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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917
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Now on Second Week of Savage Sell
ing and Cutting of Prices
Without an equal and standing forth as the greatest sale in the history of Oregon City, the great Adams Depart
ment Store's closing out sale is now on the second week of savage selling with a firm determination to clear the
store of every vestige of merchandise in the shortest time possible. HERE IS A MATCHLESS OPPORTUNITY-
Our great stock of dry-goods, clothing, shoes, furnishing goods, furniture, carpets, rugs, linoleum, draper
ies, stoves, ranges trunks, bags, graniteware, and all useful wearing apparel and household necessities is acknow
ledged by everyone as the largest, most complete, and up-to-date store in Oregon City and Clackamas County. In
fact one of the largest stores between Portland and San Francisco. SO THINK WHAT THIS SALE MEANS
TO YOU. When other stores are reaping their harvest of profits and compelled to sell you merchandise at war
prices, we announce this sensational sale of merchandise you need right now at prices to defy any competition
or sale ever advertised and which means a saving no person or family can afford to miss. Remember the good
things were not for one day only, but each and every day ofthis mighty sale you will find new and attractive bar
gains, so come expecting to save money and you will not be disappointed.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF NEW FALL MERCHANDISE TO BE
SOLD AT A GREAT SACRIFICE.
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WASHINGTON, Sept., 4.An aver
age of nearly 1700,000,000 dully will
have to be authorized by congress from
now on until October 1, when loader
hope to adjourn, to curry out the war
plans.
Representative Kltchin, chairman of
tho house ways and means committee
presented the adminlMtrntlon'a $11.538,.
000,000 bond bill Saturday.
Tho war and navy deportment sent
In deficiency estimate of 1659,612.000,
Including 1350,000,000 for the new de-
atroyer fleet.
With tho 1935,000,000 asked by the
tPPln board and the estimates ex
pected from other government bran
ches, a total of about 120,000,000 will
ba asked In addition to $7,000,000,000
previous war appropriation. A billion
will be needed to start soldier Insur
ance. Tho urgent deficiency bill alone thin
year la expected to be upwards of $,
000.000.000 In Itself, a half doen times
tha amount spent by a congress a few
years ago.
The housa will begtu work Tuesday
on the 811,538.000,000 war bond bill.
This will provide means by which a
man with only $5 may aid his govern
ment by buying a bond.
Two billion dollars of war savings
bonds will be placed on sale through
the postotflces. Interest will bo paid
In advance that la, for $1.10 one may
purchase a $5 five-year bond. Not
more than $1000 worth of theso may
ba bought by any one person.
If the purchaser Is pressed for mo
ney after buying the bond the gov
ernment will permit him to turn It In
for cash. He will then be paid alao 2
per cent for the use of the money.
Passage In the house of the soldier
Insurance bill, which permits any en
listed man to take out government In
surance at $ a thousand Is expected
before the end of the week. Opposi
tion Is scattering. The army asked
la3.4DO.000 for field artillery and $77.
j 182.000 for ammunition for this
, branch; $168,000,000 for machine guns
jand for target practice $11,000,000.
DIAMOND JIM'S
JEWELS PLACED
UPON THE BLOC Kl
NKW YORK. Aug. St.-Thlrty com
plete sets of Jewels, the entire collec
tion of the late "Diamond Jim" llrady,
aside from those, bequeathed In liU
will, are on the market today. Hlds
are being received from Jewelers
throughout tha country.
The collection Includes 12.000 diam
onds. Tho gems are valued at more
than $750,000. It required nearly three
full newspaper columns to list them.
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.ROME, Aug. 31. It la stated at tha
Vatican that Pope llenodlct on receiv
ing Resident Wilson's reply to his
peace proposals did not attempt tu
conceal his bitter disappointment ami
that ha rogarda tha president's answer
as leaving llttlo room for further peace
efforts at present. It has been no se
cret that tho pope hoped for a more
favorable response from the United
States that from anywhere else.
Hofore President Wilson's reply was
read It was said at tha Vatican that
the responses from tho various gov
ernments were expected to be more fa
vorable than tho tone of tho press com
ment. At tho same tlmo tho pope was
reported to hava signified his Inten
tion of Issuing a reply after receiving
answers from all the belligerents,
pointing out questions In regard to
which all tho nations nt war might
be In agreement and others concern
ng which It would bo necessary to hold
discussions.
AUTOMOBILE JOBBERS
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CHICAGO, Sept. 4. There was just
one buyer In the Chicago wheat mar
ket today, and he didn't even visit the
board of trade. He was Uncle Sam,
and he had an office In the Otis build
ing, two blocks from the board.
,. There was one basic price, $2.20,
fixed by President Wilson. The meth
ods pursued were very simple. The
man who received the wheat had it
placed in an elevator, obtained a re
ceipt from the elevator, took his re
ceipt to the Otis building, and got hia
money.
Through a misunderstanding a little
spot wheat sold at slightly above the
government basis, but the local rep
resentative of the food administration
issued a warning that there must be no
repettion of the offense.
MIK BITE
PK FATAL TO
TIC i
DAVENPORT, Wash., Se;t, i. Er
ther, 2-year-old daughter of .Taeo
Woltt, while playing in a shed near
the house was bitten by a rattlesnake
which refuse dto let go of the liule
tot'B fiuger until beaten off by a sifter
5 years old.
The little girl was rushed to a doc
tor, but soon died from the poisonous
bite.
FANCY PRICE FOR HOGS
Department of Justice Is
Making Close Inquiry of
Several Large Magazines
GERMAN AIRMEN KILL
108 IN NIGHT RAID
EXPECTED TO VISIT
PORTLAND IN OCTOBER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-Tha sen
ate spent Monday's hollduy In the
sharpest clashes of Its fight over war
profits taxation and again decisively
defeated proposals of tho IiUjIi tiu ad
vocates. Senator La Follolte's maximum
amendment for war profits taxes pro
posing a flat Increase of TO per cent
over existing rates, was rejected by a
vote of 65 to 20, Another by the Wis
consin senator for a (15 per cent In
crease whs (If feu I ml Bit to 17.
Senator voting for tha I. Follotto
amendment were: Aahurst,'. Iloruh.
Hrady, (lore, tlronun, llollis, Hunting,
Johnson of California, Johnson of
South l'akotu, Jones of Washington,
Ketiyou. King, La KollHte, McKellur,
McNary, Noirls, Thompson, Tmmmoll,
Vardnman,
The final vote on the war profits
section Is to be taken Wednesday, but
an Increase of about one third to $1,
0fi0.000.000, I expected to atamt. To
morrow another amendment by Sen
ator La Foiled will come up, for a 80
per cent gross levy, together with a
complete substitute proposed by Sena
tor Mollis for the finance committee"
compromise provision.
Hut three recruit were gained In
today's voting by the high tax advo
cntes In addition to the 17 who votad
Saturday for Senator Johnson's maxi
mum proposal of an 80 per cent tax.
Senators King. McKellar and Tram
mell voted for both the La Fullett
proposals.
A few additions are expected on
other pending amendments for various
flat taxes down to 48 per cent, but
Senator Horah said today, after tin
vote on Senator La Toilette's maxi
mum amendment, thut the bill proba
bly would go to the president bonrlng
Its present total tax levy of $2.5(10,-000,000,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. "Searching
inquiry into the utterances of German
language newspapers in the United
States, Socialistic magazines and lit
erature of so-called peace societies
and associations, regarded aa likely to
lead to prosecution In some Instances,
is being conducted by the department
of Justice.
The department considers Its posi
tion strengthened by the recent de
cision of Federal Judges Hough of
New York, and Speer' of Georgia, in
sustaining the action of Postmaster
General Burleson in refusing the priv
ileges of the mails to "The Masses"
and "The Jeffersonian."
Recent utterances and .activities of
Mayor Thompson, of Chicago ,and The
Republican, a newspaper which In
dorses hira, in connection with the con
vention there of tho People's Council
of American for Democracy and Peace,
also are being scrutinized.
The department nas neld repeatedly
that it is not its function to prohibit
cr to break up pacifist meetings or
conventions, but. a close scrutiny of
the utterances of speakers and others
at such meetings is maintained to de
termine possible violations of the es
pionage act.
r Included in the Investigation of al
leged seditious publications and oth
; era of a character regarded as open to
j question, are individual newspapers
and magazines published in German In
this country and the advertising and
other literature of the American league
I against militarism, the People's coun
jdl, the league of conscientious objec
tors, and other organizations affiliated
i with them or of a similar character,
j The time Is not far distant, however,
i in the opinion of some officials, when
! the government will begin prosecu
jtions. Hundreds of newspapers and
.magaznie articles whose propriety ad-
mittedly is ope'n to two Interpretations
have been placed before officials here.
;In most instances, It Is said, these ar
ticles have been cleverly worded so
jas to bring them virtually within the
j law while at the same time creating
;the effect desired.
j A large number of the articles and
j editorials under Investigation do not
; attack the government, but . center
I their criticism upon allies of the Unit
jed States. What proceedings, if any,
can be taken in these instances, It was
raid, depends wholly upon the word
ing of each individual article.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-One hundred
and eight persons were killed and
92 injured In last night's German air
raid over the Isle of Thanet, Lord
French announced today.
The raid covered the Chatham-Sheer-ness
area of England. Chatham Is a
naval base and Sheerness Is a military
and naval depot.
Of the casualties 107 dead and 86
wounded were announced In an admi
ralty statement as "naval casualties."
The civilian casualties were one
killed and six wounded.
"About six enemy airplanes followed
the south bank of the Thames from
10:40 to 11 T30 last night," tho official
statement said. "Our machines arose
and anti-aircraft guns were In action
without results." . ,
OE CORNERING TRADE
NEW YORK. Aug. 30.-The mem
uers or tne National association of
Automobile Jobbers were Indicted by
the federal grand Jury here this after
noon for alleged violation of tho Sher
man law. The indictments contain
two counts conspiring to restrain In
terstate trade In automobile accessor
ies and attempting to monopolize It.
Tha charges date back from the for
mation of the association in Chicago
on May 11, 1915, to the present time.
The association numbers among Its
members men prominent in the trade
throughout the country. Bench war
rants have been issued for the persons
named in the Indictments.
PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 4.- Replying
to an invitation to visit Portland, ex
tended to him In a telegram a week
ago by tho Portland Ad club and Cham
ber of Commerce, James W. Gerard,
former ambassador to Germany. In a
; telegram received at the chamber tc
jday. says, that his schedule Is some
what Indefinite at present, but that
It might be possible for him to visit
Portland about tho middle of the
month. He added that ho would ad
vlse the chamber definitely later on.
Mr. Gerard Is at present In tho mid
dle west and has planned to come to
the coast. He has already accepted
an Invitation to visit Spokane, extend
ed by the Ad club of that city.
RUSSIAN GENERAL IS DRY
AFTER BEING i IN LANE COUNTY'S
HELD FOR TREASON EIGHT FOR IRE EOOD
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CARLTON. Or., Sept. 4. F. J. Can
field delivered 85 head of hogs to
George Zimmerman here yesterday, for
which he received a total of $2035.
The average weight of the hogs was
'179 pounds. All were of Mr. Canfield's
own raising and they were raised on
clover and other forage and finished
with grain.
RUSSIAN DUKE ARRESTED
PFTkOUItAD. Sapj. 5. General
Guiko, former commander on the
southwestern fruit, charged with
treasonable conduct toward the revolu
tion, will be exiled from Russia. Gen
eral Gurko, according to reports, is
th3 first person against whom such a
measure has been taken by the revolu
tionary fcoverrment. He will be per
mitted to choose tho place of his resi
dence. A commission has been appointed
by the government to draft a law for
the summary pu-iirhmont of treason-
PETROGRAD, Sept. 4.-Grand Duke,' b ' ln which Is in-
Michaelis Alexandrovitch, brother of
the former emperor, and his wife have
been placed under arrest in connection
with the counter revolutionary plot re
cently discovered.
According to tne uen
Dmltrl-Faulovltch also has been ar
rested.
tended to include all Russia.
TWO AMERICANS KILLED
OTTAWA. On!., Sept. 3 H. W.
Oriesbach. Sweet Grass, Mont., and J.
Grand Duke R' Brennsn- Tacoma, Wash., were list
en as Kiiieu in acuuu in inn Canadian
casualty list Issued today. Among the
gased is named R. J. McAdam, Butte.
Mont.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 30. Lane coun
ty farmers are beating the drought.
They are raising corn with stalks 10
to 12 feet in height and well devel
oped ears of grain without rainfall or
irrigation. Cultivation has not only
saved the crop in a dry year, but has
produced a good crop through the re
tention of moisture in the ground since
early spring.
Rival exhibits of "dry farming" corn
were made in Eugene this week. W.
W. Potter, who lives near Creswell,
exhibited stalks 12 feet tall and the
r-3 well filled. It was grown on
'ob!e" lan 1. W. J. Lee, farmfns; near
Mac's station, between Eugene and
S'irinsfielrt. brought In stalks of corn
10 feet In height, with two well-formed
ears of corn to the stalky His crop
will avera?! between seven and eight
feet in height.
AMERICAN8 IN CASUALTY LIST
Canyon City: Chrome iron la now
bringing into the country many thous-
and dollars of new money.
Oregon Is asked to double grain crop
for nest year.
j OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 5.-The name
of H. Dolf, Kirkland, Wash,, appeared
on today's list as having been wounded.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30. Formal
refusal of the United Railroads to ar
bitrate differences which led to a walk
out of 1783 employes was dispatched to
the San Francisco hoard of supervisors
by President Jesse W. Lillenthal late
yesterday, coincident with tho first
operation of steam trains by the city
administration in an effor to alleviate
inconvenience caused by tne strike.
''This is no controversy to arbi
trate," said the president to the su
pervisors. "Certain of our wnployes,
without giving any notice of making
any complaint, abandoned their cars.
We have proceeded to fill their places.
With adequate police protection or If
permitted to provide open . armed
guards ourselves, we are prepared to
operate ever car on a normal sched
ule." The steam trains were routed from
a large Industrial district to make
transfer connections with various mu
nicipal car lines. Only one fare was
charged. Immediate operation of au
tomobile bus lines by the city was or
dered by the board of supervisors,
who arr-onriated $5000 for this pur
pose. The motor busses will start as
soon as possible, probably within two
or three days, it was announced. Scat
tered cases of violence were reported
to the police in the course of the day.
No one was seriously injured.
Marshfield: Coos Ray Shipbuilding
company is Installing a 250 horsepow
er motor which will be served by the
Oregon Power company.
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ESTIMATED AT FORTY
MILLION BUSHELS
TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 31. Ohio
raised nearly 40,000,000 bushels of
wheat this year, according to Frank
I. King, a Toledo grain dealer.
"Farmers have disposed of nearly
5,000,000 bushels at an average of
about the fixed price of $2.20," he
said today. "On the balance they will
hardly realize more than $2.10 per
bushel. Part of It Is poorer than the
No. 2 red grade. The total crop should
net them around $85,000,000."
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VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 4.-Moo
Wing, a full-blooded Chinese youth,
who was born In the state of Oregon.
and thereby Is an American cltlzon.
Is among those who have been called
by the district exemption board for
service In the national army from
Clarke county. Wing claimed exemp
tion because he had a mother now In
China, to whom he sends part of his
earnings. The Clarke county board
denied his claim and this action has
been approved by. the district board.
He Is beireved to be the first Chinese
drawn Into the national army In this
state, If not In the country.
TO SAFE THOMAS J.
BE CAREFUL IN USE
LOIR FLOUR TO BE
RESULT OF WHEAT
' PRICE-FIXING ACT
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 31.
Flour prices will come down as a re
sult of the fixing of wheat prices on
the basis" of $2.20 for No. 1 northern
spring, according to millers here to
day. They were uncertain how great
the drop would be.
"The price fixed will naturally mean j
some reduction In the price of flour,"
said John Crosby of the Washburn
Crosby company. "How much It will
be reduced depends upon the govern
ment , The government will determine
finally how much we art to be allowed
for cost of manufacture."
A. C. Lorlng, president of the Pa
cific Flourlrfg Mills company, said the
reduction In the price of flour would
"make It a great deal less than this
spring."
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HEAVY BRITISH CASUALTIES
LONDON, Setp. 4.I5rltIsh casual
ties In the last week are 15,614. They
are divided as follows:
Killed or died of wounds: Officers,
364; men, 3880. Wounded or missing:
Officers. 846; men, 10,524.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Reduced
consumption of sugar Is asked ot the
American people by the food adminis
tration that a threatened ahortitge In
the allied countries may be averted.
Lack of ships to move tho Cuban and
Hawaiian crops promptly, it is de
clared, makes it necessary that this
county share Its sugar supply with
Europe.
"The conservation asked of tho
American people," the administration's
statement says, "does not necessarily
demand great sacrifices. It only" noeds
the careful use of sugar to enable
America to mako up the difference
required by the needs of the allies."
The sugar supply Is estimated this
year at 18,659,792 tons, against an av
erage production of 18,712,997. Amer
ican consumption for the first half of
the present year was slightly larger
than last'year, which the food admin
istration attributes to hoarding within
the household. Both the American
cane'and beet crops will bo larger than
normal.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1-President
Wilson Intervened to save Thom
as J. Mooney, who Is under sentcne
of death for murder a one of tho
five conspirators In the preparcdues
pnrudo bomb plot,
Thomas O'Connor, attorney for Tom
Mooney, received word from Huira
luotito Friday thut Governor Stephen
had received a telegram from Presi
dent Wilson aakiiig that the governor
either commute tho senteuce or take
other stops to stay execution until such
time as an Investigation could l8 made
Into tho charges against Frank C. Ox
man of Durkee, Or., and other phases
of the case that have resumed in char
ges of a frame-up against Mooney.
Oxman Is under Indictment for at
tempted subornation of perjury as a
witness against Mooney for endeavor
ing to secure V, K. Rlgall, of Grayvllle.
111., to come to San Francisco and cor
roborate his Identification ot Mooney.
President Wilson's message to Gov.
crnor Stephens was received In Sac
ramento on May 11, six days before
tfce date set for Moonoy's execution,
but was made public only Friday.
HOUSE CONSIDERS
GREATEST EXPENSE
BILL IN ITS HISTORY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-The house
today began consideration of the $11,.
538,945,400 war bond and certificate
bill, the biggest measure of lis kind
ever presented to congress. It has,
In the main, tho support ot both Repub
licans and Democrat.
In outlining the bill, Democratic
Leader Kltchin declared there was no
way of avoiding an allied loan If the
United States was to remain In the
war.
Mr. Kltchin began fortifying the bill
against possible Republican attacks on
the grounds that Its convertibility and
tenure features, should bo changed, by
declaring that most of those burdens'
would bo assumed by the allies.
Arrangements would bo made, he
said, so that every time a United
States bond was converted Into one of
a higher Interest, the Interest In allied
bonds given In exchange for them
would be similarly advanced and that
the tenure of allied bonds would be
the same as those Issued here for al
lied loans.
HOOVER IS NOW
IN CHARGE OF
SUGAR INDUSTRY
PEACE MEETING 8ET
AMSTERDAM, Sept, 6. Austrian
and Hungarian delegates will discuss
peace In Vienna in December.
WASHINGTON, Sept. B.-Control ot
the sugar Industry In the United States
was placed voluntarily In the Hands of
the food administrator today by re
finers' representatives, who agreed to
import all raw sugar through a com
mittee to be named by Herbert Hoover.