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THE MOUNING 0RE(5ONIAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1901. NEW ROAD AT WORK Trains Running on Gobie, Nehalem & Pacific. SCOPE OF THE ENTERPRISE ' Company "Was Organized Only Eight Month Ago-Fnrpoae I to Extend Line to Tlllamoolc Bay, With. Several Branches. Iess than eight months ago the Goble, Nehalem & Pacific Railroad Company was organized with authorized capital of 5100, 000. Now it has actually In operation nearly five miles of standard-gauge track and will begin this week to deIversawlog3 In the Columbia River to be towed to the mills at Portland and Knappa. E. Can non Is president of the company. Thom as Day vice-president, and R. C. Bell sec retary. All are young men. They took hold of the enterprise with a determina tion to win and have pushed it energet ically. Now that It has begun to earn money they feel that they have already attained a large measure of success. The new road has Its base on the Co lumbia River, where the company owns 1G0O feet of frontage Just below the pier of the old Northern Pacific ferry at Hunt er's Point. It crosses the Northern Pa cific track a mile and a half south of Goble. In the southeast angle of the crossing a two-story railroad station Is to be erected, which will also contain the operating headquarters for the line. For 4700 feet the new road Is built on piles. Then It strikes high ground, and for a distance of about a mile It runs nearly parallel with the Northern Pacific track. Then it bends around to the west and passes up the south bank of Goble Creek to tall timber on a 2 per cent grade. There 1.500,000 feet of sawlogs He ready for haul ing to the river, and 5000 cords of wood for the Portland market Is now being de livered at the side of the track. Plans have been made for terminal buildings on the high ground within sight of the river, and the place has already been named Canellay, containing parts of the names of Cannon. Bell and Day. Other stations and towns along the line will be left for the future to create and name. "While President Cannon has been at tending to the business management of the project. Messrs. Day and Bell have been conducting operations in the field. They had a record as successful loggers on a large scale across on the Washing ton side of the river, and they transferred much of their plant and all their experi ence and energy to the new railroad. Mr. Cannon Is also experienced in the lumber business. The company bought a saw mill at the mouth of the Cowlitz In order that It might make Its own ties and Tirldge timbers economically. The road Is 3iow working in the timber, but the ob ject of its promoters is not attained by making of it merely a logging railroad. Their ambition is to extend it over the divide Into the Nehalem Valley and even to Tillamook Bay. To this end they al ready have surveyors In the field, and their route is outlined to the coast. They argue that the river base will Insure them advantage rates to Portland, for if the terms of the Northern Pacific for track age to this city shall be deemed too hard, barges will be put on the river to handle the traffic In cars without breaking bulk. The alms and Intentions of the company are given In the following statement to an Oregonlan reporter by President Cannan: 'The preliminary work on this line was commenced in July, 1S99, by having a re connoiasance made of the four possible routes, namely, up Gales, Scappoose, Mil ton and Goble Creeks, and, after collect ing' all data on this work necessary for ascertaining which route offered the best Inducements as to cost and grade, the Goble route was selected, and the work of construction commenced May 8, 1900. This line from the Columbia River to the Nehalem Valley will be constructed on the following grade, taken from the engin eers' records of the survey: Goble to summit between Goble Creek and Tide Creek. 6 miles; ascent, feet, 5S0: equated per cent, 2.2. Summit as above to crossing of Tide Creek, V& miles; descent, feet, 160; equat ed per cent, 1.5. Crossing of Tide Creek to summit be tween Tide Creek and Milton Creek, 3 miles; ascent, feet, 350; equated per cent, Summit as above to summit between Milton Creek to Caples Creek. 2 miles; ascent, feet, 230; equated per cent, 2.2. Summit as above to summit between Capias Creek and Clatskanle Creek, VA miles; ascent, feet, 20. Summit as above to crossing of Clats kanle Creek, 2 miles; descent, feet, 50; equated ner cent. 6.5. Crossing of Clatskanle to summit be tween Clatskanle Creek and Nehalem River, 3 miles; ascent, feet, 300; equated per cent. 2.2. Summit as above to Nehalem River, about six miles below Pittsburg, 7 miles; descent, feet, 670; equated per cent 2.0. Totals Miles, 2S; ascent, feet, 1480; de scent. S98. "The first five miles of this line will be nut In operation February S, and the substantial character of the construction will demonstrate that this expense was not inourred for temporary local purposes. Consequently this enterprise is at least jS months In advance of any line havlns recently "been mentioned for this district, ; nd has five miles of substantial construc l;on to give weight to any claims It may ElM QFVFPAS HI makes of organs we offer for a few days at Allen Co., after being in business here for over rraneiseo with the finest and most modern music store on the whole edast, and with branch stores at Los Angeles and in Honolulu. All our pianos uprights, squares and grands we offer for sale while yet we remain in Portland at prices which ought to interest every piano buyer, be he poor or rich. Today we shall offer a good upright piano, almost new, for $145.00, and as good an organ as you ever saw for $60.00.: The Wiley B. Allen Co., 209-21 1 First St., Portland, Oregon make for fair recogntion by the Portland public "Should Portland business men and the community at htrge be so solicitous of the benefits that may accrue from a rail road to this district, why not have a com mittee of representative business men from both of your commercial bodies, the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade, confer with us, and we shall will ingly furnish such Information relative to our enterprise as will convince them that our plans and proposed route for reaching this district have many advantages for their consideration. "Why should we burden ourselves with the construction of 40 miles more of line than is necessary to reach this district when the Northern Pacific has a first-class line constructed, as well as terminal fa cilities at present, for which equitable arrangements can be made for handling the traffic from Goble to Portland? Du plicating this track would necessitate the expenditure of at least $600,000 without any additional advantages; in fact, no new route can be obtained that has as good a grade and terminal facilities for taking care of the business. By advanc ing this common-sense business plan, we have been reputed to be an offspring of the Northern Pacific Company. In this particular we wish to state that the Northern Pacific Company has not got 1 cent In our enterprise other than a switch connection for taking care of any traffic which we may give It from our line. "The Northern Pacific has expressed its willingness to make suitable trackage ar rangements with any line from the Neha lem country from the point where It may intersect Its line to Portland, and has at all times shown a disposition to be fair, and has not suggested any Ironclad agree ment by which our foreign traffic should be given to it exclusively. We have no doubt that in the proper time we will be able to run our trains over the Northern Pacific tracks to Portland and to dis tribute our traffic to such lines as we or our shippers desire. Aside from this, we have a crossing with the Northern Pa cific that gives us the full advantages of the Columbia River as a competitive line, should It ever be desired to use. It as such. "Our line to the river at this time Is a great advantage to us, as it enables us to do a logging business with Portland on the cheapest possible basis, enabling the Portland mills to take logs from our terminus to Portland at a rate not to ex ceed 25 cents per 1000, a rate that, under present conditions, no railroad can suc cessfully meet. Our terminus is on the main channel of the Columbia River, giv ing us all the competition that the Port land people may wish to inaugurate to protect them against an excessive rail road charge. "For shortness of route and multiplicity of advantages, there is no proposed route to the Nehalem country that can com pare with It, therefore we say that It Is Portland's best Interest to give Its moral support to our enterprise. We started this road unaided by outside capital. We backed up our conviction with our own money, and for that alone we should have Portland back of us. "Even should the Northern Pacific build Into the Nehalem over the route proposed, it would not, as can be ascertained by carefully consulting maps of this district, conflict In any degree with our proposed plans, as It takes an entirely different route, and will only offer this additional facility for opening up this vast country. In fact, we are about 10 years behind Washington in developing our timber In dustries, and we think that there is even room for three roads In this country, one leaving the Southern Pacific, for Instance, at some point of advantage to reach Ne halem River and Tillamook. But of all the routes that have been projected In the past 20 years to give relief to the Ne halem country and thereby Increase the business of Portland, ours Is the only one that has actually gone to the length of laying steel and having trains In opera tion and doing business. "From our quiet manner of procedure in this enterprise, we have stirred to appar ent action some of our most prominent business people, who have heretofore per mitted their lethargy to hold their ener gies pent up until such time as a posi tive move has been made for a line Into this district, and we all come to the same conclusion without much further argu ment or ado about it, that a railroad Is absolutely necessary. Now. why not con solidate our energies in this Immediate direction and get the necessary unity of force that will, without question, push a. road to a successful issue? There is, without doubt, ample room for all our en ergies, if properly directed, in this dis trict, to accomplish much for Portland. We have often been taunted by Puget Sound cities with having no" collective force to push any enterprise of this char acter to a successful Issue. Why not re fute this charge at this time and make this. If you please, our maiden effort In this direction? I think we can pave the way by fostering this effort toward es tablishing Portland's commercial suprem acy. "We have heretofore been much divided on public enterprises of this character. Why should we not have for our future motto the old axiom, 'In union there is strength,' and then make a long pull and a strong pull together? I think the next 10 years will crown our enterprise with such success that we can all be proud of our efforts In the line -of public enter prise." WoodRtock School District. At a meeting of the taxpayers of the Woodstock school district a levy of mills was made to pay interest on the $5000 bonds outstanding. No money will be required by special levy to conduct the school, there being enough coming from the county and state for that purpose. The amount of taxable property of the district was reported by the clerk to be 5114.545. The district generally Is In pros perous condition. It was decided that the next school year should be 10 months Instead of nine, and thus conform to the time of the city schools. TO BE SOLD IMMEDIATELY! UR removal to San Franeiseo will oeeur in the very near future.' We want to sell off every piano and organ -we possess before we go away. High-grade pianos and the very best 0 BET ON A "SURE THING" CONFUSION OVER THE CAPITAIi OF MASSACHUSETTS. A Dozen Portland Men "With Faulty Memories "Wagrer ?5 Hats That Springfield Is the Place. To win a cartload of silk hats in one night on one, small bet, and, that on the question of the capital city of his native state, was the easy luck of E E Mc Carthy, a Boston man, now visiting Port land. A dozen "well-known men about town bet on what they considered a sure thing, and lost. They bet McCarthy that the capital city of Massachusetts was Spring field, Instead of Boston. The question arose at a dinner party. In the postpran dial discussion, Springfield was mentioned as the capital of Massachusetts. Mc Carthy modestly entered the claims of Boston In the race for the proud distinc tion. There was one geographical expert PIONEER PORTLAND MACHINIST. ft;,' jflKP' nif MiMmm kS II i hKw THE IiATE DAVTD present who gave the tip to the others that Springfield was a dead-sure cinch. "Why, I can remember now," he said, drawing to one side several of the crowd, "the days when I used to study 'joggerfy' in the old schoolhouse, and how my old teacher used to cane me if I forgot the capital of a dinky old state like Massa chusetts. I can hear myself singing: "Maine Augusta, on the Kennebec Riv er. "New Hampshire Concord, on the Mer rimac River. "Massachusetts Springfield, on the Con necticut River." "Do you suppose a man ever forgets the things he learned In his younger days under such circumstances? No, slree, bob. McCarthy Is a good fellow, but he's trying to make fools of us because we live out West. He's running the double bluff. We'll call him. Offer to bet him a Jo hat." McCarthy took the first bet offered. "He's game, fellows. Sail in," the word was passed around. Every one present sailed In. McCarthy, with visions of the Massachusetts Statehouse In mind, ac cepted all bets. Then the question of how to decide the bet arose. It was resolved to telephone The Oregonlan office. "What's the capital of Massachusetts?" came over the 'phone. "Boston," was the answer. "Oh, say now; you're mistaken. Isn't it Springfield?" "No, It is Boston," was maintained. Then delegates commenced to arrive and the truth of Boston's claim was demon strated by reference to several gazet teers. The laugh was then on the man who had studied "joggerfy" and also on his numerous backers, whose own hazy rec ollections of their school days' studies coincided with his. Sumner Post Discusses Marshall. The last meeting of Sumner Post, No. 12, G. A. R., at its quarters, on Union ave nue and East Ash street.was of more than usual interest. A. J. Goodbrod, Commander of the Department of Ore gon, was present, and made an Interesting address, speaking of the prosperous condi tion of the posts throughout the depart ment. The post also took up the "Life and Character of John Marshall," and several entertaining and instructive ad- dresses were delivered by J. A. Newell, Professor M. K Pratt, John E. Mayo and Mr. Canterbury. In the course of these addresses a high tribute was paid John Marshall for the important part he took in securing the adoption of the Constitu tion. Mr. Newell said his services to the country along this particular line, aside from his eminent services on the Supreme Bench, entitled him to a place among the most famous Americans. The discussion was one of the most Interesting that had taken "place in the post for some time. COUNTY W. C. T. U. Programme for All-Dny- Meeting at United Presbyterian Church. Following is the programme for the quarterly meeting of the Multnomah County Woman's Christian Temperance Union tomorrow. at the United Presby terian Church, corner Sixth and Mont gomery: Morning 9:30 Devotional exercises, Mrs. Julia Casto; topic, "Signs of Victory." 10 Business session; reports of officers and superintendents. 11:30 Bible lesson on "Sociology of the Old and New Testament," Mrs. Lucia Faxon Addlton. MONNASTES. 12 Noontide prayer; social hour and basket lunch. Afternoon 1:30 Memorial service for the late Mrs. Narclssa White Kinney, conducted by Mrs. M. Ii. Driggs. Institute work, conducted by National organizer, Mrs. L. F. Addlton. Symposium on "Total Abstinence" (a) "Total Abstinence In Relation to Health and Disease," Dr. Jessie Mc Gavln. (b) "Social Reasons for Total Absti nence," Mrs., L. H. Amos. (c) "Great" Examples of Total Absti nence," ."Mrs. M. A. Stone. (d) "Gospel Appeal for Total Absti nence," Rev. Robert McLean. (e) "Drunkenness and Modern Drink ing," Rev. J. E. Snyder. 2:30 "The Gottenburg System. Why Not?" Miss F. E. Gotshall. 2:45 '"Is Prohibition a Farce and a Fraud?" Short answers from the floor. 3:00 "Criminal Sociology." (a) "Making of Honest People," Mrs. L. H. Addlton. (b) "Enforcement of Law," Rev. Ray Palmer. (c) "Violations of Narcotic Laws, Schemes of the Dealers, etc.," Mrs. S.- M. Kern. 4 "Finance." (a) "Proportionate Giving," Mrs. M. L. Blackwell. (b) "General Plans for Finance," Mrs. N. Xu Blncley. 4:30 Miscellaneous business ahd ad journment. Evenlnc ' Anthem by United Presbyterian choir. Devotlonals. Solo, selected, James Shearer. Remarks by county president, Frances E. Gotshall. Address, Lucia Faxon Addlton, Na tional organizer. January O, 1880. PORTLAND, Feb. 4. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly inform me when the big wind storm visited Portland? SUBSCRIBER. i BUSINESS ITEMS. If feaby Is Cutting Teeth, ' Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. TVlnslow's Soothing: Syrup, for children teething:. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colfc "and diarrhoea. INHPFn PIANO prices unheard twenty years, PROBLEM TO WORK OUT HOW TO GET PROFIT FROM SOUTH ERN PACIFIC DEAL. May Not Be Practicable to Termi nate Leases "Which the Road, Has If Not, What NEW IORK, Feb. 1 The Evening Post today has the following: The suggestion was made today that further study of the Southern Pacific sit uation by the Interests controlling the Union Pacific might develop a plan by which the Union Pacific would be able to assume absolute and permanent con trol of the Central Pacific without assum ing any liability for the whole Southern Pacific system. Union Pacific interests freely admitted that the fundamental In terests of the company in .-e Southern Pacific is in its control of the natural and only possible outlet for the Union Pacific to San Francisco. The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific were conceived as one route, and their division Into sepa rate companies was unnatural and harm ful to the best Interests of the companies themselves, and Interfered with the trans portation facilities of the public. The two companies have often worked in op position in money matters, as regards train service, rates and distribution and movement of tonnage. The Southern Pa cific's other lines are naturally allied with the Interests of California and the South west, and form a transportation system complete and valuable in Itself, even without the direct ownership of the Cen tral Pacific. It Is believed that the plans of the syndicate now holding the South ern Pacific for the Union Pacific for financing the property will not ba defi nitely formed until the Central Pacific lease has been carefully gone over to see If that property can be segregated from the other lines. The adoption of the plan of Issuing collateral trust notes, as In other recent mergers, Is not regarded as likely to be adopted until other plans have been thoroughly canvassed. The syndicate managers have declared that the Southern Pacific would not be held In any way which will create a burden, on the Union Pacific. The terms under which the Central Pacific is held by the South ern Pacific therefore becomes a point of special lntefest. They would seem most definitely fixed by the terms of the South ern Pacific 4 per cent collateral trust bonds Issued In 1899. These are secured by a deposit of all the outstanding shares of the Central Pacific which are owned by the Southern Pacific. The section of this mortgage bearing on this point says: "The existing lease of the properties of the Central Pacific Railway to the South ern Pacific Company shall terminate in case the pledged stocks shall be sold In consequence of the default hereunder. The Southern Pacific Company will not assent to any other lease of such prop erties unless such lease shall have been approved by the holders of a majority in amount of the bonds outstanding here under, or shall contain a provision ter minating the same in case such pledged stocks shall be sold." This would seem to afford ample au thority and a feasible means for the Union Pacific to assume the Central Pa cific lease, If it should be decided to turn that property directly over to the Union Pacific. NOT EASY TO SOLVE. Hovr Could OreRon & California Separate From Southern Pacific f Admitting the desirability of re-leaslng the Oregon & California from the South ern Pacific and bringing It into closer alliance with the O., R. & N., the ques tion that puzzles railroad inen Is, How can it be done? The $12,000,000 of pre ferred and $7,000,000 of common stock might as well be taken out of the cal culation, for a road that annually falls $500,000 short of meeting its expenses and thereby creates a Hen for the sum, can not be said to promise much to its stock holders. The capital stock may be re garded as wiped out already. But the bonds are not so easily disposed of. How ever, the Oregon & California might desire to default on them and take a new deal on a better business basis. It cannot do so, because It is under lease to the Southern Pacific, which corpora tion guarantees payment of the Interest. And the Southern Pacific, whatever else It may do, does not fall to pay the In terest It Is responsible for. In fact, the Southern Pacific Company Is really only the owner of lease-holds. It leases and operates railroad properties owned by others, pledging its entire revenues for the payment of bond Interest on each of the several properties. Thus default by any one of the various leased roads would mean bankruptcy for the entire Southern Pacific Company and, of course, no such default Is permitted. It is certain that the O., R. & N. would not yoke itself up with the Oregon & California on its present basis, taking half a million yearly out of Its own revenues to make good the Oregon & California deficiency. The O., R. & N. stockholders would not stand that. The Oregon & California cannot default, and thus get Into the bankruptcy court for adjustment of Its finances to a practic able basis, because the Southern Pacific Company has guaranteed payment of its Interest for a period of 26 years yet to come. If the Southern Pacific should re pudiate the lease and make it stick in the courts, the way for readjustment would be opened to the Oregon & Cal ifornia when the first interest coupons should become due. It would be fore closed and sold for what it would be worth and then there would be hope for it. The same end might be attained of before in the city of Portland. .The Wiley B. -will in the very near future be located in San lAttiAAsattA FROM THE GRAMMAR GRADES Are sufficiently advanced to take either a business or a shorthand course with us. Spelling, grammar, arithmetic, etc., are Included In both, without extra cost. "We think quality counts for more than quantity, and teach according ly. This sentiment alone, if indelibly fixed in the mind of a youth and we generally succeed In doing it is worth the cost of our combined business and shorthand course. Get our catalogue learn what and how we teach. Portland Business College PARK AND WASHINGTON A. P. ARMSTRONG. LL a. Principal. J. A. WESCO, Penman and Secretary. through failure of the Southern Pacific Company, the guarantor of the bond In terest of the Oregon & California. Doubt less the Ingenuity of railroad lawyers could devise some other way to divorce the Oregon & California from the South ern Pacific, but the relations of the com panies are Buch that it Is far from a simple matter. The stock of the Oregon & California was bought by Mr. Huntington personally and turned over to the Pacific Improve ment Company, not to the Southern Pa cific. Subsequently Mr. Huntington ob tained nearly 200 miles of narrow gauge lines belonging to the Oregonlan and the Portland & Willamette Valley Companies, paying $10,000 per mile for 163 miles of the former, and $14,600 per mile far 35 miles of the latter. These roads were put through bankruptcy court and pur chased by the Oregon & California. Then they were for a small sum made stand ard gauge and bonds to the full limit of $30,000 per mile, the same as for main Oregon & California line, were issued and sold. And somebody put about $2,500,000 In his pocket as the profit of this bit of financiering. And somebody else will lose it, and much more, when the day of reckoning shall come. The develop ment of the country was discounted too heavily. PRESIDENT BURT'S VIEWS. "Will Brlnff Cheaper Operation nnd More Harmonious Relations. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. President Horace G. Burt, of the Union Pacific railroad, now in this city, in the course of on Inter view on the subject of the recent Union Southern Pacific deal, said: "I do not interest myself in the road from the point of view of a banker or broker, because I am fully taken up with the practical, physical side of the prop erty. I know much less about Wall Street operations than I do of bridge building and ballasting and grading practical rail roads, consequently I am not conversant with the facts concerning the recently announced transfer of control of the Southern Pacific to the Union Pacific In terest. If the Speyer-Huntlngton shares were purchased by the Harrlman syndi cate, they were purchased by people In terested In Pacific securities, and not by the Union Pacific Railroad Company. "This union of Interests, If such a step has been taken, will bring the Union Pa cific into closer harmony with the Cen tral Pacific, whose capital stock was ac quired by the Southern Pacific In 1S99. The Union Pacific will continue to run through trains over the Central Pacific tracks as heretofore. There will be no change In the relations which now exist between the Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line of 14S9 miles, which it con trols, nor will there be any violent dis turbances in present traffic arrangements with the Southern Pacific. If the reported deal is really a fact, everyone Interested will receive a direct bneflt thereby. Greater economies through the elimina tion of agencies will be effected, and every mile of the entire system will in crease in value in proportion as we are able to put more and more capital Into the general equipment and Improvement of the roadbed. "It might be well to emphasize at this time that If the two great systems have been brought under one control, no at tempt will be made to hurt the Interests of the thousands of producers who are practically dependent upon our lines for the marketing of their products. The Western farmers and wheat men, as well as the mining and cattle interests will rest assured that the cordial relations which now exist between them and the Union Pacific will not be disturbed. The strength which the company now possesses must necessarily result yearly to the advantage of the country traversed and a fairer and wore stable adjustment of transportation rates." Stipulating With Northern Pacific. WINNIPEG, Feb. 4. Pemler Roebllng and Minister of Railroads Rogers will leave tomorrow for St. Paul to report to President Mellen, of the Northern Pacific, the progress of the attempt to get a cus tomer for the lease of the Northern Pa cific lines In Manitoba. The arrangement concluded with the Canadian Northern Company will be submitted to Mr. Mellen and stipulations as to the Northern Pa cific passenger and freight business will be discussed. Death of Mrs. Mary Went. Mrs. Mary Went, wife of John Went, died yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, after a short illness. Mrs. Went came to Oregon in 1862, and settled at The Dalles with her first husband, where the latter died. She moved to the East Side, where she was married to John Went, about 30 years ago, and made her homo In that part of the city till her death. Mrs. Went was 71 years and 8 months old. Her health had not been the best, but S Constant Satisfaction. " I have used Sozodoxt almost con stantly in my family for eleven ft jp years, and find it more satisfac- T O tory than any other dentifrice." v U ANTISEPTIC 070J0NT Forth. TEETH d BREATH. Bymau;25and73c.HALr,&Rncs2L,N.Y.City up to Saturday she was feeling fairly well. She had many friends on the East Side, where she had lived almost from the time the first house was bullt.1 A husband and one daughter, Mrs; Walter Bartel, survive her. Dominion to Own Telegraph. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. A special to tho Herald from Toronto says: The Dominion Government has praotl cally taken steps to purchase the tele graph system of Canada, extend them enormously and operate them in connec tion with the Postofflce Department. It Is also seriously proposed to follow a sim ilar course with the telephone, but In tho case of the latter municipalities will be licensed, as In Great Britain, to operate the system within their own ideas. Tho question of the absolute control of the Canadian telegraphic service has long been discussed, but not until the present Liberal government came Into office has it been possible to talk purchase. With a surplus running from $6,000,000 to $7,000, 000 for 1900-01 and a prospect of an equally large surplus for 1S01-02, the plan seems feasible The great desire of Canadian statesmen is to see cables owned by Great Britain under the Atlantic and Pa cific, Joined at each ocean to wires owned by the Dominion, crossing this country, and thus practically girdling the globe by a cable absolutely under Imperial con trol. The business men of Canada are unanimously In favor of the scheme. Mcltlnley "Will Visit the Const. BERKELEY, Cal., Feb. 4.-JPresIdent Wheeler, of the University of California, has received a telegram stating that Pres ident McKlnley will accept his Invitation to address the students of the university commencement day. May 15. This Is taken to Indicate that President McKln ley's proposed trip to the Pacific Coast will be made despite reports to the con trary. A WINTER ROUTE TO THE EAST. The climate of Utah and Colorado Is temperate the year round, and clear skies and sunlit days are as proverbial In Win ter as in Summer. The mean annual tem perature in Salt Lake City or Denver Is about 65 degrees, and the average annual precipitation 14.77 inches. With such In consequential precipitation there can be little or no trouble from snow In the dis tricts traversed by the Rio Grande West ern Railway, and Its immediate connec tionsthe Colorado Midland or Denver & Rio Grande Railroads. In fact Winter adds but new grandeur and charm to the travel scenes, and In fuses an elemimt of variety and beauty to the unsurpassed wonders of nature along the Great Salt Take Route. Tickets to all points East may be obtained at 253 Washington street. The hydraulic mines of Wlmer and Simmons are working day and night. UNKNOWN Bft4 BORDENS EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED Mltf 4 SEND"Q AniFCnABOOKFO FOR. DADILO MOTHERS. Borderts Condensed Milk Co.MY s .g" V-'"V- - .-rrrm. i BCD