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24 THE SUNDAY OREGOINIAN, POETLAND, 3TULY 8, 1900: TO SPREAD NEWS OP FAIR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS WILI AS SIST committee:. Merchant Will Meet Monday Kiffht to Act With, the Managers of the Carnival. A large number of commercial travelers met with the Portland Street Fair and Carnival committee In the latters head quarters yesterday afternoon. They are enthusiastic over the fair, and promised to boom it for all it was worth all over the state. They are Just the kind of hust lers the committee needs to help it out, and will do a great deal toward inter esting the people of all the Northwest ern states in the great carnival. They have selected Saturday, September 8. as their day at the fair, and will meet next Saturday to perfect plans for a great time on that day. The merchants' auxiliary committee will meet the officers of tho fair association Monday evening at 8 o'clock In the rooms of the committee in the Imperial Hotel building. Representatives of the largest houses in the city are acting with the auxiliary, and tho merchants of Portland already realize how much the fair will benefit business here. Many applications for space from In tending exhibitors are already on file, and more will be coming In from now on. Those first to como will be first consider ed, And it will be of great assistance to the committee when allotlng space for the different buildings to know just as early as possible the names of those who will exhibit, and the nature of the goods they will display. There will bo enough room for every one, but naturally those who make tho first applications will get the best places. Wholesale houses, manufacturers and other firms are ordering the street fair envelopes by the thousand and ten thou sand lots, orders coming in yesterday for moro than 100,000. The envelopes will bo distributed to every part of the country, and the correspondents of Portland firms everywhere will read of the big street carnival. John F. Cordray is busily scouring the East for suitable attractions for the fair, and in a letter from him received yes terday by E. W. Rowe, be says he is meeting with remarkable success. He will book none but first-class attractions, and has already refused several of those which showed at St. Paul on the ground that they were not good enough for Port land. He saw Governor Roosevelt in Chicago, and had a pleasant chat with him. Mr. Cordray was tempted to invito him to come to the street fair, but as the Gov ernor will have affairs of his own about that time, he decided that he wouldn't. The Governor said he might possibly come to Oregon In the Summer, and Mr. Cordray assured him that the city would turn out In force to welcome him to Port land. Committees Appointed. The committees for the Street Fair and Carnival have been apportioned and the complete list Is as subjoined: The Portland Street Fair and Carnival Association officers President, E. W. Rowe; vice-president, Edward Ehrman; secretary. J. M. Long; treasurer, A. D. Charlton. COMMITTEES. Architecture Director, D. D. Neer; staff. Ion Lewis, D. C. Lewis, F. Manson White. Accommodation Director, H. C. Bow ers; staff. Dr. J. D. Fenton. Phil Mets chan, T. I. Richards, J. P. Flnley. Concessions and privileges Director, Edward Ehrman; staff, James H. Morris, W. H. Upson. Exhibits and fair grounds Director, D. Bolls Cohen; staff, Harry Lockhart, R. D. Inman. x Fraternal organizations Director, J. M. Long; staff, John Lamont, George C Scars. Illumination and decorations Director, H. C. Goode; staff, H. P. Christensen, Louis Dammasch. Labor Director, Julius E. Thlelsen; staff, W. J. "Van Schuyver, H. C. Hippie, Albert Feldcnhelmer. Ladies auxiliary Chairman, Mrs. George "Wemple; secretary; Mrs. John Lang; treasurer, Miss T. Cornelius. Midway and entertainment Director, John F. Cordray; staff, L W. Balrd. Music Director, Charles L. Brown; staff, R. E. Moodj", Aaron Harris. Military auxiliary Director, General Owen Summers; staff, Dan J. Moore, R. S. Greenieaf, Dr. Sandford Whiting. Parade Director, George L. Baker; staff, H. D. Griffin, H. R. Littlefield, Slg Werthehnen. Merchants' auxiliary Director; Horace D. Ramsdoll; staff, H. C. Breeden, H. C. Wortman, L N. Flelrohner, L. G. Clarke, Julius L. Meier, J. F. Kelly, Bon Selling, A. B. Stelnbach, J. G. Mack, John Gill, Francis Seals', F. G. Buffum, A. Feldcnhelmer, F. E. Beach. MuracJpal auxiliary Director, H. S. Rowe; staff, P. G. Nealond. Rodney G-H-san, Fred T. Merrill, W. T. Branch. W. T. Masters E. C. Bronaugh, D. T. Shcr rett, Frank Holbrook, A. F. Nlchola, Frank Walker, Fred Mulkey. Public sofoty Director, David Camp bell; staff, D. M. McLauchlan, William Frazle?. Publicity Director. Fred T. Merrill; staff. J. A. Waddle. A. N. Smith, C. E. Holmes, Ralph Prager. -s Programme N. W. Rountree, Phil Har ris. L. Alllhoff. Press Director, R. W. Mitchell; staff, Henry E. Reed, John L Pinney, J. W. Kelly. Reception Director. Alex Sweek; staff. Dr. H. R. Littlefield, Charles Clute, George C. Sears. D. Soils Cohen, R. W. Mitchell. M. L. Tlchnor, R. E. Moody, H. D. Griffin. Resources or Oregon Director, R. C Judson; staff, L. Gelser, E. L. Smith. A. B. Leckenby. M J. Buckley. H. B. Thlel sen, D. S. K. Bulck, M. O. Wllklns, E. V. Carter. Transportation Director, A. A. Charl ton; staff, W. H. Mead, A. B. C. Dennis ton. IN BOHEMIA DISTRICT. Rich Mines Norr In Course of Devel opment. W. W. Glbbs. of Portland, a success ful mining man, who has Interests in the Bohemia district, returned from there yesterday after spending several days in vestigating progress. A good many rich prospects are being opened up, he says, in addition to the mines upon which stamps are working, and he expects lively times there this Summer and Fall. Re cent rains have rendered freighting and pocking into the mines very difficult, as roads and trails are slow to dry. Even ;the wagon road in the open country, to Cottage Grove, is in bad shape for trans porting heavy loads of provisions and machinery needed in the mountains, but after a few weeks dry weather a good deal of hauling will be done. The Helena five-stamp mill is running day and night on good rock, and the number of stamps will be Increased to 10 in the near future. The Mustek 10 stamp mill shut down on July 1 for a few days' repairing, and the stamps will be started again next week. The owners of the Champion are pre paring to resume work shortly. A rich vein has been struck on this property and a stamp will probably be erected this Summer. At the Grizzly mine, owned by the Burns brothers, a 300-foot tunnel follows a rich ledge of copper, gold and galena. The vein is three feet wide at present depth. A quantity of ore brought down by Mr. Glbbs, from the Wall Street group, assays $350 In gold, and 25 ounces in silver. This might be called "surface rock," he says, as It was obtained at a depth of 10 feet from the top of tho ground. On the Confidence group & 200-foot tun nel is following a vein of rich rock. Thia property is on City Creek, lower down the mountain side than the Well Street group, and la therefore easier of ac cess. Colorado men. he says, are taking a good deal of Interest in Bohemia, and quite a number ore in there already, al though the snow has only jush disappeared. JUSTICE BROWN HERE. Federal Supreme Judge Has a IXIffh. Opinion of Portland. Associate Justice Henry Billings Brown, of the United States Supreme Court, is at the Portland. He is spending a" por tion of his vacation taking- in the Paciflo Coast, having came out over the Cana dian Pacific, and he will leave this even ing over the Southern Pacific, via San Francisco, for the East. He expressed himself last evening as being delighted with his trip, though traveling alone. WILL LECTURE AT . - -. nON. CHARLES B. LANDIS, INDIANA'S BRILLIANT CONGRESSMAN. Among the notaJble aDtractione for tbo Chatrtatiqua. mootlnc; at Gladstone Park. Oregon City, thia week are two lectures br Hon. Cborks B. lATny.n. the brilliant Congressman from Indians. Bays the Boston Sunday Journal: "Congressman Ch&rlecs B. LawSla, of Indiana, Is atoout the brightest of the men -wrJio have recently entered the House. Of all the new men In ConRTean, ho la the only one who bos made a rceord for oratory of the kind that tells. Ho did not Jump In at the beginning of his first term, in order to catch the attention of the Houfte, but h bidod We time till ncnethdnc como up in Which he was really interested, and oonoemlntr which bo knew bo bad somethinff to soy. Then be gilded into the debate H captured everybody." Tho Washington Post tells bow he captured Congress la one speech, as foHoroi: "Jjtzt dts was a new lUohtnond In th fieM. He hod not been announced, and no one kasnr wtoetber he -was for or asrainrt th Jaw. It did not take- lone for the Housa to find out Trhat Mr. Ixtndlo wonted or that he bad tho ability to make irtmsclf a factor la the debate. In two minutes toe was being listened to with attention; In 10 minutes he had a throng: around him; In haif an hour he had captured the House, and for the rest of tho hour and a half he was on the floor, he carried everything' before him, Bren Brosslus. tba chairman of the Civil Service Committee, sitting glum and anxious under the ebower of ridicule which Mr. LarxJis heaped upon the administration of th law, finally relaxed, and Joined in the general merri ment pcooked by Mr. Lendts witty remarks." On th evening of July 11 Mr. Xndl3 will deliver -jn OpOmteOa Vessaro,' and at 1:80 P. M., July 12, be will give his lecture. "Grant." his wife having concluded to spend the Summer at tho Atlantic Coast resorts. Justice Brown has been 10 yeirs on the Supreme Bench, and previous to taking his scat In that august body, was 1G years United States District Judge in Michigan. He Is 64 years of age. quite robust and of good cheer, and looks for ward to his retirement in five years more with complacency. He says the "United States Supreme Court Is now only about a year behind in its cases, though it used to be three. The establishment of a Court of Appeals has accelerated matters very much, and he does not think a sin gle year very much behind, as "it takes the lawyers about a year to prepare their cases and come to a conclusion as to whether their clients will settle or not," he said. He looks upon the Porto Rico tariff case, which comes up in October, as the most important case ever adjudicated in the United States Supreme Court, as upon Its decision depends our whole Na tional policy In dealing with our new acquisitions Porto Bico and the Philip pines. The case has been brought by New Tork merchants, and its merits rest on the constitutionality of a tariff on goods imported from Porto Rico to this country. He looks for an early decision. Justice Brown could not repress his ad miration for Portland and its surround ings.. "You have a magnificent city," he said. "Tour business structures are mas sive, and your elegant homes are strik ing numerous The Columbia River is a great commercial artery, and Portland is Just in the proper position forever to control its growing trade. I would like to see the Wlllimette Valley, of whose beauty and productiveness I have heard so much: but as I leave by Sunday even ing's train, I shall have to travel through it at night. I also desire to take in the mountain scenery on the SIskiyous, and will ride through that portion of the route by daylight," THE PROPER THTNG. To Attend the Allalcy Garden "Winter The elite of the dry are patronising and recognlrlng that the Winter Gar den is the place to see and be seen and enjoy themselves. The ladies have de cided in favor of the garden, and are making it a grand success. They seem to outvie each other in the wearing of beautiful gowns and handsome head dresses. The beautiful appearance they lend to the already lovely garden makes one think of Fairyland. Messrs. Alisky and Harvey may well fee! proud of their generous support of the Winter Garden. FREE TO ALL. Have you seen tho moving pictures of the flight of the famous "Portland-Chicago Special"? Portland to Chicago in less than, three days, without change of cars. Call and see them. Holders of second-class tickets make the trip as quickly as first-class passengers and en Joy accommodations superior to first class via many other lines. THIs train runs every day in the year. Try it when going East. For full infor mation call at Union Pacific City Ticket Office, 135 Third street, Portland, Or. TAE 0. R. & N. TRAIN TO . BONNEVILLE. Picnic grounds next Sunday, the Sth. Nice place to spend the day. Fine mountain scenery, good music. Fifty cents round trip. Special train from Union Depot 9:20 A. M. "Dear me, Edgar, I wish we had some thing funny to Tead tonight." "Well, my dear, th ore's your graduat- lng essay." Indianapolis Journal. LITTLE FEAR OF BOXERS PORTLAKD MISSIONARY TELLS OF SITUATION. Dr. Elisa Leonard Not Pertnrbcd on Her Ovra Account, Though Blood "Warn Runnine Near Her. Dr. Eliza B. Leonard, the representa tive in Pekin of the Woman's North Pa cific Presbyterian Board of Missions, has Just been heard from. Many readers of The Oregonlan will be Interested in the following extracts from her letters which were written In Pekin, May 20: "I have written heretofore very little as to events here, for I feared I might needlessly cause my friends to be anxious about me. Now' that things have gone as far as they have. I fear that news paper notes may much overstate the case. GLADSTONE PARK. and that I might better give a few facts. As the fifth month feast 'is approaching, affairs in China seem to be coming to a crista The Boxer uprising. Instead of subsiding, as we had hoped it might, is on the increase. They aro opposed to everything foreign In general, and to the Roman Catholic Church In particular. For a tlmo they gave their attention almost wholly to Roman Catholics, but gradu ally they have widened their scope. Churches under the A. B. C F. M. and the London Missionary Society have suf fered in particular. Many homes have been looted, all grain, clothing, furniture, doors and windows stolen. The Christians have fled for their lives, now finding shelter with thiB family, and now with that, gradually working their way to Mission Compounds, in Shan Tung, or Chi Li. Some did not daro show their heads by day, lest they should be killed. Many have been killed. Two London Mission native helpers were killed re cently. One was fastened by Angers and toes to a pole, and carried a long dls tanco, and then quartered. Horrible 1 Nine M. E. Christians were killed Sun day or Monday. These are all happenings Bome 30 miles or so from the city. "The troublo has worked nearer and nearer to the Capital, till Monday even ing tho railroad station, seven or eight miles from the city, was burned. Two bridges on the Pekln-Boo Tin Fu rail road line wore burned also, and It is re- ported that Imperial troops did not raise a hand to stay tho Boxers. The Chinese report Is that the Empress Dowager Js very much displeased with the French over the matter. The French have built the line, though It is owned by the Chi nese. She claims the French should have guarded the line. Such child's talkl The line is owned by the Chinese, and Chi nese subjects have destroyed It in part, yet It is the fault of the French! I un derstand the French Minister demanded an audience yesterday, and had it Have not heard results. Eight legations here have sent for large guards, and we hope some of them will be in today. "We dismissed the girls' school yester day, and have sent all the girls to their homes or to homes of friends. WeJ thought it too much of a responsibility to keep such a company of large girls here. If anything should happen, they would most surely fall a prey to vicious men. and that would be worse than death. "But I think we shall be spared ant harm or fright. We are not at all wrought up over the state of things. We go to bed and sleep as peacefully as babes. We do not know what a night or a day may bring forth, but we ara kept in wonderful peace and quiet of mind. We have had a guard of Chinese soldiers at our gato since a week ago Monday. We did not ask for thom, but they were sent here by the North Ta men. I think they are very little good. I doubt If there is a gun in the outfit, and if there is, I venture there is no ammuni tion. Being modest young women, it would be unbecoming In m to look around or ask any questions. The soldiers have come to our services, and have been very quiet, so it may have done them some good. "Our compound was to have been de stroyed last week, according to report. But we havo been killed any number of times the past two years, so far as re port is concerned. You can hear anything in China. Instead of doing the mission work which we were sent out for, we are said to have been poisoning wells of late. There is a Chinese guard at every well now. That is a protection to us, for the Boxers were hiring people to throw medicine or something (harmless) In to wells, and when these individuals were caught they said they were hired by for eigners. Placards were posted up about a month ago, warning against the use of foreign medicines, and giving a prescrip tion, as antidote, for the benefit of any who had previously fallen victim to the 1 foreign physician. Disponsary attendonco fell with a sudden, awful thud, and has not come up since. "Foreigners have been blamed for the drought, which has been very severe. We had a little rain yesterday, and we think considerable has fallen in the coun try round about the past few days. "No attack has been made inside the city yet, and we hope there will be none. To bo sure, there are Boxers practicing here, but it will ba very daring for them to do anything- in the Capital, and it seems to us would mean almost the overturning of the Government. The Boxers in practicing bump their heads three times on the ground in the direction of the southeast, repeat some form and fall back in a state of trance, where they He for a little while, then get up, beat them selves furiously with their hands or Chi nese swords, and say they are some par ticular spirit. When, they have had enough of the hypnotic state, some one rubs a hand over the face, and they aro ordinary men again. Until this Is done, they claim they are .invulnerable. "I heartTof one of the leaders who was making such claims, when a man asked him if he would give him permission to try a sword across his neck. He said, "Certainly," whereupon the sword was applied with considerable force, and the head rolled off on one side. The father of tho Boxer, standing by, was asked for an explanation. He said his son was not sufficiently under the lnfluenoe of the Bplrlt that he, himself, could not be harmed. The man replied that one dead man was enough for him. He would not try the sword on another. "Now I trust this letter will not servo to trouble you, but that you may all be as fearless over these troublous times as we are. We know not what awaits, but we are satisfied whatever it may be. I shall write again soon, if I can. "Tours, with much love, "ELIZA B. LEONARD." STEVENSON'S STORY. How He "Was Received "fry Pcnnoyer, and What He Bald. Judge Thomas CDay is in a measure responsible for the following story: Adlal B. Stevenson made a tour of the Pacific Northwest about six years ago. Ho was then Vice-President, having been nominated and elected on a sound-money platform, along with a gold-standard run ning mate. Just as he is now nominated on an unsound-money platform along with the greatest free-silver man in the country. Pennoyer was Governor, and he xnado a characteristic speech of welcome to the Vice-President, somewhat in this vein: Toa have come to the most beautiful and most bountiful state in the Union. Our crops are abundant, our streams full of fish, our forests thick with merchant able timber, our fields yellow witn golden grain, our orchards fairly groaning with luscious fruit, our people ougct xo w happy and content. But are they? No. One-half of them are starving, literally starving in sight of plenty. All because of the crime of '73; and yet the powers at Washington are supine, and do not help us," etc., etc The Vice-President was staggered. He told his experience to Judge O'Day, say ing: "I have had only one other such speech made to too, and that was by the Mayor of a small town in Indiana, who took occasion to contrast Illinois somewhat unfavorably with his own state. What could I say, except to respond with some polite and diplomatic expression? My own predicament reminds me of a story." And Stevenson told this anecdote: "There was an old Congressman in In diana who was considerably bothered by a stage-struck young man, who wanted the Congressman to help him into a ms trlonio career. He did not get on fast, and one day he appeared before the Con gressman, and, assuming a tragic pose and classic expression, demanded: " "Dost thou love most thy Hamlet? Or does thou love most thy Macbeth? " Wol, now, look here,' was the re sponse. 1 have been around my deestrlck considerable, and I find that some of my constituents is f er Macbeth and some is fer Hamlet; and my friends bdn' di vided, it Won't do fer me to take sides.' Tho Vice-President's story would seem to be applicable o his own willingness to run flrat on an anti-silver platform and then on a silver platform. Judge OfDaxiretold the anecaote wen; Rrhana he his forgotten it now. perhaps he h forgotten SUSPENDED FROM MINISTRY Rex. S. A. Starr, D. 73., Out of the Inlpit Untit Conf erence Meets. As the result of a long-drawn-out church trial at Sunnyslde. Rev. S. A. Starr, D, D., who has been pastor of the Sunnyslde 'Methodist Church for nearly two years, has been suspended from the" ministry till the next confer ence, when the, case will be handled by that body. The investigation tooic up considerable time the past few weeks and many witnesses were examined be fore a committee of preachers, with the reaylt that tho case will go before the general conference. Dr. Starr has been one of the xno3t prominent ministers in the Oregon con ference. :For TL2' years he was a member of the faculty of the Willamette Uni versity, find was an educator of much repute. Since he resigned his chair, he has been, engaged in the .regular work of the ministry. He has always been prominent at all the annual conferences, and there 4s hardly a better-known min ister in the Oregon conference than Dr. Starr. Until this trouble arose his" work at Sunnyslde has been excellent. The Investigation was conducted in secret and "only street reports as to the nature of the charges reached the public. These are that he was guilty of conduct un becoming a minister. Dr. Starr was ab sent from the city yesterday, and could not be interviewed. i BURIAL RIGHTS IN LONE FIR Suit to Determine Whether Limits Hay Be Extended. The question whether the burial limits of Lone Fir cemetery may be lawfully extended was argued at length in tho Municipal Court yesterday. The discus sion came up in the case of Isaac Brown and Cass Wygant, arrested for violating the city ordinance relating to burials in Lone Fir cemetory, on a charge brought by KE Williamson, an East Sldo resi dent. Under city ordinance No. 913 It Is made a nuisance and a misdemeanor to make burials outside the defined boun daries of cemeteries specified in the or dinance. Tho prosecution asierta that this ordinance has been violated by Brown and Wygant, who buried a body, under orders of the sexton, outside of the fixed limits. Tho lawyers for the defense, on the other hand, contend that the city has no right to prohibit burials inside of plots set aside for the purpose under tho state law. Should their contention hold, the whole aroa of Lone Fir cemetery would be thrown open to burials, Instead of being circumscribed as it Is at present. The attorneys for both sides were given five days in which to submit their briefs. DELIGHTFUL OCEAN TRIP. At this season of the year the trip from Portland to San Francisco by steamer is an extremely delightful one. The sea is unusually smooth, and the weather warm and free from fog. The steamers Columbia and State of Cali fornia are among the finest passenger ships on tho Coast, and make the trip in 4S hours. O. R. & N. ticket office, 0 Third street, corner Oak. I sir Slchel tc Co.. agents, celebrated 1 Herbert Spencer cigars. H. E. EDWARDS 185-187-1S9 and 191 first St A TIMELY PROVISION FOR YOUR NEW HOUSE Special Three Days' Carpet Sale Special Sale on Combination Book Cases FOR ONE WEEK Book Case made of solid oak, finished in golden oak finish, French bevel plate mirror 12x10. cast brass handles and escutcheon: polish finish; Is a very handsome library piece; price, $16.00; Sale Price $11.45 SPECIAL Dining Chair Sale Very strong, durable and well-made Din ing Chair, high back, turned spindles, cane seat, very serv iceable, nicely finished In antique color. Price 73c HELENA TiSrffJl Read our Weekly Market Letter in the Orcgonian every you a copy upon application. AS A WHEELMAN SEES IT SOME DECIDED OPINIONS ABOTTT BICYCLE PATHS. He Contends That Everyone Is Taxed for the Benefit of Someone Else. PORTLAND, June 30. (To the Editor.) Although so much has been said pro and con about the blcyclo tax, one point seems to have been overlooked by the oppon ents of the tax, that Is that no general tax can be devised under which every one will get just what he pays for, and pay for just what he gets. Some com plain that they don't pay because the paths are not built in tne city, but they don't explain how the Commissioners are to build until they get the money to pay the bills; but the far greater number say at once that they won't pay because they never, no never, ride on the paths. Nine tenths of the tax-paying riders simply don't believe them, and it does seem hard to believe judging from the great number of riders seen all the tlmo on the paths, and the great number also seen on the paths lately without tags, although, of course, there are undoubtedly some who may not have used the paths at all. Such Investigation, however, as has been made has shown that In most casos they had been on the paths "Just to look at them" or their children and wives used them. But let us suppose for the sake of argu ment that their statement Is true. The "business man" complains that he mere ly rides to and from his business and never goes on the paths, so should not pay for them, but If he is only to pay for what he gets he should only have what he pays for. He has the streets cleaned watered and improved in front of his place of business, has a police force to protect his business, and a large fire department to pro tect his goods all these things are paid for by thousands of others who don't get any direct benefit from them. Tho suburbanite, who never sees a policeman, has no fire protection and no watering cart near his home, pays for this for Mr. Business Man, who enjoys It all at some one else's expense, but objects to a small tax for the benefit of those who provide him with so much. He is willing to take all the benefit he can get from other peo ple's taxes, but Is unwilling to pay a small tax unless ho see3 a direct dollar In it for himself. Great Is the business hog, and the working man or tho man who poses as a working man he only rides to and from his work, and should not pay for a path for somebody else to ride on, but he rides over a free bridge built and maintained at some one else's expense. What about tho former away out in the county, and who pays every year a considerable tax for these bridges and never seen them? Why should he be taxed to provide free bridges for the worklngman in Portland and from which he gets no dliect benefit? If the kicker's complaint Is good then there ought. In common Justice, to be a toll on the bridges, that they who use them may pay for them and those who, like the kickers, don't use them should not pay, and all pay for Just the amount of use they get out of thom. The worklngman who uses I the free bridge every day saves thereby H. E. El DWARDS H. F. EDWARDS 185-1SM89 and 191 first St. TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY CARPET SPECIALS Union Carpet, 1 yard wide.......... E5o Extra Union Carpet, 1 yard wide.. 40c Extra Super Cot. Chain 45a Extra Super All Wool 60a Best Super All Wool 65c Oriental Carpet 80o Pro-Brussels 90o Flemish Tapestry, 1 yard wide 85o Tapestry Carpet .- 60o Smith's Carpet 70o Smith's Best Brussels.. 80o Roxbury Brussels 90o Body Brussels DOc Velvet Carpet .. S5c Best Velvet Carpet SSa Saxony Axmlnster ..-. 51-10 Moquet HIO Smith's Axmlnster 1115 No charge for sewing and laying. We can furnish you any number of yards you. require. By such phenom enal offerings as these our CARPET DEPARTMENT should boom this week. No. 2 Is on the same vein as HELENA and bids fair to be as good a mine when developed. The showing on HELENA No. 2 is better than was the showing on HELENA at the same stage of development. We ad vise the purchase of HELENA No. 2 at the present quotations. Wagy, Hengen & Wagy 533 and 535 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Cawstoh Estimates Furnished on Steam and Hot Water Heating, Dealers In En gines, Boilers, Machinery Supplies 48 and 50 First St, Near Pine about $25 a year, but objects to paying out $1 25 for a path that tho farmer, whose taxes pay for the bridge, should have a path connecting him with his neighbors and allowing his children a chance to go to school In Winter without wading through the mud. Great, indeed, Is the non-taxpaylng hog. The kicker says we all got a benefit from Improved streets and free bridges. That Is mostly true; but in this case we are talking of direct benefits. T defy any of these men who claim they should not pay for a thing they do not get direct benefit from to show In any case or under any circumstances that they do not get a direct benefit from many things which other people pay for. As far as the law Is concerned. I think we might change It to something like the Wisconsin law, under which no ono 13 obliged to buy a tag, but any one caught on a path without a tag has his wheel seized till ho get3 a tag and puts up $10 more as a penalty. But to be consistent, we ought also to put a toll on the bridge If we believe In the creed of these kick ers. As for paths In the city, while I am en tirely willing if the majority of riders want them to pay my tax both for myself and my family, and have the money spent on such paths, personally I don't believe In them. I don't believe the wheelmen ought to be expected to build them, and I doubt very much If they are practical. My platform on this, question Is about thus: "It Is the duty of tho city authori ties to provide suitable and safe means of travel for the wheelmen on the streets of the city. Just as much as to provide side walks for the pedestrians and Improved streets for other vehicles. But If the wheelmen see fit to tax themselves for this purpose. It Is the duty of the city au thorities to provide the most ample pro tection for such paths and protect them from Invasion by other vehicles. I believe the Council has as much right to set aside a part of the street for the exclusive use of the wheelmen, as It has to set asido a part for tho use of the street cars and telegraph and telephone companies. As for the money spent last year on the paths. I can confidently assert that every dollar of the money was honest ly spent, and made to go as far as pos sible, and that our paths, as a whole, are as well built as any In any state, and at a cost below the average, and the com plaint as to the money spent has been mado by persons who have neglected to make any Investigation on the subject, but who are simply talking without hav ing taken the time or trouble to look in to the subject. The account of the money spent has been published several times, and anybody with a pencil could satisfy himself of the result very qulcklv. There wore 9657 tags sold, and the sheriff turned Into the fund J561 B0 from the 25 cents allowed for collecting, showing a fund of $10,218. There was built 70 miles of path, making an average price of about . 185.187-189 and 191 first St SPECIAL THIS WEEK $1435 $!4.35 Sideboard made of the very best oak, golden oak finish, polished, two-top swell front drawers: has a 24x45 dou ble serpentine top, 6 feet high, French pattern, bevel plate. 16x26 inches, drawers and cupboard doors hand somely carved, top drawer, lined with billiard cloth for silverware, drawer pulls are of cast brass; this Is a beau tiful piece of dining-room furnlturo; regular price, $13.00; now, J14.33. On account of not being able to serve all of our numerous customers, we have concluded to continue our car pet sale during tho corresponding three days this week. . - feaifc, . Tuesday, or we will mail Ss Company Telephone 31nln 107. PORTUND, OREGON $140 per mile. Here are some comparisons of cost per mile: New York. J200 to ?3C0 per mile. Pari Commissioners. $SC0 per mile. Vicinity of St. Paul, three feet. $150 pel mile; six feet, $200 per mile; eight feet, $250 per mile. Minnesota. $100 to $TCO per mile. Pennsylvania. $130 to $2C0 per mile. And the comparisons carried with any other state will show the like results. Whore can any fair-minded man find any opening for complaint under this show lng. W. W. BRETHERTON. STILL BUYING TIMBER. Eaatern Capital Invented in Tilln- moolc County. New men are reaching Portland every day from the East, In quest of. timber land, and even lands In Tillamook Coun ty, heretofore considered unavailable, are being bought up by the thousand acres. I A Pennsylvania company now has cruls- iers along the coast making- estimates and bargaining with the original owners of tho quarters, with a view to buying quanti- ties in a body. Several thousand acres ' were purchased by these Pennsylvania ' people on Wilson Creek, last week, the average price being $5 an acre. Oregon timber lands can be bought much cheaper than those of Puget Sound, according to the persons Interested In tho timber business, as trades havo been ' made In Tillamook County on the basis ! of 20 cents a thousand feet, while the same kind of timber tributary to Puget Sound streams runs as high as $1 50. Ac cording to these authorities the forests of Western Washington will bo denuded of their big trees, long before those of the Oregon Coast. Ex-TInlted Btate Senator James W. Brad- ' bury, of Augusta, Me., on Monday celebrated the 08th anniversary ot his birth, receiving many callers and numerous messages from all over the United States. He retains all his fac- i ultles to a remarkable degree, and keeps up h! lntret la current events. otdteoeicetc No Cooking e e a e e e 9 In hot weather Eat... Grape-Nuts ready cosked, crisp, delicious and wonderfully e Healthy e o e o 0ooeoe99itetiii J I! 1