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Words by as hy Music by Con rH 7 PERFIDIOVUS wm" ADOLE, We MUST Ste DER OLT YEAR OUDT IN STYLE, I MAF ReserreD For B25 A TABLE IN A SWE CAPE, VAITER, BRING « MY FRENT ANYDINGS WE VANTS — ID 138 AW PAID For, IN GRIP dives vot! A CRAcKaR! | OF RD WEATHER (Ry United Press Leaned Wire) DENVER, Dec. 30.—With the mer. | cury down to the zero point all over Colorado, and as iow as 16 below at Sterling, the feed on the ranges ‘eovered with a foot of snow and ali water frozen, the situation here to- day ts serious for the livestock of the state. Denver ie gripped by freezing) temperature, the mercury dropping today to 5 below zero. Trains ar | riving from the east and south, where the snowfall is heaviest, are from 4 to 12 hours wire) BELOW ZER HELENA, Mont., Dec. 30.—Helow (By United Prees Leased nero weather today obtains !n many parts of Montana today, and sheep ‘and cattle men fear their losses will be over normal unless the cold snap breaks soon, The thermometer here fluctuated around the 20 be- low mark, 16 below at Havre and the same temperature at Butte, FLOP AGAIN ON SALOON ISSUE After flopping back and forth for two days on the dum for sa Joon licenses, the cil yesterday Yote against submitting it. referendum amendment was reject: Ps, by a vote of § to 4 on Thursday. delegation of W. C. T. U. mem- ‘the council yester- Lawrence J. Col- headed the petitioners for the , and You MUST Come —— 1D 183 MY TReaT! SPOKANE, Dec. 30,.--As a proof of the productiveness of the soll of Kootenai county, Idaho, the accompanying photograph was submitted at the fourth by gy aay show by C. W. H. Heidman, in charge of the exhibit from the count; On this 3-year-old apple sapling, few inches over six feet above the ground, are 61 full size, normal Wag. In size, taste and quality, the apples are perfect ‘The tree is in the orchard of Judge H. E. ner apples. SS FORCED TO WED BY GUN, SHE SAYS, | NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—-Miss Mir- at the regular|ian Henrique, billed in vaudeville it Tuesday, Don't forget to order Diaries for next year from Third Av. as “The Great American Beauty,” says she's going to “raise the par- ticular dickens with that Hammer- stein family.” In private life she is Mra. Abra- ham Hammerstein, daughter-in- law of the impresario. The other day she appeared in court and asked for three warrants against husband, charging bigamy, nonsupport and attempted murder. Mrs. Hammerstein explained her request for the attempted murder warrant by saying that she was forced into marriage at the point of a gun. Speed Mania Is Raising Crime Record (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.— “Speed mani tury craze, Police Chief bastian today charges, is large- ly responsible for the 20 per cent increase of arrests here in 1911 over 1910. To date there have been 31,243 arr this ye: gainst 25,017 t Infractions of the eed law comprised about 20 per cent of the offenders, and 50 per cent of the balance were persons who like to “look upon the wine when it is red—and whi First Submarine Completed Here! The first submarine destroyer ever used in Pacific waters, and the first completed of six now being built at the Moran Iron Works, in this. will be launched uar} Ba, sutncrnecive vices VoT VILL You MAF, ADoLF € (By United Press Leased Wire) Al, Dec. %0-—-Dr, Sun Yat Sen. the American Chinese who has been elected to and accepted the presidency of the Chinese re public, will, within a few days, be inaugurated at Nanking, the soene of what was one of the bloodiest battles in the Chinese fight for the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, eeere omen “Hurry, Mr. Bart (By United Prose Leased Wire) SAN PEDRO, Cal, Dec? 90.—- “Hurry, Mr. Bartender, 1 feel like the end ts near, My head is whirl ing Nike & buseeaw. Give me o lit tle of that old—" | Hefore he could finish the sen itence, James Hancock Hadley, half brother of Governor Herbert 6. Hadley of Missourl and the son of a former governor, Governor Had- ley of Louisiana, fell to the floor * PORTLAND, Or, spines, ix dead. today by Patrolman Morelock volition and took up its abod howls that they appealed to the eeeeeeeeetette Senet eteotaw eat es (By United Prese Leases Wire) HONOLULU, Dec, 30—Cadet Wm. Berringer, a second cisse man aboard the North German Lioyd’s training ship Herzogin Cecilie, swept overboard during owes his tife to: to remarkable fact. As he fell into the water his body landed in a / loop formed by a trailing main. stay tine. As the ship pulled/ away from him the rope tight- ened about his body. The cap- tain ordered ti feboat launch- ed, but Berringer climbed hand over hand to the deck. He re- Ported for duty at once, not even taking the time to change his dripping clothing until after: the storm had abated. the topmost twig of which Is but a Hall, near Bonners Ferry, Street Horrors at Hankow (By United Prese Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 30. Dogs are devouring the bodies of the dead in the streets of ill fated Hankow, according to G Wybrands, editor of a Botavia,| Java, newspaper, who returned to- day from China on the Chiko Maru, and hundreds of thousands of des | titute, starving persons in the big) cities of the war stricken country | fare giving the infant republic a| drastic situation to face at ite very birth. The Rey, John Wesley Hill, president of the International peace forum, and pastor of the Metro- politan Temple, New York, arrived on the same ship, bringing a greet ing from the emperor of Japan to President Taft. lA UA FOLLETTE AT TAT'S. HOME. TOWN (By United Press Leaved Wire) DAYTON, 0., Dec. Robert M. La Follett his tour of Ohio will center this af ternoon at Hamilton. Tonight he will deliver an address at Cincin. etl, the heme town of President at La Follette today expressed him. self as greatly pleased by his recep- tion in thi and declared Ohioans in the mass were far more progressive than their leaders. KING OF SIAM COMING HERE (By United Press Leased Wire) BANGKOK, Siam, Dec. 30.—The king of Siam will pay a visit to the United States next fall, probably |son, Karl, from th in October. He will also visit the| Mrs. Mercedes Shafer, Huropean courts, returning home | peared in an automobile. » moth. via America, The queen mother|er ron after the car until she fell ot Siam, it is also announced, will | exhauated leave next April for a vistt to Bu-| The child was given Mrs. Shafer rope, but it 1s not known that she | Thursday, pending a hearing in the contemplates Including the United | wife's sult against her husband for States in her tour. failure to provide, Shafer told court 7 Th attendants his wife was not the proper person to care fof the boy, JUDGE YAKEY MARRIES «ay ‘United Press Leased Wire) BREMERTON, Dec. 30- VIENNA, Dec. 40.—Emperor }i recetved here that Judge John B. Franz Josef has just granted the) Yakey, 60, has finally given tp Archduke Henry indefinite leave of | hachelordom and has married Migs absence and stopped his pay, The | Hdith Van of Quincy, Il. The cow emperor refused to sanction a| ple will be at home at Port Orch match between the archduke and a J the daughter of a middle class | family in Munich. The archduke | then declined to return to his mil itary duties, He fell in love with the girl while painting in Munteb, Besides being a warbler, Enric pen and ink. This is his own conc | he bumped his nose against some s (FATHER K HIS BABY SON OAKLAND, Cal,, Dec, 36,—Anoth Jer chapter was yoaterday added to the exciting Shafer cas Howard Shafer kid and disap | VAMILY WASHING EEK WASH LAUNDRY aT A606, coviiy WEE Aan rl ONE A ones: ender” — Then He Died COYOTE” DEAD Dee, 30. whose penetrating midnight sere quarter on Glisan at. caused many a shiver «i The animal, which had made tts home in the heart of the crowded district for four months, was shot early ‘The animal was wild and came from the forests of its own in the city. The superstititous negroes were wo frightened by ite uncanny CARUSO—BY HIMSELF 18% DoT Ate F BRING Me A CRACKER, NEW CHINESE PRESIDENT READY TO TAKE REINS jand which city is now the provis fonal capital of the new govern ment. Dr. Sun says he believes there ix no doubt that the republican form of government will be selected in preference to a constitutional mon areby by the convention of dele gates from the different provinces now assembled at Nanking. water front saloon here, and ‘¢ medical ald arrived, w Death was due to heart fail ina Ib oI ure. Twenty years ago Hadley be- came estranged from hin family jand drifted to San Pedro. Known ‘ax fhonest olf Jim Hadley,” be jmade a living ‘by catching clamn and crawfish, although he had tak Jen a degree in law at Georgetown ‘untversity. ee Rea khaeeeannanne * Portland's “hoodoo coyote,” nades in the vicinity of the negro the colored people's police, 2 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rreneereehananenann TA CHANCE | BIG HOTEL BURNS HALIFAX, N. 8. Dec. 30-—Fire of unknown origin early today de stroyed the King Edward hotel, the largest fm Halifax, seéridt 160 scurrying t the street in "feih nea clothing to wuffer from it iter cold. The St Croix Pa per company's warehouses, which adjolned the hotel, were also de- stroyed. The loss waa $266,000, PHARIAN, via Dehibat, Tunis, Dec. 30.—Unprejudiced correspon- | dents attached to the Turkish army axe of the opinion that the prospects | favor a long, and, for Italy, a hope- |lees struggle. The Turks and their Aftab allies are well equipped and mobilized, and have ammunition enough for two years. ig byl o> Rit © Caruso thinks he is an arti NAPS GEORGE AT CALCUTTA 30.-—King-Em: | | CALCUTTA, Dec. peror George and Queen-Empre Mary arrived here today for the last stage of their Indian durbar trip. in the Napali Terai. |Queen Mary and her suite at Agra on the way here, and their arrival Was made the occasion of another réund of costly festivities and state functions. ‘Their majesties were received in ful! state at the Howrah station by Viceroy Lord Hardinge and Lady |Hardinge, Lieut-Gov. Sir 6, N Yess ——-Tee -Hee — Yo see 1 HAF STARTET FASTING Jo REDOoCce MY VEIGHT, FIVE-MILLION-DOLLAR GIRL MAKES HER DEBUT IN with | eption of himself and his nose, after | SOCIETY. Miss Margaret Draper, who inherited $5,000,000 from her father, Gen. William F. Oraper, ind whose coming-out party, Dec. 27, was a ding feature of the Washington social season. A story that live humming birds butterflies from southern climes was denied by Miss Draper, The rea! ed by many prominent society girls of the capital city. ures of the function lancy dress bail, attend- were to be 1 affair wi The tragedy of the disparity of; ages. It never enda in the King/| county divorce court. -It tolls the knell of the year just closing. It comes agnin with the very dawn of the year, Sre was 34. Ephraim Behner was 65. He proposed to ber on numer ous occasions, She rejected him. But he was an ardent suitor, She fell 1, and found herself, without means. Again Behver proposed | } The Tragedy of Dispa es rity of Years marriage. Then she married him. This is the «tory of Mra. Louise D. Behner two years after her mar riage, Yesterday she applied for a divorce on the grounds of incompat- ibility, Married at Sycamore, Il, on Auguet 22, 1909, Mrs. Behner now alleges that her life has been irksome and unendurable these two years. And Ephraim Behner, now 67, will make no contest in the dl voree sult. eee KANSAS CITY BANK FAILS, (By United Press Leased Wire) KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 20— The American Union Trust com-| pany, with a paid up capital of| $1,000,000, and jews than a year old,) failed te open its doors today. State banking officials are in charge. About 3,000 depositors are affected. | President Musser of the American Union Trust company announced to- day that all depositors would be paid in full, but that the institution would have to be given some ti in which to meet the demands up- on it. TAFT WON'T ACT (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—-Presi- dent Taft left Washingtom today for New York, where he is to at- tend the “peace dinner” tonight, without acting on the Charles W. Morse pardon case. He did not even read the offictal surgeon's re- ports mitted to him of the con- viet banker's precarious condition, and he made no statement on the case, “THE WORM WILL TURN" (By United Press Lensed Wire, VIENNA, Dec. 30.~-Danger of a schoolmastors’ strike faces the au: thorities here. The teachers have demanded a 25 per cent increase in salary, declaring they cannot main- tain their families on their present incomes, This is the latest expres-| sion of the general revolt in this country against the high cost of liv ing. The king has been hunting| He picked up} Word! Baker of Bengal and a swarm of | jofficials, native princes and other | | notables. | OMARLES FREDERICK ADAMS {4 TO SPEAK TOMORROW Charles Frederick Adams, the néted single taxer of Now York city, will speak at the Boylston ay, Uni-| |tatlan church tomorrow evening at |Bbo’clock on “Doing God's Will on Barth,” ——— ee ed THE 1812 PRESS AGENT Miss Holman is a young actress, and a young and beautiful woman, with eyes bright LL: as diamonds and > teeth more white ary than pearls, but above all, with a . —- ex. pression of coun- oz tenance which, when she gives passages of archness, softens them with the delicacy of apparent inno- cence, and adds tenfold pathos to the tale of woe, by insuring the sympathy of the beholder. ~—Dramatic Record, New York Theatre, Jan. 4, 1812. PARKER SAYS HE GOT $250,000 In a sworn answer to the civil sult against him for the recovery of | $1,643,237. 30, alleged to have been received by him as commissions for the sale of United Wireless com- pany stock, George H. Parker, serv- ing a two-year sentence at McNetl's island, denied that he received more than $250,000 in commissions. He says he turned over the money received from stock sales to the International Loan & Investment company of Denver, the fiscal agent of the United Wireless, and he does not know if the parent company ever received the money or not. His property wife, Evvie J. Parker, is tied up pending the outeome of the civil sult by the receivers of the com- pany. The finance committ recom. mended the rejection of all claims for damages filed against the city PARASITE held in the name of his} ] cITY MAY BUY. POWER SITE Councilman Griffiths". proposed charter amendment giving the city, | the right to sequire power sites by, paying for the same either by 40: year serial bonds or giving Hens on the property was approved by the |counell, and will go to awote of the people in the March election This amendment will make it pom jatble for the city to acquire the | Hebb power site on the White river, which, it is estimated, {» ca of developing 60,000 horsepower, Hebb has offered to sell for $1,000, 000, on -terms proposed in the amendment. Make Good (By United Press Leased Wire) SANTA MONICA, Cal., Dec, 30.— Seven Santa Monica women bave something to say in the t saction of their city’s affairs w Mayor-elect R. H. Dow makes pointments today of women in big advisory cabinet. When Dow ran for office he promy ised the women yoters that they, would have a voice in the city gore ernment. “Not only will they be consulted as to appointments,” sald Dow to day, “but they will be consulted ty all matters pertaining to the affatt of municipal législation.” All Goats, Listen! LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30-— Angora goats, bewhiskered goats, can-eating goats, billy goats and also nannies, atten- tion! The United States govern ment wants 2,000 of your ilk to maintain the firebreake in the Angeles forest preserve, provided you can be secured without cost. Here is the prop- osition: R. H. Chariton, forest supervisor at Los Angeles, says it costs the government thou- sands of dollars to keep the firebreaks clear of weeds each year. He figures that 2,000 goats could do this work nice- ly, enjoying themselves the while. Consequently he is of- fering goat ranchers the free use of a great expanse of gov- ernment grazing land. The twelve local musicians, who, under the leadership of Chas. Lom bard, leader of the Metropolitan orchestra, are entertaining.them at the various children’s homes, played for fully 260 children at the House of Good Shepherd, WALL PAPER AND PAINT Why Net Save Some Money? A 90¢ can of Jap-alac -B0c A 50c can of Jap«-lac Oe A 20¢ can of Jap-a-lac 166 A $2.60 Floor Waxing Brush.. 80 | A $2.50 can of Stain ... A quart of best Shellac. .... Glass set free if you bring the sash, C.H.Dahlem& Co. 1808 Third Ave. | j coming out of the break in the Ce. | dar river. y