ttte moitxtxg ohegoxiax, Wednesday, September 7, 1910. PORTLAND FAIR AND LIVESTOCK SHOW VISITORS. MAKE THE BIG STORE YOUR HEADQUAR TERS BE SURE AND LEAVE YOUR NAMES FOR OUR HANDSOME NEW FALL CATALOGUE, NOW READY ASK FOR SOUVENIR POSTCARDS REMINDERS OF FAIR AND THE BIG STORE. We Served About 18,000 People Yesterday We Can Serve More Today Because We're Better Prepared Over 2200 Employes to Look After Your Wants We Have Hundreds of Additional Bargains Today Some That Came Too Late for Big Announcement Those Interested Attend The Great Harvest Festiva Pays And Manufacturers' Sale At The Greater Meier ran ore Harvest Festival and Manufacturers Sale of Haviland Dinnerware See Our Window Display Great Saving on All Our Women's and Children's Hosiery of Every Kind During Harvest Sales Manufacturers' Sale of Jewelry and Fine Leather Goods on the First Floor, Some Big Bargains Sale of Elyria Laces at 5c and 10c Per Yard Many Other Bargains in the Lace Department Harvest Days Sale Women's Fine Undermuslins $4.50 Petticoats at the Special Price of $2.98 A Great Sale on All Our Women's Neckwear $7.50 Irish Crochet Collars at Special Price $4 98 Harvest Sale of Men's and Children's Sweaters- $3.00 Values at $2 39 $5.00 Values at $3.50 The New Tea Room Is the Showplace of the Town Plan to Take Your Lunch Here Today Seventh Floor Good Music Good Service Fine Menu Perfect Appointments Seventh Floor SKIRTS CUT FREE THIS WEEK BY AN EXPERT BUY YOUR FALL DRESS GOODS HERE THE NEW MILLINERY FOR FALL READY GREAT ASSORTMENTS ALL SHAPES, COLORS BUY SCHOOL SUPPLIES AT THE B IG STORE SCHOOL CLOTHING, HOSIERY, HATS, SHOES, ETC. SUPPLIES IRE SENT Yacolt Fire Sufferers Get Cash, Food and Clothing. GRASS SEED TO BE SENT WOMAN BLUFFS HUSBAND People's Institute. Individual contribu tions of clothing and supplies were many vest erria V. "There are two minor fires reported In the southern end of the Cascade re serve." said Supervisor Tom Sherrard. yesterday, "but they are under control.' A most, all of the soldiers now com; bat tin flrea In Southern Oregon and other Darts of the Northwest will be called in about the last of the week, aaid a member of the Forest Sen-Ice No report has been made to the Forest Sen-Ice about a new fire said to be burn Ins near Yacolt. Two Cash Contribution Are Added 10 Chamlx-r of Commerce Relief Fund Two .It I nor Fires Re ported In Cascade Hcxre. r'our boxes of clothing and supplies, one barrel of coffee. 50 sacks of flour, several bales of bedding, many cooking utensils. household furnituie and a check for 1750 were aent to the forest fire sufferers in the vicinity of Yacolt. Wash., yesterday by the Portland Cham ler of Commerce and the People's Insti tute, under whose auspices the relief work is being conducted. The supplies were sent by the People's Institute direct to the scene of destitu tion, while the check was sent to a committee In Vancouver. The members of this committee are Sheriff W. D. Sapplngton. of Clark County, chairman: Rev. II. S. Templeton. Charles Blurock. Ilua-h Parcel and K. E. Beard. This -ommittee will purchase supplies and nd them to the scene of suffering ' Im mediately. 1'a-li Donations Made. nly two cash contributions were re reived at the Portland Chamber of Com merce yesterday, although many mer chants sent supplies to the People's In- stltute. The cash contributions were: I. M. Wade A Company IT3 and Mayor Simon 110. These donations brought the fund up to almost flOOO. Through the agency of the barracks at Vancouver, most of the sufferers are now housed In tents, loaned for tha time-being- While theae tents afford some protection they will not be sufficient to Veep nut cold during the Winter. It Is for this reason that money Is needed so destitute people can build homes at once. Money and bedding are still needed hy the forest fire sufferers. Through the appeal for grasa-seed made by Miss Prltchard on Monday, the buainesa men of Portland handling that article are now contemplating donating a sufficient amount to provide for all. Arthur Bow man, one of the managers of the Port land Seed Company, volunteered to ar range for the seeds for the sufferers. Bedding Is Contributed. Realizing th necessity of bedding. Heischner. Mayer & Company yesterday sent many quilts and blankets to the Mrs. Oeorge Simpson Holds Knipty Revolver for Protection. By "running a bluff" with an empty re volver and a butcher knife. Sirs. George Simpson, wife of the proprietor of the Kagle rooming house. saved herself bodily harm from her husband Monday night. Patrolman Webatcr and Cam eron were calTed and placed the man under arrest. He came home, the wom an said. In an ugly frame of mind and attempted to assault her. She seised the weapons and Jield him at bay while waiting for the officers. His hearing was set for September 8. The Simpsons have had frequent trou ble. Only recently tliey were both In police court after airing one of -their family difficulties In the streets, when Mrs. Simpson established herself In her husband's automobile and refused to move. MAN STRUCK BY CAR DIES i George I.echnicler, Brewery Kni ploje, Icaves Widow and Children. George Lechmeier. who was run down by a streetcar at East Fifteenth and EastAnkeny streets. Monday afternoon. died t St. Vincent's Hospital early- yesterday morning. Death resulted from a fracture of the skull. Lechmeier waa an employe of Weln- hard'a Brewery and lived at 610 Kast Ash street. The motorman. M. J. Mc- Nary. who is almost prostrated by the affair, says that he saw Lechmeier run ning across the street until he reached the middle of the track, where he atopped. apparently dazed. McXary at once applied the brakes, but could not atop the car In time. Lechmeier was struck and knocked to the street. He leaves a widow and four children. BUILDING TO BE FRAME MT. TABOR SCHOOLHOUSK "WILL NOT UK FIREPROOF. Dr. Armstrong? Out on Ball. Dr. W. S. Armstrong, who was indict ed last Saturday on a charge of man slaughter for the alleged performance of an Illegal operation upon Bessie Richmond, was released from the Coun ty Jail yesterday morning on :000 bonds. His bondsmen are Charles Fos ter, part owner of the Model Livery, and Louis Purdy. a teamster. The crime of which Ir. Armstrong stands accused was committed In August. 1909, it Is alleged. Taxpayers Protest but Contract Is Already Let Schools bald to CoM Too Much In Portland. - The new schoolhouse. on East Sixtieth and East Ash streets, at Mount Tabor, will be a frame building, notwithstand ing the efforts of the Mount Tabor Im provement Aasoclatlon. Already the foundation of the four-room structure has been completed. The association passed resolutions asking the Board of Education to hold up the erection of the Mount Tabor building for another year rather than build a frame building, but the contract had already been let and the work could not be stopped. J. H. Haak. president of the Mount Tabor Improvement Association, and of the new club federation, says the four rooms for which a building permit has been Issued tan be finished, but whether the entire building can be completed under the permit is a question, as the new ordinance requiring the erection of fire-proof sehoolhpuses will go into ef fect the first of the year. The rest of the Mount Tabor schoolhouse will not on finished until next year, and it Is thought the ordinance might stop the erection of the remainder of the frame structure. We have been gathering statistics." said Mr. Haak before the Mount Tabor Improvement Association Monday night from different cities showing the cost of schoolhouse construction and find by comparison that the taxpayers of Port land are paying as much for their frame buildings In Portland as Eastern tax payers are paying for fire-proof struc tures. We have been told of an 11-room fire-proof schoolhouse which cost $24,000, and yet the Lents 8-room frame build ing cost the taxpayers SC2.OU0. "I have not a word to say against the directors of our district. They are able, honest and representative citizens, but a condition has grown up In our district that is causing the taxpayers to pay very high prices Tor Its schoolhouscs. Through our club federation we expect to reach a remedy." with an officer and point out the man who sold them the liquor. Olaus Peterson, a bartender at the National Hotel, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Patrolman Ben Peterson on a charge of selling liquor to the two boys. He denied the charge and was released on ball furnished by the pro prletor of the hotel. TRAFFIC TO BE RESUMED Milwaukee Repairs Damage to Road Caused by Forest Fires! SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 6. Traffic on the Chicago. Milwaukee & Pugct Sound Railway will be resumed tomorrow over that part of the line in the Bitter Root Valley which waa recently ruined by for est fires. For a stretch of about SO miles In the valley ell the bridges were burned and the rails warped and twisted. During the time that the Bitter Root track has been out of commission the Milwaukee has detoured Its freight over the Northern Pacific Railway from Mis soula, Mont., to Llnd. Wash., while local passenger service hns been maintained from Seattle to the west side of the Bit ter Root Valley and from St. Paul to Missoula. " The officials of the Milwaukee are now devoting their energies to putting on a fast through passenger train service as soon as possible. It la predicted that by November 1 the new steel coaches for the Chicago-Seattle train will be deliv ered. 30,807 ARE REGISTERED CLERK HOPES TOTAL AVILL IX TIMATELV REACH 45,000. MAN GIVEN BLACK OPTIC Charles Dorner Starts to Sing Saloon and Trouble Begins. In BOYS DRUNK ARE FINED National Hotel Bartender Charged With Selling Them Liquor. William Dell and Joo Volk, young; boys, arrested in Sell wood last Satur day night for being drunk and dis orderly, appeared in Police Court yes terday morning and were fined $5 each. They said that they procured their in toxicants at the National Hotel bar, and the light fine was Imposed upon them on condition that they would go "I started to sing in a saloon and they hit me." said Charles orner at the Police Station, in explaining an enormous 'shanty" that someone had raised over his eye. In getting to the eye, the assailant had struck the brim of Dorner's hat, tearing it so that it hung over his face like a frame and gave him a chic appearance. It was charged that when the un musical assailants struck him, he pulled a revolver, which was taken away from him. So bad was his In lured optic that Dr. Zlegler was called to the station to dress it. The physi cian pulled open the bruised member, and, placing his hand over the good eye, asked. "Can you see now?" Say, Doc," responded Dorner, "which eye have you got covered T" Increase Is Shown to Date by Com parlson With, Record or Two Years Ago. All day yesterday and until 9 o'clock last night the registration clerks at the Courthouse were busy making out cards for voters. Multnomah County's registration went over the 30.000 mark yesterday, the total this year now be Ing 30.507. This is 1614 more than the number who had registered on the 76th day In 190S, there being 28,893 names on the books at that time. County Clerk Fields hopes that before 5 P. M., Sep tember 14, which Is a week from today, 15.000 more voters will register, which will make the total this year about 45,000. The office is being kept open every night until 9 o clock. yesterday was pension day. Kvery pensioner was asked by the clerks if he had reg istered, and it was found that many had not. "Why, I live out in the country. Can I register?" was the question asked by several. They were assured that their votes were as val uable as those of persons living In the city. Naturalized citizens may vote on their first papers If they desire to do so, but the law requires tljat they ex- uuit mem to me eierK. Yesterday's figures were as follows: Republicans 560. Democrats 102, mis cellaneous 66. total 728. This makes the grand totals Republicans 23,431, Democrats 4498. miscellaneous 2572. Big Sawmills Not Burned. BURNS. Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) Re ports that the Bunyard sawmill, north east of Burns, and the Horton & Sayer sawmill, recently rebuilt northwest of Burns, were destroyed by fire, are not correct. There has been no fire In the vicinity of the Bunyard sawmill, and the fires In the other direction, while they burned some timber on the Horton & Sayer properties, did not come near the mill. There has not been any sign of incendiarism there. MAIL-BAGGAGE CAR BURNS Loose Mail and Goats Belonging to Show Arc Destroyed. SOUTH BEND, Wash.. Sept. 6. (Special.) The combination mail and baggage car of the passenger train due at South Bend at 3:30 P. M caught fire yesterday near Lebam, and was con sumed after being sidetracked at Trap Creek. Ma'l sacks were saved but all loose mall was destroyed. A lot of goats belonging to a show were In the bag gage department and were all burned. The fire caught from cinders from the locomotive. Word was just received here that the Globe Lumber Company's mill at Globe, this county, was burned last night, to gether with a large amount of lumber. No particulars as to origin of fire, the amount of loss or insurance have been received. pltal at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Allen's Injuries are serious. Both are employed by the Eastern & Western Lumber Company. ROAD WILL BE BUILT Klickitat County Taxpayers Agree on Special Levy. GOLDKNDALK. Wash.. Sept. .-9pe-cial.) State Auditor C. W. Claussen, State Treasurer J. D. Lewis and Commis sioner Bolby. who comprise the State Road Commission, were in Gol.lendale Friday to interview the County Commis sioners regarding road work in the Eighth district. The funds for the dis trict have been depleted. The best immediate relief is to ask the aid of Klickitat County. The State Road CommiBSioners state that It will take jL'O.nnn to keep tills work in progress until the State Legislature makes an ap propriation and if the county appropri ates J 0.000 of this amount for this road that It will enable the Commissioners t' use a like amount of the funds belong ing to the state aid roads. About 50 citizens of this county came to Lyie today at the request of the Coun ty Commissioners to examine this roal and deciding on a special tax. Nearly all of them favor the tax. St. Johns Files New Remonstrance. A remonstrance against the annexa tion of St. Johns to Portland contain ing 21 names was filed with City Audi tor Barbur yesterday. This is supple mental to the remonstrance filed last Saturday containing 167 signatures. . The number of Chinese entering- the, ITnited states and insular possessions (ex cept the Philippines) In the nscal year ended .funs .10. Itios. was 7014. of whlrli 111 were new arrivals and ."173 were trav elers, returning residents, etc. Frank L S mith Meat Co. Two Hurt In Accident. Injured In an accident in a sawmill at Stella. Wash., C. I Allen, aged 58 years, and J. Skargara, aged 45. were brought to this city and to Godtf Samaritan Hos- "FIGHTING THE BEEF TRUST" You will find Smiths markets thron-rlioiit. flip itv. When you come to Smith's Alder-street market be sure you get in the right place. See that Smith's name is over the door. Smith's Oregon Crcamerv Butter made in Ore-mn. mind you- other folks can't say their butter is made in Oregon. Smith's Oregon Creamery only 75f per square. Lamb Stew Sc Lamb Shoulders lOc Lamb Chops 12y2 $ l5-r Legs of Lamb 15c Hindquarters of Lamb 15c Lamb Liver io? coasts oi veal izyc, 15c Veal Stew 10c, 12Vo 15c Veal Cutlets 15c, 18 Prime quality Beef Pot Roasts S 10c Fancy quality Boiling Beef 7, S?, 10 Prime quality Beef Roasts 10, 12, 15 Tender Round Steak...- 12U, 15c Fancy Sirloin Steak 12, 15 Smith's own Corned Beef. .8, 10 1214 Pure Lard, 3-lb. pail 50-rJ Pure Lard, 5-lb pail 80! Pure Lard, 10-lb. pail $1.60 Pure Cooking Compound, 3-lb. pail 40? Pure Cooking Compound, 5-lb. pail 65f Pure Cooking Compound, 10-lb. pail $1.25 t