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' f T" t'TTf Ch I I i i i Fair tonight; " T h u r s d a y ; cloudy, prob ably rain or J. now. t 7" J VOL. XI. NO. 25S.1C PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY . 1, 1913-TWENTY-TVO PAGES 1 T VI Open Air Concert Ushers in New Year.vPresident Taft Pardons H. Z. Hill Seeks to Unite Greefon and California.'.Rosarians at Pasadena te V s. . . " "HISS Jreat. Chorus of Voices Raised ' V in Joyful' Praise in Monster Open Air Concert; Heads .Bowed. . AfJD ACCOMPANIMENT V innn r-A iianiA hnn l I t&tional, Religious, and Sen Jimental Airs Stir Thrond; ; ( .Bispham Aids Festival. ' The tnldnfsht onen air concert u ft (tremendous success; . . . . ,-. Tm of thousand of peoplt itood acked densely for two hours and n- yed th band concert and tha alnpng the mixed chorua and David Blspham, eminent American barttona, .. r streets bounding the , . Tenth, .Stark and Washington t i'lertm. wera anltd with- nnnla ikurn. I bled to celebrate the passing of the old . year and tha beginning of tha new. la V "sane and better uray.T A. It was not a solemn crowd with heads I dov. tA- low, but ft nappy lot or people. i who believe that New Tear's day may be celebrated la a good -natured, tern pered mannef. r: - .., ' -, - The great multitude "on the street was enthused by the f plendid singing of tha : ' soloist and chorus, and thousands of r voicfa joined-as -they Blclted,,: up th i ramuiar melodies. , I- spectators ?oln b.noros.' - ; -ii Everybody took tip tha strains "America' and 'Nearer, My: God, to - ; niee," timed for the midnight hour, Never before were these songs delivered with greater enthusiasm and -deeper fervor. Tha volume of tons was tre mendous and carried for blocks In spite : of the din of whistles, horna anj,bells. 1 X shall never, forget tYu moment, Jf I live to be a hundred fears old." aald -a nromlnent bnslness man air ho tenrd j i lnt Ws aflWto start tot hpn after th f concert k"1 am not deeply sentimental. ' but thVs scene touched my heart, and I : cannot say how deeply I spprectata, JtL! it was beautirul in-ail the sense that ejtlal-word can coftw,'. f v- i This a a r.at occasion.". sai4rMr. I Blspham,. as ha looked over tha Vast r. a udlenca. before him, and he sang with all tha power and. fervor at his com ' mand. .It. was a tremendous '.strain en : v the"; voice. but 'his clear enunciation : (ConUnued on Page Fourteen.) I em din OF JOY AND HILARITY . Downtown Streets and Cafes .j f Resound With Gay Acclaim; a I II t w as- , ,(7.viaicn wieetings , reatures. Well, here ws are with 1913 on our ands, a hefty child who popped into life s old 1911 tottered out of it at mid gut a-;- Tha new year In Portland was' born !to noise and hilarity, as befitted its-Importance.- Whistles screeched, - horns i tooted and "Old Man Racket" took com J mand. .Half of Portland was in the I downtown streets, at tha midnight mo . ment that sheared Off 1912'a thread ot 1 being and started 1913 on his 13 months' f wy. Tha crowd waa the largest to throng the streets since the memorable days of jhe Elks' convention and tha Rose Fes 4lval. - People-began to; tather as " early as 8 o'clock, and by S the moving strejftn on tha Sidewalks?, had - taken flfln1t NEW YEAR S m o ffSIRI shapi '. Vslk ' 'it10 Vit (shape, and course. An hour later Hi yalks were too small for . the cele ators, who took to the pavements. Life la amis oy. was a grand night for tha vendors i execrable Invention, that sounded ilka Jarge and ill timber wolf, when you on It, enjoyed , a large popular f1 There was . brisk but not rouah Jweajther ' in the grills aa tha new year jcame in. ah occasiona,! merrymaker got too close to tha eye of tha wind at i kimpn. hut matters were - undi nnntrni I At all times. ., . , . After '10 o'clock not a table could be got for love or sixpence at the Uortlarid, the Multnomah, the Oregon,; and other popular dining places. i Quite a little cracKea ice ana auxiliary 1 concoctions were to-be seen and there was plenty of Lift, - but the extravagant Khllarlty of oire past years was happily absent. One of the features of the evening at the Portland- was the. appearance of pavld Blspham. the famous singer, who pang there just before ,the new ear came in. - )A numoer or me memDera or the Portland Press club, their wives and friends spent a most pleasant time at 1 the club last night, when open house nja the order of the evening, - Card - sanies and other. f cature. .wr. itearUly rnnvfd. - Melvin Ogdcn, former director . f the University of Oregon glee club, A,.q the gueat of the club, entertained - tontlnued on Page Klne.J Dies While Dressing for Ball Miss Dosch Passes' Suddenly Eldest Daughter of Col. and Mrs. Henry E. Dosch Had , just Left Dinner Table Last Night When Heart Disease Ended Life Before Physician' Could Arrive. : ' Aa she was dressing In her room last! night for the New Tear's eve ball given by the members of the Corbett family at the Masonio Temple,. Miss Lillian Dosch, oldest daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Henry E. Dosch, fell in a sudden faint. Flva minutes later she was dead. An aneurism of tha heart was tha cause. Miss Dosch fittd just risen from din ner and gone up the stairs to her'room to prepare lor ' the ball. Her mother was with her- as she dressed' Without a word ' Miss DQSch gashed l and sank backward to the, floor. Her mother hurriedly-, summoned help and the young woman was lifted gently onto her bed.' But death, cams almost immediately, and she did not regain consciousness. . , Only two months ago Miss Dosch had been warned by the .family physician that her heart was Weak. She promised to be careful. : The exertion of climbing tha stairs and 'the excitement of the coming dance are 1 believed to have brought on the death faint . As Soon aa it was -seen how serious rmocx.jwag Miss Doach8 condition. Dr. Crea' dick was hastily" summoned by tele phone. But the home of Colonel Dosch TORBOAT RACE OFF B Officials Fear Swift Craft - Would Be Wrecked and. Oc- cilpants Drowned, . " 'His three cornered New Tear's day motorboat race for a championship and purse of $500; between the Oregon Wolf, the Swastika ,nd tha- Vamoose, was called off at 10:30 o'clock this morning because of the great quantities of drift wood In the Willamette rlverr The officials saw timber after timber drift down with the swift winter cur rent past the public dock at the foot of Stark street, where the stake boat Artisan was moored preparatory to tak ing up Its station In the stream. So dangerous did they consider the course that they refused to let the racers en danger their Uvea. The race will be run off on ft Saturday or Sunday within the next two or three weeks if condi tions permit." V V. "If one of the racing boats" were to hit a piece of. that drift in this current,' the boat would go to the bottom so quickly thst- Its crew would be lucky to get off with Weir lives," said Fleet Captain Klnner,f the Portland Motor boat club,, one of the officials , -- "Under the conditions, we . did not think the race .warranted us in risking the lives of the raoers, so called the event off for the present. In any event, the race would1 have been disappoint ing as to speed, for, having to dodge the driftwood, the boats could not have been pressed to the llmitf." While taking a limbering up run in tho river before the race, the Swastika, driven by Bob Cox, broke a connecting rod. This would have kept It 'out of the race had the event not been called off. The Swastika nearly ran Into pieces of, drift several times, : ' ii i.n ' ii" ' n. "BOMB MAN" JURY FAILS TO AGREE; DISCHARGED Jnlted Preee Leued Wlre. Los Angeles, Jan. 1. The fate of Carl Reldelbach, alias Warr, who threatened to blow .up the central police station recently. Is still undecided, the jury Which tried him on a charge of deposit ing dynamite In a public- building hav ing disagreed and been dlucbi-ged. After many hours of ewliberatlon, while ujtewlfaar's eve-erowds -reveled outside the court room, the foreman of the Jury reported that . his - charges stood ,10 to I t or -eonvictionr and - that an' agreement was Impossible. - Failure Of the prosecution to establish facts in tha case, the foreman declared, caused the disagreement DOZEN NEW LAID EGGS SENT PRESIDENT TAFT BY-PARCELS POST e One dozen eggs, laid yester- e e day.by thoroughbred White Leg' e e - horn hens ,. owned "by O. B. . e e Stubbs, Z8S Fourteenth street; e e ' are on their way today to.Wash- e e lngton, D. C. .sent to President e) e Taft as an appreciation, of the e e . parcels post service, inaugurated . e e thjs morning. Of course the . e e eggs are being sent by the par- "e eels post ; They were packed. In e e a corrugated cushion paper con- e e, talner and labeled at the postof- e e flee "Fragile,-' ao everyone con- e e cerned with the transaction is . e e fully confident that the eggs e will reach their destination safe e) e and sound some tints early next e) e week and ultimately grace the 4 e breakfast table of the nation's e e) chief executive. All of the eggs e e were stamped with the date, lie- ft e .cember 31, 1912, when they were "e ifrid, and a lfltr hni been writ- ft ten le- Mrr Tart, asking him- to e) let the donor know in what, con- : dltlon they were received. ON ACCOUNT OF DRIFT inniiT in Tiir nnr r m m nr k ur . I IllbUIII 111 IIIU III Ik In the .country, near Hillsdale, is about, a mile and a half beyOnd the end Of the Council -Crest carllne, fcnd though he came with the greatest haste, : Miss Dosch had been dead between 20min utea and' half an hour when the physi clan arrived. , Miss Dosch died at about 7:30 o'clock. iC2'tr Tha funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Portland crematorium at 3 o'clock. ,Rev. John 11. Boyd of tha First Presbyterian church will conduct a brief and simple service. miss uoscn was 40 years old. and was very prominent in Portland society. She Is-sr irtstr-ofArnoDoscTv,tha magaalne writer -of Kew York, who has been in formed of her death by telegraph and is now on nis way to Portland. 1 , Another i'siater. is t- JVIrs. Benaaa S. Josselyn Jr... formerly Miss Marguerite lJosch, whose . romantic wedding two months ago after an elopement attracted much attention. ..A third sister la Mla Camlllet"'Dosch,and there are two other brothers,, ,Ernest and Roswell, both of roniana. '' : , . IN II HOI Hockih Ostracized brothers wno ask . mat He May Not Be Their Cellmate, . " , ., (Dotted Preit Letted Wire.) ' Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 1. The 33 uaion men convicted at Indianapolis of conspiracy unlawfully to transport explosives, arrived at tha federal prison here at t. o'clock this" morning on the "dyanmlte special.". - The .trln.wasv mad without vincidejQjt?tU-;n:,; f ? v& V:r ' ' ,v . Tfce prisoners were received bv War. den McClaughrey. Each signed tha prison book. Then they were given a bath, their . heads shaved and each donned prison garb. ' Each was given a number .and ordered to learn the prison rules. The deputy United States, marahals who accompanied the prisoners from In dianapolis guarded. their charges closej mil ui(ul, mtu was nit Tnvtia(IOn. in the coaches, all the windows and doors being tightly closed. At midnight Marshal Schmidt served the prisoners and their guards.- with offee. sand wiches, cigars and cigarettes. . Tiie other prisoners ostracised Hockln throughout the trip. He Is regarded by the union men as a traitor. During the 'Contlnued on Page Five.) RONVORK SPEND YEAR'S DAY I PR (m- - ' ' '?t; ill m$M llll k '1 lii i HiCsir '- SALOONKEEPERS RESOLVETO PURGE LIQUOR BUSINESS Retail Dealers'; Will ,Start Nevv Year Right byActing on the . Square, and, Obey r Law to the" Letter. Vv: 'rW-: WILL WAGE, WAR' UPON i: . ; INIQUITOUS BLIND PIG Dispensers May Even; Join With Governor Under Cer- tain Conditions. - - . And among those who hold. up their right bands and solemnly' resolve to be good Are the saloonkeepers. v ...... It is the intention of .the. retail llq. uor men : of the state to. so conduct their , businesses during the - coming year that they can look every man Id Oregon - In., the -face and say: . , ."Ve are on tha, square. How about youreelf?" . . So determined . are they do put them selves absolutely above any criticism on tha' point of law violation; they ma v even go" to Ihe extreme of joining forces with Governcfr West, under certain con ditions;:.. . '.. '' .u . "We are not In politics In any wgy," said Frank Hoffman, president of the State Retail Liquor, Dealers' . associa tion, who conducts saloon at 147 First street, "and we object to anyone using tne saloon business as the goat in fur- thering his own political ends, but we stand ready and willing to cooperate with Governor West In any sincere and conscientious move to eliminate the Tough stuff" from the business." " Jteforms Are Championed. Reforms that will be fought for dur ing 1913 by tha saloonkeepers in rela tion to their own business are.' Absolute divorce of vice from ths Mq nor business, 4; ... .i'J,'-,.:, i Enforcement ef Sunday tlnslng. Stop selllbg to. drunkards, f .; j Stop.' .selling'. to tor'-;;viX?T,''-4-' Punishment, for minors' who are re- aponalbl efor violations of the' law on the part ot bartenders, by tying about their age. i4 . War on blind nigs, . Sane nd effectlvft laws for regula tion. It is also the Intention of the asso ciation to carry 6n a campaign of edu cation among its .. members to teach them the liquor laws of the state and the various .cities and counties, so that they may be complied with both in letter and spirit-. -A series of confer ences will be held at Intervals . to ac complish -these results.'.- ; Already the effect of the first con ference held in. Portland several days ago is being felt over the state. One (Continued on Pake Five.) HE tYASi SlJllELY m R0SAR1M1S; biw. goal. PASADENAiFIESTA Lead ! Parade at Tournament lof Rosesi -in . Southern Cal ; ifornia Beauty Spot; Secure T Promises to Visit Portland. CELEBRATE. NEW YEARS . 'AT SAN LUIS OBISPO Pacific Coast 'Festival Ass'ns -Will Meet Tonight to Ar range Jor.Shows.V - e- t The 1 roiiowing telegram was sent the Rosariana .today by J.-A. cuiTeyr : - e v C.rown PInce Wm. C. Bristol, : e Royal Rosarians. . e-' Pasadena, Cat.;. e - Royal Rosarlansj Greetings e' Spread the glad tidings. ; Royal e , rsa .. bushes . 'aye flourishing. e ! Wading .through snow on New .Year's. day in the royal gardens on Portland Heights, your hum-: ble servant gathered bunches of glorious roses. There will be millions ef roses next June for Vlsltprs. . ). A. CURRET, Keeper Royal Bushes. r-i; staff -orreBpondenee - Pasadena; . Cal... Jam ; 1. ."Portland Royal Rosarlans.e Pasadena " welcomes you. Happy New Tear." Tha Pasadena tournament of roses management led by President E. T. Off, thus met the Portland excurslohists- as their train pulled Into ther southern' .California beauty center; at $ o'clock this morning. From that minute there was not a, mo ment lacking . entertainment. : ' j Despite the fact that -.200,000 people rathered from Los Angeles and nearby towaa, to celebrate lp. the -city where summer' ooever' endi, the' -visitor -trom Portland were given the best of every thing the town has. . They were whisked abouw the city -in automobiles, reveling in the wonderful sunshine, exclaiming with admiration over beautiful homes and grounds and orange groves. The whole town was given over to festivity. ....Msad Opsalnr Jar,4s.:'.. . .The Rosariana led tha grand1 parade 1 the roee Hburnament this morning, following the crack band of California, whoBe 'muSlo set every foot list ir. In addition 4b President Off.vthe reception committee consisted of -R. D. Davis, Mayor Thomas Thum, and C. H.-Bradley. George L. Hutchin; chairman of the day in Lob Angeles, had planned everything In advance.- 7Tr; ' -. .- :.:'.,:-7l'vv,.-.., The RosarjansJiad nothlng to do but Continued on Page Five.) BUSY, lira iii BE EXTENDED TO President Young of Hill Lines in' San Francisco Said to Be Arranging for' Connec tion,; Bend to Lakeview. . HILL ANXIOUS TO REACH :SAN FRANCISCO BY 1915 Nevada, California and Ore- ; gon-Believed: to Be Link' , Bring Line Here. i - ' (Vulted Preas Letted trire.l i Sart'-Francisco, Cal., Jan. lTo effect a combination of Interests by which the Hill lines may enter Sail Francisco and the Weatern Paclflo railroad tan Port land, la the. reason assigned today for the presence here of Joaeph M. young. president of the Hill lines "in Oregon, S and tha Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad. The plan Is said to- involve the joint acquisition of the Nevada. v.ttiuurnia et vregon road, which con nects with the Western Paclflo at Doyle, Nev,, connecting it with the Ore gon Trunit, now operating to Bend, in central uregon. President J. It Young of the Hill lines In Oregon went to San Francisco about five days ago, ostensibly, tt.'was said; for . the purpose of a li ttla . rest. ThlB, however, , was -. not taken as the reason, since he had just-returned from Ht- Paul, and had expressed himself glad to be home again; Upon his return front Sf Paul, Mr. Young intimated he had an announcement to make in the near; future which would be of more than ordinary Importance to tha public but said, owing to the Immature plans, nothing could be said at that time. It is believed that this will mean the early announcement o plans to extend the Oregon Trunk to a point that will give the Hill system entrance into San Fran Ctsco.;- p : V rvThere Is-very1: good reason why the Hilt systoni fchould wish to reach ' San Francisco at an early date.- Trmo in duced by the big exposition at San Fran cisco and San Diego in 1915 in celebra tion of the opening of the Panama canal will mean an . iramensa volume of freight and passenger, business, and under existing conditions, the Hill lines are not In position to draw Very heavily (Continued on Page Nine.) f United Prets IBMd . Princeton, .N. Jw Jan, I. President elect Woodrow Wilson holds the distinc tion , of being the first to receive a package by the new parcels post system, postmaster - Robinson, by, special,' ar rangement, kept his office open until after midnight to receive two dozen fine Jeraey apples sent, by the Wood row Wilson club of Princeton. The package was delivered at the Wil son. horpea 11:07 this morning. ir wm VESTERii PACIFIC nnnniT Frn mr -or n IJ ILI k II ,. . ! i 1 I I ! . f rilLVUil luLIJlULl Disease-Breeding Place Deemed Incvitd ate Relief to Present Overtaxed Eurr. .7 Is Given; Note of Warning Sound ::l -Otis; Increase in Amount of Refuo C; (Unless a new Incinerator can be built and put In . operation within the next few months to help the present over worked plant In the disposal of the large and - constantly , Increasing smount of garbage to bo burned there, a return to the disease breeding garbage, dump in this city is Inevitable. . . ( mdeod.t la doubtful If & plant coul 1 now be built in time to avert the gar bage dump and its dangrrs, even It tr.o voters had already authorized ttis fur.iis and the money were available. Wit.ii the utmost speed it would reuulra nbuui a year to have ft new plant ready for service. By that time, fiorn every l-i cation, the present plnnt ul ! swamped, if . it is ' not forced out i-f commission entirely, by. tho great over load it has been carrying and in non carrying In the incineration of tha city's garbage. Aa told in Sunday's Jo m. il, t t plant IS now doing almost the work i' two plants of tiie capacity fur wt.u-n ft was built. Despite tho ffficlcn-y cf Its superintendent, 'W. K "U, ti ;.i In cinerator has now rw:i,t-3 ninHc-.t the absolute limit of lis capacity. Besides, it Is badly in m-Wi of over hauling and repairs to ton furnaces, the lining . of which lies been ImriK l out or loosened in. many phu--H. A - :.:.t down on this nno i'it. to- i ' XtM.' U HuMe to oi-cur ht ... i . . For several monhts innt iiir'!'T i ineiheretor, built for only :i ) , with 150 as the out' irt - aged cacti flay num. t i i afbBj;e, j y il 1 'Vw ss. as I Hi i p; 'or' urn)!, .npirj': lIliLL s Absolute PztCia drnt Pf"v"n t-- Gift to v::: :;i of Fc::!!, C, another r;;c? ; away f.".::1 Action Prcci' Claim Ti,:.t Fc WasH.T.J . Another smnshlng hi low t fraud convictions ago by I'laiii'H J. 3l."u t J. Burns was deliver I ri yesterday, when iTef-Mcnt T.. i an absolute pardon to J I r ) I - -, drlcks . of Fossil. Or., on : t convicted by tlw fitiMou rn Jury; now ailerl to Ji.i. 1 picked and carefully pat!; ! . and Burns. .'News of the pardon v.-?f ! by Hendricks to a friend, ii l he-, having received a irn r Washington .: saying the j- j signed Jast -'night-. It arrfv. -l to-make New Year's 'l-'y an' t happy one for Hendriclis. Details are lacking pa t-i th upon which the pardon i -i n it is supposed the rviaonn vr i I as Jnjth Q.case.a...oFra lin 1 : Willard N. Jones unci joim 1:. of whom were tried 1--.- i : from the same jury panel. I ttie .-'petition . for pardon la l.: case was . support' f ; -t from William Hawk, wmn v -mony the conviction of t':e. I " on a charge of sutmrtiation ti Was obtained. . B'atensente. Ar Y Hawk hnd enteral a lmr;- ; was stamped with fraudu!.-- t S!V,o;vE!TSiV.;rii: ; QTEL ear's up m I Ml ( i Scuttle, ,Tjn. 1. 1 Ive tr ot the new Wnjihlna-ton 1 thrown Into a r'nio at 1 o i ; morning when, the huge Ch-i u litdb iitta ijvti uLauutiig in i a week took fire. A cnrelr;-'t r lighted his cigar and thtv I into the tree ani in 10 r ' " thousand dollars' iini- ' ' Tho stained- glass root f cracked' -to pieces, velr.nt,! r burned . and ntsny oven-r piled on nenroy t ,T:) by falllog spail.s. :. To quiet tha crowd c . men 1 Imbed on the U-An '. -. :. room .and sang, an4 t!-o 5 to an accoinpan'.nif ot f -orchestra.. Guests who 1 ! t ma(3e a hasty exit fro: v some In nlghtgoMii r: ! ; m .8 f f i -1 i as 187 tfr. f" niatps thnt in will l v.l!'-. 1 f from 16u t j X montiif!, y-H's . busy days, if -of the torrent every d.iy. ll:i i: : :-. . . Will p "X e f -.t-i.l .-: 0 ! ii