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SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1010.
MR MEET
IIU MULL I
Scarcity of Beef on the Ranges
Cause for High Prices of
Meat.
NO COMBINE IN EXISTENCE
Owing to Keen Competition Between
"Wholesale Butchers Meat Is Two
and a Half Cents Cheaper in San
Francisco Than Other Coast Cities
San Francisco, Jan. 22. Declar
ing that the price of meat in San
Francisco is no higher today than
at corresponding dates for years
past, Jefferson G. James, a whole
sale meat dealer, today asserted
that there is no meat trust in Cali
fornia, and on the other hand, keen
competition exists among the whole
salers. The advance in prices noted
at this season of the year, he said,
is duo only to the scarcity of beef
on the rangea, and. not a premedi
tated attempt on the part of the
' dealers to hold up the figures.
Leroy Hough, vice president of
the Western Meat company, corro
borated James statements. He de
clared that prices in the city have
not lexceeded a normal figure, more
than in any otheV Pacific Coast city.
"The people of the city are to be
"ugratulated that they are not be-
charged exhorbitant prices for
x" Hough said. "The reason
-'are not is because there Is no
combination here among the whole
salers. Because of the existing
keen competition, meat costs 2c per
pound less here, on an average than
it does in Los Angeles, Tacoma,
San Diego, Portland or Seattle.
"Thlere is a marked scarcity of
livestock on the Const this year, and
many smaller cities have secured
portions of the supply that should
go to the larger centers. Expense
of feeding cattlb at this time of year
is high, and that contributes to the
generally advanced prices in many
cities. San Francisco has not suf
fered from these conditions, how
ever, nor have other coast cities to
any appreciable extent."
Committee Organizing.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 22. The
first step toward activity on the part
of the Ballinger-Pinchot investiga
tion committee of congress was tak
en today when Senator Nelson was
elected chairman of the committee
and Senator McCall secretary.
The committee will meet again
next Tuesday.
I
Until You Get Our Prices
We are giving the values and the best bargains in Sa
lem, We are busy every clay and the reason is we have
the right goods at the right prices,
PRICE
And Less
Come to the Chicago
Store If you want the
best values in Salem In
Ladies' Cloaks and Suits
It is a matter of selling
during this month and
not profits.
$15.90 Suits
now
$20.00 Suits
now
and so with all the rest
along the line. Remem
ber these suits are this
season's newest garments
long coats and plaited
skirts at Half Price.
$7.50
$9.50
Clearing Prices
Dress Goods, Silks, Hosiery, Gloves, Men's and La
dies' Underwear, Blankets, Comforts, Shoes, Outing
Flannels, Shirt Waists, Dress Skirts, Petticoats, Furs,
Embroidery, Wool Waistings, Sweaters, Men's Clothing,
Girls' Coats, We make prices to suit all pocketbooks,
Two Coaches Filled With Passengers and a Dining Car Plunge
Into River After Crashing Down the Embankment Many
of the Injured Will Die.
Sault Ste Mari.e Ont., Jan. 22.
At three o'clock this afternoon Can
adian Pacific officials said that thirty-seven
persons were known to bo
dead in the wreck of the Montreal
Minneapolis express.
From the number of missing, it is
estimated that the death list may
iteach as high as sixty-seven.
Thirty-seven passengers were in
jured. Several or them are expected
to die.
Ten bodies have been recovered.
Divers are at work on the sub
merged cars.
Sault Ste. Mario, Ont., Jan. 22.
Following a more thorough search
of the wreck of the Canadian Pa
cific's Montreal-Minneapolis express
which plunged over an embankment
into the Spanish river 35 miles west
of Sudbury, Ont., It was estimated
this afternoon that between 35 and
10 persons lost their lives.
The records show that when the
train left Sudbury, there were abou'P
100 persons on board. Of this
number 22 were seriously injured,
while practically none escaped un
harmed. Many of the injured aro in a pre
carious condition. It was predicted
by physicians who aro attending
them that the death list probably
will reach fifty.
Three of the cars that were
hurled over the embankment wore
submerged in the waters of the
Spanish river which is filled with
ioe. Divers were sent to the scene
of the wreck. They will explore the
sunken coaches but It is not proba
ble that they can complete their
work before at least three days.
Until then the number of dead can
not be correctly stated.
The train was composed of one
mail, ono baggage and one express
car, a second class car, a colonist
coach, a standard Pullman, a first
class coach, and a dining car.
While the train was crossing the
steel bridge over the Spanish river,
the second class coach left the rails
and was cut in two when it was
hurled against the bridge abutt
mont. Half of this car with the col
lonlst coach, the first class coach
and the dining car, were plunged
through the ice into the river after
crashing down the embankment.
The heavy Pullman sleeper broks
away from the rest and toppled over
on one side, lodging on the shore of
the stream.
Following are the known dead:
Georgo McGllhenny, fireman, of
North Bay.
Will Lavary, fireman, of Ontario.
Mrs. C. Houdie, Ontario.
John Kesbrook, fireman, North
'Bay. ,
An unidentified priest.
Among the injured aro the fol
lowing: ,
G. A. Martin, drummer, Wator-58$.-
' -
George B. Locke, Erie Itlvor,
Mich.
J. D. Pierce, Toronto.
,W. J. Bell, (dying) Sudbury, Ont.
P. J. O'Brien, Randall, Man.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown, London,
Ont.
Nathan Johnson, Belleville.
W. Mansfield, Montreal.
w! H. Wllmot, Montreal.
Judge D. M. Brodlo, Sudbury.
Thomas Parish, a t Pullman wait
or, St. Paul.
Sam Bollard, St. Paul. ,
B. S. Smith, Ontario.
. J. D. Wade, Sudbury.
Mrs. John Dlerman, Bozeman,
Mont.
Alphonso Rolfo and child, .Soo.
A. L. McDonald, Minneapolis.
Arthur Irwin, Minneapolis.
Hans Edeman, a Norwoglan.
Mike Nikolsi, Max, N. D.
Mrs. Lindell and Harry Llndell,
Winnipeg, Man.
ACCIDENTLY GOVERNMENT
SHOT BY HIS TO PROSECUTE
PLAY MATE "B
Bright Young Salem Lad In
stantly Killed by Bullet
From 22-Rifle.
SON OF LEE W. ACHES0N
Carlton Eugene Aclicson Accident
ally Shot Through the Hcnd by
Hermann Viosko, Jl Yqars Old,
Whllo Target PniQtlcIng on Mlnto
Island.
IEEF TRUST"
Criminal Prosecution Will Be
Commenced in Chicago
Next Monday.
SCORES OF WITNESSES
CHICAGO STORE
SALEM, OREGON
The Store That Saves You Money
Carlton Eugone Aoheson, the 12
year son of Mr. and Mrs. L, W.
Aoheson lies cold In death on a slab
In the mo.gue of the undertaking
parlors of A. M. dough & Company
this afternoon as a result of a bul
let wound reoalved in the head from
a 22 calibre rifle whloh w aijajdnt
aljy discharged while Ul'hndif of
Herman VIesko, tit 11 yar old
(Continued on'Paeo 5.)
Second IJIg Buttle Against llio Al
legcd Combination of the Packers
to Maintain High Prices for
Mwtt$ Government Will Try to
Avoid Mistakes Mndo in Former
Trial.
Chicago, Jan. 22. With loading
attorneys or the Ghlongo meat
packers hurrying toward tills olty or
already here, the federal grand jury
Is making preparations today to
meet n$ct Monday for the Initial
movement in the government! its
ond blje fight to broak an afleged
combination of the packers to main
tain high prleee for meats.
United States Dlstrlot Attorney
Sims will open a criminal prosecu
tion of (ho packers with thte presen
tation of a long account of data
gathered by hlmsolf and his assist
ants. That tho govornmont intends
a vigorous and hard fought cam
paign Js bollovcd to bo shown by tho
fact that civil procaeduro has for
tho tlmo boon mndo secondary to
tho criminal. t
Sims has scores of witnesses; ho
has been working secretly for
months, and it is upon tholr testi
mony that Sims expects to secure
Indictments of tho leading packers.
Swift & Company, Armour &
Company, Nelson, Morris & Co.,
names standing for nearly
everything in the packing world
aro designated as concerns -which
must undergo a federal probing
Tho National Packing company, re
puted to bo tho incorporated nnmo
for tho "beef trust," will" also bo In-
vestigattod.
Tho meat barons connected with
tho foregoing companies will bo re
quired to show tho connection, if
any, of their companies with the Na
tional Packing company and also bo
required to show' wnother or not
any combination has been formed
among themselves for tho purpose
of maintaining, extortionate prices.
Prosecutor Sims promises that
prosocutions will movo forward rap
Idly. It is intimated that tho gov
ornmont will profit by mistakes
made during the former campaign
against tho packers, when many of
them escaped through Immunity.
That time many wore haled bo
fore tho inquisitorial body and
questioned closely regarding tholr
reported connection with a so-called
"meat' trust." Later at their trials
many claimed " Immunity on tho
ground that they had been forced In
tho grand jury rooms to testify
themselves.
To avoid this, it is said that tho
govornmont will disclose only
enough of its caso to tho grand jury
to warrant tho bringing of Indict
ments. Heavy broadsides of evl-
donco will bo reserved for tho trials
proper that aro oxpoctcd to follow
tho grand jury's action. Secondar
ily, it is probable that tho govern
ment will begin Bults for dissolu
tion of tho National Packing com
pany. This action, It Is Intimated,
may not wait upon tho outcome of
tho criminal prosecution, but may
be takou after tho criminal proced
ure Is woll under way.
o
Hov. Moon; improved
Itov. A. Moore, who has not filled
his pulpit at St. Joseph's, but been
confined to a hospital at Portland
since tho wook before Christmas, is
very much improved, and oxpects to
bo homo about Pobruary 1.
HYPNOTISED
FY
TWENTY-
Worked Two Days and Thought
He Never Would Wake
Up.
WILL TAKE THE REST CURE
The Very idea of Work Had a Dc
prcssig Effect and lie Became
Strangely Stiff Every Tlmo ' the
Subject Came Up Failed 'to Sup
port His Family.
united rnnsa leased wiia.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 2,Pjyhic
waves which stiffened Martin Han
nou, so that ho was obliged to oschdw
all manual labor resulted in his com
mittment in Stelllacoom Insane asy
lum, and ho was taken to tho sani
tarium today to bo troatod for hia
peculiar malady.
Hannon was halod Into Judge Ora
tor's court -yostorday on .tlio(c6a'rg&
of falling to support his family. It
developed from tho court's question
ing that active exertion had a very
depressing effect upon Hannoii,.
which was aggravated by tho psy
chic waves which, various unknown
persons had projected toward him.
Mrs. Hnnnon as in court, and sho
told Judge Frater that sho took no
Btock In tho psychic phenomena, but
though It was undeniable that her
husband became strangely stiff every
tlmo tho subject of work enmo up. "
"What I want him to do is to go to'
work," sho said, "ad quit talking' so
much. Ills tonguo never gets so
Btlff he cannot use It."
"Wlfnt Is tho cause of your
trouble?" asked tho court of Hanc
non. "I don't know," ropllod tho rqpalcl--trant
husband. I have boen hypno
tised by persons in this country and
Canada for 25 yoars, and if I wor,k
a day I am fastoned to tho straw tho
next morning. Onco I worked tjv.o
days, and I thought I never would
wako up."
Tl'io lunacy commission was then
called, 'and decided to give Hannon
tho "rest euro" at StoIUac,ppm,
KNOX'S
NEUTRALIZATION i
r
Y BREED TROUBLE
PLAN MA
Looks Like Realignment of Powers In Oriental
Which All of the Powers Will Take a Hand.
Affairs, in
UNITED MKHB tBABBD WIB0.1
Washington, Jan. 22.1- Almost
simultaneously with tho rejection by
Japan and ItusHln of Soorotary
Knox's plan for the neutralization
of tho Mnnohurlan Hallway, the
Chinese govornmont Isttuod an ln-
prelal ordor granting permission for
the construction of an .American
British Railroad from Chlon Poo to
tho port of Algun. It was learned to
day, according to a despatch from
Hfiiiry P. Fletcher, soqrotary of tho
American legation at Pokln.
t The granting ' this omolnl por
mission is said to bo tho result uf
much diplomatic Interchange be
tween China and the United States
Tlu roajl pKilwlUy will bjfc offeotlvo
n seeurfnK praoUpal mmfaallzaUon
df railway in Mnnqliitrla, Although
Knox's 'proposals were rejected by
Kusala and Japan, and furnish the
opportunity for a commercial foot
hold in Manchuria which was con
sidered ono of tho principal objeotb
of tho neutralization plan.
Tho now road, it was stated, will
bo built with British and Amqrlcan
capital, but in vlow of tho admlnjjjs
tratloiiB commlttmont to railway
neutralization, It is thought nil
othor powors will bo offered an op
portunity to subscribe to tho neces
sary honds.
'Cllna' notion 'in Issuing the Im
perial rescript may change tho sta
tus of hor relntlons with Japan bo-
cause sho has become dangerously
near ovorstopplng the terms of hor
treaty of September 21, 1004, with
Japan, In which it was provided
that she must consult Japan when-
over she proposed making a railway
or mining concession In Manchuria.
It Is predicted that litr action niay
result In a realignment of power
In Oriental affairs, with the United
States, Or oat Britain, Germany and
China on one sldo, with Japan, Rus
sia, and Prance on the other.