THJS MUKA'liSe OKlSliOriAtf, " WEDNESDAY, HAECH lo, 1905. ROASTED TO DEATH Nineteen Persons - Perish in Tenement House. FIRE-ESCAPES ALL CHOKED Thousands In New York Witness Horrible Scene Heroic Police and Firemen Risk Lives in Res cuing the Inmates. NEW YORK. March 14. Nineteen persons were burned to death in a tire which destroyed tne five-story tone ment-house at 105 Allen street early today. More thai 43 are injured and only a few of the sleeping- inmatcs.es caped unhurt. Several of those who perished were roasted to death In plain view of the thousands in the streets. Coroner Goldenkranz declared after an Investigation that he had reason to believe the blaze was the work of an incendiary. He issued subpenas for the Flro Marshal, Tenement-House Commission and building owners and health and police officials to appear before nim at the inquest Tnursday. Of tne 19 dead, three, a boy and two fc'lrls, are unidentified. The Are started in the basement occu pied by Isaac Davis, his wife and three children. Davis had been out last night, and returned home early this morning, going into his store upon the same floor Just in time to sec a kerosene lamp in the rear explode. He says he awoke his wife, and both tried to put out the flaming lamp, but without success, and then gave all their attention to gottlng their children out of the building. A policeman who heard the cry of alarm rushed to the scene, ..und every effArt was made to rouse the sleeping persons in the house. in the meantime, the flames had spread with startling rapidity, and when the per sons .who had been asleep In the upper floors awoke they found themselves con fronted by a wall of flames on every side. The panic-stricken people, lighting for their Uvea, rushed to the fire-escapes, only to find them littered with rubbish of all descriptions and almost impassable. Down through these narrow passageways flowed a stream of humanity. Oa some of the escapes the rubbish was so closely packed that it became impossible to pass certain points, and men, women and chil dren stood literally roasting to death as the flames roared through the windows around. Brave Policeman Crippled. One of the escapes, which ended near the roof of a shed about 20 feet above the ground, had been manned by Police man John J. Dwan, who had run a plank across to the window of an adjoining building. Nearly a dozen persons had been carried across this narrow bridge by the policemen, and then the flames began to sweep around the lower end of the tire escape. Rushing into the lire, a police man seized a little child and started on the last return trip across to the place of safety. Ho had made only half the distance when the plank, burned more than half through, broke where it rested on the lire escape, and the rescuer and rescued fell to the stone-paved yard, 20 feet below. The man etruck fairly on his back and one of his shoulders was shat tered by the force' of tho fall. The girl was uninjured. In tho meantime , the firemen bad run up ladders at other points around the building and dozens of persons were belhg taken from the crowded fire 'escapes and upper windows. By this time the build ing was a, furnace and the rescues were effected in many cases only after the greatest show of bravery on the part of the firemen. Heroes developed at this time. Lieu tenant Bonner. Hon of the former Fire Chief, ascended the now red-hot fire es cape five times. Four times he came down with a woman or a child in his arms. The fifth time he was making for the street with an unconscious woman when his strength gave way. He stag gered and would havo fallen to death had not a comrade come to his assistance. As Bonner reached a fourth-story win dow on one of his ascents and dragged a little girl from a window where she tHood surrounded by flames, she pleaded with him to leave her on the escape and go in after her little brother, whom she had carried to the window. He had fallen unconscious and was roasting, she said. Bonner Jumped through the window and it seemed to those belpw as If he was going into a furnace. He found the little boy Just Inside the window and carried him out. Fireman Hannigan repeated Bonner's feat on the third floor, rescuing Miss Fan nie Ginsberg. Dies In Sight of Crowd. A woman, her night dress "blazing, was seen to crawl out of a window and start down the fire escape from the top floor. The hot iron blistered her feet and burnt deep into her flesh, but she continued on. The scaling ladders were run up close to the escape and a fireman had almost reached her, when a belch of flame cov ered her like a wave and bore her down. She fell back and died in sight of the horror-stricken crowd. Tho position of thoee who had taken refuge In the rubbish-choked fire escapes became more and more desperate every minute. They feared to Jump and they could not wait until the scaling ladders reached them, so Intense was the heat. Now and then one would jump to the ground with a scream. A baby was flung into the arms of a policeman below by its fear-erased moth er Just as tho policeman caught the child the mother dived to the ground. Her body struck the policeman on the head and he fell unconscious. The woman escaped Injury by the fall, but she had been badly burned. The baby was unin jured. Death was reaping a harvest on other fire oscapes on the buildings as well at this time. At the rear two men and two women were seen on the escapes. The women came flrst and every step they mado was blocked by some can or box of rubbish, often too heavy for them to lift. The men would then come to their nKlstnnif unit Vii;ri tho nhstrurHnn Inin the yard. The quartet were descending, j slowly between the third and fourth floors when flames burst from the windows all about them. The flames darted up from the tnird floor windows, enveloped the-j two men and women. They fell and i were roasted to death. Their bodies were brought down by the firemen. Through the smoke another figure was seen on the fire escapes on the fifth floor. No one could tell whetner i was a man or woman. The clothes were aflame. In a moment the victim sank to the escape and died. Finds His Family Dead. On the top of the fire escape at the other side of the house lay three bod ies, Mrs. Solomon and her two sons, Isaac and Jacob. They had been over come there by the flames. Two other members of the Solomon family were seen to look from the windows and then fall back in the burning building. The elder Solomon, the husband and fatner. was one of those rescued by Patrolman Dwan. When he reached the street hi" whiskers had been burned off and ho wore nothing but undercloth ing. For more than an hour he had been wandering around in this condi tion, -searching for his f anally, when he came upon the bodies -after they had been removed from the fire escape. As he" recognized the charred remains he broke into passionate weeping, with agonised cries of "Mein kinder: Mein kinder:" His experience was paralleled by dozens of others in tne house. After the flro was under control the street was filled with half-dressed weeping people, seeking for their rela tives, imploring the policemen to go into tne Durnmg building and rescue the loved ones whom tney believed were perishing there. Tet om man vinu family had been saved bewailed the loss oi some jewelry left in his apartment and begged a fireman to save it for him Throws Her Babe to Safety.. The desperate resourcefulness of some mother in her effort to save the lives of her children was shown when a bundle was seen to fall from a high window in the burning building and light gently unon a bean of snow. Tn the center of the bundle, wrapped around by several thicknesses of blank ets and comrorters. was found a 4-year-old boy. who suffered not at all from his unusual experience. The fate of the motner is not known. One cause of the terrible loss of life was negligence in falling to keep the skylight door free and clear. It was not only fastened tight, but also frozen. as tne names rushed up the stairs the tenants dashed for the roof. They found the door, which should have swung easily open, fastened down. Un able to burst It open, and wedged in by the surging mass below, numbers were burned to death. The Dead. Of the bodies recovered, only the fol lowing have been identified: BACHAEL SOU5MOX. ased 45. JACOB SOLOMON, seed 16. ISAAC SOLOMON, ared IS. JESSIE COHN. ased 15. HOSE WEINER, aed 23. EANDr "5VEH.VER. aped 4. IDA ilUSKOWrrz. ased 10. HARRY KAUFMAN, aged 10. ROSE- MILLER, aged 4. MORRIS MILLER, aged 5 months. GARSHON FUCHS, aged 30. 13 EI LA ZEIDLER, aged 12. HARRY ZEIDLER, aged 40. Three bodies remain unidentified and their names may never be known. It is believed that those three victims were visitors with some of the families who lived there. The bodies were so badly burned that they are oractlcallv unrecognizable. Fire Chief Edward F. Croker said tho loss of life was mainly due to delay in giving the alarm. Elsrht minutes, he said, elapsed after the fire started be fore the alarm was sounded. Great Factory Burned at Chicago. CHICAGO. March 14. Fire broke out today in the printing and box department of the Grand Crossing Tack Company's plant at Seventy-nlntn street and South Chicago avenue and caused a loss esti mated at $500,000, fully Insured. Arter the printing and box department, a three-story brick building, had been de stroyed, the walls collapsed, spreading tne lire to two adjoining portions of the big plant. These sections, containing valuable machinery, were destroyed. The entire plant, valued at 51,000,000, employed 800 persons, many of them women and children. At the flrst shout of "fire" there was a panic among those working on tho upper floors, but all were taken out in safety. ALL SUFFER LOSS IN WAGES Seniority Pay Taken Away From Penitent Subway Strikers NEW YORK, March 14. The traffic conditions on the elevated railroads and subway today were slightly Improved over those of yesterday. No more trains were run, bit a little better speed was maintained. All the employes of the Interborourh Company who went on strike and whose wages had been previously advanced be cause of the length of their service, se cured re-employment only at the sacrifice of whatever advance In wages they had obtained. Experienced motormcn were reduced from 53.50 to 53 a day. Gatcmen, from $1-55 to $L40: guards, from SI-CO to 5L55. and conductors, from 52.40 to 52.10. So crushed was the strike spirit that the men accepted the reductions without pro test. Gompers Boycotts the Fair. WAei.iNGTON. March 14. President Gompers announces that the Invitation of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, at Port land, to transfer the Federation of La bor's exhibit at the St. Louis Fair to Portland has been declined. Inasmuch as the management has shown itself hostile to organized labor. Right Bank of the River. PORTLAND, March 13. (To the Editor.) Will The Oregonlan answer In lis columns: Which is the right bank of a river? It will bo unsatisfactory to 'reply that it depends on trhlch way one Is going up or down stream. J, C. BROWNING. The Manual of Survey Instruction for the Survey of Public Lands of the United States and Private Land Claims provides that "proceeding downstream the bank on the left hand Is termed the left bank and that on the right hand the right bank. These terms will be universally used to distinguish the two banks of a river or stream." It Is unanimously accepted by all gov ernment and hydraulic engineers through out the United States that the deslgnatlve terms of right and left banks of a river are determined by facing the mouth of a river or stream. This applies also to an estuary or slough which receives its supply and currents from the ocean. The right bank or shore in any case is that bank or shore which is to the right hand when facing towards the mouth. Madman's Bullets Prove Fatal. DENVER. Colo.. March 14. Police Sur geon Frank Dulln. who was shot three times on Sunday by George Shlstlcr when going on the police ambulance to the aid of Kay Fill and his wife, whom Shis tier had previously shot, died today of his wounds. Swinburne. Harper's Weekly. It is not yet time to discuss just what niche Mr. Swinburne is to fill among the poets. "When one reflects upon his own unerring Judgment in poetry, the exqui site tightness with which he placed Shel ley above Byron. Collins above Grey, and Coleridge above Wordsworth, upsetting Mr. Arnold's authoritative verdict, the direct insight with which he pointed out to us, many years since, that we had pro duced but two poets, Poe and Whitman, and that the rest were mere local celeb rities, it seems almost a pity that he cannot write an essay upon himself, and pass a final verdict as to his place among the great Victorians. If he falls short of the heartening mes sage of Browning, the normal perceptions of Tennyson, the calm and restraint of Arnold, the only contemporaries with whom he could possibly be compared, he excels them ail in that riot of the blood, that rush of passion and exaltation of emotion without which poetry is mere rhymed language. Sensuous and passion ate his verses are always, and what one questions is whether he ever made the final reach and attained simplicity. Attaches Start for Japan. ' TOKIO. March 15. The American at taches. Captain W. V. Judson and Colo nel V. Havard, and a British attache. Captain C J. Ayres. who were with the Russian army, and wlio were captured at the battle of Mukden, left Liao Tang for Japan today. GOLDEN STATE DAY Trainload of California's Best Men Coming. TO GIVE OREGON GREETING California Promotion Day Will Be One of the Greatest Days at the Fair Splendid Train .of Twelve Cars Coming. SAN FRANCISCO. March 14. The an nouncement that President Goode of the Lewis and Clark Contennial Exposi tion has named June 12 as "California Promotion Day" brings up tho coming excursion of the California promotion committee to Portland. This excursion will consist of the most prominent men of California; it will be strictly a "stag" affair, and it is planned by Rufus Jen nings, executive officer of the California promotion committee, to take the party to Portland in the most elaborately ap pointed special train that has ever left California. The train, consisting of 12 coaches, will leave San Francisco Fri day evening, June 9. so that by the day set aside to commemorate the promo tion committeo's visit the members of the party will have rested sufficiently to do full Justice to the occasion. The California promotion committee is the central organization of 148 cham bers of commerce and development as sociations in the Golden State and. as such, the leading and most progressive men of California are affiliated with its work, among them being Governor George C Pardee. President Benjamin Idc Wheeler, of the University of Cali fornia, and President David Starr Jor dan, of Stanford University, and the prominent bankers, merchants and pro fessional men of California. In fact, the party wnich goes to Portland on the promotion committee's special will be thoroughly representative of the-commonwealth and industrial life of Cali fornia. "This excursion will bo California's official call at the Lewis and Clark Ex position," said Mr. Jennings, "and wo mean to show that tho commercial in terests of California are heart and soul with tho commercial interests of Ore gon and tho Northwest. Wo know that the whole Coast must work together and I think you will find that the men of California are taking as much inter est in the Lewis and Clark Exposition as if it bolonged to them. W have a pride in the Exposition." "California is going to make her bow to Portland and to Oregon In good style." said Andrea Sbarbero, chairman of the California promotion committee. Mr. Sbarbero is also president of the Italian American Bank, secretary of the Italian Swiss Colony, president of the Manufac turers and Producers Association and a dozen other associations. "You can say." said Mr. Sbarbero. "that wo will have the most representative body of Callfornians that was ever gathered together on one train. I think this excursion will do a great deal to bring the people of Cali fornia and Oregon together, and I want them to meet personally. I believe the California exhibits at Portland will be fully equal to. if not better, than those at St. Louis. I believe this excursion of the committees win assist In advertising the Exposition throughout California." The California promotion committee promotes immigration, advertises prod ucts and lends its aid to develop the state generally. The committee has given a number of excursions by special train throughout California. A recent excur sion covered over 3400 miles in four days. Twenty-two towns and cities were visited and at every stopping place the visitors met with the greatest reception, brass bands, barbecues, etc. signalizing the event. Among Invited guests on the ex cursion will be President David R, Francis, of the St. Louis Fair: John M. Mamner. editor of the St. Louis Star: John A. Slelcher, editor of Leslie's Weekly: Senator George C. Perkins, of California; Senator Thomas Flint, of California, and others. VANDEVANTER HAS A RELAPSE Washington Senator's Condition Crit- ical, and He May Not Recover. SEATTLE, March 14. State Senator A. T. Vandevanter. who suffered a relapse of typhoid fever. Is in a critical condi tion tonight and his recovery is not looked -for. He is conscious and the at tending physician issued a statement that the patient would nrobablv night. HOW IT WAS LOST. (Continued from First Page.) dispatched and a call was sent to Tie Fass for 13 locomotives. The forward ing of the locomotives without interrup ting the northward movement of trains was a delicate piece of train dispatching. nut tne overworked railroad staff accom plished It successfully. At 3 A. M. the second .string was started northward, and at 9:4o A. M. the last train of the string of 16 departed. All the trains had 52 to 53 cars. Three trains contained the ammunition of the park of artillery which had bean dis patched the evening before In 540 cars; another train carried clothing, one was ccal-laden. and one was loaded with Red Cross supplies, one with engineers' dennt supplies, three with commissariat freight. and the remainder with wounded. The last train out was the service train, with all the employes of the railway, property and station papers. The exertions and devotion of this little band of civilians rendered service the im portance of which cannot be overestimat ed for the future of the Russian nmr. It saved thousands of wounded soldiers. an immense amount of ammunition and millions of dollars worth of property and cash. It must be remembered that flv miles north of Mukden an unceasing fight was in progress. Trains earlier had been bombarded with Shlmose shells, and the railroad was twice damaged. . The trains traveled unllghted and without whistling, under eight-mile headway. Huge Bonfires Light the Night. Fires blazed In a gigantic ring, burning straw, coal, wood, corn and biscuit. Oc casionally boxes of cartridges exploded or rockets rose and burst Into clusters of stars. The flames had plenty of ma terial, and there were over 3600 cartloads of corn and biscuit and over 323.0C0 cubic feet of coal, straw and mllleL This was the only reserve commissariat and other stores that were destroyed. The wounded crowded the station, filled every vacant place In the cars and the brakebeams. buffers and roofs were occupied, while others were hanging on the steps. The last train pulled out as General Tserplt eky's troops began to pass the station shortly "before the explosion which wrecked the Hun River bridec On tn platform remained eight telegraphers who J had volunteered to stay at their keys un til the arrival of the Japanese. In the hospitals of the Llvonian Divi sion of the Red Cross and medical start were 10GO scverely"woundcd. including S6I Japanese, the Chinese Governor of Muk den giving his word to defend them until Mukden was occupied by the Japanese. How many wounded reached the station after Its evacuation is not known. Of the military railroad, all but 123 miles was abandoned and the wagonettes de stroyed. Tens of thousands of boxes of ammunition were destroyed, but most im portant of all from a material point of view is the loss of the Fushun coal mines, which supplied the road with coal. The trains were heavily bombarded, but came through safely. Panic Among Wagon-Drivers. . The retirement of the wagon transport was twice imperilled by panic the morn ing of March 10. A Japanese squadron and guns concealed in the mountains opened fire and the drivers, who were un disciplined peasants, unaccustomed to the sound of Shlmose shells, began to desert their carts and wagons, cutting loose the horses or throwing the stores from the wagons. Confusion became rampant and spread to terror-stricken civilians and even gunners, and was communicated to some infantry troops. The gray-clad crowd, without information, hidden by dust, surged on. Tho Japanese, however, soon ceased firing and order was restored. Troops following the wagons carried off cannon, but were unable to gather the abandoned property. Soldiers broke open officers' boxes and portmanteaus and ran sacked them for valuables. Just before dark another panic occurred at tho station of Santiatsc, where an enor mous collection of carts had halted for the night. A column of Russians advanc ing was taken for Japanese and the cry of "Japanese cavalry" was raised. The un armed drivers commenced to flee, while those with rifles fired in every direction. The cooler heads quieted the panic stricken mass, but a number of lives were lost and additional property was sacrificed. The retirement of the central and western army was effected by four roads and over the fields between. The army of. General Llncvltch followed the eastern roads from Fushun, Impan and Fu Pass. The third army retired in echelon, leaving a strong rear guard. The Japanese, who at nightfall occupied half of the village of Santiatsc, burst at daybreak Into the park of the Imperial Tombs and opened a heavy rifle fire. Tho Russians, however, refrained from open ing fire in the holy places of the Chinese. The Japanese did not press severely from the rear, bending their efforts to thrust in from the flanks and outer portions of the army. Several divisions, acting as the rear guard under General Laounln, were almost surrounded, but broke through un der a heavy fire on both flanks. The rear guard the night of March" 10 held the heights at the station of Sushltai and on March 11 and 12 fell slowly back to Tie Pass. Ready to Fight Again. Now, two days later. Tie Pass is a great organized military camp, in which the troops assembled are calm and have gotten themselves Into order. The men Immediately forgot their recent hunger, sleeplessness, weariness and fears of death and sit around the blazing camp fires and sing and are ready to defend the position, or even go out and attack the Japanese. FLEE TO SAVE THEIR HEADS High Turkish Officials Victims of Palace Intrigues. CONSTANTINOPLE. March U.-Anoth-cr palace Intrigue, so common in the Sul tan's entourage, has resulted In tie sud den flight of a trio of high Ottoman of ficials, Generals Ahmet Pasha and Riza Pasha, aides-de-camp of the .Sultan and Arlf Eey, His Majesty's chamberlain. It is said that the three officials fled abroad to escape the machinations of a secret po lice cabal at the Yildiz Kiosk, who were said to be bent on their destruction. Riza Pasha was recently attacked and wound-, ed in a street brawl, alleged to have been Instigated by tho Chief of the Secret Police. CHINESE DIRECTORS ARE "SEEN" They Agree to Resume Operation of Sinmintln Railroad. YANKOW, March 14. It Is stated that service on the YInkow. ICoupantze & Sin mintln Railroad will be resumed within a tew days, the Chinese directors hav ing been successfully approached. They now attempt to Justify their action on the ground that the Japanese threatened to seize the line unless they were per mitted to ship rice over the road. Th directors declare that the removal of the rolling stock to Klnchow was a precau tionary measure, and express regret at the Interruption of traffic. They say that communication has been reopened upon the assurance of the Japanese that there was no intention to seize the railway. Ian Mclaren Gives Up Pastorate. LONDON, March 14. Rev. Dr. John Watson (Ian Maclaren) has resigned tho pastorship of the Sefton Park Presbyte rian Church In Liverpool. In his farewell address Dr. Watson said he was worn out and could not go on. He never had been strong, he said, and had to do his work with hindrances from bodily weari ness, and now his strength is nearly ex hausted. Kuropatkin Blames His Generals. ST. PETERSBURG. March 11. While Kuropatkin has assumed full responsibil ity for accepting a battle at Mukden, be has complained to the Emperor that his failure to execute his orders of two Gen erals, whose names cannot be learned. He also throws blame on some of the troops, which failed to respond properly at the critical moment. Trying to Drive Russia Into Peace. LONDON, March 14. 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ELLERIC WILL FINISH TODAY Olympia, Unfortunate Blockade-Runner, at Last Delivers Her Sup plies at San Francisco, and May Return Here. The British steamship Ras Elba fin ished loading hay at Albers" dock late yesterday afternoon and this morning will start down the river, bound for Tslngtau, China. She has 98S8 bales of hay aboard, also 01.01S bushels of oats, which were loaded at Seattle. The cargo was provided by Albers Bros, and all of it would have been shipped from Portland had the firm been able to secure dock room here. While the steamer is going to Tslngtau. there is little doubt that the forage she car ries is intended for the Russian forces, as there is no demand for such a quan tity at the German port. It is equally certain that were it intended for the Japanese it would be sent direct to a port in Japan or to Port Arthur. As the steamer will clear for a neutral port, she will be safe from molestation by Japanese warships. The British steamship Elleric, which has been loading barley here for a week will complete her cargo of 5003 tons at Mersey dock today and will sail tomorrow for Yokohama. It is be lieved by her officers that when she reaches the Japanese port she will be ordered to proceed to Port Arthur. The steamship Olympia, which .loaded 2500 tons of oats at this port in Janu ary for Vladivostok, but got no far ther than the coaling station of Comox. where an accident to her .machinery caused her to return to Seattle for re pairs, reached San Francisco Monday night. Her cargo has been sold there, but there is a belief that it will be for warded to Japan, possibly on the same steamer. In the event that it is trans shipped, the Olympia may return to Portland. STEAMER FOR GRAY'S HARBOR Toledo May Be Put on Run From This City. John Undstromr Mayor of Aberdeen, is negotiating for the steam schormer Toledo for service between Portland and Gray's Harbor. 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Local United States Inspectors Edwards and Fuller have Tevoked her passenger licence, as the steamer is not considered Perhaps you suffer almost continually with, pain la the back, bearing-down feelings, headache and utter exhaustion. Tour poor health makes you nervous, irritable and at times despondent; but thousands of just such suffering or broken-down women are being restored to health, and strength every day by the use of that wonderful discovery. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and. bladder remedy. Not only does Swamp-Root bring new life and activity to the kidneys, the cause of the trouble, but by strength ening the kidneys it acts as a general tonic and food for the entire constitu tion. The mild and extraordinary effect of the world-famous kidney and bladder remedy, Swamp-Root, Is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. A trial will' convince any one and you may have a sample bottle sent free by mall. In taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root you afford natural help to nature, for Swamp-Root Is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that has ever been discovered. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the address, Binghamton. N. X., on every bottle. to be in condition to handle passenger traffic Marine Notes. The schooner Beulah has cleared for San Francisco with 450,000 feet of lumber. f The steamer Redondo will sail for San Francisco today with passengers and 500 tons of grain and 420,000 feet of lumber. Two side-dump scows belonging to the Port of Portland Commission were lifted on the drydock yesterday to be recaulkcd. Tne Port of Portland tender John McCraken left for Astoria yesterday afternoon. She has been leased by the "Weather Bureau and will be used in recovering the lost North Head cable. Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA. March 14. Arrived at 1 and left up at 9:30 A. M. Steamer Nome City, from San. Francisco. Arrived at 9:30 A. M. and left up at 12:4.") P. M. Steamer Alliance, from Eureka and Coca Bay. Sailed at 4 P. M. Schooner Andy Mahony. for San Francisco. Condition of the bar at & P. II., smooth; wind east; weather cloudy. Point Lobos. March 14. Passed at 11 A. 21. Steamer Rosecrans, from Portland, for Mon terey. Falmouth. March 12. Arrived French bark Duplelx. from Portland. Hoquiam. March 14. (Special.) Sailed Steamer Coronado; schooner A. B. Johnson, for San Francisco; schooner Melrose, for San Pe dro. Arrived Steamer Homer and schooner Comet, from San Francisco. San Francisco, March 14. Arrived Steamer Nebraskan, from Kahulul; German ship Mag dalen, from Antwerp and Newcastle. England: schooner Alumna, from Wlllapa; steamer. Czar ina, from Coos Bay; steamer Centennial, from Seattle. Sailed Whaling steamer Jeanette, on whaling cruise; French, bark Bceauet, for New castle. Australia; steamer Breakwater and steamer M. F. Plant, for Coos Bay; schooner Lily, for Umpqua. Cleared Bark Mohican, for Hoaolu)u; schooner Halcyon, for San Jose de Guatemala; steamer Oregonian. for 2ew York, via. Seattle and Honolulu. PERSONAL MENTION. B. L. Smith, of Hood River, Is at the Perkins. Frank Menefeev District Attorney, oi The Dalles, is at the Imperial. Dr. J. A. Geisendorfferv of The; Dalles, is at the Perkins for a short visit in the city. Senator and Mrs. R. A. Booth, of Eugene, are at the Imperial for a few days. Dr. J. W. Strange, a prominent physi cian of Roseburg, is a guest at the Perkins. Frank Menefee, Prosecuting Attorney of "Wasco County, i3 stopping at the Imperial. "W. K. Newell, member of the Lower House of the Oregon Legislature, is reg istered at the Perkins. Fred Judd, a prominent business man of Pendleton, is at the Portland for a short visit in the city. Ralph Feeney, past grand master of the A. O. U. "W., leaves today for .a trip through Eastern Oregon In the" interests of the order. Major and Mrs. Lee Hoo rehouse, of Pendleton, returned to their home last night after a few days spent in Portland visiting friends. H. S. McGowan, the well-known can neryman of McGowan, is in Portland on business. He has much to say of the good that will result from the Centen nial and thinks that every resident of Oregon and Washington will attend. E. L. Smith, president of the Oregon. Development League, is in the city from bis home at Hoed River, for a short visit on business connected with the conven tion of the league, which is to be called in a short time. He is stopping at the Perkins. "W. H. Snedaker, general agent of the Illinois Central Railway, with head quarters at San Francisco, is in Port land on business. He Js Very enthusi astic upon the subject of the Exposition and thinks that the whole Pacific Coast will be equally benefited. H. EL Slmonda and N. H. "Webber are guests at the Imperial. , Both, are SWAMP-R08T A BLESSING TO WOMEN My kidneys and bladder gave me great trouble for over two months' and I guttered, untold misery. I became weak, emaciate and very much run down. I had great dif ficulty in retaining my urine, and was obliged to pass water very often night and. day. After I had used a. sample bottle of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, sent me on my request. I experienced relief and I Immedi ately bought of my druggist two large bot tles and continued taking It regularly. X am pleased to say that Swamp-Root cured ma entirely. . I can now stand on my feet all day without any bad symptoms whatever. 8wamp-Root has proved a blessing to me. Gratefully yours, JIRSl E. AUSTIN, . 19 Nassau St., Brooklyn, N. T. well-known cannerymen of the North west. Mr. Simonds is on his way to Blaine, Wash., where he expects to estab lish a large cannery in the near future. NEW YORK. March 14. (Specials Northwestern people registered at New York notels today as follows: Portland Navarre: J. F. Ames. New Amsterdam: L Labowitcb. Walla Walla Hotel Astor: R. B. Caswell and wife. Chinese Lottery Raided. Lottery tickets were, prizes captured by tne police late last night in a raid into a dark room on the second floor at 130 K Second street. Sergeant Hdge boom and Patrolman Nelson battered down a door, stumbled over a number of sleeping Chinese and burst into a room where a great quantity of lottery tickets had been secreted. Leong On, Long Tai and Dr. Singleton, a Chinese doctor, were locked up on the charge of having the tickets in their possession. None of the Chinese in the room es caped. There's nothing like Hood's Sarsaparilla for keeping blood pure and giving real strength. Pears' The public's choice since 1789. "Your cheeks are peaches," he. cried. "No, they are Pears'," she replied. Pears' Soap brings the color of health to the skin. 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