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THE MORXIXO OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1909. 3 GAR STRIKE I 'Oil HEARING THE END Demands Virtually Granted and 600 Men Will Be Re-Employed. NINE DEATHS WERE TOLL Several Hundred Were Injured In Trouble Now Ending at McKees Rooks, Pa. - Employment Agent Laws Were Violated. PITTSBURG. Sept. 6. A settlement was reached today between officials of the P.'fci Steel Car Company and the rep resentatives of SVrt employe of the con cern who have been on strike for eight weeks, according to reliable Information tonight. It la said that mutual conces sions have been made. The 6i0 workmen who were the first to strike and were discharged will be taken bark. This is the 52d day of the strike. As a result of rioting nine strik ers and statu troops have met death, sev eral hundred persons have been Injured and It Is-estimated the trouble has caused a loss of over Jl.0Cni.000. .m Following a conference between United States District Attorney Jordan and th special Government agents here lnvestl gating conditions at the Pressed Steel Car Company plant. It was announced that the employment agent laws have been violated. A report will be made to w a.shington before action Is taken. Concerning rumors that Emma Gold man and Alex Berkman would address the strikers today, the executive com mittee of the strikers said they knew nothing about the matter. It was added however, that "neither of them wouid be permitted to make an address. 'AGEL MAY PROBE STRIKE Federal Investigation of Car Plant Trouble Is Probable. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. In some quar ters It Is thought probable that there will be Federal Investigation into the condition of affairs at McKees Rocks. Pa., the scene of recent bloodshed and disorder growing out ofthe strike of the workmen employed by the pressed steel car plant. Most of these workmen are said to be foreigners. Secretary Nagel has received numerous requests to order an Immediate Inquiry He is said to have the question under ad visement, and all papers relative to this matter have been forwarded to him at his Summer home. Marion. Mass. Depart ment officials declare that Secretary Ni gel has full authority to make an inves tigation and give publicity to the facts ascertained. ROWBOAT IS CUT IN TWAIN Ilacer Vixen Crashes Through Craft. Occupants Escape Injury. Proceeding at a terrific speed yester day afternoon the motor-boat Vixen, owned by Dr. Brown, cut a rowboal squarely In twain and hurled Its tw;o ien occupants Into the river. Both v.-ere rescued, neither sustaining any injury except that entailed by the shock each experienced. After this ac cident the Vixen, going: at too great a sped to stop within 20 yards, bumped another rowboat. almost forcing it on to a barge moored near by. As In the first case, no one was injured by this rr-tsn. Tiio Vixen had participated in the LaT b'ir (Jay roratta and was returning from the buoy of the course when the acci d -it occurred, just below the Steel bridge, in full view of the crowd that lined the river. Both rowboats, one de molished, the other jarred by the Vixen, were rented from E. E. Kellogg's boat house, but Inquiry by the police failed to reveal the names of the oarsmen whose lives were endangered. TAX FUND TO BE FIGURED Stnte Board of Equalization Meets at Olymnia Toilay. OLTMPIA. TVash.. Sept. .-(Speclal. The State Board of Equalization will meet tomorrow. The board consists of the State Auditor, three Tax Commis sioners and the Land Commissioner and fixes the amount of tax each county, must pay for g'neml state fund state school f ind, military fund and highway fund. The two funds last named are by law a tlxed levy of respectively one-fifth and one-half mills. The school fund must, with other sources of state school reve nue equal no for each person in the state between the ages of C and 21. The board may fix the general fund levy at any sum not In excess of four-tenths mills. Representatives of east side counties will be heard before the board tomorrow, of west side counties Wednesday, rail roads Thursday and telegraphs and tele phone companies Friday. CHANCE T0WIN IS RUINED Gelding Is Filched From Stable and Worn' Out Before Race. XSW YORK. Sept. . John StroebeU of Rochester. X. Y.. and Arthur Thomas, of California, were arrested at the Shoepsh-ad Bay racetrack today charged with prand larceny In taking from his stable last night Ostend. a gelding en tered for the last race at Sheepshead Bay today, and raeinr the horse at top speed during the darkness, thereby en danjTlnsr his chances of winning the race todiy. Stroebel and Thomas pleaded not guilty and were held In V"X bail. LIONS DISTURB COUNCIL Roaring Boasts Bother Vancouver Session. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) Roaring of Hons In a nearby vaudeville- house and a wordy spat be tween Mayor Kiggins and Councilman Rowley furnished excitement at the Coun cil meeting here tonight. The lions which caused the commotion earlv in the session belonged to Mme. Schell's show, and their incessant roars frequently interrupted proceedings by drowning the voice of the clerk as he read the resolutions or called the roll. Several viva voce ballots had to be re peated because of the Impartiality of the :ions In roaring for both sides of the question. When the lions ceased to roar, the Mayor and Councilman Rowley became entangled in a wordy bout which threat ened serious consequences until his honor insisted that the disgraceful proceedings had gone far enough and ordered the regular business to proceed. Mayor Klggins- attempt to force a re port from Chairman Rowley of the water committee started the fireworks. Rowley pleaded delay, and said he wanted to save the' city money. Other members wanted to know why the Mayor held up the paving contracts. To a pointed ques tion from Rowley. Kig;ins replied: "I don't have to answer to you or to any one else." Rowley was again on his feet and In the sparring between the Mayor and the Councilman. Mayor Kiggins accused Rowley of standing In with an alleged paving graft. Dubolse came to the de fense of RoWley at this point and 'the wordv war became even more bitter. Rowley made the bold statement that members of the City Council had been recently seen in one of the disorderly houses of the town. "Who has?" sharply inquired the Mayor. "You were." came the quick response from Councilman Rowley. The Mayor continued the affair no fur ther, insisting that he wanted no dis graceful scenes in the Council, and or dered the members to proceed with. the business before them. An estimate of the current expense of the city for the coming year was placed at $50,000. V ORPHEVM THEATER GRANTS PAY INCREASE. All Musicians Will Get $30, Except . Leader, Who Will Receive $4 0 a Week Scale Temporary. SPOKANE. Wash Sept. 6. (Special.) The strike of musicians at the Orpheum Theater Is over. The management of the theater iias decided to grant the de mand made by the players. The strik ing musicians have been granted $30 a week for all musicians except the leader, who Is to get $40 a week. This Is an ad vance of $3 a week for side players and $5 a week for the leader. The present scale will be in effect until the first of the year, when the scale of the union with two other vaudeville houses expires, and at that time the three vaudeville houses will take the mat ter up with the union. NO MUSICIANS' STRIKE HERE Members of Portland Orpheum Or chestra Are Perfectly Satisfied. rnnMmiinff the nimnp that the mem bers of the Orpheum Orchestra here would strike In sympathy with the mu f cnnia no it develoned yester day that the members of the local Or pheum orchestra are perfectly sausneo. and have no Intention of walking out on .v,.. trll Manager Erlckson. of the Orpheum, said that he had heard nothing whatever concerning sum . move. nr.htni has a two vears con tract which was signed last July and I am sure that the men composing our orcnen- .-, f iVi character that they would not violate their contract with me. no matter what might arise in otner ciues. You may say for me that I know of no .i.r.Hn with nresent conditions and that so far as I know there is no likelihood of the members of my orches tra joining In any strike. t i rrforv nt the Omheum or chestra; denied positively that there is any likelihood of a iocai sirme uu - u& .nomhera of the OreDheura cmreu iiwxi. " " ; . orchestra have never contemplated such move. . foi- me that the members of the local Orpheum orchestra are per fectly satisfied." said he. AGED WWW AUTO JCXIUS NEHRING RCN DOWX ox WASHIXGTOX STREET. Victim Severely Injured F. M. House, Chauffeur, Blamed by Witnesses of Accident. After running down Julius Nehring at Sixth and Washington streets late laet night. F. M. House, a chauffeur for the Studebaker garage, picked up the victim, hurried him to the Good Samaritan Hos pltal for treatment and then reported the accident at police headquarters. Just a few minutes after detectives had been de tailed to find him. Nehring. an aged man employed as Jani tor In the Rothchlld building, was se verely, but not. dangerously injured. At the hospital physicians found he had sus tained many bruises and possible Internal Injuries, but they said he would recover. According to spectators the automobile was traveling about 15 miles an hour, and no warning was sounded before It bore down on the old man as he was crossing Sixth street. He wavered a minute, hesi tating which way to Jump. Before he could get out of the way the machine veered, so he told the doctors, to the left side of the street and struck him. Nehring was dragged over the pavement 15 or 20 feet until the automobile wheels, blocked by his body, brought the machine to a standstill. Fortunately It did not pass over him. In the machine with House at the time was Frank McMillan. McMillan and House quickly lifted Nehring into the machine and went at full speed to the hospital. At the police station Captain Moore ac cepted House's story. In consideration of the fact that he had voluntarily given hlmeelf up. he was not placed under ar rest. WIZARD'S STATE SERIOUS (Continued From First Page.) ally 111. and required the attention of a nurse both day and night. While no authentic Information other than Dr. Lyle's brief statement has come from the Arden house, the impression prevails, both here and In Turner, that Mr. Harriman Is dangerously 111. The en tire family Is at Arden house and Judge Robert S. Lovett. general counsel for the Union and Southern Pacific railroads, was summoned here last night. It was reported that several specialists who attended the conference at the Har riman home a week ago were again with the sick man. At all events Mr. Harriman is not so well as he was a week ago on the day that his personal reassurance led the newspapers of the country to abandon the watch maintained for four anxious days about the home at Tower Hill. - 1 THIS TEXAS WONDER Cures all Kidney, Bladder and Rheu matic troubles; sold by all druggists, or two months treatment by mall, for $1. Dr.' E. W. Hall, 2926 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials. MEN TO WALK OUT IF DEMANDS FAIL Shingle Weavers Will Make Final Request for New Scale Today. , 3000 MEN TO BE AFFECTED Five Mills In Chehalls County Are Under Ban and Any Attempt to Shut Down Will Result in a Lockout, Says the Union. . HOQTJ7AM. Wash.. Sept. 6. (Special.) The Shingle Weavers' Union will make a final demand on the manufacturers to morrow for a new scale, and if it is de nied them they will walk out of those plants using the "purple brand," as the new grade is called. If the union attempts to close down one mill In the county, the entire organ ization of shingle manufacturers will close every plant, numbering more than 35. and will throw directly out of employ ment lo00 men, indirectly affecting equally as many more. i Tonight both sides are firm. The men will demand a new scale only in places were the new grading rule Is enforced or rules equivalent. Five mills are placed under the ban. and any attempt to shut them down will result in a lockout. Tomorrow morning the workers will re port at the mills affected. If the in creases asked for are not granted, the men will not go to work. The weavers say that the increase has been granted at the Elma mills and at the Montesano mills and at other points throughout the state. The manufacturers say they cannot afford to pay the advance. HURTS ARE NOT SEVERE AUTO ACCIDENT VICTIMS TO BE ABOUT IX FEW DAYS. Experienced Hand at Steering Wheel Averted Serious Termina tion of Sunday Night Mishap. An experienced hand at the steering wheel and a cool and resourceful head In charge of the machine in a moment of extreme danger were the agents which prevented a serious and possibly fatal accident on the Taylor's Ferry road at 11 o'clock Sunday evening when the automobile occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stlne and the' party of young people whom they were chap eroning plunged over an embankment. Mr. Stlu was the wheel at the time and had Tjlscovered previously that the gear had loosened so that the levers could not be shifted and the car could not be held with the brakes. As the car went down the road, down hill, an abrupt turn was met and on realizing that the turn could not be made nor the car stopped Mr. Stlne changed the course of the machine so that It went straight down the embankment. This ready action on the part of the driver prevented the car from turning over as the machine kept an upright position all the way down, a distance of about 100 feet, and finally stopped without serious injury to any of the1 party. The party were returning from a house party at Falls City, where Charles T. Strother, of Spokane; Miss Caroline Strother, of Charlotte. Mich., and Miss Jessie Hill were the guests of honor. The party left Falls City Sunday evening at 5:30 o'clock. In the automobile were Mr. and Mrs. Stlne, Miss Celeste Moore, Miss Margarita Buehner. Miss Caroline Strother, G. A. Grlswold and Charles T. Strother. The accident occurred about 11 P. M. and but for this the party would have reached Portland by 11:30. Two of the young women. Miss Moore and Miss Buehner, were bruised, and Miss Moore suffered a sprained ankle, but othei wise the occupants of the machine escaped with minor bruises, while both Miss Moore and Miss Buehner .will be able to be about again within a few days. HEATER PLANS TOLD W. M. RUSSELL, SAYS OLD HEI LIG IS BUT MAKESHIFT. New Alhambra to Be Shuberts Playhouse Here. Site Will Be Chosen Soon. . "The Portland Theater," which is the new name for the old Hellig, now being rebuilt to house the Shubert attractions In this city. Is only a makeshift and will be succeeded by the New Alhambra to be built on the same site or another soon to be selected. - William M. Russell, manager for the Shuberts In the Pacific Northwest, ar rived In Portland from Seattle on a late train last night and made the foregoing announcement. "If Portland capitalists will not furnish the money," he con tinued. "I will provide It myself and Portland may be assured that It will be a real theater." Mr. Russell announced that "Girls" Is the only Shubert attraction deflnitely booked for Portland and it will be played at the Star. The Portland Theater will be reopened October 17, probably with John Mason In "The Witching Hour." Two other Shubert attractions, "Corinne" and "Going Some" are now on the Pacific Coast and will be seen in Portland In the near future. R. B. French will not be the local man ager for the Shuberts as has been an nounced. Mr. French Is doing so well in Seattle, said Mr. Russell, that he has decided not to come to Portland. Mr. Russell will look over the field and will announce the name of his local manager In a few days. B. I Drew, who Is Mr. Russell's part ner, will act as manager at the Star during the week "Girls" Is being pro duced. CONDENSED NEWS BY WIRE Geneva. Switzerland. Walter S. Bond, of New York, has rHmked Mount Blanc fmm Oiamounix In eight hourw. He thu break the record of nine hmir and a half, made by Moorehead. an English man. In 1865. Plttsbury, Pa. Conger, the lion In the Highland Park zoo. which has killed three men and one woman wu ao tame.wbea litti 3-year-old Lene Nick put her hand in its cage Sunday that it merely licked the hand. Chicago. Workmen who are member of the Grand-Avenue Congregational Church gave their services Monday toward the build in? of a new edifice. The church Is to rise complete as the handiwork of its members. Chicago. Frank P. Arnold was probably fatally shot last night after being held up by three men near Washington Park, and a nivsterioua woman is sought as a possible principal in the case. Arnold refuses to tell about her. Svdnev. N". S. W. The captain and crew of the French echooner Qualite, engaged In recruiting laborers. have been murdered by natives of Malllcollo Islands, in the New Hebrides. A British warship is Investigating the occurrence. Washington. More than 600 marines from the vessels of the Atlantic fleet and from the marine barracks at New York, Phila delphia and Washington have been instructed in the proper handling of the rifle t-t the camp at Sea Gilt. 'Washington. Blacklisting joy riding and declaring 18 years the minimum age limit in the Issuance of licenses to automobile drivers, moet of the chauffeurs of Washington have organized a Chauffeurs' Protective Aesocla-ti'-n and affiliated as a union with the Knights of Labor. New York. Mutosoda Zumota, editor of the Toklo Times, feels a deep pity for American husbands. He thinks the moat expensive fea ture of life In the United State u the wife, who .appears fresh looking and handsome compared with her tired, anxious-looking hus band. 4 New Tork. Fully 60,000 Irish-Americans and Americans of Irlhs descent are exneeted to make the pilgrimage to Ireland under' the auspices of an association to pro mote the commercial affairs of new Ireland by encouraging the investment of American capital. 1 DEPENDS Oil LOGGERS IF THEY ADVANCE PRICES, LUM BER WILL COST MORE. Portland Millmen Say Present Mar ket Value Will Not Be Disturbed Unless Logs Go Up. Portland lumber manufacturers ad mit that if the threatened advance in the price of logs, proposed by the log gers to become effective October 1, is enforced,' that action? will Le followed by a corresponding Increase In the market priqe of Jthe manufactured product. They are frank to say, how ever, that until the loggers act, the schedule of lumber prices will not be disturbed. The increase in the cost of logs, contemplated by the loggers at the beginning of the month, ranges from 60 cents to $1 a thousand, accord ing to grades. "If the loggers decide to advance the cost of logs," said Frank H. Ran som, manager of the Eastern & West ern Lumber Company, last night, "it may naturally be expected that the price of lumber also will be advanced proportionately. At ine present, urns there is a good demand for lumber of all grades at prevailing prices, and ex isting schedules probably will not be changed except the charge for logs is increased.'' Lumber prices are considerably lower than they were two years ago. This is due to not less than three reasons, each of which only tended further to depress the market. In the first place the financial disturbance of the Fall of 1907 served to depreciate lumDer values. Th.s was followed by an arbi trary advance in rates by the transcon tinental railroads which had not been settled before the tariff agitation was started, declare lumbermen. Existing prices for rough lumber average about $10 a thousand feet, while the finished product brings a price of from $13 to $35 a thousand. IS HELD ATTHE DALLES Portland Man Accused of Passing Forged Checks Caught. THE DALLES, Or., Sept. 6. (Special.) J. C. Burke, of Portland, was arrested Sunday afternoon at one of Porter Bros." railroad camps. 17 miles above Free Bridge, by Sheriff Levi Chrlsman and lodged in the County Jail here last night. Burke is charged with obtaining money under false pretenses by passing worth less checks drawn cn the Ashley & Rummelin bank of Portland. The ac cused was arraigned before Justice J. A. Douthlt this morning and in default of $1000 bail is In jail awaiting his prelimi nary hearing which comes up Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Justice Court. i t When arrested Burke was in the com pany of O. M. Stafford, with whom he was Jointly tried and acquitted in the Federal Court at Portland about a year ago on the charge of fraudulently locat ing timber claims in the Willamette Valley. J. C. Burke, the prisoner mentioned In the foregoing dispatch,' is a timber cruiser and has been arrested here, on a similar charge several times. He doe9 not liv in Portland regularly, say the police, and reports of operations of a similar character have been filed here from other towns In the state. SLOW FiGHTERS N DRAW Jack Sniliran and Mantell Jar One Another Considerably. SAX FRANCISCO. Sept. 6. Jack (Twin) Sullivan, of Boston, and Frank Mantell. of Providence, R. I., fought 20 rounds to a draw tonight. The men were fairly aggressive, but a little slow in a'.-tion, . Sullivan showed great cleverness in avoiding punishment and had considerably the better of his opponent during the earlier rounds, but toward the end of the tight was repeated ly jolted by choppy rights and lefts which broke through his guard. Young Peter Jackson knocked out Sailor Burke In the 6econd round of the first preliminary and Percy Cove won a decision over Joe Leahy in the second. HUMAN BONES UNEARTHED Workmen Make Grew some Discov ery at Mason and East Ninth. The bones of a human being were found yesterday afternoon by workmen while excavating at Mason street, near East Ninth street. Deputy Coroner C. S. Dunning took the bones to the morgue. He believes the body had been buried there possibly a century ago. No investigation will be made as It Is understood that part of 'the city was once an Indian burying ground. CAREY ACT LAND OPENING , 38.000 of Idaho's choicest acres in the famous Goose Creek Valley, Cassia County. Project financiered and con structed by the Kuhns. Write for book let to the Twin Falls Oakley Land 4 Water Company. Milner. Idaho. Shasta Limited HUs Wagon. The Shasta 'Limited, of the Southern Pacific between Portland and San Fran cisco, ran into the rear end of an Inman Poulsen Lumber Company wagon, driven by Charles Lawler In the company's yards on Bast Water street early last evening, injuring the horse and demolish ing the wagon. Lawler escaped injury. Opening Display of Misses' and Children's Apparel IN SCHOOL COATS, SUITS AND CAPES On Wednesday we display in our Cloak Room a full assortment of Children's Capes, Suits and Dresses in the latest Fall fashions suitable for school and house wear. These suits represent all the pretty new ideas orig inated by the best makers, of children's apparel. Children's Coats from. . . . . .$3.98 to $ 15.00 Children's Capes, new military styles, at JjO.S5 Children's Sailor Dresses from Sj55 to $18.50 Misses' Coats from $7.50 to $25.00 Junior & Misses Sailor Suits $12.50 to $35 t ' Taffeta Ribbon 37c For Wednesday's special ribbon selling event 1000 yards of extra quality full 6-inch Taffeta Rib bon in black, white and all col ors. Just the thing for sash, belt or millinery purposes, excellent value at 50c, special, the yd., 37 1 5c Wash Laces 5c Thousands of yards of New Platte Val. and Normandy Wash Laces, edges and insertions to match, values to 15c,' all the one price, Wednesday, a yard.... 5 ACTORS OH STRIKE More Pay Is Demanded Small Chicago Houses. in 300 PERFORMERS ARE OUT Movement May Involve 2500 Mem bers of Actors' National Protective Association Juggler Is Bru tally Attacked and Beaten. CHICAGO. III.. Sept. 6. (Special.) More than 300 members of the Actors' National Protective Association, an or ganization of performers in 6 and 10-cent theaters, went on strike tonight, the walkout having been preceded by deser tions or tne ooaras in a. iui e ui mmc i scattered moving-picture playhouses in the afternoon. The calling- of the strike to compel theaters to pay a wase scale of S20 a week for single acts and J50 for doubles was followed almost immediately by one reported instance of violence which mem bers of the union charged to sluggers in the employ of managers. Charles Lane, a professional "cannon ball juggler," was attacked, according to the officers of the union, at Clark and Randolph streets, and knocked to the sidewalk. His face is said to have been severely lacerated. The police were told that Lane was attacked by two men,, one of whom used brass knuckles. The strike, the union officials say, may become general tomorrow, Involving 2500 members of the organization, almost 500 theaters, and more than half a hundred booking agencies. The booking concerns are more obstinately opposed to the de mands of the union, it is said, than are the managers. Electrician Badly Shocked. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) C. D. Shorpenlng. chief electri cian of the light and water company here, met with a painful accident by bringing his head in contact with a live wire while working on an electric motor tt Fads for Weak ' Nine-tenths of all the sickness of women is due to some derangement or dis ease of the organs distinctly feminine. Such sickness can be cured is cured every day hy . - Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription It Makes Weak Women Strong, Sick Women Well. It acts directly on the organs affected and is at the same time a general restora tive tonic for the whole system. It cures female complaint right in the privacy of home. It makes unnecessary the disagreeable questioning, examinations and local treatment so universally insisted upon by doctors, and so abhorrent to every modest woman. We shall not particularize here as to the symptoms of those peculiar affections incident to women, but those wanting full information as to their symptoms and means of positive cure are referred to the People's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser J 008 pages, newly revised and up-to-date Edition, sent free on receipt of 21 one cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only; or, in cloth binding for 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. For the Best Trade Butterick Patterns Nemo" Corsets Our First Fall Corset Sale of Celebrated NADIA Corsets 98c Offering the public the biggest corset value of the year. In the new Fall style Nadia we present one with a new sheath effect which equalizes the bust, waist and hip lines, whether the figure ii slender or stout. These corsets are perfectly comfortable, yet adding the very latest stylish contour to the figure without tight lacing. In short this is a corset that gives perfect satisfaction These corsets are made of fine French batiste, lace trimmed with double hose supporters attached. ' Regular Price $1 .75, Special 98c Sale of Ackley's sawmill Saturday afternoon. The shock rendered him unconscious. Medical aid was summoned and he was removed to his home at'once. While his condi tion is serious. Dr. Merryman considers the symptoms favorable for his recovery. LEWIST0N MAY JOIN DRYS Local Option Campaign Begins Nei Perce County. in LEWISTON. Idaho, Sept. 6. (Special.) Temperance workers who recently pros ecuted the local option campaign in Idaho County which resulted In placing that county in the dry column have pitched their tents In Nex Perce County and are now engaged In the circulation of the petition throughout the reser vation precincts asking for the special election to be called by the Board of County Commissioners. With but 23 saloons in the county and 19 of that number in the City of Lewis ton, the tight against the local-option movement has practically devolved upon Lewlston, and for the past week liquor interests have been in conference to outline a plan of resistance. Reports received from those precincts where the petitions are being circulated are to the effect that large numbers of signers are being secured and those in charge of the work believe there will be little dif ficulty in getting the necessary 40 per cent to insure the calling of the elec tion. American Held for Crime In China. AMOY. China, S?pt. 6. The body of a wealthy merchant of Amoy who disap peared a fortnight ago was found near this city yesterday. The authorities have Issued warrants for the. arrest of several prominent residents of Amoy, Including Kuftene Velasco. an American citizen, son Good Blood Means good health and Hood's Sarsaparilla has an unapproached record as a blood-purifier. It effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it contains sarsaparilla but because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 different ingredients. There is no real substitute for it. If urged to buy any preparation said to be "just as good" you may bo 6u:-e it is inferior, -costs less to make, and yields the dealer a larger profit. Oet Hood's Sarsaparilla today. In usual liqnid form cr in chocolated tablet knoTO as barsotabs. Women New Belts 59c For Wednesday we offer two sample lines of New Fall Belts at special prices. These are all new belts not shown before this season. 500 new elastic belts with an assortment of fancy buckles and fancy steel-studded belting. Values $1.50, special'. . 59 At 98 we offer an elaborate assortment of Elastic Belts in many novelty styles the values of which run as high as $2.00 to $2.50 apiece. Initial Kerchiefs at 7c 1000 dozen Ladies' Hand-Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs in any letter in the alphabet. These handkerchiefs come in sheer lawn, also in linen. Go on sale Wednesday at the very ex ceptional price of, each 7 50c Veiling at 19c Short pieces, odds and ends of all this season's Veilings in many meshes, both plain and dotted, in black, white and all leading col ors, worth to 50c a yard, Wednes day special 19i of a Manila millionaire. Julian H. Ar nold, the American Consul, insists that If Velasco be held in custody as an al leged murderer and prosecuted, it must be by the American authorities. A woman'n hat was recently made, from the kln of elftht larite rattlesnakes. pii!llllll!inilllinii!llllilillllll!llll!ll!l!!!llll!lli;ill!li;!lini;!lllinillill!lllllllll!ll I CHILDREN'S I i i r ft. eA ' " ; 3 Nine years in Portland, two years in the leading eye clinics of Europe. It Is The 1 Duty of g jj School Teachers l To look to the care of their pupils' . eyes. Many children l; 1 seem dull, do not like to study g and are called numbskulls. 1 THEY ARE 3 UNFORTUNATE I j In most cases for having some s eye defect. Most of them show g g no other sipn of eye trouble, H and grow to 1 MANHOOD and 1 WOMANHOOD, dull and stupid, never knowing j that their eyes alone made g them averseMo study and actlv- d Thompson Gives Especial Care I To Children's Eyes jg One charge rovers entire cost g of examination, glasses, frames, s I THOMPSON I ""SIGHT EXPERT F 2d Ficor, Cortjatl Bid, 5th and Morrison iliiiiiiiiiiinniiiimiiiiiiiiiJiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i i AND CALL, IMG CARDS We3.SMITH&CO WASHINGTON BUXPC WASHINGTON EYE SIGHT