TEHE 30RNIftG OREGOKIAK,v FRIDAY,, JANUARY 6, 1905. 1? Provide Both Food and Portland Millers Send Bread to Feed Orientals and Sacks OF COURSE I know It was -partly Western humor, but chiefly plain lie, when a Western man told me solemnly that the chief article or dress of nine-tenths of the natives of Formosa consists of one-half a Portland flour sack, worn .as a. breech clout he'-d been there and seen thousands of them himself. But this Is one of those stories -which, literally false, ronvey the truth of statistics much more forcibly than the figures themselves. 1 have no doubt it Is literally true that there fs many an Asiatic village where a flour sack bearing the letters P. F, JL (Portland Flour Mills) is the familiar symbol of a strange country across the sea, but the American flag has never been seen. With, the hardy adventurers of the dour business, It is not true that "trade follows the flag:" the flag Is slow, and trad won't wait for it. Senator Bever- Idge tells of seeing. In the far-Interior of Manchuria, a huge misshapen pile, cov ered with canvas. The thing excited his -curiosity. He took it to be ammunition or some sort of Bussian military stores. Lit tle expecting to get the permission, he asked the privilege of seeing beneath the ; canvas, cover. Permission was given with off-hand acquiescence, and he found the ylle to consist of thousands of sacks of flour, labeled, "Washington, U. S. X." These incidents are more significant than statistics. There is In all Asia hardly a village so remote that a sack of American flour cannot be found there. Ten years ago, except in three or four seaport cities of China and Japan, Amer ican flour tv as as unfamiliar a sign as a Chinese pagoda in a New England vil lage. The story of the intervening de cade, the penetration of American flour Into every nook and corner of the Orient is, in the main, the whole story of Amer lea's Asiatic trade. Flour Was the first cargo sent abroad; and today it Is the chief bulk of every cargo that goes across the Pacific Oddly enough, the Canadian Pacific Railroad was, as nearly as any single in stitution, the parent and fosterer of America's flour trade there. When the three Northern transcontinental railroads were finished they resembled snakes. In the East they had important termini, with large cities; their Western ends were most insignificant; the rails came upon the Pacific in the midst of a wilderness. The whole problem of economic manage ment of those roads lay In building up large cities at the Western termini. This, In turn, meant getting steamship lines established to run across the Pacific But "capital quite reasonably laughed at the idea. There was nothing to carry from America to China; in the other direction there was an occasional cargo of tea and Bilk, but a bInonthly tramp steamer was ample accommodation. The railroads tried In vain to. get steamship lines across the-Pacific Finally the Canadian Pacific met with success. The British govern ment granted a beavy subsidy for mail carrying, some courageous capitalists took hold, and regular sailings were be Kun between Vancouver and Yokohama. But the holds, especially on the out-bound trips, were usually empty. This could not jro on; the ships could not be run on the government subsidy alone. The situation was met characteristically. "There is no cargo: we must have cargo: "we will make cargo." The general managers of the Canadian Pacific Railroad called a meet- ing of., the flour millers of the Pacific Coast. In the councils of those adven turous millers a conquest was planned as titanic as ever Napoleon dreamed. Car goes to fill the ships that sailed across the Yarns From the Sour Dough Club Holds Its AN UNHERALDED event of the re cent New Year's eve was the sec ond annual reunion of the "Alaska Bour-Dough Stiffs." of Portland. For the benefit of all uninformed readers It should be explained that the title "sour dough" Is conferred upon all who have seen "the Ice go out" of the Yukon or Bering Sea. Several consecutive seasons' attendance at such spectacles earn the title of "sour dough stiff." A demijohn of "hootch" and a supply of corn-cobs and leaf tobacco followed the disappearance of a bucket of boiled pink beans and several stacks of hot flapjacks. Whiskers Smith, formerly of Sonnlckson bar, presided. As usual, he fell asleep when Windy Payne got wound up on the "subject of how many more days a musher can travel on dried salmon and tea than on "beans and coffee. Whiskers only woke up when WIndy's Malemute dog began to howl, either at his master's monologue or at the racket o. midnight whistles an nouncing the birth of 1905. Baldy Perkins, formerly Recorder of the Yellow River District. In the Kuskoquln Country, acted tas secretary, keeping tab on the He con test, which opened immeu-ately after Swede Nelson began to serve the hootch. Billy Buckland, the latest return from the Far North, and the guest of the even ing, was awarded the first prize. '. though on any thought that Crummy Ferguson, formerly of Gold Hill, Moosehlde and iGet-Rlch-Qulck Creek, should have had the gold-plated lead nugget watch charm. Here are a few random , extracts from tlhe remarks of the evening: 4 SEE by the papers, Billy, that you I come pretty near making a million out of the Russian iron secret,'.' prompted '.Whiskers Smith. Mr. Buckland smiled modestly and said: "'Yes. I 'spose that newspaper fellow ithought 1 wanted some notoriety." "We had quite a time with that little 40-foot schooner," he continued, "a pretty J(hard voyage all around, but it wa'tft a pnarkcr to the grief me and my old pard ,ner, Dutch Jake, had to swallow the -year rwe crossed over the Franklin Mountains cfrom the extreme north branch of the lupper Koyukuk." "I heard about that." said Windy Payne, enviously. "That's the time you lived on fresh mastodon meat 20.000 years old. wasn't It?" "Yes, but I never told the whole story Dutch and I both kept quiet about it, knowing everybody would call us liars. That, mastodon wasn't exactly fresh, though he'd got thawed out enough the previous Summer (like the one they found In Siberia) so that the meat was pretty jjainey. That's why we was able to get all them "wolves." "Wolves?" ejaculated Windy Payne "Yes, 1347 of 'em. first-class, prime pelts, worth from $10 to $25 each at Nome and St. Michael. You see they was attracted by that enormous mass of frozen meat. They were thick as bees around the half exposed carcass, and they'd been tearing and .gnawing at it for months before we got there. Why, for days and days we had been following wolf tracks that got thicker 'and thicker the further we mushed. In fact, it was the wolf tracks that led us to the carcass. You'd never believe how. we got them wolves our am munition was all gone and we hadn't any traps." V "Humph!" sniffed Whiskers Smith. "Everybody carries strychnine for wolves. I 'spose you doped the mastodon meat-" "No, pard, we didn't we didn't have an ounce, not a grain of strychnine. You see we couldn't get to the carcass until we cleared off the wolyes, they was that cold. wnj it it naan-t teen for the trick .we played on 'em whereby we. got 'en all, they'd a et us, sure, though me and Dutch and our bacon and Dutch's 30 (pounds of limburger cheese wouldn't have oecn a bite apiece all areund for them wolves." "Limburger cheese?" les. Dutch always carried it. As I was going to say, when we sighted that Pacific that was the necessity. "Very well, we'll carry-flour to the Chinaman, and we'll teach him to eat If that was the answer. The heathen Chinee was eating rice; he should be taught to eat flour. And how he would eat it If once he got started! What a market he would make! The average breadreating .individual con about a barrel of flour a year: Bach barrel of flour consists of five bush els of wheat. The 80,000,000 people in the United States consume a little over 400.000, 000 bushels of wheat per year. Now if the Chinaman could be persuaded to eat flour in the same quantities, be would, make a market Ave times as large as the -market of the United States. There are MO.OOO.OM of Chinamen; they would consume 2,000. 000,000 bushels of wheat; they would con sume three times as much wheat as is now raised In the United States, and would still cry out with hunger. Wheat- raising in the United States would be stimulated beyond conception, and a wheat farm would be rather more profit able plan a geld mine. It was nothing less than such a trade empire as this that was in the minds, of the men who first exploited China as a market for flour. They went about the realization of their dreams quite seri ously. They secured men who knew China and the Chinese language, sent them to Asia ana kept them there for years, just as any snoe manuraciurer in New England would- send bur salesmen to open up a new territory. These pio-, neers were successful. They built up, from nothing, a flour trade which is mak ing scares of fortunes on the Pacific Coast today. There Is one man here who is said to sell $25,000 worth of flour every day In the year. But the dream has never come true in its first magnificence. The dreamers collided with an economic law. It is now about seven years since Sir William Crookes. the British scientist, startled the world by announcing that in the j-ear 1931 a large portion of the world would starve to death for want of flour. He figured out with elaborate statistics that the wheat-consuming population of the world was Increasing very much fast er than the wheat-producing area of land. Indeed, he pointed out that the world's wild land was about all reclaimed, had been about all reduced to searing wheat. There were no more virgin countries. But the wheat-consuming, bread-eating peo ples were Increasing in two ways not only by natural growth; new peoples, sav ages, people "who live In the tropics, were being taught to give up some other sort of food and eat flour. The result, he pre dicted, would De a wheat famine, of titanic slgnfticance to the world, about the year 1931. The men who planned the wheat con quest of China, who set out to 'substitute flour for rice in every kitchen in Asia, would have been, If they had succeeded. the most effective kind of agents in bringing about the calamity which Sir William Crookes predicted. If their scheme had come to flower, the fam lne would have overtaken ug much earlier than 1931. The United States pro duces about 700,000,000 bushels of wheat a year. Of this we eat, ourselves, consid erably more than half. The surplus which we have to Bell to our neighbors is rarely more than 200,000,000 bushels, and this sur plus would not be more than one-tenth enough to supply the demand of China if that were a wheat-consuming nation. Not only our surplus, but the surplus of India, of Russia, of Argentina, and of every wheat-raising acre In the -world would disappear in the monstrous maw of Asia. The thing was averted by the poverty Frozen North. Second Annual Session. mastodon carcass and saw them great 'normous 20-fqot tusks curved like rams' horns, we 'lowed that wolves or no wolves" "Who ever heard of liroburger In an Alaska outfit?" muttered Windy Payne. "I had a dog once though" "There's a heap of things you might a heard of. Windy, if you'd always kept your cars open and your mouth shut." returned Billy, somewhat nettled. "It was because Dutch had such a cultivated taste for them queer German inventions like limburger that he was able to enjoy that gamy mastodon meat. HT." went on Billy, "if it hadn't the cheese a bold-face grlzzly'd a et him one time. You see, Dutch always held that there was a heap of nourishment In the stuff, and that it was cheaper to carry than canned goods, and strong-e-nough to pack itself if the dogs got tired of pull ing it. So I had no objection, as I had all the butter and condensed milk myself, and there was plenty of room and fresh air anywhere In Alaska for me and the cheese to get along all right on the same trail. "You know how fellows always carry a bite of something In the pocket to nib ble on now and then, when hlttln' the trail? Well, Dutch always carried a chunk of limburger. One time he was packin' over th6 divide between the Ko zukuk and the Porcupine He was near the top of the divide, in open country, high rolling hills covered with huckle berries. A grizzly she-bear was up there with her cubs, plckin berries. She sight ed old Dutch a quarter of a mile off. and be darned if she didn't charge him. There was no cover of any kind so he flops down on his face and pretends dead. Well, gentlemen, that old bear came up, smelted of him, .got a whiff of the cheese, turned him over, smelted him again and then, be darned. If she didn't scratch a lot of tundra-moss over him. She thought he was. dead and ought to be buried!" "Well," said Windy Payne. "I don't doubt that, for this dog I was telling you abput" VaY. gentlemen,' resumed Billy, W "when Dutch was on the whaler Grampus and got wrecked in the Arctic it was a chunk of limburger that saved the lives of the whole crew. Dutch told me about It himself. You see, the Gram pus hadn't had any luck' all Summer; never got so much as a sight oT a whale, so the captain headed nor'west from Point' Barrow, 'lowing to strike the Polar Ice-, pack and coast along It for a for'nlgfit or so. hoping to pick up a few Polar "bear j (their hides are worth $150 to $300. you know) and Incidentally he 'lowed he might get a few tons of walrus Ivory It's worth I a dollar a pound. "Well, one morning, up In the nelgh- borhood of the pack about 72:30, or ; maybe 73 they sighted a great black island on the horizon.' No such land was on the chart, and the cap. decided to-run in and land. If possible, and Investigate. That island turned out to be a big1 Ice field covered with thousands' and thou sands of walrus. They were pretty tame and kept quiet till the Grampus got close In. then them walrus all rushed pell mell to the other side. They Just piled over one another In such numbers that their weight was too much and the ice turned turtle. Such a big wave was kicked up that it upset the Grampus, and all the crew were tossed into the water. They found they couldn't get on the Ice. for. after the walrus jumped off. It stood ten feet higher out of the Arctic Ocean, but one of the whaleboats had got adrift and they all managed to get Into It. They had neither sail nor oars nothing but a har poon and line, and they were In pretty bad shape for a while. But soon Dutch hauled out his chunk of llmbuxser and It trrr to Cover Their Bodies 1 of the average Chinaman. The American exporters succeeded In teaching, the Chinaman to eat flour. "The flour habit." said a Portland miller, "is .Just like the tobacco habit. Get a man started and he'll always use it It ho has got the money to pay for it. Selling -flour In China is purely a matter of underselling rice. There is a small upper, class In China rich enough to tuy? ?hat they want. Without exception, these eat bread. They are a steady market- When you get down to the class which lives from hand to mouth, which is compelled to expend every Infinitesimal piece of brass 'cash - with the greatest care In order to get Just enough nourishment to. keep breath ,In the body that class we can't sell to. They must buy the cheap est food they can get, and that food is generally rice. Occasionally comes a year when rice is scarce and dear; that year Is a rich one for us." But If the Chinaman's standard, of liv ing were raised. If an economic waklng-up were to take place In China, and the average- Chinaman's wages were raised as little as 1 cent a day. there Is no exag gerating the Increased market for flour. By what -has happened in. Japan one can judge what can happen in China. Twen ty years ago there may have been an oc casional Japanese potentate who had bread on his table as a rarer delicacy; but, broadly speaking, wheat and flour were unknown. Only ten years ago our sales of flour to Japan amounted to only 40,000 barrels. Now there Is one big ship in the Japanese trade which will carry on a single trip seven times 40,000 barrels. The Japanese flour trade a trade which Is wholly ours, for we furnish Japan with 97 per cent of her flour has in increased tenfold in ten years. The fol lowing figures show the volume of the trade: 1893 ltatr ...J1B3.-4K; 1000 .... 819.620 1903 .J1.5M.739 . 2,249.199 And yet, withal flour is to the diet of the Jap but as salt or sugar. For every one pound of flour they consume, they eat GO pounds of rice. Flour Is a deli cacy, not a staple. It Is to them what spaghetti Is to us. They use It, not as bread, but as cakes and sweetmeats. And this must always be so. If at the begin ning of some one year, China and Japan should determine to raise no more rice, but to cat flour, and import it from America, there would follow a calamity compared to which wars, placues and revolutions would be as harmless as Summer showers. Either China or we would be compelled to go without bread; one nation would have to bury the other: and the gravedlgger would be the nation able to bid highest for the wheat crop. Already a Western miller assured me what little demand there Is for American flour in the Orient makes us pay 20 cents a barrel more for our own. What Is true of Japan Is to a greater extent true of China. There our flour trade- has gone forward at the same rapid pace as all our Oriental trade. The figures for China. Including Hong Kong, are' these: 1693 92.128,260 1DO0 H.KCOSl 1S97 3,394.391 1903 4.915.851 An export trade of $5,000,000 is no small item. And yet it means but half a cent's worth per year for the individual China man. How forcibly .this brings out the huge bulk of China; how, it suggests the Incredible possibilities of our trade with that country when that economic awak ening, so long confidently expected here on this Coast, takes place, and the China man's standard of living, his dally wage. Is raised to a point where he can buy ap proximately as much as a European. was passed around. The fragrance at tracted some of the walrus close enough for the captain to throw the harpoon Into one of them a bull, as big as a whale, almost: "Gentlemen, thai was their salvation. The iron didn't kill the amphl'bous mon ster, but It struck terror into tho entire herd, which scattered in every direction. Walrus go In great herds, divided up into little bands of half a dozen to a score each, under one big bull. The band to which this one belonged headed sou'east. diving and coming up regular as clock work. The bull that was harpooned took after 'em, and he towed that boat 250 miles In three days, before he give out. But the whaleboat was then la the coast current, and It beached at Point Hope next day. "Now, about them wolves" "Yes," interposed Windy Payne, "I've no doubt a walrus could make as good time as that; indeed, I've had lots of dogs that could beat It on land. I had a team once that I was Just going to tell you about" And Windy began to unwind. It was no use waiting to hear about "them wolves," so we quit and caught the last car. LUTE PEASE. ILLINOIS SOCIETY FORMED. Large Membership Will Assist in En tertaining fair Visitors. Tho Illinois Society of Oregon was for mally organized last night, in the Cham' ber of Commerce rooms, ,a constitution being adopted and officers elected.- Fifty Portlanders who hail from the rich old corn state were present and many more sent their names to be enrolled as mem bers of the new organization. The object of the society is to promote acquaintance ship and social relations among the Ore gon residents of Illinois birth, the organi zation at this time being primarily to af ford a fitting and hospitable reception to the many visitors who will come to the Lewis and Clark Exposition from Illi nois. It is estimated that between 5000 and 6000 people from Illinois are now llv ing In this -state, and It is hoped that every one of these will join the new society without delay, so that It may be come a power In the state and go far toward advertising Oregon's coming Fair in Illinois. The date of the annual meeting will be Illinois admission day, and on the first Monday of each month there will be a local meeting at some place to De deslg nated by the board of management. An attractive programme will he arranged by a committee, appointed for the purpose each month, and Interest in Illinois affairs will be kept alive. Many interesting remi niscences are anticipated, as there are raanS' here who were personally acquaint ed with such characters as Abraham Lin coln, John A. Logan and U. S. Grant. It is desired to arouse great interest in this project in every part of Oregon, and every Illinolsan is requested to send marked copies of the dally papers con taining an account of the meeting to friends and newspapers in their home state, and also to send In names to the secretary of the society, for admission to membership.. .Residence In Portland is not ucixwu iu lucmucrsmp, ana appnea- tlons from any part of Oregon, accom panied by the admission fee of SO cents, will receive prompt action by the secre tary: The -013106 elected are: President, W. T. Vaughn: vice-president, Rlnaldo M. Hall: secretary, George L. Hutchlns; treasurer. Senator C W. Nottingham: board of managers. Mrs. L. Sumner Tay lor, A. T. Lewis. Keith Lackey and Rev. X E.- Cilne. The address of Secretary Hutchlns and the headquarters of the Illlnols Society of Oregon will be 618 Chamber of Commerce, where all appli cations for membership or names of Illi nois residents should be sent. Ladies are particularly requested to send In the names of their Illinois friends and ac quaintances, as In the headquarters for Illinois which It Is hoped to establish at the Exposition their services will bo greatly In demand. The intention is (o give visitors from, that state & royal wel come when they arrive aext Summer, and to convince them that Oregon Is a good place to stay. . The counties represented 'at last nigh t"s meeting were: Hancock, Cook. Mason, McLean, Henry, Jackson. Macoupin, Jer sey, Champagn, Sangamon, Franklin. Bureau, Peoria. Montgomery- Jefferson and TazewelL Among the Oregon citizens who came from these counties in Illinois are lawyers, doctors, merchants and state officials. Among .those present last night were: Mrs. L. S. Taylor, Clara V. 'Qar nett, Mr. and Mrs: George Hutchlns and Miss Hutchlns, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. B. Morgan, Miss Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Davis. Miss Louise Davis. W. D. Mathews. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Rankin, C E. CUne, Mrs. W. J. 'Farley (Dallas). W. D. Freeman. Charles TV. Stubbs, Arthur C Dayton, G. A. Gosham. E. El Gosham, E. E. Gosham. Jr., William DeVeney, Harry Cook. A". T Lewis, J.'E. Shears. George M. Strong. C. W. -Nottingham, .J. C Royan. Keith Lackey, Wilton E. Sor rell. James Hall, L. 0,-Holden, W. G. Ballard, Napoleon Davis, Thomas G. Green and J, B. Reed. With the membership previously en rolled the society will start out with nearly 200 members, and it Is hoped to In crease this number to at least 1000 before the opening of the Fair. The president states that the, Lewis and Clark Commission Is willing to mall, their journal and other reading matter to friends of the members in Illinois, and those wishing to take advantage of the offer should send their lists of names to Secretary Hutchlns, BIS Chamber of Com merce, who win present them to -ue Fair Commissioners. DAILY CITY STATISTICS.. . Marriage Licenses. - James B. Bacon, 34; Luella B. Feascnden. 3. Henry Tonges. 30; Nora Schmidt, 27. Andrew B. Oberle, 27, San Francisco; Au susta S. B. Oberly. 25. Frederick G. Abel, 28; Flora E. Heuler, W. William D. Black. 66; Chrittlna Gruner, 69. x Charles Hill. 35; Minnie Harris. 21. . Charles B. McPeek. 45: Nora K. Rully, Clarence L. Huntington. 23: Elva, C Free- land. 21. Deaths. December 20, Johanab Margaret McKln- nln, aged 64 years, and 10 months, 107,0 .cast iinin: interment sc. .aiary s ueme tery. January 3, Charles Enstrom. aged 41 years. Good Samaritan Hospital; Interment Lone Fir Cemetery. January 3, George J. Schlnaman, aged 27 years, 11 months and 10 days. 148 Knott street; Interment Rlverrlew Cemetery. January 4, Charles John Feretti. aged 0 months aad 5 days, 500 East Clay; Inter ment Loco Fir Cemetery. ' January 1. George W. Hahn. aged 4' years. Agnews. Cal.; Interment Beth 'Israel Cemetery. January 2. William Contrle. aged 68 years. 411 GUean; cancer of lace, interment ureen wood Cemetery. January 2. Katy Albrecht. aged 3 days, ixh Rodney avenue. Interment Lone Fir cemetery. January 1. William WInnett. aged 70 years. St. Vincent's Hospital. Interment Waltsburg, Wash. January 1. Viola B. Mathews, age 34 years. 1 month and 23 days. Good Samaritan Hospital interment Damascns. or. January 2. Moses A. Bradford, aged M years. 1 month and 8 day?, 313 Marguerite avenue. Interment Multnomah Cemetery. January 1, Harry C Fuchs. aged 0 months ana 12 aayr, Spokane, wash, interment River- view Cemetery. January 1, Effie Vaughn Downer, aged 24 years, 6 months and 29 days. North Pacific sanatorium. Interment Lone Fir Cemetery. January 2. Isabella W. Going, aged 80 year. KJ5 Lorejoy. Interment Lone Fir Cemetery. Births. December 22. to the wife of Herman A. Vorpahl, Nineteenth street, a son. January 3, to the wife of Heyman Israel. 253 Mead, a son. December 3. to the wife of Harry E. Leonsberry. 700 Marshall, a daughter. December 2(1. to the wife' of Joseph El II son, 408 Fourth street, a son. . December 30. to the wife of Ebln Wilson, Bellefontain, Or,, a daughter. December 30. to the wife of F. A. Free man. 482 Williams avenue, a daughter. December 1C. to the wife of H. W. Hage- dorn. 473 Sixteenth street, a son. December 20. to the wife of Max Weln stein. 231 Arthur, a daughter. January 1. to the wife of Walter P. Bot torn, 711 Second, a daughter. December 31. to the wife of Walter IT. Barker. 221 East Thirty-sixth street, daughter. November 8. to the wife of Charles O. Richards. 673 Market, a daughter. December 27, to the wife of Richard W. Drew, 172 East Twentieth street, a daugh ter. December 31. to the wife of Walter M. Bark. er. 221 East Thirty-sixth, a daughter. November 8, to the wife of Charles O. Rich ardsu C73 Market, a daughter. December 3, to the wife of Anton Schedel, 617 Pettrgrove. a son. December 27, to .the wife of Richard M. Drew. 172 East Twentieth, a daughter. January 3. to the wife of Charles H. Mason 4S3 East Harrison, a daughter. Building Permits. Mr. Palley, Everett, between Third and Fourth: 150. P. M. Roberts, Eugene, between Union avenue and East Seventh street; $1000. W. Sabln, East Tenth, between Alberta and Springfield streets; $1000. Union Market Association, market, from Third to Second: $0000. Mr. Palley. Everett, between Third and Fourth: 55000. Mr. Spradborrong. Mississippi avenue, be tween Shaver and Mason: $1400. Real Estate Transfers. R. Weeks and wife to Title Guarantee. & Trust Co., 62 acres, sections 7 and 12. T. 1 N.. R. 1 E. $ R. Weeks, trustee, to same. same. property $30,000 H. A. cousins ana wire to J. smith. lots 23. 24. block 8. Orchard Homes 050 John B. Harrington and Wife to A. F. Radke, W. H lots 5, 6. block 302. Burnell'a Addition " N. F. Noren and wife to J. J. Shreln- er. lots 13. 14. block 14. Point View k 200 Charles T. Wynkoop and wife to G. L. Smith. lots 7. 8. block 4. Logan's Addition 1,065 Else van der ileer ana wile to Xi. i. Noren. lots-3. 4. Depot Addition to St. Johns 1.500 F. w. Torgler and wife to v. Morgln Ron . lots 3 to 6 Inclusive, block 7. Dolan'a Addition 10 Edward S. Rotchlld and wife to C Kaufman. lots 1. 2. block 21. city. . 10 George A. Seney and wife to C B. 'King. lot 7. block 20. Lincoln Park Annex ; 2.000 George w. Wilson to A. Harold. lots 11. 12. block 8. Harlem Addition... Title Guarantee & Trust Co. to E. B. Holmes. 62 acres, sections 7 "and 12. T. 1 N.. R. 1 E. A. S. Garner and wife to H. A. Cous ins, lota 23. 24. block 8. Orchard Homes William W. Sabln to W. H. Chllders. lot 12. N. Vf lot 11. block 1. Alblna Heights 300 John U. Cole and wife to E. J. Cole. S. V, lot 1. block 15. James Johns Addition to St. Johns 1,000 Elizabeth Watterfoni to The -Hene-rtletlne Prlorr. lots 10. 11. 12. block 10, Boise's AddlUon 500 Jacob F Bohnett to J. T. ilarnuls. lots 3. 4. block 11. Capltan AddlUon 100 A. J. Smithson to J. C Wilson, east 60 feet lot 9, south 10 feet east 60 trrt lot 10. block 6. subdivision Proebstel's Addition 1,200 C. C. Vance and wire to swanson, lot 16, block 23. Lincoln Park An nex G. E. Caukin and wife to M. McDon- -aid. 80x105 feet; beginning at in tersection of Fourteenth and Mar ket streets .-- - Same to same. 50x65 feet beginning Intersection of Fourteenth and Mar ket streets ' 4.850 E. H. Robblns to A. Powlofske, lots 3. 4. 3. block 1. Peninsular AddlUon Nancr Caoles to O. E. Learned, par cel land W. W. Caples D-.vL.C- 600 F. G. Wilde and wife to J. M. Wilde. lots 23. 24. block 34. Tremont Place II. Hirschberg to C M. SImonton et aL. lots 1. 4. block 163. Couch Add." 6,100 Title Guarantee & "irust v.- to w. .a. Hadler. lot 5. block 23. Nortn Irv- lngton 175 Phil Gevurtx and wife to T. J. Ham ilton. N. 28 feet lot 2. block 197. city , 2.400 Thomas L. Evans ana wue to ii. At. Ellis, 6 acres, section 3, T. 1 S,. R. 4 E. , A Investment Co. to City of Portland'. N. 50 feet blocks 58. 59. 60; lots U. V. W. X. T. Z. OO. Piedmont. . . i.. RED ANB KYBXIDS. Granulated Eyelids and other'Eye trouble cured by Murine ye nesaedy. it don' spjarf. oja py au arugsuta. YEAR'S CUSTOMS RECORD COLLECTIONS IN 1S04 AMOUNT TO $579,573. Trial Trip of New Cruiser Chatta nooga Taxes Place in an Icy Gale. ' The total collections from-all sources by the Custom-Houso -Of this, district la 1S04 were J679.&73 as compared with 3841.93S in 1903. T,he-- value bf domestic exports in the past year was S7.11&312 and in 1903, $8,684,904. The receipts of the district hi each mdnth were as follows: January .$ 54,439tAugust -. 51,541 September ...$ 83,52 ..." 47.346 ... 61.978 . 50.873 ... 46,333 Februarr hMarch . 46,514October -77,9 12! November -CSSOlDecember 66.8251 73,796J Total .. April May June ... ... July 73,7961 Total $679,373 The value of domestic exDorts for the year 1904 were as follows: January ...$ 43I.61lAuguat '. T...$ 431.841 February .. 426.343 September .. 201.036 March 837.4S0iOctober ;.189.8S2 April 529.176!November .. ' 835.416 May 314.499IDeccmber .. 1.137.890 June ... ... 403.123 July 284.115 Total $7,113,312 The statement of Custom-House transactions In December. -compiled yes terday, shows receipts of 346,539, aa compared with B0,873 In November and $34,642 in December, 1903. The value of domestic exports in the month Just closed was $1,137,890 as against $835. 416 In November and $1,392,693 in De cember a year ago. The statement of last month's business follows: The statement of this month's transac tions, aa Issued today. Is appended: Vessels entered from foreign ports 3 uesrto ior. xoreign porta la Entered from domesUc ports ' 33 Cleared for domestic ports 35 Jntne3 ox merchandise lor duty iih Entries of merchandise free of duty.... 23 Entries for warehouse - 4 Entries for export to adjacent British provinces a Entries from warehouse for consumption 37 Entries for Immediate transportation without appraisement 38 Total number entries of all kinds ..214 Entries for consumpUon liquidated. ....ill Entries for warehouse liquidated 9 Certificates of enrollment granted 1 Licenses for coasting trade granted..... a Llce&ses to vessels under 20 tons granted 1 Total number documents to vessels Issued S Value pf Exports. Domestic $1,137.S00 Receipts Prom All Sources. DuUes on Imports $46,168.73 Fines, penalties and forfeitures... 15.S5 Miscellaneous customs receipts.... sur.oo Storage, labor and cartage 8.65 Official fees 38.40 Total $46,539.13 Amount of refunds and drawbacks paid 1,550.00 LIGHT AND BUOY CHANGES. Alterations in Navigation Aids in -This District. Captain L. C. Heilaer, lighthouse in spector of the Thirteenth District, in a notice to mariners calls attention to the, -following changes In aldS to navl gallon: Swan Island bar upper post-light December 30 the structure from which this light was shown was carried away. The structure will be rebuilt and the light reestablished as soon as practicable. Coos Bay, entrance North Spit Jetty Buoy Xo. 1, a black second-class can, reported adrift December 30. will be replaced aa soon as practicable. Grays Harbor Trustee Spit Buoy No. 0, a red flrstlass nun, found missing December 4. was replaced the same day. The old buoy Is reported In the breakers on Point Brown Spit. Trustee Bplt Buoy -No. 2. a red 3mC -class nun, was renumbered 2H. December 6, with' out change In location. "Westport Spit Buoy No. 2, a red second-class spar, was established December 7, In IS feet of water, to mark a sandsplt making out from the westerly side of the channel, and as guide to the anchorage In South Bay: Outer end of wharf. Ocosta. NE. By E. E.; outer end of wharf, "Westport, S. by E. . E.; outer end of Jetty whalf, WNTY. W. Port side of Channel Buoy No. 3, a black second-class can, was established December 12, In 16 feet of water, to mark a sandsplt mak ing out from the northerly side of the channel at the easterly entrance to the Humptullps River channel. Ned rock. V. by E. E.; outer end of Jetty wharf. SSEL E., easterly; lono tree on Damon Point, NW. by W. 4 w. Peril Strait, Alaska Rose Island Rock Buoy No. 5, a black second-class can. reported adrift December 24, will be replaced as soon as pr&cUcable. TRYING TEST t OF CRUISER. New Chattanooga Goes Through Tan Icy Gaii. NEWPORT, R. I., Jan. 5. The new pro tected cruiser Chattanooga returned to this port today. She went out Tuesday for a 24 hours' sea trial, and was expect od to finish at New York. On account of tho severe storm of Tuesday night, .and "Wednesday, she came back. The cruiser sustained no damage beyond the loss of her forward chests, contain ing tackle, which were washed overboard, and scratches made by Ice. The trial board announced today that they were satisfied with the vessel, and would rec ommend her acceptance by the Govern ment. as she had successfully passed .through the roughest and most trying test ever sustained by a united States naval craft. The Chattanooga, upon reaching this port, was covered with ice. All the boats were completely closed in by Ice. The rigging was encased and the pilothouse was coated irom tnree to nve lncnes thick. The cruiser pitched and rolled in the heavy seas and some .of the officers and men, long accustomed to sea life, were seasick. At midnight all the for ward chests, which bad been lashed to the deck, were torn from their fasten ings, and washed overboard. Muriel Could Find No Tug. SOUTH BEND. "Wash., Jan. 5. (Spe cial.) The schooners Alpha and Omega left down the river this morning, lum ber laden. The first took cargo at Kleebs and the last secured her cargo at the Simpson mills. The captain of the schooner Muriel, which arrived -yesterday, says he -waited for a tug outside the bar fdur.days with. a broken rudder and then sailed it). He got off the sands near To'keland ail right and sustained no damage. The tug Astoria arrived, from Gray's Harbor this evening. She- has .been away since Christmas. Must Remain Winona. ASTORIA. Or., Jan. 5. Special) No tice was received today from the Com missioner of Navigation, Department of Commerce and Labor, that the applica tion made by the Callander Navigating Company for permission to change the name of the company's new steamer from "Winona to Myrtle has been denied. Un der the laws governing 'the department the only way to secure TermIssion to change the name of a vessel- is to first expend 75 per cent of the vessel's value in repairs and Improvements. Eugenie Fautrel Off River. ASTORIA, dr., Jan. 5. (Special.) The French bark Eugenie Fautrel with a car go from Hamburg, is off the mouth of the river, and will probably be brought inside tomorrow. Aurclia Takes Lakme's Passengers. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 5. The steamer Aurella. which arrived -today, brought 14 passengers and seven of the STRANGER THAN FICTION A Besaedy Wale Baa KerolaHwnlreJ the Treatunt ef Stomach TxeaWes. The remedy ia not heralded as a won derful discovery nor yet a secret patent medicine, neither ia. it claialed to cure aBythlns except dyspepsia, inoigesuon ana stomach troubles with which nine out of ten. suffer. The- remedy ia in tha form of pleasant tastine tablets or lozenges, containing vegetable and fruit essences, pure aseptic pepsin (Government test, goiaen seat ana diastase. The tablets are sold, by drug gists under the name of Stuarts Dys pepsia Tablets. Many interesting experi ments to test the digestive power of Stu art's Tablets show that one grain of the active principle contained In them Is suffi cient to thoroughly digest 3080 grains of raw meaLeggs and other wholesome food. Stuarts. Tablets do not act upon the bowels like after-dinner pills and cheap cathartics, which simply Irritate and in flame the intestines without having any effect whatever in digesting food or cur ing Indigestion. If the stomach can be rested and as sisted In the work of digestion it will very soon recover Its normal vigor, as no or gan is so much abused and overworked as the stomach. This is the secret, it there Is any secret. of the remarkable success of Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets, a remedy practically un known a few years ago and now the most widely known of any treatment for stom ach weakness. This success has been secured entirely upon its merits as a digestive pure and simple because there can be no stomach trouble If the food Is promptly digested. Stuart s Dyspepsia Tablets act entirely on the food eaten, digesting It completely. so that It can. be assimilated into, blood, nerve and tissue. They cure dyspepsia. water brash, sour stomach, gas and bloat ing after meals, because they furnish the digestive power which weak-stomachs lack and unless that lack Is supplied It ia use less to attempt to cure by the use of "tonics," "pills" and cathartics which have absolutely no digestive power. Stuart s Dyspepsia Tablets can be found at all drug stores and the regular use of one or two of them after meals will dem onstrate their merit better than any other argument. crew of the water-logged steamer. Lokme, having . taken them from the steamer at sea. The captain and the remainaer or tne crew remained on board. The Lakmo and the North Fork, vhlch had been towing her. were sight ed yesterday 10 miles oft Cape MendO' cino. The towline had parted and the North Fork was standing by to render what assistance she was able. A heavy sea was running. Whole Month at Sea. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 5. (Special.) The pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer came in side today for water and supplies, after having been out since December 4. Pilot Eric Johnson has been on her during that time and he now holds the record for the longest continuous service on the schoon er without getting a Vessel to bring in. Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 5. Sailed at 8:15 A. M. Steamer Harrison, for Sluslaw. Ar rived down at 10:10 A. 'M. British ship Glaucus. Sailed at 10:40 A. 1L British bark Dunreggan, for Durban, South Africa. Ift up at 11:20 A. M. Barkentlne John Palmer. Sailed at 11:40 A. M. German steamer Arabia, for Hong Kong and way ports. Ar rived at 12:10 P. M.-Schooner Borealls. from Saa Francisco. Outside at S P. M. A three-masted bark, loaded. CondlUon of the bar at o P. H., smooth; wind, north weather, cloudy. San Francisco. Jan. 5. Arrived" at 8 A, M. Steamers Aurella and Northland, from Portland. Arrived at 8:30 A. II. Steamer Redondo. from Portland. Arrived Schoon ers O. "W. "Watson and Mlndoro. from Port land: schooner Charles E. Falk. Gray's Harbor; schooner Annie E. Small, Port Blakeley; schooner Lizzie Prlerv Coqullle River; schooner "Wawona, Belllngham; schooner Transit, from Gray's Harbor; bark entlne Encore, from Wlllapa: steamer Em pire, from Coos Bay; barkentlne Garden City, from Gray's Harbor; steamer Coron- ado, from Gray's Harbor; steamer Santa Barbara, from Gray's Harbor. Sailed Steamer "W. H. Kruger, for Gray's Harbor steamer Queen, for Victoria; steamer Argyl, "for-"Vancouver and Portland; German steam' er Amasls. for "Victoria. Point Lobos. Jan. 5. Passed, at 7 A. M. Steamer Bee. from Portland, tor San Pedro pased at 3 P. M., steamer Rosecrans. from Portland, for Monterey. WILL AID HOME INDUSTRY. New Label League for Operation 0 AgainsVUnfair" Products. , The Woman's Label League, a Na tlonal organization put on foot by labor leaders to aid In the cause against "sweatshop" and "unfair" labor, will be organized in Portland a week from Saturday. A meeting will be held at 162 Second street, to which all women will be asked, and those Joining the League will agree not to buy anything "unfair" wittingly and will choose first goods with the union label. Home pro ducts will also be put before those of Eastern make. The labor leaders, yin organizing- this league, are working" against the employers of child labor and the proprietors of "sweatshops," and hope to elicit public sympathy in their cause. A FREE PACKAGE T nut Terr nerson who lc bilious or has any. stomach or uver au sent to send for a- free Mrtaoi of my Paw-Paw Tills. I want to prove that they posltlTely cur .Indlgesnoa, sour stos- ach. Belching, wisa. Htidsehe. KerroasBesa. fflpenlrssness. and are as Infallible cure for Coaatlpatlon. To do this I ata wOllES to glTa bIHIobs of free pacx- eges. l tasa au ibo for 25 cents a tlaf. 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