THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1811.,
HE
MAD
IS CHINA'S FIRST
ID GREAT HEED
Development of the Means of
Transportation Proceeds but
Slowly in Spite of Great
Projects Planned.
Roseburg Has 71-2 Miles Hard Surface
- H H H t X K
Is One of the Coast's Best Paved Cities
Diagram showing the amount of paving already laid Irf Roseburg, Or.
Perkins building, a fine business house, soon to be completed.
Washington. Dec. 2.1. A Report made
by Consul General George K. Anderson
Of Hongkong. China, is Interesting In
connection with recent disturbing events
In Szechuen province. It deals espe
cially with the "Railway Situation In
China,"
Mr. Anderson studied the five prin
cipal groups or railway lines In the em
' pire, treating of not only those In oprr
ation, but all under construction, sur
, Veyed or projected.
The consul general in his introductory
Statement says:
"According to the best information
available, the empire of China now has
about 5404 miles of railway in actual
operation or so far advanced in con
struction that operation is a matter of
a few months' time. There is In course
of actual construction and more or less
advanced toward completion and opera
tion a total of about 1702 miles, some
of which will come Into operation within
a few months, and some of which prob
ably will not bo completed for several
years. There is projected, with more or
less definite plans of construction, sur
veyed or unsurveyed, authorlied by the
Chinese government or not, a total of
13,434 miles. The latter figure repre
sents principally the lines for which
plans have been made and surveys or
dered by the Chinese government, but
includes also some roads projected by
local capitalists in various portions of
China, lines for which concessions have
been asked and in some cases obtained
of the Chinese government by foreign
Interests, and all the various local rail
way enterprises, some of which are of
more or less indefinite backing, but
many of which will probably be the rail
ways next constructed In the country.
Outlook Wot Promising;.
"In spite of great projects and many
promising features, the railway situa
tion in China does not presage the im
mediate development of the country
along modern lines. Much has been ac
complished, but lnplke of the fact that
the interest of the entire world has been
centered to an unusual degree upon the
building of railroads In China, that both
Chines and foreign statesmen well un
derstand that the first requirement in
tbe development of the country's re
sources and its advancement is railroad
construction, and. that railway systems
aggregating more than 13,400 miles have
been planned, of which 5000 miles have
been surveyed In a more or less definite
and final manner, the construction dur
ing 1910 of railways of all classes, in
cluding extensions of existing lines, fur
ther work on lines already commenced
and pperated to a certain decree, and
entirely new lines has not exceeded 500
miles, and at least part of this construc
tion must be credited to the previous
year.
"The fact is that while plans for new
railways in China are common, actual
development is proceeding slowly. New
plans are carried out with difficulty,
modified, or abandoned. For this there
re several causes, most of which ap
pear reducible to one or two circum
stances either the people are unwilling
that other nations should furnish the
money to build the roads, and have not
the money themselves, or, if willing to
borrow from abroad for such work, other
considerations have so far prevented the
placing of the - necessary loans under
admissible conditions and circumstances.
"While these and other Influences, and
the general poverty of the country, are
preventing tlve realization of these giinit
enterprises, there is little if any actual
encouragement fnr the Chinese public
to invest what funds they can raise for
such purposes. Of the greater systems
under Chinese control, practically none
are paying their way, all things considered."
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LONG SHEETS WILL
BE FUME SLOGAN
Des Moines Travelers Would
Abolish System of Tipping
if Possible.
Des Moines,
Dec. 23.
IlillH I uui miet'lH IS
No tips and
the slogan to be
raised by the Pes Moines Traveling
Men's HKBodatlon, now in process of
organisation here. .
More than 2f00 traveling crusaders
will be In the field to make the fight
This city Is the headquarters of nearly
that number of traveling men.
Many large firms hold their regular
conferences hetwen salesmen and man
agers here, so Pes Moines Is believed
to be the logical setting for the launch
ing of the proposed war.
The next session of the legislature
will be assailed by the traveling' men.
organization will be effected at a
meeting to be field here December. 30.
Six hundred traveling men have signed
the petition for the formation of the
club and all have declared they would
support the new plan.
Cednr Rapids, Dubuque and Waterloo
also are organizing traveling men's
clubs and will aid in the fight for
longer sheets. Many of the traveling
men have tho same room reserved for
them tho year around. It Is the pr-s
ence of such men In the ranks of the
crusaders that lends strength to tho
belief that the campaign will be suc
cessfully waged.
Meanwhile managers of hotels
throughout the state are laying plans
of defense. But it Is believed the
Traveling Men's association will wield
such Influence that the hotel managers
will listen attentively to Its demands.
UNEXPECTED
RICHES
ASTOUND
POOR
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Claims Remedy for Sleeping Sickness
(PobllnhfrH' I'reu Ll Wire.)
Johannesburg, Dec. 23. Dr. Mehnar
do of Llepzig. who worked with the
celebrated Dr. Koch, claims to have dis
covered a remedy for sleeping sickness.
(Breclnl to The Jnurnnl.l
Roseburg. Or., Dec. 23. The Perkins
building, which is Hearing completion
In Roseburg, is faced with white pressed
brick and will be equipped with an ele
vator. The ground floor will be used
for business purposes and the three
upper floors as office rooms. This is
one of the best buildings in this part
of the state.
A $20,000 depot is now under con
struction. About seven and one half miles of
hard surface pavement has been laid and
more Is proposed for next summer, some
of which has already been petitioned
for. Roseburg is one of the best paved
cities on the Pacific coast.
(Br toe International .iti Service.)
I Berlin. Dec. 23. A short cut from
poverty to affluence has been taken by
Magdelena Stechausen, who by holding
ticket No. 10,774, In the Prussian lot
tery, has won $250,000. She is a peas
ant girl who slaved over the wash tub
and tolled in -the fields in Silesia when
her parets wero alive In order to aug
ment the slender Income of her laborer
lather and washerwoman-mother. Since
their death, she has continued at manu
al labor to keep body and soul together,
earning at the most $3 a week.
To an Interviewer witli whom she dis
cussed her stroke of luck she declared
the mere thought of possessing- so much
money made her giddy.
She did not fully realize Its meaning
or how she'd spend it. Her first thought
Is to buy a neat little cotage, keep pigs
and fowls, drink tea all day long and
gossip to her heart's desire with her
female neighbors. She said that already
she has been overwhelmed with offers
of marriage, petitions for help, touting
circulars and a gigantic file of communications.
Valley Town Mdy Get Pure Water Supply
Danger From Typhoid to Be? Removed by Drawing Water From Clear
Lake In Cascade Forest Reserves Survey Is Ordered. . . , .
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JUHCTION I" " " K
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Diagram of plan to supply upper Willamette valley towns with pure
water from Clear lake in Cascade mountains.
He irnnculated himself with the dis
ease, ard lost consciousness, but when
his cure was applied he quickly recov
ered, without any complications remaining.
Indians Cluim Chicago Land.
l.aporte, Ind., Dec. 23. Edward B.
Stark, an attorney of Hartford, Mich.,
will present the claims of the Ottawas,
Cliippcwns and other Indian tribes to
Chit ago Inkefront liind to a ourt within
30 days. Dowaglac Indians declare
there Is no court in the United States
that lias Jurisdiction.
Piano Bargains.
Mere are some fine piano bargains:
(bickering sni:ill upright piano, 60.
Steinway ebony upright piano, $U0.
Weber Mahogany piano, J:'6.r. Fischer
oak upright piano, $50. Gabler piano,
$40. Stodard rosewood piano', $30. Klin
ball mahogany p'n. $70. Terms to
suit the buyer. Kohler & Chase, 375
Washington st.
Dave You a Friend
Vho Drinks to Excess?
TELL HIM HE CAN BE CURED IN
THREE DAYS
OPERA FOR RICH. $5;
FOR Flfi MAN
Edison Says That's What He's
Trying to Do With His
Talking Pictures.
The Neal Treatment at the Nea! Institute Will Quickly
Restore Him to Self-Mastery
Many a man wli'j drinks to excess
(fives no thought to the hahit which
(ills his friends with sorrow and alarm.
They can sec his finish.
The Neal Institute is a place which
has enabled many deserving people
to save friends and loved ones by rid
ding them of the craving appetite for
drink.
Three days is sufficient for the per
formance of what many people look
upon as a miracle.
Excessive drinkers do not always
drink because they really want to
drink. Many a slave to the habit has
rcsolv. to quit. Again and again he
has "sworn off," but the torment he
suffers altending the effort without
the right kind of help takes him back
to his old ways.
The truth is that excessive drinkers
really are impregnated with tlic ac
cumulated alcoholic poison, which has
been taken into the system too fast
for nature to expel it.
This accumulated poison is respon
sible for the craving desire which can
only be temporanly satisfied with
more -drink. . 0 -
Rnsiness men have gone to the Neal
Institute in condition bordering on
a jww?r i-i i
collapse nervous drinkers who need
"bracers" from morning until night.
They have left the institution in
3 days superlatively happy over res
toration of nerves and with all desire
ind craving for alcoholic liquor abso
lutely gone.
The treatment is such that it will
rccoinniend itself to any one having a
Friend who drinks, for it is adminis
tered along ethical lines.
The Neal Institute consists of the
administration by the regular physi
cian who is in constant attendance
of a perfectly harmless vegetable
remedy taken internally with positive
ly no hypodermic injections.
The Neal Institute is now one of
many institutions throughout Amer
ica, all of which are doing grand work
in the cause of better manhood and
happier homes. r
AT the Institute guests enjoy all the
privileges and comforts of home, club
or hotel. Names of paticisrs are never
divulged. Home treatment can be
given to those who prefer it.'
If you have a friend who drinks to
excess and you would like to help
save him from the drink habit, write,
wire or phone the -house physician at
the Neal Institute, 354 Hall street,
Portland, Ore. ' Phone Marshall 2400.
New York, "Dec. 23. One hundred
members of the New York branch of
the Society of Mechanical Engineers
visited Thomas A. Edison and his lab
oratories at West Orange, N. J., with
rimirman Walter Rautenstrauch at
their head. '
,To tliefe visitors was given a demon
stration of Mr. Kdison's new "talking
pictures, " which are produced by com
bining th vltagraph with the phono
graph. Another demonstration given
was that of Mr. Kdison's new disk
phonograph record. The guests also
were Informed that Mr. Edlaon is pre
paring to put on the market reinforced
concrete furniture that will bo cheaper
and more durable than wood.
As the party left the two special
cars and entered the laboratory, a mov
ing picture film was taken, and one
hour ami 14 minutes later the visitors
saw a moving picture of themselves.
After a luncheon served In the lab
oratory auditorium at 2 o'clock Chief
Engineer M. Ft. Hutchinson lectured on
the new Kdlson storage battery. Two
vltagraph films were exhibited to Khow
the. educational possibilities of moving
pictures. One illustrated the work on
the Panama canal. The other was based
on the famous picture entitled "Tho
Doctor," In which a physician neglects
the dinner celebrating Ills engagement
to save the life of a dying child.
Several selections wero played on the
new disk records, with which Mr. Edi
son has not yet finlahed experimenting.
The new principles Involved, which Mr.
Edison believes will revolutionize the
phonograph Industry, Includes the meth
od hy which the reproducer takes the
sound waves from the record.
"I want to reproduce the overtones
successfully." Mr. Edison told a re
porter. "With this record I hope to
make each voice speak or sing and each
Instrument sound, not similar to the
way it should, but as it does. I want
to eliminate mechanical tone, distortion'
of sounds and all scratching or me
chanical sounds."
The talking machines were received
with thunderous applause. Every noise
that ought to be'made in the story they
told, whether of human voice, breaking
dish, playing instrument or barking; dog,
was there, and in exactly the right
place. They are not yet satisfactory
to the inventor, who calls them only
partly ready or the public.
l want to give the operas to the
poor man as well as to the highbrows,"
Mr. Edison said to the reporter. "Mu
slo I mean good music Is a wonder
fully good Influence in life, and it is
- pleasure that all should share. The
highbrows et it how for 15. I want
the poor man to get it for 6 cents."
American trout fry and eggs are be
ing introduced into German streams.
A plan to remove the menace from
the water supply of Willamette valley
towns has at last been made. Its con
summation will remove the danger of
typhoid that has been present ever since
the Willamette In the words of health
authorities "become a sewer."
The plan Is to Include In a special
water supply district Eugene and Sa-
em and all the communities between.
The source of supply would be Clear
lake tn the Cascade forest reserve at
the head of McKenzle river. The plan
was proposed by Dr. Calvin S. White,
state health officer, at the last meeting
of the state health board. So feasible
and necessary did It seem that an im
mediate engineering survey of the sit
uation was ordered and the commission
given Louis C. Kelsey, civil engineer of
Portland.
Will Orrnls District.
If no Impossible engineering diffi
culties are presented in the report Dr.
White will seek to organise the people
of the district, Including the populations
of Eugene, Springfield. Creswell, Junc
tion City, Harrlsburg, Tangent, Albany.
Marion and Salem, to petition the next
legislature for the passage of an act
creating the special water supply dis
trict. This successfully accomplished
willbe followed by the Issuance of bonds
to cover the cost of installing the sys
tem. The Interest on the bonds and
the sinking fund with which to retire
the bonds will be supplied from rents.
This Is the same system that Is used
in connection with bond Issues for the
extension of the Portland water sys
tem. Between 50,000 and 100,000 people
will be concerned in the water supply
plan. Already the bare proposition has
created great Interest and apparoval in
.the district and particularly in Eugene,
Albany and Salem.
Eugene now gets water from the Wil
lamette and purifies it by a filter sys
tem. Albany takes water from a 12
mlle ditch that heads from the Santiam
near Lebanon.' Springfield receives a
water supply from a mill race, said by
Dr. White to be now Infected. Salem's
water supply is derived from the Wil
lamette through a filter system, and the
state intltutlons get water from Mill
creek, the city, and from shallow wells.
Typhoid has done harm in each of
these towns as well as in other com
munities of the district. Deficiency in
the purity of the water has done as
much as anything else to handicap
growth and development.
Clear lake Is fed from the snows of
Three Sisters and Broken Top moun
tains. From It to all the towns In
the proposed district Is very consider
able fall. The supply Is Inexhaustible.
The water tests absolutely pure.
The Wllamette is contaminated by
towns from its source down. Being a
navigable stream It Is permitted that
sewage be dumped Into It. A large
general effort to solve the common wa
ter supply problem of the upper Wil
lamette valley has for a long time been
felt. Many think that Dr. White's plan
is the logical solution.
GIRL HE'S TO WEO
SAYS IF ENGAGED
IT IS NEWS TO HER
Charles Eastman Jr.; Says
Edith Taliaferro Is to Be His
Bride; She Retorts "Nay,
Nay, Kind Sir." '
CITY OF W00DBURN
TO SELL WATER BONDS
J. J. Stangel, recorder of the city of
Woodburn, has Issued notice that sealed
bids will be received by him until 6
o'clock, January 16, 1912, for the pur
chase of municipal water bonds to the
amount of J25.00O In denominations of
$2500 each: numbers from one to 10
and drawing Interest at the rate of 5
per cent per annum payable semi annu
ally. All bids must be cash for not less
than par and must be accompanied by
a certified check for 5 per cent of the
amount of the bid and made payable to
the treasurer of Woodburn.
New York, Dec. 23. What's an nreiir.
ate newspaper to do when something
iih mis Happens:
A very good friend of Charlie savs
he's going, to, while Edith savs she
won't.
Won't what?
Why, won't get married to Charlie.
though Charlie say he's going to get
married to Edith.
Yeb, sir, Charlie says that soon It will
be Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eastman. Ir..
and the Mrs. will be Miss Edith Talia
ferro, who is the star of "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook- Farm," now playing in St.
Louis. But Miss Taliaferro Is most em
phatic in her opinion to the opposite.
Eastman is in the real estate busi
ness. His two sisters were on the stage
and left It to be married. One became
the wife of Walter Sheftel and the other
was married last year to H. Walter
Webb, ' whose father, bearing the same
name, was a brother of Dr. Seward
Webb and Major Crelgh ton Webb.
wnen the very good friends of East
man's confirmed the report by a shli-
shape little article that evidently was
written by Eastman himself, a newspa
per wired to Miss Taliaferro. How em
phatic her denial Is may be been from
the fact that she didn't even count
the number of words in her reply. There
are tUSt 13. and no wnmnn im vol n a in
sent a 13-word message when she can
make it 12 or 14. It read:
"Report absolutely without founda
tion. Have no Intention of committing
professional suicide at present.
"EDITH TALIAFERRO."
The article received for publication
from the house No. 758 West End ave
nue, where Eastman lives. It reads:
"It was learned today that Charles
Eastman, Jr., is engaged to marry Edilh
Taliaferro, who Is now playing in 'Re
becca of Sunny Brook Farm.'
"Mr. Eastman met Miss Taliaferro last
summer at Long Beach and fell In love
at first sght. Mr. Eastman Is the
brother-in-law of H. Walter Webb, who
Is related to the Vanderbllts and who Is
a first cousin of Dr. Seward Webb. Mr.
Eastman Is alto a brother-in-law to
Walter M. Scheftel, a member of the
New York stock exchange.
"Mr. Eastman, who Is president of the
Eastman Realty company, at 546 Fifth
avenue, could not be Interviewed to
day, as he was not at his office.
"It Is understood that he is to be
married in Februray. Mrs. Abell. who
owns the Inn at Long Beach, and who
Is Miss Taliaferro's mother, teems we!l
pleased with the match.
Mr. Eastman was engaged at one
time to Lady Monson. He is well
known In the sporting world."
S5 will place an upright piano In your
home; a few dollars each month will
keep it there. Kohler & Chase, 375
Washington.
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Iron Ore Shipments Less.
Duluth, De 2.wwith the last of the
ore shipped from the Marquette and Es
canaba, Mich., docks, the figures for the
season's movement of iron ore were
available. The total shipments were
23,S71,91l tons, as compared with 88.
580,481 tons during the 1910 season, a
decrease of 8,708,670 tons. Superior
was me oniy port to show any gain.
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In active practice in Portland dur
ing the past 25 yearn. Dr. Wise will
give his personal attention to those
requesting it. The special offer does
not Include Dr. Wise's services.
OFFICE HOURS:
Daily. 8 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Sundays, 9 A. M. to 1 P. M.
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All of our work is performed with the greatest
care and skill. Our prices will be found equally as
attractive as our high-grade work. Our flexible suc
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painless extraction of useless teeth stamps our meth
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We have opened a new department for people of
moderate means, whom we ask to read our "Special
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college, 1907. Registered same year.
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Realizing that there is a crying need in this city for a dental office
where "people of moderate means can have their work performed
at minimum cost, by regular graduate dentists, we have decided
to install such a department, in connection with our main office,
which will be in charge of a competent man. The prices we quote
are about the same that you would be compelled to pay in institu
tions where students perform the work. Our work is so thoroughly
systematized-that we are able to make this departure in the interest
of people who feel that they cannot afford to pay-the usual dental
fee, but wish the skill and security assured by a first class dental
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A Good Bicuspid Gold Crown $4.00
A Good Molar Gold Crown .$5.00
A Good All-Gold Bridge for Each Tooth ..... $3.50
Porcelain supplied when required, $1 extra per tooth
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Silver Filling . ... Up from 50c ,
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