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10 THE SUNDAY OEBGONIAN, POBTLAND, JUNE 24. 1900. THREE BIG CARGOES Oregon Flour, Lumber, Wheat and Beer Going Foreign. TWO STEAMERS FOR THE FAR EAST Set m. Single Disengaged Grata Snip Between San Diego and Alaska The Santa Fe's Connection. Three typical Portland cargoes cleared at the Custom-House yesterday after noon, the aggregate value of the trio being nearly $200,000. Dodwell's big Ori ental liner Monmouthshire carried the largest and most valuable cargo, being loaded to her fullest capacity -with flour, beer, lumber, eta, for Hong Kong and Japanese ports, and flour and provisions for Manila. The Pacific Export Lumber Company cleared the big turret steamship Inverness for China and Japan, with a cargo of 2,G00,000 feet of lumber, and the Portland Flouring Mills Company cleared the German ship Mabel Rlckmers for Queenstown or Falmouth for orders, with 115,115 bushels of -wheat, valued at $66,200. The Monmouthshire was full to the hatches, with flour as usual having the most prominent place on the manifest, there being 27,593 barrels, valued at JS0.731. Of this amount Hong Kong received 1S, 593 barrels and also 20,000 p6unds of bran, valued at 1123. 50 cases containing 400 gal lons of beer, va'ued at $7 CO. and 42,50 feet of dressed lumber. "Yokohama, In addition to 3200 barrels of flour, was scheduled for 503 bales, or 282,045 pounds of paper. For Kobe there were 500 bar rels of flour and two crates of folding beds. Manila receives 500 barrels of flour, 60 cases of soap and C4 bales of newspa pers. Of the cargo of the Inverness, 29GS ties and 1,223,795 feet of rough lumber were for Tinkow, China, and the remainder for Yokohama, Japan. The cargo footed up a total of 2.009,551 feet, valued at $26, 112 53. The fleet will all start down the river this morning, the Inverness and Mabel Jtickmers leaving early, and the Monmouthshire following about noon, or as soon as her cargo Is all aboard. The steamer has had remarkably good dis patch, as she did not "reach Portland until Tuesday morning, and since that time she has discharged about 3000 tons of In ward cargo and loaded a full outward cargo. MONEY FOR SEALERS. United States Still Supporting the Canadian Indians. Through the efforts of Collector of Cus toms A. R. Milne, the residue of the seal ing claims consequent to the seizures In the Bering Sea several years ago havo been settled by the Department of Ma rine and Fisheries, says the Victoria Colo nist. In all $14,300 has arrived here to pay off the remaining claims of the seal ers. Of this over $13,000 is to be handed over to the Indian Department, who will handle the payment of the Indians and that amount goes to satisfy the Indian hunters' claims for the illegal seizures by the United States cutters during 1S34-G-6. The white sealers received but little over $1000. These payments will complete the sealing award, and when all the cheques have been awarded over $300,000 will have been distributed by Collector Milne in settlement of the claims of the sealers. When the award was made by the Bering Sea claims commission, which sat here In 1S97, there were many cases that, owing to the fact i that the claims were not represented, were overlooked and not provided for. The Collector of Cus toms brought this fact to the notice of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and that department authorized him to make an investigation and report on the eeveral claims. This Investigation in volved no small amount of work, but it was at length completed and forwarded to Ottawa, and now the money has been awarded for the settlement of these claims. The work of disbursement will be be gun at once. The white sealers will be paid by the collector at the custom-house and the Indian Department will look af ter the payment of the slwashes. The collector has taken precaution, though, to protect the Indians, for no powers of at tornej will be recognized, and the moneys due the Indians will be paid to no mid dlemen In fact, to none but the Indian entitled to the award, or, if he be dead, to his established heirs. The claims would have been long since eettled, but so many of the claims called for Investigation, and much analysis of the cases had to be gone into by the collector. To show how thoroughly the claims awarded in the first Instance by the commission have been settled, and how wide has been the search for the scalers entitled to recompense, one check is now awaiting a sealer named Jacob sen at the British Consul at Yokahama. This man is now engaged in sealing on one of the Japanese-owned schooners sailing out of Hakodate, and the cheque awaits him on his return from the pres ent voyage. Other awards have been made in South America. In fact in many corners of the globe. For one man. to whom about $300 was coming, there was quite a long search and much Inquiry from British Consul around tho world. Nothing was heard of the man until about a year cr so ago he was found by the purest accident in the Bonln Islands. The late sealer Is now living among the seml-clvillzed natives of the Islands, which lie some hundreds of miles south of Japan, and every year he goes up to Yokahama as the oldtlme cariboo miners came to Victoria In the early days to have a little time. He strolled Into the office of the British Con sul at Yokahama to ask the news, and the talk drifting to scaling mattery, the Consul notified him that he had recelvert inquiries from Victoria In regard to him. and told him that a cheque awaited him at this port. "All right," said the ox-sealer; "I'll come up next year and get it. The money no doubt paid the expenses of the next blowout at Yokohama. OLDEST WARSHIP AFLOAT. She I a Venwel That Fought In the War of 1S12. Of all tho ships that sail the seas there's none can match the Polly, says the New York Press. Unlike most Pollys, this one is far from being pretty. She is a little, roly-poly, stub-toed schooner with thick planks, a strong frame and a bilge as as square as a box. What she lacks In beauty and grace she more than makes up In rugged usefulness, and from her great age and remarkable experiences in peace and in war she is famed and loved along th coast of Maine. The Polly is jot only the oldest active vessel afloat that ever carried tho Ameri can flag In a naval engagement, but she Is also the oldest vessel In the American registry, having been built In 1903 at Ames bury. Muss. Although H years old. the Polly, barring accidents. Is good for many more years of service, and since s!e has been "new topped" she looks as good as most of the coasters railing out of Ban gor. She Is only 01 feet long. 15 feet-beam and C feet deep, registering 43 tons. She was built of the best wliite oak, and the iual- lty of her materials and workmanship is shown In her remarkable state of preser vation today, after nearly a century of battling with the seas, lumber freights and British men-of-war. It was io the war of 1S12 that the Polty won lasting fame as a. warrior. She was a privateer, and her log shows that in that war she captured 11 British ships, all much larger than herself. Her guns were few and small, but she had & great crew, not in numbers, but in courage and fea mansnlp. Once, while her captain lay sick in his berth, the Polly's crew, contrary to orders, tackled a great British ship, with the result that the Polly was captured, but her master oon retook her, and ever since then (1S14) she has sailed under the Stars and Stripes. Most of the Polly's original timbers are still in her frame, and considerable of her original p&nklng also remains intact. She is engaged now in coasting between Ban gor and Boston, although her master. Captain D. A. McFarland. of Portland, cays she is fit to go anywhere. NO DISENGAGED TONNAGE. Not an Idle Grain Ship on the 1'a- Clflc f'ORJlt. For the third or fourth time within the post' six months, there is not a disen gaged grain ship on the Pacific Coast be tween San Diego and Alaska. It lias been nearly two months since there was a free ship in Portland, and they have been nearly as rare on Puget Sound, but San Franclpco has occasionally had a few which entered with cargo and held off a few days without accepting the very flat tering rates which have been offered all through the first half of the year. The last of these free ships, the Musselcralg, was chartered at San Francisco last Thursday, and as nearly everything that Is due anywhere on the Coast is under charter, it will be a long time before there will be any more free shlp. Rates mean while are steadily tending upward, al though It is believed that they have about reached the top for the present, as char terers are holding off awaiting develop ments. While they are refusing to charter ships at the rates now asked by owners, most of the exporters do not profess to see much hope for lower rates in the near future. Nitrate freights, instead of weak ening, are steadily advancing, and a few days ago the British bark Lurlel was re ported chartered at 40s for August load ing. This Is said to be the highest rate ever paid at a nitrate port, and. consid ering the cheap port expenses of a ship at those ports, and the fact that she is COCO miles nearer Europe than she would bo If loading at a North Pacific port, the old-time differential of 10s against the northern ports docs not seem unreason able. In other words, if ships are worth 40s at the nitrate ports, they should be worth nearly 50s up here. OFF FOR ALASItA. Steamer Columbine Sailed From Se attle Yesterday. The United States lighthouse tender Columbine sailed from Seattle yesterday for her annual cruise In Alaskan waters. Besides her regular complement of offi cials, she will have aboard two prominent officials of the Thirteenth Lighthouse District. They are Commander W. T. Day, of the Navy, Lighthouse Inspector for the Thirteenth District, and Captain W. C. Langfltt, of the Army, the engineer of the district. They are going north to make as thorough a study as time will permit of the Southeastern Alaska coast. On this voyage the Columbine will go north and to the westward as far as Dutch Harbor. Heretofore she has con fined her operations strictly to what Is known as the Southeastern Alaska coast. There are no lighthouses anywhere along tho Alaska coast, but numerous buoys. These will be thoroughly Inspected and where they are not found in good condi tion new ones will be substituted. Dur ing the voyage, also, locations for new buoys may be selected. The Columbine is taking all she can carry in the way of buoys and buoy ma terial, in addition to enough fuel to last her the round trip, which will consume, probably, five or six weeks' time, Cap tain Edward H. Francis goes as pilot of the vessel. CniEF HICKS RETIRES. Monniontlinlilrc Will Have a N-v Engineer on Her Next Trip. When the Monmouthshire comes back to Portland again there will be a new chief engineer In charge. Mr. George Hlcksv who for 12 years has had charge of her engines, will leave the vessel at Hong Kong and return to England to en Joy a well-earned rest. Mr. Hicks has never missed a trip in the vessel since sho has been running on the Portland route, and' he has many friends in this port, who will miss his kindly greetings. Captain Kennedy, the new master of the steamer. Is very sorry to lose Chief Hicks, for several years' tossing about the world as messmates on tho "Shire" has developed quite a bond of friendship between the two men. SANTA FE'S CONNECTIONS. Oriental Line Will Me In Charge of Spreckels Company. SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. It Is re ported In railroad circles that the Oceanic Steamship Company Is to be made the ex clusive ocean connection of the Santa Fe. that Joint agencies will be established at Honolulu and other ports reached by the Oceanic steamers, and that freight and passengers east bound from Australia. Now Zealand and Hawaii will, so far as possible, be billed and ticketed through to the East over the Santa Fe. While the officials of the lines men tioned do not confirm this report, it Is not denied that they will soon occupy the same passenger offices In this city. Tide nt Astoria. (Week beginning Monday.. June 23.) H 3 3 I H 5 1 DAY. High water Monday Tuesday Wedncsdav ... Thur."day "... . Friday Saturday Low water Monday Tufeday Wednesday ... Thursday Friday Saturday ....12:12 9.C. l:00i 9.4 1:45' 9.2! 2:25) 8.7l -3:031 8.2 3:37 ; 11:35) 0:211 l:OS 1:46, 2:23' 3:36 1.2 5:i 2.9 6:42,-1.4) 6:36 2.9 I SrOV 1.11 K-.10I ?9 . S:43 -0.71 3:55 2.9 s:is, o.i; 9:35 2.3 Domestic nnd Foreign Port. ASTORIA, June 23. Sailed American barkentlne for Melbourne: British ship Argus, for Qucenstown or Falmouth, for orders; steamer W. H. Harrison, for Til lamook. Left up British bark FIfcshlre. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., smooth; wind north, weather clear. San Francisco. June 23. Arrived Schooner Daisy Rowe. from Coos Bay. Sailed Schooner C H. Merchant, for Gray's Harbor; steamer Del Norte, for Portland. Port Townsend. June 22. Arrived Barkentlne John Smith, from Honolulu. Seattle, June 23. Sailed Steamer City of Seattle, for Skagway. Ncah Bay. Passed June 22 Norwegian steamer Tcllus, from San Francisco, for Chcmlnus. Yokohama. Arrived June 22. Japanese steamer Kinshu Maru, from Seattle, Salax-aerry.-Sallcd May 2 Barkentlne Charles F. Crocker, for Vancouver. Hamburg. June 23. Arrived Steamer Columbia, from New York. Liverpool, June 21. Arrived Campania, from New York; Georgian, from Boston. Now York, June 23. Arrived St- Paul, from Southampton. .New York. June 23. Arrive!-Minneapolis, from London. BEARS IN CONTROL Feverish Week in the New York Stock Market . CROP DAMAGE WOHINIINT FACTOR Unfavorable Bank Statement Csvmi a Farther Break TVstsrday New Terk Finances Banlc Clearings. NEW YORK. June 23. The Saturday short session of the Stock Exchange was a feverish and exciting one, under the domination of much the sune Influences as for some days past. The holiday in London left the stock market without Us accustomed guide to the speculative sen- TONNAGE EN ROUTE AND IN POBT. Vessels Chartered or Available for Grain Cargoes From the Northwest. FOR PORTLAND. Name. Flag, and rig. Feb. Feb. Penthesllea Deccan Br. ship i Br., ship '.Ger. ship .Br. bark Br. ship Br. ship 'Br. ship Br. ship ;Br. ship iBr. ship Ger. ship I Ger. ship i Br. ship Br. bark ,Br. ship Ger. ship Ger. ship Ger bark Manson Barrett Kuhlmann Jones Hearn Crowest Griffiths Ward Atkinson Alice Australia Genista Leicester Cnstln Mar. SjRIversdale IConway May 161 iranKistan Orealla Tyers June 17Rlckmer Rlckmers tsaaice Leopold Crowe june zmigcl ISemantha -. IW. J. Pirrle June 6 Harlech Castle Jenkins iFlndley sinus Robert Rlckmers Carl Clan Macpherson Stlorn Behrlns: Rubarth Shoeniaker Br. ship Nor. bark Br. ship l Dan. ship Br. ship Br. bark Br. bark Br. ship Br. ship Br. ship Ger. bark Ger. bark Br. bark Br. ship Br. ship Br. shin McDonald EUIncsen iNIcoll JFunder Sutherlandshlre Jupiter Aianon Llghtbody Nlthsdale Bowman B. Law Ardencralg Centurion Dalcarnie Cordlnar Steven Gulllson Cairns Collins Jones Engel Gleseke Anton Elstan Hayden Griffiths May 26 lOlga lOsterbek IPort Caledonia IDechmont 'Queen Victoria May 161 Astraeana Luclpara Andreta County Edinburgh Europe Lansrdale May 19 IBr. bark Witt Br. ship Br. ship Fr. bark Br. ship Br. bark Ger. bark Fr. bark Fr. bark Br. ship Br. bark Ft. bark Ger. ship Br. ship Br. sbm Rltche Tode Muller Hunter McDonnell Rowehl Conna Hnumond Milne Crowe Kobbe ' Hardle June 16! Norma INomla May 12IAmlral Courbet April GLa Fontaine Irmmory IMuskoka May 26!Bossuet !C. H. Watjen ISocotra June 21)Cedarbank (Andrada Eilbek Inchcape Rock IMorven ! Pyrenees Bobbins Adams Tadrrn Porter Jones Br. bark Ger. bark Br. rtrfp Br. bark Br. bark Bryco Total tonnage en route. 100.151. GRAIN TONNAGE Name. Flag and rig. Master. May 12Llzz!c Bell May 22NesaIa May 2SIPlnmore May 31Wendur June 1 Mc.be! Rlckmers Br. bark Ger. ship Br. bark Br. ship Whclan Plander Maxwell Nlcoll . ,. Ger ship Bandelln Rlonald June 16!Marechal VIHIers1 r r. bark June ZlFlfctsuro Br. bark Caddell Total tonnage hi the river, 12,806. GRAIN TONNAGE EN Name. Flag and rig. Mar. Jan. April Jan. 5JGler.ogll Slllmberhorne 19ICamedd Llewellyn 29 1 Brussels ... I Wanderer 12lCabul 31IGlenard 6lFortevlot 26HenrIette 20Rodenbek 14 Dunreggan llCarl 4ILlnllthgowshlre ...Durham ...ICItv of Delhi llKIllmallie ...IBrynhlldn ...IHoward D. Troop ...lQueen Margaret ...IBen Leo 17IHaddon Hall ...ISt. Mary's Bay ...lAndromeda ...lLlndflcld Br. ship Br. ship Br. ship Br. bark Br. bark Br. ship Br. ship Br. bark Ger ship Ger shin Br. bark Ger. ship Br. ship Br. ship Br. ship Br. hark Stevenson Lever Harris Tupmnn Tonkin Johnson Turner Gllmour Seemnn Mar. Mar. May April Mar. Mar. May April Hansen Dixon Hashairen Anderson Doty Swan May Balfour Melkle Corning Fraser Hunter Prltchard Macfarlane Fulton Patcrson iBr. ship Br. barK Br. ship Br. ship Br. bark Br. hark Br. bark Br. bark May Total tonnage en route. 43,911. GRAIN TONNAGE ON PUGET SOUND.- I Name' andrfg. Ma" . From- Charterers. Berth' a : i : TJriT24jMounrsTuart Br. ship Olsen 115SLondon Balfour ITacoma May ElShandon Br. ship Beard 1297 Cardiff x Kerr Tacocna May 91Rhuddlan Castle Br. ship Roberts lS93lCardiff Balfour Seattle Total tonnage In port. 4548. tlmpnt of th mitKldi world, wlfh tho usual result, that professional room-tra- j ders were at sea for a time after the opening. The sentiment observable for some time past among the professionals that th market was oversold and was due for a rally, was In evidence at the opening, and was reinforced by some ob vious nervousness on the part of the shorts. The latter clement covered freo iy in Northern Pacific, and there was a firm tendency in Sugar, the trunk lines and Reading first preferred, which served as points of resistance to weakness. But the continued demoralization in Brooklyn Rapid Transit upset the con fidence of the bull clement, and stocks began to come on the market in large volume. Northern Pacific was carried down over a point from the high level unci uiu upenmg. extreme weaicness did not become general, the trunk lines holding comparatively firm, and shorts covered in anticipation of the bank state ment. Tho excited advance in wheat here was an Influence in the break In stocks. The markets had become quiet and steady when the bank statement appeared and gave a shock to sentiment by the large decrease shown in cosh reserves. Esti mates based on the official reports of Sub treasury operations nnd statements of the movement of currency by express to nnd from the interior, furnished by banks themselves, had foreshadowed a gain In. cash by the banks, after allowing for the gold export during the week of il.COO.OUO or o'er. Wall street Is mystified as to the source of the drain which has de pleted the cash reserves of the clearing house Institutions to the extent of $3,163. 000. The late break i In the market on the bank statement forced some prominent railroad and Industrial stockn from 1 to 2 points below last night's level. National Steel lost 3; Northwestern. 24. and Brooklyn Transit. 4J. Except for a few rallies on covering by room shorts, the market closed weak. The market has been depressed during the week, but the movement of prices has been exceedingly confused and irregular, and the net losses are in most cases more than the extreme declines for the week, owing to some recovery the latter part of the week. The recovery has been due. for the most part, to the covering of short contracts by the professional bears, who had put out short lines very freely last week and early this week. The motives attributed for some of this sell ing proved to be but noisy pretense, with. the purpose of precipitating further liqui dation, and when tnls became manifest the covering movement checked the de cline In prices and gave to the market the appearance of Ignoring the reaction ary factors which continued in force. Reports of railroad earnings show a level well above last year, still main tained. But the policy of conservatism In dividend disbursements now avowed by practically all railroad managers, pre vented this from having much effect on values. v Tho outlook In the iron trade la admit ted to be more favorable by conservative authorities, the Iron Age voicing the im pression that the "opinion Is gaining ground now that prices are down pretty close to a basis which will be considered fairly safe by consumers." This encour aging view of the iron market conditions is partly offset, by the approach of the wage-adjustment period, which has in It the possibility of widespread industrial unsettlement. Master From. Consignees. 16S3London 1836iHamburg 2062Japan 2037HonoluIu lTlSlShanghai 2009lShanhal 132) Balfour 1301 Meyer, W. 2058Hamburg 1776Shanghal 1900!Nagasaki 1708iShanghai 1914 Hong Kong 17E9Nngasnkl 2211 Shanghai 2516iShanghaI 1S02! Honolulu 1736Japan 2174 Hlogo 95SIHonolulu lDSeiCape Town 1467 Honolulu 1549lKIao Chou lGSliTstntau 111JE. Baker I IS) 20G3ISta. Rosalia 1535 Shanghai law 19631 1704 oKohama Sta. Rosalia Nagasaki Shanghai 1700 13401 1510 Sta. Rosalia) Klao Chou 2246fSta. Rosalia 1642 Honolulu !RS7lNaKasakl 1573IHamburg Meyer. W. Taylor 1779 Hamburg IGKlYokohama 2070Shanghal 2O70JGrlmsby lKw Liivernooi Balfour Taylor lS99Hong Kong 1925KIao Chou ll739JSantander irsiHonolulu 2259IShanKhal 1711'Nantes Taylor 1734 1 Nagasaki 1537!KIao Chou 2649 Hontr Konsr 23MISta. Rosalia 2220iAntwerp 1493iShanghal 1997IAcapulco 2169jShanchal Balfour IN THE RIVER. From. Agents or Berth. Charterers.. 1036ILlverpool 1670Tlntau 22S6 Nagasaki 18S6 Calcutta IRSStHloRO 1705MontevIdeo Epplnger Balfour Gas dock Astoria Astoria Elevator Astoria. Elevator Money McNear P. F. M. Co. P. F. M. CoJ P. F. M. Co Balfour 1318Antwerp ROUTE TO PUGET SOUND. Master. From. Consignees. 12193 1997 London Liverpool Hamburg Liverpool Shanghai Rotterdam IIS R. P. Rlthet 146j 63! I160S M.. W. & Co: M.VW."&Co. 19971 143) 1271 1397 103 - 17851 An twerp 86! 1 2962' Antwerp 1705Cardlff 1602 Hamburg 147lLondon 1916Liverpool 13571 An twerp 49 59: M.. W. & Co. 95 101 55 Robt, Ward Balfour SI 1S79 Japan 1127iLondon 1519Cardlff 55! 1409Cheefoo 20SOShanghal 1999 1 Hong Kong 22Al'Rtn. Rosalia il332Yokobama I 28 1115iCardIff H762.Shanphal 213Sta. Rosalia There is an element in Wall street which urges that the market is due for a rally, owing to the existence of a large shortage in wheat, which would be obliged to cover at any considerable ad vance In prices. This clement points to the fact that prices of many stocks have receded now below the level touched In the panic of last December and have therefore amply discounted the unfavora ble factors In the situation. An aggressive leadership, they argue, would precipitate a bear panic. But the bull leader has not come to the front. The continued dribbling of liquidation Into the market has shown cleanly enough that holders of stocks are Inclined to sell rather than to Increase their holdings. It Is almost the Invariable sequence of such a panic as that of last December that prices, after a violent rally on bear covering, during which those who bought to check the panic realize their profits, begin to drift slowly downward again to a point below the panic level. That phase was noticeable after the December panic, by successful bull ma nipulation, accompanied by confident pre dictions, sometimes with semi-official sanction, of liberal dividends on stocks hitherto not sharing in their Important profits or large Increase on existing divi dend rates. Some of the movements in prices thus secured are In large part still maintained, although the predicted divi dends have not been declared. The action of the Northern Pacific directors in re ducing the amount of dividend has led to the general adoption among railroad authorities of a similar conservative pol icy. Even where the Interest is made, as in the case of Atchison preferred, it has led to so much unfavorable criticism that the stock has failed to benefit in prices. The developments of the week In the wheat markets strengthened the con viction that there will be a shortage In the wheat crop, and uneasiness has In creased regarding the cotton crop. The effect of the Chinese situation on. the stock market has diminished to In significance. But the movement of mon ey markets and the semiannual settle ments to be made July 1 are a growing source of apprehension In security mar ket circles. Berlin has borrowed heavily on New York capital for some time past, and this has served to Increase surplus reserves of New York tanks by expand ing the reserve requirements. This week Germany has added to her demand for credits a call for bullion, to replenish her own bonking reserves In preparation for July 1. The Bank of France also con tinues to accumulate reserves and to re duce note issues and loans, as though In preparation for a storm. The result has been a stiffening of discounts in London and an advance of one penny an ounce of the Bank of England's price of gold bars and of American eagles. The large disbursements for pensions by the Sub treasury have tided over the situation in New York this week. But the bank3 have to meet next week a call for J5.000, 000 to be returned to the Treasury, and afterwards the demands Incident to prep aration for the July 1 interest and divi dend disbursements, with the prospect of a resumption of interior demand for funds to move the crops. The active spec ulation in wheat also makes additional demands for loans. Tbere is not much likelihood, however, of a pressure of Idle funds to stimulate a sluggish stock mar ket. The bond market has moved Irregularly towards a lower plane of prices. NEW YORK FINANCES. Bank Statement Shotts Loss of Three Millions In Cash. NEW YORK. June 23. The Financier aaya: As foreshadowed m tftta, analysis ost week, tho loan movement which has been on important and interesting fea ture of tSe New York bank statement for roroe weeks past has apparently cul minated. The loan Item for the six days Just ended remained practJccfily station ary, a slight advance of $25,900 contrasting with the average expansion of several millions weekly over the recent Spring season. The chief feature of the current statement, however, is the loss of $3,168, S00 in cash, wbich is also reflected in a decrease of $4,787,600 in deposits. It had been figured that the loss sustained by tho bonks on gold export requirements had boon practically counterbalanced by interior receipts, in fact, that the cash totals would show a gain, but the official statement, made on a system of averages, shows otherwise. Since May 26 last, the banks have in creased tholr cash holdings only nominally whilo loans have expanded $17,000,000. and in the deposits of $15,000,000. The rapid rise of the loan total Is generally interpreted to bo duo to investments in sterling ex change, and some estimates have placed tho total of such business at $100,000,000. It is onCy fair to say, however, that no cal culations on tWs point are to be re lied upon. The anomaly presented 'In New York witMn the last week, money lending on call at 1 per cent, white at the same time gold was being exported tcTEurope. can not be expected io continue much longer. Already there is more caution noted In the local market, and an Indisposition pre vails to make loans over to the end of the year. If the precedents of the past year are of value in forecasting the future, there will be a decline m tho loan totals of the banks shortly. This con tinued flow of money to New York; is at tracting attention at present, but domes tic exchange rates for oil banks are hardening at the more Important finan cial centers. The circulation of the banks Is now $23,333,180. and is growing., despite the light demand locally for funds. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease $1,071,900 Loans, Increased 25,000 Specie, decreased L99li900 Legal tenders, decreased 1,176,900 Deposits, decreased 4.787,600 Circulation, increased .'. 66,500 The banks now hold $15,526,550 hi excess of requirements of tho 25 per cent rule. Bank Clenriiism. The bank clearings for the principal cities of mo onnwcei ror tne week ending Saturday, June 23, were as follows: ,. . Portland. Seattle. Tacoma. 3ondar $ 249,097 $ 43S.M1 $ 172.115 Tuesday 301.711 476.524 153,010 TKedneedaj- .... 318.S54 517.121 174.383 Thursday 316.003 535.002 181,878 ?"da-y 201.041 305.782 1C5.110 Saturday 218.5C5 436.184 140.475 Totals $1,005,753 $2,S50,114 $1,000,077 The clearings for the correspondinu weeks in previous years were aa follows: 1Mn Portland. Seattle. Tacoma. JS2 $1,620,150 $1,728,330 $791,637 J 1,320.109 1.10I.S07 040.001 189 1.000,917 402.507 422,003 The clearings yesterday were a fellows: Kxchancea. Balances. rortland $210,565 $ 07.588 " HU.-iiD ZT.312 a"le 41.184 131.265 Spokane 107.432 59.704 Imports and Exports. . NEW YORK, June 23. Tho imports of specie at tho port of New York for the week amounted to $20,990 In gold, and $14. 067 in silver. Tho exports of specie from the port of Now York for tho week amounted to $4, 251,783 In gold, and $1,035,870 In silver. Dally Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON, June 23. Today's state ment of the Treasury balances In the gen eral fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve In the division of redemption, shows: Available cash balances $149,S00,2SS GoM 67,964.441 Money, Exchange, Etc. SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. Sterling on London, 60 days, $4 5. Sterling on London, sight, $4 S7. Drafts, sight. 10c. Mexican doi'nrs, 4S1y49. Telegraph, 12&C DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Rcnl Estate Transfer. Joseph Hooper to W. T. Jacobson. lots 21. 22. 23. block 22. Mount Ta bor Villa: .June 23 $ 5 Minnie C. Dammeler and husband to Grace Method!st Episcopal Church, 60x100 Taylor and Thirteenth streets; June 23 6000 Chtrlstlna Haskell and H. Haskell to T. T. Burkhart. lots 7. S. 9 and 10, section 16, T. 1 S.. R. 6 E., contain ing 140 acres; June 19 1 Carrie M. West and husband to Ella Boyson and Blrgcr Boyson, lot 4. block 4, Park View; June 9 100 Fred Metzger and wife to Howitt Bros., lots 7 and 8. block 1. Roberts' addition to Gresham; also parcel land, siectlon 15, T. 1 S., R. 3 E.; January 29 325 P. H. Marlay to Terrace Heights Real Estate Co., lot 3. block 6, Seventh Street Terrace; June 22 1 Annie Mafctern et oL to William Mc Klbben. E. 35 feet, lot 7, block 3, Goldsmith's addition; June 21 1 Deaths. June 21, Martin Homesson, age 45 years, St. VlncentTs Hospital, peritonitis. Jut 20. Walter Macmlllan, age 47 years, PortkirAl' Hofel, pneumonia. June 22, Wlllard Woodcock, age 78 years. Good Samaritan Hospital, old age. Juno 21, Mabel A. Hammond, age 18 years, 234 Gibbs street, meningitis. June 20, Oscar Skinner, age 68 years, 3ES Thirteenth street, mitral insufficiency. Contagions Diseases. Child of B. A. Wise, age 4 years. 313 Tlllaimcok street, diphtheria. Ambrose Redmond, pestihouse, smallpox. Marriage Licenses. John W. Gorman, aged 32. Clatsop County, and Mrs. Emma Marks, 30; Sum mere! John, Jr., 21. and Myrtle Roberts, 17; J. H. Leach, 22, and- Dora B. Lambert, Goes to Union. A. C Strange, who has been the prin cipal of the South Mount Tabor School for the past year, has accepted the same position with the Union, Eastern Ore gon, School. This is one of the import ant schools of Union County. Mr. Strange Is a teacher of much experience, having taught at Oregon City and other places Mr. Bender, who has been principal of the Lents School for the past year, will also go with Mr. Strange. He will have charge of a room In the same building at Union. He s a young man. but has had experience in the public schools. I ALPHA'S ARCTIC VOYAGE ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE TRIPS ON RECORD. Passengers and Crew Repeatedly Face to Face Witk Deatb An chored to -Ice Floes. The recent trip of the steamer Alpha to Cape Nome was one of the most re markable on record. Eliminating from the question the legality or illegality of the steamer's action In landing at Nome, and the fact remains that never before on the Pacific Coast has there been such a daring exhibition of nerve and seamanship as was shown by Captain Otto- Buckholtz, of the Alpha. The Victoria Cokxrist prints the following interesting account of the voyage after leaving Dutch Har bor tho second time: "On May 13, after mooring to tho pack, waiting and watching the miles and miles of Ice. the lookout in the crow's nest on the foremast hod given the welcomo news that there was a lead. Captain Buckholtz followed the open water with iris glasses as far as the eye could eee, as ho had on many a previous occasion on the trip, when the steamer and pas sengers would have been risked had he made a miscalculation. Tho lead seemed open, and the bell on tho bridge tinkled. The waiting engineers heard the signal and the machinery ngain began to move. "The steamer slowly steamed down tho river between the great territories of ice. On she went until, as night began to fall, the channel was noticed to be get iing perceptibly smaller. It was but 60 or 70 feet across when the ice was dropped. Captain Buckholta who has not only his sealing experience, but hi3 aforetime whaling training thought tho packs were of field tee, and reasoned that the steamer was perfectly safe. "At 1:30 A. M., though, there was a cry. and Captain Buckholtz was awakened from his short sleeji. The lcowas mov ing. As he rushed on deck in the dim half light of the Arctic moon, he saw that the unlocked for danger had come. The ice was sliding forward, and, to tfie con sternation of all. It was seen to be com ing together behind. The far-away rumb ling soon became a roar. Something had to be done, and done quickly, to save tho steamer and the lives of tho 175v pas sengers who were peacefully sleeping, all unconscious of the danger. " Tdr. Vey,' shouted Captain Buck holta. down the tube to tho engine-room, 'crowd on all tho steam you've got.' "The grimy coalpassers, perspiring, al though the ley water was chilling the now brittle Iron plates until the steamer was like a refrigerator, threw fuel into the furnaces. Steam pressure grew high er, as the engines turned over and the propellor swirled faster and faster. "It was a race such as seldom has been witnessed a race against death, and in an awful form, "..'ho steamer won. though, and the reaper threw down his sickle, but the distance was narrow. As the steamer was making the last few hundred feet her sides all but grazed the Ice. She was free, though and when the breakfast bell Tang the passengers assembled, some to complain of the tedium, of the voyage, and all ignorant of their encounter with the dangers of a fow hours before. "This is but one of the many Instances of the adventures of the Alpha in the ice pack. There were many other incidents and some as equally trying to the nerves. "Tho whole passage was spent In skirt ing the torn berg edges, and when the open leads of free water were observed, plunging Into those which seemed to offer a favorable chance to work northward. To detail the eventful passage, tho steamer left Victoria on April 6, Vancouver a day later, and Union on the 8th a month be fore any of the American steamers sailed. iThe voyage to Dutch Harbor was devoid or interest, but there was enough interest from then on to make up for that. The Ice pack was first encountered on April 24 in 56 north. 167 went. The Ice bHnk shone above It. and was visible long before the great Arctic floe was seen. The barrier was met with, but Captain Buckholtz, in the hope that the warmer currents might havo cut a way through, skirted along the Jagged territory of crystals. At times he would be lying under the lee of a monster mountain of ice. then all that barred the way would be a vast acreage of half- sunken Ice. The bllnk-os sailors call the reflection of the sun's rays from the ice was almost blinding in its brilliance, and the whole scene was one of grandeur totally unappreciated by the Nome-bound gold-seekers. "That night a big southeast gale raged, and the beauties of Nature were still less appreciated. "On the 23th. St. George, the lower of the Seal Islands, was sighted. It was set in a continent of Ice and unapproachable. Large quantities of detached Ice were also visible. The weather was fine, but cold, and the steamer was surrounded by drift ice. She steamed out of the pack into the free water and followed the south limit of the ice. Next day the 27th nho was still following the ice; the fol lowing day, too, the ice was skirted, the llSth meridian being then crossed. The 27th, too, she followed the face of the great floe, and at 1:20 P. M. on the SOtly the sea of old Admiral Behring had been all but crossed the steamer was within 22 miles of the coast of Siberia, and yet no open channel that was safe to follow was seen. The -gold fields were behind a bar rier of heavy field ice that the Russian steamer Ermak would have found hard work to break. "The water tanks were running low, and the ice forbade a further northward move ment, so the steamer headed back to Dutch Harbor. She followed the face of the ice, and when passing St. George, on May 5, she saw tho whaler Korluk fast In the ico to the north of the island of the seal rookeries. On the 7th the steam er returned to Dutch Harbor, where the Hero was seen and a mail dispatched. Mr. Stadthagen. having had enough of the ice, returned by the Hero. Two days were spent In filling the Alpha's tanks and re plenishing her bunkers, and then she again went out to find a way through the ice. A channel was found to the northeast of St. George, and into It the Alpha poked her brow. The cold was Intense, and soon tho steamer was covered with Ice, her masts, rigging, smokestacks, decks, rails, her all, in fact, were sheeted. For some days the cold blast continued, but the way remained clear and the steamer stood for Nunlvak Island. At the northeast of the Island the sol!d pack was encountered, and two miles to the northeast of Nunl vak Island the steamer had to anchor. She could go no further. The night was spent at anchor before the floe, and next morning the steamer V I! life YOUNG MEN troubled with nlht amissions, dream trhgnritn. ji t..v. fulneeo. aversion to society, which deprive you of your manhood unfit yott FOR BUSINESS OR MARRIAGE. ' UK1T you .MIDDLE-AGED MEN who from excesses and strains have lost their MANLY DRUGS. Catarrh and Rheumatism CURED. .. xtjj.t uuo Dr. Walker's methods are regular and scientific. He uses no patent nostrums or ready-made preparations, but cures the disease by thorough medical treatment! His New Pamphlet on Private Diseases sent Free to all men who oeBcrTb their troubles. PATIENTS cured at home. Terms reasonable. AH tetters' T araweVcd 1 to plain envelope Consultation free and sacredly confidential. CaH on or addreM Doctor WwlScer, 1SS First St Corner Alder. Portland, Or. stood -to the northward, where & passage had offered. It lead through Cook's Strait, and It was as she was making tho last part of the voyage through this chan nel, which was full of detached ice, that the hair-raising adventure above de scribedher narrowest of narrow es capesoccurred. Gradually the ice closed In behind her. and had it not been for the resistance of the high promon tortes of Ice. which crushed slowly, and the crookedness of the channel, the en gines would have never driven her fast enough to escape being crushed. The steamer, however, forced her way through Into the free water and was soon off Cape Vancouver. On May 13 Cane RomaTmrr mo ... V "Vl? a:am the fc Pk was fallen in with! . uaj me steamer steamed along the ICC. lOOkimr for 9n rTVnno ,. -i-v... .saw her but 25 miles nearer Nome. Next . a"e fCOinterea tne whaler Jean nette, heW, in the ice. The Alpha, though, was clear of the pack and pushed slow ly on. but on the following day she. too. was surrounded bv h t,, 1 -TTTJ nsade fast to the floe. It was 2 A. M on the 18th- before the steamer was out of the pack. She saw the whalers Jeanle and Alexandria, whloh reached iSome two days before her, in the ice as she cleared it. Aiway to the eastward there seemed to .fl,?, mmer,ng chann of green in the scintillating Ice. and to the eastward the steamer bore. Again the Impassable ice Intervened and her lines were made fast to a berg. At noon aha steamed 16 miles north, but tho heavy fields of the eternal Ico began to close in, and she had to wing back southward to the open All day (May 20 and 21 she remained ? iS.00-1, to,the pack' and noon on tho 22d a lead was sighted, and the steamer bore westward to St. Lawrence Island, Norton Sound being Impassable The whaler Jeanette was. seen just, south of the Island. Around St. Lawrence island there was a heavy field of ice the pack being the-heaflrfest -to the eastward. The passage around the isJand was, how ever, comploted on the 23d. and on tho 24th the Queen's birthday the steamer was soiling through an open sea with all coloraflying. and with, her passengers cheering. The -way was now seemingly dear. That night, though, more ice was mot, and bergs fl-fty feet high or more were seen. It wa useless to think of then getting teto St. Michael, so onco more the steamer bore to the westward and at 9 A. iM. high land was sighted to the northeast. Hero, then, was Nome and next morning tho Mecca of the ar gonauts was reached. The passengers tost bo time tn getting ashore they would not stop for red tape and the cargo was lightwred la the rain.' After five days et tho diggings the steamer turned to again, find a passage through the ice. with five Nome miners and their treasure on board. St- Law nco Island was rounded and there was no ice, but to the eastward the tell-tale blink was seen. A passage was found to the eastward, though, and the steamer steamed south. It was then that another trying encoun ter with the pack occurred. Captain Buckhote bad sighted a lead bearing down toward Hall Island the most northerly of the Prlbylofrs-and into it the Alpha ran. It was. however, a bltnd lead, and for four long, watchful days the steamer was fast, without an outlet before or behind. All efforts to extricate the iron vessel were unavailing, until at length, after four days' imprisonment, a lead was found to the eastward, and the steamer was soon anchored in free water. A heavy gal blew next day, and tha steamer remained at anchor. She was obliged, however, to weigh her anchor frequently, or. one of the swiftly pro pelled masses of Ice which sailed before the gale might have struck her too-brittle plates. On the 7th she got oat of the Ice again, and on the 9th steamed through Unimak Pass. Three schooners one being the J. M. McNeil, of San Francisco werp seen, and a steamer bound up, before she went through the pass. From thence to Union and Vancouver "wo plain sailing, or rath er steaming. VALUE OF A PULL. Method of Procedure In Selling Gold Bricks to Uncle Sam. Few maritime transactions are more in teresting than the story of the yacht En quirer, says the New York Journal of Commerce. She is said to have been bought by Mr. Connors' for $45,CO0. The Government being m great need of steam vessels a couple of years ago, it occurred to Mr. Connors to try to get $100,000 from It for her. The Government paid JSO.OOO. Mr. Connors is said to have got '$60,000. Of the remaining $20,000 Mr. Hazel says he got $5000 for effecting the sale, and he declined to- say where the rest went or for what. After a few months tho yacht was transferred from the Navy De partment to the War Department for $20, 000. Rarely does a piece of property un dergo such sudden changes of value, . Mr. Hazel, who got one-quarter of the com mission said to have been paid, is not a ship broker, but a useful man in pol itics, and has been nominated to be United States District Judge on the ground that he la a learned lawyer. Mr. Connors testi fied In court that he selected -Mr. Hazel as his agent because he was a politician. "I wanted to sell the boat," he said, "and I sent for Hazel, and I said, 'John, I think you've, got a pull enough to, sell that boat. If ""you can sell that boat for $100,000 I will give you $5000 out of It.' " Mr. Hazel's pull was not quite equal to that price, but he effected the sole and got the $5000. POOR TUGBOAT SERVICE. Queen Elizabeth. Delayed Four Days on Puget Sonnd. The increaseil shipping on Puget Sound demands an Increase of tugboats, says the Port Townsend Leader. The big ship Queen Elizabeth was delayed here for four days on account of 'being unable to secure the services of a tugboat to take her to sea. After waiting for that length of time for one of the Puget Sound Tow boat Company's tugs, and not seeing any immediate prospect of securing one. she was towed to sea last evening by the tug Boyden, which happened to come along. The number of vessels arriving and de parting from Puget Sound demands an increase of towboats to keep vessels mov ing. The addition of the new boat, tho Tatoosh, to the fleet will help to relieve the situation, but It Is self-evident that more boats are needed, as vetBols during the present high rates of freight cannot afford to wait several days for a tug. Reinsurance Advancing. SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. Reinsur ance on the overdue schooner Americano, loaded with nitre, and bound from Iqui quo for this port, has been advanced to 40 per cent. TWENTY- YEARS OF SUCCESS In the treatment of chronic diseases, such as Hver, kidney and stomach disorders, constipation, diarrhoea, dropsical swellings. Bright "a disease, etc. KIDNEY AND URINARY Complaints, painful, difficult, too frequent, milky r bloody urine, unnatural discbarges, Bpeedily cured. DISEASES OF THE RECTUM , Such as piles, fistula, fissure, ulceration, mucous and bloody discharges, cured without the, knife naln or confinement. DISEASES OF MEN . Blood poison, gleet, stricture, unnatural losses lm potency, thoroughly cured. No failures. 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