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l I i T 1 VOL. I.V. NO. 1 7.TJ.'I. IHIKTI-AIJ. UKiiAiUA. hiuiuai, . , CITY PROSTRATE Silver Thaw Mast Para lyzing on Record. RAILROADS EAST TIED UP Communication by Wire Cut Off Completely From Every Direction. Is HELIEF IS NOT IN SIGHT Forecast Issued lor Today Ii fcr Continued Cold and Strong Winds. rmvirtk rrrrrt 1 -J r: n:r wt ' te h..:.4tty cut eff ttm .t(. wrM t-t tll'P" at t a C O. 't T ii tea rl d. i efhr direction. .d:r f Itrtrlr t-rtt" rie :. "t l'""'i mm fhr n''t-' ..ir4 ny Irnk.a el a4 wire. jitfti--t ep-r only II" rt ' in'"-:.. -"rnpav ! ... .irafi- t ! rtca on if i' . -fi j ." "f ephon., i ii. sra'trmt s.cfior. pf city are 4'' ' w n. ro-ri" '"' bri.la. h- r-.!. raear rfft .rr it ei- l:rol.r .. .rnt !.!. Itha- : i n 1 1 f aormil condition. tm fren " !'. D"!-- and. a" frrt n- ' u fif ir t.ou.wnd. of dollars. I tni:nil w'nd. and d. but pree r''"" f r-'t for fortUnd i cafBtyrd 11 niirht ii th fHp cf th worst torm in iU fr.enlol hi-tory. Vet worJ "torm" rl.i rot X rr4 the fitujtiot .!.iiiattfly. WinJ. rain. !et. jnow. wt nI n.i in fact. !! the furi of which; the midwinter t-mcr.t. re carbl' ' f e crmhtrxe.l ni'' rl-'ytCrff th ny rd te people r ut'.crty hclp!e wbi!c the strange phrnom- Hither Wind rreejieled. The wearher hureaa prrrfH-t a ton l.nut.nn cf roM nl etrr!y winU wth in.-rea.e'f t.-ttjr Junrff the; ret ti to l h"ur. t S.tri? rt -)f cf rvhrf cn I UVrn. J l'tu-i ffra t ft that th krora c'.re n nun; that th prrv-tpitn- ton may c-ae. Kit th.. c.-timUSn. ' !' r-r4-i'e, .rr:'W.at y the knowti-fj r' a fKirs thermometer. wh-h ti-ra".en. t rortint an iey hold on t)-e nfy. Tri-ifwratore l'tU Steadily. T"r terrer-aturc tiroppe.l teU!y I a" daj yw'.eriLy Is w. 3.1 ere rfe- re' aSove . free rirsr arty in .h ' ! o'v'pw's, Ut mrht ' rrvrn:- hut ry l i 1 re h-d 1e r r'i't A ii-h I f lowed the ' T t'"iT r.-m. fnrt.runl throvisTh I th e-! n-ior-u-.. but hj tiorvrv Kd t irr-d t ! 3r;n. laUrr in the' . f rij, it cam .iwn tr tr. its o. t SOW. l..rri-c l-rrrf"-ure urf.-r of tk n"w -! fro: th ' had r-5-.tred th r:y fjr mor than a we. V. r rr'j U.t n4ht a thVk f rrut. rr- er '.y stmrf to bat tho j w, -h-. of a rr-.. hjd ferme-d over! ."""f i-ovrr-.nx ' civ town. W trw Ikw on All hide. Sr.fee-'.-gr a- ' tA;:jy trg'fur i j r,ere..-.r.i:d. Ftrt.An.1 t eniifeiy hit rff from rait rimraun eratiori r Ml. !..rn tho tatah were forved t (prT.f ervK U.t r.:ik.t. Te,-hon ard tr.-rph wuet aro i!ow,n in i'l d rert.or. H-Jt tf.t r tat worki-f pe-two! Portland aid I'nifiif'i Lt rti-ht. 'h'. f .y ir-.rrmit!r'.Iy. That Wa. ucJ b the As.nje-u'ed lT to tranvmit ' r tci .rvt.-o to Tho Crtfor.Ux IV.eCriv I " telethon wtre 1 n :. cart efho ci:y ro bruVrn ; ,e,!e th- w-.rht ef an n-y revernf I B STOWS GRIP . " . . - . f1 ratrtT1lor X IM'DIHT YV ' lOlft : ' . i i i DELIVERY OF MILK TO HOMES HALTED I loi;l. AMI Mf.N Ill tiTl-l ii Y mui:m ii itiinrs. sulm to lio Lrfl ! Morr All Alons t'rlln- In fltj Sourt-o of Millns If ( ut Off. Tour milkman i l nl la lh u. ul toit: e ml!k lhl mornlns or any mornine frtn nr oo ur.til the term quilik Iirrmi-n of Ihe -it r Kot 1 " cibrr rr.ljr nl t.-i.lcl urnons lh'CTtrlrr. to attrmrt to nAk morn rlait l.Ilvrlc W rrrjnt. Th milk will h pent by ilnm'.bll' to tir- tln: cur Hn throuehmit th rllT. Th r'iM nHrr eiv" ru t "f t hnrr mri mm f lh Uirtc h-m rntir'r -ihutJ. mny r.orr twin hurt. th Inability tf th" rrrtmrrir) to el mi k from the hip-r-r out of the rily n. bcu- of the dancer of tracrinc . urllsh I'd trta at mht with the tanl of I'jr wlrrn ant the faliinc tr- The Willamette t'atry. the lnJ-pn-.n. the ll-.mr. th ". the Ivftland Ture tilk h ('team aa. the IIimk uj. te larger p ante. a-J'rt"l the p'" at en-e. rrattica.ly a t "f h email. r l.al.ra frit Into line durln the day. Notl.-t man the t lty Milk Hu ravi at the City H" d offu ta: tht tr a.k.'J the puMK t -orate In the r mere en. y r'n ECLIPSE ON THIS MORNING 1-ortUn.l. llopcr. Nm Apt to rct l.tliMi4 f IVnumcnon. Th pot nptiml.tic awJr "IWhlnd the ilouli the eon I till hlnln. ' ft - the lie Ihl mornlnc he ifi T 11 aod .. That l. f- l'l P'"'d fa! to a crtaia riirtt. tor th.re I a partial -lipj. o? the tui due hr. at lhat time. Th. almn- that the ecttp i;i fy -i.ibt. la Torti.nd. but. In r of condition irrday. It look m If It lil P "P ' t athr man. FLOODS DEVASTATE JAVA llen.lrrtl ml Twrnly Tli"i4inl !. lloiiM-a Wmlnl.- I f.la.V. 'rl :.-t"ahe a PKhf from luijtu rprt that flood are or.tinuin in Vntral Jaa. Thua tr ti.') pat:e ku have ten wrrrked. minr ratlin drond and ,maay mt!. of railway dr.ito.ed. The proprrty damese naa o jti 0 eatunatrd. MAN BURIED DEEP IN SNOW Krnurtli Imiwton. f VnoM loc. riuns- rr Vrrr-iplrr". WAIJ WAIO-V. Wa.h. K'b. S Kennrth I'ameron. nwhoelOB near Milton t-taj. went too near the edce r a Precipi. . and elippme. fe l oer and l hurled nm" ' sn"W waK h la about fret In il'I-lh. lleM'ue parttea are wwrklnB In an rf- fort to fin-l him e-4' - - yj'F" '" I Kt Side Factory Building. -tr i .. - r rrv- rc e. i Utti . ,. Xn , i -t? U ' ' U V- t I . .. k.. v. V ' ' i v : L A ;: - -v-'S 'i ; ' '' :v.v;.r..-'.ie4!u ! i-; " v v ' '.Z v 'hA .., -'. -- ' I Vi I e U- V ' f - : i- 7K2TZXX?j jMmSS - stasssaaaslsaaas. I I I STORM PARALYZES O.-W. W.k N. Company Suspends Schedules NORTH BANK EAST TIED UP Trains Overdue at Terminus Not Heard From. ROADS NORTH CRIPPLED vrvcral rn-iisr Trnlna Are lloltl In Varlona Orrcnn Town, Witb o IIok of Motliig I'ntll Mioy m-w South Line 0cru Hailroad erv. e eaat. went and north now la tiemnrallxed aa a renult of the etorm. lommunl'-ation eal of Portland al ready waa rut off Turnday. and aerrlre both north and eouth a well aa went of the city became Impaired ye.terday. The (turn la the wont In the hle tory of the O -W. R. A N. company. No atrniita wrre made la.t nlaht to move train.. M. J. Itu. kley, erneral auperln tendent of the road, la In personal rharse of the altuatlon In tke Columbia l:ier trorae. where the difficulty la the oiil. Iat nlcht he telecraphed head quarter In Tortland that under the rlr rum.tancea II would be danaeroua to mote train een were It polble. , Vnlee f-mmt peaard. A a reu:t all ervlre on the O.-W. IC N. main line ea.t from t'ortland wa u. ended. Westbound train were held at varl- out ta(4n eat of the blockades, where the r"enera were carod for In bote:. ome of the wentbound tralna were turned around and atartrM east ward lo take the plarca of eaatbound train that should have been started eut of Portland. The North lUnk road rati of Tort land wa completely tied up last night. The craviiy of Mr altuatlon there la In tensified by the failure of the telecraph aervlre. The wlrea went down Tue day ntlht. Tralaa ! Ileaew l ra. Train that ahould have reached either Portland or Spokane Tuesday nicht or yesterday mornlnir have not been heard from. North Hank official! In Portland were hopeful, however, that the train crew were holdtnc the tralna at station where the paseenjrrra and crew eoul.l find food and lodging-. The North llank line between Tort land and Astoria also wa put out of commission yesterday. The Vlnrm on the lover Columbia if the worat that that section ha eperienced lnyeara. iw luo.d on t'.g. &. t'oiutnn ft.) RAILROAD SERVICE INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS V ar. farls reporter find Colonel lloure a regular spbliix. face 1. cluMwrnnru of Belxlan p"!lie cause of fine Imposed on Hrussri. rs 0. Trtsontra on board Appara released. Paa 1. Allies- plan I to outlast enemy. I"ae 7. Lack of munition enormously costly to Ituasia. rasa a. Koreica. ' Norway mada richer by war. Tase National. Senate committee trlke apology from lolomblaa treaty. I'e -V 'lce-President rim decldlnr ote. and riilli;plna bill paws. re 3. Wli.on America mult Insist on lis ncht to trade. Page - Mllltla keeps up fiaht In Congre.s. r :. Patents Issued for J", l I'.CJ acres under "inno- cnt purchasers" act. 1'ago It. Hpect. Jess Wlllard mslrhcl fi.r in-round boutwltil Jack liillon In New York. Pago 13. I ni l. Hams to defend leadership tomorrow. Page 10. Fielder Jnn forrd contracts of Sotho- rvn and Yaushn. Page 13. Pacine Neethaest. Astoria naval base campaign is explained. Paga 0. Intrrest In Mg military training camp I bei.ig arousvd. paga i- , Two churches In Seattle collapse. Page tarn mere ial sutd Marine. Grain-bag buiera hold off. aaalllng further developments. Pag. IT. Wheat lower at Chicago on bearish Liver pool cables. !4ge IT. Vpsard movement in Wall-strvel stock continues. l'age 17. River shipping Is almost lied up b aUorm. Pigo 1 penlaod an Vicinity, it. r .1 rffort tna'lA lo maintain car and llehl service Paga 1". Hallroad erlc demoralised, rage 1. tstorm keeps Courthoo folk worried, too. Page 11. Two thousand men work to clear street. I'll 1 , Dellvrrv of milk to home 1 halted oy :orm. Pag 1. Ili.liup Sumner wde to keep appolntment. TelerVr wrv Ic . Is practically demoralised and it' phone, ar. out. Page 1- Dusineu elos early and employes sent to l.oiris as gue.is of employers. I aga It. r.ni.ml nroatratrd br atnrro. I age 1. frr at lloanevilks hatchery Is Pag Moisted. STORM CAUSESONE DEATH llrrlH-rt II. HdKalinuMcd ly Kat-"lle- With KlPmcnl. One death due to exhaustion brought on by fighting- last niKht a lorm was reported to the authorltiea when Her bert H. Wild, bnycr for Wadhama & Co.. 1Z Seventy-third street South east, dropped dead at Anahel alatlon. Ile was flzhtlna- hi way againut the 'gtorm to hla home. B omlnn exhausted. Mr. Wild walked Into Kelley's rot-cry store at Anabel station, lie was attended by Ir. Oliver Clarke, but died noon after the physi cian arrived. Coroner Iammaach took charge of the body. 1 POLICE SLEEP IN CELLS Captain Inokccp St Kxnmple for ' Men Who Live Far Out. Policemen who ordinarily try to fill the rlty Jail with prisoners, and who consider conf InerrWnt there opprobrious, last nljtht scrambled for cells In which to sleep. Many of the officers on the first night relief live, far out on the Kat Side, and dreaded a walk home through tho storm when they finished work at midnight. Can'tain Inskeep set the example of sleeping in Jail, and his men were quickto follow his leatV TWO CHURCHES III SEATTLE COLLAPSE SnowTwo Feet Deep.W n..,.nimi.n r'--"' .IS""!6 Downtown ot CATHEDRAL DOME FALLS IN Loss Is $50,000 and Victims May Be Under. Wreckage. STORM HAS NO PRECEDENT .Man Clrarins lioof Killed by Eall ins Stories Iniversity Ath Jelic lielil Stands Collapse. Train Service Is Halted. SKATTLE. Va.h., Feb. 3. The dome of .t. James' Cathedral of the Koman Catholic Church, at Ninth avenue and Cherry street, collapsed late today un der, the great weight of snow which accumulated during- the last 4$ hours. As far as known no one was caught under the dome when it fell, but the mass of snow-covered wreckage which fell Into the nave of the cathedral was so great that the authorities were un able to say definitely soon after the arcldent whether there were any casu alties. The damage to the edifice was estimated at not less than ID0.000. Christian Churek Collapsea. ' The roof of tho West Seattle Chris tian Church, at West Genesee street and Forty-second avenue. Southwest, col lapsed under the weight of snow. A man shoveling- snow from tho roof of a six-story building; In the down town district was killed when he lost his footing and fell to the ground early tonight. The grandstands on Penny Athletic Field at the University of Washington collapsed under the burden of snow today. The loss will be J200 or more. Many skylights were broken and awn ings torn down. ' I-ale this afternoon snow lay two feet deep In the downtown district of Seattle and deeper in the suburbs. Snow has been falling almost unceas ingly for two days and later this even ing It appeared there would be con tinuation of the fall all tonight. The temperature 'Was !8 degrees at 4 this afternoon, or four decrees lower than yesterday at the same hour. A northeast wind drifted the snow and there was no possibility of street car service tonight except on the three cable lines, which kept cars in motion to prevent snow gathering- on the track. Tho other ra.- service was almost abandoned. Business was almost at a standstill I Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) DESTRUCTIVE STORM PRESENTS MANY FANTASTIC FIGURES AS IT MERCILESSLY PARALYZES ACTIVITIES OF CITY. l Have Wrougkt In Suburbs. Orchard. IS. A Tangled Maa- of -" Wire. Heaeln, ley Burden. 3) Broken roles and Wires Leanlns Attains COLONEL HOUSE IS REGULAR SPHINX PAKIS STAH IIEPOItTEKS "I'ALI. DOWN" OS INTEKV1FAVS. Newspapers Describe Discretion ot President Wilson's Envoy as Im penetrable' and Admirable. ' PARIS. Feb. 2. The Paris press comments on tho discretion of Colonel E. M. House, which is described as be ing impenetrable and admirtnle. The ICxcelsior publishes an article on Colonel House and uses as an illus tration for it a composite photograph of the Colonel and the Sphinx. It heads tho article. "A Sphinx in a Sott Hat.' It says that the most experienced in terviewers admit that Mr. Wilson's en voy has baffled them as they had never been baffled before. All of them had to ask him to con firm or deny the phrase attributed to him by the Berliner Tageblatt to the effect that his love for Germany grows greater every time he visits it. The questioners obtained no satisfaction, but admit that in view of their own expe rience they do not believe for a mo ment that' lie committed himself to that extent. EAGLE DYNAMITES BARN Bird KeMs on Itoof After Rancher Tics Explosive to Its Leg1. St'THEELIX, Or.. Feb. 2. (Special.) Ike Gervais. a rancher and hunter of the Wild Horse region, has aban doned a sure method of exterminating' tho American eagle. He has been trou bled by the birds preying on lambs. Catching an eagle in a steeltrap. Mr, Gervais wired half a stick of dyna mite to the bird's foot, lighted the fuse and turned the captive loose. Sticks and profanity failed to dislodge it from the roof of his log- barn, where it alighted. The roof disappeared in a cloud of smoke and feathers. WALLA WALLA LIGHTS OUT i Storm Wrecks Tower Plant Flume, Halting Streetcar Traffic. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Feb. 2. (Special.) Heavy fall of snow con tinued all day today at Walia Walla and vicinity and tonight Walla Walla is in darkness, streetcars are unable to run and business is generally par alysed as a result of the storm's wreck ing the flume of the local power plant. Transportation in the city is further affected by inability of taxieabs to operate through tho snowdrifts. AH trains are far behind schedules. SUGAR BEET SEED COMING Itritain Promises to Permit Early Shipment From Rotterdam. WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. Great Brit ain today promised the United States to permit the prompt transportation from Rotterdam of a large quantity of sugar-beet seed bought in Austria for sugar-beet farms Utah. This is ex pected to make the United States in dependent of the European Biipply. riUCE FIVE CENTS. PRISONERS ABOARD APPAM ARE LANDED Permission Is Given by Washington. STORY OF VOYAGE IS TOLD Bombs Set by Prize Crew to Forestall Uprising. AUSTRALIAN SHIP FIGHTS Fifteen. Men on Hoard Clan McTat. isli Killed Before She Surren ders Appam Has S-2,500,- i 000 in Bullion in Cargo. , OLD POINT COMFORT, Va.. Fo'. 2. On receipt of permission from 'Wash ington today for tho landing of all passengers of the British liner Appain and the crews of the seven other British ships which fell victims to the German sea raider. arrangements were made for Sir E. Merri wether and wife, F. S. James, the purser of the Appam. and the captain of the vessels sunk by the Appam's captor to land here immediately. Prince Hatzfeldt, counsellor of tho German embassy at Washington, said, after his interview with Lieutenant Berg today, that the Appam was cap tured by the Jloewe. He declined to tell the location of the Moewe at. this time. Vesael Lined With Roinhs. How the captured British steamer Appam was lined with bombs which could bo touched off by the German prize crew at any sign of an uprising among her 400 captives was told by persons on the ship to Quarantine Of ficer McCaffery, and he related tli story today. "According- to stories told me. by passengers," said McCaffery. "many homha me nlanted about the shin and all of them can be exploded by t'ne touching of a secret button. I no bombs were placed by the Germans immediately after they took possession of the boat. The Appam's commander. Captain Harrison, and the other Eng lish rfficers. were warned that any attempt to overpower the prize crew would result in the ship being blown up." 1 American Citizen ou Board. A naturalized American citizen, G. A. Tagliaferri, was discovered by Im migration Inspector Morton today aboard the Appam. Morton immedi ately served written notice on Lieu tenant Berg to release him. Berg made no response and Morton reported the case to Washington. Tagliaferri was naturalized in Eu reka County, Nevada. He had been in Eccompe mining gold and was on his u-a v home via England. Ho had not made known to Lieutenant Berg that lie was an American citizen, bot he r,rnHiw.l his second naturalization pa pers when Inspector Morton appeared. Appnm'a Resistance Brief. Thfl Annnm'n resistance to her cap ture was brief, according to the story mid here todav bv Lieutenant uerg. The capture was made 60 miles north of the Madeira Islands. The Moewe, which made the capture, thfn had on board the crews of five other prcvious- caDtured British vessels. All tnese were transferred to the Appam. The Moewe encountered on January IT tho Australian trader Clan .Mac- Tavish, which she sank after a battle in which 15 of the Clan MacTavish s mon were killed. Previously, on Jan uary" 10, she had captured and sunk the n-;t;cii vf mflhin Earnnsford, latei on the same day she captured the Brit ish steamship Corbridge with a cargo of 6000 tons o.f coal. British Transport Sunk. Th. m-itish Admiralty transport Dromonby hove in sight on January 13. She was captuted and sunk. Before the day was over the raider had met and destroyed the British steamship Au thor and the Admiralty transport ToHor On tlie lTith the British steam ship Ariadne crossed the raider's path and was sent to the bottom witn ner argo of 5000 tons of wheat. N-evt dav. January 16. there appeared the biggest prize of all. the Appam. carrying SOOO tons of general mer chandise, and, it is said. J2.500.000 in gold bullion. One- or two shots were fired at the Appam, but there was no real fight. British Flag la Csed. Th. fowe flew the British ensign and exchanged salutes with the An num. When she was close enough lo ro the Annam's bow she ran up the German flag and lowered the false forecastle, disclosing her armament. Tho Annum did not sight a single British or French man-of-war. She is s!.iH to have flown the British flag until she reached the three-mile limit. It is assumed here that the Moewe continued her depredations among the allies' shipping after the Appam separated from her, and officials .....1.4 not ha1 .11 rnrised if other ves sels appear suddenly in some Ameri can port with prize crews in cnarge. GERMANY ' FILES HER CLAIM Contention Made That Appam Is PrUf, lnder Treaty Rule. WASHINGTON". Feb. 2. Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, to day formally notified Secretary Lan- iCunciuucu uu Pdj 11, toluinu l.j . I .'a i