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THE SUNDAY. OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 29, 1907.
LOST OR EATEN
BY CANNIBALS
Fate That Is Thought to Have
Overtaken Dr. Rice, South
American Explorer.
KNEW OF GREAT DANGER
Counted Possibility of Being Eaten
as One of the Chances of the Ex
pedition Expected to Reach
Manaos by November 20.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2S. (Special.) Lost
In the forests of the upper Amazon, or
eaten by cannibals, is the fate of Dr.
Hamilton Rice, of Harvard University,
whose work as an explorer has attracted
world-wide attention.
His friends hope that he has merely
been delayed by great difficulties of
travel in the unexplored country, but fear
that he may have fallen a victim of the
savagery of the inhabitants.
On Christmas day, a letter written by
Dr. Rice in September, detailing some of
the difficulties of his latest exploring ex
pedition, was received by the geograph
er's brother - in Boston. Since then his
friends in this and other cities have been
expecting dally to hear of his arrival at
Manaos. on the Amazon, the nearest
point from which there is cable commu
nication. Dr. Rice, who is a fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society and member, of the
Bqciete de Geographic of Paris, left Bo
gota, Colombia, July 17, 1907. for his 1500
mile journey through unexplored coun
try. Knew Dangers of Journey.
Ha had just returned from an expedi
tion with Dr. Hiram Bingham, a dis
tinguished South American explorer, to
the head-waters of the Orinoco. - The trip
an which he started had been fully
planned in advance, and he was perfectly
.ware of the dangers he was likely to
encounter from savage animals and still
Inore savage men.
"I expect to reach Manaos not later
than November 15," he said to Dr.
Bingham, as they parted at Bogota.
"I shall cable you as soon as I arrive
there, and if you do not hear from me
toy November 30, you may give me up
as having been eaten."
Dr. Rice referred to the fate of
Nestor Reyes, brother of the President
of Colombia, who was killed and eaten
by cannibal Indians on a similar trip.
Explorer of Reputation.
On Christmas day, 1906, as Dr. Rice
and Dr. Bingham dined together in
Caracas, they discussed the Reyes ex
pedition, and Dr. Rice said, perhaps
prophetically: "I wonder if I will suf
fer a similar fate before another
Christmas."
Dr. Bingham said that he received no
word from Dr. Rice. He had been hop
ing to hear eomething ever since the
date set by his friend and companion,
and he is now greatly worried by the
absence of definite Information.
Dr. Rice, who comes of a well-known
New England family, was graduated
from Harvard in 1S98. Before his grad
uation he joined a polar expedition and
won fame in the exploration of Spits
bergen. He took his medical degree in
1891 from the Harvard Medical school.
Soon after this he made his first jour
ney to South America, making a trip
from Quito over the Cordilleras to the
Napo River, a tributary of tne Amazon.
It was in recognition of his work on
this occasion that he obtained the fel
lowship of the Royal Geographical So
ciety. EDUCATE THE NEGROES
Southern Educational Association
Adopts Strong Resolutions.
LEXINGTON. Ky., Dec. 28. The most
Important action of the Southern Edu
cational Association, which closed its
eighteenth annual session here today,
came at the last moment before ad
journment, when the committee on
resolutions presented the following
strong resolutions on negro education,
which were adopted unanimously:
"W endorse the accepted policy of
the states of the South in providing
facilities for the youth of the negro
race, bellevlngthat whatever the ulti
mate solution of this grievous problem,
may be, education must be an impor
tant factor in that solution.
"We believe that the education of the
negro in the elementary branches of
education should be made thorough and
should include specific instruction in
hygiene and home sanitation, for the
better protection of both races.
"We believe that in the secondary
education of negro youths emphasis
should be placed upon Industrial, in
cluding nurse training, domestic
science and home economics. We be
lieve that for practical, economical and
physiological reasons negro teachers
should be provided for negro schools."
ONE DEAD, FOUR ARE HURT
Train No. 23 Wrecked in Oklahoma.
Another May Die.
DUNCAN. Okla.. Dec. 28. Henry White,
engineer, was killed and two mailclerks
and two express-messengers Injured,
when Rock Island passenger train No. 23,
a double-header, was wrecked near here
this afternoon. Otto Koonty, of Kansas
City, assistant baggageman, may die.
Engineer White's two children were
burned to death when tire destroyed hi
residence in Fort Worth a few weeks
ago.
UNITE TO LEGALIZE POOLING
Shippers and Railroads Want Sher
man Law' Amended.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28. The railways and
powerful shipping interests are apparently
united in an effort to obtain a repeal of
the Sherman anti-trust act insofar, at
least, as it applies to traffic associations.
This fact is made apparent in a sym
posium published in the current issue of
the Railway Age ana participated in oy
railway presidents, governors, railroad
commissioners and representatives of
large shipping Interests.
Nearly every problem that Is troubling
the railroads and the shippers is touched
upon, such as the effect of the Hepburn
act. the question of, additional legislation.
the problem of state versus Federal con
trol, the effeot of recent agitation upon
ha earntnsr capacity of the railroads, the
desirability of a uniform clasul floating.
and the substitution of steam by elec
tricity as a motive power for roads.
The shippers and railway men seem to
agree that the Hepburn act has brought
some great benefits, the chief of which
is the abolition of rebates, but that it is
too soon to make a correct deduction of
the effect of the act taken as a whole.
All deplore the conflict of state and
National legislation and also agree that
the railroad interests and the shippers
are rapidly getting closer together and
are realizing that their interests are
closely interwoven.
RESIGNS AFTER LONG SERVICE
B. & O. Manager Cannot Agree With
Vice-President Potter.
BALTIMORE, Md.. Dec. 28-Jeneral
Manager Thomas Fitzgerald, of the Bal
timore & Ohio, today resigned his po
sition after a service with the road ex
tending over 4 years and embracing
nearly every position subordinate to the
general managership. The resignation is
to take effect January 1. Third Vice
President George L. Potter is to assume
the duties of the position temporarily
with his own. President Oscar G. Murray
will, however, create another position for
Mr. Fitzgerald, and retain him in the
service of the Baltimore & Ohio.
Mr. Fitzgerald's resignation is said to
have been the outcome of differences
with Mr. Potter relative to the operation
of the road. These have existed for a
long time, and became very acute today.
Appeal in Lumber Rate Case.
HELENA, Mont. Dec. 28. The'Great
Northern Railway Company today gave
notice of appeal to the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals at San Fran
cisco, in the case of the Kallspell Lum
ber Company, in- which Federal Judge
Hunt grants a temporary restraining
order preventing the railroad from put
ting Into effect a higher tariff on lum
ber shipments until tne Interstate Com
merce Commislon has passed upon the
question. Judge Hunt allowed the ap
peal. TRIES TO BUNCO BETTORS
PORTLAND WELSHER CAUGHT
IN ACT AT OAKLAND.
Edwin Wilkinson Detected While
Fleeing From Track WTlth Money,
Leaving Washers to Sports.
SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 28. (Special.)
An attempt boldly to make away with
more than $1000 received in a bookmakers'
stand that was opened today at Emery
ville resulted in the arrest of Edwin Wil
kinson and his alleged accomplice, E. S.
Grover, in what the authorities believe
was a daring effort to swindle racetrack
followers who had placed bets with them.
When captured Wilkinson was passing
the money to Grover, who was about to
make for a waiting automobile. He had
just taken in exchange from Grover a
satchel of iron washers. These, it Is
said, were to be taken by him back to
the betting ring, where assistants were to
pay off the winning bettors.
Wilkinson, who is from Portland, Or.,
came to this city on December 26 and
made all arrangements for the opening of
a book at the track. The book was
opened today, Wilkinson presiding and
having as assistants George M. Palmer
and A. B. Graham. He received bettors'
money from the first race amounting to
$1045 and left with it. This aroused the
suspicions of Palmer, who followed and
claims to have seen Wilkinson pass the
coin to Grover.
GEISHAS ORGANIZE UNION
Factional Quarrel Among Honolulu
Dancing Girls Is Ended.
HONOLULU, Dec. 2L (Special corre
spondence.) Tne Geisha girls of Honolulu
have organized a protective union in
order to prevent the cutting of rates for
dancing and entertaining. For some time
there have been two cliques among the
fair contortionists, and all Japanese town
has been entertained by the active war
fare that has been going on and the criti
cisms and disclosures made by the Gei
shas concerning each other. Now the
hatchet is burled and the fans once more
flutter harmoniously.
Ippachi, a retired Geisha, was the 'dea
ex machina that brought peace to the
warring factions, and the union was or
ganized at a tea-drinking afternoon on
the mats of her paper bungalow in Pala
ma. As a reward she was elected presi
dent of the union and the social arbiter
of Honolulu's Japaneseville. Lie union
rates for attendance at dinners and other
functions was established at Jl per hour
per Geisha.
PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
Visible in Pacific Islands and In
Southern States in This Country.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. An eclipse
of the sun will occur January 3, and
will be partially visible in the South
ern States of the United . States
and the Western Coast of North
America. Although the United
States Naval Observatory is interested
in the occurrence, none of the parties
have been sent out by the Government.
The scllpse will be total at Flint
Island. In the Pacific, and will be ob
served by a party from Lick Observa
tory in charge of Professor W. W.
Campbell, who already have been con
veyed there from Tahiti, aboard the
United States ship Annapolis. In the
United States the eclipse will be visible
just about sunset, and its duration
will be short.
SHOOTS TO AVOID ARREST
Italian Wanted for Murder Wounds
Arresting Officer.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. While Police
Lieutenant Rocoo Cavanl and two other
New York detectives were attempting to
arrest Nicolo Bonnano, an alleged mur
derer, of Klngaland, N. J.. Bonnano shot
Cavanl and then himself. Lieutenant
Cavant is not thought to be fatally hurt,
but Bonnano probably will die.
The police had been searching for Bon
nano to arrest him on a charge ,of having
killed Mariano Calti during a row in
East Twenty-eighth street on last Christ
mas day. Cavanl and his two compan
ions, who had traced the fugitive to
Kingsland, found Bonnano as he was
about to board a train at the railroad
station there this morning.
CHARMED EX-PR ESI DENT
Dr. Thomas M. Gatch, ex-presldent
of the Oregon Agricultural College, un
der whose able guidance this popular
school has grown into one of the most
Important institutions In the entire
West, called at E tiers Piano House yes
terday, and after carefully investigat
ing matters, wrote out his check jr
one of their superb Metrostyle Themo
dist Pianola Pianos, which will be
shipped to bis home at Corvallis In a
few Oslvs.
WILL. SML FOR RIO
Fleet Starts Today on Second
Stage of Voyage;
ALL SHIPS SPICK AND SPAN j
Have Drilled With ' Big Guns and
Torpedoes While at Port of Spain.
Keen Interest in the Brown-son-Rixey
Row.
PORT OF SPAIN, Dec. 28. The Ameri
can fleet will sail for Rio Janeiro tomor
row morning, probably at an. early hour,
although the exact hour has not been
signalled by the Admiral. The battle
ships have been cleaned up and given
final preparations . for the long voyage
and are now looking spick and span. The
engines, the boilers and all the machinery
have been overhauled and everything is
in first-class condition for the trip.
Rear-Admiral Evans, on his flagship,
Connecticut, accompanied by the Ala
bama, the flagship of Rear-Admiral
Sperry, the Illinois, the Kearsarge and
the Kentucky, steamed out into the Gulf
this morning to adjust compasses.
They returned about noon. During the
stay of the fleet in port considerable time
has been devoted to Important drills with
the big and small guns, torpedo and tor
pedo defenses.
The news of the Naval controversy in
the United States, which has been cabled
here, and in which Surgeon-General Rixey
and Admiral Brownson figured promi
nently, is exciting interest among the of
ficers of the fleet, but they refuse to ex-,
press publicly their views regarding it.
MAKE MANY PLANS AT RIO
Preparations Toward Entertainment
of Officers of Fleet.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 28. As the day
for the arrival here of the American
battleships under Rear Admiral Evans
approaches, Interest in the festivities
that will be given in honor of the Amer
ican officers increases. The preparations
are now almost entirely completed.
President Penna will entertain all the
American Admirals, a number of the of
ficers and Irving B. Dudley, the Ameri
can Ambassador, at a dinner to be given
at the Presidential Palace in Petropolls.
The Minister of Marine will invite the
Admirals, the commanders and other of
ficers to a "promenade lunch" on Cor
covado, two miles from Rio. and the
Naval Club will offer a similar enter
tainment at the Tijuca Park. 1
On January 13 Mr. Dudley will give a
reception in honor of the American of
ficers at his residence in Petropolls.
CHINESE WILL RETALIATE
Bring Suit in Canada for $500 Dam
ages, Each, for False Arrest.
SYDNEY. N. S., Deo. 28. Further
developments are expected as the out
come of the recent arrests here of 18 Chi
nese who were charged with evading the
immigration laws by entering Canada
from Newfoundland without paying the
head tax. -The Chinese were fined, but
appeals were taken and the matter final
ly settled in the Supreme Court at Hali
fax, where the Chinese were discharged
and their fines, aggregating $1800, remit
ted. Now counsel for the Chinese have
notified the customs officials here that
proceedings will be brought by the Chi
nese, each of the 18 arrested claiming $500
damages for false imprisonment.
INVASION OF GUATEMALA
Force Recruiting in British Hon
duras, It Is Reported.
PUERTO CORTEZ. Honduras. Dec.
28. An expedition is being organized at
Belise. British Honduras, for the purpose
of making an armed invasion of Guate
mala, according to advices received here,
and General Lee Christ-mas, formerly of
Memphis, Tenn., who has recovered from
his wound, received last July during the
war between Nicaragua and Honduras, Is ,
Tecruiting a iorce at ruerto .Barrios, an
Atlantic port of Guatemala.
Pensions for Oregon Applicants.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Dec. 28. Congressman W. R.
Ellis has been informed by the Pen
sion Bureau that the pension claims of
the following citizens of Oregon have
been allowed:
Lewis M. Van De "Water, Free-water; Bal
timore Howard, Mautieur; William W. Lath
am, Hammond; William Daugherty, Susan
vllle: Ephralm J-. Hackett, Baker City; Cyrus
A. Allen, The Dalles; Giles O. Parman, La
Grande; Thomas H. Heed, Orient; Daniel W.
Golt, Lamonta; Edwin W. Mumford, Kamela;
Martin Smith, KingKley: George B. Arbogast.
Adams; Columbus Weed! Veronla; James H.
Wilson. Troutdale; Robert McD. Grant, and
Joseph C. Davl. Astoria, and Francis L.
Parker, James Handley. Silas H. Stewart,
William M. Nelbarger. Edwin McCoy. Charles
F. Gould. William M. Manning. Lucius W.
Brown, James H. Bwlng, George West, of
Portland. Following under February 6, 1907
act: James M. Teates. Portland. Or.; Frank
Hummel. Portland; William Wlntermantel,
The Dalles; George Parke, Portland; Jere
miah C. Gordon, Pilot Bock; John H. Woode,
Troutdale; Blnehart C. Paul, Portland;
Chauncey W. Halsey, FosbII, and Oscar Hart,
Portland. Under act June 27, 1890.: Mrs.
Isabel S. Dodd. Portland.
Indicted for Conspiracy.
EL PASO, Tex., Dea 28. R. Flores Ma
gon, Antonio Villareal and Librado Riv
era, just ordered extradited from Los An
geles to Arizona, were Indicted at Tomb
stone. Ariz., today on the charge of con
spiracy to raise military expeditions
against Mexico.
Mag-on was head of the revolutionary
junta in the United States at St. Louis,
and Villareal his chief lieutenant. Villa
real escaped a year ago from jail in El
Paso.
Would Inconvenience Shipping.
ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 28. (Special.)
After appointing a special committee to
investigate the plan of moving the office
of the Federal quarantine officer to Fort
Stevens, the Astoria Chamber of Com
merce has adopted resolutions opposing
the proposed change. Copies of these
resolutions have been forwarded to Sen
ators Fulton and Bourne.
Objections to removal of the station are
based on the ground that ' It would be
an inconvenience to shipping interests.
Should Enter Politics.
SPRINGFIELD, III., Dec. 28. In a
statement given out today J. H. Walker,
of Danville, president of the United Mine
Workers of Illinois, advises miners to
enter politics. He attacks the state leg
islature for holding up legislation which
he says would decrease the number at
fatalities in, mines.
ONI
CHAIRS
AND ROCKERS
$16.00 Mission Rock
KOCK-
.$8.00
weath-
$22 Rocker in
er uphois
stered in
leather. .
solid ma
hogany. .
$9.50 Mahogany Fin
ished Rocker
$30 Settee In weath
ered oak,
leather seat
.$15.00
Oak Ro-uphols-
$13.00
chased
leather
. seat
and back.
$26 Golden Oak Ro
man Chair, uphols
$15 Mahogany
er, loose
silk velour -cushions
tered In
$9.00 Oak Armchair
$11 Reception Chair
or Rocker,
saddle
seat
in marog
any fin
ish BUFFETS
$S6.50 Buffet in genu
ine mahogany,
now,;
$53.53 quarter-sawed
gold'en oak
Buffet
$43.75
$26.75
$21.75
$24.00
$47.50
$18.75
$32.50
$43 Buffet, leaded glass
doors, finished early
English, now. . ...... .
$43 quarter-sawed
weathered oak
Buffet
$95 Buffet in quarter-sawed
gold
en oak
$37.50 Buffet In gold
en or weathered
oak
$65.00 weath
ered oak
Buffet
We Are
Headquarters
for Office
Furniture
Come In and
Get Our Prices
by Ross. Very nearly one-half the in
come of the building, therefore, goes to
Ross, which affords him a comfortable
living. He holds 100 shares in his own
name, 24 in the name of a brother-in-law,
Nathan Coy, 24 in that of another
brother-in-law, W. W. Reid. and three
in the name of A. A. Lindsley. Up to
last June Ross held all the stock of the
building. Then he conveyed 152 shares
of the building to the Title Bank, in ex
change for shares of the Title Bank,
maki.s a handsome margin by the tran
saction. The building was bought in 1902 from
the United States Mortgage & Trust Com
pany by the Commercial Trust Company,
which Ross organized for the purpose.
The price was $140,000, and Ross gave a
mortgage for $125,000 to the United States
Mortgage & Trust Company.
The sum of $25,000 has been paid on the
mortgage, so that it will be seen that
Ross obtained the building for $40,000.
Now he considers it worth $400,000, if the
mortgage were paid. That the money for
this whole transaction came out of the
Title Company . there is no doubt. For
this reason, and also because of Ross'
responsibility for the wreck, he will be
called upon to give over to the bank his
remaining i"iVt per cent interest in the
building.
Another Big Holding.
Another property which will be de
manded of Ross is his three-fifths interest
In the Ladd-Ross tract at Mount Tabor.
His share is worth about $20,000. On
August 31. 1907, this tract, owed the Title
bank $58,973. Ross and W. M. Ladd then
divided this debt between them, Ross'
share being $31,913.16, for which he gave
his note to the Title bank; Ladd's being
$27,060.07, which sum Ladd credited on the
$725,000 note of the Title bank in Ladd &.
Tilton, therefore paying no money into
the Title bank.
On November 2, during the legal holi
days, Ross, knowing his bank was about
to fail, had himself credited on his note
for $31,913.18 with $16,793.25. by turning
over balances in his name and others
which 'together with a credit previously
made, reduced the note to $14,478.
Receiver Hears has demanded of Ross
that he restore to the bank the credits
allowed him November 2.
Ross' interest in the Ladd-Ross tract,
therefore, created the debt which he
owes the bank, and it seems -just that
he turn over that Interest to the bank.
Ladd & Tilton found the bank a rich
producer also. In less than seven months
of the present year, beginning April 15,
the Title. Guarantee & Trust Bank made
the following payments to Ladd & Tilton:
April 15, payment on $725,000 note
dated January SI, 105 $ 70,500.17
April 15, payment on $15,000 note
dated October 26. 1906 15.000.00
April 15, interest on "big note",. 49,000.00
April 15. Interest on "little note" 5.71)4.16
August 31, payment on "big note" 22,233.97
August 31. Interest on "big note" 4.826.10
November 2. payment 26,000.00
Total $193,363.40
Paid on "Big" Note.
On August 16, 1905, the Title bank 'paid
$25,000 on the big note. The note now
amounts to $607,000.
It will be observed that on August 31,
1907, the Title bank paid Ladd & Tilton
$27,060.07. This was the precise sum which
on that date was W. M. Ladd's share of
the debt . of the Ladd-Ross tract to the
Title bank, and was paid by Ladd to the
Title bank. Ladd owed the Title bank
the sum mentioned and the Title bank
owed the same sum to Ladd & Tilton.
Ladd drew a check on his bank for the
ROSS' OWN NEST -WELL
FEATHERED
(Continued from First Pag-.-)
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In Which to Take Advantage of This Gigantic Sale
V2 OUR STOCK AT Vz PRICE
$11.00
$4.75
Rock-
JT.50
Chair
$5.50
DAVENPORTS
$105 Mahogany
Finished Dav
enport, now. . .
$52.50
Davenport,
$31.75
$41.75
$44 Folding Dav
enport, golden
oak frame
$38 Bed Daven
port, golden
oak frame
$63.50 Mission Davenport,
loose leatner
$83.50 Mahogany
$82.50 Bed Dav
enport, carved
oak frame
Flnisned Dav
enport -.
PARLOR PIECES
$85 3-piece Mahogany Par
ar-
lor suit, uplioi
stcred in
Panne
$42.50
$105 3-piece Mahogany Par
lor spit, upnoi
stered in
Verona
$52.50
$16 Roman Seat, finished
finished
$8.00
eat, ma-
goio, upnoi
sttred seat
$5.00
in mahog
any finish
$82.50 Window Seat,
hogany uphol
stered in silk
velour
$113 Parlor Cab
inet, in Vernis
Martin
$33.50 Vernis
Martin
Rocker
$41.25
$55.00
$16.75
$13.50
any RocKer,
wood
seat
$11
in quar
tered oak. . . . .
$25.00
$150.00 3-piece Gold Suit,
upholstered tfTC flfl
in tapes- J3.UU
mahogany,
flag
seat
$20 Mahogany)
$45 Bent Glass
Mahogany
Cabinet .'. .
$22.50
Itnisnea
settee
sum and credited It in his bank on the
debt of the Til le bank.
That the officers of the dead bank will
be prosecuted is the opinion of A. M.
Crawford, Attorney-General of Oregon,
who was In Portland yesterday on his
way to Washington, to argue the Oregon
side of the controversy over the State
boundary Una at the mouth of the Co
lumbia River. - Said he, when asked if
an example would be made of the officers
for misappropriation of the school fund:
"There is no question about It. Some
body will be made to suffer for the loss
of the school money. The law plainly
says that no person shall invest or lend
the school fund, as the officers of the
Title bank did. Only the State Land
Board can do that. The school fund is
under its sole control.
Held Fund In Trust.
"The school money was deposited in
the bank only for safe-keeping. It is a
trust fund, declared such by the Consti
tution, the statutes and the Courts. The
bank officers knew the money belonged
to the school fund. They marked It in
their books as 'educational fund.' They
knew also, or should have known, that
the law declares it a felony for any per
son to handle that money as they did.
"There will be no let-up in the demand
for prosecution of the bank's officers. W.
C. Bristol, attorney for the American
Surety Company, and special counsel for
the State, knows this to be the will of
the Surety Company and will force pro
ceedings along that line."
Indictments Next Week?
If Indictments shall be brought, they
will bo filed next week. District Attorney
Manning is considering the matter and
says the Indictments will probably be
made. The bank officers involved are W.
M. Ladd, F. M. Warren, J. Thorburn
Ross, George H. Hill, T. T. Burkhart and
J. A. Aitchlson. -
Officers of the surety company have
said that they are resolved to stay with
the business until they have put the men
in prison who tampered with tht school
fund. The - urety company will endeavor
to do more it will fight to have the
school money declared a trust fund, to be
a preferred credit, and to be paid dollar
for dollar, like other trust funds in the
bank, which were made whole before the
failure. The school money in the bank
amounted to $288,000. Should the bank
pay only 50 cents on the dollar. It will be
seen that the surety company will have a
large sum of money by winning its fight.
Succeeds State's Interest.
The surety company has succeeded to
the claims of the state, through having
indemnified the state according to bond.
Prosecution of the bank officers will not
be based alone on the law of the last
legislative session, making it a felony
for them to receive deposits when they
knew their bank insolvent, but also on
the laws prohibiting tampering with the
school fund. . -
BABIES AT CUT PRICES
As announced on page 3, section
2, of this issue, Eilers Piano House
is showing this coming week tho
largest stock of - high grade Baby
Grands and Parlor Grand pianos ever
seen in the West, The fact of the
matter is the firm is overstocked with
grand pianos. While many of them were
ordered during the Summer months, de
lays in selection and shipment prevented
their arrival in time to participate to
any extent in the holiday trade. Only
during the last week six carloads of
Chickerings alone were unloaded at the
big Washington-street establishment and
their wholesale warehouse on Thirteenth
and North rup.
Now is the time to buy Baby Grand
pianos. Uprights will be accepted in part
payment at fair valuation. It Is not so
much a question of making profit in this
sale of Baby Grands, as It is of turning
the goods. If you have a home that
ought to have a grand piano you can
afford now to secure the ultimate desire
of every discriminating musician a
Chlckering, a Sohmer, a Lester, a modern
Kirnball, or even a Weber Art Grand
piano at Eilers Piano House.
DAYS
$28.50 6
tax exten
sion Table,
now
$38
sawea oas
Table,
now ..... .
$30.00 6
ter sawed
oak Ta
ble $59 8-foot
oak pedes
tal Ta
ble $22.00
$19.00
$41.25
$66 Stationary
upholstered
in leath
er $125 Genuine
Mahogany
Davenport. . . .
$77.50 Mission
Davenport
in leather
Davenport.
$33.00
$62.50
$38.75
$29 Parlor Cab
inet, mahog
any finish
$180 3-piece Ma
hogany Fin
ished Suit. . . .'.
CHAIRS AND
ROCKERS
$17.."0 Vernis Mar
tin Parlor
Table
Parlor Chair
ii tL i r
$2.50
$45 Curio Cabi
net in Ver
nis Martin. . . .
Large Mahog
ilahog-
.$6.15
Chair
$12.50 Vernis Mar
tin Reception
Chair
$22.50 Mahog
any Rocker,
flag seat
$15 Mahogany
Rocker, loose
cushion seat. .
Reception Chair
.$5.50
air in
Armchair in
$12.50
$33.50 Mahogany
Finished Par
lor Cabinet
$19.50 Saddle Seat,
Mahogany
Rocker
$10.00
RUMORS START RUN ON BANK
AT FERNIE.
Circulars Scattered About Town
Bring Miners on Run for De
posits When Boors Open..
VANCOUVER. B. C, Dec. 28. (Spe
cial.) A printed circular, spread broad
cast over the city of Fernie last night,
precipitated a bank run this morning
that created momentary excitement
from one end of Canada to the other.
Fernie, is a mining town in the Crows'
Nest pass, and hundreds of the depos
itors in the Canadian Bank of Com
merce, on which the run occurred, are
foreigners, very easily excited. The
circular declared that the directors of
the bank, chiefly Toronto men, had lost
$10,000,000 in the Wall-street panic anS
that the bank was several millions
short of being solvent.
The miners did not wait to consider
that their money must be as certain as
the government of the country and
hastened to the bank. Some reached
there before daylight and fought for
position. Many excited scenes occur
red before the opening.
The bank was busy all day paying
out funds, and is open again this even
KOXttaa
LENNON'S
FIRST ANNUAL
CLEARANCE SALE
High-grade Gloves, Umbrellas, Ho
siery three items of interest to
women. Sale commencing
MONDAY,
$4.00 AND $4.50 LONG KID GLOVES $2.19
16-button length Pique Kid Gloves, in gray, sLses 6
to 7; red and plum, sizes 5 to 7; tan cape pique,
sizes 5 to 61,4. Regular $4.00 and CJO 1Q
$4.50 Gloves, on sale p&iy
$3.50 UMBRELLAS $1.69
Women's 26-inch silk tape-edge Union Taffeta Um
brellas, guaranteed waterproof; reinforced paragon
frames, new style runner; beautiful assortment of
handles, comprising pearl, ivory, sterling silver,
filled gold, gunmetal, natural woods; jt fQ
regular $3.50 Umbrellas, on sale plJf
"Women 's fine quality Embroidered Lisle, re- O O
inforced soles; reg. 75c Stockings, on sale. .
25c BOYS AND GIRLS' STOCKINGS 19
Children 's . Wayne-knit fine and heavy-ribbed best
cotton Hose, in brown and black; also infants' fine
Cashmere Hose, all colors; regular 25c IQt
Stockings, on sale ly C
Headquarters for Kayser's Patent
i Reinforced Silk Hose.
MORRISON
STREET
MO
RE
EXTENSION TABLES
- foot pedes
pedes-
(14.25
$25 6 - foot
Oak pedes
tal Table,
sq. top
golden
$12.50
8-foot quarter
$19.00
it quar-
$15.00
eathered
$29.50
$33.0) 8-foot golden
o a k extension
Table,
square
top .
$16.50
- foot quar
$69.00 8-foot golden
oak pedestal
r $34.50
weathered
$14.50
$90.00
.$8.75
$22.50
$6.25
$11.25
..$7.50
$16.75
DRESSERS AND
CHIFFONIERS
$26 Dressing Ta
ble in quarter
sawed oak
$29 Chiffonier
oak or ma
hogany $13.
00
50
$14.
$16.50 Mahogany
F i n-
Ished Dress
. ing Ta
ble 25
e r,
25
00
26.50 Princess Dress
u i e a D
$13.
$35j
$16.
oak, mahosany
or birds
eye $70 Chiffonier
in blrdseye
maple
$33.00 Princess
Dresser In ma
hogany $9.75
50
Anticipate
Your Needs
Buy Now
and Save
One Hall
ing, handing over the currency. Other
branches- of tho bank are making large
shipments to Kernie by express. An
official denial of the allegations in the)
mysterious circular was macJte in Van
couver. An interesting fact in connection with
the incident is that Senator CJox, Robert
Jaffray, Ellas Rogers and other To
ronto millionaires are, with President
Hill, of the Great Northern, barge hold
ers of stock In the Crows'- Nest coal
mines at Fernie.
-
SUPPORT TO SMAX.lt SUMS '
Lumbermen's Association Promises
to Give Them Flna ncial Aid.
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 28. (Special.)
At a meeting held by representatives
of the biggest lumber ivnd milling con
cerns in Washington tonight it was
deoided that the Lumb ermen's Associa
tion take upon itself to give financial
support to those mills which are fac
ing bankruptcy as the result of the
stagnation due to tle new rate made
by the railroads. Another matter dis
cussed at length was the threat of the
railroads to remove branch tracks
which run into smAll mills unless the
mills resume operations and ship lum
ber. It was declared at the meeting
that the railroads, have been gruilty of ;
charging the rate prohibited by tha .
injunction granted by Federal Judge)'
Hanf ord. The railroads, however, say j
that if this has been done it was so '
soon after the court proceedings that ,
the agents in the small towns had not
been Instructed wliat to do. !
ft
DECEMBER 30
etmons
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