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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 16, 1916. 13 COLD W EATHER AXD HEAVY FALL OF SNOW GARB THE COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY IN ITS MOST EVEN KINGS ARE TO TWO STARS WILL APPEAR AT HEILIG NEXT FRIDAY Clara Clemens Will Sing and Gabrilowitsch Will Be Heard at Piano in Programme of Unusual Interest. WONDERFUL RADIENT. HEAR OF FESTIVAL Names of Notables Heard on Broadway Rialto. World-Wide Publicity Is Out lined for Dedication Day of Columbia Highway. 0RPHEUM LISTS ISSUED Manager Carl Better Announces William Rock's Appearance, Fol lowed by Bessie Clayton, Joe Howard, Gertrude Hoffman. CONGRESS TO BE. INVITED MANY STARS GOmlNG Governors, City Officials and Auto Clubs Are to Bo included la Invitations to Attend, Calling Attention to Portland. With the Xational dedication of the Columbia River Highway coming as one of the features for the opening- of the 19th annual Rose Festival June 7, details are rapidly being worked out to provide a suitable programme. Governor Withycombe has consented to be a member of the general commit tee and In his letter of acceptance to E. J. Jaeger, in charge of this feature, aays he will do everything possible to make the event one that will bring much desirable advertising for Oregon. ; Chairman . Jaeger yesterday an- Bounced his committee. It is composed .' of Governor Withycombe. Mayor Albee, E. C. Lancaster, Rufus Holman. J. B. Teon, Amos Benson, C. C. Holt, W. J. Hofmann. Guy Talbot. Frank B. Riley and William McMurray. Mr. Jaeger has received acceptances from each member of the committee and all are enthusiastic over the dedication fea ture, coming as It will on the opening day of the Rose Festival. Rosea to Line Illshwaj. The general committee will have a great deal of work to do and each com mitteeman will be at the head of some particular division. Already S. C. Lan caster Is chairman of the committee in charge of the task of further beauti fying the highway by the planting of rosebushes, and In this work has the assistance of H. J. Blaesing, - J. A. Currey. Frederick Holman, K. B. Mc Farland. Emery Olmstead and Father 6choener. ' The first meeting of the general committee will be called by Mr. Jaeger j some time in tne latter part 01 me month, when many of the features for the highway ceremony will be talked over. He says it is also proposed to dedicate the park of 14,000 acres, re centlv set aside by the Government in the Oregon National forest bordering on the highway, as well as the 'new Vista House. Congress t Be Invited. That the event may receive wifle spread publicity and- attract the atten tion of the world to the Portland Rose Festival with its many beautiful and spectacular pageants, the Columbia River Highway and other Oregon scenic wonders.' Chairman Jaeger says the festival board will ask the Oregon dele gation at Washington to present a resolution to Congress to have a com mittee named to represent officially the Vnited States Government at the dedi cation ceremonies. In addition. Governors of all states, as well as men and women prominent In the life of the Nation, and crowned heads of Europe will be asked to be in Portland for this event. Representa tives of foreign governments at Wash ington also will be invited. Auto Clubs to Hear or Fete. In the work of bringing the highway dedication and festival features to the attention of Governors of the various states. Governor Withycombe will be of great assistance to the committee. Letters will be written to officers of automobile clubs of the United States. They will be asked to call special meetings at which the invitation to Portland in June will be read. Tourist agencies and leading daily newspapers In all states will be asked to mention the event and the fact that the Gover nor of the state has been invited to attend. "All business men asked to join with me in this work of planning for the highway dedication have accepted the invitation, and their enthusiasm means the success of the undertaking." said Chairman Jaeger. "It will bring a great deal of high-class publicity for the Ross Festival and the Columbia River Highway." he continued. Wide Publicity Is Kxpected. "June is a month in which many peo ple in til country travel. If we can thinking Portland and'make up their minds to come here for the dedication and Rose Festival it will bring to Portland and Oregon many tourists. "There will be a great deal of work for the highway dedication committee to perform. The event no doubt will be a great success, and if we can get Congress to send a delegation it will attract attention all over the world. However, we can send out invitations to all prominent people as well as the representatives of cities, states and the Government, with the result that the opening day of he loth annual Rosa Festival, with its Columbia River High way feature, will be called to the per sonal attention of hundreds of people and in turn they will spread the news 1o thousands more through newspapers all over the land. I.oaK Vialt. Are Predicted. "Automobile clubs of the United States cn be of great assistance. As a rule, their members are pt-ople who travel, and are on the lookout for new .places to visit. The highway, with its many beauties, should attract their at tention Immediately, and if we can get them sufficiently interested in the fes tival and dedication we should have lit tle trouble to encourage them to be with us June 7. 8 and 9. If they do come, the attractions here for the auto mobilist are so numerous they would no doubt spend a week or more in the state." DEER 'HOUNDING' CHARGED Wardens on Alert for Illegal Hunt ers Taking Advantage of Snow. Deer "hounders" have been prosecut ing their work sinca the heavy fall of snow spread over the entire state, according to information given out by the state game department The heavy snow in ail parts of the state has sent the deer from the moun tains into the foothills, and as they can easily be tracked, they are a par ticularly easy prey for illegal hunters. It is reported by reputy Warden E. H. Clark that the "hounders" are in the lower part of Multnomah County, Columbia County and Eastern Oregon. Wardens are on the alert for all of fenders. Scarlet Fever and Slumps Reported. FREEWATER, Or, Jan. 15. (Spe cial.) Several cases of scarlet fever and of mumps are reported from Free water and vicinity, but the doctors say there is little danger of an epi demic, owing to the nature of the cases. 1 'iSJVsit ---f 7'f A : rK?-! jl- (1) Tim of Crown Point, Showing Sn Ontloek of Columbia Gorge From Icicles on Sides of Cliff. As a result of the unusual snow s River Highway is carpeted deep wit before, expert artists say. Not only are the rock cliffs par every direction, particularly those th with pure white. Last week F. T. Jones, the partne to go over the highway in one of th This party, which also included a Pa is now covered with an ice mountai CUT HEALTH IMPROVED DECREASED DEATH RATE IS RE PORTED FOR 1913. Dr. Mareellus Also Comments an Re sults Achieved in Providing Belter Milk Supply. Remarkable Improvement in health conditions and in milk conditions in Portland during 1914 and 191S ars shown by the annual report of City Health Officer Mareellus, submitted yesterday to Mayor Albee. The report shows a decrease in the death rate, a decrease in the Infant mortality rate and great improvement in the quality of milk sold in the city. "Your attention." reads the report, "is directed to the results obtained In the milk subdivision, especially the low bacterial counts of the raw dairy milk consumed in Portland. The showing I consider to be almost phenomenal and a marked improvement over the results obtained one year ago.. Fifty-one per cent of the 5000 samples gathered dur ing the year contained under 10.J00 bac teria to the cubic centimeter; s per cent under 20.004); 90.S under 50,000: 95.3 under 100,000, and most remarkable of all. 9S.1 per cent under 200.000. which is the maximum permitted by ordi nance. In other words, almost all of the raw dairy milk consumed in Port land Is now complying with the law in this respect. CompacAeon with other cities would soon enlighten the most careful critic. . "I wish to emphasize the reduction in Portland's mortality rate during the year 1914. In 1913 the crude rate was 9.5 per 1J00 population, while in 1914 it was 9.1, showing a reduction of near ly one-half of 1 per 1000, and. as has been reported in the public press. I be lieve it is the lowest in the United States in cities in the registration area K 14'":' tf,$jMn on on Both Sides of Colombia River, With Ice Covering Part of River. (3) Chanticleer. (3) Mountain of Ice at Base of Multnomah mils, snowing torms that recently have swept this section the entire length of the Columbia h snow, making the famous scenic road more beautiful than it has even been a , 1- h,., a at shore what is known as the Columbia Gorge, are heavily burdened r of Henry Berger, Jr., in the wonder e few macmnes mat was powertui eno ugn to penetrate me aeep nuw diuw. the movie operator, motored as far as Multnomah Falls, the base of which n of considerable magnitude. which had 100,000 or over inhabitants in 1910. "It Is also very gratifying to learn that our infant mortality rate in babies -under 2 years of age from diar rhea and enteritis in 1915 is reduced from 3.6 to 3.4 per 1004 births, being a reduction of one death for the year over the preceding year, which is cer tainly worth while. I might add in this connection that in 1909 the rate was 32.6 per 1000 births, or 100 deaths for 1909 as against 14 for 1915." BIG TIMBER DEAL APPROVED Olympic Forest Transfer Is 28,666, 000 Feet at $30,000. The district forester of this city has just approved the sale of 28.660.000 feet of timber on the Olympic Xational Forest to the Carlsborg Mill & Timber Company, of Seattle. The total valua tion of the timber sold approximates 130.000. The timber sold is situated on the Dosewallips River, in, township 26 north, range 3 west, and consists of 23.490,000 feet of Douglas fir. 2.840.000 feet of cedar, 2,000,000 feet of hemlock and 330,000 feet of grand fir. The prices paid for the timber were $1.10 for Douglas fir, J1.50 for the cedar and 50 cents for the hemlock and cand fir. Ix-tter Suspect to Be Sent Here. Charged with the theft of letters from the mails, John Schofield, aged 17, a postal messenger at Salem, was held there yesterday following his arrest by Salem officers. ' and Deputy United States Marshal Jackson went to the Capital to bring . him to Portland, where he will face trial in Federal Court. It is said he was suspected of abstracting letters from the mails, and that he was caught, following his ar rest, with marked letters in his posses sion, I i; III " lip Photos Copyright, F. I. Jones. I fi.n'rav tWa and I tin h II a In color pictures, was fortunate enough HOME BURNS; SUET FACED FIRE IX PETER I" THOMPSON'S RESIDENCE REVEALS VISIT. Fire Marshal Reports Ashes Found in Wooden Box and Gasoline Kept in Forbidden Manner. Peter L. Thompson. Irvington resi dent, not only lost his $4,000 home at 814 Halsey ' street, including $1000 worth of cut glass and china, by fire Friday night, but. was arrested yester day morning and must face charges of violating the law requiring that ashes bo kept , in metal containers and also that gasoline cannot be kept in the house without a permit and in ap proved cans. - His case will 'come be fore the - Municipal Court Monday. The discovery of the wooden ashbox and the irregular gasoline container was reported by the firemen who worked to save the house last night. The fire occurred while Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were taking friends to the train, and was discovered by H. F. Eckhart. next-door neighbor. Fire Marshal Stevens declares that this is but the first arrest of many such expected within the next few days. Nine months ago he and his assistants commenced an educative campaign in which property , owners were warned of the provisions of the law. He says Mr. Thompson was warned October 18. Since the first of the year the snow and added danger of fire has kept all the men close to the stations, but steps will be taken to investigate alleged violations. Furthermore, he announces that wherever violations are found ar rests will be made. Not only ashes, but all rubbish must be kept in metal cans, says the fire marshal. - Booking sheets received by Carl Rei- ter, manager of the Orpheum, indicate that many stars are en route along the vaudeville circuit and will appear in Portland before the beginning of the Summer season. William Hock, famous the world over as a dancer and come dian, makes his first' appearance at the Orpheum today and the 1st from now until late May is dotted with the names of notables. These, in the order of their sched uled appearance here, include Bessie Clayton, premiere American danseuse Brandon Hurst and company, Caliste Conant. tuneful tale-teller; Joe How ard and Evelyn Clark, Gertrude Hoff mann and her company of 60 in "Su murun," Mary Servess in "The Passion Play of Washington Square," Marie Ca hill, Harry Green and company in "The Cherry Tree," Lillian Kingsbury in "The Coward, Ciccolini, famous tenor, and Fritzi Scheft. Bessie Clayton, long known as "The Darling of Terpsichore," will be star of the Orpheum show during the week of January 23. She is supported by Lester Sheehan and the Clayton Sextet in "The Dances of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." Miss Clayton recent ly completed a three years' tour abroad and scored sucn success sne was naiiea as "The World's Greatest Dancer." New Name In Vaudeville. Caliste Conant is a new star in the vaudeville firmament. She is "a mu sical humorist," who plays her own accompainments on the piano while she sings and talks in a dozen dialects. Brandon Hurst and his own company will present "The Girl," a playlet which first won recognition in a gambol of the Lambs' Club in New York. Of especial interest here in connection with this act is the fact that Frank Dekum, a Portland boy, is a member of the cast. In his present Orpheum tour, Joseph Howard, most prolific writer of pop ular songs in the United States, is ac companied by Miss Evelyn Clark, Ill ness preventing Miss Mabel McCann from making the trip. Mr. Howard will be at the Orpheum January 30. Miss Hoffman on Way. ' Gertrude Hoffman and her big com pany will preside at the Orpheum throughout the week of February 6 in "Sumurun," a wordless musical play in eight scenes, which is extolled as the greatest production ever seen in vaude ville. "Sumurun" is based on several stories in "The Arabian Nights." "The Passion Play of Washington Square" is the newest thing in play lets. It is presented under the per sonal direction of Martin Beck. The locale of the story is in a playwright's studio in Washington Square; in New York. The story concerns the love af fair of the playwright and shows how he wins his bride against the wishes of her mother. Marie Cahill is scheduled to appear at the Orpheum February 20. Miss Cahill has starred in "Nancy Brown,' Moonshine," "Marrying Mary," "The Boys and Betty," "Judy Forgot, Ninety in the Shade," and a dozen other successes. "The Cherry Tree" Is Comedy. "The Cherry Tree," of which Harry Green is star, is a comedy written around a highly dramatic situation. It is a Hebrew sketch, and Mr. Green has the only Jewish role in the piece. 'The Coward. featuring Lillian Kingsbury, was written by Ethel Clif ton and. Brenda Fowler, former mem bers of the Baker Players. This act will be the headline attraction during the week of March 12. Ciccolini, famous tenor, will be at the Orpheum March 19. His musical director is Carlo Edwards, son of Mrs. Charles Edwards, of Portland. Fritzi Scheff will headline the Or pheum show in a new act early in April. BIRDS FEED ON CAMPUS Beed College Has Clever Device for Feathered Guests. During the recent cold and stormy weather the wild birds in iastmore land havo found food and refuge on the Reed College campus. Bruce Horsfall and Walter Carl, superintend ent of trrounds and buildings, fore seeing that the snow-covered ground would afford the birds small chance of food, arranged special feeding places for them. A clever little feeding-house is placed on a pivot and a vane is attacnea so that the side, which is left open, may always be away from the wind. This affords the birds a sheltered place in wjiich to feed and rest from the storm. without at the same time Deing en closed enough to excite their fears. HOCKEY LEADS TO ARREST Enthusiast Attempting to Walk Into Hippodrome Is Arrested. . n lf1f T. .7 nnnnt,nlloril(i desire to see the hockey game at the Ice Hippodrome Friday night, but he lacked the price, so he waited until the game was well under way, then walked m. The gatekeepers were watching tne .. K, 1-. .i r ttnri r n o ova nn Tne door and protested his entrance. V. Hff Mo lira a r rum ucio di,& ....... w arrested for disorderly conduct, said disorderly, conduct anegea to nave cun fnnjn, thp HnAM to train ad mittance. The youth declares he forced no doors, Dut merely waiaea in. ine case will come before the court Mon day. HIDE HELD NOT BOBCAT Game Warden Withholds Bounty in Skin of Domestic Animal. . The skin that was sent to F. M. Brown, chief clerk in the office of the State Game Warden, for identification has been declared to oe not tnat or a bobcat the animal that it was snot for but that of a housecat, whose wild association has increased its size. The cat was sent to the state game department by Stacy Russell, County Clerk of Lane County, to whom the hunter had taken it to collect the county bounty of $2 offered for bob cats. Mr. Russell was undetermined as to the identity of the animal, and sent its skin to Mr. Brown. The skin win be returnee to air. itus- sell. W - GABRILOWITSCH THE wonderful, rich, contralto tones of Clara Clemens and the genius of Gabrilowitsch. the great Rus sian pianist, will be heard to advantage in a programme of unusual interest next Friday, January 21, when they ap pear at the Heilig, direction of Steers & Coman. This is the first visit of Mrs. Gabrilo witsch to Portland, and, as the posses sor of a most rare and delightful voice, a dramatic temperament and a naive sense of. humor inherited from her father, Mark Twain, .she is sure to make a host of friends and receive an ovation. In Europe she already has achieved a reputation as one of the world's fore most Lieder singers, and the profound beauty of Schumann's "Widmung," as she sings it, will win Portland to the same opinion. Rachmaninoff's "Orien tal Song" will prove a revelation, as also will an enchanting love song by VOCATIONAL WORKTOPiG MR. ALDERMAN . SPEAKER FOR WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE. ' Dr. Holland Will Be Asked to Make Address, and Dinner for Coach Diets Is on Programme, "Vocational Training" formed; the subject for discussion '-at the regular luncheon of the Oregon -Alumni Asso ciation of Washington State College which was held at the University Club Friday noon. In addition officers were elected.. Those chosen were: Mil ton Reed Klepper,. '07,. president; Dr. C. E. Morrison, . '02, vice-president, and Dr. Thomas Anders, '03, secretary treasurer. Superintendent . Alderman was the guest of honor and delivered the prin cipal address. ,He characterized voca tional training as the thing which was to save the Republic. The association has been taking an interest in the development of voca tional training in the Portland schools and it was decided, to invite Dr. Hol land, president of Washington3tate College, to come to Portland and de liver an address on the -subject of vo cational training in the near future. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the retention of Coach Diets by . the college. Mr. Dietz will be in Portland in about a month and it was decided to give him a dinner at that time. , It was decided to hold luncneons tne second Saturday of each month at the University Club. The members oi tne association are: Dr. C. E. Morrison, Dr. S. L. Brown, Dr. W. E. Harrison, Ben Torpen, Milton Reed Klepper, A. H. Abel, Dr. Thomas Anders, James Blair, L. M. Buck, Harry Chambers, A. B. Coales, H. B. Evans, C. E. Guernsey, Dr. Fessler, . Dr. C. M. Barbee, B. Glaisyer, J. H. McKenzie, Edward Hall and Edward Pape. KILLING IS TOLD. IN COURT Indian Put on Trial Second Time as Besnlt of Stabbing. Witnesses before Judge Wolverton, in Federal Court yesterday, testified as to the killing of Eugene Isaacs, a Klamath Indian, last July, by Joe Brown, who is on trial for second- B WITH "ST. Get a Small Trial Bottle-Rub Pain, Soreness, Stiff ness Right Out of Joints and Muscles-Instant Relief! Best Liniment, Doesn't Blister Rheumatism is "pain only." Not one case in fifty requires internal treat ment. Stop drugging. -Rub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" right into your sore, stiff, aching joints and muscles, and relief comes instantly. "St.' Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheu matism and backache liniment which never disappoints. - Limber up! Quit complaining! Get - .o-.' : : X AND CLARA, C LEMONS. Gabrilowitsch, given here for the first time. 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Isaacs was stabbed during an alter cation, to which relatives and neigh bors of the dead man testified yester day. Their story was that Isaacs had gone to Brown's house to remonstrate against the latter having driven across Isaac's land, cutting a wire fence to do so. Brown is said to have ordered Isaacs off his farm and, as he was leaving, he was attacked and stabbed three times by Brown. Isaacs died two ' days later. It is the contention of Brown's attorneys that he acted in self-defense, fearing bodily injury from Isaacs. Bcclaimcd Land Up for Lease. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Jan. IB. (Special.) About 300 additional acres of the reclaimed lands in the bed of Tule Lake are being advertised by the Reclamation Service for lease for the coming three-year period, beginning March 1. The land is being leased in tracts of not to exceed 80 acres to one person, at a rate of not less than 60 cents an -acre a year. Sealed bids are now being received. 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