THE MORXiyO OKEGOXIAN. TIIUKSPAY, MARCH 9, 1911.
STORM WIS LEFT
WIDEDEVASTAHON
Five Counties in California Re
port Floods Have
Covered Them.
GREAT LEVEE HAS BROKEN
trrrllcrs In Sacramento Taller
TJrlTen Out, Cattle Drowned. Or
chards Torn Vp, Bridge Gne,
and Railroads Blocked.
SACRAMENTO. CU Mrch - (?Pe
clai.) The backbone cf the itorm that
rad throughout Northern Cailfornla
during- the past t hour h broken
nd indications are that there will be
little more rain.
Flood conditions In the lower reaches
ef the Sacramento Kiver did (rest
damase and the losses will reach well
tip Into the thousand of dollars. The
new i'he:sn lever, that protects the
lands of the rhelan estate In the Chlco
and IlAutlton City reRion. broke at 11
orlork lt nlRht and hundreds of
a- res of rich land are under water la
thai ser on. In all. about 10 M
county bridges are badly damaged or
destroyed.
In the vicinity of Drls high wster
caused many fs.-nllles tJ mov to the
upper storlt-s of their homes. Sv iiaro
rml awoke during the nlsht to find tue
water rreeptnc up to the rim of bis
bed. li barely a-ot away from the
room and wttn a durkboat succeeded
In rescuing many bead of cattle he
owned.
Near Hamilton City a corral contain-in-
l'o head of cattle was filled with
water and It Is estimated that ZOO of
trie cattle perished during; the night.
Keports from five neighboring coun
ties report stalled trains, destroyed
bridges, fruit trees uprooted by heavy
wind and cattle and bulidlncs lost In
floods. A number of people are re
ported drowned.
A great snowsllde at Crystal Lake
near the summit on the Southern Pa
cific overland line covers the tracks
for half a mile and Is 100 feet deep.
It la the ble-c-est slide the railroad
company has ever had to contend wtta
and will delay overland trains for
Some time.
The Western Pacific reports wash
outs In NUes Canyon and snnwalldes In
Kcather River Canyon. Officials ex
pect to have the line clear within 24
hours.
Kxcept for minor delays. Oregon
trains are running; nearly on time.
CEXITO DAM IS BROKEN
Bridges Swept Away and Town Is
Isolated FVom World.
SAN JOSE. Cal.. March 8. Reports
from San iienito say that nearly two
ln-h of rain has fallen within the
:i hours and both bridges over the
tan Benito River are down. Isolating;
the town from 4 surrounding coun
try. The Irrigation dam five miles south
Is under water and the surrounding
country is submerged several feet.
Telephone lines throughout the
county are down. Thirty acres of or
chard trees have been torn out by the
root. Tres linos Creek has played
great havoc along Its banks, leaving
tne channel In places and washing out
farms.
CORCORAN JURY DISAGREES
Sanity or Sullivan's Tlrtr In Doubt.
Seattlo Lawyers Denounced.
tXUBLJX. March A Jury to which
was submitted today the question of
sanity of Edward Corcoran, alleged by
lis son to have surrendered to Ameri
can lawyers much of an estate inherit
ed from his cousin. John Sullivan of
Seattle. Wash., disagreed and was dis
charged. Previously American Vice-Consul
Arthur I. Piatt had testified that Cor
coran fully understood the nature of the
documents Involved. Counsel for E. Cor
coran, the son. complained of th publ'
cation of a cablegram purporting to be
a statement by the American lawyers
concerned in the case, which be de
clared constituted a gross contempt of
court. Several experts testified that Cor
coran was perfectly sane.
ACKERMAN'S SALARY SET
President of .Monmouth Normal to
Oct SSeOO Annually.
SALEM. Or.. March . (Special) At
a meeting of the exccntlve committee
ef the State Board of Normal Regents
today a general meeting of the board
was called for April S In Monmouth.
Ciovernor West. Miss Cornelia Marvin
and Superintendent Alderman are mem
bers of the executive committee, of
which President J. li. Ackerman also
act. as secretary.
There will he no additional secretary
for the State Board of Normal 'Regents,
as arrangements have been made for
the president to act. The executive
committee entered into a three-year
contract with President Ackerman at
a salary of ;600 annually.
PLAGUE IS BEING CHECKED
avorabl Keports Received Front
re kin. Tnngrha and Pao-Tcng-Fu.
BOSTON. March $. Additional ad
rices regarding the bubonic plague In
North Cclna. received by the American
Board of Commissioner for Foreign
Victoria today. Indicate that the au
thorities in the vicinity of Peking. Tung
cha and Pso-Tlng-Fu. in the Chill prov
ince, have been successful In checking
further spread of the disease.
Tr.e report says that about the middle
of January there was much fear In Fe
ktn. but after much success was at
tained In checking the disease they sub
sided. The same stats was met In Tien
Tela.
WOMAN ANDBABE BURNED
Lamp Falls. Seattle Official's Moth
er, 70, and Infant May Die.
EVERETT. Wash., March K Special.)
The overturning of a lamp tonight In a
small house at 2ua Cedar street set firs
to the building
Mrs. Edward Philips, mother of Conn-
cllman J. 8. Philips, and the three-montha-old
son of Mrs. McCord. of
Seattle, a daughter of Mrs. Philips, wers
burned severely.
Mrs. Philips Is 70 years old and It Is
feared her Injuries will prove fatal. The
baby Is burned about the head and may
die.
TRAIN STRIKES YOUTH
With IIlp Broken He Lies for Six
Hours Before Found.
VANfDCVER. Wash.. March S. (Spe
cify Siruck at midnight by a fast pas
err.ger train and burled from the track.
Coleman Nee. H years old. wsa com
pelled to lie in the rain with a broken hip
and many bruises until ( o'clock this
morning, when he was discovered by a
railroad man and brought to a hospital In
this city, where he was cared for.
Nee has a mother In Harlem, New
Tork. and has been working with a bridge
gang in Canada. Several days ago be
came here, but being unable to And
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NATIVE Or PORTLAND DIES AT
HOME IN LA GRANDE,
AO ED 1 YEARS.
.;..-.,;n
-
it
Mrs. Maria PeWHt Saodgrass.
LA GRANDE. Or.. March . (Spe
J1.) Mra. Maria DeWItt Snodgrass.
ef this city, died suddenly rrlday
night. acd (I. Since lltl Mrs.
anodrraae had made La Oraade her
home. fhe was mother ef II chil
dren, nine ef whom survive her.
Her husband died two years age.
Mra Snodgrass was a daugater ef
Mrs. OI.Ua DeWItt. 2(4 North Twenty-second
street. Portland, who,
though tT years old. still survtvea
Mrs. Snodgrass was bora Is Port
land July :. 114. She was mar
ried Mar It. to W. J. Snod
grass. in Portland, and Immediately
after their marriage they moved to
La Grande.
Mrs, Snodgrass is survived by nine
children, her mother, two sisters and
tare brothers. The children are: Joe
Snodgrasa La Grande; Wilt Colfax;
William. J. O- and L. L of this city:
Mra, E. W. Bartlett. Mrs. Jay Van
Buren. Mra Fred Dlddebrandt. Judith
Snodgrass. all of this city, and Mrs.
P. T. Abbott, of Colfax: her sisters
are Mrs. Wellman and Mra Marker.
Palo Alto, and the brothers are John
Cullen and Frank DeWItt. of Port
land. work, exarted at ( o'clock last night to
walk to Chehalls. down the Northern Pa
cific track. He had gone about six mUea
when he was struck.
CANADIAN WILL IMPROVE
Sliaughneaity to Order Steamers for
Pacific Ocean Line.
NEW TORK. March . Sir Thomas
O. Sbaughnessy. president of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad, and Gifford Pln
chot. were fellow-passengers today on
the steamship Celtic, Journeying to Eu
rope. Sir Thomas said tne Canadian Pa
cific contemplated spending about $34.
000.000 the coming year on Improve
ments and extensions, and while in
England he expects to place orders for
the building of the two new ships for
the Pacific trade. These steamship
will be about 10,000 tons each.
Sir Thomas said he thought the gen
eral feeling In Canada was not favor
able U reciprocity.
Mr. Plnchot ie going on a pleasure
trip to the Mediterranean.
STRIKE CALLED BY COUP
10,000 Steamfltters Are Ordered
Out In Chicago.
CHICAGO, March S. While Judge
Grldley was hearing arguments today
In the petition of Journeymen steam
fitters for an Injunction to prevent the
Chicago Trades Council and the Steam
fitters' Union from declaring general
strikes, the labor leaders executed a
coup by ordering out approximately
10.000 men. Building In the main part
of the city is tied up.
DR. BELTRAN TAKES REINS
Provisional Kxceutlve of Honduras
Is F.lcTatcd by Congress.
PUERTO CORTEZ. Honduras. March
8. Dr. Francleca Belt ran. who was
agreed on last week by the peace con
ference as provisional President of
Honduras, was elected yesterday by
Congress as Premier Designate, or first
Vice-President of the Republic This Is
a full acceptance by the Congress of the
conditions of the peace agreement, and
BWtran becomes the constitutional as
well as provisional President of the
country Immediately on the resignation
of President Davlla.
Church Mortgage Burned.
The ceremony of burning the mort
gage was held last night in the First
Churrh of the Naxarene. East Seventh
and East Couch streets. Rer. A. O.
Henrlcks. the pastor, conducted the
opening exercise, after which W. T.
Branch, chairman of the board of trus
tees, burned the mortgage In the pres
ence of the congregation. Money to
the amount of 16v0 with which to
1 pay the debt was raised last Sunday.
The church la a little over four years
old. and has property valued at more
than 111.000. There are 200 members.
Copies of Motor Law In Demand.
SALEM. Or., March . (Special.)
Copies of the new Oregon motor vehi
cle law are being received from the
printer by the Secretary of State. It
Is doubtful If there has ever been such
a great demand for any Individual law
as there has been for this one. Great
stacks of letters are piled In the Secre
tary's office awaiting answer In Lba
bap of popjr pf Lola pamphlet.
RUEF IS SERVING
PRISON
NOVITIATE
Ex-Boss Endures Incarcera
tion With .Stoicism and
Flashes of Humor.
HE MAY SOON BE PROMOTED
Beginning as Spooler, Ruef May Be
Given Work More Suited to His
Genius He Has Murderer and
Burglar as Cellmates.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 8. (Special.)
San Francisco's former political boas,
Abraham Ruef, at 10 o'clock this morning
commenced his term of servitude at San
Quentln by sn Introduction to the "spool
ers" In the Jute mill, being placed at a
form of unskilled labor that la reserved
for the new entrants at the prison.
Warden Uoyle stated that the routine
procedure would be adopted with Ruef as
with anV other prisoner.
The long strain of farewells having
ended. Ruef had recovered some of his
natural buoyancy by morning and ac
cepted conditions as he met them with
philosophical stoicism and occasional
flashes of hat Irrepressible facellousness.
Jute Work KucTs Novitiate.
"It Is not possible to eay Just how long
Ruef will be kept at the Jute mill." said
Uoyle. "It may be that he will very
soon prove to us that be Is worth more
money at some other line. This is a
large Institution and men are empioyea in
many forms of labor. There naturally
are some positions that men of education
can nil that it would be impossible for
other prisoners to till.
"However, the Jute mill Is the novl
tiate that every prisoner must serve.
Later, if we rind that Ruef Is worth more
money to the institution st some work
that may prove more congenial to Bin,
we aili Dut him at It.
"Ruef Is In a very philosophical humor
this morning. He says that he is no
better now than any other prisoner and
does not expect any distinction to be
made with him."
Murderer and Burglar Ills Cellmates
After breakfast In the main dining
room with hundreds of fellow-prisoners
Ruef was taken to the photograph gal
lery, where his pictures were taken with
the number on his breast, 14.911. He was
then taken to the Bertlllon room, where
his measurements and fingerprints were
taken. After that ceremony waei con
cluded he was taken to the Jute mill for
his first day's work.
Ruef has been given a cell with Thomas
O. Toung. serving life for the slaying
of Policeman William Helns. and with
Manuel Corrila, under seven years sen
tence for burglary. With such com
panions must the man, who above all
things waei an exquisite, a. cultured and
polished cosmopolitan. a university
graduate, spend his leisure hours.
CHANCELLOR JOHNSON IES
Atlr Three Months' Illness, Aged
Pioneer Passes at Xetvbcrg.
XEWBERO, Or.. March 8. (Special.)
Chancellor L. Johnson passed away
last week at the age of S3 years,
after an illness of three months
at his home three miles north of
Newberg. He was born 'n Tully, Onon
daga County. New Tork, April 27, 1S25.
removing at an early day to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. He was married to Miss Mary
Jane Cslklns. March 17, 1W7. To them
were born two sons and four daughters.
Ills widow, two daughters, and their
families. Mrs. J. C. Willis and Mra tT.
Chase, and one daughter-in-law and fam
ily. Mrs. Hiram C. Johnson, are left to
mourn his departure.
Funeral services were held st the
home, burial taking place at the Friends'
Cemetery March J.
THAWS AWAITED IN CHINA
Melting Snows Will Interfere With
Michigan Men Suspected of Hokl-Vp
PEKIN, March 8. The Chinese govern
ment has not been informed officially of
Russia's reported intention of putting
police boats on the Amur. It Is said at
the Russian legation that the project evi
dently Is only for quarantine purposes.
The melting of snows is anxiously
awaited, because it is believed that If
either Russia or Japan has aggressive
designs, this will Interfere with the
movement of troops and will cause suf
ficient delay to permit of settlement of
controversial questions. The financial
loaves, both directly snd . indirectly,
through tho stoppage of the railways Is
enormous
Husk Estate Probated.
OREGON CITT, Or., Msy 8. (Special.)
The estate or the late John D. Rusk,
father of Speaker Jerry Rusk, of the
Oregon House of Representatives, was
admitted to probate today and Mrs. Elii
abeth Rusk, the widow, was appointed
administratrix. The estato. which con
slm of land near Mllwaukle, Is valued
at $3600.
Lewis County Doctors Meet.
CENTRA LIA, Wash.. March 8. (Spe
cial.) Physicians of Lewis County held
their annual banquet last night at ti e
Annex Cafe, the occasion being the
regnlsr gathering of the Lewis County
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Remember this, too, that most pim
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Medical Association. The attendance was
large. Addresses were delivered by Drs.
Banks. Livingstone, Holla. Blckford.
Stewart, Knlskern and Primmer of
Centralis, Drs. Coleman. Godfrey and
Hotchklss of Chehalls and Dr. Bltxer of
ilayrteld. The event was the fourth an
nual banquet of the association.
FILMS DEPICT OIL WELL
Novel Picture Tells Pretty Romance.
Comedy Shown, Too.
"A Wild Cat Well" at the Star The
ater is interesting. In that it shows the
operation of an oil well In every detail,
besides telling a pretty romance. "A
Decree of Destiny." contributed by the
biograph," grips the heart with strange
power, while the two Pathe comedies are
extremely witty.
At the Arcade Theater In "The Irish
Honeymoon" a splendid picture is given
of Dick Croker, the ex-boss of Tammany
Hall, while "The Barber's Daughter"
contains several genuine laughs.
"The Eye of Conscience" is featured
at the Oh Joy Theater. It Is a weird
drama, showing how a mask with a pe
culiar eye saved a man from disloyalty
to a helpless friend. '
The headllner at the Odeon is 'The
Iron Master," pictured from the book.
"Claire, the Forgemaster." Three other
splendid films make up a long and strong
bill. M ,
Four clever pictures amuse and in
struct at the Trivoll and much Interest
Is shown in the picture of the lad who
now owns the Shetland pony. Another
Btrong Dickens book is photo, played at
the Star for next Sunday.
TWO WASCO PIONEERS DIE
Mrs. Caroline Connolly and Mrs. E.
J, Martin Were Octogenarians.
THE DALLES, Or., March 8. (Spe
cial.) The death of two women, who
were Oregon pioneers and old residents
of Wasco County, took here today. Mrs.
Caroline Connolly, 85 years old. who
had lived on a ranch at Eight Mile, a
few miles from The Dalles, for the
past 26 years, died at the home of her
son. Orson Connolly, this morning.
Mrs. E. J. Marlin, 87 years old, who
crossed the plains by ox-team in 1845.
died at the home of her daughter. Mrs.
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IB..
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