10 THE 3IOIlTICr OREGOXIAN7 SATUKDAT, DECEMBER 13, 1010. THIS IS NOT THE YUKON IT IS ONLY THE WILLAMETTE FULL OF FLOATING ICE. A RECORD OF 40 YEARS Four Degrees Above Zero Benumbs Portland. : X-zH Vwesi.--..:... it COLD WHIP SIPS iesied " YOUNG ENJOY SKATING Weather Man. Laugh at "End of World" Alarm and Predicts "Continued Fair and Cold." SOME FROSTY TEMPERA TURES OP" THE PAST AS COMPARED WITH YES-. TERDAV'S RECORD. The Portland station of the United States weather bureau wai established in 1871. Since that time the records show that but three other days have vied in frigidity with the minimum mark set yesterday morning. Comparative official records are as follows: January 14, 1875 Three de grees above sero. December 23. 1879 Three de grees above zero. January 15. 2888 Two de grees below zero, the coldest ever officially recorded in Portland. Yesterday, December 13. Four degrees above zero. (Con tinned From Flrat Fare.) jther stDrm whirls down from the .erth. Clackamas River Freezes. Unofficial thermometers showed a 'ar lower temperature reading yester- tlay than did those of the weather mreau. Several down-town instru nents, considered to be of standard .nd reliable make, attained a mini mum of zero, while outlying districts f the city reported similar cold. At Boring, 20 miles out on the Es acada electric line, the unofficial eading yesterday morning was 16 degrees below, with 14 degrees below it ISagle creek, on the Clackamas, and 1 degrees below at Estacada. At !stacada the swift current of the 'lackamas river was ice-fettered for he first time n memory. Ice Sheathes Willamette. For the first time since 1888 the Villamette river was sheathed In ice. ver the breast of the great Colum- ia at certain points the ice lay un roken from snore to shore. All river raffic was practically suspended. vith the certainty that today will find onditlons even worse, when the chill light temperature shall have sealed he floes and cakes of the previous iay. Though there were patches of ilue water on the current of the Wil amette, lco covered the greater por- ion of the river. With drifts two or hree feet thick, only a brief continu ance of cold weather is needed to seal he river solid. "There Is no warm weather any- Ivhere in this part of the country just ow," said Weatherman Wells, "and ve cannot look for anything like im- nedlate relief. Portland and Oregon re hedged about with zero temper tures, and there is nothing in evi enee to show that the existing cold nap is about to terminate." Homes Nearly Out of Fuel. Fuel and milk are Portland's great st problems in the weather crisis nd the former is the only formidable ne. Though the main lines of traf- ic, the arterial streets that stretch hrough the ctty. are open to the eavy distributing trucks, the resi ence streets are yet banked high ith snow and are for the most part in passable by motor vehicles. Homes hat were caught without an ade- mate supply of fuel are cheerless laces, with actual suffering not far iwny. Dealers In coal and wood say that leliverles have been partially re- tored along the main routes, but hat no general attempt can yet be nade to turn aside and serve directly he isolated residential districts. Where hardship Is to the fore the lealers are making exceptions and ire braving the drifts with light iorse-drawn vehicles, carrying small upplles of fuel to the homes that are ireless. It is believed that no real uttering has as yet resulted and fuel tealers assert that they can continue o control the situation until traffic onditions improve, unless another torm should arise. Wood Supply Plentiful. Though there is a shortage of coal. tintedating the storm, many dealers hre still in possession of limited sup- ties. The wood supply is said to be lentifuL ' As soon as deliveries can e restored any existing fuel short i in the homes can be obliterated, nd In the meantime determined ef orts will continue to guarantee that :o fire dies out. When the front grip suspended navi gation on the rivers the milk supply ecflved its hardest blow, for a large ortton of Portland's inilk and cream oaicj from the river points via icamer. But dealers, though admit- edly tihort in stock, are pressing the auntr-y service hard and by the estab ishmcnt of horse-drawn vehicles fot ollection in the country are glean- ng a supply that banishes the proj ect of a milk famine. Deliveries are ox. being attempted - on residential QUtes, and service is given only to ospitalR, hotels, restaurants and tort's, the latter affording a supply o the general public. Dottlrti In Demand. Striving to give Portland its morn glass -of milk and its dash of ream for the coffee, dealers and alrymen sre as one In appealing to he public to return empty bottles to he stores. Unless the bottles aro ftuined the companies will soon be vithout receptacles In which to mar .H the milk, and the actual famine vill strike from an unsuspected an&rle. Vll dairy companies report the same rohlem. an acute shortage of bottles auscd by the failure of store patrons o return the empties. The Portland Railway, Light A ""ower company brought some relief o the milk shortage yesterday, when t voluntarily delayed its suburban rains for the collection of milk and n am at wayside stations and cross ne. bringing a large supply to the 'irst and Alder street depot where he distributing companies received t. This portion of the city Bupply customarily brought to the city by -nioK, and the company broke its niBienjer schedules to aid the pro ducers and the city. Car Service "Nearly Normal. The morning electric train from Ebiacada brought in shipments ag--rfgating inOO gallons of milk and li cases of - cream, delivering an other consignment last night, while the Bull Run electric line also col- tllf - - M kM Sl :y II r iSi lit j tit. - v I C ft T r"V if A as J,;;.'- - - :V ;t---'irS:. ,T f -W,---t Ttr; . U ,1 r r -v x,ff .w 'v,jpr-. i -HfifflOimJii i - THE ABOVE VIEW WAS TAKEN FROM THE MORRISON-STREET BRIDGE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE THE ICE BECAME SOLID THE RIVER STEAMERS IN THE FOREGROUND ALL, FLED IN SEARCH OF SAFER MOORINO PLACES BEFORE EVU-MVC. " lected and made a heavy delivery. Distributors are urged to appear promptly at the First and Alder street depot, as the milk and cream freeze if not immediately cared for. Street-car service, after four of the wildest days that traffic officials and car men ever experienced, was almost normal again last night, with service in operation on all main lines and throughout the city. The only lines yet closed are short suburban runs and stub ends of the main lines. These will be opened this morning. The street-car lines that are not yet in service, or only partially so, are as follows: Murraymead, not running; Council Crest, not running beyond Hewitt station; Jefferson, not running from Chapman street out; Kings Heights and Arlington Heights, not running; Westover, not running; Thirteenth street, not running; Russell-Shaver, not running; Woodlawn, not running from Fern street out; Al berta, not running from Thirtieth f-treet; Broadway, not running from Twenty-fourth and Fremont; Twenty eighth street, not running from Sandy road; Rose City Park, not running from Seventy-second street; East moreland and Krrol Heights, not run ning; Mount Tabor, not running from Sixty-ninth street; Richmond, not running from Twenty-sixth street; Woodstock, not running from East Forty-first and Woodstock avenue. Main Lines Cleared. "The main lines are all cleared," said Superintendent Cooper, of the company's street traffic department, "with the exception of a few short stubs. We have been badly ham pered by the auto traffic, which has filled the tracks up almost as fast as we could clear them. "Lots of complaints have been re ceived from car patrons, who protest that we should turn immediate atten tion to the short outer city lines, but obviously the main lines had to be cared for first. If service was to be resumed without unnecessary delay. I'll bet that some of these cranks haven't their own front porches swept off yet." The street cleaning department has also completed the clearing away of snow from the main traveled arteries of the downtown district, and this morning will see its army of ex service men and squalron of heavy trucks begin operations to finish the work in the downtown district. Su perintendent Donaldson announced last night that the area to be cleared will comprise from Front to Tenth street and from Taylor to Oak street the heart of the business district. Ice Skating Enjoyed. Roller skates passed into the limbo of neglected fads yesterday morning when Portland young folk woke to WATER SHOl'LD'BE TURNED OFF. All water users should turn water off at night. Unless this is done, the water supply will become so low, say officials of the water bureau, as to provide a fire menace. Officials of the water bureau say that practice of allowing water to run in homes throughout the night is causing tremendous waste. find that real ice skating was to be had within the boundaries of the city. At the Laurelhurst park lake and on the sloughs and lakes of the districts bordering the Columbia and Willam ette rivers the 6heathing of ice was sufficiently thick to furnish fine sport, and hundreds of devotees of the favorite ninter pastime cut balf-for-gotten flourishes with the ringing blades. The abrupt descent of the ther mometer caught the houseboat colo nies, floating at anchorage along the river, with especial severity. . Ex posed to the full sweep of the keen river wind, and locked below and about with a plain of glaring new ice. the houseboat folk were, as one of them phrased it, "refrigerated" to the limit. As a consequence many of the colonies deserted their floating dwell ing and sought temporary refuge in more prosaic but certainly warmer quarters ashore. Heights Folk Feel Severity. Residents of that portion of the west side represented by Westover Terrace and parts of the residential district along Twenty-third street, felt the full severity of the cold snap yesterday, when r-ains of the central heating plant, which supplies at least 12b homes and business establish ments with heat, broke under the severity of the frost and left many patrons stranded at the north pole of their' own dwellings. The comany tolled strenuously yesterday to repair the damage and announced last night that complete service had been re sumed. If Portland's autos skidded over much yesterday, and If they continue their antics today, let the pedestrian beware of blaming it all on the driver or the slippery pavements. For radiators are the tenderest part of the gas-wagon anatomy when the front is atrikliig and motorists plied ' Hii rrr- fffnTHii mw 'i their cars plentifully with wood alco hol to ward away the dreaded freez ing. It is even said that one re sourceful chauffeur besought the po lice bureau for a quantity of cap tured "bootleg" whisky, poured it into the radiator before the watch ful eyes of the law, and Btarted blithely away. The car went down Oak street "riotously, and was with difficulty restrained from climbing a lighting pole. Florists Lose Heavily. The frigid spell brought heavy fin ancial loss and expense to Portland florists, who are compelled to burn unusual quantities of fuel to keep their greenhouses above the freez ing point. One florist reported that he was burning J100 worth of fuel a day, to stave off the approach of the deadly frost. Clarke Bros, re ported the loss of an entire green house of maidenhair fern, the cut ting from which this . season would have aggregated $1000 in value. But It's good for the roses. J. A. Currey, prominent on rose cultural work, said last night that sturdy roses and beautiful bloom will be the tribute that Portland rose gardens will bring to the city as the direct result of the extreme cold. Cold Benefit to Roses. "Some of the more tender varieties may have been damaged." said Mr. Currey, "but on the whole the cold spell will do the roses good. It will freeze down and kill off the weak shoots, so that strong ones will spring up to replace them. It Is a recog nized fact that most of the cold snaps of the past have resulted in many more roses and deeper and more de lightful shades during the following season." Within the memory of Portland residents, and in official record, the Willamette river has been frozen over several times, affording skating in one or two instances. Observers pre dict that this morning will see the stream paved with Ice sufficiently strong to bear pedestrians or skaters. COLD DAY MILITARY tactics are disarranged at Laurelhurst lake because of the ice. For several years "Gen eral John J. Pershing," the snow-white swan, and the ducks have patrolled the lake in a somewhat systematized manner. However, the frozen condi tion of the lake now makes the patrol impossible, the military detachment being confined to a small area where the ice has been broken. Park au thorities arranged housing facilities fbr the birds, but "General Persh ing," a true soldier, refused to leave his post and hie "men," likewise in sisted upon standing sentry duty. As a result the swan and ducks remain on the lake day and night, apparently enjoying the wintry blast. Railroading in a Birney one-man car, at times, in this kind of weather has nothing on railroading in Si beria, according to one combination motorman and conductor. Here is what he encountered yesterday morning on Grand avenue. First his 'flivver" ran off the track. While out shovel ing snow to clear the wheels, his air brake froze on him, locking his brakes. These cars operate doors automatically and while stopped, the doors cannot be closed. Unable to move off the track and hie door wide open, with the thermometer Just bare ly above zero was a combination hard to beat. So disgusted was the man in charge of the car, that instead of telephoning to the dispatcher for aid. he merely climbed into his vehicle. sat down and blew vehemently on his fingers. The milk supply is the most trying problem In the residence district. This is particularly true on the east side, where some deliveries to houses ceased several days ago. and milk distributors have even failed to reach some of the grocery stores. One milk man rigged up a sleigh and drove into Portland lat night, bringing to Ms customers all the milk they would have bad if he had been making daily deliveries. e Laurelhurst park is a mecca for skaters. There is a good lake and the ice is now thick enough for any one. The snow drifted over the sur face, but most of it has been removed so that the skaters are not interfered with. All day long the lake was the scene of sport, and at night there were scores of people skating or watching. The electric lights in the park afforded excellent illumination. Some people are optimists. A de livery car was chuxging and bucking snow drifts yesterday In Xhe residence section on the east Fide. The car was loaded down with ice cream freezers and was trying to make deliveries to the drug stores having soda foun tains. Some wag had his little joke yes terday down on Second street and many were the passersby who laughed with him. On the very peak of the high-piled snow In front of his i establishment he placed a regulation "V-. '.- and base their prophecy upon the cold spells of the past. 'In the winter of 1861-62 the Will amette river was frozen from bank to bank, and severe weather contin ued with but slight interruption till the middle of March." recalled George H Himes, curator of the Oregon His torical society. "During December and January of that season there were two days when skaters thronged the river, and even sleighs were driven across. ' The dates on which the Willamette has been ice-bound are as follows: January 26, 1854; December . 1861: January 17, 1862; January . 1868; January 16. 1876; January 5. 1879; February 15, 1884; January 15, 1888. Weatherman Wells laughs amused ly at the suggestion that Professor Porta, noted astronomer, whose pre diction of severe December weather, culminating into cataclysm on De cember 17, caused ignorant alarm anent the "end of the world," may be vindicated to some degree by the weather performances of the past few days. "Sun spots, such as he has pre dicted," said Mr. Wells, "have some Influence on weather conditions, but so very slight that the extent and nature of that influence never has been determined. His prophecy of epochal and disastrous weather con ditions for December 17 is not based on any scientific fact that we have any knowledge of." Tillamook Feels Zero Touch. TILLAMOOK, Or., Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) This morning Tillamook coun ty had a touch of zero weather, it being three degrees below at 5 o'clock, remaining there for several hours. Then the thermometer went to 10 degrees above, when it com menced dropping again. Every in dication is that it will go below zero again tonight. Very few persons re member ever seeing colder weather in Tillamook county. Hoquarton slough is frozen over. SIDELIGHTS curb sign reading: Here." "Free Parking Streetcar lines would be open and operate quicker if automobile driv ers were compelled to keep off the tracks. In the suburbs, as soon as a sweeper gets a line open, along comes some flivver and gets into the cleared space and churns the snow back upon the rails. A single auto mobile during the storm has been able, by this means, to tie up traffic and keep several hundred people wait ing. "The streetcar people in Portland don't know how to handle a enow storm." complained a man on the Rose City line. "In Los Angeles they have the finest car system In the world and a snowstorm like this in Los Angeles wouldn't bother the com pany a minute, for they'd have the snow plows and sweepers out right away." "Say," interrupted another indignant passenger, "where do you get that stuff? I'm from Los An geles. We never saw snow there." The first passenger had nothing more to say. Did the storm which has been gen eral over the, state delay Kd Smith, alleged bootlegger, or did Smithy just naturally forfeit $500 bail as a penalty for failure to appear here in federal court for trial yesterday? This is the question which Assistant United States Attorney Reames was attempting to solve yesterday. If, within a reasonable time, it Is shown that Smith was unable to reach Port land because of the storm, the $500 bail money which he had deposited and which was forfeited yesterday. may be returned, but if it Is shown that the alleged bootlegger just didn't Uk the idea of standing trial for selling liquor to Indians on the Kla math reservation, he will be shown no consideration when he does put in an appearance. e It was an angry bunch of pas sengers aboard a Mount Tabor street car at noon yesterday when, upon making the turn at Twenty-seventh street, coming toward the city, they found themselves blocked by a heavy automobile which had forsaken the beaten snowy path along Belmont and was attempting to make tha grade over the railway company's right of way arrtjolnlng the cemetery between Twentieth and Twenty-seventh streets. At the beck of the distracted motor man, a dozen of the men passengers climbed down and floundered In the heavy snow drifts as they literally carried the automobile off the tracks. The autoist delayed the car for more than ten minutes and it was a wrathy group of passengers who speeded the luckless individual on his way. "The next guy that tries to make his auto ride the rails will be out of luck," shouted one Of the pas sengers after the red-faced autoist, " 'cause this location here at the cemetery will be the permanent abode of the next bird that tries to convert his motor car into a street railway system." r - '"aJ J ' " - -ArC; 3 RIVER IS FROZEN ACROSS PEDKSTIUAXS MAY HAVE SAFE PASSAGE TODAY. Attempt at Steamboat Navigation Abandoned After Freeze in 188S. The " Willamette river at Portland was frozen across last night for the first time in 31 years. A floe of ragged ice, crunching and grinding, moved down the river all day with the current and with the advent of the high tide last night, which brought the current to a standstill, the open water between the floating cakes congealed and the whole sur face of the river was coated with an irregular sheet or ice. Old-timers along the waterfront confidently predicted last night that pedestrians so inclined would be able to walk across the river in safety this, morning. All attempts at navigation of the river by steamboats were given up yesterday afternoon and the boats scurried for shelter In the more pro tected moorings of the lower harbor. The situation in the Columbia and In Willamette slough was reported yesterday morning as even worse than in the Willamette. Both of these bodies of water were reported to be absolutely unnavigable while steam ers were still plowing up and down the Willamette. The steel steamer Manham. coming from Seattle to Portland to load flour, started up the Columbia from Astoria at 12:30 o'clock yesterday morning. At 4 o'clock yesterday after noon she had progressed only 15 miles up the Columbia and was then ashore at Elliotts, according to a radio mes sage flashed by the ship to W. R. Grace & Co., her operators in Se attle, and by the steamship company telegraphed to the Columbia-Pacific Shipping company in this city, local operators of the Manham. The master of the vessel, according to his radio message, expected to float her on the high tide last night. Telephonic advices from Astoria last night stated that the harbor tug had gone to her assistance and was re turning to Astoria, and It had been presumed from this fact that the Man ham was once more afloat, though the operators expressed doubts of her ability to make port in face of the expected ice jam. The oil tanker W. F. Herrin suc- YESTERD AY'S MOVEMENT OF THE MERCURY. Hourly temperatures from 1 A. M. to 7 P. M. yesterday, as announced by the weather bu reau, were: 1 A. M 9 j 1 0 A. M 10 2 A. M 8 1 11 A. M 12 3 A. M 8)12 noon 12 4 A. M 7 1 P. M 15 5A.M 61 2P. Jl..i.,..H 6 A. M el 3 P. M 17 7 A. M 6 4 P. M 15 SA.M 5 5 P. M 14 8:30 A. M 4 6 P. M 11 9 A. M 5 7 P. M 10 ceeded in reaching the oil docks yes terday afternoon, plowing through Ice with her steel prow practically all the way up the river. The tanker Captain A. F. Lucas left down from the oil docks at 9:15 o'clock yesterday morning and at 6 o'clock last night had not been heard from, though no fears are felt for her safety. ' The steamer Brookwood, loaded with ties for tha Atlantic coast, Btart ed at noon yesterday to go to West port and had not been heard from yesterday evening. All shipyards had closed down yes terday afternoon and were keeping only watchmen at the plants. Saw mills along the river have also dis continued operations. Logs every where are frozen solidly into the river, and even when broken out are so coated with ice that they cannot be cut without injury to the saws. The steamer Diana at the Fifteenth street terminal and the Centaurus at the Inman-Poulsen mill were still loading slowly yesterday afternoon, but these were the only vessels load ing and jittle was being accomplished on these two. The harbor patrol boat, answering a call to the fire In the motorship Avance at the Columbia Engineering works at Linnton yesterday morning, had her bow badly cut by Ice. A further menace to navigation in connection with the ice floe is that practically all the buoy lights mark ing the channel have been extin guished. Most of the lights are kero sene lamps and it has been impossible to reach and refill them. The Willamette was last closed to navigation by ice In January, 18S8 At that time skaters disported them selves over the surface of the river for several days. The only other solid freezing of the river recorded Winter and summer, Zerolene gives cor rect lubrication to your motor. Zerolene Me dium and Zerolene Light feed and splash properly even at ZERO. A poor cold test oil congeals in cold weath er, fails to feed properly and makes it neces sary to run the engine for some time before the oil is sufficiently warm to flow freely. This period of running without proper lubri cation may result in excessive wear of the bearings and scored cylinders. It means also very noticeable falling off of power and re sponsiveness in the engine. Zerolene correctly refined from California crude oil is manufactured in several grades to meet the various requirements of the different types of inter nal combustion engines. Two of these grades ZEROLENE LIGHT and ZEROLENE MEDIUM are specially recommended for cold weather lubri cation ZEROLENE LIGHT for Ford cars and ZEROLENE MEDIUM for the cold weather lubri cation of all other automobiles. Drain your crank case and fill with Zerolene the correct lubricating oil for summer and winter. occurred in January, 1875. In that year, according to the old-time mar iners, the stream was blocked to navi gation for nearly a month. SNOW HALTS CONVENTION MEETING OF COCXTY OFFI CIALS GOES BY BOARD. Five Clerks and One Treasurer All Mho Report for Annual Two-Day Meeting. Portland's unorecedented December storm successfully placed the Jinx on all attempts to hold the state con vention of county clerks and of coun ty treasurers in this city Thursday and Friday of this week. Only five county clerks from outside counties appeared and but one county treasurer and but one of the representatives was from a remote county. On account of traffic conditions no attempt was made Thursday to get the officiate together, but as the con ferences were scheduled to continue for two days it was hoped a quorum might put in an appearance yesterday. But no such luck. County Clerk Bev eridge called the five visiting clerks into his chambers for an informal chat and County Treasurer Lewis took the lone treasurer delegate to lunch. L. B. Fox, former county clerk of Wasco county who was elected presi dent of the state association before his resignation, was among the of ficials who negotiated the snow drifts between their homes and Portland for the sessions. Joseph P. Beverldge. county clerk of Multnomah county, called the meet ing. C IL Lenox of Douglas county, secretary, and E. L. Coburn of Josephine county, treasurer. H. A. Kuratll of Washington county, C. Florey of Jackson county and C. K. McCormick of Union county, were present. f The sole county treasurer to appear from an outlying county was George S. Calhoun of Grants Pass, Josephine county. Fan Turned on Radiator Raises Temperature. Hood River Man Learns How to Keep House Vim. HOOD RIVER, Or, Dec 12. (Spe cial.) Hood River families are using electric fans to keep their bouses warm. It has been discovered that the little fans are as valuable In zero KEEP STRONG One bottle of pure, emulsified Norwegian cod liver oil taken now, may do you more good than a dozen taken a month hence. It's more economical to give your body help before resistance to disease is broken down. A very little Scorns Emulsion OF PURE NORWEGIAN CODLIVER OIL goes a long way in sustaining strength and keeping up re sistance. Resolve that you will buy a bottle of Scott's Emulsion at your IJjP home, and start orotectina your strength. Tk. ...1-m rrMl. at cod-tlTrr . B. Proce." made in Laboratories. It u a ruarmntee oott a 11 STANDARD OIL COMPANY ! j (California) r '""" j p I S ill" weather as in days when the tempera ture hovers around the century mark. A number of families having hot water systems in their homes have brought electric fans from attic and closets, following the suggestion of J. E. Law, who last week made the suggestion after an experiment in his own home. "It is merely an application of a principle of physics," says Mr. Law. "Where an extremely cold object comes near an object of high temper ature, the greater the variation, the faster will heat or cold be absorbed. The extremely cold air. coming in contact with a hot radiator will ab sorb the heat readily. Thus an elec tric fan turned on a radiator will tend to raise the temperature rapidly and maintain It at a comfortable polnt I have used an electric fan, and have been able to get along at my house with the use of a normal amount of fuel." 14 BELOW RECORDED IX LINN Tangent Temperature Lowest, While Albany Reports 11 Below. ALBANY. Or., Dec. 12. Eleven de grees below zero, the colftest weather here in an even half century, was the temperature recorded by the govern ment termometer in Albany last night. Some other places in the coun ty reported even lower temperatures. Tangent recording 14 below at 8 o'clock this morning. Tonight will be even colder, according to all indi cations, as it was 2 below here at & o'clock. Last night's record has been equaled in Albany but once before, in 1869. Sheep and other stock are suffer ing severely in many places. The su perstructure of a covered bridge on the Albany-Corvallis road collapsed today, but the flooring remained in place. RAILWAY LINES CLEARED INCOMING TRAINS STILL BE HIND SCHEDULE, HOWEVER. Extra Engines Placed on Nearly All Outgoing Cars Freight Movement Abandoned. To battle against weather condi tions almost without parallel in the annals of transportation history in Oregon, local railroad administration officials announced yesterday that all lines are at last cleared and that pas senger trains are being sent out on druggist on your way oil axed in Scott'a EaiaWoa 1 tke faroon Norway and refined in oor owm American of snmy ana paiaiaoiuir ara, awamaeM. J.J. schedule. Extra engines are being placed on nearly every train that clears the local tracks or arrives at the depot, and all available snow plows are at work In the Columbia river gorge. Blue mountains and the Siskiyous. Incoming trains yesterday were trom 8 to 12 hours or more late from the east and two hours more late from the south. Most of the loss of time of eastern trains was experienced in the storms of Nebraska and the Rocky mountains, however. It was an nounced. Severe cold stepped in yes terday as an obstacle in railway traf fic. just about at the time when snow had at last been cleared from the tracks. Extra forces of men were fighting at all times to keep the steam pipes from freezing and to maintain heat in the trains. At Mess ier, near Huntington, where the Spo kane branch leaves the main line of the Oregon-Washington railway, a temperature of 31 degrees below zero was reported .by railway men. Freight traffic has been stopped entirely as a result of the situation, all equipment and engines being de manded to keep the passenger service moving. Trains yesterday morning were de layed in departure, duo to shortage of equipment, but by afternoon the situation had been Improved and to day it is stated by railroad officials that trains will leave practically on time. The Tillamook and Bend branches, which had been stopped by snow, were reopened yeMerdRy. TRA VEI.KRS" filTDR !JM-r . I ni4 k (ADMIRAL LINE. S. S. CURACAO Sail from Portland 1 I. M., Tcc IT for North Bco, Mantli field. Eureka,' San Francisco, connecting with strm em to Los Ane!'s and San Liiego. S. S. CITV OP TOPEKA For above porta Dec. 3. lfi.eiiK;er and Freight Kervfct to Mexico and Central Amerloa Forts I- roni !-an .- ranciacu S. 8. NKNATOtt He. IS H. S. ( I RACAO .Ian. 10 TK KKT OFFICE, 101 Third St. Freight Office. Municipal Dock. .No 2 Phnnfl Main V-'Sl. Pacific Meamhhi Company. SAN FRANCISCO S. S. Rose City Depart 12 Noon THURSDAY, DEC. 13 From Ainsworth Dock Fare includes Berth and Meals. City Ticket Office, 3d and Washington Phone Main 3330 Freight Office, Ainsworth Dock Phone Broadway 263 SAN FRANCISCO & PORTLAND S. S. LINES AUSTRALIA KKW ZEALAND AND BOl'TH HK.VS Via Tahiti and Karatong;. Mail and naa ftencrer tvcrvlca from ban Francisco every uay. tMO.N 8. 4. CO. OF KEW ZEALAND, 240 califomift bt., te&n Franciaoo. or local tkamtaUy and railroad attenciea. '',.1 !! I J!', iWpivJI v