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THE MORNTXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1908. Specials on House Linens DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, border all around, par ticularly desirable for beach use; especially priced at, each, only 98J RICHARDSON'S FULL BLEACHED TABLE DA MASK, pure linen; 2 yards wide; regular $1 values: on sale at, per yard. 78 TEA CLOTHS, all linen, with knotted fringe; regular at $1 each; special for 75& EXTRA LARGE, HEAVY, BLEACHED BATH TOWELS, regular seller at 40c each; special, ea. .29 HEAVY CRASH TOWELING, soft and absorbent, spe cial at, per yard ..5 20c White Goods at 12V2c Over 12,000 yards in the lot. Materials are checked and striped nainsooks, dimities, plain and plaid batistes, regular value 20c the yard; on sale Thurs- 1 )r day at IsiiVsSC MARQUISITE VOILES, the ideal Summer "I 0 1 U poods, all colors; 18c values; special IMPORTED SWISSES, white ground with embroidered dots; also ecru ground with embroidered dots, values to 75c; on sale at JJC WHITE EMBROIDERED FLANNELS; best grade flannel; embroidered with good quality silk; handsome patterns; regular $1.35 and $1.50 per yard; for. 98 Japanese Fans You will need a fan to help you keep cool these warm after noons and jvenings. Here is an opportunity to get a .pretty dainty fan at half regular val Bathing Suits Ladies' Alpaca Bathing Suits, in navy or black, with white sailor collars, neatly trimmed with black braid; all sizes in the assortment; regular price ue. Regular 35c, spe cial for only '. . : . $5.00; special for only .-. 16c $3.75 Thursday House furnishing Bargains LET US SUPPLY YOU WITH CARPETS The Season's Best Skirt Sale Men's Wear at A visit to our Carpet Department is a rare treat to lovers of the artistic in carpets. The largest selec tion at the lowest price range is a boast we find no trouble to make good. We take pride in the very complete assortment of patterns and variety of col orings we show. Particular attention is called to our selection of Body Brussels, Axminster and Wil ton Velvets. The Body Brussels in many new de signs, including handsome Oriental effects. Rich, velvety Axminsters and soft-toned Wiltons in gener erous profusion. Let us furnish estimates on carpets for any room, or the entire house Our salesmen are artists, familiar with the blending of colors and who can furnish estimates if given room dimensions CURTAINS A very attractive special in White Lace Curtains ; they come in Brussels, Irish Point or simple net effects; 3 yards long and 50 inches wide. Regular price $1.75 d oe pair; special Thursday . JJ.sD BLANKETS Sanitary gray fleece blankets, with pink or blue corners; good size, medium weight. Sell regularly at" $2.25 the pair. ji e Special for Thursday at..; ipl.DO CURTAIN ENDS iy2 yards long; samples of curtains worth to $25 the pair; Irish Point, Brus sels and novelty effects; on sale on the 7C fourth floor at, each, $1.25, $1.00 and.. OC BEST SILKOLINE 5000 yards of the best qual ity Silkoline for a special, in the Homefitting Shops. All colors and pretty figures. Regularly sold at 12Vc the yard; very spe- Ql cial at, the yard 02C Special Prices MEN'S BALBRIGGAN UNDER WEAR 50 dozen in the lot ; colors, brown, white, cream, pink and blue; regular 50c values, on sale OQ at this special low price OI7C MEN'S GOLF SHIRTS Lot of 65 dozen; excellent quality material, in stripes, checks and dots; val- '7Ckf ues to $1.25, for, each....... 7C 60 DOZEN MEN'S HALF HOSE Fine even weave and good wearing quality; regular lac value; OC special, three for. . . ., BOYS' SHIRTWAISTS-WeJl-known Mothers' Friend brand; in light or dark colored materials. Your Cfl- choice. OVJC WHITE DUCK CAPS AND HATS For boys and girls, 25c Q C and OiJC MISSES' COTTON HOSE A full line of Misses' Lace Hose, in black and tan; on sale at this ex- 1 Q ceedingly low price X i7C BOYS' COLUMBUS SUSPENDER GARTER Our regular 50c quality, offered on Wednesday and OQ Thursday at, pair .dC LADIES' LACIl HOSE Black, white and tan colors, good value at 1 Q- 25c; special, Wednesday X 5C This is just the season when nearly everyone needs an extra skirt, and to supply this de mand, we offer at special sale a large sample assortment of stylish skirts in the latest gored models. The offering includes all the staple colors; black, navy, brown, cream, gray, etc., also fancy mixtures, and the materials are such wanted Summer fabrics as alpaca, Pan amas and similar materials. The values run up as high as $20.00, and they are certainly splendid garments, even at the regular prices. Every woman needs a skirt of this kind, and certainly every woman can afford to have it at this low price. Remember, well-made, wool skirts, just the thing to wear with odd waists, and many of them worth three times what we are asking for them, your choice Thursday at this low price, each W 1 $6.98 Small Things atSpc 'I Figures Crepe Paper Denni son's, reg ularly worth 20c, special. 10 Memorandum and Account Books With cloth covers ; spe cial, each 5 Reading Glasses With metal rims and handles ; regular price 85c, special, each 39 Machine Oil 4-oz. bottles, reg ular price 15c, special . .10 Ironing Wax, Pad Special, each 4? Skirt Markers Sterling, marks the length of skirt absolutely true; regular price 75c, special, each 59? White-Headed Pins Large sized cubes, value 10c, special, the cube 8 Toilet Soap Meadow Sweet, 1 dozen cakes in a box; a good soap for hotel use ; regular 60c value, special, the box. . . .30 Camphor Marbles A sure pre ventive and Iprotection against moths and insects in clothing; special, box .'...4 Powdered Borax -pound packages; regular 10c special, the package 7$ Tanglefoot Fly Paper Five double sheets; special for Thursday for ..... ...... 10 Fine China at Reduced Prices Haviland and German China Din ner Sets, handsomely decorated, a large variety of neat patterns to select from, all greatly reduced for Housekeepers' Day: 60-Piece Sets, with blue decora tions; special at only, OA the set ...'.ipO.Ol 100-Piece Sets; spe- (PQ nfi cial, the set ipO.t3 112-Piece Sets, spe- JQ ff cial, the set P7.VU 145-Piece Dinner Sets, decorated Haviland china; regularly worth ..?'....$91.0P MANY OTHER AT INTERMED IATE PRICES. . , Wall Clocks, regular price OO. 75c; special, each. ........ JOC Silver Polish, Thurston's, "1 G regular price 25c; special. . .X CUT GLASS AT REDUCED PRICES Berry Bowls, 8-in. size; regular price $6.50; special JC Att at, each ipO.tiJ Sugar and Creamer, regular price $4.60; special at this tO QC low price ipO.OU Rose Bowls, regular price, $16.50; special, at only, j)H.40 Fruit Jar, Fasteners, special. .8 Mason Fruit Jar Rubbers, special, the dozen Paraffins, the pkg., special.. 10 Dish pans, 17-quart size, granite iron; regular price 70c; Cf)f special, each JJ Preserving Kettle, granite iron, 8 quart size; special at only, QC ih wut Fruit Jar Funnels, granite iron; special, each NEW FALL LINE OF FINE DEC . ORATED CHINA; ALSO NEW BRASS WARE 15c A Sale on Women's Oxfords WOMEN'S OXFORDS In large assortment, including brown kid, patent and kid leathers, in Colonial. 3-button, regular lace or Blucher styles ; some with inserted brown ooze panel ; all with hand-turned Boles; also tan Russia calf, black kid and calf leathers with extension or light soles; a complete assortment of the "most wanted styles and leathers; values to $4.00. !o An ; p-xs Choice for only, per pair White Canvas and Black Kid Oxfords In many styles; heavy or light soles; plain or tipped toes; covered or leather heels; reg. values li ;q to $2.50; choice ipl.O.7 White Canvas Oxfords Also black kid, in plain or tipped toes, with hand turn soles, .all sizes. $1.39 Tan and Brown Oxfords In every wanted style; kid or calf leather; also fancy colors: Pink, blue, green, old rose, lav ender and red; in calf and suede leathers. This Jot also includes 12 of the very best styles from our regular stock, among them the Pingree Gloria Shoe; vals. to $5. choice $3.39 p.iiiPT nnv mi nnoM MUG I rai I If unGli Publishers Cannot Give Adver tising for Railway Tickets. TEST CASE IS DECIDED Value of Space Sold Having No Fixed Price, Makes Its Exchange for Mileage a Violation of Hepburn Law. CHICAGO. July 15. "If it be lawful to snake the exchange of railroad trans portation for advertising; then it would be lawful to do the same In every transac tion, and the railroad business might law fully become one of barter and sale, lim ited only by the demand In a decision today by Judge C. C. Xohl saat in thd United Btates Circuit Court, from which the quotation is taken, the Jurist enjoined the Issuance of transpor tation by the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company to the pub lishers of Munsey's Magazine In exchange for advertising. The decision was ren dered in a test case, in which the Federal authorities brought suit to prevent the carrying out of a contract entered Into January, 1907, between the railroad com pany and Frank A. Munsey & Co., provid ing for the issuance of trip tickets or mileage to the value of $500 In considera tion of certain advertising space in the t'dblicatlon of the magazine. The con tract was alleged to be a violation of the IlepLurn law. The petition charges that tho action of the railway company In Is suing such transportation constitutes a violation of prohibition against the ac ceptance of any compensation for trans portation "greater or less or different" from that named in the published rates. The railroad company insisted that It re ceived a full money value based on sched ule rates for the mileage or tickets issued and denied that It was committing a vlo iation df the law. Basis of the Decision. In passing upon the question of com pensation, the decision says: "The question as to the value of the ad ve'rtlslng is contested. Manifestly then can be no fixed price placed upon it. The number of copies lsBuod. the character of lis subscribers, and many other questions enter the estimate of Its worth. It is therefore Impossible to say what its cash value is except by comparison with other rdvertlslng rates. It cannot be said that f'e evidence is conclusive or convincing cn tnis point, if it Is taken at its cash aluc, why should the transportation be limited as specified in the contract? If the magazine Is paying $500 to the defend ant. why does it accept transportation of both less and different value thnr. it would accept if It bought Its tickets with money? It seems fair to concluSo that either the advertising Is of less than cash value or the advertisers are grossly im posed upon by the railroad." After citing several decisions rendered In somewhat similar cases, Judge Kohl saat says: "It wljl be noted that the contract does not require that the advertising must have been furnished before trie transportation Is given. There Is no restriction upon the part of the advertiser to call for his railroad tickets only so far as earned. In the mere matter of interest the rale would be less and different from that which is pending. Trend Toward Law Enforcement. "There Is no mistaking the trend of the law making and construing powers. Ever new step is tending toward a most rigid enforcement of the rule that requires ex act equality In the matter of rates. Whin, by the Hepburn act, the word 'different' was added to the words 'greater or less.' It is not unfair to assume that Congress Intended to make the law more explicit and more difficult to evade. The plain intention Is to close every avenue of dis crimination. Bearing this In mind, the courts have not been and will not be dis posed to hesitate In giving significance to changes in the language of the statutes as they occur from time to time. It is essential to the spirit of the statute that the value of transportation be fixed and certain. In no other way can it be held to be exactly the same to all. If one per son may purchase it with advertising, an other with labor and another with pro duce, the value of which is a matter of agreement between the parties, how can it be said the schedule rate is always maintained? Would not the rate rest in the whim of the carrier? Such Is not the intent of the law. To say to one man, 'you must pay cash,' and to his competi tor, 'you may pay in services or merchan dise at prices we may agree upon' be It less or more than the market prices, would seem clearly to constitute such a difference in transportation as condemned by the act. Some claim is made that the Government's contention would exclude the use of checks, drafts and bills of ex change. This is without weight. In prac tical business usage those Instruments pass for cash. The action of the defend ant is in dissonance with the letter and spirit of the Interstate Commerce Act." Notice of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court was Immediately given by e attorneys for the railroad company. SHOT II GOLD BLOOD ONE-HOUR EARLIER For the Potter's Saturday Trip to North Beach. The steamer Potter will leave Port land, Ash-street dock, at 1:00 P. M. on Saturday next, July 18, and on succeed ing Saturdays throughout the season, instead of 2:00 P. M., as originally ar ranged In the published schedules, thus giving passengers the benefit of the entire river trip by daylight, and land ing them at the beach one hour earlier. Don't forget that baggage should reach the dock at least a half-hour before departure. Second Term for Hughes. NEW YORK, July 15. "Governor Hughes will run for office again if he thinks the people wish him to do so. This was the opinion offered tonight by Rev. Dr. Laldlaw, chairman of eo-operat ing committee of the anti-race track cam paign. following a talk with the Governor at aaranac H n last Sunday. Rural Carriers to Be Notaries. WASHINGTON. July 15. Assistant Postmaster-General Draw has empow ered rural lettercarriers to act as nota ries public - Railroad Laborers Killed by Former Comrade. MAN HUNT IN CALIFORNIA Sheriff and Posse Now Scouring the Hills for Desperate Italian Out law in the Feather River Canyon. MARYSVILLB. Cal., July 13. Sheriff Chlfbbuck. and a posse of 50 men are scouring the hills up and down the Feather River canyon for Adolph Jules, alias Pietro Rassi, who killed Antonio Liberatos and Giovanni Puccini yesterday at Camp No. 20 on the Western Pacific Railroad. The crime was committed in cold blood.- Jules was compelled by his fellow workingmen to leave the -camp where he was employed last March, after a dispute regarding wages. He then threatened to be revenged. On Monday evening he returned and camped about a mile from the place. Early yesterday morning he took his rifle and hid behind some brush within range of the tent where the men slept. As they came out he picked them off with his rifle. One dropped alongside a dump-car, and the other was shot while climbing a small embankment and fell Into a ravine. Three others took refuge behind bowlders and escaped. Jules then shot three times at Foreman Martin and his wife, a bul let clipping off a piece of the woman's clothing. . The murderer made his escape without difficulty, as he had terrorized all the men in the camp. He is a desperate man, well armed, and is hiding In a very rug ged country. The three men who escaped his bullets later joined the pursuing posse. Jules is an Italian, as were his victims. APARTMENT HOUSE SHAKEN Bomb Explosion Hurls Fashionable New Yorkers From Beds. NEW YORK, July 15. A dynamite bomb exploding with terrific force early today in the rear of a fashionable apartment-house in West 140th street, hurled scores of the occupants from their beds, shattered many windows and threw the tenants into a panic. A huge bole was torn in the cement flooring of the court where the bomb went oft, and considerable damage was done to the building. There were 43 families living in the apartment-house, but so far as the police can learn none of them had re ceived threatening letters, and the rea son of the bomb-throwing is a mystery. The only clew is furnished by a bellboy of a nearby apartment-house. He said that Immediately before the explosion he was sitting on the front steps and saw three men pass. They were carrying a small bundle and walked in the direction of Watts Court, where the bomb later exploded. The boy did not see the men enter the building, as an express wagon shut off his view, but a moment later he heard the crash of the explosion, the force of which threw him from his chair and an instant later three men ran swift ly down the street. Almost directly across the street from Watts Court Is the old Watts Manor House, which Is occupied by Mrs. Mary B. Plnckney, SO years old, one of the heirs of the Watts estate. The block In which the explosion occurred is occupied by high-class apartment-houses. Detec tives say that if It proves to be an at tack by members of the Black Hand it will be the first of the kind in New York directed toward the wealthier class of residents. CREMATED WITH 0 L DIES UNDER FALSE NAME Hartridge's Wife Hurried From Pittsburg for Burial. prTTgBURG, July IS. After an illness of 10 days in the Homeopathic Hospital, this city, Mrs. Clifford W. Hartridge, wife of the New York attorney who defended Harry K. Thaw, died Monday of cerebro spinal meningitis. That same evening the body was shipped to Canton, N. Y., the home of her parents. The superintendent of the hospital says she was brought there under another name. Only after death was her identity made known. She was visited almost daily by her mother and brother, who were with her whin she died. Dr. Z. T. Miller, who at tended Mrs. Hartridge, refuses to talk about the case. While much mystery surrounds the ill ness of Mrs. Hartridge, her death clears up the mystery of her disappearance from New York during -the latter part of the Thaw trial. Her relatives refused to dis cuss her disappearance and friends said at the time that her married life was happy. The first publicity of her disap pearance followed a report to the New York police -on October S. It wai said at the time that Mrs. Hartridge had de- eloped a nervous affection. Ship Subsidy Worts Well. SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. W. Cam eron Forbes, a member of the Philip pine Commission, arrived here on the steamship Korea, accompanied by Jose Ruis de Leueiiaga, a member of the commission, both on a six months leave of absence. Speaking of conditions in the Islands, Commissioner Forbes said: "Transportation was the big " problem that faced the commission when it took charge of the islands. By means of a subsidy we have built up an inter-island merchant marine of which we feel proud. The commission assists the private ship owner to the extent of $100,000 a year. Our waterways are being put into good shape. Railroad development is slow, but when the roads planned and in course of construction have been built, we will have opened up a wide stretch of terri tory. We are getting good roads gradu ally. We need them probably worse than anything else. "The islands are in fine shape, and the experiment of letting the people govern themselves is a success as far as it has gone." Canadian Paclflo Excursion. On July 22, 23, August 6, 7, 21 and 22. the Canadian Pacific will sell round trip excursion tickets to Eastern points at very low rates. For rates and fun par ticulars apply at local office, 142 Third street. Horrible Death of Two Men in California Field. WHOLE COUNTRY AFLAME Rosenthal's windows are money-savers. Four Tanks in Succession Explode, Scattering Burning Fluid Afar. Flames Eat Railroad and Creep Underground. SANTA BARBARA, Cal.. July 16. Two men are dead and property valued at about $100,O0 was destroyed as the re sult of a fire in the Santa Maria oil fields at Orcutt, the principal pumping and shipping station of the Union Oil Company arid the Standard Oil Company, today.' The lire is still raging, but It is believed this evening that the town can be saved from the flames. Four huge tanks, holding 35,000 barrels of oil each, have been consumed. Men Cremated Alive. In the explosion of one tank, two workmen, who were fighting the Are in an effort to keep it off the pumping sta tion, were overwhelmed with boiling, burning oil and one was instantly killed and his body consumed by the flames. The other was rescued by co-workers, but, crazed with pain and blinded by the oil, he broke from his rescuers and rushed madly back into the burning oil. The dead men are L L. Stevens and Frank Curtis, both employed by the Union Oil Company. The Are started at midnight last night, presumably from crossed electric wires, which ignited a shack near one of the tanks. Soon the oil was boiling over and explosion followed explosion. The tank parted at the seams, throwing scalding oil many yards about. For five hours the fire-fighters kept the flames confined to the first tank, but soon the burning oil began flowing over and around the other tanks, until four were on Are. The river of burning oil spread to the pumping plant, which was dam aged to the extent of $20,000. Flames Eat Up Railroad. A tank car on the Pacific Coast Rail road caught fire and the flames spread along the track, the ground being satu rated with oil until ties and bridges were allburned out and the rails were warped and broken by the intense heat. The boiling oil soon entered the pipe lines, and underground explosions followed. Many thousand barrels of oil in the pipes were destroyed. Embankments to prevent the further spread of the oil are now being thrown up. The Are will seriously Interfere with shipments of oil from these fields, as it is estimated it will take three months to repair the damage to the pipe lines and pumping stations Troops Start for Wyoming. SALT LAKE, July . 15. 8ix hundred men and 30 officers of the Fifteenth In fantry, U. S. A., left here in three special trains over the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad this morning for Colo rado Springs. They will detrain there and begin their 206-mile march overland to Camp Emmett Crawford, Wyoming, there to unite with 9000 regulars and guardsmen In the 19th Army maneuv ers. Colonel Waters Scott is in command. MANY VISIT OYSTER BAY Henry Reuterdahl, Critic of Navy, Among President's Guests. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 15. Presi dent Roosevelt spent this forenoon with Henry Reuterdahl, the marine artist, who accompanied the battleship fleet on Its voyage around Cape Horn and who made several criticisms of the battleships. With Mr. Reuterdahl came John Wil liams, labor commissioner of the State of New York. Other guests of the Pres ident, among them several African trav elers. Included C. A. Moore, Charles Scrlbner, W. F. Whltehouse, Jr., P. Madlra, F. D. Milet, Charles F. Booker, Republican National committeeman from Connecticut, and Henry Falrchlld Osborn. AU remained as luncheon guests of the President. In the afternoon the President devoted some time talking with the African travelers. T ACT SEEK WILSON MURDERERS Detectives Follow Clews Found in Voluminous Correspondence. PHILADELPHIA, July 15. An inves tigation along new lines has been begun In the case of Dr. William H. Wilson, who was kL'.'ed by drinking poisoned ala. This new move was made after the District Attorney's office had read many of the 1500 letters found in Wilson's office. The majority of these letters came to Wilson from women patients, and detectives have been sent to various cities to run out new cn.es with the hope that in tho corre spondence) lies the solution of the mysteri ous case. Former patients of the murdered man will be visited by the detectives and no effort will be spared to shed some lisht which will lead to the arrest of the sandor of tlis poisoned ale. John Hays Hammond III. GLOUCESTER, Mass., July 15. John Hays Hammond, the mining expert, is at his residence here recovering from a se rious illness caused by eating lobster, ac cording to a statement given out by the family today. Mr. Hammond became ill the day after his return from the funeral of former President Cleveland and for several days was confined to his bed. He Ignorant of Agrax Case. WASHINGTON. July 15. A dispatch re ceived at the State Department today from Mexico City says nothing is known there of the reported hold-up and robbery at Purnandoro, Mexico, of Salvador Agrax, of San Jose, Cal., which was called to the attention of the authorities yesterday. Best the World Affords. "It gives me unbounded pleasure to recommend Bucklen s Arnica Salve," says J. W. Jenkins of Chapel Hill, N. C. -I am convinced It's the best salve the world affords. It cuted a felon on my thumb, and It never falls to heal every sore, burn or wound to which it is applied. 25c. at Woodard, Clarke A Co.'s drug store. EXPLAIN OR APOLOGIZE FOR INSULT TO BLUEJACKETS. Acting Secretary of Navy Writeg Cold Letter to Business Men's Association. NEW LONDON, July 15. Acting Sec retary of the Navy Newberry has writ ten a letter to A. T. Miner, president of the New London Business Men's Asso ciation, in regard to the recent refusal of the dancing privileges at a local pa vilion to men wearing the uniform of the United States Navy. In the letter he says : "It being apparent, under the exist ing circumstances, that enlisted men of the Navy, although sober and Well-behaved, are being discriminated against by at least one part of the public enter tainment at New London, it only re mains for the Navy Department to trans fer those headquarters of the squadron to some port where the men will be made welcome on their own account, in spite or the fact that they wear the honorable ' uniform of service in the United States Navy, or where they are protected by the law from humiliation such as was ex perienced in this case. "In view of your letter, however, the Department will defer action in the mat ter, awaiting some reply to this letter which may enable the Department to take other than the Indicated action." ROSES WANTED FROM PRIVATE YARDS OR GARDENS Any person who has rose bushes bearing Richmond, Liberty, Kil larney, Kaiserine and Nephitos rosea can sell us their rosebuds at good prices. Even a dozen roses will be called for. Write us stat ing what kind of roses you have, how many bushes, and how many a day or week you will sell. Our representative will call for roses. Address box 75, Oregonian.