- ' piAmMAA I UE5I3AY, JANUARY 16, 1900. .1 . IB I ill fifty-fire Thousand Finns Are Com ing to Work ca Tracks. Wanted in the Westr-Railroads Aimt Get More Laborers at Lower Vage.s . Tramps Sell Tickets to Scalpers. ' It is announced by railway represen tatives that 55.000 Finns will come dur ing next spring and summer to work on the railroads of the Northwestern states and Western British America. One of the greatest continental tourist and emigrant agencies, located at Liv erpool, 'England, is said to have closed contracts with trans-Atlantic' steam ship companies and certain railroads cf this country and Canada for the trans portation of the Finlanders. The reason given by railroad officials for the emigration of the Finlanders is jthat they arc being persecuted by the Russian government but it is assumed that he offers of steady and profitable employment on railroads in this coun try and Canada have helped the Finns to reach the conclusion that it would be betted for them to leave their native lan?. ' l ( . To admit that; employment on rail roads in this country and Canada has been guaranteed the Finns would in volve railroad officials in all kinds of trouble,' said a representative of . one 0 the Western lines. "To begin with, such an arrangement would be,in vio lation f the foreign-contract labor law. If they knew such an arrange ment had been made, the labor leaders " would immediately take steps to pre-r vent the Finns from ever ' setting foot on American soil. Nevertheless, the managers of American railways, partic ularly those of the Northwest, feel that they must do. something which will in Mire cheap labor necessary to carry out the extensions of track which have been planned. It was impossible to get enough track laborers 1 last summer and fall in certain sections of the coun try to do the work which the railroads were very anxious to complete. I "During the 'hard times' ten times as many men wanted work as there was work- for, but in the past two years carpenters and other mechanics could sccfre plenty of work at their own trades, and eath !' much higher wages than the railroads could afford to pay for ordinary labor. The result was that common laborers willing to. work on track construction, demanded, higher wages, an average increase of perhaps 5 per cent. The, Finns are a strong, hardly, industrious race, better for rail road, construction worl? than Italians or Greeks. Natives of warm climes either cannot or vill not. it makes no difference which I to employers work as hard as persons coming from more northern latitudes. : , "The importation of the Finns will be good-, alsq, for the owners of . the great farms in the West and Ndrth w est. Last year j it was almost impos sible to get enough 'hands when most needed to harvest the crops. The rail toads helped the1 fanners out as much as M)5sib!c by c-fTcrng very low rates of fare to persons willing to' do farm work during the harvest season, but the supply of laborers was much less than the demand. Of the 55,000 Finns for whom transportation has been ar ranged about 13.000 will go to Minne sota and the remainder will go to Up per Michigan, Northwestern Wiscon sin, the Northwestern states, and Can ada. They will -be offered induce ments to acquire farm lands 6f their own in the Northwest, and assured of enough work cn .' railroads to defray their . living expenses until they .have suihcient income; from their farms. Attention of theWestcrn roads has leen called to a scheme to defraud them which is now being tried on- an extensive scale and which in a number of cases has proved successful. Parties representing themselves to be in dis tress have applied to the authorities or charity organizations of towns and cities for transportation to 'enable them to reach their alleged homes. j'When this has been furnished them, in some cases, to elude detection, they have ac tually got on the trains and paid their way to first stopping place, where they . have left the tram and returned to the city. They have then cither sold the .transportation to the broker or claimed its redemption from the issu ing1 joad. In a ; number of cases re demption has been claimed for already t'sed but uncollected transportation the limits of which, have expired.,' The roads arc warned to be on the look-out for all s".ch devices to defraud them. THE WRONG BUTTONS. When the Dakota Volunteers scram bled off thq train at the Northern , Pa cific depot at Spokane they were be sieged by a crowd o high school girls, who demanded buttons from the blue uniforms as souvenirs. The soldiers lor the most part submitted cheerfully. Soon their blouses were denuded of every fastening. 1 Suddenly a tall blond g'rl ri'shcdv through the depot to the platform, She was late. The buttons were all gone, ami her friends proudly exhibited their trophies.; But the blond girl had (ome for buttons, and but tons she onH, hae. i Down at the end of the p'atform she espied a col ored man standing near the train. He was resplendent f in complete , uniform of bb'e and every bntton was -in place, "fust because be was a netrro soldier he has leen overlooked." thbught the high sclool blonde. "Well, L don't care for color I want buttons." . A moment later the- unsuspecting victim Was accosted : by the blonde "girl, who had an open penknife in her hand. "Wron't you give me some of your boMons?" she sweetly asked, as she reached for the top one and be gan to saw the thread with the knife b!ade. "Hcah! hcah! miss; don't do dat. It's agin de rides I ain't-' But it was too late, j With a dextrrity born f a desire to liave bras buttons; die, the gir had severed two circlets. She pa"sed on the third attempt, no thing the letter;"P" on the button. With one horrified look at the man fche -EKLY realized tht j , .. . of a MSWiS buttons on the platform anS crjmson checks, darted through the affi-Whllt U,rP0rtcr ed SefuHy b otfse Wf H OOCe i"aculati blouse. Spokane Statesman-Review, HIS MEMORY NEEDED TO JiE . TRAINED. , traSj2':inS f?rjt 1,00,4 on memory traming, remarked a red-eyed man with a reminiscent breath as he ap proached one of the saesmch in a Ninth street second-hand book shop recently. "You see, it's jnst this ay," be continued, without giving the sales man a chance to answer. :l met some old friends of mine last evening and we started out to make a night of iL, We whooped things up at a pretty live Jy clip, and when I started for home, about 3 o clock, I knew there would be trouble ahead for me when I got there, aon see, my wife hasn't any sporting blood. Well, I was carrying my load pretty well when I passed an all-night (jyster saloon, and I was seized with 4 brilliant idoa. 'I'll just take a couple ot deviled crabs as a peace offering, I savs to myself. You know, my wife thinks there's nothing like a deviled crab. j "It took about a quarter of tan hour to tret the staff rcsHv ' -.r.,1 1 t - chuckling to myself when 1 got home. u iic Kcjnoie was tnere all ngnt. and I crfrpt upstairs as softly as possible, be cause I didn't want to take any chances if. she was asleep. She usually keeps thci light burning in our bedroom un- til II get home, but it was as dark as nitch. I tiimti!f-H nv-pr t .-,,.- ito light the gas, but there was never a skmd from the bed.' I final'y got a ngnt ana discovered that the bed was empty and hadn't been disturbed. I didnft knew what to make of it at first, but it gradually dawned on me that my wife had been down in Jersey visiting her mother for three days, and I had forgotten about it. That's the reason I "waint to get a treatise on memory training." Philadelphia Record. HELP TO DECRF.ASED TAL1TY. . MOR- Some suggestive staements are pre sented in his late report by Dr. Abbott, secretary of the Massachusetts board of lieajUh, showing that diseases are be coming less dangerous ift human life. It appears that the hygienic condition of the- people in that commonwcaUh was better last year than at any previ ous time for hali a century, and here were fwer deaths by ncariy 1,300 from infectious diseases than during the previous year, notwithstanding- a de cided increase Of population. The number of deaths from diphtheria de creased! one-half, from scarlet fever more than one-half; deaths from con sumption were about 5 per cent, lower, and there were only some half as many deaths from measles as in the former year. The actual death rate is given as eighteen per 1,000, whereas it has been-" about nineteen for half a century. There was a slight increase in the num ber of deaths from typhoid fever, whooping cough, and cholera infan tum. Dr. Abbott attributes the gener al decrease in the death rate to vari-. ous causes, such as improved sanitary conditions, stricter quarantine regula tions, anu imi'ruvciiicuis in ntcuica treatment. PECULIAR AND PERTINENT. Great Britain's volunteer force of .240,000 is maintained at a cost of nn der 800,000 pounds a year less than 4 oounds a head; The Liveroool city council has de cided to convert or lay down luring 1900 56 miles of electric tramways at a cost of 1350,000 pounds. The average age of the British sol dier now at the front is nearly two vcars higher than that of the soldier who foughl at Waterloo. I look for power in the man; he affirms ihe dignity of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue to rule, through grace alone. Sclril'cr. GREATEST BANQUET TORY. IN HJS- The greatest banquet in history took place August 18, lfcWo, when the 40,000 mayors iof France sat at -a table in the Palais de 1'Industrie,- in Paris. There were three relays of about 13,000 gcsts- each. To prepare the feast required seventy-five chief cooks, and H.O00 waiters, scullions, ccllarmen, and helpers ; 80,000 plates. 52.000 glasses, knives, forks, and spoons in a propor tion ; 40.000 rolls, and fish, and meat, and fowl by the ton. The banquet was part of the centenary celebration of the events of 1789. i- 't . : ', VERY NEARLY BOTTLED. The naturalist's wife had gone out f..- - tninntrs and left the baby in Charge of her absent-minded husband. U'i,.n dim ri'inmnt she was not a lit- 'tlcdisturpcd to, discover the baby cry ing dismally and its latiier.'wiui a collection; of his largest bottles of alco hol before hini. evidently at nis wns "Why, ; David. David!? cricd, ?.,'c good woman, snatching up the child, "whatever1 is the matter?" s . V.l! nv drar" responded the great na'turalist, simply, still gazing at the baby.i "It s very strange om 1 can't find a bottle large, enough to hold him anywhere." London Tit-Bits. COULD NOT : UNDERSTAND IT. Did yon know that ,Mbs Bjones was going, to marry young Smith?" "I knewf it; but I can't Understand . : . :.ii.tKn at hr i ran HOW a gin Huminiin - - consent to' marry a man stupid enough to want IO inujr jiti. CANNOT FIGURE IT OUT. I . .-. - - 1 1 . - j ' n:T, 1', 1 nrrttv food hand at r.,.! Ki f here s one thing I cant understand aibttut Christmas.- ; n:r... - tin 'it is that ievervbody! gives more than he gets and yet no body get as much as he ives? v I r;n'i What becomes of the surplus. Ncr York Weekly. f -' ' "-;!" ' ' ' - , : . -t - Twice-a-week Statesman, I a rear. OREGON STATESMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN The United SUtes finds Itself Bcrdcned with Over-Sea Responsibilities n me dojpe 01 reace and Gccd ... i - . - Rico and the John Bull's island home being rig idly limited,; his expensive t nature was forced to expand over the sea, in far off j lands, wherever his bold advent urers could gain a fcothold. And so, bit; by bit, his huge Indian and Colo nial Empire was built up, until it now covers nearlvf a fourth of the rth' surface, and includes, probably, a fourth of its entire population. The actual figures are:. Ana. 2-ocviiori siuare miles : DODuIation.' i im timnm These . figures are absolutely without parellel in the history of jthc world., John Bull's commands, 1 then, are, niore or less, willingly obeyed by a vast host of no fewer than tci.Am.nm subject people, and this host includes nations and tribes of almost known race on the clobe. every Let us take' India as the most con soicuous and, numerically, the most important example. A small but fit British army of. 75,000 men, aided by a native force under British officers of about twice that number, keeps in ad mirable order a teeming population of 300,000,000, a population equal, 'to that of all Europe, exclusive of our own 40,000,000. India is, m fact, T a continent in itself It contains many distinct nations and races, lne cen sus returns dividcthc people vn the basis 'of language into no less than 118 groups, and even then there were some hundreds of people speaking an "un recognizable" language. Out of the 300,000,000 Engl ish is the customary ely. 250,000, and the r.f in,iu : language of bare rntiM-Dorn population ot India is less than half that number. Tliere are about 50,000,000 speaking Hindi; 50, 000.000, Bengali; J.eo.i.ocx), Tclugu; .20,000,000, Mahrathi; iS,co3,ooo. Pun jabi; "and 16,000,000, : Tamil. On the basis of religion considcrab'y over joo,r 000,000 are Hindoos, 10,000,000 Mo liammedans; 7,co3,oto or 8,000,000 Buddhists,, and only ,.',500,000 or 3,000, 000 Christians, -and as such- more " fa vorably disposed toward their Chris tian rulers than the rest. In the Straits Settlements a few Britons keep their eye cn 250.000 Ma lays, the same numlier of Chinese and some 55,000 East Indians. In Hong Kong arid Kowluri over 250,600 Chi nese are British' subjects. 1 be ''spicy breezes" of 'Ceylon1 arc inhaled in set tled peace and are comfort by Mr. Thomas Atkms the : 2,ooo,coi Cinga lese, 1,000.600 -Tamils, 250,000 Moors, and sonic 10,000 Malays u:vcr dusturb his serenity. In Borneo lit? Dyaks and other Warlike Ma'ays 1iavc been and may be troublesome, but the un rivalled tact and calm courage of Brit ish Colonial administration may be trusted to smooth down any and every disturbance of the peace. ! The famous bay of the south side of the Gulf of Pechili, -responsible for the . feeblest and most widely spread diplomacy of modern times Wci-hai-vei is to be garrisoned by a British ofTiccred Chinese regiment, who can. at any rate, be trusted to ' keep their fellow pigtails in order. The African command of John mill is a particularly heavyburden, and has 00b in Bali and Loin bok, .Dutch New cost him millions in money and thous-.:Jj;uinca. though the largest section of ands in men. Besides 1,500,000 blades'! the island, does not contain,- more than in Cape Colony and its dejendencies, there are nearly 750,000 Zulu Kaffirs in Natal; 250,000 Basutos, about 500,000 Matabeles and Mashonas,- with per haps 200,000 Bechuanas, in Southern Rhodesia; 650,000 Barotses and other Bantus'in Northern Rhodesia, besides the. 850.000 negroes of the Nyassaland or British Central Africa Protectorate. Between the Zambest and Tanganyika less than 300 British, about the same number of Sikh soldiers and a small native force under British officers "ad minister" the homeland of 1.500,000 blacks. South of the Zambesi, and including the Boers of the Transvaal and Free State, the entire white jopu-. lation is very small! in comparison with the number of blacks. t Further north, on the east coast, in ' British East Africa and Uganda. John has to keep the peace among 2.500,000 trucu-1 lent tribes; ana on inc ouicr mic 01 . the continent nis rsiger .oasi 1 ruict toratc and territories on cither .side of the great river put upon his broad shoulders the .immensely heavier bur den of controlling some 30.000,000 ne groes, mostly warlike Mohammedans, trained fighters, wh a military organ ization of hi..!i efficiency. British governors not long lived . in ! those "white men's graves" have also j the care of 1.500,000 negroes on' the Gold Coast, 3.orn.ooo in Lagos, some so.ooo on the Gambia, and 75.000 in Sierra. Leone. What a task the destruction of the' daring dervishes of the Soudan was! incessant in their. beliefs to their stib With . less skill or valor Omdurman ject races. France. Spain,' Italy,, and might have i been another Adowa. ' In Daiticulariy .Germany, and Scandina- have wonders, and. tbove all. have made men of timorors serfs. Besides the Soudanese, or officers have also to keep the Aden district Arabs, as well as the Bahrein islanders in the Persian G-tlf. ' '.,'' According to a recent official report there are over one hundred thousand Indians in Canada, but they have; been and arc so well treated by the Domin ion government that they are particu larly friendly, and cawse; little or no trouble, even intber wilds of the North west In Jamaica a third of thr popu lation are negroes, as also are the bulk of the inhabitants in the Ixeward and Windward Islands and Trinidad. The Tiahama people are nearly all whites, bnt in British Guiana there arc 100.000 negroes, rrs.coo East I ndian roolies and 4.000 Chinese. In Britiih Hondu ras 500 white' people live aihcng 35,ooo blacks....--, In Fiji there are 3,500 whites, to ray 000 Fijians. and in our other Polyne sian islands the -us. hite popnlation is terv small indeed. In British Guinea a handful (2V) of EuroiK-an from the -law and the Bobby" to over 350000 frowsy headed Pipuans. The native, il uorernnient in Csba, Paerti - - - Philippines. inhabitants of Tasmania are as extinct as the dodo, but New South Wales contains some 5.C00 full blacks, Queens land probably 12,000, South j Australia vooo. West Australia 2,coo and Victo ria onlv about noo. In the 1 ?CoVt1im Territory of South Australia are 5.000 ri.: 2-f j . , cuoi;c9, ana vueensj3nanas ' ""ported somei iaoco Polynesian la ! borer- Zealand has now only ! aDOU 40,000 Maoris, little .more than i a twentieth of the population of that prosperous colony. Frenchmen are proverbially a stay at home people and only about 500, ooo French folk live out of France. But France has, nevertheless, a i splendid coionial empire of some u.-zso.ooo sl,:ar niiles, with a iopulation, almost entirely colored, of over v?,oo0,ooo; 22.000,000 of these are in Asia, 30,000,- 000 in Africa and some 80.030 in Oce an ica. In Farther India the Frencn are re garded as masters by 6.oco,6o6 Anita mcse. I.5CXJ.OOOI Camboiians, j 2.000,000 Cochin Chinese and I2,ooo1oco Tcmkin- ese, and it would not be at all an easy matter to control these- obstinate and defiant peoples but that the French officials govern them mainly through j their own native rulers and officers. In addition to 6,ooj,co3 Arabs and Kabylcs 111 Algeria and Tunis, the French have t keep an ever watchful jevc on some 2,5oo,qpo marauders in the Saharan wilds, while their west eoast authorities must excrci-c a strong control over the 7..ooo,-:oo Fulahs and 1 V1 t,,c Westcjrii ooudan.'.-.tyjj.ooo on other negroes in the Scnecal colony the ivory coast land' in Dahomey, 0.000, orx in the Gabun and French . Congo and a few thousand on the-other side of the continent, besides 3.50CVXXJ Ma Iacasvs. :!.'.- ' ' . Germany's burden in the way ot de pendent colored races is a light one compared to John Bull's, ,lier entire colonial populatiou being considerably under 1 i.oxxooo. On the West Afri can coast German martinets maintain a severe authority over 2,500.000 11c- crocs in Togoland and 3,500,000 in the Cameroon. German Ea.t Africa "has a native population 'of some 4,cxw,oon. Swahili Arabs jabtng the coast and ne groes in the jinterior. The; Damaras and Namaqua of Gcriuan Southwest fifrica do not exceed -250,000 in num ber. T In China. fr?m her f; othold of Kiao chau. the Kaiser's "mailed vfit" ni4y menace whom he wills. . - In the Pavific German New Guinea includes some j 1 to.ooo unkept Papuans, the Bismarck Architelago contains 1SX.000 and the Solomon Islands yo.ooo specimens of the same treacherous and intractable race; 13.000 Polynesians in (he Marshall Islands, complete the sub ject race burden of Germany. 'Holland is a very small country, but (Btif 1 it is the '"heart" of a big domin ion over sea. ;Tlic Dutch colonial em pjre in the Indies. East and; West, lias Sn arca of. 783.000 souare miles and a total population of 35,000,000, of whom 25.000,000 are in Java. 3.000,000 in Su matra, 2.000,000 111 Celebes and 1.000, oo.ooo peopiej In-her Dutch East In tHan 'possessions Holland finds 460.000 Chinese. 24.000' Arabs and 27,000 other Orientals; the! rcst 32,000.000 in num ber, arc natives of the Malay race. The Dutch West-India Islands : only con tain .50,000 people, and Dutch Guinea 65,600. ' j bn spite of the Monroe I and other doctrines ,to: the contrary, .the United States now finds itself burdened with over sea responsibilities, in the shape of peace and ipood govcrnnient in Cu ba, with a population of . 1.500.000 idacks. thirty-five jper cent.; Porto Ri co, with 3TXJOOO blacks dpd 5.000.000, most of them I still to be tlacificd." Among a multitude of miner burdens, voluntarily or j necessarily borne by the white man. none, perhaps ' is -more en thusiastically borne than 'the? burden of imssionary enterprise. Si:iniy and soicjy to extcrid tlwir own particular be liefs or creed, Caucasian peoples free ly spend millions every year, and send forth an ever increasing army of edu cated and well trained m;n ard women who for the' most, show a jer'i4tcnt en ergy and determination, in the face of ten of aiparcntry insuperable f-stacles, that form, at any rate, an admirable object lesson to the savage or barbar olls lHHpks among whom they spend ,he crrcater nart' of their effective lite- ; time. j This missionary enthusiasm is , not Ironfined to the Anglo-Saxon race, on- 1y. but the-Latin and Slav races arc as tions in all psjrts'of the heathen. Mo hammedan arflf -Buddhist wor!d. Th-i heavy burden of excessive arm aments is nok placed on .the white man's shoulder sb much by the "black terror" or thej "ycllov danrr" as ; by the mutual dtrust i oiherwi-e civ ilized nations.) and an ineradicable sus picion of each other, which are as strongly marked; now as they were a hundred ye3r ago. .1 luce armies anl powerful navies I arc maintained at a. frightful cost, ready at a moment's no tice to fly at each others toi destroys to kill, to harry. to waste. The .cost oi actual war, as in the present despejrate conflict for suprem acy in. South J Africa though enormous, is. however, often enough less burden some than the losses-caused by rumors of- war.' ' ; , ) , : ; " ' i-l ' The cost olf war a really great war such as is now swaging in Siith Afri cais eiwrmous. bt unless some ter rific political convelsion throws the great Powersj of Europe and America into collision none of the -wars of the early twentieth century is likely to cost anything .like the colossal sirugsle in wlikh Englahdjand her allies on the 1 vrv -aSSX0- for Infants Castorla'is a harmless snbstituto for Castor Oil, Parc i srorlc, Drops and SooHilng Sjxtips. It is Pleajsant. It contains neither Opium, MorpUino nor other arcotio Fnbstancc It destroys 'Worms and allays Fcverisluiess. It cures Dlarrhoa and Viild Colic, ltrcllevM Tce4h Inir Troubles! and cures Const i pat ion. ft regulates tho a Stomach and llowels, ulvinar wealthy and natural lecp The Children's lanacea The Mother's Friend. The Kind,' You Have Always Bought Bears the In Use For Twr ei-tr'tum wwwm. tT Continent were involved a hundred vcars ago. The twenty-fee ven years war atrainst the arrogant French Republic, and then against NajK!ion, cost Eng land, in actual hard css.li, nearly nine hundred millions sterling. ' Add to this the destruction of property, the waste of life, tho loss of labor, stagnation -of trade, and . the burden- which we.. -still to an enormous extent boar laid, open the century by that war alone, is al most incalculable. The present war is estimated to cost nearly a million a dav. ! ; The cost of .war -crisis, a mere ru mor, is of fen heavy. The direct loss in this case fall, of course, upon jindividual holders .'of se critics, wliicp drop in value- aitd plunge hundreds of wealthy people in to bankruptcy. The present war is re sponsible for many such cases; the ag-xrcKatc los:s. even under the most favorable "circumstances, consequent on a war rumor must be counted by. mil lions. For instance, on the mere threat of war with knsAia in 1K85 "consols hhrank in value some I wcnly-live, niiinons ster- hnir. h W. Williams, m I'c-arson s Weekly. ENGIN EER1NG NOTES. All the R'jssian railroad companies have been ordered to adoju the Wcst- inuhousc air brake before the begin riiiR of the year t'jo.. The approach of the St. Paul to' tin: English coast ni, one of thc scl vas sixly was rcporleir by fllarco asscngcrs, while the ves- 111 lies out Careful HIV iestigation of too power plantsi in the city of New York '.shovts that a inediuili sized isolated plant-can be", oerated imorc economically than .the large cc-npal stations, .. A new elenjent. called victorium, .ha. been discoverL-l. Until now it has. Ie'en confo"iided Kvith yttrium. The new element is of ja browii color, which dis colors easily m acids." A German has invented a .' mctho . which iron and- steel wire may be coated with lass. This docs away with the use j of platinum in the con struction of tlectric-Iight bulbs. The emperor has granted the Poly technic college of Berlin the right to bestow the title of doctor of engineers. Heretofore the title of doctor has een given to theologians, philosophers and lawyers. This action" was recently an nounced alT'the centennial anniversary of the college. - ; , ' With the aid of a fine new camcra tclescopc, recently installed at the Roy al Observatory at the Caic of- Good Hope, evidences r.f the presence of oxyRep have been' discovered-in sever al stars. I his has hitherto bqen sought' in vain, and it is also one of the de ments which has not yet been discov ered in the sun. . The Viper, the new English torpedo- boat, is the fastest craft afloat. She is propelled, by a 1 arsons steam tur- Irnc and makes forty-four and one third miles an hour. Mr: Parsons says that she will be able to-further lower this, record, and he expects to sec the boat make forty-five miles an hour af ter her engines get running smoothly. W hile alcohol biltncd under a Y els- bach mantle produces -a good .light, "It is not an economical one, and M. Den- avrouze, the French scientist, has dis covered that by charging the alcqbol with hydrocarbons in solution add ercatly' to the illumination without any increase in the consumption of the al cohol. Iamps of this type have been exhibited -'before srnc learned socie ties arid gave a bnlhant light.. The details of thel'srcat road, to the top of Menl Blanchave ail breli ar ranged, ?hd the projectors say that, by luly. t'jo2, tourists will be carried" at least 'four-fifths of the way to the sum mit. The total cot has been estimat ed at $f.f'io.oorj. The road will consist Vf a shaft through the very heart of the mountain, and i the length of the s-tbtcrranean road Will lc a little over six miles. : The terminal will te 1150 fct below the summit of the mountain. ' 1 i'1 - " - ' 1 THE PLAGUE. Gov. T. T. Gcer rrreutly addrc.cd a letter to Dr.-J, A. T'ssllop. of Astoria, the state health of ficer of that port, calling attcnln to the prevalence of the bubonic plague in Honolulu, and .adjvising a most strict enforcement, of thci quarantine regtda tions in cases of all vessels -i arriving from forckfn jort. ' Yesterday flic poverriots received ! a letter fiony Df. Ku!ton, stating that the state heal) h of ficer a.nd the federal quarantine officials are co-operating in the matter; that every vessel entering the ba'rbor of As toria from a foreign port is boarded and thoroughly insecied, and. if it is considered necessary, is disinfected. Dr. Fulton says that everything pos sible is done for the protection of the public by the health, officers, and he has no fears - from; importation -of ,the plague. J ' ' Twke-a-wtek Statesman, $1 a year. -vS ...w s. !yTw.S..O. and Children. Signature of Over 30 Years, www ,?"rri, crnfV HIGH WATER MARK 1 UIE WILLI ME UK AT TAlN EDA ; bTAGK OK 21 FKKT, 0. K. & K. Coiupauy Steamer Ruth Collides vilU i:riUs:e at Albany Cousiilirable Uaiuae. (From Daily, Jan. iOtk) Jf At noon ycstciday "the Willainttter iier at this point attained the IiikIi water. mark ol the season, the Kaugc at the ih K. S; N. Company! dock regis tciiug a depth fi -'i feit aoovc hw. WaUf 'mat k. j'! he usually plactJ M mini, which h;.'l leyn tranfurtiivd into. va mging-' body of waiter, remained it a Maulstill v.nlil alkuit S oVWk yesterday Vtc tiooit, Wiieii it beRioi to MtUdc and the wo.tits began to sUnvly recede. Re pi.t fro'ni up-river. pints imlica'tcd that , the river was faliing, confirming the theory that the highest staifc 'iiat.-t 1 been reached fur the present freshet; The U..-R. & N.- Coin-jwiny's. su-a.ncr Rtrth arrived in the city alwKit I I o'clock yesterday ,iiKrning fronti Corv.iHis hav ing been quite 'cxtcirsivviy diinviged, :, the result of a collivioii hal wilh the jtint l.illn and BcuUut county bridge, which j Mils the ' river, at Albany. '1 he Ku:h was captained by J. P. Coit 'i. wlrile Pi j-of'!. Miles'. JU41 was direct in'". the course of the craft when" the col lision took place. 1 'As a result of the c(!lisioii the .Ruth's 91'nokestack a.s badly Vlaniaged while her texas also sufTereil souu- damage. The priiK-ipa damage was sustained by the luidRr, two piers! of which were .more or Us;;, demolislunl, while the upcr-truru;re was badlyj strained. Tlie Ruth was 'hot so "badly damaged but she was able to cV.ntiniie fn tlowitthe 'river. .Teaching Salem as .above stated. After unhia-.T-;ng a-mwijutity of luiniicr here for use in the Kurtz box factory, she returnoil up the river to BcMin-villc fjr.a cargo of wheat. When the river recedes sudi cienty .to -enable hrf to-pas bene i;h the big stct4 bridge 'At .this point, the Ruth will; go to Portland for repiirs.' - A- telephone imissagcj was trecj ived. by JoC?I steamboat agents yesterdays in- forming tjiem that the Oregon Cilv locks had jbecn elosed. to travel but thr inefsage ra' mt neccssar for. it isN known that i8fcct renders it imtvissiblc for boats to tass t'lrough llie canal, Stcr.'neri Pomona .jiasscd down the river 'yesterday morning and will trans fer rc.ight an-l passeigrrs to the Mton i at )rcgon City, until the locks , arc again r-jjiuncd. ' She returned up 'the . river last night tying ij to hrr Sa!:n dock .at Tj;3o o'clock, an l a little later prrycedcdj on her way to Indepcnd . n -e. No pariictilnr. damage was sustaii'td'-k)r-ally. al.ng the river front, a-s a re sult U t'l? freshet. The C. E. com pany's dock, wbich iq not being -used this scasoti. is-the oti'ly'onc of the three Salem docjks and w'arehotes the floo's of which ixTc not covered . with wate'r from one jto eight feet deep. A vents G. M. Power. rJ 4hc O. R. ft N. Con---Tvnny. and :M.- I. Baldwin, of the O. C. T. ConiijvtMv. congratulate tltemselvc.' that their bOiecs a"c still high and dry. The, long ''.approach 'to the C. & ;.E. CiMKpany's dock" w,s lorn loose by the raging current and wMdd have taken free transtwirtation tt i Portland ha 4 it not been sectirc'v arrviM-rcd to the main dock atvl w.trehousc by means' of a strong rope. j -. ODDiVlRGINlA NAMES. ' The komjiilcr' rf odd naniVr": ought to n'ike x- visiit to the , Virginias. I-o n " recepti' papers from these states it h Irarncd that Mr. Wynkeep I.eiucn; r,( ?linuc-sota j 13 visiting hi - brotlwr ( in Martinsburg; that Mis Daisy Bell i a sa!cwrtiian in a mUliiK-ry yorr in Culjv-pperflthat Mi" Janic S-tringfel-low hai aariiiinred- her rnt'a'rriM iit to a Ponoake vjireflrlier;: that Williaui Hot died near IVrink "tbeihrr day, and tjwit there is .1 large family by he name of Ir 9ii the.., ntighborhrod of Barrack vii'c arxl Plum Rim; The steam, turbine takes up about thrce-fiithi of dhe i space required by the ,: present. ")pe of, engine. wax Candles in rh nr 1S wfil riii- V XlllMVA tlnUm. nt linht fr- ;0 AritMic wxmm .f i-hn Inn Kmn, l or diritiRt. Tbr (urt if nrrM i i cuMllm for h tnIM or (ha ii'iiiriK will fnoinrw wnrfr to . F moo. elAfewral in-winn ttt ri. tKof mmimm. M1 In all color mal th 1 ! linla ,f j KTAiumtu ail. .. d4 aali vTlsara. It II Tntvm m