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THE MORNIXCx OKEGONIAN. FRIDAY. JTJL.Y 13, 1906.
Meier 2b Frank's 859th Friday Surprise Sale
Women's Shirtwaist Suits
$6 Values at $3.78
Today's Great Surprise Sale of Women's Shirtwaist Suits
should attract scores of eager buyers to Portland's leading
cloak and suit store Ar exceptional bargain offering of high
grade Shirtwaist Suits This season's prettiest styles in batch
er's linen with beautifully embroidered waists and deep cuffs
Full skirt, kilted and trimmed with tabs colors include white,
light blue, cadet and tan Only 150 of them All we could
secure So if you want one you will have to plan to be here
early- Every suit in the lot well made and linished through
outRegular $6.00 value Y our choice
while they last, at this phenomenally
low price
See Fifth-Street Window Display
$3.78
No Mail or Phone Orders Filled
Great "July Jubilee" Bargains in Suits, Waists, Skirts, Coats,
etc Second Floor
MEIER & FRANK'S 859TH FRIDAY SURPRISE SALE
Linen Scarfs and Shams
75c to $1.50 Values at 43c
Every housewife is interested in today's grand surprise sale of Linen Scarfs and Shams 1500 pieces; Jap
anese hemstitched and drawnwork effects; scarfs, shams and traycloths every piece all linen; a promi
nent importer's entire reserve stock, in the following sizes: 30x30-inch, 18x45-inch, 18x54-inch, f,
18x27-inch and 24x24-inch 75c to $1.50 values, at this wonderfnly low price "TsV
See Fifth-street window display. No mail or phone orders filled.
MEIER. (ffi FRANK'S 859TH FRIDAY SURPRISE SALE
3000 Prs. Men's Fancy Hose
50c, 75c Values 28c Pair
Men's high-grade fancy Half Hose at a ridiculously low price
today Every man and young man should anticipate his needs
for many months to come Every good pattern and coloring
in the very best grades Immense assortment Cause lisles
28c
and mercerized lisles Plain colors and fancies
all sizes 3QOO pairs to select from Regular
50c and 75c values Today you may buy all
you want of them at this low price per pair
See Fifth-Street Window Display
Great "July Jubilee" Bargains in All Lines of Men's Season
able Wearing Apparel
MEIER & FRANK'S 859th FRIDAY SURPRISE SALE
1 0,000 Yards New Wash Goods
35c Values at 1 7c a Yard
10,000 vards of desirable Wash Materials on sale today at one-half its value. Fine mercerized etamines, in
white, brown, tan, light blue and navy blue, suitable for waists and shirtwaist suits, full 27 inches 1 9
wide ;' handsome materials, selling regularly at 35c yard; your choice today only at, per yard M K
See Fifth-street window display. No mail orders- filled.
Hot Plates
Just received, a carload of gas Hot
Plates in all sizes and best models
Basement.
Gas Range $21
Special lot of "Peninsular" Gas
Ranges in the newest model 16-ln,
oven with broiler, four large burn
ers, full nickel trimmed, every one
fully guaranteed.
We do our own connection of gas
ranges Complete stock of Oil Stoves
Basement. "Peninsular" Stoves and
Steel Ranges.
Gas Stoves and Ranges All grades.
Easy payments for parties of good
credit Basement.
Rope Portieres Low Priced
All our Rope and Leather Portieres on sale at greatly reduced
prices. Styles and grades the best. Values unequaled. Third floor.
$ 2.00 Rope Portieres on sale at $ 1 .60
$ 2.50 Rope Portieres on sale at -. . $ 1 .95
$ 3.50 Rope Portieres on sale at j 2.75
$ 4.50 Rope Portieres on sale at $ 3.60
$ 6.50 Rope Portieres on sale at $ 5.20
S 7.50 Rope Portieres on sale at $ 5.95
SIO.OO Rope Portieres on sale at $ 7.65
$ 6.75 Leather Portieres on sale at $ 5.40
$12.50 Leather Portieres on sale at $10.50
Tft MEIER & FRANK STORE
Bathing Suit
Headquarters
Women's Bathing Suits, in black
granite cloth; collar, sleeves, belt
and bottom of skirt trimmed with
white braid ; sizes 34 to 44 ; best
values ever offered,
at, each tyA.AO
Women's Mohair Bathing Suits with
sailor collar, trimmed with narrow
white braid, plaited skirt, sizes 34
to 44 ; grand value at 'wrt
this popular price.
Women 's Mohair Bathing Suits with"
large sailor collar, best white duck
trimming on the skirt, sleeves and
belt; also narrow and white braid
trimming; sizes 34 to 44; great
special value at this price. $5.00
Men's Worsted Bathing Suits, plain
colors with fancy striped effect,
all sizes, great value. .. .$2.50
Misses' and Children's Bathing
Suits in all the best styles and ma
terials, all ages Second floor.
Boys' and men's swimming trunks
at all prices.
Bathing Caps 10 to 90
Bathing Shoes 25 to 45
Water Wings 25 to 35
Third floor. Mail orders prompt
ly filled.
Silk Specials
.8000 yards of new Taffeta Silks, in
an assortment of 30 shades, white,
black, greens, grays, navy blue,
royal, cardinal, lavender, Alice
blue, tans, browns, pink, light
blue, etc., etc. a quality of taf
feta silk other stores ask 85c and
$1.00 a yard for; our special price
this week only at, per yard. .5T
2000 yards of new Pongee Silks in
polka-dot effects, just the silk you
want for college waists ; grand val.
at this low price, per yard . . 89t
Table and Bed
Linens
Fringed bleached Tablecloths, size 2x2
yds.; grandest val. ever offered. 98
All linen bleached Table Damask,
best patterns, large assortm't. 58i
All linen bleached Table Damask, our
best ,1.15 val., at low price, yd. 934
200 doz. good cotton Pillow Cases, 45
xS6 In.; great value at, each 11
SDO doz. hemmed linen Huck Towels;
reg. 20c val. at low price 134
Hemstitched linen Huck Towels; reg.
35c val.; buy all you want at. -214
Hemmed white Marseilles Bedspreads,
handsome patterns; $3.50 at.gl.9g
Bleached Turkish Bath Towels In
good size; the best ISc val., at. 134
Unbleached Turkish Bath To.wes; the
best 25c values, this weekat. . lTt
Special lot of hemmed Marseilles Bed
spreads at this low price,. each. 804
Large size colored Bedspreads,
fringed; blue, pink and red; best $2
values, at the low price of.. 81. 65
Heavy white Marseilles Bedspreads,
fringed; best patterns; regular $4
val. on sale at low price, ea. .82.88
Beds, Mattresses, Springs. Pillows,
etc., on the third floor.
Carpets, Linoleums, Draperies, Rugs,
etc., on the third floor.
Custom Shade work our specialty.
New Fiction Jnst Received
In the Book Store
$1.18 a Copy
"The Woman In the Alcove."
The Challenge," by Warren Che
ney. 81.18 copy.
'The Scarlet Empire," by David M.
Parry, 81.18 copy.
'The Edge of HagarJ," by George
Horton, 81.18 copy.
'The Quickening," by Francis Lynde,
81.18 per copy.
Mail orders promptly filled.
Sole Portland Agents for "Vndor" Porch Shades in All Sizes See Them Third Floor
Hammocks Porch Furniture, Outing Goods of Every Description on the Third Floor
The Meier (& Frank Store
"July Clean-Up" Women's Neckwear
Mid-Summer stock-cleaning in the Women's Neckwear Sec-
tion-Bargain opportunities never before known in new, stylish
neck pieces of the best quality A few splendid offerings follow:
Women's Point Gaze Stocks in very dainty effects, white, cream and ecru in
bluebell and rose point designs. This season's prettiest novelties; 0
regular 50c and 65c values on sale at this low price 07C
Women's black, navy and light blue gros grain Ribbon Stocks with Butcher!s
linen and embroidered turnovers, combined, assorted sizes and
heights; best 50c values on sale at this low price, each. . mr C
A Women's Washable Chemisettes, trimmed with embroidery insertion, feather
'I' stitching and fine tucks; regular 25c and 35c values on sale at this' 1 O
wonderlully low price, each A 7v
Women's Allover Embroidery Stocks, buttonhole, scallop edge, eyelet 1 C
and beading effects; 25c and 35c values on sale at 1
Grand values in all lines of women's Neckwear.
New White Serge Coats $ 1 0 to $25
Portland's leading Cloak and Suit Store is showing a splendid line of new white Serge Coats, half length,
latest styles; each $10.00, $10.00 and 25.00
New line of Pongee Coats with large collars, all sizes, each S14.00
Three-quarter length Pongee Coats in new styles, at prices from, each $18.00 to $36.00
All of our black Silk Eton Jackets on sale at greatly reduced prices.
White Suits and Skirts, best styles, best values in the city; second floor. Women's Traveling and Tourist
Coats in new styles, all grades. Splendid bargains in Wool Suits' for coast and mountain wear 2nd floor.
2000 Prs. Women's Hosiery 38c Pr.
Great two days' sale of 2000 pairs of women's black
and tan lace lisle Hose with allover and boot designs.
An assortment of 50 patterns Hosiery of superior
quality that most stores would have no hesitancy in
asking 65c or 75c a pair for Buy all
you want of them today and tomorrow A Jjf
at the extremely low price of per pair V V
See Fifth-Street Window Display
Mail Orders Will Be Promptly Filled
Children's black, white and tan cotton Hose, in all sizes;
fine lxl rib; extra special value for two days at, pair. .
Special lot of Infants' Socks in red, tan, black and fan
cies, sizes 4 to 6; 25c to 50c values, on sale at, pair. . . .
Complete stock of white Hosiery for women, misses and children
all grades, all styles ; our prices always the lowest.
re:
18c
18c
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Clearance Sale Men's Suits
Our entire stock of Summer ready-to-wear apparel is
included, three-piece suits and outing suits in all grades
and materials Boys' washable suits, men's washable
vests High-grade clothing made by such prominent
manufacturers as Stein-Bloch Co., L. Adler Bros. &. Co.,
Hart, Schaffner Sb Marx and The Washington Co.
All the newest fashions are included Marvelous values
All Our Men's $12.50 Suits $ 9.15
All Our Men's $ 1 5.00 Suits $ 1 0.85
All Our Men's $ 1 8.00 Suits $ 1 3.85
All Our Men's $20.00 Suits $ 1 4.65
All Our Men's $22.50 Suits 1 6. 1 5
All Our Men's $25.00 Suits $ 1 8.65
All Our Men's $27.50 Suits $ 1 9. 1 0
All Our Men's $30.00 Suits $21.15
All Our Men's $35.00 Suits $25.85
The above price list includes all sizes for men and young men Single or double
breasted styles Outing suits or three-piece suits Fancy worsteds, cheviots, this sea
son's best styles Second Floor
iiUMBEHMKX GREATLY HANDI
CAPPED BY IT.
Railroads Claim Condition Is Tem
porary and That Annual Trou
ble Has Not Begun.
Complaints ar.? coming In to the rail
roads from shippers that a shortage of
ears exists that is proving a decided em
barrassment to the manufacturing inter
ests of the stale. Not since last Fall
have cars been so scarce nor the demand
for them so great. The railroads admit
a scarcity of "empties,' but say that
everything possible is being done to re
lieve the situation, and they expect that
within a short time plenty of. cars will
be available. While it looks to shippers
aa though the annual car shortage has
started in earlier than usual, the rail
roads deny that the shortage has begun
and state that the difficulty Is only a
temporary one which they hope to re
move. The shortage of cars is already so
marked that some lumber mills are
threatened with a shutdown, while at
least one mill, that of the Tongue Point
Lumber Oompany. near Astoria, has al
ready been forced to suspend operations
for a week because of lack of cars and
the lack of water transportation caused
by the sailors' strike.
Reports that are being received almost
daily by the Oregon Lumber Manufactur
ers' Association from the sawmills of
the state tell of lack of cars and threat
ened closing down of the mills on ac
count of the congestion In traffic.
"The Northern Pacific Is not in a posi
tion to supply anywhere near the num
ber of cars the mills on that and con
necting lines want for lumber shipments,"
said an official of the association yes
terday. "The Harriman lines are in an
almost similar plight, although the O. R
& N. and Southern Pacific are not so
bad off as the Northern Pacific. Shippers
on the Oregon railroads in all parts of
the state, particularly lumber shippers,
as this business just now demands the
largest number of cars of any Oregon
industry, are hard put to it for rolling
stock. They get two or three cars a day
where they put in orders for a dozen or
two.
"The annual car shortage has appar
ently begun earlier than usual this year,
and there Is every evidence that lumber
men as well as other shippers will be
very hard up for care during the season,
as the trouble will probably be increased
as the Summer advances."
Railroaders are inclined to think the
trouble is not so serious as it appears to
the shippers. W. D. Skinner, assistant
general freight agent for the Harriman
lines in the Northwest, said:
"The situation is not as good as desired,
but it is not serious. Everything possi
ble is being done to get cars. The deliv
eries of empties from the Harriman con
nections at Ashland and Huntington is
not what has been hoped for. nor what it
ought to be. The operating department
has the matter In hand, and we hope it
will be able to improve the situation
soon."
The sailors' strike has been one of the
chief factors in bringing about a car
shortage. This trouble has diverted much
business from the water lines to the
Southern Pacific at a time when the road
already had its hands full to care for the
big business in California, as well as the
Increase in traffic all along the line in
this state. Doubtless another reason for
the shortage is the large number of cars
that are said to be held in San Francisco
awaiting unloading. Because of unsettled
conditions there, cars are not given rapid
dispatch.
The clary of the Mayor of New- York Is
J15.000 a year. The Mayor of Chicago re-
cetves 110,000.
HOLDS UP A SALOON MAN
HIGHWAYMAN ORDERS BEER
BEFORE DRAWING GUN.
Robs J. W. Wagonblast's Till of SCO
and Escapes Negro Thugs
Assault Laborer.
Turning to hand a lone customer a
glass of beer in his saloon at First and
Mill streets just before closing, at 12
o'clock last night, J. W. Wagonblast, the
proprietor, looked into the I barrel of a
long black steel revolver and was com
manded to throw up his hands. Wagon
blast stood with his arms above his head
while the highwayman, who had ordered
the beer, went behind the bar and emp
tied the till of more than $20.
After robbing the till the highwayman
backed out from behind the bar, still
covering his victim, and disappeared.
Wagonblast notified Captain Bailey at
police headquarters, and the latter sent
out Policeman John W'endorf to locate
the robber. An excellent description has
been given the police.
Five minutes prior to the saloon hold
up John Larson, a laborer, was set upon
by two negro thugs at the north end
of the Plaza block and, after a desper
ate fight, was knocked on the head and
robbed of $30.
Larson recovered sufficiently to find his
way to police headquarters, where ho told
Captain Bailey of the hold-up and as
sault. Detective Smith and Policeman
Wendorf obtained a meager description of
the two men and are searching for them.
Shingle Men Will Fight Unions.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 12. 8pecial.)
Shingle manufacturers, representing every
county on the West Side, decided tonight
to defy the shingle weavers' union
and to open all mills as rapidly as possi
ble with nonunion crews. Committees
were sent out, north and south, for mis
sionary work, and a big mass meeting
will be held here Sunday.
This is the beginning of a war of exter
mination against the union of mill em
ployes. The union has just demanded a
closed shop and union brands on shingles,
on top of their strike against the shingle
mills bureau. The mills will reply with
the exclusion of all union men from their
plants.
SITE FOR NEAH BAY STATION
Iiifesaving Officials Will Select and
Rush Construction.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, D. C, July 12. Superintendent
Kimball and Inspector McLellan, of the
life-saving service, have gone to Neah
Bay, near the entrance to the Straits of
Fuca, to select a site for a life-saving
station, for which Congress recently ap
propriated $30,000. When their report Is
made, work on the station will be rushed,
as this is regarded as one of the most
important points for which new stations
were authorized last session.
ABE HUMMEL SUSPENDED
Must Not Practice Law Pending
Trial of Appeal.
NEW YORK, July 12. Abraham H.
Hummell was suspended from further
practice of law, pending the appeal
against his conviction on a charge of con
spiracy in connection with the Dodge
Morse divorce case by a decision handed !
down by the Supreme Court today.
MR. BOWERS WILL REMAIN
SAYS HE HAS DECLINED OFFER
OF FAIRMOTJNT HOTEL.
Is to Continue as Manager of the
Portland San Francisco No
Longer Attracts Him.
H. C. Bowers, manager of the Portland
Hotel, has returned from Chicago, and
announces that he will continue at the
head of the Portland. He has definitely
refused the offer of Dr. Hartland Law
and Dr Herbert Law to take charge of
the Falnnount Hotel In San Francisco.
"I have written them definitely, stating
that I can not take their offer," he said
yesterday. "Conditions down there are
such that It will be a long time before
they will need a hotel of the sort they
had planned when I considered going
there. At present there is no need of
such a hotel as I had counted on manag
ing, and, to speak frankly, I do not care
to go to San .Francisco and 'grow up
with the city.' "
The Fairmount Hotel, one of the most
prominent buildings on San Francisco's
skyline, was shaken by the earthquake
and afterwards burned. It is now being
reconstructed, the waits rebuilt and the
rooms put in shape for occupancy. The
refusal of Manager Bowers to take charge
of it will mean that all arrangements for
its operation must be revised by the own
ers, who were among the heaviest losers
in the great fire.
Will Conduct Swimming Class.
L. M. Myers, of the physical depart
ment of the Y. M. C. A., Is organizing
a swimming class which he alms to
make decidedly practical. Mr. Myers
proposes to give his course on the
waters of the Willamette on some
beach but a short distance up the river.
He will teach his pupils how to con
duct themselves In case of danger in
the water, how to rescue a drowning
person and swim with an unconscious
body.
FORTUNE IN BOGUS CLAIM
Texan Accused of Defrauding Many
Dupes hy His Yarn.
NEW YORK, July 12. W. K. Atwell,
United States District Attorney at Dal
las. Tex., visited the office of the Coun
ty Register here today to gather informa
tion which he expected to use in connec
tion with the prosecution of Joseph L.
Cowan, of Dallas, under Indictment
charged with using the mails for fraudu
lent purposes.
The alleged fraud was committed in so
HciLmg and receiving payments from the
heirW of James Hartsneld who died in
this city many years ago, for the purpose
of establishing a claim to a tract of land
along the east side of Central Park,
New York, now worth hundreds of mil
lions of dollars. It is charged that
Cowan represented that an original leaso
for 99 years on the property had expired
and that it should now revert to Harts
field's heirs. It is charged that Cowan
has received about J1O0.O0O as a result of
the plan.
Switch Had Been Spiked.
PETERSBURG. Ind.. July 12. A west
bound freight train on the Southern Rail
way was wrecked today at the Jackson
Mine Siding, eight miles west of here.
John B. Fanning, fireman, and Luther
Capehart, brakeman, were killed and W.
B. McWilliams. engineer, was fatally in
jured. The switch had been spiked.
SIX SACRIFICED FOR ONE
VAIN EFFORTS OF GIRLS TO
SAVE DROWNING CHIXD.
One After Another Slips Into Deep
Hole in River in Struggle
for Rescue.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 12.
Eight children at a picnic on a river
bank only three blocks from home went
wading this afternoon. The smallest
one slipped into a deep hole in the
river, and in trying to rescue her six
others were drowned. The dead:
LUCILLE SWEEDING, aged 7.
HAZEL, SW BE LLN G, aged 14.
GLADYS SWEEDING, aged 10.
JOSIE SWEEDING. aged li.
RUTH COYLE, aged 11, Sioux City.
CORA COYLE, aged 9. Stoux City
CLARA USHER, aged 1.
Ruth Klersey, the only survivor, said
they were wading when Lucille Sweed
lng slipped off . a shelf on the river
bottom into a deep hole. Hazel Sweed
Ing rushed after her, slipped Into a
hole, and then the next girl rushed
after her, and so they kept trying to
save each other until all. of the girls
except Ruth Klersey had been
drowned. She then ran home and gave
the alarm.
Four of the bodies were quickly re
covered from the water, but it was too
late to resuscitate them. At 7 o'clock
all of the bodies had been recovered
except that of Clara Usher.
Two whlpthong- makers who went Into bank
ruptcy recently in Southwark. England, de
clared that they had been ruined by motors,
and especially by motor omnibuses.
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