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apritj i4. 1913. ; ; 1 THE STTXDAY OREGON! AX, PORTLAND, LING CUP GIVEN . PIONEER, AGED 70 Clerical Force Presided Over by Major Mclndoe Honor John F. Merrill." RECIPIENT STILL YOUNG Gift Is Tokrn of Friendship Made Pitrlnir 25 Vcars' Scrrlce In One Office Resident of Port land In 18S8. John F. Merrill, of the cleric! force presided over by Major Mclndoe, Corps of Hnslneers, V. f. A, l 70 year, of ago today, and when he ceaed hl weekly labor yesterday there wii not a more spry member of the staff, al though some have beardless faces, and all because he had been presented with a loving cup as a token of the friend ships he had made In IS years in the one office, and of almost continuous service with the government since the Civil War The lovlnjc cup was the Rift of the engineer department and a few of the pioneer attaches In the lighthouse of fice, who worked with Mr. Merrill long before I'ncle am consented to erect the handsome Custom House that la maintained today. The presentation took place at 1 o clock yesterday after noon as most of the force were about to depart for home. Assuming that the request for him to step Into the main office was to answer some tech nical question. Mr. Merrill was startled to find himself in the center of his colleagues and being handed the cup. Realdeat Prtla la IW Mr. Merrill came to Portland In 1S, and was attached to the office of Gen eral Canby. who made this city his headquarters while In charge of mili tary affairs in the Northwest. He de parted for San Francisco In 171. to enter the Adjutant-General's depart ment and later went to Arisona In the Quartermater"e department. Before quitting Artiona he was assigned to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and stationed on the San Carlos Reservation. He will have been in the Portland office of the Corps of Engineers 25 years In August. Ills active service In the Army covered a period of two years as a member of Battery B. Thirteenth New York Vol unteer Artillery, which was later con solidated with the Sixth Artillery from the same state, but Mr. M-rrlll was de tailed on headquarters duty at Norfolk, V'a., most of the time. Merrill Kriea m ColdwelL Mr. Merrill was a close friend of E. L Coldwell. better known as Jerry Coldwrll. who was one of the most widely-known newspapermen of Port land during his life. A teamster visit ing the Government office one day. said that Mr." Merrill resembled Ills brother Jerry, and the latter was given the appellation by his fellow clerks. Though Mr. Coldwell was called Jerry until the time of his death, there were few who knew how he fell heir to the name. Mr. Merrill is the father or Arthur Merrill, clerk In the office of Cnlted States 'inspectors Kd wards and Fuller. The son was born at San Francisco, but Mr. Merrill. Sr.. came to the l'nlt-4 States from F.ngland when 1 years old, and from the time of the war has served In Government branches emcept for a short time during the lirst days of Tombstone. Arts., where he con ducted a hotel. Ing 6 centa also. On flour the rate has been raised from $4 to 4.5. but to San Francisco and San Pedro the for mer tariff applies. It Is expected that steam schooner owner will agree to raise their rates between Coast porta on general cargo. ADELAIDE TAKEN" IXIl WHEAT J Government Coal Ships Will Be ' Available for Grain Loading. Further evidence that owners of for eign sailing vessels will hold them at higher rates for new crop loading Is given In the engagement of the German bark Adelaide, which has been ,ixed at 10 shillings to load grain in the I91J-1J season. She is at Hamburg, working general cargo for the Ha waiian Islands. mtmmru mi v hi. available for grain engagements during the coming reason, as the Government is reported to be considering the chartering of at lesst six additional foreign bottoms to load coal on the Atlantic sldj for Mare Island and Bremerton. They will, no doubt, be snapped up by cereal export ers if the windjammers are scare or freights held high. One of the latest lumber fixtures recorded is that of the barkentlne En- BOYEK CHIEF OX ROSE CITY Engineer Morris Coe to Hawaiian Liner Wlllielmina. A D. Bnyer. who was chief engineer on the steamer Kansas City, has been transferred to the same berth on the steamer Rose City, which arrived early vesterday from San Francisco. J. B. Morris, former chief of the Hose City's engine room, resigned at San Francisco to enter the service of the Matson Nav. Igatlon Company, and was assigned to the steamer Wllhelmlna. operating to Honolulu, as first assistant engineer. Martin Nagel. who was chief engineer on Government transports, has been given the billet on the Kansas City. The alow time of the Rose City from San Francisco was due to stiff head winds and a heavy sea. which continued from Cape Blanco to the Columbia Rlv. er llghtvessel. She did not reach the llghtvessel until about 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, though she should have been there at aayllgbt under ordinary con ditions. It was after 2 o'clock yester day morning when she berthed at Alns worth dock. She will sail on time Wednesday morning. IVDIEX LOADS FOR ORIENT Eat Asiatic Company Sends First Vessel Across Pacific. It was reported in exporting circles yesterday that the Imnish steamer In (tltn. the first of the East Asiatic Steamship Company's vessels to reach tho Coast in the new service being es tablished from Europe to Portland and other harbors, has been chartered by Podwell Company to load flour and cotton at Tacoma for the Orient. The company Is to operate bv wsy of the Straits of Magellan until the Pana ma Canal is opened, as is being- done by the Harrlman line, and it .s said new vessels have been contra .-ted for to be placed In service by that time, which will be equipped with Diesel en gines, as the gss-propelled types are expected to prove popular with owners In a few years. Tests have been suc cessfully made with them on the At lantic side. . The Indlen will be fol lowed by the steamer Glfford. which will have the first consignment 't Portland cargo In that service. COAST RATES ARE ADVANCED Change-. Go Into Effect Tomorrow From Portland to California. Acents of the San Francisco A Port land and the North Pacific steamship lines are preparing to enforce a new tariff that beeomee effective tomorrow, through which rates on flour, feed and whrat are Increased from Portland to California ports. It Is said that rates have be-n Increased by lines operating from Pucet Sound south and that move Km largely responsible for the step bring taken bv the Portland fleets. The wheat rate to San Francisco re mains at I2.3S a ton. bat to San Pedro It Is I1.7S. an Increase of 2S cents, and to San IMego it is t-LIO. a raise of SO cents. The rate on feed ha been In creased from 3.i0 to SI to San Fran cisco and to San Pedro It la 14. SO. an advance of S centa To San I 'lego It Is li. the advance to that harbor be- ITXaaER ITT. tXJ G CM. Da to Arrive, its- From. rsta Rsse City Sn Pedre..-. 'n Alliance Kuresa J" P Pu H. Elmors. Tlllsmook In PrJ Breakwater Cooe Far..... VTU J Boenoks Sn 11 Iinui City... San Pedre.... April J? Krivw Pan Pedro. ...April 1J Falcon Jin FYaaelsc Apr ' Dm W. Eldsr. .Sn Dice Apr I .- Bear San Pedro April 11 caeeole ta Depart. Vae. For. Det Alliance Forake April 15 Cue H. Elmore. Tillamook.... April It Farrard 9. f.lwUA April lT Breakwater... .Coos Bsy prl!. !J Roanoks Ban Dlece..., April IT Roh City. .....Ran Pelro. ... April I; Falcon ear. Francises April 31 Kansas City. ..Baa Pedro. ... April 3 Braver Ssn Plre April 22 na. W. Elder. .Kn Di April 2 Bear. ......... Ban Pad re.... April 27 I Alllanre, from Coos Bay and Eureka; l steamer Geo. Loomla. from Pan Francisco: ' steamer Uraywood. from Han Francisco. A tori. April 13. Sailed at A. M.. I British steamer Inverklp. for Adelaide, via Tacoma Arrived at and left up at 8:lo A. M. Steamer Alliance, from Eureka ana Coos Bay. Arrived at B and left up at S:10 A. M. Htsamer Geo. Loomls. from San Francisco. Sailed, at 7 A. M. -Ship Ber lin, for Nushssak: at T:SO A. M.. schooner Alvens. for fan Pedro. Arrived at 8 and left up at lOiHO A. M. Steamer Graywood. from Pan Francisco. Sailed at S:0 A. M. Steamer F. H. Lessett. with schooner Meteor In tow. for HaJboa. Arrived at 4 p. M Steamer Elmore, from Tillamook. Pan Francisco. April IT Arrived I al 3 A. r Steamer Falcon, from Portland. Coos Bay. April 1.1. Sailed Steamer Breakirater. for Portland. ... . . San Francisco. April 12. Arrived at 4 p. M. Steamer Dai.y Oadsby, from Port land. Sailed at 11 P. M. wteamer Klamath; at midnight, steamer Carlos, for Portland. San Pedro, April 12. Arrived Steamer Beaver, from Portland. Sailed Steamers Northland and losemlte. for Portland, via San Francisco. ... . , Monterev. April lx. Sailed at T P. M. Steamer W. a Porter, for Portland. Limerick. April 1 1. Arrived German bark Hans, from Portland Astoria. April li Sailed st 8 P. M. Steamer Johan Poulsen. for San Francisco. San Francisco. April 13- Arrived Steamers Falcon, from Portland; Temple E. Dorr, from Grays Harbor. Salloil Steamers President. for 8eattle San Juan. for Ancon; Seminole. for Moro ran; Standard, for Bristol Bay: ship In diana, for Bri.tol Bay; bark Star of Chile, for Bristol Bay. , .Seattle. April 13. Arrived Steamers Humboldt and Spokane, from Skagway; U. 8. Survey steamer Explorer, from Fori Wins low: schooner Alkl. from Tacoma: Montara. Umatilla, from San Francisco. balled Steamers Atlas and barge OS. for San Fran cisco; steamer Lucerie. for Yokohama. Tides at Astoria Sunday. 1 1 w ti'. . Low Water. 1.4 ti. core, which W. R. Grace & Company will load for the West Coast with the option of loading at Portland. Orays Harbor or Puget Sound, also that In stead of going to Valparaiso she may he dispatched to either Uuaymas or the Hawaiian Islands. W. S. SMALL WOOD LEAVES LINE Manager of Open River Fleet to Enter Other Field. V. S. Smallwood. who has retained the position of general manager of the Open River Transportation Com pany for over a year and has had much to do with rate making In the com petition that has been waged along the I'pper Columbia with rail lines, has tendered his resignation and will leave the service Way 1. Mr. Smallwood was traffic manager of the transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce previous t6 Join ing the river line and has been Identl ned with many public matters concern ing tariffs that have come before that body. Recently Captain Buchsnan re signed as superintendent of the Open River fleet and the duties of that de partment were also shouldered by Mr. Smallwood. The latter says he has not decided what he will follow In the fu ture, but for a few months will rest. TAHOMA OX THE DALLES RCN Monarch Transportation Company Gets Salmon-Street Dock. It was officially announced yester day that the steamer Tahoma would be placed In service at once between Portland and The nallea. leaving here Monday. Wednesday and Saturday, lay ing over at Portland Friday, and de parting from The Dalles alternate days. The steamer will carry passengers at SO cents. Instead of Jl as is charged by the other lines. Arrangements have been made for her to berth at the Salmon-street dock, which has been leased by the Monarch Transportation Company, and Charles Steelsmltb will act as agent for the Tahoma. The steamer Monarch will use the dock when in the harbor. Breakwater Makes Fast Ran. With her apeed Increased fully one mile per hour as the result of a new wheel having been Installed on the steamer Breakwater, while she was on th drydock here last week, she made the run from Portland to Marshfleld In !3 hours. This is the record run be tween the two ports, and Captain Mc ienn wired The Oregonlan last night from Marshfleld that the results ob tained from tl re-w wheel are not only satisfactory, but that he expected latr that thla and the northern-trip records will be beaten when conditions are favorable. Marine Xotcx. Repairs on the tug Oneonta have been finished, so she Is to start for Astoria at o'clock this morning. In tow of the steamer Co klahama. the British ship Kirkcudbrightshire is to leave the harbor early 'today, bound for Weatport to load lumber, Wheat assembled for the French bark Pierre iti at Montgomery dock No. was loaded yeaterday and she will start another lot tomorrow morning at Oceanic dock. Because of the shortage of tonnage on the coast for lumber the barges Wallacut. Washougal and Wsshtucna are to be pressed Into service between Grays Harbor and San Francisco. To have repairs made to her shaft, the steamer Sue H. Elmore, of the Klmore fleet, which entered the river yesterday afternoon from Tillamook, is to be lifted on the Oregon drydock this morning. To load lumber for San Francisco, the steamer St. Helens will proceed from Portland to St. Helena. The steamer Yellowstone, which Is working cargo at the latter point. Is to steaun to the lower harbor tonight. Her hull repainted and the Iron sheathing replaced where needed, the Shaver steamer Wauna was launched from the ways of the Portland Ship building Company yesterday and was towed to the Shaver yards, where her overhauling is to be completed. Bound for Nushsgak. the ship Ber lin left the river yesterday and the levl U. Burgess was reported aa hav ing gone to sea Friday, but in the afternoon a report front Astoria waa that both vessels were sighted off North Head, the wind apparently not being favorable. The ship St. Francis, also of the Alaska salmon fleet, drorped Into the lower harbor and probably will get away today. In a wlrelsss message rerelved yes terday from. the, new McCormlck steamer Willamette, which was bound from San - Francisco for Puget Sound, it was reported that she had lost one blade from her propeller and it was thought for a time that she would put Into Portland to be Ifted on drydock. but she may continue to the northern harbor. 10:17 A. M 7 4 ft. 5:01 A. M 11:2;! P. M S I fl.0:10 P- M Columbia River Uar Report. Condition at the mouth of the" river st 5 p. m. Weather, clear; wind, northwest, 12 miles; sea, smooth. THREATSCAREWOMAN KATE JOXAS DECLARES SHE WAS DRIVEN FROM TOWN. Evidence Shows Efforts Mnde to Prevent Her From Appearing as Witness Against Strlcklnnd. On the witness stand In Municipal Court yesterday. Kate Jonas repeated her charges that virtually she had been driven out of town in an effort to pre vent her from testifying against Carl Strickland, alleged parasite, arrested on her complaint. Attorney Campbell, who conducted the cross-exur.ilnaUon, asked her whether she had accused him of a share in the conspiracy, and she re plied that when he warned her she had better drop the case, she consid ered Ills' words. coupled with the threats of the Strickland family, an In tlmatton that she would sufTer If she did not accede. It was shown by the testimony of the witness that every sort of negotia tion had been pursued to keep her from the witness stand. She had been sum moned to the Strickland home, advised by their attorney to drop the case, and had been threatened with a term In the penitentiary by friends of the defendant. After several days she fled to Van couver. With, whence she was brought back by the police. On the witness stand she showed the effects of the pressure that had been brought to bear upon her. and was extremely ner vous as she gave her testimony. The case for the city established that the witness was an Immoral woman and that Strickland had taken her money, knowing how it had'beeu ob tained. Kvidenre for the defense will be heard Monday. A THOROUGHBRED HORSE A Paeion for Veiling and the Munching of Carroll. John Galsworthy In the Patrician. In a large loose box at the end of the north wing. Barbaras favorite chestnut hunter, all but one saving sixteenth of whom had been entered In the stud book, having heard her footstep, was standing quite still with his neck turned. He had been crump ing up an apple placed amongst his feed, and his senses struggled between the lingering flavor of that delacy and the perception of a sound with which he connected carrots. V, hen she unlatched his door and said Hal. he at once went toward his manger, to show his Independence, but when she saw- "Oh! very well!" he turned round and came toward her. His eyes, which were full snd of a -oft brilliancy un der thick chestnut lashes, explored her ,11 over. Perceiving that her carrots were not in front, be elongated his neck, let his nose stray round her waist and gave her g.untletted hand a nip with his lips. Xot tasting earrot, he withdrew his nose and snuffled. Then stepping carefully so as not to tread on bar foot, he bunted her gent lwlth his shoulder, till, with , quick maneuver, he got behind her and breathed low and long on her neck. Kven this did not smell of carrots, and putting his muxle over her shoulder Sgllnst her cheek, he lbbered a very little A carrot appeared about the eve" of he" waist and head over, he tried to reach it. Feel ing It all firm snd soft under his chin, he snuffled again, and gave her a gen 1?. d"g with hi. knee. But .till unabU to reach the carrot, be threw his head p withdrew and pretended not to see her And suddenly he felt two long substances round his neck, and some- SPECIAL EXCllRJICfl rpinjACfrnoiic LDVK 1-' if AUB 5TJ. 1P-M75? Movements of Teasels. PiRTI.IM April 13 Arrived Steamer feus.lt. ilmore, from Zlllamook; steamer DIABETES the only hop .fflleted h. been to prolong their years by r,,t -lletln,. 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We say that a Ten-Acre Tract Down at Columbia Acres Will Eventually Make You Independent And we believe that we have just the best, most substantial kind of a proposition for the homeseeker; for the man who j j nd day out oives his time and effort for a salary that means mere existence for himself and those dependent on him. JVe.y that COLUMBIA AGKhb SJ! even "adjutage anraciHty essential to the'suecessful farm and orchard home-good roads .fertile soil, ideal location, finest wX abundance ot fuThooI, rural free mail delivery and, last, but not least, intelligent neighbors. It s an investment within your means and onS that ,s worthy of now and not later, for tracts are fast being taken ,up here. Prices were never so low and Wins Ivllf iVonl on Lnd of such fertility as COLUMBIA ACRES. You can investigate in a single day-make an appointment with us. ote the rriees ana lnsiaiimeiiia uj. mcac i.u-i a . 10-ACRE TRACTS At $400 the Tract $40 Down and $10 Monthly 10-ACRE TRACTS At $500 the Tract $50 Down and $12 Monthly 10-ACRE TRACTS At $600 the Tract $60 Down and $15 Monthly Office Open Evenings Mondays and Thursdays Cut This Out, Sign and Mail to Us Today T. B. HOLBROOK CO.. PORTLAND, OR. Please send tract map, prices, and literature pertaining to Columbia Acres. Name Address F. B. HOLBROOK CO. 214 LUMBER EXCHANGE BLDG. SECOND AND STARK STREETS A 7507 ' 1 Main 5396 Phones II ' . . thin soft against his nose. He suf fered this In silence, laying his- ears back. The softness began pufflinsr on his muzzle. Pricking his ears axain, ho puffed back a little harder, with more curiosity, and the softness was withdrawn. He perceived suddenly that he had a carrot in his mouth. CUBIST PAINTINGS FEW One Independent Salon Artist Near ly Creates Jllot at Kxhlbtt. PAHIS. April IS. (Special.) itany of the brave people who tried to Ket Into the private view of the Independ ent Salon had to give up the attempt, but they wore rewarded all the same. Those who fought their way Into the how found only a few Cubist paint ings and sculptures to amuse them among the 3000 or 4000 exhibits, and we all know that by now the Futurists have killed the Cubists. Those who never managed to pass the threshold enjoyed an outdoor en tertainment. One painter had not suc ceeded In getting hung at the Inde pendent Salon, although the latter boasts of having no Jury of any kind. The only reason why his works were not admitted was a practical one. He did not believe the reason given, and in Indignation at the" treatment dealt out to him put his pictures on a cart and gave a sort of moving exhibition of them across Paris. He eventually halted outside the tents where the in dependent Salon Is accommodated, and called upon the public to come and judge for itself what Injustice be had suffered. On the cart the public saw three canvasses, two' on one side and one on the other. On the right was -Abundance and Joy." a couple of vintners kissing among the vines, and "Money Begets Crime," a scarlet wom an stabbing a financier on the steps of the stock exchange. On the other side a large peasant woman was washing clothes in a field strewn with skele tons, skulls and torn standards, and by Tier a boy was rending the French flag. The picture was called "The End of the Nations." The works of art were so terrifying that almost a riot ensued round them, and at last the police, for his own safetv. had to remove the painter in custody." He was released with his cart and pictures a couple of hours after ward. His pictures are no worse than the average exhibit within the Inde pendent Salon. His Chronic Patient. Judge. Dr. New Did you try hypnotic sug gestion on old Gotrox. as I advisedV Dr. Old I did. Told him his illness was all Imaginary that he'd never been ill In his life. Dr. New How did It work? Dr. Old The old fool believed It all. Now he refuses to pay my bill, and threatens to sue me for obtaining his money by fraud for years past. And I've lost my best chronic patient. Pow ders and pills for me after this." Real Libraries. Margaret Lynn, in the Atlantic. Of all libraries the most satisfying and the most lovable is not that ob tained out of band by one man in one period, but that which Is made up of the accretions of years, and even of generations. A real library can hardly be got by any man in one life: it takes the successive tastes of grand father and father and son, with possi bly the happy Inheritance of books chosen by eiollateral members of the family. Sucli a library is full of sur- prises and biy-paths. and even of sug gestlve grapsi that stimulate desire. 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Call on C. W. Stinger, City Ticket Agent, for reservations, further information, or write to JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.