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12 THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, WEDIjTESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1903. GIVEN TO LAIDLAW Government Contract for Car rying Lumber to Manila. EXTRA STEAMERS ON P.&A. LINE Srowlnsr Trade Betvreen Portland and tkc Orient Pilots Will Seek; for Shoal Spot in the Two Rivers. The Government contract for the trans portation o 2,000,000 feet of lumber from Portland to Manila, for which bids were opened In this city last Friday, was awarded yesterday to James Laldlaw & Co., who made the lowest offer. It Is not 3cnown yet what steamer will carry the Jumber. LaldJaw & Co. gave the Govern ment the option of choosing' one of three vessels, the Quito, Yeddo or "Wyneric. Svhlchever one Is selected will be here lor loadry? by September 10. The bid of this firm was a thousand. The only other bid was that of Taylor, Young & Co., $9.25 per thousand. The lumber, Tvhlch will be purchased In thte city, will be used In the construction of bar racks and other buildings in the Phil ippines. The three vessels named by Laldlaw :& Co. are well known on the Coast- All aro British steamships of the modem, large-carrying class. The Wyneric, which Registers 3264 tons and is commanded by 'Captain Nevln, is now on the way from Puget Sound to Nome. The Yeddo has a registered tonnage of 2974 tons and Is 1n charge of Captain Baird. The Quito, which has been in this liarbor before, is of 2153 tons, and Captain Shottcn is still 3ier master. She Is on the way to the Pacific Coast from Singapore. EXTRA. STEAMERS ON CinXA X.IXE Too Kach IluxIncKft for the Regular P. & A. Vessel. The China liner Indravelli, the next Oriental steamer to arrive here, Is due at Victoria, where she will land Chinese .Iiessengcrs, on the 21st. She will sail back on the return voyage about Sep tember 1. Between her departure and that of the steamer to follow her a month later, the Indrapura, an extra Eteamer will probably be put on by the Portland & -Asiatic to take care of the accumulated westbound freight. For many months the steamers of this lino Jiave not been: able to take care of all the freight offered, and much of the flour demanding Immediate shipment has been Ecnt to the Orient via the Puget Sound lines. The one trouble with the business heretofore has been the comparative smallness of offerings of freight bound this way, but now that the Portland com pany lias become so popular with Im porters no trouble is had In securing full cargoes, and the Inst few steamers have been compelled to leave freight behind on the other side. It is to accommodate this increased business that the Portland & Aslutic Steamship Company is negotiating for the charter of a steamer to soil from this port about the middle of September. hlle the vessel may not go on the line regularly. It will most likely be fol lowed by another extra steamer sailing hence between the scheduled dates of the Indrapura and Indrasnmha that Is. about the middle of October. If the increase in traffic both ways holds out permanently, and there is no reason to believe that it will fall off, the Portland & Asiatic fleet of three steamers will be enlarged by the permanent addition of several cargo ves sels of Urge capacity. Enough west bound freight now accumulates to pro vide business for a fortnightly line, and the eastbound traillc Is growing at a satisfactory rate. Negotiations have not progressed far enough for the announcement of the name of the first of the extra steamers, but it will no doubt be taken from one of the several fleets managed by Portland shipping Arms. IXAI.LE TO ENTER PORT. Dense Vok Keeps Steamship AnsUnn Out of Straits of Paea. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 11. For two days the freight steamship Alaskan has drifted about the Pacific Ocean, just out side of Cape Flattery, unable to make the waters of Puget Sound on account of tho denso fog. Her local agents received word from Tatoosh t,hls morning that the vessel would probably remain out for an Indc Unite period. It may be a week be fore tho fog clears sufficiently to make navigation safe. .' The Alaskan has about 500 tons of gen eral merchandise for this port, having made calls at San Francisco and other California ports on her way north. The vessel has mado two round trips between Seattle and New York, touching at Hono lulu, and Is now on her third voyage. aptoln Nichols will not take the small est chance of meeting with disaster In an effort to pass the dangerous cape In the present fog. Navigation has not been so difficult in years as it is about Cape Flattery at the present time. All of the captains of the ocean-going steamships have been greatly delayed, and if it keeps up much longer schedules will be knocked to pieces. PILOTS IVILL TAKE SOUXDIXGS. Prcpnrlnjr fcr Their Annual Trip of Investigation, The Columbia River pilots are making preparations for their annual sounding trip down the Columbia. The latter part of the week Captains Empken, Patterson, Peterson, Pope, Betls. Snow, Furchen, Coulsen. Pease and Bailey will leave down on the Government tug Robert L. Lincoln for ten days of steady work. They will take along a full supply of pro islons. solid and liquid, and wilt stay with the job until they have finished. The pilots will begin sounding at Asto ria and work up the river to this city. The two Port of Portland dredges are doing fine work down at "Willow bar. Since Saturday they have out on an aver ago of SCO feet a day. and as a channel GOOO feet long is to be excavated there. It Is evident that thoy will soon be through with the work It they keep up the same pace. "When the "Willow bar channel Is completed the dredge Portland wul be brought up to this city to do some work In the b arbor, and the SMnch Co lumbia will be kept by the Government Iown la ttie lowor river. Alliance lias Fall Cnriro. The steamer Alliance arrived up yester day morning from San Francisco, Eureka and Coos Bay with 60 passengers and 750 tons of freight. The passengers and bag page were landed at Couch-street dock an dthen the eteamer dropped down to Alnsworth dock to discharge her cargo, which consists of 1,000.000 feet of shingles and 105.000 feet of redwood lumber, of which SO.OOO feet Is for .shipment to South Africa on the British phlp Blythswood. Mate Asleep at the "Wheel. VANCOUVER, B. C.. Aug. 1L The steamer Sasca, running from "White Horse to Dawson, ran on a rockwhllo proceed ing at 11 mile? an. hour across Lake Le barge. Mr. Harvey, the mate, who had the wheel while Captain Bailey went he low to lunch, fell asleep, and the steamer with no guiding power and under a full J?a4 of steam crashed upon a rocky ledge of the Island in the middle of the lake. She struck squarely on the starboard bow. wrenching her stem and tearing away the deck planking. The shock was so great that it threw the sleeping mate over the wheel and half way out through the forward windows of the pilot-house. Amethyst Ordered Sold. Orders have been sent to the Receiver of Wrecks, at Victoria, to dispose at public auction the schooner Amethyst, of San Francisco, which was wrecked and all of her crew drowned during a gale off the coast. In the "Winter of 1902. She was en route to San Francisco from Co quille River with lumber, and turned turtle, and after drifting as a derelict for days floated into Barclay Sound, where she was found by Indians. These failed to get much of her cargo, after cutting a hole in her hull, and turned her adrift again, and she was later made fast in Ucelet Harbor, and placed upon her keel. She is a craft of 74.23 tons, and is 72 feet in length, with a beam of 26 feet, and 5.7 feet depth of hold. Compulsory PJ lot ape in Virginia. Under the act recently declared consti tutional by the Supreme Court of Ap peals of Virginia, compulsory pilotage fees from schooners and other sailing vessels entering the Virginia Capes can be collected. The state law provides that vessels entering the Virginia waters above-mentioned must take a pilot and allow fees. Warrants of attachments have been sworn against schooners II. D. Cressey, Captain Haskell, and the Charles Al Campbell, Captain Pearce, for refusal to pay. The cases will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Glencona a Total Loss. According to advices received at the San Francisco Merchants Exchange, the British ship Glencona, previously re ported as ashore at Ensenada, Argentina, while en route from Newcastle, England, for San Diego. Cal., is now submerged and abandoned by the salvors. The cap tain had abandoned the ship soon after she went ashore. On August 1 the seas were breaking over the Glencona. Her cargo consisted of firebrick, coke and pig iron. Boston-Mediterranean Service. BOSTON, Aug. 1L The Cunard Steam ship Company has announced the inaugu ration of a Boston-Mediterranean service in competition with that of the Dominion Line of the International Mercantile Ma rine Company. Two sailings a month will be made and the ports of call in the Mediterranean will be Gibraltar, Genoa, Palermo, Trieste and Algeria. Manznnlta Due From the Sound. The lighthouse tender Manzanita Is due from the Sound, where she has been sup plying fog signal stations with coal dur ing the foggy season. Captain Calkins, lighthouse inspector of this district, will leave for the Sound in a few days on the Heather on a tour of buoy inspection. He will be gone about ten days. Pilot Branches Renewed. ASTORIA, Aug. 1L (Special.) A regular monthly meeting of the State Board of Pilot Commissioners was held this after noon, but the only business transacted other than of a routine nature was the renewal of the river branches of Pilots Honry Emkcns, A. L. Pease and W. II. Pope. Marine Notes. The British bark Ravenswood. which sailed from PisagUa on May 27 for Tam pico, takes the first cargo of nitrate shipped to that port. The Harvest Queen left up from Astoria yesterday morning with the schooner En deavor, and is scheduled to start back today with the schooners Virginia and David Evans. Among the shipping sales reported In Falrplay are those of the iron British bark Cardigan Casitle, 1121 tons, to Norwegians for 2300. and the steel French bark Alice Marie. 1731 tons, to the Socleto Anonyme les Valllers Dunkerquols. A press dispatch from the Orient says that the ship Atlas, which ran ashore off Putsu, not far from Yokohama, July 19, will be floated. When the i-essel was stranded she was completing one of the fatest voyages ever made to Yokohama from New York. The Bureau of Navigation reports 117 vessels of 25.400 gross tons were built In the United States and officially numbered during July. Of this number 29 were sail and SS steam. CO were built on the At lantic Coast, 17 on the Pacific Coast, 26 on the 3reat Lakes', and 14 on Western rivers. Captain Powers, a Vancouver, B. C, ma riner, has designed a steamer to generate electricity by her own movement through the waters, without loss of power. The principal of the invention Is to drive a tun nel through the vessel's hull lengthwise, and turn a wheel Inside the tunnel by the water rushing through the aperture. The electricity is to be generated by this wheel. Foreign nnd Domestic Ports. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 11. Arrived down at 3 A. M. and railed at 10:30 A M. Steamer Geo. "U. EWer, for San Francisco. Arrived down at C A M. British bark Glencalra. Left up at 11:30 A iL Schooner Endeavor. Arrived at 1 P. M. and left up at 3 I. M. Steamer Despatch, from Ban Francisco. Con dition of the bar at 5 P. SL. smooth; wind, northwest: weather, cloudy. San Francisco, Aug. 1L Sailed at 12 M. Steamer Columbia, for Portland. St. Helens. Aug. 11. Passed up at 0:15 P. St. Schooner Endeavor. San Francisco. Aup. 11. Arrived Schooner William Kenton, from Whatoom; schooner Roy Soraers, from Wlllapa Harbor; eteamer G. C Llndauer, from Gray's Harbor; steamer St. Paul, from Seattle: eteamer Czarina, from Coos Bay; steamer Cordelia HcaW. from Req as Sailed Schooner Peart, for Dutch Harbor; schooner Ivy. for Coos Bay. Tacoma, A up. 11. Sailed Steamer Centen nial, for San Francisco; steamer Bonlta, for San Francisco; schooner Corona, for West Coast. Yokohama, Aug. 11. Arrived Empress of In dia, from Vancouver, for Hong Kens. Glasgow. Aug. 11. Arrived Mongolian, from Xew Tork; Samaritan, from Boston. London. Aug. 11. Arrived Minneapolis, from New York. Liverpool, Aug. ll.-r-Arrived Dominion, from Montreal; Nomadic, from Portland. Naples, Aug. 11. Sailed Vancouver, ' for Boston. Bristol, Aug. 11. Sailed Iberia, for Mont real. Hamburg, Aug. 11. Arrived 6ih Kroonland, from New York. New York. Aug. 11. Arrived North Ameri ca, from Genoa and Palermo; Bevic, from Liv erpool. Sailed Krenprinz Wilhelm, for Bre men, etc; Geerglc. for Liverpool. Lizard. Aug. AL Passed Pretoria, from New York, for Plymouth. Cherbourg and Hamburg. Hoqulam. Wash.. Aug. 1L Sailed loth Schooner W. F. Jewett, from Aberdeen, for San Franoiseo: steamer Santa Monica, from Aberdeen, for an Francisco. Arrived 10th Schooner Geo. C Perkins, from Siberia, for Hoqula.ro.; schooner Halcyon, from San Pedro, for Aberdeen. Bremen. Aug. 11. Arrived Kaiser Wilhelm der Gresse, from New Tork. Meville. Aug. 11. Arrived Anchorta, from New York. New York, Aug. 1L Arrived Mecaba, from Leaden. Browaead. Aug. 11. Passed Westernland, from Philadelphia, for Liverpool. Liverpool. Aug. 11. Sailed Saxonta, for Boston, via Queastows. Seattle. Aug. 11. Sailed Steamer Santa Bar bara, for Ban Francisco; steamer Centennial, for San Franelseo. Arrived Steamer Cottage City, from Ekagway; steamer Alaskan, from Saa Francisco. Equalisation Board Held Up. BOISE, Idaho. Aug. 11. (Special.) Though the State Board of Equalization formally met on Monday, it has not yet been able to do any business, as the ab stracts of five counties are still miss ing. All the counties in the north, ex cepting Latah, are in the absent list, and Blaine in the south. The railway tax agents are on hand to resist the demand for an Increase in railway -assessments. FIRED AT HOLD-UP MEN E. IL HACSER rURSDES TWO 1IIGH- TVAYHEX. Robbers Lyinsr in Wait for Saloon keeper With. $100 Sleet Warm Reception. Walking with determination to the spot where he felt sure two highwaymen awaited him, firing at them as soon as they confronted him, chasing one more than a block through utter darkness, was the experience of E. H. Hauser last Sun day morning. It was because Hauser saw the hlgh- CREATES A SENSATION AT BAR HARBOR. MRS. CORNELIA BAXTER-TEVIS, OP SAX FRANCISCO. Tho charges against Lieutenant John R. Edle, United States Navy, made by Mrs. Cornelia Baxter-Tcvls, of San Francisco, are the sensation of the hour at Bar Harbor. How the affair was kept secret so long is another matter of specula tion. It was a week ago that Lieutenant Chase Courtney, a friend of Mrs. Tevls. called upon the beautiful widow and her sister, taking with him his chum. Lieutenant Edle. The ladies arc occupying a handsome cottage where they received the young officers. As a result of that visit grave charges were preferred against Edle by Mrs. Tevls, of conduct un becoming an officer and a gentleman. Just what did occur at the cottage has not been fully explained, but it is whispered that Lieutenant Edle, shortly after being Introduced to the beautiful young widow (sho Is only 20 years of age), sat with undue famlllartly on thearm of her chair. From all accounts It seems that Lieutenant Edle was under the Impression that the strict conventions were not to be observed, and that a delightful and lively evening was to be enjoyed In company with the beautiful girls from the West. Whether the evening ended then and there when Lieutenant Edle sat on the unconventional scat la not "known, but certain It was that no time was lost by Mrs. Tevls In making the charges ot ungentlemanly conduct against the offlcer. ' Then came a number of Incidents In quick succession, which have set society on edge and enlivened the dull times. Captain Emory, of the battleship Indiana, received the charges against his subordinate, and, as usual In such cases, ordered a court of inquiry. There were accusations by the friends of Mrs. Tevls and indig nant denials on the part of Lieutenant Edie's supporters. Tho board of Inquiry heard the testimony of Mrs. Tevls and her sister and of Lieutenant Courtney, who stood by his brother officer. The incident was " smoldering when Lieutenant Edle met Ernest A". Wiltsee nt the Kebo Valloy Club dance. Mr. Wlltsee Is from San Fran cisco and is a well-known clubman and yachtsman. He is spoken of as the fiance of the beautiful widow. Dinner progressed at the club with out a hitch and the men met casually In the dance that followed. Neither betrayed his feelings, but It was evident that the slightest mischance would provoke trouble. Later in thf- evening the clash came when the two belligerent gentlemen came very near mauling each other with their fists. Who was the first to Infringe on the laws of hospitality has not ap peared, but angry words fell from the Hps of both, and Wlltsee. it Is said, challenged the young offlcer to a duel. Edle chose pistols on account of the advantage he might have over the other with swords, in tho exercise of which he is extremely proficient. He made It one of the con ditions that before the shooting the two men were to have a stand-up fist fight. Friends interfered and separated the men before the conditions could be accepted. Lieutenant Edle was ordered away for maneuvers and Wlltsee was carried off to Boston. waymen loitering on the other side of the street from his saloon. East Burnslde and East Third streets, that he was prepared to give them a warm reception. The hold up that failed occurred soon after 1 o'clock Sunday morning a few minutes after Hau ser had counted his money and made ready to leave for the night. Chancing to glance through the screen doors, he saw two men acting in a suspicious manner acrosct Burnslde street directly in front of the office of the Star Brewing Company. Two friends were with me at the time, but I said to them that something would be doing, and asked them to stay behind for a minute. I carry a 3S-callber revol ver, and I had this ready in my hand as I stepped outside the saloon. The men were, some 20 feet apart, and as I passed the first one. who was hidden behind a wagon, both stepped out. I could see a gun In the hand of one, but I was the quicker and fired directly at them. I suppose I could have killed one had I aimed better, but the whole place was very dark. "Neither fired at me and one ran across the street and started Vaver the Burnslde street bridge. The other made off down East Third street, and I ran after him. He turned down East Couch, and as that Is a very dark and dangerous place I was afraid to follow him. I might have shot him, but, then, I might have got shot my self. "You see I had over $100, and I wasn't going to let those men get It. Not for a minute. I fired right at the man nearest me and neither had much chance to take a back shot." Mr. Hauser was asked why he bad not reported the attempted hold-up to the po lice station at the time. "What good would that doT was his return. "The police couldn't find them. I told one of the policemen over my way about It and he said, 'What If you had killed them?' That would have been an awful thing to do, wouldn't It, kill a man with a gun in his hand whom you were sure was about to hold you up and had in fact stepped out for that purpose." The entire neighborhood about the east end of the Burnslde bridge Is in almost absolute darkness and is an ideal spot for the darins highwaymen to ply their call ing. Strike Practically Close All Mine. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Aug U. Prac tically all the mines in this district ex cept those operated by the Woods In vestment Company are closed down in consequence of the union miners' strike, which began yesterday. The number of miners on strike Is esti mated at 5T00. Hundreds of rSiners are leaving the camp for other localities. At the headquarters of the miners union It was asserted today that no more ore will be shipped from the camp to the mills and smelters of the United States Refining- & Reduction Company and the American Smeltlng ,& Refining Company until they concede an eight-hour day and agree to nay the union scale of wages. CHESTER SEARLES MISSING Imitator of Dime Novel Hero Sus pected of Another Robbery. That imitator of a, dime novel hero, Chester Searles, the 14-year-old boy who escaped from the home of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society last Sunday and made good his escape after carrying off two suits of clothes which he had stolen on a previous occasion and a shotgun. Is still on the missing list. The police believe that the lost boy came to light Monday night In the rob bery of the candy store at the extreme end of the. Mount Tabor car line. The stand was broken into, 500 cigarettes and a quantity of fruit taken. It is their be- lief that the boy, supplied with food and smoking material, is camping in the woods about Mount Tabor. The boy looks like a young man of 20, Is well dressed and has a good appearance. If he left the city he could put such a front that he would never be suspected of being a runaway boy unless he met some one acquainted with him. WANTS FENCES DOWN. Salts BcRun Ajrnlnat Cattlemen Al leged to Be Ufllnsr Public Land. TOPEKA. Kan., Aug. 11. Three suits were filed In the United States District Court this afternoon by the United States Attorney against big cattle ranch firms in Western Kansas, charging them with hav ing Government lands under fence. The Circle Land & Cattle Company in Sherman and Wallace Counties are charged with having 14.000 acres unlawful ly fenced, the a P. Dewey Cattle Com pany S00O acres In Cheyenne, and the Mills Wood Cattle Company about ten sections. Twelve other suits are in course of prep aration against Western cattlemen of the same nature. This land Is all in the Dodge City. Wichita and Wakeney Land Office districts. The penalty is a heavy fine if found guilt. Bold Robbery at Tacoma. TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 1L Robbers entered a second-hand store on the prin cipal street of the city at noon and took $70 from the cash drawer while the pro prietor of the store was engaged In con versation with customers. This makes the third desperate robbery in this city since Sunday morning and no important arrests have so far been mode. General Coolldfre Retnrnn. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1L General Charles A. Coolidge has turned over the command of the Presidio reservation to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas C. Wood bury, of the Seventh Infantry. Colonel Coolidge was recently elevated to a Brigadier-Generalship, and has just been placed upon the retired list and ordered to his home. Developed RellKlonxlMnaia. EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 11. Mrs. Tenlna Fogle, an old resident of Eugene and a devout Christian woman, has become hopelessly insane on the subject of re ligion. She was examined yesterday and committed to the asylum. The unfort unate woman is well known and re spected here. FOR LOSS OF APPETITE Take Horsford Acid Phosphate. Excels in treatment of women and chil dren. for debllltr and loss of appetitel , Supplies the needed nerve food and WHAT IS THE REMEDY? DECLINE OF AMERICAN SHIPPING IX THE FOREIGN TRADE. New York Board, of Trade aad Trans portation Proposes to Make a ThoroBga Investigation. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation proposes to Investigate the cause of the decline of American shipping in the foreign trade. It Is a fact that the United States of 1S10. with 7,000,000 inhabitants, owned more registered tonnage for oversea trade than the United States of 1903, with a popula tion of 80,000,000. This tonnage In 1S10 was 9S1.000; It Is now S73.000, and. worse still, it showed an actual decrease of 6000 tons from the year before. .In 1810 American ships and American sailors carried 91.5 per cent of their country's ocean trade, and, moreover, a great share of that of Europe. In 1SSI, though we had already lost our Atlantic steam lines and our shipbuilding was falling off. we still car ried 65.2 per cent of our own trade and some of the trade of other nations. Amer ican ships last year conveyed only S.S per cent of our Imports and exports. Our registered tonnage In 1S61 stood at 2.4DC.0O0. It stands now at S73.000. Two-thirds of our once great and powerful deep-sea fleet has vanished and not one new keel for a deep-sen. ship Is being laid on cither our Atlantic or Pacific coastline. Meanwhile an ever Increasing fleet of foreign vessels throng our ports and mo nopolizes the carrying of more than nine-tenths of our import and export com merce. The United States pays to these foreign vessels for conveying our freights and passengers upwards of $100,000,000 a year. Much of this vast sum of money goes to steamers which are regularly en rolled on the "merchant cruiser" list of European governments, which are manned by naval reserve officers and sailors, and are available for service against us in war. The British Empire has M.SOO.OOO tons of merchant shipping; Germany, 2,96tf.00O tons; France, 1.4S0.C00 tons; Norway, 1, 660,000 tons; Italy, 1,180.000 tons. By far the larger part of all these fleets is engaged in ocean carrying. But the United States which produces far more merchandise and now sends more abroad than any other nation, has a fleet registered for deep-sea commerce of only 873,000 tons. American commerce, the labor in tho mines, the forests, the shops and in the shipyards are Interested in this question, and American farmers, whose products supply two-thirds of the value, and a much larger portion of the bulk, of our exports, aro equally concerned with all other Americans In whatever will con tribute to the employment of American ships, their active and sustained com petition with foreign shlp3, and the in evitable reduction in freight rates sure to follow such Increased competition. An Investigation Proposed. The resolutions on the subject adopted by the New York body follow: Resolved, By the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, that there Is Imperative need of the revival of American shipping In the foreign trade. Our deep-sea tonnage has shrunk to one-third of the total of 1S61. while most of our ocean commerce, which used to employ scores of shipyards and thousands of skilled mechanics and seamen, is now mon opolized by other nations. Resolved, That the larger part of American commerce ought rightfully to be carried by American ships. The American people must have prosperous shipyards and a great merch ant fleet, as a bulwark of their trade and the indispensable reserve of their fighting navy. Shipbuilding and navigation, bringing a fair gain to capital and labor, are as vital to the Nation's defense as armor-dads and guns. Resolved, That a committee of five mem bers. Including the president of the New York Board or Trade and Transportation, be ap pointed by the president to Inquire Into the alarmingly depleted state of American ship ping in tho foreign trade; that this com mittee be urged to lay the subject before com mercial associations, labor associations, and all interests concerned in the Increase of our deep-sea tonnage; that the press of the coun try be Invited to help In ascertaining and recording public opinion as to the best means by which our shipping may be built up; that all sides of the question be discussed thor oughly and without regard to political or economic bias, and that the committee report its conclusions to the board no later than De cember 1, 1003. Decline of Oar Shipping:. Aaron Vanderbllt, the chairman of the committee, when asked to explain just what caused the New York Board of Track and Transporatlon to take up this subject at this time, made the following statement: "We have with deep concern been watching our shipping in the foreign trade steadily decline for many years, hoping something would be done to remedy maV ters. "We see a great business of ocean trans portation to which the United States Is one of the largest contributors, In which the finest ships afloat are engaged, and whose earnings run Into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually in which American shipping participates to the ex tent of less than 10 per cent. "As in 1S61 the United States had three times as large a tonnage engaged in ocean transportation as we now have, we want to know what has caused tne cecune, es pecially as the present value of our for eign commerce is four times larger than it was in 1S6L "We want to know why our people don't build the larger part of the ships that carry our foreign commerce, and why our own people don't own and operate them. This is something that we be lieve the whole country wants to know, and our purpose in trying to find it out Is in order that In the discussion some thor oughly, practicable, effective and accept able solution of the problem how best Co proceed to remedy this condition may be evolved. This, we believe, to be a timely, a commendable and a popular under taking. "Our hope and aim will be to keep the discussion free from partisan or political heat or bias. We are not concerned In contributing through this issue to the political capital' of either party. It Is a business question, pure and simple, In which the whole country Is interested, and It should be considered and discussed in a business and temperate manner. Free-for-All Discussion. "We shall ask the free ship advocates to explain whether they believe that for eign ships should be admitted to our coastwise trade or confined wholly to our foreign trade, and whether they would have the laws repealed that require that, the masters and officers of American vessels shall be American citizens. Most of all. In respect of this particular phase of the discussion, we desire to know how effective free ship laws in other countries have been In building up their merchant shipping, especially In Great Britain, whose ships have so long made her the unchallenged mistress of the seas. "We shall ask the subsidy advocates to make good, by acceptable proofs, their assertlons that subsidies stimulate the building and economical operation of ships, and especially the claim that the subsidies which come from the people go back to the people in the lower freight charges resulting from subsidies. We shall also want to clearly define the dividing line between 'pay for carrying the mails' and 'subsidies and bounties.' "We shall also ask the discriminating dues and duty advocates to say how best the practical and seemingly serious dif ficulties of abrogating or denouncing some 30 or 40 treaties and conventions that we now have with as many different coun tries can be overcome without undue In ternational friction, whether they believe the discrimination should be through a reduction of the dues and duties now in force on American ships and on the im ports carried therein, as compared .with foreign ships, or whether foreign ships and the goods they import should pay J higher dues and duties than they now pay, pnr. hOW We Can 'gfrmratj, flralp" ships bringing imports that are free of duties and ships that come here in bal last; also how serious the retaliation by other countries would be if this system were adopted, and how such possible re taliation could be met without placing a check upon our export trade. ""The line of our inquiries is to be emi nently practical and trite generaltles will be of little value to us. as, most of all, we desire specific details in connection with each policy advocated." e hope that commercial, labor and agricultural associations In all parts of the country will takts this subject under discussion and debate, formulating their final conclusions in expressive resolutions. "The great political parties," concluded Mr. Vanderbllt, "have been promising for many years to enact legislation to build up our shipping In the foreign trade, but so far nothing effective has been accom plished. N "Perhaps the business people, the farm ers and the wage workers can evolve a plan which will command the support of both parties and which can be discussed without partisan bitterness. That is what we hope for." YAQUINA BAY HARBOR. Hermann Will Renew His Endeavor to Have Improvements Made. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 1L (Special.) Hon. Binger Hermann was In Albany with his family last evening on the way to New port. Mr. Hermann spoke quite freely about the Improvements which are needed in the channel to the harbor at Yaquina Bay, stating that he intended to renew his efforts of vears aeo to have the Ya quina harbor deepened so as to accommo date tne largest vessels. . He declared that mercantile ships were continually being built larger, and that the demand from all sections was for deeper harbors to ac commodate the advance in shipbuilding. The Congressman thinks he can con vince his associates at Washington that the Yaquina Bay Harbor can be made one of the best on the Coast, deep enough to accommodate any vessel navigating the ocean, and he Intends to exert himself to secure the appropriation necessary for the work. FRUrT PACKER!" FOR ALBANY. Installed This Fall, Will Work on the Prune Crop. ALBANY. Or., Aug. 1L (Special.) The fruit packing establishment of Fortmlller & Lasselle Bros, will be a new and Im portant Industry In Albany this Fall. The building for the packery Is now almost complete, and by the time the fruit sea son opens the structure will be equipped with all the modern appliances for caring for fruit Especial attention will be given to prunes, which constitute by far the greater part of the fruit output of Linn County. Prune trees this year are loaded with fruit, and the new packery will play an Important part In caring for the out put and furnishing a market at home. Killed .by a. Playmate. KAMLOOPS. B. C, Aug. 11. Willie Ed monds, aged 6, was last night shot and killed by Charles Newman, aged 7. Charles took a revolver from the room of H. G. -Ashby, one of his mother's lodgers, and loaded it. William Ed monds, his playmate, said "Shoot it!" Young Newman fired, the ball entering Edmonds' forehead. He died In a few minutes. DAILY CITY STATISTICS. BnildinK Permits. Thomas Muir, East Twenty-sixth, between East Ankeny and East Burnslde, two-story dwelling. $1500. J. R. Grack, East Tenth, between Florence and Alberta, repairs, $450. Danish Church. East Ninth, between East Grant and East Lincoln, church, $3000. J. Jr. NIckum. Umatilla avenue, between East Fifteenth and East Seventeenth, two story dwelling. $1500. Macleay Estate Company. Third and Pine, remove building and excavation, $3000. D. C. Strlegl. East Twelfth, between Clin ton and Ivon, two-story dwelling. $1500. Mrs. Lee Hoffman, Twenty-second and Ev erett, repairs, $600. Mrs. "Welitze, Minnesota avenue and Fail ing, additions, $50. Deaths. August 10, Fred E. Frank, County Jail, exhaustion. August 5. Charles F. Devery, 50 years, 492 GUsan, fatty degeneration of heart. August S. William Woodman, 48 sssars, 1 North Fourth, killed by landslide. July 20, Mrs. Mary A. Sherry, 43 years, 323 Weldler, cancer of stomach. August S, Llna M. Kauri n, 77 years, 404 Morris, paralysis. August 7, Sarah G. Saylor, 2S years, S71 First, tuberculosis. Births. August 6, girl to the wife of II. A. Nodlne, 302 Sah Rafael. August 4, boy to the wife of Olat Volo, 544 Gantenbein avenue. August 7, boy to the wife of Frank Polehn, 623 Guilds avenue. August 7, girl to the wife of John F. Snuf fing, Wlberg Lane. Real Estate Transfers. Sisters of Charity to Security Abstract & Title Company, south half of lot 17, block 293. Couch's addition $ 623 J. F. Chase and wife to L. J. AValters, 5 acres ot W. H. Maxwell's farm .... COO Robert Hulme and wife to Magnus Ad ler, -lot 4, block 2, Davis' Highland addition 275 Portland Woolen Mills to Oregon Wa ter Power & Railway Company, part of block 103. Sellwood 200 Portland Transfer Company of Oregon to J. Dolphin, lot 16 and east 10 feet of lots 1 and 2, cast 10 feet of north nine feet of lot 3, block 11. Lut Proebstel's addition. Alblna 1,000 Same to Kate A. Fox. lots 7 and 8, block 13, Williams Avenue addition:. ' 845 The Title Guarantee Trust Company to John C Muller and wife, lot a, block 8, North Irvlngton 223 Mrs. Annie Fisher to M. C. Jackson, lots 10, 11 and 12. block 52, Sellwood 830 W. W. Escey to Albert H. Grlschow, the east half of the northeast quar ter of the southwest quarter of sec tion 15, township 2 N., range 2 W. 1.000 William S. Frances and wife to W. W. Espey. northeast quarter of southwest -quarter of same 600 The Italian government has just erected a fortress on the great Chaberton summit, opposite Brlncan. for the defense of the Slmplon tunnel. This fort Is 10,600 feet high and is believed to be the most ele vated fortified point In the world. ears' What is wanted of soap for the skin is to wash it clean and not hurt it. Pure soap does that. This is why we want pure soap; and when we say pure, we mean without alkali. Pears' is pure; no free alkali. You can trust a soap that haS no biting in it, that's Pears'. Established over loo years. BEJLRS 1 Famous the World Over Fully Matured. Order from Fleckenstein-Mayer Co. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. Until recent years it was thought this awful load would ever remain, but at last science has crowned the effort with success in giving to hu manity Abbey's Salt of Fruits, which is today lifting the. burden of Constipation, stomach and bowel disorders from millions of sufferers all over the world; without an ex ception the greatest discovery with in the realm of medical science. A most pleasant tasting tonic lax ative is Abbey's Salt. It clears the bowels regularly and without the slightest discomfort, keeps the stomach clean and sweet, quickens the action of the liver, clears- the head and tones up the whole ner vous system. Abbey's Salt of Fruits does not depress the heart. It is at once the simplest, most nat ural and most effective remedy for all the ills and ails which afflict the human stomach, bowels and liver. The white man has many burdens, but out-weighing them all is that monster which causes him so much pain and suffering. Abbey's Effer vescent Salt is indorsed by the lead ing physicians, and sold by the druggists in all parts of the civil ized world. Guaranteed free from opiates and drug stimulants. If you are not using it send for a trial bottle free today. Address the Abbey Effervescent Salt Com pany, Ltd., 9 Murray street, New York City; 144 Queen Victoria street, London, England; 712 Craig street, Montreal, Canada. Insanity Despite Doctor's Care. Nervous Cramps in Hands and Feet. Dr. Miles' Nervine "Was My Salvation. Sleeplessness is at once a symptom and a disease. Just as soon as the nerves become deranged the patient suffers from sleepless ness. Deprived ot their natural rest the nerves soon lose all force and vitality and while sleeplessness is a symptom in such cases it frequently becomes chronic and remains the chief effect of disordered nerves. Dr. Miles' Nervine quiets the nerves and strengthens them; soothes the tired brain and permiU sleep; restores lost energy and. vitality and brings sleep, health and strength. "Previous to 'our coming to the territory three years ago, we lived in Virginia, and it was there that I got acquainted with the wonderful powers of Dr. Miles' Nervine. I had been under the doctor's care and taking his medicine for over two years, but the nerv ous trouble that was gnawing my life away grew steadily worse. I had nervous cramps in my hands and legs, which would draw up and pain me so that I could not sleep at night. Often I never closed my eyes for days and nights together. The doctor finally told me he could do nothing more for me and that I was on the verge of insanity. He told me I might try your Nervine as a last resort, and it proved to be my salvation. When I had used four bottles of the remedy together with the Nerve and Liver Pills I had re gained my former good health." MRS. Martha J. Sheffer, Omer, Oklahoma. AH druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. I CURE PRIMARY, SECONDARYORTERTIARY In 20 to 40 days without tne me of potash or mercury, to stay cured forever. .Reflex disorders from excess8 in early life, lost manhood and debility, promptly and perma nently cured. Bvery case accepted under lesal guarantee. Send for free book. STATE MED1CAL1NST1TUTE 701 FIRST AVE.. SEATTLE, WASH. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH E3HYR0YAL PILLS unpnii ana waiy uesninc tor UliiUiiJSSri5It.T!i JIU1UL . la KEI) u4 Gold mtuUla Uus. aula I -rilh bU ribbon. Tjiko no other. Refitto I Paaserona anttltatloaa aad Imltn- uoaa. bij or year untftn. cr Ma 4e. in tamp fcr Particulars, Testimonial aad "Relief fcr Ltutlea," n Utter, by re. tarn Mail. 1 0.OftO TMtlaosJaU. S.LltiT all DrazzKu. dilehMter C&csaleal Oev. SirrtU FREE Permanently Cured bj DR. 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