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Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Light Bulb Sings, Clucks Like Hen,
 Walls Like Baby

NEW YORK. Dec. 20. - An electric light bulb, just a plain electric light bulb, twittcred in song, twittcred and tweetled and lullabyed, clucked distressful1y like chicken lost in the woods, walled t'hinly like new baby. and behaved generally as one never would have imagined an in- candescent light could or would behave.
 The singing incandescent was exhibited by Lee De Forest, who is known for activities in wire less matters and who was demon strating the possibilities of his audion ampliier, a type of electric light bulb which is useful for the transmission and reception of the voice or of silent messages by wireless. Many manufacturers and dealers in electrically operat- ed musical instruments, heard De Forest coax his singing light into the doing of freakish tone tricks.
 De Forest left it clearly to the imagination that some of these days it will be unnecessary to spend money for pianos and toot horns and monographs, because one will be able to arise from the dinner table in ones apartment rise quite nonchalently and with perfect confdence-and so manip- ulate the keyboard connecting an ordinary cluster of incandescent lights that sweet music will flow: that the maid in the kitchen, ex- hausted from her labors, will be able to find relaxation and re- newed vigor merely by turning on the music that dwells in the 16-candle-power incandescent over her stove.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Cupid Busy With Boy In Quest Of
 Mail-Order Bride

DETROIT, Dec. 20.-First of the applicants for the heart and home of the bashful country boy with a Hudson, Mich, box num- Der who is trying to win girl and a fortune through Uncle Sam's post office department is Miss Ida Evans, IS years old, of 303 Baldwin avenue.
 Scene two in the love drama of the backward swain who wants to find a Detroit girl upon whom to bestow himself and a house and lot was enacted in Postmaster Nagels office yesterday afternoon.
 Miss Evans entered, blushing like poppy.
 q want to get the box number Of the young man in Hudson wno wants 10 get married" said Miss Evans.
 Tempering the enthusiasm of Cupid with the wisdom of Ulys ses, Postmaster Nage1 hedged for Q while, and then refused to give the number.
 q never before realized the re- responsibilities of Cupid" said the postmaster. "I don't think I would be doing the right thing in putting you in touch with the Hudson youth until 1 nave inves- tigated farther. l will write to the postmaster at Hudson and have him furnish me some par ticulars about the young man with the box number. Then if everything is satisfactory l will let you know"
 Miss Evans told the postmaster she was an orphan and was cm- ployed in the home of Mrs. R. J. Mueller, at 1903 Baldwin avenue. Mrs. Mueller had advised ner in the matter. she said.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Plan New Years
 Fete For 1916 Fair

SAN DIEGO, Dec. -2O-Plans for the New Years celebration which will usher in the 19l6 San Diego ex- position have been announced by President c. A. Davidson.
 They include a military and naval review on which more than 2,500 ma rines, bluejackets and artillerymer will participate, naval review in San Diego bay, speeches by Governor Hiram Johnson, fireworks and a car nival.
 The battleship Oregon, cruiser San Diego and cruiser South Dakota, with other smaller vessels, will take par.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Writer Predicts 2O,OOO,OOO Will
 Be Killed In War

CHICAGO, Dec. 2O.-A special cable to the Daily News from Ed ward Price Bell, dated London, says:
 TT. Wells Brex, vigorous British writer, declares that the war has altered the social face of Europe as much as the glacial epoch once altered its physical surface. What Mir. Brex calls the 'Hohenzollern glacial period he describes as having set back civil ization 100 years, crumpled Flu ropes social structure, stunted its arts and sciences and withered away its web of travel intercourse for century.
 ''In the view of this writer, the warning nations will be taxed by war debts, while dreadful mem ories will keep gulf between civilized Europe and the Teuton.'
 Twenty-Five million men nave taken up arms continues Mir. Brex, and 9OOOOOO are al ready slain or disabled. The to- tai destruction of life in two years will be 2O,OOO,OOO. This is com batant waste alone. Nearly ev- anywhere the birth rate is falling and the death rate is rising. Brit ish births are 10000 a year fewer and deaths 5000 a year more than in 1912. The net deficit is 90,000 lives a year, equal to the total population of whole town like Coventry or Northampton. " Paris is losing similarly and Berlin and Vienna much more heavily. When the great war is over Europe will realize that no plague in the middle ages ever it like the black death that came from Potsdam.' -
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Now In United States.

FL PASO, Dec. 20.-Colonel Villa, with the office force of the financial agency of the Villa organization at Juarez, crossed into the United States tonight It is said on good authority that General Villa also crossed and is hiding somewhere in the outskirts O. the city Efforts to locate him were unavailing.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
DEATH IS PREFERABLE

MONROE, Wis, Dec. 2O.- Physi- cians of Green county, which had the lowest death rate, in the State last Summer, attribute the healthy con dition of the community to the eating of limburger cheese. Last year B. O41 ,465 pounds of this cheese were produced in the county and as a staple of food it largely displaced neat
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
SCOPE OF PLOT GREATER THAN
 ANTICIPATED
CANAL DESTRUCTION MAY PROVE AN INCIDENT OF MINOR CONSEQUENCE IN CONSPIRACY.
By Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Informa- ton obtained from witnesses appear. ing before the grand jury investigat- ing the alleged plot of Paul Koeaig, head detective of the Hamburg-Am- erican line, to destroy the Welland canal, has widely extended the scope of the inquiry Following adjourn ment of the session today Federal oi- hcials stated that the canal plot might prove merely an incident in the con spiracy which extended throughout the country.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
COAST UNPROTECTED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-A hos tile force can land on the Atlantic coast, according to Admiral Dewey, president of the general navy board unless the United States has large: navy. In a letter to Congressman Gardner the admiral says the coast of Massachusetts, the eastern and southern shores of Long Island and the shores of Delaware and Chesa- peake bay are especially vulnerable.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
LARGE QUANTITY DREAM JUICE
 IS SEIZED
CONSIGNMENT OF OPIUM INTERCEPTED ON JAP
 ANESE LINER BY FED-I ERAL OFFICIALS.
By Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2O-Thc shipment of opium that customs off cials intercepted Saturday aboard the Japanese liner Seiyo, in transit from Hong Kong to Salina Cruz, Mexico, was found to be the largest single seizure of the contraband drug ever made in the United States. It is val ted at $450O00. No effort was made to conceal the shipment. The steam ship company oficia1s said they woull protest the seizure to Washington.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Greek Postmaster
 Seeks Arbitration

BERNE, Dec. 2O-Tne postmaster of Greece, Dr. A. R. Kusidis, has come to Berne in an effort to recom- mend an arbitration of the difficulties between the United States and Greece in regard to settlement of postal money orders.
 The American government mas paid balances in favor of Greece by cheek on Paris, according to the procedure provided in the international postal convention.
 The Greek government contends that on account of decline in exchange it has lost $25O,0O0 which the United States should pay.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
GENEROUS GAMBLER

NEW YORK, Dec. 20. - To his friend, Miss Agnes C. Mccormack O. 210 West Eighty-frst street. friend. Peter De Lacy, foremost among the poolroom gambling fraternity. who died November IA, left S1OOOOO. ac- cording to his will filed Monday.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Randall Set Free.

TUCSON, Dec. 20.-The release, on the order of the Washington author;- ties, of Carlos Randall, former Villa governor of Sonora, caused the dis missal of habeas corpus proceedings in his behalf in the United States court. Randall had been held pend ing extradition proceedings planned by Carranza who desired 10 return him to Mexico.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
BABIES BURIED IN 55-FOOT
 PLOT
REPORT OF MARYLAND STATEWIDE VICE CON- MISSION IS FILLED WITH SENSATIONAL FEATURES THAT IN DEPRAVITY ALMOST DEFY BELIEF.
By Associated Press.


 BALTIMORE, Dec. 2O.- An ex- haustive report on the inquiry by the Statewide vice commission was made public today. One of the sensational features is the alleged traffic in babies. It is asserted that the investigators found institutions in Baltimore where the mother of an illegitimate child could consign her offspring upon the payment of an agreed sum and for ever rid herself of its responsibility. The commission ayers that between 80 and 90 per cent of such children die and are buried in heaps in small plots. One plot $ feet square has been the tomb of 5000 babies since 1866.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
WHEN ' |C I ORY W AS IN
 SIGHT
HAD ALLIED FLEET CON- TINUED ITS ATTACK AT THE DARDANELLES MARCH 18TH. TURKISH FRIES OULD HAVE BEEN SILENCED.
By Associated Press.

VIENNA, Dec. 2O.-Had the allied fleet returned to its attack on the Dardanelles batteries On the day after the great bombardment, March 18th last, the waterway to Constantinople would have been surely forced, in the opinion of number of the artillery officers of the defense works near Tschanek Kale, expressed to an As sociated Press correspondent, who has returned from the Dardanelles front to Vienna. The guns of the de- lenses had been battered and the am munition was about exhausted when the allied fleet withdrew in the dark and failed to return the next day to complete its task.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
TO TAKE POSSESSION

JUAREZ, Dec. 20.-Arrivals from Chihuahua City today reported that the Villa forces evacuated the city yesterday. General Trevino and Car ranza are due tomorrow to take pos session of the capital The last Villa troops arrived hungry, unpaid and desperate
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
ADVENTISTS ACTIVE

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20. - The North American division of Seventh Day Adventists collected $615, ,565.95 for foreign missionary work in 1914, according to report just compiled by the various divisions and made public today by Bishop Chas. Thomp- son of Minneapolis, president of the union conference division.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
ARMENIANS MASSACRED

LONDON, Dec. 20.-A dispatch to the Times today reports that the Bull garians either massacred, or deport- ed the Armenians in Adrianople The women and children were detained in prison before their removal and were subjected to brutal treatment.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Copenhagen Wants
 Ford ToKeeb Going
By Associated Press.

CHRISTIANA, Dec. 20. - Henry Ford received information he wouli be prohibited from holding meetings in Copenhagen. It, was learned that he would go there, however, to select delegates to accompany his peace party to The Hague.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
BE GOOD, THAT'S ALL

FL PASO, Dec. 2O.-Colonel Villa was taken before department of jus tice officials who said all they would exact of nim was strict compliance with United States neutrality and I pledge not to participate in any revo- lutionary movement in relation to Mexico.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
AT LOW TIDE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. - The tide of emigration to the United States ebbed to its lowest point in more than twenty years during the past fiscal year, according to figures made public in the annual report of Secretary Wilson, of the department of labor.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
DEPENDS ON DEVELOPMENTS

LONDON, Dec. o. An Athens dispatch states the reply of the Cen tral powers to the Greek inquiry re- garding their advance on Greek terri tory, declares that all depends on le- vclopments of the military operations.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
LEAVE TODAY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. - Cap tains Boy-Ed and Won Papen, former attaches of the German embassy here, will sail for Europe tomorrow, 1t was learned from an authoritative source today.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Peace Is Certain.

NEW YORK, Dec. President Gilmore, head of the Federals com mittee, before starting for Cincinnati predicted baseball peace before the end of the week.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Rabies Epidemic
 Is Becoming Acute
By Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2O.-J. s. Boggers of the United States health service has asked the governors Of Nevada, Utah, California, Oregon and Idaho to cooperate in the destruction of coyotes and stray dogs in their States in order to control the cpl demic of rabies. The situation in some counties is described as "acute." |"
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Wilson And Bride
 Take An Auto Ride
By Associated Press.

HOT SPRINGS, Dec. 20. - Tie president and his bride took an auto mobile drive over Virginia mountain roads today after spending most oi the morning answering messages Of congratulations. Golf is planned for tomorrow.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
HUBBARDS LEAVE S433, sso

TORONTO. Dec. 17.-The wills of Ebert Hubbard and his wife, both cf whom were drowned on the Lusitar;a were filed here, Hubbard's showed an estate of $397, ,S45 and Mrs. Hubbard $ S35,735.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
WAR PRACTICALLY
 AT AN END
MAGNATES AGREE THAT MATTERS OF ONLY SM ALL I'M P OR TANCE ARE TO BE ADJUSTED.
By Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20. - Confident that the baseball war is practically al an end, and with only minor matters easy of adjustment to be arranged, the leaders of the fight left tonight to at tend the peace meeting at Cincinnati tomorrow. In the party are Presi- dent Johnson, Charles Weghman and President Burlington of the Ameri- can Association, eacn of whom saic peace was assured.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
FiUe ProUinceS Are
 Forninst Monarchy
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2O-Long King Chong, president of the Chinese Republic Association, received cable gram today from Shanghai stating that five provinces declared independ ence against the rule of Yuan Shi Kai.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
SCHM!DTPLANNED THE DEATH OF
 GENERAL OTIS
MURDER OF OWNER OF THE TIMES WAS TO FOL- LOW DESTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING.
By Associated Press.

Dy -ASS|VIdIVU T ItSS.
 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2O.-Testi- mony that Matthew Schmidt, charged with murder in connection with the Times destruction, admitted after wards that he and his alleged co-con- spirators intended to kill General Otis, the owner of the Times, was given by Donald Vess Meserve, who said he made friends with Schmidt in New York after being employed by a detective agency.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
To Protect Foreigners.

NOGALES, Dec. 2O.-General Ob- regon telegrapned from Guaymas that he is planning to establish strong garrison in the Yaqui valley to sup press any Indian outbreaks and pro tect foreign landholders.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
RACING FOR LOUISIANA

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20. - Gov ernor Hall of Louisiana has agreed to permit the staging of horse race meet here. The meet will open Jan uary 1st
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
PRISONER KILLS FELLOW
 CONVICT
By Associated Press.

JOLIET, Dec. 20.- Jasper Perry, serving term for attempted murder, killed Frank Harrod, another convict in the penitentiary today. Just six months ago former Warden Allen'a wife was killed.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
COPPER

NEW YORK, Dec 20. - Electro lytic, SEQ to $2O.25.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
DROPP|N|1OF GALL|POL| CAMPAIGN SE ' [ RE
 SHOCK
Marks End or One
 Great War Chapter
BRITISH WERE WITHIN A FEW MILES OF VICTORY FROM FIRST TO LAST BUT FINALLY HAD TO WITHDRAW.
By Associated Press.

LONDON. Dec. 2O-The announce
 ment of the British withdrawal from
 Gallipoli overshadowed all war news
 today For the British public the abrupt war office statement marks ne end of one of the great chapters Of the wars history. The shock of the news was hardly broken by rumors which had been current for some days. Newspapers commenting on ,the subject said: "This ends an en- Serprise on which the highest hopes were built If it had succeeded it probably would nave turned the tide ot war. Our troops from first to last were within a few miles of victory"
 The British continue to occupy Seddul Bahr. commanding the en- tarance to the straits. A double line of ships protects this position, which it is assumed, will be held.
 Reports of a Greek-Bulgarian en- counter, resulting from a Bulgarian surprise attack, were cleared by a Greek statement that the encounter occurred in Albania None was killed and but few wounded. Order was re- stored and an amicable inquiry is pro- ceeding.
 An official statement intimated that operations in other sectors of Galli- poll than those from which the troops were withdrawn will be continued. The statement said: The evacuation of the Anzac-Suvla zone was accom- Dlished without the Turks being aware of the movement of the great army, although they were in closest con tact with the enemy. By contraction of the front, operations at other points can be more effectively prosecuted"
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
Bulgars Halt; May Invade Greece

SOFIA, Dec. 20. - The Echo De Bulgarie announced that Bulgarian troops had halted at the Greek from tier for the present in order to avoid embarrassing Greece, while the Allies are gradually massing around Salo- Tiki. The paper declared that 1t may become necessary for the Germans and Bulgarians to invade Greece iG pursuit.
Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
SILVER

NEW YORK. Dec. 20. - Silver. 543$ cents.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-25
The Greek Orthodox
Christmas

A CC0RDING 20 the Greek and
IA Russian calendar, Christmas
IA comes thirteen days after the
day that is generally observed
In this country-that is, on Jan. Z. In
the colonies of the two races in Ameri-
can cities the day is celebrated by pray
er, feastlng and much merrymaking.
The Greek Orthodox churches arc
crowded to the doors, men and women
bringing candles. which they place be
fore the shrines.
In the Greek and Russian restaurants
and clubs there is feasting, and the res
taurants Of the better class are deco
rated with laurel wreaths and pine
trees. The poorer places have artificial
wreaths Of paper.
In the Russian homes in the cities
there are Christmas trees with pres
ents for the children, just as there
are on Dec % in homes Of other ma
tionalities. Scores Of children gather
in homes TO sing Russian hymns ami
songs.
In the homes Of the Greeks also there
are Christmas trees for the children.
The older folk receive money and gifts
on the Greek New Year.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-25
HOP GROWERS HOLD MEETING

A meeting of much interest to local
members of the Oregon Hop Growers
association was held in this city Satur-
day afternoon in the NJ. w. of A. hall,
in the Johnson building.
o. j.. Hatteburg acted as chairman
of the meeting.
The object of the meeting was for
the purpose of determining how many
VI the members were willing to extend
their contracts. The original contracts
expire December 81.
Nearly tine entire number present
signified their willingness to allow the
extension of time. There were few
who wanted their money and they will
be taken care Of by the association.
Both local banks were represented
at the meeting, and assurance was Civ
en- the growers that anything they
could do to assist them would be done
cheeffully.
Association members are quiteaconfi-
dent in the belief that the price of hops
will soon advance, and those VINO can
are determined to hold on until the
raise comes.-Silverton Appeal.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-25
DR.. Cook Ambitious to
Climb Mount Everest

San Francisco, Dec. 25-Doctor
Cook, he of North Pole fame, is beat
ing it across Russia somewhere, with a
suitcase and one companion, DR.. W. T.
Thompson. This was the information
Il. S. Brooke, a movie operator, brought
here today after following Cook Is
checkered peregrinations in the Orient
and finally quitting to return on the
steamer Persia from China Tne party
intended to climb Mount Everest, the
highest peak in the world, but British
officers kept them chasing hither and
yOn so that they finally Abandoned this
idea.
AS Brooke tells it, the party's troub-
les started at Singapore where officials
held them up. Then at Penang, they
were stripped Of their belongings. Max
ing their way to RangoOn, they found
new difficulties, for the British took
away their passports because they were
not signed by the then Secretary of
State Bryan. The trio were held. pris-
oners for five weeks. Gaming free
dom temporarily, they went on to Cal
cutta where they were again arrested,
and ordered deported because officials
suspected them of being revolutionary
plotters. AT last tney went to Manila
where they were told that British
troops searched the Mongolia on which
they started their journey and demand
the party as spies. They had just left,
ed the party as spies. They had just
left, however.
The party toured the Philippine is
lands for a while and then went to
Japan and climbed I'ujima "the sacred
mountain" "
Brooke quit at Shanghai. At that
time, the other men had suitcase each
and were heading for Russia.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-25
Driven by jealousy He
Killed Woman and Self

San Francisco, Dec. 25.-Tnsane
jealousy at noon today drove Frank
Lehan, a horse shoer, to shoot and
fatally wound Mrs. Florence Ryan,
with whom he was in love, and then to
end his own life by sending a bullet in
to his brain.
The tragedy was enacted in the little
home of Mrs. Maggie Dawson, where
Mrs. Ryan was staying. She is the
Givcrced wife of saloon man.
In ihe little home with Mrs. Dawson,
was Giasento LagOmarsinO, team
ster, of whom Lehman was jealous. The
horseshoer walked into the cottage, at
tackled Lagomarsino with his fists and
then demanded that Mrs. Ryan leave
with him. When she refused, he shot
her between the eyes. Then he turned
the gun on himself. He died instantly.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-25


~ talk of the coming of Santa
IN Claus for weeks before Dec. %,
but there was c time when he
was more frequently referred to as st.
Nicholas, the Dutch st. Nlclaes, or
San Claas. Mrs. Van Rensselaer, says
in her History Of New York.
"The stockings that our children
hang on Christmas eve were once the
shoes that the children of Amsterdam
and New Amsterdam set In the chin
ney corners on the eve Of Dec. @, and
the reindeer whose hoofs our children
hear represent the horse, descended
from Wodens horse Sleipner, upon
whose back st. Nicholas still makes
his round in Holland When Catholi-
cism prevailed st. Nicholas was every
where the children's saint. In Hol-
land, where his personality was modi-
fed by memory Of Wooden, god Of the
elements and the harvest, he had a
peculiar hold on popular affection,
which persisted into Protestant times.
The children of Holland still believe
that he brings the gifts that they al
ways get on the eve OF his titular day,
Dec. g."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-12-25
"SLUG FOUR"

ital Journal, away back in the dark
ages, before there were linotypes. On
it was written, "What is the matter
with Slug Four
"Slug -Four" didn't know what was
the matter with her; only that sne was
pretty tired, and long way from her
mother, or anybody who cared, and her
money had run out the day before. So
the tears dropped into the "space"
box, because she did not dare stop
long enough to wipe them off.
When Saturday night came there
was an extra slip in her envelope. She
read it and her face went white. On
Monday there was a new girl in her
place, and "Slug -Four" was trying
hard not to look in at bakery windows.
SO don't worry, Old Pard, if you did
make it appear other than written; but
aren't you glad l remembered about
"Slug Fourl"