Morning Oregonian., August 05, 1907, Page 3, Image 3

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OREGOXIAN', MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1907.
OIL TRUST WILL
IE
Make Them Pay Big Fine
Levied by Court on
Standard-
CONTROLS CRUDE PRICES
Owners of Illinois Wells Say Corpor
ation Could Get Back the Money
In .18 Months by Making
Kaw Product Cheaper.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. (Special.) Crude
oil producers of Illinois may indirectly
have to pay the huge amount assessed
against the Standard Oil Company by
Judge Landls. Simultaneously with the
calling of John D. Rockefeller to the
witness stand In the recent Chicago
hearing fluctuations in the price of the
product of Southern Illinois oil wells
were registered and the price fell from
68 to 64 cents a barrel. It has recov
ered by degrees until the former price,
has been regained, but the owners of
oil wells have received Intimation that
another decline Is due.
The Standard Oil Company practically
is the only purchaser of the vast quantity
of crude oil now being drawn from the
newly developed oil wells of the state.
The price named by its agents is the
market price in the oil regions of Illi
nois, Indiana and Oklahoma. By trans
ferring Its purchasing to other fields,
the Standard could force the price to
a point suitable to Its agents.
Owners of Illinois oil wells assert
that, by reducing its buying price, the
corporation could take from them with
in 18 months sufficient money to settle
in full the obligation Imposed by Judge
Landls.
It Is now believed that the case
passed upon last week by Judge Landls
will not reach the United States Su
preme Court within two years. The
United States Court of Appeals, which
first will consider it, holds sessions in
October, January and April.
The statement of Federal lawyers
that witnesses are exempt from prose
cution only upon matters covered In
their testimony does not grant immu
nity baths to any of the railroad of
ficials who testified, as subjects entirely
outside the Standard Oil trial record
may be introduced before the coming
grand Jury.
JOHX D. IS XOT WORRIED
Gives No Indication That Decision
Hits Him Hard.
CLEVELAND. O., Aug. 4. (Special.)
John D. Rockefeller gave no indication
today, in public at least, that the de
cision of Judge Landls. fining the Stand
ard OH Company the limit, affected him
in the slightest. As far as appearances
went, the magnate had not given the
matter a thought. Several attempts were
made to lead him into a discussion of the
matter, but he skilfully evaded all ques
tions and branched off Into a discourse
on golf.
"Tnere is really nothing to be said of
Judge Landls' decision," was all he would
say.
One of his friends, who has recently re
wrned from the South, told Mr. Rocke
feller about the war on railroads down
there, and John D.'s eyes twinkled.
"The trusts are getting it all down the
line," he said.
Mr. Rockefeller attended church today
and seemed In unusually good spirits. In
a talk with reporters after services, he
commented at some length upon the long
hours the newspaper men have to work,
and warned them that It was a historical
fact that the early bird was gobbled up
by a still earlier sparrow-hawk.
It Is figured here that if the fine stands
It will require something In excess of
JS.000.000 of Mr. Rockefeller's personal
fortune to make up the amount, how
ever, if it should so happen that the
price of oil was to advance gently, say
within the next 30 days, as predicted by
the independents, and continue at the
higher level for a year, the entire fine
would be paid without any additional
bookkeeping or any hardship for any of
the Standard Oil inner group.
M1LWAUKIE IS MOURNING
(Continued from First Page.)
brious feeling that accompanies a highly
successful funeral was omni present.
"What will be the result?" repeated
President Streib of the Common Council.
"We get no other revenue save that the
club and one other saloon pay us. We
lose that. We don't sell any electric
lights. We don't sell any city water. We
gave the O. W. P. a street railway fran
chise for nothing and we have got to
fight the concern tooth and nail to get
the 5-cent fare we deserve and which
Manager Fuller has told us time and
again we should have.
"We get nothing for the confiscation
of our public streets which has been
going on for some time. The streetcar
company steals a street whenever It wants
to. It leaves its passenger, and freight
cars out In the street whenever It feels
like it, and we get nothing for it. The
company, through President Fuller admits
we should have a 5-cent fare but is
afraid he would have to give Oregon City
a 20-cent fare if our tariff were reduced.
"As for improvements, we owe about
everything we've got in the way of
civic betterment to the club; and let me
tell you one thing, I'll gamble anything
you like you can't find a man, woman
or child In Mllwuakle that has ever
made a complaint against the club. We
haven't had an arrest for drunkenness
or disorderly conduct since the club
came here, and Marshal Elklns and
Justice of the Peace Kelso will cor
roborate this. The club employs its
own watchman and the best of order is
maintained.
"One of the conditions under which
the club got its license was that no
citizen of Mllwaukie was to be allowed
to gamble there. Every cent that is
taken in has been from out-of-town
people men who will gamble any
where. You can't stop them. If they
can't buck the tiger here they will go
somewhere else. We realize that, and
we have always dealt firmly with the
club. It has never been in any sense
a public nuisance."
Mllwaukie, as a result of the closing
of the club, is facing three trying situ
ations, as explained by Mayor Schin
dler. In the first place, the town will
be forced into debt immediately
through the one item of street lighting.
Tho assessed valuation of real and per
sonal property in Mllwaukie is but lit
tle over 8100,000. The tax levy maxi
mum allowed by the city charter of 3
mills means an annual revenue for the
general fund of the magnificent total of
1330. The annual cost of street lighting
Is In excess of $500, leaving a defllcit
of $170 In this single account.
, .Fortunately, the Mayor and lour
COG
PRODUCERS
members of the Common Council serve
without salary,' and, - fortunately, also,
the town has a splendid volunteer fire
department, which has saved thousands
of dollurs' worth of property during
the past year. Its equipment consists
of a small hand hose reel with about 200
feet of hose, a dozen fire buckes, two
axes and about six lanterns, a piece of
rope and a 20-foot ladder- It had hopes
of securing a chemical engine, but no
attempt will be made to secure such ad
ditional equipment now.
The police department consists of a
Town Marshal, who presents an ex
pense account after each official act. to
be charged as "costs" against the of
fender at the proper time.
The demise of the club has rung the
death knell of a rather pretentious
scheme of street Improvement and side
walk building, and the town officials
yesterday afternoon couches their of
ficial expressions in terms of bonded in
debtedness, tha.t being the second try
ing situation.
Tho third Is that Mayor Schlndler be
lieves ue will be compelled to inaug
urate a system of licensing the village
butcher, baker and candlestick maker,
as allowed by the charter but never yet
done. This would include levies on
grocery stores, barber shops, doctors,
lawyers, news stands, fruit stands, ped
dlers, hucksters in brief, on all mer
cantile and professional interests in the
town.
Hit hard? Judging from the lamen
tations that are going up in the orig
inal home of the . Oregon, cherry, no
greater calamity could have befallen it.
A fourth trying situation might be
added to the other mournful conditions.
No taxes whatever have been assessed
during the past year, but the maximum
limit of 3 mills will be plastered on at
the first opportunity. Yet a fifth ap
pears, for it is confidently anticipated
that the O. W. P. will abolish the 15
minute car service and revert to its
former schedule of one car every 35
minutes a schedule which was In ef
fect before the club was established. It
is estimated the club has yielded the
street railway company a monthly reve
nue of 81000, almost all of which will
be wiped out with the edict of Distritt
Attorney Hedges.
Though Mayor Schindler and the
members of the Council, to a man, re
sent the interference of the county au
thorities, no disposition Is shown to
combat their action in putting the
club "out of business."
The apologists for the breadth of
moral vision on the part of Mllwaukie
citizens say that the natural instincts
of the people of that town incline to a
liberal policy; that the town was set
tled and has been built up by a class of
people who are prone to tolerate such
"necessary civic evils" as the Mllwau
kie Club. It is held that such institu
tions of iniquity, when well regulated
and controlled by rigid ordinance, be
come virtues and not nuisances.
"We don't depend on our Mayor or
Cpuncllmen to see that the club is kept
orderly; we keep it under close sur
veillance ourselves," said a number of
Mllwaukie people yesterday. "We
think we are able to run our own af
falrs without the assistance of Oregon
OREGOX CITY PEOPLE THANK
THE OREGONIAX.
OREGON CITY, Or.. Aug. 4. (To
the Editor). At the regular service
of the First Congregational Church
of this city this morning the con
gregation, by a unanimous and
hearty vote, authorized me to ex
press to you its grateful apprecia
tion for the assistance which you
have rendered to the law-abiding
people of Clackamas County In their
effort to close up the notorious
gambling club at Mllwaukie. I de
sire personally to add my thanks for
your good offices, for I am con
fident that without the hearty co
operation of the press we could not
so son, if at all. accomplish our
purpose.
Yours cordially,
E. CLARENCE OAKLEY.
Pastor First Congregational Church.
City preachers or out-of-town disturb
ers," is another thrust made at the
people who forced Hedges and Beatie
into tardy activity.
Mllwaukie doesn't regard Mllwaukie
Club license fees as "tainted money,"
and even if she did, she Is mighty glad
to get It, glad to build a City Hall with
it; glad to lay broad and lengthy side
walks with it; glad to light and im
prove her streets with it; glad because
It gives her better car service; glad be
cause it lifts the burden of taxation
from her shoulders, and infinitely sad
because the golden spoon laden with its
civic nourishment has been snatched
from her hungry mouth.
Reformers need not go to Mllwaukie
for sympathy or support. Killing a
goose that lays a golden egg cannot be
construed as healthful reform by the
practical and wholly philosophical
minds of Milwaukie's citizens.
Mllwaukie put the Sunday lid on the
week after Portland did. That was re
form enough. The club that made MI1
ivaukle prosperous should not have
been disturbed in its luxurious -entrenchment,
eo say the Mllwaukie peo
ple. In the meantime they are not going
to cease fighting for a 5-cent fare. In
this cause they see the apotheosis of
righteousness, and they add, bitterly
and regretfully, that the late lamented
club was valiantly aiding and abetting
them in their fight.
STRIKE TIES UP DENVER
COLORADO & SOUTHERN ROAD
HANDLES NO FREIGHT.
Strike-Breakers on Their Way to Re
place Brotherhood of Trainmen
Who Have Gone Out.
DENVER, Aug. 4. Officials of the
Colorado & Southern Railroad said today
that 75 strikebreakers were on the Wfey
to Denver from different parts of the
country to take the places of switchmen,
yardmen, brakemen and others of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen who
are on strike to enforce the demands of
switchmen and yardmen for an increase
In wages of 2 cents an hour. This is the
principal development in the strike.
One freight train was sent out of the
yards today, manned by brakemen who
took the places of the strikers, and were
furnished the protection of a Deputy
Sheriff from this city. Work in the
local yards continued as In the past
week or more, with non-unionists. There
was a small wreck of freight cars in the
yards, which for a time was attributed
to strikers, but investigation by railroad
officials themselves disclosed the cause to
be a defective rail.
The strike has practically tied up
freight traffic over the road, and al
though the territory between Denver and
Pueblo Is not affected, by reason of the
joint track agreement between the Colo
rado & southern and the Santa Fe rail
roads, the southern division of the for
mer road is operating no freight trains
and this will cause at leapt seven of the
local nonunion crews to be laid off to
morrow, it is reliably reported. Lack
of business in the local yards makes it
considerably easier for the road to handle
the situation here than before the general
strike, waa called yesterday soon.
ECLIPSE FENDER
TO BE-ADOPTED
I Council Committee Spurred to
Action by Sunnyside
Accident. .
WILL REPORT AT ONCE
Street Railway Official Says Com
pany Will Gladly Secure Equip
ment Approved by City.
Edna Kern Stay Recover.
Spurred to action by the accident to
little Edna Kern at Sunnyside faatur
day night, the special committee of the
City Council, after weeks of delibera
tion and examination of different types
of life-saving devices, including a trip
to Los Angeles by Councilman Vaughn
to see fenders In action there, has
Anally agreed upon a standard fender
for Portland streetcars. -In Its report
to the Council at its next . meeting,
August 14, It Is practically certain that
this committee will recommend the
Eclipse fender.
The three-year-old Kern child has
an even chance for recovery, but this
accident more than all the many others
preceding it brought home to the Coun
cil committee the need for Immediate
action.
Though the investigations of the
committee have been conducted inde
pendent of the tests and experiments
of the streetcar company, officials of
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company are In hearty agreement with
the committee. The moment the stamp
of official approval is finally placed on
any one fei.der by the Council, Vice
President F. I. Fuller promises to issue
rush orders for the equipment.
The Eclipse fender, chosen by the
committee, is now used in at least 15
large cities of the United States. Ac
cording to Councilman Vaughn, It has
been adopted in New York, Cleveland,
Kansas City, Los Angeles, Santa Bar
bara and several other cities. Of a score
of letters sent to the committee By re
quest from places where it has been
tried, nearly all praise the fender. Mr.
Vaughn's recent trip to Los Angeles
was to look into the matter and see
how the fender worked in practice.
All but Eclipse Eliminated.
"Our committee has done its best to
expedite this matter," said Mr. Vaughn
last night. "There has been this, that
and the other fender to Inspect. Our
committee has finally eliminated every
one but the Eclipse.
"I believe this is the best fender I
have ever seen. If it had been on the
car that hit that little girl Saturday
night I am satisfied beyond a shadow
of a doubt she would not have been
hurt. I investigated this fender very
closely in Los Ang-eles. That is a city
which a few months ago, before the
Eclipse was adopted, could hold its
own with any town in this country for
the killing of people by streetcars. The
Mayor told me fatalities had been re
duced to a remarkable extent- He
named 20 people in that time run down
wjr a muu uuvea Dy me lenders.
"The Eclipse fender won't win any
body by its looks. In fact, it's a
mighty ungainly affair. It projects
nearly two feet and a half in front of
the car vestibule," and at the extreme
edge a round leather-covered Iron tube
reaches across the rails. The fender
itself Is only a criss-cross of flat iron
slats, each four inches wide, extending
back from this bumper tube.
"When the car runs into a man he is
neatly tripped and falls against the
slats. His weight makes them double
up and hold him, and, best of all, there's
a. leather buffer that protects him from
Injury when he is thrown against it.
"Tho only defect In this fender is
that it isn't made to catch people lying
flat on the track. The fender, you see
hangs about five inches off the track
Anyone standing or walking, however,
is thrown back against the buffer."
Should Act by September.
After its recommendation by the
committee, which will probably be done
by presenting an ordinance for its
adoption, the fender must be passed
upon by the Council as a whole. With
favoraole action, it should be formally
and officially adopted September 1
Vice-President F. I. Fuller, of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power Com
pany said last night that at the bes
it will be next to impossible to secure
from the East and equip cars with new
fenders In less than four or five
months.
Dr. J A. Pettit, who Is attending the
Kern child, says that even if she re
covers only the sturdy recuperative 1
powers of childnood can save her from
being a cripple for the rest of her life
for in addition to a broken hip bone she
suffered other Injuries to her lower
limbs.
The little girl underwent the opera
tion of setting the broken bone and
haying 14 stltcnes taken in her wounds
without an anesthetic, holding iast to
the hand of Miss Edna Downing assist"
DvT- Pettlt' The "" " her
street1".3 " 16 EaSt Thlrty-'urth
ABOUT READY TO START
Wellman's Polar Expedition Soon to
Set Off for North.
SPITZBERGEN, July 25. via Tromsoe,
Aug. 4. The Wellman-Chlcago Record
Herald polar expedition has been ham
pered greatly by a high wind, which at
times became a violent gale, threatening
the balloon-house. The damage done has
been repaired and as arrangements now
have been perfectd and the apparatus
has been found to work most satisfac
torily, It is hoped, unless further acci
dents occur, to start for the pole about
the middle of August.
The inflation of the balloon will begin
tomorrow. The unusually bad weather
has prevented ships reaching Spitsbergen
The Prince of Monaco is reported ice
bound to the south.
PLANS ARE ALL READY
Irrigation Congress in Sacramento
This Week.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 4. Plans for
what is expected to be the greatest irri
gation celebration in the history of this
country were announced here today by
the Board of Control of the Fifteenth
National Irrigation Congress. There will
be a two weeks' session of festivals, cele
brations and Jubilees held in connection
with the Congress, which bpens in this
city September 2. Heretofore the Con
gress has been largely Western in its
composition, but this year a special ef
fort has been made to give to it a Ki-
tional character. The programme has
been arranged to cover a very wide range
of subjects, including much that is of
interest to the East as well as to the
West.
The principal feature of the celebration
which will mark the event will be a
magnificent irrigation parade. This will
be composed of especially designed floats
allegorically representative of Irrigation
and Its development from the most an
cient times; other floats representing the
irrigated states and territories and a
splendid train of military and civic or
ganizations and other special features.
One of the striking features of the parade
will be the great Chinese water god, a
Chinese dragon several hundred feet in
length, carried through the street by
sons of the Flowery Kingdom, whose
ancestors looked to this monster for the
waters with which to flood their rice
fields thousands of years ago.
The electrical street illuminations will
be most elaborate. Festoons of lncondes
cent lights will be everywhere, Avhile
proinineni corners will De adorned with
electrical windmills and other special de
signs, all typifying irrieatlon. There
will also be fruit festivals, carnivals and
harvest Jubilees, elaborate musical and
social functions, steamboat and vacht
excursions on Jhe Sacramento River and
railway excursions over the state.
The Interstate Exposition of Irrigated
""in Toaucis, wnicn will be the princi
pal event auxiliary to the Congress,
promises a splendid assemblage, and es
pecially of the products of Irrigation. The
list or tropnies for interstate competTTion
is now complete and consists of 20 mag
nificent loving cups provided bv nromi.
nent Westerners at a cost of from Vo0
to i--w eacn. warmers prizes to the
value of many thousands of dollars will
De distributed among individual exhibit
ors. THREE INJURED IN MOTOR
STREETCAR STRIKES MACHINE
WITH SERIOUS RESULTS.
Prominent New York Young Men
Caught at Crossing and Suffer
Broken Limbs and Bruises.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Three well-known
men were frightfully if not fatally in
jured today when their automobile was
struck by a surface car and after being
shoved along for a distance of 30 feet,
was smashed to fragments against an
elevated railroad pillar.
The victims are Swift Tarbell, son of
Gage E. Tarbell, who was formerly a
vice-president of the Equitable Life As
surance Society; Edward L. Woodson and
W. C. Cutching. Tarbell has a broken
leg, a dislocated, shoulder, gasoline burns
on the face and body and is black with
bruises. . His companions suffered similar
bruises and Cutching ' also had a leg
broken, a shoulder dislocated and per
haps a fracture of the skull. ' Woodson
was more fortunate of the three but
is badly off through shock.
On the way to the Bellevue Hospital,
where the injured were taken, Tarbell,
who owned and drove the car, regained
his senses and inquired whether the ma
chine had been ruined. Upon being told
that it had been he commented: "
"I'm glad of it. I'll never ride in an
automobile again."
The party was bound for Garden City,
Long Island. Their 40-horsepower ma
chine was coming down the incline on
East Thirty-fourth street at fair speed,
when at the junction of Third avenue, a
surface car crossed their path. . The
automoblllsts say the streetcar was run
ning beyond control while others say that
Tarbell attempted to beat out the trolley
at the crossing. The car struck the auto
mobile squarely and jammed it against
the railway pillar with such force that
the car was derailed, the automobile torn
to pieces, and its occupants held fast in
the wreck. Cutching was thrown beneath
the surface car, under the trucks and
wedged between a beam and the pave
ment. Had the rear trucks moved a few
Inches further they must have cut him in
two. Tarbell was caught between the
running board of the car and one side of
the wrecked machine. His broken leg had
been pushed through the spokes of a
wheel. Woodson was pinioned under the
trolley's forward trucks. It was necessary
to raise the passenger car before the In
jured man could be taken out. All were
unconscious.
PRUNEGROWER TAKES AGIO
SELLS PART OF HIS ORCHARD
AND GRIEVES.
Gets Poison From Neighbor Upon
Pretext of Slaking Salve, Com
plaining of Sickness.
SALEM. Or.. Aug. 4. (Special.) In a
spirit of despondency, coupled with worry
over having sold part of his farm. James
Conklin, a prune-grower of the Rosedale
district, about four miles south of this
city, committed suicide in the cabin on
his ranch, about noon today.
Deceased owned a 15-acre tract af
prunes, and last week sold 10 acres of
It to Frank B. Ferguson, of this city,
for $1500. . . .
He met his death' by the use of car
bolic acid, which he borrowed from one
of his neighbors under the pretext of
making ealve. He paid a visit to Clarke
Rogers, whose farm is about a quarter
mile distant from his home, between 9
and 10 o'clock this morning, to whom he
told his troubles and complained of sick
ness. He has relatives in New York and
Massachusetts, but his favorite was a
niece. Mrs. Thomas Smith, of Worces
ter, Mass., to whom he has doubtlessly
willed his property. He was about 60
years old.
Being unable to read or write, he left
no written instructions concerning the
disposition of his remains, but in ac
cordance with a verbal request, made
during a previous illness, the body will
be buried in City View Cemetery here.
FIGHT TO ANNUL CHARTER
Pittsburg Having Trouble Vfth Cor
poration Owning Railways.
PITTSBURG. Aug. 4. What promises
to be a hard-fought and sensational
legal battle Is now in progress between
the City of Pittsburg and the Philadelphia
Company, e 100.0CO.OOO subsidiary concern
of the Railroads Investment Company of
San Francisco, which controls the public
utilities of Allegheny County. An effort Is
under way to annul the charters of the
company. .
In .the meantime the local 'government
is taking vigorous action to collect nearly
$750,000 arrearage for bridge tolls, street
cleaning along the right of way of the
Pittsburg Railways Company, a subsidiary
company, and for back rent for street
cars. An injunction restraining the Phila
delphia Company from raising the price
of natural gas 5 cents a 1000 feet has
also been filed in the local courts.
The trouble is attracting much atten
tion throughout the country, especially in
this city, where over 1,000.000 persons are
affected by the control of the gas. elec
tric light and streetcar facilities by the
Philadelphia Company..
REPORT CROP OP
TO LAST YEAR'S
Hop-Growing Sections Gener
ally Predict Good Yield.
Approaching Harvest.
HOT WEATHER KILLS LICE
Washington Also Estimates Same
Returns as Last Season and Indi
cations Favor Oregon Holding
Premier Position as Before.
From information received from Orego
nlan correspondents In the hopgrowing
sections of the state the yield this year
is figured at approximately the same as
it- was last year. In only one report.
that from HUlsboro, Is there a shortage
indicated.
Washington also reports that the hop
crop will be equal to last year s, say,
45,000 bales.
The next 30 days may bring somewhat
of a change In crop conditions, but from
present indications the yield will run
somewhere between 145.000 and 1EO.O00
bales in Oregon. The following are the
reports received up to last night:
Salem Estimates 14O,000 Bales.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 4. (Special.) Esti
mates from the most conservative deal
ers of this district, who have made a tour
of the hopgrowing territory and observed
yard conditions closely, place the state
crop for 1907 at not to exceed 140.000
bales, as compared to approximately 150,
000 for the. season of 1906, and this estl
mate may be reduced fully one-third
more by reason of failure to secure pick
ing money.
The crop seems to be coming on very
unevenly, and all yards, generally speak
ing, are more or less spotted, while the
number of missing hills in most yards is
remarkable. Many fields are well ad
vanced and the burrs are fully devel
oped. These give promise of an abun
dant yield, with corresponding high qual
ity, while on the other hand, in the ma
jority of yards, the vines are still In
blossom, with a very small percentage of
burrs well set.
Predicts 20 Per Cent Decrease.
HILLSBORO, Or., Aug. 4. (Special.)
The hop crop of Washington County
this season bids fair to be 20 per cent
less than last year's product. This
shortage is due to lack of cultivation,
owing to bad weather at a time when
yards should have had care; to lice and
lack of spraying; to the low prices pre
vailing, and to the fact, that there is
some blight in many yards that last
season were free from fault
" Last year's Washington County
product went about 8000 bales, and it
is estimated that this season the out
put will be slightly over 6000 bales.
In many districts the lice have been
prolific and, as spraying is expensive,
many yards were not given any spraying-
whatever. So far as can be learned
the quality of hops is up to the stand
ard, this county generally leading the
state in this regard.
Lane County Holds Up.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 4. (-Special.) The
hop yield in Lane County this year will
approximate the crop of last season, if it
is all harvested. The prospective low
prices for hops and present high prices
for labor may influence a few to neg
lect the harvest, and there have been
three good but small yards dug up this
year, but the quantity of hops will not
be materially changed. The long, dry,
cool weather has been ideal for hopgrow
ing, and the quality at this time is above
the average.- The hops are in splendid
condition and almost free from lice. Un
less some sudden change in weather con
ditions intervenes, the Lane County crop
will be up to the average in quantity
and quite above in the quality of the
nops.
Outlook Better Than Last Year.
WOODBI'RN. Or.. Ana- 1 (Srtoxll
There will be a larger hop yield in this
section, this season than in any previ
ous year and the quality will be mostly
choice. The lice have practically dis
appeared and all but a few old yards
that have been given no attention are
mnkinor a Ann chrtwtrto- Cm hA
old yards are looking better than for
tne past nve years. Tne new yards
show up well and will make an excel
lent record this year. A party who has
made a thorough inspection of the
yards of this vicinity was In the city
yesterday and reports the outlook very
bright, corroborating the opinion of
others as to large yield and good
quality. '
Same Yield as Last Year.
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 4. (Special.)
Within 30 days harvesting of the hop
crop win De in run mast in western
Washington. "The conditions are good
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Ayer's Hair Vigor was good,
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Established 1 850 Fifty - Seven Years . in Business
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Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest
As Advertised Sunday
List of Today's Great Bargains
Another of our famous sales of women's Sample
Hosiery, in black, white and all colors. Regular 35c,
50c to $1.25 values, 29c.
$4.50 Lawn Waists, various styles, selling regu
larly to $5.00, choice at $2.45.
10,000 pieces of new extra heavy all-silk Taffeta
Ribbon, all widths, at special low Monday sale
prices.
Regular 25c White Crepe, 15c yard.
25c Scotch Zephyr Ginghams, in elegant plaid
. styles, 19c yard.
100 Black Heatherbloom Taffeta Petticoats, a
big Monday bargain, at $1.95.
The new "Princess Alicia" Purse on sale at $1.75
and $2.19.
375 women's $2.25 knitted Sweater Blouses, $1.89.
$1 fine Nainsook Corset Covers, big value at 59c.
Sale ladies' fancy Figured Lawn Kimonos, Night
ingales and Dressing Sacques; regular values to
$1.35 for 78c.
Infants' fine Lawn and Mull Caps and Poke
Bonnets; values to $2.50 for 79c.
Infants' Lawn and Mull Caps and Poke Bonnets;
French, Dutch and Cheyenne Duck Hats and Corded
Pique Hats; values to $1.00 for 59c.
$2.50 Bleached Pattern Tablecloths, only $1.50.
Great Alteration Sale in Drapery Department.
Greatly reduced prices on Lace Curtains, Curtain
Materials, Couch Covers, etc. Buy now for Fall
needs and save money.
See Window Display for Specials.
for the growing crop,'" said Isaac
Pincus today. "The yield should be
about, the same as last year, 45,000
bales. In the Yakima country, on ac
count of the backward Spring and a
bad attack of vermin, it is hard to tell
what the farmers will get from their
fields. Because of a backward season
in mn.ny sections the market is firm
and there is a tjetter aemana tor con
tracts. The quality of hops in this
state promises to be very good; 20.DD0
pickers are needed In Washington to
handle the crop. Many have already
begun to look for places and I thinK
there will be enough pickers when the
time comes."
Same Acreage in Lewis County.
r-i-iTTir a T .T 3 Wash Aue. 4. (Spe
cial.) About the same number of
acres of hops will be harvested in
Lewis County this year as last, but
generally speaking a lighter yield is
ovr.or.teri KnmA vnrHa ohnw exception
ally heavy prospects, but weather con
ditions, slack cultivation ana otner
causes will reduce the yield. uuy
,h. rmr. 1907 has been con
tracted, prices ranging about 10 cents.
Two contracts were made at 10 cents
the past week for 36,000 pounds. The
quality of the crop Is expected to be up
to good standard, growers generally
having sprayed their yards. Owing to
labor scarcity it is expected me Burn
ing of pickers will be not easy task.
Picking Begins September 1.
a ttrot? A Or.. Aue. 4. (Snecial.) If the
t-Aoonr trccA wpnthpr continues the hOD
crop here will be fully as large as last
year, and the quality equally as booo.
The hops are burring out fine, the hot
weather having killed the lice. The crop
will probably De nve or ten oays earner
than last year. Picking will begin gen
erally September 1.
Selecting Site for. New Factory.
ALBANY, Or., Aug. 4. (Special.)
No site was chosen for the big milk
condeslng plant to be established in
Albany at the meeting of the directors
of the Linn Condensed Milk Company
last evening. Five locations were of
fered, and the directors deemed it ex
pedient to consider the question of lo
cation more thoroughly. With a site
once selected, work on the plant will
begin at once. More stock is being
subscribed dally to the enterprise,
though enough has been taken already
to erect the plant and place it in oper-.
ation.
It is estimated that 100,000,000 bushels of
wheat will be available for export from the
northwestern provinces of Canada at the
close of this year's harvest.
TEA
A trifle of tea in a dainty
cup has in it a world of rest
or of stimulant what is the
time o'day?
Your grocer returns your money If you
don't like Schilling's Best; we pay him.
WEDDING
AND VISITING CARDS
W.G.SMITH SCO.
WASHINGTON BUILDING
Fourth and Washington Streets
"Come on Who's
afraid?"
Don't put your faith
or your body Into a
cheap bathing suit
The camera fiend is
always present and
there might be an over
exposure. Here are respectable,
responsible, reliable
Bathing Suits at $1, $1.50
and $2.50. Swimming
Trunks at 25c and 50c.
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. Xohawk Bnlldiss.