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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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