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LIBRAHY, Oregon. ytamm, i VOL. XL. NO.i' 12,438. PORTLAND, OREGON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER- 24, 1900. PRICE .FIVE CENTS.. T FgaftgaL,, Oregon. $ Age... .; .Purity.. Hunter Rye - "--The Whiskey of Whiskeys' Ff svtr ROTHCHILO BROS. Ag-esta Orcroo, Wftflblstftaa end Xtehe. "'2026 North First ., rort!. Of. Meltowness . G. Mcpherson ...47 First st. Keating and Ventilating Engineer DEALER IN AND WORTHWESTERN AGENT FOR Richardson & Boynton CoSs Warm Air" Furnaces. American BoHer Co.'s Steam and Hot Vater Healing Boilers. John Van Range Co.'s Hotel, Steamshrp and Family Steel Ranges.' Complete Hotel Outfits, Steam Tables, Bake Ovens, Etc Bar and copper and tin work of every description. WANTS NEW GROUND The Northern Pacific to Spend $300,000 in Portland. COMMERCIAL STRENGTH OF TOWN HOTOGRAPHIC THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OP ? SUPPLIES.. Eastman kodaks , -arid Films BEST CAMERAS, BEST PLATES, RELIABLE PAPERS, 'LATEST KOyELTIES. 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PMTLWD, MEOM CHANGE OF MAXAGEMEKT European PIn: $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per Day Special This Week High-grade cutlery at greatly reduced prices; pen and pocket-knives in pearl and real buckhorn-han-dles; razors and scissors. No v old stock. Every article perfect, and of the best. ""RES SS&ft. sts. Wbodard, Clarke. & Co. BISHOP SCOTT ACADEMY Founded X870. J. W. Hill, M. D., Principal. Christinas Term Open Sept. 18; 1000. A Boardlne and Day School. Under present management elnce 1878. Primary. Preparatory md Academic Depart ments; College Preparation. Military Discip line. Manual Tralnlnc. Boya of all aces re ceived. ' For catalocues or information address th Principal, J. "W. HILL. M. D.. P. O. drawer IT. Portland. Or. HE PORTLAND WHTLKND, OJJBC30W 2 MEEICAN PLAN 1 if $3.00 PER DAY Art ifevsri. SI - COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS RE&DQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS AND CQMMERCUl TMYELEP5 Special rates assce t faa-tlltea u t starfe reatlemea. Tba bbj st wt to pleased at all times ta ikaw ttnu tai gixrm prises, a aei. . SOWERS. Xaaascw arm Tarlclsh 1ata estaalisaaaeat 1m tke aeteL X. ps You to Play Superbly The Pianola Is not a self-playing piano. It is an instrument by means of which you play the piano, but still control the expression of the music. It -will richly repay you to call and inspect the Pianola. It can only be seen on exhibition at our ware rooms. M. B. WELLS, NorihwcsfAjcnt far the AcalianXampany, Aeolian Hall, 353-355' Washlniton Street, cor. fork,- Portland, Of. We tre sole acenU for the Pianola. It to exhibited only atour wuronL-fc President Mellea Pats in a Good "Ward for Astoria, feat Ckides tke O. R. & & Seme Advice. 3Prasdeat Snellen says ho has been au thorised to expend in the neighborhood of $999,960 for terminals in Portland; that jthere has .been property offered .him on 'the Willamette River for this purpose, but at prices he deems prohibitory. He is now negotiating for terminal property, not, however, terminals of the character furnished by the Terminal Company, but export terminals similar to those -owned by the O. R. &.N. Co. at Albino. So says he is not purposing to pay an un reasonable price, nor., does he purpose to condemn; that should'property of suitable character be brought to his attention, ac cessible to tracks owned by the Northern 'Pacific Railway Coiripany, he would be .disposed favorably to consider its acqui sition. Property has been offered him in Alblna, but, he says. It is not of value because the -bridge reaching the East Side Is controlled rby the O. R. & N. Co., and .its use could be had only -on terms that would be prohibitory. The desirability of acqullrng export ter minals here is more or less a question, in Mr. Mellen's estimation. He says that if it should develop hat Astoria is to do the exporting, ah investment In terminals for this purpose In Portland might be ill advised. "I well know." said Mr. 'Mellen "that it is not a- popular thing for me to ex press a doubt regarding the possibility ol the diversion of the export trade from .Portland to Astoria, but It is, neverthe less, In .my mind,' a question of grave doubt whether or no the business can be held here; and, from my stand point, it would appear as if Portland was standing tin Its own light in trying, at such enormous expense, to keep all the exporting business here. The investment Portland-has already -made in deepening the channel of the river, had it been made in a railroad reaching the mouth of the river, would have -made that investment" .productive, and Portland t wo(uId always have had, by that means, a grip upon the export trade, that may be slipping away. I see no reason why Astoria might not be as successfully used as .a backdoor to Portland as the east side of the river, Al blna, now Is. The ships could load ,,and discharge there, stevedores and 'long shoremen would live there, but the busi ness would neecssarlly be directed by the exporters' and financial men,- who would, live In Portland and handle the business by telephone between their offices In Port land and the wharves at'Astaria. " "Portland's? strength -as. 'a' commercial' city would) in such -event, still remain? everything would have to go through Portland to reaqa Astoria; and it-is xiard lya .upp05abTeea36..jEhatr'th?e - mer cEiints at" the interior would "Sro throutrh I'ort- land,vwithatlv.ltst lipmenfetockk of gpdds stocks'of everj. thlng'they need to trade in Astoria, simply because ships -were loading there. Portland's Commercial Strength. "It takes capital,' ager prestige, to make a commercial city strong, and not mere ly a favorable location. Portland has everything of this nature, and it is non sense to suppose all this can be" trans ferred to Astoria, or any other place, simply', because there is' deeper water there, and "its wharves are a little more accessible. - "Geographically, the situation of Port land is favorable; it has had long-established relations with the Interior business' communities and these communities are bound to come here; and the , start it now ,has, the prestige it has obtained through, years of successful commercial'' relations with the Interior country to the east, places it far in advance of As toria. It seems to me It 'is a hopeless and foolish thing to consider the possibil ity of. the transfer of its supremacy to any. other place. Interior merchants do, not, today, trade on Puget Sound simply because a large amount of grain Is ex ported there. The Sound cities have a trade more xiccessible to them than to Portland; but the wheat country, the In terior, does not transact Its commercial business at the Sound cities, but does at Portland.. The course of our own traffic shows that the wheat cuts very HttTe. figure in where the country merchant buys goods, or the farmer comes to trade. "The cancellation of our wheat tariffs with the O. R. & N. Co. -via Wallula was a simple 'business proposition. ' "In years gone by, the control of the Northern, Pacific and the O. R. & N. were one and the same, and, through that control, the main line of' the North ern Pacific, which was chartered to go to Portland, was stopped at Wallula, and the line' became a feeder to' the O. R.-' & N., Instead of an Independent line to Portland, as was Intended. The line across the Cascades to Puget Sound was projected, as a branch. It was not thought among the possibilities that it could become the main line. But later the control of the O. R. & N. having changed, and 'it having, from a connec tion, become . competitor and the. ally of a" strong-rival transcontinental " sys tem, the Northern Pacific was forced to make its "main 'line of what was origi nally intended to be only a branch, and our necessities have forced the building up of terminals at other places, which the original promoters of the road con templated building at Portland, or the mouth of the Columbia River. In con fining our ""business to our own line we are simply puruslng the policy of other companies; and In this particular year of crop failure upon the east end of our road, 'it was desirable that our own line should earn as much as possible. " - "It is not impossible that merchandise tariffs .may later be treated in the same way, and the territory traversed by the Northern Pacific be served bj Its own line, instead of partially by its own. and partially by thafof its competitor. Prom a strong ally of the Northern Pacific, the O. R. & N. has come to be a strong com petltor, and In these days of close figur ing it Is-not a good rule to give to your competitor what you can so easily keep for yourself. s All Cold-Blooded Business. "What we do for Portland, or the Pu get Sound cities, is purely a matter of business, and not of sentiment. We are after money, and a dollar earned In one place Is just as dear to us as one earned In another. We are not trying to force business to one city or away from an other; we allow it to go a3- it will, and assess ourselves for .the extra expense for a long haul with the same cheerful ness as when we drop the business at the end of a short one. "To my mln,d, the growth of Astoria should be no more inimical to the City of Portland than has been the growth, of the cities on Puget Sound. Portland la still the great' center of capital and' trade and a great market; and It controls vastly more of thetra'dQ of the eastern part of Washington: and of Idaho than the Soiind cities feave any hope of secur ing for many years 'to come. "From such investigation, as I have been able to make, Iappears to me there is a. vast deal mora of sentiment than sense in the feeling", regarding 'the1 rival ry of Astoria for" h'e export trade land the efforts of the Astoria road -to sscure the same; and this -sentiment is fostered and promoted for the reason that the main .agericy interested makes more money by doing that business at Port land than by paying ,a small tribute to a connection, that it may go to a point where it may be handled' to greater ad vantage; and it may no be impossible that this Is with an effort so to im poverish that road and discourage its promoters that what" Is now a crime against Portland mayater blossom Into a heneflt, .should the control of the As toria road be changed -and It become what It should have been from the be ginning, a part of the line down, the Co lumbia Pdver. Should such- an event come to pass, the efforts' that Portland is now making, and Its patron -saint is encouraging her to ms&e, will, I think, largely cease, andr Portland Will expxort its business through Its natural backdoor gateway, at a less assessment of expensa than ever heretofore- "As I have1 before -stated, unless all my experience in the business 'goe"s for naught, the handling of trie export busi ness of Portland at Asfdrla, In other word3 the establishment of Portland's wharves at that poiit Instead of at Al blna, would have no, influence whatever, so far as transferring the mercantile and -financial center of the -Northwest, with the stevedores and ships." Mntnal Trackage Arrangements, "What is the prospect for the Unloa Pacific getting to Puget .Sound over tha Northern Pacific tracks?" "Good, so far as the Northern Pacific rls .concerned. We have been willing for several year3 to make an arrangement of this nature, but there are .'many things that enter Into a matter of this kindrwe want something of the Urdon, Pacific, and qur wishes, must be coiVidered. While we might not be willing to" make such an arrangement, if it was to be considered by itself, as a part of some general trade or exchange of facilities, fre have ex pressed our willingness that " the Union Pacific should use our tracks between, Portland and Seattle to handle Itsbust ness In its own way. , "Regarding Paul F. -Mohri? transporta tion enterprise I can only say T am not In a posltlbn to discuss the matter. The Northern -Pacific has no interest in it; Whether any one connected with the Northern Pacific has. Is something Ido not care to, discuss. 'My trip over the-Astoria road yester day was purely one of pleasure,, and not of business, except as the acquisition, of information- regarding connecting rail roads, feeders to the Northern Paclflb,tis always business. There is nothing fri any report that the Northern Pacific has any. Interest Ags the' property, 'or- contem plates having any. 'Mr. CHantmohd invit ed me "to" go over the road to see what a fineproperty It Is, atidso-'far'as-its" , physical condition Is concerned; it lsall mat couia De aesirea; duc it laenspusi nesa and. must. o my mlnd;-leaaa pre carious UestenxiiliK4t?becotn"eS tt4 arTbia "transcontinental line ahd.theM line that canuse it to ne best'advan--tage, it seems to me, la theO.- Ri--&'N." "Years agb that-company contemplated a line to ' the -mouth of the Columbia River. It would have been, inf.my judg ment, greatly In the interest of -the'.Clty of Portland .had the. line been built by the O. R. & N., in which event Portland would have saved the amount it has ex pended in - keeping the rivers , open for deep-draft Vessels, andba wealthier to just the extent It has expended money for this purpose. ' "There Is no sort of foundation 'for any report that the Northern Pacific is nego tiating for the control of the Southern' Pacific's lines In Oregon. Possibly1 (the story originated from the fact that, years ago, -Mr. Vlllard was "in control of. the Oregon & California property, as well as the O. R, & N and Northern Pacific" Companies. It might have been a good thing at that time if the roads had all been consolidated; I am Inclined to think' It would have been better for the whole Northwestern country, and for Portland In particular: but that time Is long gone CLOSING OF STRIKE President Mitchell Believes This Week Will End It MAY BE CALLED OFF MONDAY Executive Board of United Mine workers "Will Meet Today to Can vass the Situation. HAZLiErrON, Pa., Oct 23. President Mitchell's statement, in his speech at Fottsvllle. today that he believed the strike would be ended by next Monday, if all ,tho operators posted notices guar anteeing the 10 per cent advance until Apri". 1, was received here tonight with which was closed yesterday following an attack on the men by a crowd of women and boys. Shots were fired this morning from the windows of houses near by at the coal and Iron policemen who wer guarding the coal bank. The company, rather than see any loss of life, withdrew the policemen from the bank and sttv tloned them at the coal-breaker. As soon as the policemen took their departure a crowd of men, presumably strikers, marched on the company's property, toi up 200 feet of railroad track and set fire to a toolhouse. MET MINERS' DEMANDS. Laclnranna - Wyoming: Valley Com panies Give Notice. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct.- 23. A meeting of superintendents, representing most or the larger companies of the Lackawanna Wyoming Valley region, was held here today In the offices of the .Temple Iron Company, and an agreement was made to post ..the, following notice: "In order to avoid the complications that would result from figuring the amounts due each miner, on the notices W. J. FURNISH V-Vj i'$"i s&Vfc ' K?i ?. - iYV ;' (Concluded on Tenth Pa&e.) "'" ")- s;Av "Ti ?vs jv- '' f O' ' '' 'jt " f ' v''""'".' " '''''' X'"'r1 " 'K3f & rw'ivi xO'4 ,r:r r' iMJk ' r ' Z m ry$ - JssHfc. 1 I "1 '. J9bbbHWk. ' ? "!- MwBmKmBKmBBA 1 - '" JJmmKKKm s "&-&&,m - - . , mv ;ass!rasEaE:aas?5SSS5JsiC 'rvji$m.. N ; &W' msimmmmamgmm$mmi .v.WiSS ZJS&a vcys!&5.3Sft3S'-jjnBK54AS KfiSSfciSSS-i E!gWlg!Bmff;?a? Mi i fe&sS ??Hf&f rs"- - v?.r . , iEVnxSttpK,to.,-bfj& William a A irnlh,"3rfopuhlIcan! candidate, for (Presidential .Blector,- iBji Bnaa."o'f aftalrs'lln tlls part otthi stat'. , Ho cam her,e from illouxl 'vrhea a j boy, and has' een tdentlfled' ,wlth the business Interests of Umatilla. County, .for 20 years or more. Ho bejran,asa wool -.commission merchant In .Portland, In copartnership with John !. Sperrjr. He -was -appfojnted -Deputy United Saes Marsbaf -while In .the wool 'business. In 1800 h waa elected Sheriff, of Umatilla County.and sct-ed Jopr: years.- On-hi' retirement; from that office he was, chosen cashier of the Pendleton-Savlnsp Bank, and upon, the death of the president, the. late John F. Adam, succeeded- to .the.raanagement. of, the Institution. Indomfttfble eneruy and keen 'business Judgment hayemarked him ln'eve'ry undertaklns. No man In' Eastern Oregon has to so" great an extent the confluence of those with whom he does business. 'He is but 38 years old, and' his success porEenda a great future for film. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT NEWS. Political." Roosevelt's trip through New York State was an ovation. Page 2. Bryan spoke In Maryland yesterday, clos ing the day in Baltimore. Page 2. Chairman Jones wants the Instructions given to the peace commission. Page 2. China. The United States Is in no hurry to ad here to the Anglo-German agreement. Page 10. France is worried over the health of Its Minister In China. Page 10. Foreign. Boer guerrilla attacks give the British""! much trouble. .Page 3. The new Spanish Cabinet took the oath of office. Page 3. Baron von Rlchthofen is Count von Bu low's successor. Page 3. Domestic. President Mitchell' thinks this Is the last week of the miners' strike. Page L The Pacific Coast Company In three years has risen from bankrupt- to 51,000,000 surplus. Page 10. A New York bank teller stole $700,000 and." escaped. Page 3. A revolting crime wa3 unearthed by Pat- erson, N. J., detectives. Page 3. Pacific Coast. Thirteen-year-old school girl, Lulu Jones, victim of.- murderous assault at Jeffer son. Page 4. Baker City Chamber of Commerce pro poses way to make state taxes" equal. Page 4. Twenty-flve carloads of Oregon fruit trees will be shipped to "other states. Page 4. Linn County's vote in November will be In favor of Bryan. Page 5. Mines in the Sumpter district are laying in supplies for Winter's run. Pago 4. British steamship Royalist will enter the transport service of the United States. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Sharp declines In the world's wheat mar kets. Page 1L Northern Pacific stock the feature in Wall street yesterday. Page 11. Discrimination against Portland in the transport business. Page 1. Heavy arrivals of wheat at Queenstown from Portland. Page 8. China Mutual liner coming to Portland for wheat. Page 8, Captain George Harvey drowned -at sea. Page 8. a Local. - President Mellen says the Northern Pa ciflc will spend $300,000 for Portland terminals. Page L West Portland hermit brutally 'beaten by a thug. Page '12.- Policeman Warner arrested for murderous assault. Page 7. wheat belonging to arfother.- Page 8. much pleasure. by the mlneworkers and the 1 mine r officials. . It Is believed that nothing will now- intervene to delay the ending of the contest, which has run more than five weeks. President Mitchell was asked on .his arrival' from Pottiville tonight on what he"'.based his belief that the strike-would end'ihis week, but .he declined to say anything other than that the proposition of"ther miners was so -fair that he could " see no valid reason why the operators should not accept President Mitchell de clines to say what course would be. pur sued if one or more companies refused to guarantee the payment of the Increase until April. A meeting of the National j Executive Board of the United Mine workers of America" and the officers of the three anthracite districts will be held here tomorrow for the purpose, Mr. Mitchell says, of thoroughly canvassing the situation. He would not say. whether the conference would take any positive action looking toward" the calling off of the strike. If any action will be taken, he said, it will depend entirely upon what the canvass shoves. In answer 'to another question, the labor .leader said he would not take the responsibility upon himself of calling -on! the strike, but would rather have the National board vote upon the question. THE FOTTSVIIAE MEETING. President Mitchell's Encouraging . "Words to the Miners. POTTSVELLE, Pa,, Oct. 23. Rain fell heavily during the miners' meeting today, but the large crowd,' estimated at-nearly 6000 persons, did not seem to mind the downpoUr. John Fahey, president of 'the district, presided. President Mitchell's speech was. listened- to with great interest. His most important utterance bearing directly on the ending of the strike was as follows: "I believe it will be but a few days longer until' the operators In the Hazle ton, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys will consent to post notices agreeing' to pay the 10 per cent Increase In wages until April 1. I believe that if you stand together the rest of this week, by Mon day, at least, you can return to work with everything won you struck for." President Mitchell then made a plea that all remain loyal to the organization after 'the contest Is over, just as they aro doing now. ' ADDITIONAL NOTICES. Posted by Two Big Companies at "Wilkesbarre. WILKE9BARRB, Pa., Oct. 23. At 4 o'clock, ths afternoon the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company posted the fol lowing notice: ".Referring to the notice posted October 1, in addition to the reduction of 51 50 per keg for powder, 2 per cent will be added to the price of the car to make the ad vance of 10 per cent as proposed." At 6 o'clock men starteu. on their rounds to post the same notice at the collieries 'o'f the Delaware & Hudson Company. It is believed that the Lehigh Valley Cora ,pany and .the Individual "operators will make the same .announcement. The no tices do not mention how, long the ad vance is to stand. Empty coal cars were placed today ,at all the Delaware, Lacka wanna & .Western Company's mines, ana It is apparent that the company is pre paring to mine and ship coal. "No attempt was. made this morning to resume work at the Stanton washery. that have been posted, the companies have concluded, "after a, careful compila tion of statistics for the past year, to adopt a gen&ral average and sell to their miners powder at ?1 50" per keg and add the balance 2' per cent, to the price of the car or ion." - The meeting was attended by General Superintendent C. C. Rose, of the Dela ware & Hudson Company; General Su perintendent E. E. Loomls,' of the Dela ware, Lackawanna & Western Company; General Manager W. A. May, of the Hill side Coal & Iron Company; General su perintendent. W. J. Richards, of the Le high & Wilkesbarre Coal Company,, ana President T, H. Wilkins, of the Temple Iron Company. These companies still re fuse to make any specific guarantee -as to how long the 10 per cent offer Is to run, and-from conversations held with a num ber of them. It can be said with every assurance that they will not make any such specific guarantee. Superintendent Loomls, of the Lackawanna, said: "We do not feel called upon to make affidavit, for our offer was given la gooa faith.." - The Forest Mining Company also post ed a .notice of a 10 per cent advance. A StfDDEN RECOVERY. Yontsey Was Taken to Frankfort, and Seems in His Usual Health. FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 23. Henry H. Youtsey was placed in jail here today, being brought over on his cot. Sheriff Snuff says that Youtsey talked perfectly rational on the trip over, and "seemed to be in good spirits. Youtsey walked In the street to the jail unassisted. - Youtsey was the last of the suspects who were confined In the Georgetown Jail. Caleb Powers, who was given life impris onment, has been removed to Louisville, and Davls, Coombs and Whittaker have been released on bail. Youtsey occupied a cell in the third-floor of the Jail. Jim Howard, who Is under death, sentence, is on the second floor, and a strIctW3teh will be kept to prevent them from communi cating with each other. vWANT SINGLE STATEHOOD. Campaign Begun by the People of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct."23. The citi zens of Oklahoma and Indian Territory want single statehood for the two terri tories. The formation of -leagues to pro mote this end has commenced. The first league was organized at Wagoner, I. T. Determined efforts in this direction are being made by the leading people of those territories. Colombia Buys the Atalaxtta. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. General Charles M. Serra, of the Colombian Republic's army, arrived here today on the steam ship Advance from Panama, and tonight announced that his government hl pur chased George Gould's yacht, AtalantaV and would use .her in suppressing the rebellion. Rnssin Denies Iioan Story. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 23.-rhe Min ister of Finance, M. De Witt, authorizes denial of the story that Russia began negotiations in New York" in the middle of October lor a $50,000,000 loan. WORSE THAN 16 TO Discrimination Against Port land "in Transport Business. ' 5AN FRANCISCO GETS LION'S SMAIE Trade "Which Originates in Thi City and Vicinity Diverted" to, ,' Other Ports. The steamship MoguI which has carried so. many record-breaking- cargoes out -of Portland, has been, chartered by the Gov ernment for Army transport service, and. Is now en route to Puget Sound from the' Orient. Fully two-thirds of the steamers which have been chartered by the Govern ment for thUj service have, during the past three years, loaded at Portland In the merchant service. The men whq charter ships on business principles load them where they can secure the cargo to the best advantage, but the Government seldom, conducts Its business on such, principles, hence we find Portland hoa loaded but five transports since January 1. 1S0O, while a dozen or two of the steam ers -which. were loaded here In the mer chant service have been diverted to other ports on Government account. While the Government srave Portland " the privilege of dispatching Ave trans ports In 10 months, San Francisco waa given 51 transports, and Seattle nearly CO, although thousands of tons of freight and humlreds of horses and mules, were shipped through Portland to Seattle and San Francisco, in order that, those porfa might handle the business. Many thou sand tons of cargo for these transports was also brought by rail from the- East to San Francisco and Seattle,, -while Port land, so far as getting any of this busi ness was concerned, might as well have been a water-tank station in. the bunch grass district. The extent to which thi3 discrimination has been carried is. shown in the following list of vessels, which have cleared from the three ports In the Army transport service since January 1 1900: From San Francisco Tons Jan. 9, Aztec 2C03 Jan. B, Sheridan "3654 Jqn. 10.. Tartar ;...-. .'...2753 Jan. 25, Pennsylvania ...........',..,,.T.J3i'ft X- cu. 1. iuueiuauKn itsij 1406 ...... ..v 2561 3653 3375 1991. 364 .........171D J9G5 33S& .2510 ......v.'25ia 208S S47C", 3653 2332 2333 Feb. 12, Leelanaw "eb. 17, Sherman ,...;-, Feb. 27, Indiana Mar. 1. Thomas ;.. Mar. 17. Meade ,.., , Mar. 10, Slam .... , April 1, Grant April., 4, Hosecrans w April . Benmohr April 17. Hancock IvApril ;We$tmlriste3r ..'.." Aiaya, barren v.. .vi May 5. Wyefleld May 73; Flintshire ..'..:..., May 26, Logan ,.., May 24, Lawton May 31. Esrbert. June L Sherman w?s June 15.. Thomas 3653 June 30 Conemaugh ....IT3S July 1; Leelanaw .1496 Jull. Grant ... . ;..3G July 17. Callforolan 459T July 17, Sumner- t.e 2183 Aug. I. Meade .3375 Aug. 16. Aztec 2303 Aug. 22, Strathgyle 32S4 Aug. 7. Universe : 1837 Aug. 16, Warren 2510 Aug. 2L Sherman 3725 Aug. 28, Belgian King 2170 Aug. 15, Slam 1901 Sept. 1, Logan 3653 Sept. 1. Egbert ........: 2332 Sept. 3, Rosecrans 171D Sept. 4. Frederica .1S57 Sept. 7. Westminster 2510 Sept. 11. Lawton 1 2333 Sept. 18. Thomas 3653 Sept. 23. Port Albert 2250 Oat. 1. Hancock ....3356 Oct. 1. Algoa : 4896 Oct. 10, Leelanaw .1406 Oct. 13. Weyfleld '...2083 Oct. 16, Grant ..-.-..-.. 3646- Oct- 17, Carlisle City 1S&4 From, Seattle , Jan. 1$. Port Albert 22CO April 23, Rosecrans .'.......1713 June 6, Athenian 2440 June. 6. Lawton 2333 June 6. SeWard ........... Juno 20, Egbort 2333 June 24. Oueen Adelaide 1S35 June 26. Duke of Fife SHfr July 23. Lawton .-. 2332 July 24, Rosencrans 1713 July 26, Kvaren .1574 Aug. S, Pak Ling ..2S7o Aug. 3. Garonne 24o Aug; 13. Egbert 2333 Aug. 14, Willamette 1605 Aug. 21, Athenian 2440 Aug. Z, KIntuck 2831 Aug. 30,'Lawton 2332 Sept. 4., Seward Sept. 8. Arab 2674 Sept. 22, Port Albert 2250 Oct. , Inverness 2150 Oct. , WUhelmlna, .'.... Oct. , Oopick ..'. ....2510 Oct. , Carlisle City .1 1S34 From Portland March 8. Lennox .2561 July 6. Lennox. .. 23fit Sept. 2. Argyll JS8Q Sept. 26. -Lennox - 2361 Oct. 1, Thyra v...t78 During: the same period Tacoma loaded flvo transports and supplied a- portion of the carroes for several of the vessels which loaded at Seattle. The freight which was brought from the TEJast for theso transports could have been landed at Portland and placed on board the transports just as cheaply as It could have been: landed at Seattle or San -Francisco. The expenses of the steamer are na greater in this port than at San Francisco or Seattle, as the vessels were--nearly. all chartered on a per diem basis, which permitted the Government to send, them to any port desired. Farm products made up the cargoes of all of the above steam ers, and as .Portland ships by sea more farm products than any other port on. the coast except San Francisco, the Govern ment should have accorded this city tfie same recognition that is given it by men who handle 'the traffic on a commercial basis. Cramps Launch Russian Warship. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23. The Russian, battle-ship Retzlvan was launched at Cramps shipyards this afternoon. No wine was used at the christening, the Russian ceremony being observed. Tho new battle-ship is the largest ever built In this country. Her total cost will be? 53,000.000. The ship is 376 feet in length, has a breadth of 72 feet 2 inches, a dis placement of 12,700 tons, and a draught 'ot 26 feet. She will have a speed of 13 knots. Kentucky Miners' Strike Ended. MIDDLESBORO, Ky. Oct. 23,The ."lo ca.1 miners' strike was today declared off. Eight hundred men will return, to -work at once.