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SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1S1D. SOU unrin'Pi" DESIRES SOLDIERS TOGUARD ClIEi! LAKE PARK AREA BELIEVES IN PROFIT SHAR ' JuG liil'lEIHE LIFT ' CIIAIIGES VILL BE PUT UP TO CITY CIIIT1S1IL DELM DELAYED; EffiH CLAMED n L' I Vt ulL Id;!! lb i'MSHFIT OUT OF OLD RATES !0;iE TO DEATH liiiiraa "1 STL Va Railroad Commission, in Affi davits, Shows Rate of (kin for 14 Years Been 17GO Per Cent; Tariffs Not Cut.: Last Hope Has Been Aban doned by Searchers for the Lost Aviator No Trace of "Aeroplane Discovered. Superintendent, in Annual Re port, Says They Are Need- ' ed as Scouts, Game War dens and as Fire Fighters. County Court Will 'Call May Complaints From Postoffices Country Over Charge Sec ' retary Hitchcock's Methods With Crippling ; Service." ;; Diaz Unable to Reinforce Dis ors Attention to Report Al leging Defects Builders Urge Consideration. tressed Forces in Chilwa-hua-t-Rebeis Well Supplied and Weil Officered. 711" Or.ZGON (llflui Astontahing growth in the profits of , the . Southern Pacific company in Ore gon is shown in an affidavit filed yes terday In the United States -circuit . court by Thomas K. Campbell, ' railroad . commissioner, in the euitf the South , ern Pacific company against the rail ' road commission of Oregon. , ' According to ' the figures " In Com missioner Campbell' affidavit V the Southern Pacific is fast approaching the O. R & ty. as a money maker for the Harrlman stockholders. Indeed, -if Us rate of gain in net profits for the ,past 14 years 1700 per cent keeps up, the Oregon lines of the South-Pacific , . will in a year or so pay more to Harrl ..... man stockholders than the O. R, & N. This, too, in spite of the fact that the , Southern Pacific's Oregon lines are merely a small part of the system and any fair statement of the . profits of ; these lines should include credltifor freight revenue obtained by the South- ern Pacific niain line in the long haul s. on freight originating In Oregon, 4 .Revises Class Bates. ''''. Last April the state railroad commis slon made an order revising the class rates on the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon. The commission says. In be. half of Its order, that the system of classification in effect on the Southern Taclflo is without parallel among rail roads of the country lit so far as th . relation to each other of rates charged under various classes Is concerned. . For Instance, the class rate system di vides certalnklnds of freight into first. second, third, fourth classes for less . than carload lots and six other classes, , designated carloads classes and which v are known as fifth class and classes A, B, C, D, and E. Uniformly, articles In the first classf take the highest rate, the scale usually gradually running down. The generally adopted ratio of charg - es in class rates takes 100 per cent as the charge for first class, the second ' Hass is 85 per cent of the first class, third class Is 70 per cent of first class; fourth class-is 60 per cent of first class and fifth class is 60 per cent of first class, the others running down the scale until 'class E is usually 20 per cent of me nrst ciasa ' V'v i . . ; Questions Commission's Authority. Although this system of charging for freight haul is universal, it is Bald ty the commission that the Southern Paclf' -lo'sr Orejon lines do noN follow it and ' that on articles shipped from Portland to, points in the state, the fourth and ' fifth classes especially are unreasonably ( high as compared. to the first class - rates. In the schedule It ordered placed ' ' in effect, therefore." It generally accept- ed the present first class rate and baaed i the rates to be charged on other classes on the percentage relation, that is wlde- ly used. ' ' ' " -a ( t- 'The railroad instituted Injunction pro ceedings, Jn,thc United States circuit court which" will be heard by Judges Gilbert;' Bean ""tind Wolverton-on ' Janu 5 aiy ?. 'The Southern Pacific, in tts suit, declares It cannot afford a cut in its rates and questions the ability of the 5, numbers of the commission to consider the rate questlop authoritatively, i; I, i j: ; " Affidavits Tiled. , : v $y. i Yesterday affidavits were filed by I Attorney J. N. Teal for the commission I Including aitements by Commissioner I Thomas Kr-: 'Campbell, . -Commissioner I Frank J. Miller, VJ. M. Wllley, account-' I ant for the commission, W. C Earle, as I sistunt engineer for the commission and I J, P Jewell, . engineer for the com 1 mission. I Mr. Campbell's affidavit is the long- est of the five filed. In 1t he recounts f the reasons for the commission's order revising-the distributive rates out of I Portland Into the Willamette valley and southern Oregon and discusses the rates r cnargea oy mi oouvjiern ruciuu nnu compares them with charges of other For similar service, he asserts, the J Southern Pacific is charging much hlgh I er rales than other lines. - For instance, f he cites the O. R. & N1., showing the I Southern 'Pacific is charging more for I similar service than is the O. R. & N., although the interstate commerce com. mission has announced It considers -the O. R. & N.'s distributive rates from Portland too high. . , - - Increase la Traffic, . He quotes the testimony , of Traffic I Manager. R, B. Miller of the O. R. & N. at a previous "hearing to the; effect I that a material and different basis of rates should not bo observed on the f Southern Pacific than on the O. R. & I N., the conditions being the same. Showing . the enormous ' increase in the valne of the traffic handled byjhe v Southern" Pacific Since 1896, when the rates now In use on the Southern Pa i clflc were placed in effect, Mr. Camp- bell says the mileage In 1896 was 6S6 and in 1910 is 6S4, a gain of slight im- ? portance. On the other hand the pas " senger revenues have increased from $818,884 to $4,483,283 and freight reve- ; nues have increased, .from $716,416. to ! $4,069,381, while , the net Income In ' creased from $237,929 to $4,135,419. The , ratio of total operating expenses to op- crating revenue, is 52.2 pep cent , , Comparison Seduced. Reducing the comparison between 1896 and 1910 statistics t a percentage basis, I Mr. Campbell says, using in each case 300 as the percentage for 1896, that the y mileage operated in 1910 . Is 104 per u cent; passenger revenue, 642 per cent; I freight revenue, 568 per cent; total op 's eratlng revenue, 553 per cent; operating I per cent; cost of road (book value), 111 per cent; traffic density, 620 per cent; S average receipts per Aon mile, 99.1 per I'cent; freight earnings - per train f mile. 339 per eent;v average number 3 freight cars in train, 208 per cent; aver I age number loaded freight cars in train, 3 221 per centJ and average numbor of empty freight cars In train decreased to 76 per cent' - , He also presents figures to show that S the revenue from freight between points in the state in 1910 is twice as great' las all freight revenue, both state and Interstate in 1896. , ; Gross Bantings Per Mile. ' ' ." To compare the business of the lines Jls submitted showing the gross earn I ings per nille of the Southern Pacific J' exceeded those of the O. K. & N., fhe '. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chl : cago & Northwestern, the Santa Ke, the f Milwaukee and other roads. : , L..-.Tnl JH. opwayngvjrevonttjWf. mile s on the Southern 1'uciflc he shows to i b considerably larger than that of the f O. R. & N., the Burlington and a half ', dozen other prominent roads. The av erage rate per ton per mile on the South- (By the Iotfrnetlonal News SffTlee.) London, Dec. 24. The last hope has been abandoned by : the searchers who are sweeping the British coast and the North Sea for Cecil S. Grace, the English aviator who made the trip across the English channel as far as the. Belgian frontier, and has wot been seen since he started to recross- the channel from Calais to Dover. v ',;".',' ' It was rumored tonight that the crew of a fishing boat had seen the aviator fall into the North sea, but the tele grams sent HO all points all along, the ooasts of Belgium and Holland were all answered to the effect that there was no news of the airman. There la no con firmation of the report , that an airship without a passenger has been picked up In the North sea. : , -y; i. - Biay Have Been Picked TTp. There are some friends of Grace who find Encouragement in the belief that hd may have been picked up at sea by a vessel oUtward bound to a distant port but this is considered unlikely. ," The most plausible theory of his dis appearance is that he lost his bearings in the fog and instead of approaching Dover, bore , off , over the Goodwin Islands, a range of shoals at the south ern end of. the North sea.'.;.. Quicksands stretch for 10 miles alonsr the coast about half a mile from shosp and It is there that it is feared Grace met his death, it Every Effort Exhausted. . Every effort ; to find him has been made. Automobiles have traversed every foot of the coast and torpedo boats have explored the , waters with wireless and searchlights. Grace, it is believed, did not have a compass. He Is said, to have disregarded advice"1 to take . this precaution before starting. , v ' 1 ' The case threatens to become the first no in which the absolute disappearance of an aeroplane figures. The fact that the range of aeroplanes up to. the pres ent time has been restricted at the most to five or six hours flight, has made the complete disappearance of an aviator almost impossible. . - ' , , LIVES Oil RAW T Cocur cf Alene Prospector jn "Lonely Cabin, 111, Too Weak . to . Cook .His Food. Cywlal DlBDttPh to The J on null Spokane, Wash., Dec 24. With icicles and raw meat his only .sustenance for nearly a month, Patrick Keegan. a prominent miner and prospector of the coeur a Aienes... was round today In a (most " critical condition nd near to death in his lonely cabin on the west fork of Nine Mile creek, near Wallace, Idaho.. All this time Keegan had been alone suffering from erysipelas, George Keller, an old friend of Kee gan's, called by, chance at Keegan's cabin early this "morning and found the host so weakened from disease that he was unable to go to a nearby spring for water or cut wood for fuel with which to cook his food.. During the forest fires last August Keegan head ed a rescue party to the- Bullion mine and 'was successful in rescuing a party of fire . fighters entombed i there. Throughout the three weeks he had been sick Keegan- had. lived on raw bear and deer meat that bung within his vabin. A party of friends with a litter went to West Fork this afternoon to, take Keegan to a , Wallace hospital. ern Paclf io is likewise made the" basis for attack.1 , Mr, CampbcU shows it to be -higher . than the averaga of -.the United States, which-la .764. while the Southern Paoaflc's Is 1.473, The Southern Pacific's way sf keen ing down apparent gains in net revenues is shown in the affidavit of J. M. Wil ley, Jr an accountant who examined the company's , books for the commis sion.. , -. XTct Income Kept Iow. According to Mr. WlUey the railroad charges as much of its repairs and im provement work as it can to Operating expenses, thus keeping, tha net Income to a mucfl lower figure than it-should actually ' have. He . says that durlnir 189, isoo and 1901 'additions and bet terments amounting to $295,915 have beeui. charged directly against the' in come account of the Oregon & Callfor nia, while in 1890, 1894, $897 and 1898 the amount reached a total of $283,209 Light rails were superseded by heav ier ones, , fish , plates were superseded by continuous joints, the old style small ties were replaced by larger ones, ties were Burnettlxed, bridge timbers were creosotcd the amount of the last item alone 'amounting to $127,331. but all these improvements were charged to operating expenses. Until June" 80. 1810.- all new structures and Improve ment work costing less yian $300 was charged to operating expenses. 'The limit is now fixed; at .$2O0..;;;;;';vtf, Cost of Reproduction. A great deal of ballast has apparent ly been charged to operating, according io Mr. wiuey. ; . . : , J. r, : Newell's affidavit includes an estimate of the : cost of reproduction of the Southern Pacific lines in Ore gon. He says he. considers his estimate too high if the railroad's report to stockholders is correct lie fixes It at $26,053,567, or, less depreciation, at $22,739,567.-- The estimate does not In clude real 'estate hold by the railroad but does Include 20 per cent of the re production cost of the Northern Pacific Terminal company, representing ; the Oregon & California company's Interest in the terminal company, .' .- Commissioner Frank J, Miller return-, ed an estimate on the ; " present valu -ol eal-stat- heM riyth "dm pany which he places at approximately $4,33C,i. ti. The complete reproduction estimate of the Southern Pacific is In the neighborhood of $21000, 001T as flg ured out by tho commission, 'v : , . iA In his annual report for the year Jnst ending, W. .F.Arant superintendent of the Crater Lake National park, recom mends that a company of United States soldiers be detailed to duty In the park during the season . of 1911 ; to ' act as scouts, game wardens, fire guards and for' ' general ': duty. ''"v He recommends to the ' secretary of i the Interior at Washington, D. C, fur ther, that " the ' patented lands ih th southeastern corner . of the park be purchased by the government that the boundaries of the park be. extended west and north so as to take in suffi cient territory on the western and lower slope of the Cascade . mountains for a gam preserve; that Crater v lake I be stocked with the small brown crawfish for." fish food, , and that. Upper Anna creek,. East Anna creek. Sand creek and Castle creek be stocked with eastern brook trout Three Wagon Soads. . The report states that there are three wagon roads in the park one running from the south line of the park, a dis tance of eiirht miles, to the superinten dent's headquarters; one from there fori five miles to the rim of the crater, sur rounding the' lake, and one from headquarters- running for seven miles. In the direction of Medford, Or. , These roads should be widened and straightened, according to the report and the government should tnake pro vision for sprinkling them during the coming season. The Cost of such im provement would" be nominal, in com-1 parison to the benefits received by the traveling public, says Superintendent Arant Ho asks for two' temporary ranges to guard the forest of the park with the permanent ranger now there. He thinks that the ranger stationed there now should have assistance at , least during the summer months' and until the end of September each-year. - Crater Lake National - Park is - 416 miles south of Portland and is reached by way of the Southern Pacific Tall road to Medford, 832 miles distant, or to Ashland, 844 miles away, and from either of these places by automobile or. team. The lake is 84 miles from Med ford and 96 miles from Ashland. . Kumber of Visitors. Durlmr the season of 1909 the num ber of visitors in the park; reads the report, as shown by the government register, was as follows: . June, 163 ; July, ,774; August, 2,350; . September, 884; total. 4.171. ir a reasonanie al lowance is made for persons not regis tered, it is safe to say that during, the season there were at least 6,000 persons in the reserve. - Comparatively few per sons came in and went out the same day and very few camped in tee re serve more - than one night; by October 1, 1909, the travel In the park was prac tically ended for the, season. ? . "During; the season of 1910 the travel In the park appears to be about the same as during 1909, although the gov ernment register does net show .that there were quite as many names reg istered, ' the number registering this year being 4171. . '. ' ' "To August 24 the number traveling in the park was fully equal to that of any previous season, but at this time me lorest iireo situation owaimi alarming and dangerous in the moun tains adjacent to the park' that for . a period of two weeks or more there was scarcely any travel in the reserve, i "Another reason that the ; registra tion does not run as high as it should Is the very limited ranger force, and hav ing the forest fires to contend with in addition to many other duties many in the park were not called, upon to regis ter. ,,-,. r....-, 1,.....-,......,.. .. "If due-allowance s made for all persons who from one cause or another were not registered, it would be a con servative estimate to place the number in the reserve during the season of 1910 at 6000 perBorys. -.' ; ..-. "1 '' , Animals and Birds. ' '' " "Greater numbers of both bear and deer have been seen in the park dur ing the past: summer than during any previous season; lt is therefore be lieved that both of these species of ani mals are increasing In the reserve. "A good j many pine martin, fisher, . and timber squirrels ' have been seen, and since trapping has . been prohibited- In the Vark it is reasonable to believe that they, too, are increasing. "Grouse and native pheasants and some other upland birds appear to be more plentiful than during former sea sons.",. .. - ' ' i 'i;.'"-- "All the animals and birds are much tamer than during the former, seasons. "The species of fish In Crater lake are the rainbow trout and lake trout There were ho fish in the lake until they were planted' there, the first few in 1887 and a larger number in 1893. In Lower Anna creek are the Dolly Varden trout Fishing in Crater lake is permitted under the following rules: Open sea Bon'from July 1 to September 80 with hook and line only, the catch of each angler being limited to five fish in 'one day. During this month. 60,000 fry of the rainbow trout have been planted in Crater lake by A. L. Parkhurst of the Crater Lake company. Patented Xaads ta Park. ' '"There are approximately 133T acres of. patented- lands in. the southeastern corner of the park. These lands are mainly timber lands, , and. bo , far as known; ' there is no one Jiving perma nently upon them within the limits of the park, but there is a possibility that there, may be summer homes built upon Bome of them in the near future. : ."The: situation in 'regard to these patented, lands 1s about as It was a year, ago, excepting that there Is now and Hhen a tract qf it going into the hands of some timber speculator. There are 1121.11 . acres' of unpcVfocted bona fide claims. "I cannot urge .too strongly the ac quisition of these lands by the gov ernment." ' v - ' Few persons realize that an enormous amount of the precious metals and even precious stones,, such as diamonds, are used : 4n the manufacture of telephone apparatus. In a single year one com pany uses, upward of a ton of platinum for this class pf apparatus alone. And platnum coBts 80 per cent more than pure gold, demonstrating that this ex pensive metal would not be used so ex-tenBtre)ynl!Ttess-Tmtlts,:3ustlfIed"1t'', A calorie, the unit of heat measure ment is that quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. I j . ,.,,...,.i....t.M.K:--t-J i Urv-i'tr 1 George W, Perkins of the firm of J. v P. Morgan & Co. of New York City, who is to retire January 1 after being with the firm. 10 years, Another member, who will retire will be Edward F. Whitney,, who saya he will give , up actLve, buBl- ness. Mr. Perkins, In his state ment, said: ' "I anv withdrawing from the firm for the purpose of devoting more f time to corpora tlon work and w6rk of a public na ture in which . I am deeply Inter ested. In continuing my relations with the industrial and other bus iness organizations with which' I am connected I hope to find, fur ther opportunities for extending the principles of ; profit sharing and other benefit plans in which I have long , been Interested ' and which experience shows offer a practical Solution of some of the difficulties existing between cap ital and labor." It Is also said that Mr. Perkins will be elected to the vacant trusteeship of the Equitable Life , Insurance stock owned by J. PlerponU Morgan, which carries with It control of the Equitable Life Assurance go clety. He will be the successor of the late Grover Cleveland. fCDtte Press Lmw4 WlnO C London, Dec. 2 4.-While enjoying the Christmas, Holidays, Rt Hon. Augus tine Blrrell, chief secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland and a member of the British cabinet, lost 11,250 in cash and a large amount of valuable jewels to in international gang of "confidence men." Blrrell was en route from Calais to Paris to spend, Christmas, when he Atl I I.I- . L. I . it. . . icii iu mia uio Bimrpera. iao repurveo his loss to the police. Birrell Is an "object of great ani mosity of the suffragettes and tonight at the various suffragette meetings it was pointed out tha "Blrrell was born in 1850 and was old enough to have known better." . Attached by means of a rubber sleeve andeollar Is a mouthpiece, for milk bottles which has been invented by an Alabama man. .. . 1' v CASD SHARPS FIEECE ;EEM A word of caution is given by the builders of : the Hawthorne avenue bridges to the city and- county authori ties in regard to the' proposed changes in 'the electrical mechanism' suggested by F. McKenney, electrical and me chanical expert, whe inspected the struc ture last -week. The caution, they urge, is not to act . hastily in making the changes and. that none, should be made without a thorough, test of the Bridge and consideration of the, alterations. ,;.,? j In his report filed yesterday with the county court,' Mr.- MCKenney sug gests that the electrical mechanism op erating the lift span be changed for an other type f of machine. He further recommends that some device be In-, stalled which will allow the operator to manipulate. the brakes manually as well as electrically. . with the - present arrangement the mechanism Is so constructed that the power Is shut off, five feet before the span reaches either the top or bottom. This is a safety device. It Is especially against changing this feature that the builders give emphasis.1.,. .. ''-' : ";. County Judge Cleeton (stated last evening that he would file a copy of the report made by Mr McKenney with Mayor Simon, and ask that the changes suggested be made by the contractors, , "The bridge was accepted upon the understanding that the company would make any changes or remedy any de fects found later, said he, "and we feel that there are several minor changes necessary. We have asked that heating facilities be installed in the operator's and watchmen's rooms, : and that irons be placed on : the sides of ; the bridge where vehicle wheels are . liable to strike." , The. need of service necessitated the hasty acceptance of the bridge, but Mayor Simon, County Judge Cleeton, C, K. Allen and D. C , O'Reilly., the two latter representing the builders, agreed that the bridge would be completed sat isfactorily to all parties before It was finally taken off ' the hands of the builders. PERSONAL, J. OTood, one of the owjirs of the Flood building in San Francisco,, is at the Hotel Portland, f . H. F. ' Preston, a flour milling man of Walla walla, is at the Oregon. : W. A. Murchle, a Wasco merchant is at the Oregon. Charles H. Babcock, who Is Interested In the Samuel Hill company at Mary- hill, Wash., is at the Hotel Portland, . Mrs. C. Ackerman of Cape Horn and Miss Fullerton of Washington, p. G, both of whom are spending tne. winter on their fruit' ranches near Cape Horn, are guests at the Portland. i - Charles H. Carey, who has been east for a month, -will arrive home today, coming directly from Chicago. - United States District Attorney John McCourt has gone to Salem for Christ mas and 1 will sot return to Portland until Tuesday. - ;;v- v- r.'i - ,- Numerous garage fires have shown that automobile tires, after they have been hardened by contact with mudand water, practically are fireproof, ' I T i...u ' t The soil turned up by ants In making their nests .In some portions of Central America is mixed with water and made Into bricks by the natives. LADIES' and MISSES' MAN-TAILORED SUITS Every one of our Ladies' anH Misses' Man-Taflorcd Suits, In fancy mixtures, are placed ON SALE at following prices: f : $25.00 SUITS Now $ 1 2.50 $40.00 SUITS Now $20.00 $30.00 SUITS Now $15.00 $50.00 SUITS Now $25.00 . $35.00 SUITS Now $ 1 7.50 , $60.00 SUITS Now $30.00 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: We make no use of the word "value.". The prices quoted above are strictly our regular prices, v ( t "Value'! in reduction sales usually means nothing. j GREAT REDUCTIONS IN BLUES AND BLACKS ALL LINGERIE WAISTS ONE-HALF PRICE BHStlsHsBBBBS BBnBSrtSsVsB) BBWbVHCS I r (United Pre leue4 'Wlr.l '.! -. Washington, Deo. 2 Uncle Sam sad ly failed Santa Claus in his Christmas duty of transporting presents by. mall, according , to ; complaints from postof fices all over the country.' now being received hero at the postof flee depart. ment ' Nearly all sections of the coun try are complaining qf delay in receipt- oi K-nrmma pacaages. ; : , r:: ; v No official here today, could point out aennueiy tne reason for the unusuallv large -number of complaints but In the maiu Secretary Hitchcock was blamed for an. excess in the direction of econ omy, a retrenchment which. It is said, crippled the service. The flood of holi day mall has surpassed that of any previous Christmas tide and conditions are the worst ever encountered by the service. .. - Extra Help Dispensed With. " It is conceded that the difflcultv lies with the railway mail service. Usually a large force of extra clerks Is added during the holiday rush, but Superin tendent vickory of the service tonight states that this year they had tried the plan of doubling up the shifts of men already employed and had taken In only a very few extra men. He said the service was doing Its best under the circumstances. Naturally no postofflce official Voiced a criticism ' of the "economy system' but it was hinted clerks and eaulDment naa been stinted this year, and the congestion was a natural outcome. II He Gets Box of Flowers; Ten der Message Reads: "May He Rest In Peace." - (Publishers' Prcsi Leased Wlra.l 1 l. Washington, Dec; 24.- General Joseph Keifer Is an angry man this Christmas, all because ' soma of his colleagues played a rather mean Joke on him. Re cently a huge box of flowers addressed to General Keifer was delivered in the house. On top of the box of American Beauty roses was a card , announcing that the roses were from some of the general's old friends In Ohio. ? r "There," said the general, proudly, as he lifted the roses from the box, "I may have been defeated, but by George, it gives a man some satisfaction to be re membered by his friends in this fash ion." ' ' ' f "There seems to he' some tender mes sage N for you in the flowers,' said a member of the committee, examining the bottom of the box. ' ' The general picked up the box' and read the Inscription within which read as follows; r, , : . "May he rest In peace." , v Back to the box went the flowers, onto the floor went the card and out of the door swiftly went the general. i GENERAL KEIFER ISANANGRYMA MIP LEADING CLOTHIER (Colted Prmw Leiucd Wlrt.v Washington, Dec. 2i. Code dispatch es tonight from Juarez, Mexico, tell of : the, destruction of , every bridge south i of " that ' city by revolutionists. Rail- f road , tracks also, .have been torn up and two trains have been stopped and forced to turn back. ; F It is declared that It will now be im possible for President Diaz to send any of his troops to reinforce those now engaged in almost dally . battles with the rebels In the vicinity of Chlhauhau. ; Revolutionists predict it will be a matter of only a few days before all the ' government - troops in , the. battle zone will have been killed, taken pris- onors or forced to desert their own standard for those of Madero, who is ' In personal , command of a large force of his followers. . t i Reports from Mexican officials to the effect : that ; the revolutionists are poorly equipped and bedly trained and without competent officers are Btren uously : denied here tonight ,On the contrary, it is claimed the revolution Is ' gaining followers every day; that in addition ': to the vast fortune of Madero funds are being secretly, pro vided by several wealthy Mexicans not generaly supposed to be in sympathy with the movement, and that the field officers are of military experience and noteworthy for braveay. innm ll bftlili ,i Chicago, Dec 24. Former Police In spector Edward McCann, convicted of taking money fdr police protection of vice in the west side district, , over which -he presided, will spend his Christmas In Jail. ' McCann surrendered to the sheriff today and was locked up In the county Jail. Tonight he will be taken to Joliet and entered in the prison Wednesday.. , ' ' N An appeal to the federal court will be made after McCann enters upon his five-year sentence. ' MoCann wept after the Jail doors had clanged behind him. "I was'going to be Santa Claus In my own home tonight" he said, "but the law has Interrupted my plans. , I threw my Christmas tree into the 5 back yard, kissed my wife and boy, both of them sick, goodbye, and here I am. My Christmas dinner will be a jail dinner. -; "It's pretty hard. My boy, only years old, is dying of rheumatism . of the heart My little girl will be just a year old tomorrow. , She was our bast Christmas present 'last year and we had planned a year ago a Jolly celebration for tomorrow, , It was iall for the baby and the boy. " : . "They. might at least have let me spend my Christmas at home." Reappointed Trustee , . . (Salem Boreta of The Journal.) . Salem, Or., Dec 24. Representative Lloyd T. Reynolds of Marion county was, yesterday reappointed, trustee of the State Horticultural society for a term of two years. : - h V China "raises Just about one-half of the world's tea, the annual production of which is estimated at l,200.000,00u pounds. - . . , ' at CHRISTMAS III PRISON rnn nonnrmnifl ruKiiwtuiuiti