The Sunday Oregonian., February 17, 1907, Section Two, Image 13

Section Two
Pages 13 to 24.
VOL. XXVI.
PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1907.
NO. 7.
Spring Jackets
Jackets of tan cov
ert and checks and
8 1 r i p e s on cream
ground, for Spring
wear, $7.50 to $15.00.
Good Merchandise Only Quality Considered Our Price Are Always the Lowest
Spring Suits
New and Correct
Spring Tailored Suits
in Jacket and Eton
styles; very smart
$25.00 to $75.00.
Silk Petticoats, $35 VaL, $12.65
The Lipman-Wolfe School of Style offers a bargain equal to the tremen
dous sale of last Monday, when there were twenty customers for every gar
ment offered 35 women's Petticoats of finest quality silk and rare hand
made laces and elaborate, trimmings. Every garment in an exclusive de
sign, bearing the stamp of beauty, refinement and elegance. No two alike.
These Petticoats, of the finest and most exclusive weaves of chiffon taffeta
and brocade from the famous mills of France, with deep and elaborate silk
and lingerie flounces, exquisitely trimmed with the finest and most costly
real imported hand-made lace in rare and exclusive designs. Some elaborate
ly shirred and trimmed with niching and hand-made lace insertions. Some
net flounces, trimmed with insertions and rosettes of ribboiL The colors
are tan, cream, white, Nile, pale blue, pink, changeable rose, brown, cham
pagne, etc. Also Petticoats of finest quality black taffeta, elaborately pleated,
tucked and shirred. All with deep flounces and underflounces, elaborately
trimmed in individual effects. First sale of such high-grade skirts ever held
; 1 in Portland. Do not miss this great-
!Mr? flL est sale of its kind. Values to O fLVZ,
PL6.JU $35,00, For one day only fflOD
IMPORTANT. None on nflle until 10 o'clork. Ser great window display. Sale for Monday only. None
reserved, none by mull nnd none C. O. D. at thin arnHntlonully low price. Be on hand promptly.
Sale New Tailor Suitings, $1 Yd.
To show Portland people what a really great Dress
Goods Store can do in the way of unmatchable bar-
gains in new goods. See big 3d-St. window display
"000 yards new Spring Tailor Suitings, for Eton and Shirtwaist Suits,
including 54-inch stripe cloths in new grays, tans and modes; 48-inch
I'anama, novelties, stripes, checks and plaids, in pastel shades of tan,
reseda, gray, blue, etc.; 48-ineh new Angora Suitings; 54-inch Shadow
Plaid Panamas, bjack and white and pastel shades, in block checks,
and many other new weaves. Not a yard in the lot worth less than
$1.25 a yard, and many up to $1.50, and all new, clean CJI
goods. Sale price, yard 4p x V V
Introductory Sale of New Belts
The new Swastika Belt, with buckle, designed after the famous Good
Luck emblem of the Hindoo seers; made of white and black Eflfi
taffeta silk. Introductory price VC
New taffeta Belts, with flow- New black and white taffe-
ered design, large gilt buckle.
Introductory price . . . .50
New silver gray Belts, made of
silver belting; also gilt and light
shades of gray; introductory sale
price 50
ta silk Belts, with flenr-de-lis
clasp; special price.. 50
New Collar Belts, made of fine
quality leather; shaped like a col
lar; latest thing in Belts; all col
ors; special price $1.25
The February sale of suitcases, baa;, purara and all leather good offers
great bargains.
February Sale of Spring 1907 Lingerie Waists
The purpose of this gale to create the greatest February Wftigt business we have ever known and for this reas-
on we determined to sacrifice profits and to give values that would influence liberal buying. We offer not only
these advertised bargains" in new Spring Waists, but also our entire stock of "Castleton" Lingerie Waists rang
ing from $6 to $45, at equal reductions.
We wish to emphasize that these waists are new spring 1907 styles and have not been made up in a haphazard fashion so that they
can be sold cheaply. On the contrary, they are our regular lines garments that will add to the prestige of this department. We have
simply sacrificed a good deal of our regular profit in order to bring the savings to the point where they will influence your buying now
This $1.50 Waist, $1.15
Made of fine quality lawn,
with panels of embroidery
mid clusters of pin tucking-;
new style three-quarter
sleeves; lace trimmed.
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This $2.25 Waist, $1.78
Made of fine lawn, with
three rows of embroidery,
with clusters of fine pin tut?k
imr front and back, three-
This $2.75 Waist, $2.15
sh.
Front of two rows imitating
Bbe . Irish embroidery, with
clusters of pin tucking; three
quarter sleeves; luce trimmed
cures, etc.
This $3.00 Waist, $2.35
Of fine quality lawn, with
uniquely embroidered front,
mul three clusters of pin
tuckinjr in yoke effect: lace
trimmed three-quarter sleves
J This $3.00 Waist, $2.35)
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trimmed
lite lawn, with Ave
embroidery, alternat-
! lllfKlllg; wide pleat--qnarter
sleeves; lace
collar and cutis.
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This $3.50 Waist, $2.73
Made of fine quality lawn,
with yoke of Valenciennes
Insertion, embroidered front;
three-quarter sleeves trimmed
with one-half-inch tucks.
This $3.50 Waist, $2.73
Of lawn, with entire front
of embroidery - and cluster of
pin tucking in center: pleated
three-quarter sjceves; lace
trimmed cuffs and collar.
This $5.00 Waist, $3.85
Of fine batiste, embroidered
front imitating; Bebe Irish,
and alternate rows of pin
tucks: new three-quarter
BOLTON READY TO
SERVE AS JUROR
Thaw's Lawyers Confident of
Proving Temporary
Insanity.
RUMORS OF JEROME'S PLAN
May Yet Ask Commission of Lunacy
and Use Defense's Experts to
Furnish Cause Prison Phy
sician Will Testify.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1. The trial of
Harry K. Thaw will be resumed be
fore Justice Fitzgerald Monday morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock. Funeral services
were held today for the wife of Joseph
B. Bolton, and it was said afterward
that the juryman had expressed his
readiness to resume his place in the
Thaw Jury. Mr. Bolton feels that it
is a conscientious duty for him to hear
the Thaw case to the end. If he had
dropped out it would have meant the
loss of many thousands of dollars to
the state and to the Thaw family. A
mistrial would have been declared and
tour weeks further time would have
been wasted.
Aside from the routine expenses of
the jury and without fees, the Thaw
trial is costing the state a sum almost
equal to that which is being spent by
the defendant's attempts to prove that
the j-oung man was insane when he
shot Stanford White. District Attor
ney Jerome has employed three of the
most eminent alienists of the country
and their fees alone will make the
case rival in cost the famous Molin
eux hearings.
Thaw was much relieved today when
told that the Bolton family physician
had Informed Mr. Jerome that the
Juryman would be able to resume. Both
he and his attorneys are anxious that
nothing shall prevent the case running
its course.
Defense Confident of Winning.
Thaw's counsel believe their case to
be in excellent shape. Mr. Jerome ex
pressed willingness to join with the
defense in asking for the appointment
of a commission to determine Thaw's
present state of mind, but the defense
will continue its endeavor to show that,
while Thaw was explosively Insane at
the time he killed White and that,
while the effects of the "brain storm"
were apparent in him for three months,
his improvement has been so great
since October 1 that he is today of
perfectly sound mind.
Drs. Charles D. Wagner and Charles4
Britton Evans, the two alienists who
have offered evidence as to Thaw's
state of mind at the time of the homi
cide, have yet to be cross-examined by
Mr. Jerome. While the defense appar
ently seems to be nearlng Its close,
there is so much actual work yet to be
done that it is difficult to forecast just
when Thaw's attorneys will close and
when Mr. Jerome will begin rebuttal
testimony. Dr. Evans was on the stand
and began to relate certain conversa
tions he had with Thaw in the Tombs
during his first three visits, when court
adjourned Thursday. It Is presumed
that he will resume Monday morning.
Mrs. Tliaiv to Testify Again.
It was intimated today, however,
that Dr. Evans may be withdrawn to
allow Mrs. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw to con
clude her evidence. The defense has
the right to recall Mrs. Thaw at any
time it considers it lias placed before
the jury sufficient testimony as to
Thaw s Insanity to permit of the intro
duction of further revelations made to
him by his wife and of his statements
to her In return. As matters stand,
the principal witnesses for the defense
have not finished their direct testi
mony. Mrs. Thaw has much to tell
and Dr. Wagner and Dr. Evans are to
be called for further direct question
ing. Mrs. William Thaw, the defend
ant's mother, also remains to be heard.
Rumors that Mr. Jerome may yet
apply for a commission to test Thaw's
sanity will not down, in spite of the
frank statement Issued by the District
Attorney's office yesterday. The latest
report is that he will develop in the
cross-examination of Drs. Wagner and
Evans the grounds for asking their
court to appoint such a commission. If
it should be decided that Thaw is sane,
the trial would be resumed, but if
he should be declared of unsound mind
he would be taken to an asylum for
the criminal insane at once.
When court adjourned last Thursday
afternoon Justice Fitzserald released the
Jurors from custody "until Monday morn
ing." It is not likely that the jurors will
again be held in close confinement.
Tombs Physician a Witness.
Dr. Frank P. McGulre. physician of the
Tombs, will be called by the prosecution
to lay the foundation for the opinion of
alienists that Thaw was sane on the
night of June 25, when he killed Stanford
White. The Tombs physician is said to
be of the opinion that Thaw, when he
kilted White, knew the quality of the act
and knew the distinction between right
and wrong, but his value to the state
as a witness is in the long observation
that he has had of Thaw and the data
he has given the District Attorney, which
will be recorded at the trial in his evi
dence. During the eight months that
Thaw has been in the Tombs. Dr. Mc
Guire has seen him many times, and
always with a view of making an
observation of his mental state. The
physician, it is said, has kept a careful
record of Thaw's appearance, words,
actions and moods, and Is prepared to
give every day's details of the prisoner's
life in the Tombs since June 28. Even
during the night, it Is said, while Thaw
has been asleep, he has - at times been
under the observation of the doctor, who
found that the prisoner slept quietly, and
never had any nightmare or disturbances
of sleep, such as are noted in well-defined
cases of insanity.
Thaw's Offer of Marriage.
An interview is published today with
Mrs. J. J. Caine. the intimate friend of
Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, who is to be R
witness for the defense to combat the
testimony favorable to Stanford White,
which it is anticipated Howard Nesblt
will give if sworn as a witness for the
state.
Mrs. Calne is quoted as saying that she
had heard Harry- Thaw ask Evelyn
Nesbit's mother for her hand at the time
the girl was at school at Pompton, N.
J., accompanying the proposal of mar
riage with a promise that if Evelyn
became his wife he would, on the wedding
day, settle on Mrs. Holman. then Mrs.
Nesbit. $100,000 or more. The mother's
answer to this, she said, was that she
would try her best to persuade Evelyn
Nesbit to accept Thaw.
Mrs. Caine says she was hidden in Mrs.
Holman's bathroom, where she was hur
ried when Thaw's coming was announced,
wheH the proposal was made.
White's- Home for Clubhouse.
NEW YORK. Feb. IS. Announcement
was made today that the Princeton Club
had decided to lease the home of the late
Stanford White, on Oramercy Park as
its clubhouse. The "White house Is a
large building well adapted to the needs
of a social club.
In addition to this house the club will
obtain by lease the building at 119 East
Twenty-Brst street. The two buildings
will be made into one-
KNOWN IN SPORTING WORLD
Harry Corbctt Became Prominent
After Brother Defeated Jackson.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Feb. 16.
(Special.) Harry Corbett. who died
suddenly in his home in this city today,
was born in San Francisco, and came
Into fame after his brother, Jim Cor
bett. fought a 60-odd-round draw with
Peter Jackson. For the last 15 years,
previous to the fire, he maintained a
big saloon, where all the big sporting
events of the day were arranged. In
all the big fights the pugilists were
weighed in on Harry Corbett's scales,
and he officiated as stakeholder in
many important events, and his place
on Ellis street was known to sporting
men all over the world. He attended
many of the championship fights and
only recently got up the excursion to
Goldfield. when Ga'ns and Nelson
fought. Only recently he re-established
himself in the saloon business
on O.'Farrell street. Corbett was about
47 years old.
NEWS SHOCK TO JAMES J.
Pugilist Regarded His Brother as
Finest One of the Family.
EVANSV1LLE, Ind.. Feb. IS. When
shown the Associated Press dispatch
containing the news that his brother.
Harry Corbett. had been found dead at
San Francisco, James J. Corbett was
shocked:
"I can scarcely believe it. I got a
letter from him last week. He was in
perfect health," he said. When In
formed that the dispatch came direct
from San Francisco and was true, he
said:
"1 will send a wire at once. Harry
was the finest one of the Corbett fam
ily. This is terrible news to me. This
is the second time that I have had a
dispatch of this kind handed to me.
My father died suddenly and my
brother was found dead in bed.
"Harry was certainly the best one
of the family. He leaves a blind daugh
ter. The news is certainly an awful
blow and I hardly feel that I can ap
pear at the theater."
Corbett is acting the leading role in
a melodrama playing here, and was un
able to cancel his engagement for to
day's matinee and the night performance.
TRIBUTE TO HARRY CORBETT
Walt Montelth Praises His Honesty
In Sporting Affairs.
"I have never known Harry Corbett's
equal in sporting affairs as to honesty
and square dealing," said Watt Mon
telth, a well-known Portland tight fan
last night.
"Everything in which he was inter
ested in San Francisco and elsewhere,
as stakeholder and as a general sport,
his equal could not be found.
"I knew him for 20 years and in that
time I never heard any sporting man
speak an 111 word of him. He was re
garded as a 'king' among sporting peo
ple, both in pugilistic and any other
form of athletic sports.
"He backed his brother Jim in his
fight with the world-renowned John I
Sullivan and since that time was will
ing to back him up In his other fights.
"Now that Harry Corbett Is dead,
and I would say the same thing It he
were alive, ho was square with his
frrends and everybody else who was
square with him."
DEPARTMENT IS WORRIED
Butte Mailcarriers AVill Quit Be
cause of No Increase In Pay.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. The letter
carrier situation in Butte, Mont.. Is
causing serious concern to the officials of
the Postoftice Department. The depart
ment is powerless to increase the pay of
the 29 carriers because existing law for
bids more than SS50 per annum in offices
of the class to which Butte belongs. Tlie
carriers declare they cannot live on the
salaries now paid them, or on the salaries
which are promised on the pending post
office appropriation bill, and therefore
tender their resignations.
Butte Girls Win Strike.
BUTTE, Mont.. Feb. 16. The strike of
the girl operators in the employ of the
Rocky Mountain Telephone Company was
settled last night and the operators re
sumed work this morning.
The girls get an increase of ?? per
month, and all their other demands are
granted.
Committees are now going back and
forth between the printers and publish
ers, and while neither would issue a state
ment at noon, some settlement seems
possible within a few days.
END OF STATE DISPENSARY
Local Option Takes Its Place In
South Carolina.
COLUMBIA. S. C, Feb. 16. The
House of Representatives today
adopted the report of the conference
committee on the local option bill. The
report was also adopted by the Senate
and the act will be signed by the Gov
ernor at onoe.i the state dispensary
thus passing out of existence today.
Two Bids on the Melanope.
ASTORIA. Or., Feb. 16. (Special.)
Two bids were received by P. L. Cherry.
Lloyd s local agent, for the purchase of
the dismasted bark Melanope. which
was towed into this port some time ago
as- a derelict. The bids were not
opened here, but were forwarded to J.
J. Moore & Co., of San Francisco.
MAYOR AND CHIEF
'MAYBE INDICTED
Chicago Grand Jury Will Inves
tigate Failure to En
force Laws.
VICE REIGNS TRIUMPHANT
Law Provides for Ousting Public
Officials Who Neglect Duty and
State Has Evidence Lawbreak
ers Boast of Protection.
CHICAGO. Feb. 16. (Special.) May
or Dunne and Police Chief Collins may
have to answer to the next grand Jury
for their refusal or inability to stop
gambling and close the brothels that
infest Chicago. The Mayor and ills
Chief of Police take gre:it pains to deny
daily all rumors that gamblers or
nny other votaries of vice are working
openly at their trades in this city, but
a mass of evidence has been prepared
by the State's Attorney nnd by it prom
inent reform association in an effort
to prove that City Hall officials aro
misrepresenting the facts and that the
dens of painted women abound, while
gambling is easy.
Drive Out Vice or Be Ousted.
The February grand jury will meet
Monday. This grand jury will resume
the January grand jury's inquiry into
the reasons why the. Mayor and the
Chief of Police are unwilling or unable
to fulfil their oaths of office and drive
the gamblers and other lawbreakers
from the city, or else crowd the pris
ons, the jails and the Bridewell with
them.
Section 352 of the criminal code pro
vides that "every person holding public
office, either state, county or municipal,
who Is found guilty of palpable omis
sion of duty, malfeasance In office or
partiality In the discharge of the duties
of such office, may be fined not to ex
ceed $10,000, or be removed from such
office trust or employment, or both,
unless otherwise provided."
Attorneys declare it does not need
a brain skilled In the lore of the law
to realize that omission to close sa
loons at 1 o'clock at night, omission
to drive slot machines from saloons,
omission to stop public poker games,
"crap" games and handbooks, and
omission to shut up the lairs of vice,
all constitute "palpable omissions of
duty.' for which public officials respon
sible may be punished with a heavy
fine, or driven from high positions of
trust.
State Has the Evidence.
Since the last grand jury adjourned
after delivering the scathing denuncia
tion of the Mayor and Chief of Police
for their failure to enforce the laws,
investigators working for the State's
Attorney have been busy collecting evi
dence of the public wrongs of which
the January grand Jurors complained
bitterly. The Mayor and his Chief
joined In attempting to ridicule the
action of the last grand jury, stating
that grand Juries are becoming mere
"lecturing bodies."
"We don't give a d n for the po
lice," declared a bartender tonight.
"We have the best police protection In
town, and there is no more danger
of a real raid here than there is of an
earthquake. We have a good game,
make good money, and are willing to
pay for the protection we get. The
coppers don't get the coin, .though.
It goes to the office of either the Chief
of police or the Inspector."
JAILBREAK IS FRUSTRATED
Four Prisoners In Albmiy Come Xcar
Gaining Liberty.
ALBANY. Or.. Feb. 16. (Special.) A
well-planned jallbreak, by which four
men would have gained their liberty
from Linn County Jail, was narrowly
averted here tonight. The prisoners
had sawed a bar loose with pocket
knives, and had secreted a caseknlfe
with which to saw tonight. The broken
bar led from the top of the cells t'o a
trapdoor into the living rooms of
Sheriff Smith, upstairs, and it was evi
dently planned to escape tomorrow
when the family would lie away. Tli5
prisoners could reach the top of the
cells from the corridor.
Suspicion was aroused when Mrs.
Smith missed a caseknife which had
been sent down into the jail with the
dinner. Sheriff Smith noticed one of
the prisoners watching at the window
all afternoon and at 5 o'clock Insti
tuted a search. He found two pocket
knives all nicked up. and the misslnsf
caseknife and the sawed bar. The
opening made by the sawed bar was
not large enough to permit escape, and
it was planned to complete the work
with the caseknife."
The prisoners now in the jail are
Harry Board and Ed Stone, serving 60
days for stealing a coat. Beard being
also under Indictment in the Circuit
Court 'for larceny by bailee on another
offense; Walter Spruance, serving 60
days for petit larceny, and James
Thomas, recently sent up for four
months for stealing a bicycle.
Beard and Thomas Were leaders in
the scheme, as the former is soon to go
to the Penitentiary, and Thomas is be
lieved to be a. dangerous criminal who
is wanted elsewhere, and he has been
very nervous since his Incarceration.
Saved From Death on Bar.
ASTORIA. Or.. Feb. 16. (Special.)
Casper Drilling and Peter Bjordstrom.
two. men employed by the Engineer's
Department at the Jetty, had a narrow
escape from being drowned this morn
ing. .They started in a small boat to go
to Sand Island, but wece carried by the
strong east wind and the tide across
Peacock Spit and were being rapidly
taken to sea. Their boat had nearly
reached the line of breakers at the bar
when they were rescued by the Cape
Disappointment life-saving crew.
Pacific Coast Raises Salaries.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 16. The Pa
cific Coast Company has' granted an in
crease of wageo to the employes in it
various coal properties, the new scale
having gone into effect ' about the first
of February. The raise averages about
10 per cent, the increases having been,
made In proportion to the individual cir
cumstances at the different mines.