TTIT3 MOT"T??G OREGONIATT. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1915.
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C0LU3IBIA HIGHWAY TRIP SEPT. 6 TICKETS ON SALE AT ACCOMMODATION DESK
that they contracted their Bartlett
paara to canneries for 1-0 a ton. "1
have never s-en a renter demand for
Bartlette." saya Wllmer la. eelea
manaa-er of the Apple Growers- Asso
ciation. "I have received calls ror 1
carloads In the past week, and 1 can
not begin to Sad the fruit to till the
orders. If we had tha paara bow we
could get li ton tor them."
Mr. Kteg aaya that tha apple crop,
according to reporte from nam O.
CURRIERGOHFESSES
BURNING BUILDINGS
Last Days of Our Memova
All CHARGE PURCHASES Made Here Today Will Be Entered on September Accounts and Are Made Payable October First.
Campbell, chief Inspector of tha Asso
ciation, will be of excellent quality.
The womae or fungus of the early
aaaana. Kasa iaud the rtfftlt Warm.
Suspected 'Arson King Owns
Up to Destroying Many
Houses in Portland.
dry days having killed much of tha
fungua growth.
The Association members are har
vesting Kings, which are going for
wari as rapidly aa pu ked and packed
OTHER MEN IMPLICATED
tTitr: OK lOHTH rtetoLIX.l
im. H.HE AT M 1 r: H.
1 Vhci.
J a a ra nee 1'raads Are Termed Easy.
IVpaJe IMstrlr. Attorney
(onpinln Ar nianxwbte
a ad IV lay fcildcao.
ffaafoH TV. Currier eonft4 y.tr-
y t M Dm for in peat 1 yar.
snada a fairly profitable business of
kalldina housa. partly furnishing
tRem. sailing flra la then. and eol
leetiad the lasoran.'e.
Tha operation of himself and '
f eight arronipllcae whoee Bmrt are
salsa- wlthbel-1 r tnsirlct Attorney
Kvini' deputies, exteD'te4 from Teaaa
tO WuhlDftolt.
Whan ha finlb-t making his state
ment to Charles W. Ko bison. Dputy
I-i.irlct Attorney. Currier bad admitted
kta personal responsibility for at laaat
ala firee la fortUnd. and said ha mail
aae flrad about !i builrtlrn In alL
I first aaar this thing done In Cali
fornia about I ysare no," Currier
aald. "A tun told ma about It and B"t
loac afterward 1 triad It myself. It
worked so wait that I kept It op. Tba
Insurance companlea wara easy. They
wara aiwaya ansiuua to Inaara any
thine and we bid to fight then off.
Lota or ttraea wa built Jul the shell of
a hoaaa and burned It tcfora finishing
ft complately
Mr Hartna Currier. hla dKorced wife,
flatted ktrrt la the County Jail yester
day and talked to Mm for noma time
bef'ire tha confession waa made. Fi
nally Currier In4l--ted that ha wished
to talk t Mr. Kobl-on.
Plloaass Caafeeees) Araeej. .
"1 a-oaa you hjvt tha stuff ob ma
all rltrfct." ha salj. "My wtfa and I
aae talked It over and Ira decided
tha best thins to do la to tall you all
about It. I II tell you all I know."
It took nearly twa hours to tail It
a'L with a stenographer. Mr. Kobiaon.
Ire Marshal Jar KteTana and Mrs.
Currier listening Intently. Carrier told
hi alory eaailr. but top pad fra-iuant.'y
when bta memory waa not clear on
noma point. Frequently Mrs. Currlar
corrected him.
Currier admitted that ha burned the
following hou-ea: November 13. 1911
reMeiu- at Ftfth avenue an.l Maybee
treat; January 21, .1913. reeldence In
klrKtnley Addition: IH-loher 37 113.
house In ldentone Addition. Lenta
February 1. 1st, house at East Eighty-
lath aad H'lm-Wa streets: hta own
rai.lne at 14t Eat Jity-fifth etreet
Nortn. fnmt time In 1913: August 3w.
ll. Third and Heai-h avenuea. I-nt .
The ara pom a of tha mora rertnt
fire Currier luWi of eetllng other
flrea aa far buck aa I ycara ico. lie
waa explaining rather bealtatlncly
what ha bad told tha tniarinrt com
pany whan ha burned one of tha houses,
a ben Mr. Currier Interrupted him.
Wife trtra Train.
"Now. NT eha aald. "if you ran"!
tell tha truth you'd better keep your
mouth aaui."
Currier flushed sllghtty and chanced
a few of tha detail In hla story.
teputy IMtrtct Attorney Koblaoo
wouUI not release tha entire confession
for publication yesterday.
"Vurrter conf'rrae.1 our evidence aa ta
tha Inflammable material used." said
llivbleon. "He said they alwaya used a
aniiture of turpentine, linseed oil and
varnish. Tha turpentine formed the ex
plosive gas, tre linseed oil made the
base of the burning material, and the
varnlsn furnished a flaa.'i to assure a
sjuik bias and a hot one.
"m can t t.MI the names of the men
Currier Implicated just yet. None of
them are la Tortland and none of them
ara under arrest, and we a ant to ad
vis the authorities In the different
Cities before we teil who they ara."
"I'm Kolnx ta start all over aaain and
try to live this doa n." said Currier yes
terday afternoon. "I want to tell It all
pet It -ill ant or my svstem. take what,
ever sentence la romlna? to me. and try
( start over strain."
Currier la 41 yeara old.
laewrawcej ssisaal-s stlaased.
Insuranca companies ara blamed by
Taputy Kobison for mu rh of the trou
ble, and their artiona a. nee tha "arson
rlna" disclosures have aroused (the sus.
piclon of District Attorney t.'vans.
"Sincj we started this InvestlcatloB
we have not had any assistance, nor a
male offer of aestatanc from any fire
Insurance company." sad Mr. Kobison.
Worse than that, they were very reluc
tant to aive as Information which they
bad In their poe.es-lon.
"After on vt these Incendiary fires
soma insurance adjuster secured a con
fession from trie man who set It. We
wanted that confession fur use In the
Investicatlon. Although, they bad It
richt In their office. It look two week
to t II. and then we not a copy and
aot the ortclnal.
"Yesterday tha Insuranca companies
locked the door after the horse war
stolen by taking the insurance orf Mra.
Currtrr'a home at 313 Kast Forty-first
treL
0.-W. RTyjGEfil BACK
I- 'ft . - s?
Zi ' i t
r '' - f L r .
a, ...aVi ' t
Jeaae Lew CsdbarB.
At the age of l years. Jease
Lee Col burn died at the residence
of hla daughter. Mrs. tt P. Ander
son. li Uantenbeln avenua, bun
day nichl I'cath waa due to ad
vanced ace. ills two surviving
sons, lieorge and Charles Colburn.
and his daushter were with him
at the end
Mr. Colburn was born In North
Carolina. Mince hla wife died. 13
years ago. he made hla home with
hla son. Charles, at White Sal
mon, Wash, until leas than a year
ago. when he came lo Portland
to realde with hi daughter.
Interment will be In White
Salmon.
Six grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren survive.
to nil the 29 carload contract for
Sou b American markets. A carload of
Uravenstrlna, for Alaska trade, ha
been aold.
PRINTERS TO GIVE PLAY
-TAriMXCi AT TIIR DOOR DEALS
WITH lllslKsa KSSEXTIALS.
rnsi1ls at Draeaa la Many states af
erthwe-t la Marked by tsems.
Cosaedy laetaded.
It. 1- LOl Bl Rt BITOHT'OX R VTK
K9!llO iX CHICACO.
Claps !X ear 'kleaa-e slepaeled l.sad aad
Bastaeaa Cese rally 1 sap raving Be
daefsaaa ta l".ect .
H. II Iunsbory. general freight
gent for the tK-W. TL at N. Company,
returned yesterday from Chicago, a here
for the last six months be hss been at
tending the sesstons of the Traascontl
nenta! Freight Hureau engaged In re
vising the Westbound commodity rales.
Tha enllrv westbound s-brdule was
considered and revised, reports Mr.
l.ouneburr. and the new rales, which
ara Intended to offer tha rallroada an
epportunlty of competing with the
l'snama Canal Irs (Tic, will go into af
fect some time before the Arst of the
year.
fubetaatlal reductlona will be- made.
?ke says. In many commodities. The de
tailed tan flTs will b printed and tiled
with tha Interstate Commerce Commis
sion within tha next few weeks. They
must stay oa Ala with the Commission
for J' dava batorv they become effective.
"Iiusmes tn the Chicago territory
saams lo be Improving." says Mr. l.ouns
bury. i "ror s la that sevlloa ara good
aad all liaee of Industry ara reporting
moroveel coadttlona Condilloaa are a
whole lot batter than when went to
Chicago si months ago."
Barf let I Pe-maml la Dig.
rTo,)r RrvrR. Or, Aug. Iiepa
taL afowd River orchardlsta regret
A businesa play, allowing business
failures and telling the reaaon w hy men
fall, la "The Tapping at the Door."
which will be produced by ST Tortland
printers at the liaker Theater Thursday
night, iteplember X.
The play waa written and I being
staged In Tortland by Walter A. WIN
kins, of Seattle, and under the s us pices
or the lien Franklin Club or thia city.
The fact that organisation among busi
nesa men Is accessary lo their aucceaa
commercially la tha moral which Mr.
Wllklna trie to point out In hla drama.
Also, he Illustrates the quotation that
"It takes the combined efforts of 20
constructive workers to clean up the
dirt after one mud-slinglng knocker."
Comedy Is furnished chiefly by Xlose.
the ottlce boy. who tries to tell hi boaa
how to run hi business, lirown. the
plodder: Mines, the knocker, and Wat
son. Ihe wide-awake salesman who
knows business, are the three principal
characters around which the atory re
volves. Mrs. Itrown also come Into the
story In a section where the orchestra
playa a certain kind of soft music, and
the audience sits In quiet.
Aireaay air. nustna nas produced bis
drama In many Western cities, and
every where It la reported to have scored
sun-esses. After It is thown In Tort
land It will be taken Kat or Ihe Mis
sissippi and produced under the aus
pices of some or the printers' organize
tlona In the larger cities there.
BIG LAND DEAL IS MADE
.F.Ri.i.t:n ArariRM mmoo
AHITO HA SOI.
Timber. Portiaad Really aad Cash Paid
for Tew Acres ta Be I leveled
to Model Dairy.
Through a deal involving between
Sfv.vuo and $0.0 in real and personal
property, completed yesterday. 8. N.
Steele transferred to L. Uerltnger his
Tii-acre ranch near Washougal. In
Clarke County. Washington, and ac
quired valuable properties In Portland
and timber land In ilenlon and Joseph
ine counties.
Mr. ;erlinger plana la develop on the
newly-acqulre-i property a model stock
and dairy farm, on which he purposes
to establish one of the finest herds of
blooded dairy cattle In the Northwest.
Plana for the Improvement or the farm
for thia purpose are already under way
and construction will be commenced al
most Immediately oa barns, bungalows,
silos and the erection or a trestle across
the beautiful lake that Is situated In
the central part of .the big ranch.
In the exrhange Mr. Steele received
cash and realty, some of Ihe most Im
portant pieces of which are In Port
land. Of these the principal one Is
the Improved lot on Washington street,
near Trinity Place, now occupied by
C. !.. Boss at Co. It la Improved with
a class A concrete building, which con
talna some of the beet showrooms
among the buildings In that section of
Washington street.
ItcslvKs this lot. Mr. Steele received
four corner lots In Southeastern Port
land and some of the Uerllnger tim
ber hoHlm.-s in Benton and Josephine
counties.
Port Augrlca lias Tragedy.
POUT ANOKLiy. Wash, Aug. J.
John M. liillesple. graduate of Prince
ton. Sparieh-AmerH-an War Veteran
and sen of a prominent Chi. aco attor
ney shot and kHI'd hla wife and him
self lst night. Mr. Oilleeple. member
of an old family here, f.ad su-d for di
vorce because of t.Hlespie's alleged In-temperam-e.
The couple leave two small
cMtdrcn.
WTre'eea twVsraa1 asvaa ara vepacate4
a'ere tna surfer af the earth With a va.
Kiir s. ht.r lass i&ea lli aai:as aa
aaar.
1807
The- Quality Storit op Portlahd
ftftK -SixUN. Morrisory Alder 3ta.
Stationery and Office Supplies
Are at Reduced Prices Buy Now!
Closing Out Many Lines In New Location
25c Memo Books, black leather, side
and end opening- 19
30c Memo Books, black leather
cover, variety rulings -'2(
40c Memo Books, black leather
cover, variety rulings 29
25c Ledgers, Journals, Record and
Day Books, each 100
60c Ledgers and Journals, 200
pages in each o.'$r?
$1.00 Ledgers and Journals, 200
pages in each .....Sli
35c Box Letter Files, good grade,
each 23
40c Boxes Business Envelopes, 6
and 7-in., 10 pkgs. in box.... 340
$1.25 Berkshire Bond Typewriter
Paper, 8ixl3, 500 sheets 97t
$2.25 Berkshire Linen Typewriter
Paper, 8xl3, 500 sheets. .$1.98
F irst Floor, New Building
Portland Is Fortunate
in that we could arrange this series of
Cookery Talks and Demonstrations by
Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer
on her trip to the Pacific Coast. She is the author of the well-known
Mrs. Rorer's Cook Books and is considered America's greatest author
ity on cooking in a practical and economical way. She will explain the
easiest and best manner of preparing any desired meal.
Lectures All This Week ( S --Today's Talk on
Meats, with special attention to using the cheaper cuts; white fricassee of chicken, brown stew
of beef, camelon, veal olives, ham Honolulu fashion.
Lectures at 3 o'Clock in Our Music Room, 6th Floor, New Bldg.
Baking in the New PYREX Glass Utensils
In conjunction with Mrs. Rorer's lectures, we shall introduce to the housekeepers of Port
land the new PYREX GLASS BAKING DISHES which have the indorsement of Mrs. Rorer and
other high authorities on cooking. We feel you will be interested in hearing explained the many
advantages of this new departure. Complete stocks of these glass utensils will be found in our
Glassware Section, Annex, Fourth Floor, so those desiring to purchase may do so. Prices are
very reasonable.
Hosiery Section Moved!
Now Located in Temporary Quarters
on the Main Floor of the New Building
Here's a Big Cleanup of Odds and Ends
for Women and Children Buy Today!
Moving discloses many small lots and odds and ends in stock.
This is the merchandise that is so lowly priced today because we
want stocks complete and whole when we are finally located in our
permanent quarters. Make your 'selections NOW the following
groups contain many BARGAINS!
Extra Size Cotton Hose
Regularly 50c, Now 39
Two pairs, 75f. Fine soft cotton. Black
only, with maco split sole. Our own im
portation. All sizes.
Extra Size "Burson" Hose
Women's Pure Silk Hose
Usually $1, Now 69
Pure thread silk, black only a Hose of
quality, name not mentioned. Silk lisle
tops, double soles.
Women's "Burson" Hose
Were 50c, Now, Pr 3S
Burson's famous seamless Lisle Hose:
Black only. Extra reinforced tops. Feet
shaped to fit. Two pairs for 750.
Women's Odd 33c-50c
Hose, Pair, 23c
Plain and silk lisles in black and colors;
also fiber silk-boot Hose, in colors only.
Priced to clear up the stock, pair, 2.30.
Women's Silk Lisle Hose
Regularly 50c, Now 37
Two pairs, TOO. Imported black silk
lisle, double welt, lavender tipped. High
splicings. Double soles. All sizes.
Women's Extra Size Hose
Regularly 50c, Now 42
The "Alta" brand. Black silk lisle. Double
garter welts. Sizes 8 to lOVi.
Special, the Pair, at 18?
Medium-weight cotton, with ribbed tops.
Black only. Sizes 8M to 10.
Children's Lisle Socks
Usually 25c, Now 19
Imported lisle. White, with checked tops,
in pink, black and blue. Full fashioned.
All sizes.
Children's English Lisle Hose
Regularly 25c, Now, Pair 20t
Three pairs, 550. Fine English lisle.
Black, white and tans. Linen heels and toes,
seamless feet. x '
Women's Kayser Pure Silk
Thread Hose, the Pair, 98
Black and tan shades. Have double silk
tops and lisle split soles.
Temporary Location, vr Bide, Main Floor.
Wirthmor Waists Today-$l
New Models for Fall With Values Even
More Remarkable Than in the Past!
Many women have bought generously
of the Wirthmor Waists the past sea
son for they have found them to be
eminently satisfactory. The popularity
of these waists is growing day by day,
as more people are continually learning
of their unusual excellence and excep
tional worth.
There's a simplicity, a charm, an appeal
about these new Fall models that's going to
win the favor of all who see them and that
they'll sell most readily is a foregone con
clusion. Models her illustrated will be shown for the
first time today. .
As always One Dollar
As always Worth More
Fourth Floor, Slxth-St. Bids;.
VOILE SCRIM
Yard 18c
Very fine weave; fine for
curtains. Your choice of
white, cream and ecru color
at this special price 180.
-Wrilk Floor, Slxth-St. Bids.
Out-of-Town
Mail Orders
Filled From This
and All Our Ads
If Received Within Three
Days of Date of Publica
tion. Telephone us where quan
tities are limited or you are
in a hurry.
Royal Banquet Flour
Sack for $1.49
Milled from all Old Wheat
' Makes better bread than flour milled
from new wheat Sack, $1.49.
10 LB. SACKS
SUGAR
67c
Berry Sugar, packed
at the refinery. Sold at
a slight advance over
sack prices. While any
SHOULDER
HAMS
11c
Sugar - cured quality.
Well smoked and closely
trimmed, medium-weight
Hams. At this price, the
pound.
Pare Food Grsctrr. Burmril, Slzth-St. BldK.
A Great Cleanup of Infants'
Garments in New Location
All Needs, From Caps to Robes, Reduced
Must dispose of them at once; for we want to stock the
new department with new goods hence this big sacrifice
of prices, but not of quality, which is of the best.
Lawn Caps, tucked or hemstitched,
regularly 50c, cleanup price.... .19
Lawn Caps, tucked and lace trimmed,
regularly $1.00, cleanup price... 49
Lawn Caps, hand-tucked, emb. and
lace trimmed, were $1.75, now... 79
Lawn Caps, hand-tucked, emb. and
lace trimmed, were $3, now... $1.19
Short Pique Coats, hand-embroidered,
regularly $7.50, now at $3.75
Short Pique Coats, hand-embroidered,
regularly $4.50, now at $2.25
Short Cassimere Coats, hand-embroidered,
regularly $5.50, now. ..$2.75
Buggy Robes, fancy striped, few pique,
regularly $1.50, $1.25, at 49
Fleece Lined Slumber Socks, white,
pink, blue, were 20c, now at 100
Shirts, cotton gauze, round neck, half
sleeves, etc., were 25c, 35c, at... 100
Shirts, cotton and wool, high neck,
long sleeves, were 70c, now 27c
Soft-Sole Shoes and White Pique Slip
pers, 0 to 3, were 50c, now 190
Soft-Sole Shoes, with colored satin
tops, were $1.00, now, pair 690
Kleinert's Pants, double texture, regu
larly 50c, cleanup at 290
Kleinert's Pants, silk rubber, regular
ly 75c, for cleanup at 390
Checked Rubber Aprons, pink and
blue, regularly 35c, cleanup 190
Padded Robes, brocade, matlasse and
mull, were $3 to $10. .$1.29 to $4.98
Second Floor, Slxth-St. Bids.
Meat Safes That Were $1.25 for
79c--Were $1.50 for 99c
Save ice bills use a fly-proof meat safe during the cool
Fall and Winter months. 1-shelf safe, 79; 2-shelf, 99.
These we are offering at such splendid reductions are:
Fly-proof, open on all sides, front swinging door.
Well constructed, of wire and wood, very durable.
Temporary Annex, Third Floor
This Men's New Silk Neckwear Ought to Sell Out in a Single
Day-Regularly 50c, Today 35c or 3 for $1.00
The heading of this advertisement was contributed by our Men's Neckwear Department. The fact that we have used it indi
cates that it has our hearty indorsement. This neckwear ought to sell out in a day, and would sell out m an hour if we could actually
put this neckwear before your eyes right now as you read this over. It's the best neckwear offering ever made at the beginning o
tll6 S63S0n
An exceptionally large assortment of patterns, including all the new striped and figured effects. A new and very convenient feature is the "Slip-Easy Band," which does
away with tie-pulling troubles. Literally thousands of colors and combinations to select from in this wonderful assortment of Ties at this wonderfully low price three for
$1.00; each, 350.
-Temporary Annex, Main Floor.
COLUMBIA HIGHWAY TRIP SEPT. 6-TICKETS ON SALE AT ACCOMMODATION DESK
"STAtiS" TO MAKE FILM
I'anlase C'oniaii jr to Appear In
Play on RrTt Today.
If yon should sea Charlie Chaplin
falllns off tha top of tha Hilars bulldlns;
. . n, ti. Mara rirkford caurht
under a huaa piano and rescued In the
nlrk of tlma bjr Fatty AroucKie. wno
has bean flirtlnr; with Blanche Sweet on
the nearby corner of I'antages Theater.
don't bo surprised.
Nothing mora alarralnsT la occurring
than the msklnc of a near film by tha
"Stara of tha Morlaa.- wno ara i x-an-tarea
Theater thia week.
Thia davar company la Impersonat
ing; on tha stage noted picture stars.
At 1:30 o'clock the making- of the reel
will start. A large crowd la required
to make tha aettlng of the play com
plete, aa ptcturea of hundreds of faces
will be taken to make the film realistic
and lifelike.
Seattle- Sun Again Ends Publication
SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 30. The Se
attle Evening:.Sun. which after suspen
sion of aereral montha. resumed publi
cation four months ago. the employes
bavins; obtained possession of the plant
by means of labor claims, again
ceased publication today, and a trustee
waa appointed to wind up tha affairs
of tha paper. .
BUILDING PLANS - READY
Work on East Side Club Home to
Start Soon.
. Plans for the new Citizens Bank and
the clubhouse of the East Side Business
Men's Club will be completed this week,
according- to L. M. Lepper, secretary
of the East Side Holding- Company.
The holding company, he said, will
meet as aoon as the details of the
plans are completed and let the con
tract for the foundation of the club
house. The two-story structure will
cost about 170.000.
Camp & DuPuy are completing- the
plans for a building- for Clafka ai Son
at East Alder and East Third streets
at "a cost of $30,000.
30-YEAR MUSTACHE SHORN
Veteran City Hall Elevator Operator
Bolsters Courage and Shaves.
For the first time in 30 years, James
BackenntoK. veteran elevator operator
at the City Hall, yesterday saw hie up
per lip. Bolstering up his courage, he
shaved off a long mustache which li
had worn since" 1885.
"It took lota of meditation and cour
age," he explained yesterday. "It took
ever more than it did 30 years utco
when I decided for the first time to cul
tivate it."
Riley Bradford, of Friendship. Me., has
the oldest continuous subscription to a
Portland paper. ThiH subscription has been
in the Bradford family ever sines the ps
Pt wns first iysned in
The Original
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