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SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, AtJlU'SC S. 1912.
NO. IS
ISGOVERS A LITERARY 6E0IUS
GLARySIIT0tJSUAGE19,ISIT
IS FOUND If CALIFORNIA
LIVES IN HIGH MOUNTAINS
IS IN TOUCH WITH UNIVERSE
California Literati Make the Find and Will Publish a Volume
of Poems Written by the Youth, Some of Which They Pro
nounce Gems---Youth Is Delicate, and Has Too Much
Temperament His Poem on Jlero, Part of Which Is Pub
lished Here Is Said to "Echo With the Crash of Countless
Worlds. ' '
San Francisco, Aug. 2 Heralded as
"one of the greatest juvenile geniuses
In the history of literature," and greet
ed with prophecleB that In his work
"The Spirit of Poetry, Long Quescent,
Begins to Live Again," Clark Ashton
Smith, a nineteen year old boy of the
high Sierras today Is the literary sen
sation of California.
Unique In that the terrestrial sphere
plays small part In them, the writings
of the boy genius are phrased In the
language of the Cosmic universe. In
them the little earth Is loBt In the
whirl and ssweep of mighty systems
through which, from his home In the
cloud-capped 8Ierras the boy's spirit
has wandered afar. He has lived
practically all his years among the
mountains near Auburn, Cal., has real
ized the vastness of the universe and
unhampered by treatment of personal
ities, has leifTilB Imagination swtwj fai
out Into the Infinite Bpaces and has
written verse which, literati say, lsi
without a parallel In novelty and
power.
Sponsors for the boy and aiding In
arranging a volume of fifty-six poems
soon to be published are George Stir
ling, the author, and Boutwell Dun
lap, lawyer, author and compiler, who
at one time was conssul to Argentina.
The work, which will take Its little
"The Star Treader" from one of the
poems, will consist of Verse written
since the boy was eight years old and
Is only port of hlB product which, are
turned out with great rapidity.
Born of an American mother and
an English father, the boy until six
months ago was never twenty miles
from his birthplace. Delicate from
birth and possessed of too much "tem
perament," the boy went only for a
CHINESE
ARRESTED
MRS. GWONG KING, 1IEB THREE
CHILDREN AND SISTER SOW OX
WAY HERE FROM ROSEBURG
HUSBAND HAD WIFE ARRESTED
Roseburg, Ore., Aug. 2. (Special to
Journal) Mrs. Gwong Hlng, wife of
a wealthy Chinese Salem hop grower,
was arrested here this morning, ac
cused of appropriating $500 from the
safe of her husband. She was accom
panied here by her sister and three
children, Hlng followed them to this
city, where he caused a warrant to be
Hsued for his wife's arrest She re
turned $160 of the money. The" fam
ily will leave for Salem this afternoon
In custody of a local officer, who has
teen commissioned to effect their re
turn to the Capital City.
MEAT PRICES ARE
STILL SOARING HIGHER
Iomitid ruai LMSCD wibi.T
New Yory, Aug. 2. That butchers
and other middlemen do not Intend to
shave, their profits during the beef
Doom," and that, as usual the "dear
public'' will foot the entire bill was
Indicated In a notice served on the
patrons of New York restaurants to
day. J ,
"Starting tomorrow," the- notice
read, "all meat orders will be raised
Irom five to ten cents per portion."
short time to the public schools and
since then has been developed by a
long study of the great writers and a
constant communion with the wide
spaces of the hills.
Of the poems to be published In the
forthcoming work of the boy genius,
one, "Nero," Is deemed the best Echo
ing with the crash of countless worlds
it attributes to the mind of the "mon
ster of Rome," a conception and a lust
for power to culminate In that uni
versal chaos which was the ultimate
desire of his superhumanly murderous
scul. The soliloquy of Nero Is In
part:
I would I were a God, with all the
scope
Of attributes that are the essential
core
Of Godhead, and Its visibility. r
I am but emperor, and hold awhile
IXo power to hasten, death upon his
way,
And cry a halt to worn and lagging
life
For others, but for mine own self may
not i
Delay the one, nor bid the 'other's
speed.
There have been many kings, and they
are dead,
And have no power in death save what
the wind
Confers upon their blown and brain
less dust
To vex the eyeballs of posterity.
But were I God, I would be overlord
Of many kings, and were as breath to
guide
Thelrdust of destiny. And were I God,
Exempt from this mortality which
clogs
Perception, and clear exercise of will.
What rapture It would be, If but to
watch
Destruction crouching at the back of
Time,
The tongueless dooms which dog the
traveling suns;
The vampire Silence at the breast of
worlds,
Fire without light that gnaws the base
of things,
And Lethe's mounting tide, that rots
the stone
Of fundamental spheres. This were
enough
Till such lime as the dazzled wings of
will
Came up with power's accession,
scarcely felt
For very suddenness. Then would I
urge
Tho strong contention and conflicting
might
Of chaos and creation, matching them,
Those immemorial powers inimical,
And all the stars and gulf subservient-Dynasts
of Time, and anurcus of the
dark
In closer war reverseless; and would
set
New discord at the universal core,
A Samson principle to bring It down
In one magnificence of ruin. Yea,
The monster chaos where mine un
leashed hound,
And all my power Destruction's own
right arm.
Those who have the boy's-welfare at
heart have decided that he shall not
be spoiled and exploited before the
curious of the cities. They advise
that be go back to the high Sierras
there to live close to nature's heart
and keep himself unspotted from the
world,, confident that, if be does so,
the world will have acquired a new
singer fit to rank with the greatest
bcrds of time.
A car containing 150,000 trout fry
reached Corvallls Thursday, and were,
or will be, placed In the streams of
Benton county.
,
Gritty at 104.
San Francisco, Aug. 2. Chip-
per and defiant despite her 104
years, Elizabeth Lewis, a fugl-
tlve from the relief home, was
brought to police headquarters
here today.
"I can easily support myself,"
she declared, fA despite her
protests she was sent back to
the alms houe.
i
STEAMER
HAS A FIRE
HEROIC WORK OF CREW SATED
THE VESSEL WHEN IT WAS AP
PARENTLY DOOMED-IT WAS A
FIGHT FOR LIFE, AND WON.
cmniD FKiiss uissn wise
Eureka, Cal Aug. 2. Aflame from
her bedplates to her cabin, dripping
with oil, and severed from the world
by the failure of her wireless, the
North Pacific Steamship company's
vessel, F. A. Ktlburn, was saved from
destruction Wednesday night by the
heroic efforts of the crew.
Two girls narrowly scaped suffoca
tion. An oiler fell and sustained a
broken leg. The chief engineer, L'
G. Clough and Sidney Aston, the stew
ard, who rescued the two! girls fell
heavily on oil-drenched decks, and
were badly bruised.
The fire, which was discovered In
the engine room of the steamer at 11
o'clock at night, while 25 miles south
of Point Arena, burned fiercely for
two hours. The vessel arrived here
at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, six
hours late, with holes chopped
through the floors of the state rooms
along the port side, and several rooms
on the upper deck gutted.
Dr. Q. L. Hogan, of Lob Angeles,
discovered the flames shooting up the
engine-room shaft clear to the top
deck. Captain McLlellen was notl
fled and an alarm sounded. Several
S. O. S. calls were sent by Operator
J. F. Murray, but before they were an
swered the wireless room caught fire
and the Instruments failed.
For more than two! hours six
streams of water were played Into the
engine room and down the shaft. To
add to the confusion oil was pumped
from the tanks to prevent an explo
slon through nozzles on the upper
deck, "drenching many as they es.
caped from their Btate rooms.
The flames raced up the engine
room ventilating shaft to the state
rooms on the upper deck, as through
a chimney. Stifling, greasy, black
smoke filled the corridors. To add to
the confusion, the oil tanks were
emptied as best they could be, and, as
the frightened passengers scurried
out of their state rooms, they were
drenched with streams of distillate.
The ship was rolling heavily, and
the drenched decks, swimming In oil,
were like greased slides. Sailors and
passengers floundered about In the
the darkness and smoke, slipping and
falling at every lift and dip.
To get water into the engine room
holes were chopped through the port
state room walls, and, after two hours
of hard work, the crew won the up
per hand. Early this morning the
fire was out.
The F. A. Kilburn Is a wooden ship.
She was burned to the water lines
about two years ago while lying at the
Oakland long wharf.
REBELS DISTRIBUTE
RATIONS TO REFUGEES
(UiflTCD FBESS tJlllO wtm i
El Paso, Tex.,-Aug. 2 Rebels south
of Casas Grandes turned back a Mex
ican Northwestern train today bear
ing Mormon refugees and distributed
army rations among them.
Two thousand federals have reached
Madera. They are prepared to take
Juarez and then attack the rebels at
Ccsas Grandes.
.
Assert Monroe Doctrine.
Washington, Aug. 2. Voting
51 to 4 the senate this afternoon
adopted the Lodge resolution
warning foreign nations not to
establish naval or military bases
on the American continents.
The .negative votes were cast
by Cummins, McCumber, Percy
and Stone. McCumber's attempt
to tone down the hands-off policy
enunciated lu the resolution was
rejected,
-
Then, and Then Only Was Beef
Ever Before as High as It Is
Quoted All Over the United
States Today.
PRICES CLIMB SKYWARD
Retail Prices Run From 15 Cents for
the Cheapest Cots Up to Where It
Takes Yellow Money to Even Think
About It Pork Prices Are Highest
In Years Mutton Cheapest of All
Now on Market.
San Francisco, Aug. 2. The meat
truBt has again exacted an Increased
toll from every dinner table in Cali
fornia by Jumping the price of practl
cally all meats from 2 to 8 cents per
pound, as reflected In retail prices
here within the past few days.
The beef barons In this section of
California are practically Miller and
Lux, cattle king of the west, and the
Western Meat company, affiliated
with the trust In the east. Their hand
arbitrarily writes down the price at
which meat Is sold here. .
Retail prices quoted here today to
the women with the market basket by
members of the retail butcher's asso
ciation are as follows: Porterhouse
steak, per pound, 22Wc; sirloin, 15 ;
round steak, 12 M ; lamb chops, best,
17 H; pot roast, best, 14 cents; veal
cutlets, best, 20; pork chops, best, 20.
A few days ago, before the raise
went Into effect, prices on porter
house was 20; sirloin 15; tenderloin,
1" 14 ; round, 12 V4 ; and others in pro
portion. Portland Prices Jump.
Portland, Or., Aug. 2. The price of
cattle at Portland today reached the
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0. H.WASSAM
IS TO MANAGE
A NEW FIRM
The Salem Lumber company, a new
firm, of which Roy H. Wassam will
be manager, has purchased the lime,
cement and plaster business of the
Capital Improvement (company, and
has leased the property of the latter
at Liberty and Trade streets for a
term of years.
Mr. WaBgain states that the new
firm will pub In a stock of lumber,
luth, shingles, doors and windows,
which will be handled In connection
with the lime, cement and plaster
business.
The factory of the Salem Sewer
Pipe company, which was formerly on
the location to be occupied by the
new firm has been moved to Its new
quarters on North Commercial street.
Mr. Wassam, manager of the new
firm, has had an extensive experience
In the lumber and building material
business, having been connected with
the 'Spauldlng Logging company for
a number of years. He enjoys a wide
acquaintance In and about Salem,
where be has made his home for the
last three years. The new firm will
take possession Monday, August S.
WIIEH C017
HOT OVER
THE HON
POilTLB, EUGEtlE & EASTERN
ItUSIHUG WORK 00 ALL ITS HI!
Grace Trial Ended.
. '
Atlanta, Aug. 2. After a brief
argument by Prosecutor Dorsey,
the case of Mrs. Daisy O. Grace,
acoused of attempting to murder
her husband, wont to the Jury
this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The
attorneys for the defense sub-
mttted the case without argu-
ment It Is thought a verdict
will soon be reached.
.
CARL BARR
SAVED onus
BROTHER
HENRY BARR, THOUGH BUT EIGHT
YEARS OLD, AND CAUGHT BY
THE SAME CAVE-IN, KEEPS HIS
HEAD AND SAVES HIS BROTH
ER'S LIFE.
Details of the nccldent at Newport
Wednesday by which Carl Barr, the
12-year-old son of T. M. Barr, was se
riously Injured by the caving on him
of a bank of sand, have been ob
tained from Mrs. Last, wife of S. S.
East of the Salem Bank and Trust Co.
who returned from the seaside last
evening. Several boys wore playing
in the sand bank near the Dr. Mtn
thorn Sanitarium, but most of them
had left, leaving Carl, his brother and
one or two others, digging tunnels
through the bank. Competition be
tween the lads vNs pretty Btrong,
when without any warning, the bank
which had been weakened by the tun
nels, fell completely burying Carl and
almost burying his 8-year-old brother,
Henry. The younger brother was able
to extricate himself from the sand
and Immediately began to dig for his
more unfortunate brother. The other
boys ran to give the alarm, but within
three minutes and before other aid
had arrived, Henry, the younger boy,
had completely uncovered his brother.
The alarm brought plenty of assist
ance and the injured lad was found
to be unconscious. It was about an
hour before he was resuscitated. But
for the quick work and cool head of
the younger brother, the boy would
certainly have perished, as it would
have required at least ten minutes for
assistance to have reached the scene
of the accident. ,
The lad's back wa Injured by the
falling sand, which had formed Into a
t!ort of cake, but upon Inquiry of phy
sicians It is learned that little or no
fear 1h felt for the effects of the sand
on his lings, which In all probability
ceased to act upon the first Bhock
caused by the falling bank. There
were no bones broken, as the Band
closed around his body very much as
water would.
Henry Barr, the 8-year-old lad who
made the rescue, certainly deserves
great praise for the manly way In
which he saved his brother's life. The
fact that he was burled to his neck In
tho same cave-In gives that much
mere credit for his presence of mind
and manly act of rescue.
The news was quickly spread
around the beach reHort and great
consternation was prevalent because
about a year ago a child lost Its life
In the vicinity where this accident oc
curred, and from tho sand caving on
hhu.
It will require a few days for tho ex
act nature of the injuries to become
known, but the best Information avall
r hie at this time Indicates that the
lad will recover, as he Is sturdy and
vigorous and the mother of the little
fellow feels that the worst Is past.
For the present the family will remain
at the beach.
Miide s Big Puddle.
DKITSD rim MAHID WIKR 1
Newjiort, Ore., Aug. 2.f Although
living within 60 miles of the Pacific
ocean for 55 years. Thomas Froman
Is enjoying his first sight of that body
of water. He said he knew It rained
some lu Oregon but had no Idea tne
rainfall would make such a pond as
ho found (ft Newport.
SPENDING $60,000 IN SALEM
AND $2,000,000 IN THE STATE
BUILDS 25 MILES THIS FALL
Rushing Work on Branch to Fir to Connect With Silverton in
Time for State Fair Will Have Electric Line From Port
land to Eugene Running by November 1 Will Spend $6,-
. 000,00 in Improvements and Extensions, Just as a Starter
Train Load of Working Outfit on Way to Eugene.,
The Portland, Eugene & Eastern Is
very active In this city. They have al
ready put In their track connecting
Chemeketa and Center on Summer
street, and are putting In their new
line on Seventeenth street to the State
Fair grounds. They are expending
about $60,000 In Salem before the state
fair meets, and rushing their inter
urban connection with Fir stattlun to
connect with Silverton in time for the
state fair.
Will Spend Two Million.
The various roads formerly Included
under the general designation "The
Southern Paclflo company," have been
segregated as the Portland, Eugene &
Eastern and the Southern Pacifio. The
Portland, Eugene & Eastern, compris
es all the existing steam road which
are to be converted into electric roads
and the new mileage to be construct
ed for electric operation.
In the six months of 1912 ending
.Tune 30, the Portland, Eugene ft East
ern has expended $125,000 and re-cou-
structlon and extension work Is con
templated amounting to $6,000,000, of
which $2,000,000 Is anticipated to fall
In the remaining months of this year.
Build to Eogcne.
Following statement Is taken from
a Portland Oregonlan report of this
morning: '
Electric trains will run over the
Southern Pacific tracks from Portland
to Eugene on November 1, If the city
grants tho company agreeable fran
chises for the operation of Its cars
through the streets of Portland.
This was made possible yesterday
when the bid of FIngg & Standlfer,
Portland contractors, for the construc
tion of 25 miles of track between Mon
loe and Eugene, was accepted by the
Portland Eugene & Eastern railway,
BOOSTING SENATOR BOURNE
FOR RE-ELECTION TO SENATE
WILL BE ASKED TO ENTER RACE AS AN INDEPENDENT PEOPLE'S
CANDIDATE ON A PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM-MASS MEETING
HELD AT ST. JOHNS IN HlS BEHALF.
United States Senator Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., will be in the race for re
election, It his friends and admirers
have their way. He will be elocted
and returned to his present position
without soliciting the Job, or violating
the corrupt practices act, If the people
vote as they feel In many parts of the
state.
The candidates at present In the
field are Den Selling, Republican pri
mary nominee; Harry Lane, Demo
cratic primary nominee, and F. W.
Mulkey, announced candidate.
The chances are that Mulkey will
not run If Bourne consents to allow
his name to be used.
The argument for llourne makes a
strong appeul to business men, lie
cause no senator from Oregon in
years has had the positions on com
mltces that he has, and no man who
could be sent there has the experience
and executive ability to serve them
as he can. The Bourne campaign was
luunched at a mass 'meeting at St.
Johns last night, according to Die
following report from the Oregonlan:
Nominating our present Senator
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., ns a candidate
on a "Progressive-Independent" tick
et, for re-election to the United States
senate, the citizens of St. John, In a
mass meeting, at which 200 were pres
ent, made the first active step In Ore
gon In th Independent Bourne cam
under which name the Southern F
clflc electric enterprise In Oregon will
be designated.
Grading for this piece of track must
be completed October 1, according to
the terms of tho contract Tracklay
Ing and ovorhoad construction will be
completed SO days later, which will
make possible the operation of cars
over this line into Eugene by Novem
ber 1. This haste Is due to the fact
that the Oregon Electric, the rival HIU
read, Is pushing Its rails from Albany
to Eugene, and probably will begin Its
service Into Eugone before the begin
ning of the new year.
Grading Costs tlOO.000.' '
The line that Flagg & Standifor will
build, will involve very little heavy
work. The cost of construction for
tho 25 miles will approximate but
$100,000, which Is the lowest figure
work has ben done in Oregon la re
cent years. The route leads through
a leverl country, which will necessitate
but few cuts and but few' tills.'" An
aggregate of 6300 feet of trestle will
be built One Howe truss bridge, 80
feet In length, will be constructed. The
total ' amount of earth that will bo
motved aggregates 250,000 cublo yards
A special trulnload of equipment
and supplies Is being loaded at Spo
kane, and will be rushed through to
ELgeno, so that, active work can be
started at once. Flagg & Standlfer
have Just completed the construction
of a heavy piece of work, Involving
the chango of line for the O.-W. R. t
N. Company between the Snake river
and Spokane, and will bring most of
tho material used In that project to
Portland. About 600 men will be em
ployed on the Job. They will be re
cruited in Portlund. Ijibor here, as
sr.ld to be extremely scarce, even at
better than average wages.
paign, about which so many rumors
have been afloat recently. ,
The nomination was made by Fred
Valentine, ex-mayor of St. Johns.
"At the present time," said Mr, Val
entine, "we have as good a senator
as we can get Ho Is one of the
strongest men In that body today, and
there is no state In the Union that
might not bo Justly proud to say thut
It was represented In the senate by
Jonathan Bourne, Jr.
The nomination was received with
enthusiasm and cheers for Mr. Bourne
continued for several minutes.
Resolutions were passed expressing
appreciation by the citizens of St
Johns for his activity In securing the
pussiige of the rivers and harbors bill
by tho senate, and urging him to; per
mit his name to he submitted again
to the people of Oregon for election
to tho United States senate. A copy
of the resolution was telegraphed to
Mr. llourne In Washington, I). C.
A. A. Muck, mayor of St. Johns, was
elected chairman of the meeting, with
F. A. lllce, city recorder, as secretary.
The organization was made perma
nent, and theBo two officers were re
tained at Its head.
The Oregon Electric claims to be
handling between, 400 and 500 passen
gers dally between Albany and Portland.