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to- The Commoner VOLUME 5, NUMBER t 12 PW h"' Cte.- .J ."V fcf ' . :," m- Ui 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. fPa'mkilW PERRY DAVIS' . The world-known household remedy for cats. , . bo, muq, ouiu uironu 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- lubscribers1 Advertising Dipirtmmt . I w.nX IM 11 M A little thought will jconvlnce .nat this department of The "Cor moner of fers superior advantages to these who desire to secure publicity. Only Com moner subscribers are allowed to use it. and only responsible articles are allowed to be advertised. Confidence in the advertising management will explain in large measure why ad vertising in The Commoner is profit able. The manager is in receipt of many letters from advertisers who have used this department with profit The rate is the lowest made in this publication 6 cents per word per in sertion, payable in advance. Address all orders to The Commoner, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1 OHO BARGAINS IN TFXA8 FARMLANDS. x,vwv Tell me what you want fnlly.no mat ter how small or larjjo, can accommodate vou. 10c trots mnp of state, list price, terms, etc. Will L. 8areent. Land and Imnilcrration Agent Two Railroads, Terrell, Texas. T?OR SALE: 20 THOROUGHBRED POLAND - China pics, aligiblo to registry. Satis- auiiuu Kuurumeeu. Auaress w. j. uryan, Fair view Stock Farm, Lincoln, Neb. VOU COULD SELL OLD LINE LIFE INSUR x nnco if you know how. Wo teach tho artfreo of charge and pay you for your time. Deslrablo contracts awaiting special and jreneral agents iui mi bibiub ui jlowo, Missouri, jNcDrasttR ana Kansas. Address L. core of Commoner, Fifty residents of Oklahoma b'eseiged the senate January 12 in the interest of the statehood bill. President Roosevelt has given it to be understood that unless tho arbitra- rpEXAR LAND FOR SALE. A 8PLENDID 4 section farm and ranch in Shackelford County Texas. 140 miles west of Ft. Worth, 10. miles north of Balrd on T. & P. R. R. and 15 mlios south of Albany on T. O. R. R. Well im proved. Title perfect. Trice SC.OOpor aero, A. A. Clarke, Albany, Texaa. rrOM TAGGART TOMATOFINEST GROWN xBeed from most porfoctspecimon, 26c pack ago postpaid. M. Kercheval, Charlestown, Jef. ersonCo., W. Va. KfiO ACRES OF CHOICE WHEAT LAND FOR UXJv salo in the famous wheat bolt of tho Palouso Country all under cultivation. For particulars Address 'Lock Box 87, Saint John, Whitman, Co. Wash. pOR SALE A THOROUGHBRED HOLSTEIN Bull, 9 months of age. Eligible to registry. Address W. J. 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