12 THE MORNING O REG ONI AN, MONITAY, DECEMBER 19, 1904. OLD ANNALS IN DARK Oregon Records Abundant But Need Sorting. HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO ACT Secretary F. G. Young, In His Annual Report, Shows the Present Dif ficulties of Properj.and Systematic Research. Numerous as arc the records of Oregon history, held by the Oregon Historical So ciety, they serve but poorly the historical investigator because they lack segrega tion, collation and Indexing. Owing to the scarcity of funds, the society has done little toward classification of Its materials, and has spent its substance rather on. gathering up records ere they should be lost, leaving the other work to some fu ture time. But now some start should be made toward the proper sorting of the historic evidence that has been gathered. If it is to serve a useful purpose, and if study of Oregon history is to be encouraged. This was one of the chief recommenda tions of Professor F. G. Young, secretary of the society, in his annual report, sub mitted to the society last Saturday. The writing of historical-narrative for the youth and of historical treatises for popu larizing the study of Oregon history will languish until that is done. Secretary Young pointed out also that, while one function of the society was that of finding old records, documents and. relics, another function quite as important was that of "filing history as it Is made." "We have not the library force," ran the report, "to place our own collections in shape to stimulate production of his torical papers for the Quarterly, nor are the documentary sources sufficiently seg regated to be available for Its pages." Secretary Young suggested the issuance of a "series of historical leaflets" for school reading, each to narrate an historic episode. To carry out this suggestion, the board of directors authorized President C. B. Bellinger to appoint a committee of three members. Secretary Young rec ommended also that the society strive for the Lewis and Clark memorial building, for which the State of Oregon has already appropriated 550,000. To promote the car rying out of that and other recommenda tions in the report. President Bellinger was authorized to appoint another com mittee of three members. Text of Secretary's Report. The report is in part as follows: A rich store of material representing the results o sir years of activity is packed away and piled up In the society's different rooms. How rich only ' the librarian's art and library facilities can make evident. I shall submit a few statistics of our acces sions up to date, knowlnp full well that these can give hut little Idea of the measure of light our dopumetits, newspapers and books shed upon Oregon's past. Our collec tions include: Personal letters 3.-48G Other documents - 1.742 Zlarlefi, Journals, account books.... 180 Maps and charts - 83 Sound volumes of newspaper, files..... 140 Miscellaneous papers 33,701 Books 4.5S2 Pamphlets (library titles, 6C93) 2,113 Historical pictures, portraits and photcs- j.... ........ 3.15B Pioneer relics S31 Archaeological relics ......... ...I 490 "While thus the main work of the society has rightly been that of gleaning the rem nants of scattered records, from the nature of the case the time must come when our efforts should turn rather to the work of .-flllng history as it 4 made. Of course, a keen lookout will always need to be kept for stray documents of the past and care fully planned campaigns of search should be conducted unremittingly. Yet the work of collecting must relatively decrease and that of filing contemporary records and of mak ing our library serviceable to tbe present generation must increase. This natural evo lution of our functions we are anxious to accomplish. Society's Strong Popular Support. , For the best performance of Us leadhig lunction in the past the society made appeal to a wide constituency of membership on the ground of civic interest In the preservation of the commonwealth's records of the past. The response was most gratifying and I have yet to learn of a historical society with as strong popular support as ours. From this time on, however., the ground of our appeal for membership- must more and more be that of the same patriotic Interest in the right filing of contemporary documents and in the largest and highest use of the guidance and Inspiration of history in the upbuilding of the commonwealth. Among the more important collections of the past year were 20 bound volumes of newspapers published in Salem commencing In 18C9 and edited mostly by S. A. Clarke. These were the gift of Mr. Clarke and his daughter, Mrs. S. C. Dyer. Another im portant addition to our library material, mainly of newspapers, was obtained from P. L. Brlstow. of Pleasant Hill. Lane County. These were the accumulations of Mrs. Zil pha Rigdon, his aunt, a pioneer of. 1S46, re cently deceased. Charles E. Ladd gave us a carefully selected list of 47 books bearing on the early history of Oregon. There has been a. fair measure of accessions of all kinds. But the state has been so thoroughly scoured by Assistant Secretary Hlmes that possibly a different line of tactics is advisable for fur ther economic yet effective Bearch. Our membership roll at the close of the last month Included 819 names, represent ing a net gain -of 19 for the year. Our roll now comprises 122 life members, 689 annual members, and 8 honorary members. During the year we lost 12 annual members by death, and 37 by discontinuance, and gained S new life members and 80 new annual mem bers. Tbe receipts from dues for the year ending November 30, 1903, were $1420; for the year ending November 30. 1904. $1662. Register of Pioneers. During the year 20.361 visitors were re ceived at our rooms and a pioneer register of. 10,000 names was compiled. This register arranges in most serviceable form the data that Mr. Hlmes as -sccretary of the Pioneer Association had for years been accumulating. This register is bound -to become one of great value. So much of It as was, com pleted last April was transcribed with co operation of the State Lewis and Clark Com mission to cards arranged In a cabinet and placed in the Oregon building at St. Louis. The society, also In co-operation with the commission, secured a relief topographic map of the United States on a section of a . globe 16 feet in diameter, on which were marked the Lewis and Clark routes and the Oregon and other principal transcontinental trails. The society has this register and map as tho nucleus of its exhibit for Lewis and Clark Exposition. Turning, to our'nnancial situation we face a somewhat serious condition of affairs. The society's revenues for the last two years have been about $4500 each year. This sum includes all of our appropriations and all of "our membership fees collected. This year we , had $4,669.25, but there was a deficit from last year to meet. These resources have sup ported the activities of which I have spok en, maintained the headquarters at Portland and provided the means with which to is sue the Quarterly. The board of directors arranged a budget for the past year in which a careful appor tionment of the society's resources was made for the support of Its different activi ties in proportion to their relative needs. Our experience with this budget Indicates that -flees for th,e organization of the society in 'a static condition and falls to provide .the means for the development of those library the present measure of our funds barely suf- p activities wherein the promise of highest ser-!ce to this state lies. The Quarterly, too, is very much handi capped. Our printing fund has not sufficed for getting out the -full number of Issues. In dexes for the last three volumes are held back. Two numbers of the "Annual Pro ceedings" have failed to appear because of lack of funds. But the special handicap on the Quarterly lies in the fact that we have not the library force and facilities to place our collections in shape to stimulate the production of historical papers ' for tho Quarterly, nor arc the documentary aou&cs sufficiently segregated to be available for Its pages. In a word, our condition Is simply analagous to that of a small boy growing out of his clothes. "With the prospect before us of a permanent home in the Lewis and Clark Memorial building, we were not warranted In estab lishing any fixtures In our City Hall Tooms, had our means permitted. At the opening of the Exposition season our books will mainly be found neatly .plied on the floor of our library rooms and our documents safe ly stored In our vaults. The society will, of course, go as far as the conditions of safety will warrant In displaying the most Inter esting features of Its collections at the Fair. Its headquarters there Tshould be manned and equipped ior conducting the most active registration of the location of historical ma terials and for the recording of. historical data. Historical Leaflets Suggested. A most Important work towards prepara tion for Oregon's centennial celebration falls to this society and calls for Immediate ac tion. I refer to the preparation of a series of historical leaflets to be placed in the hands of the older children of Oregon schools and to furnish the bases for Instruction In the main epochs and movements and factors in the making of Oregon. The leading topics of our history could be presented in separate leaflets In a form that would appeal to the youth. Our best writers would, I am sure, stand ready to prepare these as their contri butions to a. patriotic service. The early ap propriation of a nominal sum by the Legis lature would furnish the means for distrib uting them to the schools. The result would be, a manifold enhancement of the good ob tained from our Exposition through a per vading, intelligent and enthusiastic interest In it on the part of the youth of Oregon. This society owes It to the cause It repre sents to follow up and see through to reali zation the memorial building project, as all, no doubt, are aware the Item of $350,000 for such a memorial to Lewis and Clark was eliminated from the bill when before Con gress. As National action on Lewis and Clark memorials now stands. Sergeant Floyd, who was with the party on their outward trip as far as where Sioux City, la., now is, has a monument through the aid of Con gress. The services of Lewis and Clark, however, and of their party as a whole, who had part in the exploration to the Pacific, are dented recognition, because forsooth a memorial in the form of a most serviceable building Instead of a mere shaft would have made an annoying precedent. $50,000 Already Appropriated. But the situation to which I wish particu larly to call your attention and with ref erence to which to urge action. Is the fact that the State Lewis and Clark Commission Is reserving intact $50,000 for such a build ing. It is doing this In accordance with the provisions of the general act making the state appropriation and especially In ful fillment of the pledge to the Legislature that such a building should be realized for the state from the Exposition. The State Commission cannot, however, take the 'In itiative in providing such a building. According to the conditions of the act a site In the City of Portland must first be provided and the Exposition corporation must first appropriate at least $50,000 towards the construction of such -building. A commit tee from the membership of this society to watch opportunities and promote the realiza tion of this building project In accordance with the Exposition! act would seem advisable. TO DISCUSS DxCOBPOBATIOff. Montavilla Residents Will Meet for That Purpose Tonight. At a public meeting to be held this evening in Oddfellows' Hall, corner. Hib bard and Railway streets. Montavilla, the "Hon and -the lamb" will come together in the matter of incorporating that sub urb. For several ears there has been constant warfare over the subject of in corporation, or annexation to Portland, but. according to teports. the warring factions have come together on incor poration, and will pull in the same har ness in that direction. This meeting to night Is to start the ball rolling that will make Montavilla a city of 2500 population, with a full corps of officers from the Mayor down to Marshal. Inspiration for this movement Is found in the efforts of Mount Tabor to incor porate. Montavilla does not want tn bo left out in the cold on this proposition. A committee on charter will be appointed. who will be authorized to frame the nec essary laws to srovern the Dronosod non city, These will be brief and to the point. ana win De cnaracterized by the absence of a lot of provisions usually considered necessary in a city charter. The com mittee may even be able to find the old charter that passed the Legislature In corporating Milwaukie, which will lighten its work. That charter was passed and officers were nominated, but when the document and officers were submitted to a vote of the people the whole proposi tion was snowed under. That was over ten years ago. Condi tions have changed. The Montavilla school district now contains between 2000 ana ZaOO people, with an enrollment of 400 and an attendance of 3S6 pupils. Dwellings have gone up in all directions, until Montavilla now equals In size and population many of the important towns of the "Willamette Valley. It will now bo a race between Montavilla and the west side of Mount Tabor which shall become a city flrst. CAUGHT IN THE ACT. Police Capture Two Amateur Forgers in Saloon. Eugene Duvaul and Elliott Held xcpro caught last evening in a raw attempt to pass rorged paper. They entered the saloon of Henry Llebe, 111 North Third street, ana offered in payment for drinks a check on the First National Bank by the North Pacific -Lumber Com pany for $45.8d, signed "W. D. Mac kay," secretary. It purported to be pay able to Frank Webber. But Llebe was wise. Held had passed a. Biuinur cnecK on mm several days ag and ho knew it Was nn trnnA Tin nered the two men and made them wait oenma tne oar wbllc he telephoned the police and secured Offlcrs Gruber Burke and Batv. He and. excited, and the two did not dare attempt escane. When tho nfflnr, rived and curried off the men, he was ami bo excuea mat ne was going- to leave his saloon emntv and nninpii-o.i The two men, who are well dressed ana oeiieved to be 'known crooks, were recognized on description for two men who had been working Puyallup and Tacoma. They have only been here a few days. Duvaul had upon his person $60. While Held had thrpi cViPir ce llar to the one -which they attempted iu puss, mi ior &b.u. Tiie penmanship was verv Door and It -wnni.i nm anyone would know that the secretary ol a. lumoer company wouia write a bet ter hand. Moreover, the name should have been W. B., not W. D. Mackay. The forging itself was raw enough, but tho ;tttfmrt tn nnso similar hnmm checks in the same place twice showed an amateur hand or a belief that the ponce were not very active here. THE HTTLE ART SHOP Open Evenings. Those who wish their pictures framed for Xroae will please leave their orders as early as 'possible. BOTH ON THE WAY HOME (Continued from First Page.) frauding and the consummation of the conspiracies has been accomplished. Still Another Story. But there is another story, more sig nificant and resting upon the other to a certain extent. There are those who have been convicted of conspiracy to de fraud the Government who are not now so adverse or so reluctant to converse with the representatives of the Govern ment, so it is said. Why were the re maining cases of fraud and conspiracy and forgery continued at this time when there were so many and so palpable charges waiting to be proved by- the Gov ernment? The man who tries to an swer smiles as he says: "If you convict a man of one thing and have a dozen others waiting to be proven, all of them serious, and some penal offenses, when do you think he would be willing to save his rreck, before the second conviction or after he is submerged under a dozen sentences? Therefore these close corpora tion meetings just at this time look very significant and the ceaseless haunting of the vicinity of the Government looks like the back of somebody's spirit was not so strong as three weeks ago. "Suppose." tho rumor runs, in answer to a question as to the credibility' of such testimony, "suppose that the testimony is backed up by letters, original correspond ence that might be extant? What if the tale that may be told is corroborated by proof about which there is no doubt?'' Then the rumor looks sad again, think ing of the Idols which may be shattered. "Hermann's conscience is easy, though," they say. "He Is not coming back." Not Asked to Come Back. Hermann was not asked to come back, so the Government says. Be that as it may, there is a strong Inclination to be lieve that Mr. Hermann will be discussed most earnestly in the city during the week now opening. Irvin Blttenhouse, who is now clerk in the General Land Office, and who used to be the confidential clerk and private sten ographer of the Commissioner under the administration of Mr. Hermann, is in the city and is in communication with the side of the Government This may be significant, or it may be coincident, and the solution will be coming. In connection, however, the story Js re vived of the vanished record, which could not be found after Mr. Hermann went out of office as Commissioner. Forty-one books, in which were recorded the cor respondence of the office, or at least a part of it, cannot be found. Then the story comes up again that sometime be fore Mr. Hermann went out of office he called a clerk to him and asked that cer tain books be taken out, the volumes cut in two and the stubs remaining brought back to him. A couple of days after the parts remaining were ordered destroyed. In defense of this Mr. Hermann says that the books contained private correspond ence, but the inference is that at least some of the letters were written in the transaction of office business. There has been rumors of indictment in Washington for destruction of public records, but that phase of the question would have nothing to do with the Oregon jury. There is one thing, so It is said, which might involve the former. Commissioner here and that Is a charge of conspiracy to defraud by his action in regard, to Gov ernment surveys. It is alleged that Mr. Hermann awarded surveying contracts to many men which were not necessary, that worthless sand and desert and Impassable mountains were surveyed in order that It might be acquired for scripplng purposes by corporations and private speculators. These are the rumors that affect Mr. Hermann. Mays Linked With Stories. F. Pierce Mays, the Portland attorney. Is pet haps 'the nert -most prominent name linked with the stories of the street. Tho tale is that he is mixed with both Mitchell and Hermann In whatever might have been done here by all of thftm. He gave a letter to Puter Introducing him to Mitchell, so the testimony of the first trial showed. He went to Washington as Puter's attorney, so it is said, to see what could be done in advancing the claims of the Puter-Watson combination. He did what he had started to do. and was also active while In Oregon. As part remunera tion. It is, stated that he received several quarter-sections of good land, which were' afterwards sold. There are various other rumors, but these are the chief links which seem to hold Mr. Mays in the track of the grand Jury Perhaps the only real certain conclu sion, one that-would make a good bet, is on the Indictment of S. B. Ormsby and C. E. Loomls. the two special agents who told such harrowing tales about Trapper Wolgamot and honest, hardworking Emma Watson, who toiled In the railroad camps to support her widowed mother and orphaned sister. . If the statute of limitations has run against Loomls he will escape through the kindness of the law. otherwise he will, in all probability, be indicted. Around these rumors and conjectures are clusters and garlands of dreams. Men high in the life of the state are pointed to by the finger of supposition and are herded with the lesser knaves, the pawns in the game, in the casting as to what will be. The week, perhaps, will solve it all. NONE GUILTY SHALL ESCAPE. President and Secretary Hitchcock Are of One Mind. Following is. the interview with Sec retary Hitchcock, written by William E. Curtis, special correspondent of the Chi cago Record-Herald at Washington, and referred to in the Washington correspond ence of The Oregonlan yesterday morning: The President has sustained Secretary Hitch, cock In every step he has taken, and both are determined that no guilty man. shall escape this time. The Secretary says: "Eyery ob stacle that could be contrived has been thrown In our way, which has required time, patience. constant -fCort, determination and courage on the part of thwe havlnjr charge of the Investi gation to overcome. The men Involved and their friends have diligently sought, with the aid of the most skillful counsel they could em ploy, to thwart tbe purpose of the investiga tion and control Its results favorably to them selves. These difficulties have been success fully met and overcome, and the taction resorted to by the parties criminally Involved and by their friends have been circumvented and de feated at all points. It has been the determi nation of the President and my self from the beginning that the Investigation should be thorough and complete, and that every guilty roan shall be punished to the full extent of the law, and nothing has been left undone to accomplish those results. "The fraudulent operations," continued Sec retary Hitchcock, "have Involved an attempt to secure titles to hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands In the various public-land elates and territories In exchange for state school lands lying wlfhln tho limits of forest reserves In California and Oregon. The titles to these school lands were acquired in a fraud. ulent manner by means of forgery, perjury. false applications and affidavits, and by the use of fictitious names In other documents re quired by the laws of those states In connection with the purchase of school' lands. "When the fraudulent and worthless titles to these school lands within the forest reserves were obtained they were relinquished to the United States under the act of June -4, 1897, In exchange for other public lands. That act of Congress pro vides, amontr other things, that the owner of lands that are Included within forest reserves may relinquish them to tbe United States and select other lands In lieu thereof, outside the forest reserves. By collusion with certain off! clals, the dates of the patents to the lands In tho forest reserves were set back, and titles were proved up for hundreds of thousands of acres. But only about 40,000 acres of public lands had been secured by exchange when the conspiracy 'was discovered, and. by my direc tion, the Issue of patents upon all selections and entries were suspended. The Government Is, therefore. In no danger of further loss i through this conspiracy, the combination has The Chickering .Quarter Grand is pronounced by musical experts the finest small grand made; it is an ideal piano for the home of the cultured. A Chickerins grand, with the additional charm of an exceptionally graceful outline; this is the Chickering Quarter Grand, the "Bride's Piano." Prices are moderate. Sold only by Eilers Piano House, 351 Washington street, corner Park. Stores also Spokane and Seattle, Wash.; Boise and Lewiston, Idaho; San Fran cisco, Oakland and Stockton, Cal. been broken up, five of the conspirators have been convicted In Oregon, and three more aro already under Indictment and remain to he tried In that state. The defendants tn the California cases have exhausted every means known to the law to prevent their trial In the District of Columbia, where they were In dicted, and their final appeal and. last resort Is now pending In the Supreme Court of tho United States, where we hope to have a hearing at the earliest possible date. The defendants are under heavy ball to answer the decision of te Supreme Court when finally rendered. "It Is quite probable that the defendants can secure further delay of a year and a half or more In the California cases, which will be not only embarrassing to'the "department, but there Is danger that their conviction may be prevented by the death of Important witnesses. These circumstances emphasize the necessity of amendments to the law, whereby the re moval of Indicted parties to the Jurisdiction where the Indictments are found may be pro moted, so that prompt trials can be secured. These men, like others who have been detected in frauds against the Government, "rely chiefly upon delay and accidents, which have too often happened, to prevent their punishment. It Is always extremely difficult to secure convictions for frauds upon the public lands, particularly when the culprits are men of wealth and in fluence. We have the consolation, however, of knowing that a gigantic combination and con spiracy against the Government has been broken up and Us power for evil-doing in the future has been utterly destroyed. The lands selected by fraud have been restored to the public domain, and we are confident that the guilty parties will ultimately be convicted and punished." In the Oregon cases several of the defendants have pleaded guilty, and two have made am issions of all the transactions known to them. They will be used as witnesses for the Govern ment. One tf the principal witnesses for the Government absconded, which made It neces sary to postpone some of the trials, but he has since been arrested, and Is now at Portland. Senator Mitchell and Representative Hermann, of Oregon, are badly wanted as witnesses. It la asserted that the fraudulent patents were put through the land office with unusual haste by ilr. Hermann, when Commissioner of Pub lic Lands, at the request of Senator illtchcll, and their testimony Is desired on that point. Both of them have refused to obey subpenas. pleading their Constitutional exemption, on the ground that the Interests of their state require their presence In "Washington. There has been some spicy correspondence between 'Senator Mitchell and the prosecuting officers. The lat ter are willing to fix the day for the trials during the Congressional recess to suit the convtnience of the Senator and Representative Hermann, but bey have not complied with the request. The defendants remaining -untrwd are men of great prominence and Influence in Oregon politics. One of them. Henry Meldrtim. was recently Surveyor-Genenl of the state, and has been associated with the Senator in pol itics for many years. When the forest reserves In Oregon and Cali fornia were set aside by a proclamation of the President, many Individuals came forward and claimed that they had long before settled upon the state lands. To sustain their contention they submitted forged evidence, false affidavits and other documents containing the names of fictitious persons who claim hundreds of thou sands of acres. These claims were hurried through the land office, and patents were Issued. The patents were then usually conveyed to other- persons, both real and fictitious, A woman named Emma L. Watson already has been convicted of the fraudulent conveyance of a large part of the lands involved. There are two other women involved In the same way. They served as clerks In making up fictitious claims. In forg ing legal documents and In making false alii davits In the way of proof. When the patents, to the lands claimed within the forest reserves had been issued they were used to locate large tracts of valuable lands In other parts of Oregon, California, Arizona and New Mexico, and new patents to 40,000 acres had already been Issued when the conspiracy was discovered. Tho discovery was due to an accidental disclosure by one of the conspirators to a special agent of the land office. The chief defendants In the California cases are wealthy and prominent real estate dealers and speculators In public tanas In San Fran Cisco. Frederick A. Hyde, one of them, has been a conspicuous citizen for 30 yearn, and has wielded great social and political influence. He Is now president of the Board of Education In San Francisco. John A. Benson, his part ner. is also very wealthy, but lost his reputa tion some year ago by being caught In another lot of land frauds, for which he wns maictea. but escaped conviction. Henry P. Dlmond, a prominent attorney, has been tneir iawjer. and. It Is said, has managed the legal part of the frauds for tnem, wnne joosi . aenneiaur, of Tucson. Ariz., has been the practical man in the field, selecting and locating lands, under a large salary, and It was through him that the conspiracy was disclosed. Schneider Is now in Washington under $10,000 ball, awaiting trial upon an Indictment found in the District Court by the grand Jury last February. Hyde and Benson, with the assistance of Dlmond and Schneider, It "is ciaimea, pur chased nearly 300,000 acres of school land In California and Oregon for $1.23 per acre. The laws of Oregon prohibit the sate of more than 320 acres to any one person. In California the limit is 640 acres, but the conspirators evaded that law and secured vast tracts of land by the use of fictitious names and by se curing the signatures of bootblacks, laborers and other unsuspecting persons to applications and affidavits. Having obtained titles to these lands, amounting to nearly 300,000 acres in the forest reserves, from the State of Oregon and California, they brought their deeds to the United States Land Office and exchanged them for better land outside of the forest reserve. which they were able to sell at all the way from 5 to $20 per acre. It Is asserted that not one single acre of their enormous holdings has been honestly obtained, and that tho des perate measures which they have been- using to avoid being brougnt to. Washington ior inai Indicates that they realize how serious their predicament Is. The Got'ernment has seldom been able In the Western courts to convict anyone of prominence or wealth of plundering the public lands. Pub lic sympathy Is always with the defendants in such cases. Everybody Is against the Govern ment. Although an army of special agents and lawyers ore constantly employed, they sel dom succeed In convicting persons who can appeal to political, commercial or social In fluences. No rich man Is ever sent to Jali. Poor men are sometimes convicted. Last year $100,071 was recovered tn fines and Judgments for depredations upon the public domains; km criminal prosecutions are pending, and 123 civil suits are awaiting trial for the recovery of $2,009,863 the value of the timber unlaw fully taken. Now Fraternal Hall. The Woodmen of the World Hall Asso ciation, of Mount Tabor, has completed plans and selected grounds on West ave nuc for a fine fraternal building, to. be erected tho coming year, at a cost of $2000. More than half the capital stock has been subscribed, and the intention is to proceed with the work in the early Spring. The location "selected is the site SPECIAL SALE 0 CUT GLASS DEGINNING this morning, and lasting- as long as t1 glass lasts, we shall have a special sale of Staodan American Cut Glass at most attractive prices. Any these pieces would make a dainty and pleasing Christma present. WATER BOTTLES Water Bottles, eight inches high, exactly like picture shown here, with deep rich cut and high polish, 6y2 inches in diameter; capacity, 3 pints; weight 46 ounces; regular price $4.50, SPECIAL S3.SO 8-INCH BOWLS Beny or Salad Bowl, eight inches in diameter and 3 inches deep; deep cut and high polish; weight 48 ounces. Same cut as picture shown. Regular price$6.00, SPECIAL S3.T5 CELERY DISHES Very pretty Celery Dish, in hand- some cut, same as Salad Bowl; 11 inches long and five inches wide; weight 33 Quncesr Regular price $5.00, SPECIAL $4.00 To- or ?tas CREAM AND SUGAR SETS -Cream and Sugar Sets, exactly same design as picture; six inches in diameter, 2 inches deep; each piece weighs 17 ounces; sold only in sets; deeply cut and highly polished. Regular price, $5.00, SPECIAL PER SET S3.50 Open Every Evening Until Xmas fYOUR CREDIT IS GOOD j Open Every Evening This Week Until 9 P.M. nf the Oriental Hall, on West avenue. which was burned down three years ago. WILL BE FREE OF DEBT. Subscriptions to the Fund Are Now Being Paid in Rapidly. The indications are that Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, East Ninth and Pine streets, will be free from debt by the first of the year. Subscriptions of over 510,000 taken last Spring cover the balance of the debt and several hundred dollars over, and are now being paid Into the treasury. At the first quarterly meet ing, held the first of the week. It was re ported that money on these subscriptions were coming in rapidly, and the Indica tions are that practically all would be paid by January 1, 1903, or soon there after. Dr. Rockwell, presiding elder for the East Portland district, expresses great satisfaction over the prospects of the near approach of the time when Centen ary will be actually free from the incubus of debt that has hung over It for the past 12 years. ' He says that the church is al ready feeling the Inspiration of progress in anticipation of this now certain event. Dr. Heppe, says the presiding elder. Is doing exiellent work, and congregations have been on the Increase morning and evening from the opening of the confer ence year. MR. TJ'REN FAILS TO APPEAR Previous Engagement Prevented Him Addressing Natural Order Society. "W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City, who was to answer R. Dunlway's talk against Initiative and referendum, failed to ap pear before the Natural Order Soclety last night, and naturally a large crowd was disappointed. A previous engagement prevented Mr. U'Ren from appearing, but in his stead several Interesting talks were made by the members present. "W. H. Stone, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., delivered a short but Interesting talk about boys and their training, which was very ably answered by Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunlway. Sir. Stone made a plea for the boy and his character-building, and de clared that the boy should be taken In hand when he was between 12 and 18 years old. Mrs. Duniway. who was on hand to ask questions of Mr. U'Ren, be cause she believed in the Initiative and referendum, said she was disappointed, but changed her query to an address In answer to the statements made by Mr. Stone. Mrs. Dunlway said that, while she agreed with all that Mr. Stone said about the building of the boy character, the speaker and the Y. M. C. A. were for getting the most important point that of the girl. She declared that, in order I achieve success In this line of charactuj building, the organization should inch women. Her plea for the girls was iul ened to with great interest. Doctors of the St. Louis SH', Dispensary SPECIALISTS IN DISEASES OP MEN VARICOCELE, HYDROCELE NERVOUS DEBILITY BLOOD POISON, RUPTURE, KID NEY AND URINARY DISEASES and ail diseases and weaknesses of men, due to in nuritance. baoits, excesses, or tne result or specina diseases. Every man who is afflicted owes it to himself and his posterity to get cured sately and positively, with out leaving any blight or weakness in his system. We make no mlsleauing statements or unbusiness like propositions to tne afflicted in order to secure their patronage. The many years of our successful practice in Portland provo that our methods of treat ment are safe and certain. 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