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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1907)
THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY. DECE3IBER 27, 1907, Only four more business days in 1907, and we have still a tremendous stock on our hands. We have no time to lose 'Ave are forced to act instantly. Our business must continue without interruption. "We will wind up the balance of the year with a flood of bargains that will make fast and furious selling. We are making prices that no other store dares to duplicate not on a few items here and there, but EVERY ARTICLE IN THE STORE DECIDEDLY REDUCED. These last four days will be 'the biggest bargain days of the whole year. fin? ' COATS Covert Coats, fitted, loose and semi-fitted; 50 inches and 34 inches long; values up to $30.00. Today and tomorrow $12.50 Black, castor, brown and blue semi-fitted COATS Regular $22 to $27.50 values; today and to morrow $11.00 Today and Tomorrow Specials Velvet Suits, exclu sive garments; values up to $95.00. Today and tomorrow your choice for flfS ft About 40 Suits, most ly black, and large sizes, no two the same; values up to $40. Today and tomorrow $15.00 CHILDREN'S COATS 6 to 14 years, fancy mix- fl C tures; vals. up to $7.50. tyf&O 6 to 14 years, beareloth; (IC AH $10.00 values )cJ.UU 2 to 6 3'ears, beareloth; $7.50 values . . $2.10 CHILDREN'S DRESSES From 2 to 14 years; values up to $4.00; todav and tomorrow $1.95 SKIRTS In Panama, Voile and Fancy (Mixtures, colors black, blue and gray; values up to $17.50; today Pn nr and tomorrow pJ JO FURS $7.00 Fox Boas. Today and tomorrow $3.75 $7.00 Squirrel Ties. To- G0 rf day and tomorrow pcJe)v Muffs and Ties; values up to $8.00, each $1.95 HOSIERY Black lisle embroidered Stockings, 65c Qri values OyC HANDKERCHIEFS Slightly mussed; C vals. up to 30c eC SHOPPING BAGS ...69c Regular $1.50 vals. go at . . . ELASTIC BELTS Regular 75c vals. OP go at Wholesale and y Retail J ACHESON GO. COR. FIFTH AND ALDER KNOCKED DOWN BY RIVAL EDITOR x-Senator Patterson Cursed and Threatened With Death. HIS PEN TOO VITRIOLIC Bonfils, of Denver Pot. Hclaliates for Threat to Drive Him Out of Business Patterson Charges Assault. DENVER, Colo., Doc. 26. A warrant was sworn out tonight for the arrest of Fred G. Bonfils. one of the propri etors of the Denver Post, by ex-United States Senator Thomas M. Patterson, as the result of an encounter between the two men at an early hour this morning, during which Mr. Patterson was knocked down and painfully in jured. The encounter was the culmination of a newspaper fight which has been going on for some years between the proprietors of the Post and Mr. Pat terson, who is the principal stockhold er of the News-Times Publishing Com pany. The stories of the two men differ us to the details of the encounter. Mr. Patterson says Mr. Bonfils came up behind him and said. "Good morning." When he turned to see who addressed him, Mr. Patterson states he was dealt a terrific blow, whiun felled him, af ter which his assailant beat and kicked him before he could arise. He says he did not know who had hit him un til after some men had separated them. He adds that Mr. Bonfils cursed him and threatened to kill him If his (Bon fils) name appeared again In the News or Times. Mr. . Bonfils' statement is that the two - men met and that a discussion arose over a threat Mr. Patterson had made In the columns of the News to run Mr. Bonfils out of business or put him In the penitentiary. According to Mr. Bonfils. Mr. Patterson reiterated the threav and the fight started. Mr. Bonfils admits knocking the Senator down, but pleads justification on ac count of the Senator's published and spoken language. Mr. Bonfils says that Mr. Patterson was accompanied by his son-in-law, Richard C. Campbell, when the dispute arose. Mr. Patterson Is 73 years of age and Mr. Bonfils is about 44. ROTH ARE ABLE MUDSLINGERS Duel of Newspaper Abuse Led Vp to , Assault. DENVER. Colo.. Dec. 26. (Special.) Ex-Senator Thomas M. Patterson was a.ssaulted this morning by Fred G. Bon tils, one of the editors of the Afternoon Post. The assault was a climax to at tacks made by each on the other In their newspapers for several years, which cul minated In the last week, when Mr. Bon fils charged Mr. Patterson with owning a majority of stock in a fair association organized to conduct racing with a bet ting attachment. Mr. Patterson had previously charged Mr. Bonfils with protecting open gamb ling in Denver and in response to the pool attack printed that ho would send Mr. Bonfils out of the city or to the penitentiary. It is said that Mr. Patterson-!! nose was broken in the assault and Mr. Bonfils lias threatened to give him another thrashing. Chit-Chat of Sporting World BY WILL G. MAC RAE. BY WILL G. MAC RAE. THEY have a wise lot of racing of ficials at New Orleans. The other day there was an attempt to work the "ringer" game by the negro, George Faulkner, alias George Wilson, who was mixed up in the deal to ring Freckmau as Cataract at Jamaica, a few years ago. The gang of turf free booters entered a mare they called Modri. The mare was ordered scratched, but no attempt was made by the officials to hold the mare, as in the case of Freckman. Boots Durnell, who was ruled off the turf by the New York Jockey Club of ficials, will quit the racing game with plenty of the worldly goods. His sta ble has won over JiO.UOO and his bet ting operations netted twice that much. Durnell is talking of taking the rest-cure in Europe. Frank Watkins. one of the best-posted football experts in the Northwest, has just returned from a long Eastern visit. He saw some of the big games in the East and declared that Loner gan, Don Walker, McMillan and sev eral other Multnomah football stars could make any of the Eastern cracks sit up and take notice. Watklns is right. Multnomah Club has had and now has players on the team who would rank right up to the notch with the best football players in the county- . Jockey Radtke. who before he fell into bad company was one of Ameri ca's leading riders, will ride next year in Russia. He will ride for .Michael de Lazerell. Radtke's contract once sold for J25.000. Success spoiled Radtke, and after riding brllliantly for a time in the East his Incorrigible behavior get him into all kinds of trouble. At last Billy Nolan has said some thing sensible. He suggests that Bat tling Nelson, McFarlan, Mcmsic and Jimmy Britt, after Jimmy's broken ulna gets a proper immunity bath, fight to determine who should fight Joe Gans for the lightweight title. This would meet with the approval of all fight fans. Few fight fans who admire Abe At tell know that tne champion was at one time an incorrigible in a reform school. It made a man out of che little fighter, for the records of the Whittler school show that he was paroled In 1900 as a model boy. ROWDY PLAY HURTS WOMAN BOYS IX SCUFFLE TRAMPLE OX OLD LADY. Coming Out From Christmas Enter tainment, Boorish Actions of ' Youths May Cause Death. ORTING. Wash., Dec. 26. (Special) As a result of alleged brutal rowdyism on the part of two young men, Billy Xee and John Westcott, an aged woman lies death's door with a broken hip. Mrs.- Hannah Jarvis attended the Christmas entertainment at Oddfellows' hall night before last. On coming out of the hall. Nee and Westcott, engaged in a rough and tumble fight. In backing out they fell over Mrs. Jarvis, threw her to the ground and trampled over her. Grave' doubt is entertained as to her recovery. The town Is Incensed over the action of the boys. JAPANESE IjIXER IX A STORM Iyo Maru From Seattle Badly Treat ed on Pacific. VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 26. The steamer Tango Maru, which arrived this morning from Yokohama, brought news that the steamer Iyo Maru had a hard voyage from Seattle, arriving four days later. A Japanese seaman was washed overboard and drowned. Seas dashed over the ves sel, carried away much rail on the port side of the saloon deck, breaking some doors and flooding the vessel and the cargo was damaged. The Tango Maru brought 30 saloon pas sengers, including A. S. Minhara; agent of the Nippon Yusen Kalsha at Hong kong, transferred to New York. There were 317 passengers in all. 154 Chinese, nine Russians and six Japanese being booked for Seattle and United States points. DRUGGED AFTER DANCE Enterprise Young Woman Badly Treated Returning From Rink. ENTERPRISE. Or.. Dec. 26. Special.) While returning from a dance in the skating rink in this city last night. Josie Zumwalt,. of Zumwalt, this county, was drugged and assaulted by persons as yet unarrested, but whose Identity is known. She was found at 4 o'clock this morning in the hallway of G. W. Vest's residence, unconscious. In this state she remained all day. Tonight she is slowly recovering. VICTIM OF FIENDS Woman Is Strangled, Stripped and Flung in Pond. CLOTHES STREW PATHWAY Trail Leads to Yacht, Where More Clothes Are Found and Two Oc cupants Are Arrested Xew Jersey Is the Scene. NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 26. A murder combining the elements of mystery and deliberate cruelty that took it out of the ordinary was- committed in Hackensack's Meadow in the town of Harrison early today, and the nude body of the victim, a comely woman of perhaps 30 years, nearly submerged In the Icy waters of a little pond, was found today. The dead woman was finely featured: her hair and nails gave evidence of a. recent and scrupulous toilet and the char acter of the clothing, which was sub sequently found, in texture and style, showed an owner of refinement. The body had not been identified tonight, and it was pretty well established that . it was not that of a resident of this city or Harrison. Following Trail ot Body. Two men who occupied a yacht moored near where the body was found are de tained by the police, but the most im portant clew obtained was furnished to night by Peter Coogan, a watchman em ployed by the Marine Engine Company, who recognized the body as that of a woman whom he had seen crossing the meadows in company with a man early today. Later he saw the man alone. He then carried a bundle in his arms. The man was short and stout. Life had been extinct, the Coroner said, about 10 hours. A mark on the neck in dicated that strangulation was the man ner of death. Scratches on the log and trunk and pieces of cinder forced into the flesh showed that the body had been dragged along a cinder-path which skirts the pond. Along the path the po lice soon picked up a white silk waist slashed up the back, a skirt and a pair of silk garters. Two Men on Yacht Arrested. Following the path the police' came upon the yacht Idle J-Iour, which was tied up at a point on the Passaic about 300 feet from where the body was found. On the yacht the police say that they found a sealskin mufT and a fur neck piece. The occupants of the yacht were Albert Thompson, 41 years of age. of Elizabeth, a boatman, and Frederick Kirkman, 38 years old. Both were employed on the boat. Thompson said that he found the fur pieces near the cinder-path this morning. The police found on the boat dishes enough for three diners. The men, however, said that they had no visitors on the Idle Hour. Both were arrested as suspicious characters. After performing an autopsy tonight Coroner Allers said that the marks on the neck strongly indicated death by strangulation. The theory of robbery was eliminated. he thought, by the finding of a diamond ring on the dead woman's hand. In life the woman had been, he said, rather stout and of medium height. She had the features of a per son of refinement. William Crane, a boathouse employe, who found the body, was tonight held as a witness. MARKSMEN ARE DECORATED Regimental Inspection, Review and Muster at O. X. G. Armory. Decoration of . marksmen with silver badges, together with regimental in spection, review and muster, formed an impressive military spectacle at the Armory last night. The six Portland companies of the Third Oregon Infan try turned out in full, and every part of the review and inspection was car ried out without a hitch.. The review was given to Colonel Everett, first com manding officer of the regiment. Sixty-one marksmen, nine sharp shooters and seven expert riflemen were decorated. This showing from six companies is an enviable one, few Reg ular Army regiments being able to make a better record for one range season. In addition to these decora tions. Sergeant A. A. Schwann was called before the regiment by Colonel McDonell and given special mention for marksmanship. Sergeant Schwarz will later receive a gold medal. The attendance of both Guardsmen and spectators was larger than at any previous inspection- of, the present year. The visitors showed a lively interest in the ceremonies and applauded the marksmen as they were called before the regiment to receive their decora tions from Adjutant-General Finzer. Many officers from outside stations were present, being In the city to at tend the National Guard convention, which opens today at the Armory. Ellen Gibson Sues for Divorce. Ellen Gibson alleges in a divorce suit filed In the Circuit Court yesterday against William S. Gibson, that he has been spending his money in riotous liv ing, and deserted her August 15, 1903. While he has spent his time in idleness and his cash on intoxicating liquors, his wife 'says he is capable of earning $75 a month, and asks the court to award her $25 a month alimony. The couple have one boy. 13 years old, and two girls, aged 10 and 6 years. They married December 15, 1S93, at Langdonj North Dakota. Governor Hughes Improves. ALBANY. N. Y., Dec. 26. Governor Hughes, who has been at the Executive Mansion for several days, suffering from an attack of the grippe, was reported to day as much improved. The Gover nor may take up his duties at the Execu tive chamber tomorrow. BEATS WOMAN BRUTALLY Demands $250 for Return of Let ters and Is Refused. BREMERTON, Wash., Dec. 26.-(Spe-clal.) Because she declined to give up $250 for some letters which A. Batchelder declared she had written him. who fur ther threatened to turn them over to her husband. Mrs. Frank Ward, of this city, was today brutally beaten by Batchelder. Further refusal to listen to his threats led Batchelder to attempt to wrest a diamond ring from her finger. In the struggle which followed the woman was seriously injured. The man left her bruised and bleeding. Ward being informed of the assault had Batchelder arrested and he is now in jail. A railroad will soon be romplptcd which will extend from Tiierto Barrloa. on the Atlantic f'oast. to the city of Guatemala, puttlns th capital of the Central Amer ican rormbllc within five days' steam com munication nf N'-w Orleans. Open a Monthly Ac count With Us. Your Credit Is Good. Start Any Time. wo HE, TO. LET US DO YOUR PICTURE FRAMING. 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