The Sunday Oregonian., February 16, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Image 33

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SECTION FOUR
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bRAMATIC
and SPORTING
A OL. XXVII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3I0RNING, FEBRUARY 1908.
NO.
GAD
FUkN
This Is the Greatest Furniture Sale in Portland Sale
10 to 50 Per Cent Note the Following Prices We
$28 Parlor Suits $14
Three pieces, solid birch frames, finished in a rich, dark mahogany
and upholstered in beautiful green velour; the retail price of these
suits is $2S.OO; we cut the price to.'. . . ..$14.00
$25 Pedestal TaBle $12.50
Look at This
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Each piece is upholstered in No. 1 velour, with frames, springs and
every detail of upholstering,' as well as the covering itself, strictly
high-grade in every particular. Gadsbys' price . $10.00
$36.00 Cabinet Folding Bed for
$18.00 for a fine Cabinet
Folding Bed, well fin
islied in golden oak;
folds twice, has tension
springs and is guaran
teed; half price $18.00
$29 Princess Dresser Reduced to
ESS!
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CONTINUES
GADSBYS'- EXTENSION TA
BLE SPECIAL ,
This handsome pedestal Exten
sion. Table is offered at this ex
tremely low price that we may
demonstrate to the buying pub
lic our ability to undersell any
furniture institution in the city.
It is solid oak throughout and
highly polished, has 42-inch top
and extends six feet ; special at
our store $12.50
Couch for $10
Princess Dresser, with,
oval or shaped French
bevel mirror; finished
golden; regular $29 value ;
special .this week .fflSMH)
OPEN SATURDAY
. EVENINGS UNTIL
NINE O'CLOCK
$19
- CS. IR.
Continues Monday Every
Guarantee to UNDERSELL
READ
THIS!
$3.o0 solid oak Arm
Rocker reduced to...
$1.50 Dining Chairs
reduced to. i . ,
$5 Parlor Tables re
. duced to.
$,".00 Iron Beds re
duced to
$2.50
$1.00
$3.50
$3.75
$25 Sideboards re
duced to.
$18.50
DID YOU READ THAT? READ
THIS, TOO: 50 BIRDSEYE
MAPLE BEDSTEADS
Full size, beautifully figured wood;
regular price for these beds is $13.
We are going to sell tJ r A
them this week for, ea'. .PO.Ovr
RUG SPECIALS
$33.00 Royal Axmiiister Parlor
nRo"f:'.9:.12..fe:!:.... $25.00
$35 Wilton Velvet"
Rugs, 9x12
$25 Brussels Seam
less Rugs, 9x12. . . .
$20 Brussels Rugs;
.9x12.
$15.00 Pro-Brussels
Rugs,' 9x12.. ......
$25.00
$20.00
$15.00
$12.00
Smaller or Larger Rugs Propor
tionately Reduced.
Ingram Sample Rugs, all OC
wool, one yard square. ... JO
c
Brussels Sample Rugs,
fringed ;
$1.00
CARPETS
Big Bargains in Our Carpet Dept.
Bromley's V e 1 v e ts, d -i Or
with borders y ltfaj
.Burlington Brussels,
w ith, borders. . .
Tapest ry Brussels,
with borders
$1.10
$1.20
Dunlap's Tapestry Brus- ff
seis.....: ,.yuc
Reversible Pro-Brussels
$1.00
Bi-Hsselette Carpets, i-yd. CC
wide OOC
Granite Ingrain Car
pets 50c
MAJESTIC RANGE
Malleable charcoal Iron; in baking,
, water heating, saving of fuel, last
ing qualities, it .excels all other
ranges made.
WILL NOT CRACK, RUST OR
CRYSTALLIZE
In constructing the Majestic, the
manufacturers now use charcoal iron
in place of steel. This new feature
adds 300 per cent to the life of the
range, as it resists rust and crystal
lization in any climate, a feature not
possessed, in steel.
All breakable parts are made of
malleable iron material that cannot
crack or break.
NOT CHEAPEST,
BUT LEAST EXPENSIVE
V Jfl l&Q&AlsZprhJ'x
I price
ALE
Article Reduced From
Any House in Portland.
Leader Range $29
AH are guaranteed for ton years,
i Trader Range, with high closet und
duplex c-rute, spring - balanced oven
doors.- This is a heavy, substantial and
durable rang-:, made of the best qual
ity cold -rolled steel; adapted for coal
or- wood;- oven thoroughly braced and
bolted; asbestos - lined throughout;
nickel trimmed: section plate flJOQ
top. Gadsbys' price .P?
$30 Buffet for $18
This beautiful Buffet, worth half
price $18. OO
$35 Sideboard $25
SOLID OAK SIDEBOARD
French Beveled Mirror, beautifully
carved lop. drawer lined for silver
ware: regular price $35, COC C
Gadsbys' price ipO.KJKJ
Gadsbys IMorris Chair
Made throughout of solid oak. beauti
fully ' quarter-sawed and highly pol
ished: lias full spring seat, and can be
adjusted to five different positions; the
cushions are reversible and romp In
selected patterns of velour; CS'7 TCT
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ARK BUILT BY
MOD
ill
Chinese Foretells Flood and
flaises Fund tp Build
. Great Boat.
DELUGE FAILS TO COME
Ark Is LeTt Stranded on Bank and
Prophet Departs With AVell
. Lined Purse !cver to
Keturn.
PEKIX, Feb. 15. (Special.) A new
Noah has arisen in the southwest corner
of the Chinese province of Chihli, and
has found his neighbors more credulous
than the original Noah did, to his own
great profit. According to a correspon
dent of the North China Herald, he pro
fessed to have seen visions,, and promul
gated the doctrine of a great flood, which
was due on a fixed day. He warned. the
people that the water of. a neighboring
stream, which for years in succession is
too dry for boats to use, would overflow
across the country and make a chahnol
into the Little West River, destroying
many villages and endless lives in its
course.
In anticipation of the flood, the prophet
proposed to build a huge ark, to save the
lives of the people. He knew exactly
the path of the rush of watersand col
lected large sums from those who would
be affected. Men were busy for many
days building the ark, and this seer was
chancellor of the exchequer and clerk of
works combined. When all was ready,
the' people watched anxiously the dawn
of . the terrible day. It came, it went,
but no flood and no - rain.
The river flows on its old slow way,
the channel is still unmade, the ark is
rotting on the river bank too large to be
used for any other purpose, and its in
ventor has moved on to other scenes,
whence it is surmised that he dare not
return until he can manufacture a flood
to order. He will be in no hurry, for he
has a' well-filled purse, thanks to the
ease with which he hoodwinked his neigh
bors. Some of these sold land in order to
subscribe to the fund, and now they are
trying to fight in the law courts against
an absentee defendant.
CAPTURE BOLD BRIGAND CH1K1)
lhinc.se Outlaw Successfully Eludes
Officers for Years.
PEKIX, Feb. 10. (Special.) There is
great rejoicing among ' the people of
Southwest Cltllili because of the capture
fit a. brigand chief named Sung, who lias
terrorized the country for several years.
Ho was a young man. about 30 years of
age, and. like so many Boxers who had
been guilty of serious crime in 1900, turned
brigand or pirate to avoid capture by the
officials. His daring exploits would form
a mine of treasure for writers of fiction,
and three magistrates lost their places
through failing to arrest him.
The newly organized local police force
made a brave attempt to catch him, but
his dexterous handling of four pistols
frightened them, and there were no candi
dates for martyrdom. A suad of soldiers
strong also suffered grievously at his
hands, for. when they surrounded the
den where he was hiding, he succeeded
in killing three, and there was no further
desire for a front place in the ranks, nor
for the $1000 reward offered for his head.
When, at last he boarded a boat and
looted a sum of it was decided that
something would really have to bo done,
so the Viceroy dismissed another, official,
who had been given sjx months in which
to capture him. After many futile at
tempts, a simple and not uncommon ruse
succeeded, for the brigand was enticed
into a shop by a "sworn brother," where,
on a signal, he was seized and bound, and
his head adorns the city wall on a pole.
CHIXESK PROFIT-PAYIXG ROAD
Province in Furor Over Project of
British Syndicate.
PEKING. Feb. 13. (Special.) Great in
dignation has been displayed "in the
province of Chekiang. in ways peculiar
to the Chinese, over the sanction by the
Pekin government of a loan of J7. 500,000
from a British syndicate for4the building
of the Soochow, Hangchow & Ningpo
Railway. The awakening of China has
asserted itself in many singular phases,
and one section of the people, following
the motto of. "China for the Chinese."
has turned a resolute face against the
construction of railways with any but
Chinese money, expended by Chinese en
gineers. Experience has shown that lines pro
jected on these terms make exceedingly
little progress at very great cost; but
that is a small matter. The principle is
the great thing, and if the railways re
main unbuilt well, perhaps it is so much
the better. '
Holding these views, the people of
Chekiang determined to prevent any in
troduction of foreign capital for the pro
motion of the railway through their
province. Great meetings of protest were
held, attended by many ladies this is a
new symptom and it was at first sug
gested that a boycott of British goods
should be instituted. This was aban
doned in favor of the more practical idea
of a local subscription to provide the
funds for the line. Finding that Pekin
turned a deaf ear to every entreaty, the
excited populace took to demonstrations
and threats, and their anger was par
ticularly directed towards the four men
from the province who hold high offi
cial positions at Pekin, and who were
deemed to have been passively pusil
lanimous or actively traitorous at a time
of local crisis.
Four copper statutes representing these
obnoxious officials were cast and set up
on a site near the principal railway cen
ter. The figures had the bodies of
beasts and Jhe heads of men, the inten
tion being to hold up to everlasting de
rision and contempt the men who be
trayed a trust reposed in them by their
fellow citizens. Further than that, the
names of the four were solemnly struck
from the public registers, an act which
Ueprives their children and descendants
of the privileges most valued by Chinese,
Including those connected with public
examinations for degrees.
In several cases resentment was shown
in true celestial manner by suicide, and
one T'ang Hsu, cngineer-in-chief 1 of tho
Chekiang Railways, starved himself to
death, "as a protest against the intro
duction of foreign capital for railway
construction into his province." Not con
tent with all these measures, the people
of Chekiang resolved that they would
send no representatives to the prospective
popular Assembly in Pekin, and that they
would pay no taxes whatever to the
government. The extreme penalty was
reserved for his excellency, Wuang Tahsi.
one of the hated four Chekiang officials
In Pekin, and until recently Chinese Min
ister in London. His case was deemed
to bo so bad that it could only be met
by the razing of the tombs of his ances
tors and the setting free of their spirits
to haunt him and his house forever.
So threatening did events become that
tho. authorities at Hangchow sent guards
to the various private burial grounds of
the Wuang family to. prevent any sacri
lege, and Wuang Tahsi asked to be, re
lieved of the posts of junior vice-president
of the Waiwupu and special com
missioner to England to study laws and
cohstitutions of Great Britain, in order
that he might go home and protect his
ancestral tombs. In spite of all this hub
bub, tho government has decided to sanc
tion the loan.
BARON WORKS MILK GRAFT
BIG PROFITS XJXDEK GUISE OF
PHILANTHROPY.
Competitors Force Successors of
Rothschild to Remove Obnoxious
Sign Under Penalty of Fine.
PARIS, Feb. 35. (Special.) The Tri
bunal of Commerce has decided that tho
successors to Baron Henri de Rothschild s
dairy business must remove from all the
shop signs the words, "Rothschild's
Foundation. Philanthropic Pure Milk As
sociation," under a penalty of $S daily
for every day's delay. The Milkdealers
Union, it was decided, had no action
against the Baron, who had made over
his Interests to an associate.
The plea of the Union was that under
pretext of a work of philunthropy the
baron was carrying on illegal competition
with the milkdealers. They were obliged
to take out trade licenses and to pay
taxes, which the Baron, as a philanthro
pist, escaped. It was alleged that Baron
Henri de Rothschild and his associates
bought milk at wholesale prices and re
tailed it at a great profit, that he gave
away only $1400 worth of milk per annum,
and that,-to injure the dealers, he de
nounced a numljer of -them for selling
impure milk, though the charges were dis
missed. PARIS POISON PLOT FAILS
Attempt to Kill Entire Family With
Strychnine.
PARIS, B'eb. 15. (Special.) An attempt
to poison -a .whole family with strychnine
is now exciting widespread attention in
this country, public interest in the affair
being all the greater, as some of those
principally'conierned such as M. Theo
dore t'ahu, the. writer, and his mothrr-ln-law.
Mme. Ilrbert. sister-in-law of the
Minister of that name in the r'cign of
louis Philippe arc well known In Paris.
Tho incident occurred over a week ago at
the chateau of Mme. Hebcrt, near
Evreux, following a family council which
took place before the Justice of the Peace
for Brlonne.
; On that occasion M. Caliu and his chil
dren, M. Rousseau, brother of Mine. He
bcrt, and some other friends who lunched
and dined with the mistress of the house,
a widow who has been deprived of the
management of her own property, found
that the meat served at both meals was
so bitter as to be uneatable. Indeed, it
was the lntens"e bitterness of the poison
and the look of the meat which saved the
whole parti' from .a violent and painful
death. One of the guests, who ventured
to taste it in spite o Its repulsive appear
ance, could not swallow the morsel, and,
suspecting that it was' poisoned, gave
some to a cat. which shortly afterwards
died In convulsions.
The conviction of the- whole party was
that an attempt hud bern made to poison
them witli strychnine. .there .being also a
consensus of opinion that it was the work
of a person unnamed, who had an inter
est in the death of several of those pres
ent. Separate analyses of. Hie moat by
two chemists proved that not only that
part of it which' was served at table, but
also what remained' in the pantry, had
been powdered with .strychnine crystals,
to such an extent that its very excess
prevented the food from being swallowed.
A prosecution has been instituted by M.
Calm against a person , unknown, and by
M. Rousseau, brother of Mme. Herbert,
against a man of Italian origin, now in
the service of a person interested in the
landed property of Mme. Hebert. Efforts
are being made to discover the apothe
cary who sold the poison.
BOARDERS CAUSE OF SUIT
Occupant' of Flat Finds Xo Remedy
for Troubles.
PARIS, Feb. 15. (Special.) Damages
amounting to $20,000 were asked by a
doctor here because a boarding-house had
been established in the building where he
had a flat. The evidence brought for
ward stated that the hoarders occupied
the stairs and hallway, spoke and sang in
a foreign language, lounged about 'the
dining-room, and a young lady had ac
tually whistled. In spite of these terrible
Indictments, the doctor lost his case, and
the boarding-house will not have to pay
tho damages. The Court, in its judgment,
remarks:
"The fact of lounging about in the dining-room,
of smoking, speaking In a for
eign language, singing, dining decollette
or In evening dress, holding conversation
in the hallway after meals, going up and
downstairs, is not against good morals."
The doctor must pay the costs.
Dedicates Room to Tutor.
BERLIN, Feb. 15. (Special.) One of
the Imperial aides-de-camp called recent
ly at Bielefeld on the relatives of the late
Privy Councillor, Hinzpeter. tutor of the
Emperor, and, on behalf of his Majesty,
requested that the chair, writing table,
and other articles that had been in regu
lar use by the deceased should be sent
to the Berlin Schloss. It appears to be
the Sovereign's intention to put aside one
of the apartments of the palace as a
Hinzpeter room, where future generations
shall be able to inspect mementoes of
the teacher of so Illustrious a pupil. One
of the court photographers has been or
dered to prepare a life-size picture of Dr.
Hinzpeter, which wlllalso find a place in
the room.
RELIEF FUS GO
TO
Needy Overlooked in Distribu
tion of Money Given for
Earthquake Victims.
ABUSE OF TRUST SHOWN
Wealthy Also Allow Cottages Erect,
ed for Destitute to Tumble Down
eo That Hovels Slight
Be Rented.
ROME, Feb. 15. (Special.) Tho report
of the commission which, has been in
quiring into the administration of the
funds subscribed for the relief of the
sufferers by the Calabrian earthquake on
September S, 1905, has been presented to
the Italian Chamber of Deputies by the
Prime Minister, Slgnor Glolitti. It is a
document which makes painful reading.
The main fact revealed is that out of
$s,000,000 sent from all .parts of Italy to
the distressed inhabitants of Calabria,
$:S.22O.0OO was, to put it mildly, badly dis
tributed. The disclosures show that in too many
instances relief went to those who were
not In want, while those who needed it
were left without. Rich people were not
ashamed to take the gifts, which rep
resented the offerings of the generous
poor in other parts of Italy, and even
people whose responsibilities ought to
have placed them beyond the pale of sus
picion fell ready victims to tho tempta
tion to take what was not theirs, but
consecrated by charity to the service of
the afflicted.
Landlords In Bad Light.
As is often the ease elsewhere, land
lords came very' badly out of the scrutiny.
The government had put up many hun
dreds of wooden dwellings for those
whose cottages had tumbled down over
their beads. Rudimentary as they were,
these temporary habitations were an Im
provement upon the dark and cavernous
tenements which had sheltered many poor
families before the earthquake, but those
who had the superintendence of them al
lowed them to fall Into a hopeless state
of dirt and disrepair, that they might
have an excuse for forcing upon the gov
ernment tho reconstruction of the
destroyed and deserted caverns aforesaid,
so that they, the landlords, might once
more levy rent for tho wretched hovels.
The report says:
"The dilapidation of these wooden dwel
ings (baracche), which, compared to the
hovels of the poor, represented eotne
thiug like progress in housebuilding, was
In many cases helped on by the heedless
ness of proprietors, with the object of
necessitating a return to the houses and
the consequent payment of rent."
Personal Motives liovern.
Reflecting on the moral and economic
conditions of the afflicted province, tha
report adds that progress is very slow,
"if not altogether arrested,- by tho de
generation of political and administra
tive contests into mean and barren per
sonal strife, by prevalence-of scltisbness
over altruism, by absence or-education,
and by. tho want of any spirit of Initia
tive and association as understood among
progressive peoples."
And yet. it appears that the province,
speaking generally, is not ioor. At tho
end of 1005 its savings banks contained
deposits to the value of nearly $3,250,000.
which was increased by nearly iftOu.O")
In the succeeding months.
In commenting on the report the Cor
ricre della Sera says:
It reveals the cnormons responsibility of
tho central power In the mldjt of such
Ktidm'sn and mlsory. The doings of some
of the notabllltlva of Calabria In tho places
devastated by the earthquake have pro
duced a sense of painful surprise, and deep
disgust. We see plainly today for tho first
time the truly trade character of the
scourge which fell upon those unhappy
people, for today we learn with veritable
dismay that after Nature had had Its turn
the brutal seltlshnexs of men made victims
of. them. The Interceptors of subsidies, the
luathsome explo-rs of national charity,
are so thorouKhly exposed by the report
that It may be hoped that the Judicial au
thorities will add another condemnation to
that already pronounced by public .opinion.
The authors of the report attribute thi
gravest, responsibility to the government
and- to the Ministry of the Interior la
particular. At the time of tho disaster
the Fortis Cabinet was in power. It id
stated that some of the families men
tioned in the report intend to institute
action, for defamation against the com
missioners. ROOMS lTI.Ii OP SKKLETOXS
Gruesome Discovery in Old Italian
Monastery.
ROMT2, Feb. 15. (Special.) A' few days
ago the Syndic of Carlentini decided, to
have the door of an old monastery opened
and to use one of the rooms for storage
purpose. When the door was broken
down a terrifying spectacle met the gaze
ot tho laborers. The room was full of
human skeletons, piled one on tho other,
and reaching almost to the ceiling. Near
this room were others also full of (grue
some human remains. The municipal
autiiorities ordered the immediate burial
of all the skeletons.
Shortly afterwards, at a little distance
from the lugubrious ossuary, two pavil
ions were found also 'full of bones. It is
calculated that altogether at least 4XK)
skeletons were thus brought to light. A
tremendous sensation has been caused by
these discoveries, and naturally the wild
est conjectures are made with regard to
the origin of these ossuaries. According,
however, to the oldest inhabitant of Car
lentini, the facts are as follows:
When monks inhabited the monastery
a certain sum ws nHirt thm f
privilege of sepulture in the church. The
cnurcn, .nowever, was small, and when
there was no room for any more corpses,
the monks, rather than lose an important
source of income, continued to receive
bodies for burial, but Instead of depositing
them beneath tiie floor of the church, cast
them Into the rooms behind tho sacristy,'
or into the pavilions close by, where
they were found.
RICH
ITALIANS