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company and soveral indopendent ba
nana importers interested in the fruit
trust for violation of tho Sherman
anti-tniHt law, attributes the failure
of his company to discriminations in
froight rates in favor of tho United
Fruit company and its allied com
panies. He Is suing for $30,000 dam
ages, sustained, ho declared in his pe
tition through several defendants ob
taining control of the Southern Steam
ship company and putting it out of
business.
Ills holdings became worthless, as
tho company could not compete with
tho trust because tho latter corporation
secured special freight rates. Had it
not been for tho froight rate discrimi
nation tho Southern Steamship com
pany, Mr. Plaza declared, would be in
existence today, but when the United
Fruit company got control tho stock
depreciated and ho was financially
ruined.
deergla't Crockery Butlnef Dead
Macon, Ga., Jan. 7. Crockery and
glass-waro merchants have ono after
anothor been obliged to quit business
in Macon because of discriminating
froight rates. Tho present rates from
Akron, 0., to Macon average from 25
to GO por cent of the cost of goods. J.
W. Domingos, Cubhedgo & Co., Tin
dall & Co., and C. B. Willingham, jr.,
aro among those who have tried but
have had to quit becauso thoy found it
Impossiblo to ovorcomo the freight rate
handicap.
It. F. Smith and Kress now have
stores hero, but Smith is cutting out
his crockory orders, saying he can not
stand tho froight rates.
Thousands of acres of kaolin mines,
from which tho finest chinawaro is
made, are idle wthin flvo miles of Ma
con because rates, scare off thoso who
would establish crockery plants here.
More than 100 prospectors have been
hero to begin manufacturing, but thoy
declare that tho rates would kill them.
Tho Itico Mining company, which
mined and bolted high-class clay at
Macon, went to the wall two years ago,
nnd sovoral other mines have quit bus
iness bocauso clay can bo shipped from
England across tho continent to Ohio
points cheaper than the samo material
can bo shipped from Macon to the
Bamo points in Ohio.
court Then tho switch was put in and
the suit was dismissed at tho defend
ants' cost.
Fort Wnyac't Commtrctnl IntorMt Injured
Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 7. At adja
cent non-compotitivo points shippers
say they aro severely discriminated
against in tho furnishing of cars. Hun
dreds have been held up for months
without service. Complaint is also
made of the manifestly unfair and un
reasonable enforcement of demurrage
rules, the lesser and more helpless
shippers suffering the most from this
oppression.
Large receivers complain that neigh
boring cities of much less commercial
importance are favored with rates on
coal of 15 cents less than Fort Wayne,
and many of the larger shippers com
plain of the refusal of the local rail
roads to switch to and from each other
located on team tracks. This works a
great hardship on shippers and inju
riously to Fort Wayne's commercial in
terests. The Fort Wayne Commercial
club has laboriously endeavored to
have this rule abrogated, but without
success.
Week At Washington
The principal topic of discussion in
the senate during the past week was
the joint statehood bill of Arizona and
New Mexico.
The pure food bill will be taken up
as soon as convenient, it having been
set aside in order to consider more
important matters.
tion treaties now pending before the
United States senate are ratified in
their present form they "will be with
drawn. An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Washington, D. C, Jan. 10, says: "Sen
ator Dubois, who has been active
against polygamy, today introduced an
amenament to me Biui.eiJ.uuu. mu yvmuu
reserves to congress the right to leg-
imper on an attempt to add a veryjislate on the subject of polygamy and
Progress or Several Iowa Firm Halted
Marshalltown, la., Jan. 7. Discrimi
nation in freight rates directly affects
all foundry and steel industries hero.
While this business is carried on to a
limited extent by both the A. B. Short
ill Foundry company and the Lennox
Foundry company they are hampered
by tho present traffic rates, which gives
cities west of the Missouri river a bet
ter rate and on the other hand cities
on tho Mississippi river are given an
other rate.
Steel can be bought in Kansas City
just as cheap as in this city. While
this condition has not ruined any firm
lately, it works against any increase
along tnis lino.
Small poultry and dressed meat con
cerns can not compete with large pack
ers on account of the private car sys
tem, owners of cars being granted con
cessions for tho use of cars far in
excess, it is declared, of the value of
tho service.
InmnoT rm fin nttPTTITn.
beautiful part of the Yosemite National
rorlr fn tha nrnnprfv nf the AtchiSOn.
Topeka & S'anta Fe railroad. The As
sociated Press say3: "The bill takes
from the. Yosemite park and adds to
the forest reserve some lands con
taining valuable oil and mining prop
erties. Private interests can not get
any land out of the park, but they can
get it out of the forest reserve, and
that was the purpose of the bill. It
slipped through the house without de
bate and through the seriate with hard
ly any notice. Mr. Perkins signed it as
acting president in the absence of Mr.
Fry and it went to the president. What
excited Mr. Kooseveirs suspicion was
the discovery that the lands to be
turned into the forest reserve had al
ready been decided by a commission
appointed by himself to be a part of
the nark. The resident investigated
and found that railroad men and others
had been lobbying for the bill. He dis
covered its real purpose, sent for a
member of the California delegation,
examined him about it and announced
his purpose of vetoing the measure."
The. state department at Washing
ton has received information that the
Persian government, complying with
the demands of the "United StateB has
made to the widow of Rev. Benjamin
Larabee, an American missionary, par
tial reparation. An indemnity of $30,
000 will be paid to her and those im
plicated in the crime of murdering her
husband will be punished.
polygamous cohabitation. The amend
ment provides tnai uuumesa may uuvo
action if the two states to be admitted,
if the pending bill becomes a law,
should fail to enact effective legisla
tion. Senator Dubois desires that con
gress shall insist that the two pro
posed states shall incorporate an anti
polygamy clause in their constitution,
and he believes if the amendment is
adopted national legislation of a simi
lar character would be enacted appli
cable to every state."
The house committee on insular af
fairs has directed Chairman Cooper to
recommend to the housejthat it non
concur in the senate' "amendments to
the Philippine bill and. "ask "for a conference.
Railroads Squseze Colntnhus Concerag
Columbus, O., Jan. 7. In several in
stances concerns hero have boon hard
squeezed by freight discriminations.
Tho Hanna Paint company of Colum
bus was recently forced ,to pay 58 cents
a gallon to the Standard Oil company
for turpentine because it could not get
shipping facilities for just as good tur
pontino that it was offered in tho "east
for 38 cents a gallon.
Tho Columbus Buggy company re
cently laid complaint before the Co
lumbus Board of Trade that it was
Doing shut out of tho eastern market
bocauso the railroads charged it higher
rates oast than thoy charged eastern
manufacturers to send the samo goods
west.
Tho Fostoria Signal company is now
about to bring ouster suits in tho
United States court here because the
railroads aro discriminating against it
in favor of a combine of makers of rail
way signal goods and driving thorn out
of tho business.
The Hocking Valley railroad and oth
er coal roads contrail a by the coal pool
refused to put in switches for tho
Johnson coal mino or to permit the
coal company to put it in until suit
to oust them from thoir charters for
refusing equal opportunities to ship
pers wa3 filed in the Ohio supreme
California Fruit Growers Hampered
San Jose, Cal., Jan. 7. Fruit growers
feel that overland charges for fre3h
and dried fruit are altogether too hizh
and they particularly chafe under the
present system of shipping refrigerated
fruits in cars owned by a private cor
poration, one that pays the Southern
Pacific railroad for the privilege of
operating them over tho company's
lines, the company refusing to provide
cars of its own for such freight.
Millions of Dollars Lost to rioblle's Trad
Mobile, Ala., Jan. 7.- The business of
this port has been retarded by a dis
crimination in rates on certain com
modities in favor of New Orion iii
miles further south, and in favor of
Pensacola, 106 miles east. The fact
of the Louisville & Nashville having a
monopoly at Pensacola has caused the
loss of millions to this port in the mat
ter -of the shipment of coal to Mexico.
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The world-known household remedy for cats.
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William Randolph Hearst has in
troduced a resolution calling on the
president for "all reports, documents,
papers and orders showing tho execu
tive action relating to political activity
by letter carriers mentioned in his last
annual message and the grounds there
for;" also directing the postmaster
general to communicate to the house
all facts bearing upon the dismissal of
four postal employes and the grounds
for their dismissal. Mr. Hearst called
attention to t t portion of the presi
dent's message referring to labor
unions, conceding the right to organ
ize, but stating that "individual rights
must be protected." Mr. Hearst believed
a uesire on the part of a letter carrier
for an increase in salary was an in
dividual right and ought to be protected.
Senator Cockrell will- succeed James
D. Yeomans of Iowa, whose term ex
pired Jan. 7, on the interstate com
merce commission.
Aimad At General Milt
An Associated Pre3s dispatch, dated
Washington, D. C, Jan. 11, says: "The
appointment of Lieutenant General
Nelson A. Miles as inspector general of
the state of Massachusetts overshad
owed all other questions in the discus
sion of tho army appropriation bill in
the house today. The debate had pro
ceeded leisurely until Mr. Hull, In
charge of the bill, offered an amend
ment providing that retired officers
abovo the grade of major should not
receive the full pay of their grade when
assigned to duty with the militia of the
several states. Several members de
clared that the amendment was di
rected especially at General Miles "
The South Dakota delegation in the
house is working hard to secure an ex
tension of time for Rosebud land, set
tlers to May 1. TJndfir t.hA nrOQf i
these homesteaders would be required
to make their settlements in February
during which month the climatic con
ditions in that part of the country ren
der it dangerous for settlers to attempt
to build residences on their claims.
It is reported that a poll taken of
the republican members of the house
showed that about 90 per cent of them
are opposed to tariff revision.
President Roosevelt has withdrawn
a letter which he Wrote some time ago
extending his good wishes for the suc
cess of the Newsboys' Magazine. Mu-
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