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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. : ' . -
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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.)
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