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DAILY CAPITAL JOUBSAt, SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 85, 1912, Iiire Toar Mill Creek Bridge Is Condemned For a few days lit least, residents located east of the bridge spanning Mill creok mi the penitentiary road, wil! be oompolled to make a wide dn tour In order to reach this city. Tin; bridge- was condemned by the county court this morhlng as being unaafo for traffic. The center bents have been dislodged by high water, and tho structure Is in a general poor condi tion. Steps were taken to repair the bridge this morning, but, owing to it being ChrlstmnB, no laborers could be procured. IH'ILDIMl MILES OK SIDEWALK. (Continued from page 1.) HroKrty of M. I'. Paniuentcr, L. J5. Gardner and Mrs. Ella Tucker; east tiide of Liberty between Norway and Shipping in front of the property f J. Clem Lewln; cant side of Liberty IxMween Columbia and Academy In front of the properly of Louulla Knlgbten. Referred Resolutions. Kant Hide of Nineteenth between DERBY & COMPANY 207-208 United States National Bank Building Sell Farm and City Property All Kinds of Fruit Tracts Call, Write or Phone. ...Globe Theatre... Wednesday and Thursday 2-ki:i:i,. nu n it i: -2 AT SAI'OLKOVS COMMAND INKS Speclaeular war film purl raying the great emperor in tho midst of his court and upon the battlefield. THE (J1IM.S AND A MAN VITA IIR0NCO IIIIXIF.'S MEXICAN WIFE ESSANAY ALL THIS WEEK, MISS NELLIE ltOHEUTS, ALTO. Globe . ' ALWAYS THE l'H'E ORGAN GLOBE PICTURES AND MUSIC FEATI KES MAKE THIS THEATKE THE l'KIDE OF SALEM. Is it Hard to Get Up These Mornings A Vulcan Gas Heater will soon make the room warm and comfortable, A coke burner will soon heat the kitchen. Instantaneous Water Heater will .quickly heat the bath water, COKE IS THE BEST FUEL FOR THE FURNACE .Costs less ami .dves more heat than wood or coal, Why not have tho house warm for the kiddies Christmas morning?; V; . -' Cook With Gas PHONE 85 The Gas Company Royal and Chemeketa In front of the property of John Knight; west sldo of Nineteenth, between Center and Che meketa In front of the property of H. F. Boise, Isaac Conklin, II. N. Goode, F, J. Cotturman, D. T. Crenel, Henrl ftta CornlHh, Miss Dora Walker, J Skalfe and Josephine Skalfo. jcsj()csfc)cs(9c!c)'K'KK'l'K X-RAYS AND SMILES. A merry Chrlstniaa and man moro of them la theearnoHt wish of The Capital Journal for all its readers anil somo others. The Pullman company is to raise the pay of all Its employes. Must have been an extra amount of Christmas spirit in Bight this year to have moved this company to pay its employes without passing that Job over to Us patrons. Chris. Evans, who mado things live ly In California along with Sontag and others, called upon Governor West yesterday, to have him invoke the Christmas spirit on California's gov ernor and grant Evans a full pardon. It Is a pathetic ending of a criminal Hiireer, that this old man, blind, crip pled and broken down, who has spent 17 years In prison, petitions for a par don. What a masher needs is niaBhlng. Insurance and Money to Loan Main 320 Theatre i Argument to the Jury Continues Indianapolis, Dec, 25. At the re rpies. i.f Prosecutor Mll.er. the govern ment's exhibits including nltro-glycer-I no cans, colls of fuse, dynamite, alarm clocks and hundreds of photographs were plied on tables this morning when Miller resumed his argument. "The rank and file of the Ironwork ers' organization," shouted Miller pointing at the table, "have been de ceived. They have been led to be lieve that their union Is on trial and have sent hard-earned money here to defend this monumental criminal II S. Hockln." Miller insisted that Ortie McManl gal's toNllinony had been corroborated In a remarkable manner. He said: "I do not defend McManlgal as a dy namiter and have nothing but denun ciation for every dynamiting act, but ho has confessed, and In doing that ho has rendered himself and the nation a signal service. Do you think thai any one much less a person of ordi nary intelligence like McManlgal could Invent and stick to every detail of the story ho told during the ten days hj was on the witness stand? Would he not fall on cross-examination if his story were untrue?" Tho prosecutor then reviewed Mc Manlgal's story In detail. ROIIIIERS HOLD IT RICH TRAIN'. (Continued from page 1.) they ran west and disappeared In the darkness, will, the officers In pursuit." The train crew went on, and Inter views with them are not obtainable, Chicago, Dec. 25. Officials of tho exprrps company said the express car was heavily loaded with Christmas valuables. The train is known as tho "lieavy money" run, and usually car ries largo amounts of money. San Diego Is Making Some Valuable Land San Diego, Oil., Dec. 23. Work on the city's $1,0110,(101) harbor improve ments. Including the municipal pier, Is progressing rapidly. Work on thn Hocimcl section of tho bulkhead has been slatted and the municipal dredg er has been working night and day fur weeks. Over (10 acres of land, val ued at. $::o,ooo an acre, will bo re claimed by the city. To Investigate Lumber and Oilier Trusts UNITICD lMIKSS 1JUSKD WIRE. San Diego, Cal Dec. 25. Investiga tion of an alleged lumber trust, an al leged plumbing trust and other "com binations" is expected when the San Diego county grand jury convenes soon nfler January 1. These investi gations were started by Hie l!M2 grand Jury, but were dropped when the I. V. V. troubles started. Murderers Were Kept at Home Christmas ll'NITKl) 1'IIKHS IJEARKP WHIR.) Mi'dt'onl. Or., Dec. 25 In order to r.how the greatest amount of kindness I possible under the circumstances i Judge Frank M. Calkins, of tho circuit I court, who on Saturday sentenced Frank Seymour and Mike Spanos (o i death for the murder of George Dedas ikalous, has delayed signing tlio com mitment (wipers of tho two In order I tlmt they nitwit remain In Jackson ei.unty until after Christmas. This will allow them to have friends call and see i hem. As soon as the commit inient papers are signed the two will le taken to Salem. Jailor l'.aton has prepare.) an elab orate Christmas dinner for Jio prison Jers and due deference will be given .Spanos and Seymour as It is probably tile last Christmas dinner they will ev r enjoy. Ap peals will tu taken In each case and this will act a., a suiy of incu- ;u u. A IVs Moines man had an attack of muscular rheumatism in his shoulder. A friend advised him to go to Hot Springs. That meant an expense of $1."0.1H) or more, lie sought for a quicker and cheaper way to cure It and found it In Chamberlain's Lini ment. Three days after tho first ap plication of this liniment he was well. For sale by all dealers. OLD SANTA CLAl'S DELAYS MARRIAGE A very disgusted young mnn and a real angry young woman left the court houso this morning after vainly try ing to arouse some one. They were after a marriage license and, accord ing to the statements of the prospec tive groom, wanted one badly. They evidently overlooked the fact, how ever, that County Clerk Allen is spend ing Christmas on bis farm near here and that today Is a legal bona fide holiday. "Well," eald the man, "I guess we will have to wait, but it seems funny a fellow can't get mar ried on Christmas as well as any oth er day." A Brutal Murder in Tacoma UNITKD PMCHS LK.tSKD WIHE. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 25. Christmas dawned today in Tacoma on the most brutal murder In years. The body of Frank I.azarro, an Ital ian section hand in the employ of the Northern Pacific railroad, aged about 45 years, was found this morning in his boxcar home, the skull beaten in to a jelly. It lay on the floor of the car, a bloody pick handle by its side. The police believe Lazarro was killed by members of a black hand society, who murdered for money, which they thought Lazarro had drawn from a bank, . . Lado Lazarro, son of the murdered man, aged 20, left Tacoma last night with a pass over tile Northern Pacific to Centralla. The authorities have wired that city to hold the boy for in vestigation. Loving Cup Presented to Coniaii Employes at Portland of the trafllc department of the North Dank rail way, the Oregon Electric and other lines of which W. E. Coman is general freight and passongrr agent have pre sented him with a handsome silver loving cup. It is In tho nature billi of a Christinas present and as a testi monial of esteem on the eve of his de parture from the railroad service to become vice-president and general manager of tho Northwestern Electric company. It is engraved as follows: ' in appreciation of Wllbtr E. Co- man, olllcer and man, from tlic trafllc de artment employes of Ihe Fpoanne, I'o.'tlnwl & Seattle Rallwc) and Ore gon Electric railway, Portland, De cember 24, 1912." Expect to Recover Bullion UNimn rwtss iiibkd wins. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 25. Somewhere $15,000 In gold bullion is cached, the remainder of the loot obtained i.y a band of clever conspirators, who sub stituted pig lead for a shipment of gold on the steamer Humboldt from Skagway, Alaska, to the Seattle as- tay office In September, ll10. The arrest of Clem Shepard, former purser on the Humboldt, today lent new Inspiration to the search for the missing gold. Shepard, held In the county Jail since Monday, claims Prosecuting At torney Murphy and the Friedman's Fund Insurance Co.. which Is believed to have caused his arrest, are "bark ing up the wrong tree." Ho abso lutely denied any knowledgo of the gold theft. He claims he did not lea;-i of It for days after It happened. Ho says lie merely received tho three boxes at Skagway, receipted for them at Skagway and turned them over at Seattle on a receipt Shepard has been a mist seaman lor IS years, and was at work as pur ser on the steamer Jefferson when arrested. According to Prosecuting Attorney Miirphy,'$12.00 of tlte$57,000 gold bul lion taken from the Humboldt origin ally was recovered after the arrest ol Charles Harrette or Orville Gavanto? at Saa Francisco over a year ago itarrvtte is said to have dug up Vi'OO and Cavnntcs the reft. It is a safe guess that the rural route carriers are not enthusiastically In favor of the parcels post. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R I A Was Full of Christmas Sentiment (UNITED rilEBS IJBASED WIRE, Log Angeles, Cal Dep. 25. "The compliments of the season to 'u, leddy, an' have a tamale," was the slightly alcoholic Christmas greeting Sarah Bernhardt received today from the proprietor of an all-night lunch wagon, &s he trundled his place of business homeward. The Divine Sarah was emblazoned on a theatrical bill board, when she at tracted the attention of the tamale vender. She failed, however, to re spond to the unsteady bohernlan as the offering was proffered. A passing cop and kindly pedestrians came to the rescue, and attached the gentleman to the handles of his wagon, and pointed the vehicle down the street. Los Angeles Reveling in Cheap Eggs UNITED rilltSS LBASBD WIEI. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 25. Christ mas eggs are cheaper In Los Angeles today than ever before, andi egg nogg is flowing In scores of homes, where a year ago It was financially Impos sible. Fresh local eggB are quoted today at 32 to 34 cents, while storage eggs sold for 23 cents. A year ago the prices were DO cents and 25 cents. A further drop Is predicted here. Onions May Prove Strong Inducement Anton Pfanncr, a citizen of Gassua, Switzerland, has notified Secretary A. F. Hofer.of the Hoard of Trade, that himself and six families will immi grate to the Willamette valley, and engage in the onion raising Industry. All nre trained gardeners. Mr. Pfanner recently wrote Secre tary liefer asking him if it was true that $000 could be made off of an acre of onions in t he Willamette valley, as he had heard. He said that he would onslder $2(10 an acre as phenomenal, and would come to the Willamette v;il ley If lie could be assured of $-00 an acre. Secretary Hofer assured him that he could easily clear at least $200 an acre. Tho following communication ifas received from Mr. Pfanner today: "Your letter has come In due time. You may send me sonio German print- ij advertising matter, and I will dis tribute the same as best I can. I am quite sure there are a lot of young people here who would immigrate if properly Instructed of the advantages of your country." It Is an obstreperous man who could not find weather yesterday afternoon and evening to suit him for all kindj were In evidence. There will be no extra charge for carrying microbes by the parcels post. Dr. Yuen November 9, 1912. To Whom It May Concern: Had suffered with chronic consti pation and stomach trouble for over five years; was so weak at time I could hardly walk; had lost 30 pounds in weight. I spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and tried doctor after doctor, and they all utterly failed to help me. I was just about ready to Rive up hopes when I heard of Dr. Yuen's Chinese herbs. After taking five weeks' treatment I was well and had gained 18 pounds In flesh. Hoping this testimony will be read and be the means of helping some one else, I am, respectfully, MRS. L. W. BACON, Corner Grand Avenue and Morrison street. E., Portland, Oregon. Bow Wo Herb Co. 107 S. High street. Office upstairs. Side entrance, Salem, Oregou. MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Houck Is a Deluder of Women UNITED rilISS LEASED WIRE. San Diego, Cal Dec. 25. A man who say he Is Dr. Otto W. Houck, and appears to be a highly educated German physician, was arrested here today on complaint of Private Detec- Do Your Christmas Shopping Early We still have a fair stock of Victor, Edison and Colum bia talking machines and small instruments to show you; also Singer Sewing Machines CHAS. E. ANDERSON 247 N. Commercial St. SALEM, OREGON Christmas and New Year Holidays Low Round Trip Rates via the lOCDENStSHASTAI ROUTES In effect between all points in Oregon. ' : ' TTl'j WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARES Between Salem and Portland , $2.00 Between Salem and Albany $1.10 Between Salem and Eugene $2.80 Between Salem and Corvallls $1.55 Sale dates from Salem December 20 to 25, Inclusive, and December 28 to January 1, Inclusive. Limit of tickets sold December 20 and 21, January 7, 1913. When sold on other dates, return limit January 2. BETWEEN ALL OTHER FOISTS. One and One- Third Fare Superior Willamette Valley Train Service. Parlor Cafe, Observation Car on Willamette Limited , 6-Trains Daily Each Way- 6 LEATE SALEM DAILY Northbound. Southbound. Portland Express ....5:00 a.m. San Francisco Exp ..10:36 p.m Oregon Express 5:31a.m. California Express ..3:31 a.m. Hub City Special 7:24 a.m. Hub City Special ....8:30 p.m. Willamette Limited ..9:30 a.m. Ashland Passenger ..11:10 a.m. Portland Passenger ..2:00 p.m. Itoseburg Passenger ..4:27 p.m. Portland Passenger ..7:38 p.m. Willamette Limited ..5:38 p.m. No. 2S, "Willamette Limited," leaves Eugene 7:20 a. m., Salem 9:30 a. m., and arrives Portland 11:30 a, m. "Willamette Limited" carries Tarlor Cafe Observation Car between Portland and Springfield, serv ing breakfast northbound and dinner southbound. For further information as to sale dates, limits, fares to any partic ular station, call on agent Salem, or write JOHN M. SCOTT. General tice Harry Raymond, of Los Angeles. Raymord alleges that Houck has pro cured nearly $50,000 during the paBt few years from elderly women In Chi cago and vicinity on promise of mar riage. Houck denies the case, hu: let ters found upon him here are declared by the detective to show that several women are now sending him money. He will be taken to Chicago. To demand a great war Indemnity of Turkey after taking most of her country looks like "rubbing It In.' V) pi Passenger Agent, Portlands Oregon.