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II AYOE AND i COUNCIL ON NE,W HAWTHORNE, BRIDGE,
Railroad Magnate Says: "Till
Yc;r Soil and Cities Take
- Carp cf Themselves; Ccun
' try Produces Most Wealth."
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ADVISES OREGOMNS TO '
ENCOURAGE SMALL TILLER
f - '
I ' ' "mii. in, .i , -tV; -,v;
"We' (ion't : Want Union De
pot
Here Judging From
Wnat I Sec," He Says,
"What! Oregon needs more than any
thing else is tho good man who will
tin the, fell, tha man who will, cultivate
the land," said James J. Hill this morn
ing In . discussing Oregon development.
"The cities will take care of themselves;
It la the country and the products of the
country, thjt form the life's blood of the
community." .
The distinguished railroad builder ar
rived, hre last night In a special train
direct from St Paul and will remain
several days looking- over the Oregon
interests of the Hill system In company
with Ujo head of operations In the Ore
gon district, John F. Stevens. !- Others
In the fparty that arrived on Mr. Hill's
special! train are George B. Harris,
chairman of the board' of directors of
the Partington system; w. B. - Dean,
Cirector.of the Great Northern; W. H.
5 unnwoody and E. C. Cooke, capitalists
Minneapolis; Samuel Hill, Mr. Hill's
I ' tii-flaw, and M. R. Browne, his prl
V"il..''. rtcretary. Samuel Hill continued
on to feoatttle last nigtyt." s ' , ;
, should Serelop Country.
' "Oregon's population Is increasing
rnpldli as shown by the recent census
figure, hut I believe that by far the
greatef percentag-e of Increase is shown
In the? cities. Now,' that la not what
It shiild,be. It Is ttiev country that
will pfoduce wealth in Oregon; ft la tha
land that ls.rarticularly favorable here
and for that reason ta create wealth the
(ontinuod on l'ae Sixteen.1
T.lil!
UitUiiud
lb i LL
Wan!
Paris .Drama Barred
Fiim Houes That Is Both
Church and theatre.
f UBltrd rreat Uued Wlr.
tag from which Robert J. Burdette
recently preached every Sunday, and
wbkwwb jjrougner, formerly of Port-
sao, -u ne yneen or the Moulin Rouge"
JrUl M presented Monday night
; Tha kreat , Temple Baptist church,
lfeMLit TamniM Yxr Ti TnwAA - 11..
Ajxlltoaflum : theatre during the week
.lays. It Is under contract to the local
representative of the Shuberta.
Wheti It was announced thf ""rvi
Cneea ft the Moulin Bouge" would be
, irtaged Jthere howl of protest arose.
Petitions poured in upon the munir.inai
. tuthorltlea, who replied that they were
: powerless to stop the production until
tern ftert perfot-maace bad been given,
tod not? even then, tf It were nat more
uuix man omer piAys presented la
mo iwun vi ins contmnlrtv
teats. Prosecutor Guy Eddie toHw
huuuvcu. umi ib aua appointed a board
of censor to attend the first nurfn-m.
ance Monday night The board includes
representatives of the Clvlo Federation
Bf Los Angeles and of the Federation nf
Woman's. clubs. :
If they report adversely the perform,
ice will be suppressed, aecordin-.
. ance
Eddie.
STEAMER BPIIIGIIIG FIRST
EIGHT GAHGO
: Coming to Portland direct1 from' An
eon, on 4the '. west coast of -Panama,
a steamer operating' In the Bates A
Cheesebrough - line Is scheduled to ar
rive horef about January 25 with ap
proximately IS 00 tons of freight from
eastern ports, by way of the Panama
railroad, i ' . .
v This wip be the first shipment f of
freight on the ne lino since Bates
& Cbeesobrongh made an agreemnt with
the government wbereby the , Panama
railroad is iued to transfer the freight
from the east coast to the 'Pacific, al
though the steamer Axteo was here from
the Atlantis seaboard recently, coming
, aract by-way of the Straits of M&gel-
laa-. - ; ( ,
The name of the steamer which will
kring the shipments direct here has not
been learned, but It will be one of the
mm
R. C. Gillis, Promoter of Car
and Light System, Declares
, Company's Affairs Directecl
From Local Headquarters.
POWER PLANT WILL
v ,DE BUILT AT ONCE
Tracks for Passenger Service
ATso Be Laid tp. West .
; ,S?Ue Before Long. ' ,
"Although at present financed - from
Los Angeles, the Mount Hood Railway
&' . Power company ' will be a Portland
property,., 'managed. In Portland and
spending Its money la Portland. ,. I
shall return after the first of the year
to conduct, matters personally until the
road Is ready for operation and the
power plants ready, to furnish energy
and later I intend ' to make Portland
my home. v
. Thus spoke C GiUls, chairman of
the board of ; directors ; of the Mount
Hood Railway & Power company, Just
before leaving for California last night
after having arranged , preliminary de
tails in petitioning for a franchise from
the city giving the road entrance for
Its passenger service and privileges
to dispose ofelectrlc corrent for light
and Dower. .-. . .,.
'The men behind the road are El P.
Clark of Loa Angeles, who recently dis
posed of his railroad Interests there .to
tne iiamman people, ana wno is pres
Ident of the .Mount Hood line; Arthur H.
Fleming, retired, capitalist of Pasadena,
and myself. , C. B. Smith, head of the
engineering firm of Smith, . Kerry A
Chace, which is building the railroad
and the power plant has 'been , ap"
pointed, general manager and will be
come financially Interested in the pro
ject - :; I." i,-r-v-':-. . :
Will Sastea Oosstrnotloii,
"We propose to hasten construction
as rapidly .as - weather and .conditions
will permit and expect to have the road
completed early in the spring. "In seek.
lng a franchise we ask nothing beyond
what we actually need in carrying out
the plans already announced."
Mr. Smith." who has-been -appoint
general manser; a! prppen t in
months ago. he has ben heavily inter
ested- for some time.' lie n consuicrea
one of the big engineers of , thr country.
having been professor of railroad engi
neering at McQill university, Montreal
chalruin of thtr Tamiscamine & North
ern Ontario , railway, for . the Ontario
government; -chief - engineer for tha
Hydro-electric commission for the On
tario government; engineer for the
Hydro-electric development " for Cal
gary, which la now ncarlng completion;
organized the Smith, Kerpy & Chace
company, which, with Mr. Smith at the
head, engineered construction for one of
the large Niagara power paints on the
Canadian side of the Niagara Falls;
built the hydro-electric plant for Win
nipeg, of 60,000 horsepower; ia engineer
for all power plants on the Trent val
ley canal, Ontario, and Constructed the
Nlpisslng power plant. North Bay, and
the Matabltnhuan power plant for the
Cobalt district '
. In Other Positions. v
"Other engineers permanently named
for the various positions on the com
pany's engineering staff are W. P.v Bre-
reton, chief of staff and hydraulic de
partment? X. B- Goodwin, chief of field
engineers; G. Kribbs, in charge of Sthe
electrical department; F."R. Ernsberser.
in chargo of the hydraulic department
and .E. W. Bowncsa, manager of the
light and power department, i -
Engineer Goodwin reports that vary
good progress is being : made on the
construction, several steam graders be
ing at work east of Monta villa. -. -
In Los Angeles Mr. GlUls la president
vi. mw un AjiKciea i-acuic raiiroao, one
or the big i lnterurban electric, roads
running between Los Angeles and beach
points. ' This property . was recently
purcnasea Dy tne southern Pacific com
pany-with other lnterurban lines when
the Huntington properties were sep
arated, the lnterurban roads being sold
iu um ooumern faciric,. while Mr.
Huntington took control of " the street
railway system. "
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SlilCE IIEl'l
5T LII!E F0ROE0
several steamers recently .'secured by
thfs Ccomastn5r 10 band,S tre,Kht 0a
he 'Atlantic fleet operated by
filtZ t.nheeMebOT,Kh' teamr Al
row thl riU York tomor
row, the Colon December ia from the
same port and the steamer San Mat"
?elCaht wlll4'fr0m ' Tht
Ereight will be consolidated either at
Colon on th l 8ld9 w J?jZg-l
Pacific terminus of the Panama rail-
Xmd
r0ltJ? l8Path from New Cn
X d 0"on by the new line
?rt"tor W the steamer
Ban Mateo. New Orleans will be one
fH1 i b'nfsa men of that' dry was
at the wharf to welcome the steamer
when she docked. - . r
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CARRIED Oil HIGH spin REFUSES TO SCHEME v WER" l
BY UFT SPAN OF
Official Inspection of the New
Structure Is Made by Mayor
, and City , Councilmen; Cars
F.lay-Be Run Saturday.'
The first official inspection of the
completed'' new Hawthorne .avenue
bridge was made ' yesterday by Mayo
Simon, thtf bridge committee of the city
executlv board and the county court
b f flclilw-' A:-nniBbar t t'
oilmen and other employes ct the auui
cip'a.nty were' also there. ,"'" ;: ; '
, The Inspecting party arrived on the
bridge" at 2 o'clock and were promptly
taken-to the lift, which was raised at
once by the big electrical; motors wh'cY
operate the mechanism of the movable
(Continued' on ' ?iw Twenry.)
RAILROADS ASK
WAGE INCREASE
Apply to Washington for, .Set
tlement U nder Erdman Act;
Willing to GVant Engineers
9:Per Cent Increase J
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', (tJnitH Pre", tteaeetl Wire.) ' '
Chicago, Dec. 15. The 61 western
railroads treating with the engineers,
who threaten a strike unless wage in
creases are granted, today appealed to
Washington for arbitration, under the
provisions of the Erdman act"; ;
V The railroad managers Wired Chair
man Knapp of the Interstate Commerce
commission' and Commissioner' of Labor
Charles P. Neill to come to Chicago at
once. - The telegram said the engineers
had refused the rallroatts offer, of," a
per cent wage, increasei ,. ';- ; . -j'- .; - i
The engineers made demands 'qn" the
various roads for increases of from 1!
to 11 per cent - the railroads, after' a
conference with the representatives of
the engineers, decided to offer a per
cent advance. This was rejected, y The
railroad officials Informed the meii that
they would ask mediation. ' It " is ex
pected Knapp and Nelll will. reply fa
vorably. ; '
The controversy involves the , engi
neers on practically every road '. that
reaches west of the Mississippi river.
Over 95 per cent of the engineers have
voted to strike If; the Increases . they
demand are not 'granted.
NEW SUPREME-COURT TT
. JUDGES CONFIRMED
. Washington,' Dec 16. The appoint
ments of Judge Van. de Vanter and
Judge- Lamar as associate Justices of
the supreme court o the United Stages
were - confirmed this- afternoon by the
senate. The nominations were approved
by, the committee on Judiciary; reported
to the senate in. executive session this
afternoon and confirmed under suspen
sion of the rules. , -
V Seattle MasoM Lay Cornorstone. '
Seattle, ;Dec. 15. Followins: a parade
In which -more than; 500 Mawtn marched
garbed In the glittering costume of the
lodge room, the cornerstone of the Scot
tish Rite cathedral was laid -sterday
afternoon.' Judge Jeremiah IS eterer of
Deillngham, grand master, was the chief
speakxtr at the exercise.
Mill MIDGE
ARBITRATION Of)
FOB
TOGA PEOPLE NAVE GIVEN
111
i '- (VntttO Preui tH WiM.1 .
San Diego, Cal,- Dec 15. Refusing to
open- headquarters to urge his election
to the'XTnited: States' senate,' to which
office he says, he has already, been
elected by : the people of California at
the August primary, 'Albert G. Spalding,
millionaire sporting 'gUods manufac
turer, today declared his independence
of. all "rings" and "bosses."; .
" "All political machines look alike to
me," he said "1 am rot the candidate
of any "machine' and; have no political
machinery supporting my candidacy, I
have no campaign nor political manager,
!on .'-4s authorized '' to". :.beak
, ! sm not a! stockholder nor, am. I ta
ny ay Interested in the Southern Pa
i if ;r lallroad company. I am not now
o- ..m I become affiliated with or be
.a raced ; by the so-called political
areau of the Southern Paclf!e com-
v "J aba crged to open campaign head-
SORRY HE KILLED
II
Chamberlain', Expresses. Re
: -gnet for Slaying; Repentant
Woman Takes Blame' for
Deceiving r Husband. I i
"I allowed t one i man, to ge ; tmbaxmed
on a former occasion, forgave my wifa
and this is the result I saw this man
go in my house last night saw him sit
ting on - the bed beside my wife, and
the fight followed He pulled a gun,
and I knew it was a fight to the finish.
I. did not Intend to kill him,, and am
sorrjT-eorge ..ChambeTlaln. J
It was -all my fault ' I 'don't know
why It had anything to do i with the
mani" -Mrs. George Chamberlain.; ' r
,v Andrew 'Massin,- il yeara old, i occu
pies a slab', lp the, bity i morgue, and. "'the
only statement from his side of the-ease
comes from . his roommate, .Jaraes Per
nio. '' ' - .' i r , i .
dared no naa a aanay i gsri, - ana mm
she was amnrried woman. ,He further
states that 'Massln told 1 him of 'Other
girls,- whom ,he- said he liked very
much,1 ; , : ' ' ' ?
George Chamberlain, proprietor of tho
Oregon Electric theatre, last night stab-
(Contlnued on Paga fnxteen.)
traffics eo 7
THS JOITJTAL "
. Extensive Space, to Be.
a-. Devoted to Pldtur.es,
and Stories' of .Central.
Oregon and Its Devel
' opment,1 ' y.
UNA FOUND Id;
HIS 1 ES ROOM
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quarters in Los Angeles, jSan Francisco
and Sacramento,, to further advance my
candidacy before the legislature. I shall
do nothing of the kind. -Nor will I
spend a dollar to.secure the ratification
Of an election already given me by the
people under "the primary law. -
"My candidacy must stand or fall
with the primary law., That statute is
on trial not L I am also urged by
some-that In order to secure my elec
tion, I should go. hat in hand, to the
professional politicians and political
'bosses' and beg their support I shall
do nothing of the kind, and I may here
and that-if I ShOUt'J ,b-eoma the next
United : States' senator! i.'ovn Cal Zo'rcla
I- wlU decline tor receive Instructions erH
take, orders from any political boss or
any faction of any party. la
t "I nave offered my services to my
state. I have agreed to devote the next
six years of my Ufa to the public serv
ice, and X have done,'; this solely-from
patriotic motives.";- . ? . '
3256 BABIES IH
n i , ' , u. .,..(,., .1. . v - I..'--
LESS THAU YEAR
This Record; of Births in i Ten
-' Months 1 iri. Portland . Ought
to. Make Colonel Roosevelt
it Smile,
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K The stork has been' on the job all the
time in Portland ; during the present
year.- While the Big , Stick ' may : be
gathering dust on . the - shelf, as its
enemies say it is, Its favorite bird has
found in the Rose City an ideal field
for the practice of aviation stunts. Ac
cording to the statistics; in. the--city
health office thai baby carrier' tarns
f erred 1256 passengers here during the
10 months ending October It " It :1s
estimated -that byjthe-Tlrst of January
the number'of births reported will' be
3801- .This will! establish a. new high
record ' birth 'rate', for the Padfla coast,
It. la believed.-', t. ii - '
Based on' a population of $07,000,' the
official census figure for Portland,- the
birth ' rate' will be 18.8 per, 1000. Latre
year' It was only 11.40,' and the year be-,
fore 1 L04. v Tha rate for those two
years, however, was arrived at by figur
ing 'on a population or 156,000 in 1908,
and 265,000 ( In 1809, the estimates be
ing taken from the city directory. StllL
if the birth rate were figured this .year
on the same estimates, it would show a
substantial Increase over last year, any
way.. If s the rate last year -had been
compiled on the population figures used
this. year..tbe .increase, would . have, still
been 27 per cent in favor of the present
year. --i ';:' ..-,.;-; ;;-
Dr. C. H. Wheeler, City health officer,
estimates "that tha death rate for 1910
will be H per -thousand. This would
seem to be a large increase over last
year, when the rate was 7.06 and larger
yet over 1908, when the rate was 4.99.
but the rates ln. the two former years!
were obtained by using the Inflated pop
ulation estimates' of the city directory.
If the actual population had been Used
the death v rate this year would ! i be
slightly less than it was in 1909. .
Spreckels to Hound the Ilora.
Kmw . Orlr, Dac.,18.-J0hfiT'T3f
Sprecklos, s the-, California .sugar mag
nate, s enroute today for Cuba in his
yacht Felicia, on the first leg of a voy
age around Cope Horn. Accompanying
Spreckles are Mrs. Spreckles and a party
of frit-nds. The party will visit the
West Indies. -' -
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i
Henry Rosenthal ' of Washing
ton, D. C, Falls Into Hands
-of , Plotters 'Who ..Force -him
to Sign Check for $5000.
(United Press Leaart Wfra)
Washington, Deo. 15. Bound and
gagged in a room ; of the fashionable
Cairo apartment house while a beautiful
woman and -her husband showed eonv
promising photographs of himself and
demanded $5000, 1s the experience Henry
Rosenthal,' a wealthy Washington so
ciety .man.' related to the oollce todav.
As a result James Knott and his wife,
and Alton Armstrong were arrested
charged with attempting ' to . work ; a
"badger game" on Rosenthal. . '
i Rosenthal met apd became Infatuated
with Mra. Knott according to the story
he told the police.'' He called ort her in
her apartments at the Cairo..' On the
last of these visits her husband sud
denly appeared in the room, helped bind
and gag him and then leveled a revolver
at him While Mrs., Knott ahowed him a
number of photographs of himself taken
In compromising positions with her in
the very, room in which he was held.
Rosenthal was told that unless he paid
$5000 the pictures would be used to ruin
him socially. " . ' v . ';.'. ' .'
He consented to pay the money asked,
and after signing a check for $5000 was
released. Later he called Knott by tele
phone and told him that he could not
afford to pay $6000 at that time, but If
Knott would call at his store he would
give him $2000, Knott agreed to this.
When he arrived at the store the police
were waiting and placed him under ar
rest . ' 1
. Mra Knott after her arrest talked
freely of the plan to get Rosenthal's
money.
: "Armstrong showed us bow to get the
pictures." she, said.' "He- is an expert
electrician and fixed mercury light in
the middle of the ceiling. Then he bored
a hole in the wall and arranged a cam
era in the-next room. ,i. ; ,
k 1 easily induced Rosenthal $o sit with
me where the camera would catch us.
Every picture was good.'
.""My husband Is a good photographer,
and he worked the camera himself." , ,
Mrs. Knojtt said her home was in De
troit, Mich.' 1
j "Nine months ago I- ran away with a
(Continued on Page Sixteen.)
. , ifDnlted Pre teased. Wire.) , , . .
Galveston, , Texas, Dec 15. Three
hundred :1 combatants Vmostly rebels,
were either killed or i, wounded in a
battle today-between the federal troops
and 5 Insurrectos near Guerrero, ; Re
ports of the battle were received at
the cable station: here.' The " federal
troops under General Navarro marched
against" the rebels shortly after day
litrht and after sharp fighting the reb
els were -forced back.
This the second- vietory ror tne
government troops near Guerrero.' 1 ;
The flrst.batUe, occurred .last night
The federal cavalry, attacked the in-
trenchments of the reoeis, capturing a
number of prisoners and taking a large
quantity of .their arms and supplies;
Horsemen pursued the rebels but were
finally compelled to halt ; because of
darkness. The attack was resumed at
daybreak. During the night the rebels
DEFIES SCHEMEItS
m sis com
'-4'V.';a., ;"i'"i'"ii "V
III PROTRACTED BATTLE HEAR
GUERRERO 300 COKTS
FALL; REBELS SUFFER O05T
These the High Poins of Re
port Prepared p'y General
Wood and Sen0o House by
Secretary of yar. t
ARMY TOO SMALL AND. ,
' EQUIPMENT INADEQUATE
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Pacific Coast Navy, Vital to f
Country's Safety, Same as
, - , Non-Existent:
(OattH PrM treses W!r.l
i Washington, Dec. 1 5. The war de
partment has refused to report to con
gress on the preparedness of the coun
try for war. The decision was reached
at a conference between President Taf t
Secretary of War Dickinson and Chair
man Hull of : the house committee on
military affairs. ! It was decided tbat
the report of the secretary, prepared
m response ta a. resolution of Repre
sentative, McLachlan, demanding the in
formation, and which -was given to tha
house yesterday as a confidential docu
ment, would be withheld. This places
the president in the attitude of ref us-
I .1 . . - 41.. 1.
- Senator Root member of the senate,
committee on coast defenses, was also
at the conference. Tha president took
the stand that statements contained in
the report as prepared by Secretary
Dickinson and submitted to the house
as a confidential document were mere
ly the expression of an opinion. It
was, therefore, hs held, not a proper
document to submit to the house.
The president held that there ' was
a - distinct difference between .- reports
expressing opinion and those stating
facts. - Tha former, he believed, should
be withheld. , , ,
Washington, ' Dec , 15. The United
States is not prepared for war and the
Pacific- cost Is practically defenseless.
(Continued on Page" Fifteen.)
TIPS FALL OFF:
' I UIULIIO UlULi
Three Thousand on Vestcrn
-. Unes Petition Company to
' Raise Their .Wage
too
J wo
1 (United fnm leased Wli. ""
Chicago, Dec 15 Disgusted with the
absence of tips, 8000 sleeping car port
ers employed on various lines through
out the west petitioned the Pullman Pal
ace Car company today for an Increase
in wages." Instead of the 83 cents per
day that they now receive, the porters
want a flat salary of $45 to $50 a
month. , -
The high cost of 'living, they say,
makes it absolutely necessary that they
be given the raise they ask. Advanced
prices affect them "going and coming,"
explained one of the backers of the pe
tition. It reaches them ' through tho
pocket books of Pullman passengers, on
whose bounty they have depended, and
it affects them in the support of their
families.
Tips have been declining steadily for
the past five years, old time porters as
sert Where one a Pullman porter could
be a man of independence, he now must
corral every stray nickel to keep himself
an,d family alive, they say.
For Uniform Nursery Inspection.
Fort Smith, Ark, Dec 15. State agri
cultural officials of Texas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkan
sas met in conference here today to dis
cuss plans to bring about a uniform sys
tem of nursery Inspection laws for tho
several states represented, r
had concentrated ; and , formed a short
distance -from .their - first position.
They were formed to fight outside their
breastworks and the federal soldiers
UlVTy WIGIls. MfllS.;
. The federal troops are now report'!
to be" forming to press the attack. Thi
insurrectos have , retreated to a new
position, where it is reported heavy re
inforcements havo Joined them. It l
expected that the battle will r t :.
newed ' before night
Disastrous Floods la PjaH,
Bareelona.-ffpatH." TWIST.
Villages In the lower provinco of i- :
are under water today as the r- .H
floods, which are-threatening in e 'i -tions
of the country.' Cror fc-'i
washed away and thre i s
ger Of famine, anMIng t- J
from Ttfl'iJo". n.'t:'"'!, t;-r . .
other lower provide r;