34 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAXD, JTJ2TE 23, 1907. Our Roses Are Beautiful Our Girls, Are Beautiful Provided They Have Perfect Teeth You can't be beautiful or wholesome-looking with out white, sound teeth. A very little attention will keep your teeth attractive and beautiful. Every man or woman owes it to himself or herself to keep their teeth in per fect condition. It is our business to assist you in this most important duty. Our work in every branch of the dental profession is unexcelled here or else where. XVe have the practice, skill and appliances to insure perfect results. Call and see us. Examination is free, and by observation you can judge to a great extent whether we exaggerate or not. DR. B. E. WRIGHT GOOD SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER PLATE $5 BEST SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER PLATE $8 UK. 13. Jtl. VV K-IJtl 1 DENTIST 342 1-2 Washington Street, Corner Seventh Phone Main 2119. Office Hours: 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7:30 to 8:30 P. M. Sundays 9 to 1 TWELVE YEARS IN PORTLAND. ANOTHER HOLD-UP C by RARUNS Local Trust Boosts Prices of All Classes of Fixtures Sold by It. SOLICITORS ARE HIT HARD Stoves, Beaters and Other Supplies That Consumers Must Have Are In Raised List How Employes of Company Are "Gouged." That profits may be. gathered in while the sun shines, the Portland Gas Company has made a general raise In the price of supplies of all kinds. On some classes of goods the increase Is 60 per cent. Now that the average family is considering relegating the range to the rear for the Summer and installing a gas stove to lessen the heat attendant upon cooking the fam ily meals, the gas trust realizes that this is the best time to hold up the public and swell the company's profits. Oas stoves have been raised In price from $1 to 3. Formerly from 10 to 20 per cent discount has been allowed on the purchase of supplies. Hereafter only 10 per cent will be allowed. Ruud heaters have been liberally boosted in price by the gas company. One type, formerly sold for $100, will hereafter be held at $150. The new schedule of prices went Into effect June 17, and hereafter the householder will have to pay more lib eral tribute to the gas barons than ever before. All appliances have been given a lift In prices, presumably Just because the gas trust needs the money and the dear people need the wares of the money-thirsty corporation at this season. Solicitors' Salaries Cut. But the trust managers have also another scheme for swelling the profits of the company and this is the novel one of cutting off the salaries hereto fore paid solicitors and putting them on a straight commission basis. For merly they were paid a straight salary and a commission in addition on all articles sold according to the price of the appliances or fixtures. Now all will be changed. The solic itor must take the advanced price list on his round and depend for his pay upon making sales upon that basts. That the solicitor will not be a very popular person when he produces his exaggerated price list is apparently not taken into consideration by the trust managers in taking away his fixed salary. In some lines of fixtures there is a small boost given in commis sions, but this is said to be immaterial and not at all commensurate with the loss of the fixed salaries. There are 18 solicitors out for the Portland Gas Company and there is mid to be rage in the hearts of all, for the change in their status which was Inaugurated June 17. Some are said to be on the point of leaving their po sitions because of the unfavorable terms arbitrarily made by the com pany. Hereafter solicitors are to be paid nothing when they secure new meters, which practically means new custom ers. Formerly commissions were paid for meters, varying according to the location and the gas used by the cus tomer. By its new plan the gas trust plans to augment considerably its own profits by boosting prices and at the same time reduce its fixed charges by pruning its salary list to the limit. Men whose salaries were formerly paid by th'e company must now get them out of the people by selling the same goods at greatly enhanced and unrea sonable prices. Working of "Point" System. Early in the present year, the gas company inaugurated a new system, railed the point" system, by which the city was divided into districts, with one solicitor to each district. Solicitors in outside districts were allowed a salary of $50 a month, while those In down town districts, where . carfare was not required, were given $40. In both classes, there were commissions all goods sold. In the "point" ays- , tem, the solicitor is paid a commission according to the amount of gas con sumed. One thing the solicitors particularly object to is that after drumming up business in their respective districts -all Winter, with the understanding that customers coming to the store with orders would be credited to the solici tor In that district, an order of the Gas Company on June 17, which abol ished the "point" system, undid the work of the Winter, for it is only in the Summer months that the demand is very large for gas stoves and ap pliances. A notice of June 17, posted . by the Gas Company, states that a commis sion of $1.60 will be allowed to the solicitor on all house-piping contracts, this to be Included when naming esti mates. This is fine for the public. An other notice of the same date says that a commission of 6 per cent will be al lowed on all piping orders, other than house-piping contracts, this commis sion of 5 per cent to be included when making quotations for work to be per formed. Another instance of the Gas Com pany's care o- .cself and disregard for the welfare of the solicitor provides that should an appliance on which a commission has been paid, be with drawn by tbe customer, the solicitor must make a duplicate sale without commission in order to make It right with the company. FAVORS THE BRIDGE North Bend Chamber of Com merce Explains Position, DENIES FALSE REPORTS DEATH OF PIONEER MINER Alexander Thompson Passes Away at Home Near Salem. After a lingering Illness of three months, Alexander Thompson passed away at his home In the Waldo Hills, last Friday, June 21. Mr. Thompson was born near Mindham, Morris County, N. J., September 29, 1836. In 1S60 he came as far West as Missouri and Illinois. In the fall of that year he returned to New Jersey to cast his vote for Lincoln. On March 11. 18a he sailed from New York City for San Francisco via Panama. I f;ttV ( - I o fX$t 1 1 Alexander Thompsea, Who Died Friday. From there he went to Nevada where he spent one year. In April. 1S62, he sailed from can Francisco for Portland and thence be continued up the Columbia River to the gold mines at Florence, Ida ho, then in Washington Territory. In 1863 he went to the Boise mines near Placerville and In the Spring of 1S65 he went to Montana, where he mined near Helena on Lincoln Oulch. In the Fall of 1S67 he reto-ned to Bfra Francisco, but soon come back to fort- land and went up the Willamette Valley as far as the Waldo Hills, east of Salem, where he purchased the Rice Dunbar donation land claim, where he made his home until his death. April 26. 1871. Mr. Thompson married Harriet A. Small, who died April U, 1874. October 4. 1876. he married M. Adallne McAlpin. who survives him, together witn six children: Llda L., of Salem; Mrs. Roxana Clark, of Sllverton; Mrs. Orla Stlmpson. of Portland: Georea Har ris, Maud Ethel, and James Jay at home. jar. inompson was an active worker In the Congregational Church, to the main tenance of which he always contributed freely in time and money, and for IS years he had served continuously as su perintendent or the Sunday school con nected with that denomination. Throughout his entire career he strove to be guided by the Golden Rule, doing no man an Injustice through Intention. but exhibiting on all occasions a Slgh mlnded. unselfish public spirit and gener osity that will long be remembered by his Peter Ioggle, President of Body. Says Opposition to Railroad's Plan Is Dead Among Cit izens of His Town. "Will th projected railroad cross Coos Bay at or near North Bend or circle the bay at Marshfleld? That Is the question that is being discussed by our people. said Peter Loggia, president of the North Bend Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Objection was raised to the building of a bridge across the mile-wide bay at our town by uniformed citizens, but that op position practically ceased when It be came known that the Federal Govern ment would pass upon the matter of ob struction to navigation and similar points affecting the channel. "We feel that we have not been treated quite fairly by our neighbors of Marsh- field in a resolution that was passed at a so-called mass meeting on the evening of June 14. At that meeting a previously prepared resolution was presented that opposed bridging the bay. when a vote was called for on the measure only mem bers of the Marshfleld Chamber of Com merce. 2$ being present, were allowed to vote. "North Bend was satisfied that the resolution passed by the 23 members of the Marshfleld chamber was not a true expression of the sentiment of the dis trict and on the succeeding day circulated a petition In favor of the bridge which was signed by 96 per cent of the property owners of North Bend, 161 of .the citizens of Marshfleld and practically all the property owners of Empire. The North Bend Chamber met in response to the petition and passed suitable resolutions." Fbllowlng are the resolutions passed, from a copy in possession of Mr. Loggio: Text of the Resolutions. Whereas, It has been asserted In the gress that citizens residing along Coos ay, Oregon, are opposed to the construc tion of a railroad bridge across said bay. Whereas, Certain persons, evidently ac tuated by selfish motives, are persistently spreading this false report to the detri ment of the Interests of the people of Coos Bay. Whereas. It is being publicly announced that the North Bend Chamber of Com merce passed resolutions declaring that it was opposed to a bridge across Coos Bay. Whereas, The North Bend Chamber of Commerce has not at any time in the past opposed the construction of a proper and suitable bridge across said bay, nor passed any resolutions to that effect, but opposed only, as shown by Its resolutions, dated the 21st day of December, 1S06, "the building of a bridge constructed by the plans submitted." Whereas, There has been submitted to' the North Bend Chamber of Commerce for Its consideration a petition signed by 95 per cent of the property owner of North Bend, by 151 citizens and property owners of Marshfleld, Oregon, and hv practically all of the property owners of Empire, showing that a large majority of the citizens of Coos Bay owning prop erty thereon are in favor of the Honor able 6ectretary of War granting permis sion to the Oregon Western Hallway Company to bridge the bay at the point designated In their application heretofore filed with the said Secretary of War, pro vided, the same be constructed in accord ance with plans approved by the Federal authorities, and provided further that the same shall be. open for the use of any railroad desiring to cross thereon under reasonable rules and regulations and for a reasonable compensation. . Would Xot Hinder Navigation. Whereas, The North Bend Chamber of Commerce after due consideration has concluded that the construction of a proper bridge at said point would not material!?' Interfere with the tidal flow or the force of the current or its power to scour the bar, nor to any great extent Interfere with the navigation of Coos Bay. and bellevinr it to he t iha hut interests of the Coos Bay country and re posing the utmost confidence in tbe Fed eral aumoriEies. wnom we believe will properly safeguard the Interest of mm. merce and of the people, now therefore. Be It resolved,. By the North Bend vnamoer or commerce of the. City of North Bend, Coos County. Oregon, that it brands as false and untrue the state ments that either the citizens of North Bend or the Chamber of Oranin the said city are opposed to the con struction of a proper and suitable bridge across Coos Bay and assert most emphat- n-uuy mm ootn me namoer or com merce Of said Citv and the tnafnrltv nf the citizens of the said city are heartily J. You Are Welcome To Credit Make Your Own Terms . OUTN2-S1W Hammocks A600 Hammocks are open gauze weave, have concealed spreader at head, con tinuous stringing and wood bar at foot, with patented tips and adjust able hitch end rings, requiring no ad justable ropes or knots. Size on. 86x78. The price is .UC B100 Hammocks are close canvas and twill weave, otherwise same 1 CQ as AS 01.-. Size 36x80. Price... P l.iJO C100 Hammocks are close canvas and twill, weave. Jacquard design in body and valances, have concealed spreader at head, otherwise similar to previous numbers. Size 37x80. J gQ D100 Hammocks are close canvas and twill weave, Jacquard design In body and valances, have concealed spreader at head, continuous stringing, pillow, wood bar at foot, with patented tips and adjustable hitch end rings. Size of woven part 39x82. QQ At present our store is not in a very presentable shape. Carpen ters, painters and plumbers have been with us for a long time, putting in our new store front and overhauling things generally. In about ten days we expect to be through, and will then invite yon to see the neatest "Popular Price" Furniture Store in Portland. In the meantime, we are loaded with seasonable goods at reasonable prices. A visit here will repay you. Look for the store with the front torn out. Refrigerators Last season we had absolutely the lowest-priced Refrigerators In Portland, and they generally gave satisfaction, with the exception that the finish was not quite as good as it might have been. This season our cheapest Refrigerator Is finely polished and much superior to last year's pattern. Galvanlzed-llned Refrigerator, 35-lb. ca pacity 89.SO Galvanlzed-llned Refrigerator. 35-lb. ca pacity 15.75 Galvanlzed-llned Refrigerator, 75-lb. ca pacity 819. 50 Enameled Refrigerators, 60-lb. "ca pacity .821 OO Enameled Refrigerators, 75-lb "ca pacity x 82-4.00 Enameled Refrigerators, 145-lb. ca pacity ... ..... S32.00 Special Sale One-burner Perfection OH Proven. regular prtce 1 8, sale price,.. $4. 45 One-burner Perfection Oil Stoves. with legs, regular S6.7S, sale Price -. S4.90 Two-burner Perfection Oil Stoves, regular price $8.25, sale .Price S8.SO Two-burner Perfection, Oil Stoves, with legs, regular $9.00, sale priee S6.95 Two-burner Blna Flame Oil Stoves ..4.wu.M..Uw$5la' Folding Furniture Hesrr black enameled burner um nates, regular 13.35, Special price S2.55 . Crockery and Glassware At prices so low as to be surpris ing. What is called press-cut glass looks as good as the real article. Largo Press-cut Orange Bowls, 40o Grand Footed Bowls, 75c value, at, special 49c Lemonade Sets, jug, tumblers and traj, very cheap at $1.25; now 894 Go-Carts Foldlm? Go-Carts, with steel wheels S2.95 Folding Go-Carts, with rubber tires S3.25 Folding Reclining Go-Carts, rubber tires, adjustable back and foot end K4.AK Folding Recllnlnt Go-CartB, rubber tires and parasol. Price. .. .84. T" Large Basket Frame Folding Re clining Go-Carts, rubber tires and parasol 88. OO Number 059 Basket Frame Go-Carts, with rubber tires and parasol, price ...... .i S13.BO Nickel-plate J Gas Plates, two. . burner, regular $3.95. Special price 82.95 Extra neavy Gas Plates, nickel' plated, two special burners, reg ular $4.60. Special price. .83.65 Not the cheapest, but the strong est and most durable goods that have ever been placed on the mar ket are now being opened by us. Easy Camp Stools, guaranteed to support 600 lbs, malleable fittings, price 50 Folding Camp Chair, same as above 70 x uiuiiis uui, can oe xoiaea into a snug package, 3 - ft. long, weighs in 1 tin.. .uuDmi duu ion K' roiamg tunp -nair. size lomea 3 it. long by 3 in. square. very cozniortaDie. weient si .rrice si Folding, durable Camn Table. dy a ic open u. 0 in. souare bv closed, weight H lbs S3.' lMUySMisftctorVTfsjK?e If you have a Monarch Range, you can purchase a gas stove or gas plats from us, which you can attach onto it. If you do not have a Monarch Range you should get one, as it is the most up-to-date -range made, and is absolutely indestructible. The gas section Is built independent of the coal range, but Is adapted In such a manner as to give the perfect compact appearance of having been built together. The top frame, oven door, frame to oven, lower broiler door and frame, and the upper broiler door and frame are ail 01 maiieaoie iron. . xne burners can be easily removed for cleaning or repairs without . tools. Two light, strong oven racks are furnished with each gas oven. The guides are close together and permit racks to be drawn out without drop ping. We Give $30 tor Aay Monarca Malleable Ransrei, Even though it has been used for ten years. This Is a better guarantee than you can get with any other range. This Is a better guarantee than any other dealer can afford to give. The reason that we can give such a guarantee Is that it will stand the test of time and never crack or break In any part. Come In and examine .the Monarch Ranges or write for a free booklet describing them. 1 don and $1 a vreek will put a Monarch In your home. 1 Monarch IUikm are sold ac low aa $64.00. Insuranc Gasoline Stovesi screl absolutely safe. The gasoline will not flow unless the burner Is hot and the flame la burning. These stoves have been tested by the National Board of Fire Un derwriters, and are perfectly safe, even where there' are chil dren around, A large Gasoline Range, with oven 82T.50 Three-burner Insurance Gasoline Stove 8 14.00 Two-burner Insurance Gasoline Stove 8II.O0 Junior Gasoline Stove, like the picture above shown. ... .82.75 Wnlte Mountain Freezers The best proof of the' superior ity of the White Mountain Ice Cream Freezers Is the fact that more of this make are sold than all other makes put together. Prices are as follows: 5- qt. W.' 8-qt. W. 4-qt. W. 6- qt. W. M. M. M. M. Freezers : . Freezers. . Freezers... Freezers . . . Try Us Once jm I' J...' .1 JU.II J.l, J"k. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimm lllffil You'll Come Again " t GOOD PLACE HTO TRADED 1 5n favor of the construction of such a bridge and believe its construction would be to the ultimate advantage of the Coos Bay country. Be It further resolved. That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the rec ords of this organization, a copy for warded to the proper Federal authorities, copies forwarded to the press of the State of Oregon and also a copy to the Oregon Western Railway Company. Xone In open session this IBth day of June, 1S07. North Bend Chamber of Com merce. PETER LOGG1E. Pres.. ARCHIBALD WHI3NANT, Sec. It Is .1. Loggle's intention to bring up the whole matter before the Willamette Valley Development League, at its meet ing next Wednesday, at Cottage Grove, at which time it Is hoped to discuss the question fully in all its different phases. CITY'S NEWEST HOTEL Has Many Attractive Features That Commend It to tbe Fnblic. The "Hotel Lenox" has been opened for the reception of guests, and while it Is not the largest, it is one of the best-appointed hotels In Portland. The rooms are large and handsomely furnished, con taining every modern convenience, in cluding long-distance phones, combina tion table and writing desk, private bath In connection . with most of the rooms and other attractive features usually appreciated by the discerning traveling public. The house will be run on the European - plan with a well-appointed cafe in connection. . The only au tomobile bus In Portland will meet all trains and large sample rooms have been provided for the commercial travelers. The Lenox Is located at Third and Main streets, overlooking the Flaza Park. ORE BODIES STRUCK St. Helens Mining District Is Coming to the Front. CONFIDENCE IS REWARDED EASTERN EXCURSIONS. The next dates of sale for special ex cursion tickets to Eastern points are July s, 4 and 6. Make your reservations now. Apply at the local office, 143 Third street, for full particulars regard ing rates, stopovers, routes, etc "Old Home Week' In "Little Rnody" PROVIDENCE. R. I.. June 22. The Idea of an "Old Home Week" which originated many years ago In a Hew Hampshire village, and which appealed sentimentally to all New England will be developed to its fullest flower this year by the city of Providence. To this end an elaborate programme has been arranged for the entertainment of the sons and daughters of the old town and state who have gone to other lo calities In the Union, many of whom are expected to return on this occa sion and take part in the festivities that will cement afresh the ties of old associations of youthful days. July 28 to August S has been desig nated as Rhode Island Old Home Week, beginning on Sunday with Roger Will iams day and ending on Friday, Car nival and Military day. BH6ER FOB SCENIC PHOTOS. Imperial Hotel Also . Kodak Developing. Portland Will Become Headquarters of Richest Gold and Copper Mines ,. in the United States, Says F. A. Mabee. Portland is to be mining headquarters for the richest copper-producing section In the United States, according to F. A. Mabee, president of the Washington Gold & Copper Mining Company, of St. Helens, Wash., 35 miles from Portland. "We have been working on the property for nearly six years," he said, at the Portland Hotel, yesterday. "We have not begun milling yet, because we wish to find out what we really have first. With the heap of ore we have on tbe dump and what is in plain view, there Is over $3,000,000 in sight. "The miners have just struck one of the largest ore bodies I have ever seen on the second tunnel. The first tunnel In down 200 feet and the vein Is from four to five feet wide at that point. The second tunnel is down 880 feet, and the vein is from 14 to 17 feet wide. The fur ther down we go the bigger it gets, and I know we have one of the richest mines In the world. "Average assays of ore on the lower tunnel give us $26.21 In copper, gold and silver in the third assay. The fourth, $44.63 in copper and gold. The fifth gives us $36.64. and the seventh assay places it at $SL6 in copper and silver to the ton. The gold and silver In the ore will pay all expenses of mining, smelting and ship ping the copper. "For nearly two years we have been working to penetrate the thick crust of granite that covers the ore. It Is this surface which has held back mining in the district, but we have penetrated to the ore after years of labor and enor mous expense. "One of the biggest drawbacks to de veloping the property has been the impos sablllty of the trail from Cape Horn on tbe Columbia River to St. Helens, a dis tance of 16 miles. Five miles of a new road we have built ourselves, and big timber operators have helped In the rest. "We now have one of the beat and most unique roads that ever led to a mine sit uated In the mountains like this property. The scenery en route Is too grand to de scribe and has many interesting and al most startling features. At some points a narrow bridge passes over canyons 1000 feet In depth. A false movement and pe destrians would be dashed to pieces.. The road is secure, however, and perfectly safe as long as care Is exercised. "The building of the road and the pen etration of the granite to the mine have been the two hardest propositions we have contended against. It is the inten tion of the company to put In an electrlo line over the entire distance, to handle freight and passengers in connection with the development of the mine. ' "The company will . build a condenser and smelter at St. Helens and erect mill ing machinery as soon as the work has proceeded a little further. Portland will be the buying and shipping headquarters of the mine, the development of which means the opening of the greatest copper region in the West." Mr. Mabee stated that large areas of the section surrounding St. Helens is of similar formation to the location of the mine, and that there Is a large field for extensive mining. The granite, which the company had to penetrate for a distance of 900 feet to the lower level, has pre vented much prospecting because of the expense, and time required to reach the ore. He described how Senator Bourne f "Ladd' of Portland, put $160,000 in outfitting a mine in the, same region, and which was swept out by fire two ea,r" a- He asserted that if the work f eea pushed forward similar to that of his own country, the results would have been similar. Mr. Mabee Is enthusiastic over the re wards In sight for years of work and ex pense, ma mine is owned by himself and Eastern and Southern capitalists, no stock being on the market. Only one Portland man owns stock In the mine, which he took in payment for work done for the company. Dr. Otto Butter, of St. Louis, is treas urer for the company, and James B. Jor dan, of St. Louis, is secretary. A. D. Wright, of Vancouver, Wash., Is super intendent of the property. WOULD COMFORT HUSBAND Attorney Bent to Prison Is Followed to Jollet by His.TVlfe. PEORIA, 111., June 22. Daniel F. Raum, once a prominent attorney and society leader of this city, and son of Green B. Raum,. ex-Commissioner of Pensions, was taken to Jollet peniten tiary early today to begin serving an ' Indeterminate sentence,, having been convicted of forgery and embezzlement. Mrs. Raum, who has shown a devo tion exceeding the common throughout her husband's trouble has determined to take up her residence at Jollet, where she will be able to comfort him, pending a movement for his release In the future. A Genuine I 5 -At- L E.PALAIS' ROYAL "Will begin Monday morning, June 24th, at 10 o'clock. The quality of our goods is too well known to the ladies of Portland to require any recommendation. All trimmed and mi trimmed Hats, Feathers, Flow ers, Ribbons, Braids, etc., are included in this sale. Lot 1 $35.00 Hats at.. $18.75 Lot 2 $25.00 Hats at.. $11.95 Lot 3 $20.00 Hats at... $9.95 Lot 4$15.00 Hats at.;. $6.95 Lot 5 $12.50 Hats at.. $5.95 Lot 6 $10.00 Hats at.. $4.95 Lot 7 $8.50 Hats at $3.95 Lot 8 $6.50 Hats at. ...$2.95 Lot 9 $4.00 Hats at $1.95 Lot 10 $2.00 Hats at... 95 Lot 11 $1.50 Hats at...., 69 Lot 12 $1.00 Hats at..... 49 3TS Washington Street