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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1904)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 25, im. 15 SMALL GAIN IN GASH No Important Changes in New York Bank Statement. FAILS TO SHOW MOVEMENT Decrease In Loans, Due to Cessation of Activity on the Stock Ex change Money Contin ues Easy. u NEW YORK, Dec. 4. The Fiaaiwder says this week:- The MalernoRt ef tbc Associated Banke of Xtw York City fer the week ending December ?i -was rather featurelee, so far as important changes are concerned. It la obvioue. however, that the report of the affiliated institutions failed t disclose the receipts of interior money which are floating this way, although the statement was somewhat complicated by cur rent export gold engagements, which aggre gated, since the previous Saturday, about $3,000,000. Preliminary estimates made the trcfk's gain in cash by the banks as high as $2,000,000, but the clearing-house report gave the Increase as only $200,100. There "was a moderate decrease of $2,027, 500 In loans, due f the cessation of activity on, the Stock Ex change, and this accounts for the falling off of $2,002,000 in deposits. Lessened reserve requirements and the gain In cash brought the excess reserve up $700,000 to $15,247,225, or. with the elimination of Government deposits, to $21,053,950. It la a fair Inference that weather conditions contin uing as at present, the chances for any de cided hardening of money rates are not yet in sight. This is the season when funds begin to flow to New Yerk in larger volume, al though, as & matter of fact, tho average has been going on for a number of weeks, owing to the seeming superabundance of funds at Interior centers. In the annual review of banking conditions in many cities, furnished by banking corporations to this paper and pub lished this week, a tone of optimism is no ticeable, though predictions are for a year more active than in 1904. Industrially, com mercially and -otherwise. The statement of averages of the clearing house banks of this city for the week shows: Increase. Loans .$1,057,430,200 $2,627,500 2,002,000 6,400 937.200 737.100 200.100 500.500 700,600 703,800 Deposits OrrulatloB Xrf-gal tenders Specie. Reserve Reserve required... Surplus V. B. deposits . . l.WM.lIS.WW 42.SGG.900 7S.370.600 210.405.300 288,776.100 273.52S.875 15,247.225 21.055.950 Deer east. PORTLAND MARKETS. Grain, Hour, Teed, Etc. There was nothing doing in the wheat mar-V-e: yesterday. All the Eastern and foreign exchanges were closed. WHEAT Export values. Walla, Walla, 61c; blucstem, 85c; milling. Walla Walla, 85c; blue 6 tern, SS$J90c: Valley. 87c; Eastern basis. Walla Walla, 8385c; bluestem, 00c BARLEY Feed. $22 per ton; rolled, $23.50 &24.50. OATS No. 1 white, $L32H(S'1.35; gray, $1.35 1.40 per cental. FLOUR Patents, $4.654.85 per barrel; straights, $4-3084.45; clears, $3.854; Valley, $4.104.25; Dakota, hard wheat, $0.50&7.6o; Graham. $3.504; whole wheat. $4Si-23; "rye flour, local, $4.50; Eastern, $535.10. MILLSTUFFS Bran, $19 per ton; middlings, $25. shorts, $21; chops, U. S.-Mills, $19; linseed dairy food. $18; linseed cluneal, lfcc per pound. CEREAL FOODS Rolled oats, cream. 90 pound acks, $6.75; lower grades, $5(36.25; oatmeal, steel cut. 60-pound sacks, $S per bar rel. 10-pound sacks, $4.25 per bale; oatmeal (ground), 50-pound tacks, $7.60 per barrel; 10 pound sacks. $4.25 per bale; spilt peas, $4.50 per liw-pouud sack; Impound Doxes, $i.; HAY Tlmothv. x!4(316 ner ton: clover. $11 12. grain, $11Q12; cheat. $12018. Vrgetub les,"l"ruit. Etc Trading "was active for a short time yester day morning, but retailer's wants were soon eupplled. Receipts Included a car of oranges. The orange market Is much Armor here and at San Francisco as heavy rains lately la Cal ifornia have interfered with picking. VEGETABLES Turnips, $1 per sack; car rots. $1; beets. $1.25; parsnips, $1.25; cabbage, lc. lettuce, head, V c per dozen; parsley, 20o dozen; tomatoes, $1.25 per crate: cauliflower, $1 per dozen; egg plant, 1015c per pound; celery, 6065c per . Cozen; pear, C8c per pound; beans, green, 7c; wax, 7c; pumpkins, lQllc per pound; peppers, 6c per pound; rhu baro, $1.85 per box. ONIONS New. $22.15. buyers prices. HONEY $33.25 per case. POTATOES New Oregon, fancy. 75ff85c; eonunon, 0065c. buyers price; Merced sweets, lVlSl&c; new California, 4c per pound. RAISINS Loose Muscatels, 4-crown. 79io; Mayer Muscatel raisins, 7'fec; unbleached seed less Sultanas, &c; London layers, 3-crown, whole boxes of 20 pounds, $1.85; 2-crown, $L75. DRIED FRUIT Apples, evaporated. 68i$c per pound; sundrlcd, sacks or boxes, none; apricots, lOg 11c; peaches, 010!c; pears, none; prunes, Italians, 465c; French, 2&3c; figs. California blacks, 5c; do white, none; Smyrna. 20c; Fard dates, 6c; plums, pitted, 6c. DOMESTIC FRUITS Apples, fancy, $11.50; cooking, 6076c; figs, S5c(r$2.50 per box; grapes, California, $1.2501.65; pears, pound. 75c$l; cranberries. $9.50V11 per barrel; per-' s'mmons. $1.25 per box; strawberries, $L75-per box. TROPICAL FRUITS Lemons, fancy. $2,750 3.75, choice, $2.75 per box; oranges, new na t1s, $2ff2.50; mandarins. G070c per box; tangerines. $1.502 per box; grapefruit. $30 S 60 per box; bananas. 5Q-6c per pound; pome granates, $2.25 per box. Butter. Eggs, Poultry, Etc. The poultry market, after a burst of actlv Ity at tho opening, soon quieted down. Prices generally were about the same aft on Friday. Receipts were very light, and all the turkoys on hand were disposed of, though come slash ing was necessary. EGGS Oregon ranch. 3232l4c: Eastern. 25c. CHEESE Full cream twins. 13315c; Young Americas, ldwiaic. BUTTER City creameries: Extra creamery. SOc per pound; fancy creamery, 22H26c btaie creameries: ianoy creamery. 25'27c; u-iuuuutL. liuicy utmei7, onoc; Store DUt ter. He. roiTLTRY How, lieilHc; old hens, 9c; irlxfd chickens. SHfiOc: old roostens. 7r,7u- do young, 9hc; Springs. 1V4 to 2-pound. 10c;' chickens. ll(5'12c: turkeys, dressed. avem 146,16.-; choice. 10220c; geese, live. 8Sjc; ao dressed, 10S-12.4c; duckp. old. $600.60; do ycung. -as 10 ize. i-idjs; pigeons. $116. GAME Wild geese. $33.60; Mallard ducks. .utao; wiogcon, i-w-.uu, teai, i.wai.. Meats and Provisions. BEEF Dresed 40c per pound. MUTTON Dressed, 4t5c per pound; Iambs. 6 $4 6c per pound. HAMS Ten to 14 pounds, 12 Sic per pound; 14 to 16 pounds. 12lc; 18 to 20 pounds. 12c; California (picnic), 9c ;cottage hame, 9 He; shoulders. 9c; boiled ham, 21c;f boiled picnic ham. boneless. 14c VEAL Dressed, 100 to 125, 77c per pound; 125 to 200, &0uc; 200 and up, 3j c- PORK Dresed. lOOto 150,66c per sound; 150 and dp, & euc BACON Fancy breakfast 18c per pound; standard breakfast, 17c; choice, 15c; Eng lish breakfast. 11 to 14 pounds. 14c; peach bacon. 13c sausage Portland nam. I2iic per pound; minced ham. 10c; Summer, choice dry. i7"c; bologna, long, Oisc; weinerwurst. Sc, liver, 5c; pork. 9c; blood, 5c; head cheese. 12&c: bologna sausage, link, 4'4c DRY SALTED MEATS Regular short clears, 10c salt, lie smoked; clear backs, 9Xc salt, 10 c smoked; Oregon export, 20 to 25 pounds, average, 10 He salt, 11 He smoked; union butts, 10 to is pounds, aver age. 8c salt, 9c smoked. PICKLED GOODS Pickled Dies' feet. barrels, $5; -barrcls. $2.75; 15-pound kit, $1.25: pickled trine H-barrels. $5: -bar- rele. $2.75; ISpound kit, $1.25; pickled pigs' tongues, ii-Darrcis, t; ii-Darreis. $3; 15 pound kit. $1.50; pickled lambs' toncues. V, barrels. $9; U -barrels. $5.50; 15-pound kits. LARD Kettle-rendered: Tierces. BUer tube 10c; 60s. 10c: 20s. lOiic; 10s. loc; 6s. 10c Standard pure: Tierces, 9c; tube, 9c: 60s, 20s, 9ic; 10s. 99ic; 6s. 9Jic Compound: B, tubs, 64c; 60s, 6c; 10s, TUc; COFFEE5ceres' 3a'' sc- 16 20c; Costa1 262Sc: Java, ordinary. IBlSc: ordinarv fancy lS20c; good, lumbla. roaet. r.". 12c P"nd; Co Arbuckle. $15 38. t i 9' ?13: 50s' ?195: ICE imperial V" J',5-a'5- penaI Japan. - No. 1. $5, 37 H; Southern Japan. S3.-S0: Carolina, 4HCc; brokenhead, 2?ic. salmon commuia lurer, i-pouna units, $L70 per dozen; 2-pound tails, $2.40; 1 pound flat, $1.S5; fancy, 1 -pound flats. $L80; -pound iiats. $1.10; Alaska pink, 1-pound talis. 83c; red, 1-pound tails, $Hj; sockeyes, 1-pound tails, $1.75; 1-pound Cats. $1.83. SUGAR Sack basis, 100 pounds: Cube. $6.50; powdered, $6.75; dry granulated. $6.15; extra C $5.06; golden C, $5.55; fruit sugar. $6.15 advance over sack basis as follows: Barrels. 10c; half barrels, 25c; boxes, 50c per 100 pounds. (Terms: On remittance within 15 days, deduct "kc per pound; It later than 15 days and within SO days, de duct J.c per pound; no discount after 30 days.) Beet sugar granulated, $0.05 per 10U pounds; maple sugar, 15 18c per pound. SALT California, $9.50 per ton;; $1.30 per bale; Liverpool. 60s, $15.50; 100s, $15; 200s, $14.50; half ground. 100s. $5.22; 60s, $5.75. NUTS Walnuts. 134 c per pound by sack, lc extraetor less than sack; Brazil nuts, 15c; filberts. 14c; pecans, jumbos, 14c; extra large, 15c; almonds, I. X. L., 10ic; chest nuts. Italians, 15c; Ohio. $4.50 per 26-pound drum; peanuts, raw. 7jc per pound; roast ed. 9c; plnenuts. lujjpliiisc; hickory nuts. 7c; cocoanuts, 85&00c per dozen. BEANS Small white, 9e; large white, 3""ic; pink, 3ic; bayou, 3c; Lima, 5Uc Hops, Wool, Hides. Etc. . HOPS Choice. 20 (220c; prime, 272Sc per pound. WOOL Valley, l&20c per pound; Eastern Oregon. 10 17c; mohair, 25fif26e per pound for choice HIDES Dry hides, No. 1, 16 pounds and up. 1515ic IK.T pound; dry kip. No. 1, 5 to Id pounds, 12c; dry calf. No. 1, under 0 pounds. 16c; dry, salted bull and stags, one-third lees than dry. flint; salted bides, steers, sound, 7 Sc: under 60 pounds and cows. 6U7c: stags and bulls sound, -4gjr4c; kip, sound, 15 to 2a pounas, tc; unaer 10 pounas, ec; green tun salted), lc per pound less; culls, lc per pound; horse bides, tailed. $1.5012 each; dry, $1(3 1.50 each; colts' hides, 25&500 each; goatskins, common, 10316c each; Angora, with wool on, 25c$l. TALLOW Prime, per pound, 45c; No. 1 and grease, 2i3c Oils. GASOLINE Stove gasoline, case,, 24&c; iron barrels, 18c; SS degrees gasoline, cases, 2c; iron barrels or drums, 2&c. COAL OIL Cases. 21ic: Iron barrels, i6c; wood barrels, none: 63 degrees, cases, 22o; barrels, lSV-c "Washington State test burning oils, except headlight. i;c per gallon higher. LINSEED OIL Raw. barrels. 64c; cases, CBc Boiled: Barrels, 50c; cases, 61c On cent less in 260-gallon lot. TURPENTINECases, 85c; barrels, 81c. WHITE LEAD Ton lots, 7hc: 500-pound, 7Jic; lecs than 600-pound lots, 8c LrVEfiTOCK MARKET. Prices at Portland Union Stockyards Yes terday. There were no receipts at the'Portland Union Stockyards yesterday. The following prices were quoted at the yards: CATTLE Best steers, $3.253.60; medium, $2.753; cows, $2 2-50. HOGS Best large, fat hogs, $6.25; light hogs, $4.2504.75. SHEEP Best Eastern Oregon and Valley, $3.25&3.&0; lambs, $3.25. EASTERN LIVESTOCK. Prices Current In Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha. CHICAGO, D.ec. 24. Cattle Receipts 2200; market steady. Good to prlmo steers, $6,209 6.00:. poor to. medium. $3.S5flfl.90; stockera and feeders. 52.20ff4.25; cows, $1.35(g4.50: heifers, $2.006.00; canncrs, $1.3532.40; bulls, $2.0004.10; calves, $S.506.50. Hogs Receipts today 9000; Monday 25,000; market etronger. Mixed and butchers, $4.30 $4.5214; good to choice heavy, $4.604.00; rough heavy. $4.3O4.40; light, S4.05S4.43; bulk of sales, $4.354.45. Sheep Receipts 2000; sheep strong, lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $4.605.20; fair to choice mixed. $3.7524.75; Western sheep, $3.506.15; native lambs, $5.0027.00; Western lambs, $5.00g0.75. SOUTH OMAHA. Dec 24. Cattle Receipts 100; market unchanged. Native steers, $3.25 6.00; cows and heifers, $2.594.25; Western steers, $3.004.70; Texas steers, $2.753.G3; range cows and heifers, $2.403.50; canners. $L506.30; stocksrs and feeders, $2.4084.00; calves, $2,502-5.50; bulls, stags, etc, $L26 3.50. Hogs Receipts 6500; market shade higher. Heavy, $4.4024.45; mixed, $4.40ff4.42J$: light, $4.42U4.4714; pige. $4.0034.40; bulk of sales. $4.4004.42. Sheep Rcelpts, none; market steady. West erns, $4.0525.40; wethers, $4.755.20; ewes, $3.754.60;' com&ioti and s lockers, $2.60S?4.50; lambs, $5.2526.30. KANSAS CITY. Dec 24. Cattle Receipts 100. Markot unchanged. Native steers. $3.50 fl.50; stockera and feeders, $24.10; bulls. 52 tr 4.00; calves. $4 6.50; I7estern steerer $: 5.00; Western cows, $L753.&0. Hogs Receipts 200. Market strong to 5c higher. Bulk of sales, $4.30 4.50. Sheep No receipts. SEATTLE PRODUCE MARKETS. Jobbing Pricea Quoted at tho Paget Sound City. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 24. (Special.) The following are today's produce quotations hero: WHEAT Club, 86c; bluestem, 90c oats wnite, per ton, $qu; gray, per ton. $26'28. BARLEY Feed, per ton. $2324. HAY Timothy, per ton. $19ff20; clover, per ton. $14'15; grain, per ton, $14gl5. POTATOES Fancy, per ton. $20222. ONIONS Fancy, per cwt, $2.502.75, BUTTER Fancy creamery, 28c; ranch, 24 27c. EGGS Best ranch, per dozen, 3638c APPLES Fancy, per box, $101.26. Bank Clearings. Bank clearings of the leading cities of the Northwest yesterday were as follows: Clearings. Balances. Portland . ........ ..... Seattle Tacoma ............. .. Spokane Clearings of Portland, for the week were: $430,888 $ 38,308 . 789,843 116,324 . 604.726 - 47.603 . 450,669 31,822 Seattle and Tacoma Portland, Seattle. $ 867.996 741,375 847.680 057,914 605.527 789.840 Tacoma. Monday Tuesday Wednesday ... Thursday Friday SaTarday . , Totals 9S0.851 711,861 724.628 609.S34 605,234 436,888 $ 628.35S 539,015 483,116 685.484 614.661 604,726 ..$4,075,296 $4,610,341 $3,255,060 Clearings for th corresponding week in for mer years "were: Portland. Seattle. Tacoma. 1809 . $1,810,912 $1,994,691 $1,030,762 1900 2,400,696 2.094.464 1.180,407 1901.... 2,771.723 3,104,944 1902............ 3.476.960 3.944.912 1908... 3,800.340 4,015,789 1.177.74 2.102,702 2,415.325 Money, Exchange, Etc NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Money on call, nom Inali no loan. Time loans, "nominal; 60 days, 90 days and six months. 3"45S' per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4 QAM per cent. Sterling exchange, nominal, with actual busl ness in bankers bills at $4.871564.8720 for demand, and at $4.8400g'4.S4e5 for 60-day bills. Posted rates, $4.83" Q4.8SH. Commercial bills, $4.84 14. Dairy Produce In the East. NEW YORK, Dec 24. Butter Firm. -Street price, extra creamer'. 2727Hc; official prices, creamery, common to extra, 1727"4c do neld common to extra, 20225 c Bggs and cheese, unchanged. To Take. Part In Parade. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash Ington, Doc 24. The Inauguration.- com mlttee has sent to every Senator a "letter asking for names and particulars about all organizations, military and Civic, from their respective states, which expect to participate In. the Inaugural parade on March 4. All organizations which desire to take part in the inauguration of Pre Went Roosevelt should immediately com municate with their Senators. Crazy Woman Fights Officers. Mrs. Mary Blood, violently insane, was brought from .the New Grand Cen tral Hotel to the central police sta lion at 1:30 this morning. She .fought the hotel attendants,, and. then the policemen when they came. She scritohed and kicked while .in the pa trol wagon, and was turned over Matron Simmons in her bare feet, and with scarcely an ntlre garment upon her. She I wonder why the baby doesn't begin to talk, John? - He Wby, I guess because you don'.t give him a chance, dear. Yon kers Statesman. HOLIDAY AFFECTS TRADE CARRY-OVER OF PRUNES SAME AS IN AUGUST. Meeting of Raisin-Growers and Mer chant's Is Called to Discuss Fu - ture of Co-Operation' in Fruit. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 24. (Special.) The general tone of the California cur&d fruit market Is healthy and firm, but trade quiet, as the annual stock-taking process is approaching. Nearly all descriptions are in short supply. Outside of prunes, peachos are the most active and are quoted slightly firmer. After January 1 the minimum car load will be 40.000 pounds. The carry-over of prunes will be about the same as on Au- gust 1. which means that about the equiva lent to this yoars output has gone out. leaving about nine -months to 'dispose of the balance. The bulk of the stock on the Coast Is, concentrated In the hands of packers and large growers, ana is weu new. a meeting of raisin-growers and merchants Is called for next Thursday at Fresno to discuss the future of co-operation among' ralsln-grow- crs. The grain trade closed, and quotations for cereals are yncnanged. Domestic dressed lurtceys sola up to -s cems.un anuri sup ply. Only 40 cases arrived, and the mar ket would have gone higher had not sev eral carloads of Eastern chilled stock been offered at 20 to 23 cents. The trade Is In fruits and vegetables of a holiday charac ter, with prices generally unchanged. But ter had a sudden decline, with a large surplus unsold. The agreement made last week by leading houses to maintain extra creamery at 25 cents was called off, and the price fell to 23 cents. Cheese Is weak. Eggs are lower. Receipts, 31.000 pounds butter, 12,000 pounds cheese, 15.000 dozen eggs. WAS RISKS ADVANCE. High Rates Charged on Sailings to v Vladivostok. War risks for sailings to Vladivostok Jiave been advanced and are now quoted at 25 to 30 per cent. This is the highest quotation made since hos tilities opened in the Far East. Tho occasion of the advance was the cap ture recently by the Japanese auxiliary fleet of a number of -British merchant men. Three steamers are to sail soon from Puget Sound with contraband goods, tho Olympla, Centennial and Tacoma, and as they are bound for Vladivostok SEND IT EAST. Orders for the New Year's Oregonian that will be published on January 1 next, ore reaching this offlce from nil parte of the United States. It ivill be distinctly an Exposition number. The great Fair that will be opened In Portland on Juno 1 next will be shown by handsome illustrations in the New Year's issue. The paper will be mailed to any address in the United States or Canada, postage pre paid, for 10 cents a copy. Address The Oregonian, Portland, Or. they will pay the rates quoted, which vary according to tnc speed ot tno vessel. The cargoes of tho steamers will be made up of flour, foodstuffs and other supplies for the Russian army. FULL CARGO ON ARABIA. Portland . Asiatic Liner Arrives Four Days Late. The Portland & Asiatic liner Arabia arrived up yesterday, morning and about noon began discharging her cargo at Montgomery dock No. 1. Tho officers report a rough passage across from Yokohama, gales delaying tho vessel about four days, b.ut causing no damage on shipboard. The steamer is in command of Captain Menzothln, formerly the first officer. "The cargo of the Arabia consists' of 45,450 rolls of matting, 2793 packages of Chinese merchandise, 3650 chests of tea, 630 packages of pepper and rice. 0 bales of woolen goods and 13S packages of woolen cloth, 550 tubs of shoyn. 120 packages of Chile peppers. packages of curios, 42 packagos of rattan chairs, 750 bags of clay, 157 bales of silk, 950 bales of jute, 20 cases of "peppermint oil and 20 cases of cam phor. x Coasters Sail South. The steamer F. A. Kllburn sailed last night with 224G sacks of oats and 4695 sacks of wheat for San Francisco, 45 tons of merchandise for Alarshfleld and five tons for Eureka, and. a good pas senger list. The steamer Alliance sailed for Coast ports carrying-, besides her passengers 100 tons of Iron and grain for Eureka and ISO tons of machinery for Coos Bay. The steamer Charles "Nelson, which has been loading railrtiad ties at St. Helens, left. down the river, bound for San Francisco. The remainder of the tio shipment .will be picked up by the steamer Bee; now taking lumber at Inman, Poulsen & Co.'s mill here. Henriette to Be a Steamer. It is reported at Victoria that the dls mantled barkpntlne Henriette, purchased by Captain S. F. McKenzIe, on the Co lumbla River two years ago, is to bo transformed Into a steamer for carrying livestock nd general cargo. For the past two seasons she has been operated as a cattle-carrying hulk between Brit lsh Columbia ports -and Skagway, but Is now to be fitted with triple-expansion en glnes and Scotch marine boilers. The contract for fitting her up Is not yet awarded, but it is understood the work wiir be completed in sufficient time to enable her to begin service on tho tynn Canal route early In the ensuing year. f Marine Notes. The British ship Durbrldgc has clear ed for Natal and will leave down lion day morning. She carries 1,873,939 feet of lumber, valued at $17,663. Tho damage sustained by the Ger man ship Neck, which collided with th British ship Ancona on Puget Sound recently, amounts to about $3000, and the damage to the Ancona to" about 56000. The United States Custom-House will Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA. Dec. 54. Sailed at 9:30 A. II. Schooner G. V. Watson, for San Francisco. Arrived at 10:50 A. Xf. Schooner Andy Ma hony, frpm San Pedro. Sailed at noon Schoon er llonolpu. for San Pedro and schooner ilin dora, for San Francisco. Sailed this morning Schoon era Annie Larscn and "W. F. Jewett for San' Francisco, and barkentlnc Jamca Johnson, for San Pedro. Arrived at 2 P. JL Sohooner Luzon, from San Francisco. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M. Moderate wind, -west. Weather, cloudy. San .Francisco. Dec 24. Arrived Schooner James A. Garfield, from Portland. New York. Dec 24. Arrived La Savole, from Havre; Mlnnelonka. from London. -Sydney. N. 8.. Dec 24. Arrived Previously Sonoma, from San Francisco and Auckland Hong Kong. Dec. 21. Arrived Previously Manchuria, from San Francisco, via Honolulu aad Yokohama. San Francisco. Dec. 24. Sailed Steamer iClty of Peking, for An con; steamer Aurella. for Portland: steamer City of Puebla. for "Victoria.. Arrived Brig W. G. Irwin, from Roche. Harbor; schooner James A. Garfield, from Astoria; steamer Breakwater, from Coos Bay. I0ST 0EE1CE BY A WAGER. Why Webb Does Not Serve the Gov ernment at AHcel. -OREGONIAN NEWS- BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 24. Representative, William yon today recommended the appointment of Robert O. Watklns as Postmaster at AHcel, Union County, Or., and thereby hangs a tale. "Mr. "Watklns was not an active candi date for the office. B. F. Webb, the pres ent Incumbent, and Charles Playle were the two prominent aspirants for the po sition, and it was generally believed that one or the other would secure the plum. But not so. During the late-campaign Webb made a bargain with Playle that if Boosevelt was elected he would resign in favor of Playle. Jf Parker was elected, Playle was to withdraw in favor of Webb. All would have been well, had not a friend of one of the candidates (and obviously an op ponent of the other) related this state of facts to Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow. Mr. Brlstow without "delay informed Representative William son, who'has the selection of postmasters In Union County, that owing to the wager between Webb and Playle, neither was eligible, and requested him to nominate some one else for Postmaster. That is why Watklns will, within a few days, relieve Mr. Webb, but Webb has no ground for complaint, as, under his agreement, he would have stepped aside anyway, since Roosevelt swept the coun try. POLICE GUARD SAPLINGS. Demand for Christmas Trees Affects City Water Supply; i COLORADO SURINGS. Colo., Dec. 24. (Special.)' Colorado Springs has taken a stand against the Christmas tree, which should interest the whole world. At the present time the United States Govern ment, through the Forestry "Department, is replanting the entire, southern slope of Pike's Peak with native trees. Statistics, gathered by tho Chamber or Commerce of Colorado Springs, showed that over 100,000 evergreen trees were used yearly in Ahe State of Colorado for the Yuletlde cele bration, and 5000 In the city. The age of the tree cut for use all-over the world varies from 15 to 25 years. r The effect of the annual removal of 100,000 young trees, or the covering of 500 acres, Is of vast importance to' the water supply. It is more than probable that the removal of these 100,000 trees means an annual reduction of from seven to ten cubic feet of the conserved water supply, which, from a commercial stand point i3 worth much more than the sell ing value of the trees. The campaign started resulted in num erous families sending-East for artificially manufactured trees. ' Tho small forests close to the City of Colorado Springs were afforded police pro tection before Christmas. THE DAY'S J3EATH BOLL. John'Dunfee. SYRACUSE. N. Y Dec 2i.-John Dun- fee, one of the largest contractors In this country, died today from an operation, aged 53 years. Henry D. Bentley. FREEPORT, III., Dec 21. Henry D. Bentley, muBlcal Instrument manufactur er and wholesaler, "widely known throughout the "West, is dead. v D. J. Gallery.- - CHICAGO. Dec 21. D. J. Gallery, one of the original members of the Board ot Trade, fell dead in his son's office here today. Death is supposed to have been duo to heart disease. Crossed the Ocean in a Big Egg Test of 5000 Miles by the Uradd, a Lifesaving Craft. rHE URADD, the most extraordi nary craft perhaps that ever crossed the ocean, put' Into SL Johns, N. F., a few weeks ago. She came from Aalesund, Norwaj', and was bound to the SL Louis Exposition by way of New York, the Atlantic Coast and the Mississippi River. But as the World's Fair closed before she reaohed St. Louis it Is probable that hpr voyage will end at New York. The Uradd Is the egg-shaped lifeboat invented by Captain Olaf Brude. and he planned his long voyage to prove that she is the stanch craft he suys she is. She has traveled nearly 5000 miles so far, having gone as far north as latL tudo 6-i, and the run -has occupied just 100 days', or twice as long as Brude expected. .The boat Is a gigantic egg-shaped structure, floating on its side and en- j circled by a horizontal belt, which serves both to fend her hull oft from wharves and ships and also, like a bilge keel to diminish her oscillations in a heavy sea. hc is built of steel an eighth 'of an inch thick, the belt being of'wood. Her extreme length is IS feet and her vertical diameter amidships eight feet, but she has a double bottom, tho inner one serving as a level floor anJ reducing the interior diameter to six feet, so that a. tall man is just able to stand upright. The space bclo-v the floor is divided into four compartments filled with fresh water and kerosene oil, which help to ballast her. An extra aid to stability is a centcrboard keel. whlch when lowered. Increases her mean draught of 3 to S feet and greatly aids her sailing powers . She Is propelled by a largo lateen sail, attached to a mast 20 feet high, fixed in a tube in tho forward part of the upper half of tho shell. Tho sum mit of the conical raft Is fitted with a low railing and to this, during the voy age, long sweeps Were rigged by means of which the crew could row her in calm "weather. Aft rises a conning tower or hood with four portholes. The only entrance to the boat' is behind the hood, a hole two feet in diameter-and closed with a hatch with a watertight cover. Her interior Is a large apartment, embracing the entire hull, and capable of accommodating 20 persons comfort ably, and 40 If crowded. On botli sides, from end to end. run benches or "seats thai also form lockers for. the stowage of food, clothes and supplies. She can carry stores and water for 20 persons for four months and can supplement her water supply by a huge ennvuss receiver like an inverted umbrella, which is set up on deck in ruihy weather and from which a hoso leads to her tanks. Fishing "lines and nets are carried. Kerosene Is used for cooking and heating. v Sho is the conception of Captain Brude. He Is only 22.-Between the age of 7 and 10 he lived -with his parents In New York. Then he returned to Nor way for live years, .and since that has been serving in ships of British or American register, having been a quar RAILROADS IN THE NORTH LARGE AMOUNT OF TRACKAGE TO BE LAID THIS YEAR. Canadian Pacific Will Enter New Ter ritory Moved to Action by New -Transcontinental . Lines. NEW WESMINSTER, B. C. Dec. 24. -r-(Spec!al.) The year 1905 promises to be a Ypcord one in British Columbia for railway construction. The Grand Trunk Pacific will commence operations on the "Western end ot their proposed transconti nental line, which will means hundreds of men leaving Southern British Columbia for the North to engage In the construc tion of this railroad, which, when it enters British Columbia, will come through the Rockies via the Kicking Horse Pass, thence south-west to Hazelton. From here. the movements of the company have up to the past few weeks been kept very qulet' However, it has become known that the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company lias secured an option on the Pacific Northern & Omlneca charter, which is all this company has at pres ent except the definite terminus at Kit amaat, where the townslte practically belongs to the Pacific Northern & Oml neca Railway Compuny. The part of this line on paper most valuable to the Grand Trunk Pacific will be that from Hazelton to Klta maat, a distance of 135 miles. This will give the Grand Trunk Pacific Kitamaat Harbor as one terminus,, but it has been definitely stated that the new transcontinental railway company In tends holding sway over two ports on the Pacific Coast, and doubtless the other point it will aim at will be Port Simpson, as Colonel John Hay is now In Port Simpson, with an eye to gaining a footing for the company at South Port Simpsen. The railroad company putting down the most rails during the comlnff year will be the Canadian Pacific Railway j Company, which, owing to the en-1 croachlng- of the Great Northern Rail-' way on Southern British Columbia ter ritory, has been compelled to extend its lines and open up new country to hold its footing against its American rival. The lines proposed by the Canadian Pa cific for 1905 are all In the southern part of the province and will open up three great agricultural and fruit val leys. Already work has commenced on the line from Wardner, on the Crow's Nest Railway, to Golden, on. the main line, up the Kootenay and down the Columbia Rivers a distance of 250 miles. This line will open up the -wonderful Wlndemere Valley, into which over 7000 immigrants went during the past six months to settle down and make homes for themselves. The other long line proposed by the Canadian Pacific for construction next year is from Midway to Spcnco's bridge via Pentlcton and Princeton, a distance of over 500 miles. The object of constructing this road is twofold. It -will shut out the Great Northern Railway in the Simllkameen Valley and prevent any other railway company building into that district, and it -will open up a shorter route to the interior of the province, making the trip from Vancouver to Nelson just 24 hours long instead of the present 4S hours, thus putting the Canadian Pacific on the same footing with tne Great North ern Railway, that has for some time been taking all the Interior passenger traffic from tho Canadian line, as its time via Spoknne is only 26 hours from Vancouver to Nelson. The Canadian Pacific will then have the trade of Southern British Columbia In her hands, a3 by the two new rail ways for next year it will hQld the Wlndemere and Simllkameen Valleys as it now- hold3 tho Arrow Valley. In the Simllkameen construction tho company will not only be opening up a rich agricultural district, but in the more "westerly part of the railroad It -will run through some valuable mining country. The only other railroad construction the people of this province are sure of for next year will be the northernex tension of the Vancouver, "Westminster & Yukon Railway, from Vancouver to Yukon or at first- to a point in connec- termaster on the United States trans port McPherson during the Cuban War. He has been two years working out his idea. He sailed from Aalesund on August 7. At the start he expected to cross In six weeks and went north to catch the northeast breezes, but this season was marked by an absence of such winds, and the delay proved fatal to his plans, though he believes it has proved tho utility of his craft more completely than he expected. What he claims for this boat is that she is absolutely unsinkablc, that she can sail as well as the ordinary life boat, that her occupants nro sheltered and comfortable in all weathers, that her voyage can be Indefinitely pro longed without risk to those on board. She can hang from a steamer's davits like an ordinary lifeboat. If drawn down Into the vortex of a sinking ship she must come to the surface again because of her buoyancy. Then she costs loss than tw;0 lifeboats and can carry four times as many people Leaving Aalesund on August 7 with three seumen Thorsen, Johanscn and Madscn Captain Brude headed her for the Shctlands. Four days later, 220 miles off the Norwegian coast, she was chased by a whaler, which took her for a sleeping whale. Sho worked north to within 90 miles of Iceland and along the 64th parallel to within 150 miles of Greenland, from that point turning south to fetch St. John's. Her voyage was attended by furious gales. Rarely could the crew show themselves above deck. Gale after gale raged, nnd for days the sail would be furled and the little craft allowed to drift. Ventilation was secured by opening one of tho ports on the lee side of the lookout. Even when at the worst pe riods hurricanes compelled them to close the ports her crew secured ven tilation and frosh air through the hol low mast. As a matter of fact, no apprehension was felt by the four men on board. She .was as light as a cork, as dry- as a bot tle nnd as safe as a liner. The only serious mishap was the breaking of the mast In a gale, which forced them to unstcp the butt and rc plnce It with the top. a spar only about 12 feet high" and forbidding any can vas but a trysail. "When In good trim at first she could make G"Ja knots and sail within four or five points of the wind, but after this mishap sh-2 could do little better than drift and make a little westing. About 1000 miles off Belle Isle Strait she Bightcd a Montreal liner, whose captain gave her correct reckonings. Three hundred miles nearer laud she was pacsed by .a cattle boat and again corrected her position. These wens the only two ships of any kind save fish ing boats at tho outset that she saw for the whole voyage, owing to her extreme northerly course and tho fact Indicates that even under sucn adverse conditions had she been full ot people they would have beenA rescued within five or six weeks. In the Norwegian u ngue the word "uradd" means "not afraid." Captain Brude is delighted with her achieve ments. She is said by him to be quite fit to sail around the world. Downing, Hopkins &'Ccfe Established 1893 WHEAT AND STOCK BROKERS Room 4, Ground Floor tlon with the Grand Trunk Pacific The construction of this railroad will be very costly, as also will be Its mainten ance after construction. The company has just completed its surveys through from Vancouver to Hazelton and the most feasible route runs through a country covered with long"' gravel slopes which are very dangerous to traffic. Construction through these slopes will cost, the consulting engi neer says, not less than $75,000 per mile. N- This new railroad will leave Vancou ver via Seymour Creek, up whieh stream it will run as far as the "Lilloet River, thence along .its' bank to the Frazer. then for several hundred miles up the Fraser through high rock cliffs to Fort George, where the line then turns west along the Nechacco to the source of the Bulkley River, thence along that river to Hazelton, a distance of over 700 miles. It is expected to have this part of the line completed In three years, the remainder via Teslin Lake to their Yukon tormlnus, which has not been setled upon yet, will, not be attempted till after the Grand Trunk Pacific will be in operation. This will make over 2500 miles of new railway to be laid in British Columbia during 1905. HAPS ON TJHTF0KM SCALE. Governments Urged to Map All Their , Possessions on One Scale. New York Sun. The International Geographical Con gress, at Its recent meeting In New York asked the Government to make a general map of America on a scale of 1:1,000.000. At the present time three governments are producing maps on this scale, which will cover about one-fourth of the land surface of the globe. If the United States should make a similar map of the whole of America It would Include nearly one-third of the area of the entire land surface. Within the last 13 years four of these international congresses have done all they could to promote the making of such a map. There Is need for It. No uniform map of the entire land surface exists on a scale large enough to serve many practical and scientific purposes, There are mans maps of parts of the lands on a far larger scale, as for ex ample nearly all of Europe, large tract3 of North America, and parts of Africa; but a map of all the lands on a uniform scale Is also highly desirable for many purposes. As Professor Penck has shown none of the large colonial powers has yet pro duced a map of all its possessions on the same scale. It Is difficult, therefore, to get a clear Idea of the proportionate size of different parts of these empires. It Is not easy for the geographer to compare different coast" lines, river basins, bays and so on. unless he has them before him on adequate maps of uniform scale. Here Is an illustration. The Germans. are now" mapping China on a scale of 1:1.000,0000, just as the French are map ping the Antilles. With the proper sheets of each map In our hands we may at once get the right idea as to the com parative size of the areas embraced In our war with Spain and In the present struggle in the Orient. "When we speak of a map scale of 1:1.000,000, we mean that one inch on the map equals 1,000,000 Inches in nature: or. in other words, that an inch on the map is equivalent to 15.7 statute miles. This Is not a large scale, but it would be far more adequate for the general purposes of the geographer, the merchant, or the tourist than any map we now have of the United States. Our Government survey maps are on too large a scale to be con venient for any ordinary purposes, and our best map for general use, made In Germany, by the way, is too small. Its scale Is 5S.3 statute miles to an Inch; and though the map contains as much accu rate information as it can hold. It is too small to show all the details desired by the student or traveler, or needed to give an adequate impression of the grandeur of the country. A mnp of the land surface of the globe on a scale of 1:1.000.000 would be large enough to show nearly all the railroads, the more Important wagon roads, the lines of telegraph and the limits of nav igation on rivers. It would show prac tically all the measured elevations of the land and the depths of the bordering seas. It would not be large enough to Include all the names of towns, but it would show all harbors and Important railroad stations and many notable cen ters of special Industries marked as such. It would not be too large for thft less known parts of the world, because explo ration has made remarkable progress in recent years. The French and Germans are continually making maps of parts of Africa on scales two or three times as large as the map proposed by the geo graphical congress; and De Lannoy de BIssy, who made the largest map yet produced of the whole of Africa, says he would not do the work over again on a smaller scale than 1:1,000.000. Today tho Intelligence Division of the "War Ofiice at London has begun the pub lication on this seal-" of a map ot Africa that will embrace 132 sheets, of which IS have now appeared. The Cartographic Department of the Royal Prussian Sur vey Is publishing a map of Eastern China on tho same scale, of which 14 sheets have been Issued, and the geographical service of the array In Franco Is Issuing a scries ot maps on this uniform scale of the Antilles. Persia and China. All this work fits Into the general scheme proposed by Professor Penck at the Berne congress in 1E91, when he first urged the making ot this map on a uni form scale. The undertaking is too large for private enterprise, but now that gov ernments are beginning to carry out the idea we may hope, before a great many years, to have map sheets ot all the land areas of this scale, which 13 large enough to show clearly all the more Important facts and at the same time to provide the uniformity that Is essential for com fortable and accurate comparisons of ons part of the world with another.. The British are now preparing to map their homo islands on this scale. A simi lar undertaking may well be commended to our own Government. Such a map. carried out by the exact and excellent methods of our Government offices, would be the best map of our country ov.er produced for general "purposes. It would be too lorge to be studied to advantage as a wall map, and might best be con sulted In separate sheets or In a well indexed atlas. KNIGHT TO COACH AGAIN. Rowing Expert May Look After U. of W. Crew In 1905. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 21. (Special.) Robert Evans, gcnoral, manager of Ath letics at the University of Washington, has given out the statement that, in all probability, Jim Knight will again be hired to coach rowing. For some t'me it was thought that on account of a Iatk of funds, it would not be possible to have Coach Knight at the college this Spring. Knight, however, has made such a rea sonable offer to the "University that Evan feels certain that the student and faculty Chamber of Commerce committees will agree to sign up a con tract. Unless an agreement had been reached with Knight, it is very probable that the sport would have had to have been aban doned for this season. It Is felt that Knight has been the chief spirit in up building this branch of - athletics, and if any one else had to be secured In the city that person would not be able or willing to devote the necessary time to the sport to make it successful, because of the small salary that the students are able to pay a coach. For the past year the coach has more than earned th amount paid him, by . his own personal efforts. Lnyt Spring he had complete charge .of the management of the .sport. as well as of coaching. It was through his work that the citizens of Seattle made their subscriptions to purchase the excellent shell which the college now owns. Coach Knight ia in hopes of holding at least two regattas? In the Spring. 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