THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 4, 1910. LUMBERRATETQBE RAISED, IS REPORT Interstate Commission Has Private Information of Contemplated Increase. RUSSIAN BAREFOOT DANCER FASCINATES NEWPORT SOCIETY WOMEN. SCHOOL SUIT for Army Engineers Fear Nature of Soil Will Make Umatilla Project Inadvisable. BOYS AND YOUNG MEN RESERVOIR WOULD UNOEOMfNE 101 u.;..Mitai.....ii..iaiii,...,i,i. i.i mi. u. ..in i .- 'lV'T-V-4jV few r'-jrt 1 ji0uj w y: j NEW HEARING NECESSARY Purpose of Mill and Harriman Lines Not Officially Declared Fast- crn .Markets Already Loft, Say Local Shipper. OREdONIAN NEWS BL'REAl". Wish InKton. Sept. 3. According to private advices received by the Interstate Com merce Commission, the Hill and Harri man Railroads contemplate again ad vancing the rate on lumber shipped East from pacific Coast point when the existing rates, fixed by the rommls aion expiro automatically on Octol er 15. It la reported that the railroads con template advancing- the rates even be yond the point which they sought to attain two years aico. at the time when the commission made material reduc tions in their schedules as filed. In the event that this attempt Is made und la resisted by the lumber In terests, ttie commt.-slon will be com pelled to go over the same around it covered Incident to Its decision two jean ago and the railroadi. to Justlfy thelr proposed adv. nr. will be obliged to show Increased cost of service i-lnce the commlirlon established the present rates. October !.. 190. "If the railroads Increase the rate on lumber It will absolutely be prohihl tlt e." said F. li. Kansom. manmcer and treasurer of the Wstorn Lumber Com pany. Ia.t night. "The rate is mo lilph now tliat lumbermen of the West do not feel like making an effort to to after buMnt'sa in the Kaat. The Jockey ing- of rates In the Kast lias had the ef feet of dlscourajcinir lumbermen In at- tcmptltiK to seek Kastern trade. South ern lumber has practically shut us out of Nebraska anil cvrn Colorado. A few years uijo we shipped dosens of car loads of lumber every month to Kastern Colorado. This year we have shipped only one car. Southern lumber la sold In Eastern i-VIurado for $1 to S4 less a t .to. .-ami than we can afford to i-ell l ! neve ttie railroads realize our predicament and that any Increase will be prohibitive. Instead of Increasing the rates I think "e railroads might be more disposed to reduce them and cct the business. Two weeks ago I talked with Mich officials of both the Harriman and Hill roads regarding lumber rates, and they were of the opinion that it would not be advisable to In. -rea.se rates. In view of present conditions and the high rate that has made It not worth while to (to after buslenss In the F-ast. It Is hard for me to believe that any increase Is contem plated by either of these roads. "But what about the Milwaukee?" i iddeiily asked Mr. Rnnwnm. "We want o know what the Milwaukee Is doing. He understand they are In the West 'or business, and we would like to mow If they contemplate an incerase." It- B. Miller, general freight agent of the O. R- N.. said last night that he lad not heard of any contemplated In crease In rates on lumber. "It la all news to me." he said, "and having heard nothing about an In crease In ra'es until now. I cannot say anything; about the reports. -TAP LIXE" RATES SUSPENDED Interstate Commission Heed Pro test., of Southern Lumbermen. WASHINGTON. Sept. J. Radical ac tion was taken by the Interstate Corn pierce Commission by the suspension of r - w rates and charges filed by the Kansas City Southern Railway Com pany, the Texarkana & Fort Smith Railway Company and the Arkansas Western Railway Company against cer tain so-called "tap lines" connecting with the roads. In accordance with the tariffs filed by the three lines amed. Joint routes and through rates were canceled with the "tap lines." All the "tap lines" transport lumber from certain districts to Junction joints on through routes. Heretofore tie main lines have granted to the "tap lines" the privilege of making through routes and Joint rates to various points ef destination In states other than that In which the traffic originated. The a-ancllatlon of the through routes and Joint rates would Increase f'om I to cents a hundred pounds the rts o.n shipments from points on the "tap lines" to points In other states. The rase Involvd l?i "tap lines" con- "-tlng with th main lines of various rallrcds In Arkansas. Missouri. Texas a-.d Louisiana the yellow pine region f the rnited Statea. Scores of protests have been received r-r the commission from lumber opera tors In this territory against the can cellations arrangement proposed by the ana In line roads because It would In crease the price of marketing their lumber 2 to cents a hundre, pounds. Puch an Increase would mean. It Is al leged, the loss of markets heretofore enjoyed by the "tap lines" lumber com panies. The tariffs suspended today were to have become effective September 7 and They have been suspended until January I. flJL -i jLaJdl c J BOARD WILL INVESTIGATE Proposed Built .VKWrORT. R. I.. A UK. -0. (Special. ) A new Russian barefoot dancer has raptured society at Newport with her wonderful classic dancing at the Ca sino. She Is the Countess Thamara de Swlrsky. She has been besieged with requests to teach society women the Kussinn and Slav dances, and has can- C'uunlesa celled all licr out-of-town engagements to accept society engagements at New port. She has been engaged by Mrs. James B. Haggtn I'hamMra de Swlrsky In Two of Her .Most Fetching I'osea. to. give her barefoot rianees t . .tinner which :r tt M;nr.( ...ill frlv. Ibis month. She has albo been enirif-l In lnnee llncon Ml... 1 l...n.rfh' numbers In bare fCCt on the lawn of a prominent woman's cottage In Newport. ROAD WORK STARTS Hood River Highway Soon to Be Realized. GOOD ROADERS ASSEMBLE Enthusiastic Conference at Commer cial Club Results In Decision to Call Gatherings Monthly In JKnture Plans Laid Out. COMMISSION NOT SlSPICIOCS Investigation. Sajs Prouty. Is Being Approached With Open Minds. CHICAGO. Sept. S. Interstate Com merce Commissioner Prouty. who at tended the railroad rate hearing here yesterday, said the Commission was approaching the rate Investigation with an open mtnd. "There Is absolutely no suspicion In my mind," he declared, "or as far as I know. In the minds of any of the Commissioners, that the accounts of the railroads have been padded or Jug gled in any way. "There Is a large appropriation which Is used In paying for the exam ination ef railroad books of account, but our force Is not sufficient to keep the check rlg:it up to date. In my Judgment, however, all suspicion that the railroads are trying to do such a thing should be set at rest at once. I.ltrrarj England's N'r-w Stars. Roston Despatch. Justus Miles Forman. author of Bt anra's Daughter." writes that he bas decided to settle In England for the Summer. Mr. Forman. together with Norman Hapgood. has taken a quaint country seat In Surrey, adjoining the Summer home of William Faversham. The name of Mr. Fcrman's place Is Luuelrtdjre. Work hsa been started on the Hood River road an Improvement that the "Good Roads'1 people of Portland have been demanding ever since the movement was Inaugurated. Announcement that a corps' of civil engineers had been put to work on the route of the new thoroughfare wasj made by County Judge Cleeton and Commis sioner Uoddard at a recent meeting of the uregon Good Roads Association. Judge Lionet A. Webster, who has been traveling over the state for the past few months In the Interests of the associa tion, gave a report of his work and told In what manner he had been recolved at various places. He staled that he had been succeenful In securing the Indorse ment of the state grange of the scheme whereby a county may be privileged to Isme bonds or extend its credit in any other manner to pay for the Improvement of its public highway and said that his addresses and demonstrations among nuny of the rarming communities naa Influenced those mho had been opposed to the movement to favor It. He urged a vigorous campaign of publicity among the metropolitan and country presa as a further means of enlightening the voters and taxpayers) on the benefits and advantages to be derived from improve ment the main avenues of rural and su burban tratel. Aid of Pros Sought. and at all times has been in favor of Improved highways and he urged a more general sentiment among the people along this line. The Hood River project. Judge Cleeton estimated, will cost the county 175,000, but the ultimate cost will be nearer J10, oi) according to figures complied by offi cials of the Automobile Club and others who are Interested In It. The length will be nearly IS miles nnd when com pleted will form tlie connecting link be tween Eastern and Western Oregon. fcJi thusiusts in the movement consider It the nioft valuable acquisition to the bet terment of traveling conditions that can bo accomplished at this time. ' To create more interent among mem bers of the aesoclatlon monthly meetings will Imx held In the future. The second Tuesday evening of each month and the offices of the association In the Keen building were fixed as the respective time and place for holding the meetings. CATALEPriC NOW TALKS S PATHOLOGICAL SLEEP CON- VEKTED INTO HYPNOTIC. The press rules this country." Judge Webster declared. "The power of the press is greater than that of any one otlier Institution. Knllrt its nid in the good roads movement and you will soon have the farmer and the general tax paper on your side. The time will come I can see It ahead when we will have to use a little restraint upon the people who will be clamoring for good roads Instead of using our efforts to fr.fluence them to secure their construction as at present." The speaker advocated the employment of a state hlghwav commissioner at a salary consistent with services and ability I eAntil.lt fnf t ll nns'.ttnn nd rfclsred : himself In favor of pome man who Is not Josephine a resident of the state and who would thus be removed from pullitcei and loc'al differences if any such exist. Following his address, a motion was passed authorising further publicity smung the voters of the initiative amend ment providing for hood Isauea or other extenslom of eredlta In those count'es of the state whrre the taxpapcrs desire to thus raise funds to procure better roads. Henry Wemme. president of the Port land Automobile Club, declared himself In favor of a law compelling counties to make the Improvement. If a sufficient rumber of the taxpayers demand them. He also eaigcrsted an Improvement of the present courses of many country roads, Ue cited Instances In various parts of t state where the traveler la compelled, by reasorf of the roads being consiructed In Irregular manner, to cover l miles In reaching a point only nine miles away. These roads should be straightened out. he said, and the land restored to tha oarers of the adjacent property. Roads I.Ike Railway System. Another Improvement suggested by Mr. Wemme was the establishing of "trunk roads' and "feeders" similar to those ot a great railroad system. , Judge Cleeton safd tt was purposed to use convict labor In the construction of some of the more difficult stretches during the romlng Winter. He sahl that the sympathy of the County tVurt Is Skilled Physician Believes Patient May Yet Be Restored to an Active Life. PARIS. Sept, 5. (Special.) The Psrls tinners Duhllsh the story of a servnnt named Josephine who has fallen Irfto a cataleptic slumber an! cannot be awakened. She is at pres ent In the hospital at Alencon, where she baa been since January 22 of this year. Josephine, who Is 32 years old, has for the last 13 years been subject to nervous fits, which occurred every few months. She was completely pros trated after these attacks and wns Incapable of working for several days. Her cure was extremely slow In tho hospital. Her spirits were affected and she became convinced that she would never work again. As her character became more sotnbor her nervousness Increased. On June 11 last, after a day In which she exhibited unusual ment: agitation, she fell into a sleep from which she has not yet recovered. The anaesthesia Is generalized. Hearing sight and taste are suspended. Only the sense of smell remains In a cer tain measure. The eyelids frequently tremble convulsively, while at Inter vals tho patient gives utterance to In articulate groans. Dr. Paul Fares, professor at the School of Psychology. Is extremely in- terested In tbls remarkable case, and Is using his best efforts to convert tha pathological sleep Into an hypnotlo sleep. In which state the patient would be more accessible to suggestions of a therapeutic efficacy. His labors in th;a direction have been crowned with suc cess. When she fell Into the catalepsy. was completely speechless, today she articulates In a loud voice? the effect of suggestion. Itespondlnir to the snme Influences, she sits up without assistance In bed. Under tha guidance of the doctor her faculties return little by little. But her muscles have lost their most elementary notions of movement. Her medical attendant Is now working upon the "musclo memory." He believes that presently the dreamer will be called back by a scientific miracle from the Umbo where her mind wanders, nnd that she will be restored to active life. Extension May Not Be Normal ITow of -River Already Appropriated, Is Latest Report. . OREGONTAN NEWS Bt'REAf, Wash ington, Aug. 30. The Board of Army Engineers, now In the West Inspect ing Government Irrigation projects for the President, probably will spend sev eral days on the Cmatilla project, look ing into engineering and physical con ditions affecting the feasibility of the west-side extension. From a purely engineering stand point, it Is declared by officials of the Reclamation Service that this contem plated extension Is entirely feasible. The land Is of good quality, and lies well. There Is a suitable reservoir site and with storage sufficient water could be Impounded to Irrigate all the lands embraced In Jhe preposed extension. Moreover, these things alone considered, this new part ol the project could be built at a figure which land owners and settlers could afford to pav. buz it Is learned that there are other features to be considered before this west-side extension can be adopted. ana it will be for the board to deter mine vhether or not these consldera tions Jmtlfy the Government In build Ing the project, or whether they make It advisable for the Government to abandon this field to private enter prise It the first place. It Is learned that the normal flow of the Cmatilla River Is appropriated. Water for the west side extension must be obtained by storage. This means the building of a nam across tne Umatilla River, and the backing up of the waters behind this dam to the very edge of the new town of Stanneld. The town will not bo flooded by the waters of the reservoir, but will find Itself on the bank of a long, narrow artificial lake. . The town, which has grown tremend ously In the past year, according to In formation on nle In Washington, Is comparatively flat, and the soil throughout the country porous. The erection of this big storage lake or res ervoir, bringing the water close to the town, would. It Is feared, have a marked tendency to saturate the land on which the town is built, rendering the main tenance of cellars impossible, and otherwise damaging the value of property. Should this presumption prove cor rect, it would be necessary for the Gov ernment, before building the Umatilla extension, either to buy out or move the town of Stanfleld, or else pay heavy damages resulting from the saturation of the soli and the consequent damage to town real estate. This, In Itself. Is one of the obstarles to be reckoned on, and one of tho elements tending to In crease the cost of the proposed project. Anotner thing to be considered by the board Is the unsatisfactory condi tion of water rights and filings along the Umatilla River. It is believed by fflclals of the Reclamation Service that the waters of the Umatilla are over- pproprlated, and that if all the water called for by recorded filings should be taken out and applied to Irrigation, there would not be enough water left for the proposed Government project. As a matter of fact, with storage, it Is believed there would be ample water for the Government project if private appropriators did not undertake to In crease their diversions, or If none of the water applied to irrigation was al lowed to go to waste. However, the sit uation regarding water rights on this river Is admittedly In complicated and unsatisfactory condition, and It will be Incumbent upon the Army Board to determine definitely whether or not there can be procured, by storage, suf ficient water to reclaim the 60.000 acres Included in the proposed extension. There will be no determination as to what shall be done about the Umatilla extension until some time next Winter, for the board will reserve Its report until after Its return to Washington, and the present Indications are that the board's views will not be laid before the. President before the first of Jan uary, 1911. Until that report Is re ceived and digested, none of the $20,- 000.000 fund will be allotted and no ex tensions authorized. If the west-side Umatilla extension Is turned down, Oregon will probably not share In the benefits accruing from the J20.n00.ono bond Issue, for It is reported that the only possible exten slon that might be made of the Klamath project would be one for the reclama tion of about 1S.000 acres of fruit land, lying entirely In California. So far as Oregon is concerned, it must be the west-side Umatilla extension, or nothing. DESTROYERS OF EMPIRES Fall of Greece and Rome Declared to Be Dae to Mosquitoes. (New Tork World.) It seems that there are no discover ers like college professors. Prof. W. M. Wheeler, of Harvard, has Just an nounced that the fall of Greece and Rome was due to the mosquito, which brought In malaria from Asia and Egypt. Thus he simplifies great ques tions on which many historical students have spent their lives only to leave the problems still In dispute. Gibbon, who generally appears in six monumental volumes, believed thst tho Knickerbocker suits, many models in many fabrics and patterns are here awaiting your inspection. Their tailoring and finish border on perfection. Modestly priced $5 to $15 Young Men's College Suits There is much in this stock of ours to inter est and create desire in young men of good taste. Fall models are ready $15 to $35 Store Closed Monday, Labor Day BEN V LLIN LEADING CLOTHIER decline and fall of the Human empire was due to the increase of luxury, old age and decay. He has a great deal cities, an energetic, intelligent insect like the mosquito would never have stayed behind. And if the professor's - logic is good, wny aia i-gypi nersun, to say about the entrance of the Turks wnlch he ciaims to have been one from Asia,, but he does not chronicle the coming of a single mosquito. In fact, it Is doubtful whether he mentions the mosquito In-any one of his volumes. Certainly he has no distressing account of its stinglna- the Itoman people to death. The German writers are famed for thoroughness and accuracy of de tail, and we cannot see how the rav ages of such a formidable invader, if It really ravaged, escaped the attention of the great Mommueti. We fear that the professor will have yet more trouble .with his theories when he goes back to Greece. Ovid tells how Io. changed into a cow, was chased about the world by an Insect. But It was a gadfly, not a mosquito. If the mosquito had existed actively in Greece, a discerning goddess like Juno would certainly have chosen it as the Instrument of her Jealousy and ven geance. The Greeks themselves were origin ally an Asiatic people, and when they were sending off Into Europe the emi grating streams that founded Athens, Sparta. Corinth, and other famous of the countries responsible for the mosquito, endure about 6000 years? When you go over Into Asia the same tale is true. Babylon was the New York and London of Its time for a couple of thousand years or so, and Nineveh fell before the busy battle-ax, not the buzzing Insect. May it not be that the malaria Introduced by the mosquito is fully offset by the activity and energy produced by its sting? Company Inspects Timber. HUSUM, Wash.. Sept. 8. (Special.) Clarke W. Thompson, of Cascade Locks, Or., president and manager of the Wind River Lumber Company, operating along the White Salmon River, is here on a tour of inspection, visiting the logging camp eight miles above here. The company owns several thousand acres of fir and pine timber lands along the river and north and west of Trout Lake. Gus Johnson, Chief Deputy Game Warden and Fish Commissioner, recently granted the company a per mit to run logs down the White Sal mon River for another year. Let This Be Your Savings Bank STRAUS STARTS FOR HOME Ambassador to Turkey to Spend Va cation in United States. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 3. Amerl- can AmDassauor etra -, accompanies ny Mra Straus, left tod;f-- for a holiday in the United States. Prior to their de parture the Ambassador cleared up a number of matters relating to American educational Institutions in Turkey. 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