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COLD BLAST L
ALL PORT
LAID IN ICE
Navigation on Willamette and
Columbia Ends.
WATER SUPPLY IN DANGER
Stall Run Current Curtailed and
Consumption Is Excessive; De
liveries BartiaUy Resume.
COLD WEATHER STATISTICS
CURRENT I! PORTIiAWD.
Forecast Continued clear
weather, and not quite so cold.
Navigation on Willamette and
Columbia suspended, with two
essels locked in ice pack.
Fuel and milk errice slightly
Improved, but no promise of
normal deliveries until traffic
conditions are bettered.
Yesterday waa the coldest De
cember record since 1879, with
a minimum of 2.7 above xero.
Warning issued to water
tie era of threatened shortage in
city supply.
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degrrees above zero, reaching the minimum
of 3 degrees above on the 14th and did not
ret above the freezing point until the 20lh.
Duration. 13 days.
December. 1879 Began December 19, at
94 degrees above zero, reaching the mini,
mum of 3 degrees above on the 23d and
continuing at freezing temperatures until
the 26th. Duration. S days.
February. 1883 Began February 1. at
22 degrees above zero, reaching the mini
mum of 7 degrees above on the 5th and
continuing at freezing temperatures until
the 12th. Duration. 12 days.
February. 1884 Began February T. at
22 degrees above zero, reaching the mini
mum of 7 degreese above on the 12th and
continuing at freezing temperatures until
the 18th. Duration. 12 days.
February, 1SS7. Began on February 1,
at 25 degrees above zero, reaching the
minimum of 9 degrees above on the 4th.
end continuing at freezing temperatures
until the 18th. Duration 1J days.
January. 1SS8. Began January 4. at 26
degrees above zero, reaching the minimum
of 2 degrees below zero on the 15th. con
tinuing at freezing temperatures until the
23d. Duration 20 days.
January, 1909. Began on January 6 at
17 degrees-above zero, reaching the mini
mum of 6 degrees above on the 12th, and
continuing at freezing temperatures until
the 15th. Duration 11 daya
December. 1915-January,. 1916 Began i
nrr.H.. OH . f ( : . .
"- i.i.iurj o i ,icmiiis tem
peratures until February 0, reaching mini
mum of 13 degrees above on January la
Duration 41 days, with but four that rose
above freezing. II was this period that
ushered In the last "silver thaw." which
came with snow on January 39 and turned
to rain and sleet on February 2.
Temperatures In City Vary.
"We have any number of argu
ments with people who say that their
thermometers gave lower readings
than the official temperatures."
laughed E. L. Wells, chief of the local i killed
neauier uureau, ana it s nara to ex
plain to them.
"Of course, some of the instru
ments, a great many, are utterly un
reliable, while others are of standard
make and fully to be trusted. But
folks seem to forget that Portland
covers a fairly large territory, and
that while it may be 3 degrees above
by our instruments, it is quite pos
sible that it is either colder or warm
er in some more remote section of
the city.
SLAIN MAN JEALOUS,
SAYS WCMHI FB1EHD
Mrs. Siverly Asserts Chap
man Suicide With Gun.
MURDER THREAT ALLEGED
Marriage Proposal to Woman Pre
paring for Second Divorce Is
Bared by Seattle Officers.
keep, the ice sheath from forming.
Navigators are agreed, however, that
if the Willamette should block with
ice floes at its junction with the Co
lumbia, nothing could save the Port
land harbor from complete blockade.
Navigation at Standstill.
Navigation on both streams is ut
terly at an end for the duration of the
Ice jams that have barricaded the
Willamette and the Columbia at sev
eral points. The only movement In
Tortland harbor yesterday was the
return of the steamer Lurllne from
Victoria dolphins, some distance down
the harbor, to her own moorings at
Alder street dock.
The strong current' of the Columbia
is gorged with ice at Coble, on the
Oregon shore, and at Kalama, on the
Washington side of the river, effectu
ally preventing th passage of ves
sels. Two boats that hazarded the
attempt are locked fast in the ice
Jam. They are the wooden steamer
Brook wood and the steel steamer
Manhara. From the former vessel one
of the crew walked ashore to tele
phone a report of their plight.
River Rampage Feared.
Fear of high water following the
break-up, of a river rampage that will
.reach flood stage as it has under
similar circumstances once or twice
before continues to be voiced by
close observers of the streams. Should
a Chinook wind or a spell of balmy
weather come abruptly, with the
ground rendered impervious by frost,
the entire weight of the tremendous
enow blanket will be rushed into the
rivers. Alone or accompanied by rain,
this contingency could not fail to
bring about an epochal rise in the
Willamette, it is said.
But the weather, bureau, consulting
its chronicles, advlsos that the ma
jority of such conditions as now ex
ist have passed without flood, the
snow fading away before a gradual
Increase in temperature. The pos
sibility of high water is present, it is
said, but not necessarily probable.
Deliveries Partially Restored.
With the packing of snow drifts in
the residential districts and the re
sumption of traffic on all main ar
teries of travel, deliveries of milk and
fuel are to some extent restored,
though the shortage is still general
and disconcerting. Fuel dealers, in
undated with rush orders, are sort
ing out the most accessible and the
most urgent and are giving these
their attention. It is predicted that
this phase of the city's cold weather
plague will pass by the first of the
week.
Street car service returns to nor
mal this, morning, with . the final
clearance of the last line. Eastmore
land, Thirteenth street and the out
bound end of the Hawthorne avenue
tracks were opened last night the
close of the titanic task that has oc
cupied the street railway company
since the storm abated. Though no
cars are as yet operating on perfect
schedule, service is being given on all
lines and may be said to be prac
tically normal.
Plumbers Crowded With Work.
Out of the teeth .of the storm and
tho cold snap the plumber, of Port
land have taken Sr.ore rush orders
than ever before in the local annals
of their skillful calling. Every Port
land plumber has long lists of wait
ing patrons whose residence water
systems have been broken and placed
out of commission- by the freezing
temperatures. Hot-water tanks.
kitchen sinks, bathrooms and all the
paraphernalia that furnishes Bull Run
water to the homes of For .land have
been In peril for several nights ast
ana not less than a fc-w thousand of
them have given up the contest.
Danger threatens the city water
supply unless the weather abates
within the next day or so, accor ing
to txperts of the water bureau. The
intake at Bull Run is Jammed with ice
and the current that feeds the city's
water system is consequently cur
tailed. Strenuous efforts are being
made to clear the barrier away be
fore it blocks the system at Its source.
Faucets Left Running.
While a shortage is one of the
threats of the near future, the city is
consuming vast amounts of water
dally In excess of the ordinary de
mand owing to the fact that fearful
residents, in order to ward away
frost from plumbing, leave the faucets
running at night An urgent, call
"has been issued for the discontinu
ance of this practice.
"Water users are urgently requested
to shut the water off in their base
ments," runs an appeal Issued by F.
M. Randlett. chief engineer of the
water bureau, "to keep the same from
freezing, rather than allowing the
- same to run from the taps or faucets.
" The consumption of water in the city
at present is 40,000,000 gallons in
excess of our capacity. If this con
tinues the fire menace may become
serious."
Spell Runs 12 Days.
w The present "spell of weather" in
Portland has endured for 12 days. It
) ,. began December 2. with freezing tem
'.. " peratures and turned into the actual
. cold snap following the snow storm
; Since December 8 the temperature has
at HO time been above freezing, nor
r.j has it been on the warm side of 21
Wi-,i degrees above zero since December 9.
.ir- Other cold spells in Portland have
M:;l been of lesser and longer duration
affording in this instance scope for
, .. .. both pessimism and optimism. Cold
weather records are:
January, 1ST5 Beean January 8, at Z2
Wide Differences Possible.
"The temperature that we give is
the temperature of the air. Ther
mometers exposed to the sky get
colder than the air does. I know
that's difficult to explain to the lay
man, but it's so. But they do, just
as the ground gets colder than the
air during a spell of weather such
as we now are having. Many ther
mometers are placed near the ground,
most of them, in fact, and the exces
sive cold of the earth is radiated to
them. Another thing, cold air is
heavier than warm and it settles, fur
ther influencing the thermometers of
private observers.
"On Friday, when our lowest offi
cial reading was 4 degrees above
zero, a thermometer at the home of
Frank Gillam. chief clerk in this of
fice, registered 3 degrees below zero.
He lives at East Twenty-fifth and
Schuyler streets, and the instrument
is a standard one. I cite this merely
to show that, in actual fact, there
may be fairly wide differences in
temperature in different parts of the
city."
Hatchery Salmon Die.
The state fish and game commis
sion has its own bevy of troubles
brought about by the cold snap, and
chief of these is the attendant
tality among the tiny
Bonneville hatchery. With the water
supply system frozen, the pools in
which the fish are kept become stag
nated and hundreds of the small
salmon literally suffocate in their
native element.
"The -situation is not so bad as it
was in 1916, during the silver thaw."
said State Game Warden Shoemaker
last night. "We have lost , numbers
of fish, but we are 'combating the
situation by hauling and . carrying
fresh water to the pools and by thus
serving the double purpose of .re
plenishing and aerating the water."
WIFE ASKS FOR $25,
MRS. B. I. CASE CHARGES US-
GOVERNABLE TEMPER.
Frequent Beatings, One of Which
Dislocated Sfose, Alleged in
Action for Divorce.
A divorce action in which one-third
of property valued at $75,000 is de
manded by the wife was filed in the
circuit court yesterday by Mrs. Belva
I Case against Robert A: Case, son
of a late hotel man of Portland. Since
their marriage in August, 1916, Mrs.
Case discovered that her husband
possessed an ungovernable temper,
she asserts, dislocating her nose
within two months of marriage, at
tacking her until the police- were'
called last June and choking and
beating her last month.
During a two weeks' visit of her
father. Mrs. Case declares, her hus
band was intoxicated every night.
He spent 30 days in jail In December.
1917, for. bootlegging, sha further
charges. Temporary alimony and a
fee- of $500 for Attorney Frank J.
Streibig are requested.
, Asserting that Marion A. Tucker
was sentenced to 25 years' imprison
ment in the military prison at Alca
traz Island In 1918 for desertion. Mrs.
Edna E. Tucker seeks a divorce. Her
last Information 'vaa that the sen
tence has been reduced to two years,
she adds.
Other divorce suits filed were:
Sadie E. Mathes against Ernest V.
Mathes and Jesse F. Morrison against
Iva M. Morrison.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec 13. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. HUlle Mae Siverly, 42. is
held in the county jail as the result
of the discovery of alleged blood
stains oh her dress, after she had no
tified Deputy Sheriff Smith of Enum
claw at 11 A. M. yesterday that Wal
ter Chapman. 85. of Tacoma. had
himself with a rifle In her
home, two miles from Enumclaw, an
hour and a half previously.
She denied knowledge of the stains
vt hen questioned by Chief Deputy
Coroner Corson. Twice married, once
divorced and preparing for another
divorce, she told Corson that Chap
man was the man she loved and that
she would have made him her third
husband had he lived.
Despite her assertions of love for
the dead man. she admitted that she
had been "keeping company" with
John Swain, a farmer of Enumclaw,
and that Chapman was jealous and
angry when he discovered it.
Woman Lives Alone.
Mrs. Siverly lived alone in the
house. She met Chapman when he
was employed on her present hus
band's farm at Wenatchee. and says
her husband agreed to get a divorce.
She left him, came to Enumclaw, and
has been living there sinco November
11, 1918. except when she visited
Chapman at his home in Hood River,
Or., for a week last New Year's.
Chapman had been working for the
Old Town Mill company in Tacoma.
several times she visited him, she
says. On two previous occasions he
had visited at her home.
"He was also angry with me be
cause l refused to go with him," she
told the officers.
Murder Threat Asserted.
Tm going to kill you and then my- J
self," she says he threatened. -
"Instinctively when I heard the
shot I knew what Walt had done,"
she told Sheriff Stringer again today.
"I ran to my brother Charley, who
had just come In the gate, and told
him Hd rucsViari tn rr- v.
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salmon at .""t",l.'? Z u"e"' "e wenl
u i -1 .i 1 1 o o ii n luLiu (.i tnapmao lying
dead on the floor. I did not go up."
"Ho was still gasping." her brother.
Charley Christiansen. Eaid.
The awkward position of the rifle
puzzled the sheriff. The "body was
propped against a bed and a table.
The gun stood, muzzle down, against
another bed, two feet away. The
brother and sister say they touched
nothing in the room. The gun could
not have fallen in that position, says
Corson. - .
' Stains Fonnil on Shoea.
Corson says he found blood stains
on the soles of Chapman's shoes. A
letter written by Mrs. Siverly to
Chapman was found among Chapman's
effects. It was dated December 21,
1918. Chapman was in Hood River,
Or., at the time. It read:
"Dear Walt: Just a line to let you
know I think of you often. I will try
and leave here the day after Christ
mas to visit you. Let me know if It's
all right as soon as you get this.
"Love, Mae."
Mrs. Siverly was born in Germanv
and came to this country when young.
She does not remember the date of her
first marriage. Siverly is her second
husband, she says. Their divorce plan
was for her to desert him. This she
did November, 1918. They were to be
divorced this month. She says she
did not Want any of the property.
Letters Are Bnrned.
Chapman wanted her to marry him
at once. She urged that he work and
save for two years, and then she
would marry him. she declared. He
did not agree to this plan. Thurs
day- night he burned all the letters
they had exchanged, according to her
story.
The bullet entered Chapman's right
temple, tore the top of his skull off
and lodged in the ceiling almost di
rectly above him.
Chapman's mother and .-ither live
In Rolling Green, Fla. They were
notified of the death Saturday.
Charley Christiansen is a logger
employed at Granite Falls. His
brother, William Henry, also is em
ployed there.
Coroner C. C. Tiffin announced that
an inquest will be held at Enumclaw
at 10 o'clock Mondaynorning.
Chapman's body was rei. oved from
the ranch to an undertaking estab
lishment In Enumclaw Sjtu-day. The
sheriff's office reported that he had
no relatives in this part of the coun
try. He was not married. He had
lived in the Pacific northwest for
more than ten years.
FEAR OF WIFE IS EXCUSE
Laborer Explains Why He Is Car
rying Concealed Revolver.
When he was arrested at East Thir
tetnth street and Umatilla avenue on
a charge of carrying concealed weap
ons, Frank Giebel. laborer, is said to
have told Police Officer Wilson that
he had been earrying the .32 auto
matic pistol found on him, for pro
tectton against his wife.
Giebel said he had had trouble with
his wife, and admitted buying the
pistol in Vancouver. Wash., several
days ago, the officer reported. Giebel
will be tried In municipal court Monday.
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LOGGER TREATED TO RIDE
Good Samaritan Prefers Charges
,t Drnnkenncss Against Passenger.
When Policeman C. E. Klingen
smith was returning from a call oh
the east side with the police sleigh
he passed Robert Wall, logger, who
was laboriously making his way
through the drifts.
"Want to rid'' asked the officer,
and VVall climbed aboard.
Wall thoroughly enjoyed the nov
eltv of a sleigh ride until he reached
the police station, where a charge of
drunkenness was placed against him.
"That's a deuce of a way to treat
a friend." he told the officer.
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN.
Roosevelt Memorial Committee.
Judge Jacob Kanzier. Multnomah county
chairman.
Press Club. Elks Building. Portland
Dollars
I des-re to give Cents
which 1 encioee herewith to the fund to erect a
memorial to the memory of the late Theodore
Roosevelt and to become a member of the Roose
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LEGION DUTIES RESIGNED
BARGE E. LEONARD-GIVES CP
COMMITTEE POST.
tlon might be misconstrued as legion
activity in politics.
In his letter of resignation. Mr.
Leonard asserts belief that he can be
of more service to the country at
present In working for the election of
a man of the type of General Wood
than In active work for the American
Legion, of which he remains an en
thusiastic member and supporter.
department of the credit I cil delegates have been repeatedly
of I warned that unless tney patronisaa
Action Taken In View of Intended
Participation in Campaign of
General Leonard Wood.
Resignation of Barge E. Leonard
as chairman of the finance and also
of the special features committee of
the Oregon department.
Name
Address
Town or City .....
The Roosevelt Memorial spoctatlon has been organised to raise a $3,000,000
fund to be utilized as follows
ill To erect s monuTnen- to Theodore Roosevelt In Washlns-ton. D C:
2 to acquire and maintain a puo.lc pa-k at Oyster Bay N T . ultimately to
include Sagamore Hll. the Roosevelt boroe to be preseri'ed like the Washing
ton estate at Mount Vernon and the home of Mr Lincoln at Springfield.
;! to endow the Roosevelt Uemona association as a nauona- socle Ly to per
petuate Theodore Roosevelt's Ideals of American citizensbip
Every donor to the fund nil! receive 9 certificate ol membership bearing a
amal. portrait of Theodore Roosevelt and sril. become a member of the Roose
velt Memorial association. The names of al. contributors will be deposited in
Uie national memoruv at Washington. D C when erected.
DRIVERS' PERMIT WANTED
Kltvanls Club Indorses Campaign
to' Prevent Carelessness.
The passage of a state law requir
ing the driver of an automobile to
American i carry a license issued by tne secre-
V . . ,..,, , 1 tary of state, giving permission to
Legion, was tendered William B. Fol- dr(ve a mach1ne ia urged by the Ki-
lett of Eugene, state commander, yes- I wan;s club of Portland in resolution
terday, in view of his intended ac- i adotted by that organization.
tivity in the presidential campaign of! The club also indorses an educa
General Leonard Wood. j tional campaign to impress upon the
Mr. Leonard formerly was state . public the need of care In driving
treasurer of the American Legion and 1 cars and In crossing streets. The
one of the state organisers of the resolutions also declare that the club
ex-service men. He attended the pre- 1 heartily supports the police of the city
liminary caucus of the American
Legion at St. Louis last May and was
en Oregon delegate at the nationa
convention in Minneapolis last month
In resigning, it Is said, Mr. Leonard
Is acting from a desire not to en
tangle the legion In any way in po
litical affairs. At the national con
vention the legion incorporated in its1
constitution a ban against the hold
ing of any office in the legion by a
man who is a candidate for political
preferment. This does not affect the
status of Mr. Leonard, but he declared
yesterday that he felt, as did Dow V.
Walker, General Wood's campaign
manager in Oregon, who resigned
from the executive committee of
Portland post of the legion, that hi'
connection with the state organixa-
In their efforts to enforce the traffic
laws and "iirgts that every driver in
the city should be required to secure
a copy of and become familiar with
the traffic laws.
"All accidents are the result of
carelessness on the part of either
drivers or pedestrians, and are pre'
ventable," the resolutions declare.
CREDITORS TAKE STORE
Labor May Regain Control of Btate
Exchange.
The State Exchange store, operated
by the Portland Central Labor coun
cil, waa taken over last week by the
adjustment
men's association tor the benefit
the creditors, but under a reorgani
zation programme which is now being
considered it is possible that the store
will be turned back to its owners to
morrow night. The financial difficul
ties of the store werj declared to be
but temporary, according to officers
of the credit men'a association.
The State Exchange Is operated by
organised labor, but its patronage
among union men Is said not to have
been as satisfactory as was expected.
At recent meetings of the labor coun-
the store with more willingness
vjpuld meet with difficulties.
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Boy at Play Is Injured.
ItOSEBURG, Or., Dec. 13. (Spo
cial.) Dale Hatfield, a Roseburg
high school student, while scuffling
with another student for possession
of a snowball, suffered a compound
fracture of his right leg when he
was thrown to the ground.
QUIT MEAT IF YOUR BACK HURTS
FLUSH YOUR KIDNEYS WITH SALTS
Meat Forms Uric Acid, Which
Clogs Kidneys, Irritates Blad
der or Causes Rheumatism.
- When you wake op with backache
and dull misery in the kidney region It
generally means you have been eating
too much meat, says a well-known
authority. Meat forms uric acid
which overworks the kidneys in their
effort to filter it from the blood and
they become sort of paralysed and
loggy. When your kidneys get slug
gish and clog you must relieve them,
like you relieve your bowels: remov
ing all the body's urinous waste, else
you have backacne, sick headache,
dlxzy spells; your stomach sours,
tongue ia coated, and when the
weather Is bad you have rheumatic
twinges. The u.-lne U cloudy, full of
sediment, channels often get sore,
water scalds and you are obliged to
seek relief two or three times during
the night.
Either consult a good, reliable
physician at once or get from your
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take a tablespoonf ul in a glass
of water before breakfast for a few
days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the Acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been
used for generations to clean and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize acids in the urine so it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is a life saver for regu-
lar meat eaters. It is inexpensive, ;
cannot injure and makes a delight
ful, effervescent lithia-water drink.
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Charge tn One Hottle or alure
to Year Address.
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