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PORTLAND, OREGON. FRIDAY V EVENING. JANUARY 4, 1907. TWENTY -PAGES.
VOL. V. NO. 281.
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Highest Flood Stage to
Be Reached Saturday.
Warning to Shippers
Has Been Issued
-The tJ'IUametta river Is risinc rmptdly
a a rtnult of the havy rains ino last
Wdnear ntit nd h dtapr Hm
Twilf.fj:n,,..fcrfw., ' TM'rlr 'flH.
' cuter Edward A. BeIi la KPlB clo
tab en th ra and baa already, warned
77 tenants along 'front trct againat Vr&r
j . ln fooda where they may be reached
-.7 by the -water which will probably enter
many cellar tomorrow, when, a stage
of IT .feet wHl Hkely1 b reached, and
' , poielbly 1 feet Sunday, .- . r'"
. ' While bulletlnili will not be taaileg
except on the regular time thoFS wth
Ing Information may aecura H by-tele-!n
po4u to the Wept her barwawhera
.'report are constantly being, reed yed
vsj. from point all along the appor WUlaro-
Vtv'r: '''' ' -: ',
. JMpld allaa at fcareaa. 7 - "
- The rlne of the rlvr- at-Bugeha dur
ng the night waa ao marked that Its
.effect wlU certainly and suddenly b
nottcad--tiT thl xvenlwg. Tha- rlaaJ
was UH feet. At Albany during .the
u 1 same time ifue ilse waa 7 feet "tnctiea;
and at 8lem tt was 8 feet lncheii.'The
, rtne at -Portland during the night was
4 feet and Inches. 1
' -The gauge In tire weather bureau ln
dlratee a Tlee of two-tenths of a foot
an honr today and Mr. Beala believes
that by. evening the rlne will be still
fanter. Since Wednesday night.- Janu
rXSibreg, .ndaqua.rter lnchea of
raln have fallen - in "rortlan3T and -thi
precipitation In the Valley has been
'about tha same. Mr.-- Seals declared
' that this amount Is no record breaker,
but tha rain was so Warm that It melted
' the snow In the mountains and hence
' caused a bigger fraahed than ordinarily
would 'hare - been caused by rain ' of
' similar duration. ; ; t " -;
, , ' WlU MM aWr Vast Mora. ,
.'. 1 Whlls the Indications are that th
Willamette will rise about seven feet
higher than It I at present. Mr. Beala
''believe that It will confine Itself to
th lower dock and th cellars on Front
" atreet, now that tha rainfall has bean
checked, " try and clear weather was
reported frorfi nearly tha entire Wlllem-
ette valley today, and this will :atstst
materially towards chocking tha tor
rents coming down the mountain.'
0 Although rain la predicted for to
night, Mr. Beak believes that th worst
of the storm has paased and that while
' th tenant along Front street will
' probably hav ' to eleVate their cellar-
'.stored roods ta extent of tho daraag
her will be nominal. The current will
be very swift, because th water is
coming from tha tributaries of th WIN
' lamrtie Instead, of being backed tip by
7 the Columbia, which 'Is mora often the
, cause of floods here, and shipping may
' be delayed fr a .few day until th sur
plus water has) found Its way to . the
' ses. 7 1 . .. ' -..-- - ,
' Hoatillttes n South America. '
' . (Joaroal gperlel Servlre.l , i ...
' Buenos Ayrea, Jan. 4-r-In a clash
' between, the police and people at-Per-'
manlng 13 citlscns were shot, ba-
0 lng killed outright I1 -
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Ayet Blanket on. Region - and Greatest Flood
; in Years Is Threatened Business in
;2 ; Towns Practically Suspended r ) ;
(Special Misttch to Th Jomal.
j Pullman, Wash.. Jan. Th heaviest
''snow in 10 years cover the Palous
'country and causes "much apprehension
among stockmen. Snow began falling
Wednesday night and continued with
fury until almost noon Thursday, when
it . turned to rain, and now th coun
try 1 threatened with a flodd equal to
that of last month. . v
, Snow Is 10 inches deep and Is so filled
with water that it la equal to almost
as much rain.. Travel by team-1 al
most Impossible and .business In. all
town' 1 practically suspended.
' ' Shesp at suffering aad serious loss
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With more favorable weather
conditions thr worst of the
storm seems past. . -
The blockade on the O. R. V
N. tratna Was lifted at noon. It
will be , several days before
through trafflo On the Southern '
"i'actno caii b Trenunted:
All rlver.i are , rising and
many out of bank. ha 'WIl-
famett will reach danger line
tonight and probably reach- Jt-
feet by Sunday, f .'
- Tha r)ver la tha highest In 21
years In Benton county. ..Docks
at Corvallls '" are washed out.
The city water works are dry. '
- At rRomburg people living on
lowlands hav beeh compelled to w
mov...x
Oattare .Grove was v under
watsr . lx -" hours ' lat . . nlht.''
Many' houses to Drain are sub-'
merged. t tt
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For Second Tim In SFirtyTfraji
'Traini Art Unabl to Reach (
Portland From Points
"East and South.
a' aecomf - tkme-- within ., days both
tVs .BoulKern Paelflo'ahd O. R. ft K.
main line reaching Portland from "tha
east and south war thla morning en
tirely cut' off snd train service par
alysed. -The sliding of a fill near Corn
stock; threw-' two" locomotives - Into ' a
gorge and wrecked northbound passen
ger train' No. I. Ijind slides at four
potnts on the O. - R. A roala Une
stopped all train service east and west.
Division fiuperlntenn'enT 7LT R. Fields
left for the seen of th wreck at Corn
stock and to make an Inspection of
track cdndltlona-along the line Today
the track 1 passable, aa far as Wood
burn. It Is expected to get the Cottage
O rove local through this evenflig. Tiie
delayed paasengera at that place will
be brought Into Portland this afternoon
ortomarrowmomlnav; Trains havto
be run wlthextreme care, a"11ie la
danger at many place where the road
bed 1 affected by tha heavy rains.
Four slides on tha-O. R, ft Nr-matn
Una' hav demoralised train service alnce
yesterday morning- Today another
smalt -slid between' Bridal Veil and
Latourell added two hours to tha last
stages of th delay. None of tha elides
was largw enough to warrant steam
shovel operations, . but they kept piling
earth and rocks slowly down on th
tracks, and held np all aat and west
bound trains nearly 4 hours, whll th
scattered . forces of Division Superin
tendent ' Campbell worked with shovels.
; Passengers Traasf erred.
Passengers on trains No. . 6, 7 and I
were transferred to th steamer Har
vest Quean at Bonneville yesterday aft
rnoon. and th steamer arrived at Port
land this morning with th first con
tingent. About 100 passengers Who
were unable to get berths on the boat
remained until today. Aa soon as,th
Harvest "Queen arrived her and dis
charged her passengers she left for Bon
nvllte to bring the remaining ones.
They will reach Portland this evening. .
- General Superintendent Buckley Is
out on th main line of th O. R. ft N.
Co. today trying to get his demoralised
train service reorganised. . Train No.
1 of yesterday left Th Dalle about
11:30 o'clock today, running west as a
special and doing mall and regular work
of No. I of yesterday. .Train No. i of
yesterday started east at -about the
same linvn, running special from Th
Dnlle and doing; local work bat hand
ling no mall. . 7, . ' ; . . .
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COVERED BY SHOW
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la feared. Railways are still open, but
streams aro rising rapidly and unless
cold weather come at one, another
serious flood la certain. Large forces
of men are at work strengthening th
roadbeds In weak places. (.-
Stockmen are rounding up stock, and
wlU hav to feed them hay to prevent
heavy - fcwts. - Hay Is scare and th
price Is rapidly advancing. During th
past two tnontha th precipitation ha
been more than IS Inches, which Is
within t Inches of1 th average rainfall
at Pullman for.th year. This Is be.
Iftved to asaur beavy, yield of grain
nukt summer, 1
BY STORM
Drain -and Cottage
Grove. .Suffer From
-StormBridge Out.
Stage Missing iii Hills
(Special Dheatca as The. JesraaLt
Drain. Or, Jan. .-Thls section lias
Just suffered on of tha moet terrlflo
rain storms ln Its lilstorx JJThs streams
are all out of their banks and aany
brklscs are washed away. Including th
new temporary railroad bridge over r.ia
creek, in South Drain, on the lln of th
new Drain-Cooa Bay railroad.
For t houra rain haa-fallen In tor
rents and this being- th lowest point In
all - this portion of th country, th
streams naturally rose very rapidly.
The water -was a its highest at t
o'clock' this morning, but has receded
bout two feet since that tlm. Th
rain apparently has cead and no fur
ther damage la anticipated. . . Many
bouses" in th lower portion of th
w- wore partially submerred.. espe
cially In South Drain, which lit built on
low bottom land. - Y . 4
-- Th . railroad track IS damaged In
many places 1 by washouts and slides,
mere being a very bad slid between
her and Oakland about 10 miles south
of her.. It i not likely that trains can
run again for several days. ,
A huge "slide occurred' on th county
rond-half s mile west of Drain which
will - require an immense amount of
work to dear off.. Yesterday's stag
from" Seottsburg has not yt arrived
and It la feared that it haa met with a
serious accident; . as no doubt most nf
th bridges between1 Drain and Scotts
burs are washed put. No doubt th
Joss of livestock throughout th valleys
is heavy. ' . v
frrt tare Grove -wea-Hmlee water -iaat
night for six hours. The First National
bank building had-five Inches of water
on The first floor, Th sidewalks suf
fered worst. . ;
RAILWAY LINE CUT
Fill . AVaxhed Out . Near . Salem
Heavy Rainfall Basements Filled
(Special Dispatch te Tb Jenmal.) v
Salem. Or., Jan. 4. Th effects of
th storm Sr already , demoralising
transportation. Th Southern Paclflo
Is blocked on th north by reason of a
washout two. miles north of Salem and
passengers are reaching hero by means
of th trolley lino from Chemawa,
About ISO feet of a fill on th Eckerleo
pine was swept away yesterday after
noon.'. -. "' . - ' 7. -. . '
. On th south the water has played
havoc and even Albany could not be
reached last evening.
In thl city most of th cellars of
dwellings snd the postofflco and Odd
Fellows building have their basements
filled with wster. The fir spparatus
has been put out of commission. Tele
phone and electric wires suffered much
from th violent wind.
Th preptpltatlon for th 14 hours
reached J.S1 Inches. - - .
FRENCH PRAIRIE A LAKE .
One, of Worst Htortns in Years .at
j UTvai Stock Snfferlng.'.
(Special tXasstch te Tha Journal. I 7 .
'Oervats, Or., Jan. 4. Commencing lust
night tine' of -the orst storms known
for years has rased -and the whole
Firm h Prslrl section Is literally under
water-., Th storm commenced and wus
accompanied with, high wlndiAtu llils
hour It Is Impossible to learn If sny
serious scctdents hav occurred In this
section. There "has' been much snow
and sleet recently snd stock has suf
fered greatly because preparations have
not been mart for their proper -rare.
All the maller streams tributary--to
th Oervsls section 'Sre badly swollen
and It may be Impossible for the rural
mall carriers to rover their routes,
MUST BE NAVIGATORS
Landlubbers Have No fluslnesaj Go
ing About at Forest Orore. . '
Forest Orov, Or., Jan'. 4.Thers wa
a strong wind her all Wednesday night
and th rain earn down In- torrents and
haa sine been falling, the result be
ing that a great .many sidewalks sre
inundated and tha drainage ditches and
creeks are booming with flood waters.
Those who venture out return with foot
gear filled with water unless they hav
on gum boots. The oldest Inhabitants
here say they have never seen so much
water on the ground from a rainfall of
qua! length of tlm, - - . . - . ,
DIVORCED TO WED
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Paris haa another divorce cas which has eclipsed the Castellane affair
lladame Lebargy. one of the moat beautiful women In France and an
actress so talented - that ah haa been spoken of aa the aircceaaor ot
' Sarah Bernhardt, has betn divorced by her husband. Added Inter
est la given to the case from the : fact that Madame Lebargjr desert
fd her husband for, the son of former President Caslmer Perler,
( whom she la to marry :' :: ; ' . '
BIBLE NOT
Baptist XIeiyman Writes-a-Book Tearing
Down Many orthe; Popular Fancies of
3 "V Orthodox Christianity .; ;
(Joarnal SpAHal Bervlee.i .
Chicago, . Jan. 4,-Rev. Dr. . William
C. , Sellack, pastor of th First Baptist
church, of . Providence, Rhode Island,
has written a book entitled "The New
Appreciation of the Bible,"'' Issued by
th Chicago' University press. In which
he tears down many of tho . popular
fancies of orthodox 'Christianity and
lauds th .higher .criticism. - 41 pre
sents a new view of the Hlble's vslue.
. ;-By false methods of Interpretation
or - absence of all method,,' th book
says, "the Bible has been mad to
teach almost every conceivable -doctrine
aiW to support many of terrible
wlckednrsa slavery. uolygamy ... Snd
th subjection of women, snd the ti
root of all these - erroneous teachings
'
GOOD FEATURES
In man or, woman are " fine
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west. 1 Some of . the .cleverest writers in thecountry employ
their pent-ii fnrnhinn matter of interest fr-the readers of The
, bunday Journal.-;
ALL THE NEWS
Everything that i wofth reading from every corner of the uni
verse is published in The Sunday Journal. To its already fine facili
ties for getting all the happening of the world The Sunday Journal
has added another newa-gatherino; agency, and nothing that is worth
printing is otnitted. The news is published, without color, or bias.
When you see tt in The Journal
THE COMICS
. " Hare lrfnVoe n aniong The Sunday Journal' mo.t popular fea
tures, and they will continue to be the best to be had in the country.
For women there are pages of health and beauty hints, fashions and
capital menus; for men, itories -of -bow-to-win success; - for -the
young;, games and puzzles and clever fiction '..''.,.
I IN THE. SUNDAY JOURNAL
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CASIMER-PERIER
has been th Idea , of plenary Inspire
tion and 'Infallibility ot the Scriptures.
"The Bible, should be considered
merely 'as a piece of Hteratura, as a
collection of ancient writings, not aa
a ' alngl book, 1 but a literary collec
tion 'of different book. ' '
u 'it contains . history,' philosophy,
poetry, Action, love stories, a hymn
book, maxims' for practical - conduct,
biographies, letters of spiritual coun
sel and friendly .correspondence and
ecstatic visions of seers and dreamers,
along with sermons that rebuke sin and
plend 'for uprightness with passional
ardor. ' ;. . .'"- -.. ..-
Tl'he quality of Its Utterunces ranges
(Continued on Pag Two.)
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recommendation; they ar; abso
-1 Tils at I aa 1 1 1 . -t i J 1 at al tl V aa W
you know its true. ;
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110 GROUNDS
FOR FISH'S
PREDICT!
Capitalists Say North
western People Need
Not Call a Financial
Undertaker
Mills, President of First Na
tional Bank, Declares This
Section Was Never More Pros
perous and That Panic Could
-JYot Seriously Affect It. :
There Is no need for peepl of the
northwest to follow Btuyvesant Fish's
prophcy 'and rail, tha. flnanclalunder-.
taker, according to local bankers and
capitalists. A financial crisis Is not Im
minent," they say, but even if a serious
depression should come th northwest
would not be effected.
Th ex-presldent of th Illinois Cen
tral railroad made a New Tear's pre
diction that tb present system of fren-
sled finance might precipitate m panic
Ha referred to th recent trend toward
Hearst and Bryan ss evidence ot unrest
and predicted a moral financial refor
mation like th religious reformation of
middle agea ... v.
Local financiers, while admitting that
the extravagance and j&therL symptoms
which usually precede. a. panto may
hav bad results, put little faith In Mr.
Fish s prediction. -
. b SiM W kortawesi,
. 'It Is perhaps true that th same fac
tors are at work which preceded th
former financial depression." said A. 1
Mills, president of the First NaTlonsl
bank, "and that there are evidences of
extra vaganco-rand-ot her hsblts which
mar lead to harm. Mr. Fish made th
sam talk. that was made by Schiff and
Vsnderllp.
"But th entire country and especially
th northwest was never so prosperous
as It Is today. Th northwest I en-
Joying an unprecedented period of pi"os
peritjr. ; Before the prevlqua deprisslon
It was a debtor, but Instead nf that It
Is now a creditor. So, even If a final).
clal "depression should occur. It could
not seriously affect th northwest.
Benjamin I. Cohen, president of th
Portland Trust Company of Oreaon,
thinks that Mr. Fish did not mean that
a financial panlo was Imminent; that he
merely feared a reaction after a period
of such msrvelous prosperity. ,
vryody Kakiar Money,
Titer' Is no reason to bellev that
this country will enjoy anything but
good times during th ' next year or
two," said Ms, Cohen. "Nearly every
on seems to be making money, and
even If there should be a reaction, there
Is nothing to lead us to believe that
It will occur within a year or so."
J. Thorburn Ross, president of tb
Title Guarantee A Trust company, says
that Mr. Fish Is sore because of his
recent experiences In Wall street. - flad
be looked st things In a different light,
he would never hav made such a pre
diction, t ; 7 1
"With reference to' Mr. Fish's pr
diction I think about It Just aa Mr.
Uould has expressed himself In recent
dispatches," said Mr. Ross. "Mr. Fish
had just been shorn In Wsll street and
naturally he was not feeling In the
most optimistic spirits. - His utter
ances and predictions were made some
what, bitter and gloomy by tho manner
in which he had been treated..
. ye around fot Oloem. - -
"1 have Jilsr returned from an extend
ed trip end had occasion to observe
financial conditions and to talk with
(Continued on Pag Two.)
HUGHES IS fll OF DESl'Y
New York Governor Now the Strongest Can
didate for Republican Nomination Is
i Actively Supported by Roosevelt
(Spatial Otasatrk t Taa loeraat.l
. Washington. Jan. 4. Oovernor
Hughes message has'made him s strong
candidal for th presidency In 1"
When he wsa suggested, soon after his
lection, ss Roosevelt's cholcs for his
successor politician called him "un
available because little known" snd
"small potatoes,'' and otherwise sought
to throw cold wster n th rising (lame
Of his popularity. ,
" Today It I admitted th governor of
New Tork la a formidable aspirant. Ills
strength lies In many polntfl which a
successful S'lmlnlstrstlnrt run only In
crease. All nthrr preaent cenilMalea
fere factions! fiahts In their oavh stairs,
r ara weak In cements regrJJ as es-
Ill Sd
PltOSECUIIOIl
Tenders Resignatiohto
Attorney - General in
Hermann CaseWill
Stay in Frisco :
Announces That He Will Do No
Other Work Until He Has Put
Stripes on Ruef and Schmitz
Gives Up Alt ' Business to
Devote Himself to That End.
' (Special Dlspatca k Taa Joarnal.
San Francisco. Jan. 4. Assistant IMi-
rtc.t.Attor.Ofy Francis, J Jieney has tfn
dered his resignationas special assist-"
ant to ' th attorWjr-a-enerat of th
Vnlied Statea In "the Blnger Hermann
land fraud cases In order that b may
remain In this city and finish his task
of prosecuting the municipal grafter.
Wtthln the past few days Mayor
Rchmlta and Abe Ruef have announced
to-th associated ' grafters that Heney
would leave the etty February 1 fur -
tn ostensible purpose or acting as
special prosecutor In th Blnger Her
mann case, which comes up for hearing
MsK-tbe flsimlnat department of the su
preme court of the plstrlct of Columbia .
February . . 7 '.v... .
Word was also passed that with tha
departure of Heney the graft Investl- '
gatlon and prosecution would collapse.
When Heney heard what the grafters
were saying he flushed with snger. II -said
:.-' .7
"I intend 'staying In San Francisco
until I Nvmfv one of the grafters
wearing1 strip I-havo-eewS-my rlg
nation as special prosecutor lnth ...
Blnger Hermann case to Attorney-General
Bonaparte. : - ----- - . -
. "I hav si veil up all government busi
ness In order to devote my whole tlm
to th task before me In San Francisco,
and until I hav completed It success
fully I shall not leave the city."
PASSENGERS HAD TO BE
-CHOPPED OUT OF CARS
(Joarnal ffrelal' SerrW.t
Stockton, Oal., Jan. 4. The Southern
Paclflo northbound "Owl" was wrecked
at'Munteca st 1 o'clock this morning.
The engine, mall and baggage cars, two-,
sleepers snd s day coach went Into th
ditch badly wrecked. The only person '
seriously injured were a tramp and seme
of th passengers In the sleepers, who
wer pinned under th wreckage. Resi
dent of Msnteca chopped them out
with axes. None waa seriously Injured.
The passengers wer taken to Lathrop
by special train.
FLOODS DEMORALIZE
- TRAFFIC IN KENTUCKY
(Joarnal Special Servlre. )
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 4. All Mil road S
In western Kentucky are demoralised on
account of flood du to th heavy
downpour of rain. All streams are rag
ing., Many bridges are out and other
unsafe and threatened with destruction.
FLOODS THROUGHOUT .
THE MOHAWK VALLEY
' ' f Jaantat Spcrial erteet
ftlca, H. Y. Jan. 4. Tha- M'diawk
river is st flood stag,' snd property
throughout the entire valley Is damaged,
Th rain shows no signs of ceasing.
entlsl to political lscrahlp.
Taft and Foraker fight enrii c.t!ir tn
Ohio. Fairbanks la supposed o -oni v I
Indiana, but Heverldse hns not
Shaw In order to control lown in.nt
msHe a deal-With Cnmm'-
. Hughes M 'ime1 t v Itie nil' i'-t
eorporstlotis. hut Bit the at , irtb i t I -Roosevelt
fullowl"'? 1 I 1 tn 1.
allnl for him If h. I r..- - -
nough to fori to th 'ir Cot - '
polii-ts snnouncl Ui h!a 1 - ' '
III N nrk l''Kil i!ir
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