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Newspaper Page TextDAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1008. Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co. 0 From the Raikvay World, January j, 1908. " Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal In the Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which ritory had been guilty. Considering the fact .Muse' of economic reform has been in no wise point entrance is made over the Belt Line, that these shippers "included the packers and Cause . ,. , 1 I I I,-,! ,l!.l VVIiifinrT ,. ,!,.... .t. M -!!.. .! ... i. . - . - 'r r- .S... ... 'e .. . bated by uie panic ww.ii - " ...,, ..i.n; mc u in-im ungulate, is hoi, eicvaior men 01 v-aicago uie action 01 me granu jo much to bring on, is out with an answer to on the lines of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, jury in calling upon President Moffctt to furnls President Moffctt, of the Standard Oil Company which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt evidence of their wrong-doing may be intei of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is Line at Dolton. The former practice, now dis- prcted as a demand for an elaboration of th officially given out, was delayed several weeks,, continued, in filing tariffs was to make them obvious ; but the fact that a rate-book contair Chicago and Eastern Illinois, jury in calling upon President Moffctt to furnish inter- the rnntmn. "for business reasons," because it was not deemed read from a point on the line of the filing road, Ing these freight rates for other shippers was advisable 10 iunn ".". .- ,-- ....--, ... .. ,... ..,jU Buiuji iu smic uu mc sjuk uucrcu in cviucncc uuimg me inai aim mica which was profoundly disturbed by the crisis, sheet, that the tariff would apply to other points, out by Judge Landis was kept out of sight. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, how- c. g., Whiting. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois President Moffctt would not, of course, accept me LoniiuissiuiHii '"" a w - .....j .ma uiuv.ut.1.- 111 iiiiiik us raic iiuiii inc inviiauon 01 uie kiuihi jury alillOUBIl ne jvnr. fray. . Dolton, and making a note on the sheet that it might have been pardoned if he had referred Our readers remember that Ihcchicf points in appi to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this t,,cm to various official investigations by the the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as metnoij 0f f,ijng tariffs was in common use. Interstate Commerce Commission and other de- nresentcd by President Moffctt, were, (t) that ..,'., , partments of the Government. h. rate of six cents on oil from Whiting to East Now let us se,c in what way the intending . . . . . t Suls had been issued to the Standard Oil "hlpper of oil could be misled and deceived by . We come back, therefore, to the conclusion 0 bt. Louis e ' '"ucl tl einolovc, of the the fact that 'the Chicago and Eastern Illinois 0 "ho,e ma"crV w. ,,ch u &? " Standard ??mpW& ,1,1 line tS.eent r.fe o7fUe wUh the not filed a rate reading from Whiting. ' fomP3ny f Indiana wa. fined an amount Alton, (2) that the iH-ccnt rate on nic : wun uie ssjoncr Smith contends that "concealment C(lual t0 8CVcn or cKht t,mcs hc value of its Tnterstatc Commerce Commission was a class mmis3ioncr amiin conicnas uiai conccaimi.ni f nronertv because its traffic demrtment intersiaic '-"" Mf.j,j is the only motive for such a circuitous arrange- c.m.,rc PrP"i , oecausc us iramc department afl . M .h . oil ffl in ftra mcnl" ' c' that this method of filing the rate T ." . v5"!y tM.c "emm 01 uie Alton rate to apply to oil, (3) tat oil was shipped In Ihrgc :nlende(1 to mjs!carf ;ntenf,lntr mnP,i,nr, clerk, that the six-cent commodity rate on oil M;iMa hrtiwupn vvniiinrr nnci .ast ai. iuuis - . . . "." " " nn;uiLiLii.3 iw .---c ..-. . . .. -.. 1 1 -: n ri . . . . .. quantities between Whiting :(inrll,cc.,Pri,,drc1PuA which SffS SSfflST Si'SS -a,,trolUccdn,tl,.!ll!,t,,;ny,hip M4 . .1 M vun . . . ," . lifid nii nrnnf tf Iiicl ivttti Ilin lnfnrtntA I rim. ver the Chicagaand Eastern Illinois ( six.and (Z" meWCommiion. There is no evidence: and fia been filed with the Interstate Commerce r.. . . ' U' .. A i' r. " .. . Der of all from Chicaoro territory had been lntei- Commission as the lawful rate and (4) . that the g J IdU bec Sfamed fcrcd with h thc .tcen-cent rate nor that 18-ccnt rate on oil was entirely out of propor- "J"1' iX'ntc filed wJthtK 1 1 Thv Allure of the Alton to file its six-ccnt rate tion to lawful rates on other commoditics.be- Jg ' J " fiJfjd 'v ,VfrnT ,nrf had rcsultcd in any discrimination against any ween these points of a similar character, and of "VJ2X fLg"! nf nm5 'M ' ,a"d independent shippcr.-we must take thivon the greater value, such, for example, a, linseed oil, J JfiSfi wor(I of thc Commbsloner of CorporatiSnk and the lawful rate on which was eght cents. Prcs- JJJX J ! K, terrUori So th!t of Jiu1bc Landls Ncithcr is !t dcnic1 cvcn bv Went Moffctt also stated that t ousands o tons StoSrt afwhS M,r- Sfh.tJat "&&' "I'T,' f 0n' of freight had been sent by other shippers be- . anvwhere else ihout Chieairo under in w,10m he Pictures as being driven out of business tween these points under substanthiny the same iSnSSnonXd K h' thU '"-rimlnation of the Alton, could have conditions as governed the shipments of thc q a t,e ndustrial town, , te ncighbor,;ood shipped all the oil he desired to-ship from Whit- St35 1 P - ? ,1 !'!n,i,i nil r, of Chicago, he could have his freight delivered ing via Dolton over the lines of thc Chicago and llliSM(C tl! i,rfo.,h?Jll PSSrtS ovcr thc Bc,t Lic t0 tl,c Cldcigo and Eastern Eastern IIHnoh to East St. Louis. In short, was widely n."tcd and I las undoubtedly exerted , D , , d R s prcsi(icnt Moffctfs defence is still good, and we a powerful Influence upon the pub cm.nl Nat. Louis at a ratc of 6y. ccntl Wllcrc thcn is predict will be o declared by thc higher court. uraiiy uie Auminwiniuwii, jvihwi ... w i" ,,.- concenImL.nt xvliieh the Commissioner nf Cor- porations makes so much of? Any rate from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappcll on . the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois Central, or Blue Island 011 thc Rock Island, applies through out Chicago territory to shipment from Whit ing, as to shipments from any other point in the district. So far from thc Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in order to deceive thc shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corpora- success of its campaign against the "trusts" upon the result of its attack upon thi5 company, en deavors to ofTsct this influence, and hence thc new deliverance of Commissioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant He answers thc points made by President Mof- fet substantially as follews: (1) Thc Standard Oil Company had should not been Thc Standard Oil Company has been charged with nil manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with thc famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liberties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbcll's offensive personalities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation In the report of the Comtnis- mpany had a traffic department, and tion, J,'10 cithcr bet ,,,, ignorance of sJ"cr ?f Corporations. The Standard has been have known that the six-cent rate had transportation custom n Chicago territory or d'Bl with every form of commercial piracy ti filed, (a) no answer, (3) thc Chicago rclics 0 t,)( Mie Korance of ,,csc customs '""V1 Vth m.,$t ( thc cnmcs on lhc corPoration r Ttl . . 1 ana uasicrn Illinois, rate was a secret rate ne- , (Icceivc ,c w!c too a t t0 t UM. cause it read, not from Whiting, but from Dol- lioning,y CVCry statement made by a Govern ton, which is described as "a village of about nirn, .!,! ., f,PPM.nrit,. trI1- -i,iimil,1. n8 : 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin for this and similar secret rates." 1 he Commissioner admits in de scribing this ratc that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also be used from Whiting. , The press has quite generally hailed this calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under thc leadership of the President of thc United States, thc corporation is at last dragged to thc bar of justice to answer for its misdo ings. The whole strength of thc Government Is directed against it, and nt last, we arc told, the Standard Oil Company is to pay thc penalty of nicnt official as necessarily true, although, as in thc present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffctt that other commodities of a character similar to oil its crimes, and It is finally convicted of having were carried at much lower rates than 10 cents, failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk thc Commissioner of Corporations discusses only and Is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, mcas with thc remark that "the 'reasonableness' of urcd by the car Under the old criminal law, statement of thc Commissioner of Corporations this rate is not in question. The question is the theft of property worth more than a shilling as a conclusive refutation of what is evidently whether this ratc constituted a discrimination was punishable by death. Under the interpreta- recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument as against other shippers of oil," and he also tion of the Interstate Commerce law by Theo- advanced by thc Standard. makes much of thc failure of President Moffctt (lore Roosevelt and Judge Kcncsaw Landis, a In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the to produce before the grand jury evidence of the technical error of a traffic official is made the remainder of hts argument. The lines of the alleged illegal acts of which the Standard Oil excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of Chicago and Eastern Illinois do not run into official said that other large shippers in the ter- property. THREETHOUSAND MILES THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS Sheriff J. W. Culver loft this morn. Ins for Now York, whero ho will take charge of Hans J5. Hanson, who Is wanted horo to answer to the charge of larceny by bailee. Hansen was formerly a renter liv ing oa the farm of D. W. Claggett, north of this city, Last Jiuno Han sen made up his mind that ho would change climates and seeing tho need Of a Wfl tO tmVAl hltMlA1 nr. M,n nne $600 team belonging to Mr. Classen and drove over Into Yam hill county where ho sold it for 1300. AH traco was then lost of Hansen and It was reported that he had VamOOSPrl tn Ilia r1,nlnn,1 r.. .. ...tut. .....I. ,M IM Norway, which, theory was Anall accepted ny tho local officers. Yes torday Sheriff Culver received no tice to tho effect that Hanson had boon arroated in Now York nnd would bo held ponding further or dora. It seems that V. D. Claggett leased Hansen his farm which Is located four miles north of this city In 190C for tho term of ono year. Thoro were four good horses and tho farm lug Implements leased with the placo. On Juno 6 last Hansen took the best span of horses and drove to Yamhill county whero he sold the HUIE WING SANG CO. BIG STOCK OF GOODS NOW ON SALE AT COST PRICE We Make Up AH Kinds of Wrappers, Kimonas, White Underwear, Waists and Skirts l 23 night gown sale ..... 75 $1 7u night gowns, sale ... 1.26 70 white skirts, sale 2 :o white skirts, sale . . . - -5 long kimonas, sale . . 13 75 long kimonas. rbIa t, r.n 1 . ' ' ' -v uwavy flannel wrappers 1.00 - 35 heavy flannel wrappers 1.65 Vjc a yrd embroldory, sale .10 c very wide embroldory, sale 45 "e a yard lace, salo 6 1.00 1.75 1.50 2.25 75c drawbrs, sale 50 14. ladlea' silk suits, sale.. $9. 50 35c a yard silk, sale 25 75c a yard silk, salo ...... .50 50c a yard dress goods, sale .35 85c a yard dress goods, sale .50 $2.75 dress skirts, sale .... 2.00 $4.75 silk waists, sale .... 3.25 50c fancy silk neckwear, salo .25 65c silk handkerchlofs, sale .40 $1.50 a pair pants, salo 85 $2.25 Comforters, sale .... 150 animalH to W. W. Smith, for $300, representing that ho was from Tilla mook and had a sick wife. Ho then took the train for Portland. By mis take Mr. Smith datod his chock, which ho gavo In payment for tho ateeds, "Juno 9." Hansen returned tho chock to Smith who rectified tho mistake. Hanson then bought a ticket to Norway. Aa soon as Mr. Claggett learned that Hansen had disappeared with his toam he immediately notified Sheriff Culver, who commonced a diligent search for tho missing man. In about two weeks tho shorlff at Lafayette tolophoned to Mr. Culver that tho horses had been sold to Smith and wero in his possession. After ovory effort was mado to locate Hansen tho officers came to tho con clusion that ho had used his tloket and gouo to Norway but tho recent arrest in New York would disprove this theory. Hansen's wife is said to have been married four Mmo3 before she pledged her love to the Norwegian EUGENE BLOWING HERSELF (Continued from page threol. All GOODS AT BIG REDUCTION C&inest and Japanese Bazaar 346 Court Stmt Salem, Ofegoa in short spioy paragraphs. I do not believe in long-winded descriptions. I do not believe In booklets that are as dry aa a California summer. Let your plcturos tell the tale. One of tho sweetest songs is tho "Lleder ohuo Worto," tho song jvithout words. One of the sweostest stories is the picture- of a bride and groom ontltied "Alone at Last." Wo are just issuing a pioture of three panel poaed by a young man who rocently arrived from Illinois. In the first ho ia seen in furs and boots shovel ing snow. This reads; "My la4t Christmas In Illinois, December, 1907, b-r-r." The second one shows him all dreesed up, stepping onto a sleeper; it Is marked: "Me off for Oregon." (I apologize for the gram mar), and the third one, taken January, 190S, showing him in Eu gene in front of a fan-leaf palm-tree, roses In hla lapel and several branches with ripe raspberries in hla band, nothing on his mind but a smile; this one entitled, "My first New Year's in Oregoa. January, 1908, roses and raspberries." Now when tar friend, I. M. Snow bound in Cnnnda, or Mr. Chll Blaine In Mlnnosotn, geU that, ho goos In his hayloft and kicks himself. Now which is better, to mnko him kick hlmeolf as others ought to kick him, or wrlto lilm a follow up lottor which ho takes for a gold brick If ho roads It, or for a nutsauco If ho doosn't? Jolly Up to Clio Job. Finally, thoro Is tho way to ro gating your patient correspondents. What's tho matter? " Does a booster hav to bo as solemn as a proaohor? Is It right to assumo that a man com ing to God's country, whoro ho can becomo Indopondent, whoro ho can make moro on 20 noros than nt homo on 640, whoro ho can have spring woather In wlntor time and can bo outdoors tho groator, lustond of tho smaller part of tho year, Is It right to assumo that such a man must bo lod to bollovo that ho is going to his financial funeral? Why wear a mourning tlo and black crepe on your hats; why tell your story in sad tones and bone-dry statistics? What's the mattor with being cheerful and got his attention by putting your facts to him in a Jolly way? May be you say that some mon can't bo Jolly. Well, then they are misfit boosters. A booster should bo an enthusiast, not a braggor, should be full of sunshino oven in sloppy woather; should see the bright sldo of tho medal oven if ho has to look at the edge; should niako himself, as well as tho stuff ho sends out, liked. If 'he does, he makoa frlonds. Just like a traveling salesman does. Imagine a book-agent 'going into a store, dressod up like an undertaker and folding his hands, saying in a heart-broken seb: "Won't you give mo an order for Sla Hopkins' Joke Book?" But tho fellow who picks his man, shoves a good cigar into his victim's mouth so bo can't Uflk baok, and then starts telling him a few yarns till the victim splits from laughing, and then offers him the Joke-book, telling him how he can mako his mother-in-law laugh herself to doath; he is tho fellow that carvos the turkey. Ditto with the promotion work. You have spaco to sell. Space on God's gTeen earth, and on tho very best part of it and you ought to get on good terms with your man if you t expect to sell him hla allotted 36 cubic feet of Paclfld coast ozono. I havo to toll my converts, thnt though I lost ParadlBO when I loft California, I found it on coming Into beautiful Oregon. Tho country ono cannot holp but love. Tho land of hospitality and progress. A part of tho glorious Pacific coast, differing in somo ways from California, but fully as lovablo and fascinating. A Boost for Apples. And speaking of Paradise If you havo over seen nnd pooled and munched our Oregon apples,, applos that rotall cast for thrco to five tlmos what your host oranges retail for (and that's a fact), you -will then forqlvo our forefather Adam for bringing sin unto you and me, for If tho npplo that Evo tendered hlra that over (or any other ovo) was any thing llko our Oregon apples, (nnd history does not dony it) why, of courso Adam had to fall. So would you and oven, porhaps, I. I would lovo to toll you of our greatest pride of all, our Royal Anno ohorrlos. I don't romember who Royal Attno was. I remember Mary Ann In tho Colusa house, and Sister Ann who "walked llko that," but Royal Anno Is a Btunnor for mo. But say, boys, If Anno was anything llko tho Lane county cherries named after hor, sho miiBt havo been a "poach." It makes your mouth water to think of It. I mean of tho cherries. Not of tho qucou. For ndmon nro so busy worklnR their think-tanks ovor tlmo that thoy don't run after queens. Thoy nro always lying I menn ly ing nwakc, to think up something now. Yet somo ancient phllosophor discovered that thero was "nothing new under tho sun." And that Ib whoro tho Oregon boostor has tho ad vantage, for on rainy days whon thero Is no sun, ho may at loast ox- pect to find something now. To show you how work pursued with zeal will roll up llko a snowball, I may montlon that wo Btarted in Eugene, Lane county, on Decombor 1, 1907, with ono Htonogrnphor. In- Bid 0 of a wcok wo kept two buBy from morning to night nnd now havo four machines a-going It, grinding out Lane county's pralso to an nnxlouu froat-bltton world. Symptomtof Worms This ceadltlen exist much more KentrUy than nwtt wrcnta r nillinctoadnk. And yet it 1 per haps the noet li44ott!y dwsf er sua diaer & w el cb!lUe4. Watch for flushed cheeks, laset tude. lack or apatite, tc1wc of the b Me by growing children, end have DR. D. JAYNE'S TONIC VERMIFUGE always ready In the house. It Is not merely n worm-expelling; agent it is the meet efficient general tenlc ever prescribed, and hat been since thirty years before the Civil War. Sold by alt first-class druggUts in 50c and 35c bottles. Jayma'f KxvetterMt Utfaealtat and most ratUble remedy known for Coueht, CrouxWhooplnCoufth,Co1dlnthChel, BronchllU.PleurliyundilmllLVoJImenU. mmamamifrwmmmmmmm --- ITo Won Hw. "Sho has promised to mnrry you. has sho? Did bIio accopt you right off?" . "Oh, no. I had to proposo to her four tlmos.' "Four tlmosi "Gracious, but you woro porsevorlng! What did sho say tho first tlmo?" "Sho snld If thoro wnan't nnothor man In tho world but mo sho wouldn't mnrry mo." "That wan nrotty strong. What' did bIio say tho second tlmo?" "Sho Hnld sho liked mo protty well, but sho couldn't think of mar rying mo, for sho might boo boiuo, ono sho llkod better." I "Iliimnh! And tho third tlmo?" "Tho third tlmo alio nsked mo if ,s or 8Uold bo worrlnt whon tho lit Among tho Hrolftcra. (United Profls Loaned Wiro.) San Frnnoisco, Jan, 24. Frauklw Nell ia bavlng so llttlo troublo In keeping up his wolght that ho has tnkon up road work tho featuro ot his training that was at first ta booed by Fathor Jim. Nell weighed ofilclally yesterday nnd tipped tho sunlCB nt 12314 pounds. This 1b moro than ho wolghed at any tlmo durlug hli course of training for tho Moras fight. Battling Nelson, who fights Boer Unholz In Los Angolos early in Fob ruary, has wrltton to Eddlo Kelly to Join him ns Hpurrlng pnrtnor. Kolly has n doslro to moot tho wlnnor ot tho Attoll-Noll fight, and on thnt ac count will rofuso tho offer to work with NolBon, 0 Tuc lu JnU. very accurately doncrlbos anyone's fool In go who is conflnod to .tho house with an attack of rheumatism, lum bago, stiff Joints or muscles. Bal lard's Snow Liniment will euro tho troublo, rollovo tho pnln, nnd make you na uupplo as a two-year-old. For salo by all druggists. Miss Matilda Buoror, who has boon visiting Snlom frlonds, returned Inut ovinlng to herJiomu In Marlon. KVERY MOTH Kit. I wanted to tonso tho llfo out of hor." "Ha, ha, hal And tho fourth time?" tlo onos havo n cough or cold. It mny lead to croup or pIourlBy or pnoumonin then to Boraothing moro Oh, tho fourth tlmo sho said If loiu. Ballard's Horohound Syrup I Insisted upon It she Biipponcd sho would havo to say yoe." -. o WHY SO WEAK? Kidney Troubles May Ho Yoiir Life Away Snluiu llnvo Learned this Fact. Sapping Peoplo will euro tho troublo at onco and pro vont any complication. For salo by all druggists. !3m POWDKIt YOU OF FOU DAK- Whn a hoalthy man or woman begins to run down without apparent cauBe, bocomes weak, languid, do proaBod, suffers baokaoho, headache, dizzy spoils and urinary disorders, look to tho kldneyB for tho cause of J It all. Keop tho kidneys woll. Bonn's Kldnoy Pills euro slok kidneys and koep thorn woll. Hero Is Salem tes timony to provo It: E. E. Gilliam, proprietor of llvory and foed stablo at 62 Forry street, and living at 332 Water street, Sa- lorn, Ore., says: "Yoara of almost nnoOKIl SUPPLYING YOU WITH constant driving and a fall I got sov- kiiLKY'8 PERFECTION BAKING oral yoara ago which wronchod my I'OWDEIt, YOU CAN RELY ON HE- back badly had tonded to hurt myURING THE KIND THAT WILL kidneys. I suffered from backacho prove SATISFACTORY TO YOU and lamanoas bo that at times I could js EVERY RESPECT. ALL USERS hardly straighten up. Sharp pains OF EPPLEY'S PERFECTION IIAK oaught ruo whon I aroso after sitting. i,o POWDER HAVE NOTHING Nono ot 4ho remedies I tried did mo hut WORDS OF PRAISE TO SAY any y,ood until a short tlmo ago I, REGARDING ITS RAKING QUALI- USE A RAKING KNOW NOTHING ING PURPOSES. WHEN YOU INSIST ON YOUR was induced to get Doan's Kidney Pills, at Dr. Stone's drug store. In a snort time I obtained moro rouoi from tho backacho and tho d bordered condition of the kidneys than I had for years. I know of nolghbors who havo used your remedy, and they all speak of it as tho best medicine thore Is, and I believe this to bo so." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, solo agents for tho United States. Remombor tho name Doan's and take no other. TIES. IHHnHHIIHllHIIHJt i! ELITE HOTEL Restaurant and hotel, on ! ! European plan. Meals at alt ; ; hours on short order. Regular dinner 25 cento. Thirty now- " ly finished furnished rooms. K. 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