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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1908)
CHINESE WAU JIXK LEAVES ACSTRAIilA FOR GALVESTON. Puts Into Thursday Islands in Dis tress, but Will Keep on Voy age Around Good Hope. VICTORIA. B. C.. Dec. 27. (Special.) Advices received from Australia state that the Chinese war Junk, the Whang Ho. which put into the Thursday Islands In distress. Is continuing: her voyage to Oalveston. The story connected with this historic craft is sensational. Since 9C she has crossed the Pacific Ocean twice and is said to he the only vessel of her size that has ever done so. On April 19. 1906. she left Shanghai and S3 days afterward she arrived in San Pedro. In itself this was a feat out of the or dinary. She had been purchased in Shanghai rurely for show purposes, and some dif ficulties wers encountered with the Chi- LL wl- . i w n r vyveJfeju Jo 1 nese authorities before they would let her leave on her voyage. She has been been advertised as 110 years old and is built of valuable thnber. She is 121 feet long, 24 feet beam and has a draft of from six to e:ght feet, her tonnage being 73 net. but this is no Indication of her roominess". Her frames appear to be All of camphor wood and her masts of Formosan mahogany. Pictures of the craft show her with Iron muzzle-loading cannon, smooth bore. She has an arm ory of weapons of the dnys of hand-to-hand encounters. boarding grapnels, pikes, tridents and others similar. She also has a number of other articles. Buch as starving cages, drowning baskets and bleeding tables' which the Chinese pi rates used. I Captain Wilms started from San Pedro. Intending to round Cape Horn. Bad weather 42 days out broke the Whang Ho's helm, which meant the abandon ment of the Cape route, and the captain found his way into Newcastle Bay, Aus tralia, without any chart beyond an or dinary school atlas. Captain Wilms In tends leaving for Galveston in a week, crossing the Indian Ocean and rounding Cape of Good Hope. Mrs. Wilms and her daughter and son travel with the strange craft. Only One "BKOMO QUININE" That Is LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININJ3. Look for the algnature ot E. W. GROVE. Uied th World over to Cur a Cold In On Dy. 23a. THE MOUSING CAA - AJLAi 'aw - w w " - m . m - K al. r iv ft wO' uiv ua& mo kvJk n i n cvcavuo - AVuc tCVTcWV crvw acJL vitCUV .o-OJl cidJLr 1 TREE CUSTOM IS UPHELD NO CONSERVATISM WANTED AT CHILDREN'S EXPENSE. Chief Forester Pinchot Says Christ mas Trees Can Better Be Spared Than Others. WASHINGTON', Dec. 27. (Special.) The country's forests again have been called upon to supply about 4,000.000 Christmas trees, and again many persons have asked themselves and have queried the United States Forest Service. "Is the custom a menace to the movement for forest preservation ?" "It is consistent and proper that the custom should be maintained." has been the answer of United States Forester GifTord Pinchot in every case. "Trees are for use. and there is no other use to which they could be put which would con tribute so much to the joy of man as their use by the children on this one great holiday of the year. "The number of trees cut for this use each year is utterly Insignificant when OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAY, ft i l A n VXUiACi XWLs m compared to the consumption for other purposes for which timber is demanded. Not more than 4,000,000 Christmas trees are u&ed each year, one in every fourth family. If planted four feet apart they could be grown on less than 1500 acres. This clearing of an area equal to a good sized farm each Christmas should not be a subject of much worry, when it is re membered that for lumber alone it is necessary to take timber from an area of more than 100,000 acres every day ,of the year. "It is true that there has been serious damage to forest growth In the cutting of Christmas trees In various sections of the country, particularly In the Adirondacks and parts of New Kngland, but in these very sections the damage through the cutting of young evergreens for use at Christmas is infinitesimal when compared with the loss of forest resources through fires and careless methods of lumber ing. The proper remedy is. not to stop using trees but to adopt wiser methods of use." Accused of Stealing Films. ELM A. Wash., Dec. 27. (Special.) Harry Fields and Fred Brown, charged jointly-with the theft of $1000 worth of films from a moving-picture show here, were given a preliminary hearing here yesterday before Judge Alvin Porter. Fields was released, while Brown was bound over to the Superior Court. DECE3IBER 28, 1903. OjvV xJcaAaS -fo CrrA Ko HILEY MSr GET PUCE POSSIBILITY FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS COMMITTEE. Existing Circumstances Make Him More Likely Candidate Than Cushman or Humphrey. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 27. When Speaker Cannon takes up the apportionment of commit tee places for the 61st Congres3, he will have to settle a three-coraerej fight that has developed over the vacancy that will be left by Representative Jones, of Washington, on the committee on livers and harbors, when he movos over to tho Senate. Representatives Cushman and Humphrey, of Washington, are both candidates, as is Representative Hawley, of Oregon, and at this vinic no one of them seems to enjoy any marked advan tage over the others. In point of seniority of service. C'unh mai: and Humphrey outrank Hawley, and Cushman outranks Humphrey, but 4utV OOyv &v nadL-Sdt- 1.33- wSjy (BacaaaC QTW this place will not be disposed of under the seniority rule. As a matter of f;ict. any one of the three contestants is eli gible, and the decision w'.l be made by Spaaper Cannon without .esird toy the lrngth of service of the aspiring nicm b' rs. The fact that Washington is now ic p- rosonted on the Senate committee han dling river and harbor bilis may oprrite against the two Washington Congress men and in favor of Representative Ha-s'ey. The Oregon member may aiso b'-; aided by the further fact that tiie Wcshineton men are oppcilns each other and that both, in tm".n past, have lined up against the Speaker and the Koi se organization. Cushman once made a famous speech in which he condemned' the Houe rules aid grilled the House leaders; Hum phrey, on the other hand. lias been a moist insistent advocate, o? a ship sub sidy bill ever since he cam"1 to Wali'ni; ton, and. in advocating that measure, wont contrary to the desira.s of tho party leaders. The records of th.?s3 ini-n are sure to be revived, fDr Speaker Can non is a man who never forgets. V.l.er the pact attitude of Cushman and Humphrey is considered ar.c! when it is recalled that each is determined the other shall not succeed Jones, h i. rea sonable to presume that Repre.$nta,..ve Hawley. hailing from Oregon. stands some chance of getting on the river and harbor committee, particularly as Orej,'oi 5 CVvvvi has been without representation on this committee since the death of Heire -ni a tive Tongue. Ills' chance. If not borer than that of the Washington men, is at least equally as good. Barhound at Tillamook. TILLAMOOK. Or.. Dec. 27. (Special.) The Areo and Klbam, plying between here and Portland, are barbnund, owiniff to the severe storm ofT-tshore. Kini? Haakon was the first rontribulor to Cantatn Amundsen's polar expedition. Ho gave SWino. I'd Ci fJiUl IE3QT