THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. DECE3IBER 23, 1910. 17 N. V 0.-W.HMT0 eniE MONTH'S EXTRA PAY All Employes Who Draw Less Than $4000 Yearly Also to Get Insurance. PLAN STARTS JANUARY 1 Money Is Not Christmas Gift, bat ' Is Additional Payment for Work Daring Exceptional Conditions, It Is Said. Tnsuranee for every employ In the service whose salary does not exceed J4O00 a year, and antra month's -pay for all whose salaries are not over $1800 per annum, are Christmas gifts of the O.-W. R. & N. Co. to their many workers. This double jrlft was decided upon yesterday at a special meeting: of the board of directors of the Union Paciflo system, and embraces alike the Union Pacific proper, the Oregon Short Line and the O.-W. R. & N. Co., with its branches in the Paciflo Northwest. Advices to this effect were received in Portland late yesterday by execu tive heads of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany from Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive committee. Insurance policies covering the various employes will become effective January 1, and policies will be Issued Just as soon as possible. Extra Pay, Not Gift, Is Idea. It Is announced by the Union Paciflo heads that the extra month's pay for employes whose salary does not ex ceed $1800 a year 1s not a Christmas present, but an extra payment for services, made because of the excep tional conditions which, while largely Increasing: the earnings of the com pany, ,have also Increased the cost of living: to the point of hardship upon the lower-paid employes of the com pany. The Insurance to be provided for em ployes will be three-fold life, acci dent and sickness. It is a plan that has been under consideration for some time by the company and will be provided at Its expense, without cost to the em ploye, regardless of age or condition of health, effective so long as the employes benefited shall remain in the employ of the company. It affects all who have been In service one year or more whose salary does not exceed $4000 a year.' Life insurance is provided to the amount of one year's full wages, with a minimum of $500 and a maximum of $2500, the benefits to Include those retired after January 1, next, upon pension. Disability to Be Covered. Accident insurance will cover total disability resulting from Injuries In the performance of the employe's oc cupation, consisting of half pay during disability, with a minimum of $5 a week and a maximum period of two years and for certain permanent in juries resulting from such occupational accidents, such, as loss of a leg or an arm, the half-pay indemnity to con tinue in any event for periods definite ly fixed the maximum Indemnity for any one accident to be $2500. Sickness insurance will cover both illness of at least one week's duration and also injuries resulting from acci dents not occurring in the perform ance of the duties of the employe's oc cupation, consisting of half pay while the employe Is disabled and confined at home, with a minimum of $5 a week and a maximum period of 52 weeks, and with an additional Indemnity of half wages for a further period of 62 weeks If it appears that the employe has be come totally and permanently disabled for life, subject to a maximum dis bursement of $2500 for any one illness or any one accident. Benefits Payable Monthly. All the insurance and benefits will be payable. In monthly Installments to beneficiaries designated by employes. An arrangement to carry all the insur ance will be made with reputable in surance companies, although It is stated that the Union Pacific System may hereafter conclude to issue cer tificates of insurane Itself to em ployes. It is stated the object the directors hope and expect to accomplish is to afford employes the satisfaction of knowing that, so long as they are In the service, some financial provision, although comparatively small in some rases, has been made for them and their families against the misfortune of death, injury and illness. It is in a measure prompted. It Is stated, by good will toward employes and their families, whose welfare is borne constantly in mind and whose co-operation In establishing the suc cess of the company's properties is ap preciated greatly. WEMjS-FARGO to give bonus $1,000,000 Will Be Distributed Among 8 000 Employes. NEW .YORK, Dec. 21. A bonus amounting, to $1,000,000 will be dis tributed by Wells-Fargo & Co., among 8000 employes drawing salaries of $2000 a year or less, the company announced today. The bonus, equal to 8 1-3 per cent, will be paid In quarterly install ments, beginning January 1. Employes who have not been in the company's service for a year will be eligible for participation as soon as 12 months of employment have been com pleted. A bonus of one month's salary to all employes whose salaries do not exceed $1800 a year, without discrimination as to membership in the railroad brother hoods of trainmen, was voted today by the directors of the Union Pacific rail road. The directors also adopted a plan for Insurance for its employes with Bala ries under $4000, and declared an extra dividend of 2 per cent on its common stock. The Texas Oil Company and its sub sldiaries will give a 10 per cent present to all employes whose compensation Is less than $2500 a year, it was an nounced today. The payment will be made on or about January 15, 1917. TRACTION MEN GET BONUS Salem Streetcar Employes to Re ceive 10 Per Cent of Wages. SALEM. Or., Dec. 21. (Special.) Word was received by officials of the Salem Streetcar Company today that its employes here will receive a bonus of 10 per cent of their wages. There are 38 conductors and motor men besides other employes. The com pany is a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific. HIGH LIVING COST ROUTED Two Town Lots Used for Vegetables and Chickens Big Ilelp. COTTAGE GROVE Or., Dec. 21. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Million have given an example of one - way to reduce the high cost of living. They have two city lots, a large part of which is taken up with the home and chicken-house. The remainder they put Into cultivation. They raised all the garden truck for their own use, and have on hand suffi cient potatoes and beans to last until the new crop comes on, four large sacks of corn raised between the po tato rows and some squashes and pumpkins. In the chicken-house tbey raised 80 Black .Minorca pullets, which are now laying an average of 35 eggs a day. In addition to all these they sold $12.20 worth of peas, $20.20 worth of early potatoes, $1.95 worth of green beans, $1.80 worth of corn, 50 cents' wterth of cucumbers and $1S5 worth of onions, making a total of $38.20 In cash re ceipts over and above that used for the family and not Including the sale of eggs. Last year they sold from the same piece of ground $34.50 In garden truck. ALL SCHOOLS JOIN IN made: for membership is educatios association. Nation-Wide Invitation Will Be Given for Sessions of National Body to be Held in Portland In July. Every school In Oregon, Washington and Idaho probably will Join the Na tional Education Association before the next, annual convention of that orga nization in Portland next July. This plan has been proposed by the Portland School Board as a means of displaying the Northwest's Interest in the forthcoming convention, which doubtless will be one of the biggest ever held by the association. By way of setting a good example, the Portland Board yesterday voted a membership of each one of Its 75 schools. William PIggott, a member of the Seattle Board, who was in Portland on Wednesday, promised that every one of the Seattle schools would be given a membership. He also promised co operation through the state of Wash ington to Insure the success of the meeting. Every school In the country Is to re ceive an Invitation to the convention. The commercial departments of Port land schools will do the stenographic work. Each letter sent will then bear the mark of the school in which it was wrjtten and also Mr. Plummer's writ ten signature. Approximately 250,000 Invitations are to go out. The School Board delegated H. H. Herdman. principal of Washington High School, to leave tonight for Cali fornia to investigate the two-term school plan. He will report upon the practicability of the plan for Portland. Irvington was granted a playshed and It was decided that the plans be drawn at once and the work begun as soon as possible. A delegation from Willamette Heights and adjacent communities pe titioned the Board yesterday to pur chase Scotch Nubbin for a school site. A rival delegation from West Over land wanted the school established on a point about 600 feet from Scotch Nubbin. A lively contest is promised if the Board ever decides to build a new schoolhouse In that district. At present, however, the Board has no apparent intention of putting up a new building. Children in the Interest ed district attend the Chapman School. MESSENGERS ARE DINED WESTERN UNION ENTERTAINS BOYS AT BirLTNOHAH. Lads Also See "Twin Beds" at Helllg; and Hear Inspirational Talks on Valne of Education. ' The Western Union was host yester day to its messengers at a Christmas dinner at Multnomah Hotel and at night at a party at the Helllg Theater. The boys marched down the principal streets, led by the band of the Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans and arrived at Multnomah Hotel at 7. Only 12 relief boys were left at the office and every lad who possibly could be spared was at the banquet. W. A. Robb, local manager of the Western Union, was toastmaster and G. A. Curtis, chief delivery clerk, had charge of the boys. O. M. Plummer, chairman of the Board of Education, addressed the boys. "Possibly there is no other class of boys .that comes so closely under the observation of the business men as the messenger boy," he said. 'He comes to every sort of an office and meets hundreds of people. "You are watched. Everywhere you go you are seen and if you are bright and apt many opportunities come your way. I would suggest that when you are able you attend night school. Many of our big men have been messengers at some time." Mr. Plummer cited, as an example of a messenger's thrift, one of the men who now occupies a responsible posi tion with the company, who went to school and worked at night 'for the service. He worked and studied so hard that at times he fell asleep in school. Once his bicycle was stolen, but he' worked still. harder to earn another. Art Van, M. Levenson and L. Kelleker responded to toasts. Eight of the boys had been with the company for more than a year and were honor guests. A brief talk was made by L. E. Beach, director of the band of the Sons of American War Veterans. Telegrams of congratulation from the boys at Seat tle and Spokane were read. The party closed after the boys at tended ' the Helllg . Theater, where "Twin Beds" was played. MRS. ALEXANDER TO TALK . Deposed Principal Is Expected to Testify Before Board Toplglit. It is probable that Mrs. Alevla Alex ander, who has been fighting to retain her position as head of the Benson School for girls, will appear In her own behalf at tonight's continuation of her trial. She was to have been called by her attorney. A. E. Clark, last Monday night, but Hlness prevented her appearance. It is expected that the trial will be concluded after a few more sessions. It has been dragging along for ten weeks. SCHOOL CENSUS LOSES Attendance Increased With More Than 1500 Fewer Children. The latest school census of Portland, taken during the Thanksgiving holi days, shows there are 48.384 boys and girls In this city between the ages of 4 and 20. This Is a decrease Of 1543, as 49,927 were recorded in the census of last year. However, attendance in the city schools shows a gain of approximately 500 over those attending classes last year, despite the reported- drop in the city census. - Ttsim ccnc ic ucdc if 111 ULUU Id IILIiL Play That Gets Laughs Opens at Heilig Theater. MARGUERITE RISSER DAINTY Otber Members of Cast All Well Up in Respective Parts and Show People Out In Front. Goes Well With Enthusiastic TWIN BEDS" Blanche Hawkins .Marruerlte Rlsser Elinor Monti Luis Albernl Harry Hawkins ...J. Morrll Morrison Slgnora Monti. .. .Antoinette Rochete Koran Bess Stafford Amanda Davfs Martha McGaw Andrew Larkin William Weston BT LEONE CABS BAER. A Joy forever is "Twin Beds." And lurking back of the multitudinous gig gles and the snickers and the roar-right-out-loud laughs is an Idea, a big, bright Idea. too. In due time this Idea is voiced by the Brooklyn-bred wife of the philandering tenor. Don't you love that word philandering? Like adversity, it surely has Its uses. Anyway, you remember until 61arnora Monti spoke In protest, twin beds had always been regarded as hyglenio and altogether desirable for those who could afford them. But now, with the advent of the comedy, "Twin Beds," we have lots of evidence on the other side. They're a positive menace to domesti city. The wife -of the philandering tenor speaks with sincere feeling when she declares "There's something about a man sleeping in his own bed that makes him feel too Independent." At any rate, these particular twin beds are mighty useful pieces of furni ture in the second and third acts of Margaret Mayo's farce. They couldn't be dispensed with. Margaret Mayo, you know, is an adept at devising farcical situations for the discomfiture of quite human characters. She has made a great many of them in her dramati zation of the novel by Salisbury Field. All our fine old friends, the flirtatious tenor, and his domineering wife, the pretty, pleasure-seeking butterfly and her home-loving husband, the young woman Jealous of her fiance, and even the Irish servant, on whom Jerome K. Jerome wrote an entire chapter once, are placed in the same apartment house. The play opens with the aforemen tioned home-loving husband in a fine tantrum because his gregarious wife has filled their apartment with tango Ists. He might put up with the "others," but- he makes It clear to his butterflyish bride that she must get rid of the mushy opera singer, Signor Monti. For all her guileless childish ness wlfle Is an average wife, and turns her husband's arguments Into a boom erang, or uses the wifely prerogative, a whine splashed with tears. The home-loving husband is too thoroughly home-loving to control the situation, but with Slgnora Monti things are dif ferent. She is the personification of forceful vulgarity. Having caught the warbling tenor in a Brooklyn cabaret and trained him Into a $2000 a night Job she has no intentions of losing him. So she and the h.-l. husband get together and plan to work In unison to save their respective leaky domestic barks. And there's the other couple to reek on with, a Jealous young thing, who fancies that her beau Is being fasci nated by the fluffy wife. The Jealous one and her beau wed. and each pair, thinking it best to move, takes ad vantage of the alluring offer of a landlord about to open a new apart ment house. Slgnora Monti adopts the name of Jones to hide the identity of her husband, and, for a while, all is serene. And In the apartment of the h.-L husband and his fluffy wife we see the twin beds. Prom the be ginning of this act farcical develop ments are as rapid as they are effective, each point being carefully prepared for by some preceding bit of dialogue or "business." For the first time since they've moved the h.-l. husband goes to a SOME ARE GRAVE AND SOME . ARE GAY THIS YULETIDE Addison Bennett Tells About the Pains and Pleasures, Joys and Sorrows Christmas Brings in Its Wake to Some Folks. BL ADDISON BENNETT. The Mortgage Game. (6 W" HAT Is the matter, Dave; you look worried this morning?" "Worried? Well. I should think I have cause to be worried. About six months ago my wife induced me to place a mortgage on our home to get money to buy an automobile; three months later she nagged me until I mortgaged the auto to buy a victrola; three weeks ago she started her co ercive, machinery to force me to mort gage the victrola for money to buy Christmas presents and I'm darned If 1 11 do It." The two met the following morning, but Dave still had a worried look. His friend told him so, and then asked if he had been talked Into that third mortgage. "No, replied Dave, "not exactly we compromised." "What was tho result of the com promise?" ."The victrola Is In hock for $30." The Real Christmas Spirit. Mary's father told her 'way along last Spring that If his business pros pered he would buy her a fine gold watch Christmas; over a month ago he cautioned her that she must not lean too much on the promise, for money was coming in very slowly. So she was not greatly surprised when he handed her a 10 gold piece. and told her he was very sorry it was all he could afford this year. She thanked him with a profusion of smiles and kisses, and told him she was more than satisfied, and knew he would have given her the watch if he could afford It. Here is how Mary expended the money: Two neckties, one each for her father and brother. $2; three pairs of kid gloves, one each for herself, her mother and her Bister, $4.50: $1 to her Sunday School class toward a dinner to poor children; $1 to a poor family that she knew would have a very slim Christmas if they were not helped, and 25 cents went to each the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America, The other dollar will go for carfare, and perhaps a little candy. When she returned home last night with her purchases she was one of the happiest girls in this ntire city, and for her Christmas will be a day of Joy and gladness it will last her the whole year through. And think of her par ents! How proud they should be. and i assuredly are, of a daughter whose club, wlfle goes to bed and presently Signor Monti, much the worse for wine, staggers into the apartment, mistaking it for his own on the floor above. The fun hinges 'on the wife's efforts to get Monti out of the room undetected. There are a detective, and a wooden headed maid, and a burglar, and com plications pile up rapidly to an ever increasing roar of Joy. A fascinating young acress. Margue rite Rlsser, Is the gurgling little wife. Miss Rlsser Is dainty and dolly and has a fund of fun In her methods, adorably feminine wiles and is a picture to feast one's eyes on. Luis Albernl Is a de light and a rare comedian as the gay boy, Monti, and as Slgnora Monti. An toinette Rochte 4s amazingly like Ray Cox in her brilliant portrayal. J. Mor rill Morrison returns In the role of the h.-L husband. Bess Stafford Is a Joy as the maid, and Martha McOraw as the Jealous bride with William Weston as her nlcey boy groom delight If you haven't seen "Twin Beds," do so. There will be a performance tonight and a matinee tomorrow afternoon. PEST MAY YIELD INCOME MARKET FOR MOLESKI FELTS IS SOUGHT AMONG IMPORTERS. Plans for Extermination Also of Go phers In This State Are Advanced at Conference. . OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Deo. 21. (Special.) The com mon largo mols of Western Oregon, which has attained considerable pub licity because of Its destructiveness to lawns, gardens and fields, may prove a source of considerable Income to Ore gon trappers, according to Theodore H. Scheffer. of the United States biolo gical survey, who was in Corvallis in conference with Director R. D. Hetzel, of the extension service, and Professor Sykes, of the department of biology, to perfect plans for co-operative work in this state for the extermination of moles and gophers. Moleskin furs have been very popu lar with the women for some years. These skins always have been imported from European oountrles, particularly England and Scotland. New York im porters have been buying millions of these skins every season and manufac turing them Into fura Recent investigations have shown that the Western Oregon mole is larger and has a better fur than the moles of Europe and now there Is a strong de mand for American mole skins at reg ular prices. MISTLETOE SHOOS GIRLS Capitol Decoration Causes Stenog raphers to Scream and Flee. 6ALEM. Or.. Dec. 21. (Special.) One hundred or more women stenog raphers at the State Capitol this morn ing walked into the hall, glanced upr wards, looked around with little shrieks as they passed over the mosaic great seal of the state in the lower floor, and quickly rushed to their of fices. All day thereafter no fair stenographer passed over the great seal. Hanging directly over It Is a large holly wreath and over that a gigantic bunch of mistletoe, hung there by George Dunsford, superintendent of the building. The holly wreath and the mistletoe are presents of Superintend ent Steiner, of the Oregon State Hos pital. OLD BANK CASE IS DECIDED Vancouver Failure Recalled by Re cent Court Action. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 21. (Spe cial.) A case growing out of the fail ure of the Commercial Bank of Van couver, which failed for nearly $400,000 December 19. 1910, in which M. B. Kies. receiver, brought suit against John W. Wilkinson, then County Clerk, to col lect $3574, has been decided by Judge Darch, of the Superior Court of Cow litz and Skamania counties, after hav ing it under advisement for more than a year. The decision was that J. L. Mohun dro, state. bank examiner at that time, but since deceased, acted legally when he paid Mr. Wilkinson the money. In preference, to other creditors. The mony belonged to litigants In court at the time. thought are centered upon others rather than herself. Money Thrown Away and Worse. Only a few blocks from Mary's home lives a girl of about Mary's age. Her father is not financially able to spend even as much as Mary's father. But Evelyn, the daughter, by coaxing and wheedling, now with tears, now with smiles, finally managed to work upon her father's feelings until he borrowed J50. and gave it to her. With the ex ception of a cheap pair of gloves for her mother, and a four-bit necktie for her father, she spent every cent of the balance for "gifts" for herself, and the most of them for articles she did not need. She went home from her shop ping, pouting and frowning. She was unhappier still when she went over her purchases the following morning will be unhappy the year through. She lives simply for herself, and it ought to be known in this day and genera tion that self-centered people people who go throirgh life caring nothing for the comfort or happiness of others, fail to find either comfort or happi ness for themselves. e No More Assistance From HLm. Bundles, bundles: packages, pack ages, parcels, parcels bundles, pack ages and parcels on every hand! One elderly woman in front of one of the department stores seemed to have three or four too many, and she was constantly dropping one or two as she picked up about the same number. A man, seeing her dilemma, said to her. as he grabbed a parcel: "You seem to have more packages than you can handle; can't I assist you?" "You can by attending to your own business. That parcel you Just Jammed into me arms had a dozen eggs in It, and you have smashed 'em, every one get away out of here, or I'll have you ar rested!" . Hopes. AYIshea and Realities. Mame Maggie, what are you expect ing your fyansay to give you Christ mas? Maggie Well. I'm expecting a dia mond sunburst, a half-dozen pairs of silk stockings, a half-dozen pairs of gloves, a five-pound box of chocolates, an order for a pair of shoes, a gold bracelet, a Mame No. no; I don't mean what you want or what you need I ' mean what do you think he will give you? Maggie That's different. I rather think he'll come through with the regu lation box of chocolates, a pair of dol lar gloves and to trip to the movies. RUSH NEAR1NG END Only Two More Days Remain for Christmas Shopping. BUSINESS NEVER BIGGER Stores Crowded With Whirling Ed dies of Humanity Holiday Bny- log Is on Record Scale and Portlanders Take Best Goods. Two more days and Christmas shop ping for 191 will be all over. Today and tomorrow mark the grand finale of the rush and then It Is merely a question of distributing the numerous purchases where they will do the most good. It's a man- size Job to stem the tide of shoppers In any of the downtown stores at this period of the year and win one's way to the particular coun ter displaying the goods desired. Rush and counter-rush in the shops threaten to engulf the shopper and carry him or her away from the desired point of attack. "Biggest Christmas business ever," is the verdict alike of the big and lit tle stores of Portland. Never before has holiday buying been so generous, so general and so altogether directed at the better class of merchandise as sembled for gift choosing. Store Profits Never Larger. Discrimination has been shown by the Christmas shopper to a rarer de gree than ever before and merchants are more than content because of their big receipts for the December period. Compared? with former years, store earnings loom larger than ever. Big and little stores alike have been busy as beehives every minute of the time during the past week or two. The real flood of buyers did not arrive, however, until this week, but they more than made up for their belated appearance by the energy with which they worked. Early morning, late afternoon and In the evening the shoppers shopped. 1'hey were on the Job every minute and they bought liberally. Everything from a china doll to an automobile, diamond rings to neckties, and from watches to mechanical toys have been included in the Christmas list. It has been a time destroying and nerve-racking experi ence, but now, nearly at the end of the struggle, the unanimous verdict is that it has been worth while. Delivery facilities of the different stores have been taxed to the limit, and extra men and equipment have been demanded to handle the immense traffic of the holiday period. One store alone hired more than 600 extra sales people, delivery men and helpers, and has a fleet of 43 delivery trucks scurry ing about to all parts of the city. Hard Work Is Lot of Many. This Indicated to some extent the ex tra demands made upon the stores by the Christmas givers, and the store people are. of course, the hardest worked of all during the gift-buying period, with the possible exception of postoffice and express employes, who are working as they never worked be fore. One huge sigh of relief will go up from thousands of salespeople, delivery men. letter carriers, express office and delivery men. and any number of oth ers caught in the maelstrom of the Christmas rush when tho holiday really comes, and there only remains the pleasant duty of opening the packages, either on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, as the recipient elects. It is bound to be a merry Christmas for the store people, for the rush will be over, and they, too, will be remem bered with presents. It will be a not able holiday for all others, too. because the great extent and variety of pres ents bought these last few days gives assurance that all will share in the year's big holiday. The generous buying of the present season assures a more general partici pation In the Joys of Christmas, prob ably, than ever before in the history of the city. $2,500,000 FOR MINING SPOKANE AND SEATTLE ME.V BUY ALASKAN PROPERTIES. TJosevig Claims Near Morgan'Gaggen. helm Holdings Purchased New Yorkers Send 4 OO.OOO. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 21. (Special.) Organization of the Josevlg-Kenne-cott Copper Company, $2,500,000 corpo ration, which has purchased mining properties in Southwestern Alaska, a short distance from the Big Bonanza and Jumbo mines at the terminus ot the Copper River & Northwestern Rail road, controlled by the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate, which is shipping copper ore valued at more than 12.000. 000 a month to the Tacoma smelter, has been completed by prominent busi ness men of Seattle and Spokane, and development work is to begin Immedi ately. Officers today said $400,000 in cash subscribed for stock in New York with in two weeks is on its way to Seattle. The mining property was located 13 years ago by two Swedish prospeotors. Christian TJosevlg and Nelson TJose vlg, brothers, who obtained control of 22 mining claims In the rich Kennecott mining district. The two brothers worked the claims for 12 years. Several attempts to purchase the property had been unsuccessful until last February. Approximately 400 acres of mining property, the 22 claims, were purchased in July and. $175,000 paid for the property. CHAMBER TO AID AS GUEST Co-operation Offered in Entertain ing X. E. A. Delegates. Plans for full co-operation with the School Board and all other agencies to entertain the coming convention os the National Education Association here next July were indorsed by the Cham ber of Commerce yesterday. The civic and convention bureaus of the Cham ber were entrusted with the work of handling details of the convention The two bureaus will outline and carry forward the publicity work pre liminary to the convention. Satisfac tion was expressed that the new audi torium will have been completed next May. Blaze Damages Printing Plant. Spontaneous combustion caused sev eral hundred dollars' loss by fire in the printing establishment of the Mer cantile Printing Company, Front and Stark streets, last night shortly after 8 o'clock. As nearly as could be ascer tained, only papers stored in the print ing office were destroyed. The damage to the building, owned by Fred S. Williams, who has an office in the building, was slight. Allow Us to Suggest an Electrical Xmas For years you have been giving the regular line of knick knacks for Xmas. This' year we suggest that you make a change and give something electrical something that will be appreciated. - FLASHLIGHT Hrlx22f FlhHffh is something that you can give to r-any member of the family and feel assured that j . your money is well handy in any dark place just press the button and Instantly its genuine Mazda lamp and guar anteed battery give forth a flood of light. Come in and examine our assortment of Flashlights, at prices that are sure to please. Cases complete, 75c Up . Batteries 25c Up m :E1 Glostovo: Is a large seven-inch, glowing ready for use. Can also be used as a toaster Stove complete, with cord and plug :E1 Chafo: This is by long convenient gifts mend. With an electric Chafing Dish you have no lamp to fill no fire no matches just screw in the plug and your Chafing Dish is in full operation .' $10.50 Up We guerremtee delivery on all goods purchased up till Sat urday noon. All heating appliances guaranteed for 1 year ELECTRIC CO Sixth at Pine Both ALLEN PARDON LOST Defaulting Idaho Treasurer and Deputy to Serve Time. WIFE MURDERER FREED Stat Hoard Releases Burglar and Thieves and Heduces Sentence of Embezzler AVonian Amon; Those Who ;et Freedom. BOISE. Idaho, Dec. 21. (Special.) The applications for pardon of O. V. Allen, defaulting State Treasurer who confessed to the embezzlement of $71, 000 state funds, and Fred M. Coleman, ex-Deputy State Treasurer, who con fessed to the embezzlement of 22,000. were denied by the State Board of Far dons. The board voted unanimously against the pardon of Allen. Attor-pey-General Peterson was the only member of the board who voted for the Coleman application, the Governor and Secretary of State voting against it. Among the four prisoners pardoned Is John Dillon, better known as Jack Dillon, who killed his wife six years ago at Wallace, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life impris onment. He has served six years and Is said to have been a model pris oner. The other three convicts pardoned and their crimes follow: Lee Parvy, sentenced from Power County for grand larceny: Ross Benson, sentenced from Power County for grand larceny, and Mam! M. Ross, sentenced from Al bion for burglary. The board acted on other cases up to a late hour today, as follows: A. M. Cornell, sentenced from Bannock County for embezzlement, sentence reduced to one year; Harold Smith, sentenced from Bannock County for grand larceny, sentence reduced to two years. Ole Swanson Puts One Over on Portland Bank. Railroad Worker Canhri Pay Check Twice. Withdraws HIa S3oO De posit and Departs. 1AX you be identified?" a teller J in a Portland 'bank asked Ole Swanson, railroad worker, when he ap peared before the general account window on December 15 last, with a paycheck for 162.50. "Sure, Ay got a savings account here," replied Ole, to prove which he walked over to the-savings department. "Ay got monnay here," he said to the teller there. His assertion was true, and Ole presented his check. It was cashed promptly. Ole then declared he wished to withdraw the $300 he had on deposit, as he -was leaving the city. He was accommodated. Not long after he -had left the bank the teller in the savings department discovered that the $62.50 check was missing. .Investigation disclosed that Ole had taken the check when the teller's back was turned and had gone to the first window he had visited and cashed it there a second time before leaving. Deputy District Attorney Pierce re ceived word yesterday of the arrest of Ole in Prattle bv operatives of the TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. PKULUTO.N'. Died, at her residence. 647 Third street. December 21. Mrs. Lizzie Akin Pelleton. aged 65. Body taken to Holman's Undertaking Parlors. Funeral arrangements later. LOST Thursday evenins. small silk card case, containing; money and calling cards; suitable reward. Main 60-. ROOM and board. 3.12 lOtli. Main 6979. A 2863. Modern conveniences. WANTED Lady cashier lnreaturaa, 313 Burasiae. spent. They come In mighty- coil stove. Just odds one of the best and most for your mother, sister or lady Phone We Deliver Burns detective agency. He is very contrite, says the report, and protests that he was drunk at the time as cashed the same check twice. Repara tion is offered, and there may be ne prosecution. MRS. CON NELL IS DEAD Pneumonia Fatal to Woman Ixng Resident of Portland. Mrs. Caroline Connell. wife of Dr. E. DeWitt Connell. died at her residence. 628 Salmon street, last night from pneumonia. She was 36 years-old. Mrs. Connell was born in Mason City. Ia.. and at the age of 11 years came to Portland with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Long. She was a graduate of the old Lincoln High School. At the age of 21 years she married Dr. Connell. Besides her husband, she is survived by two adopted children, her father and two brothers. Funeral arrangs auents have not been completed. Freight Hearings at Portland Set. OREGOMIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Dec. 21. Interstate Commerce hearings will be held at Portland Jan uary 23 by Examiner Brown, on com plaints of the Portland Traffic and Transportation Bureau vs. the Boston & Maine; Empress Coal Company vs. O.-W. R. & N.. and L. B. Purdue vs. Baltimore & Ohio and other roads, and on January 24 there will be hear ings on the complaints of the Astoria Box Company vs. North Bank Road and Pacific Fruit & Produce Company vs. Southern Pacific Railroad. AMUSEMENTS. t I TICKETS I "1 NOW fct-LLlNG HEILIC Jiroudwav at Taylor Muia 1 un-l A 1U3 Tonight 8:15 St SPECIAL, PRICK MAT. TOMORROW 2:ir NO PERFORMANCE SAT. NKiHT. HKII.I.T ANT COMEDY SITCESS. "TWIN BEDS Splendid Cat and Production. Tonight, tl.M, $1, T3r. iur. Eat. Mat.. $1. 7Jc, iOc, 35c. 2Sc. THEATER Hrosdnsr Morrison Only TCxcluslve Home of Spoken Drama. THE POPfLAR ALCAZAR PLAYERS. ioniKht All Week Mat. Saturday. George BrOMflhurbt's Gripping Drama, THE PRICE A played byHelon Ware. Beautiful production, splendidly acted. Kvenlnps IN'm;, 5K Tor ; Mats.. 'JZc, 60c. Wed. Mat., all scats "J.'c only. Christ mas Week. Martin bun. Mat. Trail of the Lonraom- l'lne." mm Next Week. . I Pat Roonej The Aaje J ot Reason. Marlon Brsl. rtlatore pevue: Mayo Partes & Conway: sung & April; Orpheum weekly; Concert Or- pANTAGES MATINEE DAILY 2:30 I.ONUOV RINGING BKU. KINGCKS A Kemark&tne Musical Fcaturo. THE BKTTI'G BETTYS," a tig mufcivi cuuii, and 4 oilier big cta JJoxes and luxeii reserved by phona. Curiam i.:3u. 7 u.d 1. 1 The nil. til.T5i and Tally F 'PhN Travel V tf-. Zh. cnestra. V','Jj STAN STANLEY. I Trm los.a