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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1914.
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EXPRESS RATES IS
ORDER IN STATE
Railroad Commission Ignores Block System as Arranged by
Interstate Commission and Portland is Center Commer
ciallyCuts 20 to 60 Per Cent of Present Rates Are Made
All Express Companies Treated as One in Making New
Schedules Some Examples of Sweeping Cuts Made in
Rates.
Following the meeting of the railroad
commissioners with representatives of
the express companies at Portland re
cently, the announcement is made that
there will be a material reduction of ex
press rates in the state. The companies
had asked the commission to look into
the martter, and, if possible, arrange a
T)lock system that would be in harmony
with the interstate system as nearly as
.possible. . ,
The commission ignored the block sys
tem as arranged by the interstate com
mission, and made Portland the center
commercially. With this,as a basis it
established 45 blocks in the state. Tho
full detailB have not been worked out,
but the reductions will be from 20 to
SO per cent from present rates, depend
ing on weights and distances. The com
i mission, iu making ratos, treated all ex
press companies, as though they were
one, fixing the rate between points and
10 DELAY If
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I UNITED HIE88 LEASED WIBE.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb, 14. Carrying
two passengers Aviator Glenu Martin
ascended from Griffith Park here at
fl:20 o'cloc k today and pointed his- bi
plane towaid San Diego. His flight
was undertaken to break the world's
duration and altitude records with two
passengers.
Martin was compelled to desceud .at
Occanside, 60 miles south of Los An
geles at 10:55 o'clock, when his machine
bearings became heated. New parts al
so were needed, and they will be taken
to. him from Los Angoles. It was not
believed that he would continue hit
flight today.
Chris Will Try Again.
Bnkersfield, C'al., Fob. 14. Aviator
Silas Christoft'erson, who was halted
at Tejon pass in his attempted flight
from San Francisco to San Diego, re
turned here today from San Francisco
with a 100 horse power C'urtiss engine,
which be mill install in his aeroplane
He planned to make several trial flights
over Bnkersfield today, and to try to
morrow to resume his trip southward
over the l as.
Flies Over Santa Ana.
Santa Aim, Cnl., Feb. 14. Glen Mar
lin flew over Santa Ana at lO.i'O
o'clock todiiv, headed southward.
On Return Trip.
Santa Ai.a, Cal., Feb. 14. Lieuten
ant Dond '" army aeroplane, headed
southwnrd, pawed over Santa Ana on
its return flip from Loa Angeles at 0:31
o'clock. Dodd was flying at an alti
tude of about 4000 feet.
THINKS IT LUCKY DAY.
(VSITtD PHRNS IJtAHKD WIHK.
Snu Frni.-cix-o, Feb. H. L. A. Larson
mivicte,l of wife murder in Los An
geles three months ago and sentenced
o be hanged yesterday in Sau Quentin
prison, said he considered Friday the
1.1th lucky instead of unlucky. He
had secured a stay of execution pend
ing appeal.
WILSON KEPT INDOORS.
Washington, Feb. 14. rreident Wil
son's cold was better today, but he was
ttot permitted by Dr. Grayson to leave
the White House.
leaving it to the companies to divide
the sums as they saiw fit.
As an example of the reductions, the
rate from Ashland to Huntington, two
of the most widely separated points,
was, from Ashland to Portland, $2.10,
and from Portland to Huntington $3.2.'
a total of $5.35. This is now made $3.50 j
for the entire service.
Another example is that from Port
land to ' La Grande. Here the rates
were reduced as foOows: On 5-pounds
from 65 cents to 27 cents; on. 10 pounds
from 80 cents to 34; 20 pounds $1.10 to
48 cents; 30 pounds from $1.50 to 76
cents.
While the reductions will not be so
great in the western section as east of
the mountains, they will be substantial.
Those new rates are acceptable to the
companies, and also to the interstate
commission, and will be put in force ns
soon as the rates are all worked out.
AFTER AN ILLNESS
UNITED MESS LEASED WIDE.
Washington, Fob. 14. Senator
August O. Bacon of Georgia died hore
today after an illness of two weeks.
Ho was chairman of the senate foreign
relations committee and a member of
other important committees.
Senator Bacon was born in Bryan
county, Georgia, October 20, 1839. He
was the son of Rev. Augustus O. Bacon
and Mary Louisa Bacon.
He graduated from the literary and
classical departments of the University
of Georgia iu 1859 and the law depart
ment in 1800. He entered the Confed
erate army at the beginning of the
Civil war and served during the cam
paigns of 1861 and 1802 as adjutant
of the Ninth Georgia regiment in the
army of Northern Virginia. Later he
was assigned to staff duty and com
missioned captain in tho provisional
army of the Confederate states.
At the close of the war ho resumed
tho study of law and began to practice
his chosen profession at Macon, CI a.,
in 1S00, From that date until his
election to the senate he actively con
tinued to practico in both the slate
und fedeyil courts.
In 1871 Bacon was elected to the
Georgia house of representatives, of
which body ho served as a member for
14 years. Ho was elected to th United
Static senate in November, 1804, re
elected in 1000, and again in 1007. In
1011 he was unanimously re-olcctO'J
in a general popular state election, be-
! ing the first senator elector to tho fed
eral senate by popular vote. His term
would have expired March 3, 1019.
Senator Bacon fell a month ago and
broke two of his ribi. Serious inflam
mation followed and later it was found
that ho was suffering from kidney
disease.
Senator Overman announced Senator
Baron's death on the floor of the seu
ato and that body immediately ad
journed. If the family is willing, the
funeral will be held from the senate
chamber Tuesday.
ENGLAND DEFEATS IRELAND.
I'XITED I'HEBS LEASED WIRE.
Twickenham, England, Feb. 14. Eng
land defeated Ireland here today In the
annual rugby game by a score of 17 to
12. King George was an interested
spectator.
IS
Tramp Steamer Katherine Park
Ashore and Lifesavers
Hurry to Her.
SNOWFALL IS VERY HEAVY
Seven and One-Half Inches Fall in New
York City and Storm Is General
Over State.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.
New York, Feb. 14. A fierce bliz
zard swept the Atlantic coast today
Trains were stalled, wires down and
street car systems paralyzed through
out New York staja, eastern Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, Maryland and as
far south as Goorgiq. Off shore many
ships were in distress.
Iu New l'ork City more than seven
and a half inches of snow had fallen
today and more was still coming.
The temperature had risen slightly,
however.
Outside New York bay the big liners
Campania, St. Lewis, Savoio, Amorica
and Pennsylvania and a number of
smaller craft waitod for the gale to
subside to enter. All arriving sea craft
wore caked with the ice. The Oceanic
docked with a report of a giant wave
which swept its upper docks two days
out, knocking down and badly bruising
a number of passengers, '
The tramp steamship Katherine Park
was ashore off Cape Charles, Va., and
life savers had gouo to its assistance.
They had sighted another vessel in dis
tress iu the same vicinity but had not;
determined its identity. The schooner
Maria Tecl was in distress in Nan
tucket sound aud tho British steamship
Tafna wns ashore on tho Goorgia coast.
Thousands Cloan Streets.
By noon 18,000 men were nt work in
the streets, clearing away the snow.
Most of them had beon previously un-
(Continued on page 8.)
Owner of Hop Ranch
Murder Occurred
UNITED rilEHS LEASED WI1IB.
San Francisco, Feb. 14. Leaders of
the unemployed iu San Francisco, who
have been planning an organized effort
to socure the pardon of Richard Ford
and Herman Suhr, under sentence to
life imprisonment in connection with
tho Wheatland hop field riot last Aug
ust were encouraged today to think
that Governor Johnson might be favor
obly moved by the report concerning
conditions on the Durst hop ranch made
by Dr. Carlton H. Parker, who followed
the case throughout and niado a care
ful investigation of tho events which
led up to the riot, in his joint capacity
as a federal ami a state labor invosti-
gator.
Parker wns very critical of condi
tions oii the Durst ranch. He found
especial fault with what ho referred
to ns the svstetn of "holdbacks" in
tone there.
"Ninety cents a hundred pounds was
paid by Durst during tho f i rt week for
hop picking," said tho report, "to
which a so-called bonus of ten cents
whs added if the picker stayed the
three or four weeks' season through.
If tho picker quit beforo tho Inst day
of the season, this so-called bonus re
verted to Durst.
Bonus Really Holdback.
" Durst 'a so-called bonus wns in real
ity n hohlbiv k out of tho normal pick
ing wage for 191.1.
"Durst found by Friday of the first
week that he had 1,000 too many pick
er. There is evidence that Durst plan
ned, through state-wide advertising, to
bring more pickers ti his ranch than he
could posilily keep iu the field, Sonic
of the pickers state in thoir affidavits
thnt after they found only occasional
opportunities to pick, they became dis
gusted with the work and in the in-
crenslug filth of tho camp and left.
"Taking the bonus for forfeitures of
previous years as a standard, the bun
ues accruing to Durst through the
leaving of the discontented workers
must hive been $100 to 1150 per day."
riCAL
Thaddeus Robertson, Witness
Against Gore, Had Long
Promised Revenge.
EARP CALLED' IT FALSE
So Quoted by Another Witness, But
Swears Gore Said He "Loved Mrs.
Gore Up a Little."
united press leased wire.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 14. Testimony
intended to support the contention of
the defense that United States Sena
tor Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, who
is being sued by Mrs. Minnie Bond
for $50,000 damages, is the victim of
a political conspiracy was offered when
the trial was resumed today.
Deputy Sheriff- Ezell was recalled
by the defense as the day's first wit
ness. He said he talked to Thaddeus
Robertson, an important witness for
Mrs. Bond, just before the suit was
filed.
"Robertson told me,'' said Ezell,
"that Senator Gore ha,d doubhs-crossed
him but he said his revenge would be
awful sweet." ,
Robertson also was recalled but de
nied making any such assertion to
Ezell. , .
(Continued on page four).
The Weather
The Dickey Bird
says: Oregon, fair
tonight; Sunday
fair, except rain
northwest portion,
southca s t e r 1 y
winds. .
Touching on sanitary conditions, the
report said: ,
"An important part of the bop field
wan moro than a mile away from the '
wells, but despite the great heat of this 1
week, no water was transported to the
pickers. By noon, under the hot sun
beating down on the still air held be
tween the rows of vines, the children ,
were in a pitiable condition because
of the lack of water.
"Durst had let a lemonade concession
to his cousin, Jim Durst, who offered
lemonade, in the fields during this
period at five cents a glass. This
lemonade wns proven upon the testi
mony of the druggist with whom Jim
Durst traded to havo been made en
tirely of citric acid.
"A concession to sell stew had been
sold and a stew wagon went out about
nomi among the pickers and if a Mew
was puHiHsed a glass of water could
be ohtuincd with it.
' ' If :il fli Durst, the manager and pnrt
owner of the ranch, is an example of a
ertain type of California employer.
The refusal of this type to i -t the
sncinl responsibilities which come with
the hiring of human beings for labor
not only works cruelly unnecessary
misery but fldils fuel to tho fire or re
sent t an. I unrest which N begin-
ii lug to burn in the tim-iired fur migra
tory labnier In California.
"That Durst could refuse his clti.'
duty of real trusteeship of a camp on
his own ranch which continued hund
red of women uin children is u s ial
fact of miserable import.
"The lurt management, knowing
exactly the linn-mil condition of the
camp ami the threatened migration of
park of the picking force because ot
it, had in his refusutil to correct tho
abuses laid Itself open to tuipii ion of
intentional cnrelessnes, because of the
gain accruing to Durst in thus for
feited bonsuses of the pickers leaving.
"Perhaps the most vicious sanitary
abuse was that of toilets. There went
very probably nine of these for 2,800
THIS )
''Bill"- Astor Wants to be
Carpenter Despite Wealth
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"I ILL I ll EaMtMM
William Waldorf Astor.
Now York, Feb. 14. Sometimes he is
known as William Waldorf Astor, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Waldorf Astor, but he
prefers to be callod plain "Bill." This
lively picture of him was taken on a
rocont visit of his parents to America.
His farther is a British subject aud his
NO BABIES BY PARCEL PAST.
united piiess leased win.)
Washington, Feb. 14. Babies can
not be sont by parcol post. Second
Assistant Postinastor General Stcwnrt
ruled thus today. The parcel post can
not, in fact, ha added, accept living
being, human or otherwise, of any ago,
with tho single exception of queen bees
Where
is Censured
people. Thero wore certainly not less
than eight nor moro than 11. These
tofleU accommodated two persons.
"Thoro wns no toilet inspector or
cleaning. They wore used Indiscrimin
ately by Hindus, Japanese, negroes,
whites, women and children. The
stench,' under a great heat, became so
nauseating thnt many instances of
vomiting have been recorded.
"Lines of fifteen to 20 women worn-
en and children frequently formed
awaiting their turns at the toilets.
"It must be noted that these facts
were known to tho Durst management,
"There were no toilets whatever iu
the fields find at tho end of three
days the fields were iu a filthv con-j
difinti,''
Parker's account of the riot was a
brief summary of what was brought
oi't at the trial of Kurd, Suhr and their
companions. As in his federal report,
the Investigator said the I. V, W. pro
paganda fur the California seasnnul
laborer unipicstinniihly could be called
a "criminal conspiracy" but that it
would be curried out m'vethcle.,
Calls Conviction Revonso,
"It Is obvious," the ii-piut contin
ued, "that the violent strike methods
adopted by the I. W. W. type of agi
tator ure not to be accepted as a solu
tion of the problem. It is also obvious
that the conviction of the agitators,
such ns Ford and Suhr, for murder is
not a hjI ut inn but Is only the punish
I mi nt fur revenge Inflicted by organ
ized society fur a paid deed.
"The commission of Immigration
and housing it preparing to start a
sliiteniile campaign uf warning and
I'llin til inn among the large eiupluver i
of migratory laborers ami among the
workers themselves,
"Tim employers must be shown thnt
it is essential that living conditions
among their employes bo improved, not
only in fulfillment of their obligations
society but also in order to protect
and promoto their own welfare aud In
terests. "
grandfather, William Waldorf Astor, a
naturalized British subjoct, but "Bill"
is American right down, to his shoos,
and he wants to be a carpenter.
"Bill's" mother wan Nannie Lang
horno. of Virginia, one of the famous
I" Gibson Girls,"
B. F. Jonns, of lioseburg who re
crtitly announced his candidacy for
tho nomination for congress was hore
today. Ilo modestly states that hund
reds of people living in the district
havo never written, tclographod or
asked him to become, a candidate.. lie
also expresses his opinion that tho best
way for a man to get what he wants
is to ask for it aud thou go out after
it ami not wait fur it to come to him.
(laving thus admitted that his candi
dacy is entirely of his own initiative,
liu briefly points out some of the good
work ho has done for tho public iu his
official capacity. Ho says he is in
duced to do this to in a nieiuuiro aver
age up and counter balance tho bad
traits ho possesses, and which ho de
pend" ou his opponents to point out,
realizing that it is not necessary for
him to attitnd to that part of it. In
tho legislature he was tho father of
the car shortage bill, and also of the
j hill under which tho canal and locks
' at Oregon City were purchasod, and
navigation of the Willamette niado
free.
At the 10117 session he Introduced a
resolution providing for tho amend
ment of the constitution permitting
women to vote, and though the resolu
tion was voted down, it wns among
the first wedges that finally opened tho
ballot to Oregon's women. In fact,
Mr. Jones makes a showing that Is
highly creditable, and he will surely
mnliH .Congressman Tlawley get a move
on If thnt is possible,
I'o staled today that had received
much eiicnurngenieiit since his candi
dacy was annoiinecd. He has not yet
been relieved of his duties in the laud
officii ut Itoseburg, When he has been
relieved he will devoto his time to
the campaign.
POBTMA8TKR NAMED.
UNirrn riiKsn liu urn whir.)
Washington, Feb. II. .lames
Smith was appointed postmni-lei-l-'uirurounds,
Marlon county today.
ROBBERY AT MONITOR.
Sheriff Km k received the information
today that a store belonging to O. K.
(Iregson, of Monitor,' (Ire,, was robbed
last night. Tho proprietor Informs the
sheriff that thn thieves broko a door
open and ransacked tho establishment,
taking two suit rases, several knives,
some money and a revolver.
IRPHYI
HARD JOLT
BY TENER
President of National Leagu
Says Owner of Cubs Can
not Run Things.
MURPHY VIOLATED
EVERS CONTRACT
Will Be Punished for It and
Tener Tells Him What He
Thinks of Him.
UNITED FBESS. LEASED WIUE.
New York, Feb. 14. Governor John.
K. Toner, of Pennsylvania, president of
the National leoigue, voiced today his
opinion of Charles W. Murphy, owner
of tho Chicago Cubs. He also told
"Chubby" Charles to Ms face what he
thought of him.
Interviewed today by the United
Press, Governor Tenor indicated that he
intonded to be the head and front of
the National league as long as he con
tinued president, and lay down the law
to magnates and players alike.
"The day has passed," Hid Tener,
"whon one mail can say: 'This is my
club. I'll run it as I please, and do as
I please.'
"Baseball is going to be conducted
in ttie National league for -the- uoed- ot
tho league as a wholo. Club owners will
bo hold as responsible as the players
are whon thoy violate the rules of or
ganized baseball.
Murphy Violates Contract.
"Tho league directors discussed the
contract that Johnny Evers had with
tho Chicago club, and it wns decided
that It had beon violated by Charlus
Webb Murphy. This certaiuly indicates
that Mr. Murphy cannot expect to be
rmyinlod for his action. As to punish
ing the Chicago -'lub or its owuor, it
might be said that whatever is done
will be done for the good of organized
baseball, and the Chicago club, there
fore, will reap the benefit from this ac
tion, even though It should protest.
"If a player violates u contract the)
club owner expects him to be punished.
In the same manner, the National
longuo, while I am its president, will
hold the club ownor responsible for ful
fillment of contracts with players,
Murphy's Threata Foolish.
"I have told Murphy to his face what
I think of him and his proposition to
sue the Boston Braves and force Owner
Gaffnoy to give him ritcher Perdue
and Infieldor Sweeney. That is all I
have to say about that.
"Murphy's threat to sue Ban B.
Johnson, president of the American
leaguo, for libel, is merely foolish, My
polltlcnl friends and rivals could all sue
for conspiracy and libel ou the same
grounds, and every baseball writer in
America, having some time said that a
certaiu player was 'rotten,' also might
be sued on the same silly grounds."
COURT ROOM WILL BE
REMODELED VERT BOOK
Tho Marion county court has at lost
decided to take definite action toward
remodeling tho court house to an ex
tent whereby Circuit Judges Kelly and
Gnllowny will both be supplied with
chambers In which to conduct cases
in the future, Tho county officials
have decided to so Ivrrnngo tho present
court chambers so thnt instead of
there being just nno largo room for
court purposes, there will bo three
chambers, one for Judge Gnllowny, one
for Judge Kelly and another for the
county court.
Jiulgn llushcy and Commissioner
Heckwith and tluulct made an inspec
tion of the court quartern this morn
ing and they decided that a change
must bo made immediately. They plan
upon constructing a hallway down
through tho center of the big chamber
tehn part ion off three rooms. Judge
Kelly will occupy tho north half of the
building, the county court the south
west section, while Juilgo Galloway
will havo his chambers In tho south
east section section of the room.
Office-holders are great sticklers for
koeping appointments.