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THE MORNING 0REGONIAN, SATURDAY,, JANUARY 20, 1900. m VHOLE RUIN REVEALED 2IUST HAVE BEEX A CLOUDBURST OK POTLATCH CREEK. Ail Railroad Materials "Washed Away Fuel Famine in Levritton May Hamper Operations. LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 19. The -water bos fallen in Potlaich creek until the who:& ruin Is revealed. Such, devastation could never oe seen except in a mountain gorge. For miles there is no vestige o the rail road grade. Bridge timbers, ties and steel rails are all -washed away, while the grade itself is annihilated. A man "who lived on Bear creek for the past 29 years says ho never saw such a flood. Bear creek is a tributary of the Potlaich, and there the -water rose to a height of 25 feet. Noth ing but a cloudburst could have brought such disaster. The steady falling of rain and the melting of snow by a chinook wind could not have produced such a flood. The Northern Pacific lost three cars. One was a caboose and the other two hoarding cars. When the freight train from Spokane to Lewiston reached Ken drick it was annulled on orders from the train dispatcher. The water was then coming over the track, and the engineer pulled his train to a high piece of Toad 1 on the siding. There was not quite room enough for the whole train, and so toe cafboose and the two boarding cars re malned in the -water. The track was elowly nndennlned, and the three cars toppled over In the flood and were carrlea away. Conductor Bowdish lost all his clothes in the caboose and crawled out just in time to keep from being drowned. It is now thought that it will take fully 30 days to put the road In repair. There were just 40 passengers on the train that stopped at Kendrlck on lis way from Spokane to Lewiston and has not moved since it stopped. Many of these passengers remained in the cars 48 hours, or from Friday. January 12, at 2 o'clock P. M., until the following Sunday after noon. The train was in the midst or a roaring flood, 600 feet from the nearest dry land. Food was floated out to the imprisoned passengers in boxes tied to the ends of ropes. Some of the passengen were -wise enough to leave the train before the water came up around it. These pas sengers are now straggling Into Lewis ton, having been traveling overland ever since. They tell strange stories of tn flood. One man said he went to the St. Elmo hotel in Kendrick for his supper. Tne -water was coming in 4ho doors and flood ing the lower floor. He declares that men stood in water tip to their suspender but tons and called for tall drinks of whisky at the St. E4mo bar. When they needed water for a "chaser," all they had to do was to reach out and dip it tip on a level with their elbows. Fuel Famine Imminent A fuel famine Is imminent in Lewiston and Clarkston. The Northern Paclflc has Just KO tons of coal at Lewiston. and no more can be hod this side of the wash out. There are four construction loco motives and one piledriver to use this coat, and when all are working the fuel will last about three days. In the matter oi -wood, Lewiston has 300 cords and Clark ston 50 cords. This will probably all bo gone in 10 days. No wood can be hauled oyer the roads on account of their im passable condition. The wood is all owned by two dealers, and already the price has been advanced to $7 per cord. The Lewiston Commercial Club raised $400 by popular subscription to aid flood sunerers, nut learned that Kendrick did not need assistance. The loss of private property is not as great as was first re ported. The money has been returned to the contributors. OVPNERSHXP OF THE HELENA. Jndgc Gilbert listens "to Arguments on Jennings Bnos. Demurrer. The now somewhat celebrated case of G. G. Warner vs. Jennings Bros., involv ing the ownership of the Helena mine, in the Bohemia district, came up before Judge Gilbert in the United States cir cuit court yesterday for argument on a demurrer to the complaint. Under the United States statutes Warner, an ad verse claimant, was required to bring suit on his adverse claim, filed in the Roseburg land office August U, 1899, with in 30 days from the date of filing. It ap pears that he did not bring action In support of his adverse claim until Novem ber 23, 1899, 72 days later than required. The case came before Judge Gilbert on demurrer to Warner's complaint, on this ground, and the demurrer was argued and submitted. If the demurrer s sustained, it will permit the working of the new mill erected on the mine by Jennings Bros., and will create great activity in the dis trict, as well as settling the question as to whether persons, In acquiring title to mineral lands, must comply -with the laws of congress, or not Jennings Bros, have expended $25000 In putting up a mill, and running tunnels and drifts on the Helena mine, and it is claimed have been held up by what Is known in min ing camps as the "notice man." This is the mine from which persons attempting to make a survey were run off some time ago by armed men, and made record time in getting away. It is reported that one of the fugitives in the -wild rush down the mountain stumbled on a rabbit and yelled: "Get out of my way, you rabbit, and give the road to a man that can run." discovert: of bohemia mines. Find Blade by a Man Who "Was Fly ing From Indians. Cottage Grove Nugget. Early In the spring of 1863 a man by the name of James Johnson found his -way Into the Calapooia mountains, coming in by the steamboat route. It is said by the old prospectors that Johnson had some time previously killed an Indian, and that In his efforts to escape his pursuers he found his way Into the then extremely wild and untenanted -wilderness to bo named for him. He soon made himself known to the nearest set tlers, and told of his discovery of gold and showed magnificent specimens -which he had taken from his find. His story was that one day he killed a deer, and while dressing the animal his eye caught the glitter of gold quartz. It did not take him long to unearth some specimens, when he was gratified to find It immensely rich In gold of the flake character. Old pioneers say that some of the specimens shown by John son were marvels in richness. His stories of his find and specimens shown attracted other prospectors, among them O. P. Adams, Bird Farrier, J. W. Vaughn, and others, and before the year was out a big rush was made into the district and many claims staked. As Johnson's find was at the headwaters of the Steam boat, much of the prospecting was done uiong iae Dea or the creek, and while gold was found in considerable quanti ties, its light texture did not justify the prospectors, and after a time the ex citement died down. At that time quartz mines were of little value. Johnson was a Bohemian, and his associates dubbed him "Bohemia" Johnson, and named the district In his honor. "Bohemia" Johnson claimed that he discovered the first gold on the claim known as the Mystery, now owned by the Mustek Mining & Milling Company and afterward said that it must have been a pocket, as he soon got to the bottom of it. Some are of the belief that he told the truth when he said he made the find on the Mysterv, -while others think that his real find was else where in some secluded spot, the knowl edge of which went with the old pros pector to his grave. Bird Farrier, one of the oldest pros pectors in the district, claims "Bohemia" Johnson took him to the Mystery to help him develop it Farrier did not think the formation of the Mystery tallied with that of the specimens, and told Johnson so. Johnson then admitted that his And was located across from the Mystery In a thick clump of brush, and that he was working to sell the Mystery so that he could properly develop thn real thing, and promised to take his friend Farrier to it, but he never did, and the old Bo hemian drifted on down the shadowy side of life to his grave, and the find Is still a "mystery." Te Knotts flve-stamp mill -was the first mill taken into the district. It was taken over a trail cut sufficiently wide to admit of the passage of a wagon in 1875, 10 years after gold had been dis covered. The road followed the divide between the Frank Brass creek and the right-hand fork, afterward named Sharp's creek, named for J. H. Sharp, known by everybody in the district as "Bohe mia" Sharp. The mill was In operation at intervals from 1S73 to 1877, at which time the camp was virtually abandoned. In 1890 new life was instilled into the district through the efforts of O. P. Adams and Joseph Kennedy, two well known prospectors, who always contend ed that the camp was of surpassing rich ness. From 1890 prospecting and development work has been going steadily on, gaining each year, until now it deserves and is re ceiving the attention of the great mining world. METING JIACHIX&RY. Portland Makes the Best, ana Con Supply the North-west. Never before has there been such an awakening of the mining Industry in Ort gon as has occurred during the past year, and never before has San Francisco ana Chlcazo reaped richer harvests in sup plying mining machinery. Those clues watched with eager eyes the opening or every mine, and kept everlastingly at It In advertising their goods as superior to all others. The result was an enormous trade among the mines of the Northwest. Portland machinery was backward about being pushed. Machinery made in San Francisco came up to Portland and went on through town to the mines beyond. Now all this is to be changed. Port land Is in the field to supply mining ma chinery to the whole Northwest. Port land's foundries are going to advertise widely and constantly he fact, and are going to keep it before the mining com munity that Portland Is the nearest and best place to get mining machinery for any mine in the Northwest, The industry has been neglected, but will be so no longer. Portland's found ries have good facilities for turning out the very best quality of modern mining machinery, and they are going to use those facilities to their fullest extent. Tha business will be pushed and an immense industry will be built up. NEW STRIKE IN BOHEMIA. Vein Five Feet "Wide of Free Mill ing Gold. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. Jan. 19. J. W. Harms has made a rxen strike In his quartz mine on Adams mountain, Bo hemia, which he recently bought The tunnel is in. 30 feet, showing a well-defined ledge that prospects free gold. The vein is about five feet wide in free mill ing ore. Samples of the ore brought In yesterday are above the average from that section. Mining experts who have ex amined Adams mountain district believe it will develop into a mineral belt equal to any other portion of Bohemia. CONCESSION TO AMERICANS. British Columbia to Amend Its Allen Exclusion Law. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 19. The provin cial government has declared its intention of amending Its alien exclusion law so as hereafter to permit Americans to hold claims purchased from Canadian locators. Such a concession quite satisfies the Americans in Atlin. Copper on Howe Sound. VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 19. Interest in the recent copper discoveries on Howe sound is unabated, and yesterday a party of mining men, comprising representatives of mining syndicates in Vancouver, Salt Lake, Los Angeles and Butte, Mont., sailed by the steamer Defiance for the mines, which are located 31 miles from this city. The party will spend a day at the mines, returning on Saturday. Two propositions for the erection of a smelter in connection with the Howe sound mines have been made to the own ers of the Britannia group, one offer be ing made by Portland, Or., capitalists, and the other from a Vancouver com pany. Quotations of Mining Stocks. SPOKANE, Jan. 19. The closing bids for mining stocks today -were.: Blacktall $0 OSlijMorrisoa $0 05 Butte & Boston. 3 Princess Maud .. 8 Qullp 16 Crystal ChesparBluclay.. Deer Trail No. 2 Evening- Star ... Gold JJedse Golden Harvest. Insurgent ...... k 13 Rambler Cariboo 50 Republic 1 00 Reservation 7V mi OVi.Rossland Giant. . TV, 2 (Sullivan 8 2Tom Thumb 13 Jim Blaine 19 Waterloo 0 .Done .fine surp. iJiGertrud X.ltUe Cariboo., IRebecca ... Mountain Lion.. Morning Glory.. 03 Florida, 4 1 Dardanelles SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10. The official clos ing Quotations for mining stocks today -vrere: Alt Andes Belcher Best & Belcher. . Bullion. Caledonia ..... Challenge Con ., Chollar ........ ..?0 021 Lady "Wash. Con...$0 02 Mexican SO 18 .. 11 Occidental Con .. 20 Ophlr Overman Potosl Savage , Scorpion ....... Seg. Belcher ... Sierra Nevada Sliver Hill Standard 74 6 30 10 2 3 50 3 2 75 32 4 4 .. CO .. 10 Confidence 61 Con. Cal. & Va... 1 Co Crown Point Gould & Curry... Hale & Norcros3.. Justice Yellow Jacket .... Onion Con ..... Utah Con NEW TORE, Jan. 10. Mlnln; closed as follows: stocks today Crowfpolnt .V.V W"""-; $ I Chollar - $0 230ntario con. cai. s va... l wiPiymouth 0 Deadwood 55Qalcksllver 1 50 Gould & Curry... 21 do pref 7 go Hale & NorcrosB.. 36 Sierra. Nevada ... 45 Homestake 50 O0J Standard 2 55 Iron Sliver ...... 55iDnion Con 27 Mexican 32Tellow Jacket .... 20 BOSTON. Jan. 10. Closing quotations: Boston & Moat...$2 C21Parrott 0 40 Butte & Bost 45 o THE MONOTONY OP TRAVEL ING BY RAIL la Done Away "With, to a Great Ex tent, by the Introduction of Improved Equipment. To a passenger traveling from Portland east by the "Portland-Chicago special," the tedium of the journey Is relieved by a visit to the library car. This car con tains a buffet, library, writing-desk, etc., for the accommodation of sloeping-car pas sengers. Here one may select a book from the large assortment contained In the library. The current magazines and dally papers are also on file, and a writing-desk, supplied with stationery and all facilities for correspondence is at the dis posal of the occupants of this car. While perusing the papers, or the latest novel, the train is rushing steadily on ward, without perceptible jar, and you reach your destination before you are aware of it. Full information regarlng the two routes to the East offered by the O. R. & 2C. Co. can be had by applj'ing to Mr! V. A Schilling, city ticket agent, 254 Washington street 0 1 Efficient Postal Service. Baltimore "News. A letter, in going from Key West to the Tflnnfllk-p travria j total iHstnnn rf "TiWi , ... WVJ v lwa miles, vet la carried the entire dLstanop hv J Uncle Sam for 2 cents. It goes by rail road, steamboat, stage, horseback and dog sled, and Is on the road for nearly 40 days without a rest. A RUSSIAN LINGUIST ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF GOVERN MENT AGENT AT TASHKEND. He Is at Home in Twenty Different Languages and Any Number of Dialects. TASHKEND, Russian Turkestan, July 18. After several weeks of travel with hardly an opportunity to speak English, it has been a distinct satisfaction to meet several gentlemen of Tashkend who can the capital of Khiva. The khan raised an give me the Information I am seeking In ' army of 24,000 men and attacked the in my own language. It is one of the chief I vaders, but retired after three days fight accomplishments of my friend, Mr. de ing, realizing that he could not defeat the Klemm, of the governor-general's staff, strangers armed with weapons far supe that he can offer hospitality to his visitors , rior to his own. The next few days were from all over the world In their own , spent in exchanging messages of amity, tongues. In fact, he Is a most remarkable ! and finally came the signature of a treaty linguist. I of peace, the exchange of presents and a It is difficult to catalogue all the Ian- j host of official ceremonies and formall guages he speaks, for some of them are ties. Then the Russians werfr invited to hardly known to the Western world, but J bo gdefcts of the khan, but he- explained they are all of service to him. It is a mere Incident that, in addition to his Rus sian, he speaks perfectly English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Bohemian and Scandinavian languages. Those are European tongues, and he would consider them a matter of course. In addl S 7 OMNIBUS SERVICE FROM THE OLD RAILWAY STATION :;" 1 yA. L a ill W. r . i. i j.nc. i i : v i i. n i r l r v u tlon to these, however, ne speaks with 1 ruled promptly, the force was divided equal ease Arabic, Turkish, Hindustani, ' Into five bodies of 600 men each, and they Persian, Afghanlstanl and an Indefinite went in different directions. The imme numbor of the languages of Central Asia, dlato result was that each detachment Including the speech of the Turkomans, was waylaid by Khlvans in ambush and the Bokhariots, the Khlvans, the Sarts, j the Russians were exterminated to a man, the Mongols from Chinese Turkestan and j the officers being beheaded, some other dialects more obscure than The expedition which Peter sent to take these. This ability has not been the quail- revenge on the khan of Khiva for his flcation of least value in his service for J treachery suffered disaster, .and the Asi tho Russian government in Central Asia, atlcs were left in peace for a few years. "When I visited Mr. de Klemm at his Russian embasslses were sent to Khiva in home I found upon his piano the sheet mu- 1 1"25 an 1733- Russia and; Persia were sic of the familiar American song, "Louis- I rivals for Influence with the emirs, but iana Lou" with words In Russian and in Persia was always ahead in the contest, English, which he knew equally well. On owing to community of religion. Many his desk was a copy of the latest novel Russian travelers were rohbed or brutally by J. M. Barrle. He explained to me that treated in the khanate. Some were held he ws studying the story partly as a t in slavery who came on peaceful errands, textbook to acquire some knowledge of the Scotch dialect, so that when he had a Scotch visitor he might talk his own Eng lish -with a Scotch burr on his tongue. Ho admitted, however, that some of the phrases were puzzling to him and not to be translated by any dictionary he had, and I spent some time trying to clear up some of the expressions which were quite as obscure to the American as they weio to the Russian reader. A few days ago I went to the Volga Kama bank to draw some money on my letter of credit, and asked at the door if any ono In the bank spoke French. A gentleman at the teller's desk was pointed out, and we began on the errand that brought me. After a little conversation I asked him if by any chance he spoke Eng lish also. "Oh, yes," he replied at once. "I learned English when I lived In America." It was rather astonishing to learn that my new acquaintance, Mr. John Krukoff, had lived in Champaign, 111., for a year, leaving there 13 years ago. At that time he was employed by a company engaged In buying and shipping sorghum and broom-corn. From the United States he drifted back to Russia, entered the bank ing business and at last in the extension of Russian enterprise In Central Asia he bad been transferred oy the Volgo-Kama Bank of Commerce to the Tashkend branch of that great Institution. Mr. Krukoff felt that he was seeing an old neighbor when he discovered that I was from Chicago. Not very many Amer icans reach Tashkend, and he had seen but two since ho was stationed In this city. One of these was Profeasor N. E. Hansen, of Brookings, N. D., who was here a year or two ago on an errand of Inquiry for the United States agricultural department. The other was Mr. Isadore Morss, of Bos ton, manufacturer, traveler and sports man, who was here but a. few weeks ago preparing for a hunting expedition. From Tashkend Mr. Morss went some 500 miles northeast of here to the town of Karakol, near the big lake called Isslk Kul, where he- expected to find various sorts of big rame. including Siberia bears, ticers and somo rare scieB of deen As ar as I can leurn, Air. iviurbs nua jiui ikiuiiibu iiuiii his hunting trip, but it is possible that he may have left Asia by way of Late Balkash, Semlpalatlnsk. the Irtish river and the Siberian railway, Instead of re tracing his route to the Caspian sea. In spite of the traditional friendship be tween Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, G. C. B., G. C. S. L, ameer of Afghanistan, Information leaks over the frontier into Turkestan quite as readily as southeastward from Kabul to India, and the Russian agents of one sort and another are In fairly fre quent communication, if not actual resi dence, with high officials of Afghanistan. This is bound to show when that great war comes, which is sure to come some day, for the possession "f India. It would be denying a host of frank published state ments of eminent and powerful Russians slnoo the time of Peter the Great to deny that the Russians have definite designs on the Indian empire, for the execution of which they are waiting only till the time shall be auspicious. - Just now the Russians are smiling over the latest bon mot of the ameer, which comes well authenticated and probably la properly credited to- him. He has ex plained that the annual subsidy of l.SQO.OOO rupees which is paid to him by the govern ment of India Is the tribute which Is paid by England to him for protecting India from the Russians. Russia's successful conquest and absorp tion of Central Asia really began with the occupation of Tashkend, and since that event in 1S65 there k has been hardly an Interruption In the extension of the boun daries of the empire. I have been given an interesting table which shows the area w.. ....v, v....,,.. .... ...w, j...wU . .... been on follows: I In the reign of Ivan in, 1462 502.0CO I In the reign of Ivan IV, 1584 1,530.000 In the reign of Peter the Great, 1GS9 5,053.0(,0 In the reign of Catherine II, 1775... 7,123,000 In the reign of Alexander III, 18S1. .7,950 00 an u.e rc-ign ot iNicnoias xi, i6ro....j.bw,uiw 1 No one knows when Russia and Central In the reign of Nicholas II, 1899.... 8.650,000 i Asia first came Into relations, either peace ful or warlike, but there are records pi Russian Invasions of Khiva as far back as the beginning of the 17th century, In which thee invaders were defeated with great regularity. A hundred years later the khan of Khiva heard such wonderful talea of the power of Russia In Siberia that he sent an envoy to Peter the Great with a request to be taken under his pro tection as a subject, but nothing came of that. In the next few years, however, various reports reached St. Petersburg of the .weatlth of the Amu river and the gold Of Khiva and Bokhara, countries hardly known In Europe, and the great Russian ruler became interested. An expedition of 3000 men was sent from St. Petersburg in 1717, and by the middle . of August had come within 100 miles of that his capItaTwas toD small' to entertain all of them and" asked that they "be dl vided into five detachments to be enter tained in five neighboring cities. But one "of the Russian officers offered a protest to his commander when the order was given to follow this plan. He was over- m SART TOWN OF TASHKEND FOUR MILES DISTANT. TO . ana otners were oougnt. from the man stealing Turkomans, who found that they could get high prices for such wares in the slave markets of Bokhara and Khiva. Large sums were subscribed in Russia for these unforutnates, and finally it was de termined to begin a punitory campaign against the Central Asiatic khanates. A fortress was built on the east coast of the Caspian sea from which to operate and efforts which failed were made to negotiate for the freedom of all Europeans held In bondage in Khiva. When failure was certain all the Khlvan traders at the fair of Nijnl Novgorod were arrested, and the knah was notified that by way of re prisal none would be liberated until the Russian prisoners were set free. At the same time General Perovski was ordered to organize a force, march on Khiva, cap ture the emir, release all prisoners and establish trade relations. Perovski's March. The story of the march of Perovskl's army Is a pitiful one. Jle had remembered the suffering In the desert of the exter minated Russian force of 1717 for lack of water, so he decided to make his a winter campaign, when snow would serve. It was In June, 1839, that he started from Oren burg with- 6000 men and an army train of 7700 carts. The summer march across the steppes was one of great suffering and peril, and finally the army reached the place where the camels were to be gath ered. It proved almqst Impossible to hire the camels from the Kirghiz Tartars of the district, for thoy felt a kinship with the Khlvans, who were to be punished, but at last 10,400 were gathered, reinforce ments from Orenburg came and In early winter the army resumed march. The winter proved one of intense severity. The loss of men and animals was rapid. By the end of March 9000 camels had died. A month later the loss in the army included SO officers and 800 men. And so at last, having covered only half the distance be tween Orenburg and Khiva, never having como In contact with the enemy he was to destroy, Perovski yielded to the Inev itable and began his painful retreat. He reached Orenburg with less than one-third of his original force, and but 1000 of the camels with which he had started. So much for "the cary" history .of Russian extension in Central Asia. The first contact between the British and tho Russians in Central Asia was about the same time and with similar con ditions as a factor. In 1837 tho Emperor Nicholas had begun to plan for an explo ration of the Indian borders and was stir Ting in Afghanistan and Persia. A Rus sian lieutenant had visited the ameer of Afghanistan. At the Instigation of the tsar, the shah of Persia had sent an ex pedition to Herat with Russian officers In command. The news of all this activity reaching the English, they entered Af ghanistan from India and the Persian troops withdrew. It -was then that the English learned "what had heen going on about Khiva, so they eent a mission of their own to the emir. Captain Abbott and Sir Richmond Shakeepear reached Khiva while Perovski was retreating to Orenburg after his disastrous march. Ab bott's negotiations proved successful, and the emir ordered the release of all pris oners, according to Shakespear himself the authority tp see that tho order 'was obeyed. The commissioner therefore per sonally searched the town, visiting every building in which a Russian could be con cealed. Four hundred slaves were thus re leased and escorted as far as the Caspian sea, where they arrived near the end of 1S40, not long after Perovskl's shattered expedition had reached civilization again. From that day to this the Russians and the English have been watching one an other across the Afghan boundary, the Russians all the time creeping closer to the point of contact, as khanate after kha- nate has been conquered and absorbed, tl21 oniy me one narrow country lies De tween Russia and India. TRUMBULL whttr. Daily Treasnry Statement. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Today's state, ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance .t25,140,725 Gold reserve .221884.200 reserve 221,884,200 J CODIFICATTON PROPOSED BY THE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS. Prompt Action of Senate Committee on Commerce Bills Introduced by General Grosvenor in House. Permanent provision of law regarding the status of shipping In the dependencies will soon bo made by congress. The sen ate committee on commerce, under tho leadership of Senator Frye, of Maine, took action last week by reporting bills governing navigation in the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico. Both groups of islands are brought under the opera tion of the laws of the United States, relating to commerce, navigation and merchant seamen. The commissioner of navigation Is authorized "to make such regulations as he may deem expedient for, the nationalization of all vessels owned by citizens of the islands" on the dates when they .were acquired by the United States. This date was July '7, 1S93, in the case of the Hawaiian islands, and April 11, 1899, in the case of Puerto Rico. In both cases the law applies only to vessels which have continued to be so owned up to the date of nationalization. Opportunity for jobbery by the transfer Lof foreign .vessels , to Hawaiian and Puerto RIcan owners, writes the Washing- " ton correspondent of the New York Jour nal of Commerce, is thus excluded, but all the privileges of an American register are extended to bona fide vessels of Hawaiian and Puerto Rican character at the time when the die was cast for bring ing tho islands and their citizens under American sovereignty. The legislation adopted is in pursuance of the recom mendations of Mr. Chamberlain, the com missioner of navigation, In his annual report to the secretary of the treasury. Mr. Chamberlain pointed out that the order of the president, restricting trade between the United States and Puerto Rico to registered American vessels, had already resulted In an improvement In the transportation "facilities between the island and the United States. In refer ence to the limitations of the proposed law, extending the rule of the coasting trade over Puerto Rico, and shutting out foreign vessels, Mr. Chamberlain said: "The means of communication between this country and the island are now more frequent, quicker and more comfortablo than they ever were under Spanish rule. Through the representations of sugar planters on the Island, the order was temporarily modified for the sugar ex port season In so far as to permit for eign vessels to carry Cargo from Puerto Rico to tho United States. No necessity for this exception now exists, and the passage of the bill -will, without doubt, add to the Improvements la transporta tion facilities already marked." The action of the senate committee on commerce in authorizing favorable reports on these bills was a graceful compliment to Senator Frye's mastery of the subject of navigation. The bills might properly have gone to the new committee on Pacific islands, which also has jurisdiction; of Puerto Rico. Senator Frye consulted the chairman of this committee and found a disposition to leavo to him the proper action on this delicate subject. In the house, as well as the senate, the ques tion of jurisdiction might prove trouble some if there were any jealousy between the committees. General Grosvenor, of Ohio, the new chairman of the committee on merchant marine, introduced both bills, but while that relating to Hawaii went to his committee, that relating to Puerto Rico was referred by the speaker to the committee on insular affairs. There will probably bo no difficulty In securing har monious action and the early passage of the senate bills by the house. The situa tion in Cuba Is somewhat more delicate, since the Island is not officially treated as belonging to the United States. The essential section of the bill Introduced by General Grosvenor on this subject, which was referred to his own committee, Is as follows: "That vessels owned by citizens of Cuba and documented as such by officers of the United States shall hereafter be entitled in ports of the Unltel States to the rights and privileges of vessels of tho most fa vored nation, and they and their cargoes shall be subject to no higher charges m ports of the United States than are Im posed on the vessels and cargoes of the most favored nation In the same trade." The administration has frankly accepted the policy of commercial freedom In the commerce of tihe Philippines, and Commis sioner Chamberlain, In his annual report, quotes the declarations made by the Amer ican commissioners at Paris regarding the purpose of the United States in this regard. Mr. Chamberlain believes, how ever, that some provision for tho protec tion of American vessels owned by Amer ican citizens engaged in trade in the East should be made. This subject may lead ro some debate and delay in the?commlt tees. but action is likely to be taken be fore the adjournment of congress. What was said hy Commissioner Chamberlain on the subject waa, In part, as follows: "It is reasonably certain that in the fu ture there will be increased American commercial activity not only in the East, but in South Africa and elsewhere. Amer ican trading houses will be established, and In the prosecution of trade will pur chase vessels, chiefly for local use. For example, American houses In China and Japan will require small vessels for trade with the Philippines and for the coasting trade of China. The subject of documents for such vessels is not new, for in his annual message of December 1, 18S4, the late President Arthur said: " 'The recent purchase by citizens of the United States of a trading fleet heretofore under the Chinese 'flag has considerably enhanced our commercial Importance in tho East, In view of the large number of vessels built or purchased by American citizens in other countries and exclusive ly employed In legitimate traffic between foreign ports under the recognized protec tion of our flag, It might be well to provide a uniform rule for their rejrlstratlon and documentation, so that the bona fide prop erty rights of our citizens therein shall be duly evidenced and properly guarded.' "The reasons In support of that recom mendation are stronger now than when it was made. Our relations with the East have greatly changed. Sections 4133 and 4134, of the revised statutes, which pro hibited American residents abroad from owning American vessels, were repealed by the act of March 3, 1S97. During 15 years American commercial interests abroad have grown rapidly. The right of American citizens abroad to acquire prop erty in foreign-built ships has been held to be a national right, and the practice of carrying the flag by such vessels is estab lished. Most maritime nations have laws for the issue of provisional registers to vessels purchased by their citizens or sub jects resident abroad. There is no law on the subject for citizens of the United States. The practice has been to file bills of salo with our consuls abroad, and to Issue a consular certificate certifying to the filing of the bills of sale. If It shall appear ad visable at this tinfe to carry out the rec ommendation of the president's message of 1884 a bill upon the subject will bo sub mitted." Fourteen Xcw Report has been Doctors. 1 made by the state board of medical examiners of the successful applicants for cer tificates as physicians at the Janu ary examination. January 2 and 3 were the dates when the students appeared be fore the board, which consists of Dr. W. H. Saylor, Portland, president; Dr. B. E. Mil ler, Portland, secretary: Dr. W. E. Carll, Oregon City, treasurer, and Dr. G. W. Mc Connell, Baker City, and Dr. A. B. Glllfs, Salem. There were IS applicants for cer tificates, all of whom passed the required examination exOept four. One of the men falling haS been before the board four times, each effort being so far futile, al though his energy and determination would seem to promise ultimate victory if And All- Forms of Itching, Scaly Humors Are Instantly Relieved and Speedily Cured by CUT1CURA. The itching and burning I suffered in my feet and limbs for three years vrero terrible. At niglit they were worse and would keep me awake a 7Lff 1 AW W . 1 . . J sjrXS . 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D." attached to the:r namea, are: J. H. Bernard,. Allle K. Brown, Marshall K. Hall, Harry B. Har gus, William House, Donald C. Lazier, Florence S. ilanlon, "William O. Manion, Rollo O. Payne, L. J. Perkins, William It. Simmons, B. H. Smith, E. E. Straw and M. V. B. F. Turley. Henceforth they will be known as doctors, and have the privi lege bf exploring tho human anatomy with out restraint. 0 p ELEVEN SPECIFICATIONS. Great Things Done hy England to Promote Liberty and Civilization. OAK POINT, Wash., Jan. 15. (To the Editor.) It is almost like imposing upon good nature for every one who wants to express his views in regard to the war now going on in South Africa to ask space in The Oregonian. But you have shown ex treme impartiality in this matter in the past, and perhaps you will admit this to your columns. Some of your correspondents seem to think that England has never done any thing to promote civilization or to ad vance the cause of liberty. With theso correspondents, Paul Kruger, although he has autocratic power, and does not fail to use It, not in the cause of liberty, but to destroy It, Is a liberty-loving saint, while the British government Is nothing but a nest of cruel tyrants. They care not that the head of the British sovemment, as represented In the queen, has no power whatever, and no desire to use it harshls if she had. It matters not to these people whatever England does or does not, she Is always "actuated by motives of greed and dishonesty." I would like to ask if the following acts are factors In civilization and liberty, or not, and if they were "actuated by motives of greed and dishonesty." I will not go back to the days of the "Saxon Hep tarchy," although many of our most cher ished institutions date from that ear:y period. I will begin with tho Magna Chart a. First Did not tho 32d clause of Magna Charta proclaim to the world at the early date of 1215, "Let no freeman be taken or Imprisoned, or be disseized of his free hold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise de stroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, by lawful judgment of his peers. Wo will sell to no man, we will not deny, or delay to any man, justice or right." Could anything be better pro vided to secure the liberty of" the subject or citizen than the above clause? It would be well for the admirers of Paul Krusrer to Initiate him into the mysteries of the above. Second Have not the English people. In their jealous regard for this great docu ment, compelled no less than SS different monarchs to give It their personal sanc tion? 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Ninth Does not the declaration of Will iam of Orange, whereby he bound himself to recognize the liberties of the people, date from 16S9? Tenth Did not the British government free the slaves throughout the British empire, at a cost of $100,000,000, In 1S33? Eleventh Was not the "penny post" established In England in 1S40? These are some of tho most Important, but not all the legacies, that England has bequeathed to the world, and given as an inheritance to mankind; and if the Decla ration of Independence of the 13 colonies went a step farther than the great char ter, and said: "We hold these truths self evident, that all men are created equal," It was but the natural result, the full fruition of tho tree that was planted on tho banks of the Runnymede. and watered by tho blood of thousands, more than 560 years before Thomas Jefferson penned tho Immortal state paper known as the Dec laration of Independence. None but Eng lishmen, who had been accustomed to re gard tho great charter a& the fountain- head from whence their liberties sprang. could have produced such a paper, and announced to the world that all men are 1 created equal, so temperate in all Its porta 1 and yet so firm, and pledge their lives, 1 their fortunes, and their sacred honor to maintain It. W. NEWELL. a DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Real Testate Trannferi. W. J. Hawkins and wife. lots 6 and 7, block 200, Couch addition, Jan uary 5 $1600 James Carr and wife to M. W. Hoad ley. lots 10. 11 and 14. block 5, Smith son Land Company's addition, Jan uary 11 230 H. J. Fisher and wife to C. A. La Rant. lot 4, block 23, Sunnyslde. De cember 30 , 1 John Catlln to Frances A. Catlln, block 25, James John's addition. May 5, 1S39 500 Guaranty Savings & Loan Association to Emile Strupler. lot 7, block 8, Mount Tabor addition, January 15.. 600 James M. Partlow and wife to Har riet Hager. lots 1 and 2, block 275, Lane's addition, January 10 1 Bnildlnsr rerinlts. John M. Holm, one-story dwelling on Sellwood street, between Union and Rod ney avenues. $1200. R. Sylvester, two 1-story dwellings on Sellwood street, between Gantenbeln and "Vancouver avenues, $2400. Mnrrlnrre l.locneH. Louis E. Raro. aged 31. Anna Lauter- J stein, aged 20; Theodore Anderson, 29; Hil- ma C. Peterson, 21;'Aaron Tilzer, 32. Car rie Beary, 24. Birth. December 31, girl, to the wife of Theo dore M. Hartman, 607 Second street. Death. John Myers, age 69, 314 East Eleventh street, valvular disease of the heart. Contngloui Disease. E. B. 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