SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to lO
DRAMATIC
and SPORTING
VOL. XXVII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH : 8, 1908.
NO. 10.
A WOMB TO
WE ATTRIBUTE the wonderful success of this store to the favor and good will of the Portland women, who have always
found Gadsbys' prepared to serve their needs a little better and a great deal cheaper than other- stores. We want
every lady in Portland who needs home-furnishings of any description to feel that this is a woman's store. Here you
will always receive careful, courteous, painstaking attention, no matter whether you buy or just look for comparison." Our
purpose is to win success by deserving it, and we do not expect your trade unless we can show you that it is distinctly to your
advantage to buy here Our furniture is the best, and we will sell it to you upon practically your own terms. PRICES IN
PLAIN FIGURES ON EACH ARTICLE MAKE EASY BUYING. . -
$50.00 PARLOR SUIT $27.00
Wf raw- IP
Fs.rlor Suit, five pieces, beautifully finished in rich, dark mahogany, upholstered in verona
regular price $50.00; sale price .1 $27.00
Mail Orders for the Above Must Include $2.00 Packing Charges.
GREAT
' $35.00 Royal Axminster
. Parlor Rugs, 9x12 feet,
now $25.00
$35.00 Wilton Velvet
Rugs, 9x12 $25.00
$25.00 Brussels Seamless
Rugs, 9x12 ....$20.00
$20.00 Brussels Rugs, 9x
12 ....... .....$15.00
$15.00 Pro-Brussels
Rues 9x12 . . $12.00
Smaller or Larger Rugs Propor-V
lionatelv Reduced. 11
Ingrain Sample Rugs, all
wool, 1 yard square 35"
Brussels Sample Rugs'
fringe'd $1.00
GREAT MAJESTIC RANGE
3Xot Cbeaft - But I,cnt ExpfaslTe.
Ttequires fewer repairs, uses less fuel,
bakes perfectly and gives abundant
hot water.
The oven- is absolutely airtight; heat
can be applied as needed.
Water front is separate from oven,
w water cannot affect temperature.
Patent autt-cl inker grate is suitable
for either wood or coal.
Firebox is heavier than that of any
Other ranjfo on the market.
The Majestic has the only oven bot
tom which can be guaranteed against
warping. All exposed parts of malle
able iron guaranted not to break
under any circumstances.
Me take our old ntove and allow
ym all it in worth mm part pay meat for
a new out,
BUB I I
This Beautiful Buffet, worth $30 at
nearly half price lS.OO
WOMEN
AND CARPET SPECIALS
mm 1 rawM'IK
SOME BARGAINS FOR
ROOMING HOUSES
300 Hotel Bureaus, with mirror, two O C Q C
drawers and cabinet; reg. $9; now. Uuiuu
590 Combination Washstands, in ash, OQ QC
2 drawers and cabinet; $6.50; now.uZiUU
150 White Granite .Toilet Sets, consisting of
Bowl, Pitcher, covered Chamber, Soap Dish
and Mug; regular price $2.50 set; 01 OC
reduced now to U I iZu
200 White Granite Combinet covered Slop Jars,
with ban;- regular
noV
160 high-top Bedsteads; in white or QQ rtfl
golden maple; regular $6.00; now. uJellU
50 high-top Bedsteads in birdseye maple; regu
larly $15.00; reduced to make space to 33 1-3
per cent below factory cost; now 00 Cfl
on -sale at ,. .. UUiOU
500 Dressers in solid oak; regular 01 Q rtfl
$lS.00:sale price ulZiUU
15 Dressers in Oregon fir, with full bevel mir
ror, 20x24 inches; regular $12.50; QQ ff
sale price .duiUU
The above. are for immediate delivery; no goods
held we need the space.
PORTLAND
$19
price $l.o0; - TCn
I uu
$25 PEDESTAL TABLE
$12.50
GadsbyV Extension liable Special.
This Handsome Pedestal Extension
Tabie is offered at this extremely low
irice that we may demonstrate to
the buying public- our ability to
undersell any furniture institution in
the city 812. SO
Big Carpet Bargains in
Our Carpet Department.
Bromley's Velvets; with
borders '. . ... .....$1.25
B u r 1 i n g t on Brussels,
with borders .... $1.10
Tapestry Brussels, with
borders $1.00
Dunlap's Tapestry Brus
sels ... ..K. . ..V 90
Reversible Pro-Brussels,
per yard .......$ 1 .00
Brusselette Carpets,
yard wide .'. . ... . 55
Granite Ingrain Carpets,
per yard ....... 50
PRINCESS DRESSER $1 1.50
Princess 2resser. with oval or shaped
French bevel mirror; finished golden:
regular $19.00 value; special this
week .811.50
SPECIAL CHAIR SALE
This Beautiful Chair, well made of
hardwood and finished golden oak;
trust price $1.50: Gadsbys' price &I.OO
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Radicals Do Not Conceal Sat
Jsfaction in Assassination
of King Carlos.
DIRECT CAUSE OF DEED
Dictatorship Was Brought About by
Strike of Students, Which Was
Carried to House of
Deputies.
LISBON', March ;., Via the Frontier.
(Special.) Although the troubles in Port
ugal which culminated in the assassina
tion of the King: and Orown Prince have
long been maturing, they were brought to
a point by a disturbance in the ancient
university town of Coimbra- The uni
versity authorities some time ago. re
fused to grant a degree to one of the
students on the ground, it was alleged, of
improper moral conduct. Thereupon the
students struck as a body. The matter
was carried by the Republican party to
the Camara dos Deputados (House of
Deputies), in this city, and led to violent
scenes in the Chamber. This eventually
obliged the Prime Minister to dissolve
the House and establish the dictator
ship. The tragic events of recent days
have apparently been the revenge of as
sociates of the Republican party.
Portugal suffers ' from the ghosts of
negro slavery in Brazil, which brought
it so much wealth for two centuries, and
from the far longer supremacy of the
church. When Brazil fell away, the
habits formed in 200 years or so remained.
The climate is not a spur to energy, ex
cept in the northern provinces, which are
rich and Republican at any rate, in the
class that makes the most money. This
is the class that exports wine and sells its
farm produce to the mercantile commun
ity at Oporto and other towns on and
near the Douro. So far south as Lisbon,
Republicans are common enough. South
of Lisbon one is almost in Africa. The
hereditary nobility are not more ad
vanced in Ideas than the kaids of Mo
rocco, and are very Inferior to them in
physique. They are generally Mlguelities.
People Crushed by Taxes.
The people are miBerably poor, crushed
down with taxes direct and indirect, mild,
gentle and so free from criminal pro
pensities as hardly to need a police. Their
intense vitality appears at fairs and re
ligious processions and other church cere
monies. Probably 75 or 80 per cent of
them neither know how to read or write.
Since the Queen brought back the re
ligious orders, all the news circulating In
the villages and small burghs comes
through monks and priests. They give
it a Mlguelist warp.
Priests' sons are brought up to be
teachers, for if the clergy expect the
rule of celibacy they are far from think
ing concubinage an infringement. As in
Russia, the children of the popes be
come the most determined agitators, so
in Portugal the families of the priests
furnish party agitators with their most
active agents, and especially on the
Miguelist and Republican sides. It was
no surprise to hear that Silva Buitra,
who climbed up on the back of the royal
carriage and shot the King in the neck
was a priest's son and a teacher of Latin
and Portuguese literature.
One can only account for the coldness
of the ultra-Catholic press toward the
afflicted royal family by accepting tha
supposition of a Miguelist influence. La
Croix contradicts the generally received
version of Franco having taken no steps
to provide for the King's safety on the
day appointed for his return to Lisbon.
La Croix has learned- that the prepara
tions were extreme, but that general dis
content paralyzed the troops. In a time
of upheaval and sudden transformations
the King was unable to break away
from the narrow circle of high-born and
very rich persons among whom he passed
his youth. He remained to the end a
man of high caste, in his affinities,
though without a grain of hauteur in
his bearing.
English Horses Drew Landau.
The Court of Portugal has chieflv in its
Stables Hanoverian, or rather Lippe-Det-
mold. black horses. The late King paid
great attention to this department, but
preferred English horses for his carriage
and for the mounts of his bodyguard.
When he expected a visit from the Ger
man Emperor. he himself ordered' SO
horses in England, "to be paid for out
of the privy purse." The Emperor did
not fail to notice and admire them. Those
intended for the royal equipage had been
well broken, and have soft mouths, which
'would have responded to a bridle made
of a silk thread." These horses drew
the landau in which the King and his
heir met their doom.
Coimbra. which is known as the "Port
uguese Athens."; was formerly the cap
ital of Portugal, and is finely situated
on the beautiful river Mondego, which
has formed the theme of many poems.
The university, wThich is the only one
in the kingdom, was originally founded
in Lisbon in the 14th century,, but was
soon -after removed to Coimbra On two
occasions it was retranst'erred to Lisbon,
but was permanently established at
Coimbra in the 35th century. The peace
able citizens of Lisbon could not endure
the turbulent pranks of the Portuguese
undergraduates. 'The quaint costumes of
the 1400 guitar-strumming students as
they pass along, capless and with their
long black cloaks flying in the winds,
make the street scenes of the Coimbra
of today quite unique. The whole atmos
phere of the place is that of the Middle
Ages, at all events as compared with
the industrial surroundings of foreign
towns. So much is it out of the world
that there are no English-speaking peo
ple in the district.
In conntction with the political situa
tion, it may be worth noting that a char
ter of 20 years ago provided for the abo
lition of hereditary peerages in Portu
gal by a gradual process. Parliamentary
suffrage for election to the other house
extends to all citizens of 2t years of
age who can read and write, or who pay
taxes amounting to 600 reis (45 cents) a
year. The illiteracy, which is so wide
spread in the country, renders this man
hood suffrage more nominal than- reaT.
The sovereign has no veto on a bill
passed twice by. both houses.
Senhor Franco, the ex-dictator, was
not a personality of extraordinary weight.
He did not strike one as being the out
standing man who was required to face
the storm that a. dictatorship is sure to
arouse in a civilized country, and events
have proved that he did not have a suffi
PORTIA
MOVING
TOWARD
REPUBLIC
ciently powerful following to guarantee
his safety, in his native land for even
one day: hence his hurried flight.
The Republicans are in high feather,
and have not concealed their joy at the
murder of the King and the Crown
PrincS for a moment. When they next
strike the blow will be a final one
against monarchy, limited or otherwise,
In Portugal, and a republic will be speed
ily proclaimed. It is not believed that
any European power not even England
will interfere with the march of events.
KING CARLOS DIED POOR
Even Insurance Was Assigned to
Bank of Portugal. -
LISBON', Feb. 29. King Carlos died
practically bankrupt. Even his life in-,
surance was assigned to - the Bank of
Portugal as security for money he had
borrowed.
His total allowance from the state was
$400,000 a year, on which he had to sup
port several palaces, maintain them wifi
royal splendor and entertain visiting
monarchs on a scale befitting his rank.
As a result he was always hard pressed
for money. To secure the loans he was
compelled to make he took out largo
amounts of life insurance. He had one
policy in the Equitable Life of New York
for $100,000. His insurance policies he de
posited with those from whom he bor
rowed. He owed the Bank of Portugal
$180,000.
There was practically no money in the
royal treasury when King Carlos was
assassinated. The next day the govern
ment paid the new King one month's
"salary," which was due his father.
Friends of the dead King deny that
Carlos was recklessly extravagant and
say his private life was simple and
methodical. They explain his- indebted
Jiess by attributing it to the great cost of
the entertainments he was compelled to
give and of the maintenance of his pal
aces. T,he royal display forced upon him,
they assert, was constantly growing more
expensive and it was impossible to make
the civil list appropriation meet the King's
needs.
Recently Carlos had tried to take out
more life insurance, but he found" this
practically impossible, because of the ex
cessively high premiums demanded. His
exceptional corpulence and the danger
of assassination made him an extra haz
ardous risk, according to the insurance
companies.
King Manuel today issuesd a decree
fixing March 5 as the date of the next
general election and another convoking
the regular Cortes on April 29. At. the
same time the decrees issued, by ex-Premier
Franco for the reorganization of
the House of Peers and giving the new
Chamber of Deputies constituent powers
are revoked. Franco's decrees augment
ing the civil list and liquidating the ad
vances from the treasury to the royal
house also have been annulled by the
King.
FIEND IN FEMALE FORM
GEKMAX GIRL KILLS FIANCE IN
COLD BLOOD.
Crime Leads to Discovery of Diabol
ical Deeds of Grete Beler and
Her Mother.
" BBRLJX. March 7. (Special.) Grete
Beier. daughter of the late burgomaster
of Brand, in Silesia, is a valuable ex
ample for those who maintain that there
is nothing wprse in the world than a bad
woman. This pretty and captivating
damsel, who is only 23 years of age.
called one day on an engineer named
Presslcr. to whom she was engaged, and.
having induced him to- blindfold his eyes
and open his mouth, on the pretext that
she bad brought him a surprise from the
fair, placed a revolver between his teeth
and blew out his brains. She then se
creted among his papers a forged will,
in which he was made to bequeath to her
his entire prossessions.
The trial of Grete's mother, who was
this week sentenced to two years' penal
servitude for subornation, threw some in
teresting sidelights on the utterly repro
bate character of the daughter, besides
showing what strange secrets the respect
able house-front of a highly esteemed
burgomaster ran hide. Tt appeared that
both during and long before her engage
ment to Presslcr, the girl had, with the
connivance of her mother, carried on a
liaison with a merchant named Merker.
To facilitate their meetings, the pair had
hired a room in the little town of Brand,
which, nevertheless, seems not to have
had the slightest suspicion that Fraulein
Beier was anything but a demure and
well-behaved young woman. As a result
of her relations with Merker the girl
gave birth to three children all of whom
it is believed she at once murdered.
The burgomaster was much trusted by
the inhabitants of the town, and one of
them confided to his keeping a small safe
containing a savings bank book, with a
credit of $1000. and other valuables. The
enterprising Grete procured a duplicate
key to the safe, abstracted the book,
forged a recepit, and drew every penny
out of the bank. When the theft was dis
covered, she and her mother attempted
to fix the guilt on another woman, stat
ing the exact spot in her house in which
the key of the safe would be found. It
came out in the trial, however, that It
had been placed there through their in
strumentality. Frau Beier further at
tempted to persuade one of the witnesses
to say that she had overheara the woman
In question admit the committal of the
theft.
The most interesting point brought out,
however, was that the girl had written
to Merker on a scrap of paper that was
smuggled out of the jail, sewed up in
a blouse, telling him to go in disguise
to the principal witness against her,
render her unconscious with chloroiorm,
and then murder her. ' It was also shown
that on the evening after the killing of
Pressler she joined a party of merry
makers at Freiberg and telephoned home
that she was' enjoying herself so much
that she would not return till the last
train. Merker and Frau Beier are now
both serving sentences. Grete has yet to
stand trial.
BONUS FOR EACH CHILD
Increases in Australian l-'amiUcs
3fean Tax Exemption.
SYDNEY, N. S. W., March 7. (Special.)
The increase of population in the com
monwealth is notoriously slow, and the
legislators of Western Australia, where
the inhabitants number only two to the
square mile, have determined to take a
leaf out of the book of the French. With
a view to encouraging- bigger families,
an amendment has been inserted in the"
income tax bill by the State Legislative
assembly giving an exemption of $M for
every rhlld up to the number of five in
the family of the taxpayer. Five chil
dren is eridntly the limit which the
Legislature intends to countenance In any
one household, . .
SCOTTISH BILL IS
E
English Liberals Send Land
Measure to Lords for
Second -Time.
PEERS OPPOSED TO POLICY!
Prime Minister Asks Commons tl:
Set Aside Time for Consideration j
or Legislation Providing for .
Dual Ownership. -i;
I3NDO.N". March 7. Special.) Th
Liberal government has taken the first
step in the war against the House of
Lords, and the fight is likely to be car-i
tied to a finish at the present session of
Parliament. The struggle began when
the Prime Minister moved his resolution
asking the House to agrco to the alloca
tion of two days or three if amendments
are made in committee to the small land
holders (Scotland) bill and of a similar
amount of time to the land values (Scot
land) bill. These two bills, which passed
through the House of Commons last ses
sion and met with an unhappy- fate in
the House of Lords, are to be reintro
duced in precisely the same form as that
in which thoy left the Commons, and to
be carried through all their stages in the
brief time allotted to them. Then they
are to be sent up once more to the upper
chamber, with an invitation to the peers
to pass, reject or amend them.
Minister Outlines Campaign.
Such is the part of the government plan
of campaign against the second chain-;
ber, and so much was frankly admitted j
by the Prime Minister during the course
of a very remarkable speech, though Sir'
Henry Campbell-Bannerman naturally
declared, with much vehemence, that the'
bills were also intended to pass on their!
own merits, and represented the "settled I
opinion" of the House of Commons and
of a majority of the Scottish people. The
speech was a remarkable one, because;
the Prime Minister, who stumped the;
lowlands of Scotland throughout the Au-'j
tumn recess in a vain effort to klnule
anger against the Lords, admitted that
the peers had not had a reasonable time j
In which to discuss these two measure i
in the closing hours of last session. He,:
therefore, wished to give them a more1
adequate opportunity.
The Peers will, doubtless, accept the
Premier's invitation, and subject the two
bills to the searching investigation which
they require, but which they have not had
in either House of Parliament, and which
they manifestly are not to be vouchsafed
In the House of Commons under the terms
of the Prime Minister's resolution. JCo
one denies the magnitude of the interests
concerned, or the far-reaching and even
revolutionary, character of tho principles
which those bills embody. An effort was.
indeed, made by ministerial, speakers to
show that the land, bill had been thor
oughly examined in grand committee. But
grand committee is no real substitute for
committee of the whole House on a highly
contentious bill, and tho closure was ap
plied to it during its passage through
grand committee, just as rigorously as it
was applied to other Government meas
ures which were debated in committee of
the whole House.
Calls Proposed Law Vicious.
Moreover, it is notorious that on this
Scottish land bill the government is di
vided against itself, whilo no ono has
spoken with such merciless irony of its
contradictory principles as Lord Ro.cebery,
who was for long tho acknowledged
mouthpiece of Scottish Liberalism, and
tho chosen leader of those who now dis
own him. . If the House of Isol ds is to ie,
he said in one of his last speeches on this
subject, "it could die in no better cause
than in resisting to tho last the introduc
tion of a system so vicious, so pregnant
with malignant possibilities, as that con
tained in the Scottish small landholders'
bill."
For that bill proposes to introduce the
dual ownership which is being got rid of
in Ireland at a cost of scores of millions
of pounds, and a long series of agrarian
outrages: it establishes a land commission
to fix judicial rents for small holders, and.
Instead of giving powers to the county
councils and popularly elected authorities
aa does tho Knglish act It places the.
whole working of the bill in the hands of
a central board, paid and situated in the
Scottish capital.
It is expected that if the present govern
ment is in office a year hence the Prime
Minister will bring In a guillotine resolu
tion, reducing the time to be spent on a
reintroduced bill from two to three days
to one day. Tho fight promises to be ex
ceedingly hot.
BALLOON RIDE IN STORM
Woman's Graphic Description of
Wild Trip in Air.
LONDON'. Feb. 29. The Hon. Mrs.
Assheton - Harbord, who. accompanied
by J. F. Pollock, left Battersea in the
balloon Vaikyre on Friday night in an
attempt to win the Northcliffo challenge
cup. landed, after six and a half hours,
in a forest near Verdun, about 3K miles
from London, as the crow flics.
"At 10:30 we encountered a violent
squall," says Mrs. Assheton-Harbord, in
the course of a thrilling narrative of
their voyage, "ami the car swayed to
such an extent that we had to hold on
to avoid being thrown out."
It took 51 minutes to cross the chan
nel from Dungeness to Boulogne, and
subsequently strong vertical currents of
air caused the balloon to shoot alter
nately upward and downward very rapidly.-
"There was a good deal of "sheet light
ning, and the car and neck of the bal
loon seemed illuminated as if by elec
tric lights," says the woman. "At 2
o'clock we encountered a terrific snow
storm, 'which half-tilled the balloon."
The balloon later shot up to an alti
tude of S000 feet, and then descended
rapidly, craflring down on some trees
with great force.
The envelope of the balloon' was torn,
and all the scientific instruments carried
were qmashed. and the aeronauts were
compelled to get out of the balloon as
best they could and wait in pitchy dark
ness till dawn, when they found them
selves at the village of Ilandlomonl, near
Verdui " , '
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