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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.
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COLD WHIP SIPS
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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