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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1900)
THE MOSNTNG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1900. GH T DAYS DEMAND l4aMttC(lM For the well-groomed woman up-to-date wraps, hats, gloves, shoes, neckwear, etc. Our clearance sale makes these and all our other lines easily within your reacrrby itbe , TOSJAY - T Continues to attract crowds of economical buyers who realize that our 'Tis the banner bargain time of the year for general replenishing, but is flying rapidly, and should be used promptly. - AMAZING REDUCTIONS.. 860 12 OUR GREHT ,' r 3 9 n fcvif . 9 Prices still lower than our clearance rates on small lines, and others for closing quickly, such as Ready-to-Wesr Hats Fancy Dress Goods Fancy Silks Black Brocaded Silks and Satins Silk Lace Flounclngs Ladles' Slippers -and Suede Oxfordsi Muslin Underwear Books and Calendars Richardson's Linen Table Sets, Etc. Also Our Entire Line of Ladles' and Misses' Colored Jackets at About Half Price ?ii. OLDS & KING OLDS & KING FilSr&EREEJ FRANCHISE citit fc SUBURBAN COMPANY HAS SECURED IT. .Agreement Signed to Commence Work Before June and Finish, the Line by September. The franchise recently granted to G. Glass, jr., and A. F. Smith, for the con struction and operation of a street rail way from the Union depot, on Seventh, Couch and First streets, to South Port land, has been transferred to the City & Suburban Railway Company, who have entered Into an agreement to begin work on the proposed road within five months from the date of the granting of the fran chise, January 5, and to complete It from the Union depot to connection with the line on First street, and also from Jeffer son street up First to some point south of Grant street, by September 1. Messrs. Glass and Smith have no finan cial Interest In this matter further than &s representatives of property-owners on First street, and the transfer was without consideration other than the securing of the agreement for the building of the road. It will be remembered that Glass and Smith have held a franchise for this road i or several years, and have secured an. .extension of it more than once, while they have been endeavoring to secure the building of It. The property-owners on First street, after they got rid of the old one-horse Holladay car line, were very anxious to have an electric road on the street to bring back business Jh it, and they contributed some 522,000 to construct tracks from Couch to Jefferson street to enable the Oregon City cars, the cars of the Vancouver line of the Portland rail way system, and the Hawthorne-avenue cars to be run on that section of First street. First street was also Improved over this section with wood-block and brick pavements, and these expenditures on the part of the property-owners pro duced very satisfactory results "Now the extensions of the First-street line north and south are to be built, and cars of the City & Suburban, from some of the East Side lines probably, will be operated on First street. The Vancouver and Oregon City cars will also probably continue to run on First street, but Just what arrangements have been made with the City & Suburban Railway Company in regard to this are not made public. At the time an extension of the First street franchise was granted by the coun cil a few weeks ago, It was rumored that the Portland Street Railway Company would build the line on First street, but this was evidently a mistake. At all events an agreement for the building of the line as has been statedvhas been signed by the president of the City & Suburban Com pany, and It will without doubt be com pleted before next September. HELENA FEDERAL BUILDING Bentley Construction Co. Hakes the Lowest Bid on It. Arthur K. Bentley, of th Bentley Con struction Company, has just returned from an extended trip to the principal cities of the Northwest, where he has been look ing up the interests of his firm. His company's bid on the new federal building at Helena, Mont., has proven to be the lowest, and the company is likely to begin operations there In the spring. The new edifice will be constructed of granite, and Is to be four stories In height The spe cifications give 20 months to complete the building in. The contract calls for every thing but heating, elevators and electrio works. Mr. Bentley's bid was $262,000 He found very few large towns free from smallpox, though the citizens of such places as Butte, Spokane and Seattle, are keeping "mum" on the subject, with al most perfect unanimity. At Butte there are ISO cases, but the inhabitants fear to say a word about It, as it might interfere with the boom that is now on In fact, there is no alarm at all among the people who live there, and what little fuss is kicked up is by strangers, who find them selves in the city for the time being. The BLANKETS ALL SLIGHTLY SOILED. OR IRREGULAR BLANKETS AT ACTUAL COST FOR TODAY ONLY l ;f-; MATERIAL REDUCTIONS ON - Every Article in Our EstaBIishment . CLOSING-GUT-SALE OF ODD LOTS OF MUSLIN UNDERWEAR CLOSING-OUT SALE OF ODD LOTS OF LACE CURTAINS, PORTIERES, BLANKETS AND COMFORTS GREAT REMNANT SALE Of DRESS GOODS GREAT REMNANT SALE OF SILKS GREAT REMNANT SALE OF TAPESTRIES GREAT SALE OF LACES AND EMBROIDERIES Offer magnificent money-saving opportuni ties in all our various lines, including ,ery9 QIassware9 ate Woven Fabrics of Every Description, ao$t99setet9eeaeeceettta9taeee disease is of a very mild type, and deaths are very rare. He found more or less effort in the line of quarantine regulations at all points except Butte There were only two cases at Helena, and these were being Isolated by the city authorities. PERSONAL MENTION. M. K. Hall, of Rainier, is at the Im perial. B. S. Hooper, of Denver, is registered at the Portland. E. H. Clarke, of Pendleton, is registered at the Portland. H. Iu Colvln, of Marshland, is registered at the St Charles. N. "Whealdon, of The Dalles, 13 regis tered at the Perkins. F. H. Kidder, of Island City, Or., is reg istered at the Perkins G. E. Blew and family, of Boseburg, are registered at the Perkins George P. Moon and wife, of Omaha, are guests of the Portland. J. Hughes, an Oakland, Cal., business man, Is at the St. Charles. A. T. Vandevanter, sheriff of King county, Washington, is at the Imperial. George Crelghton, an attorney of Mos cow, Idaho, le registered at the Imperial. W. H. Clifford and family, who have removed from Colfax, "Wash , to Portland, are at the St. Charles. P. P. Dunne ("Mr. Dooley"), of Chi cago, and Calvin Cobb, of the Boise Statesman, who have been spending sev eral days in Portland, left last evening for Grant's Pass, near which city they will remain some time in the seclusion of the continuous woods, where rolls the Rogue. Mr. Dunne intends to make a trip to Southern California, but hopes to return to Chicago by way of Portland. NEW YORK, Jan. 25 T. J. Gorman, president of the Blue Mountain Ice Com pany, Portland, was a visitor at the East ern office of The Oregonlan today. He has been In New York about a week, and leaves tomorrow morning for Portland, stopping at Chicago and other Western points en route, and expects to reach home in about two weeks LECTURE ON THE PHILIPPINES By Chaplain Gilbert Tonight, an entertaining story of the islands and people, scenes In barracks, camp, field and hospital, the Insurrecto, present outlook, etc Illustrated with curios Calvary Presbyterlah church. Admission, 25 cents a SMITH'S DANDRUFF POMADE Has yet to find the first case in which it failed to do all that is claimed for It, and is the best preparation for dandruff, itch ing scalp and falling hair, and will make hair grow. Price 50c, at all druggists. a v Your complexion, as well as your tem per, Is rendered miserable by a disordered liver. Improve both by taking Carter's kittle Xiiver .rms s Clothing. Ready-to-Wear Garments of All Kinds for Women, Misses and Children. Shoes9 Hats, Underwear,-Etc Books, Stationery, Toilet Articles, Etc. VALUES TO BE REMEMBERED IN ALL LINES MEI FRHNK &r xr ETOIANAPOIilS COITVTATION PKA.T.S TO OREGON. AP- Of our January Discount Sale are now in sight Have you taken advantage of this opportunity? Have you derived your share of the Reductions? so at once Some Ordinary Figures nary ii MEN'S DEPARTMENT 'Men's all-wool business suits, bright, new, fteeable patterns, regular price $9, Our handsome line of cheviot and serge suits that sold all season at $12 and A A $14, now .. U.ZO AH $15 suits now. :.r;i.:........llV.L' $12:75 AH $20 suits now .:. $17.00 Men's good working pants, well made and worth regular $2 .?. ;.. x " 'if? jr , :r Our entire line of all-wool $3 pants, crisp and clean patterns, now. .........'. $5.00 " Paragon " Pants now .... $4.25 $6.00 "Paragon" Pants now. .,...l.Ll,.:.$5,10 $8.00 "Paragon" Pants now .'. $6.50 Blue and black all-wool cheviot suits for young men from 14 to 19 years, double breasted or round-cut sacks; these are Oregon made goods and worth $7, now $5.10 A good all-wool reefer suit, for boys wear ing Anee pants, new and eatk patterns, v p sold regular at $3, now 4)Z. I J Boys' reefer coats, $5 values $3.35 Boys' top coats, $5 values $3.65 All-wool knee pants; 50c and 60c values :.r 39c All-wool knee pants, 75c values 62c All-wool knee pants, $1 values 85c ITREMEMBER, THESE PRICES ARE WHILE THIS SALE LASTS. WHEN YOU SEE IT IN OUR AD ITS SO THE POPULAR-PRICE CLOTHIERS ErCSELLING, Manager. COR. THIRD AND OAK STREETS Jfo Representatives From the O. N. G. There History of Past Efforts and Present Purpose. Oregon Is not represented at the meeting of the National Guard Association now being held In Indianapolis. Representa tives from this state were invited, but there wa9 no available fund to defray ex penses. J. N. Reece, president of tho Interstate National Guard Association, forwarded some time ago an appeal issued by General "W. B. Bend, of Minnesota, chairman of the executive committee of that association, outlining what National Guard friends of the various states hoped to secure as a result of the meeting now In session. A bill is being framed which will be sent to some representative and a senator, with a request for its passage, giving the guard greater support from the government. General Bend, in his appeal, reviews the history of past efforts on the part of the association to attain this object. December, 1897, the first meeting of the association was held in St. Louis, 17 states being represented. It was unani mously agreed that the guard needed more quartermaster and ordnance stores, and deserved greater encouragement from the government. A committee "was appointed to present the matter to the house, but soon after the war with Spain began, which precluded further progress. After the war was practically over, another meeting was called in Chicago, where a committee of live was appointed to go to "Washington In the guard's behalf. Two of the five did so, and began work. They had a bill introduced in the house in creasing the annual appropriation for the National Guard from $400,000 to $3,000,000 They had an amendment to the army bill to the same effect offered In the senate. Letters were sent to the adjutant-generals of each state, urging influence be brought to bear on their respective congressmen in behalf of one of the bills. The result of this work is summarized by General Bend as follows: "Some of the adjutant-generals replied that they would do as requested, but many made no response. No bill can be got through, congress, especially near the end of the session, unless strong influence is brought to bear upon all the members of each house No committee of three, or five, however untiring, can alone and unaided secure the passage of any meas ure, especially when it involves the ex penditure of a large sum with no chance of Its serving political ends. It was ab solutely necessary for every state to urgo Its representatives to work for the bill, and many of them did not do so In tho house, Speaker Reed, who was opposed to all Increases in appropriations, ruled with despotic sway, and refused to recognize any one who wanted to call up such a bill as that proposed by the committee, and therefore the house bill never came to a vote. In the senate the chairman of the committee refused to report the amendment, which the committee had had introduced in that body, giving as a rea son that the National Guard of his state was disorganized, by having taken part In the Spanish "war, that he aid not be lieve the National Guard of any other state was in any better condition, and, there fore, he was unwilling to vote any more money for the guard, until it was shown that It was in good shape and deserving of an increased, appropriation. "The committee labored hard to con vince the senator that his state was no criterion of the rest of the country, and tried to get a hearing before the commit tee on militia, but could not do so Con gress adjourned on March 4, another jear had passed, and nothing had been done. In the meantime a convention was held at Tampa, Fla., o delegates from the National Guard' ox a number of Southern states, and two-or three which had been at the Chicago convention, but, so far as is known, no steps were taken to accom plish anything at Washington. During the past summer efforts were make to amalgamate the two associations, but as yet nothing In this way has been accom plished. "So much for the past. Now as to the future. Meetings at which our wants and deserts are discussed are very well In their way, but they accomplish nothing if they stop at that A body of the size and importance of congress is not influ enced by such action It 13 only by strong, united, persistent work that any bill, es pecially one Involving a large appropria tion, can be passed, or, as to that matter, even considered An experience of two years on the committee of which I have written convinces me: "First That strong, united action by all the states Is necessary to secure de sired legislation "Second That a bill must be presented to congress bearing the Indorsement of the National Guard of the entire country, pro viding for the organization, discloline and drill of the guard, on army models, so that it will be ready to take the field at short notice" "Third That with such a bill, w Ith such support, a largely increased appropria tion can be obtained: but without support nothing whatever can be done. "Fourth That as the coming session of congress Is the long session, lasting fully six months, and as there will be a speaker who is not an obstructionist,and who does ALL KINDS OF FURS ARE ADVANCING ALL KINDS OF CLOTHS ARE ADVANCING The prices which we are disposing Our magnificent stock of CLOA AND at, cannot be expected in the future, greatly on account of the advance In furs and cloths. Tor fit, style, and quality, our goods are unequalad. "We are retailers at wholesale prices. Great reduction In the remodeling of furs. THE SILVERFIELB FUR MANUFACTURING CO. LEADING FURRIERS OF THE AVLST. 283-285 Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR RAW FURS oooooceooeooeooeooQOooooooooooooAeAO o Willamette Iron & Steel Works JAMES LOTAN, Manager, PORTLAND, OREGON IRONFOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, BOILERMAKERS AND STEAMBOAT BUILDERS Designers and builders of Marine Engines and Boilers, Mining and Dredging Machinery and General Mill and Iron Work, Fire Hydrants, Pulleys, Shafting, etc. Correspondence solicited. not think he has the right to stifle every measure that does not accord with his views, the National Guard should at once organize to get what it wants and de serves, and that by so doing it will suc ceed "To this end every state In the Union should be represented at Indianapolis, and the members should devote every energy, first to the preparation of the bill, and, second, to getting it through congress. The time for talk is past, nothing has been accomplished by It, but much can be done i it r. in If c,mno,cit ., ,i tof ' and classify Information in regard to tha do it, or will It supinely sit down and let . ,,u,,,,, tn Pnij ,p, more the fire bells will be rung and an army of assistants will be ready to trans mit his remarks throughout the universe. t WILL DELVE FOR COAL. Information at to What Fuel Is Trib utarj to Portland. At a meeting of the Portland board of trade yesterday the committee on manu factures was specially requested to collect its opportunities pass9" The dispatch from Indianapolis stating that the convention met did not specify how many states were represented, nor has there been any Information of the progress made on work. As soon as a bill is formulated, doubtless it will be heard from in "Washington, and the guardsmen of various states will be called upon to stir up Interest. THROWN FROM A CART. Fisli-Wagron Driver Sustains a Pain ful Injury. Ed Wlldl, driver of a fish and poultry wagon, was driving across GHsan street, at Sixth, vesterday afternoon, when his horse's hoof was caught under the street car track Tne sudden jar threw "Wlldl out on the pavement, and his forehead was severely bruised by contact with the Bel gian blocks He was picked up in a dazed condition, and taken to a neighbor ing store. The horse was held fast, as he had been newly shod, and the toe calk had slipped under the rail. In the animal's struggles, the hoof was partly torn off. A crowd gathered and several of the stone blocks were removed with a crowbar before the horse could be put on Its feet again. Several street-cars had accumulated on Glisan street, before the obstruction could be removed. On examination of the premises, the pavement looked all right, as the blocks are just about on a level with the car tracks, but the toe calk of a newly shod horse may be caught In a. very small crevice, and If the animal Is being driven rapidly, as this one was, pajnful accidents are likely to happen. A phjslclan was called to attend "VYildi shortly after the fall, and four stitches were taken to bring the edges of the wound together on his forehead. John Barrett Down East. Boston Record. John Barrett, formerly of Grafton, Vt has arrived In Philadelphia. The firemen of the city have been notified to be ready for immediate service, and the report Is that telephone girls have been called on and the hotel lobbies have been stopped up. with, extra, typewriters, ilr. Barrett Is for the moment In seclusion. But the mo ment he condescends to break silence once coal fields tributary to Portland. The descriptive data Is to be put into con venient form for the outside capitalist who may be disposed to Investigate such natural resources and Invest In their de velopment. An appropriation of $100 was made, subject to the order Of the com mittee, to defray the special expenses. Members of the board believe that coal exists In paving quantities within a rea sonab'e distance of Portland, and that it Is along the line of the best public policy that every effort should be made to bring the facts to the attention of the world, as a plentiful supply of fuel has often been ore of the chief factors in the making of large cities At j esterday's meeting the members ex changed views on many subjects. The board now numbers over 500 men, and the roll !s being constantly added to. Women's White Kid Slippers and Uxtord lies, $1.50 and $2.00 grades, narrow toe, sizes 4 to 7 e.C,GODDARD&0. Clearance Sale CloseJan. 32,