WITH COAL.
Experiments Have Not Proved
Its Superiority.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Co.,
says a Seattle paper, which has
been conducting experiments with
oil as a fuel, will change the steamer
Coos Bay back to a coal burner.
The company has satisfied itself
that oil will not be a permanent
competitor of coal for fuel on steam
craft.
The experiments of the big steam
ship company coincide in results,
with those of the Regulator line,
tunning out of Portland up and'
down the Willamette and Columbia
rivers. This company operates a
fleet of boats to The Dalles and to
Astoria. Oil burners were put in
and for some time the fleet used
nothing but oil. The company,
however, was compelled to go back
to coal.
Opposition of passengers is one
of the strongest objections raised to
fuel oil. There is a strong feeling
among travelers that the oil taaks
are dangerous and many persons!
will not ride on boats known to be 1
operated with oil as a fuel. While J
this reason is not sufficiently strong
in itself to force a change, it has an j
influence in determining the result.
The Pacific Coast company’s ex-1
periment was made with a view of I
ascertaining the probable effect of j
oil upon the coal market. The un
dertaking came about at tbe sug
gestion of Pacific Coast company
officials, who are eager to protect
their own coal interests. A careful
investigation satisfied the company
that a vessel plying <1 .sc to the oil
fields might secure oil for fuel
cheaper than coal. But it was
shown that it would not l»e of any
advantage to use oil on the ve.-aels
of the fleet running to the Sound.
Strong pressure was some time
ago brought to t>ear by Standard
Oil influence* ujioii the I'acific
Coast company, and even Great
Northern oiliciula lo nave oil umjcI
on the boats of the tleet in place of
coal. Inducements were offered
which would be sufficient, under
ordinary conditions, to effect a
change in policy. The St mdard
Oil people are declared to have
gone to as high an authority as J J.
.IliU hiukarit. alter lading to secure
permanent ctm tracts through minor
othe i ds the tie*re»l approach to
cute css waa the indtKtng of com
pauy uflkiala to eipitp one Unit
with oaf bur nets aa an eapanmeut
ALASKA COMPANY TO USE
OIL.
The Seattle Times says the Alas
ka Steamship company’s Sound
steamer Rosalie is to be converted
f om a coal to an oil burner. The
ivork will commence as soon as the
vessel is withdrawn from the Vic
to ia route. During the winter the
cnupan v will make similar changes
t» the Alaska steamer Dolphin.
The Travels of Horace Brown
I.—BROWN REACHES DAWSON.
Don Juan, though a traveler of some renown
Ner dreamt of journeying so far from town
As “far-away Alaska " If lie had,
He would have found adventures good or bad,
And in that case a worthier pen than mine
Had painted all tlie country line by line,—
Its ice, its squaws, its moose and its moon
But one, whose devil drove him beyond reason
To visit every clime in every season—
One Horace lit own, whom sunny Carolina
Rejoiced to part with, when he came—a1
miner—
To Yukon River with a little casli
He'd made in yams and vegetable trash,
It just sufficed to let him cut a dash.
A little while in Dawsou City, where
A little don't lust long. Perhaps it 's the air
Ami perhaps the sour dough boys, whose wits
are keen,
1- rom having such a lot of law s; I mean
That up in Dawsou, you may not cut wood,
Or fish or shoot or prospect, if you should
Not have a license for t. And then you could
Not do't on Sunday. Thus a sad-faced crowd
Of Pharisee officials ne er allowed
Our hero Brown to chop his Sabbath sticks.
Ami threatened, if he should attempt such
tricks,
1 hey d lay him by the heels. When Horace
They were not joking, but it was their law
To jail for Sunday chopping, he got raw.
He told them he d come there to make his
pile,
'And I'd have staid had it been worth my '
while,"
Quoth Brown, "but if l find out pay
' And stako a claim, then >our officials say
Yes, Mr. Brown, all’s right,—but halt a mo
Your li t use? Right Your claim is so-and-st
‘On Hunker creek, yo i say. Well now. you
‘I think that claim is registered I 'll see.
Come in again on Thursday Now damme," j
Said Brown. * on V\ i dnesdny conies a duck
And jumps my claim and steals my blessed i
tuth—
A pal of that official, who, next day.
Declares to me that where I found the pay
I'he gro.ittd was taken by some other jay
That chap s church warden and a temp ranee
fraud.
I d rather be a burglar or a bawd
lu llell • half acre i” this very city,
t or there, at any rate . the rogues are witty
Now line me what you like. 1 ve said enough
To put your corporation iu a huff
I can t well grumble .1 you cut up rough
They fined him forty plunks The cops got
tea
fur bringing on the cause and etlhf men
The rest fur varum* reason* perhaps the
r.oi some iu salve and cleanse the smirch
on Dawson s sabbath To return to Brown.
Me (on kty m ule his plans lu leave the town.
And try the Yukon diver farther down
«»f New Trruh.
St P*imb«i|, Xov. ]}. The
H»>Ut*e < »u/ette nvivr* lh«
of * new commercial treaty with
the I nite<t State*. The paper my*
it note* with «»It*tact* <it that neg<»
tMlHtn ut nmwcm.il treat** lorni
l«rt nl I'rttitlrul Houeeveh * pfu
gramme in the coming wlmiMMtra
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ALASKA NATIVES
FIND A FORTUNE
Three Alaska natives in Septem
ber found ambergris valued at
$64,000. While fishing near Dixon
Entrance the three natives saw the
ambergris floating in the water.
Thinking it was a large jellyfish,
they attached a line to it and towed
it to their camp. Later they took
it to Ketchikan, hoping to sell it as
a curio.
It happened that some one in
Ketchikan knew the value of am
bergris and at once recognized the
Indians’ find. The natives were
informed of the value of their dis
covery, and the manager of the
Tongas Trading Company von
-ented to act as their agent and tor
ward it to New York lor examina
tion.
The nmbergii. found weighed 100
pounds At the present time am
bergris is very scarce and it is said
that the Indians will receive not
less than $04,000.
Wsscl a ml (T**tv lawt.
Victoria. It C*. Nov. .’.4. The
barkeuttue Mai.t.ndi was destroyed
of! the coast of Vancouver Islam!
and the erew was Ism. The wreck
age was strewn two miles along the
Iwiiuh. Terrific gales have l>eeii
blowing along the Washington
coast lot two days.
IWrt AmltTHim Hurt.
Fairbanks, Nov. 44 Bert An
derson felt down a vt kmt shaft on
Clearv creek yesterday, breaking
bis iett wrist and bodlv gashing bn
tor*bead. He wiU live.
JUDGE W. A. DAY
TALKED LITTLE
From the Seattle Time*, Sept. JiO.
Judge \\’. A. Day, of Washing
ton, D. C.; assistant attorney gen
eral, who has been in Alaska
investigating charges preferred
against the territorial judges, re
i turned to the city yesterday and
[ will soon leave for his home to
i make his report to the attorney
general. Judge Day said that as his
mission was in a way a secret one,
he could sav nothing before laying
the evidence before the authorities
I in Washington.
Passengers who catne down on
the steamer with Judge Day and
party say that he found many of
the complaints made to be of a
i rivial nature and not worthy of
[consideration. Many of the others
could not be proved. Judge Day
did not say whether he would rec
ommend any changes or not in the
Alaskan judiciary.
Monsignore Cagliero, for many
years apostolic vicar of Northern
Patagonia, in South America, has
arrived in Koine for his visit “ad
limiua. “ He is accompanied by a
young Patagonian savage, the son
of Xauunacura. who formerly made
so much trouble tor the Argentine
Kepubtn in Indian raids, and who
was known as the Pmpeior of the
Pampas. The voting Natnunacura
is to enter the college ot propaganda
to prepare tor the priesthood, ami
he will alter ward return to his
country to evangeliae the Patago
mans, lie was pre-ented to the
Pope, and was greatly impressed by
what he saw of the Vatican and by
the itf.iUldv of Pius X. Ka