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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1907)
9 ATTACHWiEWT SUIT BL United Railways Sued by Ore gon Traction Company Stockholders. WRIT LATER RELEASED THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN". 'PORTLAND, MAY 12, 1007. OCKSTHE WORK 8SS:5sify."':wsr.:.''..,,''.i ; :"V rajis.ej:!'::'-.":,s '":-. '.:" .":': President Benham Files Bond With Sheriff and Construction Gangs Resume Their Labors Plain tiff Makes Statement of Case. A aurprlre awaited the . construction crew on the United Railway Company's Jinc3 when they reached the scene of operations yesterday. They were pre vented from going to work, as the result of attachment proceedings brought by L. T. Kcady and stockholders of the old Oregon Traction Company in a suit to recover about $46,000, the amount of claims as the result of the United Rail ways Company's purchase of the- Oregon Traction Company's lines a year ago. W. L.. Benham, president of the Unit ed Hallways- Company quickly called a meeting of officials at the office of the company's attorney, A. C. Emmons, and' arrangements were made to furnish a bond and releane the attachment. The bond for the full amount of the claim was igned by the United Railways Corpora tion. Herman Wittenberg and Walter H. Moore, as principals. The party then called on Sheriff Stevens, filed the bond with him, and secured the release of the attachment. Construction Work Resumed. The construction work was continued sifter noon. President Benham says the attachment (was spite work on the part of persons who do not want his company to build the road. The track has been completed from the southerly terminus at Hamilton avenue on Macadam road to Wood street, and on Water street from Moody to Columbia etreet. At the northerly terminal on iFront street the line is completed from the Pteel bridge to a point near Ash street. AH the necessary rails and ma terial are on the ground, and they were anarked with notices of the attachment. L. T. Keady Was one of the original promoters of the Oregon Traction Company, which secured a fran chise over several streets of the city, which were to be used as the terminals for an lnterurban line to Hillsboro. A portion of the track was laid but dis continued on account of financial 're Verses. The franchise and property was turned over to the United Railways Company. Suit was brought by Keady a short time ago to collect money he claimed dua Jiim as assignee of the stockholders of the Oregon Traction Company. The case is set lor trial on may t. air. xveaoy nam ast night: "The claims represented in my suit gainst the United Railways Company are for money owed Eastern people who bold sight drafts in the form of notes for money due. In addition to these claims, there are debts amounting to S3G.000 and supposed to be covered by a certified check at the Merchants National Bank, issued to W. J. Muir as trustee for the Oregon Traction Company at the time mat company s property was soia to the United Railways Company on the Courthouse steps & year ago. "Although this money was due im mediately and payable on the certified check, it has never been paid, and the debts are still owing. These creditors Include the Portland Railway Company, the Hibernla Savings Bank, Ashley & Rumelin, Merchants National Bank, Anderson & Dunlway, lrwin-Hodson Company, W. T. Muir, Dr. J. T. Walls, and W. J. Walls."' President Bcnliain's Statement. W. L. Benham, president of the Unit ed Railways Company, last night made the following statement: "The construction and certainty of early completion of the lines of the United Railways has developed strong opposition from the existing railway Interests. The methods pursued in at tempting to defeat the plans of the United Railways Company and in en deavoring to prevent the construction within the time allowed by the fran chises have been; to say the least, very questionable, and every effort has been made to discredit the company. In or der that the allied interests may con trol the traction situation in and out aide of the city. The remarkable spec tacle was recently presented by a rep resentative of the 'allied Interests' standing before the City Council, re Questing them to force the Independ ent line to, turn over Us completed Kront-street line to them, because, as lis termed It, 'It was essential to their enterprise." "In view of the tactics that will doubtless be pursued, as our lines arc tatlons that have been and may be marie the nnhllc NhnnM knnw what has been done and what Is proposed y the United Railways Company, for we feel that the public believes in fair play, and does not Intend thet any inde pendent line which is willing; to dem onstrate its good faith by spending lta money in actual construction and In developing a good and efficient trac tion system In and around Portland should be throttled. 'The Front-street line is nearing completion and will be finished within 30 days. This will, give the United Railways five miles of track within the city limits. "Overhead material is arriving and It Is expected the new locomotives will be In operation for handling freight over this line within 60 days. The first shipment of rails for the Flanders-street line has arrived, hav ing been delayed over three months, nd construction work on this line will be under way at an early date. This will connect between Twelfth and Front streets. The Twelfth and Pet-tygrove-street lines will be repaired, and connection will be made down Stark street as rapidly as the steel ar rives. The engineering crews for ln terurban work will be placed in the field to complete location preparatory to continuing work on the Hillsboro Una as soon as the weather Is set tled. We believe that the construe-" tion and policy of the United Rail ways during the coming season will . amply demonstrate to the people of Portland that this company is acting in entire good faith, and we further more believe that the people of Port land will meet ua halt way and refuse to sanction any tactics of aggrandize , mcnt or monopoly on the part of those who have already secured from the city. without price, inestimable public . privileges." T ? ' l r - I J ;r pfg I . V . ( V 'v -sf' Wjf 'Sew 1 JT rJT ...M,rai,rv , ' "v J W . 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Dr. Paul Rader. editor of the Christian Advocate, addressed the boys. Judge Fraaer said that It was one of the most successful meetings of the court ever held, and that he was greatly encour aged by the manner in which the boys were endeavoring to make men of themselves. . Reort to Judge FVaier. w- On accoWlt of rain the picnic ar ranged for yesterday for the wards of CARDWEXIi CASE IS ARGUED Attorney Hughes States Case for De fendant in Suit. Arguments of attorneys were finished yesterday at noon in the Cardwell Dalton ejection suit, and the case was submitted to Judge A. F. Sears. His decision will not be announced for several days. Mrs. Helen R. Card well, trustee ot the estate on Alder street, the plaintiff in the case, was In court with her aged mother, and Mrs. Martha Dalton, the defendant, listened attentively to the arguments of -her lawyer, K. G. Hughes. Many friends of both parties were in court. Mr. Hughes based his principal argument on the fact that Mrs. Mar tha Dalton and her mother have oc cupied the Alder street property for 37 years, asserting that possession not having been claimed by Mrs. Cardwell within the 10 years specified in the statute limitation, there is no ground for Mrs. Cardwell to come in to assert title to the preperty at this time. He said that Byron F. Cardwell and James Cardwell bought this property as a home for their mother and sister for life: that while Mr. Buchtel or Byron Cardwell may never have said any thing about a life estate, this was un derstood and intended by their act. In 1889, he said, Mr. Baird secured a purchaser at $16,000 for the prop erty, and went to Byron F. Cardwell with the proposition. ' Mr. Cardwell was quoted as saying at that time that he would not accept the offer as he would not sell the property as long as his mother and sister were living. Mr. Hughes said that it was true Mrs. Dalton did agree to accept another home, if she gave up the old one, but that she did not agree to relinquish any rights in the Cardwell property that had been her home for so many years. Mr. Hughes called attention to the fact that the action to compel Mrs. Dalton to leave the place might have been bought years ago, but not now that it was too late: that the law makes no provision for recovery in such cases, and that no grounds now existed for recovery. "If there Is any question as to the matter of adverse possession," said Mr. Hughes in closing, after citing several parallel cases, "your honor has only to rely on the statutes In this case." Dan J. Malarkey, counsel for Mrs. Cardwell, is confident that his client will win the suit. Evelyn Booth Coming to Coast. NEW TORK, May 11. Commander Eve lyn Booth, head of the Salvation Army forces In America, has left the city for an extended tour in the West. Miss Booth will make addresses in the following cities in the order named: 9t. Louis. Kansas City, Des Moines. Peoria, Chicago. Denver, Los Angeles. San Jose, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. LEVEY TIES STEP Becomes Head of Maintenance and Operation. GOES TO ST. PAUL OFFICE Third Vice-President of, Northern Pacific Succeeded at Tacoma by H. C. Xutt, Now Superintend ent at Detroit, Mich. Clyde B. Aitchlson, of the State railroad commission, accompanied by K. Q. Miller, statistician for the commission, and T. D. Van Heekeren, secretary of the trans portation committee of the Chamber of Commerce, made a trip through the terminal grounds yesterday to ascertain the true state of affairs in the yards, where there has been extreme congestion for months. Commissioner Altchison wanted first hand information on condi tions and took Mr. Van Heekeren along for a guide. Under the latter's direction, the trans portation committee of the Chamber of Commerce is introducing a system of ex pediting business in the terminal yards that Is bringing order out of chaos and Is clearing the tracks of Idle cars. This system was put into effect May 1 and will be continued throughout the month. The .plan has already demonstrated Its effectiveness. ' By the new plan consignees who are slow in unloading cars, are personally seen and urged to hasten. This Is usually ef fective. Calls are made on tardy con signees by Mr. Van Heekeren personally, who is giving all his time this month to the work. J. H. O'Neill, for the Harriman lines, and Ed Ostrander, for the transportation committee, go through the terminal yards daily and check up the new cars enter ing the yards as well as those unloaded. This data is then given Mr. Van Heekeren and serves as a memorandum for visits to those who are slow in relieving their cars. Each morning the numbers and Initials of all the cars on the team tracks are posted In the car service department by the terminal company. This list serves as a directory to the transfer companies, who can send a wagon directly to any car that is to be unloaded. Reports by the transportation commit tee on the subject of terminal congestion will be made at the end of May to Gen eral Manager O'Brien and General Super intendent Buckley. of the Harriman lines, and to Manager Lyons, of the terminal company. It is said that the plan of personally visiting shippers who are slow in unloadtng car has had such beneficial effects that 43 cars is now the average unloaded daily on the team tracks, or 13 more than the former daily average. Conditions are easier in the yards than they have been for some time, and it is thought there will not be a recurrence of the recent congestion. There are only a few hundred cars In the local yard's. 1 whereas the capacity of the tracks is about 1.20O and the yards have been jammed full of late. MERELY CORRECTS BLUNDER Joint Kate Order of Washington Railroad Commission Formality. Traffic officials of the Harriman roads See no special significance in the an nouncement of the Washington Railroad Commission that it will abandon the joint rate of wheat order now in effect and institute a new order amounting to the same thing. The result will be no change In policy, but is thought here to mean that the present order, which Is contested in the courts. -will be replaced by an edict of the Commission which will have no points that can be attacked in that man ner. "It is simply to do over what was not done correctly In the first place," said an official of the Harriman lines yesterday. "As I understand It, the joint rate is to bj retained and all question of the legal ity of the order placing It In effect is to be removed by including all railroads, both steam and electric, in the order promulgated. "The first order last year was attacked because it did not Include electric rail roads, in its provisions, and this was held to be discriminating against some rail roads. "I cannot say whether the new order will be attacked by the railways. I sup pose nobody would know about that until the complaint is filed and It is seen whether the right procedure has been followed." orders to report here, and afe coming in from Hermlston in numbers. They understand they are to be put to work on the Peninsula on the Oregon & Washington work above described. With the Portland & Seattle bridg ing the two rivers and digging a deep cut across the Peninsula, the com mencement of the Oregon it Washing ton work will make the district be tween the Willamette and Columbia one of the busiest In railroad construc tion in the Pacific Northwest. Plans of the two rival systems are for a large amount of work during the season. Will Inspect O. R. & X. System. J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the Harriman lines In this territory, expects to leave the city tonight in his private car Oregon for a trip over the Washing ton branches of the O. R. & N. system. The trip is said to be a usual inspection jaunt. He will be away from the city for a number of days. BUILDS DEPOT AT LIXNTOX Northern Pacific Also Puts in New Sidetrack. The Northern Pacific is building a depot at Linton and a sidetrack 2000 feet long, made necessary by the location of the Willamette Box & Lumber Company, em ploying 30 men. The lumber company has trebled its output. It now employs 225 men and its payrell Is about $15,000 a month. The payroll of the box factory Is about $9000 a month. Real estate has ad vanced In valuation being worth about four times what it was a year a.go. Many new buildings are going up. Dan Marx is to put up a (7000 hotel. Sales of real estate have been large for the past month. It is confidently "expected that an elec tric railway will be built along the bank of the Willamette to Linnton before long. The field for an electric cariine Is consid ered very inviting, and that It will be occupied Is thought to be a certainty. COMMENCE WORK AT ONCE Harriman Assembling Laborers to Build Line to Sound. Indications are that work will be commenced on the Oregon & Wash ington, The Union Pacific's line from the Sound from Portland, within the the next two weeks. Orders have been given for assembling crews on the Peninsula, and work is to be begun very soon on the approaches to the tun nel. Contracts for this work are un derstood to have been let to the Pa cific Coast Construction Company. This company is just completing a contract at Hermlston, Or., and the forces there have been ordered to Port land at once. The crews consist of 300 men and 400 horses. It Is under stood the men will be set at work on approaches to the long tunnel under the Peninsula and on the tracks to the packing-house district, as well as push the TroutdaJe extension. Men In the camps say they have Making Tonr of Coast. Charles Gow, financial representative in Europe for the Pennsylvania Railroad, OZOMTJLSION GUARANTEED Under the Food and Drags Act June 30th, 1906 Serial No. 332. OLD and YOUNG Suffer alike from General Debility. It is a very common disorder, and results from variety of causes. It should cot be confounded with fatigue, which is transitory. . In General Debility, the weakness, nice arrested, will gradually increase and finally become permanent. 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Mr. Gow is making a trip of the Coast to familiarize himself with financial conditions here. Marine Notes From Victoria. VICTORIA, B. C, May 11. The steamer Georgia, of the Canadian Mexican line, was reported from Ma zatlan today. She left again for Sa Una "Cruz after landing cargo. The steamer is making the initial voyage of the subsidized line between Canada and Mexico. Steamer Princess Beatrice has been withdrawn from the Victorla-Seattls route, arrangements having been made with the steamer Indianapolis for the carriage of malls. Steamer Tangtse, of the Blue Funnel line, arrived today and after landing 99 Japanese passengers, proceeded to Tacoma. The steamer Rlojun Maru, of the Nippon Yusen Kalsha line, which left Tokohama April 27, reached William Head quarantine station tonight and will arrive in port tomorrow. KJSF.R KODAK DEVULOPTNO. Imperial Hotel Also Scenic Photos. TEA was a. royal indulgence two-hundred years ago. Tis yet. Tar gMr rtrB rr mm? 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