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MAY COME TO PORTLAND
OTTO GDLDEMEISTER. CAN BE HE
PAIRED HERE AT SMALL COST.
(Condemnation Scheme of the Under--WTiiera
May Prove a Failure
Portland Firm to Bid.
-The man -who buys the German ship
Glldemelster in San Francisco next Mon
day -will undoubtedly secure a lawsuit
along with her, unless claims now pend
ing in this city are settled in the mean
time. It is also highly probable that the
ship may be brought to Portland for
repairs. The only people aside from the
underwriters and owners who have a
tangible interest in the Glldemelster are
the parties who had the ship under char
ter at the time she was .dismasted. The
underwriters and owners, who have ap
parently worked in full harmony in the
condemnation proceedings, overlooked
this claim of the charterers, but the spec
ulative public, who have something like
$115,000 at stake on the matter, have not
lost sight of it, and, it is reported, have
made an effort to secure the charter for
the purpose of fighting the case.
The Otto Glldemelster is under charter
to Kerr, Gifford & Co., of this city. They
have a claim on the ship that cannot be
brushed aside by any action of the own
ers and the underwriters, unless it is sat
isfactory to them. The ship was con
demned on estimates placing the damage
at $51,500, a sum which was more than
three-fourths of the value of the ship.
No bids were submitted for the repair
of the ship, or if they were .submitted,
it was done in such a, quiet manner that
none of the shipyards in the North had
an opportunity to bid on the work. When
it was finally announced that an attempt
was to be made to condemn the ship, an
expert was sent from this city to make
a thorough examination of the vessel and
report on the cost of repairing her. The
expert made a careful estimate of the
damage, and has submitted his report.
On the strength of tht report his firm
has announced Its willingness to tow
the ship to Portland, insure her on her
voyage, and make all repairs necessary
to place her in as good condition as she
was before she was dismasted, for a sum
sufllciently low to make it impossible for
her to be construed in any way as a total
Joss. The charterers of the ship .will
suffer a heavy loss by the non-arrival of
the vessel, and will stand on their rights
in the matter and Insist that she be re
paired and carry out the terms of her
charter.
The general impression in this city, as
well as among the San Francisco ship
ping men, is that the action taken by the
underwriters and owners was for the
purpose of avoiding the payment of the
large sums which they stood to lose when
the vessel reached port in safety. She
twice refused assistance while working
into port, and was uninjured below the
decks, and is about as far from being a
total loss as any damaged vessel that was
ever towed into port. There is consid
erable money at stake on both sides, and
if 'the ship can be brought to Portland
and repaired for one-third of her value,
the charterers will insist on a reconsid
eration and investigation of the con
demnation proceedings.
KINDXESS ACKNOWLEDGED.
"Widow of the Late Captain Bell
Grntefnl to Many Portlanders.
The St Johns, N. B., Gazette of April
11 contains a notice of the funeral of the
late Captain Bell, who died on board of
the British ship Helga in this port a few
weeks ago. The same paper in the issue
of April 15 prints the following:
"In the depth of her grief in the recent
-death of her husband at Portland, Or.,
Mrs. Thomas O. Bell, -who was with Mm
when he died, speaks in the highest terms
of the great kindness extended to herself
and daughter while in that distant city.
This kindness in the hour of her sorrow
and bereavement she cannot forget, and
proves the existence of the feeling that
makes the world akin. The shipmasters
in port at Portland, Or., as well as the
agents there of the owners, Messrs. Car
michael, of Glasgow, N. S., and all the
Canadian Pacific Railroad officials, on her
sad journey home with her beloved dead,
were most thoughtful for her, and un
wearied in their ministrations for her
and her daughter's comfort. She begs
one and all of these kind friends in the
West and her numerous friends at home
to accept her heartfelt gratitude for their
manifestations of sincere sympathy."
BEAR WILL BE DELAYED.
Crncted Shaft Will Prevent Her
Leaving for North for Ttvo Weeks.
-SEATTLE, April 25. It has been dis
covered that the crank shaft of the United
States revenue cutter Bear Is cracked,
and that the mishap, which probably oc
curred during her battle with the Behr
ing Sea ice last May, will delay her de
parture for the North from two to three
weeks. The discovery was made several
days ago after the Bear had completed
extensive repairs at Moran's shipyards,
and had been placed in the Quartermaster
Harbor drydock to have her bull painted.
While the Bear might make another
northern voj-age, yet the shaft, in it?
cracked condition, is considered unsafe
and it has accordingly been decided to
have another cast. Captain Tuttle had
planned Uo'qeave foV Behring Sea and the
Siberian Coast a"bout May 5, but he will
not now be able to get away before the
closing days of the coming month.
Another Astoria Lie.
Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer
prints the following:
Astoria, April 23 The British steam
er Adato went fast aground near Bug
by's hole while on her way up the river
to Portland yesterday morning, and at
last reports was still sticking on a sand
bar. The steamship Adato arrived In Port
land over 10 days ago. She has been lying
at Alaska dock in this city until Wednes
day noon. She did not ground anywhere
When she came up the river, nor when
- she went down yesterday. The Item is
&, plain, unqualified falsehood, put in
i circulation "by some enemy of the Colum
w bla River. Just what is to be gained by
the circulation of such lying reports it is
difficult to understand.
Rio Carried No Mall.
WASHINGTON, April 25. The Postmas-
' , ter-General today received a report from
Superintendent Robinson, of the United
Postal Station in China, confirming his
previous announcement that no mail from
there was lost when the steamer Rio de
Janeiro sank at the entrance to San Fran
it Cisco Bay February 19 last. Inquiry
through the imperial Japanese postal au-.-
thorltles showed that all mail received at
Nagasaki that might have been forwarded
by the wrecked steamer had previously
been, dispatched by a military transport
to the United States, and none sent by
the Rio.
Combine on St. Lawrence.
MONTREAL, April 25. The Herald
gives publicity to a story of the impend-
ing consolidation of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, the Grand Trunk Railway and
the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Com
pany, which does practically all the
"steamship passenger business on the St.
Lawrence River. Mr. Shaughnessy, pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
is now on his way vo London, where
President Forget, of the Navigation Com
pany, is at present, and there the nego
tiations are to be carried on with the
owners of the' Grand Trunk, it is said.
Ore Hulk Wrecked.
"VICTORIA, B. C. April 25. The steamer
Iolphln, which arrived at Union today,
brought the news that the hulk Colorado,
loaded with a valuable cargo of concen
trates from the Treadwell mines for the
Tacoma smelter, went ashore in Wrangel
Narrows and broke her back. She was Tn
tow of the tug Pilot. No particulars are
given as to whether the cargo could be
saved. The cargo belongs to Dunsmulr's
Sons, of this city.
A Wreck off Coast.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 2S.-The
three-masted schooner Emma C. Knowles,
Captain Rogers, from Charleston, S. C,
April 14, for Fall River with a cargo
of lumber, was sighted six miles off this
city today, almost a total wreck. There
was no life on the vessel and the fate of
her crew is unknown. The hull of the
Knowles was lying broadside in the water
when discovered.
Will Go to Alaska.
ASTORIA, Or., April 23. The four
masted schooner Bartlett, which arrived
In from San Francisco yesterday, is under
charter to the Alaska-Portland Fishing
Association to take a cargo of cannery
supplies to Alaska.
Domestic and Foreign Ports.
ASTORIA, April 25. Arrived at 10:40 A.
M. and left up at 3 P.. M., steamer Co
lumbia from San Francisco. Left up at
7 A.M., German ship Nereus. Sailed at
6 A. M., British steamship Adato for Brit
ish Columbia. Condition bf bar at 5 P.
M., smooth, wind northwest, weather
cloudy.
Hoquiam, Wash., April 23. Arrived
Schooner Orient from San Francisco for
Aberdeen; schooner Lena aweasey from
Guaymas for Cosmopolis. April 24. Sailed
Schooner San Buenaventura from Aber
deen for San Pedro; schooner Lizzie
Vance, from Cosmopolis for San Fran
cisco; steamer Grace Dollar, from Ho
quiam for San Francisco.
San Francisco, April 25. Arrived
Steamer Geo. W. Elder, Astoria; steam
er Rival, Willipa Harbor; ship Glory of
Seas, Comox.
Eureka, April 24. Arrived Steamer Al
liance, Portland.
Port Blakeley, April 24. Arrived Ship
Drumcraig, Vancouver.
Kaahapali, April 5. Arrived Schooner
F. S. Redfield, Port Gamble.
Honolulu, April 14. Sailed Schooner
Ethel Zane, Port Townsend.
Nagasaki, April 25. Arrived Steamer
Moyune, Tacoma.
London, April 24. Sailed Bark Alex
ander Black, Vancouver.
Leghorn, April 2L Arrived Steamer
Tangtse, Tacoma.
San Diego, April 24.r-Sailed Steamer
Monmouthshire, St. Vincent.
Tacoma, April 25. Sailed Duke of Fife,
Yokohama.
Antwerp, April 25. Arrived Nederland,
Philadelphia.
Liverpool, April 25. Sailed Common
wealth, Queenstown and Boston.
Rotterdam, April 25. Sailed Maasdam,
Boulogne and New York.
Havre, April 25. Sailed La Lorraine,
New York.
Leghorn, April 22. Arlved Yangtse, Ta
coma and Valparaiso, via Montevideo and
St Vincent
Glasgow, April 24. Sailed Corean, Phil
adelphia; Peruvian, Boston.
Queenstown, April 25. Arrived Ger
manic, Nordland, Philadelphia, both from
Liverpool.
New York, April 25. Sailed Barbar
ossa, Bremen, via Cherbourg.
Liverpool, April 25. Arrived Majestic,
New York.
Liverpool, April 25. Arrived Pretoria,
New York for Hamburg.
New York, April 25. Sailed Aqul
taine, Cape Town.
Idaho Notes.
A pioneer reunion at Stltes is pro
posed. Boise may erect another high school
building.
C. A. Young died on a train near Moun
talnhome, Sunday, of hemorrhage of the
lungs, -
Contract has been let for construction
of the approaches to the new street bridge
at Halley.
The state board will hold a school land
sale, May 16, in Bingham County. Chief
Clerk Steunenberg made the sale of 1200
acres in that county April 4, and has ap
plications on file for the eale of 800 acrc3
more.
Electric power is supplanting steam at
the works of the Trade Dollar Consoli
dated Mining Company, and within a
short time no steam will be used except
for heating and amalgamating pans in
the mill.
The work of excavating for the founda
tion of the new Y. M C. A. building at
Boise is progressing. The new building
will have a frontage of 122 feet on Tenth
street, and will extend from the irrigation
ditch to the corner.
A deal is on foot for transfer of the
Kelly Hot Springs property, five miles
up the river from Boise, and the state
ment is made that those who are de
sirous of securing control or possession
believe it is oil land.
The directors of the Idaho Intermoun
tain Fair, at Boise, have been considering
for some time a proposition to secure
permanent fair grounds. The lease on
the grounds that have been used since
the Inauguration of the fair, will expire
ehortly.
The Lewlston Council has received a
proposition from W. H. Skinner for a
franchise for a waterworks system. He
guarantees that the rates for water for
both public and private purposes would
be considerably less than the rates now
In force.
The difference between the RIdenbaugh
Ditch Company and the farmers Is about
to get into the courts under a new phase,
ays a Boise paper. A large number of
farmers have refused to sign the contract
required by the company, and the com
pany refuses to rent them water unless
such contract Is signed.
The Hazlewood Dairy Company desires
to establish a creamery at Lewlston if
enough milch stock is available to sup
ply a plant Four hundred cows are
available at VIneland, according to Pres
ident LIbby, of the Lewlston Commercial
Club, and he thinks 1000 cows may be en
gaged at Hatwai, Laywal, Tammany,
Waha and Asotin. A canvass of these
localities will be made.
Citizens of Greer have raised a fund of
$600 to complete the wagon road extending
from that point to the Nez Perce sec
tion of tlv reservation country. The to
tal cost of the road will be $1200, and sub
scriptions are now being taken from, farm
ers in the Nez Perce country to complete
the necessary fund. With the completion
of this rod it is said Greer will become
the nearest shipping point for the large
section of country lying between Nez
Perce and the river.
The report comes from Payette that
promising oil prospects are to be found in
that vicinity. Last Fail, on the ranch of
Mrs. R Wackerhagen, on Little Willow
Creek, a well was drilled 29 feet Into sand.
Some time during the "Winter water com
menced to flow. It had a peculiar odor,
and where it stood In ponds oil rose to the
top. Mr. Smith, who did the drilling,
skimmed off enough to fill a teacup. Mrs.
Wackerhagen has commenced to sink this
week deeper. Eastern men are taking the
Little Willow country under leases, and
on Big Willow wCreek several thousand
acres have been secured.
Prospecting for coal near Salmon con
tinues. Work on the Pollard mine Is pro
gressing, and recent uncoverlngs are high
ly satisfactory. The coal gives a strong
heat burns with facility and makes few
ashes. The up-river prospects are moving
ahead with the usual -zeal, and tunneling
on the veins continues. At the Shenon
Bannlgan mines the tunnel is in 50 feet
The face presents numerous small strata
of coal interspersed with carbonaceous
shale, clay and sandstone. Jack Black has
taken a quarter section south of the
Shanon-Bannigan location, and Is driving
a tunnel upon his vein. The outcrop Is
similar, except that the vein seems to be
much thicker or'deeper. The surface Indi
cations present an unbroken face of coal
bearing shale fully 200 feet in thickness.
SHOULD BE ON COLUMBIA
NAVAL STATION LOCATED ON
PUGET SOUND.
It Gives Much. Trouble and Best
Judges Say Change Is Only a
Matter of Time.
WASHINGTON, April 21. The naval
station on Puget Sound gives the author
ities in Washington a great - deal of
trouble, and will probably' continue to do
eo for many years to come. Owing to
the difficulties which are experienced In
getting vessels up to the Mare Island
naval station, so as to secure good dock
ing facilities. It is found necessary to
use the Puget Sound station for -many of
the big vessels, and when this Is done
repairs, of course, are necessary. The
department finds Itself In a curious plight
DEATH OF AN OREGON PIONEER OF 1851.
MRS. REBECCA STEPHENS.
BOSEBURG, Or., April 25. Mrs. Rebecca Stephens, ,who died at the residence of her
daughter. Mrs. XV. B. Clark. In Millwood, Or., April 22, was the widow of S Stephens, who
filled the office of Sheriff and County Clerk of Douglas County, and who died about three
ears ago. Mrs. Stephens was born in Tennessee In 1822 In her girlhood she moved to
Iowa, where she was married, coming, with her husband to the Willamette "Valley in the
Fall of 1851. In "the Spring of 1852 Mr. and Mrs.- Stephens moved to Oakland, in which vi
cinity they remained until death claimed them. 'Four eons and two daughters were born to
them William Stephens, of Marysvllle, Wash.; ex-Sheriff R. L. Stephens, J. A. and G. W.
Stephens and Mrs. C. P. Bailey, of Oakland, and "Mrs. W. B. Clark, of Millwood.
There are no workmen to be obtained
from the Puget Sound cities, because
there is little or no manufacturing there,
and what skilled labor is employed thebe
days Is for the year around, and men
having steady employment do not wish to
give it up for the purpose of going over
to the navy-yard to work a month or two
on a naval vessel. The construction and
repair department is obliged to bring Its
force from other cities in order to make
the repairs necessary on most any vessel
that is sent to the Puget Sound yard
for dockage.
These things "bave been pointed out
from time to time, and the impression
prevails that at no distant day this dock,
which Is so unfortunately located,' will be
practically abandoned. It Is etill the
marvel of the department officials here
that such a site should be chosen by men
with any naval experience whatever.
It would have been far better to have
had the dock at one of the Puget Sound
cities where communication by rail and
telegraph were better, and where the
dock could be used for commercial pur
poses to some advantage.
Perhaps the time will come when this
whole matter will be cleared up. But not
at present The location of a dock at
that time was so far away, that little
attention was paid to it and no one
seemed to understand what was being
done. That a drydock and naval station is
necessary in the North Pacific is agreed
everywhere, and the best judges of such
affairs say that it is only a matter of
time until it is located on the Columbia
River, near enough to a large city" to se
cure workmen necessary to make the
repairs on such Government ships as
may be docked in North Pacific waters.
RICH MINING STRIKE.
Made In the Homestnlce, in the Burnt
River District.
BAKER CITY, April 25. Word comes
from the Homestake mine, In the Burnt
River district, of a rich strike in that
property. It is owned by the Great West
ern Prospecting & Development Compa
ny, of Salt Lake City. Old miners call
it the Treadwell of Oregon. It has a
large ledge of low-grade, free-milling
gold ore. Occasionally pockets of rich
ore are encountered. The mine has been
not worked for some time, but recently
a drift of about 100 feet was run on the
500-foot level. In this drift, yesterday,
the new strike was reported. Samples
of the ore taken from across the face
of the vein are said to run as high as
$5000 to the ton.
Mammoth Ore Sent to Virtue Mill.
Ore from the Mammoth mine is being
treated at the Virtue mill. The Mammoth
Is owned by J. H. Parker, Louis Som
mer, Isaac Baer and John Wilson, of this
city. The ore is rich in gold, and the
owners anticipate quite as good returns
from their ore as the owners of the Car
roll B. realized from their test run re
cently, as the two mines are close to
gether. The Carroll B. cleaned up $1000
from a four days' run on a five-stamp
mm:
Miner Almost Instantly Killed.
SALT LAKE, April 25. A special from
Soda Springs, Idaho, says: While watch
ing a blast today at the mines of the
Western Sulphur Company, five miles
from here, Jasper Lasater, of Monego
Springs, Mo., was struck in the head by a
fragment of rock and almost Instantly
killed. Lasater was fully 150 yards from
the explosion.
Ex-Portland Woman Begins Salt.
NEW YORK, Apr.Il 25. Mrs. J. C. Top
ping, of this city, but formerly of Port
land, has brought suit against the estate
of Thomas G. Sherman for the recovery of
trust funds. Mr. Sherman was a' brother
of Mrs. Topping. His recent death In Salt
Lake caused the dlvlsoln of two families.
Two Oregon Postmasters.
WASHINGTON, April 25. The President
today appointed the following Postmas
ters: Idaho Coeur d'Alene, David F. Mason;
Idaho Falls, E. F. Winn.
Oregon Sllverton, Thomas W. Riches;
Woodburn, Walter L. Tooze.
Heavy Hail Did Not Hurt Fruit.
ALBANY, Or., April 25. Nearly half an
inch of hall fell at this city this forenoon,
but fortunately there was no wind, and
no damage was done to fruit trees. The
weather, altogether, has been very favor
able to crops, and the prospects are good.
Library at Centralia.
CENTRALIA, Wash., April 25. A II-
brary association was organized at this
place 'April 22, for the purpose of estab
lishing and maintain a public library.
The following are the officers: President,
Frank Burch; first vice-president, Dr. M.
S. BeebeT second vice-president. Rev. J.
W. Miller; recording secretary, M. D.
Wood; corresponding secretary, J. L. Ba
ker; treasurer, F. T. McNItt; directors,
Rev. H. Arkley, J. H. Aust.'H. C. Glllam,
Mrs. C. N. Graves, Mrs. M. D. Wood.
- Forest Grove Brevities.
FOREST GROVE, Or., April 25. Mayor
Kane has requested the citizens to' meet
in Verts' Hall, May 1, to arrange for the
G. A. R. state encampment, which will
be "held here June 25-2S.
William H. Lyda, dtf Gales Creek, Is de.
llverlng 500 piling to -the depot here for
shipment to San Francisco.
Bis Grain and Frnlt Crop Sure.
FOREST GROVE. Or., April 25. A
heavy hall and rain storm occurred here
today. The hall aid"1 no "damage to the
fruit, while the rain will prove highly
beneficial to the grain, as the soil was
getting too dry for plowing. It is certain
now that Washington County will have a
large grain and fruit crop.
Northwest Pensions.
WASHINGTON, April 25. Pensions
have been granted as follows:
Washington Increase, John Lowe, State
Soldiers' Home, Orting, $12; Abram eas
ier, Vashon, $10.
Idaho Original, William B. Hammer,
Boise, $6.
. ,-. New Washington Postofll.ee.
WASHINGTON, April 25. A postofiice
has been established at Wills, Stevens
County, Wash, to be supplied from
Hunters, and Charles J. Kilyea appoint
ed postmaster.
The postofiice at Kaylor, Ferry County,
Wash., has been moved one mile to
the west.
Funeral of James H. Rltches.
SALEM, Or., April 25. The remains of
James H. Rltches, who died last Monday
at ' San Louis Obispo, Cal., arrived In
Salem today, and were given burial in
the Odd Fellows' cemetery.
Oregon Notes.
Eugene citizens have subscribed over
$150 for an immigration fund.
Work of building a road to Blue River,
on the Calapooia side, has begun. .
The First National Bank of MdMinn
vllle has received a burglar-proof safe.
Plans of a telephone line from Baker
City to the Panhandle are under consid
eration. S. H. Friendly, of Eugene, shipped East
Tuesday between 50,000 and 60,000 pounds
of last year's wool.
Militia Company A, of Baker City, will
give a gold medal to the best marksman
In the organization. Target practice on
an Indoor range will commence soon.
Albany baseball enthusiasts have or
ganized a club. S. L. Whitney is presi
dent, and Harry Cuslck secretary and
treasurer. Membership is limited to 25.
W. C. Peterson is figuring on putting
in an electric-light system at Browns
ville. If the city will pay $45 per month
for six lights, he agrees to put in a sys
tem at once.
W. A. Spencer has finished sawing fir
lumber, says a Lebanon paper, and after
sawing out about 10,000 feet of oak will
move his mill about 1 miles southeast
of Sodaville.
The telephone line from Grant's Pass
to Williams Is complete and In operation.
This line Is 20 miles 'In length, and has
stations at Williams, Miller's Corners,
Provolt, Lee Creek and Murphy.
E. H. Loftus and C. H. Dalrymple have
found a large ledge, of lime rock four
miles north of Lakevlew. The rock has
been tested and pronounced first class.
The finders have secured a lease on the
land, and will make the necessary prep
aration at once to burn a kiln.
A large eagle was displayed at Astoria
the other day. The bird was caught at
Miller's. Sands by seiners. Some one had
shot away a few Inches of one of the
'bird's wings, making It Impossible for It
to fly. The men succeeded in running
down the eagle, but It was not captured
until after a vicious fight
It Is thought that the widow of the old
man, Michel, who died recently at Sea
side, will not long survive. She has
lived nearly a century, and since losing
her husband she has slept little, and
moans almost continually. Some of the
Seaslders say that she, was born In the
18th century. She is probably the oldest
Indian in Oregon. Her husband was a
French-Canadian.
The Grimes' Grove Land Company, of
Seaside, has purchased spruce , slabwood
from the Necanlcum Spruce Lumber
Company for a bulkhead to keep sand
from being blown over the frontage to
the property. It Is thought that if the
slabs are used properly the sand will
blow against them and form a bulkhead
which will result in increasing the
amount of salable property.
Two big bearskins were recently secured
by Postmaster Herman Ahlers, of Push.
He had several traps', and one of them
was found to be missing. He, took the
trail and found the trap and the bear in a
hollow tree. He got Bruin out, and, ap
proaching close to the animal, emptied
the contents of a shotgun Into its face.
The bear paid little,, attention 'to the
leaden shower, but fan, Mr. Ahlers fol
lowing. A second charge of, shot was
given Bruin, and the hunter finished the
work with a knife. Last Friday Mr. Ahl
ers killed another. A number of the ani
mals have been killed recently near Push,
on Clatsop Plains.
SMELTING LITIGATION
ANOTHER SUIT FILED AGAINST THE
AMERICAN COMPANY.
Recently Formed Plow Combine Is
but the Beginning; of a Farm
Implement Trust.
WILMINGTON, Del., April 25.-Iudge
Gray, of the United States Circuit Court,
In this city, filed an order in Trenton to
day for the American Smelting & Refin
ing Company and M. Guggenheim's Sons
to show cause May 13 at Trenton why
they should not be permanently enjoined
from making use of the recently issued
$45,200,000 increase In the capital stock of
the smelting and refining company. A
temporary order ha3 been granted re
straining the sale or use of this stock
pending a final hearing. The suit was
instituted by Irving E. -Lengle, of Read
ing, Pa., an owner of $50,000 worth of the
stock of the company. The suit Is a
repetition of the one Instituted In the New
Jersey state courts by, W. M. Donald and
others, which resulted In a decision pro
hibiting the issuing of the stock and
carrying out of a deal for the absorption
of the Guggenheim plant by the smelting
company. The effect of this decision was
afterward nullified by the effecting of a
settlement with Donald.
Lengle, In his bill of complaint, goes
over the same ground covered by the bill
filed' by Donald in the New Jersey courts,
and charges that the deal Involved the
Issuing of $15,200,000 worth of stock of the
American Smelting & Refining Company
to the Guggenhelms, and this was $23,000,
000 in excess of the value of their plant
and the money they were to receive In
payment.
FARM MACHINERY TRUST.
The Plow Combine Is Only the Bc
ginlng of It.
NEW .YORK, April 25. The Journal of
Commercg says: It Is learned In this
cjty that the report from Chicago that
plow manufacturers have decided to form
a $50,000,000 consolidation Is only partly
correct, and that the present plans in
stead of being merely for a consolidation
of the plow industry, contemplate a con
solidation which shall Include every
branch of the farm machinery trade,
with the exception of mowers and reap
ers. The reported capital of $50,000,000
Is said to be a minimum figure.
There have been numerous efforts to
unite special branches of the farm ma
chinery trade, but this Is the" first at
tempt at a general consolidation. The
organizers of the present consolidation
argue that a partial union is Inherently
weak, as It would be an easy matter for
other manufacturers to enter that par
ticular branch. But with a general con
solidation, It Is contended this incentive
to competlton would be removed. The
new company, If organized on the pres
ent lines, will, It Is said, be In a position
to manufacture all knds of farm Imple
ments, from a hoe to a thresher, with the
exception above noted of mowers and
reapers.
Among the largest concerns which are
understood to favor the present plan are
Deere & Co., of Mollne, III.; Parlin &
Orendorff, Canton, 111.; Rock Island Plow
Company, Rock Island, 111.; Standard
Harrow Company, Utlca, N. Y.; Syracuse
Plow Company, Syracuse, N. Y.; Empire
Plow Company, Cleveland, O.; Hench,
Dromgold & Co., York, Pa.; Aultman &
Taylor Machinery Company, Mansfield,
O.; Stoddart Manufacturing Company,
Dayton, O.; Blssell Plow Company, South
Bend, Ihd; Morrison Manufacturing
Company, Fort Madison, la.; Buffalo
Pitts Company, Buffalo; O. S. Kelly Com
pany. Springfield, O.; Kansas City Hay
Press Company, Kansas City, Mo.
It is Intended to secure all cpneerns
rated at $100,000 or more. The financial
details have not yet been arranged, but
It Is said that the capital of the new
pnmnnnv. If formed, will be divided
equally between preferred and common
stock. Good will, etc., Is to go in about
one-third the total capitalization. It Is
estimated that the tangible value of the
plants It Is intended to consolidate Is up
ward of $35,000,000.
PRESIDENT SARIN'S PLANS.
Reduction in Telephone Rates May
Be Made.
CHICAGO, April 25. John I. Sabln, who
will succeed John M. Clark as president
of the Chicago Telephone Company about
May 15, arrived In the city from Boston,
and after holding a consultation with
officers of the telephone company. Im
mediately departed for San Francisco.
He will close up his affairs there as
quickly as possible, and expects to re
turn to Chicago about May 10.
Concerning just what changes are con
templated, Mr. Sabln was extremely reti
cent "Very likely some reductions In rates
will be made," he said, "especially for
the benefit of the small user of telephone
service- It Is too early, however, for me
to give out any specific Information on
the subject. I have really not had an
opportunity to look over the situation
here, and do not know what rates are.
now charged.
"I was on my way to Europe with my
daughter when I received the request of
the Chicago Telephone Company to be
come Its president. The call was entlrely
unexpected. I decided however to ac
cept, and gave up my trip abroad to
get into harness again."
GREAT CLOTHING TRUST.
Chicago Manufacturers "Will Form
an Association.
CHICAGO, April 25. Chicago manufac
turers of clothing, representing an aggre
gate capital of from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000,
met today and decided to form an asso
ciation which will combine with similar
bodies throughout the United States.
While the leaders deny that any efforts to
regulate prices are contemplated, the com
bination will be more powerful and repre
sent more capital than almost any recog
nized trust. 'Already the New York As
sociation has a total capital of more than
$100,000,000, and with the factories of six
Eastern cities, another $100,000,000 is added.
The Chicago merchants are the first West
erners to join. Their decision, it Is said,
will bring the houses of St. Louis, Mil
waukee, Cincinnati and other towns into
the association. Later San Francisco's
co-operation is to be sought, and the
South will also be visited.
Morgan Selling Steel Stock.
NEW YORK, April 25. The Tribune
says word has been received in Wall
street that J. Plerpont Morgan has just
disposed o'f a big block of United States
Steel stock in London. The exact amount
could not be ascertained, but It Is re
ported to be In the nelghborhod of $20,
000,000. Another block of about the same
size will follow, it Is said.
Will Join the Copper Trust.
NEW 'YORK, April 25. Kidder. Pea
body & Co. have notified the Boston Ex
change that more than two-thirds of the
Boston & Montana copper stock and the
Butte & Boston copper stock have con
sented to the consolidation of the two
companies with the Amalgamated Copper
Company, and the brokers have requested
that the receipts for the stock turned in
to them be placed on the unlisted depart
ment of the stock exchange.
Should See the River.
Pendleton East Oregonlan.
It Is exceedingly unfortunate that Pres
ident McKlnley decides that he will not
view the Columbia and Willamette Rivers,
at, the time of his visit to Portland. By
this decision he prevents the people of
Oregon from showing him and his com
panions the greatest thing in the West
the magnificent waterway system of this
state and Washington, two streams than
which the United States has only one
greater the Mississippi.
It would almost be justifiable to force
the President to see those rivers, and,
when the Presidential party gets aboard
the Hassalo to view Portland harbor, run
him down the Columbia and up to The
Dalles, In spite of his protests. If the
people of the East will not voluntarily
learn what Is in the West, and of the
wonderful possibilities, then apply to them
the principal of compulsory education
that finds application In most of the states
of the Union, and make them learn. True.
Mr. McKlnley might order a fleet of war
ships to blow Portland Into the middle of
next week, but the result would be worth
a whole lot of blowing.
-CHANCE FOR PORTLAND.
Great Opportunities In Trade With
New Zealand.
PORTLAND. April 23. (To the Editor
While the Oriental trade will ultimately
be of great value to our children In Ore
gon, when Asiatic civilization develops,
why should you neglect what in the mean
time Is open to you In Oregon, an Inter
change of commercial relations with an
Anglo-Saxon race In New Zealand, over
half of which are Scotchmen? This ques
tion I submitted to the late Senator Dolph
In 1S94, from New Zealand, when I
mailed to him correspondence I had and
interviews with the Premier and Cabinet
officers of that country for a reciprocity
of trade with the Pacific States for sub
mission to the Secretary of State at
Washington. After eight months' per
sonal Investigation therein. I saw what
good prospect then existed for us to
secure a share of New Zealand's for
eign trade.
Seven years have since elapsed and we
find the value of that field for American
trade and commerce fully confirmed by
recent numerous letters from that en
lightened and accurate correspondent,
Frank G. Carpenter, as printed In The
Sunday Oregonlan, who says that a great
portion of New Zealand's foreign trade
of $100,000,000 yearly may well be secured
by Americans If they will only make an
effort to compete for It, and that the
expenditure of one New Zealand Inhab
itant Is of more value to the United
States in manufactured goods and prod
ucts than that of 50 residents of China.
Do our Ideal merchants realize that
today trade has so Increased that the
New Zealand (not the Dutch) Govern
ment, In Its anxiety to secure an Ameri
can Interchange of trade, has subsidized
two steamship lines to the- Pnrlflc Coast
one direct from New Zealand to San
Francisco, and the other to the Fiji Is
lands, from New Zealand, and thence to
Puget Sound and British Columbia?
If the officers of the O. R. & N. Co.
would Investigate this matter they would
find these two steamship lines developing
a large overland trade to and from New
Zealand, via San Francisco and Vancou
ver, B. C, and. If so, why cannot we In
Oregon get a share of that traffic by a
line of steamers from the Columbia River?
Feeling satisfied we can. If we will onlj
co-operate to do so, I have for some four
months been in correspondence with a
British shipping company to put on three
steamers with a monthly service from
Portland to Honolulu thence to secure the
Fiji Islands' trade and call at Auckland.
New Zealand, 63t0 miles from Columbia
Bar. and at the other seaports of that
British colony Wellington, Lyttleton and
Dunedln, each of which cities have
above 50.000 inhabitants, or over 210,000
In all, Including Auckland the keys to
an Internal country of S0O.C0O persons,
whose expenditure Is the highest per in
habitant of any country In the world,
even higher than In the United States.
The outward voyage from Portland can
be done In 18 days to New Zealand at
15 knots an hour. While the matter Is
still under consideration by this Brit
ish shipping company. It says It has two
drawbacks, first, that although New Zea
land coal Is cheap enough, that at Port
land would be $1 50 per ton more than is
paid at Puget Sound: second, that, being
British steamers, they cannot carry
freight and passengers between Portland
and Honolulu, which they fear would be
40 per cent of all the traffic to be car
ried, and be lost to their steamers.
Senator Mitchell Is now urging the State
Department at Washington to look Into
the matter and to make a special investi
gation if possible as to the prospective
advantages to be derived to the United
States through a greater Interchange of
commercial relations between New Zea
land and this country, and I venture to
hope the public bodies of Portland will.
In the Interest of Oregon, also give this
matter their careful consideration. As
Carpenter, in his letters to The Oregonlan,
shows, we are less than half the dis
tance by steam than Great Britain Is
from New Zealand, and If so, surely our
Pacific Coast merchants can secure a
greater share of that $100,000,000 New Zea
land contributes yearly to Europe, seeing
the location Is the same whether goods
go Into that colony from Europe or
America.
In China we trade with an uncivilized
race; In New Zealand with Anglo-Saxons,
and In one city of New Zealand
alone, namely Dunedln. of 32.000 Inhab
itants, Frank G. Carpenter tells us, he
finds there are nine-tenths of all Its In
habitants pure Scotch, eager and willing
to do business direct with the United
States on a cash basis.
WILLIAM REID.
ALASKA TELEGRAPH LINE.
It Will Probably Be Two Years Be
fore It Is in Good Working Order.
WASHINGTON, April 22. Were It not
for the great difficulties of transporta
tion In Alaska, the Government mllitary
telegraph line from Valdes to the Yukon
River, and down to St Michael, would
probably be In working order by the
close ot the coming Summer, but, under
conditions as they exist. It will probably
be two years before this line In Its en
tirety will be working satisfactorily.
Work was not begun In earnest until
late In the season of 1900, when, by dex
terous labor, the men of the Signal Corps,
under Major Green, took hold, and made
phenomenal progress with the line. It Is
beyond a possibility, however, for them
to keep up this pace this Summer, owing
largely to the difficulties encountered In
getting their lines, fixtures and supplies
to Interior points from which they are
working. Active operations on laying the
line could not be commenced before late
In March or the first of April, and up to
this time no advices on this subject have
yet been received In Washington.
It Is hoped that by the close of this
Summer season Fort Gibbon will be con
nected with St Michael, and this will
bring the latter point and Skagway with
in 15 days of each other, whereas they
have heretofore been two months apart,
and oftentimes nearer three months. This
will be a tremendous saving In time, and
an unquestioned advantage to the mili
tary and other Government officials.
The question of how the line shall be
constructed along the great bend of the
Yukon has not yet been, determined. This
neck of land is between 30 and 40 miles
wide. Should the line follow the river It
would be much longer than an overland
section, and could not be reached in
Summer, except by a large repair force,
which would make It expensive and, diffi
cult of maintenace. During the past Win
ter an officer has been in the field to see
.what can be done across country between
Fort Gibbon and Fort Egbert. On his
report the department will act The Sig
nal Corps Is feeling its way cautiously,
so as not to make errors ascribed to the
Canadian authorities, whu attempted to
build a telegraph line from the two ends
without making a survey of the route,
and. In consequence, at the close of a
season, found that the two ends that
were to have connected had overlapped
each other for some miles, one going on
pne side of a mountain, and the other on
the opposite side. And for weeks neither
party knew of the proximity of the other.
This story Is believed to be founded on
fact, and. In fact, the Canadian offi
cials, when asked by the War Department
as to Its correctness, have declined to
make any reply whatever even when the
query has been repeated time, and again.
As a contrast to this method, not a mile
of the American line has been laid until
the route has been first surveyed and
platted.
Emperor "William's Malady
Chicago Chronicle.
Megalomania, with which Emperor Wil
liam is reported to be suffering. Is com
posed of two Greek words which together
mean an excessively good opinion of one
self. The disease has been prevalent from
the earliest recorded time. In genius it
Is accompanied with conclusive proofs,
discovered., however, only after death,
that the diagnosis was. erroneous. Tint
a victim of megalomania may have lu
cid Intervals is shown by an order just
issued by the Kaiser to remove from a
public institution near Berlin a mosaic
in which the Empress was depicted as St.
Elizabeth and he as the saint's husband.
In mitigation of the original offense it
ought to he added that the work was in
an asylum for the blind. The Kaiser
doubtless contracted the megalomanlcal
Idea from contemplation of the numerous
works by old masters wherein the burgo
master, his wife and children, are miracu
lously mixed up with cherubim and sera
phim, hlerophants and household pet3.
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Professor W. 9. Davis, who for the
past three years has been principal of
Eells Academy, at Colvllle, has accepted
a position In the employ of the Govern
ment as teacher In the public schools of
Manila, P. I., at a salary of $150 per
month. Professor Davis expects to leave
for the Philippines in June.