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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

The Hoo-Ho mills at Call arc running
steadily and D. Tramway Call. president
Of the company reports good business on
hand with orders that viii keep them
hustliug TO their limit 10 fill They are
now shipping all order OF 100000 feet OF
yard stock That was taken the latter part
of last mouth, and this week confirmed an
order :or three cargoes for foreign ship
ment. air. Cali says they are well pleased
with the business they are doing. and
thinks the prospects arc bright for much
better demand than the mills are now eX-
periencing. Unlike the mills ri Orange.
the Hoo Hoo mills have had nc trouble IN
securing all the cars they needed. hence
are not handicapped in TINT way in get
ting out their orders promptly. Their car
go stuff goes both by rail aud water TO sa'
bine Pass. The artesan well recently I'm
ished Is giving satisfaction and Keeps the
pond well supplied.
There were nine big vessels loading
lumber at Sabine Pass last Monday. and
several more expected every day. Although
1t Is the off season In the export lumber
trade, there is little diminuticn in the
number OF vessels loading at the deep water
Port and is pretty GOOD evidence that when
the trade does open up again ship5 Ut Sa-
bine Pass will be as thick as bees.
The Orange and Wingate Lumber COM
panies have loaded this week the schooner
Siias for Galveston. the scow kllen for Sa-
bine Pass, the sloop Viola FOR Sabine Pass,
and the schooner Lorbano for Port Arthur,
NJ. T. Jones. president OF the Orange and
Wingate Lumber companies. has been on
TIE sick list at Houston this week out at
last reports Yves improving and 1t Is hoped
that he will be around again In few days.
The British s:Samer Benwyck arrived
Ell Sabine Pass last Tuesday ana VIII load
with lumber for q foreign port.
On the night OF August 20 the office.
store and stock Of merchandise and many
OF the records Of Croweli & Speneer's yell
low pine plant at Long Leaf. La, were
destroyed BY fire. The delay In their bus
mess was only temporary. however. and
they are running along as usual now.
Manager W. r. Lewis OF the Orange
Lumber company and Wingats Lumber
company, reports business from the In
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NOTES AND PERSONAL.

Mr.. Dan Saunders. the well known Kan
sas City lumberman, was in town Thurs
day.
Mr.. S. A. Long has gone out into the
State on some business for the Texas
Tram and Lumber company
The Drew & Powell mill at Lake Charles
having been completed 10 now running on
full time. II is said to be model IN
every respect
Mr.. w. A. Priddie Of the Reliance is
up In the northern part of the State and
will be absent several days.
Mr. George Ruffin. the well known seller
OF betting. was in town Thursday He
Is Just from the Arkansas and North Texas
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Der MARKET REVIEW
r Weekly Report of the Con-
4 dition of Trade.
DVED DEMAND FROM NORTHWEST
Pr Call for Building Material
han for Two Years Past.
Shipments by Rail.

nmont, Texas. September 4.-Thc'e
? in the condition of the market to-
THAT is different from that of Ia
h II any change has occurred 1t is
improved demand from the North
Ehere there is greater call for build
pterial Of all kinds than for two years
Il The orders now coming to South
rexas are the overflow from nearer
nearly all OF which, according to
are overloaded. some having bus
<booked four or five months ahead OF
he shipments. The requirements of
dealers have not perceptibly increas-
Fling the week, but there is an even
n orders and the promise OF sub
Rl improvement as cotton picking
pes. There is only . fair supply OF
Il bills in hand. but enough for the
bt. As a general thing railroads are
n buying to the extent 1t WAS thought
you'd. but there are two or three ex-
Hs TO the rule and from these the
&are receiving some large bills. The
tdemand is keeping IN we'll AM there
Pc trouble in getting sawn ttmbers
Efficient quantities to supply the de-
\ one unfavorahle feature OF the sit
is a scarcity OF cars. but so far there
Fen nc serious delay In shipments.
demand for shingles is quite good.
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CHARTERS FOR THE WEEK.

Following arc some OF the vessels that
bavc been chartered 10 take lumber car
goes from gulf ports. and shows the pre-
yailing rates
Italian bark Venetian. SAC tons. Mobile
OF Sabine Pass to Buencs Ayres, lumber,
sl2.
Schooner Merom, ssl tons. Apalachicola
10 Buenos hyrce, lumber, si2.50.
Schooner Jessie Lena. $40 tons, Sabine
Pass 10 Coatzacoalcos. lumter. $3.50.
Schooner Emma Knowlton. 900 tons. Mo-
bile to Sabine Pass, coal. Sl.75, thence 10
irogrcsso lumber. 81 American gold.
Schooner Priscilla Scribper. 49, tons. Da-
rien 10 Philadelphia. lumber, fl2is.
Schooner Adele Ball, fOl tons. Jackson
Vile and Palatka to New York. lumber.
private terms.
Schooner Humaroek. 800 tons. Brunswick
to New York. lumber. private terms.
Schooner Annie l., Henderson, iO7 tons.
Brunswick to Portland. lumber. sii2h.
British steamer Rose Castle, 1776 toms,
Pensacola or Ship Island to ROTTERDAM.
sawn timber, il5. September.
Spanish steamer Ernesio, 1862 tons. Pen
eacola 10 Fleetwood. Barrow or Greeuock.
sawn timber. 10.
British steamer Bcnwyck. i1Atous. Ship
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OF the farmer, who escapes drouth only
to be damaged by rain and storms or have
his crop eaten by boil worms or weevil
For long while the lumberrnan has wait
ed for orders, and To- when they come he
has no cars in which to ship them, so that
I'm the long run his troubles are unmiti-
gated and his pleasures go awry But
barely sufficient cars are now being fur
nished to transport material to vessels in
danger of going on demurrage. and hence
shipments to the interior are being some
what delayed. The fear is expressed. how
ever, that the development OF shortage
of cars before the cotton movement sets
in foretelis unusual hardships for the
lumberman while cotton is being rushed
to market
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ROCKEFELLERs GIFT.
Check for the Balance of His $780,
900 Ia baptist Missions.

Boston. Mass. September 3.-John d..
Rockefeller. In pursuance OF promise to
tho American Baptist Missionary union
and tho American Baptist Home Mission
airy society. has sent his check for the
balance OF the s25o.0o0 to be given by him
OH condition that the TWO societies should
raise $4,000. on August IS the American
Baptist Missionary union, which has head
quarters In fremont temple In this city.
received Mr.. Rockefeller's check for s12l.-
1877 Now the American Baptist Home
Missionary society tho headquarters OF
!. hich are Ia New York city. has received
check for the amount necessary to can
eel its Indebtedness. This contribution II
the largest gift ever made to the Inisslon-
airy cause.
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CONSERVATISM IN PRODUCTION.

CONSERVATISM IN PRODUCTION.
One Of the great difficulties in the trade,
says the Tlmberman, lies in the fact that
it is so widespread, is practically all under
uniform freight rates and is so easy 10
extend. Ii is hardly an exageration TO
say that within six months the output
OF yellow pine could be nearly doubled.
The possible production is sufficient TO
supply almost any ina glnable demand.
With such condition OF things, conser-
vatsm is always a safe course. When
prices advance and there comes to be a
positive profit in the business, there is q
great temptation 10 increase the output
Of established mill, and to undertake new
enterprises. Such D. tendency should be
fought against. T q times have been out
Of joint for so lor.g and the development
Of the yellow pine business has been 80
great during the time of light demand
that 1t is difficult to estimate with any
accuracy just how the present capacity
is proportional to a norIn1s demand. II
the demand OF 1898 shall develop to such
proportions as many anticipate. II may
be found that the producing capacity is
not much in excess OF the demand, and
yet we may find that 1t is much larger
than 1t should be. This uncertainty ex-
listing. a conservative policy is the only
safe one"
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the time stated there has been a
over the same period of 1896 OF 1866
|loads-an average of about 145 car
+ per month. Besides the lumber
Jed by rail large quantities have gone
later to Sabine Pass. so that in the
egate the business OF the eight months
,een reasonably satisfactory.
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SHORTAGE OF CARS.

loughout the lumber manufacturing
ps Of the country there have been
complaints for the past months Of
famine. The shortage of cars was
In reaching this section. but it is
now In all Its gloom. Lumbermen
|eginning to think that their troubles
Privations are As numerous a. those
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THE ORANGE MARKET.
CONDITIONS ARE BETTER THAN
FOR THREE YEARS.
Indications Are for. Heavy Water
Shipments During the Coming
Month-AuRust Shipments.

Orange, Texas. September 4.-On the
this week than al any time within the
past three years, and the manufacturers
at this place have little cause for COM
plant. Business from the interior shows
a gratifying increase for the month Just
ended. shipments by rail being i03 cars in
excess of those OF the previous months
and would have been much more but for
the shortage in cars and the inability of
the railroad company to supply all the
acquisitions made upon them by the mills.
Owing to the very incement weather that
prevailed a greater part OF the time and
other local causes which delayed the
leading OF vessels at Sabine Pass. ship
mepis by water were lighter from this
place during the month OF August than
for several months previous, but indica-
tions are that September will record heavy
shipments by this route. as tho mills are
working on and have booked some large
orders for which vessels have been char
tered and will load out from Sabine Pass
this month. Every mill office visited re-
ports an increase In Interior business. and
all the orders received are not being book
ed. II being a frequent occurrence for or
ders to be turned down where all the con-
ditious were not as favorable as the manu-
facturer would like to have them.
The lumber manufacturers are In con-
srltatioD in Houston and revised list
carrying higher prices Is looked fer as q
result. The Missouri and Arkansas mill
men met at Texarkaua, and like result
there. The demand is good. stocks are
broken and there is no logical reason why
an adyanca shnnld..nnt be made.
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SHIPMENTS 1895 1896 AMI 1897.
The following are the monthly shipments
include the lumber sent out by vessel.
via Sabine Pass:
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RAIL SHIPMENTS.

ting the eight months OF '97 the lum-
shipments from this point via the
9ern Pacific were IL ,265 car loads.
lbly forty or fifty car loads have gone
pc Interstate. so that the total has
been much greater than 1850. The
fs by month this year and In 1896
follows:
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The A. Gilmcr mills shut down yester-
day for few days TO connect up the now
boilers and get things in shape for 81 steady
run when they start up again. The new
band mills are turning cat q very fine
quality OF yellow pine lumber and tie
new boilers will glvo sufficient power TO
run both sides Of thu mill.
In their mail Monday morning last the
Lutcher Il Moore Lumber company roceiv-
ed orders from the interior for 400 900
feet OF yard stock This is pretty good
for one mail and proves conclusively that
tn" interior trade is picking up rapidly.
With the demand atiIl increasing.
D. Tramway Call with his wife. will
make trip 10 Detroit. where he VIII take
in the great Hoo Hoo annual on the 9th in
slant They Will visit several other cities
before their return and the~ trip VIII be
prolonged until about the 18th.
The barge Mexico was loaded at tia
bancroft Lumber oompany's mill this week
for the American schooner Jessie Lena,
loading Mt Sabine Pass for Coatzacoalcas.
Tho Lutcher * Moore Lumber company
have loaded the barge Sabine with lumber
for the schooner Gertrude A. Bartlett.
which VIII take cargo from Sabine Pass
to Mexican port
The schooner Gertrude A. Bartlett ar
rived at Sabine Pass Tuesday with a cargo
OF coal for the jetty company After dis
charging she viii talie on q cargo Of iutn-
Der for a Mexican port.
W. II. Carson OF the Central Coal and
Coke company at TexarkaDa visited Orange
on business mission this week
". ". Syfah OF Pensacola, representing
The Pitch Pine Lumber company OF New
York who visited here last week. was again
here TUESDAY. after visiting beaumont and
Sabine paaB.
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pLENrIFUI. SUPPLY OF ORDERS.


Mr.. w. II. Carson. manager of the lurn-
Der department OF the four C's company
at Texarkana, was here Wednesday morn
Ing. He says has company has orders now
on its books for 100 carloads of yard lum-
Der, which is not great deal for a manu-
facturer of his capacity; but there are
other companies, he says, Of not over half
the capacity OF his mill that have an equal
numher of orders booked. The smaller
mills will not be able to fill the orders
they now have before next spring. The
necessary delay on the part of the manu-
facturers added to the general car shortage
will cause dissatisfaction among dealers
and force many of them 10 cancel the
orders they have placed and look elsewhere
for their material. He expects the fall
demand to exceed that Of five or six years
ago.
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The bark Venetian has been chartered
by Boston parties to take cargo OF 600,-
900 feet Of lumber from Sabine Pass to
Buenos Ayres. tha material to be furnished
by Orange mills.
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AUGUST SHIPMENTS.

Three Of the Orange mills report ship
ments for August as follows:
Bancroft Lumber company
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Island or Sabine Pass TO London. Liver
pool, Fleetwood. Grcenock or Barrow. sawn
timber no,
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Tho British ship Albania is due at Sa-
bino Pass, having been chartered by New
York parties to take out a cargo Of 1900
900 feet OF lumber destined for the River
Platte. The material viii be furnished by
the Orange and Wingate Lumber compa-
MES.
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terror picking UP right along and his two
mills have all they can handle.
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dressed -. ............... 2ls.:
Rough. ...... .................. S3e,l
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The British s:1amer Benwyck arrived
ct Sabine Pass last Tuesday ana win load
with lumber for foreign port.
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W. II. Carson OF the Central Goa! and
Coke company al TexarkaDa visited Orange
on a business mission this week.
The herald., 1897-09-05
In Construction of Section
Twenty-Five
A CABINET Meeting CALLED
TO CONSIDER DISCRIMINATING
DUTIES
The Question to Be Decided Involves
q Matter Of Three Millions
Of Revenue
Associated Press Special Wire,

Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Sept. A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Presi-
dent Mckinley and the entire member
ship of the Cabinet will probably be con-
suited before Attor1ey-Gene McKen-
struction to be placed upon section % of
the Dingley law, imposing discriminat-
ing duties.
The Attorney General expected to an
nounce hiS report this week. but now
the understanding is that it Is to be held
back until next week, and in the mean
time the President will cut short his out
ing and return to Washington. It Is
probable that the question will be SUBJ
ject of general exchange of views at
meeting of the Cabinet before the opin-
ion is written.
The questions involved are so import
ant that all the light possible is to be
thrown upon them before the adminis-
tration is committed to a construction
which might demoralize the entire for
eign commerce of the country, andwhich
involves a matter of about So, 900 900 per
year in customs revenues, according to
the calcula tons of the officials of the
Treasury Department: This calcula tion
is made on the basis of last year imports
and the assumption that the imports un-
der the discriminating duty would be
practically the same in value ard would
come in ships of the same nationalities.
British ships bringing goods from
other countries than British territory in
Europe would be the heaviest sufferers,
and it is expected that one result of the
imposition of this duty would be the
transfer Of many ships to the flags of ma
tions having more favorable treaties
with the United States.
The more general assumption is that,
on account of the imposition of these
duties on goods coming into the United
States through a contiguous country, the
transcontinental roads OF the United
States would be benefited at the expense
Of the Canadian Pacific road; but when
it is taken into consideration that the
steamship connections of most of these
roads would be unfavorably affected, it
appears that the only road which would
gain much advantage is the Southern
Pacific, which, having connections with
the American Line steamships, would
have the advantage of discrimination in
favor of its steamships as well as against
it's Canadian rival.
About the only cities that would gain
any decided advantage would be Hall
fax and St. John, as the effect Of the dis
eliminating duty on goods brought into
the United States over the Canadian Pa
cific would tend to break up the transit of
such goods through New England to the
seaboard and divert this traffic to those
ports in British territory.
The herald., 1897-09-05
Christian Socialists

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.-The new
ly organized National League for the
Propagation Of Christian Socialism has
elected the following officers: President,
Paul Tyner Of Denver, founder Of the
Civic Church; Vice ePresident Rev.
William H. Morland Of San Francisco,
pastor of st. Luke's Episcopal Church;
Treasurer, John M. Reynolds, Of San
Francisco Secretary, Rev. j. E. Scott
of San Francisco, editor of the Social
Economist; California member Of the
National Executive Committee, James
Andrew of San Francisco; National Or
ganizer, Rev. w. D. Bliss Of Boston.
The herald., 1897-09-05
ARGENTINE DUTIES
President Urbuyeau Advocates Re-
taliatory Tariff

President Urbuyeau Advocates Re-
taliatory Tariff
NEW YORK, Sept. IA special to the
Herald from Buenos Ayres says: Pres
ident Urbuyeau has sent a message to
Congress In which he advocates, as a
measure of retaliation against the
United States, increased duties on arti-
cles imported in large quantities from
that country. In his message the Pres
ident specifies particularly as articles
on which the duties should be largely in
creased, petroleum, lumber, plows, and
all agricultural implements and machin-
cry which are imported largely from the
United States. Higher duties, the Pres
ident explains, should be imposed be-
cause Of the recent difficulties which the
Dingley tariff has thrown in the way Of
the expectation from this country to the
United States. The proposed increase
in duties advocated by President Ur-
buyeau will amount to $500,000 in gold.
The President hopes that special con-
ventions can be negotiated with the
United States and other countries pro-
viding for greater liberality to Argen-
tina products before 1t will be necessary
to enforce the increased duties if they
should become law.
The herald., 1897-09-05
Electrical QuarrelO

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4-The con.
troversy for supremacy between the
Electric Light and Power Company and
the Mutual Electric Company has
reached the Supreme Court. The Mu-
tual Company petitioned for a writ of
injunction to restrain the Superintend-
ent Of Streets from interfering with 1t
in erecting poles on Market street, in
this city, and the lower court denied the
petition. While the Supreme Court up
holds the order of the lower court it
says, 1.-THE contradicted affidavits show
plainly that 1t is deliberate attempt to
drive one corporation out of the field in
the interest of another by the oppressive
and unlawful use Of official power"
The court intimates that a remedy
may be obtained in the lower courts.
presumably action against the Super
visors.
The herald., 1897-09-05

stop the train. These men continued
guarding the engine crew while the other
two raided an express car. They got into
the car before the messenger had time to
bolt the door. He refused to give up the
combination or the keys Of the safe until
he had been knocked down several times.
The robbers also threatened to shoot him
If he would not open the safe. Nobody
came to his assistance, and he finally
opened the safe. He was kept covered
by gun in the hands of one robber while
the other rifled the safe. The registered
mail was also ransacked. Posses are
securing the country In search Of the
CobberS
The herald., 1897-09-05
BOTH DEAD
Two Kentucky Children Bitten by
Rattlesnakes

DANVILLE, KY, Sept. 4.-Willie,
aged T. and Eddie. aged 9, sons of Mat
thew Cox, a farmer living near Manns-
vile, Taylor county, met terrible death
from rattlesnake bites. They were play
ing hide and seek with some other chill
dren and Willie ran into the bushes and
failed to reappear at the proper time
Presently Eddie heard cries from his
little brother, and Fastening to his aid
found, as he first thought, that his head
had become fastened in the trunk Of an
old stump. In trying to pull his brother
from the stump, Eddie found that four
big rattlers were biting Willie time and
again. Greatly frightened, but deter
mined to rescue his brother, Eddie
reached in for better hold and was Bit
ten repeatedly.
The cries of the children attracted
some men and they were finally rescued
from their perilous position. but not un-
til they were past all aid. One died in
five minutes, and the other in ten. The
four snakes were killed, and 1t was
found that the youngest child had
jumped into their nest in the hollow Of
an old stump.
The herald., 1897-09-05
Endeavor Finances

SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 4EThe f1nan-
cial statement Of the Committee of '97
of the sixteenth International Christian
Endeavor Convention shows a balance
in the hands Of the Treasurer Of $2274.
OF the entire receipts, s32,331, the bust
ness men of this city contributed SIS, 900
and the various Christian Endeavor So
cieties $500. 1t is proposed to distribute
the balance as follows: One hundred
dollars to the Epworth League gospel
wagon. $500 to the work among sailors
(foating work., under the Alameda
county union, and whatever balance
may be left for the purchase Of nap
tha launch to be used in work among
the sailors on the Bay of San Francisco.
The herald., 1897-09-05
Supreme Court Decisions

preme Court today handed down a num-
ber Of decisions, among them that Of a
petition from George F. Church, for a
writ Of mandate to compel Comptroller
Colgan to issue warrants for his salary,
alleged to be due petitioner as Superior
Judge of Fresno county for November
and part Of December, 1885, Granted.
The appeal of Frank Wilson of San
Diego, sentenced to three years impris-
onment for assault to murder on the per-
son Of John McInnes, was denied.