CITY EDITION
It' All Here and ie All True
THE WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday
fair and warmer. Westerly winds.
Maximum Temperatures Sunday:
Portland 6H New Orleans 84
Chicago 76 New York 72
Los Angeles 66 St Paul 5
f.
NEW TODAY
"Tinker Bob" stories for children, and
the first of a aeries of new fashion hints
and pictures.
These will be dally features of The Jour
nal feature pages. ,
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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919. - 1XTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS
OW TRAINS ND MtWS
STANDS FIVI OS NTS
BURGLARS
AIM
IH SAFE
Casino Theatre Box Office Is
Robbed by Thieves Who Make
Escape in Automobile; No Clue
Thieves Break Windows in Vari
ous Establishments and Make
Away With Valuable Articles.
Increasing boldness of burglars
was reflected today In numerous po
lice reports, ranging from the theft
of a safe to breaking and clearing of
several downtown store windows.
All city detectives who can be spared
itre at work in an effort to stop the
rapidly increasing wave of robberies.
So great is the variety of captured
goods held for owners' identification
that the city detective bureau resem
bles a second-hand general merchan
dise establishment.
Bold thieves earLy this morning kicked
in a Third Btreet jewelry store window
and stole a safe from the Casino theatre
containing Saturday ami Sunday re
ceipts of the Casino and Burnslde the
atres. Inspectors Cahill and .Hill are
now working on sltm clues.
Driving up to lite Casino theatre,
Fourth and Burnside. shortly after 2 a.
m., two men jimmied the door of the
cashier's cage in front of the building,
placed the safe, containing $43", and
speeded .away. The robbery was dis
covered by a Janitor-watchman employed
by the Casino and a theatre across' the
street when he returned to the Casino
a few minutes after 2 .30 a. m. A Mr.
Fay, living at the Phillips hotel nearby,
reported to police this morning that he
saw two men with a car at the time the
robbery was commltteed, and although
he thought at the time their actions were
suspicious, did not see the theft.
Police estimate a loss of $250 ort rings
and watches stolen from' Louis Gll
brlde's Jewelry store, 173 Third street
The window had been kicked in and 20
rings and eight watches ..taken. Gil
bride carried no burglar insurance and
did not have the watch numbers re
corded. JT. Peterson. 454 East Forty-ninth
street, reported the loss of a quantity of
Jewelry sometime Saturday night. The
articles stolen include a lady's gold
watch, a gold locket, a lavaliere set with
pearls. and sapphires, a gold watch fob,
a long gold chain and three Tiffany
lings. Inspectors Hyde and Abbott were
'assigned to the case.
J. U. Joseph, Seventy-seventh street
and Sixty-eighth avenue 'Southeast, re
ports that his home was entered Satur
day night. In their report to the captain
of the department. Inspectors Hyde and
Abbott stated that the lost articles in-
(Concluded oft Pge Four. Column FiTe)
BETHLEHEM STEEL
Plant Officials Admit Some of
Mills Are Crippled; Some
Plants Gain; Order Rules.
Pittsburg. Pa., Sept. 29. (I. N. S.)
Substantial gains appear to have
been made by the steel interests over
the week-end.
The gains principally were made
through the Western Pennsylvania
district, where several mills in Do
iiora, New Castl. McKeesport and
Pittsburg proper, which had been
forced to. close last week, resumed
operations today.
At other points in the district, notably
in the steel cities of Homestead, Du
quesne, Braddock, Brackenrldge and
others,' vhe operations never have
ceased, the mills reported greatly in
creased forces today with production
equaling "its pre-strlke rate.
The strike was extended to the Beth
lehem plants. Reports indicate that
numbers of employes went out at the
principal plants of the company, but that
sufficient employes remained to con
tinue operations In all departments.
Outside of Pennsylvania there was lit
tle change in the strike situation.
Youngstown remained closed down.
L'MON OFFICIALS CLAIM
BETHLEHEM PLANTS DARK
Pittsburg, Fa., Sept 29. (L N. S.)
"Bethlehem Is closed down," said a tele
gram received ,at strike headquarters
here today fromUnlon officials in charge
of the walkout at the Bethlehem plants.
"Our reports show that the walkout
was a success.'" said William 2. Foster,
eastern director of the strike.
Oregon Man Honored
By Farm Congress
Kansas City, Mo.. Sept. 29.-Senator
' Ar thur Capper of Kansas was elected
president of the International Farm congress-at
a business session here.
Dr. Ricquard Lyman, Utah ; Valentine
Wrinklcr, Manitoba. Sask.. and Lou, I.
ISweet, Colorado, were elected vice presi
dents, and L. A. Nares of California,
W. It. King, Oregon ; Louis Hill. Mmne
" acta, and Kurt Greenewald, honorary
vie presldeut. ,
MILLS
OPERATING
Former Baroness
Renounces Title
To Regain Money;
Returns to U. S.
Philadelphia Girl Comes Home to
Obtain Divorce From Husband
Who Was Aide to Kaiser.
By Karl H. Toa Wlegand
Berlin, Sept. 29. Baroness Boecklin
von Boecklinau, formerly Gertrude j
Berwlnd of Philadelphia, Is reported I
to be the first American girl who has
decided to give up her German hus- j
band for her American fortune, seized
during the war by jlhe United States
custodian of alien property.
According to a letter from Switzer
land, the baroness is reported to be
about to sail for the United States
with her son. She is said to have ap
plied for a passport for the purpose
of getting a divorce and her passport
was promptly granted, it is said.
WAS AIDE, TO KAISER
Baron Boecklin von Boecklinau. her
husband, is an intimate friend of
Prince Max von Baden. He was a
captain in the Prussian guard and was
severely wounded in the battle of the
Marne.
Later he was attached to the kaiser's
headquarters, but his blind loyalty
was more or less superceded by his
liberal political tendencies and the fact
that he has an Irish mother and an
American wife.
Baroness von Nagel, whose husband,
a lieutenant general, was killed in the
fighting with Sparticides at Munich, is
said to have been notified that auto
matically with her husband's death, she
recovered her American citizenship and
that her seized property in America
will be restored to her upon her re
turn to the United States. She was
Mabel Dillon.
DIVORCE NECESSARY
The fact that the government of the
United 'States will only return seized
fortunes to American girls married to
German, Austrian or Hungarian hus
bands upon proper proofs that their
husbands are dead or that they are
divorced, is bitterly denounced by some
of the American princesses, countesses
arrfl baronesses .who dp not want to
divorce their husbands, particularly in
cases where divorce is forbidden.
BIG LONDON STRIKE
IS
Government's Efforts to Operate
Trains Proves Partly Suc
cessful During Day.
By Ed L. Keen
London. Sept. 29. (U. P.) Great
Britain, a nation without transporta
tion, expected today that the next 48
hogrs would prove the most critical
period of the railway strike. Today
and tomorrow, it was believed, would
show whether the walkout would be
broken soon or whether the nation
would have to face a long siege.
While all the strikers readily accepted
the opnprtunity for a week-end holiday,
it was believed today that many of them
were becoming disheartened over the
public's hostility and were likely to re
sume work.
The government's efforts to operate a
skeleton service were partly successful
today on both local and long distance
lines. The trains were manned by vol
unteers and loyal employes who are not
members of the union.
The boat train, running from London
to Folkestone; departed on time.
The completeness of the government's
plans has surprised the strikers.
The most disquieting feature of the
situation today was the possibility of a
sympathetic strike by the transport fed
eration, which will meet tonight. It Is
feared action may be taken to join the
dock workers' unions in a general walk
out. The seamen and firemen's union, vot
ing against a strike, has declared it will
remain loyal to the government and
"defeat the endeavors of the Bolshevik!
and hotheads of the-industrial world."
Arrangements for the distribution of
food are proceeding smoothly, an offi
cial statement issued from Downing
street declared. It was said immediate
use would be made of offers for service
which were pouring in from all parts of
the country- '
Sailings Are Suspended
Washington, Sept. 29. (U. P.) Sail
ing of all shipping board vessels for
United Kingdom ports have been or
dered suspended because of the British
railway strike, the shipping board an
nounced today.
Housewives Will
Push Organization
Plans on Tuesday
Adoption of a constitution and election
of officers of the new "Housewives'
council," the organization which origi
nated in the weekly housewives' mass
meetings at Library hall, will be the
purpose of the final Informal meeting at
that place at 2 :30 o'clock, Tuesday after
noon. All Portland women are invited to join
the new organization, which purposes to
study economic and political questions of
interest to women, make investigations,
and use its influence for reform.
Housewives are urged by 'Mrs. J. F.
Chapman, chairman of the mass meet
ings, not only to attend this meeting but
also a meeting of the Market Producers'
association at 10 o'clock, Tuesday morn
ing, at Library hall.
A discussion of public market condi
tions will follow addresses by Mayor
George L. Baker and Mrs. F. O. ,North
rup. chairman of the women's market
investigation committee.
APPROACHES
cms
PRESIDENT
IS IA6LE
TO SLEEPI
Dr. Grayson at Bedside. All Night;
Slumber Does Not Overtake
Patient Until Noon Today.
Every Ounce of Energy Burned
Out, Attending Physician Or
ders Period of Complete Rest.
Washington, Sept. 29. (I. N. S.)
"The president passed a restless
night, but is sleeping this morning.
(Signed) "GRAYSON."
This bulletin was issued by Rear
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the presi
dent's personal physician, at 11:10
today.
It Is understood that the president
got virtually no sleep during the
night, and Dr. Grayson was with him
constantly.
President Wilson has "burned out
every ounce of energy" and must
have complete rest and quiet until
he gets it back, it was stated at the
White House today.
Secretary Tumulty announced that he
has cancelled all of the president's pend
ing engagements, and that all questions,
large and email, that have been facing
the president will be shelved until it is
assured he is strong enough to cope with
them. It is also likely that he will leave
Washington for a time, so that he may
get the complete rest which is believed
to be essential to his recovery.
The president's illness will not inter
fere with the plans for the industrial
conference between representatives of
capital, labor, agriculture and the pub
lic, scheduled for October 6, it was
stated. Whether the president would be
able to take an active part in the meet
ing would depend upon developments.
White House officials said.
It was also announced that King Al
bert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium
would not be guests of the White House
until after their return on October 25
from a tour of the country.
Bundled in a heavy overcoat. Presi
dent Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wil
son and Miss Margaret Wilson, left the
White House shortly before 3 o'clock
for an auto ride. The trip was taken
by order of Admiral Grayson, who "said
fresh air was one of the chief est needs
(Concluded on Pae Four. Column Three)
TELEPHONE CULL
; Long Distance Message From St.
Joseph, Mo., to Wife in Port
land Jail Furnishes Clue.
A long distance telephone mes-
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e, xivjji oi. uuetrpii, iiu,, to two
women in the Portland city Jafl has
brought about the arrest in the Mis
souri city of three men suspected of
robbing a safe in Walter Kalunka's
store in Astoria of approximately
$10,000 on August 15:
The women are Bessie Tate and Mrs.
Anna Sherman and the men are Frank
Weger, alias Barnard, alias Burnett ;
Klmer Clergy, alias James Tate, hus
band of one Of the women, and Al
Meadows.
' Arrested on suspicion that they might
know of the robbery the women are
being held as witnesses but charges of
being accessories will be placed against
them, according to the police. A re
volver taken from the store was found
in their possession.
The women let the men know of their
plight and the latter became so anxious
about their welfare the long distance
call followed. This gave the authorities
a tip which resulted In Ihe arrests, ac
cording to word from St. Joseph to the
local Burns detective agency office and
to Police Inspectors Leonard and Hell
yer, who worked on the case. It is said
the St. Joseph officials recovered $4000
in Liberty bonds and money.
Much of the money and securities
stolen belonged to foreign born resi
dents of Astoria and vicinity, who had
deposited it with Kalunka for safe
keeping, having little faith In ordinary
banks.
From the Astoria store the men are
charged with the theft of $3600 In $20
bills, $1800 in $1 bills. $1000 in Liberty
loan bonds and other securities.
Tong War Which Was
Scheduled for Today
Fails to Take . Place
A Chinese tong war, which was
scheduled to start at 2 o'clock this after
noon, had produced none of the thrilling
action of previous factional differences
at the hour set, as far as the police
could determine.
A member of the Hop Sing clique is
in the city jail, held under a complaint
sworn to by a Blng Kong-Bow Leong
tongman. who was the victim of the fan
tan holdup Sunday night in which $700
was confiscated from the gam by an
Oriental highwayman. That fact is
held by the police to be responsible, for
the alleged tong war threats.
PROVED
UNDOING
Arctic Explorer
Adrift Upon Ice
Floe 184 Days in
Quest of Siberia
Remarkable Experience Related
by Adventurer Who Was Stef
"ansson's Chief in North. -
Portland weather is just like that
of the Arctiq, ventured Storker T.
Storkersen today, as he sauntered
out of the Multnomah hotel.
"Cpol, but not cold. And not too
warm," the Arctic explorer and
chief assistant of Vilhjalmur 'stef
fansson, said on the occasion of his
return to the United States after 11
years in the Far North.
"The high cost of living is high. But
I guess I'll have to stand it."
Storkersen is in Portland today, vis
iting his brother, Simon Storkersen,
1062 Sixteenth street north. In 10 days
he plans to go to New York to Interest
capitalists in financing the reindeer in
dustry in Northern Canada.
WOULD DRIFT TO SIBERIA
Floating around on an ice floe for six
months doesn't even appeal to Storker
sen, much as he likes the North. But by
such an unique expedition his party dis
covered that there is no permanent cur
rent in the Beaufort sea and that Kee
nanland is wrongly located on present
maps.
"We thought we would drift to Siberia
when we boarded.an ice floe in Beaufort
sea," Storkersen said this morning, "but
1S4 days later we discovered that we
were only 55 miles from our starting
point."
Storkersen took four men with him
when he boarded the floe. With three
ether men, eight sleds and 80 dogs, he
Faid goodbye to the support parties on
April 8, 1918. They started from a
point 130 miles north of Cross island
in latitudf 73 :48 and drifted 800 miles.
Their home, all the while, was an ice
house half a mile from the edge of the
floe, which was 15 miles long and seven
miles wide.
LIFE IS OSI OF MONOTONY
"Our expedition was the first time ex
plorers attempted drifting on ice." said
the northerner. "It is monotonous drift
ing about. We had absolutely nothing
to do but take soundings and hustle
fresh meat. Not much excitement in
that, even if we did get six bears and
1'6 seals."
A Norse seaman foi 19 years, Storker
sen took to the north after he saw ihe
Anglo-American polar expedition being
outfitted in Victoria in iA06. He had
been In Portland .many times.
"I found the north to be ideal. S'.nce
then I have spent all my time there,
hunting, trapping, exploring.
"It isn't cold in the North like many
people imagine. The thermometer gets
down low, but the cold is not penetrat
ing. In the 13 years 1 have been North
I find that the minimum temperature on
the Arctic coast at latitude 70 north is
55 degrees below sero. In summer time
the temperature gets to 40 degrees above
on the Arctic coast. Of course, around
McKenzIe it drops sometimes to 90 de
grees below, but we don't mind so much.
You see, the cold there isn't nearly as
unpleasant as inland.
REINDEER INDUSTRY LUBES
"The reindeer industry, in which I am
now trying to Interest Eastern capital
ists, is very profitable. I'm investing
all the money I have got. Reindeer is
i an meal iooa.
Storkersen joined Stefansson in 1914.
anfl since 1916 has been second in com
mand of their expedition. It was
at Stefansson's instance Storkersen be
gan the ice floe venture. He has the
highest praise for his commander, and
points. to the remarkable results attained
even without proper Instruments.
The Portland visitor is now writing a
detailed report of his expedition to sup
plement a preliminary report filed with
the deputy minister , of naval service at
Ottawa, Ontario, under date of January
12, 1919.
DiU Will Explain
Plumb Eailroad Plan
At The Auditorium
Opportunity to hear the Plumb plan of
railroad operation explained will be
given Portland peoeple Saturday, when
C. C. Dill, ex-representative in congress
from Washington, will speak at The
Auditorium. Announcement that Dill
was coming to Portland was received by
H. W. Fleming, president of the Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks, from the
Plumb Plan league in Washington, D. C.
Dill is coming to Oregon to appear be
fore the Chamber of Commerce and
Federation of Labor and will spend
three days speaking in the state. He
will likely visit Bend and other towns
in the state.
Milk Prices Advance
On October 1 to 15
And 16 Cts. a Quart
The price of milk Is going up October
1, according to decision both by produc
ers and distributors. The producers
will ask $3.90 a hundred pounds for milk
delivered to the dealers and the dealers
in turn will ask consumers 15 cents a
quart in advance and 16 cents a quart
on deferred accounts. On October 1,
last year the price of milk, through rec
ommendation of the Portland milk com
mission, was increased to 14 14 and 15Vfc
cents a quart, the producers receiving
$3.85 a hundred pounds. 1
New Demands Facts;
Hitchcock Opposes
Washington. Sept 29. (U. P.) A res
olution calling on the state department
for "all facts" concerning the landtag of
American marines in Dalmatia waa In
troduced today by Senator New. Indi
ana. Opposition to it consideration by
Senator Hitchcock, administration leader,
delayed action on it until tomorrow.
COURTHOUSE WHICH OMAHA MOB SET FIRE TO
THIS is the new $1,500,000 building which was practically sacked by rioters in the Nebraska
metropolis late last night and this morning. Damage to the building is at least $250,000.
The Douglas county jail is on the fifth floor of the structure, and when the flames spread
the prisoners were taken to the roof. The negro who was sought by the mob was found on the
fourth floor, to which mob leaders fought their way through flames and smoke. 1
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CHINAMAN INJURED
SPEEDERS ACCUSED
Man Knocked Down as He
Stepped Off Streetcar and
May Be Fatally Hurt.
Hit by a speeding automobile as
he stepped from a street car at East
Sixty-second and Glisan streets at
midnight Monday, Leong Ban. a
Chinese cook, is at St. Vincents hos
pital so badly ' injured he may die.
After an eight-hour search that in
cluded all parts of the city by the
entire emergency force, three
youths are in jail, charged with the
responsibility.
Ban is unconscious and suffering from
a fractured skull, a broken leg, a frac
tured collar bone and two cracked ribs.
In jail are Gatani Buzzelli. 20. 428
East Forty-fourth street, driver of the
car ; Peter Buzzelli, his brother, aged
19 ; P. Frlede, 1391 East Carruthers
street. Leong has been employed as a
cook for three years at a home at 93
East Sixty-second street.
According to a story of the accident
told by Inspectors Cahill and Hill, who
worked on the case, Gantani was driving
the car, rented from the Lownsdale
garage earlier In the evening. Speeding
along, they did not see a Montavilla
car stop to let the Chinaman alight, and
ran over him, tossing him In the air.
Frightened, Gatani applied more power
to his car and speeded away.
Several blocks away he stopped the
car and, with Frlede, ran home. Peter
Buzzelli, the .brother, took the car back
to the Lownsdale garage.
Peter telephoned another brother about
the accident shortly after arrival home.
The brother in turn called Friede's
mother by telephone, and believing the
police might be seeking the boys, she
called detective headquarters.
Friede refused to talk to Cahill and
Hill. Gatani, driver of the car, finally
confessed, according to police. Peter,
employed at the Columbia River ship
yards, was arrested this morning.
Mackey Will Succeed
Hindman (Resigned)
As Deputy Attorney
Lionel C. Mackey. Portland attorney,
and captain of artillery with the 91st
division in France, will succeed Charles
C. Hindman, resigned, as deputy city
attorney, City Attorney LaRoche an
nounced this morning.
Mr. Mackey practiced law for five
years in Illinois prior to his removal
to Oregon in 1909, and was a member
of the firm of Mackey & Cooper for
several years. He served as a member
of the legislature from Multnomah
county in the 1917 session.
Portland Visit of
Royalty Advanced
Owing to President Wilson's illness.
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Bel
gium will visit Portland on Sunday,
October 12. four days ahead of the pre
vious date set, according to present
plans. A wire received by Mayor Ba
ker this morning from William Phillips,
assistant secretary of state, announced
the change in plans, subject to approval
of King Albert.
Bibulous Speeders
Fined and Jailed
Judge Kossman fined P. Hcssong $100
ani sentenced him to 20 days in jail
for driving his automobile while intox
icated. John Rich was fined $50 and
! will spend 20 days in jail as a result
of his conviction on a similar charge.
Lsi?. It if 922 .1
. Shippers' Right to
Reasonable Rate Is
Violated, Says Brief
The shipper's right to have his
products carried to market at a rea
sonable rate is being violated in the
Pacific Northwest.
It is up -to the Interstate Com
merce commission to stop the viola
tion and right the wrong.
Transportation based on cost of
service is urged in the Columbia
basin rate case brief filed today with
the Interstate Commerce commis
sion by former Governor Oswald
West, counsel for the Inland Empire
Shippers' league.
"Under the common law shippers had
a right to have their'products carried to
market at a reasonable rate," it is
strongly asserted in the brief which, in
effect, urges rf-cognition of the Columbia
water grade In the grant of a rate
which will be lower than that over the
mountains to Puget Sound. "That rigrht
has been confirmed by the act to regu
late commerce. It has also been con
firmed by the federal control act. Yet
that right has been and is now being
nullified by a policy of rate making
which fixes for all roads serving a
territory rates based upon the cost of
service over the road with the highest
operating cost.
RIGHT SHOULD BE INVIOLATE
"Shippers over the Itnes of the de
fendants can not have this right to enjoy
reasonable rates taken from them
through the coming of r competing lines
with higher operating costs. When
these lines entered O-W. R. & terri
tory they did so at their own risk and
with a full understanding as to the
rights of a shipper to demand and re
ceive reasonable rates over the shortest
and most favorable route to market."
But one question is before the com
merce commission, asserts former Gover
nor West, and it is this :
"Shall the shippers of grain and grain
products from points In the Inland Em
pire to Columbia river ports over tn?
lines of the defendants be permitted to
enjoy rates based upon cost of service
over said lines, or shall they be com
pelled, for all time to come, to pay
rates based upon the cost of eervice
over the northern lines with longer hauls
and mountainous routes?"
That the cost of service along the Co
lumbia is less is also stated :
"It has been clearly established by the
evidence in these cases that the cost of
service from points in the wheat belt of
the Columbia river basin to Portland.
Vancouver and Astoria is less than to
Puget Sound. Therefore the rates to
Portland, Vancouver and Astoria are
either loo high or the rates to Puget
Sound are too low. Complainant has a
right to assume that the rates to Puget
Sound are remunerative, for:
DECISIONS CITED
"(I) A carrier may not properly or
lawfully engage in transportation at a
rate less than the cost of the service,
since to do bo would place an Improper
and unlawful burden upon other traffic."
Burnham, Hanna, Munger Co. v. C, R.
I. ft; P. Ry. Co.. I I. C. C. 299-310.
"(2) Carriers are under no obligation
to establish less than reasonable rates
for purpose of overcoming any disadvan
tage suffered by reason of greater dis
tance from source of supply." Vander-boom-Simson
Lumber Co. v. fit L I. M.
ft S. Ry. Co., 38 I. C. C, 432-437.
West makes it clear in the brief that
the Inland Empire shippers are not con
cerned with the differences which have
developed between cities since the peti
tion for a rate based on cost of transpor
tation was offered:
XO COXCERX WITH DIFFERENCES
"As a result of the filing of these- sev
eral petitions for rate adjustments, dif
ferences appear to have developed be
tween the principal cities of the North
west. In any such fight the complainant
in this case has no concern. Its purpose
in filing its petition was neither to build
up nor tear down any particular city. It
concedes to every city and every com
munity the right to enjoy to the fullest
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extent any and all benefits which may
grow out of its natural advantages."
The shippers' league brief reviews the
facts that average '"distances -from the
interior are shorter down the .Columbia
than over the mountains to Puget Sound,
and that cost of service is less, but the
valley lines receive larger returns. That
railroad officials worked hand- In glove
ixing rates is asserted in a paragraph
which reads:
I'ROTECTIOX GIVEN N. P.
When this case was being heard, wit
nesses were repeatedly asked to point
out a single instance where rate. cutting
by a carrier had disturbed the grain rate
structure in the Northwest. It couldn't
he done. The early tariffs and traffic
agreements show that the traffic offi
cials of the N. P. and O. R. &. N. worked
hand in glove in fixing rates. The prac
tice has' since continued, and always
with a view of protecting the revenues
of the Northern Pacific."
COSTLY ROUTE IS HAS18
Again:
'The testimony clearly shows that the
Northern Pacific, with its long haul over
a mountainous route, has been the key
stone in the grain rate structure of he
Northwest, and all lines have Joined in
seeing it properly supported and pro
tected. New and competing lines en
tering the Northern Pacific territory
were not permitted to become disturbing
factors in rate making. The country
did not profit through their shorter hauls
and less costly service. These roads ac
cepted the rates as they found them,
and the public has continued, and will
continue until given relief by this com
mission, to pay rates based upon the
cost of service over the most costly
route of the Northern Pacific."
INCONSISTENCIES POINTED OCT
The inconsistency of the rate struc
ture is shown in the Yakima instance:
"Yakima, Wash.. . is a competitive
point. It is served by the Northern Pa
cific and the O-W. R. & N. It is 163
miles from Yakima to Seattle via the
mountainous route of the Northern Pa
cific. It is 313.6 miles from Yakima
to Portland via the water grade route
of the O-W. R. & N. The normal N.
P. rate to Seattle is 12e. The normal
O-W. R. & N. rate to Portland Is 15c.
"The Northern Pacific hauls grain
from Walla Walla to Seattle, a distance
of 317 miles, at a "normal rate of 1340.
This rate waa not made to meet com
petition, but was fixed by the railroad
corr.mlBSlon of Washington as a rea
sonable rate for the distance and haul
over the mountains.
"The O-W. R. It N. makes joint rates
with the Northern Pacific from Pendle
ton to Seattle. The distance is 333
miles and the route passes over the
Cascade mountains. The normal rate
is 13 cents, or the same as Is charged
by the O-W. R. N. for its haul to
(Concluded on Pa Three, Column On)
Alaskan Commission
Contracts With Local
Firms for Egg Supply
For .the third consecutive time Port
land has landed the government contract
tb supplying the Alaskan 'engineering
commission with its fresh egg supplies.
Portland has demonstrated that not qfily
is it able to sell eggs at lower prices
than can Puget Sound, even after pay
ing freight to that section, but can pay
the producer just as much, if not more
money.
Local firms were today notified by
thn Alaskan commission that they bad
been awarded contracts for 350 cases of
ergs to go forward early in the next
mcnth to the N"orth. The prices paid by
the government for delivery at Portland
were from 68 Vi to 73 cents a dozen for
frtsh stock. Savinar & Co., Swift Jfc Co.
and Frye & Co. were the successful
bidders here.
OIHM
FEABFIM. OF
M IIS
Negroes Break Into Hardware
Store and Take 200 High Pow
ered Rifles and Ammunition.
Martial Law Follows Night of Ter
ror; Mayor Mobbed Court
House Burned; Negro Lynched.
Omaha. Nob., Sept. 29. (I. X. Si.)
A call for 1000 more troops wn
made to Governor McKelvta today
by acting .Mayor V. G. I'rc. In n
telegram to the governor and to Sen
ator Illtchooek, at Washington, Vro
declared 15,000 negroes In Ouiahu
are anned and ready to fight, lie
said that there are probably 1500
rifles and revolvers In the hands or
the mob, and that further violence
Is threatened in the negro section.
City authorities, Ure said, are unable
to eoie with the situation, and he
asked that 1000 troops be stationed
permanently at Fort Crook.
Chicago, Sept. 29. (I. N. S.)
Major General Leonard Wood start
ed Immediately for Omaha txln to
take ehnrge of troops there, follow
ing receipt of instructions from Nee.
rotary Baker. lie will reach Omaha
tomorrow morning.
Omaha, Neb., Kept. 29. Omaha
seems to be face to face with it
bloody race war. The mob spirit Is
rampant here today. Many jvhiten
and many negroes have armed them
selves, and a clash is imminent, de
spite the presence of troops.
This is all a result of rioting Sunday
night, when Will Brown, a negro, iden
tified by Mlsa Agnes Loeback. 19, as th
man who had assaulted her Thursday
night, was lynched and his body burned.
Mayor Ed P. Smith was nearly hanged,
the Xouglas county court house was
burned, one man, Francis Clancy, 1.
was shot and killed, and 39 other per
sons were wounded. One more death,
that of an unidentified man. was re
ported this morning.
According to a report reaching head
quarters of Colonel Wuest. in command
here, negroes raided a hardware and
gun store during the night and took 200
high-powered rifles and a large quan
tity of ammifnltlon.
That a riot spirit still prevails la
shown from numerous etrcct fights be
tween whites and blacks. Troops at
Twenty-fourth and Luke streets, in the
heart of the negro dlstrk-t, were fired
on by negroes Just before daybreak this
morning. They returned the firs. No
one was injured.
A captured Oct main cannon, present ed
to the city by the war department,
was used by? the mob to batter down
the courthouse door in last night's
rioting.
MAYOR IS BETTFIt
Mayor Smith regained cotisciousneps
this morning and was able to sit up.
Physicians were at his bedside con
stantly during the night. They sail
the mayor had been badly beaten about
the chest.
In his delirium the mayor moaned
continuously : "You shall not tak
him."
The mayor had no comment to mak
thin morning on last night's riots.
After he had been rescued by police,
the enraged mob burned the mayor
automobile.
The city was placed under martial
law shortly before midnight last night
by orders from Major General Leonard
Wood of Chicago. Sixteen hundred sol
diers were patroling the streets this
morning. 1000 of them arriving from
Camp Dodge early today. Machtn .
guns were placed In the negro district
and in the vicinity of the courthouse,
and soldiers seemed to have the situa
tion well in hand.
THOUSANDS CHEEK
While thousands of men. women and
children looked on and cheered. Brown
was taken from the fourth floor of
the burning court house after th
smoke had all but overcome Sheriff
Clark and his deputies, and taken to
Eighteenth and Douglas streets, a
rope put around his neck and he was
hanged from a telephone pole. Th
mob then riddled his body with bullets,
cut it down and burned it.
Mayor Smith almost suffered ti
same fate when he defied the mob.
His last words, mumbled while almoxt
unconscious from the beatings he had
received, and with the rope around
his neck, were :
"I'll give my life if necesary, but
I'll not surrender the negro. I'm going
to enforce the law." ,
COOLER HEADS SAVE MAYOR
The mayor was seised by the' mob on
Seventeenth street near the courthouse.
He was hustled to Harney street and
stopped at the foot Of a trolley pole on
the cross arm of which waa a coll of
rope.
"Give us the key to the Jail." the mo
demanded. "If we can't get the negro
we will lynch you." .
Cries of, "He's no better than the
negro," and "He's a negro lover." came
from the mob.
"Oet th rope." someone shouted.
"Let's string the mayor up."
A loose end of the rope waa lowered
and it was placed around the neck of th
mayor. Appalled st the possibility of
slaying the city's chief executive, cooler
heads began shouting :
"We won't stand for hanging the :
mayor! That won't get us the nigger 1
Let him go: Tell him to get oul of
here !"
Their advice was heeded and the crowd
began to move down Harnsy street.1
dragging the mayor with It. A ' few
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