TEHE 30RNIftG OREGOKIAK,v FRIDAY,, JANUARY 6, 1905.
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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
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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.
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