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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1909)
THEATER WILL BE BUILT FOR BAKER New Home for Stock Com pany Will Involve Expendi ture of About $150,000. FUNDS ARE ALL SECURED Bungalow Players Will ;o on Road and Syndicate A I trad ions Will Occupy Morrison-Street House Vntll January 1. Portland Is to witness the construction f two new, modern, up-to-date theaters In this city in the next half year. In addition to the new He-llig at Seventh and Taylor streets, another playhuse is to he built as the permanent home for the linker Stock Company. George I.. Baker, manager of this popular organiza tion of thesplans. has practically com pleted negotiations whereby local capi talists are to erect a modern theater tinder a 25-year lease in a central loca tion. This theater, including tho Kite, will represent an Investment of about Jl.Wioo. Tresent plans contemplate that both buildings will lie completed and ready for occupancy January 1 next. "AH of the details incident to the lease and construction of a new home for tile Baker Stock Company have been agreed upon." said ManaRer Baker last night, "t'ntil the papers have been signed, how ever, I do not wish to announce the lo cation of the new playhouse or the names of the parties from whom the lease has been obtained. The lease will be signed ome time this week, probably tomor row." ' naker Company on Koad. Another announcement of importance in local theatrical circles was made by Manager Baker yreterday. Negotiations have been concluded between Calvin Heilig and John Cort with Manager Baker whereby all of the high-class Klaw & Erlanger attractions, which have been booked for this city next season, will be presented in the Bungalow The ater. Manager Baker was authorized to make this announcement yesterday fol lowing a conference between Heilig and Cort at Seattle. The agreement by which Heilig and Cort take charge of the Bungalow will continue until the new Hellig Is completed. Work on this structure, which is to cost $125,000 with out furnishings, will begin August 1 and the contract calls for its completion on the first of the year. In the meantime, the Baker Stock Company, as It is being reorganized for the coming season, will go on tour, visit ing the principal cities of the Pacific Northwest. The company will start at the opening of the season, about Sep tember 1. When the new Hellig is com pleted, the stock company will return to this city, but In all probability it will not again appear at the Bungalow. Man ager Baker confidently expects to be able on their return to open up his new theater. The concession that has been made by Manager Baker is regarded as a Tnag nantmoua act alike by the theater-going public and the local representatives of the Klaw & Erlanger attraction. The Bungalow was the only playhouse In the city available for the production of these big attractions and but for the action of Manager Baker In placing this building at the disposal of Messrs. Hetlig and Cort. It would have been necessary to cancel these bookings and seriously cur tall the feast of good things theatrically promised for this city during the coming season. Agrees to Lease of Theater. "I did not desire to see these hlgh clasa attractions cancelled." said Mana ger Baker last night, "simply because there was no other available theater building In which they could be pre sented. For that reason I have yielded to the requests of Messrs. Heilig and Cort who will present their attractions t the Bungalow until their new theater Is completed. In all probability January 1. next. "For a number of seasons I have re ceived many requests from the principal cities of the Pacific Northwest soliciting an engagement from the Baker Stock Company. Until nqw I have been unable to grant these requests for the reason that they would interfere seriously with my plans. But I can do so now and from September 1, when the season opens, until the new Heilig Is completed the stock company will play these differ ent points. I have every assurance that the new home for this company will be completed simultaneously with the Heilig on January 1. If it should not be com pleted when the Heilig management sur renders possession of the Bungalow, the Baker Stock Company may appear at the Morrisan-street play-house until their new theater is ready." The Imperative need for new theaters In this city was hastened recently by the action of the city authorities. Soon af ter the Heilig theater at Washington and Founteenth streets had been condemned, the City Council passed an ordinance notifying the owners and managers of all frame theaters in the city that all 'such property must be abandoned for theatrical purposes within two years. CIRCUS PARADE TODAY Kvery Performer to Appear In Pageant. The street parade, for which the Hagenbeck-Wallace shows are distin guished, will leave the grounds prompt ly at 10 o'clock. Nearly every perform er in the shows will appear In the parade. The horses never fall to ex cite the admiration of spectators, and most of the animal cages, open, will give an excellent idea of the quality of the menagerie. An unusually large number of elephants and camels will be In line. The Hagenbeck-Wallace menagerie Is perhaps the best ever exhibited in Port land. In the collection are zebras, Ben gal tigers, Huns, emus, monkeys and giraffes. One of the most Interesting animals shows is a giant hippopotamus, the largest living in captivity, and the only blue-faced mandril owned by any circus. Among the chief celebrities to be seen In the performance are the aerial Delno troupe, the Beldlnls. a company present Ins; a number of astonishing equestrian acts; Monsieur and Aladame Tlmlero with their interesting trained dogs and ponies, and the Wallace troupe of high school performing: horses. Other fea tures are: The Deltons, a marvelous group of acrobats: Fred Ledgett and Dollle Julian, premier American eques trians; Fraulein Hilda Hagenheck and her trained parrots and cockatoos: a wonderful group of gigantic polar bears. Bengal tigers riding monster elephants: Arabian stallions, ridden by mii-grown Arrlcan lions; leopards In startling feats of equestrianism: zebras, ridden by English bulldogs, and dog faced baboons controlling and riding Shetland ponies. The performance of the trained wild animals Is one of the most astonishing feats of this aggregation of interesting wonders. This act Is given in a steel cage 40 feet in diameter. In the feats performed by various wild animals sev eral sensational new acts have been in troduced. This section of the shows alone Is considered enough to establish its high standard. The afternoon performance will open at 2 o'clock, the evening performance at 8 o'clock. There will also be an afternoon and evening performance to morrow. The three special trains carrying the Hagenbeck-Wailaee combined shows arrived in Portland yesterday after noon and within a few hours the huge tents were in place on the grounds at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets and the scores of employes were busily en gaged in preparing for the four per formances to be given here, the open ing one of which takes place this after noon at 2 o'clock. TWO OFFIGERS7" CLASH BAILEY AND CASEY ARE HOT OX GOOD TERMS. PnlyCompIete Stock of Btitterick Patterns in the City Principal Agents for "Nemo" Corsets Patrol Clerk. Would Change Reliefs Because He Does Xot Get Along With Captain. Said to have resulted from enmities growing out of departmental politics a clash took place yesterday morning at police headquarters between Captain Bailey and Patrolman Clerk Casey, both of the day relief. Casey Is the Municipal Court bailiff and custodian of the arrest docket and transcript of the Municipal Court under Bailey's di rection. Following the clash, Casey made ap plication to Chief Cox to be transferred to the first night relief as a patrolman. The pay and hours are the same, al though considered not as convenient, and the work is more Irksome. To be changed from patrolman to the position now held by Casey Is considered a promotion in police circles. Casey has held the place four years. Since the change of regime. Captain Bailey has been mentioned as the chief of police detective slated to replace Captain Baty. In fact, this is said to have been definitely decided upon. Baty and Casey are close friends and this is said by Casey to be the cause of Cap tain Bailey's alleged dislike for him. Captain Bailey denies this emphatically and when asked concerning the report ed clash between himself and Casey said: "I never quarrel with anyone." "An Irishman and an Englishman can never get along." said Casey, who talked freely of the trouble between himself and his superior officer. Both are pronounced in their nationalities and are accounted among the most courteous and affable members of the department. Captain Bailey was talked of prominently In connection with the chiefshlp prior to Chief Cox' appoint ment and his proposed selection as chief of detectives is reported to have been the cause of his withdrawal from the race. Casey was assigned by Chief Cox to Captain Moore, of the first night relief, and Patrolman Fones was assigned by Captain Moore to Captain Bailey. It is understood that Captain Bailey will as sign Patrolman Circle to the position occupied by Casey. SPEAKS FOR OLD BOARD RAFFETY EXPLAINS POLICY IN BUYING PARKS. Kx-Commissioner Declares Members Only Carried Out Expressed Desire, of People. In speaking of the attitude of Mayor Simon toward the park question and the policy pursued by the old Park Board, ex-Park Commissioner RaXfety said yes terday: , "I have Just finished reading the arti cle concerning Mayor Simon's policy of retrenchment in the acquisition of parks. The general statement as to the amount of money expended Is correct. As to the matter of stopping further purchase of park tracts, it may be said that the vot ers authorized the Issuance of $1,000,000 of park bonds by a considerable major ity. Thu City Council appropriated $5000 to secure the services of the Olmsteds to outline a plan of parka and boulevards. They did prepare this plan, and received their pay. In accordance with the ver dict of the voters of the City of Port land the old Park Board proceeded to carry cut the orders of the voters. I don't see how the Commissioners could have done othefwise. "The plans prepared by the experts em ployed by the city were being carried out closely by the old Park Board. I see that Mayor Simon proposes to stop the purchase of some of the park tracts in the interest of lntren'chment, namely, tho Montgomery tract In particular. It is my Judgment that the Mayor will hear from the people of Albina on the subject of the Montgomery Park tract. "If we have started on a career of re trenchment, I propose that we retrench in ail directions. For instance, let us hold up the $2,000,000 bonds for the Broad way bridge for several years to come. We can save a lot of Interest money by sim ply not selling the Broadway bridge bonds for the present, and holding them for some future time. The O. R. & N. Com pany will soon erect a bridge wide enough so we can get along without the Broad way bridge, the same as we can get along without the park tracts. The peo ple voted the -Broadway bridge, and so they did the $1,000,000 park bonds- but let us stop the sale of bridge bonds and hold up the construction of that bridge The Mayor thinks the Park Depart ment has been costing more than in for mer years. Of course it costs more now than before. Mayor Simon does not seem to he aware that Portland has been grow ing the past few years-years before he oneUr?te1 PlitiCal " COSts "ore to , departments of the city than it did a few years ago." GRANGE MEMBERS DIVIDED Not of One Mind as to Value of Pat ent Medicines. Before an attendance of nearly 75 mem bers at the meeting of the Lents Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Saturday, W. Jil Young, the lecturer, submitted the ques tion of patent medicines, and read a pa per on "the evils resulting in their use " after which he asked all who had never used patent medicines to rise to fheir feet and none tesponiled. Mr. Young used the tact that practically all present had used patent meiMcine3 to show the extent' of the evils caused by them. " . The subject of patent medicines is now being considered by the Grange, with a vit-w to requiring all bottles and pack ages to have thu formula printed in full on the face of the bottles and packages. The Meier &b Frank Store's Expansion- Altera tlon Sale 75c White Emb. Swiss 50c Yd. 35c White Goods 19c a Yard Best 1 5c Percales at 1 Oc Yard Great offering of 5000 yards white embroidered Swiss, beautiful styles; regular 75c values, on sale at, yard 5000 yards fine mercerized White Goods for waist ings, etc.; an immense variety of styles; 35o vals., yd. 10,000 yards new, high-grade Percales, light and dark colorings, in all the best patterns; 35c values, at, yard 2500 yards Printed Mulls, Lawns and Batistes, best styles and for all purposes; values 15c to 25c yard, at Fine Cut Glass at Low Prices 50c 19c 10c 11c Regular $1.75 Cut Glass Nappies on sale at, each.. 1.39 Regular $2.25 Cut Glass Nappies on sale at, each.. $1.79 Regular $2.50 Cut Glass Nappies on sale at, each.. $1.99 Regular $2.75 Cut Glass Nappies on sale at, each.. $2.19 Regular $3.50 Cut Glass Olive Dishes on sale for, ea. .2.79 Regular $3.25 Cut Glass Oil Bottles on sale for, ea. .$2.59 Regular $10.00 Cut Glass Celery Trays for, each..S7.89 Regular $2.25 Cut Glass Bud Vases on sale at, each.. $1.79 Regular $8.50 Cut Glass Water Pitchers, for, each.. $6.79 Regular $3.75 Cut Glass Water Bottles, for, each. .$2.98 Regular $7.00 Cut Glass Comports on sale for, each.. $5.58 Regular $5.00 Cut Glass Bowls on sale for, each.. $3.99 Regular $12.00 Cut Glass Bowls on sale for, each.. $9.58 Regular $15.00 Cut Glass Bowls, on sale for, each. .$11.95 Regular $20.00 Cut Glass Vases on sale for, each.. $15.95 ale Laces an Embroideries 5000 yards of swiss, nainsook and batiste Embroid ery Bands, Flounces and Edging, iy2 to 18 inches wide, suitable for lingerie waists and undermuslins; designs in Irish, filet and Japanese work. ?Q VALUES UP TO $2.00 THE YARD FOR Oi7C 1500 yards of swiss and nainsook Allover Embroid ery designs, suitable for women's and children's wear; beautiful stvles let us show vou. QQ VALUES UP TO $2.50, FOR, THE YARD OC Closing out all novelty 18-inch Allover Nets and 45 inch Figured Nets; exquisite styles for waists, yokes and sleeves; grand variety; see them. t "I QQ VALUES UP TO $4.00 A YARD AT 'PltlO 18-inch and 45-inch figured and striped Nets; white, white with colored dots, and plain colors for yokes, sleeves, etc.; on sale at the following low prices: $1.50 values, yard, 59 $2.00. values, yard, 79 Entire stock of real Irish Crochet, Cluny and Tor chon Laces, on sale at these greatly reduced prices: 50c values, yard, 42 $1.50 values, yard, $1.19 $1.00 valties, yard, 79 $2.25 values, yard, $1.69 . A Great Sale of Fine Arts and Crafts Rugs 500 new Arts and Crafts Rugs to be sold at an excep tionally low price; beautiful designs and colorings, in artistic effects; blues, pinks, tans, greens, etc.; in three lots," on sale at the following very low prices : Size 27x54 inches, on sale at, special, each, $2.50 Size 30x60 inches, on sale at, special, each, $3.QQ Size 36x72 inches, on sale at, special each, $3.75 Great expansion sale bargains in 'room-size domestic Rugs of all grades, styles and sizes. Third Floor. Great sale of Oriental Rugs Best values in the city. $ 1 .50 Dress Goods 57c Yard $ 1 .50 Tailored Suitings at 98c $ 1 .25 Mixed Suitings 67c Yd. 2500 yards of high-grade Dress Fabrics to be closed out at an extremely low price, the yard; included are wool materials, silk and wool voiles, crepes and etamines, in a good C7 assortment of styles and shades; values to $1.50 yard O I C 2000 yards desirable Suitings for tailored costumes ; Q Q regular $L50 values, on sale at this low price, yard OC 2000 yards of Mixed Suitings in good styles and as- J7 sortment ; best regular $1.25 values, on sale at, yard O C 5000 yards of Mixed Suitings, in checks and stripes; A Q splendid assortment; regular $1.00 values, for, yard Great sale colored Alpaca for bathing suits; brown, A Q navy, red, gray, green; best styles; 65c quality, yardC $2-$20 Curtains at Half Price $3.00 Lace Curtains $1.95 Pr. Great clean-up of odd pairs of Lace Curtains Nottinhams Clunys, Brussels and Battenberg Curtains, only one pair of a kind; slightly soiled and mussed from 1U handling; regular $2.00 to $20.00 values, at 2 MT riCC 2000 pairs Lace Curtains, on good French Nets; QC Cluny and Battenberg edging; $3.00 values, pair P 2000 pairs of cross stripe Madras Curtains, ecru grounds, with brown, green, red, blue and yellow stripes, tf - nn in the new bar effects; regular $2.25 values, pair V Sale of Toilet Articles 19 39 -9 19? ..80 19 12 230 -.40' .40 Pure Bay Rum, 4-oz. bottle, regular 25c value, each.. Robertine Face Powder, regular 50c value, special at.. Regular 15c Whisk Brooms, on sale at this price, each Bath Sponges, regular 25c value, on sale at, special, ea. . Face Chamois, best regular 15c qualitv, on sale at, each 5000 Whisk Brooms, regular 29c values, on sale at, ea. . Metal Rim Stand Mirrors, 25c values, on sale at, each. . 35c Perfume Atomizers, on sale at this low price, ea.. 5000 Toilet Paper Holders, now selling at, special, each 5000 Nickel Coat Hangers, on sale at this low price, ea Great Sale Toilet Paper "Leader" Rolls, each, 3c; dozen, 33c; by the case.. $2.75 Large Okayed Rolls, ea., 6c; dozen, 63c; the case.. $4.98 Small Krecht Rolls, each, 4c; dozen, 43c; the case.. $3.49 Large Krecht Rolls, each, 8c; dozen, 80c; the case.. $6.49 Women's75c Hosiery 38c Pair 2000 pairs of women's imported fancy Lisle Hose, in black, white and all colors; plain gauze lisles, lace boots, embroid ered boots, allover laces; all sizes; immense assort-OQ ment for your selection; 65c and 70c values, pair JOC 1000 pairs women's all-silk-thread Hose, splendid variety of styles and colors; come in all sizes; best regu- 1?1 OQ lar $2.50 values, on sale at this low price, the pair P X.O 2000 pairs women's plain all-silk, full-fashioned Hose, with split lisle foot; tans, bronze, light blue, pink, copen- OQ hagen, etc.; in all sizes; regular $1.50 values, at, pair 07C Portland's Leading Cloak Store 1000 Fine Dress Waists $ 1 4 Vahtes $4.85 Each Sale extraordinary of 1000 fine Dress Waists in Messaline silks, taffeta silks, chiffon cloths and plain and figured nets; fancy yokes of round mesh, venise lace, Maltese lace, filet, Irish crochet, Cluny and baby Irish; also styles with one-inch satin bands; rows of coarse lace, medallions, appliques, solid tucking, etc.; also Dutch necks with crochet collars; in white, cream, rose, taupe, gray, Copenhagen, navy, green, black; immense variety for (PA Or street and dress wear; values up to $14.00, choice, each PQD New lot of 500 Tailored Skirts at a low price panamas, series and alpacas, cut with 7, 9 and 15 gores; also full-pleated effects, button-trimmed; black, navy, gray, reseda, fancy stripes and mix tures; all new, attractive -walking skirts. A special f or purchase enables us to offer values up to $11 at, each Pfr00 Great special reductions on our entire stock of women's Lingerie Gowns, selling regularly at prices over $30.00 each ; batistes, organ dies, mulls, linens and crashes, this season's prettiest 1 A. "S-ff styles ; handsomely made and finished ; your choice at VJil Great reductions on misses' and children's i-length Box Coats, in serges, cheviots and covert cloths ; navy, red, tans, black and white checks and fancy stripes ; best styles for coast, mountain and school wear this Fall season ; ages 6 to 14 years. On sale at these prices Regular $9.00 values at $5.95 Regular $12.50 values at $8.85 Blanket Sale, $4 Vals. $2.95 Pair 1000 pairs of full size light gray Oregon Wool Blankets d O Q r with colored borders; best $4.00 values, on sale at, pair SO Four immense lots of Cotton Camping Blankets in white, tan and gray; best values ever offered at, pair, 75c, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 "Ostermoor" Mattresses $30.00 Values $18.50 Great special offering of 200 of the celebrated "Ostermoor" patent elastic felt Mattresses, in one or two-piece styles; 60 lbs. weight imperial edge, best coverings, patterns and colorings; d1 Q CZf every one fully guaranteed; $30.00 values, at, each f O.Ovl Great Sale of 3-Piece Silk Suits Rajahs, Pongees and Shantungs Reg. $75.00 Values at $38.50 100 magnificent 3-piece Silk Suits in Rajah and Shantung silks, beautiful dress apparel; dresses made in empire or princess styles, elaborately trimmed in silk soutache braid, put on in pattern effect ; dainty lace yokes of gold net with high standing coll ar or finished with Dutch neck and long sleeves, in clusters of tucks. The coats are semi-fitted, braid-trimmed and fasten to the left with three large buttons. The color assortment in cludes tan, rose, reseda, black and gray; every garment beauti fully made and finished; every garment this sea- flJQQ sou's latest fashion; values up to $75.00, at, each p0OU $20 Suits at $ 1 1 .85 $35 Suits at $ 1 7.45 $40 Suits at $22.45 Sweeping reductions on Tailored Suits three immense lots, in serges, panama cloths, cheviots, prunella cloths, tweeds and shepherd plaids; coats made semi or tight-fitting effect, with the three-seam or French back; skirts made full flare or the new full-pleated effect, stitched to the knee then full flare ; navyblueT black, tan, gray, rose, reseda, wistaria, apricot, catawba, also checks and stripes, in large assortment; all new, 1909 suits, hand somely tailored and finished throughout. Styles to please every individual fancy. Values we know positively yon cannot equal elsewhere. All sizes. Let us show you these great bargains in tailored suits! $20.00 values, on sale at, suit, $ 1 1 .85 $35.00 values, on sale at, suit. S17.45 $40.00 values, on Bale at, suit, $22.45 torn i i i - TWO SONS SUICIDES Man Drinks Poison Where Brother Died Recently. KNIFE FAILS, TAKES ACID Gottlieb Spillman, Jr., Quaffs Drug in Barn Where Kinsman Hanged Self Two Months Ago De spondency 13 Cause. Choosing the same spot where his brother took his own life by hanging two months ago, Gottlieb Spillman, Jr., 81 years old, of 41 Davidson avenue, commlted suicide yesterday morning about 9:30 o'clock by drinking car bolic acid. Lying near the body a bloody dagger was found. Investiga tion showed Spillman had attempted to stab himself in the heart. Inflicting only a flesh wound, owing to the dull ness of the weapon, and failing, he re sorted to poison. Spillman .was ailing and despondent for some time and he frequently threat ened to end his life. The body was found lying in the loft of the barn in the rear of the Spillman home. In the same loft Spillman's brother Ernest, younger than himself, two months ago improvised a noose and killed himself by hanging. The body was found a few hours later by Gottlieb Spillman. who took his life in the same place yester day. Thereafter the tragic death of his brother depressed him and he seemed to think constantly of suicide and talked of it continually. Spillman was a son of Gottlieb Spill man, Sr., who came to Portland several years ago with his family from Switzer land. Spillman, Sr., has acquired con siderable money and property and is well to do. owning the home at 41 Davidson avenue, where his sons lived with him. The body was taken in charge by Deputy Coroner Dunning and moved to the Dunning morgue, where it is being held pending funeral arrangements. There will be no inquest. I Rudolph Graf. a close personal friend of Spillman, visited him early yesterday morning at his home and to him Spillman confided his intention of ending his life. Although a close watcn was kept on him he slipped away and sought the loft of the barn, where he accomplished his de sign. The young man's parents, four sis ters and an older brother in Switzer land, are living. The parents are at a loss to account for the suicide of both the young sons and are grief-stricken. It is believed that thoughts of his brother's death so preyed on the mind of Gottlieb that he became demented. GOOD MUSIC INNES' FORTE Space BAD COIN IS MADE Evidence Found of Gang at Work at Coos Bay. Near Bandstand Will Provided for Rigs. Be Some one has said good music - is a powerful tonic to many people, es pecially those suffering from melan cholia. It lifts them out of their solemn moods, dispels gloom and despondency, kills discouraged feel ings and gives new hope, new life and new vigor. It seems to put a great many people Into proper tune. It gives them the keynote of truth and beauty, strikes the chords of harmony, dispels discord from life, scatters clouds and brings sunshine. Good music seems to give us a touch of the divine and to put us in contact with divinity. It drives out evil thoughts, making us ashamed of them. It lifts us above petty annoyances and little worries of life and gives us a glimpse of the ideal which the actual is constantly obscuring. Good music makes up the Innes programmes. They are inspiring and will be of lasting benefit to all who attend the performances at Multnomah Field, Tuesday and Wednesday even ings. July 13 and 14. a. novelty which is already well established in many Eastern cities will be inaugurated here during these concerts. In the open field around the bandstand, which will be erected In front of the grandstand, carriages and automobiles will be per mitted. From these favorable posi tions, in comfortable seats, the con certs ought to be doubly enjoyable. Work on New School Begins. ALBANY, Or., July 11. (Special.) Snook & Traver, of Salem, who secured the contract for the erection of the $50. 000 high school building in this city this Summer, will begin work this week on the excavation for the building. Work on the structure will be carried forward rapidly so that it will be ready for oc cupancy when school opens in Septem ber. The new building will be con structed of pressed brick and will stand on the block bounded by Third, Fourth, Railroad and Jackson streets. ALLEGED AGENT ARRESTED Xj. W. Avery, Captured as He Lands From Steamer Breakwater, Is Suspected Accomplice of Spurious Coin Men. United States Secret Service officials in Portland have unearthed the workings of a gang of alleged counterfeiters which has been operating in the Coos Bay country and as the result of discoveries made during recent weeks caused the ar rest last night of L. W; Avery, 36 years old. an ex-cowboy from Wyoming, as he stepped from the gangplank of tho steamer Breakwater from Coos Bay. Tho gang is said to be a most dangerous and expert one and Is charged with making and passing $10 and $30 gold pieces. Avery Is accused of having been Its agent for "shoving the queer" In North Bend and Marshneld. The man was arrested by two officers detailed from Captain Baty's plain-clothes staff of the Portland police. He was taken to the police station and held there awaiting the action of the Government authorities. The case has been worked up against him by Steve Connell head of the secret service bureau in this city. Connell was unable to be present at tho arrest as he is III. The nature of the evidence against Avery has not yet been made public, but it is said by Mr. Connell to be of such a character as to leave no room for doubt as to his guilt. That other ar rests may follow is very likely as men engaged In this nefarious traffic never work singly and the Government officers are now following clews leading up to the discovery of the remainder of the gang and the location of its plant. An agent for tha Government is now in the Coos Bay district collecting evidenoeand the Portland office may soon be inthe possession of some startling information. Avery had been under surveillance for some time past. He has been living in North Bend and Marshneld since one year ago last December. He was always emnlOVAH 1 ' E Tact TinuUInn V.fn V . n foreman for J. J. Burns, a contractor of North Bend, who was engaged in work at Bay Park, a seaside resort nearby. The amount of the spurious coin put into circulation in this section is not known, but it is feared that the counterfeiters have succeeded in getting out hundreds and perhaps thousands of dollars. Whether the coins have been made in Oregon, or made in some other state and shipped here. Is not now definitely known, but the theory is that they are made in another state. For this reason the Se cret Service men are anxious to maintain a certain amount of secrecy about their case until they have more definite Infor mation regarding the other members of the gang. The Imitation gold pieces are said to so closely resemble the genuine that it would be difficult for the aver age citizen to detect anything wrong, even after an examination of the counterfeit. It was perhaps a significant thing that Avery had $100 in gold in his pocket at the time of his arrest. The police were unable to find any bad coin, either in his pockets or in a grip he carried. Two trunks which came up with him on the steamer, however, have been seized and are being held for the Government offi cials. They will be searched today. According to the theory of the officers. Avery has been selected as one of tho gang because of his innocent record. He is said to have lived all his life in Fre nont County. Wyoming, where his par ents now reside. He came from Wyoming to Oregon. Avery is a big. strong fellow, who stands fully six feet high, and ts of powerful build. He declares that he is innocent of the charge and knows nothing whatever of the counterfeit money al leged to have been passed by him For mal charges will probably be filed against him today. COAST TRAIN KILLS MAN Unknown Leaps In Front of Loco motive Xear Linnton. A man thought to be John Olson, em ployed at the Government moorings near Linnton, though not positively identified, was killed last night about 6:30 o'clock by the westbound train of the Astoria & Columbia Railroad, one mile west of Linnton. From the story told by the conductor of the train, to a man who arrived on tho scene soon after the accident, and who in turn told it to Deputy Coroner Dun ning. Olson evidently came to his death through suicidal intent or because of sudden mental aberration. He was first seen by the engineer walking up the track toward Portland, and when the engine gave a warning whistle, got off on th side. When the train reached a distance of about 20 feet from him. the man Jumped on the track and was struck by the en gine, killing him instantly. Owing to th fact that his face was crushed in an al most unrecognizable manner, it was im possible positively to Identify him last night. The body was seen by fellow-employes, and all said that the dead man looked like Olson. The only mark of identification found on his body was a. knife which bore the monogram "J. O.'" Deputy Coroner Dunning took the bodv In charge and brought it to the morgue here. An Inquest will be held this after noon at o'clock, if all the witnesses can be secured. Olson was a single man, about 36 years old, and had no relatives here. Tortlander at Chicago. CHICAGO. July 11. (Special.) F. G. Sykes, of Portland, registered today at th Congress. MA K ZW OF MENS 231 WASHINGTON ST: PORTLAND OREGON- CLOTHES Write for catalogue and prices oa ewer pipe, chimney pipe, drain tile, water, well and culvert pipe, pipe for septic tanks, etc. OREGON A WASH1XGTOX SEWER PIPE CO, 41 N. 'ront St, c