The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-05-25
THE ID. p. & N. Co.
The Facts In the LibeIIing Case of the
Dalles City and Regulator.

The Facts in the LIbeIIing Case of the
Dalles City and Regulator.
The Portland Telegram of yesterday
has the following:
Some two months ago deckhand
named w. 81. Patterson managed to
dump truckload OF five sacks of wheat
off the gangplank of the steamer Dalles
City into the river, while the craft was
lying at Vancouver. For either his
awkwardness in losing the wheat or
his lack of physical ability to handle
truck the deckhand was discharged.
After being paid off, Patterson took
up the life of n long-shoreman, and
during the past month or two has been
working along the docks. During all
this time his discharge from the
steamer seemed to have aroused no
enmity in the man, nor did he show
any signs of seeking revenge until yes
terday afternoon, when, without pre-
vious warning he appeared in the Uni
ted States customs collectors office and
asked that he be allowed to make affi-
davit against the steamers DdlleS City
and Regulator, charging them with
carrying coal oil in violation of section
4472, OF the revised statutes of the Uni
ted States, which prohibits the carry
ing OF hemp, cotton, coal oil, hay, ex-
plosives, etc., on any steamer carrying
passengers, ii such coal oil, etc., is des-
tined for point that could be reached
by any other means of transportation.
The only other means OF getting
coal Oil to the The Dalles is by the o.
Il. & N. railroad, and there has been
considerable competition between the
Dalles City steamboat company and the
railroad, but then a common longshore-
man such as Patterson is not supposed
to have any acquaintance with the Of
ficials of the o. r. & N. Co., and 1t
therefore must have been solely re-
venge for his discharge that prompted
the former deckhand's action.
The necessary affidavit was made out
by Deputy Collector Forbes and turned
over to Chief Inspector George F.
Black, who, on the arrival Of the
Dalles City at her dock last evening,
served the requisite papers libelling
the steamer. Inspector Gallagher was
placed in charge of the boat, the chief
inspector taking the evening train for
The Dalles to libel the connecting
boat of the same company, the Req
,tlatOr, to which had been transferred
the 1873 cases Of coal oil, forming the
basis of the libel.
The fine for the offense being $500,
bonds in the sum of $1,000 were de- =,
by the customs authorities
from the Dalles City, and given, the
steamer being then released. The
wires were quicker than Inspector
Black in reaching the Regulator at the
for on his arrival there bonds
to far more than the amount necessary
were at hand and the steamer was not
detained.
At the Office of the Ddlles City and
at the foot of Oak street,
It was learned that the consignment of
coal oil was not billed to The Dalles or
any other point at which railroad con-
meets, but was marked to Rockland,
the wildcat town started by real estate
boomers on the opposite bank of the
liver from The Dalles.
According to the law, the consignors
If the oil are equally liable with the
,rausporters. When making the affi-
lavit in the collectors Office, Patter-
ION at first named the Standard Oil
Company as the shippers, but backed
lown when it came to framing this
tatement in the affidavit.