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
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