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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. JULY 19, 190S.
COMPLETE RETURN
TO
Renewed Activities Show That
Business Conditions in Port
land Are Excellent.
GOOD CROPS IN PROSPECT
While Wheat Yield Will Xot Be
Heavy City Will Receive Great
Impetus From Numerous
Other Resources.
So many indications of a complete
return to normal business conditions
have been noticed in Portland during
the past week that it is hard to sin
gle out any one as an evidence of re
stored confidence. There lias been so
much good news of late that one item
could hardly be given prominence over
another. All mean a greater Portland
NORMAL
BASS
CONDITION OF PORTLAND NATIONAL BANKS AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON JULY 15
Figures have been complied by the Portland National banks showing their status on July 15, In response to a call from the Controller for
the usual periodical statement. Portland has a new National bank at this call, the Lumbermen's National, formerly the Bankers' & Lumber
men's Bank. This adds to the totals of the local National banks. However, deposits in most of the institutions reporting have slumped since
the last call. May 14, due to the fact that it is between seasons and customers of the various institutions have been drawing against their bal
ances, as Is always the case during the Summer months. On the whole,
National banks, compared with the figures of May 14, follow:
Loans and discounts $
lT. S. bonds to secure circulation..
Other bonds and securities
Real estate and fixtures
Lash and due from banks
Liabilities
Capital stock
Surplus and undivided profits.
Circulation
Deposits and due to banks
This bank nationalized during
and point to a brilliant future for this !
city.
Unlike cities that depend for their
prosperity on pile or two sources of
wealth, Portland's growth does not
stop when any one channel ceases
pouring dollars Into the hip of this
favored business center. ,Many other
resources keep up the golden shower.
Some cities of the cotton belt bask In
the business sunshine only when the
cotton crop Is good, with prices high.
Lumber centers are obscured when the
market fails and manufacturing cities
are in the doldrums when adverse busi
ness conditions shut them off (rom
markets.
Weakness in Single Resource.
Cities whose prestige is based on
commerce alone rise or fall with the
shifting of transportation currents or
the building of railroads that divert
traffic. Grain cities of the Middle
West have periods of most severe de
pression when tlie corn and wheat
crops fail. Cities made up of coal
mlners follow the demand and supply
of coal with anxious hearts, for if the
mines are shut down there is actual
suffering.
But Portland, happily, is not de
pendent upon any one or two crops or
Industries. The great Pacific North
west is, so varied and rich in its prod
ucts that the industries of the three
states are many and various. Grain,
lumber, fish, wool, livestock and all
kinds of agricultural products pour
their riches steadily into Portland while
the activities of her people In manufac
turing, jobbing and commerce keeps
this city to the front on the Pacific
Coast.
Where Portland Is Strong.
Any one of a dozen crops could fail
and Portland would not notice it; any
one of an equal number of industrial
enterprises could have a bad year, but
the forward progress of Portland
would not be checked. So diverse are
the resources behind Portland that no
possible series of untoward circum
stances, short of a positive disaster,
can displace the city from her eonr
mandlng position.
First and foremost, a fair average
wheat crop Is assured that means the
pouring of $40,000,000 into the pockets
of the farmers of this territory. The
lumber trade, now that the vexing
question of rates to the East has been
settled, is Improving and will soon be
on in full swing again, beyond a doubt,
'for Oregon fir is a staple In the mar
kets of the world and the demand for it
is widespread.
Great Fruit Crop Promised.
The fruit crop is excellent and means
added profits to the growers of the
state, while the wealth of dairy prod
ucts, a never falling but.always increas
ing Industry In this state, means much
more money for the people of the ag
ricultural districts. Salmon, hops, wool
and the other great products add
largely to the volume of money to be
paid to Oregon this year by tlie con
sumers of these varied crops.
Of direct benefit to this city is the
$5,225,000 bond issue, voted at the last
election and Just declared legal by the
courts. This large amount of money
will be placed in circulation in Portland
within the next two years and will have
a stimulating effect on general busi
ness conditions. Contractors and busi
ness men will receive this big amount
and will disburse it very largely
among the laboring men. It means
that employment will be furnished to
hundreds of mechanics and laborers
while the Improvements contemplated
by the bond Issue are under way.
Benefits rYom Bond Issues.
The big benefits to the city generally
will be the accomplishment of the vari
ous public works and the increased
values of property that will come as
the result. The new Bull Run-pipe line
and the improvements to the water
service will cost $3,000,000. and the
supplies for this work will undoubted
ly all be bought here.
Much of the $1,000,000 set aside for
parks and boulevards will go to. labor
ing men who will be employed to im
prove the property bought with a part
of this fund.
The Madison-street bridge will cost
$450,000. and. like the public docks,
which will cost $500,000 additional, will
be built largely of local materials and
local labor will be employed. This Is
also true of the new flreboat provided
for in the bond issue, to cost $125,000.
Materials for the reinforcing of fire
mains throughout the city will be pur
chased here.
City's Credit Not Stained.
Cities which vote such large public
improvements show they are prosper-
ous and manifest their confidence in
the future in a substantial way. Where
other cities have spent money for
parks and boulevards they have profit
ed largely. Portland people recognize
that this city needs more beautiful
drives and an extension of the present
system of parks. That there will be a
ready market for the bond issue Is the
statement of Portland National bank
ers. While a bonded debt of 7 per cent
of the city's valuation is allowed, Port
land has only 2.6 per cent such in
debtedness. The opening of the North Bank road
during the coming- month will bring
the whole Inland Empire tributary to
Portland as never before. The activity
of electric lines in and about Portland
Is a feature that , promises much for
the city. Tlie starting of work by the
United Railways during the past week
on its interurban system Is encourag
ing and the Oregon Electric Railway
will link Portland and Forest Grove to
gether with a trolley road before the
coming Winter.
Awarding of Swift Contract.
The awarding of the contract for the
foundations of the main building of
the packing plant" of Swift & Co. with
in the week marks the beginning of
construction of the big establishment
and the locaiton here of a new $1,000.
000 industry. The placing of the Swift
plant here will buildup a great live
stock industry In this state that will
bring added wealth to .Oregon farmers.
Building continues throughout the
city unabated. More dwelling have
been built or started during the first
six months of the year than during
any corresponding period in the city's
history. During the hot weather of
the Summer the construction of homes
keeps up without abatement. Building
pern-its this month number 249, with
an stimated cost of $637,010. Eighty
First National Bank
-United
May 14
July 15.
4,787.325.14
m 1.500,000.00
1,174,41.1.88
70.000.00
4.762,614,98
Mav 14.
$3,746,648.99
500.000 .00
878.149.20
125.000.00
3.772,194.22
$9,021,992. 41
$ 500.000.00
471.597.27
500.000.00
7,550,395.14
0.306,760.53
500.000.00
1.187,601.38
70,000.00
4,510.269,81
599, 637.73 $12,294,354.00
. I 500.000.00
. 1.137.550.19
486.000.00
. 10.476.087.53
$ 500.000.00
1.139.236.90
427.000.00
10,228,117.10
$12,599,637.72 $12,294,354.00 $9,021,992.41
past month.
pcr cent of the number of buildings are
residences.
List of New Buildings.
Among new buildings of an expen
sive character that are about to be
started, or which are under way, are
the following:
Meier & Frank, ten-atory. department store
building at eoutheast corner of Sixth and Al
der street. S:tOO.llOtl.
Y. M. c. A., at Sixth and Taylor streets,
$HlO,lHK.
Y. W. C. A., at Seventh and Taylor streets,
$75.WjO.
Warehouse and dock of the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle Railroad, at foot of Raleigh
street. SllKl.OOO.
I'arlin & OrendortT warehouse. Southern Pa
cific and Belmont street. fcSo.OW).
Wallace & Devlin, warehouse, same locality,
$45.1100.
t'adwell & Burkhart. office building. Second,
near Alder street, S75.O0O.
Oregon Hotel annex. Park, near Stark
street. 1 25.1100.
Fenton building. Seventh and Ankeny
streets, $50,000.
Pacific Paper Company, Fourth and Ankeny
streets, $;5.ClH.
:ood Samaritan Hospital, new wing, $00,000.
Chinese office building. Second and Yam
hill streets. 550.000.
I'nion Moat Company, packing plant, Co
lumbia Sloueh. $1.0c0.000.
Rosenblatt Hotel, Tenth and Alder streets,
$110,000.
Crane warehouse. Thirteenth and Irving
streets. $73,000.
Blumauer-Frank Drug Company, West Park
and Everett streets, $7ri.OC0.
A. F. Fleishman, Chinese buildinp. north
east corner Flanders and Fourth streets, $65,
000. Board of Trade, Fourth and Oak. being oc
cupied, $200,000.
Lteek. Seventh and Ankeny streets, being
occupied. $11.0. 000.
Homeopathic Hospital, East Second street,
$J5O.000.
Other Blocks Now Projected.
Among the new buildings projected
throughout the city are the following:
Portland Trustee Company. Pennoyer
block, department store for Olds. Wort
man & King, $300,000; T. B. Wilcox.
Seventh and Stark; Arthur L. Flnley,
Sixth and Salmon: Gay Lombard, Fifth
and Stark: Carman Manufacturing
Company. Eighteenth and I'pshur.
about $45,000; United States Laundry
Company, Grand avenue and Ease
Yamhill. $40,000: J. C. Alnsworth,
Grand avenue and Fast Stark.
Real estate transfers for the. past
week amount to a total of $.106,000. and
for the month, so far, $700,000 In round
numbers. The usual number of deeds
filed carry only nominal values, mak
ing the totals far below the actual
cost of the various properties.
Cireat Progress In Street Work.
Figures prepared by Acting City En
gineer Hanson show that there never
was a time In the history of Portland
when there was anywhere near the
amount of street improvement work
under way and projected. At this time
last year the improvements under way
aggregated approximately $S00,000,
while at this time contracts let show a
total of $1,529,295. with projected plans
for an additional $891,350.
The improvements consist of bitulith
ic. asphalt, gravel, maradHm. earth
grading, stone blocks and bridges, and
is scattered all over the city, the main
portion of it being on the East Side,
where great progress is being made
in beautifying the streets.
Contracts awarded to date are as fol
lows: Bitulithic, four miles: asphalt, five
miles; gravel, six miles; macadam,
eight miles; earth grade. 11 miles:
stone blocks, 300 feet; bridges, 1300
feet.
Projected street improvements:
Bitulithic, 11 miles; asphalt, four
miles; gravel. 15 miles: macadam, 15
miles, earth grade. 23 miles.
WARDS OFF MOB WITH GUN
lloquiani Crowd Chases Sailor Who
Criticises Union Laborers.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. July IS. (Spe
cial.) Through the efforts of Watchman
Buchanan, of the Grays Harbor Electric
Company, a sailor member of the crew of
the steamer Frances H. Ieggett, now
loading at Hoquiam, was saved from mob
violence at midnipht last night.
After attending one of the theaters the
sailor drifted nto a saloon on F street
and there made a few uncomplimentary
remarks on union men, sailors and long
shoremen In particular.
A crowd soon collected and the sailor
took refuge on a streetcar. The car was
run to the company's barn. The crowd
followed. At the barn, however, Buchan
an drew a revolver and warned the angry
men away from the company's property.
The men made no attempt to enter and
the sailor was left in peace.
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CHOICE OFTAFT
ACTS AS TONIC
Business in East Shows Re
markable Revival Since
Chicago Convention.
CONFIDENCE IS GAINED
Manufacturers and Merchants Re
gard Republican Success at Polls
as Assured Good Times
Sure to Follow.
CHICAGO, July 11. A birdseye view
of business conditions Bast, West, North,
and South shows a remarkable favorable
outlook, according tp the Chicago Tri
bune. This in spite of the regular mid
summer dullness and the Presidential
campaign: The most encouraging re
ports come from practically every com
mercial and industrial center in the
the showing is very satisfactory.
The
State National
Merchants'
May 14.
$2,076,800.31
250.000.00
791.551.69
8.000.00 .
1.050,747.41
July In.
$3,888,732.19
500.000.00
910.181.08
125.000.00
3.678,108.59
$9,102,021.86 $4,177,099.41
$ 500.000.00
496.827.17
487.400.00
7,616,448.19
$ 250.000.00
315.210.82
249.950.00
3.361,938.59
$9,102,021.86 $4,177,099.41
country. Expanding trade, growing pay
rolls, increasing business, are the mes
sages that come from every city. Confi
dence in the election of Taft seems to be
the mainspring of the growing confidence
of the business interests of the country.
The possibility of the election of Bryan
does not seem .to be conceded anywhere
in business circles. Some of the mes
sages of prosperity cent to The Tribune
are given below:
Boston, Mass. The great textile cen
ters. Fall River, Manchester, X. H.;
Lawrence, Mass. ; Saco and BIddeford,
Me., and the Pawtucket Valley towns in
Rhode Island, struggled along for month
after last Fall's , panic with their chiel
industry paralyzed. Thousands upon
Thousands were out of work, but it was
these same centers that six weeks 01
thereabouts ago revived the courage of
the country in a way by starting up
again, many of the great factories go
ing immediately on full time. The sur
plus stock had been worked off and
a renewed demand set the wheels to
turning. ,
Report From St. Ixuiis.
St. Louis, Mo. The Southwestern,
Southeastern and Western railroads have
been increasing the work in their shops,
and this means that many thousands of
mechanics and laborers who have been
working on short time for seven months
are employed again on full time. More
than 95 per cent of the manufacturing
and mercantile concerns in St. Louis and
in the St. Louis districts have put their
employes back at work and are running
their plants and shops and stores full
time again.
Pittsburg. Penn. In September and Au
gust of 1907 the payroll made up in the
Pittsburg banks aggregated Jl.000.000. In
February, March and April of 190S the
payroll made up in Pittsburg proper had
dwindled to $300,000 a day in some in
stances, and it had gradually increased
from this figure until the figures for Jung
and July of 1WS will approximate $650,000
a day. Fully 50.000 men find employment
today within Alleghany County, whereas
less than three months ago 25,000 of these
were idle.
Milwaukee, Wis. This city, the Pitts
burg of the West, shows evidence of the
return of prosperity. It is not a matter of
the future with Milwaukee, but of the
immediate present. According to Presi
dent Walter H. Whiteside of the Allis
Chalmers Company, the biggest individ
ual iron-working concern of the city, the
orders received during June show an In
crease of from 30 to 50 per cent over
those of May. and the plant is now run
ning et about 70 per cent of normal. The
Thomas Furnace Company has resumed
full force. Other plants which shut down
in part or entirely last Fall are now work
ing big forces. The Milwaukee road
shops, which .cut the force to 3500 men
In October, are now working nearly the
full complement of 5000 men on cars and
locomotives for the Pacific Coast Exten
sion. Make More Locomotives.
Philadelphia, Penn. The Baldwin Loco
motive Works. Cramp's Shipyard and
other big industrial plants where thou
sands are employed all report a healthier
business state, and 'the concerns heads
are almost unanimously optimistic in tone,
and declare that they believe things are
rapidly on the mend. After long idleness
the Great Dobson Mills, giving employ
ment to about 34iOO persons, have started
again. And several othprs are preparing
to follow suit. The wholesale and retail
markets on the whole are holding their
own. and considerable activity Is felt in
some lines.
Omaha, Neb. All factories and work
shops are running full time, and several
large new undertakings are being pushed
steadily ahead. These include the erection
of large warehouses for the storage, dry
ing and cleaning of wool from the- West
and Northwest, the establishment of shops
for the manufacture cm a large scale of
the McKeen gasoline motor-cars by a
company organized by E. H. Harrlman,
and the development of a new manu
facturing suburb, where locations have
been secured in the last few weeks by a
large car repair company and a stove
company.
Minneapolis. Minn. The increase in all
lines of business in Minneapolis during
June over the previous month is .plainly
shown In the report of the freight move
ment to and from Minneapilis. This re
port, issued by Wallace G. Nye, chair
man of the public affairs committee,
shows a decided Increase. in every depart
ment. The only falling off shown in the
entire report is a 1 slight decrease tn
amount of flour shipped, which Is at
tributable to the dif Acuity of obtaining
wheat, owing to recent floods.
Galveston, Tex. Within the last 30 days
33 lumber mills In East and South Texas,
employing 25.000 men. including the crews
in the lumber camps, resumed operation
on full time, after a two months' close
down. Ten more mills will resume full
time on July 15, and reports from tne
lumber districts are flattering for the
Kail and Winter trade.
Birmingham, Ala. When the Tennessee
Company, a subsidiary of the. United
States Steel Corporation, started up its
various big ' plants last month 8000 Idle
men returned to work in one week. The
resumption of the mills and mines last
month means tlie first payrolls will be
made up this month, and the prospect of
turning thousands of dollars loose in the
oistrlct has stimulated every branch of
industry. ,
IT IS AL GREEK TO HIM
John Bull Worries Over Meaning of
Lallapaloosa.
. LONDON, July 18. (Special.) Lon
don is stirred over another American
slang word, "lallapaloosa." After
"rubberneck" had been eatlsfactorily
explained and thoroughly digested by
the English, it was, of course, in order
to bring forward a new word, with the
view of continuing the education of the
Londoners. A Daily Express reporter
was sent out the other day to inter
view some Americans now here on the
meaning of the term "lallapaloosa." He
scoured the city in search of an ex
planation, and was repeatedly baffled
by the flippancy of the solutions of
fered. An American actor who was
supporting one of the facades in Bed
ford street expressed contemptuous
surprise at the question.
"Why, I thought every one knew
what a. 'lallapaloosa' was," he said.
"It's the female species of your own
gazeka family. Sure!"
Other explanations were equally un
satisfactory. A Maori war dance, a
new temperance drink and a patent
latest reports of the . Portland
National Lumbermen's National
July 15 'May 14. July 15.
$2,032,681.12 $ 816,187.24
412,000.00 50,000.00
648,035.56 76,632.81
8.000.00 ' 3. 500.00
S73.832.74 496.S97.02
$3,974,549.43 ............ $1,443,217.07
$ 250.0)0.00 $ 250.000.00
300.497.55 , 12,572.83
246.950.00
3.177.101.87 1,180,644.24
$3,974,549.42 .. $1,443,217.07
medicine were some of the futile sug
gestions made. Eventually an intelli
gent American was found in the Hay
market offices of the American Ex
press Company, v who declared, with
some emotion, that the word had no
British equivalent.
"It Is the latest catchword in New
York," he said. "It expresses aston
ishment at any strange sight or object.
It might apply to a street accident in
which a cab horse, a coster cart and
an automobile were tangled up togeth
er, or to a very tall story. I heard an
Englishman say the other day, 'Well,
that's a knockout,' and I guess that's
a good translation for 'Well, that's a
lallapaloosa.
'For instance, if I spied a stout lady
in a directolre gown with a market
garden on a three-foot hat. I should
say, 'Well, that's a lallapaloosa.' "
PAINTED ROOSTER WINS
Eagle in Disguise Vanquishes Cham
pion at Cocking Main.
Hermosillo (Mexico) Dispatch to the
New York World.
On the Fourth of July a year ago An
drew Crenshaw, Thomas A. Halloway,
fcert Graham, and C. B. Jameson, mem
bers of a Texas syndicate owning land
near El Molino, went to the town to cele
brate. The most exciting thing they
could find was a cocking main. They
put up their money on the favorite and
lost. The performance was repeated, and
they lost again. Then they discovered
that they were betting against the en
tire crowd of Mexicans, and that after
their bets had been placed the birds were
"switched."
Full of wrath, and bent on getting even,
they agreed to meet again on the com
pany's ranch, each In the meantime to
try to concoct a scheme of revenge. Crefa,
shaw had heard of the fighting qualities
of the eagle and he communicated with
the others his scheme. They advertised
for and procured a young eagle last Win
ter and preserved it for their purpose.
This year when they met at the ranch
they painted the bird and trimmed his
feathers so as to make him look like a
rooster, and with the disguised eagle in
a sack- they rode Into El Molino and land
ed at the cocking main. The authorities
refused to enter their bird without first
seeing him, but the ranchmen refused to
disclose more than his tall feathers. They
offered tempting odds that their bird
could whip anything in Mexico, and the
Mexicans took them up for more than
twice what the Americans lost the year
oeiore.
A beautiful thoroughbred gamecock
was pitted against the American offer
ing, which was dumped from the sack
into the pit when the main was called.
The eagle squatted calmly in the pit,
blinking its eyes and stretching its
clipped wings, while the cock pranced
around it with lowered head.
Twice the cock lunged at the eagle and
the crowr? roared and shouted "Bueno!"
when the eagle would stagger to its feet
and again squat tn the pit. The third
lunge ended the main, for the eagia
reached out with one powerful claw and
grabbed the gamecock and choked it to
death.
The Mexicans raged, but the ranchmen
got their winnings, and then replacing
the eagle in the sack, together with the
de&a gamecock, which was still held in
its talons, they fought their way to the
exit, mounted their ponies, and rode to
Guadalajara.
Eight Injured by Car Smash.
CHICAGO. July IS. Eight persons were
severely injured and a number of others
suffered minor injuries in an accident on
the Jackson Park branch of the South
Side Elevated Railroad, at Stoney Isl
and avenue and Sixty-third street, today.
A train of three cars crashed against the
bumpers at the terminus of the road
tearing loose, the front trucks of the
motor-car and allowing the car to slide
over the bumpers for about ten feet.
Catherine Jasmecka, 1" years of age,
had her lower jaw broken and her head,
face and body cut and bruised.
Xo Vse.
"Are you feeling very HIT" asekd the
doctor. "Let me see your tongue,
please?" .....
"What's the use, doctor?" replied the
patient; "no tongue can tell how bad
I feeL Roseleaf.
Japanese Win at Ball.
HONOLULU. July 18. The Keio base
ball team from Japan today defeated the
Kamehameha team, a local club, by a
score of four to one.
Genuine Leather Couch
$60 VALUE FOR $32.50
ffsyjwyiyiii.' m.,i i .j-
So. 1 iolid oak frame, quarter sawed and pol
ished, covered with best genuine leather; best
steel spring upholstering,--32 oil-tempered springs.
The regular value of these couches is $60. but we
are making a special sale of these couches at
only S32.50
$12 Hall Racks
$7.50
No. 10 Oak Hall
Racks, gplden
oak. quarter
sawed, fitted with
12 x 12 - inch mir
rors and bra s 8
hat and coat
hooks. A fine
rack., worth $12;
special sale price
$7.50
300 : These rockers are
included in our leather
goods sale this week. They
are like the cut, covered
with genuine leather, best
spring construction. Regu
lar price is $60. . Gevurtz'
special sale
sale price.
Lowest
Prices
in City
CORNER FIRST AND YAMHILL
y
Brethren Discuss Plan for
Bible Institution.
ALSO HOME FOR THE AGED
Sect Formerly Known as Dunkards
Decides to 'Invite General Con
ference to Meet in Port
land In 1911.
Among the Items of business trans
acted at the session of the district
conference of the Church of the Breth
ren, for Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
held yesterday in the First Church,
Killingsworth avenue, was the unani
mous invitation to the general confer
ence to meet in Portland in 1911, the
movement to establish a' Bible school
in Portland and the movement to es
tablish homes for old folks and for
orphans in the Northwest. L. E. Kelt
ner, moderator, presided.
Elder George C. Carl, who presented
the resolution for asking the general
conference In the Northwest, was dele
gate at the last session of that body,
and is confident that the body will
come in 1911, which, he says, will mean
from 5000 to 7000 people, representa
tives from all over the United States.
Mr. Carl also said that the general
conference was of sufficient impor
tance to get the support of the com
mercial bodies and business men of
Portland, financially and otherwise.
There was some discussion on the reso
lution to invite the general conference
to come to the Northwest, but it was
finally adopted unanimously and will
be presented to that body at its next
meeting by the district delegate, who
will be Elder J. S. Secrist. who was
elected representative to the general
conference after the. adoption of the
resolution. D. B. Eby was elected al
ternate. The matter of establishing homes for
old "people and for orphans at some
point in the district had been pending
before the conference for several years.
Some work has been done in caring for
.and educating children in Christian
FOUND
SCHIJUL
Genuine Turkish Rugs
A SPECIAL SHIPMENT ON TEMPORARY DISPLAY
A HALF-PRICE SALE
These fine Oriental Rugs were especially ordered for a customer. His
selections have been made, and the remaining; rugs will be returned
within ten days to the New York importer, unless sold. Among the lot
are : Kirmanshah, Sarouk, Afghan, Mahal and Gheorevan.
Rather than pay the return freight on these rugs, we shall accept
actual cost on any one or the entire lot.
We invite Oriental rug-fanciers to call and inspect these handsome
weaves! Here is a rug bargain that seldom presents itself.
Extra Value Brussels
Room -Size
Rugs, only
These are imported rugs, made in
and will hold their colors; seamless; in red, green, tan and
combination colors. Very attractive and of extra good
quality. Gevurtz special price v. .... ;
Printed
Linoleum
49c
Best "D" grade
printed linoleum
three patterns left
in the lot ; to be
closed out at only,
per yard . . . .49
Also inland Lino
leum greatly re
duced in price.
Polished Oak
Princess
Dressers
$13.95
'So. 210 This is a
little gem in pol
ished, quarter
sawed oak. bevel
French- plate mir
ror 18x36 inches;
two drawers fitted
with polished brass
pulls; worth $22.50,
a big" special at
813.95.
Turkish Rocker Buffet $21.50
$35
No. 505 A Buffet that will
meet with general favor, as
it is both moderately priced
and beautifully built. The
wood is solid golden oak,
quartersawed, highly pol
ished. There are three com
modious silver drawers,
while the linen cabinet is
very roomy; a large plate
glass mirror across the en
tire top gives it the appear
ance of a $35 Buffet, while
our price is only . . . S21.50
...$35.00
homes, but a larger work is proposed.
Incorporation papers of a board of
charities of the Church of the Brethren
were read by George C. Carl, chair
man of the committee, setting forth the
scope and purpose of such joint in
stitution, which provided for an or
ganization of a board of three mem
bers, one from each of the three
states, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
The report of the committee was adopt
ed and the incorporation papers will
be filed, when the organization of the
board of charities will be effected on
a business basis. Portland is the loca
tion specified in the incorporation pa
pers. There was considerable discussion of ,
the school question. Heretofore the
movement contemplated establishment
of a secular and Bible school com
bined, but at the meeting yesterday the
Idea of a secular school was eliminated.
It was held by Elder Carl. Elder Eby
and Elder Stover that the conference
could not hope to establish a secular
school to compete with the public
schools, which were backed with un
limited means. It was finally carried
to establish a Bible school in the dis
trict modeled after the Bethany Bible
School of the Church of the Brethren
In Chicago. It Is expected that a be
ginning will be made in Portland.
D. B. Eby, representing the mission
board, asked for J2500 for the general
work for the coming year, and the re
quest was granted. The apportion
ment was made on a basis of nearly
1.100 members in the three states of
J 2 per member.
J. H. Stover was elected a member of
the mission board to serve for five
years. George C. Carl, who has been
in charge of the Portland church for
two years, on recommendation of the
mission board, will remain in charge.
The name Powell Valley Church was
changed to Portland Church of the
Brethren, because the members reside
in Portland. There will be services this
morning in the church and a missionary
meeting at night. Most of the routine
business was closed up yesterday, but
the conference will remain in session
Monday and Tuesday.
Faith and Practice or the Church.
The Church of the Brethren, as it is
now called, was formerly known as the
German Baptist Church and as "Dunk
ards," because of Its belief in' trine bap
tism. - It has a simple faith. It be
lieves in "God, the Father and Creator
of ell: Jesus Christ the Son and Savior,
into whose hands has been given all
power of heaven and on earth." Faith
and repentance are necessary and the
baptism of the believer, placing htm at
once with fellowship with the church as
In the days of the Apostles. Trine Immer
sion is a required rite. The candidate
while kneeling is Immersed three times.
The ceremony of washing of feet is
practiced as an example of humbleness
followed by Christ with his disciples on
the night before the crucifixion. No mem
Scotland. Extra grade of Brussels,
$12
$35 China Closet
X. 815 This
handsome C h 1 na
Closet Is 36
Ins. wide by five
feet four inches
in height; made
, of best selected
Eastern oak,
quarter - s a wed
ana poiisned
irom nent
ends and d
P r iced regular!
at 5-ii.Hi, spec
price only
$30 Oak Table $19.50
Vo. 72 A very beautiful
quarter-sawed oak table ex
tends to six feet; has hand
polished top; pedestal is
handsomely ornamented;
made of best Eastern oak.
perfectlv seasoned. A table
worth $30, for only $19.50
No. 402 Here Is another
handsome table, solid quar
tered oak. round top, 6-foot,
ornamental pedestal; worth
$36, sale price only S22.50
You Are
Welcome
to Credit
CORNER SECOND AND YAMHILL
ber ever resorts to the. courts to settle
a dispute over money or property. Dis
putes are settled by arbitration. The
church opposes secret societies. In the
matter of dress, plainness and neatness
are practiced. The women wear a cov
ering for the head during meetings. This
covering is a simple white cap.
Is Democratic in Forms;
There are no bishops in this denom
ination. It is a democratic organization.
It has a number 'Of prosperous homes
for the aged and for orphans in the
East, where it ie quite strong. The
members resent the common belief that
they are a peculiar and ignorant class,
and point to their schools, institutions
for charitable work all over the United
States as showing they are Intelligent
Christian citizens. It 1b the testimony of
those who come in contact with them
that they are kind, hospitable, charitable
and intelligent people. In the Northwest
district, comprising Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, they have 1300 members. They
expect to gain largely by - the coming
of the general conference In 1911. They
desire to counteract as far as possible
the report that was sent broadcast
throughout the country that the women
of the church were in open rebellion over
the dress requirement. At the conference
in session in Portland the women are
wearing the "covering" for the head and
otherwise conforming with the church
regulations, which is shown in the pic
ture taken by an Orcgonian photographer
yesterday forenoon.
Castaways Itcach Manila.
MANILA, July 18. Forty more passen
gers of the launch San Gabriel, which
foundered two days ago while on Its way
from Manila to Corregidor Island, were
landed here today by the steamer Buena
9uerte. They are mostly women who re
fused to leave the wreck.
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