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THE MOKND-TG OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1901.
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OLDS. WHIM & KM
Four Great Specials Today Only
Will be presented at following hours. That "time Is money''
will be apparent to all who buy at these "TIME SALES."
Please read carefully to avoid mistakes.
From 8:30 to 9:30 A.M.
5c for a Hat
Tasty styles and good assort
ment of them for ladies' and
children's outing and general
wear. Worth to $1.75 each.
(Millinery Dep't)
From 10:30 to 11:30 A. M,
At I5c each
HISTORICAL PLATES
tn delft blue. Many interesting
subjects. (Crockery Dep't)
GREAT
SEWING MACHINE SALE
This week we will sell our 0.
W. & K. Improved, light run
ning, ball bearing, drop-head
machines. Every one war
ranted for ten years. Highest
.grade of quality, at these un--heard-of
prices.
Our $27.50 sty lefor.. $19.87
.Our $3 0.00 style, for., $21.98
Buy it now and have it for
he-Fait sewing.
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Don't Miss the Two
-;ttFOULARD SILKS
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-lriade-to-sell at
$1.25, now 64c yd
Down to 60c grades, at 39c
Baby Buggies, Go-Carts, Velocipedes,
Tricycles and Express Wagons
AT END OF THE SEASON PRICES
Almost give-away prices, for such qualities. A few prices
to show the rate of reductions.
"Whitney" Baby Buggies
worth $8, at $6.50 ea
Worth $11.50, at $7.75 ea
"Whitney" Go-Carts,
worth $3.75, at--.-$2.95 ea
Worth $7.50, at $5.75 ea
Many a home will be brighter this Winter from our
SALE OF SAMPLE
Decorated Lamps and Onyx Tables
Ours is not a clean-up sale of old stock, but advance
samples of newest styles, for the Winter of 1901-2, that
cannot be duplicated in this city. All sample lamps and
tables, while they last,
AT HALF PRICE
TO INSPECT SEWER WORK
3. C. MILLER GIVEN CHARGE OP
BEECH-STREET CONTRACT.
Korth Front Street in Bad Shape
and May Have to Re Closed
to Team Travel.
J. C. .Miller, of Alblna district, was
appointed Inspector of construction on
J the Beach street sewer by the Board of
I Public "Works yesterday. Tho appoint
I snoot was made at the suggestion of prop
jerty owners along the line of the new
sewer. Mr. Miller's business will be to
report to City Engineer Chase any dis
crepancy in material or specifications.
North Front Street in Bad Shape.
City Engineer Chase reported North
sQTront stireet, between Fourteenth and
Seventeenth, in impassable condition.
The planking of the elevated roadway is
nearly worn out, and the heavy traffic of
,the big lumber mills Is constantly wearing
llholes in the decking, making travel dan
gerous. The board authorized Mr. Chase
,to make ?50 worth of repairs and the
property owners will be ordered to put
,the thoroughfare in good condition. If
this is not done within a reasonable time
Front street between Fourteenth and
Seventeenth will be closed to team travel.
Contracts Awarded.
The Jacobson-Bade Company was
pawarded the contract for constructing a
,eewer on East Morrison street, for $403 40.
The same Arm was awarded the contract
for the East Alder-street server, at
4597 90.
The bid of the Northwest Gun & Bi
cycle Company for furnishing dog tags
lor 1901-2 was accepted. Tags, to the
number of 2000, are to be delivered for
565. which the board considers more rea
sonable than any previous proposal.
The committee on streets, sidewalks and
elevated roads asked for more time to
consider the Stark-street wharf propo
sal. A contracting Arm has offered to
build a wharf at the foot of Stark street,
free of charge to the city, on condition
that the Arm is permitted to use it.
WILL MEET IN DENVER.
American Bar ANMOciation to Conic
"Went Till Year.
The annual meeting of the American
Bar Association will be held at Denver,
Colo., on the 21st, 22d and 23d of August.
This is the first time one of these meet
ings has been held west of the Mississippi,
and the event Is considered an important
one by the bench and bar of the "tyestern
States. The lawyers of Oregon have been
slow to avail themselves of the advan
tages of the association, there being fewer
members from hls state than from any
other state In the Union. This is prob
ably due not so much to the lack of pro
fessional spirit as to the fact that the
opportunity to join the association has
never been presented. Judge Deady was
tor a long time the only member from this
6tate, and L. B. Cox was during the later
years of his life an active member.
Charles H. Carey, who is vice-president
at this time, is perhaps the sole member
from this state.
The secretary of the joint committee
From 1:30 to 2:30 P.M.
At 45c each
LADIES' 90c PETTICOATS
Double or deep single
flounced style, in black sateen.
(2d-Floor Annex)
From 3:30 to 4:30 P.M.
At 77c each
$1.35 HAMMOCKS
With or without valance,
spreader or pillow. Full size,
close woven. (Fourth Floor)
LADIES' LINEN SUITS
WAY BELOW VALUE
No garments could be more
attractive to women right now.
Made in latest styles and good
for so many uses.
$20 Linen Suits--.. $13.50 ea
$12.50 Linen Suits--$8.50 ea
$10 Linen Suits $6.95 ea
$7.50 Linen Suits.--$5.65 ea
National colors and dainty
shades.
Special Silk Sales
BLACK TAFFETA SILKS
The balance of a good pur
chase of
$1.75 Taffetas, now $1.34 yd
$1.35 Taffetas, now $1.09 yd
$5 Tricycles, at $4.00
$7.25 Tricycles, at $5.75
$6 Velocipedes, at $4.75
$1 Express Wagons 68c
65c Express Wagons 38c
of the Denver Bar Association and the
Colorado Bar -Association has written a
cordial invitation to the Oregon lawyers
to Increase their membership and to at
tend the Denver meeting. Among other
attractions offered is an excursion to be
given by the Colorado lawyers to the
members of the association and the women
accompanying them, which will include
Cripple Creek, Glenwood Springs, Lead
vllle, Marshall Pass and Colorado
Springs. No doubt every effort will be
made to mark this meeting as a memor
able one. The annual dinner will be
given at the Brown Palace Hotel on the
evening of August 23. The association
has several thousand members, and usual
ly holds its meetings at Saratoga, N. Y.
The Denver meeting will draw many of
the most eminent lawyers of the United
States, and it is likely that representative
lawyers of Oregon will attend.
POLITICS IN KENTUCKY.
Visiting Minister Given His Views
on the egro and Other Subject.
Rev. "W. T. Harvey, of Louisville, Ken
tucky, who, with his family, is at the
Portland, thinks the Federal Government
has been guilty of neglect of Its citizens
in his state, by permitting one class to
obtain control of the local government
by fraud. "At the last state election,"
Mr. Harvey said yesterday, "the Demo
crats threw out 20,000 Republican votes,
and thus counted the returns for them
selves. Under the Goebel law two Demo,
cratlc judges were appointed in each pre
cinct, against one Republican, and the
throwing out of a few votes at each of
the various polling places made the fraud
quite easy. The Republicans were pow
erless in the matter, and President Mc
Kinley should have stepped in and pre
vented the barefaced fraud.
"The negro question is a serious one in
Kentucky, and I don't know how it can be
settled. The negroes are, as a rule, Re
publicans, when left to themselves, but
their ignorance and poverty renders them
an easy prey to designing white men, and
they are to a considerable extent pur
chasable and liable to Intimidation. The
negro vote amounts to about one-fifth of
the whole, but It has been virtually nulli
fied for several years past. We do not
object to negro disfranchisement, but
think the representation of such states as
Kentucky in the electoral college should
be cut down to the proper proportion.
"The negro is by no means so well off
as he was In slavery, as he now has to
work at low wages, and when he falls
sick, has to shift for himself. Negroes do
not take well to education, and very few
of them are given to accumulating prop
erty. The negro Is therefore being ground
between the upper and nether millstones
in Kentucky, and his presence is a contin
ual disturbing1 factor in local politics.
"The assassination of Governor Goebel
and subsequent flight of the ReDUblican
Governor, Taylor, had a very demorallz-J
ing euect on the Republicans of the state.
Taylor proved himself a very weak man
when the trouble came, and his party
seemed to go to pieces after he left. He Is
now In Indianapolis practicing law, and
dares not return to Kentucky. Taylor's
wife died several weeks ago, and he did
not consider it safe to hold her funeral
in our state. The killing of Goebel, I be
lieve, was the work of a Republican fac
tion, who were opposed to his high-handed
methods of over-riding his opponents, and
I think the right man has been convicted
and punished."
Dyspepsia causes Its victims to live in
misery. Hood's Sarsaparllla cures dyspepsia.
TODAY
FINAL CLEAN - UP
of This Season's
Fine Imported
iWASH GOODS
! AT 17C A YARD
Here is a Partial List of What We Will Sell
At 17c a Yard
35c and 50c ANDERSON GINGHAM for 17c
35c and 50c EMBROIDERED MADRAS . . for 17c
60c and 65c SILK ORGANDIE for 17c
50c and 60c EMBROIDERED SWISS for 17c
50c SILK PLUMETY for J7c
60c COLORED GRENADINE for 17c
TO ADD MANUAL TRAINING
Y. 31. C. A. TAKES IN MR. STAND
LEY'S EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Room Will Be Provided for 200 to
300 Students, and It Will Be
Amply Equipped.
Arrangements were practically com
pleted yesterday by which " the Portland
Manual Training School, located at 602
Washington street, will form part of the
new educational system of the Young
Men's Christian Association, made pos
sible by the new association building now
under construction, and which is expected
to be ready about the first week of Oc
tober. The deal will be formally ratified,
it is expected, at a meeting of the direc
tors of tho Portland Manual Training
School to be held this week.
Principal William J. Standley, who has
been the Instructor of the Manual Train
ing School for some time, has been on
the outlook for larger quarters for carry
ing on the general purpose of the school I
on a larger scale, to perfect the work of
the 60 students getting Instruction there.
Roomy apartments and better and more
modern machinery were considered indis
pensable before better results could be ob
tained. The school has been a successful
one, backed as it is by representative
workers and educators like Mrs. H. E.
Jones, 'the president, Mrs. R. Livingstone,
H. C. Campbell, H. W. Hogue, Samuel
Mears and others. The students this past
.season have included men and women,
boys and girls. The directors of the
Young Men's Christian Association were
approached on the subject, and It was
found that they were also devising ways
and means to place within reach of their
members opportunity to secure the bene
fits of an Industrial education, in the regu
lar course of association work. It was
also found that the association and the
Manual School people were working prac
tically toward the same end, and the sug
gestion was made, Why not combine the
work In the new association building? The
project met with hearty support, and it
was carried to a successful issue.
General Secretary Stone, of the Young
Men's Christian Association, in speaking
of the manual training proposition, said
last night that the new departure toward
manual training would help his associa
tion toward a better ideal In fashioning
workers whose hands would be trained as
well as their minds. "Boys wIU be grad
ed after public schools close Into classes
where manual training will be taught,"
said Mr. Stone. "There will be probably
three classes each day, arranged accord
ing to the age and ability of the students.
The equipment will be new and carefully
selected, and there will be accommoda
tion for 200 or 300 students. Instruction
will be mostly given afternoon and Sat
urday mornings, under Mr. Standley, In
wood carving, clay modeling, bench work
and turninc Pressure Is helntr hrmnrht
have classes arranged for boys and girls, I
uuu ii is iiKeiy mis will be done. The
new department will be located on the
fourth floor of the association building,
and shops and rooms will be built accord
ing to Mr. Standley's plans. We will have
modern machinery and small motors. The
Fife and Drum Corps, connected with the
Manual Training School, will find accom
modation in the new quarters."
WOMAN'S INTEREST IN WAR
Mrs. Duniwny's Address to G. A. R.
at Pleasant Home.
The 35th annual encampment and re
union at Pleasant Home, under the aus
pices of M. A. Ross Post, G. A. R., and
the Woman's Relief Corps, opened yester
day. Brief exercises were held in the
morning. Henry Kane, Commander of
the post, acted as president. Rev. N. S.
Hollcroft delivered a short address of wel
come In the name of the post. Rev. M. L.
Hardlngham, responding, complimented
the post and relief corps for the success
of the previous reunions, and expressed
the hope for another success. The morn
ing exercises closed with music.
Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunlway, of Portland,
arrived at 12 o'clock, and was received by
the women of the Relief Corps. After
dinner an audience of about 500 gath
ered around the speakers' stand, to which
Mrs. Dunlway was escorted. Rev. L. M.
Hardlngham had charge of the pro
gramme. After instrumental music by
Grace Palmer and a recitation by Mrs.
Palmer, Mrs. Dunlway was introduced
and held the attention of the audience
closely for nearly two hours on "What
War Means to Women." She said In part:
"When we read the pages of history,
reeking as they do with details of carn
age and devastation, we are so deeply im
pressed with the horror of it all that we
have no need to be reminded that man
Is a fighting animal. Yet, when seen at
his best, as you always see him, when
the women he most respects and reveres
are present, we are glad to note not only
the total subjection of the antagonistic
spirit within him thab engenders war, but
the active presence of that protecting
chivalry and innate patriotism which so
arouse our admiration In times of peace
that, much as we shrink from the Idea of
carnage so long as it does not seem In
"eeeiM9M
evitable, we do not hesitate, when protest
is no longer possible, to adjust our best
endeavors, so far as men will let us, to
the amelioration of their condition when
war begins.
"I am not here as a theorist to de
nounce war or declare It, under all cir
cumstances, unnecessary or unavoidable.
The races of men have yet many centuries
of experience before them ere swords shall
be beaten into plowshares and spears into
pruning hooks, and nations shall learn
war no more. And since man is a fight
ing animal, and since all that is or was
originally savage and brutal In his na
ture must be eliminated through the grad
ual processes of evolution ere we can
reach that higher civfllzation of which
the philanthropist is dreaming, and cince
men and women together constitute the
human family and are as necessary to
each other as oxygen and hydrogen are
to water, or oxygen and nitrogen are to
air, if they are to be kept pure and self
purifying, they must not be subjected to
unnatural separation and Indeed cannot be
without deleterious results. It logically
follows, therefore, that the mother in
stinct, which enacts so necessary a part
in the procreation of thp ( y-m ih.
out it there could be no soldiers born the
coleadershlp of sagacious, motherly
women cannot be denied with Impunity
when preparations are in progress for
mobilizing or deporting great bodies of
men in times of war."
Today Is "Farmers' day," and a large
attendance Is expected. Dr. James Withy
combe, vice-director of the Corvallis Col
lege, and Professor Cordley. of the same
college, will speak on agricultural topics
Hon. J. D. Lee, of Salem, is. expected to
deliver an address, a letter of regret was
received from Department Commander J.
A. Sladen, who wished the reunion suc
cess. Dr. L. E. Rockwell, who promised
to deliver an address Thursday morning
has been compelled to cancel the engage
ment on account of pressing business.
PEACH PLUMS NOT IN FAVOR
Orchards Likely to Disappear Cher
ries Very Profitable.
The peach p'um was thought to be a
nth fF, .JeW years aS' and many
orchards of these trees were planted. They
have proved very productive, but not very
remunerative, and today there are but
few of these plums seen in the markets
and there is less demand for them than
for any other fruit. As an orchardist
says, they don't amount to much." When
picked green they can be shipped, but
seldom command a good price. When dead
ripe they are very good for eating from
the hand, being sweet and juicy. If not
particularly well flavored, but they are
not good for cooking, for the longer they
are cooked the sourer they. get. Th?
orchards of peach plums will soon. dis
appear, either by being grafted or cut
down.
The cherry crop has been the most
profitable to fruit-raisers this season. One
small farmer eold from a 1-acre plat of
Royal Anne trees five tons, for which he
received 4 cents per pound. $S0 per ton, or
$400 for the whole, the cannery furnishing
boxeo and taking the cherries from the
river bank. This is a fair sample of
what large growers made from their crop,
Those who sold their Royal Annes to be
made Into Maraschino cherries received
5 cents per pound, but they say the extra
cent hardly paid for the extra care which
had to be taken In picking and shipping.
As there Is every probability that Royal
Anne cherries will command ae good
prices hereafter as they have this year,
there Is likely to be many trees of this
variety set out next year.
NOT A BABY WHALE.
Porpoise Attracts the Attention of
CroVrdH on Third Street.
The fact, that nearly everybody takes
an interest In natural history was demon
strated yesterday by numbers of people
who stopped to examine . fish exposed In
front of a Third-street gun store, and la
beled "baby whale." Comparatively few
persons have ever seen a whale at least
near enough to see what it looked like,
but few took any stock In this "fish,"
which is not larger than a large chlnook
salmon, being a young whale. Much dis
cussion In regard to its identity was in
dulged In by the spectators, but few really
knew what it is. It is a small porpoise,
a distant relative of the whale, having
the same flat tall, shiny black skin and
coating of blubber under it.
They are very plentiful In some seas,
and those who have sailed much on the
Pacific cannot have failed to see immense
schools of them some five feet In length,
extending as far in every direction as the
eye could reach, and every one of them
apparently engaged In a mad race with
the steamer and leaping out of the water
every minute to see If they were, getting
ahead of It. The sailors call them "puf
fing pigs," from the grunt or puff they
make as they leap out of the water.
Flehermen call them "herring hogs," as
they feed on the schools of herring and
other small flsh. They yield some oil, and
their hides are made into leather, which
Is often seen In the shape of shoe strings.
WHAT SHALT, WE HAVE FOR DES
SERT? This question arises in the family crery day.
Let us answer It today. Try Jell-O. a de
licious and healthful dessert. Prepared la tiro
minutes. No bollingl no oaklnrl simply add
boiling water and set to cool. Flavors:
Lemon. Orange. Raspberry and Strawberry.
Get a package at your grocer's today, 10c
Harris Trunk Co. for suit cases.
J Entire stock of "G8ndron" Carriages and Go-Carts
j&C&r" ju hZtAsKcfO'
New arrivals in White Pique at 25c, 35c, 45c per yard Latest styles.
Trunks, Traveling: Bags, Hammocks, Croquet Sets at special prices.
All lines of hot-weather Toilet Articles at very low prices.
Groceries
Special good values.
Phone Private Exchange 4.
Uneeda Biscuit 8c
Sliced Beef, 1-pound r
glass jars at DC
Fig-Prune Cereal f
at UC
Baker's unsweetened Choc
olate, reduced to -? r
pound 05C
Baker's Cocoa at, f
can jZoC
Curtice Bros.' Boned -Chicken
or Turkey 3C
3-pound package of
. Crackers
Smith's Kippered
Herring
20c
20c
Eagle brand Condens
15c
ed Milk reduced to
Ross's Lime Juice, 1- asx
qt. bottle for WC
Sand Point Oysters,
1-lb. cans at
10c
10c
a
Durkee's Salad Dress
ing reduced to
Canned delicacies of all
kinds for picnic parties or
household us3.
Faper plates ana nap-
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RUHLIN-ACTON MATCH OFF
BIG PUGILIST AXD EX-CHAMPIOX
WILL XOT WltESTLK.
"When Billy Madden Fount! the Con
tent Could Xot Be Held nt Mnlt
nonioh Club He Snld, "Xo."
The Ruhlln-Acton wrestling match is
off. Billy Madden gave out this Informa
tion last evening. The agreement had
been made to have the match at the
Multnomah Club, but when this arrange
ment fell through, on consultation with
Ruhlin it was decided to call the match
off, as neither he nor Madden saw any
likelihood of the match turning out a
money-maker for the wrestlers, unless
it was held under the club auspices. The
announcement that the former champion
wrestler of the world, Joe Acton, the
"Little Demon," was going on the mat to
pit his experience and wrestling skill
against the weight and strength of Gus
Ruhlin, who threw Fitzslmmons, had
been received with great Interest by local
sportsmen, and a good attendance had
been assured from the start.
Joe Acton will probably be disappointed.
He is dojvn at Newport trudging over
sand-hills and plunging in the surf to
get In shape for the bout. His wrestling
pupils at the Multnomah Club say that
he is always In good condition, with his
muscles .as hard as iron. Ruhlin Is also
disappointed that the match has fallen
through, as he has remained in Portland
a week with the hope of completing the
arrangements and opening up training
quarters,
Sharkey's latest outburst that he is go
ing after Jeffries, and will incidentally
squelch Ruhlln's aspirations for the
championship, amused Billy Madden.
"We are in the business to take on
fights," said he, "and I am glad that
Sharkey is heading toward San Francisco.
That will make things lively there. We
are willing to take on Sharkey again if
we cannot Immediately arrange our
match with Jeffries." And so the fight
ers continue to talk back and forth at
long range.
KNEW IT ALL THE TIME.
Lien Land Iniquities Have Long:
Been Familiar to Hermann.
SALEM, Or., July.29. (To the Editor.)
On the editorial page of Sunday's Ore
gonian, July 28, appears an article en
titled, "Hermann's Discovery." It begins
as follows.
Every good citizen In the Pacific Northwest
must rejoice to know that Commissioner Her
mann has heard something drop. The dull
thud which has arrested his none too acute
hearing Is that caused by the exposure made
In The Oregonian of the concerted raid on
Oregon's public lands throush a new forest
reserve. Sir. Hermann has come to a pre
cipitate and unheralded conclusion that the
lieu land law is bad. Why he has been so
long in finding this out would, perhaps, be
unprofitable to Inquire. How he comes to no
tice it Just upon the appearance of the protest
may also be covered with a veil. It will be
sufficient to review the situation briefly and
dismiss the subject.
Permit me also to review the facts
briefly and dismiss the subject.
The lieu land act to which you refer be
came a law June 4, 1S97. The Commis
sioner In his annual report June 30, 1S9S,
after stating that in his opinion the law
was Intended to apply only to those In
dividuals who were settlers or owners of
agricultural lands, and who would nat
urally wish to exchange their lands for
tracts outside the forest reserve In order
to secure advantages which they could
not obtain Inside the reserve, and which
he enumerated, then went on to say:
It Is apparent, however, from applications for
lieu selections thus far received, that this pro
vision of law is being taken advantage of in
a speculative way by holders of tracts ac
quired by purchase from the states, railroad
corporations and other sources; and the lands
relinquished have little value as timber or
agricultural lands; and that tracts that once
contained considerable valuable bodies of tim
ber, having been denuded of their value, are
now offered to the Government in exchange for
-valuable lands elsewhere; so that If all private
holdings in forest reservations, acquired In any
manner, may be utilized as the bases for lieu
selections, it may be possible for owners to
select compact bodies of fine agricultural or
timbered lands outside the reserves and com
pel the acceptance by the Government in lieu
thereof of denuded and worthless scattered
tracts In the reserves. The possibilities offered
for lieu selections under the law as it now
stands will lad to many propositions for the
creation of reserves with the" sole view of
Interested parties to acquire the right of lieu
selections. In view of what is here stated. I
recommend a modification of the law ty add
ing a proviso at the end of the clause above
quoted, as follows: Provided, That the tract
relinquished Is agricultural land, and that its
Lamp
Kf
$5.00 kind now. $3.30
$6.00 kind now. $4.05
$6.50 kind now. $4.20
Onyx
Every Onyx Table in the store
in reserve. Tho very best styles
Sale to continue until all are sold.
$5.00 kind, now.
$7.75 kind, now.
$9.00 kind, now
.. $3.45
.. $5.40
.. $6.20
MEIER & FRANK COMPANY
I . . . . ..
naiuri siuic mis not oecn cuuiiistru, l-auciji. iu
such extent as may have been necessary In
clearing' the land for actual cultivation
It will thus be seen that, so far from
waiting four years to hear something
drop through The Orcgonian the Com
missioner discovered the defects In the
law during the very first year of Its op
eration; and In his first annual report
thereafter pointed out these defects very
clearly and proposed a remedy. Moreover,
in each of his annual reports since he
has reverted to the sxibject, has shown
how the law was being perverted, and has
urged its modification. These reports are
made to the Secretary of the Interior and
by him submitted to Congress. Had The
Oregonian consulted these annual reports
of the Commissioner It would not have
' made the undeserved criticism which It
did. S. B. ORMSBY.
The Oregonian has not directed criticism
upon Commissioner Hermann because of
his recommendations for Improvement in
the laws. Those recommendations are
believed to be entirely commendable. But
those recommendations are not law, and
for Commissioner Hermann to continue to
approve recommendatins for further pub
lic reserves the creation of new ones or
adding to old ones In face of the admitted
imperfection of the statute, is merely to
favor the opening of more territory to
the abuses he has himself complained of.
He seems now to have come to tardy real
ization of this fact, and declares his pur
pose to ooDose further reservations until
the defect In the law shall be cured. This
conclusion he would better have reached
many months ago. The question arises,
How long would he have gone on approv
ing new reserves for the benefit of cor
porations and political favorites If he
had not "heard something drop"?
DIED ON A SCAFFOLDING.
Plasterer McLcod Attacked ly Heart
Disease While nt WorW.
James McLeod, a plasterer, 56 years
old, recently from San Franclseo, dropped
dead yesterday whie he was at work In
the buldlng being erected for C. A. Doph
on Seventh street near Alder. The autopsy
showed that the cause of death was heart
disease and Brlght's disease. The evidence
at the Coroner's Inquest was that McLeod
worked In this city as a plasiJerer about
16 years ago and that he returned from
San Franc.sco last week. When he began
plastering a room yesterday morning he
complained of being 111, but thought he
could work all day-. In the course of the
forenoon Thomas Robertson, one of the
contractors, had occasion to visit the
scaffoljl where McLeod was sent to work,
and was surprised to find McLeod lying
on his back against the wall, with h's
head hanging over the scaffolding. As
sistance was got, and when McLeod
was carried to the floor, a distance of
about six feet, it was seen that he was
dead. There were electric light wires
where McLcod had worked, but the cur
rent was not on. David Henderson testi
fied that he had known McLeod for about
40 years, and that the dead man had been
a member of the Portland Caledonian
Club, the Ancient Order of United "Work
men and a Mason. McLeod was a wid
ower and two of his sons are supposed
to be in California. He boarded at the
Columbia Hotel.'
Loprnn Berry Named for Judge Logan
PORTLAND, July 30. (To the Editor.)
Your issue of today contained an il
lustration of the Logan Berry, and In
the description thereof It was stated that
Mr. Magoon- was tlfe originator of the
berry. I wish to take Issue as to that,
for the Logan berry has its origin with
the person of Judge Logan, of Santa
Cruz, Cal. During a recent sojourn in
Santa Cruz my attention was particular
ly called to this berry as being of such
fine flavor and so large. Mr. F. Barson,
the proprietor of the Riverside Hotel and
grounds (at which place I stopped), has
large patches of this berry and supplies
the San Francisco market with them. He
informed me that Judge Logan was the
originator of the berry, and hence its
name. Judge Logan could have made a
large sum of money by It had he so
wished, but he was liberal spirited and
gave the secret to the world without any
recompense.
I have before me a catalogue of the
Fancher Creek Nursery, of Fresno. Cal..
in which is an illustration and descrip
tion of the Logan Berry, from which 1
copy: "Logan berry Originated with
Judge J. H. Logan, of Santa Cruz, Cal.,
from whom It derives Its name."
SIMON HARRIS.
San Francisco.
The O. R. & N. Co.'s. steamer Geo. "W.
Elder sails from Ainswortli dock, Port
land, at 8 P. M. July 31, for San Francisco.
Lowest rates.
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Sale
Wo sold some lamp3 yesterday
satisfactory lamps at interesting
prices. The time is not far distant
when you'll wish you had taken ad
vantage of this opportunity. The
long Fall and Winter evenings will
make the gas bills go soaring high
then's when you'll appreciate the
economy of one of these handsome
table or parlor lamps. Great variety
of styles, prettily decorated globe
and base, best burners. All are down
to cost.
$2.65 kind now $1.79
$3.25 kind now $2.16
$4.50 kind now $3.10
$4.75 kind now $3.23
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$12.00 kind now $8.03
$15.00 kind now$io.3i
$17.00 kind now $11.95
Tables
at cost not one
and trimmings.
$12.00 kind, now. $8.00
$15.00 kind, now $10.08
$18.00 kind, now $11.25
WILL HELP 1905 FAIR
RIVERS AXD HARBORS BILL AT
LONG SESSION OF CONGRESS.
Hoped to Finish Columbia. River Im
provements In Time for the
Coming Exposition.
WASHINGTON, July 26. The reports
of the engineers on various river and
harbor improvements have all been re
ceived, and the estimates made given to
the public. Of course. It is not likely
thut all the recommendations of the en
gineers will be adopted by Congress, and
It is true that small and unimportant
matters ought to be wiped out and the
big projects, which are of benefit to com
merce all over the United States, carried
out In accordance with the recommenda
tions of the engineers. If these big
projects were put into a separate river
and harbor bill it is possible that the lit
tle fellows would fight It. but at the
same time, a meritorious river and harbor
bill would not be talked to death.
There will be a river and harbor bill
in the coming session of Congress, and It
has been developed further that if such
a bill Is to be passed every two years,
it must bo passed In the long session,
when It can receive due consideration.
For two years It has been delayed to the
short session. In order to defeat tho
Nicaragua Canal project, as it was be
lieved that was the only way legislation
for the Nicaragua Canal, engrafted on
tho river and harbor bill, could be de
feated. To the people of Oregon, and of Port
land In particular, the prospect of tha
passage of the river and harbor bill
should be very welcome news. It means
that the project for a sufficient channel
at the mouth of the Columbia and a
24-foot channel to Portland will be In
cluded. "While these Improvements are
sure to come, it is important that they
should become a law In 1902, for this
means that large naval vessels and
merchant ships can appear in the harbor
of Portland during the Lewis and Clark
Oriental Exposition of 1903. Heretofore,
when efforts have been made to have
ships participate in some of these exer
cises, the Navy has made the excuse
that there was not sufficient water, but
before 1905, with the Improvements so
strenuously urged by Captain Langfltt.
and heartily approved by the Engineers
Department in "Washington, and for that
matter by every member of the rivers
and harbors committee, there is no doubt
that a sufficient depth of water to float
big battle-ships will be maintained In the
Columbia when the exposition is held.
Filings on the Nennlem.
ST. HELENS, Or., July 30. At a special
term of the District Court, the County
Clerk was directed to file papers for the
improvement of the Nehalem River and
its tributaries by the "Wheeler Lumber
Company. Just what effect this will have
on the New York & Oregon Coal Com- j
pany's filing is unknown. Two corpora
tions have already filed, and there are
others who wish to Improve certain parts
of the streams covered by these filings.
Many of the ranchers have signified a de
termination to fight any corporation that
seeks to tie up the streams for the sola
purpose of making a monopoly of the priv
ileges granted them.
Injured In Runaway.
ROSEBURG. July 30. R. B. Matthews'
horse ran away down a steep hill this
morning, throwing out Matthews and his
aged mother, the latter striking against
a building, suffering severe bruises on
the head and face, breaking her collar
bone and three Jibs, and injuring her left
shoulder. Matthews escaped harm but
the buggy wa3 wrecked.
Of the Inhabitants of Budapest 23.6 per cnt
(1P0.10S) are Israelites.
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