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GOOD EVEHING
THE WEATHER.
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Fair tonight and Tuesday, eon.
tlnued cold; minimum tonight about
20 degreei ; easterly wlnda. '
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BismmmEB
ELECT DAVEY
. . ...., , . ,
Marlon County Man Gets Seat,
; Receiving Fifty-Nine Votes ;
Vawter Puts Up Stub-
" V bWl Fight. - ;
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-X
e
Th organization of the house
ai completed by the selection '
of desk positions, . which ' were
: ratified tbla afternoon In aaaem-..
bly. ..... , -..
. W. IjUr Thompson of Albany
was chosen, chief clerk, and the.
rest of tha nominees are as fol-
lower
,A.iiUtant chlf, clerk Wr.-
Drager of Marlon.
Reading - clerk John Withy
: combe,, brother- of - Drv-Jamee-
Wlthycorab of Corvallie. - -
-' Calendar clerk W. M. ' Barry-.
of Portland. - ".. .
Sergeant at anna T.'E. Ellis
.' Af Jackson. - .-,..
Doorkeeper Henry Ford - of
"Portland.- - " "
Mailing clerk E. l King; of
,' Malheur.
Threes paces are to be ap.
pointed by tha speaker. -
4
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) :
Salem, Or Jan. 14. Frank Davey
of Uarlon county la speaker of tha
' . 'house of representatives of tha Oregon
, legislature, receiving ( -votes. W. I.
Vawter of Jackson county - baa gone
down to- defeat after aiaklng a. atub
, born f lght but against an overwhelming
i vote.- : Davey verified tha " predictions
niale by himself and hla ' friends - by
v. holding hla large -following together and
.. . when the time for the organisation:
cm,won with hands down, '
tta lest-mght thabam ,wi prac
Alcally ' worf When 5t ' went : Iqto caucus
''with Datey. and despite tha. atreouous
' efforts ' of Vawter and bts friends,
, - signed u with tha, Marlon ooun?y tnanj.
.i. I Those who algned werei . r .1 s T
. Reynolds and Blmmone, of Uarlon;
: Holt and .Brown,' of Linn: Eaton and
waapDurar-ei-i jne; je'
ine; Carter, of Benton; MoCallon, of
. Polk: Jonea, Of Polk-Llneolnj Beels.' of
( Tillamook; Huntley and Dye,' of" Clacks
:' ' mas; Addams, Burns, Coffey and Drls
; coll, bf Multnomah; MeCue, of Clatsop;
; jierrynian. 01 Kiamata; Biusnar, steta
" ' and Barrett, of Umatilla;-. Dobbin, of
1 Union! Plkek of ailllam. an4 Knowlea.
'LajytVf 'aaco. ....
4 result ' became known, tha Vawter
? forces quit and tha election of Davey
" j was conceded. . ;. ' ' - . ..
; f . '. Boutlna Work Begins. -. p ?
Tha ' rest of the . work became mere
routlna . This morning, soon after' 10
o'clock, tha bouse waa called . to .order
' by W. Lair Thompson, chief clerk at
' 1 tha laat aeaaalon. . On motion of Carter
M of Beton,"B." F."' Jonea of Polk ' was
i elected temporary chief clerk by unanl-
meua vote. - Ou motion of Coffey; of
' ', Multnomah a committee of five waa ap.
' pointed on credentials, constating r of
' ' Coffey. Huntley, Beals and 8tmmona.
A committaa on order of business, as
' appointed, on motion of Eaton of Lane,
constating of Eaton, Purdy. Jackson.
Brown and Knowlea. The house then
1 took a recess untH S o'clock, the Davey
- j forces announcing a caucus, whrch lm-
mediately followed the adjournment
BOURNE'S ELECTION i"
' : ; f ON FIRST BALLOT
'"h Mv;'. ": -
Salem, Or., Jan. ii All talk of the
anti-Bourne demonstration on the part
of tha Vawter men haa aubslded and It
ia conceded that Bourne will be elected
United States senator on tha first bal
lot. - - - -
Tha house will be ready to begin busi
ness by tha time of adjournment this
evening, and will proceed at once with
tha work irrespective of whether or not
th aenata af facta an organisation., :
': ' Money for Debafa Deficit. ,
University of Oregon. Eugene.' Jan; 14.
VTh executive oommlttee of the atu
dent body of the university baa appro
priated ISO. Which was estimated would
be tha defloit, for oratory and debate
HMG0LDEST3)fflN
GOUNTRY'S HISTORY
Woodvllle, Ten Miles North of
From Havre, and Chatterlngly Holds' Up Thermom-;
; ; eter Showing Thirty-Two Degrees Below ;.
' (Journal Special Berrke.) "
Butte, Mont.. Jan. 14. A cold wave
-and bllsaard--of unpreoedented severity
is sweeping thla atae, and heavy stock
Iomms are , considered practically Inev
itable Temperatures ranging from
4 to t below aero are reported from va
rious sections of Montana.
Stockmen are feeding their herds, but
In a great number of cases this la. very
difficult and It is feared that hundreds
ef head that have wandered Into the ra
vines In an effort to escape the stinging
winds must auocumb. In eaatern Mon-
. . '. - .
' V . . ..
, 4 .
. Frank. Davey, Who Will
3H3E OUT OF TEf
EITHER KILLED OR
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Accident in Which . Men JVere
-Drowned x Sea of Metal in
Pittsburg! Plant Could' Have
Been Prevented by ; Proper
Care.
,..-t
(Joomal Special Servlee.)'
Pittsburg, . Jan. 14. Deputy Coroner
Laidley haa .been investigating the ex
plosion of the Ellsa furnace at the
Jonea aY Laughlln Steel company's plant
and haa discovered that tha furnace bad
not been working .properly for- two
weeka prior to the explosion, and that
many or It men, fearing an accident, had
jutt their Jobs. - - ' .
Tha explosion. "Deputy Laldley.aays,
waa due to ' banging," and could have
been averted had tha furnace been shut
down when the trouble became appar
ent. - Had thai furnace been-closed and
cleaned out tha accident would not have
happ4dt but a rush of orders kept the
company from making needed repairs.
' Oese Kenda of Cleveland, who Is hare
Investigating the explosion Tor the Aus-tro-Hungarlan
government, declares
that nine out of every-10 Hungarians
employed in tha Jonea Laughlln mills
are either killed or- maimed. He say a
out"of 100 Hungarian workmen with
whom he. haa talked, 0 Have sustained
Injuries. The 'Jones A Laughlln com
pany employ about- 3,600 Hungarians.
LARGE COPPER 'STRIKED :V
v ; . MADE NEAR UTAH
Ogdon Utah, . Jan. 14. A big strike
waa made in the Lakeside Copper Com
panya properties, JO mllea from this
city." p The native copper run to per
cent and tha .vein ia 40 feet wide. There
haa been a rush to the scene by minora,
who .think It Is the biggest thing aver
found waat of the Rocky. range. ..
Butte, i Takes t Shivering ' Honors
.-. - , 1 " i ' ; ' ;.i ' ...
ta na a thaw ' followed .the recant snow
storm, and thla was followed by frost
whtctr haa-covared -grsss with a-thtck
coating of lea which . makes It almost
Impossible for stock to break through
for their forage. . , . . . ,
o At Woodvilt'e. 10 mllea north of Butted
It la reported that tha temperature waa
tl degrees below sero at midnight last
BlRht- This la probably the lowest tem
perature, recorder! in tha United States.
.(Continued en Page Yhrae.
ilAlttifillLL
Be Speaker of the House.,
SEALERS BREAK
CONTRACT, SAYS
Professor Elliott to Appear Be
' fore House Committee in Sup-
. port of Charges- -Uebes Com
pany of San Francisco Among
: Those Accused. ; ''v
'- tJearoal Special Serrlce.)
Washington. Jan. It The house com
mittee on ways and means will give
hearing to Prof essori H. W.; Elliott of
Cleveland, ' aa ax pert - on-. the fur-seal
question, on charges -he baa preferred
against - the , Korth American ' Commer
cial company, lessee of - the " sealing
privllegea on Prlbylolt Island.
."Professor Elliott charges that the les
sons have violated 'the terms of the
leaae grafted by the government - Tha
company, or tha persons controlling it,
ha alleges, have engaged In pelagic
scaling, and Involved In the charges are
Herman and Isaac Llebes of San Fran
cisco, organ lie re of tha North American
Commercial company; Lloyd Davis of
Ban Francisco, snd D. 0. Mills of New
York- Senator's. B. Elkins of West
Virginia : Is also mentioned In tha
charges as one of the lessees of the
fnr-seal Inlands and aa tha company's
Washington reoresenfatlve. i
. "I have -documentary and Official evi
dence' to lay before the committee that
will -substantiate, all my charges," aa Id
Professor Elliatt last Right . ,
John' P. Plagemann.-manager of the
Portland branch- of H. Llebes aV Co., of
San Francisco, 'said ha waa not aware
that charges were pressing s gainst his
firm. -He knew nothing about the terras
af tha contract between vhla firm and
tha government, and did not know that
any of their represents lives bad. In any
way committed -a breach of tha, laws
regulating fishing. ; -' f . . . ' ..'
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RMLRQAO FISSERS GET
.'..,':,-K
'BU TOO , ;
Car L Shortage Affects Lines ' in
. the East, and-Still Interests '
v v 'An Imperiled. . t ,
Pittsburg. Pa., Jan. It. The shortaca
of cars In tha Pittsburg district haa be
come alarming to tha Iron and ateel In
tereata, whoae shipments are held up,
Tha shortage la especially noticeable on
the Pennalyvanla system, . tha worst
shortage being on the lines west . These
lines haa been easU'ig about to locate
a couple of thouaand cars which they
have-not lie -for-aome-Ume with -tha
result that the Chicago, Burlington 4t
Qulncy has been reojueeted to turn in at
once Oil Pennsylvania care which thaa
Una Is using. Two Hundred Pennsyl
vania' cars are enmewhere In tha vicin
ity of San Franclsoo, .whence they were
rushed with rebuilding material, after
the. conflagration ' They appear to have
been 1' tnn went 'on their return
trip. Traeerg bare seen sent out for
ISMEIIIIST
SEDATE CHAIR
BattIJMLiig0YeLr4esi.h
dency of Senate When Hod
son - Forces Attempt to
j . Block Quorum, rr'r:
SJa. Ian. 14 a. W. '" Of
Waahlagtoa oouaty, waa elected preol-
aent ox ana eenaxa on as iixsv buv
nao e'oiookv ; .
. (Rpeela! Dlapatek to The JoanwL)
Salem. Or.. Jan. 14. Indlcatlona are
that there will be a fight over the presi
dency of the senate. A caucus called
by tha Republicans for 11 o'clock waa
attended by 14 of Haines supporters.
Ten Kepunucana ma not go raw me
caucus,. Hodson- tir-tha- meantime naa
not given up the fight ' -
The senate convened at i:iu o-cjock.
u.tarb.iB nominated temnorarv
president by Kay and elected. - Bingham
nominated. .Mooreneaa or iane lor wm
porary chief clerk and Moorebead waa
elected. -."''''
On motion of Hodson, Malarkey ap
pointed Wright, Bowerman and Hod son
the commltttee on credentials. The
committee on permanent organisation
w . .nnnlntiiA nn .the motion of Blne-
ham. ' Bingham, Kay and Smith of Uma
tilla form that committee.
A recces was taken until S o'clock, on
tha motion of Wright, the senate hav
ing been in session- five minutes. Ba
tciT (he aona tore left the. chamber after
adjournment Malarkey announced that
tha Republicans would noia a caucus
In the - room of. tha president of the
senate at 1J o'clock. M. A. MUler of
Linn then' announced that a Democratic
caucus would, be held In the senate
chamber at the same time. '" .
- Bailey of Multnomah and other Hod
ton supporters say they will not go Into
the. 'Republican- cauoua unUU.Coke -of
B. w. Haines, .Washington County,
Probable President of the Senate.
Cooe and Curry arrives. Bailey said
the following 10 men will not be In the
caucus. - Bitiley,- Hodson. r Beach. Coke.
Booth, Laughary, Johnson. Whealdon,
Mays and Blchel. a
It la believed to be tha ruse of tha
Hodson forces to stay off the floor and
keep enough Democrats off the floor
to prevent the 10 members necessary to
for a quorum being present. Haines
14 aupportera, with six Democrats, are
enough to make a quorum. Booth of
Douglas and Lena, a Hodson supporter,
and Coehow of Roseburg. Democratic
have declared they will not be a party
to tha scheme to block the quorum.
The Halnea people are very confident
f winning the atruggla. They Bay
Hodson's only chance or winning. is to
hold hla followera under- absolute, con
trol.' And they declare that he cannot do
thla- aa Booth haa refused to stay orz
tha floor for him, and othera will fol
low Booth. ".' "
If tha scheme to block tha quorum
falls It Is expected that tha Hodson
forces will go.-' on the floor and nomi
nate their man and try-to elect him. -
LIGHT UP! ELECTRICITY WILL
- BE CHEAPER .
Columbia , Unversity i Professor
Says He Has in Helion Some
thing Better Than Carbon.
:-Hrt Hews fvrife.)
New Tork, Jan. 14. Professor Herscb-
ell Clifford Parker and Walter O. Clark
explained In their Columbia university
laboratory tha worklnga of an Incan
descent lamp they have Invented. With
their "helion" filament they expect to
shave electric lighting down to ono
third Ita present cost' - , .
Professor Parker la professor of
physics at Columbia, and Mr. Clark la an
electrical engineer. They have collab
orated for several years to find a bettor
medium than carbon, and ' a aubstanoe
which they have named helion la the
result. The "helion filament" la com
posed largely of silicon. Other Ingre
dients are deposited, from-gaa on a
tkread Of carbon.'.
POTATOES III
WAREHOUSES
nnrcncniMP
H IE rF LLI. HQ
Shippers. Are Unable
to Get Refrigerator
Cars and Will Suffer
Heavy Pecuniary Loss
' a ' ': SBBBBaSaB
Southern Pacific Provides Plenty
-of Rolling Stock for the Cali
fornia Orange Growers, Where
There Is Brisk, Competition
With the Santa Fe.
- Heavy losses of potatoes and other
vegetables In tha handa of producers
and shippers . are some of the results
of the steady continuance of the car
shortage.. These people have been try
ing for weeks to get cars to ship their
products, and have been holding; the
consignments ih warehousee. barns, and
under straw piles, in readlnesa to ship,
and not anticipating tha oold snap. ;
If the temperature goes 10 degrees
lower the losses to farmera and ship
pers will be enormous In western Ore
gon," said W. S. Broaddus, of tha com
mission house of McCorquortele . St
Broaddus. The , present . weather Is
causing- considerable loas, but It the
mermiry goear-fc doam the holdera
products In the country and in open
warehouses will lose all they have,"
' Befrlgerator Can Seeded- .
Commission men say there are today
requisitions on file for about 1,000 cars
from tha Southern Pacific company In
Oregon, and that tha railroad company
haa not 1 per cent of that -number
In elghE The"grealesr need now." sine
the oold season had begun, is for re
frigerator cars, as It la unsafe to ahtp
any perishable products In ordinary
freight cars, on a trip over tha moun
tains in any direction, as tho content
of tha car -would f reeaa aolld in a few
hour. ',-
. "Refrigerator care are aa scarce as
hen's teeth, so to apeak." ald Mr.
Broaddua. "Inquiry will show that the
farmera of Oregon are losing thousands
of dollars every week on account of
the refusal or failure of the railroad
rorrnany to move their ' produce. The
natural marketa that belong to Oregon
producers are gradually flllipg up with
produce . from eastern points, - which
Continued On 'Page Three.)
white, yellow
Id black will
Oliver and Bangs, Low Bidders
on Canal Work, Will Send Five
. Thousand Negroes to Pan
ama, and Will Have Right to
:'; Employ All Chinese Needed.
(Journal Special Service.! -
New Tork, Jan. 14. A special to the
Sun from Washington says: , -
William J. Oliver, what In association
with Anson M.'Banga, put In the. lowest
bid for tha Panama canal Job. will go
to the Isthmus and personally superin
tend the work aa soon aa a contract is
executed. H. Oliver will take 6.000 ne
f roes with htm. and more may be taken
out of -tha south. He haa not reached
a. decision about. th use of Chinese la
borers, . ;. t , .. . J i i
There are two responsible bids be
fore tha Isthmian Canal commission
for' furnishing M00 -Chinese laborers,
but no action haa been taken on thorn.
If Oliver desires ha could take over
these bids and make contracts with the
bidders. He ia not restricted In any
wsy and may Import all tha Chinee
laborers h care to have.
Oliver will take with 7 him "great
forces of white steam ' shovel men, su
perintendents, foremen and sub-booses.
They, like Oliver, will come from tho
south, where) they have been working
with negro labor, and It la declared
they will not find any trouble In push
ing th black man forward at a rapid
pace in making dirt fly. -. r
Tha canal commission presumably
will award the contract' within a few
day.
Oliver ha a two-thirds and Banga a
one-third Interest In tha combination
which mad the ' lowest bid. Oliver
wanted to take the contract single
handed, but waa told by Chalrmnn
Shnnts of th canal commission, thnt
th government was unwilling to give
o great a responsibility to ona man.
WORK TOGETHER
UA
RATES TO GO
Old Schedule Will Be
Probably Re-Adopted
by the Fire Under
writers' Committee
Portland's. Rates Will 'Then Be
-Same as Before San Fran
cisco Conflagration, After
Which They Were Increased
on Several Classes, of Property
About February 1 the committaa on
rata revision of th board of fire under
writers of tha Pacific will meet at San
Francisco to consider a new schedule.
It la said that within tha next SO or 00
day a readjustment will go Into effect
that wul practloaliy remove tha 15 per
cent advance of Insurance rates Imposed
on Oregon people by the Insurance com
panies soon after the Ban Francisco
disaster.
(Continued on Page Three.)
FUDGE, HE SAYS,
WOMEN SIMPLY
- TELLING FIBS
Horrid Postmaster of St. Louis
Asserts Society Dames Excuse
Breeches of Etiquette by Just
, as Serious Offense Against
Moral Code. N
v. -
(Journal Special rrlee.
St Louis, Mo.. Jan. 14. "I am afraid
there are aome society women In thla
city who are eligible for membership In
the. Ananlaa club," aaya . Postmaster
Wyman. basing tha assertion on th fact
that complaints bave been received
igalnat the mall service lately, and ha
believe-it is not th postal eyetem
vhlch la at fault but the conscience of
eomen wo do not hesitate to tell what
ia oalla "social flba"
Mrs. George W. Parker complained
hat II of 089 Invltattone to a reception
ere lost In th malls, and Postmaster
Wyman said he did not see how IS Invl
.at Ions were loot
"The supposed losses In tha walla
soma abou. when women receive Invita
tion to affair and don't want to go,"
ha explained. "They are asked why, and
they aay they did not receive Invita
tion That' all fudge.' The mall serv
ice ia all right The machinery of thla
office la ao complicated and Ita detaila
are so many and urgent that It ia a
matter of no small consequence to take
up-complaints. That complaint la tha
result of a aoclnl fib. It la certainly un
just to tba service." .
For the Week Ending Jan, 13
The following la tho advertising record of the three daily paper of
.Portland forjhe week ending with Sunday, January 13,
- Journal. Oregonian. Telegram.
- FOR SIX WEEK DAYS Inches. . Inches. Inches. '
Local Display. ,4,196 2,603 ' 4,957
Foreign .......... 357 961 . 470
Classified i. ....... L278 1,573 1,030
Display Real Estate I. ....138 213 - 440
Readers
FOR SUNDAY ,
Local Display .t... ............
Foreign. ... r.7.. 'T. .77i7.1T7".T
Classified
Display Real EsUte ........
Readers . . . . . . . ................
Total
"""The "Journal Increased It lead Ul th ynhrm of sdvertlatng crrl-d f- r
the week endlpg with the Issue of the lth over both the Ore..nian . I
(the Telegram, exceeding the volume carried by, the morning paper ly i
Incha and Its evening edition by 1.774 Inches
In paid circulation The Journal exceeds the dllf Or- r . ,
copies and th Teh-gram bv at laif .00f) coplea, ami il- -orH
of-The Journnl are "u tile op n" for the Infection '
thr may be convinced that The Jonrne.1 "Uellvi-r, tl s f
both the letter and spirit of Its claims.
da nnnnc
isa a a a a ii w
imiLiiunuu
LA SI
' BBS "Plise M Hl IPs '
Attempt to Make the
Railroad Commission'
diii a ruiiucai meas-
1" ' '"" ' ' i . r r 7 a' i. ...
ure anu ueieai it
Tavt Prannrorf With Hroaf Cure
' bv Transoortation Committee)
of . Chamber of Commerce,
- Composed in , Large Part of
' Heavv ShiDDers.
J , lf .. f
The Insidious band of railroad cor
po ration craft haa already appeared In
the movement to inject politics Into tha
proposal to create a railroad commis
sion for Oregon and enforce regulation
aa to furnishing cars ana making rates.
Ste1th iinfuwltln. tm hIn art. ,41 t V A
railroad commission and. reciprocal de
murrage law proposed "by the transpor
tation committee of the Portland cham
ber of commerce and tha lumbermen.
Critics of the proposed law allcka
that It should be changed to make tha
commission appointive by the legiila
tur Instead of by the governor. Thla
plain effort to throw the queatlon Into
nolltlca beara tha-mark of a railroad
band. The almost . unanimous opinion
of buslnesa men who have atudled the
question and who desire reform and
relief from railroad domination In Ore
gon la that any Injection of politics Into
tha pasago pf th bill, or Into Ita pro
vision . or . manner of . enforcement,
would be fatal . . . .. ,
"(Continued on PageThree.J "
WEIGHERS WEIGHED JO
lllg '
Charges Made Against Mail
Handlers, and Government Will
xCut Railway Appropriation.
(Jnarsel Special 8-rrlea.l
Washington. D. Jan. 14. Th
house , committee on postof ficea and,
poet- roads haa decided to make a re
duction of 10 per cent In tha appropria
tion for railway mall carriage for the
next fiscal year. Tha proposition. It la
understood, carried by a vote of IS to .
The present appropriation available
for tho transportation of mall la a little
in exceaa of 142.000.000. The estlmata
of tho amount needed for the coming'
year was about S4CO0O.00O. and tha cat
will amount to about 14,600.000.
After full consideration, tha- bousa
commute reached tha conclusion that
tha tim had com when th govern
ment should retrench in the transporta
tion of mall by the railroads of . th
United States.
. It la nnderatood the committee haa
not recommended any change ta th
present system of weighing mails, which,
ia made the basis for estimating tha
amount duo the railway carriers.
Some aensstlnnal charge have been
made against the weighing system, but
ntli the 'question has been thoroughly
sifted nothing will be don to alter It
i. 34 : . 51 41
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1,643
1.759
a a e. i
' 171 --f 183
618
293
18
8,272
8,712
6,933
445
443
7