SECTION FIVE PAGES 1 TO 22 VOL.. LIU. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914. NO. lG.oGO. rl V 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 Concluded on Page 10.) 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 (Concluded on page 3.) : x ; A HAPPY NEW YEAH. ' - f I fnrri ZiW 1 JfU-M I t fSSlll I foay V-rv5W . BOY ) , . OTW I t I I 'good C. J &Z$L I t I I ,t,rK V -gSrSSU X C&tCSj. Ill t . . . t ' ' : : " !L 1 1... J 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 (Concluded on Page 2.) ww J 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.)