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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1915)
THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAIT, SATU1TOAT, OCTOBER 30, 1915. BIB REALTY DEAL ON Option Given for Corner at Sixth and Stark Streets. TWO LOTS PUT AT $275,000 ciaL) A. C. Gage, of Portland, has pur chased the Call, weekly newspaper of Montesano, and it is said will turn it into a Republican paper. A. E. Veatch, the former owner, operated a Progres sive paper. The understood price was 1 4000, of which some $1500 was in Port land real estate. Substantial Deposit Made Binding Purchase by January 20, 1016, and Popular Belief Is That ( Bank Building Is Proposed. Considerable speculation was aroused Jn realty circles yesterday by knowl edge of the fact that the owners of the quarter block at the northwest corner of Sixth and Stark streets had granted options for its sale at a total consideration of ?275.000 on or before January 20, 1916. - The corner, with a frontage of B0 feet on Sixth street and 100 feet on Btark street, is owned by Harry Wolf, of Portland, and his brother. Marcus Wolf, of San Francisco, who came to Portland this week to sign the option. The inside 60 by 100 feet, located be tween the corner and the Wells-Fargo building. Is owned by Alexander Wag ner. The options have been given, it is cald. to a prominent Portland realty lirm, which has given substantial de posits binding itself to purchase the corner for S 175.000 and the Inside lot ior $100,000 within three months. It is not known who the realty firm represents, but it Is reported that a banking institution has for some time considered locating on the corner in a new buldlng. Recent bank consolida tions and the construction of the new First National Bank building have caused a shift in Portland's financial center and several banks are said to be considering uptown locations. However that may be, it is asserted on apparently good authority that the prospective purchasers of the corner of Sixth and Stark streets contemplate the erection of a first-class building on the property. The corner is now covered with old two and three-story frame buildings of little value. GRANT DATA GATHERED FEDERAL OFFICIAL LEAVES PORT LASD OX INSPECTION. Special Aaalstant to Attorney-General Seeks Information In Oregon , on Railway Land Problem. 6. W. Williams, special assistant to the Attorney-General of the United States, who has been in Oregon for several weeks quietly gathering data in regard to the lands of the Oregon & California grant and feeling out sen timent as to what should be done with the grant, has practically finished his work. He has just left Portland for Grants Pass, Jacksonville and Medford to look over portions of the grant in the vicinity of these towns. Mr. Williams has already gone over a large part of the grant in his per sonal investigation. He has been all through the Willamette "Valley, and made a trip over the old Coos Bay wagon road to look at the lands in this grant. 'I have talked to hundreds of per sons in reference to what should be done with the Oregon & California crant lands." said Mr. Williams, "and hardly any two of them have agreed to the same solution. "There are two points, however, on which they virtually all agree. These are. first, that the lands should not be put into Government forest reserves, and second, that whatever- disposition is made of them, it should be such that they will bring in money to the state in taxes." In his trip over the Coos Bay wagon road, Mr. Williams had an exciting experience. He made part of his in spection of the lands in this grant by automobile. The driver of his car went insane Just after the car had passed over one of the most dangerous parts of the road, where a little careless steering would have menaced the lives of the whole party, drove the automo bile away with some valuable papers belonging to Mr. Williams in it, and left them stranded. Mr. Williams later recovered the papers, but he didn't see the driver nd his car again. "Of course. 1 haven't even attempt ed to go over the whole Orgon & Cal ifornia crant." said Mr. Williams. "That would have been an impossibility in the time I have had for the work. But I have attempted to make a personal in spection of representative portions of the grant, and have talked with every body I could And who had any opinion ns to its disposition." Ho expressed himself as favorably impressed with much of the land he saw. A. D. CHARLTON IS BACK PORTLAND RAILWAY MATT TELLS OK BRITISH COLUMBIA VISIT. WASCO MAY BUILD ROAD A. S. Benson Says Bonds Considered for Continuing Columbia Highway. Wasco County is developing a strong sentiment in favor of bonding for road improvement, according to A. S. Ben son, who has just returned from a trip into that county. The move now considered is to issue bonds sufficient to construct Wasco County's unit of the Columbia High way from Mosier to the mouth of the -J LEBANON PRESBYTERIAN FAS- TOR. IS TR4RPRRRRD TO CHARGE AT PORTLAND. t t ;. x- . U ' , i T - f t,f - : , ; '.' J t ' ' -"'r" -;' -'If J 3 Rev. W. S. McCuIIag;. The Presbytery of Willamette has dissolved the pastoral rela tions existing between Rev. W. S. McCullagh and the First Presby terian Church of Lebanon, Or., to take effect November 1, and he will enter on his work at the Spokane-avenue Presbyterian Church of this city November 7, which extended him a unanimous call. Rev. Mr. McCullagh, graduated from Lake Forest University, Lake Forrest, 111., and the Mc Cormick Theological Seminary, of Chicago. He served as pastor at Chariton, Iowa, in the Ies Moines Presbytery, for more than eight years, during which time a church costing $20,000 was erected. Deschutes River, and to improve the main roads connecting with it. "Wasco County is realizing now," he said, "what the Columbia Highway means to the counties that have al ready built their shares of it, and will not waste much time in placing herself in a position to reap the advantages from her own unit in the great road." HIGH SHERIFF VISITS G. BRIMSTONE TELLS HOW ALAS KAK9 ADMINISTER JUSTICE. Placet Mining Gives Way to Dressing and Hydraulic Work by Large Com panies, Says Official. G. Brimstone, High Sheriff of Tukon Territory, who visited in Portland Thursday, leaving early yesterday morning er route to Antioch, CaL, where he will visit his family, was a member of a Vancouver, B. C, football team which played against the Mult nomah Club team here 22 years ago. He had not been in Portland since that time until Thursday, and consequently had to be piloted about by his friend, D. H. ("Bob") Robinson. As High Sheriff Mr. Brimstone pre sides over a district of some 200.000 square miles, and doles out justice to the inhabitants, assuming the duties of a judge as well as those which we ordinarily consider those of a Sheriff. Illustrating the rapidity with which justice is meted out in the Tukon, he told of an Incident which occurred shortly before he left. A Russian was arrested at White Horse for killing four men. He left Dawson with the other attaches of the court on October 14 and arrived at - the scene of ihe crime, which was 600 miles away, on October 19. The next day the man was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Mr. Brimstone says that the Yukon is no longer the lawless territory that it was in the early days of the gold rush. He also says the government of that territory is now far superior, as it has passed into the hands almost t exclusively of practical miners. In the early days, he says, there was a sort of carpet-bag government, with little justice and less law. vv ith the departure of placer mining. he says that large companies, par ticularly the Guggenheims, are assum ing control. Dredging and hydraulic mining are now being practiced ex tensively. Mr. Brimstone became acquainted with "Bob" Robinson when the latter was in the Yukon Territory and Alaska in 1899. Kffccts of War Apparent In Dominion Cities, bnt Business Continues. , Peace Not Acceptable. A. D. Charlton, assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pa cific, has just returned from Vancouver. B. C, where he attended the meeting of the North Pacific Coast Passenger Association. "The effect of the war on the British Columbia cities is almost uncanny, said Mr. Charlton yesterday. "It monopolizes public attention despite the best efforts of the people to avoid discussing the subject. "Wherever you goon the street, in the hotels and in the stores you see crippled men.. walking about, or men in uniform. Another errect or the war is the large number of women in mourn ing." Mr. Charlton visited a Vancouver club one evening and met seven wound ed men back from the war. Ten per cent of the membership of that club have gone to the front and a number of them have been killed. "The war has hurt business in Van couver," he commented, "but the re markable part of it all is the large volume of business that still is possi ble despite the war." While he was in Vancouver the pa pers printed reports that Germany was preparing to name terms upon which the empire would accept peace. "The people refused absolutely to lis ten to peace talk" he said. inty n slst that the war must be fought out until one side wins and the other is thoroughly whipped. And. being loyal to Britain, they firmly believe that the allies will win in the end." Widow of F-4 Victim Appointed. WASHINGTON. Oct. 29. Mrs. Fred erick Gillman, of Vallejo, Cal., widow of gunner on the submarine F-4, which sank in Honolulu harbor, was today appointed flagmaker at the Mare Is land Navy Yard by order of President Wilson. Montesano Newspaper Is Sold. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct 24. (Spe- BILIOUSNESS. A man seldom feels worse than -when he has a bad bilious attack. That ter rible headache together with nausea and vomiting makes him about as miserable as it is possible tor Human being to De come. Harmilv relief may be had In a few hours by taking Chamberlain's Tab- leu. They restore the stomacn ana liver to a healthy condition so that in a day or two after an attack a man will feel ae LS7 M -$! Goblins, Witches, Cats, Skulls, Table Favors, Score Cards, Nut Baskets, Festoons, Garlands, Etc. On Sale Main Floor Charge Purchases Made Today Will Go on Your November Account, Payable December 1st Tea Room, Fourth Floor Halloween CANDIES of all kinds, put up in fancy boxes or by the pound. Saturday will be "Candy Day" at the Bargain Circle on the Main Floor. OldSyWor ttnan & King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Pacific Phone Marshall 4800 Home Phone A 6231 Annual Sale of DOLLS now in progress in TOYLAND on the 4th floor. Purchases made now will be stored and delivered later if desired. Buy now! SaturdayDouhleTrading Stamps With All Cash Purchases Made in the Shoe Department on 1st Floor Also With Cash Purchases in Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings, 1st Floor Men's Suits and Overcoats $15, $20, $25 to $35 A WONDERFUL VARJETY OF MODELS FOR YOUNG MEN and for MEN WHO LDTE TO LOOK YOUNG clothes that bear the stamp of refinement in tailoring and superiority of fabric, the products of the fore most American makers, here for your choosing at moderate prices. Take, for instance, our line of Suits and Overcoats at $15 a collection that embraces the season's very smartest models in a great variety of ma terials and patterns. Youll find equal, if not better, variety in every price group up to $35. Our Men's Store is conveniently located just inside the Morrison-street entrance. Step in and see these new Suits better still, ask the salesmen to let you try them on. Youll like the new patterns. Absolute fit guaranteed. Boys' $7.50 Suits $4.85 Extra Pair Pants Free! "T" ARENTS economical parents will be prompt rtake advantage of this Suit sale, for the saving afforded will go a long way toward buying other needed ar ticles for school wear. Suits are styled in the latest Norfolk models with stitched belt, patch pockets and plaits to belt. Pants are cut in full Knickerbocker styles, lined throughout and all seams are double taped. Fancy cheviots, tweeds and cassimeres. In ages 6 to 17. Regular $6.50J5 OCT and $7.50 two-pants Suits at V0-J Double Stamps in This Department Today. Smart New Overcoats for Boys at $5 Men's $1.5Q Union Suits Special 98c Main Floor Supply your Winter Under- nrool TlOAflc, of o BflTInffl TliAoa AYfol1aTi C Union Suits are of heavy and medium- $1.50 grades special now at only Men's Neckwear, Special 65c Main Floor Men's fine Neckwear in wide range of beautiful new patterns and colors. Full-cut shapes, such as are usually sold at $1.00. Fine grade materials. Priced very special for this sale atOOl Men's 2Qc Hose, 6 Pairs $1.00 'Main Floor Men's hose of extra fine finish combed Sea Island Cotton, with double sole, linen spliced heel and toe. Shown in black, white, sand, navy and gray and in a full assortment of sizes. Stand- J "f f f ard 20c Hose priced for Saturday, 6 pairs P - " " Main Floor Stylish belted-back models with set-in sleeves, military collars and patch pockets. Chinchillas, homespuns, cheviots, tweeds and novelty mixtures. In size 2 up to 10 years. See these Coats. WAX PAPER G Rolls 15c On sale Saturday only at this price and no deliveries except with other purchases made in Stationery Department. Splen did grade Wax Paper, such as you usually pay 50c a dozen for Six rolls on sale today for lo Another $25.00 Day In Garment Salons on Second Floor Featuring at this price the very smartest modes in Suits, Coats and Dresses for women and misses. Attend thi3 notable showing. Women's Coats at $25.00 Second Floor Over 30 attractive new styles to select from. Smart belted models with close fitting collars, patch pockets and deep cuffs, new flare styles in full and lengths some have fur-trimmed collars. Plain box-back Coats and novelty cuts in latest effects. All the wanted materials and all tfjpff fl sizes in these coats at only PaW MJ Women's Suits at $25. OO Second Floor One particularly smart Suit at this price is in Russian Blouse effect with belt and full flare below belt. Plaited skirt. Coat has fur collar and is finished with silk braids. Dozens of other models in tailored, flare and novelty cuts in all materials. J O C f f See these new suits at only PaWJ W Neiv Dresses at $25.00 Second Floor Charming dresses for afternoon and party wear of crepe de chine, taffetas, messalines, etc., also various new models of serge and combinations of different materials in leading colors. Don't fail t0 CZ ff to see these new dresses at J J J Girls' Coats and Dresses Special Offerings for Saturday! Girls' Plush Coats At $9.85 Second Floor These handsome new coats are made from Salt's famous plushes. Smart models with deep belt, cuffs and collar and full lined. Ages 6 to Q QtZ 14. Priced special at p70- New Cloth Coats $5.98 to $26.50 Second Floor Special showing of Girls' Coats in zibelines and the new mixtures. Plain tailored or velvet-trimmed models especially designed for girls 6 to 14 and in termediate ages. Prices for these Coats range $5.98 to $26.50 Girls' $1Q Dresses A t $3.98 Second Floor Many dainty styles in this lot. Made from fine qual ity serges some with piping, oth ers trimmed with plaids. Dresses worth up to $10.00 ZJQ Q O Special for today at vO0 Girls' Serge Dresses At $2.98 Second Floor T h e s e attractive Dresses are made from good qual ity wooi serges and also in the serviceable shepherd checks. Very desirable Dresses for school wear. Ages from 6 to 14 3J5? Q53 years. Priced special Join Free Classes in Knitting and. Crocheting THIS is an opportunity that no woman interested in fancy work should miss. Miss Sofie Schaefer, ex pert from the Fleisher Yarn Factory, is in personal charge and she will be glad to teach you anything in regard to knit ting and crocheting you may wish to know. Classes 9 to 12 M. and from 1 to 5 P. M. daily. m rase The Hose of Quality! Main Floor Women who seek service as well as looks in the Hose they buy invariably wear "Portland Maid." Shown in black, white and all colors for Fall and Winter wear. Put "Portland Maid" Hose on your Christmas gift list! Women's Handbags Worth Up to $4, Today mZrJ Department, Main Floor Women's Handbags and Strap Purses in a remarkable sale for today. New, up-to-date styles and shapes. Made from pin seal, real seal, morocco, crepe seal and goat seal in black, brown, blue, tan, gray and purple. Strong, well-made frames in nickel, gunmetal, gilt, etc. Most of them are lined with fancy silk moire and fitted with inside coin purse and mirror. Back-strap Hand Purses are also 6hown in several attractive styles. Purses and CJO Of bags worth up to S4.00 priced special today at only J OTHER BAGS and PURSES in aU Newest Shapes $1.50 to $12.50 Saturday Drug Specials 5 bars Ivory Soap, 1 bar of T Og Lurline Soap, today only Ot Limit, six cakes to a customer, and no deliveries except with other pur chases made in Drug Department. 4711 White Rose Soap special 12 25c M. & B. Mouth Wash now 120 15c bottle of Petro Jelly at only 8 10c Hand or Kitchen Sapolio at 6 50c Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream priced special for today 33 f 25c Colgate's Tooth Paste only 20 $1.50 Heddin's Toilet Water at 98 15c Exposition Toilet Paper, 1500 sheets to the roll, the dozen $1.00 29c Absorbent Cotton now at 180 50c Bay Rum, 16-ounce bottle 350 25c Lyon's Tooth Powder only 150 Household Rubber Gloves only 350 50c Guaranteed Scissors, only 250 $1.50 Hot Water Bags and Syringes on special sale now at only Jjtl.OO 15c Tooth Brushes, all styles, 100 $1.00 Listerine 14-oz. size at 610 50c Cuticura Ointment only 390 50c D. & R. Cold Cream for 370 75c Pompeian Massage Cream 490 $1 Rirbber-Cushion Hair Brushes, with double bristles, on sale at 500 Hot Water Bottles now $1 and $3 16-ounce bottle Witch Hazel 210 35c Fletcher's Castoria only 230 50c California Syrup of Figs 350 25c bottle Castor Oil, special 180 Pebeco Tooth Paste on sale 390 25c Babcock's Corylopsis Talcum Powder on special sale only 130 $1.00 Bocabella Castile Soap 650 25cEuthymol Tooth Pas'e at 170 25c Powdered Boric Acid, 1 lb. 190 $1 Prune Bitters, large bottle 690 50c Glycothymoline on sale at 390 50c Lolita Beautifier, the jar, 370 25c Sanitol Cold Cream only 160 50c Berry's Freckle Ointment 390 75c Townley's Iron and Sarsapa rilla on special sale today at 490 50c Hall's Catarrh Balm only 330 Special Maurine Offer for Saturday With every empty Maurine Cream Jar returned to the Drug Depart ment Saturday we will give, Free, choice of any one of following ar ticles: One 25c Maurine Rouge, one 25c Hand Lotion or one 25c Mau rine Hair Tonic. Take advantage! $2.50 Mirrors At $1.35 Main Floor Extra special offering for Saturday: Women's high grade Hand Mirrors in full sizes. Fine French plate with ebony or mahogany backs and long or ring handles. Usual $2.00 CJ J Qfif and $2.50 grades at V'OO r5 Girls' Corduroy and Caracul Coats Special $5.98 $5 and $6 Shoes $3.85 Double Stamps in Shoe Dept. Saturday Main Floor Fashionable new footwear for women in all the wanted leathers and in styles to suit every fancy. Hand turned or Goodyear welt soles, long or short vamps, pointed or round toes, leather or cloth tops and all style heels. Smart boots for street P O O Cf or dress wear in all widths and sizes. $5 and $6 grades pO0 Women's "Velvet Tread" Boots $3.48 Men's $4.50 Dull Calf Shoes $3.48 Main Floor Women's new "Vel vet Tread" Shoes in neat, com fortable last with Cuban or "Common Sense" heel. Button, vici kid, with cloth tops. All sizes. Introductory prices, pair, onl Women's Bronze Button Boots, Cloth Tops, on Sale Now, Pair $5.00 S $3.48 Main Floor Men's Shoes of dull calf in neat round-toe last very popular for all-purpose wear. Half double sole. Shown in all sizes. The usual selling price of these Shoes is $4.50, CO J O special for today at ?- f-0 Great Millinery Clearance Phenomenal Price Reductions for Saturday $ 9.75 Trimmed Hats, Special at $6.75 $12.75 Trimmed Hats, Special at $7.75 $14.00 to $18.00 Hats, Special at $9.75 $3.95 Trimmed Hats, Special at $1.95 $4.95 Trimmed Hats, Special at $2.95 $6.75 Trimmed Hats, Special at $3.95 Millinery Salons, 2d Floor Our Great Mid-Season Clearance of Trimmed Millinery takes place Saturday. Practically our entire stock is included in this sale. Beautiful hats for street and dress wear in the season's latest and smartest models. Small, close-fitting turbans, tricornes, etc new high-crown sailors in large and medium styles. Hats of high-grade plushes, velvets and felts in black and all the wanted colors browns, greens, blues, grays, etc., etc. Trimmings of ostrich plumes and fancies, fur, French flowers, wings, bows, gold and silver novelties. Take advantage of this opportunity to buy your new hat. Basement Millinery Saturday $3.48 Fall Hats $1.95 Attractive New Models of Velvet and Plush. Basement Here's a notable bar gain in Trimmed Hats no woman should overlook. All are new mod els just in by express and shown for the first time Saturday. Be coming sailors, close-fitting tur bans and tricornes, also a number of pretty shirred-brim styles for misses. Women's Hats are ef fectively trimmed with gold and silver novelties, bows, etc., and some with fur and ostrich. Black and colors in the lot. f f QCZ $2.48 to $3.48 Hats JXe7J SEE SPECIAL DISPLAY OF NEW MILLINERY TRIMMING NOVELTIES WINGS, STICK UPS, PRICED SPECIAL 250 Women's $25 Coats On Sale in Basement Saturday $13.75 Basement Underprice Store Women's and Misses' Coats at about half price! Surely no woman who needs a coat can afford to miss this remarkable bargain! Smart, new, up-to-date models of high-grade plushes, zibelines, baby lamb and corduroys in black and good range of wanted colors. and lengths with new, close-fitting collars, deep cuffs some with belts, others in plain tailored effects. Very best of tailoring and lined throughout with high-grade linings. Good range of sizes. Coats made to sell at $22.00 to C f O IT $25.00 priced for Saturday at the low price of only No. 8 Wash Boilers, Special $1 Department on the Third Floor Heavy copper-bottom Wash Boiler with splendid heavy handles. Size 21x11 inches. Only a limited nam- tfj T flf ber of these to go at only P J-.JJ SPECIAL PRICES ON ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES, ANDIRONS, SCREENS, FIRE SETS, etc Now is the time to make your selections at Reduced Prices.