THE MORXIXG OREGONIAX. TITTJRSDAT. 13, 1913.
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Merchandise of J Merit Ony"
PICTURE FRAMING
NEWEST MOULDINGS
Lowest Prices in Town
Chiffon Frocks $15.00
These frocks are for Misses and
are fashioned in simple and be
coming styles. Made with low
necks and short sleeves, trimmed
with shirrings and puffings of the
material. Around the waist is a
girdle of satin held in place
with a rosette."
In light blue, white, Ameri
can Beauty, pink, Nile and
maize.
- Third Floor.
Vogue Shirts $5.00
These shirts are made of tub
silks and pongee. They show the
Byron collars, the pretty rolling
style that opens in a V in the
front Others with high turn
down collars. Soft French cuffs
and side pocket. Made in a
mannish style, perfectly tailored.
In tan, navy, light blue, lavender,
black and white.
Third Floor.
Ramie Linens 40c Yd.
Don't overlook the fact that
dress linens will be the very scarc
est dress fabric in sixty days from
now. The manufacturers are un
able to turn out the orders placed
with them. The spinners cannot
supply the yarn, therefore it is
well that you anticipate a little on
your linen suit.
Our line is complete in col
ors. This Ramie is 36 inches
wide. Made of pure linen flax.
Basement.
$3.50 Wool Blankets
$1.98
Just 1 00 pairs of slightly dam
aged wool blankets. Full size and
weight They are but very slight
ly soiled or damaged, by having
a rough selvage or an oil spot, but
so slight as not to impair the worth
of the blanket.
Fifth Floor.
Children's .Rompers 39c
Made of plain or striped cham
bray. High neck and long
sleeves. . Side closing. In blue,
tan and gray.
Sizes I to 6 years.
Fourth Floor.
Our Custom Tailoring Department for Women
Is prepared to execute to your special order.
The Smartest Suits and Coats
For the Spring and Summer Season.
Tailoring Department, Seventh Flos
Oriental Rugs
. $22.50 Belouchistans, $16.45
There are still many of these
beautiful rugs left and are shown
in dark, rich colorings. They have
that rich, silky sheen and finish
for which these rugs are particu-
larly known.
Size 4 ft. 9 in.; by 3 ft. 2 in.
Fifth Floor.
Girls Spring Apparel
Our Norfolk Coats for girls
from 8 to 14 years are very ef
fective. Priced at $6.50.
Coats of fancy gray materials
in double-breasted styles are un
usually becoming. Sizes 8 to 14
years. Price $7.50.
The suits of fine serge and
fancy mixtures come in sizes
from 13 to 17 years. Both Nor
folk and plain tailored styles
are shown.
Fourth Floor.
Art Needlework
The latest novelties are here.
Pin cushion and doilies stamp
ed in clever and original designs.
Sell from 35c to 75c each.
New , stamped - to - embroider
towels; the cross-stitch pattern,
prettier than ever before. Shown
in Bulgarian color effects and
stamped at 50c and 75c.
We show three new models
which are finished and stamped
ready for embroidering in punch
work, Louis IV, French and me
diaeval patterns. 50c, 75c and $1 .
Special attention is given to
order work for initials. Also
colored embroidery at lowest
quotations.
Seeond Floor.
75c Outing Flannel Gowns
Special 59c
Striped outing flannel gowns in
pink and white or blue and white.
Turn down collar, yoke in front
and back. Ruffle finished sleeve.
Fourth Floor.
New Bulgarian Velour Ribbons $2.75 Yard
The most gorgeous and withal the most effective ribbon that has been
brought out for many a season. No matter how these ribbons are handled,
crosswise, bias or lengthwise, the pattern is retained.
In combination colors such as coque la rouge, Kana, coquelicot,
emerald, Orient, taupe, gold. They are eight inches wide.
First Floor.
Easter Millinery
At Practical Prices.
We've put the smartest and
handsomest millinery known with
in the reach of the modest pocket
book. We've removed the high
priced barrier that stands in other
shops between fashion followers
and the creations of the foremost
. , milliners of Paris.
Our skilled corps of milliners
make copies and adaptations
which await your choosing, at
very much less than you can buy
unauthorized styles for elsewhere.
Visit our show rooms, where
the daily output of our own
work rooms is shown; you will
no longer wonder why we do
the largest millinery business
in town.
Second Floor.
New Dress Goods
We are showing complete lines
of all the latest Spring weaves,
both imported and domestic.
This exhibition is one of the
largest and finest we have ever
shown and includes
Eponge in white and all the
latest colorings.
Cream wool Suitings in num
erous weaves.
Black and white check ma-
terials.
Challies in dark and light
colorings.
Hosts of serges.
Diagonals.
Numerous novelty weaves of
all kinds.
Second Floor.
Demi Blond
Combs and Pins
.," The latest triumph in the crea
tion of novelty hair ornaments.
They resemble real tortoise
shell so closely that even an ex
pert cannot detect the difference;
have the same beauty of coloring
the same exquisite design and
shape. And they are practically
unbreakable.
Here in greatest assortment
and many styles.
Exclusive with this store
Priced from 25c up
Notion Section, First Floor
JLL5 KlOOM
Commission Merchant Dies of
Revolver Wound Inflicted
by ex-Employe.
ASSAILANT IS CAPTURED
Slajer Tells Authorities That He
Heard That Former Employer
Had Cast Reflection Upon
His Character. '
Obsessed with the belief that Isaac
Bloom, a commission man, and his
former employer, had spread reports
Injuring his reputation, James Ham
mond, 66 years old, a commission house
employe, shot and fatally injured Bloom
about 5 o'clock P. M. yesterday In a
commission house at 95 Front street.
After a chase of seven blocks through
a crowded part of the city, Hammond
surrendered at Third and Ash streets
to T. J. Baty, special officer of the
Multnomah Hotel, and R. E. Miller, bus
attendant at the same place. Bloom
was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital,
dying at 10:30 P. M.
Hammond says he heard slurs upon
his character, which he traced to
Bloom, by whom he was discharged
recently.
On Monday he bought a revolver,
with which, he says, he planned to crip
ple Bloom. He said he bought the
weapon in a second-hand store on Third
street. In which, he said, contrary, to
law, the gun was exposed for sale.
Entering the office of the Southern
Oregon Produce & Commission Com
pany at 95 Front street, he called to
Bloom, who had come In with G. Plass,
of the Company; W. F. Hartell, of 967
Lombard street, and Henry Larson, of
ISheridan, Or. Bloom, who had gone
to the mezzanine floor, where the of
fices are, refused to come down, ask.
lng Hammond to come up to him on the
stairs.
Hammond replied, say the eyewit
nesses: "Tou come down here. I am not go
ing to hurt" you." When Bloom descend
ed, Hammond spoke to him for a mo
ment concerning the reports. To
Bloom's reply that be had nothing to
do with their circulation, he drew a
22-callber revolver and shot Bloom In
the head. The bullet passed through
the band in his hat end lodged In his
skull over the left eye.
Closely followed by the three eye
witnesses, Hammond ran out of the
commission house to Third and Ankeny
Streets, where he saw Miller. Mistak
ing Miller for a policeman, he gave
himself up. He was turned over to the
police.
Under the questionings of Deputy
IHstrlct Attorney Murphy. Hammond
confessed a large part of the Incidents
of the shooting. He said the gun "went
off before I got ready."
Deputy District Attorneys Collier and
Magulre talked with Bloom at the hos
pital. He told of hia disagreements
with Hammond and of the shooting. .
Bloom lived at 620 Third street, where
his wife and two children also live.
Hammond Is an ex-soldier, having at
one time attained the rank of Sergeant
In the jNlneteenth Infantry.
MEN, NOT WAGES, BLAMED
(Continued Krom First Page.)
Industrial Commission bill, now pend
ing In the Legislature, has been pre
pared and will be Introduced in the
House tomorrow with the sanction of
Governor Cox, who has stamped It an
administration measure.
The hill would require all persons or
corporations employing five or more
females to report to the State Inspector
ot Workshops and Factories, giving de
tailed information as to wages of wom
en, hours of employment, etc. The data
thus secured are to be turned over to the
State Industrial Commission, which it
Is proposed shall be created.
Governor Cox announced himself in
favor of the minimum wage for wom
en workers, but the bill aa drawn does
not yet provide for that feature.
GOVEKXOKS' MEETING URGED
4S(ate Kxecutives May Meet to Dis
cuss "White Slave" Traffic
SPRINGFIELD, 11L, March I!. A
conference of Governors to discuss the
suppression of vice and the ameliora
tion of the conditions of working girls
promised to be one of the early results
of the "white slave" investigation in
Illinois. -
The conference was suggested to
night by Governor Dunne and Lieutenant-Governor
O'Hara, chairman of the
"white slave" Investigating committee.
They will communicate at once with
th Governors, of the Mates, suggest
ing a general conference In Springfield
at an early date.
Announcement was made today that
the "white slave" committee would
start on Its Eastern trip March to. The
Itinerary includes Albany, Pittsburg
and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington. At Washington the committee
expects to lay Its findings before Pres
ident Wilson. Speaker Champ Clark,
Vice-President Marshall and others.
VICE IXQUIRY IS ABANDONED
California Senate Leaders Say In
vestigation Is Impossible.
SACRAMENTO, March 1!. There will
be no Investigation by a Senatorial
committee or any other into the relation
between the social evil and the eco
nomic question of low wages for women
during the life of this Legislature. So
much has been decided upon by Senate
leaders and tomorrow morning the
Gates committee, appointed today to
carry out the provisions of the Beban
resolution, will report back to the Sen
ate that it is "physically impossible to
investigate within the terms of this res
olution." At the same time the suggestion will
be made that a concurrent resolution
providing for a Joint committee from
Senate and Assembly be Introduced.
This joint committee would be a hold
over body and would not begin Its work
until the close of the present session,
whe.n the pending legislation relating
to white slavery and the minimum
wage will have been acted upon.
JOINT IXQCIRV PROPOSED
Michigan May 'Stretch Point," Gov-
ernor Ferris Says.
LANSING. Mich., March 12. In a for
ma I statement today announcing his of
ficial indorsement of a proposal for a
joint Investigation of white-slave traf
fic by the States of Illinois and Michi
gan. Qovernor Ferris urged that the
Michigan Investigation extend teyond
so-called ' white-slave evils to other
economic evils.
A resolution has already been intro
duced in the Legislature for a vice
probe, but there are certain restrictions
in Michigan laws which prevent the ap
pointment of committees or commis
sions to serve beyond the term of the
Legislature itself.
"Some way will be found to overcome
this difficulty, even if we have to
stretch a point," said the Governor. .
rXQXIRY PEVDHrV; SAYS FOSS
Massachusetts About to Direct In
vestigation of "While Slavery."
BOSTON, March 12. Governor Foss
today addressed a letter to Lieutenant
Governor O'Hara, of Illinois, replying
to a suggestion that other states create
white Hlave Investigating commissions
similar to that of Illinois. The letter
said:
"A resolution already has been
adopted by the Senate of Massachu
setts, and now is pending, to provide
for an Investigation of the white slave
traffic, so called, which, if enacted, will
authorize the Governor and council to
appoint a commission of five persons
with ample authority for the purpose.
"I have no doubt this commission
will co-operate as fully as possible
with your commissioners in a joint ef
fort to eradicate this form of vice."
$9 HELD AS RIGHT MINIMUM
Milwaukee Committee Advises Wom
en Earning Less to Keep Away.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 12. "A
working woman needs $8.90 a week to
support herself In Milwaukee."
This was the opinion given by the
"social service commission" of the Mil
waukee Federation of Charities, in a
report made public today.
The committee urges young women
who expect to support themselves to
keep away from the city unless they
have an assured Income of at least $9
a . week, domestic servants excepted.
MILITANTS BEING SUED
MERCHANTS SEEK TO RECOVER
DAMAGES FROM LEADERS.
Government Action to Recover Costs
From Editor of 'Votes for Women'
Brings Up New Question.
LONDON, March 12. The government
has served a writ on Frederick Pethick
Lawrence, joint editor with his wife of
Votes for Women, for the recovery of
608 pounds ($3040), the unpaid balance
of the costs 4n the conspiracy trail at
Old Bailey last May. The sum of 306
pounds was recovered by the sale of
Lawrence's furniture and belongings
last October.
The. suffragettes believe the govern
ment has taken this action now In
view of similar orders to pay the costs
of prosecution being made against other
suffrage offenders. A large number of
trading firms In the west end of London
are beginning joint actions In the civil
courts to test the liability of Mrs.
Pankhurst and her daughters and Mr.
and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence for mili
tancy. The charges In the actions are
conspiracy to induce window breaking
and heavy damages are claimed. It is
probable that three months will elapse
before the cases come up for trial.
Two suffragette meetings, one at
Edenbrldge, Kent, and the other at
Radlett, Herefordshire, were broken up
tonight by opponents of the cause. At
Edenbrldge the wall behind the plat
form was bespattered by a fusillade of
eggs. . The platform was stormed and
the police were called out to restore
order.
At Radlett shouting, singing and
ringing of bells drowned out the
speeches.
POLICE LIKE VULTURES
"GRAFT" NOT ABATED WHEN
ROSENTHAL WAS KILLED.
Whitman Finds New Witness, Who
Declares He Was Assessed Out
of Business by Officials.
NEW YORK, March 12. Members of
the police "system" assessed Herman
Michels, once known as "King of the
Gamblers" In Harlem, to the point
where he had to give up his poolrooms, !
Michels told District Attorney Whit
man today. Michels then went before
the grand jury to add his story to the
evidence that is being used as a basis
for indictments of police officials and
others.
After the murder of Herman Rosen
thal, the gambler, the police became
"vulturous," Michels told the prose
cutor, contradicting the popular Im
pression that grafting was less prac
ticed after that crime. Michels de
clared he paid first $50 monthly and
then $150. He described how three po
lice officials, inspectors, at various
times In the district where he operated,
called at his establishments, watched
the gambling going on and allowed him
to operate unmolested as long as he
paid tribute to the collectors.
"They all have taken my money,"
Michels said, "and I do not Intend to
go to jail for perjury just to shield
them."
Mr. Whitman said he has obtained
figures showing that $250,000 annually
was paid the police in Harlem alone by
Keepers of gambling and disorderly re
sorts for Immunity from Interference.
'SMUGGLER QUEEN' DIES
WOMAN SCCCUMBS AT AGE OF 26
IN LOS ANGELES.
Alleged Leader in Trade of Bringing
Chinese Into United States
Feared by Government.
LOS ANGELES". March 12. Mrs. Ethel
Hall, the so-called "queen of the smug
glers." who passed a year in the coun
ty Jail before pleading guilty and pay
ing a fine of $10, died in a hospital here
today.
Mrs. Hall's arrest created a great
deal of excitement when Government
officials declared that she was the lead
ing spirit of a band of smugglers who
were active in bringing contraband
Chinese coolies Into the United States
from Mexico. Immigration officers had
many a thrilling adventure before the
band was broken up. Several alleged
members of the band were imprisoned
in the county Jail and others in the
Federal penitentiaries.
Mrs. Hall, who was only 16 years old,
was credited by immigration authori
ties with having been the "brightest
smuggler who ever operated on the
Pacific Coast of the United States."
Even after her release from Jail, she
appeared to have some great interest in
Mexico, as she paid a visit to Ensenada,
Lower California, but was ordered de
ported by the Mexican authorities.
Two indictments pending aprainst her
at the time of her death will be for
mally dismissed by the Government. j
OFFICER SWORE AT
HER, SAYS PARADER
Madame' Mountford, Evangel
ist, Accuses Washington
Police Captain.
BUSINESS MEN TESTIFY
Members of Committee of Public
Order Declare That Police Did
All Possible to Keep Crowd
In Control.
WASHINGTON, March 12. A mass
of small detail as to the disorder that
Interfered with the suffrage parade
here on March 3 was elicited from 31
witnesses today by the Senate sub
committee investigating the- occur
rence. - . .
Several men and women who marched
In the parade told of the trouble and
embarrassment caused them by the
crowd and criticised the conduct of the
police along the line of march.
Among these was Madame Mount
ford, an evangelist, who, in addition to
detailing her experiences in the pa
rade, declared she had been roughly
used by a Washington police captain
while watching the inauguration cere
monies the next day.
Alleged Language Told.
She said that Captain Mulhall, in re
fusing to allow her to cross the police
lines with a suffrage banner, handled
her roughly and exclaimed: "Tou
damned women had your day yester
day." Charges against Captain Mulhall in
connection with the Incident are being
investigated by the police department.
About a dozen business men who
were organized into a committee of
public order for the Inaugural period
and who endeavored to aid the police
in subduing the disorder during the
suffrage parade, declared that the po
lice had done all that was humanly
possible to handle the crowd, but that
the gathering was too large to be con
trolled. Captain Henry Schneider, who was
In charge of the police detail at the
point on Pennsylvania avenue where
the crowd was densest and where the
cavalry was finally sent, declared that
his officers worked faithfully In their
efforts to clear the street.
Men Told to Work Faithfully.
"Had you any reason to think,"
asked Senator Jones, "that Major Syl
vester or anyone else at headquarters
would overlook any neglect of duty in
connection with this parade or that
they wanted the parade interfered
with?"
"No," answered the captain emphati
cally. He declared that Major Sylvester had
been emphatic and explicit In his In
structions to his subordinates and that
while the men of the department looked
upon the parade in a "light manner,"
they had been admonished to 'work
faithfully. He had never heard Major
Sylvester speak disparagingly of the
parade or the women In charge of it,
he said.
The committee adjourned until Fri
day, when other police officials will
testify.
BIGGEST PARADE PLANNED
National Suffragists Want Demon
stration in New York. May 3.
NEW YORK, March 12. What Is
planned to be the largest parade yet
held in the interest of woman suffrage
will take place here May 3. The parade
will be headed by the National Ameri
can Woman Suffrage Association, di
vided Into seven groups. The groups
will comprise the National officers,
delegations from the nine suffrage
states, delegates from states where the
suffrage amendment Is ready to be sub
mitted to the voters, from states where
the amendment Is awaiting action by
a second Legislature before submission,
from states In which the suffrage bill
has passed one house this session, from
states In which petitions initiating suf
frage legislation are circulating, and
from states where Legislatures have
failed to act on a suffrage bill this
year.
"The National association," says the
announcement, "is confident that this
procession will be much larger than
any previous suffrage demonstration,
even the parade of March 3, although
the number of marchers in Washington
far exceeded the expectations of every
one who understood the difficulties encountered."
GERMAN PAPERS REBUKED
Government Objects to Stories Tend
ing to Provoke War.
BERLIN, March 12. The German
government published today sk sharp
rebuke to certain newspapers which
are declared to have been fomenting
international trouble by provocative
articles. It also disavows an attack
by the Colognze Gazette on France as
the "Eurpean mischief-maker," to
which a section of the foreign press
attributed an official character.
The government statement declares
that the situation has Improved and
there is no doubt that the efforts of
the powers toward peace will be successful.
SULZER SEES PLOT
New York Governor and Tam
many at Outs.
EXECUTIVE TO FORCE ISSUE
Leader Murphy Charged With Giving
Instructions to Lawmakers He
Controls to Hold Up Legis
lative Programme.
ALBANY, N. T., March 12. There
has been an open break between Gov
ernor Sulzer and Charles F. Murphy,
leader of Tammany Hall, according to
friends of the Governor. They de
clared today that the Governor Is pre
paring to force the issue into the open.
A statement given to the press by a
close adviser of the Governor says:
"Why is all the Governor's legislation
being held np? Bills which were ad
vancing .rapidly early in February are
now weeks behind. Here is the an
swer: The Tammany leader has given
specific instructions to every legisla
tor he controls. He may use all the
instruments In his power, but he will
not be able to dictate to he Governor.
"Mr. Sulzer is determined to get his
programme of constructive legislation
through, even If It Is necessary to call
an extraordinary session of the legislature."
SHIPPER IS PROSECUTED
Campaign Against False Weighing
Begun by Government.
LOS ANGELES, March 12. A cam
paign of prosecution against the prac
tice of shippers of reducing the com
pensatlon of common carriers by falsely
listing the weight of merchandise was
begun here today by the Government.
Albert Haggerty, special examiner of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
swore to a warrant charging Oliver
Garby, of the Garby Produce Company,
with having misrepresented the weight
of a carload of vegetables shipped from
Los Angeles to Goldfleld.
According to Haggerty, Garby listed
the weight of the carload at 25.000
pounds and paid the railroad $255.63.
while Government officials asserted the
correct weight of the shipment was 31,
500 pounds, for the carrying of which
the railroad should have received
1322.09.
SULZER BILLS IN FAVOR
New. York Senate Committee Is for
Stock Exchange Reform.
ALBANY. N. Y, March 12. The Sen
ate codes committee voted tonight to
report favorably five of the Stock Ex
change reform bills introduced In the
Legislature by Senator Stilwell at the
suggestion of Governor Sulzer. The
bills reported propose amendments to
the penal law prohibiting the operation
of bucketshops and the making of
"wash" or "margin" sales of stock, and
requiring the production of books and
papers upon any trial or In any pro
ceeding initiated by the District At
torney, grand jury or court for vio
lations. Other amendments are:
Providing that the manipulations of
securities and conspiring in movements
to deceive the public as to stocks or
bonds shall constitute a felony.
Providing that any transactions by
brokers after Insolvency and the hy
pothecation of customers' securities
shall constitute a felony.
Making It a felony to report or pub
lish fictitious transactions In securi
ties with an intent to deceive.
Providing that the making of false
statements or advertisements as to the
securities or financial condition of a
corporation, company or association
shall constitute a felony.
Anti-Trust Law Repealed.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 12. Act
ing Governor Holdham Htgned today
the legislative act repealing the Ar
kansas anti-trust law. The repeal of
the law permits any foreign corpora
tion to engage In business In the state
so long as the foreign concern does
not seek to regulate prices within the
state.
Wallowa County Attorney Named.
SALEM, Or., March 12. (Special.)
A. w. Schaupp, of Joseph, has been ap
pointed by Governor West as County
Attorney for Wallowa County. Mr.
Schaupp Is a graduate of the Willam
ette College of Law at Salem, and has
been at Joseph for the past two years.
NEW YORK GOVERNOR AND TAMMANY CHIEFTAIN, WHO HAVE
QUARRELED.
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Wllllaju Salscr Charles F. Murphy. "
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