THE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, JAXUABY 24, 1906. UNITE ON RATE BILL Parties Agree on Unanimous Report to House,. HEPBURN YIELDS POINT His Measure Accepted by Democrats. When He Incorporates Some of Their Recommendations. AVill Influence Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. After a confer ence lasting all the afternoon, the House committee on Interstate and foreign com merce today agreed upon a rate bill to be known as the Hepburn bill and to be re ported to the House with the unanimous recommendation of the 18 members of the committee. In the main the bill is the original Hepburn bill, but a number of concessions were made to the Democrats, and their ideas as set forth In the Davey bill were freely incorporated In the per fected measure. Chairman Hepburn was congratulated by all the members of his committee on the drafting of a bill upon which the two parties could agree, and the members of the committee assert confidence that the successful outcome of their long confer once will have marked effect upon the at titude of the Senate toward the measure. Accept Democratic Provision. Hepburn and other Republicans agreed to accept the wording of the Democratic bill in the provision for the fixing of the maximum rate. The amendment which was accepted provides that the commis sion shall fix a just, reasonable and fairly remunerative rate, which shall be the maximum rate." It was maintained by the Democrats that under the original Hepburn wording the commission was re quired to fix the highest of the "Just, reas onable and fairly remunerative" rates. In case there were several such rates. Hep burn and the Republicans do not believe there Js any difference In the two word ings, but were perfectly willing to accept the language of the Davey bill. The amended bill also provides for seven members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, instead of nine, as was pro vided in the original Hepburn bill. Another amendment incorporated at the request of the Democrats provides that in cases where no damages are assessed the commission may simply state its conclu sion and need not set forth its findings. Kates SUuul for Three Years. A section of the Davey bill requiring that the Attorney-General in appealed cases shall tile the certificate necessary to expedite tlip hearing was incorporated in the amended bill. Another amendment provides that orders of the commission shall continue in force for three years unless repealed. No existing cases are to be affected by the bill, and all laws relating to wit nesses and the conducting of hearings be fore the commission are to be continued. Hepburn expects to make a favorable re Iiort on the bill to the House tomorrow and expresses confidence that the measure will be considered by the House within a week. CONTINUES EIGHT -HOUR LAW House Also Knocks Out Perquisites of Canal Commission. "WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. The eight hour law cannot be abrogated for work on the Panama Canal and canal com missioners cannot receive additional compensation beside their salaries as commissioners. These two changes'ln the urgent deficiency appropriation bill now under consideration by the House was the net result of today's session. Innumerable amendments seeking to perfect the bill as to canal ground pur chases, purchases of coal for the navy, etc.. consumed time in discussion, but met defeat when a vote was taken. "When the session ended, about half of the bill had been considered. It will be laid aside tomorrow, when the statehood bill is to be brought in and to have the right of way until disposed of. The two amendments which pre vailed in the bill were secured without discussion. The eight-hour day pro vision went out on a point of order as "new legislation," made by Williams, the minority leader, and immediately sustained by Sherman In the chair. The limitation of the salaries of com missioners was offered by Fitzgerald of New York and accepted by the com mittee. De Armond of Missouri offered a number of amendments which had as their object the requiring of European competition in the purchase of canal supplies. Each amendment went out by Republican votes on the statement of Tawney. chairman of the appropria tions committee, that this competition was secured now and without the ex pense ' of maintaining purchasing agents In Europe. Bids of European manufacturers, he said, were acceptca now and those manufacturers had their agents In American cities and were kept in touch with the demands of the commission. One amendment provides that no member of the Canal Commission shall be paid any compensation in addition to his salary as commissioner. This was for the purpose of preventing the allowance of additional compensation to J. B. Bishop, as acting secretary oi the commission in addition to being a member of the commission. Naval Maneuvers in Europe. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. A cable dis patch to the Herald from Algiers says: The oruisers Brooklyn, Tacoma, Chat tanooga and Galveston, under command of Admiral Sigsbee, which arrived from Tangier at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, will remain until Saturday, when they will leave for Vlllefranche. On the way here from Tangier Ad miral Sigsbee put the vessels through practical evolutions, forerunners of a more extensive programme to be car ried out when a suitable occasion oc curs. Several of the boats' crew are In al most daily practice for the boatrace to be held In the quiet waters of Ville franche If possible. The Brooklyn crew is handicapped by the loss of the fine new racing cutter that was swept away in a storm on the recent east ward voyage across the Atlantic. t Progress of Drydock Dewey. WASHINGTON Jan. 23. Rear-Admiral Dunlap, Commandant of the naval station at San Juan, Porto Rico, under" date of yesterday, sent the following cablegram to the Navy Department regarding the drydock Dewey: "Later Information from the Maine gives position of the drydock Dewey at mid night, 20th Inst., as latitude 2$, longitude 44.6 minutes. Hosley reports Caesar bur led seaman, dead of berl-beri." Elkins Hate Bill Discussed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. The Senate committee on Interstate commerce to day discussed the Elklns rate, bill, fol lowing the plan adopted for the con sideration of the several measures j pending before the committee. The J discussion was not conciuuea ana win be resumed Friday. Wants $2,000,000 for Militia. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. The National Guard Association today reaffirmed Its approval of the bill pending In the Sen ate and House, carrying an annual ap propriation of J2.000.000 to Increase the efficiency of the militia and to promote rifle practice. Sends Sympathy to Brazil. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Immediately upon receipt of official news of the de struction of the Brazilian batttleshlp Aquldaban. Secretary Bonaparte sent a cablegram to the Brazilian Minister of Marine extending sympathy. DRAW LINES ON STATEHOOD (Continue From Pane I.) these three men have been convinced that joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico is unwise, particularly as Ari zona Is overwhelmingly opposed to ad mission with New Mexico and Is willing to remain a territory rather than come Into the Union under such circumstances. The Washington men arc insurgents sole ly because they believe the insurgent causo is right, and not from any desire to break with the House leaders. That they are firmly convinced of the righteousness of their position was shown today when Mr. Humphrey was sum moned to the White House and brought upon the carpet by President Roosevelt, as" many other insurgents had been be fore him. Mr. Humphrey told the Presi dent he was very sorry to have to vote against a measure which the President was supporting. He would like very much to support the President and the House leaders, but there was a question in his mind of right and wrong, and he was firmly convinced that Joint statehood would be a rank injustice to Arizona. For that reason he was unwilling to change his position and so informed the Presi dent. As he left the White House, Mr. Hum phrey said: "I'd like to vote for it to please the President, but I am opposed to state hood in any form for those territories and will have to vote against the bill. The President has always been very kind to me. and I'd like to sec my way clear to help him, but I think the bill is dead and sec no reason to change my views." Hermann, who Ls under special obliga tions to the Spoakcr for having been allowed to "take the oath, is expected to vote for Joint statehood In part pavment for recent favors. VALENCIA 5 (Continued From rase 1.) less her master keeps too far seaward to see the wreck. The steamer Queen, which loft at 5 P. M., will arrive In all probability at the Valencia before the wrecking steamer Salvor, which left before her, but is a slowor vessel. HUNDRED REPORTED DROWNED Lighthouse-Keeper at Cnrmanali Files the First Telegram. VICTORIA. B. C, Jan. 23. A dispatch from Cape Beale says the steamer lost is the Valencia of San Francisco, which went ashore on the Vancouver Island coast near Cloo Ose. The lighthouse keeper rays between 50 and W were drowned. The news of the disaster on Vancouver Island coast is meager, being confined to the message received by Captain Gaudin, agent of marine, from Lighthouse-keeper Patcram at Carmanah, saying as fol lows: "Scamar wrecked between horc and Cloo Ose. About 100 drowned. Nine reached telegraph hut. Will wire more particulars as soon as possible." Cloo Ose is about five or-six- miles from Carmanah Point and 65 miles from Vic toria. Cape Beale ls 120 miles from Vic toria, at the easterly entrance to Barklcy Sound. TWO REPORTS OX STATEHOOD Republicans Favor, Democrats Op pose, Joining Two Territories. WASHINGTON. Jan." 23. Representa tive Hamilton (Rep. Mich.), chairman of the House committee on territories, today submitted to the House a favorable re-' port on the Hamilton Joint statehood bill, which provides for the admission of Okla homa and Indian Territory as the State of Oklahoma, and provides Joint .state hood for New Mexico and Arizona under the name of Arizona. The report reviews the bill In detail, ex plaining that the capital of Arizona I to be at Santa Fc until 1S16, and that the capital of Oklahoma is to be at Guthrie for the name length of time, when the people can choose their canliiU lt v! with Justice to all parts of the states. The re port says: This committee considers the criticism as ill-formed which finds fault with New Mexico because of its foreign population. Out of a population of 195.31G. New Mexico has only 1C.465 foreign-born inhabitants, a smaller percentage of foreign-born than most states of the Union. Were it not that the two-fifths of its population which are native-born but of Spanish descent have been heretofore er roneously referred to as foreign. It would be an aspersion upon a patriotic people even to refer to their loyaltv. The re maining three-fifths of its population are of the same character as the people uf Arizona. Of the alleged undervaluation of property in Arizona for purposes of taxation, which was warmly discussed in hearings, the report says: It has a total assessed valuation of tax able property, as shown bv the report of the Secretary of the Interior, of $S..!30.372. but it is probable that its property is re turned for taxation at a co mpa fa lively small percentage of its market value In omo Instances, as indicated bv Govern ment reports, at not over 5 per cent of Its actual value. Concerning laxes in New Mexico, th report says: The assessed valuation of property with in the territory for the year 1803 was 542, o7R.V2. but it is asserted that for purposes of taxation property Is not returned at much more than 20 per cent of Its markot value. The report concludes as follows: Inasmuch as Congress intended bv the organic act of the Territory of Oklahoma that all of the original Indian Territory, together with what Is now Beaver Coun ty, should become one state, and inas much as the present Territory of Okla homa has for some time been qualified for statehood, which has been deferred until the Indian Territory should be ready to be joined therewith in statehood; and. Inasmuch as conditions In the Indian Territory Imperatively demand some bet ter form of government than now exists there: and. Inasmuch as Indian lands will be allot ted In severalty before the time when statehood can go Into effect, this commit tee reports In favor of the Joinder of the Territory or Okluhoma and the Indian Territory in one state, not. however, be fore March 4, 1907. such state to be known as the State of Oklahoma. To that end, and to the end that the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico may be joined in one state, to be known as the State of Arizona, this committee recommends that the bill do pass. The Democratic members' of the House committee presented a minority report In opposition to the bill. After reviewing the resources of the four territories of Arizona, New Mexico. Oklahoma and Indian Territory and de claring In favor of Joint statohood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, the re port says there Is no more reason for joining New Mexico and Arizona than there would be for joining Alaska and Porto Rico. The manifest and unjust purpose of the majority Is to keep Oklahoma out of the Union unless they can, with greater injustice, force Ari zona in, says the report. It continues: We regret the President's action In rec ommending, without assigning any rea- on. joini biaicnoou lor .Arizona and New Mexico, and thus Ignoring the last expres sion of the Republican National platform on the question of statehood for the re maining territories. The report concludes: Should the Republican partv.pass this hill, wicked as it is. in the denial of equal rights in representation and partisan In nil of Its material details. It will but af ford another Indecent example of the sup pression of individual, territorial and Na tional rights to subser'e party ends. Vandiver's Authority Sustained. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 23. State Insurance Superintendent Vandlver re ceived notice today that the Federal Court has dismissed the suit filed by the New Tork Life Insurance Company to prevent him from enforcing his order of ouster from the state. WHALER GOES TO THE RESCUE Orion Is Said to Be Trying to Save the Shipwrecked. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 23.-G P. M.) Carmanah reports a ship's boat passed there at I P. M., with several people In It. It Is roportod here that the whaling steamer Orion has arrived at the scene of the Valoncla wreck from the whaling sta tion at Sechart, and ls trying to save as many Ih'es as possible. SEATTLE OFFICES BESIEGED Friends of Passengers on Valencia Insane From Grief. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 23. (Special.) Almost crazed by grief, friends of passengers on the steamer Valencia, failing to get any Information of the peril of the ones they cherished, beat upon the barred gates at the Pacific Coast Company's docks tonight, de manding In Impotent rage that they be permitted In some way to go to Cape Beale to search for bodies or help i in the rescue of Imperiled passengers. Big watchmen barred the entrance to the Pacific Coast docks and the gates were closed against curious visitors and those with friends, or relatives aboard the boat. The company had, no vessel that could be sent on a search from here and refused to allow passen gers to be taken on .the steamer Tope ka. sailing tonight for California ports. The Topcka Is to hunt for the Valen cia and to stand by with the boats sent ont of British Columbia jorts to ren der any possible assistance. She will transfer any passengers or members of the crew rescued to the vessels which will return to British Columbia ports. Then she will sail for the south. The Topcka was ready to sail before any of those with friends aboard the Valencia knew of her departure. Be fore they had reached the dock she had pulled out. Frenzied relatives and friends de manded that special boats be sent out; a prominent attorney, whose Chicago brother is believed, to be aboard the Valencia, offered to charter a boat if one could be had. Another demanded Immediate Information. Tearful women besieged the offices of the company begging for news. The company had nothing to show. The meager telegrams received by the ves sel owners told no more than the press dispatches and it was absolutely im possible to tell whether any person haJ been saved. The passenger list was mutilated in transmission and it was with difficulty that many of the names were deciphered. This confusion over misspelled names added to the dismay and grief of relative. W. A. Peters, of the prominent law firm of Peters &. Powell, had a brother aboard the boat and he spent most of the night at the offices of the steamship company demanding information or begging to be permitted to charter a boat to go to the rescue. There was none to be hsd. N. It. Sibley, manager of the firm of Stone, Fisher & Lane, has a son aboard the boat and he Joined with Mr. Peter in offers to cotttrlbute anything tnat could be done toward saving the Imper iled passenger. By telephone others who believed relatives were in danger besought information or a chance to help. The passenger list has not been fully identified yet but it Is pretty certain a dozen Seattle men and women were on the Valencia. Few of them are prominent. Officials of the Pacific Coast Company maintain the captain of the Valencia must have mistaken the lights. They say he was about 23 miles off his course when tho vessel struck the rocks. A dense fog made navigation extremely hazardous and the company believes the fog rather than storms Bingham Names His Deputy. NEW TORK, Jan. 23. Rhlnelander Waldo was today appointed First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City, under General Theodore A. Bingham, HUNDREDS OF LIVES AND VALUABLE CARGOES LOST OFF CAPE BEALE, CAPE FLATTERY AND WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND Few if any other regions in the known world arc more dreaded by mari ners than Cape Beale. Cape Flattery and the west coast of Vancouver Inland. Hundreds or lives, and ships and cargoes valued at millions, have been lost In this wild region where wind and wave run rlou A complete list of the casualties which have occurred In the vicinity of the place where the Valencia Is pounding to pieces would run into the hundreds, hut among the more Important wrecks that have occurred there In the past W years arc nearly 60 which were total, and o t theso 32 were accompanied by loss of life, more than 70) people perishing. Among the craft whose bones are rest ing on the west coast of Vancouver Island xnd In the Flattery rogion arc the following: King David. British shin, from Salinas Cruz for Pugct Sound, wrecked on reef off Nodtka Sound. January. IA; even lives lost. Pass of Melfort. British bark, from Ancon for Puget Sound, wrecked oft Uclulet Arm. Vancouver Island. January. UOS: 24 lives lost. Lamorna. British ship, from Tacoma for Queenstown, wrecked off Ucle lut Arm. March. 1004: 25 lives lost. Triumph. British schooner from Clayoquot for Boring Sea. wrecked oft Clavoquot Sound. February. l&M: 32 lives lost. Condor. British warship, from Victoria for Honolulu, foundered off Van couver Island. December. 1&02: F8 lives lost. Libcrtad. Peruvian bark, from Pisagua for Victoria, foundered off Cape Flatter'. November, HOO. Jane Grey. American schooner, from Seattle for Alaska, foundered off Cape Flatter'. May. 1S9S; 34 lives lost. Uncle John. American barkentlne. from San Francisco for Puget Sound; wrecked on Carmanah Point. October. 1SKJ; two lives lost. Keewcnah. American steamer, from Nanalmo for San Francisco, foun dered off Cape Flatter". December. 1H4: 31 lives lost. Montserrat. Nfcaraguan steamer, from Departure Bay for San Fran cisco, foundered off Cape Flatter. December. 1KS4: 30 lives lost. Ivanhoe. American ship, from Seattle for San Francisco, foundered off Cape Flatter'. September. 1SS4: 23 II vs lost. Michigan. American steamer, from San Francisco for Puget Sound, wrecked near Bonllla Point, west coast of Vancouver Island, January. 1S53; one life lost. , Leonore. Chilean bark, from Valparaiso for Puget Sound, wrecked Octo ber 4. 1S83. between QuIIllute and Flatter: six lives lost. Sarah. Nova Scotian ship, from Manila for Puget Sound, wrecked on west coast of Vancouver Island. November & 1581; two lives lost. Dare. American schooner, from San Francisco for Puget Sound. WTccked near Bonllla Point, west coast Vanco uvcr Island. December. 1K0. Nellie May. American bark, from Puget Sound for Callao. foundered off Clayoquot Sound, west coast Vancouver Island. January. 1STO: 13 lives Ioau Port Gordon. British ship, from Androssan for Tacoma. wrecked near Destruction Island. February. four lives lost. Cassandra Adams, American bark, from San Francisco for Tacoma, wrecked near Destruction Island. August. 1S5S. Duchess of Argyle. British bark from Liverpool for Vancouver, wrecked near Port San Juan. Vancouver Island. October. 1RS7. Austria. American bark, from San Francisco for Tacoma, wrecked on Flatterv rocks. January. 1SS7. St. Stephen. American ship, from Seattle for San Francisco, wrecked on reef off Kuyoquot Sound, west coast Vancouver Island, April. 1SS7; 22 lives lost. Eldorado. American bark, from Puget Sound for San Francisco, foun dered off Cape Flattery. April, 1SS7; l lives lost. Belvldere. American ship from Wilmington, Cal.. for Pugct Sound, wrecked on Bonllla Point, west coast Vancouvor Island. November. If?. Harvey Mills. American ship, from Puget Sound for Francisco, foun dered oft Cape Flattery. December. 1SSS; IS lives lost. Ella S. Thayer. American bark, from Puget Sound for San Francisco, foundered off Cape Flatter'. December. 1RS6. Sierra Nevada. American ship, from Seattle for San Francisco, foun dered off Cape Flatter". September, 1SS6: 13 lives lost. Lizzie Marshall. American ship from San Francisco for Seattle, wrecked near Bonllla Point, west coast Vancouver Island, February, JSS1; one life lost. Thomas R. Foster. American bark, from Esquimau for Honolulu, foun dered off west coast Vancouvor Island. December. 1SS4. C. L. Taylor. American bark, from Puget Sound for San Francisco, foundered oft Cape Flatter'. February. 1SS3: two lives lost. Revere. American ship, from Honolulu for Puget Sound, wrecked near Port San Juan. Vancouver Island. September. 1SS3. Malleville. American bark, from Shanghai for Puget Sound, wrecked near Hesqulet. west coast of Vancouver Island. October. 1RS2; 20 lives lost. Rainier. American bark, from Seattle for San Francisco, foundered off Cape Flatter'. January. one life lost. Twcnty-First-of-May, Chilean bark, wrecked near Race Rocks, Straits of Fuca. December. 1SSI. General Cobb, American ship, from San Francisco for Puget Sound, near Cape Beale. west coast Vancouver Island. January. 1FS0: one life lost. Beevcrdass Ambldiass, British bark, from Shanghai for Paget Sound, wrecked near Cape Beale. west coast Vancouver Island. July. 1S73. Marmion. American ship, from Turret Sound for San Francisco, foun dered oft Cape Flatter'. November S. 1S79. Gem of the Ocean. American ship, from Seattle for San Francisco, wrecked near Port San Juan, west coast Vancouver Island. August. 1573. Grace Darling. American ship, from Nanalmo for San Francisco, foun dered off Cape Flattery. January. 1S7S: IS lives lost. Commodore. American ship, from San Francisco for Seattle, wrecked near Tatoosh, January. 1S77. Cambridge, American bark, foundered off Cape Flattery, June, 1577: one life lost. Swordfish. British ship, from San Francisco, for Moodyvllle, wrecked near Race Rocks. November, 1S77. Pacific. American steamer from Pugct Sound for San Francisco, sunk in collision In Straits or Fuca, November. 1S75; 200 lives lost. Orpheus. American ship, from San Francisco for Puget Sound, wrecked near Cape Beale. November. 1S75. Emily Farnum. American ship, from Pugct Sound for San Francisco wrecked near Destruction Island. November, 1K75: two lives lost. Pellcano. Nicaraguan ship, from Callao for Puget Sound, wrecked In Ncah Bay. January. 1S75. Christopher Mitchell. American ship, rrom San Francisco for PuceL Sound, wrecked on Dungcness Spit. March. 1R74: three lives lost. Diana. America ri steamer, from San Francisco for Pugct Sound, wrecked on Flatter' Rocks. January. 1S74. Edwin. American bark, from Puget Sound for San Francisco, foundered off Cape Flattery. December. 1S74; tour lives lost. Hattle Besse. American bark, fro m San Francisco for Burrard Inlet foundered off Cape Flattery. November, 1S72. ' Maria J. Smith. American bark from Pugct Sound for San Francisco wrecked near Barclay Sound, west coast Vancouver Island. November 13 John Bright. American bark, from Puget Sound for Honolulu, wrecked on reef near Hesqulet, west coast Vancouver Island. March, 1&9; 14 lives lost. Lizzie Boggs, American ship, from San Francisco for Puget Sound wrecked near Cape Flattery. September. 1S67. Ellen Foster. American ship, from Callao for Puget Sound, wrecked In Neah Bay. December. 1S57. Mauna Kea. Hawaiian bark, from Puget Sound for Honolulu, wrecked near Quatslno Sound, west coast Van couver Island. Nevembcr. ISfiS- two lives lost. Mustang, American bark, from San Francisco for Puget Sound, wrecked at Schooner Cove, west coast Vancouver Island. January. IKS. William TelL American ship, from San Francisco for Puget Sound wrecked on reef near Port San Juan, Vancouver Island, December, 1SS3 were responsible for the wreck; This Is all speculation, though, for the com pany itself has no definite Information. The company sent boats from Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle to the rescue. GRAVEYARD OF MAXT SHIPS Barren and Dangerous Stretch of Coast on Vancouver Island. VICTORIA. B. C.. Jan. 23. The stretch of coast between Cloo Ose and Cape Beale. where the Valencia has been wrecked, stretches for ten miles, all rock bound, and has earned the name of "the Graveyard of Ships." Seablrd Rocks, on which the steamer Michigan was wrecked ten years ago or thereabouts. Is the most dangerous of all the points in the vicinity. It is thought by local marine men from the descrip tlons received that It Is on these danger ous rocks that the Valencia has been lost. Seablrd Rocks stand at the entrance to Pachona Bay, 20 miles east of Carmanah. They stand about ten feet above water, and two large rocks He off them nearly hair a mile away, awash at high water. Navigators say the rocks cannot be ap proached with safety within a mile and a half. Pachena Bay, which lies between the Seablrd Rocks and Cape Beale, Is open to the southwest, with a heavy swell set ting In such weather as that of yesterday. The light station at Cape Beale is the nearest place to the scene of the wreck where assistance can be scured. The lighthouse is situated on a small Islet at the extremity of Cape Beale. the easterly entrance to Barkley Sound, about ICO miles from Victoria. It Is a square lighthouse, painted white, with a red lan tern. -42 feet high, with Its light a flashing white light ever" half minute, showing at a height of 173 feet above the sea and visible In clear weather for ID miles. A red sector Is shown from the light across the channel and western reefs in the en trance to Barkley Sound. There Is a fog alarm at Cape Beale, and also at Carma nah. both of which are In operation In thick weather. Cape Beale Is a bold, rocky point. 120 feet high, with the tops of the trees about SCO feet above the surface of the water. Some rocks extend off the lighthouse rock, from two to four miles distant. Passengers From Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 23. Among the passengers on the Valencia, bound for Seattle, are Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Bun ker and two children, of San Francisco. Mr. Bunker was recently appointed As sistant Superintendent of Seattle Schools, and "was on his way north to enter upon his duties. His home has been in San Francisco. v Miss Van Wyck. another San Fran cisco pass6nger, is a sister of Mrs. W. A. Peters, wife of a prominent Seattle attorney. She was to visit her sister. who Is ill at her home in this city.. E. T. Fondo, another Seattle passen ger, is a commercial traveler whose home is in this city. Charles Samuels, a sawcutter. Is also a Seattle passenger. He has been in San Francisco on a pleasure trip. W. Lombardin. who lives at D32 Twelfth avenue south. Is returning from a pleasure trip to San Francisco. CALLED AT PORTLAND TWICE Vulcncla Carried Crouds Between Portland and San Francisco. Last Summer when traffic between Portland and San Francisco was unusual ly heavy the Valencia called here twice for crowds that tho regular Portland-San Francisco liners could not handle. This was done by special arrangement between the San Francisco &. Portland Steamship Company and the Pacific Coast Steam ship Company, owners of the Valencia. She was one of the prettiest model boats on the Coast, and was well equipped for the passenger service, although the small est of the regular liners. The Valencia was a one-screw steamer, built at Phila delphia In 1SS2 by Cramp & Sons. She registered 1137 tons net. Her dimensions were: Length, 252.7 feet; beam. 31 feet: depth of hold. 19.7 feet. During the war with Spain the Valencia, was engaged for a tlm In the transport service of the United States, carrying troops to nnd from the Philippines. 3 "WEALTHY CLACKAMAS FARMER SUES TO RECOVER LAND. Alleges That While Intoxicated He AVas Induced to Sign Away Title to Fine Land. OREGON CITY. Or.. 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RAILROAD TO GRAXGEVILLE Northern Pacific Preparing to Build at Once. LSWISTON. Idaho. Jan. 23. (Special.) Word reached here tonight through a re liable source that the announcement Is expected this week from the Northern Pacific that a contract for the construc tion of a line from Culdesac to Grange vllle. a distance of 55 miles, will be let to Erlckson & Peterson, who are now en gaged In building the Rlparla branch for the O. R. & N. Co. It Is estimated the cost of the Grangevllle line, which will be owned Jointly by the O. R. & N. nnd Northern Pacific, will reach J2.500.COO. It Is also learned tonight that, begin ning tomorrow morning, laying of steel on the Rlparla branch will commence from the Rlparla end. About 10 or 12 miles of steel has been assembled In the yards at Rlparla. and a force of men en gaged to do the work. The O. R. & N. Co. hopes to have the line to Lewi a ton in operation by June, and to that end work ls being rushed all along the line. Over ICO men are at work here on tho cement pier sites, which will sup port the steel bridge to span the Clear water River. . . R. D. Jones, of San Francisco, one of the men who propose to finance the building of the Lewlston-Grangevllle elec tric line, arrived here tonight to confer with local promoters of the enterprise. Much secrecy is maintained relative to the plans for the building of this line during the past few weeks, and Mr. Jones refused to discuss the object of his visit at this time. It Is asserted by promoters Chlnoc Accused of Embezzlement. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. . 23.-Detective Thomas Ryan left for Seattle today with requisition papers for Wong Loy, a Chi nese, who Is wanted here to answer a charge of felony embezzlement. Loy was employed as a foreman on the ranch owned by the Mow Sang Company, of this city. In the San Joaquin Valley. 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