Show AND HELD FOR SPECULATION ilroad Is Accused of Retarding the Progress of Oregon Washington Senator Bourne of itgon again consulted with the esdent on Tuesday about the case the Southern Pacific Railway com my which he charges la holding up proximately three million acres of fir I Y t F nIt 6 i It d YIP 7 t 1 t Q 11e 11 e t r t Harry Orchard bile land much of which Is in Oren Ore-n that should be opened to sqttlo nt The senator says that grants coy ag the land which originally were six million acres were made with mleretnndlng that the land should opened up to settlement at a tonI ton-I Price per acre A great deal of he says was sold at 15 an acre and If of It was withheld from sale al ether In the meantime the sena says tho progress of tae country beIng retarded and he Intimates t the railway company Is holding land foi speculative purposes |