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tttw wnT?VTV(l nTtTTJOVTAV. TTTFSDAT. DECEMBER 23. 1913. - ADDED ECONUhllES FOB fit Hi VIEW Railway Terminal Offices and Classification by Publish lishers Designed. FLYING MACHINE SUCCESS Posloffice Department Asks Appro- priation for Further Experimen tal Service Parcel Post Adda to Car Space. . tVASHrSGTOX. Dec. 22. The report of Second Assistant Postmaster-General Stewart made public yesterday dis closed the fact that the Postollice De partment expecta to reduce the In creased expenditures for railway ter minal postodces and requiring a sepa ration" by routes of first and second class mails of publishers. Last year, says the report, a large amount of additional car space was re quired on mail trains because of the establishment or the parcel-post sys tern. That the extension of the service necessitated a considerable increase in the annual expenditure for car rental Is shown In the statement that from January 1 to November 2, 1913, there mas a net increase of $451,072.69. Mr. Stewart expects. . however, to reduce these expenditures by instituting the proposed changes. Year's Coat SV10S37. The report shows that the cost of operating rail, ocean, river, lake, streetcar, screen wagon, pneumatic tube and mail messenger service fur the year ended June 30 last was X86. 102,237.64. This sum will be Increased for the current fiscal year approxi mately 210.000.000. The number of all classes of domestic mall service routes was 12.278. the combined length of which was 278,5sS miles. Considerable space Is given to con sideration of the transportation of periodical mail by fast freight. Mr. Stewart says this method of transpor tation has been generally satisfactory to publishers, as in most cases it has been practicable to overcome the slower movement in the freight trains by advancing the date of delivery to the postoffice at the point of origin. Service Ordered. on Hearlas. Some publishers, however, object to the fast freight service because of the news character of the contents of their publications. In such instances it has been the policy of the department, after adequate showing has been made, to transport the mall in regular mail trains.. Such experiments as heretofore have been made in the carrying of mail by aeroplanes have been conducted with out expense to the Government, although the mails thus transported were entrusted only to sworn carriers. The satisfactory performance of the service has Induced a recommendation by Mr. Stewart for an appropriation of 230.000 for a regular experimental aeroplane service. SIGNAL MEN LOSE LINES KAVAL. HEROES DEVELOP 1 BIG DOCKYARDS FIRE. - Semaphore Tower That Conveyed Mcsals la Pre-TrleBxnnb, Days. Red need to Ruins. PORTSMOUTH. England, Dec 22, A fire. Involving damage estimated at from $1,250,600 to 22.500,000 devastated the famous dockyard here Saturday night and resulted In the loss of two lives and the destruction of the century old semaphore tower which in pre-tele-graph days- was the great signalling station between the fleet and the admiralty.-. An examination of the ruins disclosed the fact that two of the three signal men who had remained in the tower to summon help were burned to death. It is not known how the fire started. When It was: first observed from the deck of the new battle cruiser yueen alary, it had already obtained a good hold on the inflammable material in the rigging loft and sail house. The flames were- extinguished Sunday morning. The huge wooden semaphore struc ture surmounting the rigging-house was all ablaze half an hour after the outbreak. tire parties were sent to tho dockyard from all the warships in the hsrbor. and the- Queen Mary, on which burning brands were falling, was towed out of the danger sone. Many valuable models of old war ships, records relating to Nelson and earlier periods and old naval relics were destroyed. MAN SHOT ATNEGRO CLUB Hotel Porter Wounded and Police Seek Assailant. Charles "Williams: a nearo (porter employed at the Hotel Multnomah was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Sun day night suffering from wounds in flated by a .38-raliber revolver In the hands of Joe Miller, another negro. The shooting occurred in the Union Club, a negro resort at Park and Flan ders streets, which has been the scene of numerons rutting and shooting af frays in the past two yt-ars. At least one murder and a halt dozen murder ous attacks have been staged In and about the place. The police were given a description and photograph of Miller and are seek ing him. VIRGINIA VAUGHN IS DEAD IVlcnd of Hawthorne and Browning Kan Over by Streetcar. NEW YORK, Dec 22. Virginia Vaughn, writer of lyrics and poems, translator and friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Browning and other authors of the last half century, was killed by a streetcar in Eighth avenue yester day. Miss Vaughn was the daughter of John Champion Vaughn, an abolitionist who published anti-slavery newspapers at Cincinnati and Cleveland. She was 11 years old. PERUGIA'S FRIENDS ARI11XTED Three Reported to Have Had Part In Concealing- Masterpiece. mek rw. 21. At the moment the "Mans Lias," was officially, restored to France. Magistrate Drioux, wno has had the case under his charge since mo painting disappeared from the Louvre, ordered the arrest of Vincente Lance lottt, Michele Lancelotti and Mme. Clamagirand. friends and neighbors in Paris of Vlncenzo Perugia, on Infor mation telegraphed from Florence by the French police official, M. Vlgnot. The Lancelotti brothers were de nounced several days ago by another Italian as having been implicated with Perugh and they are now charged with hiding and concealing the masterpiece. When the two men were Interrogated by the police December IS they denied knowledge of the theft, although ad mitting they had met Perugia fre quently. According to the report from Vlgnot, Perugia, who is under arrest In Flor ence, has made a full confession In the presence of a magistrate. He declared that Vincente Lance lottl was aware of the planning and execution of the theft and that he had concealed the picture in his room for six weeks and had helped to construct the wooden box in which It was carried away. " Perugia said he aid not escape irom the Louvre by the side door of the in ner court, as waa supposed, but walked down the main staircase and through one of the principal gates. Michael Lancelottl and Mme. Clama girand were at first merely detained, but later Magistrate Drioux ordered them held. BOY CONFESSES KILLING NEED OF MO.VET TO BCY PRESENT FOR GIRL, HIS EXCISE. SETTLERS CAMPED NEAR LAND OFFICE Fifty Homesteaders of Linn County Make Sure of Being "On Time" in Filing. FIGHT WiTH RAILROAD ON Loala Bundy Telia How He Murdered Sleaaencer Then Lost Stolem Cask aad Was Afraid to Rerun. L03 ANGELES. Dec 22. Need of money to buy a Christmas present for his sweetheart, Charlotte Treadway, of Nordhoff, Cal., is the reason Louis Bundy, 19 years old, is said to have given the police for murdering Harold Ziesche. Ziesche, a drugstore messen ger boy, 15 years old, was lured to a lonely spot Friday night and beaten to death. Bundy Is a student of Occidental Col lege and a football and baseball player. the police say. Expecting his sweet heart to arrive in Los Angeles that evening, Bundy planned to obtain 220. So he gave the drugstore where Ziesche was employed a telephone delivery order, asking that 2-0 in change be given the boy, as he, Bunay, naa only a 2-0 gold piece. He had to Kill ziescne wnen ne robbed him., so Bundy's confession to the police runs, for Ziesche knew him and would nave caused nis arrest, ac cordingly. Bundy beat him over the head with a pick handle, oraggea us body Into a ravine and struck the mes senger again with a rock. Bundy had hardly gone a dozen yards from the scene when he dropped the purse he took from his victim and waa afraid to go back for it. CllKX VTII.lt SOT APPOINT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. Governor Says Appeal la Inspired by Political Motives. Bat Prom lues Loral Help. AXtBAXT, N. T.. Dec 22. A request by District Attorney Whitman, of New York City, that he be appointed a spe cial deputy Attorney-General that he might, make a state-wide graft Investi gation, will not be granted by Gov ernor Glynn. The Governor, in a etate mont which criticized Mr. Whltmat sharply and questioned his motives In seeking the appointment, made this declaration last night. In addition to taking the ground that there Is no warrant In law for such action and that it would be a reflection on the District Attorneys of other counties, the Governor said plainly that In his opinion Mr. Whitman's appeal was Inspired by political motives. "If Mr. Whitman thinks that play ing politics in this way will embarrass me he has reckoned without his host," ssid Mr. Glynn. The Governor said Mr. Whitman had promised to turn over any evidence of wrong-doing that he found outside of his jurisdiction but none had come from him. Mr. Glynn added that if Mr. Whitman would sur render any evidence of this kind which he has, prosecutions will be carried on by the various District Attorneys, or he he will remove them from office. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. District At torney Whitman denied tonight that he had sought a designation as a State Deputy Attorney-GeneraL Mr. Whit man's assertion was contained in a statement replying to the one Issued by Governor Glynn yesterday. The prosecutor said politics had no place in the Inquiry he was making. The suggestion that he be appointed a Deputy Attorney-General with state wide Jurisdiction, said Air. wnitman. came up during a talk at the Whitman home Wednesday night with James W. Osborne, who is investigating state de partments at Albany. TUFT'COf EX-PRESIDENT STANDS OX WINDOW LEDGE TO TALK TEMPERANCE. Friends Hold to Professor's Coat all as He Deliver Lectare to Oversew Crowd la Street. NEW YORK. Dec 22. Professor Taft stood on a window ledge in the Bedford branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in Broklyn Sun day and told a large crowd that he had "seen many good men go down to hell In the Philippines" because they lacked home training, and when they "got a tired feeling" they found a "dish of Scotch which reached the rest spot." While the ex-President carefully bal anced himself just outside the window and talked, persona within held to his coat, for the ledge waa only 12 inches wide and the flagstones were IS feet below. Mr. Taft. however, showed no fear and gesticulated as freely as though he were standing on a staunchly-built rostrum. When Mr. Taft reached the bunding he intended to do his speaking Inside, but after 2500 had found seats or standing room there were nearly 1000 still outside and they expressed so much disappointment mat ne suggest ed , talk from the window. When this had been opened he found he could talk with more effect If he stepped out side, and did so, against the advice of hie friends. Afterward he spoke to those within. Aft ha had referred to the liquor danger the speaker said to hla mind one great value oi me i. at. ties In the fact that It gives men a substi tute for liquor and "reaches the right spot in men." Prince E-lward Island Is virtually the plomr In the rural mall delivery amcac the Canadian provinces. Ktg-hty-stx routes hava . in fh island ainoa in. mail iwaa nadanakaa la 1M0-10. - Contestants, on Advice of Attorneys, Bivouac in Hall of Balding to Beat Possible Move of Northern Pacific. Having camped over night In the corridors of the Worcester building, half a hundred settlers are prepared at 9 o'clock this morning tn plank down their filings on the land In township 12, south range 4 east. In Linn County, on which the Northern Pacific Railway has laid its scrip. The blvouao in the hall outside the Cnlted States Land Office was made by many of the settlers on the advice of their attorneys, P. A. Lafferty and John McCourt. who urged the precau tion to avoid the possibility of anyone or anything else "beating them to it." The effect of the filing this morning will be to throw the case eventually into the United States courts, after it has gone through the Land Office and to the Secretary of the Interior, since a contest by the railroad is ex pected. Mr. Lafferty said last night that he believed the case would be carried to the United States Supreme Court. The land In question is situated out from Albany and the Northern Pacific laid its scrip on it after land In Wash ington had been thrown into forest re serve. The railroad laid its scrip on the land under the act of March 2, 1899, which provides that It may. In lieu of land thrown Into reserves by the Government, lay its scrip on sur veyed or unsurveyed land in any state through which or into which its lines run. ' The attorneys for the settlers are basing their contest on the act of May 14, 1880, which permits settlers to go on unsurveyed Government lands and get credit for their time of resi dence prior to the surveying of the land, which act they hold waa not af fect ea by the act of 1839. They main tain that the railroad might just as well have laid Its scrip on land that had been surveyed and avoided the possibility of such contest as might arise and has arisen in the present case. Nearly all of the settlers who will file this morning have been on the land from two to five years. PORTLAND JC0PIES T0KI0 Japanese Capital Has Commission, Says Its Deputy Mayor. Commission form of government Is no new thing in Japan. Tokio, the capital,, with her 2,600,000 people, is governed by a Mayor and Commis sioners in something the same manner as Portland. This Information .was given by D. Tagawa, Deputy Mayor of Tokio and member of the Japanese House of Rep resentatives, who waa In Portland yes terday. Mr. Tagawa was not in Portland to study the operations of the Commis sion form here, but came simply as a sightseer. M. Ida, local Japanese Consul, with other Japanese residents of Portland, called on Mr. Tagawa at his apart ments at the Hotel Multnomah yester day afternoon. Mr. Tagawa is on the home stretch of a recreation trip around the world. He left Japan last July, traveling west ward. From here he goes to Vancou ver, B. C, where he will tak,e passage on the Empress of Russia for Japan. SIX HELD AS BOOTLEGGERS Whisky, Specially Bottled, Say Po lice, Is Confiscated. - Whisky, apparently bottled especially for the "bootleg" trade, according to the police, was seized Sunday when Plainclothes Policemen Wellbrook, Miller. Schmidtke and Epps arrested six alleged violators of the Sunday laws, at different places In the North End. The whisky taken was In pints and quarts, equipped with cork-pullers. Jay Despaln, who said he is a postal clerk, with Fred Merchant, were appre hended at Third and Burnslde streets on charges of violating the liquor laws. George F. Swan. Jack Remington and Fred Ames were arrested near the same corner. George Dales, charged with a similar offense, was arrested at 68 Couch street.. Irvington Park Club Proposed. Steps have been taken for the or ganization of an Improvement club In Irvington Park dlstirct, embracing ter ritory from Union ' avenue to East Thirty-seventh street and north from Alberta toward Columbia Slough. It includes the Kennedy school grounds. The first work toward the organiza tion was taken at the general meeting held at the Arcadian Clubhouse. East Thirty-seventh street and Alnsworth avenue. Thursday night. The names and addresses of all present were taken at this meeting, and a committee was appointed to take notion. Electric lights, better car service, a modern schoolhouse. Are protection and other objects will be advocated. All citizens of this territory will be asked to Join the new club and help build np the dis trict. It Is felt that the district Is not getting its share of attention. The first meeting probably will be held In the building on the corner of Killings worth avenue and East Thirtieth street early in January. Sellwood T. M. C. A. Has Teachers. E. B. McXaughton has agreed to take charge of the Intermediate Bible Club at the Sellwood Y. M. C A. and Earl Fitzgerald will take charge of one of the Junior classes. More attention will be given to Bible instructions . here after. Several basketball teams have been organised. He routing of Alberta Cars Suggested. The routing of the Alberta cars over the Broadway bridge to the West Side to Washington street may be asked In the near future. Some residents of Irvington Park think that time would be gained this way. Yes. darling dear. In the country ther t'r a bell on the cow to break the' a3eweo of field, forest and stream. If a woman Isn't Jealous of her hus band, she can make herself fairly un comfortable by envying some woman who dteasea bettor, The Home of Gifts That Live 30 EXTRA S. f if. STAMPS TO EARLY SHOPPERS-SEE COVPON Free Pig Banks to the Children WE GIVE S. & H. "STAMPS Gift Problems Are Easily Solved in the Art Department Second Floor. PICTURES Framed and rmframed Sepia Platinum Etchings Carbons Rhine Prints Water Colors Elson Prints HAND-CAB VED FRAMES In woods and golds Metal Frames MOULDINGS AND PICTURE FRAMING Marbles. Brasses . Pottery ' Plaster Casts Vases and Statuary Hand-carved Lamps BASKETS -Japanese ' Dresden Venetian Sweet Grass one-fourth: off cut glass, SILVER DEPOSIT, FOSTORIA. Electrical sices Percolators, Criafiir; Dishes, Irons, Curling Iron Heaters, Foot Warmers, Bed Warmers, Ovens and many other useful and practical gifts. ' J4 OFF ON ALL HAND BAGS PRICED UP TO $5.00 Shaving Thermos Sets Bottles All $1.00 - and Up. Sizes. alARkf' j2r?-CA. v MARK CROSS Leather We are Portland 's exclusive agents for this famous line of leather goods and show here at all times the same lines that are shown in the London and New York MARK CROSS stores. Handbags, Garden Sets, Suitcases, Scissor Sets, Sewing Sets, Telephone Books, Collar Bags, Engagement Books Address Books. Many other useful and handsome gifts. ' ' When in doubt, a Mark Cross Glove Certificate solves the problem. Don't FORGET YOUR STAMPS ' CUT GLASS - 50c FOURTH OFF THIRD OFF $1.75 ALLEGRETTI $1.00 SbLERS CHILD'S SIZE ON ON DOLLS CANDY BOYPROOF SSfS& MESH BAGS CHRISTMAS IVORY FOR 80c NOW 49 WATCH - $1.00 330 ' BOX PAPER FANS $1.27 40c NOW 25 FOR 78 1 WONDERFUL . Framed Pictures For $1.00 In handsome oval frames, Circassian finished frames. Values up to $5, and they are now on sale at SI. 00. JEWEL CASES MAKE HAND SOME PRESENTS We have a large and well-selected stock, 6ome designs that are different, priced np from 19. IVORY CLOCKS The kind that really run. We have them with alarm and with out, either one-day or eight day movements. Priced from $2.50np. HOW SHE LOVES PARISIAN IVORY So why don't you buy her a set of this beautiful ware? It will last a lifetime, so while the cost may seem high, it is cheap in the long run. Buy her the Brush, Comb and Mirror this Christmas and finish the set on her birth day or wedding anniversary. Combs up from 25 Mirrors up from $2.50 Hair Brushes tip from. .$2.00 3l!lf Nothing Better Than a Camera "We have them from i up, and with each camera we sell we present a Coupon which entitles the holder to a complete course ot instructions in the Wood-Lark class of photography. CUT GLASS SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS 60 PAIR MESH BAGS THE LATEST PARIS STYLES UP TO $50 Waterman's Conklin's. Woodlark Fountain Pens. GOLD FISH 300 TO SELECT FROM MAIL YOUR PARCEL-POST PACKAGES IN THE BASEMENT 30 EXTRA THIRTY EXTRA S. & H. TRADING STAMPS on first three floors rbrlng this coupon. With every cash purchase amount ing: to fl or more we will give THIRTY EXTRA S. : H. TRADIXG- STAMPS. Good only until 1:00 P. M. today, December 23d. KARLUK LIKELY SAFE Stefansson's Friends Have No Fear for Lost Vessel. CREW EQUIPPED FOR ICE Men Prepared to Marcn In Case Ship Is Crushed and Mail From Part j- Is Expected to Reach Dawson About June 1. : . v. ni.kifmitiAn ftt Interviews oiaiiuiufi i " with persons who say they are sure that Vllbjalmur steiansson s arcuo u.h Karluk. under Captain Robert Bartlett, must be lost, Stefansson's friends on the Coast are not at all alarmed. When the expedition sailed Stefans unni thM VTnrl n k would not be clutched by the Ice until it had at tained a considerable aistance norm east of Point Barrow. However, he . . .... i xA nn1r a nH TntPrPA lull 1 1 Ll i i:e v ivc w ... f a lead with the Intention of being frozen in. me snip waa iron is supposed to be drifting with the ice. . i - i .. i n...itm.hv a rtnrt of the solid pack. The danger always present In a ieaa is mt il -mo close and crush the boat. The Karluk Is not built to withstand a squeese by the Ice. Roald Amundsen, whose , ateamer Fram Is now making the voyage around Cape Horn for Ban Francisco, will enter the ice at Point Barrow next August, Just as Stefansson did. The Fram la specially built for resisting ice pressure. Stefansson told friends here that tne - 1 .... 1 ...w anA .1Tlt1lt WOnld b6 . . . .hi. .mnhmi. be- sale eveu ii - , cause they were prepared to take to tne Ice. The fc.ariUK carnea carefully chosen dogs. Herschel Isiana. near tne momu m When it comes time for your son to hunt a job he will stand a better chance of aretttng a Rood ne. if arrowlna. thrlvlns; factarlrs axe making- g-ood times for everronc There fore, when yon boost for Portland Glased Cement Sewer Pipe, yea do your self ns well as the entire community a stood turn. '.r SfEi' UJ " cm-- I jULsl'llssw Room for Ladies Free Telephone, Stationery and Place for Appointments. lumbermens National, bank FIFTH A7TD STARK. the Mackenzie River, Is the Winter ren dezvous of whalers and explorers in the Arctic, and It Is supposed that the Karluk will send a messenger tnitner with mail, and that Stefansson himself. who was ashore hunting when the ice carried the Karluk out of sight, will make his way to the Island. He knows every foot of the Arctic shoTe between Point Barrow and the Mackenzie and has personal acquaintance with all tho Ksklmo. The expedition. In trm opinion of ex perienced Arctic travelers, has met with no serious reverse thus fftT. "Fifty years ago, when Golden Wedding Whiskey was young. ' rl I HlMliliil llll.l.l.!!.? I i H OW nicely one might add tribute to some cherished comradeship by making the Christmas remembrance a bottle of choice, old, mellow, sun-ripened There's a mark of quality and good fellowship to such a gift that's quite in keeping with the spirit of the season. Distilled according to a secret formula, that has been handed down through generations, and aged in the wood, under strict government supervision, Golden Wedding is indeed a whiskey of quality. Its delicious flavor and distinctive merit com mand the highest appreciation wherever intro duced. . ' Great because it Is 'Made Differently.' . ffl . STAMP sm'tslTs'."'-!- ' -J Full Quart ;