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Newspaper Page TextC ? ' - :'-?'"-x .:vlJ L C P o n n tt n rfr CJ-, TII3 V2ATKT2. ,; V - ' :; IUIa late .torJjht; Euni:' rt' 'aXMtheJUt wincV -;' ." . " -f ' VOL.',IV. JJO. t3.. PORTLAND. pnZGON, SATURDAY EVENING, . FSSHUARYMQ. ; lmIXTESN; PAGES mmm nyq of na stuuships sicmut rcxMiz fotuko aiaskh ruh Utf aanT CLli HIS DUE 10 iUW HUGE ' -A -i A- ' Commercial Club's President Is v Urged by Priendsto Enter the ; :f ; Field for the Republican : ;DR. ANDREW CC$MITHi ALSO IS SUGGESTED Malcolm Moody and ' . Judge S. A. Lowell of Pendleton AUo Men tioned aa Poaaible Seckera for Seat - in .,; National Legislature Bourn .At Only' Avowed Candidate.-, ' I - ' . ' - . ... r . - H. IL . Cake, president of ,tb Com , marc4al club.' may- beeome - oudldaU ' for. t(k; 'Republican -nomination (or . United fltatea eenator. Prominent buai- ', oeea tnaen f thla c)ty hava. urged him . to enter the rnce. and the matter.- ia . under, aariooe eonaideratioikThe move- naant in-hla baiialf .baa Been .conducted earneatlr but quietly, and few of tin : politicians have auapected. the .. poaal- bllitv of hla caadidacr. : , . vr . ' The secret leaked out early thl aft ernoon, and while. It waa Impossible to obtain confirmation irem Mr., cane, n ' waa learned from reliable sources that it la hlchly probable that.be wiU. de' , cide to enter the Held. : . '. . : - Hla wide acquaintance and hie promt- nenoe-in ail-publio undertakinca for 1 promoting- the growth and development "of the 'city and state will doubtles ' commend Mr.- Cake -to. the yotera will make him a strong competitor for the senatorial nomination, Mr. - Cake 4a a ataunch Republican, but has taken no conspicuous part in the factional fight or recent years. lie nas been actively Interested: In the efforta to secure an .oped river from Portland to the see, and . la -in. close touch .with ,the commernlal ' interesU of. this city. . - ,, . r ; w : ht. asaltk 'Mentioned.'1-" "'( Another eenatorial possibility has ap peared lit the pereon of Dr.: Andrew C - IB m lth. formerly-state senator from this county- tfew men are better' known In Jfhi city than pr. -Smith. iHeJ nRe - publican but on more than one oceaalon ha ' declared" hla. Independence 'of ' the ' )pary maohnna.- - - . ,-v, , . hen asaed whether ,he" ! erro. to become oandidate -for United iiuites ewnater," he admitted -that he bad,. the matter aades. oonsldsnltlnn, but bed net jyet made, up hie -mind aa to the course -he would purine. ; r" - -i- "Some of my friend want ? " to .(Continued on .Page Two.) THE 10URUM. Beats --Telegram t in PaidXireulatipn in ihe . Oregonian Building.: IT7 Chinese Government Secretly X Fostering V and Supporting f "'American Boycott, States ; SHOULD USE FIRMNESS -1 ;IN DEALING WITH ISSUE Orientals'Accept Hesitation aa'Fear ; -Revcnu Cutter for Puget Sound to Coat Quarter MimonCurtaQlnf ' Expcnaeal la .Treasury Department xcluai6n Law to B Contldered. 1 - TV - t - Oearsal' taadal aarrla ' Washington. IX O. Feb. .1 Begin ning Thursday tho house commltta on roreign arratra will- bold bearings on hej Foster bill, which amends th Chi nes exclusion law so aa to bar ou only Chinese laborer..-' , Bv. Pr. yman , Peet., for II year bead of the Fooohow college In China, called upon the preeldent this morning. Th president questioned - him closely regarding th. boycott. Peet-aald:-" "Condition ar- , growing - rapidly worse - for America - from- a 'business standpoint A large dumber of th Chi nese riot are Instigated by the official who pretend-that they afford -America protection, but are undoubtedly eup portlng the boycott secretly. I think the Immigration law should b revised t admit the better olaa of- Chinamen, but I . don't advocate th general admis sion of coolie. . - 4,- y .; ' "Th government ahould, Srat of nil. In dealing with Chinamen uae flrmnesa. The Chlneae aocept hesitation aa fear. Th ; roor firmly - we - act '-, the - more friendly they will become." ' . . , Th hous commute on InterataU and foreign commerce has decided. to report favorably upon the' bin for a rev- enue cutter costing tl2.000 for. Paget ouna. - -i t, i . i . .r Th. hous out- about tA.Oo ' from Bhawe- amergency kill., A a result Shaw announced that about 70 em Dlovea of -Che eustom rvlo. will be dropped and If will b reduced in pay. Th. secretary la besieged by indignant congi - men, wnos henchman demand that .. y "get busy-.aid aT their neiat, Maa -MEAOEAILSc- ,,..-..... (jMnct 'Bpeelsl errlf."";r-''-' Ban- Franclsoo, Feb. The ' trkn- (Coa tinned ' on Page .Two.) -IhefOregonian-and X - - i England's New Monster Fight Ing Machine, Most Powerful Vessel Afloat, Will Revolu - i elil Hl.w.l lAf.rf. . ' ' - uvunv iiefw iiwiwit. DREADNAUGHT IS MATCH FOR FOUR BATTLESHIPS ..--' Built in Accordance, With th Lea- aona of the Kutao-Japanesa War vHaa Elfht Twelve-Inch Ouna and : Ten Nine-Inch Ouna JThrowa Projecdl Twenty Milea.' . . :-, - Oearaal tsseUI anvke.) Jforumouth, Bngland. Fan, . 19 Th battleship Dreadnaught waa Uunched to- aay, xms la u flrsL warship built n tiraiy (n accordance with the lesson learaaa in the Russian-Japanese war. la belivd to be th moat powerful vessel afloat, and expected to revolutionise DBtuesnip construction. The British government waa th only on allowed ace to - Admiral Togo's eoret, reports, and th only on al lowed to have representatives aboard his hip during the light. , Th attach of no foreign power have been allowed to inspect the , Draadnaught. There 1 mor Interest in thl ship than In any incv me lime in Monitor and Merrl tnao war constructed. British axnarta believe her til equal of any four battle- snips anoai c; 1 V .-v y-,. Twenty Thonsaad Tonnage. . The Dreadnaught eomprlae th very laust loeas in naval architecture and armament Her displacement la between ll.eeo and : 10,000 ton, bar Una vry full and her freeboard higher than that of existing battleship type. She present a Jrger Jrget,but her enor- mou battery -will -counterbalance this. Bha will caxry eight 1-Inch and t 1 I.S-lnch guns, four of tit former mount ed In pairs in twe barbette . fore and aft, and the -remaining four each sepa rately in a turreted gunhoue .at th nngl of th main deck. Th ten 1.8-lnch gun will J plrd flv ' oft each broadelde,. white -av large number.-er smaller piece win be oar- nag. Mt nroadsM or from her main armament alone represent f,200 pound wsignt oi mtui.' ; . , -. -i sMglr- Twelf-Inulr -. Each of hr Jl-lnoh gun wilt throw a projectile weighing to pound a dis tance of 10 miles, with a mussle veloc ity of upward of 1,600 feet a second. No warship ever: built before . ha mounted more than four 11-inch gun. About 1,0 tona of armor, will be dis tributed about - her aide) and b will be driven by turbine engmee at a. speed of l knetn an hour,- . She will carry 09 ton of projectile for har main-guns, toe ton of cordlo charges, too ton of (tore and 1,600 tona of coal. How oolossal, how weighty and how mighty a n fighting machin thl new British battleship will be can 'be meas ured by - comparing It with the ; great est battleships now In exletence. There ar the ls.l&O-ton ship of th British navy launched in ltOl and 1104. of whicETthar ar Tght. And nit t6mta7tlhETankeTs until the fir Wig In tonnage, armament and In gun com th Sv 11,000-ton battleship of the United Stat, which entered th water In 14 and-IMS, with three mor yet to be built eight in all the Connecti cut, the Kanaaa, the. Louisiana, the Minnesota, the New ' Hampshire, , the Vermont, the South Carolina and - the Michigan. " .-.,- r ;'. .- -' ' .', . " Fsmstrato Aim SteL - 'Whll th Dreadnaught I Incompar ably the greatest warship that any na tion of the world has ever undertaken to build, other ship ar now In process of construction tht orcoed In tonnage. In power of motion and of fighting any that now float upon the water of the world.- -: ' ' -y ... - While the Dreadnaught will have eight It-Inch gun In her main batter ies, the greatest of 'the other -' battle ship now built or building ha no mor than four lt-lnch gun. ., On can judge of the terribly destruc tive force of the Dreadnaught' broad aid by th fact that each U-lnoh gun will throw a shot weighing (60 pounds which, when propelled by a full charge of tt pounds oY powder, will have a mussle velocity or i,7a root a second. This great weight of steel thu pro pelled has th power to penetrate two feet of the nest armor -piste: tiktm- Inch " guns v - in a broadside will each throw a ttO-pound shot with 100 pound charge at velocity of 1.700 feet per second or nearly in, speeo or in heavier gun.-,,'- ... , -";; ;; JACK-THE-STABEERr: CAUGHT IN STLOUIS ' (Joarnel Rpeflal Bervlee.1 SL Louis. Mo.. Feb, J. John Brsdv. n um ployed waiter,' waa arrested thl mornlna- and oonf eeeed , to having subbed It women slightly, - He say that h Jusrfelt iTlMlri to cause pain to any woman." '' ? " ' For some - time young . women and school ' gin -. hav bee waylaid and tabbed by a mysterious Individual with out known provocation, who fled- before h could be apprehended. ' ' v FIR IS RAGING IN " v MICHIGAN MINE SHAFT Necaunee. Mich- Feb. 18.- Fire I rag ing In th shaft of th Prlnc of Wale mln. Three hundred minor were in th ahaft when the fire- started. Moat of them escaped. - Many are missing and It-Is Impossible to determine th extant COMIC Ul AUTOr.lODlLE Presence of Mind of A. B. Swift, Son of Packer, Saves, Lives - . of His Fellows, i V BADLY BURNED TRYING TO'EXTINGUISH FLAMES To Prevent Explosion Hurla Blaring Man Out of the Motor Car, Thn Follow and Baata Out th Flamea. ; 7 A-y--: ' "i -. .' (Jeerael tpeelal eervtee.) - : tio ' Angelea, Cat,. Feb. 10. But for the presence of mind of A. B. Swift.'; on of J., F. Bwlft, th , mllllonatr packer, Nat , F. Moore a 40-boraepower automobile . and tt occupants, N F, Moor, son rtf Jsmes llobart Moore, ihe Chloago mlillonalre, Bwlft and Lawrence Reddlngton of Banta Barbara. -, would have beea blown to atoms. The party left Santa Barber a In the PlgcrIflCPjneJQ Lrfti Angflle. Brl, ding ton and Swift war riding In the tonneau and .under the aat waa a five gallon can of gasoline. AU -the. mem bers of the party were. amoklng. Just out of Santa Barbara - Reddlngton smelled smoke, and glancing down saw th entire . front of his motor coat ablase. - He jumped to hi feet In a frantlo effort to tear off . the burning coat, but the garment waa one of the latest motor aoata with, all. aort . of fancy fastenings and hla excited efforts to unbutton It failed. Meantime the flamea were spreading and th ouahlon bad started to blase. - - The gasoline under the eeat was for gotten, but suddenly realising the dan ger, young Bwlft grabbed Reddlngton, who 1 no lightweight, and hurled him from the oar Into th road. Then the occupants followed and, a Hadding ton tall It, "beet me over th head and extinguished." - Reddinrton's o-vereoat rwT altf oed UhdTyoung SwOTihands burned. JUSTICE MXLELLAN - . EXPIRES IN, SLEEPER ' 1 (Jearaat flpeelal service. ) ' New Orleana. Feb. 10 Thomas Nicholas McClellan, chief lustloe of the supreme court of Alabama, died -suddenly thl morning la a sleeping oar whll an route to Ban Antonio. " " t -" . . " . , . . Mr.'Meeiellan wis born In Mmeaton county, Alabama, Feb. If, 161. lie was a graduate of the Cumberland university, at Lebanon, Tennessea, and began the practice of lew et the age of 1. He was stat senator In Alabama from lit to 1(64 and attomey-nenaral for Ala bama from 1(14 to lilt and associate Justice of the eupreme oourt-from-11(1 to 111 and from KM to hla death waa chief justice of the supreme court of Alabama. -- ' V'.'-- CUMMINS TO SERVE " ' . V ON LAWSON'S COMMITTEE : tJoonul Bpeelel aervlee.) ;' D- Moines, la., Feb. 10. It U an nounced . that Oovernur . Cummin will accept membership - on - Lawaon' com mittee to vote th prosie of policy hold ers at th meeting of the .big Insurance eompaniea. - a . k, i. . . -..v. , I --lAa r st From the wide ld.in The SuncUjrJournaL. Nothing escapes lu JU Vwi . corps of ; ; , :; -, ' ;,,The special features of The Sunday Journal yrtSl give you the read iJJw llwLs'j on industrial Japan and every word, will. be 'ci interest to you. ' ' r -:'r --Ti-v-The story of the way the kaiser has orgsniied the most T com plete ajTny-of-rnodern'times is' an article of rare vilue.j: ' ' : V- "r" f, '.' ; Francis M. Tibbitts, a Portland veteran of the Rogue ?-Kiver war, writai 'most entertain ingly of some of the men end ' Indians:; K ' ' 7 -y" These ere only a few of aV - . . t x .we women uicre are uree pages aevoxea extiuaivtiy ta . v. . , X . ' while the children have the funny pictures and Polly ; ' - - - Evans page to entertain them. ,"";'"'''8tejiWp,yrsttomV; ?fj Vl'-"' '".'V':f . I'i ?.'"' I tW r.""' '!' !lWh"P"-VWf "t I " 'wwm Pti I' 'u' awni' 'vitmm iwt 'MH" mm h ' -', ' "i ' t ; I v : v n ' ' ' . r ... M M, i fk-,4 i ?-y i-; ' - ; ? .v.;-.-,' V 'h'.--i. K"- t 1 iS-rse-ti- vy, r-if . - V-? t ! i-v -?: ?i--i 1 : : J 1 ' -iiV'! f-"W ! Syew- ? , .f ( ' 1 ? ' ' J v ' , - ..- -i p':i''-y'r:V'.liv::i '' V, ,iiy : ' , . ! -. ' -i-i...r.-..r... rit - .. ,r . . 5-"M t .viift...!'.:! ' "-:'.'..;; : '..'. ; 1 Steamship ELEVEU LllDSllKPLIEn FAIL LTO PASS iiBfflitiiiiioii! Thrsrore of the Graduating CIms Under Charges, of Hazing and Diplomas Vvlir ,l?e WithheW j Penjing Outcoftte of ourV j ' j (fearaal Bpeelal service.) . . Annapolis, Feb. , 10 omolal of" th naval academy today v announced i that eleven midshipmen of thl year' grad uating claa ar deficient In' on or more studies, knd i therefor will not reoelv diploma next Monday. : Instead they will be sent to ae and at th and of on year wilt be given a pclal exami nation. ' .. l Among the deflolent are vestal T. Coffln of Idaho, Jams P. Oldring of Nevada and Hherwooa A. Tefflnder of California. -, . r Thro more of - the. class are . under charge of basing, and. their diploma will b withheld pending th outcome of their cases. Coffin of . Idaho was No. 11 in claa In general standing, but failed to reach the required maik In asamanablp. -'Offiel! Tlffurc ror th whole course Just Issued show 4 hat Allan J. Chantry Jr. of Malvern, Iowa, leads with mul- PRINCE RUPERT NAME OF "A -GRAND TRUNK TERMINAL t , MMMMMMW .... .. . ! ' (Bpeelst thsMtrh t The Jeoraal.t Vancouver, B. O., Fb. : 1. Prince Rupert will be the nam of the city that wilt b built at the termlnu ot the Grand Trunk Pacific railway on th Pa-ifl-an . f ' In the competition on the name,' Mis Eleanor .MaeDonald of -Winnipeg- wa th winner. Out of 11,000 answer ah obtain th first prls of 111 'offered by the railroad for th best uggtlon forn nam. i ; , .., ,.-, j YOUNG BIQEL0W G0T !r V.: ) HUNDRED THOUSAND CASH If', l . ', ' 4.,.. ' 1 1 " ' "!. . f, i V - (Jearasl I pedal m itu. -: --.- 1 Mllwank, . Wis., Feb. 10. It .1 learned today -that.-in th new indict ment there are 70 eounte agalaet for oier Assistant Cashier Ooll o-th First National bank of thl city in connec tion with President, Frank O. BlgeloW defalcation. Gordon Blgelow, eon . of tM convicted president. -1. named - as having received 'about I100.0. by th alleged ' oonnlvanc ot hi father ",P4 OolL , ,.:... :.r , t . special writers in this country women who distinguished thenr-lrci 1 r: ".'.'- Ci .'. "rj-r '.. the good things in The Sur.y Jtr - .a 1 1 1 v a .. . m- . ; ; .u .; .V- v -, Roanoke. it, ' ', - , tiple of IT.1. Wllllm C. Barker , Jr. of Bait Lake City wa among th first even graduates of the -star rank," re ceiving an . aggregate of. If. per cent In all- subjects, j - i '.).. u . . (.-. , 1 Among the first IS In th class were William 'A.- Olasford Jr., Iaa Vegaa. New-Mexico,'. Testal P. Coffin. Boise, Idaho;. Robert ; lb - Chormlev, Moscow. Idaho; Kussell . Wilson. - Wyoming Ste phen W. Wallace, Salt Lake City., and Lera M. Atkins, Butte, Montana. Among the graduatee on the coast are Raleigh E. Hughes, Portland;-Carroll B. Graves, Spokane, .Washington; Fred M. Perkins, Baiem, Oregon; Randolph P.- Sudder. North Taklma. Waahlngton'r Jamea P. Oldtng; Care on. Nevada, and - Sherwood. VL A. Taf finder, Ban : Francisco. Mid shipman Victor N. Metcalf of Oeklan California.' MrTiot completed Tift examl- in'iqn.awinj.tQ iiid. ,, , . Secretary Bonaparte next Monday will deliver to .an , even 10U middle their diploma, .v. . ; , ' , .. . A v- .. j DUNBAR, THE NEGRO POET, - CROSSES GREATi DIVIDE i Dayton, Ohio. Feb. 10. After bearing up- bravely for -more than three year under the terrible ravage of conaump- poet, a led at ma nomo tier iat yoster- day afternoon. , Paul Laurence Dunbar hadv n many- ups and down In Ufa. He was born in Dayton,' June 17. 1171, and started life a a- newsboy-and ele vator boy. Hla first poem wa written when a lad of carcly-7. years, but hi first work, of not waa written whan he waa It. being r. class poem -for th Steele-High school In lllli Ho'.wrot a total of 21 books, the first belag When Mallnda Blnge."i that, being hi mether'- nam -and written to her. . -A mother, widow and two . half-brother urylva him. s.i .:, t '..; imvy..r i-tn-" " 11 "" ,mi- "'.U .. j MUTINY ON VESSELS OF, BALTIC, SQUADHON I .BU Petersburg Feb. llJUA'mulIny .1 reported aboard a number. of vessels of the Baltic fleet Several, officer have been rratd. ;.i '- ) V , .. . and Europe. " : ' ia.tl.;hts against the, ..';..' Jv..r r: T.VK' 1. -Tut I W ' ff If w. . 9 . - . ... ..J v-iJ i m...mm .. .'Tx ww r - fj MH1AP0LIS Of: Ten . Firms on Front Street Eight Subscribe to Contract Guaranteeing Support of .a, ?l-re New j Enterprise; V' THOSE OflMSEDL HAVE il INTERESTS IN SEATTLE Committee Working . on - Othar Straata Have Not Reported Defir nitely, but Aaauranca la Made That Sufficient Support WiU Be Prom-. iaedr-AU One Way Saya Naab, U - "With resulU In-sight -at thl hou, from the thorough canvass that la be-. ing mad. It 1 sat to say that a steam ship line between Portland and Alaska , ports is certain. The ratio of favor able responses, continued to the end of the canvaaa, shows that th neoeaaary guarantee will b made." .. This 1 th report of .the men avho are checking up the work of the Joint eommltteee . of Portland commercial bodlee working en the proposition to atari" an Alaska steamship lln. t-. . ., ' . -.-i '' ' Th committee began - work bright and early thl .morning... Tha hualneaa action of the city wa districted and the men went out In pairs, two men , taking aaoh street At noon report. bo- ; gan coming In. and they ahow unmis takably -that- Portland - buelnee - men have at leaat determined to get Into the Alaska trade In the right way, with di rect eteamshlp ', connections between thl city and Valdes. Be ward, th Cop per river country and Noma. - ', i. aighty Oast la Wmiwt.i' '. - L "About 10 per cent of th business men we visited were favorable and will lputthejrnam to a. deflnrto eontract .. for guaranteeing th ateamshlp line." said Arthur. H. Devere, who with Sol, Blumauer. canvassed . on t Front street. "We did not get : nearly through the street, but w went far enough to show that th propoaition I a go. Thr tm not antir atlsfsTtfon -with ' th contract nrteented, but thl will be' changed, and a new contract submitted that, will be aatiafactory.to all partlea. Eight . of . every .10 men found were ready to subscribe to a proper form, of . contract. . The remaining; perrntag5e vleltecThave houses-fn Seattle and are not willing to do anything to assist -4n starting; opposition t Portland. ' - Th Devera-Blumauer committee pre- -aented tho project , to 11 Front street -firms. The following pledged them selves to sign n definite, ooncrat guar antee proposition: ", Allen 4s Lewie,' wnoieeale groceries., Peter A Roberts, wholesale . furnl- ture. . ' . . . ;,' -'Acme' Mill company, foodstuffs. , " " Oauld 4k Kline, plumbers' upplte.'7 v Cloaset 4k Diren, wholesale coff and ploa. i .. . .. - Holman Trshafar company. - ' Portland Mattress al Upholstery com pany. ;,.'-. ...... - SSah Broe., broom manufacturar. " ,. Thanhaueer Hat company. - Blumauer 4k Hoch, wholesal llquosgj. Maarly AH On Way. Third, Fourth. Fifth and Sixth streete. had not repurteu at the BonHTTiffuTrbur from official of the commercial organ!- . satlona who wer advised of progreaa of . the work It wa learned that the ' prospects ar highly - favorable. , "Thar 1 little doubt that th result will bo nearly all one way. While we are finding a considerable element that -hesitates and la- far from enthusiastic. , by far th larger portion of the busi ness community I ready to come to th front and aign guarantee propoaition." eald Wallla Nash, president of the board of trade. - .., s able. - The committee are doing their work earnestly - and thoroughly, and there. can-b no doubt of "the result, v They are out to make the projeot win and will keep at It thia afternoon and next Monday If neceaanry to determine ' the question . Anally." -j;- , Th commercial bodies are rep re aented ... In th canvass by th following men: . A. H. Devers, oeorge Lawrence. Fletcher . Unnw . Manufacturers' association; - Sol Blumauer, R. 8. Farrell, chamber of ' commerce; WalUa Naah. J. . H. Page. David Brown, board of trade; T. W. B. London, W. B. Qlafk. Commercial elob. They will have a meeting Monday to . make., a recapitulation . ot tha- canvaaa, and If It 1 not ufflelently , thorough wilt continue the work. ' On Monday Charleo Doe, preeldent and genaral manager of -tho North Paclflc Steamship - company, operating the , Roanoke and other vessel on th PaciAe coast, - will, arrive . from .. Ban Fri nctsco. ' On Tuesday th committee will hav an- i other meeting and the work will bo re viewed. At thattlm a Anal concluelon wiU beTeaehed. It I aaid th visit of Mr. Doo at thl time la In connection t -with tho ateamshlp matter on which the. J. commercial bodlea r working. : " , ' ' Bacrlaaan 4Uda Vtojee. - :. , Tho. trafflo department of th Harrl- - man . railroad ia aiding the project. W. E. Coman, assistant .' general . freight -agent of the Harrlman lln. In Oregon, aid!- ( -rr -v. - ' "We have been In elo touch with th committee, and- ar fully advlned aa to th progreaa of their work. After tho committees met and ''formed n Jrlnt committee, a aub-commttte -of t" t body called en thle department ' went . over the matter tt trm . t t passenger bu'-' v i - -We ar I ' ' ' help el"- ' cur r-t;-- f et the damage at proaenv. -' -' ' .-.- ji.y" , w ftjy.vt'-., ' eeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeert:: :