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?HE MOHKIKG OBEGONIAN,- MOKDAT, rANUARY 9, 1905.
YARNS FROM THE FROZEN NORTH
Alaska Club Sidetracks Billy Buckland, But Makes Progress in Planning a 1905 Exhibit
AN igloo for the sour dough exhibit
at the 1905 Fair! It was the
happy thought of Crummy Fergu
son, and received the instant approval of
the other four merrfbers of the committee
on exhibit appointed by Whiskers Smith
at the recent annual reunion of the
Alaska Sour Dough Stiffs, of Portland.
The- committee, consisting of Ferguson,
Billy Buckland, Baldy Perkins, "Swede
Nelson, Ranlkaboo Jones and Windy
Payne, visited the Fair grounds Friday
to select a site. It had been expected
that President Goodc would mush out
with them in an automobile, but he was
unavoidably otherwise engaged. It was
KanlUaboo J one.
not -until the party hit the return trail
that Crummy sprang his proposition. Up
to that time he had kept silent, while
'the rest of flie party rather acrimiously
discussed several different suggestions.
"We must think up something new,
unique and novel, gentlemen," Windy
iPaync had said. "We want something
different, odd. peculiar."
"That's right." said Ranlkaboo Jones,
"and it must be something characteris
Itlc of the country. We ought to have
snow and ice. It could be done with a
-cold-storage structure, now"
"Bosh! Dog: salmon!" exclaimed
Baldy Perkins. "We can't have any
thing like that. We might get a
schooncrload of tundra, now, and
spread it out In a building and charge
two bits apiece to visitors to let 'em
oack a sack o 'flour across It, and
have the real Alaska mosqultos com
Ing ud around them in clouds. You
.know the mosquito eggs would come
with the tundra and go to hatching
out as soon as we Trot it spread and
thawed. Everybody'd like to try how
it feels to. be travelln in Alaska in
Summer, and it would be as good as
the ' real thing."
"Shucks," cried Windy Payne, who
had been trying1 to put in his oar for
the last ten minutes without success
until now. "shucks, you fellows are as
unpractical as a team of outside dogs.
"We can't have none of them things.
We want a theater and a real Alaska
play-piece. We can do the actin' fine.
Then we can have Winter scenes and
Summer scenes, all painted on canvas.
We can show packln' and flghtln'
mosqultos, buildin' camp in a blizzard,
thawin out frozen bigtoes. breakln"
trail with snowshoes, doctorln' scurvy,
eatln seal oil and whale blubber,
flghtln polar bears and wolves."
"Oh. yes." cldpped in Billy Buckland.
his scarred and deeply-seamed face light
ing up with enthusiasm, "we can ring into
the game the scheme me and Dutch
Pete worked to kill them 2244 wolves that
Winter we crossed the Franklin Moun
tains and struck the Mastodon with the
17-foot tusks which curved up like rams'
horns."
"Say, Billy," put in Baldy Perkins, "you
was goln' to tell us 'bout that the other
night. How was It"
The party paused expectantly just out
side the gate. At this Juncture the igloo
Idea struck Crummy Ferguson, who voiced
It promptly. After brief discussion fur
ther the party broke up to reassemble at
the general meeting last night at Swede
Nelson's palatial houieboat-on-the-Wil-lamette.
"T
HE beauty of this yere proposition
lies In the fact that it's a hole in
the ground." explained Crummy to the
meeting. "Just a hole is all the conces
sion you've got to buy. Everybody's
heard about igloos and everybody'll just
Toe tickled to fits to git down on hands
and knees and crawl through the long
air-passage and up into the main place.
There it'll be nice and cool and quiet like,
and "
"We can have geuooine Koonee girls in
iur parkys. sellln' mukluks and baskets
And things." put In Windy Payne.
LET US HAVE PEACE & & &
With a Few Observations on the Late Marquam
Mass Meeting and the- Mayor's Indictment
A WEEK ago I went to the peace j
meeting and was convinced that I
Dr. H1U and Rabbi Wise believed
4n peace po strongly that they were ready
to fight for it. and enjoyed the fighting.
Mr. O'Shea looked as if a thunder bolt
had struck him. and he curled up like a
Hinged hair. The brawling Thersltes was
devoured by the roaring peace Hon. The
map of Ireland was wiped out and there
was almost an unanimous vote for the
Integrity of the British Empire.
I was convinced not only that "blood
will tell." but It had told. We must have
peace even if we have to fight for it.
Now that tbey have contributed the lion's
enure to the peace of the world let them
have peace at home.
The Oregonlan has said that while they
Jiave indicted the Mayor they cannot con
vict him. This is true. A year ago I
wrote the Mayor a personal letter, saying
that he was between the devil and the
detp sea. and that he would better get
out or the ministers would get him. When
he stubbornly insisted and persisted in his
stand-pat policy of defending the inde
fensible. I was tempted to say that the
Mayor should be impeached.
Now that the Mayor is in a deep aea let
us save ourselves by rescuing him. If we
do not the Mayor is a good swimmer,
and he will come to shore, for no Jury
can be found that will drown him. When
he gets back the reaction will set In. If
this is a political move to carry the June
election, look out for a reaction. Re
forms go in waves. After Roosevelt re
formed New York, Tammany got In; after
Mayor Low the Tiger came back. Let's
get a cane Mayor, who will not close
everything. Those that are in favor of
closing everything turn the city over to
enemies of decency and order. Mayor
Williams Is not all had by along sight.
He closed the prize ring. Those of us
who like the manly art now must go to
FriKo if we want to see a good fight.
Any further prosecution will be con
strued as persecution. He Is not charged
with "graft." His only offense was In
not enforcing a certain ordinance that
some of us thought -ought to be enforced.
There are ordinances in this city that the
Municipal League does not want enforced
to the letter If President Roosevelt had
tried to enforce all the laws against ev
ery violator of those laws, I question
whether he would have carried a single
state He was wise enough to hold back
the Oregon land cases until after the elec
tion, and before he Jet loose Hcney he was
"And we'll have to ktp a lot of dogs
In there, eo's to have it smell like a real
igloo." added Ralnlkaboo Jones.
"It combines all the advantages of a
tent or cabin, and Is very suggestive of
the Fur North," resumed Crummy Fergu
son. "I writ some Igloo poetry one time.
I could get a lot of copies struck off and
the Eskimo girls could sing 'em. and
they'd sell like hotcakes. at two bits
apiece. I can give you one now." And
forthwith, to the tune of "Nellie Gray."
Crummy unctuously delivered the goods
"That's fine!" Whiskers Smith hastened
to cut in, "That's line. Say. gentlemen. I
seen by The Telegram Friday that Jim
Taylor's back to Seattle and claims to
have a thousand pounds of Ambergris
stored at Valdez, worth 5300 a pound!"
"Holy Maklnaw?" ejaculated Ranlkaboo
Jones," Jim's struck It rich, has he? But
what the hell's Ambergris?"
"Comes from whales," said Billy Buck
land. "If that fellow's got a thousand
pounds he's sot a little stake, but he
hain't struck it rich. I know "bout Am-
bergrls it ain't worth no $500, it's worth
just $20 a pound. It's sweet-smelling stuff. .
used to make scents. Funny thing, Isn t
it Handsome ladles put it on their hand
kerchiefsand It's nothln' but jellyfish,
swallowed by a whale, and half digested.
I know 'bout Ambergris, pard, you bet I
do. Me and my pardner, Dutch Jake,
burnt up 'bout 540.000 worth of it one time
to keep warm and cook flapjacks with. It
burnt fine and smelled like a bunch or
French girls comln' into the dance hall..
We hated to burn It. but it was a ground
hog case. When me and Dutch got down
from our wolf-klllln' in the Franklin
mountains, we struck Anxiety Point,
which is on the shore of the Arctic Ocean
between Point Barrow and the mouth of
the Mackenzie. We'd been mushln all
day. In r blizzard and we Just, had to have
a lire, for we were 'bout all In and you
know what it means to stop without a
fire. There wan't a stick o' driftwood,
though the beach was blown clean of
snow for miles at stretch. Dutch kicked
over some lumps of stuff that looked a
little like frozen spruce gum.
"I knew It in a minute, for an off-shore
whaler man at Point Hope showed me
a piece 'bout the size of a duck's egg
once. We burnt 'bout 52000 worth of It
that night. In our campstove made the
hottest kind of a fire."
"How'd it git there?" asked Ranlkaboo
Jones.
"Why, judgin' from the whales' bones
'round there, me and Dutch put it up
that a small school of whales roust have
been In the bay sometime when the Arc
tic ice-pack suddenly shut down from the
North and nipped 'em in the shallow wa
ter an shoved 'em and crushed 'em all
up on shore. Then they probably rotted
and left the Ambergris high and dry."
"Didn't you find none of the mouth bone
the reg'lar whalebone of trade?"
"Not a bit. There ought to've been
tons of it, worth 57 a pound, but I reckon
the natives had gathered it all up years
before, and never noticed the Ambergris.
"The stuff lasted us all through that
three weeks' blizzard. Say, it did smell
sweet, but I've had so much that it got
slckenin sometimes, 'specially when
Dutch brought out a chunk of that ever
1 as tin' llmburger, then the combination
used to drive me out of the tent. '
"Say. gentlemen, ain't It Just grlndin
to think how many times a feller has a
fortune right in his hands and has to
drop it? There was that million-dollar
Russian iron secret, there was that ten
thousand-dollars' worth of Mastodon
Ivor', which we had to leave because we
couldn't pack it out. there was the hides
careful to saj that he would not be a
candidate any more.
Then why indict and try to convict May
or Williams for an error of Judgment?
He served in President Grant's Cabinet,
not in Roosevelt's We ought not to ex
pect too much of him.
I believe the time is ripe. now. for ar
bitration. We need the Mayor and he
needs us. We can leave the gamblers to
Tom Word. The Lewis and Clark Fair
needs every minute of our time from
now until June L
This fight has cost something. It was
proposed to make this a rose city, but
this fight was a killing frost. It was
proposed to brighten up the city along
the river front by painting the wharves
and buildings white. But there has been
so much mud in the air that instead of
being white the river front Is a dirt color.
But It can be done yet if we let well
enough alone.
The Mayor has preached so much for
clean streets that I am not only ready to
forgive him, but to help him make them.
I believe that cleanliness is next to God
liness. Let the Civic Society and the Mayor get
together. Let them compromise. With
gambling closed and a few other
changes the city will be fairly
decent. There are two things that the
Mayor will, no doubt, in the interest of
a cleaner city, clean out. The Paris
House. And one ought to be able to
get into the Public Library without being
razzle-dazzled by red lights. This city
cannot afford to have the visitors, after
seeing the sights, to go away and say ev
erything In Portland Is the biggest in the
world even Its bawdy-houses.
Ruskin. in his Edinburgh lectures.
said: "But, above all things, remem
ber that it is chiefly by private, and
not by public effort, that your city must
be adorned.
Fortunately Portland Is not afflict
ed with that species of men who think
that the city is no more to them th.vi
the money they can make out of it.
forgetting in their egotism that they
are no more to it. It is a city of homes
and home-loving people.
If there hadn't been civic pride Port
land might, in a wide-open way. have
gotten the name of the Monte Carlo of
America. But Mayor Williams may
have, after all. persisted In his policy
to get the money to clean the street,
So let us get together and do things,
I And that there Is a disposition on
Crummy Frrguson Delivered tbe Goods.
me part of some people to take the ' clalist, that had a passion for bright col
Lewis and Clark Fair too seriously. ' ors. He not only preached but practiced
They depend so much on It that they what he preached, and his make of wall
o' them 1722 wolves which we had to
leave for the same reason "
"Thought you sold 'em at Nome and
Saint Mike for 510 to 525 apiece," Inter
rupted "Windy Payne.
"Maybe you thought so. my windy
friend, but I didn't .say so; I said they
wae worth that at Nome and Michaels"
"You're right 'bout its bein' wonderful
what chances a chap has sometimes," be
gan Ranlkaboo Jones. "I could - tell
you"
Billy Buckland tried again:
"But the way me and Dutch put the
I
"The way nse and 'Dutch pat "the klboh on
them wolre." naJd Billy Buckland.
kibosh on them 2217 wolves would well.
you wouldn t believe it."
"There's a heap o things happens that's
hard to b'lleve," persisted Ranlkaboo
Jones. "This yere 'last chance of mine
wae one of 'em. But it's straight goods,
"You've all read so many stories and
heard so many yarns about fellows being
Just about to give up. and then making
Just one more try, and strlkln it rich.
Sometimes it's a man that sits down on
a rock discouraged, and while he's resting
there, thoughtless-like, chips otf a piece
of stone, and finds it is quartz, glltterin'
with the brass. But it's usually a chap
whos Just about to give up his claim.
and he's taken down his notices, and got
whats left of his outfit packed In the
boat, or In tbe sled, and gets a hunch
to pan one more pan of dirt from the
bottom of the hole, and does it, and gets
a rwo-ounce nugget.
HERE'S a fatality in the last chance.
all the Winter of 1900 in my cabin, at
the head of Hard Pan Creek. In the
Upper Kobuk country. I could hardly
move about to get firewood: my grub
was about gone; I hadn't had any luck
anywhere In the country; I was alone,
and I tell you things looked blue. It
seemed pretty certain that it was croak
for me, unless I pulled through to
Spring with strength enough to crawl
40 miles cross-country to the boys on
Driftwood Bar. The first piece of luck
I had was when a big bull moose was
accoromodatin enough to come down
the gulch and be shot within 50 yards
of my door. The fresh meat checked
the scurv and put new life In me, so
when Spring came I made a crutch, and
hit the trail at the rate of about a mile
an hour.
"By noon next day I'd made over half
the distance to Driftwood Bar.
stopped to rest on the bank of a little
creek, and sat there some time, think
lng: of the years of toil I'd wasted in
Alaska. All the previous Winter I'd
sworn, if the Lord ever let me get
started away, never to turn a pebble
over to look for gold again. I was
thinkln' about that., and how I could
manage to get out of the country, when
I noticed a piece of porphyry rock In
the gravel of the bank near me. Look
in sharper, I saw plenty of slate and
white quartz float, too. Well, I Just
made up my mind I d have ono last try.
So I sot the frypan out of my little
pack, hobbled down to tbe point of the
bar likeliest place you know and
scraped out a few handfuls of gravel
from behind a boulder. I laughed at
myself for being such a fool, but I set
to work and panned down that llttl
mess of dirt "
"And you got a dollar and a half in
coarse gold." shouted three or four stiffs,
In chorus.
"Never got a color!"
In the riot that followed the attempt
xo ouck Kanlkaboo Jones in the Willam
ette. Billy Buckland's wolf story was for-
gouen lor the time. LUTE PEASE.
are inclined to sit back on their
haunches and await results, without
doing- anything to- make the city better
and more attractive. The sooner the
better these people are made to know
that the Fair is gotten up to get the
railroads to make cheap fares so that
Eastern people will come here and see
our city (which we think is beautiful)
and our state (which we believe the
best state in the United States) and
the Northwest (which we think is
greater than all other sections of ou
country put- together). Wherever your
home is, your heart should be also. If
it is not so, you ouirht to be on the
move.
Do not be serious enough to think
that a single Individual will cross the
Great Divide to see the Lewis and
Clark Fair. If the buildings cost 520.
ooo.ooo, they would not come to- see
them, but to see Portland. Oregon and
the Pacific.
But to get them to come to see us,
our city and our state, we got up the
fair and are going to make the most
out of it. We propose to see all the
sights that President Goodc will let ua
see, learn all we can and have all tho
fun we can
Now that the Bureau of Publicity
ana iom .Kicnarason, or the Commer
clal Club, have sent out so much Dub
llclty matter about Portland, Oregon
and me .rair. mat our Eastern friends
are all worked up and will come In
tralnloads by thousands and we can
not keep them away with a blje stick.
i-et us put our houses and city
readiness to receive them. Everyone
can contribute something. In the
spirit of Ruskin it depends more on us
man jvir. Goode and the executive
rorce ot- the Fair whether the Fair
is a success.
To make Portland beautiful should be
the ruling passion of the hour. Brighten
me oia town, riant roses and flowers of
every kind. Paint your houses bright col
ors. mere are entirely too many dark.
brown houses. In this climate, where the
sky is dark, and the air is moist, it Is
enough to make one weep to pass through
a street where the houses are painted
dull, dirty colors. Bright paints are no
more costly than somber ones, and why
people will persist la painting- their homes
in funereal hues I cannot understand. It
Is. I presume, because we love sadness
rather than Joy. Many of us wear black
clothes, paint our houses dark colors and
look on the dark side of the world. "What
i we want Is to brighten up. and when our
1 friends come here they will be impressed
i with our gayety and not with our sad
ncss.
' It was William Morris, the aesthetic so
paper and carpels brightened the homes
of many Englishmen and some Americans.
A woman called at bis shop to buy a
carpet. Mr. Morris showed her the oest
and brightest he bad. She said:
"Mr. Morris, show me some subdued col
ors." The aesthetic artist was ruffled.
and he replied with Rusklnlan disgust: "If
it is dirt you are after, you can find that
in the street."
Organize the city. Each street should
have a committee to see that all . rubbish
is removed, the yards cleaned, and to urge
the owners to plant flowers la every nook
and corner, and paint their houses bright
colors. GEO. WALLACE WILLIAMS.
Portland, Jan. 7.
Lawson Invades
Portland
Local Brokers Receive Brim
stone Epiiitles From BfUtllug
Financier.
HOMAS W. LAWSON. who has been
pawing dust over himself,, seems deter
mined to extend the scope of his cru
sade. In adition to his daily news col
umn advertisement he Is sending out
tracts where he thinks they will do the
most good.
Portland has been taken into ac
count In this propaganda work and the
Lawson leaflets have been doing: their
deadly work "in our -midst" for several
days. The latest installment of anti-
Bill Greene. -anti-Ed Addicks, anti-
Standard OU literature to reach this
city was received a day or two ago by
It. Crelghton. a local banker who
rejoices In a personal acquaintance
with the Fire Exhaling Droqg of -the
Back Bay.
The particular -object of the latest
screed Is one C W. Barron, manager of
the Boston News Bureau, an organ
Ization which is not approved by Mr.
Lawson and "Everybody's."
it is captioned. "Introduce Me to
lour Fat Friend," and the text of It
follows:
I said every battlefield had Its scavenger,
every butcher-cart its yellow doc hoping for a
bone, but I neglected to tay that every human
event of importance develops from -within ittelf
Its clown the short, fat. roly-poly, tongue-in-
cheek, grimacing Individual whom every one
but himself refuncs to take seriously.
In the present flurry the clown developed
early. Barron, of the News Bureau, Is the fun
nlestly funnr clown of financial clowns. It Is
almost Impossible to take htm seriously long
enough to Eet angry. He's built for the part.
In any greet assembly in the world if a mes
senger should thrllly yell. "Telegram for Mr.
Falstaff," Barron, of the News Bureau, would
receipt for it before the original megaphonie
Shakespearean gentleman could even get on
his feet. Xo one can blame the stockbroker,
the stock manipulator, tbe "frenzied financier."
or even gun-notched BUI Greene for being af
fected when be gets within tbe heated zon
they have real money at stake; but not Barron.
of the Xcw.i Bureau. who?e only right to get
by the lines of the bank squad is his occupation
of batbolder, "Please pay me l a da jr. or (
cents a sheet, for the sweepings ot my dirt col
lector."
Barron, of the News Bureau, reminds one of
that old stage skit where at every opportunity
and In the most unexpected ways while tbe
farce was on, an excited, puffing, snorting,
roly-poly chap would dash into tbe crowd, and
Instantly each man would cay to bis elbow
neighbor. "Introduce me to your fat friend."
which request would be met by each to the
other with a wink and a smile and an edging
off. No one ever introduced any one to "his
fat friend," but "his fat friend" did not seem
to mind others actions did not seem to know
that be occupied any unusual and fun-creating
position, but would keep on his continuous
round of puffings and snortlngs. I have for
gotten Just what finally happened to "your fat
friend." but It was something excruciatingly
funny. TUOMAS W. IAWSON.
DecemESc 17, 10M.
TO INSPECT E0TJTF. TODAY.
Officials Will Go Over Proposed Line
to Hillsboro.
The proposed Portland-Hlllsboro -electric
line Is now in a fair way to construction
and it is the desire of those who are back
of the deal to have commenced work on
the Portland end of the road In a very
short time.
The representatives of the San Fran
Cisco capitalists who are behind the road
are In the city and yesterday made a trip
over the lines of the Oregon Water Power
& Railway Company. Today, accompan
led by the leaders of the Oregon Traction
Company, they will make a trip over the
proposed line of the road, and when they
have returned will have determined den
nltely just where the line will run.
The Oregon Traction Company has asked
the City Council for a franchise through
the streets and it is almost certain that
the request will be granted. The prop
erty-owners along Stark street have pe
titioned the Council to grant the fran
chise along that street and, with the ex
ception of a few of the residents along
the proposed route, all Interested are
greatly in favor of having the road come
along the line mapped out by the com
pany. It is the desire of the promoters
to come along the northwest side
Balche's Gulch.- through McCleay Park
and to cross the gulch near Willamette
Heights at the head of Quimby street.
From there the road Is to skirt the Cor
nell road to the head of Overton street.
The line will run down Overton
Twelfth, from there to Stark and down
Stark to First, where it will find Its
terminal.
It is estimated that the construction
of the line will cost more than $300,000.
of which sum all has been provided for
by the bonds now issued. Outside of this
amount It is understood, that the treasury
of the Oregon Traction Company now has
more than JCO.000 ready to be spent upon
the line in its equipment and general ex
penses.
The application for a franchise is now
in the hands of the City Council, and
is not thought that there will be any de
lay in granting the request of the com
pany. As soon as It Is assured to the
representatives of the company that the
franchise will be granted, work will
begun on the Portland end of the line.
The road will first be finished from the.
First-street station to Willamette Heights
in order to relieve the congestion of traf
fic which will result with the opening of
the Exposition. If there is no delay, that
much of the road will be completed and
ready for operation by June 1. As soon
as thdt stretch of track is in worklne
nrrlpr thi mpn will lru nut on tVi i
of the road and alt will be finished as fast
as possible, perhaps the whole length of
the line to Hillsboro, by the time the
Winter weather makes the construction
work difficult. The next season it is prob
able that the line will be extended to
Forest Grove, though it Is not thought
any attempt will .be made to build that
far at an earlier date.
The people along the entire length of the
prospective reach of the road are en
thusiastic over its being built, and are
waiting with anxiety for the time when
the first cars will be run over the line.
It will open a great deal of territory and
give it quick and frequent communication
with Portland.
Agrics Defeat Monmouth Normal.
CORVALL1S. Or.. Jan. 8. (Special.)
The Oregon Agricultural College basket
ball team defeated the Oregon State Nor
mal team in a game here last night by a
score of 41 to 9. The Agrics played far
better teamwork and were more success
ful In goal-throwing.
Thousands whom It has cured vouch for
the value ot Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure
for catarrh.
BEAR ON BUSINESS
Many Resolutions for National
Board of Trade
SESSIONS BEGIN NEXT WEEK
1
Merchant Marine. Interstate-Com
merce Law, Reciprocity, Reduc
tion and Improvements on
Rates Principal Topics.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Tbe pro
gramme of recommendations and reso
lutlons to be considered at the 35th an
ual meeting- of the National Board of
Trade, which begins here Tuesday, the
7th, has been made public An un
usually large number of resolutions ot
Interest to the business interests of the
country have been proposed by repre
sentative commercial bodies for con
sideration. chief among which are those
relating to merchant marine; the Inter
state commerce law. reciprocity, uni
form bills of lading, reduction of the
tax on alcohol and improvement of
various rates.
Various boards ot trade and trans
cortation and chambers of commerce
have presented 'resolutions, urging-
Congressional legislation for the up
buildlne of the American merchant
marine.
In various resolutions enlarged
Dowers are asKed ror tne interstate
Commerce Commlslson. The New York.
Board oft Trade and Transportation by
resolution expressed itself as opposed
to the bill conferring the rate-making-
power on the commission. i.ne ooara
exnresses the opinion that it seems
wiser for the present, at least, to rely
on the recently applied methods of en
forcing the decisions of the commission
by Injunction other than to enact tne
Cooper-Quarles bill, the provision of
which It holds may be construed to te
much more far reaching" than even Its
advocates are willing to defend or con
sent to.
Railroad pooling is favored in sev
eral resolutions, and so Is the lnstltu
tlon by the Government ot a parcel
cost, such as variously named foreign
nations now enjoy, the adoption or
cent postage for Invoices, etc, and
the improvement ot the Mississippi
River and of coastwise waterways.
The Importance . of international
treaties Is set for a number of resolu
tions and expression is made for an
early ratification of those now pending.
The Scranton (Pa.) Board of Trade
renuests the adoption of a resolution
asking that the other powers unite in
determined motion to compel Russia
and Japan to submit their differences
to The Hague tribunal for arbitration.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
wants reciprocity with Canada, and
other commercial bodies ask that our
foreign trade be extended by treaties
of reciprocal character.
Free alcohol for industrial purposes
Is advocated by the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce and a reduction of the
tax on that commodity by the Philadel
phia Trades League.
The Cigar Manufacturers Associa
tion of America urge that if resolutions
bo made In the existing tariff on goods
or articles imported from the Philip
pines, there should be excepted from
such reductions such articles, grown.
produced or manufactured In the
United States as would be seriously af
fected by such a reduction.
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STOCKMEN CROWD TO DENVER
Joint Meeting With Woolgrowers
Promises to Be Very Important.
DENVER. Jan. 8. Everything Is In
readiness for the opening tomorrow of
the joint National convention of the
National Livestock Association and the
Woolgrowers Association. Already
delegates are flocking into Denver to
attend the gatherings and every hotel
In the city is taxed almost to its ut
most to accommodate the stockmen.
The woolgrowers will have the first
call In the proceedings. They will con
vene In the Tabor Grand Opera-House
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Pres
ident F. E. Warren will deliver his an
nual address in the morning and a res
olution for the appointment of a com
mlttee to consider the matter of the
proposed reorganization of the Nation
al Livestock Association will be Intro
duced.
This is one of the Important matters
to come before the convention ot the
latter body. The woolgrowers will con
clude their session tomorrow so as to
be able to attend the opening session
of the National Livestock Association
Tuesday.
It is predicted that the attendance at
Tuesday's opening sesion will eclipse
any previous annual meeting of the or
ganization, and the officers say the con
vention Itself will prove the most In
teresting and valuable to the livestock
work ever held. Information received
at association headquarters is that all
the stock-handling railroads and the
leading packers are sending represent
atives, and these, together with the
delegates from the state organization
and leading stockraisers. will bring the
attendance in the neighborhood of 1000
The convention proposed will continue
until Thursday night. Friday iwid Sat
urday being devoted to sightseeing.
PUBLISHING LIVELY PAPEE.
Peppery Sheet Issued by Church on
. the East Side.
Multnomah Addition, in Albina. has a
red-ot paper, called the Multnomah
Times. M. E. Thompson Is editor-in-chief
and W. C- Cole Is associate editor. It is
published In the Interest of the Mlssis-slppl-avenue
Congregational Church and
to promote improvements in that part of
the city. It s announced editorially:
"We have engaged N. "Waldo-Taylor, late
foreman of the Central Oregonlan. to act
as foreman of this sheet. His brother-la-law.
Rev. Mr. Smythe, will be the print
ers devil. We shall always stand for
civic righteousness, energy and stickto
ltiveness in church work."
The first page is devoted entirely to war
news. Among other Items of -Interest In
the neighborhood are the following:
"Frank Tomlinson, president-elect, is
the fastest pie-eater In this addition. He
prefers cold pie. however, to red pepper."
"President Tomlinson is now In train
ing in the manly art ot self-defence, and
is developing great skill."
"N. Waldo-Taylor persecutes the neigh
borhood daily in learning the scales on the
baritone."
"Bachelors and others go to the Ladles
Aid for comforts."
"You should hear Mr. LIndborg orate."
Advertisements "Lost A young man
from the parsonage. He had a brown
moustache, a slight stoop and was last
seen on Minnesota avenue."
"Strayed The grates from the church
furnace. Any information will be thank
fully received."
These are samples of the items. Since
the first issue Editor Thompson and his
associate. Mr. Cole, have absented them
selves from Multnomah Addition, and
when the next issue of the Times; will
appear Is considered very doubtful. War
news from that locality may soon De
more sensational than from Port Arthur.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Marriage licenses.
H." W. Jones, 20; Josephine Matsoa, 13.
Deaths.
Januarv 5. raiix A. Eckert. aged 56 years, 6
months and 20 days. 263 Seventh; cancer ot
the liver. Interment Crematorium.
January &. Mary Caroline Custer Shaver,
aged 50 years. 5 months and 20 days, 4W
North Twenty-second; Intestinal raacer. -in
terment Rlvervlew Cemetery.
January 6. Almlra Card, aaed 43 years and
4 days. Good Samaritan Hospital; convulsion.
Interment vault. Lone Fir .Cemetery.
Building Permits.
Isaac Pearson. East Thirty-ninth, between
Hawthorne and Division. Rlcuard Prtne tract;
?C3O0.
C. W. Uonaca. Multnomah, between Twenty
fifth and Twenty-sixth; !C00.
Mrs. Foster. Corbett. between Lowell and
Bancroft; $30.
Toll Thompson. East Yamhill, between Bast
Thirty-second and East Thirty-third; S00.
C. F. Frugell. East Yamhill, between Boat
Thirty-ninth and East Fortieth; 5000.
T. Thompson. East Thirty-third, between
Belmont and East Yamhill; $1000.
Real Estate Transfers.
T. G. Sc. T. Co. to L. S. "Wright and
wife. W. 20 feet lot 5. E. 20 2-3 feet
lot 6. block 10. Tllton's Add, 7S7.50
K. Lea Barnes trustee, to J. Surman.
piece land, beginning 40 feet from
northeast comer block 66. Carter's
Add. to Portland LOW
Portland Trust Co. to B. Pfelfer. lots
2SW2 inclusive, block 7. Portsmouth
Villa Extended 4i3.00
Joel X. Pearcy. lots 3-12 Inclusive,
block 1. Terminus Add., and other
property - LOU
Lena. Rlvears to T. Brown. lot 6.
block 3. King's Second Add... 6,500.00
I. Loulie Ackerson to T. W. Bubb.
36x100 feet, beginning 70 feet N. of
Intersection V. line of 16th. with N.
line of Mill street LOO
"William "Wilhelm and wife to "W. E.
Jacobs undivided l-30th Interest
lots 1-12 Inclusive, block 9. Sunny
side 250.00
Ralph "W. E. Miller and wife to R.
Delch. lot 4. block 9. Pleasant
Home Add 000.00
George Black and wife to J. Nlcol.
lots 9. 10. 12. block 1. -King's Sec
ond Add. 10.04
John- R. Foster to S. Orr and wjfe.
Yr CO feet lots 6. 7. block 95.
Couch Add 6.000.0a
L. F. Clark and wife to W. H. Bum
gardner, lot 13. block 5. Chiproan
Add. to St. Johns 27o.00
Arthur J. Olsen to R. RIerson. lots
T. 12. 14. 13. 15. block 2; lots 5. 6.
block 4; lots 2. 3, 4. block 8: lots
1. 2, 15. 18, 17, -block 9, Grand
View Add 30.01
T. G. & T. Co. to M. M. Bumgard
ner. lots 1. 2, 3. block 3. Subdi
vision of lots in N. St. Johns 565.50
L. M. Clark to L. F. Clark and wife,
lot 13. block 5 200.00
J. EL Scott and wife to H. F. Wheel
er, lot 6. block 108. Stephens Add.. 1.00
J. E. Scott and wife to O. G.
Holmes. "VV. lots 5. 6. block 116.
East Portland 1.00
Portland Lone Fir Cemetery Com
pany to L. M. Myers, lot 18. block
36. Lone Fir Cemetery 40.00
Popular Superstitions.
Chicago News.
"Touching" to ward off evil is one of
the most curious habits of the human
race. Many people will "toucn wooa
when talking of past Immunity from
trouble. But even more obscure Is the
Individual habit a nervous and morbid
one, no doubt of 'performing apparently
unnecessary devotions to Inanimate ob
jects. Sir Walter Scott as a boy cut the
button from the coat of his rival In class
the button that was always fingered
before tbe right answer was delivered.
Dr. Johnson would turn back In Fleet
street If he had missed touching one of
the posts.
A buyer for a large firm of London en
gineers was recently Interviewed by the
traveler of another company. Before
placing an order with the man the buyer
asked it his people were capable of car
rying out the work, "we are the fore
most firm of our sort in England," re
plied the representatl'e, who at once
stopped, grasped the back of a chair and
confusedly muttered, some words In an
undertone. This is said to be a. practice
with certain representatives of German
houses, who, whenever they find them
selves boasting, go through a like pro
ceeding to prevent the fall that; follows
pride.
Many people have found themselves
unable to walk along a paved street with
out a sort of conscious command to step
without touching the joining mark be
tween the blocks of stone. A sane and
scientific man. has confessed that he will
never place his boots, after taking them
off, parallel to each other, nor will he
ever leave a train without touching, three
times, the window. He suggests no
reason. It Is merely that he is not easy
until the silly thing is properly done.
"He says he proposes to make automobiles
that will easily attain a seed ot SO miles
an hour." "Whew! that's a great business
undertaking." "Yes, but most of all. it
means a great undertaking buslness'-'-Phll-adelphia
Press.
r AS TO COLDS n
Feed a cold yes, but
feed it with Scott's Emul
sion. Feeding a cold in this
way kills it. You cannot
afford to have a cough or
cold at this season or any
other. Scott's Emulsion
will drive it out quickly
and keep it out. Weak
lungs are strengthened
and all wasting diseases
are checked by Scott's
Emulsion. It's a great
flesh producer.
W11 miA -win a nmnle free.
SCOTT & BOWNE, 40J Pearl Street, New Yctk.
If you use unsweetened
chocolate and breakfast
cocoa, try Ghirardelli's
Ground Chocolate for a
change. It contains all the
nutriment the tissues need
the sweetness the palate
yearns for, and the content
ment the appetite craves.
It has alt the good of other cocoa
preparations with a betterment of its
own.
MILES TO BE FIRST
Will Insiston Precedence Over
Governor's Staff Officers.
HE IS NOT DOUGLAS' CHIEF
As Lieutenant-General of the United
States Army He Will Begin Work
of Inspection and Expects to
Command State Militia.
BOSTON, ilass., Jan. S. (Special.)
Lieutenant-Governor Miles, wnen he be
comes a member of Governor Douglas
official family, next week, will insist upon
taking precedence at all functions be
cause of his rank. He said today:
I shall come here on detail from the
War Department and shall be the repre
sentative of that departmenL I shall
come on-my rank and as Lieutenant-Gen
eral of the United States Army, on duty.
shall not be chief of Governor Douglas
staff.
I shall be ranking officer on duty for
the Governor and upon occasions of pub
lic appearance it would be proper for me
to take precedence over the other staff
officers.
But I do not anticipate any trouble on
that score. I think the staff will be a
'happy family. My position Is to be that
of military adviser to the Governor.
I shall begin the work of inspection
very soon. It will be. thorough and I shall
not only look into the matters" pertaining
to the staff, but also to regiments and
companies.
I shall look into conditions. In tho
storehouses, armories and- arsenals; In
spect clothing, equipment and all military
property in the state.
"It may be decided to. mobilize the state
militia, and In that event I would com
mand."
Young "Widow (to a partner at ball) Mr.
Crogan, I've made a wager of a- pound of
chocolates that you are a single man. Mr.
Crogan Ye've lost ma'am. I'm wairav.thrlp-
let. Chlcaco Tribune.
Pears
5
"A shining cottn
tenance" is pro
duced by ordinary
soaps.
The use of Pears'
reflects beauty and
refinement. Pears1
leaves the skin soft,
white and natural.
Matchless for the complexion.
Dr. W. Norton Davis
IN AWEEK
We treat successfully all private ner
vous and chronic diseases' of men. also
blood, stomach, heart, liver, kidney and
throat troubles. We cure SYPHILIS
(without mercury) to stay cured ferever,
in 30 to 60 days. We remove STRIC
TURE, without operation or pain, In 15
days.
We stop drains, the result of self-abuse.
Immediately. We can restore the sexual
vigor of any man under 0 by means of
local treatment peculiar to ourselves.
b CURfc GONORRHOEA W A WtfcK
The doctors of this Institute are all
regular graduates, have had many years
experience, have been known in Portland
for 15 years, have a reputation to main
tain, and will undertake no case unless
certain cure can be effected.
We guarantee a cure :n every case we
undertake or charge no fee. Consulta
tion free. Letters conilcentiaL Instruct
ive BOOK FOR MEN mailed free In plain
wrapper.
If you cannot call at- oKicc write for
question blank. Home treatment success
ful. Office hours. 9 to 3 and 1 to 8. Sundays
and holidays, 10 to 12.
Dr. W. Norton Davis & Co.
Offices in Van-Noy Hotel. 52 Third st,
cor. Pine, Portland. Or.
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