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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1900. FREE SHIP IN PORT The Blairhoyle Misses 'Her Canceling Date, NOW OFFERING AT LOWER RATE French Baric Bossuct Is Also Behind Time Portland Shlpa Still Mak ing Fast Passage Ma rine Notes. For the first time since the Halewood was chartered, there Is again a free ship in the river, and it is not the fault of the owners that she Is free either. The Blairhoyle lingered so long on the way that her charter expired 10 days before she arrived at Astoria. She was under a 45-shtlling rate, and as freights have fallen, away somewhat in the meantime, her services were not needed at that rate, and she is now on the free list. She was reported to be offering yesterday at 43s Sd, which is not an extravagant rat when her size is considered, but with the wheat market In its present lifeless con dition, exporters hesitate about taking up much tonnage without it can be se cured at something like bargain rates. Another vessel which failed to arrive within the stipulated time is the French bark Bossuet, which is sailing around the Pacific between Portland and Honolulu. She left Nantes, France, six months ago and arrived at Honolulu with the cap tain sick about a month ago. The cap tain recovered and set sail for the Co lumbia but when he got pretty near over here, was again taken sick, and sailed back to the land of the palm and the hula-hula girl, and at last advices was still lingering in the tropical port. The Bossuet's rate was 43a 9d and her can celing date was November 30. Owing to tho erratic movements of the captain, thero is no means by which the ap proximate date of her arrival at Portland will be known, and accordingly it Is -uncertain whether she will be a cheap ship or a dear one at 43s 9d when she ar rives. JOB THAT FAILED. Paget Soand Ship-Repairing Combi nation Receives a. Jolt. Portland bidders were shut out from ocxnpeting on the repairs to the British bark Dunreggan, but the Puget Sound combination had apparently overlooked the Victorians, and the Albion Iron Works recured the contract at a rate 515,000 under the lowest bid made on the Sound. The Victoria Colonist in commenting on the matter says: "The contract secured by the Albion Iron "Works Company to repair the Brit ish iron bark Dunreggan, 1477 tons. Is no small one. The bark, which has been hauled up on the Esquimau marine ways for the Albion Iron Works, wilLbe there undergoing repairs for 45 days at least that Is the time limit given in the con tract, which requires that the vessel be brought from the Sound and taken back there complete. The price of the Albion Iron Works, aKhough a fair one, was 515.000 below that of the lowest tender on the Sound. "There is a combination between the Ta,coma and Seattle shipbuilding firms of Warners and Morans to control the repair work, but the combination re ceived a Jar that bumped it somewhat in the matter of the contract for the repairs to the Dunreggan. The Morans had secured the contract for repairing the Abbey Palmer, and It was arranged that the Quartermaster Harbor "firm were to get the repairs of the Dunreggan in their hands. TJiey made sure of the work, but their figures were $15,000 higher than those from here. They would not have been had they been aware of- the fact that tenders were coming from the Albion Iron Worko and Messrs. Bullen In Victoria. "There were quite surprised, said Cap tain Dixon, when they learned that ten ders had been sent in from this side. The difference botween the lowest and highest tenders was 533,000. "Captain Dixon says he was pleased to come here for repairs, and as far as the work has gone on at present, he Is fully satisfied with it. The workmen are do ing their work thoroughly. "In all about SO plates are to be taken out of the vessel, and some 50 are to be replaced and the others faired, or, to be more explicit, re-rolled. The keel is to be replaced -at the fore end, and for some distance at the after end. The sternpost and rudder are to be unshipped. The rudder is three inches out of the right angle. The decks are to be all caulked, fore - and aft. and Inside the deckhouses. Then, too, there is a lot of email damage aloft to be repaired." OREGON FLEET STILL LEADS. All of the New Season Vessels Are Making Very Fast Passages. Another of the August grain ships from this port, the Harlech Castle, arrived out t Queenstown. Wednesday, after a good run df 123 days. This Is the eighth ves sel of the present season's fleet to arrive out from Portland, and no such remark able passages for so large a number of ships leaving together have been re ported from any other port on the Coast. As a matter of fact, more of the pres ent season's fleet from this Coast have arrived out from Portland, than from San rancisco, Seattle and Tacoma combined, and the average passage has been much better than that of the ships from the other ports. The eight ships which have already arrived out from Portland and their passages were as follows: Vessel. Days out. Cedirbank 105 Rlckmer Rickmers 10S Rigel . 113 Fifeshlre 122 M irechal Vllllers 124 Harlech Castle 123 "Wendur 126 Lizzie Bell 134 Average number days out, 119H The vessels arriving out from Seattle and Tacoma during the same period were as follows: Vessel. Days out. Haddon Hall 129 Rhuddlan Castle , 133 Average number days out, 131. From San Francisco. Days out. Marie Molinos 113 Lord Elgin 125 Elmhurst 12S King David 136 Average number days out, 125. PASSENGERS 3IUTINIED. Deninmlcd, "U'lthont Avnll. That Three Coast Steamers Put to Sea. ASTORIA, Dec 13. The passengers or the throe steam schooners. Despatch, Del Norte and Sue H. Elmore, mutinied this morning and demanded ef their respective captains that they should be taken on their Journey. The river was smooth, and tho assertions that the bar and sea out s.de were very rough did not satisfy them. They then inarched the captains down to Weather Observer Johnson's of fice and made him decide whether It was ea.it and reasonable for the vessels to go to sea. He decided In favor of the cap tains, so the passengers are temporarily satisfied. " Bids Wanted for Moving Poltalloeh. Captain Thompson, of Victoria, B. C., tho special marine surveyor, who has made an examination of the stranded British ship Poltalloeh, for her owners, has decided to advertiso for bids for taking her off. "The bids will be opened in about two weeks. Captain Toung and the crew are living aboard and will re main there until the contract Is awarded. SAMSON IN TROUBLE. Tag Breaks Doirn While En Route to 'Frisco and Casts Off Her Tow. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13. The steam er Point Arena picked up the tug Samson off the Oregon Coast and towed her down, making this harbor today. Th Samson left Astoria December 8 for this city, towing the barge Washougal, laden with lumber. Four days later, -while off Stewart's Point, the tug's engines became disabled, and she had to cut loose from the barge. Several hours later the Point Arena picked up the Samson, while the baigo when last seen had hoisted sail and-stood off shore in a strong northeast wind. (The Samson, towing the barge Wash ougal, crossed out of the Columbia at noou last Saturday. The Washougal car ried 1.100,000 feet of lumber, which was shipped by the Eastern Lumber Com pany, of this city. The Washougal is a well-built barge, and has a small schoon er ilg, carrying enough sail to enable ner to handle herself in ordinary weather. She was not "tuilt to fly with her own wings, however, and If she encounters much of a gale will no doubt become a subject for salvage, and would prove quite a valuable find for a tug, her value with that of the cargo being about $40, 000. The Samson is valued at about $23, 000. and the steamer which picked her up will probably be well repaid for her trouble.) OLYMPXA AT PORT TOWNSEND. Six Days Overdue From Japan Hnd Very Rough Trip. PORT TOWNSEND, Dec. 13. The Ori ental steamship Olyrr.pla arrived today from Yokohama, six days behind time. After leaving Yokohama, Captain True bridge says he encountered a severe storm, which continued with more or less severity all the way across the Pacific and that the trip was the worst he ever experienced. During one of the gales, the Olympla was handled quite roughly, tha seaworthiness of the ship being severely tested. Wave after wave swept her decks, and two lifeboats were smashed. Upon arriving here, the Olympla was sent to Diamond Point quarantine sta tion to disinfect the Chinese crew, but the bay was so rough that she could not land, and she returned here to await the abate ment of the storm. The Olympla has a cargo of raw silks valued at $250,000. FATE OF THE FISHERS. Entire Crew of Gloucester Schooner Believed to Be Lost. GLOUCESTER, Mass., Dec 13. This city of fishermen is again mourning for the loss of several of her hardy sailors, this time for the captain and 12 men of the fishing schooner Slgfrled, which has now been absent from this port for nearly 10 weeks, and which is believed to have foundered in one of the terrific gales which for the past six weeks have been sweeping tho Torth Atlantic Five of the members of the crew are mar ried, and 18 children will mourn the loss of fathers. The Slgfrled sailed from this port September 14 and since that time she has not reported. The vessel was on a hand-line fishing voyage to tho western banks and was provisioned for nine weeks. Her captain was Alexander Frazler. of Port Hastings. Tragedies on Shlpbonrd. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 13. The British ship Crown of Scotland, which arrived to day, 130 days from Penarth, Cardiff, had three tragic entries In her log. November 24, John Warrington stabbed P. C. Hag lund, his shipmate, while the latter was asleep in his bunk. Leaving his sheath knife m his victim's breast, the murderer ran up on deck, jumped overboard and was drowned, despite efforts to reach him with a lifeboat. No one on board the ship knows of the motive. The second tragedy occurred August 1. Salvatori Servis fell fronrthe foreyard. struck the deck and fractured his thigh and re. ceived internal injuries which caused his death. Tragedy of the Sea. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 13. A tragedy of the sea was reported today when the British ship Crown arrived at this port. The affair occurred while tho vessel was in ;atltude 14:19 north, longitude 131:30 west. Bad feeling had existed for some time between two of the crew, John Warrington and P. A. Hagluand, and af ter many quarrels, the men resorted to knives. In the encounter, Warrington stabbed his antagonist so severely that Hagluand died the same day. Before the officers and crew could overpower the assassin he jumped overboard. His body was not recovered. Benjnmln Sewall Seriously Injured. VANCOUVER. B. C. Dec. 13. Mail ad vices by the steamship Emprers of In dia state that the American ship Ben jamin Sewall, which went ashore at Wan Chal during the disastrous typhoon, was more seriously damaged than at first supposed. Although floated after the dis aster, the rocky shore on which she had been cast had ground her timbers so that they were worn away to less than half an inch in thickness. It will be some time before the ship can leave the blocks Straits of Fnca Swept hy nigh Winds PORT TOWNSEND. Dec 13. The Straits of Fuca during the past 12 hours have been swept by a wind storm of un usual severity. Vessels arriving in to night report that the gale has reached hurricane proportions, and captains say the storm is more violent than has been known for years. On Her Maiden Trip. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13. The steam er Sierra, the new jtrans-Pacific liner of the Oceanic Steamship Company, which. Is to ply between this port and Aus tralasia and Honolulu, sailed on her maiden trip today, carrying the largest number of white passengers which ever left this port. Marine Notes. In the item about the Gertrud In yester day's Oregonlan. an error changed the name of the port where the Amphltrlte put in from Fayal to FlaveL The British ship Marlon Lightbody and the German ship Herzogln Sophie Char lotte will both finish loading today. The German has been given very quick dis patch. The steamer Monmouthshire was coal ing for her outward passage yesterday. She will finish loading outward tomorrow and will probably leave down the river Sunday. A large tramp steamer was reported off the mouth of the river yesterday after noon, but the fog shut down before she could cross In. It Is supposed to be the China Mutual liner Chlng Wo, now due from the Orient. Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA, Or., Dec 13. Left up at S A. M.. French bark Cassard. Outside at 4 P. M., large ocean steamer. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., rough; wind, south; rain and fog. Port Townsend, Wash. Sailed, Decem ber 12. ship Great Admiral, for Sydney. New York. Dec 13. Sailed La Bre tagne. for Havre; Frelderlch der Grosse, for Bremen, via Southampton. Southampton. Dec 13. Arrived St. Louis, from New York. New York. Dec. 13. Arrived Spaarn dam, from Rotterdam. Glasgow, Dec 13. Arrived Astoria, from New York; Carthagenlan. from Phil adelphia; Hibernian, from Portland. Queenstown, Dec 13. Arrived Corin thian, from Portland, for .Liverpool. San Francisco, Dec 13. Arrived Bark 6. D. Peters, from Comox; tug Samson, from Columbia River; ship Slntram, from Tacoma. Sailed Schooner Joseph and Henry, or Coqullle River. New York, Dec 13. Arrived Majestic, from Liverpool. Liverpool, Dec. 13. Arrived Teutonic, from New York. Naples, Dec 13. Arrived Werra, from New York, and proceeded to Genoa. Queenstown, Dec 13. Sailed Lake Champlaln, from Liverpool, for Halifax. Cherbourg. Dec 13. Sailed Kaiser WII helm der Grosse, from Bremen and Southampton, for New York. Lizard, Dec 14, 3:55 A. M. Passed La Gascogne, from New York for Havre. Fastnet. Dec 13. Passed Steamer Cymric, from New York, for Liverpool. Sagress, Dec 13. Passed Montserrat, from New York, for Cadiz and Genoa. Queenstown. Dec 13. Passed Belgen land, from Philadelphia, for Liverpool. Liverpool. Dec. 13. Arrived New Eng land, from Boston, via Queenstown. Sailed Vancouver, for Portland, Me. Boston, Dec 13. Sailed Devonian, for Liverpool. Portland, Me., Dec IS. Sailed Buenoa Ayrean. for Glasgow. Rotterdam, Dec 13. Sailed Amster dam, for New York, via Boulogne. Seattle, Wash. Balled, December 12, steamer Rainier, for New Whatcom. Hong Kong Arrived prior to December 12, steamer Carlisle City, from Tacoma; steamer Duke of Fife, from Victoria, for Manila. Queenstown Arrived, December 12, ship Harloch Castle, from Astoria. Washington Notes. A clam cannery may be established at Nahcotta. Scarlet fever and diphtheria ox checked at Walla Walla. The Aberdeen Council contemplates an ordinance for uniforms for the police. The Seattle Humane Society has pre pared a bill for legislative recognition. The Congregational and Presbyterian churches at Aberdeen may be consolidat ed. The telephone linemen's strike at Seat tle has ended. Both sides made conces sions. The Northern Pacific Railway Company has placed a swtlch engine at North Yakima. Owing to the crowded condition of the Centralia schools the board may fit up another building for school purposes. The steam dredger began work Satur day at Everett. The channel will be dug five miles, and the work will require a year and a half. The Agricultural College athletes Tues day elected Hans Mumm and W. C Kreu gel captains of the baseball and track teams for the coming year. It !s reported that several claims north of the Tom Thumb, in Republic district, which are believed to carry the same ledges, will be developed shortly. Factory Inspector Blackman, of Seattle, made an Inspection of Japanese restaur ants and Chinese laundries this week, and reported very unsanitary conditions. The clerical force In the State Superin tendent's ofilce have finished marking the examination papers and the list of suc cessful applicants will be published in a few days. John Henry Williams, who has been held at North Yakima for some time on charge of having murdered W. W. Scott, at Prosser, has been released under hab eas corpus proceedings. William Parks has completed putting 2000 cords of shingle- bolts into Lincoln Creek, west of Centralia, preparatory to starting up his mllL He expects to op erate his mill for several months. Elton Fulmer, professor of chemistry at Washington Agricultural College, has returned to his duties at the school, aftev several months spent with the beet-sugr factory at Waverly as analyzing chemist. The Hoqulam Commercial Company is in receipt of a letter from G. H. Carlson, asking for a site for a box and basket factory. He asks for a site of three acres, on which he will erect a $15,000 plant at once. One qt the matters affecting the County of King which will be brought up In the Legislature will be the proposition to add another Judge to the Superior Bench of the county. The matter has taken form with the circulation of a petition by the friends of Judge Jacobs, who, it is said, will be an applicant for the position. The Olympla Chamber of Commerce has elected the following officers for the en suing year: President, Allen Weir; vice president, George Talcott; secretary, Fred Schnmber; treasurer, Hugh Ross. A com mittee has been appointed to Investi gate the proposition made by John "Walsh, of Seattle, to establish a fruit cannery at that city. Amstrong & Blake, of Wilbur, have bought a large tract of land, had it plat ted a the town of Govan. and begun the erection of a merchandise store. The town, which Is located on the Central Washington, midway between Wilbur and Almira, Is in a rich wheat-producing dis trict. Rev. Victor Carlson, who was arrested on a charge of felony by embezzlement, at Port Townsend, will not be prosecuted further. Friends came to his rescue, re imbursing the complainant. Rev. Mr. Carlson says, and his legion of friends believe, that the unfortunate condition of affairs was not the result of criminal Intent on his part, but that unforeseen circumstances arose to prevent his mak ing up the amount involved. The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment In the case of Morris & White head, appellants, bankers, vs. the Board of County Commissioners of Chehalis County, respondents. The suit was brought by the bankers to compel the County Commissioners to issue $40,000 worth of bonds, which they had promised to do to fund the general warrant In debtedness existing in that county in 183S. but which the voters refused to vali date. Judge Houser rendered an important decision Monday at Mount Vernon, In which he held that the County Attorney could not be compelled to prosecute the foreclosure of tax levies held by private parties. The point of law Involved Is that section of the state revenue law which provides that upon application by the holder of a tax certificate the County At torney shall proceed to foreclose the Hen without cost to the holder. The papers transferring the townslte of Sunnyslde to S. J. Harrison have been received The purchaser has associated with him H. M. Llchty and W. H. Har rison, of Sunnyslde, and C. Rowland, a wealthy banker of Lanark, HI. They are prominent members of different branches of the Dunkard church. They propose to form an Ideal colony which shall be not ed for its temperance, Christianity and educational institutions. To this end. only evangelical church members are desired to enter the colony, and none who favor saloons are wanted. The plan Is to found a great educational institution after the pattern of the famous Oberlin College, at Oberlln, O County Attorney Felger and County Attorney-elect J. M. Ralston are disputing the right of each other to the office In Jefferson County. The former received his appointment from the Board of Com missioners when T. M. Fisher, regularly elected, resigned. The law says the per son elected shall hold office until his successor Is elected and qualifies. Mr. Ralston maintains he is elected and Is ready to qualify. Another law says the officer shall serve from the second Tues day In January for two years or until his successor Is elected and qualifies. Mr. Felger declares that he Is filling the term of Mr. Fisher, who was installed on the second Tuesday in January, 1S99. Plowing General In Morrow County. HEPPNER, Dec 13. Farming opera tions continue throughout Morrow Coun ty, and the ground Is In excellent condi tion for plowing, which Is general. No Chnnge in Heppner Wool Market. HEPPNER, "Dec 13. There' 'Is nothing new in the wool market here, and grow ers are firm holders at 14 and 15 cents, HAS WORKED HARDSHIPS EXTENSION OF OUR MINING LAWS TO ALASKA. One Among Several Interesting Ob servations Made hy Govern ment Geological Surveyor. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. One of the most Interesting stories brought back from Alaska this season Is that told by A. H. Brooks, which headed a party sent out by the Geological Survey to. make in vestigations in the Cape Nome country and to the westward of that point. The party, under charge of Mr, Brooks, left Seattle early in June, and landed at Golovin Bay. They then made their way up Fish River to Council City, one of tho chief gold districts of that section, and proceeded to the northward to the head of the Neukluk River, where the party divided, one section working to the east of the City of Nome, and the other, un der Mr. Brooks, continuing on to the westward, visiting, on the Vay, tho then newly-discovered gold field on tho Koose teren River, to which there was later a great stampede from Nome. They afte wards made their way to Port Clarence, about 70 miles west of Nome, and later to York, still further to the west. While In this region, Mr. Brooks made a trip out to Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point on the American, Con tinent, from which can be seen the hills in Siberia, not more than 40 miles dis tant across Behring Strait. During the past Summer there was some mining at Port Clarence and at York.. In fact there was a stampede to both points, but like most stampedes, the peo ple who made the rush were not anxious to work. The most of them were griev ously diappolnted when the 'found the gold was not on the top of the ground waiting to be picked up, as Is generally the case in the stampedes in Alaska. Notwithstanding their dislike of work, many of these prospectors staked out claims, and will be able to hold them any where from a year and a- half to two years, under the present law.. It Is re called that the last session of Congress extended the m'nlng laws of the United States to Alasla. and those laws provide that when a claim Is staked out It shall remain the property of the party making the claim until a year from the January next following the time of location. In which time he must do $100 worth of work In order to retain posesslon of of the claim. This may work very satisfactorily In the States, but In Alaska, where min ing can be conducted but a few months of every year. It works a hardship to prospectors who have spent their all In a search for wealth, and aVe not averse to working for it- This provision of the Alaska law has met with muqh opposi tion, and will probably bo repealed or modified. Under this same law, many claims are staked out by speculators or by attor neys or agents, through power of attor ney. This is done in hopes that some body else will come along and develop the claim, so that they can steal It. This evil practico extendaall along the coast In that region, in Nome, as well as for many miles in either direction, and litigation which had tied up thousands of claims, has proven the curse of that gold field. The beach for eight or 10 miles west of Nomowas worked extensively during the past Summer, many mechanical de vices being brought Into use. The trou ble was encountered that tho rich portions of this beach were mostly work ed out In the Summer of 1S99, and the heavy seas of the past Winter -washed over the beach, carrying away all marks which would Indicate what part of the beach had been worked, and what had not. This misled many prospectors, and accounts for the many claims that barely paid expenses. The storm which visited the Nome coast last September, in addi tion to" carrying away much of the bag gage and supplies 'that was stored on the beach, swept away a great many of the machines that were employed on the beach, covering up others, and disman tling most of those that escaped total destruction. In the City of Nome, says Mr. Brooks, thero is a very tough element; In fact, he classifies them as the toughest people In the world, with more criminals and characters of the worst type crowded in a town of that size than Is known anywhere else in the entire country. Yet up to the present there has been but little crime committed, aside from the usual crimes attached to gambling dens, which abound in most all mining towns. The preserva tion of order is mostly due to the pres ence of the military. Every day through out the Summer the streets of Nome were patrolled by armed soldiers, and their presence seemed to lend an air of law and order to the place that might otherwise be missing. Another thing that tended to suppress crime during the Sum mer was the fact that Nome has 24 hours of daylight in June, July and part of August, but as Fall approached there was a growing fear among the orderly persons that the troops would be un able to suppress all the wrongdoers, as night is a shield always welcomed -by criminals. As early as September crime was Increasing, and by the time Winter fairly settles down much lawlessness Is expetted, because of the long hours of darkness. The thing that stands in the way of Nome becoming a permanent town is its lack of harbor facilities. It has not the remotest kind of a landing place, and all goods and passengers from steamers have to be brought ashore on lighters. At Port Clarence vessels both large and small will find a good harbor, with a deep channel, and one that affords ample pro tection against storms and bad weather. For that reason It Is generally expected that Nome will in time give way to a town at Port Clarence, especially In view of the development of the gold fields in that region, which have turned out some very rich deposits. This location Is only about 70 miles west' of Nome, and is di rectly adjacent to the gold fieldsat Blue stone and Koogerock, discovered last year. Mr. Brooks believes that Port Clarence will eventually become the dis tributing point for that section of the Alaskan coast. If sor goods for Nome may be landed there, and sent around to Nome on small coasting steamers at less expense and in less time than it now takes to lighter them in from the vessels anchored some ways at sea off the Nome coast. The only drawback to Port Clar ence Is that Its water supply is not as good as that at Nome, but it is thought artesian wells can be made to supply the deficiency. All over that section of Alaska within J a radius or 20 miles or more or Port Clarence, Mr. Brooks found the natives In miserable condition. In many cases they were dying off in large numbers. As has been previously reported, measles worked great ravages among them, but It was found over at Cape Prince of Wales that the measles were not of the variety known In this country, but were what prevails in Russia, in a much more seri ous form than we know. The disease was brought over in a whaling vessel and distributed along the coast. Once It got a start among the natives It was almost Impossible to check Its progress. They are naturally uncleanly and have but slight knowledge of taking proper care of themselves. When taken down with the measles, and a fever came on, the native, according to his old custom, would strip off all his clothes and rush out Into the cold In order to cool off. In this way they contracted pneumonia, and measles, which would not have been so serious with white people, are In this way very likely to prove serious with a native, especially those who adhere to their ancient practices. Then, living to gether In huts, huddled together In a close, stagnant atmosphere. .Without prop er waimth and nourishment, theyJ are sadly degenerating. At Port Clarence In the space of' three months or less the natives buried 50 per cent of their num ber during the past Summer. At Cape Prince of Wales from 7 to 8 per cent were buried, and in other places they died off Jn percentages ranigng between these fig ures. In almost every case measles was said to be the cause of death, when as a matter of fact It was pneumonia, brought on by Improper exposure to the rigid cli mate The missionaries did their best to affect cures, but were without physicians, and could accomplish but little. In the matter of wood these natives depend entirely on the beach. There Is no growing timber in that region, nor at Nome. Having had to depend upon drift wood for thejr fuel, they have learned to become economical In its use, but with the advent of the white man in large numbers, have been driven almost to desperation, for during the past Summer every bit of driftwood from Nome to Port Clarence had disappeared, and the natives wore left without any fuel whatever. But even before the white man put In ap pearance, it Is said that these natives would use less fuel In a year than a white man uses In a week. Whenever they have been using a fire, and wish, to leave it, they put out each stick, and no stick is discarded that will burn again, no matter how charred it may bo. These natives have naturally had to look to game for their sustenance, but in this, as in their fuel, they have been greatly hardshlpped through the advent of the white men. One of the missiona ries at Cape Prince of Wales ably ex pressed It when he said that the "na tives had three things to contend with during the past year mumps, measles and miners and he did not know which was the worst." They, however, have their fisheries, and depend largely upon the salmon and torn cod for their food, although the seal Is a very Important fac tor In their welfare. They use seal oil In cooking about the same as wo in the States would use butter, and, in fact, pre fer It to anything else. The best class of the natives are at Cape Prince of Wales. They are an In telligent and energetic class, but have gumption enough to be dishonest. They will steal, if they think It Is to their ad vantage, or if some white man has some thing which they much desire, and In ex tremes, If need be to promote their own welfare, they don't have serious objec tion to killing a man to get him out of their way. Withal they make a living by trading. They have built themselves big skin boats, called oolmks, which have a wooden frame and walrus skin cover, in wnicn tney cross over 10 ma Siberian coast and trade with the Sibe rian natives. Their trade is in fox skins, which are quite plentiful in that section of Alaska, bringing back reindeer skins, used In Alaska by the natives for cloth ing almost altogether. There will be little activity in the Nome section of Alaska during the long Winter, although there will' be more work than last, year, because of the introduction of steam thaws, which will enable some of the richer prospectors to continue their mining operations throughout the year. Such mining will be expensive this year, but as soon as things come down to a lit tle more natural basis, coal will be cheaper, and this will Insure a general continuation of mining throughout the year. The beach having been pretty thoroughly worked out already, the rich est finds are now made on the creeks ex tending Inland for 20 miles or more. Even now coal can be delivered at some of the creek mines for $25 a ton, which, consid ering all circumstances, is not so very excessive. The wood Is practically all gone, and Is no longer counted upon as a fuel. Beyond the creek claims, always piacer claims, and Inland a distance of some 50 miles. Is a new gold field, which has as yet been little explored. As yet there have been but vague rumors from that section, but it is believed something definite will be known of that country by the time the next season opens, and If It Is really a rich belt, tho prospectors will soon find it out. It seems quite probable thnt this should be the next field of con sequence In the vast unknown Alaska. The prospectors have successively jumped from the Klondike and various sections nt the Yukon to Nome beach, from the beach to the creeks, and they may now move back from the beach to tne imano. fields, whose wealth no one can estimate, and no one will know for some time to come. TOOIC HIS OWN LIFE. Act of Young Man nt Cottage Grove Hnd Been Drinking. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Dec. 13. Will Jones, aged 22 years, committed suicide at 7 o'clock this morning by shooting himself through the heart. He had been drinking all night, and about 7 o'clock this morning he went to his father, J. N- Jones, who conducts the Resort Saloon, and told him that ho was going 10 uu himself. He gave his parent his watch and other trinkets. He there went to his room and tho explosion of a revolver was soon heard. Life was almost ex tinct when the body was reached. , A Coroner's jury was Immediately sum moned and returned a verdict in accord ance with the above facts. Two New Rural- Mall Routes. ALBANY, Or.. Dec 12. H. J. Ormsby. special agent of the Postal Department, today laid out the second free rural de livery route out of Shedd, In Linn Coun ty, covering the country to Plalnview, and north nearly to Tangent. J. R. Cochran was appointed carrier. This afternoon Mr. OrmsDy established route No. 1 out of Albany, which will be known as the Knox Butte route. Frank Powell was appointed carrier. There are also petitions for three other routes from Albany, but Mr. Ormsby Is not au thorized to act upon them. There will be another special here in the Spring for the purpose. Rights of Indians Not Respected. SEATTLE, Dec 13. W. J. McConnell. ex-Governor of Idaho, and now United states Indian Inspector, arrived In the city today from a trip to the Tulalip, Swlnomish and Lummi Indian reserva tions. He says that a great deal of tim ber lands on the reservations are practi cally valueless, having been denuded of their timber by former agents. Fisher men have also been encroaching on the rights of the Indians by erecting fish traps in front of the reservations. In de fiance of the law. An effort will be made to have the matter brought to the at tention of the Federal authorities. Heppner Notes. HEPPNER, Or.. Dec 13. Ben Watkins arrived home yesterday from Alaska, where he went three years ago. With two others he floated down the Yukon 2400 miles In an open small boat, last June, and went to Nome, which he re gards as a good mining country. In the mayhem case. Judge Williams has postponed the examination until next Monday, to give the defendant, Hughes, a chance to secure an attorney, as At torney Phelps withdrew from the case. Heppner's streets are being graveled and Improved. Narrow Escape From Injury. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec 13. A. J. .BIgham, an employe at Cone Bros.' saw mill, met with a very painiui acciaeni yesterday and narrowly escaped serious injury. While operating the planer, his clothing got caught In the machinery, and before he could stop the machine he was drawn In the cogwheels and his" thigh badly lacerated. Stock Is Thriving. HEPPNER, Dec. 13. Mild weather con tinues In the Heppner Hills, grass Is green and growing, and all livestock Is thriv ing on the open range. There have been several recent gray days and foggy days, but no snow or freezing weathen O. E Farnsworth and W. G. Valleer, of Walla Walla, have purchased hay on ileek Creek and will Winter 9000 head of I sheep, at W. G. Flett's place ROSEBERY AND HIS PARTY EFFECT OF HIS ADDRESS AT GLAS GOW UNIVERSITY. Why Attention of the Liberals Is Centred on. Him As Their Natur al Leader Gifts as an Orator. London Correspondence of New York Commer cial Advertiser. LONDON, Nov. 17. Yesterday Lord Rosebery delivered hl3 address as lore rector of Glasgow University, taking the British Empire for his theme. Today all England is reading and admiring It with a fuller realization than ever of the su preme qualities that go to the making of this dazzling statesman. I hive heard and read a good many of Lord Rosebery's speeches, but never one that seemed to unite so inevitably the graces of his nim ble and virile style with so much high seriousness of tone and so complete and searching a detachment of view. As a mere piece of literature, as a specimen of terse and precise English, it is an ad mirable composition. Mr. Choate's lec ture on Lincoln, delivered earlier in the week, before the Edinburgh Philosoph ical Institution, sound and in parts even Inspiring, as it was, can yet hardly be compared with either as prose or criti cism. There ran through Mr. Choate's address something not much. I admit, but undeniably something of the strain ing of the lawyer after literary effect, a sense of being overweighted not with the subject, but with how he should put It. It Is not tho least of the charms of Lord Rosebery's utterances that this conscious ness of effort, of being an experimenter In an unfamiliar field, Is always lacking. He 13 a litterateur through and through, but the fastidious labor of the file is hid den in the ease and apparent spontaneity of his deliverance. From the time when he first became known as a rival to the American Ambassador of the day I for get who he was, but one may take it for granted he was a first-rate after-dinner speaker Lord Rosebery has been tho most refreshing of English orators to lis ten to. He rarely has a commonplace thought; he never has a commoplace way of expressing it. It is an intellectual lux ury to follow the sly. Incisive turns, the aglity and unexpectedness of his diction. I used to think that his critical temper ament and amiable many - sidedness would hinder him from being a really great orator, like Webster or John .Bright. Men with his instinctive disdain for extremes rarely do become great orators. They may mas ter every other note in the gamut, but the controlling and fusing note of passion is usually denied to them. But I am be ginning now to believe that, like so many otner Englishmen, Lord Rosebery has found in the empire and In the contem plation of its needs and responsibilities, a cause that enlists his whole heart and mind, and may be trusted to call forth the very best he has In him. With such a spur he may yet win for himself a unique place among tho greatest English ora'ors. However, it is not the literary qualities of Lord Rosebery's address of which peo ple are thlnk'ng, but the pregnant lesson which It enforces. Americans. I hope, will not have forgotton how, during the first few critical months of the Boer War, Lord Rosebery alone seemed able to seize on the sacred wishes of the nation, how brilliantly he expounded them, and with what Inspiriting sanity he drew from the blunders of the campaign a moral for all Englishmen to lay to heart. It was a real public service that he rendered them. Just as effective and needed In Its way as Lord Roberts victories. Nothing In all he said was partisan or querulous or smal"; there was no fault-finding with this faction or defense of that; each sen tence seemed to lift Itself clear of party fanaticism and to flash over the empire a ray of comfort, exhortation and coun sel. Counsel particularly, for that la what Lord Rosebery sees that England and the empire stand most in need of; and It was counsel that he gave them yesterday at Glasgow. If I might ven ture to summarize his comprehensive warning, the precis would run something like this: "You came to your empire and your commercial supremacy at a time when you were alone In the two fields. You had no competitors. The earth-hunger had not begun and trade was de spised. Now the colonial microbe has Infected every nation In the world. Even the United States Is setting like a star tled hen on a brood of unnumbered isl ands; and trade, which was once sneered at as beneath the dignity of warlike races. has become the supreme object of every country's desire. Wherever you turn you find your old monopoly challenged by the fiercest competition. Have you altered your state machinery and methods to suit the altered times? They did well enough In the old days, but do they do now Have you brought them up to date, test ed them and Improved them by business like methods? A state after all Is like a great Joint-stock company with unlimited liability. Do you manage it as a man manages his private business? Do you take stock of anythlngbut your finances? Do you survey your general system and Its agents and compare them with those of your rivals, discarding what Is ob solete and adopting everything that promises improvement? Frankly, I am afraid you do not. You cling to the old rut and shut your eyes In a fatal com placency. You are a people of enormous and Incredible waste. You spend money like water with little or no return for It, and you never call your stewards to account. Your wealth, your power, your prosperity have caged you in a fool's paradise of security "and indifference. Your universities cling to the dead lan guages and hardly make an effort to equip the youth of the country for the life of today. Your civil service is good, but It might be bettered. Luxury is creeping upon your governing classes and squalor and degeneracy Increasing among the poor. Yet you go on in the same old wey, the way that unless you leave It speedily and forever, must lead to a great catastrophe. Megalomania has been your curse, it must be exorcised. You must learn not tot trust In miracles and not to profit only by your own mis takes. Study your rivals; see what America is doing in commerce and Ger many In education. Benefit by their ex perience and follow with all speed In their footsteps. You have splendid ma terial to work on, better perhaps than exists elsewhere, but yod don't know how to use it. It Is this you must learn. Let science science in all things be your guiding star. Bring method and arrange ment into the details of your business, your Foreign Office and your diplomacy, as well as your schools and army. Put the empire once and for all on a business footing. Only so can you grow adequate to your responsibilities." That, in effect, Is the lesson which Lord Rosebery has set himself to drive home; It is becoming a question of some moment whether he will enforce it from within or without the Lberal party. That the bulk of the Lberals would be glad to have him back again as their leader at almost any price Is now certain. The latest faction Into which that distress ful party has split up the Liberal Im perialist council Is made up mainly of his personal followers, who stood by him during his premiership and did their best to dissuade him from resigning. At a dinner given a few days ago to celebrate thel- birth as a new political force. Lord Rosebery was spoken of as the only pos sible leader and appealed to to return to his old position. More significant still. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. who represents the lukewarm, noncommittal Imperialism of perhaps two-thirds of his- party, explicitly Invited Lord Rose bery two days ago to resume the lead ership. But there are three very good reasons why Lord Rosebery should not listen to these solicitations. In the first place, the Liberal party is in too chaotic o, condition to be fit for leadership; In Jjthe second place Lord Rosebery does not know how to lead; and In the third place, he will be doing his country a much better service by remaining whera he is. This, I know, is not fhe accepted view In England, but I believe it to be the true one, and I believe, moreover. It Is the one which will prevail with Lord! Rosebery. That the Liberal party is hopelessly disorganized, without a policy and torn by personal jealousies, hardly needs demonstration. Time and the blun ders of Lord Salisbury's government can alone restore to it cohesion and fighting force. Lord Rosebery is the last man foe the Job. He neglects, prooably despises, the small arts of managing men. Hl3 training and temperament have made him a statesman, but not a politician. He can lead only when others are ready and even anxious to follow; but he cannot coorce a mutinous or discontented group into accepting- his ipse dixit. He proved this to the full during his brief term of office and there is no reason to think that the last four years have brought him that touch of personal lmperious ness which is an essential of leadership. Moreover, I cannot In the least subscribe to the dootrine that a man can only do good work for his country by enrolling himself in one of its parties. In certain cases a too close party connection may be a distinct d'sadvantage and Lord Rose bery's Is such a case. His outside, dis passionate and vivifying criticism would? lose half their force if his position were, not one of complete independence. CLOSE FISHING SEASON. Consistency of Commlsloncr Reed'BM Recommenilations Questioned. PORTLAND. Dec. 13. (To the Editon) I noticed In Fish Commissioner Reed's re port, published In The Oregonlan of De cember 12, that "he recommends a Spring close season on the Columola River and tributaries, to begin January 1 and con tinue until April 20. and a Fall close sea son on tho Columbia River from August 15 to September 15." I will call your at tention to the Inconsistency In his report to show that Fish Commissioners do not always recommend what. In their judg ment, they think best for the protections of the fish. He attributes the decrease in the number of salmon largely to tho' fact that the country through which the. tributaries of the Columbia River flow la becoming thickly populated, and the peo-i pie along the streams kill off the fishy during the spawning season, whether "they are fit for food or not. To quote Mr. Reed's language, he says, "and It is Eafen to say no salmon is suitable for food dur ing the spawning season." Now If sal mon are not fit for food during spawning season, which every fisherman knows is an fact, why does he open the season on September 15, right In the midst of the), spawning season? This close season vould be so short that It would Blmply allow the fish to enter the river, and not give them time to mature or reach tha spawning ground. Why not pass a law: to protect the salmon this time? Make the Spring close season from February. 1 to April 20, and the Fall close seasonu from August 10 to November 1, Of course. by making the seasons as I suggest, wex would lose the catch of silverside salmon, but they, like all other kinds of salmon, are getting scarce. It would be well to. give them a few years in which to multi ply. It tv ould be better to Jose these flsbj altogether than to destroy all other kinds of salmon by fishing for them continu ously, and not giving them a chance to spawn. In fishing for silversldes I will venture to say there is not one fish In five that it fit for food. However, many of Mr. Reed's suggestions for the protec tion of salmon are worthy of consldera-. tion. JOSEPH PAQUET. Oregon Industries. Two carloaos of flour were consigned to Portland at Monroe Monday. A raft of logs arrived down the Willam ette Sunday night for the Corvallls saw mill. Four thousand sheep from Huntington, arrived at Pendleton Tuesday. They wilt spend the Winter at Pilot Rock. W. G. Wright's quartz mill started on Monday on SO tons of rock, says tha Grant's Pass Courier. C. H. Parks, who has a bond on the Golden Wedge mine at Galice, reports striking a five-foot ledge of rich rock at a depth of 100 feet, which carries values, of $200 to $400 to the ton. This is the prop erty formerly known as the Hutchlns. Kramer mine. The quartz mine on Forest Creek, for merly owned by Silsby &. Breeden and now the property of the banking firm of Reed & Larrabee. of Helena, Mont., has, improved greatly In appearance on furth-, er development. The 20-foot ore body has divided into three veins, two of them, four feet and one two feet in width, all carry-1 ing high values. I W. A. SDencer expects to have his port able sawmill ready for operation by tho first of the year, says the Lebanon Cri terion. He has secured the right to float logs down the canal and has also pur-J cnaseu a coupie ol sniuu iratis ui umuci near the head of the ditch, which he wllsj have cut at once. The mill will be lo cated on the banks of the canal soutnjj of town. . To Reform School for Perjury. ' COLFAX, Dec. 13. The trial of the), charge of buying stolen property by J. H. Dwyer was held in the Superior Courtf yesterday, and the jury brought in ai verdict of not guilty -without leaving the courtroom. But one witness was exam ined, Clarence Smith, a,-a5-?-par-Dld boy. who acted as complaining" witness, and? from whom Dwyer bought the stolenj goods. When Smith was first brought before the court, 10 days ago, he ad mitted the theft of the chickens, but stated that Dwyer was a party to tha theft. Upon his statement to that effect the prosecution was based. In court this morning, the boy said that when he ha3 first asked Dwyer If he would buy soma chickens, the latter said, "Are you gains' to steal them?" Witness answered this question in the negative, but afterward stole the chickens, and bringing thens to Dwyer's place, was paid for them byp the latter's hired man. Complaint was at once made againsU the boy, Clarence Smith, charging hiirj with Incorrigibility, and after a hearing he was ordered taken to the Reform School at Chehalis. Hill in Erie Directorate. NEW YORK, Dec 13. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Erie Rail road Company today, James J. Hill, of the Great Northern; Norman B. Ream, of Chicago, a director of the Baltimore & Ohio and Pullman Companies, and Robert Bacon, of J. P. Morgan & Co.. were elected directors In the place o Messrs. Qulntard, Goodwin and William son. Wise Will Have Hearing Today. SALEM, Or. Dec 13. Benjamin Wise, who was arrested last evening on the charge of burning goods to defraud an in surance company, was today taken to Silverton, where he will be examined to morrow before Justice Ramsey. GLOBETS: IRON WORKS CO. L Zm UNIVERSITY AV. 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