OEIKE RIGKMERS.
FIXED FOR WHEAT
T THE INTERNATIONALLY
INDORSED OPTICIAN
German Steamship Taken by
Portland Mills for Sep
tember Loading.
ESTABLISHED 1901
Returns to Portland and Resumes His Practice After Two Years Spent in the Leading Colleges of England, Germany and France
Below Are Reproduced a Few of the Hundreds of Press Notices on the "Thompson System" of Sight Testing, Perfected by Mr. Thompson, While in Europe
VESSEL BUCRANIA CLEARS
nrTr it i rrTnhiOa rv t
British Bottom Carries Cargo of
Lumber for China Exports of
Timber Exceed 8.000,000 Feet,
for August Marine Notes.
The Portland Flouring Mills Company
hve fixed the German steamship Delke
Rlckmers for September loading of wheat
for the United Kingdom. The rate quoted
on the craft is 28 .hillings and 3
pence. The charter was cloned several
davs ago. and it was not until yesterday
that the name of the steamer was dis
closed. The Deike Rickmers Is a vessel
of :5T net tons, and Is now in the Ori
ent. She carried general cargo from
Philadelphia for Chemulpo.
Steam tonnage is being taken in pref
erence to sail of late. The prevailing
rate for early loading has been 26 shill
ings 3 pence and plenty of vessels
offering at that figure. The minimum
1 rate for vessels belonging to the asso
ciation of sailing ship owners is 27 shill
ings 6 pence. Few fixtures of sail
craft have been announced during the
past two months.
September shipments of grain will be
unusually heavy. Exporters will be com
pelled to furnish cargoes for. the steam
ships which will arrive for September
loading. The vessels now in the harbor
will be given as quick dispatch as possi
ble. The steamships Braemount and
Strathlyon and the French bark Eugenie
Fautrel are working wheat and they will
get away before the end of the 'present
month.
Lumber exports, foreign, for the month
of August now total 8.732.469 feet, val
ued at 1119.796. The steamship Bucrania
cleared yesterday with 2. 850.000 feet, val
ued at $23,460, for Shanghai. This cargo
brought the figures well above the eight
million mark. During August of- last
year the total foreign shipments of lum
ber were a little in excess of 9.000.000
feet. The present month will run well
up past the ten million mark. The mills
are running full time. In spite of the
small shipments coastwise, and there is
a steady demand for timber, quantities
being in demand in foreign countries.
'WILL SEEK CHANGE OF VEXVE
Shipowners Propose to Take Viola
tors to Federal Court.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 21. Ship
owners employing non-union long
shoremen in this port announced this
morning that hereafter when strikers
or their sympathisers are arrested for
assaulting strikebreakers, the owners
will take the matter into the Federal
Court and out of the hands of tha
Municipal Judges. The fact that Uni
ted States Judge C. H. Hanford re
cently granted an injunction against
the strikers and scored them heavily
indicates that any man guilty of in
terfering with strikebreakers or !n any
way violating the Injunction will be
harshly dealth with by the Federal
Court. In speaking of the proposed
STEAMER CrTELXJGENCK.
Doe to Arrive. -
Nsma Prom. Date
Aieela Hongkong. .... In port
Brukviitr, .Coos Bar Aug. 23
Roanoke Loa Anisin...Aur. 25
Rom City. ...San Francisco. Auk. 25
Alliance Coot Bay Kmk. 27
Stat of CaJ.Fan Francisco. .?ept. 1
Oo. W. ElderSao Pedro Sept. 1
Numantlft...loDtkons bept. 10
Arabia Homkoni Sept.
Scheduled to Depart
Kama For. Date.
Alliance Coos Bay Aug. 28
State of CaJ.San Francisco. Sept. 5
Breakwater. . Coos Bav Auk. 2
Roanoke Loa Angela. .. Aug. 2T
Alma Hongkong Aug 27
Rose City... San Franclaco. . Aug. 29
Geo. W. ElderSan Pedro..... 3
Numantl. ...Hongkong Sept. 30
Cleared Saturday.
Brucranla. Br. steamship (Tilsley).
with 2.SS0.000 feot of lumber, valued
at S23.460.8O. for Shanghai.
change of venue. Captain J. S. Gibson,
of the shipowners, said this morning:
"The report that shipowners are
hereafter going to make an effort to
have assault cases taken into the
- Federal courts is true. Some of the
men arrested have been armed with gaa
pipe, slungshots and other Iron weap
ons, and there was reason to fear that
unless a stop was put to their practice
murder would be done on the water
front. The action of the City Police
Courts in relation to men arrested for
assaults on strikebreakers has occa
sioned comment.
"After securing a man who had
beaten an inoffensive strikebreaker al
most to a pulp and left him bleeding
and unconscious In the dirt, a sym
pathizer of the union, who vu landed
In Jail only after a fight with a police
man, was liberated because one of the
union officials visited the City Hall
and explained that the prisoner got
drunk and became overenthuslastlc
in the cause. The sluggers have shown
little partiality in the selection of their
victims, and when a man was found
dead a few days ago with a dent as
from a gaspipe on the eide of his head
there were many who believed that
he was murdered, perhaps by mistake.
This the police loudly deny."
BEACH RECORD IS BROKEN
T. J. Potter Carries Limit and Har
vest Queen Takes Balance.
Travel to the beach yesterday broke
all records for the steamers wnich serve
the north side. Fifteen minutes before
the time scheduled for leaving the cus
toms official on duty at the T. J. Pot
ter declared that she had all the passen
gers allowed by law. The steamer Har
vest Queen was placed In commission
immediately and she carried an addi
tional 200 people.
A large number of the passengers on
the Potter were excursionists from East
em Oregon, who were attracted by the
low rates quoted for a trip from Pendle
ton. Walla Walla and the adjacent country.
Crew for Steamer Relief.
Engineers and a deck crew will begin
overhauling the steamer Relief at Ceillo
tomorrow morning and the boat will be
gin operations on the Upper Columbia
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Le Numero quotidien SEINE & SEINE-ET-OISE: 15 centimes DEPARTMENTS : 20 centimes
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PARIS, MARDI 16 JUIN, 1908
Une Decouverte
R. A. Thompson, oculist americain, passionne le .monde medical avec son importante decouverte concernant
lexamen instantane de la Vue. II en fit hier la demonstration devant des prof esseurs de la Faculte, qui ont reconnu
a runanimite son utilite pour la Science. M. Thompson, ne a Brooklyn, n'a que trente-quatre ans.
TRANSLATION
. , . , j - . i. - ji.. i i -nrifh n UnArtant i"lrnverv for instaataneous sift"ht-testing. In
R. A. Thompson, an .American optician, asiuunncu mcuimi iu , .- .-. . --- r q.,.-!,," j -v-
nn,.tntinn hefore nrofessors of the faculty they unanimously declared it a great aid to science. Mr. Thompson was born in Brooklyn, N. T.
He is only 34 years of age. .
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Vol. XXXIV. No. 868.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908
American Optician Astonishes Physicians
Mr. Robert A. Thompson, an American eye specialist, delivered a most illuminating lecture on the eye at
the optical demonstration rooms of Mr. Sidney Richardson, off the Strand, on Wednesday evening. The
great number of students present were greatly interested in the extraordinary skill of Mr. Thompson,
who gave a practical demonstration of his "New System of Eyeglass Fitting." Several oculists present
who wore complicated glasses allowed Mr. Thompson to examine their eyes to see how near he would
come to the proper prescription. To their great astonishment, he found the proper correction in each
case in less than five minutes. Mr. Thompson leaves England shortly to continue his studies in France.
Mr. Thompson Personally Examines Every Case. Difficult Cases Solicited.
London Paris Manchester
Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 59-60,' May 14, 1908.
The City Editor, Portland Oregonian, Portland, Or.
Dear Sir: The undersigned, a fellow American newspaper man, representing the
above-named interests in Germany, bats the appended item along to The Oregonian,
thinking it may have some local interest.
If I can ever serve you here, please command. Yours truly, F. W. WILE.
One of the most successful American "invasions" which has taken place in Ger
many in recent years is that engineered by Robert A. Thompson, a Portland, Oregon,
boy and expert optician, who came here a year ago to teach Germans whom Thack
aray called a "nation in spectacles" what eyeglasses are and are not. Mr. Thomp
son has been putting in a busy twelvemonth learning all Germany has to teach in his
profession, and has been called upon to deliver lectures to students of both American
and German nationality, fie has perfected a marvelous system of eye-testing whjh
German experts declared a genuine "eye-opener." Previous to coming to Berlin, Mr.
Thompson won recognition in London and and Paris.
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209 CORBETT BUILDING, STH AND MORRISON STS.
September 1. ' She will make only short
hauls, and will operate principally be
tween Celllo and Columbus. Several trips
will b made to Arlington and Alderdale.
Wheat Is coming in rapidly and it is tha
Intention of the Open River Company to
keep the grain cleared up as well as
possible with the Relief until the com
pletion of the two new steamers now
under construction.
XEV BELLi BVOY IS PLACED
Government Aids Navigation at
Entrance to Columbia.
eighth east of the outer buoy, which
marks the entrance to the south channel
of the Columbia River, the Government
has placed a new bell buoy. The new
aid to navigation is anchored in 15 fath
oms of water and is about a mile to
the southward of the bar. The buoy
was fixed in position yesterday by the
tender Heather.
Last year bell buoy was set to the
southward of the outer south channel
buoy. It was moored in shoal water,
and late In the season It sank. The
general impression was that It pounded
Itself to pieces against the bottom. -The
new bell will greatly assist navigators.
During the early part of the coming
week the Heather will replace spars in
the Columbia.
Marine Notes.
The steamship Bucrania will sail to
day for Shanghai.
The steamship State of California sailed
yesterday for 8an Francisco.
The steamship Breakwater Is due to
arrive this evening from Coos Bay.
The steamship Alliance sailed last night
for Coos Bay. Every berth on the steam
er was taken. The Alliance also took
300 tons of cargo.
Arrivals and Departures.
PORTLAND. Aug. 2!. Sailed Steamship
8tate of California, for Pan Francisco;
steamship Alllanc. for Coot Bay.
Astoria. Aug. 32. Condition of the bar at
5 P. M. Obaourad; wind south." 12 miles;
weather cloudy. Arrived down during Jthe
night Steamer Homer. Arrived at 9 A. M.
Tujr Robarts. from sluslaw;. Sailed at 10:25
A. M. British ship Ancalos, for Liverpool.
Arrived at 2:13 P. M. Steamer Cascade,
from San Francisco.
San Francisco. Aug. 22. Arrived .yester
day Steamer Maverick. from Portland.
Sailed at noon Steamer Rose City. Sailed at
2 P. M. Steamer Roanoke, for Portland.
Arrived at 8 P. M. Steamer J. Marhofter,
from Portland. -
San Pedro. Aug. 22 Arrived Steamer
Roma, from Portland.
Falmouth. Aug. 22 Arrived August 21
French bark Marecha! Devout, from Port
land; British bark Port Patrick, from Port
land. Port San Luis. Aug. 22. Arrived yester
day Steamer Atlas, from Portland.
Lisard. Aug. 22. Passed British bark
Alice Marie, for Queenstown, from Portland.
Hongkong. Aug. 22 Arrived previously
Korea, from San Francisco, via Honolulu
and Yokohama.
San Francisco. Aug. 52. Arrived
Steamers Govnor from Victoria; J. Mar
hoffer from Columbia River. Sailed
Steamer Rameaes for Hamburg, via Seat
tle: Rose City for Portland; Argyll for
Vancouver; Svea for Grays Harbor; Wat
son for Seattle; Roanoke for Astoria; Mave
rick for Seattle. Schooner C.oqullle for
Suislaw; Guide for Tillamook.
it Astoria Sunday.
Low.
11:35 A. M 7.0 feetl
10:50 P. M 8.1 feeti8:l P. M 3.4 feet
Tide
High.
LAWYERS WILL GO NORTH
State Bar Association to Be Repre
sented at Seattle.
Portland will, be well represented
at the sessions of the American Bar
Association at Seattle from Tuesday to
Friday. Thirty local practitioners are
planning to attend. The State Bar
Association will be represented by
Thomas O'Day, C. E. Wolverton, . and
C. K. S. Wood. Others who intend to
go are: Attorney-General A. M. Craw
ford. Charles H. Carey, D. Soils Cohen,
John 1L Oearin, Thomas O. Greece, R.
R. Duniway. W. W. Cotton, Fred W.
Mulkey. H. H. Emmons. C. M. Idleman,
J. Couch Flanders. F. V. Holman, S. B.
Llnthlcum. Harrison Allen. Charles J.
Schnabel, Lionel R. Webster. Alexander
Bernstein. T. J. Cleeton. Arthur P. Tlfft.
Richard W. Montague. Hilton Schwartz,
W. Minor. E. T. Taggart, John K. Kol
lock, James Glisan. Jerry Bronaugh.
Phil Herz, C. W. Petrain, Arthur Lang
guth and C. A. Bell.
It Is proposed to Induce as many
delegates as possible to visit Portland
before returning to their homes. Many
prominent lawyers from all part of
the United States will be in attendance
and It is desired that they should ee
something of Oregon.
Rewards for Mall Robbers.
Rewards aggregating 33000 have
been offered by the United States and
the Northern Pacific for the arrest and
conviction of the two men that held
up and robbed a Northern Pacific mall
train near Trent, Wash, on the night
of August 14 last. The two men
boarded the engine at Trent and when
a few miles from that town, detached
the mail car and forced the engineer to
proceed several rods down the track.
Realizing that a holdup was in prog
ress, the mall clerks took advantage of
the few minutes' Interruption and hid
all of the valuable through registered
packages. When the robbers finally
entered the mail car, all that remained
for them was a few local registered
packages, which netted them not to
exceed 3S, and some cheap Jewelry.
Special sfle fine shoes at Rosenthal's.
Of til rsrietlei permanently cures in a few oars witbw
a aarrlcal operation or detention from btttineM. Ne pay
in b accepted until the patient ! completely tilled.
.XpS Fidelity Rupture Cuki
S14 -wetland Bids.. PORTLAND. OR.