THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1909.
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OTIAFT
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ARE PLEASED WITH THOMPSON'S GLASSES
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The letters reproduced below speak for themselves. President Taft
and Col. Bryan have been wearing glasses for several years, having
been fitted by the best eye specialists on both continents.
"Made in Oregon" Therefore Acquires a New Significance "Best" in Eye-Glasses as in Many Other Things
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THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Penalty for Privata Us $300
Mr, R. A. Thompson,
Portland, Ore.
Corbett Building
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Glasses Furnished by
The Above Is aa Exact Reproduction of the
Thompson to Jl-i1d"nt Taft and Colonel Bryan.
Thompson's ability has been recognized by the foremost authorities in Europe. No
other eyesight specialist has received such strong indorsements as are here reproduced.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
m Portland, Oct. 2, 1909
R. A. Thompson,
Corbett Bldg.,
Portland, Ore.
My Dear Sir:
The President has received the glasses
you furnished him on the 2nd of October
and thanks you cordially for same. He
much appreciates your attention.
Yours very truly,
(Signed)
Aide to the President
FROM GERMANY'S
FOREMOST PHYSICIAN
Berlin, May 1. 109.
Mr. R. A. Thompson:
Dear Sir Last night I attended one
of your lecture and wu BtirprUed by
the perfect system you have of detecting
flaws In human vision. The rapidity and
accuracy with which you correct Astig
matism. Myopia and Hyperopia Is noth
ing short of marvelous.
America can well be proud of an op
tician who has achieved such good re
salts as you have. I am aorry you are
leaving Berlin and wish you all the suc
cess and honors I am sure you will re
ceive on your return to America.
Very truly yours, '
(Signed)
if fliRllil!
9 Tear. In Portland:
Years In the Leading By.
Clinic of Europe,
FROM "THE OPTICIAN"
Tha Official Organ of the Oculist
of Europe, Hay 9, '08.
A new aystem for detecting and
correcting the various defects of
the eye with glasses was shown
before a number of oculists last
evening, at Mr. Sidney Richard
son's. Mr. R. A. , Thompson, an
American optician, has demon
strated, beyond a doubt, that he
is master of his profession. Mr.
Thompson perfected his system
while studying in Germany, and
the wonderful skill with which he
discovers the various defect of
the eye has caused quite a sensa
tion among the eye specialist of
Europe. By the "Thompson Sys
tem,' as he calls it, a mistake In.
fitting glasses Is Impossible. H
certainly proved it last evening.
Portland, Ore., Oct. 11, '09
R, A. Thompson,
Corbett Bldg., Portland, Ore.
My Dear Sir:
Allow me to thank you for the glasses
which you fitted to my eyes. I am glad to
inform you they are entirely satisfactory.
Yours truly,
'(Signed)
Below is another letter from Col. Bryan received a few days age:
Thompson has the most scientific eye-testing instruments
in the optical field today. Notwithstanding the advanced
methods and optical knowledge employed in testing the sight,
no extra charge is made for this service.
FROM IxB FIGERO," LKAOrVG PARIS
DAILY, JXXE 16, 1908.
Translation R. A- Thompson, an
American optician, astonished the medi
cal world last evening; with an Import
ant discovery lor Instantaneous eight
testing. In a practical demonstration
before professors of the faculty ther
unanimously declared It a. great aid to
KciMnce Mr. Thompson was bora In
Brooklyn, N.
FROM L0ND0N SCIENCE SIFTINGS," THE .
"SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN" OF EUROPE
(June ft. 'OS.)
Mr. Robert A Thompson, an American eye specialist, de
livered a most Illuminating lecture on the eye at the optical
demonstration rooms of Mr. Sidney Richardson, off the Strand,
on Wednesday evening. The great number of student. Present
were greatly Interested In the extraordinary aklll of Mr. Thomp
son who gave a practical demonstration of his "New System
of Eyeglass Fitting." Several oculists present who wore com
plicated "glasses allowed Mr. Thompson to examine their
eyes to ee how near he would come to the proper prescrip
tion. To their great astonishment he found the proper correc
tion In each case In less than five minutes. .
Fort William, Ont., Oct 28, 09
Dear Mr. Thompson:
The glasses are all right. No
change necessary. Thanking you again for
your kindness, : ,
. Very truly yours,
(Signed) Pf
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, The eyes are too delicately constructed to allow of experi
ments. J&iowledge and experience should guide the hand that
prescribes for them. Over 75 leading physicians now. send
Thompson their patients when they suspect eye strain.
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HIGH-CLASS WORK AT THE LOWEST
POSSIBLE PRICES
FINCH DIES WITH
PROTEST Of! LIPS
Slayer of Ralph B. Fisher In
sists He Shot Victim in
Self-Defense.
DEATH COMES SWIFTLY
After Brief Speech In Firm Voice on
Scaffold. Trap Is Sprung and
Physician Pronounces Life Ex
linct Within Four Minutes.
SALEM. Or., Nov. 13. (Special.) Jamea
A. Finch today paid tlie extreme penalty
for the murder of Ralph B. Fisher in
Portland a year ago. The execution was
one of the .most successful held In the
Oregon Penitentiary.
The death march from the cell betran
at 11:13. the' condemned man and his
captors reaching the chapel at
The execution chamber -was reached at
lK1.. and Finch finished hts brief talk
to those in attendance at 12:2$. At 12:2Wi
the trap was sprung", and at 13:32 the man
was pronounced dead by J. X. Smith,
prison physician.
Finch showed some agitation through
out the forenoon, but walked to hie death
with firm and steady step. Walking to
the front of the gallows. nd leaning for
ward with his hands on the low railing,
solemnly and in a perfectly steady and
clear voice, he declared that he had shot
Fisher In self-defense. His words were:
Shot In Self-Iefense, He Insists.
'Gentlemen. I can imagine no sadder
moment than this in the life of any man.
The humiliation of this moment is very
keen to me, but I wish to say a few
words before I must bid you all good
bye. In a few minutes 1 expect to stand
face to face with my God. and. realizing
this as 1 do. and as I know yon do. I
wish you all to believe that t am speak
ing the truth and the whole truth in
what I am saying now.
"I did not assassinate Ralph B. Fisher
as he was sitting in his chair in his
office with his back toward me. I shot
In self-defense. I want Dr. Smith and
the other physicians to make a post
mortem examination and they will find
upon my head "the marks where the
rotary seal thrown by Ralph Fisher hit
me. This Is the truth as my last state
ment, and this deed today will te a rank
Injustice under the law.
'I want to forgive Mr. Kay and the
newspapers who have misrepresented my
actions. I want to thank Dr. Smith and
the ofneers of the prison and of the Jail
for the fair treatment I have always re
ceived at their hands. Gentlemen. I wish
to thank you; good-bje."
Wife's Parting Heartrending.
With these words he stepped backward
upon the trap and three-quarters of a
mlmita later was hurled Into eternity.
Finch was accompanied to the scaffold
by the Kev. Father Ayeur, O. & B., of
Mount Angel. In the absence from the
city of the Rev. Father Moore.
After the execution the body was
turned over to Mrs. Finch, widow of the
dead man, and shipped to Portland on
the afternoon train.
The wife and mother of Finch called at
the prison about 10 o'clock this morning
to eay farewell to the doomed man. The
passionate grief of the two women was
pathetio in the extreme and deeply af
fected everyone within hearing.
Finch ate a hearty breakfast this morn,
lng and last night had a better night's
sleep than at any time since his Incar
ceration In the Penitentiary.
COOS BAY CRIES FOR MAIL
Improvement In Service Promised.
Wires Sent Washington.
MARSHFTELD. . Or, Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) A telegram from Acting Second
Assistant Postmaster-General Holllday,
of Washington, states that there will
be a change in the mall service to
Coos Bay which will bring about an
improvement.
The Chamber of Commerce will con
tinue Its telegraph campaign to Wash
ington until there is an Improvement.
Three Issues of The Oregonian were
delivered today.
The last number to 4e received was
the last Sunday number.
FRAUD SIGNAL FLIES
Wildcat Firms Warned by In
surance Commissioner.
BAD STOCK ON MARKET
Promoters Trying to Sell Shares in
Companies Not Authorized to
Do Business in Oregon,
Declares Bulletin.
RATE WAR MAYBE AVERTED
Japanese Trans-Pacific Company
Raises Its Rates.
TACOMA. Nov. 12. R. Kafuku, traffic
manager of the Osaka Snosen Kaisha,
with his principal office in Osaka, an
nounced this morning that, beginning
November 25. the division of steamship
and railroad rates on east-bound cargoes
would be the same as those of the other
conference lines. This, it Is believed, has
averted a trans-Pacific war.
The west-bound through rates will re
main the same in competition with the
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company,
lower than all other trans-Pacific lines.
Firm Sues for 'Commission.
OREGON CITY. Or, Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) The Jury In the case of O. W.
Eastham & Co. against James M. Tracy
failed to agree after being out all night
and was discharged at 9:30 o'clock this
morning by Circuit Judge Campbell.
Eastham A Co. brought suit to collect
commissions for effecting the sale of
the Tracy farm. Tracy Insisted that
the contract had been altered after his
signature was affixed.
Asylum Employe Fatally Crashed.
SALEM. Or.. Nov. 12. Marshall Ham
mer, an employe at the State Insane Asy
lum, was fatally Injured today, when his
head became caught between an elevator
and the wall.
Despite that his bones were ground up
and his head crushed, he remained con
scious several hours.
Marshfield Beats Bandon.
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Nov. 12. Special.)
The. Marshfield football team defeated
the Bandon team, 16 to 0. at Bandon to
day. The Marshneld team was coached
by Attorney R. O. Graves.
How healthy the children look! Liv
ing In Rose City Park! Well!
SALEM. Or.,- Nov. 12. (Special.) In
bulletin No. 1. Issued today by Insurance
Commissioner S. A. Kozer. the public is
warned to exercise caution in Investing
funds in the stocks and bonds of insur
ance companies without first making a
careful Investigation of the merits of the
company.
The bulletin says: "In the promotion
of many of these companies, the commis
sions paid for selling stock approximate,
as high as 60 per cent, which tends to the
conclusion that the company is floated
principally in the interest of the promot
ers without regard to its future after Its
capital shall have been fully subscribed
and paid up, and It is authorized to begin
business."
The new Insurance department, it is
stated, is anxious to see more of the
right kind of insurance companies in Ore
gon, but it would have investors use
care In buying stocks.
Outside companies that have not com
plied with the Oregon laws, and there
tore are not authorised to do business in
this state, come in for a share of the
attention of the . bulletin. It is stated
that Harlow, Hewitt & Co.. of San Fran
cisco, are endeavoring through the malls
to interest the citizens of Oregon In the
Retail Grocer Underwriters and the Re
tall Hardware Underwriters. The Lum
bermen's Indemnity Exchange, of Seattle,
Is also said to be seeking a foothold in
this, state. These companie have not
compiled with the Oregon laws, and any
business done in this state is done In open
violation of the new Insurance code:
also those who do business with concerns
not authorized to transact business here
do so at their own peril, without recourse
and without hope of protection from the
laws of this stateJ
Irrigators Plan Deep Test Well.
ATT ALIA, Wash.,' Nov. 12. (Special)
Owners of property on the uplands east
of Attalia held a meeting here tonight
to consider plans for securing artesian
water for Irrigating their lands. G. W.
McBride, an experienced welldriller from
Kansas, presented a proposal for a test
well. A preliminary organization was
effeoted. with W. M. Britten as chair
man, and a stock company will be
formed to put down a well 1000 feet deep.
Tong Chiefs Will Get Bail.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12. Judge
Shortal today fixed the bonds for Tong
King Cheng, the secretary of the Chinese
Free Masons and editor of the Chinese
Dally Free Press, and Gee Hong On.
president of tha On Tick tong, at O0.000
each. The men, who are charged with
conspiracy to murder Yee Fong Hong,
one of the Tee tong killed November 2,
are expected to surrender as soon as
bonds are obtained.
BEGIN CUNNINGHAM CASE
Witnesses From Many Points to
Testify on Coal Land.
SEATTLE, Nov. 12. Hearing of evi
dence in the famous Cunningham coal
land cases, in which the title to valu
able land in the Bering Lake country
of Alaska to Involved, will be begun in
the Federal building in this city Novem
ber 18. The lands are olalmed by a score
or more of the richest men in the Pa
cific Northwest
Witnesses from all over the Pacific
Northwest, including Alaska will be
present.
The Commissioner will take more tes
timony at Spokane.
WOMEN LEAVE IN CANOES
Settlers in Skeena ' Valley Fear
Trouble With Indiana.
VICTORIA. B. C. Nov. 12. A dis
patch received at Premier McBride's of
fice today from Hazelton said women
and children were being sent down the
Skeena by canoe. The Indians have
promised not to Interfere. The situa
tion at Hazelton Is quiet
In spite of sensational dispatches sent
from Victoria, there has been no blood
shed in the Skeena country, and none
is expected. Several Indians have been I quality of silversldes, especially In thelr
arrested for stealing railroad stores and
interfering with railroad building..
The Indians are few in number and
are not likely to make much further
trouble.
MONTESANO WANTS A FAIR
Campaign to Get County Institution
Indorsed by H. D. Chapman.
MONTESANO. Wash., Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) Renewed Interest in a Chehalis
County fair, to be held) here, was aroused
today by the visit of H. D. Chapman,
executive commissioner of Chehalis
County at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Eii
position, to Montesano. Mr. Chapman
said:
"Everybody should favor a fair and
Montesano is the place to hoki it. In
calculable benefits to the county will fol
low the annual exhibit of products and
the assembling . of people from all sec
tions of the county. Methods of agri
culture are discussed and samples of
products of all kinds are viewed and in
formation is imparted concerning treat
ment of soil and the methods of cultiva
tion. You may not only quote me as
favoring an annual fair at Montesano,
but you may say that I will do all in
my power to encourage it."
HYBRID. SALMON APPEARS
Silversldes Caught in Columbia Be
lieved to Be Crossed With Chinook.
- ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 12. (Special.)
During the present fishing season, the
high color, has been so noticeable that
it Is believed they are a cross between
a suverslde and a Fall Chinook.
In the Winter of 1897, at Fort Clatsop,
Wade Hampton Smith and Ole Paulsen
Improvised a hatchery, and the eggs of
the silversldes were treated with ths
milt of the Fall chinook. At the expira
tion of the regular period the eggs de
veloped and the young fish appeared and
were released.
TPhe little submarine boat
works quietly but with
power to create havoc. It steals
up from unseen depths, launch
es a torpeto and the enemy i
ii trouble.
In the same way a misfit shoe
does its harmful work almost
before you realize it. A little
pinching here, a seemingly tri
fling lack of support to the arch,
and your feet need the doctor
more than the shoemaker.
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