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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1908)
10 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 18, 1903. $12.50 HANDSOME CHASE LEATHER COUCH You would be surprised to know how many of your friends have paid the Big Price Boys $20 for these Couches. They have spring edge and smooth surface (not tufted like shown in cut), and will not catch dust. SPECIAL THIS WEEK AT S12.50 ! IF EVERYBODY knew how much cheaper J j ACORN STOVES AND RANGES Uver a million m use. q America's oldest make. The standard for 78 years. Best cast and steel Range made. Costs more, but lasts twice as long and saves fuel enough to pay for dtself. BUY ONLY AN ACORN I'fci'i .ff $25,0 00 SAVED PORTLAND FURNITURE THROUGH NO RENT PRICE BUY ERS S? $25,000 Yes, $25,000! It's a large sum of money, yet at the end of this year the people of Portland those who have bought furniture will actually be richer, by not less than $25,000, because of the fact that we opened-a large, first-class furniture store on the East Side at the beginning of the year, and have been selling furniture at prices no one imagined it could be sold, at prices which no firm could sell that pays rent. Rents from one-half of our large new four-story building; covering one fourth of a city block, pay interest and taxes on the whole investment, leaving us, rent free, space which on the West Side would cost us over $1000 a month. It puts us in a class entirely by ourselves. Others cannot possibly meet our prices because Others Pay Rent, We Collect Rent on Half our own sanding Who Can Sell the Cheapest? It was particularly fortunate for the people of Portland that we were able to develop an economical plan by which we could sell them furniture from 20 to 40 per cent lower than others, and also a most fortunate stroke for us. Our business is growing by leaps and bounds. September ran 35 per cent ahead of our best premium month's sales, and for the year we will do four times the business anticipated Do You Think Anything but Actual, Bona Fide Low Prices Would Have Brought the People to the East Side to a New and Unknown Firm to Buy Their Furniture? This Handsome $35.00 China Closet Special $27.00 Full quartered oak. Colonial style, would be an ornament to any dining-room. Big Price Boys would price it at $45. Our regu lar Xo-Rent Price is $35.00. Special $27.00 Hall Hatrack and Um brella Stand Spec'l $1.20 Stands 5 feet 6 inches high and is just the thing j-ou need for the office or home during the rainy season. A Great Bargain Special $1.20 Big' Special Sale on Kitchen Furnitu fA This 1C Week These Specials for This Week Only Xo phone orders taken. Deliver at convenience. TERMS CASH at these prices. H, I Kitchen Table g Jf V 1 With Drawer IB 1 I $130 Cabinet $6.50 ' Treasure $3i5 j ' 8 Drop ble $1.75 Finished $2.00 25 Per Cent Off This Week on the Celebrated Booster Cabinet Running for $25.00 to $37.50 We hesitated a lone time before in cltidiug these, but finnlly decided to make he big kitchen special complete. earns Foster' I I Did you over honr of such an offer Sleep on it HO nights, romp on it with the chil dren, put it tn any test you will. At the end of HO days, wo will take it ba;k again and return your money immediately, if your satisfaction is not complete. Just notify us that the mattress has boon a disappointment and without question quibble or argument, the mattress will be taken away and your money returned at once. O X 'i Wonts p jfricil These Mattresses Are Made of Purest Springy Cotton and by the Won derful Web Process 8165-85 CORNER IULU L. LL U yJ-Z7??Jj! Special machinery crosses aud re-crosses the filling cotton fibers into a continuous web. Forty of these buoyant webs laid one upon another make a layer, and nine of these layers make a Stearns & Poster Mattress. To make sntsh a mattress except, by their special rnaf-tamery would be absolutely impossible. Did you notice their two page ad. in the Saturday Evening Post, October 3 1 Prices $10.50, $13.50 and $16.00 r Telephone Orders Not Taken on Specials Terms Cash or C. O. D. Only One of Each Article to Each Person DAMAGING EVIDENCE GIVEN IOIIMI.K AtiKNT OK UM) COM PANY TKSTiriKS. 'William Kerr and Mrs. Lewis Tell of Operation of Port Orford Lumber Company. Further ci Idcijre of tli alleged fraudulent operations of ihe Pacific Furniture l.unner Company whs presented by the Gnvrmment In the Federal Court yesterday in the Curry County land-fraud case. Testimony of a damaging r!urrt'r was elicited for the prosecution from William Kerr, who for years served a land agent for the Los Angeles Company in its oper ation at Port Orford. Corroborative evidence of the same character was furnished by Mra. Mary C Lewis, of los Ana:elea. Mrs. Iewls testified that herself and huaband m-ere Induced to invest In about $no worth of stock In the Los .ngtlcs ''ompany. belna: sent subse quently to Oregon on the representa tion that Mr. Twis would be employed by tli company as an engineer at J3 a da". Tiie further- inducement, wit ness testified, was held out that 11 would be possible for the couple to acquire some valuable timber land In Orejron which could be sold at a good profit. Mrs. Lewis said she and her husband after spending tive weeks in the vicin ity of Port Orfor.l. discovered that the transaction by which the land was to be acquired was questionable and in cluded the understanding that It should be turned over to the company. Al though she had settled on a quarter section of the land, she frave up all attempts to complete proof and re turned to Los Angeles with her hus band, where they demanded and re ceived the amount of money they had invested In the company. At noon yesterday the court ad journed until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning- when the Government will re sume the introduction of testimony. Will-: VOn PARDOX Kffort lo Release Thaddeus Potter on (Grounds of lllnc. An effort will be made to secure the pardon of ThaddeuB S. Potter, con victed Oregon land-fraud operator. For several days Mra. Potter has been circulating a petition asking that the sentence of the court be aet aside on the gTounds that the defendant Is dan gerously ill. Armed with this peti tion, Mrs. Potter has gone to San Francisco personaUy to intercede with Francis J. Ileney In the interest of her husband's pardon. Potter formerly was employed In the law office of K. P. Mays, and it was while there he became implicated In the land frauds, lie was Indicted on a charge of conspiracy, tried and con victed and sentenced to serve six months in the County Jail and to pay a tine of $500. Ills case is nd"w on appeal. RELATION OF ART TREATED In Mis Locke's Third I-ectnre Mo fairs Arc Explained. Miss Josephine C. T.ocke yesterday delivered the third lecture in the series now being given by her in the Art Museum. The lecture dealt with the relation of art to the religion of the early Christian era. and the symbolism in which the art of that time had its origin. A portion of the lecture was devot ed to an explanation of the mosaics of Venice, Ravenna, Palermo and Home. and Panama have a disputed boundary question on their hands which Lula Anderson, who was president of the "Washington Central American Peace Conference, and who is now in this city, will make an effort to have settled as aoon as possible. Rival fruit companies operating between the east coast of the United States and Costa Rica also are anxious for a settlement of the question because large banana plantations are located there. The controversy as been pending for a long time and the State , Department, as well as others interested, are anxious to have tho boundary line correctly delimitated. Settle Boundary Line Dispute. WASHINGTON, Oct 17. Costa Ricm Nebraska Academy Burned. LINCOLN'. Neb., Oct. 17. The Ne braska Military Academy, located three miles west of this city, was destroyed by fire this morning. -Tho school was established this Fall by B. D. Hayward and the building ereet.-d for .the West ern Normal College waa equipped for the venture. The loss is estimated at $100. 000, with $20,000 insurance. Sixty-five boys were enrolled and these were taken from the building in safety. Tomorrow and Tuesday, positively the last days for discount on East Side gas bills. Don't forget to . read Gaa Tips. Hinimin Allen Co. pianos. The Wiley SENSATIONAL PRICE CUTTING OF TEN INCH UP-TO-DATE DISC RECORDS. ALSO SOME TALKING MACHINES Commencing Tuesday morning (not tomorrow, but Tnesday morning), ft 9 o'clock, we shall close ont 4000 perfect 10-inch disc records for all makes of talking machines. The established retail value of these records is 60 cents each. They have never been sold for less. To have quick action, Graves Music Co. will sell a lot of 4000 records, hundreds of different and most desirable titles, for less than what small dealers pay for them in large quantities. They will be sold in lots of not less than six to a buyer at 40 cents each or $2.40 a half-dozen. This is the first and only chance ever presented in Portland to buy records at less than wholesale prices. Think of it 60-cent records at one-third off. Graves Music Co., Ill Fourth street. A large number of more or less used talking machines have been received by us of late to ward payment of talking machines of higher grade and price. There are 26 machines all told. We are going to sell them at half price. We will make payments to suit any reasonable buyer. , Remember the- place. Graves Music Co., now at 111 Fourth street. The finest, best-appointed general music emporium west of Chicago. ,
