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PAGE EIGI1T. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATUKDAV, JULY 16, 1901. WAGES WILL BE REDUCED Loggers of Columbia River Have Decided to Lessen the Pay of Their Employes. COMBINATION NOT LIKELY So Many Advance Orders Have Been Taken That an Agree ment at Present Is Utterly Impossible. ' From the present Indications the log ging camp men of the Columbia river region will have to take lees pay for their work than they have been re ceiving in the past Such is the opinion expressed In the report submitted and adopted at the meeting of the committee of the log gers which met Thursday at Portland. The committee, which was appointed at the meeting of the loggers held in the first part of July, was to have met on Wednesday last, but no quorum was present, whereupon an adjournment was taken until Thursday. There were three questions left for the considera tion and investigation of the committee: First Relative to the feasibility of closing the logging camps indefinitely and the possibility of arranging the consolidation of a large majority of the logging interests to that end. Second The matter of reducing the ' wages of the men in the camps. Third The adoption of the common scaling system by the loggers of the Columbia river country. The committee In its report finds that many of the loggers are under contract to furnish logs for a given period, which, together with the condi tion of the Weyerhaeuser people, who have a large amount of burnt timber on their hands which must be cut, makes the Indefinite closing proposi tion impracticable, for the reason that not enough of the camps can close owing to these circumstances. The committee does not therefore advise in definite closing, but it does recommend a cut In the wages of the men em ployed in the camps of from 25 to 75 cents according to the character of the work done. The committee In making the new schedule deplores its necessity, and ac knowledges that it may work a hard ship on the men, but takes the stand that it Is better to work on a reduced scale than to have the camps closed indefinitely, which would have to be done If the expenses of operating are not diminished In some manner. The committee has prepared the fol lowing scale of wages which will be submitted to the approval of all of the loggers in the Columbia river country: Hook tender $3.00 Railroad engineer 3.00 Head train loader 2.75 -Second train loader 2.50 First faller 2.75 Second faller 2.50 Buckers 2.50 Rigging rustler . 2.50 Chaser 2.25 Swampers 2-25 Sniper 2.25 Signal boy 1.25 Donkey engineer 2.75 Fireman 2.00 Rollway man 2.50 Section foreman Section men and common laborers. 1.70 Blacksmith 3.00 Blacksmith helpers 2.25 Boom man 2.50 Head skldder . 2.50 Filer 2.75 Copies of the report of the commit tee have been sent to all the loggers, together with a call for a general meet ing to be held on Saturday, July 23, at Portland. It was decided by the committee to make n suggestion concerning the questions of the common scaler, it be ing thought best to wait until a full representation of the logging men was present before bringing the matter up. Five members of the Loggers' Assocla tlon of Puge Sound will be present at the meeting and will discuss the ad vantages of organisation aa has been shown by the experience of the Puget sound association. It Is probable that the association, when formed, will de clde to reduce the present output of the camps by at least 50 per cent, and adopt other measures tending to over come the 600,000 foot dally surplus, which is piling up under the present system. PERSONAL MENTION. Paul B. Johnston of San Francisco la In the city. M, O. Potter Is registered at the Oc ctdent from Portland. Senator Metier was down from Brookfleld yesterday. J. W. Seaborg came down yesterday from his Bay View cannery. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Smith of Beaver ton. Ore., are visiting In the city. W. N. Meeerve of Grays River re turned last night from Portland. Bishop O'Reilly of the diocese of Baker City Is visiting in Astoria. Mrs. John H. Smith and children have gone to Seaside for the summer, A. W. Lambert of Portland was among last night's arrivals at the Oc cident. W. A. Plttlnger. a well-known resi dent of Portland, was In the city yes terday. Hon. J. Bruce Polworth of Cathlamet, Wahkiakum county. Wash., was In the city yesterday. Frank Purcell, representing the Har rln. Hall & Marvin Safe Company, is down from Portland. Nelson Troyer, superintendent of the Portland branch of the American Can Company, is In the city. R. S. MacEwan, Clatsop county's oldest resident, came over yesterday from the west side. Mr. MacEwan is 90 years of age, but still hale and hearty. SCHWAB GOOD TO FRIENDS. NEW COMPANY TO BE FORMED 0. R. & N. Has a Plan on Foo Whereby It Will Get all the Harriman Traffic. TWO UNES TO BE MERGED Juttt Possible That Long. Looked lor Struggle Between Mill and Harriman Will Iteaeh Climax. San Franclsoc, July 15. It la report ed in this ctty that the San Francisco ft Portland Steamship Company and the Portland 4 Asiatic Steamship Com pany are about to be consolidated. A new corporation will be formed within a short time under the name Portland & San Francisco Steamship Company for the purpose of handling all the business now divided between the two Harriman lines. The San Francisco It Portland Steam ship Company Is a part of the Oregon Railroad A Navigation Company and has been kept up for the purpose of fighting out any competition that might be offered to the O. R. & N.'s railway business to Portland, and to keep up the sea rate between Portland and San Francisco. Meaning Not Clear. The above dispatch Is not explicit enough to give an accurate Idea of what new movement Is transpiring In the railroad world, but It Is to be pre' sumed the Harriman lines are here after to give all of their business to the O. R. & N. Co. The business doubtless means the oriental traffic. It Is just possible much significance at taches to the contemplated new or ganization, and that the long-looked-for struggle between Harriman and Hill Is now about to ensue. Paid Back to Them Almost Two Mil lions of Dollars. New York, July 15. "No man can say he ever lost a dollar through me, either In the Bethlehem Steel matter or any other," said Charles M. Schwab, former president of the United States Steel Corporation, on the eve of his departure for Europe. Schwab sailed on the steamship Kaiser Wllhelm 1L - Schwab's statement referred to a story published today that he had paid $1,910,000 to personal friends who had participated with him In the purchase of the Bethlehem Steel property'. These friends, like Schwab, when the Bethle hem property was taken over by the United States Shipbuilding Company, received for the Bethlehem stock ship building securities and Bethlehem bonds. When the shipbuilding company collapced heavy loss stared them In the face. "Yes, I did turn over to my friends, as the story says, $1,910,000 in cash," said Schwab. He declined to go Into details, but did, however, clear up some other re ports which have been lately published regarding his operations. It is true," said Schwab, "that I have sold all my stock in the American Steel Foundries Company to Charles Miller, president of that company, and George Leighton, its vice president "While in Europe I will look into the 2.2S processes used there for manufacture of armor plate," added Schwab. "I ex pect to drop In upon the Krupps." It is believed In Wall street that If Schwab decides that the new armor plate process now being used by the Krupps is better than anything now in use here, he will try to secure the ex clusive right for the process In this country, so that it may be used in the Bethlehem steel works, which Is the backbone of the reorganized United States Shipbuilding Company. Schwab Is very heavily Interested In the reorganization. f WOULD you like to have your sight restored f so you can see as you did five, ten or twenty years ago ? :: : :: " :: Glasses are not emblematic of age and are far more becoming than the ugly frown which becomes a habit when the eyes are on a strain. I Have the Btt Modera Uttrumeati for Detectlsj Any Defect Is VUfoo. HATIIERINE WADE, Graduate Optician At Owl Pro? Store JAP FLAG HOISTED. Raised on Korean Territory in the Har bor of Chemulpo. New Tork. July 15. The Japanese have hoisted their national flag on Rose Island In Chemulpo harbor, says a Her ald dispatch from Seoul, Corea. The Corean fortifications thereon are still permitted to fly the Corean ensign, but this Is dwarfed by the larger em blem of Japan. Native agitation against the granting of a concession covering the stream and vacant land rights continues unabated, although the Japanese minister Is still pressing the Corean office to a favorable con clusion, stating that the Coreans lack the finances and executive ability re quisite to a proper development of these unemployed resources. Salvage operations continue on the sunken Russian cruiser Varlag. It Is hoped to have her on an even keel this month. The work of raising the sunken merchantman Sungarl Is rap Idly proceeding. mlttee from the exchange, the brokers declared there was little hope of ar riving at a settlement. San BASEBALL SCORES. Paoifts Coast At San Francisco Oakland, 1: Francisco, 8. Pacific National. . At Butte Spokane, ?; Butte, 1. At Boise Boise, 0; Salt Lake, 7. American. At Ronton Detroit, t; Boston, 4. At Washington St. Louis, 7; Wash ington, 1. At New York Cleveland, I; New York. 1 At Philadelphia-Chicago, 1; Phila delphia, 5. National. At Chicago Boston, ; Chicago, $. At St. Louts -Brooklyn, 1; St Louis, 0. At Cincinnati New York, 5; Cincin nati 1 At Pittsburg Philadelphia. 1: Pitts- burg, 3. per bit out seven cublo yards of rock a minute. AN EXPERT PICKPOCKET. He Red In Brougham and Attended Fashlonabl Weddings. The London Now. Tb old man James Read, whom D tevtlve Collins and Waters of th division succeeded on Saturday In send lug to six months' hard labor, was reputed to be on of th most expert, and, In his heydey, th most success ful, pickpockets In London. On the proceed of hi profession he used to drive In a brougham. Read I In his 70th year. Tall, ele gantly dressed always, with venerable whit beard and glossy silk hat, he was sometimes mistaken for a peer of th realm. When h pok th deception was th greater, for hi vole was clear and cultivated. . II was one a master tailor In the west end, but for many years h has netted large sums In consequence of his mania for collecting other people's purses. He was an earnest patron of fashionable basara, weddings and other ceremonies and function attended by crowds of wealthy women. A th de tective said, another of his schemes was to follow bishop at confirmation services. To all thes affairs It was his cus tom to drive up In hi brougham. Then, In the rare case when suspicion fell upon him, he possibly escaped on such strong evidence of respectability as the possession of a private carriage. It Is believed that to that end he has always mad his own c lubes, and they were perfectly provided for his needs, III covert coat could be appareutly hanging over his wrist, yet so arranged was it with silts that hi hand would be gliding through the center of It all the time In and out of other people's pockets. Th departure uf th Continental boats In th holiday season also attract ed him. He was a man of considerable education, and so great was his gift of assumed dignity that often, even For Safety of Passengers. . when caunt almost red-handed, he Chicago, July lS.-The horror of the.woulJ e(K.Bp tne consequence by the deaths of the Doremus Sunday school M of b)i pauslble tongue. It was In PCKIN DOC8NT BELIEVE IT. Think That Report ef Great Japan Reverse I Exaggerated. Pekln, July 15, noon, Tb report of th Japanese reverse at Port Arthur I not confirmed here. It Is considered In official circles that It Is probable heavy fighting has occurred but the Immense loan of 2!, 000 men reported I regarded tn all quarter as much exaggerated. AMERICAN BARK DISMASTED. Will 8cott, Long Overdue From Phila delphia, 8ightd Off Coast. San Pedro, July 15. Th dismasted American bark Will Scott, 352 day out from Philadelphia for San Diego, ha been sighted by the schooner W. 8. Smith off Santa Barbara Island. The Scott left the Falkland Islands Junuary 26. She brings a cargo of coal. picnickers In the Clenwood train wreck has found ready response at a meet ing of the city council. The alder men unanimously adopted a resolution calling for state legislation to regu late the running of excursion and pic nic trains with more regard for the safety of life. THE MOST POWERFUL DREDGE. It Solid PA8SENGER TRAIN HELD UP. Robber Used Dynamite and Are Said to Have Wounded Fireman. Houston, Tex, July 16. (1:30 a. m.) A report has Just been telephoned from Oakwoods that an International & Great Northern passenger train was held up four miles from there. The express car Is reported to have been dynamited and the fireman wounded by the robbers. United States Is Friendly. New York, July 15. Dr, Guachalla, ex-Bolivian minister at Washington, declares In an Interview, cables the Buenos Ayres correspondent of the Herald, that there need be no fear of an aggressive policy by the United States against Latin America. The United States, the doctor declares, is the friend of all the South American republics and anxious to foster their progress. John A. Rossiter Dead. , New York, July 16. John A. Rossi ter, who since he came to this country In 1867 as an Irish political refugee, had been prominent In Irish and Cath olic society, is dead at his home in Newark, N. J. He was one of the charterers of the whaler Catalpa which sailed to Australia In 1887 and picked up eight well known Irish political prisoners who had escaped from Free mantle prison. Can Not Stop Revolution. New York, July 15. No result has attained negotiations undertaken by the directors of the Stock Exchange to put an end to the revolution, says a "Herald dispatch from Montevideo, Uruguay. After a two-hour ' confer ence between the president and a corn- Bite Out 8ven Yards ef Stone Every Minute. The Buffalo Express. The Susquehanna Iron Company's big plant will be In operation within thirty days. It has been finished, and the great furnaces are ready for the ore. The stupendous task or digging canal or Inland harbor nearly a mile In length from the new outer harbor to the company's plant Is now In pro gress. This Is to say, It Is to be 23 feet below the mean level of the lake, so that In some places the excavation 1 to be 40 feet In depth. That Is quite a hole to dig In the ground a mile long, but the Buffalo Dredging Company expects to dig It and build solid cement wharves on both sides of Its entire length by April 1 next. It requires great engineering skill and an enormous amount of physical power to accomplish such a task. There are 1400 feet of It through the solid rock. Steam power and compressed air are accomplishing It When examinations were made It was found that a strip of rock nearly a mile long, 200 feet wide and 10 feet In thickness had to be cut out It is not shale rock or slate, but solid living rock. The Buffalo Dredging Company is ripping through that solid ledge of rock with a steam shovel. The dredge used for that purpose Is the greatest tool of its kind In the world. It looks like a giant mud dredge, and Is built on the same principle a an ordinary horsepower steam engine. Its anchors or spuds are made of giant Oregon fir, 53 feet long and 44 Inches through, It has a dipper or dredge with a ca pacity of seven cubic yards. One man with a dozen levers before him op erates the whole machine. The dredge of the dipper is armed with steel teeth about 15 inches long and 6 inches thick. The man at the levers drop the great dipper, with the massive handle, down 15 feet to the rock bottom. Then he moves another lever, and the big engine down In th hold gets under way. The great steel cable attached to the dipper quivers under the strain. There Is a sound of ripping and tearing and grinding as If the earth was being turned inside out and up comes the dipper, with its enormous maw choked with huge masses Of splintered rock. It has ripped up seven cubic yards, and when it has been swung over to the rock scow its mighty under Jaw drops, and It spews out bowlders weighing ton. The teeth of that dip- a large measure due to him that the backs of outside seats on London omni buses had to be altered. An Easily Won Rao. Dr. James M. Ander of Philadel phia, who believe that violent athletic exercises have a hai-mrul effect on the arteries of the young, said the other day: "I should like to see all the more vio lent forms of athletics reduced to the moderation that a fat friend of mine advocates, "My friend Is 6 feet tall, and he weighs 290 pounds. One day a slim youth said to him; " 'You, I fancy, can't do much In the way of running.' plied. 'Would you like to race me for a dlnnerf , " 'Indeed I would.' said the other, and he gave a loud, mocking laugh. " 'Well, said my friend, 'I carry about 150 pounds more weight than you, and that, In a 100-yard dash, ought to en title me to five yards handicap,' "Til give you five yards handicap,' said the slim youth. "'And will you let me choose my ground T 'Gladly.' "The two, with a half-dozen wit nesses, started forth at once for the race. My friend led the crowd onward till he came to a very long and narrow alley. II walked Into It for a dtstanco of flv yards. Then he halted, lie blocked th alley up completely; be tween th toll brick walla ther was just room for hi burly shoulder, and no mor. "Take your pine flv yard behind m,' h said to hi opponent, 'and when I count three start But you can take your time. I am going to tnk mine.' " Fin Futur I Promlwd. Now I th time to buy a horn la Thurston county while land I cheap. Th advance In th prlc of land la th last six year I comparatively nothing to what It will b In th next six year. Th county 1 marching on-v ward and ha all th natural advan tags to be deilrd by thos seeking good homes. Olympla Chronicle, ( , Every Man t HI Lining. Every man know hi business best and som know It so well that they do not car to Impart any of It to th public, but th best men of business mak known to th world their bus Ines and they are th one that most generally reap tb greatest benefit therefrom. Toleda Recorder. X t 4 Adver tisers Reach The Purchas-t ing' Public Using' The Columns Of The Morning' Astorian 4 t Y - t t pi...uIJIIIM ,,u i, ,k: ,-., . 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