Show i HILL PROMISED I rt i j I GREAT THIt GS 1 t 1 That Was When He Wanted l Right of Way Through spa spat t 1 kane for His Road I r I j Irys GRI GRIEVANCE EVANCE STATED II i i COM Fj M MERGE ERCE COM MISSION t Bt 14 d 44 I It I t j I Ij j p i 1 i Wash wa Jan 14 person II t I aUty ot of James J Hili figured I IA r 1 i In the fIrst d days s hearing henring of rr 1 I t 1 r r I Spokane freight rate rat cuse cne before the in t I commerce lon H Ft HII d II i 4 Stephens or of Spokane and Brooks A 1 4 a of Boston counsel for the Spokane ham yO j t 1 i her ber ot of put a or of wit wll i 1 U flosses on the stand arni e ec es c I M I from Spokane 1 5 I p rs to prove Mr when lip ob 1 1 r tamed In ry 1802 a frt rl ht of oft if a t I j wa the tho CIty et at Iw hI this Ib or bt bet I It I I tor toi V Yo wr Cotton Cohon for the lIft r i uno an nna CAnnon for the 1 t t Northern rn Pacific 1 protested their i Ii rond being hound bound b any finy I which l I i ti r i Mr Ir ml mIght ht ha at t that time 1 1 c ij Would Apply to All AllI I 1 ri Prouty sail said In to J Ii tI these protests prot that In a hearing ot of this PI ulic rf 1 character the acts of one company i Ii i f t I not Well be disassociated from others it if IIa J Jf 1 1 Mr compan should bo be requIred to tor r tn ii 1 11 ruce rates rales Into Spokane the other corn com comi 4 i jj l would nOle have hav to meet y 1 j h Ute the new rates lu lie Mid sak was their l t ml N IV T Durham editor or of the Ulf thet I t 1 r t WAS put on the stand standI I 4 to Hn an Interview which h iu n nison I 11 f is ti obtained from Cram Mr Hili In r 1 Y 4 12 proof of which wu w to Mr i u f HUt and nd received nl hI It 1 1 i 4 as s published In the Review the follow if j k ing morning h I 1 i H HIll III Was Emphatic ll I IJ I I 1 i In hot Interview Mr 11 said laid I If f 1 Of the pO or charging Spokane shipp rs fH 1 the through rate to th the coa t plus pius this the I ti I to this cit city was Illegal mega v I I d a that IL a j jury un of twelve men could not PH f f rl be found te t It Ho He that th i a ot of Spokane who then thon hul a caie J before heror the interState commerce I i Iori glon h had u mistake In going before 1 4 q f tribunal that they should have gone goner r to the United States court In thIs J fit p W Mr r Hili declared that his corn com comI pan WaS not afraid of water i iq flon tr If a canal ten fP t leep were k the Great areat Northern from fromi rom h I i I p St Paul to Puget sound hIs railroad it continue doing the bustnes v r D Norman one or of the owners or of orI I I I a the Spokane hotel and A W Doland t Ij f president of the Spokane Druz company it t tl lC 1 that the they had heard lr Ir Lull Hm I 1 while In Spokane make repented prom jL t JaM that when his ron road should be bunt built to thIs city hp he would give Ie Spokane ter teri t i minal rates or better and which would It 11 to with un uni i point to the south Mouth or th the west q J Spokane Prosperous lir c ti IaL or of these and i Witnesses b by attorneys for the railroads Jf was along thu tho line of showing that pt Lh k kane ne had enjoyed extraordinary prosper H t S under existing rates and to show that Iii under tho present rates the jobbers of oft i t Spokane ar are doing business In points halt half r t h wa way between n Portland and th the Pug Puget t 1 1 4 I sound tie and Spokane Mr Doland i t testified that t his company breaks t r i i oven with the tho coast cIties at Wenatchee t I I on the Great Northern on IJ hI h the Northern and Pen Pendleton leton on va I the O 0 R N although th the terminal i t i I carload rate on drags Is 50 cents a hun bun 1 dred less than to Spokane and the less H ii t f than carload rate Is a hundred less lessI I 1 I le large court room In the county court t 1 house was fIllo to overflowing all lay S 1 b by Interested Interest r I I |