12 THE HORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1901. iiiIIlIieiIIIiBIIiII n HI t , a f)g$44s$ f2ZQr' OUR BIG DOMESTIC DEFT Every day in the yesr is an interesting place to visit It's always well stocked with the right things for the home, both practical and ornamental. Come here for the freshest and best in this line always. Prices made extremely easy now by OUR 230 111- CLEARANCE SALE As a good thing will bear repeating, we've told you often why, for more than a century RICHARDSONS' IRISH LINENS have ranked highest throughout the world. But today's special word is of some of the goods and their clearance prices. Richardsons' Linen Damask Sets of cloth and one dozen nap kins to match, also SEPA RATE CLOTHS in special sizes ror the large round and square tables, at clearance prices range from $5to$3Q Richardsons' Embroidered Linen Tea Cloths A beautiful collection. Prices now $1.35, $1.50, $1.65 $2.10 and $2.25 each. Richardsons' Queen Charlotte Linens Hand loom, round thread, for art or household uses. Widths 36, 40, 45 and 54 Inches. Clearance prices 50c to $2 yd. EN Richardsons' linens are economical ones. They are the only ones in Portland made in a factory large and complete enough to take the raw flax and send out finished linens. This explains why they are uniformly the best in quality, while the economy of their manu facture allows them to be sold at a lower price than is possible with linens that pass through several hands before being ready for the market. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PROMISES to be one of marked industrial achievements, but it will take unusually alert brains to produce garments more complete it every detail than our Mount Hood Negligee Shirts It took years of constant progress in the art of shirt making to produce shirts as perfect in every respect as these. Is your supply of negligee shirts complete? We can outfit men of every occupation and for every season with Mount Hood shirts. Best take a short and economical cut to comfort by buying them now At Clearance Prices. OIL NEAR QRESHAM Syndicate Will Sink Wells in the Spring. BOND ASKED ON 4000 ACRES Petroleum Found in Several Parts of Poxrell "ValleT Living Stream on .. a. Farm Fourteen. Allies From Portland. If there is petroleum on the farms of Powell Valley, in the vicinity of Gresham, as the geological formation seems to in dicate, it will be found within a. few months. H. Metzger, of 23S Front street, has organized a syndicate with abundant capital to make a thorough investigation, and is going at the work in a systematic manner. The project has been taken up where it was dropped In 1S93, and Is being pushed with zeal. About 10 years ago E. S. McCoy, who came from the oil fields of Pennsylvania, found what to him seemed unmistakable evidence of the presence of petroleum. "While passing through Pow ell Valley the general appearance of the country reminded him of the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and, in company with James Powell, a pioneer since dead, he made an examination. The result was so encouraging that he was able, on the showing made, to interest several men of means in Portland, and he undertook the work of bonding farms all through the valley, the same as he is doing now. Owing to the financial slump, the enter prise had to be abandoned for the time being. The intention of the syndicate is to sink the first prospect wells as early in the Spring as possible. Special and costly machinery will be ordered from the East, and experts will be brought from Penn sylvania to do the boring. Before the main wells are drilled a number of test wells will be sunk. The main oil wells will be sunk from 1500 to 2000 feet. This work is very costly. Some oil wells cost as high as ?10,000. and it is thought that the first main oil well sunk In Powell Valley, with the machinery and the ex perts, will cost nearly that much. Mr. McCoy bases his hopes of finding oil on the -presence of porous rock in con siderable quantities In various places In Powell Valley. This rock is always found, so it is said, by experts, where there is oil.- It is the case in California, Pennsyl vania and other places. where oil has been found. While this rock is always a strong indication of oil, it is not the only one that somewhere under the fertile fields there is a great reservoir, of oil that may be tapped if the right spot can be found on which to drill. On the farm of James Menzles. on the Richardsons' Linen Center Pieces tray and carving cloths, all sizes, round, oval and square, plain, hemstitched or embroidered. ALL REDUCED. Richardsons' Linen Sheet and Pillow Cases . . All sizes, plain or - him-stitched. TOWELS Hemmed or fringed. Rich ardsons' pure linen in a var iety of sizes and prices. ALL REDUCED. VALUES - Base Line road about 14 miles from Port land, and northeast of Gresham, there Is a small but steady flow of oil. It issues from the ground and mingles with the waters of Beaver Creek. Mr. MScvxy has examined it, and says that beyond ques tion It Is genuine crude oil, and very strongly corroborates the other evidence of the porous rock and characteristics of the country. On the farm of G. "W. Kenney and J. Preston, near Gresham, there is found an oily substance in places. "Wells have been sunk to depths of 50 feet In different parts of the Valley, at the bottoms of which oil accumulates. However, none of the Indications are so pronounced as the small, living stream of oil flowing on the farm of Mr. Menzles. By Instructions of the syndicate Mr. McCoy is bonding farms and parts of farms for long terms. As he bonded a large number of farms 10 years ago, he is meeting with general success. Only here and there is there a farmer who declines to bond his land upon the terms offered. The bonds extend for 15 years, and the farmer will receive 15 per cent of all the profit of the oil found on his place, and he will be under no expense. The syndicate reserves the right to sink a well anywhere on the land under bond, and may pull down a fence or go through a crop of any sort to do so. If oil Is dis covered, the fortune of the farmer will be made, and it -will make no difference whether he raises any more crops. Un der the bond no particularly hard terms are exacted. Some who have declined to bond say they will be all right anyway if oil Is found on the other farms. They will then have their land free to do as they please with it. It is proposed to bond about 4000 acres widely scattered through Powell Valley, so that the entire prospective oil district may be covered. An oil well in one local ity will draw oil from the surroundings for quite a distance, hence it is not re garded as necessary to bond contiguous farms. The bonding agent Is working towards Pleasant Home, and has secured about 25 farms. The farms near Gresham bonded are those of James Menzles, Johji Roberts, John Schram, Peter Daly. Ed ward Sleret, G. Robinson, Robert "Wright, John H. Hall, John Miller and several outers. John Conley, a well-known farmer on the Base Line road, said he would not bond tols farm, but he would not object to the syndicate boring for oil there. Oth ers have similarly expressed themselves. A WINTER ROUTE TO THE EAST. The climate of Utah and Colorado Is temperate the year round, and clear skies and sunlit days are as proverbial in Win ter as in Summer. The mean annual tem perature in Salt Lake City or Denver is about 55 degrees, and the average annual precipitation 14. Inches. With auch in consequential precipitation there can be little or no trouble from snow In the dis tricts traversed by the Rio Grande West ern Railway, and Its Immediate connec tionsthe Colorado Midland or Denver & Rio Grande Railroads. In fact Winter adds but new grandeur and charm to the travel scenes, and" in fuses an element of variety and beauty to the unsurpassed wonders of nature along the Gre t Salt Lake Rqute. Tickets to all points East may be obtained at 2S3 Washington street. BUSINESS ITEMS. If Bnby Is Cuttin&r Teeth, Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. WlnsloWs Soothing Syrup, for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the sums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and diarrhoea. PICTURE STORE Framed Gibson pictures, including London scenes, reduced to Unframed Etchings on satin with" heavy mat reduced to 89c 25c BOOK STORE New Books. Publisher's price $1.50 Eben Holden, Alice of Old yincennes, Eleanor, McLoughlin and Old Oregon, Cupid's Garden, In Palace of the King, Redemption of David Corson, Domestic Dramas, AT Master Christian, AA-rJ Richard Yea and Nay, HjjP Springtown at the Pike vfv, Greatly reduced prices on all cloth and calf sets. JEWELRY STORE Elgin and Waltham Watches in Fahy's, Boss and Crown cases, r nil offered at discount J Per Cent of Cut Glass, Pottery, Sterling Tableware and Novelties at ito x3 0ff MUSIC STORE New and Very Popular Music Salome. X N Trie, Two-Step. Military Maid, Two-Step. Miss Jollity, Two-Step. May Irwin's Latest Songs. Why Don't the Band Play?" I Ain't Gwiine to Work No More. Wink, Wink, wink, Mr. owl. Special, 15 Cents GREAT BRITAIN'S RULER PERSONAL TRAITS OF QUEEN VIC TORIA'S SUCCESSOR. Municipal Judge Cameron, Who Has Met Edward VII, Says He Will Be a Good Kins. "What kind of a man fs King Edward "VTI?" asked an Oregonlan man yesterday of Municipal Judge George J. Cameron, who met the King, when, as Prince of Wales, he visited Glasgow, Scotland. "From the impression I have formed of the King, and from what I have been told concerning Mm, and from what I have read on the subject," said Judge Cameron, "it goes without saying that he has had exceptional training and op portunity to fit him for the high office he holds, and I think he will prove to be a good King. At the reception in Glasgow, where I met the King, the crush was so great that a conversation with him was difficult. He had a kindly face, and a kindly voice, and I was also impressed with his quick tact and diplomacy. "The King was the most popular Prince of Wales who ever lived, and he will be a popular and well-beloved King. As a ruler he will be safe, and he will be a very good friend to the United States. His fondness for Americans has passed into a proverb, and the Londoners noticed this so much that they nicknamed his London residence the 'White House.' "The King has done a good deal to at tract sportsmen to the Scottish High lands, and money and trade have resulted. In this work the King followed In the footsteps of his father and mother. In horseracing he is one of the best-known figures on the British turf, and a victory in a hard-fought race by one of the Prince's horses was an event wildly cheered. He is one of those rare figures a fair, honest sportsman, and in this direc tion he has taken a commendable lead. "Edward VII is surely the last person in the world to wish to be taken for a saint. He is subject to the weaknesses and the errors of ordinary mortals. If he were a real, live angel, with wings spread out as if to fly upward on the slightest pretense, he would not be so well loved by his subjects. Curiously enough, the Prince Consort, the King's father, was not so popular as Is his eldest son. The Prince Consort was known as Albert the Good. The Prince of Wales has never been known, so. far as I know, as Albert Edward the Good. There is a warm sympathy between him and his sub jects, and they know that he is one of them. "From what I read in letters I receive from the old land, and from conversations with travelers, to the new King belongs the credit of first opening society's eyes to the brilliant, cultured American woman ana tne witty, clever American man. I am told British society fought this inva sion of Americans at first, but the King set tne example of treating Americans as favored? guests, and his lead won. He has not lost an opportunity to cement the bonds of sympathy and close friendship existing Detween the United States and Great Britain. In this respect he is for tunately different from some of his an cestorscertain of the Geonres, for in stance. As Prince of Wales the King visited America, and he probably knows more about our country than any member of the royal family. "In politics I should consider the King to be a well-Informed man. and I have read that so carefully does he conceal his real views in his public utterances that it is difficult to say whether he is a Lib eral or a Conservative, but I am sure he Is not a Home-Ruler. From his father he has inherited a gift for public speaking and he is said invariably to speak in an easy, conversaUonai manner, without us ing many notes. "In entertaining I am told that he has set the fashion for respectability. Brim stone language and the immoderate use of wine used to be too common when the King was a boy, but when he began to entertain as the heir apparent he insisted on a radical change, and he took care to keep out of the soclety'of those who had forfeited their social rights. People he dropped found It difficult to arise again. His home life Is said to be a very happy one, and the Queen Consort is described as a charming woman. "One word more. The King has had a long training to fill the position to which he has just been called, and If he does not prove to be a good and wise ruler, it will be a surprise to those who wish him well. People who hope for the future of the Anglo-Saxon race and all that Jt means, trust that the King's accession will ROGERS 1847 TABLEWARE Less than you ever saw Rogers ISi? offered for before. Special. Special. Special. Dessert Spoons, per set 51-48 Medium Spoons, per .set 1-68 Dessert Forks, per .set 1-43 Medium Forks, per set L68 Berry Spoons, each 1-08 Pie Knives, each . 98 Pie Knives, gold bowl' 1-28 Cold Meat Forks, gold bowl, each.. .68 Nutplck Sets, special, set 15 Fine Nutplck, sets, special .25 A Clean Sweep in LACE CURTAINS A big assortment of fine Lace Curtains is offered in two great lots. Lot i 200 pairs new style cur tains at 25 below regular price. Lot 2 125 pairs fine lace cur tains in a large range of style at half regular price. The greatest opportunity to secure lace curtains at a nomin al price. All remnants and short lengths of Black Dress Goods and Colored Dress Goods at a sacrifice. All Black Silks at great ly reduced prices. If you need a taffeta or Peau de Soie or -satin Duchesse dress now is the time to buy. be one more link binding together more firmly the people who speak the English tongue all over the world, and helping them to be better and truer friends toward a common destiny." LONG LIVE THE KING. Why the British Ensign "Was nt the Top of the Pole. Many people were puzzled yesterday to see the ensign at the British Consulate flutter at the top of the pole. It flew for the new King. In view of the death of Queen Victoria, 'it was popularly sup posed that the consular flag -would fly at half-mast until the Queen is burled. But the British naval code, which governs consular matters, says that consular flags shall fly for 24 hours at half mast on the death of a sovereign. For the next 24 hours the flag Is kept at the top of the flag-pole, in honor of the new sovereign, and afterward the flag files at half-mast until the dead sov ereign is buried. So the flag which flut tered gaily in yesterday's breeze from the top of the flag-pole at the British consulate was in honor of King Edward VII. Today the flag will droop again. Flags at half-mast flew over the City Hall and Court House yesterday. TEMPLE BETH-ISRAEL. Dr. "Wise to Prench on the Late Qnccn Victoria. Rev. Stephen S. Wise will preach this evening on, "Victoria Woman, Queen." Dr. Wise expected to begin this evening a series of- semimonthly addresses on "Some Leaders In Israel," but owing to his desire to pay a tribute, in the name of the synagogue, to Britain's late ruler, he will preach on the life and worth of the Queen, and begin the promised series of addresses next Friday evening. As always, strangers will be heartily wel come at tonight's ' service, which begins at 8 o'clock. Dr. Wise will give an address this after noon before the Woman's Club, of Port land, on "The Recovery of a Lost Book," and will speak on "What Is Zionism?" before the Council of Jewish Women on Tuesday, at the Hirsch-Selllng building. Queen's Portraits Draped. Quite a number of portraits of Queen Victoria appear in Portland store win dows, draped In crepe, as a mark of respect to, the good woman for whom all English-speaking people mourn. The pictures are copies of the most recent photograph and show the aged Queen attired in simple dress In headgear of the kindly grandmother. Many pedes trians pause to gaze for a few moments on the familiar face and pass on In sad ness as they realize the mutability of human affairs. OREGON A GREAT STATE. Mrs. Weatherred Gives Easterners a Pointer Now and Then. In her travels in the East Mrs. Edyth Tozler Weatherred puts in a good word for home. "Oregon Is a great state," she told the Buffalo Commercial. "We've got the most beautiful city In the world. The location and the surrounding country are unsurpassed anywhere. Our wonderful Willamette River, with the great, white, snow-capped mountains in 'the distance, Is a setting for the finest city In the West. There Is one- bit of scenery, the Niagara gorge, that you have here In handy distance from Buffalo, that com pares In grandeur, ruggedness, in great natural beauty, with our Portland. "What will we do at the Pan-American? All that any state will do, and a little more. We've a straight record for the finest exhibits at ail the expositions held in the United States In a decade, and will not let the Pan-American break the list. "The mineral resources of Oregon are unsurpassed. The opening of transporta tion facilities has developed an Inestima ble wealth. We have one of the richest mineral states in the Union. Our mineral exhibit? What will it be? Oh, I won't tell you that. It will be unique and orig inal, you can be sure of that, but we'll not give the snap away to any rival state that might be looking for pointers." Woman Badly Burned. Miss Mary Cunningham, daughter of a Spring Flat farmer, , was painfully but not seriously burned by the explo sion of a lamp last night. The. young womSn picked up the flaming lamp and carried It from the building, thus saving the structure from destruction. Several younger members of the family, who were in tne room at the time of the explosion, escaped injury. The cures a medicine makes are the proofs of Its merit, and Hood's Sarsa parilla makes the most. Cheney Bros. 1901 Foulard Silks. Buy them now while stock is complete and Clear ance Sale Prices prevail. Cleaning: up all our Blankets and Comfortables at very low prices. Trunks and Traveling; Bags at Clearance Sale Prices. Oriental Rugs and Hall Runners at remarkably low prices. m Children's Dresses Two special values in chil dren's dresses of interest to all mothers. Children's all - wool tricot dresses, fancy braid trim ming", lined throughout, ages 4 to 14 . yrs., browns, sLJ A blues, reds. . . . Pt Children's fancy plaid dress es, assorted colors, velvet yoke and bretelle, size 4 to 14 years, lined throughout, regular $3.50 values at $2.68 Undermuslins White Skirts are becoming the fad in the Eastern cities taking the place of silk, satin and moreen. Our stock of White Petticoats is the largest to be found in the city. All the newest styles and lace or Hamburg trim ming. Buying1 during t'he Clearance Sale means a con siderable saving. AH onr high - grade Flannel "Waists have been greatly reduced Flnnelette Wrappers at won derfully Iotv prices. MEIER i3daSd!EIH10BHHMgiBigEHEj JAMES F. BYBEE DEAD WAS "WELIi KNOWN AS KING OF THE OREGON TURF. Blade a Fortune in California In ISIS and Invested It In Thorough bred Horses. James F. Bybee, known on the Pacific Coast as the King -of the Oregon turf, died yesterday morning at his daugh ter's home at Sellwood, and will be burled Sunday afternoon at 2. o'clock. He was born near Winchester Clark County, Kentucky, in 1818, and came to Oregon In 1847. He settled on Sauvle's Island and built a fine home on his G40 acres. In 184S Ir. Bybee went to. California, where he made a fortune. He then -began to Invest in thoroughbred horses. He soon became known in racing circles, and two of the' racers he trained for John F. Miller, of Salem, were the famous Rye straw and Allstraw. His son, Robert, who died about five years ago, was an attorney-at-law, and Inherited his fath er's love for horses. Robert also became well known in racing circles In Oregon, with his horses. Misty Morn, Dally Ore gonlan, and Raindrop, and the stallions Oregon and St. Paul. In 1873, J. F. Bybee sold out the Sauvle's Island home, and took his horses to Crab Creek, Wash., and ran a stock ranch until about 1SS0. Subsequently he had traveled a good deal, until two years ago, when he ,was stricken with kidney trouble. He made his home In Sellwood, with his daughter, Mrs. Mary Lockhart, where he resided for the two years. He leaves three daughters. Mrs. Lockhart, of Sell wood; Mrs. Llllie Rich, Salt Lake, and Mrs. Imogene Caraher, Seattle, Wash., who were all with him during his last sickness. MUST UNLOAD BRYAN. uemocrncy Stands No Show Undcv His Leadership. A. N. Sollss, of Jacksonville, chairman of the Democratic committee of Jack eon County, who Is spending a few days in Portland, thinks Bryan and his ex treme policies will have to be unloaded It will be your JUST A0i mmmt m i&s?m&e THE RELIABLE CLOTHIER 1200 Pairs of Shoes $2, $2.25 values, at j r F5r: m V soies, me reg. $s values, all sizes and widths, pair Infants' Goods Everything in the Infant's line at greatly reduced prices. Slips, Bootees, Baskets, Bands, Bibs, Hosiery, Dresses, Waists, etc. (Second floor.) "Perrins" famous Gloves in aU the new styles. Shades for evening and street wear. All sizes. During the Clear ance Sale you can buy them at a great reduction from regular prices. & FRANK I Gloves 1 J. O. GILJLBN St GO. MANUFACTURERS OF STEK3WC FIFB HMD BOILER COMBR1NGS HOT AND COLDWATER PIPE COVERINGS.' 'Phone Clay 20-23- SECOND STREET, StWERlHr. WSysByf P0"" oar-f . JtfMtiBllEaP3llMEKa FINE- FUR GARMENTS KT Q. P. RUMMELIN & SONS MANUFACTURING FURRIERS 126 Second St., near Washington Alaska Sealskins Our Specialty. . R"fsIan blouses and Eton Jackets, with bishop or bell sleeves and shawl collar. In broad tail. Persian lamb and bolre Astrachan. trimmed with sable, chinchilla, ermine, mink and marten. Newest styles In capes, collarettes, animal scarfs, four-in-hand scarfs, boas, muffs etc. Highest cash price paid for raw furs. before 1902, if the Democratic party de cides to tjive the Republicans any kind of a fight at all. "I was not In favor of Bryan or of his ultra sentiments," Mr. Sollss said yesterday, at the Imperial, "but the leading Democrats of Jackson County, including Charley NIckeil, wanted Bryan, and so I was obliged to 6uccumb." As to the policy toward the Philippines, Mr. Sollss thinks his party Is still at sea, but hopes it may evolve some meas ures that will be conservative, while yet opposed to those of the Republican party. "As for myself, I believe we should hold on to the Islands until the people are capable of self-government, and then enable them to establish a local government, though I would not be In favor of lowering the Stars and Stripes. If this is to be the policy of the Republicans, then the majority of Democrats will take no issue with them." More in which to take advantage of our genuine clearance prices. We never, make extravagant promises. What we offer for the next few days is simply clothing embodying the correct, sensible fashions of the day, and honestly put together, at the following re ductions in price: " . 6 lines of Men's Cheviot, Worsted. and Cassimere Suits, good $16.00 values; clearance price 10 lines of Pure Worsteds; Scotch Cheviots, and Fine Cassimere, full $20.00 and $25.00 valucs,at loss if you do not take advantage msi $8m ;&wSi m"l'iii'ii'-ii-'ir-?'J KVf 6':?&tt3 :& APi$X&s'rtV: W" ma x&v&'a wMjM? m r mry mi w '"sts 5?f ErJ&l AS A'' fSf si fvsai H?-V Y , mmMmu.msm mm r Jr MmmmmMmmmmmmmm S. E. COR. FOURTH AND MORRISON STS. e ftfjr B4k- Pair Ladies' Kangaroo calf, box calf, vici kid with patent tip, and kid with vest ing top shoes. Heavy, medium or light-weight soles. All sizes and widths. The most remarkable shoe offering of the season. $2 and 2.25 values at $1.58 pair. 100 nairs of ladies natont. lonfrion shoes, black cloth tops, medium-weight Carpets S3 No better time during" the year for buying carpets than ga right now, today. All kinds. Ingrains, Brussels, velvets, Axminsters. All the latest colorings and designs and prices are at rock bottom. gg Embroideries Swiss Edging and Inser- gg tions in all widths. Daintiest (j& of patterns. Thousands of Sa yards for all purposes. All r marked at Clearance Prices. & Laces of all kinds marked E at exceedingly low prices. ASBESTOS MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS. 943. PORTLAND, OREGON. DO YOUR VEINS STAND OUT Like whipcords, causing constant pain and discomfort? An Elastic Stocking will give quick and lasting relief. Send for self - measuring blank and prices. WOODARD, CLARKE & CO. Stockings. Crutches and Trusses, 4th and Washington Sts., Portland, Or. Prince Albert No. 2. B. & "W. Full Dress Shirts. E. & W. $9.85 ; 14.85 of this liberal offer. 'j AA w li:-JS:tTr7Sv-'-