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Show MOROAN MAY TESTIFY. Financier Likely to Bo Called In tho Northern Securities Case. St. Paul, Nov 0 Homo of the most Important bits of testimony that hnvo set been tnken In the ense of tho United Stales against tho Northern Seturltles compans probabls Will lie tnkin this week before Special Uxainlncr Prod erlck (I Ingtisnll of St Paul who left this evening for the Unsl The trafllc. nlllcers of several of the big llasterll roada will be colled by the dtfendnnts The hearing Is n continunnic of tho session held In St. Paul threo weeks ago The hearing which was set for tomorrow tomor-row lias been postponed until Wednesday Wednes-day It will consume nbout a week Itesldes the Uiisirrn talroa.ls, several stockholders and nlll. ers of Ihe Northern North-ern Securities lompany will be pi iced on Iho stand Among them muy b J Plerpont Morgan. Tho hearing In the race against the Securities company which was set for November 13th In New York City has been postponed until Monday. November Novem-ber 17lh by Ingersoll, who also Is spe-cial spe-cial examiner In this case There will be further postponements In the Btnto hearing If the Federal case Is not completed by the 17th ns It probabls prob-abls will not be Attorney (leneral W 11 Dmiklns, M I) Dunn and (Jen Oeo P Wilson the attorneys for tho State of Minnesota, will leave hero next Wednesday. The testimony In the Stale tase will bo taken on the part of Ihe plaintiff Although a largo part of the ovldincn secured In Iho Pelei Power rase and the United Slates cases will be used ll Is expected that the attorneys for tho Stnte will rnll witnesses It Is ststed Ihat they will direct th.lr attack nlnng different lines fiom those taken by the nttorness for the United States Railroad Notes. It P. Neslen Is back, from Chlcngo. The traffic Inert usta uro something enormous A C Illrd of tho Ht Paul testified that rates uro enllrcl too low Vice President Danernft and other officials of-ficials of the Oregon Short Line will leuvn for California on a business trip this week These Increases In gross earnings have one had feature 'I hey establish high lecords which sometimes make bad comparisons. 'Ihe Southern Paclllc men and officials offi-cials have completed their rnnfrreme nn wage schedules nt Sun Pranclsco The result will he made known Inter A 11 Sllcknei snss the Chlcngn Live-flock Live-flock nssoclntlou Is nn absolute monopoly, monop-oly, but litis Is Indlgnartly ilenlid by Trnfllc Manager Tomllneon of the association asso-ciation Vice-President Cornish of the Oregon Short Line was In Ins Angeles the other elay, and In .omiany with VI.e Piesldent ltoss Clark of tho San Pedro went over the lines of the latter ild Not over twenty miles of the 10 miles on tho lako tut-off iiniHln lv be rnm-pitted rnm-pitted This Is urll iilnrly Inti resting as so inuny people ask, ' is it likely that tho bonUi-rn Pacific will leally build that cut-off It should be added add-ed however, that the twenti mllis re-Imnlnlng re-Imnlnlng will he the most dlllleult of nil and will not be completed befote late ntxt tear |