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;VJ ' THE OREGON' DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND,", SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1910. aiCARE SPIRITUAL SPLICE KING JANUARY 1 ABSINTHE FIER HAHDS UP," ROBBER OUT TO CELEORM DRUG TRAFFIC IS . IGIIIOF IS WHAT APPEALS GREETED ROYALLY TERRIBLE DEEDS "YOU BET," GROCER BUT ITO III JAIL TRACED TO CLi. 1 HOLY LAND Mountain Where. : Elijah and Elisha Had -Their Abiding - Place, Worshipped for Cen turies, Still a Sacred Place. , . By Frederic J. Haskin. Washington, Jan. 1. A mountain al tar 'to the worship Of the true, God; " hallowed by centuries upon centuries " the home of holy men, CarmM-by-the-Sea. la the most remarkable and most beaiitlful natural feature of the coastline of Palestine. It le a moun tain eight miles Ion, about, 1800 feet high at Ha Inland peak and 600 foet high Where It juts Into the sea dlvld Unir the Dlalna Of EsdraeWfi7 on the north and Sharon on the south. TheH Arabs call it now Jebel Mar Elyas, . because- in Jewish, , Christian and Mo hammedan sacred tradition Carmel Is connected with the story of the Prophet Elijah. It was here that he lived in the caves of the prophets, and this was the scene of his triumph as the proph et of Jehovah over all the priests of Baal. - Camel So Xtonger Wooded. The excellency of Carmel. which was -'synonym for all beauty Tn the days of the kingdom of Israel, no longer ex ists as It did .when Solomon sang of r it, for the forests have been destroyed ' ' and new trees, have been planted. . The heavily wooded slopes of the Carmel of old can be seen only in th Imagina tion, for today the greater part of the mountain is a bare and desolate (ex panse of rocks. But Carmel at the point , where it stretches Into the sea has been reclaimed from the desert by - the religious order of the Carmelites, and it is now a delight to every visitor to- the-Holy- Land,-- , An excellent road out Into the tnoun .tain side, its terraces built up with heavy masonry, leads from the port city of Haifa up to the convent on the brow of the hill overlooking the sea. ' Vtsttotv'aiw'lndlyrecrveaj-tttd-fls-' pitably entertained at the monastery, which Is one of the most Interesting in Palestine... . ". t , - ' 1 : ' . . .. Kn Dm la Citii, Carmel has been a sacred place from the earliest times. The most ancient records of the Hlttlte peoples indicate that "Carmel was a mountain dedicated -to the worship of the gods of that time. It comes into Christian, Jewish ' and Mohammedan, lore as .the abiding - replace of the prophets Elijah and Elisha. It was-there-that Obadlah hid "an hun dred ,men otrthe Lord's' prophets by fifty in a 'cave, and f$d them 'with . bread and water." The sons of the A prophets 'dwelt on this mountain, In caves and In low, dark tents, from the ' time of Elijah -.until their conversion to x Christianity. In the third and fourth . centuries ; Greek hermits resorted in great numbers to Mount Carmel and took Up their' abode In Its caves. - They and their successors kept -watch here , before' this great altaf until the Cru sades, when, in 1170, the Latin Order of Carmelites wai founded here and Athemonasterywasbegun. 2: . V The monks were massacred by he , Mamelukes, in 1281, when the Chrla - tlans were finally expelled from Pales tine, but there were still a few her- mrits who kept the faith, until the fif teenth. century, when the monastery was reestablished under its present constl . , . ,.. . stantlnople. Once the city boasted a ffi" 42Lhe." KS''.y.tem It street lighting and the lamp i-icged Acre in 1799 the monaatery was utilijsed as a hospital, and upon the re treat of the French the buildings were, destroyed by the Turks. Monk Rebuilds Monastery Early In the ; nineteenth century a monk named Glan Baatlsta came on a pilgrimage to Carmel as an ,&ct of ' penance. He "made a vow to TeBtilld the monastery, and the present edifice tg-theresult of the.- It years -xf lits travels and begging. But even he, when he reached Carmel, found an altar and an archway, and,, someone on th mountain to keep up the' worship of the ' , God to whom it .so long had been de voted. Carmel also was a consecrated spot in Asiatic mythology. In the time, of Tacitus it was so holy that there was no temple or image there, but only an altar to all the gods. It was then that the Pagans unwittingly worshiped . the Jewish God Jehovah, even as the Greeks of Athens later had an altar to the Unknown God. Pliny says that Carmel Was the name both of the shrine and the god who was worshiped there. That great historian declares that the ' oracle which promised the Roman em pire to Vespasian resounded from, the summit Of this sacred mountain. Prosperous Tillage, from the cliff at the top of the moun tain, . where the monastery buildings are set. one looks down a sheer preci pice 500 feet to the narrow plain, per , haps a half mile wide, which separates the foot of the mountain from the sea. . The greater part of the mountain is owned and governed by the Carmelite monks and their boundary line Is marked by a high stone wall, effect ually keeping out ajl trespassers. Just Outside this wall, at the foot of the mountain, is the German colony. These thrifty people have established a pros perous frlutgrowlng community, and ' their village is In every reaped a copy of a village of the KlilrfKjA , A little further away to the north, but in easy walking distance, is the sea port of Haifa, an Increasingly impor tant town. ' It has a population of about' 15,00.0 people, and Is by far the cleanest Turkish town In Palestine. It shines by contrast with the older and more historic Acre, which la only, five miles way on the northern shore" of the Bay ' of Haifa, a roadstead formed by the projection of tho promonotory of Car mel. ' Haifa is the Mediterranean termi nus of the Hadjaz railway which runs ' from Haifa, by way of the Sea of Gal ilee, to .Damascus. Thin Is the longest and most important railway In the Holy Land, and It crosses the great v German Arabian railway which pene trates the deserts of Moab to the aast , ward of the Jordan. The operation of this railway was interrupted by the die- orders attending the Toung Turk revo-1 California .in the time of the gold dls lutlon, but it has been reopened under ' covsries in .1849. Like ftiativ of th a new administration which promises to. U. nake it a-factor in the restoration ,(f ma piunperity ui me couniry oi uamee. California diggings, and came to OreT The native population of Haifa seems ! gon to engage In agriculture. With a , ;to have profited by the example of the brother and three .sisters he settled In thrifty Germkn colonists, who are their, a rich agricultural region abouu 10 neighbors. The town 1s blessed. With I miles south of Corvallis. where he many schools, Latin, -Greek and Protes- amassed extensive property holdings. ' U?tL,f 1d -I!? Jh ttotoromedan have , Mr. Buchanan . was parried In Eng established SftMueaMoTuil system which liana and Is survived by the widow , , ,saes beyond the mere recitation of the; Other llvln members of h romii ' .I . J?r Ths.aHvrr..thrtfty,d.ln;ra dustrlous and their orange .groves and , Corvallis, Andrew Buchanan of Portland , - vineyards show evidence of industrious , Mu Mary Buchanan. Mr arid Mrs w' Strong Ken Exhibit ' One may see in Haifa any day an ex hibition of ; pbyrlcal strength which ta nn ii inmuni r iimr nn mm i 1 1 - . i. Ml UK. nAKU Bb sacrJ.F..o(ptai war HU rmfUIL Puts Into Practice, His Own Theory, Ignoring License Law and Churchly Sanction He Preaches the Doctrine. (rnlfwl Press Leaaed Wire. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 1. "Ours is not legal marriage, I Sdmlf-but it is Just as truly a spiritual marriage as though it had been performed by a vested clergy man," was the declaration today of Dr. Haylmer Harding, who wedded Mrs. Ruth McDonald Christmas day without going to the trouble of taking out a li cense. It was a "spiritual marriage" ceremony that the couple went through at the horns of friends, they said, and far superior artlole to that ordinary people have been accustomed to use since civilization began. Dr. Harding,' who la lecturer on sociology and eugenics, said this about the "wedlock" Into which ha has en tered. "This Is not sAtrlal marriage, nor do we believe in tree love. We recognise four basic principles whloh must under lie all marriages and which we feel hays been compiled with In this affair of 'ours: .'' .. ' These brlnclDles are normal health of body and mind,, harmony of mind and spirit, the contracting parties must be well mated from every point of view, nd they must have the necessary money for support and comfort and have the earning capacity to insure it A. man needs the. companionship and help and advice of a woman, and woman hefeds the protection and com panionship and love of a man. when these conditions are fulfilled that Is all that constitutes a marriage. We do not believe.la.ihi jnece our marriage, , nor in having a formal set of words said by a clergyman." .. . . Harding is an Englishman, who- came here f rom Canada. , Ho recently founded the First Liberal church -of California In- Oakland,-where he said be hoped to gather a congregation of liberal minded people to whom he might preach "spirit ual wedlock;" - --- rivals the performance of professional strong men In -the west Haifa is the port through which .the weavers, of Da mascus import their, cotton. Practically all of this is Egyptian cotton and contea In the large Egyptian .bales of . 600 pounds each. The Afab longshoreman takes one of these huge' bales for his particular burden. Four men lift It to his back, and a rope which passes around the bale is placed over hlSTrore head, and, lie walks along to a balf, crouching attitude, from the dock to tne warehouse, ; a distance- of 100 yards, carrying : this burden of a quarter 0f & ton and supporting' Its weight. by the band serosa his .forehead. It seems el most impossible that so ' many men could be found In .any one place pos sessed of such great strength, but It Is nothing unusual to see a procession - of a score '. of th'&se longshoremen each carrying a bale ofcotton. , Haifa is bullion a western model, its streets are wide enough to admit of the use of carriages, its shops have glass windows and some of them even have showcases. Its police force is gaily uniformed in a costume which is a compromise between Berlin and Con- posts, with their sockets for oil lamps are still in evidence, but the moonless night now veils the city,-of Haifa in darkness as deep as ever hung over Egypt. The town is interesting because It is new, because its business Is a combina tion of marine slipplhg and railway activity,. because Its religious energy is d evoted to teaching the young" and not to the exploitation of some sacred shrine, and because it shows a. promise of that physical regeneration which may be possible In Palestine under the comblnedllnfTtience of the Young Turks, the Zionist Jews and the Christian mis sionaries. On the shores Of this bay, set In the protecting arm of Carmel, many cities and many civilizations have flourished. Here was a seaport of the HIttltes, here was a stronghold of Canaan overthrown by Joshua. Here was the landing place of Alexander the Great, and here was built the great Greek clty,of Ptolemals. Here landed a portion of the Roman army which completed the destruction of the Hebrew nation. Here came Rich ard of the lAon Heart j to support a Christian dynasty, and lpre the Crusad ers made their last stand against the victorious armies of the Crescent Here struggled th eomehdTng forces of Arabs, Egyptians and Turks for mas-! Bishop, a Sacramento railroad machln tery In, the Syrian, littoral. Here came ! 1st, died early today as the, result of Napoleon the Great, laying In WOod eating the heads of a number of parlor the .foundations of his glory. And now j matches at the home of her grand here comes the rallrfoad. the telegraph, , father, P. 8. Ballard, In this city yes- and the missionary, the three elements which destroy the ancient day and com pel acceptance of what we are pleased to call modern civilisation. k 1 But over It, still stands Carmel, un changed and unchanging, the altar of the Most High God, the sentinel which watches over the Holy Land. Tomorrow, Convention. World's Sunday School Death Roll of the Northwest Robert L. Buchanan. (Special Dispatch to Th Journal.) Corvallis, Or., Jan. Robert L. Buchanan, one of the prominent pioneer farmers of Benton county, died at 2 o'clock this morning, after an illness of two months. He was the owner of a large landed property, and had re sided In this county for the past 67 years. - - - - Mr. Buchanan was born In England October 15,1823. - He came to the united States In early life, sroin to early Oregonlana, he gathered together t several' thousand dollars in dust in the Hi Currln of Corvallis . tinA Un tr xt Veatch Of - - Cottage Grove. William Buchanan, a son. has been tren.nr.r nt j Benton county for many years. i Street Crowds Full of Different Kinds of Enthusiasm, but All Orderly. ' j ' Never did a monarch receive more demonstrative greeting than did King January 1 last night Amid the din of whistles .and horns and all manner of ear splitting screeches the Old year tot tered to its fall. Surging humanity that packed the streets and made progress almost Impossible, kept up the howling i welcome long after the new king had been acclaimed. ! New Year's at the grills lasted until1 3 o'clock In the morning.. In some or them the revelry was unrestrained, but In all the sHrit of fun was uppermost Good nature was the noticeable feature of the merry making,, and although there were a few close calls, allowances were made and there was no serious trouble. Wine Olasi In Evidence. Prosperity's symbol was this year the wine glass. Last year It was the beer Btetn. Everybody ushered in 1909 with the ."osky-wow." This year u was "uskylate.'- It was n place for. "the lips that touch-Mquor shall never touch mine. r '.- "".; -:-i':.' .. '..-'; , A thriving night it waa", too, for the road houses. - Motoring partle by the score chugged out of town to the differ ent wayside inns, where the cellar stores of champagne were sadly depleted., one of the well known aterera of the city aid today that 1000 gallons of the "bubble water" must have been sold In the city alone. Crowds Well Behaved. , ?Th crowd on the streets was orderly and well behaved," said Chief of Police Cox. '1 had all the men out from early in the evening until , the last merry maker, went home. Mr orders relative to the use of firearms were splendidly obeyed. 7 Only one arrest was made for this of f ehse.' '" WcSnf el" was" tnr own, and the objectionable tickler, was prac tically absent with Captain Bailey X went from beat to beat and through the crowds last hlght and remained up with the men until t o'clock this taofnlng. I am well satisfied with the way -toy men handled the crowd, and with the. way people behaved,1 1 ;'-'- ; ' . . "The patrolmen were placed in the downtown district and only enough left outside to guard the residence part pf town. To some of the most noisy cafes and buffets plain clothes men had been assigned, and checked anything that ap proarched disorder, "Four fire alaym -were answered. One at ap9. Union ave nue was caused by an overheated Stove, another at 1091 Thurtnan street was. Caused by carelessnWr aml-anajher at 750 East Eighth street by a match. No great-loss was reported in either case. The fourth call was-Grand avenue and Morrison street where rubbish was on fire. -. . ,- - 1 ... Terrific Gale Drives the Mc Donald, From Everett, With 800,000 Feet of Lumber. (Culted Pre. Leited Wire.) Ban Diego, Cal., Jan. 1.-while en deavoring to epter the harbor in the thick, of last night's storm, the three masted schooner McDonald, having as her cargo 800,000 feet of lumber for the Russ Lumber company of this city, was driven on the shoals off Pblnt Loma by a terrific southeast gale, and at noon today was still aground. The revenue cutter Bear, the gov ernment tug Lieutenant Harris, and the Spreckels tug Bahava, were making every effort today to' save the schooner and the rescuers hope to have her off before night without damage. The McDonald sailed from Everett Wash., for" this port She sent up rock ets of distress when driven from the channel upon the Bhoal. Captain Pier son Is In charge of the McDonald. BABY EATS PARLOR MATCHES AND DIES . (United Pkm Leaud Wlr.t Oakland, Cal., Jan. 1. Frances Bish op, the 2-year-old daughter of Norman , terday The child's grandmother had been In the habit of bathing her at noon, and then putting her to bed. This she did yesterday, and left the room, thinking the baby was asleep. When she returned at 2 o'clock she found the child on the floor, where It had crept after climbing out of the crib. An open box of " parlor matches with several headless sticks scattered about the" floor, told the" story. The baby -had eaten the phosphorus and was in the .act of swallowing more when the grandmother appeared. A physician was hastily called.) He found the baby .suffering from the ef fects of the poison. She died at o'clock today. GRAND JURY INDICTS MOUNT ANGEL OFFICIAL - v ' 1 (Stlem Bureau of The Journal.) Salem, Or.. Jan. 1. City Recorder Buchelt of Mount Angel has been in dicted by the Marlon county grand jury on a charge of extortion. He was ar rested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff William Each and placed under cash bonds to appear for arraignment here Monday. Buchelt Is accused of taking a fine from one person for an offense committed by another, - MARPUS WHITMAN'S WORK jS HONORED (Special Oiapateh Th. Journal. Washington, Jan. lr The' secretary of war has changed the nash of the Goat Island military reservation la Puget sound to Fort Whitman, in honor of Marcus Whitman. - - - This is the first time the government has applied the name of a minister not connected with the army to any mili tary post or reservation, and is done in ; recognition of Whitman's work la the northwest SCHOONER ASHORE NEAR SANUIEGO Craving for Drug Causes Keep? r er of Incurable Ward of In sane. Asylum to" Strangle Patients to Get Money. ; ; (United Pme UimS ttrire. Paris, Jan. 1. Leon Thabuls, an ab sinthe fiend, who, as keeper of a ward In an Insane asylum, strangled dosens of patients td get money to satisfy his thirst, it is believed : will certainly be brought to the guillotine. - Poe,. ,ln his ; most somber moments, could not have dreamed of crimes more hideous than thoae perpetrated by the moffster Thabuls. . ': Thabuls was the keeper of an incur able ward.' For. weeks before the dis covery of his crimes It was noted by the asylum authorities that his patients, trembled in fear every time he. apJ proached them. Later Bis visits to the ward created' a veritable panto among the gibbering folk.. V ' s . The crime that resulted in, the discov ery of his other atrocities was the bru tal mufder of an old man, who was a hopeless idiot. He was found to have been strangled to death. Thabuls said it was an accident that the Old . man had attacked him and tbtt he had found it necessary to kill him to defend him self. ! -V. - ";; , -' ' An ' Investigation followed. It was found that there had been a death in Thabuls' ward every other day for 12 daya,i The bodies of six patients ex humed showed they- had been strangled. Further investigations showed many moos such oases. Rules of the asylum allowed one franc to the keeper ot, a ward for the extra work entailed by the death ef one of hia-charges. Thabtri,-to -buy- hls-ab-slnthe, had engaged in carnival of strangulations", and with the money he had gainedwould sit all night about a table tippling and grinning at the pictures the poison made. V.F. MATLOCK, OREGON POLITICIAN. ILL HERE William F. Matlock of Pendleton, well known throughout the state as one of the prominent and wealthy residents Of Umatilla county, and former mayor of Pendleton and state senator, was brought to the St Vincents hospital last night suffering with rheumatic complications .resulting from a- long siege of typhoid fever. -v , . s Several months ago Mr.- Ma'tlock started for Canadato 4ook afterWs property interests there and ' on the trip was taken ill with typhoid fever. He returned . to his jhome and for -the past two months or ; mora has been in the hospital at Pendleton. The, fever was broken but rheuma tism, which has ' affected ; his theart developed, dnd he is Jn i Tjery ' eerious condition. ,. -;i?:I"!r"''4:' Tt was decided, finally, to take the sufferer to Paso Robles, California, by easy stages, in hopes that the treatment there would benefit him. ; He ;.. was brought to "Portland yesterday, accom panied by Dr. C, J. Smith, his physician, and Mrs. Matlock. He was taken at once to St Vincent's hospital upon his arrival here and is reported as rest ing well today, apparently having suf fered no ill effects from, the long Jour ney by rail.. ........ : V,; f .. After a rest of , a couple of weeks here Mr. Matlock and Mrs. Matlock will start for California, where Jt Unex pected 1 that the invalid will speedily recover. : Tjlr'. Matlock has never been sick before tn his life, and is noted for his rugged physique. He has long been a prominent figure in the political and business life of eastern Oregon and the stace. , v;-i ; . DRUNKENNESS CAUSE FOR MOST OF ARRESTS DURING PAST YEAR 4 Portland was . ta: belter town during the year just ended than 4 ; In 1908 If the records of the po- ' lice headquarters are taken as 4 41 comparisons. The percentage of 4 Increase in the number of ar- 4 rests made is only about t per 4 cent while the growth In the pop- 4 ' ulatlon of the city has been four 4 times that percentage. . , f .' From figures contained In the report of Desk Sergeant Harry 4 4 Circle for the year of 1S09 the 4 41 total number of arrests made 4 .4 during the past year was 12,489. 4 Ol tnese 4488.. were foreigners 4 and 541 were females. 4 The number of arrests made 4 for vagrancy was 1125, begging, 4 116; larceny, 226; drunkenness, 4 5382; assault and battery, 827; 4 after hours, 438; disorderly con- 4 duct, 820; gambling, 888; mur- 4 der In the first degree, 4; man- 4 slaughter, 2; murder in the sec- 4 ond degree, 8. 4 The patroL wagon was called 4 out to 286 fires; 168 ."drunks" 4 were taken home; 282 lost chil- 4 dren were found. ' - STARTED 1910 BY BEING FIRST MAN ARRESTED 4k- - ' Thomas McGuire has the honor ef being the first man arrested In Port land In ( 1910. Following, his name on the police b'-otter is the charge of drunkenness. He was arrested at 13:05 o'clock this morning. Ho carried a can ,and horn to the station with him, which instru ments he hadbeen using in celebrating. He was Arrested by Patrolmen Rupert, Vanoyern and Robsoh. - it required ail three policemen to get. htm to the sta tion. -. ,'' , ..' MIDNIGHT LUNCHEON : GIVEN BYT. M.n..N0. 36 -. I,. f Portland lodun. .'Nn. R nt ri.... rtcal Mechanical association have Issued J " " - UI1141ISI11 -ttincheon of the association for tonight ine spreaa win db given at the Swet- ""in, luiwiirwmi.' : ins association ex tends Its - than ks to the presi of the' city for its. share In making the New Tear's eve benefit matinees a success. A Journal want ads bring results. Then Man With Revolver Gent Jy Relieves Victim of $3 In .His - Store'. :: Two masked men entered the law thorns Avenue grocery last, evening at 9:15 o'clock and stole S. The men held guns to the proprietor's head, forcing him to turn the llghte out . One robber searched the cash drawer, wnlle the other held the grocer In the Corner. One man carried a club. The home of W. W. Woodworth, Bt2 Ainsworth avenue, was entered : last evening and $20 taken from. a drawer. Edward Turner, JI Tenlno street also was visited by burglars.! Tools valued at 26 were stolen from H. E. ' "Wads worth, blacksmith at -fiJohna , . ' Miss J. N. Smith, living atXthe Nor. ton. Twelfth and Washington . streets, reports the loss of a mink muff and neckpiece. They were taken Monday night from' her" room and are valued at 150. . ' ',.:-... ' v'; a , A deputy marshal will start tomorrow for Gardiner, on the Umpqua river, to arrest O. P. Hinsdale, a prominent saw mill man, accused of shipping explosives on a vessel under misleading, labels in violation of the federal laws. Hinsdale Is manager of the Gardiner Mill com pany, which operates a store at Gardi ner and also a 'atwrnttL'-.,??---The warrant for Hinsdale's arrest was sworn to yesterday afternoon by Walter H. Evans, assistant United States dis trict attorney, and it will be turned over toeMarshal Reed tomorrow for service. The penalty prescribed in such cases is a maximum fine of $2000 or one year's Imprisonment or both. ; , , Besides being Interested in the tore Hinsdale is part owner of the steamer Eva, carrying passengers and freight on' the Umpqua river. ; IMs asserted that In shipping Tieavy . explosives, Buch. as dynamite and nitroglycerine, Hinsdale Invariably labeled, it brass, butter, fea; con, dried fruit, molasses or anything that he thought would detract attention. The purpose of this was to prevent .the United States Inspectors,," Edwards . and Puller, from' interfering With the traf flo enjoyed by-the craft - ' POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW BIG INCREASE FOR THE J LAST YEAR AND MONTH 4 Postoffice receipts for the year 4 Just past and for the month of December, 1909, . show an amax- ing increase over the receipts of 1908, and of Decembeft,of that year.. The receipts, as Compiled V by Postmaster John C Young 4 today, were: 4 Year 1909 .....',...,.$783,679.37 4 Year 1908 .... 680,818.96 Increase ............. 102,765.41- S Percentage of increase 5.09 December, 1909, ......$ 88.937.97 December, 1908 ...... 76,282.61 Increase 12,65.46 Percentage of Increase : 16.59 Awards in Corn, Contest leld Up. ; - Special DtipatcS to The Journal. t Pullman, Wash., Jan. 1. The claim that Whitman county won ,the grand sweepstakes prise In the corn growing contest inaugurated by the Oregon Rail road & Navigation company and Wash ington State college last spring Is dis puted and the wards are being held up. Two Walla Walla contestants and one from Columbia county claim greater yields than 98 bushels, the yield of Warren Love of Garfield. Whitman county, which won the prize. GETS IN TROUBLE FOR SHIPPING EXPLOSIVES .'-..-.... V .'' .. ",' .... .', - . I ......., . . 4 i ( . , - -i " i - , w . t t ...'... . :v -jmrnW- . ; . V' , wwm '- -ft tfe;f t . ft- - Mm A i . iifW Ililfw n in WmmlmP it: I I . J l:!i:J i! ' l,S KS'it f-.:::J"ji5!SSi: f J M ,t f 19 t an . I ; :i::::::i;ii HSKXV i I , i "IV. l! I I IK " Alleged Forger Nabbed by De- tectives When He Left Hid ing Place Last Night.. While merrymakers thronged i the downtown streets last evening A. J. Cavala, a professional check forger who is wanted in all the coast states, Ven tured from his three-day , hiding '. place and was amsted.-hsocal-dtecttvw have been looking for him for three weeks, He was arrested by Hellyer and Maloney.' 'y.iViii:A Bogus checks approximating $2000 have been passed In Portland and Mount Vernon, Wash,, where Cavala workf.d his game previous to coming - to this city. He i has acknowledged -' the greater part of the checks, and wants te make festitution-h ; t 7? r ' Cavala has been rooming at First sad Clay In a cheap lodging-house, and has not made an appearance on the street In the daytime. . i The detective depart ment knew he was in town, but could not locate .him, as he moved three times in one" week, and settled in the cheap .quarter of the city. He icwell dressed, has plenty f--tmnicy7nd tffe appearance of a ; prosperous tbuelness; man,".-.;;v'f ,i'A. : xwa. In.Cavala's trunk the detectives found si fictitious si letter of introduction ' tn which 1ie was represented to be the nephew of Judge Cabanas at San Fran dscoi - He had taken the name of Ca banaj. ' ' - t, The Complaint upon which the warrant-was issued ' was signed, by Bmll Springer, saloonkeeper at Sixth and Couch street, Jhe amount forged' was $125. - . Cavala' s usual custom .-was to become acquainted with a cigar dealer, saloonkeeper for druggist ' and . buy a small bill of goods and have them cash the bogus check.- (y ATHLETE, STOLE LAUNCH - David LewiB7TeaT"estate dealer ' ajt 88 Fifth street, is ready to 'add" another chapter to the real estate, gossip ef the -;lt7.TlilMiinAJ-JP4eaxasA-tna plaintiff against Forrest SmlthsOn, a local athlete, who was arrested yestert day, Smtthson is charged with break ing and" entering property belonging to LewlS. -' '--; '.i- l-;-'i';-''Vi') ''' ' '''' According to Lewis, SmlThson sold him a gasoline launoh valued at $500. A bill of sale is in the hands of Lewis. The. latter now charges ;Smlthon with breaking open the boatbouse, and steal Ihg the la'uittte rgmithson alleges Lewis owes him money on a real estate deal, which was exceedingly compllcatedand will be the basis of a civil suit Smith son was released' on ' his own recogni tion. The matter will be heard -Monday in municipal court , ALAMEDA BILLBOARDS , , MUST BE EXPURGATED ttnlted Prets teased- Wire.) - - Alameda, Cal., Jan. . 1, In futurV Venus De MH6, portrayed on . the bill boards of Alameda, will be used as a high art ladles' tailor model. In other words, ber drapery vwlll be removed and . her form : clothed from head to foot In "something neat and natty," or "this ' season's fcpvelty.t - r 1 The axe of the Alameda city council has : fallen heavily.; All figures repre. senting u nd raped ' or partially clothed women will be barred now and forever from the billboards of the city. The form divine cannot find a place in tlje pubUo eye according to the . local toun- Thf billboards came in for a heayy share of the council's ; attention, the same ordinance fixing the rate of tax ation on them and requiring that they shall be built strong enough to resist the wind. .. LEWIS SAYS SMITHSON, Alfred Elmer Admits Smugglify Morphine and Opium Into - Portland or Chinese. A ;-(,:. : ' r V. .',':" Underground snjuggllng of morphir, and opium Into Portland has been $1 covered by the polloe. It is through clerk, Alfred Elmer, , emplpyed In t drjiSL-Store atl-40d couyer, Wish., that the drug was sllpp,j no ine city, jrte was. arrested yesti,. day) afternoon, , and has -admitted , truth of the charges made against him Large quantities of" opium ajif , phlne have lately made their appear, ance ln the resorts of the ;clty. Tii amount has been rapidly growing In u, the "last few months.,;- Many , person lately arrested In the north end ha been found to possess the- drugs. - a refused to tell from where it came. Especially among; the Chinese ha, opium traff la beert noticed. "It is no, certain that much of the drug used t them was gotten by the drug clerk, j Elmer war arrested by " Detecttv,, Tichenor and Howell-while trying ;i dispose of a luan.Utx:fJollet artlcla Elmer's employer has missed perfumer attd. drug store novelties. Morphine n opium were found in the man's pocket -Jreat crowds packed the Orpheu and daker theatres last night at s o'clock to attend the twin midnight in lnees given by Portland Lodge No, jt Theatrical Mechanical association. -.. A: not only were the crowds large t they were brimming with pleasure good, feeling. "S. R. O,'". signs w put up at both show houses. . - . ; Frank Coftmberry manager of 't:; Grand t.tbeatie, made the opening t, i dress at th Orpbeum theatre and A i torney - John H.: 8tevenson- scatter gems of thought af the Baker theatre ' - Monroe Hopkins and Miss Lola Axt, In '"trolley-, Troubles" opened the pr gram at the Orpheum. " They respondfi to 'repeated encores and were followd by-the'Dagwel sisters In a "Historic Cycle of Songs.".. When the storm applause following, thei turn had w sided, Kay; Fern. singing cojaedleni! took the spotlight; .Then carfna Mr, ail Mr. ' Wflerlclt Voelker ; Ihj their iv ceseful musical v? Interlude, "In? tti Studio." Encores were demanded. . Gertrude Van Dyck - was success? In generally amusing the audience mv solos? Miss Una Clayton-and-bor pla ers.lo ,'HlB Locsl Color," were the. m of tfce'.progrjim.:-. -rK ii i 'y' V I Every Skit On the bill was recelvf by - the audience with; the -wildest . Madame'Rasoall and her famous bar! started off the bill at the Baker theati and Aslhur Hutton with his ,f'Rooseve in Afrtea tollowed. ( Kiernan, , Wajtef Sc. Kieman in ''A Royal 'S3ooVr(M4 next and aroused the audience to it noi f demopstratioh of approval. . Then ti Oipheus Comedy Four, with songs i t comedy mixed, gathered 1 its share ? the - applause, . to be followed by i brothers Whitman who are flexible f of persona Thelma DeVerne and E-. were" nexC with- Jacobs and Bardel, e robats following. Cora Hall, sing: comedienne and Hlokey's Comedy t cue completed the program. .'' , Lodges Hold Joint InotallaUon. rStiMH.! IXfinatcb to The Jdnrsal.t '-' Bay City. - pr , Jan. i. -on moiw evening, December 27, No. 102, A.- F. ' A A. uay , uity w M,.and';1Mlrff fildiJoi'l: Installation of their respective of ficwf About, forty were present tot itw the ceremonies. Following the inf lation speeches were made by varlcf members of - the Masonic lodge. - ' elaborate banouet - was tendered -: t ' Eastern Star and visitors by the Maso at the Hotel Wlnfield. filipiilGHT IATitiliE.' . , "V .Kit- 1-