THE MORNING ORfcGONl&N, FRiuxx,
375 WASHINGTON STREET,
To Be
Sold
at
Once!
The Manufacturers Demand Their Money and Such Demands Mean QUICK, CONCERTED ACTION! The Conditions MOST BE
THE GREATEST BONA FIDE COAT AND SUIT SACRIFICE EVER MADE
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SALE STARTS
No C. O. D.
No Phone Orders
NEW SITE PROPOSED
Using Postoffice Block for
Auditorium Is Urged.
:ast siders back plan
pace for Federal Courts, Subpost
offlce. Postal Savings Bank and
Public Market Provided Sen
ators Give Support.
Support of the Oregon delegation In
Congress has been obtained by the
Kast Side Business Men's Club in a
campaign started to procure the old
Postoffice block at Morrison, Yamhill.
Fifth and Sixth streets as a site for the
proposed public auditorium. Word has
been received from Senators Lane and
Chamberlain that they have taken the
proposition up with officials In Wash
ington. The plan provides for space on the
lower floor for United States courts, a
aub-postofflce and space for the postal
savings bank. In the basement, on the
Yamhill side. It la proposed to make
room for a public market.
History of Site Told.
"The old postoffice block." reads a
communication sent to the City Com
mission by the East Siders, "originally
was dedicated to the city as a public
market block by D. H Lownsdale et al..
In 1152. and on September 1, 18(9, the
city, without right, deeded this then
market block to the t'nlted States Gov
ernment for a postoffice block for a
consideration of $13,000; some years
later the city tried to get It back, but
the United States retained title under
the doctrine of estoppel, the city hav
ing stood Idly by for longer than the
t 'n-year period, allowing tne Lnuea
states Government to improve It
"The time has now come when the
;overnraent has outgrown this site;
has purchased a new postoffice sit
mora convenient, and. since our United
State Government la not In the busi
$20,000 Stock Ladies' Coats, Suits,
Dresses, Skirts, Petticoats, Waists
ALL THOUGHT OF PROFIT MUST BE THROWN TO THE WINDS!!!
NEW STORE!
SUITS
NO. 1 Garments formerly
$15 to $18
$5.00
NO. 2 Garments formerly
$20 to $25
$7.95
NO. 3 Garments formerly
$24 to $37.50
$9.95
375 Washington, Corner West Park
ness to make money, there is no good
reason why, if Portland will get busy
and all pull together, the city authori
ties, commercial and civic bodies, and
take It up with the Federal authorities,
even Congress if need be. that the Fed
eral Government will not deed this
block back to us as an equitable jus
tice, or give us a perpetual leaso at $1
a year; or the city tender $15,000 and
have the Government deed it back to
the city, if estoppel shuts out the re
version. Uses Are Outlined.
"Then use the old postoffice block
for a public auditorium. Federal courts,
postal savings bank, general delivery
sub-station and public markets. On
ground floor, level with streets, on
Morrison-street side, use one-quarter
for the postal savings bank depart
ment and the other quarter for a gen
eral delivery sub-station. Use the
south half on Yamhill street for pub
lic market purposes, for dairy and
ESSAYS AND LABELS DUE.
Competitors in The Oregonlan's
home Industries contest for July must
have their essays and labels In The
Oregonlan office by tonight. An
nouncement of the winners and pub
lication of the prize essays will be
made in next Monday's Issue.
Six cash prizes for labels from Ore
gon products and five cash prises
for essays are distributed by The Ore
gonlan every month. The essays are
on the subject. "Why Oregon People
Should Do All Their Buying From
Oregon Manufacturers. Everything
Else Being Equal."
other products, as an adjunct to the
curb markets now in operation; use
the second floor for a public audi
torium, arcadlng over Yamhill street, if
need be, to make the auditorium large
enough, thus giving 200x260 feet for
the auditorium and stage.
"Then over the entrance and foyer
and clear of the auditorium proper, so
as not to kill the acoustics, let an up
structure run 10 or 12 stories high on
the Morrison-street side for Federal
courts, an historical museum and Fed
eral offices."
NEW PERKINS HOTEL.
Most conveniently located hotel In
the city; every modern convenience,
monthly rates, $15 up. Adv.
NEW
sold for
sold for
sold for
if
SILK PETTICOATS, all colors, Special $1.47
FRIDAY
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Officers Among Victims of
Pair of Robbers.
TWO-STORY LEAP USELESS
Man Caught After Jump and Dash
to Escape Detectives Ex-Convicts
Tell of Work as Highwaymen
In Portland and Seattle.
Two men arrested yesterday morn
ing by Detectives Pat Moloney,
Swennes. Goltz and Coleman have con
fessed to six holdups in Portland
within the past week, and also to a
number of like crimes in Seattle dur
ing the Potlatch, It is declared. The
men are Frank Martin, alias Bill Samp
son, alias Bill Prescott, and Thomas E.
Wilson, known to the police as "Hinky
Dink." One if the robberies has not
been reported to the police by the vic
tims.
Martin leaped from a second-story
window and made a dash for liberty
yesterday when he was taken to his
room on Bast Eighth street by De
tectives Moloney and Goltz to identify
some property. While the detectives
were examining the goods Martin
leaped through a window and fled east
on Couch street. Moloney fired at him
from the window. The two detectives
then pursued.
Patrol Driver Douglas Lelsy saw the
man running and intercepted him at
Eleventh and Couch.
At noon yesterday Martin and Wil
son confessed to Detectives Coleman,
Goltz and Rsyle that they were re
sponsible for six holdups, two of which
occurred Wednesday night.
The crimes for which the men are
held are:
Wednesday night G. A, Keith, 94
East Eighth street, held up and robbed
of $1.60. R. H. Hedlund, of 961 East
Thirty-sixth street, held up at Thirty
first and Mason streets, Alameda Park,
CONFESS
HOLDUPS
COATS
LOT NO. 1 A special assortment some
excellent values
$1.25
LOT NO. 2 Here are some Coats that you
have often paid as high as $15 and $18 for
$5.95
LOT NO. 3 An array of excellent Coats that
formerly sold as high as $20 to $24
$7.95
(THIS) MORNING
but ran away and nothing was taken.
Monday night H. J. McEachran, of
341 Eleventh street, held up at the head
of Jefferson street and J8 taken from
him. Unknown man and woman held
up in North Portland. Open-face gold
watch secured. This robbery has
never been reported to the police, but
Martin and Wilson declare they held
ud the i. air.
Friday night Charles McCanta ana
woman in Washington Park. E. J. isu
lings, of 264 Twelfth street, held up
by two men in front of his own nouse
He called for help and the men ran.
During the Potlatch in Seattle, they
said, they held up a Deputy Sheriff
who was walking In the park with a
woman. A forest ranger, they said,
was another of their victims.
Evidence that these two men were
responsible for the numerous holdups
in Portland has been gathered by the
detectives within the past few days,
and yesterday morning the men were
caught and charged with the crimes
When taken in custody at First and
Burnside streets the men at first em
phatlcally denied their guilt.
Martin is at present on parole from
Folsom penitentiary, California, where
he was serving a 17-year sentence for
shooting Harry Foley, the well known
sport promoter, a few years ago. He
was arrested in San Francisco and
convicted under the name of Sampson.
Wilson served a term in Folsom pen
itentiary for highway robbery.
The men will probably be arraigned
before Municipal Judge Stevenson to
day on a highway robbery charge.
ACCUSED DOESN'T APPEAR
Bench Warrant Issued for Alleged
Illegal Practitioner.
Failure of attorneys for H. Dudley
Young, a physician accused of prac
ticing without a license, to produce
their client in District Court yester
day led Judge Jones to issue a bench
warrant and the Constable was direct
ed to find Young.
The District Attorney had issued a
"warrant at tho request of Dr. Harry
McKay, president of the State Board of
Medical Examiners, and the case had
been set for yesterday. Young's at
torney said he understood the case had
been set for next Monday.
Through error the case had been
transferred from Judge Jones' court to
Judge Dayton's. Then, when Young
was brought in Wednesday, he asked
release until yesterday on account of
illness in his family.
CORNER WEST
NEW
127 ARE BAPTIZED
Army of Cultists Brave Chill
Waters of Willamette.
WOMAN, 80, IS IMMERSED
Apostolic Faith Mission Holds Dem
onstration of Conversion at
Fulton and Cool Breeres
Set Teeth Chattering.
One hundred and twenty-seven con
verts to the cult of the Apostolic Faith
Mission were Immersed in the cold
waters of the Willamette River near
Fulton station yesterday afternoon in
the annual baptismal service of the
organization.
Several hundred others lined the
river banks and sang weird songs and
waved their arms to the shivering 127
people standing waist-deep in the mud
dy water as they were receiving the
blessings from one who was termea
"John."
The ceremony started about 3
o'clock. Several tents were erected
on the river bank at Fulton, opposite
the Oaks, and in these shelters the Hi
converts changed their street clothes
for others which, it is said, had been
previously blessed by high officials
of the church.
One feeble woman, who appeared to
be nearly 80 years old, stepped Into
the river and bravely made her way,
assisted by a line of men in the water,
to where the baptizers stood. Another
woman, about 24 years old. underwent
the immersion, and later stood upon
the bank of the river. Her teeth chat
tered and she shivered violently.
The men, however, did not appear to
mind either the cold or the water.
The immersion is an annual custom
of the Apostolic Faith Mission. It
is generally held at the close of the
annual camp meeting, which this Sum
mer Is being held near Peninsula Park. '
MET, and to Meet Them We Inaugurate Today
NECESSARY IN THIS CITY!
FALL GOODS!
DRESSES
LOT NO. 1 These Dresses formerly sold
from $10 to $12
$3.75
LOT NO. 2 Values
to
$6.95
LOT NO. 3 A choice collection of nobby
Dresses, values as high as $20 to $30
$9.95
AT 9 O'CLOCK
The 127 people represent the converts
of the past year, it Is said.
"BUG JUICE" REPLY WAITS
G. O. Mason. Investigator, Says Price
Subject Is Committee Affair.
Chairman George C. Mason, of the
"bug Juice" investigating committee,
one of the sub-committees of the gen
eral investigating body made up Jointly
of members of the Non-Partisan and
Taxpayers' Leagues, to probe county
affairs, will make no reply, publicly,
to the open letter addressed to him
yesterday through The Oregonlan by
County Commissioner Llghtner. The
subject, he says, will be handled before
the committee.
Commissioner Llghtner's letter
quoted Mr. Mason's assertion that he
had been offered the Identical "bug
Juice" bought by the county at $1.75 a
gallon, whereas the Commissioners
have been paying $2. and asked him to
show where the insect exterminator
could be bought for that figure. The
letter also sets forth that the manu
facturers and their authorized agents
say the price is never reduced and
that no one has authority to sell the
stuff at the rate quoted by Mr. Mason.
A private meeting of the general In
vestigating committee will be held
this morning. This will be followed by
a public meeting to which all Inter
ested will be invited. The date for the
public meeting has not yet been set.
STREET EXTENSION IS HOPE
Residents In Vicinity or Colored
Church Site Make Last Move.
In a last hope of being able to stop
the construction of a negro church at
East First and Haisey streets by street
extension proceedings, property owners
of that district will appear before the
City Commission this morning and urge
that body to commence condemnation
proceedings against the property upon
which the church is being built. When
the condemnation proceedings are fin
ished it is proposed to have the Coun
cil by petition commence proceedings
to extend Haisey street through the
church property.
The property owners have been try
ing for about two weeks to find some
way to oust the negroes, but as yet
have been unsuccessful. A lively fuss
s expected this morning when the prob
lem Is presented to the Council.
PARK
To Be
Sold
at
Once!
that run as high as $15
$20
No Approvals
No Refunds
SIX ARE CONSIDERED
SELECTION OK nuilor lltniM.
SUCCESSOR TALKED OP. .
laadldatra llefore the Kc-lessaatlea I
Hoard Include lergrMrs Sta
tioned la Yartnna ..'
The list of possibilities for successor
to the late Bishop Charles Kf adding of
the Oregon diocese. Episcopal Church,
now under consideration by the eccles
iastical board, has dwindled from a
score or morr candidates to six, a mem
ber of the ecclesiastical board reports.
Those under consideration for aelac
tion as bishop of the Oregon diocese
are: Rev C. M. Lathrop. rector of the
Church of the Advent. San Francisco.
Dean Paul Matthews, of the Cathedral
of Merciful Savior. Kulrbault. Minn .
Rev. J. H. Hopkins, PMW of the
Church of the Redeemer. Chicago; Rv.
D. L. Parsons, rector of ft. Mark's
Church. Berkeley. Cal.; Rev. Walter H
Sumner, dean of the Cathedral of 81.
Peter and St. Paul, Chicago, ami Iltahup
S. M. Grlswold, of Sailna, Kan.
The successor to the late Btahtop
Scudding will he chosen at the annus!
meeting of the ecclesiastical hoard,
which will be held In Portland Sepia.,,
bar IS. A report from Eureka, Cal..
that Rev. Maxwell B. Long, of Hyde
Park, Cincinnati, was the probable
selection of the ecclesiastical board as
bishop of the Oregon diocese, was de
clared by a member of the board yes
terday to bo unfounded.
LOOT AGENCY'S DOOM SEEN
Detectives Sny Arrest of Six I Lat
of Worst Fence."
With six persons in the City Jail
charged with receiving stolen goods.
Detectives Hellyer and Tackaberry
believe they have broken up on of
the worst "fences." or agencies for
stolen property, in the Northwest.
Edward Thorwald, a bartender, was
arrested yesterday and W. H. Anitey,
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Kelley and Mr. ami
Mrs. George Haase were seised
Wednesday. They are all held under
,1000 ball. In Thorwald's effects, yes
terday, were found numerous article
which the detectives declare are loot.