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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1910)
M IS OUT OF DATE Pew Years Ago Hvcry Rural Lino Was Proud Pocsor of Ono, L COST $150; NOW ONLY $35 w tho Upright Piano Is In- stalled in tho Placo of tho joy of tho Ifainlly. Li..., vnnro neO llOinO Wasn't haPPy s... u i.mi Kh cabinet organ In tho lor, bo Hint tho daughtor of tho ho could entertain mo visitors uv rsumlny nftornoon by chordlng a hnil been sufficiently ked. Tho organ was always a beau- thing -very benutf fill. A real Li.i ,i,.n mirror wna set In tho Fgo that daughter could look upon Llf ns she Industriously pumped l i.-m. tnt nml chorded with both 1,1b, it was great oxcrclBO plnylng organ In thoso days. 11 organs wero decorated nlllto. On ahlo wna n plcturo or moinorB ra- and mother; on tlio oltior buio father's parcntfl. Cousin Harry, .lninL' ho well in Donver. fined out from ono sldo of tho Chi le my that Aunt Molly brought back fan tho city on nor lasi irip more, Hlo on the otnor awe oi mo my, king down severely upon mo wax i in its pins mHu. wna Prof. Dar i, who uaod to bo principal of tho h school. ht tiinsn ilavB nro gono now. tho Inaas City Times snya. A cabinet MAKES TEST OF SMOKE CONSUMER. TESTING NEW SMOKE CONSUMER ON LOCOMOTIVE. Solution of the smoke problem is claimed by P. J. Doyle, tho Inventor Df a coal-burning devlco which was railroad loconiotlvo In tho presence of IWhllo moving at various rntes of speed attached to It tho engine emitted only re emblcd steam. Tho dovlco can bo al.o bo used In tho boiler rooms of clares, Tho secret of ,tho apparent effectiveness of tho appliance is said to Illo In tho fact that It causes perfect combustion. Tho coal is trnnsformd Into coke, tho gases from tho coal being consumed In tho process and then tho coko Ib burned. rgan used to cost Jh'O. Now you in buy an ordinary plnno for thnt mount, whilo a new organ goes for 13;- a dollar down nnd CO contB n jeelt. A second-hand organ boIIb for rom MO to v:, The furmors thnt used to own or- bns ere now buying pianos. Somo of Ihcni are buying player plnnos. Hooks Save been written for tho farmers laughters that teach them to play a piano nlmost ns well ns If they wero Inuglit by nn expensive teacher. By Ihe diagram method thoy learn whoro o put their fingers when they boo cor- un notes, nnd many farmers' homos have daughters who havo taught thorn- elves to play almost aB woll as if hey had employed a teacher. "It was tho coming of tho upright piano that put tho organs down and put," hrIiI a piano denier recently. I'The old square piano couldn't bo flblil for less than $500. Tho upright was easier to handle and easier to put to Rcther, and It sold at first for about t?.00, Twenty-llvo yenrs ago only tho rich - the class that buys motor carB now- owned pianos. Tho medium class owned organs, Now only tho poorer fpoplo buy organs. Pianos aro being improved rapidly. I think that in ton years all pianos will bo made with Player attachments." Tho mtiBlrnl taste of tho noonlo is improving right along. Many drgniiB still being sold. Every family liuust havo somo sort of a musical In- Ifitrumont In tho homo and tho mali ngers of music stores testify that the WubIc that is being bought Is of tho I '"finer rinss. Just nB much popular tmislp H being sold as ovor, hut tho demand for high claBB miiBlc has do- ivciopoii rapidly In tho Inst ten years. ClillilliniMl'N llrluf Hour. If your ii ultimo i , i. .. i... Bwork ko ami tn,nn n i .i Plained nway all tho plcaauros of tho ivni, v U00K 01 ""ymea, would you havo grown up to bo any bettor Xnrn"r7 8k th? Wichita xuZa w,lftl ,r 81,0 hod ox Plained thnt m, . . ovbt. m, vu" ,luor jumpou tie m 5 oon; tlmt t,loro w8 no Wt hern v MUff0t' and ,f U,ore on that ti into a plum p o; SSLt iand G,U'fl paronta UB0d ny I hlilIat0r,R"d tby noyor wont up vwum eai any Ulna or men not before him instead of Mr loan moat; that Old King Colo was a grouchy dyspeptic and tho very oppo site of a merry old soull that no black bird ovor disfigured tho king's wash erwoman by picking off hor noso? Would you havo boon a bettor boy or girl if your mothor had done all theso thingshad explained awny tho dollghtful books of childhood and had told you that tho amusing, Jingling rhymes wero wrltton by Homo hard-up story writer who wroto them for money and not for truth's eako? Would you? Is anything accomplished by squar ing a child around nnd sotting it faco to faco with tho ronlltios of lifo bo foro it has como into tho years of re sponsibility? Lot tho children onjoy childhood In a childish way, for It is briof and comes not again, GATHERING SEA TOWLS' EGOS. Perllon Work of CUR Climber, on iUt ICnirlUli Coitftt. With tho advent of Bprlng tho York shire cliff cllmboro aro making prep arations for gathering tho eggs of tho myriads of sea fowl that build tliolr nests in tho dizzy precipices of tho northoastorn ' coast, according to the London Dally Nows. At Dompton, a fow miles from Drld Ington, tho favorlto resort of these egg hunters, tho chalk cliffs tower 400 feet abovo tho sea. They aro tho homo of thousands of gulls, cormorants, kit tlwakcs and other bcji birds that havo Just begun to build their rough nests In tho chalky crovlccs. William Wil kinson, who has pursued this perilous calling for many years, is known local ly as "tho king of tho egg hunters." Ho is a bluff, weather scarred man of tho soa, with as much nerve and agil ity an aro possessed by tho most dar ing Bteoplojack. Wilkinson wears an old helmet to protect his head from tho' ploccs of recently tested In a Chicago Junction rond mechanics and expert engineers. with a number of heavy-laden cars a slight stream of white smoke, which attached to any locomotive. It can manufacturing plants, tho inventor de rock dislodged by tho .ropo by which bo In suspended In midair. Around his body ho buckles a kind of lenifier hammock, in which ho is ablo to Bit. On his arm ho wears leather protec tors. "Lower away, boys," ho cries, as ho swings himself ovor tho brink In an almost horizontal position and pross cs each foot firmly against tho chalk Burfaco. Three of tho men slezo the rope, nnd foot by foot tho lntropld climber Is lowered till his cheery volco Is lost nmld tho fluttering sounds o( tho disturbed birds. Ho swings from neat to nest, putting each egg carr'-' ly In a bag slung over his Bho As Boon ns his bag is full ho give "hoist up" Blgnal on tho guldo i and tho men haul him up. Wilkinson makes aovoral descon'.fa and at tho end of tho day shares the spoil with his assistants, who Bell tho eggs for eating purposes to tho Inhab itants of tho neighboring villnges. OIlc CbrUtlnn Hello In HiikImiiiI For Bomo tlmo past efforts have been mado to ralso funds in order to pro tect from tho ravages of wind nnd woathor tho encroachment of tlio drift ing sands, tho ruInB of St, Plran's ora tory at Pcrranzabuloo, Bald to bo tho oldest Christian rollo of Its kind In ISngland, It Is now proposed lo build a protecting houso of concreto around tho ruins, If this protection Is not forthcoming it is probable that "tho lost church," as it Ib locally known, will ho again burled bonoath tho sands which covered it for so many centuries. It la generally bol loved to bo tho orig inal church of St, Plron, to whom tlio Cornluh minors glvo tho credit of first showing thorn tin, and who was ono of tho most notablo of tho many Corn ish Balnts. Iwondon Standard. Where Will It Stopf "rnr (loot of torpedo dostroyors Booms to havo stirred up our friond tho ouemy," remarked tho naval cmor or. ono of tho groat powers. "Yea," ropllod his naslstant, "it is said thoy will build a floot of torpodo destroyor destroyers now." "i.nt 'nml Wo'll build a floot of tor pedo destroyor dostroyor doBtroyoro." Cathollo Standard and Times, No health or ploasuro resort ovor bstlmatoa its sceuery aB much ns a cranky crusader overoBtlmatca uif vlow cut oft by a billboard. SWVi. Iff l '1 BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY WORK OF NATION'S LAWMAKERS Washington, March 26, Senator Hcyburn today crossed swords with his colleague, Senutor Borah, and with Senators Jones and Warren, over tho bill permitting tho secretary of tho in terior to soil water from government reservoirs nnd to co-opcrato with pri vate interests in building Btorago and distributing works. Senator Hcyburn frankly announced his intention to filibuster and during tho hour and ,30 minutes he talked ad vanced no mutcrlul objections to tho bill, nor did ho propose any amend ments, further thun to say ho would not consent to having Idaho included within Its provisions. Ex-Govcmor Hoggatt, of Alaska, and Delegate Wickcrsham, of that territory, continued tho verbal assaults on each other before tho houso commit tee on territories today over the ques tion of what form of government con gress should give Alaska. Delegate Wickersham questioned Mr. Hoggatt in an effort to show that the latter was friondly to tho officers of the Guggenheim-Morgan syndicate in Alaska. Dalzcll was elected chairman of the new committee "on rules late today. Tho now ruleB committeo of tho house of representatives was constituted by tho houso today. The new committee is tho result of the spectacular fight that occurred last week in the house, and which ended in the ousting of Can non from tho rules committee and gave the naming of the committee to the houso instead of to the speaker. Senators Doume and Chamberlain seek to exempt Oregon for the provis ion of tho Warren irrigation bill, which would empower tho secretary of tho interior to dispose of surplus wa ters from reclamation projects, to sys tems operating under the Carey act. They believe this would bo inadvisable as to Oregon. The bill was before the Bcnato today, but went over at 2 o'clock when the railroad bill came up. Washington, March 24. With scarcely the semblance of a struggle, the Democratic members of the houso tonight nominated the following four minority members of the enlarged rules committee: Champ Clark, of Missouri, 125 votes; Oscar Underwood, of Alabama, 102; Lincoln Dixon, of Indiana, 09; John J. Fitzgerald, of New York, 98. The senate today increased tho sal ary of the governor of Alaska from $5,000 to $7,000. The senate military committee today reported favorably tho bill authorizing tho sale of the abandoned military res ervation lands at Walla Walla to Whit man college at $150 per acre. Under terms of the bill, an opportunity is given to Whitman college to acquire reservation with all improvements for tho total price of $91,000. In view of tho fact that the government only re ccntly erected a large building on this reservation at a cost of $110,000 and in view of the fact that this building at a slight cost can be converted into school purposes, the committee would not consent to a sale at $50 an acre, the price named in the original bill. It is believed the college will buy at $150 an acre. The senate commerce committee to day adopted un amendment increasing tho appropriation for the Columbia riv er between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls from $50,000 to $100,000. The State of Washington has nlready expended $50,000 on thlB project. The Increased appropriation, it is believed, will complete the channel work now under wny. The Supremo court of the District of Columbia today overruled a motion of the Interior department to dismiss 11 Silctz cases and sustained the motion by A. W. LafTcrty, asking leave to file reapplication. Tho cases will now be heard on their merits. Washington, March 23. Tho senate i i commorce commitieo nas iavoraoiy considered an nmendment to the rivers and harbors bill for the purchase of tho existing canal and locks around the W ametto lal s. at Orecron City, or a purchnBO of tho necessary lands and tho construction of a now canal and locks, in tho discretion of the secretary of war, to cost $300,000, provided that no part of tho appropriation bo ex nended oxcent for the acquisition of tho necessary lands and rights-of-way and for such antecedent surveys and preliminary work as may be necessary in this connection' until tho Btato of Orctron flhall appropriate a like amount. Approval of tho Broadway bridge, at Portland, wns granted by the secre tary of war today in accordance With vestordav'a favorable report by the chief of encineors. On tho first ballot in tho Republican cnucuB tonight, both Representatives Ellis and Hawloy received severa votes for membership on tho commit too on rules, but lacked tho support criven to n member of tho California delegation, who ultimately wns elected. Neither Oregon member was an ac- tivo candidate for tho place, and both aunnorted Smith, of California, who had tho largcat original vote given to any Pacific Coast man. Tho bordor states Republicans hold Children's Bureau is Probable. Washington, Murch 23.Provision for a children's bureau In tho depart ment of commerco and lnbor is mado in a bill, favorably reported yesterday from tho committeo on education and labor, by Senator Flint, of California. Questions pertaining to children, espe cially tho questions of mortality, birth rate, physical degeneracy, delinquents and accidonts and diseases of children nro to como under Its supervision. Tho chief Ib to receive $4,000 a your. a caucus tonight and chose Joseph Holt Gaines, of Charleston, W. Va., as their candidate for membership on tho rules committee of the house. The conference was participated in by approximately 25 members from West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Maryland. Washington, March 22. The recent nsurgent fight, the ousting of Gi fiord Pinchot and tho unfinished adminis tration legislative program, were dish ed up in the houso today with tariff trimmings by Representative Palmer, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, as tho first apicy concoction of the coming congressional campaign. Speaking the general debate on tho pension bill, Palmer launched into a peppery attack on the administration, and his speech is considered "official campaign material." The Bhadow of tho the "big Btick" was cast across the house chamber when Palmer referred to Roosevelt as the biggest insurgent of them all, and dec nred he was responsible for the present president, who was pledged to carry out the "Roosevelt pohcicB." Senator Piles today secured adoption of the amendments to the river and harbor bill as follows: Increasing the appropriation for the Snake river from $7,500 to $25,000; increasing tho appropriation for the inner Grays harbor and ChehaliB river from $15,000 to $32,000; authorizing a survey of Dabo bay, on Hoods canal. On Piles' motion the senate commit tee also accepted the house proposi tion appropriatine $160,000 to start work on tho canal connecting Lake Washington with Puget Sound, the limit of the cost being fixed at $2, 475,000. The committee struck from the bill tho clause providing for developing water power at the locks on this canal. Conferees on the Indian appropria tion reached an agreement today by striking out all the senate amendments for the payment of claims of various kinds, which amounted to a million or more dollars. Washington, March21. The senate today passed the Bourne bill amending the enlartred homestead net so that lands in Oregon, not in exess of 2,000, 000 acres, that do not have upon them sufficient water supply for domestic purposes as would make continuous res idence upon them possible, may be sub ject to entry and patent without the necessity of residence, and that the cultivation, instead of residence, shall be required for patent. This bill Btands absolutely no chance of passing the house of representatives for the house public lands committee today went on record against identical ly similar legislation applicable to Ida ho, only two members of the commit teo being in favor of non-resident homesteads. The committee favor ably reported the bill extending the provisions of the dry farm homestead act to Idaho but voted down the clause identical with the "Bourne bill. In view of the overwhelming sentiment in the committee against it, the Oregon bill cannot be reported. The house passed through its first day of business following the great eruption of last week with remarkable quietude. Tonight when adjourn ment came, there was an air of calm ness and amity that, to the observer of events last week was almost unbeliev uble. Peace appeared near, notwith standing that less than ten days distant is the election of a new committee on rules with all its embarrassing compli cations. Washington, March 19. Although congress has been in session nearly four months, practically nothing has been accomplished in the way of con servntion legislation, and so far as the records show, not one single recom mendation of the president has yet re ceived final consideration at the hands of the legislative branch of the gov ernment. The senate, it is true, has done little, but tho house of representatives has yet to pass, or even consider, the first one of the bills so strongly re commended by the president in his spe cial message last December. The failure of tho house to act is not due to lack of interest on the part of the members, for whenever any one of the conservation bills is reported, it will bo discussed with fervor and it will bo passed. But the house cannot consider a bjll until it has been report ed by a committee, and up to this time not a single ono of the conservation bills has been reported, or -even con s dered. bv the house committee on public lands. Hnhn May Be Member of Committeo Washington, March 24. Tho Pacific coast members of tho new rules com mitteo of tho house will probably be Kahn of California. There was some talk of Humphrey of Washington, but the only ono seriously considered is Kahn. The insurgents have definitely decided that thoy will not demand rep resontation. Tho regulars aro dis nosed to grant them ono member. Tho Democrats will probably bo Clark Fitzgerald, Slayden and Hammond. Now Schodulos to Bo Signed. Washington, March 21. Tho presi dent, at Albany, New York, will sign a proclamation giving to tho products of France and Algeria, imported into tho United States, the minimum tariff rates of tho Payne-Aldrich 'act. special messenger from the State do nartmont left Washington today for Albanv. where ho will deliver to the president the form of tho proclamation. which he is oxpectea to sign at once. CANNON 8HORN OF POWERS, Retains Speakership, but Removed from Committoe on Rulos. Washington, March 21. Joseph G. Cannon, of Danville, 111., is still speak er of the house of representatives. But he has lost the ancient prestige and weapon of that office when the allied Republican insurgents and Dem ocrats took from him not only the chairmanship of, but even membership n, the all-powerful committee on rules, tho chief asset in his stock amid scenes of wildest disorder, for the like of which ono must go back to tho exciting ays just prior to the Civil war per haps even those times might not dupli cate it the veteran speaker, almost 74 years old, stood erect and defiant, his head "bloody but unbowed." At tho end, when a big Texan Dem ocrat accepted the speaker's daring challenge and introduced a resolution to fling him out of the speakership, the Republican regulars and insurgents, with few exception, rallied with almost unbroken party front and gave him a vote which almost offset the "repudi ation of Cannonism." ThiB is what happened: By a vote of 191 to 165. the Repub- ican Insurgents voting solidly with the Democrats, the house adopted the resolution of Representative NorriB, Republican, of Nebraska, requiring a reorganization of the rules committee, increasing its membership from five to ten, and declaring the Bpeaker ineligi ble to membership thereon. By the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155 but with a decidedly differ ent personnel of alignment the house defeated a resolution of Representative Burleson, of Texas, declaring the speakership vacant and ordering the mmcdiate election of a successor to Mr. Cannon. The Norris resolution was as follows : "mere snail be a committee on rules, elected by the house, (hitherto the committee of five, like all other house committees, has been appointed by the speaker), consisting of ten members, six of whom shall be mem bers of the majority party. The speaker shall not be a member of the committee and the committee shall elect its own chairman from its own members. Resolved further, that with in ten days after the adoption of this resolution there shall be an election of this committee, and immediately upon ts election the present committee on rules shall be dissolved." Representative Burleson's resolution follows : "Resolved, that the office of speaker of the house of representatives is here by declared to be vacant, and the house of representatives shall proceed to the election of a sepaker." BOGUS" PICTURE IS REAL. Artist. 72, Identifies Alleged "Fake" Canvas as Genuine. ' New York, March 21. F. Hopkin son Smith, painter and author, was the chief witness today in the suit brought by William T. Evans against William Clausen, an art dealer, to recover $35, 000 for two pictures Evans bought from Clausen as genuine "Homer Martins," and which experts have pronounced bo gus. Homer Martin was one of the early American landscape painters. Mr. Smith said he ib 72 years old, and some of his pictures had been hung in the Pans saloon. He is very posi tive in his testimony and pronounced the pictures involved in the Evans suit as unquestionably genuine. "The way the color here is shoved ahead of the brush," he continued, taking the painting "Normandie Bride" in hand, is characteristic of Homer Martin. Again in this picture, he has let the paint dry 10 or 20 hours in places and gone over it again, drag ging the brush along the surface. No man living could imitate that," Mr. Smith said he had known Martin intimately and that he had seen him paint the very picture in question from a sketch. Steeple Jack Falls to Death. Chicago, March 21. James Wilson, known as a daring steeplejack, fell 70 feet from a smokestack which he was painting at Twenty-fifth and LaSalle. He died shortly after he had been tak en to a hospital. Wilson intended this job to be hiB last before starting for Oklahoma, were he was to paint some smokestacks. Wilson created a sen sation some years ago when he essayed to shin up the Flatiron building in New York. But he had not ascended more than eight stories when the po lice ordered him to come down. Taft Objects to Critics, Albany, N. Y., March 21 At the bunquet of the University club here to night President Taft in a brief speech took occasion to refer to tho contrast in the attiudo in certain quarters to ward his administration, casting a gen tle aspersion on the opinions that have been expressed derogatory to his con duct. President Taft, Earl Grey, gov ernor general of Canada, and Governor Hughes, of New York, formed a nota ble trio at the banquet. Big Strike Threatened. Now York, March 21. A general strike of all building trades and em ployes in this city will be called on March 28, according to tho announce ment tonight of Charles Wamp, sec retary of tho Steamfittors' local union, unless a settlement of the steamfittors' Btrike, now on, has been made before that date. The vote to strike was taken tonight. Don't fail to write for beautiful hnnklet containing 75 snlondid photo gravures of tho world 'a most celebra ted musicians, free. see bnerman, Clay & Co. 'a ad. 45 DEAD, 38 HURT IN IOWA WRECK Double Train on Rock Island Road Goes In Ditch. Occupants of Day Coach, Smoker and Pullman Killed and Maimed and Many Badly Mutilated. taarshalltown, la., March 22. For ty-five persons were killed and 35 were Injured, many of them fatally, in a wreck of a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train four and a half miles north of Green Mountain, Iowa, at 8:16 a. m. today. The train, which was a consolidation of No. 19, from Chicago, and No. 21, from St. Louis, bound for Minneapolis, was being de toured over the tracks of the Chicago Great Western road. Running at about 30 miles an hour in a cut north of Green Mountain, it struck a spread rail, it is believed. The pilot locomotive jumped the track and, with terrific force, Was bur ied in the embankment of soft clay. A second locomotive, coupled behind the first, rolled over and the sudden stop hurled all the rear cars forward. A coach, a smoker and a Pullman car were smashed to splinters, almost all the occupants being killed or in jured. The superstructure of the Pull man was literally shaved off and was jammed like a ramrod through the smoker and day coach. Many passengers were killed out right. Heads were severed from bod ies and arms and legs were cut off. The wreckage was crimson with blood, some of the bodies being crushed beyond recognition in the mass of twisted rails and splintered cars. A few of the passengers were found still living with a rod or splinter impaling them in the wreck. Decapitated bod ies were picked up and it was almost impossible to assort correctly gthe dis membered parts. The wreck occurred ata point1, diffi cult of access. Such bodies as could be pulled out were stretched out in an adjoining pasture. First attention was given to the wounded. Their cries coming from beneath the cars were pitiable. Fort unately, the wreckage did not take fire. The rescue party, reinforced later on by wrecking trains carrying nurses and surgeons sent from the nearest available points, worked all day and until long after dark. The injured were rushed to a hospital, several of them dying on the way. DOUBLE WRECK ON O. R. &.. N. Two Dead; Two Engines and Five Box Cars Demolished. Pendleton, March 22. Two men are dead, tw" engines demolished, and five loaded box-cars, with their contents, are piled in confused mass, as a result of a double wreck, the first in the his tory of the O. R. & N., which occurred eight miles east of Pendleton at 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning. The dead are Edward Hopple, La Grande, Or., and Engineer S. L. Risk, La Grande, Or. Engine No. 215, in charge of Engin eer Risk and Fireman Hopple, was running "light" without a train from Meacham to Umatilla, after hav ing helped extra freight No. 385 up the mountain from La Grande. In rounding a nine-degree curve at a point where the track skirts the Umatilla river on one side and runs under a high bluff on the other, the engine left the track and plunged into the bluff. As both the engine and the tender were clear of the rails, the block sig nal registered a "clear track ' to the oncoming freight, 20 minutes behind the engine. The crew of the latter did not know of their danger until they dashed around the sharp curve and were almost upon the wreck. Man Drops Far, Bounces. Los Angeles, Cal., March 22. While 6,000 people were watching Gene Sav age make a descent at Long Beach yes terday afternoon, his balloon collapsed when 300 feet from the ground and he plunged to the earth, hit on his feet, bounded up like a rubber ball and then fell backward on the curbing of Pacific avenue. He was unconsicous for a few minutes, but under medical attention quickly recovered. Examination showed that no bones were broken and he had no internal injuries. He is sore and bruised and will have to keep to his bed for a few days. Cruisers Ready to Sail. San Francisco, March 22. When the cruiser North Dakota joins the cruiser Tennessee off the Farallon islands to morrow afternoon the 8,500-mile voy age of the two warships to Buenos Ayres through the Straits of Magellan will begin. The vessels go to join the armored cruisers Montana and North Carolina, and with them will represent the United States in the naval demon stration at the Pan-American exposi tion to be held at Buenos Ayres. dap Sealers on Ground. Victoria, B. C, March 22. Japan ese sealers will como to Bchring sea in larger numbers than ever this sea Bon, according to information received from Japan. The Victoria schooner Peschawa, which is reported from Monterey with 209 skins, spoke a Jap anese Bchooner off California on Janu ary 17. Her captain said tha a largo number of tho Japanese Bchooners will cross the Pacific this season, several having crossed already. nr. t 1r. 'id Vi t.H. 4i mi 1