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I'll . TM3 Iiili3 CI jCLq Sunday Journal . Comprises .,'-'",..... Seclion$-56Pcce3 The weather Fair; Monday prob ably fair; westerly v.'nds. - , "JOURNAL CIRCULATION 1 ixsti:kday was VOL, VII. NO. S9. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25. ' 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1SIDEIITSEIIDS ,TI-iE ADVENT. OF THE GHRISj CHILD. 10 ALL CITIZENS DOMIIGUEZFIELD JOWlTHESSRlVAL AVIATORS' BATTLE IRDSf CHEER No Cause for Dread; Let All Be . Happy White House and Cabinet Programs Newsboys Taft's Guests. , CHRISTMAS SENTIMENTS - BY -PROMINENT MEN ( Tim Sullivan's Annual Dinner : and Shoefest Long Hoi-: . , iday on Exchanges. . (Pobltahers' Pre Leaard Wire.) ' Washington, Dec 24. President Taft today gave out this Christmas mes sage: ' - :f, , . .- . "With bountiful crops and evidences of prosperity on all sides, the people of the United States can well enter Into the full spirit of Christmas. I can see nothing ahead which should cause us, as a nation, any serious uneasiness, or Interfere in any degree with the en joyment of the- season of peace and goodwill."--.- . Washington, Doc. 24.NO " Invited guests Will meet St Nicholas at the White House this year. The old fel low, will s find just a snug ' American family i gathered about . the fireplace. The president lias i ordered that any thing official-..' shall be challenged at the door and held up until Tuesday. Mrs. Taft has locked all the presents In a room and the president will have to scramble tomorrow morning . along with Helen and Bobert and Chaflie to see what Santa has left for him.. There Is a box from Aunt Delia .Torrey that holds the most Interests In the morn ing, after opening' the gift;. 'he presi dent wilt go with his family to church. ji Then will come the Christmas dinner. 4 $'he president : failed to ' obey the in injunction to "do your shopping early." j tie maae nis .annual tnpo tnev snops I inie aiiernoon. . , . i xne vnnsimas spjru sicieiracKeo. Busi ness at th; White' House this morn- j (Continued on Page Three.). --- TEIRAZZIH! FOR SINGS IN STREET Prodigious' Audience in . Open Air Entranced by Great Af .' tist, Who Appears on Plat form at iotta s Fountain. .-1 j. A''"'-: .; ';.c".!"u' ,L.v' j," t (Srciil Dlp:.:ch to Th JuCfnl. San Francisco, Dec, 24. r Madame Luisa Tetrazztnl sang in the streets of San Francisco tonight. The grand op era singer for the time bejng became a street singer, v And the celebrated diva's audience, which was. composed of more than 75,000 people, packed the streets for blocks around to get within sound of her great voice. The weather to. night was Ideal. , It was clear and mild. ' Overcoats wore few and there was not a sign of an umbrella. Among the thousands who cams' : to listen to Madams Tetraasini. were many visitors from nearby cities, they, like the San Franciscans, regarding , the event as they would a festival r . The crowds began jamming the streets before .7 o'clock, all Streetcar and other vehicle traffic was suspended, and when Madame TetraxzlnJ made her appearance upon . the large stand - that had bean erected close to Lotta's Foun tain, which had been presented to the city many years ago by Lotta Crabtree, the actress, the great audience broke Into tumult of -cheerlng.-r Her first song was ,The Last Rose of Summer," and when the first . notes left her throat the crowds were hushed Into a most remarkable stillness. At the con clusion of the song the cheering was vociferous. ."(Continued on Page Nine.) CHICAGO P0ST0FFICE . BREAKS ALL RECORDS FOR CHRISTMAS MAIL v- ' ' -V-'-'-.-v St ' .CnltBd prtos l-sed Wlr.J , Chicago, Dec. ? 24.A11 local - records for mall handled were ' .. surpassed by the Chicago postof fice in its, Christmas business of this year. For the 14 hours end t ing today, th clerks of .the of-" flee, aided by bt&mplng machines, . cancelled 4.162.890 stamps. Of ' this number, 2,600,000 were on 4 postal cards.: 'i-,: The; previous high record was made on the last day of last year ! when 4.000,000 stamps were can p , celled. The postoff Ice employes ; have been working day and night, -; often without test, for two days at a time for 10 days. Owing to the necessity for procuring spe cial enactment 1 by congress to provlde'pay for extra work, the , employed will not be paid any. - thing extra, : Wr!' Allmoms may be Eke Christmis norn ; av , v Ml A'Vs' ' ' Tohimvrhiloobforthem,, WMk ill, AfS iA:;r-;-..'--V;i; : -And daHy is the Chnst Chfld bom. ' jMSW' ' :": . . In somenew' Bethlehem...'...--' lT'M iWMr?W& I NEW YORK RRE CHIEF HAS PLAN TO Wants Authority to Act and Declares He-Will-' Reduce Fife Losses in Gotham at Least 25 Per Cent.., . -. (By tlit iDternaMvnit News SerTlcc.) .. New York, Dec 24. Invest us with the authority w seek and - ought to have and I'll give bond to reduce the fire losses 6f New York at least 25 per cent the first year and God only knows how many lives' we'd save," declared (Continued on- Page ' Nine.) E A TREAT Kansas City, as a Municipali ty ty, "Makes' Biggest Civic . Handout on Record v ' (Caltd Preta Leased wire.) Kansas City. Mo.. Dec , 34 Kana City's governing. body tonight complete ea wnat . Mayor Darius Brown char acterized as th biggest. municipal event in the history of the city, in'whlch the city, acted as Santa Clans for some 15, 000 poor people.'; A, summary' of the Christmas treat sounds something like this:. '.'.-,'; : ? r , ,. . Nine thousand children treated ; 26. 600 toys given away; 5000 tons of candy aistriDutea; 7500 packages of nuts and oranges given out; 18600 in cash spent in treating tne poor; 15000 ( estimated) worth of provisions and clothing, con tributed; 15,000 poor people made hap py; . tuuv xamuies given a Christmas dinner. , t , ji. V-."'.'.''.'-' u Not only are the poor, to enjoy a big Christmas dinner at the . expense of the city, but the board of public wi iarenas aecmeci to' give tne poor beasts of the citja treat This will be. in the way of. a. sack of corn .and oats to svery horse whose owner makes application to the board tomorrow and Monday. ' ',,' ,;' ' ' Confessed Incendiary; Released. Philadelphia, Dec, 24. So little cred ence- did- th-poltce-'T)ut"tTftTieJ'Story"'Of tho foreigner who "confessed" that ho started the great -Bodine street iflre of Wednesday niRht; in which 14 persons were kllltd, that he. was released from custody today. : ' . - mm EVEN POOR DOBBIN TO HAV ".Who walks with faith' ahd quiet will Through unknown ways ancl dim, , -Who keeps his heart a child's heart'still, The Christ Child dwells with hirn. For him the heavens are made anew, , Lit by a guiding star, .With singing angSs surging through Fr6m hierarchs afiir. ."'I-.''-. . " ' ' ' ' . ' : -V'..;" ' :' ' .' , , V'.i ''" .' ' ? c V - -, V 'CXr k 'i'i' .ftf-'-i&'-r'-:.-: ; "lv. V-''."1 A new earth at his feet shall spring, ' t' With love and life astir; - - - . . With 'epherds and wise kings who bring Gold, ! frankincense and rayrrh. ' r:r, u . ;, .'. . - ; ; : ' His ears shall hear, his eyes shall see - The angels and the longs, " If but his heart a manger be, . , Where Love her best-born brings. . , -ROBERT GILBERT WELSH. .A multiform Santa Claus was on the Job In Portland yesterday every minute of all the" hours from early . morning until the. stores closed and the street cars slowly carried the crowds back to Christmas trees and stockings last night The Christmas spirit was. very Intense and very active. . It was like a flood that surged- up . suddenly and overwhelmed the town. A Santa In; the flesh would have lost Inches of girth and his face would have been , a battle ground be tween worry and a smile. : . The flood of Christmas spirit did not reach its crest until the hour was late. This was because Santa's paternal and maternal representatives in some of the bungalows had failed to tally on their toy lists,- and in some . Instances contempt-for the old "fashioned method of counting noses had disagreeable minus results. . , To mingle with the crowd without buying presents or anxiously debating conflicting choices was to be different and apart from all the rest i Good If atnxed Crowds. ' It was possible, too. to lose some of the real gravity and seriousness of plck-1nr"OTrt-arThe'-laBr'pois1b;e minute a present calculated to boar 'enough of satisfaction to (he. presentee to reflect at least a little permanent appreciation back to the presenter.- . . .: In spite of the hurry and the crush the crowd was mostly good-natured. The wiry plumage that tickled the ear of the man in the elevator and the jogs that he got in the ribs before ' the toy counter as well as sundry mishaps to the bundles he and others "were heaped (Continued on Page Two.): COAST1 CITIES AGAIN 1 LED BY PORTLAND IN ; - BANK CLEARINGS GAIN 4 - Portland again led all other . Pacific i coast, cities In weekly. 4 bank clearings, , the Increase for ; the week ending at noon yester- ' day over the figures for the ,-4 f'.r same week one year ago. amount-," 4 4 ing to exactly 20 per cent - Los 1 4 Angeles shows a gain of 18 per 4 cent while Soattle is 18 per cent '4 on the red ink side1 of the ledger. 4 ' Portland's splendid showing is -. ' largely attributable to the enor- 4 4 mous amount of new construe- 4 tlon In progress in the city, 'as 4 4"WeH'L8'an unprecedented holLlay 4 4 trade. TTie figures are: - 1909, 4 clearings, $8,775,815.02; 1910,110,- ' 4 162.703.C3., - 4,::.tV";:.3::r,.!:H:;::vv;-:,4 41EU0IIF TO ENGINEERS IN t ( 1 . Ill .-.II Net Result of Settlement of Wage" Dispute Effected .by Mediator Conductors, and Trainmen Next. - v -: - " (Unltid Prew Letaed .Wire.1 - Chicago, , Dec ; 21 War . which, would have tied, up- 61 railroads, .thrown, 32,000. engineers out of employment and para lysed the : trade of the .whole country west of - Chicago was averted this aft ernoon when representatives of the lmes and leaders of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers ct.me to' an agpee- (Continued on Page Three.) This Announcement - by New : V Owners Arouses Interest . ' 1 Among Growers. L in the sale of the well known Spray ranch for 150,000, a land' transfer con sidered of. much Importance to eastern Oregon wa ' consummated " yesterday.' The purchaser . is a Hood River i syndi cate of apple growers, headed by Sher iff L. E. . Morse and J.- Ia . Neumaker 0 HeppneT: , t , t f ' The : Spray .ranch, is located on the John Day river, at a point about 60 niilae ecjually, distant from Condon- and Meppner, and . the fact that - the:' hew owners have, : after an ' exhaustive in vestigation, decided to plant 200 acres to pear trees is . considered to add force to the (Claims of i eastern Oregon '.as - the scene, of diversified soil interests.' There are 3000 acres in the ranch, all but-40 acres being bench land. 5 Alfalfa- will be grown on too acres and .the mrnatn Ing 2600 acres will be" used for the establishment of a high, class stock farm for-the breeding, of cattle, horses and hogs. " ( -. - '. ' Spray brothers located and acquired their ' property on the John ' Day ; many years ago, they being pioneers of that district' They have operated the prop erty aaeheadquarters for a sheep grow- lng.bualoaM-whiea -they -ttte- grades y- closing out. v ' - The new owners will build Irrigation ditches for . watering their ' fruit and alfarfa lands, and are planning an auto mobile road from lieppner through, the John Day - valley, ending at Condon ' 'APR AMU I1AI IV IHUL0HI1I1UHLLI . i ' .". I,., n'l 1 1 i hi ( y J , SPRAY RANCH TO ' HAVE PEAR TREES IFFICiALS CALLED NEGLIGENT; EIRE Board fi of - Underwriters De ; clares ! Mains ' 'Are ' Badly Needed " iii Southeastern 1, Section. , ' . Peclartng that Portland city officials have been negligent in supplytn water mains for the southern portion of the east ' sldc,vand, have, entirely, neglected the southeastern .section ' of the east side, the national board of fire, under writers t yesterday ., filed the report of Its investigations of the fire, risks in this city. 1 ' (Continued on Page Nine.) Engine and Mail and Baggage Cars Derailed in West ' - Virginia Tunnel. ' '' ' ' (Ca..eA rrw trtsed Wire. Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 24.Four mall clerks were killed in the wreck of an eastbound Norfolk. & Western ; train In the tunnel near Williamson, W. Vs, this -evening. .,.'" ' 1 t The dead:, , . , , . J. R. .Herndon," Roanoke, Va." ' ' Carl q. Good, McDowell. ,W. Va. , ' Ho ard ,K. Bell,, ITanklin. Ohio. . W. Dowdy, Petersburg, .Va. The .cause of the wreck.' has not been learned.-1 The' locomotive and' the mall and baggage ars were derailed and the mall car badly smashed. The engineer and fireman and Mall Clerk Davlsson of Columbus, Ohio, were injured. The tunnel was choked by the ' wreck ", ' ' . ; None of j;he passengers.! was' hurt - , TWO KILLED, 9 INJURED :;IN WRECK IN FRANCE .',rff- """" . r.yw-,r''- xy. (Dr the International New v-...... ' Montreaux,:- France, : ; Dec. 24.--Twa ueisopaweje.Jiille4..ftnd..nlna..iiiJurei.4s. a oollision between the. Parls-Vintlmi-glja Exptess and a freight train which occurred here today.-,' , , y Several AVncricans were aboard, the express but none of thwn were Berlously hurt- , ' , ' PROTECTION 4 WAIL CLERKS KILLED IN WRECK Wright and Curtiss Camps in Hostile Array and the New Science Will Be; Demon strated to the Limit. H0XSEY MAKES FUTILE . EFFORT TO GO HIGHER nitial Attendance Low But Record Crowds and Record Results Are Predicted. , (United Preaa Leaned wtra.y , . Los Angeles, Dec. 24. Although less than 2000 persons attended the opening day's events of Los Angeles 10 days' aviation meet it Is confidently pre dicted tonight that the meeting will be one of the most successful ever held In America. This prediction Is based on the excellent performances of the avia tors today and on the perfect weather conditions prevailing. , The feature of the meet promises to be the struggle of the rival Wright and " Curtiss camps. Brooklns and Uozsey tonight reiterated their declar ation that they would sweep, the meet for the Wrights, - and they refused to entertain , the suggestion that they would have serious opposition from the Curtis contingent , k . Kozsey Blsea Only 6200 rest. Hoxsey gained the individual honors today.. In his Wright biplane he as saulted the - existing height . record of 10,499 feet He was aloft two hours. but his Instruments showed he ascended only 62,00 feet - ' -rne coia prevented a new record. the youth declared when be landed. 1 went away out over the sea off Lons Beach, and believe me, It was the cold est weather I ever experienced above ground." - -j- , - ' When Hoxsey landed be was embraced and kissed by his mother, who had oc cupied a Seat in one of the stands. Hox- (Contintied on . page : Nine.) PAY OF- DEPUTIES Bill to Be Introduced in State" Legislature Requires Coun ty Court to Fix Uniform . Spate of Salaries. Equalization of the salaries of dfepn- ties in the county offices of Multnomah Is the object of a bill which has been . prepared, for introduction at the coming session of tne legislature. At present, part of the salaries of deputies are fixed by act of the lawmakers and part by the county court' The result is a jum ble, and It Is asserted by advocates of the measure that numerous inequalities now exist . . 'y-.:-:-:. ' The proposed measure is drawn to af fect Multnomah -county alone, and It would leave the regulation of salaries of all deputies to the county court It would require, however, that all chief deputies in the leading counties shall receive the same compensation, that 1 second deputies shall be put on the same salaries, and so on down the tine with county employes in all offices. Provisions ' of XIU. ' - The proposed law, omitting the enact ing clause, reads as follows: , "Section .1. That In all connttes ef this state harms a population of 200,040 or more inhabitants, the. county, court may authorize as many deputies as In 'its Judgment may, be necessary, in the following offices: Aasesnor. coun- (Continued on Pa Throe.) YEAR'S END 'EDITION OF THE JOURNAL Big annual number of sixty pages -will be "mailed to any address ;in the United States or Canada'; (postage included), at lOc per ' copy. Extra copies . at Journal office, or t from newsboys at 5c. "PUBLICATIOh -DATE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31 - wnwm t ." - ff4 r-- rrr