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Newspaper Page Text4- THE MQmm!& OREGONIA DECEMBER SATURDAY, 22, 1900. TO HELP THE RIVER Captain Harts1 Report for Canal at The Dalles. CHANGE FROM BOAT RAILWAY Comprehensive Statement of the In- terets to Be Served by Proposed Improvement Scope of New Enterprise and Its Cost. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2L The report or Captain W. W. Harts, United States .En gineers, on the Improvement of the Co lumbia River at the dalles, has reached General Wilson, Chief of Engineers. The more Important parts of it follow: "From Alaska on the north, the Cas cade range of mountains extends parallel to the Pacific Coast about 100 miles In land aa far sopth as San Francisco Bay. This range of mountains offers an almost unbroken barrier to carry communica tion between the coast on the west and the wide, productive regions of Idaho, Eastern Oregon an Washington, lying between the Rocky and Cascade Mountain ranges." From the international boundary line on the north as far south as the Sacramento River, In California, the only Important low break in the barrier formed by the Cascade Range is the Columbia River Valley. This valley rorms the only natural lino of communication between the Pacific Coast and the country east or the Cascade Range where there Is not Involved a lift of several thousand reet over the mountains. It thus affords an outlet for the products of the interior, which outlet will unquestionably be the 'line of least reslstancfe.- "The geographical location of the Co lumbia River Valley and Its exceptional advantages for a line or transportation have added to its natural Importance in proportion as the country it drains has developed from an almost uninhabited wilderness to a productive and prosper ous region. There appears much appro priateness In calling this Interior region the 'Inland Empire,' by which name It Is often known. "The Columbia River rises In the south western part of British Columbia, flows in a southerly and westerly direction through the State of Washington until It reaches the northern boundary of Oregon, and then flows westward about 300 miles between the States of Oregon and Wash ington until it empties Into the Pacific Ocean. This river, as is well known, is the greatest on the Pacltlc Coast or North America, and, witn Its tributaries, drains an enormous area, much of which is mountainous country, estimated to con tain 245,000 square miles, 182.000 square miles of which lie east of the Cascade Mountains. This latter area Is about equal to the combined areas of all the New England States, Including also Aew York, Pennsj lvanla. New Jersey ana Maryland. The drainage basin of the Co lumbia stands second In the United States in point of size and commercial im portance. It receives from the prairie regions, or Idaho by way of the Snake River (wnich itself drains a large area), the drainage from the Clearwater Basin, from Cold Spring and Camas Prairies and from the other eastern prairie regions or Oregon and Idaho. From the Willamette Valley, In 5so hwestern Oregon, it re ceives the drainage of another great area, through the Willamette River. The drainage from the fcrti'e regions of the eastern part of Washln,..on and Oregon, including the Palouse and Walla Walla countries, reaches the Columbia through many smaller tributaries, among which are the Yakima, Deschutes, Umatilla and Walla Walla Rivers. The largest of Its tributaries, however, are the Snake and Willamette Rivers." Columbia's Navigable Waters. "From the mouth of the Willamette River up to Three-Mile rapids, three miles above the town of The Dalles, Or. (which latter place is on the Colum bia, S8 miles above the mouth of- the Willamette), the Columbia Is navigable without difficulty at all stages below ex treme high water for vessels drawing up to eight feet. From Three-Mile rap ids up to Celilo, Or., a distance of about 10 miles, all continuous naigatlon Is in terrupted at all stages by falls, rapids and contracted channels, through which the water is forced with great velocity. Above Celilo the river Is again navi gable for boats drawing Z to 4. feet loaded (although with some difficulty at low water stages on account of many rocks and shoals), up as far as Priest rapids (In Southwestern Washington), a further distance of 19S miles; and Snake River, flowing into the Columbia at Ainsworth, Wash., is also navigable for light-draft boats as far as Asotin. Wash, (seven miles above Lewlston. Idaho), 146 miles above Ainsworth. The Columbia for 10 miles below the mouth of the Snake and the Snake for about 53 miles aboe Its mouth are now, however, so obstructed with shallow water and rocks and bowlder ledges as to be practically unna igable at extreme low water, usually for a short period Ja the Autumn, but with these exotoflggsr naIgat!on In the portions mentioned' Is not especially dim cult. The opening to navigation of the 10 miles of the Columbia River between Three-Mile rapids and Celilo would, there fore, give an unbroken length of about 640 miles of the Columbia and Snake Rivers that could be navigated the great er part of each year, and thus provide water communication with tidewater and furnish transportation facilities in regions that now have practically none. The Co lumbia River and its tributaries, before the railways wore built, were for a great many years the only means of connec ' - -" 5S" tion between the ocean and the Interior regions tributary to these streams. ... The only navigation of either the Colum bia or the Snake Rivers above Celilo of any special importance is carried on along that portion of the Snake between Riparla and Lewlston, 73 miles, where a daily line of steamboats Is still running, connecting with the O. R. & N. Co.'s rail line at Riparla and with the Spo-kane-Lewlston rail line of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at Liewlston, The need for better commercial connec tion between the Interior country and the coast has, however, grown materially In recent years, on account-of the great Increase in the acreage lit the wheat producing regions and other tilled land, and on account of the discoveries or gold, copper and other valuable minerals in Idaho and Eastern Oregon and Wash ington. The natural, rapid development of the Interior country has given the question of transportation facilities a de cided importance." Nature of the Obstruction. "Much, if not all, of the areas of Idaho, Washington and Oregon are believed to have been covered In some former geo logical age by successive sayers of hot lava, which. In cooling, have formed the basaltic cliffs and the Igneous rocks or various degrees of hardness now forming the greater part of the surface of these regions. These layers of nasalt In some localities are said to be 4000 feet thick. The Columbia River between The 1alles and Cclilq has apparently been slowly cutting Its way for centuries through what appear to be thick layers of hard basalt and andesite. The total low-water discharge of the river, as computed from observations taken near this place dur ing the survey Just completed. Is ltw.ouu cubic feet per second, and tue extreme high-water discharge is likewise com puted to be 1,CQO,000 cubic feet per second. This discharge must all pass through the narrow and crooked channels worn, in the volcanic rock between The Dalles and Celilo. These conditions combine to form complete obstructions to navigation of a very unusual nature. In no part of the other 385 miles of the Columbia River between Its mouth in the Pacific Ocean and Priest rapids Is anything like such a condition met with. "These obstructions between The Dalles and Celilo consist of rapids, falls and contracted channels, and may be divided into four parts, or sections: First and uppermost, Celilo falls, at Celilo, whjch has a fall of SO feet, approximately, at low water. In a distance of about 3txw feet, where the bed of the river Is sud denly broken off and filled with rocky islands and ledges, over and between which the water rushes with great fierce ness. There is at one place at CqHIq a sheer fall of 21 feet, approximately, mak ing it absolutely Impossible for any ves sel to pass this point with safety at any thing Jlke low-water stages. - Below Celilo falls tl)e rjext obstruction consists or what is known as Ten-Mile rapids, where the whole volume of the river, at low water passes through a narrow channel about 2700 feet long, hemmed m Pn both sides by high banks of basaltic rocks nearly vertical, and from 200 to SOO "feet apart- Behind one of these banks, how ever, it stages about S3 feet above low water, there is a high-water channel, so that when the surface of the river is raised at this point to tha extent ot about 20 feet, it spreads out over a greater area, thus increasing its area of cross section and decreasing its scope and velocity. Just below Ten-Mile rapids are a number of rocks, which, although dangerous in their 'present condition for any use of the river by boats at this point, could, when found necessary, be removed at comparatively small expense, so as to cause but little trouble to ves sels. "A short distance further down the river tho third obstruction, and by all means the most serious or all, are what is known as Five-Mile rapids, or tne dalles. Here for the distance ot about 9000 feet the total low-water discharge of the Columbia Is forced between high banks of solid rock nearly vertical, and In some places not over 168 feet apart, the low-water surface having a fall of 11.2 feet In this distance. The banks are solid basalt rock, precipitous, and from 40 to CO feet high, and the bottom is a succession of pockets 40 to 60 feet deep. On account of the choked condition or the channel and the quantity of water forced through It, the velocities are high, and eddies and cross currents so serious that large vessels have never attempted to go up through these rapids, even at most favorable stages. The remark is often made that this section of the river is 'turned, upon edge,' and the conditions justify the use of such expression. This narrow portion of the river ends, at Its lower end. In a whirlpool of great depth, known as "Big Eddy,' wljere the river makes a bend at right angles to its course just above. Along the Oregon or south side of this narrow portion of Five-Mile rapids for mucfa of its length are found two natural high-water chan nels or canals lying nearly parallel to the river. These natural channels offer ad vantageous sites for canals, and it is pro posed to utilize the one lying next south of the river In the system of canals pro posed herein. About one mile below Big Eddy the fourth obstruction Is met with, known as Three-Mile rapids, where the channel Is considerably obstructed and contracted at several places by Islands and by rocky points extending from the Oregon and Washington shores fnto the river. This last obstruction is the only one that seems to lend Itself with any ease to Improvement. It is believed that the removal of "small portions of rock at several places along Three-Mlle rapids will also remove the dangerous features of these rapids. Difficult Problem to Solve. "The condition of the four above-named obstructions has been described with re gard to low-water stages. The problem of Improvement, already extremely diffi cult on account of the natural conditions existing at low water, is vastly compli cated by the change that takes place in this vicinity during hlgn-waer stages each Summer. The total fall In the nine miles of liver from above Celilo falls to quiet water. Big Eddy, during the low water stages. Is approximately SI feet. The greater part of this fail during low water takes, place at the upper end, at Map Showing Projected Improvement of" the Columbia River at The Dalles, According to Plan of Captain c 1 .. t-1- m . . r j. - , - -' y oo'c ry i v 7 - I and near Celilo falls. The fall through out the remainder of the distance Is not absolutely prohibitive of the use of Jt,at extreme low water by vessels, provided the channel be somewhat widened and otherwise Improved. As the water level rises, however, these conditions are re versed, the surface slope at Five-Mile rapids increases and at Celilo falls de creases, so that at high water the sur face at Celilo falls has a slope of only about three feet to the mile. Instead ot about 50 feet, whereas the fall at Five Mile rapids Increases from, a total of 1L2 feet to a maximum of 35 feet, or from about CC feet to the. mile to 21 feet to the mile. These conditions are largely caused by the conformation of the banks above the bench that forms the low-water banks, causing at all stages a gorging ot i tho water." Captain Harts recites- the history or previous examinations and surveys, be ginning with the first investigation ot Major Mlchler. in 1S74, when a report fa vorable to Improvement was made. The next examination was made by Major Powell. In 1S79, when Improvement ot channel and a short canal was recom mended at a total cost of $10,517,343 71. The estimate was so high that Congress or dered further Investigation, and the boat railway scheme, to cost 52.SS0.850 85, was recommended In 1SSS, and in 1S32, after re consideration, acain recommended. But rlvermen raised many objections to hav ing their craft taken out of the water and transported by rail over a track with both vertical and horizontal curves, and , the- result was the examination upon which this report Is based. The report then outlines the new plan fit Improve ment as follows: Improvement Now Proposed. "Briefly stated, the proposed project for improvement now submitted provides tor abandoning the previous boat-railway project and for substituting the follow ing: First, the construction of a canal about 3000 feet long, with two lift Iocks of about 24 feet lift each, extending , across the peninsula on the Washington shore In the vicinity of Celilo falls; sec ond, the removal of the worst obstructing I rocks at and below Ten-Mile rapids, and the opening of a relief channel along the lines of the existing high-water channel on the Washington shore, immediately north of and parellel to Ten-Mile rapids; i third, the construction of a canal about 6000 feet long, aro'und Five-Mile rapids, having two locks (one of 33 feet lift and i one to be used as a guard lock fqr use ' during high stages), this canal to be along the Oregon short. Its lower end opening Immediately belqw Big Eddy and Its upper end to be Immediately above the head of Five-Mile rapids, utilizing for j this canal, as far as practicable, the more northerly of the two natural high-water canals or channels, whjch now parallel j on the south the greater portion of Five Mile rapids; fourth, the construction of a submerged dam or weir immediately be- i low tho head of Five-Mile rapids, which will raise the present level of the low water surface approximately 20 feet, thus drcwnfng out the rapids between this dam and Celilo falls, and reducing the t currents in the river between the canal around Five-Mile rapids and that around ' Celilo falls, especially at low stages, by , Increasing the area of the cross sec tion of discharge and diminishing tne j surface slope; fifth, tho removal of the worst obstructing rocks at Three-Mlle raptJs." The proposed canals are designed to be 65 feet wide. The locks are to be 54x309 feet, with a clear depth of seven feet of water over the miter sills. It is estimated that this project for canals may be completed within five years after acquiring rights of way It funds are made available as fast as required by the needs of the work, or it contracts for. total work or large por tions of it are permitted. No difficulties of construction are contemplated other than those usually encountered In any work of this magnitude. After a long statement of details, the following summary of cost Is submitted: CelUo falls canal and locks 51,212.034 Improvement of Ten -Mile rapids.. 407,568 Five-Mile rapids canal, locks and submerged dam 2,147,332 Improvement of Three-Mlle rapids 153,448 Land and right 6"f way, 50,000 Total ,,...... $3,90,371 A table is submitted making the rql lowlng showing for the several geograph ical sections constituting the Jnjapd Em pire; ' Lewlston. Acres tillable ,.., 2M9 Acres cultivated '375,000 Wheat , 5,450,000 Oats U20.00Q Barley , , ,..1,120,000 Flax ' 2&.00Q Cattle and horses, number 13.000 Sheep and hogs, number E7?0, Fruit, carloads , ,.. a Wool, pounds ,.,...., LK5'9. Hides, pounds 'SS Hay. tons 46,000 Per cent of Increase In 5 years ending with 1300 Grain 1.9M Livestock 100 Fruit B00 Wool and hides 100 Total estimated value, 1900.. Including barley. Including oats. "In addition to the foregoing, there is said to be much valuable timber In the Clearwater River Valley. The white pint now standing in this valley is estimated by the Lewlston Commercial Club at 2,700,000,000 feet, lumber measure, and Is said to cover 27Q.000 acres. In the Grand Ronde Valley, in Eastern Oregon, there is likewise said to be 250,000 acres of yellow Pine standing, amount to 2,500,000,000 feet, lumber measure, of merphantable lumber. The gold and copper mines in Idaho and Eastern Washington and Oregon are saia to be valuable end productive, the gold belt of Eastern Oregon alone producing $2,225,000 Jn 1899, and the Coeur d'Aleno district of Shoshone County, Idaho, hav ing the largest lead-silver mjnes in the United States. The development of tha valuable copper mines in tlje Seven Devils district, along the Snake River, between Lewlston. Idaho, and Huntington, Or., is said to be awaiting transportation facilities." : " : " ; " ' -:- --- - -v- "Present freight rates on wheat from Lewlston and the Palouse districts tu Portland. Tacoma or Seattle are reported to be 214 cents per cental, or 12& cents per bushel, the distance being, roughly, 350 miles. The rates to Portland from Walla Walla and Pendleton, roughy about 200 miles, are 10 cents per bushel and 17$ cents per cental; from The Dalles to Portland, SS miles (between which two points there is water as well as rail trans portation), they are 4& cents per bushel and 7 cents per cental. These rates amount to about 5 cents per bushel per 100 miles, except from Lewlston, where the rate is abput 4 cents per bushel. "On the Mississippi River the rate on wheat in sacks from St. Louis in ISM was 10 cents per 100 pounds for the entire dis tance (about 700 miles), or a little less than 1 cant a bushel per 100 miles. The average rail rate for the same distance over the Illinois Central Railroad was .S9o cent per ton per mile, or 3.4 ia cents per 100 pounds per 100 miles, more than double the water rate." In 1S74, Majpr Mlchler said, regarding the Improvement at the dalles: "The Im portance of the proposed Improvement cannot be overestimated." Major Powell reported In 1SS2 that "In volume and com mercial value the Cqlumbla Is second only to the Mississippi." The board of engi neers in 1ES0 stated that it did "not deem It necessary to present statistics or argu ments to demonstrate he Importance ot the Improvement of the Columbia River.- "It is my opinion," says Major Harts, In j this report, "this work is pne or puonc. Importance, and one that Is a worthy un dertaking for the United States." "As tq whether the present is the most advisable time tQ undertake a work of this magnitude, attention Is Invited to the reports of twp boards pf engineers, both of which advocated the construction, equipment and operation by the Un!tff States of a portage road t0 transfer freight around the obstructions between The Dalles and Celilo free pf cost to the shippers. This road, as proposed, was to be only a temporary expedient to ob tain prompt relief for the Interior pro ducers, and was Jo he follpwed by tho more permanent improvement when nec essary to accommodate the traffic. The conditions that - existed at the date of these reports of the boards have changed only in the direction of making their rec ommenfiatlons. more worthy of considera tion. Such portage road could probably be completgfl at a little more, than one tenth the cost of the proposed canals and within less than half of the time, as the right of way is now nearly all secured, the acquisition of title to only a small por tion awaiting further action of Congress." The Boat Railway Project, Regarding the boat railway project, Captain Harts offers the following com ment": "By its adoption In 1S92 pf the projepr-l for passing steamboats around the ob structions in the Columbia River between The Dalles and Celilo by means of a boat railway, and Its appropriation of 5250,000 for this purpose, Congress, It Is assumed, practically indicated Its views on the question of the worthiness of this locality for Improvement by the general Govern ment. The main point for present consid eration, then, seems to be whether an Im provement by means of tha well-known and time-proven system of canals and locks, at a probable post of about $4,000,000. Is not better than ap experiment in the shape of a boat railway, at an estimated cost of nearly $3,000,000. "The boat railwav Is as yef new, untried and wholly experimental. It would in volve In this case -the raising of a vessel from the water on a hydraulic lift for a height of 77 feet vertically at one end and on a similar lift 2 feet high at the other end, and carrying the boat on specially designed car over about nine miles of track, having both vertical and horizontal curves. The successful docking of a vessel alone, even one of the light draft, flat-bottom of the Columbia River, Is an operation requiring nicety and care. Carrying one overland on a car is an op eration not yet successfully accomplished anywhere under anything like similar con. dltlons. The first boat railway upon which any construction wprk has ever been begun, or that has, perhaps, been care; fully studied In detail, Is the one in Can ada known as the Chlquecto ship railway, 17 miles lopg, connecting the Bay of Fundy with the Gulf of St, Lawrence. It Is reported that y.QOO.GOO had to bo spent on this ship railway up to 1893, and, although It was originally expected to Palouse Big Bend, Tikima. 800,000 L105.0W) 2.CW.0W 60.000 6,000.000 300.000 400.000 800,000 693,400 75,9S7 850,030 4.000,000 8,667.000 600.000 5,400.000 1,000,000 963,000 90,000 100.000 '1,000.000 SC3.000 f 310,000 "ai.bbo ""9,000 ""7,500 ""9,200 120,000 65,000 50,100 111,000 290 750 739 250 1,000,000 1,350,000 1,500.000 3,347,000 500,000 200,000 300.000 300,000 63,000 40.000 51,000 70.000 10.100 8;500 500 000.000 125.000 60,000 Slight. 20 300 100 200 250 200 25 10 200 10 20 17 200 12 have completed It that year, I am In formed. It Is now unfinished, probaby re quiring an equal amount of xnpney in ad dition to complete' it. The line of this Chlquecto ship railway had no curves, being a simple tangent throughout, and even then doubts were expressed by en gineers as to its ultimate practicability. On the other hand, the system of canals and locks Is old, well tried, and gives as surance of being safe, sure and efficient." Held for Arsoa. OREGON CITY, Dec. 21. Thomas Jones, of Beayer Creek, familiarly known as "Clackamas Jones," was arrajgned In the Justice Court this afternoon on a charge of setting fire to"the Beaver Creek Grange Hall last June. The evidence was prin cipally circumstantial, but strong eqpugh to cause the Justice to bind him over to appear before the Circuit Court. His son, Charles, who was arrested as an accom plice, was discharged from custody. WILL HELP CELEBRATE XORTHWEST TO JOIN LEWIS AND CLARK CENTENNIAL. , Governors of Four States Requested to Bring the Matter Before the Legislatures. SALEM, Or., Dec 2L In accordance with the suggestion of the Oregon His torical Society, Governor Geer today wrote to the Governors of Washington, Idaho, Montana and WomIng, lnUtlng those states to unite with Oregon in a fitting celebration of the centennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the North west Coast. He requested the Governors of these states to present the matter to the Legislatures of their respective states, In order that. proper action may be taken by those bodies. MID-HOLIDAY CARNIVAL. Marafcfield Event for Next Week- Programme In Brief. MARSHFIELD, Or., Dec 2L A mld hollday carnival will be held here Decem ber 27-29. The exercises will consist of a tnpshootlng contest, street concerts and parades, with a military drill by 50 young ladles In costumes, and dramatic enter tainments by local talent. A football game for a purse of $100 will be played December 2S between an eleven frqm CoquHle City and the Marshfield team. A .grand ball will be given De cember 28. The carnival will conclude with a minstrel performance given by the members of the Marshfield band. Nearly $500 has b.een subscribed by the Marshfield business men, and an equal amount Is expected to be realized from the voting contest for Queen, which Is now waxing warm. Miss Annie Anderson and Miss. Addie Snyder, of this place, are at present the favorites, with many other popular maids and matrons well up in the race. Specla excursion rates have been given by the railroad and' steamboat com panies, and a large atendance Is assured from all sections of Coos County. OREGON LUMBER. FOR ALASKA. Two Mills Receive Good-Sized Orders lor Salmon Boxes., ASTORIA, Dec. 21. The Astoria Box Company and the Necanlcum Spruce' Lumber Company have orders for Alaska salroon boxes sufficient to keep their plants running full time for the next throe months. City Printing: Contract Let. The ways and means committee of the Common Council opened bids this after noon for doing the city printing during the year 1901. Tho bids for advertising were by the Inch, or 12 lines of nonpareil. The contract was awarded to the As torlan on a bid of &A cents for the first Insertion and 2 cents for each subsequent insertion. The contract for printing blanks was awarded to J. S. Dellenger. AdJonrned Term of Court. An adjourned session of the Circuit Court was ljeld today by Judge McBride, but no formal business was transacted. WELLINGTON MINERS TO STRIKE. Assert That Their' Wages Have Been Cnt Thirty Per Cent. VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 21. The South Wellington Miners' Union has passed a resolution to strike because Manager Faulds has refused to pay for turning places and has given notice to Increase the miner's ton from 2350 pounds to 2S00 pounds. The union claims that this Js contrary to their agreement made ast August with the mineowners. The strikers allege that thr new regu lations are equivalent to a cut of 30 per cent. Tney declare that they wll not re sume work until their terms are granted. SUGAR-BEET BOUNTy. Washjngton Factory Receives $11, 800 for Spokane Coanty Crop. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Dec 2L The State Auditor today issued a. warrant for $11,- The Dalles. 1,100,000 621,850 4,750,000 00.000 400,000 " "s'.COO 12L000 c00 7.500ya 400,000 46,000 Estimated Value. Pendleton. 1,210,000 Total. 9,"639.400 3,-866,337 34,767,000 4,603,000 4,803,000 2S4.Q00 83,890 521,330 2.609 16.797,000 2.406,000 367,000 $17,233,500 11,921,200 ?n,921.2CO 2S4.000 1,677.800 1,563,990 1,263,160 .1,679,700 360,750 2,202,000, 123,336,050. 300 to the Washington Sugar ComRany, D. C. Corbtn, president, with headquarters at Spokane. This amount Is. bounty on sugar manufactured by that company from beets grown in Spokane County, and represents 1.132,503 pounds of sugar manl ufactured In 1900. In 1899 the company received a bounty of $2168. BASKET-BALL GAME. Portland and Vancouver Teams Will Meet Today. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 2L-JTomor-row evening a basket-ball game will be piayea at the gymnasium of the Vancou ver Athletic Club, between the Multno mah Club team, of Portland, and the ttVancouver Amateur Athletic Club team Christmas Football. A football gams has been arranged be tween the Vancouver High School eleven and the Vancouver Tribunes, a take WHnw The Ghangeling Mtf. The Scientific Explanation of the Change Pormerly At tributed to the Pairies. In folk lore stories there is frequent mention of changelings children who were changed by fairy influence. Some loving wife and proud husband found their child weak of body, and some times weak of mind. It grew np to be fretful, sullen and nerhaDS srriteful. It seemed impossible that love could' Dnng sucn a cnna into tne wona. So the child was called a fairy change ling, a child substituted by the faines for one whom in their envy for its lovli nesa they had carried away. We hear no more of fairy stories. Stem science says that healthy and lovely children must have healthy par ents, and that when the mother in her days of waiting and anticipation is neryous, anxious, sleepless and gener ally miserable, her child will be weak and fretful. How reasonable this is. The child can have no strength -which the mother does not give it, and how can the weak mother, who has not enough strength for herself have anything to spare for her babe? THE FAIRY GOD-MOTHEE. is a very pretfy invention. But the real fairy god-mother is the natural mother of the child. It is she who must endow her .child with health from which springs all other endowments desirable for hvmanity. The way to have healthy children is to be healthy. But how to be healthy is the vesing question for women. Is the mother to blamebecanse she is nerv ous, because her appetite fails and her strength wanes, because she is sleepless and despondent ? One cannot blame the woman whose only failing is that she does not know how to change her condition. Yet a woman's health is. practically in "her own control. If she js weak she can be made strong. If she is sick she can be made well. The experience of other women shows that the rose of mother hood can be stripped of its thorns by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. "When I wrote to you in Marcht ask ing advice as to what to do for myself," says Mrs. Ella Reynolds, of Guffie, McLean Co., Ky. ttI was expecting the baby's coming in Tune, and was sick all of the time. Had been sick for several months. Could not get anything to stay on my stomach, not even water. Had mishaps twice in sis months, and threat ening all the time now. Had female weakness for several years. My hips, back and lower bowels hnrt me all the time. Had numbness from my hips place here Christmas day. This will be a return game of the one played by the same teams Thanksgiving day, In which the Tribunes were defeated. The team has been considerably strengthened since then, and they promise tQ make things Interesting for the High School at the coming game. To Discuss Needed Legislation. Joint State Senator-elect E. M. Rands, for Clark and Skamania Counties, has Invited the members of the bar of the two counties to meet with him at a time to be fixed In the near future, for the purpose of discussing needed legislation of a legal character. Mr. Rands has also asked the fruitgrowers and farmers gen erally tp arrange for a similar meeting to discuss measures desirable to their in terests. SOUTHWEST DEAD. Nicholas Darnell, Eastern Oregon Pioneer. VALE, Or., Dec. 21. Nicholas Darnell, a pioneer of Eastern Oregon, died here yesterday, aged 63 jears. Mr. Darnell came to Canyon City from California in 1S6L From there he went to the Southern States, and did not return to Oregon until about 1870. He then came to what Is now Malheur County, and had spent the time -since as a miner and cowboy. He Jiad served with each of the large cattle com panies of this part of the state, and was well and favorably known throughout Harts, United States Engineers. COLUMBIA RIVER FROM CELILO to THE DA't.LES down. Had several hard cramping spells, and was not able to do any work at all. I received your answer in a few days, telling me to take Dr. Pierce's Faorite Prescription. I took three bottles, and before I had. taken it a week I was better, and before! had taken it a month I was able to help do my work. On the 27th of May my baby came, and I was only sick three hours, and had an easy time. The. "doctor said I got along nicely. "We praise Dr. Tierce's medicine for it has cured me. I am better now than I have been for thirteen years. I hope all how are afflicted will do as I have done and be cured." Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription is ft jfect medicine for women. It estab perfect medicine for women lishes regularity, dries the drains which weaken women, heals inflammation and cures female weakness. It is the best preparative for maternity, strengthening the nerves, encouraging the appetite and inducing refreshing sleep. It gives the mother strength to give her child and make the baby's advent practically pain less. THE TEST OF WOMAN'S HEALTH is strength. A well woman will be a strong woman. She will not be "Just dragging around with throbbing head, aching" back and constant weariness. No woman can be strong who 1 troubled by disease of the delicate female organism. The proof of the curative ?ower of Doctor Pierce' avorite Prescription may be all summed np in the phrase "It makes weak women strong, sjcit women well." "During my two year of married life I have not had good health," writes Mrs, Daisy Studdard, oi 608 So. Esplanade Ave., Leavenworth, Kans. "X was all run-down, and mjr husband got me to write to Dr. Pierce and explain my case to him and see if he could do me any good. So I wrote, and, thank the Lord, I got an early reply, telling me what the trouble was. I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and also the ' Pleasant Pellets,' and now can say that I feel like a new woman, and can say also that we have a big baby four months old. When the baby came t was just wonderful how I got along and now I do all my work and do not feel tired out like I used to. I have taker eight bottles of the 'Favorite Prescrip tion.' Itmakes one feel well and strong." Women who are troubled with chroni" diseases are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All letters are pri vately rrad and privately answered, and woman'y confidences are guarded by the sxvvl strict professional privacy ob servfl jr. personal consultations. Ad dress Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. When a dealer tempted by the little more profit paid by less meritorious prep arations offers a substitute as "just as good" as "Favorite Prescription" re member that "just as good" for hint means his profit and your loss. A TVOMAX IS AT HER WITS END sometimes to find a cure for familiar ills. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Med ical Adviser is full of helpful hints and information for women. "I got the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser for 31 one-cent stamps," writes M. M. Wardwell. Esq., of Lin wood, Leavenworth Co., Kans. " Would't take five dollars for it if we couldn't get another. Gave receipt for 4 nursing sore mouth' to two women that the doctor was not able to benefit, and they were cured." This great medical work, containing 1008 large pages, is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound volume, or only 21 stamps for the book in paper-covers. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. this region. Xo one here Knows anything of his relatives nor his early history. J. "W. MacUay, North Pacine Pioneer. VICTORIA. B. C, Dec. 21. J. W. Mac kay. who came bere in 1S44, for the Hud son's Bay Company, died at noon today. He opened the Nanaimo mines for tho Hudson's Bay Company, and acted as guide for commissioners establishing a boundary betwen the United States and British Columbia, and took a prominent part In all events In the early history of the North Pacific Latterly he his been a chief clerk In the Indian Office. Mm. Bertha Koscnqnlst, of Astoria. ASTORIA, Deo. 21. Mrs. Bertha Rosen qulst, of this place, died last night from the effects of a paralytic strpke. De ceased was 74 years of age, a native of Sweden, and had lived in Astoria about four years. She leaves three daughters Mrs. W, F. McGregor, Mrs. E. RoUslow and Miss Anna Rosenqulst, all ot'whom live here. Gravlng-Doclc Engineer Dead. VICTORIA, B. C. Dec 21. A. C. Mulr, chief engineer at the Esquimau graving-dock. Is dead. For a Cold In the Head, Laxative Bromo-Qulnlne Tablets. A Eugene dealer shipped a 'carload of chickens to Seattle Wednesday.