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V 2-i' . if."" ' A ' Nrw Vt v..rri-('rjs. THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY,- APRIL' 3, 190ft THE TRESTLE GAVE WAY riVHECK OF A FREIGHT TRACT OS SPOKAXE A XORTHERX. Rotten Bridge Caosei the Accident -Tke Bead Bralcematxt Was Severely Injared. SPRINGDALE, Wash., April 2. At an early hour this morning, the north-bound freight train on the Spokane & Northern, consisting: of an engine and 31 cars, load ed with general freight, went through the trestle at Sheep Creek, half a mile north of Eprlcgdale. Charles Dunlap, head brakeman, was severely injured, two ribs being broken. The rest of the train crew escaped with a. few bruise. Four tramps were stealing a ride, but none was se verely hurt. The rotten condition of the trestle Is said to have been the cause of the accident. The trestle Is 250 feet long and 40 feet high. The engine and one car had reached the northern approach, when, without warn ing, the big trestle gave way, carrying 20 cars to the gulch below. The caboose and eight cars remained on the southern approach. Not a timber of the trestle was left in place. Brakeman Dunlap Jumped,on the lower side, and rolled down the bank. The rest of the train crew Jumped on the upper side, and were not hurt. The four tramps went down with the cars, but miraculously escaped with a general shaking up. As soon as the cam reached the bottom they caught fire. All the cars were burned with their con tents. The loss is not yet known. V ALASKA TELEGRAPH. Progress of Work on the Atlln Line The Census. SKAGWAT. Alaska, March 25. The last lot of the big consignment of wire and other supplies being taken to Atlln for the beginning of the work on the Domin ion telegraph line from Atlln to a connec tion with the outside world at Quesnelle, got away from Bennett Sunday of this week. The Red Line Transportation Com pany and Johnson's teams took the ma terial from Bennett to Atlln over the lee of Lake Bennett, Taku Arm and Lake Atlln. J. B. Charleeoi. superintendent in charge of the construction of the en tire line, is expected here the first week in April, on the way to Lower British Columbia, in connection with the enter prise. Wire being used In the construc tion of the AtUn-Quesnelle line Is of American make, and is from Pittsburg. The Alaska. Census. An interesting review of the work of taking the 12th .United States census of all the vast territory of Alaska south of the Tukon watershed is given by W. A. .Kelly, superintendent of the census for this district, who has been visiting Skag way this week. Mr. Kelly says: "it will cost Uncle Sam $30,000 to com plete the enumeration in my district. I cover all of what is known as Western Alaska and Southeastern Alaska, and do the work with the assistance of 23 enu merators and one assistant superintendent. The most difficult work will probably be 1n the Copper River country, and for traveling in that district the War Depart ment will furnish ns with horses from the expedition sent to Valdes under Cap tain Abercromble, to build the Alaskan telegraph lino to the Interior. The dlffi culy of the work Is enhanced through the fact we have to secure data about every Indian, as well as every white, and the sparsely settled condition of the Cop per River country only makes It harder to get from place to place there. Work there will begin the middle of June. The Copper River country will also be enumer ated in the Summer. The enumeration of the Cook Inlet country has been begun. The enumerator Is working in the interior of the district sow. going from place to place with dog teams. The coast work there will be done later. "The work of enumerating in South eastern Alaska has begun in all the sub districts save that of Haines, and will be completed by June 1. The returns for all my district will be In by October L The work of taking Haines and Porcupine has been postponed until more of the min ers return from the outside. "The enumerators have all been ap pointed from the ranks of attorneys, news paper men and school teachers, and I think I have selected a superior class of men for the work, and men who also are affable and courteous, as well as Intelli gent and educated. Information gathered by the enumerators includes everything from statistics concerning the life of each person In the district, the property owned by each, general data as to timber, mineral resources, fisheries, canneries and the like. The personal records will also include that of each and every Chinese employed In the various salmon canneries of the coast." DBOME GRABS. Experience With It In Eastern Wash ington Demonstrates Its Value. Big Bend Emolre. Now that the range Is oelng fenced in. the farmer Is beginning to turn his thoughts and mind to an Investigation cf the gross problem. -Owing to the absence of rain through the Summer season, the great difficulty has been to find a grass well adapted to such condlUotis ons that would live and rereed from year to year and remain green the ear around. A dozen or more varieties of Oriental gr uses were given a trial, but they were all objectionable In one way or another, until finally the Russian Brome grass was given a thorough test, and trom all rejwts It Is certainly the gras for this country. In Douglas County there are fields of thl9 grass that have not oeen resowed for five years, and a nicer stand of grata could not be found anywhere. It Is very deep-rooted and covers every Inch of the ground, forming a stiff sod. and will -tirnl raxlng the year around without the si rh: cst Injury to It. When kept pastured down, it remains green through the dry season, and If allowed to mature, grows to a height of about three feet and pro duces about two tons of hay to the acre. The hay Is aald to be very nutritious and much relished by horses and cattle. This supplies a long-felt want with farmers who are cut off from outside range and otherwise would be forced to .do one of two things sell their cows or feed them grain hay the year around. The supply of this grasa seed seems to be very limited, but all that can be pro cured is being put Into the ground, and within the next year we hope to see green pastures in every direction. STRIKE AT VAXCODVER. Painters, Bricklayers and Stone Ma. sons Go Out. VANCOUVER. B. C.. April 2. All of the painters, bricklayers and stone masons -in this city went on strike today. The carpenters were also to have gone on strike, but as their demands were acceded to by the contractors, they went to work this morning as usual. The carpenters, who had been receiving 30 cents an hour for nine hours' work, demanded 331-3 cents, with a Saturday half-holiday. The masons and bricklayers, who have been getting U 50 a day for a nine-hour day, demand the same pay for an eight-hour day. The painters ask for an Increase of pay from $2 50 to S3 a day. All unions mentioned also demanded that all work must be by the day, and be assigned to them by the contractors themselves, and not by carpenters, to whom a contract has been sublet. Government Parties Go Xorth. SEATTLE. April 2. Three Government parties left for Copptr River. Alaska, on the steamer Excelsior torlght. Captain R. N Alierbaeh. U. 8. A., -vlth 35 men. goes to Tyonook, where he w'll preparo the Government steamer Duchetney, used by Captain Glenn last Summer, to be taken to St. Michael. The Duchesney will ply on the Tukon as a dispatch-boat for General Randall. James and Oscar Fish go north to carry the malls under contract, between Port Valdes and Eagle City, on the Yukon. They will use the Abercromble trail. A number of men and a large quantity of suppJes and materials were sent to Port Valdes for the use of Captain Aber cromble this Summer. City Election at Goldendale. GOLDENDALE. Waslu April 2. Fol lowing are the returns of the city elec tion, the hottest contest in years. Mer chant McLeod defeating Incumbent Mc Cully by seven votes, and the license ticket carrying: Mayor A, M. McLeod. 70; R. D. McCully, 63. Councllmen Nes bltt, 124; Warner. 71; Leverett, 70; Baker, 78; Shorter. 64. against Chapman, 64; Car rot:, 63; Manring. CO. Marshal Stultz, 121 (no opponent). License or no license has been the bone of contention for years, but probably was never so hotly contested on the head of the ticket. For the Council, only one non license man was elected. This practically settles the question of saloons for the of ficial year. Sails for Jfome. VANCOUVER. B. C April 2. The steamer Alpha, owned in this port, will sail for Cape Nome tomorrow without any permit from Washington, and will take chances in landing passengers, freight and United States mail. She will carry a large quantity of lumber and min ing camp supplies, and about 301 passen gers. The owners are reticent about their plans, but in case of any opposition will probably land passengers and malls In small boats three miles out from Nome. Gold Hill Xottm. GOLD HILL. Or., April 2. The frame work of the Humason. 10-stamp custom quartz mill Is up, and it Is expected the mill will be In operation May L Miners are already delivering quartz to be milled An active Board of Trade, with 40 mem bers, was organized here last week. R is proposed to have, a permanent mining exhibit, both here and In Portland, of the samples of gold, copper. Iron and cinnabar ores; also limestone, marble, coal and asbestos. The hotels here are crowded, and there Is not a house to be rented In town. Three families are crowded Into one house awaiting the erecting of new cottages. Twenty dwellings could find tenants if completed. Charged 'With Embezzlement. TACOMA. April 2.-J. B. Thompson, Chief City Detective under ex-Mayor Faw cett, and A. J. Hoshor. his nephew, were arrested last night by Sheriff A. T. Vande vanter. Deputy Sheriff Wilson and Detec tive Wappensteln, of Seattle, on a charge of embezzling 320.000 from H. G. Torrence. a Klondlker. Hoshor was Torrence's pri vate secretary for two years and was to have sold htm two mining claims for J800O. According to Torrence, Hoshor had this money and 312.000 more which he has held and, under Thompson's Instructions, has refused to refund or give a deed to the Tawson properties. Delegate to Ellensburjr Convention. GOLDENDALE. Wash., April 2. The following d-lrgates to the state conven- lr !N !mvm tlr V!11en!rhlirfi- lOTnOTTOW morning, to be present at the state con vention: W. B. Presby, G. H. Baker. G. W. Bow man. R. D. McCully, Charles Trlmblin. J. W. Butler, W. F. Byers. W. H. Hob son. George Btlllngton. Dr. A. S. Brock man. Court at Jacksonville. JACKSONVTLE. Or.. April t-Clrcult Court convened here today in regular ses sion. Judge H. K. Hanna presiding. C B. Watson District Attorney. No grand Jury was drawn. The docket Is light and the season bids fair to,be short and Inexpen sive. A warm rain has been falling at Inter vals for .24 hours. Struck by Lightning. VANCOUVER. B. C. April 2. During a thunder storm at midnight a house occu pied by John McQuarrle, watchman at Pitt River drawbridge, was struck by lightning and entirely consumed by the resulting fire. McQuarrle wai awakened by the suffocating smoke and escaped un injured. Child Lost in the Mountains. WARDNER, Idaho. April 2. The dead body of 4-year-old Frank Kotzaln was found yesterday In the mountains above town. The child wandered off a week ago an3 hundreds of men have been searching for him. Washington Jfotes. The bulb farms at Fort Belllngham aro now at their handsomest. One man has a vast number of tulips and 3300 hyacinths In bloom. Washington papers aro aaylng compli mentary things about Harry Teomons, of Spokane, who helped Harvard win the Intercollegiate debate from Tale. E. C. B. Taylor, an old and respected citizen of Lewis County, Is dead, near Toledo. He was a member of the G. A. R. and a pioneer of this part of Washing ton. The State Treasurer has called In bonds No. 21 to 25. Inclusive, amounting to 15,000. The Woman's Club of Olympla now oc cupies Its own home, corner of Tenth and Washington streets. Blodgett & Greenbaum have begun work to double the capacity of their fertilizer plant at Falrhaven. and hope this season to handle all the refuse of the fish can neries In their vicinity. The gallows Is ready at Tacoma for the execution of Mlchod next Friday. Sheriff Mills has returned from the Web ster hanging, at Spokane, so disgusted with morbidly curious sightseers that he will grant no more admission cards to the Tacoma execution. A Belllngham Bay man, named Canfleld. has a big bed of panstes planted, and will attempt to raise them for seed. The only pansy seed produced In the West !o In California, and best varieties come from France and Belgium. It he raises as good seed as he planted, Mr. Canfleld will get 330 a pound for It. D. W. Stone and Ole Nelson have re turned from a hunting and trapping trip In the mountains, bringing down 40 mar ten pelts, three fisher pelts and one large beaver pelt, says the Yakima Herald. They trapped a mountain Hon, which left Us foot in the trap, and taking the chain stake In Its mouth, walked off on three legs. The trappers followed the "var mint' two days without avail. A large number of Washington's shingle mills, probably 75 per cent, are observing an agreement for a shutdown during the present week. The reason given therefor Is that "the backward Spring In the East Has caused s falling off in orders, which makes a curtailing of the supply neces sary to the equilibrium of prices." The Eastern buyer may think this Is the action of a trust, but, of course, it Isn't. "The art of forensic discussion has been made part of the regular work of the Spokane High School, and In the near future it will be extended to all of the departments of the city schools. All of the students will be given lessons In parliamentary law and In the framing and delivering of solid arguments." So said Superintendent Baylor In an Interview with a Chronicle reporter Saturday morn ing. Try Allen's Foot-Ease, X pawner U ba ahkaa into Use shoaa. Tour feet foe! smiles, Barrona aad hoc, mud rat tired eaallr it ra ban mania tm or tlcat than, try Allan 'a root Eaaa. It roola tha faet and r&akrs aralklat aaay. Carta nolltn. iwaatlac xaat. taxroirltut aula, filiaran aad callow apota. heiievaa eoras aad Doalona of all pals, aad (iraa Rat aad oorafnrt. Try It TOBlT. Sold bj all drasziata aad aha ateraa for Xo. Trial raek n rZJJS. Addnaa. Alias 8. Olautad. La Bex. H. T. e Any Kind of Headache Leaves you quickly when you use Wright's Paragon Headache and Neuralgia Cure, RURAL LIFE IN SIBERIA FARM HOUSES ARE CLUSTERED IX VILLAGES. Industry Pursued In the Crudest Pos sible Manner Country Yield Well Homes Are Poor. KAINSK. Siberia, Aug. 23. During my stay at Omsk I have been taking every opportunity to visit the farming villages In the vicinity, for a closer view of the rural life of 'the people who are settling In Siberia, The great prairie region which surrounds Omsk Is receiving much atten tion from the Government in the effort to hasten Its colonization, and as many as possible of the Russian pioneers are being turned Into this part of the coun try. The Irtish and the Om Rivers, with their smaller tributaries, furnish a fair certainty that the crops will have water, and as a matter of fact droughts are rare hereabouts. These rivers, too, have pro vided convenient means of shipment from farm to market, so that many of the neighboring agricultural settlements are as close as possible to the highways Na ture has established. Some of my expeditions Into the country were made alone, and at other times I had for companions some of the ac- J."t- A SIBERIA FARMER'S quaintancos I had made In the City of Omsk. Tho most satisfactory of these Journeys away from the railway was eastward from the city, something less than 20 mile up the Om River. The party Included four of my Siberian friends, and It was made a genuinely festive occasion, with a picnic dinner In a little cabin near the bank of the river. One of the men was the physician In charge of the Immigrant camp at Omsk and the otner was the chief railway sur geon for this division of the road and a practicing physician In the new portion of the city that has grown up near the rail way station since the line was built. Both were acquainted with the immigrant fami lies for scores of miles1 around, their practice taking them far from Omsk when sickness was reported In the villages which they had helped to establish. Their wives were almost as well known In the villages we visited. Two vehicles of the Siberian type, called tarantas, conveyed us three horsca hitched to each. In the plc trvesaue Russian troika fashion. It was .erv earlv In thft mornlnp of a nerfeet summer day that the start was made from the door of the little log hotel. This road, from Omsk eastward over the plains, had few points of difference from a country road In the pralrlce of Iowa, Dakota or Nebraska, Near the city, where traffic was heavier, the road was dusty, but once we were well Into the country it became smooth and firm like our own prairie roads when the mud Is gone and the ruts have vanished. As long as there was no life to be seen the re semblance to the things I hod known at home waa complete. Grain fields lined the road on either side, looking Just as they would In the Upper Mississippi val ley at this season. Where there was no cultivation, the native grasses seemed en tirely familiar. Immediately at the side of the road, or In the grass meadows, bloomed wild flowers in such number, va riety and beauty as I have never seen cx called In any country, although I am as sured that a month earlier the display wad finer here. Where we forded little streams or crossed the dry beds of smaller ones the banks showed the same black soil that we know In the Mlasl-alpp! Valley, with Its richness Just as apparent. The air was pure, fragrant and stimulating. Altogether this lmprestlon of the Siberian steppes was not a bad one. The familiar aspect of the eeene was broken whenever lite appeared. If we met a vehicle on the road it was some primi tive rustic form of the Russian equi pages, which are strange enough to West erners in any event. If we passed a vil lage It showed not a single sign of like ness with anything in any other country If It was a harvest field, with the labor ers at work, hand labor was doing It all, with no machinery In sight. Even a glance at our own vehicles showed that we were In some strange land. For a team each had three horses dashing madly along, the middle one harnesed between the shafts, with a big yoke, shaped like an Inverted letter U lashed over Its shoul ders, the others running almost where they would, sometimes at an angle of 4i degrees outward from their mate, so little were they confined by the harness. Far ourselves, we were sitting flat on the bot tom of the seatless. fprlngless carriage, except for a folded blanket, which served for a cushion. Farmers Jfot Scattered. The most characteristic feature of Si berian farm lire Is that the farmers live not scattered all over the country, remote from neighbors, but In villages as near as possible to the land they are cultivat ing. Each village, then, is a cluster ot HORSES TRAMPIXG OUT THE houses. In which live not villagers in the usual, sense, as townspeople In a small settlement, but the farmers of the region round about. As far as this detail Is con cerned, the Siberian peasantd have long ago come to the manner of life that Is advocated by many an advocate ot rural reforms at home, and that has begun to be practiced by many a colony that has gone to California fruit lands or elsewhere. If the time can be conceived when the Sibe rian peasants and their Russian brothers rise to a realization of their present nar row life, gain some of the advantages of their own prosperity, which Is sure to come, acquire education and desire for more In other words, when they reach the station of the Intelligent American farmer and his family, they will have already the social condition of proximity established which is so important. Indeed, the very Snrtfa3saBg tssST f wSniKnBKRfrlttilKKESsiE&iiSBmfS fact that Way the farmers of this great land are living in village communities; where they can share work with each other and where they can learn from each other as Improved conditions are Intro duced, ought to be a potent factor in has tening the development of the country as development begins to get a foothold. The teaching of modern agricultural methods, the first education of the children, and all the cbango that will follow such a begin ning will be very much easier because oi the existence all over the country of these It Is well understood that in these com munities or others of similar characteris tics exist the germs of democratic gov ernment In those peculiar Russian Insti tutions, Use. mlr and the iemstvo. which have been the admiration of many a stu dent of t-lvlcs. The Russian word mlr means world, and to the peasant the vil lage mlr is his world. It Is In such places that he Is studying sociology and civil government, even though he does not know It. The result of this system of village life for the farmers Is that the country through which one drives seems exceeding ly lonesome. Houses are entirely lacking until all at once the traveler reaches one of the rude villages. Its huts so low that their thatched roofs are hardly to be dis tinguished from the strawstacks that stand among them. They" are not visible far over the steppes; so that the surprise Is complete when they are reached. Wo passed through at least a dozen of these in the course of some 40 miles' of driving. Usually they haVe but one long street, on -gr FAMLT A1TO BOMB. which all the houses face. Such villages have no other characteristics of a town than the population. They do not have store or church or schoolhouse or post office. They are merely aggregations ot houses to that number. My companions were able to tell me.y the character of the houses themselves, from what province of European Russia the immigrants In the different villages had come. Sometimes in a single village there, were settlers from tho Baltic prov inces and from the neighborhood of Odes sa on the Black Sea. but more often each community was composed of colonists from the same .vicinity. In locating Immi grants It Is the policy of the government as for as possible to mix them sufficiently to avoid the clanojehness of the settle ments, at the same time that enough peo ple from the same province are put to gether that they will not become restless and lonesome. The result Is expected to be the making of this newest part of the Russian empire Into a genuinely hom ogeneous people. Of all the Immigrants, those from the Baltic provinces, largely German-Russians from the vicinity of Riga, seemed to be the most progressive in their farming and the neatest and most exacting about their homes. Even as pio neer homes none of these wonld seem very attractive to an American farmer, but m contrast to- the older Siberian huts some of them were highly creditable. This best type was built of logs, plastered in side and out with mud, and then thor oughly whitewashed with lime. The roofs were constructed of poles, carefully thatched with brush and then with straw. Neatly made and neatly kept, these clean little houses, usually of one room, but sometimes of two. were quite enticing. In strong contrast to them were the poorest of the houses, those of poverty-stricken immigrants who came from the famine districts of Russia. They were the rudest of huts of woven brush, supported on poles, roofed with straw. Many of these were half under and half above the ground, like the sod bouses and "dugouts" of the first settlers In the prairie west of, the MlKouri River. We dined on the luncheon we had brought from Omsk In the newest-of the houses we could find, a. log hut not yet finished, to which we were Invited by the hospitable mistress of the homestead. She knew the doctors of the party, who hod cared for her family In the immigrant camp at Omsk a few weeks before, and was glad to entertain them as distin guished guests. All she could contribute, however, to the menu was a samovar full of hot water for our tea, and she was grateful for the things which we Insisted upon charing with her and the children. At another house, the worst hovel of all we saw, we found children sick with ty phoid, so that the help and the medicines we brought there were welcomed like wise. Life In these villages of Siberia Is rude enough, with none of the qualities we consider necessary to comfort, Tet I am assured that a distinct Improvement Is visible to those who have watched the progress of the country for a number ot years, and that the Immigrants from Rus sia are bettering their condition by the change. The lands are fertile, yielding ample crops of grain even with the crude methods of cultivation In effect. The plowing Is shallow because the plows are poor. There Is little cultivation after planting. The grain is harvested with hand slckels and scythes. It Is threshed by horses In the open field, the grain trampled out of the straw by three or four Siberian ponies trotting around In a small circle. It Is winnowed by hand and ground In windmills. With all the crudity of the GRARV OX A SII1ERIAX FARM. processes, the yield of wheat, for instance. Is from 20 to 30 fold, and as high as 23 and even 30 bushels to the acre. The people of these villages who came from Russia know something ot life in the outer world. Those of the purely Siberian villages, energetic as they are, and of Im portance in the future of the country, have lived their lives In Siberia and know little else. We saw the village of Pushklna, named for the great Russian poet who has been celebrated by all Runla during the last Summer, on the anniversary of his birth, and who Is known by all the world. My friends told me of a former vl?lt to that village, when one of them asked the leading citizen of the community It he knew who Pushkin was. "Oh, yes," he replied, "he used to be the agent for the landlord of this prop- lerty." TRUMBULL WHITE. WILL PLEAD FOR BOERS WEBSTER -DAVIS BAXDS IX HIS RESIGXATIOX. He Believes the Cause of the African Republics la a Just One. WASHINGTON, April 2. Wctstcr Da vis. Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has resigned to go on the lecture plat form In the Interest of tho Boers. "It Is purely a matter of sympathy on my part, I went to South Africa unpre judiced, visited both armies, saw much of the British soldiers and people, and also much of the Boers. After seeing what I did. I made up my mind that the causa of the Boers was Just; that the two small est republics In the world'were struggHpg against the greatest empire In the world for home. Justice and Independence. The struggle seemed to me very unequal. The whole number of Boers, including men. women and children. Is not greater than the population of the City of Washington, and yet these brave people have the cour age to put up the greatest fight in his tory against an empire of 400.000,000. I concluded at once that my sympathies were with those struggling for liberty, and I feel that the American piople should sympathize with them In their fight for Justice and Independence. "When I entered the train at Pretoria on ray return home, fully 2000 men and women, mostly women whose husbands and fathers and sons were at the front, gathered at the station to bid me good bye, and as the tears rolled down many of their faces, they made the last request of me that I do everything In my power upon my return to let the American peo ple know of their exact condition: to tell them how they had been abused and out rageously misrepresented by the English. The English correspondents havo no trou ble in getting their dispatches over the cable lines, as they are controlled by the British, while It is Impossible for Informa tion regarding the situation from the Boers' standpoint to reach the American people. If I did not, as a free American, decide to listen to their appeals, my con science would burn and the faces ot those suffering people, as brave and as nobis as God ever let live In any land, would haunt me as long as I live. I am, there fore, determined to do everything in my humble way to assist them. Their causo Is Just and God Is their trust, and in tho light of the past history of the American people, who went through the same strug gle, I believe the Boers will win." Mr. Davis was asked what course he would have the people of this country pursue In order to assist tho Boers. He replied: "Do anything and everything within their power and ltt Great Britain and tho world know that the sympathy ot the American people is not with Great Brit ain, but with the Boers and In the inter est of humanity and civilization. We should let the world know that such an unholy war should stop, and stop at once." Mr. Davis Sent h? resignation to the White House tonight. WEST-BODND RATES. Interstate Commerce Commission Resume) Hearlns; at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCoTApril 2. The Inter state Commerce Commission resumed to day tho hearing ot the complaint of St. Louis manufacturers against Pacific Coast jobbers and the Southern Pacific Com pany, charging that a combination in re straint of trade has been effected to the detriment ot the Mlddlo West. Charles Holbrook. president of the firm of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, and vice president of the Pacific Coast Jobbers' As sociation, was the first witness. Asked as to the effect of lowering the differen tials, he said the result would be that local dealers would get more freight by water. Then ho would have to buy on the Atlantic Coast and not In the Middle West, where a great deal of purchasing has been done. He said that In the lt year he received only 22 per cent ot his freight by water. Holbrook presented a state ment showing the percentage of freight shipped to this city by his firm In tha last 10 years. It showed an increase of rail shipments since 1837. Asked If he thought the existing differentials were Just, he said they were. He said he would never abandon water shipments be cause vessels are a factor In the control of railroad rates. Holbrook said that late In the '70s and early In the 'SOs, the merchants began to ship In large quan tities when the railroad became an ex cuse to secure the freight that was then being brought by sea. He said the low ering of rates had the effect ot lotting the Middle West Jobbers Into competition on this coast. v On cross-examination Mr. Holbrook waa asked what benefit. If any, would result to the consumer If differentials should be lowered. "I don't think the consumer would be benefited at all." he said, "for the reason that the goods aro brought hers and distributed with a very small margin ot profit. If the differentials are lowered tho result would simply bo the shitting ot the business of distribution from the local manufacturers and Jobbers to the St. Loulj houses." "Would not It be better for the retail merchants of this coast If they were per mitted to purchoso In St. Louis, Chlcagu or other places In the East rather than be confined to a narrower marketT" "Perhaps It would." . m WASHINGTON'S PROSPERITY Governor Rogers on the State's Pres ent and Fntnre. Spokane Spokesman-Review. Governor John R. Rogers was In the city Friday, with the Bryan party. When asked what he thought would be the re sult of the tour through the state which Mr. Bryan Is making, he said he believed it would have a good effect, but he would not say whether he believed the state would be carried for Bryan. When asked of tho prosperity of the State of Wash lngton, the Governor spoke enthusiastic ally. "There are more people coming Into the state this year than for some years past. The farm'ng portions ot tno state, espe cially Eastern Washington, are receiving a great Influx. Taklraa and Lewis Coun ties, too, are receiving many newcomers who are settling in those agricultural sec tions. For the World almanac for Janu ary, I estimated the population of thH state for the census year at 500.000. I new believe this may be considerably ex ceeded. In fact, the Census Supervleor for tho state. Mr. McMillan, estimates that the population will be at least 25.000 more than 'this estimate, and may reach 600,000. This would mean the state will have at least three Representatives In the Loner House ot Congress, and perhaps four. There U little doubt but It will have three; I am not certain about the fourth. If the state Is given three members oi Congress I presume two of them will be assigned to the west side of the moun tains and one to the east elde. The west side has about two-thirds of the popula tion." The Governor expects great prosperity for the state In the next few years. "The mining Interests of the state." said he. "are becoming of vaster Importance each year, but the people on the east side do no., realize how Important are the fidhlng Industries of Washington. This industry Is going forward by leaps and bounds. I presume there are greater opportunities In the fisheries than In any other Industry of the state. The fisheries of New Eng land gave Boston Its first great wealth, but the fishing industry between Puget Sound and the Northern Alaska waters Is greater than that of New England and the banks ot New Foundland. At oresent the salmon Is In the lead, but cod and halibut and other fish are growing In !m- The Worlds Famous MvW a. ' aaaa'ya t W7j JaWOljl 4sH BsanKl Vi aP . "l I aW jf ralyifiaK Basal OVER 2,000,000 BOTTLES SOLD ANNUALLY. portance. Anacortes was a dead town, but It Is becoming very prosperous because of Its fishing industries. Belllngham Bay and other places are deriving great bene fit from this business, but the benefit Is small Indeed compared with what It Is des tined to be in a few years." a ii Edgar Allan Vac ns a Soldier. - In the Alumni Bulletin of the University ot Virginia for February there Is a brief statement of the results of a careful In vestigation of tho military record of E. A. Poe. thefnraous author of the "Raven" nnd many original stories. It Is shown by the records of tho War Department at "Washington that Poe enlisted as a private In the United States Army, served nearly two years with distinction attaining the rank of Sergeant-Major and was honor ably discharged. HU enlistment which took place three years after Byron'a death in Greece was a boyish freak, prompted perhaps by booko ot military adventure. He served under the name of E. A. Perry, his right name coming Into the record only in connection with h offer of a substi tute. The enlistment was at Fort Inde pendence. Boston Harbor. May 2C. 18Z7. Poe is described by Lieutenant H. Grls wold, who enlisted him, as 12 years old. S feet 8 Inches In height, having gray eyes, brown hair and fair complexion. He was assigned to Battery H, First Artillery, which was soon after transferred to Fort Moultrie, S. C. and later to Fortress Mon roe. Va. Nearly two years after entering the Army, Poe was advanced to the non commlsrfontd staff, having while at Fort ress Monroa shown ability that attracted attention. On April 15. 1S3, he offered a substitute, and was honorably discharged, having at that time the rank of Sergeant Major. On July 1. ISA Poe was admitted to the Ml ltary Academy at West Point, and on March 6 of the'followlng year waa dismissed by order of court-martial. The company loll shows that there was no ground for the allegation, made during Lincoln's Administration, that Poe left the barracks at Fortress Monroe and was absent some time before his honorable discharge, in April, 1K3. i' p A Coloaiml Stutne Projected. Chicago Tribune. A project is being discussed in Naples for the erection of a statue of Christ of sucb colossal dimensions that It may be dis tinctly visible from every part of the bay. The site firet proposed was the hills of Castellamare, but to this It Is objected that the statue would not stand out on the horizon, the mountains behind being too lofty. Now tho top of CamaldoU Is pro posed. In the grounds of the monastery, but. though It is true that this 13 a point plainly to be seen from any part of tne bay. It Is not visible from the city Itself. Was This Fcllon- Served Illshtf Prinevllle Journal. A few days ago Dr. CUne engaged a young man to do some work about his place here In tonn. but the fellow, after working a day or two, took a notion to leave, and in going, forgot to remove from his feet a new pair of rubber boots which Dr. CUne had loaned him. The doctor soon discovered his absence, and starting after him overtook him about four miles on the road and. forcing him to take off tho boots, left the fellow barefooted to continue his Journey. s Strike r.t Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, April 2. Several hun dred union carpenters quit work today, as no word was received from the contract ors with reference to the demand for an increase of wages to 3.1 cents per hour. The Journeymen plumbers also struck. They demand $3 50 per day. e i Slimlacancc of the itlug. Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. The ring has figured not only In domestic concerns In affairs of love and witchcraft but In church and state. 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Ores lr W F Simpson, do C Cooper. Kalama E A Hayalo, Kalama Geo It SIpe. ICalama D M Cameron. Montrl D Bru-er. Montreal H M Madden, city L W Ball. Qulnn X Worthy. Ostrander W II Turpln. Salem A D Hosklns. McMlnn iirs u t xirocK, oo) Mrs 3 Wellborn, do W M Davidson. Rowlntt Hint Crort. Rowland Jas Kinney, St Helens Mlfs Johnsion. Dalkel capt z c wood.sumpte- Jdrs wood, bumpter R L Correll, Sumpter Mra Correll. Sumpter Miss Conell. Sumpter G N Woodward, do A H Gntrin. Dalles Mra GrlCin. Dalles C T Cooper, Salt LolM Mrs Cooper. Salt Lake Miss Cooper, Salt Laka R L Cooper. Salt Lake J G Harris, McMlnnvil C H Abernathy. Cham Tsoee C Dunbar. Castle Rck D D Clem. twis itvr J S Vaughan. Buttevl W II Kennedy, do C C Torrer.ce.Tarktonl C H Rich. Newnerg Hotel Donnelly, Tacoma. Kurone?n plan; headquarters for com mercial men. Chllberss restaurant la connection. For Goldendale. Wash., take stage at Grants. H. 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