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THT3 MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914. 11 BENSON UNWILLING 10 CONCEDE AGAIN Justice McNary's Opponent to Go Before Canvassing Board One Vote Ahead. COUNT IS SET FOR TODAY Time I- Declared Too Short for Re count in Sixes Precincts, Carry County, in Reply to Request of Governor West. SAXiElI, Or., Sept. 4. (Special.) Baying that he was unwilling further to concede stipulations with Justice Charles L. McNary, Judge Henry L. Benson has replied to a request made to him by Governor West for an agree ment to a re-count of the votes In Sixes Precinct, Curry County, where it is said 15 ballots were thrown out be cause the voters had voted for two candidates for Governor. This would have meant a delay of the offclal can vass, set for tomorrow. Judge Benson stood one vote ahead of Justice McNary, for the Republican nomination for the Supreme bench, with the amended returns from Harney County, which were received today by the Secretary of State. By Judge Benson's consent alone can the votes be recounted and the time for the contest has lapsed. Benson Position Given. The letter received today by the Governor from Judge Benson was in response to a second appeal made by the executive for a recount of the vote In Sixes precinct. "I note what you say as to there being ample time to recount the ballots in Sixes precinct, in Curry County, which leads me to suspect that you are not fully conversant with the travel ing facilities In that region. I am con vinced that even if I were- willing to concede further stipulations with Judge McNary (which 1 am not), it would be utterly impossible to get of ficial returns from such recount back to Salem in time for the canvassing board to act thereon at the date nxed. So far as I am concerned this must conclude the discussion." Denning his attitude with relation to the contest the Governor today gave out the following statement: "Had a strict construction of the law been complied with and the votes can vassed within the time fixed by law, it is difficult to say which candidate would have been declared elected, owing to the confusion which prevailed on account of the numerous errors which were found, and the corrections made In the official returns." Correction Declared Purpose. "It was for the purpose of securing correct results as to the will of the people in this contest that by common consent the date of canvassing the vote was deferred. If the date fixed by law was deferred in one Instance by com mon consent It should be deferred In another, If It is found that reported errors have not been corrected. "This office is interested in seeing a certificate of nomination issued to the candidate who received the highest number of votes in the primaries, and neither technicalities nor sharp prac tices will control my actions in my efforts to obtain the correct results." ELOQUENCE WINS LICENSE Attorney's Plea Causes Council to Reinstate Second-Hand Dealer. Eloquence, it was shown yesterday, will touch the hearts of members of the City Commission where pleas fail. The proof came when John F. Logan, an attorney, made an appeal for the Council to grant a license to Ben Se Kill to conduct a second-hand store. Segill pleaded to be allowed to con tinue his business, at the time his license was revoked because of a vio lation of the law. Wednesday he again pleaded, but was refused. Yesterday Mr. Logan won the fight for Segill. who will be permitted to resume his business October 1. The original revocation of license was or dered by vote of all the Commissioners excepting Mayor Albee, who was not at the meeting. HOOD RIVER WOMAN DIES Mrs. H. Ek Fording: Victim or Heart Trouble in This City. Mrs. If. L, Fording, of Hood River, died of heart trouble at the Seward Hotel early Thursday. Mrs. Fording had been ailing for more than a year and underwent a serious operation some months ago. Her Improvement for the past month was marked and her sudden demise came as a surprise. The funeral services will be con ducted at the Crematorium chapel by the Rev. A. E. Macnamara, of St. Mark's Church, Hood River, at 1 o'clock today. Mrs, Fording was a member of the Eastern Star and Woman's Club of Hood River. Both organizations will be represented at the funeral. POLICE CHANGE DISLIKED Objection Made to Wearing Uniform When Going To and From Work. The suggestion of Police Chief Clark that patrolmen wear their uniforms while going to or from work has met with opposition from the men. Many meet their families after work and go shopping CV on pleasure trips, and feel that the uniforms might prove em barrassing. "The men will go home after work, If they wear their uniforms. Instead of to other places," says Chief Clark. "If they go home they will get their rest and be in better shape for work." PERSONALMENTI0N. J. S. Smith, of Bend, is at the Im perial. J. B. Sneddon, of Marshfield, is at the Perkins. J. C. Devine. of Lebanon, is at the Carlton. Mrs. A. F. Rapp, of Eugene, is at the Nortonia. H. F. Kelso, Jr., of Chicago, is at the Nortonia. Frederick C. Page, of Medford, is at the Oregon. Alex Gilbert, Jr.. of Seaside, la at the Multnomah. Mrs. M. J. O'Donnell, of Seattle, is at the Nortonia. W. C. Stanford, of Eugene. Is at the Washington. R. D. Stonebraker, of Minneapolis, is at the Eaton. Major H. L. Bowlby, of Salem, State Highway Engineer, is registered at the Benson. Dr. M. E. Pomeroy, of Salem, is at the Cornelius. A. W. Ray, a La Grande stockman, is at the Perkins. J. B. Hofmann, of Carson, Wash., is at the Carlton. G. E. Stillings, of Vancouver, B. C, Is at the Seward. Dr. I. L. Marti, of Camas, Wash., is at the Multnomah. H. K. Donnelly registered at the Im perial from Salem. A. R. Finnell. of Union, is registered at the Washington. Rev. J. O. Hougen, of Tacoma, is reg istered at the Eaton. Robert E. Smith, a Roseburg abstrac tor, is at the Seward. William Gerig, of Medford, is regis tered at the Nortonia. D. H. Wilson, a Pendleton automobile dealer, is at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Stewart, of Kelso, Wash., are at the Oregon. C. Philip Beebe, of Hood River, is registered at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Murlock, of Los Angeles, are at the Eaton. M. C. Thomas, of Los Angeles, is reg lstered at the Washington. A. Olson and F. M. Potter, of Deep River, are at the Cornelius. W. Bollons and Albert Lehman, of La Grande, are at the Multnomah. Joe Knowles, the nature man, is reg istered at the Oregon from Boston. W. A. Packard and C. T. Shong, of San Francisco, are at the Cornelius. Miss Fern Hobbs. private secretary to Governor West, Is at the Seward. H. L. Herzinger, a Grants Pass min ing man, is registered at the PerkinB. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hill, of Santa Cruz, registered at the Cornelius yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Dement and F. B. Dement, of Walla Walla, are at the Oregon. Pat Foley, of La Grande, who has just returned from a tour of the East, is at the Imperial. Webster Holmes, Circuit Judge of Tillamook, Polk and Lincoln counties, Is at the Imperial. Samuel H. Upton, of Newberg, where he is a merchant, registered at the Perkins yesterday. C. A. Gilbert, of San Francisco, Pa cific Coast manager of the United States Tire Company, is at the Benson. Harry V. Patterson, Western repre sentative of Harper & Bros., is passing a part of this week in Portland. J. O. Russell, superintendent of Pub lic Schools at Wasco, Or., arrived m Portland Wednesday after a tour of the East. George W. Rice, of San Francisco, Pacific Coast manager for the American-Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, is at the Seward. A. E. Holcomb, chief clerk of the Hotel Marion at Salem, was registered at the Benson yesterday, and went to San Francisco for his vacation. Richard Watson Tully, the playwright, author of "The Bird of Paradise" and "Omar the Tentmaker," was in Portland a few hours yesterday, and registered at the Multnomah. Mrs. J. H. Bates, who has been pass ing the Summer at Seaside, is in Port land on a short business trip. She ex pects to return to the beach today for the remainder of the season. . CHICAGO, Sept, 3. (Special.) C. H. McGill, of Portland, registered today at the Congress; at the Great Northern, A. G. Brown; at the La Salle, Miss Ella Todd, also of Portland. CENSORSHIP IS PROTESTED Cable Companies Say Scheme Form of Unreasonable Search. Censorship of cable messages from the United States, as a result of the war, as proposed by the Government of this country, has brought formal pro test from the Commercial Cable Com pany, acting in conjunction with the Postal Telegraph Company. The protest was placed with the Government authorities at Washington August 14 and stipulated that the util ity heads saw in the censorship plan unwarranted curtailment of commer cial liberty. The protest pointed out that a sub marine cable was different from a wireless message and that a cable mes sage to the belligerent country might be considered in the light of supplies, which were not prohibited. It was further cited that a message was a personal letter, not subject to censor ship. The protest also said the Com mercial Cable Company would feel obliged to contest, as a form of unrea sonable search, the placing of censors In Its office. A letter has been sent to the patrons of the companies Involved, inviting them to join in the protest to the Gov ernment. Copies of the protest were received in Portland yesterday. ASTORIA MERCHANT IS DEAD P. J. Goodman Succumbs to Ail ments Due to Advanced Age. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 4. (Special.) P. J. Goodman, one of Astoria's early merchants, died at his home here today, following an extended illness with ail ments Incident to advancing years. He was a native of Ireland, 72 years old, and had resided in Astoria more than 25 years. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. F. J. Carney and Mrs. J. J. Leonard, of this city. Stores to Close Labor Day. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Portland Retail Mer chants' Association yesterday it was ordered that all members of the organ ization close their places of business Monday, Labor day. A request had been received by some merchants to close their establishments September 10 to enable employes to attend the fstivities to be given in Vancouver, Wash., on that day. Thfs request was denied by the association. No one ever saw a new piano for sale at $98. heretofore. And when we get through here selling out this big stock of pianos, as announced on page 7, this issue, headed "An Urgent Piano Sacrflce," no one will ever hear of such tX :-n . ... t r, ' " 'J everything else at according reduc tions, oecause e ivu. .v, sell out this stock and make any kind of profit. Everything is literally slaughtered and can be had on little monthly payments besides. But come today. Store open this evening. Adv. How to Look Less Than Your Age There are three golden rules that every woman who would ward off signs of advancing age, should follow: understand the physiological effect of1 worrying, know this udvlce should be J taken more seriously than It usually Is. Whenever the complexion begins to'iook worn or withered, use ordinary mercollzed wax for a week or two. pply nightly like cold cream, erasing it mornings with warm water. This gradually absorbs the thin film of sur- j face skin, revealing the fresher and vounger skin underneath. An ounce of1 "the wax, obtainable at any drug store. Is enough to rejuvenate any complexion. I 3 When the tell-tale wrinkles ap- j near or cheek and chin muscles begin j to sag bathe the face once a day for 1 awhile in a solution of powdered saxolite, 1 oz., dissolved In V, pt. of witch hazel. This has a remarkable effect in "firming up" and imoothlng out the Bkin. Adv. yi-ar aroon Tradina Stamos Will Be Given on All Charge Accounts if Paid in FuU on or Before the 10th of Each Month Artistic Picture Framing at Lowest Prices, 4th Floor Grocery, Bakery and Delicatessen Departments on the 4th Floor i i Visit Premium Double Stamps today with all the cash purchases made in the Shoe Dept., Main Fir. Olds, Wortman & King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Pacific Phone Marshall 4800 Home Phone A 6231 Parlors Thousands of beautiful new premiums are here for your choosing abso lutely without root. Ask for book with 10 Free Greeji Trading- Stamps. & H." Green Trading Stamps. ; We Give "S. Exhibition Men's Fall Apparel Department, Main Floor Showing the season's smartest productions from America's best tailors. The assemblage includes many unique and novel fabrics of domestic and foreign loomings and each model is tailored with supreme care. Step in and familiarize yourself with the correct styles for Fall and Winter. You will not be urged to buy. 95 Blue Serge Suits $14 Cooper Underwear 95c Garment Men's and Young Men's blue serge Suits in splendid Fall weight. Are hand tailored throughout. Conservative, ex treme cuts, fij A QCZ Special at Men's "Cooper' ' Underwear shirts and drawers in just the right weight for present wear. Full range of all sizes this lot. Priced Q iu special, a garment, ' Stylish Neckwear, Special, at 89c New "Shedrain" Hats at $3.00 Special purchase of men's fine Neckwear regular $1.50 shapes in beautiful Of colorings. Priced sp'l.' Our new Fall line of famous "Shedrain" water-proof soft and stiff hats now in. Price $3.00 Men's Imported Dnnraven Felt Hats for Motoring at $2.00 Men's Imported Scotch Caps in Smart New Patterns 81.5Q Man's Balmacaan Hats Correct for Fall Wear at 82.0Q Boys9 Norfolks $6.50 to $10 Pop-Gun or Bow and Arrow Free Main Floor Our showing of Boys' Norfolk Suits with two pairs of pants comprises the latest and smartest models produced. Extensive collection of beautiful patterns and materials from" which to choose. Hand-tailored throughout and finished with greatest care. Pop-gun or bow and arrow free wJlh Boys' Suits selling at from $6.50 to $10.00 Boys' New Norfolk Mackinaws, $5.00, $6.50, $7.50 to $12.50 Boys' Corduroy Pants Some With Double Seat, $1.25 to $2 Home Journal Book of Fashion for Fall Now in, price 25 a copy. Pro fusely illustrated with authentic modes for the coming season. Free Pattern With each copy of "FalJ Fashions" a coupon attached entitles you to any 15c pattern, including those shown in Ladies' Home Journal for September. Take advantage of this. Waists Worth to $4 Special at 98c Center Circle, Main Floor Odd lines women's high-grade Waists pm-cd for Saturday's selling at a fraction of teal worth. Scores of handsome styles in this assortment. Long or short sleeves, high or low neck. Trimmed with fine laces, embroideries, tucks, etc. Some with dainty, soft collar and fancy vest effects. Voiles, striped and figured crepes, batiste and linen. Attractive, becoming styles in white, also a number of models in colors. Waists selling heretofore up to $4.00. Excellent QC range of sizes. Priced for Saturday's selling at, your choice'0' Women's and Misses' Wash Dresses priced very special Saturday at 98 Sale of Girls' Fall Coats Department on the Second Floor Girls' new Fall Coats 3 underprice lots here for tomorrow's selling at splendid savings. Very newest models including Raglans, Cape Coats, Belted Coats and other popular styles. Baby lamb, velvets, chinchilla, plaids, tweeds and mixtures. Handsome new Fall colorings. Sizes for girls 6 to 14 years : LOT 1 Coats Worth $7.00 Priced Special at Only $4.98 LOT 2 Coats Worth $9.00 Priced Special at Only $5.98 LOT 3 Coats Worth $10.00 Priced Special at Only $7.48 Children's School Dresses at Special Prices This timely sale of children's school Dresses will attract many mothers to the store today. Three special lots of Dresses secured at a very low price offered for Saturday's selling at noteworthy savings. Middy, Buster and waist styles in plaids and serges. Attractive School Dresses. Ages 6 to 14 years. LOT 1 Dresses Worth $7.00 Priced Very Special at $4.98 t.cvt 9. Dresses Worth S8.50 Priced Very Special at $5.98 LOT 3 Dresses Worth $9.00 Priced Very Special at $6.48 .Stamps Girls' Wash Dresses l2 Price Girls' $1.00 Bloomer Dresses 49c Ask for S. & H. Second Floor Final Clearance of all children's colored Wash Dresses. Lin ens, ratine, repps, ginghams, cham braj's and other serviceable fabrics. All new 1914 styles. $3.50 to $12.00 iy Dresses are now reduced just Second Floor Girls' Bloomer Drosses of light and dark-colored percales also a few in serviceable wash crepes. Splendid line of neat patterns and col ors. Ages range from 2 to 6. A Qf $1.00 Dresses now on sale for"'' New Millinery for Fall Second Floor Smart new black velvet Hats, trimmed with fancy feathers, flowers, ribbons, etc. Medium and large shapes in sea son's newest effects here for your choosing. Moderate fiP ly priced, $9.75 and S Any Summer Hat Choice $1.00 Second Floor This includes all colored straws, white satins and combination effects of all kinds. Hats worth to $9.75 fij l fkfk on sale now at only V'W ThisRoaster $1.12 Third Floor Covered Aluminum Roaster exactly like above cut. Popular size for everyday use. Can be used on top of stove as well as in oven. Priced spe- fiP f "19 cial for Saturday at V' Aluminum Ware Specials on Sale. $1.85 Aluminum Tea Pots $1.25 $1.90 Aluminum Tea Pots $1.30 $2.20 Aluminum Tea Pots $1.50 $1.75 Alum'm Coffee Pots $1.15 $2.20 Alum'm Coffee Pots $1.50 New line of White China for dec orating just received. Extra Special Men's 75c Shirts 48c On Sale Today Only, Basement Bargain Center. Men's outing and work Shirts of light and dark ehambrays, chev iots, duck, black-a nd-white stripes, khaki and black sateen. Military and regulation collars. Reg. 75c Shirts -' $1.25 Flannelette Gowns $1.00 V $1.75 Flannelette Pajamas $1.50 Bargain Circle, First Floor Sale of women's flannelette Gowns, styled with pajania neck and nice ly finished. Extra good quality of material. Regular fl j ftfh $1.25 Gowns now at V,wv Bargain Circle, First Floor Wom en's Pajamas in pink and blue or plain white with dainty pink or blue piping. Excellent quality of material. Regular 2J T G!fk $1.75 grade, now for $1.00 to $1.50 Brassieres at 69c Corset Covers Special 23c Spor ting Goods Fourth Floor Complete lines of Golf, Tennis, Football and Sporting Goods of every description at the lowest prices. For your convenience we issue Hunting and Fishing Licenses in our Sporting Goods Dept. Go-Carts, Sulkies, Baby Car riages, Coasters, Bicycles, etc., at reasonable price. Don't forget to ask for S. & H. Green Trading Stamps. Bargain Circle, First Floor Odd lines women's embroidery and lace trimmed Brassieres in hook-front and back fastenings. In regular $1.00 to $1.50 grade, spe- iZQf. cial for Saturday's selling '-'' Bargain Circle, First Floor Long cloth Corset Covers, trimmed with dainty embroideries and laces. Also muslin Drawers with embroidery ruffles. Priced special for O fig. this sale at low price of Women's $5 Shoes $3.48 Men's $4 Shoes $3.48 Double S. A H. Stamps Will Be Given Today With Cash Purchases in Shoe Department, Main Floor. At $3.48 Pair Women's fine Shoes in the season's latest styles for street and dress wear. Gun metal, patent leather, dull calf and mat kid with cravenette or mat goat tops. All style heels and toes. Footwear selling in the regular way at $4 and $5 flJO AQ -on sale Saturday P0O Headquarters for Children's School At $3.48 Pair Men's gunmetal, calf and vici kid Shoes in button and lace styles easy, comfortable lasts for general wear. Made from best selected stock, variety of il DODular lasts to choose from and all sizes and widths. The regular $4.00 Shoes on sale AQ now at. the pair, for PJCT Shoes at Popular Prices. Main Fir. Renfrew Devonshire Cloth Ideal lor Children's School Dresses Main Floor Renfrew Devonshire Cloth is heavier than gingham and so woven as to withstand long and trying service and the colors are woven in, not printed on. The full name Renfrew Devonshire Cloth is stamped on every yard of selvage, so that you may know you are getting the real article. This is for your protection. . , Renfrew Devonshire Cloth comes full 32 inches wide, and will cut to greatest advantage. Price, 20c yard. Fancy Cookery Demonstration In Our Model Grocery, Fourth Floor Miss Julie Crowley, instructor of culinary arts, invites you to attend a special exhibition of fancy cook ery and Desserts today at 3 P. M. Miss Crowley will illustrate the novel color touches given to food materials by the use of Burnett's Color Pastes. i Select Sweet Potatoes 10 lbs. for 25c Drugs and Toilet Needs Standard Lines Underpriced for Saturday 5c Fairy, Lurline or Ivory Soap 3c Limit 5 rakes of Ivory or Fairy and 1 cake lurline to a custom er. No deliveries unless with other purchases in Drug Dept. Regular 10c Sapolio, cake 7c 15c Pears Unseented Soap 10c 25c Peroxide Cream, jar i Tk 25c Williams' Cream at 15c Tube 25c Imperial Talcum only lOc 10c Dutch Cleanser now at 7 5c Toilet Soaps, 2 cakes at Sc 25c Floating Castile, bar 10 10c Monkey Brand Soap 21 at 25c Nickel Soap Boxes at 10c $1.00 McNally's Olive Oil 75c 50c La Blachc Face P'wder 37C 25c Woodbury's Cream at 17J 25o Packer's Tar Soap at 15 10c Palm Olive Soap Special 6c Cake 25c Dr. Lyon's Tooth Pwd 15tf 50c Canthrox Shampoo at Tl'.iC 50c Danderine, fur Hair, 33 25cSanitol Tooth Patc 15c 25c Sauitol Face Creams 15 25c Rubifoam Mouth Wash 15 10c Merck's Boric Acid at He 50cPhenolax Wafers for 35 25c "Zebz" for tired feet nPlOc 50c Pebeco Tooth Paste Special 28c $1.00 Fitch's Hair Tonic 69 50c W'yeth's Sa?e a'd Slp'r 39c 30c D. & R. Cold Cream for 39 Lister's Sanitary Towels, put up 12 in a box, special now at 30 $1.25 Dozen Toilet Paper (Wal dorf brand), the dozen at 95 25c Cleaning Sponges at 15 50c Milk of Magnesia at 40 $1 Kilmer's Swamp Root 79 50o Syrup of Figs Special 35c 25c Pacific Sea Salt now 18c 25oKondon Catarrh Jelly 18C $1 Glyoothymoline, box at 79 $1 Pinkham'8 Conipo.iml 79c 50o Lavoptik Eye Wash 39c $1.00 Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi cal Discovery, special at 79 $1.50 Fellow's Syrup of Hypo phosphites, special for $1.17 50c Sempre Giovine Special 28c 50c Paper Towels at, doz. 35 25c Hand Brushes, now at 15c $1.50 Hand Mirrors, now 81 25o Dressing Combs, only 10P 50c Rubber Cushion Hair Brushes Saturday for only 39c Ebony Military Brushes good bristles now at HALF PRICE Free 50c Jar Cold Cream With 75c Bottle of Chas. Hedden's Toilet Water 25c Scissors special at only ISC 25c Buffers with removable buf fers, Saturday on sale at ltC All Pyralin Ivory at V4 OFF Borden's Milk for Health A jar of Borden's Malted Milk should be found in the pantry of every home. Stop at the dem onstration booth in our Drug Department and try a glass of this most refreshing food drink. Regular 50c Size Now at 40c Regular $1.00 Size Now at 80c $3.98 Hospital Sice now 82.98 Free Treatment "Maurine" Vtait the Rest Rooms on the KSecond Floor and obtain a tree full treatment of Maunne Toilot Goods. Maurine Preparations are absolutely free from all poisonous substances. 4