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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1909)
& FIRST EDITION 3 P. M. i i SECOND EDITION-4 P. M. traraol Xj&l (Ik I k m'L: llll 111! IIIIII lllir I- I 1H I II 1 1 1 I II iril -,t. Tagr5xarMs- ?spWwtr VOL. XIX. DAILY CAPITAL JOCRXAL, SALKM, OREGON', STUHI)YY JANUARY 2.1, 1000. NO. 10. w v "TT". E MOUNTAIN WAT IS AGREED UPON TEAMSHIPS COLLIDE ON ATLANTIC COAST AND TWO SINK STATE OFFICIALS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE CONTRACT MORE PAVED STREETS-SUBURBS MUST BE IMPROVED Tho Greater Salem program was advanced tho past wook by roachlng a comploto agreement botweon the Capital Water Commission and tho Board of Trado and tho legislative delegation from Marlon county to put through a concurrent resolution un der which tho stnto officials In chargo of tho public nstttutlons would bo empowered to contrnct with tho city for a supply of puro mountain water when It is brought Into tho city from ono of tho unpolluted brandies pt tho Santlam in tho forost retorvo. Governor Chamberlain takes th poslton that tho stnto al ready has tho powor to contract for nn Improved water supply. Would Cost Stnto $200, 000. An cstlniato has boen mado by a comnotont onglncorlng authority that It would cost tho Btato $200,000 to lay a plpo lino to tho Llttlo North Pork of tho Santlam, to carry water enough for tho stato buildings, with out coot of distribution. So It will bo cheapor for tho stato to buy its wator from tho city. Moro Paved Streets. Tho city council has pushed along paving contracts so that work wlU bo carried along all summer. Tho fovor for paved streets is spreading! to tho rosidonco streets, Messrs. Stolz and Eldridgo hnd a conforonco with tho Hassam paving rcpresonta tlvo from Portland tho past week for a lighter pavoment for tho rosidonco streets. Work Is also bolng dono on tnc lair grounds boulevard. Tho In ioiectlon of Commercial ntid Tindo strcots Is becoming an Impasslblo quagmire, and tho railroad tracks of tho S. P. Co. aro sinking, sovornl cars going off tho track tho past wook. Commercial street will prob ably bo ordorod paved to tho brldgo. Half-Mllc Sidewalk. A potitton Is boforo tho otrcct commlttoo for a half mllo of five-foot sldowalk from tho end of tho car lino on Twelfth street to tho top of Fair mount hill on Lincoln street. That walk has been needed for years, and pcoplo gonornlly aro provented from attending school and church ln( South Salem for lack of that walk. Tho policy of putting walks cloar through a district for tho accommo dation of a largo number of pooplo is gong to bo ostablshod, Improve tho Suburbs. Tho resolution for a doflntto pro gram of street improvements In tho suburbs, which was ruled out of or dor by tho mayor nt tho lost council meeting will como up in another form. Tho noglcctcd condition of tho suburban wans should Intorost nil tho aldormofT, and Bomothlng should bo dono to holp Improvo thom Tho fight, to glvo thom a substantial sharo of tho street taxes which thoy pay will bo ronowedjn another form, and doserves tho support of tho poo plo of thoso wards, and all who own proporty In thom. TIDAL WAVE HITS THE PACIFIC COAST STEAMER REPUBLIC SINKS NEAR NANTUCKET PASSENGERS ARE SAVED STEAMER NANTUCKET RUNS ON ROCKS WHILE TRYING TO ASSIST HER es lMM-tt-tM-H (! i ALTERATION i3r l l REMEMBER COST CUTS NO FIGURE DURING THIS SALETHERE IS NO USE TRYING TOj: BEAT OUR PRICES. THE SHELVES HAVE TO BE;; CLEARED TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE BRICKLAYERS,:: MASONS AND PLASTERERS. THIS IS A PROPOSITION;; OF HAVING TO DO IT, SO IF YOU WANT PRICES NOW IS YOUR TIME. The Following Goods Must Be;; Sold Out Regardless of Cost;; DRESS GOODS, SILKS, BLANKETS, COMFORTS, WOM EN'S AND CHILDREN'S SHOES, LADIES' COATS AND SUITS, MILLINERY AND FEATHERS, MUSLIN UNDER WEAR, BLACK AND COLORED SILK AND SATEEN PETTI COATS, GINGHAMS, CALICOES AND MUSLINS, WOM EN'S UNDERWEAR, UMBRELLAS, COTTON BATTS, LA DIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOSIERY, BELTS AND GLOVES MEN'S FURNISHINGS AND CLOTHING, CORSETS, EM BROIDERIES, LACES AND RIBBON. NO RESERVE EVERY ARTICLE IN THE STORE HAS TO GET A MOVE ON-OUT THEY GO. . a wtuwttHit Phonomonnlly high tides, assum-; Imr Iti iilnnAa Mm npnnnrHnna nt Hfllil' , wnvoj, aro roportod from point iv.long tho Pacific const from Drltlih Columbia to San Dlogo. At Mnrsu flold, Thursday, following a sovoro galo, tho highest tldo kuown thoro iBWopt away tho dykes In tho south- em portion of tho city, lotting In water wheh flooded scores of dwell ing houses, and did dnmngo which will roach into tho thousands of dol lars, Carlos Whlttick, C yoars old, play ing on tho wharf at North Bend, wan swept Into tho sea and tho body was washed ashoro at Marshflold. A gnanltno launch, with olght passong ora, was swamped, but roports aro that nil lives woro saved. All mull and baggago woro lost. WsBt of Astoria, tho tldo roached a mark throo foot abovo any pre vious govornmont tldo record. Dykod nnd tho railroad bed at Warrenton woro awopt away, and tho damngo is estimated nt $4000. Many acres of dairy land along tho Lewis and Clark and Young rivers woro Inun dated, and cows stood flank deep In tho water all night. At San Francisco tho tldo was tho 1'ighost In years and tho pilot boat was forced to put back Into tho bay nftor an nttompt to cross tho bar. Ai Antloch, Cnl., tho story come3 that nt 2 o'clock tho tido was tho hlghoit In tho history of that town, and it aggravated tho flood wators from tho rlvors to such an extent that tho low er Shormau Islnnd levoo broko nnd 4 COO acres of potatooa wero flooded. Asldo to tho dolay to shipping Cali fornia roports no furthor damago, Now York, Jan. 23. Nows of al sea dlsastor, In which It Is foaroa many llvos woro lost whon nn un known vosool crushod into tho Whlto Star liner Republic, 20 mloa south of Nnntuckot, lins- just boon received hero. Tho latest report Is that tho Ro public is sinking. Aboard hor woro 2 CO first-class passengors and 211 stoorago passengers. Tho Marltlmo Exchango hnB recolvod a wlroloos tllor patch that all tho first-class pas songors woro rescued by tho stoamor AoiiBhnott. Tho wlroloss mosngo was sont by tho rovonuo cuttor Bal tic. It has not boon doflnltoly learned on uho'ro whothor any of tho stoor ago passengors woro drownod. Ths TRAFFIC OPENS IN WASHINGTON (United Press Leased Wlro.l Spokano, Wush.. Jan. 23. rTrnfflc on tho Grout Northern nnd Northern Pacific railroads is being ruHiimod hero und tho floods hnve ceased to mounco propurty. Trains on both roads aro now running through to tho coast. Thoso of tho Croat North ern aro going ovor tho Central Wash ington brnnoh of tho Northern Pacific to Adrian. Wash., whoro thoy will j connect with their own road. ! The Oregon JUi.roud & Navhi .gutlon company will start a train for (Portland ft 7 o'clock tonight. Trains from tho Bsst are not running on schedule tlino yot. Hlg Klrt' In Princeton. I Princeton. N. J . Jan. 23. Plro O ooooooooo O Rtvwstcr's Millions. O O Owing to delayed train on O O Account of tho storm, tlio O O Brewster's Millions Company O O wiih uimhlo to reach Salem to- O O day, nnd thero will bo no utovr O O at tho Grand opom houso to. O O night, O (l O O O O O O'O O O O broko out at 1:30 this morning and threatened tho business dlstrlet with total destruction. The tiauiUH woro gottou under control at four o'clock, aftor four restaurants and seven of tho other buildings had buun do stroyod. President Wilson, of tho Princeton University, at tho huad of tho Htudont firemen, did very effec tive work and probably saved tho city from being burned. nown that tho Republic Is sinking has led to tho bollof that somo ot them mny havo gono down or tholr Uvea snuffed out by tho wator pour ing through tho holds of tho boat Tho Ropubllo was starting for a Mediterranean cruloo when tho nool dent occurred. Woods Holo, Mass., Jan, 23. Tho stoamor Nantucket, with 30 p&i Bongcrs aboard, wont on tho rocks this morning whllo steaming to offer nsslstauco to tho passongors ot tho Republic. Tho Nantucket struck tho rocks In a donso fog and sank bow dowa. Throo holes woro punched In hor aide by Uio rocks, Tho crow nnd pan Bongora reached shoro safely, HOW RUSSEL PULLED THE BULL ELKS TEETH WILD WEST SCENE IN LONDON STREETS (United Press Leased Wire.) London, Jan. 23. Surrounded by a mob of polloomon. two Polish band its aliot thomsolvos through tho hoad, dying Instantly, this afternoon, in TJt tenham, a suburb of London. Prior to tho suicides thoy killed a police man and wounded flvo others. Thoy woro trying to run away with an au tomobile, which was bolng usod to convoy tho weokly wages of hundreds of factory hands employed In Totten ham. Thoy" wero discovered by the pollco and a running fight ensued tho bandits firing continuously at their pursuers. During the excite ment of the chase, an unknown by stander Hoized tho s'atohol contain ing the monoy and fled. After the bandits had gono sovural blocks on foot, they boarded a trolley our, shot the motonnan and the conductor and fired at tho passengers. Whllo one bandit kept the pusKuugers cov ered with revolvers, tho other took the motormun's place. The robbers finally deserted tho cur and jumped Into a moving van, and whipping the horses, continued their flight, reloading tholr revolvers and firing on tholr pursuers. When loo hard pressed by tho pursuing po llaemen, they both committed suicide. Joe Itusso), of Josephine county, was in tho olty yogtordu) Joo la a six-footer, a cattleman, an Kite and, Incidentally, sheriff of Josephine county, and u rattling good follow. In fact, Joo Ih almost anything that Is required of him, botng ready to tnko a hand In whatevor comes up. lie Is more proud of being an 10 lie than of all his other titles, ofllcoH and accomplishments, and hns a pair of Elk teeth on his watch chain, that in ono respect, probably havo not tholr duplicate in tho world, and that Is that thuy woro taken front a llvo elk, by the man who wears thom. Joo told tho story yesterday aftor having gnzod romlnuuiontly at the bottom of a fleshly emptied glass "I was down nt tho mouth of Pistol river some years ago." said h, "gathering up a bunoh of hoof oattlo with a couple of othur cowboys, whon a paok of hounds chased a small herd of oik down out or tho woods. "Thero was ono big old bull among tho lot, and tho dogs bolng true sprii-ts singled him out and did not bother the cows. "Tho big follow, as elks along tho coast will always do wluvi aliased hy dogs, took to tho surf. "Now, I no sooner saw that big elk than I had a wild doslro to havo IiIm teeth. It was against tho law to kill him, and, besides, 1 had no doslro to take tho magnificent old fellow's lire, or pay $500 for him. but I Hiiro did banker after his teeth. "I sung out to the other boys to get tholr rlatus loose, and rode down Into tho surf nftor him. "The dogs worrlod him so that ho moved around a '"ood doal and di rectly I got a nhnnco and throw my ropo over his horns and with u half turn around tho saddlo horn 1 soon had him bonded for tho bench, Tho other boys picked up his root with tholr ropos, and wo soon had him stretched on tho laud "I broko out tho paok on our camp horso, In which wo had n horse-shoo-log outfit., and got nut n big pair of plueois. "I had uevor done any dental work, but I turned tho old fellow's hoad over on ono side, whllo my horsu hold tho mpu .nut, and I took hold of n tooth with tho pinners nnd It oaiiui out like a baby's tooth on a string. It hurt somo. though, for tho old fellow hatted his eyes and llekod his lips with his tongue like the leading lady at a sowing beo, when tho talk guts up. 1 admlrod the old fellow's pluck for ho mado no noise, but I admired his teeth moro, so I went on with my painless don tlHtry, to me, and yanked out tho other tooth. "Thou wo let "him up, und, tifter a few shakes or his hoad, ho trotted off to Join his haroiii. j "I never saw him again, but tho ohiiucQB aro that somo fellow who kills an oik out on tho coast, is go lug to bo badly rooted whon ho goes to looking for teeth." Tho teeth aro handsomely mounted und show very plainly tho marks or the pincers us applied by Russell when ho captured his watch Qharm, GOVERNOR C0SGR0VE OF WASHINGTON I Putted I'rww Leaned Wire Olympla, Wash., Jan. 23. Gov ornor-eloot Cosgrove will bo Inaugu rated hero noxt Tuesday forenoon ac cording to tho program outlined hero today. Howard Coagrovo left thli morning for Portland to meet hU father, after completing arrange moots for receiving the governor hor j It la possible tbst the Utugurtt- tlou will take place In tho special oar bringing Mr. Cosgrovo, nnd ImmudU atoly after the ceremony tho return trip to Paso Itolilos will begin. Thoro aro two Inches of snow on tho ground and the fnreoast promises moro cold w (Hither IWjtli houses or the legislature ad journed yesterday until Monday morning and tho printing houses aro work, lag overtime today on tho bills to have them ready for the legists-tots,