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PORTLAND. OREGON. MONDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII-NO- 1G,23G. ESTIMATE OF L055 BY STORM. 525,000 Rains Start Slide on Westover Terraces. WALKS COVERED 7 FEET DEEP Portland Total Rainfall Sunday Is 2.21 Inches. for CAR SERVICE IS BLOCKED Sewer, Unable to Carry Load, Force Manhole Covers and Flood Base ments High Wind Raging on Coast, bat Wires Are Down. FACTS ABOUT STORM AXD ITS EFFECT. Rainfall lr past 21 hour. 3.21 Inches. Northern Pacific. O.-W. It. K. Company and Oreat Northern trains bstween Portland and Seattle held by rock slide at castle Rock. Trains between Portland and. As toria held at Clatskanle by slide, and service on Tillamook line suspended. Trains on North Bank line late. All p.-W. R. N. trains from east late. Southern Pacific to south open. Mountain of clay settles on West over Terraces covering streets, lots, lawns and parkins; with several feet of mud and debris. , ' Rocks and slit washed into streets from sldehllls block car service and overfull sewers flood streets. Washout on tracks near the Oaks causes temporary delay of Interurban lines, and silt on Mount Tabor track derails car. Crosswalks washed out In Fulton delay car service. Mud slides cover sidewalk on ex tension of Corbett street in Fulton and damare sewers in the Heights. Sewer trenches caved In by rain water. Easements along sldehllls in South and West Portland flooded with muddy water. Telegraphic and telephonic com munication cut off between Portland and Coast towns. - Total damage estimated at 123. OOO. Rain which fell In torrents from 2:20 o'clock yesterday morning until about i o'clock at night caused property damage in Portland amounting to probably $35,000. Streetcar service was temporarily disorganized In sev eral parts of the city, hundreds of basements were flooded, sidewalks were washed out In several places, vast dam age was done by mud and rock slides, train service was delayed on all lines and most of the towns on the Oregon coast were cut off from communication with Fortland. The storm was the most severe since January, 111. the total precipitation being 2.21 inches, according to the gauge at the United States Weather Bureau. The only storm of compara tive severity since the unusually heavy rain of January 17. 1911, was on Jan uary 5, 112, when 2.17 Inches of rain fell. - Precipitation In the 1911 storm reached 4.61 inches. Pipe Use Wrecked. ' The' most severe damage done yes terday was at Westover Terraces, wbere a massive mud slide blotted out a pipe line system, tore down a frame building and covered most of the paved streets in the addition with from two to seven feet of mud axd slime. The slide occurred early In the morning and came down with a crash that awakened residents for blocks around. The damage will total many thousands of dollars. The slide was caused by the settling of a massive hill of slate-colored clay at the head of a gracefully curved street leading southwesterly 'from Westover road. The slide covered the street, taking overything before It. A large expanse of lawn was covered several feet deep, deep gulleys were washed through some of the best lots and the mass of mud and debris rushed down hlli for more than a quarter of a mile, burying everything that came in its path. Landscape Is Chanced. Building materials In front .of two residences under construction, valued at several hundred dollars, were cov ered with mud, piles of lumber were carried off and burled, board walks ro'oteu up and lawns completely ruined. The main street of the Terraces is Westover road, which Is now under an average of about Ave feet of mud, planks, boards, barrels, rocka and other debris for a distance of about 100 yards. Other streets are in a similar condition. Homes Esrspe Damage. The slide extends now to within about 100 feet of several residences. No damage has resulted to buildings as yet. The mud is banked up against the houses uajer construction to a depth of a foot and a half. Two detp ravines were cut in a beau tiful lawn directly south of the West over Terrace office. The torrent of water draining from the hills was de flected by the mud barricade to the lawns and ploughed a bed several feet deep. The choking of the sewers by mud forced the water to flow down the streets below the terraces, causing (Concluded on Page 8. ) PAINTING OF "AUNT DELIA" FOR JAFT TOCXG BOSTON" ARTIST MAKES PORTRAIT FOR PRESIDENT. Society Women ol Hub City Said to Be Donors of New Year's Present. Aged Woman Poses Patiently. BOSTON", Doc. '29. (Special.) Presi dent Taft will receive as a New Year's gift a portrait of "Aunt Delia" Torrey, of Mill bury. Mass. The painting is in oils and the work of Miss Emily B. Walte. avounir Boston artist. The names of the donors have been care fully guarded, yet from reliable sources has come word that the portrait was o'rdered by several Boston society women. Miss Waite is well known In art circles here. She recently returned from Europe, where she had been sent after she had won the James William Paige scholarship of $800 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Miss Waite was approached by the donors of the gift last Summer. Soon after that "Aunt Delia" was requested to sit for the por trait, which was to be a gift to her nephew. For these sittings she donned her customary quiet black gown and pa tiently posed while the artist repro duced her features. PAUPERISM IS "DISMAYING" British Paper Attributes Condition to Labor Disputes. LONDON. Dec. 29. (Special.) English people for weeks have been in vited to rejoice at their booming trade and great prosperity. They have been constantly told that 1912 has been a year of unparalleled prosperity, but the Times selected Boxing day. the day after Christmas, to print a complete page dealing with the condition of Don don's legal poor and showing the im mense Increase in pauperism which, as the paper confesses in an editorial, is "dismaying." The figures show that the poor law guardians on December if were pro viding for 110,392 persons, represent ing a ratio of 24.4 per 1000 of popula tion. The Times attributes a great part of the increase of paupers to labor dis putes. In London, adds the Times, distress commissions are giving relief to able bodied men at the height of good trade employment, while, employers are ad vertising in vain for labor. In Novem ber 535 men received such relief in London and 160 In the rest of England, j THOMAS HARDING, 91, DIES - - ' -..'..-I. .--' End Comes to Well-Known Newspa per Writer, Poet, at Oregon City OREGON CITY, Or., Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) Thomas Harding died last night. aged 91 years. For the past three years he has made his home with a daughter, Mrs. A. L. Allen, at Redland, and the funeral services will be con ducted there tomorrow at 1 P. M. by Rev. C. W. Robinson, rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church, of Oregon City. ' Mr. Harding was a newspaper writer and poet In the Middle states, his best known production in. verse, entitled, "Remember the Maine." had a wide cir culation through the press of the coun try. A year ago Mr. Harding wrote Rev. Mr. Robinson asking him to see that the Episcopal services were used at his burial and expressing a preference for Mr. Robinson's ministration. A week before Christmas he wrote asking when the Christmas services were to be held, as he desired to attend. This, however, was forbidden by his physician, but the clergyman visited him at his home. Mr, Harding was a native of Ireland. REID'S BODYJEARS PORT Widow Arrives in New York Shortly In Advance of Warship. NEW YORK. Dec 29. (Special.) With the British armored cruiser Natal bearing the body of Whitelaw Reid. who was American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Hearing- this port preparations were completed today for a large and impressive funeral to be held January 4 in the Cathedral of St John the Divine. . Mrs. Reid. the widow, with other members of the family, arrived today on board the steamship Campania, pre ceding the body of the late Ambassador by a few hours. The British cruiser Is expected to put into harbor tomorrow. President Taft and other high of ficlals of Goverment and state are ex pected to attend the funeral. Many members of the diplomatic corps will also come over from Washington for the services. Services will begra at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Rev. William M. Grosve nor, dean of the Cathedral, for many years a close friend of Mr. Reid, will assist the bishop. ARMY POET IS SURPRISED Captain Says He Didn't Think Verses Would Attract Attention. WASHINGTON, Dec 29. Captain A. Steunenberg, of the Twenty-fiftli. In fantry, who recently was admonished for writing Home satirical verses re flecting on the German training of the Turkish army, lias written a letter ex plaining that the verses were given a much wider .publlcUy than he Jiad ex pected would be accorded them. Cap tain Steunenberg addressed his explan atory letter to the publication which published the original verses. He says his "ctasslc lines" were In tended for Army people alone and that nobody was mure surprised than he when the poem was "flashed across the continent by leased wire and published under glaring headlines as a 'casus belli.'" "Had I foreseen such a dire calam ity,'" Captain Steunenberg adds. "I would have thrown the verses into a traste basket where probably they belonged" TURKS TO PRESENT MODIFIED TERMS Allies More Anxious for Business. INTERVENTION NOW FEARED Austria's Attitude Encourages Ottomans to Resist. RECHAD PASHA MODERATE Envoy Personally Opposes Extreme Demands, but Instructions Are Guldcd by Hope of Aid From Powers. LONDON. Dec. 29. Notwithstanding apparently insurmountable ..difficulties attending the successful issue of the peace conference, the prospects tonight look brighter, more because of the changing atmosphere of the conference than on account of any new fact In the first place It is said on good authority that the Turkish delegates will present tomorrow modified terms, better calculated to afford a basis for negotiations, and, in the second place, the allies appear more anxious to come to real business, if possible. Intervention Most Feared. They have spent the week-end in exchanging long cipher telegrams with their respective governments, in order to be fully informed on all points In the incomplete agreement. They seem to be nervously apprehensive that they wil be deprived of the fruits of their victories by European intervention. One of the delegates said tonight: "It is difficult to say whether our struggle will be harder against Mus sulman oppression or against Euro pean intervention, which already sev eral times has prevented us from shak ing off the Ottoman yoke. . Guarantees Are Distrusted. "Although our armies have victo riously reached Tchatalja, Europe might wish to return Adrianople to. the- Moolero; frrjsft-p. or : trycrlhg ' what that woulu mean.' for ' he Chris tian population. But we- know the value of the so-called European guar antees for Turkish reforms and ' this time we will not give in. k "If official Europe likes horrors 'it shall h'avo them. We will fight to the bitter end. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!" The Balkan delegates fear that Aus tria's attitude is encouraging the Turks to resist. If reports from Vienna are true, Austria still persists in the en largement of the frontiers of autono mous Albania to such an extent that It will absorb the territories claimed by Greece, Servia and Montenegro, and as Montenegro treats the proposition of the exchange of Scutari for Mount Lowehen as a "blackmailing proposi tion," the difficulties raised by Aus iConcluded on Page 2.) PICTURES IN ANNUAL IM PRESSIVE. Hazy impressions of Portland held in the East and Middle West, where many people have no clear conceptions Qf this city's size and metropolitan ap pearance, will be promptly and completely dispelled wherever The Oregonian Annual is read. A glance at the pictorial sec tion will show them streets well lined with lofty business and of fice blocks and crowded with the daily traffic of people, auto mobiles, streetcars 'and other vehicles. This section will con sist of 16 pages of the finest Portland views ever taken. Our Eastern friends will rub their eyes in wonder at the progress made by this Pacific Coast member of America's big city family. The section of the Annual dealing with the progress of Oregon industries will be no less impressive. It will tell of the great - opportunities that are open to people of industry and energy. It will reveal develop ment that is equaled in.no other part of the country. It will show the underlying causes that assure the continuance of this forward movement, with em phasis laid on the significant extensions of electric railroads in the Willamette Valley. The Annual will be issued Wednesday of this week. The price will be 5 cents. Domestic postage, 5 cents. Foreign post age, 10 cents. 12,000 HUNGRY ARE FD Men, Some Almost Starving, W alt .While Women Partake First.- CHICAGO. Dec. 29. (Special.) Twelve thousand hungry men. women and children were fed in relays of 700 by the Volunteers of America In the First Regiment Armory today, the din ner lasting continuously from 11 A. M. until 7 P. M. When the last diner laid down his fork and withdrew from the board there was nothing mora to eat and nothing to carry away. 'Women and children first," was the dictum of the hosts. The men yielded gallantly, but to do so called for hero ism on the part of many. Many who waited in . the galleries while the mothers and little folks ate had not tasted food for 48 hours. For the dinner itself, the eatables in cluded 3000 pounds of turkey, 3000 loaves of bread. 1 fWl bushels -of potatoes, SO- bushels of turnips, 400 gallons of coffee and 800 pounds of sugar. ' TRAPPERS REAP HARVEST Klickitat Men Capture.' Xumerous Valuable Fur-Bearing Animals. WAHKIACUS, Waslu Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) Trappers up and down the Klickitat River report some good catches of animals. Indian Joe leads with the longest string of coon skins. William Kingman, of Trout Lake, who operates a trap line extending 80 miles, reports the capture of five bear and IS marten. It has been estimated there are 20 fur trappers now engaged in Klickitat County. The most desired wild animal in the Klickitat country is the Bllver gray fox, the fur of which, when in prime condition, sells for 3300. JUST A TRIAL SPIN. MEN ' IN- WELL SIX DAYS ARE RESCUED Succor Comes as Two Abandon Hope. FIGHT FOR LIFE IS HEROIC Homesteaders Trapped When Windlass Rope Snaps. 70-FOOT FALL INJURES One Rancher Ides -With gs Bro ken, While Companion Vainly ' Attempts, to Scale Sheer -Walla to Surface. BURNS, Or., Dec. 29. (Special.) Prisoners at the bottom of a well 85 feet deep for six days, without food or water, Robert L. Koontz, aged 3. and William M. Carroll, aged. 26, homesteaders in Catlow Valley, to the west of Stein's Mountain, Harney County, were rescued by a neighbor early Sunday night. A thrilling story of the two men's terrible experiences the fortitude of Carroll, who lay helpless at the bot tom of 'the well with two broken legs, and the heroism of Koontz, who, ex hausted and bruised, strove ts rescue Carroll and himself was told here to day by Dr. Harrison,, of this city, who returned from attending to the in jured men. Rescue Barely la Time. Koontz and Carroll became impris oned in the well, which was on the former's place, the morning of Decem ber 17, and were not rescued until the night of December 22. When found both - men were exhausted and oould not have survived many hours more. The accident occurrred when Koontz and Carroll were preparing to com me'r.ce the work of deepening the well, which already had been dug and blast ed to a depth of 85 feet, but no water reached. Carroll was employed by Koontz to aid. in the work. lie men attached a. rope to the. wind lass and Dy tnis means x.oonw iei mm self down to the bottom "of the well. Carroll essayed to follow his com tanlon, but when he had descended about 15 feet the rope broke and he fell to the bottom, sustaining two broken legs. The left leg was frac tured at the ankle and again just be low the knee. The small bone ,in the right leg was broken Just above the ankle. M Sever Give Up Hope. Although no neighbors lived near and for days at a time no persons were accustomed to pass that way, the men did not abandon hope. While Carroll Jay helpless. Koontz set about to ascend the sheer sides of the well. By dig ging notches with his hands and feet on either side of the well, he grad ually raised himself to within 20 feet (Concluded on Page 3.) HYMN PILOTS 200 FROM FIRE PERIL CHILDREN MARCH FROM BTJRX ISG CHURCH SIXGING. "Onward Christian Soldiers," Played at Policeman's Request by Teacher, Averts Panic. CHICAGO, Dec 29. Singing "On ward Christian Soldiers," 200 children, members of . a Sunday school class, marched out of their classroom here to day through smoke from a fire that de stroyed the Lorimer Baptist Church. Mrs. Laura Elderson, organist, and Miss Martha Marquardt, teacher of a primary class, played the music and led the singing until all the children were in safety. By that time the flames were so close to the two wo men that they were forced t? flee, abandoning their coats and furs. The fire was discovered by a police man while the Sunday school wax in session. Investigating smoke .. coming from a window, he found . the entire basement of the church to" be on fire. He ran up stairs and asked the teach ers of the Sunday school to play some thing the children could march to. The entire structure was in 'flames by the time the la3t child was out and the two teachers had escaped. JURY FIXES PARSON'S SEAT Legislator's Right to Go to Salem Decided at Eugene. EUGENE. Or., Dec 29. M. Vernon Parson's right to a seat In the Legisla ture was confirmed Saturday when the Jury in Judge Harris' court found that the schedule of expenses as filed by the candidate was correct to a cent. George Schulmerlck, of Creswell, had brought suit under the Oregon corrupt practices act, alleging that Parsons had spent more than the legal limit, 1100. in securing his election, and submitted a schedule of items aggregating $270, al leged to have been spent in furtherance of his campaign. Parsons showed that some of the expenses were Incurred be fore the primaries, and under Judge Harris' ruling these could not be con sidered as a part of the cost of elec tion. Other Items for travel expenses were declared chargeable to business other'than election. The suit was one in equity, but Judge Harris called a jury in an advisory ca pacity. This was the first suit brought in the state for -alleged violation of the corrupt practices act. MAZAMAS WADE IN STORM Members of Weekly Walking Club "Tramp" to Kelly Butte. The Mazamas had exceedingly un propltious weather for their weekly walk yesterday, but nevertheless a few of the hardier spirits among them turned out as usual. The party walked out Powell Val ley Road from East Fiftieth street to Kelly Butte, which they ascended, be sides going through the stockade. They returned to the city by the same route. A rain storm was weathered most of the way. The following took the walk: J. E. Bronaugh, J. C. Brush, R. W. Bodley, C. L. Dunham, W. L. Kadderly, F. P. Luetters. S. B. Oakes, E. F. Peterson, W. C. Spence, Elsie Silver, Mr. Tuttle, A. B. Williams and Beatrice Young. WILSON HEARS NEW BOOM Governor Smiles at Cheers When Second Term Is Mentioned. STAUNTON. Va., Dec. 29. A second term boom for Woodrow Wilson was launched here shortly after midnight at the Wilson banquet last night, when Representative Flood brought forth . great demonstration by remarking: We believe your Administration of eight years will be highly successful.' Mr. Flood had opposed Mr. Wilson at the Baltimore convention and. In a speech following Governor Wilson's Mr. Flood made the remark about the eight-year term. In the demonstra tion which followed Speaker Byrd, of the Virginia Legislature, arose and led the cheers. Governor Wilson only smiled. WASHOUGAL MILL WORKING Pendleton Firm Operating Woolen Plant Under Receiver's Lease. WASHOUGAL, Wash., Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) The Union Woolen Mills prop erty, which went info the hands of a receiver late last Summer, is now De ri g- operated in a substantial way. W. Sappington was appointed receiver at that time and he interested the Bishop Brothers, owners of the Pendle ton Woolen Mills, who rented the prop erty until the first of the year. Another arrangement has been made nd the mill will be run indefinitely by the Pendleton firm. The Bishop Brothers have no regular blanket plant at Pendleton and orders are said, to be booked ahead for several months. IDAHO WANTSJG00D ROADS Highway From Spokane to Lewis ton Is Projected. LEWISTON, Idaho, Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) A convention has been- called for the purpose of discussing ways and means of obtaining good roads and bridges for Nez Perce County. It Is proposed to attract the atten tion of the State of Washington in the matter of exension of good roads through the Inland Empire, so as to per mit a complete highway north and south from Spokane to Lewiston, through the towns of Palouse, Pullman, Colfax and Uniontown. DARE DEVIL" RAGE BY AUTOIST FATAL Hal Shain Killed When Car. Leaves Track. AUTO PLUNGES INTO CROWD Machine Climbs to Rim of Cup Oval and Drops Over. THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED Venice Track Scene of Disaster When Exhibition Dash Goejs Amiss. Panic Ensues When Wild i Machine Goes Into Throng. a t LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29. Hal Shaln, a -well-known automobile racer, was fatally Injured, three others seriously hurt and others slightly cut and bruised when Shaln's racer shot out of the cup shaped track known as the "dare devil race for life." on the concession pier at Venice this afternoon and plunged into the crowd. Shaln died a half hour after doctors sought to save his life by an operation. The seriously injured are: Mrs. A. B. Atkinson, 43, tourist from Vancouver, B. C, fractured lower jaw and lacerated lip. M. W. J. Johnson, 55, tourist from Madison, Wis., left hand fractured and minor injuries. J. M. Moyer, 32, Los Angeles, abdom inal injuries. Injured Will Recover. All will recover, according to the doctors. Since early In the Summer Shain had been one of the chief attractions at Venice because of the small size of the track on which he rode and the ter rific speed at which he traveled. The cup is 70 feet in diameter at the top and it requires a speed of 55 miles an hour to keep an automobile on the almost perpendicular track. A thin red line a foot below the top served as the "dead line" for the driver. In some manner Shain lost control of the machine and it went over the "dead line," and after splintering sev eral railing posts dropped to the bot tom of the cup. In another fraction of a second the car shot to the top again and plunged through the railing and into the spectators. After making half the circuit of the track through the crowd, the automobile fell back over the steep side of the track to the bottom with Shaln underneath. Panic Follows Accident. The plunge of the wild car through th3 crowd of several hundred persons massed around the track caused a panio and several were Injured in the stam pede to get to a place of safety. When taken to a hospital at Santa Monica Shain is said to have told the doctors that he did not care whether he lived or died. Although known to Pacific Coast racing circles as "Hal" Shaln. his given name was Halver. lie was 38 years old and left a wife and young son. Shaln held a number of Pacific Coast records made at the motordrome near this city. GIRL SH0TJFR0M AMBUSH Rejected Suitor, Caught After Chase, .. Refuses to Give Reason. CLOVERDALE. Cal., Dec. 29. Luolla. Roberts, a 17-year-old high school girl, of this town, was shot in the back and pVobably fatally wounded tonight by Frank Carlisle, station agent for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, here. Carlisle, who shot the girl from ambush, as she was returning from a moving picture show with her mother and several friends, is believed to be a rejected suitor. He Is 35 years old. Morris Smith, the young woman's escort, gave chase to the fleeing assail ant. He was Joined by Marshal Conner and a constable and after a pursuit of several blocks Carlisle was caught. Fearing his prisoner would be lynched by the townsmen who had rushed to the scene of the shooting, Conner took Carlisle in an automobile to the County Jail at Santa Rosa. It was found that two bullets had struck Miss Roberts. Late tonight it ' was said she might not live until morning. Carlisle refused to explain his motive for the shooting. PORTLAND WOMAN SOUGHT Mrs. Mollle St. Clair Disappears After Appeal to Father for $300. STOCKTON. Cal.. Dec. 29. (Special.) Stockton detectives are seeking the whereabouts of Mrs. Mollle St. Clair, who left her home in Portland, Or., a few months ago and came to this city. .Soon after her'nrrlval here Mrs. St. Clair wrote to her father at Portland informing him that she was in serious trouble and wanted $500 immediately. She refused to tell the nature of her trouble, hut endeavored to Impress up on him that she must have the money as soon as possible. The father, who did not send the money, has appealed to Chief of Police Briare to find the girl. The request to search for the girl is made at the instance of G. B. Mur ray, a Portland police officer, and dops not disclose the name of the girl's father. The Stockton police have so far brcn unable to find the woman. I HD 1 04.2