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rSv ' on---: to : n nc n n to IT n 7r ... J .... T,-f'Y'; ft 1 v ill. . r 1 ' t 1 111 -J ' 'I '" ;' 'v: T j'''7f 7r' lio prccautioh -r-i. xnc-peopic ai ruruanu were quiK. 10 recognize mc superior quauiy-ui jxuyai f5a.it - Are old JvGrbceryhQ desire ta ghra thrlr enstomrra the best-Tbis is tension enough why Portland's best Grocers handle RcyaiB V iV-y:.. -: ;y.''r V'' -; "'-ly y - V Royal Bskery .jgoods arelddTwrpr WABH3NQTOK CREAMERY . J.,... ....... 41Wahlnrton ' QtrACKEKBUSU . . . ; ..141)4 Waahinvton ; ' 8NIDEB- . . .7.ri'.. ' .'...BS WMhlngton liEVTIS 'OROCER 7.......... ......780 Waahlnrton V MICHAEL. ca ...... .......... ...........es Morriaon : WOOSTER'S GROCERY . .... J . , .... .140 Morrison 'V - VAN TOWNBEND GROCERY ......... ..... . .First Street MAROCUES.. .V. ............................ ...mPlrst Y S Of SET CREAMERY .. . ii.' .. . .t. ....... . . . rjT.Iil'FtrsrTT"" CI! QUARTER DECtti : F03 FIFTY YEARS Captain T. ETPajker of the Holt iO-i Hill Has Saild Many- r'-'r';; Miles. - ,COT NINEinrSRltLINUS . FOR CARRYING WHEAT I.-"."' t'-" "..'( ;' - : ' " e-- Took First Cold From South . Africa to England in the : ' ; . ." Sixties. ': ,.""t ..' 4 CapUIn T.. E. ..Parker' of . the' British .-ship Holt Hill Is the oldest eommsnder. iln point of service, of a vessel In "the Captain T. E. Parker. . world. . Next November he will . have twon captain for (a ears;Ueli now :i years.' young; and lau JlvolUr-thnn t ' many marrirers 19 years his junior, litre he became a seaman bold. Captain Parker has had no serious lllnessv and lias, had but one Injury a. rib- broken when rounding Cape Horn on -the Halt liill's passage to this port. . t Wbea It . years old. Captain Parker said, his mind had been so filled with yarns) about . life on the , ocean wave t,at he decided to brave the dangers of the dep In order that he. too. might 1 ave a sweetheart 1n ' every port. . He ltped ae cabin boy -on the wooden ahlp U.ini Francis, which carried a cargo f ro&.( from Cardtlf to Montevideo, re- ., to - Falmouth loaded to-the : c wiyi lildns and tallow. Mia first i t. a at rr waa Captain Knight; his first - wis -an ordinary onw. ' and th . ..'ml mariner was sorely dlsap ;;7.::,J: ; , ; TABLE. QUEEN BREAD has -I':.'- 1UU11U 1 X Ul Call. .. A I- IS 1 CLU11111111IUL,U UV- UUVaiL.lUllS US l - - l -J- ..- 777'::t ;':";77r:v: -is overlooked whicli pointed ai his failure to And pirated pr treasure Islands. -. Br . m skins himself - handy and fcv hours of hard studr In the .reklnt roKs is, young nrker quickly rose from the position of pot washer to that of first mate; .he was but 1 when given the place of chief officer of the jcburn. In her day one of the crack English packets plying 'be'twcea 'Great Britain and thin ncer w's f"m Huii tohul ISpwa'wub a eneraljpargo,L A Young OaptaUt V ' ' Several weeks after hla list birthday, Parker waa made captain of the ahlp Tiger, and sailed with 'hla charge -from "HUll 'To" RTU flt" JUnClf'ir'WItB E geiisfuf cargo. . Ever since that time lie - has bea tnaater of an English- ahlp. -Although having Bailed hundreds of thousands of mllca, only once nag Cap. tain Parker thought that there waa place awaiting him In Davy Jones locker; that was while be waa master of the EUerbank. a fuU rigged ahlp that went Insane wit Cape Horn, ' and was abandoned by her crew July 4,' Ills, v "We were 41 daya out from Hull bound for 'Frisco with coal,'' said Cap tain Parker in telling the yarn,' "and had beea having line weather.. WAlle in the waters of the aouthcrn seaa we were suddenly struck with a succession of squalls that developed Into a gale that made our teeth stand on and. For sev ers!, hours It blew from the west, then the south; all of a, audden a norwester struck her under the lee clew of the main lower topsail, and at the same time a heavy sea. atruck her on the atar board aide . and threw her over. . All hands were on deck. I ordered the masts cut away. This . kept - the ship from turning turtle. 7 . -v ':'K , Picked V Of the Cape. ' "As all the lifeboats had been washed away, we were forced to stay on board for three days, living on biscuits and water, when we were picked up by the Canadian bark - Chlnampa I never beard of the hulk from that dCyr Captain Parker states that he carried the first South African gold to England. Thla waa In ths early '40s, wh'en In com mand of the ship Actaea. At that time he waa trading between Port Natal and London. The gold wanlnH small glass bottle and came fronvIOO mllea Inland, Three tona of rock were also put aboard the Actaea assigned to London assay office. When the report of the Actaea's cargo wan made publtcrthe great South African gold rush begsn.' - ; - . . - His first voyage to Portland was made I S yeara ago, when he came with the Ellenbank from . Yokohama In ballast and took a cargo of wheat to Liverpool. He received to shillings a ton freight. At the present time, local ahlppera can" have all the tonnage that could float in Portland" harbor at 17 shillings and f pence a ton-" '." .7.7.r ., , -In his many years of sen life. Captain Parker has- visited thr following foreign ports, some of them many times': . -Fredrtchshald.TfpTway: " Gothenburg, Sweden; Riga and. Cronatadt,-lRuala; Hamburg, Germany; Rotterdam, Hol land; Antwerp. Belgium; .Dunklrque, France; Genoa, Italy; , Constantinople and a. number of Black sea ports;- Caps Town ; and : Port Natal. South .Africa; Bombay and Calcutta, India; Hongkong; Manila, P. I.; Yokohama. Japan; Sydney, Melbourne, Port Plrie and Newcastle, Australia; Otago, New Zealand; Rio da Janeiro, Brasll; Montevideo, .Uruguay; Caleta Bueno and Plssgua. Chile; Vic toria and Vancouver, B. C; Philadelphia. San Franelsoo and Portland, U. S. A. ; ., ' , , A BfM for the Vioe-Fresident. . . Senator Falrbanka should have one of those "doctor", degrees, as he will have nothing to do lor four years but ex' amine the reports about the president's kaalta. - :-..--: ' . i 3 can contribute to VINCENTS BAKERY .... . . ...... ...... '- JACKSON GROCERY .....'St lveor GUKTHER RICKEY .St Marshall ., BILUNOB- CONFECTIONERY ,.............;..:....tl -Hoyt -? BULLIVANTS GROCERY. ; . ..Cor. Thirteenth and Jefferson ' , BOHN8EN BROS,' GROCERY Cor. Weat Park and Jefferson -r-' CITY HAIX GROCERY. . . ; . . ; ..... . . . . . . i ...in Fifth FIBCUJR'S CONFECTIONERY ......... 145 Morrison Street - . 8TRAUHAL1 .... v... ............. .Fourth and Montgomery,. "maixey.:.";;.v; , ;.r. . r. i . t . . . .y. seventh and mui " If your, jgrocetils act la' this ' list? phone M ala 2271 and we STORES GOLD TEUPTS r,MN EVEN IFI. THE ROCKS ...1. iTreadtimaTgatn Thefts He vivle Stories of Raids on Mine and Mill. TCiSf1WAWACER8AVE-r TOT -WATCH .THEIR MINES Famous Districts of the World Where the Wily Miner Js . j ' Severely ; Examined. - ; 7 The Tread well managements suoceas In entrapping an amalgamator who Is aocused of taking large quantities of bullion from the big Douglas Island tnlll. has revived stories of bullion and. ore thefts. Oregon hss ' never been - serl ously troubled In this respect. Only a few of her leading properties have opened rich ore in such quantity as to tsmpU workmen, and . whatever thefts may have been , perpetrated' In mills have caused little . Intereet. . Two years ago there was a general movement ' among . ; operators in - the Cracker CreeaV district of 'eastern Ore gon, to arreat ore thieves. .. Many rich specimens r were found to have been taken from the Columbia. - North .Pole and the Golconda. This was at a time when the North Pole was producing as rich rock as waa ever taken from a mine. Some of the specimens sold to Jewelers and other - buyers seemed to be almost ' solid nuggets, ' with barely sufficient quarts to retain the name. "ore.' At that time a detective agency was employed to ferret out the miners who were gstberlng up the rich stuff and selling' it, but no more - than two or three arresta were aver made. Co lumbia specimens found their way to quite divergent from the regular chan nel! established by ' the management. When the Golconda opened Its fabulous ore bodjr on the 100, Jlch specimens worth perhaps many thousand dollars, got into circulation. Boms of this rock wss so 'rich that It waa sealed up for shipment to the smelters, and the man ager of , the mine -went with It. In the old daya when tha 'VIrkue waa running full blast, ths merchants ef Bsker City reaped a harvest by taking specimen, ore. in. payment, for goods, or by buying It Outright A miner as a rule wuld sell, for much less than the real worth of the specimen. All of the Baker City merchants were said to have bought specimens, regardless of ths fact that they were sold by the miners who bad nalagal right to them. Some of thla ore was so rich thst many hundred 'dollars' worth would ' be con tained in. a, candle bos, the free metal sparkling from the quarts. Miners havs come' to think a Choice from the .richest specimen rock opened as - part - f - their - unmumenvss-- In - a mine where there are bunches of high grade ore. the management la as a rule careful to keep on shift While breaking this rock a man who la worthy of es pecial confidence. But ail precautions fsll In a measure, -ard every high-grade mine of America ha suffered big leak.' age. In some properties this purloin- quality. It contmhs-food vtjucs - that the wliolcsomehess . . . Third 268 Morrison Street lng has. been so bold that the margin of profit Is swept away by the miner. But a search systemv has prevailed In few western properties. In Oregon there is not a mine where the men go ing off shift are subjected to -this In dignity, and no effort Is teada to. detect thefta In this mannsr. But there are few high-grade mines which do not em ploy detectives as apotters. Tbeee work -Iwith tha n!. P -la-ma. hunlrhmiaa. and Ingratiate . themselves into h ths graces of the miners until thsy gst a clew as to who' is selling specimen rock, v Cripple Creek was one of the most famed camps of the country , for ore stealing sensations. : The rich sylvsnlte minedLiutrn.jrta an ainerjfrcmptatton. A man. could accrete rich tellunaeg-nr a space scarcely greater than gold would occupy, and elaborate systems of espionage were adopted : In the - early days of ths Stratton'a Independence and the Portland. Many scandals grew out of detective Inqulrieavand arrests of as- sayera, jewelers and others were -frequent. ' Severs! times mine owners found their rich stopes were visited by organised gangs of ors thieves who plied their calling while the regular workmen were off shift. . , - , n Tonopah and Gold field are the scans already of several criminal - operations of this type. Some of -the richest ore sent out of Ooldfleld has values suffi ciently concentrated - to make stealing It highly profitable. Aa a reeult, operators frequently sand guarda with ore trains, keeping a man with a gun In charge of a rlob shipment front . ths time it leaves the mine bins untU it la received by the smelters.- y ;,)., : Mexicans have the laurel for ore steal lng. . Their sly methods have been the humor and study of the mining frater nity, When handling rich tallurlde. It is .no uncommon rule of 'the management to require Mexican peons to strip naked when leaving the mine, and than a care ful examination of their, anatomy -la made to determine if they have sped' mens secreted. . In 1 rare Instances they nave, beea known to swallow exception' ally high-grade rock, by which means they" were able to escape detection, as no manager has yet found it convenient to employ the Roentgen ray la his scrutl niea V .... -, ', ;. Diamond mines offer Mill mors oppor tunities . for thievery, and ths Kaffir workers in South Africa are subjected to the moot rigid rules applied to mln mines the Kaffirs are kept In great compounds for the period of their ser vice contract, and before they are per mitted to leave these steel-ribbed and concrete-lined apartments, they must undergo an : exhaustive - examination, which extends to the anatomy ah well aa the clothing. That no negro may escape I with, a diamond In his stomach, It. Is aald that the diamond mine managers havs an Intermediate. apartment where the - Macks, are kept -a- sufficient -time to determine this fact, after the first examination and before final depart ure 1. . Theft of amalgam and bullion are mora, easily aoeotn ptfahed." - Amalgam Is worth Ii-to IT an ounce, while bul lion ranges is. 'value. from til to tit aa ounce. Unless sn eagle aye Is kspt on "all employes handling euch a hlgh grade product there are sure to be op. portunltles for thefta A trusted super Intendent or one of the owners as a rule is In close toueli with the amalgam rrom in time It leaves the plates until It passes through the retorts and into the bullion mould. . .. SNAKE RIVER COARSE " Y 7 -GOLD IS A DELUSION vx.. lay. ,ai -uwpsice - a J am . arma, loano April H.sim LfCllll' W UUU.aUlllLi , of vnotHbrily Tabled . MeFALX. A HELMING i ......... .....Fourth and Lincoln HECKENGER . . '. .. 7. . ..7l7Z.. ..Fourth and Bherinan ( ." ' GlNTT A 8CARTUM ...... .First and Bherman ; v- BRAICIJFF v. . . ................... .Fourth and,' Columbia - ' - REED'S GROCERY ; i. .......... Third and DS-Tts 1 WATKINS BROS. ....................Fourteenth and Irvine r'-r. PARK GROCERY . . ........... Park and Burnstde 3. P. ANDREWS . Ninth and Davis" ,. - HANSEN GROCERY ...... .......'.Fourteenth and. Flanders ' NOB HI1X, GROCERY ...................... 114 Washington i:.,7i7; wilt see that! your wants 1 ' Portland and Boise Tapers have lately been . publishing , articles calculated to create a mild excitement, and gold rush to a placer ground along Snake river near Parma. : l"he facts are that there' la no coarse 'gold along Snake river, from Its mouth to Its source.' There has been no ceajwe gold discovered near Parma, except along the Boise. There is plenty I Pf gold in SMkarlver aandsbut PQ're liable method for saving it has yet , been found. ' Whenever a . means la dlaoov. ored to save the fine ' particles, every bar along the Snake from Pasco to Jack- eon's Hole will be worked, and untold millions -will be added to the world'a wealth. "The . problem will : be worked eut lu tlmn nntH It 4s eeHefrtfierBtments. Is no nss In getting excited over sensa tional stories of gold discoveries along tho snake. ;-' .. . ....... .,-"-jf "- ' ,s -','"- - - .. . ...... ....v ; 5 i: Nothing so , P.latabf or So Beneficial for Young Children. ; : : t : If You Begin Taking Ozomulsion Today, ;Ycmr Cure Begins Today. MB xnYSICIANSx l i77 i aUReiIt,Tneys Is lfC ru ; v TherPfcriUlt fe etlW P v 7- t lbCtBgHCl7-iS TWado-a: t ; I Influents, Constifnptton, r Mi : -r.x- . ; 7 I Scrofttla, and the Vartjng jrt 'ZLZLS GwaJnco!,; f .. - 1 Diacatet of OMvao5mZZ Grfearina,- ' ao4 DuHnf CooTik--illJlL f ceacc from Exfottstlag CCw " - ' V . y Dtteaacs. TrrIlaPivr. . .' tvVV . '- 7'. ., , X Tb-tFtt. TRIAL id V- ftt IUJL .'-v."!. ::. . .."".:. v T ' x ' V : r. : j vOsamsWonlinsversoldmbnlk.Bnt X ,TT EDITOR'S NOTE.With a ingly recommend our readers to send for a Sample Bottle. LEST YOU FORGET, WRITE TODAY and .convincing .testimonials ot its jMnonv iutuwv inuutu f uAUi i il i-,, ucauuiuuy inusiraica in seven c joeratu ';;tRIAL. BOTTLE. of Oromulsion. jthe i?reat,I!ealthrFarToiiicwL-be;Mnt .yo ''absolatelj'iree 'br e-rTha- Krgs, I maiL : Address letter -or postal card to .Ozomulsion Co. 98 Xine Street, Wcw. York, . - - , ouht-to-bs U11U' ii u u 1 uu uu. V?,,:,..: Queen Brcadbut HOCKSTETE R GROCERY a owuuui uwuni ....urner & eevsnth ana Burnslde . MANN'S GROCERY;; .. ., ..Cor. Union and Holladar Ares, ' - STEEL, BRIDGE GROCER Y...Cor Holladar Ave. and Crosby ' . BCHOENFELDTS OROCERT..........tJI WlUUins Ave, , RENNER BECKWITH .........i......4 Union Av X. r DRESSER A Ca ....... ...... ...Fifteenth and E. Burnsldn" JAMES -GROCERY . v... Union Avenue i SCHLOTH XjANDAUER. ...Cor.' Russell and Wllllama Ave. r twt.vi w-unvMu . are supplied STORES ! 310 First Street .. - "" i . TSwimmlng: Classes! ' Th Portland Y. M. C A. has decided to arrange their schedule so that tha handsoms tl.000, tlls-llned swimming pool may be used for. the benefit of the largest number, of ..those who enjoy swimming and who. desire to learn. Everyone In the spring'-wants to "go swimming- and should learn If they' do made so low that all may avail 'them selves of tha privilege, w-a---...-" Men's . classesNoon, " afternoon ' and evening, to suit convenience. - Entrance fee of $t saved by Joining May 1. An nual, duea. full membership, tlQ. tl.fO a owQjaaah-tares' tlea.tal erred pay - Boys classes Afternoons, .'evenings and Saturday, mornings. Ages ' lt-11. Membership fee. Including gymnasium knowledge of the unenualerl merits Marvelous, recuperative and curative properties, tojretherwith an' 7' ; H ail oiif products.' .Cor. JB. Eighth and Buraslde ..r ........ JtltSSSU -Btreei .if.;. .v. , - V ;7. and gwlmmlng to July J. til ages. 11-1 ama, tl.ti; ages 14-lt-lt, same. 11. to. - Ladles' class (must - alve . two lady: references) Gymnasium and swimming :"'1' to July 1, ft, ..-7.. ',., v -.', Arrangements for entering the elaaaqs; ' , may be mads at ths Y. M, C. A. bos In ess! - Office. -f , ',7 ; , ,.,..v' ,v"'- ; : m the Chicago News. - It must . be awful." said tha type, writer boarder" with the lilt pompa-ie: dour, "to be deceived by a false mar- " rtw." .;-'. - ' ' ' , WeH X don't auppoae It's any worse : than being deceived by a real one," re- inea the landlady. - ' i ,- ( . , i v Ami her husband continued to give,', oorreei Imitation at a man trying -to read a newspaper. ... 7,i.,' .'-"' of DTrtTrmtelrm .wr-vifc--l.l" coiors,, ana also , a . .. . r