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Newspaper Page TextPages 1 to 16 PORTLAND, OREGON", SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. vol,, xxxu. -m 3. POLICEMEN PLUCK WOMAN FROM MIRE SEATTLE PEDESTRIAN STICKS FAST XTNTTIi KESCUED. $1,078,700 ASKED KING WINTER WILL SHOW NO FAVORS RAILROAD PIER IS SEIZED BY TROOPS I BIG COAST STORM FOR FIRST WEEK OF SECTION'S JfOW EJ&OYIXG SUN ARE TO SUFFER. INFANTRY COMPANY OCCUPIES BUFFAIiO PROPERTY. 78 Pages BULLiOSERSiw EARLY RESUMP BANDWAGON MR INDICATED TRAVELING NLAND Portland Yet Is Held in Winter's Grasp. MERCURY TO STANDSTILL HERE Weather Man Says Westerly Winds Will Prevail. 2 WRECKS HALT TRAFFIC rmmnnlnailnn hv Rail Cut Off With Seattle Till 3 o'clock Tcs ttrdaj Afternoon Street Rail way Not Greatly Hampered. PACIFIC NORTHWEST COCXTRY IS HIT WITH O'USrAlXY 4 HKAVT FATX Or SNOW. Portland Intermittent fall of snow wblch measure S.S Inches, with Sun day weather forecast probably fair with stationary temperature Seattle Transcontinental trains find clear tracks, though, light snow Is fidllns again In mountain. Hood River Thirty Inches of snow over valley. Albany City cut off from wire communication with outside. Vancouver More than foot of snow falls tn 24 hours, with indications of more to follow. Astoria Town In slush, with cold er weather foreseen. Kelso Heavy snow fall accom panied by high wind. Montesano Snow so deep logging campi unable to operate. , fialem Seven-Inch snow fall fast disappears. Sheridan Telegraph and telephone wires down as result of storm Oregon City One of the worst avow storms In city's history ex J perienced. Snow, whid. sleet and rain intermit tently yesterday added to the record snowfall of the day and night pre vious which ha extended over the en tire Northwest and nit as far as South ern California. The disturbance as noted Friday ap proaching the Oregon Coaat has moved rapidly island and last night was re ported central over Northeastern "Wyo ming, with colder weather reported in Western Montana. Though the depth of snow as meas ured officially here was 5.8 inches, trains were wrecked, others were delayed, tel ephone and telegraph wires were broken and streetcar and vehicle traf fic was Impaired. Throughout the day the storm held Tortland at Its mercy. Some folk suffered, but others enjoyed the unusual experience. But relief Is promised for today sunshine and sta tionary temperature. Morn Hlicfcty Beneficial. Measured with the commercial standard the storm has been and will be highly beneficial to the entire North west, for the wheat lands, including those In the "dry counties.'' are cov ered over with from six to 15 Inches of snow,. Farmers who- put in Winter wheat this season are rejoicing. The snow not only protect the crop from frost, but provides possible additional moisture, which will aid materially in maturing It. If the snow does not disappear from the froien ground too rapidly It will give the "dry" farmers all the moisture they need. Before this fall came the ground in some wheat dis tricts already was covered with from two to five inches of snow. With rea sonable weather during the neit six (ion-Iudv1 on Ft 10. Thinking Ground Is Frozen Mrs. T. J. Burns Attempts Short Cut Over Keg-rade Earth. SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. 18. (Special.) Mrs. T. J. Burns, of 4007 Twenty second avenue Southwest. West Seattle. has lost confidence In weather predic tions. She thought the weather had really been as cold as announced and that the ground was froien. &ne nr.. trvintr tn make a short cut from the City Hall to the county Courthouse over a heap of loose regrade eartn mat t. hnrween the two buildings, and It took two stout policemen to extricate her when she became miretu Ktrm Tnrn. rnt nff the car at the City Hall by mistake. When she real ized she had to climb three blocks to th rmirthousa she started bravely out. accompanied by a boy. She had walked about 20 feet on the partly Iroien vntifk 'when she broke through. From a dozen offices In the City Hall police headquarters received news oi the woman's predicament, and Patrol men Opdyke and Fuqua went to her rescue. Planks were laid from Fifth avenue to the scene of the trouble, and Mrs. Burns, very muddy, was plucked forth. OREGON ROMANTIC LAND History, Little Told, Links Astors, Jefferson and Adam. Recent discoveries among British rec ords indicate that the Oregon country was In Its early history the scene of more romantic historical events than almost any other section in America, was the declaration made by Professor Joseph E. Schaefer, of the University of Oregon, in a lecture delivered last night at the Irvington Club upon the emergence of Oregon as a factor in National history. Professor Shaefer produced several original manuscripts in his lecture, among which were a letter from John Jacob Aitor to Thomas Jefferson, and extracts from the diary of John Adams. He also Introduced excerpts from many historical documents of interest that have never been used In the compila tion of the popular histories of Oregon. This lecture was the first of a series of four lectures. In which he will re view Oregon history up to tho present day. They will be delivered bi-weekly at the Irvington Club. FIRST SMELT RUN IS OVER Kelso Fishermen Ttinblc to Explain Phenomenon. KELSO, Wash., Jan. 18. (Special.) The run of smelt which started out so auspiciously last week stopped sud denly Wednesday night and since then the fishermen have been ctachlng prac tically none of the fish. Thursday and Friday the fish were quoted at J2 a box of 50 pounds and none to be had. The fishermen are looking forward to the big run which should be due In about a week, when the supply will be unlimited. Old fishermen are unable to explain the two runs, but each year the fish come in the river for a short run, dis appear for about a week, and then come in again, the last run continuing for about two weeks. DUCKS FLY T00PEN WATER Hundreds Are Seen Disporting in Columbia Ttlver. VANCOUVER. "Wash.. Jan. 18. (Spe cial.) Driven to open water by the cold weather, hundreds of wild geese and ducks are swimming and resting in the Columbia River. All day long large flocks of the wild waterfowl flew up and down the river, or dropped into the water to swim a while. The birds are protected by the closed season of both Oregon and Washington. Appropriation Bills Are Rampant at Salem. GREAT SLAUGHTER EXPECTED Other Requests in Sight In clude $4,500,000 More. FUND FOR FAIR IS TARGET Measure Asking $500,000 for Big Exhibit at San Francisco in 1915 May Start Hot Fight Fair Board Wants 9100,000. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan. 18. ( Special. ) Appropriation bills making demands on the state treasury to the extent of 81,078,700 have been in troduced In the Oregon Legislature during the first week 'of the session. This is fC double record breaker, as it is the first time that appropriation bills have ever been Introduced during the first week. This does, not Include the big appro priation bills which are to come and which will probably carry about $4,509,- 000, or perhaps more. Should this pace be kept up for two or three weeks there Is a possibility of the appropriation bills running riot, but many of the bills that have been introduced will be badly slaughtered or the 'appropria tions which they carry will be sliced with no gentle hand. Solon Divide on Fair Fond. The actual total of the appropriations which are Included in the bills so far Introduced is 81,578.700, but two of the bills are duplicates, each carrying an appropriation of 8500,000 for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. It seems to be a pretty well settled fact that this appropriation will not get past the 250,0CO-mark at the out side, although some of the members are boosting for $300,000. A great number of them have settled on $200,000 as the proper figures, while others are even anxious to go lower than that. The appropriation of $15,000 for the biennial period, which has been intro duced in connection with McArthur's bill establishing a state board of con trol, is really a substitute' appropria tion for a similar amount which Is car ried in the State Purchasing Board ap propriation bill, which was passed two years ago. In event the McArthur bill goes through it will virtually do away with the State Purchasing Board by placing the duties of that board with the state board of control. A few of the bills have beeen intro duced for agricultural experiment sta tions. One of these is for Coos County, while another bill makes provision for an agricultural test farm also in Coos County. Further requests are made for an experiment station in Clatsop Coun ty and an experiment station in Mal heur County. Levee Bill Carries SSO.OOO. The appropriation of $3000 a year which is carried for the salary of the Governor's secretary is practically a duplicate of the present cost to the state for that office. Now he acts as clerk of several boards of the various institutions. In event the Board or Control bill goes through these duties would be taken from him and his sal ary dropped to $1200 & year, the ob ject of the bill being to keep his sal ary at the present mark. The appropriation of $50,000 camea In the public levee bill, according to the plan stated by the Introducers of (Concluded on Pas $-) SOME - INCIDENTS OF THE SNOW " jjfS ' Jr ' : Weather Bureau Official Likens Con ditions to Caldron Which Will Soon Boll Over. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. Balmy breezes and sunny days which arc making folk in some parts of the country think it is Spring, are to con tinue for some time, but Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau Is out with a warning that Winter is sure to come. Reports of unusual weather condl tlons, telling of flowers in bloom, trees a-buddlng and birds and animals venturing out from Winter quarters are coming into the Weather Bureau. "Atmospheric conditions over the American continent may be likened to nothing so aptly as a bubbling caldron which soon is to boil over," Is the way Henry E. Williams, assistant chief of the Weather Bureau, puts it. "and when It does. It will mean a change in weather conditions in every part of the country. The trouble Is that no one can tell just at what point the caldron will boil over." Harry C. Frankenfleld, chief fore caster, explained that there was a. con flict between the cold winds from the northwest and the warm winds from the southeast, with the advantage to the warm winds. Colder weather Is on the way, he said, but when It was com ing he could not foretell. Several times this month disturb ances have attempted to make their way out -of the north, and toward the Atlantle Coast, but always the resultant cold weather has been of short dura tion. So far this month two weather records have been broken. One was the low temperature record of Cali fornia and the other the low pressure record of - the southeastern states. The Pacific Coast generally has been about normal most of the Winter. SCHOOL RECORD IS UNIQUE Attendance of 60 Ostrander Pupils 100 Per Cent for Four Months. KELSO. Wash.. Jan. 18. (Special.) Ostrander, a mill hamlet a few miles north of this place, has made a record in school work, unique in the State of Washington, if not the United States. Last September school started, with an enrollment of 60 pupils and. accord ing to Professor G. W. Phillips. the principal In charge, at the -close of four months It had a percentage of ,100 n attendance. During that time there was neither an absent nor tardy pupil, and his report also says that the percentage for application and deportment is far above the average. NICKEL GROWS TO $3500 Woman Arrested for Taking Small Coin Gets Larger Damages. NEW YORK, Jan. 18. Miss Marie Dobbs dropped a nickel by mistake Into a ticket chopper's box of the Interbor ough Rapid Transit Company a year ago and Is $3500 richer as a result. That sum was awarded her today as damages for false arrest, when upon the refusal of the ticket agent to return her the coin she took another nickel from his window. Taken to court, the young woman was honorably discharged, when she sued the company. "CORPSE" SITS UP IN BED Undertaker Preparing for Embalm ing Gets Surprise. CORNING, N. T., Jan. IS. As an un dertaker was preparing to embalm his body today, Harry Brlgham, of Ulysses, Pa., straightened up in bed and asked for breakfast. After eat ing, Brlgham said he felt better than he had in several days. Brlgham. who has been ill for a long time, was found "dead" by his family. After two hours' effort to arouse him they summoned the nndertaker. STORM ARE ILLUSTRATED BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. Washington Foresees Political Play. WILD SCAMPERINCON MONDAY Republican-Democratic Com bine to Dictate Terms. JUNKET FAVORED BY HOUSE Bridge Question to Be Threshed Out Tomorrow and Various Other 3Ieasures Prominent Xow as Second Week Opens. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 18. (Special.) A wild scampering of Bull Moosers for places on the political band wagon in the Washington Legislature will mark the beginning Monday morning of the second week of the 13th session. With sad recollections of severe trouncings received during the first week and prospects bright for more of the same at each and every turn in the future, there is only one thing left for the Progressives to do and that Is to hasten to whatever terms the Re publicans and Democrats ask. That this will be their course i3 the predlcitlon of Republicans and Demo crats here tonight. The terms will be support of the Republican programme on everything. This will give the Re publicans an overwhelming control of the House. It's Now Progressives' Move. Unless Progressives take this step the delegations of at least four coun ties will find themselves regulated to the figurehead class. By being out of harmony with the control they will be unable to give their constituents a showing in the matter of appropria tions for roads and bridges and other county improvements. These counties are Snohomish, Spokr -Fierce anj GarfiekV all o.' -svhica are represented by Bull Moosers. Practically every member of the House delegations from these counties is pledged, to secure appropriations for new roads and road. Improvements. In Snohomish County, the House dele gation comprises four Progressives and no Democrats or Republicans. This means that, under present political conditions, the county is Just the same as without representation In the House, regardless of how hard the delegation members work for the Interests of the county. Garfield Han Hull Mooser. The same conditions exist in Gar field County, where the one representa tive is a Bull Mooser. In Spokane County, which is one of the three larg est counties in the state, seven out of ten of the delegation are Progressives. This means that the three, two of whom are Republicans and one a Democrat, must carry the entire bur den of the county. In Pierce County, one lone Republican, J. H. Davis, of Tacoma, must bear the burden of get ting appropriations for all the county roads and institutions unless the Pro gressives are successful In getting into the bandwagon. Democrats are considerably worried over the prospects of the Progressives coming to terms. At present Demo crats are working right along with the Republicans, and are getting many crumbs from the pie counter in conse quence. Republicans need either Demo cratic or Progressive support to give a safe control of the House. Democrats fear that the distance be tween crumbs might be increased If the ( Concluded on Page 5.) Secretary of War Acts on Suggestion of Attorney-General, Asserting Federal Title. BUFFALO, N. Y- Jan. 18. Acting under orders of the War Department, Company B, of the Twenty-ninth In fantry, stationed at Fort Porter, today took possession of the railroad pier at the mouth of the Buffalo River. The troops camped m the pier. The Government contends that the railroad occupied IS feet frontage on Government land and has refused to vacate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. The Federal soldiers were ordered to take possession of the "North" pier at Buffalo by Sec retary of War Stimson at the request of Attorney-General Wlckersham. The Government has doubted the Lacka wanna's right to the property fo rsev eral years. The Department of Justice, is said to have convinced the Secretary of War that the Lackawanna's right to hold the property was not legally estab lished. The Government's claim to own ership of the pier, it is said, is based upon more than - SO years' continuous undisputed occupancy. The pier was ac quired by the United States in 1826 and no question of ownership was raised until 1878, when, it was declared, the railway became a squatter and acquired a foothold. In 1910 an order was issued by the Government forbidding the railroad boats to dock at the controverted pier. Permits since have been issued by the War Department granting temporary occupancy of the property. The last permit expired in December and was not renewed. The wharf is used for the landing of private supplies and equip ment for harbor improvements. It was charged that the railroad boats were an obstruction to navigation. GIRL CLEARS FIRST CLIENT Partly Feminine Jury Acquits Man Thought Guilty by Judge. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 18. (Special.) Miss Leola May Bllnn, one of Seat tle's four women lawyers, - is winner in her first jury case in successfully defending her client, Frank Davis, in Judge Ronald's department of the King County Superior Court. ' Davis was charged with robbing M. F. Lambert cl Id.oO.' Miss Bllnn was admitted to the bar just six weeks ago. The jury, on which were seven wo men, returned a verdict of not guilty. Judge Ronald scowled. "The Jury may have some doubt aB to your guilt," he said to the prisoner, "but you can't fool the court." , Reluctantly the Judge discharged the prisoner. AVIATION BILL IS PASSED Senate Approves Plan for Establish ing Aero-Laboratory. WASHINGTON, Jan.. 18. The prog ress of aviation in the United States received an impetus today when the Senate passed a bill indorsing Presi dent Taft's appointment of a commis sion to consider the establishment of a National aero-dynamical laboratory and appropriating 85000 for the work of the commission. The bill has still to pass the House. WIFE AND 12 ARE SAFE Nortb Dakotan Carries Family Down Ladder, Thermometer 32 Below. BOTTINEAU. N. D.. Jan. 18. Ferdi nand Ehlke carried his wife and 12 children down a. ladder from the sec ond story of his home, near Russell, while the house was on fire today, when the thermoter was 33 degrees be low zero. After their escape, the family, half clad, drove a mile to the home of a neighbor. Turkish Refusal Gives Little Hope. BALKAN STATES ARE EAGER 'Drive Enemy From Europe,' Is Universal Cry. ARMIES IN BETTER FORM Allies to Address Ultimatum to Porte, Then Denounce Armistice and Reopen Fighting on Four Days' Notice. LONDON. Jan. 18. Turkey's de cision, as Indicated by dispatches from Constantinople tonight, refusing to cede Adrlanople and the Aegan Islands, it is believed here, will leud to the re sumption of hostilities within a week. The Balkan allies, after conslderlns the situation among themselves earlier In the day, had already decided to wait until the middle of next week for the answer of the porte to the Joint note of the powers, and, if thou the reply were not received or were unsatisfactory, to address a communi cation to the Turkish delegation in the form of an ultimatum, allowing Turkey 48 or 72 hours for a final decision. Bulgarians Have No Ckoire. Should Turkey at that time be un able or unwilling to come to the allies' terms, the Balkan delegates decided that a rupture ot the peace conference was inevitable. Sofia, Belgrade and Cettinje would denounie the armistice, and in four days the war would be re sumed. The allies do not so the possibility of such proposals from Turkey or the powers as would allow of a resump tion of negotiations, unless the porto openly declares Its reexllnass to nive up Adrlanople. So far. the i luntru-?-tlons of the Bulgarian donates me categorical on this subject, and do not admit of a disousslon of the- vropcsal that Turkey retain Adrlanople, even ' of dismantling the fortifications or continuing negotiations on the other conditions of peace, leaving tho ques tion of Adrlanople to be disposed of last. Allies Unite In Demands. Servla, Montenegro and Greece all support Bulgaria in this attitude. The success of Bulgaria would mean an easier accomplishment of their wishes, especially in the case of Greece, which In the conquest of Adrlanople by Bul garia sees the Greek occupation of Salonikl less likely to be disputed. In addition, the allies feel that the time never will be more favorable for them to act. From the reports received, it is evident that the Turkish resources are not in the best of condition, while on the other haud the allien, as the result of their long preparation, are nerved to a high pitch. - The seven weeks' armistice has restored their armies, and they have been gathering their forces at the Important points. Throughout all the Balkan states, ac cording to the plenipotentiaries In Lou don, from the largest towns to the humblest hamlets, only one cry goes up: "War to the bitter end until our eternal enemy Is driven out of Europe forever." Turk Bitter In Statement. Osman Nizaml Pasha, a Turkish am bassador to Germany, now here In con nection with the peace negotiations. Is sued a statement today bitterly ar- (Concluded on PaB 2.)