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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
Western COIOnists Satisfied With
Their Southern Home.

Tallahassee, Fla, Sept. GOV. L. Tay-
lor for the past three years connected
with the Clark syndicate companies oper-
ating in sections of Florida, has been
promoted to general manager of their land
department at Tallahassee.
Over 500 western people have located in
Leon county within the past fifteen
months, and not one case of serious ILL
ness has been reported among the new
settlers. All are said to be satisfied with
their first years experience in Florida.
despite the fact that the past season has
been very unfavorable one for farming.
j. H. Williamson & Co, naval stores
operators south of Tallahassee, will open
a wholesale grocery store in this citv.
They viii also build large warehouse
near the depot.
The business of forming corporations I'm
Florida seems to be on a boom this year
Since Jan. l. the fees from this source
paid into the state treasury amount to
more than $1,000.
Col. Charles A. Choate of Jacksonville
for some time connected with the Daily
Citizen there, is at the capital He will
have sole charge of the Floridian In This
city after Oct l.
The railroad commission is in session
again to hear arguments of counsel on
the adoption of the schedules formulated
by the commissioners in July. This is the
third meeting held for the consideration
of these matters.
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Beaufort, S. C., Sept. 9o.-Arrived off St
Helena bar, Port Royal steamer Wer-
meth Hall (Br), from LiNrpool.
Sailed, Port Royal, steamer Breckfield
(Br, for Liverpool.
Georgetown. s. c., Sept. S0.-Arrived
schrs Rebecca Douglass Shepherd, Will
mington; William Linthicum, Brannock
Baltimore.
Pensacola. Fla. Sept. SO.-Arriwd
steamer Isle Worth (BD. McNabb, Ship
Island.
Cleared, steamers Ramazon (Br), Chris.
tie, Alexandria, Egypt; Elsie (BD, Wilkin
Genoa.
Wilmington N. G.. Sept. 8o.-Arrived,
schr Lulie l.. Pollard, Powell, Wilmington,
Del.
Cleared. schrs The Josephine, Town
send, Bull River, South Carolina; Edwin
A. Gaskill, Smith, Kings Ferry, Fla.
Charleston S. c., Sept. 3O.-Arrived,
steamers Comanche, Mckee, Jackson
ville and proceeded TO New York; Iro>
quois, Kemble, New York, and proceeded
to Jacksonville; Idar (Br), Jennings, Ant
werp; Rotherfeld (BD, Cox, Rotterdam;
schr Samuel w. Tilton, Smith, Philadel,
phia.
Cleared, steamer Thomas Anderson CBr).
Shaw, Norfolk; schrs Ida j. Lewis,
Townsend, Baltimore; Nellie Floyd, Neil
son, Georgetown.
Sailed, steamers Cherokee Chichester,
Boston; Administer BT, Clark, BARGE
Iona and Genoa; Oswestry (BT Wilson,
Bremen; Mayfield (Br), Gorde, Bremen.
Punta Gorda, Fla, Sept. S0.-Arrived,
schr James W. Fitch, Cook, Tampico
Key West Fla, Sept. 3o.-Arrived,
steamer Lampasas, Barstow, New York,
and proceeded TO Galveston.
Sailed schrs Magnolia, Saunders, Mi
ami; New Venice, Curtis. Miami.
Apalachicola, Fla, Sept. 30.-Cleared,
schrs Merom, Kelly, Buenos Ayres; James
N. Seaman. Pendleton, Boston
Breakwater. Sept. 30.-Passed out,
steamer Maverick, Philadelphia, for
Jacksonville, towing barge S. o. Co., No.
5S for Savannah and Wilmington.
Boston, Sept. 2S.-Cleared, schr Mary
Adelaide Randall, Randall, Fernandina.
Brunswick, Sept. 2S.-Arrived, bark Julie
(Nor), Jorgensen, Table Bay.
Cleared, steamer Inchdune BD, Purse.
Bremen and Hamburg.
Isle of Wight, Sept. 25.-Passed, bark B.
D. Metealf (Nor), Larsen, Harburg for
Savannah.
Kingston, ia. Sept 17.-sailed, steamer
Alene (Br), Seiders, Savannah.
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422 packages merchandise, 1873 bales do
mestics, 673 barrels rosin, 50 barrels spir-
its, q cars lumber, car fire brick, 2 cars
packing house products, l car onions, I
car coal.
Per Georgia and Alabama Railway
Sept. 1882 bales cotton, 1,O14 barrels
rosin, 239 casks spirits turpen1ine 25 cars
lumber, cars wood, cars hay, / car
meal, cars flour, 4 cars coal, so barrels
whisky.
Per Florida Central and PeninsuIar
Railroad, Sept. 90-172 bales cotton. 2 cars
tobacco, cars merchandise, 2 cars meal.
3 cars vegetables, 10 cars phosphate. (
cars wood, cars fish, car clay
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Foreign Exports.

Per British bark South African, for Rio
Grande do Sul-SOO cases 90 gallons each)
spirits turpentine, valued at 5000; 2 bar
rels tar, valued at So; 24.96S feet pitch pine
lumber, valued at $275, and ISIS barrels of
rosin, valued at $5,SSO-Cargo by Walter
Coney.
Per British steamship Ayr, for Genoa
5000 bales cotton, weighing 3,O37 PIG
pounds, valued at $1s5,6S7, and 2,196 tons
phosphate rock valued at $21,OOO
Per British steamship Coningsby, for
Barcelona-5,5S0 bales cotton, Weighing g.
S66.269 pounds, valued at S1S3,319, and 2, 400
tons pig iron, valued at $4,000. For Genoa
-1,9O bales cotton, weighing 9S1, TOS
pounds, valued at $5S, 100.
Per British steamship Ancestry for
Hamburg-1,960 tons phosphate rock, val
ued at $4,000. For Bremen-5,550 bales cot
ton, weighing 2,sO5,626 pounds, valued at
$l7S,9 51.
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The steamship Chattahoochee, from
New York, arrived this morning
with the following passengers: w. Dan
nenberg, w. A. Jenne and wife, J. r.
Sites William Rogers and wife, Miss Kate
Burrougs, Mrs. Kate Brown, DIR. J. d.
Paige, Fred Murphy, G.. II. Ehrhorn, G.
Mac Gilway, Mrs G. S. Wood, S. P AL
len, Dana Stevens, Thomas Daniels, Miss
W. NJ Claims, M. Marcus, H. Marcus,
]. Cops, G. T. Raymond, wife and child,
w. w Raymond and wife, w. T. Mapes
and children, A. B. Smith, Miss Kate
Brady, Mrs. c. NJ Brady DR.. C. A. Lung
and wife, A. Colcord, T. Colcord, A. Ray
mond, J. Colcord and wife, F. C. Ray
mond, Miss Emily Hussey, f. B. Overton,
Miss f. Tompkins, ]. Barron, Charles
Chang, All Sui, G. Haling and wife, f. D.
Haling, A. Jackson.
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FLORIDA.


Ocala is working to get bank estab-
lished.
The new Florida East Coast Band in St.
Augustine is soliciting aid to equip the
organization.
One fisherman, with a cast net, captured
in one night off st. Augustine few nights
since 2S5 mullet.
Col. J. B. Rawls, the newly appointed
post commander of the United States
troops at st. Augustine, has assumed
charge.
Five men from Gainesville and Levy
county recently went on a hunt to Gulf
Hammock, and within two days and a
half jumped nine deer and killed seven
five in one day.
If reports are true Key West is on the
verge Of a most promising boom. MANY
enterprises are being planned, and this
winter may experience the greatest in
fiux of settlers that has ever been known
on the island.
1t looks very like a saloon trust Is
being born in Tampa. The Florida Brew
ing Company of that city has purchased
number of saloons, and will take charge
Tection of Mack Towne.
Fernandina Mirror: The schooner I,ucv
III. Russell, which is loading for the yell
low Pine Company, will carry the largest
load Of ties ever taken from this port
and perhaps from Florida. She will sail
with over 24.000 ties on board.
1t is understood that a strong but I'M
successful effort has been made by the
friends of the gamblers convicted and SEN
tenced in Judge Doggetts criminal court
in Duval county, to have the pardoninr
board exercise its clemency in behalf Of
the offenders.
The magnificent $4,000 addition to the
rev building of Stetson University at De
Land is rapidly nearing completion. This
VIII give chapel capable of seating near
ly 1000 people, fitted up with a magnif-
cent 5000 pipe organ. 1t also gives ample
space for chemical, physical and biologi-
cal laboratories.
Jacksonville Times-Union and Citizen:
young eagle was seen to swoop down
yesterday morning on Bay street. The
a.tehtlon OF those passing was at once
attracted, the eagle darting down in front
OF hitzewoller's shoe store, and became
.ntangled in a mass Of telegraph and cleo
trio wires. wv
Inc jury Of inquest in the murder Of
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Ocean Steamship Co.
FOR
Network, Boston
THE EAST.
Speed, Comfort and Safety


Unsurpassed cabin Accommodate.
Sea spray baths. Electric lights all NIGH
Unexcelled table. Improved ventiIafioc
and sanitary plumbing. 'ON
Fare Savannah to New York.-Cabir
$40; Excursion, 1872; Inferno sdiate, s15. 81
cursion, $24; Storage, SO. La
Fare Savannah to Boston direct shins,
cabin, SO; Excursion, $36; Intermediate
$lI: Excursion, $2S; Storage. $11.75
Fare Savannah to PhiLadelDbia r..
New York-Cabin, $22; Excursion s94
intermediate, $l7; Excursion, ST; Steer
age, $12.
The express steamships of this line ava
appointed to sail from Saw annah, Central
(9Oth) meridian time, as follows:
SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK.
KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, FRIDAY
Oct. l. $50 D. m.
CHATTAHooCHEE, Capt. Lewis, SAT.
uRDAY. Oct. 2, y noon.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 100 p. N.
GATE CITY, Capt Googirls, TUESDAY
Get 8, 3 p. m.
LA GRANDE DUCHESSE. Capt Hanlon
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Ask1ns, FRIDAY.
Oct. s. p. m.
SAVANNAH TO BOSTON DIRECT.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED.
NESDAY, Oct. 6, p. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE. Capt. Lewis, MON
DAY, Oct. II, p. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, SAT-
URDAY, Oct. IS. 8 D. m.
C1ATTAHOOCHEE Capt. Lewis
THURSDAY. Oct q, p m.
CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, TUES
DAY, Oct. 26. 5 p. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewis, SAT-
URDAY, Oct 80, 1890 .. m
w. G. BREWER, Ticket Agent, 80 Bull
street Savannah, Ga.
E. w. SMITH, Cont Frt. Agt., Savan-
nah, Ga.
R. G. IRRELEVANT, Agent, Savannah.
Ga.
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager.
JNO. NJ. EGAN, Vice President.
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trance to Nantucket sound Massachu-
setts. The center of the ball is about So
feet above the water. Bearings and dis
tances of prominent objects from the bea-
con are approximately: Chatham light
house, N1aE, IA miles; Monomoy Point
lighthouse, NV by W3sW, 31s miles.
Monomoy lifht saving station. Nm
W94W, three and seven-eighths miles.
Bearings are magnetic; miles are nauti-
cal miles. The beacon is at present I'M
lighted. Due notice will be given of the
establishment of a light on the structure.
Since this beacon is designed to test the
endurance of a skeleton steel structure in
an exposed locality, masters of vessels
and others are requested to notify the
lighthouse officers at Boston or the light
house board at Washington of any change
in the condition of the beacon that may be
observed.
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Notice 10 Mariners.

Washington. Sept 2S.-Notice is given
by the lighthouse board that on Sept. 16
a square, red, pyramidal, skeleton steel
beacon, surmounted by an open cage work
ball, was established. in about IA feet Of
water (mean low tide, on the souther-
ly part of Pollock Rip shoal, about three
eighths of a mile NW12W from Pollock
Rip shoal buoy No. H. red, easterly en-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

Steamship Ancestry BD, Crisp, Ham,
burg and Decentralization & Bar
nard.
Steamship Coningsby (Br), Smith, Bar
celona and Genoa-Richardson & Bar,
nard.
Steamship Ayr (BD, Gibson, Genoa-J.
F. Minis & Co
Bark South African (BD, Gully, Rio
Grande do Sul-Strachan & Co.
Schooner Rob Roy, Norbury, Philadel-
phia-C. w. Howard & Co.
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Steamship Strathdon (BT, Philip, Liver
pool, via Delaware breakwater-W. w.
Wilson.
Bark Crown (Nor), Heberg, from quar-
antine-Paterson, Downing & Co.
Schooner Frank Nanderherchen, Craw-
ford, Philadelphia. w. Howard &, Co.
Schooner Annie T. Bailey, Reed, Phila-
delphia-John A Calhoun.
Schooner Harry a. Berwind. Wallace,
Philadelphia-C. W. Howard e co.
Steamer Ethel, Carroll, Augusta, and
way landings-W. T, Gibson. Manager.
Steamer II. G. Day, Hadden, Stoney
Bluff, and way landings-R. A. Ivey, Man
ager.
Steamer Doretta Strobhar, Button
John H. Judkins
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a. J. w. Cobb at Sanderson has rem
dered their verdict They failed to ge,
evidence that would place the guilt on
any person. 1t was a well-premeditated
plot to take the life of an innocent per-
son, The county commissioners will offer
a large reward for the assassin, with
proof to convict
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
MERCHANTS AND MINERS
TRANSPORTATION co.
RATES OF PASSAGE.

TO NEW YORK-Steamer and rail-
Cabin, limited days, $3.50. Cabin. I'M
limited. 5000. Excursion. limited 6
months, 1872. Second class, limited days,
STATS.
TO BOSTON-Steamer-C limited
days, 1924. Excursion, limited months, SO
Second class, limited days, 49,
TO WASHINGTON-Stea and rail-
Cabin. unlimited, 1920. Second class.
limited 5 days, 81 %.
TO PHILADELPHIA-St and rail
Cabin, unlimited $3.50. Excursion. lin
tied months, $500. Second class, uml.
ted days. $3.50.
TO PHILADELPHIA-St eamer-Cabjn.
unlimited, SIT. Second class, limited /
days, $11. 80.
TO BALTIMORE-Cabin $15 Excursion
limited months, SIS. Second class. 80
The steamships of this company are an
pointed to sail from Savannah to Balti.
more as follows STANDARD time):
D. H. MILLER, Capt Bnlups, sATUR-
DAY, Oct 2, at 1000 p. m.
ITAsCA, Capt James, WEDNESDAY.
Oct. 6. p. m.
BERKSHIRE, Capt Kirwan, SATUR-
DAY, Oct 9, at $50 p. m.
And from Baltimore every TUESDAY
and FRIDAY.
]. J. CAROLAN, Agent.
Savannah, Ga.
W. F. TURNER, G. P. A,
A. D. STEBBINS, A. T. NJ
]. c. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
General Offices. Baltimore Md.
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does not include The arrivals at quaran-
tine or Tybee, but only those vessels which
have arrived at the wharves and have
discharged cargo. or are in ballast, or
loading. 1t does not include river or in
land coast steamers, nor does it include
vessels under 100 tons. The arrivals, with
their rig and nationality, are as follows;
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
MACON TO HAVE MORE WATER.

Receivership of Water Company
Does Not Prevent improvements.
Macon, Ga, Sept. 3O.-The Macon Gas
Light and Water Company, which is in
the hands of receiver, commenced the
erection of a new pumping station to-day,
two miles above the city.
Judge Speer has authorized the issuance
of 100000 receivers certificates to cover
the cost of improvements. The water
supply will be doubled when the new sta
ton is put into operation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
For over FiftY Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children's teething. 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all pain
cures wind collie, and is the best remedy
for diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
--ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
STATISTICS OF THE PORT.
September Arrivals and Tonnage
The Vessels and Their Rfrs.

The Morning News gives to-day the to-
tai number of vessels arriving at this port
during the last month, with the rigs, ma,
donality and net tonnage. The number
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
A st. Augustine Hotel Sold.

st. Augustine, Fla, Sept. 3O.-The Hotel
Magnolia property here was transferred
by w. w. Palmer and wife to II. p. Am
midtown of New York to-day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
FOR BURNING QUITMaN's SCHOOL.
Harrison Committed to JaiI For Ar
son on the Negroes Testimony.

Quitman, Ga, Sept. SO.-The commit
ment of Ed Harrison, charged with burn
ing the graded school building, was held
to-day by Justice d. A. Royal of the Dixie
district. Harrison was remanded to iail
to await the action of the grand Jury at
the next term of the superior court.
The evidence for the state consisted in
the testimony of a negro detective and an
other negro. Harrison's defense was an
alibi, which he attempted to establish by
q number of witnesses
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
ConstNvise Exports.

Per schooner Rob Roy, for Philadelphia
-566564 feet of pitch pine lumber-Cargo
by John A. Calhoun.
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went 10 sea Yesterday.

Steamship Coniscliffe BD, Bremen.
Steamship NJ. NJ. Pinillos SPAN, BARGE
Iona.
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IF YOU WANT GOOD MATERIAL
and work, order your Autographed and
printed stationery and blank books from
Morning News. Savannah. Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

Pilot charts and all photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters of YES
sells free of charge in United States hy-
geographic office in custom house. Cap
tains are requested to call at the office
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department.
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River steamers Departed.
SHINING Memoranda.

Steamer Clifton, Strobhar, Beaufort
George U. Beach, Manager.
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Rcceints nt nniIrnndn.

Per Central Of Georgia Railway Sept.
SO.-5,2sl bales cotton, 275 tons pig iron,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
Savannah Almanac

Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises to-day at 6:09 and sets at 5:51
High water at Tybce to-day II II a. m
and 11:h p. m. High water at Savannah
one hour later.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

Baltimore, Sept. 30.-Advices received
here to-day report that the schooner John
II. Cannon, Capt Harrison, from Jack
sonville, Fla, for Baltimore loaded with
shingles, was dismasted in a gale on Sept.
q, 40 miles east Of Charleston. She was
abandoned and set on fire on Sept a.
The crew of the Cannon were taken off
by the schooner Greenleaf johnson and
landed to-day at Fortress Monroe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

Arrival This Morning.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Lewis, New
York-Ocean Steamship Company.
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steamer Passengers.

The time ball on Cotton Exchange drops
II m, 18th meridian time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01

Saturday nights only $50 p. m. and II p.
m. from Bolton street, cars leaving and
arriving into Bolton street. Passengers
change at Thunderbolt.
For Montgomery and 1887 a. m. and
2:30 and $50 p. M
Leave Montgomery 7:SO a. M, 1920 and
4:15 p. m.
For Thunderbolt cars leave Bolton street
depot on every hour and half hour during
the day and evening.
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FOR BLUFFTON AND BEAUFORT

Steamer Clifton leaves from foot Bull
street Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday at
10 a. M, city time.
H s. WESTCOTT, Agent
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Owing to the yellow fever in the south.
many vessels which have heretofore trad
ed to New Orleans and Mobile in the fruit
carrying trade from Central America have
been ordered to Philadelphia and New
York. The Norwegian steamship Harold
has arrived at New York and the John
Wilson, from Bocas del Toro, is due at
Philadelphia this week.
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IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Female Blind Tiger in Gainesville.
The Low water in the ChattnhOO-
chez Give Columbus COncern-Thc
Apple Crop VIII De LarEe-Thc
First Georgia Cane Syrup-An Eff
fort to Have JacksOnViIIe's Con-
victed Gamblers Pardoned-lNey
West on a BOom-The Murderer OF
A. j. w. Cobb at SandersOn Is sim
Unknown.
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Capt. Michael Lyons, an Old Pilot
Dead-Thrce CnrgOes of Cotton
observation-disclosures Harry A. Ber-
wind in Scvcnty-T1vO Hours Sails
From Delaware CGpes to Tybec
Arrivals of Vessels With Coal
Tonnage at the Port Last Month
Schooner John II. Cannon Lost
Ship Owners Warned Against
Trading With GundaIOupe, w. 1.
The flags OF all Of the vessels in port
and Of the Offices along the wharf were
at half-mast yesterday in respect to The
memory of Capt. Michael Lyons, the well
known pilot, who died at the Savannah
hospital at 7:15 a. m. Capt. Lyons had
been connected with the pilotage in the
Savannah river for forty-hve years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-16
FREEZE ON MOUNT TACOMA
Party Of Sight-Sees Caught in Fierce
Storm.
Their Provisions Give Out ana They
Narrowly Escape With
Their Lives.

TACOMA, Wash, August 16-J, E.
Mitchell and wife and Miss Jeanne Nc
Farlane of Sumner and Sergeant viii A.
Hall of Puyallup were nearly starved and
frozen to death at the top of Mount Tacoma
last week. They were held prisoners for
three nights and four days by a storm.
AS the party was ascending the mountain
the storm gathered and increased to a
hurricane just as they scrambled over the
mouth Of tine crater into a place of shelter
They remained huddled together during the
nrst night and not an eye closed in sleep.
The next day an attempt was made by
the men to prepare to escape. but the wind
blew them back from the craters rim
The second night was passed in a shell
steam rising on all sides. Prunes and hard
tack softened by the steam was the bill Of
iare, and before the morning OF the fourth
day every morsel had been devoured. In
addition to the prospect of freezing to
death the party was face to face with star
walton.
The storm broke on the fourth day and
all escaped. TIE Mitchell party reports
that the MaZamas burned for firewood the
big flag pole which Oscar Brown of Gle
Eium risked his life to carry to the top OF
the mountain five years ago. On this pole
the largest American flag ever unfurled at
a three-mile altitude was hung. Noun
tain climbers from all parts of the world
carved their names on the Flagstaff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-16
DOCKS FOR NAVAL VESSELS.
A Project to BE Submitted to (
Next Session of Congress-.

A Project to BE Submitted to the
Next Session of Congress.
Admiral Bunce, commandant Of the
Brooklyn navy yard; Commodore Chadwick,
chief of the equipment bureau, and Naval
Constructor Dashiel were in conference
with Acting Secretary Roosevelt at the
Navy Department today, considering in a
general way the subject of dry docks for
the naval vessels of the United States The
conference is preliminary to the prepara-
tiOn of a project for dry docks to be SUBJ
mitted to Congress at the next session.
The necessity which compelled the In
diana to go to Halifax to be docked has
aroused the Navy Department to the i'm
portance of having a system of docks in
this country which can be utilized for any
of the war vessels.
There have been many attempts in the
past to secure better docking facilities for
naval vessels, but SO far they have not
been successful. Several plans for the
building Of large docks at different naval
stations have been proposed. but mono has
yet been found satisfactory. Naval off,
GERS have urged the Importance of having
a large dock. either at Charleston, Mass,
or Portsmouth, N. H. also at Norfolk and
at some point on the gulf, possibly in the
mouth OF the Mississippi river near Al
giers, La, and another on the Pacific
coast. 1t Is expected that the reasons for
more docks and the urgent necessity OF two
or more capable OF holding the largest
battle ships will be set out In the project to
be submitted by the Navy Department.