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C0DDITI0K ARE GENERAL
ALL TRAFFIC AT A STAHDSTILL
RAIN
FALL IS 6.25 INCHES
ALL STREAMS ARE FLOODED
DAMAGE WILL BE IMMENSE
Eight and Probably Nine Bridges Washed Away in Salem
And One Person Drowned At Oregon City Conditions Are
Reported Bad, and Corvallis, McMinnville, and in Fact Ev
ery Town Heard From, Has the Same Doleful Story of
Flooded Basements and Minor Troubles.
Tk effucts of the storm here are
Just beginning to be realized, but an
estimate of the damage cannot be
made until the waters recede. Eight
What Portland Says.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 19. Train ser
vice north, south and east out of
Portland la demoralized, basements
or possibly nine bridges have been l and streets are flooded, telephone and
curried away, and the damage to telegraph lines are crippled as a re-
those left by th raging flood will be
considerable. At least half the base
ment! In the city were flooded, and,
while the individual loss Is small In
most cases, the aggregate will make
quite a snug sum. But one fatality
has been reported, that of Joshua H.
Smith, who was drowned last night
ibont 6 o'clock while trying to cross
Mill creek on horseback, near where
the Winter street bridge w?s.
This morning, at 10 o'clock, the
gaug on the river here showed 18
feet rise, and was c oming up at the
rats of two inches an hour. At 2
o'fllock, it was 1 8 feet 6 inches, ris
ing u Inch an hour. The storm Is
over, but the,' river will go some hlgh:
, but probably not nearly somuch
uiasat first anticipated.
suit of a heavy downpour which be
gan Tuesday and only showed signs
of ending today.
The total precipitation during the
present storm up to 5 o'clock this
morning was 6.25 Inches, the heaviest
since 1883.. The weather bureau to
day predicted that the storm had
practically ended, although small
showers in the Willamette valley for
probably two days is looked for. All
storm signals off the Oregon coast
were ordered down early today as the
hurricane which has delayed shipping
for the last 48 hours la abating.
In the Cascades, the heavy rains
caused' a number of small landslides
last night which . effectually stopped
all east and west bound traffic over
the 0. R. & N. Flood and washed
out bridges north and south ofPort-
lxes Xot Want a Cent.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 19.
That California will not ask
congress for one cent to defray
the expenses of a Panama-Pacific
international exposition in
1915, if held in San Francis
co, is tha promise made In a res
olution adopted by both houses
of the legislature today.
It will be telegraphed to
Washington tonight.
land stopped train Bervice on the
Southern Pacific tracks, north to
Seattle. Officials this forenoon stated
that they were unable to state wheth
er service would be resumed today.
All trains were annulled late last
night.
The Willamette river is rising rap
idly and this morning had reached the
12-foot stage. It is expected the 15-
foot stage, which is the danger line,
will ba reached by tomorrow after
noon.
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Allen Was l'oiNoncd.
Montoe, Wash., Jan. 19
The analysis of the contents of
the Btomach of George Allen,
the ball player, who died here
last week, bears out the sus-
plclon that Allen died of arsen-
ical poisoning, and the authorl-
ties today began a thorough in-
vestigation. The analysis was
made by Dr. Edward P. Fl k. of
Seattle, and shows large, quantl-
ties of the deadly poison had
been administered to Allen,
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BORAH ADVOCATES DIRECT
ELECTION UNITED STATES SENATORS
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Vmulilll r 23 Feet.
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McMinnville, Ore., Jan. 19. All
streams in this district are overflow
ing their banks and a dangerous flood
is predicted if the Chinook and heavy
rains continue. Indications, however,
point to clearing weather soon.
The Yamhill river has risen over
28 feet In the last 24 hours and the
lowlands are inundated. The flood
is growing worse. Farmers are ap
prehensive and are moving their
stock and household goods to high
ground.
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Chicag
The
Greater
o Store o
Salem
regon
Money Saving Bargains Offered in All Departments During
uur Annual
Clearing
Clearing Prices, Ladies'
Suits, Coats, Capes, One
Piece Dresses, Misses
Coas & Childrens Coats
ONE HALF PRICE AND LESS
When you see the garments and get
our prices you will say that we are liv
ing up to our advertising agreement,
one half price and less on all our cloaks
and suits, 1910 and 1911 newest styles
liniirgs and materials.
. Ladies' $18, $20 and $25.00 Suits
now $7.50, $8.50, $10.50 and $12.50;
Ladies' $10.50, $15 and $25 coats
now $4.50, $6.90, $9.50 and $12.50
Ladies' $12.50, $18.50, and $22.50
Dresses now $5, $7.50 and $10.50.
Girls' Coats $5, $7.50 and $10 now
$2.50, $3.50 and $4.50.
Children's $3.50. $4.50 and $7Rn?
Coats now $1.65, $1.98, and $2.90.
Clearing Prices on Blankets,
, Flannels and Domestics
the crowds and the values we are giving
Standard 8 1 -3c percales now, c
per yard .... C
Seeing is believing. Come here and see
20000 yards of Embroidery now on sale,
all kinds per yard, 3c, 5c, 8 1-3c and up.
neeis ana puiow cases ai mm prices.
Blankets. Dair. 39c. 49c 75c. 98c and ud.
Outing Flamels, yd4c, 5c, 6 1-4c, 8 1-3c
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Oregon's Laws Fill a Rack
Seven Feet 1 Long and Will
Have Another Foot Added
House Assassinates a Dead
One.
Xttomi's Language Costly.
' White Plains, N. Y., Jan. 19.
Just because she called Miss
Grace Raymond four naughty
names, Mrs. Naomi Duncombe
Rinj, wealthy, is today out ex
actly $1000 $1000 per epi
thet. Tubs w;n the verdict of a Jury
settling a elrnder case, which
has been in court since 1904.
MANY RESOLUTIONS MADE
House Itei ldcM That u Head Bill May
Ue Resurrected 'Long KiiouKh to
Have More Kiilv'es Jabbed Into Its
. Midriff Many Hills Intro
duced, One for a Bridge .Acidnh
Snake Hiver amp-Several to n
Crease Salaries.
Clearing Prices on Dress
oods and Silks
Thousands of yards here ready to show
JZ!i!l!inK and Best Dress
Coast. s snown anvwhere on
the
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The session laws and codes enacted
by the Oregon legislature now fill a
rack of books about seven feet long.
This legislature promises to add an
other foot. Tha house today passed
a number of new bills, and wrangled
the better part of an hour over tech
nicalities. Speaker Rusk rushed the
business, and cleaned the docket in
a very businesslike way.
More IScsoliitions.
Resolution by Eiton for three
members to edit the house calendar
uauy. u would save forty or fifty
dollars a day, He wanted immedl
010 ai-'uuii, uur. me House refused to
consider. Referred and reported
back and adopted.
Resolution by Miller for clerk of
judiciary wmmittee to be furnished
with a new set of codes,
Resolution to amend constitution,
by Clyde, relation to taxation exemp
tion of $300.
Resolution by Blgelow for joint
action on game laws. .
Some Fine Hair Splitting.
Judiciary committee reported back
vetoed bills of last session recom
mending that the house not consider
sam. Carried
Mr. Mahoney moved to reconsider
Indefinite post poiieinnnt of H. B No
48.
Speaker ruled that nn indefinite
postponement cannot be reconsid
ered, i
Mr. Mahoney quoted Roberts Rules
of Order to show that a bill indefi
nitely postponed can be reconsid
ered. Mr, McKinney appealed from deci
sion of the chair.
Mr. Eaton siid that the i-uIps al
lowed reconsideration of the vote on
Indefinite postponement, not recon
sideration of the bill Itself.
Mr. Mahoney carried his point, and
the motion was carried to reconsider
the vote.
H. B. 48 was th'-n declared to be
dead, incapable of further resurrec
tion or rejuvenation.
This to-do was all had over a bill
that has been dead for two years, and
was again asassinated and buri.ed In
the potters' field for dead bills Wed
nesday. House resolution So. 40, for more
bills to be printed by state printer,
adopted.
Joint memorial of Neuner for $10.
000 site for federal building at
Roseburg, carried.
Hills on Third Heading.
H. B. No. 1, by Libby. against
white slmvery and transportation of
women for Immoral purposes, was
placed on third . reading. It was
aimed at. : transportation companies,
and makes it a felony to transport
same under penalty of $5000. or five
years', imprisonment. Re-referred to
tha Judiciary committee.
H. B. No. 46, by Neuner. to protect
Umpqua, river or its tributaries from
pollution abovo Winchester power
dam, the water supply of the city of
Roseburs. Passed.
H fl No. !8, Pouts, t- prevent
carryi'ii?. c:; 'osives on car? carrying
passenger.' Passed.
More Houae Bills.
No. 133, Peterson, for relief of
Judgment debtors.
No. 134, Miller of Columbia, to
amend code, Increasing salaries of
.(udges to $4000 a year.
No- 135, Brooke, for bridge across
Snake river at Nyassa.
No. 138, Brooke, to amend code,
Increasing salary of district attorney
to $3000.
No. 137, Amee, to license private
Insane asylums.
No. 138, Abbott, to provide for
ferry at St. Johns.
No. 139, Church, to amend eodo,
for staite appeals., . ' . v':'
No. 140, Hollls, for State Board of
Fish and Game Commissions.
No, 141, Church, to amend code,
relating to peremptory challenges. ,
No. 142, Church, to amend code
relating to' obtaining money under
false pretenses.
No. 143, Neuner, to amend code re
lating to scalp bounties.
In the Senate.
. Evidently exhausting Itself In the
way of oratory yesterday, the senate
this forenoon devoted Itself exclusive
ly to the transaction of routine busl-
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BANQUET
WAS GREAT
SUCCESS
IT WAS .1 "SKVEX COME 'LEVE
I' BAST MK GOOD THIXUS FOB
J)I(JESTIOX FOB BOTH STOMACH
A M )1 1 I).
STATES NOT REPRESENTED
ONE OF EVILS OF OLD PLAN
CITES THE LOKR CASE
Public Interests Are Sacrificed in Innumerable Trades That
Some Coterie of Politicians May Capture the Plum for tha;
One Who Will Do the Most for Them Cites Fourteen In
stances in 20 Years Where Bribery was Openly Charged
Holds up the Illinois Legislature as an Example.
CNITBD )UII UUIID WIU.
Washington, Jaa. 13. Speaking
to the resolution submitting a con
stitutional amendment providing tor
thf direct election cf tnited States
senators. Senator Eorah, of Idaho,
today brat. 'Jed the present system n(
selection as vicious, out of date and
one prepared for a different aga an!
other conditions.
"For thi last 20 years," he paid,
' there luve been maiiy prolonged
contests In ftate 'eg'jlatures wh'.ca
have fully Illustrated one of the
greatest evils of the present system.
For the entire sessions some legisla
tors have been occupied with the
election of United States senators,
excluding the transaction of business
of quite as much Importance to their
communities. In come Instances spe
olal sessions have been called, which
were most expensive.
"lit. fourteen instance duping the
period of which-1 speak' states have
been for whole terms only' partially
represented In the United States sen
ate, and in many other Instances
bribery and corruption of members
of tha legislature have been freely
charged. And not only does direct
and open bribery some times prevail,
but bills are killed and traded upon,
and the public interest sacrificed and
bartered away that some particular
coterie of politicians may capture
the sensiUorlal plum for the , man
from whom they have thet most to ex
pect. '
"When patronage enters Into the
contest the whole affair bocomes'a
disgrace. Up to 1872 we had no
(iase of bribery connected with the
election of senators. Then we had
ten, not to mention a number of ln
vistlgatlons of nlleged crooked prac
tices which never reached this body.
"Take as an Illustration," Borah
continued, "the matter of this sort
now before the senate (the Lorlmer
case) and cast It aside from the
question of technical guilt as an il
lustration of the system under which
we elect senators. Tha Illinois leg
islature met and spent wtoks and
months in a vain effort to elect some
body. The whole body wao demor
alized. Men bartered their honor
like the courtesans of Babylon and
finally performed their duties '
amidst charges and countercharges,
criminations ' and recriminations
which would remind one of the cor
rupt days when the Catallnes, by
trickery and fraud, grasped the pow
er of Rome?
"Now we are solemnly told by an
Investigation committee that so
shameless, demoralized, criminal and
degraded were many members of that
legislature that they were not to be
believed on oath. And at the present
time the legislature of that great
state, because of that selection, Is
meeting under the eyes and surveil
lance of a grand jury.
I "Every legislature Is - an arena,
yarrow and confined, wherein selfish
I and corrupt Influences can easily op
erate. ? Why. not send , ngnts for the
United States senatorshlp to the open
forum, where they can be Settled up
on their merits, and where the candi
dates . may freely ..appealjjo, f.o. t,he
honor and patriotism, of ,the masses?
Wfiy' oompel men t pass' thVoifgli "a '
season of humiliation and shame,
through which the sitting member of
the senate from Illinois is passing, If
he be not guilty?, : Why make it pos
sible for him' to return here'If he 'is
guilty?
The Whisky Talked.
SMiriD hiss Lamia wms 1
Los Angeles, Calif.,.- Jan. 19. Fed
eral authorities today : are waiting
word from Alabama regarding the
disposition of M. Keating, 30, who,,
when arrested for intoxication, con-,
fetmed he had embezzled $2,000 while
acting as a deputy United States,
clerk of courts In Alabama.
Card of Thanks. ,
We wish to express our most heart
felt thanks to our friends and neigh
bors who so kindly assisted us dur
ing the recent illness and death ol
our mother, Mrs. Manda Allen.
MRS. M. E. NOLAN.
MR. JOHN ALLEN.
The biennial banquet given by
the Board of Trade at the Hotel Ma
rlon last night was attended by 250
legislators, state officials and repre
sentatives of the press. Senator
Carson acted us toastmaster and in
troduced as the principal speaker of
the evening Editor E. H. JMper, of
the Dally Oregonlan, who reviewed
Interesting sessions of past legisla
tures. Speaker Rusk paid his com
pliments to the members of the sen
ate in a huppy and humorous man
ner. Lively addrt-HSPH were niadif by
P. II. D'Arcy find Judge Kaiser, who
gave his experiences on how a Demo
crat keeps out cf politics. Mr. Jobel
man presented claims of the Astoria
centennial in a witty and eloquent
manner. ' I). O. Lively, manager of
the Union Stock Yards, Introduced
some of the broad humor from the
r&ttls pens, aiid it was very well re
ceived. Representative Fouta made
an exceptlonajly witty talk. Mus'c
by MoElroy's orchestra and slnglm
by a vaudeville vocalist were re
ceived with delight. The audience
arose to their feet and joined the or
chestra In Blgning America. The
banquet was sf-rved In the highest or
der of cullnery art, for which
master chef at the Hotel Marlon
making that jlace Mmous. The ban
quet lasted from 7 till 11, and was
one of the most enjoyable affairs ever
pulled, ott. In the Capital XJity.-.
the
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Young Men's Overcoats
Sizes 28 to 34 Ages 7 to 18 .. .
years,
We have reduced the price on
these garments-33 1-3 per
, cent; It will pay you to stock
up for a year,
Newest styles in cut and pat
tern, $9.00 Coats $6.00
$6.00 Coats $4.00
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