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VOL. XLIL IsO. 13,127. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY PRICE FIVE CENTS. 7, 1903. pg;pgzg: ROTHCHILD SOLE AGENTS. PORTLAND, VEORE CAMERA BARGAINS TO CLOSE OUT BEFORE WE MOVE We are offering bargains in all the best lines PREMO, POCO, CfiNTURY, IMPERIAL. Double Extension Compact Montauk Camera 4x5, reg. $32, close $16.50 Double Extension Compact Montauk Camera 5x7, reg. $42, close $24.00 Poco C. Camera 4x5, regular $15.00 $7.50 B.umauer-Frank Drug Co. iZit&tB STABLE LfF mmt "Strongest In the World." PRELIMINARY STATEMENT JAN. 1, 1J03. Outstanding Assurance $1,290,000,000 Income 68,000,000 New Assurance 275,000,000 Assets 360,000,000 Assurance Fund and All Other Liabilities 285,000,000 Surplus 75,000,000 The largest Increase ever made in n n year In the history of the nocIety. L. SAMUEL, Manager, 306 Oregonlan Bldg., Portland, Oregon DR. EAT AKfcS Si IVi "There's. Life and Strength In Every Drop" A BEVERAGE OR A MEDICINE For Sale hy All Drarglst. BLUMAUER & HOCH, Sole Distributers, Wholesale Liquor and Cigar Dealers tBIL HETS CIlAy, Pre. tEYEHTH AfiD KASHIBGTOK STREETS, PORTLAND, 0HE001 CHANGE Oi' MANAGEMENT. European Plan: THE PORTLAND PORTLAND, American Plan COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS. BHDQUARTERS FOR TOURISTS ISO COMMERCIAL TRATELEM Special rates made to families and single gentlemen. The maaage ment will be pleased at all times to show rooms and give prlcas. A mad era Turkish bath establishmeat Ib the hotel. H. C. BOWERS, Mgr. CLARK MAY COME IN MAY Probably He Will Accompany Roose velt on Visit to Oregon. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash . ington, Jan. G. It is quite probable that Admiral CJark. who commanded the bat tleship Oregon at Santiago, may accom pany President Roosevelt on his trip through Oregon next Spring, although definite plans have not been arranged. It is the present intention of the President to visit Oregon sometime in May and the suggestion has been made that during his visit to the State the sword presenta tion to the Admiral should take place. It is said at the White House that if Admiral Clark desires to accompany the President on this occasion, he will be gladly welcomed by Mr. Roosevelt. The possibility of an extra session, however, makes it Impossible for the President to definitely arrange for this "Western tour. No definite plans will be made until Con gress adjourns. A'cvr York, Police Lutt Upheld. ALBANY, N.'Y., Jan. 6. The Court of Appeals today handed down decisions af firming the constitutionality of the police reorganization law of 190L which legls- lated out of office the "bipartisan" Police Commission of NewTork and ex-Chief of Police Devery- The effect of this decision Is firmly to establish the present police system of Greater New, York. BrltiKh General Wcti Ronton Girl. LONDON, Jan. 6. Lleutenant-Gencral Sir Seymour Blane and MrlHarry Blake, formerly Miss Green, of Boston, were quietly married in London VTday. King Edward presented General Bane 'with a handsome gold-mounted cane;' The oldest AMERI CAN WHISKY and the most popular amongst connoisseurs. BROTHERS OREGON FOWLER'S and MALT X T JLUSCLE O. W. ICNOWLES, Mia $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per Day . T H El NEW YEAR And a New Carpet are sure to form a very happy and harmonious combination : : EXCLUSIVE CARPET HOUSE SO-SS THIRD STREET, Opposite Chamber of Commerce. OREGON $3.00 Per Day and upward. GEN. A. L. PEARSON IS DEAD Gallant Union Soldier anil Lending Citizen of Pittsburg. PITTSBURG. Jan. 6. General A. L. Pearson, past National commander of tho Union Veterans' Legion, and one of the founders of that organization, died today of pneumonia. (General Alfred L. Pearson was born at Pittsburg, December 2S, 1S38. and was educated at Jefferson College, Pennsylva nla. He had no sooner' been admitted to the bar than he entered the Union Army as Captain of Company A, -One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, He served to the end of the war, when he was brevetted' Major-General of Volun teers. He was awarded the Congressional medal of honor for gallant conduct. Ho was for seven years Major-General of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and com manded the troops employed in suppress Ing the railroad riots In Pittsburg in 1877. He was District Attorney of Allegheny County for three years, served In the Pittsburg city Council, and was a mem ber of the Board of Managers of the Na tional Soldiers' Home. He was one of the founders of the Union .Veteran Legion.) Ex-Mayor Cnnc, of Racine, Dead. RACINE. "Wis., Jan. 6. Jackson I. Case. ex-Mayor of Racine and last Postmaster, died this afternoon. He was prominent in business circles and was one of the best- known horsemen in the Northwest. He had been ill for some time with kidney trouble. Wyoming: Cattleman Dead. I CHEYENNE, "Wyo., Jan. C. Hector Reel, of Cheyenne, is dead at St. Aloyslus Hospital, St. Augustine, Fla.. of Brlght's disease. Mr. Reel was associated in the largest cattle, business of "Western Wyo- ming with his mother and Ralph Friend. J. 0. Mack & Co. LI TRUSTS Knox Tells What Should Provide.' It TO CONTROL, NOT DESTROY Recommendations Approved by the President, REBATES THE WORST EVIL Roth Giver and. Receiver of These and Discriminating Railroad Rntcn Should Be Punished Prohibit Carrying Truiit ProductH. Attorney-General Knox yesterday made public an abstract of his recommenda tions for the regulation of trusts. These have been approved by the President. He proposes that Penalties be provided for all discrim inatory practices in regard to interstate commerce, aimed against both the giver and receiver of such Illegal advantage. "Where nroducts arts the subject of such discrimination, the Federal courts be given power to restrain their Inter state or foreign transportation. Penal t lea be Imposed on tho transpor tation of freirht at less than the pub lished rate, such penalties to be borne by both carrier and shipper. Provision be made to reach com bines which produce wholly within one state but engago in Interstate trade. Provision be made to collect Informa tion In regard to corporations engaged In Interstate -commerce, and for this purpote a bureau bo crented In the pro pored Department of Commerce. A special law be passed to speed the final decision of suits begun under the present antt-trust law. Mr. Knox wrote a letter to the chair men of the committees of the Senate and House In charge of trust bills, which embodies these proposals. "WASHINGTON, Jan. C The following abstract of the Attorney-General's recom mendations regarding trusts and combi nations, which were made public at some length today, was given out at the White House tonight. It represents the general attitude of the Administration on this subject and was authorized by the Presi dent: Preliminary The people do not desire the business of the country to be Inter fered with beyond the regulation neces sary to control combinations where they act improperly and correct any tendency toward monopoly. In this country, -where money Is cheap and abundant and within the reach of keen and . capable men, mo nopoly will be impossible if competition is kept free. Small enterprises have certain advan tages over large combinations, and will live and thrive if assured of an open and fair field. Rebates and discriminatory rates constitute one of the chief restric tions on competition. They unjustly swell the earnings of favored concerns, and. supporting a vast volume of capital stock which represents nothing but unfair ad vantage over rivals, contribute largely to the upbuilding of monopoly. The situation respecting transportation discrimination and the entry of Independ ent capital Into new Industries has lately been Improved. It is now known that the amount of capital embarked in Ind6 pendent enterprises in the past two years at least equals the total capital of the great combinations formed within the previous 12 years. With assurance against predatory competition, this improvement will continue. Individual Industrial ex penence, wun the certainty or secure employment of capital, may be trusted to compete effectively with such selfish combinations as are not formed for sound economic reasons, but merely in order to capitalize the country's prosperity for the benefit of their promoters. The ex Istence of most of these combinations has not Increased the productive capacity of the country: they have merely acquired the ownership of pre-existing industries What Lavr Should Provide. Recommendations for immediate legis lation: That all discriminatory practices affect ing Interstate trade be made offenses to be enjoined and punished. Such legislation to be directed alike against those who give and those who receive illegal advantages ana to cover discrimination In prices as against com petitors In particular localities, resorted to for the purpose of destroying competi tion. In order to reach producers guilty of these offenses who are, as producers merely, beyond National control, a pen alty should be Imposed upon the Inter state and foreign transportation of goods produced by them, and Federal courts should be given power to restrain such transportation at the Government's suit. Such legislation is necessary because the existing Interstate commerce law does not give an effective remedy in this class of cases against cither snipper or car rier. The casus -omissus In the Interstate commerce act should now be supplied by imposing a penalty upon carrier and beneficiary alike, and by giving to the courts the right to restrain all such In fractions of the law. Tho prohibition against carriers should be limited to those subject to the act to regulate commerce. Only carriers operat ing a line of railroad or a rail and water line , as one line are required to publish their rates and adhere to them. It Is im practicable to control lines operating wholly by -water. Rates of -water trans- portatlon are necessarily open to the freest competition, are invarlnbly low by comparison, and thus naturally furnish the standard of reasonableness without express regulation. It should be made unlawful to trans port traffic by carriers subject to the In terstate commerce' act at less rate than the published rate, and all who partici pate in violating the law should be pun ished. Provision .should also be made to reach corporations and combines which produce wholly within a state; but whose prod ucts enter Interstate commerce. This pro vision should relate, first, to concerns which fatten on rebates; second, to con cerns which sell commodities below the general price in particular localities, or in any other way In particular localities seok to destroy competition. There should be a comprehensive plan to enable the Government to -get at all the facts bearing upon the organization and practices of concerns engaged in Inter state commerce, not with a view to ham pering any legitimate business of such concerns, but In order to be in position to take action If necessary. To this end, a commission or special bureau in the pro posed Buiyau of Commerce could be" cre ated, whose duty it should be to investi gate the operations of concerns engaged in Interstate or foreign commerce, to gather Information and data enabling it to make recommendations for additional legislation and to report to the President. This would, be a first step In securing proper publicity. This commission should have authority to inquire into the man agement of any concern doing an Inter state business, whenever It becomes nec essary or desirable; It should have the authority to call for reports from them, to compel testimony from all witnesses and the production of books, papers, etc. These recommendations are based on the central thought that the first step should be taken by a law aimed at what are certainly known to be unreasonable practices directly restrictive of freedom of commerce and by a law securing some governmental supervision as outlined above. A special act should be passed at once to speed the final decision of cases. -pending or to be raised under the present anti-trust law, providing for the hearing of such cases by a full bench of Circuit Judges and a direct appeal from the Circuit Courts to the Supreme Court of the United States. CABINET IX SESSION. Dl.icnnne.1 Venezuelan and Cnbnn Af fairs- and Indianoln Feud. WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. At the Cabinet meeting today all the members were pres ent Serious consideration was given to the status of the Venezuela question. The status of the Cuban reciprocity treaty in the Senate also was considered. Confi dence was expressed by the President and Cabinet that the treaty would be ratified, but the disposition of some of tho advo cates of the beejsusar interests to couple-the Cuban" treaty . with the pending proposed tariff bill was brought up. The Indlanola, Miss., postofflce case was discussed and It was decided that the stand taken by the Administration should be adhered to, the contention being that the people themselves and not the Gov ernment are responsible for the closing of the office. Postmaster-General Payne had no new developments to report. General Wright, Vlce-Governoc. of the Philippines, wa3 at the executive office In conference with the President today. He Is particularly interested In the pend ing legislation In the interest of the Phil ippines, and is being consulted freely with regard to It. IX 3IEMORY OF 31'KIXLEY. President Will Attend Rannnet at Canton on Ills Birthday. WASHINGTON, Jan. G. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to attend the banquet to bo given by the Canton Republican League In Canton, O., on Tuesday evening, January 27. The banquet Is to be in honor of the birthday of the late President McKlnley. His birth day comes on the 29th Inst., but, on ac count of a state engagement of the Presi dent on that date, the banquet was ar ranged for the earlier date. aioody'H First Honolulu Cablegram. WASHINGTON. Jan. G. The Secretary of the Navy received his first cable mes sage from Honolulu today. It simply an nounced that the cruiser Solace sailed from that port yesterday for Guam and the Philippines. FATHER-OF THE NEW ANTI-TRUST BILL. SEXATOIt GEORGE F. HOAR. Vest Makes Strong Plea to Senate. REPEAL DUTY ON COAL While People Freeze, Sena tors Sit Dumb on Tariff. . D1NGLEY LAW NOT SACRED The Agrcd 3Iisonrl Senator Waxen Sarcastic at Those Who Hold It So Senator Hoar's Speech on Evils of Trusts and the Remedy. The day In the Senate was eventful, because of a notable speech by Senator Hoar on his bill reculatlnc trusts and an attack by Senator Vest on protected Industries through the operation of the Dlngley law. Senator Hoar's utterances were listened to with marked attention. He arcued that It his bill should be come law and prove effective no cor poration engaging In the commerce which Is within the jurisdiction of Con gress should keep Its condition a secret. Senator Vest used as a text for his remarks his resolution Introduced Mon day Instructing the committee on finance to prepare and report a bill re moving the duty on coal. Feeble In the extreme and supporting himself on his desk, he called attention to the con dition of distress which has arisen as a result of the shortage In the coal sup ply. There was breathless silence In the chamber as he spoce, and every Sena tor on the floor turned In his direction lu order to catch his words. Aldrlch tool: exception to some of Vest's statements, and at his request the resolution went over until tomor row, when Aldrlch will make reply. At 4:30 the Senate adjourned, after a brief executive session. WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. Soon after the Senate met tho Vest resolution instruct ing the committee on finance to prepare and report a bill removing the duty on anthracite coal was considered. Mr. Vest said there is nothing In the resolution that the finance committee can furnish light upon, and therefore he could not see the necessity of Mr. Aldrich's motion, made yesterday, to refer the resolution to the finance committee. "This is no longer a partisan question," said he, "but a question of absolute hu manity. We are not on the verge of a cri sis in regard to coal," he said, "but we are actually in It. Women and children have been frozen to death." His only solicitude was to "find a remedy for this disgrace ful and outrageous condition." Senators stood silent and dumb, he said, either afraid or unwilling to take any ac tion, answering the appeals of the poor, freeezing women and children with a party cry, "stand pat." Nothing Is to be done, he continued, with the sacred elephant of the Dlngley tariff law. The Senator from Massachusetts (Lodge), he declared, bad endeavored to administer a homeopathic dose In the shape of a suspension of the duty for 00 days, but if medicine 13 needed at all It Is in large doses. By referring the resolution to the committee, he said, it would have no chance to pass. "Don't we know," he said, "that when we send the resolution to the finance com mittee we tend It to Its execution?' He then said that all he wanted was for every Senator to put himself on record. He criticised the Dlngley tariff law, and said there was no more chance today, in his judgment, to reduce a single duty In the Dlngley act than for him to carry off the Capitol building on his shoulders. That was jthe end of the discussion. Aldrlch Answers- Vest. Aldrlch (R. I.) said he desired to make full answer to Vest, but as Hoar had given notice that he would speak- on his trust bill, he asked that the resolution go over until tomorrow. He took occasion to deny certain statements by Vest attrib uted to Mr. Dlngley. to the effect that the rates of the bill were made unnecessarily high In order that reciprocity treaties might be made. Nelson asked where the provision relat ing to coal was Inserted, and Mr. Aldrich said in the Senate. Vest then said the Congressional Record showed that Allison offered the provision; that it was debated at length and voted upon, the Republicans voting for It and the Democrats against It. He declared that the Republican leaders had sat silent under the declaration of the Secretary of the Navy that the duty on coal had "been sneaked or smuggled into the Dlngley bill." The resolution went over and Hoar ad dressed the Senate upon his anti-trust bill. Senator Hoar's speech was devoted en tirely to the question of trusts, and partly to an explanation of his recently Intro duced trust bill. He began his address with the assumption that all thoughtful men are agreed as to the necessity of legislation, state or National, for the con trol of trusts. He said that as yet there had been only apprehension and a large but not serious Injury, except In the case of the recent coal strike, on account of trusts. On the contrary, the progress of our prosperity had been greater in the past few years than ever before had been known, and our workmen were better off. Still there is, he said, actual peril, and It is none the less real because it Involves only the future and not the present. The Senator then took up the discussion of the effect of the control of vast wealth by Individuals, saying that In such a sys tem there was much to threaten republi can liberty. Most of the vas.t fortunes of the present day, had been accumulated within so years. "Is there anything to render It unlike ly, he asked. "If one of these vast fortunes has grown from a hundred thou sand to a hundred million or a thousand million In 20 years, that in the hands of the next possessor In another 30 or 50 years the hundred million may become a hundred thousand million or the thousand million a thousand thousand million? Is there anything to stop the accumulation of these snowballs. Can the same power and business ability and capital that con trol all the petroleum In the country by and by control all the coal? Can It con trol the railroad and the ocean-carrying trade? Can It not buy up and hold in one mass the agricultural and the grazing lands of new and great states and the coal mines and the silver mines and cop per mines?" But great as were the possibilities of the accumulation of great wealth by In dividuals, he did not find In such accumu lation the same peril that is found in cor porate control of such wealth. Evils oi Combination. Mr. Hoar then took up the question of trusts as they now exist, pointing out what he conceived to be their evils, as follows: "Des tru ctio&5t Wrripe UtiohV . 21 ""The management of local Industries by absentees in the interest of absentee capital. 3. Destruction of local public spirit. 4. Fraudulent capitalization. 5. "Secrecy. G. Agreement for the private benefit of the officials. 7. The power to- corrupt elections, and In some cases to corrupt the courts. 8. The want of personal responsibility to public sentiment. 9. The absence of persopal liability for contracts or "wrong-doing. 10. The holding of vast properties in mortmain, in the dead hand, If we may use the ancient phrase of the English lan guage. But It has life enough for all pur poses of power to serve the will that wields it. It is dead only to the Influence of any, nerve which comes from the brain or heart of the people. Mr. Hoar said that many as were the evils in great combinations of capital, (Concluded on Second Page.) CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER- Rational. Attorney-General Knox outlines legislation against trusts; President Insists on prompt action or he will call extra session. Pases 1, 2 and !?. Senator Hoar makes speech In support of his trust bill. Page 1. House passes the Army staff bill. Page 5. Beet-sugar men begin fight on Philippine tariff bill. Page 2. Bids for $25,000,000 worth of warships opened Page 2. Senator Vest makes appeal for relief of coal famine. Page 1. United States demands payment of claims by San Domingo. Page 3. Domestic. Pimmmn nroflts of the Steel Trust In IWtt. Pace 3. Ship wrecked on Washington coast and 18 lives lost. Pase 1. Sheriff tells about the great coal strike. Page 11. Major Glenn says General Chaffee ordered the water-cure. Page 5. "Western railroads refuse to grant ad vano to trainmen. Pace 11. ' Foreign. Germany refuses to Join Britain In protest against opening of the Dardanelles to Rus sla. Page 3. Allies answer Castro's arbitration terms, and may settle without arbitration. Pace 11 Boers and Britons banquet together In th Transvaal. Page 3. Pacific Coast. State Treasurer Moore makes his biennial re port. Page 4. ReDUbllcans of Tdaho agree to hold & Senato rial caucus tonight. Page 4. Convict In penitentiary makes attack on Guard McComilck. Page 4. Floods on Pugct Sound are subsiding, and roll road traffic Is resumed. Page 3. Sports. Butte pugilist proves equal to Munroe, the man who stood up to Jeffries. Page 5. Commercial and Jlarlne. Improvement In local and Eastern hop mar kets. Page 13. Wheat dull and featureless at Chicago. Page 13. Buoyant tone of New York stock market. Page 13. Indrapura arrives with big miscellaneous car go. Pa-c 12. Government takes over Port' of Portland dredce. Pace 12. i Flour business with Europe being worked, Pace 12. Portland nnd Vicinity. B. L. Eddy, candidate for Speaker, discusses legislation. Page 10. Irregularities discovered in Surveyor-General office. Pa-c 12. ' Common Council delays action on City & Sub urban franchise. Pace 14. State Senator George u. urownell expresses confidence In his election as President Senate. Page 8. Large number of steamboats building In Port Inad. Pace 8. , "Water committee may lower submerged pipes, Page 14. Fish and Game Association suggests chances In laws. Page 8. Shipwrecked on Rocky Washington Coast EIGHTEEN MEN DROWNED Norwegian Bark Goes to Pieces on Umatilla Reef. CAPTAIN'S FATAL MISTAKE Thinking Lightship Was Flatterr LiRhthonse, He Steered to De struction Two Survivors Res- cued by Indians. The Norwegian bark Prince Arthur was wrecked on January 2, on the Washington coast, near Ozette. Of the 20 men on board, only two could be rescued by the settlers and In dians. The captain appears lo have mistaken the Hrhtshlp on Umatilla reef for the Flattery lighthouse and struck his ship right to destruction. Wreckage of a steamer'and a schooner has been picked up on the coast of Van couver Island, near Carmanah. The steamer Is believed to have been the tug Vladimir, which drifted to sea from San Juan. PORT TOWNSBND, Jan. 6. With 18 out of her crew of 20 drowned, the Norwegian bark. Prince Arthur, lies a total wreck on the treacherous rocks two miles south of Ozette. 20 miles south of Cape Flattery. The accident which has resulted so dis astrously occurred on the night of Jan uary 2. but the news was not received until today, owing to the Isolated loca tion. A private letter reaching here this afternoon with the sad news was carried 25 miles through the wUdexr,ea,by an ln dlaTncourleJjefor'e being -mailed The particulars contained are meager in the extreme, telling simply that the ves sel Is a total wreck in the breakers, while but two men of her crew of 20 survived. These were rescued from the surf by a human line made up of the frontiers men living in the vicinity, assisted by natives, and were too exhausted at the time the courier left to give any par ticulars of the terrible calamity. The Impression prevails that mistaking Umatilla Reef lightship for the beacon on Cape Flattery led Captain Markussen to his doom among the breakers In one of the most dangerous and exposed positions on the entire northern coast. The scene of the wreck Is where many vessels be fore have piled their bones, the reef ex tending far out Into the sea, making the approach of assistance Impossible. When the settlers first saw the ap preaching vessel, she was heading due west, which confirms the belief that Cap tain Markussen supposed, he had passed Flattery and was shaping the propet course to enter the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The vessel Is reported to be In Identically the same place as was thfl German, ship Flottbek two years ago, from which In daylight and a calm sea tha three most powerful towing vessels on the Sound had great difficulty In rescuina her. The identity of the dead and survivors could not be ascertained, the hardy woodsmen having no means of identifying the badly battered corpses which ar washing ashore at irregular intervals. The rescuers consequently contented themselves with giving the unfortunates Christian burial near the scene of theii tragic death. The first Information to hand was to tht effect that' the Ill-fated vessel was th Norwegian ship Prince Albert, but hasty Investigation of the shipping lists proved the error, for this vessel left Cape Town for Puget Sound on November 15, making it a physical impossibility that she could be in the vicinity of Cape Flattery sc soon. On the other hand the Prince Arthui was well due from Valparaiso, and from the description of the vessel as a bark, there is no question but that she Is th one which Is now battering to pieces on the inhospitable shore of Washington. The Prince Arthur is an iron vessel ol 1S62 tons burden, and was originally th British bark Houghten Tower, built ai Birkenhead. England, for G. R. Clover 5 Co. The vessel ran to the East Indies for many years, but was sold recently to P. H. Roah, of Christianla. WRECKAGE OX VANCOUVER COAST. Remains of a Small Stenmer and Shooner Drift Ashore. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. C Letters re ceived today from Carmanah state thai further wreckage has been found there. Some time ago the lightkeeper reported that the stern of a ship's boat with tha name "Ericson, Cardiff," In black letters, together with the top of a mast and som new ash oars with sennit In place ol leather on them were washed ashore. Now he states that much wreckage has been washed ashore. Including the re mains of a small steamer and schooner, A life buoy appears in the heterogeneous mass and on It appears a name whlct Mr. Daykin thought might resembU "Vancouver." Another piece of wreck age has a name on It that is partly ob literated, the only letters that could b deciphered being "rlnter" but how thes are grouped he has omitted to say. Th letters are about six inches long and carved in wood and painted white. From other sources It Is learned that th wrecked steamer Is the tug Vladimir, which drifted to sea from her moorings at San Juan on December 28. It Is not thought probable that the schooner re ported wrecked Is either of the overdu schooners General SIglln or South Bend. No detalts are obtainable regarding this wreckage.