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Show S3YS HARRlflAN -r : BUYS riONOPOLY Paid Price, Oat of "Propor-: "Propor-: tlon to Value to Kill Competition, Com-petition, Asserts a ; Wit-ness Wit-ness in California. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb: 1-Evi-dene tending to show that the operations opera-tions of K. H. Harriman on the coast constitute a violation of the Interstate Oommeree law was brought ont before Commissioner Franklin K. Lane today. C. A. Severance, attorney for the commission, com-mission, introduced evidence to prove his contention that Harriman paid a Frice out of proportion to the value of he Coos Bay properties in order to put comeptition "out of the way. Harriman, Attorney Severance maintained, was not buying foal mines primarily; he was buying monopoly. B. A." Graham, who supplied this testimony, tes-timony, created another sensation before be-fore he left the st.ind. He told how, when Harriman acquired the Oregon Railwav and Navigation company in 1$X)1. his agents circulated literature throughout the Orint, warning merchants mer-chants and others not to ship freight over the Graham lino, the Oregon and Oriental, as it hsd no transportation facilities on this side of the world. Th circulars were datd at Portland. A a result of these' methods, said the witness, wit-ness, Graham's line went out of business. busi-ness. Graham was called to the stand for a continuation of the storv he related yesterday yes-terday showing how llarrrman forced his company, the Oregon and Orient, out of business. Attorney Severance, of the commission, went carefully into the terms of this contract, drawing attention, at-tention, among, other things, to the fact that there was a proviso showing careful regard fnr the Interstate Commerce Com-merce eompiision. It was shown thst the entire property prop-erty in Coog Bay cost Spreckles considerably con-siderably less than a million dollars. When Harriman came a'ong and bought the properties h was willing to pay $1,300,000 for th"m. At noon all the testimony hid been taken and "ommissiontr Lane drrlsred the hearing at an end. On Thursday of next week the parties to the hearing will go to Iyis Angeles, where the sessions ses-sions will be resumed. |