The Oregon daily journal., January 22, 1908, Page 7, Image 7

" THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING,' JANUARY 22, 1903. '
REMOVIUQ BODIES OFtBOVERJOVtl FIRE VICTIMS
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Thie picture la a enapthot, taken by a Hearst American-Journal artist, showing rescuers taking the
body of t a victim on a stretcher from the rulna 61, the Boyertown', Pennsylvania, theatre, where more than
100 people were killed, in' aUre panic, , Many of the victim were burnt beyond recognition.
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Here are some of the Tlctlms of
the Boyertown, PennsylTanta, the-,
ktre horror. From left to right, top
row, are Nellie Foreman, killed;
Mamie Toms, killed; . Mrs. Lottie
Qraber, 'killed. In the middle row
ara ,' Charles Haurer, . killed; Ruth
ffirb, saved; Edna Schoener, killed;
pelow are pictures of Martha Weber
a : Key. A. m. weber. Hearst
erica-Journal news service photos
'EN MILLION NEXT
YEAR FROM TANANA
)Id Klondiker Says Output
Almost Certain to Be
Increased.
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8eattl, Jan. 12. A Dawon dispatck
ays: A. Pierson. an old-time, Klon
lkr. who has arrived from Falrbank
tn th first party of the year to com
Ivef' the winter trail from that camp
o Dawaon. tays there la much worU
tolng- on In the Tanana district this
50 Fathoms Deep
, UAY down on the bottom.
i " of the sea under three
hundred feet of water b the
favorite home of the codfUh.
The ke-cold water of Norway V
and the North Atiantie Is his
joy. He hai the power to grow .
fat under severe surroundings.
The same natural power is in
Scott's Emulsion
of Cod Uver Oil; Nature her-'
; : self put it there. This power
; produces new' flesh and new ,
; ' life in, those who suffer, from ;.
' wasting diseases. " J y
rAfl DratslMsi SOe. aW $1.0
winter. He la confident that the output
next summer ahould be $10,000,000 or
more, and saya - that the Tanana la a
country which the financial conditions
outside will .not' affect
"While the. Tanana has not the rich
ness of Eldorado, and parts of Bonan
Ea' says Mr. Pierson, "it has a. vast
area of workable, gravels, ' and such as
win Keep an army oi men ions env
nloved. It in not extra wealth v claims
which make a good camp, but fouixi
which will support many worxers, not
necessarily yielding such .enormous
Eronts to tne gTouna owner. xne ia
orers get perhaps the greater share
of the Bold In Tanana. They turn it
into channels or trade, antl the mer
chant and all others get a share of the
benefit ' -
"Cleary haa been and still la the
banner creek in Tanana. it 1 has been
worked and has . produced millions rot
years. Now comes Dome and Vault
very deep creeks, which will contribute
largely to the output tnis season. -Es
ther and Chatlnlka -also will con
tribute considerable. . Of course, there
are many other less prominent streams
wnicn wiu -contribute tneir snare.
"The men worklna In ' the Tanana
this,- winter are .receiving in7 many
piaces ib ana Doaxa tor .eight hours'
n.A.lr ttMil u Ita BAM K 1 C
and board. The dost of board may
be reckoned from 2 to 3 a day. Most
of the men there are fed the best 1
should not be suroriaed to aea trouble
in mo junana agmn next-summer iroro
the labor question.- Just now every one
seems to-have a dollar, and the men
out of work aid the others.- All pull
together, and if one la .broke Mu other
helps hia .neighbor or friend." .
Dangerotu Slan to Asylum.
Pendleton, ; Or., Jan 22. Pat Calla
han, who was held for , some week n
the charae of InsanitTJ h hn
mitted.to the Insane asylum. Although
Callahan has frequently caused trouble
before and was dangerous when drunk,
he was recently freed arain In the hnna
that he would do (better. He Immedi
ately, went .aown townr Into a, resau
dant and during the meal became ao
INCREASE NATIONAL
GUARD IN HAWAII
(Soeclal DiKMteb to The Journal.)
San Francisco, Jan. 22. Mall ad
vices from Honolulu say that under in
structions from the war department the
iNationai uuara oi Hawaii is to be re
cruited up to full reeimental atreneth,
At present, though the National Guard
is regimental in its organization, there
are only six companies, four in Hono
lulu, one In Hile and one in Wailuku.
Another company is to be organized in
mho ana aiso a company on the island
of Kaukl, which has never had a mili
tary organization since the final con
quest or the islam
the great, a hundred
island by Kamehameha,
(id red vears aaro. Pour
new companies will be organized in
Honolulu, or at least on this island.
After Once Tasting
no one wants an old-fashioned
cod liver oil prepara
tion or emulsion, because
Vinol is a much better body
builder and strength creator
for old people, weak children,
and for coughs, colds, bron
chitis, etc. If it does no good
we will return our money.
violent be knocked down' a woman who' ' ' -t1 ' ' ,M:,:' -
wsitiM'on u.. ;, -., .- , ; VVoodJrd. Clarka & Cow Portland. Or.
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Mr. Herbert JCnox Smith, whose seal in the
cause of economic reform has been in no wise
abated by the panic which he and his kind did
so much to bring on, is out with sn answer to
President Moffett, Of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is
officially given out, was delayed several weeks,
"for business reasons," because it was not deemed
advisable to further excite the public mind,
which was profoundly disturbed by the crisis.
Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, how
ever, the Commissioner rushes again into the
fray.
Our readers remember that the chief points in
the defense of the Standard Oil Company, as
presented by President Moffett, were, (1) that
the rate of six cents on oil from Whiting to East
St Louis had been issued to the Standard Oil
Company as the lawful rate by employes of the
Alton, (2) thaj the 18-cent rate on file with the
nterstate Commerce Commission was a class
and not a gmmodity rate, never being intended
to apply to oil. (3) that oil was shipped in large
quantities between Whiting and East St Louis
over the Chicago and Eastern Illinois at six and
one-fourth cents per hundred pounds, which
has been filed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the
8-cent rate on oil was entirely out of propor
tion to lawful rates on other commodities be
tween these points of a similar character, and of
greater value, such, for example, as linseed oil,
the lawful rate on which was eight .cents. Pres
ident Moffett also stated that thousands of tons
of freight had been sent by other shippers be
tween tnese points umicr auusianuauy inc same
conditions as governed the shipments of the
Standard Oil Company.
This defense of the Standard Oil Company
was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exerted
a nowerful influence upon the public mind. Nat
urally the Administration, which has staked the
success of its campaign against the "trusts" upon
the result of its attacks upon this company, en
itcivfln to offset this influence, and hence the
new deliverance of Commissioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal
rirument is extremely weak, although as strong,
no doubt', as the circumstances would warrant.
He answers the points made by President Mof
fett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard
Oil Company had a traffic department, and
should have known that the six-cent rate had
not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chicago
nd Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate be
cause it read, not from Whiting, but from Dol-
ton, which is described as a village of about
1.500 population just outside of Chicago. Its
onlv claim to note is that it has been for many
years the point of origin for this and similar
secret rates. ine commissioner aamus in ae
scribing this rate that there was a note attached
stating that the rate could also- be used from
Whiting.
The press has quite generally hailed this
statement of the Commissioner of Corporations
as a conclusive refutation of what is evidently
recognized as' the strongest rebuttal argument
advanced by the Standard.
In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the
from thm Railway Wetld, January S, 1908
remainder of his argument The lines of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois do not run into
Chicago. , They terminate at Dolton, from which
, point entrance ' is made over the Belt Line.
Whiting, where the' oil freight originates, is not
on the lines of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois,
which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt
Line at Dolton. The former practice, now dis
continued, in filing tariffs was to make them
read from a point on the .line of the filing road,
and it was also general to state on the same
sheet, that the tariff .would apply to other points,
e. g., Whiting. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
followed this practice in filing its rate from
Dolton, and making a note on the sheet that it
applied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this
method of filing tariffs was in common use.
Now let us see in what way the intending
shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by
the fact that the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
had not filed a rate reading from Whiting.
Commissioner Smith contends that "concealment
is the only motive for such a circuitous arrange
ment," i, e., that this method of. filing-the rate
was intended to mislead intending competitors
of the Standard Oil Company. Suppose such a
prospective oil refiner had applied to the Inter
state Commerce Commission for the rate from
Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed
that the only rate filed with the commission by
this 'company was 64 cents from Dolton, and
he would have been further informed, if indeed
he did not know this already, that this rate ap
plied throughout Chicago territory. So that
whether he wished to locate his plant at Whit
ing, or anywhere else about Chicago, under an
arrangement of long standing, and which applies
to all the industrial towns in the neighborhood
of Chicago, he could have his .freight delivered
over the Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois at Dolton and transported to East St
Louis at a rate of 654 cents. Where then is
the concealment which the Commissioner of Cor-
Brations makes so much of? Any rate from
olton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappel on
the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or
Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies through
out Chicago territory to shipments from Whit
ing, as to shipments from any other point in
the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois
filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive
the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corpora
tions who either betrays his gross ignorance of
transportation customs in Chicago territory or
relies on the public ignorance of these customs
to deceive the public too apt to accept unques
tioningly every statement made by a Govern
ment official as necessarily true, although, as in
the present instance, a careful examination shows
these statements to be false.
The final point made by President Moffett that
other commodities of a character similar to oil
were carried at much lower rates than 18 cent's,
the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only
with the remark that "the 'reasonableness' of
this rate is not in question. The question is
whether this rate constituted a discrimination
as against other shippers of oil," and he also
makes much of the failure of President Moffett
to produce before the grand jury evidence of the
alleged illegal acts of which the Standard Oil
official said that other large shippers in the ter
ritory had been guilty. Considering the fact
that these shippers included the , packers ami
elevator men of Chicago the action of the grand
iurv in callinflr uoon President Moffett to furnish
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preted as a demand, for an elaboration of the
obvious; but the fact that a rate-book contain
ing these freight rates for other shipper was
offered in evidence during the trial and ruled
out by Judge Landis was kept out of eight.
President Moffett would not, of course, accept
the invitation of the grand jury . although he ,
might have been pardoned if he had referred
them to various official investigations by the
Interstate Commerce Commission and other de
partments of the Government .
We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of
the whole matterr which is that the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount
equal to seven or eight times the value of Us ;
clinic ytuyiKj uct.,u3c i wvj,m,v...
did not verify the statement of the Alton rate
clerk, that the six-cent commodity rate on oil ,
had been properly filed with the Interstate Com- ,
merce Commission. There is no evidence, and
none was introduced at the trial, that any ship-
per of oil from Chicago territory had been inter'
fered with by the eighteen-cetit rate nor that
the failure of the Alton to file its fix-cent', rate
had resulted in any discrimination against-any "
independent shipper, we must take this on - the
word of the Commissioner of Corporations and
of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even.bv
Mr. Smith that the "independent" shipper, of oil,
whom he pictures as being driven out of business
by this discrimination of the Alton, could have
shipped all the oil he desired to ship from Whit
ing via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois to East St Louis.. In aborts
President Moffett's defense is still good, and we
predict will be so declared by the higher court.
The Standard Oil Company has been .charged
with all manner of , crimes and misdemeanors
Beginning with the famous Rice of - Marietta,
passing down to that apostle of popular liberties,
Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against
the Commonwealth, descending by easy stage to
Miss Tarbell's offensive personalities, we finally;
reach the nether depths of unfair' and baseless'
misrepresentation in the report of the" Commis
sioner of Corporations. The Standard haa been
charged with every form of commercial piracy
and with most of the crimes on the corporation
calendar. After long years o strenuous attack, t
under the leadership of the President of the
United States, the corporation is at last dragged '
to the bar of justice to answer for it misdo
ings. The. whole strength of the Government is
directed against it, and at last, we are toli, the
Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of
its crimes, and it is finally convicted, of having
failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk
and is forthwith fined a prodigious sura, meas
ured by the car. Under the old criminal law,
the theft of property worth more than a shilling
was punishable by death. Under the interpreta
tion of the Interstate Commerce law by Theo
dore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw Landis, a.
technical error of a traffic official b made the
excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of
RE IS TIME SPECIAL
(DEFER I MAKE
It is the most sensible yet astonishing offer ever made in merchandising. But I
am determined to unload my tremendous stock of Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Goods
and Men's Tailoring Cloths and at the same time and at once, and without wait
ing years to do so, introduce and without further quibble let all Portland know
that I have 1
OPENED A GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Therefore I most EMPHATICALLY say that I ABSOLUTELY WILL GIVE
YOU GROCERIES FREE EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT YOU PURCHASE
FROM US IN OUR MAIN STORE.
I want you to know that I have opened the FAMOUS GROCERY DEPART- v
MENT and also that I have opened up the largest MEN'S MERCHANT
TAILORING DEPARTMENT in Portland and GROCERIES GO FREE with' -the
MEN'S TAILOR-MADE SUITS just the same. r
WE ARE NOW SCOOPING OUT GROCERIES!
Don't be blind to your own interests you can j'ust as well have a buncK of free' '
groceries every week as not. . - " t v
I am no kicker I believe in Portland I believe in her people and if we all ,
would go ahead and -DO TRY WORK to the best of our abilities instead
of getting scared until we imagine we can see the shadow of the poorhouse gates
-there would be no hard times. I say help yourself to the best of your ability, .
if you don't nothing will be doing. That's what I think and what I am doing.' '
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The J. M. Achesdn 0bo
' FIFTH AND ALDER STREETS y.
P. S. This will enable a family to clothe themselves from tHeir grocery bill,