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THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1900.
IT IS WELL UNDERSTOOD THAT OUR
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Are not merely 'fictitious appellations they mean something.
Greatly reduced prices on a superior and carefully selected
stock of merchandise, all purchased before rise In prices and
lowered still more by the Clearance Sale.
Clearance Prices In
Crockery Section
Havlland's China Dinner Sets,
phlne shape
60 pieces, -white, $12.83 set.
100 pieces, white, &2.12 set.
In Granite Iron
No 9 Tea Kettle, 6Sc each.
Three-quart Tea Pot, 27c each.
Jose-
Royal Worcester Corsets
Sorne, Clearance Specials
Medium length, heavy -wilts
-drilling eorset6; ?L25 gTade.
Blafclr "sateen corset, heavy
boning, watch-spring front
and side steels
Our &25 and $2.50 grades.
69c
$1.47
White Fair
Clearance Specials
Por women
IflUWC 50 values at 98c each.
tlUnno $2.25 values at $1.37 each.
DRAWERS :olSfr5L75values'
Cold type can hut offer a hint as to
value and beauty. Come and see them.
Attractive Prices on
Jackets, Hats and Shoes
"With these correct, the outdoor toilet
Is almost complete.
See Our Ready-to-Wear Hats
At Half Price
Also small lines. , . M
Styles, such as sailors, walking1 hats,
Tarns, etc., etc., at ridiculously low
prices to close.
Hats to 75c at 18c each.
Hats to SL00 at 25c each.
Hats to $2.00 at 29c each.
All Our Colored Jackets
For Ladles and Misses
Values to $5.00 at $2.82 each.
"Values to $8 00 at $4 25 each.
Values to $12.50 at $6 84 each.
, Values to $17.00 at $8 35 each.
I Every one this season's goods.
Women's Shoes 98c Pair
Here's Food for Thought
Spring- heels, values to $3 50, sizes 2
to 5.
"With heels, values to $5.00; sizes 2
to L
OREGON'S DEAD AN LUZON
A&& BODIES TO BE BROUGHT BACK
2SEXT SPRTJTG.
Corps of Skilled TJndertaXcers and
Embalmers "Sow Preparing: the
Remains for Shipment.
News -which -will le satisfactory to all
parents and relatives of volunteers buried
in the Philippines -was received yesterday
by Captain C. E. McDonell, formerly
commanding company H. The quarter
master department at Washington states
that work is now under -way for the re
moval to this country for final interment
of all American soldiers. Those now
hurled there, it is estimated, will be sent
to San Francisco by the end of March, of
thi year. The exact date when the re
mains of soldiers belonging to particular
regiments -will arrive in this country can
not be foretold now.
Ever since the regiment returned home
bereaved relatives have looked forward
to the time when they could perform the
last sad rites over those who did not
anarch back. However general sentiment
may differ on this subject, it cannot be
denied that all parents cling tenaciously
to the hope of lajlng the ashes of their
sons to rest where the graves may be
Islted and adorned. And although the
fountain at grief Is started afresh at be
holding the casket containing their soldier
boys who have fallen in distant lands,
the absence of paternal hands at the dying
bed would be atoned so far as possible by
the evidences of loving memory. Some or
the hoys themselves expressed the "hope
of finally resting on native soil. Captain
McDonell wrote to the quartermaster
general with the purpose of ascertaining
as closely as possible the date when the
bodies were to reach this country. Hi3
letter was as follows:
"To the Chief Quartermaster, LT. S.
Army, "Washington, D. C Sir: "Will you
kindly inform me as to whether a time is
set for the return of the bodies of our
men who were buried in Manila, and
what the chances are for their speedy re
moval? Respectfully,
"C. E. M'JDONELL,
Late Captain Second Oregon Volunteer
Infantry."
To this was made the following reply:
"War Department, Quartermaster-General's
Office. Washington, D. C Respect
fully Returned to Mr. C. E. McDonell,
Portland, Or.: By direction of the quartermaster-general,
you are respectfully In
formed that a corps of undertakers and
skilled embalmers is now in the Philip
pine islands, engaged in preparing for
shipment to San Francisco, Cal., as rapidly
as practicable, the remains of our soldiers
now burled there, which work it is ex
pected will be completed by the end jof
March, 1900. The date of arrival of any
"bodies, however, cannot now be definitely
stated. W. F. PATTON,
"Quartermaster United States Army.
According to this statement, the remains
of every dead soldier of the Second Ore
gon, except Ellas Hutchinson and James
Harrington, will be home next spring.
Hutchinson rests beneath eight fathoms
of sea, three miles out from the mouth of
an Iiuis de Apra harbor, in Guam island,
and will never receive sepulture In Amer
ican soil. Harrington, the most gallant
fighter of the regiment, is buried in the
little cemetery of San Isidro, his grave
being hidden, and known only by a dia
gram of distances and points made by
Chaolain Gilbert. At the time of his
death the reciment was so far from Ma
nila that the body could not be shipped
to the nsual cemetery for the soldiers,
and the secretive manner of interment
was for the purpose of preventing the
Filipinos discovering the grave and dese
crating It. San Isidro was occupied by
the insurgents from the time of Its evacu
ation by General Iawton's column in
May, 1899, until recaptured when the win
ter campaign opened, so that it is possible
Harrington's resting gilace will never be
ifrmnd. He received theitnlghest tribute
possible for a private from General Law
ton, and said he had no friends in the
West who knew wheip he was while in the
army. All the other soldiers were buried
near the old Marine hospital, by Cavlte,
and In Paco cemetery, or on Battery
knoll, in Manila, and Chaplain Gilbert at
tended to having suitable marks placed
over the graves, in order that there would
Te no confusion, if ever Temoved. A few
of the boys have marble slabs marking)
their graves, as for some time it was not
believed by the soldiers that any effort
would ever "be made to have the remains
of privates shipped back to their native
.country.
CONTRACT FOR PIPE LINE.
WolJE-as Ztrlclcer "Work IOTrest Bid
ders on "a Big: Jol In Montana.
F- lEu "Zimmerman, secretary of the
Wojti! &JZwicker iron works, has just re
turnefr fcron?a business trip to Butte.
Mont, where- .her secured a contract for
a pipe line, valued at $175,000 The Port
land firm did some close figuring, as Chi
cago and Pittsburg men were on hand in
opposition, but the bids of the Eastern peo
ple were not comprehensive enough to
carry off the prize.
The Butte city water works, a wealthy
corporation of Montana men, are supply
ing the town with water, but the rapid
growth of the place made a more abund
ant supply necessary, so Big Hole river,
some 30 miles distant, will be tapped,
though the water has to he raised by"
steam power to a height of 800 feet per
pendicularly at the banks of the Big Hole,
where a reservoir is to be constructed. The
contract calls for about seven miles of
26-lnch riveted pipe, which is to be from
three-sixteenths to five-eighths of an Inch
In thickness. This pipe is to be set In the
ditch prepared for it by the water conv
pany, and there. Wolff & Zwlcker's duties
will end. The work of manufacturing the
dIdo will encaee culte.A number of iron
workers all summer, anil the weight" of !
the material Is estimated at 1800 tons, thusj
requiring 180 cars of 10 tons capacity each,
to transport it from Portland to Butte.
Mr. Zimmerman says the water of Big
Hole river is cold, clear and pure and
rivals that of Bull Run in its wholesome
ness and abundance. As only seven miles
of metal pipe are to be used, however,
there will remain 23 miles which will be
traversed by wooden flumes of the same
diameter, 25 inches.
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MONEY FOR BICYCLE PATHS
Balance of Kearly $5000 in the
Treasury Collection Fees.
County Auditor W. H. Pope has made
up the subjoined statement, showing the
amount of bicycle tax collected in 1899 and
the disposition made of It:
Total number of tags sold, 9657,
at $125 .$12,07125
Disposition
Paid for 10,000 tags 4 454 00 ,
Printing receipts, warr'tSy
etc 57 50 ,
Material, making, hauling
and seting up sign- i
boards 156 72
Surveying paths 1S6 90 i
Lumber, road district 4... 168 08
Labor, district 4 314 OS
Lumber, road district 5... 31 95
Labor, district 5 1693 87
Lumber, road district 6.. 5 45
Labor, district 6 849 85
Labor, district 7 201 93
Labor district 8 962 66 $ 5,412 99
Cash remaining in treasury 4,785 51
Balance to be accounted for by
sheriff 1,872 75
Total $12,07125
Auditor Pope adds the following note:
"The sheriff has probably paid some col
lectors of the bicycle tax, but has ren
dered no statement of the amount so dis
bursed." -
The law allows the sheriff not to exceed
25 cents of the amount collected on each
tag to defray the cost of col
lecting the tax, the making of
tags, and the printing of receipts.
This leaves $1 net on each tag for the
path fund, and, according to this method
of calculation, 9657 tags would realize to
tho county exactly $9657, and this sum has
been turned over by the sheriff to tne
county treasurer, so there is nothing due
from the sheriff. To estimate otherwise,
25 cents each on 9657 tags aggregates
READ THIS OF MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
A store cannot sell the quantity of Muslin Underwear we do with
out accumulating some odd lots without having some broken assort
ments of sizes without having some goods tumbled and slightly
soiled and handled. This Is our position. Today we alter It by a thor
ough cleaning up A rich chance for shrewd buyers.
$ .98 Universal Night Dresses at $ .59
$1.13 Universal Night Dresses at . ... .69
$1.19 Universal Night Dresses at $ .79
$1.63 Universal Night Dresses at $ .98
$3.19 Universal Night Dresses at. . ., $1.98
$ .43 Muslin and Cambric Drawers ... $ .29
$ .79 Muslin and Cambric Drawers $ .59
$1.29 Muslin and Cambric Drawers $ .98
$1.98 Muslin and Cambric Drawers. . ., . . .$1.39
$1.23 White Petticoats .' .$ .98
$1.63 White Petticoats , ,. .r $1.33
$2.49 White Petticoats .1 $1.98
$3.68 White Petticoats $2.49
$ .63 Muslin and Cambric Chemise. . . .. .. .,. .,.$ .49
$1.13 Muslin and Cambric 'Chemise . . .$ .79
$1.49 Muslin and Cambric Chemise ,. . .$1.19
$2.19 Muslin and Cambric Chemise , $1.69
$2.00 Hand-Embroidered Underskirts. ., $ .98
' $2.50 Hand-Embroidered Underskirts , $1.09
$3.50 Hand-Embroidered Underskirts $149
Sale of Ladles'
High-class tailored Jackets
Lot 1 High-class tailored
Jackets, all silk lined In
black and colors, regu
lar price $10 00, at
Lot 2 High-class tailored
Jackets, in a large va
riety of materials and
silk linings; regular
price, $1500, at
Lot 3 High-class tailored
Jackets, of finest ker
sey, beavers, covert
cloth, etc, in black and
colors; regular price $20;
- $5.
7.50
Just Received Again in Book Store
RICHARD CARVEL
DAVID HARUM
At Sale Prices
Music Store
Sousa's New March
THE MAN BEHIND THE GUNS
At Sale Prices
Offers more and better opportunities to economically inclined purchas
ers than can possibly be shown by any other house on the Pacific
Coast. That this fact is appreciated is evidenced by the avidity of the
eager buyers who daily throng our store.
OeGe99O999399fieeS00(9C9OOSOeOO99e6$tt(9
$2414 25. There was paid for tags, S4S4;
printing receipts, etc., $57 50, leaving a
balance of $1S72 75, which the sheriff
thinks he is entitled to retain under the
law. Out of this sum the sheriff 'paid the
salaries of clerks emploed on the work
in the office, Including a force which
worked at night for a while, and also field
collectors, who hunted up delinquents on
the outside, and enforced payment. The
sheriff evidently thinks it is not necessary
for him to make any statement to tno
auditor when there is nothing coming to
the county.
Auditor Pope, however, seems to con
strue the law differently, and infers by
his report that, as the law states that
the sheriff shall be allowed not to exceed
25 cents of the amount of each license to
cover the cost of collecting, that if the
total cost of collecting has been only say
15 cents of the amount of each tag, then
the sheriff should account for the remain
ing 10 cents. The auditor, therefore, ap
parently takes the view that Sheriff
Frazler ought to render a statement show
ine just how much of the $1872 it cost to
collect the tax, and if there Is any bal
ance It should be turned over to the coun
ty treasurer.
The sheriff appear to think it Is nobody's
business whether he made a profit or loss
in the transaction, and, -as before stated,
that he is entitled to the whole 25 cents.
Minister's Ankle Dislocated.
Kev. G. A. Blair, pastor of the First Cum
berland Presbyterian church, has been
confined to his home and bed since Sun
day, as a sequence of a severe accident
that happened that morning. He was on
his way from his home, on East Twenty
first street, to the church, on East Twelfth
street, when he accidentally slipped, and
falling, dislocated his right ankle, and also
broke some of the tendons. He was taken
back to his home, and the dislocation at
tended to. It was quite a severe, as well
as painful, Injury, and he has suffered
considerably during the week. He was
quite cheerful yesterday, and hopes to be
able to occupy his pulpit next Sunday;
but if not, arrangements for a supply will
be made. To add to the misfortune of the
family, Mrs. Blair is also confined with
sickness at her homo.
NEARLY ALL PAID.
Only a Few Men Allow Licenses to
Lapse.
City licenses for the current quarter
were nearly all paid in on Wednesday, the
last day of grace allowed, the books be
ing kept open till 6 P. M., In order to
give all an opportunity to secure licenses
and so avoid the payment of the 15 per
cent penalty. The amount received for
licenses up to Wednesday evening was
$33,411 50, about $1000 more than the re
ceipts for the whole of last quarter. It Is
probable that about $2000 more will be re
ceived by the end of the quarter, making
the receipts for this quarter $3000 In ex
cess of lost quarter. There is, however,
but slight probability that this increase
will be maintained during the other quar
ters of the year, for it is understood that
a number of grocers who paid $100 for
liquor licenses for this quarter intend to
dispose of the stock of liquors they have
on hand and go out of the liquor business
next quarter.
Only one liquor dealer was delinquent
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED NEWSHIPMENT-Olt
David Harum , ;
Richard Carvel
When Knighthood Was-in -flower andr
Janice Meredith
JL JL J. jL-JL jl JLv
in his license, but there were quite a
number of hucksters, expressmen and
other payers of small licenses who failed
to get in on time, and have laid them
selves liable for the 15 per cent penalty.
Several of these tried to avoid the pen
alty by sending in checks to the city
treasurer yesterday morning which were
dated several days back, but the post
marks on the envelopes showed that the
letters had not been received at the post
office until after 6 P. M. Wednesday, so
.the checks were returned by the treas
urer. Of course, all those who have laid
themselves liable for the 15 per cent pen--alty
make all kinds of excuses and en
deavor to wriggle out of paying it. They
have only themselves to blame, and the
city officers must carry out the law im
partially, without fear or favor, or it
would soon become a dead letter,
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"AT GAY CONEY ISLAND."
Popular Farce Still Draws Crowds to
Cordray'a.
Another large and appreciative audience
greeted the farce-comedy "At Qay Coney
Island" at Cordray's last night, and kept
up a continual peal of laughter from cur
tain to curtain. New faces, new song3
and new jokes have been added to this
successful play since last It appeared in
Portland, and all of them have been Im
provements. The music Is the-newest that
the popular composers have turned out,
and the specialties-are all. of a high order.
There has been a largo advance sale,
which has increased as the week wore on,
and there is every assurance that the
remaining two nights and matinee will be
crowded to the doors.
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Is still receiving- the hearty response of Portland's best judges- of values. They;
come here and buy because they find our1 prices admit of no comparison.
Have You Taken Advantage
OF THIS
Reduction? Have you seen what it means in dollar-saving for.you?
of variety and superior quality we are showing the greatest line of
en s Suits a
In extent
in
the city
rCj Look at
- the
V--4t Prices
$ 9.00 All-wool Suits for.,. -. . --.
$10.00 and $12.00 All-wool Suits for. . . .
$12.00 and $14.00 All-wool Suits for .
$15.00 All-wool SJuits for
$20.00 All-wool Suits for
$25.00 All-wool Suits for $21 o25
The Same. Discount on All Our Overcoats
UAL CLEARANCE,SALF
TOE QUALITY OF OUR LARGE
STOCK OF
A OB iiS cffTQ odltS
IS THE BEST
Our-prlces-are the lowest.
Every article reduced.
Reduction -of-price on remodeling fur -garments.
THE SILYERFIEtD FUR MANUFACTURING CO.
MAXL ORDERS PROMPTLY FUJLED.
283-28$ Morrlson-St., Portland, Oreson
Telephone, Oregon, Oalc 051.
Send lor Catalogue.
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en s i roosers
$2.00 Working Pants $1.50
$3.00 Wool Pants $2.50
$5.00 "Paragon" Pants $4.25
$6.00 "Paragon" Pants $5.10
$&oo "Paragon" Pants.... .$6.50
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$1.50 Fedora Hats $1.25
$2.00 Crusher Hats $1.70
$2.50 Fedora Hats $2.15
$3.00 Stiff Hats $2.50
$4.00 Stetson Hats 3,50
iOVS -3UltS
$3.00 Wool Reefer Suits $2.15
$5.00 Wool Reefer Suits $3.85
$5.00 Reefer Coats $3.35
$5.00 Top Coats $3.65
50c and 60c Knee Pants 39c
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50c Percale Shirts 39c
75c Percale Shirts 59c
$1.00 Percale Shirts 85c
$1.50 Manhattan Shirts $1.25
Broken lots in "Monarch" Shirts
at half price.
WHEN YOU SEE IT IN OUR AD. IT'S SO!
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THE POPULAR-PRICE CLOTHIERS
BEN SELLING, Manager
THIRD AND OAK STREETS
PORT OF PORTLAND.
Report o Operations for the Last
Quarter Amendment to Bylaws.
At the meeting of the board of commis
sioners of the Port of Portland yesterday,
reports of the operations and disburse
ments of tho commission for the month
of December, 1899, and receipts and dis
bursements for the quarter ending De
cember 31, were presented. It was or
dered that the copies o the monthly re
port furnished every member be hereafter
mailed to them at least two days before
the regular monthly meeting, in order
that they may have time to look over
them and Investigate them before the
-meeting takes place.
The committee appointed to revise tho
blaws and prepare such amendments a3
might be deemed necessary were granted
further time and ordered to report at the
next regular meeting.
In the absence of President Wilcox, "Vice
President Williams occupied the chair,
and there were present Commissioners Mc
Craken, Brown, Flandera, Hughes and
Ladd.
A complimentary resolution extending
the thanks of the commission to the late
clerk, Charles Randolph, for his faithful
and efficient services from the organiza
tion of the board up to the time of his
resignation, a period of about eight years,
was adopted and ordered spread on the
records.
The monthly report of operations and
expenditures shows that during the month
of December 39,031 cubic yards of mate
rial were excavated, in 552 working hours
and 3S1 hours' actual digging. The num
ber of cubic feet of sawdust consumed
during this period was 80,960.
The receipts and disbursements of the
commission for the quarter ending Decem
ber 31, 1S99, were as follows:
Receipts
Rec'd tax acc't delinquent tax.. 5 935 S5
Ropiilnr fnr 1RV7 920 31
Regular tax, 1S9S ... 16,077-43-
Returned deposit w 1th Charles
Randolph 2C0C0
Rent of scow - 32 o(J
Cancelled warrant No. 2393 3S SO
Total - 513,205 9G
Disbursements . WCT
Dredge Portland old account... $ 2..6S 10
Current account '.651 11
City dredge account 120 W
Expense account -J
Interest account 1J b
Overdraft, Oct. 1, 1S99 I6G94 56
Bal. on hand Dec. 31, 18S9 7 38- S.701 H
Total 51S.205 95
On motion of Mr. Hughes, it was or
dered that the clerk forward a copy of
the monthly statement of operations and
expenditures of the commission to each of
the membersjit least two days before the
regular montnly meetings.
The report of the treasurer was sub
mitted and referred to the audiUng com
mittee. Mr. Flanders, of the committee appoint
ed at tho last meeting to prepare necessary
amendments to the bylaws, reported that
the work had not been completed, and
asked for further time.
This request was granted, and the com
mittee was directed to report at the next
regular meeting. It was also ordered
that copies of any proposed changes in the
bylaws be sent to each member of the
commission before the next meeting.
A communication was received from tho
Star Land Company in regard to a bill
presented it by the commission in the sum
of ?300 for an old boiler taken from tne
sunken tug, Louisa "Vaughn. The com
pany stated that they had raised the boiler
from tho bottom-of th river; that It was
not worth more than. $100, and that they
had a counter claim to offset the bill for
use of derricks, warehousing, etc.
The board, while not clear as to tho
value of the boiler, did not like the rep4y,
and the cleric was directed to inform the
company that the board was not awaro
that It owed the company anything, and
to ask It to submit an itemized bill.
The Northwest Wrecking & Dredging
Company, who hired two dumping scow3
from the commission, to be used in con
nection with the dredging in front of
Montgomery's dock, presented a bill for
repairs to said scows amounting to soma
?60.
On motion of Hughes, the hill was re
jected, and the clerk was instructed to In
form the company that If they did not
want the scows, to return them and pay
the rental agreed upon, J2 50 per day.
Camas Prairie. Idaho.
OREGON CITY. Jan. 9. To the Ed
itor.) Please inform me as to the charac
ter of the soil of Camas prairie, Idaho
county, Idaho, and whether it Is hilly or
not, for the benefit of two families in the
East who intend to settle In the North
west. A SUBSCRIBER.
The following statement is furnished by
a man familiar with Idaho Tho soil of
Camas prairie is a rich black clay loam,
producing excellent crops of grain and
the finest timothy. Tho prairie is really
a mountain valley, and took its name- from
the fact that its rich, moist soil produced
the wild comas in abundance. The valley
i3 comparatively level for many miles, but
Is penetrated at several points by pictur
esque, rolling foothlUs. Craig's mountain,
on the northwest, is a beautiful area, cov
ered with open pine timber, and to the
east and south i3 the rough Salmon river
ThisWeek's Special
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.WOMEN'S SHOES
Women's Storm Calf Lace. $3.00
valuw .'... $1.95
Women's Kid Lace, coin toe, $3
values $1.95
AH Shoes at Cut Prices During January,
. C GODDARD & CO.
OKEGONIAX BtmiDUJO,