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THE : OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENINO. DECEMBER 18. 1007. TEAL EXPOSES GIGANTIC PROFITS OF RAILROADS .... ' . . : Huge Earnings of Western Koads Tresented jn Anni merit Before Interstate Commerce Commission in Lirmbe mien's Case Give No Cause for liaise. BIG; JUMP IH TOTAL OF REALTY Tf?AFISFERS - - ' . t Deeds Filed for, Record Yes terday Amount to . In his argument In the lumber rat ras befor the Interstate Commerc commlaalon at Washington, D. C, J. N. Teal ahowed aoma amaslng profit earned by tha Great Northern, which haa juat taken charge o( operation of the Portland (Scuttle railroad down lb north bank of the Columbia riv er and will eoon be operating Into I'ortland. Ha proved that If the original atockholder had systematically aold bis rights, from 188V on, he would have received It par cant In dividend and at leaat IIS per rent In caali value, or approximately 11.6 per' rent annu ally. Had tha rlghta not been aold. but been taken up by the anarelioldera them aelvea during thai period, thry would liav had a profit of about 900 per rent a year, and Inclqdlng ore cerllf Icatea f liOl uboul l per cent Over $0 Tt Cast Cloaed. Of about SO Oregon lumber mill that engage In manufacturing for rail i shipment. Its are now closed, accord ing to direct report compiled by George M. Cornwall, who testified before the Jnteratate Commerce commlaalon In the tranarontlnental lumber rate hearing I. t lust concluded at Wsshlnrton. lodlrect a port a Indicate that I more mill will shut down. All ahutdown are becauae of tlm action ot railroad freight agenta In ralalng the carrying charge on Oregon lumber ahlpment and ahuttlng thla product out or eaat ern mirk Ma The line-up agalnat the railroad policy toward tho Pacific northwest manufacturing Industry la practically unanlmoua among lumber mill men. m the entire Hat, only one man took tha wltneaa atand In favor of the railroad. Johan Poulaen. member of the firm of Inman Sk PouUen. orf Portland, I reported aa being the only lumber manufacturer In attendance on behalf of the railroad. Paclflo northweat representative who teatlfied on the aide of the lum ber manufacturing lnduatry were: T. K. Campbell,' member Oregon Railway commlaalon; George M. Cornwall, ed itor Tlmberman; J. H. Chamber, Cot tage Grove; K. C. Knanp. PenlneuNr Lumber company; E. II. llasen. Tongue Point Lumber company; Philip Bueh ner. Eaetcrn & Weetern Lumber com pany; R. A. Booth, general manager Booth-Kelly Lumber company; K. ). Klngnley, Went Oregon Lumber company: Kverett G. Gregga. manager St. Paul V Tacoma Lumber company; W. A. Whitman, Kanasket Lumber & Slilngie company; Georgn H. Emeraon. North western Lumbor company; John . Eddy, Port Blakely Mill company; J. It. Bloedel, l-nrsnn Lumber company; Bclllngham; Ocorge H. CoopT, Cooper & Alpln, Bclllngham; Charles E. Pat ten, Atlas Lumber Shingle company; Victor Beckman, editor North Cou.it Lumberman; C. F. White, Graya Har bor Commercial company; J. II. Coal thirst. Seattle; A. F. fipecht. Seattle. Present Indisputable Tacta. The railroad aide of the fight was repreacnted by J. C. Stubbs, traffic di rector Harrlman ayatrm; J. G. Wood worth, traffic director Northern Pa cific; W. B. Blddle, third vice-president Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific; J. M. Johnson, assistant to vice-president Gould lines; George J. Nicholson, third vice-president Atchison. Topeka & Santa ; bartua Miller, first vice-president Chicago. Burlington & Qunlcy; H. R. McCullough, vice-president In charge or trarric Chicago tt Northwestern; . w. Cherrier. Provision Dealers' Dlapatch; J. M Hannaford, second vice-president Northern Pacific; R. B. Miller, general freight agent O. R. & N. company; J. J Hill, chairman oxecutlve board Great Northern: Henry Blakely. general west ern freight agent Northern Pacific; H M. Adama, assistant traffic manager Great Northern. W. W. Cotton, general attorney of the What Time Is II By YOUR Stomach? If Your Stomach Does Not Strike "Meal Timet" Three Times a Day, It Usually Means Dyspepsia. HOW TO BE HAPFT-HXTKOBT. Aa a rule all hours of the day look alike, and feel alike, to the dyspeptic. There Is no hankering for breakfast, no gnawing for lunch and no mouth-watering for dinner. Disgust takes the place .. i.i.m.i mn ii. iiiuuigii i.i pi in ii of desire, and the clock Itself at meal time reflects the owners grumpy race. If before breakfast, before dinner and before supper you do not feel a happy hungry feeling and longing for food, and feel that you could eat almost any thing put before you, you nave a symp tom or dyspepsia. If during your meals you still have an aversion to food, or feel hungry and not hungry at the same time, you have a very pronounced case or ayspepsia. If after your meals you feel bloated, or gassy, or you have heartburn and pains In your stomach, or you feel gurgly brash rising In your throat, you have a chronic case of dyspepsia, and you have had It a' long time, probably without realising it. For all these things there Is a sure cure, a cure that will make mealtime an awaited pleasure, and the meal Itself aj soothing luxury, this is true oecause the cure, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, contain just -the elements which a good, strong, neaitny siomacn nas. Each little tablet Is enough to digest 3,000 grains of food, thoroughly and well just as though you had no-stom ach at an. , Stusrt's, Dyspepsia Tablets actually Aa all the work or a neaitny stomach. They digest If your stomach can't. They digest everytning. Take one or two after each meal and know what It Is to have the luxury of a perfect digesuon ana stop irritation, belching, bloaf and brash, and that "lump of lead" feeling. They cure dys pepsia, Indigestion and all stomach troubles. They contain absolutely nothing harmful. They are made of golden seal, diastase and similar diges tive agents. Try several today and let your stom ach be convinced, let your mind be at tase. and your face be rosy. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at any drug etore on earth,, 60c a box. Send us your name and address today and we will at once send you by mail a sample package free. Address F. A. Ptuart Co., 160 Stuart, bldg., Marshall, Mich. - - - At all druggists-, SOe a box. 0. R. A N. ooinpany, handled tha legal end of the case for tha railroads, and 1. N. Teal, of Portland, represented the lumberman. Mr. Teal, ln- comprehensive state ment embracing tablea and fact cover ing every conceivable point In tha man ufacture and transportation of forest products, the organisation and capitali sation of railroad, coat of transporta tion, and exlatlug freight charges, de clared that the railroad had no Juat reason or th propoaed advance of the lumber rate. He Hld the freight agents had In creased the rite solely becauae last year the lumber mills made a good) profit and the railroads determined to appropriate a portion of thla profit to their own use and benefit, regardless o any question of a lair carrying rat. He cited th aaaertlon of Mr. Hanna ford. that "the reason for th advance of the lumber rate la that since 1(91 tbe fries of lumber has almost doubled, and he Pacific coast can now compete In eastern markets, which It could not do In 1SS1 without a very low freight rate. The movement of empty car wet make th business unprofitable to th railroad under th old rate, and un der the advanced rate they can afford to handle empty westbound equipment." lie also quoted R. B. Miller, of in O. It A ti., who had aald that "the new rate wa largely experimental and can be withdrawn i It does not work. The lumbermen are proaperoua and can stand i lie increase. Empty Oar aforemoat a ktyta. The empty cr movement was de nounced aa a myth by Mr. Teal, who said: The empty care sent to car for th grain crop of the Dakotaa. the livestock of eastern Montana, the wheat crop of eastern Washington and Idaho, and the weatern movement of empty ore cars, ar the cause of the so-called empty car movement. The Dakota car awell the eaitbour.d freight as well as do tbe stork car. "Official reDort of the carrlera show a decreaae of the empty car movement, an Increase of density of traffic, and every factor that goe for profitable operation. Shortage of equipment, how ever, and lark of facilities for handling the business, have been so serious that the defendant have admitted their In ability to handle the freight offered them. "Whether the advance In rates waa offered as a cure for car shortage In a spirit of retaliation, or whether a re- luctlon In other rate was considered. or a general advance, or whether they fell thnt they could araduate their charge according to the prosperity of tne anipners, the result was to close tug mills of the northwest, throw the IBs borers of the western country out of employment, prostrate all klnaa of In dustries, and cast a blight on business that It will take years to clear away; all bocauae of an arbitrary advance on a commodity which even then was hav ing difficulty to hold Its own In com petitive markets." Oat Komi Snippers' Throats. He ehowed that the Canadian Pacific, with all Ita heavy grades and mountain snows, and difficulties of operation, continues to haul lumber from the Pa cific coastxto Winnipeg for 40 cents and the Great Northern finds It profitable to go on handling Canadian lumber at the old rates. The Great Northern take lumber from Vancouver through Belllngham to North Dakota on the American side and thence to Winnipeg over the Canadian Northern, all at a 40-cent rate, the dis tance being 1,730 miles. But from Bel llngham to Mopes, North Dakota. Mr. Hill wanta to charge his own country men a SO-cent rate for a haul of 1,484 miles. Mr. Tesl showed by the railroads' own figures that the empty car move ment on the O. R. & N. railroad is the lowest In percentage of any part of the Union Pacific system, yet the O. R. & N. company has the heaviest lumber business. The empty car movement on the Union Pacific system was 29.04 per cent In 106. and 26.20 per cent in 1907. On the O. R. & N. the empty car movement was 20.61 per cent In 1906. and 18.76 per cent in 1907, The empty car movement on the O. R. & N. and on the entire Union Pacific system has decreased as the lumber shipments to the eastern markets have Increased. He made comparisons with the freight rates on movement of Ore gon lumber, hops, wool and hides, and showed that the old lumber rate was the most profitable of all to the railroads. Mr. Teal reviewed the receiverships and reorganizations at low cost by the f resent owners or transcontinental ines. the effect of increasing rates to consumers of all products, and ahowed that the public suffers more than any special class, in the larger consideration of all transportation problems. He called attention to tne ingratitude of the railroad companies, which have profited largely by the development of the northwest. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific sys tems have reaped huge profits from the business men and producers of this re gion lu the Inst few years. in iiiinn m NIM IU DIE IS GRATIFIED Death Claims Man Who Shot Ilimself in Presence of Wife. Transfers of realty filed for record yesterday reached a total of 1 141,11, mora than half pf which sum was in cluded In a transfer of Louis Zlmrrier man's packing pjant, to th Zimmerman Packing company. This property, I lo cated on th river front In South Port land and wa given a valu In th deed of M6.OU0. Th moat Important sal reported yes terday wa that of a (0x200-foot atrip extending through ' the block bounded by Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Hoyt and Irving street, which was purchased by o. Han rrom E. w. Bpencer ror in.ouu. W. R. Mersereau has purchased from Jen Olaen. a 60x1 00-foot lot on Ess Washington, between East Second and East Third street, for $11,000. Thla 1a an Inaide holding and would glv quar ter blocks In that vicinity a valu ol about 110.000. which I eaual to th highest price paid sis month ago for similar parcel in th eaat Bid war house district. Wllltsm McNabb has purchased .a two-story nous occupying a to-foot lot In Walnut Park. Th property was sold by Jarnea Judg for Is, 460. D. F. Knapp ha sold a hous and Jot In Kenllworth to John J. Kunts, for J,00. In the ame vicinity, E. 3. Ladd has sold to J. M. C. Miller a house and lot. on Eaat Eleventh, between East Carutn er and Division street, consideration 11.600. Phebe J. Colburn has purchased from th Oregon Real Kalate company a quarter block on tha southwest corner of Hslsey and East Sixteenth streets for 13.600. The Hawthorn estate has sold to W, J, Forrester a quarter block on Eaat Thirteenth and East Main street, con slderatlon 11.100 A. P. Smith ha sold to Lucy A. Llttl a house and lot In Bungalow Glade, Port land Heleht. for 11.490. D. J. Finn ha purchased from Robert Rogr an unimproved residence lot on Knott atreet, between Gantenbeln and Kerby street, for 11.600. SING IN MEMORY OP DEAD M0NARCII No Cocaine-No Gas No Students Onr noeN Is iu to srntform fclgb grad work at reasonable prtooa. Nervous People Ana thooe'affllctoj with heart woakuM eaa bow hav their ttb extracted, filled and brldgawork applied without tho loaat pala or danger. PAINLESS EXTRACTION .501 31 KARAT CROWNS 6.00 j BRIDGE WORK 5.00 OUR BEST PLAIN PLATE t.00 vrtTD Ik Big tmt ie Store ,C0RNER UNION AVENUE AND EAST BURNSIDE STREET 4 1. V It The Greatest Values Ever Offered in Portland's History Th Columbia Singing society will sing at the memorial services to be held this evening by the Swedlah-Amerlcan Ih memory of the lata King Oscar II of Sweden. The services will besjln at 8 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church Twelfth and Alder streets. The funeral of the dead monarch will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after noon at Stockholm. ELECTION CONTEST FILED AT SEASIDE (Speclil Plapatek to Th Jonrosl.) Astoria, Or., Dec. II. A suit has been filed In the circuit court by A. E. Miller agalnat W. E. Burke, re corder of Seaside, and H. C. Anderson and E. S. Hennlnger, to keep the latter two from assuming office to which 9 wtfttC Combination Bookcase Quartered golden oak, regular $29.00 value fie.OO Re-Enameling Teeth I tho greatest Invention in modern dn tUtry and baa bn ssost ueoful of 11 anothoda W ttnd to all a tpeelal Uvltatloa to oall t our of fc and bav tblr tot examined fro of charga W own and control th largest and bt quipped dantal otabllahmn la tb world, having Juat opnd aa offleo ta Astoria, making us II office all told. Wo glv a written gurant with all work for 1 gear- Lady attenaaat Opoa oroalBgo till 1:1. Suaday I U L Chicago Pa in less Dentists KXXTX AJTB WAJTsrarOTOsT. Bo suro yea ar la tb right laoa they wer recently elected. Neither Hennlnger nor Anderson I a taxpay er In Beaaldo and under the charter of the town they are not qualified to bold office. In the complaint It la further al leged that Hennlnger and Anderson well aa the mayor of the town ar employe of the Heaslde Mill company and formed a combination to defeat certain amendments to the city charter; ! that paid mill company uses a largo quantity of water rendering It Im possible to supply the town and Its In habitants with water drulng the sum mer season and cutting off the reve nues of the town. The complaint furth er alleges that by a continuance of i auch acts. Seaside and the plaintiff In : this suit will suffer Irreparable loss ; and aubject their property to loss by flro and that If Anderson Is allowej to qualify as a councilman his actions n the council will be Illegal and the town mill thua not be able to carry on business It asks that Recorder Hurke be restrained from Issuing a cer- Iflcate of election to Hennlnger or An derson until the further order of th court. 11,. ' I SWELL, NOBBY LADIES' SUITS AND 111 ; Prize Eclipse Heater Always sold at $10.00; our special price , $7.50 CLOAKS BELOW COST Your inspection it all we aik. $25.00 Suits at fl.50 $30.00 Suiti at $19.50 $20 00 Suits at f 13.50 $25.00 Cloaks and Jackets .".$16.50 $22 50 Cloaks and Jackets .',$14.00 $15.00 Cloaks and Jackets $10.00 All New, Nobby, Swell and Strictly Up to Dat. Dr. Thomaa' Eclectrtc OH 1 th best remedy for that often fatal disease croup. Has been used with success In our family for eight yeara. Mrs. L. Whiteacre, Buffalo, B Lister nnnurn Dunntn a Von raoln without this labL B utternut i William Burner, the longshoreman who shot himself Saturday evening in the presence of his wife because of his alleged hopeless passion for Mrs. Mag gie De ,-oign, died at Oood Samaritan hospital it 4:20 o'clock this morning from the effects or ills seir-lnfllcted wound. The remains have been given in charare of the coroner. Mrs. De Reign. the affinity in the case, was Monday committed to an insano asylum on com plaint of her husband. It is said the woman's mind has been affected by drink and that as a consequence She la suffering from suicidal mania. ONLY TWO PULLED IN LATE TODAY Northern Pacific No. 1-, due at 7 o'clock, arrived on time. Southern Pacific No. 16, duo 0 at 7:26, arrived at 7:40. Southern- Pacific No. 18, duo at 11:30, arrived on time. 0 O. K. & N. .Ne 3. due at 8 o'clock, arrived on time. O. R. & N. No. 6. due at 9:45, arrived at 1:15. . 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He Is Amity1 only physician "and tlm accident leaves the town without a res- mar meuicai pracuuuacr. - TmbciBVvUco VP.. a w J0 W9 M too Pats W Mm 4mB ti ti tt pvi mm tt ft rn w tot t Lumbch EfCHANOK BUILOINO OUR NEW POLICIES OFFER ALL -THAT IS' BEST IN LIFE CONTRACTS EITHER TO BUY OR SELL. Low Non-Participating Rates High Cash Values SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS OFFERED. TO RELIABLE ACTIVHI AGENTS." Apagr to JZ8BS B. BMAMT. Xaaafott Af;ats, 114 Zitunnfo SJCOhaaro Sldf! Bankers and Lumbermens Bank, Corner Second and Stark Streets PORTLAND, OREGON CAPITAL STOCK, $250,000.00 'V OFFICERS O. K. WENTWORTH President F. H. ROTHCHILD ..Finl Vkelpresidt JN AdTING .....Second Wic"1!1 n. u. Assistant CaahU PLATT & PLATT. O. K. WENTWORTH. President President Portland Lumber Co. CHARLES 8. RUSSELL. Dant & Russell, Lumber. P. S. BRUMBY, Agent Blodgett Co.. Ltd. Director Bootn-Kelly, Lumber Co. DIRECTORS DR. K. A. J. MACKENZIE, Chief Surgeon tho Oregon Rail road it Navigation Co, - GEORGE O. BINOHAM. Attorney, Salem, Oregon. LLOYD 3, WENTWORTH. Vice-President Portland Lumber, 3.- E.-WHEELER, fiecreUry , Wheeler Timber Co. j. , , i ......... General Counsel FRED H. ROTHCHILD. , . i. First Vice-President. President Rothcnlld JiJroa i v JOHN A. JKEATINO, " M Second Vice-President n , " Caahierr :. ROBERT T." PLATT, " Piatt Piatt, Attorney. . H. P. STORY, 4iitaot taahlef. - -": r. ; f . ''- - : JOURNAL liNERS COST LITTLE. ACCCr.TLiSII CTCH