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Pages 1 to 16 t PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORSISG, JANUARY 7, 1912. PRICE FITE CE.VT8. ol. aaa i jiKim - . .- - : - - - . v GREAT HAVOC IS CREATED BY SILVERJHAW Traction Company and Phone Lines Felled by Sleet Storm. IMMENSE DAMAGE COSE Ice-Laden Wires Fall and More Than 200 Poles Crash to Street. TREES TOPPLE EYERYWOE Light and Power Strands Break, Sputter on Ground. LITTLE RELIEF PROMISED Hardly One Thoroughfare of Port land Escapes Sabnrban Districts Also Suffer Several Injared In Day's General Havoc. fzattrjw or -silter thaw." Car Berries demoralised. High tension Una, broken tn many places aad part of eleetno supplr cut off all air"'- Trolley wires broken oa Mrly ever? Una. Telephone service prostrate. All toll line down In every direction. Thousands of residences - without Trie. ..... Tkoneaads f tres mine - by breaking wnd.r weight of slet. Stroota lltt.roa with pole, trees and wires. Aatomebll belonging to Dr. C. Q. Sabln demolished br falling tra la eveatn street, br. Babla narrowly scaplas. Two horses electrocuted en Steel bridge. Manv others dead from In juries oa slippery streets. Two automohilae demolished tn collision oa slippery optowa streets. Xinr sllftit tnjurtee from felling trees and wires. Dirt elides caused br torrents de sreat damage. Orchards In many parts of Wtllera ette Valley reported badly damagad- Fir alarm sxtera. excepting ene short East fide I Lie. out. - Drizzling rain and sleet, which turned to Ire as It fell, demoralised Portland's streetcar servue yesterday, left the residence districts In darkness lsst nigh, 'prostrated the telephone and telegraph services, filled the streets In tb residence districts with broken trees, telephone poles and dangling telephone and electric-light wires and caused general ruin to the extent prob ably of sereril hundred thousand dol lars With fine snow falling late last nlgrt and the mercury getting lower the outlook Is for still more Concluded areS. vref tjf jy 1 A n y-tsr V2ri? v-e & oy s Z rHOA"CE tSSYllOH r TfXLt ' ' ; ' " Pl(mTf1C,70SAHSHet I '.,.' I ,, a.saasesseesssssssssssss .... .' ...... I ..... . ......... ...... tt.tttt--iit TWO CARRY FRIEND' IN SLUSH 7 MILES TIMBEK-CTTTER. WITII BOTH ARMS BROKEN', IS BORNE. Tree Falls on Woodsman's Hut. VThen Companions Find o Ro land They Improvise Litter. Aftsr being carried seven miles la a Utter by two companions, Leo Roland, a woodcutter, whose arms were broken when a giant tree fell on the lonely hut In which he was living In the woods near Gresham. was brought to Portland last night. The Red Cross ambulance met the litter a mile down the Powell Valley road, and the ambulance em ployes lifted the man Into the ambu lance. A fast run In the snow to the Ooed Samaritan Hospital put Roland under medical care. Roland, who Is an employe of Rud lum Bros., Umber cutters, wss em ployed In the woods two miles from Gresham. The cold spell confined him to. his hut. As he was sitting at his fireside, a big tree weighted down by snow and Ice crashed upon the hut and pinned down and severely Injured Ro land. Both of bis arms were crushed. Companions, who lived nearby, took him from the ruins of the hut. Impro vised a litter, and with a horseman rid ing ahead, started to Portland. Sum moned by telephone. The Red Cross ambulance met the rider at East Fif tieth street and Hawthorne avenue. The ambulance met the litter a mile farther on. Roland was pronounced In a danger ous condition at the Good Samaritan Hospital at a late hour. Internal In juries being added to his broken arms. Both -arms were set, and his rally from the operation was slow. HEALTH WILL BE TOPIC Four Lectures to Be Given at Ore gon Agricultural College. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallls. Jan. (Special.) George F. 8ykes. Instructor of soology at the Oregon Agricultural College, will give four lectures In January on the Conservation of Health. The first lecture tomorrow on "The Science of Health." deals with the different prin ciples of disease, both from the per sonal standpoint and from the effect it has bad on National . life. The second lecture on "Health, a Civic Obligation." will be given 'Jan uary 1L This will !rsl with the sub ject from the point of view of the ur ban as well as the rural dweller. The third lecture will be given January II and the fourth January 2b. These lec tures will be open to the public. EDUCATOR IS ' DECORATED Professor Frederick Starr Is Given Highest Honor by Belgian Ruler. CHICAGO, Jan. (. Professor Freder ick Starr, of the University of Chicago, received word today that he had been appointed commander of the Order of Leopold II.. the highest honor In the way of decoration given by the govern ment of Belgium. The decoration Is In recognition of bis sen-ices In presenting to the world his view of the condition of affairs In the Congo Free State In 1S0I and for the exhibit at Brussels of his Congo anthropological collections, for which the grand prise was awarded to him. TONS OF TEA PROTESTED AsMK-lallon Appeals to Taft Against Threatened Importation. WASHINGTON. Jan. (. Declaring .000.000 pounda of colored and adulter ated tea. which does not comply with treasury regulations, or with the pure food law. wl',1 be admitted and sold In this country within a few days unless the Government acts quickly. Senator Root and a delegation from the New Tork Tea Association today appealed to President Taft. . WEATHER PORTLAUD CUT OFF FROM MANY 5I0ES Wind Velocity Reaches 60 Miles on Coast. YALLEY GETS FREEZING RAIN 3 0.-W. R. & N. Trains Tied Up; Relief Crews Sent Out. ICE IN COLUMBIA FORMS Disturbance at Mouth of Big River Indicative of Colder 'Weather. Oregon Electric Service Is Hit By Broken Wires. Though the storm which swept over Portland yesterday and last night might have been termed "local" In the sense of the damage done to tele phone, , telegraph, electric light and trolley wires, there were violent weath er manifestations over the greater pari of Oregon and Washington. Heavy 'w nd and rain about the mouth of the Columbia is reported. The storm at North Head was ac companied by a maximum wind veloc ity of 60 miles. Reports are that the sleet storm ex tended south as far as Salem and west to the Coast range." South of Salem there was cold rain. . Vancouver was as hard hit by the "silver thaw" as Portland. To. the north of Vancouver toward the Puget Sound country heavy wet snow fell all day yesterday. Heavy damage to wires was done at Centralis. Tkree Tralnn Tied Up the Columbia River gorge sleet rolled down the mountainside and blocked traffic on the O.-W. R.At N., a report' at 1 o'clock this morning say ing that three trains were stuck be tween Cascade Locks and Bonneville. These trains were the Canadian ex cursion special, the Pendleton passenger and The Dalles local. Tha tie-up oc curred at 6 P. M., and efforts to move trains after that proved unavailing. A report from Bonneville early this morning was. that a strong wind was still blowing and snow falling. Little relief was in sight. A rotary engine, which had been nsed to open a path through the storm, was of no avail. 0.-W. R. A N. officials said this morn ing that relief trains will be sent to the scene of the tie-up early today. East of the Cascades the country is covered with a heavy blanket of snow. From Walla Walla cornea the report of one of the worst Winters in years. In the Willamette Valley and the Sound country the temperatures for the last H houra have been either at the freezing point or a trifle below that mark, with the result that the precip itation has largely been In the form of sleet, thus making this storm one of the most 'disagreeable on record. Rain Continues Today. The conditions are favorable for rain In Western Oregon and Western Wash ington and for snow In the district east of the Csscadc Mountains. It will be warmer today In Northern Oregon, Washington and Northern Idaho. The wrnds along, the coast will continue moderately high fur another 24 hours. All the way up the valley. Including HUlsboro, Forest Grove to Salem, sleet fell practically all day. The Oregon Electric has been tied up alnce noon yesterday almost entirely through broken wires at various points, HUls boro reporting no car service since 11:S0 A. M.. several cars being stalled at Beaverton. The Interurban lines of (Concluded on Pace - AND WARS LEND INSPIRATION TO THE SERIO-COMIC PEN OF CARTOONIST INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS TlM Weatlier. TESTER DAT' 8 Unlmum temueratUTe, 4 decreet; minimum, 29 decrees. TODAY'S Rain ud warmer, south westerly win 4a. 8trm. Portland at mercy of silver thaw, which stops cars, prostrates phone service, and darkens city. Section 1. page 1. Gal off coast Is severs; Portland Isolates!, Section 1. par 1. Sleet shatters telephone systems of Pacific and Homo companies. Section X, pas Traetlon company wt leafnr fljht on sil ver thaw. Section L psvftw lO. ' Polities. La lY!Iette would hav Government own public utilities of Alaska. Section 1. pa a. Representative tea Folletto sees "machine" rule in effort to defeat him. Section 1. rfe 4. Ohio constitutional convention controlled by "progressives." Section 1 pac S. Ella Flac coins new awndsra, Botloal pace 1. Rot. Clarence V. T. RJc bason confesses bo poisoned Miss Avis Unnell. Section L Pce 2. . Union man charces Chicago sent experts to cause Indianapolis explosions. Section 1. pace S. Commercial travelers ware vigorous war on "tipping.' Section 1, par 8. Sports. McCredie opposes hisher classification In Coast League. Section 1. page 2. Mertes to umpire In Coast League. Section 2, pace 2. High school basketbsll season soon to be In full swing- Section 2. page S. Williams appeals to Jones to settle trouble over player In Northwestern League, sec tion 2. page 2. McCredie has three good pitchers to start Section JB. psge 2. Result of Davis trophy'play In New 'Zealand big surprise to tennis world. 8ectlon 2. page 3. Queer ncrsons follow In wake of pennant winning team. Section 2. page 3- Johnson and Flynn matched to light In Ne vada In Ju:y. Section 2, page 4. Pacific Northwest. State Iiailroad Commission's annual report givei r gross revenues In Oregon .,7.60.42". Section 1. page 3. If tariff is removed Washington penitentiary wl!l be forced to abandon grain bag man ufacture. Section 1, page 7. Albany. Salem and Corvatils to send attor ney to Washinsi-on to protect interests on rate question. Section 1. page d. Schooner Patsy has thrilling battle with seas. Section L page 1. -Commerrlai and Marino. Revival of hop buying expected In coming week. Section 2, page 15. Cash continues to flow to Now Yore, Sec tion 2, page 1A. Advance In wheat prices Is not checked. Section 2, page 13. Stock market Irregular, with firm closing. Section 2. page 15. Shippers would establish station at mouth of Willamette to learn when vessels reach river on way from Astoria. Section 2. page 14. FortlApd and Vicinity. Changes numerous in new railroad classifi cation. Section 2. page o Wilde case to b called for trial tomorrow morning. Section 2. page 10. Two friends carry woodcutter, with both arms broken, seven miles In Ice and slush. Section 1. psge 1. Rtorief ihov this year to a of sreat im portance, saya stockmen. Section 1. page 14. H. D. Wagnon voices perennial objection to Jackson day banquet. Section 1. page 15. W. A. Carter pledges correction of defeete in District Attorney's office if elected. Sec tion 1, page 12. Portland to be heed qua itors for big oil and paint combine. .Section 1 page 1. Friends come to aid of self-confessed O.-W. R. s N. embezsler Alexander. Section 1. page 4. Judge Gat ens cant Ions grand Jury and prose cutor that deliberations most be kept secret. Section 1, pac 12. - Portland men circulate petitions to put Roosevelt's name on primary nominating ballot for President. Section L pane State Senator Selllnc Questions methods of Gn:a Warden in game sales case. Section i. psko-2. Automobiles and Rvatl. Barney Oldfleld saya Federal aid In rood bulldinc remote. Section 4, page 4. Portland ranks low as user of electric auto mobiles. Section 4. page ft. Auto ' trucks prove worth In traversing snowy and si ushy streets. Section 4. page 9. Dealers clamor for more autos from fac tories to meet demand in Northwest. Section 4. pa go 6. Realty nod Building. 2912 promises to make noteworthy record In all Un-s of activity In Portland. Section 4. pane 7. New Alblna water office is completed. Sec tion 4. pK ? Homebullders tell how they won homes. Section 4. page 7. Trailing In farms is brisk, despite Winter drawbacks. Section 4. psge 7. Special Features. Vocal training In Paris Is beset with pitfalls. Section 6. page 2. Muullng -the press In Buss! to keep tho mssses In dsrkness. Section , page 3. 1912 Is a year of many centenaries.' Section ft, page 4. W. J. Bums tells of staking his life on a disguise. Section 6. page 6. Hammering out - tunes In 'tho factory for popular songs. Section A, page ft. GREAT PAINT AND -OIL MERGER PENDS Standard Said to Be Back of Combine. PORTLAND SLATED AS CENTER $1,000,000 White-Lead Fac tory for City in Huge Plan. PLANTS ALREADY BOUGHT? Contemplated SCO, 000,000 Merger Embracing Zone From'San Diego to Seattle Is Reported Canal Trade Leads to Deal. FEATURES OF GIGANTIC OIL AfiU PAINT MERGER. Standard Oil Company's allied In terests are believed to be the mov ing cower behind the scheme to con trol the oil and paint buslneis. - An outlay of JJO.000.000 Is saia to be ready to carry out the plan. .hch Involves the territory Between the Vexican and British Columbia lines. onrtiiutH is scheduled to be tne chief center of activity In theNorth west territory, and It Is said a white lead plant to cost between 1750.000 and $1.0O0.000. Is contemplated ior this city. Big paint and oil establishments in t.ft tmam. San Francisco. Sacra mento. Portland. Tacoma and Seattle are to be taken over and operated under one "policy, tt Is declared. nn.nlnr of the Panama canal is said to attract sreat oil Interests and to have cansed efforts to consolidate the trade. A gigantic merg-er of ralnt and oil establishments on the Paclrtc Coast. In volvir.g an outlay of approximately .20, 000,000 and covering factories and stores In every large city- from San Diego to Seattle, Is being formed by large East ern lnteresta In the oil business, accord ing to information obtained in Port land yesterday. The developments of the past few months. Just coming to light, point very strongly to the Standard Oil Company or allied Interests, as the power behind the activities In this line up and down the Coast. Portlaad to Be Center. Portland will be the chief center, or headquarters of the merger, when It Is effected, from which all the paint and oil business, aggregating many millions of dollars annually, will be directed. Control of the Industry by the Stand ard Oil interests would not necessarily mean the retirement from the field of eirm. aireariv established, as it is said to be the policy of the corporation to handle the business tnrougn esianusnea agencies in each of the large cities. The general Dolicv and control of sup plies and regulation of. prices would, of course, be dictated by the cniei inter ests. While the merging of the paint and oil business of the Pacific Coast would pour probably $20,000,000 Into the ter- Htnrv Mnrvrnfxl It hffinr conservative ly estimated that it would cost at least that amount of money to obtain abso lute control of the Industry, the out lay would not stop at that point by any means. It Is said. ' Iramease Expenditure Involved. Many millions of dollars more are to be expended. It Is said, in reorganizing the business and in placing It on a (Concluded en Page 6.) "HIS'ER" NEW WORD IN TWO GENDERS ELLA FLAGG YOtXG FILLS GAP IX I.AXGTJAGE. Chicago Principals Directed How to Speak When "He'er" Wishes to Save Valuable Time. CHICAGO, Jan. (. Mlsa Ella Flagg Toung, superintendent of Chicago's schools, announced today te her prin cipals a new form of third person, sing ular number, personal pronoun, which she hopes may be Introduced In gen eral use. The pronoun Is Intended to Indicate both genders at ones, so that It will be unnecessary to. say "his or her" or "he or she." Tha three words are to be compacted in one, as follows: "He'er" means "he or she." "Hls'er" means "his or her." "Hlm'er' means "him or her." Some examples of the "simplified grammar,''as given by Miss Toung In her address to the superintendents fol low: "A principal should so conduct hls'er school that all pupils are engaged in something that is profitable to him'er, and where the pupil is required to use knowledge in accomplishing hls'er task. "I don't see how one can map out the work for the fifth or sixth grade when he'er has always done the work In the grades above or below." 67 ATHLETESVIE IN SNOW Oarsmen In Their Track Suiu Brave Cold to Seen re Fiacre. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se attle, Wash., Jan. . (Special.) Shiv ering with cold, "while snow fell on their bare arms and shoulders and got Inside their thin white track shirts, 6T candidates for the 'varsity rowing crew are propelling fours'" and "eights" over the surface of Lake Washington as steadily as If bright April sun. In stead of cold January clouds, was glar ing at them from the sky. Systematic training has begun in earnest now and no candidate is willing to hurt his chances for getting on the team by shirking from rain or snow. The training table will be Instituted in February and from that time on the prospective crew will be restricted se verely In the matter of food, drink and sleep. . Chances for both a freshman and "varsity crew that will defeat the Cal ifornia colleges are good, saya Coach Connlbear. AMERICAN SHOT IN BERLIN Milliner Alleges Failure to Support Her Two Chlldren- BERLIN, Jan. . Norbert M. Eodkln son, a prominent member of the Amer ican colony here, was 'shot, probably fatally, last night by a milliner named Alwyna Slede. The woman was Inter cepted as she was escaping from Mr. Rodkinson'a office and Immediately fired a bullet into her own body. Tha wound, however, is not likely to prove fatal. The affair, according to the allega tions of Miss Slede's friends, was brought about by the Interruption, of relations between her and Mr. Rodkin son and his refusal to support her two children. Mr. Rodklnson, however, as serts that it was an attempt at extor tion on the part of Miss Slede. who had been a servant of the family years ago in Russia. MAN'S INJURY IS FATAL Shotgun, Accidentally Discliarged, Wounds Woodchopper. LA GRAND EI, Or., Jan. $. (Special.) Frank Pleroe, a woodchopper, was shot and fatally Injured tonight by the accidental discharge of a shotgun, the load of which burled Itself In the man's groin. Ho was brought hero, a distance of five miles, through three feet of snow. REYNOLDS CRAFT BESTS SEA; ENGINEER SAVED Schooner Patsy in Port by Own Power. . DEANE, FREEZING, RESCUED Swept Overboard, Man in Icy Waters Nearly One Hour. HARROWING TALE IS TOLD Breakers Off Tillamook Too. High to Launch Small Boats Life Buoy , Proves Saver -Deane Once Almost Gave TTp. , ASTORIA. Or., Jan. . (SpeclaD Brinsing a tale of a narrow eacapa from destruction on the Tillamook Bay bar and a tale of the more narrow es cape of Charles Deane, her chief en gineer and part owner, from drown ing, the gasoline schooner Patsy, Cap tain C. II. Hanson, came into port this afternoor under her own power. The Patsy sailed from Astoria .yes terday bound for Sllets with a general cargo. She arrived off Tillamook Bay about 4 o'clock, and as a strong wind was. coming up and tho glass falling. Captain Hanson decided to run into Tillamook until after the gale was over. As the little craft headed In through the breakers Frank Sweet was running the engines, while Chief Deane and two of the sailors were at the wheel. Cap tain Hanson being on the bridge. Strong Ebb Tide Running. A strong ebb tide was running, and; when the vessel was crossing tho In side line of breakers she struck tho bottom hard. The helm was put hard over to bring her to starboard, and Just then a terrific sea. hit the schooner, shifting her cargo to port and throwing her over until her rail was under water. This was followed by another sea, which, flooded the entire craft, the water rushing Into the engine room, disabling the starboard engine and tha electric, light plant. The first sudden lurch of the schooner threw the three men at the wheel across tho pilot house and through the door, the two sailors catching on tho rail, but Mr. Deans went overboard. Mate Skog immediately threw over board two life buoys and lines, and after hard swimming for about JO min utes Mr. Deane was able to catch one of the buoys. In the meantime tho Patsy drifted out across the bar into deep water, where her cargo was righted, and after fully an hour and a half of hard work her engines were put Into running order. Crew Falls to Respond. As soon as possible, after Deane was thrown overboard, signals were set for the life-saving crew to go to the man's assistance, but tle crew did not re spond, evidently misunderstanding tho signals, and the only tiling those on board the schooner could do was to wait for the man. who was supported by the life buoy, to swim and drift close enough to be picked up. The breakers wore too high to launch one of the schooner's small boats, and Deane was in the water fully three fourths of an hour before being reseued and hauled on board the vessel, nearly frosen, but otherwise uninjured. As soon as the engines were repaired the Patsy headed down the Coast, ax riving off Yaqulna about midnight, flho remained there until 4 o'clock this morning, and as the seas were growing rougher and the supply of fuel was running short. Captain Hanson con (Coneluded on Page 6.) V 0