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12 THE STTJTDAT OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. OCTOBER 27, 1007. CASES ARE DROPPED No Decision to Be Given in Kay and Kienlen Matter. STATEMENT IS OFFICIAL Police Committee, According to Of ficial Announcement, Will Take No Additional Proceedings. Greene Remains Dictator. Official announcement was made at police headquarters yesterday that no further action Is to be taken In the cases of Acting Detecflves Kay and Kienlen, charged with Insubordination by Captain of Detectives Bruin. These charges were heard by two members of the police committee of the Executive Board 10 days ago. At last Friday's session of the Ex ecutive Board no decision was given, and Inquiry later brought forth the admission that the cases have been dropped. Detectives Kay and Kienlen were 'ac cused by Captain Bruin of absolute dis obedience of orders, and in a sworn state ment to the two members of the police committee, he declared that their work was positively unsatisfactory to him; that they Ignored him and were disrespectful to him, and at all times refused to ac knowledge him as their superior officer. Chief of Police Grltzmacher, who has never liked Captain Bruin, took the stand as the principal witness for Kay and Kienlen and lauded the two officers to the skies. He declared them to be the proper officers to carry on the work of the so-called "moral squad," and said they were fine policemen, always prompt and efficient and In every way qualified to do police duty. . Detective Kay took the stand and made ell kinds of startling charges against Captain Bruin, among tbem one that the detective captain "tipped off", contem plated raids on the Golden West Motel, which had a brlt f existence as a disor derly house, and another that Bruin re leased poker- players without prosecution one time, and at another time that he grabbed ,$80 from a poker table and re leased the players. Detective Kay's allegations were ' so sensational that Captain Bruin arose and demanded an investigation by the police committee, which was promised by Chair man Thomas J. Greene. At the close of the trial It was announced that the cases were to be taken under advisement, but It is now said that they were virtually settled .that night. Chief Grltzmacher got an idea of the small figure he cuts In police affairs when Cnairman Greene threatened to discharge him If he should In future give out any news derogatory to the department, and said any member who might talk to reporters In ttme to come would "lose his head, from the Chief down." Though Chief Grltzmacher said he did not regard Kay and Klonlen as members of Captain Bruin's staff, at the close of the trial, Chairman Greene announced that In future they were to report to Bruin, and added that In cases where Chief Grltzmacher wished them to report only to himself, he must so notify Cap tain Bruin. In other words, Chairman Greene proclaimed himself dictator of the police depaTtment, and showed publicly that Chief Griumacher's principal busi ness is to draw J225 a month and take orders from Mr. Greene. GOLDEN NOT EX-CONVICT Brother of Alleged Crook Denies the Story of the Police. EVERETT, "Wash., Oct. 2. (To the Editor.) Having seen by The Ore gonlan of October 22 that Joe Golden was arrested, I take the liberty of contradicting that portion of the ar ticle which eays he Is an ex-convlot. !l do not uphold a criminal, but ' I wish to state a few facts concerning his family. My name Is Edward Gold en. I am Joe's brother, and It Is for the protection and respect of my moth er, father and sisters that I wls.i to speak. My parents are among the oldest and most highly respected resi dents of Spokane. My father 1b a busi ness man of unimpeachable integrity. My sisters are young udfes of the mar riageable age and without, a blemish on their characters. Joe has been a little wild and reckless in his career, but Is not near so bad as some people would have you believe. He has been arrested a number of times on vari ous charges, but I know positively that he has never "been convicted on any charge. I know The Oregonlan to be a very fair paper and I am sure you would not have published that my' brother was an . ex-convlct had you not been misinformed as . to the facts lo the case. There is no. record In this coun try that can show that he has ever been convicted of even petit larceny. I therefore ask you In respect for my mother, father, sisters and brothers to please contradict that portion of the statement which says he Is an ex-convict. Very clncerely yours, t-DWARD, GOLDEN. COAST BANKS ARE STRONG Not Affected by Panic In East. Portland Clearings Increase. Portland has done herself great credit Curing the past week In sustaining her bank clearings. While the East has been In the throes of financial unrest, the fig ures compiled by the local clearing-house have mounted steadily upward, making a splendid advance over the coij-espond-Ing week of last year, when there was not a cloud on the financial horizon. More conclusive proof of the entire finan cial Independence of the Pacific North west with reference to the Eastern money centers could hardly be given. While excitement and unrest prevails there, confidence Is general throughout Ore gon; business is not only transacted as usual, but Its volume far exceeds that of former Octobers and the outlook for the future is excellent. No panic in Wall street can, apparently, put a check on the prevailing prosperity of the Pacific Coast. Yesterday's gain in bank clearings over the corresponding dayof last year was more than 93 per cent. This Is a striking increase. The total for yes terday's cash business passing through the clearing house was $1,409,433.34. The figure for the 'corresponding. Sat urday -of 1906 was $72.9.668.66, hardly more than half of yesterday's splendid showing. The total for the week ending yes terday was $8,691,303.68. The total for the corresponding week of 1906 was $6,982,247.24. Clearings for each day of the week ending last night' are: Monday, $1,600,234.94; Tuesday, $1,711, 766.67; Wednesday, $1,198,015.09; Thurs day. $1,283,776.24; Friday, $1,388,087.40; Saturday. $1,409,433.34. Basis for general confidence is found In the above figures. They show the xact status of Portland and the whole Oregon country in a financial way and demonstrate the splendid conditions throughout the Pacific Northwest. Every department of Industry through out the territory was neyer on such a substantial basis. - For the six dayB. ending Thursday, of last week, Bradstreet's weekly re port gives a summary of the banking business done in the leading 23 cities of the country. Portland and Denver, Colorado, are accredited with leading the list in .percentages of increase. The greatest strength in banking circles Is shown throughout the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. SUES FOR RIGHT OF WAY Postal Telegraph Company Seeks to Condemn Railroad Property. Suit was brought In the United States Court yesterday by the Pacific Postal Telegraph - Cable- Company against the Oregon & California Rail road and the Southern 1 aclflc Com pany, as lessee of the Oregon & Cali fornia, to compel the defendant com pany to permit the plaintiff corpora tion to construct a new line of electric telegraph along the railroad's right of way between Portland and the south ern boundary of the state, a distance of 366.61 miles. The Postal Company bas tendered the Southern Pacific $2100 as compensation for the privi- PORTLATfD GIRL. WIXS GOV ERNMENT APPOINTMENT. --lii imf"i'ffrtfnr--- r . - HiM Marie Merrlman Bradley. Miss Marie Merrlman Bradley, of this city, left yesterday for Washington, D. C, where she goes to accept a position as spe cial agent in the Investigation of conditions of woman and child labor. This investigation was authorized by Congress at the . last session. She won the ap pointment on a civil service ex amination In which 100 compet ed. Miss Bradley'wlll receive a -salary of $1200 per year, and in addition to that, all of her trav eling expenses will be paid and she will receive $3 per day for living expenses. Miss Bradley is a native of Oregon, being a daughter of Mrs. Laura A. Bradley, of the Hill Military Academy, ,.nd a grand daughter of Mrs. A- Merrlman, of Medford, a pioneer of .'51. She graduated from the University of Oregon with the class of 1903, and two years. following her graduation she was instructor In history In the Hill Military Academy of this city. Last June she received her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, at which Institution she spent two years, doing special work along the lines of economics and Industrial history. . ' lege, but the offer has been rejected and the suit has been brought that the amount of damages to be. recovered may be assessed" by a Jury at the trial of the suit. ''.'' - ' The plaintiff company recites in Its complaint that its. board of directors has selected the route of the railroad company's right of. way as the most feasible for erecting its proposed tele graph system. MAX- ESCAPE PENITENTIARY ."Toots" Bryant and Louis 1. Smith to 'Be Sentenced. Assistant United States Attorney Cole expects early this week to dis pose of the pending cases against the men who were' Indicted in connection with the Sellwood postoffice rotibary. "Toots" Bryant and Louis L. Smith, who pleaded guilty to receiving stolen postage stamps, will be brought before Judge Wo.verton in the United States Circuit Court tomorrow for sentence. Since both testified voluntarily . and were of material assistance to the Gov ernment in securing the conviction- of Frank AVayne and James Anderson, rec ognized leaders of the gang, and have already been confined in the county Jail nine months, it is possible their discharge will be recommended by the Government officials. At any rate they win undoubtedly escape with light sen tences. In addition to these cases there are three others who . pleaded guilty to the same Indictment, Claud Eggles ton, Archie Turnbull and Louis Gil bride. Their cases will be called when Bryant and Smith have been disposed of. -. . Iieg Valued at $7 75 0." ' After being out all night, the Jury in the case of A. K. Holmes against the Eastern & Western Lumber Company yesterday reported a verdict for the plaintiff for $7750. Holmes, demanded Judgment for $35,000 for the loss of a leg while In the employ of the defendant company. ' SNAKE RIVER OIL CO. The Snake River OH Co. has a limited number of shares of stock for sale at 10 cents per share. When this allotment Is exhausted the price will ba Immediately advanced to 25 cents. The value of our property is established by recent develop ments in the oil fields; this fact Is clearly evinced by a substantial offer by Eastern- capitalists for a part or the whole of our properties, since the oil strike on the 19th of this month. Full particulars and information can be had by communi cating with the secretary of the company, 426 Mohawk bldg. Violates Order of Commission. CHICAGO, Oct. 26. In direct violation of the ruling made by the Interstate Commerce Commission prohibiting the extension of the return limit of round trip tickets, for any cause, the officials of the Union Pacific Railroad have an nounced that the privilege will be grant ed in case.of sickness. The Union . Pa cific attorneys contend the ruling of the commission In this particular is not war ranted by the law. You Are Welcome to Credit 5 v?3 sku 5 . tn u . e mam . msm m--m m m ErT"3 Sji53 m-v?m m cm .ev- a mm m gig otojm M" ""i aum mmS mm TT..-7- wtrxm m. mm. a m m m m mvw4 - mvm mm mmrm m mrmu .- mSm mm - - J"m S 5 S SH'-VT ' .1 0 in m Liberal Discounts for Cash 2 A thousand stoves piled up in our basement a thousand stoves to find homes for and the prices we have put on them are sure to make them welcome. A line of stives if placed side by side, nearly a mile long. Heaters and cook stoves, malle able steel ranges and castiron ranges, all kinds, all prices, from a little airtight heater up to that king of all ranges, the Monarch. You are cordially invited to visit our store and see the handsomest line of stoves in the city 74 different pat terns in our sample line await your inspection. . 11 ' "''in $1.00 A WEEK BUYS A MONARCH RANGE The Mcyiarch Range A . Ru That Will Bake Evenly and Thoroughly. You know from sad experience that you can't do good baking if one part of your oven Is hotter than another. And in most cast ranges the oven ii not heated uniformly. The castiron frames 'must be bolted, because they are too brittle to stand riveting. Then the scams are filled with stove putty. A few heatings and coolings and the . castiron .Jexpands and contracts, the bolts loosen and the putty falls out, leaving an open crack to suck in out side air and cause the fire to burn un evenly. Now. the Monarch oven bakes even ly at all times. The sides and the oven are riveted to malleable steel frames extending all through the range, mak ing tight, solid Joints with no chance of air leaks. Then the duplex draft lets air in at .both ends of the firebox, causing a uniform heat production, which means an evenly-heated oven that will bake thoroughly and satisfactorily through and through. . , There is no stove putty used In a Monarch Range. ' , A $1.00 COOK BOOK FREE. This is a real book, not a cheap advertising- circular. It is - handsomely printed on good paper bound In cloth with board covers 144 pages. If you could buy It at a bookstore It would cost you at least $1.00. It contains 688 recipes, many of them new, all simple, easy to make and Inexpensive. Has practical menus for the whole year and many valuable hints on diet and marketing. You can get It without cost, if you intend buying a range or cookstove . within a year. ' - . HOW TO GET IT. Cut out this advertisement, mail it to the Malleable Iron Range Company, Beave." Dam, Wis., and tell them WHEN" (stating month If possible) , you expect to buy and you will secure . this valuable book free. Famous Oak Heaters A first-class Oak Stove of the very latest designs. Nickel base, foot rails, front columns, urn and ring. . Has heavy corrugated . flrepot, large feed and ash doors fitted with screw drafts. Prices are as follows: No. 12 $16.00 No. 16 22.00 No. 14 81T.OO. No. 18 S24.50 10 P Cent Discount for Cash. T Idekl Oak Heaters This is a Heater which ' will burn coal or wood. Has a shaking grate in sizes No. 211 and No. 213, and a draw center grate in the No. 215 size. All have large nickel rails, nickel ring, nickel screw drafts and fancy urn.'- , No. 211 Body IOV2 In. diameter, height 32 in. .......... . $6.75 No. 213 Body 1214 in. diameter, ; height 34 in. . . . . 8.00 No. 215 Body 14 in. diameter. height S7y2 in $10.00 IO Per Cent Discount for Cash. ' it Sunlight Heaters Li. k .... . SUM A handsome Heater of mod em design; has cast top and bottom; made of heavy gauge steel, with nickel nih and base, ' nickel top ring, nickel foot rails and dull nickel legs. We have this in two styles, either cast or sheetiron lined. No. 123 Size, 18x.l3y2x20, cast lined $9.90 No. 123-Size, 18xl3y2x20, sheet lined $11.75 No. 126 Size, 23xl4y2x22, sheet lined 911.90 No. 125 Size 23xl4y2x22, cast lined S13. IO Per Cent Discount Cash. .3 llilZvl Dinner Bell Range $2S.OO This range is equal In quality to those that are sold elsewhere for $10.00 more money. It has four lids, furl nickel trimmings and asbestos linings. Price, with 14 -inch oven . . . $28.00 same style wun six hub and 1B- , inch oven. .$33.00 Gas Heaters and Oil Heating Stoves Small round Gas Heating Stoves, 10 Inches diam W ..Ml ' H.jm. . : J . . I 75 I $1250 -tt m.50 Cash or C1l Credit ' eter. 14 inches hisrh. Perfection Oil Heaters, medium size. Perfection Oil Heaters, arge size. , ma .2.T.1 .$3.50 S4.90 Sale of Fold ing, Tables Sale of Remnants . 49 : 75. .91.25 ...92.50 A six - foot round - pillar Extension Table, finished in grained oak, with extra center leg in the pedestal, worth SIS. 00. we ieil at 7. . . r :. .S12.50 The Lowest Prices Brussels Remnants, one yard long... Velvet or Axminster Remnants..... 4?4 yards Hemp for . 5 yards Brussels for 31-3 yards Wool for 91.95 9 yards Half "Wool for . 94.05 5 yards Wool f or 92.75 7 yards Wool for 93.85 11 yards Wool for .'96.05 And Many Others. " A Folding Sewing Table, 19 Inches wide, 36 inches long, with yard measure stampel- on the top. Wo are selling this week at. $1.00 Selling Out Our Office Desk business does not pay takes too much space too much capital to carry the stock sales too few. We are closing out our Office Desks, and many of the best buyers in Port land have already taken advantage of the bargains In this department." Kvery 'desk greatly reduced. Ash Flat-Top Desks, 80x48, one tier of drawers-. $11.35 Oak Flat-Top Desks, polished, 30x4.8, 2 tiers of drawers...$17.BO Oak Roll-Top Desks, 20x30, one tier of drawers ....818.75 Oak Roll-Top Desks, 30x36, one tier of drawers.. $21.' Typewriter Desks, flat top, 30x36, quartered, polished oak, single pedestal, $34.00 value for S27.50 pi S3 II Pa f 5 F Mil hi IP J mnl UUititMH.tmUllHntUMIUMWUIilUmiHUItHi'- mm I 4 i I II p ill ' iUiiiiiHinmuiiaiiiii; hi 111 UJ w 1 ITT .1 if J .IV f m i ll I J i '.unirffl!! Hi HWA VAii am I mm mm f! If !H Most Reasonable w Terms li OQQD PL1 TO Twwmm ) The Lobster Now and in History Cheap at 35 Cents Per Pound, Yet Some People Do Not Think So--But Hear What Some of the Ancients Did to Get Them. , BY LJUAN TINXSLB. Lobsters cost 35 cents "per pound just now; whether you consider that dear or cheap depends not only on the state of your purse, but also On where, you cotne from and on your particular point' of view. Recently I heard a thrifty house wife express herself to a younger friend who had stopped to examine some rather fine lobsters shown In a local fish mar ket. "Com away," she said. "Don't look at those Indigestible things. ' They haven't even claws on them, the way they should have. And you pay as much for the shells as you do for good butcher meat and likely be sick after them, too!" The younger woman moved meekly away, and t meditated on the value of those shells and the kind of , stomach neces sary for a person who would not be sick after them. A goat's, now, or an os trich's? - ' Here is another point of view, quoted from the Introduction to aome shell-fish recipes in an English cookbook: "This fish, which Is continually before our eyes (a f optnote, smaller in print and less elevated In diction, explains that lobsters are In season from March to October, but are to be obtained all the year round) and only looked upon as an article of food, is without doubt one of the wonders of creation ! A creature desti tute of bones, yet furnished with a stom ach capable of digesting the hardest sub stances, even Its own shell (that seems to BOlve " the problem previously sug gested in connection with shell digestion), which it doffs once a year, when it is too small for It; without blood circulat ing through Its body, yet strong and active! This is only one of those won ders of the mighty deep that we cannot but ' regard with awe and venerationf" What la 35 cents a pound after that? Listen further to another authority who Is so moved by the consideration of this "lively crustacean's" habits and customs that he (or she, I am not sure of the au thor's sex) actually, like Silas Wegg, "drops into poetry in a friendly way." "In Its element the lobster Is able to run with great speed upon its legs or small claws, and if alarmed to spring, tall foremost, with the swiftness of a bird flying. When frightened, they will take their spring and, like a oharaols of the Alps, plant themselves upon the very spot upon which they designed to hold themselvea It is said that the attach ment of this animal (the lobster Is meant, not the chamois of the Alps), Is strong to some particular parts of the sea; a circumstance expressed In the following lines: . Naught ilka their home the constant lobstera prize And foreign shores and unknown seas d splse. Though cruel hands the banished wretch expel And force the captive from his native cell. He will. If freed, return with anxious care. Find the known rock and to his hoaie re pair; - No novel customs learns In different seas. But wonted food and home-tauKht manners please. There is a fine, conservative "Engllsh-of-the-lsland" flavor to this poem, es pecially in the final couplet. No wonder the lobster is popular over there. . . . - t Possibry the last lines may account for the very special and particular In structions, given In several books; as to "How to dish a lobster." "Break off the tail and claws, and divide the tall In two, lengthwise. Cut the head and body through, foflowing a line between the eyes, then crack the claws; put the head In the center, the parts together at the top, but dividing a little at the bottom. Arrange the tall at the ends and the claws at the sides of the dish, and put the small claws up right between . the head and the other parts. Use plenty of parsley about the dish, the center of which should be cov ered with a lace paper." I trust you will follow "these instruc tions . exactly next time you have occa sion to serve this "favorite of gastrol ogers," observing due order of precedence with the "parts," and remembering the noble creature's preference" for "home taught manners" and aversion to "novel customs." But possibly the Pacific Coast crusta ceans, "who haven't even claws on them," may not be such sticklers for etiquette In these matters. In any case, It Is well to treat the whole tribe with respect, for certain old naturalists (Olaus Magnus and Gessner) affirm that "in the Indian seas and on the wild shores of Norway, lobsters have been found 13 feet in length and six in breadth, which sieze ' mariners in their terrible embrace and dragging them into their caverns, devour them"-and that without parsley or lace paper, I Imagine! How would you like to meet one of them, either In their native haunts or In your dreams? It may have been after a supper of dev iled lobster that Olaus Magnus and Gess ner made their acquaintance. It is else where recorded that "Aplclus, who ought to be the patron saint of epicures, made a voyage to the coast of Africa on hear ing that unusually fine lobsters were to be found there, and, after encountering much distress at sea, met with a disap pointment." Pathetic, isn't It? - And yet In these degenerate -days there are women who grudge a miserable 25 cents per pound for the dish for which Aplcius was doubly willing to risk his life. - , Government Ketvards Them. Albert J. Turner and Elmer N. Turner, confessed members of the Coon gang of counterfeiters, were yesterday sentenced by Judge Wolverton to serve 13 months each in the United Stated penitentiary at McNeils Island. Short ly folloHvlng their arrest in June, 1906, these men pleaded guilty to an Indict ment charging them with a conspiracy to defraud the Government by making counterfeit 5 gold coins and at the recent trial of E. R. Coon, the chief conspirator, appeared as' witnesses for the Government and disclosed some damaging evidence1' against Coon, whor was convicted and sentenced to Mo Nelis Island for 20 months. Munz Heads German Epworthlans. ST. JOSEPH, Mo..Oct'. 28. Dr. Fred erick Munz, of Cincinnati,! was re-elected president of the National German Ep worth League here today. Byes fitted to glasses, tl, at Metzgers. Make Your Xm as Gifts and Save Money NOW 13 YOUR OPPORTUNITY We are showing more 'beautiful, . exclusive designs than were ever. before displayed In this city. Trade where you receive the courtesies due you. . Point to Remember. Our sales People are woman hn nnHtrctnnr1 vrv Intnll of imhrnlr1orv nrlr Our teachers are thorouKhly competent and courteous. Our classrooms are private. Our lessons are FREE with every purchase. Specials for this week Handsome Eyelet Centerpieces, com plete with cotton for embroidery, ' special sac Tinted Table Mats, 38-ln. size, in' Cal ifornia poppy, violet, or pepper pat terns. Regular value fl, special. "Do Tea Aprons, stamped for eyelet, shadow or Wallachlan embroidery, complete ' with flosa to embroider. Regular value 65c." special. .... .4o NOTi: No mall-orders filled at these prices after Nov. 1. 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