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THE 3IORXrNG OKEGOXIAN. TTJESTAT, OCTOBER 19, 1909.
BANK TANGLE MAY
SHOW
Li
Special Agents Delve Into Ore
gon Land & Water Co.'s
Holdings.
IS TITLE CONCERN BRANCH
Nearly 15,000 I'matilla County
Acres Said to Have Been Acquired
by Illegal Purchase From Set
tlers Chrlstensen Probes.
If tt weTe possible further to compli
cate the affairs of the defunct Title
Guarantee & Trust Company, that possi
bility is supplied in the fact that an
investigation is being conducted by rep
resentatives of the Interior Department
aa to the regularity by which the Ore
gon Land & Water Company, a subsi
diary corporation of the suspended bank,
acquired approximately 15.000 acres of
public land in Umatilla County. This
land, held by this company. Is included
among the assets held by the defunct
bank together with an equal area which
was originally purchassed by the same
company from the Northern Pacific
comoany.
While United States Attorney McCourt
insists that the alleged fraudulent acqui
sition of public lands by the Oregon Land
St Water Company has not been called to
the attention of his office, it is known
that special agents. representing the
Interior Department, are at work In
quiring Into the details of the company's
operations. If It Is discovered that the
public land laws were transgressed in
the acquisition of the Umatilla lands,
the fraud will be made the subject of
further Investigation by the next Federal
grand jury on the report of the Investi
gating authorities. Andrew Christcnscs.
who succeeded L. R. Glavis. since de
posed, as chief of the field division. In
terior Department. In this city, is absent
temporarily in Seattle. It is under his
direction that the pending Investigation
Is being conducted.
The Oregon Land & Water Company
was originally organized as xi subsidiary
corporation of the Title Guarantee &
Trust Company by J. Thorburn Ross,
F. B. Holforook. C. C. Hutchinson (now
deceasesd). and John W. Cook. The
company turned the management of its
affairs over to Ross and John E. Aitcht
son. Following its organization, the
company purchased about 15.000 acres
from the Northern Pacific Company, the
land originally being included in the
grant made by the Government to that
corporation.
Subsequently, It Is charged that the of
ficers of the company, in its desire to
acquire a connected strip of land. In
duced Individuals to settle on the inter
vening sections which, in many In
stances, are alleged to have been turned
over by the settlers to the company for
a consideration even before final patent
to the property was received from the
Government.
When the Title Guarantee Trust
Company suspended In 1907, this sub
sidiary corporation owned in the aggre
gate 28.600 acres of Umatilla County
lands. Of that acreage, as has been re
cited, approximately 15.000 acres were
purchased outright from the Northern
Pacific Company. The remainder of this
acreage Is the land that Is Involved in
the Investigation which Is now being
made by agents representing the Inter
ior Department.
GIRL TELLS OLD STORY
Trusts Man Who Promises to Marry
Her and Is Deceived.
' Gus Templer, a sawyer In the Rose City
shingle mill at Milwaukie, was arrested
yesterday afternoon by Patrolman Circle,
charged with a statutory offense. The
complainant against him Is a 19-year-old
girl. Alta Gilligan. who lives In
Kelso, Wash.
The girl alleges that Templer. who
boarded at her home when at work in
Kelso, led her to believe he would marry
her and Induced her to leave her home
and accompany him to Portland. When
she arrived here she found Templer was
a married man and the father of two chil
dren. Templer had kept this knowledge
from her. she says, until the girl acci
dentally found it out and got Into com
munication with Mrs. Templer, whereup
on she says he threatened to kill her.
Templer was balled out by a friend who
deposited $500 In cash with Captain of
Police Moore, (
PERSONALJVIENTION.
D. S. MUllgan. of Seattle. Is at the Nor
tonla. -
T. D. McCullough. of Seattle, la at the
Seward.
C. A. Taylor, of Kelso, is registered at
the Perkins.
Samuel Mathews, a hotel man of Far
go. N. D., Is at the Ramapo.
V. T. Wilcox, of Spring Hill. Kan.,
is registered at the Lenox.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. H. Clark, of Seat
tle, are guests at the Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Crane, of Ellens
burg, are guests at the Nortonla.
M. C Dickinson, manager of the Ore
gon, la In San Francisco on a business
trip.
C. H. John, a merchant of St. Helens.
Is at the Imperial accompanied by Mrs.
John.
Dr. Malcolmn Brownson and family,
of Hood River, are guests at the Cor
nelius. 1
J. M. Grover. of San Francisco, repre
senting an advertising company, is at the
Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Wilcox and Miss
Edna Orcutt. of Council Bluffs. Iowa,
are guests at the Lenox.
E. D. Cowan, of Olympla, well-known
In Washington as a newspaper writer.
Is registered at the Imperial.
Otto StendahL of Seattle, who Is In
terested largely hi Irrigation projects In
Idaho, is staying at the Cornelius for a
few days.
T. L. Greenough. the railroad contrac
tor, of Missoula. Mont., who is president
of the United Railways of this city, is
in Portland and Is registered at the Ore
gon. J. W. McHolland. of McHoIland Bros.,
contractors, left for Los Angeles, Cal.,
with hia family last week, to be absent
for six montlia.
W. P. Campbell, of Chemawa. was In
Portland yesterday conferring with the
members of the Oregon Senatorial dele
gation on business connected with the
Indian School.
M. F. Logan, who has been In the city
several days both on business and pleas
ure, will leave for Bandon, Or., on the
Alliance. He Is Interested lit the lum
ber business in that town.
George M. Meyers, of Kansas City,
president of the Priests of Pallas Asso
ciation, which gives a Fall festival in
that city annually, arrived in the city
yestserday accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
F. S. Doggett. Mr. Doggett was former
ly president of the same association and
both men are prominent In Kansas City
business and official life. They are now
seeing Portland after visiting the A.-Y.-P.
Exposition and are making their head
quarters at the Portland.'
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hess have returned
to Portlnnd and will remain here a few
davs at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Hess
was Interested In the official publications
and checking concessions at the A.-Y.-p
and is now preparing to engage In
the publication of theater programmes.
He expects to form a combination Includ
ing about 60 theaters in the West and
among them has secured the Orpheum
and Grand of Portland. Mr. and Mrs.
Hess will leave Wednesday for San
Francisco and will go from there to New
York on a business and pleasure trip.
George "W. Ellis, who enjoys the dis
tinction of being the pioneer litho
grapher of PortTand. but for many
years a resident of and in business in
San Francisco, has returned to this city
with his family and re-entered busi
ness here. Mr. Ellis came here in 1879.
His wife, to whom he was married in
this city, was Miss Jessie Scott, a na
tive of Yamhill County. Shaken and
burned out by the earthquake and fire
in San Francisco, their thoughts
turned homeward, with the result that
they have returned to Portland to re
main. CHICAGO. Oct. 18. (Special.) A. F.
Parker. Miss E. S. Parker. Fred Russell
and W. B. Dennis, all of Portland, are
registered at the Congress.
sociOvil TOPIC
MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION TO
SCORE "OPES TOWN."
Organization In Meeting Tonight to
Oppose Reported Change of.
Location of Badlands.
Foremost among the subjects to be dis
cussed tonight at a meeting of the Mu
nicipal Association In the Woodmen of
the World Hall on Eleventh Btreet, be
tween Alder anad Washington streets. Is
that of the social evil In Portland. It Is
alleged by some members of the associa
tion that the present administration Is
countenancing an -open town" policy,
and it Is expected that the organization
at tonight's meeting will place the stamp
of Its disapproval on that course.
"It Is true that the Municipal Asso
ciation at fts meeting tomorrow night
will, among other things, discuss the
social evil situation as it exists In Port
land today," said A. D. Pattulo, presi
dent of the association, last night. 'This
is a subject on which the membership
of our organization is not very well in
formed. There prevails, however, a gen
eral belief that a change has been made
in the location of the restricted district
as it was recognized formerly. Even
aa to this phase of the situation there
is not a very clear understanding on the
part of the members of the association.
Yes. it Is entirely probable that this sub
ject will constitute one of the principal
topics for discussion at our meeting to
morrow night."
BENEFIT ATTRACTS THRONG
Baker Theater Crowded With
Friends of Aged William Gleason.
A large and fashionable audience
greeted Donald Bowles In the Prince
Chap at the Baker Theater last night.
The theme of the play mortised with its
charitable purpose, a benefit for "William
Gleason, the aged Portland actor, who
lice ill In a California hospital.
Despite the Inclement weather In the
early evening, the house was packed
long before the rise of the curtain. Port
land society turned out In great numbers
many foregoing a visit to the new Port
land, on Its opening night, to aid the
bedridden actor by their presence in the
older showhouse.
Donald Bowles was applauded vehe
mently as was William Dills, and aside
from the applause they merited them
selves it could be seen that the audience
was moved by recollection of aged Wil
liam Gleason, who with Bowles and Dills,
won hearts and hands as a member of
the Baker Stock Company.
Friends of the thespian, 111 In Oak
land, crowded the playhouse and a sub
stantial sun was realized to help him on
the road to recovery.
JAMES W. COOK TO RETIRE
Report Says Pioneer Salmon Packer
Will Sell Interests.
Satisfied with the large returns of his
large salmon-packing plants on the
Columbia River during the last year, it
Is reported that James W. Cook, of this
city, one of the pioneer ealmon packers
on the Columbia, will retire from the
business. It is understood Mr. Cook is
offering for sale his extensive Interests,
embracing large modern canneries at Port
Townsend, at Blaine and along the
Columbia River, where he laid the foun
dation of the fortune he now enjoys after
a small beginning.
Mr. Cook entered the business on Puget
Sound years ago. His first year was not
successful and in that year he lost more
money than would represent a modern
day fortune. But he persisted and. with
the exercise of good Judgment, managed
to accumulate a fortune of sufficient di
mensions to make his retirement at this
time possible.
ELLIS MAY BE ITS TOPIC
Albina Club to Meet Tonight to Dis
cuss Councilman's Action.
At a meeting, of the North Albina Push
Club tonight In the firehouse on Albina
avenue it is expected proposed steps to
recall Councilman Ellis, of the Tenth
Ward, will be discussed.
Councilman Ellis is a strong advocate
of the city taking over Willamette and
Portland boulevards, extending in the
Peninsular direction, from the county,
with the idea of immediate improvement.
Objection to this has been manifested by
the appointment of a committee by the
Albina club to look into the matter. Aa
Mr. Ellis has a number of supporters, a
stormy meeting Is anticipated.
The reports of other committees will
also be considered. Including that ap
pointed to confer on the streetcar service
with President Josselyn.
CAR SHORTAGE NOT FOUND
Commissioner Prouty Says Western
JLinea'Are Not Pressed.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. Oct. 18. (Special.) Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty, who
was called away from the Pacific Coast
on Important business, said while hero
today that although railroads of the
Northwest had all the business they
could handle he had not on his recent
trip observed any signs of car shortage
in that part of the country.
EliELISTS AHE
STIRRED BY BISHOP
Dr. Morrison Cannot See Why
Scadding Should Change
His Opinion.
TRIES TO DISCRIMINATE
Bishop Replies He Means Some of
Exponents, Including Dr. Mor
rison, Are All Right, but That
Others Are Not Fitted.
Bishop Scadding's crltclsm of faith heal
ers, published yesterday, caused a com
motion among the local Emanuel move
ment workers, and the Rev. A. A. Mor
rison, pastor of the Trinity Episcopal
Church, declared last night: "It is in
credible that Bishop Scadding should ex
press an opinion now contrary to that
he avowed a few months ago." He was
certain there had been some misunder
standing concerning his sentiments.
It was in an address before the mem
bers of the medical profession and nurses
in the Bishop Morris Memorial Chapel
in the Good Samaritan Hospital Sunday
night that Bishop Scadding pronounced
his faith in medical men, and Incidentally
made criticisms concerning certain forms
of faith healing. In explanation of his
remarks on the subject. Bishop Scadding
said last night he had not Intended to
convey the idea that faith healing was
of no value, but he wanted to show that
In the hands of some it was useless.
After saying that he was positive Bish
op Scadding had been misunderstood. Dr.
Morrison said:
Approval Formerly Given.
"Publicly and privately Bishop Scad
dlng has approved the work of the
Emanuel movement. In his convention
address this year he commented on the
work of the Emanuel movement carried
on In Trinity Church.
"If faith in God is to be discounted, the
significance of prayer for sick people, as
Is the cuBtom In our church, is minim
ized. And I might add that in the recent
developments of science, psychology has
demonstrated the potency of mind, under
stimulation by suggestion, which has ac
complished very remarkable results in
various forms of sickness.
'The experience of those who know is
such as to assure the continuance of this
method of healing. However, it should
be said it does not necessarily conflict in
any wise with the splendid work done by
some members of the medical profession."
Bishop Scadding declared last night
that in his speech he had tried to dis
criminate between the few who were
really adapted for the mental healing
work and those who tried to make a
commercial profit out of misrepresenta
tion of their powers in this line.
Only Few Are Fitted.
"I believe that only in the hands of a
few can the Emanuel movement be ef
fective," said Bishop Scadding last night.
"Dr. Morrison is one of these few, and
I did not mean to discredit the work he
is doing. What I wanted to do In my
address was to show that the Emanuel
movement is something concerning which
we should take a sane view, and over
which we should not become hysterical.
I tried to show that in the hands of the
man who had an office on the third floor
of a business building, and who charged
Jl a treatment for faith healing, the lat
ter was a fake. I really believe in the
Emanuel movement, when it is in the
hands of the few who are especially fitted
for it."
"Which do you think can accomplish
the more, the Emanuel worker, or the
medical man?" Bishop Scadding was
asked.
"You cannot properly compare the two
In that way," he answered, "for they
should properly work together. Each, if
properly administered, can give wonder
ful assistance to the other."
ALASKA NEEDS ROADS
DAN S. RAIN TALKS OF GREAT
EXPENSE OF FREIGHTING.
Declares Unless Highways Are Es
tablished Only Richest Parts of
Laud Will Be Developed.
Officially representing the Valdez
Chamber of Commerce in the matter of
Alaska's need for wagon roads, Dan S.
Kain, who owns some of the best placer
properties on Valdez Creek, has arrived
In Portland to spend the Winter.
Mr. Kalnpends the Winter months
annually In this city, and when here a
year ago interested the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce in the road question
in Alaska. This year he is practically
the advance agent of a convention of
representatives of Alaska commercial
bodies that will meet in Seattle early
In November for the purpose of formu
lating plans for securing Government
appropriations for Alaska roads.
Mr. Kaln's camp is in Central Alaska,
more than 300 miles from Valdez. To
his camp supplies are now sledded over
the roughest of territory the trips in,
because of the absence of roads, re
quiring 110 days. The trip out can be
made in 15 days. Freight laid down at
Valdez Creek costs 30 cents per pound.
"Because of the lack of wagon roads
only the richest of Alaska territory is
now being mined." said Mr. Kain last
night at the Perkins. "Alaska now
produces more gold than any other
district In the United States, but give
us good roads and we will increase
the output 10 times or more.
"Alaska's resources are not alto
gether mining, for Its agricultural lands
are the equal ot those of Norway or
Sweden. At the roadhouses on the way
out I saw oats, hay, potatoes, turnips
and other kinds of vegetables, which
for size and quality could not be beaten
anywhere.
"After we strike the Government
trail, between Valdez and Fairbanks,
the first roadhouse Is Taslena, run by
'Taslena Bill,' a former Oregon man.
I had nine horses in my outfit and I
told Bill to give them a feed of hay.
He went out to a Btock of oat hay he
had grown himself and pitched off what
he thought was enough for the nine
horses. 'How's that for $407" he asked.
" 'Well, it looks more like $20, and a
good price at that,' I said.
" 'I'll give you another forkful and
call it $25,' said he, and I took the hay
at that price.
"H6 had a little stack of hay there
about 0 feet long and he had sold
$1500 worth off one end. I measured
what he had left and figured that at
the price I paid It was worth $4000.
"I also bought SO pounds of turnips
from him for my outfit and paid him
IS cants a pound. Two of the turnips
Rainy Weather Coats
are in order. We're
showing the best in the
Raincoat line, both in
plain and military col
lars. Just received all
sizes in the celebrated
London Slip-On at $15.
LION CLOTHIERS
166-170 Third St.
that I pulled myself I took in the house
and weighed. They weighed Just 24
pounds, or 12 pounds apiece. What do
you think of two turnips for $3.60?
"Roads will develop the mining and
rich agricultural lands of that country,
and be of benefit both to Alaska and
this part of the country, for they will
Increase the demand for the supplies
shipped there by the Coast cities.
There is no reason why Portland should
not have a big share of the Alaska
trade, too.
"Sometimes we are asked why we go
to the Government for roads. We have
no other way of building them. We
have no legislature and no way of tax
ing ourselves. Last year Congress gave
us $325,000 for roads. This sum was
for the whole of Alaska, a country
about one-third the size of the whole
United States. The money was well ex
pended and we are getting some good
roads, but we need more. We need
money every year for road building."
This Summer, Mr. Kain was the victim
of the first robbery that has been com
mitted in the camp at Valdez Creek. On
August lith, the board and canvas house
that is the headquarters on his claim
was cut into and the strong-box removed,
which contained about $9000 in gold
dust and about $1000 in currency.
The camp is far from centers of popu
lation In Alaska and there are only about
73 men in the vicinity. The miners are
a law unto themselves. They appointed
a committee with authority to search
every man's outfit and check up the gold
as it was taken out of the camp In the
Fall. All were miners or laborers and
it was known about how much each man
should have. The result of the commit
tee's work was that whoever had the
gold cached it somewhere near the camp.
Mr. Kain is satisfied it was not brought
out, but the culprits were not discovered.
Here's s.o
MASONS ARE AT HOME
HARMONY LODGE, JfO. 1C, GIVES
CONCERT AM RECEPTION.
Enjoyable Programme Is Rendered
to 2 50 Guests In Masonic Temple
Assembly Rooms.
BT J. M. QUENTIlf.
Over 250 guests enjoyed the hospitality
last night, at the Masonic Temple as
sembly rooms. West Park and Tamhill
streets, of Harmony lodge No. 12, Ancient,
Free and Accepted Masons.
C. A. Chambers, the Worshipful master
of Harmony lodge, took charge of the
concert programme, arid made a cordial
speech of welcome, bidding all present
make themselves at home. Vocal solos
were rendered with much acceptance
by Mrs. Gertrude Rhoades, Miss Lena
Harwas, Miss Ethel Abrams and "Jock"
Coleman, the Scotch entertainer. Mr.
Coleman was dressed In kilt and tartan,
and his singing of these humorous songs,
"The Last O' the Sandys" and "I Loe
a Lassie" was received with shouts of
laughter. Mr. Coleman is without doubt
the most enjoyable Scotch comedian at
present on the Pacific Coast, and he has
an excellent, natural baritone voice which
he uses with good effect. His singing was
helped last night by the spirited piano
accompaniments played by Miss Lizzie
Hoban. Piano solos were finely ren
dered by Miss Alma Grllnig and Mrs.
Minnie Duden Mapes and Miss Gertrude
Hoeber was . quite successful with her
violin solo. The Veteran Male Quartet
sang one number and short addresses
were made on Masonic topics by Norrls R.
Cox. most worshipful grand master of Ore
gon, and Rev. Benjamin Young, chaplain
of Harmony lodge. Dr. Young made a
reference to women and spoke of them as
being "a side Issue."
A dellciouB supper was afterward served
in the banquet hall upstairs, the toast
master being Alexander Kunz. . Addresses
were given by Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher,
a member of Harmony lodge; Mrs. Mar
garet Lutke. past worthy grand matron
of Oregon, and Dr. Cox, most worshipful
grand master. Members of the entertain
ment committee: Coote A. Chambers, W.
M. De Lin, Alexander Kunx, D. L. Clouse
and Jullen Coblentz. Reception com
mittee: Rufus R. Ball and W. M. De Lin.
Floor committee: George Tazwell. D. L.
Clouse, Julien Coblentz. Victor Dautoff,
J. W. A. Mancur and Frank Watkins.
CHIN CHIN CLUB IS HERE
Portland Receive Charter Entitling
It to Form Travelers' Ixxlge.
Portland has been recognized by the
Chin Chin Club, a fraternal organization,
the primary object of which is to enter
tain traveling members who sojourn here.
The "Three Cs" was organized in Den
ver In 1909 and several Portlanders, in
cluding Calvin Heilig. George L. Baker,
Walter Reed and others then either vis
iting or living in Denver, are charter
members.
In the organization there, are no dues
or assessments, not even an initiation
fee, for all that is required to be a mem
ber is good fellowship and a kindly feel
ing for the traveler.
All expenses of the club are met by
voluntary subscription and each member
assists in making the visit of a brother
or sister pleasant while in the cities in
which the order is represented. Since
Hs organization the Chin Chin has grown
wonderfully. It takes its name from the
Chinese Chin Chin, meaning good luck.
F. H. Secord, a prominent business man
of Denver, is grand president of the or
der and the head offices are located in
Denver, as la the first subordinate lodge.
Issued by Our San Francisco
Establishment Last Week,
Which Puts Certain Facts So
Tersely and States Our Posi
tion So Plainly That We Be
lieve Every Reader of The Ore
gonian Will Find It of Interest
to Read It Carefully. .
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Announcement , 0 3,
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TV. 1 no OOO Pecmle Who Will TV
Visit San Francisco Next Week:
Conservatively speaking, 100,000 people
from the interior of the state will visit San
Francisco next week.
Probably every visitor will, in some meas
ure, combine business with pleasure.
There are some interesting business facts
that we want every one of these 100,000
visitors to learn during their sojourn here.
We want every one to know-that there
is a new method of piano merchandising in
San Francisco, and that the new way i3 so
far an improvement on the old system that
it cannot help but surprise every person in
terested in music.
To begin with, it's worth while to know
that the biggest piano store in San Fran
cisco is that of Eilers Piano House, in the
fine new seven-story Eilers Music Bldg., at
975 Market St., situated between Hale's and
the Emporium.
The floor space that is here devoted to
the sale of pianos is easily twice larger
than that employed by any other Pacific
Coast establishment.
In the Eilers Music Building, extending
from Market to Stevenson Sts., more fine
pianos, pipe organs, etc., are displayed than
can be found in any other store in the city.
The pianos sold by Eilers Piano House
embrace more well-known lines twice over
than are controlled by any other concern in
San Francisco. The oldest established, the
most renowned and the most worthy makes
of pianos manufactured in America are sold
by the Eilers establishment.
And now as to methods. The old-time
methods of piano selling, which unfortu
nately continue in most houses today,
make the price of each piano too high.
Piano values are not fixed as is a coin
by the Government's stamp, but by the ar
bitrary prices dealers put on them.
The- average dealer's aim is to invest as
little money as is necessary to secure re
sults ; therefore the buyer of each piano has
to pay him the largest obtainable profit.
Cumbersome and expensive methods are
still almost universally employed, and make
a stfll higher retail price necessary.
Eilers Piano House realized that a com
plete reversal of things was needed. Eilers
Piano House knew that when the price of a
good piano is brought down to where each
home can afford to buy it that thereby the
volume of piano business is immeasurably
increased. By increasing the volume of
business and eliminating wasteful methods,
we have popularized the piano and secured
exactly the results desired. A piano is now
no longer considered a luxury ; it is a neces
sary part of each household.
While ours is the largest store in Sfen
Francisco, no eff 6rt has been made to build
a luxurious palace nor to maintain an ex
pensive establishment which would simply
tend to increase price.
While others pay enormous rents, we col
lect rents.
Buying for a ohain of forty stores, and
supplying many smaller dealers throughout
the Coast, it stands to reason that we are
able to purchase from the various manu
facturers at more advantageous prices than
other dealers can secure.
Shipping these pianos in enormous quan
tities by most up-to-date methods, we save
tremendously in transportation cost.
We now deliver to the Coast almost three
pianos for what dealers shipping in less
than carloads pay to bring out one piano.
Only this year, through our efforts, a fur
ther reduction of the Pacific Coast piano
freight rate equivalent to 10 per cent has
been made possible.
A San Francisco piano dealer recently
remarked to the head of our house: "I
don't see how you sell those expensive
makes of pianos at the low prices you do
.and make a profit." The answer was sim-
ple. The expense of running a modern
steamship is tremendous, yet the fare for
each passenger is very reasonable indeed,
made possible by the large number of pas
sengers carried.
It is this principle of a large volume ap
plied to the piano trade that enables the
sale of each instrument at a small profit.
Thus the resultant low prices for thor
oughly high-grade instruments have made
it possible for us to build up a business that
sell3 today one-half of all the pianos sold
Vio Pajifif. rinast. . This nrinciple has
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built one of the most profitable piano busi-
nesses of America, antt it nas maae puaaiuie y
the saving of a handsome sum of each buyer 1 1
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And now the proof: We control the
agency of over forty makes of highest-
grade American pianos, irom espetiaujr in
structed grands and uprights in rare art
designs to the lowest-priced . instruments
that are dependable.
Nearly every one of these makes of pianos
were formerly handled by other and old
method dealers.
When we commenced business in San
Francisco we held the agency for only four
different makes.
The others have been assigned to us from
time to time.
In every instance where the representa
tion of a particular make of piano has been
secured by us, we have been in position to
immediately reduce the retail price from
20 per cent to 45 per cent below what Cali
fornians had been compelled to pay regu
larly for the identical pianos theretofore.
And this is not merely newspaper asser
tion The absolute proof is readily shown
in any of our stores.
During the past six years in the Califor
nia field the greatest and foremost of Amer
ica 's piano manufacturers, including the
greatest and oldest-established of all, the
Chickering of Boston, have asked us to
become their sole representatives. Dozens
of manufacturers of splendid standing in
the trade have made overtures to us from
time to time to sell their makes of pianos
and other instruments.
We have had practically our pick of the
most desirable makes.
Isn't that the proof that our methods do
result in the largest volume of trade?
If we cannot show you and furnish you
more and a great deal more in intrinsic
piano value for the investment which you
intend to make than is offered or obtain
able in any store in California, we have no
right for commercial existence. We want
to meet as many of the 100,000 people who
airier trt San Francisco next week as is
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possible. .
We want to interest you in the best pi-
onna Iti the hest. nlaver tiianos. in the best V
pipe organs, in the best self -playing electric
pianos.
We want to tell you more about our
methods. We want to add your name to
the long list of our supporters and good
friends, and if you are now ready to pur
chase, whether it be an $18 reed organ or
an $1800 Welte electric artist reproducing
piano, or a $1500 Chickering art grand, or
a $15,000 Kimball tubular pneumatic pipe
organ, we will solemnly promise to furnish
more of value for the money than is obtain
able elsewhere.
If you purchase the usual upright piano
now of us, we are sure that we are in
position to more than save you the cost of
your trip to San Francisco, and we can as
sure you of a greater saving if your pur
chase is of one of our higher-priced makes
of instruments.
Eilers Piano House, Eilers Bldg., 975
Market St., San Francisco; also Eilers
Bldg., opposite Orpheum Theater, Oakland.
Stores in every important Paoific Coast city.
Harrle H. Howland and Joe Stutt, of
Portland, received a charter for Port
land at the instance of John L. Kearney,
a well-known comedian, who recently ap
peared here in a road show.
BAD CHECK IS ALLEGED
A. C. Peters, Bookkeeper, Arrested
- on Complaint of Bar Manager.
A. C, Peters, a young bookkeeper, for
merly employed in the local office of the
Pacific States Telephone Company, was
arrested late laet night by Detectives
Craddockr and Mallet' at the Morrison
Hotel, at East Morrison and Union ave
nue. Mr. Clark, of the Oregoif Hotel bar, ac
cuses Peters of passing a bogus check on
him for 2S. Peters appeared to feel the
disgrace keenly. He ascribes his down
fall to a fast pace, winerooms and poker.
Boom Company Defendant.
ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 18. (Special.) A
suit was filed In the Circuit Court today
by Mary; Kelly against the Colweil-
Fowler Logging Company to restrain the
latter from using Tucker Creek or Slough
for floating logs. The complaint says the
stream runs through the plaintiff's prop
erty, that it is usually very shallow, but
during high tides Is navigable for small
boats. Continuing, the complaint asserts
that the defendant has driven piling along
the slough and keeps a log boom there,
thus blocking the slough and preventing
the plalntift from using it in going to
and from her property.
Harris Trunk Co. for trunks and bags.
A HIGH-GRADE INVESTMENT STOCK
Offered Subject to Prior Sale
IN THE PACIFIC CAR
& FOUNDRY COMPANY
Only $150,000 of this stock to be placed In Portland.
Estimated dividends ten per cent yearly. All subscribers for
stock guaranteed against loss by the Metropolis Trust & Savings
Bank of San Francisco. California.
Plant to be built at once on ground adjoining Swift & Company s
plant, Portland, Oregon.
For full particulars and subscription blanks see or write
EP T 17 ADC 1017 Board of
lVllliIxO Trade Building
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMPANY.