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9 "THE MORNING OREGONIAN,- FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1912. ASSOCIATED GETS ITS FIFTH TANKER Contract to Be Let for Dupli cate of W. H. H err in and J. A. Chanslor. CRAFT READY IN A YEAR Agent for Eastern Concern Seeking Flve-Year Contracts for Liquid Fuel on Pacllfc Coast, Says Manager of Big Firm. In another year the Associated Oil Comnanv will have its fifth tank steamer operating on the Coast, for a contract Is about to be let to me New port News Shipbuilding Company for a duplicate of the W. F. Herrin and J. A. Chanslor. The new tanker Is to have the same capacity as the other vessels. 50.000 barrels. The vessel is to be ready for acceptance In June or July, 1913. EL Whitehead, of San Francisco, manager of the sales department of the Associated, who Is In the city on one of his periodical business missions, says the steadily-growing trade de mands that additional tonnage be pro vided in advance of the opening of the Panama Canal and though the Asso ciated has built two steamers in as many years, the company Is prepared to start the third as soon as the details can be arranged. The company also has the Rosecrans and W. S. Porter, while in the way . of sailing vessels. which operate to the Hawaiian group, thev have the Chilcoot. Monterey. San tiago and Falls of Clyde, all being tankers. Other Fleets Iarreased. Other oil concerns on the Coast are swelling their fleets In expectation of greater business. The steamer rucn mond. a new one for- the Standard in terests. Is to reach the Coast in another year from the Atlantic side and the Klscunda has been launched and will soon be on the Pacific side. The for mer will have a capacity of SO.000 bar rels and the Elscunda 30.000 barrels. The Union Oil Company recently pur chased a lake-built steamer and she has been converted Into a tanker for Immediate nse on this Coast. "There is probably no line of busi ness through which a forecast can be made of the Increased rush after the Canal is finished than that of selling oil," said Mr. Whitehead. "It is sur prising the plans that are being made by steamship owners on the Atlantic side to enter the trade. There has been a man at San Kranclsco recently, rep resenting an Eastern fleet of between 23 and 30 vessels, who Is anxious to enter Into a contrat for tuel oil cov ering ten years, the business being about i5.000.000 or 30.000,000 bar rels. A contract can be signed at once with him if any oil corporation desires to take chances, but oil men do not seek contracts of longer duration than three jars. Ezteat of Flow likum. In the first place It la Impossible to tell tha extent of 'the oil flow. A few rnra ani wells were belnsr bored from 1800 to 2000 feet and today some of them are 3500 feet deep and have been known to cost 350,000 each. Say oil at the well is worth 45 cents a barrel, to that you must add the pumping cost, pipe line maintenance, transportation by steamer, redelivery at destination and other Items, so there is not much margin when oil Is sold under contract here for SO cents a barrel. "The Matson Navigation Company Is about to increase Its fleet In the Ha waiian trade through placing an order for a big modern steamer; the Andrew Weir interests say they will equip manv of their carriers with oil burn ers for the Canal trade; W. R. Grace Sc Com Dan v Is building- three large car rlers to operate from New York through the Canal to San Francisco, Portland and Puget Sound and there are Euro pean lines that will change fuel." Mr. Whitehead places the amount of oil consumed in the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, including Portland and other towns and rail lines, at 5,- 000.000 barrels annually. The same amount is credited to the trade of Puget Sound, embracing British Co lumbla territory also. He saya the fact that more vessels are required each year to handle the output of the California fields attests to the grow Ing trade, though the Increased con' sumption Is gradual. BID MADE FOR JfEW STEAMER Stvajne & Hoyt Refuse 10 Per Cent Over Contract Price. Information reached the city Tester day that an offer has been made Swayne & Hoyt of 10 per cent above the cost of their new coaster, being built at the Craig yards, Long Beach, Cau but it was refused. A Ban Fran cisco firm is said to have negotiated for the vessel, which Is nearing com nletlon. because they wished to In crease their fleet at once. Besides that carrier the Wilson Lum ber Company ia completing the steam r Columbia; Olson & Mahoney have a new steamer well under way on the Atlantic side, that . Is modeled along the lines of the steamer Olson & Ma honey: the Freeman interests have an other carrier that is ready for the in stallation of machinery; the Hammond Lumber Company has one started at Eureka: the Charlea Nelson Company has placed an order "recently for their latest vessel; the McCormick Lumber Company has two steamers building at St. Helens;- the Dodge sieamsnip com pany will soon have the Minnie E. Hel ton ready for service; the E. K. Wood Lumber Company has one on the ways and the Hartwood Lumber Company has closed a contract. There are oth ers contemplating adding to their ton nage during the next year, but It is estimated that already there is an in crease prospective that will equal 5 per cent of the sixe of the present coast fleet. astern; chocks will be fastened to the bulwarks. As the cover of the com panionway aft faces outboard and it is ofted a wet locality for sailors to enter when the tug is at sea, the steps are to Je extended to the upper or torn cane deck and the cover faced toward the superstructure. A ventilator is to be Installed aft and having decided that the smokestack is too high. It is proposed to reduce Its length four feet. which Is calculated to steady tne ves sel. MILITIA'S SALUTE PERFECT Washington Lads Best Maryland' Tars In Taooma Dinghy Race. In firing a salute of 21 guns aboard the cruiser Boston yesterday the gun crews maintained perfect intervals and though the men were rapid In loading and firing previous to their cruise on the Maryland last month, the salute In honor of the Fourth was all that could be expected from a regular Navy crew. The Boston had her gala attire hlblted yesterday, she being in what is technically termed "full dress, tnere being flags hung .from bow to stern over the stays. The militiamen heard 1 ' STEAMER INTELLIGENCE. Dne to Arrive. Name. From Date. Beaver Pan Pedro.... In port Bear Ssn Pedro. .. .July i Breakwater. .. jCoos Bay. ... July T Sue H. Elmore. Tinamouk. . . .July 7 Roanoke .San mega. . . . July T Anvil .Bandon July 8 Kebraskan Ssllna Crus. . July Rose City San Pedro. .. .July 11 Alliance Eureka July 13 Goo. W. Elder. .San Diego July 13 Isthmian Sallna Crua. . July IB Nevadan Ssllna Crui. . July 80 Lyra Sallna Crus. . .Am. 13 To Depart. Name. For Date. Yale 8. F. to L A.. July 5 Beaver San Pedro. . . .July 6 Harvard S. F. to U A.. July C Northland San Pedro. . ..July 8 Breakwater. .. .Cooa Bay. ... July 8 Sue H. Elmore. Tillamook July 9 Roanoke San Direo. ... July 10 Anvil Bandon July 10 Bear San Pedro. ...July It Nebraakan . . . : Sallna Crus. . .July 12 Alliance Eureka July 14 RoseCltv San Pedro July 18 Geo. W. Elder. .San Diego. ...July IT Isthmian Sallna Crus. . July 23 Nevadan. ..... -Sallna Crus. . Auf. Lyra Sallna Crux. ..Aug. IT yesterday that a cutter crew from the Maryland won a race Wednesday at Tacoma, the Oregon's men participat ing, also a crew from the monitor Wyoming, the latter being the Wash lngton Naval Militia's training ship, In a dinghy race, in which the Oregon was not represented, the militia crew walked away from the Maryland's crowd and were over the line almost two minutes ahead. With the Oregon, Marblehead and Boston to be in this port together there promises to be a merry time In aquatic sports that the Navy loves. OXEOXTA WORK TjXDER WAY Changes In Prospect to Better Con ditions on Tug. , As much of the work aboard the Port of Portland bar tug Oneonta will be done by the crew, no bids are to be asked for and a start will be made to day on painting her hull and drawing the tailshaft for an examination of the bearings. It' is desired that she be re turned to the lower harbor as soon as possible and some of the changes out lined may not be carried out during her present visit. To give her greater freeboard aft only the water tanks forward will be used and a huge pair of bitts aft of the towing machine, said to weigh about three tons, will be removed. There are smaller bltts on each side that can be used if an emergency arises and in order to hold the towing line In place should sharp turns be made when the Oneonta has a ship TERRIER'S CREW REPORTED . C. Lane Wants Jlen Punished for Frightening Timid Wife. Reciting that men sailing the sloop Terrier Wednesday evening so terror ized his wife, who accompanied him from the Oaks in a rowboat, that she was confined to her bed yesterday and serious consequences may result, J. C. Lane, of 328 East Thirty-seventh street. made formal complaint at the harbor patrol station yesterday and will prob ably take the matter up today with the Custom-House authorities In an ef fort to have the freshwater sailors punished in some way. Lane said that after getting away from the Oaks his boat was followed by the Terrier and evidently occu pants of the latter attempted to see how close they could sail to the row- boat, for several times the latter was struck and at other times Lane says he dodged to escape being carried overboard by the bowsprit. AH the time, he avers, the Terrier's crowd kept up a raillery of taunts mixed with ad monitions not to be uneasy, they would not hit him. He waved a lantern ev ery time the sloop was near the row boat to warn them. Marine Xotes. Following the custom of holidays the Shaver Transportation Company ordered all Its vessels to Portland Wednesday so the crews could be at home yesterday. , It is reported that the British ateam er Netherpark. which is on the way from Norfolk for San Francisco, with coal, would proceed here to load lum ber for Australia. She was taken with the option of Puget Sound loading. Members of the crew of the steamer Ocklahama enjoyed the Fourth in port, as her first move was made at mid night, when she left down for West port to tow the schooner Lottie Ben nett to the lower harbor, the latter be ing bound for Callao with a lumber cargo measuring 710.337 feet. Two vessels sailed from Portland yesterday, the American-Hawaiian lin er Lura having gotten away early in the day for Sallna Crus via California ports, and the steamer Alliance left last evening for Coos Bay and Eureka, The steamer Northland, which sails south tomorrow, shifted from Portland to Rainier to begin loading lumber. Copies of a new tariff on wheat and flour to the Orient, which becomes ef fective September 1 and will be par ticipated in by the lines of the Trans pacific Freight Bureau, have been re ceived in the city. The rate has been advanced to $3.60 a ton from Portland and northern ports to Yokohama, Kobe, Moji and Nagasaki, $4.50 to Shanghai and Hongkong and $5 to Manila. Movements) of Vessels. PORTLAND, July 4. Sailed Steamer Lyra, tor Sallna Crua. via San Francisco: steamer Alliance, tor Cooa Bay and Eureka. Astoria. July 4. Sailed at 4:SO A. M. Steamer Carlos, for San Francisco; at 8 A. M.. steamer Geo. W. Elder, for San Diego and way ports: ateamer Willamette, for South Bend; at 7:30 A. M. gasoline schooner Anvil, for Bandon. Arrived down at 11:15 A. M. and sailed at 3 P. M.. steam er Lyra, for Salina Crus, via San Francisco.. San Francisco. July 4. Arrived at 8 A. r ritmr Ratnok. f rom - San Diego. Sailed at noon Steamer Bear, for Portland. San Francisco. July Sailed at 3 P. M. Steamer Aurella. for Columbia River; Steamer Klamath, for Portland: at 8 P. M., steamers Fort Bragg and Tamalpais. for Portland. .... Astoria. July 3. Arriveo. at d ana leu up at 8 P. M. Steamer anna in, irom san Francisco. Sailed at o f. M oieamer gen eral Hubbard; at 7 P. M. ateamer Yellow stone, for San Pedro. Condition at the mouth of the river at S p. M. Weather cloudy. Wind northwest. 18 miles. sea smootn. San Francisco. July . Arrived steamers Tosemlte. Watson, from Seattle: schooners nauntleu. T.izsle Vance, from Grays Har bor; barge Washougal. from Graya uaroor; schooner Oakland, from, Coqullle River. Sailed Steamers Bear, for Astoria: Ray mond, for Wlllapa; schooners Mable uaie. for Port Townsend; Archer, for Roches Harbor. Ija Ane-elea. Julv 4. Arrived Santa Bar bara, for Wlllapa Harbor. Sailed President, tor uget Bouna ports. Tides at Astoria Friday. nis-h Water . ILow Water 3:63 A. M 7.1 feetll0:SS A M 0.8 feet 4:83 P. M 7.8 feet 11:00 P M....2.9 feet FESTO IS AT HEIGHT All Nations Parade at Tacoma Four Miles Long. KING AND QUEEN CROWNED Great Crowd Sees Track Meet at Stadium Aviator Fails to Make Good Landing Entire North-- : west Represented at Event. TACOMA, July 4. (Special.) The greatest procession ever held in Ta coma the all-nations parade which marked the biggest day of Montamara Fes to was held today. Fully four miles in length, the pa rade marched on streets Jammed with throngs drawn from all parts of the Northwest. British Columbia had in line its great military troop, the 7 2d Seaforth" Highlanders, in - red and white plaids and huge black chapeaus, fully armed, accompanied, by their band. Governor Hay and staff and Naval officers from the Maryland, Oregon and Cheyenne rode in carriages, while blue-clad marines marched in even, smart lines. Seattle sent representatives of its Golden Potlatch, several bvndred of the" Improved Order of Redmen and nearly 100 commercial -travelers. En umclaw, Puyallup and other towns nearby sent large delegations for the fraternal sections of the parade. In the afternoon there was a big track meet in the stadium, with 623 entries and witnessed by 12,000 people, In the evening Rex Tacoma II and Queen Hazel were crowned with elab orate exercises, followed by a great military parade, including also all the floats of the morning. Then came a fireworks display which included a siege of Tripoli by an Italian fleet, in which several battleships were seen in action, it being the evening's most ex tensive device. The frame for tne piece covered 60.000 square feet. Aviator James V. Martin made two more unsuccessful attempts to land his airship in the Stadium after flying over the bay. He failed each time, due o the wind. EQUAL TAX IS FAVORED COMPROMISE WITH STATE COM MISSION IS APPROVED. Measures Submitted Oppose Single Taxation Method and Nullify U'Kon's Measure. Hundreds of letters and telegrams from every part of Oregon were de livered at the headquarters of the Ore gon Equal Taxation League yester day congratulating that body on the compromise agreement it had made with the State Tax Commission, by which it withdrew its Initiative peti tion against single tax, following a re quest from Governor West and the members of the Commission in which it was declared that the measures of the Commission were flatly against single tax. Fifteen thousand voters, most of whom were farmers and business men of the state at large signed the peti tions, which were circulated by volun teer workers in every grade of life, the farmer with 10 acres working side by side with the man whose holdings ran Into hundreds of acres. These were the men who swamped the Equal Taxation League's offices with com munications of approval. 'Now the people of the state at large know just where they stand." wrote an Eastern Oregon rancher with a farm of 22 acres at Stanfield, Or. "The fact that the measures of the State Tax Commission oppose single tax and even nullify the TJ'Ren tricky county home rule measure puts the issue up to the people. Single taxers cannot claim, as they o here, that they are being supported by Governor West in their efforts to foist state ownership on the farmers of the state. Because Mr. Fels feels he sees in Socialism the great white light I do not think that is any rea son why the independent farmers and business men, not to speak of the thou sands of homeowners to whom single tax would always be a menace, should vote as he and his paid Portland emis saries should direct. Other letters of similar tenor were CIAL! FOR THIRTY DAYS ONLY5 You must not waste one moment's time to take advantage of this opportunity, as it may RAIN. Can you afford to take chances for the big outfit to thrash your crop? They may be late and then where are you? It may rain this year the same as last and you will lose . many times the price of one of our , 22-CYLINDER FARQUHAR SEPARATORS Mounted with wide-tire wheels, an, 18-foot straw carrier, feeders' table and stand; making a complete outfit ready for work and can be operated with a 6-horsepower engine Our Price for This Outfit Is Our Price for This Outfit Is 75 This same outfit has been selling for $305. For 30 days only you can buy it for $275. EVERY MACHINE GUARANTEED THE CO-OPERATIVE SUPPLY HOUSE CORNER EAST FIRST AND MADISON, PORTLAND, OREGON found -very encouraging by President Phil Metschan and Secretary Shields. T t tntanttnn nf tha leasrua to continue its educational work and to back up to the limit the three legisla tive amendments offered by the State Tax Commission. "Tho issue is so clear-cut now mat the single taxers cannot hope to dodge the issue." said Mr. Shields. "They can't burrow underground any longer and they will hardly dare try. Tt7A ..nnoa n fnnHnue to tell the facts about single tax and the fact that we have Joined forces with the State Tax Commission means the presenta tion nf a imitori front to the moles who would destroy Oregon's prosperity for the sake of their own private gain as beneficiaries of the Fels fund." The members of the btate tax wm- i I nm W'.ot RonrAtarV miBsiun o ..w. . . . of State Olcott, "State Treasurer Kay, Commissioners Eaton and Galloway. Vha Chilean lovframent has decided to spend $12,775 during- this year for a cook- neparimeni in sumo m iub yiuiwiuiiai LABOR LEADER TO SPEAK JOHN' MITCHELL TO BE HEARD AT CHAUTAUQUA JULY 20. Portland's Treading Union Men Will Be on. Platform With Head of United Mlneworkers. Gladstone Park is to be tho Mecca for Portland labor delegations July 20, when John Mitchell will deliver a lec ture on "The Philosophy. Purposes and Ideals of the Trades Union Movement." Chautauqua directors are planning a great day for labor on that date, and a delegation of Portland's leading union men will be asked to honor the distin guished speaker by appearing on the assembly platform. Mr. Mitchell's career is an interest ing one. From a humble coal miner, he has risen in the ranks of the men who toll to the leadership as president of the United Mlneworkers of America. His deep study of the labor question, coupled with his wonderful executive ability, has lifted him to a position of highest esteem with not only the la boring classes, but the capitalists. His conservatism in dealing with tho op erators has won their greatest respect. Mr. Mitchell Is one of the big men in labor unions of the United States. He was instrumental in securing the labor plank In the recent Democratic plat form, and takes a deep interest in Na tional politics. He Is a well-known writer on labor subjects, his treatise on the "Uses and Abuses of the In junction" being one of his best-known works. Tillamook Hotel to Cost $80,000. TILLAMOOK, Or July 4. (Special.) At a recent meeting of officers of the company which is erecting the new hotel at the corner of Second avenue East and Fourth street, it was decided to change the plans so that the struc ture will include a quarter block. Thla will increase the cost of the building about $10,000 making the total cost $80,000. The building will be of rein forced concrete with stone trimmings, four stories high, one of the finest structures in Tillamook County. Ex cavation for the foundation has prac tically been ' completed and the erec tion of the building is now held pending revision of plans. It Is hoped to hava the building ready for occupancy by Fall. Unknown Man Drowned at Astoria. ASTORIA. Or., July 4. (Special.) An unknown man was drowned by fall-. Ing overboard from the Callender Nav igation Company's wharf at 1 o'clock this morning. His cries for help were heard, but before assistance could reach him he sank. None of the mem bers of the crews of the several steam ers lying at the wharf Is missing and the identity of the man Is a mystery. 'Honor Man" Is Killed. SALEM, Or., July 4. (Special.) Word was received here today of the death of George Ward, "honor man." employed in Clatsop County, and Chap lain Bauer nas gone to Astoria to taae charge of the body. Ward, who was killed, by a blast wnue aoing roaa work, was sentenced to the State Peni tentiary from Union County for larceny of a horse and was serving from one to 10 years. . ...SSSSSjSSSSassSSSSSSSSBBSSJSSSaasSBSsSJSSSSsa . a KE1R JBREWMG 1 " " (l IS A LIFE STUDY XT YT V i ill inMi tA5wriivvi i t i m sv nil ir if is vfi if ii ii - ill - ruWMJSShrBi a m ih ii ii ii ii ii II I I II VI I 111 .W i. M VV .1 II II II II nil. II VV Jl V H 1 mtSSim iii iffitm h inn nu i . 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