The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 11, 1904, PART TWO, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextPART TWO PAGES 9 TO 16 vol. xxni. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MOBNINO, SEPTEMBER 11, 1904. NO. 37. - t Good Goods Only Quality Considered, Our Prices Are Always Lowest Butterick Patterns and Fashion Sheets for October Are In Lipman, Wolfe & Co. FANNED TO FUHY BLAME TO IT Two Embroidery Sp'cials One of our Washington-street windows contains a display of these two wondrous values. Real 65c Corset Cover Embroidery 40c These embroideries are crisp, fresh and new, and are part of a big purchase made by us away below market value. Daisy Pattern Val. Laces Real 121c Persian Flannelette 9c We offer tomorrow Persian Flannelettes in Persian stripes and figures in 'red, navy blue, brown, gray, tan and black and white effects i2c grade at 9 per yard. Good News From the Dress Goods Store On display tomorrow many new arrivals in the Dress Goods Store. All of guaranteed fashion, dependable quality and absolute lowness of price. NEW TAILOR SUITINGS 44 inches wide in stripe and plaid effects, Navy, brown and gray mixtures. Really a dollar quality. On sale tomor row at 75. NEW SUITINGS 54 inches wide, rich Scotch effects, invisible plaids, small checks and stripes. Also new Amazon Cloths in plain and mixed col orings. Very excellent value at 1.00. CREPE DE PARIS 42 inches wide, silk and wool, black, cream and full line of colors. An actual $1.25 valueSpecial at 1.00. CREPE TRINGALINE 44 inches wide, an exquisite silk and wool fabric in a full line of colorings. We invite your inspection of the many very late novelty fabrics in French Costume Cloths for Robes and Evening Gowns. All of ,our own ex clusive importation. This offering consists of all-wool and silk and wool novelty weaves, French and Scotch Plaids, plain weaves, stape colors. $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 C Novelty Dress Goods Great School Supply Sale Composition Books: Five Specials Red Leatherette Cover, 200 pages, special at 25 Seal Leatherette Coyer, 200 pages, special at. ....... ..C 25 Calf Leatherette Cover, 144 pages, special at 15 Green Leatherette Cover, 144 pages, special at 10 Press Board Cover, 120 pages, special at 5 lCc Bound Slates, 7x11 8J Girl's 25c School CuCTs 20? 6c Emerald Erasers 3? 10c Kneaded Erasers 8? Cc Pencil and Ink 3? 10c Ink fo- only - 5 3c Inlc and Pencil JSacle Fountain Pens 10c? Remex fountain Pens 1.00 "Waterman Fountains Pens........ $2,50 and up School Sponges at 3 Large China Scratch Pads 5 c Small China Scratch Pad..2, 5? Large "White Pencil Pads 100 Small AVhlte Pencil Pads 3e 12 Colored Crayons for 8c G Colored Crayons for. 4c Fine "White Lepal Pads Sc Pencil Boxes, filled 5 pieces ,3e Students' Notebook, end or side opening; special ........ 5e, 10c 10c 12-in. Brass Edge Rulers.... 3C 10c Cork Tip Penholders 5c 5c Rubber-Tip Penholders ...... 3 C S ama Cloth Costumes, Walking Suits, Opera Coats, Fancy Dress Suits, Novelty Cravenette Raincoats, Fancy Dress and Street Coats in all wanted lengths. A Most Remarkable Value Are These Cheviot Vestee Suits at These suits are made of a high-grade all-wool Cheviot in black, navy and brown. The short silk lined coat-back jacket and vestee front of novelty cloth, is trimmed with braid, velvet and silk ornaments, has large sleeves with fancy cuffs. The skirt is made in latest box plaited style. These suits are fully equal in every particular to those shown elsewhere at 35. Real 40c Skirt Ruffle Embroidery 23c We are showing some very pretty new patterns in "Val" Lraces Foremost of all is the new "Daisy" pattern iy& inch wide at t 8 i inch wide at 10 inch wide at 1'5 Today's announcement will be interest because it tells of the first of the famous " Robinson & Wells' " English Tailored Walking Millinery These famous Hats herald the styles that are to be for this season. Embraced in the showing are: The high crown, the English walking effect and many along the "sailor" effect. Among the new colorings we note burnt orange or Coque de Roche, green, blue and terra cotta and onion skin brown. Display in Third street window. 9c 25c Eagle Pencil-Sharpener. . . .20c "Wood-Covered Slate Pencil lc 10 Best Stone Slate Pencils 3c 25c Featherweight Eyeshades. .20C Eagle School Knives IOC 2-ox. bottle Mucilage 3C Plain Cedar Lendpcnclls lc Progress Rubber Tip Lend pen cils 2 c Recorder Small Leadpenclls . 2 for 5c E. Faber Rubber Tip Pencils 3C Civil Service Rubber Tip Pen cils 5C 10c Safety Pencil Holders 5C Ruled "Writing Tablets, assorted. 3C Bond "Writing Tablets, assorted. 10c White- Chalk, gross box ,..10c Large Colored Kindergarten rolls 8C Small. Colored Kindergarten roUm 5c Tube Paste 4c Eagle Compass and Divider.. . .20C Pencil Boxes, -with key 3 c uit Store News To fully recognize and appreciate the smartness and true stylishness of our Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel to come to a thorough understand ing of the vast assortments and exceedingly great values one should visit this department and make comparisons with -what is shown elsewhere. We court such comparison. Showing tomorrow many new ideas in Tailor-Made Suits, Etamine Costumes, Tourist Suits, Pan Monday, Will Offer 7Ckn $1 Novelty Silks at We offer for Monday's selling 3000 yards of Novelty Silks, suitable for Waists and entire Suits, at a remarkably low price. They are identical in quality with those offered in other stores at $1125 Our "REGULAR" price is $1.00 Choice of them to morrow at 7Q$. N. B. Every yard is guaranteed to be this season's make. Some Beautiful New Ribbons Every imaginable Ribbon desire can be filled in this Ribbon Store, and the cost is always very small, when you consider the vital point of quality. "ELECTRIC" Taffeta Ribbons 6 inches wide copper, onion skin, reseda, champagne, emerande, new orange. Special value at 50. BRILLIANT all silk Taffeta Ribbon 4 inches wide in white, black, cream, nile, Mais, blue and pink, at the very low price of 3L8. $3 White Net Curtains $2.15 White Net Curtains, finished with lace edging and insertion. A bona fide $3.00 quality, on sale tomorrow at the very low price of only $2.15. of great display Hats Great Dictionary Sale The IMPERIAL Dictionary an entirely new Webster's it supersedes the "International," the "Unabridged," etc. 2200 pages, 3000 new illustrations. Insist on having tne IMPERIAL, if you want the latest and best. Our price $4.50. With stand $7.45. We call your attention to these new books Webster's HANDY VOLUME, cloth bound, Regular 25c Special 10. Webster's HANDY VOLUME, leather bound and indexed. Regular 50c. Special 25c. . Webster's EVERYBODY'S Dictionary, 50,000 words. Reg ular 50c. Special Sod. Webster's SCHOOL AND OFFICE Dictionary, 70,000 words. Revised edition of 1903. Regular $1.00. Special 50. Webster's UNABRIDGED (New Census Edition 1904). Regular $5.00. Special $1.50. We also carry the following Dictionaries Webster's Primary, Webster's Common School, Webster's High School, Webster's Academic. "VIRGILIUS," Bacheller. Pub. price, $1.35- Ours, $1.08. 'TM FROM MISSOURI," by McHugh. Publisher's price 75c; our price 59. "MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ,"by Baum. Publisher's price, $1.25 ; our price $1.0Q. "SUCCESS OF NATIONS," by Reist. Net price, $2. "LIGHT HORSE HARRY," by Barnes. Publisher's price, S1.25; our price 95c. isujciAjuu &LL1L,," Dy uody. .Puoiisners price 75c; our $25 Forest Fires East and North of City. DRIVEN BY EAST WIND Flames Running From Gres ham Toward Clackamas. FLUME AT H0LBR00K BURNS Barn, Cordwood and Timber Are De stroyed by Fire Which Yesterday Jumped Oregon Water Power Track at Hogan. Held in check by persistent efforts be cause there was no -wind, the forest fires which have been- smoldering for the past day or two were yesterday fanned to greater strength than when first opposed, and last night fires in two districts SO miles apart were sweeping all before them, utterly beyond control. After smoldering innocently for several days, a fire started two miles' southeast of Gresham yesterday, and, after burning a barn and 100 cords of wood, is now run ning absolutely unchecked toward the Clackamas River. It has already crossed the line of the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company, near Hogan, and wilK probably reach the Clackamas near Glad stone Park. Its course lies through a heavily timbered tract, and thousands of cords of wood seem doomed to certain de struction. The fires near Holbrook, which have ap parently been awaiting the coming of yesterday's east wind, were Quickly mul tiplied in number and vastly increased in force. On the Kirk Hoover tract, over two miles north of Holbrook, a fire has been burning for the past four days. Late yesterday it crept over the hill toward the C. R. Davis property, where a score of men have been fighting numerous blazes of their own. and then flashing down through the dry timber and under growth of the hillside attacked the flume which carries wood to the river, one and a half miles distant. Near the flume were piled 000 cords of fine fir wood which Davis' men have been trying for the past week to save. But the new enemy was closer at hand, and there was fire in every direction. BarJ in the evening n portion of the flume was burned. Efforts were concenerated upon trying to save the wood piled near the flume, but the last heard from Holbrook last night was that little could be done to hold back the flames, which were constantly fanned by the east wind.. The gulch in which the wood lies opens toward the eastward, and the recent north wind did not affect the fires. Communication by telephone with Hol brook was cut off at 10 o'clock last even nlng, presumably by a burning tree fall ing across the wire. A short time before that the fire was reported to be working toward the Patterson tract, and also south toward Holbrook. Upon the Davis wood there was $3000 insurance. The value of the wood is considerably beyond $10,000. SPREAD FROM SLASHING. East Wind Hurries Fiames Through Timber Toward Houses. GRESHAM, Or., Sept 10. (Special.) A dangerous forest fire has been raging since morning about two miles south east of this place, and Is eating Its way through the dense timber toward the Clackamas River at a very rapid rate. Favored by a heavy east wind there is a probability that the fiames will reach the Clackamas River in- the vicinity of Gladstone within the next 48 hours un less checked before that time. The fire originated in a small slashing belonging to A. M. Browning, on Fri day last There was no danger until to day when the east wind sprang up and within two Tiour3 the flames had covered several miles. Considerable damage has been done already and more is sure to follow. The heaviest loss, so far known, was the burning of over 100 cords of wood belonging to A. J. Stout A barn belong ing to E. W. Unis was also burned. It contained about 15 tons of hay and some farming utensils. C. J. Laasfolk's meadow was burned over, and several miles of fencing are' also in ashes. The fiames crossed the track of the O. W. P. & Ry.- Company Just east of Ho gan, but the company had a dozen men protecting Its property and keeping the track clear, so that the cars were making regular time, although great danger was imminent all the afternoon from falling snags. Numerous farmhouses lie "directly in the path of the fiames, and there is a continu ous forest for ten miles, broken only by clearings. Several Important county bridges are in danger, but are being watched by the road supervisors. With a continuation of the heavy east wind great damage is sure to result within the next two days, as It la impossible to stop the headway of the fire. Only a ceaseless vigilance will prevent much property from being destroyed. Probably, a thousand cords of wood are in the timber ahead of the flames. Palmquist Bros, have 500 cords surrounded by the fire, and are unable to reach the spot to see if it is gone. Barn Burned. Harlow Bros.' barn at Troutdale burned yesterday morning. It was the second largest barn in Eastern Multnomah, and contained about 50 tons of hay, which was to have been baled next week. The Are caught from the inside. Its origin be ing unknown, but It was probably the work of an incendiary. The loss was about $3000. BIG FIRE AT SPIRIT LAKE. Oregon Pioneers Have Narrow Escape From Flames. SPOKANE, Sept 10. The fiercest forest flres ever experienced in that section are. burning along the shores of Spirit Lake, Idaho, a Summer resort 40 miles from Spokane. A number of Summer cottages were only saved by days and nIghtsof hard work and desperate backfiring. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robertson, well known Oregon pioneers, had the closest calL One large fire traveled a mile in bold, zigzag lines in thrtto hours. The country is dryer than ever known be fore and as hundreds of fires are burning around the lake, the danger will be great until rain comes to the relief. FIRES THREATEN RESERVE. Northeast Wind Hurries the Flames Toward Fine Timber. OREGON CITY, Or., Sept 10. (Special.) Reports reached this city this afternoon to the effect that two flres that sprung up today in. the vicinity of the Cascade Forest Reserve had been united by the northeast wind that was prevailing and threatened extensive damage to the re serve. The location of the fires is la townships 3 and 4. range 6 east and town ship 4; range 5 east There is much valu-" able timber in that part of the reserve, in which the fires have already entered.' Lumber Yard Burned at Gebo. BILLINGS, Mont, Sept 10. The lumber-yard of the Holland Lumber Com pany, at Gebo, was completely destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning, the loss being about $15,000, partly covered by insurance. BRIGANDS WERE VERY CRUEL Banker Lived on What He Could Pick for Days After Making Escape. FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept 10. A dis patch to the Record from Roswell, N. M., says: Banker Eiland has returned to his home at Portales, N. M., and verified the story that he had been held by brigands in the State of Sonora, Mexico. He has lost 50 pounds in flesh. He is known as a conservative business man, and the story that he had fallen Into the hands of brigands, who demanded ransom from his wife at Portales, N. M., was not doubted. He was forced by the bandits to write to his wife and to sign the name of George Reese. He said: "I was captured August C by four men, and they robbed me of everything I had. I think it was in the State of Sonora, Mexico. They immediately carried me to the mountains and I was made to walk every day and was fed very little. At night I was tied with ropes. On pain of instant death the bandits made me write the letter to my wife demanding the ran som, compelled to sign the name of George Reese and made me misspell the name. The letter was mailed from the town of Oputa. They changed positions every day and marched me through the mountains until the night of August 30, when I made my escape. I secured a sharp rock and cut the ropes that bound me and left while they slept "Fo"r four days I wandered through the mountains in search of a road, living on berries, rabbits and young birds, and finally reached a railroad at a distance of 60 miles from where I, started. "I beat my way on a, lumber train to Douglas, Ariz., and then went to El Paso, Tex;, where I 'borrowed money on which to come to Portales." Capture Only a Question of Hours. NEW YORK, Sept 10. Three of the six men bandits who held up the paymaster of the O'Rourke Engineering & Construc tion Company for $5000 on August 24 on a lonely highway in New Jersey, are. report ed to have been traced to the Italian quarter of Patcrson, and their" capture is believed to be only a question of hours. Two hundred men have searched con stantly for the highwaymen, but. although they got so close to the gang that fire arms and articles of clothing were found where they had been hastily discarded, they managed to reach town and a place of hiding. Important Witness Missing. CHICAGO, Sept 10. William F. McMul Hn, who wag operator of the "spot light" at the Iroquois Theater at the time of the disaster December 30. has disap peared. Assistant State's Attorney Barnes at the opening of the September term of the Criminal Court began the preliminary arrangements to put Will J. Davis, manager of the theater; Thomas J. Noon, assistant manager, and Edward Cummings, the stage carpenter, on trial on a charge of manslaughter. It was then learned that McMullin had disap peared. Marked for Death by Negroes. ATHENS, Ga., Sept 10. According to a statement by two negroes today a "Be fore the Day Club," composed of 15 ne groes from Kinney section, Clark County, has marked out six prominent white men for death.' The Sheriff is organizing a posse to make wholesale arrests. PICK CONFESSION TO PIECES. Colorado Labor Leaders Declare Miner in Kansas is Only Working Scheme. DENVER, Sept 10. The leaders of the Western Federation of Miners declare the alleged confession of Robert Romain, the ex-convict, now under prison sentence at Topeka, Kan., implicating union leaders in two disastrous explosions In the Crip ple Creek district, contains many allega tions which can easily be refuted. "Accordnlg to Romaln's confession," said William D. Haywood, secretary of the Federation, "Davis, Kennison and Parker, members of the Cripple Creek district union executive committee, were with him in Cripple Creek on June 6, when, as he says, the final arrangements were made for the Independence depot dy namiting. As a matter of fact the three union leaders named were in Denver from May 23 to June 8, attending the annual convention of the Federation. "Romain says that McKInney was one of the leading conspirators. The absurd ity of this statement must be at onde apparent to any one who will consider that McKInney Is the man who made a fake confession regarding the alleged con spiracy to wreck the Florence & Cripple Creek train. "Romain was either hired to make this confession, or he is working a bunco game on the Colorado authorities with the ob ject of escaping a term in the Kansas Penitentiary for the burglary he commit ted in Topeka. I predict he will not be brought back to Colorado, but that our opponents will use his statement as con clusive evidence that the Federation planned and perpetrated the dastardly crime at Independence." Much Ammunition .Captured. LONDON. Sept 10. A dispatch to the Japanese Legation from Toklo, timed 10:15 P. M. today, says: "Natives say enemy sent by train over 10,000 killed and wounded. We burled over 3000 Russians. Enemy burned magazines near station before evacuating. We captured, however, immense quantities of provisions and ammunition." Battleship Ohio Transferred. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 10. The bat tleship Ohio was today finally transferred from her builders to the United States Navy, the Government being represented in the ceremony by Captain Leavitt C. Logan, who Is her commanding officer. The Ohio will be for a time on the Pacific station, but her ultimate destination is thought to be China Land Office Discusses Oregon Filings. WANTEDTO HOLD LANDS UP Letter of Governor Chamber lain Defeated the Policy. SCRIP'S WORK NO SURPRISE Report of Forestry Bureau That Por tions of the Blue Mountain With drawal Were Very Valuable Attracted Attention. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 10. "If fraud has been per petrated In the filings upon the SOW or 9000 acres of lands recently eliminated from the Blue Mountain forest reserve withdrawal in Oregon, the blame cannot be attached to the General Land Office," said the official In charge of forestry matters when advised tonight that 5000 acres of this land had been taken with scrip, and 3GS0 acres under the timber and stone act. "The Land Office was not in favor of re storing any of those lands to entry at this time, for we could not see that there was a demand for it from intended home steaders. When Governor Chamberlain, however, wrote to the President urging that the reserve be created and the sur plus lands be restored to entry, we had specific instructions to restore to entry those lands which, according to the Bu reau of Forestry, were not desirable for forest reserve purposes. - The Forestry Bureau is supposed to have examined all portions of the Blue Mountain with drawal for it submitted to the Land Office a detailed statement showing the character of each quarter section of that vast area. We recently restoredto entry lands reported by the Forestry Bureau to be agricultural in character or lands less valuable for timber than for other purposes, which we took to mean either grazing or barren lands. From official advices In our possession and we have to rely entirely upon the Forestry Bureau for this Information we assumed we were restoring only non-timbered lands. If we threw open lands that would at tract speculators under the timber and stone act we did so unadvisedly. For this, we can hardly be held responsible." This official added it was not surprising that the best of those lands were taken up with scrip. The Forestry Bureau re ported some very attractive agricultural lands lying along the several streams, probably as good land as remained va cant in Oregon, and iho fact it was being restored to entry after being held up under withdrawal for two years natur ally attracted the attention of the hold ers of scrip. This official went on to say: "Governor Chamberlain's main object In writing to the President, as we under stood It at the time, was to have the Blue Mountain reserve created so that the state school lands within the reserve might be converted into base, and the state be en abled thereby to get out of its embarrass ment growing out of double sales of base lands. If the Governor was a tool in the hands of persons who have gobbled up what would seem to be valuable lands, we are not' advised, and could not say. Bui so far as the Land Office Is concerned, wo are free from all blame, for we ad vised against restoring these lands tc entry, and what lands we did restore, were selected upon the report of the For estry Bureau. We were compelled to acl against our judgment, and on facts oi which he had no certain knowledge." CANADIAN TRAIN HELD UP. Six Masked Men Make a Haul of $7000. Vancouver, b. c, Sept. il (Special.) The transcontinental express, due here at 7:45 last night, waa held up 33 miles from Vancouver by six masked men and $7000 taken. The train was flagged and some of the men got on the tender with rifles. At the point of guns the engineer and fireman were compelled to take thg baggage and express cars two milei away, where they were rifled. The train arrived at 12 o'clock. A special train witb a large poeso of policemen immediately left for the scene. This is the first hold up in Canada. It is supposed that the tralnrobbers ex pected to Intercept the clean-up from the Consolidated Cariboo mines, amounting tc 560,000, and which was expected to be sent here about this time. It is said a cipher telegraph message was sent to the express messenger telling him to have his safe open, to be searched by an inspector, and that therefore he was off his guard. The authorities are now investigating this ru mor. Egan Wins Golf Championship. SHORT HILLS. N. J.. Sept. 10. Th amateur championship tournament of th United States Golf Association, which be gan last Tuesday and ended today on the links of the Baltusrol Golf Club, was won by H. Chandler Egan, of the Exmooi Country Club, Chicago, eight up and sta to play. He defeated the young Brook lyn player, Frederick Herreshoff, who at tends school near Pottstown, Pa., and who was entered from the Ekwanob Country Club of Manchester, Vt. Breaks Weignt-Throwlng Record. NEW YORK. Sept. 10 At the track and field games that marked the opening ol Pelham Bay Park, the new city athletl grounds, today, John J. Flanlgan, brok his own world's record of 36 feet 9j inches, by throwing the 56-pound weigh from a seven-foot circle a distance ol 36. feet 7 3-8 inches.