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THE MORNING OREGON! AN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1903.
DELVES IN FRAUDS
United States Grand Jury Be
gins Its Work.
MANY WITNESSES EXAMINED
Ihargen of Conspiracy Against Miss
Marie Ware, II. G. McKlnIey and
S. A. D. Pater Are Tiorr Under
Investigation.
The work of delving Into the land fraud
jnysterles for the purpose of unearthing
ihe ingenious schemes that have been
used to beat the Government aad to
fasten the odium of crime upon the guilty
parties was commenced by the Federal
grand jury yesterday. Behind closed doors
and surrounded by the utmost secrecy,
the Jury Is listening to stories of how
conspiracies have been formed, how ficti
tious names have been forged and Quan
tities of Government land have been se
cured under false pretenses by men for
apeculative purposes. Records are being
Examined, the searchlight of Investiga
tion Is being thrown upon each account,
und witnesses are explaining what they
know or claim to know about the ways
B.nd means employed by certain parties to
Jefraud the government. So far as is
known, nothing of a sensational nature
j:as developed in the Jury-room as yet,
though it Is expected that before the In
vestigation has been completed there will
be a nurabsr of surprises to the public.
The case before the jury yesterday was
that in which Miss Marie Ware, H. G.
McKlnley and S. A. D. Puter are ac
cused of being Implicated in a conspir
acy. The charge against them is that
they forged fictitious names to docu
ments in order to secure Government land;
that false proofs were made to establish
claims, and that they conspired to beat
the Government out of property that they
had no claim to. The story of their con
neotlon with the matter is well known.
They claim that the charges of the Gov
ernment against them are false and with
out foundation. The matter of interest
to them and the public now Is whether
or not the grand Jury will find in the
testimony put before It sufficient cause
to return a true bill of indictment against
one or all of them.
"While Mr. McKInley and Mr. Puter are
both in the city, neither of them has
been before the Jury, and Miss Ware has
not come to the city. The defendants in
the case state that they will not appear
before the investigating body unless their
presence Is requested by that body itself.
If an Indictment Is found against one or
all of them they will havj to be re-arrested
and give new bonds for appear
ance at trial. According to an expres
sion of opinion of two of the defendants,
they do not expect any indictment, but If
it comes they will fight the case to the
bitter end.
The investigation of the-case yesterday
was conducted by United States District
Attorney John H. Hall. Witnesses to the
number of a dozen or more appeared be
fore the grand Jury during the day.
Apparently the evidence in the case has
all been gathered into a very concise
form, for it was stated yesterday after
noon that the case against the three de
fendants would probably be brought to a
close today. The fact that the matter
will be closed up in such a short time
leads some to expect an indictment.
The completion of this case will not
wind up the timber land matter. It will,
practically, be but the opening up of a
deeper investigation that it is said may
result in involving many prominent and
wealthy men of the state and the ex
posure of one of the most gigantic de
frauding schemes ever operated In this
country-
As yet the Identity of the John Doe who
is understood to be. connected with the
case has not been made known. It Is said
"thalTit has not yet come before the grand
Jury, "but will probably do so within the
next two or three days.
The Jury has made no reports yet up
on the cases already investigated, but
it Is expected that some true bills will
be returned soon.
PORTLAND'S CHANCES GOOD
American Christian Convention Will
Come to the Coast In 1005.
. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 2L (Special;)
The. American Christian missionary con
vention closed one of the most notable
gatherings in Its history today. Two new
and important lines of work were in
augurated, "The American Educational
Association," with Rev. H. G. Hill, of
Omaha, Neb., as corresponding secre
tary, and "The Board of City Evangeli
zation." Dr. H. O. Breeden, of Des Moines, as
chairman for Iowa and the California
and Pacific Northwest delegations have
been vying with each other in securing
favorable consideration for their favo
rite localities for the 1905 convention.
Rather than take any chances of getting
the vote for the Coast for that year, by
the advice of many who understand the
situation, the Pacific Coast delegates con
cluded to work as a unit on the main prop
osition, leaving the place to be deter
mined at St Louis next year.
Portland seems to have more than an
equal chance with San Francisco in this
race. The convention confirmed the rec
ommendation of last year at Omaha, to
go to the Pacific Coast In 1905 without
a dissenting voice. The estimate of the
number who will attend the convention
at St. Louis next year Is 25,000. This will
indicate 60,000 for the Coast in 1905.
C. R. Cook, a young business man of
Detroit, gave 125,000 today to establish
an orphanage in this city under the di
rection of the Benevolent Association of
the Christian Church. Other citizens have
given large sums during the convention
to the various mission boards.
J. F. GHORMLEY.
TIME TO SAVE SEATTLE.
ChriKtian Minister Says It Will Be
ImpoMtible When It Is Larger.
DETROIT. Oct 2L Rev. B. H. Llngon
felter, of Seattle, in his plea for more
workers on the Coast before the Chris
tian Convention, made the sweeping
and startling statement that "more
young men and women go to perdi
tion in the West than in any other part
of the country." He urged that now was
the time to save Seattle, before it had
1,000.000 population and saving was Impossible.
Conference of Sunday School Union.
CHICAGO, Oct 2L The 11th annual con
ference, of the American Sunday School
Unlonbegan here today. One hundred mis
sionaries from all parte of the United
States were in attendance.
Bnrnnide Lays Part of Cable.
SEATTLE. Oct 2L The cable ship
Burnslde and. United States steamship
Patterson, of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, arrived in port from Alaskan
waters today.' The former laid 400 miles
the Alaskan cable. The vessel still had
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"Keiser" Neckwear for Stylish Women Artistic Picture Framing to your order Trunks and Traveling Bags largest variety "Peninsular" Stoves and Ranges 50 models
Evening Costumes and Wraps Magnificent new styles just received.
New Veilings and Hat Drapes Splendid variety.
73 1 st Friday Surprise Sale
Our Friday Surprise Sales ore famous for their great value giving, and that's why they
never fail to attract throngs of eager buyers. You'll find surprise (?) sales on almost
every corner in town nowadays, hut not1 the kind featured here. We inaugurated the
Friday-sale idea in Portland over eighteen years ago. It's an old established meritorious
event looked forward to by every woman in town. No imaginary bargains. It's amusing
to watch the feeble attempt of imitators to produce a bargain equal to the merchandise
we offer for our Friday Surprise Sales, and which always consist of great special lots that
are secured only through our immense purchasing power in the markets of the world.
etticoats at 87c each
For tomorrow's Friday Surprise we offer another great
purchase of Mercerized Sateen Petticoats in all-black, black
and vhite, black with black and white ruffle, Van' Dyke pleat
ing and double ruche. These Petticoats are a duplicate of the
great lot of six hundred which we sold about six, months ago
and cleaned them all out before the day vas over. Petticoats
that would easily bring $ 1.50 at any time, tomorrow only at
87c each
SEE FIFTH-STREET WINDOW DISPLAY
The Bargain Budget for Today
The good news of rare bargains at Meier &. Frank's seems to travel fast. The crowds in-
crease as one woman tells another of the splendid money-saving opportunities she took
advantage of.. Have you secured your share? Such bargains are not found elsewhere.
The Best Shoe Values m Town
And no lame excuse for same No rubbish No odds and ends, but all new clean desirable
styles and leathers at less prices than you are asked to pay for truck elsewhere These bargains
will bear your closest inspection All sizes and widths will be found in this splendid offering.
$5.00 Shoes $3.45
500 pairs of J. & T. Cousins' best $5.00 Shoes
'for women, patent leather tip, Louis heel
patent kid with Cuban heel patent calf,
lace or button style, light or heavy sole, all
sizes and widths, the greatest d If CT
value ever offered at, pr p-rJr J
$3.50 Shoes $2.65
1000 pairs of our best $3.50 Shoes .in patent
colt, patent kid, vici kid, lace and button
styles, patent and kid tip, hand-turned
and welts, all sizes and widths, the regular
$3.50 values at the extraordi
nary low price of, pair
$2,00 Chemise
$1.53
Ladies' Skirt Chemise made
of fine nainsook and cam
brics, lace, ribbons, em
broidery and hemstitching
trimmed, the reg. ff
$2.00 values at. 'JO
$4.00 Petticoats
$2.98
Ladies' fine White Petticoats
trimmed in dainty blind em
broidery and laces, inser
tions and tucks, a separate
dust ruffle, $3.50 q5 qo
and $4 values. . . 4Q
35c Wais tings 25c
2500 yds. of Oxfords and Che
viots in best stripes and col
orings for Winter Waists,
regular 35c line, per
yard
Nottingham Lace Curtains
200 pairs of Nottingham Lace
Curtains, Z yards long, 50
inches wide, the regular
$1.50 values, per jj g
$3.50 Gowns
$1,57
Ladies' Cambric, Muslin and
Nainsook Gowns, high and
, low necks, long and short
sleeves, trimmed in torchon
lace, Valenciennes lace and
dainty embroidery, inser
tions and tucks, $2 to $3.50
values at the low j 1 e 9
price of, each P
$1.75 Curtains $1.2? pair
100 pairs of Ruffled Net Cur
tains, lace edging and inser
tion, 3 yards long, very de
sirable style, per
pair
$1.27
Boys' Suits $2.85
Boys' all-wool, 2-piece double
breasted suits in dark mix
tures, ages 8 to 15 years.
Kegular $3.50 val-i
ues at
"$2.85
Boys Overcoats at . $4.35
V
Boys' all-wool Fancy Plaid
and Oxford Gray Over
coats, velvet collar, ages 4
to 15 years, great
special value at-.
.35
The Picture
Sale
In addition to the great 'lot of
Picture Offerings advertised
last week we offer the fol
lowing tempting values: 17x
29 Framed Etchings, beauti
ful picture, regu- d qq
lar $2.50 value . . . P
15x20 and 20x20 Framed Pic
tures, best and latest sub
jects Regular
$2.00 line
15x20 Colored Pictures, new
est subjects, framed in 3 in.
green oak frames,( i on
Reg. $2.50 values?
8x10 Framed picture, colored
subjects. Regular
65c values
$1.39
35c Ribbons 25c
Twenty-five hundred yards of
double-faced Liberty Satin
Ribbons in all the leading
shades on sale today at a
very low price. Best Rib
bons for neckwear'or fancy
work, 3 to 5 inches wide,
our regular 35c qual- e
ity at, Der vard
"Hawes" Hats for men Derbys and Fedoras All the newest shapes Always $3.00
. , Men's Shirts, Neckwear and Hosiery Very largest showing of new styles
The Greatest Sale of
Men's Underwear Ever
Inaugurated in the City
The Men's Underwear Buyer has never learned how to clean house
thoroughly, with the result that he finds himself greatly overstocked'
An accumulation of broken lots Odds and ends that compel
immediate action. Word comes from the chief executive to clean up
regardless of cost or former selling prices. Only one point in view;
to get the stock down to normal size. Sale starts this morning and
continues until every garment has found a new owner. All the desira
ble styles and weights, about all sizes. The pricing must be of intense interest to
every man as as well as every woman who does the underwear buying for husband or
brother or son. The opportunity for saving is the greatest that has ever been offered.
$2 Underwear
$139
600 garments of Wright's
Health Underwear natural
color wool fleeced all sizes
shirts and drawers regular
$2.00 values
at
$1.39
$2 Underwear
$1.24
Cooper Derby Ribbed
Shirts and Drawers light
blue and pink finely made
and trimmed regular $2.00
value all sizes-at
Men's
99
Underwear finest imported
sanitary garments at the lowest
prices ever quoted $2.50 to
$3.50 "Hohenzollern"
1.
Three grades of "Hohenzol
lern'MShirts and Drawers
finest imported garments
all sizes regular $2.50 to
$3.50 values dr 1
garment P
Men's "Hohenzollern" Night
Robes regular A.O
$3.50 values for . .Jw:r
"Hohenzollern" Combina
tion Suits $3.00 values at $1.98
$5.50 values at $3.49..
$2Underw'r89c
Men's natural gray wool Shirts
and Drawers double fold
about 300 garments in the
lot broken sizes oq
$2.00 values at OzfC
Negligee Shirts
25 dozen Men's Heavy Neg
ligee Shirts dark colors best
patterns attached collar in
larger sizes only
$1.50 to $2.25 values
$1. 19 each
100 dozen Men's dark color
ed Work Shirts in good styles
and all sizes regular 50cvalue
29c each
Odds and ends in Work
Shirts at remarkably low prices
50c Underwear 14c
400 garments in Men's Camels
hW Shirts and Drawers
random striped about all
sizes regular 50c An
value garment IHtC
75c Underwear 49c
Men's natural wool and camels
hair Shirts and Drawers
odd sizes regular
75c value at
$1.00 Underwear 61c
Men's steam shrunk natural
wool Underwear about all
sizes the best $1.00 values
to clean up at r
garment
Men's tan wool underwear
broken sizes !
regular $1.00 value.
"Aretex" Underwear
Pure Irish linen "Aretex"
Shirts and Drawers warm
in winter, cool in summer
the "health" Underwear
regular $3.00
value this sale..P0
"Aretex" Irish Linen Combin
"ation Suits regu- c qq
lar $3.00 value at P . -7
Other ,small lots of Men's
Underwear in broken sizes to
be sold regardless of cost.
$2.00 Underwear 98c
300 pairs of Men's natural
wool Drawers in all sizes
finest $2.00 quality to
clean up at
garment.,
$1.50 Underwear
Men's.Tan Camelshair Shirts
and Drawers best style and
finish about all sizes reg
ular $1.50 value at
garment
Underwear at ?9c
300 garments in Men's natural
wool and camelshair Shirts
and Drawers broken lots
of $1.00 and $1.25
value garment . . . ,
75 Underwear 59c
200 garments in Men's natural
wool Shirts and Drawers
large sizes only reg
ular 75c kind at
Boys' Underwear
Boys' 50c wool, non-shrink-able,
Underwear silk fin
ishedages 6 to 12 years
regular 50c value 34q
Boys' fine ribbed Underwear
fleeced Shins and Draw
erssizes up to 12 years
regular 25c value a
garment 1 frC
"Haws" Hats for Men Derbys antf Fedoras All the newest shapes Always $3.00
Men's Shirts, Neckwear and Hosiery very largest showing of new styles
Sweater Bargains
Great special bargains in odd lots of Men's and Boys' Wool
Sweaters.
Odds and ends in Boys' blue, white and crimson gQ
all-wool Sweaters regular $1.00 values at OC
Men's $1.50 Sweaters crimson and blue-g
all sizes the regular $1.00 values at . .. Q"C
Men's extra heavy all wool Sweaters
navy blue only regular $3.75 values at
Juvenile Sweaters in white only
ages 4 to 7 years $1.00 values at
Sale continues for Ten Days.
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about 100 miles o the cable on board
taken north during the Summer, but the
weather being rough it was decided not,
to attempt to lay it unUl she returns
with the final shipment, sufficient to com
plete the line to this city.
ACCUSED OF TAKING BRIBE.
Xevr York Official Said to Have Tried
to' Sell riace on Police Force.
NEW YORK. Oct. L Deputy Tax Com
missioner Michael O'Sulllvan has been ax-
rested at the door o his home in St.
Luke's Place, on his return from a Dem
ocratic political meeting, and locked up
In a police station. He Is accused of
having taken a. bribe on pretext of get
ting a man appointed to the police force.
The warrant was issued by Justice Wyatt.
Eric Erlckson, a motorman, gave the
information to District Attorney Jerome
upon which the arrest was made. He
showed a receipt -purporting to have
been signed by O'Sulllvan for $200. It
was, be said, half the amount he had
promised to pay for a civil service rating
and .a position on the police force. This
was more than a year ago, he alleged.
and the Job had not been given him. He
was. given a marked f50 bill and Instruct
ed to offer it to 6'Sullivan while detec
tives stood near by." The offer was made
In a saloon", where the motorman, met
O'Sulllvan and berated him. As the lat
ter refused to take the bill, the pfan to
arrest him on the street failed, -and an
affidavit by Erlckson was placed before
Justice Wyatt.
O'Sulllvan formerly was a policeman,
and secured his present position under
the administration of Mayor Van Wyck.
J Tree TV111 Go for Brokin.nnTrn i.ir
j- SEATTLE, Oct. 2L-It was today de
jxerminea oy tne owners of the disabled
(freight steamship Meteor, which broke
down In Behring Sea with a big cargo
j aboard, to dispatch the tug Tyee north
for the purpose of towing her to this
jet it iias noi Deen decided wnat
disposition will be mnde of the Meteor's
cargo. It may be roturnAl In the vessel
or discharged at Unalaska.
Pare Food Laws to Be Urged.
NEW YORK, Oct 21. At a meeUng
here of the Association of Manufacturers
and Distributers of Food Products of the
United . States, composed of 39 manufac-
j turers, it has been decided to urge upon
Congress the enactment of pure-food leg
j lslatlori and to work for a bill providing
j free Interstate commerce In food products
wnica coniorm to a certain standing of
purity.
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Impressive Services. Held Over the
Body of the Lnte Archbishop.
ST. LOUIS, Oct 21. Funeral services
were conducted In the old cathedral to
day over the body of the late Archbishop
John J. Kaln, of this diocese, who died last
week In Baltimore. The ceremonies were
attended by a large assemblage. Card!-,
nal Gibbons celebrated the high requiem
mass, and five archbishops and bishops
performed the rite of absoluUon. , Arch
bishop Keane, of Dubuque, la., officiated
and delivered the sermon.
At tho conclusion of the mass Arch
bishop J. J. Keane, who was a close friend
of the deceased, preached the funeral
panegyric '
Before Archbishop Keane had concluded
absoluUon was pronounced over the bier
by Cardinal Gibbons, four 'archbishops
and bishops, and opportunity was given
those assembled to take a farewell view
of the remains. The cortege then pro
ceeded to Calvary Cemetery, where the
Interment was made" alongside the grave
of Archbishop Kenrlck.
Judicial Vlevr of Lynching:.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The record of the year proves that
lynching Is by no means confined to the
South. We are obliged to confess that the
evil Is a National evil, the most sinister
in its possible consequences that has
confronted the Nation since the Civil
"War. Does It mean that the people, the
Ultimate source of authority among us,
demand a change in our Judicial pro
cedure by which the execution of Justice
shall be rendered swift and more certain?
Thlsls the view taken by many of our
Judges. Are we then to admit that public
opinion has a right to express Itself by
murder?
clslon In the case may be. At the same
time Canada's oratorical threats sound a
little more alarming when' they are fol
lowed by signs of excited activity in the
recruiting stations. We still have great
hopes that the questions in dispute will
be amicably settled, but .If we have to
fight, we will still refuse to be scared, al
though Canada Is" to have a standing army
of 100,000 men against our 63,000. We still
have our volunteer reserves and the police.
3IflT"nnkee Get 1007 Conference.
BERLIN, Oct- 21. The Evangelical con
ference decided to hold the next quad
triennial session in ISO? in Milwaukee.
Cnnada'ji Real Mnl Spell.
Washington Post.
No one in this country seems to be tak
ing the Alaskan boundary question so se
riously as Ihe Canadians, and there Is
probably no thought of a conflict with the
neighbors on the north, whatever the de-
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