FEIN DRILL IS
Water Is Thrown From Roof of
Three Story Building Three
Minutes After Alarm.
MAYOR GILBERT TURNS IN
CALL FROM HIS RESIDENCE
Efficiency of the Department Is
Clearly Demonstrated by
Work Last Evening.
Continued from Friday, January 17.
Within a trifle over three minutes
from the time Mayor Gilbert sent in
the alarm over the Pacific telephone
from his residence on South Ferry
street last evening, the members of
the local fire department had carried
a line of hose to the top of the 3-story
Oddfellow's temple at the corner of
First and Ferry streets and were
throwing water into the street below.
The exact time that was required
by the firemen to get all the appa
ratus on the scene and send a stream
o'f water from the top of the building
was three minutes and twelve sec
onds, which is remarkably fast time
and proves without doubt that the
members of the local fire department
are rapidly becoming proficient in
their work.
Within a few seconds after the
sounding of the alarm last evening
the engine drawn by one of the best
teams of horses in the state and
driven by John Spoon cr, ho've into
sight at the corner of First and Lyon
streets, and came up First street on a
dead run, the horses doing their best.
At nearly the same time that the en
gine arrived upon the scene the hose
wagons arrived and the hose was con
nected to the engine and taken up the
ladders to the top of the building
where a minutcjater water was gush
ing from the nozzle.
Besides showing the efficiency of
the local fire department, the drill last
evening also demonstrated to advan
tage the new system of turning in a
fire alarm by telephone. By this
method the-person turning in the
alarm gives his name and telephone 1
number to the operator and the near
est cross street" to which the fire is
located. The person calling is con
nected with the chief engineer to
whom (he information is given diiect.
lie is then able to direct the firemen
the exact direction lo Inks, thus sav
ing much time and confusion.
Both (if the local telephone com
panies are now connected with the
fire alarm system ami subscribers de
siring to turn in an alarm should re
member to do it tluisly: Call central
in the ordinary way, giving her your
name and telephone number. Then
the nearest cross street location to the
fire.
For example "This is John Mor
gan, telephone number 2.V15-J or 2'l.U.
There is a fire at Ninth and F.lm
streets.' If the residents will re
mem this it will be of great assist
ance to the firemen and will promote
the efficiency o'f the department.
Despite the stormy weather, a large
crowd witnessed the drill bv the fire
men last evening and the work of the
boys was complum-nic-d by many.
The new aulo chemical recently pur
chased bv the city will arrive here
sometime next month and will be
placed in commission immediately. It
is of the "White" make and 40 horse
power. t
HUNGRY MAN STEALS FAMILY
EAT SUPPLY YESTERDAY
Residence of Henry Main Was
Entered by Stranger Who Had
Been Refused a Meal.
Chief of Police Austin reports that
yesterday noon a stranger entered the
kitchen at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Main at First and Main streets
in this cily and made away with the
meat supply of the family. The local
police were notified of the theft and
made a search of the northeastern
section of the cily in hope of appre
hending the man but were unsuccess
ful. .
The man had applied at the resi
dence during the forenoon for some
thing to cat and had been ret used.
During the noon hour while the mem
bers of the family were in the front
part of the house he returned and ran
sacked the kitchen taking away sev
eral juick steaks with the intention of
having a little feed in the woods all
by himself.
REPRESENTATIVE PORTER OF
LINN RESEMBLES LINCOLN
CHARLEY CLINE SPECIAL
ENVOY FOR MALHEUR JUDGE
Delivers Child to Boys and Girls
Aid Society; Child Calls
Him "Papa" on Train.
While in Vale this week where he
was called as a witness in a criminal
case, Charles U. Lime of this citv,
was made a minister plenipotentiary
and extraordinary by County Judge
George McKnight of Malheur county
who is also a brother of D. B. Mc
Knight, county judge of Linn county,
residing in Albany.
Cline had transacted business in
Vale and was making preparations to
start for his home in this city, when
he was asked bv ludsre McKmuht it
he would take a dependent child to
the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society in
ortland. As it was necessary for
Cline to Pass through Portland en
routc to this cfty, he consented to look
Her the in t ant and accordingly took
charge of the youngster.
Un the- way to Tortland, Lime s
protege took quite a fancy to his guar
dian and before the city was reached
was calling nun papa. 1 he other
passengers in the Pullman in which
Cline was traveling soon became ac
quainted with the facts in the cass,
and they, too, began calling Charley
papa.
However, Lime is good-natured and
stood the jests of his fellow passen
gers in the best of spirit and says he
rather enjoys acting in the capacity of
guardian pro tern.
A G000 PROGRAM AT THE
PLAINVIEW SCHOOL HOUSE
Banquet Was Served at Noon;
Similar Meeting Will Be Held
in Other Districts.
Onr of the largest attended meet
inns of school p.tttons ever held in
the history of l.inn county was that
held yesterday at IMainview hih
school, 1'atrous of the schooli in
dint ids number S), M, ,20, ,17 and U.i
and others from adjoining district,
were in attendance anil an excellent
program, which lasted during the
greater portion of the day, was pre
sented. The program presented in the morn
ing was in charge of the children o'f
the various districts and was followed
by a noon day banquet.
In the afternoon Key. Dr. Inns
more of Independence cave an educa
tional lecture on Ins trip through the
Holy land. County Superintendent
V. I,. Jackson spoke on the subject,
'The 1'uhlic School a (ireater Civic
Center."
Oilier meetings of a similar charac
ter are planned (or various sections of
the county during the winter months.
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SPARKS FROM THE
(S WIRE.
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Trenton, N. J., Jan. 16. President
elect Wilson favors the abolishment
of the inaugural ball. This became
known today when he sent a letter to
William Corcoran Kustis, chairman of
the inauguration committee, asking
hint to consider the feasibility of
omitting it. Mr. Wilson wrole:
"After taking counsel with a great
many persons and canvassing as well
as I could general opinion in the mat
ter, 1 have come to the conclusion that
it is my duty to ask you to consider
the feasibility of omitting the inaugu
ral ball altogether."
State Capitol, Salem, Or.. Jan. 16.
With the senate passing five vetoed
bills over the head of the governor to
day, and the special house committee
shortly afterward deciding to report
them in favorably to the senate; with
reports received in the house urging
the passage not only o'f the important
second choice bill, by Thompson,
which the governor vetoed, but also
of the most desired of his house bills
the legislature is giving the executive
a grilling on important vetoed meas
tires.
Sacramento, Jan. 16. "If a man
beats one wife he shall never have an
other," if Senator Hans, o'f Kruitvale,
has his way.
Senator Hans introduced a bill to
day providing that when a man is di
vorced for cruelty and it is shown that
he kicked, beat, struck, whipped or
otherwise by force treated his wife
cruelly, the court shall adjudge him a
wife-beater and he shall be prohibited
Speaker McArthur Discovers
Likeness in Rep. Porter;
Keeps Tradition.
The following special dispatch from
Salem appeared in last night's issue
of the Oregon Journal:
No legislature, taking them by and
large, is complete without its Abra
ham Lincoln. The Mouse has already
discovered the Lincoln of this sess',,u
and is correspondingly soothed a.'.d
pleased.
Representative F. II. Porter of !.':
is the legislative Lincoln in question.
The likeness between Porter and Lin
coln is quite marked in many respects,
no'tabl" height. Porter requires a1,
the space between his chair and his
desk, and considerable in addition, for
nis legs wnen ne sits down. At that
he has to double them up under him
like two blades of a jackknife.
Speaker McArthur was the first to
hail Porter as the house Lincoln.
The speaker told the secret to some
one else. It spread fast. Now half
the membership has detected the re
semblance and the other half will see
it as soon as everybody is acquainted.
One o'f Porter's colleagues from
Linn, Representative Charles Childs,
is probably the youngest member of
the house, having just passed his
twenty-eighth birthday. Childs is so
youthful in appearance that on two
occasions he has been shooed away
from the speaker's desk and lirrcted
to distribute printed bills on the desks
of the members, in the delict that he
was a page.
HARRY FIESEL ORGANIZES
AN INDOOR BASEBALL TEAM
COUNTY COURT RETURNED
FROM PORTLAND YESTERDAY
Members Convened Court Again
This Morning to Resume
Work on Jury List.
Returnine last nieht from Portland
where they attended the annual meet
ing of the members of the various
county courts of Oregon, Judge Mc
Knight and his associates on the board
report an interesting meeting.
The county court convened again
this morning "and resumed the work
on the jury list for the next term of
tnc circuit court. It will require un
til Saturday to complete the jury list.
No road matters have been taken up
today.
All members of the Y. M. C. A
board are requested to meet at the
first Savings Bank at 7 o clock to
night. Business of iuportauce.
A. H. Lea of Portland, a candidate
last fall for state dairy and food com
missioner, arrived in Albany this
morning and is one of the delegates
who are attending the meeting of the
Valley creamery men which convened
at the Commercial Club this after-
Organization Will Be Known as
"Fiesels Colts" and Will
Meet All Comers Here.
That indoor baseball is to be revived
again this winter was indicated today
when it became known that Harry J.
riesel of this city has organized
team that will meet all comers. The
team will be known as "FiesePs Colts'
and the first game will be played at
the Armory next Wednesday evening
with the Christian church nine.
The battery for "Fiesel's Colts"
composed of Harry J. Fiesel, pitcher,
and Frank C. Stellmacher, catcher.
Fiesel is one of the best indoor base
ball pitchers in the state and prior to
coming to Oregon had twirled for sev
eral of the largest teams in Chicago
where he formerly resided.
He twirled for the Knichts of Co
lumbus' team which won the cham
pionship of this city a -year ago and
has also pitched several games for
the leading teams in Portland.
Frank C. Stelmacher. the catcher.
played with the National Guard team
here in the city league and had played
many games prior to the formation of
the city league here a year ago.
With this stroni? batterv it is nre-
dicted that "Fiesel's Colts" will walk
off with the championship again this
year.
The other members of the team are:
Gene Doolcy lb, George Dooley 2nd
b, Leo Leigh 3rd b, Eugene Shea
left short, W. A. Salisbury right short,
Tregilgas If, and Frank Barett, rf.
CARLOAD OF FURNITURE FOR
NEW HOTEL HAMMEL IS HERE
A carload of furniture was received
here today for the new Hotel Ham
mcl and some of it will be placed in
the forty or fifty rooms which will be
placed in readiness for the delegat -s
to the Oregon Retail Merchants' con
vention in this city next week. A
large sanitary refrigerator was also
placed in the kitchen of the new hos
te.1,r,y today. The general contractor
will be through with the woodwork
Saturday evening.
Rough on Pa.
Trt. wunt's a genius?"
"Ask your mother; uhe married one."
"Why. 1 didn't know mn bad bea
married twice." Houston Pot
Attorney Mark V. Wcatherford of
the firm of Weatherford & Weather
ford returned last night from Vale
where he defended two men who were
charged with larceny. He go? a ver
dict of not guilty for his clients.
NEW DEPOT AT GRAY .
IS NEARLY COMPLETED
A Fine New Station Is Being
Erected by the Oregon
Electric.
That the officials of the Oregon
Electric railway expect the new sta
tion of Gray on the main line of the
Oregon Electric, to be a point of no
little importance, is indicated by the
fine new depot which is now in th
course of construction at that point.
The new building is being constructed
on the bungalow order and is nearly
completed.
. Gray was at one time .known as
Blevins but the name of the town was
changed to Gray in honor of one of
the leading officials of the company.
The branch line from Corvallis to Al
bany connects with the main line of
the Oregon Electric at Gray.
HAIR TONIC DRUNK PROVES
FATAL FOR DAYTON BARBER
J. C. Kirkman, Addicted to the
Liquor Habit, Is Dead at
Iowa Home.
Dayton,. la., Jan. 17. A hair tonic
drunk, in lieu of the regulation kind,
proved fatal to J. C. Kirkman, forty-
year-old barber residing in Dayton.
Kirkman had been addicted for many
years to the use of liquor. Because he
could procure none and was crazed
with the desire for it, he has of late
leen drinking hair tonic in which there
is a certain per cent of alcohol. Day
before yesterday he had exhausted his
certain supply of one make of the
tonic and began drinking another kind.
He consumed a great deal of it accord
ing to reports. I hen he became very
ill and the work of physicians did not
avail to save his life. He died yes
terday morning.
Dr. I. L. Hill of this citv left this
morning for Lebanon where he will
spend the day looking after business
matters. The Dr. is thinking of sell
ing his Albany houses and taking life
easy in the future. At present much
of his time is required in looking after
nearly fifty dwellings.
An entertaining oropram will
be given at the First Presbvteri.m
church Sunday evening, Jan. 19th, at
5 o'clock. A complete program will
appear in Saturday's issue of the Democrat.
YM
HEADQUATERS HER
E
San Francisco Tour Company
Will Open Offices in
This City.
NEEDS OF THE TOURIST ARE
ARRANGED YEAR IN ADVANCE
Easy Payment Plan Proposed;
Fare, Hotel Accommodations,..
Admission Tickets Provided.
Arriving last night from Portland,
F. C. Schnider and E. A. Richardson,
representing the San Francisco Tour
ompany, this morning announced that
they proposed to make Albany their
headquarters for the Willamette Val
ley. Officer will be established and.
all .work will be directed from the
main office in this city.
The San Francisco Tour company
has an easy payment plan which will
be an accommodation to the rich and
poor who desire to see the big exposition.
The clan includes the nurchase nf a
first-class round-trip ticket to San
Francisco, ticket for standard Pull
man berth, transfer of subscriber to
and from his hotel upon his arrival in
San Francisco, transfer of baggage,
fourteen days' hotel accommodations,
twelve general admission tickets to
the exposition, twenty admission tick
ets to special attractions and four
sight-seeing trips.
.through the plan proposed bv the
company their clients will be relieved
of all responsibility of making the
usual preparations for the trip and
the easy payment plan is expected to
appeal to many who otherwise would
not be able to attend.
ALBANY AND SALEM TO PLAY
BASKETBALL THIS EVENING
The members of the Albany hiirh
school basketball team left this after
noon for Salem where tonight they
will meet the team of the Salem high
school. The local team which was
accompanied to the Capital City by
jtiuu .miueriy is in excellent condi
tion and expects to win the contest
this evening.
WHEN YOU HAVE
AILMENTS
of any sort and that you have gained
no results trom other doctors, do not
give up hope until you have seen
The Hing Wo Chinese Medical Co.
Their roots arc from the interior of
China and used by old famous special
ists for years. These wonderful roots
will curs Catarrh, Asthma, Lung
l rounic, Lancer, Kheumatism, iilood
Poison, Nervousness. Stomach. Liver
and Kidney Troubles. Also private
diseases of men and women. No op
erations. Consultation free. Office
hours y a. m. to o p. in.
THE HING WO
CHINESE MEDICAL COMPANY
Third and Broadalbin Sts.
Hell Phone .106 I Albanv. Oreeon.
Advertised Letter List.
Albany, Or., Jan. 15. 1U. Letters
uncalled for and advertised on this
date, at the Albanv IV IV: Oliver An
derson, K. W. Arnold (.'1, K.l Ander
son, Kov ltcnson. A Z. Hov.cn. Mrs
Agnes fenscn. V. I". lVodd. K I'd
wards. A. Johnson (photo). Will xic
Cullough, II. M I auhlin, II. 1 Mc.
Gialh, James O'Xeil. l ewis lVrrv
Albert Shepherd, Waller Smith, N A
Smith, Sad. Hasol, I', (i. Thomas, J. I.
Tofllemierc.
J. S. VAN WIXKI.K, P. X.
Washington, Jan. Id. Liberty of in
dividuaU to concentrate money and
povcr to' the limit of their ability was
advocated here today before the house
money trust investigating committee
by Jacob II. Schiff, of the frim of
Kuhn, I.oeb Co.
Mr. Schiff declared individuals
should he permitted to exert their ut
most effort to concentrate fortunes
anil power until the laws of nature
caused the attempted monopoly to
"iall of its own weight." He opposed
however, concentration through cor
poration and holding companies. He
would not sav whether concentration
had yet reached the point where it was
dangerous. !
from remarrying in this state. j
Now Vol. Jan. 16. Another appli
cation for the release of finriano las
no under bond penditu' final decision
as to his right to cn'cr the United
States was made today bcto. e the l ed
er.il district Miirt.
The renewal of this mo'tion was
made becai.se of the Voncruclan case
is now before the department il com
merce and Jabor on an appeal from the
decision of the local immigration an
thorites ordeiing his deportation.
Federal Judge Holt reserved dccisio . I
Fisher, Braden & Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND UNDERTAKERS
Undertaking Parlors. 3rd and
Broadalbin
LADY ATTENDANT
Both Phones
For the Sale
$27.50 and $25 Men's Suits now . $18.65
22.50 and $20 Men's Suits now . 1 635
ii
$1.92
$2.50 Wool Shirts now
1.50 Worsted Shirts now . $1.19
20c Wool Sox now
1 5c Wool Sox now
15c
11c
There Are Scores of Other Bargains
Miss This Sale
-Don't
The Blain Clothing Co.
For January Saving
WATCH THIS SPACE
$9.00
Special Sales of Lumber for Cash
November 18th to 30th, inclusive
No. 1 CEDAR
FENCE POSTS
Per 100
$9.00
AT THE SAWMILL
ALBANY LUMBER COMPANY
Per 100