Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 01, 1914, SECTION FIVE, Image 57

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    SECTION FIVE
PAGES 1 TO 22
VOL.. LIU.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914.
NO. lG.oGO.
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PORTLAND HOW GITY
AMONG GREAT ONES
Strides Since 1905 Ex
position Marvelous.
PLACE AS ''CENTER" FIXED
In All Branches March of Prog
ress Is Western Epic.
GAINS ARE PROPORTIONATE
Civic Advance, Educational and Art
Development Illuminate Wonder
' rul Illustration of Thrift, En
terprise and Opportunity.
IACON1C STORY OF FORTXAITD'S
REMARRABI.K GROWTH SIJfCE
LIS WIS AND fURK EX
POSITION. Bank clearings .
, .t!,S3.1.2S7.344.10
. . . 108.701,859.00
Building permits
Maritime trade ....
Livestock receipts ....
Postal receipts
Industrial plants
Street paving totaled
324 miles, costing.
Sewer construction to
taled 474 miles,
costing .
132.873,634.00
52.000,000.00
6. 847,822.00
20,000,000.00
21,600,000.00
3.3C0.00O.OO
Streetcar extensions
and betterments. In
volved expenditure
of 10.000,000.00
Number of building permits,
45,12!.
Number of homes erected, 19,630.
Population Increased from 110.
000 to 265.000.
Including wheat, flour and lumber
shipments.
.BY. CHARLES "W. MYERS.
With the passing: of 1913 Portland
lias rounded out an eight-year cycle of
unprecedented growth and prosperity
a period beginning at the close of the
Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905, In
which the city has emerged from a
town of uncertain pretensions to one
jl the great commercial. Industrial and
hipping centers of tie Pacific ('oast.
Portland's wonderful ' progress is an
opic of 'Western thrift, enterprise and
opportunity.
In every important branch of trade
and industry- Portland has made al
most incredible strides. As a shipping
center it has become one of the impor
tant ports of the world, leading in the
shipment of lumber, now exceeding
Now York City and now crowding the
Nation's metropolis in grain exports
and making substantial gains in the
volume of flour shipments.
City Become, threat Center.
In this greatest .--e-tlgilK of its his
tory Portland has bf .-ho livestock
and packing center n-. miy of the Pa
cific Northwest, but also of the entire
Pacific Slope, attracting tcMis. ma-kets
livestock from Wa . Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, C , nd Ore
pron. Its bank cleaV-nii's nave main
talned steady and substantial gain
throughout tbe entire eight-year
period. In new building construction
Portland has made a record equaled by
few cities in the United States. Its
postal receipts have increased with con
sistent proportions. Its industrial ex
pansion has been of a wholesome char
aoter.
Noteworthy has been the extension
of its commercial gone. Portland is the
filtering point of the new wealth
created each year from the products
of the soil of the Immense Columbia
River Basin. As the magnet of the
water grade movement from the vast
Inland Empire, embracing parts of
three states and British Columbia,
Portland is unfurling her flag of com
merce over land and sea and Anally
has begun to vie vigorously with her
ambitious rivals for business suprem
acy of the Pacific Coast.
Proportionate Growth Recorded.
Momentous as has been Port
land's commercial expansion since the
Lewis and Clark Kxposltion, equally
notable has been its Internal develop
ment, its civic progress, its architec
tural advancement. It has grown
from within as well as from without.
In the eight-year period an almost
complete reconstruction of the city's re
tail district has taken place. At the
close of the exposition Portland could
not boast of one business building of
the modern type of fireproof construc
tion. V ith a few exceptions the
buildings were of wood, brick or stone,
ranging in height from two to seven
stories. But today, remodeled, re
vamped, rebuilt, the newer retail dis
trict, with its score or more of tower
Dig structures, errulges and attracts
and amazes It gives but little bint of
the crude architecture of a decade ago
The city s Immense volume of build
itig construction is in response to a
genuine demand for the accommodation
of trade. It is not fictitious, nor the
result of speculative activity. In
more pronounced degree does it reflect
the sound business fabrlo and tbe
financial solidity of Portland. And
above all it has builded on its own
capital.
Balldlaa; Records Interesting;.
It is interesting to note that the
total building cost for the period is
about equally divided between rest
dence construction and the building of
business structures, hotels and apart
ment-houses. There have been built
since the fair l'J. 050 dwellings, nearly
. 1000 two-family and four-family dwell
tngs and approximately S00 apartment
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SPECK OF RADIUM
IS LOST OR STOLEN
PRECIOUS PARTI COS MAY COST
LIFE OF ITS POSSESSOR.
Doctors Place Capsule Supposed to
Contain Substance In Arm of
Patient Then Learn of Loss.
CHICAGO, Dec 31. Search today
both by police and hospital authori
ties, failed to disclose any clew to the
35 milligrams of radium lost or stolen
several dajfe ago, It is thought, while
being used in the treatment of a cancer
patient. ,
Unless the person having the
precious particle of radium It is half
the size of a pin's head and Is worth
$4500 in his possession, knows how to
protect himself from Its Influence, it
may kill him, according to hospital
physicians. If, Instead of being- stolen,
it is mislaid, it will declare Its pres
ence by Its influence on whatever
substances are around It.
The speck of radium was Imported
from France by St. Luke's Hospital. It
was kept for use in a platinum capsule
an eighth of an Inch in diameter and
three-quarters of an inch long. Its
ast appearance known to the hospital
staff was when the capsule was placed
in an incision in the arm of a woman
patient. After several treatments it
was found that the capsule was in
active. The capsule was opened and
t was found that the radium was
gone.
A record is kept of every particle
known to exist in the world and this
piece is on that register.
$27,000 LOST AND FOUND
Policeman Restores Woman's M6ney;
Reward is "Thanks."
DETROIT, Dec. V 81. (Special.)
Twenty-seven new $1000 bills dropped
out of a woman's handbag today in the
tax rush at the County Treasurer's of
flee. All lay on the floor among the
crowd of taxpayers, who trod on them
until they were found by a policeman,
who gave them to the owner when she
returned to the building an hour later
n search of the money.
Mrs. Alma Groesbeck stopped to pay
her taxes while on the way to pay for
an estate she bought in Orosse Point.
It was her money that Policeman
Brlske picked up.
'If I can't get' It back I hope some
one gets it who will get some good out
of it, for It was my own carelessness,'
said Mrs. Groesbeck when she inquired
at the tax window If anyone had re
ported finding the money.
In the excitement of paying taxes
another woman forgot her baby. The
same policeman restored the infant to
its mother and received the same re
ward as . from M?s. Groesbeck,
Thanks."
LLNESS MAY BE LUXURY
Decline in Health oC teachers, While
Paid, Causes New Rule.
A decline in the health of Portland
schoolteachers since the Board of Edu
cation last Summer adopted a rule per
mitting those who were ill to be off
duty for three consecutive days on
pay, has caused the Board to revise the
rule.
Hereafter, illness will be more of a
luxury. Teachers can be ill fo
days in any month and no more that
is, on salary.
Under the old rule, occasionally a
teacher might be ill for three consecu
tive days, return to her work on the
fourth day, and then be sick tor three
more days, and yet get her pay.
The Board's regular meeting will
take place Friday afternoon and the
Board expects to settle the tango ques
tlon for good.
STRIKE REDUCTION IS AIM
Massachusetts Conciliation Board
Urges Peaceful Methods.
BOSTON, Dec 31. In the hope of ma
terially reducing strikes in Massachu
setts in 1914, the State Board of Con
ciliation and Arbitration issued a spe
cial message today to employers and
employes, urging them to exhaust all
possible methods of settlement before
resorting to a breach of Industrial
peace.
The Board holds that the public Is an
Innocent third party in all labor con
troversles, and is entitled to the same
protection which should be accorded to
the other two parties.
Out of the 145. controversies investl
gated by the Board in th- last year,
strikes were averted in 12S cases.
SLAYER DEMANDS PHOTO
Picture of Bloodstained Visage to Be
Used In Defense.
DECATUR, 111, Dec 31. Carl Person,
editor of the Illinois Central's Strike
Bulletin, who yesterday shot and killed
Tony Musser, a Clinton strikebreaker,
today refused to have the blood washed
from his face or his injuries attended
to until a picture had been made of
him.
He wants the picture used as evi
dence to show the bruises and wounds
inflicted on him by Musser just before
tbe shooting. Person is being held on
a, charge of murder.
SEX TALKS DENOUNCED
Chicago Trustees Condemn Hygiene
Programme of Mrs. Young.
CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Opposition in the
Board of Education against the sex hy
giene programme of Ella Flagg Young,
Superintendent of Schools, was begun
today. t
Resolutions denouncing the course
were adopted by the trustees. Action
on the resolutions was deferred one
week by consent.
MISS HOBBS TO BE
GIVEN TOWN'S BEST
Saloons to "Dress Up"
to Meet Fair Envoy.
CUT FLOWERS TO DECK BARS
Blue and Pink Ribbons Will Be
Strung in Copperfield.
FIGHT COURTEOUS IN STORE
Governor's "Joan of Arc" Will Find
Resistance Firm, but Legal and
Polite, ' Declare. Affected .
Ones Officials Wait.
BAKER, Or.. Dec. 31. (Special.)
Miss Fern Hobbs. the private secre
tary of Governor Wea. Isto xbe given
a royal reception at Copperfield, ac
cording to persons whom she is coming
to put out ot office and whose saloons
she is expected to try to close. The
saloons will be decorated ' with pink
and bue ribbons and cut flowers will
be placed on the bars, while bunting
will be placed along Main street in
honor of the fair off iclal's expected
visit.
But the members of the Council who
are in the saloon business today, acting
on the advice of their attorney, James
H. Nichols, of Baker, agreed not to be
influenced by anything Miss Hobbs
might say and not to resign their
positions under any circumstances.
Town's Best to Be Given.
Mayor H. A.-Stewart and Councilmen
William Weigand, H. W. Arner and W.
H. Woodbury, all of whom are in the
saloon business, declared that they
would not -resign if Miss Hobbs de
manded their resignations, as reports
from Salem indicate she will do. Fur
ther, they agreed to pay no attention
to Miss Hobbs, but tbey said they
would extend . to her every courtesy
and give her the "best the town
afforded," but there they would stop.
It was also decided that if Miss
Hobbs demands that the saloons be
closed, to refuse to close. Then,- on
advice from their attorney, the saloons
will, if the Governor sends militia, con
tinue their resistance, but, it was de
clared, by legal methods and by appeal
to the courts only.
Knezevlch Under Surveillance.
Meanwhile Martin Knezevich, who
was ousted from the saloon business
by the present City Council and about
whom the storm is raging, is con
ducting a soft drink establishment
and he is selling nothing except soft
drinks. His enemies are keeping him
under the closest surveillance and are
only too eager to obtain evidence that
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 47
degrees; minimum, 40 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain: southerly winds.
Features in Annual -Number.
Pictorial review of building operations in
Portland In 1913. Section 1.
Panama Canal will develop resources of
Columbia River basin. Section 2. page 2.
What Portland is doing for deeper harbor.
Section 2, page 8.
Forty-fodt channel to sea is assured. Section
2, page 4.
Portland is Coast terminus of two largest
fleets afloat. Section 2, page 5.
Map showing great area of Columbia River
basin. Section 2, pages 8 And .
Views of Panama Canal. Bectlon 2, page 16.
Oregon's irrigation and dairying resources
described. Section 3, page 2.
Glgantlo power plant .constructed to develop
electricity. Section 3, page 3.
Development of Oregon counties in 1913 re
viewed. Section 3, pages 4 and a.
Scenic attractions ot . state. Section 3,
page 6.
Views of Portland's recreation and country
clubs. Section 4, page X.
Portland'a supremacy- as Jobbing canter
shown. Section 4. page 2.
Portland's amusement places pictured.
bectlon 4. page 4.
Portland's banks first among those of Pa
cific Northwest. Section 4, page .
Portland's manufacturing possibilities out
lined. Section 4, page 7.
Foreign.
Anarchy, famine and war threaten Albania.
bectlon &. paxe 4.
Mme. Nordlca lauds seamen on board
grounded ship. Section . 5, page S.
' National.
Year 1913 sees many economic and Govern
mental changes. Section 5, page 2.
Secretary Redfleld pleads for 8-hour day in
ail industries, section o, page o.
Cruiser bearin ar ; Envoy Llnd speeding to
United States port. Section 5. page 2.
Domestic.
Dr. Washington Gladden resigns from pulpit.
section o, page 4-
Advance of woman suffrage for 1913 re
viewed. Bectlon o. page a.
Great storm raging in California. Section 8,
page x.
Convicts adopt resolutions of good behavior.
Section o, page 1.
Mexican federals fight all day to held posi
tion at OJlnaga. Section 5. page X.
Coroner's Jury fails to fix blame for Calu
met disaster. Section 0, page a.
Chicago police search- for stolen speek of
raaium. section o, ,page l.
Sport.
Idaho and Multnomah to meet for final
game of season. Section o, page 6.
Honesty of baseball kills gambling, says
Alatty. rage u.
Pacific Northwest.
Bull Moose of Idaho to meet soon.
Section
5, page T.
Copperfield, Or., to "primp" for arrival of
Miss Hobbs. Section 5, page 1.
Pullman wheat convention programme an
nounced. Section 5, page 7.
. Commercial and Marine.
Cereal receipts at Portland !n past year
break all records. Section .5, page 21.
Corn and wheat shorts at Chicago badly
squeezed. Section 5, page 21.
No flurry in money market at close cf
year. Section S, page 21.
January 1. 101ft, set for opening of Celllo
canal. Section 5, page 20.
Portland shipping sets new record In 1913.
Section 5, page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland's progress since 1005 Exposition
places city among great ones. Section 5.
page 1
Bankers predict good times in 1P14. Bec-
tion 5, page 20. , .
Janitor Chameriain's ease goes' into courts.
Section 5, page 11.
Portland hlrd healthiest city in United
States. Section 5. page 11.
Somers Unit Valuation System Indorsed by
committee. Section 5. page 12.
Kodak exhibit Is well patronized. Section
5, page 13.
Portland society folk aotlve as old year
passes Into new. Section 5, page 10.
Interstate bridge contract Is signed by Mult
nomah County commissioners. Section 5,
page 13.
Old year 'jollied" , on way to grave. Sec
tion 5, page 20.
Aspirants for state offices expected to make
announcements soon. Section 5, page 12
Northwest's prosperity steady during 1913.
Section 5, page 5.
FEDERALS DRIVEN
BACK BY ARTILLERY
Rebels Advance Guns
for Final Action.
ADOBE RAMPARTS CRUMBLE
Ojinaga Garrison Has Advan
tage of Position;
BRAVE FIGHT BEING MADE
Red Cross Preparing on American
Side to Perform Service When
Battle Is Over Generals
Prepared for Flight.
PRESIDIO. Tex., Dec. 31. After
withstanding bullets, shells and
shrapnel poured In on them from the
rebels, the federal army at OJlnaga,
Mex.. tonight was still entrenched
within the village but in the opinion
of military experts with small hope of
beating back the attacking force.
General Toribio Ortega's 6000 rebels.
after driving the 4000 federals from all
their outposts and into the shelter of
the adobe buildings and inner trenches.
were beginning at sundown to advance
their artillery with a view to demolish,
ing the Custom-House and horse corral.
where the bulk of the federals and
their officers were housed.
Artillery Demolishes Houses.
Numbers of the federal officers, in
cluding General Marcello Caraveo, com
mander of volunteers, were reported
wounded or killed. Much of the rebel
cavalry fire was of no effect, but when
General Ortega put into action from
the valley below the village the field
pieces which had been brought from
Chihuahua, the outlying adobe houses
crumbled into heaps of dried mud, leav
ing a clearer range into the heart of
the settlement.
The federals, though inferior in num
ber, bad the advantage in position, be
cause from the village they were able
to sweep the valley commanding the
approach. Despite the belief that they
were running short of ammunition, the
federals showed a revived determina
tion to make a plucky stand. -
Federal Shell Reaches. Mark.
One of their shells burst on an op
poslte hill where a body of rebels had
ascended to get the federal range
Several were killed.
Only from the few deserters or
wounded federal soldiers who sue
ceeded in gaining the American side
after running the mile of flat land In
tervening between the village and the
river was information brought as to.
the casualties. The word of these sol
dlers was taken with, allowance.
Three or four federals who had
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ONVICTS PLEDGE
MODEL BEHAVIOR
SELF-COVERXIXG LEAGUE OR
GANIZED AT ACBURX.
XesPlan of Reform Ushered In
With New Year by Commissioner
Who Was Voluntary Inmate.
AUBURN, N. Y-. Dec. 31. The con
victs of Auburn prison have adopted a
new year resolution pledging them
selves to good conduct. To make the
resolution effective they have organized
"Good Conduct League," by means
of which they will have a share in
maintaining prison discipline. Convict
publlo opinion is the weapon by which
discipline will be enforced.
The league was perfected by a com
mittee of 50 convicts elected by ballot.
The scheme was suggested by Thomas
Mott Osborne, chairman of the State
Commission for prison reform, who
was recently a voluntary Inmate of
Auburn. '
All convicts will be admitted to the
league, but bad conduct will forfeit
membership and certain privileges. The
aim of the organization as set forth
in the resolution is "mental, moral
and clvio betterment for those who for
so many years have been considered
without the pale of human kinship."
Resolved," the resolution says, "that
we individually and as representatives
of all Inmates of Auburn prison hereby
pledge our best, honest endeavor and
constant attention to the ultimate suc
cess of all such efforts as the said
John S. Riley (the warden) has already
or which he shall hereafter undertake
looking to the uplift and progressive
regeneration of men and methods in
side the walls of Auburn prison."
BANKERS TO MEET FRIDAY
Clearing House Will Discuss Plans
for Regional Reserve Bank.
A meeting of the Portland Clearing
House will be held on Friday afternoon
to take action on the plan to have
regional reserve bank established in
Portland under provisions of the newly
enacted Federal currency.
Portland bankers feel that if a re
serve bank is established in the North
west this city Is the only logical place
for it, and that if but one bank is
allotted to the Coast and placed at
San Francisco Portland should have a
branch.
An active campaign with that end
in view will be conducted until Sec
retary MeAdoo and Secretary Houston,
comprising a majority of the organiza
tion committee of the Federal reserve
board, come here in February to hold
a hearing.
SERUM CHECKS TYPHOID
Army Has Only Two Cases, One Un
vaccinated, in 80,000 Men.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. The Army
got through the year with only two
cases of typhoid fever in the enlisted
strength of more than 80,000 officers
and men. One was that of a man who
had not been immunized with the ty
phoid vaccine and was believed to have
contracted the fever before he enlisted;
the other case was among the troops
in China, and though the man was im
munized in 1911, the history of the case
is in doubt.
The Navy, which adopted the vaccine
later than the Army and did not make
Its use at once compulsory, had among
its 50,000 Jackies only seven authentic
cases'of typhoid in the year ending last
June.
CLEARINGS' GAIN GENERAL
Banks Throughout Country Show
Substantial Increase.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. Bank clear
ings in cities throughout the country
show substantial increases for the year
1913. Following are some of the
figures: '
Minneapolis increase, $130,180,790.44.
Total for year, $1,312,413,256.64. Total
for 1912, $1,182,232,468.20.
Omaha total, $908,947,659, an Increase
of nearly $18,000,000 over last year.
Detroit total, $1,331,053,395, an in
crease of $203,078,335 over last year..
Pittsburgh total, $2,932,402,511 against
$2,798,990,214 for 1912.
Cleveland total. $1,275,501,014 against
$1,150,397,652 for 1912.
Kansas City total, $2,850,362,611. an
Increase of $137,334,695 over 1912.
CAMERA HURTS OPERATOR
Wrong Flashlight Used and Van
couver Man Knocked Insensible.
- VANCOUVER, Wash.. Dec. 81. (Spe
cial.) Mistaking an explosive powder
made. of picric acid for a slower flash
light powder came near resulting In
the serious Injury of Paul Schulz. a
local photographer here.
Mr. Schulz filled his blow-pipe tank
with, the powder and gave one blow
on the rubber tube. This forced pow
der over an alcohol blaze, and knocked
the operator unconscious. The powder
exploded, destroyed the flashlight.
punctured a hole in the metal, and
part of the camera struck Mr. Schulz.
KIDNEY CUT OUT, DRAINED
Poison Removed From Woman by
Unusual Operation.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 31. An unusual op
eration was performed at the St. Louis
City Hospital' today when the kidneys
of Mrs. Viola Sullivan were removed,
drained of poison and replaced.
This Is the second time in the history
of American surgery, it is said, that
such an operation has been performed.
A similar operation was performed at
I Bellevue Hospital, New Tork.
OCEAN AND
RIVERS
LASHED B! STORMS
Rainfall in California
Breaks Records.
STREAMS ARE OUT OF BOUNDS
Landslides Reported on Main
Line to Oregon.
HERO DROWNED AT NAPA
Fatality Attends Rescue ot Women,
and Children From Flooded
Homes State, in Xeed or Mois
ture, Expected to Benefit.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 31. (Special.)
A terrific storm is raging on the
coast, and southeast winds of tremen
dous velocity have lashed the Pacifio
into a fury. Vessels plying up and
down the coast and between here and
the Orient are in the grip of a hurri
cane and practically all Sacramento
and San Joaquin River boats are
stormbound.
At Napa, the Napa River rose sud
denly and flooded a portion of the busi
ness and residence district. One man,
James Clark, was drowned. He met
death while rescuing women and chil
dren from flooded homes.
Flood Warnings Issued.
The Sacramento River Is rlslnj
rapidly and flood warnings have been
issued in all districts subject to over
flow north of the Feather River. Ths
United States Weather Bureau reports
that the river Is expected to reach a
menacing stage at Sacramento tomor
row, and has issued general warnings
against floods in all sections of the
Sacramento Valley. Rain has been
falling steadily in the upper part of
the valley today and the river is rising
rapidly. The situation. acc6rding to
the Weather Bureau officials, is de
cidedly ominous. At Kennett 6.30 Inches
of rain have fallen during the present
storm, while a fall of 4.02 inches bass
been recorded at Oroville.
Twenty .trolley poles were blown
down by the wind on the MeATHster-v
street line of the United Railroads in
San Francisco. The gale carried all of
the poles down and service was sus
pended between Presidio avenue and
the ocean.
GO-Mile Gale Blows.
- The wind blew 60 miles an hour at
the Cliff House observatory. The wires
to Point Reyes have been blown down
and telegraphic communication be
tween there and this city is cut off.
The Southern Pacific tracks down
the peninsula, were turned Into a
stream as the storm grew worse. Near
Wrights and elsewhere there were
washouts in the mountains. Many
branch lines are out of commission
through the northern part of the state.
In Marin County many famllie-i
abandoned their homes. The postoftice
at Ross was four feet under water.
The heaviest damage was farther north,
however.
San Francisco has had two and one
half times as much rain' this season as
at the corresponding date last year.
In the mountains a great deph oC enow
has fallen, the summit reporting more
than 1C feet on the ground.
Landslides oa Main Line.
Redding, with nearly five inches ot
rain in the past 24 hours, reports many
landslides on the main line to Oregon
and all trains proceeding under slow
orders. Some idea of the tremendous
downpour can be gained from the fol
lowing, compiled by the Southern Pa
cific: Redding, 4.70 Inches; Dunsmuir,
4.24; Santa Rosa, 4; Ben Lomond, 5.CS;
Boulder, 3.21; Wrights. 6.04;- Calis
toga. 9.
Whipped by the gale, the steam
schooner Porno, disabled, was picked
up by the big lumber steamer Adeline
Smith, according to wireless Informa
tion sent in early in the day. The
deckload on the Pomo-had been washed
away and her crew of 20 under Cap
tain Llllland, as well as her passen
gers, were in distress.
While the railroads may be incon
venienced for a time and some suffer
ing be caused, yet the storm is ieally
a blessing to the state, which has been
without sufficient water for three
years. The present storm will give a
great impetus to business.
EXPRESS TRAINS STORMBOUND
t
Portland -Express at Redding; Two
Others Waiting at Sisson. 9
REDDING. Cal., Dec. SI. (Special.)
A 48-hour downpour, one of tbe
worst storms In the history of the ex
treme northern part of California, came
at an end at 4 o'clock today, but not
before the whole Shasta division of the
Southern Pacific had been seriously
embarrassed. Power lines and tele
phone rhd telegraph lines were broken
and heavy damage was done by over
flowing streams. The county bridge
at Redding ana other structures are
threatened. Small streams have be
come raging torrents that make stage
travel impossible.
The storm played havoc' with the
Southern Pacific's roadbed for 100 milts
north of Redoing. Landslides of con
siderable magnitude have occurred at
Canfarra, Ouargo and Motion, and
slide3 of a smaller nature have blocked
traffic at other points. Washouts have
carried tracks away at Kennel, Coram
and Motion, the station at the first
point being flooded.
The Portland Express Is held her
(Concluded on I'aja 2.)