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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL.' PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY 12. 1CC7. 18 EAST SIDE r A as AsE3Fzcae-..ynJl UTS Ml THEATRE Stock in the Enterprise la Now Being Readily Subscribed .by Realty Dealers. - HELP PROPERTY VALUES ; IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Artificial Skating Rink on Eut Mor ' risoa Is Now, Assured -Number " of ' Sale Show' Activity . in Keal 'V Estate Market. ,'" '.:':-'';;' '.' . Announcement has been made during the week of aerenl large building ea- ternrises. Some of these are entirely new projects, baring just come to light. while others are improvements xnat have been under contemplation for some time, the details and plans of which are ..now flnlahed. and upon which work mar be expected to begin within a few It has been definitely announced ihtt the proposed new theatre for the east """lde will be bullfthe coming summer. The Hawthorne estate, through Whit ney U Botse has offered a site, at the southeast corner of Grand avenue and East Salmon street,- free for ten years. : The block offered la 10 by 100 feet, ' and is aald to be amply large for the purpose: -The tentative plans provide for a brlckerCQncreta stniritiira with -. a seating capacity of 1,200. John F. Cordray baa offered to lease the thea tre for a term of years , and pay the stockholders per cent en the coat. He also proposes to. furnish and equip it . at a cost of 124,000. ... . Nearly every eaat aide , improvement ' body has Indorsed the proposition. " Many individual property-holders have agreed , to take blocks of the stocks, '"while soma of"the1arge estates inter ested in east-side property have agreed to subscribe liberally to the capital ; BtOCk- . v ;''... ;, . . Another handsome east aide improve ment that is booked to go up next sum mer is the large brick business block of the Hawthorne estate to be built on the northeast corner of Grand and Haw thome avenues.- The structure will be one of-thehantrsoroest yet erected on , the other side of the river. ' ' The new hospital to' be erected by. the Homeopathic Hospital association on i X i, , ( . - I Residence of L..C. Jameson. 441 .Sixteenth Street. the block bounded by ast Second, Eaat Third, Hassolo and Multnomah streets, will be on of the best equipped and ctflo coast. Architects WhlddenVand Lewis have been employed to 'submit sketches of., plans for the building, which will be done ' in the next few weeks. " The estimated cost of the build ing is 40,000. -The site cost $30,000. The entire sum for its construction was derived fro.n a bequest of the late Sen ator H. W. CorbetC This will be the second homeopath lo hospital .to be es tablished on the Pacific coast, Oakland, California, being the only other coast city having an institution of this char acter.. ' James Olsen has had plans prepared for a three-story frame hotel to be built on Grand avenue near Hawthorne. The new structure will cost about 115,000, Its construction. ' The Washington lodge,' A. F. A. M., and .Washington chapter, R. A. M.. have under consideration the plan to build a three-story building on Eaat Eighth s reet, to be used for business and fra ternal purposes. The proposed artificial lee. rlnjtfor the east side has passed the formative stage and has now become a certainty. The site of the. new rink will be the half block adjoining the plant of the Crystal Ice A Storage company., - The enterprise waa first projected by 3. H. Healy, of the Healy Investment com pany, but waa turned over to the Crys tal Ice A Storage company. It is un derstood that Mr. Healy and assoclstes till retain en . interest 1n . the enter prise.' . . The most important west side im provement announced during the week 1a that of a seven-story brick and steel hotel to be erected by R. B. laroson at Eleventh and Stark streets. . Archi tect Jacobberger is preparing the plana for the structure, which will occupy a nnnrtu- hlnrk and contain 800 rooms. Mrs. a A. Nortpn has leased the hotel for a term ofsixteen years. Tne new hotel will be first-class In every detail. In' addition to the uaual accessories of r V a flrat-olaaa hostelry, there is to be a roof garden and a glass covered court. Excavation for the new struovure will feeglnlnafe.waaka, . The contract for the excavation for the seven-story family hotel belonging to Messrs. Weatherbee and McClung, on Ella . street north of Washington, waa let durtng the week. It la expected that one year will be required la which to complete this structure. A, U Mills, president of the First Ra tional bank, has commenced the excava tion for his 140,000 colonial residence at Johnson and Twentieth street W. A. McKensie has the contract- for the general construction of thtatsldenoe. . Theodore Kruae, who owns the dear-' hut hotel property at Clatsop beach, has commissioned Architect Emll Schacht to prepare the plans for a JOO-room hotel to be constructed several hundred feet west of the present Gearhart hotel and ahnut 800 feet backJjjwnhlrhwater I mark. The building will be of frame construction. Work will begin on It in about four weeks. Mr. Kruae will en deavor to have it ready for the season of the coming summer. ; The building will cost, when furnished, about $36,000. USE WATER TO MAKE CUT v. Giant Tearing Away. the Earth for the Big Cut. Through the Peninsula for the North Bank Railway Line, ' i peninsula. Hydraulic Giant at Work on Grade ' of North Bank Road. !' - Residents of Portland who have never seen a "little glant' operating in a hy draulic mine may Wave their curiosity gratified by a trip down the Willamette to the point where the North Bank road' la cutting a deep gash through the pe ninsula, that its lines may spproach the steel bridge to span the river on the proper grade. The work of making thla cot la carried en eactly aa moaern placer mining , is dona - A powerful "giant" throws a stream of water with great force agalnat the bask of sand and loam. Flumes and wings to con vey the water and earth back to the low ground have been constructed. This part of the work has given some trouoie on account of the weight or the sand. The engineer In charge expects to over come this difficulty by Increasing the flow of water through the riume. About 200 feet of' the cut hae already-been made.. It is thought that the hydraullo process will be available for something like 1,00 feet -north of the river, -where steam shovels and other earth-moving devlcea will have to be substituted. Three shifts of workmen, working eight hours each, are kept on the Job. The cut at the point where the man Is standing la about 80 feet deep. - Further north in crossing the peninsula it will attain a depth of about 100 feet. At the north end of the cut. near the Columbia river, steam 'shovels, dump- carts, wheelbarrows ana wagons are being used to carry the earth away. The expectation is that It - will, take alx montha to complete this gash across the LIGHT BURDEN ON TAXPAYER POUND CAULIFLOWER RESULT OF THREE YEARS WORK SHOW OFF OREGOfi . Initiative On, Hundred's Bond , . ins Plan Would Not Be Op- ' , ' pressive,. Says Perkins. TWO-FIFTY PER YEAR THE ADDITIONAL TAX Mount Tabor Delegate Telia East ' Bide Convention That ortland'a Valuation Will Be Two Hundred Million Dollara.' - 1 An enormous cauliflower, , grown by Peter Dohm, a gardener, on , what was supposed to have beea waste land on the Colombia river bank at Mosier, has opened , the -eyes of the1 inhabitants to what can be produced from' apparently worthless lands In , that neighborhood. Dobm's cauliflower weighed 20 pounds, waa perfectly formed and of delicious flavor; , , v ; -. The .wonderful plant was brought to Portland yesterday and placed on exhi bition at the chamber of commerce ex hibit , Mr. .Dcrhm said:. ! "I was a gardener at Chicago. I came to Oregon 'three years ago, .and settled at, Moaler. . Several small tracts of 40 acres or more along the river bank were used for pasturage, and not worth while That all the Improvements' proposed . In the 15,000.000 bonding plan of the Initiative One ' Hundred would not eost the average property-holder more than - 12. SO a year waa asserted by Frank , J, ' Perkins In a' speech before the recent "convention of the East Bide Improve ment cluba Thursday. . Mr.' Perkins . spoke as a delegate from the Mount Tabor Push club, which has gone on record aa heartily . favoring the bond fasti. - ' 'The proposition, as you know," ex plained Mr. Perkins, is to bond the city In the sura of about IS. 000, 090 for tu Durnose of building an extensive yttem of psrks and boulevards, put tins la a new water main from Bull ' Run. purchasing a new fir boat, build' ing a new Madison street bridge, and SA IL " ,. I ' The bonds would pay 4 per cent and would be retired In ( years. Now, 4 . .per cent. on 15.000,000 Is $200.00 a year. It looks pretty big, but turn to our asaeased valuation. In another' year, nr by the time the bonds are Issued. It win b KOO.ooo.OOO. On this valuation, therefore, the extra tog woiild be but 1 mill on every dollar's wortn of prop erty. Add to this 14 of a milt and you h.sve the amount necessary both to pay . the interest and te retire the bonis. - Thorefnre, the eddrd tax would be but II. : on every 11,000 worth of rrop rtv. New, 10 per eent of the taxpayers per on leas than 13.000, and the ma turity of them pay less than If2.lv. cultivating. ,. I leased a 40-aore tract for 'Hosier. 10 years and began eyperimentlng on what to raise. 1 I - tried celery and it grew Una but had no flavor. "Then put In cane and intended to make sorghum. The cane grew big and One, but waa not good for molasses. I had it' analysed and found it did not con tain enough sugar. Then I put In potatoes,- cauliflower and cabbages. These do welL I got ITS sacks of potatoes on one acre. The last season I have pro duced about- 100 crates of the, finest cauliflower, which-1 sold at from $4 to It ' per crate. Chamber of commerce officials regard such men as Dohm as the most valua ble .cltlxens Oregon can, have.. He was -the -recipient of many, warm' congratula tions -yesterday for- tils - tnre years - ae velopment work -on (Tie river -bank at LARGE STACK OF TWENTIES . WAITING FOR THOMAS MURPHY r . .. : . -. . .1 Thomas Murphy,-at one. time a resi dent of Portland, has j the sum of $1,1 $1.25 with Interest for 10 years In a bank In Ban Franciscoy and 'the bank Is trying to And Tilm. '.Whether Mut. phy Is now in Pertlnnd ' Is not known, but if he Is here the bank does not knO'V it:' The Portland . city directory hows live Thomss Murphy s, but none of them will claim the money. . Each of the five Murphys has re oelw1 letters from the bank trying to ccnvlnce him that he owns rthe. money, but all refuse to be' convinced. All ad mit, however, that , they would like to have the money.. - -v.;- I -The lllbernla Ravlnga A r Loan L So ciety of San Francisco haa Just Is sued a biennial statement, of accounts i wnicn ' nave not neen added to nor drawn from within the last 10 years. This statement Is required by a Cal ifornia law to be made pybllc Only arcounta of more than I so are listed. ' The total of theae old accounts 1s Js;,eS7. In no case is the present ad' dreos of the depositors known. Thomas Murphy la the -only person from Port land who has money in this bank, who either does not know It or haa neg lected ' It. ' whether he la dead Is not Jtnown, snd if he is, the address of his relet H as . Is unknown to the bank of ficials, i ,.,.'... . V . . .T. J MaCulloiigh of Seattle also haa 0 balance of Sl.822.xr due him from the- Illbsrnla. Earjngs ' A Loan . society that be haa. left there for .more than 10 . years. . '- . 1 i 1 1 . 1 Hence the average property .holder would have te pay but 12.60 a year for these ' vaat improvements, white not more than SO per cent would have to pay more than 13.75 a year. When thla fact. peraolaUie-iato the brains of the people of Portland,'- surely : the oppo sition :te the great scheme -of the In lUaUve One Hundred will fade quickly away."- ' Before tne adjournment of the mtet Ing the convention showed Its apprecia tion of tho plans for - bettering the service of the municipality by Indorsing the 6 7-10-mlll tax voted by - the city council, .,,.-.-,.-....'. , Milwauklo Country Club. Eastern and California races. Take ell wood end Oref oa City ear at First and Alder. . - VIRGINIA Commissioner . Myers . Recom mends Appropriation of : Sev- : , enty Thousand." ' .? DELEGATION LISTENS TO HIS SUGGESTIONS Option for Adequate) Structure) Se enred Near Center of Grounds of the Jamcetown Exposition Low ; Itatea on Coast Exhibits. An appropriation approximating f ?A 000 for an Oregon building at the Jamas- town tercentenary exposition - waa . rec ommended to the Multnomah legislative delegation at a meeting at the court house last night by Jefferson Myers, a member of the provisional commission sppointed by the governor te report on the advisability of an Oregon exhibit. Mr. Myers said to the delegation that to send an exhibit would be a waste of money, nnleas it were concentrated in a state building. An option on one of the moat desirable sites on the grounds wss secured for the Oregon building. The option -expires February t. . Mr. Myers mentioned this fact In urging upon the delegation tnat whatever action la taken should be taken promptly, rr"- : We Mart Advertise." . The proposed site of the Oregon build ing is 150 by 200 feet. Commissioner Myers believed that the Oregon building should be about eo ty ize reet. two sto ries and a basement. In Colonial styla The site on which an option waa secured li In the heart "of the grounds, and just CNsmrux&T hcomviisio fob rJCSTTalATing. s . O. O. Hlgbee, Ianvlla, Ills., writes. Dee. t, 1901: "AOout two yeara ago I waa laid -up -for fnur. months wllh heiimattam. I . tried ttniiarq a Know .Inlmenr: ons bottle cured me. I ran cheerfully recommend It to all Buffering from like affliction. tSo. lOo and 11.00 Bold, by aU druggists. - - . Goal C J.OXTIM O. OXAJUta ............. Fresldeat President and Manager Woodard, Clarke A Co., Chemists and Druggists. & M. &. FXTTOOX First Tioereaidsa D. W. winmui. . . .Third Tlee-Vsealdeat j , Wakefield, Fries Co. OSOBOa X. BTU..Seortary and Treaanna Vice-President Title Guarantee and TrusCo, -Publisher Dally Oregonlan. - ' . ' FaVES S. STAITUrr ..Peooad Tloe-Frealdsat ' Dee Chatee Irrigation and PowerrCa . a. 9, BAXmOlTH, ruU smperUteadeat, v Xataila, Alaska. Formerjy Buperlntendent of Water Lines of the O, B. A N. Ca ' OFFICES; 402 AND 403 OREGONIAN BUILDING, PORTLAND, : :.. ' : . OREGON 'f:v'::'.-i : ' Tbe Anglo-American Oil and Coal Company . " " . , w , ''" " : . ;- ... .OWNS OVER 11,300 ACRES r' y.S:- ; '0 H. Of the choicest oil land locations on Berins; River, Bering Lake, . Katalla Bay and Con- , j ") troller Bay, Alaska, in the heart of the fabulously rich . . ... . . ; , - " . ' """ i '00:': BERING RIVER COAL AND .OIL FIELDS ;'' - '. V Some of our holdings are at tidewater on Katalla fBay; other holdings -will be reached by - ' the railroad of the Guggenheims and J. P. Morgan, who spent the past season in making .- surveys and perfecting their field organization and plans; who have recently floated TEN MILLION DOLLARS of their bonds in New York, and who have -purchased a , large . .. amount of land for . -. ..t ;;-. v'v : TERMINAL FACILITIES AT KATALLA On Controller Bay; the point where their connection with salt water will be made; From Katalla the railroad will take a northerly course through the Katalla Valley, an.-;','.' .i Shepherd Creek and pass on the west side of Charlotte Lake, right through the heart of the ' Great Bering Coal Fields and of the Katalla -and -Kyak oil-region, passing direly rer, a portion of the holdings of the Anglo-American OU and Coal Company. V Several thousand acres of our land adjoin the lands of the millionaire Cudahy people,- ' and others of our lands adjoin the lands of the English syndicate owners of the famous ' big gtisher, which threw an 8-inch stream of oit110 feet in the air for three days -before it could be capped whereby stock in the company jumped from 16 cents to $10 share over nigh thus showing an instant profit of 63 H for one.;, ; ', V ENORMOUS INCREASE IN LAND VALUES 7 ; v Mr. Clark Davis,' field manager of the : Alaska Petrolenrn and Coal y Company, with' -headquarters at Katalla, and recently in Portland, says " ';:"' "All land about Katalla has increased in value since the railroad company decided to " '. build that way. and when I left, a big sawmill was under construction by the railroad " , Interests. An immense breakwater will be built after the road is laid, so by the time the -smelteT is in operation and ready for the copper ore, Katalla will be a first-class city and' the source of the world's two greatest commodities coal and oil. . .- - ; . "With trie new rnA building ntl plana heing Hrawn fnr evteni've arrielter anrl r oka ' .ovens by the Guggenheim copper interests, .Katalla will soon be beard from in a most sub ' , Stantial way. : - . ' i .! - .;',.; "'' " '-r--. v-'-' ' -?"'..- "The oil which this wonderful region produces has a paraffin base and shows 37 1-2 per. cent of light oils. ... ',.;.-" .' ,'"" ' , ' ; ' "There is sufficient natural "seepage on two claims in the Keuchawak district," said Mr. Davis, "to furnish a town of 300 inhabitants with all the fuel and lights they could con aumehiawithoutaipeyerbeing driven into the surface of the ground. It is so rich m paraffin that one can-scrape it oil the rocks." , - '". - - -. -. - i, . . .:. - . , .'.' The Anglo-American Oil and Coal Company will energetically push work on Its hold ings early in the coming Spring, and is now arranging for costly machinery and other . . equipment. Captain E. J. Rathbone will personally supervise field operations. . "' This company now offers to' investors the opportunity of a lifetime for making ' big v money on a comparatively small outlay. ' : - " V . . . The- capital stock of the Anglo-American pil and Coal Company is fully paid and non- . .'assessable. . ' ' "4. - '.' '- i .f ' "i ' ; ' There is, no preferred stock. Every share stands on a perfect equality with every other share. ', All shareholders have equal rights, whether their holdings are large or small. - The well-known business men whose names head this Company have invested their ' money in the enterprise.- ..yr - 'f-r ; .;j .u '. The allotment of treasury stock how offered for sale will soon be exhausted and thev ' PRICE OF STOCK WILL BE ADVANCED FEBRUARY 1, 1907 V ' , This enterprise Is worthy of your attention. ' - " - v " Fullest Investigation invited..' -.; . :'- - ::; : ; ; "'' -' ... ; -', ' i '' .. -r- Samples of Bering River Coal, Government Maps, report and other data may be seen -' - at the office of ; , ' ;..".'; ",';- ..'-'-''v'-,-: . -'.-' :.'. , v 7" TheoAiricanilG Co. v7 05ccs: 402 and 403 Orcgonian Bldg; Portland, Or. " " across the avenue from the steamboat landing. " People know where out state Is lo cated." aald Mr. Myers, "but they do not know -what It contains. We must adver tise it It is much harder for those neonla In the east to accumulate 11,000 than It la for us. and consequently It Is difficult to get them to roaxe experi mental tours te our state, we- mura show them what they will, find when they get here. "With 21.000.000 people within 10 hours ride of the Jamestown exposition site. I firmly believe this exposition will be ons of the best for advertising and Immigration ever held. - - "Freight rates for our exhibits will be one half of the regular rates. Tne ex position people gaurantee that eur fruit and other exhibits will be unloaded within U hours after their arrival. By a special resolution passeo ny we ex position officials, manufacturers and oroduoers of - tne tnree racuio const states may have their exhibits In their respective state buildings and compete for prises, while those from all other states must go into tne machinery, ag. rioultural. arts and other special build ings and buy exhibit space before they will be eligible to compete." ., Vse Oregon Material. Special .mportance was attached to stereoptlcon views and lectures and to county exhibits as advertising mediums by Mr. Myers. He pointed to tne raot that Harney county has traced over iuu Immigrants to their 12,000 exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition aa an Illus tration of tne value of county exhibits. That the Oregon building be constructed from Oregon material by Oregon work men Is believed by Mr. Myers to be nec essary to accomplish the best resulta Considerable Interest In the exposition was manifested by the Multnomah dele gation. "''.'''. Drafts of four bills recommended by the Republican clnb were presented to the delegation by Attorney c k. look wood. The bills related to voting ma chines, the reapportlc nment of the state Into senatorial and representative dis tricts, the "corrupt practice bill," and a number of amendments to the reglstra- -ou. law. , , Fref erred Stock Canned Ooods. . Allen Lewis' Beat Brand. - MRS. MARTIN IS ABLE ; VT0 LEAVE THE HOSPITAL Mra Anna Martin, who was wounded by .her husband,- Fred B. Martin, last Sunday In the bloody shooting affray at the Eyia rooming-house, which re sulted in the death of her sister, Mlaa Helms, and the suicide of Martin, waa able to leave tbe Good Samaritan hos- pltal. yesterday., Although weak from the wounds on her hand and head, and almost on the verge of collapse as the result of the terrible affair, Mra. Mar tin was rsraoved te her home. MOVABLE LIBRARY THE SOLUM Stat Commission to Recom mend to Legislature Means to Supply Books to Libraries. PRICE HAS BEEN CUT BY COMMISSION'S EFFORTS Legislators Jlave Also Been Assisted la Drafting Bills Along Lines of Existing Laws of Other States in Union. ' . '" ' ' ''"; .' Working on an appropriation of only 11,000 a year, the Oregon -library -een' mission during the first year. of Its ex istence supplied 46 rural communities and small cltUs- in Oregon with travel Ing libraries, circulating about ; 1,700 books without any , waste of material. Aside from the . annual , appropriation authorised by law the commission has reoelved from outside sources the sura of 'Jl.700, with which It haa purchased 2.S7S books now In use in the branches of Its traveling library. , Through Its careful scrutiny and ex' amlnatlon of books for various school libraries throughout the state, the com mission has secured a contract price for the school districts,, with the result that the latter have been saved about 13,000 on the first annual purchase of books in compliance with the compul sory school library law of los. - ; Sag Bedueed Cost. By this law the commission Is made the agent for purchasing books for all tha districts In the state, and by pur chasing booas in bulk has delivered volume at the county seats of each county at a price from 50 to 65 centa leas than haa been heretofore paid. Tbe commission has also performed a valuable service In Its reference work for the members of the legislature In preparing reports and looking op laws of other states so that Oregon laws can be patterned after the successful laws of other states. In Its first biennial report- which s ready to present to the cominc ses sion of the legislature, the commission points out thnt the present problem In Oregon Is to supply books for the small communities unable to maintain libra ries, sind to build up the school libraries which must In large part supply tha rural communities. The commission believes that the most eoonomioal and satisfactory method of giving library opportunities to country people Is to bare a state eeater from which libraries may be sent to these communities and exchanged at frequent Intervals for other aeetlons of the state . lending library a - library which la always In vse and in which there Is no waste Of material and no storing np of books for occasional ref erence. - ' .-!.. It is tha onlnlon of tha mmKM .e the commission that in a state like Oregon, which is practically without . public library facilities, tbe state cen ter Is of the utmost Importance, end the traveling library la the solution of the problem of a book supply for all the ' people of the state. The attention of the legislature wiu be called te these features which the commission wishes the power to add to Its Una ef work. SCHUMANN-HEINK SINGS TONIGHT AT THE ARMORY A tremendous house' will greet the fa . mous singer Schumann-Helnk when she comes upon the big stage at the armory tonignr. , people are simply wild ever her voice and over the program which she will offer tonight. It Is the same . program with but one exception that sne presented at nar i.t in New York when big Carnacla hall waaf packed to overflowing with her enthe I lasiio snmirers. Tbe organ numbers are delightful and - the - Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria," . with Organ, piano and . violin will ba the most majestlo production ever offered at a song recital here. Tbe concert will be In the armory at Tenth ' and Couch streets and" will berln at a quarter past eight o'clock. Seats are seinng at tne Bnerm&n-ciay store. Sixth . and Morrison, until six tonight and after uiu mv me armory. EVANGELIST TO SPEAK AT THE FORBES CHURCH The Forbes Presbyterian church, eor- , ner Sellwood street and Oantenbeln ave- ' nue, la to begin evangeliatlo meetings under the Irsdorshln of Rev. J. H. Bnr- der next Monday evening. air. tsnyaer is at present caator of the Presbyterian church of Vancouver, WaahJngton. He la. hAjui hatter ' known aa an evangelist than as a pas- , tor, noving peon prominent In that lire of special work for a number of years- During tbe Chapman campaign In Port- , land two years ago Mr. Hnvdar had t charge of the meetings In the north end center. He has been unlformlv success ful wherever he haa held .a meeting. large Ingatherings have arenmnanied and followed his services,", . -A- Pt trade-mark ! -. Schilling's Best. . . 7 . v. . i , . !