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tfHE STJXDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. SEPtE3rBER 1, 1913. PRES1DENTT0MEET LEADERS ON YACHT Conference With Hilles and Sheldon Planned for Trip on Long Island Sound. story office building covering 100 by 200 feet is planned in the downtown district that will involve a cost of about $500,000. The Multnomah Securities Company will begin this month the construction of a ten-Story building at Seventh ana Morrison streets. This structure will contain a double basement It will cost in excess of $300,000. Oil and Gas Plant Erected. Tn addition to business buildings, the Portland Gas & Coke Company and the Standard Oil Company are erecting modern plants at the edge of the city limits on the West Side.. These plants will involve the immediate investment of more than $2,000,000. During the eight months of this year there have been issued 6586 per mits, which, including the plants of the Portland Gas & Coke Company and the BUSY WEEK iS OUTLINED Congress of Applied Chemistry to Hear Address Wednesday and Atlantic Deep Waterways Association Friday. BEVERLY, Mass.. Aug. 31. Brest dent Taft's first important political conference since the notification cere monies several weeks ago will be held next Thursday and Friday on the yacht Mayflower on the- waters of Long Is land Sound. Charles D. Hilles, chair man of the Republican National com mittee, and George K. Sheldon, treas urer of that organization, will be the President's guests on the Mayflower over Thursday night, while she is en route from New "Jpi-k to New London, Conn. The President will be able to hold this conference in fulfilling engage ments in 'Washington and In New Lon don. He will leave Beverly next Tues day night for Washington, where on Wednesday he will open the Interna tional Congress of Applied Chemistry. Wednesday afternoon he will receive the delegates to the congress in the south grounds of the White House. He will dine and spend the night in the White House and leave for New Tork Thursday morning. Mr. Taft to Join Husband. He will board the Mayflower in the North River about 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon and will start immediately for New London. Mrs. Taft will join the President at New York. The Presi dent is due In New London at noon Friday. He will receive the delegates to the Atlantic Deep Waterways Asso ciation at a hotel and then motor to Fort Griswold. where he will address the convention of the association. The Mayflower will leave New London in time to bring the President to Beverly early Saturday. On his way to his train in Boston Tuesday night the President will stop at Feneuli Hall to make an address to the convention of postoffice clerks. Letterearrlrra Grateful. White House officials today made public a letter from Ed J. Cantwell, secretary of the National Association of Lettercarriers, thanking the Presi dent for his influence for having had passed the postoffice appropriation bill with Its provision fixing at eigni nurs the labor of carriers in city delivery service and clerks in first and second- class offices. "On behalf of the lettercarriers em ployed in the city delivery service,' wrote Cantwell, "I take this opportun ity of extending our thanks and ap preciation for your interest in recom mending an improvement in ice worn In conditions of our men." The President received also a tele gram from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, praising him for signing the Panama Canal bill. BITCHER IN BtTSIKBSS IN PORTLAND MANY YEARS AGO, DIES IN MONTANA. 11 ' - Y ' I " -- ' It - j "?,s - 5'- "1 i - is "jy a l'-" A C. R. Hoffman. C. R. Hoffman, who died re cently at Llbby, Mont., was famil iarly known in Portland in the '70s as -"Bill" Hoffman. At that time he operated a butcher shop at Third and Madison streets and won a wide circle of acquaint- ; ances as a generous and faithful friend, a loving husband and a kind father. He is survived by a widow, three sons, Louis, Bert and Archie, and one daughter, Mrs. Helen Peay, of Libby, Mont. PHILANTHROPIST, 79, WEDS Bible School to Inherit Property or Man Noted for Profanity. EUGENE. Or.. Aug. SI. (Special.) Word comes from San Diego. Cal., that John B. Coleman, of Eugene, aged is years, has just married a widow of 74. Coleman, it will be remembered, Is the rather eccentric character who has deeded considerable business property In Eugene to the Christian Church Bible School, on condition that he may enjoy the Income during his lifetime. Cole man has achieved further prominence on account of his fluent use of pro fanity at times. Mrs. Outhwaite. the bride, declares that she knows what she is doing, for this is her third venture into the field of matrimony. PROSPEROUSPACE HOLDS (Continued From Flrwt Page.) " is drawing heavily on the lumber out put, while the largest foreign market is Australia. On account of the de mand for cars to move the crops there is a small movement of lumber by rail, but manufacturers anticipate a brisk market in the Middle West dur ing the next few months. Portland has abundant cause to con gratulate itself on the showing made in building construction during the first eight months of the current year. In the face of political agitation and the retrenchment policy of the bank ers during a campaign year, there has been plenty of money available for financing a number of Important build ing enterprises. Many Dwellings Built. In the construction of new dwellings a notable record was made for the eight-month period. There were not only more homes erected but there also were many more residences of a better class completed than there were for the corresponding period in 1911. In every new subdivision there is a steady building activity, and the indications are that the pace will be maintained the remainder of the year. Chief among downtown structures completed since the first of the year are tke ten-story Lipman, Wolfe & Co. building, which occupies a half block; the eight-story Holts building, the nine-story Mallory Hotel building, the 12- story Journal building, the 12-story Wilcox building, the new Lincoln High School, the Hotel Congress building and a number of other structures of three to five stories. These various buildings represent a total Investment of approximately $5,000,000. In ad dition to the buildings that have been completed there are several important structures under construction, while a number of others are to be started soon. Larsre Structure Building. The most important downtown build ings in process of construction are the 13- story Hotel Oregon structure, which will cost $750,000; the 12-story Gevurtz building, which will cost $250,000; the five-story Dooly building, which will cost $130,000; the" eight-story Shasta building, which will cost $150,000; the new County Courthouse, to cost $1,500, 000, and the new Empress Theater, cost ing non in addition to these buildings- a number of substantial struc tures are under way on the East Side. The tallest structure besides the Yeon building will be the 14-story building of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, work on which is to be started immediately. This will cost between $700,000 and $300,000. An eight- Standard Oil Company, represent a to tal Investment of $13,524,930. The record for the corresponding period last year shows that there were issued 5269 permits, with a total val uation of $12,691,959. The gain in the number of permits is 1317 and in valu ation $832,971. The record for the month just closed shows that the num ber of permits issued was 1067, rep resenting a valuation of $1,227,537. In August, 1911, there were issued 775 per mits with a total valuation of $1,733,- 280. While there was an appreciable gain in the number of permits in Au gust, 1912, the total valuation of new buildings was less. Cereal Record Notable. Wheat receipts at Portland for the first two months of the cereal year are nearly double those of last year and are well ahead of those of the Puget Sound cities. The total local receipts in July and August of this year reached 1,561,250 bushels, as compared with 901, 000 bushels in the same period of last year. Tacoma's wheat reoeipts for the cereal year to date are 1,301,250 bushels and those of Seattle 1,113,750 bushels. .' - . 1 Total receipts -of livestock at the North Portland yards in the past month were 35,065 head. This is a decrease of 13.699 head as compared with August last year and illustrates clearly the great scarcity of livestock this year in the Pacific Northwest. The scarcity and consequent high prices are likely to continue throughout the season. The local receipts in the past month compare with those of the same month last year as follows: 1912. 1011. Cattle 5,744 8.6!0 CaWes 281 " 687 Hogs 6,015 6.248 Sheep 22.789 83,006 Morses ana muies 200 133 FIRST CONTEST SUCCESS Creswell Will Make Agricultural Picnic Annual Event. CRESWEXtL, Or., Aug. 30. (Special.) Creswell's agricultural and Indus trial contest and picnic, held today, was well attended, people coming from several miles in every direction. The ground floor of the large two- story building on Oregon avenue and First street was filled with exhibits of high grade and the room was crowded with visitors the entire day. Dr James Withycombe, of the Oregon Agricultural College, delivered a fine address. E. T. Judd, chief deputy dairy and food commissioner, spoke on How to Make the Dairy ray , M. J. Duryea, a Eugene booster, on "Vicinity Development"; Professor H. C. Baugh man, county school superintendent. Education as Related to Civic Pros perity"; Dr. Shafer, of the University of Oregon, "The Educational Opportu nity of the Farm"; J. Rodman, of Eu gene. "This Fair and the County Fair." Addresses of welcome were delivered by Mayor George L. GUfry and F. J. Boucher, president of the local Devel opment League, and these were re sponded to by J. S. Magfadry, presi dent of the Eugene Commercial Club, whose subject was "Co-operation 01 Town and Country." Dinner was served picnic style on grounds which had been nicely ar ranged for the same, and a programme of sports was successfully carried out. This was Creswells first attempt at a contest and fair, and the success which crowned this effort means that the contest will be an annual event in the future. VANCOUVER WET IN AUGUST Weather Observer Predicts Light Rainfall In September. t VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) During the past year exactly 36 inches of water fell In Clark County, according to A. A. Quarnberg, Gov ernment weather observer for this sec-J tion. -A record for 62 years for the heaviest rainfall during August was also established by a margin of more than half an inch. . In 1898. during August. 3.0S Inches of rain fell and this was the record until today, when 3.57 inches is the record for the month and there are several hours yet before midnight. This beats all records In. the local of fice, which date back to 1852. It was noted that the SeptemDer following the wet August in 1898 was one 01 tne nnesi on reuoru. t i wo theory of Mr. Quarnberg, substantiated by many years' observation that there is so much rain to fall during the year and if the fall is exceptionally heavy during one month, the following month will be rather dry. For this reason it is predicted that September this year will be unusually fair and this is es pecially pleasing to the management of the Clark County Fair Association, which holds its third annual exniDition September 9 to IS. J. G. Mack & Co. Fifth and Stark J. G. Mack & Co. Furniture: A S p e c i al Sale of Odd Pieces Takes Place During This Week Notable Reductions oh High and Medium -Grade Odd Pieces for Bedroom and Dining-Room, Including a Number of Two-Piece and Three-Piece Bedroom Sets Occasionally it becomes necessary, through the accumulation of broken suites and various odd pieces in the furniture displays to dispose of such at much less than their reeular prices Such pieces are desirable in every particular, in most instanses being the remaining pieces -of a once-complete suite. In what we have entered in this week's special sale are many fine pieces, bearing, for instance, the shop-mark of such well-known maker? as Berkey & Gay. Those who have m mind the selection of one or two pieces fo complete their furnishings will surely recognize in this sale the opportunity for doing so at a saving, bale begins Tuesday. . v See Window Displays - ' In Dressers and Princess Dressers $24.00 Mahogany $26 Mahogany $78.00 for Thia SSIOO Fine Mahogany Dresser S19 for a TJresser. $19.50 for a Dresser. S19.50 for $25.00 Princess Dresser in golden oak. $26 for a $35.00 Mahogany Dresser. . $26 for a $35 Princess Dresser. $33 for a $50.00 Dresser in golden oak. $55 for an $80 Cheval Dresser in mahogany. $65 for an $80.00 Mahogany Dresser, Sheraton design, and inlaid. $65 for a $90 Circassian "Wal nut Dresser, Colonial design. MA CCO o tmfl ATnlino-nmr DrAsspr. $79.50 for a $100 Mahogany Dresser, Colonial design. $97.50 for a $135 Mahogany Dresser, Colonial design. SI 28 for a $160 large Mahogany Dresser, also Colonial. , t, c $252 for a $315 handsome Colonial Dresser in mahogany, one of Berkey & Gay's finest piec.es. " , In Bedroom Suites $138.50 for a $183.50 Bedroom Suite of 3 piecs Dresser, Chif fonier, Dressing Table. In mahogany, Colonial. $170 for two pieces mahogany Dresser and Chiffonier regu lar price $330. . $197.50 for a $285 Mahogany Bedroom Suite of 3 pieces Bed, Chiffonier, Dressing Table. Four-post Colonial design. $288 for a $360 Mahogany Bedroom Suite of 3 pieces Dresser, Dressing Table and Cheval -Mirror. $395 for a $510 massive Colonial Bedroom Suite of 3 pieces Bed, Dresser and Chiffonier, in mahogany. Cheval Mirrors: Dressing Tables $17.50 for a $25 Cheval Mirror in ivory enamel finish. - .. $30 for a $42.50 Cheval Mirror in ivory enamel finish. $37.50 for a $55 Mahogany Dressing Table. . $48 for a $70 fine Dressing Table in ivory enamel finish, with triple mirror. Made by Berkey & Gay. ' 55' for a $75 Mahogany Dressing Table, Colonial., $88 for a $110 Mahogany Dressing Table, Sheraton, in inlaid design. In Bedsteads -$15 for a $25 full-size Mahogany Bed. -1&33- for a $65 "Walnut Bed with cane panels, i size. $39.75 for a $52.50 full-size Mahogany Bed. $125 for a $160 Mahogany Bed, Sheraton inlaid design. lit Chiffoniers ' $24.50 for a $38 Mahogany Chiffonier. $25 for a $45 Chiffonier of quarter-sawed golden oak. $33.50 for a $50 Mahogany Chiffonier. $32.50 for a $42. Mahogany Chiffonier. $32.50 for a $55 -"Walnut Chiffonier. $38.50 for a $50 "Walnut Chiffonier. $47.50 for a. $75 "Walnut Chiffonier. , $48.50 for a $65 Mahogany Chiffonier. $55 for an $80 Mahogany Chiffonier. $69.50 -for a $90 Mahogany Chifiomer. , - $92.50 for a $160 "Walnut Chiffonier a large piece in Co lonial design. - II m m $32.50 for This $55 Circassian Walnut Chiffonier "if ib jj $67.50 for Thia $150 Massive, Handsome Old Oak China Cabinet In China Cabinets $14.50 for a $25 .China in fumed oak. $19.75 for a $30 China in Early English finish. $23.00 for a $40 China in fumed oak. $29.00 for a $58 China in golden oak. $32.50 for a $50 China in fumed oak. $45.00 for a $65 China in fumed oak. $60.00 for an $85 China in fumed oak. $77.50 for a $180 China in old oak. Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet In Serving Tables $12.00 for a $22.50 Serving Table in fumed oak. $17.50 for a $30.00 "Serving Table in mahogany. $20.00 for s $38.00 Serving Table in mahogany. ' - $29.50 for a $50.00 Serving Table in mahogany. $42.50 for a $75.00 Serving Table in Circassian walnut. $48.50 for an $85.00 Serving Table in mahogany. Fifth and Stark J. G. Mack & Co. .Fifth and Stark GOAL WASTE HUGE Director Says Users Get Only Ten Per Cent of Energy. MUCH LEFT UNDERGROUND Ninety Million Tons of Sulphuric Acid Added to Nation's Annual Loss Remedial I-aws Are Believing' Sitnation. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Of a pro duction of 600,000,000 tons of coal In the United States In the last year, 250,000,000 tons were either wasted or left underground, probably unfit for future use, according to a statement today by Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the United States Bureau of Mines. In addition to this startling waste. Dr. Holmes declared that users of coal, through faulty methods, derived only about 10 per cent of the energy of coal used. Furthermore, he added, the loss by waste in other minerals, such as zinc nitrogen, potash, sulphur and natural gas, would reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars an nually. Dr. Holmes based his declaration on an exhaustive report Just made by Charles L. Parsons, chief mineral chemist of the bureau, who points out some of the heaviest annual losses as follows: Of coal, 250,000,000 tons. ' More natural gas than is now obtained. Ninety per cent , of the energy of coal consumed. By antiquated coke methods, 140,000,000. Ninety million tons of sulphuric acid from smelter chimneys. These losses are only the beginning of the enormous drains on the coun try's natural resources, Mr. Parsons contends. Officials of the bureau, how ever, are hopeful for strides toward reform. Already, they say. remedial laws. Federal, state and municipal, are bringing about a better understanding of the situation. - 3 BRUISED IN AUTO WRECK Colfax Grocer and Two Passengers Pinned Under Car. COLFAX. "Wash., Aug. 31. (Special.) j. p. Uch, proprietor of the South End grocery of Colfax, while en route to Almota with three passengers in his automobile, lost control of the ma chine on the grade in Almota Friday night and. seeing probable death ahead after making several dangerous turns In the road, threw the car into the side of the grade, striking a tree and turn ing the car over on himself, O. B. Hill, manager of the Commercial Hotel, of Colfax, and his 12-year-old daughter. They were pinned under the back seat. F. W. Cameron, foreman of the Pacific States Telegraph & Telephone Company in Seattle, jumped when the brakes first broke at the tope of the grale. Cameron came to the rescue and pried the car oft the three passengers, who escaped with slight bruises. The Almota grade is known as one of the most dangerous in the county. k. BULL MOOSERS BUCK UP Lane County Favors Naming Legis V laUve Ticket. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 31. (Special.) Lane County Bull Moosers held a rally today, addressed by George F. Kodgers, of Salem, and ex-Senator Mulkey, of Portland. The attendance was better than last week. The meeting went on record as favor tn .v,A .iiiMnff nf a. legislative ticket in the field, but deferred nominations, or any suggestions ot nominations, un til after petitions giving the party legal status are filed. Former State Sonntor I H. Bingham led the protest against the programme for "urging some canaiaate to come oui. "You'll recommend and recommend untH you will be dictating to this party who shall run and who shall not be a candidate," commented Mr. Bingham. SCHOOL TO COST $40,000 Work Progressing on New Structure at Heppner. HEPPNER, Or.t Aug. 31. (Special.) Excavation work for Heppner'a new 340,000 school building Is nearly com pleted. The concrete work will be started in a few days. The Farmers' Union of Morrow Coun ty has purchased, the site and will start work Immediately on the farmers' warehouse at Heppner, with a floor space of 200 by 60 feet. Alaska Salmon Ships Returning. ASTORIA, Or.. Aug. 31. Special.) The Alaska Fishermen's Packing Com pany's steamer North Star arrived shortly after midnight from Nushagak River, Alaska, after a pleasant trip of 11 days. She reports that the bark W. B. Flint, with ?6,000 cases of sal mon from the company's Koggiung River cannery, was towed to sea on August 12'. The ship St. Francis with 59,000 cases and 1800 barrels of salmon from the company's Nushagak River plant sailed on August 14. The North Star towed the Columbia River Pack ers Association's ship St. Nicholas to sea on August 15 and the vessel sailed or. the following day. Beef Cattle Bring $60 a Head. McMIXXVILLE, Or., Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) E. E. Lamson. a well-known farmer of Willamina, Or., has Just sold to A. 8. Ford 30 head of beef cattle for 360 a head, which is a record price for beef cattle for this section. Mr. Lamson says that he sold the same Kind OI came in v-ieyeiauuB . istration for ?15 a head and was glad to gei iu E SPOKANE REALTY MAN FACES EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE. One of Bondsmen Withdraws Shortly After Prominent Mian Is Arrested in $2500 Transaction. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) Don Ryie, until recently Junior member of the real estate firm of Ham, Tearsley & Ryie, who was ar rested Friday evening by Iver Soren sen, deputy Sheriff, on a Warrant charging embezzlement, today found himself in an additional dilema when William Zlegler, one of Ryie's bonds men, notified Deputy Prosecuting At torney R. L. McWilliams that he would withdraw as surety from the 33000 bond. Zlegler and Jack Wilmot, a sa loonkeeper. Jointly went Ryie's bond. Rvln declared he woum una anoiner bondsman this afternoon and on his promise to find a second surety was permitted to leave the Courthouse this morning. The warrant charges that Ryie con verted to his own use $2500 belonging to George Stevens, an Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company passenger conductor. A second charge Is that the defendant has refused to make good the amount. It is alleged that Ryie, who is said to have acted as agent, received the money May day, this year. Deputy Prosecutor Mcwnuams nas caused the preliminary hearing on the embezzlement charge to be set down for hearing September 13 before Jus tice S. C. Hyde, from whom the war rant was obtained. Centralla Democrats Active, c ENTR ALIA. Wash.. Aug. 31. (Spe clal.) At a meeting held In Centralla Let nie-ht tViA nr&ranizatlon of th Woodrow Wilson Club, started last week, was perfected. The club has a membership of nearly 100. Centralla Man Leaves $100,000. CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) The will of the late Hamilton Pitcher, Lewis County lumberman who recently died at his home in Centralla, was filed with the County Clerk today. The estate Is valued at 3100,000. DREE Samples of Cuticura Soap and Ointment for mothers of fretful, sleepless babies suffering from heat rashes, itch ings, irritations and chafings. Restformother and sleep for babe fol low a single treatment. Cuticura Soap and Ointment world. Fr fans umplsi itk n)r gkta Bask. ddm rCstMBn.7 Dapt. 78, Boston. Special Rates All This Month Full set, that fit $5.00 Gold Crown, 22k .... $3.50 Bridge Teeth, 22k... $3.50 Gold Fillings $1.00 Silver Fillings 50 mmm. 2 ' ojj H .i'drai e; I . 1. (aiBfiKl O CROWN WmM S BRIDGE WHY PAY MORE? We keep busy doing good work at these prices. We have the latest, most mod ern electrical apparatus for doing painless dental work. All work guaranteed lo years. Electro Painless Dentists Corner Sixth and Wash. Sts. THE DEAF CAN HEAR $20 FOR A 35.00 ELECTROPHONE 30 DAYS ONLY THOUSANDS SOLD at price of 35.00 Only a limited number to be sold at the price of 20.00. If you have de ferred purchasing on account of price, SOW la your opportunity to buy for 20.00. Call or write STOLZ ELECTROPHONE COMPANY, 330 Lumbermen Bids., Portland, Or. i "