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The Parker post., 1915-02-06
100000 PRoPERTYI.L0SS
IS CAUSED BY HURRICANE
BEACH CITIES SUFFER ENORMOUS
LOSS DURING STORM
Damages or Destroys Piers, Bulk
heads, Sidewalks and Residences
From Santa Monica South
to Newport Beach

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-Angry seas
sWirling in from the zone of the ter
rifle hurricane a hundred miles out bit
and tore and burrowed into the shore
early Saturday morning, from Santa
Monica all the way down to Newport
Beach and Balboa, destroying or dam
aging piers, bulkheads, sidewalks and
residences, with total property loss OF
nearly 100000.
Here are the big items of property
destroyed in the mad riot of the comb
ers that began at o'clock and contin-
ued until the tide had well receded,
about 10 o'clock.
Sixteen hundred feet of the Stand
ard Oil pier at >El Segundo destroyed;
loss estimated at $150,000.
Mile of concrete sea wall and side
walk at Long Beach torn out, at loss
of 100000; residences damaged to
the extent of $4,000.
|, End of WindWard avenue pier, Ven
ice, destroyed, with loss of $4,000 to
structure and concessions; Maier pier
destroyed; two residences carried into
sea and another almost destroyed,
with other damage aggregating $685.
900.
Half mile of sidewalk torn out at
Redondo Beach, and a score of cot
tages damaged; loss estimated at $10,.
900.
Curiously enough to the uninitiated,
the sea did it's damage after the high
wind of the storm had abated. Well
out to sea the wind had blown hurri-
cane, and the oceans surface was piled
up into mighty waves. These came
rolling in against the land when the
other elements had returned to seren-
ity.
In few hours the familiar ocean
fronts of the popular beach cities and
towns were defaced until they are
scarcely recognizable. Thousands of
piles and timbers from the destroyed
piers and masses of other wreckage
streW the miles of beach.
Thousands of sand-bags and aprons
of wood and of canvas are placed as
weak defenses against further attack,
Seaweed and wreckage and coatings
of sand disfigure ocean front side
walks and automobile speedWays.
Most of the population of the beach
resorts lined the ocean front during
the worst of the destruction, and
watched with awe the fearful grandeur
of the sea in it's angry mood.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
MILLIONAIRES IN AEROPLANES
TO HUNT FOR EAGLES

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Eagles
have joined the mountain lions in the
war on peninsula farmers. Five birds
of terrific proportions were seen how
ering over Buttano canyon yesterday,
and half-eaten carcasses of chickens
and sheep have been found in the
neighborhood. 1t is many years since
eagles have been seen in this part of
the state. 1t is believed by peninsula
farmers that the eagles may have
done some of the damage to stock
heretofore accredited to the lions. A
possee of hunters has started out to
bag the eagles. 1t is expected that
some of the young San Mateo million
aire sportsmen will start off in aero
planes to pepper the birds, which are
said to measure nearly seven feet be-
tween wing tips.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
OFFICIAL BAND is
l.. A. COUNTY PLAN

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-Los An
geles county is to have an official
band for the first time in it's history.
Funds for the organization were ap-
portioned when appropriations for the
1915 general committee were made,
and F. w. Blanchard, chairman of the
music committee, has completed the
preliminaries.
The forty members of the official
musicians will be selected from the
best instrumentalists in the city. The
band will appear in parades, at recep-
lions and on all festive occasions.
A director will be selected at an
early date, and rehearsals will begin
for the first appearance, which is ex-
pected to be during the visit of Presi-
dent Wilson the latter part of March.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TERRITORY PROPOSED

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. "A move
ment to reduce the eight California
counties south of the Tehachapi to
the status of territory is being
pushed by the Peoples Association for
Changing the Boundary of California
by Amending the Constitution, which
has headquarters here.
Petitions to place an initiative meas
ure on the 1916 ballot are being circu-
lated throughout Northern and Cen
trail California, and the association as
serts that it has obtained 1000 sigma
lures. The main purpose, said Secre-
tary Russell L. Dunn today, is to gain
an additional state for the West and
two additional senators in congress.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
STATE LEGISLATORS TO TAKE
RECESS Until MARCH EIGHTH
HANDS OF CLOCK TURNED BACK ONE HOUR TO enable BOTF
HOUSES TO finish REGULAR ROUTINE OF BUSINESS
When Doors We're Closed the Legislative Measures introduced Amounted to
Only About ohds of the Number introduced at the Last Session
Bills to be Acted When Legislature RecOnvenes March

Senator Hans, chairman of the SEN
ate committee on banking, introduced
bill to place all collecting agencies
under the state banking department.
The measure was drafted as result
of the International Mercantile and
Bond company episode. At the pres
ent time there is no legal supervision
over such agencies.
Last-Minute Measures
Other senate bills were:
Chandler of Fresno-To require re-
tail dealers in oils and gasoline to dis
play placards showing the quality and
price thereof.
Thompson of Los Angeles-To es-
tablish a bureau of child and animal
protection and making an appropria-
ton of $4,000.
Benedict of Los Angeles-To pro-
vide a negotiable instrument of law
uniform with that of other states. The
measure is backed by the California
Bankers association.
Butler of Los Angeles-To prohibit
the hiring of autos to convey voters
to the polls unless the electors are in
firm.
Butler of Los Angeles-To enable
any town maintaining public swim
ming baths to take water therefor from
a public utility water ditch.
Cogswell, Los Angeles-To appro.
pirate $500 for a portrait or Lieuten-
ant Governor Wallace.
Late Assembly Bills
The following bills were introduced
in the assembly:
Mouser, Los Angeles-Appropriating
$4,000 to create a fund to repay per
sons who have been obliged to pay
funds illegally into the state for auto
licenses.
Bruck, Napa-Creating a commits.
sion for the purpose of making a sur.
vey of historical material in Califor.
mia.
Sharkey, Contra Costa-Providing
for the establishment under the state
board of health of bureau of dental
sanitation.
Fish, Los Angeles-A blank bill to
regulate the signboard advertising
The provision given applies to all ex
terror advertising of real estate.
Senator Campbell proposed con
stitutional amendment to re-enact the
poll tax. He thinks that the people
did not realize that it meant taking
money away from the school fund
when they voted to abolish the tax.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
CONVICT PAYMENT
BILL INTRODUCED

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-Secretary
Browns bill to provide payments to
convicts' families and convicts during
term of imprisonment has been intro
duced. Lyon put in an anti-injunction
bill, providing no injunctions shall be
issued in labor disputes except to
protect property from physical dam
age.
A number of bills were reported
back favorably from the committee,
including appropriations for Los An
geles and San Jose normals, and the
Downing measure creating bureau
of industrial investigation.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-Promptly
at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Speak
er Young declared the assembly adj
journed for the constitutional recess,
after the hands of the clock had pre-
viously been turned back.
At minutes to 1, only 81 minutes
later than the hour set, Senator
Thompson, president pro tenn, dropped
his gavel and declared the senate adj
journed until IL o'clock, March 8. The
last hour was occupied with perfume
tory details.
Pensions for disabled ball players
who have had fifteen years or more
service in the Pacific Coast league,
prohibiting porters and walters from
using dining cars for sleeping quar-
tiers, compensation for persons arrest
ed but not convicted, are some of the
subjects covered in bills introduced
in the assembly.
When the two houses closed doors
the legislative measures amounted to
only about two-thirds the number in
troduced at the last session. The con-
stitutional recess will run to March 8,
when the legislature will reconvene
ing the session just closed.
The California legislature issued an
invitation to the rivers and harbors
committee of congress to come to Cal
ifornia and inspect rivers and harbors
here. The measure was offered by
Senator Kehoe of Humboldt.
Kehoe announced that the expenses
of the congressman would be carried
by different commercial bodies or the
sections of the state to be visited by
the officials.
Several bills to protect the Califor-
MIA industry against butter imported
from Australia and New Zealand were
introduced.
The measure would require store
keepers to post notices to the effect
that their butter was imported, and
to stamp each roll.
The bills we're drafted by the Far
mers Protective league at the request
of several farm bureaus and dairy as
sociations.
The right to organize for the pur
pose of storing water for irrigation
purposes would be given to irrigation
reclamation, drainage and various
types of protection districts under a
bill introduced by Senator Irwin OF
Kings The measure is one of the
conservation bills.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
STATE UNIVERSITY TO
START NIGHT SCHOOLS

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. "A uni
versity education through the medium
of night school is the latest feature
started by the University of Califor-
MIA, and on Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings classes will be organized in
Oakland and San Francisco. The work
will be conducted by the department
of university extension, and embraces
varied list of courses from English
to mechanics.
Glasses will be formed at the uni
versity extension office, in the Under
wood building in this city.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
FORMAL OPENING OF
CANAL POSTPONED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Secretary
of the Navy Daniels announced that
the formal opening Of the Panama
canal was postponed from March un-
til some date in July not yet fixed.
Daniels also stated that the presi-
dent will visit the canal in July, &C
cording to present plans, and the ma
val review will take place there, un-
less unforeseen circumstances pre-
vent.
Plans for the opening are contin-
gent on the progress made by the
canal engineers in removing slides
which have caused anxiety in the zone
ever since October.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
WIRELESS BARRED
IN GERMAN SEAS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Rules of
the German government for use of
wireless apparatus of vessels within
the territorial waters of Germany we're
received at the state department from
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. These
regulations provide that wireless may
be used on vessels within German
jurisdiction only in case of distress.
After a vessel has entered German
waters and taken on board German
pilot, such vessel is under control of
the German authorities.
Wireless apparatus is to be locked,
and not to be unlocked until the Ger
man pilot is discharged after passing
lighthouse.
In port, wireless apparatus is to be
partially dismantled, and certain parts
of it turned over to the German
authorities until the vessel is ready to
leave.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
MEN WHO WILL WELCOME
WILSON TO CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO, Feb. "A legisla-
tive commission to greet President
Wilson on his visit to the expositions
at San Diego and San Francisco was
completed with the announcement by
Lieutenant Governor Eshleman and
Speaker Young of five members from
each house to serve with them and
Governor Johnson.
The senators named are Finn of San
Francisco, Breed of Oakland, Luce of
San Diego, Campbell of San Luis Obs
DO and Slater of Santa Rosa. The as
semblymen are Conrad of San Diego,
Ellis of MERGED, Encell of Alameda,
Johnson of San Bernardino, Mcknight
of Los Angeles, Quinn of Eureka and
Ryan of San Francisco.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
County Doubles Forest Fund

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-The county
this year will double its appropriation
to be used in cooperation with the
United States forestry service under
R. H. Charlton, on condition that part
of the force needed for cutting trails
and firebreaks will be taken from the
list of unemployed applying to the
county for work.
Heretofore it has been the custom
to appropriate $4,000 a year to this
work, but this year $4,000 will be ap.
propriated.
Mr.. Charlton agreed that if he were
given the additional allowance he
would cooperate with the county
charity department.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
100000 Bean Order for Europe

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-An order
for 100000 worth of Southern Califor-
mia beans for immediate shipment from
San Pedro by steamer through the
Panama canal, and thence to Europe,
was received by Importers and export
ers of this city.
The order, which is the largest ever
placed in this country for beans, is the
second received from Europe in the
last three weeks.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
100000 FOR LAND
RECLAMATION SOUGHT

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-An appeal
addressed to congress that would give
California 100000 for irrigation and
reclamation is embraced in resolu-
ton by Senator Maddux. 1t asks con-
gress to restore it's act of June L.,
1902; repealed in 1910, providing that
California shall receive the money
from the sale of public lands. Since
1902, it is set forth in the resolution,
these sales have produced $S,OO0,O0O.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
COMPASS INDICATES DEPTH
OF BULLET IN FLESH

PARIS, Feb. IA compass indicat-
ing the depth of q bullet lodged in the
flesh has been invented by DR.. Max
ime Menard. The invention enables
a surgeon to penetrate Immediately to
the exact spot of lodgment, without
deviating so much as millemeter,
and operate. AS showing the unprece-
denied rapidity with which operations
may now be performed, DR.. Menard
instanced one case where he extract
ed a ball from the brain of a patient,
who attended a concert five days later.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Movies OutdraW Theaters

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-The play
houses, with their dramas and classical
plays, are being outdistanced ten to
one by the moving picture theaters, &C
cording to statistics made public in the
legislature in report presented by the
state recreational inquiry commission.
The following estimates of attendance
clearly point out the popularity of the
movie shows: Moving picture houses,
19,436,584; vaudeville houses, 1882
804; legitimate theaters, 1,790, asa; bur-
lesque houses, 1,055,904.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
FASHION DEGREES
12-INCH SKIRTS

CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Skirts should be
twelve inches and must be at least
seven inches from the floor, Mrs. A.
H. Flanders, one of the judges at the
fashion show to be given next month
by the Garment Manufacturers asso-
citation, announced. And shoes must
be high-high enough to meet the
skirt-or else very, very low and ex-
tremely fancy. Skirts, she said, should
be full, and waistline high and large.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
BRITISH LAUNCH NEW
POWERFUL BATTLESHIP

PARIS, Feb. minister of Marine
Augagneur returned from England
and reported that the British launched
last week at Portsmouth a new war
ship of $4,000 tons, which is a marvel
of speed and power. The new ship
carries eight 12-inch guns and steams
twenty-five knots.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Denied Increase in Rates

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-The rail-
road commission rendered a decision
denying the application of the South
ern Pacific Railway company to in
crease it's rates for the transportation
of uncompressed cotton in carloads
from Calexico to Los Angeles and San
Pedro from 40 to so cents per hundred
pounds. ..sef.s
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Turk Air Elect Sunk

LONDON, Feb. 1.-The Petrograd
correspondent of the Times telegraphs
as follows: "The Russian fleet in the
Black sea has sunk the steamship
Georgius near Sinope. 1t was carry
ing sixteen aeroplanes, the entire
Turkish aeroplane fleet"
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
TREASURY MUST REFUND
100000 WAR TAX

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The treas
ury must refund 100000 Inheritance
tax collected under the Spanish war
revenue act on estates of persons who
died before the repeal of the tax, but
whose estates were not distributed un-
der state law until after the repeal.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Bar Chocolate as Export

BERNIE, Switzerland, Feb. 1.-The
expectation of Swiss chocolate has
been going on at such rapid rate to
Germany and France that the federal
council fears the supply will be ex-
hausted and adopted decree forbid
ding the export of this food.
Vinegar, manufactured India rubber
and electric cables also are forbidden
expectation.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Destroyers to Practice

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1.-THE torpedo
boat destroyers Whipple, Perry, Pre-
BILE, Truxtun and Paul Jones left here
Sunday night for Los Angeles, off
which port they will engage in target
practice for one week.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
HOSPITAL Train Is Gift

PORT SAID, Egypt, Feb. IA
fully-equipped hospital train, fitted
with the most up-to-date improve
ments, has been presented to the Brit
ish by the Egyptian Red Crescent So
ciety, of which the new sultan is
president.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
COAST HAPPENINGS
M|RRORED HERE
BRIEF OUTLINE OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Condensed Resume of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
PIaGeS---MIl Allow Rapid Scanning
Sea-Goinq Jitney Bus

SANTA BARBARA, Feb. "A new
launch, named the Sea Jitney, will be
run in the Santa Barbara channel, be-
tween Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz
island, by Captain VasQueZ.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
TELECRAPH|C NEWS
IN PARAGRAPHS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HEMISPHERES
Dispatches PiGtWmg Developments From the Out
side World Stripped Of Unnecessary
Details and Presented in Brief
War Loan Subscribed

VIENNA, Feb. 1.-The final result
of the subscription for the Austrian
war loan, it is officially announced,
amounted to $67O,OOO,OO0. Of this
sum, Austria contributed 433,OOOOOO,
and Hungary 1927, 100000.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
HISTORICAL SURVEY
OF STATE is ASKED

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2.-The gath
ering and preservation of records on
the early history of California is pro-
vided for in bill put in by Senator
Beban for a California historical sur
vey commission, one member to be ap-
pointed by the University of Califor-
MIA and one by the Native Sons of the
Golden West. 1t appropriates $4,000.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
New Tax Act
SACRAME1

SACRAMENTO, Feb. Ex-senator N.
W. Thompson's revenue and taxation
act which raises the corporation tax
rates, has been signed by Governor
Johnson, and will become effective i'm
mediately.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Destroy 400 Autos in Raid

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1.-The British
air raid on the town of Essen resulted
in the destruction of 400 war automo-
biles, according to correspondent of
the Handeizblad. These cars we're in
repair shop which was wrecked by
the British bombs.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Stop Pomona Wireless

POMONA, Feb. 2.-To prevent COM
plications as a result of the war, Coast
Radio Inspector Tate of San Francisco
paid a visit to Pomona and requested
that all wireless stations, including the
high schools, close down.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Fear Mt. LasSen

AUBURN, Feb. 2.-Farmers in the
vicinity of Mount Lassen, frightened
by the continued and growing activity
of the volcano, are moving their fami-
lies and stock to places of safety.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Cause for Canal DELAY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Col. Goe-
thals' report that he could not guar
antee passage of battleships through
the canal at the time set for the for
NAL opening is believed to be respon-
sible for the probable postponement Of
the ceremonies from March to July.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Suffrage Donations

CHICAGO, Feb. ITO accumulate
the $4,000 necessary to send to the
Panama-Pacifc exposition the famous
statue "The Suffragist Accusing Her
Sisters" every suffragette in Chicago
has been asked to donate fifty cents.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
Rumor Is Unconfirmed

BERLIN, Feb. mo official word
has been received at the Roumanian
legation here which would confirm the
reports emanating from Swiss and Ital-
ian sources that the military forces of
Roumania have been ordered to mo-
Billie by a royal decree.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
New Entrance Into Alaska

WASHINGTON, Feb. q Captain
Lukens of the coast and geodetic sur
vey has discovered a practically navi-
gable channel from the Boring sea into
the mouth of the Kushokwine river,
second in commercial Importance only
to the Yukon. Secretary Redfield, in
officially announcing the discovery,
says it will open 1000 square miles of
virgin territory.
The Parker post., 1915-02-06
U. S. Employment Bureau Is Opened

WASHINGTON, Feb. i2.-The fed
eral employment bureau completed it's
work of organization and is ready to
bring together the ''manless job and
the jobless man."
Secretary Wilson has sent circular
letter throughout the country, inform
ing the public that the bureau is open
to business. Application blanks en-
abling the employer and the worker to
make known their needs, without de-
lay, by communicating to Washington,
have been mailed to representatives of
the postoffice, agriculture and labor de-
partments. No fee is charged the en-
ployer or the employe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-08-03
MAKING DRY FIELD FOR
OREGON-O. A. c. GAME

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eu-
gene. Aug Klneaid Field the
athletic grounds Of the State Uni
versity. sill present a considerably
changed appearance when the stu.
dents return in the fan The Univer-
sity administration is building new
bleachers to accommodate the record
crowds which are expected to attend
the campus games this year. especi-
ally the Oregon o, 4. G. game which
will be played on the campus for the
first time in eight years, 4 new fence
will he built around the east end Of
the field, which will reduce its size
somewhat by cutting off hundred
feet or so nearest to the new admins
tration building. Johnson Hall The
old gate house has been torn down
and a new one will be built All the
old drains criss- crossing the field have
been dug up and will be replaced in
slightly different locations after the
tiles are thoroughly cleaned. BY this
means 1t is expected that the mud
trouble will be avoided and that the
University will be able TO furnish a
dry football arena in any kind Of
weather