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THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.
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YElTON
CUIUS TO STAGE
G
MAKING
COURTHOUSE TONIGHT
Rain or Shine, Program Will B e Carried Out, It Is Anounced,
and Little Children Who Would Otherwise Have Very Little
, Christmas Cheer Will Be M ade Happy Fine Musical Pro
gram Will Be Given in Conn ection With Christmas Gift
Making Arrangements AH Completed.
"With the Salem Military band play-
iag popular airs, the big Christmas tree j
on the court house yard ablaze with
many colored lights and other pretty j
decorations and the members of the
Cherrian club on hand to welcome all
Salem and its visitors, the moat mod
ern celebration of a festive day ever
occurring in this city will begin tonight
at 8 o'clock, sharp.
Under the able direction of Stanley j
Barton and Walter Spanieling, the com
mittee has completed its labors insofar
as packing the candy boxes are con
cerned, and the arrangements for pre
senting the gifts to the some 1500 Sa
lem kidlets, are well under way this af
ternoon, A booth has been erected near
the Christmas treo and the little vis
itors will each bo presented with a nice
pound-box of sweets and a big red op
pie. Entertainment Arranged,
Including the music, which will be
furnished by the band, several other
fino numbers will appear on the Christ
mas program this evening. Mrs. TTnllio
Parish Hinges, the "Oregon Nightin
gale," will sing "0, Holy Night," and
Frank Churchill on the piano, and Miss
Sehulta with violin, will accompany
her. Following this selection, "The
People That Walk in parhness" will be
Tendered by a double quartet composed
of very able soloists.
A choir composed of Mrs. Hinges,
SANTA CLATJS WILL NOT
FORGET MINERS' CHILDREN,
ONITID PWCRS LIASID WIS!.
i annuel, .men., J'ec. -i. i ne smite
children of the Michigan copper coun
try will have their usual merry Christ
mas. More than 30,000 of these littlo vic
tims of the great labor war that has
tiynde Calumet and vicinity a scene of
conflict for nearly half a year, will be
remembered by Santa Clans. Christmas
bnskots by thousands woro being dis
tributed among tho families of the 10,
000 copper strikers today. Tho appeal
' of the children for warm clothing and
shoes was answored. Every Incoming
train today brought hugo boxes of
clothes and presents, and there was
prospects that the Associated Charities
would be swamped ill its efforts to
make deliveries to all the needy.
It was learned that one of tho biggest
producers in the district, whose name
was withhold, hail personally directed
that tho family of every st.riker should
bo provided Tor on Christmas day at
his expense.
Tho Western Federation of Miners
todny started payment of a special
Christmas benefit to the strikers.
Plans to Protect
Sufferers From
Radium Frauds
f OBIT BO n'XS LSillO WIBB.1
Washington, Tc. 2 J. Indorsement
of a federal radium bank where cancer
lufferers might receive expert treat
Went, was given today by Dr. Rucker,
of the public health service.
r Any system which will lower the
cost of radium, guard poor sufferers
against rharltans and spread the use
Of
F EST AT
Mrs. W. Carlton Smith, Mrs. William
P. Babcock, Miss Margaret Hodge,
Chas. Roth, Wm. McOikhrist, Sr., Chas.
Knowland and Geo. C. L. Snyder will
lead "Amorica," and the throng will be
invited to join in.
The musical program will be opened
by an address by Rev. H. E. Marshall,
and the evening's entertainment will be
completed as quickly as possible, owing
to the fact that many of the churches
in this city will observe the date to
night, and many pooplo will desire to
attend the Institutions.
Sing in Open Air.
The solos and other selections will be
rendered in the open air this evening,
rain or shine, according to those arrang
ing tho affair. A big platform is being
erected on the west steps of the court
house, and hero is where the program
will be carried out.
This is the first time Salem ever at
tempted an open-air celebration of
Christmas, and, if it proves successful,
the committee chosen to arrange tho
present one, undoubtedly will have the
honor of starting what will be an an
nual affair in the Cnpital City.
There is being much interest mani
fested in the coming event by both the
littlo ones and the grownups, and that
there will be a groat crowd on hand
this evening to witness the novel
Christmas eelobration remains without
saying.
HEAVINESS IN EASTERN
RAILROAD STOCKS SHOWN
(OTtiTim wbsn iasm wms.1
New York, P 24. Changes of nom
inal proportions only was registered at
the opening of the market today, and
tho volume of business was small. Al
though thero was some heaviness among
tho oaHtorn railroad Btocks, a majority
of tho representative issues were slight
ly higher. Norfolk and Western de
clined a full point.
Bidding up of Reading caused a rally
latter but active liquidation in Canadi
an Pacific sent the list off again.
Bonds were easy, Tho market closed
strong.
DOCTORS SWEEP STREETS.
DNITin MISS LBASID WIBS.
Leeds, England, Dec. 23. Sixty prom
inont professional and business men,
comprising doctors, lawyers, clergymen
and merchants, acted as street sweepers
here today and gavo a practical demon
stration of the determination of tho clt
hens of Leeds not to yield to tho em
ployes of the municipnl services, who
are on strike because the city would
not grant their demands.
Tho streets had not been swept nor
the garbage cans emptied for 10 days.
and experimentation of radium is
greatly to be dooirod," ho said.
Dr. Rucker believes that the ue and
production of radium is only in its in
fancy. "Radium is beneficial In cancer
treatment," he said, "but it must be
handled by experts. Such a thing as a
radium bank would assure this kind of
treatment."
CANNOT
IS
T AS HE
Admits to His Attendants He
Is Completely Tired Out
But Happy.
JOB SEEKERS ARE BUSY
Many Telegrams Suggesting Men for
Membership on Federal Reserve
Board Are Received.
UKITID PRESS UUBID WIB1.J
On Board President Wilson's Special
Train, Charlotte, N. C, Dec. 24. Pres
ident Wilson enjoyed complete rest to
day. Secluded in his private car, he
slept late, denying himself to all visi
tors at the few stops his special train
made. To his attendants he admitted
that he isfa completely tired out, but
withal, he was very happy. Dozens of
telegrams from every section of the
country, congratulating him on tho now
currency law, echoed the same note.
The chief executive was unable to
got away from the job-seekers. Many
of the telegrams suggested men for
membership on the new fedoral reserve
board. The president expects to make
up the personnel of this new branch of
tho government before he returns to
Washington on January 13. It was
learned today that one of the first men
who will be tendered an appointment to
this board is a Republican Senator
John W. Woeks, of Massachusetts.
Rather Dreary Day.
It was a dreary pro-Christmas day,
but the president luxuriated in the ut
tor absence of business and said that
until next week, at least, ho proposed
to take absolute rest.
Crowds of curious people surrounded
tho special at all stops. The president
acknowledged their cheers by lifting
his hut and smiling a greeting, but did
not leave his car.
NO ACTION FOR REMOVAL
OF GEORGE AT THIS TIME
ONITID FHBSi UMSltD WIBI.l
Now York, Dec. 24. No action look
ing to tho removal of William R. Georgo
from all participation in tho affairs of
the Georgo Junior Republic will bo
taken at this timo by the trustees of
tho Froevillo, N. Y., institution. This
was tho reply forwarded to the state
board of charities regarding the board's
action in calling them to force Ooorgo
to sever his official connection with the
institution he founded.
His removal was recommended after
an investigation of tho charges made
against him. No decision was given on
tho charges,
Tho trustees in their communication
expressed tho "utmost confidence in
tho future of tho Republic," and assert
ed that nqnrly all published criticisms
were duo to a misunderstanding of the
actual conditions. Tho board was in
formed that tho trustees felt they could
not acccdo to its request to abandon tho
llepublic'B idea of self-government, and
turn tho institution into a farm colony,
Masseur Runs Amuck and Shoots
Himself After Wounding Two
t UNITED 1'nrss LIASID WIBB.l
Chicago, Dec, 24. IScforo tho eyes of
hundreds of Christmas shoppers, Frank
L. Kliuek, a masseur, pursued Attorney
Charles Ailing down a firo escape on
the Title and Trust comny building
near the dty hall today, shot out one of
Alling's eyes, wounded a bystander and
then probably fatally woulded himself.
Klinek shot himwlf iif the chest and
a bullet pierced his throat. The police
thought him dead and arranged to
sond the body to the morgue, when it
was discovered he was still breathing
and he was mahnl to the jail hospital.
Ailing is in a Mrious(condition.
The police learned that Ailing as at
torney for the state board of health,
Everybody
SALEM, OSEQON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913.
PTY
Late News
Bulletins
(INITIO FUU UASID WITH.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec - 24. Daniel
DeVilliers, wealthy Texan, and Boer
war veteran, who was shot and killed
Monday while fighting with Roy Glov
er, in Glover's home, came to his death
by a shot from a gun in the hands of an
unknown person, according to a verdict
returned today by a coroner's jury. De
Villieres was trying to see his former
wife, who is now Mrs. Glover, when the
shooting occurred.
Prineville, Ky., Dec. 24. Two men
are known to have becen killed in a
battle between officers and outlaws at
Four Mile creek. It is reported the
battle is still raging.
San Francisco, Dec, 24. Olatf Ozar-
nowski, of New York, known through
out the country as one of the most dar
ing of steeple jacks, was reported dying
at tho Emergency hospital here today.
He was found on tho first floor of the
addition to the St. Francis hotel with
a fractured skull and broken arm and
and leg. It was not known how he mot
with his injuries.
Chicago, Dec. 24. The case of Har
old Schneider, vaudeville actor, charged
with tho murder of Joseph II. Lognc,
wealthy diamond brokor, went to tho
jury at 12:05 this afternoon. Tho state
asked the death penalty.
KILLS SELF BECAUSE HE
iT BUY HIS WIFE
IAS PRESENT
fONITSD PKISSJ LSAKBD WIBI.
Pueblo, Colo., Doc. 24. Because ho
was unable to buy Christmas presents
for his bride of sovon weoks, Giovauui
Gu&zauui, agod 23, an Italian, is dend
here today, ho shot himself through tho
head. His wifo told tho polico he had
been uneasy for sovcral days.
FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU.
tTNITKD PBBNS LEASED WIBS.1
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 24. Los An
geles free employment buronu Is open
today for registration, six days in ad
vance of tho day originally set. Tho
change was mndo to aid the thousands
of unemployed hero. No feo is charged
work-seekers or employers. Tho bu-
rcau was established under municipal
ordinance.
The Weather
The Dickoy Rird
says: Oregon, rain
west, snow east
portion tonight
and Thursday,
warmer north and
east portions to
night; southerly
winds along the
coast and brisk in
tho Interior.
recently caused the conviction of tho
masseur on the charge of practicing
jiicdiciiie without a license,
Ailing was tnken to a hospital in a
serious condition and tho police were
tumble in obtain a statement from him.
Klinek rushed into Alling's nfficn on
the fourth floor of the skyscraper,
brandishing a revolver, according to
spectators, and began firing -it tho at
torney, who was seated at a desk. Onn
of the shot flew wild and struck
fehwaba In the cheek.
Ailing jumped through a window,
alighting on the fire escape and start
ed to make hii descent to the street,
while a crowd, attracted by tho sound
of crashing glass, gathered below. Kli
JkWlND IS)
Reads the
SluM7 A Tin
I
fED MEN IN
SAN FRANCISCO ARE
Fast Approaching Point Where
They Will Take Food by
Force From Stores.
SUPERVISORS WARNED
Meet in Special Session to Plan Belle
Measures, After Being Told of Con
dition of Workers.
(dnitid puss uasio wrsj.I
San Francisco, Dec. 24. Warned by
the spokesman for the San Francisco
unemployed that the army of idle men
in the city are fast approaching a point
where they will got food by force, if
it is not given to them voluntarily, the
supervisors met in special Bession to
day to plan rolief measures.
Representatives of the workless 20,
000, figures at which they estimated
their own number, spoke for thomselvos
before the supervisors' public welfare
committee yesterday aftornoon. Seven
teen of them were present, chosen at a
street mooting earlier In tho day, to
lay conditions before the city authori
ties. They told a raw, unvarnished story.
Want Aid at Once.
"Wo want help quick, or wo will
j have to take it," said Michael Hagnn
.bluntly. "Wo won't starve In tlfo
midst of plenty. It Is not our fault we
j are hero. You brought us hero with
your lying advertisements many of us
from the east.
"We want your bolp, but If we can't
got that we must holp ourselves In the
only way loft to us."
"It makes my hoart bleed to see men
walking around looking like skeletons,"
U. H. Buck told the men. "When you
got a body of men with nothing to eat
and no plnco to sleep, you'll have to
fill tho pails."
Not Booking Trouble.
"Wo are not agitating any riot. Wo
have kept the boys from doing any
thing against tho Inw, but we cannot
hold them much longer. Something
must bo done. Don't put it off, for
these men are desperate. They must
eat."
STEER CHARGES SHOPPERS
DNITUD PRKSS UtABBD WIK1.1
Kansas City, Dec. 24. A steer broke
out of a enr In the rnilwny yards in
Argentiuo, a Kansns City, Kan., suburb
today, and charged tho Christmas shop
pers on the principal streets. Women
shrioked and ran Into tho stores.
The steer finally was roped and ro
turned to tho stockyards.
BAD CHRISTMAS DREAMS.
Iuniticd mass lsabbd wiui.1
8nu Francisco, Dec. 24, Dozing by
tho firo today, Joo Hose dreamed that
Santa dims had brought him a Christ
mas present of 1,000,000.
He renched out to grasp the imagine
nry gold, tho chulr slipped and, full
ing to tho floor, he brnko his leg.
nek followed, firing as he descended.
One ot tlm bullets st.rucli Ailing In the
l"ft eye lis Im crawled into nil open
window on the floor. Klinek turned
and nsiiinlcil Die fire escape into Al
ling's of I ice where he attempted to
end his own lile.
(ieoige Johnson, a negro, was clean
ing window sills In Alling's office when
Klinek begun shooting. Johnson jump
ed Into a vault ami rinsed the heavy
steel door, lockinir himrelf in.
i
I When Kliuek attempted suicide his
body tell in front at tho vault. The
police heard rapping coming from the
Interior of tho vault and opening tho
dour, found the negro crouching inside,
shaking with fr.
Daily Capital Journal
PRICE TWO
inu
Salem, Eugene and Albany and Other Cities May Be Affect
ed Later on by Ruling of Court Silverton Notified Not to
Use Silver Creek as an Outlet for Sewage System, But Ig
nored Orders of Board of Health Health of Community
Endangered Right of Board to Enforce Such an Order
Upheld. i
Judge Galloway this aftornoon decid
ed the suit of tho State Board of
Health against the City of Silvorton In
favor of tho plaintiff, and made tho
order enjoining the city from emptying
its sownge Into Silver creek.
Recently, when the city of Silverton
was inaugurating a now sower system,
it was warned bv the State Board of
Health not. to ilmnn its snwnirA In'
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crcok, but to make some other a"-.
mont, audi" as septic tanks. K' ' 1 Ifiod not to use Silver creek to car-So-n
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"'o uuior lines wui, , iM00Oi ma ciiy'tr sewngti, out tnat sepc
warnod l hoard of health,' '' m9 tanks in connection with filtering
provided septic tanks In conn,Y,dfl might be easily constructed, which
with their systoms. Silverton, In the
unwisdom of its city council, did not.
It Is now up to it, provided the supreme
court sustains Judge Galloway, which
it is presumed it will do, to overhaul
Its system, and provido for taking care
of its sowage in some othor manner than
emptying it into Silver creok.
May Affect Other Cities.
The decision Is far-reaching In Its
offocts, and may mean that all the
citles now using strenmsns the dumping
grounds for their sowage will have to
make othor arrangements. It may mean
that nil the towns along the Willamette
river may have to chnngo tho method
of disposing of their sewage, and Eu-
geno, Albany, Salem and practically ov-
ery city and town In the stnto will bo
affected by It.
To make those changes would cost
a goodly sum, but It would be worth it.
Tinder tho present system tho streams
of the stnto are mado tho open sewers
of tho communities along them, to tho
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danger of health and it s high tlmo
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the whoto system bo changed. The cost,
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wlnlo grent, will be counterbalanced bv
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less typhoid fover and reduced dnMor
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mm uiiuiiriiiuiiiK 11 1 1 in. jiuwuvt-r, il in
possible, to provido septic tanks In con
nectlon with present sewer systems, and
the expense can thus be kept within
reaching dlstanco. The suit Is nno of
statfl-wido Importance, and Judge Gal
Inway, In passing upon It said:
What Judgo Says.
iins is a suit to restrain tno city
of Silverton from emptying its sow-
ago into Silver creek, a
mountain
stream running through tho city, thus
requiring two main sewer pipes, which
empty directly Into tho creek on either
side thereof, within tho city limits.
I'lnintiffs nllcgn that tho officials of
tho dofendimt city wero duly notified,
not to use Silver creek as an outlet for
Wife and Daughter
Get Nearly All
of Ward's Millions
UtflTKII I'hB-" I.IABKD WIUS.)
Chicago, Dec, 24, A, Montgomery
Ward, mercantile firm house head, who
died at his home at Highland Pnri:,
111., recently, left all but 2.10,0(1(1 of his
5,000,000 estate to hie wife And daugh
ter, Miss Marjorlo Ward, according to
the provisions of his will mail) public
t.iday, The sL,,."f 0 Is to be divided
an. ong iS other rehires,
:: The Largest
Circulation ;:
I; t
CENTS. 0N trains and nbwb
VE.il 1 .3. BXANLI8, FIV8 CB.NTS.
MM
the sewage system being constructed!
for the city, as the same would pollute
the water flow and endanger the health,
of the residents and adjoining commu
nity and that the water of this mountain ,
stream was thereby polluted by human
excrota as to render it dangerous to
health, and unfit for use by either
ninn or boast.
' T1 !lt4 M.. il 11 it il A
x minim lunnor auogin mac me or-
11 als of the dofendant city wore duly
would allow the bacteria to destroy
practically all tho solid mattor; thus
reducing tho contaminating and disease
gorms to a minimum.
'The defendant city admits that no-
tj,,0 wn9 Bivou M alleged, but dony that
conditions have been rondored worse
by tho con9truction of thoir sewage
mtm, or that the hoalth of the com-
,miity has thereby been endangored,
n,i f,,rthor, the cost of building sep-
tifl tani(B woulJ lncur a bur(lea whlchi
tna city WM nnsl)le to moot. .
"There was testimony tending to
ow that epidemics of typhoid and
other intestinnl disettses, which havede-
VeIoped In Eugene, Salem, Oregon City
an,j other towns ani digtrlcU ot the
tat0) have boon causod by conditions
similar to thoBo at Silverton, and that
t)in g(,wftRn ystnm 8S now operate
t)lnro n wuU M mlmoro, oti1(,r place,
a nuiBans0( obnoxious to morals and
jBII(,oroUg to public health.
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i "It is mado the duty of the State
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Board of Health to examine Into the
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sanitary conditions of all cities, dis-
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ulcus and communitios of this state;
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and powor Is vested in the board to or-
dor nuisances, or the cause of any spe
cial dlseaso or mortality, to be abatod
AfUr eonildarilIK M tht
testimony and law bearing on this cause
and believing it to bo the duty of the
State Board of Health to strictly en
force tho law In every section of the
state, tho court Is of tho opinion that a
mii,n(,B exiHta. a, charged in the com-
J ,,1 aml the some should bo abated,
( aiui it a , ordered, with costs to nolth-
er party."
Mayho being a doctor to a president
Is not a very soft job.
Now most men who say they want
wurk, really want work,
Waul made no I eqmvtts to charity,
but rovided thill if his daughter dees
Hot niiirry, and leaves no will, her .duo
of the estate, estl-nated at from k
O'O.lVii to l,Wiy!. reverts tu Mrs.
Ward, who wi iim it to establish a
borne for working girls.
Mrs. EliMibeth J. Ward, the widow,
lecolvos from 1!,000,000 to .1,000,00t
of the estate.