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ZM0M twtm J its VOL. LII-XO. 16,273. ; rvm. - - CALIFORNIA BLOCKED W Slides Tie Up Trains on Two Lines. STORM IN SIERRAS FURIOUS Western Pacific Not to Re sume Service Until Today. SHASTA LIMITEDS HELD Traffic for 72 Honrs Is Paralyzed and Fierce Wind and Falling Temperature Add to Difficul ties of Railroad Companies. SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 19. (Special.) Two slides, a 72-bours' snow storm worth million of dollars to rancrirs and miners and a derailment were the causes that contributed today to the paralysis of the Western Pacific's Over land Route and the Southern Pacific's Overland and Shasta routes. Mailing 12 limited trains from 12 to 4S hours. At midnight last night the Southern I'aclfic succeeded In opening its lines, but the Western Pacific closed up tightlv. canceled all trains and an nounced that It would not be open for traffic again until Monday. The west bound limlteds. stalled in the moun tains, were returned to Wlnnemucca, where passengers were transferred to the Southern Pacific. The eastbound de luxe trains were returned to Sac ramento, where transfers were also made to the JIarriman road. Furious Storm Raxes. Altogether railroad traffic conditions today represented one of the most dif ficult situations local officials have contended with in many years. Instead of a betterment of conditions last night, the Sierra storm was raging with all the fury that characterized its beginning; the snow continued fall ing steadily, a vigorous wind continued drifting the snow and the thermometer dropped as low as 14 above aero. The Southern Pacific's first real dif ficulty with the storm on the Shasta route occurred early yesteru-.y morn ing, although it was then thought to be only a minor one. As the southbound Shasta Limited approached Keswick, which is on the California side of the state line, a few miles from Dunsmulr. an SO-foot snowsllde shot down the mountain, carrying with it trees, rocks and brush, and not only tearing away a portion of the track, but burying a considerable portion of it also. Hotarr Falla to Opea Way. Friday night's limited, already many hours late, was blockaded, unable to move, and stayed north of the slide. A rotary plow succeeded in clearing some of the debris, but its work was Ineffectual and railroad officials, noting that the damage was much greater than had been expected, ordered a shoefly track constructed around the slides. This was completed late last night, enabling the Shasta Limited of Friday and that of yesterday to resume the run to the city. Yesterday's north bound limited also succeeded in passing the scene of the slide. The two southbound trains got here early this morning, the passengers hav ing rather enjoyed the experience of being snowbound, even though Friday night's train narrowly escaped burial by the slide. Although the Southern Pacific had counted Itself exceptionally fortunate in keeping Its Sierra line open in the face of one of the severest storms that has raged In years, the unexpected oc curred early yesterday morning when a stock train broke in two between a couple of snowsheds near Blue Canyon. Use Car Rlorfcs Liar. A single car was derailed and it toppled in such condition to obstruct all traffic. The work of lifting the wreckage was performed in the teeth of a blinding snow storm, and not until 9 o'clock last night was the track finally cleared. In the meantime four westbound transcontinental and four eastbound trains were stalled In the storm. In addition to two westbound and one eastbound mail train. Southern Pacific traffic conditions were almost normal today, aithuugn there Is no reason to expect trains to keep close to schedules as long as the storm keeps up. The order has gone forth that every train moving between .Colfax and Sparks must move slowly ami no effort made to force the usual seed. The Western Pacific had barely suc ceeded in clearing a path through tho snow that beset its route r rlday morn ing when a snow and landslide oc curred 25 miles north of Orovllle. This closed the line. ftaaefcen asd Misers Besedt. While traffic has been temporarily crippled by the storm, railroad officials declare the abundance of snow and the existing low temperature mean mil lions of dollars to ranchers and miners. It Insures an adequate water supply for Spring and Summer, and. with a low temperature, the snow freezes and arks rapidly. The benefit of this Is reached In the Spring, when It resists the sun's rays better, and instead of rushing down the mountain sides In torrents, trickles slowly. The snow at Truckee Is the first of any depth for a long time and will result In the open O Ancludd OD Tate v.) ROADS snow DOOR OF NASSAU SHUT TO WILSON JAXITOK DEMANDS PERMIT; IS CALLED IGNORAMUS. President-EIect, Who Is cx-Officio Chairman of Trustees, Finds Red Tape In Way. PRINCETON. N. J.. Jan. is. (Spe cial.) Admission to Nassau Hall was refused today to President-elect Wil son, who. as Governor of New Jersey, is ex-officio chairman of the board of trustees of Princeton University, be cause he had no permit to visit the building. Afterward he tried the door, but it was locked and he turned away In disgust, with the remark. "There's an Ignoramus over there and a locked door here." The Governor was taking a regular Sunday morning walk and this time was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Toy. who is a visitor at the Wil son home. They' directed their course to the university campus, the Governor pointing out special features of the various buildings. Arriving at the an cient pile, the president-elect excused himself and ducked ino the basement and asked Samuel Davidson, official janitor of the gymnasium, to be permit ted to visit Nassau Hall. The janitor replied that he must have a permit. The President-elect, not to be deterred by the refusal, tried the door anyway, without success. SUFFRAGE VICTORY SEEN Xevr York Legislature Expected to Vote to Submit Amendment. ' ALBANY. N". Y.. Jan. 19. After years of effort, the advocates of wo man suffrage believe a constitutional amendment, which, if. approved by the people would give the women of New York State the right to vote, will be passed by the Legislature the coming week. The measure will be made a special order of business In the As sembly Monday night, and the Senate promises to consider it Tuesday. A difference of opinion exists amonjg the leaders as to whether the amend ment will deal with the question of naturalizing women. Governor Sulzer and "Senator Wag ner, the majority leader, have informed the suffragists that they can have what they want In the amendment, and representatives of the suffrage organ izations interested have been asked to make a recommendation concerning the naturalization clause. ALBANY Y. WLC. A. TO BUY Property or Alco Club to Be Bought by Young Organization. ALBANY. Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) The Young Men's Christian Association. which was formed In this city recently, made arrangements at a meeting of Its board of directors last night to pur chase outright the property until re cently occupied by the Alco Lluo. ine property is owned by E. W. Langdon. ex-president of the First National Bank of Albany, and now a resident of Port land. The. Alco Club had a contract for a deed with Mr. Langdon. and recently turned this contract over to tne loung Men's Christian Association. The new association took cnarge of the property under this contract. D. O. Woodworth was made a mem ber of the board of directors of the association, succeeding C. H. Cusick, who resigned. ALTERNATE STOPS LIKED Street Railway Company Will Ex tend System This Week.' Stops at alternate blocks only will be introduced by the Portland Hall way. Light & Power Company on San dy road this week. The system has proved so successful on the Mount Tabor line, where it was introduced a week ago. that the company has vir tually decided to make it universal throughout the city. It will be intro duced gradually, however. Hawthorne avenue will get the ben efit of the new service following Its Introduction on Sandy road. It may not be started there for a week or 10 days. ' WILSON GETS GUIDEBOOK Prcsldent-Elect Assidnously Study ing Washington Geography. PRINCETON. X. J.. Jan. 19. President-elect Wilson disclosed today the fact that he has obtained a guidebook of Washington and is reading it assid uously in spare moments. Mr. Wilson will be virtually a stranger in Washington when he takes office. He has visited there little since his youth, and never has seen some of the Government buildings, erected wtthin the last- 13 years. When he steps into the White House on March 4. It will be the first time he will have seen the Interior of the executive man sion. MINIMUM WAGE RESISTED Women Delegates Says Employers Would Make It Maximum. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 19. The San Francisco Labor Council, on recommen dation of its law and legislative com mittee, went on record last night as op posed to a minimum wage for women workers and to the Idea of a commis sion to investigate the employment of women, as proposed In several bills be fore the Legislature. Women delegates to the council de clared employers would adopt the min imum wage fixed by law as the maxi mum In practice, and were unanimously opposed to tbe proposed act. ,mT x-r nprr.nv MnxnAY. .T A NTT Alt Y 20. 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LEVY IYER E Jewish Syndicate Will Aid Russia Is Report. BIG WAR LOAN IS PROBABLE Czar's Empire Would Be Ready to Cope With Triple Alliance. PASSPORTS ARE PROBLEM Wealthy Chicago n to Meet United States Ambassador at Paris and Go as Member of His Par . ty to St. Petersburg. CHICAGO. Jan. 19. (Special.) Levy Mayer left Chicago this afternoon on a secret financial mission to Russia. To escape the strict passport regula tions against the admittance of Jews into the Czar's Empire, which in the past have kept out such prominent Chicagoans as Julius Rosenwald and Nelson Morris, he has arranged to meet Curtis Guild. United States Ambassador to Russia, in Paris. He will travel from there as a member of the diplo mat's party, and arrangements have been made through the State Depart ment that there shall be no Interference with his passage across the Russian border. Efforts were made today to confirm the report that Mr. Mayer was going as the envoy of a powerful syndicate of American and European Jewish bankers, with whom the Russian gov ernment Is said to have been endeav oring to negotiate an enormous loan which would put Russia In a position financially to cope with Austria and Germany in case war should break out as a result of the rupture of peace ne gotiations in the Balkans. -Russia in Need of Money. Mr. Mayer would not admit that such was his mission. It is known,. however, that Russia would be In great financial straits should there be a great continental war. In the past money for Russian campaigns has been supplied mostly by Jewish banking bouses. In spite of this the Russian treatment of the Jews, not only of her own land, but of other countries as well, has been such as to provoke resentment among (Concluded on Pase 2.) SOME OS ON SEGR T MISSION - SfvATOA! 0rscr& Aijfl alii WzAJfyy I rSy twzob. s.eujes sr fe7F7- Yy MMH bl L So(i.0zs f-j ! V &ob -rswoA'& I CO H HAS A or 'ffilGP' T(M)' TO 7A X z Ots. 8Of?jF (AVA ; V0 I J A ' i STEAMER ELDER IS DAMAGED IN GALE DIXTXG SALOOX FLOODED AXD TASSEXGEKS TERRIFIED. Fire' Coastwise Vessels, Buffeted by Seas, Limp Into San Francisco, 24 to 48 Hours Late. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 19. Five coastwise passenger vessels and nearly a score of smaller craft, all bound from Northern ports to San Francisco, ar rived today after weathering one of the roughest storms ever known off ths Vnrth California eoast. Most of the vessels were from 2 to 48 hours late as a result of the heavy southwest gale FTiday night off Cape Blanco The most damage done by the storm was to tha steamer Geo. W. Elder, which brought 78 passengers from Port. land. Her stern was spnnicrea oy high seas tumbling upon her after deck, and her main deck and dinlng saloon were flooded to a depth of four feet. For a time the passengers were in terror. - - The steam schooner Nann smith, with a lumber cargo consigned to this port from Coos Bay, lost her deck load valued at 50,000. A half dozen passen gers were flooded out of their quar ters. SCHOOL GIRLSj RUN CAFE Klamath Falls Students and Teacher Make Living Cost Low. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Jan. 19. (Special.) The home economics de partment of the Klamath County High School has been giving practical demonstrations this year of how to contend with the high cost of living. Miss Carpenter, who has charge, with the assistance of the pupils, has fur nished a cafeteria lunch to some of the teachers and pupils and others who wish to avail themselves of it. The fare is excellent and the cost vary low, considering the present prices of edi bles. Wednesday she entertained the Art Needlework Club at a special luncheon. The menu was: Fruit cocktail, salmon loaf, creamed potatoes, hot biscuit and butter. Jelly, Bavarian cream, cocoanut cake, coffee, and cream and sugar. The cost for the 13 guests was $3.30. BRIAND LIKELY TO ACCEPT Minister Delays Answer to Fallieres Until Today. PARIS. Jan. 19. Although M. Briand. the Minister of Justice, on whom Pres ident Fallieres imposed' the task of forming a Cabinet, was busy through out - Sunday interviewing political leaders, he had not completed his ar rangements tonight and cannot give a definite answer to the President until tomorrow. However, his accept ance of the Premiership no'w Is re garded as certain. President-elect Poincare attended to day the professorial jubilee celebra tion of his old teacher, the Academi cian Ernest Lavjse. at the Sorbonne. INTIMATE SKETCHES FROM THE ' STATE I NSTITOTI0N5 ASK FOB $2,859,293 Two Oregon Schools Want Increases. ASYLUMS DESIRE $1,084,053 Joint Ways and Means Com . mittee to Act First. ONE BIG BILL IS FAVORED Appropriations for All Except for Vniversity ot Oregon and Agri cultural College May Be Under Single Measure. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) The ways and means committees of the two Houses of the Legislature will be confronted by in stitutional requests for appropriations amounting to $2,859,293, according to estimates of cost which have been compiled by the various boards, super intendents and institutional heads. Some of the institutions will ask for increased maintenance appropriations. The University of Oregon for the bi ennial period coming desires a bien nial Increase in its maintenance appro priation of $100,000. That University now has a biennial maintenance fund of $260,000, but an annual increase of $50,000 is asked, which will bring, if granted, the total biennial mainten ance appropriation up' to $350,000. Big Amounts Asked. The Oregon Agricultural College also desires an annual increase in its main tenance fund of $50,000, which will bring the total biennial maintenance up to $400,000 if it is granted. Its maintenance heretofore has been $150, 000 a year. The sum total that the University of Oregon will ask of the Legislature will be $365,000. The sum total that it desires for the coming two years is $15,000. this . including the $250,000 which has been provided for mainten ance for the two years by the appro priation voted for by the people. The Oregon Agricultural College will ask for a total of $649,000, not includ ing a logging engineering course, for which an appropriation of $05,000 is asked, nor including a number of ex periment stations, which If all granted, (Concluded on Page 11.) CAPITOL t V: s y -rtcn 1 DIVORCE INDUSTRY APPEARS DOOMED XEVADA LEGISLATURE BEXT OX AMENDING LAW. Lengthening of Legal Residence Required Affects 500 in Reno Waiting for Decrees. RENO. Nev., Jan. 19. (Special.) The fate of the Reno divorce colony rests in the hands of the Nevada State Legislature, which convenes tomorrow. It is said Governor Oddie in his mes sage will recommend that the six months' residence requirement now fn vogue be amended to make the period one year. This will kill the divorce In dustry in Nevada, as it did in South Dakota. . No change in divorce laws other than extending the residence period is con templated. There are fully 500 would-be-divorcees In Reno and a change would seriously affect them. They would be compelled to lengthen their stay to secure decrees. Those who have studied the person nel of the Legislature declare that the anti-divorce amendment will carry both houses easily. An effort to counteract the sentiment has been made by threats to open the gambling question again, but this has been merely a flash In the pan and has created no stir. The Reno divorce col ony appears doomed, , REGISTERED MAIL TAKEN Robber Breaks Into Mail Car, Intim idates Clerks and Escapes. AXNISTON. Ala.. Jan. -19. A lone highwayman rifled the mail car of Southern Railway passenger train No. 12, near Riverside, Ala., early today and escaped with what are said to be valuable registered packages. Two mail clerks were in the car. It is believed tbe robber boarded the train at Lincoln, Ala., when a stop was made for water. Soon after he gained entrance to the mail car througn an end door and quickly covered the mall clerks. E. L. Cragmen and Bailey, with a revolver. . According to reports received here, the robber demanded that the clerks hand over to him all the registered mall. As the train slowed down for the Riverside stop the robber leaped from the car and escaped into the rug ged country of that section,- Cragman furnished a description of the robber, and railroad detectives, aided by residents of the Riverside sec tion, searched the country without avail ROAD MODELS REACH LANE Eugene Judge to Urge Better High ways in His County. EUGENE, Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) A half a dozen models of different types of roads were received by County Judge Thompson from the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Road su pervisors of Lane County will be in vited to visit the courthouse and in spect the models there. The models show the ordinary dirt roads, macadam roads and gravel roads. There are also working models to show the process of construction of the bituminous road, and models for the construction and drainage of hill roads. Judge Thompson has been trying for a year to get these models, and thinks, now that he has them, that he will be able to secure a larger degree of co operation on the part of the rural road supervisors in the construction of good roads for Lane County. BISHOP IS NOT CONFIRMED Divorced Clergyman Chosen by Kan sas Rejected by Vote of Church. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 19. That Rev. Percy H. Silver lacked the votes of two bish ops to confirm his appoitment as bishop coadjutor of Kansas was an nounced today by Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle. presiding bishop of the Trotcs tant Episcopal Church of America. The diocese of Kansas now may call Rev. Mr. Silver's election null and pro ceed to a new choice. Of the 98 bishops canonically entitled to vote, 48 sent consents and 32 non-consents. Fifty consents were necessary to confirm the selection. The bishops. It is said, objected to Dr. Silver because he had been divorced. 1000 STUDENTS MAY GO Princeton Men Plan to Attend In auguration in Force. PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 19. When President-elect Wilson arrives in the railway station in Washington on the night of March 3, he will be greeted with a Princeton "locomotive" cheer, issuing from the throats of a thousand Nassau undergraduates, according to plans made by the Princeton Univer sity Woodrow Wilson Club. Active preparations for the trip will be. begun here tomorrow when those in charge of the arrangements will start a canvass to ascertain how many students will attend the inaugural ceremonies. It Is expected a thousand will go. LEGAL SUICIDE IS URGED Proposed Utah Law Would Let Con demned Criminals Kill Selves. SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 19. The method to be used hereafter in putting criminals to death Jn Utah has become a widely-discussed topic since the Leg islature convened two weeks ago. The latest Idea expressed is that condemned criminals be allowed to take their own lives, after they have exhausted every means to have the death sentence set aside. . Judge Thomas Marinaux. an attorney of this city, has issued a statement in which he sets forth what he terms the advantages of the Chinese custom per mitting a condemned criminal to com mit suicide. EVIL SPIRIT BALKS SHADEOFDO JAMES Philosopher Trying to Send "Message. BOY PSYCHIC IS HIS MEDIUM Secret Sign Is Proof Absolute, Says Friend. EARTHY ONES SAP FORCES "Dear Hyslop: Write Paper Against Woman Suffrage; Don't Let Your Wife Sec It,' Is One Com munication Received. vrw TORk". Jan. 19. (Special.) wtninni .Tumps, who was professor of philosophy at Harvard when he died. August 26. 1910, and wno ueiore nis death promised his friend. Dr. James H. Hyslop. of the American Society for Psychical Research, that he woum stfivA tn Hpmt Much messages from the spirit world as would demonstrate in dubitably the truth of spiritualism, nas been trying once more, according to Dr. Hyslop, to commun'cate with Hyslop and others. This time, the spirit or vr. james warns his friend Hyslop of an evil spirit or influence, a "poltergeist." which cunningly leaves raior uiu.ueo nnrl matches In places where they might do the most harm; an evil shade which lurks In the dark and hurls InK atanrift and heavy stones at the heads of true believers. The spirit of Pro fessor James is exercised over tne u-ickedness of the poltergeist ana struggles Incoherently to warn Dr. Hyslop. FIfteen-Year-Old Boy Is Medium. PrnfoKsnr James has been commu nicating lately through the medium of a 15-year-old boy. who. as ur. nysiop says, is the Bon of a clergyman known on both sides of the Atlantic and who is apparently normal in every way ex cept for the psychical control under which he falls when the light Is turned out. Thrnuirh this curious boy Professor James in the last year has sent many messages, Dr. Hyslop writes in m Journal of the Psychical Research So ciety. On December 19. 1911. rroressor James communicated, says Dr. Hyslop. throuKh the boy medium, wno was Bal ing into a crystal. Hyslop Reports Dialogue. t. ,, then Hint he warned Dr. Hyslop against the poltergolst. or wicked spirit. Part or tne dialogue Kotu-on Professor James and Hyslop, as carried on through the entranced boy. was as follows: , '.'Here is Professor James. uuim evening. Hyslop." "Good evening." "Do you recognize the papers?" "Yes." t tiiBt" few words unintelligible "would you like to see Hodgson?" "Yea, A man with not mucn nair. blue eyes, long face, sober-looking; looks like a thinker?" "A beard?" "I can't see now. He has turned his head. It is dark." Spirit Mentions Sign. At this point Dr. Hyslop asked Pro fessor James to give distinct proof of his identity. James replied: "I took, you to Paradise and you (pause). Hang It all, I took you to lots ot places. I took you once Into my study and we agreed on a sign. You remember?" uvaion didn't remember, and the spirit of James, apparently vexed, called excitedly: "Hyslop, Hyslop, your un divided attention, undivided. Hands off the table." The spirit continued rapidly: Better summon friends to make an na-reement and not follow my example. of locking up my paper, on which all hangs. Now that 1 am dead i .cannoi describe It. Walt till I can find it. If you find the paper, at the top you will find it bearing my sign; at the top a coat-of-arms of the Duke of Fairfax, with two swords crossed above a helmet and an arm holding another like my sign-, the picture to the left, myself, my wife to the right, mother in the middle. Ready." I'lrture Wrl lilvea. Then came the warning about the poltergeist. "Left of that I find another picture taken at night by a flashlight a clever Idea of mine. When it is flashed, have an instrument attached to the table of mine. The picture is ot one who calls himself the Nameless One horrible: Don't look at It too long, but only In short spells. You will see why it is horrible. Is It too fast?" "No," replied Hyslop. "Ready? The cat'tlily persons writing caused me all the trouble. It saps iny forces, keeps me away from objects. Publish that paper, but don't give the answer. Cross it out." 'The boy medium conveyed at the same time other, messages from Pro fessor James. One was; 'Dear Hyslop Write a paper against woman suffrage. It Is my desire that you do this. Your W. W. S. and B. W. "BILL JAMES. p. s. Don't let your wife see It." Throughout various seances tha (Concluded oo rage -