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VOL. XLIX. NO. 15,297.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CONGRESS OPENS;
Li SESSION DUE
TOWN BODILY TO
MOVE TO LIQUOR
LOCAL OPTION" CAUSES FERRIIilj
TO CHANGE BASE.
SODMK BURSTS,
JARS DOWNTOWN
DUNCANS IN KILTS
DESPITE ICICLES
STORM INCREASES
OVER NORTHWEST
HERO LOCKS SELF
IN FIERY FURNACE
FUNDS OFPHOE
IS
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PHILADELPHIA'S TREATED TO
UNIQUE BARE-KNEE SIGHT.
MEANWHILE AUDIENCE ES
CAPES BLiAZIXG THEATER.
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SenateHoIdsForthOnly
Thirteen Minutes.
MANY CONTESTS EXPECTED
Action on Nicaragua to Be
Urged by Taft.
MESSAGE IS READ TODAY
Investigation of Various Xatlonal
3tatters to Be Trged y Tart.
Congress Pays Respects to
( .Dead and Adjourns Early.
"WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. The keynote of
the Taft Administration will be sounded
at the first regular session of the 61 t
Oonfrress which opened today with the
usual ceremonies and benedictions by the
charkJnlns of the two houses.
That Important action and quick action
will be taken on the Nlcaraguan dispute
over the execution of the two Americans.
tJroce and Cannon, Is a foregone con
clusion, as the President and Secretary
Knox are much wrought up over the
move of President Zelaya of the Cen
tral American republic. It. Is probable
that action on this dispute will develop
Into a controversy between the supporters
of the Administration and the advocates
of peace In the two houses.
Message to Be Heady Today.
The President's message of 16.000 words
will be read tomorrow asking for radical
action In the alteration of the laws re
garding Interstate commerce and the big
corporations of the country, public lands
and the conservation of natural resources'.
On all these subjects a struggle Is
apt to develop between the President
and the conservative element In his
own party, headed by Senator Nelson
AV. Aldrlch In the Senate, and Speaker
. Joseph Cannon In the House on the
one hand, and the President and the In
surgents of both houses, who seek more
radical aotlon than the President, on
the otner hand.
The insurgents will make themselves
heard In an effort to amend the pres
ent House rules to limit the power of
the Speaker, and In the Senate they
will endeavor to force some aotlon on
a tariff commission. Representative
Fowler will lead In the House In an
eifort to force a monetary reform along
the lines of asset currency.
President Taffs belief In the Issu
ance of bonds for the eompletlon of
Irrigation projects now under way as
well as the development of navigable
rivers and harbors will meet with some
opposition among the Eastern States,
but the West to a man will undoubted
ly be with him on the Irrigation propo
sition. An effort to have Congress make a
rigid investigation of the sugar-weighing
frauds, opposed by the Attorney-General
as hampering the prosecution, and
also of the controversy between Secretary
Richard A. Ballinger, of the Interior re
partment. and Chief Forester GlfEord Fin
chot. will undoubtedly come up at this
session.
When the Senate was called to order 81
members responded. Practically no busi
ness; was transacted by either house, and
ss a mark of respect to the late Senator
Martin Johnson, of North Dakota, the
upper house adjourned after being in ses
sion only 13 minutes.
McCrcdle Sworn In.
Brief as was the Senate's 13 minute ses
sion, it was enlivened by an unsuccess
ful attempt on the part of . Mr. Bailey to
defeat the passage of the usual resolu
tion that the dally sessions begin at noon,
suggesting that the Senate should con
vene Instead at 2 o'clock. Mr. Bailey
said he would like to see the Senate hold
nlKht sessions that Senators might de
vote the day to individual business.
The House session continued 40 minutes,
in which W. W. McCredle, new Repre
sentative from the Second Washington
District, who succeeds the late Francis
W. Cushman, was sworn in, although
only 341 members responded to their
names, almost a full membership ap
peared on the House floor.
The following bills were introduced:
Garner, Pa., to investigate entire cus
toms service, particularly in regard to
the sugar frauds: Hitchcock, Nebraska,
for the establishment of postal savings
banks; Mann, Illinois, for Federal regu
lation of the "white slave trade," an
other by Mr. Mann for free admission of
wood pulp: Hamilton, Michigan, to grant
statehood to New Mexico and Arizona.
Resolutions of respect for the memory
of Senator Johnson, of North Dakota,
and of Representatives De Armond and
Iassiter, who died in the recess, were
adopted, and as a further mark of ' re
spect the two houses adjourned until
coon tomorrow.
SEX. CCLBERSOX SPOI1S DEAL
Democrats Had Planned on Bacon
as Texan's Snccessor In Cancns.
WASHINGTON. Dec. . With great
seriousness Democratic members of the
Senate met today to elect a successor to
Senator Culberson, who has determined
to resign as chairman of the -caucus be
cause of ill-health.
A tentative programme had been ar-
ioncluded. oa Pg 4.4
Much Land Across St. Joe River Is
Bought and Preparations to
Migrate Progress.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. 6. (Special.)
Fighting a losing game against fate, all
merchants in the little town of Ferrell,
Idaho, on the edge of Kootenai County,
which was recently voted ' dry by 151
votes, yesterday decided to ''move the
town bodily across the St. Joe River Into
Shoshone County, where they may oper
ate saloons in a wet territory.
Considerable land in Shoshone County
along the river haa been purchased or
optioned by Ferrell residents. Ferrell is
largely a logging camp and a -logging
camp, without llqfuor would be & farce,
according to rules established by custom.
, Even now rumors of a local option elec
tion are rife In Shoshone County, Walter
H. Hanson, the "boy Mayor" of Wallace,
the county seat, having clamped down
the Sunday lid last week.
LUMBER CASES SENT BACK
Circuit Court to Retry Willamette
Valley Rate Suit.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Dec. 8. The Willamette Valley
lumber rate cases were today sent back
to the Circuit Court at San Francisco for
rehearing and decision on the merits of
the. cases by order of the United States
Supreme Court. These cases arise from
the action of the Southern Pacific in chal
lenging the right of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to reduce the rate on
lumber from Willamette Valley points to
San Francisco Bay from $5 to J3.40 and
J3.60, respectively.
The Circuit Court at San Francisco
disagreed as to the validity of the Com
mission's action and certified' the case to
the Supreme Court for decision, doing so
under p. provision of the new rate law.
The Supreme Court holds that under this
law the Circuit Court must finally pass
upon the merits of cases of thi charac
ter before they can be heard by the high
est tribunal. The decision today means
that the Circuit Court must retry this
case and pass Judgment if the appeal can
be heard in the Supreme Court. The ap
peal, It was held, must be made from an
order of the lower court. ,
PRINCE MIGUEL IS SUED
Syndicate Wants Money Advanced to
Impecunious Heiress-Hunter.
BUDA PEST, Dec. 6. According to the
newspapers, a syndicate of creditors has
sued Prince Miguel of Bragania, who
married Miss Anita Stewart, of New
York, last September, for $1,000,000.
Some years ago, a paper says. Prince
Miguel was In financial e traits and the
syndicate advanced him a large sum,
payable when he should make a rich mar
riage. The claim is so great that follow
ing negotiations that resulted In his map
riase to Miss Anita Stewart, the Prince
promised to recoup the syndicate with one
fifth of the dowry, which was $5,000,000.
Now Prince Miguel declines to pay any
thing beyond the amount borrowed.
LURT0N WAITS TAFT WORD
Tennessee Judge Hasn't' Heard Of
ficially of Supreme Bench Offer.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 6.;-JuAge Horace C.
Lurton, of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, who. arrived today
from his home In Nashville, Tenn.. said
he had heard from high private sources
that President Taft will name him to the
United States Supreme Court bench,' but
there is nothing official.
"No correspondence has passed between
the President and myself," he said. "I
have not sought the position, and If I
do not get it I shall cheerfully continue
to serve in the Appellate Court."
EXPLOSION SEVERS , BODY
Woodsman, Whose family Uvea in
Portland, Meets Awful Death.
BAKER CITY, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
While splitting logs, using dynamite to
aid In the work, Thomas Gamble, a
woodsman at McEwen, met a terrible
death when a stick of the explosive in
his pocket Ignited, severing, his body just
below the waist line.
The body arrived here today, and will
be held until word is received from three
daughters, who reside in Portland.
Gamble was 53 years of age.
BANK CASHIER ARRESTED
New Haven Prisofter Stands Ac
cused of Theft of $128, OCT).
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NEW HAVEN. Conn., Dec 6. Charged
with the embezzlelment of $35,000 of the
funds of the People's Bank & Truet
Company, Robert D. Mulr, cashier, was
arrested tonight.
Mulr. it was alleged, took $128,000, but
the officials of the bank obtained securi
ties from him worth $93,000. Muir was
formerly an assistant National bank ex
aminer. PILOT TAKES ALL BLAME
Man In Charge Temporarily on
Prairie Holds Self Responsible.
PHIIjA DELPHI A , Dec. 6. F. M.
Lkber, pilot In charge of the United
States transport Prairie, which grounded
Thursday near Delaware City, said to
day that he alone was responsible for
the accident and that Captain Kellogg,
commander of the Prairie, is in no way
to be blamed., --
Carbonic Gas Holder
Drops Off Wagon.
FRAGMENTS WHIZZ FOR BLOCKS
Explosion Shatters Windows,
Tosses Pedestrians.
NONE KILLED, IS MIRACLE
! "our tli and Washington Scene of
Panic Following Crash Jewelry
Store Gems Are Hurled to the
Street Tamage Is $2 000.
With a concussion which shook nearby
buildings to tneir foundations, wrecking
two-score glass windows, some of them
of valuable French plate, throwing ten
ants of the buildings and pedestrians on
the street into a panic of fright, caus
ing damages estimated to be at least
$2000, and with a roar which was heard
distinctly more than a mile away, a
wrought steel tank containing carbonic
acid fras fell from a wagon at the cor
ner of Fourth and Washington streets
shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon and exploded.
Fragments of the wrought steel tank
from five to seven inches wide and up to
16 Inches long flew in all directions but
miraculously did not injure anyone. One
piece of ,steel crashed through the win
dow of teftert Bros." Jewelry store at
273 Washington street, and, hurtling the
full length of the store, struck the rear
wall.
With the estimated velocity at which
these steel missiles tore through the air
death undoubtedly would have been the
fate of any luckless victim happening In
their path. All of the fragments were
not 'found, but the fact that one was
picked up at Third and Stark streets,
another in front of the Perkins Hotel,
still another at Fifth and Alder streets,
and a fourth at Third and Alder, illus
trates in a measure the miracle of es
cape which was enacted on the city's
busiest thoroughfare crowded with busi
ness people and shoppers at the time.
Within a few yards of the exploding
steel cask were scores of people in al
most any direction. Still no one was
hurt save a few Instances of scratched
faces, hands or heads inflicted by flying
fragments of scattered glass.
Driver Comes Off Unscathed.
Perhaps the most miraculous of "the
escapes was that of Dan Rust, the driver
of the wagon causing the accident. Rust
drives for the Portland Delivery Com
pany, of 208 Washington street. He had
a large bay horse and was conveying six
of the carbonic acid tanks. One was
destined for CMalley & NeubergeV, at
327 Washington street, three for the
Louvre restaurant, and two for Blazier
Bros.' saloon at Third and Burnside
(Concluded on Page 10.)
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Californian Returns From Greece
Arrayed in Greek Costume, "Even
Though It Doth Snow."
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6. (Special.)
Not many years have hundreds of steve
dores, "baggage smashers," "cabbies"
and draymen been treated to as unique
a sight ss they were given today, when
the American liner Friedland docked,
when three persons in ancient Grecian
costume walked down the gangplank.
The three, whose arms and legs ' were
bare, despite Icy blasts from the Dela
ware, were Raymond Duncan, of Califor
nia, brother of Isador Duncan; his wife
Penelope, and their 4-year-old son Me
malkas. Accompanying them was Dun
can's sister-in-law, Miss Ellni Likelia
noin, who Is a famous danseuse in the
aters of several European cities.
Duncan went to Greece seven years ago
to make a study of Grecian music. "While
abroad be became interested in excava
tions of ancient cities. For years scien
tists have been unearthing stones with
signs and symbols upon them which
could not be translated and . Duncan
claims these symbols represent written
music of centuries ago.
ONE MAN TO BE AT HEAD
Bill 19 Favored to Eliminate Pan
' am a Carnal Commission.'
WASHINGTON. Dec. . A radical
change in the 'isthmian Canal adminis
tration is provided In a bill Introduced to
day bv Chairman Mann, of the House
committee on Interstate and foreign com
merce. The bill eliminates the canal
Commission and transfers all Its powers
to a director-general.
It provides also for a civil government
in the Canal Zone under the President's
direction. An interesting feature is that
the popular appellation of "Panama.
Canal" is hereafter to be the official
designation In place of "Isthmian CanaL"
The contest betwen San Francisco and
San Diego for the honor of holding the
International exposition to celebrate , the
opening of the canal reached the National
capltol today: Ban Francisco secured
the first advantage through the introduc
tion of a bill by Representative Kahn, of
California, providing for the celebration
in that city. It provides for extensive
Federal exhibits.
FAST DRIVERS ARRESTED
Six Prominent Seattle Men Feel
Strong Arm of l aw.
SEATTLE, Wash-, Dec. 6. (Special.)
Six prominent men were arrested today
on the charge of speeding along Green
wood road, near the Seattle Golf Links
and Country Club grounds. In their high
powered machines at a rate exceeding
25 miles an hour. .
Those arrested are: H. C. Henry, rail
road contractor and president of the
Country Club; C. Dameyer, agent for
the Netherlan American Mortgage Bank;
C. E. Brown, vice-president and general
manager of the Continental Distributing
Company: II. W. Roberts", of Cook & Co.;
R. E. Thompson, Jr., an attorney, and
E. EL Ain s worth.
The capture was made by W. J. Merry
field, a special Deputy Sheriff, detailed
by Sheriff Robert Hodge to enforce the
anti-speed law in the district north of
the city.
Weather Man Fears
"Silver Thaw."
RAIN IS FALLING IN VALLEY
Biting East Winds Extend to
Ocean Points.
SIX BELOW AT PRINEVILLE
Puget Sound Has Heavy Snowfall,
and in Portland Power Plant
Ha Trouble and Street
cars Are Stalled.
Continued cold weather, snow and high
east winds for today. Is the prediction
of the Government Weather Bureau.
That there is also a probability of a
repetition of the "silver thaw" of Janu
ary, 1907, In the event there should be a
sufficient rise in the temperature to pre
cipitate rain. Is the further observation
of the local forecasters.
More snow fell yesterday over the Pa
cific Northwest, and east of the Cascade
Mountains the temperature took a decid
ed drop. At PrineviUe . the mercury
registered 8 degrees below zero.
Rain Falling in Valley.
Rain began falling late in the afternoon
at Salem, Albany and other Willamette
Valley points.
Commencing yesterday morning with, "a
high east wind and snow, which lasted
with slightly fluctuating tendencies In
temperature, there was no lull until even
ing. The wind continued high as during
the day, averaging 24 miles an hour.
All during yesterday streetcar service
in the city was badly crippled, although
an attempt was made to maintain sched
ules. The only line entirely out of com
mission during the day was the Rose City
Park end of the East Atikeny line. Little
effort was made to clew" the track by
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company management until 2 o'clock in
the afternoon.- Then, according to F. J.
Franklin, general superintendent. the
snow would be- blown back on the track
as soon as cleared. The attempt was
given up and people living at Rose City
Park walked or remained In town.
The continued strain of the day finally
told, however, on the power wires of the
streetcar system, and the entire East
Side was thrown in darkness at 8 o'clock,
and tor over an hour cars were forced to
stand on the tracks, crowded with shiver
ing passengers.
When the cars started once more. It
was found the snow had blown across
the tracks, so that only the Sellwood.
Hawthorne-avenue, Iawer Alblna and
Vancouver cars, while delayed, were able
to run through.. Cars on all other lines
"were able to proceed only part of the
way on the East Side.
Telephone and telegraph communication
(Concluded on Pag-e-5.)
Moving-Picture Operator, Amid Ex
ploding Films, Takes Desperate
Chance to Avoid Panic.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. . (Special.)
-Joseph Pierce, the machine 'operator at
the Hermann movlng-plcture show, 4fi0
South Spring street, made himself a hero
last night, when he closed the steel and
asbestos door of his den upon himself
and remained in a furnace of exploding
and burning films, while the manager,
E. L. Kennedy, calmed and sent away
the audience without panic.
Pierce, when he emerged from his fiery
ordeal, his hair and clothing scorched and
painful burns upon his hands, said he
was at work when something went
wrong with the wires.
In an instant the flre had communicated
from the crossed wires to the highly in
flammable films and the entire room was
a mass of flames. The rooms in which
the moving pictures are operated are
surrounded with walls, floors and ceil
ing of steel and fixed with handy devices
for closing all openings. When the trou
ble with the wires started, the Are ex
tinguished all the lights in the theater
and the red lights over the several exits
were turned on.
TAFT IS AGAINST SLAVERY
Bill In Congress Will Prohibit Im
moral Traffic
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Supresslon of
the "white slave" traffic will become the
slogan of an increasingly powerful move
ment to which President Taft has given
much encouragement in his comments to
those who have consulted with him on the
fiubfect.
This fact gives new importance to the
reintroducting by Representative Mann,
of Illinois, of his bill prescribing drastic
penalties for those convicted of these
practices. The bill would make it a crime
for any person to aid, entice or force
any girl or woman to go from one state
to another for Immoral purposes, whether
with or without her consent; with a pen
alty of five years Imprisonment or a fine
of S5000. If the girl be under 18 years, the
penalty provided is ten years' imprison
ment, and $1000 fine.
HUNTER SHOT BY HIS DOG
Athena, Or., Boy May Die as Result
of Canine's Leap.
PENDLETON, Or., Dec. 6. (Special. )
To be shot by one's own dog was the
peculiar experience of Henry La-brash, a
young man of Athena, while hunting in
the mountains near Gibbon this morn
ing. He had set his gun down in the snow
with the muzzle leaning against a bush
and was standing near the weapon when
his dog Jumped against it, causing it
to be discharged. ,
The full charge of shot struck the
young man in the thigh, tearing a gaping
wound and shattering the bone. With
much difficulty his companions carried
him to Gibbon Station, where he was
placed on a freight train and brought to
the hospital in this city. The wound is
serious and may prove fatal.
SAUNDERS IS FOUND DEAD
Aged Eccentric of Santa. Barbara
Had Brother in Portland.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Dec. 6. (Spe
cial.) Unclothed. the body of T. B.
Saunders, aged 70 years, who disappeared
from Summerland, October IB, was found
this morning oft the trail up Romero
canyon, beyond Montecitd. Beside the
corpse lay a revolver. Death was caused
by a bullet in the head, evidently self
inflicted. Saunders was an eccentric old man, a
spiritualist, and had made experiments
in communistla life. On the morning of
October 16 he disappeared.
Dr. Althea Briggs Saunders and a man
named Ward and his wife were living a
communistic life. Saunders was a law
yer. He is 'known to have a brother in
Portland, Or.
SPECIAL MESSAGE TALKED
President Wants Interstate Act More
Effective.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. President Taft
had an extended conference this after
noon with Attorney-General Wlckersham
and Secretary Nagel, of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, regarding the
special message ho la preparing on the
proposed amendments to the interstate
commemrce law. This message will be
sent to Congress within ten days and
will go into the details of changes which
the President believes are needed to make
the Interstate act more effective.
The anti-trust law will be mentioned
only in a- general way In the message, as
the President has decided he is not ready
to suggest specific changes in the Sher
man law.
BLACKSMITHS FIGHT DUEL
Pine Valley' Men Quarrel Over
Property Rights; One Hurt.
BAKER CITT. Or., Dec. 6. (Specials
Information received here from Pine Val
ley this afternoon states that two black
smiths, named Landing and Thomas, re
spectively, this afternoon engaged In a
gun duel.
Landing was bit in the side of the
head, but is not fatally wounded. The
trouble started over some right of property.
ProbeofG. P.Sheldon's
Work Begins.
ASSETS USED IN SPECULATION
District Attorney to Hold Di
rectors Responsible.
COMPANY BOOKS JUGGLED
Loans of $40,000 to $100,000 Made
to State Insurance Inspectors and
" Questionable Securities Made
to Pass Through Fake Sales.
NEW TORK, Dec. . The Phoenix In
surance Company, of Brooklyn, Is under
investigation for Irregularities which are
believed to have impaired its surplus at
least 1,000.000, and to have resulted in
grounds for possible criminal action.
Superintendent Hotchkiss, of the State
Insurance Department, today laid the
matter before the District Attorney.
It Is charged the president has over
drawn his salary; that he has unloaded
doubtful securities on the company, and
that he has used the company's assets
as collateral to secure his own private
speculative account. Nor do the direc
tors escape censure.
Securities May Be Good.
In a formal statement issued tonight
Superintendent Hotchkiss says he does
not believe the capital of the company
Is impaired and thus far he lacks evi
dence that Its securities are not intact,
but he admits that the present investi
gation Is still uncompleted.
George P. Sheldon, a member of many
clubs and chairman of the laws and le
gal committee of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, has been president
of the Phoenix since 1877, and It is
charged that under his administration
annual, report of th-t -company made to
the Insurance department for ten years
and probably longer are false in mote
than one particular.
Not Examined for 2 2 Years.
Under the law the insurance depart
ment is required to examine all life In
surance companies at least once In every
three years. Mr. Hotchkiss advocated an
Ooncluled on Pag. 4. )
INDEX OF TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
TESTKRDAY'S M ami mum temperature, 32
degrees; minimum, ii5.4 degrees.
TODAY'S Snow, continued cold; brisk to
high, east -winds.
.Foreign.
China, In letter to State Department, as
sails exercise of political rights by Rus
sia at Harbin. Pa ore
National.
Representative Monde!!, of Wyoming, backs
up Secretary Ballinger on public land
problem. Page 2.
Ief?r cut ts made In estimates for alt Gov
ernment expenditures. Page 3-
Sixty-first Con Kress opens -with 53-minute
session. Pae 1.
Chairman Alexander, of House committee,
expects to pass river and harbor bill.
Page 2.
Domestic
Movlng-plcture operator locks himself with,
blazing Alms so audience nay escape.
Page 1.
Funds of Phoentx Insurance Company mis
used; probe begins. Page 1.
President of Trainmen's Brotherhood tells
Taft no strike this year. Page 3.
Va&s&r girl breaks down from, over-study
and commits suicide. Page
Federal Supreme Court refuses hearing to
Morse. Page 5.
Kansas, storm-swept, unsheltered cattle suf
fer in snow. Page
Californian, back from Greece, arrives in
bare knee costume despite Wintry blasts.
Page 1.
Sports.
Shirley, of British-French team In six-day
bicycle race, lags six laps behind after
eating heavy meal. Page 13. 1
Northwestern college baseball managers to :
arrange schedule for 1010. Page 13.
Toss of coin gives O'Brien decision over
Anderson at boxing bout. Page 13.
Jeffries vigorously denies he will "stair' six
rounds for moving pictures. Page 13.
Pacific Northwest.
Salem's typhoid fever epidemic now on .
declines; 00 cases at present. Page 5.
Governor Hay test I flea how Hamilton ad
mltted peculations. Page T. '
Oregon City voters defeat plan to remoT
Mclaughlin home off public square.
Page 6.
Cunningham coal-land Inquiry continues at i i
Spokane. Page 4.
Spokane man declares he has solved per
petual motion problem by Invention. .
Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Northwestern grain markets show much
strength. Page 17.
Crop damage reports from Argentina '
Page 17.
Uncertain tone of stock market. Page 17.
All vessels entering harbor In ballast will
be entitled to equal privileges. Page 16.
l'ortland and Vicinity.
Storm continues over Pacific Northwest;
"silver thaw" feared In Portland.
Page 1.
Frank Smith, Injured in Hall-street sled
crash, may die. Page 10.
Ex-convict returned to penitentiary for
seven years for burglary here. Page 11.
Multnomah County's taxable property is
listed at $251,3S9,8S2. Page 12. ?
Christmas Red Cross stamp proves in great
. demand this year. Page 10. .
Mayor Simon visit fire stations and. finds
no complaint. Page 11.
Mayor Simon secures $26.60O worth of 1m - ;
provement bonds for Water Board and
police and flre relief fund. Page 16.
Oregon State Horticultural Society to as-
semble in 24th. annual convention today.
Page 12.
Carbonic add gas tank, falling off wagon,
bursts; explosion shakes downtown dls- '
trlct, shatters windows, wrecks store dls- .
plays. Page 1. i
All-Oregon annual fruit exhibit at Port-
land to be urged by President Atwell
of Horticultural Society at convention. !
Page 12.