THE L'DRXING OREGOXIAN. TUESDAY. JANUARY 7, 19U8.
MISSING LINER
SEEN
N DISTRESS
Mount Roya! Passed by Span
ish Steamer Near Fast
net, Ireland.
STEAMER SENT TO RESCUE
Canadian Pacific Confident of Ves
sel's Identity Believes Her Crip
pled Eleven Days Overdue at
Halifax From Antwerp.
UVKRPOOU Jan. 6. The ' Spanish
otcamshlp Vivina reached here tonight
from Pensacola and reported that on Jan
uary 3. when 250 miles from Fastnet. Ire
land, a steamer was sighted resembling
the long overdue Canadian Pacific liner
Mount Royal. The Vivina was unable to
ascertain the name or to read the sig
nals of the supposed Mount Royal.
Officials of the Canadian Pacific Rail
way are confident that the steamer
sighted is the Mount Royal and they have
decided to send the steamer Lake Manl
toba in search of her, assuming she Is
crippled by broken machinery.
The Mount Royal sailed from Antwerp
December 7 for Halifax, and is about 11
days overdue at that port. She carries
U4 Immigrants, principally from South
rrn Kurope and Russia. She has a crew
of about 100 men.
PLENTY OF ROOM IN JAIL
President of Spokane Council Says
Baslile Can Hold Saloonmen.
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 6. (Special.)
"All this talk about there being no
accommodations in the City Jail Tor the
40 saloonmen who were recently com
mitted there by an order of Justice of
the Peace Hinkle Is all torn my rot. It
Is nothing but a shallow subterfuge
resorted to in an attempt to disguise-
the fact that because these saloonmen
have a political pull they can defy the
law and make a travesty of justice. I
have just made a personal inspection
of the jail, and I am convinced that 50
more men could be imprisoned there
without inconvenience."
Thus spoke N. S. Pratt, President of
the City Council, tonight, after he had
spent an hour examining 4he condition
in the city hastile and inspecting com
mitments to learn on what charges
those Imprisoned were in jail.
SMUGGLE JEWELRY OVER LINE
Max Howe Arrested and $10,000
Worth of Goods Detained.
SKATTLE, Wash., Jan. 6. (Special.)
Max Howe is in jail here and the Fed
eral authorities have arrested Eugene
Wagner In Vancouver, while from
5(00 to $10,000 worth of diamonds
end watches are in possession of
t lie Customs officers and will likely be
confiscated as smuggled goods. The ar
rest of Howe was made yesterday on
hi trip from Bellingham. where he
had carried the goods from Vancouver,
s he says, for a friend. His hearing
will come before United States Com
missioner Kiefer tomorrow.
Wagner, so the officials say, was re
moving the goods from Vancouver sur
reptitiously, for the purpose of going
Into bankruptcy, but Canadian credi
tors informed the officers of their sus
picions and a close watch has been
kept for Wagner. Howe, being a
friend of Wagner, was arrested, and
when his baggage was searched sev
eral pieces of jewelry were disclosed,
Later 300 watches were recovered in a
safety-deposit vault here, and other
amounts of jewelry and diamond are
known to be cached in Bellingham and
Seattle.
PANHANDLE IS REORGANIZED
Pennsylvania and Independent Cap
Hal Take Mining Stock.
SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 6. (Spe
cial.) Following a meeting of the
directors of the Panhandle Smelting
Company, held here today, it was an
rouiu'od that the company had been
reorganized as the Idaho Smelting &
Keflning Company , and that the Penn
sylvania Smelting Company would con
trol one-third of the stock. Independent
producers in the Coeur d' Alencs one
third, and J. Herbert Anderson, the
president of the company, and asso
ciates one-third.
Four hundred thousand dollars have
been subscribed by the people behind
the new company, half of which will
re used in paying the dtihts of the old
company, and the remainder for the
purchase of more muchinery for the
plant at Sand Point, Idaho. A guaran
teed tonnage of 6000 tons monthly has
been obtained from the mines o the
Coeur d'Alenes. The .". ,900,000 shares of
stock in the Panhandle Company will
be taken over by the new company
at the rutio of five to one. The plant
at Sand point was blown in last Kali,
hut after several months' operation it
was closed down on account of finan
cial dttfieultics. It will be opened at
tin early date.
PERSONALMENTION.
Mrs. M. K. Breyman. of Salem, -ae-rompaniod
hy her daughter. Mrs. F. F.
Snieror. of Birmingham. Ala., was reg
istered at the Orison yesterday.
C K. Hallard. postmaster of Milwaukie,
1 vontlnod to his bed with severe illness.
He 1ms not been able to attend to the
postomec business for some time.
t A. Hunter, general asent for the
Rock Inland and Frisco system, has re
turned from Omaha and other Eastern
cities, where he has spent the past few
weeks.
Pr. K. B. MclJantel. of Baker City, is
registered at the Oregon. He is In the
rity to attend a meeting of the State
Medlcnl Board, of which lie was recently
appointed a member by Governor Cham
berlain, to rill a vacancy.
Dr. T. B. Ford, pastor of the Sunny
fine Methodist Episcopal Church, who
has been ill for several weeks, during
Part of which time he was at Hot
Lake, returned home Saturday night and
Is now with his family at the parsonage,
1M East Thirty-tlfth street. He is much
improved.
C. N. Black, of Portland, lias been
named as a delegate from the Portland
Admen's Club to the Pacific Coast con
vention of Associated Advertising Clubs
of America, at Oakland. Cal.. January
50. Mr. Black was appointed by S. B.
Queal. president of the Associated Clubs,
and has sent his acceptance. Mr. Black
was a delog.Ua last Summer from the
Pacific Coast to the meeting of the Asso
ciated Club at Cincinnati.
Bishop Paddock will arrive to take up
his residence in Eastern Oregon in about
three weeks. He will locate the episcopal
residence in Baker City or Pendleton, in
ail probability. There is a coincidence in
the appointment of . the two Oregon
bishops in the fact that both Bishop
Scadding and Bishop Paddock were en
gaged formerly in the same class of
word in the East, in fact in the same
parish at different times. Bishop Pad
dock's father was once a student at
Bishop Scott Academy.
Senator Fulton was detained in Port
land yesterday by unfinished business and
an attempt to meet the large number of
visitors who called. During the forenoon
he telephoned to the County Clerk at As
toria and completed, his registration by
taking the necessary oath, having reg
istered his signature and complied with
the other requirements of the registration
law while in Astoria last Friday- The
Senator will leave for Washington this
morning and will reach the National Cap
itol in time to resume his duties in the
committee room and before Congress next
Monday.
Judge George H. Williams, Portland's
aged statesman, who has been confined
to his home by reason of a severe cold.
Is Improving rapidly and will soon be able
to attend to his office engagements. Dr.
K. A. J. Mackenzie, who has been at
tending Judge Williams, made the fol
lowing statement as to the condition of
his patient yesterday: "Judge Williams
has rallied splendidly and I am much
gratified at his condition. He will be
confined to his home for a few days, but
will be able to be oat, about Thursday.
He has successfully passed the danger
stage and we may now look for a rapid
recovery."
Judge W. W. McCredie, president of
the Portland Baseball Club, arrived home
yesterday morning, after attending the
meeting of the Pacific Coast League di
rectors at San Francisco, last Friday and
Saturday. The Portland magnate left al
most immediately for Kalama. Wash.,
where he, is scheduled to hold court for
a few days. Judge McCredie announced
that the matter of Increasing the circuit
from four to six clubs was left In the
hands of the California magnates. He
said, however, that he would probably
be advised within a few days as to the
decision of the directors and would then
be able to make a statement for publica
tion. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Jan. 6. Contract Surgeon Albion
Coffey is relieved from duty at Vancou
ver Barracks and will proceed to Fort
Sam Houston for duty.
f REGISTER FIRST DAY
OUT OF 2 65 VOTERS, 218 ARE
REPUBLICANS.
irman of Democratic Committee
Asks Clerk to Require All to
Give Definite Residence.
When the county registration books
closed at 5 o'clock last night 265 voters
had registered, nearly B0 more than the
number who registered on the first day
two years ago. Of this number. 218
were Republicans. 42 Democrats and 5
were classed as miscellaneous. Among
these are included Socialists, Prohibi
tionists, and all who refuseto give their
party affiliations. In 1906, 217 regis
tered on the first registration day; in
1904. 100 put their names on the regis
tration books the first day, and In 1902,
the record was 147.
Charles Nebergall, the blind cigar
dealer at the Courthouse, was the first
to register yesterday. He was on hand
at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, and
when the books were opened at 8
o'clock he had his card made out and
signed his name at the head of the list.
Henry Hewitt, a Republican insurance
agent, who has been In Oregon for 37
years, was the last to register last
night. Among those who registered
yesterday Were Joseph W. Beveridge,
William M. Cake. N. H. Bird, who an
nounces that he is a candidate for
Sheriff; C. M..Idleman, Cord Sengstake.
ex-Deputy County Clerk; Gus Moser
and M. G. Cohen. Among the Demo
crats who registered were P. P. Dab
ney, Charles Petraln, N. A. Peery and
Alex Sweek. Bruce Wolverton, a prom
inent Prohibitionist, was among the
five miscellaneous.
County Clerk Fields received the fol
lowing communication yesterday from
G. H. Thomas, chairman of the Demo
cratic County Central Committee, rela
tive to the registration of voters:
Hon. Frank S. Fields. County Clerk. City
Dear Sir: My attention has been directed to
the fact that your office has heretofore reg
istered many voters who have named as a
place of residence indefinite places such as
rront and couch streets, second and Davis
streets. Sixth and Oak streets, etc.. while a
host have registered from the Overland
Hotel.. Globe and other hotels without stat
ing the floor and room numbers so plainly
required under clause 0 of section of
Bellinger & Cotton's Annotated codes and
Statutes of Oregon.
In proof of this contention you are In
vited to examine your previous registration
records in any of the precints containing
Portland's floating population.
Avenues ror fraud in registration and at
the polls are thus left open, which. I think.
you will agree with me, ought to be closed.
In behalf or the Democratic party In this
county. I ask that you enforce the require
ments of said section Very trulv
G. H. THOMAS.
MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR
Joseph Taylor, a Mayger Logger,
Shot by George Mayger.
Joseph Taylor, a logger. , was mistaken
for a burglar yesterday morning at the
house of George Mayger. at Mayger, Or.,
a point on the lower Columbia River, and
was shot twice by Mayger. Taylor is
now in St. Vincent's Hospital, suffering
from a wound in his heel and another in
his hip. His condition is not serious.
Taylor, in company with another logger,
walked from Astoria to Maygers" Landing
for the purpose of getting passage there
on a boat to a lumber camp where they
were going to obtain work. Tt was after
1 o'clock when they arrived and several
hours Intervening before the scheduled
departure of the boat, they sought lodg
ings. There was a light m Mayger's house
and they supposed it was a lodging
house, and. going into the hallway to
rouse some one. they were met by May
ger. who opened Are on them. Taylor
declares that Mayger did not stop to
question them. When daylight arrived
and Mayger learned of his mistake, he
arranged for Taylor's removal to this
city for hospital treatment.
EXPOSITION RINK TONIGHT
Skating as Usual.
Rink open morning, afternoon and
evening. Skating as usual. Admission
free afternoon to women and children:
evening 10c admission to all. See world
famous "Passion Play." as advertised.
Lillian Pratt a Suicide.
TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 6. The Coroner
has decided that Lillian Pratt, the girl
whose dead body was found in the brush
in the north end of the city, ended her
own life by poison. Two bottles marked
"Poison" were found near the body.
Metzger fits, glasses for $1.00.
DEATH TO "
!!
Threats of Violence Made by
Seattle Laborers.
JOHN DOE WARRANTS OUT
A. Rohlfing Set Upon by Union
Painters Contractors Are Unable
to Hold Strikebreakers . With
Offer of $1 Bonus.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 6. (Special.)
The struggle between the union' members
of the building trades In this city and the
contractors with the open shop as the
bone of contention has at last resulted in
violence and threats of death to "scabs
and the issuance of several '"John Doe"
warrants. The man whose life was threat
ened is A. Rohlfing, subforeman on the
big MacDougall & South wick building.
Saturday afternoon he was set upon and
beaten 'by a number of men, one of whom
he recognized as a union painter.
This afternoon Rohlfing was notified
by telephone that his life was in danger,
the person talking saying. "We will get
you. you scab." Complaints and warrants
followed.
Some of the contractors who entered the
open-shop agreement are in trouble. E.
J. Rounds, who is building the First
Methodist Church, has lost most of his
men and is paying $1 a day more than
the union scale. At that the union lead
ers aver that Rounds and other contrac
tors are greatly handicaped. and that they
are ready to go to any extreme to make a
showing in defiance of the closed-shop
demands of union labor.
Many of the men who have come from
the East and other parts of the country
to go to work quit as soon as the condi
tions are explained to them. So far there
has been no general strike, but there have
been one or two sympathetic strikes af
fecting perhaps 400 men. Daily meetings
are being held by union leaders, however,
and also by the members of the Builders1
Exchange, and it is declared that a gen
eral tie-up of building is a matter of only
a few days unless one side or the other
makes concessions.
DITCH COMPAXT IX TROUBLE
Two Rivers Stockholder Calls for
Receivership at Walla Walla.
WALLA WALLA. Wash., Jan. 6. (Spe
cial.) Trouble is again in store for the
company having in charge the construc
tion of the irrigation scheme known as
the Two Rivers ditch, if the Injunction
asked by A. B. Frame in the Superior
Court today is granted. He asks that
Will H. Parry, of Seattle, president of
the Pasco Power & Water Company, the
present owners of the ditch, be restrained
from selling any more of the land owned
by the company, and the Puget Sound
National Bank be restricted from col
lecting any more money from the parties
who think they have purchased the land
under the ditch. He alleges gross mis
management in the matter of exorbitant
salaries paid the officials and asks that a
receiver be appointed.
Frame was the originator of the scheme
of irrigating the sandy soil of North Wal
lula some years ago and organized the
Snake River Irrigation Company. The
company became involved and he was
forced to give up control. The Pasco
Power & Water. Company was organized
to preserve the property. Frame is a
minority stockholder in the latter com
pany. People have purchased small
tracts of land in anticipation of the water
being turned on nearly two years ago.
A number of capitalists in Portland and
Seattle have been interested in this pro
ject. The Judge took the matter of applica
tion for an injunction under advisement.
DEAD OF THE XORTHWEST
Albert L. Cole.
M'MTNNVILLE. Or., Jan. 6. (Special.)
Albert L. Cole, who died at the Good
Samaritan Hospital, in Portland, Decem
ber 31. from injuries received in Rose
burg on Sunday night, December 29. was
a passenger brakeman between Portland
and Roseburg and was run down by an
engine while In the discharge of his du
ties, checking up the cars of his train
preparatory to leaving for Portland. The
other engine was backing up the main
track and was not seen by him. His
left arm was severed from his body near
the shoulder and he was otherwise se
verely injured. He was taken on his
train. No. 16, to the hospital, where
he died just 26 hours after. He was born
In Scio. Or.. July 1. 1870. and was 37
years and six months of age. He was
married February 7. 1S93. to Mss Maude
Wiley, who. with four children, survive
him. He was buried near Scio, January
3. where he had lived the greater part
of his life. He had been in the employ
of the railroad company about nine years
and was considered one of the best men
In the service. Ha. was the eldest son
of Dr. J. W. and M. T. Cole, who
reached his bedside too late to do more
than console him in his last moments. He
leaves one brother, Ernest C. Cole, who
lives In Monmouth, and two sisters, Mrs.
Ida Veal, of Albany, and Mrs. Anna E.
North, of Kist, Or., besides other rela
tives and many friends, especially among
the railroad employes.
Colvllle City of Third Class.
COLVILLE. Wash.. Jan. 6. (Special.)
At the meeting of the Colville city coun
cil Tuesday evening, a resolution was
passed by unanimous vote, whereby the
town was raised from the fourth class
to a city of the third class.
"THE BLUE MOOX" AT HEILIG
Schubert Bros. Present James T.
Powers in Musical Comedy.
The attraction at the Heilig Theater,
Fourteenth and Washington streets, tonight
and tomorrow night, with a special-price
matlnen tomorrow Wednesday) will be
fchubert Bros. production of the musical
comedy success, "The Blue Moon." This
well-known firm is presenting the famous
American comedian. James T. Powers and
an excellent company of players in this
magnificent offering. Seats are now selling
at the theater for the entire engagement.
Included in the cast are such well-known
players as Phil H. Ryley, Robert Broderick.
Clara Palmer, Nanon Jacques and many
others.
"PASSION PLAY" ENDS TODAY
Pictures to Be Shown for Last Time
at Marquam.
Beginning at 2 o'clock this afternoon and
running continuously until 10:30 P. M.. the
-Passion Play" pictures will be shown at
the Marquam Grand. This will be the last
opportunity to see the famous original
Pathe film of the "Passion Play. This Is
the greatest movlng-plclur film ver mads
SB
At the Theaters
What the Pre mm Affeats Say
and all the pictures are perfect photographic
reproductions of this world-famous drama,
instructive, realistic and entertaining. All
lovers of the sublime should avail them
selves of this opportunity to see this won
derful production.
"SOLDIERS
OF
FORTUNE"
Baker Company in Richard Hard- J
ing Davis' Play Thfs Week. I
"Soldiers of Fortune." at the Baker this j
wek. Is a veritable treat for all lovers of
this popular story. The play follows the
novel clostely. and all the scenes are laid in
South America, where this party of New '
lorkers become mixed up In a revolution In
the Republic of Orlanco. Mr. Webb ts play
ing the character of Robert Clay, the civil
engineeer. who proves such a hero in the
time of great danger, and Marfbel Seymour fk
playing the beautiful role of Hone La n gharri.
Empire Matinee Tomorrow.
The popular mid-week matinee will be
given as usual at the Empire tomorrow, and
the attraction thto week. "At the Old Cross
Roads." is by far one of the very best to
be seen in Portland this season at popular
prices. It has been said, and with apparent
good reason, that of the Southern plays re
cently produced none has scored a more re
markable hit than Arthur C. Alston's pro
duction of "At the Old Cross Roads.'
GREAT AMERICAN DRAMA
"The Man of the Hour" at Heilig
All Next Week.
At the Heilig Theater all next week, com
mencing Sunday night next. January 12,
with matinees Wednesday and Saturday,
William A. Brady and Joseph R. GrlGmer's
production. "The Man of the Hour," will be
seen for the first time In Portland. While
George Broadhurst, the playwright has taken
for his theme certain conditions which ex
ist in every large city, still there Is said to
be Interwoven in "The Man of the Hour" a
delightful love story. The company to be
seen here is exceptionally strong, while the
production is complete in every detail. Seat
sale opens next Friday for the entire en
gagement. Florence Roberts Tomorrow.
The great emotional actreas. Florence
Roberts, will open a five-performance engage
ment at the Marqjam commencing tomorrow
night, with the first performance of the new
drama "Zira,' ever . given in Portland.
Zlra will be the bill Wednesday and Thurs
day nights while on Friday night. Saturday
matinee and night, the new play "Sham" will
be the bill. Mi?s Robert is surrounded by
a notable cast of players, and the same per
fect scenic and costume detail that was given
the production In New York at the Princess
theater.
Grease, paints and professional supplies at
Woodard, Clarke & Co.
IET T0 CHOOSE OFFICES
PORTLAND & SEATTLE OFFL
CIALS HOLD CONFERENCE.
Definite Selection Not" Made, but
Headquarters Will Probably Be
in Commercial Club Building.
An important conference of Portland &
Seattle and Northern Pacific officials was
held yesterday afternoon in the offices of
A. D. Charlton, assistant general passen
ger agent for the Northern Pacific at
Third and Morrison streets. President F.
E. Clarke of the Portlnrd & Ptlf ' M.
Levey, third vice-president of 'the North
ern Pacific; A. D. Oharlioii. utsi.,ij., t gen
eral passenger agent for the Northern Pa
cific: Superintendent Forrest and General
Freight and Passenger Agent Adams, of
the Portland & Seattle, attended. Presi
dent Clarke and Mr. Levey left last niglit
for St. Paul. , -
The location of the general offices of
the Portland & Seattle Railway was the
Francis B. Clarke. President of the
Portland Seattle Rail tray, Who
Hm Opened Headquarters in
Portland.
chief topic considered and no final decis
ion was reached as to quarters. A. D.
Charlton and H. M. Adams will take up
the subject today and will undoubtedly
make their decision before night. It is
likely that the new Commercial Club
building will be selected, although there
are a number of other possible locations.
Among these are the Chamber of Com
merce building, the new Corbett building,
the Board of Trade building.
Matters of general policy of the Port
land & Seattle Railway were also up for
decision at the meeting but there was
nothing else transacted of general interest
which was given out. President Clarke
will return to Portland within two weeks
and will remain here permanently ,o di
rect the management of the North Bank
Road.
BIG CALIFORNIA EXCIRSIOX
Imposing Arrangements for Trip of
Inland Empire Special.
One of the biggest and most imposing
commercial excursions ever operated
from the Pacific Northwest to California
will be that of the Inland Empire Spe
cial, which will reach Portland from
Spokane and Walla Walla February 8.
The day will be spent here, when the
visitors will be entertained by the Com
mercial Club. They will leave the same
night for California. Advices received
yesterday by General Passenger Agent
McMurray from Spokane indicate that
every car will be filled and the Spokane
people are very enthusiastic over the
coming trip South.
There will be seven Pullman cars in
the Inland Empire Special, six bf which
will be filled with - Spokane people and
one with business men of Walla Walla.
Every convenience for the comfort of the
passengers has been arranged. A tele
phone operator will be on the train and
at each stop connections will be made
with the city exchange. A piano will be
on board and there will be music by so
loists, quartets, etc., throughout the
trip. Special attention has been given to
the dining arrangements and all will be
well taken care of.
Mr. McMurray has given these com
mercial excursions every possible en-
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PRICES GUT PRICES HALVED
PRICES QUARTERED
Nothing held back nothing reserved. Exquisite specimens of furniture now
at mere fragment prices. The furniture stock that is the pride of all Oregon
now sacrificed for absolute, immediate clearance. Buy now the needs for the
home save half save even more; and half at Gevurtz' MEANS HALF.
Sample Values That Rule the House Shadow Prices
on Desks and China Cabinets
OFFICE DESKS
No. 60.' Regular $123.00 Desk: clear
ance $65.00
No. 563 Desk, with typewriter attach
ments, $100.00 value; clearance $55.00
No. 51 50-inch Desk, regular $90.00 'desk ;
clearance , ... $42.50
No. 207 Regular' $60.00 Desk clear
ance ,..$31.00
No. 343 Regular $45.00 Desk : clear
ance ....$25.00
Regular $30.00 flat-top Desks. .. .$14.30
Regular $15.00 flat-top Desks; $7.50
THE SALE OF
FIRST
couragement and has organized nearly all
that have been operated from this terri
tory. If there is any one thing that he
is enthusiastic over more than another,
next to the Rose Fiesta, it is the com
mercial or business men's excursions. He
said Yesterday:
"There is no one thing thdt brings the
Pacific Coast cities closer together than
these excursions. Visits by the men of
one city to another have Invariably had
a splendid effect in creating a common
spirit and resulting in great good. The
excursions that have been run to Cali
fornia from the Pacific Northwest during
the past few years and the return visits
from the South have created a Coast
spirit that has taken the place of any
local spirit. I shall always give all the
encouragement I can to these excur
sions." Never before have the people generally
been so alive to the benefits of these
Junkets as at present. Mr. McMurray is
in receipt of innumerable invitations from
commercial bodies of California cities for
the excursion, tendering hospitality while
the visitors are there, and Governor Gil
lette has written that he will welcome
them at Sacramento.
Commercial excursions operated In this
territory during the past two years, the
success of every one of which has been
largely due to the interest and assistance
of Mr. McMurray. are as follows: Port
land business men to Lwiston. Idaho,
October 18. 1905; Portland business men
to Ashland. Or.. November 14, 1905;. Ore
gon Development League to Ls Antf -e,
January 13, 1906; Washington commercial
bodies to California. March 17. 1906; spe
cial excursion of Portland people to San
Francisco. June 16, 1906; Portland business
men to Klamath County. August 10. 1906;
Tacoma commercial bodies to California.
February 9, 1907; Omaha business men to
Portland, Summer of 1907: Portland busi
ness .men to Klamath Falls. August. 1907:
California excursion to Boise Irrigation
Congress, September 3, 1906; Washington
and Oregon irrigatlonlsts to Sacramento
Irrigation Congress. September 2, 1907.
Oregon People In Chicago.
CHICAGO. Jan. 6. (Special.) Oregon
people registered at Chicago hotels today
as follows:
From Portland D. C. Shaw and wife, at
the Victoria; E. Matthews Sweet and
wife, at the Annex.
Attend Rosenthal's great clearance
sale for fine shoe bargains.
Perfect fittinsr glasses $1 at Mctzger's.
A MODERN ANOMALY
All the Comforts of Home Out
side of Home.
A VEXATIOUS PROBLEM SOLVED
The hotel problem in New York is
a most important one, and its magni
tude has been greatly increased during
recent years by changed conditions' of
living. The hotel, once defined as "a
house for the entertainment of trav
elers and strangers," is now becoming
the permanent abode of thousands of
well-to-do Americans. Many of these
own fine residences, but frequently
find it more comfortable and .conveni
ent to live in hotels where the manager
takes upon himself all the cares and
perplexities of housekeeping and 'gives
his guests the unalloyed pleasures and
blessings of home, together with a
privacy not to be found in most metro
politan houses. According to the So
cial Register more than nine thousand
New York families live In hotels in
stead of houses, and the number is
constantly increasing, .
The t first hotel In New York con
structed in accordance with these mod
ern ideas was the St. Regis. That it
fills a long-felt want has been fully
demonstrated by its wonderful success.
But the St. Regis does not cater to the
wants of the permanent home-seeker
alone. The very same features which
make it so desirable for the person
who lives here by the season or the
year commend it to the man or woman
who visits New York occasionally. The
St. Regis is homelike and inviting.
Quietly, irresistibly. It has won its
way, until, with a large class of people,
to speak of a New York hotel Is to
think Immediately of the St. Regis.
Here one obtains the best in the world
in tne way of comfort, food, service and
safety, and at a cost no greater than
st other first-class hotels. Try It on
your next visit to the Metropolis,
GREATER MEANING GREATER SAVING
ON YAMHILL
CORPSE If! WATER SUPPLY
RESIDENTS OP FOREST GROVE
ARE AROUSED.
Public Sleeting Held and Efforts
Made to Locate Drowned Man.
Mill Company Criticised.
FOREST GROVE, Or.; Jan. 6. (Spe-:
cial.) A public meeting was held here
today and action taken toward finding
the body of Boren Lambert, a logger,
drowned in Gales Creek, near this city
six days ago. He was engaged on a drive
for the Base Line Lumber Company
when he lost his life, and the people here
think the company has not been as active
as it should be In trying to recover the
body. A considerable sum has been
raised and men employed, who are
making a careful search of the stream.
The drowning occurred less than a mile
above the pumping station of the city
water supply, and people do not like the
thought of the body remaining in the
stream so near where their drinking
water comes from.
GOOD RESULTS FROM UXIOX
Salem Hopgroners Already Realize
Its Advantages.
SALEM. Or., Jan. 6. (Special.) Con
rad Krebs, one of the hopgrowers having
charge of the work of organizing the Pa
cific Coast Union, asserts that the move
ment for a growers' organization has
already accomplished results for several
buyers, among them Joe Harris, B. O.
Shucking. Livesley & Co.. and William
Brown & Co. have become active in
securing contracts at 10 to 11-cents for
one to three years. Krebs declares this
is evidence that dealers realize that the
F YOU travel in the company of Selz Royal Blue
shoes you'll travel far and have foot comfort all
the way. They're made to last, and look good all the
time; there are no better shoes made.
We ask $3.50, $4 and $5 for them; and every man
who buys one pair buys more of them. They fit ; and
we guarantee your satisfaction. .
Beat oak sole leather used on all our shoes
COR. SEVENTH AND WASHINGTON STS.
(Formerly 149 Third St.)
CHINA CABINETS
No. 604 $30.00 China Cabinet: clear
ance $16.50
No.. 5024 $22.50 China Cabinet : clear
ance $10.50
No. 805 $75.00 China Cabinet: clear
ance $39.50
No. 409 $75.00 China Cabinet: clear
ance .: $35.00
No. 826 $85.00 China Closet; clear
ance $45.00
Nro. 676 $75.00 Chiua Closet; clear
ance ......$37.50
Sideboards and Buffets correspondingly reduced.
SECOND
union will be a success, and that they
will be compelled to pay higher prices
by reason thereof.
DRUNK ;
SHOOTS
HIMSELF
Ontario Man Hits Woman on Head,
Then Blows Out Brains.
ONTARIO. Or., Jan. 6. (Special.)
George Williams committed suicide here
today by shooting himself over the right
ear. He had been to Payette looking for
work and returned home Intoxicated. His
cousin. Mrs. Loab, with whom he has
been living, said he threatened to kill
himself with a revolver which he carried
and that she took it from him once, but
he forced her' to give up the gun and
then struck her on the side of the head
with the gun. It was at this juncture
that he shot himself. He died instantly.
MESSAGE FAIRLY SIZZLES
Mayor Rodgers," of Salem, Scores the
Previous Administration.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 6. (Special.) In bis
annual message to the City Council to
night. Mayor Rodgers severely scored the
work of the previous administration in
constructing a re-inforced concerte bridge
on North' Commercial street. He said
that the bridge was located on a hlllslda
and the stream 'expected to come to it.
The builders "smeared plaster over slip
pery gravel" and, "built wings of plaster
of Paris that a boy could wash away
with a garden hose." It has become
necessary, he says, to "stuff wadding
under the bridge with pitchforks to keep
It from side stopping down stream."
He also criticized the Chief of Police
for non-enforcement of many ordinances,
such as that against use ot cigarettes,
the curfew ordinance, etc.
Astoria. Or. The exports from the Lower
Columbia River district during the month
of December. a shown by the records .at
th ''I'.tnm-Hoil.'', wore valUPd at ?14.1 2V