THE SUNDAY OREGOJflAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 21, 1907.
JULY 4, 1776
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MOBESMLTONNKE
French Bark Guethary Laid on
for Portland.
WILL LOAD WITH CEMENT
Lie Filler Sailed for the Colombia
River Today From London.
Steamer Tottenham Has Been
Taken for Lumber Loading.
The French bark Guethary has been
chartered by Balfour, Guthrie1 & Co. to
load cement at Antwerp for Portland.
The vessel was taken yesterday and will
be due off the mouth of the river the
latter, part of September. The Guethary
vailed from Noumea for Bmden December
14 and from the latter port will proceed
to Antwerp for cargo.
The French bark Le Pilier. under char
ter to Balfour. Guthrie & Co., sailed yes
terday from London for the Columbia
Oliver. ' The vessel Is loaded with Anna
and K. B. C. cement and will be due at
Astoria about September 10. The Le
Filler loaded a part cargo at Bmden and
finished at London. She has German and
English cement.
The Pacific Export Lumber Company
has taken the steamer Tottenham to load
lumber for North China. The Tottenham
is on Puget Sound and will arrive in Port
land Harbor about the first of May. She
came to Victoria from Acapulco. The
Tottenham has a register of 2&4S tons and
is capable at carrying more than 3,500,
000 feet.
The Tottenham has made a number of
trips to the Columbia River, and has
taken both general cargo and lumber
Irom here, bhe Is a heavy carrier, and
on her present trip an effort will be made
to crowd her to close to the 4.000.000 limit.
SEIZED BY LAND WOLF.
"Jack" London's Boat Tied Tp by
Vnfted States Marshal.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. The
Snark. the small sailboat in which
'Jack" London and his wife propose
to emoarK on a six years voyage
around the world, was libeled today for
stores and supplies alleged to be un
paid for. The craft is - now in the
hands of a Deputy United States Mar
shal. The Londons had planned to
set sail tomorrow.
officer of the Alliance. He resigned In
February of this year and went to San
Francisco, where he was placed in com
mand of the steamer Despatch. He made
two trips in that vessel when a nattering
offer was made to him to assume com
mand of the Alliance. The. offer was accepted.
BESSIE K. AGAIN REPORTED
Keeper at Heceta Head Sights
Derelict Gasoline Boat.
The keeper at Heceta Head light
station has notified the Inspector of the
Thirteenth Lighthouse district that a
derelict has been sighted from that place
at several different times during the
past week. The vessel is no doubt the
ETEAMEB INTELLIGENCE.
Dne to Arrive.
Name. From. Date.
Aregonta .... .Hongkong. ,..In port
Johan Paulsen. .Ban Fran... Jn port
Costa. Rica Sau Fran.,.. In port
Alliance. .. .Coos Bay..,..,in port
Roanoke. ...... .Los Angeles. .;Apr. 21
Columbia. ... ban Fran. ... Apr. 24
F. A. Kllburn. . .San Fran Apr- -5
Nlcomedla Honekon. . ..April 28
Geo. W. Elder. . Xos Anreles... April l!t
Numantla. ...... liongkoe-... May 25
Arabia June IS
Scheduled te Depart.
Name.
Costa Rica....
Johan Poulsen,
Alliance.
Koanoke.
Columbia. .....
F. A Kllburn.
Geo. w. Elder
Araconla. .....
Nlcomedla. . . .
Nnmantli. . . . ,
Arabia
For
, .Ean Fran...
.San Fran..,
.Coos Bay. . .
. Loe Angeles.
. .ban Fran. . ,
.Ban Fran...
. .Los Angeles.
. .Hongkong. .
. Hongkong. .
.HonEkqpg..
Hongkong. .
Data
-Apr. 21
. Apr. 21
-.Apr. 22
..Apr. 2.1
Apr. 26
..Apr. 27
..April 30
..May
..Mar IS
..June e
. .June 23
Entered Saturday.
Alllanoe. Am. at earn ship Kelly),
with general cargo from Coo Bay
ports.
Costa Rica, Am. steamship (Mason),
with general cargo from San Fran
cisco. - .
Johan Poulsen. Am. steamship Mer
rtam). with ballast from ' Eaa Fran
cisco. Cleared Saturday.
Costa Rica. Am. eteamehlp (Mason),
with general cargo for San Francisco.
North King. Am. steamship (Kan-,
sen), with ballast and stores for
Nushagak, Alaska.
of frozen fish from the "Rogue River to
the local dealers.. The Berwick had a
coldstorage plant installed on her last
trip to Portland and is thoroughly
equipped for carrying fish. She la owned
by R. D. Hume, of Rogue River.
Marine Notes.
The steamer Johan Poulsen is taking
lumber at the mills of Inman, Poulsen &
Co.
The steamer Roanoke, from San Pedro
and way porta, is due to arrive here
today. She is scheduled to leave Tuesday
night.
The steamer Costa Rica will sail from
this port at 9 o'clock today for San'
Francisco. She will take freight and pas
sengers. The steamer Alliance arrived up yes
terday morning from Coos Bay points.
She brought 80 passengers and full
freight.
The cannery tender North King cleared
from the Custom-House yesterday for
Alaska. She will leave down tomorrow
morning and will proceed north as fast
as possible.
CAPTAIN OLSON PROMOTED
Takes Command of Steamer Alliance.
Vice Captain B. Kelly.
Captain B. W. Olsen has been placed
in command of the steamer Alliance, vice
Captain Kelly, resigned. Captain Kelly
left last night for .his home in Oakland
and will remain ashore tor some time.
Captain Olson arrived from San 'Fran
cisco yesterday morning and immediately
assumed command of the Alliance. She
will leave for Coos Bay points tomorrow
morning.
The new master of the Alliance Is one
of the most popular masters on the
CoasL For several years he was chief
gasoline schooner Bessie K. whose hulk
has been floating around the Coast since
March 7.
The Bessie K. sailed from the Coquille
River and was bound tor San Fran
cisco. She had a crew of eight men and
none has been heard from since she
crossed the bar on the outward trip.
The steamer Yosemite, from the Colum
bia River to San Francisco, picked up
the derelict on March 10 and towed It to
within three miles of shore. Since that
time It has been drifting around and has
been sighted a number of times. The
last report prior to the one sent In by
the keeper at Heceta Head was by the
steamer Alllanoe on her last trip up
from oooa Bay.
Captain J. Bermingham Here.
Supervising Inspector J. Bermingham,
with headquarters In San Francisco, la
in Portland on a tour of official investi
gation of the offices of local inspectors
ut hulls and boilers. Captain Bermingham
is staying at the Portland Hotel and will
leave this evening for the Sound.
Schooner Berwick In Port.
The gasoline schooner Berwick arrived
up yesterday afternoon and berthed at
Couch-street dock. She brought a cargo
Arrivals and Departures.
ASTORIA, April 20. Condition of the bar
at 5 P. M., smooth; wind, north, 18 miles;
weather, clear. Arrived down at 12 noon
French bark Cornll Bart. Arrived at 4 P. M.
Steamer Rosecrans, from Ban Francisco.
San Francisco, April 20. Sailed Schooner
Columbia, for Columbia River; steamer South
Bay, for Astoria. Balled last night Steamer
Coaster, for Portland. Sailed at B P. M.
Steamer Thos. 1 Wand, for Columbia River.
Port Harford. April 20. Arrived -steamer
Argyll, from Portland.
Tides at Astoria Sunday.
High. Low.
.-S2 A. M T.O feet0:82 A. M 4.0 feet
8:16 P. M 6.4 feetl:28 P. M 1.3 feet
Rearrested on His Release.
BALTIMORE. April JO. William Bar
rett, alias Thompson, who today finished
a two years term In the penitentiary
for wallet snatching, was arrested before
he left the prison in connection with
the theft of $30,000 gold from the First
National Bank .of San Francisco on Sep
tember 17, 1904. The robbery was com
mitted In the daytime. The money was
recovered a few moments later, but the
thief escaped. He was finally arrested in
Portland, Or., but was turned over to
the Maryland .authorities, who were con
sidered to have the better claim on him.
Foot of Snow In Colorado.
. DENVER, April 30. Thirteen Inches of
snow fell in Denver during the 24 hours
ending at 6 o'clock this morning. It was
the heaviest snowfall of the Winter and
the greatest precipitation recorded In
April since 1885. The weather cleared
during the forenoon. The storm was gen
eral throughout the state. While some
damage has been done to fruit trees, the
moisture Is of incalculable benefit to
farmers and gardeners.
Jerome Questions Jurors.
NEW YORK. April 20. District Attor
ney Jerome Is questioning several of the
Thaw trial Jurors In his office today rel
ative to the alleged attempt by a police
man to Influence them while they were de
liberating. The supposed knowledge of
the incident possessed by Messrs. Denne,
Newton and Pfaff, of the Jury, Is said to
be what the District Attorney wishes to
obtain. No suspicion whatever attaches
to any of the Jurors.
No Ladles' Golf Contest.
LONDON, April 20. The International
ladles' golf championship, won by Eng
land two years ago. will be abandoned
this year, owing to lack of American en
tries. A considerable number of Ameri
cans were expected to compete, but only
two entries were received, those or the
Misses Harriet aqd Margaret Curtias. of
massacuusetis.
READY TO STRIKE MAY 1
MOLDERS PREPARING TO FIGHT
FOR 8 -HOUR DAY.
Walkout Expected to Result In Tie-
Up of Machine Shops Employers
Are Unyielding.
Portland molders are determined to
put up a hard fight to gain a reduction
of the working day from nine to eight
hours and fully expect to strike May 1.
Employers on the Coast have refused to
grant the required concession of one
hour's' less work at the - same pay and
trouble seems unavoidable.
Conferences have been held at Seattle,
Wash., for some time, at which W. H.
Drew represented the Portland molders.
The men stood solidly together for the
eight-hour day. They issued an ultima
tum that they would not work nine
hours after May 1, and employers have
retaliated with the statement they posi
tively will not yield the point. The
advance of 25 cents a day was offered
the men but they voted to adhere to
their original purpose of securing shorter
hours and resolutely turned down the
promised increase in wages. .
Portland molders will walk out May
1 beyond a doubt. There are nearly 100
men in this craft In Portland who are
strongly organized. A very high per
centage of the entire craft in the Unit
ed States Is unionized and the men pin
their hopes of success to this fact, be
lieving' the employers will be unable to
find others to take their places.
Portland boilermakers have already
won a victory which has been marred
by the fact that only one shop, the
Willamette Iron & Steel Works, has re
fused to meet the general advance and a
strike in that plant has resulted. In
other shops of the city, the men have
succeeded in getting an increase of
wages from S3. 60 to M for a nine-hour
day. The movement was started Novem
ber 26, when negotiations were opened
with the management of the local shops
with the purpose of securing an Increase
In wages. The request was made that
the 24 wage be placed in effect by Jan
uary L last, and in all shops except the
Willamette the Increase was given. The
Willamette shop refused to pay more
than 23.78 a day. Finding that the
management would not advance the
wages, boiler makers In that establish
ment walked out this week. About 30
men left work there.
The molders expect to win their point.
although they realize it Is likely to take
some time. As ail workmen of this
craft on the Coast are involved, they
will stand together In the fight. The
Impending strike is expected to cause
the shutdown of Postland machine shops
within a short time after the men go
out.
EQUAL TO EMERGENCIES
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freight." "All right," responded the de
lighted customer; "let's go up and see it."
Not on your life," replied the dealer.'
That buggy we sell 'sight unseen Just
like the mail-order house sells it. We
can't show a buggy at that price." The
customer thought awhile, then bought the
$65 buggy.
-Rural Free Delivery.
The rural free delivery mail service Is
just about (en years old, and it is only
within the last five v years that it has
spread to the extent that it praclcally in
cludes the entire rural portion of the
country where there is enough population
and enough passable roads to make it
possible. Tom Watson, the Georgia Pop
ulist, is the father of the rural free de
livery system, having Introduced the first
bill and fought its first ' fights. An ap
propriation was made for an experimental
service under the last Cleveland admin
istration, it was successful and ever since
it has grown wonderfully from year to
year. The rural carriers needed some
sort of medium of Interchange, and a
newspaper man established the "R. F. D.
News."
This is a monthly Journal of 64 to 98
pages, and covers the entire United States
more - thoroughly than any other news
publication going. Each Issue has nu
merous letters from carriers In every
state relating experiences and exchang
ing suggestions. The News carried on the
successful campaign for an increase in
salary to $900 a year. It conducts depart
ments to Instruct in the care-taking of
vehicles and horses. It has social and
literary features designed to attract the
women and children of the carriers fam
ily. It has a circulation of about 26,000
copies, and It keeps right up with the
procession. This enterprise Is merely one
incident which shows the marcn or prog
ress in this country in ten years.
Liquid Air to Save Life.
Now that liquid air can be produced
for as little as S cents a gallon. It is be
ing called into to service to aid in smooth
ing out the difficulties in business life. In
ice factories and refrigerating plants the
fumes of ammonia from a broken pipe
are deadly poison, and many deaths re
sult from Inhaling them. To leave the
breaks unstopped means thousands of
dollars of loss. Several sorts of air-caps
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women approach with
indescribable fear, for
nothing compares with
the pain and horror of
child-birth. The thought
of the suffering and danger, In store for her, rob the expectant mother
of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casta over her a
hadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women
have found that the use of Mother's Friend daring pregnancy roba
confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother
and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the
time of their most critical trial. Not onl? does Mother's Friend
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connected with the outside air by tubes
have been In use to enable workmen to
repair broken ammonia pipes. But the
latest, and It Is said the most satisfac
tory, contrivance is a cap which fits over
the head like a diver's helmet, connected
with a tank of liquid air carried on the
back. v The liquid . air evaporates, is
warmed enough to breathe In its passage
through the helmet, and leaves the work
men free to operate without fear of
breaking the air-tube.
Blows TJp 'Whole Mountain.
The operations of Yankee engineers are
a source of constant wonder and bewil
derment to all foreigners. The daring
way In which the Americans blow up
mountains that come in their way, or
string bridges over seemingly impassable
canyons, almost takes their breath away.
On one Job in South America a con
tractor used about 80,000 worth of pow
der in blasting. He employed 8000 men
and completed a piece of work in less
than three months that local authorities
said could not be done inside of ten
years. He put 3000 kegs of powder in
one blast, and when the shot went off it
sent over 700 tralnloadsi of rock down
a cliff into the river. There was such
a mass of this debris that it . raised the
water of the stream 66 feet in less than
20 minutes. The channel had to be blasted
out to let the water through. The force
of this 'Immense charge was so great
that it sent huge boulders the size of
boxcars sailing over the hill like a flock
of buzzards flying over a barn.
Cornering Turkey Market.
During the holidays each year, Chicago
is the storm center of the turkey trade.
At this season 14 firms in the Windy
City .engage in desperate competition for
the control of all birds within a radius of
several hundred miles. One enterprising
buyer went 800 miles west of Chicago
on a trip last Fall. He paid one Missouri
farmer's wife $563 for her flock. This
fellow worked a clever dodge so quietly
that he almost cornered the market be
fore his competitors became aware of ,
his plan. He proposed that each dealer
or farmer who shipped to htm could make
a guess on the highest price that turkeys
would bring at any time before New
Tear's, promising to give the one who
made the closest guess a JTO wagon. As
soon as his competitors heard of his of
fer they made similar induoements, . but
they were too late to overcome the ad
vantage He had gained that season.
Tomorrow Personal Stories.
More Russians Will Immigrate.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 20. Owing to
the political and economical crisis 800,000
Russian subjects will emigrate to America
this year, according to the directors of
the emigration office. Hitherto the yearly
exodus has been about 260,000, of whom
two-thirds were Jews. The percentage of
orthodox Russians who emigrate is in
creasing. The director says most of the
emigrants will go West to Illinois, Minne
sota, Nebraska and the Dakota.
Roosevelt and Shaw Talk Politics. "
WASHINGTON, April 20. Ex -Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw had a long
talk with President Roosevelt today. It
Is known that the discussion covered
questions of politics and finance.
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