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9 STORE."
OLDS. WORTMAN & KING
FIFTH AND WASH
INGTON STS.
Today's Out Birthday
Twenty-five years ago today this great, grand store opened its little doors upon a floor space less in area than any one of its more
than forty departments of today and how we have grown lived to see the "Big Stores" of those days pass down and out. Stores have
come and stores have gone, wliile this great store, like Tennyson's "Brook," "goes on forever." So today, and all the week, we celebrate
our 25th Anniversary our Silver Jubilee b7 a GRAND BARGAIN FEAST TO WHICH YOU ARE ALL INVITED. You must
have read our full-page bargain list in yesterday's Oregonian. if not 'twill pay you to look it up, and today as promised yesterday
we supplement more bargains, a sort of dessert to a BIG BANQUET OF EXTRAORDINARY VALUES FOR OUR 25TH ANNI
VERSARY WEEK.
NOTE Our values are for all day and all the week, unless lots are-closed earlier. The "bargains" of an hour are generally
fleeting visions of values never realized a sort of chimerical fancy of befuddled brains. Shop at the great Thoroughfare Store at
your leisure. The latchstring is out at the "Old Homestead" "Different Store" all the week. COME! A few bargain magnets.
AN IMPORTANT SALE OF .
Hotel, Restaurant and Housekeeping
LINENS
Buy Linens from a store you have intelligent faith in or waste money. Few stores set out to fake, but few
stores know Linens and you suffer through their ignorance as much as through their design.
Linens are "scamped" to get in under lower tariff classification; some are flax and yet scarcely "Linen! because
largely made of tow the "leavings." No use to print a technical story it simply beclouds a no-wise clear subject
But we can stick up a few blunt facts as safety lanterns.
The Olds, Wortman & King Linen business has grown great because it is scientifically accurate which to you
means "honest," though both honesty and intelligence born of years of study are included.
This is our Summer clearance and stock adjustment sale which means losses that we take cheerfully because
it helps the store in the long run. Not everything is reduced the incoming goods are lining up for Fall but there
are lots of bargains.
We are Sole Agents for Portland for the famous RICHARDSON LINENS. The Richardson people are at the
fountain head of linen goods manufacture they bleach and finish all of the so-termed " Brown " Linens (they who are
merely "sideshows" to the great linen exposition). Buy of the fountain-head, first hands. Don't pay three profits for
you don't have to at this store. We import direct from the makers, the famous Richardson's, with more than five gen
erations or a full rounded century and longer, of linen-make experience. Compare these values carefully, comparing
measurements, weight and texture, in short QUALITY, with any advertised "Linen Sales" in the city.
BUY AT THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD AND PAY BUT ONE PROFIT!
RICHARDSON'S
! Snow White
TABLE LINENS
The best make of the best linen
makers in all the world.
Damask Table Cloths
56-inch, per yard 45c
66-inch, per yard 59c
72-inch, per yard 81c
$1.09, $1.28 and $1.49.
Napkins Dinner Size
6 Big Bargains 6. Great values $1.05,
$1.09, $1.35, $2.25, $2.48, $3.25 per dozen.
Separate Table Cloths
Of celebrated Richardson manufacture.
Great bargains I
$2.50 values at $2.05
$3.00 values at $2.50
$3.50 values at $2.95
Towels 6 Bfg Special Lots
10c values at.. 6c 20c values at. .15c
12 c values at. .10c 25c values at. .19c
15c values at. . 12c 30c values at . . 24c
Bed Spreads
Full size fringed Bedspreads with corners
cut and fitted to the new m Af
brass beds, this sale for. . . .Cp
White Marseilles and satin fin-q o o
ished Bedspreads, full size . ..vp O
Table Damasks
In short lengths of from 1 1-2 to 3 yards
each at prices sharply and radically reduced.
Great Bargains
In Table Cloths, Towels, Napkins, Crashes
and Table Damasks, slightly mussed from
showing, at prices away under value.
GRAND BARGAIN SALE
We merely remind all that first choosers always' get best selections. Until further notice, we will sell
Wfiitney Baby Carnages
Usual $8.00 values for $5.50
Usual $9.00 values for 6.50
Usual $11.00 values for. . . 7.50
Usual $12.50 values for. . . 8.50
Usual $14.00 values for. . .$9.5.0
Usual $15.75 values for. . . 9.85
Usual $16.50 values for. . .10.45
Usual $18.50 values for. . .11.80
Whitney Go-Catts
Usual $15.00 values for. .$11.00
Usual $16.50 values for.. 12.00
Usual $18.00 values for. . 13.25
Usual $20.00 values for. . 14.00
Usual $22.00 values for.. $16.50
Usual $23.00 values for. . 17.25
Usual $24.00 values for. . 18.25
Usual $25.00 values for. . 19.00
Blankets in the Gt eat Annivetsat y Sale
Fourth Floor. All of the end of the season's run of Blankets from the PORTLAND WOOLEN MILLS at LESS THAN THE
MILL'S PRICES. A wonderful saving opportunity for Housekeepers and Hotel men. Tnis week we sell ALL-WOOL BLANKETS
VICUNA In values of $6.50 reduced to $4.40
SCARLET Value $5.50 reduced to 3.75
Value $6.50 reduced to 4.50
Value $9.00 reduced to 6.25
in the Sale
Fourth Floor Nottingham Lace Curtains, Brussels and Renaissance effect, some samples, slightly mussed.
PLAIN GRAY Values of $4 reduced to $2.75
Values of $5 reduced to 330
Values of $5.75 reduced to 3.85
MOTTLED In values of S4.50 reduced to 3.25
In values of $6.50 reduced to 4.40
33 pairs, 7 styles, value $2.25, special at $1.78
60 pairs, 7 styles, value $2.50, special at J. 99
33 pairs, 4 styles, value $2.75, special at 2.20
3 1 pairs, 3 styles, value $3.00, special at 2.45
92 pairs, JO styles, value $3.25, special at 2.65
20 pairs, 4 styles, value $3.50, special at .$2.85
J 4 pairs, 2 styles, value $4.00, special at 3.J5
19 pairs, 3 styles, value 55.00, special at . .-i 3.95
J 7 pairs, 3 styles, value $6.00, special at 4.85
White Enameled If on Beds Bass Trimmed
IN THE GREAT ANNIVERSARY SALE THIS WEEK
Value
Value
Value
Value
Value
Value
Value
4.50, special $ 3.75
5.00, special $ 4.25
6.00, special . $ 5.00
7.50, special . $ 6.50
$10.50, special f $ 8.75
$12.00, special $10.00
$12.50, special $10.50
Value $13.50, special $11.25
Value $15.00, special .' $12.50
Value $18.00, special $15.00
Value $19.00, special $16.00
Value $22.00, special $18.50
Value $23.50, special $19.50
Value $28.00, special . . $23.00
Great bargains in Mattresses, Springs, Comforters, Blankets, Pillows, etc. Fourth Floor
FOURTH FLOOR BARGAINS
Fringed x Tapestry Tabic si $2.so values, this sale xa
r- 6"4 slze S2-"5 values, this sale 1.93
covers
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OUR STORE WILL CLOSE.
9:30 P. M. SATURDAY,
and remain closed until all re
pairs are completed, about Sep
tember 1. This week at the Lip
man -Wolfe establishment will
be the greatest bargain week in
the history of the store.
85c and 75c Taffeta Silks... -59c
$1.50 Biack Grenadines 75c
75c Tarn o'Shanters ; 25c
AH 50c Sheet Music at 15c
15c, 18c, 20c and 25c Printed Batiste
and'Dimity at 5c
30c to 40c Madras Swiss Zephyr at 15c
65c and 75c Silk Zephyrs and'Siik
Madras at '. 27c
50c Embroidered Swiss at 23c
Men's $1 and $1.50 Shirts at l47c
Men's 50c Silk Neckties at 15c
Men's 20c Sox at 10c
Men's $1 Baibriggan Underwear at 53c
Men's 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.50 Belts at -25c
Men's 25c Linen Handkerchiefs at 18c
Men's 50c Baibriggan Underwear at . . .32c
60c, 65c and 75c White Mercerized
Madras at 30c
65c and 75c White Figured Silk
Wash Goods at 35c
50c Wash Silks at 23c
Every Wrapper at 50c
$3 to $4.50 Washable Skirts $1.95
Kimonas up to $1.50 at ,48c
$1.25 White Shirtwaists at 55c
$1.50 and $1.75 White Shirtwaists at. .85c
$2 and $2.25 White Shirtwaists at . . .$1.00
$2.50 and $3 White Shirtwaists at . . .$1.35
$5 Pedestrian Skirts at $2.95
$20 Tallor-Made Suits at $9.50
Tallor-Made Suits up to $40 at $14.85
$18.50 to $30 Misses' Taifor-Made
Suits at $11.85
Ladies' 25c Black All-Over Lace
Hosiery 16c
Ladies' 35c Ail-Over Lace Lisle Hosiery. 21c
Boys' and Girls' 15c Ribbed Cotton
Hosiery 9c
Children's 25c and 35c Tan Hosiery. . . .10c
Infants' 25c Lace Lisle Hosiery 13c
35c Taffeta Ribbons at 18c
4-inch Brilliant Taffeta Ribbons at 17c
50c and 60c Dress Goods at 29c
75c and 85c Dress Goods at 48c
$1 Dress Goods at ,......... .57c
Above is only a small, partial list of the bargains. Enormous sales of
Linens, Quadruple-Plated Ware, Child's and Infants' Wear, Notions, Muslin
Underwear, Gloves, Druggists' Sundries, Handkerchiefs, Lace Curtains, Drap
ery Materials. In fact, every department in the store is full of bargains that
have never been equaled before. Come early. Come often. The bargain
supply is enormous.
Every article in the store reduced
ENDS THE LIVES OF TWO
SCREAMS attract attention to
A GHASTLY SIGHT.
M sire. $1.00 values, this sale 65e
6-4 size. $1.75 values, this sale $L19
6-4 slse, $2.25 values, this sale 1.4S
S-4 size. 51.50 values, this sale J6c
S-4 size, 12.00 values, this sale $1.33
v-4 size, $2.73 values, this sale L?3
S-4 size. 53.25 values, this sale 22S
10-4 size, $2.75 values, this sale L93
10-1 slz, $3.50 values, this sale 2.43
10-4 size, $4 CO values, this sale 2.S7
10-1 size, $5.00 values, this sale 3.(5
Olds, "Wortman & King Drop-head Sew
ing Machine, quarter-sawed oak
frame, guaranteed for five years, as
good as any $50.00 machine; our price.
$27.75; special this coo CK
week for' 4,OD
BOW yards Sllkaline. figured and striped,
full color line, very best quality,
value 124c; special this week, Q
per yard
ILLINERY BARGAINS, $8 values at $2.50
Silk and Chiffon Hats, all leading colors, pink, blue, black and white; moire with moline facing; black and-
.. t t . r f . 1 T f f i CO TM f
wnite cnips; Donnet irames; monair ana norse nair, values to $0. 1ms anniversary weeK
m) FLOWERS, values to 75c a spray, this week X9c
$2.50
I
SHOES Twenty-fifth Anniversary Sale
Laird. Schober & Co.
and tan Oxfords
at
$350
chocolate
$2.48
I
Laird, Schober & Co. $3,00 and $5.00
high Shoes, heavy or light soles, kid
or cloth tops, button or CO AR
lace, at .J,HO
Women's Beach and (Mountain Shoes,
tan or brown, S and 10-in. tops, $3.00
and $3.50 values, all c QO
go at l.ao
Misses and Children's Strap Slippers,
sizes 8 and 10. SSc; nnd no
sizes 11 to 2 f OL
1 and 2-strap, $130
and
$1.25
Sizes 11 to 13. $1.75 kind.
at
$1.18
. . sues 13 to 2, $2.00 Kind, C1 oo
Boys Shoes In tan. best qual- c- no at r.-P JO
Ity, $3.50 at $1.45, and J3.00 at. 1 O Sizes 2J. to $250 kind. ci Tfi
..... ' ' -
Boys Box Calf and Yid Kid, all solid,
new styles-
Women's $1.50 Party
Slippers
98c
MEN'S FURNISHINGS
Boys" Golf Shirts, with soft and
starched collars attached, a COc shirt,
:...40c
Men's Elastic-Seam Jean Drawers, best
make, J1.CS values, this 7 At
tieek .-
The celebrated Lewis Underwear. In
silk and linen, 33.00 values, e-f Qfj
this week ... 9 1 vr
Men6 Jersey-Ribbed Undershirts nnd
Drawers, flesh color, the best EOc
garment in this dry, "3fir
sale price ouu
A 35c line of Men's Fancy Sox. In fancy
stripes, sale 0i r
price "- 1 -
Men's and Boys' Leather Bells, values
; 35c
Men's Sateen Nightshirts. In pink, blue
and tan, with military collar, at $L5
ferlf... 80c
Men's Fancy Lace Us la Sock, In
black, gray, blue, black and white, a
big line, regular 25c. -f C
sale price - , ion.
"Washable Stock
colors, values
to 75c, sale......
Ties, in white and
35c
Men's Silk Shield Bows, a popular tie
: i5c
"Richardson's Pure Linen Handker
chiefs, In a 40c Quality, at an ORr
extra special of -UL.
Man and "Woman Lying Dead "Witlx
Their Throats Cut Man Believed
to Have Done It.
"WORCESTER. Mass.. Aug. 2. A spe
cial from Northboro says:
Frank Foss. while on his way homo
tonight heard screams in the direction
of Grange Hall, on School street. Hast
ening In that direction he found two
dead bodies lying In a yard close to the
sidewalk. According to the police they
were the bodies of F. P. Egan and Mrs.
Sadies Booth, both of Spencer.
Mrs. Booth was 2S years old and had
been living for the past month with her
sister at Northboro. Her throat was
cut. A razor was fouild under her
body. Death had been Instantaneous.
The man's throat was cut In a similar
manner.
The theory of the police is that tho
roan cut the woman's throat and then
killed himself.
SHERIFF DODGES THE MOB.
Segro Charged With. Aannult Landed
Safely in Jail.
CHARLOTTE. N. C. Aug. 2. Wllford
Roseboro, the negro who is . charged with
having assaulted Mrs. D.' Beavers In
Iredell County, then murdering her and
throwing her body into a veil. Is In- Char
lotte Jail. He was brought here tonight
by Sheriff Summers, of Iredell County, for
safe keeping. He was captured In Polk
County yesterday and taken to Ashevllle
JalL
When It became known In Statesville
that the Sheriff was coming there with his
prisoner a mob began to form for the
purpose of lynching Roseboro. This was
Just before the arrival of the train. Sheriff
Summers eluded the mob, however, and
took his prisoner to Mooresvllle by private
conveyance and there caught a train for
Charlotte.
Mrs. Long, of Rocky 'Mount, who was
assaulted Saturday by a negro, on regain
ing consciousness, said her assailant was
named Till Black. His capture ls certaln.
MINERS "WANT TO COME BACK.
Driven Out of Idaho Springs After
Dynamite Outrage.
DENVER, Aug. 2. The If members of
the Idaho Springs Miners' Union who were
compelled to leave that place by citizens
who formed themselves into a committee
for that purpose, the day after the blow
ing up with dynamite of the buildings of
the Sun and Moon mine, today addressed
a letter to the Sheriff of Clear Creek
County, In which Idaho Springs Is located,
informing him that they wished to return
to their homes, and requesting his protec
tion. This Is In line with the advice given
them by Governor Peabody at the time
the miners asked him to order out troops
to assist them in returning to Idaho
Springs. Governor Peabody told the min
ers to first make application for protec
tion to the civil authorities, and, falling
In this, he would then consider their re
quest of him.
An answer from the Sheriff Is expected
by tomorrow.
POWERS' TRIAL BEGINS TODAY.
He Is ConSdent of Being Cleared, of
Connection With Goebel Murder.'
GEORGETOWN, Ky.. Aug. 2. The third
trial of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Pow
ers as accessory to the murder of Gover
nor Goebel before the fact will begin here
tomorrow before Judge Bobbins at a spe
cial term of the Scott Circuit Qburt. All
the other trials of Powers, Howard and
Youtsey, who arer now serving life sen
tences for alleged conspiracy that resulted
In the shooting of Goebel three years ago
last January, were before Judge Campbell,
of this circuit. Both sides claim to have
much additional evidence, and It is thought
the hearing will continue all this month.
Powers has been convicted twice and sen
tenced for life bath times.
"While Powers Is now expecting freedom,
the prosecution claim that their new evi
dence may result In a verdict of first de
gree. James Howard, who is charged with
doing the shooting, " also awaits a new
trial.
Mrs. Gnller Accused of Murder.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2. A special to the
Globe-Democrat from Buckner Hill.
111., - says the Coroner's Jury that had
bene Investigating the death of Ewart
Mears Checksfleld, arrived at a verdict
tonight, accusing Mrs. Ida Guller, wife-
of Gilbert Guller, already under arrest
on a statement sworn to by the boy's
father, guilty of the' crime.
Italians Fatally Stab a. Baker.
CANTON, Mass., Aug. 2. Hiram Poole,
a baker, was stabbed to death tonight In
Sherman street by one of three Italians.
His assailants fled after the murder and
have not been arrested.
LANGUAGE OF SIGNS.
May It Not Yet Afford the Universal
Medium for Communication;
New York Times.
The Easter observances In the Church
of St. Ann were suggestive. The famil
iar antnem, "Christ la Risen," cannot be
said to .have been sung exactly, for the
choir was voiceless, but four young
women appropriately arrayed In white
surplices came forward and Interpreted
It by the sign language, relying wholly
upon graceful and synchronous move
ments to expresa the sentiment of the
hymn. The congregation was powerfully
moved, and no doubt derived as much
satisfaction from the rendering as would
a company of persons possessed of the
sense of hearing from a well-balanced
quartet of trained voices. The same was
true of the hymn, "Angels Rolled the
Stone Away," and the stirring anthem,
"Now Is Christ Risen From the Dead."
It was not mere dumb show of laborious
spelling by combinations of the fingers,
but an Intelligible Interpretation which
those who do not know the sign lan
guage found extremely Interesting;
though possibly capable of somewhat
liberal misinterpretation.
This suggests a thought as to whether
the sign language does not offer the
only practicable basis for the universal
language vainly sought In Volapuk and
other forms of articulate jargon. If the
universal language is needed at all, and
must be In some sense an arbitrary crea
tion, would not much of the difficulty of
learning and using It be overcome if all
complications of grammar were dis
pensed with and signs were substituted
for words? Basic ideas are practically
tho same, no matter what the language
chosen for their expression, and if a
method can be found of expressing Ideas
In dignified pantomime the person ad
dressed may translate it Into words as
well In one language as In another. If he
understands It at all. Conversely, he
may do his thinking In German or Rus
sian, and by the sign language make
himself Intelligible to the Englishman or
the Spaniard. This he can do to a lim
ited extent as it is; and with a little
training and the employment of a few
conventional gestures, to express what
may be called abstract Ideas, Intercom
munication between persons who do not
speak a common language might be
made a very simple matter. The sign
language would be much more easily
learned than Volapuk or any new tongue,
and there would seem to be no good rea
son why words should have anything to
do with conversation of this character.
ELECTRICITY VS. STEAM.
Evidence Is Rapidly Accumulating
That the Latter Must Give "Way.
Chicago Tribune.
Tho proposed demonstration at Lan
sing, Mich., of a new system of electric
railway construction is only one more
of several demonstrations and tests which
are slowly and apparently surely paving
the way towards the future abandonment
of steam as the motive power in land
passenger transportation. It may be a
long time yet before the steam locomo
tive gives way to the electric motor, but
everything seems to Indicate that the time
Is coming. If the experiments at Lansing
prove successful they will show that a
long step has been taken toward the
substitution by reducing the cost of equip
ment at least one-third, doing away with
sub-stations which would effect a large
saving in labor, conserving the energy
which Is now dissipated In the stopping
and starling of cars, and greatly Increas
ing the speed. An experiment which
promises so much will bo watched with
great interest.
Meanwhile, whether the experiment suc
ceeds or not, it Is evident from the way
In which capitalists are planning to build
electric lines over long distances that
these lines are seriously cutting Into the
business and revenues of the steam roads.
Already steam railroad companies In soma
parts of the country are buying up elec
tric lines and using them as feeders for
local territory they cannot reach, but
more significant than this is the organiza
tion of companies to build long electria
lines, like those proposed between Chicago
and Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis,
and the proposal to parallel the Boston
& Albany road with a branch from Spring
field to New York. The railroad men pro
fess not to fear the competition, as It
wlu be Impossible to get electric cars
through from Bostpn to Albany in any
thing like the time trains now make. This
Is not so certain, for already the maximum
of 100 miles per hour has been made In
Germany. "What can be done In Germany,
can be done here. The obstacle now stand
ing In the way Is that such speed on an
electric road would not be legal In Mas
sachusetts or In New York. The most
serious factor In the problem now Is that
It does not pay to use electricity oa long
distance trains, but If Mr. Arnold's ex
periment, or the experiment of others In
the same direction, prove successful, and
electricity can be made cheaper than
steam, then, as a mater of course, th
roads will use it. It may be a long tlma
before thi3 is the case, but events seem
to be shaping themselves to such a result.
A Prophet of 111.
London Tatler.
The astrologer has been busy with tha
horoscopes of Shamrock III and her op
ponent, and with startling; results. Sham
rock HL he tells us, was launched at 1:20
on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 17.
when the Sun was In the House of Long
Journeys, Venus In the House of Honor,
and Saturn in the House of Opponents.
This indicates, it seems, a fortunate start
and a powerful opponent; but that other
maleficent planet. Mars, was near the
Fourth House, which betokens Ill-luck
before the races are over The Reliance
was launched under no luckier star. The
Moon In her case was in opposition to
the aun, and Mercury, though this ugly
blemish was mitigated by better arrange
ments. In the House of Sports. Tho
prophet, after the manner of prophets.
Is extremely vague, but one gathers that
It Is quite probable at least one of the
yachts may meet with an accident before
the races are over.
In Chopin's "Etude" in E minor It is neces
sary to read 3050 signs in two minutes and a
half, which Is equivalent to about 29 notes
per secoad.
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