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20 THE MORNING OREGON! AN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1911 JAPAN IS OH VERGE OF NEW ELECTION iTerauchi Cabinet May Be of Short Life Under Strong Fire of Opposition. VIGOROUS DEFENSE MADE JPremier Qnestions Sincerity of Ger many's Peace Move Foreign Minister Charges Design to Occupy All China. TOKIO, Jan. 24. Japan Is confronted with an internal crisis. The opposition to the administration of Count Terau chl has opened a vigorous campaign on the ground that the Terauchl non-partisan cabinet was formed In violation of the spirit of the constitution. Count Terauchi and Viscount Motono. Foreign Minister, delivered addresses In defense of the administration In the diet today. The press expects the outcome of the crisis .o be dissolution of the government and a new election. Premier Terauchi said that Japan was working in unreserved union with the allies and said that Germany's peace proposal was rejected because It was not inspired by a sincere desire for peace. The Premier declared that the Gov ernment was paying particular atten tion to Us relations with China and would spare no pains to cultivata neighborly relations. "I need scarcely remind you," the Premier continued, "that armament Is an indispensable means of national preservation." America' Friendship Desired. In the course of a lengthy address. In which he unequivocally asserted that Germany's ambition for world hege mony was the true cause of the war. Viscount Motono dwelt particularly on the relations between the United States and Japan. He said that Japan had always wished to maintain the most sincerely amicable relations with America. Viscount Motono charged that Ger many had seized Tsing-Tau In 1898 preparatory to the occupation later of all of China. He said Japan had en tered the war to defend her particular Interests and those of her allies and of all humanity. "On this war." Viscount Motono con tinued, "depends the liberty of nations. If the entente vfctory is incomplete it Is hardly necessary to remark that peace in the Far East, for which Japan has made such sacrifices, is gravely endangered. Referring to the failure of the en tente aUies In their reply to President "W'llson'l recent note, to make allusion as to the disposition of Germany's col onies, which attracted attention of Japan, Viscount Motono explained that the reply did not contain all the condi tions of peace. Japan Not EgotlKtlcnl. Viscount Motono maintained the greatest cause for China's mistrust of Japan was the regrettable Japanese tendency to interfere in China's domes tic quarrels. "What Japan feared most. lie said, was the disintegration of China, but she would do everything to prevent this. The Foreign Minister asserted that Japan's friendly policies must be recip rocated by China, which must recognize Japan's special rights in Southern Man rhuria and Kastern Mongolia. Japan should recognize the immense inter ests of other nations in China, co-oper ate with powers with which there are Fpecial arrangements and, generally Fpeaking, to conciliate her interests with those of other nations. "Japan has no intention of pursuing n egotistical policy," Viscount Motono concluded. "She believes she can reach a complete understanding with the in terested powers for the good of China and all. CARVER PERMITS READ TWO OK THREE MEASURES WAIT DATE FOR PASSAGE. TO April 1 to See Operation of Bases on i Proposed Lines If FrtnrhUcs Are i Granted by City. Two of t'-e three franchises sought by Stephen Carver for a city-wide Jitney service were read first and sec ond times by the City Council yester day and put over for 30 days for final passage. The two measures have passed the period of official advert! ing. The first of the three was read twice about 10. days ago. The first franchise, that covering the southeastern part of the city, will be up for final passage February 14, and when passed will go over for 60 days before going into effect. This is re quired by the city sharter. Th.e second and third measures will be up for final passage i ebruary 28 The second one covers the East Side north of Belmont street, and the third the West Side. The action of the Council means that the Carver service will start on April 1 on all the lines but those in the southeast section, where service will be started about 10 days prior to that date. Mr. Carver proposes to operate large buses on a schedule to all the principal parts of the city, including the suburbs. He will grant transfers between lines and will furnish bonds aggregating $27,500 for the protection of the public and bonds aggregating $2500 to guar antee establishment of the service and continuance for at least six months. REFORM CODE SOUGHT JUDGES ARE WORKING OUT BILL TO MODIFY FELOXV. Only Offenders Sent to Prison Would Be So Branded Under Scheme of Multnomah Bench. A man will not be branded a felon, no matter what crime short of murder he may commit, so long as he is not sentenced to the Penitentiary, if the tentative amendment being prepared by Circuit Judge Gatens for consideration by other Judges of the Circuit Court is adopted snd passes the Legislature. Judge Gatens was selected to draft a tentative bill, at a meeting held in the chambers of Judge Gantenbein yes terday by Judges Gantenbein, Gatens .and Tucker. They were selected by the other Judges to prepare a report on the matter of abolishing fixed penalties. With the abolition of the fixed In- determinate sentence the bill, as tenta tively outlined by Judge Gatens, would give the committing: magistrate power to sentence a man to the County Jail or to pay a fine or he could parole him for any offense but murder. If a man was found g-uilty of highway rob bery, but instead of being sent to the Penitentiary he was sentenced to a term there and paroled, or was given a Jail sentence or fine, he would be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, if Judge Gatens ideas are carried out. The ' new method Is advocated as working toward the reformation of the criminal. It is held to be only Just and humane to allow the trial Judge to decide the penalty which shall be paid by the criminal, because no two cases are similar. EX-JUDGE JVTGINN SUES Action for Damages Is Began for Widow of Auto Victim. Ex-Judge Henry E. McGinn filed his first case in the Circuit Court since re turning from the bench to the practice of law yesterday, when he instituted suit in favor of the widow of Thomas Doherty, the street-sweeper, who was run down and killed by an automobile of the Hazelwood Company, January S, last. The action is for $7500 damages. The accident happened at night at the ln- ersection of Broadway and Hoyt street. Judge McGinn is assisted in the action by Attorney R. Citron. Suit for $2o00 damages was begun yesterday by S. Blumbergr against James Kerns and the Abbott Company for injuries sustained January 27, 1916, when he was run down by an automo bile at Sixth and Ankeny streets. '0TAT0 FUTURE PREDICTED Springfield Mayor Says 1000 Cars Will Be Grown Annually. EUGENE. Or.. Jan. 24. (Special.) One thousand cars of potatoes will be grown annually in the territory tribu tary to Eugene and Springfield in the near future, according to a prediction made by Mayor E. E. Morrison, of Springfield, in an address before the Eugene Chamber of Commerce today. Mr. Morrison, who is the largest potato buyer in thia section of the state, as serted that there was no danger of the business being overdone. Mr. Morrison three years ago brought the first carload of seed potatoes to Springfield and induced the farmers to grow potatoes, guaranteeing to pay them 75 cents a hundred for their crops'. The Willamette Valley potatoes. He claims, are the equal of almost any grown In the West. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Steamer Schedule. DUE TO ARRIVE. Name. From Date. Northern Pacific. . San Francisco. . . .In port V. A. Kllbnra San Francisco. ...Jan. 25 Rose City ... .Los Angeles. ... ..Jan. 27 Breakwater... .... San Francisco. .. .Jan. SO Beaver. ...... . .. ..Los Angeles. .. ...Feb. 2 DUB TO DEPART. Name. for Date. Northern Pacific. . .San Francisco. . . .Jan. 25 Yale S.K. for LA.-S.D. Jan 28 F. A. KHburn. .... .San Francisco. . . .Jan. 26 Harvard S.F. for L A.-S.D. . Jan. 27 Hose City ......... .Los Angeles. .... .Jan. -M Klamath..... San Diego...- .Jan. 80 Breakwater. ...... San Francisco. .. . Jan. 81 Wapama. ......... San Diego. ...... .Feb. 2 Beaver. .......... l-oa Angeles. .... .Feb. 4 WAPAJIA IS IX THIRD PLACE Klamath Heads McConnick lane in Passengers for Quarter. In the number of passengers carried on the Coast during the past three months, which means to and from any ports from Puget Sound as far south San Diego, the steamer Klamath leads the well-known McCormick fleet with the steamer Celllo second. The Wapama., dubbed flagship of the line, has fallen to third 1 place and the Multnomah is fourth. In the number of travelers from Port land alone the Wapama leads, but Puget Sound and Grays Harbor busi ness has picked up, so the Celilo and Multnomah have gained. As to the Klamath, being the first of the new fleet turned out and having plied long before the others made their appear ance, she has a patronage all her own in most of the ports. The Wapama left St. Helens yesterday with 650,000 feet of lumber in the hold and a deckload of Diling. bound for San Francisco, and on discharging that she proceeds to Puget Sound. CITY OF ST. HELENS FIXED S. I. Allard Due to Take Water When River Ascends Guagc. When the auxiliary schooner City of St. Helens is ready in March or April, she being the third of the five-masted type ordered for the McCormick coterie. Balfour. Guthrie & o. will loaa ner with lumber for the Antipodes, she having been fixed for Sydney with the option of Newcastle or Port Pirie. The S. I. Allard. second of the fleet, as the City of Portland was first, is readv for launching, but H. F. Mc Cormick, In charge of the St. Helens Shipbuilding Company, prefers to have from two to three reet more water than at present. The river here has begun dropping slightly again, being 3.1 feet above zero yesterday, but it is probable the stream will remain fairly stationary for a few days. The Allard is chartered for three voyages to Australia, and the City of Portland, now on her way to Homolu after the first trip, is to make three others under existing charters. ELEVATOR MEETING FEB. 2 Interior Committeemen to Convene With Portland Dock Board. Because of inability to assemble members of a special committee named at the Corvallls agricultural meeting early in the month on bulk grain han dling, in connection with the movement here for the erection of an elevator, they will not meet today with the Com mission of Public Docks, but a special session Is to be arranged with the ex pectation the committeemen will be in the city February 2. The details are to be worked out largely by Professor George B. Hislop. of the Oregon Agricultural College, who sent a message yesterday as to the later date being selected. Others of the committee are A. S. Roberts and J. T. Akdisson, of The Dalles: W. W. Harrah and R. O. Barnhart, of Pendle ton, and H. B. Davidhiser, of Joseph. The Commission will gather in regu lar session- this morning, mostly routine business being on the calendar. SICSLAW IS TO BE SURVEYED Purpose Is to Determine What Im provements Will Be Necessary. EUGENE. Or.. Jan. 24. (Special.) Stations from which to take bearings for the purpose of making a survey of the Siuslaw River, from its mouth to Acme, have been established, ac cording to I. B. Cushman, of Acme, chairman of the Port of Siuslaw, who is in Eugene today. Mr. Cushman says the survey is to be made in detail from the railroad to the sea, and will be the basis for de termining what improvements shall o undertaken on the river. The latest authentic statement is that there Is 18 feet of water on the Siuslaw bar at high tide, he said. LOADED GRAFT MOVE Unkai Maru No. 2 Leaves. Another Seaman Deserts. CAPTO SHIFTS TO LINNTON Local Representative of New York Firm Fixes Five Vessels Xor- wegian Steamer Hendrlk Ibsen Engaged on Coast. ' Departure of the Japanese tramp Unkai Maru No. 2 from the harbor last night, fully loaded, and the shifting of the Norwegian steamer Capto from Wauna to Linnton to complete her load, were incidents yesterday in the pres ent movement of lumoer from Oregon to India, Bombay being the market supplied. The Unkai Maru carried with her 2,451,391 feet, according to her correc ted manifest, the value of which was J24.502. Her charterers are the Pacific Export Lumber Company. The Capto, which is of the new steel fleet and was finished at San Francisco early in the month, is sailing at present in the service of Comyn, Mackall & Co and' it is expected her cargo, tht first two lots of which were worked at Westport and Wauna, will comprisi 3.500,000 feet when she Is ready to leave the Clark & Wilson mill at Linn ton for Bombay. Rate Is 200 Shillings. The vessels receive 200 shillings on eacn looo feet for the 'voyage. The Unkai Maru is expected to return to the Pacific and probably the Capto as well, the latter being under time char ter to Andrew Weir & Co., who relet aer to Comyn, Mackall & Co. for tht Bombay business. xor reports yesterday were that charter rates were soaring again a-na me aemand is such that one firm now represented here, acted for the owners in the fixture of five vessels Tuesday. The latest engagement for x-aciiic Dusiness was that of the Nor wegian steamer Henrik Ibsen last week. Japanese Seaman Deserts. Another desertion from the Unkai Maru, which worked cargo at the In-man-Poulsen dock, was reported ti united States immigration officials yesterday, K. Morita, a Japanese quar termaster being missing. A reward of J25 is offered by the master of the vessel for information which may lead to the detention of the deserter, or of any of the three others who escaped while the vessel was In port here. According to the report of the ship's officers, Morita was 32 years of age, 5 feet 1 inch in height, and had closelv cliooed hair. He wore a hunting cap, a dark gray coat ana vsst, a red wool in undershirt, and blue sailor trousers. He was able to speak a little English. His absenoe was first noticed about noon yesterday. When the Unkai Maru left the har bor yesterday afternoon she carried another sailor. K. Makihata. who de serted from the Kenkon Maru No. I nere aoout two years ago. He was found in hiding about a month ago near the Twelve-Mile house, on tht Base Line road, by officers of the Im migration Service. NEW SHIPYARD IS STARTED Tools Are Ordered for Plant to Be Headed by Joseph Supple. Receipt of Information Tuesday that contracts had been signed for two wooden vessels to be built by Joseph Supple. Fred A. Ballin and J. B. C. Lockwood for the Gaston, Williams & Wigmore Steamship Corporation of New York, was followed yesterday by the placing of orders by Mr. Lockwood for numerous tools and other gear for the shops that must be arranged for well in advance of the yard being laid out. The vessels are to be reinforced with steel and the bulwarks will be of the same material. The hulls wii be diagonal planked and, being of 4000 tons deadweight capacity, they will be the largest yet turned out on the Coast by wooden builders. The ves sels will be schooner rigged and have auxiliary power, twin screws being driven by engines of 300-horsepower each, inton engines being utilized. Mr. Supple is expected home from New York next week and Mr. Ballin later and as soon as possible the yard site north of the east approach of the Haw thorne avenue bridge will be prepared for three ways with assembling space in the rear. The location is ideal for team, water and railroad transporta tion. ISLANDS DRAW PORTLAXDERS Other Cities Represented on Sailing of Turbiner Great Northern. Sailing on the Great Northern from San Francisco today for the Hawaiian Islands are the following people from the Northwest, booked in advance: From Portland Miss E. E. Carter, Mrs. Robert Hahn, Mrs. F. B. Grinnell Miss M. Jugleman, Miss M. Bon. J. C Black, A. R- Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Jones, Mrs. George . F. Fuller and daughter. From Spokane Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Roberts. From Helena, Mont. Mrs. W. F. Scott and daughter. From Seattle Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Jack son and daughter. Miss Mabel Mc Caustano. The Northern Pacific, which has re mained on the San Francisco- Flavel schedule during the Winter, reported in the river yesterday with good cargo and numerous passengers and she leaves today on the return with as surances of brisk business. MORSE'S SISTER IS VICTOR Chancellor Says Woman's Fight for Steamships Is Right. NEWARK. N. J., Jan. 24. Vice-Chan cellor Lane decided in an opinion filed today that Miss Jennie It. Morse, siete of Charles W. Morse, had proved he charges in her suit against the Metro politan Steamship Company of New Jersey, in which she is a stockholder, for an accounting and to recover th former steamships Yale and Harvard now plying on the Pacific Count. Mr Lane reserved decision as to what re- lief rfiould be accorded her. Miss Morse complained in her action that the Yale' and Harvard were taken off the New York-Boston route in -or der to eliminate competition with th freight boats of the New Haven road. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Jan. 24. Arrived Steam Daisy r reeman. irom on rrancisco. Sails Steamers Wapama and Beaver, for Sa: Pedro via San Francisco; Japanese steamer Unkai Maru No. xor uombay. ASTORIA. Jan. 24. Arrived at mldnirh and left up at 1 A. M.. steamer Northland, from San Pedro. Arrived at and left at 10:0 . A. M.. steamer Daisy Freem; from San Francisco. Arrived at 11 and left up at 11:W) A. M steamer La Primera, from ban rrancisco. Anvea St :.u l. l steamer Northern Pacific from San Fran claco. Sailed at 4:40 P. M., steamer Beaver, for San trancaco ana ban fedro. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 24. Arrived at A. 31., steamer Despatch, from Portland; A. M-. steamer Daisy, from Columbia River. January 23. Sailed at 10:80 P. M-. teamer Multnomah, from Columbia River. for San Pedro: steamer Santa Monica, for the Columbia River. Arrived at 10:30 P. M.. teamer Johan Poulsen. from th. Columbia River. SAX PEDRO, Jan. 23. Arrived at 4 P. M.. steamer J. A. Chanslor, from Portland. Sailed at 1 P. M.. steames. Rose City, for Portland via Ban Francisco. 6AM FRA-VCISCO. Jan. 24. Arrived Steamers El Sesundo, barge 91, from Oleum for Seattle; Despatch, Daisy, from Portland: Avalon. from Grays Harbor: San Jacinto. from Victoria; Adeline Smith, from Coos Bay; Panuco. from Tacoma: Centralia. from Champerico. Sailed Steamers Oyleric (British), for London: Oulnault. for urays Harbor; Carlos, for Grays Harbor; Matsonla, for Honolulu; bark General D'Negrier rencn), for Queenstown. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 24. Arrived Steamers Alki. from Southeastern Alaska: Davenport, from San Francisco. Sailed Steamers Admiral Evans, for Southwestern Alaska; Cordova, for Southwestern Alaska. Pacific Coast Shipping Notes. COOS BAT. Or.. Jan. 24. fSpeclal. The steamship Breakwater, delayed yesterday in port, sailed for San Francisco today. The steamship F. A. Kilburn arrived Irom San Francisco and Eureka. The steam schooner A. M. Simpson ar rived from San Francisco and Is loading lumber at the Buehner mill. GRATS HARBOR. Wash.. Jan. 24. (Spe cial.) The steamer Coronado arrived and Is loading at the Bay City mill. The steamer Provldencla cleared xrom iiw A. J. West mill for Port Gamble, where he will complete a lumber cargo for Santa Rosalia. Mexico. She carried 700,000 feet of lumber from Aberdeen. The steamer Daisy Gadsby cleared rrom the National mill. Hoqulam, for San Pedro. The Doris Is due tomorrow ana tne ean aclnto and Helene on Friday, all from San Francisco. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 24. (Special.) Car rying a heavy cargo of freight and a large number of passengers from Astona anu Portland, the steamer Beaver sailed today for San Francisco and San Pedro. The schooner Honolpu finished loading lumber today at Westport and will sail within a few days for Sydney. The steam schooner Northland arrived this morning from San Francisco and went to Westport. where she Is to load 400.OUU reel of lumber. She will complete her cargo at ft. Helens. The Norwegian steamer Capto rinlsnea taking on lumber today at Wauna and h'fted to Linnton. The steamer Northern Pacific arrived to- .v fmm Ran Fmnrliu-o. bringing a ca pacity cargo of treleht and a fair list of pas-angers. The steam schooner La Primers arrived today from San Francisco with a cargo of asphaltum for Portland. She will load box hooks for a return cargo. Rrirrlnr fr.icht for Astoria and Port land, the steam schooner Daisy Freeman arrived today from San Francisco. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 24. (Special.) The steamer Al-kl. from Southeastern Alaska, with freight and passengers ror tne Border Line Company, and the steamer Davenport, from San Francisco, were the onlv arrivals today. Satllnas included the steamer Aamirai Evans, for Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska, at o'clock tonight, with 80 pass engers and a capacity freight cargo, and the freighter Cordova, for Southeastern and outhwestern Alaska via Nanalmo. K. at 10:4O P. M. The Cordova loaded partial carflro of lumber here and will complete with coal at Nanalmo hefore proceeding norm. The sailing of the steamer presinent. scheduled for 11 A. M.. southbound. Friday, has ben postponed until 4 P. M., the same day. RAN VRANCIPCO. Cal.. Jan. 24. fSfe- rlal.) Bringing the usual cargo of island freight and seven cabin passengers, the Matson liner Lurline arrived rrom Hawaii late Tuesday night. According to advices rrom tne rcasx. tne bark Beluga, former whaler out of this port, has been sold to Eastern parties for 127.500. She Is now on the South American west coast and win be delivered on arrival here. Another high price In shlo sales was ouched with a sale of the Matson steamer Bllonlan. 4000 tons, of the Matson Navi gation Company. Captain J. H. Rinrter. act- nr as broker, bought the vessel ror I4nu.wtu. according to officials of the selling com pany. Captain RInder would not say for whom he was acting, but Intimated that the Hllonlan would be delivered to her new own era on the Atlantic Coast. Taking out her capacity of passengers and loaded to the water line with freight. he Matson flagship Matsonla steamed Tor Honolulu and Hllo today. So great was the demand for space that part of the steerage was turned Into a dormitory and 16 male first-class passengers were bunked there for he trln. An evidence of bow Japanese shipping Is tnklner charge of transportation across the Pacific from San Francisco Is evidenced by the fact that seven T. K. K. steamers win arrive here and leave this port during the month of February. These vessels will move, outward and inward, a total of nearly 100,- 000 tons of freight.' Six of the vessels will arrive from the Orient and leave for ports in the Far East, while one comes from Orient ports and con tinues to South America, Marconi Wireless Reports. (All ponltlons reported at 8 P. M. Jan uary 24 unless otherwise designated.) BREAKWATER, Portland for San Fran cisco, via Coos Bay and Eureka, 80 miles north of Eureka. BEAVER. Portland for Fan Francisco. B2 miles south of Columbia River. SENATOR. San Francisco for Seattle, 80 miles south of Columbia River. QUEEN San Francisco for Seattle, 19 miles north of Cape Blanco. CURACAO, Nanalmo for San Francisco, 7 miles south of Cape Blanco. K1LBCHX. Coos Bay for Portland. 83 nlles north of Coos Bay. I YOSEMITE, San Francisco for Puget Sound ports, off Coos Bay. ALAM h. u A . coraova lor Seattle, euz miles from Cape Flattery at noon January 23. MARIPOSA. Ketchikan lor Juneau, off Taku Head 8 P. M. DORA, geldovla for Kodlak. anchored off Mill Bay Rocks In thick fog. TUO GOLIAH, towlug Washtucna, north bound, off North Peak. MULTNOMAH, Fan Francisco for San Pedro. 28 miles west of Point Concepcion. KLAMATH. Fan Diego for San Pedro. 30 miles north of Point Loma. GREAT NORTHERN. San Pedro for Hon olulu, 46 miles west of San Pedro. SCOFIELD, San Francisco for Hongkong?. 814 miles west of lightship. VENEZUELA. San Francisco for Orient. 32 miles west of Honolulu January 23. ASTRAL. San Francisco for Orient. 2100 miles from San Francisco January 23. EL PEGU.MM, Richmond for San Diego. DRAKE. Point Wells for San Pedro. 268 miles north of Fan Pedro. TOPEKA. Eureka for San Francisco. 24 miles north of Point Arena. UMATILLA. Seattle for San Francisco. 43 miles south of Blunts reef. LUCAS, towing barge 95, Port Angeles for Richmond, o miles north of Richmond. U. S. Naval Radio Reports. TURRET- CROWN. towing barn. rt Pedro for Balboa, 120 miles south, of San Dieiro. at noon. TATOOSH. towing Acapulco. San Vran- clsco for Nanalmo, off Cape Blanco st 1 P. M. U. K. MiUBa passed oint Arsuello at 1 P. M. S. S. TEXAN, 1847 miles from Honolulu at noon. PROV1DENCIA. 45 miles north of Gran rlaroor. VALDEZ, San Francisco for Tacoma. 20 miles soutn or cape f lattery. ADMIRAL. GOODRICH. San Francisco for Vancouver, 3d miles north of San Francisco. Tides at Astoria Thursday. High. Low. 2:30 A. M 8.9 feet!8:86 A. M.. l.T feet 2:16 P. M 9.5 feet0:00 P. M....-0.7 foot Vessels Entered Yesterday. American steamer Wapama. general cargo, from Fan Francisco. Gasoline schooner MIrene, general cargo. Irom jsenaiem sua jvwpen. - Vessels Cleared Yesterday. American steamer Wapama, 1.000,000 feet lumber, xor Ran rearo. tiasoune scnooner nirfne, general cargo, for Florence and Newport. Japanese steamer Unkai Maru No. 2. 2,- 4uU,uvu leei fuuioer, lor xtomoay. Columbia River Bar Report. NOF.TH HEAD. Jan. 24. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M.: Sea. obscured; wind, south 2 miles. $22 a Ton for Pears Offered. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Jan. 24 (Special.) Representatives of a can nery at The Dalles are here offering; $22 a ton for pears on contract the coming; season. They say they want 1500 tons. PACK CLEANING UP Alaska Salmon Nearly Out of First Hands. PRICES AT HIGH LEVEL Last of the Red Tails, Red Flats and Colioe Halves Disposed Of This Week Output In Recent Tears. The Alsska salmon pack of 1916. consisting- of 4,633.783 cases of tails. 118,450 cases of flats snd 164,457 cases of halves, a total of 4.916.690 cases, of an estimated value of S23.803.399. Is now almost entirely out of first hands. The -ast of the red talis, red flats and Cohoe tails were disposed of this week. No Cohoes In flats, chum halves or pink flats remain unsold. The stock of pink halves remaining does not exceed 2500 cases, while there are only about 10,000 cases of Cohoe halves. 100.000 cases of pink talis. B0O0 cases of pink halves and 75.000 cases of chum tails In packers' hands. The rreat strength of the salmon mar ket is shown by the ranee of prices on Alaska fish prevailing now, in comparison with the opening prices announced a few months ago. The comparison follows: Open Now Red tails II. BO IJ.oo Red flats l.TS 2.2X Bed halves 1.2S l.Ko Cohoe tails 1.30 1.75 Cohoe halves f!i LIS Pink Talis . 1.25 Pink halves TO .no Chum tails RS 1.10 Chum halves 65 .80 Figures that have been compiled by Kelley- Clarke Company show the Alaska salmon pack of the past three years to have been as follows: Grades IMS, 19is 1014 King !!5.42 86.136 48.135 Red 2.120.0AO 1.025.134 2.201.514 Medium red... 2H5.227 121.20-i lisft.715 Pink 1,764.79. 1.876.414 n.41 700.966 474. CIS 645.246 Chum Totals 4.910,600 4.483.547 4.040.023 The total Alaska pack of years prior to 1914 was as follows: Cases. 1913 S.7K2.616 1012 4.OB0.122 1911 2.821.317 1910 2.3!1,Ofit 10O9 2.356.077 1908 2.625.6BS 19117 2.171.741 The same firm gives the following figures on the Puget Sound salmon pack for the past three years Grades 1016 1918 64. 43 22.982 180.799 rS9.70 410.6H7 ' 1914 336.242 21.132 151.135 0O9 290.07O Sockeyea ..... Red tyees Cohoes P. S'd pinks.?. Chums ....... 78.476 33.233 161.822 3.621 433.414 Totals 710.318 1.268.731 789.488 Puget Sound pinks run biennially. They are due again in 1917. The approximate value of the 1916 Puget Sound pack was $3,075,561. Total Puget Sound packs for years prior to 1914: ' Cases. 1913 2.553.843 1912 i 415.889 1911 1.534.016 1910 537.324 1009 1.561. 824 1908 309.277 1907 709,155 LOCAL WHEAT MARKET IS FTRMER Coat Mills Are Interested and Bales Are Made In East. While not sctlve, the wheat market was firmer yesterday and bids at the local ex change were raised 1 to 3 cents. There was inquiry from the East and several good sales were made to Eastern millers. Coast millers were also la the market, and San Francisco was strong for both milling snd feed wheat. Country bids were about the same as on the preceding day and farmers were not conspicuous ss sellers. Two hundred tons of January oats were sold at the exchange at $36.50. Barley bids were a half lower. The accumulation of bay on local tracks is being gradually cleaned up. The Liverpool cable said: "Wheat firm with a good demand. Ex port offers light. Corn firm with light Ar gentine offers. Oats firm, spot demand goot, offers light. Flour strong but dull, millers' supplies moderate. "Argentine weather generally clear and hot. freights strong. Rosarlo reports bad weather. France wet and situation bad; frost snd snow is of utmost Importance; demand for foreign wheat large. Australia esti mates indicate wheat yield of 130,000,000 bushels. Broomhall agent says estimate of 100,000,000 bushels will not be exceeded." Terminal receipts in cars were reported by the Merchants Exchange as follows: Wheat Barley Flour Oats Hay Portland. Wed. 6 Year ago - 8 3 9 1 1500 1478 13 IS Season to date. 8602 139 1328 "j HO 470 1001 1048 1605 t13 1 234 244 8 3 1006 Year ago U1U4 Tacoma. Tues. Year ago Season to date. 12 4782 . 5676 13S5 15e'J 4 18 2645 Y ear ago. . . . . , Seattle. Tues. . 9 " 13 1020 1488 Year ago Season to date, Year ago 3780 7U62 865 1214 304 THREE-CENT ADVANCE IX BCTTER Egg Market Also Turns Strong on Active snipping JJemand. mere win pe a s-cent advance In the local butter market this morning. Quota tions will be put out of 42 cents on city prints In plain wrappers and 43 cents In cartons. The buying price of butterfat will also be raised 3 cents to 41 cents for No. 1 and 39 cents for No. 2 cream. The demand for country creamery butter was strong yesterday and extras sold easily at. !, cents. ine supply was not equal to requirements. No change was announced In cheese pieces, but an early advance Is looked for. as the Eastern demand Is taking care of the surplus J- m ess unnonrtnt m snsrp Change during the day. At the opening the market was no more than steady, with sales on the street at 33 cents and sn occasional lot picked up at naif a cent less. The demand vae greater than the supply, however, and buyers were soon bidding 34 cents freely By noon the street had been cleaned up at 34 cents on shipping orders and more sggs could have been used. The outside demand came from points east of the Cascades, where colder weather Is prevailing. A con tinuation of this demand may lift the mar ket further. Poultry and dressed meats were In fair supply and unchanged in price. HIGHER PRICE PAID ONIOJf GROWERS. First Car of Imperial Valley Lettuce on Way to Portland. Oregon onions are now selling at country points at $5.50 s sack, the highest price that growers have received for several years. No change hss been made in the buying price of potatoes. The first car of head lettuce shipped from the Imperial Valley this yesr started on January 18 and Is coming to Portland. The shipment was made one month earlier than the first car last year. It consists of 300 crates, each crate containing four dozsn beads, weighing 16 ounces or better. The lettuce is packed, with finely chopped Ice to insure Its arrival here in good con dition. - Bank Clearings. Bank clearings of the Northwestern cities yesterday were as follows: Clearings. RaTanees. Tort'and 12.OHO.71 1 12X9.364 Seattle .................. 2,670,V0O 456,957 Tacoma 3SS.647 70.821 Spokane 847,65i 8L203 PORTLAND MARKET QUOTATIONS Grain. Flour. Feed. Ete Msrchant's Exchange, noon session. January delivery Bid. Wheat Bid. Tr. ago. Bluestem $ 1.66 1.13fe poriyima ................... 1.63 Club 1.6a 1 06 Red fife 1.0 Red Russian 1.58 1.03 Oats No. 1 white feed S8 50 27.50 Barley Xo. 1 feed 39.00 2U.23 Futures Bid February bluestem 1.6d March bluvstem ..................... 1.67 February fortyfold 1.63 March fortyfold 1.84 February club ....................... 1.62 March club 1.64 February Russian ................... 1.58 March Russian 1.58 February oats ...... ...... .......... 36. .",0 March oats 87. OO February barley 89.00 March barley .. 39.00 FLOUR Patents, 18.40; straights, 17.600 7.80; Valley. $7.90; whole wheat. $8-60; gra ham, S.4. MILLFEED Spot prices: Bran. 126,50 per ton. shorts. $30.50 per ton; rolled bar ley. 42 6 43. CORN Whole, $43 per ton; cracked. 47 per ton, HAY Producer" prices: Timothy. Kast ern Oregon. 19ti20 per ton: timothy. Val ley, 115'aie per ton: alfalfa. fl5fc16; Val ley grain bay. I12'al3: clover. 1L Dairy and Country Produce. BUTTER Cubes, extras. 37Hc: prime firsts. 30 SO 37c; firsts. 85tr3c. Jobbing prices; Prints, extras, 42c; cartons, 1 cent extra: butterfat. No. 1, 41c; No. 2. 89o, Portland. CHEESE Jobbers' buying prices, f. o. b. dock. Portland: Tillamook triplets. 20c; Voung Americas not quoted. EGGS Oregon ranch, current receipts. 83 t?34c per dozen; Oregon ranch, candled. 35 6 36c per dozen: Oregon ranch, selects. S8c POULTRY Hens, heavy. 1718c: light. 16-&17C per pound: Springs. 16618c; turkeys, live. lS20c: dressed. 22HW-6C; ducks. 20 e--"c; geese. 12 'a 18c , VEAL Fancy, 14H(M5e per pound. POKK Fancy. 13jl3Vc per pound. Fruits and Vegetables. Local Jobbing quotations: TROPICAL FRUITS Oranges. navels. $2 256 2.50: Japanese 1125 per bundle: lemons. $3 63.75 per box; bananas, &c per pound: grapefruit. $3 6 5. VEGETABLES Artichokes. 90c$l.-'0 per dozen: tomatoes. $7 per crate; cabbage. $3.50 1(4 per hundred: eKKPlant. 2.c per pound; lettuce. $2.50: cucumbers. SL50tn2.00 per doz.. celery. $5.50 per crate; cauliflower, $2.50 per crate; peppers. 25 30c per pound; sack vegetables. $1.25 per sack: sprouts. 11c per pound ; rhubarb. 15o per pound. POTATOES Oregon buying prices. $2Q 2.25 per hundred: sweet. $4 per hundred. ONIONS Oregon buying prices, $5.50 per sack, country points. GREEN FRUITS Apples. 75c $1.50 per box; pears. $1.752.50; cranberries. $10011 per b&ri'et. Staple Groceries Local lobbing quotstlons: SUGAR Fruit and berry. $7.85: Honolulu Plantation. $7.30; Grants Pass Deet. $7.15; California beet. $7.15; extra C. $6.95; pow dered, in barrels. $7.85; cubes, in barrels. $8.10. SALMON Columbia River. 1-pound talis. $2.40 per dozen, one-halt flats, $1.50, 1-pound flats. $2.50; Alaska pinks. 1-pound tails. $1.25. HONEY Choice. $363.25 per case. NUTS WalnsjLs. sack lots. 18c; Brazil nuts. 19c: filberts, luc: almonds. 18019c: peanuts. 7c: cocoanuts. $1.10 per dozen; pe cans, 18&19c. chestnuts. 10c. BEANS Small white. 1114c; large white, ILlOe; Lima, 96c: bsyous. 8.20c: pink, 8sc; red Mexicans 94c; Manchurian. 8Vic COFFEE Roasted, in drums, 17tj3ae. SALT Granulated. $10.75 per ton: halt ground loos, $11.30 per ton; SOs, $12,10 per ton. dairy, i-i., a per ton. RICE Southern head, 7&-?c ner pound: broken. 4c; Japan style. 4&4Hc litlt-Li hKUlls Apples. lOillle: anrl- cots. 16419c: peaches. 8G10c; prunes. talian. 8p9c; raisins. 6Vtill5Se: dates. Persian. 15c per pound; fard. $2.50 per box; currants. 1516c; figs. $23.50 per box. Hops. Wool. Hides, Etc. HOPS 1916 crop. 5 & 9c per pound. HIDES Salted hides 25 lbs. and unl. 18c: salted stags (50 lbs. and up). 14c: green snd salted ktp (15 lbs. to 25 lbs.). 18c; green and salted calf skins (up to 15 lbs.), 27fcy2Sc; green hides (25 lbs. and ud). be; green stags (bu ids. and up. 12c: drv hides. 3uc; salt hides, 25c: dry horse hides. $1&2; salt horse bides. $35. rELTa Dry long-wooled pelts. 24c: drv short-wooled pelts. 17c;: dry shearlings. 10ij 25c each, salted long-wooled pelts. $leL50; salted short-wooled pelts. 60c $1. tallow no. 1. 4c per pound. WOOL Eastern Oregon. fine. 24S30e coarse, S336c: Valley, 83 41c MOHAi K .Nominal. CAoCAKA BAKi. Old and new. 6o ner POUDO. Provisions. HAMS All sizes, choice. 28Hc; standard. ' ' i, c sKinnen. lios-lc: Dlrnln l!te. ..- tage rol's, 17c LARD Tierce basis: Kettle rendered. 19c: standard pure. 19c; compound. 16c BACON Fancy. 28HW30HC; standard. 24 tj2ttc; choice. -1 ttt ic DRY SALT bhort. clear backs. 17Hfil9e export. 18is20c; plate. 1415V4c BARREL GOODS Mess beef. $22: Dial. beet, $23; brisket pork, market; tripe. $10.50 Oils. KEROSENE Water white, drums, barrels or tank wagons. 10c; cases. 18V&22c GASOLINE Bulk. 21VrC; cases. 8uc; naph tha, drums. ivc; cases, 3(c; engine distil late, drums. 10c; cases, 19c. LINSEED OIL Raw. drums, $1.10: bar rels. $l.u; cases. $1.1S; boiled, drums, $L12; barrels, si.iu; cases, si.lo. TURPENTINE In tanks, 67c: In casea T.c; au-case lots, ic less. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND. Jan. 24. Maximum temper ature, 48 degrees; minimum. 41 degrees. River reading, 8 A. M., 3.1 feet: change In t z-t nouns, o. 1 root rail. Total rainfall P. M to 5 P. M ) none. Total rainfall since September 1. 1916. i:i-4v Inches: nor. mal.v 24.37 Inches; deficiency. 10.88 lnchesi Total sunshine, none; possible. 9 hours 24 minutes, bammelfr (reduced to sea level 1 it f. -m . au.i incnes. iteisuve numldity at noon, 10 per cent. THB WEATHER. tH fC C Win-' - a SI -S 2 3 S ? 3 State of BTATIONS. V - -r. 2 2. weather. e 2 lo 5 2 s ? ; r Baker I IS 32 O.00;. .S ICloudy Boise ...... i 1 1 1 an n , .n : vw!ri... ( 22 8 O.OO;. . . W 'clear 10; 26 0.(101. .'SB iClear 24 260.d0 14 W Clear Boston . . . . Calsary .... Chl-auo .... Denver .... Des Moines . Duiuth Eureka ..... 8 3i).0O . . ;SW (Cloudy 8 80 t.0i:. . NW Clesr 121 8 0.on!l8W IClear SS' r,oo.oo;..!w Cluar 52' 5Q O.fto . ,'NW'CIoudy 16 86 0.0O'. .'SE Cloudy 56 7K 0.00 22 SW Clear 32 4 1.32,..). ... Rain 24 36 0.00,. . SW Clear 42' 64 0.00'. . W 'Clear 3(; r.8 O.oe;. . NW Clear 33 50 0.oo..'N IClear -l-j' o n mi in'w knn. lveton Helena . . ... Jacksonville t J uneau .... Kansas City Ins Angeles Marehfield . Medford M inneapolli Montreal 12' 2s 0.00 16 SW Cloudy New Orleans.. 54 cau.M ..iNWrioudy New York ! 24' 36 0.00 . . 'siV Cloudy North Head.. 42 44 0.26 24 S (Rain North Yakima! 201 46 0.00,. .rNWCIear Omaha ... Phoenix . . Pocateilo .. Portland .. Koseburc . ..j 30 r.s o.oo1 .. ink clear ..I K 2S0.OO18SE ICloudy ..( 41' 4s 0.00 . .,s ICloudy . .1 so; 42 o.ool.. I w IClear ..! as j'o.ihi!....se Clear ..I 32' 40 'O.oo lO'.NYVlciear eiacramento St. Louis . . .1, . 20 80 0.O2.. E iCioudr San Diego ...I 40' 66 0. 00 .. sw Clear ian FrancUco ' :: u.oo . . in v:CIear Seattle 40 40 O.os 12 IS Rain Sitka .. CrtUsne 82...;o.oO;..iF. (Rain i'H as o.os . . sw jCioudy Tacoma I 46' 40.01 . .SiV Rain -1 , Island1 38 460.72 14 S Ruin tValdex I 18 20 O.noj. .) :cioudy Walla Walla" . ( SSl 46 0.o . .!sw Cloudy Wsshington ..! 28' 40 0.O0 . .1NE Cloudy Winnipeg 1-80-10 0.(10 12 W IClear t A. M. today; P. M. report of preceding WEATHER CONDITIONS. There is a slight depression central over Northeastern Montsna and another over WE BUY RAW MOLESKINS We Pay lie Apiece and Express Charges. enip Dy rarrct i-ni or express. KOlfX BAEH, 43-45-47 W'-i 33d St.. New York City. Refert-nC-s: National City Bank. N. X, National Fark Bsr.R. N. Y. JVa sell lois Traps a dgzan. Eastern Tennessee, but high pressure obtains over practically the entire countrv. Precio- ltation hss occurred in the Northwest. West- jf ern Canada. Northern Utah and Southern I Louisiana. Dense fog obtained this evening I at moulh of tbo Columbia River and norm- r I ward xrom cape Flattery. The weather Is ' cooler In Southern Nevada, over the South ern Rockies, in the Lower Missouri snd Upper Mississippi valleys snd In the western portion of the Lake Region: It Is warmer In practicaVy all other sections. Except In Southwestern Oregon snd Southeastern Idaho temperatures are above normal In this forecast district. The conditions are favorable for occasional rain Thursday In Western Washington, for rain or snow flurries in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, and for partly cloudy and oecs?lonal!y threatening weather in the remainder of this district Winds will bs mostly southerly. FORECASTS. Portland and vicinity Partly cloudy snd occasionally threatening weather; southerly wlmis. Oregon Psrtly cloudy and occasionally threatening weather; southerly winds. Washington Rain west, occasional rain or snow flurries east portion; moderate southerly winds. Idaho Snow flurries north, partly cloudy south portion. North Pacific Cosst North Columbia, rain, moderate southerlv winds: south Co lumbia, fair, light variable winds. T. FRANCIS DRAKE. Assistant Forecaster. POWERS HEARING IS HELD Commercial Interests Ask Return to Old Train Schedule. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 24 (Special.) The Public Service Commission today met with R. B. Murdock. representing the Commercial clubs of Coquiile and Myr tle Point, Senator L S. Smith. Repre sentatives Tichenor and Peck, and Rep resentatives of the Southern Pacific, relative to the passenger service to Powers on the new branch of the rail road. The Portland train now pulls into Marshfield at nlgrht, remains there the remainder of the nlKht and goes into Powers ini the morning. It also oper ates on the same schedule returning to Portland. The commercial Interests have asked for a return of the old schedule under which the train, went directly through from Marshfield to Powers during; the iKht, with only a short stop at Marsh field. F. Li. Senter Is Promoted. EUGENE. Or.. Jan. 24. (Special.) F. L. Senter, principal of the Acme schools. today was elected supervisor of schools n Lane County to succeed Mias Jennie Bossen. who resigned January 1,' to wed Alexia W. Cope, prominent farmer f Curry County. Mr. Senter formerly was an instructor in the Roseburg; schools. Russians Surprise liulgar Force. PETROGRAD. via London, Jan. 24. Bulgarian detachment crossing: a. branch of the Danube opposite Tultcha was surprised by Russian troops and destroyed, the War Office announced today. Prisoners to the number of 337 nd four machine guns were tsken. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. San Francisco L03 Angeles (Without Cfaanice En Route) The Bis, lean. Comfortable. Klrfcantly Appointed, Seagoing S. S. Rose City Sails From A Ins worth Dock 3 P. M. MONDAY, JAN CAR Y 29. 100 Golden Miles on Columbia Klver All Kates Include berths and Meals Table and Sex vice I n excelled The Han Francisco & Portland S. S. Co., Third and Yahinffton street (with O.-W. R. fc IS'. Co.). XeU Broadway 4600, A 6121. NORWEGIAN aiLUIC New, Larfre, Modern and the fast est Steamships to Scandlnav la. Rail connections with entire con tinent. Sailings from New York Jan. 27-Feb. 17. Write for folders. All Kallroad Offices Oar Agents. REIDAR OJOLME. R OJOLME. f iflc Coast A ?rent j ry St., Seattle. 1 General Pacil 11.1 Cherry smJIM DA! AfF? POKTI.AM) TO SAN FKANCISCO K. ti. NORTH KKN PACIFIC, express train time. Sails Jan. JO, 30. Fen. 3. f. 13. -0, -J4. Cal. Str. Express leaves (1:30 A. M. Fares S, S12.S0. 315, 317.30, -I". . 8. RREAT NORTHERN-, Fan Fran cisco and 1ms Angeles to Honolulu. Jan. M: Feb. 1: March ."V. Si: April II. 30 $130 round trip and up. North Bank. 5th and mark TIPKF T J Station, loth and Hoyt OFFICES 1 ,or- tJ. 343 Wantl.. O. X. Kv. I Iiw ;i.l. Hurllngton Kjr. San Francisco $10.00 Coos Bay $7.00 Eureka $15.00 Plrat-Claaa Menli svnd Berth . Included, S. S. KILBURN 6 P. M FRIDAY. JAN. 26. 123a Third Street. Phoaea Mala 13141 A. 1314. ALA SKA Prince Rupert. Ketchikan. Wrangle. Petersburg. Juneau, Tread well. IouKlaa, Thane. Maine. MufKay, Cordova, ai des and Seward. CALIFORNIA Vta Seattle or lin Francisco to Tos Angeles and San LMefto. largest ships, unequaled service, low rates. Including meals and berth. For rticulars apply or telephone PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Ticket Office. tt Yahlugtm St. Pa. Main -9 11 onto A ZZUS, AUSTRALIA si m nsnmsiH, Suva, Nsw 2sJancl Regular sailings hy the Canadian-Australasian Itoyal Iail Line. Cor further particu lar apply Canadian Pacific Kail way. 55 Third street. Portland. LAMPORT S HTTLl UNE It A. hlOOeJfertlE.HO iACTTS-MCrrtV DO flUEftftrtsTa' MIEM06 AlACS Keguiar Sailings Company's Office, 45 HroadsraT. Pf. Y. Poxac ii. ami Hi. Third ud Hm&uincUia fits. is m i ssdl si I I V I T4 SbbbBssss--X' m I I sssU m " as. u HI IIAII Mm ELI Jill Rah M I I I I ti IB iL -Jsjs- sjsy.....in