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VOL. V, NO. 289.
PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY t EVENING, FEBRUARY 8. 1907. SIXTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS. ' EStiFiAY
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Wholesale Merchants
Remove. Goods
Warned by News
v Has Poured Immense Volumes of
Melted Snow Into
Tl Higher water is predicted along the Portland waterfrontjduring
the next few days than for many years. At 2 o'clock this afternoon
the government gauge showed 17:5 feet, or two and a half feet above
the danger mark. District Forecaster Beals warns against 21 feet
next Friday and it may possibly go higher, Twenty-four feet above
low water mark will bring it on Fnt.treet.,l-2llV2lr..l
.. ; The rainfall, in the upperWillamettevaHeyhas cease6V: but
warm winds are melting the snow so that the streams tributary to
-. the Willamette are rising rapidly. The Santiam rose four-feet dur-
ing the Z4 houTsnferTdtrrgnt 8 u'clock thi-tnorning, and-the-Y amhiU
Jweached a height of 26 feet at McMinnville at 9 o'clock this morning.
At 8 o'clock the Willamette stood as follows : . Eugene, 19.8 feet;
Albany, 26.5 feet; Salem, 24.2 feet," At these places the flood stages
are aTfollows: Eugene. 10 feet; Albany and Salem. 20 feet.
The thermometer at Portland
--. thifmorning and climbed to 58 by noon. ;The lower docks and
cellars on Ffont street are being vacated all along the line.
,'.A dispatch from Eugene' late' this' afternoon stater that the
river is beginning to recede there. ' 1
"The WUlamette river it risinj t
the rate o( three inches an hour to
day in the local harbor and so swift
is the current that many houseboats
and craft moored along-' the banks
and wharves are breaking- loose tand
indulging in wild rides with the cur
rent, i-,
rhe dudIic swimming: baths got
y at an early hour this morning
from its moorings at the foo,t of
East Salmon street and drifted down
Ktrcam at a "danfjeroua rate of speed.
, Near-the Burnside bridge the three
sections parted and hickilydrifted
- ashore, one- piling op astern of the
. French bark Tiirgot at the Southern
. Pacific wharf directly south of the
east approach of the steel bridge, and
the other two sections landing near
. the .old - Victoria dolphins astern of
the steamer Charles R. Spencer. . The
sections appear so far to have es
caped damage.. The moorings of the
-main portion of 'the bath held and
the living apartments .of the superin
tendent remain intact.
' Boathouse Was Adrift. -A
large houseboat got away from
'its moorings above the bridges and
drifted through the harbor shortly
after ha swimming baths. It was
captured by the steamer Agnes which
was in commission all day expressly
P ASSEHG ERSARE SH D WB D U H D
pStub Train From The
With Steamer This Side of the Blockade -.
' 'on the 0. R. k N. Line : ; .
"We know nothing of conditions op
the Columbia rive?. Every wire la
down. My personal opinion Is that there
wlU be no tralna over the O. R. N.
main line for" two or three days," said
' Chief Clerk Wood at the office of M.
J BuHtler, general superintendent at
tionn today. Mr. Buckley la out on. the
-line. General ' Manager O'Brien- left
Portland this morning In a special train
- to Investigate conditions between . this
f city and The Dalles.
it was expected that snowbound pas
senger would be brought Into this city
last evening by the steamer Harvest.
Queen from Bonneville. - Bat the boat
ltd not arrive, and Is supposed to be
still tied up at Bonneville. It baa
tieen ascertained that the passengers
failed to reach Bonneville yesterday,
and It Is assumed that the boat Is wait.
. .I,... tnr Them. A train enneolMel iwl
a inuv.w .... . - -
Nos. 1.1 and . from Huntington
and 0poannn. tt i ii.i irq 111111 . n
t)alles to Bonneville yesterday rarrylng
WATERS TEAR LOOSE SMALL CRAFT CONFESSES ITHIRD VICTIM
Are Compelled to
From Basements,
That the Chinook
the Willamette
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registered" 53 degrees at 10 o'clock
for the purpose of capturing craft
and houses being carried towards the
sea-in the unrelenting grasp of the
swirling floodr-i. -
- A number of launch houses are pil
ing tip against the south end of Oak
street wharf and will probably be
left, high and dry on. the lower deck
when the river recedes, unless power
ful towboats haul them away, at once.
At this particular ojace the current
of the river has the speed of a mill
race. - .
; Lower Docks Under Water.
Nearly all the lower docks are in-
undatrH, the water being about a foot1
deep on the Alaska and. Ash street
wharves. The Ash-street . wharf was
first to become submerged, and then
followed the lower deck of the Alas
ka wharf at the foot ' of Flanders
street -These . docks r had already
been cleared of goods in anticipation
of the flood and no property damage
resulted. ' .-
t Other-wharves all along-the- west
side are rapidly " being ' emptied of
goods, awaiting jon river-boats, and
steamboat offices are being removed
to the upper decks. .
The water begsn pouring into cel
lars on Front street this morning and
there was a wild scramble for men
to assist in moving stocks upstairs.
-(Continued orv FK Eleven.)
Dalles Cannot Connect
about 109 ; paasengers who had been
snowbound there. . . , , :
TaUed to Oonaeot
Between The Dalles and Bonneville
the consolidated train got stuek In the
snow snd failed to connect with the
boat at Bonneville. As the main line
was blockaded at On eon t a by the bury
ing of a rotary snowplow and two loco
motives In a snowsllde, the management
ordered another rotary to be sent west
ward from division headquarters at La
Orande. .
This plow Is supposed to ev rescued
the consolidated train between The
Dalles' and Bonneville, , and It Is as
sumed that the train has been run back
to The Dalles to feed the passengers.
As there Is no wire communication be
tween stations. It la hot known whether
the Harvest Queen has been advlaed at
Donnevllle of the whereabouts of Its ex
pected psaaengers.
(Continued on. Page Kleven.)
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PEOPLE FLEE TO
JILLS FOR SAFETY
ON THE fd'KEIIZIE
Valley al Vast Sea of Water
Southern Paclfip" Tracks Are
Washed Out River Failing at
Eugene This Noon Heavy
. Damage to Lowland Property,
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(SimcUI DtafMteh The ImihI)
Eua-ene. Or Feb. t. The WUIametU
rlvr at Eugene reached the X 1-foot
Umt mm tlroJat night, but Is now
raced ng. At noon It wn it feet The
McKensle and upper Willamette Iwere
much higher than the river was here,
and considerable damage to 'property
along tnoaa stream la raportea
Numerous amall wagon bridges have
gone out, and the county ferry aeroea
the Willamette at Jaaper la. washed
away. The McKensle valley la a vast
aea. and many settlers have been com
pelled to floe for. their - lives, as the
water l high over their farms and In
their dwellings. .
. (Continued on Page Eleven.)
DIVES AND
Swimming BathsSuperihtendent ; Catches Its Clothes. With Rake,
7;ThehGoes"lnto. Swirling River foFT iny Dgh teT an d B riags .
Her Back Safe to Scow, Again :
A most remarkable as well asv sen
sational rescue of a drowning child
was made this morning by L .
Rolfe and Stewart Mason.
. Rolfe is superintendent of the pub
lic swimming baths and Mason is a
young lad living with his parents in
a houseboat on the east bank of the
river. The child, 4orn from the grasp
of death in the'Iast moment, is the
II -month s'-old baby girl of Mr. and
Mrs. Rolfe, both of whom are so
overjoyed at. the rescue thst- they
have forgotten all ovther troubles,
which at this particular time are ap
parently many. ' ' . ,
Mr. and Mrs;. Rolfe hive been oc
cupying quarters in the main portion
of the public swimming baths , since
Mr. Rolfe was appointed superin
tendent. This morning the flood tore
Vay three sections of' the baths,
leaving onty the portion occupied by
m-. v
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. Houseboat In Willamette Torn From Moorings.
EASTERN STATES
HELD in GRASP
0FIGYBL1ZZARD
Wind - Blows a Gale and Heavy
' Snows Are Reported From the
'Atlantic to Nebraska Trains
Are Delayed or Hours New
'York Suffers the Worst. : "" .'
J ' (Joonul Speelal SerTtee.) -
, New ' Torlt Feb. This' city ts - In
the grasp of a blliaard. A. gale. Is blow
ing and. parte of the city are cut' off
from . other parts. Two . feet ' of - snow
fell during the night and the- snow
continues to falL
. Tfie storm extends from the Atlantlo
to Nebraska, the greatest Intensity being
In the mldrAtlantle states.- Trains are
delayed for ' hours In ' Minnesota and
Wisconsin. California trains are .five
or six hours late In reaching Chicago.
Heavy snow 'Interferes with all com
munication around Chicago and blocks
traffic.
RESCUES
the superintendent. Its ' moorings,
too. seemed too frail to withstand the
awful twirl of the current, and Mrs.
Rolfe, who has been ill for some time,
was removed with her baby to a near
by houseboat occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. James Warren. -
Baby Falls into River. '.' f
The carrying wjr of some scows
and portions of the bath house ex
cited the women so thst before any
one ' knew it the littfe baby had
crawled through an open door Upon
the floating platform of the house
boat. ,-Ignore ntjoJLl he danger, the
little tot crept to the edge and Mid
into the. raging water, which at that
place is about 15 feet deep. -
Mrs. Warren fortunately happened
to hear the slight splash, and, looking
about, discovered the child in the
grasp of the' whirling water. Young
Mason and Mr. Rolfe-immediately
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RECORD FLOOD
IN WILLAMETTE
RE ACHK1G SALEM
Highest Water in Eighteen Years
at ; State Capital Expected
to Attain . Height of Thirty
Feet Water Within a Mile of
Chemawft hdift" Sfthoof.-
(RpMlal Dtepitek to The loeraaL) .
Sftlem. Or.. Feb. I. Not since II
rears ago has Balem witnessed water so
high as at It o'clock today, when the
Willamette river stood lift f set above
low water mark, and was rising at the
rate of five Inches an hour. It la sweep
ing with a strong . current carrying
much debris. Local docks, are inun
dated. The steamer City of Eugene is
t anchor here. It Is. now calculated
the freshet will reach more than to feet
So far but little damage Is reported.
Beyond the Marlon-Polk Joint eounty
bridge there la a depth of several feet
of water, and a team and driver nearly
perished near the Mienafleld home this
" (Continued on Page Eleven.)
HIS
responded to Mrs. Warren's screams
for help, but by thst time the child
had already been carried underneath
the floating logs of the houseboat
Mason" grabbed a rake and instinc
tively and repeatedly shoved it under
the house with the result that finally
it caught the dres of the child, which
apparently had come tip for the .sec
ond or ; third time. ' The take had
lodged in such a position, however,
that it could not be pulled in-without
danger of releasing its hold on
the child and so Mr. Rolfe lowered
himself under, the scow and grabbed
the baby.
The girl had been- in the water
about four minutes and it took nearly
ten minutes to bring her back to con
sciousness. This afternoon' she was
playing about in the room where her
mother lies sick, spparently none the
w orse for her experience t
C. J. Eggleston Admits
H ePu rchased Stam ps
From Robbers ot the
Postoffices
Arrested Quietly orTTrlday, the
Young Man Has Been Kept
Secretly in Jail Until Today
When He Is Released on Sat
isfactory Bail.
' Another arrest was made In connec
tion' with the Rellwood and '8t Johns
poBtofB.ce robberies Friday night when
Claude J. Eggleston. a young man well
known In gay company In the north
end, was taken Into custody. The fact
9 his arrest. was, kepV.. secret, by. :Mr,
Cole, assVetant 1 United States dlstrlot
attorney, for the purpose of securing a
confession from the young man.
Eggleston was arrested by Detective
C. R. Hellyer and taken before Mr. Cole
who learned from the young man that
he had bought the stamps which were
stolen from the Sellwood office from
Liouls It. Smith, who made a confession
of his connection In the crimes to Mr.
Cole last night - Eggleston also bought
one of the revolvers stolen at Vancouver
from Smith.
- Clears Vp Mystery. - "
- Eg glea ton's confession clears "up- a
great part of the mystery concerning
the Sellwood affair because it could
never be learned where the stamps
taken from the postofflce were cached.
The stamps which Eggleston secured
were valued at about tit. , . .
Smith's confession, also clears In a
measure part of the work at the Sell
wood station. He placed the crime
noon Wane. Anderson and Kelly. Al-
lhPjhJLwaano.wflihajtJhejenJ
did . the work, the attorney s omce
could not secure a confession from any
of the prisoners to thst effect until
Smith talked. It is certain that other
man were in the Job with the trio
named, but Just who they are has not
been made public
When the robbers - hearing earn up
before United Ststes Commissioner Mc
Kee yesterdayr Eggleaton watved ap
pearance and his ball was fixed at
12.000. His aunt Mrs. W; j. .amine.
and - J.- M. -CHder-eame- teEgglestn's
rescue this morning and posted sure
ties for that amount and the. young
man was released from the eounty Jail
where he has been since his arrest
roar Hot- Searings.
" It la believed that Eggleaton will be
dealt with lightly by the government
officials, if he tells the Jury the same
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
BABY BREAK IIP PRESS MfOL Y
Hodson Introduces .Bill to Declare Associated
Press a Common Carrier Playgrounds
! Wanted for School Children
, fStiff Oan'epoBdeie.)
Salem, Or., Teb. . A bill to declare
the Associated Press a common carrier
will be introduced in the senate by Sen
ator Hodson at the earliest opportunity,
perhaps today. Ths bill provides thst
the Asnoolsted-Press snd, all similar
news-gathering organisations are com
mon carriers and must show no dis
crimination : sgatnst any newspaper
wishing to-use the servlea It provides
that service must be given any publi
cation in the state on demand when a
reasonable value for the same la of
fered. It Is alno unlawful to delay the
delivery of news or to discriminate in
any way as to the prloe or service.
A violation of the bill is made a
misdemeanor, punishable by a line of
from 1500 to I5.S00, and each added
day's neglert la a separate cause for ac
tion. A refusal to serve Is cause of
action for damages, maximum of IS.S00.
Portlsnd Jobbers sre opposing one
sertmn of the , Hums pure . food bill.
Mrs. Annie, Vismara
Dies in Hospital Fromr
Stabs Inflicted, By'
Guiseppo Savignoni
Mother of . Mrs. Bignani Was "
Shot Twice in ' the Back by
Man Who Killed Her Daughter
and Then Himself Committed
Suicide. ",' . 4
Mrs. Annie Vtsmara died at t:J
o'clock this morning st the Good 8a
raarltan hospital, the second victim ot
a stiletto In the hands of Guiseppo Sav- .
lgnonl... Savignoni the morning of De
P
Mm. Annie Vismara.
cember tt went to the Vismara home
402 Water street, and stabbed to death,
Mrs. Guila Blgnant a woman with,
whom he was in love. Then he plunged
the Made ' twice into the back of her
mother, Mrs. Vismara. An hour after
ward the murderer, after leaving tha
house, committed suicide In a drug
store at Third and Everett streets, by?
shooting himself In the head.. .
The murder was one of the most
startling In detsils of any In the crim
inal history of Portland. A number of
(Continued on Page Seven.)
where ft differs from the national )w.
The latter provides that where weight
are stamped on the package it must be
true weight The Burns bill mekea it
compulsory to stsmp the true weight on
all packages. Jobbers say this la im
possible, and severs) prominent men
are opposing the bill.
A committee of Portland men Is In
conference with the Multnomah, dele,
gat Ion of leg.slators this afternoon,
considering a measure to provide for a
publlo play ground rormniaeton for
Portian t. The plan of the committee
as presented to the delegation is to au
thorise the commission and give It
power to attach and condemn land for
ptaygroutyda. It Is proposed to have
a Juvenile conrt Judge, mayor and rep
resentatives of the V. M. t A., Mult
nomah Club and other Inillhiimn. .
the commission. The fnmmltiM 1 1
arrived tine morning mnalut- r,t
Cuke, Jmisa Krmr. l.Nvd V. ,
and others from the Mnltn'-n ,h
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