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e5jv : , . 0 w film or' 13 iQI VOL. XXI. SALEM, OliKGOV, Tl'ESDAV,-JAXIMUY 10, 1011. NO. K. Vv 1 1 1 1 1 - jST- W I i II (1 U " ' - WEST ClOW, BENSON, INAUGURAL CEREMONIES III JOINT CONVENTION IN HALL DF REPRESENTATIVES At Request of Acting Governor Benson, Acting Governor Bow erman Delivered a Message Reviewing Conditions And Governor West Also Delivered Message Outlining His Poli cies and Calling Attention to Matters Requiring Action on the Part of the Legislature. The Inaugural ceremonies were conducted In the Hall of Representa tives this afternoon at 1:30., The messages of retiring Governor Bower man and the incoming Governor West were read and Acting Governor Benn Selling, president of the senate, pre sided over the ceremonies. Governor Itowermun's Message. At the request of Governor Benson, Acting Governor Bowerman delivered a message reviewing the conditions of the state government which he was turning over to his successor. Fol lowing are some of his recommenda tions: . ' That tide and overflow lands be withdrawn from sale for 10 years. That a state board of control be created to purchase all supplies for state -institutions, in support of this the showing that the practice of ad vertising for bids on supplies bad been abolished in. some cases, and that in a single year over $12,000 had ben paid out for architects' fees alone. He" described in detail the location of the branch asylum In Umatilla county. Favors a uniform system' of ac counting. ' Advocates a public service commis sion tor all corporations, Including a pubtle control of all issuing of stocks and bonds. Advocates an employers' liability act and favors the amendment to do away with costly litigation. CITY DADS HAVE BUSY SESSION IX) NOT 1NDCLGK IN MUCH OHA TOKY, Ill'T GOT IXWN TO IUSI JiKhS, AM) ATTENDS TO IT bTMCTLY The city council held a meeting last night. The business through out was of a routine character, anJ was as follows: Speculations for. the improvement of Twenty-fourth street from State street to the state fair grounds were presented and referred, together with a remenstrance against the improve ment to the eity engineer ' A resolution was introduced di recting the library to vacate the coun cil chamber, so that all of It might be used for. the council and other city of ficers. Thirty-two candle power lights were ordered installed at Wilson and fir, Wilson and Saginaw, Saginaw ,ni LaSalle, Fir and LaSalle, Che meketa and Third, Highland and Myr V, Highland and Hazel, Capitol and Shipping, North Summer and Ship ping. ' ' , . . A petition asking for the improve ment of Market from Liberty to Front was referred to the city engln- ; A petition asking for a cement sidewalk on Commercial and Mission was referred to the street commit tee. i The viewers appointed to assess the damages to property owners on Hickory street submitted a report. and It was referred to. the city attor ney. A petition was presented declaring the vinegar and pickle factory of Gid eon Stolz a nuisance, and asking that it be abated; Mr. tSolz submitted a 9plr to the petition, stating that he IN PLACE OF BOVVER Favors employment of convict labor in building state highways. Favors .redisricting the state to give better representation in the leg islature and to give each county a representative. That the state Join the city of Sa lem in securing pure water supply. Amending primary law so that all citizens can participate and to abolish alphabetical arrangement of names. Exposes administration of Forest reserves under Plnchot system. Demands encouragement of railroad construction. Attacks distribution of Reclamation fund. ' , - Favors employment of state mili tia as Are wardens. Asks that office of assistant secre tary of state and state auditor be created and finishes his message as follows: "In conclusion, I trust that your labors-may .b' marked 'WlUr fidelity, and accomplished in '.harmony and that at the adjournment of this ses sion you may each return to your several homes conscious of duty well performed and feeling that the ardu ous and under compensated services of a member of the Oregon legislature have been discharged successfully, with integrity and fearlessness, solely In the interests of a progressive state government of this magnificent com monwealth." Governor West's message is given on. another page. would Hke to have it inspected by the city physician and sanitary inspector, and they were directed to inspect it. ,Clty Attorney Corby asked that Attorney Heltzei be appointed as a deputy at $50 a month, and be al lowed $10 stenographer fee. Alder man Durbin opposed it, until he learned that he was to serve from month to month, at thii discretion of the city attorney and eounc'l, when he withdrew his objections. A. N. Bush submitted a communi cation, In which he charged that the Improvement work on Mission street was not being properly done, and ii was referred to the committee on streets and the city engtnifter. An ordinance prescribing the du ties of the street commissioner, and fixing his salary was passed. ' A bill providing for the improve ment of Asylum avenue was passed. Also a bill providing for the 'mprove ment of Twenty-fourth street, o ONE LUNGERS ARE JUBILANT OVER THE RAIN UNITED PRESS LEAHD Willi ' Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 10. With rain still 'falling, after an almost steady downpour during the night, farmers of Southern, California awoke this morn'ng optimistic and variously estimated that the rain had saved from $50,000,000 , to $60, 000,000 worth of crops. Dealers in produce and fruit growers declare that the rain .is the most beneficial that has fallen in ten years. The rain was of inestimable value to the beet ind bean crop. A Saw. telle bean raiser declared today he considered the rainfall had benefit ted that d'strlct from $5 to $50 an acre. Grain men are' Jubilant. Or ange and lemon orchards will need no further winter irrigation. He who beautifies the . earth with trees will erstwhile in paradise take bis ease. GOVERN! win SELLIOl Works California's Senator. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 10. With a vote of 62 to 16 in the assembly, John D. Works, of Los Angeles, became United States senator from Califor nia. "The number necessary to elect on joint ballot was 61. At the time the result of the vote in the assembly was an nounced in the senate the upper house had not yet voted. - Its vote, however, was merely ptf functory. The assembly alone had elected Works. KRfcl) nYNON YOUNGEST 'EMPLOYE OF THE STATE Fred Bynon has the distinction of being the youngest page in the sen ate. He is but wight years of age, and began his campaign for the place yesterday, and, while engaged in dis tributing his cards among the sena tors, he also managed from time to time to get in a lltle work as a page, but it was not until this morning, when he was appoint by President Selling, that he entered actively up on his duties. . Besides Bynon there were three other pages appointed by President Selling, Allan V. Jones, Gerald Kneeves and John Alexandre. They also entered In upon their duties this morning, and could be seen busi ly scurrying around' gathering up resolutions and bills, and otherwise waiting upon the solons. Mysterious Shooting In 'Los Angeles. Los Angeles. Calif., Jan. 10. The authorities today are trying to solve a mystery involved in a battle be tween police and thugs last night in which two officers and an alleged footpad were shot.. Policemen Held and Private Watchman Stewart fought a duel with two men, one of whom the police believe is Charles . Buck man, who after being wounded, was captured. Both officers were also wounded. Buckman claims he was shot by two men. who ran when the Officers approached. INNOCENT -BUT SERVED EIGHT YEARS MEXICAN SENT TO PRISON IN 19112 FOR LIFE, FOR MURDER, IS SHOWN TO BE INNOCENT AND IS GIVEN A PARDON. UNITED I'BIWS LEASED WIRE. Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 10. Con victed in 1902 of a murder, it has since been shown he did not commit and sentenced to life imprisonment at San Quentln, Seriano Gonzales, Mexi can, is back in Los Angeles today a free man. He has just been par doned through the efforts of Leonard Mordaunt of the Union Rescue Mis sion here. Mordaunt submitted to the government proof of the innocence of Gonzales. The Mexican was con victed on circumstantial evidence of the murder through the testimony given by a railroad man. SEATTLE. SIIIVEUS AT SIGHT OF SNOW UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRB.l Seattle, Wash., Jan. 10. The first snow of the yefrjr fell in Seattle last night, and today people are shiv ering with the thermometer at the unaccustomed figure of 32 degrees. The snow Iks on the streets and housetops and more, is predicted. o MONTANA LEGISLATURE FAILS TO ELECT T UNITED PEEa LBAEED WIRE. Helena, Mont., Jan. 10. Voting for United States senator to succeed Thomas H. Carter began in the Mon tana legislative assembly today. To day's ballot showed the following re sult: Thomas H. Carter, 31; T. J. Walsh, 28; W. G. Conrad, IS; scattering, 22. Necessary, for choice, 60. Snow Ditched Juc; Vancouver, B. t", ; n. 10. Sliding along the m,Vils. made slippery by the heiiff snow, a Great Northern eng1 drawing a long freight trains plunged through the open ' vVa,v tnis forenoon. Engine r Biker stunk with the engine and 'made the 30-foot drop, getting free and swimming to safety, Fireman Farrell jumped before the plunge. The accident was wit nessed by hundreds of persons on their way to work over the Westminster avenue fridge and a miniature panic Jensued as the big machine hunfor an In- stant over the end of it he bridge then broke from its'- coupling and plunged into the cold waters of False creek. dim i SIGHT OF Barges Broke Loose' From Tug in Heavy1 Storm and Are Soon Wrecked ' by Fierce Waves. SEVENTEEN ARE DROWNED Lift-savers Mak ' Heroic Hut' Futile f Attempts to Reach' the Drowning . the Launching of the Lifeboats . The Men Were All Drowned . in Slftlit of Hclplettg LlfoMuveiti. Provtaecrtowjn, M-tas., Jan. 10. Seventeen men were drowned today Then three barges belonging to the Philadelphia & Reading .railroad were sunk near here. The barges were being convoyed by the tug Lukens. According to the HfltBavers, there were seven .'men on, the first barge and five each on the others. The men drowned In sight of the shore -aftpr a long battle to keep afloat. The lifesavers assert that they saw 1 7 men on thin wrecked barges. The last man managed to remain afloat until after 10 o'clock. He was lashed to a spar on one of the barges. The spar wa broken loose and the man swept Into thie water, sinking at once. Another man who managed to cling to the deck, although the waves wire washing over It, saw that the rescuers would not be able to reach him. He launched a dory and tried to row ashore. The heavy waves cmpslzed his boat, and he was drowned before he hi4 pulled two boat lengths away from the barge. The Lukens was en route up the coast from Philadelphia with the barges Corbin, Pine Hill and Treawr ton. The hawser parted and the barges drifted apart The Corbin and the Treaverton qudckly sank. I The Pine H'll was swept by the tide on a bar near Peaked Hill and hung there. Thw lifesavers at High Head, Peaked Hill and Race Point tried for hours to launch their lifeboats, but the heavy surf made their egorts futile. SENATE IS It tlEED OF ELNVITES SALEM MINIHTEKS TO OFFICIATE THK HILLS INTRO DICED RANGE FROM TAXA TrOX TO THE FIXING THE SIZE OF FIRECRACKERS. Giving it as his opinion that, save the lawyers and he might have in cluded some of them the members TUElOiiE 1 I PRAYERS TI HOUSE GETS DOw'iJ T AND FLOOD Three Dollar CoinpniiU'K. . ; San Francisco, Jan. 10. The Stanley Dollar Steamwhlp Com- pany, the' Harold Dollar Stoam- ship Company and the Stanley & Company filed )otters of Cor porate disorganization with the superior court today. It Is un- derstood that the dlsorganiza- tion is the first step in the way of forming one company to take over the business of the four concerns, ' of the senate would not know how to use a supplementary law digest If they were provided with one, and (Jxat to Instruct the secretary to pro vide each member with a work of that kind, would be but saddling up on the state an. unnecessary expense, Senator, Malarkey this forenoon, in the senate, registered his objection against the purchase of the work, and the result Is that when the ses sion lis over that the mtambers will not carry with them to their homes a digest of the value of $7.60, and the state 1s just ahead the neat little sum of $225. The question came up when the committee on resolutions recom mended that a resolution instructing the -secretary of stAitSa to provide each member In the senate with a copy of Lord's Ijiwb of Oregon, and also A supplementary digest. The di gest Is a compilation of decisions In cases In the state, and is being placed on the market by Bam-rot-Whitney &:Compjiny,,t. $7.9 .ctC wnseii Senator Slnnoe"to' prick np hisears and make a few Inquinfca and Senator Malarkey to register his objections against it. - Upon the hetds of It came a demand for the committee ex plain Just why they had incorporated such 'A provision in the resolution, but then was no explanation. After a thorough understanding was' se cured of the resolution Senator Sln nott and a number of other senators interposed their objections and the (Continued on Fage 4.) colFwave dodged to THE EAST WHILE THERE WAS A LIGHT FALL OF SXOW, IT WAS THE SLOITV KIND, AXI) THK COLD PART OF THE STORM WENT EAST. UNITED mat tJIAEEC WISE.) Portland, Or., Jan. 10. The cold snap, which it is predicted by the United States weather bureau will last for several days in the North west, was ushered In today with snow Btorms in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Eastern Oregon and cold rains along the const of South ern Oregon. A light snow fell In Portland la-st, night, the first of the season. The cold wtwe follows a heavy rain and wind storm, which began Sunday, and did not end until lati" yesterday. Reports from all over the North west today show that the tempera ture dropped from 10 to 4 0 degrees, and It is expected that the mercury Will. go lower tomorrow. 'The wave originated in Alaska, and followed the coast down to Van couver, D. C, where it shifted a,nd started eastward. It Is expected Col orado and the Dakota will feel the grip of the wave In two days. o Increased the VvmtUm.' (CMITED rtEEl UiEBO WIES. Washington, Jan. 10. Pensions for Civil, Mexican and Spanish war veterans were Increased as far as the house Is concerned today, whin It passed the Sulloway jtenslon bill. The measure carries an annual addition of $45,000,000 to the present pen sion appropriation bill. Good thinking Is the fanning mill which cleans the chaff from the OF BILLS BREAKS LO FIRST BILL AIMED AT VICE SECOND AT DEATH PENALTY THIRD HONORS COLUMBUS The Session of 1909, When 615 Bills Were Introduced, May Be Surpassed in Legislative Fecundity Speaker Rusk Not Disposed to Pay Attention to Technicalities, and Will Keep the Business of the House Moving Rapidly. The house got the first taste of real legislative life this morning when the members began to storm the speak er's desk with bills and resolutions, but Speaker Rusk was equal to the occasion and is not disposed to stand for technical objections, over-ruling his closest friends when they raise points of order. He rushes business and clears the desk . In short order. Llbby got in the first bill. and It was followed by others of like character, alined at social vice. Johnson was a close second with a bill to abolish capital punishment. In the senate Patton landed three of his little friends for pages and seems to be next there. He wlU have the honor of being the only Salem man in either house who had the good luck to land right on the organization! ' In the house Steelhammer and Llbby showed themselves to be good guessers and will be close on the inside where the important work wilt be done. , r JunketH find Grafts. , "The- bouse ppened without ' prayer and this irreligious mood was height ened by introduction of the usual flood of resolutions, and graft propositions for Joint committees to visit state in stitutions and employ clerks and ex- parts. The first debate was over reading bills by title only, Eggleston cited the constitution which requires bills to be read in full on three separate days. McKlnney cited the ruleB of the house to the same effect, but the speaker overruled both points and the bills were read by title only under suspension. Dills Introduced. No. l; by Llbby, to prohibit traffic in girls and women, known as white slavery. No. 2, by Johnson, to aboliHh capi tal punishment No. 3, by Cole to declare June 12 as Columbus Day. No. 4, by Colo, to provide for pub lishing code by state. No. Ii, by riiiclmnan, to provide for payment of. claims of Indian war vet erans. No. 6, by Iluchanan, to prohibit cir culation of secret work of fraternal orders. No. 7, by Clement, to prevent suit en assigned claims against municipal ities. No. 8, by Clemens, to authorize county hospital at Portland. No. 9, by Clemens, to amend Initia Heavy Suits and This is the time to fix the t ing, We have retjuped our While They Last t All wool suits, heavy weight, NOW All ages, 9 to 1 6 years, Salem Woolen Mill tive and referendum act tor cities. No. 10, by Clemens, to exempt legis lators from Jury duty during their term of office. No. 11, by Chatten, to amend coda relating to fishing on Willamette- riv er. , No. 12, by Chatten, for trout hatcb, erles. - No. 13 by Abbot, for topographic maps. No. 14, by Clyde, providing for abol ishing; death penalty. No. 15, by Graves, for Yamhill county fair. No. 16, by Simpson, to prevent crime No. 17, by Simpson, to prevent prostitution. Names Three Pages. Speaker Rusk named a pages: Deane Curtis, Eugene Houston, and Irwin Mann. ' Curtis and Houston have been on duty from the opening 'hour of the session. Eugene Is a son of R. B. Houston, of South Salem. Deane is' s son ol -U'-Q.'. Curtis, of South Salem. Irwin is a son of Rep resentative Mann, of Umatilla and ar rived today. They are three, very competent boys. Committee on Clerks. Llbby, Miller, J. W. Eaton, Hunt ington, Raokllff, pierce, Smith, Eggle ston, Buchanan, Bonebrake, Powell,. Chambers, Brownhlll, Beals, Hoi Us,. Jones, Chatten, Bryant, M. E. Miller, Holland, Thompson, Mahony, Mann, Rusk. Church, Brook, GUI, Buckley. His Dreiim Was True. fOKITID FBEBE LBAftaD WIBE.I Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 10. Wal ter Bulloch Is in a local hospital to day anxiously awaiting word from his father, a wealthy Unen berchant in Ireland, following the receipt by oilier or fonce seD.isllan or a cable gram from Bulloch, Sr., in which the father stated that ho had a vision of his son pMiinllosH and sick; and re quested that the chief search for the young man. Sebastian had a notice Inserted in local papers, and young Bullaoh saw it, and notified the chief th;tt he was the son of the man whose dream had spanned the oceans separating them. Sebastian cabled the father that his son wus ill and without funds here. If you must borrow go to a pessi mist, lie won't expect to get It back. Tako politics out of the state's busi ness. Wool O'Coats boy out in eood warm cloth- young men's and boys' stock regular values $4.50 to $1.50 Store