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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1910)
THE 5IORXTNG OREGOXIAN. afOSTDAY, JULY 25, 1910. SI 00 FOR BENEFIT GOT IN 20 MINUTES Merchandise Purchased on Credit Todayand Rest of Month Charged on Atigtxst Bill Otir New Store Will Be Open Next Saturday or Monday Watch the Daily Papers . VAUDEVILLE ACTRESS SINGS IN CAFES, TO RAISE MONEY , . FOR CHORUS. GIRL BENEFIT. simsiini sum Sophie Tucker, Vaudeville Ac tress, Gets Sum Sing ing in Two Cafes. 1000,000' Removal 1 dl jrw MAHR FUND NOW $3275.01 Arrangements Made for Great Pro gramme at Lyric Theater To morrow Night for Little Chorus Girl. 4-H records In raising money for the Marjorie Mahr benefit . fund were broken Saturday night by Miss Sophie Tucker, sweet singer at Pantages last week, whose beautiful voice filled hats at the Oregon Grill and Louvre Cafe with silver and gold. The collection at the Oregon Grill amounted to $54 and at the Louvre $46, making a total of 1100, raised in 20 minutes, counting out the time lost in going from one cafe to the other. When Mrs. Armstrong, at the head of a committee of chorus girls from the Lyric, asked Miss Tucker to sing, the latter's eyes fairly sparkled and she said: "I am sorry that I cannot be here for the benefit, but if singing at the cafes will help the fund along, I shall be only too glad to do it." Immediately after the show. Miss Tucker was hurried to the Louvre, where Rigo, the violinist, threw his soul, hair and all, into the music, while the sweet singer's voice caused the merry crowd to become silent and listen. After the song Rigo announced what it was all about, and men and women opened their purses as the hat was passed around. At the Oregon Grill E. E. Larrimore, .the steward, made the speech of his life for Miss Mahr and Introduced Miss Tucker. The response was a liberal contribution from the diners, and cheers for Miss Mahr and Miss Tucker. Anticipating a crush at the Lyric Theater tomorrow night, when the benefit performance takes place. Man ager Keating will request Chief of Po lice Cox to have several officers on hand to assist in filling and emptying .the theater in an orderly manner. The doors will be open at 7 o'clock. Be sides the 2000 tickets that have already been sold, it is expected a rush will be made on the box office by belated ones, and to avert contusion it has been considered necessary to have police as sistance. If two shows do not accom modate the crowd, a third will be given. For that matter, the actors who have volunteered their services are willing to work all night, if necessary. The bill will be made up today. It will be one of the greatest aggrega tions of stars and headllners that has ever appeared before the footlights at sny performance given in Portland. The managers of all the theaters have offered a choice of any or their best performers, and none but the best will be taken. The time of each act will he cut down, so that It will be as short as possible, but they will be put on in such rapid-fire order that It will be a continuous performance at each show, from the rise till the fall of the cur tain. The society women, who wi.ll act as patronesses at the benefit, have never relaxed their efforts since they volun teered their services, and their ardor can only be compared with the am bitious chorus girls, who have workec so hard for their unfortunate com panion. About half the donations and ticket sales have been reported from the Lyric Theater and the Armstrong Company, but outside of this combina tion the society patronesses led all others. At the entrance to the theater to morrow night. Mrs. June MacMillan Ordway and Mrs. Andrew Haben will have a candy stand and sell candy that has been donated by manufacturers in and about Portland. ' Following were the donations report ed yesterday: Previously reported $3049.M t'SBh. a friend - 5 00 Mrs. S. Frank, ten tickets 10.00 Ionations received Lyric Theater: Ml.a Sophie Tucker 100.00 MIm Murkle and Miss Llndhall 30.00 strannnr i 3.00 Donation, no name. 1.00 Mildrrd Thompson 300 meirr v rranK s i.aaies- urcnestra 5.00 Mrs. Armstrong, collected 66 00 Miss Cas.ell 00 Kvelyn Ulrkie. collected -'oo Or. J. J. Panton 6 0O Henry Rliaaon 1O0 A. J. Erlkle -foil Rons Everett 100 Herman Bryer ,R0 Grand total J275.01 VANCOUVER HAVING BOOM Improvements Costing $750,000 I'nder AVay in Military Town. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Julw 24. iSn- cial.) Buildings and improvements in course of construction and others or dered and contemplated, reached J750, 000 In Vancouver. The largest building in course or construction Is St. Joseph's Hospital. This will cost $125,000 It s being built by the Sisters of Cha.itv of Providence. Work on the third story of the 165.000 Elks Home has started at Tenth and Main streets. Across the street, J. P. Klggtns. Mayor of Van couver. Is erecting a three-story the ater building at a cost of $30,000. The Vancouver public market. comDleted today, represents an expenditure of JL'0.000. The large garage at Seventh and Washington streets, was built by Alex ander iook and H. C. Phillips, at a -ost or no.ouo. j. j. Wintler Is putting ip a iwo-story brick business house t Slxtn and Main, and Frank J. Lackaff s building one on Sixth. These build ups will cost tU.000. G. W. Smith has tarted to excavate his property at -econd and Washington streets for a ft 20.000 brick building. The school dis trict has completed a $30,000 school- ouse in Arnada Park. The Congregational Church, is being ml It of concrete blocks at a cost of I'.S.OflO. The United Brethren Church s building a $13,000 church anri th First Methodist Church was rebuilt us eummer at a cost of J9U00. S. M. .angsdorft is building a $7000 residence n Esther street. The Government is building a $20,000 oad between the military reservation nd Vancouver. In the Barracks, sta les and other buildings are being rected at a cost of at least $30,000. no Spokane. Portland & Seattle Rail oad is enlarging its terminal facilities ere and is spending not less than 100.000. A special election will be held .i Vancouver August 20 to vote on ullding a sewer system to cost $50, 0. . Besides all these there are over 00 residences being bullc . 1 itoWifiiriis'trii MISS SOPHIE GOOD FAIRY GOMES Mrs. Fiske Calls on Brave Lit tle Marjorie Mahr. ACTRESS PROFFERS AID She Will Help Maimed Girl When Time Comes to Settle on New Vocation In Life B rave Spirit Wins Praise. This Is just a plain tale of how a world-famous and beloved actress found time in the midst of a busy day crowded with business affairs to spend a chatty half hour with pretty Mar jorie Mahr at the Good Samaritan Hos pital. It was yesterday, just after lunch eon, and Marjorie's nurse had decided that a wheel around the garden in the warm sunshine was Just what the pa tient most needed at that moment. So they started out, Marjorie's dusky beauty set off with a wine-red silk robe and a rose; Marjorie's nurse walked slowly behind the wheeled chair and the pair circled the garden once or twice and finally drew up near the gate. In Marjorie's lap lay a book, "The Chorus Lady." and her hands Idly fluttered the leaves. Actress Visitor Arrives. Presently a motor chugged up to the entrance and a small woman got out. She was dressed inconspicuously in a blue rajah silk suit and wore a long blue scarf wound gracefully about a modest little bonnet. She had big, starry eyes and a dainty way about her, and Marjorie's brown eyes fol lowed the visitor as she entered the building. "My," she said, aloud, her voice only echoing her eyes. "I wish she were coming to see me." Then she turned to her book and was treading in earnest when steps beside her caused her to turn her heaa, and there stood the lady in blue. "So you are Marjorie Mahr," said the vision, holding out a little gloved hand. "I am Mrs. Fiske, and I am so glad to see you up and able to take the sunshine." Marjorie said she was glad, too, and the visitor sat down on the bench be side the wheel chair and the nurse slipped quietly away. Girl's Bravery Attracts. "I have been Interested in you ever since I read of your great bravery and fortitude." said Mrs. Fiske. "I have the greatest admiration for you. and I fancied you would appreciate it more If I came to teil you in person." Then they chatted much like old acquaint ances of many things. "And now. dear, said Mrs. Fiske, as she arose to go, ."I want you to write to me just as soon as you are able. I am much Interested In you and I don't want to lose track of you. It is not the time nor place now to discuss your plans for the future, nor in fact to give much serious thought to anything, only to getting the roses back In your cheeks and strength and health in your body. But there will be a day soon, when we shall have to be thinking of what line of work you are best fitted for. and I want to keep In constant touch with you so that maybe I can suggest something when that day comes." Spirit Good to Have. Then they said goodbye and the famous actress patted Marjorie's cheek tenderly. "Keep up your brave spirit, child." she said, in parting. "Its a mlghtly fine thing to have." "On, .1 most forgot." called Marjorie, as Mrs. Fiske walked to her waiting car, "to thank you for the beautiful bouquet you sent yesterday and the contribution to the " "Sh-sh." laughed the actress, finger on lip. "not another work. Now read your "Chorus Lady' and get well and strong soon. And." she called out, as the chauffeur closed the door, "don't you forget to write to me " "I won't really I won't," called Mar jorie, waving goodbye. WALL STREET HESITATES Speculation Vnsettled and Banking Position Doubtful. NEW YORK, July S4. Incidents cf last week served to attract the atten tion of financial markets to unfavoraole features in the conditions of business TUCKER. and to unsettle the speculative tone in the stock market. Incidentally the Spring wheat pros pect has lost the foremost prominence which was given it by the Government report of heavy deterioration during June. Also the offsetting advantage of the large yield promised for other grains, notably corn and Winter wheat, have neutralized the influence of the Spring wheat shortage. There was a good deal of confusion in the reading of the industrial pros pect. A rise in the price of" the copper industrials was based nominally on re ports of an agreement among the prin cipal producers to curtail output to the limits of the present demand, which is large In itself. Suspicion of design for effect on the stock market was height ened by the unexpected reduction in the dividend on National Lead stock and the violent decline in the price of that security. Strong forces are at work to build up the reserve strength of the New York banks, but the banking position in the country at large remains open to dis cussion. . BARBER APPEAL FILED TITLE TO 35,000 ACRES OF FIXE TIMBER IS INVOLVED. Lumber , Mills Near Boise Closed Pending: Outcome Bean's De cision Against Company. BOISE, Idaho, July 24. (Special.) Th Department of Justice, through United States Assistant Attorney General Peyton Gordon, special prosecutor for the Depart ment, filed this week with the Clerk of the United States Qourt of Appeals at San Francisco an appeal from the adverse decision of Judge Robert S. Bean, of the Oregon division, in the case of the United States vs. the Barber Lumber Company. The case Involves the title to 35.000 acres of the finest, timber land to be found In Idaho, 60 miles north of Boise in the Boise basin. The case has been set for October, when it will be argued by Mr. Gordon and C. T. Bunday, counsel for the Bar ber Lumber Company. The criminal case, wherein James T. Barber and Sum ner G. Moon, both officers of the Barber Lumber Company, are made defendants, will be argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on October 7. Ever since the litigation was begun the big mills of the Barber Lumber Com pany, seven miles north of this city, have been closed, at great loss to the corporation. The promised end of the legial controversy means the starting of the mills if the company wins its case. LOVER OF ROSES DIES IX THE CITY OF HIS ADOPTION" AT AGE OF 76. Alpheua Coaitrjrinis. First attracted to Portland by the Lewis & Clark Exposttion, and thereafter making his home among the roses he grew to love, Alpheus Countryman, aged 76 years, died at his home in this city. Friday. July 15. Mr. Countryman was born in Canada, and later lived In New York, Illinois and Iowa before coming to Oregon. He was a citi zen who labored for the better ment of the city and state, and had a large circle of friends in Portland. Mr. Countryman is survived by his widow, four chil dren, four grandchildren and two great - grandchildren. His sons and daughters are: Fred Country man and Mrs. Byron McKlnley, of Portland; Mrs. Clara Raffertv of Vancouver, Wash., and Mrs. Harry Weaver, of Forbes. North Dakota. L v Only 3 More Days of Portland's j Covering Greatest Entire Morrison, Alder, Tenth and West ParK Streets Come Today Offering; Sensationally Low Prices in Every Department During the last six months we have Kept our buyers busy going to and from New VorK and European points, searching the marhets of the whole world for merchandise for our new store They have bought heavily in all lines of seasonable goods Our stocKs in the present store are becoming broken and each department is determined to unload the odds and ends Take advantage Lay in a supply of household needs and wearing apparel while prices are low. Ladies' Suits now greatly Linen Coats now are all Silk Coats are now all All Dresses are all greatly Undermusliris all greatly All Corsets are now much Millinery is now greatly Ostrich Plumes also are Infants' Wear is greatly Silk Petticoats now are Ladies' Shoes now are all, Men's Shoes now are all Men's Shirts, prices are Men's Ties, prices greatly Underwear prices are now TRAIN KILLS John Manin, Former Soldier, Run Down on Track. NO EFFORT MADE TO ESCAPE Confused by Freight on Opposite Track, Victim Pays No Heed to "Whistling of Passenger Engine Coming Up Behind Him. John Manin, a former infantryman of the United States Army, was struck by a Northern Pacific passenger train near Portland and instantly killed at 7:15 o'clock last night. The accident occurred Just opposite the North Pacific mills as passenger train No. 333 was entering the yards. As the train rounded a curve. Manin was seen standing on the track. The engineer whistled repeatedly but the man seemed confused by the approach of a freight train on the other track bound in the op posite direction and stood with his back to the passenger locomotive, making no effort to get out of the way. Owing to the trees near the track at this point Manin was not seen by the engineer un til it was too late to bring the heavy train to a stop in time to save him. Manin was hurled to one side of the track as the engine struck him, and rolled over several times. He was dead when the train crew hurried back to help him. It was found that he had been struck on the head and back and that his right leg was broken in several places. From papers found on the man it was learned that he was a former member of Company D, of the Sixteenth United States Infantry. According to the papers he enlisted in 1888 and was honorably discharged in 1889. He was mustered out at Fort Douglass, Utah, and had sev eral testimonials from officers of the Army as to his good character and ex cellent service. The papers showed that Manin was an Austrian by birth and 53 years old. From other papers found on him it was established that he had bean a sea faring man. both before and after his enlistment in the Army. The body was brought to the Union Depot and turned over to the Coroner. An inquest will be held today and efforts made to locate some of the dead man's friends or relatives. He had only $1.50 on his person and few personal belong ings. Clubmen Will "Get Togher." ALBANY. Or.. July 2. (Special.) The Albany Commercial Club will hold the first of a series of monthly "'get-together MAN for the Greatest of All Bargain Events reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced reduced Dress Goods are all greatly reduced All Silks are now greatly reduced All Linens, are now greatly reduced Wash Goods are all greatly reduced All Hosiery prices are now reduced Underwear prices greatly reduced Neckwear now at great .reductions Fancy Goods prices greatly reduced Stationery prices greatly reduced Drug Sundries here are reduced Art Goods prices are all reduced Trimmings of all kinds are reduced Embroideries, fine line here, reduced All Laces in the great store reduced All Veilings in store are reduced suppers" in the rooms of the club next Tuesday evening. July 26. The sole ob ject of these suppers, one of which will be held every month, is good fellowship, with an exchange of ideas for the better boosting of the city. The committee on arrangements for the first affair consists of W. H. Marvin, R. C. Churchill and 3. C. Holbrook. WATER PLANTS COMPETE Bandon Company Not to Retire Be fore Municipal Enterprise. BANDON. Or., July 24. (Special.) A committee of tne City Council, head ed by Mayor Mast, has been investi gating conditions with the view of lo cating the reservoir for which the city voted $60,000 of bonds. It Is probable that the reservoir will be located three or four miles out, to g;et pressure Xor fire purposes. The old water system, which is owned by the Bandon Light & Water Com pany, is becoming inadequate for the needs, but the company is putting in two new reservoirs and will have a big supply. This company has a fran chise, and its intention is to compete with the municipal system. The new reservoir of the company will be on Ferry Creek, and the reser voir for the new municipal system will be either on Johnson Creek or Crooked Creek. WAGON CRUSHES WORKMAN Truck With 8000 Feet of Lumber Runs Over Youth, Who May Die. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., July 24. (Special.) Frank Smith, of Oakland. Cal., who has been employed at the Meadow Lake sawmill for a few weeks, will lose his leg and possibly his life as the result of having been run over by a lumber truck, on which was about 8000 feet of green pine lumber. The lumber company uses a big trac tion engtne to haul its lumber to the railroad. This engine draws three or four big lumber trucks at a load and young Smith was handling brakes on one of these .wagons. He slipped and fell from the lumber and the rear wheel passed over his shoulder and side and one leg, crushing him terribly. Mile tof Cement Walk to Be Laid. JACKSONVILLE. Or., July 24 (Spe cial.) More than one mile of new ce ment walk will b laid in Jacksonville' this Summer. Surveys have been com pleted on Oregon. California and Fifth streets and work has begun. The Council will endeavor to rush the work to completion this Summer: Log Is Buried Deep. VANCOUVER. Wash., July 24. (Spe cial.) When digging a -well at Ridge field, workmen found a Cottonwood log at a depth of 18 feet. It was partly decayed, but it was in state of preser vation so that it could be easily recog nised aa Cottonwood. Wonderful Bargains TKis great merchandising event -will end in Three days For today, tomorrow and 'Wednesday -we -will offer tremendous re ductions on all lines of Women's and CHildren's Wearing Apparel We -will slaughter Millinery Sacrifice all lines of Fancy Goods, NecKwear, Ribbons, Gloves, etc. Shoes for men, -women and cHildren Dress goods, silKs, linens, domestics, wash goods, etc., will be priced -without regard for -worth Men's furnishings, trunhs, bags, etc., greatly reduced Un usual reductions on crockery, glassware, silverware, cutlery, etc. Closing out prices on draperies, carpets, rugs, hammocKs. lawn goods, toys, etc. A grand final clean up which means a great saving to you Boys' MORMONS ARE PRAISED M. J. BALLARD SAYS UTAH PIO SEERS NOT APPRECIATED. Leaders of Sect Did Much to De velop West by Achievements at Salt Lake, Declares Lecturer. In his address last night at the Church of the Latter Day Saints. East Tenth and East Grant streets, on "The Mormon Pioneers," Melvin J. Ballard, president of the Northwestern States' Mission, de clared that the Mormon pioneers had contributed largely to the development of the West and had made its settlement mainly possible by subduing the wilder ness and desert places. Yesterday was Pioneer day in Utah, and the occasion was celebrated there, in Oregon and else where, t Elder Ballard reviewed the history of the Mormon people, told of their persecu tions at Nauvoo. 111., and of their march across the Continent to the Great Salt Lake Valley, under the leadership of Brigham Young. t ''It is a story unparalled in the history of the world- since Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt," declared Elder Ballard. "Driven from their homes and property at Nauvoo and unprotected by the Government they respected, they as sembled on the. banks of the Mississippi preparatory to the march to a country where they could worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, in 1846. Here the general Government demanded that they furnish 500 men to fight the Mexicans and. although without protection, they furnished the men re quired. They started across the great plains, suffering unparalled hardships be fore they came to Salt Lake Valley. No green trees greeted their tired eyes, but with the same fortitude that had main tained them in the past, they founded the great city in the desert and made perma nent the development of the West. They showed that the desert could be made to blossom, and President Roosevelt in his address in the temple at Salt Lake City said that the people had made the wilder ness blossom. It was the most unpromis ing spot that eould have been selected, but Brigham Young had the vision that It was the spot picked out by God. "The Mormons furnished the first les son in Irrigation. The erection of the great Mormon temple, which took 40 years to build and cost $4,000,000, helped make permanent the development of the West. The pioneer Mormons were pat riotic people and loyal to the Govern ment. "The. Mormon pioneers are not yet ap preciated, but history will set that mat ter right. In education, in the dramatic art and in agriculture, the Mormons have ever been foremost and progressive. Brigham Young was a great man and great leader even if, like Abraham, he had more than one wife. He was a pat riotic citizen and loyal to this country in spite of the misrepresentations of his life and character." Carpets are now greatly reduced Draperies are now greatly reduced Curtains are now greatly reduced Bedding now very greatly reduce.d Blankets now are greatly reduced Hammocks are now much reduced Camp Chairs are greatly reduced Wagons now are reduced Go-Carts are very greatly reduced All Toys now are greatly reduced All Dolls at prices greatly reduced Glassware prices greatly j-educed Crockery at prices greatly reduced Garden Hose prices are reduced Refrigerators, all at prices reduced ANOTHER FAILURE We expected to present to the medical profession of this city the most aston ishing recovery yet in a case of Dia betes a case involving gangrene. Due to excessive sugar, the circulation was so sluggish that the toes of both feet were sloughing off, the bones protrud ing. The case was horrible in the ex treme. The patient was a well-to-do businessman but he had lived well and paid no attention to his Diabetic condition. It was almost Impossible to remain in the room, and his physicians threw up their hands. The outlook was hopeless. -He was brought to this city. The patient, -with his wife, went to one of the leading hotels and sent for Ful ton's Diabetic Compound and a phy sician to aid it. A determined fight was started to control the most hope less case of Diabetes that ever came our -way. Large doses of the Diabetic Compound were given to reduce the sugar, gan grenous toes were treated, nutrition was forced, etc.. etc., etc.- The sugar was soon eliminated and the circula tion sufficiently restored to permit operation. Part of one foot and the toes of the other were amputated. Clean flesh soon asserted itself. One foot was entirely healed and the other was closing rapidly and the patient was making such fine progress that on Christmas Day he was allowed mince pie with his Christmas dinner. We were preparing to take photo graphs ' of the ' amputations to show what can be done in such cases, when the physician was suddenly called. To his amazement he found the patient on the edge of Diabetic Coma, sinking rapidly. It seems that the recovery was so definite and prompt that the influences that were behind him attributed it to Christian Science and advised against further dietary limitations and to eat and drink as usual and all would be well. The diet was always a restraint to him. and having lost his fear he eagerly adopted the suggestion. We have never seen or heard of such a quick relapse. The sugar and starches acted like poison. Gangrene promptly returned and coma was almost at once established. At this point the discouraged physician asked our advice and we suggested that if he couldn't control the conditions to withdraw. The patient passed on almost Imme diately, saving the necessity for any discussion. This is the second case of Diabetes we have lost in the same way within a year. In the other case also the victory, practically won. was attributed to mental processes. Diet and restrsint were thrown to the winds, followed quickly by coma and dissolution. L. T. YEE TBI fHTNESl! DOCTOS Tee Bon a Medicine Co. spent lifetime study of. aerbe and re earca In Chin.: wu (ranted diploma by the Emperor; won derful cure of all ailments ot men and women when others tilled. It you suffer, call or write to VF.E A SON'S Mrl CESE CO.. 1434 First. Cm Aider, Portland. Or, I- X. Xes.