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JAJfUAKT 8, 1011. " - - f : ' I t 1 . i I . : ' : 1 1 PORTLAND LEADS WHOLE COUNTRY December Building Shows In crease 228 Per Cent Over Same Month 1909. TOLEDO, OHIO, IS SECOND Cain In Building Operations Darin: I I 0 in Rote City Is S I Per Cent. Scat! I and Tacotna Hare Big Falling Oft for IS Months. OTIC AGO. Jan. T. (Sprclal.V Portland tnok on a big boom in building opera tion. In the month of December. 1319, making tha biggest rain of any city In thi country, according to atatlstlca com piled br th American Contractor. In Ieetnbr. 1510. t9 bulMlnra were author ed at a coat of W.nsOX while In th .-tie month In. 1 SI new buildings, costing but tl.Cfi.Si. were built, making a gain of ZX per cent. Toledo, O- waa nest In rank, wnne another Ohio rlty. Columbus, ranka third. Portland rar.ka among the leadera as recarda gains In builillng operations for the year at a gain of 11 per cent. Among the leaders are Atlanta with 13 per cent; Baltimore, S3: Columbus. O- 42: Pallas. 3: Detroit. C: Hartford. Conn.. : Los Angelas. : Oakland. ; Toledo. Ol. U, and Worcester. Mass.. S. Seattle. Taroraa and San Francisco all show losses In operations, the last named c'ty showing a falling off of Tl per cent for tha year. Seattle showed a loss of It per cent and Tacoma 33 per cent. Had It not been for a big Doom in ouuaing operations In December. Seattle would hove shown even a greater loss, in that month' operations shoved an Increase of per cent over the same .period In 1J"9. trie cost of new bug. lings erected In the last month of tl: year Just closed aunoununr to 1.S.'0. while In the same month In s amounted to fl.OMMA Taroma showed a falling oft of H per cent during December. The cost of buildings authorized in Portland during the year 1910 Is t mated by the Contractor at t.H.o7. while In l1 it amounted to iw.m."o. in Seattle bulldlncs costing I17.I1S.i57j were put up during the year, while In lsOt th ct was !.. J-Ti. Tacoma'a building operatlona reportea l total of more than HAW In lfctt. but In 1910 the cost of buildings erected amounted to a little more than S3.Uu.40O. Fortv-four representative cities or tn United dates show a decline In building nnerations In the aggregate of 7 per cent for the year 191 as compared with 1J09. This calculation. If taken as a oasis tor the building operatlona of th entir country." says the Contractor, "makes a better showing than waa expected by those In a position to pass an opinion on th subject." CENTRAL1A WILL BOOST Ihehalls and Lewis County to Spend $4300 on Publicity. CENTRA LI A. Wh.. Jan. T (Special.) The Commercial Club of Ontralla haa Just decided to Inaugurate a publicity cintMlra la conjunction with th CltUen Club of Che hs lis. and to take up th matter with the publicity department of th Southern Paclllo Railway. It is decMed to expend HSX This amount will be divided into three share one third to be born by Centralis, one-third by Its sister city. Cbehaliai and th re maining snare by Lewis County. Descriptive literature will be prepared, giving Illustrative accounts of th county generally, and both cities specifically. It U believed that both cities and the coun ty win reap better benefit by combining force, and th cities of Centraila and ChehaU axe to be linked by reciprocal tie of Interest la th publicity campaign. Th citls sr busy with th problem of freight rates. Complaints sr to b filed, with th Stat Railroad Commission covering local rate, and with the Inter state Commerce commission regarding Interstate rates. It Is expected that at least M will b raised in a few days. s at a meeting Just concluded, th sum of ti.VT waa subscribed for the work of tl.e Centraila Commercial Club for this year. GILL CASE SOON APPEALED Seattle ClUicns Serve Notice; Im mediate Action Demanded. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 7. Nolle of appeal from the United States District 1'ourt's Injunction restraining th City Council from appropriating money for a recall election for Mayor was given today by Corporation Counsel Scott Calhoun and counsel for the Kubitc Welfare League, attorneys for de fendants who would obtain a decision from a United States Circuit Court of Appeals at the earliest tltn and by th shortest route they find open to tnem. It Is declared probable that unless tehy can effect a prompt hearing of their appeal In this state, they will s-o to Portland and If thwarted there will hurry to fan Kranctsco In order to get action. Th appeal will be based on grounds of Jurisdiction snd equity. FOREST GROVE IS ACTIVE Improvement of Highways In Wash. Ington County bought. FOREST CTWVE. Or.. Jan. T.-Speclal.) For providing more money to be spent on th improvements of th highways running through Forest Grove and that th work may be don In a more per manent manner, th City Council haa asked W. H. Mollis, of thla city, a mem ber of the State Legislature, to Intro due a bill making a distinct road dis trict out of th territory within th cor porate limits. It will be provided that ths amount or general road tax levied by th County Court be spent within the corporate lim its snd disbursed so that Washington County will get 0 per cent and th city per cent. Now. Forest Grove Is a part of three separata road districts. WASHINGTON FAIR BIGGER California Horsemen to Bring String of Horses North. FOR F.JT OROVR Or, Jan. 7. Spe cial The Washington County Agri cultural and Livestock Association. whoa aims are to maintain a county ariienltural fair on Its grounds east of thla city, has decided to push th erec tion of tn buildings required en th ore mis es to completion. Th racetrack haa been completed and th quality of the soil makea It one of the best In the Valley. William Bovl, a former horse trainer with the Stanford stables at Palo Alto. CaL, will bring a string of horses to thla city and will have them In th Ward stables awaiting the completion of the stalls In the fair grounds. Ths directors of the association are: President. G. W. Marsh. Centervllle: M. Peterson, treas urer. Forest Grove: A. T. Buxton, sec retary. Watts; Felix Verhoeren. W. F. Fchuits. H. T. Buxton. John Abott and J. W. Hushes, all of Forest Grove; A. W. Mills and Josh Merrill. Cornelius. ALBANY MILITARY ELECTS New Organization Names Captain Ilammcll President. ALBAXT. Or.. Jan. 7. (Special.) Members of Compnny G. Fourth In fantry. O. Jf. G.. of this city, last night formed ths Aibsny Military Club for the purpose of maintaining a literary and social organization. Quarters have been set apart for club rooms In the splendid new armory, dedicated this week, snd this new organisation will furnish and equip these rooms suitably and then maintain them for the use of Its members, it Is proposed to equip well-appointed club rooms and tha or ganization will hereafter play a promi nent part In the military life of this cltT- , . . Officers of th nsw club war elected as follows: President. Captain Stanley BRITAIN ARMED AL AT ALIENS' CRIMES Cry Raised fct Restriction of Immigration That Outlaws Be Excluded. TORY FACTIONS WRANGLE Split Into FIT Sections, They Turn on Balfour and In Poor Form to Defend Lords Irish Bogey to Furnish Rallying; Cry. BT T. P. CCOJTNOR. (Special eal t Chloag Trfbone Copy right. 101 1. by th Tribune Company.) LONDON. Jan. 7-Though thar ar CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING AT ALBANY. 1 a - r, in... ..ets( . ueww'nayfi A MR. AND MRS. Al'Gl'ST KROSCHEL. ALBANT. Or, Jan. 7. (Special.) August Kroschel. aged 74 yesra, and hla wife. Louisa Kroschel. sged 7S years, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Albany. December JO. They have lived In Albany and vicinity more than II years. Mr. and Mrs. Kroschel received many congratulations and lfts from relatives and friends. J. Hammell. first vice-president. Cor poral Leland R- Gilbert: second vice president. Sergeant Frank M. Powell; honorary vice-presidents. Colonel M. IC Ellis. Major C. B. Winn. ex-Captain K. C. Slellmacher. ex-Lleutnant O. B. 8talnaker and ex-Lieutenant W. I Marks: secretary. Corporal Clarence W. Tebault, Jr.; treasurer. Lieutenant Q. JS. Propst; chaplain. Private Hana Flo. Standing committees were chosen at follows: Executive committee Cap tain 6tanley J. Hammell. chairman. Eer. geant Frank M. Powell and Corporal Morris F. BIgbee. Legislative commit teeMusician Roy F. Knox, chairman. Sergeant F. M. Powell. Corporal Leland R. Gilbert. Corporal George F. Strlne. Literary committee Sergeant H. O. Stalnaker. chairman. Sergeant Charles Read. Private Hans Flo. Corporal t.-.MM xir TeKatiit Jf. Committee on memoirs Corporal Roy W. Nutting, chairman, lorporai r u. Anarrion, x-r-vate Glen Wlllard. TEMPLARS GREET HERMANN ocene, Albany and Portland ' Knights Give prprlse. ROSEPCRO. Or. Jan. T, (Special.) Blnger Hermann was th recipient of a delightful surprise tonight, when about SO Knights Templars from Eu gene. Albany and Portland Joined with the local Knighta Templars of Ascalon Commaadery, No. 14. In conferring th order of th black cross a pan tha x Representative. Th surprise was com plete and Mr. Hermann was almost overcome. According to the visitors, they cam her In appreciation of Mr. Hermann's high standing aa a cltlien of Oregon. At the conclusion of th degree work a banquet was served, followed by "after-dinner" speeches. Most of th visitors left for their homes on ths midnight train. Logging Camps to Resume. TOLEDO. Or, Jan. T (Special) Word haa been reoelved from tha Port land offtc of th Fir 4k Sprue Lumber Company, of this jlace. to start work in a part of their logging camp again. Work Is expected to be resumed In all their camps soon. Indications of th oomlng fierce politi cal struggle when Parliament reopens at the and of January, all topics for th moment are submerged by the re cent battle In Stepney, in which all of th military forces In London wers called out to capture a bouse held by two robbers. Publle opinion, on th whole, justifies the tactics of Winston Churchill, th Horn Secretary, and the police. Th British approval la mad the mors cer tain by th self-complacent criticisms of tha German press. All the same, th spectacls of two desperadoes keeping such a vast fore at bay produces a misgiving amount ing almost. In som quarters, to a panic Some of th English se In every for eigner In th East End of London a potential anarchist, and th piysterlous murder on Clapham Common, with the Initial letter "8" carved on th cheeks of th dead. Increases the tendency to believe It a' widespread and powerful assassin and anarchist organization. Cry Raised Against Aliens. Party politics, of course, enters Into th controversy. Th Tories ar accus ing th Liberals of reducing th acts ef Parliament against aliens to nothing, whll th Liberals retort that th de fect lies In th acts themselves, which wers clumsily contrived by tha Tories when they were in power. Ther la a general call for a greater restriction of alien Immigration, but few will attempt to answer the un answerable objections to any possibil ity of such a cod of restrictions as could keep out any but aa Infinitesimal number of real criminals without in cluding a great mass of deserving ones and destroying England's traditional policy of offering an asylum to refugees from oppression. British Law Vindicated. Another proposal la ta make more difficult th right to carry arms, and finally It Is proposed to arm the police. In a few weeks' time th people will return to their normal mind, and, view ing thee ocsajrrencca In a tru pr- PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OT OAKLAND COMMERCIAL CLUB. - 1 : . . ; - v r i J.'.- C-:al . i::. t." V ;J "f.';. ; 4 OAKI-AND. Or. jsn. (Special.) Vn nwly elected officers ef th Oakland Commercial Club hav announced that th policy of conducting an active publicity campaign will be continued during th present year. The organisation la-having community advertising literature published and expects to make a wide distribution of th booklets. Th new officers of th club ar: C L. Chenoweth. president; W. O. Bridges, vice-president: Jamea I. Davis, secretary, and C. If. Medley, treasurer. C. L. Chenoweth, president ef the club. Is a native Oregonlan- He has been enraged with A, F. Stearns in the hardware business her th past 2S years. Mr. Chenoweth bss been active In public work of Oakland, having served as postmaster, school director, Councilman and wss nine tiroes elected Msyor of th city. James X. Davis earn to Oakland a year ago from Neb rank and sine his arrival her h haa devoted, much, tin to publlo aOslr and publicity, wuriu CENTRAL BANK Our location is most central, our equipment modern and ample and our policy conservative. In addition to gen eral bankinpr, in which. Check and Savings Ac counts are received without limitation as to amounts, we handle trusts in their varying forms, estates for fu-' ture distribution or other disposition, bond issues, ecsrows, trustee under Wills, agent for purchase or 6ale of properties, and in many other fiduciary and confidential rela tions. With efficiency and economy of manage ment is coupled abso lute Bafety and perpe tuity of service. . Merchants Savings &Trust Company spectlva, will see they mean simply a band of brigands who transferred their trade of burglary from Russian to Eng lish soil, and soon were taught the salutary lesson that in England a. po lice murder is not popular or safe. Th sane men who kept cool see In th whole transaction a vindication of British institutions, first, ss producing by freedom universal sympathy of all claaaes with th law; and, secondly, as proving that nowhere In the world do detection and punishment so surely and rapidly pursue the crime as in the Eng lish metropolis. Tory Divisions Grow Sharp. Turning to the political situation, th Liberal and Irish prospects ar made brighter by the renewed and even fiercer hostilities between th different actions of the Tories. A. J. Balfour's sidetracking of tariff reform Is bring ing dally an Increased division and per sonal unpopularty In his own party. The Liberals now can calculate that there are five different sections In the Tory ranks. . . The confusion Is made worse by the Incident that the bye-election In Lin colnshire caused by th death of a peer and the removal of his heir to the House of Lords. The Tory candidate opened the campaign by announcing that he was fighting the election, not on th tariff, but on th constitutional Issue. A storm of repudiation burst upon his head from the tariff camp, and, though th unfortuate candidate attempted to withdraw his unhappy manifesto, the storm still rages. Balfour Denounced as Coward. The Morning Post, as usual, leads the antl-Balfour campaign and It prints a letter from Edward Oouldlng, th young, energetlo Irishman who la the real head of the rabid protectionist section Of th Tories. In which Balfour's policy Is indirectly denounced as cow ardly and as reducing the Tories to jugglers and tricksters. Jesse Colllngs. Austen Chamberlain's most devoted lieutenant, joins the fray by denouncing the free trade Unionists, particularly Lord George Hamilton, wno resigned a high office In the Balfour ministry as a protest against the adop tion by Balfour of Chamberlain s pro tectionist policy. Hamilton retorts by a vlolous fling at Chamberlain as of no importance. These discordant voices will weaken th Tories In the approaching fight over the veto and may lead to an early and asy settlement of that controversy. Cooler Tories Would Yield. Whll the fiery backwoodsmen still call out "no surrender" and Invite Pre mier Asqulth to create his 600 new peers, cooler heads among the Tories f erceive that such a desperate measure, f forced on Asqulth. will confer on him a final weapon for destroying th present House of Lords and carrying horn rule and all the other Liberal re forms. It would give him a House of Lords where th Liberals would hold for the first tlma In history an overwhelming majority. My present forecast is that all of these events ar forcing Balfour to rally his party by abandoning tariff re form, putting up a sham fight on the House of Lords' veto and finally con centrating on the fight against home rule. This anti-Irish cry plays ths part In English polities of th hioody shirt cry In th years after th Civil War In America, and already Irish Toryism Is fiercely active because it Js seriously alarmed at the phophesylng of civil war and the appearing ef "no popery" sentiment Redmond does useful service this week by the artiele showing how near ly half of Ulster Is Cat hollo and home rule and by renewing his pledge, often given before, that the Irish party will welcome every safeguard asked for the protection of religious liberty and ab. solute equality pf all creeds vndar home rule. SPECIAL LEVY EXTENDED School District Along Jiecanlcum River Is Affected. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 7. (Special.) The special levy of 11 mills that was mad by school district 11 or what s known as the Necanlcum River District. Is to b extended on th tax roll, au thority for so doing having been re ceived from Attorney-General Craw ford today. The trouble was that while the law passed In 909 requires that all special school district levies muet be reported to the court clerk, not later than December 1ft, this district did not hold its meeting until that day and tha levy was not reported until som days later. With a view pf ascertaining whether or not the levy eould be legally extend ed on the roll, th matter was referred to tha State Attorney-General. This morning a latter was received from that official by County Clerk Clinton, stating that the tax may be extended. The letter says the law directing that returns of levies shall be filed on or before December 10 is directory and not mandatory and the fact that a levy Is -not reported within the .required time does pot invalidate it unless the notice l received too late to permit th clerk to extend the same before the GRAY'S GREAT SALE OF esterfie Ch asas Is going full blast. The Good Dressers know where to get their Clothes. This fact has resulted in this store having done a tremendous business. A lot of splendid styles left to choose from in both Suits and .Overcoats. The following great values prevail: $20.00 $22.50 $25.00 $30.00 $35.00 $40.00 $45 00 $50.00 Values at . Values at . Values at . Values at . Values at . Values at . Values at . Values at . $15.00 316.50 $ 1 9.00 523.SO $2650 $29.SO $3450 $39.50 15 Per Cent Discount on Black and Blue Sack Suits a Half Price Sale of Ladies' Suits 33 1-3 Per Gent Discount on Ladies' Coats WHEN BUYING CLOTHES COME TO GRAY'S WHERE YOU KNOW THEY ARE RIGHT R M 273-275 MORRISON roll is closed. Continuing," the letter says: "It is the action of the district or municipality pursuant to law which constitutes the levy and the time of no tifying the County Clerk is directory and not Jurisdictional." BRIDGE ADVOCATES ACTIVE Special Levy Asked of Ijegialatnre for puttevillo Project. SALEM, Or., Jan. T (Speolal.)Wlll B. Purdy, president of the Tri-County Push Club, is here to remain until after the Legislature passes on a bill for the pur pose of making a levy on Marlon. Yam hill and Clackamas counties for a now bridge across the Willamette River at ButtevlUe. Grant B. Dimlok. of Oregon City, Is now preparing the bill. Purdy appeared before the County Court today and was given assurance if the Uarlon County delegation would Indorse the bridge the court would aid. Today Purdy also received a letter from Senator John A. Carson, pf the Marlon delegation, stating that the members had given their Indorsement to the plan- This gives him great hope that the bridge will become a reality. He has also received a communication from A. g. Graham, president of the Oregon Olty Transportation Company, stating that he believes Buttervlllo the logical location. The bill probably will be presented early in the session. v. Idaho Chooses Rhodes Scholar. UNIVERSITY OF IPAHO. Moscow, Idaho, Jan. 7.-At a special meeting of th faculty of th University of Idaho held yesterday the next Rhodes scholar was chosen to represent iaano at ox ford. There were two candidate, Paul Durrle, a senior in the university, and L. S. Gerlough, a graduate of 1909. The latter was selected. Mr. Ger lough Is a resident of Boise, but at present 1 the principal of the Moscow Hitrh School, tie is a member ol uie Theta Mu Bppllon fraternity of the university. Non-Irrigable Lands Designated WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Montana lands approximating 204,000 acres were today designated by Secretary of the Interior Balllnger, under the enlarged homestead act, as being not susceptible of success ful irrigation. These are located in the northwestern part or the state. The total designation In Montana under the en larged homestead act to date is 31,405,181 acres. The beach Is less often struck br light ning than any other tree; fi oaks are struck ror ona bbcr. - t ( lifrmTMii in wiwa in. 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