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TWO THE TWICE-A-WBEK GUARD. Mr>NDAY, DEO. 26. 1910. ry of Navy’s Official Map Showing j! ro nama Guantanamo and De Philadelphia, Dec. 22.—After an all-night search of the ru- s of the leather factory of D. Friedlander at 1114-1120 Bo- ine street, destroyed by fire last night, it is thought the num ber of firemen and policemen killed by the falling walls is under twenty. There is great difficulty in ascertaining the number of killed and injured because the ambulances and police patrol wagon3 scattered the injured among many hospitals, but it is believed the number of deaths will reach twenty. The work of digging in the ruins is slow, owing to extreme cold weather, the wet debris being frozen into almost a solid mass. It is one of the coldest mornings of the season, and the res- 1 cuers are suffering keenly. The number of firemen and police men injured will total nearly fifty, of whom several will die. Col- |lapsing walls caused most of the deaths and injuries. The blaze was first discovered about 10 o'clock, and in less (than half an hour the interior of the building was a furnace. Un- BTable to fight the flames from the roof of the doomed structure, the firemen climbed to the roofs of three small dwellings adjoin- »ing. It was here that the accident occurred. Later—Fifteen are known to be dead, fourteen firemen and 1 one policeman, and more than fifty injured, of whom 25 are still in the hospitals. 5 ■ i CAPITAL CITY H I I i /W/V£* N* Gl/AWJA/A/^ Chicago, Dec 22. Fire Marshal Janies Horan and twenty eight of las firemen were killed today in a fire which caused $1,. 250.000 damage to the warehouses and stock of Morris & Co., packers, and for hours threatened the whole stock yards district A wall fell, crushing an overhanging wooden canopy on the beef house of Morris & Co., where the fire started, Beneath the canopy were two companies of firenu n and the chief, These men were crushed to death, and the debris mad? a furnace into Tin* blaze wns discovered about four o’clock. An ammonia pip« bursting started th« combustion that spread so quickly that the watchman barely had turned ill an alarm before the flumes were bursting out of the bulldin . Fire Marshal Horan found his assistants and was endeavoring to head off the rush of fire toward the other buildings. Flames were coming from several Htriictures near by. An awning which later became the destroyer of a score of Ilves seemed to offer shelter from the flames. Under this tne crews fled to escape the terrific heat On top of the canopy another group of firemen played streams of water into th« heart of the fire. Suddenly Lieuten ant Mackey, leader of the fire (Ight- top of the illUepy, felt the wnll going mid honied warning to those lielov. Hu jumped with Ills mon mid escaped death But below th" canopy found Its victims *'eunwhllt> the firemen, who knew nothing of the dlxioiter, were stand ing In the i>nlh of th« flames. They stool their ground ui building after building only to b« driven buck. As sistant Marshal Zeyferllch, who now was In command, realizing the futil ity of satjlig tile property then ablaze drew nl his men back nnil nt 10:15 acknowledged the whole stockyards district in danger ”We‘v« got no water here, and we cannot do anything effectively,” he said. "The thing really Is beyond our control right now." I.e'er In the day announcement was made that th« number of dead Is twenty-four. DESPICABLE ACTS TWENTY-SIX DEAD OF DISGRUNTLED H.S.STUDENTS 1 lie secretary of the navy. George von 1. Meyer, has prepared au official map show ing the mit In the senate of the United States. Ion. of establishing a naval station at Guantanamo. The defense of the I’anatna canal I- a -a December 12, 1910, Mr. Bourne in est importance to the present administration, and President Taft has declared the public must I troduced the following joint resolu fact that a canal without proper fortification and naval bases will be no canal at all l’h • m tion, which was read twice and refer the secretary of the navy has been submitted to congress, and that body Is due to spend tiatiy I red to the committee on commerce. Later on, December 16, the resolu better locations or naval bases. tion was passed by the senate under suspension of the rules, and was sent to the house December 17' Joint resolution amending the act of June 25th. 1910, making appro priation for the improvement of the Probably ns revenge for not being I Siuslaw river, Oregon. granted a two-weeks’ Christmas va<a-' Resolved by the Senate and House of tion instead of one, hoodlums broke Representatives of the United Into the High school building last: States of America in congress assem- night and committed depredations of i bled: a serious nature. Carbon disulphate,I That the provision of the river and with an odor similar to that of rot harbor act approved June 25th, 1910, ten eggs, had been placed In the ven making appropriation for improving Tin- verdict of the jury in the case vated by the plaintiff up to April 18, is asked for, Manerud & Quinn will tilating fan, and the fumes were drlv- Siuslaw river, Oregon, be amended of Sant Manerud and Edward Quinn be the applicants. 1910? (This answer must be in the en to all parts of th« building. Llm- so as to read as follows: 10 Questions Answered "Improving Siuslaw river, Oregon, against the city of Eugene, awarding cubic yards and classified under the burger cheese was distributed about' A special verdict, in answer to the three heads: Eearth, cemented gra the rooms, smeared upon the desks of at the mouth, in accordance with the the plaintiffs the sum of $0525.00. sixteen questions submitted to the certain teachers, and moth balls and , project set forth in the report sub mitted in House Document No. 648, is considered a victory for the city, jury, was also rendered, the ques vel and solid rock). Plaintiff exca red pepper were placed throughout vated 97,900 cubic yards of material the rooms. Text books were taken sixty-first congress, second session, inasmuch as that sum is practically tions and answers being as follows: 1. Did the Millican right-of-way and said material consisted of 97,- from the students' desks In the as $50,000; provided, that the secretary what the city claimed it owed the of war may enter into a contract or plaintiffs for work done by them on question form any ’ consideration in 300 cubic yards of earth and 600 cu sembly room and piled in a heap up the contract? (To be answered yes on the rostrum. The dock was set contracts for such material and work bic yards of solid rock. back or stopped for a time, and the as may be necessary to complete said the municipal power ditch at Walter- or no). Yes. 2. Were the plaintiffs delayed by 10. How much over-haul should be bell that summons the classes was project, and to maintain the same for ville. The plaintiffs sued for $10,» fault of the defendants? (Yes or no). t allowed? $1080. torn loose and the wires cut. Chalk one year during construction, to be 273.86. Yes. 11. How much remained after was thrown about the floors and oth paid for as appropriations may from | 3. If you answer yes to this last, April 18, 1910, to be excavated? er petty acts of this nature commit time to time be made by law; not After having been out nearly 2 4 how much were plaintiffs delayed? 94.72 6.1 cubic yards remained to be ted. to exceed in the aggregrate $165,- As a result of this despicable work, 500, exclusive of the amount herein hours, the jury this forenoon a few (This must be answered in the actual excavcted after April 18, 1910, and s. id remaining materia! consisted of classes were badly broken up this appropriated; provided further, that minutes before 11 o’clock announc time). Three months. 4. Was work rendered impossible 91,726.1 cubic yards of said material morning, several girls were made before beginning said work or mak ed that they had arrived at a conclu ing said contract or contracts the sion. and when they had entered the by the heavy floods or rains? (Ans nj cement gravel and no solid rock. sick and obliged to leave because of 12. How much over-haul would be the ouor, and disorder prevailed dur secretary of war shall be satisfied, court room the foreman handed the wer yes or no). No. 5. If so, how long? No answer, recessary in removing the remaining ing the day. That the acts were com by deposit or otherwise, that the port bailiff the following verdict which 6. If the plaintiff was delayed by material? No answer. mitted by students Is more than prob- of Siuslaw or other agency shall pro was read by Judge Harris: "We, the jury in the above entit fault of the defendant, or the floods 13. How much profit would there ablie, and an effort Is being made to vide for the accomplishment of said project the additional sum of $215,- led action, find in favor of the plain or rains, what would have been a be for the plaintiff if he had removed locate the guilty ones. It is under I 500, which said sum shall be expend-i tiffs and against the defendant upon reasonable time to allow for this? the amount remaining? None. stood that the names of the students ed by the secretary of war in the all the, issues, and assess their dam- About four months. 14. How much excess of cost of have already been secured, since four prosecution of said work and for its ages at the sum of $6525.90.” 7. Did the mayor tell the plaintiff removing the remainder of material High school boys were seen to buy Judge Harris granted each side that he was permitted to stop work? is due the city as a result of the con the foul-smelling chemical at a drug maintenance in the same manner and i in equal amount as the sum herein 60 days in which to rile a motion (Yes or no). No. dition in which the ditch was left? store yesterday. appropriated and authorized to be for a new trial, but it is not learned 8. Did any of the fire and water No answer. The fact that the school hoard re appropriated from the treasury of the whether any such motion will be committee tell the plaintiff that he 15. * Did plaintiff abandon the con fused to grant a vacation this week Contracts New Power. is held to be the cause of the affair. Another matter in connection with , United States; and provedid further, made. Attorneys for the city have was permitted to stop work at any tract? No. (Yes or no). Yes. 16. Did plaintiff intend to leave A petition asking for a holiday and this activity on the part of the Port i that the port of Siuslaw may proceed expressed themselves as s< tisfied time 9. How much material was exca- the work uncompleted? No. signed by all the students and many land. Eugene & Eastern is the in with the construction of the south with the verdict, and it a new trial of the teachers was refused by the stallation of a power plant in West jetty in pursuance of the contract board yesterday and this caused an Salem. Heretofore power has been with Robert Wakefield, entered into laborer who will work steadily. 1 Up; of Multnomah county must have ¡j had from the Spauidilng Logging December 24, 1909, to the full ex GAS COMPANY WANTS to the present time the company has I greater degree of ability and fitness ill feeling among the students. Disorder was characteristic at the TEACHERS SELECT Company’s local mill. The right to tent of said contract, and the amount been able to secure not more thatr a, than some other county in the state building during the morning. It re- TO EMPLOY AMERICANS cross the steel bridge with a feed to be furnished by the said port of dozen of this class of Americans in ' where there are not so many schools qulred a large part of the first hour wire and a pole line to the source of Siuslaw, or other agency, as afore OFFICERS FOR YEAR Eugene. The balance of the gas crew or pupils in attendance. to repair the damage done by the BUT HARD TO GET power has already commenced. Ma said, may be reduced by such are Americans, doing pipe-fitting, I The resolutions also demand that amounts, not exceeding $100,000, as miscreants, Many of the students ♦ terial for this work is arriving and caulking and the like, at a wage of school teachers or those actively en- Officers of the western ♦ a number of men are at work w’ith may be expended under said contract, Manager Spencer Says Only a $2.75 and $3.00 a day. TVe are mak- gaged in educational work shall be were unable to recover all of their ♦ division of the Oregon Stille ♦ provided all the work so done shall the preliminary arrangements of set- ing an effort to patronize Eugene I given membership on the state text books, and It W7S impossible to drive, ♦ o «Wclatlon, elected ♦ the foul odor from tho building. Half J ♦ at Portland Few Men Will Stay With alr.g poles, stringing wires, etc., so be in accordance with the project people as much as possible, and our book commlsson. yesterday ___ / are: ♦ herein adopted, and satisfactory to cowed by the seriousness of the dep-, ♦ that when the big dynamo is changed hardware bills at the local stores President the Job Very Long redation, yet partly encouraged by ♦ of Eugene. Tl. D. Sheldon ♦ to the West Salem power station, the the secretary of war.” run over $200 a month." ♦ ELIAS KEENEY, OLD the example of the miscreants, the1 ♦ car service will be stopped the short local Portland, Eugene & Eastern First vice president C. A. ♦ other students were inclined to make ♦ est time possible. and the Falls City roads, *>parately of Portland The committee from the Mer- OREGON TEACHERS ♦ PIONEER, IS DEAD trouble, and throughout the day va ♦ Rice More Railroad Rumors. or combined. Cheap fuel from the chants’ Protective Association who Second vice president J ♦ rious kinds of mischief broke out. ♦ To speculators in the railroad sit Black Rock mills is also an item of went to the Oregon Power Company, H. Ackerman, WILL ENTER INTO Portland, Dec., 21. Oregon lost ' The absence from the city of Princi ♦ superintendent retiring state ♦ nation. the sudden activity of the consideration importance. asking that American laborers be of schools ♦ ! one of the oldest pioneers and most. pal Hug and Superintendent Stock- ♦ Portland. Eugene & Eastern, which1 Salem has long looked for and employed, were told today that the Treasu rer— K. F. Carlton ♦ ton made efforts of the teachers to ♦ of Salem. POLITICAL ARENA ; highly respected citizens In th« death : secure controls the streets leading to the wished the direct connection by a company is ready at all times to em ♦ order difficult. of Elias Keeney, who died at 11 ♦ steel bridge at the same time it is railroad bridge with this west side ploy Americans upon the gas ditches Secretary— i A. Wiley of ♦ It Is quite probable that action of ♦ Montavilla. announced that the Hill interests road and the commercial advantages in preference to the Greeks, and the Convention Decides to Appoint o’clock yesterday morning at Good ♦ j Samaritan Hospital after a prolong a serious nature will be taken ♦ have taken over the Salem, Falls bound to follow. At present the west matter, it is now believed, is now Member of ♦ ed illness. Funeral services will be against the pupils who committed the ♦ mIt tee. Fan« Legislative Committee to City & Western steam road on the side steam road is hauling in pas- satisfactorily understood. The gas ♦ conducted at Brownsville, Thursdey acts. One member of the school ♦ Portland. west side gives rise to the conjecture senger traffic alone more than 5000 company states that tne work of dig Obtain Changes ♦ morning. Brownsville was Mr. board said this morning in regard to ♦ that perhaps the Falls City & West- people every month. Add to this the ging the ditches in this weather is ♦ | the situation: "For Keeney's hon\e for 60 years. ern has been bought by the Port- < great lumber industry attached to very disagreeable and it has been un ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Mr. Keeney lived In Eugene at one , Ileve that the boys land, Eugene & Eastern, The in* the road's traffic and one sees the able to secure Americans who would Declaring Partlnad, Dec., 23. He Is the father of Dr. Hom rested for burglary stallation of a large power plant in i immense importance of these report stay with the job. M. D. Spencer, their Intention of throwing off the time i Ui«'' mi ',,11 ^i"’¡I’“1 M,’orp nnnoiinceii to West Salem also suggests the pos ed changes in ownership to the peo local manager of the Oregon Power cloak of modesty which has in the er I Keeney, of Portland, a well- the road’ for It. Such . cannot be tolerated.” thèse m7r .Rlh,?' .. ....... ««<»'""» sible change from steam to electric ple of this city. The present move Company, in an interview today said: past prevented school teachers of known graduate of the U. of O. It is probable that, arrests will be probiblv n ’¡l|’ " ,n»uffiHent and power for this road. Rumors have ments of the local system of the in "The company nas been endeavor Oregon from becoming factors in made. had been ' «nd that they been plenty in Polk county for some terurban lines of the Portland. Eu ing to secure American labor since political movements, the western div- NEW CITY COUNCIL an InvXiè h lat '"1 ............'«red ,h“t Four Students I'ndcr Suspicion time past that the Falls City and gene & Eastern will be watched with construction work b< gan. We found ision of the Oregon State TeachesB’ The climax of the affair at the è sini n'"'‘'"'Ittei. now had Dallas road was to be electrified. considerable interest. that where Americans were employed association this morning adopted res MEETS FIRST TIME High - school was reached late this af '<»1'1 Ion piaceli upoll „t|l(.rs The presence of the new power sta they would not stay more than a olutions calling for the appointment ou7 of ’ T'i " halr I" and half ternoon, after a second quantity of Some one entered the study of week or two. This was tion seems to confirm these rumors, constant of a legislative committee of five. Sprlngfield, Dec., 21.—The c". city ’ Whoni "•'«lenta so far as outward appearance is con Rev. H. N. Mount, in the Central source of annoyance in many ways. Among the important legislation council met Monday night at Its first sulphur had been dropped In the heat iimlerst Î r, ¿'nil n"*an ,ho"p *h" Presbyterian church building, last In the early part of cerned. c* * the v- fall ‘ " .he " committed to the care of the commit session under the new regime. At register during the noon hour. (). J. I ' avè ‘ . rii.ntly been expelled. The as New Bridge in Prospect. night and stble a collection of old Greeks applied to u the applies- tee is a proposed bill to regulate the this meeting the two new members Hull and W. F Yoran. members of "l'l'l«H'l«<l when If these conjectures and rumors cc,ns and a small sum of money in tion was unsolicited on our part— salaries of county superintendents took their places. These were Wel the city school board, appeared be th" fòur°h tu .b°¿" w,'r,‘ -«"nerated. have an foundation in fact.it means, the Sunuday school birthday box. for this work, and tney proved to be of schools in accordonce with the by Stevens and Mr. Mathews. At fore the students in the assembly J" I,la7d ,h” rpgl»ter the coustruction of a new railroad The door was left unlocked and en the only class of men who would stay services rendered In various counties. this same meeting E. E. Morrison room and announced thal the stu today ''ropped down thè pipes bridge across the river, directly con trance to the building was affected with it. It is proposed by lodge power in the and John Mullin were Inducted Into dents who had committed the depre tn th« r dations had been located from out «an whn«aCe?”’fore ,h" necting the Capital City with the that way. Mr. Mount’s collection of “At the present time the company county to dajust the salary ofthat the offices of the city treasurer and while a largo number of stu- Polk county and Black Rock lumber coins was valued quite highly, al- employs about 110 men, half of officer accordance with conditions recorder respectively. No other busl side Information, and ordered a boy ’ «an industries. It is known that the though their intrinsic value is not whom are Greeks working at $2.2b and the ability required to discharge ness was taken up at this meeting named Miller, two Hammond broth I rÔ"à> îu ,Btan,"n« 'n the assembly and one named Hendricks to to the wind ,lrOV" ,h" "'"'’"nt" power station will be equpped with great. There is no clew to the on ditch digging. The company Is the duties. and after discussing municipal af ers take their books and go to the office. ts odo? w? Wa f°r a "horf ,lmp. hut only too glad to employ any Eugene sufficient energy to operate both the thief. It is urged that the superintendent fairs the body adjourned. I At the close of school, however, As- The work of extending the car tracks of the Portland. Eugene & ■ Eastern, from the present terminus at the corner of * Commercial ~ and '■ Center streets, around Front street and up Ferry to the Marion hotel in Salem, will be pushed within a week or ten days says the Statesman today. The company has had a paved track laid on Ferry street for some time, I expecting to connect this stretch of track over Front street with the Center street line, long before now. It was necessary, however, before «1 any track could be built on Front * street to come to some terms with th« Southern Pacific company own ing tracks and holding a franchise on this street. This matter was definitely settled several days ago when the Portland, Eugene & Eastern bought ■J outright the track of the Southern ■ \ Pacific company. Í; The Southern Pacific company’s franchise will expire shortly, leaving the Portland, Eugene& Eastern sole holders of a franchise on this im ) portant street. In making this loop considerable work will have to be done. A crossing at the corner of Commerciad and Center streets will have to be installed. Also a cross '(■ I i ing at Commercial and Ferry streets. Both of these crossings intercept the of the Portland Railway, Light ct tracks & Power co. A track of one block in length must be built from the in- t tersection of Commercial and Center I streets to Front street, there connect- ing with the recently purchased » Southern Pacific track. A connect ion curve ât the corner of Front and Ferry streets will complete the entire Í loop, giving through service from fair I the Marjon hotel to the state An additional car will be I grounds. placed on the line as soon as the Front street loop is opened to traffic. The company has built a temporary ear barn and repair shop on North Summer street. I *( I which the firemen were unable to dig for several hours. The injured number more than fifty, according to the latest report, and seven bodies have been recovered. At 1 p. nt. tho tire had been hedged in and the spread checked, but efforts to save any of the buildings originally attacked by the flames were in vain. These include two warehouses full of dressed meat, hemp, etc., tallow house and several other structures