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Tttw OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1908. 1 Agents Butterick Patterns. Ramie Linen Fibre Underwear for Men and Women, Harvard Mills Underwear, Ostermoor Mattresses. Cossard, LaGrecque, Nemo and Estelle Corsets, Columbia Yarns, Pen-ins' Kid Cloves onday Bargain Mews ANNOUNCEMENT Our Yarn Department is now located on 3d floor, a larger and better placeto serve you In Art Section ndex for Meier (Frank's M For details see Sunday papers A week here of unrivaled and unequaled bargain opportunities ANNOUNCEMENT The removal jaf Yarns to Art Sctionfrom 2d floor, enables us to increase sell ing space in Corset Section The Millinery Section Offers Today 200 Women's New Trimmed Hats The $7.50 Values on Sale at the Special Price of $4.50 Veils, Including Some Very Exceptional Values Priced Up to $5.00, on Special Sale for Today and Tomorrow at Only $2.89 Women's Tailored and Fancy Silk Waists in Values Up to $12.00 These Are Reduced to the Remarkably Low Price of $5.85 Tailored Suits for Misses and Small Women, Including Regular $30.00 Values Special Price Is Only $16.45 Take Advantage First Showing of the Celebrated Ramie Linen Fibre Underwear for Men and Women We Are Portland Agents for These Garments A Great Two-Days'. Sale of Fine Laces and Embroideries at Unusual Prices, Including Reductions from $1.00 to 49c the Yard $9.00 Values in New Spring Walking Skirts for Women in Various Styles at Special Price of $5.45 Don't Miss This Opportunity New Gloves for Women at Very Special Prices The $1.25 One-Clasp Gloves, Chamois and Cape, Perfect Fitting, at 95c the Pair Our First Showing of the Largest and Best Stock of New Spring Styles in Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes in the West 10,000 Yards of Carpet to Be Sold at Cost The Great Stock Adjustment Sale of Carpets Starts This Morning on the Third Floor Thousands of Yards of Ribbon at a Special Price Regular 35c Silk Ribbon on Sale This Morning at the Very Low Price of 21c Yard Annual March Sale of Trunks, SuiTCases and Traveling Bags at Very Remarkable Prices Third Floor A Yearly Bargain Event A Special Sale of Lace Curtains and Tabourettes A Remarkably Fine Showing of New Tapestries and Couch Covers Third Floor Last Three Days of the Annual Housefurnishing Goods Sale Almost 1000 Articles to Select From and Save on in the Basement "hErll Every Section Peninsula Stoves and Ranges included in Housefiirnish'g Sale H. MANNING IS READY Will Urge Immediate Trial in Title Bank Cases. DELAYS NOT PROBABLE .District AUorncy Thinks Iloss and Hi Associate Hhtb Exhausted All Technical Objections So Ground for Change of Venue. No time will be lost by the state In putting- to a lesal test the issues raised in the indictments of the Title Guaran tee bank-wreckers, District Attorney Manntoa; announced last night that the trial of J. Thorburn Ross and his asso ciates would be reached Just as soon as all preliminary legal processes had been attended to, and just -when this will be will depend entirely upon the outrom of the well-developed and zealous obstructionist tactics of the in dicted hank officials. Mr. Manning will prepare, direct and conduct the trials personally, and de clares In most emphatic terms that he is ready to meet every technical issue with a fair, and square 1ck1 answer. The next move must be -made by the defendants, or rather it is up to them to show their hands, and that before next Thursday, when they will be. called ' upon to plead to the charges in the three amended informations which have been nled, and In the fourth indict ment, to which the defendants' de murrer was overruled by the Circuit ' Court, a few days ago. Counsel for the alleged bankwreck ers have already declared their Inten tion of : moving for a change of venue on the ground that the public senti , merit is so strong against the Title Guarantee officials here that they will not be able to secure a fair trial In this district. But before that can be done, they will be obliged to raise new grounds for demurrer between now and Thursday. However. Mr. Manning does not believe they have any grounds now upon which to demur. Argned on the Spot. He is convinced - that if other de murrers are prepared, the court will give consent to their immediate argu ment, and the prosecution will insist I that they be argued on the spot, should they be filed. With them disposed of. the bank of-ft-lls will .be obliged, in due course, to plead to the indictments. Plea of not guilty are anticipated on each and cVery charge, and not till the trials have been set for a definite date will the defendants- have an opportunity to raise the question of a change of venue. They will, in case they resort to such tactics, be compelled to file affidavits showing good and sufficient i reason for believing they cannot secure ' a fair trial In this district. t f I see no reason at all,' said Mr. . Manning last nlgjit. "why these men cannot get just as fair a trial in Mult nomah County as they can before any other court in the state, or anywhere else. There is no more prejudice here than there Is anywhere else In cases of this kind. We will be fully pre pared to oppose any such action in case ' the defense attempts it. and we expect to nave the cases set for an early trial. and with the evidence we have at hand I don't 'think it will take very long for the state to make cut a clear case on each count. Loophole All Closed. "The charges covering the accept ance and alleged embezzlement of the . state school funds will probably be the ones we shall push to conclusion first, although I have not fully decided on that point. I don't believe there Is a single loophole in the new informations which have Just been drawn up through which the defendants can escape on I technicalities." Between now and next Thursday, when the defendants must enter pleas to the indictments. District Attorney Manning will decide which of the charges will be taken up first. It is possible that the indictments accusing the bank officials with accepting de posits after the bank was known by them to be In an Insolvent ' condition will be given precedence over the others. It was - on this Charge that Judges O'Day. Bronaugh and Ganten bein unanimously overruled the defend ants' demurrer last Friday. The fact that it has been demonstrated that the defunct bank never was solvent from the day it opened its doors will play a prominent part In the trial of this charge against Ross and his three co-defendants MRS. REGAN PASSES AWAY Pioneer Resident of Portland Pies in Victoria. ' Mrs. Catherine Regan, of Portland, died jn Victoria, B. C, February 28, aged 77 years. Mrs. Regan was" born near Belmont, Wis.. January 12, 1KH. and crossed the plains to California in 1S54, coming to Oregon in the same year. The follow ing year she removed to "Walla Walla, Wash., where she resided for more than 30 years. Mrs. Regan had made her home in Portland since 1897. During the past year and a halC she had resided in Victoria. B, C, for the benefit of her health. Shu is survived by three daughters and one son. They are Mrs. James C. An derson, of Victoria,, B. C; Dr. Catherine Manion and Miss .nna M. Regan, of Portland! and Dr. K. P. Regan, of San Francisco. Mrs. Regan was a relative of Mrs. Catherine Burke, of this city. The funeral announcement will be made later. PERSONALMENTIOR. J. M. Hart, well-known Eastern Ore gon lawyer, of Baker City, is at the Im perial. R. Alexander, ex-Mayor of Pendleton, ( is in Portland, a guest at the Imperial Hotel. Captain H. Hatt. Jr.. a wealthy San Francisco lumber-dealer, is in the city on business. E. O. McCoy, one of the leading mer chants of The Dalles, is at the Portland with his family. . Mrs. Peter Larson, of Spokane, who has valuable mining Interests in the Coeur d'Alene country, is a. Portland visitor, and is at the Oregon. ' John S. MeMiltln, of Roche Harbor. Wash., member of the Washington State Railroad Commission, and possible can didate for Governor .of the Evergreen State, is at the Oregon, r A. Fleisehhauer. of Stevenson, Wash., County Clerk of Skamania County, is at the Imperial. He Is enthusiastic over the early prospect of the, opening of the Korth Bank road, and says it will mean much for his section of the Evergreen state. Rev. Chester P. Gates, pastor of the St. John United Bvangelical Church, who is taking a vacation on account of fail ing health. Is home again for a short time, but not to resume work. He will not return to his field until the last of the month. " M. S. Woodcock, of Corvallis. a promi nent banker of the state and one of the leading dignitaries of the Masonic fra ternity In Oregon, is a guest at the Ore gon Hotel. He Is here to attend a meet ing of the building committee of the Masonic Temple, of which he is a mem ber. John Sommervilie, a former Portland business man, who for the past five years has been engaged in the whole sale hardware business in Kdmonton, Al berta, left for Southern California last night. Mr. Bommerville has been confined to his room at the Imperial Hotel since the 8th of February with grip. "Charles Ia Tatt. of Colorado Springs. Colo., and one of the most noted smelter magnates and copper kings ot the West, is in the city, a guest at the Portland. He has erected half a dozen copper smelters in various sections of the great Western copper belt, one, of them being in Southern Oregon. Leopold F. Schmidt, president of the Olympia Brem-ing Company, of Olympia, Wash., Is a guest at the Imperial. He is here to attend to legal business in con nection with the Speckart estate, of which he was the administrator, and which was involved in a long will con test instituted by Miss Harriet Speckart, one of the heirs. About a dozen business men and fam ilies from Walla Walla. Spokane' and other points in the Inland Kmplre. who have been on a Junketing trip through California for the past month, arrived in this city yesterday, registering at the Portland Hotel. Some left for their homes last night and others will take the morning train today. All speak in the highest terms of praise of the treatment they were accorded on the 3000-mile Jour ney. - Tomorrow (Tuesday will positively be the last day for discount on West Side gas hills. PORTLAND GAS COMPANY. WOK IS BLOCKED Contractor Refuses to Pro ceed on East Sixth Street. DEFIES EXECUTIVE BOARD Pacific Bridge Company Declines to Go On With Filling Operations Intil the City Council Shows Its Hand. Unless some easier solution of the prob lem is arrived at in the meantime the "East Sixth-street fill contract" is likely to become a National issue and be" writ ten into the platform of one or the other of the two great parties. There is more backing, and filling no pun intended go ing on in getting this $31,000 improvement completed than usually attends an inter national peace conference. The latest turn in the kaleidoscopic job is that the contractor, the Pacific Bridge Company, has announced that it will do nothing until the City Council shows its hand and tells what it intends to do. In other words, the company, which was awarded the contract about 15 months ago. which has been favored with" two or three extensions of time and which has only driven a few piles to date, is openly defying the executive board and the whole City Council, relying, it is said, upon the strong friendships which its officers have in the Council to pre vent any drastic retaliation from tlie city administration or the property-owners. The trouble arises over the attitude of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company, through whose property the proposed im provement is to be made. The abutting property-owners, nearly to a man. have been fighting the mill company over the tilling in of the street, and declare they will resist the payment of assessments already levied by the city on the ground that they would be only bearing a bur den of street-improvement taxes for the sole benefit of the big corporation. The property-owners have so far been foiled in their attempt to have the con tract for the work rescinded, and the officials of the contracting company say they will make no move until they find out whether the City Council is with them or against them. The property-owners originally peti tioned the City Council to take the con tract away from the Pacific Bridge Com pany. - The ordinance calling for such action was prepared and submitted to the street committee. This committee proved hostile, and the bill was taken out of that committee, sent back to the Coun cil and referred to the judiciary com mittee. Here further opposition was en countered, and the ordinance was re turned to the City Council without any recommendation of any sort. Then Ihe Council, at it last meeting, voted to lay the ordinance on the table. That is the situation at present, and as it will require a two-thirds vote to re move the ordinance from the table, the property-owners fear their efforts have been of no avail. This latest action on the part of the city fathers proved offensive to the con tractors, so only a day or two ago they announced that, they would-not go ahead with the work until the squabble was settled. ' . The last extension of time given the Pacific Bridge Company carries the con tract over until next July, and until it has expired the city authorities are help less to proceed against the contractor to secure a forfeiture of its bond. All parties to the controversy, in brief, are trying to shift responsibility to other shoulders, and at the .same time the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company con tinues master of the situation. BODY IS FOUND AT LAST Albany Man Drowned December 22 Discovered In River. ALBANY, Or.. March . (Special.) After lying In the Calapooia River for 77 days the body of Arch Ferguson was found today. It was located by Fergu son's father, who had kept up a faithful search since his son's death. The body was brought to this city this afternoon. Ferguson was , drowned December 22, five miles above Albany while duckhunt ing. The river was flooded at the time and the canoe dipped and sank in the swirling water. Ferguson and Charles Welch, who accompanied him, both caught hold of some limbs on the bank but those supporting Ferguson broke and he was swept to death. Harry R. Eaton, formerly room 10, Chamber of , Commerce, has purchased the cafe In the Rothchild building, Fourth and Washington streets. Practical Young Mother Checks Her . Baby at a Local Theater Cloakroom Attendant Plays Nurse to Tiny Miss of 14 Months While Par ents Witness Shakespearean Comedy at the Heilig. WHILE Charles B. Hanford. as Pertucio. was taming the shrew to the delight of an audience at the Ilelllg last night, a little cloak room comedy was being enacted in the anteroom of the theater, in which tiny ,Mtss Margaret Richardson, aged 14 months, was the leading lady. To her small audience of one (Sammie, the checkboy) she was appealing as was the Shakespearean Interpreter to his more pretentious , aggregation of listen ers. It was in obedience to that ancient and honorable but unwritten mandate In ef fect at all well-regulated playhouses which says "tender cries of Infants shall not pierce the ear." that Miss Margaret was given the fine distinction of being the only baby that has ever been checked at a local theater. And checked she was. She appeared among a motley array of overcoats, sealskins, umbrellas, canes and hats. To the accommodating Sammie, who passes out the duplicate checks. Margaret was only "No. ;." and when her parents, at the end of the performance, presented the little paste board stub marked "74." Sammie trun dled out the large perambulator and hung the check on the nail much as if only an overcoat had been redeemed. Miss Margaret's parents liad come a long way to see Hanford. and neither of them had ever seen a performance of the the Shaltespearen comedy. Furthermore, they had invited two ffiends to enjoy the' show with them. But their troubles began as soon as they arrived and pre sented their tickets. Manager Pangle, as gently and firmly as possible, told the mother that no children in arms were allowed in the theater, and that he would gladly return the price of the seats if they could not leave the child outside. "But." remarked the diplomatic . im presario, "you might check the baby if you like, and she will be nicely taken care of." not for a moment thinking the offer would be taken up. "It's a go," exclaimed the mother. "Tell me how to do it." Matters were quickly arranged. Mar garet was sleeping soundly, and after being carefully tucked away in soft. fleecy blankets, she was wheeled into the checkroom and Sammie was proud as a king. v "Leave her to me, ma'am. I'll take care of her," said Sammie. and the father and mother went inside. At the end of each act the mother went to the cloakroom, kissed the little darling, and went back. Between the second and third acts Margaret gave a little shrug, rubbed her eyes until the -sandman had fled, and then began to crow and gurgle over her strange surroundings. Sammie walked over to the perambulator t and then, as the Bard of Avon aptly remarks: "She clung about his neck; gave him ten kisses; . Toyed with his locks, and looked babies In his eyes." She didn't exactly kiss him. but she liked his looks and said "Goo-goo-goo." shook her chubby, dimpled fist at him. kicked up her fat. wriggling toes, and winked mischievously her big blue eyes. It was great fun for Sammy. Then the baby stuffed a round, pink fist into her mouth, sighed a few times, and dropped off to sleep, and it was not until her mother picked her up and carried her to the streetcar that she awakened from her peaceful slumbers. The lobby loungers, between the acts, had great fun watching Sammie s ten der solicitude ' for his all-important charge. "We never had anybody check a baby before," said Manager Pangle after the show, "and I guess it is something new in these parts, although I understand some Eastern theaters have nurses -who care for babies left with them during the show." ; BUNCO 11 PREACHER Rockpile Convicts Steal From Good Samaritan. DR. WILSON THE VICTIM Youthful Prisoners Promise to Em brace Opportunity to Reform, Then Put Methodist ' Pastor's Farm Implements iji Pawn. That even a minister of the gospel is sometimes made the victim of misplaced confidence, or buncoed, to use the more common term, developed yesterday morn ing when two young men, C. H. Knause and Robert Fitzsimmons, both of whom are of unsavory reputation, were arrested on complaint of Rev. Clarence True Wil son and; locked up in the City Jail on a charge of larceny. Dr. Wilson is accustomed to visit the rockpile at Kelly- Butte frequently to administer to the spiritual needs of the prisoners there, and on one of these visits, several days ago, noticed Knause and Fitzsimmons, both of whom are in their early 20', engaged in the strenuous task of reducing stones of large propor tions to handy sizes. Both young men had been engaged at the task for .several days by reason of having been convicted of different offenses, and on the occa sion of the pastor's visit were most meek and humble in demeanor, for neither had been accustomed to hard work to any extent previous to their sentence to Kelly Butte.. Dr. Wilson's sympathetic heart went out to the two young men, and Imme diately he decided to do something for them. Paying a visit to the trial Judge, the minister interceded on behalf of the two convicts, and secured their release, for the purpose of giving them employ ment at clearing a tract of land owned by him near Gresham. Both "rock crushers" gladly welcomed the change. for the task of cutting brush and felling trees did not seem so hard work as that of making small stones out of gigantic boulders, and they were presently in stalled on the. Wilson farm. Each day it was customary for one or the other to report to Dr. Wilson in Port land to inform him of the progress being made, and incidentally to receive cash for the purpose of securing provisions, and. Dr. Wilson was well pleased with having apparently started two young wrong-doers on the straight and narrow path. All went well until Dr. Wilson had oc casion to visit the farm Saturday, when he discovered both men absent and prac tically all the tools and appliances used in clearing land also missing. Investiga tion revealed the fact that the proteges of the minister had taken every thing of any value on the premises and hastened to Portland, where the implements were pawned for various small sums. Which was spent in cheap saloons. Dr. Wilson Immediately secured war rants for the arrest of his erstwhile em ployes and yesterday morning they were arrested by Detectives Hellyer and Ma loney. Knause was arrested several months ago and convicted on a charge of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor. His sentence was three months on the rockpile. Fitzsimmons was taken into custody for having burglarized a small fruit store, and was given six months. The police officials say that both men are hardened crooks. ASSAULTED AND ROBBED J. F. Kennedy, Bartender, Held lp In Stockholm Saloon. J. F. Kennedy, bartender in the Stock holm saloon at 208 Third street, was knocked senseless by a masked high, layman in the saloon at 1:50 o'clock yesterday morning. The thug escaped with $3 in cash and a small savings bank. How much was in the bank is not known. Kennedy, was In the act of closing up the place and was wiping glasses and filling bottles when the robber entered by the back door, which he had broken open. The man. who wore a dark mask, crept up behind Kennedy and without warning hit him over the head with a large revolver, and while his victim lay. on the floor rifled the till and es caped. Before going home Saturday night the proprietor had locked the day's receipts in the safe. leaving only H in change in the till, which, in addition to the smalt bank, was all the thug secured. PAPERS TIED BY STRIKE Typographical Union at Walla Walla Torn by Internal Troubles. WALLA WALLA. Wash., March 8. (Special.) The local organization of the Typographical Union today declared a strike in the composing-room of the Washington Printing & ook" Manufac turing Company, which has the contract for publishing the Morning Union and the 'Evening Statesman. The strike is the result of internal dis sensions in the Typographical Union over the question as to placing a super intendent in charge of the whole plant. The open or closed shop is not an issue, and it is expected that a settlement will be made by the state organizer of the International Union as soon as he can reach here, which will be about Tuesday morning. Gcrvais Fleets Delegates. GERVAIS. Or.. March S. (Special.) At a harmonious and well-attended meet ing of the local Republicans held here yesterday, delegates to the Republican conference in Salem, March 14, were elected as follows: Jacob Blnsrham. L. H. Poujadc, Sam Dupuis. Brown and Ed Hanan sbors at Rosenthal's. 231 MAKER WASHINGTON ST, . "OF PORTLAND J MENS OREGON- CV0TMCS FRANK L. SMITH MEAT CO. "Fighting the Beef Trust" 226 ALDER ST., Bet. First and Second Sts. BEEF Soup Meat 3c 4000 lbs. of Boiling Beef. . . ; .5c Short Ribs 6c Pot Roasts. .7 and 8 Rib Roasts of Beef 10c Round Steak , 10c Small Porterhouse and "T" Bone Steak 12V2C Tenderloin Steaks .I2V2C Smith's famous cut of Bone less Sirloin Roasts I2V2C Real Prime Rib Roasts, rol'd 15 $ Every ounce fresh Oregon Pig Pork. You can't find the like of our Pork at any other market. Shoulder Roast Pork 10c and I2V2C Shoulder Pork Chops-. . . . .I2V2C PORK Loin Roast Pork ....15c Loin Pork Chops. ........ -15C Pork Sausage .12VC Pickle Pork -.12V2c Fancy light Breakfast Bacon 15c Heavy Breakfast Bacon. . .12VaC VEAL Veal Sausage 12i2C Roast Veal : lO-Va-lSc Veal Breasts .10t-12y2t Veal Stew SSlOc Veal Chops .12V2C-15C Veal Shanks - 6 OREGON'S OPPORTUNITY Colonist Kates from all parts of the United States and Canada to all parts of Oregon and the Northwest will be again put into effect by THE OREGON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION COMPANY and SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. (Lines in Oregon.) MARCH 1,1908 and will continue daily through out March and ApriL From the principal cities of West the rates will the Middle be as follows FROM CHICAGO S3S.OO ST. LOUIS $35.00 KANSAS CITY. S30.00 Is? suxsrr IO 0OW4SiAStdM FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS. . OMAHA. ST. PAUL. OO OO Stopovers at ..30.00 SUO.i Corresponding ratas from alt other Eastern points. pleasure at an points in uregoo. The Colonist Rate is the greatest of all homebuilders. Oregon has unlimited resources and needs more people who desire homes and larger opportunities. Oregon people can accomplish splendid - results by heralding; this opportunity to all the world. Send Oregon literature giving pood, re liable information about the-state, far and wide. Call on the abovs railroads for it If necessary. FARES CAN BE PREPAID Here at home If desired. Any agent is authorized to accept the re quired deposit and telegraph ticket to any point. Call oa any O. R. A K. 01 8. r. agent, or address WM. McMTJRRAY, General Puaeaxn A treat. 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