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THE MORXiyG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, MAT 8, 1909. OFFICIAL FIGURES CAUSE RIOT Iff PIT Crop Report Expected to Be Bearish, but Bullish Ten dency Prevails. FAR SHORT OF LAST YEAR AVinter Wheat About S, 500,000 Acres Less Harvest Promises to Be Only 400,000,000 Bushels. July I'p to $1.17 3-4. CHICAGO. May T. (Special.) Official crop figures wired here late in the day caused great commotion In the wheat trade. Before the report was received there was panicky selling on reports of rains In the Southwest and fear that the Washington figures might prove bearish. "When the report was received. It proved bullish and a phenomenal advance started, which carried prices up to $a.rp for July and $1.08 for September. The crop report gives the area of Winter wheat In this country about 2,600, 000 acres short of the harvest of 1908. The average condition of the crop Improved only 1.3 points during the month of April. The best that can be figured is a harvest promise of 400.000,000 bushels and many authorities think the yield for the year will fall below that figure. The action in the market may be Judged by the fact that July wheat sold early at $l.i3i, had a break to 1.13V4 and from this there was an advance to $1.17 Just before the close. CROP REPORT VERY BULLISH AY'lnter Wheat and Rye Below Ten Year Average. WASHINGTON. May T.-An average condition of 83.5 per cent for Winter wheat and 88.1 for rye on May 1 last, against a 10-ycar average on that date of KS and 9.1, respectively, was announced In today's crop report of the Department of Agriculture. Area of Winter wheat to be harvested was about 27,871,000 acres. The area of Winter wheat to be har vested was about 2,478,000 acres, or 8.1 per cent less than the area harvested In 1908, and 2,163.000 acres, or 7.2 per cent, less than the area sown last Fall. The average condition of Winter wheat a month ago was 82.2 and a year ago 89 per cent. Rye averaged S7.2 a month ago and 90.3 on May 1. 190S. The average condition on May 1 last and ten years average on - May 1. re spectively, for Winter wheat and the same, respectively, for rye by states in cludes: California Wheat, 81 and 85; rye, 78 and SS. Washington Wheat, 93 and 91; rye, 96 and 95. Oregon Wheat, 93 and 96: rye. 92 and 96. The average condition of meadow (hay) lands on May 1 was 84.5, compared with fo.5 on May 1, 1908, and a 10-year average of 89.5. The percentage of Winter wheat aban doned was 78.2. DEALERS ADVANCE PRICES Wheat and Corn Scarce in Southern California. 1.08 ANGE3L.ES. May 7. Local dealers today advanced the price of both wheat and corn. Wheat was advanced 6c a hundred to Ji40, and corn was advanced a ton arTTI now sells for J1.9 per hun dred. The dealers say the advance is owing to the scarcity of these grains on the Pacific Coast and the recent ad vances In prices in the Kast. Millers made a slight advance In the price of flour today. UNIONS DIVIDE ON BEER Strike at Montana Breweries Causes Them to Take Sides. 'BUTTB. Mont.. May 7. The Missoula breweries have signed the agreement with the Brewery-Workers' Union for two years, agreeing to recognize the new union composed of brewery engineers, and have been removed from the unfair list. The strikers there returned to work, this morning. The Building Trades Council has or, dered its members to do work at no fcaloon. brewery or other place where the product of the Montana breweries is made or handled. This brings the build ing trades unions, excepting the brick layers, arrayed face to 'face against the miners, the engineers and the mill and smeltermen'a unions and .the fight prom ises to be one to a finish, as there seems to be no possibility that efther pide will change Its attitude. DESTROYERS COME NORTH Reach San Francisco From Magda len to Join Pacific Fleet. SAN FRANCISCO. May 7. The terpedo boat destroyers Farragut, Lawrence. Rowan. Stewart and Justin and the tor-pi'rto-boat Paul Jonee arrived today from Magdalena Bay. All vessels of the torpedo flotillas on this coast will rendezvous at Yallejo to morrow to receive minor repairs before starting north with the ships of the Pa cific fleet. SIX SUGAR MEN INDICTED Conspiracy Charge Grows Out ot Vn rlorwelghing Frauds. NEW YORK. May 7. Indictments for conspiracy were returned today against Oliver Spltzer, who was superintendent of the docks of the American Sugar Refin ing Company In Brooklyn, and six other employes of the company, alleged to have been Implicated in the sugar underwelsh Ing frauds charged by the Government in its recent suit. JAP TARS ON TOUR OF BAY Day Closes With Dinners to Junior Officers of Cruisers. SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. Civic and commercial San Francisco closed its formal entertainment to the officers and men of the Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya today by sending the entire complement of 185 midshipmen and 20 of the commissioned officers of the training squadron on an all-day trip around the bay In a special train, which made lengthy stops at the various points of interest along the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, while some 200 of the enlisted men. comprising; those who remained aboard their ves sels yesterday, were taken on a sight seeing tour through the city on special trolley cars. Meanwhile Captain Phelps, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard, entertained Rear-Admiral Ijichi and five of his officers at luncheon at the famous naval station, where Rear Admiral Swinburne and his staff, of the United States Pacific fleet, completed the list of invited guests. The Japanese officers who lunched today at Mare Island had ample oppor tunity to inspect the equipment of the naval station. As the Slocum cast loose from the wharf at the conclusion of the day's visit, the receiving ship Independ ence boomed out the salute of 13 guns. The wardroom and junior officers of the Aso and Soya gave dinners tonight on board their respective vessels to the wardroom and junior officers of the United States cruisers West Virginia, California, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Rear-Admiral Ijichi will entertain a large number of Japanese and American civilian guests tomorrow afternoon on the flagship Aso and Saturday evening he will give a dinner to Rear-iAdmiral Swin burne aboard the Aso. ALDERMEN DON'T LIKE JAPS Refuse Appropriation for Entertain ment at Vancouver. VANCOUVER. B. C. May 7. That Vancouver's celebration of the visit of SPEAKS IS HIGH PRAISE OF FILIPINOS. . , ; ; s r i i 1 V til I ifc.ftmiifafifr" ill frfafonvifrriiirtf' -----"iMr. ; t mYnaawiwi Juittice Tracy. WASHINGTON. May 7. (Spe- - cial.) Justice Tracy, of the Su- preme Court of the Philippines, has created a sensation by his tribute to the Intellectual quail- , t ifn nf th TT1 HnlnnR. Tn n cnoAh delivered at a recent banquet in ! T M an i la hn said : "T havn rri speeches and arguments from the members of the Kiliplno bar that would honor any bar In any civ ilized country, and my immediate association has been with men whom I consider not only of the very highest and noblest char acter, but of the-very first grade of ability." And he added that the strength of that bar. In point of intellect, was on the native side. This has furnished a strong . argument to the supporters of Filipino self-government. the Japanese training ships Aso and Soya on May 17 is likely to be a badly mixed affair is shown by the marked opposi tion to the celebration arrangements in various official quarters. Tonight the civic finance committee, by a very de cided majority, turned down the recom mendation of Mayor Douglas for a thousand-dollar donation to the militia offi cers in aid of parade and entertainment expenses.' Four Aldermen out of five voted against the appropriation despite protests of the military men that their action was against imperial ethics and that Van couver should cultivate trade relations with Japan. Will Be Welcomed in Victoria. VICTORIA, B. C, May 7. A telegram was received today from Admiral Ijichi, In command of the Japanese training ships Aso and Soya, accepting the re ception proffered by the members of the local Japanese colony. CONDENSED NEWS BY WIRE New York Following its reply from the putpit of Trinity Church to the attacks on it tenement holdings. Trinity corporation . Tins filed plans for the erection of a. $500, 000 building and a $10,000 warehouse struc ture, to be erected on the property now oc cupied by a half dote a of Its tenements on the lower West Side. St. Louis The Duluth Board of Trade has won the suit brought against it by the State of Minnesota to dissolve its charter and (Hapose of its property on the ground that It is an Illegal combination in restraint of' trade. The State Supreme Court de cided the case. v?hlcago Chicago is to become . head quarters of the Central District of the Fed eration of Churches of Christ, a Nation wide interdenominational religious organiz- , atlon that has for its object the conserva tion of religious effort and resources. Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Chicago, an nounced that the plan had the sanction of S3 denominations, representing 17,000,000 persons. New Tork Thomas Lawrence, driver of a Delancy -street horsecar. which killed an 11-year-old boy a month ago, and who dis appeared Immediately after his car killed a 3-yeax-old girl Wednesday, surrendered to the police last night, sayingr the faces ot the dead children had haunted him so he had no peace of xnlnd. He declared that he could hear the voices of the two chil dren calling to him to surrender, and that he could not resist. Chicago Four-year-old Paul Morris Mon fort. killed by falling from an elevated train to the sidewalk, was known as the most photographed boy In America. His father is a photographer who does com mercial work, and used his little son as a model. St. Johns, N. F. The steamer Lake Champlain, bound from Liverpool to Mon treal, with 1000 passengers on board, en countered heavy ice -off Capo Race and came into this port leaking so badly the trip has been abandoned. Blueflelds, Nicaragua The fruit strike, which assumed serious aspects the first week, has quieted down and no mora fruit i being destroyed by the strikers. The Kicaraxuan gunboat Ometep Is patrolling the rivers, and r0 of the strikers are under arrest In the cartel here. For two weeks armed squads have been patrolling the rivers, destroying fruit cut for shipment Milwaukee Count Johann von Bernstorff. the German Ambassador, -was the guest ot honor at luncheon at the Deutscher Cluft, an aristocratic German organization. He spoke In a happy vein. Alton, 111. Six beds and the furnishings of the Alton pest-house were stolen by burglars. The city authorities now fear an epidemic of smallpox, as it is expected the beds and coverings will be sold. New Tork When Mrs. Charles T. Bar ney brought her automobile back from Eu rope with her two years ago she entered it at the customs office as & household effect. The Board of General Appraisers decided an auto was not a household effect and was dultable at -45 per cent' of its value. Mrs. Barney appealed and Judge Lacorab of the I'nited states Circuit Court yester day directed the appraisers to return to the court for review the record in the case. Sulphur Springs, Colo. The Denver bound train on the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Itailroad (Moffatt road), which left Steamboat Springs last Friday mo ra iny is still snowbound within 10OO feet of nowsneas at vorona. Hand 'Embroidered Waists A NEW SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED Dainty, Fine Materials, Portland's Only Complete Stock Store Open Tonight Until 9:30---Alteration Help Wanted, Men or Women Agents for ROYAL WORC'STER and BON TON CORSE TS OidsWortman & King Exclusive Portland Agts LADIES' HOME JOURNAL PATTERNS Saturday Is Big With Bargains for the Children Child's Hose StE 17c Pr) This is a sample line of the finest Hose for children you ever gazed upon. Plain hote for every-day wear or very neat fancy ones for more dressy times. There are the plain ribbed black cotton, a grade that is noted for its ster ling wearing qualities, or lace ef fects in black,' light blue, tan, pink or white. They come in 'lisle or cotton. Values to 17n 50c. Special at. pair lib Women's Hose, in cotton or mercerized lisle; also in all the Spring shades of tan.. A special table in the hosiery aisle devoted to the display of these new arriv als, and all special values. Specially priced at, QQn per pair... 25, 29 and UUu Boys' Wash Waists with or without collars at tached, pleated or plain bosoms, neat designs, medium or CQn light shades; val. to $1.25. Dull Women's Underwear Pants and "Vests, Spring or Summer weights, lace trimmed or silk tape, with crochet 1 Qn edges ; values to 35c, at. . ISC Small wares Hair Barrettes of Shell, carved effects, large size; 50e 11 Qn value for only w dli Back Combs, , fancy mounted, . shell or amber. Our entire stock, values 50c to $15 today at HALF PRICE. French Pompadour Hair ft C n Rolls, 40c values, today... .Zub Folding Curling Irons, hard- "7- wood handles, 10c values . I u Good Form Coat Hangers, nickel plated, 35c values for to- OQn day's selling, at, only ZJu Pyrography Outfits, our best and most up-to-date outfit, PQ rft $5.00 values, at gJiJu Flower and Vegetable Seeds, all kinds, special the dozen F. packages, at uu Pinaud's Eau de Quinine Hair Tonic, $1.00 bottle for fQ. today, at, each OUu Pear's Soap, 20c cake 1 C for today I w(i Peroxide of Hydrogen, 8-ounce bottle worth 25c for ! -J- today I I C Rompers For Children yf 7 . F T 6mos.to6yrs. rr C Up Made of fast color gingham ot cham bray, plain colors or fancies; neatly made and finished; sizes six months to six years; regular 65c -values. "Jn Special sale price .... f u Regular 75c values, Regular values to $1, special for to- sPecial for today-J Jq Children's Spring Coats, in tan, navy, cardinal and brown, sizes two to six years; regular values up to QQ Jl Q $3.50; special today at. uZinru Regular values to $5, Regular values to $6, special for G0 CD special today QM 07 OJiUU at, only OiUI today at Girls' $10 Hats 98c An odd lot of Hats for girls, some very pretty styles among them. but some of them are a bit soiled. Included in this lot are a num ber of full front children's bonnets. These are trimmed QQn with lace edges and insertions, values up to $10, special JUu Children's Full Front Bonnets and Hats, values up to $L - Qn a good assortment for the money, special. I Uu Parasols $3.98 Gray Parasols in medium or taupe shades to match the new gray gowns, made of best qual ity silk and fitted with the new style of frames and handles. Values up to $6.50. On QQ Your choice for ..)uiuU Men 9s Fine Shirts White pleated models of good materials and best styles; sep arate or attached cuffs, muslin body, pearl buttons; a superb shirt at regular price,' CM 4r $1.50 ; special at . . .Q I I 3 Handbags at 89c Women ' s Handbags, draw string, style, with separate coin purse, good assortment of styles and colors ; every one of our regular $1.50 values; on QQft sale at UUu JE I jl THEN BUY A Li Li. Vv LilSl : $4.50 VALUE AT $1.19 The Style Center'of the Northwest comes, to the fore this time with a Waist sale that brings welcome savings to the discriminating. ffW Beauty bodices that should easily sell for twice the wee price asked. Made of white lawn or nainsook, trimmed in tucks, valen- ciennes or Venise lace, tailored nleatx and emh-rniderti meaautons. By all, means come promptly, for the best patterns are sure to go first and we want as many as possible to see what a superb assortment has been pro vided before the rapid selling has depleted (f1 f f it. Your choice of Waists worth to $4.50 A JL J Ribbons for Hairbows 25c Yd Hairbow Taffeta Ribbbons, 6 inches wide, all colors, black, white, cream, pink, light blue, cardinal, navy, brown, ty m champagne, Copenhagen, special, the yard at only JC 65c Gloves at 19c .19c A sample line oE silk lisle and fabric Gloves, in one and two clasp styles; good assortment of colors; all sizes to choose from, but not all sizes in each coior or style. values up to boc the pair. Your choice, per pair Handkerchiefs Fine quality swiss Kerchiefs, . with embroidered, scalloped or hemstitched . edges. Large Tange of patterns ; 1 0 1 n 20c! values on sale at... IZ2u 65c Belts for 29c Women's Belts, elastic or Per sian, fitted with neat buckles; good assortment ; colors, black, white, navy, red and Persian ; values to 65c each. To- OQp day the price is, each.. ..IJU 700 Pairs Men 's Shoes $3.19 Men who are economically inclined will share in this offering. Included are men's tan shoes, tan and black oxfords, straight or swing lasts, blucher, button ' or lace styles. No ancient or out of date footwear in this lot. Every pair regularly worth $3.fn. 4. on j?s nn nc, i,,-i, n$6.00 the pair. Broken as to sizes; that is, not all sizes in OH in each style, but all sizes are in the assortment. Values to $6u0i I U After 6 o'Clock woMN's white canvas or black Kip OXFORDS, blucher or lace r styles, light soles. Values to $2,00, choice after six only at " " C Underwear 49c This offering is on a garment made on the Cooper Spring Needle Machine. Light weight, in pink or blue silk finish yarn. Shirts and drawers in all sizes, well made, nicely trimmed. Elastic shirts with pearl buttons and drawers with re-inforced seats. They sell regularly at 75c .the gar ment, choice, any size or either color, today, 49c See Fifth-Street Window For the display of the underwear above mentioned or of the very smart OKn men's Neckvear we offer for today's selling, at Zuu We guarantee there is more style and better material in this neckwear than you have bought many, a time for 50c. HOT FIGHT AT END Newfoundland Election to Break Deadlock. HOUSE DIVIDED EQUALLY Bond and Morris Each Have 1 8 Sup porters and Legislature Can Do Xo Business New Election Is Only Way Out. ST. JOHNS. N. F-. May 7. The most exciting general election in Newfoundland ince the representative government was established, ended tonight. Balloting will occur tomorrow, but It is not expect ed that the outcome will be known until the latter part of next week, as a ma jority of the electoral districts are re mote from the railroads. The election is the second within seven months. In the November polling 36 members of the Legislature were elected, 18 supporting Robert Bond, who. was then premier.' and the other half favoring Sir Edward Morris. After Governor MacGregor had summoned the Legisla ture half a dozen times and each time prorogued it, as a deadlock ensued, he dissolved the Assembly and ordered a new election. . The most sensational incident was the attack on Sir Robert Bond when' he at tempted to land at Weston Bay, April 30, to address a meeting. He was kicked in the chest and knocked overboard. HONORS TO JOAN OF ARC Banner Received by Lyons Cathedra Amid Salutes and Bell-Ringing. LYONS. France. May 7. To the ac companiment of cannon and the pealing of great chimes, the ceremony of turn ing over to the cathedral and the clergy the banner' of Joan of Ate was per formed by the Mayor tonight. .Forty-two bishops with mitre and crozier were 'massed in front of the ca thedral to receive the oriflamme. The troops and the garrison bands formed a torchlight parade and escorted the Mayor to the cai-.edral. More than 100,000 spec tators, many of them pilgrims, from various parts of the republic witnessed the procession, and presentation. The fetes will continue tomorrow and Sunday. CAXNOS'S 7SB- BIRTHDAY Congratulated and Given Gourd by North Carolina Members. WASHINGTON. ' May 7. This . was Speaker Joseph G. Cannon's 73d birthday and he received congratulations and good wishes of his friends. The Republican members from North Carolina presented him with a large dip per made of a gourd. m The one word 8 s iJLiJiLClsLs means everything best in shoes ill In 1