THE MORyiXG OREGOyiAN, TUESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 7, . 1VQ9. V 6 i" 1 IS GOASTWISE FIGHT IN SIGHT NOW Hill ' Interests Prepare to In crease Steamship Serv ice on Pacific. ST. CROIX TO GO ON RUN North Pacific Company, Allied With Hill, Also Goes to Atlantic for Two Vessels Uarrlman Is Preparing for a Struggle.- LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Sept. .(Spe cial.) Evidence of a coastwise freight and traffic war between the Hill and Harrtman steamship Interests Is seen in the information officially received today that the North Pacific Company has leased the St. Croix, now dry docked In Seattle, and will transfer the vessel from Alaskan waters to the run between San Francisco. San Pedro, Portland and Seattle. She. will arrive here October 1 on her initial voyage, and at that time the service will be ex tended to San Diego, and Santa Bar bara will be made a port of calL The Roanoke and George W. Klder are already engaged In the coastwise trade, and to these will also be added two ships of the same tonnage bought in the East and now en route. This will make a North Pacific fleet of five vessels, and Hill, by a traffic arrange ment effective September 25 between the Spokane. Portland & Seattle Ratl wav and the1 North Pacific gains-a temporary advantage over hl powerful rival. Harrlman. however, has the Rose City and Kansas City plying between San Francisco and Portland, and has two large boats under construction in the East for the San Pedro-Seattle service, and It. Is understood he will extend the schedule of 'the two operat ing in northern waters to take in San IHego and San Pedro to offset Hill's activity. FLEET IS IXCKEASED TO FIVE f North Coast Company to Enter Coastwise Traffic Extensively. C. P. Doe. general manager of the North Pacific Steamship Company, has chartered the steamship St. Croix and will place her in service between San Francisco and San Pedro. She will leave San Francisco on her Initial trip in the service of Mr. Doe September 15. The St. Croix Is owne4 and operated by the White Star Company, of Seattle. Dur ing the Summer season she has been run ning between Puget Sound ports and AVith" the addition of the St. Croix to the North Pacific fleet, the company will have five vessels In operation. The Ro anoke and Geo. W. Elder will continue In service between Portland. San Pedro and way ports; the Eureka operates be tween Portland. Eureka and Coos Bay. Between ' San Francisco and Eureka, the business is bandied by the steamship F. A. KUburn. Rumors, recently current along the wa ter front, have it that Doe has secured an option for the purchase of the steam ship Alliance, now operating between Portland and Coos Bay. With the addi tion of this vessel to his fleet. Doe would be in a position to handle freight be tween any and all points on the Pacific Coast. He now tins & through line, but the little Eureka Is unable to handle the business which is offered. STEAMER CHEHALIS GROCXDS Gets Ont of Grays Harbor In Fog. Floated on High Tide. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Sept- 6. (Special.) While groping her way through a dense fog this morning, the steamer Chehalis, from San Francieeo to this city, ran aground at Damon's Point, a mile north of the bar. The smoothness of the sea and soft ground alone saved the vessel. .Excitement bordering on a. panic imme diately broke out among the passengers, who, unable to see 30 feet from the ves sel's side, and imagining In their fright that the vessel was sinking, befeeched the captain to lower the boats. In the meantime the whistle was sounding sig nals of distress and an hour or eo later the Westport life-saving crew and tug During reached the scene. Owing to the , fact that the Chehalis was In ballast and ' that the tide was rising, the vessel was able to pull off and make her way tnto the harbor this evening. She was dam aged slightly. DOCK READY SEPTEMBER 15 New Venture of Willamette Iron Works Nearlng Completion. Announcement was made yesterday by the Willamette Iron & Sieel Works that the new dry dock, recently constructed for service In conection with the shipbuild ing defartment of the company, would be ready for business Wednesday, Sep tember 15. The work has been practically completed and all that remains to be done Is in the way of incidentals. When opened for business the drydock will be able to handle ships measuring 3T5 feet over all. The dock will have a lifting capacity of m) tons dead weight and can easily accommodate vessels of the class of the Senator, Kansas City and Elder. The dock, over all. measures 840 feet In length and TO feet beam (56 feet at narrowest place Inside). The close prox imity of the Iron works will give the dock a material advantage in the rapid handling of vessels. No Alarm, Say Flreboat Officers. Officers of the flreboat George H. Wil liams, against whom charges of .slowness were made in the matter of responding to the fire on board the steamer Vulcan. Sunday morning, say that the reason for the delay was not any lack of vigilance on the part of the flreboat crew but that the alarm was not sounded until after the crew of the burning steamer realized that the flames were beyond control. It Is asserted by officers of the flreboat that she was under way within three minutes after the Gataert blew the fire alarm. Sea Otter at Grays Harbor. HOQC1AM. Wash., Sept. 6. (Special.) The yacht Sea Otter, owned by Roderick L. Macleay. of Portland, put In here for . ballast today, en route for Puget Sound, where she will be used as a pleasura craft. She made a fine run from Astoria to Hoquianr. her time being 6 hours and 20 minutes between docks. Seattle Shipping News. SEATTLE. Sept. 6. Steamer Dolphin sailed for Skagway and- ports with pas sengers and freight today. Steamer North western will arrive tonight from Valdez. Steamer Mackinaw arrived from Nome with passengers and freight. On board was the body of Jesse E. Stanley, a sol dier, drowned at Fort Egbert. Steamer Governor arrived from Los Angeles and San Francisco with possengers and freight. Steam schooner Rainier arrived from San Francisco. Grays Harbor Jetty About Done. HOQCIAM. Wash., Sept. . (Special.) When the barg'es St. ames and Big Bonanza, of the James Griffiths & Sons fleet. Seattle, were towed to the jetty today the contract for delivery of, rock for the north Jetty was completed. The breakwater is practically complete and a few weeks' work will finish the project. Efforts will be made for an additional $500,000 appropriation for Improvements to Grays Harbor. Marine Notes. The steamship Sue H. Elmore is due to sail for Tillamook this evening at 6 o'clock. With general cargo from San Francisco the steam schooner Majestic arrived up last evening. The steam schooner Thomas L. Wand sailed for Grays Harbor, in ballast, yes terday afternoon. The schooner C. A. Thayse. from San OLD HOPS ADVANCE Sixteen Cents Paid for Last Year's Crop. ; SEVENS ARE ALSO HIGHER STEAMER INTELLIGENCE. Iue to Arrive. Name. From. Date. Breakwater. .. .Coo. Bay.... In port Pus H. Elmore. TiliamooK. . . .In pirt Roanoke San Pedro... In port Ario Tillamook . ... In port. Rose City I. San Francisco In port Alliance Coos Bay P-pt. 10 Falcon.., Pan Francisco Scj.t. to Eureka Eureka Sept. H Geo. V. Flder. .San Pedro. .. Sept. 12 Kansas City. . . San Francisco Sept. i- Solja Hongkonn. . . . Indefl t Henrik Ibsen. . -Honekonti OcU 24 Scheduled to Ieprt- Name. For. Date. Roanoke .Pan Pedro Sept T Sue H. Elmore. Tillamook. .. Sept. T Preakirater Coos Bay, Sept. Arlto Tillamook Sept. 8 Ko,e City San Francisco Sept. It Alliance foos Bay Sept. 11 Falcon Fan Francisco Sept. I - Eureka Kureka Sept. 1. Geo. W. Elder. San Pedro. .. Sept. l Kansas City. .. San Francisco Sept. 18 Selja Honftkont.... Inuen't Hcnrlk Ibsen. . Honkoni Nov. 1 Pedro, arrived up yesterday afternoon In tow of the steamer Oklahoma. With passengers and , freight. the steamship Rose City arrived up last even ing at 6 o'clock, 61 hours from San Francisco. Arrivals and Departures. PORTLAND. Sept. 6. Arrived Steamship Aro. from Tillamook; steamship Hw t'lty. from San Francisco: steamship Majestic, from San Francisco; schooner C. A. Thayer, from San Francisco. Saiicd Steamship Thc.mas L. Wand, for Grays Harbor. Astoria. Or.. Sept. (1 Condition at the mouth of the river at 5 P M.. smooth; wlnrt. northwest " 2 miles; weather, cloudy. Left up at 5 A. M. Schooner C. A. Thayer. Ar rived at 9 and It ft i:p at lf:4l A. M. Steamer Rose City, from San FTanclsco. Ar rived at 9:40 and left tip at 11:10 A. M. Steamer Majestic, from Pan Francisco. Ar rived cown at 4:30 P. M. British steamer M. S. Dollar. Brest. Sept. 6. Arrived September i French bark Marthe Houx. from Antwerp, for I'uEet Sound. Newcastle. Australia. Sept. 8 Palled All rust li French ship Andre Theodore, for Portland. San Francisco. Sept 6. Sailed yesterday Steamer yosemlte. from Columbia River, for San Pedro. ' m San Francisco. Sept. 6 Arrived Tug Tl toosh, from Seattle: steamers Santa Monica. Tahoe and Kansas Cltv. from Urays Har bor: steamer Tiverton, from Ludlow; steamer Guernsey from Newport News. Sailed Barge Fresno, for Tyee. Alaska. In tow of tus Tatoosh: ship California, for Liverpool. Tacoma. Sept. 6. British steamer Flts patrick. bringing carpo for the Milwaukee Kallroad and under charier to the Osaka Shosen Kalsha. arrived In port at 3:.10 o'clock this afternoon, from Yokohama. She has reneral freight which she will dis charge at Seattla. Steamer Atlas left port today for Pan Frnriclsco. after discharging oil. Barges Haydn Brown and St. David arrived today in tow of the tug Qollsh. wltn ore. from Alaska. German steamer As suan arrived in port to load general freight for Hamburg. British steamer Hnzel Dollar arrived last night to load lumber for the Orient. Steamer Jim Butler has shifted down sound to complete her-cargo of lum ber for San Francisco. Blue Funnel liner Cvclops shifted to Seattle this morning to discharge cargo from Liverpool and the Orient. Tides at Astoria Tuesday. High. Low. T:?0 A. M S i feetO:S0 A. M 0.4 foot 6:47 P. M 8 2 foet 0:45 P. M 3.4 feet BEACH WILL GO TO IDAHO Assistant Physical Director of Local Y. 3f. O. A. Called to Boise. - W. H." Beach, assistant physical di rector of the Portland Young Men's Chris tian Association, yesterday accepted a position as physical director with the T3 A' ? - ! 4" 2 SS i - 4 i 4 W. II. Beach, Who Will Be Phy sical Director of Boise, Idaho, V. M. C. A. Boise, Idaho, T. M. C. A. The local asso ciation has as yet chosen no one to fill the vacancy in its physical department staff, which, besides Mr. Beach is com prised of Director Grilley and Assistant Director Lee. Mr. Beach has been with the Portland association for more than a year, coming here from Hoquiam, Wash., where -he was in charge of similar work. During the past year he has had special charge of the association work, directing physi cal culture among the young men of the Sunnyslrie Congregational Church, the Montavilla Methodist Episcopal Church and other organizations. SEPTEMBER EXCURSIONS Special .round trip excursion tickets to the East will he on sale September 9 by the Canadian Pacific Make your reser vations now. , A chance of a lifetime to get the best farm in. all Idaho. 3S.O0O of Idaho's choicest acres to be sold under the great Carey act at Milner. Idaho. September 20. at 10 o'clock. Land is located In Cas sia County, in the famous Goose Creek Valley. . Write for booklet. Address the Twin Falls Oakley Land & Water Com pany. ' For trunks go to the Harris Trunk Co, Foreign Cables Are Very. Bullish. ' One Cent Advance in Local Butter Market targe Receipts in Peaches. There was no business In new hops In the Oregon market yesterday and. so far as could be learned, no trading at any point 'on the Coast. It was expected there would be some movement in new California, hops, but a wire from Santa Fosa said the Southern market was blocked by the extreme nrmnens of the few growers who have not contracted their hops. Buyers In this state are waiting until they can see samples. Reports were received from quite a number of yards that have finished picking snd nearly all showed a yield lighter than expected. That new hops In the bale will sell at sn advance over contract prices Is indicated by the rise that has taken place In old hops. A lot of over,20O bales of Oregon 1908a was sold yesterday at 18 cents and a 170-bale lot of 1907s at 1 cents. The sales were made by a dealer. The foreign news of the day wsas very bull ish. The most interesting cable came from Gosslln-Qay, of Stambruges. Belgium, and It placed the Continental hop crop much lower than any of the previous estimates. The cable was received by Isaac -Plneus & Sons, of Tacoma, and wis as follows: ' "Weather unfavorable for growing crop. Reduce' estimate to 390.000 ewt. Market ad vancing rapidly." " Ironmonger, of London, cables the same Arm: "Harvest Is progressing poorly. Crop will be much smaller than estimated." A cable from the London office of. Klaber, Wolf Netter said: "Weather la favorable. No change In mar ket." Meyer Dinkle's German cable to Klaber. Wolf A Netter was as follows: "Weather unfavorable for crop. Our crop has grown worse since last letter. Market ad vancing rapidly and everything offered being taken." Plenty of Peaohea on Hand. Although yesterday was a holiday, the Front-street fruit Jobbers did a big business in the forenoon. In addition to fair receipts of Oregon peaches, five ears of Balways came from California. The peach market was about 10 cents a box lower all around ex cept on fancy Southern Oregon stock. Grapes sold well at former prices and there was a good trade In watermelons. Cantaloupes were In fair demand. Three cars of bananas were received. Butter One Cent Higher. The city creameries raised the price of batter one cent yesterday, to 35 cents a pound. The advance was brought about by the decrease in the supply. There was but little tradlig In eggs or poultry. The latter was weak. . Advances In Provisions. A new provision price list, effective this morning, shows advances of half a cent on bams, bacon, dry salt-cured meats and some grades of lard. GRANGE TO - THE FRONT Suggestion: Former Should Get a Place on Fraternity Day. GRESHAM. Or., Sept. 6. (To the Editor.) In 'yesterday's Oregonlan, I read. with much Interest the list of representatives from the fraternal and beneficiary orders, appointed to take part in the festivities of Fraternity day at the fair o be held by the Portland Fair A Livestock Association. If the association members will permit me to congratulate them unon their choice of representatives, many of whom are' personal acquaintances. I cheerfully wish the affair all success from start to finish, and espe Aially In Fraternal day, when the warring factions of the lodgerooms get together and forget that each representative thinks his own order the beM. But hasn't the association forgot some thing? Hasn't it ov-rlooked the Orange .one of me most important of all organizations? I should like to suggest that the Patrons of Husbandry have 10 flourishing granges In Eastern Multnomah with over 120O members. Among them are numerous men and wom en who are intellectually able to take a place on any Fraternal day committee, who are socially able to appear with the best of those mentioned, who are financially able to hold up their end of any necessary ex pense: and who are Interested to an extent more than all the others put together In the efforts of the association to develop any one or all of the Industries In which the association Is interested. While I am sure the association has not Intended to slight the Orange, yet I believe It has made a serious mistake in not ac cording some of Its members a place on the committee. E. L. THORPE. A KUHNJPROJECT. 38.000 acres of Carey act land open for entry September 20 at 10 o'clock. Write for booklet to the Twin Falls Oakley Land & Water Company, Milner. Idaho. Hoarseness -In a child subject to croup Is a sure indication of the approach of the disease. If ' Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is given at once or even after the croupy cough has appeared, it will prevent the attack. Contains no poison. And Again , J' - ; & r i , ' . ,. aiasaasssaMaMiMaaSEasssssssalsxtstesaM 1 TT H I toeMmbaL I&wft- OS Jfc'-to V. ei Great Voices of the Grand Opera Artists, now in Portland, accompanied by the mag nificent Kimball Instruments Portland, Or., August 28th, 1909 Eilers Piano House, ' 353 Washington St., Portland, Or. Gentlemen:, The International Grand Opera Co., as you know, will be in Portland next week. All the principal artists desire me to arrange with you for the use of your Kimball Pianos in their respective apartments. Wont you kindly send your best Kimball Up rights to the names and addresses mentioned upon the-attached sheet of paper, also if possible wont you please be kind enough to furnish Mme. Therry, at the Portland. Hotel, and Mme. Bertossi, at the Oregon'Hotel, each a Kimball Small Grand Piano. Ever since Adelina Patti, Calve, the De Reskes, Sembrich and the many other grand opera stars became ac quainted with, and purchased for their own use, the. Kimball piano, we have used this make instrument with most highly. satisfactory results to both artiBts and public and I do not want to disappoint our artists on this Western tour. , . Please render bill to me for this service as promptly as possible and thanking you for the favor, I am, Very sincerely yours, i fr f I 4 r fc 1 MV?L General Manager, The International Grand Opera Company Ma A Kimball Pianos and dozens of other highest grade -SSSSSS-- makes are sold by Oregon-s foremost Piano House SCHODL PROMISE KEPT BRIDE CROSSES COXTIXEXT TO WED PORTLAXDER. be enrolled at the Lewiston normal this season. Miss Margaret Crane Fuller, of Cambridge, Mass., Becomes Mrs. E. M. Eliot In Spokane. Traveiing 3500 miles to meet her Bance In the West, Miss Margaret Crane Fuller, of Cambridge, Mass., became Mrs. Ed ward Monroe Eliot, in Spokane yesterday, the wedding culminating a romance be gun more than four years ago. when the bridegroom, a student in the Institute of Technolofry at Boston. Mass., won the heart of Miss Fuller two years before obtaining his degree. Two years ago he came to Portland to take a position as civil engineer with the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company. The bride is the daughter of a promi nent Cambridge family and the bride groom son of a prominent attorney In St. Louis, Mo., and a nephew of Dr. Thomas L. Eliot, who fdr 41 years has been con nected with the First Unitarian Church of Portland. After a tour of the Pacific Northwest Mr. and Mrs. Eliot will reside at Gilbert, on the Estacada line, where, during his two years of separation from his fiancee, Civil Engineer Eliot built a home. Last week the bride bid farewell to her Cambridge home and informed her fiance by wire that she was on her way to Join him In compliance to her promise made in his college days. The last nail had been driven in the handsome home preVared for the bride at Gilbert and Civil Engineer Eliot had telegraphed that the promise to wed, which had endured for four years, would be kept at Spokane. There the bride was met by Mr. Eliot yes terday and the wedding ceremony' was performed by Rev. George Fuller, of the Unitarian Church. Iiewlston Pruws From Weston. LEWISTOX, Idaho, Sospt. 6. (Special.) The Lewiston public schools opened to day. The State Normal School will open next Monday, and indications point to an unusually heavy registration. Many of the students . who have heretofore at tended the Oregon school at Weston will sw Its the:best..haLio.,.be'had wmmm Standard of hat value Sold everywhere iii ...... .y . . - ,lt ...1 j.- Josephine Secrest Laid to Rest. OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 6. (Special.) Josephine V. Secrest, wife of George Secrest, of thk? city, who died at the family home on Sixteenth and High streets last night, after an lllncs of several months of dropsy, was buried In Mountain View Cemetery this afternoon, funeral sen-ices being conducted by Rev. R. C. Blackwell. Mrs. Secrest was born In Clark County, Michigan. October 28. 1848. She is survived by her husband and the following children: Mrs. Alice Han son, Mrs. Beatrice Schafer, Mrs. 'Ange line Emery and Albert J. Secrest, of this city. There are also two stepchildren, George Secrest and Mrs. Esther Chil berg, of this city. Harris Trunk Co. for trunks and bags. - 4 Illi I I Ml v will The Bottled Beer of Quality The beer that makes, but never loses friends, "GAMBRINUS SELECT" always the same, always in demand, always to be had in first-class places. Order a case from your grocer, or call up the brewery both phones prompt delivery. 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