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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19, 1014. 16 RATE RISES MADE Lines Adopt Plans to Advance Cargo Tolls as Planned. CEREALS AND LUMBER UP Decline of War Risks Instills Hope in Shippers, Who Now See Chance to Resume Trade. Anxiety About Britisher. ' Pacific conference lines have carried out plans discussed nearly a week ago to advance rates on wheat and flour to Jo to all Oriental ports save Shanghai, to which port the charge is $5.50 a ton, and the lumber tariff has advanced from 6 to J12 a thousand feet. The tariff on other commodities Is 25 per cent higher to ports across the Pacific. Of ficlal copies of the tariff have arrived here, but with no vessels operating from Portland there is no chance of cargo moving only when diverted to Puget Sound. Another change in the shipping situ ation reported yesterday was that war risks had declined from tour to inree guineas and in that exporters see hope of getting cargoes started. Loading of the British steamer Jjerniey proceeueu yesterday and it is believed that before the week ' ends the cargo of the Nor wegian bark Aicides will be in full swing. The fact that the Japanese cruiser Idzumo sailed from San Diego for the purpose of keeping the German cruiser Leipsic In sight until there is a reply to Japan's ultimatum to Germany, created an easier feeling here and it Is regarded as certain that the German vessel will not menace shipping, as in the past, so long as an enemy is stand ing by. Portland shippers are concerned about the little British ship Kirkcud brightshire, which Is making her way toward the mouth of the Columbia River with coal from Newcastle, N. S. W., and has been out since July 10. The Leipsic was reported yesterday as 20 miles beyond the Farallone Islands and heading west, but some fear she may shape her course direct for the Samoan group and fall In with the Kirkcudbrightshire. If the German cruiser Nurnberg can be located and it Is known that both hare left the coast and gone to the gamoan Islands, it is thought certain that shipping will be resumed between the Pacific Coast and the Far Bast without further delay, as there has been no positive information that ad ditional German war vessels have loitered off the coast. JAPAN WOCLD BUY PIGIRON Portland Firms Are Asked to Assist in Filling; Order. It became known In commercial cir cles yesterday that less than a week ago Japanese Interests made active efforts to purchase 1400 tons of pig iron on the Pacific Coast for imme diate shipment to Japan. There is sufficient material available at dif ferent points to fill the order, yet there are no surplus stocks. It is un derstood that prices quoted Indicated the plgiron market was strong with an upward tendoncy. The negotiations were carried on through an Eastern agency. The Japa nese government was not directly men tioned, but it is assumed that the ma terial was sought to be used for arsenal purposes owing to Japan's declared in tention of going to England's aid in the European war. The material can be shipped from either Puget Sound or San Francisco in Japanese ves sels. The fact no order has been placed is taken to mean that the plgiron was either purchased elsewhere or the price was deemed too high. Negotia tions included one lot held here. THIRD I.INER IS REQUIRED Colusa Coming, but Cannot Load All Cargo Offered. While the British steamer Colusa, Of the Grace West Coast line, is due In the harbor today to load consider able cargo. It is said that such a large amount has been offered for shipment that much flour and other commodities cannot be accep For that reason there Is talk of a third steamer being added to the fleet. The Norwegian steamer Cuzco is plying in the line and is due here the latter part of Septem ber, but there is expected to be an overflow even when she finishes load ing. The Grace interests finally decided to permit the Colusa to leave Port Town eend. She passed outside at 7 o'clock yesterday mornlnt. In the opinion of shipping men there aa not the slight est danger Involved, as the German cruisers Xumberg and Leipsic are off the California coast, according to re port:.. be German steamer Saxonia, of the Hamburg-American line, which reached Seattle July 31 en route from Portland to the Orient and Hamburg, Is being discharged. It is reported that her cargo will go forward on other car riers. She may be one of the vessels offered for sale by the Hamburg American to Americans that advan tage may be taken of the emergency shipping bill to put foreign tonnage under the Stars and Stripes. STEAMER TO BE OVERHAULED Nahcotta. While Off River Run, to Be Replaced by the Elmore. To relieve the propeller Nahcotta on the Astoria-Megler route the steamer Elmore, of the O.-W. R. & N. fleet, is to emerge from the "boneyard" today and proceed to Astoria, probably car rying freight on the downstream trip. The Nahcotta is to be brought to Port land to have work done on her hull, the machinery overhauled and minor repairs made in addition to being re painted. She will probably go to Supple's yard to be hauled out while her hull is over hauled. There have been many more passengers carried this season between Astoria and Megler and especially is the Sunday travel heavier. The sched ule is so arranged that Astorians can leave for the beach Sunday morning and return Sunday night, having as much time there as Portlanders who ..uruuy night for. the week-end trip. IIXE TAKES OVER CAROLYN Ivuckenbacb Fleet Increased With , Opening of Canal. News from San Francisco Is that the Luckenbach Steamship Company has added the steamer Carolyn to its fleet, which now numbers seven carriers. The Carolyn will leave New York shortly and follows tnc steamer Isa bella, also a recent acquisition. The Carolyn is of 2443 tons net register, about 500 tons larger than the Isabella. The Pleiades was to have passed through the Panama Canal from the Pacific side yesterday and the Damara sails from San Francisco via the Canal August -'-'. In the fleet of the American-Hawaiian tho liners Ohioan, Washinstonlan and Oregonian are the only ones now making their way around via the Straits of Magellan. The Dakotan has reached the Golden Gate from New York by way of the Straits, and the -alssourian is bound for San u'rancisco from Bal boa. She passed through the new waterway Saturday. MARKET ABROAD UNCHANGED Portland Will Dispatch Two Grain Cargoes Soon. London cables reported no new life In the cargo market and virtually no change in the general shipping situa tion yesterday, and in the absence of war risks being quoted by big insur ance firms there were no additional steps made known dealing with the dispatch of vessels with grain. Interested In Informa tion that some grain cargoes from Can ada and Australia, Douna ior touijiu, had been diverted to England. The first to go from here will be that aboard oi.i..v, "PVrnlev. lving at tllC UllllOII L.......V. - Montgomery dock No. 2 and that to be ..kqh th. Vorweeian bark Ai cides, at the North Bank dock. In both cases it is said full cargoes are not at tidewater and tnat some smpmcwio . being awaited from the interior. Marine Notes, n - having- been made and the vessel partly repainted the steamer . tn thp Portland-Astoria service, leaving Washington-street dock t.jc mnrninr. lie atcciuici Undine, which was operated in her place, will be laid up. ii...--,- t. Tt.fU insoector of the 17th district, spent yesterday at the Tongue Point buoy depot, going over rw" to a seawall mere, as wen .o wwra work. r rte BtAnmprt Shaver. Dixon and Henderson, of the Shaver fleet, one of the cigar-shaped log rafts' of the Benson Logging Company was towed from Wallace Slough last night, bound a ni.rn Another raft built by the Hammond Lumber Company at Stella is to be towed to the lower har bor by the same steamers tonigni, ! i win v, a turned nvpr to a Ham mond steamer bound for San Francisco. Her overhauling having been termi nated the steamer America has returned to her regular run, relieving mo steamer Stranger. .. ,..,!..... Oriental lumber cargo the British steamer Hazel Dollar arrived up last evening irum and went to tne Duniters ucimv ceedlng to the Portland mill. As the Iqulque cargo or tne Daricen- ,i i Toft la 1 n ri Pfi she is to Line vii . . . - - shift to the stream today from the North Pacific mill. At the public drydock the overhaul ing of the Port of Portland tug Oneonta is progressing, and it Is expected she will be returned to the bar the latter part of the week. - i u.n,p.r Rarr of the Dodtre UCIICim - , line is in the city to remain until ri day. He reports that the Portland-.1.-1.. .,,,1. f hoinr developed most Ai.ana o satisfactorily, while general cargo busi ness between fortiana anu am i i hi.iiti- well. The Alaska steamers Quinault and Thomas L. Wand are due at Astoria 1- riaay. Collector of Customs Burke received a telegram from the collector at San Diego yesterday advising him that the Japanese cruiser Idzuma had taken on 1000 tons of coal there. As Japan is not at war it is not known why the message was sent. In the cargo of the steamer Daisy, which was cleared yesterday for San : . .... inn nnn sahiiicrlRK and 820.- r rantiatu, " ' ' - 000 feet of lumber, 280,000 feet of the 1 . . u.ino- hn taken s.board at lULiei Hi, . o - " ... . Aberdeen. The steamer Celilo arrived from San Francisco wnn i ou iu m an a nf rhaln to be used In building cigar-shaped rafts and 20 tons of stores ror tne scnouiiei nm shipped by her owner, George E. Bil-lin-s The Celilo was cleared in ballast for Everett. News From Oregon Porte. ASTORIA. Or., Aug. 18. (Special.) -The tug Hercules, which towed the chooner Hugh Hogan from San Fran isco to the Siuslaw River, is due here r. tnw a. Benson Lumber Company's log raft to San Diego. The American steamer eama ecena. of "the Grace line, sailed today ior uiret Sound with general cargo irom the Atlantic Coast. The Japanese steamer K.enkon aiaro 3iipj todav for Shanghai with a cargo of 3,650,000 feet of lumber. The steamer George W. Elder sailed tonight for Eureka and Coos Bay. The steam schooner uaisy vau"j ue here from San Francisco. : n't. ,,...r nenrsre W. Fenwick sailed tonight for San Pedro with a cargo of lumber from vt auna. COOS BAY, Or., Aug. 18. (Special.) The steamship Breakwater sailed to day from Marshfield for Portland at ll:J0, having 80 passengers and su ions of butter and cheese. The steam schooner Daisy -utnam sailed today at b f. jyl. witn iou.uuu feet of lumber and a large quantity of shingles for San Francisco. The tug Gleaner sailed today at i.iv for Gardiner with freight for Umpqua River towns. The dredge Colonel P. s. Mlcme is to remain at Empire for the time she is idle. Only captain rteea, me cuiei en gineer, and the bookkeeper were re tained. The depth of the Coos Bay bar is now 10 whnreas it was 17 feet 4 inches before the Michie operated. Notices to Mariners. The following affect aids to navlga on in the Seventeenth Lighthouse Dis trict: - - T3lvr .ntranrs Dredelar buoy. second-class iron wspar painted white, es- blished August 16 aDoui iiuu leoi o. oj W. magnetic from Clatsop Spit buoy, 4,( ..i t. pnnnpptfnn with tho dredir- lur ixae u'J ' ' ' - - lug operations In progress on the bar under the direction of the Engineer Corps, U. S. Army. . . Columbia River Middle channel buoys 1. I and 3, second-class wooden spars, tem porarily discontinued August 15, 1914. Columbia Klver Astoria to Harrington Point, channel buoy, 2. first-class star heretofore reported broken off under the surface of the water, was replaced by a perfect buoy on August 14. Columbia River Douelbower light struc ture carried away by collision August 11. It will be replaced as soon as practicable. In the meantime the light will be exhibited from the old structure on the adjacent point of land. Seacoast Umatilla reef light vessel re lieved by relief light vessel August 15, 1914. The change will be temporary. Re lief light vessel's lights and fog signal conform to those of Umatilla Reef light vessel. CUBANS POLITE TO MULES Driver First Warns, Then Cajoles, Beats and Apologizes. NEW YORK, Aug. 14. Visitors to Cuba, especially those who understand a little Spanish, marvel at the polite ness with which Cuban cartmen ad dress their mules. It is known gen erally that the ignorant Cubans really believe that the mule possesses a soul and is endowed with intelligence ap proximating their own. The cartman actually believes that his mule under stands perfectly what is said to it. The other day a visitor stopped to observe a fallen mule on the smooth pavement near the palace of the President. The mule lay comfortably on its side. "Mule, do me the favor to arise," im portuned the perspiring driver. The mule slanted one eye at the driver, wagged its ears and proceeded No War Prices on Goodyear Tires All advances due to doubled cost of rubber are with drawn today on Goodyear Tires. This applies to dealers and consumers. We have secured from abroad sufficient rubber at former prices to warrant this announcement. Effective everywhere today Goodyear prices are the same as they were before the war. rsassMMsssssHaflMssjassssssssssBai Which Will You Take? Tires At Extra Prices Nowadays, 16 makes of tires are costing more than Good year prices. Some makes cost one-third more. One-third more than No-Rim-Cut tires the world's top place tires the tires that outsell any other. Consider what that means. It means $5 to $15 extra on each tire you buy. It means one-third more tire upkeej) unless they are better tires. It means that three of the extra-price tires cost as much as four No Rim-Cuts. It means that the same price or less would buy a half inch wider Goodyear. Extra prices are unjust. No man knows of any way to build better tires than Good years We spend $100,000 yearlv in our efforts to find a way. In tne tour ways listed at the right no other tire equals the Goodyear. Men have bought four million Goodyears. They have tried them out. As a result, they buy more of them than of any other tire. That any tire can be worth one-third more is simply unthinkable. Tires With Extra Features In No-Rim-Cut tires at Goodyear prices we give you these four extra features. Not another tire at any price offers vou any one of them: The No-Rim-Cut feature the one faultless way to end rim-cutting. It completely wipes out the greatest source f tire ruin. Our "On-Air" cure an extra cure, under road conditions, to save the blow-outs due to wrinkled fabric. This one exclu sive process costs us $1500 per day. Our rubber rivets formed in each tire by a patent method to combat tread separation. They reduce this danger by 60 per cent. Our All-Weather tread the tough, double-thick anti-skid. The only anti-skids which run as smoothly as plain treads. The anti-skids with deep, sharp, bulldog grips. Those are costly features. On their account No-Kim-Cut tires used to be the high priced tires. But we gave you the savings due to multi plied output. N-Kim Cut tires now cost half the old-tine prices. And, with all tlicir elusive features, they cost you less than 16 other makes. Please find them out. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio This Company has no connection whatever Trlth any other rubber concern which uses the 6M0M name. Any Dealer can supply you Goodyear Tires. If the wanted size is not in stock he will telephone our Local Branch to go to sleep, or appeared to do so. "Mulo, liagame el favor de subir," again Importuned the driver. The mule's eyelids flickered, but It gave no other sign of having heard the polite request The driver scratched his head and looked, at the mule. "Mule, If thou dost not arise I shall beat thee." Nothing doing on the part of the mule. Whereupon the driver carefully grasped his whip and proceeded to lay on to the hindquarters of Mr. Mule with all his strength. The outraged animal snorted In protest, but strug gled to his feet. "Did I not warn thee?" asked the driver in an injured and partly apolo getic tone as he went to work to patch the broken harneSB. CARNEGIE APPROVES WAR Peace Advocate Backs Britain's Stand Against Germany. NEW YORK,' Aug. 14. Andrew Car negie, one of the world's most distin guished peace advocates, approves of England's course in the present crisis, rfl a cable message from Scotland he says : "Germany, having declined Britain's proposed peace conference and then having asked Britain to agree to her march through Belgium, Britain was bound to decline, and to declare that she would protect Belgium by land and sea." 'TIS ''BRAND NEW" STORY Man Shoots Off Own Toes, Thinking Them Hand of Ghost. NEW YORK, Aug. 14. Psychical re search makes no appeal to Sir William Henry Perkins, the inventor of coal tar dyes, who visited New York re cently. He confesses to believing in only one ghost story, and that related to a friend to whom he gave the name of Snooks. He explained: "Snooks, visiting at a country house, was put in the haunted chamber for the night. He said that he did not feel the slightest uneasiness, but, neverthe less, just as a matter of precaution he took to bed with him a revolver of the latest American pattern. "He slept peacefully enough until the clock struck 2, when he awoke with an unpleasant feeling of oppression. He raised his head and peered about him. The room was wanly illuminated by the full moon, and in that weird, bluish light he thought he discerned a small, white hand clasping the rail at the foot of the bed. " 'Who's there?' he asked tremulous ly. There was no reply. The small, white hand did not move. " "Who's there?" he repeated. 'Answer me or I'll shoot.' "Again there was no reply. "Snooks cautiously raised himself, took careful aim and fired. "From that night on he's limped. Shot off two of his own toes." TOO MUCH "SOAP" IN BEER German Tourist in New York Pro tests "High-Oollaxed Schooners." NEW YORK, Aug. 14. "There's too much soap in it," was the diagnosis of beer sold in some of the emporiums in this city, according to a letter received by the department of health. The writer, a German In this country on a visit, declared that it was not only unhealthy to have such high "collars" on the glasses, as he had so often found to be the case, but it was something that would not be tolerated in Germany, particularly In Munich, to which city he is sadly returning. As the authority explained it, glasses in some of the German cities are marked purposely so that bartenders can put a "collar" 'of a specified height upon each. Arrest, he said, would follow a viola tion, for it was beer and not foam that contained "food value." Experts in the department did not discuss the merits of the complaint. their treatment of the course and thsir behavior to the other members. There are many brilliant exceptions, of course, and the criticism applies mainly to the mediocre players. The secretary of a London course says that in tho matter of the basic golfing commandment, about replacing givots. many women are incorrigible. Then the same type of women golfers will remorselessly hold up a whole field of players fighting their battles o'er again on the putting green, and will drive through other players Just as re- morselessly without a word of apology or thanks. A. J. Balfour, stanch feminist as ho Is. abandoned the club of which he was many years captain when women were admitted. He favored separate links for women and apparently London golf ers, to a large extent, are coming to share his views. Woodland Hopes for llain. WOODLAND, WaBh., Aug. 18. (Spe cial.) A slight shower fell about noon yesterday. A sudden change of the wind from the south Co the northwext quickly dispelled the ;.' -.' Thft clouds, however, have not entirely dls. appeared, and hopes are still enter tained of a further precipitation. RhIii Is greatly needed for Kail pasturage, but will not benefit lato crops except kale. The exportation of Jspanoso mstchoa lias boon mrloualy srfctd bjr tlio action of tho Indian government In prohibiting the land ing of aulphur matohoft. Immediately fol lowing thla procedure the asportation "f Japanese matches to India was entirely MB pendod. FAIR GOLFERS UNPOPULAR Britons Complain of "Bad Manners" of Women on Links. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 14. Women golf ers appear to be anything but popular on the London suburban courses. One is constantly hearing complaints about their golfing manners. The criticism is twofold. It concerns Hwi.sf.iiBllr " v T f Tlst i it- i A Trip You'll Remember to the m Tillamook County Beaches The' most wonderful, most enticing and most in teresting journey in America. Landscape, mount ains, streams, forests and tho Pacific Ocean. Miles of smooth, clean beach. The Train Service Is Just Right Two fine trains daily each way. Morning passsn ger leaving Union Depot 8:55 A. M. ; "8snor Spe cial" 1:30 P. M. Parlor Obserrattosj Car on "em shore Special." IO&OINSjSHASTaI FARES Season Bound Trip 4.00 Week End Saturday.-Monday.. 3.0)) to all Garibaldi Beach points, with proportionate low fares to other beach points. Call at CItv Ticket Office, 80 8lxth Street, Union Depot. 4th and Yam hill or East Morrison street for folder, reservations, etc. WQUTtS JohB M. Scott. Geaeral Passenger Ageat. Portland. Oregss. Take the "Loop Trip" from the Heart of the City to the Heart of the Valley