VOL.. L.V NO. 17,219.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Si DIEGO DAM
0
DNOffl
11,000,000,000 Gallons
of Water Released.
51,000,000 DAMAGE DONE
Bridges Washed Out, Streams
To Treacherous to Permit
- f.c-cjers to Go Out.
HUNDREDS FACE FAMINE
Bodies Are Seen Floating on
Flood and List of Victims
May Be Increased.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 28. At
least 50 persons were believed to have
been killed late Thursday when the
lower dam of the San Diego water
system in the Otay Valley, south of
here, broke under the heavy pressure
of the flood waters. A wall of water
SO feet high was released.
Sweeping down the valley the great
flood of water carried people, live
tock and valuable farm property to
destruction. Scores of residents were
missing tonight. Houses on 25 ranches
were swept away.
Wires Down, Roads Impassable.
The first news of the disaster
reached here late today. There had
been ro communication with the dis
trict since the disaster occurred, as
. wires were down and roads were im
passable. At least 25 Japanese men, women
and children were reported to be
among those lost.
An area 15 miles long and two miles
wide is devastated.
Rescuers were unable to reach the
scene of the disaster tonight, as all
bridges were washed out and the
swollen streams were fio treacherous
that it was impossible to launch boats
to go to the rescue.
Bodies Seen on Floods.
Several bodies have been seen
floating in the flood waters, accord
ing to reports received here.
The breaking of the dam released
11,000,000,000 gallons of water, which
rushed down through the thickly pop
. ulated and narrow Otay Valley.
Property Loss at Least $1,000,000.
The property loss will amount to
at least $1,000,000. Because of the
fact that they were isolated by the
breaking of the dam, which shut off
any means of reaching other com
munities, hundreds of families in the
- vicinity were facing a food famine to
night. All possible efforts were being made
here to send relief to the flood suf
ferers in the valley.
The heavy rains of the last few
days filled the lower Otay dam for
the first time in its history. Unable
longer to withstand the terrific
weight of the water, the dam gave
way, releasing a flood of water.
Earnings of the impending danger
of the break had been given to the
people in the valley, but few heeded
them, it was said tonight, choosing
to stay and endeavor to protect their
property.
6AN FRANCISCO. Jan. 28. Suffering
and danger from floods, snow and in
tense cold In the Rocky Mountain region
accompanied today the storm which
struck the Pacinc Coast yesterday and
Is moving east.
Mercury 34 Below at Havre.
Havre. Mont., reported 54 degrees
below aero, with many other towns not
greatly behind. Eastern Washington
and Idaho suffered with Montana.
Towns in the Coeur d'Alene region
were isolated by snowslldes. Another
slide on the Missoula division of the
Chicago. Milwaukee & 6t- Paul Railroad
caused traffic to be diverted over the
Northern Pacific tracks, while Great
Falls, Mont., reported the Great North
ern's Kalispell division tied up by cold,
with not a train moving.
Car Mipa em ley Rails.
At Putte a streetcar slipped on icy
rails and IS passengers were injured.
Southwestern Colorado was reported
snowed in. with IS feet of drifted snow
In Durango streets, and connection
with the Sllverton mines cut off.
Railroad communication with Phoe
nix. Arix stopped when a bridge on
the Atchison. Topeko 4V Santa Fe Rail
road at Agua Fria River went out.
The aupply of sugar in Phoenix was
reported about gone. Ray. in the same
state, was said to face a, real famine,
while reports reaching Yuma, in the
southwest corner of the state, told of
rising streams, and frightened inhab
itant, not yet adjusted to conditions
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STANFORD TO BAR
STUDENT DRONES
EVIDENCE OF PAST INDUSTRY
CONDITION OF ADMISSION.
Trustees Approve Plan to Open In
stitution Only to Tbose Thor
oughly in Earnest.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.. Jan.
28. Compelled by financial limitations
to cut according- to their cloth the
trustees of Stanford University an
nounced today their approval of a fac
ulty plan limiting the advantages of
the institution to students thoroughly
qualified and strictly in earnest.
Under the new plan, which will be
effective in August, the beginning of
the next academic year, students who
are not doing better than barely quali
fying may be arbitrarily dropped.
In addition to raising the scholarship
requirements, the maximum number of
students admitted in the entering
classes-will be limited to 450 for the
first and 60 for the second semester.
More rigid tests of purpose and prog
ress, it was announced, would be made
in all clasies and it was further made
clear that credentials presented with
application for admission must be ac
companied by evidence of the appli
cant's past Industry.
MAHONY SELLS TO OLSON
Steamship Firm or Quarter Century
Standing Dissolves.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. (Special.)
Andy Mahony and Oliver J. Olson,
who have been doing business on this
coast for many years as the Olson &
Mahony Steamship Company, an
nounced today that they had dissolved
partnership, that Mr. Mahony had sold
his Interest to his partner and that the
business, which involves the operation
of 10 steamers, would be conducted in
the future as the Oliver J. Olson Steam-
shio Company. The deal is said to
have involved nearly $2,000,000.
Mr. Olson and Mr. Mahony were
schoolboys together in the Mission dis
trict of San Francisco.
The Olson & Mahony Lumber Com
pany remains as heretofore.
TEACHING RECORD UNIQUE
Lane County Man 23 Years In Sire's
Footsteps.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Or., Jan. 38. (Special.) A man who
has taught in Lane County public
schools for 23 consecutive years,
whose father taught for 43 years in
the same county and who is now teach
ing in the same school in which his
father taught 42 years ago. recently
applied to the extension division of the
university for reading circle questions.
He is Elmer T. Jordan and he is
teaching in the Deerhorn district.
TITANIC CLAIMS SETTLED
Widow of Theatrical Man Expected
to Receive Largest Amount.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Attorneys for
the White Star line announced today
that agreements had been reached with
more than 200 claimants whereby about
1600,000 will be paid in claims arising
out of the Titanic disaster.
The largest amount to be paid as a
death claim will be $50,000, which prob
ably will be received by Mrs. Irene W.
Harris, widow of Henry B. Harris, the
theatrical producer. Mrs. Harris' claim
was originally for $1,000,000.
LOGWOOD CONDITIONS MET
American Dye Makers Agree to Di
vide With Canadians.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S. Principal
American manufacturers of dyestuffs
from logwood have agreed to Great
Britain's condition of exporting a rea
sonable amount of products to Canada
In return for the lifting of the export
embargo from the British possessions
in the West Indies.
No further difficulty in getting the
raw material for American industries
now ia expected.
FRANCE TO FIGHT. DRUGS
Repressive Legislation Follows Epi
demic of Cocaineomania.
PARIS, Jan. 28. Repression of the
opium and cocaine traffic in France
is made stricter by an amending law
passed today by the Senate. The dis
cussion indicated existence of opium
dens, winked at by the French authori
ties in French ports, and of what Dep
uty Cascneuve termed "a veritable epi
demic of cocoaineomania" at Paris.
Under the new law any unlicensed
place where stupefying drugs are sold
must be closed for at least a year.
G0EBEN IS DAMAGED AGAIN
Petrograd Iteports Casualties In En
gagement Were Heavy.
FETROGRAD, via London, Jan. 28.
An official communication made public
today says:
"It has been learned that the Turkish
cruiser Goeben (Sultan Selim) sus
tained severe damage in an engage
ment January S. Her casualties includ
ed 33 men killed and SO wounded."
Germans Save Hides on Battlefield.
LONDON. Jan. 28. As an Instance of
German thrift, the Germans remove
the hides from dead army horses, says
the Daily Mail's Balkan correspondent
in describing a trip from Constantino
ple to Nish over a road from which
the evidences of war. he said, had been
almost entirely, removed,
BRANDEI5 WILL BE
OPPOSED Ifl SENATE
Unfitness for the High
Position Asserted.
IRRITATION IS MANIFESTED
Radicalism Opposed, Without
Reference to Party Lines.
DEMOCRACY ALSO DENIED
Sectional Considerations to Figure,
Too Bid by ViIson for Jew
ish, Pro-German and La
bor Vote Is Detected.
BY JOHN CALLAN O'LAUGHLIN.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. (Special.)
President Wilson precipitated a big
fight with the Senate today when the J
nominated Louis D. Brandeis, of Bos
ton, to be an associate Justice of the
Supreme Court.
Republican Senaors are predicting to
night that the nomination will bp re
jected. Just ati the nomination of Mr.
Hornblower, of New York, was rejected
when made by President Cleveland. Sev
eral of the Democratic Senators like-
wise look with disfavor upon the nom
ination and are voicing their opposi
tion. Religion Relied Oa as Aid.
Nevertheless, because Mr. Brandeis
is a Jew. because this is the first time
in the history of the country that a
man of his race has been nominated
for the Supreme bench, the Administra
tion is confident that in the end the
Senate will accord confirmation to the
nomination.
Those who are opposed to Mr. Bran
deis. declare their objection does not lie
in his race or religion does not relate
in any way to the fact that he is of
German origin. They base their criti
cisms on his radicalism, and what they
term his "unfitness" for appointment
to a court, which today has the com
plete confidence of the American people.
Extreme Radicalism Opposed.
With Mr. Brandeis' views as to the
basic methods of settling Important
economic and social questions there can
be, of course, an honest difference of
opinion. As evidence of his radicalism,
reference is made to his support of the
bill creating a Federal Trades Com
mission, which now exists; but the
Boston lawyer wanted the powers of
that Commission made more extensive
than Congress described. He was con
cerned in the advocacy of other radical
measures of the extreme type. He also
aroused the irritation of members of
the Senate and House who investi
gated the celebrated Ballinger-Pfnchot
controversy, serving as counsel for
Glavis, who was connected with the
Pinchot camp.
Issne Also Partly Sectional.
There is sectional opposition also to
Mr. Brandeis' appointment. The great
Middle West has only one representa- (
tive on the Supreme Court of the
United States Associate Justice Day,
(Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.)'
WOODKOW SHOT AN ABOW
ICY BLAST BEARS
NEW SNOW STORM
NKAIS-BLIZZARD ARRIVES AND
31 ORE IS IX STORE.
Physicians Call Attention to Dan.
gcr of Grip and Other Ills, Due
to Itcnewcd Bad Weather.
A biting east wind, with a blustering
dry snow swept down on Portland late
yesterday and the weather man with
all confluence says it is likely to con
tinue today, and grow worse.
The minimum temperature yesterday
was 24 and the maximum was only 29,
and a recurrence of the bitterly cold
spell of a few days ago is expected be
fore nightfall.
Snow flurries which soon became J
howling snow storm reached Portland
shortly before 9 o'clock last night, and
unless the temperature makes it too
cold for continued snow, a considerable
fall is likely.
Montana had the coldest weather in
the country yesterday, when the mer
cury huddled down around 54 degrees
below at Havre.
The barometer continues to fall, indi
eating the storm predicted for several
days is about due. Physicians who find
in the east wind the germs of grip and
other Winter ills yesterday urged pre
caution for those sensitive to the Win
ter blasts.
DUST STORM COLORS SNOW
Pendleton Wakes, to Gaze on Brown
Where White Mad Been.
PENDLETON. Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.)
Pendleton was much surprised this
morning to find the snow which had
fallen last night to be a dirty brown
color. A big dust storm struck the
west end of Umatilla County yesterday,
where there is little snow, and the dirt
rarticles had drifted here. . ,
The weather continues cold, the ther
mometer dropping to 13 degrees above
zero last night, registering only 17
above at 1 o'clock today.
TRAIN HURLS SCHOOLGIRLS
One May Die Following Collision in
Which Buggy Is Wrecked.
CALDWELL, Idaho, Jan. 28. (Spe
cial.) Mary and Genevieve Garvin, sis
ters, were badly injured this morning
when westbound passenger train No.
75 struck the buggy carrying them to
school, killing the nre and complete
ly demolished the venicie. ine two
girls -were -thrown several nunarea
feet.
But little hope is expressed for the
recovery of Genevieve aged 13, who is
suffering from internal injuries. The
accident occurred in a blinding snow
storm. 100 FIREMEN OVERCOME
Gas Funics From Burning Drugs
Prostrate Detroit Fighters.
DETROIT, Jan. 28. More than 100
firemen were overcome by 6moke and
s fumes today while fighting the
most stubborn blaze Detroit has had in
15 years.
The drug store of E. C. Kinsel, in the
heart of the business district, was
burned out. The total damage was
about $200,000, practically covered by
insurance.
Explosion of chemicals which were
being tested is believed to have caused
the fire. I
INTO THE AIR, IT FELL TO EARTH, WE ALL KNOW WHERE.
FORCE OF 1,025,000
FOR
OUSTS
"Vital Areas" Defined
by Army Exrrfe
REPORT
niinnriiTiii
..o
".. minnnm i iui
Single Division Held Sufficient
to Defend Columbia.
FORTS ARE VULNERABLE
fviniuni Cost of Oueration of
Chamberlain Universal Training
- System Put by Aleshire at
$188,000,000 a Year.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Why a force
of at least 1.025,000 men wouiq do
-.ooi in nrntirt the "vital areas" of
th United States against a strcug
enemy was detailed to the Senate mil
itary committee today By Lieutenant-
Colonel W. G. Haan. a raemoer oi
War Department Board, which spent
seven years working out defense plans.
The Board visited and studied mi
nutely every part of the coast line.
it renorted in 1913, but its findings
have been held' confidential by the de-
oartment.
To protect the various areas irom
Portland. Me., to Norfolk, Colonel iaan
added, the board had concluded that a
total of 380,000 mobile troops would be
necessary for this section, exclusive of
the coast artillery supports ana Dat
tery personnel.
Pacific Coast Needs Described.
The needs of the Pacific Coast he
gave as three divisions in the Puget
Sound region, one at the mouth of
the Columbia River, three at San Fran
cisco, and one at Los Angeles and San
Diego.
Six divisions should be held in re
serve, he said.
'How large an army would the plans
involve? asked Senator Chamberlain.
One million? and twenty-five thou
sand men to protect the critical areas,"
Colonel Haan replied.
Ships could lie outside of Boston,
Colonel Haan said, in discussing har
bor defenses, and destroy the Navy
yard, the State House, the Fore River
Works and the business district with
out being in range of the American
guns. He recommended that eight 16
inch rifles for direct fire and 16 12-inch
long-range mortars be added to the de
fenses there, all with a range of more
than 30,000 yards, against the maxi
mum range of 18,000 yards of the pres
ent guns.
Chamberlain Plan Cost Estimated.
The maximum cost of putting into
operation the Chamberlain bill propos
ing universal military training would
be $188,000,000 a year, according to
figures submitted to the committee to
day by Quartermaster-General Aleshire.
They were based on the assumption
that 11,000,000 men between the ages
of 12 and 23 years would be trained.
The average cost of a continental
army proposed in the War Department
measure was estimated at $31,000,000.
PRESIDENT BEGINS
TRIP FOR DEFENSE
AXTI-PRF.PAREDXESS MIDDLE
WEST TO BE TOURED.
Banquets to Be Avoided Women
En ltoute Are to Meet Mrs. Wil
son on Private Car.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. President
Wilson left Washington tonight for a
speaking tour of the Middle West in
advocacy of his preparedness pro
gramme. He has been told that most
of the opposition to the Army and Navy
increases is centered in that section
of the country and believes that the
success of his defense plans depends
in large measure on the impression he
makes. He will remain away from
Washington until February 4.
The first address will bo in Pittsburg
tomorrow afternoon. After that he will
go to Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago,
Des Moines, Topeka, Kansas City and
St. Louis, making brief platform
speeches en route. He will speak to
morrow night in Cleveland, where he
will remain over Sunday.
Throughout the trip the President
will avoid banquets and other enter
tainments, but on Wednesday he will
have lunch with Governor and Mrs.
Capper, of Kansas, in Topeka. Mrs.
Wilson, who will accompany the Presi
dennt, will be met at all stops by com
mittees of women.
The President and Mrs. Wilson will
travel on a special car attached to
regular trains. Two other special cars,
one for secret service men and mem
bers of the White House staff and
another for newspaper men, will be
attached.
BOOTY GIVEN TO BULGARIA
Kaiser Turns Over All War Material
Captured in Serbia.
BERLIN, via London, Jan. 28. Em-
pepor William has presented to the
Bulgarians all war materials captured
by German troops in Serbia, according
to an interview with the former Bul
garian Minister to Italy, M. Rizow,
printed in the Dusseldorf General An
zeiger. Mr. Rizow said the booty comprised
more' than 30 cannon, numerous ma
chine guns, iens of thousands of rifles.
quantities of ammunition, 127 baggage
and hospital wagons and sanitary mate
rial valued in all at "probably 30,000,000
to 40,000,000 marks."
ALLIES BOMBARD FREIBURG
Berlin Says Aeroplanes Dropped
Five Bombs on Town.
BERLIN, Jan. 28. (By wireless to
Sayville, N. T.) Frieburg was bom
barded at 10 o'clock las; night by two
hostile aeroplanes, which dropped five
bombs on the town, according to re
ports received and given out here by
the Overseas News Agency. There were
no casualties.
The city theater, because of the cele
bration attendant on the Emperor's
birthday, was crowded, but the audi
ence remained calmly inside the build
ing until the raid was over.
OIL MEN LOSE $1,000,000
Hurry Call Sent North for Lumber
to Repair Storm Damage.
FRESNO, Cal., Jan. 28. Oil men in
the Coalinga fields, Fresno County, to
day estimated that the storm of yes
terday did damage to the extent of
$1,000,000 when 625 derricks were
blown down and destroyed.
It was announced tonight in Coalinga
by the oil men that steps would be
taken immediately to rebuild the der
ricks and that telegrams had already
been sent to Oregon and Washington
for the necessary lumber.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
' The Weather
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 20
degrees: minimum, 24 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional snow, continued cold;
easterly winds.
War.
British losses are more than 500,000 men
and 8!1 non-combatant vessels. Pago 2.
British steamer with 300 persons Is miss
ing. Page 8.
Russia expects early German offensive at
north o line. Page 2. to
National.
Mr. Brandeis' nomination to encounter
strong fight in Senate. Page 1.
Louis D. Brandeis nominated for Supreme
fencn by wuson. fage 3.
Army expert says 1.025.000 men are reeded
to defend 'Vital areas" on coasts.
Page 1.
President starts on tour for preparedness.
Page 1.
Domestic.
Mrs. Mohr admits discussing divorce. Page 5.
Paeiflc Northwest.
West Coast Lumbermen's Association elects
J. H. Bloedel president. Page 4.
Sports.
Beavers sell Kahler aud Lober to Lin
coln. Page 11.
"Break" of game often vital to victory, de
clares Billy Evans. Page 11.
Berry is after MeCredie's scalp over syndi
cate charges. Page 11.
Commercial and Marine.
Coast and Interior wheat markets are now
on parity. Page 15.
Chicago wheat weakened by selling by
foreigners. Page 15.
War stocks advance as result of President's
speech. Page 15.
Schooner Repeat, listing, is docked. Page 14.
Wheat cargo worth $259,000 leaves. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Perkins Hotel bar raided. Page 1.
Auto men form state-wide organization.
Page 10.
Sleuths, after chose, nab pair with chickens
and troubles of police start, """age 7.
Sing's charity organization regarded as only
scientific method of relief. Page 10.
Jewish relief fund reaches $10,000. Page 16.
Vere Cebell to continue fight for girL
Page 8.
Bis laugh had in Indian trial. Page 14.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15.
Many face starvation' and broken homes.
rage O. i
Near-hrizzard arrives. Pase 1, 1
PERKINS HOTEL BAR
RAIDED AND CLOSED
Contents Carted Off to
the Courthouse.
PROMINENT MEN ARE PATRONS
Officers Declare Violation of
Law Has Been Flagrant.
REGULAR 'CLIENTS' LISTED
Deputy Sheriffs Tell of letting
Stiff Drinks, While Deputy Pros
pector ltccalls Apparent Anx
iety to. Obey Law Implicitly.
"Here's looking at yuh. Bill!"
"Here's to yuh, Sam!"
And two of Portland's business men
raised their glasses of ginger ale as
they stood at the temperance bar in
the Perkins Hotel building and pledged
healths in the good old dry year of 'lk.
"I'll take the same," said an un
obtrusive bystander. He did, and
smacked his lips. "I'll try another."
From there he went to, the office,
of District Attorney Kvans, and re
ported that the Perkins' bar was serv
ing "kicks" in the ginger ale.
Evidence Declared Plentiful.
This was a week ago. After exten
sive investigation and the securing of
slathers of evidence, so they say. Con
stables and Sheriff's officers were
turned loose on the bar shortly before
5 o'clock last night, in a raid that left
no doubt of their intentions. Glass
ware, some of the bar fixtures, and
bottles containing- suspected liquor
were loaded into a dray and carted to
the Courthouse to be held, some for
evidence and the rest pending order
of the court.
George Schultz, proprietor of the bar,
which is operated separately from the
hotel on a lease obtained the first of
the year, and his bartender, F. Fer
gonia, were served with warrants,
charging them with maintaining a nui
sance, and the most spectacular and
prominent raid since Oregon went dry
passed into history. The warrants were
provided with clauses for searching the
hotel also, but L. Q. Swetland. pro
prietor of the hotel, said last night
that no warrant was served on him.
The deputies, however, visited the base
ment.
Visitors Find Doora Locked.
Up to a late hour last night, well
meaning citizens who little suspected
the closing of their favorite resort,
bumped noses against the locked doors.
Attorneys, an architect or so, a few
insurance men, and other business men
of Portland will be kept on the anxious
seat until after the trial. District At
torney Evans has a little list. He ad
mitted this last night, and the names
on that list include some men quite
well known in Portland.
Patronage Ia Regular.
A number of our esteemed fellow-
citizens most of whom have offices in
the Yeon building have made a bee-
line for the Perkins bar at noon and
early night, with shocking regularity,"
commented Mr. Evans. "The ginger
ale highball was very popular. Our
men knew quite a few and Jotted down
their names.
"Now, of course, I don't want to be
mean," and Mr. Evans smiled broadly,
"but I rather think some of these men
will be excellent witnesses In court."
A tale of bold and flagrant violation
of the prohibition upon intoxicants
voted by Oregonians is told by officers
concerned in the raid and previous per
sonal research work.
Constable Gets First News.
Constable Andy Weinberger's office
is said to have received the first infor
mation against the Perkins bar, fol
lowed in short order with a demand
from Sheriff Hurlburt's office for a
warrant against the same place.
Deputy Constable Clyde Nicholson
was one of the investigators.
"Simplest thing in the world to get
a drink of boose in there," he com
mented. "We have been watching the
place for a week. Here's the easy way
it's worked. You go in there and ask
for ginger ale. You get it. It's real
ginger ale. That's the first time. You
go back later and ask for a ginger ale.
You get the same thing. 'Spose you're
persistent and go a third time. Then,
likely as not you get a ginger ale high
ball for the same request.
Salca by Flask Reported.
"' "The highball, we have figured, is
about one part whisky to two parts
ginger ale. That's a fine prohibition)
drink. And it only costs 15 cents. You
can get a pint bottle of whisky after
you are acquainted for 75 cents. Par
don me, I mean you could get one. I
know. We bought some."
Deputy Sheriff Ward was served
with his first ginger ale highball there
yesterday morning.
"Some ginger ale say. I could hardly
walk," he reported to District Attorney
Evans.
'Listen, if that isn't the real thing
I'll drink it all," offered Deputy Sheriff
Beckman as he sniffed at the neck of
a two-quart bottle found behind the
bar in the raid last night. There was
about a pint of fluid left that sroelled,
according to expert testimony on hand,
for all the world like Al gin.
Patrons Don't Loiter.
When the officers broke in yesterday
afternoon the brisk late trade hsd
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