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TtTlP! 3rni?TXG ORTCOOXTAX. THURSDAY, " TANTTART " 20;' 1911. VALLEY OF CUTOFF UMPQUA BY ROAD David Swing Ricker Pictures Fertility and Beauty of Locked-In Land. FARMERS ARE UP TO DATE Good Highways Only Needed to Bring Capital In to Aid Progress and Open Veritable Paradise to Tourist Travel. (The Pacific Highway became a, trifle too strenuous for Mr. Ricker In the Umpqua a alley, and for the first time out of Port land, he deserted the road and took to the train as far aa Roseburg. In this portion of his account, he describes the beauty of tne country through which he passed point ing out the Importance a well-constructed and well-kept road would have In making; the excellence of these sections appreciated ry the tourist. He tells of a jaunt to sutaerlln and other points out of Rosoburg. ) BY DAVID EWIN'O RICKER. ROSEBURG, Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.) As we swung: down the valley my memory carried me back to a long- ago tip the River Lea from Cork to KJllar- ney with, runs patched with every shade of green rising above the thatch roofed huts, liven many of the foot hills in the Umpqua Valley have been cleared and roll back to plney ridges. Some of them have the verdure of the Berkshlres In April and some the browns and reds and somberness of the l'all. The topography of the valley would show the river and the road bor dered by wide, deep, rolling scallops Irlnged by shaggy hills as If, at inter vals, the hills had been pushed back against tne sKy to make place tor a few thousand fertile acres as a part of Xature's economic plan to give here and there room to grow vegetables and fruit to go with the fish of the river, the grouse and pheasants of the hills and the game of the mountains, thus dividing equably the labor of sustain ing us. Valley'si Beautlen Ilctured. No valley I have ever seen is so col orful in Winter as this valley of the Umpqua, reaching back to the moun tains, undulated tn vast swells, caught and held still, like a rolling sea sud denly become frozen. One vista gives way to another. A valley done in greens makes room for a valley done In browns. And In some of them are gath ered all tlio colors of the spectrum. As we pushed on there rose and fell out of the green fields of young oats, yellow-bellied meadow larks, darting, sailing, fluting and fighting; above and behind them rose hills as red as the heathered hills of Scotland, red with dead blossoms or tar-weed and red grass. The leaves of growing kale pur pled one patch In the great quilt, while the blossoms of wild turnip tinted an other patch with yellow. The red branches of pink hawthorne deepened Into the brown of barren trees that give nest to mistletoe. Deep green pines and the leaves of rhododendron and laurel were washed by the mistlike rain that never ceased to fall a mist that was not cheerless or. clingy, but re freshing. Here, and there an arched roof of green leaves in more than Gothic confusion marked the entrance to a path that made its way among cottonwoods and fir and blue spruce to vine-covered houses set within hedges that had begun to turn from purple to green or to fields ploughed up or colored by growing cabbage and rhubarb. An everchanging landscape fringed here and there with gray, moss covered trees that made a harmony of oolor with the gray mountains that flattened against the grayer sky. Those who are familiar with the work of Inness, the painter, cannot fail to voice the regret that he did not live to see and transfer to canvas this valley of the Umpqua. It has not the majesty of the valleys of the Canadian Rockies nor the heroics of the Yosem ite, but it has the hospitality of a landscape fitted to man's eye and is within the reach of common under standing and the limitations of the uninspired souL And it is from this paradise that bad roads shut out the tourist, and it is from these fertile, productive areas that bad roads are shutting out the money of likely investors. But if the farmers of the Umpqua many of them are out of step with good road progress, they are in step and abreast with the ad Vance of scientific agriculture. Farmers Show Initiative. My grandfather, David Swing, the preacher, while riding through Kansas. once met a prodigious liar who wore a huge diamond in his four-in-hand and said he had made It himself by a com bination of chemicals. It was this dis covery that had impelled him to aban don scientific farming. But as a far mer ho had made much money. It was a waste of money to grow beans In one field and corn In another. So he plant ed the beans between the rows of corn. They would climb up the stalks and he would be saved the labor of stringing. Jt was a fine idea, but the corn grew faster than the beans and pulled them out of the ground. It occurred to him that it was expensive to care for sheeD. Wool ought to grow on mules. It was cheap to feed mules. They d eat any thing. So ho grafted wool on his mules and. at last account, they were doing splendidly. Then it was that he dis covered how to make diamonds. After observing the work of the farmers of the Umpqua Valley, I am in clined to the belief that while they don't expect beans to climb cornstalks or wool to grow on mules, they are get ting every ounce of value out of every ounce of dirt. They have initiative. They are using their heads. They have not been content merely to educate their backs to hard labor. They have educated their minds. And the educat ed mind does not hesitate to reach ou for new ideas. Nor does it find any Joy In work that is not progressive. It does not cling tenaciously to the old order of things.' It creates. It does not tear down without building up. And the farmers are doing a lot of tearin down of theories that belonged to long ago; and they're doing a lot of building up of acre values. That they are not slow to experiment Is shown by a story that a farmer told me about the Alden Fruit Drier. He chuckled merrily and his eyes twinkled when I asked him to tell me the Btory. History of Drier Told. Well," he said, "that happened quite a spell after a man named Evans E, Vance Evans brought the first prune trees into the valley. Hans Weaver nought some of the trees; and Henry Adams and John Hall and Jim Burnett bought em. They just put 'em on block, chopped their tops off with an ax and set 'em in th' ground. In five years they were bearln' and Evans got us all Interested in the Alden Fruit Drier. Of course we had to find some way to dry our prunes and none of us knew how, So we all put "a little money into tha Alden Fruit Drier and had it built u at Myrtle ureeK. it was nothing cep a cylinder 20 feet high with a place for fire under it. 1 ou ruled trays, wit the green prunes and slid the trays into the cylinder in layers. And every time they gave the wheel a turn the tray would rise up a notch higher. By the time the trays cot to the top or tne cylinder and were ready to be taken out th" prunes were supposed to be dried. Well, we set all the boys and girls lnth' neighborhood trayin' prunes, and we brought our prunes in wagons over to the drier. It worKea ail ngnt at first and we thought she was agoln' to do the work fine. But all of a sud den the trays got too heavy for the machinery and they all slid aown. And before we could get the prunes out they all soured. We had a lot of law suits, but nothln' ever came of 'em, and the last I know of Evans he was sent to the Pen. "But." the farmer went on, we had to experiment and it was Evans that started prune (trowing in the valley and last year we shipped 100,000 worth of prunes from Myrtle Creek where that first drier waa located. And yet prune growing is only one of the industries of the valley. I haven't room to go into iigures, out me farmers of the valley today are grow ing successfully pears, peaches, figs, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, walnuts, grapes, plums, apricots, nectarines, quinces, apples and almonds. And In addition to the fruits and nuts, the val ley produces wheat, corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, alfalfa, clover, timothy, vetch, cheat, hops, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, poultry, dairy products and vegetables of every kind. The raising of turkeys is a chief industry around Roseburg. and the growing of wool and mohair are industries of rapidly grow ing importance. I feel convinced, how ever, that fruit growing will rapidly in crease to such an extent that all other ndustries will give way to it. Seven hundred and fifty acres at Edenbower, near Roseburg, have been divided into 10-acre tracts, and the demand lor these small orchards Is so great that it cannot be doubted that ouer industries will have to make room, sooner or later, for fruit culture. Train Arrival Made. And the future Importance of the Valley, with its 1.082,300 acres of till able, deeded land; Its timber area of 2,419,384 acres and its 1000 acres of mineral land, is not easily estimated. But with improved lands, within a radius of five miles of railroad stations, selling for $75 to $100 an acre, it is not to be wondered that every cent or money Invested In Umpqua Valley land Is bringing large returns. What the value of land in the Valley will be after the roads have been standardized and crops may be taken to the markets at small cost, no one is ready to esti mate. It was after dark long after dark when we swung off the train at Rose burg and made our way to the Grand, Hotel. "I guess you didn't walk into Rose burg," laughed Lou Hlmes, out-reaching his hand and greeting us with genuine Southern Oregon hospitality. "You bet we didn't," I replied, un ashamed, as I remembered that road through the pass. "Got stuck tn the mud and had to take a train for the first time since we left Portland, and that means for the first time in 236 miles it doesn't speak well for Doug las County." "It certainly doesn't." agreed Hlmes, "but we're glad you're here. It may wake up the people who don't want good roads when they learn that you couldn't walk through them. I want you and your wife to be my guests while you are here. There are a lot of us here who are good road enthusiasts and we want to talk to you. Here's one of them now." And Mr. Himes introduced us to C. P. Smith. "I came near going up after you in a car when I heard you were coming this way," said Mr. Smith. "I knew you could never get through the pass. But a car wouldn't have done much good. I wouldn t have been ablo to drive past Sutherlin, and the entire road between j Cottage Grove and Oakland Is lmpass ' able. While you're here, though, my car Is at your disposal, continued Mr. Smith, "and I want to take you out for a drive." He didn't say "for a spin." You don't spin on the Douglas County link of the Pacific Highway. You plough. "Plough" Over Road Taken. Yesterday we accepted Mr. Smith's invitation, and Mr. Hlmes completed the party. It took us more than two hours to cover the 13 miles between here and Sutherlin, over the best part of the highway this side of Cottage Grove and we got stuck twice in mud up to the hubs. But there are hopeful signs in the good road sky in Douglas County. We have a new Judge," said Himes, 'and he is a strong advocate of good roads. He has appointed the new road upervisors and he has replaced old men by, new blood. I believe things are beginning to move in the right direc tion. We're all hoping, anyhow." I said I was not much given to mak ing prophesies. But beyond the crown or that last mountain over west I see . valley In which a city slowly is preadlng around a wide, deep-sea har bor. And I believe that Roseburg and that harbor city, Joined by a railroad, will give to Oregon a new empire. And tomorrow we start for that city over a road that leads us to mountain sum mits and carries us 80 miles to the ocean. And we are going without any more Impedimenta than ' our actual needs "compel us to "carry. ' V The greatest trouble I've encountered on our journey is my wife's desire to clutter up my. blanket bundle with whims. I was willing to pack some choice English walnuts for awhile. They were not heavy. Nor did I ob ject to carrying a few prized potatoes and apples, but here, in Roseburg, I found waiting for me the whim that broke the camel's back. I could not find it possible to pack with me a bowl of goldfish, given away by a druggist with every DO-cent purchase. My wife was right when she said the fish were cute and the bowl tiny, but the idea of carrying a cunning bowl of cute fish that weren't big enough to make a meal was altogether repulsive. I have had to be severe in spite of the dread of a domestic clash. Had I been will ing to carry everything my wife has wanted to purchase for the bungalow she dreams about, I would now be Walking along the road with brilliantly colored Navajo blankets- on. my back, enfolding a copper chafing dish and a very exquisite Warsaw candelabrum. Over my shoulder would be slung a Japanese fruit basket and an antique Wlllard clock would be depended from my watch chain. And I have no idea how I was expected to carry that old rosewood chair she discovered reposing, unappreciated. In a farmers "spare" bedroom a chair brought from New Orleans in the early days bv his father. And there comes a letter from my wife's grandmother, wanting to know lr we use a pacK-mule to carry our belongings. I have advised my wife to answer "yes" in the name of my dignity and for the peace of her grand mother s soul. ENGINEER WILL BE NAMED Report on The Dalles Power Site In tended- for legislature. SALEM, Or., Jan. 28 (Special.) State Engineer Lewis has announced that every effort would be made by the committee appointed by the Legls lature to make an Investigation of The Dalles power site to have its report ready for the next session of the Leg islature Mr. Lewis, Senator Day and Repre sentative Abbott, comprising a sub committee, conferred Saturday with E. O. Hopson, supervising engineer for the Government of reclamation proj ects, who Is acting for the Secretary of the Interior, and It was decided to appoint a project engineer at the next meeting. ' RATES ON CEREALS TO ORIENT ARE COT Reduction of $1 Ton Made by Steamship Companies in Pacific Conference. MORE BUSINESS EXPECTED Action Enables Northwest Exporters , to Compete More Decisively With Australian Shippers in Phil ippine Islands. Flour and wheat rates to Japan, China and the Philippines were re duced $1 a ton yesterday by Pacific conference steamship lines, the new tariff being effective March 1 and con tinuing to September 30. The charge from Portland and Puget Sound points to Japan has been $4, to Hongkong and Manila $5 and to Shanghai $5.50 a ton. Recently the Manila rate was lowered from $5.50 to $5, the reason being that the step would give Amerl can millers a better opportunity to compete with Australia in the Philip pines flour trade, but on the $4 basis it-is thought there will be a more de cided gain in shipments there until the end of the cereal season, in June- Millers say they are perfectly sat isfied with the cut and that the con ference, which was held at Seattle yesterday, granted them the full re ductlon asked. At the same time some of them say that while buying on the part of Orientals undoubtedly will fol low at once, the market will not be stimulated to an extent that will cre ate a rush tn exports of foodstuffs, as prices in the Northwest are ranging high. Immediately on the reduction being made known exporters communicated with foreign representatives and with more than a month In which to handle orders, there promises to be larger business in March. One exporter says there will be -about 14 steamers dis patched from Portland and Puget Sound during March and there is little likelihood that all of them can depend on flour and wheat as the nucleus of cargoes. The Hamburg-American line will not have a steamer to the Orient in February, the next carrier being the Belgravla, which arrives February 26 and is to sail March 4. The Royal Mail will have the new liner Merioneth shire from Portland February 19 and the Glenroy February 28, the Cardi ganshire being due to sail March 20. Immediately after the celebration of Chinese New Year in the Celestial do main, which will be In a few days the reduction in transportation charges is expected to attract more attention. AGENT STRONG FOR BOTAXY Touch of Color to Be Given Approach to Alnsworth Dock. Many departures have been planned and promised affecting waterfront property held by the O.-W. R. & N-, on the West Side, extending from the O. W. R. & N. bridge to the Broadway bridge, and they ranged all the way from a waiting-room for steamship pas sengers to a new dock. None of them has come to pass, while another im provement is now assured and is in preliminary shape, that of planting grass plots at the Alnsworth dock ap proach. W. D. Wells, general agent for the San Francisco & Portland, who yet re tains fond recollections of California's floral features, has decided that as the dock also is known as a station, be cause the "Big Three" line hs been I LAACII UI1UC1 li.r i U It V LI I T. 1 J. vr. railroad parentage, it is permissible for him to follow agents who beautify grounds about depots. Between the upper and lower driveways lies a small section of terra firma on a level with Front street, in the center of which is the watchman's office, and about that will the landscape Idea laid out. Grass on the waterfront, save that springing voluntarily from waste grain, will be something new. ROSE CITY SPICK AND SPAN Portland-California Liner Out of Service More Than Month. Her hull gone over and a few new plates added, a new tail shaft placed. her engines and boilers- overhauled and kindred work done, the steamer Rose City is back at Alnsworth dock, after an absence since December 22. when she sailed for California. Repairs were made following her arrival at San Fran cisco, and she has been out of com mission until sailing from there Sun day afternoon. It was about 4:30 o clock when the ship berthed at Ainsworth dock yes terday morning. Adverse weather con ditions on the run up the coast delayed her. but she will get away on time Sat urday afternoon. James E. Byrnes, the veteran purser of the fleet, who was on leave when the Rose City was here last, is again on duty. WITHDRAWAL DELAY IS ASKED Bailey Gatzert and Dalles City Slay Be on Run After July 1. Counsel for the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad, which controls The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Company, operating the steamers Bailey Gatzert and Dalles City between Port land and The Dalles, have petitioned the Federal authorities for an extension of time In which to withdraw from the steamboat business, their operation of the vessels being in conflict with an act effective July 1, 1914, prohibiting the maintenance of parallel rail and water lines by the same Interests. The case is said to have been taken Up on the ground that to continue the service for a short period would not work a hardship on others and at the same time be a public convenience. Ne gotiations have been on for the pur chase of the steamers, but it is said that there are no prospects for their sale at present. CHINOOK IS IX QUARANTINE Smallpox May Retard Preliminary "Work on Pump Installation. For the next 10 days more than 20 men forming the skeleton crew of the Government dredge Chinook, which Is moored off the Port of Portland dry dock at St. Johns, will be denied shore liberty, because one member developed a case of smallpox a few days ago and another was removed from the ship Wednesday night who is believed to have the malady. Dr. Calvin S. White, secretary of the State Board of Health, visited the ship yesterday and she was thoroughly fu mlgated. The dredge is waiting to be lifted on the drydock to complete overhauling and as there are a num ber of men on the dredge Portland, lying there, besides, the drydock crew, t was deemed best to restrict the lib erty of those on the Chinook to guard against a spread of the disease. At the office of Colonel McKlnstry, Corps of Engineers, U. S. the quar antine prompted comment on the part of those engaged, in getting out speci fications for the Installation of two 30-inch suction pumps aboard, for prospective bidders will be unable to inspect the ship before filing tenders to handle the pumps. Marine Notes. More ballast is being placed in the motorboat float in front of the Stark street municipal boatlandlng, by means of which It will be lowered for the convenience of small boat owners. In working her lumber cargo for China the British steamer Bessie Dol lar is to proceed from Rainier to St. Helens today and later comes here to bunker, returning down stream aa far as Jb.aiama to finish. Finishing her lumber cargo for Val paraiso the schooner Forester has gone to the stream from the Eastern & Western mill and will leave down in company with the schooner John A. Campbell tomorrow. The latter will be towed through the bridge today from the Multnomah mill and is to be cleared for Fayta. The Winslow, lum ber laden for Peru, left down yester day. To have the last of her equipment put aboard, her machinery given the tmishlng touches and other details at tended to, the new "tunnel hull ' pro peller Anne W., built for the Hosford Transportation Company, was shifted yesterday from the Portland Shipbulld ing Company's yard to the Washing ton-street dock. She will be Inspected in a few days and her trial trip is to lake place next "ween. That Robert A. White, under arrest here for having passed checks that were not honored, formerly served on the steamer Harvard as chief steward is information conveyed to Frank Bol- lam, Portland agent for the Harvard and Yale, by Bennett & Goodall. who are operating the vessels, but they write that he was discharged a year ago in connection with the loss of stores from the ship. MARINE IXTELLIGES'CE. Steamer Schedule. DUB TO ARRIVE. Name. From Rose City Ban Pedro Breakwater Coos Bay. Date. .In port . Feb. 1 Bear .I.,os Angeles Feb. Y ucatan ...........San Dleco ....... Feb, Alliance. ...... .Eureka Feb. 1 1 1 e 8 Beaver. ........... .Los Angeles. .... Feb. Roanoke San Diego Feb. TO DEPART. Name. For Date. Camiuo. San Francisco. . . .Jan.. Yale S. F. IOL.A Jan Harvard S. K. to I.. A Jan. Rose City Los Angeles Jan. "Willamette San Diego Feb. Breakwater Coos Bay. Feb. Alliance. ......... .Coos Bay. ....... Feb. Yucatan ..San Francisco. ... Feb. Bear Ls Angeles Feb. Beaver Las Angeles Feb. EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL SERVICE. Name. From. . Date. Merionethshire. ... London .Jan. Glenroy London Feb. Crown of Toledo. . . Glasgow. ........ Feb. Belgravla Hamburg- Feb. Cardiganshire. .... London. ........ .Mar. Saxonia Hamburg. ....... Mar. Radnorshire. ..... .London. .Apr. Name. For Date. Merionethshire. ... London. ......... Feb. Glenroy. .......... London .Feb. Belgravla Hamburg Mar. Saxonia .London Mar. Cardiganshire. .... London .Mar. Radnorshire Hamburg Mar. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Jan. 28. Arrived Steamers Rose City, from St. Helens; steamer Sue H. Elmore, from Tillamook: steamer W. F. Herrln. from Monterey. Sailed Schooner Winslow. for Peru; steamer Roanoke, for San Diego and way ports; steamer Klamath for Los Angeles; steamers Johan Poulsen and Daisy Gadsby, for San Francisco. Astoria, Jan. 28. Arrived at 9 A. M. and left up at noon, steamer St. Helens, from San Francisco. Arrived down at 10 A. M and sailed at 1 P. M., German steamer Kar nak, for Hamburg via way ports. Sailed at lO A. M., steamer Atlas, for San Francisco; steamer Rosalie Mahony, for San Fran cisco; at 10:lo A. M.. steamer Breakwater, for coos Bay. Arrived at 10 and left up at 11:30 A. M.. steamer v . F. Herrln. from Montrey. Sailed at 12:30 P. M.. steamer ban Ramon, tor San rancisco : Norwegian ship Asgerd. for Ipswich; British bark t.rockodile, for Queenstown or Falmouth, sailed at a:ao f . Ai., steamer Jonan poul sen. for San Francisco. Sailed at 2 P. M., barkentlne Jane L. Stanford, for Antofo- gasta; at 10' A. M., steamer Mayfalr, for San Pedro. Arrived at 5 P. M. and left up, steamer Sue II. Elmore, from Tllla mook. Outside at 3 P. M-. French bark Champlgny, from San Francisco, New -York, Jan. . 28. Sailed Steamer Santa Cruz, for San Francisco. Seattle, Wash.. Jan. 28. Arrived Steam, era F. H. -Leggett, from San Francisco: To kohama Mam, from Hongkong. Sailed Steamer Delhi, for Southeastern Alaska, San Francisco, Jan. 28. Sailed at 11 A. M.. barge No. 83. for Portland. Passed at A. M., steamer Daisy- Putnam, from Port land, for San Pedro. San Pedro, Jan. 2h. Sailed Steamer Bear, for Portland. Arrived yesterday bteamer sisKiyou, irom Portland Tacoma. Jan. 2"S. Sailed Steamer Den of Alrlle (.British), tor Yokohama, via Van ocuver. B. C. . Manila, Jan. 28. Arrived previously Steamer Hazel Dollar, from Seattle. Hongkong. Jan. 23. Arrived previously Steamer Canada Maru. from Tacoma. Tides at Astoria Thursday. ' Hlzh. Low. 2:57 A. M 7.6 feet;f:08 A. M 2 5 feet 2:33 P. M 7.9 feetS:23 P. M 0.3 foot - Marconi Wireless Reports. (All positions reported at 8 P. M.', Janu ary zb. iimesH maerwise aesiercateai. t-nansior. Everett tor Monterey. 132 miles Ronth of rnliimhfa Hlvir w. s. Portr. Monterey for Portland. 393 miles north or San h ranclsco. Richmond, San Francisco for Seattle, 530 mues north oc san rancisco. Robert Dollar, Ballard for San Francisco o4o miles north of Sari Francisco. San Ramon, Portland for San Francisco, 0 miles south of Cape Mears. TTmatilla. Seattle for San Francisco. 24 mnes south or instruction isiana. xosemlte. Astoria for San Francisco, off Cascade Head. Atlas. Portland for Richmond. 460 miles norm oi oan tbucisco. Navajo. Portland for San Francisco. BO miles south or Columbia River. Washtenaw. Beiiiugham for San Francis co, in straits or san Juan-oe- Fuca. Henry T. Scott. San Francisco for Port Ludlow, Beven miles west or point Wilson. Speedwell. San Diego for. San Pedro. 30 miles northwest of Point Loma. Barre 91. in tow Sea Rover, anchored off Ventura. Tuoatan. San Diego for San Pedro, ten miles south or san Pedro, Ashtabula. San Francisco for - Plsagua. unue. j-io mues south oi ban f rancisco. Aatec. Balboa for San Francisco. 1K2 miles from san Francisco. Multnomah. San Pedro for San Diego. 12 miles south of ban yedro. General Hubbard, San Pedro for Eureka five miles north of Pledras Blancas. Enterprise. Honolulu for San Francisco. 1148 miles from San B rancisco. Jan. 27. Ventura. Sydney for fiau Francisco, olo miles from San Francisco. Jan. 27 Maverick. San Francisco for Honolulu. 208 miles from Ran Francisco. Jan. 27. Siberia, San Francisco for Orient. 15 miles from San Francisco. Jan. 27. Manchuria, orient for San Francisco. 1939 miles from San Francisco. Jan. 27. Phelps. Port San Luis for Honolulu, lat. 21:31 north, long. 154:-.: west, Jan. SiT, Stanley Dollar, san Francisco for Port land, off Point Reyes. Centralia. Aberdeen ror san Fsflrc, on Pigeon Point- El Segundo. san Francisco lor Seattle. 30 miles north of Point Reyes. Catania. San Francisco for San Luis. 0 miles south of Son Francisco. Beaver. Portland, tor. san Francisco, off Point Arena. Oleum. Port san luis ror rortiand. 107 miles north of San Francisco. - Adeline Smith, Coos Bay for San Fran cisco, 18 miles north of Northwest Seal Rocks. Hooper, San Francisco for Seattle, 10 miles south of Northwest Seal Rocks. Fifield, San Francisco for Bandon, 12 miles south of Northwest Seal Rocks. Senator. San Francisco for Seattle, 12 miles south of Northwest Seal Rocks. Alliance. Marshfield for Eureka, 20 miles south of Cane Blanco. Ventura. Fydnev for San Francisco, 166 miles from San Francisco. North Yakima to Dedicate Hospital. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Jan. 28. (Special.) The new St. Elizabeth's Hospital, built last year at a cost ot $250,000 by the Sisters of Charity of Providence and occupied Just before Christmas, is to be formally dedicated on Sunday, February 1. Rt. Rev. E. J, O'Dea, bishop of Seattle, will officiate. TIE CONTRACT LET St. Helens Creosoting Firm Secures Large Order. INDIA WILL GET CARGOES Entire Output of Star Mill Company Is to Be Sent to British India and First Tramp Steamer la to Lave In April. Negotiations were terminated yes terday by the St. Helens Creosoting Company for the entire output of ties from the Star Mill Company, located on Lewis River, amounting to 10,000, 000 feet, and similar deals are In pros pect, as four cargoes of ties will be dispatched this season to British India. All will be creosoted at the St. Helens plant. The order was secured by the St. Helens interests only after strenuous competition, as the business has been in prospect for the last few months. Millmen declare that 1914 will be an active period on the Willamette and Columbia rivers, and that creosoted shipments will not be confined, solely to the India exports. The first tramp steamer is to be sent away with ties in April, the second Is to sail in July, the third In August and the last in October. The ties will be cut before July, as after that time the mills cannot flume without difficulty. xnere are two shipments of creosote en route to St. Helens on tankers from Amsterdam that will be delivered be fore the tie order is well started, and with patronage from Coast cities. where creosoted piling and other tim ber similarly treated is in demand for dock and bridge purposes, the com pany will experience a lively season. The exportation to British India will augment to a great extent offshore shipments from the ' Columbia River during 1914 and. with the Panama Canal business, a natural increase In Califor nia's demand and expectation that some stuff will move to Alaska, the period should be a banner one in the annals of the lumber industry on the river. PHILVDELPHIA TARS . HERE Sailors at San Francisco Unable to Find Berths. Alfred Rosen and J. Hansen, with Sails," the sailmaker. of the British ship Philadelphia, found their way DacK to 1'ortlana yesterday from San rancisco, where they were discharged from the ship after putting into trie Golden Gate with Captain Lawrence under restraint. There they told a story of drunkenness on the part of the master. unseamanllke tactics in navigating the vessel and other actions. The trio of salts say that Cantain Lawrence has been succeeded In com mand by another skipper. They signed on the Philadelphia in Europe, making tne voyage to Portland and remalnintr on the vessel for the homeward pas sage, but aver that they preferred shipping in some other windjammer. sailors are plentiful in Portland and it is reported from San Francisco that dozens of tars are lying around that waterfront, being unsuccessful in find ing berths. Some have been cared for by marine organizations, but the latter have about given up the task of pro viding food and lodging. - FIRST BARLEY SHIP FIXED Jean Returns to Coast With General Cargo From Europe. Cables received yesterday reDorted the French bark Pierre Antonine as the first vessel taken for new croD load ing on the Coast, she being fixed to work barley from San Francisco and may have options of wheat at Portland or Puget Sound, as they were asked for when -negotiations were started. The French bark Jean, which sailed from here in September for the United Kingdom, has been fixed by Balfour, Guthrie & Company to load general cargo at Newcastle-on-Tyne for Port land or Puget Sound. She Is reported to have been engaged for about 16 shillings. The German ship Chile coniDleted her barley ' cargo yesterday, having worked 3427 tons. She will leave down Saturady In tow of the steamer Ock lahama. Sail neet Crosses Out. ASTORIA, Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.) There was a decided improvement in conditions at the mouth of the river today.. The bar was smooth, and as a result three of the weather-bound sailing vessels were towed to sea. They were the Norwegian ship Asgerd and the British bark Crocodile, grain la den for the United Kingdom, and the barkentlne Jane L. Stanford, with a cargo of lumber for Antofagasta. It Is expected the balance of the fleet will get away tomorrow. Xotice to Mariners. ' The following reports affect the aids to navigation In the Seventeenth Light house District: Coos Bay North spit jetty buoy, 1. second-class can, heretofore reported adrift, was replaced January 24, by steamer Break water, Captain Macgenn. Oraya Harbor The following buoys are reported by Captain Johnson, tug Daring: Outer buoy. PS, first-class can. out of po sition; channel buoy, 4. first-class spar, adrift; channel buoy, 1A, flrst-clasa spar, adrift. &&coast Whistling ' buoy,- marked K supposed to bo Coos Bay whistling buoy K). adrift. " January 11, reported by steamer Klamath. Captain Nelson, about 6 miles northwest of Umpqua River. January IS. reported by steamer Tucatan, IF CONSTIPATED OR BILIOUS "CASCARETS" For Sick Headache, Son-r Stomach, Sluggish liver and Bowels They Work While Yon Sleep. . Get a 10-cent box. Take a Cascaret tonight to cleanse your Liver, Stomach, and Bowels, and you will surely, feel great by morning. You men and women who have head ache, coated tongue, can't sleep, are bilious, nervous, upset, bothered with a sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or have backache and feel all worn out. Are you keeping your bowels clean with Cascarets or merely f orclng . a passageway every few days with salts, cathartic pills or castor ollT Cascarets immediately cleanse and regulate. the stomach, remove the sour, undigested and fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off the constipated waste matter and poison from the in testines and bowels. - Remember, a Cascaret tonight will straighten you - out by morning. A 10-cent box from your druggist means healthy bowel action; a clear head and cheerfulness for months. Don't for get ' the children. Adv. Gets Bheun.at.sni Wh er Any One Hay How Cure the Worst Form Rheumatism, Even Articular, Sciatic, and the Dreaded Neurit. This Plainly Show How You Feel Alter Uain S. S. S. It Sarely Geta Rheumatism Where Yon Want It. No mora journeys to not springs. No more saljclllc acid. No more makeshifts, narcotics, .opium, morphine, mercury, nor any other vile Dorsonous drug? or Daln deadener. The great discovery. Swift's flush of joy : puts a glow of excitement Sure Specific, for aching bones and joints. Into your muscles. No more Sciatica ; no nerve splitting pains in the muscles, back- more rheumatic sore throat; no more dan ache ,and every form of rheumatism, is the (Zrr of Locomotor Ataxia ; no more Iritis, most remarkable remedy known. Neuritis, or any other inflammatory con It is naturally absorbed into your tho- ditlon that has laid so many low. Swift's racic duct. In just above fire minutes Sure Specific is an extract, made and dls after It reachea your stomach, the heart trlbuted from one of the world'a greatest begins pumping it all over jour body. laboratories, and la one of the greatest rem- Away Go the Crutches. edles ever ot . Ppt. Its action Is marvelous. Bedridden rhen-' - Works Five Ways, matlca get on tbelr feet as if by magic. S. S. S. is such a thorough blood rleans Taat cold, clammy sensation that made er that it stimulates the lungs to barn np you bag a red hot stove Is gone in a the poisons : canaea tba ekln to evaporate twinkling. That excruciating pain that great quantities of acids ; flushes the kid made a feather lay as heavy as a ton of neys and bladder to excrete tbe deadly coal on the skin la gone. You get up and toxins that cause nraemlc poisoning; al liance with glea. You metaphorically toaa Fists the liver to convert bad blood into tha rheumatic goblin - into the invisible good. rich, red blood and enables the bow where. - Yonr rheumatism is gone abac- els to move, out of the system, the waste lutely ! It is an actual logical fact that that has been a daily menace to life. Don't S. S. S. wait another day before beginning this re- Flushes Your Blood. markable remedy. - ' wwtll AwJ l AH H-t - a. fl7lJZu K.tKtlrTb,?od elrcHation a una. thorough bath. i It jnst naturally and in a twinkling irrigates every atom in your ".JUL r ln,t.0 TerJ f "i can!w ?T,er7 bne- mnscle. ligament, tendon, ran- coua aurface and every nerve to thrill with freedom. with health, with new-found springiness. And beat of all, Swiffa Sure Specific, thongb a powerful, searching, overwhelm- lng enemy to pain and the causes of rhen- matism la aa pnre aa the dew on a peach blossom, aa powerful as the heroic works of nature, as searching as the peremptory temand of tba most exact aclence. about eight miles south and 15 miles west of Tillamook Rock liahthouso. January lit, reported by Captain Bailey, pilot steamer Rothley. about l'i miles south west of Point Grenville, Wash.. January 27, reported by steamer Clianslor, Captain Holmes, about four miles north ot Tatoosh Island, Wash. SHORT WEIGHTING DENIED Roseburg Men Plead Not Guilty to . Cheating on Butter Sales. ROSEBURG, Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) Robert Kidd,. Richard Stubbs and C. J. Eastman, local merchants, and Frank Crouch, traveling salesman for Swift & Co., who were arrested yesterday charged .with selling short-weight but ter, entered pleas of not guilty today In the Justice Court. Their trials were set for February 11. Oliver Kewhard pleaded guilty to sell ing butter not properly labeled and was fined $25. The arrests were made by State Food Inspector Shrock. DID YOU EVER HEAR OF A LUCKY ACCIDENT? Strong Statement Made by Portland Man Endorsing Plant Juice, " " , " the New Tonic. Many p"eople in Portland know M. D. Green, of 1191 East Nineteenth street Mr. . Green came here from Illinois, where he practiced dentistry for thirty-three years. He has lived in Portland for the last two years and if engaged in locating oils and minerals He said: "I have suffered a great deal with lumbago- and kidney trouble and have been so lame across my back for the past year, and . was in so much pain that. I was hardly fit to attend to busi ness. Tried many things, but received very little relief. I heard of Plant Juice through an accident and thought I would try it. I have not quite fin ished ' my "first bottle, but 'feel a won derful improvement already. I am go ing to keep on with the treatment un til I am entirely recovered. T . had be gun to think I was never going to get any relief, so you can Judge for your self how grateful I am. Plant Juice is a wonderful tonic and strengthened for all ailments of the Btomach, kidneys and liver. If you are tired and worn out from overwork or worry.' have lost all ambition and energy, if you suffer from torpid liver, biliousness, constipation, headache, rheumatism, pains across the back or In the joints, too scanty or too highly colored urine, . dizzy spells, spots be fore the eyes, poor circulation, hot flashes, numbness: if you wake up tired in the morning, with no appetite coated tongue, feeling of lassitude, try Plant Juice. It will put you right with yourself and the world. For sale by the Owl Drug Company. Adv. 'TeuraMa Rob Omega Oil gently over the ach ing nerves; then cover with flannel soaked in the OiL Put a piece of dry flannel over this and bind tightly against the face. This simple treat ment has brought peaceful rest to people. who have suffered agonies. , mem il 11 Wonts of is. Is Truly a Wonder. S. 8. 8. puts the tinge of red color to the cheeks : elves your nerves a new-found Btore. Aak for s. s. B the wor,d-s curi for rheumatism. For private, personal ad- Tlco on jtubborn chronic rheumatism, write at once to th. Swift Spedtic Company. 65 SwKt Building. Atlanta. Georgia. Their med,ci department la famoua on all blood diseases, and la equipped to make personal blood tests, approved by tbe highest medl- cal authorities. Get a bottle of t. 8. S. today. Then away goes rheumatism for all time. Beware of all imitations. Ton may be certain tl at any attempt to sell jou something else ts not an honest effort to conserve your health bnt a bold attempt to make a greater profit at yonr exjensa. HOW WOMEN AVOID OPERATIONS By Taking Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Cleveland, Ohio "My left side pained me so for several years that I expected to have to undergo an opera ::: :':ti ' - -i : tion, but the first bottle I took o f Lydia E. PinkhanTa Vegetable Com pound relieved me of the pains in my sida and I continued its use until I became regular and frea from pains. I had asked several doc - Kv?l .; tors if there waa anything I could lake to help me and they said there was nothing that they knew of. I am thankful for such a good medicine and will always give it the highest praise." Mrs. C. H. Griffith, 7305 Madison Ave., Cleveland,. Ohio; Hanover, Pa. "I suffered from fe male trouble and the pains were so bad at times that I could not sit down. The doctor advised a severe operation but my husband got me Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound and I experienced great relief in a short time, jnow j. ieei like a new person and can do a hard day's work and not mind it. What joy and happiness it is to be well once more. I am always ready and willing to speak a good word for the Compound. " Mrs. Ada Wilt, 196 Stock St., Hanover, Pa. If there are any complications yon do not understand write to Lvdia K. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn,2Iass. Yonr letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held In strict confidence. S. S. ROSE CITY SAILS JAN. 31, 4 P. M. (Bear, Feb. 5) Low Rates to California (Meals and berth included) Tickets at Third and Washington (With O.-W. R. & N. Co.) Phones, Marshall 4500, A 6121 THE SAN FRANCISCO & PORT . . LAND S. S. CO.