,t,tt.avvt, nKr.ox irnXDAY. JANUARY 2, 1911. PRICE FIVE CETS. LET GHANGE GO BY State's Share Is Lost by Inattention. PLUMS WON BY ACTIYE MEN Merits of Umatilla and Mal heur Projects Neglected. GREAT FUND MISAPPLIED President and Army Board Swayed by Counter-Influence, and Loft In Park as to rrojeots of Great. Moment. BT MARRT J. PROWS. ORBOONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Jan. 1. The failure of Ore Ron to secure a fair share of the 45. 000.000 Irrigation fund distributed by President Taft on Pecember 2 Is at tributable In a large degree to the In activity of the Oregon Senators. While Senators from competing states were aggressively demanding a large slice of this fund for their respective pro jects, and were pressing demands not only upon the President, but upon members of the Board of Array Engi neers, the Oregon solons remained quiescent, apparently willing to ac cept whatever might be apportioned. The result Is that the large slices of the fund went to states whose bena tors were most Insistent, and $9:S.OOO was awarded to Oregon out of a total of f45.3Sl.83T. Senatorial Influence Counts. While ostensibly the apportionment of this vast Irrigation fund was based exclusively upon the recommenda tions of the Army Board, and while It Is announced that the Board report Is based entirely upon the merits of re spective projects, analysis of the ap portionment figures' leads to the posi tive conclusion that the President or the Board, or both, were swayed by senatorial Influence. Feasibility and desirability were not always the controlling factors, for projects more attractive, less expen sive, and much more promising than some to which allotments were made were rejected .by the President, and vast imni were placed to the credit of projects that cannot be completed within a reasonable time, or at reason able cost, as was contemplated by the 120.000.000 law. which formed tha basis for the big apportionment. Klamath Project Handicapped. Three projects in Oregon were eligi ble to receive large allotments from the S4S.000.000 fund; the Umatilla, tha Klamath and the Malheur. In view of the black ey which the Klamath pro ject has received, however, due large ly to the protests of a considerable number of land owners on that project. It was not contemplated that any mnnv wonld be set aside to extend Its canals beyond the point called for by existing approved plans, and the 1(00.000 which was given the Klamath project will do Just this, and nothing more. This money will all be spent before the close of next Summer, and then work will be shut down for four years or more. The west aide extension of the Uma tilla project, however, was in a posi tion to expect sufficient money to start construction, and carry the work well towards completion. In fact, there was equitable ground for expecting that an allotment ample to complete this extension would be made. But the Army Kngineer Board did not recommend such an allotment, and the ITesident did not make It. especially as he was not under pressure to do so. Yet It im a well-known fact that the Umatilla west side project Is today one of the best business propositions before the Government, and offers one of the most promising projects ever aurveyed. Arm; Engineers Impractical. With Its low elevation. Ideal climate, accessibility to big markets (being lo cated on the main line of a big rail road to Portland, Spokane and the East) and because of Its wonderfully productive soli, the Umatilla project gave assurance of yielding a bigver re turn on the money Invested than al most any other project considered by the Army Board. Hut the Army officers, being unfamiliar with practi cal Irrigation questions, wero preju diced against this project largely be cause they found It would be neces sary. In providing an adequate stor age reservoir, to flood several hundred acres now planted out in alfalfa. Tet tha flooding of these few hundred acres of cultivated land. t Jrfether with several thousand acres of Idle land, would have rendered productive under Irrigation about D.0no acres, now Idle, but promising some day to become one of the most valuable fruit region of East ern Oregon, and Indeed of the entire West. Ta! 60.WO acres. cow of little value, would under Irrigation be worth easily $S0O an acre in a few years. Tet there was no one to go before the Board, and convince the members of the wisdom of destroying a few hundred acres of a'falfa In order to convert Into orchards 00.000 acres now given up to sagebrush. The Board can Aaacluded. ee. I'ase wnnFR WINS WIFE BY 50 TELEGRAMS PCKSCED BY WIRE AXD TRAIN, GIUL GIVKS CONSENT. Chicago Cooplc Meet In Bay City. Lover Follows Sweetheart to "ew York and Is Accepted. CHICAGO. Jan. 1. (Special.) Wooed by telegraph, pursued by tram across the continent, married In cm cago. So reads the story of love at first sight and romance of Miss Leslie Miller.. 1001 Prairie avenue, and Law rence CrltchelU nephew of a prominent Lasallelatreet banker. Crltchell met Miss Miller and her mother In San Francisco, where he fell under the spell of the girl's charms, but It was not until ahe had been gone a day on her way to Paris that ne found he loved her. ' lie at once boarded a train for New York and although a day behind bridged that distance with 50 telegrams concerning their future happiness. The courtship, consisting of 60 tele grams, lasting a little more than four days, ended in New York, where on the ateamer bound for Europe Miss Miller surrendered and consented to return to Chicago, where she will be marneu Tuesday noon from Grace ChapcL VERTIGO ATTACK SERIOUS Gustar Simon Falls Over Banister at Concordia Club, Lives.. While leaning upon the banister of the stairway at the Concordia Club late Saturday night. Gustav Simon, manager of the Gunst cigar stores . In Portland, was selxed with vertigo and fell two stories. No bones were broken, but Mr. Simon was removed unconsci ous, to his home, and attended yester day by Drs. George F. Wilson and Otto H. Binswanger. They hold out hopes for his recovery, and do not think he la Internally Injured. More than 125 members of the Con cordia ClUb and their wives were pres ent at the New Tears eve entertain ment at the club quarters. Sixteenth and Morrison streets. Mr. and Mrs. Simon led the cotillion. Just as the party was breaking up Mr. Simon was leaning over the railing, when an attack of dlxzlness overcame him. and he fell to the floor below. Dr. Binswanger waa on the scene In an instant, and rendered first aid. Those who saw the accident say It Is a wonder Mr. Simon was not killed out right. Julius Loulsson. his brother-in-law, said last night he had been resting easily during the day; la fact that he had been asleep the most of the time. Ills physicians say that his heart ac tion Is good, and that the chief Injur la to his knees and back. STATE RECORDS MOVED Train Carries Them From Guthrie to Oklahoma City. OKLAHOMA CITT. Jan. 1. When day breaks Monday morning all the state records will be In Oklahoma City. A special train is bringing all the of fice furniture, fixtures, records, etc.. from Guthrie to Oklahoma City tonight. The train left Guthrie shortly after midnight and Is scheduled to arrive here at S A. M. Mondsy. WESTERN SENATORS WHOSE CLOSE ATTENTION TO BUSINESS WON FOR THEIR STATES A LARGE TTTAT RIGHTFULLY WAS OREGON'S. tCi??rty-"'-' "' "-" '-----'?.-f J-- '-pTrvr; . !.. ', r-.'l-illJn. ''"'""m' V-.".- ' -v; t is f I j i - i i VS; :. V'4V''';- , , . S It X v I'" f I I -r: " v .... I, nw. "3 :.-; . , ,v . ; ;. fc: :.s - i X jr I i :, ... .M (. , h i , 'it. . -. i 4A r. . " " : . ''A ? , . , .- iw.! s'.grrjgQ i ; . :. ! f uf . .--- - flk. vMi ':h i, -VV ' A -- ' !i TO KOW, LKrT TO) RIKIITt I!tiTOX. BOTTOM ROWt COLORADO. IlllillWIIWW MOST- LAST YEAR Gross Total Reaches Almost 3 Billion. INCREASE IS $227,197,972 Operating ' Expenses Greater Than Ever. RISE IN WAGES IS CAUSE Higher Labor and Cost of Deferred Maintenance Cuts Down Receipts for Second Half of 1010 Below Those of 100 9. - Railway Statistics for 1010. Grnvs earnings (esti mated) j.8n5.a-4.ni Increase over 109 2-J7.197.P73 -Miles of road built 4.110 Mls of ro&d built In 1009 ' 8,733 Foreclosure on 17 roads with a capitalisa tion of $ 04.000.000 Receiverships on seven roads with a capitali sation of 51.00O.nnfl Locomotives ordered.... 3.78T Locomotlvel ordered In 1B09 . , S.SO rsen;er cars ordered.. 8.8SI paxsenser care ordered in 1U08 4.8 H Frelnht cars ordered... 141,204 Freticht cars ordered In 11109 1S9.3RB Taxes paid by railroads. f 109.20J.7O4 Taxes paid br railroads in 190 94.804.21S CHICAGO, Jan. 1. (Special.) All records for gross earnings by railroads In the United States were broken dur ing ISflO. the approximate total being I2.S35.374, 581. This huge sum shows an Increase of $217,197,972 over the total for 1909. and of $214,085,771 over the previous high record of 1907. So great, however, was the addition to operating expenses In 1910 that tbo net .earnings from operation Increased only $3,538,561. or scarcely more than one-third of 1 per cent above those of 1909. The advance in expenses occasioned by the raise In wages last Spring and the cost of deferred maintenance was so rapid that the net receipts for the second half of the year were $33,259,256 less than for the corresponding period of 1909. Reversal I Significant. One of the most significant develop ments of the year, from a statistical standpoint. Is this unusual reversal In the character of net earnings during the second half of 1910. That this was not due to any recession in gross rev enues is proved by the fact that the latter show an Increase for the half year of over $48,000,000, which was overwhelmed by an Increase of over Monrluf1ed on PT6 2.) W. K. noiUH. IDAHO, FRANCIS E. WARHEJf, WTOMI3TR THOMAS H CAWnEB, WOJJTAWJI MLET t ..Jhe JOSEPH M. U1XOX, MOXTAAAl IUARLE9 J. HIGHES, JR, COLOHADO REED 8MOOT, UTAH, SISIOJT GUGGEJfHEIM, INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS ' The Weather. TESTERDATP Maximum temperature, 43 degrees; minimum. 40 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, easterly winds. Foreign, Berlin tailors angry because Kaiser has clothes mads in London. Page 1. Mrs. Anna Marie Druce is dead. Page 3. National. Postal banks will be Instituted on Tuesday. Page 1. Neglect by Oregon Senators costs millions to state.' Page 1. Supreme Court to hear famous Standard Oil and tobacco cases this month. Page 2. Politics. Indiana Democrats will HKely send John W. Spalding and Works In hot contest for of- - nee or senator inna i j - Domestic. Death of Hoxsey puts pall on aviation meet. I'age 3. Chicago wakes up with severe headache. Page 4. Lover wins wife by telegraph and trans continental chase. Page 1. Blizzard sweeps middle West and Eastern states. Page 1. ' Olympic Club, of San Francisco, will hold mid-Winter swim today. Page 2. Archbishop alennon calls military men para sites and assassins. Page 4. Railroad earnings in 1910 almost three bil lions. Page 1. . Sports. . St. James team, of Vancouver, defeats Pied mont "Stars- by 67 to 0. Page 10. Soccer teams to contest for honors today. Page 19. Joe Tinker, famous Chicago "Cubs" short stop, reveals secret of why Athletics woo championship. Page lit. Facifle Northwest. Disabled craft. Shna Yak. towsd to Astoria dock. Page 2. Senator Bourne loses at least one vote In Legislature two years hence. Page 6. Camp at Idltarod, In Alaska, now worked out.. Page 7. ' Washington's water board may cost $10,000 annually. Page 0. New faces will be seen at State Capitol to morrow. Page o. Proposed bill at Olympla provides strict Insurance of workmen. Page 7. TrwliTi rl and Vicinity. Thugs on East Side hold ui two men. Page 4. Judge oatens seeKs 10 nuuiwu inmumfl judge system. Page 18. Southern PaclOc rate case to be heard In Federal Court today. Page 13. British steamer Strathlyon chartered to re place Selja. Page 15. First day of 1911 passes quietly in Port land. Page 14. Wyoming girU on wager, crosses continent on horseback. Page 12. Quarter block at Twentieth and Kearney streets brings $20,000. Page Jl. Old People's Home to be opened formally today. Page 14. Portland ministers preach New Years ser mons. Page 12. Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures not shown. Page 14. Three fictions to contend over tariff in woolmen's convention. Page IS. Public service commission bill to go before voters. Page 12 Report ssys "Father" Duncan, missionary to Metlakatla. Alaska. Is recovering. Page 15. QUEEN OF ITALY IS HU.RT Helena Stumbles on Stair When - - - Going to Kiss -Children. ROME, Jan. 1. During the reception of the Senators and deputies by King Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena at the Qulrlnal today. It was noticed that the Queen appeared to be suffering consWer sble pain. Her Majesty explained that she had bad an accident. Just before midnight, not wishing the new yesr to begin without kissing the children, ahe was making her way to their rooms when she stumbled on the fr1rrnA and fell. Inlurlnff ber left arm. The King rushed to the assistance of the Queen who assured him that It was nothing serious, but added: "I am sorry that the new year begins badly." To this the King replied: "Just the rnntmrv th old vear finished badly with your fall; the new year begins well, because you are not hurt" A physician was called In and placed the arm In splints PO STAL BiKSTO OPEN TUESDAY Each State and Terri tory to-Have One. COURSE WILL BE WATCHED Deposits Will Not Be Allowed to Go Over $500. NO PASS BOOKS GIVEN Depositors 'Will Be Given Engraved Certificates Plan Is Worked Out After Careful Str.dy of Experiment by Experts. w a cwTVfvrnN. Jan. 1. Through the m-nxtimil Institution of the Postal Savings bank system on Tuesday, January 3. the United States Government win give uo people facilities for saving a part of their earnings. Their establishment is regarded as the most far-reaching nnanciai step taken by the Government since the au HinriTuMnn nf National banks, and their operation will be watched with interest by financiers throughout thos world. The system Is to be inaugurated on a comparatively small scale. One Post- office In each state and territory nas been selected as a depositary. In these 48 offices, a thorough test will be made. It was decided to make the beginning thus small, not only because no adequate ...mn.la4lnn waa available to Put It into general operation, but alBO Decau the plan adopted differs entirely from that of anv other system in the world. . . Much "Work Entailed. The new scheme is the result of many months of work by committees of postal and banking experts, whose efforts were directed by a board of trustees consisting of the Postmaster-General, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General. No pass books will be furnished deposi tors, but ail deposits will be evidenced by engraved postal savings certificates, is sued in fixed denominations of 1, J2, eo, ,10, $20 and JS0. each bearing the name of the depositor and the date on which Interest begins to accrue. The certificates are non-transferrable and non-negotiable. Interest will be payable annually at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. $500 Is Limit. By the terms of the law, no account for less than W may be opened and no person may deposit more than 1100 In any calendar month, or have to his credit at any one time more than J300 exclusive of accumulated Interest. Accounts may be opened by any person over ten years In his or .her own name and by married women in their own names. The accounts of wives cannot be Interfered with or controlled by the husbands. For the present, deposits will be Concluded on Page 15.) SHARE OF RECLAMATION FUND KAISER'S CLOTHES MADE IN LONDON CERJIAX TAIIiORS AEE AXGRY WITH THEIR RULER. Berlin Dressmakers Also Ilave Grievance, as Women at Court Buy Their' Gowns Elsewhere. . BERLIN, Jan. I. (Special.) The very latest grievance against the Kai ser Is that he will not employ a Ger man tailor, but has his clothes made In London. The nobility and all the well-dressed men In German society follow his custom, so that the native tailors are In despair. They have de cided to draw up a petition to the Kaiser, pointing out the distressing re sults for German trade of his Anglo mania in the matter of dress. It Is Just the same with the German dressmakers. Headed by their Crown Princess, the best-dressed woman at court, the German society women avoid German dressmakers and send their or ders to Paris, Vienna or some times to London. The trouble Is said to be that German tailors and dressmakers abso lutely fail to give that touch of ele gance and finish to their work which is the hall-mark of Parisian dress makers and London tailors. The women's dresses of home manu facture seem out of date and almost ugly, while the native tailors' products look as If they had been thrown to gether In a hurry. POKER PLACED UNDER BAN J Bakersfield City Trustees Not to Al low "Percentage" Game. T5 i.-TrojE-TTT.r. Cal.. Jan. 1. (Spe cial.) Percentage poker games In Bak ersfield saloons are under tne Dai. si last. They were ordered to go out of business at midnight last night. The games will not be running tonight or nlirht unless the saloon man desires to have his license revoked, for that is the penalty. 'Nmn thn nettv larceny percentage poker playing or lose your license," is the edict that has gone lorui 10 iu. saloon men. The "power behind the throne" in this !.,.. is tha Citv Trustees. They antofi summarily. The Royal Arch was informed of the ruling of the City Trustees in regard to the rormaaen -mi and tha Royal Arch held a meet ing at which the organization decided tn hark im the Trustees. ine Doaru tnnk no action as to the clubrooms. if la ,infirstood the ban lias not been placed on games played for the drinks or "round the table" poker games where there Is no rake-off. It Is also stated that the solo players will still n.rmittoH in nliiv for a penny a chip or maybe more if they desire. HORSE LEAPS INTO WAGON Scared Animal Knocks Driver Off, and Wagon Kuns Over Him. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 1. (Special.) Joslah Crull was the victim r r,onnllar accident Frlaay forenoon. o-hir-h resulted In the fracture of his i.k, u. h.tn-.pn the knee and the hip. Crull was driving out the Wallula road with the running gears of a wagon, on his way to some farming land, which he works In the Van Side neighbor- When about two and one-half miles .. r.t tntvn Al Covle overtook Crull with his. automobile. When the ma chine got within 50 feet of the team. of the horses hitched behind the wagon, a big, 5-year-old colt, weighing 150p pounds, became frightened and jumped into the running gear of the wagon, knocked Crull off, and with the weight of the horse still on, the wagon nnssed over the man's thigh, breaking Then the team hitched, to the wagon ran- away, and carried the horse on the CTn ohout 200 vards before it was able to get off. COWS AND POULTRY PAY Farmer Nets S605.50 in Year From 173 Hens; Butter Yield Big. novr.nv CITY. Or.. Jan. 1. (Spe cial.) r. L. Badger, who lives on the Beaver Creek road, has illustrated what can be done with ows and poul try in the Willamette Valley. He has 50 acres, with 23 acres In cultivation, and with 173 hens he has netted J605.o0, after paying for the feed of the poul try and allowing a cost of tl a hen. Mr. Badger has four cows, from which he clears J60 'a month, obtaining 36 pounds of butter a week, an average of nine pounds from each cow. His hens are a cross between Brown Leghorns and Buff Orpingtons, but he proposes later to have straight breeds. .' He has a heifer 7 months old for which he has refused 150. , -r NEW PEERS ARE SCARCE Failure of King to Create Them Is Bound to Cause Surprise. I LONDON', Jan. "L Much surprise will be occasioned by the absence from the New Year honors Issued tonight of any new peerages. The political prophets had predicted an unusually large list of peer ages, the names, of the Right Honorable Richard B. Haldane, Secretary of War, and others, having been mentioned. Some conservative papers have talked of the appointment of as many as 20 or 30 new peers. The omission la susceptible of two pos sible exceptions. Either the King would not eanction, or Premier Asquith was reluctant to recommend the creation of peers while the difficult question relat ing to the House of Lords remained unsaid. T BLIZZARD'S GRIP Baby Year Ushered In by Icy Gale. TEMPERATURES DROP LOW Mississippi Valley Traffic Is Badly Delayed. WIND 50 MILES AN HOUR Heavy Snowfall Is Kecordcd in Middle Western States Laramie, Wyoming, Has 1 7 Degrees Be- ! low Zero Stock Suffers. i CHICAGO, Jan. 1. (Special.) Sew Tear's day brought down upon the Northwest the first real blizzard of the season. Driven by a fierce northwest wind that has a velocity of 40 to 50 miles an hour, the storm is headed for Chicago and the Eastern states of the upper Mississippi Valley. By tomorrow afternoon, there probably will be a big drop In temperatures in Michigan, Up per Indiana and Illinois, the mercury sinking steadily until the zero mark Is reached some time in the night. Storm In Middle West. Advices from the West are that tha storm, which grew into the intensity of a blizzard In a few hours, struck Wyoming, Nebraska, Western Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa and Western Mis souri early this morning. Accompany ing the high cold wind was a heavy fall of. snow which piled into deep drifts. Overland trains wero delayed hours, and in some cases attempts to make headway were abandoned entirely. This was especially true of local trains in South Dakota. In Kansas City the temperature at noon was ) degrees above zero. In eirjht hours there was a sheer drop of 46 degrees to two above, with prospects that before daylight the mercury would be sticking at five below. At Salina, Kansas, it was five below at sunset. Omaha Kesidenls Shiver. In the region around Omaha, the in habitants were shivering with a tem-' perature of five below before sunset. Heavy snowfall delayed steam railway travel and made street railways traffic exceedingly laborious. At Broken Bow it was 10 below. Railway and street car traffic is much delayed, one over land railroad line reporting ail pas senger trains behind time and in the freight service only perishable freight and stock trains are being slowly moved. Laramie, Wyo., suffered more keenly than any other pqlnt, reporting the mer cury dropping to 17 below. The snowfall was light there. Sioux City, Iowa, reports that the bliz zard covers moat of the Hawkeye State and rages bitterly In South Dakota. The storm and the lowering temperature came with little warning and It is feared there will be vast suffering of livestock In the open. The wind was sweeping the Dakota ranges at a speed of 50 miles an hour and the driven snow filled the air with blinding particles. Trains Are Delayed. Six trains are reported stalled on the Illinois Central between Sioux City and Fort Dodge. Several trains to South Dakota points have been abandoned and (hose arriving are from six to eight hours, late. The gale reached Sioux City about 6 o'clock this morning. The thermometer registered six below zero at S o'clock this evening, with Indications of further downward movement. Streetcar traffio in the city has been almost cut off. In Chicago the day was dreary. A. drifting rain and fog are the forerun ners of the violent conditions looked for tomorrow. At 10 o'clock tonight the ther mometer is registering 44 above. Denver Has Zero Weather. At Denver and Colorado Springs tha thermometer registered 5 below zero. Leadville, Colo., reported 7 below. Pueblo 2 above and Cheyenne 10 below. Considerable delay is reported in traf fic by railroads from Cheyenne. In Colorado, traffic has not been seriously Impeded. North Texas is tonight shivering un der a cold wave. Amarlllo, in the Pan handle, reportshalf an inch of snow and high winds, with & temperature of 12 above zero. Warm weather prevailed la Dallas and vicinity until 5 o'clock this after noon, when a cold wind came from the north, and in four hours there was a drop of about 15 degree. Indications are that the freezing point will be reached by morning. El Paso, Tex., reports one of the cold est days of the season, at 6 o'clock the thermometer standing at 20 above. Since that hour there has been a gradual rise, and at 10 o'clock the temperature was reported at 40 above. Snow Is falling in the mountains of New Mexico tonight, according to re ports from Albuquerque, where the thermometer registered 2 2 above. Oklahoma Feels Cold Wave. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 1. From an average temperature of 38 degrees yes. terday the thermometer dropped today until at 10 o'clock It registered eight (Concluded oa Pas .) S IRS t