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FAMILY SPURNS ACCUSED -SLAYER Testimony Is Dark for Young Robbins, for Even Sweet heart Deserts Him. THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1909. REMANDED TO GRAND JURY Prisoner Breaks Sullen Silence and Admits Semblance of Guilt. Views Dead Body Without Quiver Is in Dalles Jail. Continued from First Pase.) a box factory there. I could not find her and tried to locate a family named Patterson, who picked berries for my father. I could not find either, so re- j turned to Portland and was arrested i the Jail when told the privilege would lie allowed them. And to crown the hard feellnps voiced ajralnst'the alleged murderer, his 15-ear-oUl sweetheart, meeting him on the way to the under taking parlors, said: "George, you can take your watch hack." 'Never mind now. Glace," he said,, "return it to me alnr." Crime Was Bloodless. Four Important points developed to day in ths Hood River bloodless mur der case bloodless, for, despite the atrocity of the crime, not a drop of the aged victims Mood was siied in the struggle that ended in her death. In vestigation by the Coroner and District Attorney Wilson proved that a stone had not been wielded in beating the woman to doalh, us first reported, her fatal injuries consisting of a shattered windpipe caused by choking, and a crushed chest, evidently administered by the murderer, who apparently knelt on her breast as he clutched her about the neck. Fill her Cleared of Suspicion. A second new feature was the an nouncement by District Attorney Wilson that William Bobbins, the employer of the woman murdered, was in no way con nected with the crime. Although weak suspicion for a time hinted at a possiblo pact between him and his son to make away with his housekeeper this suspicion was dispelled by a neighbor who testi fied Kobbins. Sr.. pleaded with Mrs. t'asto to accompany l.im to town when he had received the fnke message tell ing him his daushter from Goble would meet him at the depot. With these points two others were brought out, one by the prisoner's father Hnd the second by young Robbins him Kt'lf In attempts at defense. Kobbins, .Sr.. declared he could not convince himself that his son was in nocent but believed he was entitled to the investigation of an accident theory At his home he pointed to the steps lead ing to .Mrs. t'astoe's room as being wobbly nnd declared a crushed weed nearby might be evidence of the woman having fallen in mounting or descending the stairs. He also seized upon a sanguinary-looking red spot on the porch intimating that the woman in reaching her room after her fall stained her path with blood. The red smotch proved to be a strawberry stain and two doctors who held the post mortem examination de clared it would have been impossible for the woman to hnvo walked after receiv ing the injuries that ended her life. Prisoner Accuses Woman. Young Robbins- only point of defense is that his fathers fourth wife, who is separated from him and lives about a mile from the Robbins' home threatened hist berry-picking time" to kill Mrs (astoe for usurping lijr place in the Rob bins household. Tis accusation is siU!id L,is"r,ct Attorney Wilson. Mierlrr Morse and mr.ny neighbors of Rohhlns. who Intimate It would have been Impossible for Mrs. Robbins to visit the Robbins home on the afternoon of the murder without their knowledge 111 any event the testimony adduced shows that young Kobbins tied his team in a thicket within a stones throw of the scene of death and was absent from the rig more than ten minutes during the time the murder Ik supposed to have been committed. One neighbor living in a tent nearby testified that Robbins drove past her excitedly and whipped up his horse to gain Methodist lane, the highway he is said to have followed in returning to town after his alleged crime. "rom tho testimony given against me this morning. It certainly seems a case, of guilt." was the opening statement of young Robbins In the first interview given since his arrest in Portland. Prisoner Says Tlicy I.ied. To you mean to say everv man and woman who testified against you this morning lied?" he was asked. 'I do." he replied. "they all lied, except Hill (larger, and he was mistaken when he said I -jerked- when told 1 was accused of murder." Minus the questions that evoked answers as to his movements on and before the day of the murder, the interview was as follows: I hired the rig in the afternoon before 1 o'clock and started out to visit a girl friend of mine who lives In the Crapper School district. She has my watch and 1 wanted to get It. On the way to her home 1 took the Christian Church road and passed Brayford's Btore, but I did not get out and telephone, as he and his wife say I did. I drove slowly to where the girl lived and finally changing my mind to let her have the watch until the Fourth. I drove back to the livery stable and turned in the rig, reaching there about 5 o'clock." 'You got off at Urayford's about 1 o'clock when you phoned, didn't you?" Prisoner Contradicts Himself. "It was about that time" "Kut you said you did not enter Brav. ford's." Well. 1 meant 1 passed Brayford's about 1 o'clock." This contraction Is characteristic of many he made throughout his denial of the murder. He continued: "I have nothing to owu up to. If they hang me they will kill an Innocent man. It will all come out later. A man did not do the killing, it was a woman a member of our family, and I can bring a woman witness who will swear she heard tho other woman threaten last berrv pleklng time to kill Mrs. Castoe. I will not say yet that I accuse my father's last wife. "1 always got along fine with Mrs. Castoe and she and I were like mother and son. Hanging Is too good for the person who killed her. I accounted to the men who arrested me for every cent they found on me. I never knew Mrs. Castoe to keep money about her clothes and if I did 1 would not touch it.' Took Trnln at Hood River. "I did not hobo from The Dalles to Portland as arakeman said I did fter 1 turned In the rig I got Rus.-el Clark to go to the depot with me and told him I would be buck Sunday or Monday. . "When I arrived In Portland I went to St. John to look up a widow friend of mine. Mrs. Bert Thauer. who works In early in the afternoon." " HAY FORCES WILL .NDTCOMPROMISE Conference for Passage Palmer Bill Fruitless at Olympia. of Robbins is deathly afraid that Dis- ! trict Attorney Wilson plans to have him i hypnotized and when this course was ' broached, he sat up in his bunk, paled i and declared he would kill the hypnotist I who would dare to get him under his I spell. ! Fears to Be Hypnotized. "I am not afraid of telling anything." he said, "but I have heard that people after being hypnotized go crazy, and I do not want that to happen to me." Today for the first time since the mur der of his housekeeper and the subse- j quent arrest of his youngest son charged with the crime. William Robbins gave his opinion of the case. sit r-i nr-r-iiAi- n "It is hard to acknowledge.' said the ALLEN REFUSES TO YIELD aged parent, "but I must say the case : against my son is strong, and I know he I is lying about it. Father Hints at Quarrel. "George has always been a confirmed liar, frequently telling me things about my own affairs' that I knew to .be abso lutely false. As to defending him I feel that I must say I cannot take part. I do not own my farm but control it. and do not feel like sacrificing it for a reck less lad. Of course I can't say George killed Mrs. Castoe, and when you see the house and hear what I have to say you may have little doubts too. They say that my son was the only one at the house or at least on my property be tween 4 and 6 o'clock the afternoon of the murder. That is not so, as Chance Maynard, adistant relative, works within 200 yards of my house, and I know he and Mrs. Castoe quarreled a few days before over money affairs and an insult ing story repeated by Maynard. "My fourth wife had nothing to do with the murder and has not eet her foot in my home since we agreed to separate. She and I are the best of friends and when I assured her Mrs. Castoe was merely my housekeeper end had not taken her place in my home she was satisfied and never made complaint to amount to anything, although she was sure mad at first. That stone found In Mrs. Castoe's room was left there by her as a doorstop and did not figure in the murder." Wliere Did Prisoner Get Money? Complete as the case seems to be, where young Robbins got the Sl'50 found In his possession at the time of nis arrest has not been clearly settled and may continue to be a disputed point to the end, owing to the involun tary burning of a woolen skirt the murdered woman wore at the time of the crime. This skirt, say her relatives living in Hoed Klver and Columbus, Wash., bore all the money-she had not banked. Mrs. Castoe was an eccentric woman whose main hobby was the hoarding of money and collecting scraps of every nature. Among the pack of trash left behind by the woman and buried as If an at tempt were made to conceal them were two bank books and a certificate of de posit for S300. One of the bank books shows the deposit of $300 in the First National Bank of Hood River, and the other credits her with S430.43 in the State Bank of Ramona, Oklahoma. The murdered woman was born In Knoxville, Tenn., bein? at the time of her death 61 years 2 months and 5 days old. She lived most of her life in Adams County, Illinois, where, by an accident never referred to by her, her left hand was broken, crippling her for lire. The Robbins home Is situated about three miles from Hood River in the Bar rett district, and is reached by travers ing winding roads, which make the trip fully and hour and a half from town. Two hundred feet from the house is the only uncleeared spot of the whole district. It was here that young Robbins' buggy was seen tied to a pine tree during the time the murder was supposed to have been committed. Woman Saw Robbins' Bugg-y. Mrs. Mary Anderson living in a tent but a few steps from this thicket testified she saw Robbins enter the secluded spot and upon her return from Grange Park with her children a few minutes later saw the horse tied up waiting for its driver. Mrs. Louise Norders, the neighbor having the only telephone in the vicin ity, testified to receiving a message from an unknown man requesting her to in form Robbins, Sr. his daughter would expect him at the depot between 4 and 6 o'clock. Mrs. Harmer testified she saw Robbins driving about the vicinity of the murder, as if waiting for some reason or another. Russell Clark, a youth, testified Robbins falsified in saying part of the $250 In his possession when arrested belonged to him. Young Robbins' testimony that he had earned the money and had received part of it from friends indebted to him was shattered by the testimony of E. Bray ford and others, who asserted Robbins but a week ago declared he was broke. Last October the accused murderer was arrested for forging a check for 2S, and Boon thereafter he was again in the toils for raising a bank check from a minor sum to $130. The youth's aged father and brothers came to his assistance in both these difficulties, and after he confessed the wrongdoing, he was given his freedom after a warning. BALLOON TOSSED BY GALE Aeronauts Almost Freeze at Alti tude or 10,000 Feet. ST. LOUIS, June 29. Whipped help lessly to and fro by a 60-mlle gale in a dense, black storm cloud, 10,000 feet above the earth, John Berry and M A. Hetmann today were very near death. Berry, winner of the Indianapolis dis tance cup. and Helmann, who is seeking a balloon pilot's license, ascended In the balloon Melba shortlv after noon They were carried swiftly to an altitude of 10,000 feet into a thunder storm. Here the frail bag was dashed about by a hurricane. At times the balloon lay on a level with the basket as the wicker was pitched high up by the wind. The two men. coatless and freezing, threw out all ballast, yet the balloon would not as cend. Berry climbed aloft on the frail cords and tied the appendix, but in spite of this the bag telescoped and the bal loon came down as a parachute. They landed safely. Describing his experi ence. Berry said: "When we entered the storm cloud at a height of 10.000 feet the atmos. phere was so black we could scarcely see the swaying bag above us. The feeling of being carried helplessly toward -what appeared to be certain destruction was one I hope never to ex perience again. After we entered the cloud we were In a cold, penetrating mist which nearly froze us. "Although we tried several times to go above or below the storm, the air pressure around us held us firm. The gale whipped the bag from side to side. "When the wind would strike the bag and send It to one side it would force the gas out of it, and we lost fully half of our gas in this way." ' Early Caldwell Resident Die.. CALDWELL. Idaho. June 29. (Spe cial.) P. J. Fahy. who died here this morning of Bright's disease, was one of the first locators In this city. Born in County Roscommon. Ireland. 1844, he came to America in 1852 and to Caldwell In 1SS3. He leaves two sisters and one brother. Ruth Wants to Divide Members of Probe Committee and Governor Favors Move, but Suppor- ters Are Stubborn. OLYMPIA. Wash.. June 29. (Staff Cor respondentsAttempts at a compromise which would dispose of J. H. Shlvely by abolishing his office as State Insurance Commissioner, and would bring the pres ent special session of the legislature to a quick termination, failed today through the indisposition of the administration forces to go into the deal. Negotiations have been carried on with the foregoing end in view between A. S. Ruth, president of the Senate, on the one side, and Senator J. D. Bassett, of Adams County, an administration man. In these conferences, T. Dockwell and G. Frost, members of the State Tax commission represented the governor. Ruth Would Divide Committee. Ruth's proposition was that an investi gatinj committee be appointed, the pres ent committee to continue the work of in vestigating the state officers and a new committee to investigate the' state in stitutions. Ruth offered to divide evenly the Senate appointees en the new com mittee between the two factions, and to submit the names to the House adminis themn aders betor finally appointing k.u01"6 J?asssase of the Palmer House bill abolishing the Insurance Commission er s office, Ruth would not pledge his own vote or that of nnv hi- ia Juyuvjl tela, LI U t agreed to submit the names of several .c.iUia who were known to be some what favorable to the plan, and to re lease them from a-nv x , by himself against the Palmer bill. House Members Are Opposed. Governor Hay, it is said, agreed to the plan provided the members of the pres ent Investigating committee would do so but Chairman F T. nun i vigorous opposition to the compromise. u nig wie appointment of two committees would be a slap at the present one. . Senator Fishback, the other Senate member, was favorable. The general terms of the proposed compromise were also submlttted to F. C. Jackson, House member from King County, who polled the House and found the majority of the members ortnoerl ia it- Tv, , . a iian la aiow practically abandoned. une outcome of the negotiations, how ever. Is the understanding that Ruth shall remain undisturbed as presiding officer in the impeachment trial and he will call lawyer members of thf! Senate to preside at least half of the time and pass the honor around among them. Schively's Friends Make Bids. As a side issue, a proposition is said to have been put up to the Governor and Tax Commission through Senator' Will iams, of King, that two additional votes for the Palmer bill would be delivered If S. A. Madge, Schively's deputy, would be retained in office after the Tax Commis sion assumes control of the department, as provided in the Palmer bill. Frost and Rockwell refused to retain Madge. J. O'B. Scoby, now a Portland lawyer, but formerly a political power in Olympia and this state, and a former partner of Madge In the newspaper business, .is here today attempting to have Madge retained. With negotiations for a compromise practically off, plans are being made in the Senate for the impeachment trial. The administration forces tonight have outlined a programme which provides for the beginning of the impeachment trial next Wednesday. The assumption Is taken that the House and Senate will adopt the report of the committee on articles of impeachment tomorrow, and send the report and the committee of managers to the bar of the Senate. A summons for Schively will immediately issue, under the terms of this programme, and he will be given one day to plead' The House and Senate will then adjourn until next Wednesday. Ixmg Adjournment Wanted. - It is not altogether certain that this programme can be carried out, as some of the members think Schively should be given more time to plead and also more time to prepare for trial. A re cess adjournment of not less than 20 days Is suggested by Graves, of Spo kane, while one or two members sug gest 30 to 40 days. Opposition to a long adjournment will be made on the ground that the per diem of the mem bers of the Legislature will run during the recess adjournment. The administration forces propose holding night sessions and closing up the case with dispatch. Some of Schively's close advisors are known, to be urging him to resign, but his attorney, George C. Israel, is not one of them. Governor Hav said to day that if Schively tendered" his resig nation he would not accept it unless requested to do so by the Legislature. MAY A5IEXD CIGARETTE LAW Permission to Smoke Likely to Be Granted by Solons. OLYMPIA. Wash., June 29. (Staff Correspondent.) An attempt is to be made to change the anti-cigarette law, which, as amended in the criminal code adopted In the regular session this year, makes possession of "the makings" a misdemeanor. The change proposed Is an amendment which will make possession of cigarette papers or cigarettes "with intent to sell give away or distribute" only unlawful! This would leave the anti-cigarette law of this state practically as It was before the criminal code was adopted, and would have the effect simply of prohibiting the sale, but not the smoking. Investigations made today in the Sec retary of State's office reveal that the ban now on cigarettes crept into the code through an error of the Senate enrolling committee. The section of the code as it actually passed the Senate reads as fol lows: "Elvery person who shall manufacture, sell, give away or distribute or have in his possession with intent to sell, give away or distribute any cigarettes, cigar ette papers or cigarette wrappers shall be guiity of a misdemeanor." Through inadvertence of the enrolling clerks the words "with intent to sell, give away or distribute" following the word "possession" were left out and the bill in that form was signed by the Governor. Under the rulings of the Supreme Court of this state the court will not go back of the record, and the law as it was signed is in force. Members who are strongly opposed to the sale of cigarettes believe that the section in its present form is un constitutional and that if the matter were brought to a legal test the state . would have no valid anti-cigarette law except that found in another section of the code, which prohibits the sale of tobacco' in any form to minors. . The object of the movement started to day is to save the anti-cigarette section and an agreement has practically been reached among the Senate members to re store the section to its original form and to reiuse to reopen any other phase of the cigarette controversy. A big round zero represents the actual work done by the Legislature today. The House convened at 10 A. M. and upon an nouncement that the impeachment com mittee would not have the charges ready for presentation until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, adjourned until that time. The Senate met in the morning and ad journed until 2 P. M. to await a report from the House. In the afternoon an im mediate adjournment was taken upon convening until 11:30 tomorrow. Senator Hutchinson gave further notice of a motion to reconsider the vote by which hla "scatter-gun" resolution, pro viding for three investigating committees, was lost. AT THE HOTELS. The Portland Miss Hasemeler. Lincoln; J. Lawsen and wife, Milwaukee; B. C. Kahn, Chicago; F. 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Or.; Misses Casassa, ban Francisco; G. K. McGregon, Mosier; H. P. Gagnon. Minneapolis, Minn ; Mrs. L. Biggs. The Dalles; Charles Foyston. ban Francisco; W. J Lunge E W Battel Walla Walla;' C. F. Benson and wi?5 Munewaukun N. D. ; Joseph Schafer, Eu ?ir ri -U,K- JV'enert- J- F. Wienert. Alrlie; f' E y' Kels: - F. Mullin, San Fran cisco; Margaret Calahan. Mildred Calahan. Medforti; Lmma Blau, Dubuque, la.; W. H Fi'Siieand ,?'"? Rseburg. Or. ; E. G. Rob bins, Olive Neal, Myrtle Point; L. W. Rieh Tn?n' f,a!vm;,.Jonn Kelley, T. L. Kelley, Illinois; B E. Mating, c. Walker, Portland! Stine', Eusene; Lynn B. Targason, Newberg; Mrs. B. c. Williamson. Perl Wil liamson. Corvallls; Mrs. I. M. Mills. Albany; Miss Madge Mills, Albany;, c. W. Thompson New York; L. S. Finseth. Dallas. Or Mrs iV i-UDen5flav' and son- Council. Idaho; M7,' Biggs, J. M. Mills. Prinevllie; Nell Magndon, Neppner; J. M. Neil. Oreanol Idaho; E. H. CallUfchan. H. C. Callaghan; ?-hlfrleS Hannum. C. Hannum. Grass aliey; J. F. Spencer, G. Spencer and wife Randolph: W. Love. San Raphel; E ?? ' ;. Smo,ots' Hoquiam; A. L. Reed and aV !?' Lake:B- F' Wat kins. Gresham; M. p. Hogan, Enide; C. Jansen, city; F Mc- Mi,'ianTj Vn.C2ver,: E' Merriss. Columbia Cl.V' ?' Kartn' Yankton: A. 'Peterson ami wife, castle Rock; J. c. Wise, city; A. O Kruse and wife. Castle Rock; J. Burbee Santa Cruz; H. Hedges. Bend; G. J. Delano and wife city; Mrs. H. A. Lamb and boS, Woodland; A. Martin. Seattle- Mrs - A J Pettelkan and family. Carrollton ; ' C ' h' "r ild fainy- Felida; J. M. Eaton and .ami.y, Shaniko; J. H. Stipp. Pendleton: J. B. Slasher. Dufur; J. J. Fitzgerald. De troit; c W Smutz. Eugene; J. Stonebraker and wife. Clay City; Miss W. Gates. Cor sJHs; L Munsell and wife. Miss Munsall Eugene; O. J. Plus. Aberdeen; A. G Ander son. R. Hanson, O. C. Hanson. H. Thomn son. Starbuck; M. Gaynor, Denver: L L Reed, H. P. Piatt, Rainier; G. Eppermeyer Bandon: A. Gray, Skamokawa: L L SDeari' Ft. S. Clark, city; T. C. Godfrey. Molfe?: T urk W- Cur'' Q Hagserty, Lyle: Mri L. R. Boyer and child. Salem; F. Sheehy J. J. Hagmann. Newberg; W. E CrVsweli Gresham: G. A. .Bellenger, Kalama; E Dixon, Elk City. ' The Nortosilar F. O. Kehxbel and wife. OF THE ENTIRE STOCK OF The contract has been let and the workmen are to begin right away REMODELING the entire interior and exterior of our store from wall to wall; from basement to roof. EVERV COUNTER, EVERY FLOOR, EVERY CASE to be torn up, remodeled and replaced with new material throughout. HS"ln order that the workmen may go on with their work undisturbed and complete same AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, therefore, we have decided to Sacrifice Our Entire , Stock At 9 o'clock this morning the Big Bombard ment begins COR. FOURTH AND MORRISON Shelda; Robert Wakelm. Seattle; James Watson, Laramie. Wyo. : Miss Jane Watson, Laramie, Wyo.; Miss CConnell and sister, Vancouver; I. A. Roble, Grants Pass; Mrs. H. A. Holmes, Corning, Cal. ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Evans. New York; Myron W. Hayes. Philadelphia. Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Grant, Tacoma, Wash.; Jonathan Moorce, P.. C. Booth and family, Berkeley, Cal.; J. E. Bullock, Mrs. Bullock, Miss Bullock, Chi cago; L. E. Williams, Minneapolis; M. J. Sullivan, Spokane, Wash.; Bill Dew. Chey enne, Wyo.: A. W. Weitmann. Chicago, 111.; P C. MacFarlan, Kansas City; E. T. Rice, Bancroft, Neb.; L. E. Gerry. Minneapolis, Minn.; J. E. Balllie. Minneapolis. Minn.; C. M. Garnell, L. E. Williams. Spokane, Wash.; A. T. Sanderson, Deadwood. S. D. ; G. L Gray, wife and son. Spokane; Edith Gillens worth, Seattle; A. J. Dooley and wife, Boise, Idaho; E. R. I.ampson and son. Baker City- V. L. Thompson and wife. Butte. Mont.; Miss Alice Doorins. San Francisco, Cal. : A. T. Alvord. Dawson, Alaska; M. M. Muratt. Bullfrog, Nv. ; C. J. Hicks and wife. Hunt ington, Or.; A. M. Robles, Pendleton, Or.; v. L Vlrin and family, Seattle, Wash. The Cornelius C. C. Gilbert. Seattle: J. A. Garrott, Cananla; S. A. Qulnn. Kala mazoo: F. A- Neubaner. T. T. Flnrihntn , many; John W. Cobb, wife and child, Buf- ia.irj, o. o. jiaiicn. wire ana son, cold water. Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Long, Taylorville; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Riley. Los Angeles- Horace S. Clark. San Francisco; W. P. Campbell. Chemawa; W. P. Phillips. San Jose; Judson N. Cornish, Seattle; Rals ton D. Bridges. Drain; Rev. G. E. White house, Mrs. Whitehouse, Washington, D. C. ; R. G. Hersh, city; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Browning. Baker City; Mrs. H. A. Brandon. San Francisco; D. Lloyd and wife. New York; the Misses Cassasa, San Francisco P. H. Dunn. Texas; Mrs. W. F. McGregor Jessie Kelmon, Astoria: Geo. W. Allen, Hood River: Mrs. O. A. Yurha. San Francisco: C T. Belcher, Collins Hot Springs; B. Vandecar and wife. Balem; Mrs. M. H. Bremner. 6e attle; ,T. D. Gulss, Portland; W. A. Wiley & Son, Hlllsboro; W. V. Hawklna. tcw York; F. J. Collins, Madison; J M7waJteZ city. ' TheseDon't fflllll ill illlllli iio !&ft!iJ ll!lllillli;BlMlft:; itefi!f!llM ltliiiF Look much like the JUMPING JACK styles of garments you see around town. Evidently they are not, for we manufacture them right here. "Suits, Coats and Skirts, from the best of merchant-tailor material. Never water spot, rip or shrink. If you are inter ested to the extent of wanting honest material and m n i p p-armpnto wo ! them. If we don't have your size in wrock, will make vou one NO EXTRA CHARGE. "No cost unless satisfactory. AGHESON Cloak and Suit Co. liS fifth Street 1 jrVl 1 i-.i 1 r V-1 - ! I 3 You Will Need an Oil Stove f When warm days and the kitchen fire make cookingraburden rh is me nme to rry a iNew Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove. Marvelous how this stove does awav with kitchen discomforts h cool it keeps the room in comparison with condi tions when the coal fire was burning. The EGTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove n the only oil stove built with a CABINET TOP for holding plates and keeping food hot after cooking. Also has useful drop shelves on which t stand the coffee pot or teapot after removing from burner r ltted with two nickeled racks for towels. A marvel of comfort. simplicity ana convenience. JVlade in three sizes with or without Cabinet Top. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. fcimiwh aMil viz?? y h iu-f n b- a 't:f:nu- Y I hi mr every one wants hand some enough for the parlor; strong enough for the kitchen, camp or cottage; bright enough for every occasion. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. Standard Oil Cenpay Three Trains Daily THE ORIENTAL LIMITED THE SOUTHEAST EXPRESS THF FAST mutt iiwi iu.ruii frrSiipj;:,!:-.'' EASTERN EXCURSION RATES .1 1 1 Ixr O r js . . - J -- august l"ul. MinDrinollL T. 1?-60;...Bn nnd return. $11Sl50: St. d brnilSS1', ""' W""'"., K"" City. St. Joepli ""Ule "": either tU Beittle or " THE SPOKANE, PORTLAND & SEATTLE RY. THE NORTH BANK ROAD) e "1'r?L.C.0'S'; "a TlUh?r TaT- Fu" Information eoncernlnc tick- K. IMckson. City Fauensrer and Ticket A rent. 122 Third trr-r. Portland Or. . Telephones Main e0i A SZttS. J- V