- - --- -- - - - THE "MOKNTXG OREGONIAX, TTITJItSDAX, " I)ECEM"BEH 1G, 1909. 35 MILES GRADED ALONG DESCHUTES State Railroad Commission Predicts Operation of 0. R. & N. Line by July. ANNUAL REPORT IS FILED O. R. & H. Progress Great, Several Brandies Completed Two Col lisions Recorded, 1 1 K Acci dent, 54 Killed. ' SALEM, Or., Deo. 15. (Special.) The State Railroad Commission presented 11a third annual report to the Govern or late this evening-. The report Is voluminous, going- into every detail of the -work of the Commission, giving rtatistlcs of railroad mileage, . equip ment, new lines, improvements. Inves tigations, wrecks and' accidents. The report shows there are 2412 miles of railway operated In the state. In cluding commercial lines. There has been a total Increase in mileage during the year of 174 miles. There was a de crease of 17 miles, leaving a net in crease of 156.82 miles. It is noted that the Deschutes Railroad has graded to date 85 miles of road and has laid fully five miles of track, and that it is hoped to have the line in operation by July, 3910, to a point 90 miles south of the Junction with the O. R. & N. Com pany. ' Several Branches Complete. Reviewing the progress of the O. R. A N. Company, the report states that :the reconstruction, of the track between Troutdale and Bonneville, 17 miles, is 'completed, and that during the year 616 block sigrnals were placed on the ,maln line between Portland and Hunt ington. ' Many wooden bridges were re placed by masonry and steel structures. The completion of several branch lines in various parts of the state is re ported, and construction work on others not yet completed is reviewed. The Oregon Electric expended $45,000 for additions and betterments and an nounces an appropriation of $160,000 more for the same work during 1910. : During the year ending December 1, il09, 168 informal and 29 formal com plaints were docketed on the books of the Commission. -Attention is called to the reduction of grain rates on the O. R. & N. lines and a cut in the Pacific Express Company rates. 51 Fatalities Reported. During the year there were two col lisions, two derailments and 115 accl 'dents from other causes; 54 persons killed and 124 injured. Two of the killed and 54 of those injured were pas sengers. The O. R. & N. Company has the largest casualty list with 21 killed and 19 injured: the Southern Pacific has 17 killed and "15 injured; the Port land. Railway, Light & Power Company, 2 killed and 84 injured, not including injuries to passengers within cities. The report says: "Six persons were killed and 27 Injured by Jumping on or off trains or while walking upon the tracks. Many of these persons were trespassers and the same may be said of the ten killed and 29 injured who were neither employes nor passengers." Referring to the checking of the ap praisal of the roads submitted by the companies. It is stated that the work of appraising will cost the state between S3 and f3 a mile, which Is much less than any other state within the knowl edge of the Commission has paid for rlmllar work. The compulsory fencing law is declared to be doing good work. TROLLEV LINK INCORPORATES Grays Harbor to Be Connected With Cities on Sound. HOQUIAM. Wash.. Dec. IB. (Spe cial.) It was announced here today that articles of incorporation for an extensive Interurban trolley system had been filed with the Secretary of State at Olympla. The company Is stated to have a capital stock of $500,000. Among the officers and backers are named the following: R. F. I.ytle, A. L. Paine and E. O. McOlauflln, all Tloqulain lumbermen;, "W. II. Abel and Eldrldge Wheeler, of Montesano, and A. M. Abel and Phil S. Locke, of Aber deen. The county commissioners recently granted a franchise to Mr. Wheeler, and it is snld that the line will cover virtually the entire Ofrays Harbor country, with Olympla for an initial terminus, although It is expected that Tacoma and Seattle eventually will be reached. ODD-CENT CHARGES CUT OUT Xorlliern Pacific Announces Slight Change in Rates. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. IB. (Spe cial.) By an order that went into ef fect todny the Northern Pacific here after will not charge the odd cents for fare. In some cases this will make the fare higher, In other cases the fare will be lower. For the most part on the main line the cost of tickets, where the odd cents now are collected, will be In creased, and on the branch line it will he decreased. The fare from Van couver to Kelso, now $1.17, will be come $1.20; the fare from this city to Tacoma, now $3.97. will become $4. Rut on the branch line from here to South Bend the charge will be cut from $4.11 to $4.05. The fare from here to fct. John. OrN now 13 cents, will be reduced to 10 cents. ROAD WILL LAY .HEAVY STEEL Italia for 13 Miles Now Ready for Cor-rallis & Eastern. ALBANY. Or.. Dm. 15. (Special.) The tvrvallls & Eastern Railroad Company is preparing to lay new 75-pound rails on a Ftretch of track 13 miles long, where th, line runs through the Coast Range just beyond Summit. The rails are now in this city ready for shipment. DARING ACT SAVES 'CREW Captain Chops Away Spars of Schooner on Beam Ends. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 15. (Spe cial.) 'To save himself and three men. Captain Charles Curry, of the Arctic Trading Company's gasoline schooner Sea Wolf, chopped away the masts and spars of his vessel when beam-ends down and washed by terrific waves In llertng fiu. Curry has arrived in Seat- tie. The feat was performed 150 miles west of the Pribyloff Islands. The vessel was leaking badly and sea anchors had been resorted to many times. For two days not a man slept and for ten days every stitch of cloth ing had been drenched with icy water. The little craft was running under a slow bell, with Just sufficient speed to give her steerage way, when a tre mendous sea which threw her on her beam ends was encountered. Following many more difficulties, the vessel reached Cape Inko on the main land, but the precipitous .cliffs and heavy surf made a landing impossible. She lay there for three days and nights, her crew working the pumps incessantly. At the end of that time the storm had sub sided and Captain Curry managed to navigate to Kodlak Island, where he laid the vessel up for the Winter. He declared that eevry American proe petcor was driven out of Siberia by the Cossacks last Summer, but that Ameri cans are still allowed to trade with the T 5 I t. i V Ifo m tfci m si-sfUfWI i.rrii John D. Roselalr, on Trial at Hillsboro for Wife Murder. Siberian natives under the supervision of the Russian authorities. CHICKEN THIEF, HE SAYS WOMAN DECLARES HUSBAND TRIES TO HUMILIATE HER. Wllloughby Family Recites Its Troubles in Albany In Suit for Divorce. ALBANY, Or.. Dec. 15. (Special.) That her husband tried to have her arrested for stealing chickens to humiliate her, after she left him, is a unique allegation In the complaint for divorce which Cora E. Wllloughby filed in the State Circuit Court here today against J. E. Wll loughby. The complaint recites that they sepa rated on November 11 last and two days later Wllloughby was twice arrested and fined by the city officers of Harrisburg for drunk and. disorderly conduct. Pre sumably to get revenge upon his wife for his arrests, Wllloughby went before .the. Justice of the Peace at Harrisburg and tried to effect her arrest for stealing chickens. He failed to accomplish ' his purpose and the complaint filed today recites that Wllloughby knew there was no truth in the fowl-theft charge, but was merely trying to humiliate his wife. Mrs. Willoughby's complaint contal numerous charges, many of them alleg ing drunkenness and cruel treatment on the part of her husband. She asserts that while they were living In Springfield in 1907 her husband spent all of the $r0 a month he earned for liquor and that they were forced to sell their furniture to pay the rent. She also avers he threatened to kill her at different times and that he slept with a razor under his pillow to keep her In constant fear. Three times she left her husband, Mrs. Wllloughby says, but twice Bhe listened to his promises to reform and went back. She says he continued drinking" and on October 7 last she left him again. In few days he persuaded her to return a second time and live with hun, but on November 11, she asserts, she was forced to flee for her life. . - Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby were married in Lane County, March 14, 1S94. Their only child is a daughter, 9 years old, and Mrs. Wllloughby asks for the custody of the child and $20 per month for the girl's support. RIGHT TO USE LAND ASKED Portland Irrigation Company Ap peals to State Board. SALEM. Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) Presi dent -Ball and Attorney Sawyer, of the Portland Irrigation Company, appeared before the Desert Land Board today and asked permission to open the company's segregation for settlement immediately, and without waiting for the construction of reservoirs, ditches and canals. It Is as serted that the company has applicants for nearly all of the land in the segrega tion, and that these settlers will at once move onto the land as soon as the com pany is in position to contract with them. The company has had some difficulty In financing its proposition, but its repre sentatives state that K the company is allowed to sell its land it will furnish bonds that will amply protect the state and the purchasers from any litigation or failure of the irrigation company to re claim the land. The segregation consists of about 12,000 acres, and is located in the Che-wak-kan Valley, in Lake County. The Desert Land Board has taken the matter under advisement, and will " call another meeting of those interested in January. CHEE LETTERS TELL TALES Arrested Chinese Mall Says Smug gling Organization Well Heeled. ASTORIA. Or.. Dec. 15. (Special.) When Immigration Inspector Bonham arrested Leong Chee. a few days ago. for being illegally in the country, he seized among his effects a number of letters and these have been ' translated by the official Interpreter. They show that there- is an organised body to smuggle Chinese Into this coun try, just how they come in. where they go and who is interested in the principal cities of the country. Dentists Present Mount's Name. OREGON CITT. Or., Dec. 15. (Special.) The appointment of Dr. Clydo Mount, of this city, a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners, has been recommended to Governor Benson by the executive -committee of the State Dental Society. Dr. Mount is young in the pro fession and has been practicing the last two years m Oregon City.- where he i associated with Dr. Alfred I Beatle. ex president of the State Dental Society. R0SELA1R JURY1S SECURED;TR!ALON Neighbors Testify That Ac cused Wanted to Be Rid of Wife. JAIL INTERVIEW RETOLD Prisoner Calmly Relates How He At tacked Spouse With Knife After She Had Thrown Pan of Milk in His Face. HILLSBORO. Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) Twelve men have been sworn In as Jurors in the John D. Roselair murder case, and the defendant -Is now on trial for the murder of his wife on the morning of May 15. 1909. The jurors were sworn in at 2 o'clock this afternoon, after two and one-half days of examination. To secure these, 39 men - were put through an examination; eight were per emptorily challenged by the defense; and two were likewise dealt with ' by the state. The Jurors are: Austin T. Buxton, pastmaster of the State Grange; T. W. Sain. .Tucker Palmer, R. Hoffarber. C. F. Tiga-rd. ex-member of the Legislature; Oscar T Larsen. X F. Brandt, John Nyberjr, J. T. Andersw. William Stevens. B. Gould and Clem Shaner. Neighbor Goes on Stand. After the opening statements were made William Raymond, . a neighbor, testified that he knew the Roselairs- well; had known the prisoner for eight or nine years that he worked with Roselalr on the road, and that Roselalr had told him that If he were only "rid" of the wife now dead, he might live happily with the second wife and children, now in the East. He also testified that he thought the dead Mm Roselalr was a good-hearted woman, and was very fond of children. Raymond swore that he visited Roselair in the Jail, and that the prisoner told him. without asking, the etory of the killing, and that story was the same as that which has been published how Mrs. Roselair threw the milk in his face while at the breakfast table, and how she then started for the hot water, that he (Roselair) then attacked her with the knife. Would Be Rid of Wife. Perl Raymond, a brother of the first witness, also swore that Roselair had told him of his domestic troubles, and also related a visit to the jail, and swore that Roselair had told him that Mrs. Roselair was not the woman for him but that she would have been a better wife for the witness, as he was a young man, and she was a young woman. Attorney Jeffrey asked the court that all the Ravmond evidence, except that re lating to the day the body was found and the Coroner's Jury was In session, be struck out. This was denied by Judge Campbell. The court then adjourned and will resume sitting tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. WILL IS 70 INCHES LONG Unique Document Filed in Linn County Probate Court. - ALBANY, Or, Dec. 15. (Special.) One of the longest wills ever filed in Linn County was admitted to probate today. It was made by G. T. Frost, of Scio. . and covers seven pages of legal cap paper all pasted together In one sheet 70 inches long. It was writ ten entirely by the testator himself. Frost died July 14 last at the age of 80. He was a Linn County pioneer and had resided for many years on his farm six miles northeast of Scio. The will was written August 10. 1899. This unique document disposes of an estate valued at $7500, and divides the property among six children, F. B. Frost, of Scio: J. W. Frost, of Scio; R. S. Frost, residence unknown; Clara B. Smith, of Scio; G. M. Frost, of Salem, and Ella Edmisten, of Carlton, Yam hill County. . NAME OREGON DEBATERS Three Selected After Hard Try-Outs to Meet Utah Orators. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Dec. 16. (Special.) Three men. trained in the Oregon High School Debating league, have juet won first honors in debate at the University of Oregon. They were chosen after a series of hard try-outs in which a large number of men competed, to represent the university against the University of Utah in their annual debate on January 28. The team chosen is as follows: Percy Collier, of Eugene, and Carlton El Spen cer, of Cottage Grove. Howard Zimmer man, of Salem, is alternate.- The Utah debato Is considered one of the most important debates that the uni versity enters. In previous contests the University of Oregon won one and lost one. COAL HEARING GOES EAST Cleveland and New York, Then Paris, to Be Future Scenes. SPOKANE. Wash., Dec. 15. The Cun ningham hearing has ended here, and under stipulation of counsel adjournment was taken subject to the call of Com missioner W. J- McOee. When resumed the hearing will probably be at Cleve land, O., where three of the claimants live, going from there to New York to get the testimony of Charles Sweeney, one of the entrymen. Meanwhile arrangements will be mads by opposing counsel to send a commission to France for the testimony of A. B. Campbell, of Spokane, and B. C. Rlblet, of New York, two entrymen now in France. BIG CONTRACT LET TODAY Asylum Heating Plant to Be In stalled Within 95 8,000. SALEM. Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) Plans and specifications for a new central heating plant were submitted to the asvlum board at the Governor's office to day and will be taken up and the con tract let at Corvallls tomorrow by a board composed of W. H. Corbett. of Portland; E. A. Strang,' of Salem, and C. E. Covell, of Corvallis. All the original bids were rejected be cause ' too high. The present plans, are drawn to come within the appropriation of S5S-000. The bidders are the W. G. Mc pherson Company. Public Work Sngin- I .fl (WHO OWNS lY FRANK CRIGGS SEVENTH S OAK STS. PHONES MAIMCLO A 1127 v. a- eering Company and Iowa Manufactur ing Company, all of Portland. CARNEGIE LIBRARY READY Vancouver Will Formally Open New Building December SI. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 15. (Spe cial.) Vancouver's new $10,000 Car negie library building will be formally opened Friday evening, December 31, New Year's Eve. There will be a spe cial programme, and Miss Frances Isom, librarian of the Portland Library, has been invited to deliver the principal address. She will speak on "The Li brary's Place in the Community." Among the other speakers will be Don ald Jlcllaster, Judge of the Superior Court. The new public library building is situated at the corner of Main and Six teenth streets. There is a nucleus of 500 volumes from the old city library. Several hundred new volumes have been ordered and are now in the Duildlng, and an order for $1000 worth more books will be placed this week. The librarian, H. C. Lieser, is engaged in classifying and cataloguing the 1000 volumes now on hand. ROAD TO BUILD SEAWALLS Northern Pacific Restoring Moclipa Branch After Washouts. HOQUIAM, Wash.. Dec. 15. (Special.) Thousands of dollars are being ex pended in repairing the Mocllps branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad. More than 100 cars of gravel and many tons of rock are being hauled to the bluffs west of Grays Harbor City to build a seawall to - protect the track. For several miles it will be necessary to protect the grade by means of a -wall built of rock, to withstand the action of the water and save the company from further washouts. At all places along the line where the grade was washed out gravel is being dumped. FRANCHISE IS GRANTED Grants Pass Council Gives XJje of Streets for 50 Years. . GRANTS PASS, Or.,. Dec. 16. (Special.) The City Council has granted to J. R. Allen a franchise for an electric line for 60 years,, upon condition that the appli cant begin work within a year and pave and repair such streets as may be used within the track and 18 inches abutting thereon. Allen also is figuring on extending the line into the timber xone and mineral belt that surround the Kerby and Waldo districts. OREGON - CITY HAS 6075 School Census Shows Growth Since 1900 Has Been Rapid. OREGON OTT, Or.. Dec. 15. (Spe cial.) Based upon a ratio of four and a half times the number of children of school age in Oregon City, there is a population of 6075 here, more than 800 in excess of the number shown by the census several months ago. The total number of children between 4 and 20 is 1360. The census of 1900 gave Oregon City fewer than 4000. . Clark County Docket Heavy. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 15-(Spe-' c'ial.) The jury session of the Superior Court, which will open in January, will be unusually long, as the Fall term of court was not held because Judge Mc Credie was carrying on his Congres sional campaign. The list" of pettt jurors for the next session is: W. F. Barnett, Charles Bishop. O. S. Mee. Mar tin Mo r trad, J. M. Yeigh, H. F. Roder, 3. T. Woody, W. W.- Eaton, J. T. Condon, James Custard, John Rhodes, R. W. Terry, L. E. Reed, M. S. Allen. O. J. Gil bert. Matt Blair, J. P. McQueen, C. Payne. E. H. Burnett. J. H. Hi pes, C J. Moss. John L. Miller, Ole Relnseth, C. L. Schaffer, C. D. Peterson, L. E. Warnum, William Laughlin and G. W. Wright. Telephone Company Sued. OREGON CITY, Or., Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) The Firwood Lumber Company, of Sandy, has filed a Hen against the Mount Hood Telephone Company, of which J. R. Keep is the owner. The company furnished poles and crosstrees of the value of $485.05. The line has been constructed from Toll Gate, about one and one-half miles from Rhododen dron Tavern, to Sandy, where it was to have been connected with the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company. Frank C. Aldrlch Takes Wife. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Dec. 15. (Spe cial.) Frank C. Aldrlch, a Portland pho tographer, and Mrs.' Lena M. Wilder, of the Rose City, were, married in this city yesterday afternoon at- the Baptist par sonage, by Rev. C. R. G. Poole. Aldrlch came over In the morning and made ap plication for a marriage license, but as he did not have the cnae witn nim, it could not be Issued, i In the afternoon he came back with the brida and secured his passports to bliss. Pupils Will Entertain. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 15. (Spe- rtal The pupils of Providence Academy, conducted by the Sieters of Charity of the House of Providence, will give an enter tainment In the Academy auditorium, on Thursday evening, the proceeds to b used In buying books for th Academy library. Ladies' handbags and leather novelltiea. special sale, 20 per cent "reduction. Stipe Taylor Drug Company, 2S3 .Morrison -St. Send Your Friend a Cross Christmas Gifts in LEATHER SECTION Cross English Gloves, for ladies and gentlemen; Cross WTork Baskets; Cross Scissor Cases; Spool and Button Boxes; Glove and 'Kerchief Boxes; Photo Frames; Soft Leather Opera Bags; Opera Glasses; Gold and Silver-mesh Purses; Card, Coin, Bill and other Cases; Collar and Cuff Boxes and Bags; Jewel Cases and Caskets; Note and Memorandum Books ; Pocket Flasks Drinking Cups. Exclusive Handbags, Fitted Traveling Bags, Likly and Mur phy Trunks. Hints From Our STATIONERY DEPARTMENT Hand-colored Box Stationery in all sizes 606 to $5.00 Post Card Albums 25 to $12 1910 Calendars 10 to $5 Xmas Cards, Tags, Labels and Stickers, all new. . .5 to 25 Rag Books, fast colors, will not fade, from., . . . .5 to S2.00 $2.50 Money Banks at. .$1.00 A Waterman Full Line B - ALL RECORDS GONE Burnside Bridge Draw Stays Open for 25 Minutes. DELAYS 24 STREETCARS Total Time lost While Citizens Await Iieisure of Steamers Is 1 0 Hoars 15 Minutes Ixmg Walts for Supper. Records kept for the past few days concerning; the time lost to the public by the opening of the draws dn the vari ous "Willamette bridges went to smash yesterday between the hours of 6:54 In the morning and 6:34 in the evening. During that period patrons of the street car system of transportation consumed 10 hours, and 16 minutes while they watched the steamers and scows float laatly up or down the current. Six hundred and fifteen cars, loaded with the business men. shoppers and laboring peo ple of the East and. West Sides twiddled their thumbs while they watched the procession. When the reports of Tuesday were pre sented showing that eight hours and 43 YOUR KIDNEYS WILL ACT FINE AND ALL BLADDER DISTRESS SIMPLY VANISHES Just a Few Doses Regulate Out-of-Order Kidneys, Ending the Most Severe Backache. If you take several doses of Pape's Diuretic all backache and distress from out-of-order kidneys or bladder trouble will vanish, and you -will feel fine. Lame back, painful stitches, rheuma tism, nervous headache, dizziness, irri tability, sleeplessness, inflamed or swollen eyelids, worn-out, sick feeling and other symptoms of sluggish. In active kidneys disappear. - Uncontrollable smarting. frequent urination (especially at night) and all bladder misery ends. Feeling miserable and "worried is rteedless, because this unusual prepara tion goes at once to the disordered kid neys, bladder and urinary, system and Glove Order for Xmas. All Sizes and Colors of Gloves for Men and "Women. BRILLIANT CUT GLASS NOW ON SALE AT FOURTH OFF BUY "HIM" A GILLETTE RAZOR And HeWill Be Happy Beautiful morocco case, plush lined, containing 1 complete Gil-, lette Safety Razor and 12 keen, new blades. Just like cut for 35 Fancy Sets.-ST.50 to $22.50 SINGLE BRACKET TRIPLICATE MIRRORS Make Suitable Gifts for Men or Women. Single Mirrors 81.25, S7.SO Bracket Mirrors 84 to 85 Triplicate Mirrors.. 82, 815 Pedestal Mirrors ...-81.50. 88 Hand Mirrors 81.25, SIO OUR scores of preciated. or a Conklin Fountain Pen of Opera and Field Glasses minutes had been lost in the opening and closing of the draws, fair ground was supposed to have been reached, and it was freely prophesied that the record would never again be equaled, unless it might be during the rush hours following Christmas day shopping. That day is yet to come apparently, as the trade in the department stores and large down town emporiums on Wednesday was re ported as being about normal. Burnside-brldge draw yawned yesterday afternoon for a period of 25 consecutive minutes, during which time 24 cars piled up at either end, and waited for the gap to close. A Vancouver car which arrived at the draw at 2i26 P. M. reached the other end of the bridge at 2:51. 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POCKET KNIVES Priced from 50t to JR5 Ladies' Pen Knives from 50 to ART SECTION ifwn i. i ii (mi is full of fine Christmas Gifts, ap propriate and suggestive. Mottoes, small pictures, pastels, water colors and carbons, photogravures, color prints, genuine imported oil paint ings, antique mirrors in all sizes, and other useful and ornamen tal gifts that must be seen to be ap is a G-ood Gift. Now Ready. an proportion of the extra cars utilized by the company are pressed Into ser vice, but a comparison of the various tables complied since the check was begun is not conclusive as to placing the exact time when the draws should be prohibited from opening. The long est opening on Morrison bridge yester day was for 8 minutes in the middle of the afternoon, the Steel bridge swung for 11 minutes at 10 o'clock In the morning and again in the after noon for 15 3-4 minutes at one time. Burnside was open a number of times from 5 to 7 and 9 minutes., with the grand record of 25 minutes about 2 o'clock. Victoria Masons Celebrate.- . VICTORIA. B. C, Dec. 15. Four hun dred local Masons celebrated the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Ma sonry into British Columbia last night. Large delegations from "Vancouver . and Kaatern points were present. Prominent officers of the grand lodge were in at tendance and delivered addresses. The new temple, the finest on the Pacifle Coast, was dedicated. Receipts from Suez Canal shipping ra tbe flmt nine months of the year amounted to 17.7BB.00O, against tl,020,000 In 1008. and $17,268,000 In 1907. NOTHING PLEASES THE BOYS AND GIRLS LIKE A GOOD BICYCLE We have a large stock of all sizes. Make-your selection early and we will deliver December 24th. ATHLETIC GOODS MOTORCYCLES AUTO SUPPLIES BALLOU & WRIGHT 86 Sixth Street. . .