Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 01, 1907, Image 1

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VOL. XLVI.-XO- 14,033.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 1, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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ROADS HIT BACK
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Refuse Shipments Un
til Further Notice.
NORTHERN PACIFIC'S EMBARGO
Order' Follows Injunction Is
sued by Federal Court.
MEANS FIGHT TO FINISH
Litigation 3Iay Continue for Years.
State Iiaw Prevents Railroads
From Resuming the Old Rates
Without 30 Days Notice.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 31. No
more lumber shipments will be re
ceived by the Northern Pacific Rail
road In the Northwest until further
notice. "This Is the order sent out to
all agents of the company last night.
This move of the Northern Pacific is
expected to be followed by all the
railroads affected by the Injunction Is
sued by the Federal Court In Seattle
Thursday night, making It compulsory
on the part of the railroads to charge
the old rate of 40 cents on lumber
shipments from terminal points on the
Pacific Coast. The railroads had Issued
a new schedule of rates that were to
be effective tomorrow. This new sched
ule was fought by the lumbermen and
resulted In the Issuance of the tem
porary injunction.
The railroads have evidently found
another method of combatting: the lum
bermen. The latest move la the refusal
to accept any shipments of lumber, at
any rate. The roads figure they would
be taking too great a risk to allow the
excess freight to accumulate until a
final decision on the. rate Is made, as
they say that litigation will ensue be
fore the matter Is settled, and many
of the lumber firms may have gone
out of business.
Another contingency the rallorads
have to face is the. la-ak. providing, that
all rates nust be published and posted
at least SO days before they become
effective, so that in case they decided
to go back to the old rate they cannot
do it now without the 30 days' notice.
HAXFOED SIGNS THE ORDER
Federal Judge, After Ilourn of lie-
'at, Issues Injunction.
PC rr !,';. "Wash., Oct. Scoria'.)
t i' X '-Might, lifter thrie hours of ar-
'il uj-,i!.-r:r.n's attorneys. United States
.i -ilo ;, H. . lianford signed an order
temporarily restraining the Northern Pa
cific, Great Northern, Burlington and the
Harrlraan railroads from collecting
freight rates on lumber and shingles
shipped from the state of Washington to
the East and Central West as provided
by tho new tariffs filed more than 30 days
ao, and which were scheduled to be ef
feotlve tomorrow.
The ink on the order signed by Judge
llanford was dry Just 35 minutes before
the stroke of 13 o'clock onight, one min
ute after which the new tariffs would
have gone into effect.
Three hundred lumber and shingle men
from various parts of Western Washing
ten gathered here this afternoon and
tonight to celebrate their victory , over
the railroads. '
Late this afternoon the Southwestern
Lumbermen's Association, which had not
participated in the suit, and which num
bers 00 of the largest mills in Lewis. Che
halls, Cowlita and Thurston Counties, be
came amalgamated with the PaclDc Coast
Lumbermen's Association, which Institu
ted the suit against the railroads. Prob
ably 125 other lumber and shingle mills
during the day joined the northern com
bination, but there are yet fully 200
mills which have not been made parties to
the suit and whose products may be
forced to pay the higher rate.
HEIRS SEEK LARGE SUM
AYushlngton's Descendants Want the
Value or Land Grant.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.-(Special.)-Helrs
of George Washington are' seeking
to recover a large sum from the Govern
ment on aocount of lands granted to him
along the Ohio River and which subse
quently were inadvertently given by Con
gress to actual settlers. An administra
tor of the undistributed assets of his
estate was appointed today by the Circuit
Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, on a
petition of the heirs-at-law, Lawrence
Washington and S. W. Washington.
Robert K. Lee was appointed adrnlnls-
trator. He is the grandson of General
Robert E. Lee and great grandson of
"Light Horse" Harry Lee, General Wash
ington's Chief of Staff.
AFRAID TO DIE HIMSELF
Warden Confesses Aiding Wife to
Execute Suicide Compact.
NEW YORK. Oct. 31. After being con
victed of manslaughter In the first de
gree In aiding and abetting his wifeMo
kfommlt suicide, James Wardell confessed
foaay that he killed her and fired a bull-
LUMBERMEN
Into her dead body to give the Impression
she had ended her own life.
Wardell said his mind had been com
pletely upset by his wife's misdoings and
wheA he suggested that they die together
she Jeadily agreed. He placed the gas
tube in his wife's mouth, turned on the
gas and when she was dead his own cour
age failed and he dared not end his own
life. Then he thought to shield himself
by firing a shot into her brain to make It
appear that she had committed suicide.
After the confession Wardell said:
"Try me for murder; that's what I
want. That's what I wanted to do."
KEEP LAND FOR NATIVES
Governors of Samoa Forbid Further
leasing to Whites.
TUTUILA.- Samoa, Sept. 25. (via San
Francisco, Oct. 31.) The Governor of
Amerlcan Samoa has stated that he will
not consent to any further leases of large
blocks of land in Tutuila. The . land is
to be reserved for the growing popula
tion of the islands.
The German government has arranged
that all existing leases In German Samoa
may be converted into freeholds. Fur
ther leaseholds will not be granted by
natives to whites. There is ample free-
Maximilian Harden, German Editor
Woo Exposed Secrete of Round
Table.
hold property, however, to satisfy all
demands for some time to come.
There has been great loss among the
livestock on the Islands, owing to the
continued dry weather, which is unus
ual In this season in Samoa.
GOVERNOR JOLTS BOOKMEN
Publishers Must Meet Oregon Con
tracts or Suit Will Be Instituted.
SALEM. Or., Oct. 31. (Special.) Aoting
in behalf of the State Board of Educa
tion, of which he la chairman. Governor
Chamberlain today telegraphed the
American Book Company, of New York,
Powers & Lyons, of Chicago, and the
World Book Company, of New York,
that they must .supply public school
books in Oregon according to contract
or suit would be brought on the bonds
alven by them. I
Contents today's paper
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61
decrees; minimum, 60 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional light rain; southerly
vlnds.
- Financial Situation.
Increased supply n money from gold and
new bank currencey eases New Torn
market- Page 1.
Movement for currency reform strengthened
by crisis. Page 1.
California banks Ignore holldty. Page 4.
San Francisco banks getting millions from
Subtreasury and New York. Page .
Montana, .banks do business under normal
conditions. Page 4.
Oklahoma banks to reopen Monday. Page 1.
Foreign.
Democratic leaders win Douma, election !n
Russia. Page 8.
No measures taken to relieve earthquake
Sufferers at Karatagh. Page 8.
National.
How part of fleet may be retained on Paclrle.
Page 5.
Hostile Navajo Indians killed or captured by
cavalry in Utah. Pags 6.
Politics.
Bnosevelt willing to support Root or Cortel
you If stronger than Taft in New York.
Page 4.
. Commercial and Marine. J
Growth of banana trade In Northwest.
Page 19.
TV"heat not so strong at Chicago. Page 19.
Check given to rapid advance in stock
prices. Page 39.
Two French barks clear with full wheat
cargoes. Page 14,
Exports for October break all records.
Page 14.
Domestic.
Bank cashier at Charlton. Ind.. leaves mes
sage saying bank Is wrecked, then com
mits suicide. Page 5.
Great Northern and Northern Pacific rall
. roads will not suspend construction.
Page 4.
Halloween raid by Northwestern University
students on theological students. Page y
Charles W. Clark accused of fraudulent
, conveyance to Senator Clark by Mexican
bank. Page 6.
Raymond Hitchcock disappears and friends
say blackmailers have murdered or kid
naped htm. Page 1.
Two arrests In Chicago for stealing records
In case of John R. Walsh. Page 9.
Sport.
Portland defeats Los Angeles. In 32-lnnlng
game. Page 7. -
Pacific Coast. '
Northern Pacific issues order refusing to..
receive lumber shipments. Page 1.
Third death In Seattle from bubonic plague.
Page 1.
Pacific University dedicates women's dormi
tory. Page it.
Juror In Adams case takes sick because he
can't get. whisky. Page 1ft.
Portland and Vicinity.
All trade barometers show prosperity of
raciflo Northwest. Page 1.
Federal Court grants prayer of Oregon Lum
bermen In railroad rate case. Page 12.
Spectacular Are draws big crowd at Third
and Ankcny. Page 12.
Eastern landscape architect here to design
park system for Portland. Page 13.
Southern Pacific announces changes in pas
senger schedules. Page 13.
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MYSTERY HANGS
tin
Friends Say He's Killed
or Kidnaped.
HOUNDED BY BLACKMAILERS
Wife Confident of Innocence of
Any Crime.
SOME SUGGEST SUICIDE
Missing Actor Believed to Have Been
Spirited Away by Blackmailers
Who Fear Exposure When the
Indictments Are Tried.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 The disappear
ance of Raymond Hitchcock, following
his indictment by the grand Jury which
had heard the stories of three little girls,
was the absorbing topic today on Broad
way. The actor's closest friends, who
have energetically defended his name
since he became involved In trouble, are
divided in opinion. Many insisted today
that, driven desperate by the "serious ac
cusations, he had committed suicide.
Others were satisfied that he had been
spirited away and possibly murdered by
men who had practiced blackmail on the
comedian and who feared exposure If the
case against their victim came to trial.
Blackmailers Are Known.
This theory was voiced by Herman
Fromme, the missing man's attorney, and
by Mrs. Hitchcock, who before marriage
was Zabelle Mangassarlan of Chicago,
whose stage name is Flora' Zabelle.
Mrs. Hitchcock;, though near collapse
through worry, has continued to play
opposite her husband's understudy at the
theater where both were engaged in "The
Yankee Tourist," until yesterday, when
Hitchcock failed to appear at the mati
nee. Mr: Fromme said:
"Hitchcock did not go away of his own
aooord. He has been either kidnaped
or murdered :by the band of blackmailers
by whom he has been annoyed, ; threat
ened and hounded for the past two years.
"Six of these dozen men are known
by name to me. Mr. Hitchcock has lived
in a state of continual terror on account
of their persecutions . for two years.
Nevertheless he has not left his wife vol
untarily. He Is an innocent man, and
there is no proof that there is the slight
est foundation for the accusations made
against him.
Has Been Trailed for Months.
"Four men have been trailing him for
months. Now it turns out that they are
blackmailers. Last Monday Mr. Hitch
cock was anxious to 'have the entire mat
ter aired in court, but an adjournment
prevented this. The case was called for
this afternoon. I believe that he Is the
victim of blackmailers who are not
anxious to have, the case threshed out."
While ' these theories gained some
credence, , the police did not relax their
efforts to locate Hitchcock, which be
gan when a police alarm for his arrest
was sent out last night. All outgoing
steamers were visited and their passen
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ger lists scrutinized. A wireless message
was sent to the Majestic, which sailed
yesterday. T
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Mrs.' Hitchcock told Henry W. Savage,
owner of ."The Yankee Tourist" Com
pany, that her husband left the hotel
where they were staying shortly before
breakfast, saying that he was going to
a Turkish bath and would Join her at the
matinee. This Is . the last she saw of
him. He had spent-a very restless night,
she said.
Mrs. Hitchcock, to whom he was mar
ried two years ago, In St. Louis, Is the
daughter of Dr. Mangassarlan, an Arme
nian of Chicago, a , lecturer on ethical
culture. -
After the close of the performance last
night Mrs. Hitchcock remained up all
night, assisting in directing the search
for her husband. She will not listen to
any theory which included flight, insist
ing that she believes he has been the
victim of foul play. In support of her
oontention she declares that Hitchcock
made absolutely no preparations for
flight, as he had only a few dollars in
money and two or three rings with him
when he left the hotel yesterday morn
ing. As a result of Hitchcock's disappearance
Wallace Berry, a young Western actor,
who has been his understudy, has risen
to the leading role In the popular Broad
way piece at a single bound and Is likely
to keep the place.
THIRD DEATH FROM PLAGUE
MRS. GEORGE OSBORNE VICTIM
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Attending Physicians Diagnose Case
and Attribute Woman's Death
to Bubonic Plague.
BEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 31. (Special.)
Mrs. George Osborne died shortly after
midnight and the attending physicians
state that they will assign the cause of
death to bubonic plague. Mrs. Osborne
was the wife of a member of the Osjborne
family, in which there have been three
deaths within the past two weeks, one of
which was officially diagnosed as plague
by the City Baoterlologlst and Board of
Health.
Mrs. Osborne died In the house in -which
Patrolman Ernest C. Osborne and his
sister died. If the diagnosis is confirmed
in this case it will make three deaths
from the plague In Seattle.
PLANS TO STAMP OVT PLAGUE
Canadian Health OMIcer Visits Se
attle to Confer With Dr. White.
SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 31. Dr. F.
Montlzw.mbert, Director-General of Pub
lic Health, of Canada, arrived here
from Ottawa today and, aftr confer
ence with Dr. M. I. White, of the
United States Service, agreed .to adopt
uniform measures for the suppression
of bubonic plague along the Pacific
Coast. The Canadian ports have al
ready adopted many precautions sim
ilar to those in force in Seattle. No
new c9.6es of plague have developed.
Hundreds of men, under the direction
of Board of Health Inspectors, are en
gaged in cleaning up the city's vacant
lots and old rookeries, which may har
bor rats are being condemned by the
Health Board and destroyed. Where
practicable, the structures are sur
rounded by fences of wire netting to
prevent the rats from escaping. .,
Aberdeen Particular About Plague.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 31. Active
measures are being taken to enforce the
quarantine regulations at this port. Some
of the captains coming here are quite
averse to taking the trouble required by
the officers, but the law will be rigidly
enforced. William E. Kindred has been
appointed a special officer by Health Of
ficer Chamberlain to enforce the regu
lations in regard to. the .use of rat fun
nels, and also to see that the vessels
that tie up at the docks keep the regula
tion distance from them.
MOBEY SUPPLY
SWELLING DAILY
Acute Stage of Finan
cial Crisis Over.
BANKS ISSUE MORE NOTES
Readily Accept Offer Made by
" Controller.
ASK CURRENCY REFORM
Bankers' Association Will Again
Urge Congress to Adopt Its Plan.
Cortelyou Will Help the Cot
ton Men With Deposits.
FINANCIAL SITUATION.
NEW YORK Gold Import arranged
Increase to $23,750,000. Increase In -Bank
of England discount rate from
4 per cent to 5 per cent does not
affect gold movement. Bankers will
increase currency $50,000,000. Gov
ernment helps financing of cotton
crop. Crisis revives demand for cur
rency reform. Small investors buy
1100,000,000 In stock.
SAN FRANCISCO All banks open
except Safe Deposit & Trust, which Is
In charge of State Bank Commleeion
' ers. Clearings for week decrease 14
per cent. Subtreasury puts $1,250,000
in circulation, bond salea in New T
York will add $1,000,000, and much I
Imported gold will come here. Sub- e
treasury may lend money on Gov- f
ernment bonds.
LONDON Bank of England raises dla- J
count rate from per cent to I
per cent.
CALIFORNIA CITIES All Ignore Gov
ernor's holiday proclamation and keep
banks open.
MONTANA Helena. Butte and Mis
soula all report ample cash In banks
.. and do business under normal condi
tions. OKLAHOMA and Indian Terrltonr
Bankers agree to re-open next Mon
day. PORTLAND Arrangements are being
made to br'.ng $l.n0,00O in. specie
from Ban Pranclfcco. Bankers will
favor extension of holiday 'nest week,
if necessary.
; NEW YORK, Oct. SI. Indications that
the available supply of cash would be ma
terially Increased within a short time with
imports of gold and the increase of the
banknote circulation, and that the move
ment of cotton and grain oropa would be
facilitated in every way possible, with
the result of increasing our credits
abroad, were the salient features of to
day's financial situation. ' It seemed to be
recognized everywhere that the acute
stage of the crisis was over and that all
that remained was to obtain sufficient
currency to resume currency payments
upon a broad scale and thu3 to restore
conditions prevailing before the crisis.
Increased" Gold Shipments. '
The engagements of gold made In New
York, Chicago and elsewhere brought up
the total import movement within the ivant
week to $23,750,000. As the amount of gold
will afford a bas4s of credit to four times
the amount, or about $95,000,000, it will in
itself afford much relief to the existing
pressure. The action of the Bank of
England in raising its discount rate from
to per cent was in accordance with
expectations in conservative circles. The
fact that the Increase was not made to 6
per cent and that the English rate re
mains 1 per cent below the German rate
is accepted as an indication that the situ
ation at London Is not considered acute.
More Currency to Issue.
The prompt response of the National
banks through the country to. the sug
gestion of Controller Bldgeley that they
should employ United States bonds aa
largely as possible to secure circulation
and substitute other bonds for those
pledged against deposits of public money
promises a considerable Increase in the
available stock of currency. The estimate
of an Increase in the banknote circula
tion of $30,000,000 Is considered well within
the probabilities. It will require time,
however. In some cases for the banks to
obtain proper bonds to substitute for
their United States bonds. Frank A. Van
derllp, vice-president of the National City
Bank, made the fruitful suggestion today
that the Savings banks would at ouce Im
prove the general situation and add to
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I Dr. Walter R. Gillette, ex-Vlre-PresI- ,
Dr. Walter R- Gillette, ex-Vlre-Presl-dent
of Mutual Ufe Insurance
e Company, Sentenced to Jail ' for
J Perjury.
their circulation If they would sell their
holdings of United States bonds to the
National banks. Even In cases where
they do not care to sell, it is believed that
they will lend the bonds to the National
banks, as has often been done In the past.
Financing the Cotton Crop.
Interest is continuing to center in
the movement of the cotton crop from
New Orleans and other Southern, points,
whnro it is so essential to provide hills
againet the imports of gold. Secretary
Cortelyou, according to Washington
dlepatches today, was disposed to in
crease deposits of public funds in the
Southern banks as rapidly as such
funds become available. This will sup
ply the banks with tha stock of cur
rency so much needed to handle the
cotton crop, and will enable them to
await with less embarrassment than
otherwise arrival of their cotton bills
In Europe and the bringing back of
their gold.
The committee of New Orleans bank
ers, which is in Washington, has sug
gested that the New York banks can
ease the situation by giving the South
ern banks credit for checks on for
eign banks forwarded ,as soon as they
receive telegraphic advices of the
amounts. Thia.wlll enable the South
ern banks to check against balances
in payment of collections and In mak
ing - remittances to interior banks
throughout the country.
- Currency Reform Revived.
It is noted with Interest by leading bank
ers here that the present scarcity of cur
rency and the recourse which has been
had to National bank circulation are
arousing unusual Interest In tho plan for
currency reform which has been indorsed
by the American Bankers' Association.
This plan was adopted in December of
last year, after consultation with repre
sentatives of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, and was presented to Congress
at that time. The plan did not receive
the definite approval of the American
Bankers' Association, however, until the
meeting at Atlantlo City in September
last, but at that time it was Indorsed by
a nearly unanimous vote, after strong ar
guments In its favor by A. Barton Hep
burn, president of the Chase National
Bank of New York, and Representative
Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the House
committee on banking. The committee
which framed the measure was continued
with authority to take further action. It
has not held a meeting since the conven
tion at Atlantlo City, but some of the
Western members are strongly desirous
that such a meeting be called at an early
date, in order to bring the subject prop
erly before Congress while publlo opinion
Is aroused on the-subject.
Buying Stock In Small Lot9.
The Journal of Commerce estimates the
dividend and "interest payments for No
vember at $75,103,801, a new high record
for the month, .as against $53,000,000 last
year. .
The enormous extent to which Invest
ment buyers are taking advantage of the
declines in the prices of stocks to buy up
small lot? was Indicated today by the
estimate of competent authorities that In
vestment buyers have taken 2,000,000
shares of stocks out of the market within
the last ten days. The average value Is
estimated at $50 a share, making a total
investment of $100,000,000.
The run on the Trust Company of
America is over.
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Comment on Roosevelt's New Bill.
NEW YORK. Oct. 31. The reported in
tention of President Roosevelt to recom
mend in his annual message to Congress
a ; iW placing trust companies under Fed-e-r
iupervislon, the same as, National
b ' .ks, was variously commented upon by
i W Ynrk financiers today.
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STATISTICS PROVE
CITY'S PROSPERITY
AH Trade Barometers
Are Rising.
PESSIMISTS ARE ANSWEO
Find No Comfort In Figures
Indicative of Progress.
RECORD WHEAT EXPORTS
October 'Shipments Kxceed All For
mer Marks Bank Clearings, Re
ceipts of PostoTflce and ReaU
ty Transfers Tell Like Story.
FIOrnKS THAT SHOW PORT
LAND'S PROSPERITY.
Grain and Lumber.
Portland breaks the record for one
month's exportation of wheat,
over 1,000.000 bushels, value,
$1.0.12,600.
Portland exports In October 230.063
bushels barley, vnlue, $162,342.
Portland aends to foreign ports In
October 1.1,000.000 feet lumber,
value. $200,440.
Record . Rank Clearing.
Portland banks in til? month of Oc
tober sent through the Clearlng
- House checks and drafts repre
senting $a.i6.'-..2:io.os.
PoetofTlce Business.
Portland Poetofflce receipts for the
month of October were $.16,465.47,
the largest month's postal busl
&mj of the year.
Building Permits Issued.
Portland . contractors and builders
took out permits during the
month to erect houses valued at
$65,035, making the values for
the ten months this year $2,127,
040 In excess of whole of last
- yean
Real Estate Transfers.
Portland realty continues to be re
garded by Investors as the best
offered anywhere, the transfers
for to rn-Tr..,ntho Just past te
' Ins' within" $2,000,000 of last
year's 12 months.
"Figures do not He," Is a saying that
students of economic condition in the
Pacific Northwest, and particularly la
Portland, may find evidence to prove in
the summary herewith given of the busi
ness done in this city during the past
month, and for the ten months of tho
year. What few pessimists there are in
Portland will have to Invent a new phrase
it they are to scoff at the fact that In the
month closing yesterday over a million
bushels of wheat were shipped to foreign
ports for which Oregon farmers are the
richer by over a million dollars.
Other foreign buyers took of the prod
ucts of Oregon's forests 13,000,000 feet of
lumber, and over 200,000 bushels of barley
were added to the total export of the
month. Nearly a million and a half dol
lars' worth of Oregon products set afloat
In a single month makes a record i that
would have been larger if the regular line
Oriental steamships had been ready to
sail, for two of them are loading with
flour for the Far East and will depart
Boon with about 100,000 barrels.
Bank Clearings Larger.
The varied business interests of the city
are represented in the clearing-house
transactions, and when it is observed that
for the month of October, lacking three
days of bunk holidays, nearly $37,000,000 In
checks and drafts were deposited in the
banks and by tltem cleared In the one
month, it furnishes ample evidence of the
growth and prosperous condition of the
city and surrounding country. So far
this year clearings have greatly exceeded
any previous year's, the total for the year
to date being almost $100,000,000 greater
than for the ten months of last year.
Transactions in the Postoffice also in
dicate the growth and healthy condition
of the people's business, the sales of
stamps and money orders since the first
of the year showing a large increase over
the same period of last year. Postmaster
Mlnto says this Increase in the receipts
of the office can only be accounted for
by the increased population and prosper
ous condition of the people.
Breaks Record of 1906.
In real estate the tremendous business
done for the past year or two Is keeping
up, as records of transfers are above tno
average. At the present rate, this year
will exceed in total that of last year,
which was thought tobe the record for
some time to come.
Up to date there has been invested this
year In Portland nearly ?4.000,000 more in
buildings than for the corresponding time
last year, with no indications of a cessa
tion. Work is progressing rapidly on
several "skyscrapers" which will be added
to those already occupied early in the
year and others are projected.
Portland broke all grain shipping
records of the port for a single month
when October wound up with a total of
1,119,654 bushels of wheat and 230,963
bushels of barley. The value of the
wheat exported was $1,032,600 and of
the barley J162.342. In addition more
than 13,000,000 feet of lumber was
cleared for foreign ports with a valua
tion of $209,410. making trie total value
of exports of grain and lumber aggre
gate $1,404,382.
Some Idea of the great increase In
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