The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 30, 1906, Section Two, Image 13

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Newspaper Page Text4V mm. Section Two Pages 13 to 24 VOL. XXV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER SO, 1906. NO. 52. SPECIAL PRICES Mod day on pictures. Roose velt - Bears, pyrography. Jewelry, art needlework, leather goods, etc. Good .Merchandise Only Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Lowest '- NEW YEAR'S All holiday Roods, for New Year"? presents radically reduced. 001 GiE E The Greatest Sale Event of This City Known to Thousands of Portland Shoppers as ill JANUARY SA Of f ering Thousands of Bargains in Every De partment of Portland's Most Reputable Store s Will Begin Wednesday, Jan. 2 J907, at8 A,M. In Connection With This Peerless Bargain Event We Will Hold Our Annual e Garni A sale that offers the highest class of Women's and Children's Muslin Underwear of American and French makes at lowest prices positively astonishing:, considering: the fine materials, distinctive designs, fine taste and delicate needlework deservedly famous among: Portland women of discrimination. Jahuarv al Special for Monday Sale, We Off er 69 Women's Swell Long Plaid Coats Values to $16.50 for $8.98 The Lipman-Wolfe School of Style offers tomorrow positively the greatest Long Coat Bargain of the entire year 69 Women's Long Plaid and Fancy Mixture Coats, in the swellest effects, made of all-wool mate rials in browns, grays, greenjmdblue mix tures. Cut generously full, and man tailored by a leading New York maker of women's garments. The acme of style, smartness and desirability. No coat bargain offered in Portland thisyear approache ft - this in price, material and style lL W ll 8 Regular $16.50 values for onlyTy' 1000 Prs. Lace Curtains Values to $1.50 at 98c iooo pair of Lace Curtains, in both white and ecru color, all new patterns in both plain or figured centers, 3 yards long, 50 inches wide; 15 patterns to select from at, Monday only 98 $2.50 Bleached Linen Table Cloths, Only $1.25 Four Different Patterns Wonderful special values are these Bleached . Pattern Table Cloths, size , 72x64 inches. There are four different designs border on four sides. Only 200 in the lot and flj-i ry e they're $2.50 values. On Monday 25c Pictorial Calendars 8c Large lot of 1907 Calendars, many pretty de signs; regular values to 25c; special 8 All Calendars Reduced to Half Price . $1 Pad Supporters, 68c Hose Supporters, made with fine satin pad and four extra strong elastic straps, in the straight . front effect. Come in red, blue, white, 2Q(i pink and black. Special at .OOC Books for the New Year The best books for New Year remembrances at less than publishers' prices. Cynic's Calendar for 1907; our price T5d Foolish Almanac for 1907; our price 59 Imp Calendar for 1907; our price '.75 Also large assortment of books, containing; quotations for each day of the year. Gams of Wisdom for Every Day. Sl.OO "Tour Health" 75i Framed Passepartout Mottoes, suitable for New Tear's gifts 25 95 Real Seal Handbags Values to $2.50 for $1.39 95 Real Seal and Walrus Hand Bags, leather lined, . fitted with ' coin purse, riveted frame, heavy han dles ; values to $2.50 ; Monday sale .$1.39 Sale of Postal Card Albums Our entire stock of Postal Card Albums being sold at special sale prices. Pictures reduced 3$ per cent. . . K Great Cut-Rate Sale of Standard Drugs and Remedies No other Portland drugstore can match our regular prices. In this phenomenal cut-rate sale we give greater and more important savings than we ourselves have ever given. BUY NOW. You'll not see such prices again until the anti-trust drugstore holds another such sale. til 25c bottle of Violet Ammonia, Special . .......18c 25c bottle of Violet Witch Harel, Special . . . . .' . . . 1 8c $1 Quinine Fills. 8 grain 49e $1 Quinine Pills, 3 Krain ..3So $1 Pills Rhubarb Com pound 25? Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve 2o tt Bland's Pills ...SBe Plnkham's . Liver Pills for . ... 2o Compound Cathartic . Pills 19c Arnica Salvo 20o 25c size Abbott's Saline Laxative 21 o Henderson's Famous Kidney and Backache Pills,' special . . 20c 25c bottle of Arnica - Liniment, Special . . . . . . . . 18c Witch Hazel Salve. SOc Warner's - Safe - Rheu matic Cure 83e 80c size Tarrant's Salts .41e 1 size Pyramid Pile Cure .880 B"c sire GlycolThymo llne 44a 23c eize Danderine. .21c $1 size Stuart's Catarrh Tablets ....83a 60c size Stuart's Ca tarrh Tablets 41o Manhattan Porous Plasters, 10c each, 3 for . .... . . . 25c 25c Manhattan Kidney Plasters. Special . -. . . . . 17c $1 size Beef, Iron-; and Wine ...... .660 ft size .Foley's Kidney Cure 83c ft stze Ozomulslon. . 83c 23c size Little Llv.r Pills 17o 35c size Aseptine; spe cial So 25c size Bronchial Loz enges 18c $1 size 8ctfTman's Asth ma Cure . .83i 50c' size 8clffman's 'Asthma Cure 41e $1.00 Henderson' -Dandruff Cure,' Special . . . . . . . . 75c Laxative Fig Syrup 25c $1 size Green' Mountain Asthma Cure 8:ic 26c size Green Mountain Asthma Cure 2lo Shoop's Preventives.20a 80c bottle Peroxide of Hydrogen 38c Harlem OIL 6c 35c bottle Peroxide "f Hydrogen 20a 10c size Omega Oil. 8c 1-ln. can , Chloride of Lime ...12a 5-lb. pkg. sl Soda. 9c -lb. pkg. Epsom Sales for So 35c Mexican Herb Tea, special 20c Female $1.00 Vegetable lator, special . . Regu . 75c French Chalk, - package Prec. Chalk, special. special. 8a package ...So Orris Root, .special, per package : 9a Chalk and Orris, special per -package 9c -lb. pkg. Sugar of Milk for ..10c J-lb. can Granular So dium Phosphate, spe cial 15c $1.00 Hypocod Wine 83c S2.00 Du Puy's Pennyroyal Pills, Special . ..... . $1.69 White Mustard Seed.' package 10c 25c pkg. Borated .Gauze for 18c H-plnt bottle Castor on 2so Colwell's Solution of the Chlorides, quart ,41o Henderson's Reliable " Pile Cure ......25c, 45a 25c Laxative Quinine Tablets ' 15a $1 size Tansy Pills. 19c. Steam's Wine 83o 25c bottle Essence of Peppermint 19o SAY HE HAS IT HELPED GAMBLERS Secretary Shaw Denies He Ever Gave Relief to the Bulls and Bears. MONEY IS REALLY SCARCE Rises to Defense of Treasury Depart ment Methods In Letter to Nash ville Correspondent "All Pco . pie Speculators," He Writes. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. In a letter to a correspondent In Nashville, Tenn., Secretary Shaw repudiates the sug gestion that the United States Treas ury ever has come to the relief of the stock gamblers. The correspondent, whose name is withheld. Insists that such relief has been given gamblers and money-sharks, "the real cause of high money in New York." The cor respondence was made public at the Treasury Department today. The letter from the Secretary reads, in part: " Secretary Shaw's Letter. Tou seem, to proceed on tho theory that the monetary stringency is caused solely by stock gambling. In thts you are In error. Some people gamble in stocks, some in cotton, others in wheat, corn, pork or lard, and some in land. When times are good people will speculate in anything and everything that possesses a market value. The proportion of speculation, as compared with the necessary and legitimate business, is very small, however, and probably Is no larger in New York than In Nashville, Tenn., where you reside, or in Denlson.Ia.. where 1 live. The best estimates 1 can get place the amount of speculative transactions In New York City at from 2i to 5 per cent of the aggregate. Has Never Aided Gamblers. The treasury has never come to the relief of stock gamblers and probably never will, though the relief which the treasury grants frequently aid those who gamble on the bull side of the markets, but it Is equally harmful to those who gamble on the bear side. Both bulls and bears importune the Secretary of the Treasury, but the real business situation Is the sole consideration. If you will stop to consider you will realize that more money Is needed when the crops are being marketed, when factories are filling their warehouses than when crops are growing and business men are enjoying their vacations. There are more than 15,000 banks in the United States. These are inde pendent, one of the other, and each is try ing to make dividends. Few of them in mid-Summer make provision for the Fall. They tlmo their loans to meet their obli gations and take their chances. Iurlng the dull season of 1006 the Sec retary of the Treasury withdrew 860,000,000 of the people's money and locked It up: This would have been a crime If he were not willing to release it now when it Is needed. Has Used Money Wisely. By appropriate use the money in the de faults . in the Treasury. I have facilitated the Importation of $1,000,000 of gold wlthjn the last nine months and have released or arranged for the release of 8S0.000.000 more. This was done also for the postoffice aiding legitimate business, though it has helped tho bull side of the market as much as It has damaged the bear side. I care as lit tle for each of these considerations as do you. Money Is Really Scarce. Money is scarce. Some business housej with annual credit are now paying" 7 per cent for money with which to do their appropriate business. If money could be secured anywhere beneath the sky for lesa they would know It and borrow it. It Is for the relief of business that the Treasury has restored to tho channels of trade the money which it withdrew when the people had no use for It except for speculation. It waa then wanted for speculation and I v.ithdrew It. It Is now needed for business and I restore it. The last $10,000,000 deposit went almo3t exclusively to the cotton-producing states and ihe exceptions went to cotton-buying cities. FOREIGN BOTTOMS CHEAPER No Ship of American Register Bids on Big Coal Contract. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Bids recently opened at the Navy Department for 50.0U0 tons of semi-bituminous coal, to be deliv ered at Manila, disclosed the fact that it is much cheaper if transported In for eign bottoms than in American bottoms. The proposals called for separate bids on shipments in steamers of American reg ister, sailing vessels of American regis ter, steamers of foreign register and sail ing vessels of foreign register. . No bid was received to transport the coal in steamers of American register, the ex perience of the past having demonstrated the futility' of offering any. The prices on shipments of steamers of foreign reg ister and on which there were a number of bids, ranged from $5.60 a ton to $4.70 a ton. Last year similar coal was bought for $4 h. ton. the prices for shipment in American ships being $7. One concern of fered to ship 6000 tons in a sailing vessel of American register, but no bids for ship ments in sailing vessels of foreign regis ter were received. ' Two firms offered to ship tho coal, re gardless of whether it was in ships of American or foreign register, the prices ranging from $8.S8 by one firm and $7.W and $7.25 by the other. Inasmuch aa the award probably will be made on the basis of the rata of $4.50 a ton. the Gov ernment will have to pay, this year, $35,001 more than last year for the same quantity. SEA FIGHTERS GATHERING. Atlantic Fleet Mobilizes for AVinter Maneuvers. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. When the battle ship Kearsarge sailed for Hampton Roads today there was left In New York only a single vessel of that type, the Ohio. The departure of this ship will be de layed only a few days because of neces sary repairs. - The Maine, flagship of Rear-Admiral Evans, the Kentucky and the Iowa, sailed -yesterday following the Alabama, which went out on Thursday night. All of the ships are bound for Hampton Roads, where the reorganized Atlantic fieat Is assembling for tho Winter man euvers, and It will be Spring before New York again gets a chance of inspecting the fighting ships of Admiral Bvans' fleet. The fleet assembling In Hampton roads Is by far the greatest in point of strength that has ever been mustered Into a single fleet by the United States. In addition to those named above the fleet will con sist of the battleships Missouri, - Illinois, Georgia. Rhode Island. New Jersey, Louisiana. Virginia, Connecticut and the Indiana, making 15 first-class battleships in all. COMPROMISE TIMBER TROUBLE Secretary Hitchcock Accepts $156,- 000 as a Settlement. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Secretary Hitchcock entered today a compromise for $156,000 growing out of alleged timber depredations. This compromise is the outcome of suits begun several years ago against tho companies In the Northwest charged with denuding the public lands of timber. A year or. more ago suits were brought In the Federal Courts of Montana against the Bitter Root Development' Company, the Anaconda Mining Company, the Ana conda Copper Company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Walter Mac Kay, D. J. Hennessey, Margaret P. Daly, executrix of the last will of Marcus Dalv; William Scallon, William W. Dixon, D. V. Bean, James E. Haggln, Lloyd Tevls and the estate of William Hearst, de ceased. The Secretary of the Interior caused an Investigation by Inspectors and special agents, and placed the evidence collected In the hands of the Attorney-General for prosecution. The Department of Justice was about ready to go into court when the compromise was reached, involving the payment of $156,000 to the Govern ment for the depredations charged. This is the largest recovery growing out of timber depredations in the history of the Interior Department. Oppose New Divorce Laws. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Vigorous objection will be interposed by the churches of Washington to the . adop tion by Congress of the uniform di vorce laws agreed upon at the recent convention of the National Congress of Uniform Laws, held in Philadelphia. The ministers of Washington, as an nounced, propose to organize a move ment to oppose the adoption, of the law. Telephones for Coast Defense. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. 29. The War De partment has purchased 500 telephones, which will be installed at the various coast defenses along the Pacific Coast. Thty are largely for use In communi cation between the battery and range finders, but will also be employed in connecting various posts that are with in reasonable distance of one another. Receive Bryce's Acceptance. LONDON. Dec. 29. The formal ac ceptance by the United States of James Bryce as Ambassador at Washington was received in a cablegram from the American Capital which reached the Foreign Office during the night. Mr. Bryce's appointment will be officially gazetted Monday. Will Lecture on Good Roads. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. 29. S. C. Lancaster, consulting engineer of the good roads division. Agricultural Department, will spend several months lecturing in the Pacific Northwest, beginning early in January. CLEVELAND MUCH BETTER Ex-President Recovers From Attack of Indigestion. NEW' YORK. Dec. 29. Reports of the illness of Grover Cleveland at his home at Princeton, published here to day, are accompanied with reports that his condition was serious early in tho week, but that he is now again con valescent. Mr. Cleveland's attack of indigestion began last Saturday night. His illness , was so severe, according to the Herald's Princeton correspondent, that all the plans which tho family had made for Christmas were aban doned. His presents were left un opened and telegraphic messages were sent to four persons who had been In vited for the day, canceling their en gagements. These four, it is Btated, were tho only ones outside the fam ily, except Dr. Carnerhan, who knew of Mr. Cleveland's illness. The re peated visits of the doctor caused com ment, and the illness of the former President wa3 announced. Mrs. Cleveland, in speaking of the Illness of her distinguished husband, said: "Mr. Cleveland spent most of Satur day out of doors, and It was not until night that he, mentioned feeling ill. I was awakened early Sunday morning to And him suffering Intensely. I sent for Dr. Carnerhan, and he found him seriously ill with indigestion. He gave me to understand that the malady, while In no sense dangerbus. was most painful and often unresponsive to treatment. "He is no longer ill. and we fully expert he will eat downstairs Sun day." IS RECEPTIVE CANDIDATE Taft Not Seeking Nomination, but Would Not Decline. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Secretary Taft made the following statement today con cerning his Presidential aspirations: 'For the purpose of relieving the bur den Imposed by recent publications upon some of my friends among the Washing ton newspaper correspondents of putting further Inquiries to me, I wish to say that my ambition is not political, that I am not seeking the Presidential nomination, and that I do not expect to be the Re publican candidate. If for no other reason than because of what seem to me to be objections to my availability, which do not appear to lessen with the continued discharge of my own official duty. "But I am not foolish enough to say that In the improbable event that the op portunity to run for the great office of President were' to come to me. I should decline it, for this would not be true." Will Proceed Against Royal. FREE PORT. 111.. Dec. 29. A suit to determine the legality of the reinsurance deal of the defunct German Insurance Company with the Royal Insurance Com pany has been . ordered to be commenced In this country by Judge Heard, of the Circuit Court. A petition was presented to blm on behalf of the San Francisco policyholders, and he decided to ask the receiver to proceed against the Royal Insurance Company, the receiver bein too Chicago Title & Trust Company, COLUMBIA JETTY TO GET 11,000,000 House Committee May Also Recommend Continuing Contract. CELIL0 CANAL COMES NEXT Will Get at Least $200,000 Cash and Authority for as Much More. Survey of Coos Bay and Dredge for Coast. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Dec- 29. From present indications it would appear that the House committee will insert In tho forthcoming river and harbor bill a cash appropriation of $1,000,000 for continuing construction of the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River, as recommended by the chief of engineers, and'there is a possibility that a con tinuing contract may be authorized for an additional $1,450,000, which would complete the Jetty. If the House, after appropriating $1,000,003 docs not authorize a continuing con tract. Senator Fulton will endeavor to have the Senate make this amendment, so that work on tho jetty can be pressed to spcejy completion and with out further delay. Chairman Burton, of the river and harbor committee, as heretofore ex plained, recognizes the wisdom and economy of continuing Jetty construc tion without unnecessary Interruption, and it is through his efforts and the efforts of Representative Jones, of Washington, that the committee will make an appropriation for the mouth of the river, as has been continually urged by Senators Fulton and Gearln, Representatives Herman and Jonathan Bourne. . Outlook for C'elllo Canal. The engineers recommended $763,000 for continuing work on the Celllo canal, but this full amount may not be granted by the House committee. It Is more probable that the bill will carry $200,000 or $300,000 cash and au thorize the expenditure of as much more, which will bo equivalent to cash. At any rate such an appropriation will make tho canal a certainty, which in itself is extremely desirable. When the improvement at the mouth of the river is completed It will be compara tively easy to get a more liberal ap propriation for Celllo. In fact, it may be possible In the next Congress to have this project made a continuing contract, in which event appropria tions will bo made annually, regardless of the regular river and harbor bill, which passes only once every two years. New Survey of Coos Bay. Representatives Peter Loggle and Orville Dodge had another interview with Mr. Burton today regarding the improvement of Coos Bay and the Co qullle River, and came away satisfied that these two projects will be well cared for. A new survey of the bar at the entrance of Coos Bay Is abso lutely promised and if that survey shows that construction of the south, jetty at reasonable cost will material ly deepen the channel across the bar, it is almost certain that an appropria tion will be made in the river and har bor bill of tho next Congress. Mr. Burton Is now convinced that Coos Bay Is at least worthy of further ex amination, and If a good project can be found the Oregon men believe ha will favor an appropriation. He rec ognizes the possibilities of commerce. If the harbor is improved, but is anx ious to know definitely whether the prospective commerce will Justify the expenditure necessary to build tho south Jetty. It will require $300,000 to complete the Jetty at the mouth of the Coqulllo River, $40,030 being asked for this year. Messrs. Hermann, Dodge and Loggie sought to have this project en larged to provide for the expenditure of about $2000 for removing a few rocks and shoals in the channel Inside the bar. They believe this project will be liberally treated by the committee. Dredge for Coast Harbors. The committeo on Monday begins? the actual framing of the bill, and no further hearings will be granted. Tho Oregon and Washington items will not be reached until about January 10. At the request of the Oregon delega tion the river and harbor committeo has requested the. engineer of the board of review to consider Colonel Roess ler's supplemental estimate of $SO,000 for building a dredge for Oregon coast harbors, and the belief prevails that his estimate will be approved. If that Is done. It Is altogether likely that the $100,000 appropriation will be In serted In the bill. The board having approved an esti mate of $603,000 for the construction of the north Jetty at the entrance to Gray's Harbor. Wash..' a generous ap propriation for that project Is also ex pected. ORANGES ON OREGON COAST Experiments Will Be Made In Oregon Apples for Export. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Dec. 29. The Agricultural Department informs Senator Fulton that it has produced several new brands of orange trees that are be lieved to be resistant to cold weather. They desire to experiment at points along the Oregon coast that are free from frost. The Senator has been re quested to furnish the names of re liable fruitgrowers In such localities who will be 'interested In experiments. Several New York financial men. who have studied the export trade In apples, are arranging to buy up a con siderable area of land in Oregon and plant large orchards of hlgh-grado trees. These men have found that Oregon apples command higher prices than any that enter the Ixmdon mar ket, and there is demand for many times the present supply. If the prot ect matures the New Yorkers will raise apples almost entirely for ex import.