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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1910)
V THE SUXDAY OREGONIAN, rORTLAND. JANUARY 2, 1910. MASONS TO GATHER Valley of Portland Lodgemen to Convene January 13. MANY APPLY TO ENTER Twenty-first Soml-Antrual Reumlon to Endure Three Days In 'Scot tish Kite Cathedral Big Programme Arranged. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry of the Valley of Port land will convene Thursday, January 13, In Its 21st semiannual reunion. The ceremonies, lasting through Friday and ' Saturday following, will be conducted at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, at the oorner of Morrison and Lownsdale streets. Invitations are out, and It Is assured) that the rite will be petitioned by a large number of applicants In the forthcoming reunion, which promises to be one of utmost Importance to Mason ry In Oregon. Scottish Rite Masonry is In force In almost all countries of the world, and Its devotees are found among men of every nationality and color. In Ori ental countries It confers all the de grees from entered apprentice to mas ter of the royal secret, or the 32d, but In America and other English-speaking countries It confines its work to the elucidation of the degrees commencing with the fourth. The first three de green are waived to the blue or subor dlnate lodges, as they are known. The Rite of the Valley of Portland Is .affil iated with the southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite organization, having lti headquarters at Charleston, S. C and claiming jurisdiction over that por tion of the world's surface covered by the United States. China and Japan. The southern jurisdiction also confers the higher degrees in the Army and Navy of this country. It maintains cathedral at Washington, known the Holy House, where biennial meet ings of Its supreme council are held. AH of the degrees of Masonry up to the 32d are received after petition. Knight commander of the Court of Honor, an intermediate grade above the 32d, is conferred as a distinction for worthy and efficient service. Having been selected for that honor, the reclp lent Is eligible for the 33d degree, the height of Masonic ambition. Of the 1000 members of the Scottish Rite in the Valley of Portland there are 28 members of the 33d degree, as fol lows. Thomas MacArthur Anderson, L. G. Clarke, J. B. Cleland, J. W. Cook, C. A. Dolph, W. D. Fenton, M. C. George, W. K. Grace, John M. Hodson, C. W. Lowe, Donald McKay, John McCraken, P. S, Malcolm, F. A. Moore. B. H. Nicoll, J, V. Newklrk, H. L. Plttock, S. L. Pope, Joseph Simon, J. A. Sladen, D. W. Tay lor. T. C. Taylor and B. G. Whitehouse. The consistory is equipped with para phernalia and has Instructed degree teams for the purpose of conferring the following degrees in full: Lodge of . Perfection, Robert A. Miller, venerable master, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and 14th: Alnsworth Chapter, Rose Croix, Wallace McCamant. wise master, th loth and ISth; Knights of Kadosh Ixtuls G. Clarke, commander, 21st and 29th; Consistory, Louis G. Clarke, ven erable master, Slst and 32d. t All the other ineffable degrees will be com munlcated. . If all the 2s degrees which arc handled' by the rite were conferred In full it would require two weeks time. As the work of the reunion pro greases the programme will be Inter spnrsed with music, rendered by the bent vocalists and instrumentalists in Portland. CITY IS TO BE FINER LEADERS IX ALL LINES RESOLVE FOR BETTERMENT, Chief Cox and Councilman Baker AIno Plan to lo Everything in Power to Make 1910 Record Now Tear's resolutions are not pop ular this year in Portland, but a few of the better known persons of the city said yesterday that they had resolved to follow out certain lines of effort dur ing the year Just entered. Only about half of those interviewed yesterday acknowledged they had formed resolutions tor the new year. Many others, whom it was desired to Interview on the subject, were out o the city on a few days' vacation, and could not be reached. The resolutions announced yesterday are as follows: Mayor Is Ambitious. Mayor Simon Z have resolved to help make Portland the best city on th Pacific Coast. Chief of Police Cox My resolutions are to continue to do the best I can, to live the best I can, and to improve the department wherever I find It possible to do so. City Auditor Barbur I have resolved to give the city my best effort during the present year. , George H. Hlmes, assistant secretary of the Oregon Historical Society Thl year I have resolved to work everlast lngly for a new historical building, an to look on the bright side of every thing. Dr. J. R. Wetherbee. president of the Portland Commercial Club I don make any resolutions, and then I don' have any to break, but I expect to be decent this year, as I have in the past. General Owen Summers I have th same old resolutions this year that have had other years, and that is to make each year better than the last H. W. Stone, general secretary of th Y. M. C A. I've resolved Juat to keep pegging away. Jossclyn to Get New Cars. B. 8. Josselyn, president of the Port land Railway. Light & power Comoan 1 have resolved to have our nex Winter's cars here in the Summer time, Judge Wolverton, of the United States Court My resolution is to con tlnue to do the best I can. George H. Williams I don't know that I have any change to make in my life, but I do believe that the best thing for any man to do is to have faith in himself, faith In his fellowme and faith in his God. George L Baker, president of th City Council I will try to do as well with everybody this year as I have in the past year. Rev. Benjamin- Toting, president of CENTRAL BANK Our pamphlet, cov ering the scope of our service and giving a synopsis of the law3 of -Oregon on Inheri tance, is just from the printer. It will inter est you. Call or write for a copy. Free distribution. MERCHANTS SAVINGS & TRUST COMPANY Cor. Sixth' and Wash ington Streets. Paid Capital $150,000. the general Ministerial Association In the book, "Aunt Jane of Kentucky," the sentiment is expressed that a flower can be made to grow wherever a weed can grow. I have resolved "to do my best to put flowers in the hearts of people where weeds may grow. J. E. Werleln, City Treasurer I hope to plod along in the same old way as I have in the past. John C. Young. Postmaster I have resolved to use my best efforts to - se cure for Portland this year a new Post PAVING TO .BE DISCUSSED l Riverside Terrace Improvement Club Plans Front-Street Boulevard, i The Riverside Terrace Improvement Club will hold a meeting Tuesday, January 4, at 8 P. M. at Gevurtz Hall in South Portland, to discuss hard, sur face paving and other improvements for South Portland. Interest is taken especially in that part of Portland south of Marquam's Gulch to the city limits. The question of street grades will be discussed, for considerable objection has been made, it is said, to the pro cedure in-grading Bancroft street. The question of extending the city limits a mile and a half southward will also be raised. A plan is advocated to make Front street into a great boulevard extending from the down town part of Portland south to the city limits. NEW SCHEDULE ADOPTED Woodburn-Natron Train Runs Later Between Albany and Springfield. COBURG, Or.. Jan. 1. (Special.) The Woodburn-Natron train made its first run on the new time schedule this morning. The train, instead of leaving Springfield at 4:10 A. M., and arriving in Albany at 6:30, will depart from Springfield at 7:30 A. M. and will ar rive at Albany at 10:05 A. M. It will leave-Albany at 8:10 P. M, in stead of 2:55 P. M., and arrive in Springfield at 10:55 P. M., instead of 4:50 P M.. the old schedule. - The Torture of Boils Many Oases of This Painful Disease Have Been Cured by Using - Stuart's Calcium Wafers. A Trial Package Sent Free, Furuncles, or bolls, is one of the oldest diseases of history. Every one familiar with the case of Job, of whom it was Bald in the Bible, that the surface of his body was completely oovered with them, and the disease is referred to by many people nowadays as "Job's Disease. " Bolls consist of large, projecting points of Inflammation situated on the skin, and extending into the connective tissue. They usually terminate in a suppuration and the formation of a central slough or core, and when the boil comes to a head and breaks, the abscess tends to heal. leaving a cicatrix, or scar. This disease occurs most frequently on the back of the neck, although they may occur anywhere on the surface of the skin. Bolls seldom occur ngly, but usually come in, considerable, numbers, and fre quently succeed one another in rapid succession for a considerable period, and their presence always indicates a lowered state of vitality, and a depraved, depleted and impoverished condition of the blood. The pain attendant on a single boil ia prolonged for three or four days, and no sooner is the pain of one gotten rid of. than that of another begins, until the person is completely worn out with suf ferrng. When the boil Involves a nerve fila ment, the pain ia most excruciating and almost unendurable. The treatment for the cure of furun cles or bolls should be directed toward rectifying errors of nutrition, improving the general health, eliminating poisons and Impurities from the blood, and toning up and strengthening the kidneys, bowels, and other "eliminating organs. The preparations of sulphur have the most pronounced influence in curing boils, and of these preparations the sulphide of calcium is by far the most powerful and effective.' V STUART'S CALCIUM WAFERS, which contain calcium sulphide, have been ex ceedingly successful in the treatment and cure of boils, as they diminish the Inflam mation and suppuration, and besides, act so powerfully upon the blood that the ptmpurities. which are the underlying cause of bolls, are completely eliminated, and the disease having nothing further to keep it going, rapidly disappears. Stuart's Calcium Wafers not only cure boils, but all other blood and skin dis eases, except leprosy, which is incurable by any treatment, and if suffering from any of the various skin manifestations, dependent upon impure blood, you should give this celebrated remedy a fair trial. Secure a box on your way down town this morning for 50c and drop us a card requesting a sample, which we will gladly send you. Address. F. A. Stuart Oom- Jpany, 175 Stuart Bldg., Marshall. Mich. 9E suruft inidi OmicB v HI IB ir E O A Great Warehouse Sale and Advertising Test com bined. Four hundred of the finest hew pianos to be de livered to so many homes within three weeks. No cash payment required a most extraordi nary undertaking. The greatest distri bution of fine pianos ever witnessed. "We're facing a eerious problem. Our immense new wholesale establishment and factory at Fifteenth and Pettygrove streets was to have been ready long before now. Incessant rains and unfavorable weather during 11 TsWpmher held the hnildinsr back. . The boilers and 1 iicailllg jxamt nuiuu u uf. ii n i. kj u ...... . - . - u .n.... ago are still tjed up in the freight congestion caused by the recent railroad strikes. Our building will not be ready for occupancy until the middle of February. . , Pianos intended for December selling and that could have been used to mag nificent advantage then, and which were delayed on account of railroad strikes, now come rolling along... The big wholesale stock intended for our new estab lishment is here. Our premises, sold by us some time ago, should have been va cated before January 1. We are expected to vacate upon two days' notice. Railroad companies who have been very len- . . ient now insist upon the immediate unload ing of all cars. Is is an acute situation, requiring imme diate and drastic action. "We must and will find homes for these pianos forthwith. No sane man would undertake - to sell them within three weeks at regular retail price. It could not be done. It would be a ridiculous waste of effort and money. Only the most unprecedented reduction in price will dispose of so large a number of pianos quickly. Prices must be made so low and terms of ownership so attractive, that each and every caller finds it to his or her advantage to take a piano immediately. Hence this offer. We are going to make inducements that are simply'unprecedented. The making of profit is simply out of the question. We are going to make four hun dred loyal and enthusiastic friends, however, and we are going to try to secure some defi nite and valuable statistics, at the same timel A modern piano business must be well advertised. Not only must it offer the best in musical instrument manufacture upon r 1 HERE IS THE CERTIFICATE CUT THIS OUT WORTH $30 GOOD FOR , I5) I 1. l-STfjtrtp JBollars 1 as first payment on a piano at Warehouse Sale prices if presented on or before January 10, 1910. ! E1LERS PIAiVO HOUSE. 353 Washington St. mm' (feqK; Oregonian. V Bring this Advertising Test Certificate with you select any piano in our stock. We will accept this certificate as first payment on the piano. You make vour next payment one month later. $2.00 FOR $1.00 Should you desire to pav anv cash, in addition to this certificate, -we will give you a receipt for $2 for every dollar you pay up to $30. EXAMPLE: Present this Ortirieate nnd sret a receipt for.: ....3O.0 Present this Certificate and pay f.5 In caxh and get a receipt for 44.00 Present this OrtlfiMtle anal pay tO In caxh and get n receipt t or . . . . ."W.00 Present thin ferllfiente and pay 1S In cash and get a receopt for ....(. oo Present thin Certificate end pay -'0 in cwkH and get a receipt for. . . .7MK Present this Certificate and pay 25 In cash and get a receipt for. . . . 0.00 Present thin Certlflrate and pay RIO in cash and get a receipt for ... ..10.M most advantageous terms of purchase,. but it must make itself known. , A piano, a good piano of Eilers Piano House, lasts a ; life time. A new buyer must be found every hour of the day, and particularly in this growing West is it necessary for a business such as high-class piano sell , ing to keep itself constantly before the public. In disposing of this wholesale stock we see an opportunity to find out defi nitely as to which method of advertising is most effective, such as the use of newspaper space, circulars, personal letters or weekly or periodical publications. For this reason we publish an advertising test certificate. It calls for $30.00. It is good for so much actual cash. It will be accepted by us as the first pay ment for any piano in this sale. Select your piano now, present your certificate, arrange for payment of balance as best suitsyQur convenience, and the piano is yours. But even this is not all of the in ducements we now have to offer. If you choose to make a further payment when you select your piano, we pay a premium of $1 for every dollar up to the amount of the cer tificate that you pay us at the time you select your instrument. We publish below the cer tificate a schedule showing exactly what these certificates will amount to. Bear in mind that the piano prices are re duced to less than wholesale. Bear in mind that you need make no cash payment other than an advertising test cer tificate when you select your piano. Bear in mind that the balance remaining unpaid can be settled in monthly payments of $12, $10, $8, yes, even $6. : i : ; Several very choice brand new warranted makes of pianos will be sold during this sale for $1.25 a week. Still others, will go for $1.50 a week, or pay $5.00 or $6.00 monthly payments monthly, if you prefer. All instruments in this sale will be plainly marked at the reduced lowest cash cost. Those buying on time will secure the same cash prices, but will pay simple interest on'deferred pay ments. Bear in mind that these pianos are the latest, choicest, brand new, espe cially selected instruments from the foremost greatest and most trustworthy American piano makers. Every. instrument in this sale is unconditionally waranted in every respect. In this sale is included even the Chiekering (except 1910 models "II," "W" and "V"), and the now famous Kimball and the Hobart M. Cable; Philadelphia's fine piano, the Lester; the magnificent Ilallet & Davis ; the Smith & Barnes; our own make, the Eilers Orchestral and New York's most costly and most superb " art piano, the magnificent Weber, together with dozens of well-known and thoroughly desir able makes. No more' beautiful pianos have ever been received in "Portland, no greater assortment has ever been shown at any one time any where than we present tomorrow morning. We want the least possible delay and we want thereby to secure 400 additional enthu siastic and loyal friends for Eilers Piano' House. ' For $148 you will secure, tomorrow morning pianos which have never been sold for less than $215 Tieretofore. $167, $172 and $198 will secure such grades as are never to be obtained elsewhere for. less than $250. and $300. Ask particularly to see some magnificent $400 styles now $274, and the plainer cases, same make, $255. $8 a month buys them, while the less expensive styles go at $6 and $5 a, month. Sale prices on the very fanciest of $450 - and $500 styles are now $298, $307 and $328. aaaaaaaaannanananajBMaanaansaaafc Terms as best- suits your convenience. V MOST OF THEM NEARLY NEW. In this sale will be included a lot of player pianos that have come to us in part payment for the genuine Pianola pianos We want these player pianos out of the way, for we need the room they occupy. We will sell a number of Knabe Angelus, Apollo pianos, Kingsbury Inside player pianos and others too numerous to mention, at less than one-half of what other dealers ask for these same makes when new. . . : And bear in mind, we guarantee quality, and we guarantee price. We agree distinctly to refund all money paid if purchase after delivery is not found ex actly as represented and in every way satisfactory. : . Store open day and night until sale closes. We have no time to lose. Again we repeat, no cash payment is necessary; cut out the eoupon, which will be taken at its face value as the first payment. Remember, the sale begins tomorrow, Monday morning, at 8 :30. If you have no piano, come at once. We have been able in the past to present many a money-saving opportunity to the piano buyer, never here tofore has a combination of circumstances made possible so liberal a proposition as this is, and we are sure such an opportunity will never be presented again. Our experts are at the service of those who- wish to order by mail. We make most careful and painstaking selections and we ship instruments subject to examination and trial. All money that may have been paid to be refunded if upon receipt of instrument it is not found in every way satisfactory. Eilers Piano House retail sales rooms, 353 Washington, at Park St., or if you prefer, select your piano at our wholesale quarters, corner Thirteenth and Northrup Sts. TRAINS CRASH HEAD Oil TWO KXOWX.TO BE DEAD; OVE MORE POSSIBLY. Passengers in Smoker Kescued. Be fore Fire Destroys That Part of and. Mystery Cleared. BILLINGS, Mont., Jan. 1. Plowing along in a terrific snowstorm, which blinded the view of the engineers. Great Northern-Burlington transconti nental train No. 44 and an extra freight train met head oa between. 11 and 12 o'clock last night at Oxford, on the Great Northern Railroad, killing the fireman of the passenger, the mail clerk and presumably one of the baggage men, who is Yeported missing and is supposed to be under the wreckage. A. I. Gibson, mail clerk, of Billings, and the fireman of the passenger train, of Judith Gap, are dead; the baggage man, whose name is unknown, is miss ing. ' Three men, said to be miners at Red Lodge, were the only passengers in jured, according to the only reports, obtained here. The passenger was several hours be hind its schedule time and is said to have been running at high speed. The huge locomotives were telescoped, while cars were piled up in confusion. Three of the passenger cars, the mail, baggage and smoking-car immediately caught fire and were consumed. One of the chair cars was considera bly broken up. but It is . stated that none of its passengers were injured. Trainmen and passengers rescued those who were riding in the doomed smoker, and as floon as possible the news' was sent to Judith Gap, seven miles distant, and a relief train was sent to the wreck. 8 CITIES' PLANTS SOUGHT $18,000,000 Michigan Trust After Power Companies and- Railways. - SAGINAW, Mich., Jan. 1. Official announcement was made here last night of the plan of organization of the Commonwealth Power Railway & Light Company, an "$18,000,000 combination which will take over water-power com panies on the Ausable. Muskegon, Grand and ICalamasoo Rivers, street railways in Grand Rapids. Saginaw and Bay City, and electrio and as plants in Grand Rapids. Saginaw, Bay City, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, Flint, Pontiac and Cadillac. Mayor Ellis, of Grand Rapids, is seeking to enlist the co-operation of the Mayors of all the cities affected In an effort to prevent the merger. ,. . GALE SMASHES .LAUNCHES Tacoma Harbor Is Scene of Much Trouble for Boatsf TACOMA, Jan. 1. A S7-mile gale from the north caused . much trouble on -the waterfront today, smashing two launches and causing the steamship Queen to ram the steamer Dover on her port side, while the. steamer Lake hit her on the star board. The launch Lillian D.-, owned by the Foss boathouse, went ashore near the Northern Pacific bulkhead, while towing a barge to safety. , Shorter Honrs Help Thousands. . BOSTON, Jan. 1. Several hundred thousand operatives in mills and fac tories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island will begin work on Monday on a shorter scale of working hours, in consequence of the new 66-hour law be coming effective. The running time heretofore has been 60 hours. YUCATAN GETS SHAKEUP TWO SHOCKS IX PROVINCE OF QC1XTAXA ROO. r Tremors Registered by Government Instruments in Washington- In dicate TTnusual Severity. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 1. An earthquake was reported to the Weather Bureau here from Diclo "Chico in the Province of Quintana Roo, Yucatan, today.. It oc curred at 4:25 A. M., and lasted 20 sec onds. It was followed by a second shock of less severity at 4:50. It is not known whether serious -damage was done. . CABLE IS NOT INTERRUPTED Xevr York Surmises Center of Shock 3(ay Have Been Under Ocean. - NEW YORK, Jan. 1. No intimation of a seismic disturbance on or near 1 the Isthmus of Panama had been re ceived by the Central and South Ameri can Cable Company over its - wires up to 6:30 o'clock today. , At that hour ita cable to Colon was working without interruption, and five mintues pre viously a message had been received from Panama which failed to make mention of any happening out of tha usual in that territory. The disturbance, if it occurred in the isthmian vicinity, must have : been somewhere under the ocean bed in a locality distant from the cable route, the cable officials surmised. There was no Interruption today in the cable service 'Of other companies which have lines to Central American points. The Western Union Company's cable by way of Galveston reached many Central American and West In dian points and had no trouble. The Commercial Cable Company's lines were also in good working order. Shock Recorded at Berkeley. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1. The seis mograph at the Observatory of the University of California at Berkeley registered an earthquake at approxi mately the same time as the disturb ance recorded by the Weather Bureau! at Washington. The extent and dura- tion of the shock has not yet been: computed by the observatory authori ties. . 1