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12 THE MORNING OKEGONIAN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1902. THE HOSPITAL SKIP PLOUGHIXG ALONG THE SHORES OP LAliHADOU OX SICK CALLS. . Dosr Sledges Used Affony Endured by the Injnred'and Hclnlcsi and Among the Poorest. The hardest medical practice In the world Is In swing- again this month. While most ot 'us in this latitude are dreaming of hammocks and cool drinks, only a few days' sail from our northern Atlantic port3 a little steamer Is rolling and tum bling through great seas and fields of ice fioc3, says the Washington Star. And never castaway sailor saw delivering ship approach with such prayers of gratitude as rise from men's lips when the hospital ehip Strathcona Is sighted working her way along the terrible coasts of Labrador. Men and women and little children white, Indian and Eskimo are straining their eyes seaward while you read this, looking for the only help that ever comes to them in their solitudes, where Ice and gale lock them away from all their human kind. Scattered along more than one thousand miles of coast, fishing smacks, crowded not only with men, but with women who are driven by need to fish for a living, hail the little ship as the only place of refuge for any who become ill or maimed In the hard calling. There is no spot on the globe where life Is harder or serious accidents of all kinds are more frequent th'an along that stormy stretch of coast from St. John s, New foundland, to Cape Chlldey at the open ing into Hudson strait. .The Intense cold, far below zero for the greater part of the year, causes innumerable caees of frost bite. that, with no surgical help, soon de velop into gangdene. Every year there Is a lack of food, and starvation weakens the people until they arc easy prey to typhoid, consumption and Intestinal dis eases of almost all the painful kinds known to medical science.. The only methods for obtaining food are seal hunt ing, whaling and fishing. Generally they are carried on In poor craft, and frighttul injuries from brokm bones to gunsnot wounds are necessarily frequent. For no where Is the pursuit of either animals or lifh eo fraught with difficulty and peril. Yet. although the barren land Is inhabit ed by nearly twelve thousand persona, while from twenty to twenty-five thou sand sail to it every year In June and July to fish for cod. there was not a sin gle doctor to be found In all Its thousand miles until ten years ago, when the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent a little ninely-eeven-ton filing ves sel, the Albert, there under Dr. Wilfred Grenfell. And it was the most fortunate thjng that ever happened to Labrador. For the misery that Dr. Grenfell encountered, the hopeless suffering he found, so cried out to him that he decided then and there to devote his life to bringing what allevia tion he could to the unhappy eouls that were Imprisoned in Ice for half the year, and cursed with privation and sickness always. , Month after month the little Albert worked her way through Ice and enow and gale, through hundreds of miles of unchartered and unllghted waters, over reefs pounded by mountain seas, seeking out whom she might succor. When her sail was seen, men came in skin kayaks, in birch canoes, in all sorts of craft, crazy or stanch, bearing their sick and wounded to the visitors. Too often the visitors were too late to do more than ease the dying moments of some poor wretch. They found whole set tlements that had -been wiped out by diphtheria. In one place they saw the rude graves, scooped into the hard Laur entlan rocks, of twenty-nine persons who had died absolutely without any attempt at saving them. Wounds, no matter how frightful, were treated by squirting tobac co Juice Into them and binding tightly with an old rag. But even tobacco and rags were wanting in many places, for the Albert found settlements where the children were almoet naked, and had to live In the very back of the hovels to escape freezing to death. A Frightful Story- They found one man whose little one had frozen both her feet There was noth ing in the whole settlement with which to help her. and before long both feet began to gangrene. And when the Albert re turned to St. John's she carried back the terrible story of how the unhappy father had been forced at last, being In utter despair, and knowing that It was the only hope of saving the child from a death of torture, to take a hatchet and cut off both the little one's feet. With such knowledge as this to fmstaln. Jhlm, Dr. Grenfell and his band of doctors and nurses Drs. A. O. Boyardt and Eliot Curwen and the Misses Cecilia Williams and Ada" Carwardine fought their way through the long seasons -on the coast, and then, on their brief visits to civiliza tion, fought to arouse them to help them in their efforts. Bit by bit they obtained assistance. First they got a rowboat. Then somebody else helped, them to buy a steam launch. Finally another sailing vessel was added to their tiny fleet. But still they knew that all this was but a scratching at the outside of a mountain of misery. And they fought on until now they have the little but beautifully equipped steamship Strathcona, given lartrelv throuch the efforts of Lord Strathcona, while two hospitals are es tablished on the coast, and one Is open in Northern Newfoundland, where the conditions of life are almost as nam The Strathcona is a steal steamer of 84 tons, so built that she can haul her nroneller ud and proceed with sail alone. Her hospital is amidships, and It Is fitted with electric llcht and a fine X-ray out fit. It lb used almost constantly. In her first year more than 1000 persons sought help from her; and each hospital since then has treated more than that num ber each year, making a total of more than 3000. who. In the old days, had no Tccourse except to lie in their rude sur roundings and go through torment until thtv died. Yet still the service can only reach a percentage of those who need -It. For throuzh the Winter months even the brave hearts on the Strathcona cannot force her through the ice that girdles the coasts as with an Iron ring. Then the doctors must sally out In dog sledge3 to pay their sick calls, and often they go for 100 miles to find their patient. What such medical practice means is told well by the simple report of one of the doctors at the hospital, Mr. Simp son. He says: "A man from Ha-Ha arrived, and re quested me to go at once to attend hl3 wife. It was exceedingly cold, with a dead head wind, but on we went, over hill and dale, across frpzen ponds and lakes and bays, along frozen brooks and streams, until at last Plstolet Bay was reached. Now came our hardest work. A light drift of snow was blowing up with the wind, and once out on the bay no sheltering land was near. More than once we had to warn each other of small patches of frost bite on nose, ears and cheek. Vigorous treatment, however, soon restored the circulation. The poor dogs had hard work against the cutting wind, but eventually we arrived safely at our destination, and although our pa tient had been 12 hours In distress, and her friends in much anxiety, we were able very quickly to relieve her and set at rest the fears entertained for her safety." From November 14 to Maroh 29 Dr. Mac rherson. of the Battle Harbor Hospital, traveled 1S33 miles, by 'sledge, snowshoes and boat, and paid CS0 visits. He missed scarcely a hut or a tent on the whole coast from Paul's River, above the Straits of Belle Isle, to Rigolet, unds: latitude 53. He found 26 dying persons, some of whom he saved, while he made the last hours at least easier for the rest. He found a woman who had been walking around for two weeks with P broken and unset arm. He stitched up the forearm of a fisherman who had been In agony from a great gash made many weeks be fore that never healed. Scurvey. another affliction that curses the dwellers on the inhospitable coast, was found In many places. One case had gone so far that It had produced Inter nal hemorrhage and required extensive operation. A crippled girl was found and sent by dog team to the hospital, where she was cured sufficiently to enable her to move around freely. A woman was treated who was dying from cancer. She had never been seen by a doctor, or, in deed, by any one except poor. Ignorant persons flke herself, who had not tried to do anything to relieve her agony. In one day alone the surgepns opened five badly poisoned wounds for not only do the Implements used In fishing natu rally poison the cuts they make, but the cold weather makes it almost Impossible for the fishermen to wash their Injuries properly with warm water, as even fire wood Is scarce on many hundred miles of shore and almost entirely wanting in the northern part of the land. x A year ago this July the Strathcona had Just completed a voyage of more than 1160 miles, during which she visited 06 harbors. Arripng major operations, they .had one amputation of the foot, one amputation through the knee joint, one laparotomy and one gastrotomy. What the condition of those patients would have been In previous years may be imagined from one case that Dr. Gren fell found In a hut far from other human ifnrB As hf entered the dark, foul little place, he saw a man who. moaning pitoously, hold up two terrible tn:ng3. They were the stumps of his arms. He had shot off every part of them below the elbows while hunting seal two we?ks before, and from that time he had been lying on his tack with nothing over the awful wounds except an oily rag that a fellow-Hunter had laid over them. The bones protruded, and the necessary Op eration was something to make men shrink, performed, as it had to be. with few Instruments and hardly enough chloroform to do more than ease the poor fellow's worst pangs. Yet he bore it manfully. Despite It all. It was too late, and he died that night. They found an old woman who had a tumor on the leg. They told her they could put her to sleep while they operat ed, but she would not have it. u.ne next day Dr. Grenfell found five strong men awaiting him. The woman had asked them to come and hold her. and all she asked was If she "might bawl." She did. indeed, bawl, but within a few min utes after the operation was over she was laughing over it, and in 10 days she was well. From this time on until the Winter again sets In, beginning with the Sep tember gales, the hospital ship will be kept on the "go" steadily. She will have to face daily not only danger from un known waters and treacherous seas, but the ever present menace of the ice. For, as the fishing" fleets begin to stream northward "at hazard year by year," the icebergs begin to drift southward in ghostly columns. Many times has the Strathcona been In imminent peril. Once she was so locked in with ice and floes that she was Invisible among the encom passing blocks and plies of It. Masses be gan to topple over on her docks. Untold tons of It squeezed her keel. She escaped this and mnny other similar dangers and went out to brave new ones unfaltering ly. For these are brave men Indeed who go on the deep for the Labrador Medi cal Mission. And brave men are they whom she goes out to help. Ground by poverty, the Newfoundland, fishermen have no oth er means of finding even the most miser able of livings than this of hunting the cod on the worst coast In the world. As soon as the ice is blown from the coast bj westerly winds, they sail eagerly north In every variety of vessel. Dr. Grenfell In his "Vikings of Today," de scribes this annual voyage thus: "They come in every variety of vessel, small and large, good, bad and indifferent, mostly of the schooner type. Besides the crew, which varies from five to ten men with one or two women, most Newfound land, vessels bring a number of people called 'freighters. These are landed "at various harbors, where they have left mud huts and boats the previous year and 'where they will fish all Summer. These persons cure their fish on the spot. Mean while the vessel goes on farther north to seek fish for herself. When they come south again they call for the 'freighters,' who pay 25 cents for "each hundredweight of' fish for their passage. "Besides the cargo of fish, casks of oil, nets, boats and general goods, 30, 40 or 50 men and women will be crowded Into these small vessels, at times with only room to He down in the hold between the- deck and the cargo. On one small schooner of 19 tons we counted 34 men and 16 women The women, many of whom have children with them, often are not very bad sailors, xo a luie, nicy arc nui auuncu uu uccn except in port, and this voyage is a night mare to most of them. They are pillars of pluck, many of these women. They can handle an oar and sail a small boat with the best, and among them are 'Grace Darlings' only wanting an opportunity. They work chiefly at cleaning fish, and keeping the huts for the men, though some form parts of tho fishing smack crews." Dr. Grenfell examined many of these fcchoont.Ts, and found such instances of crowding as this: A 44-ton schooner, ID men and 16 women In one hold on a 23-day A'oyage: a 19-ton schooner carrying 23 men and 15 women; a 50-ton schooner with 75 men and 15 women, making the meas ured cubic space allotted to a man. his wife, two other men and a boj- and a girl elsht feet by six feet. Pitiful TnlcH of Suffering. There never has been a year when a number of these vessels were not lost, and shocking stories are told on the coast of the suffering of women and children while drifting in the icy waters, some times being afloat on bits of wreckage for days among the Ice floes before being res cued or finally drowned. Pitiful stories, too, are told of the suffer ings of the "freighters" when Illness or other misfortunes incapacitate them from catching their fish or getting food by hunting. Rarely do they have money enough when leaving Newfoundland to buy provisions sufficient to last them till the schooners call for them again late in the season. Professor E. B. Delabarre, of Brown University, who visited the re gion In 1S00, was so impressed by the dreariness of life among these poor folk and their helplessness and destitution that he raised a sum sufficient to endow a cot in one of the hospitals on the coast, and has since" then aided the mission tn many other intelligent and useful ways. A suggestion of the hardships that the "freighters ' must face Is given in this de scription of what is the staple delicacy of the menu along shore: "Powder dried cod fine, rub it up with fresh seal oil and add cranberries If you have any." This deli cate dish is called "plpsey." What plights the fishermen may find themselves In is shown by the case of one Olllver. who. with his wife and Ave chil dren, had just managed to exist through the Winter, finding himself utterly desU tute when Sphlng came. He had no dogs left to travel with, and no ammunition to hunt. All that he possessed in the world was an old jack plane and a trout net He traveled for many miles over snow and ice afoot till he reached the house of n Norwegian settler. He begged him to let them have food, but the settler, a good-hcarted man, was entirely unable to give up any. The next settler, too, said that he would have to starve himself If he shared what little he had. This was not stlfishness. but stern necessity. The poor father went on 12 miles farther, faint with hunger, but spurred on by the thought of 'the starving ones at home. Again he received the same reply. All were ns destitute as was he himself. He dragged Ills way home again, sent his wife and the two olaer children away, and then killed all the rest with an ax, after which he blew his own brains out with the last charge left in his gun. This is the misery that the little Strath cona & helping to relieve this Summer. THE SCARE WEARS OFF ENGLAND RECOVERING FROM ITS FRIGHT OVER SHIP COMBINE. Canada Awake to the Dancer of Amerlcnn Competition Other Marine News. NEW YORK. Aug. 15. Rodman E. Grls com. genoral manager of the Internation al Navigation Company, Just returned from Europe, and Interviewed In Philadel phia on the situation In Europe, has this to say: "The foreigners, and particularly the English people, seem to have got over the scare which was said to have seized them when the merger was accomplished. At the present time the general public in England is absorbed in the formation of the proposed fast steamship line between England and Canada, fof which the Eng- portcd that the British steamer Linden hal, from Sourabaya, Java, spoke the Silo August S, in latitude 21 degrees north, longitude 125 degrees east, partially dis masted. A moderate gale was blowing at the time and at 'midnight a typhoon was raging, for which the disabled bark wao ill prepared. At the exchange, the fear la expressed that the Silo could not -have weathered the big storm. To Promote Commerce. VIENNA. Aug. 15. A company entitled the Austro-Mcxlcan Commercial Associa tion has been organized at Trieste to pro mote commerce between the two coun tries. One of the main projects is to establish a direct steamship line between Trieste and ports of Mexico, in connec tion with the existing "Austro-Amcrican line. Insurance on the Darodn. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15. Word was received today that the English under writers would pay on the bark Baroda as a constructive loss. The Baroda went ashore August 29. 1901, nine miles south of the Coqullle River. She was consld- know how delicious a 'morsel ho can be if properly cooked, but those amateur gardeners who are knowing to both facts have been considerably put to it to keep within the law's requirements when the woodcock has so dared them. Especlally as they are longing above all things now to taste that dish a London restaurateur composed as a coronation piece de resist ance, which directs that the partially cooked flesh of one woodcock shall be pounded with truffles and mushrooms to make a sauce for another woodcock roasted to a turn. AT THE HOTELS. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I if Purser, Dublin, Ireland Geo Black. S F It P Thomas fc wife. Anaconda W T Day, wf & dau, Iowa J P Amy. Tacoma J W Luckier, Vanoouv Miss Springer, do A Jukes. do H Lockwood, , do D Marshall. do H C Lovell. Billings H S Maby. Vane. U C T rike. Wash. D C H Low i lvf, S r M Bernhelm. N T G Hanah & wf. Omaha E L Heara & wf. Bos ton E Waldo Ward. X Y Chas E Deund, N 1 J M Murdcck & fnra Johnstown, Pa J N Coombs & wf, Florida F W Vallle. city THE PORTLAND. !J E Green & wf. Wor- Worcester Mrs- M E Russell. Geneva. . Y C C Willson. Geneva W W Mayo, Rochester a L Loftus. Boston G L Quayle. Cleveland Miss Quayle. ao iC O Scott. S F j i Minster, raiia F N Kellcy. Duiutn C II Keller, do J W Jacobs. USA E A Bryan, wt & end, Pullman. Wash C H Melsner. Wis M J Wailrlch. wis Ira R Bush. Wis T B Crary & wf, Blng- hnmtoif. N 1 J K Inr.es & wf. do S B Davldse Jfc wf, do (Miss C Donllng. do Miss F Donllns. ao Miss H Fleming, do S R Davldse, do Dr McGraw. do Dr W B Craig & wife. F B McDonald. Skagw W N Sayre. J L Dayl Denver G P Paine, St Paul J G Ewlng, Denver F G HIgglns, Mlscoula M Collarto. Luxemburg Emll Pursch. S F iM G Harris. Chicago Mr and Mrs Wm A G N Monro & wife. Pleasant. Baltimore Pittsburg F Jewel. Chicago Mlss Monn Pittsburg G Lyman Moody. EriejW C Cameron, Mtlwau C E Locke, XV J E Cameron. do THE PERKINS. J F Brown, TlllamookMlss May Spurgeon. THE NEW ASSOCIATE JOSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. R W Parkman & wf. Sioux Falls. S D E E Smith. Grant's P J Rogers. Chicago Anna Michel. Minn Mrs C Michel, do Josle Moore, do H C Meader. Clntl O H Pinney. Clntl E Watson. Pittsburg W D McDonald and wife. McMinnvlllc Effle McDonald. McM J D Braby. Los Ang Thos H Tongue. Hlllab Aioen irenny, ioa Gatos. Cal B Morris Jc wf, Lewis ton Vancouver Herbert Jone3, Island City V Berhea, Honolulu B R Hull. Dunian. Ia jj K McConnock. do E 11 Morrow, uosiyn John Englc, Elmlra L R Frazler. Chicago Mrs Bortelson. Dalles Mrs Alex Kyle. Mon treal Miss Marin George, El- Kin G A Boch. Aurora Geo 'Williams. Pa J L Zlegler, Monmth O C Thornton. Rooster Rock J H Tolboy, Sioux Ctyjj J Kelffer & wf, Grass Valley. -Cal Mrs W H Booth, Prlne vllle Mies Iva Bootb. do E A Buffam. Wasco D M Chester. Jr. anc j rs Dames cz wi, .u Mao R Bradner, Den ver . D A Strlckler, Denver A M Long, St Louis C D Knox & wf. S F H C Slgbe, Los Ang L J Lamb-. Tillamook S F Klefer. Buffalo Mrs G C Murray, Peo ria. Ill Miss L Robinson. do Miss C E McDonald, do Miss M E McDonald, do II L Hawthorne. U b A. Vancouver J O Vassar and wife. Lewlston E W Hand. Spokane A E Lee & dau. Pom eroy C V Jackson. S F W M Randolph, Spok D T Bedell. Coeur d'Alene J C Barllme, Spokane Chas Wallace & wf, Camas R E Fletshe, Pendletn Mrs S Simmons, do Lois Simmons, do Mrs M H Hansen. Pomeroy Miss M Gerhardt, Pomeroy S Jewett. Corvallla H P Vermlr. Tacoma J C Skem. S F M A LanKhome. ChehlE Evans. Parker C W Nichols & wlfe.lO H Brobst & wf. Vancouver j Council Bluffs, la THE IMPERIAL. Mrs W II Houser, IS V Hall. Detroit Pomeroy jMrs Crane, Aberdeen Miss M Gerhardt, J V Spouncll. St Paul Pomeroy J H Caruthers, S F E V Homeyer. SeattleiMrs A. J Coe. Arllngtn C S Houston. Seattle lMr Coe & son. do Mrs E T McKInstry. B E Connolly. St Paul I L Pattcrpon. Salem Mrs M McKenzle. For- Famous the World Over Fully Matured. Order from Fleckenstein-Mayer Co. THE PALATIAL OREGONIAN HI 3 The Beverage ea No temperance drink, has won such universal popularity as a thirst quencher and blood purifier as ROSE' Lime Juice The product of the choicest West Indian Lime Fruit. It is always Delicious Wholesome Refreshing Ask your grocer or druggist for it and insist on having ROSE'S. Not a darlc office In the DuIltHaiCf absolutely fireproof; electric light nnl artesian -water; perfect sanita tion anil tlioronRh ventilation. KXe vators run day and nIUt. W O Hopkins. Abcrdn II F Pravel. Astoria V R Broneld, Spokane Mrs Brofleld. do A Farel. Chicago I Mrs W G Johnson. St Paul Mrs Johnson. St Paul Mrs H E Kazer, Dal las Miss Li Ransom. Pitts-iMl?a B Kelly, do burjr IL Patterson, ao Ada Sutmeyer. do H B Miller, Chicago Mrs Fannie Clark, LaiMrs Miner. oo Grande Miss L. aimer, ao llsh Government has asked for bids, and will grant large subsidies. "The consensus of opinion In England." he said, "Is that the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company, which had put In a bid for the government subsidy to be given to the new Canadian line of steam ships, .will be awarded the subsidy and will build a new line to run between an English port and Canada. The terminals of that railroad will then give the com pany a direct line from Europe to tho Orient, the steamships being connected with the railroads at the Atlantic sea board and at Vancouver with the line of steamships owned by the railroad com pany which runs from that port to China and Japan, with connections to India and j Australia." I Mr. Grlscom said this will put the new. ' line In competition with the Morgan com bine steamship companies, which now have through lines from Europe an far as San Francisco, where they connect with the vessels of the Occidental & Ori ental Steamship Company, in which tho White Star Line has or had large inter ests, and moat of whose ships formerly were White Star Liners in the Xorth At lantic trade. Mr. Griscom did not think that this possible competition woukl work Injury to the steamship lines running Into New York and this port, which are In the Morgan merger. CAXADIAXS AWAKE. Propose to Stop Dqstrnctllon of Their Market by American. HALIFAX. N. S., Aug. 35. Hon. J. I. Tarte, Canadian Minister of Public Works. In a speech before the Canadian1 Manufacturers Association, declared, that Canadians must no longer see their markets slaughtered by American man ufacturers, and the great trade of the Continent carried through American channels. The remedy he proposed wa3 improvement of the Canadian waterways and a higher tariff. "We must," he said, "transport from West to East through Canadian channels. The country must be' united by cheaper transportation nnd a strong Canadian tariff. The shortest route to the seaboard is destined to be the great carrying high way, not only of the Canadian wheat- ered a total loss, but Captain William Burns, of Glasgow, acting for the Insur ance people, managed a short time ago to get her afloat. The insurance will be paid in full, but as an offset the under writers have the Baroda, which is now in this harbor, as good a ship as ever.' Domestic nnd Foreign Ports. ASTORIA, Aug. 15. Arrived down 'at C and sailed at 10:30 A. M. Schooner Alcalde, for San Francisco. Lert up at 8 A. M. British ship Brambletyc. Condition of the bar at 4 P. M., moderate: wind south; weather cloudy. Mojl, Augr. 15. Sailed Ausust 14 British steamer Indravelll. for Portland. Cherbourg. Auc. 15. Arrived Graf Walder sec, from ICew York via Plymouth for Ham burg, and proceeded. Sailed Columbia, from HamburK and Southampton for New York. New York, Aug. 15. Arrived La Lorraine, from Havre. Shlmoneskl, Aur. 15. Arrived 13th Plng- suey, from Glasgow and Liverpool, via' Singa pore. Hong Konp-, etc. for Yokohama, Via torla, B. C, and Tacoma. San Francisco. Aug. 15. Arrived Steamer Willamette, from Seattle: steamer Umatilla, from Victoria; schooner Uranus, from Behrlng Sea. Sailed Steamer Mackinaw, for Tacoma. Brisbane. Aug. 15. Sailed Aorangl. for Vancouver. Southampton, Aug. 13. Sailed Columbia for New York. Arrived Southwark, from New York. Genoa, Aug. 15. Arrived Trave, from New York. Quein;town, Aug. 15. Sailed New England, for Boston. Liverpool, Aug. 15. Sailed Hanoverian, for Boston. Morllle. Aug. 15. Sailed Ethiopian, for New- York. Seattle. Aug. 15. Arrived Steamer Edith. from San Francisco; bark Olympic, from San Franciseo. Sailed Steamer City of Seattle, for Skagway; Santa Ana, for Valdes; steamer Charles Nelson, for San Francisco: stcamtr Senator, for Nome New In Street-Car Travel. New York Sun. One of the novelties of street-railway travel In this country is a passenger sta tlon provided rent free by the merchants of a certain street in Toledo. It has a news-stand In It, and a parcel checkroom adjoining. Through this particular street five car flfid's but of the whole American Contl- : lines run, and they bring to the city on an .t -IVa ft rnuto frnm Rflrtrclan averUJTC SWU DaSFenKers a any. xuc mci' Bay to Liverpool 300 miles shorter than via Tsew York. The Canadian Pacific Railroad and the Grand Trunk must work together to carry that trade via Canadian routes." The Minister stated tht Canada was soon to have a fast Atlantic line, and do clared that Halifax in Winter and Que bec In Summer were the natural term inals, i GRAY EAGLE STILL' ASHOUE. FJrut Attempt at Floating; Her lln ,Fa!Icd. OREGON CITY. Aug. 15. (Special.) The steamer Gray Eagle, which has been ashore below Oregon City, on the west side of the river, for the past six weoks. Is lying on the ways In a disabled condi tion. Work of floating the steaer was abandoned during the high water, but several days ago the water subsided sutll ciently to permit Jackscrews being put under the steamer, and she was placed on ways. The Incline was slight, and yesterdaj. when the attempt was made to launch her, the hog chains gavo away and the boat settled. It will be necessary to jack up one end of tho steamer before another attempt can bo made to float her. chants doing business in the street, realiz ing the advantage to themselves ol Hav ing these passengers alight there, wanted the railway companies to establish the station. The corananles did not see why they should. So the merchants have done It for themselves. They have rented a large store for three years and provided it with benches anu lockers. Any citizen may rent a locker for 5 cents a day, and have packages sent there to be put In his box. Then, wnen the time comes for him to go home, he can start with his purchases without hav. Ing had all the trouble of "lugging them about with him all day. The exneriment. thoush a new one, has been so successful already that it Is likely to be imitated elsewhere. Overdue German Bark. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 15. There is a strong probability thct the German bark Silo, bound from Table Bay, South Af rica, will be placed on tho overdue list at the Merchants' Exchange tomorrow. J telegram received from Nagasaki re- BoIdneH of the Voodcoclc. Boston Transcript. It seems as If ordinary bird Intelligence fairly becomes intellectuality In he wood cock, if the stories told of this bird are true. Some way Information ha3 reached tho members of the woodcock family that they are under the protection of the law till some time in 1903, and that they may exorcise all the temerity tbey possess, even to the perching of themselves on the gun barrels of hunters, and they shail yet be spared. Not that they have actually done this daring thing, but they have done the next thing to it: they, have "billed" in corn patches no larger than a pocket handkerchief In many a commuter's gar den. Not all commuters know this mark of tho woocockj ang not al of them est Grove V J Mathews. Denver C W Thompson. Cas cade Locks E V Haines, Forest Gr A Gronlnger. Silver Cty Mrs Gronlnser. do Mrs Mary Kapper, do R S Kelly. Eugene Mrs E Kelly, do Miss Isabella Fink, Dayton Mrs J S Dutemore. Dayton C G Hansen. Dayton A S Jones. Knoxvuie. Tenn Mus W Miller, do . Carol Miller, do ' W P Camp. Tacoma Grace M Sater, Denver Miss L I Sater, do C Henkle, Lakevlew U E Green. Worcester. II B Peterson, Los Ani Mass C R Smead. Hlalock Mr ureen. ao H L Benson. KlamathlJohn Barker. Baker Cy Falls Mrs Barker. ao W E Connor. do IT W Potter. Chemawa Rev D Derabo. B C H H Smith, saiem Gov T T Geer. SalemiMra Smith, ao Miss Alice RcaJkm. O IG L Trout, St Paul Mrs W R Reddlck. F C Cockerllne. Salem Oregon City INelUe M Thompson, E P McCornack, Salemi Tacoma Frank Patton. do IH B Thompson. Tacom Mrs Patton. do E C Greeman. Ore City J H Smith. do THE ST. CHARLES. C T Brock. Eufaula J H Cramer. Mill City Ben E Lystcr, Good- David Groves, do men. Or iR F Estes & wf. Myrtle H A Skecl?. Sprlngfildi Point A EUIngson, Tooman D N Stearns, Grant's P Bertha Halscrson. do Frank liogue. do E B Moore, Grand Jet.! I E Wilson. do Colo IE W Van Sickle, do Lon Haddle. do W J Sullivan. Rosebrg Miss Anna Mitchell. I1ID McMillan. Chicago Miss Nell Mitchell. 1UR S Stone. Oregon City MImi May Miles, III O Edwards, Spokane W Kinder, city V Beattey. do F Wlthey. city iChas Allen. Baker City Al Secor. Kelso I II Hedges. Barlow. Or D A Kalestrand. KelsojJ A McGee. Vancouver R S Stone. Cottrell Geo K Cole. do C P Murnhy, Duluth C Snyder. do M T Frlnk. do U T Shear. Albany J L Sperry. city IE O Pease, .The Dallc3 E B Harlow. Ladu IC Lofgren. Qulncy Rev E F Dell Jfc wf. J M Uovard. Reedvfllo Astoria - (Geo Crawfus. city Otis Burbee. Astoria id M Farlane. Iowa Mrs II Burbee. do (Glenn Danforth. Iowa I Airs a u uanrortn. uo iM A Harrington. St I Martin's Springs ID D McMlllcn. city H II Co'.vln &. wf. St Helens J E Johnson & wr. J II Snyder, do S H Collins. S F M Coffln. city S L Nelll. Rldgefleld Ethel Nelll. do W J Smith. Wilson W Kinder, city U J Hort. Salem R C Hall. Seattle F R Drury. Sclo P Lane. Pendleton Lon Haddle. do Kelso J E Jacobson & wife. Seaside L Michael. Stella Frank Balrd, eb Wm Horye. Olympla iChas W Brown. Latou- L D Jackson, do ! reu t-nns J A Wells, ClackamasIM Saylor. do H Thorpe. Colfax T II McGIH. Cathlamet E B Renlck. LewlstoniL Burton. Orient O W Hosford. city T E Kellogp. city II A Skeels. Sprlngfleld-Mra D A Nary, city Kerbs Bros. Salem M Purdln, . Gale's Creek Hotel BrnnsTTlclc. Seattle. European plan. Popular rates. Modern Improvements. Business center. Near depot. Tacoma Hotel. Tuconia. American plan. Rates, ?3 and up. Hotel Donnelly, Tacoma. First-class restaurant In connection. TheNate King Albert of Saxony was Inter ested In many other things then statesmanship, and it was owing partly to his encouragement that modern music and th? modern drama were so well represented In Dresden. He preserved his Interest In university and school life. To the end of his life no kept up the habit of at tending an occasional lecture at the university, and sometimes he would call unexpectedly at some public school and take a seat next the teacher, to whom he remarked. "Don't let ms disturb you," and then listened to the recitations. or $c&o lo a." Si Baby's Things I prefer PEARL INK to other soap powders. For cleaning baby bot tles, nipples and silverware it has no equal. I will try it alone for washing. Mrs. Rev. J. F. R. One of the Millions. 683 Rooms. AINSLIE. DR. GEORGE. Physician.... 413-414 ANDERSON. GCSTAV, Attomey-at-Law..61S ASSOCIATED PRESS; E. L. Powell. Mgr..iW AUSTEN. F. C. Manager for Oregon and Washington Eankers Life Association of Des Moines. Io. SOU-SOS BAKER. G. EVERT. Actorney-at-Law 0U BANKERS' LIFE ASSOCIATION. OF DES MOINES. IA; F. C. Austen. Mgr. 002-503 BENJAMIN. R. . Dentist 314 BERNARD. G.. Cashier Pacillc Mercantlto Co 2ir B1NSWANUEK. OTTO S.. Physician and Surgeon ..407-406 BOHN. W. G.. Timber Lands 31 BROCK. WILBUR F.. Circulator Orego- nlan Ml BROWN. MYRA. M. D 313-31 BRUERE. DR. G. E.. Physician. ..412-41 CAMPBELL. WM. M.. Medical Referee Equitable Life TOO) CANNING. M. J VXtt-U05 CARDWELL. DR. J. R.. Dentist 5o CAUK1N. G. E.. District Agent Travelers Insurances Company .....T13 CHURCHILL. MRS. E. J 71G-7K COFFEY. DR. it. 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B 310 HOLLISTER. DR. O. C. Physician and Surgeon :. 504-503 IDLEMAN, C. M.. Attorney-at-Law. .410-17-13 JOHNSON. W. C. 313-310-3tr KADY, MARK T.. Supervisor ot Agents. Mutual Reserve Life Ins. Co 603 L1TTLEFIELD, II. R,. Phys. and Sur.....20U MACKAY. DR. A. E.. Phys. and Sur... 711-712 MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF NEW YORK; W. Goldman. Mgr 200-210 MARSH. DR. R. J.. Phys. and Sur. 404-403 MARTIN, J. L. & CO.. Timber Lands 001 McCOY. NEWTON. Attorney-at-Law 715 McELROY. DR. J. C. Phys. & Sur.701-702-7ut McFADEN. MISS IDA E.. Stenographer... .213 McGINN. HENRY E.. Attorney-at-Law.311-12 McGUIRE. S. P.. Manager P. F. Collier. Publisher McKENZIE. DR. P. L.. Phys. and Sur. .512-13 METT. HENRY 21s MILLER. DR. HERBERT C. Dentist and Oral Surgeon 003-000 MOSSMAN. DR. E. P.. Dentist 513-514 MUTUAL RESERVE LIFE INS. CO.; Mark T. Kady. Supervisor of Agents.. 604-003 NICHOLAS. HORACE B.. Attorney-at-Law.71tt NILES. M. L.. Cashier Manhattan Life In surance Company of New York 209 NUMBERS. 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