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A WHEAT POOL
EVIDENCES OF THE FACT
"Portland Business Man" Explains Its ne
farious Operations-Some Interesting
Points Ably Grouped.
(Copyrlgst Reserved.)
Addendum.
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. l.-Edltor As
torlan; I am told soma of your local
wiseacres, wbtl other.
wlit endorsing tha eare-
IiaaMa. ful accuracy of toy lt
trs, doubt tha ailataec
of tha wheat pool. They limply need to
put on their thinking cap In order to aaa
clear proofs of It existence In a series
of authentic facta stated In my tlx let
tar. The, facta ara, first, that Tacoma and
Portland ara nominally "common points"
from tha wheat fields.
a. Second, that tha Port,
rraofe, land road gets a suffi
cient "differential" to pay
Columbia grain ships a bonus of frea
towage and lighterage, Third, that
naverthnlcss wheat Is worth 60 centa a
ton mora at Puret sound than at Port
land. Fourth, that about half tha wheat
of the Inland Empire goes to the Bound
and half to Portland; and that tha wheat
buyers psy the same prices for wheat
at the "common point" stations, regard, j
lens of tha port for which It Is destined. :
To tbee facts add the further fact that 1
tha wheat buyers lor the Sound and for
Portland are the same, and those buyr
are mostly tha charmers. From these
undeniable facts a thinker must deduce
J the exlufnre of a wheat pool.
in tetfr v me com-ejxi existence qf a
rullroad pool Is uliown. it la the principle
of modern railroad traffli
Aaaly- that "Llff-r.-ntlals" must
allowed to make up
for "dlaiidvantaBes" In
order tfi sreure a fair div.slun of the
traffic. Although Tacoma and Portland
are nomlnully "common points." the O.
It, 4 N. gets enough "differential" to
give a bonus of free tun ago and lighter
age to the Columbia grain ships. Here
Is plainly a "wheat pool" between the
transportation companies.
Although, deaplte this bonus, wheat Is
worth &o con is a ton more At Tacoma
than at Portland, yet the
Plvl.lnn Inland Empire grain Is
fTraW aVovt equally .dlv'ded
(some IS million bushels
for each) between the two places. Since
wheat Is worth VI cents a ton more
at the Sound, why do not the wheat buy
ers, charterers and elevator men, aend It
all to that port and make this difference
for their own pockets? If there were no
wheut pool, or trust, they surely would
do this.
Of course the wheat buyers control the
point of export They are governed by
their Interest. They pay
Kam Trtee uniformly the same prices
at Nla luna. for the wheat at the
"common point" stations.
Yet, seemingly, they lose 60 cents a ton
In order to ship half of It to Portland!
This equal division of their shipments
makes It plain there Is a pooling between
thesa buying and chartering agencies
and the railroads, In harmony with the
"differentials" concerted between the O.
R. & N. and the N. P.
The wheat buyers and the charterers
EMPEROR WILLIAM WILL
VISIT GREAT BRITAIN.
England and Germany Ara Renewing
j Their Former Friendship Interest
1 Ing Society Gossip.
Copyrighted, lSUS. by Associated Presa.
LONDON. Dec. 1-There has been a
flutter of expectation among the society
people over the announcement that Em
peror William ot Germany has allowed
the fact to become known that ho will
pay a visit to England next summer j
unless unforseen circumstances arise.
Tho better relations between Qreat i
Britain and Germany which havo re
cently been established have spongod out
to a great extent the "anti-kalsor" fuel
ing which existed In Great Britain since
th emperor' notorious dispatch to Pres
ident Kruger, of the Transvaal, congrat
ulating him upon the suppression ot th.
Jamison raid, and there Is little doubt
that he will receive a welcome rivaling
that ot hi former visits. On his arrival
her., which 1 timed, according to report,
for July next, ho proposes, to visit a tow
of th. leading Industrial centers, and, It
Is added, his majesty may also cross over j
10 ireiana. . -ins imperial visit, coupled
with the tact that the king and queen of
Italy also harbor the Idea of coming' to
England next year, has opened a vista
of brilliant society functions for the Lon
don season of 1S99.
Queen Victoria Is disposed to end the
discussion as to whether she will spend
tha spring on the Rivera, In view of the
French unpleasantness, by engaging
apartments at Clmls for March 1, for
five weeks, and It Is understood that her
majesty will return home through Gor-
many and stay a week or so at Coburg, i
where she will meet Emperor William
and probably arrange for his return visit
to England.
According to announcement made upon
high authority a marrlnge baa been ar
ranged between Prince Goorge ot Greece
and his cousin. Princess Victoria, of
Wales, The latter Is a year older than
the recently appointed hlRh commissioner
ot the powers In Crete, The union would
be very popular both In Great Britain and
Greece, and there la no reasons of state
against the marriage which would
strengthen the prince's position as high
commissioner, and among the Greek royal
family it Is hoped that the union will as
slat him In his ambition to become Prince
of Crete.
The warmth with which two American
heiresses. Miss Ogden Goelet and Miss
Astor, have been welcomed In ducal so
ctety In Scotland this autumn has given
rise to considerable speculation from a
matrimonial point ot view. They hay
EXISTS-
being mostly tha same parsons, and tha
fcrokers, act In like eon.
Tha cert They barter big
Charterers, ships for tha Bound and
llttla ships for Portland,
and chang. their destination from one
port to tha other to salt emergencies as
In cats of tb. Moiamblque. Lovely con
cert! Happy harmony! it U nothing
mora nor lesa than our old friend, tha
trust-th wheat trust, which, for eu
phony. I hare named tb. Wheat PooL
These agende of tha wheat pool play
on tho same strings. Tuning their pipes
In concert with th. pool
relaa w. find tha charterers
Theories, (and their Portland and
Astoria undertones) sou
emnly Insisting, with Infinite detail, that
ship expense to Portland and back la at
least as light as train expense. Tbcy
kindly offer Astorlans to charter ships
of equal tonnage to tha two porta aa a
TEST OF THEIR VALUE TO THE
FARMERS. They urge th difference
In favor of Astoria would b so slight
soma S cnts a ton aa not to Justify a
change of port Tet tbey know well the
MAIN POINT In favor of Astoria la that
ships of HEAVIEST TONNAGE and
CHEAPEST CHARTERS can only reach
Astoria making some 10 per cent differ
ence In favor of tha Astoria bottoms.
; They conceal this overwhelming fact, by
I their false Issue, and tbey crow sleek
j and fat upon the deception. Henc. the
concert, toe harmony, th. pool!
', The King Pin gives th. cue for this
false issue. The Oregonlan takes It up.
I The little claouers. whose
How it tittle bins are snugly
Vcka. filled out of the farmers1
toll, swell tho chorus and
all Is harmony.
Another concerted falsa Issue, exploited
by the pool, Is the need of an "open
river" from the wheat
aOpea fields befort Astoria
Uivcr. would be valuable to our
farmers This Is of a
piece with the false lsaue of the differ
ence In ahlp expense and train expense
between the two dtles. It Is Intended to
divert publlo attention from tho truth
as to the LOW OCEAN SHIP CHAR
TERS to Astoria, resulting from HEAVY
SHIP TONNAGE. A 26s-shtp at Astoria
as against a Ks-shlp at Portland Means,
ay, 82.50 a ton more In the farmers'
pockets.-' Tet the chorus of the wheat
pool for "an open river" (that cannot be
had for 30 years!) la to bide that PRES
ENT VALUE of an open railway from
tha wheat fields to Astoria.
Whenever you hear a little newspaper
piping the tune of "an open river" In
lieu of "an open railway"
The Kmall aa the real present need
Fry. of the farmers. It Is dol
lars to doughnuts that
thj9 wheat pool has spilled some of Its
stuff Into Its little bins. Let the pro
ducers and property owners the masses
of the Columbia basin keep their optics
on those fellows. They are Incorporate
parte ot the wheat pool they've "got
some of the hog."
A PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN.
been feted and petted to an extraor
dinary degree. The Bunccleugh-Rox-j
burghe families have both been paying
1 them noticeable attention, and it seems
ptf tty well understood that the young
luk of Roxburghe will ask for Mss
I Astor s hand. Tho duke, who Is the
j eighth of his line, was born In 1b76 and
'succeeded his father in lSSi His name
I Is Henry John Iones-Ker, and he Is a
1 lieutenant In the' Royal Horse Guards,
j Miss Astor Is staying at Floors Castle,
Kelso, Roxburgheshlre, the ancestral
home of tho Roxburghes, on the border,
for the past week, and it Is not unlikely
ttmt sha wHl make her debut ,t
a ptn The Duke of Roxburghe's
t- unr.i tmiiv.iniu .n ,n,,tn .11
married American girls.
Mr. Henry White, tho United Slates
charge d'affaires, and Mrs. White are
entertaining a week-end party at their
country place, Wilton Park, near Bea
consfleld, Including Lord and Lady Cur.
son. of Kedleston, and General Lord
Kitchener, of Khartoum.
Lady Curson has prepared his vie. re
gal wardrobe for her Indian home. She
passed a week In Paris aeloctlng dresses.
Her orders to the Worth house alone
reached $U,00Q.
Countess Casa Valencia's basaar at
Downshlre house in aid ot th. Spanish
sufferers by the war, has been a brilliant
success. It waa opened by Princess
Henry of Battonburg, and a daszllng ar
ray of duchesses and countesses kept
the stall. The princess herself did a
brisk trade In Spanish guitars, tans, etc..
and she also bought a number of arti
cles, Including a water color by Garcia
Mercla, representing a Spanish gpysy, In
behalf ot the queen. Several contribu
tions were presented by the pope, the
QUeen regent of Spain, the queen of Ser-
via, and Princess Ludwlg,
ot Bavaria.
They fotched high prices.
The young king ot Spain has just had
a very pleasant windfall In the shape ot
a legacy of 3,000,000 pasetas, bequeathed
to him by an old gentleman named Solar,
who had a close though unacknowledged
relationship to the king, being the natural
son of Ferdinand VII and great uncle
of King Alfonso. The testator's rela
tives opposed the will, but the aueen re-
gent, as her son's nearest friend, sup.
ported It, and the suit has now been
decided In favor of the king.
A newspaper of Portsmouth, England,
which cabled Socrotary Long, asking for
definite Information regarding the cur
rent report that an Amerloan squadron
Is to visit Portsmouth, received a reply
yesterday In which the secretary said:
"I have to say at present that th. data
of th. formation of an European squad
ron la undecided. When this action ia
taken tt will be mad. publlo. Thanking
you for your assurance of a hearty wel-
-om to tha United State fleet," etc.,
.to. People hero deduce from this reply
that an American squadron w" be sent
to Europe, and that Portsmouth will be
visited, , ,
An Insight Into tb. seamy .Id. of th
Klondike boom wa. given by th. chair.
man at a meeting of th. Klondike Hy.
draalio Company, called to receive th. re
port of their engineers' visit to tb. Klon
dike to investigate th. etatement of
th. Vendor. Tb. chairman said th. Ven
dor first tried to get tt.OOO pound, and
then 10,000 pound for th purcha. of pip.
lax. etc.; tout th. chairman went to 8an
Francisco to investigate th. matter and
found th. Vendor's etatement was false
whereupon be withheld th. money. Th
engineer also reported that th. Vendor'
mine on th. Black river was a myth;
that th. location notice, wer for
geries, and that be was aatlaflad th. Ven
dor bad never seen Alaska.
Therefor., th. chairman pointed out,
tb. only course was to wind np tb. com
pany, th. shareholder escaping with th.
loss of only two shillnng. a share.
Th dignity of tb. Duk. of Orleans re
ceived a rude shock to an Incident which
has Just occurred. While traveling- from
Brussels to Vienna b. engaged a saloon
carriage, which require, tb. payment of
tickets to tb. Belgian tariff, or U
ticket, of tb. German tariff. Tb. duk.
elected to pay th. German rates. Tb. of
ficials protested, but, after a scene on
the nlatform, the train started. In spit
of this a telegram was sent to th. fron
tier, and a German official appeared In
th. carlag. and demanded tha payment
of th deficiency. Tha duk. refuaed, and
tha official said:
"Very well; w. will uncouple th. car.
rlag. and shunt your highness to a cold
tiding until you pay." Th. duk. paid.
The list of winnings of race owners
this season places Baron Rothschild
first with 30,017; C. D. Rose third, with
M,2S2; Pierre Lorrllard seventh, with
8.690; Lord William Beresford tenth,
with 8.030, and th Prince of Wales
fourteenth, with 1.147, which la a big
drop from when ha won M.tU.
NOTABLE DINNER GIVEN
BY THE GRIDfRON CLUB.
More Distinguished Men Present Than
Have Gathered for a Long Time
Interesting features.
WASHINGTON. Dec t-Tho Gridiron
Club tonight gave a most notable dinner,
entertaining distinguished guests from
tha United States, Europe, and other
parts of th. world. In th company were
tho president, vice-president members of
the cabinet the president of Costa Rica,
the premier of Canada, the entire Joint
! n'Kh American-Canadian commission.
General Garcia, the most prominent of'
fleer of the army and navy, senators,
representatives, and many other distin
guished men. More than 1G0 persons were
assembled in the beautifully decorated
dining hall of the Arlington hotel.
The dinner was In a measure conducted
on the lines of compliment and honor
to the men who distinguished themselves
both by land and sea In the late war.
The guests were grouped In divisions
of volunteers, and In orders, very direct
and explicit, were required to "keep In
the tine ot fire" during the entire engage
ment.
A map ot a battleground was one of
the unlaue features. In which various
divisions were represented as charging
through Champagne river toward Table
heights, where they were supposed to
have captured "Soon Won" hill.
Among the features was a burlesque In
vestigation of the conduct of the war,
which conveyed some of the more humor,
ous features of the real Investigation.
LIBERATION OK KNAAK
NOT YET ACCOMPLISHED.
American Held In Borlln for Lose Majeste
Still in the Tolls Protests
His Innocence.
(Copyrighted, 1S98, by Associated Press.)
BERLTN. Dec. S. Frank Knaak. of
New York, who has been In jail on a
charge of treason In having referred to
Emperor William aa "calf head," Is still
In Jail, In. spite of the efforts of the
United States embassy and his counsel
to bring about bis release on ball. His
liberation has been refused on the ground
that his trial will be expedited. It will
occur before Christmas. Knaak denies
that Emperor William waa the person
he designated as a "calf head," and his
lawyer has evidence that Knaak, on sev
eral occasions, spoke In complimentary
terms of Emperor William. It la slso
claimed In the prisoners behalf that he
was Intoxicated at the time the alleged
offense was committed.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON
A MALLORY LINE STEAMER.
Steamplpe Burst on the Almado, laterally
Roasting Six Men Who Were In
the Englneroom.
NEW YORK, Dec. $.-Six men of the
crew of the Mallory line steamship Al
mado were killed tonight by the bursting
of a steamplpe while the vessel lay at her
pier In East river.
The dead are:
Patrick Murphy, second engineer. '
Thomas McHugh, fireman.
Patrick Farrell, oiler.
Frank Mahon, fireman.
L. Cornell, fireman.
J. Ryan, coal heaver.
The only Injured man was John Stone-
man, a passenger of Albany, who was ser-
lously scalded.
The Almado has only recently been dis
charged from transport service for the
government. She has new cteamplpes
and boilers. She carried 80 passengers.
At the time of the accident the ship had
cast off her lines and her engines had
made but two or three revolutions when
the explosion came.
The flow of steam was checked with
great difficulty, and not until the lapse
of five or six minutes. Then It was found
that It had completely filled the engine
room and flreroom and that all who had
been confined had been not only par
boiled, but suffocated by It.
NEW YORK SAILS FOR HAVANA.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec I The
orulser New York sailed today for Ha-Tana.
REPORT IS
BELIEVED
Anierlczns at Paris Think
Germany Is After the
Caroline Islasds.
ANOTHER WEEK REQUiriD
higt Diy Thinks Peace Treaty
WW Have Been Condaled
ia That Tine.
MUCH WORK YET TO BE DONE
How the Status of Affaires Viewed
ia the Leadlaf Cities of the
European Powers-
PARIS, Dec t-There was no loint
meeting of the peac commissioners to.
day, although th. American representa
tives were in session for tbree hours.
The report from Berlin that Germany la
negotiating for the purchase of tha Caro
line Islands Is confirmed from several
quarters, although Count von Moster La-
denburg, the German ambassador her.
imormea a correspondent of the Associ
ated Press that he anew nothing at all
about th. matter.
The American commissioners are In
dined to believe the report, and It Is
looked upon aa explaining the reluctance
of the Spaniards to give the Americans an
answer In regard to the Carolines, as well
as to the question of religious liberty
there, end the latest developments con
firm th report that th Spaniards have
been Instructed not to yield on the,
points until they have made a good bar.
gain.
The position of the commission, says
an American gentleman, la the same as
two card players, each studying his own
hand, and waiting for hla opponent's lead.
In spite of this temporary halt In the
negotiations. . and contrary to, general
opinion. Judge Day, president of the
American commission, believes the treaty
will be signed next week, but a great
deal of work la to be done before the
treaty is ready for the signatures, as,
after 10 weeks of negotiation, the only
articles accepted by the commissions are
the three leading ones providing for the
cession of the Spanish colonies, and these
only in principle, and not la language.
DON'T THINK HARD OF US.
(Copyrighted, 1S38, by Associated Preji.)
LONDON, Dec. 1 According to travel
ers In Spain, there la little or no feeling
against the Americans among the Spanish
people generally. An English visitor,
who has just crossed Spain, writes to the
English papers, saying:
"I have not found a trace of unfriendli
ness or a word ot abuse for theAmerlcana.
The soldiers who have come home have
given favorable accounts ot the Ameri
cans, for whom they seem to have a real
liking."
HOW NEGOTIATIONS ARE
LOOKED i'IUN' ABROAD.
English are Delighted and Expect to
Profit by Our Acquisitions Germans
Dop't Like Our Smoke.
(Copyrighted l!iS by Associated Press)
LONDON. Dec. S. The practical con
clusion of the peace negotiations at Paris
Is hailed here with considerable satisfac
tion, and the newspapers dully discuss
the so-called 'imperial' future of the
United States, coupled with the frevent
hopes that It will adopt a colonial policy. -In
fact, the latter point is regarded as
being the cornerstone ot an Anglo-American
understanding, which la now an Im
portant feature of every political speech
delivered on this side of th. Atlantic
The Saturday Review Is very candid
about what it describes as the "slobber
ing cant and hypocritical, blaionlng of
doubtful affection" between the United
States and Great Brltlan, and says:
"Let us be frank and say outright that
we expect mutual gain In material In- -terests
from this approachment.
"The American commissioners at Paris
are making their bargain, whether they
realise It or not. under the protecting
naval strength of England, and we shall
expect material quid pro quo for this
assistance. We expect the United States
to deal generously with Canada In the
matter ot tariffs, and we expect to be
remembered when the United States
comes Into poesess'on of the Philippines,
(Continued on fourth page.)
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