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J 14 VANCOUVER TROOPS LEAVE FOR RORDER SCENES AT' VANCOUVER WHEN TROOPS OF TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY DEPARTED FOR THE BORDER. PORT VESSEL SOLD r Steamer Ocklahama Taken by Paper Mill Interests: Detachments of Twenty-first and Fourteenth Infantry Pass Through City. $32,500 IS CASH PRICE New Craft Will Be Built Here to UNIFORM SEEN ON STREETS On -.- i($2900.-$3300 JIK r.O.B. PORTLAND Fact No. 60 Handle RlTer Towing Business Xext Season Wallula Will Go Back Into Service. Seattle Contingent Has Hour Off in Portland Families of Local Soldiers Bravely Suppress Tears at Parting. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash., May 11. (Special.) With no martial music, but many teas from relatives, though all at parting kept Up bravely and attempted to smile, the last five companies of the Twenty-first Infantry pulled out at 11:30 a. M. today, bound for Yuma, Ariz., for duty on the Mex ican border. A special train of 21 cars was required to transport the 375 men and 17 officers, their equipment and mules for the escort wagons. Colonel Francis H. French, who has been in command of the regiment here for several months, is In command, and he will establish headquarters at Yuma, with the Second Battalion, companies E, F G. and II. Company C, which was taken on the train today, will con tinue to Nogales, Ariz., for duty there, to be joined by companies A, B, and L, now at the exposition at San Diego. Th Third Battalion, companies I, K, L and M, is already at Calexlco, Cal., on border duty. Officers Are' Named. The- officers leaving today were: Col onel Francis H. French, V,eutenant" Colonel David J. Baker, Jr., Captain James P. Harbeson, Captain George S. Tiffany, Regimental Adjutant; Captain Lucius C. Bennett, Captain John H. Page, Jr., Captain Robert S. Knox, Cap tain E. t). Warfield, Captain C. T. King. Medical Officer; First Lieutenant George C. Rockwell. First Lieutenant Ralph R. Glass, First Lieutenant James B. Woolnough, Lieutenant Herbert L. Taylor, Lieutenant Guy I. Rowe, Lieu tenant Harold W. James and Lieuten ant Clyde R. Eisenschmidt. The post is now in command of Cap tain L. T. Waldron, who arrived from Fort Stevens yesterday with the Ninety third Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Mhich will be stationed here for a time. There are about 75 men of Company F. Engineers, in command of Captain Richard C. Moore, and these two or ganizations will guard and police the post and grounds. Citizen Regret Departure. feveral hundred residents of Van couver were at the train to bid the officers and soldiers goodbye, and it was with a feeling of regret that they saw the troops leave. Never before has there been a more democratic and popular set of officers than with the Twenty-first Infantry, who were set a good example by Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, who was for nearly 18 months In command of the regiment and poet. A number of the wives of the officers will leave in a few days to visit rel atives in the East. Mrs. Tiffany will leave Saturday for Louisville. Ky., and Mrs. Rockwell is preparing to leave. All left with the hope that the trou ble would soon be ended and they would return to this post. The troop from Vancouver Barracks arrived in Portland 'soon after noon and left over the Southern Pacific at The soldiers were brought to Port land on a special train over the North Bank road and remained here only long enough to have the train switched from the North Bank yards to the Union depot, where a Southern Pacific engine was hitched to the long string of cars. Only a few people were at the sta tion to see them, inasmuch as their coming had not been heralded in ad vance. The men took the movement in a matter-of-fact way. They didn't seem much excited over the possibility of a conflict with the Mexicans. FOURTEENTH PASSES THROUGH Seattle Soldiers Have Hour of liberty in Portland. Shortly after 8' o'clock yesterday morning two trainloads of soldiers, with horses, wagons, ambulances and other military equipment and para phernalia, pulled info the Union Depot. The regimental headquarters band, one battalion, with the Headquarters and Machine Gun companies of the Four teenth United States Infantry, had ar rived from Seattle, en route to the Mex ican border, where they were ordered for active duty. Soon after the trains stopped the yards and depot were filled with a swarm of soldiery, who overflowed the railroad confines; and began a liberal distribution of good American coin in the restaurants, barbershops, stores, fruitstands and other places of busi ness, as far uptown as Washington street. Clad in their field uniforms, with the olive drab Army sweater which re places the soldier's blouse when on field duty or traveling, the men of the Fourteenth were conspicuous upon the streets for the hour or so of liberty afforded by the stop. Heavy automatic pistols, swinging loosely in their hol sters from sagginc belts, gave the Remington touch to the picture, as the men sauntered uptown in small groups. Colonel Wilson, the commanding of ficer, with his adjutant and various other officers, came uptown to visit. Governor Withycombe. Adjutant-Gen eral White and several other regular Army and National Guard officers were t the depot to extend greetings to the troops passing through the citv. The Fourteenth Infantrv is a. historic rejjiment in the American Army. For many years it was stationed at Van oouver Barracks, which was considered its home station. Many Portlanders and some people from Vancouver were on hand yesterday morning to greet old acquaintances. RATE HEARINGJS DELAYED Southern Pacific and Xcw Line to Consider Common-User Rights. The Southern Pacific and the Port land & Oregon City Railroad Com panics will endeavor once more to get together on the question of the rate to be paid by the Oregon City Company to the southern Pacific for common use ofthe interurban tracks on Fourth street. The City Council was to have ettled the question for them yester- lay. but the companies requested ostponement of the question for two veeks. The Oregon City Company is build up ita tine vidua m miQ me teart of the city by way of the Haw horne bridge and Fourth street. To se Fourth street this company has o agree upon the amount to be paid to he Southern Pacific Company, which wns the tracKs. Phpfpdora are irea irom tax In thp "nitcd fiinffdom. PURPOSE TOLD f;"fPMx -;M Bishop Hogue Says Europe Is Chastised by Divinity. CONFERENCE HEARS TALK Free Methodists Continue Session at Central Church Two Districts Are Voted and Elders Are Elected. Prediction that the present war in Europe will sweep away all kincs, es tablish republican forms of govern ment, and destroy militarism in Ger many and autocracy in Russia, by Bishop Wilson T. Hogue in his ad dress, and the election of two district elders, were the main f eatures of the Oregon Conference of the Kree Meth odist Church yesterday, in session at the Central Church, Kast Flanders and East Fifty-fifth streets. Bishop Hogue recently returned from a trip to Europe, and he gave the con ference a vivid account of his experi ences on his return trip, when the vessel he was on was overhauled sev eral times. He asserted - that the divine hand was working through this war for the punishment of the nations for their iniquities. England is being punished, he said, because she forced opium on China at the cannon s mouth and now has her warehouses ir China filled with opium. France is being punished because she rejected God. Russia because she persecuted the Jews, and Germany because of her militarism. The bishop closed his ad dress with a warning to America of the disaster that had come to the European nations. Director Are N'amrd. The conference voted to have two districts, and elected Frank L. Burns and Alexander Beer, recently of the Wash ington Conference, as district elders. The districts are the Portland and the Salem-Dalles districts, and the stationing committee will assign these elders. "W. N. Coffer, elder for four years, retired for the reason that under the discipline h had served the limit. Rev. Mr. Beers, elected one of the elders, was transferred to Oregon from the Washington Conference, where he was at the head of the Pacific College at Olympia. He formerly was of the Oregon Conference. "W. N.. Coffee, elder for Salem-Dalles district, and F. L. Burns, elder for Portland district, reported all minis ters, on those districts free of charges and that harmony prevailed among the churches. Mr. Coffee reported he had received a total of 5653.50 from the Salem-iDalles district, and Mr. Burns reported he had received $661.71 from the Portland district. Outsiders Given Seat. B. F. Smalley, M. C. Clark. A. E. "Warren, Paul E. Blackburn (Baptist) and M. B. Parounaglan (Armenian) Sunday school missionary Oregon Methodist Episcopal Conference, were given seats in the conference. R. P. Hut ton was voted 15 minutes for an address or the work of the Anti- Sa loon League today at 10 A. M. Bishop Hogue spoke in behalf of the movement for an increase of the per manent fund for the support of super annuated ministers, their widows and orphans, started by the General Con ference. "We now have 525.000," he said, "but we desire t5 increase that to at least $50,000. This is a fund that ought to appeal to every minister and every lay member. Our superannuated ministers. their vidows and orphans should be adequately provided for. Conferences are subscribing to this fund, and 1 want this conference to do its part." Bishop Hogue was given the time to night at the general meeting, when subscriptions to this fund will be taken. Important Action Taken. One of the important actions yes terday was the receiving- of Alexander Beers, former member of the Washing ton Conference and president of the Pacific College at Olympia, Wash. Mr. Beers was recently tried by the Wash ington Conference on eight specifica tions, serious charges, on all of which he was acquitted. He resigned from the Washington Conference and ex pected to join the California Confer ence, but the Oregon Conference, in which he has many warm friends, not onlyvoted him a member, but elected him "a district elder. s Many of the books written by Bishop Hogue are on exhibition at the church. While busy- as a bishop traveling through the country, he has found time to write many books, and a new book of 450 pages is now being printed, Free Methodists do not wear gold rings, watches or peals, or costly rai ment, and condemn all such personal adornment as contrary to scripture. The church in which the conference Is being held is rigidly plain, without a musical instrument. The bishop said: "We started out to be a plain people, modest and simple in adornment, as also in all manner of life, and as such we are, too, very generally today." MRS. COMAN SUCCUMBS Wife of Spokane Banker Fails Five Weeks After Operation. Mrs. E. T. Coman, of Spokane, died Wednesday night at the Portland Sur gical Hospital as the result of an op eration five weeks ago. She was the wife of E. T. Coman, president of vhe Exchange National Bank in Spokane. Mrs. Coman underwent an operation for abdominal trouble on April 4. She was at first critically ill. and Mr. Co man and members of the family were 3a I - - j; 4' II I ' ' 'V ''i1 lit . -p- (I) TROOPS MARCHIXG THROI'GII V 'OM M A DKR TWKM V-FIRST I OMPAM H SOI TSDI.NO ASSEM WAY. called from Spokane. The patient ral lied, however, ami Mr. Coman and their children went home. Mr. Coman was re-called to Portland three days ago. when his wife's con dition became dangerous, and the mem bers of her family were with her when she died. Mrs. Coman was 4 5 years old. WRECK MEN KNOWN HERE Marine Men Have Xo Idea as to Cause of Disaster. One of the leading topics about the city yesterday, especially in marine circles, was the loss of the North Pa cific steamer Roanoke, although even with more extensive information as to the probable number lost and con dition of those rescued, masters of ves sels in port and others posted on load ing vessels were unable to form com prehensive ideas on just what caused the vessel to go down. Captain Richard Dickson had numer ous friends here and his ability as a navigator also was commented on yes terday as well as his personality. First Officer Charles J. Green, whose father is master of the McCormick steamer Multnomah, and who formerly ran on the larger Califqjyiia liners from here, was widely known. Second Officer John D. Dennis also was in the service of the line for a lengthy period as stevedore foreman and then returned to sea. Chief Engineer D. Mclnnis resided here, and Mrs. Mclnnis, with Mrs. Green, were at San Francisco when the Roanoke left there May 8 on her last trip. Mr. and Mrs. Mclnnis also have a grown daughter residing temporarily at the home of W. A. Lynch, 4:t9 Lar rahee street. Portland. Mrs. Lynch received a message yes terday from Mrs. Mclnnis, to the effect that she was hoping for news of her husband, and, of course, would remain at San Francisco. Mr. Lynch is fhief engineer on the steamer Alliance, which is in the San Francisco-West Coast trade, as was the Roanoke. M VUIXE INTELLIGENCE. Steamer Schedule. DUE TO ARRIVE. From .Tr AuicelPfi. . . Name. Date. . . In port Bar Great Northern. K. A. Kilburn. . , Beaver Breakwater. . . . Rose City ..San Francisco. . .S in Diego . .Ios An poles. . . . . if an Uli'Ko Lo Angeles. . . Ma . . May . . May . . May ..May DUE TO DEPART. For S. F. to U A . . . Name. Date. ..May 1 ..May 3 ..May 1 ...May 1 -..May 9. May 1 . . May 1 .. Mav 1 . . Mav : . . Mav , ...May : ...Mav : ..May : Yale Great Northern. Bear San, Francisco. l-o Angeles. . . S. F. to U A. . . San Diego San Dm-ko San Frani'isco. ,I-vs Anrele. . . San Francisco. San Dlefio . . . . . I-os Angeles. . . Sau IMegjo San Diego. 1 1 a rva iti ........ Northland K. A. Kilburn. .. Yosemlte . Beaver Celilo Breakwater. . . . Rose City "W a nam a Willamette ; Vessels Kntered Yesterday. American steamer Northland, general car go, from San ranHsro. Vessel Cleared Yesterday. American steamer Northland. SOO.OOO feat of lumber, for San Franoisco. - Columbia. JKiver Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. May 11. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., sea. exnooth, wind north- weat, lis miles. Tide at Astoria l-'riday. High. lMvr. 8:31 A. M 6.1 feet . 1:01 A. M 9:ll P. M 7.8 feetl2:45 I M . f-ft :.0 feet SENATOR TO VIEW HARBOR Mr. Cummins Will Visit and Speak. Astoria tentative arrangements were made last night by Wallace R. Struble, sec retary of the naval base committee, with. Manager Howard, of the Cum mins campaign committee, of this city, for a special trip of Senator Cummins and his party to Astoria and the mouth of the Columbia River on Tuesday, May 16. So far as outlined, the plan con templates the party leaving1 Portland on the regular Spokane. Portland & Seattle train 'at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning. In the evening a public mass meeting will be held. It is possible that an excursion will be arranged on one of the lighthouse tenders down the Columbia harbor to inspect the Government jetties and the dredge Chinook. Citizens of Portland will be invited to join Senator Cummins' party on the trip. A watch rciuire 1j separate parts, more than ''4 operations being ntesjary la iu manufacture, v AXCOI VKR STRKKTS TO DKPOT, FMRV. 4 ll SINi MMM1DYK T BLV AS TROOPS OKPARTEI). 5 WMKRK THKRFS A WILL THKRK'S A OREGON TARS LAUDED AVI DEP1RT.MKT tOMMK.MJS XAVAl, MILITIA SHOWING. State Is Conjcratulated on Kffletrnt ' Proerru Hade Officer 1m AaMlsned mn InKpeetor-Inntriietor. The Oregon Naval Militia has re ceived unusual commendation for its appearance at the recent Federal in spection from Captain K. Y. Bassett, chief of the division of militia naval affairs of the I'nited States Navy. The praise that is given the militia was re ceived in a letter from 'Captain Bat sett by Adjutant-General White yes terday. The part of the letter that brings the smiles to the faces of both General White and Lieutenant - Commander Blair, of the Oregon Naval Militia, is as follows: "This division appreciates the inter est and efficiency which la being dis played by the Oregon Naval Militia, and congratulates the state on the efficient progress that has been maJe." It is also stated in the letter that Lieutenant K. K. iScranton. United -States Navy, retired, will be sent to this city from San Francisco when the Marblehead comes as the new training thip for the Naval Militia. Lieutenant Scranton will be named Inspector-Instructor of the Naval Militia, with no other duties. It is the expressed hope of Captain Bassett that the Naval Militia will reach a still higher standard of effi ciency through the sending of the Marblehead and the assignment of Lieutenant Scranton to duty here. The assignment of Lieutenant Scranton was ma.le on the recommendation of Lieu tenant John Blackburn, local Navy re cruiting officer, and aluo at the present time acting inspector-instructor of the Naval Militia. It is expected that the Marblehead will reach this city about the first of June. Marine Xoles. Corrctd fisrV on the lumber carxn of th ytcemer O. M. Clark, which cleared Wednesday for Mazatlan and eat led yester day from the river, show she carried 4t.fso f--t of lumber, valued at $."757, and 50,144 feet of piling at $'MSti9. Captain Bodire. of the steamer Northland, whfi-h discharged California cargo here yea-n-rday, said t hat nmnnft other work done aboard tha ship at Snn Francisco tow In k hits were placed. The vessel haa been taken for the Pupet Sound-Alaska trade on a six months' charter, and. beide bc Inp loaded, will tow a achooner barue on thnt run. She loads here for California this trip and then gnei north. W. H. Bresac senior Inspector of motive power In the division of valuation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Will iam J. Taunt, inspector of car equipment, arc here. The former is checking over ma rine pronerty of railroad corporations In this section. ' Major .Tewett. Corps of Engineer United Ftates Army, who investigated conditions at the mouth of the Columbia with reference to complaints by Rillnetters against six fish xraps beins driven on the south side of the Jetty, says that three of the trap permits were relinquished with the under rtandliis; that thre nearest the Jetty would ne. permitted. He says he knows of no objection to the three remaining. Towing; the bis; 30-Inch suction dredice Tualatin proved no easy Job for the steamers OcKiahama and Pronto and tug McCraken yesterday against the current of the Co lumbia River. They left here at 6 o'clock in the mornina; and at 4 o'clock had reached Chanticleer, en route for Multnomah Kails, where, the Tualatin will make a fill In con nection with tha Columbia Highway im provement. Notice has reached the Custom-house that the license has been surrendered of the yasnllne propeller Colieen. of Toledo, owned by Howard Meaner and J. E. Purcell, which nas , gone to L.os Angeles. Two coasters got away yesterday with lumber, the Wapama from St. Heiens, also carrying passengers, and the Olympic from w a una. both bound for Southern California. He-avy fish shipments and accumulated freight of oiher kinds have drawn the steam er Undine to the Portland-Astoria service to astdt the L.urlin for a few days. Word has been received by the Alaska Portland Packers Association that the bark Berlin, Captain Brander. arrived Wednes day at Cape Consiantine- at the entrance to Nushagak. her destination, after a run of 27 days from the Columbia River. The Levi G. Burgess, steam tug Akutan and gasoline tug Amak, of the same fleet, are bound there from this port. News From Northwest Ports. ASTORIA. Or.. May 11. (Special.) The British steamer Hazel Dollar cleared today for Hankrow and Taku Bar, China, with 3.sn.";,ttot feet of lumber, loaded at West port. Her cargo fs valued at After taking on fuel oil the Hazel Dollar shifted to the municipal wharf, where she is load ing bunker coal and will sail tomorrow. The bulk of the bridge material that was on a barge which sank a few days ago in Grays River while en route to the Port land Lumber Company's tamp has been recovered. The only material that was lost 2 Ol.Oi;i, FR V IS H. FRKMH. O TWO. 4 Ml Sll I N SHAI H UK was 12ft narks of cement, ably will b. raised. The barge prob- The steamer Kos City sailed for San Francisco and Sjji Pedro during the night with t'rHght and passengers from Portland ana Astoria. The steamer nas been una going extensive repairs at Portland and la now resuming her service between th Columbia. rr nnri Cal t fit ml a Carrying 57O.OA0 feet of lumber, lniltaed at Kainier and bt. Helena, the steam schooner Willamette sailed for San Fran- cii-co. Thp steamer O. M. Clark sailed today top MazaUau with lumber from Portland. ABERDEi:.V, Wash., May 11. i Special.) The steamer Svea. for Pan Francisco, and the schooner Sophia Ch rlstenscn. for Chile, cleared today. The Hvea loaded t he Wilson mill and the Christen sen tiie Ly tie mill In llnnulam. The steamer Hoqulam arrived today and is loaning ties at the Hlagen mill. William Baumert, several timet a candidate for Policy Jtidgn here, suffered the fracture of bta Wt lee- while working In the hold vi ine iioquiam. Tho ichoonor King- Cyrus cleared today for Australia from the A. J. West mil! with T7.0 feet of lumber and will get out of the harbor tne latter part of the week, COOR RAT. Or, May 11. (Special.) The gasoline rcnoonr l llnmook was an arrival today from Portland, bringing a full cargo or ireignt. The steam schooner Coaster, with lumber rrom the C. A. bmltn docks, sailed for Ban r rancisco The Adeline Smith sailed from the upper oav ulth lumber from the Smith mills. Sailing at noon the steam schooner Cleone, with lumber from the foo Bav Mill Com pany plant, grounded In Isthmus Inlet and was stranded for two hours on the bottom of the channel. The Cleon is bound for San Franclcn. The gasoline schooner Rustler. Is due from itocuo Kiver. The gasoline schooner Itoamcr Is shipping freight for Port Orford and Rogue River. Movements of Vessels. ro K TLA ND, May 11. Sailed Steamers wapama, Ir nn niego. via wav ports Olympic, from Wanna, for San Pedro. Astoria. May 1 1. Sailed at midnight, steamer Willamette, for San Dlgo. via war porta: at :t:l. A. M.. fteamer Rom City, f San Francisco and San Pedro. Arrived down at noon. British steamer Have I Do l lnr. Sailed rtt 4:3( IV M-. steamer O. M Clark, for Mazailan, via San Pedro. Kan Francis, n. May 1 1. Sailed at 1 1 A M.. steamer Great Northern, for Flavel. May 10. Arrived Steamer W. S. Porter. from Portland. Sailed at 8 p. M.. steamer faanta Monica, for Columbia River. Kureka. May 11. Arrived at 7 A. M steamer Breakwater, from Portland and Coos Kav. lor r-an lucgo. via way ports Cons Bay. M a y 11. Arrived Gasoline schooner- Tillamook, from Portlana. San Pedro. May 10 Arrived and sailed Steamer J. A. Kilburn. from san Diego, r Portland, via way ports. Arrived Steamer K. 11 Vane1, from Columbia River. Astoria. May 1. Sailed at i;30 P. M. steamer Santa Barbara, for San Francisco. Caliao, May l Arrrived suamer aides. from Antoragasta for Seattle london. May 1. Arrived Crown of Seat tie frorn ban l-ranrljico. Pyapua. May i't Arrived Steamer De fcofo. from San Francisco. Snn Francisco. May 1 1. Arrived Steam ers M-tltnomah. from Gravs Harbor; Slano, from Ilalboa; Asov (British), from Victor! Sailed Steamer Great Northern, for As toria; schooner . o. Irwin, for Roche Hsr bor. Settle. Wash.. May 11. Arrived1 Steamer Nome City, from San Francisco, Sailed Steamers City of Seattle, for Southeastern Alaska: Alaska, for Southwestern Alaska. Hyades. Honolulu for San Francisco, 147 mile from San Francisco. May 1 o. P Thomas. Snn Francisco for Manila.- 13o miles from San Francisco. Mav 1o. P. M Sherman. Manila tor San Francisco, ltfni miles from San Francisco. Mav U. K p, Genre tan, Honolulu for San Franctseo. 11:23 miles from San Krarr-lnco. Ma v in, h P. l China, (trletit for San Francisro, 10 mil from Honolulu. May l. P M. Manna, San Francisco for Honolulu, 306 miles from San r "rancisco, Mav Hi, K V. M. Atlas. Kahulul for San Pedro. loS.1 mil from San Pedro. Ma v Hi. R p. M. Multnomah. Sun Francisco for fan Pedro 1 mlle south of San Francisco. Ceil In. St. He t ers for San Francisco, 30 miles south of Point Arna. Mills. Portland for Martinez. P7 miles fmm Martinez. Topeka. sn Fancsco for Eureka. 80 miles north of Point Reyes. Yosemitr. San Pedro for San FrancUco. ofT Cliff House. Qut -u. Seattle for San Francisco, 17 milea north of Point Reves. President. San Pedro for San Francisco, lil'l miles north of San Pertro. Klamath. Guaymas for San Francisco. 180 miles south of San Fnanrlsco. Newport. Balboa for San Francisco, 30 miles south of San Francisco. Kilburn. Santa Barbara for San Fran cisco, -jo miles north of point Arguello. Moffltt towing barge. 93. Balboa for Rich mond, fcsV miles south of lightship. Marconi Wireless Reports. ( All positions reported at II P. May 11. nnlet otherwise, designated.) Admiral Dewey, San Francisco for Seattle. 23." miles from San Francisco Buck. San Luis for Vancouver, 703 miles north of San Luis. Drske. with barge 01. Seattle for Rich mond, r.rtii miles north of Rtchmond. Jim Butler, port Townsend for isan Fran cisco. 77 miles north of Blanco. Willamette. Portland for bin Francisco, 12 miles north of Blsnco. Congress. San Francisco for Sestttle. nine ml.es south of Blanco. Lucas, rcl Segundo for Seattle, 313 miles nort h of San Francisco. Coronado. San Francisco for Aberdeen, miles south of Northwest Sl Rocks. Great Northern. San Francisco for Flavel, II miles souih of Blunts Reef. Adeline Smith. Coos Bay for San Francisco, four miles south of root Bay. Breakwater. Eureka for San Francisco, 16 miles south of Eureka. Enterprise. H!lo for San Francisco. 4M miles from San Francisco. May 10 S p. M. Hi Ion Ian. Seattle for Honoluln. Mi miles from Cape Flattery. May in, H p M. I-urllne. Honolulu for Pan Francto. 1 - miKs fru m isan Francisco, May io. 6 P. M. Sals of the steamer Ocklahama. river towboat for tne Hort of Portland Com mission, to the Western Transportation Company, controlled by the Crown Willamette Paper Company, for $3:. 500. was approved at a session of the Com mission yesterday afternoon. Plans were immediately ordered prepared for a more powerful steamer to handle the port s business, and she may be turned out this year. es;otlatlon for the Ocklahama have been on for the past week, and while the Tort had practically held the price at $35,000. Captain I P. Hoeford. su perintendent of the Western Transpor tation Company's fleet, formally made a cash offer of $22,600 and It was oted to accept it. The shlppins; season be Intc virtually st an end. as far as the Train movement is concerned, there being; only two sailers here ulth cereal cargoes to fto to sea. It was deemed best to close the transaction. Cartalns K. W. Spencer. A. I Pease and J. W. Shaver, of the Commission, were named a committee to act with Mnnaser E. Wrlitht and Enslneer Fred Pnpe. In submitting plans and recom mendations for the new 'towboat. to gether with Information on obtaining certain machinery said to be available. The acquisition of the Ocklahama. which may be turned over to the new owners tonight, (rives the Western Transportation Company four steamers. the lone. Annte Comings and Oeotnaia Burton being the others. The Willam ette Navigation Company controls the steamers N. R. L.ane; and Ruth, operat ing principally from the Oregon City plant, while the others are used largely in connection with the Camns plant, all bring under the Crown-Willamette Pa per Company. The Ocklahama. will be equipped with a towing engine, at once, and will be ready for service In a few days. She will be utilized towing logs to be ground Into pulp, the demand be ing such that outside steamers have at times been taken to keep the logs mov ing. The Port of Portland bar tug Wallula. being overhauled here, will be ready for service shortly and Is to relieve the tug Oneonta so the latter may be over hauled. It was concluded to retire one tug during the dull season, but as one will be required at the entrance to the Columbia, the other will be utilized when necespary In towing on the river. The Ocklahama was built in 1S97 for the O.-W. R. & N". Company and was taken over by the Port of Portland when the towage service on the river and bar was assumed. July 1. 1909. She is 161.1 feet long, has a beam of S3.S feet and depth of hold of 8.3 feet. The vessel was damaged during the last freeze-up In the river when struck by the steamer Temple K. Dorr, and was returned to service this week after about 13500 had been expended in re pairs and overhauling. LIXEU DELAYED BY ITS COOKS Men Strike, Demanding Guarantee for Injured Comrade and Win. VANCOUVER. R. C. May 11. The passenger liner Niagara left here for Australia last night, after having neen delayed for several hours by a strike of the stewards and pantrymen, sup ported by the cooks snd stokers. The trouble arose over the tact that David 1-awrence, a pantryman, was tak en to the hospital with an Injured hand. His companions wanted Captain Rolls to sign a statement that a certain sum would be put aside for lawrence and his family while he was in Vancou ver. Captain Rolls agreed that the man would be properly - looked after, but would not put It In writing, so the men walked out. After a day spent in negotiations, Captain Rolls and C. J. Lyons, local agent for the Vnion Steamship Com pariy of New Zealand, owners of the Niagara, signed the required statement and the men returned to the vessel. SCIIOOXEK CONTRACT IS LKT Aberdeen Yard Will Not Start Work on Last Award Until July. ABERDEEN. Wssh.. May 11. (Spe clal.) A contract for building a steam 225-foot schooner for delivery in De cember has been placed with Andrew Peterson, of this city, by Blgsby Clark of San Francisco. The vessel will have a 215-foot keel, will be 42-foot beam and 16S feet In .depth of hold, and will be a Jouble-ciider. Peterson, who now has three ves sels under construction, will not lay the keel for the Blpsby Clark steam er until about the middle of July. He expects to launch the steRmer Oregon for Uson Bros, on July lo. KITSAP TRIAL NEXT WEEK New Greyhound for Puget Sound Re ceiving Final Attention. Providing finishing work Is suffi ciently advanced, the official trial trip of the new propeller Kitsap II. building at Supple's yard, la to be held a week from tomorrow. Carpenters and paint ers are busy with the Interior, and the principal outside detail remaining in the way of construction Is to place her two funnels. At present the Kitsap Is drawing Mail Your Check on this bank and have the bill paid. It is the easiest and quickest way. A 2-cent stamp carries the check anywhere you desire. lumbermens National. danK Capital and Surplus, $1,200,000 The Packard Twin Six is the logical car for the West, because of its short titrning ability and lack of gear shifting, a mountain road can be ironed out without effort to car or driver. FRANK C RIGGS COMPANY Cornell road. Zsd aad Wasatngtoa Ma, seven feet aft and Is riding well under the water line, none of her tanks being filled. When trimmed. Mr. Supple ex peels that there will be little change In her draft until after attaining a speed of about 1$ miles, when the ten dency will be for her hull to float rich er. The model Is such, he says, that even If loaded to rapacity she would not set deep. Mr. supple expects to make the run to Tuget Sound when she Is taken to Seattle to be turned over to the Kitsap County Transportation Company, her owners. DUEDGK GKAR RIDS OPENED Port of Portland to Complete Out fitting licet. Of tenders opened yesterday by the Port of Portland Commission for tha purchase of 1000 feet of 30-inch dis charge pipe for the dredging fleet, the lowest figure was submitted hv Ilickson & Nichoson. S959.i. The Phoenix Iron Works was lowest on pipeline connections. $1(517. and Hclser & Under the lowest on 60 bands for the pipeline. $306. and on a grab bucket for handling cut fuel, the latter price be ing $337.40. Rids were also opened for provisions for the flosting plant. Manager W. K. Wright was author ized to obtain bids on a 3000-pound anchor for the new dredge Tualatin. Bids will also be sought on a derrick scow for the pipeline of the dredge Portland. MUNITION RESTRICTION PLACED Shipping of Eiplonixcs to Wxico Will Be Prohibited. No explosives of any chararter. much less munitions of war, will he per mitted to be routed from Portland to Mexico. Imperative Instructions prohibiting any such shipments were received yes terday by Collector of Customs Burke from Assistant Secretary Peters, of the Treasury Department. "Hold for present all shipments, without exception, of munitions of war. including explosives, for Mexico until authority for exportation is obtained from department," reads the dictum of Mr. Peters. The embargo will be felt more severely in California, with the bulk of the powder business for .the Pacific Coast. FH.Ii AT SITE IS BEING RUSHED Company Prepares Space for 150 Cars or Steel. To insure spare being available for 1J0 cars of steel looked for during the next few weeks to be used on the first of the big freighters contracted for that will be started at the plant of the Northwest Steel Company. J. B. Bowles, president of the corporation, is urging that the work of making a fill at the site be expedited through the substitu tion of a 30-Inch dredge for the 20-inch dredge Portland now at work. Port of Portland members will look over the ground this morning, and it is thought the dredge Willamette will be sent there from Postoffice Bar. Gralutmona Hearing Ends. Investigation of facts bearing on an accident to the steamer taraliamona Monday night, when her starboard side was raked through the failure of the draw of the Morrison-street bridge to stop on center, was conducted yester day by United States Steamboat In spectors Kdwards and Wynn. It is un derstood no blame is attached to Cap tain Kd Williams, who was In the pilothouse- Besides members of the crew witnesses summoned Included Sig Ber ven. who was in charge of the opera tion of the draw that night. More Freight to Go to Russia. SEATTLE. Wash.. May 11. The ship ping firm of James Griffiths and Sons, operating 18 Japanese steamers, an nounces that in the next four months. It will despatch 100.000 weight tons of freight from Seattle to Vladivostok. Kobe and Tokohama. The cargoes will include automobiles, locomotives, steam shovels, ma-hinery of all kinds, wire cables and gas engines. Longshoreman's Ankle Broken. Csught by a slinglosd of lumber at St. Helens while assisting in loading the McCormick steamer Wapama, Car roll Wass. a longshoreman, yesterday sustained a fracture of the left ankle. He was brought here for treatment. It la ssld his leg was pressed between the eMnglosd snd a piling