs. Kline is prominent in Woman's
Relief Corps- circles.
The couple had not been located since
their license waa issued, and it was
not known here tonight where they
would be married. "
OFFICER LOSS IS 17,074
More Than 5000 on British Casualty
List Are Dead.
LONDON, Sept. 28. (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) Total casu
alties of officers of the British army
from the beginning of the war up to
September 27 have reached a total of
17,074.
Of this number 51 7S were killed or
had ' died, while 20,463 were wounded
and 1419 were listed as missing
BRIEF HONEYMOON
PLANNED BY WILSON
Official Business to
Cut Journey Short.
CONGRATULATIONS POUR IN
Von Bernstorff Among First to
Felicitate Couple.
GAY SEASON IN PROSPECT
formality of Ceremony at White
House to Be Avoided Engage
ment Ring to Bo Purchased11
on Trip to Xew lork.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. President
Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait, whose
engagement was announced last night,
were the recipients today of congratu
latory messages from all parts of the
United States and from the represen
tatives of foreign governments.
Telegrams came to the White House
in such numbers that an extra force of
operators and clerks was needed to
handle them. Many were read by the
President and Mrs. Gait together.
Count von Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador, was one of the first to
send congratulations, and there fol
lowed messages from other members of
the diplomatic corps conveying the
good wishes" of their governments.
Wedding; Xot to Be In White House.
Definite arrangements for the i wed
ding will not be made immediately, but
it was disclosed that the President and
Mrs. Gait have agreed it shall not take
place in the" White House, because' of
the formality which would be necessary
there. The ceremony will be solemnized
within the next two months, before the
convening of Congress in December,
either in Mrs. Gait's home or in one of
the Washington churches.
An extended honeymoon will be Im
possible because of the imperative de
mands of official duty on the President,
but his friends are urging him to ac
cept an Invitation to attend the San
Francisco and San Diego expositions
Just after his marriage. A short sea
trip may be taken on the Presidential
yacht Mayflower.
Calls Made on Relative.
The President gave up practically all
of today receiving congratulations and
to calling with Mrs. Gait on members
of their respective families. In the
afternoon he went to meet a few
friends at the home of Mrs. W. H. Boi
ling, he mother of the bride-to-be, and
tonight he had ae his guests at dinner
at the White House Mrs. Gait, her
mother. Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo and
several other relatives. Miss Helen
Woodrow Bones, the President's cousin,
and Dr. Cary T. Grayson, his physician,
both warm friends of Mrs. Gait, were
among the guests.
After dinner the members of the
party remained at the White House for
the remainder of the evening.
When the President received callers
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
lESTESDAT'S llm3.1tr.um temperature. 1
degrees: minimum. o3 decrees.
TODAY'S Fair, probably cooler; southerly
winds.
War.
Swelen is . eoy. If drawn Into war, says
Ex-Premier. Pace 3.
Russians bombard Bulrarian port: Germans
and Austrian invade Serbia. Pass 3.
National.
Wilson honeymoon to be brief. Pace 1.
American harvests are most valuable ever
produced. Fagu 1.
Dr. Hillis summons his former business man
ser into court. Pace 3.
Government will scrutinize new steel mer
cer. Pa.ce 9.
Domestic.
War stocks have runaway market, despite
precautions. Pace 7.
"Riley Day" fittingly celebrated at Indian
apolis. Page ".
Sport. ,
Grantland Rice says dope" favors Boston,
but Phillies have good chance. Page 1-
Heavyweig!.ts to box at Rose City Club tonight-
X'age 14.
Pacific Coast League results: Salt Lake 12,
Portland 8: Los Angeles 4-1. Oakland
0-0; San Francisco 5. Vernon O. Page 14.
Steady drlzzjja at Philadelphia threatens to
delay opc-nlng of world's scries. Page 14.
Aggies put on edge for first conference
game nlh Whitman Saturday. Page 13.
Oregon's htavy team expects to win at
Pullman tomorrow, page 15.
Pacific Northwest.
Telephone interchange ordered for all Port
land botcls. Page 1.
Bridge Carnival opens in blare of glory at
North Bend. Page 7.
Mr. l,ister to confer on way to appoint suc
cessors to Yakima commissioners, page U.
Bay city salmon canneries are busy and
find ready markets. Pago 6.
Eugene youth, whose attentions are forbid
den, commits suicide. Page 8.
Commercial and Marine.
Canal delay causes American-Hawaiian
line to effer rail re-routing from New
York. Page 10.
Prospects for strong apple market in near
future are brigbt. Page 19.
Chicago wheat . traders anticipate bearish
crop report and sell. Page 1.
Stocks advance rapidly, lecovering former
losses. Page ltl.
Portland and Vicinity.
Railr-.art through Central Oregon proposed.
Page 1.
Portland ur-rd to assist In building Central
Oregon line. Page tt.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page IV.
Whit Hibbuners will arrive in Portland to
day. Page 13.
Fire drill test is held In three downtown
business bouses. Page 4.
League to nf--rce peace among nations :s
advocated hero by ! H. S. Houston.
Page 13.
JspaK.se seer who visited Portland In April
predicted President would wed widow
aged 40. Page 2.
FRANCE HELPS AMERICANS
Five Hundred Dollars Given for
Louisiana Storm Sufferers.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 7. The French
government, through Foreign Minister
Delcasse, today authorized the Frenck.
Consul-General here to contribute $500
for relief of storm sufferers in Louisi
ana. The cable authorizing the sub
scription contained the following mes
sage: "Please convey to the people of
Louisiana the sympathies of the re
public of France, and assure them that
it Is our wish to aid them In this time
of distress."
SAN FRANCISCO IS SHAKEN
Earthquake Rocks buildings and
Displaces Furniture.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7. A well
denned earthquake was felt here at
9:26 o'clock tonight.
Buildings shook perceptibly but no
reports of damage have been received.
Tables in the fourth floor of the
Metropolis Bank building slid across
the floor. There was no excitement oa
the streets, however.
Two other light shocks followed the
first at intervals of a few minutes.
GOT HIM!
BED SOX PICKED TO
WIN WORLD SERIES
Grantland Rice Thinks
Margin Is Small.
ALEXANDER IS PHILLIES' HOPE
.wrt
Tough"- o --aie
for Honors
Since 1912 Predicted.
BOSTON BETTER BALANCED
tlx pert Jlateei American League Club
as Better, but -Declurcs -Moran's
Men Have Good Chance, Better
Than Braves Had in 1914.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
NEW YORK. Oct. 7. (Special.)
Grappling with the world's series dope
is one of the most thankless assign
ments ever forced upon a non-combatant.
If you pick the winner you've merely
made a lucky guess. If you pick the
wrong club you're four parts boob and
six parts bonehead.
If you pick neither club you're a
staller. The Dest you can get Is a
shade the worst of It. no matter what
happens.
Managers Have No Idea.
Pat -Moran has no idea as to which
club will win. and neither has Bill Car
rigan. neither has Trls Speaker nor
Grover Alexander.
But it Is at least possible to present
the dope just as it stands, and from
this dope advance an opinion as to
what should be. which brings us up
to the evidence, viz.: .
1. Back of- the bat there is not
enough advantage either way to work
up a debate.
2. In -pitching the Phillies have one
great .star and the Red Sox have the
better balanced staff.
3. The two infields are fairly well
matched. -
4. The Red Sox-have the better out
field by a number of degrees.
5. The Red Sox have, on an average,
much the harder batting array. The
figures, plus observation, snow the
He a Sox to be the better club, the best
club In baseball.
Two' Answers Possible.
Over the 154,-game route there could
be only one answer. Over the short
world's series route there can be two
answers without any upset being at
tached to the dope.
"Frank Moran hasn't a chance with
Jim Coffey." Exchange. Just es Pat
.Moran never had a chance with Stall
ings and McGraw.
But at the finish Patrick was hardly
among the "also Morans," as you might
or might not say.
The Passing; of Krin.
So the Irish are drifting from out the
frame.
Losing their grip on the grand old
game;
So the Irish haven't the old-time stuff
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Thursdays War Moves
THE long-threatened Austro-Gerraan
offensive in the Balkans, with the
added menace of Bulgaria, has begun
In earnest.
Almost simultaneously with the rup
ture of diplomatic, relations between
Sofia and the entente powers, an Aus-tro-German
army estimated at 400,000
men. with an enormous weight of
heavy artillery, started to attack
Serbia from the north and west, and
according to the Berlin official report,
crossed the Drlna, Danube and Save at
many points anj firmly established
itself on the Serbian aide
The Anglo-French troops. which
were landed at Salonikl with the tacit
consent of the Greek government, arc
being hastened northward lo assist
Serbia and, if possiNe, keep the- Bul
garians from capturing tho Saloniki
Nish railroad, the only source by
which the - Serbians can be fed with
munitions of war.
The hoped for support from Greece
has not been forthcoming. King Con.
stantin. by the dismissal of Premier
Venizelos. having shown that he is not
prepared to go against the central pow
ers or to fulfill the obligations of the
Uraeco-Serbian treaty of alliance,
which provides that one ally must go
to the assistance of the other In a case
of attack.
A new Greek Cabinet, composed of
men of pro-German and pro-Ally sym
pathies, has been appointed, and the ex
pectation now is that unless public
opinion forces the hand of the govern
ment and insists on action on the side
of the allies. Greece will remain neu
tral. It is hardlv rnneelvahl. a th.
entente diplomats that Greece will go
over to tne central Powers for, they
point out, Bulgaria is known to covet
some of her territorv. ,nH th. treat
ment of Greek nationals in Turkey
makes tt virtually impossible for
Greece to become the ally of that coun
try. As in Greece, public opinion in Bul
garia is not entirely unanimous in sup
port of Ing Ferdinand, and reports
indicate that the Bulgarian mobiliza
tion is not being carried out without
difficulty. The King and Premier
Radoslavoff. however, have finally
thrown in their lot with Austria, Ger
many and Turkey, having after consul
tation with the Ministers of those coun
tries rejected the demands of Russia
fot the dismissal of the Ai.stro-Gcrman
officers who. It is alleged, have been
engaged to command the Bulgarian
army. Bulgaria, in fact, denied the
presence of such officers, and the Rus
sian. British, French and Italian Min
isters have either left or are leaving
Sofia. Italy has taken action also by
giving the Bulgarian Minister at Rome
his passports.
ii is possioie tnat ttulgaria may
avoid arousing the Greek people by re
fraining from attacking: Serbia, simnlv
keeping troops on the border. This
would have the e'ffect of Preventing
Serbia from bringing her full strength
to bear against the Austro-German at
tack. Roumania, the other Balkan state, is
still neutral. Roumania has not been
heard from but, like Greece, for the mo
ment is bent on continuing friendly re
lations with all the belligerents. Doubt
less to influence her and the other
Balkan states. Russia is reported to
have begun an energetic offensive in
Bukowina and to have attacked the
Austrian positions northwest of Czerno-
witz.
Champagne, the country over which
the French made their big gains late
in September, is still the main district
of contention in the west. The reports
are so contradictory. however, that it
is difficult to ascertain what is actual
ly happening. The Germans admit that
the French have made slight progress,
but on the whole say they have repulsed
the allied general offensive. On the
other hand, the French declare that it
is a German offensive which has been
repulsed.
The towns mentioned in the two offi
cial communications show that the
French have approached close to the
Challerange-Bazancourt Railway, which
is their objective. St. Marie, to which
the Germans say the French v pene
trated but were driven out by im
mediate counter attacks, is or that
railroad.
October S. 1014.
Antwerp partly in flames.
Allies' left wing reaches Belgium.
Russians claim victory in fierce bat
tle in Bast Prussia.
FISH TO GO PARCEL POST
Siuslaw Man lias Plaii to Cut CoM
and Provide Market.
EUGENE, Or- Oct. 7. (Special.)
Parcel post w ill save the Siuslaw fishing-
industry, in the belief of Herman
Wetzel, secretary of the Siuslaw Fish
ermen's Union Association, who de
clares he will reduce the cost of living:
in Lane County. He is preparing: to
ship Slualaw salmon into Eugene by
mail at half the present price.
He says this will put dollars into the
pockets of fishermen who at present
see no market. These fishermen, he
says, are receiving: cents a. pound
for salmon at the cannery. They tried
to ship to Astoria last year and re
ceived nothing.
DAVID B. OGDEN IS HERE
Former Resident "ovr Business Head
of Boston Publishing Honse.
David B. Osrden. formerly connected
with the Portland offices of the United
States Engineers' Department and now
manager of the Christian Science Pub
lishing House, of Boston. Mass., arrived
here yesterday for a visit of several
days at his old home.
Mr. Ogden left Portland more than
eight years ago, resigning his position
with the government service to take
up the work in Boston. All of the
j Christian Science publications are is-
Isued from the offices of which he is
now. the business head.
PHONE INTERCHANGE
ORDER IS EXTENDED
Commission Includes
All Portland Hotels.
RATES TO OREGON TO APPLY
Tactics of One Company and
Other's Device Censured.
RULING EFFECTIVE NOV. 1
Complaint That Privilege Granted
in Earlier Haling AVas Abucd
I'ound to Lack Basis General
Interchange Xot Decided.
SALEM, Or... Oct. 7. (Special.) All
hotels in Portland equipped with tele
phones, by the Pacific Telephone A
Telegraph Company and tho Home
Telephone &. Telegrapflcrmpany Here
after will bo entitled to an inter
change of traffic between the two rival
systems upon the same basis as is now
afforded at tho Oregon Hotel.
This order, effective November 1.
was handed down today by the
Oregon State Public Service Com
mission following a hearing in the
cases of tho Oregon and Perkins hotels.
It is a reiteration of one made sonn
time ago in the Oregon Hotel case,
but is broadened in scope to include
the complaint of the Perkins Hotel of
ficers, who sought like privileges, and
at the same time takes cognizance t?
the rights of other Portland hostclrles.
Only Hotels Are Affecjed.
Coincident with the ultimatum is
sued to the telephone companies, tiio
Commission severely censures the Pa
cific system for its tactics in oppos
ing the Commission's previous ruling,
and- demands that the Home company
at once remove so-called "'ackbox" de
vices installed In a large number of
places in Portland to permit the in
terchange of telephone calls between
its lines and those of the Pacific
The interchange of telephone service
ordered, it is specifically set forth, docs
not .apply to any other business than
hotels. At the present time, there la a
case pending before the Commission
upon complaint of the Public Service
League of Portland to force inter
change of service between the Pacific
and Hume systems to every part of
Portland.
Discrimination Is Charged.
"The Pacific Telephone &. Telegraph
Company." reads the order issued today,
"shall afford to the complainants (Per
kins Hotel) the same facilities with re
spect to the interchange of traffic and
upon the same terms, as are now af
forded t the Wright-Dickinson Hotel
Company at the Oregon Hotel, and shall
afford to all other hotels in the City of
Portland, similarly circumstanced with
respect to being provided with dual
systems, the same facilities and upon
the same terms without further order
of this Commission."
Failure of the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Company to afford the Tcr
kins Hotel and other Portland hotels
which have Home telephones as well
as their own the same interchange
facilities as are now given to the Ore
gon Hotel, is declared by the Commis
sion to be unjust and discriminatory,
and the Pacific is ordered to desist and
treat all alike.
- Jar k boxes" Ordered Oat.
The commission looks upon tho act of
the Home Telephone Company in in
stalling so-called "jackbox" devices to
permit telcphono interchange as not
being in keeping with the spirit of the
order and theso devices must be re
moved except in certain cases "covered
in the order, or except with the consent
of the Pacific company. No more equip
ment of this character will be allowed.
By decree of the United States Dis
trict Court the long-distance lines "f
the Pacific company are now open to
subscribers of the Home 'company, and
the toll lines of the Northwestern Loni;.
Distance Telephone Company's system
are open to the patrons of the Pacific
company.
Abuse of Privilege, Plaint. '
In its complaint to the Tublic Service
Commission the Pacific charged that
the privileges afforded by the previous
order were abused by the Oregon Hotel
Company and the Homo company, in
that proper account was not made by
the hotel company for outgoing calls,
and that the Home company had used
the order as a pretext for making un
authorized physical connections be
tween the two systems at places other
than tho Oregon Hotel.
In its prior order the Commission
had fixed a charge of 3 1-5 cents for each
outgoing call from the Home com
pany's switchboard through the-switch-board
of the Pacific Company.
Accounting 9iot Item.
"The record herein does not show to
the Commission's satisfaction," an
nounces the Commission, "that there
has been a willful abuse of the Com
mission's order by the hotel company.
It is apparent that by a very simple
means, such as are now employed in
numerous cases, the Pacific company i
in a position absolutely to insure a
full measurement of all interchange'!
calls.
"The conclusion is clear that if a
tithe of the ingenuity and skill which
have been displayed in attempting to
show the order of the Commission im
provident bad been expended in an
endeavor to make' the best of the Com
mission's order, there would have been
no ground for complaint upon the scors
of any physical or accounting difficulties.'.
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