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Till: OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1312. (ALAf.lA ARISES FWTOin Columbia River Port, ; Once Known Only as Transfer , Point for Trains, Now Sees GratdEuture Ahead. ' Kalama, . Wash, Dec. 24. -Although one of the oldest towns on the Columbia , river, Kalama, until within the last seven or eight years, wag known only - as a transfer point for trains that oper ated between Portland and cities of the sound. , Travelers from all parts of the globe remembered the old transfer Tacoma, and a day's Journey from home Kalama was known only .In connection with It. 1 Then the Northern Pacific bridged the Columbia at Vancouver and came racing down the north shore to startle smaii towns Into a new order of things, and Kalama got up and hustled with the res( of thm.-v-wt :.i!'t;:i :-W-r'.'r, From a little, one horse town, whose main dependence was the switch yards and the ferry; where you stuck In the . mud In the-winter and fought mosqui toes in the summer; ' where the only , diversion was sitting on a hillside fish, ing catfish from a high water puddle, where but why say more that was the old Kalama, 1 She STew Kalama. r Out of the old sprang' the new; a city of over 2700 inhabitants, whose rapid improvement is worthy of note. The business portion of the city has recently covered Its streets with blttf--llthic pavement and replaced the rat- tilng board walks with cement. -lyHftiesft street improvements are grad Cually creeping up the bills, into the resi dence districts. Kalama has an unlimited supply of pure mountain water and an excellent drainage system. The Washington & Oregon Electrio Ught Co. lights Kalama, as well as Rainier, Kelso and 'Woodland. This company's plant Is situated on the Ka lama river. Some eleht or cine miles j above the elty. v ' This company Is also preparing to ex. tend its system to Include Chehalia, ' Wash. ' , . :: With the new railway facilities came also other activities. lumber Business Booming, . The Mountain Timber company erect. s ed one of the largest mills on the coast about a mile below town. This mill cuts 150,000 feet per day at present and la enlarging Its plant to cut 250,000. The Rose City Mill company also has a ''shingle mill here. , Between the Mountain Timber com pany and the city the J. B. Hill company has erected large mill. These mills employ a large force of men and a mill town has sprung up in their vicinity, y Kalatnfl has an excellent publio school, " also high school, and a number of churches have their edifices and hold 4 service here. ' ' :, In the bueiness section of the town Is tho spirit of tho new Kalama especially manifest'.-.. , , Future Is Assured. From a . country grocery and mer i chandlse istore or two, & hotel, drug store, barber shop, postof flee and three , or four saloons, the business soctlon expanded until it now comprises three barber shops, four or five restau rants and lunch houses, a number of goad hotels, three department stores, , several grocery and hardware stores, a ; ' large furniture establishment, bakery, ' a well equipped drug store, two good theatres, a number of lodge halls, two meat markets and all the 'odds and ends of business that mark the beginnings - ot a city. ..... On one of the principal residence , streets commanding a good view of the riyer has recently been erected by one of Kalama's resident physicians a three ,' 1 story private hospital. ; W Kalama is on the very edge of the great waterway from Portland to the - n, and some of the largest lumber . . , . schooners In the coast line dock here for lumber. LX-'- - - - With her "exceptional water and rail transportation, her wealth of dairy and , fruit product from the near lying farms, And the millions ot feet ot choice tim ber In the mountains at her back, it Is certain the new Kalama has a future. llll AUMS W T PARCELS PUS SERVICE Requirements of the federal govern ment are directly responsible for two courses In the educational department of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion that are Just now being emphasized. These are the course In wireless teleg raphy and the training of autolsts for the parcels post service.' The fact, that the Y. M. C. A. is already paying par ticular attention to preparing men for the parcels post work shows the adapt ability with which Us educational sys tem meets needs as they appear. ' While the V. M. C. A, has conducted a complete automobile school for several years, the parcels post work presents a new field; for its students. Automo biles will be used for, the delivery of packages, and the men who take up this work must understand a machine., The Y. M. C A.' auto school Is not only teaching road work, but Is giving In struction In the mechanical side of the auto, v Including , repairing. This knowl edge, of course, will be very valuable to the men who enter the parcels 'post service. The fact that the government has or dered all passenger steamers to be pro vided with at least two wireless tele graph operators Is responsible tor the Y. M. C A. class in wireless that was recently formed. This class ; has the best wireless apparatus in the city, and has communicated with stations at a great distance. . In view of the increased demand for operators, this is regarded as one of the . most practical courses that the Y. M. C. A. has added recently, BOOK TO ADVERTISE -CHRISTIAN CONVENTION During the winter months several sasslons ot the National Reform asso ciation will be held at various points throughout the east This is the or ganization under whose auspices the World's Second Christian Citizenship Conference is to, be given In Portland next summer. To aid in advertising the Tent-William McMurrav, general pas senger agent of the O.-W. R. & N., sent to rnuaaerpnia yesterday .35,000 copies of the Portland book, recently pub lished by the railroad, which will be distributed by Clement H. Congdon, pub licity manager of the conference. A page of the book will be devoted to information about the conference and Low to get here. ' Too Many Santa Clause! ' (United PreM Leiied Wire.) ' Los Angeles. Dec. 24. "Say. which one of youae guys is bunk?" queried a 6-year-old newsie of two Salvation Army Santas on Spring street One San ta slipped away while the other opened the note the lad offered. It was signed Ray Peller and asked for roller skates. Edlefsen wishes you a Merry Xmaa. GAS KILLS IS PHilG HTft Baby Pulls Tube From Plate and Little Ones Are ' , Asphyxiated. Kustaola Ustich, were revived. Sophie told the story of the Christmas party with its. sad ending as she was being removed to the county hospital Mrs. Mary Masherldys, mother of Ida, is employed in a loop restaurant and did not know of the death of her daugh ter until she returned ' to her home. She resides with Mrs. Ustich. " i, AGRICULTURAL HIGH COO L PLAN URGED : Chicago,. Dec. 14. Five happy youngs sters lay in mlmlo sleep on the kitchen floor at 828 Ewing street and five little stockings hung in a row from the back of a chair. ' - - They were "playing Santa Claus,' and Mrs. Margaret Ustich, mother of three of them, smiled a ' wan smile as she reflected that playing it was all they could do. Then she started for the Mary Crane Nursery to deliver a washing. Three-quarters of an hour later she returned to find tragedy.; The tube lead- ins- 10 a small, piaie on wuitii bub iiau boiled her wash water had broken and the room was full of gas. The children were gone and when'' she located them three were dead at the Mary Crane Nur sery and the other two were in the county hospital. 1 The five children all resided with Mrs, Margaret Ustich, whose husband, Elfin Ustich, Is an inmate of the Dunning hospital for the Insane. Left with five children to support Mrs. Ustich has been forced to wash for, neighbors. - With promises to be good, that Santa Claus might not pass over the home without a visit, the children were left In the kitchen of their little home, while the mother went to the nursery. The children, filled : with the spirit of the approaching Christmas season, started to play' Santa Claus. -. Five little stockings were taken from dresser drawers and hung on a clothes line in the kitchen, while the children pretended they were asleepwaiting for Santa Claus. . ': But Theodore, with the unrest of a 10-months-old boy, refused to He quiet ly on the floor and started to creep about the kitchen. He was- attracted by the bright green : tube which led from the gas pipe to the plate. Reach ing up with his tiny hands, he pulled the tube from the pipe and the room was soon filled with gas. The feigned sleep of the children on the floor soon became a stupor induced by the fumes, and ' when the children were found they lay with their arms about each other, with the exception Of the infant, who lay on the floor near the gas pipe. Two men who were working in the alley near the home detected the odor of gas and entered the place. They took the children in their arms and car ried them across the alley to the Mary Crane Nursery, where Superintendent Myrn Brockwell ..summoned pulmotors from the Commonwealth Edison com pany and from the Peoples' Gas Light & Coke company. Five of the life-saving machines ar rived at the nursery, and after hours ot work two ot the children, Sophie and - The members of the East Side B u si res s Men's club discussed the advan tages of an agricultural high school at, their meeting yesterday in the Clifford hotel. Professors B. D. Ressler and C. U Smith of Oregon Agricultural col lege, and Judge M. O. Munly, of the school board, defined in addresses the value of vocational education, especially the' kind of training adapted to life needs. The club unanimously adopted a resolution commending the plan for the erection . of an agricultural high school In southeast Portland. Resolutions were adopted approving the plan for having cars stop 1 at alternate blocks. Judge Munly spoke against this reso lution, asserting that It had failed when tried before. ' t j ' , TEAL INDORSED BY I ra William Reid Writes Letter to President-elect Woo'drow ".Wilson.-;-: William Reid, pioneer railroad build er and banker ot Oregon, who is still engaged In the practice of law In Port land, . though past 68, has added his indorsement of Joseph N. Teal tor ap pointment as secretary of the Interior to that of many others. Mr. Reid has written - a v Utter to President-elect Woodrow Wilson. : In it he tells of a lifetime's familiarity1 with tho capabil ities and usefulness of Mr. Teal. tle says that though he Is not a Democrat, in a matter of such importance to the west the argument as to the best man for the place should not be on a par tisan basis. Mr. Reid writes: "I am not a Democrat, "have no axes to grind' and have not seen Hon. Jo seph N. Teal for two years, but having prior , thereto cooperated for years ' in the fights t have had against both the Vlllard railroad monopoly of 18S0 and against "E, H. Harriman's legislative at tempt to control this' state by his merger, since dissolved by . the United States supreme court, ' I cannot help writing you to bear witness to Mr. Teal's integrity explalnea as follows although, believe m Mr. Teal never asked me: I am a lifelong Republican and one of the authors of , the "Rem iniscences ot Abraham Lincoln through his widow's desire while a young man In Scotland. You may attach little im portance to my indorsement of Joseph Teal, yet wa must speak of a man as we find him.' I am nearlng to the 70th year been 89 years in Oregon, organized and built over 1X0 miles railway near to Portland, and the enclosed abstract of ray career, written by H, W. Scott, deceased, ; in History- 'of Portland,' shows what I have done for Oregon in the past : Therefore, although I never was a politician, yet let me say I In dorse Mr-, Teal's application for secre tary of the interior,?; Why? Because I cooperated with him and had his serv ices first i In freeing Oregon while I built the 200 .miles in 1879 to 1884 against Harriman's vigorous efforts to stop." v,,,,:,v.-- v".. Mr. Reid tells further about the com pulsory traffic connections bill of which he was the author, and which has been made valuable through enforcement by the transportation committee headed by Mr. Teal. OLD COUNTY FARM RENTAL AGREED UPON GLOBE! Eleventh and Washington TODAY AND TOMORROW Great Holiday Attraction DION BOUCICAULTS MASTERPIECE The ShanghrauEi IN THREE MAGNIFICENT REELS BEAUTIFUL SCENERYARTISTIC ACTING The Shaugraun is Dion Boucicault's, greatest land: best , play and enjoyed the longest, continuous run of any production ever staged up to his time. A GOOD COMEDY Miss Jennie Clow, Soprano Soloist " Solo on Globe Organ 10c ALL SEATS 10c f Avoiding litigation and the expense l It entails, the county commissioners and T?B. M. Lombard, purchaser of the old county farm on the Canyon road, sub " . raltted their differences regarding the sum of rental due him from the county !.-' for a year occupancy, following its . purchase, to Judge Henry McGinn. After ; hearing evidence' on both sides, Judge , McGinn decided S225 per month was , sufficient, and . the . commissioners agreed to pay It Both- parties had agreed to abide by. the decision. Following the sale of the old farm in 1908, the county found it necessary - to make use of it for a year and a half. .(..No charge was made for the first six months of occupancy, and It was agreea that a "reasonable rental" should obtain for the year. They later disagreed von 1 , what constituted "reasonable rental." The commissioners, after considering the petitions of the Northwestern Eleo- trie company for a franchise to build a power transmission line along the coun- - ty roads, declined to consider the com i ' pany's proposition, and the company's v attorneys withdrew all papers with the intention of submitting a ' new ; propo sition.'. The commissioners declined to ' grant the franchise on the grounds that the company made ho offer of conces sions to the county. , It was understood that the electrio company will submit a proposal where by the county ; will be In position to secure a cheap rate for electricity for lighting and power purposes, provided '" the franchise Is given. Bids for carpeting, window shades and linoleum for the west wing ot the pew county courthouse were opened. ' y : ' Christmas Dinner at the Hotel Bowers A special table d'hote dinner will be served tn the -dining room of the Hotel Bowers from 6 until 8:30, Christmas night, $1.00 per plate. Telephone reser. vations, Hotel Bowers, Main 7160, A 6824. .- v - ... ,. )...-,. -- "Women's Hats Free Christmas morning at ThesWonder Millinery, 4th and Morrison. 8 to 11:30. New entertainment features every wek at The Louvre Grill. Musical pro gram, 8 to . and 10 to 12 p. m. We Wish You AMerry Christmas If Your Dealer Won't Sup ' . ply You Phone Us Direct There's no ques tion - but ' that in -every home where -. ... Hop Gold Beer is Bart of the Christmas dlnno that the day will be merrv. indeed. For It means that there Is better health where this pure beer is used. Star Brewery JTorthera Brewing Co. PortlasA Vancouver v 1 1 -v -bread DELICIOUS STUFFING K, MS TURKEY Both Stores of the LION CLOTHING COMPANY 166-170 Third Street Fourth and Morrison .ristmas I ii i iffTT mdinfe OUT-OF-DOORS ATTRACTIVE mm m i i Si i fcw4 a m w in ill hi bi csv a mj hi imi . Kgg- AIMTCD MM CW Excellent Train Service; 1&M . two otxxb rorn tkaiki rjt - -. : ' i wnrtnarn Biawinv tin f : I : vV(ri gortlaad - Yanooaver mri.vlt''"' a . iv.jur -w . i m m. . " a ; i m- - - . . .. "j - m m .at a n m ..i.ii i m il I I, SEASIDE RESORTS FAMOUS IIOTELS, MAGNIFICENT SCENERY, DELIGHEFCL CLIMATE, OUTDOOR SPORTS OF ALL KINDS, ' WTTII " MILES OF DRIVES THROUGH ORANGE GROVES AND ALONG OCEAN BOULEVARDS ROUND TRIP FARE $55 PORTLAND TO LOS ANGELES . with stop-ever going or returning and a final return limit of .six months from date of sale Includes "Shasta Lim ited" with Observation Standard Drawing-room and Compartment Sleeping Cars and Dining . Car. Leaves Portland 5:60 p. m. dally, connecting with "Owl" at t Port Costa for Los Angeles. TWO OTKEB MB T&AXSU LeaVg Portland 1:80 a.m. (Sleep ing Cars open 9:30 p. m.) and ai s:i p. m. aauv. California Express : T"i . a .. : ' tr... " : ; r " .:. . tne oan rrancisco xjcrjress carrvin oherv.tion Car. " Both trains carry Pullman and Tourist Bleeping Cars, Dining Cars and High Class Coaches. All these trains connect at San Francisco with the Overland Lim ited and other trains East through Ogden and with the San Fran cisco, El Pa no and New Orleans trains through - Los Angeles and the Sunset Route- . . Descriptive and Interesting literature on application to any Agent, or ' Jobs H. Boott, Oea. rasa, Afrat. Portland .Oregon, mm tonua s most uCaiiion distinctiTe andi JeKAt- rai vintage. Ia bouquet it ii unexcelled. Mellowed by ate and naturally fermented like tne best , foreign cnam oanes, xt stira tke palate to immeaiate appreciation. Drint it at Home, in dub or restaurant. Yetaore-Boven Co. Saa Francisco, Cat Portland Retail Dealers Brunn & Co.. ...140 1st St. J. E. Kelly S64 Morrison SU Sealy-Dresser Co.. ....290 Stark Bt. National Wine Co. .....295 Stark be. D. Germanus....,...228 Morrison tit. Woodard. Clarke & Co Rose City Imp. Co .lst and Burnslde Funk Bros. ......16th & Wastilngt m Keystone Liquor Co....... J th St m o 'i pi 5 A-, .... : U C Q When la Fortland stop at the So- f i tel Beward. Toa will find it one of I the jiaw.it, most artlstto. modern ) and eleraatly appolated hotels In the Srorthwest. located at Tenth and Alder streets, la heart of teuu and theatre district. Bates $1 and up with bath, 93 and op. Bns meet aU trains. W. VL IIW1ID, jrop. . i PHONE Your Want Ads to The Journal Main 7173 A-CQol 'C-- -- s-J r s-w - Footer Cz IClcI Outdoor Advcrt!::r3 rarTTD trtx.ETira f AIM I to WA14 ;HU4 ..-. ,-, Seat Esvteth aad Xsst Xrry , aast 1U1. - 4. by : : ' ' ' -' : - A '. 'V' " ' " I