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3 1,000,000 Postcards, AUSubjects Including Portland Views, 2c Ea., 19c Doz Sept. Delineator Some Drugstores Copy Our Specl. Sales, but Remember Lip man Wolfe's "OWL" DRUGSTORE Sells All Standard Remedies and Toilet Articles at CU T PRICES at All Times . Established 1 850-F1FTY-SEVEN YEARS IN BUSINESS-Establwhed 1850 THE VICTOR Talking Machine, $1 Down, $1 a Week A Theater in Your Home The Singers and Players of the World at Your Command Good Merchandise Only Quality ConsideKl Our Prices Are AKrays the Lowest TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1907. The " Fluffy Ruffles" Hat The Midsummer Hat Sensation The swell, chic, new "Fluffy Ruf fles"Hat part of the costume with which Miss Fluf fy Ruffles is tak ing New York by storm. $2.50 40c Mixed Paints,Pint 23c 65c Mixed Faints, Qt. 43c Pint size best mixed Paint; all the wanted col- O O i ors; for inside and outside work; 40c value. VJV' Quart size best mixed Paint, all the best col- lJp ors; 65c value for - Half-pallon best floor paint, in all the good fJQp floor colors; regular $1.00 value for JKJ Interior Varnish Stain, ready for for all woodwork, in all the regular 2oc value for Enamel Paint for touching up all work, furniture, etc.; regular Best Stovepipe Enamel, gloss black a fine enamel for all kinds of ironwork; 25c value New Fall Displays of Suits, Millinery, Dress Goods, JOHN O.'S FATHER In Mystery, He Hides Some where in the West. ROCKEFELLER SKELETON Believed That the Missing Man May Be in Concealment to Avoid a Family Scandal New De velopments Expected. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. A special cor respondent to the New York World writes: John D. Rockefeller's family physi cian. Dr. H. K, Biggar, of Cleveland, Ohio, uttered the prediction a few days ago that John D. Rockefeller, now 68, and actually "husky," should "out record his father, now 94." The words of Mr. Rockefellers doctor definitely establish the fact that William A. Rockefeller, father of the richest man in the world, is alive. The question arises: Where is he? The only definite answer that can be given to this query is William A. Rockefeller is in hiding. For 18 months the World has conducted a thorough search for the elder Rocke feller, but without success. Every clew has bepn run down. The slates of Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin and Missouri, to which In turn the clews pointed as being his domicile, have been searched with great care but without avail. Sensational Story Promised. Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, lately said: "My father is alive and well. He Is dependent upon no man. He would scorn tho proffer of financial aid from John D. and would not take it from me. He has means of his own ample for his needs. (But there is a reason why I cannot at this time tell you wher he is. In a few weeks or months I will be ready to tell a story that will amaze and horrify the whole world. The time will soon come when I can safely speak. Then it will not be safe for John D. to appear upon the streets of any American city. He would be stoned by tl'.e people. He is a monster merciless in his creed, pitiless in his cold, inhuman passions. He is not a human being." A man who is on frier.dly terms with John D. Rockefeller and has often talked with him. makes this state ment: "As far as I have been able to read John D. Rockefeller's innermost thought, the 'Oil King' actually believes that he is destined by the Deity to control all the money in the world, Just as he now controls the entire petroleum trade, and that God will let him live until he has accumulated the entire wealth of the earth." Among the men and women of Cleveland and its suburb, Strongsvllle, who personally know the Rockefellers and are familiar with their tamily his tory, there is this opinion as to why William A. Rockefeller remains in hiding. It Is that he married again without the formalities of a divorce and before the death of John D.'s mother, and that out West, under a new name, he has reared a second family. Among business men in Cleve land nothing; could he clearer than the fact that if John D.'s father were still alive and hidd n sway, it was because John V. so willed it. Vigorous, Fat and Jolly. It is known that during September. 1902, that "Doc" Rockefeller, the title by which John D.'s father is known, suddenly appeared at John D.'s fine Cleveland home, and some of his old "pals" were Invited to spend an after noon with him. The Cleveland news papers were kept in the dark, and only the invited guests were in the use; the best finish good colors; : . . . . fancy wood 18c 18c 25c value for 18c in French, secret. "Doc" Rockefeller had grown immensely stout and told his old "pals that his feet were bothering him. Pro fane, independent and. joking, his wit was as keen as ever, and lie poured out stories, old and new, until the Strongsvllle men grew tired with laughing. Only one of the guests had the courage to put the question squarely. " 'Doc,' where are you living now?", "Well, my boy," answered "Doc" Rockefeller, "I am camping close over there," pointing northwest with a sweep of his ponderous arm. He spoke with a wink and a leer. When "Doc" Rockefeller left Cleveland after the "reunion," he was accompanied by his son Frank. Six weeks later Frank reappeared In Cleveland, and at a family gathering, said: "Father has Just put in a month with me on the ranch. He and I together cut 60 acres of alfalfa, the third crop of the year. I tell you, he is a wonder for his years." Guided by this new piece of evidence the World reporter within 48 hours was enroute for Kansas with a map of the Rockefeller ranch in his pocket. Buffaloes on Rockefeller's Farm. This huge farm is one of the finest in Southern Kansas. It is eight miles long and three wide, and its hilly section is the home of a herd of buffaloes, in which Frank Rockefeller takes great pride. The Rockefeller ranch lies close to the tiny frontier town of Belvldere, in Kiowa County. Its nearest neighbor is the ranch of General William Schotield, who is Frank's father-in-law. Strangers in Belvldere are objects of suspicion. There are only five houses in the town, and the station agent, post master, three storekeepers and two sa loon men, with their wives and chil dren, constitute the population. Furthermore, the ranches in the dis trict are miles apart, and chance visi tors are expected to make their business distinctly clear. The alfalfa crops were being harvested. Harvesters were pouring into the district by the hundreds and the World reporter joined their ranks. Then for three weeks the search was pressed and every ranch in the county was visited. But "Doc" Rockefeller was not found. No ranchman had ever heard of him and no person of advanced years had ever been seen on the Rockefeller place. Scores of herders and farmhands were questioned, but no clew was discovered. On the Rockefeller ranch It was learned that no man regularly employed had been there in the Fall of 1902 when Frank Rockefeller and his father performed their crop-cutting exploit. Says another Cleveland business man: "John D. wants to pose before the world at large as an absolutely self-made man. He does not want anybody to believe that he has Inherited anything of .his great business abilities from his parents. He is satisfied to have it known that he In herited the kind and benevolent heart from his mother, whom he lost many years ago. But as for his father, he does not want any one to think that he in herited any of his talents. It is for that reason that I believe John D. would stoop to anything to gain his object in the end." YACHTS OUT OF THE FINALS American Boats Stand 'o Show of Winning Kaiser's Cup. KIEL. Germany, Aug.' IS. Wanness won today's race of the second class yachts for Emperor William's cup, de feating the Wlttlesbach by eight min utes. 24 seconds, and the Spokane I. which was third, by eight minutes and 49 seconds. The visiting American yachtsmen have now lost their last chance of taking the cup or of winning even one of the ser ies of the races, as they are eliminated from the finals. DOCKS PILED WITH COAL Xo Shortage Feared In Lake Region If Cars Can Haul Fuel. SUPERIOR. Wis.. Aug. 16. There Is no danger of a coal shortage in the ter ritory tributary to the head of the Lakes if the roads entering here are able to handle the business this coming Winter. Receipts up to the present time have broken all records. There is actually on the docks now about 2,000,000 torn of coal. Sale of Cut Glass $ 4.50 Nappies S3.12 $3.75 Bowls... .$2.68 $12.00 Nappies $7.98 $4.50 Bowls ... .$3.38 $ 6.00 Nappies $4.98 $5.50 Bowls. . ..$3.87 $ 2.50 Nappies! $6.50 Bowls ... .$4.68 I -i ca -aT $7.50 Bowls . . . .$5.00 $1.50 Nappies 87g $Vases . . . , $4738 $11.00 Pitchers $7.33 $3j5VaSes . . $2T68 $ 6.50 Pitchers $4.38 $4.50 Oil Bot. .$3.38 $ 8.50 Pitchers $5.67 $2767 Bottles. .$1.86 $8 Footed Cut Glass Dish $5.87 $13.50 Sugar SCrcamcr $9.38 $ 5.65 Cologne $3.78 $TfSugar and Creamer $8.67 Reg. $1.00 Auto Veils, 69c Auto Veils for swell hat drapes the rage from the Atlantic to the Pacific in light blue, Alice blue, pink, brown, champagne, white, green and lavender. fZQfy Regular $1.00 value, special V 100 Children's Wash Dresses Children's Wash Dresses, sizes 8 to 16, of gingham, madras, Swiss, linon and other materials, selling regu- P1 Q larly up to $6.00; Saturday sale pXl 27 Children's Colored Chambray and Gingham Dresses, made long waist and Russian styles; sizes 2 to 5 years; values to $1.25; special. SHOOTS HIS FRIEND Martin Ophus Kills Olson by Mistake. TAKES AIM AT A DEER Two Men Hunting and Animal Springs Up Between Them. Ophus Fires and Hits Com panion Crazed With Grief. EUGENE. Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) Ed Olson was shot and killed yesterday after noon four miles from Belknap Springs by his friend and hunting companion, Martin Ophus, who mistook him for a deer. Both men were taking a day's vacation from O'Leary's logging camp and had hunted most of the day without success. George Croner, of the Belknap Springs resort, states that about four o'clock a deer sprang up between Ophus and Olson and the former quickly fired, not seeing his friend opposite him. Ophus is crazed by the accident. Coroner Gordon authorized the Justice cf the Peace of Blue River to collect the witnesses and evidence, which will be reported there tomorrow and the inquest held. SECX'RES ADDITIONAL WATER San Francisco Company Agrees to Increase Pipeage. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 16. The Spring Valley Water Company has agreed to build a pipeline from Baden to Ocean View to connect with the , San Andreas reservoir, and thus relieve the water situ ation of this city. This announcement was made today at the meeting between the bondholders of the company and Mayor Taylor and a committee of the Board of Supervisors and James D. Phelan. Supervisors Magee and Sullivan are the members of that committee. The water company's representatives were assured that the resolution passed by the late board would be rescinded. This resolution declared forfeited to the city all the property and rights of the Spring Valley because the company did not adhere to lower water rates and se cured an injunction restraining tlie city from enforcing them while it continued to levy the higher rate. At the close of the session Mayor Taylor said that entire harmony prevailed in the adjustment of the matter. He said the city should and in time would own its own water system. LIXEMEX XOT TO IXTERFERE Injunction Against Them in Favor . of Bell Telephone Company. COEL'R D'ALEKE, Idaho. Aug 16. (Special.) A temporary restraining order was granted (thls evening by Judge Will lam Weods against about 71 men in the North Idaho district of the Rocky Moun tain Bell Telephone Company system. The men interested were previously in the employ of the company as linemen. For some days they have been more or less hindering and interfering with the men in the employ of the company. A special policeman 'was placed on the force yes terday to act in the matter and follow around with the new men employed. The restraining order continues until Septem ber 2 and then may be made permanent. Unknown Disease Prevalent. PALOUSE, Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.) The peculiar disease, which the physicians in Spokane and other Inland Empire towns are unable to diagnose, is ' now prevalent here. 60 cases having been treated already by local physicians. The symptoms of the paUent are much the $1.25 Lawn "Women's fancy figured Lawn Kimonos and Nightin gales, plain band finish, scalloped edge; AQa values to 85c, for.. , White Lawn Waists Vals. to $2.50 at 89c Today we offer at the special price of 89c some of the most superb waist values of the season. While they have sold regularly up t$j5JJhgy are really better values and daintier, patterns than waists ordinarily soldfoj2.50Ioefabcut ten styles, including charrrnngManeArmette and embroidered frontreffects. Never has such a good waist been offered at such a low CEQ,p price as f Silks, Flannels, Gloves, Etc., Etc, same as those of the early stages of ty phoid fever. A severe headache, high fever, and soreness of the bowels are at tendant. The disease in most cases has yielded to treatment in from a week to ten days. Hoquiam to Advance. HOQUIAM. Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.) At a meeting of the City Council tonight the election board for the advancement of the city from the third to the second class was chosen, but the date of the election has not been set. The resolution for the installing of a cement sewer sys tem on I and Eighth streets, to cast $12,000 was passed. An effort to locate the new bridge at -5th street, where the present structure now stands, was defeated by a vote of 4 to 2 and the matter still re mains in the hands of the committee. Eugene Property Moving. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) The Washburn lots on Willamette street, which were sold to William P. Holders, have been cut up Into Ave lots, four of which were sold before evening at a good profit to the investor. The whole prop erty had 182 feet frontage on Willamette street. FIERCE FIRE IX TEHACHAPI VALLEY, CALIFORXIA. Grazing Lands Denuded of Feed and Heavy Loss Reported. Fighters by Hundreds. . BAKERSFIELD, Aug. 16. Tonight, on Tehachapi Mountain, a fierce fire is blazing, being caused by a spark from a Southern Pacific freight engine which was sidetracked at Callente, a small station on the mountain. The fire started on the Rankin territory, at the junction of the Callente and Te hachapi Creeks, and was soon beyond control. Ranchers and farmhands responded to a general alarm, but even the big force of men, fighting by back-firing, could prevent the progress of tho flames but little, and this afternoon more than 30 sections, or 20,000 acres, of rich grazing land, well stocked with cattle, had been burned over. The fire is now opposite Keene. in the rugged mountains, tnd is traveling east, west and north in the direction of the Tehachapi Valley. Fire fighters arrived by horseback and railroad this afternoon to swell the ranks of the fighters. The principal losers so far are the Kern County Land Company, W. Rlnk lng and J. O'Mera. Unless the flames are checked soon the .property of the cattlemen at Kerr and Flannlgan will be damaged. Pack Train of Bait Eagles. Harper's Weekly. The secretary xf the Eastern com pany that some time ago was anxious to purchase a silver-lead mine in the Northwest tells of an amusing Incident In the negotiations for Its purchase. As the ore assayed well and every thing looked propitious, a mining ex pert was sent to examine the mine. His report was favorable, too favorable, in fact, und aroused the suspicions of the would-be purchasers; so it was de termined to investigate more closely. At this point a- well-known mining man of Montana recommended that a certain rough-and-ready genius should be sent to look at the mine. "You can depend upon his Judgment," the mining man aaid. "You can trustr to his re port, which, in all probability, will be brief and very much to the point." The advice was followed. As pre dicted, the report was short andpithy. It read substantially as follows: "Gents: I have made an examination of the X mine, and report that the ore is there as represented; that It assays high; that it is there in plenty; but to get your supplies in and your ore out, you will need a pack-train of bald eagles." Daughtor Why, dad, how could I? Chi cago News. Kimonos 78c Women 's fine fancy Lawn Kimonos and Dressing Sacques, made with and without belt and collar; light or dark colors; values to $1.25, O, on sale fop- 85c Values 49c RUINED BY WOMEN James, Dalton, Under Sent ence, Explains Downfall. STILL KEEPS UP HOPE Thinks Something Will Be Done for Him Says Crime' Was Laid to Him Because He Was an ex-Convict. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 16. James Dal ton, convicted of killing Patrolman Henry Stotko at Post street and the Northern Pacific tracks on the morning of April 4, 1906. and whose final appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected, was sen tenced today by Judge Miles Polndexter, of the Superior Court, to be hanged at Walla Walla, October 12. "I am as innocent as an unborn babe,'.' said Dalton before being taken back to his cell. "I had nothing to do with that mur der but I am an ex-convict and that made it easy for the prosecution and the police "I believe that something will be done finally to save me. Fallen women have ruined my life, for they have taken a leading part in my downfall. On account of being an ex-convict I could not get work and when society turned me down I fell into bad hands and committed rob bery. After serving four years and two months I was again released. I came ,to Spokane and had been here only a few days when I was arrested for this mur der." Officer Stolke was shot and killed by the lookout for a gang of cracksmen who were robbing a safe. After shooting him they removed his star from his breast and pinned it to his trousers. WANTS MRS. EDDY IN COURT Plaintiffs' Request for Order Taken Under Advisement. CONCORD. N. H., Aug. 16. A reading of correspondence to show the delusions alleged by counsel to be held by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, was continued to day before masters to whom the court has assigned the duties of determining the question of competency. John Kelley, representing the relatives of Mrs. Eddy, who have brought suit for an accounting of her property. Introduced letters, read ing from one by Mrs. Eddy the statement that a publisher who delayed proofs of the writings was governed by "M. A. M" which has been explained by fol lowers of Mrs. Eddy to mean "malicious animal magnetism." Mr. Kelly asked for an order to bring Mrs. Eddy into court or to permit ar. examination of her under regular court proceedings at her home, and with sev eral of the plaintiffs present, also asked for an order for production next Monday of the books in possession of several of the Eddy trustees. Both motions were taken under advisement. COMBINE ON LIABILITY Conference on Sound Interesting to Lumbermen. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.) The result of the conference of all liability companies doing business in this state today is notice from three outside corporations handling lumbermen busi ness that they will not join the combine unless all agree to raise the entire list of premium rates and stand by the manual. If this deal goes through it means that Oregon and Washington casualty and liability insurance will be written under hard and fast agreement by the combine, whose Influence will be spread over th'e entire Coast. Lipman- Wolfe's "Owl" Cut-Rate Drug Store revolutionized the drug business in Portland. The "Owl" Drug Store has brought to Portland the lowest drug prices ever known, full and honest measure, absolutely pure drugs, and a square deal all around. Our great success shows that it is the right way. During these two years we have been fought bitterly by the drug gists of Portland, who have com bined to prevent wholesalers from selling goods to us and who have annoyed us maliciously. The Druggists' Association has recently asked the City Council to amend the anti-trust law so as to exempt the Druggists' Association. We reprint the following from the Oregonian: They asked that the ordinance be amended to prevent any patent medicine or preparation being sold for a sum less than the price marked on the wrapper. Thia request was made, they said, for the purpose of prohibiting large department stores from cutting prices on various articles anu drugs far below the wholesale cost merely for advertising purposes. They said that in order to protect themselves against such illegitimate business methods the druggists had to com bine to prevent wholesale dealers selling to those who persisted in cutting prices. One of the members of the Drug Trust said: "We wish you to set a standard price for all articles on which the manufacturers have stamped a price, and thus prevent these cut-rate stores from under selling us. Several of these large firms sell these goods for less than we can purchase them from the manufacturer." Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald said he believed the ordi nance provided that all combinations in restraint of trade should be unlawful. He did not believe, however, that a law could be passed to prohibit an individual from fixing any price on an article, unless he did so as the result of an agreement with others. Patent medicines were assailed by Councilman Baker, who said the request of the druggists for a fixed price for such articles should prevail On the ground that the ordinance prohibited the fixing of a stand ard price, the petition of the druggists was denied. We still sell all the Drugs, Standard Remedies and Toilet Articles at the lowest CUT-RATE prices in Oregon. These are the kind of CUT-RATE prices that have made ua famous good for Saturday only: 25o Hire's Root Beer Extract, Owl out rate 150 26o Hydrogen Peroxide, Owl cut rate 190 60c Hydrogen Peroxide, Owl out rate .350 10c Bromo Seltzer, Owl cut rate y 26c Sanltol Liquid, Owl cut rate 180 1-J1.26 hand-drawn bristle Hair Brushes, rosewood and ebony b'eks 480 76c extra long Bath Brush, out rate 590 50c California Syrup of Figs, only . 39c 35c Genuine Castoria, Owl Cut-Rate 19c 50c Welch's Grape Juice, " 42c 50c Bromo Seltzer, " 39c 50c Wyeth's Vichy Salts, " 29c 25c Apenta Water, " 19c 10c Pkg. Epsom Salts, " 5c Linseed Oil. Owl cut rate, pint Insect Powder, H-ib- pkg.. Owl cut ISc pkg. Lavender Flowers, Owl cut 16c pkg. Po. Mustard. Owl cut rate 15c pkg. White Mustard Seed, Owl 16c pkg. Po. Jamaica Ginger, Owl Po. Orris Root. -lb. pkg Boraxo, for the bath, can 25c bottle Rose Water, Owl cut rate 26c bottle Castor OH, Owl cut rate 25o Com p Cathartic Pills, Owl cut 16c pkg. Prec. Chalk, Owl cut rate 10c Blue Jay Corn Plasters, Cut-Rate 6c $1.00 Danderine, Owl Cut-Rate 50c 3-graln Quinine Pills, " 50c Wyeth's Lithia Tablets, $1 Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, 25c Silver Polishing Cloth, 50c Wisdom's Robertine, " 50o Cammelllne Liquid Powder, Owl cut rate 390 Satin Skin Cream, Owl cut rate 180 Pompellan Massage Cream. Owl cut rate 290 Daggert & Ramsdells Cream, Owl cut rate 290 11.10 Peruna, Owl cut rate 690 EOc Swamp Root, Owl cut rate 390 $1.00 Beef, Iron and Wine, cut rate 590 85c Hunyadl Water. Owl cut rate. 220 ISc Red Raven Splits. Owl cut rate 9X 35c Jayne's Vermifuge. Owl cut rate 290 18c large size Bath Sponge, cut rate ' 7 J 25c Sanitol and Sozodont Paste !l80 26c Borodont Paste, Owl cut rate 180 25c Mandrake Liver Pills, Owl cut rate ""l0 Willow Charcoal Tablets, 3 boxes for I '.250 Swansdown Powder, Owl Cut Rate Sempre Giovine Cream, 50c Egg Shampoo, 94 rate 90 rate 9j 94 cut rate 90 cut rate 90 90 190 180 180 rate 160 . Qg 69c 29c 36c 69c 14c 29c it 9c 39c 19c