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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
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(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
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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.
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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.
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