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4 16 THE MOKXIXG OREGOMA5, SATURDAY. JULY 29, 1916. RATE RISE TO BE FOUGHT ON COAST Traffic and Transportation As sociation Protests to Com merce Association. CHANGE DECLARED ILLEGAL Contention Is That Advance Because of Elimination of Water Compe tition Is Forbid by Inter state Body's Code. Further litigation involving the his toric Spokane and Intermountain rail road rates is certain to follow the de termination of the carriers to comply with the Interstate Commerce Com mission's recent order by advancing the Coast rates to meet the Spokane rate Instead of reducing: the Spokane rate to meet the Coast rates. On receipt of information yesterday that the carriers had agreed on a gen eral advance in the terminal rates, Wil liam C. McCulloch, attorney for the Portland Traffic and Transportation Association, forwarded to the Commis sion, a protest against this action. A suspension of the new tariff which will be filed with the Commission August 1, will be requested. The Portland association will be joined in this action by shippers' organ izations at San Francisco, Seattle and other terminal cities. .Meanwhile independent action has been brought before the Commission by the same associations asking for a re hearing of the entire intermountain case. Legality of Rise Denied. Testerday's protest by the shippers ts based on that provision of the Fourth section of the Interstate Commerce code which specifies that when rates once are reduced to meet water com petition they cannot again be advanced except for reasons other than the elim ination of water competition. The re cent Spokane case was brought solely on the ground that the water compe tition had been eliminated. The ship pers insist, therefore, that the car riers have no legal right to raise the terminal rates. Harvey B. Lounsbury, general freight agent for the O.-W. R. & N. Company, returned yesterday from Chicago where he was in conference for several weeks with representatives of the other trans continental carriers. He brought con firmation of the report that the coast rates are to be advanced. It appears, from Mr. Lounsbury'a preliminary reports, that the carriers are planning not only to advance the Coast rates but to advance, also, the intermountain rates to the basis ex isting before the application of Sched ule C, which went into effect July 15, 1915. ' Class Rates Extended. Kot only have they done that but they have arranged to cancel all the less than carload commodity rates. This traffic now must take the class rates. A cursory study of the specimen fig tires shows that -the carriers evidently have taken the Pittsburg rate existing prior to the application of Schedule C as the basis for making all the new rates. The Commission's order for June, 3 911, permitted the carriers to charge 15 per cent more from Pittsburg to Spokane than from Pittsburg to Port land. This old Pittsburg rate was arbitrarily placed at 115 per cent to arrive at the Coast rate bf 100 per cent. In most cases, however, they did not take advantage of the privilege granted under the. 1911 order of charg ing 125 per cent to New York. The New York and Pittsburg rate is al most invariably the same. But the damage, so far as Portland Table of Some of the Principal Commodities Moving Westbound to Portland and . to Spokane Under the Present. Rate and Under the Kew Rate In Effect Sep tember 1. COMMODITT. Bath tubs. Canned Goods Coffee, green. Cotton, piece goods. Iron and structural steel. ..... rvnn m rA hiH i-r.il a Kanrl tinlra and horseshoes. . .'. ' '. Nails and wire. . . Pipe, cast iron and wrought iron. Sheet lrofT. ; Lye. Oils of all kinds- Linoleum and oilcloth. . . Paper, building, wrapping, etc. Taper, books, letter and commercial. Tin plate. Twine and cordage. and other Coast cities are concerned, is that the present preferential of the Coast cities over Spokane is materially reduced. PYTHIAN SISTERS ARE HERE (Continued From rirt closely affiliated with the Pythian Knighthood, it performs much inde pendent service and stands at the fore front of American fraternities in the scope and volume of Its altruistic v. ork. It maintains a special standing com mittee in each of its state organiza tions as well as in the National body on this worthy subject. Illustrative of the altruistic work performed by the Oregon temple was th prompt action taken yesterday on receipt of a report that one of the elderly members is in distress. An al lowance sufficient to provide for her wants during the remainder of her days was voted immediately. Many of the subordinate temples throughout the state also reported that many important charities have been dispensed within the year. The tem ple at Union, Or., of which Mrs. Davis is a member, for instance, has made heavy shipments of clothing and pro visions to the suffering inhabitants of war-ridden European countries. The convention yesterday also voted an appropriation to provide a promi nent place in the big Pythian parade next Tuesday for Mrs. Sarah E. Hoch stedler, who organized the first temple of Pythian Sisters in this state. Mrs. Hochetedler, at that time about 25 years ago was not herself a member of the organization. Her husband had been prominent as a Pythian Knight, however, and she had no difficulty in securing her obligation by mail. She carefully studied the ritual and worked out all the requirements of the various officers. .After nearly a year of persistent effort she organized Alpha Temple No. 1 at Albany. Although she now resides in Portland, Mrs. Hochstedler still re tains her membership in the Albany temple. She is known as "the mother of the Pythian Sisterhood in Oregon" and is highly esteemed by all her as sociate sisters in the state. After the business meetings of the Oregon temple are concluded here this afternoon the Oregon sisterhood will devote its attention to the reception of their sisters from other parts of the PORTLAND BUSINESS DISTRICT FOR country. The advance guard of visitors is expected here today. The first spe cial train will arrive tomorrow evening. The Imperial hotel has been selected as the headquarters for the Sisterhood for both state and national conven tions. The Portland hotel is headquar ters for the Knights. The Oregon temple will give a for mal reception Monday night at the Im perial hotel to the officers and mem bers of the supreme temple. A public meeting will be conducted by the Sisterhood Monday afternoon in the Elks' lodge rooms, on the fourth floor of the Elk3' building, Stark street and Broadway. This Monday afternoon meeting will be open to the public. One of the In teresting and instructive items on the afternoon's programme will be a report on the early history of the Pythian Sisterhood by Dr. Ida N. Jayne Weaver, the first most excellent chief, the first grand chief and the first supreme chief of the order. Dr. Weaver now lives in Seattle. She is one of the most dis tinguished members of the order and as Mrs. Davis said yesterday, "Anything Portland II Spokane Rate, Rate. From Chicago J1.25 ....! Pittsburg...! 1.25 .Xc-w York.. 1.25 $1.60 1.60 1.60 ..991 $1.34 1.44 1.56 I .90 $1.71 1.84 2.00 1.03 1.14 1.14 .97 ChicafD . ...- Pittaburg.:. L N'qw ork.. ".99j 1.00 1.10 .99 Ii .9411 .94 .94! II l.lOjl 1.10) 1.10:1 II f Chicaeo.. .801 .80 .80 .90! .90 .90 I .551 .65 .75 I .531 .65 .93 Pittsburg... 1.05 1.081 I 1.05 1.08 1.08 1.18 l.ew i orK.. f Chicago i Pittsburg... IN'vW Tork.. 1.15 1.27 1.25 1.38 I f Chicago ,...4 Pittsburg... .9411 .941 .941 II .94 .88! .88i II .8811 .88 .88 II 1.1211 1.12 1-12)1 .88ll .88 i I .SS : I 1.06H 1.06! 1.06,1 II .851 .95 1.051 .85', .95 l.Ool .791 .881 .881 1.04 1.08 1.0S 1.04 iAewlork.. nl. t. f Ch icSETO '. 1 Pittsburg... 1.08 1.08 .85 .95 .rew lorli.. f Chicago...... .551 .5 .75 I .A Pittsburg... l.ew lorK.. .95 .79 .88 .88 1.13 1.29 1.29 .91 1.01 Chicago .55 .......... S t'lttsourg... (.New York- .65 .65 I .88 .88 I f Chicago.... -I Pittsburg. .651 .80' .90 1.00 .901 1.00 1.01 1.05' 1.15 1.22 :?8 i (.New York.. f Chicago .75 .75 .7 5 .90' .90 .90 , . .s f lttsDurg... (.New York.. 1.01 1.10 -1.22 1.22 1.18 1.29 1.38 .91 1.01 Chicago Pittsburg... New York.. .751 .75 .75 I .90 1.00 1.10 .901 1.00 1.01 I .95 1.05 1.08 .85 .95 .95 .90 "Chicago.... . . -f Pittsburg. (.New York. 1.10 1.101 l.lOi .881' .88! .ssj; 1.061 1.061 1.061 .881 .88! .88 I 1.12! 1.12! 1.12 Chicago J ... Pittsbure... I New York-J Chicago J 1.01 1.10 1.22 .80 .80 .80 .55 . . fittsDurg... New York.. Chicago Pittsburg... New York- 1 .85 45 .95 1.16 1.29 1.29 .65 .74 CI is Chicago i-'ittsourg... 1.00 1.10 ew 1 ork.. that Dr. Weaver does 10 of public in terest." The annual memorial service for the departed members of the sisterhood will be conducted at this same meet ing. The report of the altruistic committee will be made at this time by Mrs. Abby Warren Libby, of Maine, one of the past supreme chiefs of the order. Miss Eleanor Davis, daughter of the supreme chief, will be the principal soloist. The Pythian Sisters will take part In all the activities planned by the Pyth ian Knights, including the big street parade Tuesday afternoon, the trip out the Columbia River Highway Wednes day and the trip to Astoria and Ssaslde next Saturday. m I I V& ; I k Alt I i Fir - v fn BOMB STORY IS TOLD Clackamas Prisoner Said to Have Confessed Plot. ANOTHER IN JAIL REPORTS Officers, However, Are Unable t Get Statement Direct on Setting of Suitcase Near Parade : at San Francisco Lately. OREGON CITY. Or.. July 28. (Spe cial.) C. Lassen, a native of Denmark, aged 49 years, who was picked up in Milwaukie Wednesday night by Dep uty Sheriff Riley and is held in jail here without a charge against him. confessed to J. M. Ghrist,' also a pris oner in the County Jail, that he set the loaded suitcase on the crowded I Market street corner in San Francisco I TAKES ON FESTIVE ATTIRE IN HONOR OF PYTHIAN ORDERS HERE STATE AND NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. CORNER AT FOURTH AND WASHINGTON". last Saturday afternoon which exploded and killed and injured scores, ac cording to a story told by Ghrist to day. Sheriff Wilson and Thomas A. Burke. Deputy District Attorney, gave bassen a preliminary examination to day, but we're unable to get any state ment from him beyond the fact that he has spent much time in San Fran cisco and was there recently. lie will be examined still further tomorrow. Newspapers Inspire Talk. Ghrist. to whom Lassen is said to have made the confession, is held in jail in default of peace bonds, required after complaint of his wife. Here is Ghrist s story as told to Jus tice Sievers: "I was reading the papers and Las sen .looked over my . shoulder. Some new features of the San Francisco bomb case was on the front page and under big headings. He grabbed the paper from me and read the newspaper ar ticle through. He seemed greatly wor ried. What's the matter, old man? I asked. - . 'Oh, - It's awful to have something always worrying you he said. He Was much excited. Might as well tell me about it,' I told him. 'Better tell about it and take the consequences rather than to go crazy worrying.' Lassen hesitated for a while ana then told me the entire story. There were 12 in the scheme, and it was his part to first go into a saloon, wait until the parade had started and then to go out and set the suitcase on the corner. He carried out directions and with $10 in his pockets went to the freight yards to start north. Soon after tne explosion ne was on his way to Oregon on a freight- train, and he made good time. -The first newspaper account of tne tragedy ne saw was in a Southern Oregon town. He got off of the freight-. at Portland Wednesday afternoon and was going to ride into Portland on the streetcar so hat they would not get him in the Portland freight yards for riding the beams. Lassen has had time enough to make the trip up from San Francisco after the bomb explosion and local officers believe that the case is worthy of the closest investigation. POUCE DEVELOPING THEORY Bomb Plot Believed Move Against Street Railway Company SAN FRANCICSO. July 28. San Francisco's police department spent today drawing tighter the chain of evl dence thrown about the eight persons in custody suspected of having to do with the placing of the suitcase bomb which exploded on a crowded downtown corner during Saturday s preparedness parade and killed nine and wounded 40. The officers worked on the theory that the bomb outrage was part of general dynamite attack on the United Railroads, and asserted they had the guilty persons in custody. Other ar rests, however, are expected to be made soon. Thomas J. Mooney, a labor agitator, who failed recently in an attempt to cause a strike on the United Railroads; Mrs. Mooney and v illiam K- Billings, an ex-convict, three of the suspects in Jail, were drawn together In a net when It was shown tney were een together several times shortly before the explosion. Billings, witnesses said, was on the roofs of two Market-street buildings with a sultcast-shortly before the ex plosion. One roof was directly oppo site the spot where the bomb burst- The police believe he first planned to explode It about eight blocks up Mar ket street and later moved it closer to the Ferry building. District Attor ney Fickert declared he thought other bombs had been planted but failed to explode. - Witnesses testified the hat worn -by Mrs. Mooney as that of & woman who tried to reach Billings on one of the roofs. Mooney. it was also learned met Billings in a Russian River camp several days before the explosion. Both Mooney and Billings, It was said, have long dynamite records and have fig ured In attempts to cripple the United Railroads before by blowing up their power poles. The board of supervisors late today voted $9500 to defray the expenses of District Attorney Fickert In conductln the Investigation and prosecution. was announced today that charges would be brought against the men soon. BRIDEGROOM TO LOSE JOB " Husband of Daisy Gordon Not Want ed on Police Force. . Miles F. Barrett, bridegroom, will not retain his job on the Portland po lice force as a result of his marital venture with Daisy Gordon. Barrett was married Thursday afternoon to the proprietress of the Astor Hotel. Barrett was appointed a patrolman two weeks ago and put on the proba tionary list. Six months is the length of the probation before an appoint ment becomes permanent. The resignation of Barrett is ex pected at the office of the Mayor soon. Barrett told Mayor Albee that he might leave for West -Virginia with his bride in the event that his presence on the police force was no longer desired, and as far as Mayor Albee Is concerned he is welcome to go. LABOR PICNIC TOMORROW Preparations Are Made to Entertain 5000 Persons. A picnic to be given by the Labor Temnla Association at Crystal Lake Park tomorrow promises to be an event of major importance, preparations oe ing now under way whereby at least 5000 persons can be entertained. Judge W. N. Gatens has agreed to deliver an address on the subject of "What Labor Has Done for Society." A ball game between the Labor Press team and the Bricklayers' team will be a real game, since the players on these teams are among the best semi professional players in the city. Notable among the events Is tne log-rolling contest, for which about 14 entries have been made. Nelson's orchestra, with a vocal solo ist, will furnish music both afternoon and evening. Uanclng will be a diver sion. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Steamer Schedule. DUE TO ARRIVE. 'Vam . Prom . Date. Braver -To Angeles In pom Great Northern. . . . San Francisco. . . -In port Northern racmc. . .Mn i- rancisco. . .juiy o ciiv .Loa An Seles July 21 Breakwater htn uiego aur. F. A. K 11 burn, San Diego Aug. 3 DUE TO DEPART. vm.. Vnr Date. Beaver Ioa Angeles July 29 Great Northern.. ..San Francisco. ...July Harvard B. F. to L.. A -juiy Willamette San Diego July Yale S. F. toL. A. . ....July Northern Pacific. . .San Francisco. . - .Aug. Multnomah San Diego Aug. Break axer. San Diego Aug. Rose City Los Angeles.' Aug. F. A. Kilburn San Diego Aug. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, July 28. Arrived Schooner Monterev. from San Francisco: steamer Shasta, from San iJearo. bauea sieamer Celilo. for San Dleco via. way ports. Astoria. July 28. Arrived at 8 ana lert up at U:30 A. M.. steamer westerner- iron San Francisco. " Arrived at noon." steamer Great Northern, from San Francisco. Sailed at 12:15 P. M.. steamer F. A. Kilburn, for Coos Bay. Eureka and San Francisco. Ar rived at 2:05 and left .up at :10 P. M.. steamer Daisy Freeman, from San Fran Cisco. San Francisco. July 28. Sailed at : A M. steamer Yosemite. for ban Pedro. Arrived Steamer E. H. Vance with log raft in tow, from Columbia river. Sailed noon, steamer E. rt. v ance, ror &.n Pedro. Arrled at 2:30 P. M.. steamer Northern Pacific, from Flavel. Sailed last nleht- steamer F. H. Buck, for Portland. San Pedro. July so- &auea oteamer Rose City, for Portland. Seattle. July bauea at z f. aav. Japanese eteamer Talsho Mara, for Colum bia river. . Queenstown. July 14. Arrivea rencn harir Tiivarri. frnm Portland. Aatoria. -I u iv s. Arrivea at w:au ano left up at 11 P. M., steamer bnasta, zrom Run P.rl m Svdnev. N. S. W.. July Arrivea Steamer Niasrara. Vancouver. Ran Francisco. July ZS. Arrivea steam ers Stanley Dollar, Port Angeles; Governor, Seattle: Simla. Vancouver. U. &. ft. regon, Sitka: Edzar H. Vance. Northern Pacific, Astoria. Sailed Steamer Carmei, Aber deen. Marconi Wireless Reports. fAll ponif iotiN reported mt S P. M.. July , miiMi otherwise designated.) Psraiso. San Pedro for South America,. 85 miles south of san fecro. San Juan, Balboa for San -Francisco, pass Wapama, San Diego for San Pedro, IT miUi north of Point Loma. Senator. San Francisco for Seattle, 15 mil Tinrth of Mendocino. Multnomah, San Francisco for Grays Har hnc Sfi rrtllea. north of Mendocino. Speedwell. Coos Bay for San Francisco, im nti.. nf Can Fr nrUro. El Segundo. towing bar?e 91. Richmond lor Seattle, mues norm 01 riciiiiiwhu. Matsonia. Honolulu for San Francisco, iA.ii miio. frnm Ran Francisco. July - Wilhelmina. San Francisco for Honolulu, Ate mil .m rn.m Can Frnnfiiun. Jill V Ii. ' Htlonlan. San Francisco- for Honolulu, 870 mllss trr.m fimn Prnnflwy). Jtllv 27. Hvadea. .Honolulu for San Francisco. 443 milsa frnm Kan Vra nrlTO. Jul V 2i. Governor, San Francisco for San Pedro, 13 miles south of Pigeon Point. Col. E. L. Drake. Prince Rupert fo: Rirhmonrf miles north of Richmond. Breakwater. Santa Barbara for San Fran rUro i ao miles south of San Francisco. Umatilla. Seattle for Nome, 600 miles west of rar Flatterv. -Tulv 27. Asunclon. Richmond for Vancouver. 40 mile. niith of Vinrouvrr. Richmond and barge 9.V Richmond for Seattle. 10 miles north of San Francisco. Kilburn. Portland for Coos Bay. 75 miles annth of Coin mhia. River. Queen. Seattle for San Francisco, 12' miles south of Destruction Island. Lucas. Richmond for Seattle, - 646 miles north of Richmond. Columbia River Bar Report. NORTH HEAD. July 58. Condition of th bar at 5 P. M.: Sea, smooth; wind, north west, 24 m'Mes. i Th. .mount of whl.kr dl.tlll.d in Ken tni'lcv fell nfr two-tHlrd. l.Bt vear. th. de crease in Pennsylvania, was 33 Der cent ajid that la Mar Land zuore tcsa -40 xr cat. BATES IN QUESTION Longshoremen Here Are Paid! More Than in South. COMPROMISE IS EXPECTED Conference Is Set for Tuesday at San Francisco Between Employers and Unions Portland Is to Be Represented. Longshoremen's -unions of Portland are to be renresented at the San Fran cisco conference set for. Tuesday be tween committees . of the employers' and those of the labor organizations. C. P. Hoi irate, secretary of Union No, 5, is to leave for the Golden Gate so as to be on hand when the session is con vened. There will be delegates from oher northern bodies as well. When the San Francisco longshore men "turned to" under the former con ditions it was understood, so their brethren here assert, that they were to work until the conference August 1, when an increase In the wags scale was expected. Coastwise vessels are pay ing 50 cents straight time and 75 cents an hour overtime on general cargo In the south. The demand of the unions, under which they walked out June 1 was for 55 cents straight time and $1 overtime on all vessels. San Francisco employ ers assext that they offered a com promise of 55 cents and 82 Va cents, which was rejected, though low some of the union men say the compromise was not offered In good faith. In voting recently to return to work snder the former conditions the ban Francisco unions, took up their former employment and, while the Portland bodies votedto return, they are em ployed only by such companies and on uch - vessels as were on the fair list revious to the vote, other companies that have had vessels here tslrice. the San Francisco & Portland fleet and -f".lfr.miCk4.le,,r!!llStnKt0 recH ize the union. The latter company in ists on the scale fixed by the Cham ber of Commerce, 50 and 75 cents. That as been the union scale . here with te Ban Francisco & Portland fleet In the pa6t. On the other hand, stevedoring firms avlng offshore vessels to load paid the 65 cents and $1 as demanded June and whether the old scale of 55 and S2',i cents I-i expected to be paid .hi r;;: J J ." made known to the stevedores. The rexon for th( I. thur. . .. ina.riir.o- , Tk. tlon is that no move will be made in that direction pending the outcome of the conference. The Impression prevails nmontr aome hr. th.f n,. c- Cisco session will result in compromise with no authoritative forecast being made as to the probable basis. The trike will be two montrm- 11 nn Tn. INSPECTORS . FILIj CHARGES Alleged Passengers Were In Pilot house of Steamer Georgians. rhnir.. mittoH r.i rld in .h. nii..h ma. uaDDciiKcro were urr- steamer Georgian July 22 are to form tne basis of an investigation ordorxd by United States Steamboat Inspectors Edwards ard Fuller to take place Monday morning.- Captain Enos Craw ford. l--llot Barney Weir. Chief En gineer Kilbride and other ofTir. of tne vessel have been cited to unnur ine law provides that certain Gov ernment officers are allowed to be in tne pilothouse or on the bridsre of vessel under way.' while others of the Federal service are named who may be there on the responsibility of the master, but persons are not permitted mere unless connected with the Gov. ernment branches specified. ine inspectors are in receint of complaints from C. L. T. wood, of Mr. tin's Bluff, and W. H. Emrlck. of 437 r-asi r oriy-seventn street, that July the Gcorgiana Dassed necdl.s.iv close to a launch in which they were traveling between Kelso and Martin's Biuii. Additional information has Deen requested from them. FLOAT OAKLAND NEXT WEEK Contractor Intends to Haul Stranded Schooner in Few Days. nenrj Aioers. or AIDers Bros., nur- chasers of the stranded schooner Oak land, lying on the beach near Manza nita, has gone to the scene to be present when final preparations are completed to float the vessel, it being expected, that, an effort will be made to haul her Into deep water Wednesday. In the event she is floated Mr. Albers may remain aboard until she is towed here lor repairs. J. H. Roberts, of Portland, who under took the contract and has a force of men there, .will ship a five-ton anchor and 2600 feet of cable from here today on the gasoline schooner Patsy. The plan is to drop the anchor -about half a mile seaward and run the cable from It to the ship. Sicnal rockets, flair life belts, lifeboats and other gear has v..... ,..u.j j j .kI riT.-Tt V..r,"'.T." . FREEMAN TO UNLOAD TODAY Davenport to Arrive Tomorrow; Both Employ Nonunion Men. Work of unloading 250 tons of as phalt from the steamer Daisy Freeman is to begin this morning at the Oregon- Washington dock. The Parr-McCormick line has the vessel under consignment as to inward cargo and it was given out yesterday that she would be dis charged with nonunion men. using part of the crew noused on Atnsworth dock. Later the vessel will go to the Bates dock, foot of Ankeny street, to unload. The Freeman, will be followed to morrow by the steamer Davenport in the same service, which has general cargo. Negotiations are said to be on for other carriers that will get away from San Francisco next week. The steamer Shasta arrived late Tuesday night and the Westerner came Into the river yesterday morning, leaving up at 9:30 o'clock. Both are light and will load lumber for the return. STEAMER IS BUILT SPEEDILY Oregon Turned Out In Five Months at Aberdeen Yard. ABERDEEN. Wash.. July 28. (Spe- cial. A record for speedy steamship building will be held by Andrew Peter son. Aberdeen shipbuilder, when the steamer Oregon is launched here Mon day. live months after the laying of her keel Five months ago not a single piece of machinery had been Installed at the Peterson shipyards. In this brief period Mr. Peterson has built up fully- equipped yards, completed the Oregon and has two other vessels under con struction, one of which Is an auxiliary schooner, to be launched within the next six weeks. Lower Docks limerge. Steamboatmen who have been work- SrSfi ROUND TRIP FARES . TILLAMOOK BEACH RESORTS are the nearest to Portland. Two daily trains, 7:45 A. M. and 1:40 P. M. Observation car on afternoon seashore special. Slightly higher fare to Bayocean, Manzanita, Classic Ridge and Neah-Kah-Nie. NEWPORT Through tourist sleeper Friday night on train No. 15. Bathing, fishing, gathering agates, hiking, pic nic parties, dancing and many other diversions. $6.25 season round-trip 'fare. 3 $4 AROUND THE LOOP $1.60 Portland to McMinnville and return. Going via HUlsboro and Forest Grove and returning via Newberg and Oswego. OSWEGO LAKE 35 An ideal place for a picnic good fishing, boating and swimming. Lake has been raised. New pier built at Lake Grove. Boats for rent. Take Southern Pacific Electric Cars on Fourth Street. Buy tickets and secure information at our City Ticket Office, cor ner Sixth and Oak Sts., Fourth and Yamhill Sts., or East Morrison- St. Station. John M. Scott General Passenger Agent. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES Coos Bay Railroad Celebration Marshfield and North Bend, August 24th, 25th and 26th. Low Round-Trip Fares fg on upper docks for two months because of the freshet have visions of getting back to their old quarters on the lower levels, since all docks but the Ash-street wharf of the O.-W. R. & N. are free of water. Ash-street dock is the lowest of the West Side landings, so is first to overflow and Davis-street dock and other places re pairs are already under way, though they will not be in full swing until the water is lower, as some underpinning lust be looked after. The staae here was 16.7 feet yesterday, a drop of six- tenths of a foot in 24 hours. . Patsy Investigation Waifs Failure on the part of E. E. Quick, former chief engineer aboard the gas 2.nne "cn?n.er ts ' 1 appear D" United States fcteamboat Inspectors Edwards and Wynn yesterday in con "ctJn ,with charges that Captain plndinSf has ordered cargo stowed so as to interfere with the engine-room crew resulted in them being laid on l" laulB " wibu b" Captain Finding that Mr. Quick I was intoxicated were held up. It was reported that Mr. Qijlck had gone to California. Beaver Sails South Today. San Pedro advices reported the de- I parture from there yesterday of " the 1 steamer Kose tjuy. so sne is oue a I San Francisco today, though was I pected to get away from there this I - . ... afternoon, a ne weaver win nnisn load ing here so as to sail at 3 o'clock this afternoon for California ports and will have more than 2200 tons of cargo, which Includes considerable grain. Pas enter travel Is gaining, and Captain Mason will no doubt nave a nuraoer of guests. Marine Notes. n,in.inr . rirro of fuel oil. the schooner Monterey arrived up yesterday and is dis charging at Llnnton. Bound for Westport toioaa aooui .wv..- 000 feet of lumber, the Japanese steamer Talsho Mam left Seattle at - oti"" terdav alternoon. Comyn, Mackall At Co. have "her under charter and she goes to Calcutta. That the French bark Bayard reporteo at Queenstown July 14 was a message lor warded to the Merchants' Exchange yester day. She left the Columbia River January 24 with a grain cargo " ' Francisco February 3 In distress, some ol her tophamper having suffered In a blow. It was March S when she towed out of the Golden Gate again. W L. Kearns. dean or marine reporter, ong the Portland waterfront, leavea to day for Southern calllornia, accompanies by Mrs. Kearns. The ursi pan i journey will be made aboard the turbiner Great Northern, and from San Francisco the turbiner Harvard, will be patronlxed. The admiral's'" store of sea yarns la ex pected to be vastly eniargcu " turn. ... Cam-lng SO passengers and a lull loan of lumBer, the McCormlck steamer t.euio left last right for California. The Willam ette is due to sail Monday. D C. O'Reilly, or the Regulator u ' ma.nnnH o fleet, has returned from Ban Francisco, where he spent a few days on bublness. Laden with 10O0 cases of cans and l" tons of merchandise, the gasoline schooner Rustler was cleared yesterday lor River. Relnspection of the ateamer Tahoma. ot the People's line, was made yesterday by Federal inspectors. t vith frelrht. the steamer Twin ..i ri.nart.il vesterdav for Lewiston. and ih. . .T X. l eal IS o uo inim 'today and will bo started on th. return tnmnrrow Offshore lumber rates have sdvsnced, tne schooner W. J. Patterson having been taken I , uinH Rnlnh & Co. to load on Mllapa iitior for th. . .t Hi. where.. the rate has been fSO to 31. It la estimated the ahin will earn S24.SOO on the voyage. As the new steamer Annette Rolph made her trial trlD at San Francisco Tuesday v.r ..wners are to take her over today, fH ttncitlalion as to which firm will .ht.in the vessel for her initial cargo. As far as Is known her owners hav.- refused hide made. She Is controlled by a Nor wegian tyndlc.te. News From Nortliwest Ports. ASTOP.IA. Or.. July 28. (Special.) Tho steam schooner Shasta arrived during the nlrht from San rancisco anu went w -D.,iBnH in load lumber. The steam schooner Westerner arrived fnriav from San Francisco and went Wauna to take on lumber for a return The remaining members of the crew of .h. hnomr w. H. Talbot arrived last evening and were signed, on the vessel this morning. Th. Xslhot will sail tomorrow morning for Melbourne with a cargo of lumber from tXTestnort. One of the Benson Lumber Company's rafts of logs will be brought from Wallace Slough tomorrow morning. It will be towed to San Diego by tne tug nercuiea. Th. steam schooner uarsy rreeman r rived today from San Francisco wltn freight for Astoria and Portland. The steamer sr. A. Miourn aanea iwiij for San Francisco via Coos Bay ana LureKi with a heavy freight and a am. 11 list of pas sengers from fortiana ana Astoria. Bringing a lull cargo 01 irf-iguc ana m fair- list of passengers, the steamer Great Northern arrived this afternoon from San Francisco. The tug Hercules, with the barkentln. Georgian, in tow, arrived from San Fran cisco. Th. latter will load lumber at St. Johna, " The lUant scnooner bidii Damar. ar rived from Westport thla afternoon with a cargo of lumber and will sail tonight for San Francisco. Seattle. Joly 2R. Arrived Steamers Ad miral Dewey. Argyll. Atlas, from e.n ran cisco- A1K1, Itncio, II "ill wiutnPMirin Alaska Departed Steamers Congress, for San Diego; Yokohama Maru (Jap.. for Hongkong; AtlaV for San Francisco; Talsho Maru (Jp. ). 'or Calcutta. COOS BAT. Or., Juiy 28. (Special.) The steamer Adeline Pmun arrivea irom Francisco this morning at :d. l The steamer Speedwell sailed for San Francisco and San Pedro last night. -The gasolln. schooner Roaxner returned from Rogue River tfcla morning after having SATURDAY AND SUNDAY been floated from the beach. The schooner brought 2700 cases of salmon from the Mao leay cannery. The steamship F. A. Kilburn Is due from Portland with frelsht .mountina- to -0O tons for Coos Bay. TILLAMOOK. Or..-. July 2S. (Special. The steamer Sue H.' Elmore arrived from Portland, via Newoort. veaterdav. She saflea f-jr Portland today, with a cargo of cheese Tides at Astoria Saturday. Hlsh. I Low. 1:14 A. M. . .7.1 feet 7:07 A. M. - 0.5 foot I 3.1 fee J 1, from I ast, for j 17:07 P. il. . Vessels Entered Yesterday. American schooner Monterey, oil. from an r rancisco. Vessels Cleared Yesterday. American schooner Monterey, ballast, for San Francisco. Gasoline schooner Rustler, general cargo, for Wedderbum. STEEL SHIP KEEL LAID FIRST OF FOVR TO BE BUILT TO GETHER IS STARTED. Usual Ceremonies Are Absent at ! Northwest Steel Plant When Construction Is Begu. At the plant of the Northwest Steel Company, the keel of the SSOO-ton steel freighter Laurati Kloster. contracted for by a shipowner of that name living at Stavanger. Norway, has been laid, said J. R. Bowles, president of the com pany. At shipbuilding yajsds, the laying of a keel of a vessel of any sise is invaria bly made an event, but In this case it is said there was no desire to mark the starting of the first of five big carriers contracted for with a spectacular pro gramme. It is said there is really no such move as laying the keel of shipB of this type, because there is not a keel such as is affixed to wooden ships, there being only a line of thick plates laid and on top of themes to be fastened the vertical veel. Plates from each side of the center line gradually decrease In thickness until the uniform size are in place. The center line of bottom plates were on the blocks of the ways yesterday and one source has it that several days may elapse before all are permanently lined up and the vertical keel placed, though the latter Is ready In the shops. At any rate the big Job Is under way and before long others will be begun, until four .ships are on the ways to gether and the vicinity will ring with the rapping of steel hammers and the din of kindred noises as the hulls take form. After launching they will be towed to the plant of the Willamette Iron & Steel Works for the installa tion of boilers and machinery. Maritime Dangers. Captain M. R. J. Downey, master of tug Navigator, reports to the branch Hydrographic Office, at Portland, hav ing sighted a tree 50 feet long, three feet thick and with large stumps at tached. It was sighted four miles southwest (Magnetic) of Cape Arago, Or., at noon July 26. It is dangerous to shipping. CITY TO PAYBACK $106.61 Part of $300 Appropriated for Stark-Street Plans Not Tsed. An ordinance has been drafted pro-, posing the appropriation of $106.61 from the general fund for the payment to Max Hirsch of unpaid balances on the preliminary plans for the extension of Stark street. When the Stark Street Improvement Association made application to the City Council for an extension of Stark street due west from Thirteenth street to the Cornell road. $500 was appropri ated for the preparation of prelimi nary plans. Owners of property affected by the proposed change remonstrated, practi cally all of them asking that no ex tension be made. NEWLY WED lS SUICIDE Mining Man Marries When His Property Begins to Pay, Then Dies. SIOTJX CITT. Ia-. July 12. "The mine is beginning to look good, and In a few days I'm going to bring back the prettiest bride you ever saw." Thus wrote Howard J. Gilmour from Denver, to his mother. Dr. Klla It. Gilmour, of Sioux City. When next Dr. Gilmore heard or her son, he had killed himself, three days after he had married Miss Bertha Mor gan in Denver. Donkey Train Tsed for Travel. . PENDLETON. Or.". July 28. (Spe cial.) A family from Lnlon County. traveling by donkey train, created much interest as it passed through Fendleton yesterday, household goods are being carried. To accommodate two Si.iall children saddle-bags have been ar ranged for one of the donkeys. The trip is made in complete comfort with one youngster on each side. i