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THE MOKNrtfa OEEGONIAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 19M? 5 JIM HILL SS WILLING Lumbermen Expect 40-Cent Rateto Missouri River Points, HARRIMAN LINES HANG BACK There Is a Strong Feeling That the Question Will Be Settled Before the Meeting of the Washing ton Legislature. SEATTLE, Wash.. Nov. 19. Special.) Jl demand among: the .lumbermen, for leg islation Imposing a fine upon the railroads for failure to deliver cars "when ordered may be presented to the Legislature as one of the alternative propositions -which can be traded oft for & 40-cent rate. Growing out of the serious car shortage that has prevailed during the Fall Is an insistent demand among lumber interests for legislation that -will compel the trans continental lines to provide sufficient equipment to handle the lumber and shin gle traffic The more radical lumbermen believe the evil can be cured by legisla tion and the "West Virginia law that im poses a fee of $1 per car per day when the railroad falls to deliver a car ordered by a shipper is being strongly urged. In justification for the demand for a demurrage act, the lumbermen hold that the railroads could provide for the traffic by building more cars and that they are charged demurrage If they delay in load ing or unloading a car sent to their sld- lDt" Grain Took the Cars. Railroad traffic and operating men do not believe it possible for the roads to comply with the provisions of such an act as is discussed among lumbermen. The embarrassment this Fall was caused primarily by the big wheat movement Eastward. Up to the time the grain and flour movement began the car situation was fairly satisfactory, only one slight pinch occurring. When the transconti nental lines were overwhelmed with de mands for cars for the grain traffic the millmen suffered. During the month of October alone It Is estimated the mills of this state were short 7000 cars In their requirements and hundreds of orders were cancelled because of the lack of rolling stock. To have supplied the cars needed by the millmen, gralngrowers, fiourmlll men, fruit producers and others was an absolute im possibility this "year. To have required of the roads that they pay a fine of ?1 per car per day for failure would have been a severe financial burden upon the line so taxed. It would be extremely dif ficult to figure out a time by which the roads could prepare to comply with such a demand. Advantages ot West Virginia. West Virginia is located conveniently for supplying cars and the lumbermen who have not taken up the demurrage movement with enthusiasm- are citing this circumstance to show that the bill would have to fail if sent before the Legislature. It is argued by conservatives that the courts would hardly uphold such a law. About a year ago the Southwestern As sociation sent a copy of a bill drafted along similar lines to mill Interests here. This measure was proposed as a Federal statute. Northwestern millmen refused to sanction the bill, holding that the rail roads could not comply with the law. If It were impossible, then the fight for such a bill would fall now. The legislative committee of the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers Association is drafting a number of bills to be sub mitted to the Legislature. Many of these measures are to be pushed irrespective of the attitude of the railroads toward the demand foi a 40-cent rate, while the millmen are willing to drop some of the more radical demands If their terms are met ' Mead Has Promised Support. Lumbermen rely to a considerable ex tent upon the fact that a big majority of the members in both Houses are pledged to help them and that Governor-Elect Mead has agreed to stand with them In the fight. The mill interests insist that if It comes to a legislative fight they will have plenty of backing In forcing terms from the roads. As a matter of fact, the lumbermen making the 40-cent rate fight do not be lieve the question will last until the Leg islature meets. There is a strong feeling among the men who have planned the campaign that the transcontinental lines will agree to give them a 40-cent rate into Missouri River territory. The most severe trouble is expected from the Harrlman lines, for conflicting inter ests affect them more than the Hill sys tems. Confidence has been expressed for some time that the Hill roads, if alone in the matter, would grant the reduction. It has been pointed out that if the mill men make a fight against the railroads the Northern lines would have the op portunity of retaliating by withdrawing the 40-cent rate granted to SL Paul. Lumbermen laugh at this threat. They declare their traffic amounts to more than one-third of the entire volume of busi ness handled by the Northern lines and that the roads could not afford to kill the lumber trade as a return to the 50- cent rate Into St. Paul would do. Plans Are Yet Undeveloped. Plans for putting on the screws are hazy and indefinite among mill interests. The belief that the fight has been won by securing so many pledges of co-operation is so strong that arrangements for continuing a strong fight are held in abey ance. The legislative committee refuses to discuss its plans and Is not hastening the work of drafting new bills. Despite campaign talk to the contrary. the millmen have no faith in a State Railroad Commission being able to ac complish anything In securing a. "40-cent rate for them. There is no question but that Turner attempted to bait Victor H. Beckman, secretary of the Lumbermen's Association, with the offer of a place on the commission. Beckman turned down the proposal. He did not want it and was not particularly interested in the Railroad Commission movement. Now that a Railroad Commission Is a reason able certainty the millmen are no more confident or the success of their fight in this" manner than they have been in the past. Pressure on King Senators. Pressure is still being brought to bear upon the King County hold-over Senators to bring them into line for the lumber men's 40-cent rate fight Some of the hold-overs have weakened and pressure Is being brought to bear upon the others, The lumbermen threaten to hold a fur ther refusal to join against Piles or any other iung- county senatorial candidate. A. rather interesting incident of the cam paign, la relation to the lumbermen's rate flfht. Is that a certain King County Sen ator who was Hjost Insistent against the 0trucicl fcs tax agent for one cf the larg est lumber concerns fn the state. His client held a consultation with him and he hastened to sign a pledge. This might be called direct coercion, but most of the lumbermen's pledges "were received through the threat to turn political In fluence against those who did not sign. DROWNED IN JOE CREEK. Miss C. E. Drummond Supposed to Have Been Thrown From Buggy. HOQUIAM. Wash., Nov. 20. (Special.) Miss C. E. Drummond, a popular young woman, of Iron Springs, a Summer resort on North Beach, is reported to have been thrown from a buggy Into Joe Creek and drowned. The reports, which are meager, show that Miss Drummond and her nephew left Iron Springs In a buggy to visit the Rountree place, at Joe Creek. Miss Drummond was left in the buggy while her nephew went to Rountrees, and returning found no trace of her. It is supposed the horse became unman ageable and ran away, and while crossing' the creek the unfortunate woman was thrown from the buggy and drowned. Miss Drummond was a woman of high standing In this city, and was well edu cated. Only last week she waded Into the surf waist-deep to save the life of Mr. Jaeger, an aged man, who had been car ried out by a large "wave while crossing the same creek. SCORCHED IN FOREST FIRE. Young Woman Was Fighting Flames With Her Family. BROWNING, Mont, Nov. 20. Forest fires have been raging for some. time. One in the Boulder Creek region, west of the Saint Mary's River, came very near de stroying Mr. Hinkle's ranch buildings. His whole family were out fighting the fire, and one of his grown daughters had her feet severely burned. The family built a backfire, and this got beyond their control, when they found themselves surrounded by flames in the only avenue of escape, and while doing this, the young lady met with very pain ful burns. Anniversary Services Ended. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe cial.) Services In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the founding1 of the First Congregational Church of this city were concluded today. In the morning Rev. P. S. Knight, of Salem, who served as pastor of the local church In 1S55-6, preached the anni versary sermon. Tonight a praise serv lve was held and for which the choir rendered special music. Wealth Made in Coos County Industry of Rogers Brothers Rewarded. MARSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 16.-HSpecIal Correspondence.) The story that the pio neers tell is always Interesting. As show ing the favor and caprice of fortune, the career of the Rogers' family, in Coos County and on the Pacific for the past half-century, affords a fine illustration. The brilliant financier who has handled millons as the Winter of 80 years draws nigh, finds naught left by the shadow, and is asked to share at the board of those less gifted. The sober plodders, content with day's pay, mount steadily upward, and upon the eve of a well-spent life are possessed of ample fortune. All these are the boys of one family. It is the old story of the tortoise and the hare. The Rogers brothers also furnish proof of another Interesting fact The Rogers dairy farms on South Coos River are among the best in the county and give evidence of the profit there Is in well improved property. The Rogers were the first to Improve the waterfront along the river through their ranches and to turn the caving mud banks into a lawn of liv ing green. A day spent at their homes carries with It its own reward. A hundred fat dairy cows graze in the green mead ows. The land is drained with tiling, and pipe lines from springs in the hills fur nish water for domestic use. These dairymen were also the first to put in a plant to pump water from the river to Irrigate their lands through the dry Summer months. Tno orchards and gardens are well kept The fences and roads and buildings are all In good repair, and everything has the air of the pros perous farmer. This Is saying a good deal In a country where there Is no fierce struggle for existence, and where Nature Invites one to a life of leisure. But the Rogers farms were not always the park and flower garden they are today. They were carved out of the wild erness by slow and patient toll, and on the hillsides are still left mighty stumps as mute wltneses of the labor put forth. Those clearings were begun when those state builders were in the flush otyouth; they are finished when those same men are gray-haired grandfathers. It has taken near full 50 years to bring those farms up to the perfection of today. In their declining years the owners live In peace, but they began life on those farms when 13 men with rifles were detailed to stand guard while one man with a hoe dug potatoes. In the life of the Rogers brothers there Is another fine Illustration. It is the hold that Oregon takes upon a man. Anson R. Rogers came West to win his fortune and then return to his loved New Eng land hills. Stephen C. Rogers, with for tune already won, came West for his health. Each found what he came for In Oregon, but both remained. Oregon is not only the place to make a fortune, but the place to enjoy it The Rogers' homestead was on a 100 acre farm near Danby, Rutland County, Vermont There was born Anson Rogers, April 25, 1829, the second son. There was being reared in fair circumstances as things went In those days. a family of three boys and three girls when the news of the discovery of gold in Califor nia electrified the world. Amos C. Rogers, the eldest son, was 21 when be and his second cousin,- Amos E. Rogers, organized the company of 100 that came around the Horn In the ship Regulus, in 1S19. They separated In San Francisco, heard nothing from 'each other, and five years later Amoa E. Rog ers showed up in the city with the first cargo of Coos Bay coal, from the Flan agan & Rogers mine, at Newport About that same time Anson Rogers, who had not been stampeded by the rush to the gold fields, had emigrated to Ohio and was engaged in teaching: school. He was getting 530 a month for instructing E0 unruly pupils In the principles of the three Rs. But that was a long step In advance from the day he first went to work out at $4 a month and his board. A letter came from the brother In Cali fornia offering him $100 a month to as sist as a contractor and house-mover. The pedagogue dropped the ruler and the rod. dressed himself In his tall silk hat and started off to engage cabin passage by the way of the isthmus. But trans portation rates had risen In a night steerage from $35 to $150, and the first cabin was $350. Anything but a steerage berth was out of the question, and all the young man's salary for a whole year went to pay for a short pleasure trip on the ocean. All through that long voyage that silk hat remained a faithful companion. A man may ride in the steerage and not lose his self-respect but it Is not so with a silk hat "The owner of that hat had used it shamefully. There was no place on shipboard for the hat except to wear it to bed. You cannot sleep In a silk tile for several months and expect to have it always neat for dress occasions. The first dress affair was when Anson landed at Montgomery street In San Francisco. Amos was there to meet his younger brother and to guide him and the hat safely over the city. It was a triumphal march all the way, but an ex pensive one. When the newcomer bad been introduced to a crowd ot the boys Amos would glance slyly up at the bat and then h would take the sang Inside, -v t ! t- ' - v,-- -,-) GALE STILL HOWIS No Indications of Cessation at the Mouth of the Columbia. ELDER COMES IN FROM SOUTH Five Vessels Are Waiting to Put to Sea, and Three or Four Are Beat ing Around Anxious to Put In at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 20. There is no indication tonight of a cessation of the great gale which has raged with unusual fury during the past week. The wind Is bowling along tonight at a velocity of 70 miles an hour, and indications are that the storm will become even more severe before morning. The present storm has been one of the worst In years, the wind at this time attaining the unusual ve locity of SS" miles. Shipping has been al most completely paralyzed, only" the most daring of navigators risking their vessels at sea. Today the San Francisco liner Geo. W. Elder reached port after having experi enced the full fury of the gale on the trip up the coast The steamship weathered the storm in an excellent manner, as the southwest wind was behind her coming up from San Francisco. This morning she crossed into the harbor over the bar that was rendered snow white by the breakers. Few other vessels ever crossed in through such a threatening surf, yet the Elder reached her dock here none the worse for her trying experience. She was repeatedly swept by big seas, but no accident occurred. Reports from Fort Stevens convey In formation that no further damage of con sequence has been done to the jetty. Teredo-eaten piling, has been carried away, but all of the completed break water has thus far withstood the ravages of the storm. Five vessels are bar-bound here the steamers Northland, Despatch and Aber deen, schooner Halycon and French bark Pierre Lot!. Three or four vessels have make everything square. This was in 1S54, just 60 years ago. But Anson Rogers after he had bought $17 worth of experience In the silk hat days never again deviated from the Puri tanical training of his youth. His Is one of the rare homes where grace Is still said at table. He comes of good old Quaker stock, and recalls his grandfather's thee and thou. The younger generation in its levity has a legend of the old man hav ing once played seven-up, but the truth of this is to be doubted. At the end of two years Anson, who had become a silent partner in the firm, had saved $2000. In the meantime his brother Amos had become interested in a store at Empire. Anson was Induced to try the Coos Bay country and paid $900 for the ranch on South Coos River, where he now lives. That was back in the days of the Rogue River Indian War. That Fall he dug 300 bushels of potatoes from a clearing on the new ranch, but under the protection of a strong guard. It was 20 miles from Empire up to the ranch, and the men would row back and forth to a day's work in the potato field. Potatoes were proscribed as army rations. But the soldiers paid 4 cents a pound for them, and the Commissary marked them up as flour. It was the next August the Summer of 1S37, that the big fire occurred which we hear so much about A stretch of timber 15 miles wide running up and down the Coast was burned over. The dead trunks of many of the burned trees still stand. It is said that the ashes from the Are killed all the oysters In the bay and many of the fish. True it Is there are no oysters now, and still there Is seven feet of oyster shells covering .the bot tom of the bay. Mr. Rogers says -that it was a magnificent sight to row along the river at night and behold the burning forest on all sides. At that time less than half a dozen families lived on Coos River, and these took refuge on the pe ninsula at Empire, whiqh was missed by the fire. It was Amos Rogers who had all the luck of the family, but -who at last lost all he had. One day at his store In Em pire a man named Pence was determined to sell his donation " claim, and no one would buy. It is now the Endegren place, and was considered the finest piece of ground on Coos River. Mr. Rogers finally offered to take the claim and set up the drinks for the crowd. To his sur prise Pence accepted. Amos Rogers in three or four years sold the place for $1500. A few years ago It again changed hands at $12,000. Amos Rogers also ran a store in Wyman's Ravine, California, during the bonanza days, and his cash sales were $500 a day. Stephen Rogers, six years the junior of AH3on,,nao gone irom me Vermont home to Glenn's Falls, N. T., where he en gaged In brlckmaklng. . His health failed, and in 1S71 he came Westwlth $15,000 and settled on Coos River with his family. He runs the steamer on pouth Coos Riv er, milks 60 cows, owns sheep and goats, and has 700 acres of land, much of It bottom land worth $200 an acre. His sons, Herbert and Frank, are settled round him on the farm with families of tneir own. tie also owns much town property in Marshfield. Anson Rogers owns 400 acr?s, taking in a tract of fine bottom land. The Central Hotel and Rogers block In Marshfield also are owned by him. The two brothers have been about equally fortunate. They began back in the days when butter was worth 50 cents a pound and cheese 15 cents. They made their own butter and cneese, out now send an their milk to the creamery. Two great floods have occurred on the Coos River In 50 years, 1S61 and 1SS1, 20 years apart, -tresnets tney call them. At the Anson Rogers place In the flood of 1SS1 the horses had to be put in the haymow, the water came Into the house and high up on the window, where a mark still keeps the record. The piano had to be lifted onto benches, a .wharf log 105 feet long and four feet through was lifted over the piling and deposited on the land, and over the meadow was deposited two or three feet of silt de stroying an ine grass. a ience was burled nearly to the top and the cedar posts still stand. The river started to cut a new channel and leave the house on an Island. The wharf log could not be got back and had to be sawed up for nrewood. The house had to be raised two feet, to get It up level with its new surroundings. These freshets came in January. It Is thus the rich bottom lands of Coos River Valley have been made. The boys did not forget their parents. nor their sisters. The father and mother died and were buried here. One sister. Mrs. Carpenter, lives on South Coos River, and another, Mrs. Yoakum, lives In Marshfield. Mrs. Parker, the-only one or the Tamily left in the East bas a fine noma at Granville. New Tork. . In 1869 Anson Rogers went back to New York and married Mirs Lydia Dll lingham. One of their daughters is Mrs. Bowman, wife of the manager of the Brownsville Woolen Mills store on Stark street Portland, and the other Is Mrs. Eldredge, wife of the Government engi neer who has chance of the harbor work at Cleveland. Anson Rogers; Jr.. Is un- r""' "A nwi fM home olace. been in the offing for two days. Because of the thick weather. It Is Impossible for. the observer at North Head to see any vessels that mar show up, and the fleet outside may be larger than has been re ported. Damage from the storm has thus far been confined to signboards In the city, and no marine mishaps have been re ported. BOY HUNTER BADLY HURT. Beats Dog With- Rifle, When Bullet Enters His Abdomen. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 20. Special.) While hunting with a companion on the West Side this afternoon, Martin, the 13-year-old Bon of Philip R003, of this city, wa3 shot and perhaps fatally wounded by the discharge of a 22-calIber rifle. Young Roos became provoked at the bird dog with which he was hunting, because the animal persisted in getting beyond his control. With the rifle in his right hand, Roos struck at the dog, with the result that the trigger was tripped, and the bullet after plowing through the fleshy part of his right hand, entered his abdomen, rang ing upwards, and lodged in the liver. The injury is -considered serious, and the in jured lad was taken to a Portland hos pital. Martin Roos was brought to St Vin cent's Hospital yesterday afternoon by Dr. H A. Sommers, of Oregon City, who immediately performed the operation necessary for the saving of young Roos life. An examination showed that aside from the wound in the hand the bullet had plowed through the abdomen and In testines, leaving nine punctures. At an early hour this morning, while not wholly out of the Influence ot the anesthetic, Roos was resting easily, and unless "some complication sets in will re cover. HOLD-UP MAN HELD UP. Officer in Plain Clothes Spoils Long shoreman's Little Game. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Whilo Policeman John Fischer was strolling on Webster street tonight with his little son he came upon a hold-up, one man being engaged in relieving an other of valuables, at the muzzle of a revolver. Fischer, who was in plain clothes, drew his pistol and took part in the proceedings. A duel followed, the patrolman and the robber emptying their weapons. The robber then took to his heels, but was captured. He was wounded In one arm. He gave the name of George Miller. His picture is in the rogue's gallery over the name of August Ha berstadt " The man whom he held up was John Mullaney, a steamship man. GAS TUBE WAS LEAKY. San Francisco Man and Wife Nearly Smothered to Death. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Court land S. Benedict president of the Has tings Clothing Company, and his wife were nearly asphyxiated last night by illuminating gas. Mr. Benedict used a gas reading lamp last night in his bedroom- and turned off the key at the lamp. The tubing leaked and when Mr. and Mrs. Benedict were discovered this morning they were unconscious. Several doctors and nurses have been laboring over them all day and tonight there is some prospects of their recovery. MINNIE HEALEY SHUT DOWN. Judge Clancy's Order Restrains Heinze From Working Property. BUTTE, Mont, Nov. 20. Judge Clancy at 4 o'clock this morning issued a re straining order preventing F. A. Heinze from working the Minnie Healey mine. here. The appeal irora a aecision oi juage Clancy awarding the mine to Heinze is now pending in the Supreme Court ot Montana. By the closing .down of the Minnie Healey, 1000 men will bo affected. The present action Is based on the alle gation that the Minnie Healey people are taMng ore from adjoining property be longing to the Amalgamated Copper Com pany. ' No Inquest Over Drowned Infant. SALEM, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) Sheriff Culver is not content to allow the mystery connected with the finding of the body of a 3-months-oId Infant In a small lake north of this city, yes terday morning, to rest and will en deavor to find the parents of the dqad child, and the particulars incident to Its drownlncr. There Is no doubt of its, being thrown Into the lake, presumably by some hopplckers. and Sheriff Culver will investigate the matter fully. The child was burled by Coroner Clough near where It was found yes terday afternoon, who decided an in quest unnecessary. Electric Lights for Goldendale. GOLDENDALE. Wash., Nov. 20. (Spe cial.) The City Council of Goldendale has granted an electric light franchise to R. T. Robinson for a term, of 20 years, and entered into contract to take 16 lights for street lighting during the .next two years. Mr. Robinson Is to begin work on the new plant by the first of the month, and de posited $500 with the City Treasurer as a forfeit unless the system Is completed within four months. Unruly. Boy Sent to Reform School ALBANY, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) Winfleld McDaniel, the 14-year-old son of J. D. McDaniel, living near this city, was committed to the State Reform School by County Judge Stewart yester day. He was unruly at home -and ran away two weeks ago. Yesterday he was caught while in company with three ho boes near Albany. He said he had been as far north as Seattle. New Pastor at Forest Grove. FOREST GROVE, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe clal.) Rev. Herbert Wi Boyd, 'who for seven years nas oeen pastor or tne con gregational Church at Ashby, Mass, has accepted a call to the Congregational Church at this place. Mr. Boyd has had 14 years active ministerial work in the Bast and Is a graduate of Andovec Theo logical Seminary- He will begin his work here .Decern Der u. , Klamath Rustlers Sentenced. KLAMATH FALLS, Or." Nov. 20. (Spe clal.) Sheriff Obenchaln leaves In the morning for Salem, and will have in charge Walter Lerwell and J. S. Stevens, sentenced .yesterday by Judge Benson to eight and ten years, respectively. In the penitentiary, iierweii and Stevens are from Douglas County and were found guilty at this term of Circuit Court of cattlestealing. Jury Gave More Damages. OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.) In the suit of Fred Heucke against Mr. Stradley for damages resulting from the establishing of a private roadway, the jury last night returned a verdict in fa vor of the plaintiff for $120. The Cpunty Board of Road viewers had awarded .Stradley $25 damages. He claimed $S0O, and appealed to the circuit Court Official Count in North Yakima. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. Nov. 20. Spe cial.) The official vote in Yakima County shows for electors: Republican 34S4. Dem ocrat 536, Socialist-Labor 36, Socialist 360. Prohibition 133, People's 13. For Governor the results were: Mead 2539. Turner 1325, McCorralck (Soc-Lab.) 22, Burgess (Soc) 3SS, Sherwood (Pro.) 119. Hew to Get RIfi of Stumps. Scientific American. In the Autumn. bore a hole one or two Inches in diameter, according to the'glrth of the stump, vertically In the center of the latter, and about 18 Inches deep. Put into It one or two ounces of saltpeter; fill the hole with water and plug up close. In the ensuing Spring take out plug and pour in about one half gallon of kerosene oil and ignite it The stump will smoulder away to the very extremities of the roots, leaving nothing but ashes. MEALTIME "UNDER FIRE. Scene on Russian Fighting Line When Bread Wagons Came. London Evening Standard. A Russian correspondent with General OrlofTs force at the battle of Lloa Yang gives a picturesque account of the .feed ing of the soldiers during battle. "Hunger was written on every man's face, a starving, wolfish hunger, which in tensified the ferocious expressions of the dirty, tired and angry men. "At 2 o'clock a deafening roar rang all along the trenches. I turned my glasses to look for charging Japs, but my ear soon distinguished not the martial "Ura!" but a triumphant shout of 'Khlebi' (bread) Khleb! Khleb!' I don't think if the Commander-in-Chief had ridden up on his white horse he would have got such a re ception. "The commissariat men, with wagons and baskets, came forward bravely through the bursting Japanese shells. 'Bread! Bread!' roared the soldiers. And every one of them looked happy and amused as children with Christmas toys. All snatched eagerly, and I can never for get the horrible laugh and scramble which began when a shell knocked, a wagon to bits, killing the driver and strewing the black hunks all over the ground. The sol diers, conscious of nothing but hunger, jumped from their positions and struggled, buffeted and butted one another. "The dead man In the middle of the bread was not even looked at Then an other shell fell. It did not explode. But nobody .'save the 'soldier whose foot it had smashed to pulp paid the slightest at tention, and not until every man had se cured his dinner was the shell removed." Growth of the Library of Congress. The new Llbary of Congress, Wash ington. D. C, was completed only a few years ago. At the time the build ing was planned It was designed to make ample provision for the growth of the institution for more than a cen tury. The report of the superintend ent, Bernard R. Green, for 1903, shows, however, that already every part of the building, from cellar to roof, with the exception of a couple of attic rooms, is in full use. He declares that the great progress of the Institution has by far exceeded the estimate made at the time the library was planned. "It is even now "evident" he says, "that the original estimate that something like. a century's growth had been provided for, based, on the condi tions and data of the day, must be dis counted 70. or 80 per cent" The electric lighting aparatus is al ready overtaxed, though built to fur nish light for two-thirds of the library. More power than the plantnow can produce is necessary. New machines must soon be added to increase Its ca pacity. The number of persons that visited the library In 1303 and 1S03. was 831.201. Of these 356,411 visited it in the evenings. This makes a daily average for the CS3 days the library was open of 22SS The library is closed to the public only on Christmas and the Fourth of July. The smallest number of visitors in any day from December 1, 1902, to Decem ber 1, 1903, wa3 509, In July. The greatest number was 6873, in Feb ruary. The expenditures of the library dur ing the year amounted to $5$8,366.49. Of this sum $305,000 was used "for sala ries, $79,000 for new books. $75,000 for care and maintenance, $45,000 for fur niture and $40,000 for fuel and lights. Though the, library has been com pleted only a few years, the use of It has been so great that new furniture Is already needed in the law depart ment If the present great production of books keeps on,and if the library shall be able to complete its collec tions, it Is evident "that extensions must soon be made to provide for the unexpected growth. Success. AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTLAND. H Schilling. N T J B Mu4se. Chicago E A Pardee, Los And u iaegaa utd wf, do A L Host, do M Aafcieath, do Li T Jtotaye. 3ttte C Vets. CWe. C ."W Bedfimr, Bwvr J X Cnim, Tacctna" k Goddam, sestue C E Bacon, Chicago' x.r ana xrasrgww, San FrsdKBSd 3Uss Dcadet Sh Trn L. feccoek. Cklea W T Kuidnrx. Mmentr CHINA GUT GLASS SILVERWARE We just want to remind you that we .can- supply your Thanksgiving table need3 in the way of China, Out Glass and Table Silyer. We've China for you from the inexpensive white opaques to the fine Havilands in the daintiest of patterns. Cut Glass is a new departure for us, but as usual with us, these pieces are most satis-' factorily priced. Rogers 1847 Plated Silver Plat Ware at comfortable prices is another opportune offering. Seen our Thanksgiving window? It's worth looking at. TULL& GIBBS COMPLETE HOUSEFUBNISHEBS. F D Fuller. Sumnter E West, Chicago O J Wolff, Aberdeen G A Summers and wife. Stillwater J H Armstrong-, Bstm c w Stone, warren E D "Wetmore, Warm W x - .Richards, J x A Alexander, do M H Well. do J McGomehr and wf, St Paul Miss Lang, The Dalles Miss I. Drain, San Dgo W E "Wade. Utica NX! A P Halfnill, Los AlJ H McLean. Seattle R E Hanley. San F B Brooks, wife and F A Vail. San Francis children. New xorK Miss J E McCleary. do W B Mllllken. wife and child. Denver R Miller, N Y I Freund. San Francis G T Buftum, St Louis H J McKlnley, city L S Wells. Tellowston C Stelnbacb, city T J Wellington. S F H Walton, Oakland A E Snell. Del Monte M Bralnard, Lewlston F A Smith, Chicago J M Blake and -wife. North Bend F Dorrance, San Fr u A Bacon THE PERKINS. P Gibbons. Blnton C A Karten. Chicago H W Urquart Cheh S Kennedy. Crafdvl J R. Stevenson, Pomry A K. Hlggs. Heppner L Paul, Cleone Mm Paul, do Robt Robinson, city u f Adamson, Frlnvi H Washburn, Astoria Mrs Washburn. Asto R D Gould, Hood Rvl J F Asher. Portland ErlK Johnson Wm H Robertson, LewlsvlIIe. O Mrs Robertson, do R Lowe J Buckner, Oswego H C Long, city E E Goucher. McMnn W O Marrow, RlckreaT G Li Conders, Colfax Mrs Conders, Colfax D E Gleason, Ogden Mrs Gleason. do iMIsa Gleason, do C J Louth. Aberdeen Fred Hamilton, city J B Carter. MayvlUe D Calbreath, Indpdnc C E Ramsby, city W M Wallace. do W H Patton, city A Axelrod. For Grove Jack Shields. San FrnlC B Williams, do F H Chandler. TacomW A Meserve, Indepd W R Coacher. YanktnlF W Jackson, city Mrs Coacher, do jR A Nichols. Iexlngtn E R Ferguson, FendltlMrs Nichols, Lexngtn W P Parker, S F F T Merrltt, St Michl C N Gaddls, Pullman Mrs E C Campbell. SP C E Gaddls, RoseburglMrs Campbell, do J N Denlson, G PassW F Hammond, Hay- A McLennan, cmcag stack. Or Mrs McLennan, do N L Raber. (Corvallls A E Johnson, Vancvr Mrs Johnson. Vancvr Master McLennan, do L B Brooks. Duluth W J Bush J K Fronk. Albany W F Francis, Ashland O C Goldsmith- Eugn N C Davis. Ashtand S F Loughborough, SF Percy R Kelly. Albny H L McLaughlin. N Y M T Nolan. T Dalles Mrs J F Duane. OakJ Mabel Duane. Oaklnd Mrs Francis Cauthorn a w waiters, do ,H Becker, Salem E Fraser. do Geo M Sterlln, Plttsbg C Z Thomson, Chestr Mrs Thomson. do Kelso lA V Hary..l'hlladelph WHY DRINK Common Carbonated Waters When for the same price you can get Apollinaris at any Bar or Restaurant? APOLLINARIS IS BOTTLED -' ONLY at the-Spring, Neueriahr, permany;j ONLY with its OWN Natural Gas, .and" under the BEST Scientific, Sanitary Conditions. jS5 Such as pUtsi, No xauure. vSmfr i?SriSSte4 wufa niKht, emissions, dreams, exhausting- drains. tehtuh asic wjjfiSSo1 C8imV yUr XOVxmmMGBD jSwwtiorora excesses and strains nave lost their XAXLY POWKK. sKIX .DISEASES, Syphillis, Gonorrhoea, painful, bloody urine. GIeeLSuVe.VraaBd ProsUtt ."g&fe,; W Mdlivsr Troubles, cured without MKRCUXT OR OTHKK POlSWfflUS nttirrcjL fiatsrrh and rheumatism oujujj. Wallcera ; methods are regular" and scientific He uses no patnnt nostrums er ready-made preparations, but cures the disease by thortragrn nwniteal treat SUtttT fiSTXew Pamphlet on Private Biseases seat free to all men who de scribe their trwubleT PATrKXTS cured at bete. Ttrmt reasonable. All letters rM In plaia MT.lop. CowmltatlM free mA sacredly wsUMtial Call on or aoweee. DR WALKER. 181 First Street, Corner Yiht PorttacHi Or, S G Morrison. Salem iGeo Lea. Cottage Grv Mrs C S Early, HoodRIP R Keith, Tacoma Mrs E B Haynes, dole W Washburne, June Mrs M NIckelsen, do P I Rust, Eugene A L Lawrence, DecatrlMrs Rust do Mrs Lawrence, do IC E Moulton, Tacoma S T Thurston, Craw-J H Thomason. Spok fordsvlll tN W Bethel. T Dalls THE. IMPERIAL. C R Closser. Seattle W J Mllllken. do P F McLaughlin, do John Beaton, Kan C R S Morris. Nome F Is Hartlng. Aberdn. w u. Khodes, S F A Axeload, For Grov C B Wellman. do H E Beers. Wasco F Palmqulst and wf. Lee Moorehouse, Pndl Geo Harmon. La Grdj Omafia - r tt n.n lie Tr Mrs F L Cramnll, Mrs E Grimm. Eugen W S Hamilton and wife, Roseburs J J" Love, Gr Rapids Medford Mrs Robinett Central Point J F Blackimoro andlM A KIngk clty jrffe. Seattle Eugene-"Henley, city B A Eardley. Pac Grv W C Minor, Heppner Andrew Johnson, wmiocK J Fred Anderson. Chicago " M B Casell, Mayvllle M Abrahams. N 1 M G TUtchle. Detroit A B Snyder. San Frn THE ESMOND Mrs N Smith, Sacram.'N Cabin, Goldendale J Hartford, Ocosta j uoDDlns. Miiwauklr Mrs Hartford. do Miss Hartford, do J Gilbralth. Rainier H W Lettlngton, Tcm Mrs Lettlngton.' do Mrs A C Miller. Cltsk Mrs Taylor, Amboy C F Raether. Mt Pis Mrs J Nag e 3 en. Toled G N Tucker. Or City P Brown, For Grov J Gleason. Spokane M Oliver. Mllwauklc W R Brennor. Stayton t -tuapp, scappoose A Cloninger. Seappoos C Heslin, Cleone A J Alexander. Cleone J T Poindexter, Camas n a Masters. Seattle Mrs Masters. do N T Govern. Aberdeen J a Marten. do L S Lee. New York Mrs Gleason. ao E A Brown, T Dalles J P Anderson, Toledofw H Meserve. GraysR T Meserve, Gray's Rvj L N Hamilton, Svensn Mrs Hamilton, da Miss Hamilton, do A Jones, do A Noble, The Dalles E F Crouch, Corvallls IE S Buchanan, do T E Buchanan, do J T Lucas. Astoria Mrs Lucas. do A Urquhart. T Dalles J D McDonald. Dallas E Colvln. Marshland L T Berry. Buell G Linden, Gard Home E O Scrlpps, city IB O'Brien. Patchoguo Tacema Hotel. Xaeetaa. American plan. Bates, $3 and up. Hotel DeaaeHj-, Xaceaaa. Flrst-clacs restaurant in connection. Twenty Years of Success In tho treatment of chronic diseases; such as liver, kidney and stomach disorders, constipation, diar rhoea, dropsical swellings. Brlght's disease, etc. Kidney and Urinary Complaints, paintul, uitheu.it. too frequent, silky or bloody urine, unnstural discharges speedily, cured. Diseases of the Rectum uabua, ensure, Ulceratlon.-vauces and bloody aiscuars". mwuui ma amia, pain; or confinement. Diseases of Men t,luoU poison, fce, oir-oiure. unnatural lowe. ira- uures guarantees.