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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

With the presentation OF evidence
tending to establish these and other
points, the complainants, the govern
ment and the state closed It's case yes
terday evening in the logging rate con-
test before Examiner Pugh, holding the
hearing for the Interstate commerce
commission, and the defendants began
the presentation OF their case at a
night session held TO hasten the in
quiry.
E. A. Sherman, district forester for
this district residing at Ogden, testified
in behalf Of the government. He gave
the area of government timber in the
district affected, showing that there are
100000 acres, on which there are 49,
100000 feet in five tracts available to
the railroad and susceptible Of logging
at logging cost OF not exceeding IS
per thousand, which, he said, was
profitable cost for getting the logs de-
livered to the railroad.
This timber, he said, Is in the main
mature and is not making any in
creased growth or value, while If the
mature timber were removed and man
ufactured into lumber and lumber prod
ucts, the new growth would quickly re-
place the forest, the new growth now,
however, merely sufhcing to replace
the decay and natural losses.
He detailed the efforts that he had
made to sell the timber He said that
he had had It crulsed. maps made. esti-
mates and plats prepared showing the
method and cost of putting the logs ON
cars, estimates of the cost Of milling,
handling and manufacturing and all
other matter calculated to aid prospec-
tive buyers to ascertain the value of
the timber to them. This data he had
mailed to lumbermen all over the coun-
try and especially to certain big east
ern concerns whose timber holdings had
become exhausted and had invited them
to investigate this field
Identified Comparative Rates.
Mr.. Sherman also identified compar-
ative rates on some 20 railroads in all
parts Of the United States, including
some in north Idaho situated in
mountainous country similar to that
affected by the two roads involved N
the case, and in each instance he show
ed that the rates are much lower than
those charged at Boise with the ex-
ception Of cne road at Sumpter Ore.
which Is operated and owned by the
milling company which charges itself
higher railroad rate than that at Boise.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
Comparison Of Rates Shows That Those
Charged in Idaho Are Much Higher
Than Those Charged On the Same
Commodity Elsewhere.

The rates established logs prevent the cutting of
the timber on the P. & [. N. to be shipped out.
The rates on lumber prevent its being manufactured
into lumber to be shipped out.
The excessively high rates that railroad respon
sibe for the deficit in it's transportation operations by
driving business away from it.
The rates established forced the people of Idaho dur
ing 1912 to purchase from eastern Oregon and Pacific
coast points 13O0OOO00 feet of lumber while more
than that amount going to waste much the
market.
Comparison of rates charged to Boise with similar
rates charged by 20 railroads different parts of the
country show that with but single exception the rates
charged here greatly higher than the charged
elsewhere The single exception logging road built
by the milling company which charged rates. presumably
to prevent competition in its milling operations
Southern Idaho is the only section of the United States
where there is market for standing timber the exces-
sve freight rates prohibiting purchasers from buying
Persons proposing to build sawmills at Weiser Pay
cite, Nampa and at points the P. l. n have been
forced to abandon the idea and the mill at Boise has been
forced to suspend operations because of excessive freight
rates.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

was the testimony given by Ellwood
7. Bardes. an insurance agent, whom
the authorities called the single relia-
BILE eye witness of the crime. Bardes
is under lock and key also. He is be-
ing detained as material witness, for
his story is of 80 great importance that
the authorities said they feared an at
tempt might be made to get him out
Of the jurisdiction Of the New York
courts.
Story Told by Bardes.
Bardes' story, briefly told, is this:
At 1880 o'clock on the night of the
murder, Bardes said. he determined to
pay professional visit to DR.. Car
man and allow him to dress a minor
injury on one Of his heels. He left
his homo and walked to the physicians s
house. Arriving, he decided he could
dress the injury himself and thereby
save the DOCTORS fee.
So he walked past the house, and
then turned around to begin his jour
ney home. AT that instant he heard an
explosion He thought 1t was caused
by an automobile tire but when he
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
NOTHING WRONG
With BUSINESS
DECLARES FORD
Detroit Manufacturer Tells
the President All That Is
Needed Is for People to
Cheer Up.

WI hing o n, July s.-Optimistic
views of business conditions were pre-
sented to President Wilson today by
Henry Ford, the Detroit manufactures,
who told the president that he saw no
evidences of any sort of business de-
preston, psychological or otherwise,
and that in his opinion business was
getting better all the time. Nothing is
wrong with business; the only trouble
is that some people seem pessimistic, d"
Ford told the president. IF everyone
would only cheer up and attend to bus
mess this calamity talk would stop
Immediately" he added.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

looked for the machine he could not
find it. He turned his eyes toward the
lawn at the side of DR.. Carman's home.
A woman, tall, we'll built, hatless,
weating a light shirtwaist and q dark
skirt was moving away from one of
the windows at the side of the physi-
cian's office toward the rear Of the
house. She was not running, not cas-
ually around the lawn; she was walk
Ing ''in a hurry" the witness swore.
Bardes, the last witness to take the
stand before the inquest was ended,
was discovered only yesterday His
story might still remain untold had
he not mentioned 1t, first to a woman,
who promptly telephoned the district
attotney, and then to Catholic priest
he v vsited for advice The priest urged
Bardes to make his story known. But
befoFe an opportunity presented itself,
he was taken in custody by order Of
the district attorney.
Order for Arrest.
Coroner Norton, after spending an
(COptfpuad IN Paga UNourN
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
ARCTIC EXPLORERS
THOUGHT TO De LOST

Ottawa, Ont, Juy s.-Eight mem
bers Of the steffanson Arctic expedi-
ton who were believed to be on
Wrangle island of the Alaskan coast
with the rest Of the Karluk party,
which was reported safe more than a
month ago. are now thought to be lost,
according to a report which the min
lister Of marine received yesterday from
Captain Bartlett in Nome, who COM
manded the Karluk.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
NO AGITATION OF
MEXICAN AFFAIRS
IS BRYAN'S EDIC7
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee Will Report I'm
favorably Resolution In
troduced by Kahn.

Washington, July 9.-Acting in ac-
cordance with the state Department.
recommendation that 1t was unwise to
agitate the Mexico question in congress
at this time. the house foreign af-
fairs committee today voted to report
unfavorably the Kahn resolution call
ing for Information of alleged official
assurances that the constitutionalists
might import arms from the United
States by way of Cuba without inter-
ference.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

! but even here the difference Is SLIGHT
/ He also presented a certified copy o.
the decision of the Wisconsin public
utilities commission fixing the logging
rates in that state.
The Oregon Washington Railway &
Navigation company has made a rate
of 81 on logs from Rondowa to La
Grande," he said, "and on the same ba.-
sis from New Meadows to Boise the
charge should be $2.88 per 1000 feet in
stead Of the present charge of S7.2O per
1000. This gives the La Grande mill
operators an advantage Of $432 per
1000 over Boise operators. an advan-
tage which is equivalent to a generous
profit to the Idaho mill operators"
He said he had had figures compiled
which show that in southern Idaho
south Of the Salmon river 1853, 900, 900
feet Of lumber was purchased in 1912.
OF this 5000, 900 was shipped in from
eastern Oregon and coast points and
only $4,000, 900 was manufactured local
ly in all the mills of this great section
Of country including the Fremont
county section. All Utah lumber ex-
cept very little, he said, also comes
from eastern Oregon and the coast.
Q. Il viii ask you, Mr.. Sherman, to
what this condition is due?"
A This condition is due to the pre-
vailing high freight rates and the dis
elimination in favor of Oregon"
Cause of the Deficit.
On cross examination he was asked
If he had ever inquired as to the cause
OF the deficit in the Pin road, whereby
1t suffers an annual loss in revenues.
He replied that such an investigation
might result in showing that the deficit
is caused by the high rates which drive
business away from the road
He also gave extensive reasons TO
show why 1t is more profitable to saw
logs in the lower valleys than in the
mountains where the lumber grows.
d. +. Secrecy logging engineer for the
forest service, who has had So years'
practical experience with all phases of
the lumber business and especially in
manufacturing it, was next called.
The rates charged on these roads
are unreasonable being too high" he
said, and the rate on lumber Is out
rageous, 1t is so high In all my expe-
rience l have never known a rate so
high"
He said he had taken the matter Of
the sale Of government timber up with
big eastern mill men with some of
whom he had been connected, but that
the prevailing difficulty in making sales
has been the high freight rates PRO
posed investors threw up their hands"
he said, because they knew the repu
tation Of the Pin road for its high
freight rates"
He presented figures to show that
with prices that prevail together with
cost OF manufacture and the freight
rates, the governments best timber
can be considered worth only IS cents
thousand while Its Inferior timber
represents a minus value, or would en-
tall a loss to handle If it cost the pur-
chaser nothing at ALL
He said the Taber Lumber company
of KeolSuk and the Burlington Lumber
company had both been Interested in
the southern Idaho field and both had
refused TO consider any proposal TO
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
HUERTA BUYS fruit
trees IN AMERICA

Rochester. N. T., July 9.-victoriano
Huerta is owner of consignment of
several hundred fruit trees awaiting
shipment from here to Mexico. The
trees were purchased at a suburban
nursery recently and have since been
hauled from one depot to another,
seeking a railroad which would guar
antee delivery. Today shipment was
accepted by one railroad, but at the
owners risk.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
English Players Win.

Foltestone. England, July s.-The
English team today completed the route
of the Belgian team in the Davis tennis
trophy competition. T. NJ. Mavrogor-
dato in the singles beat A. C. Watson,
6-1, SO, 6-9. ]. C. Parke defeated r.
Deborman. Ga, 6-3, Go.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
STEEL COMPANYINT THE
HANDS OF A RECEIVER

Alton. nl. July s.-The Alton Steel
company, which ceased operations a
week ago because 1t could not get
profitable prices for Its output, was
placed in receivers hands today on the
application OF banks holding 5000. 900
of it's bonds. The company is capital
ized alt $1.000,000.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
SENTENCED FOR SELLING
MORPHINE TO PRISONERS

New York, July s.-Dr. Charles
Francis Baxter, formerly physician at
the penitentiary at Blackwelrs Island,
was sentenced today to serve the limit
sentence of one year in prison and was
fined $500 for selling morphine to pris-
oners. He pleaded guilty.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
NEV ILOWRECORDF FOR
SH ARES OF new HAVEN

New York. July s.-New Haven
railroad shares fell today to 61M, a
new DIV record. The company's diff
ference with the federal government
in connection with the Boston & Maine
road is said to be responsible for the
renewhl Of liquidation.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
LEGISLATION TO TAKE
IN THE STATE BANKS

Washington. July s.-Thlrty
members of the National Association
of Bank Commissioners conferred with
President Wilson and Secretary OF the
Treasury McAdoo today with regard to
the Legislation needed In many states
to make possible the membership of
state banks in the federal reserve sys-
tenn.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
Goes BACK TO HOME
OF DOYHOOD TO Die

Maysville. Mo-. July s.-Captain
James Ewart, aged rs, a millionaire
bachelor, is on his way today in pri-
vate car accompanied by doctors and
nurses to Mount Gilead, o., his boy
hood home. He is said to be near
death. Ewart had a s1OO,O mauso-
leum erected in the Mount Gilead cem-
etery. Scores of friends bade him
farewell at the railway station.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

DdllGy was ntllGus
Freeport N. Y, July s.-In the
court house adjoining the Jail where
Mrs. Florence Conlxlin Carman, wife of
DIR. Edward Carman, Is held prisoner
on the charge Of the murder of Mrs.
Louise Bailey, wife Of a Hempst cad
manufacturer, by firing bullet
through her heart while she was stand
ing in the physlcian's office, the coun-
ty grand jury today began an invee-
tigation Of the affair. All of the wit
nesses who have appeared before the
three sessions Of the inquest and some
others have been subpoenaed to appear
as witnesses.
Mrs. Carman, at whom the finger
of suspicion has been pointing since
the discovery that she had installed
a telephone instrument in her hus-
bands office so that she might hear
conversations between him and his
women patients, is locked up in Mas
sau county jail at M1neoia. There she
will remain until Monday, when she
will be again examined by the coro-
ner, before whom she pleaded not
guilty when arraigned yesterday after
her arrest in the room where Mrs.
Bailey died.
Mrs. Carman's iron nerve Is shat
tered. for as the steel barred door of
the Mineola Jail closed behind her she
pulled her heavy veil from her face
and broke down. Her husband and the
sheriff, who took her in an automo-
bile from her home here to the jail, as
sisted her to the top floor of the
building.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
HANGED FOR MURDER
OF BANK MANAGER

Winnipeg. July s.-John Krafchenko
was hanged here today for the murder
of H. M. Arnold, manager OF the Bank
of Montreal at Plum Coulee, whom he
shot in holdup.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
AeropIane Altitude Record.

NSTUPIaH0 NIIItuuo HeCUTus
Johannisthal, July "A
worlds altitude record for an
aeroplane carrying only one
aviator was made here today
when the German airman. Otto
Linnlkogel. attained a height Of
21,654 feet in an aeroplane.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
FORECLOSURE ON THE
FRISCO ROAD ASKED

mortgage of $6S. $4,000 on the St Louis
& San Francisco railroad was asked in
the United States district court today
by the Guaranty Trust company of
New York. The road is now in the re-
ceiver's hands.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

DR.. Edwin Carman; his home In
Freeport, L. l., arrow pointing to
window through which Mrs. Louise
Bailey was shot; diagram Of DIR.
Carman's Office, showing how Mrs.
Bailey was killed.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

Chicago Wheat Market.
Chicago, July 9.-July wheat closed
today at 1850.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

Continued on Page Two.)
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
TAKE TIME

To Read the Classified
ads. 1t win pay.
ooococ2c0Go0
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09
THE WEATHER

Unsettled weather with
showers tonight or FRI
day.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
An Observant Child.

The car was crowded. and the oc =
cupants were listening with delighted
interest to the high toned" CONVEX
sation of two stylishly dressed la
dies. one of whom was accompanied
by very small boy.
Soon everyone around knew, with
out asking. that one of the ladies had
recently moved into a larger house,
farther West."
DO you know. dear" she was say
ing, I'VE had such a trying time get
ting into order on the last occasion
we removed that this time we gust
handed the house over to" (naming 4
FIRST class firm " house furnishers}
''and they did everything My hus-
band | went touring until things were
in order
Here condolences were interrupted
by sonny shouting; "Oh. mum
my, look"
He Is such an observant child.
What is it," she continued.
See" he cried. POINTING toa smart
looking individual on the pavement,
~there's the man who comes every
week for the furniture money"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
80 The Greatest NoueL of the Twentie

lover, Hence she saw only one way
left--to sacrifice herself"
Herself"
The Reverend Mother patted my
hand Isn't that what women in
tragic circumstances are always do
ing?" she said.
by some excuse don't know
what-she persuaded our father to
change rooms with her that night
he going upstairs to her bedroom in
the tower, and she TO his on the
ground floor at the back, opening on
to the garden and the pine forest that
goes up the hill.
What happened after that nobody
ever knew exactly. In the middle of
the night the servants heard two pis-
tol shots, and next morning my sister
was found dcad-shot to the heart
through an open window as she lay in
my fathers bed.
The authorities tried In vain to
trace the criminal. Only one person
had any idea of his identity. That
was my father, and in his fierce anger
he asked himself what he ought to do
in order to punish the man who had
killed his daughter.
Then a strange thing happened.
On the day before the funeral the
young musician walked into my ia
theirs room. His face was white and
wasted, and his eyes were red and
swollen. He had come to ask if he
might be allowed to be one OF those to
carry the coffin. My father consent
ed. I'll leave him alone he thought
The man is punished enough.
"All the people OF Albano came to
the funeral and there was not a dry
eye as the cortege passed from our
chapel to the grave. Everybody knew
the story of my sisters hopeless love.
but only two in the world knew the
secret of her tragic death-her young
lover, who was sobbing as he stag
gered along with her body on his
shoulder, and her old father. who was
walking bareheaded and In silence,
behind him.
My heart was beating audibly and
the Reverend Mother stroked my
hand TO compose me-perhaps TO
compose herself also. II was now
quite dark. the stars were coming out
and the bells of the two monasteries
on opposite sides of the lake were
ringing the first hour OF night.
That's my sisters story. Mary"
said the Reverend Mother after
while. and the moral 90 my own is
the SAME, though the incidents are
different
II was now my fathers only child
and all his remaining hopes centered
In me. So he set himself to find a
husband for me before the time came
when l. should form an attachment
for myself His choice fell on
middle-aged Roman noble of distin-
guished but impoverished family.
He has a great name: you will
nave great fortune what more do
you want?' said my father.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07

ter's lodge, and our beautiful palace
was let out in apartments. My faith
er was dead-three years dead and
buried. After my disappearance he
had shut himself up in his shame and
grief. for, little as | had suspected it
and hard and cruel as / had thought
him, he had really and truly loved me.
During his last days his mind had
failed him and he had given away all
his fortune-scattered II, no one knew
how, as something that was quite USE
less-and then he died, alone and
broken hearted"
That was the end OF the Reverend
Mothers narrative. She did not try
to explain or justify or condemn her
own or her sisters conduct, neither
Cid she attempt to apply the moral of
her story to my own circumstances
She left me to do that for myself.
/ had been spellbound while she
spoke, creeping closer and closer to
her until my head was on her breast.
For some time longer we sat like
this in the soft Italian night while
the f1reflies came out in clouds among
the unseen flowers of the garden and
the dark air seemed to be alive with
sparks of light.
When the time came TO go to bed
the Reverend Mother took me to nv
room, and, after some cheerful words.
she left me. But hardly had | lain
down, shaken to the hearts core by
what | had heard, and telling myself
that the obedience of a daughter to
her father. whatever he might de-
mand of her, was an everlasting and
irresistible duty, imposed by no hu-
man law -giver, and that marriage was
necessity which was forced upon
most women by mysterious and un-
yielding law of God, when the door
opened and the Reverend Mother,
with lamp in her hand, came in
again.
Mary" she said, 81 forgot to tell
you that l am leaving the Sacred
Heart. The sisters of my old convent
have asked me TO go back as supe-
rior. l have obtained permission to
do so, and am going shortly, so that
in any case we should have been part
ed soon. 1t is the Convent of -"
Here she gave me the name of
private society of clustered nuns In
the heart of Rome.
~ hope you will write to me as
often as possible, and come to see me
whenever you can. And II II
should ever occur that hut no. |
will not think of that Marriage is a
sacred tie, too, and under proper con-
ditions God blesses and hallows it."
With that she left me in the dark
ness. The church bell was ringing.
the MONKS of the Passionist monas-
terry we've getting up for their mid
vigAt Offices,
To Be Continued Monday.