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in p.jai rmr i a tit? t Viable Articles Lost But not beyond recovery. ' A Journal "want ad" will usually ; , Hud the flnder'. .':,,.: COSTS ONE CENT-A WORD CASH The weather Occasional rain to night and Saturday.. . : , , .; , VOL. IX. NO. 258 Activity in Construction : Line Breaks All Records in Port- . land; $4,000,000 Mark May , Be Reached by Jan. 1. , INCREASE. OF 178 PER Y CENT OVER . DEC. 1909 Totajs for Year Will Exceed $20,000,000. as Against " . ,$7,000,000 Last Year. . ; "AH Portland seems to have ' ion building mad. The rush or the past few weeks to get building permits has re sulted In the establishment of , a "record such as no other city, In the United States can boast - . ? Every available clerk and 'deputy In the city building. Inspection .department has been preswed into servlcfj fj Mieck over plans and issue permits, nil other duties having been cast aside for the time being, and. up. to" noon today," per mits to the value of $3,667,000 had been issued during the present oonth. With still another day to go, City Bullding Inspector. H E. Piummer is confident that the total far the month will pass the $4,000,000 mark. .This' will be an increase of 178 per cent over December of last year. , This wonderful building actlvtiy Is (Continued on Page Foun.) WITIl SCOUT SHIPS Hide , arid Seek Tactics Called (or; Rr;uirement Simple but ; All Manner of Strategy Pos . sible; Fight by Wireless. " . (United PreM leased Wire.) "Washington, Dec. 30. Sixteen bat tleships of th Atlantic fleet passed out of Hampton Roads today and became, the "enemy" In the most extensive war game ever played by 'the Unite States navy. - Simultaneously a. scout ueei oi seven vessels took up the defense of the nation' against the "Invaders." j Aa soon as "the battleships -passed from sight they severed all connection with the shore and from now until the I time they are -due to report at Guan itanamo for winter target practice they ; will endeavor to keep their whereabouts ; a secret All communication- with the .navy department was severed and com manders of the different ship have ' carte blanche to .go wherever they please; M V ; Grand Game of Bide and Seek. ; The purpose of the game as outlined by the department la for the "attack ing fleet to appear within range of : some part Of the coast without -Its presence having been reported by the i scout' fleet Thesgame i resembles hide and aeek more than a series 'of naval engage ments. Wireless flashes take the place of shotond shell. ; , ' , 7 c Bear Admiral Schroeder la In- com ; mand of the "enemy," the home fleet ; being4 under Rear Admiral Stanton. v. . Elaborate plans for, testing during i the game tne aaaptaoinry- or tne wire less In time of war "have been made. The ships In Admiral Schrbedera fleet are expected to use a code of their own ! tn communication with each other, thus . necessitating- the actual sighting . of 1 them by the defenders before theft whereabouts will be . known. ; iWhat advantage the "attacking" fleet (Continued on ; Page pour.) 5 ji ; i ruoiieo imi utweo wire. . i New ' Tork, , Dec - 30. Peace, pledged in' cups of rice wine, has been declared m between two of the Chinese tongs of United States, i The compact Was sealed In the presence f the officials of the Chinese legation at Washington, by the sages of the Four Brothers and the Oa Leonga. at a conference here last night The peace agreemantJa being circulated today. Under .the terms of the pact the peooe extends throughout -thtt. United States, and local police are to ba called In by the tonga themselves when mur ders are committed. Whenever a member of one tong kills a member of another, under the terms of the treaty, the wronged tong is not allowed to seek blood retribution. ' In stead, the "jingling of the guinea" la to -help- the hurt that bona f eala,' TOTAL &661D00 DURING DECEMBER i . k - '. . ' ; .. y V'-.,... c Excommunicated Member to Whom v Mrs. Baker Eddy Willed Diamond Crown A : A'i ' 1 v s ' J " ' ' i N . . , V ' ' " III' ,4 W " 1- f - '" . t " il y ft I i , , Xi k ' K r7l ' lira Augusta Steteon H nn r 01 aiLDulOibC TO BE REfJT t l 1 '- ' ' 'f'' SIEISOII " (United Praas Lcued Wlrs.) ' New Tork, Dec. 30. That Mrs. ' Au gusta Stetson's 1 statement that Mrs. Eddy will rise frpm the dead will seri ously -affect the Christian Science church is the belief of many ecclesias tical workers and others here; A schism that will divide the church evenly is predicted "by. friends - of Mrs. Stetson; who see In. the question of 'resurrection, brought to the fort through Mrs. ( Eddy's death, a signal Victory . for . the excom municated ' tlval of " the dead J leader. Mrs,. Stetson is reported as saying: v ; "I believe that Mrs. Eddy will make a manifestation, that she will reveal her self to me and others to the outside world. ( " " V,"The same situation exists today as when Jesus of Natareth was burled.' After three days' he manifested himself to . prove that there Is, life after death. Mrs. Eddy ; will do the same, for Bhe occupies tn the world of today precisely the same position,, that .Jesus. occupied in his day. , "It may take longer. for Mrs. Eddy to pass through the experience of material death to a denionstration of everlasting life; It may not occurjfor iyears, or It may occur tomorrow; but she will mani fest herself, and all. men shall know It" h The action of ' the 1 directors of the church In accepting Mrs. Eddy's death as a fact la being freely criticised by fol lowers of Mrs, Stetson, who think the directors should have waited; for a "man ifestation." Members of thehurch who believe ..that Mrs. Eddy will eventually return to life will soon be numbered among followers of Mrs. Stetson, friends of the latter -.--. .... ...v,-... , Mrs. Stetson's statements regarding the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy are be lieved by many to have been made with the object of preventing the church dl- Indemnity ih.'hard 'American dollars will pay the price of the sacrificed Ufa. ; ;;.;4'':'jproodurf -With Murderers. , ( Each tong la to turn its murderers over to the Chinese Merchants associa tion in the city in which the killing occurs.. If the murdorer kills man in his own tong the only penalty will" be that fixed-' by the law, ,the murderer being turned over to the ; police, i The Merchants aaaociatlon will aid the. police tir-brrnglngr abont'-a apeedy-trlal.'" j Whenever the killing is between tonga, the same procedure, will be followed, but, the Merchants association will then assume ; the addition burden, of fixing the price that one tong. must pay the other for the killing. ; ; , In order to insure peace, each tong ... XCarrttrmod oa Paga. Two- V ' PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, -DECEMBER j of New York. nr rectors from abolishing the position of pastor "merltua, held by Mrs.' Eddy. An amendment to the church manual de clarlngx the position, forever - vacant ia said to be under consideration. - ; The Stetsonites ,think : the elimination of Mrs. Eddy is rank apostasy.. . ALFRED FARL0W SAYS 1 Z CHURCH WILL IGNORE l ' ' STETSON' STATEMENTS (United Preaa Leaned Wire.) ,' . Boston, Dec. r30. -"Statementa that Mrs. ,J3ddy will rise from the dead, said to have been made by Mrs. Augusta Stet son, will ' be Ignored by . the Christian Science . church," . said Alfred . Farlow, chairman of the publicity board of the church, today. "I and other ecientists can make nothing of Mrs. Seteson's remarks published today except to classify them as a .mass i.of . speculation." , r.- . ; : Mrs. Stetson was quoted as saying that Mrs. Eddy surely wpuld rise from her tomb, "to demonstrate her everlast ing liffc" ttf:.r3; 5' r . .;;vvi, Eugene Cox, head of the committee on publicity for the state of New York, re iterated Farlows belief. I. He declared that the statements attributed, to Mrs. Stetson, were in direct opposition to the teachings of Christian Science. . '' . Reports that ' protests had been ' en tered against the placing of guarda at the tomb of Mrs. -Mary Ba'ker O. Eddy were, branded as false, by Farlow. ' : Farlow said that he came direct from the board of directors, to whom It was said the protests were made. , . FartoWs atatemont was Issued . Is consequence of . widespread gossip con cerning the - rumor that followers of Mrs. Augusta Stetson,-who Was ex com- (Continued on Page Twelve.) LOSEHSO Rebels in Flight to : Mountains Report of Gen. Gurzinan's . Death 'Confirmed. ;, ' . (United PreM IMed W!.) , Gavels ton, i Texas, Dec ,30, That Mai Paso,' a'stronghold of the revolutionists, has been taken In a battle In. which ii federal soldiers were killed. i confirmed m . private dispatches received here to day from Chihuahua,' . k ,. . . , The Teportthat Olonl'nrmn-wa killed is oonflrmed." The federal soldiers who . stormed Mat ' Paso, - wens r led - by General Eacuerado. i A "number of the rebels were wounded, Mbiit mosi'of the Injured were taken away by the flying soldiers.' The revolutionist forces re treated to the mountains," where it is reported tba fodcrau ara pursuing thaltv CHURCH ITH SG IIISiJ .. i. .; . . . . ' 1 1 I. ..t FACTION PREDICTS MMi PJW K -16, I" L!Uk y." wuXHuuNr Commercial Organizations De , dare Oregon Entitled to a Larger Share of Funds to ' Extend Irrigation Work ; WIU. CALL ATTENTION OF; PRESIDENT TO SITUATION Await Word From Washington : to Learn Why Umatilla ! :.. V Cut Off List. . ! i v. 4 ji ' ' - -, -iVigorous protest by i commercial or ganfzstlons and others Interested in the promotion of Oregon's growth niay bring about action by President. Taft to give Oregon larger share of the funds set aside.- under the ' national reclamation bonding act; with which the extension of the Umatilla Irrigation project may be eared 'for.. '-.. ;.;,,:,. .v:.s;v;'' I j This is the belief of the Wve Wire organisation and others who are! work ing to Increase Oregon's- share of the apportionment 7 by showing that - the Umatilla extension la more 'justly en titled' to aid at this time than, some of the projects In other sUtes f orwhlch millions are tq.be spent Approved by experts of the reclamation servile, it is declared to be second to none In bppor- (Contlnued on'Page Thirteen.) ' ADVICE: RESULT IS l ) By Carrying Out Own Idea Re ; garding. Jax Levy Was r"Compepdto ifike$100? ';00d From General Fund. i If Mayor Simon and the ways ( and means committee of the city council had followed the advice of Councilman Kushlltfht and other members of the committee, It is pointed out, the city would not now face the problem of how to make up a deficit of $254,000 in the general. fund. I ' V '..S. When the, ways and means committee was ' considering the annual budget of the mayor and .fixing the tax levies for the , various 'municipal j depaartmenta supported by . direct taxation, an at tempt was made to fix the levy for the bonded Indebtedness Interest fund high enough to take care of all the indebt edness. .'-. '. i. ,T, ..: ,;' '., ';. .;..!( But Mayor Simon wished to make a showing to . the taxpayers ' of the city and he told the committee that It was his desire that the levy should not be fixed higher than 6 mills.. In order to (Continued on Page Eleven.) t A." Blackwords and His Wife x of. Seattle, Under Arrest "V"at0gdehVUtahrTI .. (United Pre Lrawd Wire.) " ' - Seattle,1 Dec. 80. Mr. and Mrs. A Blackwords are under arrest at Ogden, Utah, charged with the theft Of Jewels and furs' worth $6000 from the home of W. E. Oerber, president of the Cali fornia National bank of , Sacramento. The Blackwords belong In Seattle and the local police were today notified of their arrest. ..is. TOMORRQW Wear's End Edition of The journal published-. tomor row! complete in Five Sec- ; tions; mailed to any ad-; . dress in the United States' or- Canada - postage In cluded), -at .10 cents per copy,-. -Extra "copies ;at ; rJoumalrofflcorrfrom" -Newsboys at 5 cents. , ,' i j "i , : -. YEAR'S END EDITION PROTEST BECAUSE UlffilAPKT . WITHOUT MONEY MAYOR IGNORES $254,000 DEFICIT 'TCL-k -A ' r vy : . . . . -"V V v r ' w ) 1 W U -w -w- 11 30, 1910. TWENTY PAGES. Big ' Business : Men of Japan 'Promote Organization 0s- tensibly Merely Fraternal but in Reality Exclusive. (United, Prei Leaned Wire.) Toklo, Dec. 30. An organization formed .ostensibly to promote a better understanding-between corporations of far eastern nations, but said in reality to" be a combination to fight off occi dental encroachment on the trade of the orient, has been completed by a coterie of Japanese politicians, it was an nounced today. ... , , v, The new organization, which is to be known as the PanAslatlc association, is composed .of members representing large financial enterprises in China. Japan, Slam, Afghanistan, Turkey; 'India, Per sia and .other oriental countries, , ' Preparations for the launching of the scheme have been, quietly going on for several months, hufc not until the com pletion of the -details was the' general public aware of It ,Agnjs of the con cern have been dispatched to all parts of Asia. j -v. ;v;1fi,,,.:v;i'.v;;:- ':- The names of Imukal, Koho, , Toyaml iftnd, other prominent Japanese are men tioned as the promoters, of the scheme. "6lg )auV Dea4 In Jlondunw. -:s-y.;3S'.(nnltd.'Prai Leased Wire.) 1 - New .Orleans, Dec. . 30. "Bif . Dan" Coughlan, .for . .whose, arrest ,tho state Of. Illinois had offered a reward. Is dead at San Pedroj Honduras, accord ing to dispatches recelyod here today. Coughlah'a name was connected With- a jury 'scandal In Illinois several years ago and he fled' to Central America. Bowerman and Selling Fight ing Hard for Presidency- ) Portland Man Looks Winner With Votes to Spare. With the opening of the legislative session little more than one week away. 4 the friends, of Bon Selling and Jay Bowerman are claiming with equal, con fidence that they will win the fight for organization of the state senate, r The number ' of pledged votes for each is (Continued on Page Four.) S. M. Hanley of Tacoma Vic - tim of Wreck Near. Che halis, Wash. v v ; (Coltad Prm Leaned Wire.)' - Tacoma, Dec. ; 30. 8. .M. Hanley of Tacoma. a brakeman, was killed, and J. B. McMillan, also a brakeman, was in jured irt a wreck a mile 'And a half west of Chehalis on -tho ' Northern Pacific railroad wfion" two freight trains col lided today. 5tThe cause of; the wreck has not been ascertained. Hanley . waa knocked from the top of a freight car when the crash came and around to 4cath under the wheels. . " ' ; Army Medical Off ker . to Retire, f I Washington, -. boc. Jo',4r-Aftc.'"inore than 30 yKr rvic In the medical department of the army, Colonel John M. Canister will be placed, oh the re tired, list, tomorrow on his own applica tion. , Colonel Banister is from Ala bama'and wai appointed an' assistant surgeon in 1879. Recently ha baa b$en atationed In Omaha, Neb. C0IH0IIT0 KEEP ALL OF ASIA FOR ORIENTALS 6 rla-r ' ZZ&f-rWSL - ' - trowtxo- stv? ' , . '- jjrvrr. .- rjxjvrjt . ; i o&neJF -. , A ' , . - fp. - rv- - CANDIDATES FOR 'M' CHIEF OF SENATE p- nitinn iimr.il I .- V . oAi bALANbt ALL TRAINS COLLIDE: BRAKEMAN KILLED PRICE' TWO: Aviator Who Lost Life in the Sea r wit A ' 1 Cecil 8. Grace and map of route he ,. attempted to take. .... , -' (United Prese LeMed Wire.) ' London, Dec, 30. Despite all -efforts made., no trace has been found of Cecil S. Grace, jthe American aviator who was lost In the North sea. i While endeavor ing to win the prise of Baron de Forest of $30,000 to the aviator who went the .greatest 'distance crossing the English channel. , Grace successfully flew over the . channel , to Calais, . France, from Dover, England, and had turned around to complete the second and last lap of his winning journey. After sablng some distance from the French shore the dar ing aviator was last seen to disappear In the fog with his aeroplane headed toward the North sea. ... ,: . Grace was a 'nephew of the late Mayor, W. R. Grace of New Tork. He had lived In England for some years with hi? mother and. had attended Ox ford university. : ; ,; , .. ; Reports .Indicate Many Lives : Lost and . Great Destruc-; s tion of Property. - ' (tnHed Prew 1jnw4 Wlre.J , Athens, Dec. 30. That whole villages In Ells 'provlnoe have been leveled by the earthquake that occurred there yes terday, and ; that , many '. persona ' were killed! la the report . that has reached Athens; today. Although ".it has been 24 1 hour since the shock occurred, d taljf of the disaster have not yet been i received and the? only 1 reports nave come by roundabout channels " and In manylnstarjccs from points reinote from the scene of the quake. Telegraph lines throughout Ella province are prostrated. ' Mnny of the reports today are. of Rn aTarralng'-'hatUre. TTlttoVa "fiaT1 Tt'dh dreda have been killed-are recalved and Other reports indicate that the greater part of tha province: is a scene Of ruin, r Other reports are v more : rftauring; and say that the greatest havoc In re spect Of property waa eonflnod. to nonio of the smaller: villages, though a' largo nuoiber of yersons met dath. EDS PROVINCE SCENE OF Rl YESTERDAY WAS CENTS.. 1 STANDARD OIL III London Truth Charges Trust With Handlnig - Products in Such a Way as to Show Business With No Profit? SUBSIDIARIES BUY AND . SELL AT SAME PRICE Journal ; Urges Suit to Compel v Octopus to Make Show- -( : - down of Money Made.1 - . ; , .' . ' f i 1 - i i (United Prew Leaned Wtra.) London. Dec. 80. Agitation to start a Buit against .'the Standard Oil com pany in England has been urged by th London Truth. The paper charges that the company, through Its subsidiaries, the' Anglo-American Oil company and the Vacuum Oil company, has been evad ing the income tax. v: The Truth urges that suit b com menced to compel the companies to di vulge their earnings, so that the In come tax. may, be collected, , It is alleged that the two subaidiadba buy their oil from the Standard in Am erica, nay In g the Standard exactly the same price as is charged consumers In England. ..The profits.- on paper, are, therefore nothing, being by this method transferred to i the balance sheet of the Standard., ' , . I Believing Park Would. Be Dif ficult to Obtain, Promoters Will Ask Congress for a Smaller Appropriation. Plans to make Mount Hood a national park have been given up. Henry Wemme and W. C. Bristol, local promoters of the project, believe that -the same re sult will be obtained by obtaining a congressional appropriation for the con struction of a good road through the forost service already created around Motmt Hood. :. Tne'support of Senators Bourne and Chamberlain baa been se cured. ' ' A ' message from Washington this morning stated that mapa and plane had been received by Senator Bourne, and that the Oregon representatives in congress had Joined In determination to secure the appropriation of $100,000 for the road this winter. ....... d Tape tn Way. The original plan for making Mount Hood a national park In the eama way that Mount Rainier has been set aside Included a!" contemplated appropriation of from $1,000,000 to $2,500,00p. Study Into the sft nation made by Mr. Wemme and Mr. Bristol brought the conclusion that to secure Improvements under the forest service would be cheaper and more effective.' They also decided that if they adhered to the original ambition for a national park it would take per haps 10 years to secure the appropria tion and get all the red tape tied around (Continued on Page Thirteen.) TOBEMPLETED , -. .,,.--. ; - . . ' Work. of ,0.,R.,&. N. Road in Umatilla County to Be Be- gun r North Coast Trains to T Run After First of Year. " (SMdal PIDatch t Jcumatl Pendleton. Or.. Dec. 30. The. begin ning of the New Year will see the com mencemflnt of the last part of the $1, 250,000 imp'rovetneht work' whli.-h the O. R. & N. ia doing between this city and Yoakum, which work-will eliminate sev eral curve,redui e;vtrl Krades anl Bhorton ihe' dlatane bfrtwd'-n thU t ity and Portland.-by iWofpillfB.- ;' AcroMIn to a statement mad.! by .Loral At"rt T.jF. O'Brien "this mortilng, -the 1 grada la all completed,1 th rail am 'all ii livered and the work of laying t. n milt holn, tmmeiliat-lv; , . on the jnew North roimt , fiH'l wut om tnenra to tun.-'beewppn';. No-f-. YaMm and AUalfa immediately 'after' the. first of the year, .whlrlv will mark h-f"nrti tnti of nti of ii.i.st tinr.'jt t.-tfct r. of railroad levfTmTit tttwu v ! IIArrlituin system 1, r nnfti-r:. ' i, CeTt ycirs.lii tfie r -' ' .. ENGLAND ACCUSED OF DODGING TAXES NATIONAL ROAD Oil i Hood is new PLAN III URGED YOAKUM CUTOFF SOON AS POSSIBLE