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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1907)
THE MORXIXG OREG0XIAX, TUESDAY, JULY SO, 1907. WOODARD, CLARKE & COMPANY Special Sale of a Guaranteed Razor All This Week, Regular $2.50 Value; Special, $1.98 first floor- FIRST FLOOR Razors A full line of Gillette Safety Razors at Regular prices. Star, Gem and Yankeehu Safety Razors at half price. Our Peerless Razor Is guaranteed satis factory or your money back. Regular $2.50, while they (fc Qg FIRST FLOOR- Do You Use the Best Soaps? We Have All the Popular Toilet and Bath Soaps to Select From Valiant's Antiseptic Soap, per box 3 cakes 25 Liebig's Skin Cure, for all skin troubles; 15c cake; box..40 Sylvan Toilet Soap-you will find this extra nice; sp'l. box. 25 U-AR-DAS as good as any, better than many, at, cake, 15c; box 40 Shaving Mugs Souvenir Mt. Hood; regular 50c; sale price : 39 A fine assortment Silver 1 Mugs $2.50 to $3.50 Lather Brushes FROM 25i TO $3.50 Rubber Set Lather Brush, guaranteed; regular 75c, special.... 49 Strops Porpoise Strops at ", Bargains for the Vacationist Postcard Albums, all 25 Per Cent Off. English Playing Cards, regular 75c; special 45 Success Playing Cards,. regular 85c; special 16i 7x11 Steamboat Cards, regular 15c; special 8t? Box Paper, regular 50c; special.. 29 Writing Tablets Eelso Bond, Foreign Mail, N. Y. Linen, Louisine; regular 15c and 20c; special 12J 50c 75c 67c 98c U. S. Cavalry Strop at Torry Strop, regular $1.00 at Torry Strop, regular $1.25 at. Best Russian Leather Strop at . . $2 FIRST FLOOR- Do You Take Snap Shots? Buster Brown Cameras, 2Vix 3y4 $2.00 Ansco Films. Lumiere Plates. Cyko Postcards, 15c dozen; gross $1.50 Phone Orders Call up Exchange 11 for immediate order ing of goods adver tised. Delays are dis appointing. NO-HOT WEATHER TO WHEAT Farmers in Umatilla County Are Harvesting a Phenom enal Crop. SHOWERS IN THE PALOUSE Conditions Everywhere Very Favor able to Grain of. All Kinds. Spring Wheat Is Making Splendid Progress. PENDLETON, Or., July 29. (Special.) Umatilla County's wheat crop has not been injured by hot weather and growers say that it is past all possibility of such danger. The weather here Is not con sidered hot, however, as the thermometer only registered 92 today and has not been above that mark for three weeks. The wheat that is now being harvested Is In perfect condition, the yield being very large and the test in many Instances, phenomenal. Farmers who have been here for years say that It is the best crop ever harvested in the country. THRESHING IX THE PALiOTJSE Weather Remains Cool and Spring Wheat Is Doing Xicel-r. SPOKANE, Wash.. July 29.-(Special.) No complaints of damage by hot weather to wheat In the Palouse or in the North Idaho country have been heard. There have been light showers recently, and the weather remains cool. Spring wheat is making good headway under present conditions. Harvesting of Fall wheat Is going on row. and quite a number of threshing machines will be out the last of this week. Next week there will be many threshing machines at work. Bumper Crop at Lewlston. LEW1STON, Idaho, July 29. (Special.) Ideal weather conditions are maturing the grain in the Ljewlston belt and grain men predict, with a continuance for ten days of the clear, warm weather, the prairie region will turn off the largest crop In Its history. THREE MARRIAGES FAILURES Courts Are Called Upon to Rectify Some of Cnpid'9 Mistakes. OREGON CITY, Or., -July 29. (Spe cial.) The divorce market was brisk today and three suits, emanating in Multnomah County, were filed In the Circuit Court. Wilbur F. Brock was married to ila Brock in Tacoma, Wash.. April 18. 1893, and he charged her with desertion June 26, 1905. They have one child, Wilbur Wesley, aged 13 years. Mrs. Brock appeared at the courthouse immediately after the com plaint was filed and accepted service. Maude Gustln has filed a suit against Harley J. (Justin, to whom she was married In Portland, Or., September 12, '1900. : ..e alleges desertion, and de sires to resume her maiden name of Walker. They have one daughter, Viblan Ethel, aged three years. Jennie L. Bowers is the plaintiff in a suit against A. M.'Bowers. They were married March 31. 1907. The plaintiff's tnaiden name was Willoughby, which she wants to resume. She charges Bowers with drinking and staying out at nights while they were llviag at Pendleton, and she was compelled to cook for a lot of men, who were paint ing for the O. R. & 1., in order to sup port and clothe herself. SH1XGLE MEX SUPPRESS XEWS Keep Fact Secret Regarding Pricee and Car Movements. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 29. (Special.) A confidential circular sent out by the Shingle Mills Bureau declares that the fact was known In April to officials of the bureau that the Great Northern would move empties to this city in June to handle shingle shipments. The news was suppressed, the circular ays, lest If. find its way to Eastern NJURY FIRST FLOOaJ Cut Glass Cut Glass Bowl, 8-inch ; regu lar $6.50, special $4.83 Vi doz. Colonial Glasses; regu lar $8.50,. special $6.29 Handle Nappie, regular $4.40, special $3.21 Sugar and Creamer, regular $6.00; special .'.$4.48 Water . Pitcher, regular $6.60; special. $4.63 lumber trade3ournals and depress the market or intimidate retailers who might fear that rivals would get better prices when the car situation improved. The circular says the Shlngrle Mills Bureau has not griven any single mar ket quotations because in the earlier part of the year labor would have mis interpreted them and made extravagrent demands for higher 'wages, the prices would have been copied by Eastern trade journals and have led retailers to bear the market and delay ordering because they did not agree with whole saler's quotations, and because In May the quotations would have shown the beginning of a price decline and would have oeen widely advertised by whole salers in a bear campaign. Credit Is claimed by the bureau in its confidential circular for compelling wholesalers to pay not less than $2.25 for stars and $2.50 for clears, despite an effort the wholesalers were making to get the shingles on the basis of $1.75 and $2. Many of the wholesalers were loaded up with orders at cheap prices taken In an agreed movement to keep the mar ket steady last Winter. The market at that time showed every indication of going wild and wholesalers steadied it by their contracts. When they sought to buy shingles on the rate tacitly agreed upon, the manufacturers in sisted upon higher prices. TD BEQUESTS OF MISS LORETTA DENNY ARE EXTENSIVE. Washington Pioneer Association Gets $20,000 for Erection of Permanent Home. BEATTLE, Wash., July 29. (Special.) The entire fortune of Miss Loretta Denny,, a pioneer of 1851 and sister of A. A. Denny, who founded the City of Seattle, Is to be given to charity. By the terms of her will which was filed today, the Pioneer Association will get 120,000 to erect a permanent home, $26, 000 will be set aside to provide scholar ships in the University of Washington, 120,000 goes to the Jessie Kenney Home for old people, J10.000 is to be , given to a pulmonary hospital if one is founded within five years, the Seattle General Hospital gets a like amount and several other charitable and missionary societies, including the Salvation Army, get be quests ranging from J1000 to J10.000. Miss Denny came here a babe In arms by the way of The Dalles. Or. She had been, for many years, one of the widest known charity workers in the city and died last week. FARMERS ENTER A PROTEST Movement at Walla Walla to Resist Advance In Warehouse Rates. WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 29. (Spe cial.) Fifty-nine representative of the Walla Walla County Graingrowers' Asso ciation met Saturday and discussed the warehouse difficulty, with a view to pro viding ways and means to compel the railroads and warehousemen to reduce the exorbitant charges now Imposed upon them for the storage of their grain. The additional charge was announced last week when the combination of ware housemen gave notice that the storage charge would be Increased from 50 cents to 75 cents a ton, and that, after January t an additional charge of 10 cents a ton per month would be placed into effect. Prosecuting Attorney Rupp appeared be fore the meeting at the request of several members of the association. Mr. Rupp stated that he was powerless to take ac tion against the warehousemen, inasmuch as there is nothing under the state laws which would justify him in going ahead with the case. A committee consisting of Messrs. W. H. Stlne, Thomas Ennls, Richard Thomp kins, Edward Reser and Archie Donohue, was appointed by the association to work in conjunotion with the Commercial Club and to thoroughly investigate the present condition, apd if possible, bring relief to the grain growers of Walla Walla County. Escape From Idaho Pen. BOISE, Idaho. July 29. (Special.) Wearing his prison stripes, H. F. Mallon, who was sentenced from Shoshone County, April 30, to the State Peniten tiary to serve two years for burglary, dis appeared from the stone quarry on Table- Rock this afternoon, and although it was discovered in about 15 minutes that he was gone and guards have since been searching for him, no trace of Mallon has been found. 289 Washington is the center of in terest for men today. Specials From the Leather Suit Cases Pigmoid Suitcase, sole-leather corners ..$ 5.75 Sole leather Case, hand-sewed, reinforced.... $ 8.00 Sole leather Case, hand-sewed, with straps $12.00 Sole leather Case an exceptionally good case $15.00 Black walrus Case, size 24... $16.50 Sole leather Case, bellows sides, special..... $26.50 WoodarcL "The Largest TO. KILL HIMSELF After Shooting Brother and Sisters Attempts to Take His Own Life. MAJOR HUNTINGTON DEAD Henry Had Long Been Insane. Doctors Say Three Victims Have Good Chance of Recovery. Mother Is Prostrated. VERSAILLES, July 29. The death of the great American soldier himself, and an attempt at self-destruction on the part of his son, Henry, who ehot two sisters and brother on Sunday, last at the bedside of his dying father. Im parted additional sadness today to the shocking tragedy in the home of Major Henry A. Huntington, which has caused a sensation in the American col ony and diplomatic circles of France. Major Huntington died this evening, shortly after the new was given out of his son Henry's unsuccessful attempt at suicide, but the father was spared the anguish of knowing of the terrible crime which shattered his household, as he was unconscious to the end. The prostrated wife, his daughter, Edith, and his son, Douglas, whose slight wounds permitted them 'to pay the last honors to the dying man, were present in the chamber when the end came. Foiled In Attempted Suicide. According to the police, Henry at tempted suicide in his cell with a pocket-handkerchief, which he tied around his neck and fastened to the bars, seek ing to strangle himself slowly by means of a tourniquet. The jailer, who had been Instructed to watch the prisoner closely, detected the act In time to prevent serious results, and it was announced that Henry had not suc ceeded in Injuring himself. It is stated by close friends of Major Huntington that after his quarrel with Henry, he had drawn up a will leaving all his property to his wife and the four other A SCIENTIFIC BREAKFAST Easily Prepared. Rightly selected food will alone cure many diseases. Try a scientific and healthy breakfast: Fruit of some kind, preferably cooked a dish of Grape-Nuts with cream; two soft-boiled eggs; (Put two eggs in a tin pint cup of boiling water, cover and set off for nine minutes. Whites will then be the consistency of cream and most easily digested) slice of hard crisp toast. cup of Postum Food Coffee. On that breakfast you can work like a horse and be perfectly nourished until noon. Tour nervous troubles, heart pal pitation, stomach and bowel troubles, kidney complaints and various other dis orders will gradually disappear and firm solid health will set in. Why? You have probably been living on poorly selected food, that Is. food that does not contain the required elements the body needs. That sort of food, and coffee Is the direct or indirect cause of more than half the ills the human body acquires. Grape-Nuts Is a perfectly cooked food and both that and the. Postum Food Coffee contains fine microscopic particles of phosphate of potash obtained In a nat uray way from the grains of the field and by scientific food experts incorporated into food and drink. That element Joins with the albumen in food to make gray matter, which Is the filling of the brain cells and the nerve centers throughout the human body. A man or woman thus fed Is scientific ally fed and rapidly grows in vigor and vitality, and becomes capable of conduct ing successfully the affairs of life. Tq produce a perfect body and a money making brain, the body must have the right kind of food and the expert food specialist knows how to make it. That is Grape-Nuts and Fostum Food coffee. produced at the pure food factories of the Postum Co.. at Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville, in pkgs. HUNTINGTON TRIES FIRST FLOOR- Clarice Retail Drug Store children, but that in view of his recon ciliation with Henry on Sunday, he tore up this will and made a new one in which Henry was given an equal share with the others. It was the protests of the family against this, according to statements, which led Henry to his rash act. Three doctors today held out some hope for the recovery of Alonzo and Elizabeth. Edith's wound Is - not serious. Mrs. Huntington's life is despaired of. Major Huntington never regained consciousness, and was in complete ignorance of the tragedy. It was learned today that Major Hunt ington's brother died In a madhouse suf fering from delusions somewhat similar to those of which Henry is possessed. Trouble Was of Long Standing. Henry's wife, in an interview, said this trouble dated from the last anniversary dinner of her marriage. She declared that on this occasion her sister-in-law spoke ill of her to her husband. "I ean never forget," Mrs. Huntington went on, "that my husband broke with his family rather than permit me to be insulted in his presence." Major Huntington was one of the best known Americans In Paris, and he and his family have long been taking promi nent parts in the social and official gaiety of the French capital. He was a retired Army officer, and prior to taking up his residence abroad lived in Chicago, where he was an associate of those prominent in Army and business circles. In Paris he became well known for his after-dinner speeches at the American Club, of which he was one of the organizers. He was ex Attache of the American Embassy at Paris. Major Huntington and family always took a leading pert in the social func tions at the American Embassy. Several years ago the family took a fine old residence at Versailles where the major was better able to pursue his studies of French .art and literature. He enjoyed independent means. With ex-Ambassador Porter, he compiled a list of French officers who participated with Lafayette in the American Revolu tion. For this he was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Another Version of the Shooting. ' Another version of the shooting was received today. It seems that Henry, the youngest son of Major Huntington, has been considered unbalanced men tally for years. He had a mania that he lalM(I11ff, For 12 tops of Red Metal cape from Large Malt-Nut rine Bottles with Gold Trade-mark or 24 from Split Bottles with Black Trade-mark and 15c for postage, we will send jjafea one of our Vienna Art Plates to feA anv address in tha I nitA SU.t. ra: v llllili ':' ml mam 's iiilii "'h iffiii 1 1 iTii i iin MllaMi l is "'' '1 ' "r:r u . a ck v a -- . Department Hand Bags Russet Leather Bag, size 19; regular $10.50; special. $ 8.75 Russet Leather Bag, size 16; special $ 8.75 Sole leather Bag, regular $16.50; special $11.95 Sole Leather Bag, size 18 $12.75 Sole Leather Bag only.. $18.75 Sole Leather Bag, kilt, with straps, only... ...$25.00 om on the Coast" had solved the science of curing disease and constantly conceived the most pre posterous remedies. His father, having found it Impossible to control him, g&ve him an allowance and permitted him to go his way. Henry has lived in Paris or Aisne where, some time ago, he mar ried the daughter of a doctor. There was no family estrangement. When Henry arrived yesterday in response to a message he strutted into the bedroom of his parent, mumbling about his father not receiving proper ireaimenu no am not kneel at the bedside and ask for giveness, as has been reported, but he began Interrogating Major Huntington. When his father, whose mind Is wander ing, replied Incoherently, Henry turned abruptly to the family and said, angrily: "Don't you see that you are killing hlmr Shoots In a Frenzy. He at once became more excited. The family tried to persuade him to go into the drawing room and talk the matter over there. He refused and Insisted that the only way to cure -is father was to administer the blood of a dog mixed with sea water, a remedy which be had Invented. Tiring of his persistence, his brother Douglass finally opened the door and said: "I am the eldest, and I ask you to leave and not return." Edith Huntington also abjured her brother to depart and not create further disturbance. They pushed Henry toward the door. Suddenly he drew a revodver and fired one shot each at the brother and sisters. In the meantime one of the guards of the Versailles Park, who hap pened to be in the kitchen downstairs, accompanied by the Household servants, rushed to the room and wrenched the revolver from the hands of the madman. When Interrogated by the examining magistrate, Henry Huntington admitted the shooting. He declared his acts were an outcome of family, troubles and he manifested no repentance for them. BOMB CAUSES DEATH. ' Score Perish by Black Hand In New York Tenement Fire. NEW YORK, July 29. The explosion of a bomb, placed, the police believe, by agents of the Black Hand In an Italian 1(MBiSl Found in its highest and most effective form Saazer Hops grown in the Province of Saaz, Bohemia, is creating a great stir in the medical world because of its tonic and curative properties for stomach disorders. is prepared exclusively from these Saazer Hops and the very highest grade of Barley Malt It is a real Malt Extract containing over 14 per cent of extractive matter and less than 2 per cent, of alcohol. Positively Non-Intoxicating. Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, Mo. Brewers of the Famous Budweiser Beer FOURTH FLOOR Pictures For the Home, Summer Cottage or Den Extra values to 30c Special - 10c and 15c pany grocery store on Christie street, started the fire which swept through the Italian tenement and destroyed the lives of a score of people and injured 15 others. The noise of the explosion caused a panic in the densely populated district. The police say that many perished in the flames, fearing to escape to the streets, where they believed death awaited them from the dreaded Black Hand. A second ex plosion from a kerosene tank followed and the whole lower floor was a mass of flames. The fire shot up the stair ways, cutting off all escape from those in the bedrooms above. Many rushed to the fire escapes, which became clogged with frightened people. The houso was filled with dense smoke and the flames rushing upstairs drove the half crazed people toward the roof. The flames killed many as they were about to be rescued from the 'roof, while others were, overcome by smoke. There were many heroic rescues by firemen. The bodies of the dead were found In all manner of places. Four women were discovered dead in a closet where they had rushed to hide from the flames, which soon found them out. UNION GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION W. B. Glafkb, . . . President Wholesaler In FrolU F. Jr.assKB, . . . 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The best always write today. The body of one woman was lying; over a child as though she had tried to protect it from the flames. Five bodies were found crowded around one door way upon the top floor, showing that they had been struck down while try ing to escape. Only five of the victims had been Identified at an early hour today. They were Marlite de Dollc, hlsAvlfe Amelia and their two infant children, and Frank Fields, a bedridden cripple, who was carried out alive by the firemen, but who succumbed to his injuries af ter his rescue. The burned building was one of those old-fashioned tenements of the East Side, with a store on the ground floor and the apartments upstairs crowded with tenants, mainly Italians. The flre started in the rear and swept through the building with a rush. One man was found wandering delirious in the street, suffering Intense agony from burns which extended from head to foot. His clothes had been burned from his body, only here and there a shred remaining attached to the blistered flesh. X. W. Bocirrnss, . . . Auditor Ronntree Diamond, Beal Estate W. Cooper Morris, . Treasurer Oregon Trust a Ravings Bank 6. C. Spencer. . General Counsel Attorney-at-Law H. P. Waonow, J r., . Secretary Medical Referee A strong local company in Or iH '- in -SL, a aTT ! J