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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAXD. JANUARY 5, I90S. 11 EVERY ARTICLE IN THE HOUSE FALLS UNDER THE BAN OF THE CLEARANCES-PRICES CUT HALVED QUARTERED The Same Original Tickets on Every Article ' The Sale Prices Are All Plainly Written . IN THE Metropolitan Jewelry te! 4 V "V 8-inch Cut Glass Bowls, fine clean cut, Apollo pattern; a special $7.50 value; the now clearance price S3.65 $10.00 Ormolu Clocks, warranted perfect timekeepers; one to a customer at, each . . . $4.75 33 1-3 clearance reduction on all our highest grade Silver Table Ware, including the cele brated 1847 Rogers Bros., Holmes & Ed wards and Wm. A. Rogers. TAGS DON'T MAKE VALUES They are attractive to the mind's eye of a child, but they don't lend color to the quality or sincerity to the value of a piece of Furniture. ' The worst hindrance to this world's progress is lack of reason. It's a simple thing the selling of merchandise cheap; it's "a. terrible snag the inspiring reason for such selling. Our reason is now consigned to necessity. "We must effect a clearance of these massive stocks and the time is short. "We must sell the goods; we care not what the price. Come Monday to this won derful store of greater values. Select what you will; pay us half and in many instances even a quarter the regular " ' ' Out-of-Town Patrons, Mail Us Your Orders Early CLEARANCE IN THE Basement .Sections Save Half and Over on the Every -Day Needs. $2.50. Parlor Stand Lamps.?1.15 $2.00 Parlor Stand Lamps.$1.05 AIL in neat ana nanasonie deco rations.) Kitchen Lamp with No. 1 Burn er . . 15 (Regular 25c value.) Best $1.50 Tea Kettles . 85 $1.50 Jardinieres . . S5 35c Crockery Cuspidors .... 15 A hundred other striking basement specials. SPEND HALF THE MONEY YOU INTENDED FOR EVEN GREATER VALUES SAVE ON THE DININGROOM FIT INGS, 12 AND OVER No. 601 Regular $30.00 China Cabinet; clear ance ....... ?16.50 No. 601 Golden Oak China Closet, regular $50.00; clearance . . . .. 29.50 No. 502i Weathered Oak China Closet, regu lar $22.50; clearance. .$10.50 No. 805 Regular $75.00 China Closet; clear , ance .. $39.50 No. 826 Regular $85.00 China Cabinet; clear ance .$45.00 No. 608 Regular $90.00 Sideboard; clear ance ; .$59.00 No. 12 8-foot Extension Dining Table, regu lar $70.00; clearance : $35.00 Buffets, Sideboards, Tables, Chairs, etc. All at clearance of one-half and greater. ilil Office Desks Must Go Seventy-Five Separate Styles at About Half No. 562 Desk with Typewriter attachments, regular $100.00; clearance .,.....$55.00 No. 60 Regular $125.00 Desks; clearance ....$65.00 No. 51 50-inch Desk, regular $85.00; clearance ...... .$42.50 No. 207 Regular $60.00 Desk; clearance ......... . $31.00 No. 60 Regular . $42.50 Desk; clearance .". .$22.50 Flat-top Desks with extra drawers. .UNDER HALF Regular $30.00 Desks; clearance. . . . . . .. . . . . . .... .$14.50 Regular $15.50 Desks ; clearance. . . . . .... $7.50 MEN Buy Desks Now and Save Over, ONErHALP. PARLOR GOODS OF EVERY DE SCRIPTION MUST NOW GO No. 570 Regular $60 Goldleaf Chair; clearance $29.50 No. 63-r-ReguIar $17.50 Mahogany Ped estal; clearance .$9.00 No. 167 Regular $75.00 Settee; clear ance $25.00 No. 1651B 3-piece Mahogany Parlor Set, regular $150; clearance . .$65.00 No. 284 Regular $18.00 Mahoganv Hall Chair; clearance $8.75 No. 1041 Regular $42.50 Mahogany Parlor Chair; clearance $20.00 No, 1786 Mahogany Conversation Di i van, regular $27.50; clearance $13.50 No. 47--Parlor Divan, regular $42.50; clearance.'. . 500 equally remarkable Parlor Clearance Specials. $20.00 Read of These Marvelous Values Taken From Here and There About the Store No. 41 Reerular $15.00 Cellarette; clearance $6.50 No. 412 Regular $40.00 Dressing Table; clearance. 21.00 Keiilar $5.00 Hall Chairs. .: $2.95 No. 216 Regular $45 "Corner Wardrobe; clearance. $22.50 No". 808 Ladies' $12.00 Desk; clearance 6.50 Regular $1.50 Oak Tabourette; clearance 50 No. 22 Regular $2.75 Mahogany Tabourette; clearance......... k ; Sj5i.25 Nothing Reserved, Every Article in the House Tremendously Reduced Carpets, Draperies, Curtains, Mattings, Etc., Now at a Saving of Valuable Worth Kich Imported Oriental Carpets, Drapes, Curtains, etc., for the luxury and beautifying of every home. The poor man's salary is now a millionaire's income. It is a question of money to you of clearance to us. Buy while the prices are lowest even to the half and the under half. Even to absolute and immense loss of money to this house. Whatever you may need, now or in the future, buy now. Save" one-half and greatly more than half on every purchase.-. 1000 Other and Even Greater Values Oregon's Largest and Best Furniture House & first . ON YAMHILL second A Store Full of Sale Surprises DISCUSS ROSE SHOW Festival Association Commit tees Meet Tuesday. PLAN A NEW CAMPAIGN Chamber of Commerce Will Invite All Large Commercial Organiza tions of United States to Par ticipate in the Celebration. Restoration of normal conditions in the financial world has led the officials of the Portland Rose Festival Associa tion to resume active work to arouse renewed public Interest In the great celebration that is to be held in Port land the first week of next June. Dur ing the weeks the financial stringency was depressing the .Pacific Northwest, the festival promoters were busy work ing out ' details of plans for luuklng the festival the most pretentious ever held in this part of the country, but little was said about It. for the reason that the public was directly concerned in the outcome of the etress in local aid Eastern money centers. . But now that the financial skies have cleared, the men behind the festival propose to go ahead with redoubled energy, and in line with this determ ination, a meeting of the ways and means, and the publicity and exploit ation committees will be held at fes tival headquarters in the Swetland building, Tuesday evening, for the pur pose of arousing widespread interest in the festival. Perhaps the most significant move In the way of making the celebration a National event is the expressed inten tion of the Portland Chamber of Com merce to invite every commercial or ganization In America to attend the" festival. The invitation, while it will be formal In tone, will give full details as to the' wide scope of the celebration, and the commercial bodies of several hundred cities will be urged to send delegates here to be guests of the fes tival organization. Most Lavish on Record. Statistics that have been prepared at festival headquarters during the past months show that there is not a city in America that has ever in the past pre pared such- a lavluh programme of amusement, entertainment and instruc tion as the Portland Rose Festival is arranging to give the city's guests dur ing the six days, June 2 to 7, and state ments will eoon be forthcoming to indi cate that for this very reason Portland people should help to make the festival the most magnificent series of spec tacles ever attempted on the Pacific Slope. The Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting, election of officers and banquet at the Hotel Portland next Wednesday evening, and at this time one or more of the speakers will Out line the plans for the rose show and urge general co-operation with the association. Invitations to bring several National conventions here for the first week of June have already been sent out, so that the transcontinental railroads may be Induced to offer special low rate from the East for tourists at that time. T. G. Hailey, president of the Oregon State Bar Association, has invited the state bar associations of every state in the United States to come here during the festival, and the in vitation has also been extended to the American Bar Association. If the association is able to offer suf ficient inducements to ' bring other Na tional, Northwestern, or Coast conven tions here, reduced rates will be assured on all lines running into Portland. Admen Are Interested. R. M. Hall, president of the Pacific Coast Admen's League, in an interview, last night, declared that the Northwest ern delegates to the coming convention to be held in Oakland, Cal., will work to a man in the Interests of the Portland Rose Festival. This aggregation of "live wires'' will hold its annual Summer ses sion in Portland, Festival week, and ex ploitation literature will be distributed at Oakland when the admen meet. In order to reach the newspapers of the state, the Festival Association will send lay delegates to the session of the Oregon State Editorial Association, which meets here January 17 aild 1. and the editors and publishers of Oregon will be urged to assist in the broad advertising cam paign that will be necessary if the affair Is to be the big success hoped for. Confe'derate veterans of the Northwest, representing all Coast and Inter-Mountain states, have already voted through their "executive committee, In a meeting held at Bozeinan, Mont., last week, to meet here while the Festival is on, and an endeavor will be made to have these veterans of the South entertained by the Grand Army organisations of this sec tion while they are in the city. L. C. Garrigus, of this city, who is on the staff of General Fusz, commander of the Northwestern Department of the. Con federate Veterans, has agreed to, take charge of all arrangements for the enter tainment of the. convention. ANCIENT CASE IS DECIDED Ferry Will Case, Hanging Fire Since 186 7, Is Disposed Of. GRAND HAVEN, Mich.. Jan. 4. The Ferry will case, which has been In liti gation since the death In 1867 of William Montague Ferry, one of the first mis sionaries to the Indians in the. Mackinac Island district, has been decided by the Probate Court of Ottawa County. Ed ward P. Ferry, of Salt Lake City, as ex ecutor, is ordered to pay to the Michi gan Trust Company, of Grand Rapids, on behalf ot tne other heirs, mostly resi dents of Ottawa County, $915,355, or three fourths of the original estate. The court finds that Edward P. Ferry's accountings were not true, that the ex ecutor had not accounted for money and property, that he had misappropriated large sums, that he had become mentally incompetent and had mismanaged the es tate. One of the principal heirs was the late Thomas W. Ferry, ex-United States Senator, who presided as president pro tern in the Senate during the .famed Hayes-TUden recount. EARLY DECISION EMCTtD SXKIDEI4 LAXD-GKAXT SLIT IS KEAR ISSUE. MUSIC LESSONS FREE. ; Take advantage of Eilers special offer J. u.n.. o - -- ,j .j . 'J i j-n, aim 0,9 " styles for $248 and a four-months' course , of instruction free. As the close of sale i draws near the buying quickens. These instruments are going fast, only twenty left now. Investigate at once. Eilers Piano House, ' Washington, corner of Park. v , Metzger, jeweler, optician, 342 Wash. Federal' Court Probably "Hill Rule on Exceptions to Bill of Com plaint Tomorrow. It is expected that an important de cision will be rendered tomorrow, by Judge Wolverton, in the Federal Court, in the case of John L- Snelderf who seeks, as an actual settler, to secure possession of land included in the grant of May 4, 1870, made by Congress to the Oregon & California Railway. The decision will be on the bill of excep tions filed by the counsel of the (rail road to the plaintiff's bills of com plaint, by which he seeks to compel the company to sell the land for $2.50 an acre, as provided in- the grants under which the present fight for the possession of the railroad lands in Ore gon is being 'made. This is the first case in the land fight to come to an issue In the court. The decision will be an- important step in the procedure, as the railroad must file either an answer or a demurrer if the exceptions are overruled. It is ex pected that an answer will be filed, which would indicate that the case may come to actual trial within the next three months. ' Mr. Sneider, who "Is represented by A. W. Lafferty, as counsel, was the first to begin proceedings to force the Oregon & California to sell land in the Congressional grant for $2.50 an acre. His suit was filed September 16, and was followed in the same manner by seven others. The suits are not alone . against the Oregon & California, but also include as de fendants the 'Union Trust Com pany, of New York, and S. T. Gage, of San Francisco, each of whom is inter ested in the land grants. The Sneider case is regarded as a test of the set tlers' rights, and each step will be anx iously watched by hundreds of citizens throughout the state, who hope to en force - the (conditions under whidh the land grants were made. The suits of Sneider and other set tlers are entirely independent of the in vestigation of the land grants that the Government is making, and of the suit against the railroad, which the Federal authorities are expected to file. Work of the Government toward this end Is now in the hands of -Judge Percy Becker, of Buffalo, who was recently appointed counsel by the Attornoy-General. Through Special Agent Townsend, who spent several months In Oregon, the Attorney-General is in close touch with the conditions of land-grant litigation. It is understood that Judge Becker is soon to come to this state, and tt is believed that the Government will then file suit to recover the land Included in the grants or to compel the railroads to sell to actual settlers for $2.50 an acre. . ' The case of the Government would not necessarily be affected by the - de cision in the suits filed by actual set tlers. The Oregon & California is real ly being attacked from two sources, and victory of either would have the effect of compelling the sale of the land for $2.50 an acre or, at least, restoring it to the Government and ultimately to entry and settlement. $400 . PIANOST NOW $264 High-grade instruments, made toy one of America's most reliable manufac turers. The remainder of eight carloads only twenty Instruments now .left, and the closing bargains of one of the most meritorious special offerings we have made in many months. . Free four months' course of music lessons Included. Two dollars a week will pay the cost. Do not delay. Eilers Piano House, Park and Washington streets. More Transcontinental Trains. Three trans-continental trains over the Canadian Pacific Railway daily over the main line and an additional train into Spokane from St. Paul over, the Boo and Canadian Pacific lines will be put on late In May or early in June and will con tinue until next Winter. The roadbed Is now being put - in first-class shape to carry the traffic. The Spokane train will handle through cars from Portland to the Twin Cities, via Spokane on a fast schedule. It is expected that cars out of Portland will be handled by the Canadian line by , March 1. Hurt in Runaway. EUGENE,' Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) J. W. Hobbs, Deputy Internal Revenue Inspector, was painfully, though not seriously hurt by his team running away while on his way hunting yes terday evening. He was thrown from hi rig and a bad gash cut in the top of his head and several ribs bruised and wrenched. BORROW " WHOLE THEATER STAGEHANDS IX SEATTLE GIVE EARLY MATINEE. pay his way in and seeing the size of (the house rushed for the box office, but he was too late. Tie was angry at first, but now regards the affair a huge joke. The receipts were spent in a ban - quet for the promoters of the scheme. Hold Tp the Owner for Price of Ad mission and Spend Proceeds ' in Big Banquet. SEATTLE, Waj!h., Jan. 4. (Special.) It happened New Tear's eve, but the story has just leaked out and the joke is on Alex Pantages, proprietor of two theaters in Seattle and numerous other playhouses in the Northwest. Filled .with enthusiasm and other things, a dozen or more stage hands, actors and .musicians, working in the Pantages theaters, conceived the Idea early in the morning of January 1, of giving a matinee. They opened the playhouse, turned on the lights, and after placing a man at the door and one in the ticket office, the rest lined up in the guise of patrons. In a few minutes a hundred or more rolsteiers were in line and a few minutes later a very . barnstormy show was being produced to. a house worth more than $100. -.-' Pantages was notified by telephone. He came in an automobile and had to DIVORCE OX THE DECLINE Cupid More Successful With His ' Work in Lewis County.' CENTRALIA, Wash.. Jan. 4. (Special.) Divorce In Lewis County Is on the. de cline if the records of the County Court can be depended upon. During the year 1906, 13 couples applied for a dissolution of the marriage Ues. Of tills number 37 decrees were granted,- six cases are still before the court, never having been com pleted, and two cases were dismissed. ' During the year 1907 . there were 42 divorce cases filed. Twenty-five decrees were granted. 14 are still unfinished and three cases were dismissed. Although the number of divorce cases filed in 1906 was greater than the number filed in 1907, . there were 20 more marriage licenses : issued in the latter year than in tho former. In 1906 there were 239 licenses issued and during the year just closed licenses were granted to 259 couples. The proportion f marriages to divorces -in 1906 was a trifle more than one in five. .' In 1907 was a- little more than one in six. Attend Rosenthal's great clearance sale for fine shoe bargains. THE NEW POLICIES of the COLUMBIA LIFE 6 TRUST CO. Are Ideal Life Insurance Contracts Issued by a Home Company LOW NON-PARTICIPATING RATES HIGH CASH VALUES Superior inducements offered to reliable active Agents' ' Apply to JESSE R. SHARP, Manager of Agents -214 Lumber Exchange Bldg. W. VL LADD, President THEO. B. WILCOX, Vice-Prea m io7.o