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PORTLAXD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HTLID'S EVERY ARTISTS' COLONY SHOCK KILLS T FIELD TRUSTEES FLAG DESECRATED; MAGAZINE HALTS LOUIS J. WILDE. IS INDICTED HERE DREAM IS REALTY PLAN SKYSCRAPER INTEREST THRIVES US BOAT HITS ROCK 1100 OVER BLUE BCRIt M'LVTOSH FINDS "AX CHICAGO TO GET XEW MOXSTEB SALE OF COLLIERS IX BOSTON GEL-; BUTS TRACT. BCTXDLXG. VIOLATES LAW. VOL. LI "0. 15,787. CRIMSDN IS TWICE fcity's Advancement in Year Amazes. CEREAL SHIPMENTS SOAR fecund Far Behind and Loca Gain is Huge. 13ANK CLEARINGS CUMB Building Activity Increase Steadily and Postofflce Receipts far Ex eel, 19 tO Fiscal Year Stock Market Stride Big. With the close of the fiscal year a retrospective view of Portland's active tjr for the last six months shows that rh city has made extraordinary prog- ess In every endeavor. Records at the City Hall indicate hat building permits for the last six nonths exceed the building activity of i similar period last year by $1,000,000 At the Custom-House shipping rec- irds loom as more thriving than ever, Portland's outgoing cereal trade ex- eedlng that of the Sound by 3.303,991 bushels and the city's gain for the year being ll.734.7S. Only in lumber s there a falling- off. but this Is not iscrlbed to msrket lassitude, last yesr having been an extraordinary year In the lumber trade. Although bank 'clearings showed an immense gain In June. 1910. last month surpassed that record month by nearly S per cent and the Increase for the half year ending yesterday lists a gain of nearly 7 per cent. At the Postofflce a material Increase also recorded, the increase for the year exceeding $100,000. Crowning the city's handsome -ecord. the wholesale trade shows that t has leaped to keep up with fellow ictlvltles. Indicative of the gain the Portland Union Stockyards shows hipment Increase of 332 carloads of lock of all kinds for the half year. Gain Deemed Supreme. Portland's advancement. It is be eved. surpasses that of any other city i the United States. With the month of June giving a good account of Itself, the half-year period as well as the fiscal year, ending yesterday, showed immense Increases in virtually every line of business. The close of tho ceroM year In ship ping demonstrated that Portland Is la he lead of Puget Sound and other vorts. There were shipped from this ort 11.033. 2 J2 buhels ot wheat and 7i,JT4 barrels of flour. The gain over he year 1909-1J10 waa 1.60S.71S bush els or wheat and I5..S67 barrels of I flour. Portland exceeded Puget Sound ports In wheat shipments by 1.S09.991 bushels.' The business for the cereal year was $1,734,798 In excess of ihe value of shipments for 1909-1910. One cf the gratifying features of Portland's export trade was In lumber shipping. There was sent from this port 104.038.7SS feet of lumber, or only 7.000.000 less than shipped the last fis cal year, which was the banner season In Portland's history. Bank Clearing Climb. Rink clearings for every month have mad! large gains. Clearings for March exceeded those fcr the corre sponding month of last year by near S5.C00.COO. In spite of the big record made in June. 1910. the clearings for the month just closed showed an in crease of nearly S per cent. The following table shows the totals In bank clearings for the first half of 1910 and 1911: 110. llt. 41.J4I.1 17.:4.3S 51: 5.H j.:js 44.114.47T 4I.I9I.S14 K.bruary J.3a..I4 M.r.-b ............ 46 343.9.HX April 4 :7.V0J May II lJ.J: Jun. 43.144.0ll Total C4S.111.71 f)i.l4.(14 Compared with other cities in the United States. Portland has made i remarkable showing in building con uructlon durir.g the past six months. Gains were made every month except In April, when permits fell behind by few thousand dollars -of April. 1910, which was the banner year in Port land's history. The month of .June. however, showed a big increase over the permits for the corresponding month of last year. In addition to the several skyscrap ers In course of construction, a number of four and six-story buildings have been started In the business district of Central East Portland, where many of them will cost 1100.000 each. There are several Immense structures plsnned for the West Side business district be. sides numerous smaller buildings and apartment-houses. Fine residences are being built In all parts of the city. Wltn building plans active now. It is expected that the latter half of the year will show a still greater increase and the big record of 1919 may be eclipsed. A comparative table showtng the record in building permits for the first raif of 1910 and 1911 follows: -tl Valuation. s-4.1 ie X fo4 1 J.4TJ Si sou.;:: 1.1)1. Mi i.7.7:i No. No. 4tt 71 : 7:4 0 s:; Valuation. 5U f IS 1.4'4.4.' 1 -l M l.l T.44II J.7t.lia Janon-y ... 14 K-lrumxy .. 4.'5 -rfart-h ..... i tvpril tr I lr B I. aae ...... Total ...IMS .. SKI .S:4.US Permits Iued exreed those for the 4Cjpclnd. a 1 1 Hotel, Workshop. Cafe Chantant, Art Fair llall and Cottage at Cost Fart of Plan. tj-is ivr.n.rs. Jun 30. (Special.) The dream of Burr Mcintosh, magaslne nronrletnr. ex-2MWSDaDer man. long time successful actor, dramatist, artist and expert phoptographer. who projects a world art center in California, a pears about to be realized. Mcintosh covered the globe with camera and decided that this state wnnM h tho Ideal Discs Tor his colony. He bought 00 acres today in a pic turesque location south of the city and It is announced that construction work will be begun immediately. It is on darattod that Homer Lauzhlin. a cap! ijillnt. who Is Mcintosh's uncle by mar rlage. is tbe "anger back of the unique venture. In the center of the grounds are to be erected a hotel with ZOO rooms, an rt fair hall, a a-ronD of structures de voted to studies, a theater, an artists vArltihnn. reataursnt with cafe Chant ant and SO cottages to be rented at cost. The cost of the buildings is esti mated at S 300.000. HILL'S STATUS IS MYSTERY Berlin Embaaey Proves AnomaHy In Diplomatic World. BERLIN, June 30. (Special.) Con tinned failure on the part of the Amer ican Government to appoint a succes sor to Ambassador Hill, to send-him his papers of recall or to take steps to restore the staff of embassy here to Its full complement Is becoming a sub ject of genuine mystification In diplo matic circles of Berlin. The delay in the appointment of a new man is explicable on various grounds, but that Dr. Kill should not have been authorised to bid adieu to the Kaiser In usual form and that the embassy Is left In Its present under manned condition are causes of aston ished conjecture. When Dr. Hill re cently went to Kiel at the Kaiser's command, it was supposed he would take occasion to present his papers of recall. As he did not do so the fact inevitably has come out that the American Government had not sent him such papers. He Is, therefore. In the curious posi tion of an official who, though prsc tlcally out of the service. Is still un der formal commission in the eyes of the German government, and ntust be treated as a fully authorised Ambit- dor. DANCE BARRED BY GAYNOR New York Mayor Will Xot Permit Degradation of Stage. NEW TORK, June 30. (Special.) Mayor Gaynor has Instructed Police Commissioner Waldo to take physical possession of the stage of the Winter Garden and curtail alleged improper Russian dances. The Mayor's Interposi tion cams as a result of a letter writ ten him by B. Ogden Chlsholm. who had bought tlcketa for himself and Mrs. Chlsholm. Mayor Gaynor, In answer to Mr. Chis- holm's letter, wrote the following: "I have had numerous " complaints about this play, and I have instructed the Police Commissioner to interpose and if necessary take physical posses ion of the stage during the play and arrest those engaged in any Indecencies which It exhibits. There .sre certain people here who are doing all they can to degrade the stage in this city: I am sufficiently as sured that the play Is disgusting." BUSINESS LEAD IS HELD Bank Clearings Show Portland Ahead ot Northwest Cities. Surpassed for the week by Los An geles only, Portland maintains a good lead over all other cities on the Paci fic Coast as Is shown by Bradatreet'a report of bank clearings for the week ndlng yesterday. Clearings in Port' land for the week aggregated $9,389,' 000. an Increase of 9. J per cent over the corresponding week last year. The per centage of Increase In Los Angeles for the week waa 15. AH of the other Pacific Coast cities show a falling off In business transae tlons. Tacoma's clearings did not equal those of the same week In 1911 by 29.1 per cent. (Seattle also lacked 16. per cent of doing the same volume of busi ness that was transacted by that city In the corresponding week the year before. In San Francisco, the clearings for the week fell off 8.8 per cent, and In Spokane 11. 9 per cent. BOTTOMLEY FINE $250,000 London Newspaper Proprietor De frauded Master Estate. LONDON. June 30. Horatio Bottom ley, editor, newspaper proprietor, finan cier and Independent Liberal member of Farllament for South Hackney, was condemned by Lord Chief Justice Alver stone today to pay $150,000 damages to the estate of the late R. E. Master, a retired Madras civil servant. It waa asserted that Bottomley had obtained 1:55.000 through misrepresen tation by selling to Msster worthless shares in numerous undertakings pro moted by Bottomley himself. The plaintiff is Mrs. Curtis, a daugh ter of Master. The Lord Chief Justice grsntea m. stay of execution on con dition that the whole $:50.0v0 be -oald into tha court wXthlfL & week. Women Die of Fright on Alaskan Waters. STEAMSHIP SPOKANE IS LOST Passengers, Totaling 158, Pass Night on Stony Shores. PORTLAND FOLK ON BOARD Though Only Meager Xews Has Been Rewired, Confirmation Given That Dead Are From Wash ington and Philadelphia, rORTLAND PEOPLE IX WRECK OF 8TFIMT.B SFOKAXE. Mrs. Philip Bushner. Miss Matta Bnehner. Miss Margarita Bushnsr, Mlas Lillian Bushaar. Miss Clara Adams. Miss Marms Adams, Mrs. p. S. Malcolm, Mrs. Lillian Barrr. Miss Elisabeth Bno. Mrs. Hamilton Brooks. Mrs. Fred H. Orean, Miss Winifred Abbott. Kin Jeaal M. Johnson, Mtss Josls 6ullivan. Mlas Ross M. Woodrow, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hogua, Ocorge W. Carroll, Jr., David Robertson. VICTORIA. B. C. June SO. Two women passengers died of shock last night when the excursion steamship Spokane, which for years has been nsed only for carrying tourists to the glaciers and towns of Southeastern Alaska, and which, waa fitted up for this service and waa laid up except during the Summer, struck a rock In Seymour Narrows. B. C, and was beached In Plumper Bay to prevent her sinking in deep-water. The women who lost their lives were Mrs. O. F. Williams, of Washington, P. C and Mrs. J. E. Strauss, of Philadel phia. Their bodies have been placed on a steamship bound for Seattle. At first the women were reported missing, and It was feared that they had been drowned. A search of the steamship was made and their bodies were found n their cabins, where. It Is supposed. they died of fright. All the passengers except these two were landed In the small boats. The passengers passed the night and today on the rocky shore, camping, and were taken off by the steamship Admiral Sampson tonight and conveyed to Seat tle, where they will arrive at 8 A. M. tomorrow. Reports of Death Conflict. Conflicting accounts of the cause ot the women's death have been received in the brief wireless dispatches sent by the steamships Admiral 8ampson, Prince George and City of Seattle that hurried to the assistance of the dis tressed steamship. One message asserted that the wom en died of fright in their staterooms. here the bodies were found. A private dispatch said that they were drowned. Mrs. Williams waa aocompanled by IConclnded on Pass 2.) Sites' of Old Chicago Opera-House and Orphenm Bought for Giant Enterprise. CHICAGO, June 30. (Special.) Trus tees ot the Marshall Field estate today bought for $2,100,000 cash tho Chicago Opera-House block at the southwest corner of Clark and Washington streets. In connection with the pur chase It developed that the Field es tate was also the real purchaser of the White property, the old Orpheum, ad joining the Chicago Opera-House block In Washington street, the price paid for this latter property being above 1900 000. This means the erection of one of the largest buildings down town, equaling if not excelling the S5.000.000 Insurance Exchange building and representing total Investment of about $10,000,000. The sale of the opera-house building means the eventual passing of one of the most famous theaters of Chicago end one which at the time of its con structlon was regarded as a model. The late David Henderson was the first lessee, and it was here that he made and lost a fortune In his famous ex travaganzas. MRS. PETERSON SENTENCED Woman Known In Northwest Goea to Prison as Swindler. SAN FRANCISCO. June 30. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Ines Peterson, who repre sented herself to be Mrs. Henrietta Far- relly, of San Leandro, a wealthy widow, and attempted to get $10,000 on a mort gage on the Farrelly home, was sen tenced to four years at Folsom, prison today. While the court was pronouncing sentence the woman interrupted him with a plea for clemency, but was cat short. The Judge told her he was hot holding her past against her, but that he was convinced she had shrewdly, cunningly and deliberately committed the crime and should pay the penalty. Her attorneys announced that they would take an appeal from, the sen tence. Mrs. Peterson was arrested several times in the Northwest, charged with defrauding hotelkeepers and tradesmen, She was found guilty two weeks ago. AVIATOR BEATS EXPRESS German Flies 3 45 MHo With Pas senger in Less Than ft Hours. BERLIN. -June SO. Hirth. the Ger man aviator, who, with a passenger in his monoplane, started from Munich at 7 o'clock last evening, arrived here at 9:08 this morning. His actual flying time was five hours and 41 minutes for 346 miles. A stop over night was made at Nuremberg, and another landing was made at Lelpslc The airman wins a prize of $12,500. The express trains make the trip between Munich and Berlin In ten hours. Hirth recently made a world's record for height with a passenger, ascending 5182 feet. SURPLUS IS $33,000,000 Panama Canal Operations Do Not Trench on Treasury. WASHINGTON, June 30. Revised es timates indicate that the closing of the fiscal year 1911 today will find the Federal treasury showing a surplus of approximately $33,000,000 on all ordi nary accounts. Receipts from Panama Canal bond sales indicate that there will be no total deficit on account of canal oper ations. WILL HE GET TRIMMED? Yale Freshmen Crew Wins First Event. 25,000 WATCH STRUGGLES 600 Decorated Yachts Line Course of Contests. BREEZE BLOCKS OARSMEN Harvard Captures Eight-Oared Var sity Race by 19 Lengths, Also Varsity Fours Aeroplane Hovers Over Contenders. NEW LONDON. Conn., June 30. Har vard's effort to sweep the Thames to day for the third consecutive year was not achieved, tor, although the crim son won the great varsity event, m runaway style by as lengms ana ma substitute varsity fours by five lengfhs. the Tale freshmen scored in the ini tial event. The winning crew led from the start. Harvard's varsity eight shook off the lighter Tale crew early and was never challenged throughout the f our miles. It was the fourth consecutive victory for Harvard, a reoord that has not come to Cambridge for nearly half a century. Wind Hinders Race. The varsity race was rowed down stream with a fast tide, but with a head breeze that made progress some' what slow. The morning races were rowed up stream, also with the tide, but against a moderate wind, ana tnose nines were slow as well. The official times for the three races were: Varsity race Harvard, 22 minutes 44 seconds; Yale 23 minutes. 40 seconds. Freshmen Tale 11 minutes, 63 sec onds; Harvard 11 minutes, 59 seconds. Varsity fours Harvard, 13 minutes. 37 seconds; Tale, 13 minutes, 62 sec onds. Thousands Line Coarse. The varsity race was witnessed by more than 25,000 persons on shore. In observation cars and on the river in a floating grandstand. Overhead rode an aeroplane while beneath stole a submarine. More than 300 yachts were lined along the course, and nearly doub.e that number took positions for the var sity race at a later hour. The starting pistol sent the fresh men eights away on their two-mile struggle at 11:26. In the first dozen strokes Harvard pulled out one length in the lead. Yale spurted and won by two lengths. The varsity substitute fours lined up for their two-mile stretch still far ther up the river, with rowing condi tions good. At 11:53 the pistol shot sent the fours away. Harvard lumped Into the lead at the start by half a length, but Yale qulcaly drew up al most even, but the Crimson kept its lead. During the interval of waiting be tween races, the observation train Concluded on Pass 6.) OREGON W0aL6?MER Patriotic Society's Agents Warn Newsdealers Who Suppress Offending Publication. BOSTON, June 80. (Special.) The sale of the current is sue of Collier's Weekly was stopped in Boston today by order of the police because it had advertising on a representation ' of the American flag in colors on the first page, in vio lation of the laws of the state. The matter was brought to the at tention of the Superintendent of Po lice by the Society for the Protection of. the American Flag. Superintendent Pierce sent word to all captains ask ing them to Instruct all newsdealers that if they sold this week's issue of Collier's they would be liable to legal proseoutlon. Captains throughout the city re ported back to police headquarters that all newsdealers said they would not offer Collier's for sale. COST STOPS POLYGAMY Woman President Says Man Cannot Support Plural Wives, Now. WASHINGTON, June 30. The high cost of living is an effectual bar to polygamy, according to President Smith, of the Mormon Church. In reply to a question whether he thought it best for a man to have but one wife, the husband of five wives and the father of 43 children said: "In these days of high cost of living there is no doubt that the average man is much better off with one wife. If a man cannot support one wife decently. it would obviously be Impossible for him to support more. The women of to day all demand that they be dressed and fed and housed as well as possible, and the man wltn an average income would be In terrible straits if he had several wives on his hands, all crying for the latest things in hats and gowns." President Smith, who came to Wash ington to appear before the sugar committee" of the House, said he ex pected to leave the city today. Ha said that polygamy no longer is practiced by Mormons and the man who is caught taking a plural wife is promptly excommunicated. JUNE BRIDES ARE FEWER Records Show Marked Falling Off In Xumber From Last Year. June brides were not as numerous this year as last. County Clerk Fields Issued only 406 licenses to couples last month, while In June, 1910, he Issued 429. In spite of the falling off as com pared with last June, the number of licenses Issued last month Is far in excess ofVhose Issued for the previous months this year, and the total num ber of licenses for the first six months of 1911 is larger than the number for th same time last year. The record this year is as follows: January, 243; February, 212; March, 201; April, 244, and May, 253. The first months of 1910 were as follows: January, 197 couples; February, 181; March, 196; April, 220; May, 232, and June, 4i3. CANAL OBSTACLE REMOVED Right to Cross Reservation Given to Big Yakima Project. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Juno 30. Senator Jones and L. M. RIcer, of Seattle, who have been In consultation with Secretary Fisher for some time, urging approval of the ap plication of the Klickitat Irrigation & Power Company for right of way across the Yakima Indian reservation for an irrigation canal, succeeded today in having a satisfactory plan arranged by which work can go forward. This enterprise contemplates the ir rigation of 300,000 acres in Benton and Klickitat Counties, and when completed the project will be one of the largest In the United States. TWO SUFFER LOSS OF EYES Pre-Fourth. of July Victims Lose Sight at Everett, Wash. EVERETT, Wash., June 30. (Spe cial.) With the Fourth of July cele bration four days off, two persons have already suffered the loss of eyes as result of accidents. Julius Nelson, aged 35, was brought here from Hartford today, to receive treatment for a ter rible wound inflicted as he stood across the street from a crowd of young men and received the full force of a rocket in his eye. The five-year-old son of W. L. Ismus, of Everett, was shot today In the eye by a boy who held a pistol and the sight was entirely destroyed. The saootlng was done in play, both of the lads being warm friends. TORPEDO CRAFT ASSIGNED Fleet of 12 to Be in Columbia for Astoria 3entennlal. ' WASHINGTON, June 30. Eight boats of the Pacific torpedo fleet have been assigned to duty at Astoria from Au gust 15 to September 1, on account of the celebration. The other four of the fleet will be stationed at Portland during part of the time and at Astoria during the re msfhder, between these dates. The boats are the Whipple, Truxton, Hull, Perry, Hopkins, Paul Jones, Preble, Stewart. Lawrence Rowan, Golsborough and Farragut, Larceny of Oregon Trust Coin Alleged. MORRIS ALSO CHARGED ANEW Promoter and Convict Accused of Embezzling $90,000. BENCH WARRANT ISSUED Accusation Is Based on Transaction With Telephone Bonds Cashier Believed to Have Talked. Grand Jury Acts. An indictment jointly charging Louis J. Wilde and W. Cooper Morris with the larceny ' by embezzlement of $90,000 ot the funds of the suspended Oregon Trust & Savings Bank was returned yes terday by the county grand Jury fol lowing an investigation conducted by District Attorney Cameron. A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr. Wilde, who is In San Diego, Cal. Mr. Morris is In the State Peni tentiary at Salem, serving a six years' sentence for the part he played as cashier in wrecking the institution. The Indictment is bssed on a transsc- tion between Wilde and Morris, as cash ier of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank. dated May 7, 1907. about three months before the bank closed Its doors. At thst lime Wilsle, as the agent of the Union Telephone Construction Company, through Morris sold to the bank a block of $500,000 of Omaha Independent Tele phone bonds. For these securities Wilde Is said to have received $100,000 In cash and certificates of deposit for the bal ance. Records Involve Wilde. From the investigation that has been made it is said the books of the bank show the payment by Wilde to Morris of $45,000 of the $100,000 cash he received from the bank. While averse to discussing the case last night. District Attorney Cameron declared that the prosecution has a strong case against the accused. He said the transaction could be proved by the bank records. Shortly after the indictment was re ported William Miller, brother-in-law ef Wilde, called on Judge Gantenbeln and requested that service of the bench warrant, which had been issued for Wilde's arrest, be held up until today. Bench Warrant Waits. Miller explained that he had tele graphed Wilde advising him of the In dictment and requesting him to return to Portland immediately rather than to wait and be obliged to be brought to this city by an officer. Judge Ganten beln granted the request, but at a late hour last night Miller had not received an answer to his telegram. While the crime alleged in the in dictment was committed nearly five years ago, it is contended by lawyers that the statute of limitations, which in such cases is three years, has not run against the offense with which Wilde is charged. It is maintained that the statute of limitations does not apply in Wilde's case, for the reason that he is a non-resident of the state. At the time of hl3 relations with the defunct bank Wilde resided at Los An geles. He since moved to San Diego, Morris' Confession Hinted. The indictment of Wilde is believed to Indicate that Morris has broken his long and determined silence and has furnished th officials with definite in formation concerning the system of frenzied finance" practiced by him and others in the administration of the bank's affairs. Repeated efforts on the part of the District Attorney to force Morris to divulge the Inside facts at the time of his arrest and trial proved futile. He resisted all such attempts and would disclose nothing of a dam aging nature against any of the other bank officials or those who assisted in wrecking the institution. Expose Not Complete. Morris did not think it would be pos sible for the state to convict him. It was not until after he had been con victed, his appeal to the Supreme Court denied and an application for executive clemency from the Governor failed and he entered the State Penitentiary to be gin serving his sentence, that Morris showed any indication of weakening. It la known that Morris has fur nished the District Attorney's office with some facts, but the prosecutor's office is satisfied Morris has not told all he knows and which would be ma terial in assisting to clear the mys tery surrounding the failure of the bank and in fixing the responsibility where it belonged. Bank Owes $3,500,000. Wholesale investments by the Ore gon Trust & Savings Bank in tha Omaha Independent Telephone bonds, coupled with other more unstable ven tures, proved more than the bank could carry and its suspension was the re sult. An Investigation of the books of the banks under the receivership dis closed that the institution had pur chased $1,300,000 worth of telephone bonds. The aggregate of the bank'a liabilities when it suspended waa nearly $2,500,000. JL