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THE OREGON 784 Subscribers la Columbia County. BKHT rm VJU UUlUVaVUi M., T1IK- Leadlng Paper of Colnsibl& Count j. IdTertlsin. Medlnm in Colnibli Co. VOL. 8. ST. HELENS, OBEGON, FRIDAY, DECEMUEH 4, 1801. NO. 49. fWnbtinn M THE OlttfdON MIST. IHHKKII KV.HY rlUMAlf HOllNINO J, R. BEEGLE, Publisher. The County Official Papor. ' aularl Ion lUlss. (i... ..... mi. v.ar In advenes......... II '0 (luaonnr in Hioula ,....,.... ... Hint !;" AdTrtUli lUlaa. Pmfi'nalaoat earila nun rtar..... On. eulnmit on. year,.,.,.. ' lllf uohiinu tin. Jrsar ....... U'l.rlor column ns. y.sr .... On. Innh on. month........ (in. Iti"h Hi Ik. uiiinlli. On. Iiii'b til mouth....... .. fl'i m IrfMinl nnllo, incut. rr Una for Brit lilwr- lloiii Hlotnu par ilii. lur . u uwiu.u m l.il arlv.rtlaam.nti. I1.M Mr Inch lor Art liiMrtlnn, and ?o onU u litob lur cavil suuM' qu.nl inauriinii. COLUMBIA COUNTY DIREUTORY Gaunt OlHwrl. Ju.tr. , D. J. nwI'Mf.W. If. ton. I"Ti it.it miii-i.Ht. n..n Hhorirr Wat. Mnke, mi. IIm'.iiii. 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Tn mail lor Variionla and I'ltt.hart' lea.. SL H.Lua TuLy, Tnarnlar aud Saturday at Th. m.ll lr Mar.lilan'l. Clalanl and Mint Lavas ttulun Mtiuday, WaUnaulay aud Prllay at UK. . M.ll. (railway) north slots at 10 a M.i lor rorn.im iiir.n. Trat.l.r.- Uuld.-Hlv.r Routi-a. triitmn. W. HHivmi-IoTM', llnl.ua (or PoMlaun at II . . TiiMday, 1 hmarlar and Nat ardar. I..ava Ht. IIkIvik for (,'lai.kanla MuU' da. Wmlii.'ilav and Krl.lar at K M a. M. Hrr Jo.iipm Ki.likiu l-aT.9. Ht llnltnl for Portland daily Mmi.t nunoay at W fttiirulua, Imih foitlaitd at a, at) p. M. I'ROFEBSION A L. DR. H. R. CLIFF, Phyilclan and Surgeon, I. II. Ian.. Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and Surgeon, . ClaUkaala, Columbia Cm., Or. T. A. atcRaiDl. A. 8. Oaaaaia. MoBRIDB & DRESSEI, Attorney v at '.' Law, Or.aroa City, Or. Prompt attention (Iran to land offle banlnM. A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, t. H.l.ua, Or. - Coannr "orr. ynr. land nrvaylng. towu plat ling aud anlnmirluf nil piomptlji don. W. T. BrHr. J. W. liatraiu BURNEY k DRAPER, Attorney V at .' Law, r.fon City, Or. Tw.lv. y.ar' .ip.Hvuc. a. R-il.Ur of tho Unltad St. .. I.tud Uflli'. hr rci.mm.ndi a In our .iwrUlty of all hind, of builii... o.f.ra lb. land 0 Ulna or th Cauita, and luvolvlnf th. prariio. in uia v.en.rai kaua vmiw. J. S. BROOKENBROUQH, ATTORNEY V AT V LAW, Or.aroB City. Or. (l.i Nprnlal Agent of Orniral land Office) . H imnatca I. Pimpilon and Tlmbor l.ud Ap. ill at oni and oth.r laud OAloa RaalnM. a ipMialtr. UfAce. rJtoond Kloor, laud OfHc. sauaing. CHRS. W. JlflVGE ' Notary ". Public AND- INSURANCE AGENT, MAVUKR, OR. M18CELLASKOU8. D. d. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE -AND- Real Estate Agent, St. Helinb, Oreoon. John A. Beck, Watehmaker and Jeweler, -roR YOUR ELEGANT JEWELRY. Th Pln.at Aaaortin.nt of Watnbea, Clock, and J.welry ol all I'morlptloni. QPPOtlTI THI OM0ND, . PORTLAND, OW PIANOS arid ORGANS. llullctt iV Davin ami New Scale Kimball PinnoH and Kimball Or gaiiR, I invito iiiHpcction, and dofy competition. L. V. MOORE, 1 05 Washington St., Portland, Or. Write fur ctnlo"Kiie Riul prlrPt. Mnntion this paper. EVERDING & FARRELL Front 8treet, Portland, Oregon, DEALERS IS . WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS, Hay, Shingles, Lima, Land Piaster. Also Flour, Baooo, AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OK G-a?o ceri es, M'hii h we toll cheap EVE R D INC Clsttsketnie 'XJixie. STEAMER C. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leave Portland from Aldcr-strnct dock Monday, via Wcgtport, Skamokawa and Cathlanict, Wedncnday and Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Sauvies Ialand, St. Helens, Columbia City, Kalama, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Hradburv, Stella, Oak Point and all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. HOW IS THE TIP eorgetown. This desirable property adjoins Milton Station, on the Northern Pacific Kail ONE HOUR S RIDE And is only U miles from St. Helens, river. Milton creek, a beautiful mountain stream, runs witnin '200 yards of this property, furnishing an inexhaustible supply of water for all purports. LOTS, 50x100 FEET, Ranging in price from $50 to $100, can lie seenred from D. J. Switzer, St. JOSEPH KELLOGG Joseph Kellogg FOR COWLITZ RIVER; . IVI .rlm. m nSr Leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday and Fri IM O rtll WC9 L day at 5.m. Loaves PORTLAND Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at o a. m. ' " inCCDU If CI I .fia Leaves RAINIER at 5 a.m. JUaCrll IVCI.L.alUlV duilv. SundavexceDted. arriv- ng at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leave PORTLAND at 2:30 M., arriving at 7 i. m. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANYWHERE BUT YOU WILL FIND THE - Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything ' AT THE LATSKANIE 7 DRUG 7 STORE, DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. TRY A'1?FFEL"WHEEL umiuaaaa, aa3L2lal U . Lwl Itn3 . aaaaaaaaaaaa. and got PORE POWER and use Ltua vaiuk WrIU far mmr Haw Illarta4 Cntelaana af ISM. THE LEFFEL WATER WHEEL& EJN6INE CO. SPRINGFIELD, 0., U.8.A. for cah. Give us a call. 6l FAR R E LL. W. SHAVER. TO SECURE A LOT road, , FROM PORTLAND. the county-seat, on the Columbia Helens, Oregon & GO.'S STEALERS and Northwest AT A REGULAR PACIFIC COAST. The Salton Lake Rapidly Going Down. RICH ALUMINIUM DISCOVERY. Miss Fanny Davenport Purchases 380 Acres of . Land in Orange County, California. Portland wants a $500,000 dry dock. There was ice at Tucson, A. T., last week, . Water-front thieves at Seattle are do ing a good business. . An EnKlish syndicate is baying np all the breweries in British Columbia. ' An effort is being made to revoke the extension of the Hoops, reservation. Ism Angeles' business this year is a decided Improvement on that of 1890. The National California Bank at San lVego, it is thought, will soon resume business. ..- Wells, Fargo A Co.'s express has prac tical. y allished the Denver and Kio Grande express department.. . J. G. Ford, one of the sheep and wool barons of Elko county, Nev., a few days aco sold sixty yearling bucks at $20 a head. . . . .-. : At RlackfcKit, Idaho, a fire deal roved the United States land office. Union Pa ri Qc depot, Pacific express office and the Commurcial Hotel. There is a rumor that the Southern Pacific Company is going to prohibit liquor selling in honws located on its right of way through Nevada. The Railroad Coinmipaion has decided that the Southern Pacific railroad did not discriminate in favor of Tucson, as was charged by outside towns. Deposits of meerschaum have been found on the Sapello crek, twenty-five miles north of Stiver City, N. M., and near the alum deposits of the Gila river. It has been derided after survey to at tempt to raise the steamship San Pedro near Victoria. It is rumored that the Captain will lie held responsible for her loss. W. A. Daggett, the mail clerk who" was 'njured in the railroad accident at Port Costa some months ago, has filed a suit at Stockton in which he asks for $50,000 damages. . 8outlt Sea Island guano is being intro duced in Rivereide this season. This fertiliser contains 30 per cent, of phos phoric acid, and is especially adapted for orange groves. ' ,. The case of 8. W. Sullivan, who was charged with smuggling arms into San Qnentin prison, has been dismissed by the court at San Rafael, the prosecution claiming there was no evidence to con vict. Portland, having discovered that she sold Iter bonds to a pool and but for the combination much less than they were worth, lias rescinded its acceptance of the bid, and there is a chance tor a law suit. J. A. Vnrtaa who ma1 a a.nt)lirAtioB in Judge Ro-s at Los Angeles to compel the City Clerk to surrender to him the old Kuanisn archives in the Ulty uaii, has been worsted, the court refusing to 'lo to. The recently formed Southern Cali fornia Fruit Growers' Union is receiving much encouragement from horticultur ists. The main object is to make orange growers as far as possible independent of the middlemen. The Yuma Sentinel says: The great faking exploration and surveying expe dition has arrived from the mud volca noes. The number of volcanoes has Ken Increased to 7.000. We await fur ther particulars with eagerness. The Canadian Pacific Navigation Com pany at Victoria, B. C. has refused to hereafter carry any mails to the north, the government, not offering to pay a sufficient remuneration. This will much inconvenience the people on the north ern coast. v The Truckee RrpuhHcan says ice men have everything in readiness for the harvesting of the ice crop Whenever the same is ripe enough to cut, which is not likely to be for a month yet. The past season has been a good one for the com panies, and only about 25,000 tons re main on hand. Miss Fanny Davenport has purchased 380 acres of land in b niton's Canyon, in Orangecountv,Cal., eighteen miles from Pomona. Mina Davenport means to build a large ranch home on the prop erty, establish game preserves and im mense poultry yards and barns. The land is out seven miles from Mine. Mod jeska's ranch. Rev. Ellis, who is conducting his case at Ixhi Angeles against Wilnier. ia mak ing a poor showing of his ability as a lawyer. Monday he kept np a long aeries of leading questions to Wiliner, and although - the Court frequently stopped him he kept on his course. The defendant's lawyers were too astonished to interpose an objection. - A party of prospectors who have been operating ab iut forty miles west of Al buquerque, N. M., brought into that city a suck full of samples, which on being asoa.ved were found to carry aluminium in large quantities. One assay of a sack taken from the surface shows 25 per cent, of metal, and it is said there are hundreds of acres juat the same. The San Bernardino Times-Index says: From a gentleman who has just returned from Knit-on we learn that the lake is go ing down very rapidly, being only about three feet in the deepest place. The lake is divided into two parts, a bar having been formed between the two. The lake is now about twenty-five miles long and seven miles wide. The salt company will commence work about December 1. The big fonr-mafted ship Afghanistan, the larireat Bhlp that ever came into the Columbia river, crossed in the other ev ening after a passage of eighty-nine days from Rio Janeiro. The Afghanistan reg isters 2,221 tons, Is 201 feet long, 42 feet beam and 24 feet depth of hold. She was built in 1P88, and is owned by the British and Eastern Shinnins: Comrumv of London. She will carry 8,650 tons of cargo in a draft of twenty-two feet. The tetxy improvements are snowing their benefits. PERSONAL MENTION. Charles Emory Smith Has the Happy Faculty of Being; a Charming After-Dinner Speaker.- ' The King of Greece speaks a dozen languages, Ex-Secretary Whitney ia a' fearless equestrian. Mrs. General Hancock is in Europe for the winter. Private Secretary Halford has recov ered bis health suflidently to justify hfm in resuming bis duties at the White House. They seem to think down at Washing ton that Baron Kava will come back again as Italy's diplomatic representa tive ere long. The wife of Frederick Douglass, the ex-Minister to Hayti, recently delivered an addres before a colored high school in Washington. . Dr. Brown-Sequard has apparently abandoned his famous "elixir of life, ' and now thinks that he has a cure for coughs and sneezing. Carter Harrison will discard the edi torial "we" in hisChicaio paper and use the first-person pronoun, lie regards this as a capital I-dea. Prof. Alcee Fort;er of New Orleans says the Creoles are the Knickerbockers of Louisiana, lie takes Author Cable to task for his characterizations of Cre ole life. Nathaniel Holland, who is 90 years old, voted at the recent election in Barre, Mass. His vote was cast for James Mon roe in 1810, and he has never missed an election since that year. Kaiser Wilhelm is eighteen times a Duke, twice a Grand Duke, ten times a Count, fifteen times aSeiitnenrandthree times a Marave, lies des being King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany. Daniel C. French, the New York scnlntor. has just arrived in Paris to fill an order forhe Chicago exhibition. It will be a colossal statue of the Republic, a female figure, sixty to eighty feet high. Robert Plilson, a banker of Berlin, Pa., is a dwarf, and so-diminutive a one that the dime-museum managers have offered him large snini to exhibit him self to the curiutis public under their au.tpices. Bishop Merrill of the Methodist Church has been taken to the Wesley Hospital in Chicago for surgical treatment. For a fortnight he has been disabled by an ailment which is thought to he an ab dominal abscess. Charles Emory Smith, United , 8t ites Minister to Russia, is a charming after dinner speak rv Under the influences of a fetching menu his almost habitual re serve disappears, and he becomes un wontedly sociable. , Henri Rochefort, the French Anarch ist, who was sent to a penal colony, from which he escaped, is now living in ln don. He is tall, slight and gray. Al though he has been in England six years, he does not speak English. The canoe in which Poultney Bigelow navigated the Danube from the Bla-k Forest, to the Black Sea has been ac cented bv Emperor William. They knew each other years ago, when the Ameri can and the Kaiser were schoolmates. Joseph Pennell, whom the cable r- joi i to have been expelled from Russia, as probably mistaken for a spy. His stretching as an artist once before led to is ar est under a like misapprehension. l r. Pennell. who is both a writer and n mist, f irmerly lived in (lermantown, ind his wife. Mrs. E'ixnheth Robins Pen telt, is a daughter of Edward Robins of i'hiladelphia. ' WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Artists and Manufacturers in Denmark Making Great Preparations for an Exhibit at Chicago. A big whale-back steamer for use oa the lakes during, the World's Fair will betmilt. The furniture manufacturers of Chi cago have taken steps to make a collect ive exhibit in their line, and promise that it will open the the eyes of visitors. Mrs. Lucas, lady manager for Penn sylvania, has appointed Miss Florence Lewis, a young colored girl, upon her auxiliary committee. Miss Lewis is one of the pre-s representatives of the Board of Lady Managers of Philadelphia. It ia announced in the Berlin newspa pers that the entire organization of the Imperial Oriera Company of Berlin, Germany, will coma to Chicago in 1893 to give operatic performances in the mu sic hall to be erected on the exposition grounds. ' The government of Russia has de cided to haul exhibits for the fair at half rates on all government railroads, and at the same time it haa auggested to pri vate companies that they make a like reduction. A similar arrangement haa been effected in Germany. Artists and manufacturers in Denmark are making great preparations for the fair, United States Minister Thayer, who has just returned from Copenhagen, toid Director-General Davis that Danish exhibitors would eclipse their efforts at any previous exposition. "And that means a great deal," he added, " tor the artists of Tenmark have made a number of fine exhibit." Jobn McAdams A Co. of Brooklyn have applied for space to exhibit a de vice (hat cannot be shown in any of the buildings. They will have to go out in Lake Michigan lo make their exhibit, and that is what they want to do. They have an invention to prevent boats com ing in collision. It is a marine brake, powerful enough, they claim, to stop Ivoats .running, at a high rate of speed. The company wants to operate a steam boat or steam yacht in the lake, carry ing passengers, and to give practical ilemonst rations of the efficiency of their brake. Secretary Dickinson haa sent notices to the Governors of the variou. States, ifking them to chose two members of their World's Fair Boards to come to Ch'cnKO December 9 to attend a big World's Fair convention. This uotice is sent out in accordance with a resolution adopted by the Board of Control at its last session. The object of the convert-" tion is to have the delegates meet the Board of Control, department chiefs and other officials and to devise uniform lans for State work. Mrs. Palmer adds i the Invitation a statement that she wants all women who are members of the various State Boards to .be present and learn about the plans for promoting the work women are doing. EASTERN ITEMS. La Grippe in the New England States. KANSAS FARMERS' ALLIANCE The Amount of Silver Held on Storage by the Government- Pugil ' istio Women. ' Omaha is to have a system of parks and boulevards. Riintnaker Ellis is writing his report to Secretary Rusk, , The grip is making great headway in New England, especially1 in Connecticut. Colored men are excluded from the Choctaw nation by legislative enactment. The Economic Gas Company has been enjoined from piping gas into Chicago. A solid vestibule train will shortly lie put on between Cincinnati and Jackson ville, Fla. ; : The initiation fee of the New York Musical . Progressive Union has been raised to $20. The Vanderbtlt lines are arranging for through excursions frpin 'ew York to Ban Francisco. A Florida paper says tnat the State is filling up with winter visitors at the rate of 2,000 a week. John D. Rickefeller has virtually re tired from the Presidency of the Stand ard Oil Company. . Chicago is going to try he experiment of hanling some of its snset cars with steam locomotives. The estimated vV'te a' church prop erty in Philadelphia exempted from tax ation is $20,000,u0a A The Supreme Court of the district of Columbia has decided that the civil service act ia constitutional. Washington negroes lire no- even safe in their graves. Ghouls tried to steal Julia Scott's remains for a college. The cordage trnat hopes to secure a complete monopoly by buying the pat ents upon all rope-making' machinery. The membership of the Farmers' Alli ance in Kansas is said to have declined from 140,000 last year to 60,000 this year. Wolves are rapidly increasing in the sparsely-settled portions of Kansas, and threaten the lives of the isolated farm ers. r' n . - . A remnant of Big Foot's band t In dians under Red Cloud is in revolt against the authority of the aront at Chevenne. - United States Treasurer Neber ker re ports that the total debt of the District of Columbia on September 30 last was $19,133,400. The Dubuque Street Railway Company declares after a test of the storage bat tery el.'ctne-car equipment that the scheme is a 'ailure. Secretary Tracy is expected to advo cate a change in our treaty with Great Br tain, so that naval vessels may be built at yards on the lakes. They are agitating the question of re moving the capital of Minnesota from St. Paul. The western part of the State ia ambitious for the honor. The amount of silver now held on storage by the government would make a column one foot in diameter and six and one-half miles in height. The drop-letter service on the electric road between St. Panl and Minneapolis is very popular. The l-;xes are placed within easy reach on the side of the car. Great opposition U manifested by ad mirers of the late Oliver P. Morton of Indiana to the proposed removal of his statue in Indianapolis from Circle park to the State House grounds. The government proposes to build an other timber d ck in the navy yard at Brooklyn, the accommodations of the other two docks being insufficient. It is to be about 600 feet in length. It is proposed by a number of citizens of Maine to establish an asylum in North Conway, N. 11., at which drunkards and opium "fiends will bj treated with the Keeley bichloride of gold system. The four churches at Chatham, N. J., the Parochial School connected with the Catholic Church and the one public school in the town are closed indifinitely because of the prevalence of diphtheria. Hattie Leslie, " the champion female pugilist of the world," and Gassie Free man fought four rounds in a theater at Williamsburg. N. Y. The fight was se vere. Miss Freeman was frightfully bat tered.. ., . si In Arkansas it has been shown during an investigation that penitentiary pris oners were frequently branded with a red-hot iron. All the Federal prisoners have been ordered to the Columbus (O.) penitentiary because of this treatment of convicts. It is reported at Pittsburg that the iron and steel manufacturers of . the country are preparing to make a gen eral assault on the Amagamated Associ ation of Workmen in the. spring. Pre liminary smirmishing has so far favored the manufacturers. Giacinto Elifairo, an Italian, who for the past six years carried on a steamship agency, general store and hanking bu-i-uess among the-noorer class of his coun trymen at Philadelphia, is believed to have absconded with upward of $50,000 belong1 ng to customers. . . At the Episcopal Congress at Wash ington during the discussion of the methods of the assignment of ministers Rev. Dr. Nichols of New Haven urged hiB hearers never to give np the country parishes, for he characterized the wick edness of the country as vastly worse than the wickedness ol the city, and 11 the flood that pours into a city is te be a foul one, then the result would indeed be sad. i . - -Snnervising Special Agent Tuigh of the Treasury Department in his annual report urges the revision of the customs districts and laws with a view to the abolishment or consolidation of districts in which little or no business is done that more aid may be given where need ed. New and comprehensive legislation upon the needs ol the Northwest and Mexican frontiers is also urgently de manded. . . . EDUCATIONAL. The King of Siam Will Send Six Youths to Pennsylvania to be Educated. Boston has a class in Volapnk. Two hundred and four ol the 305 col leges in the United States are coeduca tional. . The one hundred and forty-fifth cata logue of Princeton College, just issued, shows 080 students enrolled. The University of Michigan will erect a Grecian temple as her contribution to the World's Fair at Chicago. The twelfth annnal report of the In dian Training School in Carlisle, Pa., shows an attendance of 984 boys and girls. '.".', The Superintendent of Schools In Dickinson county, Kan., is in favor of the rivival of the American whaling in dustry. The Board of Trustees of the new Chicago University is composed of "four teen Baptists, one Israelite and six Christians." Ann Arbor (Mich.) University this year graduated 620 students. This sur passes in numbers that of any institu tion of learning in the United States. A college item is to the effect that in the three Connecticut colleges Yale, Trinity and Wesleyan -attendance at morning prayers is made obligatory upon the students. , In the last seven and twenty years the number of students attending Scotch universities haa more than doubled, for in 1861 the number was 3,389, and in 1890 it waa 7,000 odd. Work on the new building for the Sheffield scientific school of Yale Uni versity will begin at once. . It will cost $200,000 and be devoted to the mechan ical engineering department. Oberlin (O.) College recently received the largest single endowment it has ever received $91,618.03 given it by the will of William B. Spooner of Boston. The University of Kansas receives a like amount. Colorado College has the largest enter ing class in its history, numbering over forty. This ia especially encouraging to its friends, as the standard of admission has been raised to the same as that of Eastern institutions. The University at Chicago haa bought the library of 8. Simon of Berlin, which contains 280,000 volumes and 120.000 dissertations in all languages. Among them there are 200 manuscripts from the eighth to the nineteenth century. The King of Siam will soon send six youths from his kingdom to Pennsylvania ,o be educated. They are all to become physicians. The young men are chosen from the poorer classes, and the expense of their tuition, about $5,000 a year each, is to be borne by the Siamese govern ment. . The claas of '95 generally seems to be an unusually large one in the Eastern colleges. Williams has 105 freshmen, Amherst 82, Harvard 400, Yale more than 600, Wesleyan 70, Princeton 325, Brown 11'. Smith 2.40. Colgate 51, Ham ilton 4A, Rochester 59 and Union 80. Yale opened with 1,800 students, Prince ton with 1.000. What may be done in the way of a university in the West is shown in California. 'There have been 11. 1 00 ap plications for admission as studeats to the Leland Stanford (Jr.) University in California. The Southwest ia ripe for the establishment of a great univcsity, and here or hereabouts is the place for it. Aansos LUy atar. . . Yale students are getting som thing of a drubbing just now becauseof a habit which they have of smoking their pipes on the streets. Thia unfortunately is a practice that not couhned to new Haven. The sannterer along the streets of classic Cambridge will meet With not a tew crimson-snirtea youtn, w nose most conspicuous adornment, apart from their flaring jerseys, are yellow pipes. Now, of course, it is no more of a crime for a college student to smoke on the public streets than it is for one who does not happen to be in that period of tutelage. There are certain rules, however, which all well-bred men are expected to ob serve, and one whose time is largely given to scholarly pursuits should cer tainly be in finer touch with these. Gen tlemen do not smoke on the streets. There is no accounting for what "genta" may do. Bottom Journal. NATIONAL CAPITAL The Chief of the Bureau of Equipment . Makes His Annual Report to the Secretary of the Navy. In his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy Commodore Dewey, chief of the bureau of equipment, summarizes the work of his bureau during the year as follows: During the past fiscal year fifty-three - vessels have- been either wholly or partially equipped under thia bureau at an expenditure of labor and material of $664,239. . Secretary Tracy in an interview ia quoted as saving: " We have set out to build two ships that will comply with the requirements of the future. Cruisers Nos. 12 and 13 will be ideal' types of commerce destroyers. The Pirate of 7,000 tons burden will be able to steam to San Francisco on the coal in her bunk ers with which she .leaves New York. Not another war ship to-day afloat can do this. I am responsible for these two vessels. I have sacrificed their offensive and defensive powers to speed and coal endurance. No Captain worthy to com mand either of them would think of en gaging a war ship on the high r eas, but they will be strong enough to attack any steam vessel built for trading purposes that might be armed in time of war. The Pirate, for example, could be sect into the English Channel and stay there four weeks without recoaling. She could keep away. from the ironclad vessels sent in search of ber, and could destroy every ship that put to sea or returned to that friendly haven. I designed her with the single purpose to have a ship that could do what no other vessel can do. She will be rapid enough to over haul any merchantman.. I do not mean by thia that she will always be able to run down and capture a vessel like the City of Paris, because in a rough sea it ia quite possible the steamer would out sail her, but in the average aea the Pi rate can spurt for six or eight hours faater than the fleetest transatlantic liner." - ; i i