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VOL. XXIII. , . PORTLAND. OREGON,. SUNDAY MORKBTG, FEBRUARY 28, 1904. " NO9
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Pillow Tops
A Great Sale
Stock adjusting
caused sharp reduc
tions in several lines of
Pillow Tops, like this:
25c to 39c Tops 10
50c to 75c Tops 25
75c to $1.25 Tops. -.39
imply an Index
Wo aertising is representative of much more than it .specifically heralds.
We do not make a great outcry about every bargain that awaits our customers; in
act, very many values of great merit are never given public notice. Where we
SiT'J?italls.,illan3rlilie' TO hve or a hundred
others that afford shoppers similar and equally good advantages. Our dailv ad
vertisement is amply an index to the best merchandise in, the market, a review
of current fashions and a never-erring reporter of the minimum prices for which
merchandise of a high class can be obtained.
Brass Toast
Plaques25c
TO LOvEES The Have Beena,
me -are jnows, the May Be.
TO OUR LODGE BROTHERS
Hay none other ever chew the
Hag. "The Goat."
TO WOMAN - When she is
pretty, when she is witty and
wnensne is not too wise.
TO THE FOOL-Generally the
wisest man m the company
disguised.
AND DOZENS OF OTHEES.
Hural Carriers Make
Only a Bare Living.
CONGRESS IS ASKED TO ACT
Crown Taffeta Silk 85c
The "Crown" brand is an absolute warrant
of Taffeta dependability. Sold here for ten years
and not one complaint. Great record, isn't it?
One hundred colors and shades in stock.
BUTTERICK PATTERN HEADQUARTERS
Goods Bought Tomorrow Charged on March Accoant
In the Music Store
'THE PAPPOOSE DANCE," the latest Eastern
Dig mr, nas caught on here. Parsons r and Ever
est's orchestras will feature this composition
At our music store only 256. Ask to hear it
Forty Bills for Increase
Salary Are Pending.
in
Women s O liter Garments
If you would keep posted on what is newest, best and most fashion
able in women's outer garments, you must visit this store frequently
Not a day passes but what there is some added beauty-new costume's
suits and jackets, not to forget waists and skills coining in every day'
AH the new things are strictly such as you'd expect to find here
all of them bearing the hallmark of true Lipman, Wolfe & Co excel
lence. Take this as an invitation for a visit of inspection of the many
new things we've gathered in profusion. You're just as welcome
whether you come to only look as if you came to. buy.
A few of the newcomers are singled out for description.
BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES; of etamine in tan, black lavender and white. The. waists
are elaborately trimmed with folds, lace, guipure, chiffon and shirring. The skirts
are flounced and trimmed with wide and narrow pleats, shirred all around and fin-
ished with two-toned lace guipure $65.00 to $150.00
SHIRTWAIST SUITS; of pongee, in the smartest, swellest styles shown this season,
all showing the new and up-to-date touches of trimming that distinguish these from
the commonplace sorts shown elsewhere $22 50
WALKING AND DRESS SUITS; of finest imported broadcloths' 'and. " cheviots
made m novelty Eton and jacket styles; braids, silk applique and laces and silk
ornaments used as trimming; the skirts are all flared in kilted nleated mrl '
city styles, trimmed to match the jackets . . ' P jpfc5to S75
feTd Wlr4 CJ?th' ?)tey n shades, made in double
JinSt Let?nt effGCtS; -th strap, and fancy
" ip-lZiSy to S30
Book News
Why go to an exclu
sive book store when
you can buy here for
less?
Special orders for
books we do not carry
in stock filled at our
regular cut price.
Players of triage whist can
now secure copies of Elwell on
Bridge. A new shipment just
received.
Demands for the following
books are daily increasing:
JEWELS - By Clara Louise
juurauam. I'uoiisuers' price,
$1.50. Our price S1.08
THE PIT AND THE OCTOPUS
By Frank Norris. Pub. price,
$1.50. Our price Sl.OS
THE DAUGHTER OF A MAG
NATE By Frank H. Spear
man. JUDITH OF THE PLATNS-
By Marie Mannering.
THE BOSS-Bv Lewis.
JOURNEY'S END Bv Porman
THE BLAZED TRAIL-White.
Publishers' price, each, $1.50.
Our price $1.08
THESE ARE NEW.
STELLA FRAGELIUS By H.
Rider HaRjnird.
MAMSELLE FIFINE By Elea
nor viiKinson.
MY FRIEND PROSPERO By
xienry xiariand. Jublishers'
price, each $1.50. Our
Price Sl.OS
Notions and Dressmaking Needs: A Sale
T-iin-t- XI Jl i r .
u uou wiieu uie inougnts or an womankind are turned Ward th r o, ....
j j 7 fes j-auy iui ouxmg sewing comes tins
eeds and notions. Trm o-rinrl wQ f... ,
erv low -nWpnc ; v 5cxuuo uauuues, are or
4 " Jf"vj.
store wi1?i a great unde?price sale 'SB
the best m quality and are offered at very low ranVpc J-ne.gooci5
Silk Frilled Elastic Hook-On Hose Sup
porters with satin pad, assorted colors. .436
Silk Frilled Hose Supporters -with satin
Pin-On tops, assorted colors 20 6
Black and White Darning Cotton, 45-yard
Spools 2
Tablet of six White or Black Hatpins 4,6
Curling Irons in assorted sizes, 3c, 8c 06
Hair Pins, straight ojn crimped, 2&, 2y2,
2-inch long bundle of 30 for 46
Cabinet Hair Pins, 50 in each 4
Stocking Darners, assorted colors 4
Silk Corset Laces, assorted colors, 5 yds. .226
Linen Corset Laces, assorted colors, 5 yds. 46
Best Elastic Corset Laces 34
Lisle Dress Elastic, -inch vide.'.'.'.'..'.'. 5
Lisle Dress Elastic, -inch wide. . 7
Large Cube Pins, white, black and colors. . 06
Household Needlebooks, 150 assorted Nee
dles, good quality 326
Roberts Needlebooks containing 100 best
quality gold eye needles 226
46
Best Ironing Wax
GO-inch Linen Tape Measure ". .'
60-inch Cotton Tape Measure .
Best German Silver Thimbles &
Best 'Celluloid Thimbles "
Best Aluminum Thimbles, 3 lor 5
Best Grade English Pins, 360 count: 9
Best Grade American Pins, 360 count "4
English Morning Pins, box 26
Pearl Head Lace Pins, 12 for " 5
Pinbooks, 360 black and white and all
black Pins 10
Safety Pinbooks, 2 dozen assorted." . . . G6
Pattern Tracers, 4c and 12
Hand-Forged Scissors, 314, 4, 5-inchl...'.22d
Hand-Forged Scissors, 5y2, 6, 6y2, 7-inch.39d
-Best Lace Scissors ; 68
Best Buttonhole Scissors SQ
Best Stitch Rippers '. '. '. V. '. '. '. .186
black and white.
small and medium,
gross 5Q
500 yards Basting Cotton, dozen 50
Silk Finish Thread, 500-yard spool,
black No. 40, spool 5
White and Black Chiffon Stock Foundation,
straight and pointed, each 10
Lightweight Stockinet Shields, dozen. .$1.00
Best quality Rubber-Lined Shields, doz.1.85
Best quality Odorless Shields, double
covered, size 3, dozen . S2.25
Tape Covered "tfaist Featherbone, 3 yds. .2o6
Taffeta Silk Seam Binding, black and
white, 8c piece, dozen 006
Glace Serge Dress Belting, 10-yard piece,
per piece 12
Silk Serge Belting, -inch wide, 8c yard,
piece 1 706
Shaped Skirt Banding, black, white and
gray 12-yard piece, per piece 45
Angora Braid, 5-yard piece, black,, white
and all colors, piece g
Best quality Velveteen and Brush Binding
Jard 56
New Lace Collars 35c
This wonderful Neckwear store of ours offers a
wonderful special for tomorrow. Beautiful Venise Lace
Collars in white, cream and Arabe color. They are ex
tra heavy and hare long tabs. A splendid value. Other
equally good values at 50 and 756
Col'd Novelty Dress Goods
An unrivaled showing of the season's best fabrics at the sea
son s lowest, prices.
famines, soft and clinging, $1.50 to 2.50
Wool Chiffon Voile, light as thistledown, $1.50 to S2.50
c.o hne de Soie silk wool, sheer and lighf, S1.75
to . 50.
nil a r- j
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Shirtwaist Suit Silks
The magnificent display of shirtwaist suits Silks in our corner
window was the cause of much favorable comment, apd what's
more to the point, enthusiastic buying. People who know about
such things tell us that our collection of silken fabrics exceeds all
others in beauty and price-fairness in the city.
Many of those sold during the week have been replaced by
new arrivals. These newcomers are, if anything possible, more
beautiful than those they replaced.
Turkish Mohair Crepes
One of the most fashionable Black Dress Fabrics for this sea
son are Crepes, made of real Turkish Mohair. Thev are soil and
clinging, extremely lustrous and rival silks in appearance and ou
do them m wear ; dust and rainproof, too-qualities that are W
commendable. 44 to 50 inches wide. $1.50 to $3 50
Spring Millinery
Our spacious Millinery Salon is fast tak
ing a Springtime air, Flowers to the right
and to the left all such close copies of jESTa
ture's handiwork that one is almost tempt
ed to test their fragrance.
This week feature is the first showing
of the famous
ROBHTSOjS" & "WELLS HATS.
These hats are especially designed to
meet the demands of misses and young la
dies. Some of the models singled out are
An open front roll" Turban of black silk
braid, velvet quill and gold buttons and
braid as trimming. A flat hat of white and
black silk braid., decided tilt on one side,
black quill and large black rosette used as
trimming. See window display.
GREATEST HOPE IN SENATE
New.Jewelry
Lack of space pre
vents more than a mere
mention of the hun
dreds and hundreds of
new arrivals in Jewel
ry. Everything most
fashionable and more
than fair in price.
Men's Leather Gold-Mounted
Fobs $1.50 TO $3.00
Men's tfew Silk-Corded Gold
Mounted Fobs $1.00 TO S7.50
Ladies' New Sterling Watch
Fobs $2.00 TO $5.00
Ladies' New Stock Pins, Gold
and Sterling. 50 TO $2.50
Ladies' New Military Waist
Sets 356 TO 95
Plated, Solid Gold and Sterling
Crosses 756 TO $7.50
New Sterling Hat Pins 256
New Stone Jet and Gilt Hat
Pins 506 AND 75
New Hair Combs
New Ehinestone, Pearl and Tur
quoise Mounted Back and Side
Lombs m shell and amber;
Prices.... $1.00 TO $7.50
Amendment to the Appropriation Bill
Providing for at Least Horse-Hire
and Subsistence Appears
Highly Probable.
GROWTH OF RURAL DELIVERY.
Fiscal year. Appropriation. Routes.
ISM f 10,000 ....
1S05 10.000 ....
1S06 10.(J00 ....
1607 40.000 4i
1608. L.. Vi ...... j. .- - "50,000 148
1S09 . vi 150.000 391
1000 " 450600 1,278
1901 1.750,000 4.301
1002 3,993,740 S.46G
1003 7,520.440 15,125 '
OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
mgion, Feb. zi. A great effort will be
made when the Fostofflce appropriation
bill comes up for consideration to secure
the enactment of a provision authorizing
material increase of the salaries of the
I rural free delivery carriers. It is too
early to determine whether such an in
crease -will be 'authorised, but there Is a
popular clamor for legislation of this sort,
and in the neighborhood of 40 bills have
been Introduced at the present session au
thorizing an increase ranging from $200 to
j per annum in the salaries of these
carriers. There Is a strong Drobabllltv
that If the House makes no provision for
Increased pay for rural carriers, the postal
appropriation bill will be amended in the
Senate so as to give them some allow
ance for horse hire and subsistence.
It is true that legislation of this sort
would greatly increase the size of the
postal appropriation bill and such a thing
would be contrary to the wishes of the
House leaders, who have time and again
announced they will endeavor to suppress
all but absolutely necessary legislation at
the present session. The friends of the
rural carriers, however, assert that the
legislation which is demanded is neces
sary and just. They protest that on their
present meager pay rural carriers are
unable to make more than a bare living
and often perform, their services accord
mg to contract at a loss. There la more
merit in legislation to Increase the sal
artes of rural carriers than there is in
many appropriations which have been,, or
will be, made at the present session, and
If the carriers can enlist the aid of a few
determined Senators they will no doubt be
able to push through the legislation which
they demand.
Mitchell Has a Bill.
Among the bills now pending is one in
troduced by Senator Mitchell, which pro
viaes that eacn and every carrier In the
rural free delivery service, in addition to
the salary now provided by law, shall re
celve $200 per annum for subsistence. Most
uma wmca are "penaing Deiore tne Ben
ate and House committees are drawn on
unes similar to that introduced by the
Senator from Oregon. There are, how
ever, some bills which do not authorize
as great an Increase. Two hundred, and
fifty dollars, however; seems to be the
average amount, which It Is believed
should be added to the salaries of rural
carriers.
Kepresentatlve Fordney, of Michigan,
has Introduced a bill somewhat different
from that of Senator Mitchell's, which
provides that rural carriers who have been
In the service less than one year shall be
paid $700 per annum, and those carriers
who have served one year or more shall
receive compensation at the rate of $360
per annum.
Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin has
Introduced a bill which provides that dur
ing the first year of their service rural
carriers shall be paid $720 per annum; for
tne second year $S00. and for the third and
for each succeeding year $S00 per annum.
There are other bills for this general pur
pose, but a3 a rule they conform to the
general lines of one of the three measures
above mentioned.
up io uie present time, neither the
House committee nor the postal commit
tee of the Senate has given serious con
sideration to the bills for the benefit of
rural carriers. It is expected that if
legislation of this sort Is attempted It
win be taken up at the time the Postofllce
appropriation bill la being framed and
considered.
Department Is With Carriers.
The Postofflce Department Is of the onm-
ion that rural carriers are not sufficiently
paid for the class of service which Is re
quired .or them, and some officials of the
department may be counted" on to advo
cate an Increase of salaries, If they are
called before the committees. Others, how
ever, believing in rigid economy, take the
position that Inasmuch as there has been
no dlfliculty, up to date, In securing car
riers on the various routes, there Is no
necessity for an increase in salary.
whether Congress at the present ses
sion authorizes an Increase in the pay of
rural carriers seems to depend unon the
strength that this movement can com
mand in the Senate. The outlook for In
itial favorable action in the House is not
bright. It is, of course, possible that the
House may take the Initiative and au
thorize an increase in the pay of rural
carriers, but this Is not looked for. The
probabilities are that If the legislation Is
enacted at the present session It will be
tacked on to the Postal appropriation bill
In the Senate and be retained there In
conference.
SENTENCED FOR POSTAL FRAUD
Machen, Lorenz and One of Groffs
Must Serve Two Years With Fine.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. August W.
Machen, ex-General Superintendent of the
Free Delivery Postal Service; Dr. George
F. Lorenz, of Toledo, once Postmaster of
that city, and Diller B. Groff, of this
city, all of whom were convicted of con
spiracy against the Government in con
nection with the supply of Groff fasteners
to the Postofflce Department, today were
setnenced by Judge Prltchard to two
years imprisonment In the Moundsvllle,
W. Va., penitentiary, and to pay a flno
of $10,000 each. The defendants immedi
ately gave notice of appeal to the Court
of Appeals, and were released on $20,000
bonds each.
Samuel A. Groff, as to whom Special
Counsel Conrad, for the Government, said
some days ago that there was not suf
ficient evidence to convict, was not sen
tenced and his motion for a new trial and
lor arrest or judgment being allowed fur
ther consideration, his counsel was given
four day within which ;;o Dreoare to ar
gue potions.
ine sentence Imposed on Machen. Lor
enz and Diller B. Groff Is
allowed under the law, although the court,
contrary to the contentions of the prose
cution, decided that the several counts in
the indictment constituted but one offense.
The appeals to the upper court will be
pressed as rapidly as possible, according
to the defense, but months may elapse be
fore the appeals can be heard.
The Government has not vet iIpcMp rm
its next step In the prosecution of the
postal cases, in which there have been so
many indictments In which Machen is
named, involving offenses other than that
covered in the Indictment on which he
has already been convicted. There arc n
Indictments against Machen, either singly
or Jointly, with others, and the Govern
ment expects to bring him to trial on most
of them.
SITE FOE STATUE IS CH0SE2T.
That of Frtderlck the Great to Oc
cupy Prominent Place at Capitol.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. At th in.
stance of the President. Baron von Stern
berg, the German Ambassador, has had a
long conference with Srrtnrv t
Major-General Gillespie, respecting the lo
cation of the statue of Frederick the
Great, which Is to be rir!irn
12. It was decided thai- th
make one of a quartet of the world's
greatest soldiers, and it will stand In line
on the beautiful terrace of the War Col
lege between Alexander the Great, Caesar
and Napoleon.
The arrangements made am htc-Mv -,
Isfactory to the German Ambassador, who
will acquaint his Emperor with them.
Bronze Bust of Handel.
WASHINGTON. Feb. zi.-Cn
tendered a bronze bust of Rir.
Ick Handel, the composer, today by the
Commissioners of the District of Colum
bia. The bust was awarded to the United
German Singing Societies of Washington
in a contest at the National Saengerfest
in Baltimore. The societies
bust to the District of Columbia, and it
is desired to have It placed on a Govern
ment preservation in this city.
Is
EXCITING HA2T HUNT.
Aged Assailant of Two Women
Pursued for Thirty Hours.
BINGHAMTON. N. T.. Feb. 27.-After
one of the most exciting man hunts In the
history of this city, lasting nearly 00
hours, Morris Odell. charged with attack
ing two women, was captured last night.
Prompt arrival ot policemen saved the
man from falling into the hands of a
crowd of 50 men. who were chasing him.
Odell Is a white man, nearly 50 years old
and was captured by Levi Ray, colored.
Foremost In the crowd was Frank
Fancher, husband of one of the alleged
victims. Fancher was unarmed, but he
jumped for Odell, struck him and at
tempted to wring his neck until pulled
away by a policeman.
Odell's wife died recently and he is said
to have drunk heavily since then. After
attacking his stepdaughter, he visited
Fancher's house, where he formerly
boarded. Mrs Fancher was at work and
did not see him enter. He seized the
woman, choked her almost senseless and
fled when the children" gave an alarm.
WOMEN TO HAVE FINE CLUB.
New York City Organization Will
Spend $500,000 on Quarters.
NEW YORK. Feb. 27. After
extending over a period of many months
the New York City Federation
Women's Clubs has taken definite action
iuwmi tne esiaousnment or a clubhouse
for women. It Is to have all th an.
coutrementa of a men's club and will coat
$500,000. ac
At a recent meetlne of the
committee was .chosen to seek suitable,
quarters. This committee reported in
favor of the old -Knickerbocker Athletic
Club In Madison avenue. The temerity
of such an undertaking stunned the ladles
for a few moments, but their president
gave assurance that a man stood readv
to loan them enough for the first nav.
mcnt. and a committee was chosen with
power to act.
ROOSEVELT TO SAVE GAME.
Wanton Slauahter of Elk in Wash
ington Arouses the President.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. An effort Is
to be made by President Roosevelt to pre
vent the wanton destruction of elk in this
country. Congress, probably Informally,
will be asked to enact stringent laws
looking to the preservation of the great
animals. Representative Humphrey and
Allen Weir, of Washington, discussed
with the President today the illetral
slaughter of what Is known as the Roose
velt elk in the Olympian Mountains. In
Washington. State Game Wardens here
found carcasses very recently of eleven
elk in one place and eight in another. All
had been killed Illegally, merely for two
weia in eacn animal, wnicn are used as a
sign of the Order of Elks. The carcasses
remain where they felL
Canal Commission Is Completed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The Pru
dent has decided to appoint Beniamfn r
Harrod, of New Orleans, a member of the
isinmian Lanai commission. This com
pletes Uie commission, and the names of
the members will be sent to the Sennit
Monday. The President went thoroughly
into the charges against Mr. HarroH onj
satisfied himself that there was nothing
In them.