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THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1903. FIGURES REVEAL CITY'S PROSPERITY Business Conditions in Port land Well Advanced Dur ing August. OUTLOOK IS FLATTERING Bank Clearings for Month Beach Beyond 24,000,000 and the Movement of Real Es tate Continues. Trade statistic for the month of An rust show decidedly healthy business naitlX locally. In fact, the figures for the month bear a very favorable compan ion w?th the business of the correspond ing month last year, when It is consid ered that 1907 was the most prosperous In the history of Portland. ..tlvltv ln The prospect for Increased actlUtyln all departments during the present montli S, flattering. In the first Pce consider able railroad construction work w 11 be inaugurated. The Harriman officials to day resume the construction of the L tle" road from Hlllsboro to T llamooR. work on which was suspended la vember because of the financial strin gency. Before the month ends the Har "iman Interests also will begin a railroad Into Central Oregon. It Is rumored that Hill has acquired a controlling Interest In the Oregon Trunk line up the Des chutes canyon as the Initial link in a line that is projected into the central part of the state. Activity in transportation cir cles will be further Increased by the im migration of new settlers to this state under the 60-day colonist rate schedule ever the Harriman lines, which goes Into effect today. These reduced rates are certain to swell the population or th state by a desirable citizenship num ' berlng several thousand. A new high record in the wheat export business from this port will be established this month, when at least 2.000.000 bush els of this cereal will be dispatched to the Orient. Beven steamers, with a total tonnage of 21.147 tons, already have been llted for September shipments, while ad ditional shipments by saU craft will bring this total up to 81,158 tons. Steamers that heretofore have been chartered for Puget Sound points this season will load at Portland, where an average of 100 carloads of wheat are being received dally. Postal receipts at the Portland post efflce continue to increase monthly, those for last month being estimated at $51. 650.90, as against $48. 692.67 for the same month last year. For the first eight months this year these receipts have in creased $36,370.22 over those for the same period in 1907. as shown by the following figures: 1!W1T. 1908. J.nuary t M.T162 5k ar.1.21 February 45.5S2.12 50.443.39 March 54-7 7:i.Bj "-HI April : 4H.ZS2.S7 87.o.24 Mav .I. 62.7.-.7.70 85.086.67 jun"e 4S.1W2.43 IU.S40.4H juiv 61.1153.48 55.131.49 August 48.6U2.67 Est. 61.650 0 Ttl 1 402.431.67 438t01.89 Foreign flour exports for August amounted to 82.467 barrels of the assessed value of $329,868. Foreign lumber ex ports for the month reached a total of 10.699.852 feet, of the value of $141,487. as compared with 9.803.307 for the same month a year ago. when lumber prices nerfc considerably higher. Pank clearings for the month reached a total of $24,326,567.43, while a slight in crease Is reported ln the movement of real estate. The recorded valuations or last month's transfers aggregated $1,820, 806. as against $1,723,234 for the corre sponding month in 1907. Building per mits representing improvements of be tween $300,000 and $900,000 were Issued during the month. , The following table shows the number of births for the first eight months of 1907 and 1908: 190T. 1905. M. Fern. M. Fern. January 63 113 112 IIS February 85 83 111) 102 March 112 110 123 109 April 87 75 114 220 May 89 82 1117 113 June ................ BO Kit 104 105 July 128 115 119 119 August Ill 87 4 88 Totals 765 796 8S3 t9 The following tabl eshows the number of deaths for the first eight months or 1907 and 1908: 1907. 1908. M. Fern. M. Fern. January ............. 91 106 77 59 February 55 113 ' 91 74 March 101 34 101 78 April 97 56 95 58 May 98 86 80 70 June 104 49 7i 49 July 84 48 78 47 August 82 50 83 39 Total 732 672 674 474 Cupid has not been as busy last month as he was in August. .1907. During that month he brought about the marriage or 229 couples. During the month which closed last night there were only 196 who had taken out marriages licenses in Mult nomah County. 7 LAWYER HAS DISAPPEARED Bethnne, of New York, Vainlv Sought la Portland. Pinkerton detectives in this city have failed to find a trace of Faneull D. S. Be thune a prominent attorney of New York City, who Is supposed to have started tor this city after mysteriously disappear ing from his home. He left New York for iJunaJo last week and from there has been trace to Chicago. At Chicago he pur- cnasea a ticaei ior rortiand but has not arrived here. Bethune is a member of the prominent i or law nrm or vk etmore & Jenner, and is himself the American representa tive of the Krupp Gun Company. He is said to have had a large sum of money in nis possession at me time or his disaD pearance and it is feared that he may have been mentally deranged at the time of his disappearance. His wife followed him as far a Chicago and she is critically ill in that city aa a result of the shock of his mysterious dis appearance. The attorney Is said to be interested in many legal matters to which Immediate attention must be given, and his presenoe in New York Is greatly de elred. The man is supposed to have suf fered a nervous breakdown and to be temporarily deranged as a result. Pinkerton detectives have searched the city for him but have failed to find a trace. man who, after having destroyed his features with carbolic acid, drowned himself ln the Monongahela River at McKeesport one week ago. It Is claimed here today that the body la either that of a divorced husband of a niece of the late Marshall Field, of Chi cago, or of F. D. S. Bethune, the New York attorney, who has been strangely missing for about two weeks. Owing to the length of time the man has been dead. It is admitted the work of identi fication will be hard. Disprove Suicide Theory. CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Relatives of F. D. S. Bethune.. the missing New York law yer, are hopeful that trace of him will be found from a clew on which detectives are now working. Mrs. Bethune is at the Auditorium Annex ln a highly nerv ous condition. Her brother-in-law, F. T. Foote, of New York, is with her, and de clared today that the theory that the mysterious McKeesport suicide, whose identity la unknown, might be Bethune had been carefully investigated! and dis carded. The only divorced niece of Mar shall Field is the former Mrs. Preston Gibson. Mr. Gibson Is at present In Washington. NEED CARS TO CEMETERIES FXiAXS FOR TRANSPORTATION TO BURIAL GROUNDS. MAY BE M'KEESPORT SUICIDE Body Found ln River Possibly That of Bethune. PITTSBURG. Aug. 31. The authori ties are hard at work today ln an en deavor to clear up the mystery surrounding- the suicide of the unknown Jewish and Oddfellows Societies Unite to Secure Extension of Trolley Road. Negotiations are under way between the trustees of the Jewish and Odd fellows' Cemeteries and. the residents of the nearby suburbs on the heights commanding a view of South Portland, and the Oregon Electric Railway Com pany and the Portland Railway. Light A Power Company, looking to the ex tension of a trolley road to both these burial grounds. It is expected that either the Fulton line of the latter company will be extended or that the Oregon Electric will run a branch to the district. A bonus of $14,000 raised by those directly interested will be used in help ing construct the line. Of this amount the Oddfellows have contributed $3000 and the management of the Jewish Cemetery $8000 more. Citizens of Carl ton Heights, Carson Heights and other nearby suburbs have pledged the re mainder of the money. The Oregon Electric management has assured the people carrying on the negotiations that they will build a branch line reaching both cemeteries for $15,000. The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company is understood to be asking a larger bonus on account of the difficulties of construction of an extension of the present Fulton line, which would probably run up Corbett street to Carson Heights at the crest of the range of hills lying to the.west of the river. Harriman Coming September 10. E. H. Harriman, "Wlrard of the Pa cifies." will visit Portland about September- 10, unless his present plans are changed. It is learned that he will come North in his private car Ardcn from his Pelican Bay lodge, making stops at numerous Willamette "Valley stations en route. Just the date of his arrival here Is not yet known and depends upon the the length of his stay in the valley cities. That he will come out this way and will remain ln Portland a few days seems assured. Whether he will go East from here or will go to San Francisco before returning to New York has not yet been learned. Excursion to Klamath Falls. A special excursion will be run to Klamath Falls from Portland September 6 to give Portland citizens an opportunity to see what that district is accomplishing in the way of development. The rail- roads have made a special rate for the round trip and nearly 100 business men of this citr will make the trip. Upon arrival at Klamath Falls the visitors will be entertained by the Klamath Chamber of Commerce. Tale o! Man, His Wife and Four Dogs Hnaband Asserts Ability to Care for All Five, After Trip ta Cafe, but Party Winds Up at Police Station. THIS Is the story of a man with four dogs and a wife, and their troubles yesterday. Police officers vouch for its verity, and records at headquarters may be Inspected if there Is doubt as to the existence of such a man. He. and she were walking along the sidewalk at Nineteenth and Thurman streets yesterday afternoon when she suddenly : became faint and fell. He had two of the dogs in his arms at the time, o he was unable either to pre vent her falling or to assist her in rising. The two other dogs trotted along ln front, but gallantly rushed to the side of the prostrate woman and offered what sympathy they could. Persons who were passing saw the woman on the ground and ran to her aid. At the same time Policeman Bales sauntered along, patrolling his regular beat. He -rushed toward the crowd and seeing the prostrate woman, started to a police box to call a patrol wagon or an ambulance. But an automobile the driver of which had stopped to see the trouble, was Immediately requisi tioned by the officer, and the woman placed ln the tonneau. The officer asked the man If he cared to go, but he was busy with his dogs and refused to take a ride unless the officer consented to let the dogs go also. So he was left alone and the car driven rapidly to St. Vincent's Hospital. There the house physician took one look at the woman, felt her pulse, and smiled. "We have no room for her," he said. "She is simply drunk." So the automobile, with the woman, the officer and the driver, left the hos pital and sped to the Police Station. There the woman was given in care of the matron, and the offices went out It search of the man with the dogs. The man insisted to members of the crowd that he couldn't care for the dogs and his wife at the same time. They had spent the greater part of the afternoon, it Is said, in a downtown cafe, and the woman was introduced to a cocktail. It was her first, and she liked It. Then she called for more. The officer failed for a time to find the man. At Police Station the woman admit ted she had taken one drink, but only one. She was elegantly dressed and gave the name of Mrs. Emma Andros. Late last night the husband was found by a policeman, and he also was taken to the City Jail. The same charge that was entered again his wife Teste against blm. With him when ar rested were the four dogs, which, when he was locked up, stood outside the jail and whined dismally until the captain ln charge detailed a special man to care for them. He gave the name of Charles Andros. When his wife was taken from him, he said, he became so lonely that ha sought aolaoe in the bottle. i GET ROBBER'S LOOT Postal Inspector Recovers Money Taken From Stage. SHOTGUN FOUND IN VALISE Postal Inspector Receives From Yamhill County Package of Mall Discovered Near. Scene of Crime. Matt Jackson, alias A. Carlson, alias "The Swede," who held up the Tilla mook stage, robbed Us three passengers and rifled the United States mails July 3 t r -... 1 y 1 I mm 1 I (v id I j I frH -J ; Matt Jackson. Under Arrest ta San Franclaeo for Holding Up the Tillamook Stage July 2. last, is under arrest in San Francisco. as has been announced ln dispatches to The Oregonian. Postal Inspector E. C. Clement returned yesterday from the Bay City, where he recovered about $6000 worth of checks, drafts, money orders and postage stamps, practically the total value of the booty. Although Jackson Is . wanted ln San Francisco for highway robbery, the Cali fornia authorities will surrender their charge to the Federal officers ln this state when the latter are ready to pro ceed with the trial. Having used a fire arm and endangered the stagedrlver's life In committing the Tillamook robber-, Jackson will be liable to a life sentence at McNeil's Island if convicted. When the Tillamook holdup was report ed the local postal Inspectors sent out notices to all Pacific Coast points. These included a decsrlption of Jackson, who was suspected,: he having just concluded a sentence of ' 14 years ln the Oregon Penitentiary for robbing a streetcar in this city. Not long afterward Jackson appeared In San Francisco, where he at tracted the attention of the police by the lavish way in which he spent money. Automobiles and women occupied the greater portion of his time, and soon he was arrested on suspicion and lodged in the City Jail, where another old of fender recognized In Jackson the man who was arrested in San Francisco about 20 years ago for highway robbery. At that time Jackson contrived to escape. Detectives were aslsgned on the case and succeeded in locating ln a downtown saloon a valise Jackson said was his property. In it was found a sawed-ofl shotgun, the same kind of a weapon that was used at Sterling City a few days be fore, when 15 laborers, returning from the lumber camps, were held up. by a highwayman and robbed of their wages. Later, in another saloon, the detectives found a coat, admitted by Jackson to be his property. In one of the pockets were six gold watches. With the coat was a package which, on investigation, was found to contain the rifled mall that was taken from the Tillamook stage. Upon examining the package Mr. Clem ent found that It contained, practically intact, every valuable letter and package that was taken from the stage.. The rob ber had proceeded deliberately in rifling the contents of the pouch. Wherever a letter was found to contain a money or der, check, draft or postage stamps, its contents were not disturbed, the letter of remittance being found ln the contents of the envelope. Mr Ciement says this will enable the postal authorities eventually to forward all such letters to their proper destination. When arrested ' Jackson was wearing the gold watch that he had stolen from J. B. Cartwright, a traveling salesman of this city, who was one of the passen gers on the Tillamook stage. Inspector Clement yesterday . received from Yamhill County another package containing other mall which evidently had been thrown away by Jackson after he had appropriated the valuable paper. These letters were found near- the scene of the robbery in Yamhill County. Jackson is known to be a desperate character. Under the name of A. Carl son he was sentenced to the Oregon Pen itentiary from this city In 1899 for 14 years for holding up streetcar. Allow ing for credit marks. It was possible for htm to earn release by reason of good behavior. Amusements What the Frew Agents Bay. "A Celebrated Case" Matinee. At the Lyric this afternoon the Ervin Blunkall tock oompany will repeat that splendid costume melodrama. "A Celebrated Case" which has proved to be such a tre mendous drawing card sine Us opening Sunday. The attendance at all performances has broken all records. Matinee Thursday at the Baker. Dainty Grace Cameron and the Cameron company are making- a tremendous hit at the Baker this week, and no more excellent attraction has ever been seen here at popu lar prices. There will be matinees of "Lit tle Dollle Dimples" Thursday and Saturday. COMING ATTRACTOJiS. Season Seat Sale Tomorrow. Things will be doing at the new Bunga lpw tomorrow morning when the regular annual season seat sale opens at the box office for the always popular Baker Stock Company. The office will open promptly at 10 o'clock as usual, and those In line will be cared for ln every possible way to make them comfortable. Grease paints and professionals' sup plies at Woodard. Clarke & Co. Man Arrested Xot C. A. Benbow. On Saturday night M. C. Benbow. an employe of the Commercial Abstract Company, with offices at 332ft Washington street, was arrested on the complaint of Maimie Ready, a nurse, who charged him with the larceny of $300 by embezzlement. He was taken into custody by Constable Wagner and locked up in the County JalL Benbow denies the charge. Through in advertent error The Sunday Oregonian announced that A. C. Benbow was the object of the charge brought by Mrs. Ready. BUNGALOWATT RACK Country Club Directors Decide on Neat Building. HALF-MILE OVAL PLANNED Special Committees Report Progress In Construction of the Grand stand, Bleachers and Paddock. Directors of the Country Club yes terday afternoon voted to erect Im mediately an administration building to be completed by the time of the open ing of the first annual Pacific National race meet and livestock show, Septem- b"he' building will be a one-story structure, of the bungalow style, 4-x47 feet It will contain the general office of the management, offices for the di rectors, with committee rooms and space for the entire clerical and execu tive work ln connection with the meet, with public local and l-""." ephones. telegraph and ma 1 'v,ce and reception-rooms for1 Peclal'8't0" who may be guests of the Country Club management from similar associations In other parts of the country. The building will be temporary in character, because of the short space of time between now and th Pen'"S of the races, but Its instruction will be such that It can be made permanent, enlarged and furnished to suit all de mands of the future ,..! It was also decided at the meeting to build a half-mile oval Inside the official course to be used as a Jo"'" track." during the race rneet and thereafter as it shall be needed by the harness horse, which will at the racecourse after the present sea son is over. Contractors who are now at work grading for the bleachers the paddock and the extra racing stables will stake out the half-mile course and the dirt removed from the building ex cavations will be used in construction of this inside course. A communication was read from the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany advising the club director, that the work of laying the loop from the Sandy road would be nd"ta1"" ' once, and it would be completed within the next 10 days. The O. R. & N. Co. was given a deed In easement of a sufficient strip of ground to lay Its spur for the main line at Montavllla to the Country Club grounds, and for the necessary side tracks to accommodate the additional service already announced. The direc tors agreed to provide a sheltered waiting-room for the convenience of the crowds at the terminus of the railroad spur on the grounds. Work on Buildings. Bpeclal committees reported on the condition of work on the tockbarns. which are yet unfinished; the large grandatand, the bleachers and the pad dock. Chairman F. O. Downing, of the general management committee, re ported that many applications are on hand for space in the concession grounds, and that a goodly number of bids for other privileges, had been received. Dainty as a Confection Crisp Tempting Delicious Post win immediate favor with old and young. Made from selected white corn. Thoroughly cooked, rolled into flakes and toasted a golden brown. A Breakfast Luxury "The Taste Lingers" AT ALL GROCERS Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., MtciLEu?RiEA: COLONIAL FURNITURE The best reproductions of this good, substan tial furniture and those that display the true character and beautiful proportion of the originals of the Colonial period, are the de signs of Berkey and Gay of Grand Rapids, Mich. These foremost builders of "Forefather Furniture" have reproduced the most famous of the Colonial designs, and their worK is ad mirably set forth in the various pieces which have appeared bearing their shopmark. The splendid workmanship and material conform strongly to the correct character of their de signs. We are showing many of the Berkey and Gay productions, including complete suites and odd pieces for bedroom, living room and library. This beautiful gathering is worthy the attention of admirers of the colonial TULL & GIBBS COMPLETE HOUSEFURNISHERS - , These tenders are being allowed as "rapidly as the most favorable ones can be decided on, ' The offer of the subdlviders of Elm hurst, a new tract, to open Tillamook avenue through for the distance east of Sandy road, where it is still closed, to Cully avenue, where the Country Club will take up the work and grade the thoroughfare to the entrance of the grounds, has been accepted. The Elm hurst people announced that they have let the contract for grading Tillamook for the distance of one-third of a mile, and will have it ready for use by the time the race, meet opens. This ar rangement will relieve the Country Club of a considerable burdem, and will solve the problem of securing a through street from the river out to the racetrack much more easily than was anticipated. The engineers of the Country Club tract have already put a force of men at work opening up Tilla mook for several blocks east of West avenue. This will be pushed forward to meet the grade established through Elmhurst. The long-delayed two carloads of water-pipe to be used for drafhage, sewerage and fire protection, ln addi tion to the service already Installed, have arrived, and the system will be completed by the opening days of the race week. Lumbermens National Bank Corner Second and Stark Streets, ' PORTLAND, OREGON Capital $250,000.00 OFFICERS G. K. Wentworth President John A. Keating Vice-President George L. McPherson Vice-President H. D. Story Cashier . A. Freeman ' Assistant Cashier , DIRECTORS G. K. Wentworth . Lloyd J. Wentworth Charles S. Russell J. E. Wheeler P. S. Brumby Geo. L. McPherson Dr. K. A. J. MacKenzie John A. Keating George G. Bingham Robert T. Piatt II. D. 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