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4 I Z FEDERAL JUDGE ADMINISTERS RECORD-BREAKING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF ANTI-REBATING LAWS EUGENE GIRL SUICIDES IN PORTLAND JUNCTION CITY (From Thursday's Guard.) PROPOSITION TO ENLARGE I’RKS- Today's Oregonian has the follow ing story of two young people well-1 known In Eugene: FEATEI» AT SPECIAL FLECTION Because her lover, Edward Small, | minal roads from East St. Louis past fifteen years and that if the MAJORITY SEEMS TO FAVOR an iron moulder, refused to take her I across the Mississippi rjver to St. Standard Oil Company is guilty, so is to Salem with him, Rachel Hatha-I Louis, Mo. Prior to the occurrence practically every other shipper of NEW IllILUIXt.—LOCAL AND way, a 19-year-old girl whose home 1 upon which the prosecution is based that great manufacturing territory. is at Eugene, swallowed carbolip acid the Chicago & Alton had filed with Moffatt continued: PERSONAL VOTES. in a room at 461 East Morrison I the interstate commerce commission "The uncontradicted evidence street about 10:40 last night, and! its tariffs, showing the rates for the showed the Standard OH Company died in agony one hour later. transportation of oil in car lots from was advised by the rate clerk of the Miss Hathaway came to Portland 1 The proposition to build a four- Whiting to East St. Louis to be 15 Chicago & Alton that this six cent cents per hundred pounds, and the rate was filed with the interstate room annex to thu present school about two weeks ago, after having ’ building was defeated at the special quarreled with her mother, and join- ! rate for like transportation to Mt. commerce commission. ed Small, who formerly lived at Eu-. Louis to be 19 ‘A cents a hundred "The court, however, instructed election Wednesday. Several reasons gene. Last night Small Informed the pounds. The cou't said it appeared the jury that the shipper must know were advanced that caused the de at the hearing that defendant shlp- not only what the rate was but also feat of the measure, principally that girl that he intended to go to Salem I ned its goods from Whiting to St. that such rate was actually filed with the word "annex" was used. It was to take a position at that place, and : Lou is for 7 Vi cents, and to East the interstate commerce commission, considered impracticable to build a the girl objected to his leaving her. I He tried to convince her that circum-l St Louis, 6 cents. that is to Bay, that the view of the four-room annex and the board was The defense argued that the El court was that a shipper must know powerless to act outside of the prop stances would not permit him to take ’ kins law authorized prosecution for absolutely what was the legal rate osition, and in addition to that, care of her and also of his two chil-I 1 but one offense, and maintained that at the risk of suffering enormous I the bonds could not be placed unless dren, and advised her to keep her po 1 there could be conviction on only one penalties in the event either that he the law was strictly complied with. sition in Portland and wait for bet count. was misinformed by the railroad Others claimed that four more rooms ter times. She apparently acquiesced When, under the Indictment secur company, or that in the event that he were not needed, and would not be but while he was getting her a glass ed a year ago, the Standard Oil Com did not exercise as much diligence in I for years to come. More room is ab of water she swallowed the contents pany of Indiana was found guilty of the judgment of the courts as he solutely necessary, and much talk ia of a phial of carbolic acid. Dr. Bruce violating the anti-rebate law, the fix-' should have exercised in ascertaining Indulged in as to the propriety of was called by Mrs. Wert, the land i 1 buying another block and duplicat lady of the rooming house, but was Ing of the fine tor that offense de what the rate really was. volved on Judge Landis, and as he If this is the law every shipper ing the present building. We are in unable to save the girl’s wife. Coroner Finley was summoned and had a free hand in assessing any fine of freight is in danger of the peni ! favor of a new and separate building .'between $1000 and $20,000 on each tentiary or confiscation of his proper I or a two-room annex to the present took charge of the remains, and has JOHN I). ROCKEFELLER. not yet decided whether an inquest I of the 1462 counts in the indictment, ty by way of excessive fines every j building. One of the founders of the ! he was confronted with a rather dif- time Jos. Nichols returned last week will be held. he undertakes to make a ship- Edward Small, the lover of the proposition. He did not know J ment front one state to another. from Seattle, where he has been on Standard Oil monopoly,who claims I 1 flcult how much punoshment the company 1 "Knowing that the rate on the business. He exchanged his Belgian dead girl, was later arrested by Dep- he is no longer in active control of could stand, and this Is the reason Western Illinois was but six cents, stallion for another, a brown Belgian, uty Sheriff Andrew and Patrolman why he summoned John D. Rocke having no reason for shipping over one of the exhibition horses used by Phillips, at Front and Morrison the areal trust. feller and others prominently con I the Alton In preference to the East Crouch Bros., for the various horse streets, while acting in a strange nected with Standard Oil affairs, so ern Illinois, and able to ship all of shows throughout the country. He manner. According to Andrew.Small as to learn some of the financial se its oil over the latter road, we insist Is valued at $4000, and his equal is threatened to end his own life shortly a ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ crets of the company which Its coun- that the facts, many of which the not In the Willamette valley. We are after the girl died, and was followed New York, Aug. 3. The 4 sei were eilher unable or unwilling court did not permit us to show, glad to record the fact that right across the bridge. He later denied Standard Oil Company will 4 to tell. The judge found that Mr. not alone demonstrate Innocence, but here we have the finest horse In this any intention at self-destruction,but section of the state. He balances the was locked up, as he may be wanted appeal to the United States 4 Rockefeller knew very little about inherently forbid the idea of guilt. circuit court of appeals from 4 the affairs of the company, of which “We further insist that whatever scales at an even 2100. Mr. Nichols in case an inquest is held. He is a the sentence imposed by 4 he is the president, and that little he may be one’» technical view of the other two. horses, the German coach widowe rand his children are in the Judge Landis today. ♦ I was not sure of. He divulged, how above questions, every equitable con and Percheron, are also at the head care of his mother at Eugene. fact that farmers ♦ ever, that the capital of the Standard sideration is with the defendant, and of the class, a WILL APPLY TOADS ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Oil Company of New Jersey, is about if the only desire was to give the de Bhould appreciate. $100,000,000, and that its annual fendant a 'square deal' this prosecu R. C. Dwigans, of Iowa, has pur TO DANGEROUS CANCER dividends now are "about 40 per tion would never have been institut chased the farm of Sternberg A Sen- * Chicago, Aug. 3.—Judge Landis, cent.” ders, southwest of here, consisting of In a last attempt to save the life of ed of the United States district court, "The American public not only be 4 80 acres, through the agency of W. her mother, Mrs. E. C. Lascbe, of this today imposed a fine upon the Stand PRESIDENT OF TRUST lieves In fair play In the abstract, F. Cranston. Mr. Dwigans Is a rela city, will resort to the application of ard Oil Company of Indiana of 829,- MAKES STATEMENT but with all the facts before it, it has tive of J. L. Whiting and the Van wart toads to a cancer which is 240,000, the maximum amotint npon the capacity to determine whether Horn brothers. This Is a fine farm threatening the life of her parent. Xpt’fc Of 1462 counts of the Indict New York. Aug. 8.-—President J. a defendant, rich or poor, has re and In a good neighborhood. The toads are applied, it being under Miss Anna Crain left Wednesday stood that they absorb the poison of ment an which that company was re A. Moffatt, of th« Standard Oil Com ceived a 'square deal.’ cently convicted of rebating. The pany of Indiana, discOMhig the Judg-j i "For all theee reasons the Stand- for Portland and Seattle, from which the cancer, one after another until Judge also recommended that a call ment of Judge Landis, said: 1 ard Oil Company asserts that it is place she will take a steamer for San sufficient of the life of the cancer has M for a ape^lgj «rpnd jury “Tbu contention of the govern- n0( »ven technically guilty and that I Francisco. Her visit here was great- been absorbed to kill its growth. It “. She has been re- is an old remedy, said to have been JL?» which la to oonslder the other party, men! was that the lawful rate was it out ghl ' nevef to ¿ave beep urowçut- teach In the schools of applied by the Greeks in ancient to the rebating operations of which Ik cents a hundred pounds between ed because erause of the claimed __________ failure ofl L . . p .• . * _ ____________ t |imes. the Standard Oil trust haa l>wn Whiting anil East Si Louis. The de a railroad company—which has nei-1 Pasadena at 1100 per month. R. C. Roberts has purchased the' found guilty, and as a result it is fendant claims, first, that the lawful ther been Indicted or prosecuted—to probable that proceedings will be rate was 6 cants, and. secondly. If G file Its tariff, and that the prosecu- . interests of his partner in the jewel-, THE LIMIT OF LIFE commenced against thq Chicago A cents was not the lawful rate it was tlon of this defendant under the ry business, Mr. Gleason taking the The most eminent medical scient Alton railroad company for the al the rate Issued to the Standard Oil circumstances of this case Is a prostl- j I Harrisburg store. Mr. Roberts has ists are unanimous In the conclusion leged commission of a similar of Companv by the Alton railroad ns tntlon of the spirit and the high pur moved here and occupies the cottage that the generally accepted limitation fense the lawful rate and the Standard pose of the Interstate commerce act.” recently vacated by Professor Lent. of human life is many years below The Corvallis baseball nine carried the attainment possible with the ad Judge Landis, In his decision, aaid Oil Company was justified In hellev- off the honors here Sunday without vanced knowledge of the race now it was proved In the trial that the de Ing front Its own information, ‘ and much of an effort. The score was 23 possessed. The critical period, that fendant, a corporation of Indiana,op from Information received from the FIMI TRUST Mi ST erates an oil refinery at Whiting, railroad company, that 6 cents was ANSWER FOR REB ATI Mi to 6. The visitors are a fine lot of determines its duration, seems to be Ind.; that the Chlcabo A Alton, a the lawful rate. The 18-cent rate young men and enjoyed the visit. between 50 and 60, the proper care W. D. Mulkey, better known as of the body during this decade can corporation of Illinois, operates a was a "class and not a "commodity” 3 — Indictnients Chicago. Aug. line of railroad from Chicago to East I rate, and the chairman of the Chica were returned today in tin- United Dennis, died at Tecos, Texas, Tues not be too strongly urged, careless St Loula, ill.; that the Chicago Ter go A- St. Louis tariff association, Is States district court against Booth day. His body was taken to Leon, ness then being fatal to longevity. minal rullroad operates u switching suing the 18-cent rate, under oath & Company, generally know I as the Texas .for interment. He was for Nature’s best helper after 50 is Elec road front Whiting across tbb state testified that they never applied It "fish trust,” the New Y’ork, Chicago merly engaged In the grocery busi tric Bitters, the scientific tonic med line Into Illinois, intersecting the Al and never intended to apply It to oil. & St Louis railroad, and the Lehigh ness at this place.—Times. icine that revitalizes every organ of 1 ton road at Chappell, a short dla- 1 Moffatt claims that thousands of Valley railroad company, charging the body. Guaranteed by W. L. De- I tance from Chicago, and that there tons of freight were shipped under violation of the first provision of the _ _ . L. N. Roney will start a force of | Lano, druggist. 50c. are three companies operating ter- the same circumstances during the Elkins law prohibiting retries men for the mouth of Lake creek, 1 ...... ■ —............... on the Siuslaw road, tomorrow to | L.W. Stewart, of this city, has been work on the Lake creek bridge. They awarded the contract for the erection will put In new piers and make other of B. B. McKinney's two-story busi ness building at Springgfleld. The repairs to the structure. contract price is near $3000. Mrs. W. S. Gladstone, of this city, A residence belonging to H. IL today received a telegram from Mil i Fisk at Mapleton was destroyed by lersburg, Pa., stating that her fath Monday, together with nearly all er, Wm. A. Smith, had died. He was fire aged 72 years and had been a rail its contents. The house was occu pied by Rev. Phelps, pastor of the roader for the past 50 years, He church there. The loss Is perhaps leaves ten children. $600 or $700, with little Insurance. Frederick W, Mulkey. ex-United William Arnold, who was brought Washington. Aug. 1.—Rear Admi Mrs. Minnie Halwax, of Junction, W. Fidler and family have mov before Justice of the Peace Bryaon ral Kobley D. Evans, In command of States senator from Oregon, is being has been granted a divorce by Judge ed O. from Lorane to Eugene, and will groomed for the senatorial race at the this morning for his preliminary ex During the sum Harris front Conrad Halwax on the reside here tn the future. They have amination on the charge of rape, was the battleship squadron of the At April primaries. of cruel and inhuman treat purchased the Whittaker residence l»> ind over to appear before the cir lantic fleet, came to Washington yes mer he will engage in the most stren ground ment. She also receives $10 a month On West Fourth street. cuit In November in the sum of $600, terday, accompanied by his aide. Cap uous training. Gallops to the far alimony for the support of their two of the state to become better which has not yet been furnished. tain lngeraoll, for a talk with the de- corners C. L. Scott and family have return acquainted with the people of every minor children, whose custody Mrs. J. W. Mays, the other man In the Halwax is granted. ed from Newport. section have been arranged by case, has not yet been heard from, trainers. He will single-foot it and it Is doubtful if he will be ap the nearby districts also to meet prehended. old friends and make new ones, 8. 1». White, of the Portland juve next spring his admirers think nile court, took Pearl Glllsland and will be In fine fettle to trot in a Emma Toole back to their homes In winner in the spring meet with Ful 8t. Johns this afternoon. Minnie Sav ton. age, the third woman concerned, la Mr. Mulkey has already once romp in town. The Toole girl, though she ed in a winner, but be tt remembered, looks eighteen or nineteen, is only in the senatorial sweepstakes, and seventeen, and the Glllaland girl, followers of the political ponies are who was only a witness. Is sixteen. scanning the form charts to dope out The testimony brought out In the his previous performances and get a C1M showed that there Is plenty of line on his chances to push his nose evidence* t > justify the holding of Ar under the wire ahead of the salmon nold, and that liquor waa flowing county statesman—Oregonian. very freely In his lodging house Wed nesday night. “Fankly, I am a candidate for re Minnie Savage on the »land swore election to congress," said Congress that she could drink a quart of whla- man WuR. Ellis, at the Union station key without getting drunk, and oth- yesterday afternoon. "Of course," erwise distinguished herself as a wlt- he continued, "no one can tell what BMl. may arise in any line of life, but so far as I know at present or expect to know, I hope that the people will see fit to keep me In the seat 1 now hold." Oregonian. 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