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NEXT CENTURY SHIPS
the Walker and Lurllpe, was decided yes
terday. Judge Bellinger ordering the bill
reduced to what be deemed a proper
amount.
MAY PREVENT EROST
W'VW-SWgwF
Nitrate Business Is Still Forcing
Up Distant Freights.
A CHARTER FOR SEPTEMBER. 1901
Hits Factor In Causing- High Wheat
Rates from Portland Berwickshire
Makes a Fust Ran to Astoria.
The "weakening In freights, for which
exporters have been waiting for several
weeks, has apparently been Indefinitely
postponed. An offer of 33 ehllllngs was
refused yesterday for a vessel of over 1000
tons net register for December wheat
loading at this port, and the British ship
Howard D. Troop, was chartered for Oc
tober loading on Puget Sound, at 40 shil
lings. It Is not alone the prospects of a
record-breaking crop of wheat In tho
Northwest, together with a big carry
over, and big crop In California, that 1j
causing this continued firmness; but there
Is a steady business nt high rates all over
the world. Nitrate business, which has
taken up so much of tho tonnage on which
Portland formerly depended for wheat
loading. Is apparently greater than ever,
and recent charters made Indicate that
there is not much prospect for lower rates
Jn that trade for over a year.
The Drumpark has been chartered to
load nitrate at a "West Coast port In Sep
tember. 1901, for Flume, at 40 shillings.
This is a port which Is ssldom mentioned
In connection with this business, but, -n
order that the rates which the nitrate men
are paying for ships way off into tho
next century may be understood, here
are some of the rates paid from the
citrate ports to the United Kingdom:
The Ariadne receive I9s 6d for April
May. 1901. the Lord Shaftesbury. 29s 3d
for January-February, 1901, and the Ma
rlon Joslah. 30s for June, 1901, loading. As
has previously beell stated In these col
umns, owners having ballast tonnage In
position for either the West Coast or the
Pacific Northwest have always demanded
a differential of 10 shillings more for ves
bcIs coming for wheat from the North
west. On this basis, the rates named above
would Indicate that owners would not
consider 40 shillings an unreasonable rate
for a grain ship over, a year away. Coal
rates from Newcastle are also higher,
the Norwegian bark Stjorn receives rs shil
lings from Newcastle to Honolulu, and 40
ehllllngs from Portland to the United
Kingdom. The Galgorm Castle, well
known In the grain trade on the Coast,
receives 51s 3d from Newcastle to the
"West Coast and home to the United King,
dom.
Domestic and Foreign Ports.
ASTORIA, Or., April IS. Arrived down
British bark Berwickshire. Arrived
down and sailed Steamer State of Cali
fornia, for San Francisco. Condition of
bar at 5 P. 1L, moderate, wind northwest;
weather cloudy.
San Francisco. April 18. Arrived
Schooner Guide, barkentlnc North Bend,
from Wlllapa; schooner Ralph J. Long,
from Sluslaw; tug Samson, towing barge
Washougal. from Astoria; steamer Em
pire, from Coos Bay. Sailed Steamer
Columbia, for Portland.
Kong Kong. April 18-Arrived previous,
ly KInshlu Maru. from Seattle: April
13, City of Dublin, from Tacoma, via
Hlogo, etc.
Sydney, April 18. Arrived previously
Mariposa, from San Francisco.
London, April 18. Arrived Manitou,
from New York.
Cherbourg. April IS. Arrived Phoenicia,,
from New York, for Hamburg.
Boulogne. April IS. Sailed Batavia,
from Hamburg, for New YorlC
Southampton, April 18. Sailed Saale,
from Bremen, for New York.
Liverpool, April 18. Sailed Belgenland,
for Philadelphia.
New York. April 18. Sailed Oceanic, for
Liverpool; Wcstcmland. for Antwerp. Ar
rivedAmsterdam, from Rotterdam: Bre
men, from Bremen and Southampton.
New York. April IS. Arrived Cuflc.
from Liverpool.
San Francisco. April 18. Arrived
Steamer Mackinaw, from Seattle; steam
er Mattewan, from Tacoma. Sailed
Steamer President, for Bristol Bay: steam
er Kodlak. for Karluk; steamer Welling
ton, for Chemalnus; steamer Sin.a Cruz,
for Seattle.
Port Townsend Arrived April 17 British
ship Brodick Castle, from Hong Kong.
Tacoma, April IS. Arrived German sh'p
Llabcth, from Hlogo.
HUo Arrived April 3 British steamer
Port Stephens, from Seattle.
Hoqulam. Wash., April 17. Arrived
Schooner Lllllbonne, from San Francisco,
for Aberdeen. April 16 Arrived Schoon
er John F. Miller, from San Pedro, for
Hoqulam.
MovIIle, April IS. Arrived Ethiopia,
from New York, for Glasgow.
GlaBgow, April 18. Arrived Samaritan,
from New York; Grecian, from Philadel
phia. Bremen. April 18. Arrived Kaiser Wll
hclm der Grosse, from New York, via
Cherbourg and Southampton.
Rotterdam. April IS. Arrived Rotter
dam, from New York.
New York. April 18. Arrived Teutonic,
from Liverpool.
BELGIAX KIXG CLEARS.
Santa Fe Liner Taken a Part Cartro
of Wheat and Flour for Orient.
The California & Oriental Steamship
Company's liner Belgian King cleared at
the Custom-House yesterday for Hong
Kong and way ports. Including San
Diego, where she will finish out her cargo
with cotton. The nteamer took wheat
and flour only from this port, and It was
conslsned to but two ports In the Orient.
For Hons Kong there was 10,176Vi barrels
of flour, valued at I26.C0, and CCCC bushel
of wheat, valued at JUCT. For Yokohama
there was 2CH bushels of wheat, valued at
$3065, and 315G barrels of flour, valued at
J'-CTO. The steamer had aboard. In ad
dition to this cargo, several hundred tons
of flour which she secured at San Fran
cisco. She will leave down the river this
morning. The next steamer of the line
is the Thyra, which has already made one
trip to Portland.
The Thyra left Yokohama April IS, and
will call at San Diego to discharge Inward
cargo and also San Francisco. Making al
lowance for these delays, she should reach
Portland about May 10. The Braemar, ot
Dodwell & Co.'s regular line. 1a due at
Portland next week, but wl'.l not get away
until past the first of next month, and as
the Argyll, of the same line, will reach
Portland about May 30, we will have at
least three Oriental steamers next month.
FAST TOWIXG TIME.
Berwickshire, Fully Loaded, Towed
to Astoria In 12 Hour. .
The British bark Berwickshire yesterday
made one' of the fastest trips on record
for a loaded sailing vessel between Tort
land and Astoria. She left Portland har
bor at daylight yesterday morning. In tow
of the steamer R. R. Thompson. Captain
Joseph Turner, and at 4 o'clock arrived
down ct Astoria, making the run In 1!
hours. The Berwickshire Is a small ves
sel, registering less than 1000 tons, but she
Is drawing 19 feet ot water, and carried
1C00 tons of flour. Thte Thornllebank also
left down yesterday forenoon In tow of
the Ocklahama, but as she was several
hours later than the Berwickshire In
leaving, and was drawing over 23 feet of
water, she will not arrive down until to
day. The William Law, which cleared
yesterday, will leave down tomonow.
leaving the harbor bare of loaded ships,
but with at least one nearly ready for sea.
DAMAGE BY BROKEN DITCH.
Loss About $50O Man's Lejr Sawed by
n Wire Fence.
NORTH YAKIMA. April 18. The Moxee
ditch broke through Its banks near the
Granger place last Friday night and did
considerable damage. The Hubbard ditch
lleb Immediately below the Moxee ditch.
In that place, and tho flood broke It In
four places. The water waa shut off
above, and IS men were put to work to
repair the breaks Saturday and Sunday.
The loss of the Moxee Company was about
Judge Davidson yesterday sentenced G!d
Crull to serve one year In the peniten
tiary for stealing a team from Fred Lead
better last December. Andrew Teale,
colored, got a year for burglary.
C. P. Wilcox has Just had returns from
a car of dried prunes shipped East. H
has been holding off on their sale for
several weeks, hoping for bjtter prlcjs,
but finally closed out at 1& cents a pound.
Three carloads which he shipped In the
Fall brought him 3 cents a pound.
While Bogus Henderson, who Is employed
by E. W. Dooly, was riding a vlcloui
horse down a lane between "barbed wire
fences m this morning, the horse got un.
manageable and crowded against the wire.
The result was that the greater part of
the side of Henderson's leg next the fence
was cut and torn away. The bones both
above and below the knee were sawed
neaily In two. He was brought to town
on the freight this afternoon and taken
to the hospital. It Is more than likely that
ho will lose the leg.
The Fruit Interest Should Not
Sutler From It
HOW IT HAY BE WARDED OFF
AMOTHElUfriE RACE.
Leyland Brothers nnd Adolf Sail an
Even Contest.
Tie races between the different ships of
the December grain fleet are becoming the
rule. Instead of the exception, and no such
number of even contents have ever before
been reported by vessels leaving th'e 'port.
The last pair of Portland grain ships to
sail a tie Is the German ship Adolf and
the British ship Leyland Brothers, which
arrived out Monday, with 133-day pas
sages to their credit. This makes a total
of 11 vessels of the December grain fleet
which have arrived out. and the average
passages are the fastest that have ever
been made by such a large fleet leaving
port at about the same time. They arc
as follows:
Days
Name out.
Kirkcudbrightshire 130
Arctic S:ream 130
Fulwood ... 130
Sierra Miranda lil
Crown of Germany 131
Benec'a in
Royal Forth VI
Alclnous 122
Leyland Brothers 123
Adolf i ; - 133
Kate Thomas 125
Average pis. age, 121& days.
Another Grain Cnrco,
The British ship William Law cleared
yesterday for Qucenstown or Falmouth
for orders, with 101.S53 bushels of wheat,
valued at CS.0M. She was dlspitched by
Balfour. Guthrie & Co., and will leave
down the river tomorrow. The William
Law was the last of a trio of ships which
suffered several days' delay on account of
a scarcity of sailors. The next vessel to
finish will be the Inverness-shire, but It it
not thought probable that she will ex
perience any delay through the scarcity of
sailors. .
Lnkme Libeled for n Collision.
SEATTLE. April IS. A libel suit for
10,000 damages was filed In the Federal
Court here yesterday, by the Queen Eliza
beth Company. Ltd., an English cor
poration, against the steam schooner
Lakme, jrrowing out of a collision April
14 between that vessel and the British
ship Queen Elizabeth in tow of a tug.
The ship will be docked for repairs here
today.
In Mr. Knmm's Fnvor.
Tho case In the United States Court
against Kamm, to recover for repairs to
MAXY JAPANESE COMING.
Snld to He Lenvliifr Their Country to
Avoid FlRhtlnrc Kassln.
TACOMA, April IS. The present Impor
tation of Japanese to Puget Sound has
reached unprecedented figures, and thou
sands more of the subjects of the Mikado
ate now afloat headed this way. During
the month of April 3500 Japanese have b:en
landed In Puget Sound ports and British
Columbia, and of the men landed In the
latter ports fully two-thirds And their way
across the border.
The reason for' the present rush Is that
the Japanese are leaving their native land
In consequence of the reported lmmlnenc!
of war between Japan and Russia, and
that the closing of the gates of Hawaii
has diverted the stream of Japanese this
way. The rush will end as suddenly as it
began within the next few days, when
the demand for men In the canneries and
the railroads shall be satisfied.
HELD rOLICCMAX AT IIAT.
Falrhnvrn Rnrslarx Escaped With
$SOO Worth of Booty.
FAIRHAVEN. Wash.. April 18. In an
attempt to capture four burglars In a
store here last night, eight shots were ex
changed between them and Policeman Con
nelly. No damage was done on either side.
The burglars escaped with SJ00 worth of
booty.
Reslrrnntlon of Jndcre Gordon.
SEATTLE. April IS. Chief Justice Gor
don, of the Supreme bench, at Olympla.
todaytendered his resignation to Governor
Rogers, to take effect August 1. In an In
terview, Justice Gordon said he had
hoped to retire earlier, but "public busi
ness and a sense ot what Is due his as
sociates and his successor required that
he remain until August L
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DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Real Estate Transfers.
Rufus Mallo-y and wife to WIUls T.
Istcd and Jes..e B. Is'.ei. lots 2. 3,
block 1. Scwell's Addition; April 16..J 1
John H. Bartholf et ux. to Alice
AValker, lot 3. block 13), Portland;
Match 31 -. 1
Enurinus Versteeg and wife to Ma
rlon Versteeg and Garret N. Ver
steeg. 15 aces, section 21. T. 1 N..
R. 1 E.; April 14 5
I. H. Koch and wife to Emma S.
Purdy, lot 6, block 4. Rosedale: April
17 501
Bnlldlne Permit.
J. C Alnsworth, repairs to house on
Seventh street. COO.
Marriage License.
John Conklln, aged 22, Mary Slmonson,
aged IS.
Births.
April 4 Girl, to the wife of Charlei
Swanson. 230 Thirteenth street.
April 10-Glrl. to the wife ot Charlei
Ducott. C91 Taggart street.
Deaths.
Nye Ling, aged 43 years; drowned.
April 17 Rev. W. C. Crawford, aged 41
years 11 months, 131 East Tenth street;
tuberculosis.
Contagions Diseases.
Mrs. Robert Schleve. 629 Clay street;
typhoid fever.
Joseph Oman, aged IS years, 247 Meade
street; typhoid fever.
Bert Cohen, aged 9 years. 74 Seventh
street; scarlet fever.
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Avoid harsh purgative pllli. They make
you sl:k and then leave you constipated.
Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate the
bowels and cure you.
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Hardman Pianos. Wiley B. Allen Co.
Method of Asccrtalnnar Threntenlnc
Conditions Has Lontr Been Known
Preventive Cheap and Easy.
Secretary Henry E. Dosch, of the Ore
gon State Board of Horticulture, Is of tho
opinion that whatever loss the fruit Inter
ests suffered by the recent frost was pre
ventable by a simple method of ascer
taining the threatening condition of weath
er and tho application ot smudges to pro
tect the orchards. In speaking of the
matter yesterday Mr. Dosch said:
"Again we read that the peach and pear
crop of Southern Oregon, and part of thu
prune crop in Clark County, Washington,
and elsewhere, was seriously Injured, if not
destroyed, by the severe frosts of last
week. If true. It means a loss ot not
less than 300 carloads of fruit. I am of
the opinion, however, that, as usual, the
outcome will be much better than now pre
dieted. "It seems strange that such a state ot
affairs or even rumors of that kind should
at all exist In the closing year of this 19th
century. What Is the use of the experi
ment stations throughout the wor.dT What
Is the use of the United States Weather
Bureau? What is the use of all the
scientists, who make It a study to en
lighten our fruitgrowers? What Is the
use of spending thousands and thousands
of dollars In publications for the educa
tion of fruitgrowers? What Is the use of
bortlculturajjmmlsslons writing, lectur
ing and teaching If' the scholars will not
learn?
"There Is no more use In losing fruits
from frosts than from the sun's rays la
midsummer. For years we have pub
lished In our reports the modus operandi
of foretelling frosts, and tho manner of
preventing Injury. On page 431, ot our last
report. 000 copies of which have been
distributed," we reprint a very able paper
on this subject by Professor S. M. Blend
ford. Weather Bureau Observer, now lo
cated at Boise. Idaho, giving data In full,
as well as tables showing the temperature
of the dew point. In degrees Fahrenheit,
and the means of ascertaining It. Permit
me to quote, in part:
Knowledge concerning the conditions undsr
which frost forms, and the practical methods
of preventing the same, are as essential to suc
cess In horticultural work as a knowledge of
the chemical properties of the soils favorable
to plknt grotrth.
The condition favorable to the formation ot
frosts are simple. Anyone without a technical
knowledge ot physics can understand the sim
ple rules under which the aqueous vapor of the
atmosphere is deposited in the form ot dew or
frost, and, by forethought, applying the knowl
edge thus obtained in a manner which will
contribute largely to success In the cultivation
of plants, or prevention of Injury to bloom.
The most perfect condition for the formation
of frost is a clear sky with the wind calm.
With the sky clear and a fresh breeze blowing,
frost will not likely occur, since the Influx of
fresh air absorbs the moisture as rapidly as it
Is deposited upon the object. The most preva
lent method of frost prevention, and one which
has been successfully tried In nearly all por
tions of the United States, Is the making ot
smudge Ores, by which a Tell ot smoke is
made to extend over the district where frost
Is likely to occur.
By dew-point Is meant the temperature to
which It would be necessary for an object to
cool so thst the vapor ot the atmosphere would
condense upon Its surface. By relative humid
ity is meant a convenient term for expressing
the amount of moisture which the air should
contain. When the air Is saturated with
aqueous vapor It Is said to contain 100 per
cent.
To ascertain the dew-point or probable tem
perature to which objects will likely cool. It
Is necessary to be provided with two good
thermometers. Cover the bulb of one with
muslin; Insert the covered bulb or wet bulo
thitmometer In clean water until the muslin n
completely saturated; attach a strong rtrtng to
the wet bulb thermometer and whirl rapidly In
the air. taking frequent readings to determine
the lowest reading; then rt-ad the dry bulb
thermometer and tako the difference between
the readings of the dry and wet bulb ther
mometers. Refer to the table to ascertain the
dew-point. Follow down the column until a
temperature corresponding to the reading ot
the dry bulb is reached, then to the right until
arriving at the column corresponding to the
difference between the readings of the dry and
wet bulb thermometers; the number at the In
tersection of the columns will be the dew
point. ,
"These tables can be had for the asking
from the United States Weather Bureau,
from which the lowest point reached dur
ing the night can be ascertained; for In
stance, it the dry thermometer registers
40 degrees and the wet thermometer 31
degrees, a difference of 6 degrees, the low
est point will be 23 degrees before morning,
which seems to have been the condition
in Southern Oregon last week.
"The most successful smudgo fires havo
been with wet straw. Frosts will some
times penetrate a dry smoke, especially In
valleys skirted by high hills or mountain,
but a steam-saturated smoke has proved
best In Southern California In the orange
groves, and will In Oregon. In small or
chards (.Imply build wet straw smudges
around the places. But In commercial
orchards they use Iron wagons, on which
the flrrs are built, covered with wet straw,
and then driven, after midnight, through
tho orchards. The steam smoke fettles
over the trees, and Injury Is prevented.
The labor Is so little and the expense so
small that It sems incredible that orchard
lsts take any chances whatever. Only
one man. Mr. McLennan, near Central
Point, in Jackson County though I hope
there were others Is reported to havo
caved his fruit by smudge fires, built
around his orchard.
"To be forewarned Is forearmed, and as
the warning notes have been sounded for
years, we should have been prepared to
meet the conditions."
PERSONAL MENTION.
E. C Beede. of Seattle, Is registered at
the Portland.
C. C Fletcher, of McCoy, is registered
at the Perkins.
D. Campbell, of Spokane. Is registered
at the Portland.
Perry Cram, of PrlneviHe, Is registered
at the Perkins.
D. Campbell, of Spokane, is registered
at the Portland.
F. J. Martin, of McMInnville, Is regis
tered at the Perkins.
D. J. Collins, of Independence, Is regis
tered at the Perkins.
William Mackerell, of Molalla. is regis
tered at the St- Charles.
E. P. McCornack. a Salem attorney. Is
registered at the Imperial.
J. Cy Smith, a steamboatman of Rai
nier. Is at the St. Charles.
Judge Cake has gone to Eastern Ore
gon and will be back Monday.
W. II. Leeds. State Printer. Is regis
tered at the Imperial, from Salem.
John C Luce, a stockralser.of the John
Day Valley, Is at the St. Charles.
D. R. McGInnts, a St. Paul. Minn.,
railroad man. Is registered at the Impe
rial. C. Wentz, a teacher Jn the deaf-mute
school at Salem, Is registered at the Im
perial. L. R. Sunderland and R. E. Tully, of
Reno. Nev., arc registered at the St.
Charles.
George Brown, freight agent of the As
toria & Columbia River Railroad. Is reg
istered at the Imperial, from Astoria.
W. M. Purcell. a well-known traveling
man of San Francisco, was taken to St.
Vincent's Hospital yesterday suffering
from a severe attack of pneumonia.
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lowing Portland people are registered at
local hotels: Mrs. H. E. Ntfbte. H. S.
Sladen. W. L. Wood. D. R. Nelson, at the
Occidental: Miss Sausberg, at the Grand:
S. E. Fletcher, at the Palace,
NEW TORK. April 18. Northwestern
people registered .at New York hotels to
day as follows:
From Portland W. H. Corbctt and wife,
at Hotel Savoy: R. F. Prael, at tho Herald
Square Hotel.
From Seattle E. Chlopeck. at the Astor
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THE REDMAN'S ANCESTORS.
Scientists Will Try to Trace Them to
Asiatic Stock.
SAN FRANCISCO, April IS. Three sci
entists, comprising the Jessup expedition,
sent out by the American Museum of Nat
ural History, of New York, to explore the
unknown portions of Northeastern Sibe
ria, have sailed from this city. They are
Norman C. Buxton, an American, and two
Russians Waldemar Gogaras and Walde
mar Jackelson. One object of their trip
will bo to determine whether or not the
American Indian is descended from Asiat
ic stock. The Russians will touch mainly
upon the ethnological phae, studying the
native language and songs, customs and
physical characteristics of almost every
tribe that Inhabits the northeastern rec
tlon of Siberia. Buxton will conline his
work mainly to the zoological field, to
ward making a new and rare collection of
birds and mammals, for the big museum
In Central Park. They expect to be gone
at least two years.
ElRlity-flrxt Anniversary.
Orient Lodge. No. 17, I. O. O. F.. and
Omega and Utopia Lodge, Rebekah De
gree, will jointly celebrato the Slst annl-
Ivorsary of the establishment of the order
In America next Wednesday night, at their
hall on Grand avenue and East Pina
strectr. The Joint committees of all thesa
lodgcn are working on the programme for
this celebration, and a good time is ex-
' pected. Industrial Lodge, ot Alblna. also
has a committee out to confer with Penm-
j sula. Lodge, meeting at Portsmouth, ro-
i carding a joint celebration, "but so far no
definite arrangements have been effected.
The Blalock Fruit Company has let con
tract for laying the sewer main which,
will connect the Walla Walla: sewage sys
tem with Us farm, to M. A. Carls, foe
JSS7.