DRAMATIC
and SPORTING
SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to 8
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 31, 1909.
NO. 8.
VOL. XXVIII.
Gadsbys Sale of Furniture and
Carpets Continues
This is the time of the year we reduce stock. The most favorable opportunity in the history of Portland to
furnish single rooms or complete flats below even our former special prices. Those who have rooms to fur
nish now, or expect to have within the next six months, CANNOT AFFORD to ignore the wonderful possi
bilities presented in this great February sale.
$10.00 BRASS BED ONLY $20.00
We have a beautiful line of Braes Beds to
Ehow you. This solid Brass Bed. . . .20.0Q
Special Bargains
in Discontinued Pat
terns of CARPETS
63 yards No. 1359 Tapestry Brussels, regular
price $1.00. now I 50
54 yards Xo. 643, Tapestry' Brussels, regular
price $1.00, now.. '. 50
18 yards No. 1228, extra quality Brussels, regu
lar price $1.50, now 7o
19V2 yds. No. 5026, Axminster, reg. $1.60, now 80
13 yards No. 390, Axminster, reg. $1.60. now 80
121 vds., No. 731B, Axminster, reg. $1.56, now 80
47 yards, No. 592B, Axminster, reg. $1.60, now 80
16- yards Bussorah, regular $2.25 yard, now.. $1.00
GADSBYS 5-PIECE PARLOR SUIT $25.00
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This beautiful suit is superb, both in quality and appearance. It consists of five massive pieces, uphol-1
stered in beautiful vclour; the frame is finished mahogany on birch, and the filling and springs are un
surpassed; the most attractive suit that you can put into your house for the price Gadsby's..$2o.OO
BOOKCASES AT CLEARANCE
SALE PRICES
We Can Show You 375 Different Pat
terns of Room-Size Rus, without any
trouble, with our Rug Display Racks
Brussels Rug, Dun
lap, 9 by 12 $ 9.00
Brussels Burlington,
9 by 12 $18.00
Royal Brussels
Rugs, 9 by 12..... $25.00
"Wilton Velvet Rugs,
9 by 12, guaranteed
20 years $27.50
Bagdad Wiltons, 9
by 12 $39.73
Axminster Russ,
imported, 9 by 12. .$25.25
Burmah Pro -Brussels,
9 by 12 $10.80
Extra quality In
grain, 9 by 12 $ 9.75
Larger and smaller sizes ia
proportion.
This Bed
Davenport
$25.00
ROCKERS REDUCED
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ram
$50 solid mahogany Cases. .$39.75
$45 solid mahogany Cases. .$32.50
$40 mahogany Bookcases. . .$29.00
$33 solid oak Bookcases.... $26.50
$30 solid oak Bookcases. .. .$22.50
$25 solid oak Bookcases. .. .$16.50
$20 solid oak Bookcases. .. .$14.50
$18 Bookcases now $13.50
Others as low as $3.50
$3.50 Rockers now..
$5.00 Rockers now.
$7.00 Rockers now..
$8.00 Rockers now..
$9.00 Rockers now..
$25.00 Rockers now.
..$2.25
. .$3.75
..$5.75
..$6.50
..$1.00
.$20.00
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Massive oak frame, beautifully upholstered in electric verona;
very heavy solid oak frame; upholstered in beautiful velour,
with box for ,beddin?. Price : $25.00
$5.00 Deposit, $1.00 Per Week.
CHINA CLOSET SALE
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$2-5.00 China Closet now. ..$17.50
$30.00 China Closet now. . .$24.00
$35.00 China Closet now. . .$27.50
$40.00 China Closet now... $33.00
$45.00 China Closet now... $36.00
This Ia Your Chance to Buy a Good
China Closet Cheap.
DRESSERS REDUCED
$45.00
$40.00
$35.00
$32.00
$30.00
$25.00
$20.00
$15.00
$12.00
Dressers now $36.00
Dressers now .$32.00
Dressers now... ..$28.00
Dressers now $26.00
Dressers now. $24. OO
Dressers now.......... $20.00
Dressers now S1G.OO
Dressers now $12.00
Dressers now $9.00
BUY THIS OUTFIT COMPLETE FOR
$8.75
This outfit, consisting of double bed with
brass knoh, woven wire spring with cot
ton top mattress; Gadsby's price $8.75
COMBINA'N BOOKCASE BARGAINS
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$35.00 quartered oak Bookcase $27.00
$30.00 quartered oak Bookcase $24.00
$25.00 quartered oak Bookcase $20.00
$15.00 Bookcase reduced to.... $15.00
THIS ELEGANT DINING TABLE FOR
$10.00
You .will be asked a third more at other
stores. It is made of selected wood, in
golden or weathered finish; the 6-foot
size marked at -. $10.00
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RENT TO
PAY, THAT'S
WHY WE
SELL
FOR LESS
BIG DAM CHECKS
COLORADO FLOOD
Great Work of Reclamation
Saves Imperial Valley
From Ruin.
OBSTACLES ARE OVERCOME
AVithout Rock for Foundation, En
gineers Build Dam on. Piles.
Great Area of Rich Iand
to Be Open Next Fall.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20. (Special.) The
region of the lower Colorado River, the
valley of the American Nile, as It Is
sometimes called, now offers an in
creased number of opportunities be
cause of the completion by the United
States Reclamation Service of the dam
that diverts water to the Yuma project.
The work of harnessing this unruly
river and making it water the sur
rounding land was difficult, but the
dam was finally completed, after a
spectacular struggle, and the entire
flow passed through the giant sluice-,
ways on both sides.
Ever since the day when the water
defied all efforts to control it and be
gan to spread wholesale destruction in
the Imperial Valley the Colorado River
has been recognized as presenting seri
ous problems for those who wish to
control It. But the prize in sight is
well worth tho effort, because of the
uncommon productiveness of the land
when irrigated.
. The size and uncertainty of the river,
the shifting channel and unstable
banks, the yearly Inundations, great
variations in volume from low water
to flood heights and the immense
amount of silt carried by the yellow
water troubled the engineers con
tinually. Build Dam on Sand and Silt.
Having no bedrock for a base, the
engineers had to build on the sand and
silt a dam that would be strong enough
to check the flow of one of the most
powerful and unruly rivers on the con
tinent. In addition, provision had to
be made for depositing the silt car
ried by the water; otherwise the canals
would soon be choked up.
The following description of the dam
was furnished by the constructing en
gineer, E. D. Vincent:
"The weir that was built across the
Colorado Is of the type that has been
in successful operation in India and
Egypt for many years under conditions
practically Identical with those found
in Yuma Valley. The most advantag
eous weir site was found at Laguna,
12 miles abovo Yuma, where gigantlo
mountains encroach on the river valley,
leaving an opening about a mile wide.
'Three concrete core walls 4SO0 feet in
length and 67 to 93 feet apart extend from
bluff to bluff. The crest wall, with a
maxlnjum height of 19 feet above the bed
of tne stream, rests upon a row or six-
inch sheet piling, from 12 to 20 feet in
length, incorporated in its base to cut oft
seepage.
The space between the walls is fllled
with broken stone and an apron of rock
extends 40 feet beyond the lower wall. The
structure between walls is capped with a
concrete pavement 18 Inches thick. On
the upstream side of the weir a talus of
broken rock, with an incline of two feet
horizontal to one foot vertical, protects
the concrete structure. The dam is 4SO0
feet long between abutments, 19 feet high
in the river channel and 228 feet in width
up and down stream.
Great Steel Sluice Gates.
The water will be raised about 10 feet by
this dam and will be backed upstream
nearly 10 miles. A settling basin of about
eight square miles will thus be formed.
At the west of the weir is a sluiceway 116
feet wide cut through the granite. The
sluiceway at the east end of the dam is
somewhat smaller. These sluiceways are
closed by large gates operated by hydrau
lic machinery. The gates are of what are
known as the Stoney type, the only, other
examples of thl3 kind being on the sani
tary canal south of Chicago. The gates
are of steel, 18 feet high and 35 feet wide.
As the flow is slow the water for irriga
tion la to be taken off by a sort of skim
ming process. When the silt has accumu
lated in large amounts gateo will be
opened and the rush of water will clean
out the deposit in the settling basin. In
times of flood the Colorado overflows its
banks and inundates the surrounding
country for miles. In order to afford pro
tection for the lower lands an elaborate
BVKtem of levees has been built. These
dykes hav an aggregate length of 75 miles
and are of the same size as tnose aiong
the Mississippi.
XTse Power to Pump Water.
?nrta win. Krt made to utilize the great
energy of the river in the development of
water power ana in tnis manner mo mea
lands are to be irrigated by pumping.
Some pumping is now being, done by
means of a peculiar water wneei, wmcn
represents a modification OI an iaea mat
as been used successiuuy in nuuauii.
In building the dam work was done
from both shores. The sides of the dam
a n., .Rinf int until An opening of
gmuu.Lij -, "
only 600 feet remained. A short distance
up stream from the dam two temporary
railroad bridges were constructed. These
rested on piles driven into the sand of
11.. .t... KrtttrtTn Cnra were run out on
these temporary bridges and rock was
dumped into tne "water, uniii um uuuun
i w 1 H ThA work of ex-
was t;uimit. l- -.f -
tendlng the core walls was then taken up
and is nemg pusnea ri"i"j umi. n
expected the aam wm on iiinsueu nun
month.
Open to Settlers Xext Fall.
(vi.ior It fx -nrohable that 17.000
acres In the Indian reservation on the
California side' of the river will be
thrown open for settlement. The exact
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QtllQ "Will WO ......... w. J
tary of the Interior. All such announce
ments ere made as puonciy a pussium,
and there is no chance to obtain "inside"
information. At present it is Impossible
for anyone xo giv vu.. wij mujiiiiuv
further than the statement that the land
, ,:, t ... i t h rn n r, (infTl Tl OT T ball.
IS 1 1 li" J y " -f - ---
probably in October. . The land Is valu
able, and will be irrigated by the TJnite,d
States Reclamation Service.
"Water will be ready lor otner janas un
der this prelect during the present year.
The Reclamation Service will supply
rwater to only a limited area for each
holder. If anyone already owns a larger
amount, he must sell his excess holdings.
and in this way many opportunities are
offered for those who wish land.
ASKS FUEL CONSERVATION
Sir William Ramsey Says Coal Will
Be Tntrayable In 200 Tears.
LOXDON, Feb. 20. (Special.) Consid
erable interest has been aroused in scien
tific and commercial circles by the
speech delivered by Sir "William Ramsay
at the Mansion House meeting in con
nection with the British Science Guild
last week, in which he dealt with the
future of tha coal supply in England.
Interviewed by a press representative
yesterday at University College, Sir "Wil
liam Ramsay said the report of the
Royal Commission showed that the- coal
supply would not last more than from
jRRF.ST OF" ATTORXEY CALLS
ATTENTION- TO AMBl
LAXCE CHASING,"
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Joseph Shay, of New York City.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20. (Spe
cial.) Joseph Shay, who has Just
been arrested in connection with
an attempted rescue of a prisoner
from the Tombs, first came into
general prominence as attorney
for the Halns brothers, charged
with the murder of William E.
Annis. His case grows out of the
system known in the legal pro
fession as "ambulance chasing."
Many lawyers who make a spe
cialty of street railway damage
suits have special agents watch
ing ambulance calls so as to get
in connection quickly with those
accidents and obtain control of
their cases. Shay is charged with
trying to effect the escape of a
who are injured in street railway
man now under arrest who was
formerly an ambulance chaser for
him, and the reason given is that
he feared revelations this man
might make to the District At
torney. Shay's standing in his
profession has always been good
and the case is yet to be tried.
BOO to 800 years. Long before the coal
supply became exhausted there would
be a diminished production, with higher
prices.
"So that we may expect," he continued,
"that within not more than 200 years,
or even less, the high price of coal will
render the life conditions of the living
very difficult. It is obvious that the life
of our nation can be prolonged by strict
economy promoted by legislation. The
question of export duty on coal at once
suggests Itself together, with the afores
tatlon of the country, restriction of the
use of machines which consume larger
proportions of energy compared with the
results they yield."
Sir William urged that the present gen
eration should exercise thought for the
generations to come by conserving the
stores of coal existing in England, other
wise in 200 years he foresaw a genera
emigration irom ji,ngiana to otner coun
tries and the decay of the industries do
pendent upon coal for their energy.
BRICK WALL COSTS DEARLY
Two Hundred Times Value of land
Paid in Ijegal Fees.
PARIS. Feb. 20. (Special.) M. Labtche
bought a little piece of land in 1903 from
the city. On the little piece of landl was
a little brick wall. This wall was useless
to M. Lablche, and he wanted it pulled
down.
"By all means," said the executive
council of the Paris parish, from which
he had bought the land, "by all means
pull the wall down."
"Yes, but at your expense," said M.
Lablche. "I bought the land; I didn't buy
the walL"
"We sold you what we had," replied
the council, and the matter went before
the court.
After three years of legal argument
the court decided that the parish must
pull down half the wall and M. Lablche
the other half. Both parties appealed,
and last week the court, after three days'
deliberation, came to a decision. The
decision was that an expert should be
called in. When he has handed in hla
verdict the court will decide, and then
both parties may appeal again. The
little piece of land was sold originally
for $14.97. The parish has paid J19T0 into
court up to date, and 11. Lablche J1820.
GAMBLE IN RAILWAY DEPOT
Russians Absorbed by Craze to Get
Rich by Little Effort.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20. (Special.
Gambling has become an absorbing pas
sion In St. Petersburg, even ladies ne
glecting all other occupations in order
to tempt fortune. The police have been
compelled to take action. A woman's
gambling den in one of the chief streets
was recently closed, and today a raid
was made at the great railway terminus,
known as the Warsaw Station, whence
the express trains leave for abroad.
A detective officer. Colonel Ladkovski,
discovered a gambling club in the station.
It is alleged that the club was kept by a
police Inspector named Tsheikokoff, and
by a railway cashier named Vassllleff,
who were arrested.
It is stated that wealthy passengers
awaiting the departure or arrival of
trains were Invited to play and even
fleeced of their railway tickets, which
the cashier, it is alleged, resold. The
police seized J4000 found in th club.
GMFTD 5C0VERED
IN FORESTRY BILL
Landowners Seek Chance to
Sell to Government at
Fabulous Prices.
HAWLEY EXPOSES DEFECTS
Oregon Congressman Opposes Crea
tion of Appalachian Reserve on
Ground That Sleasure- Has
Many Vicious Features.
OREGOXIAX XEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 20. The Appalachian-White
Mountain forest reserve bill. In tho
shape in which it was recently reported
by a majority of the House Committee
on Agriculture, Is generally regarded
by Western men in Congress as a most
vicious and most dangerous piece of
legislation. Instead of being an honest
bill, seeking solely to accomplish the pur
pose originally intended, it has been al
tered and amended until it contains Jok
ers of stupendous importance.
Instead of providing for the creation
of a forest reserve in the Appalachian
Mountains, and a smaller one in the
White Mountains, the bill has been so
shaped as to authorize the Federal Gov
ernment to buy worthless mountain
peaks In all parts of the United States,
and no limit is fixed upon tho prioe that
can be paid for these worthless areas.
Having awakened to a realization of the
true -purport and extent of the bill,
Westerners do not hesitate to denounce
It is a graft, and Western opposition
coupled with exposure, will kill the bill
In the Senate If It manages to get
through the House.
Many Amendments Made.
The advocates of a forest reserve In
the Appalachian Mountains started out
with an honest and avowed purpose.
They wanted the Government to buy up
several million acres of timber land
along this range of mountains, and con
vert the area into a forest reserve, to be
operated and controlled as are the forest
reserves of the West. But Congress held
that the Federal Government had no
constitutional right to go into the vari
ous states and buy up vast quantities of
private forests merely to place those for
ests under administration. To overcome
this obstacle tho advocates of the big
Southern forest reserve scheme altered
the title of their bill, and changed their
arguments in its behalf.
Instead of a bill looking to the preser
vation of the timber, it became a bill
to "maintain the navigability of navigable
streams," and the preservation of the
timber became of secondary or Incidental
importance. It was held by many that
Congress had power to control navigable
waters, and therefore had power to do
whatever It might deem necessary to
keep such waters in a navigable condi
tion. It was argued, therefore, that by
buying up all the watersheds in the Ap- -paiachian
and White Mountains, control
ling the forests, etc., the Government
would put a stop to erosion, and prevent
the collection of silt and sediment in the
navigable rivers of those regions.
Chance for Graft Unlimited.
Having established this technical
ground for getting around the consti
tutional objection to the scheme, the
Southern and New England Representa
tives in Congress proceeded to frame a
bill along those lines. But before they
got through, they had a measure that
not only authorized the purchase of
watersheds in the Appalachian and
White Mountains, but in all parts of
the United States, never once, how
ever, fixing a limit on the price to be
paid for this mountainous land.
As far as the original proposition is
concerned, the bill contemplates the Im
mediate purchase of 5.000,000 acres in
the Appalachian Mountains and 600,
000 acres in the White Mountains. But
the Forest Service, which is primarily
the instigator of the movement, frankly
admitted before the House committee
that there are 75,000.000 acres in the
Appalachian Mountains "which will
have to be given protection before the
hardwood supply Is on a safe footing
and before the watersheds of the Im
portant streams are properly safe
guarded." Hawley Stoutly Opposes Bill.
Notwithstanding the outward change
of front on the part of the advocates of
this bill, the main object, now as al
ways, is to place the mountain forests
of the Southern Appalachians and the
White Mountains under the control of
the Forest- Service.
A minority of the committee, includ
ing the chairman and Representatives
Hawley, of Oregon, and Cook, of Colo
rado the only Western members have
opposed the bill In its present form and
on sundry grounds. They question the
constitutionality of the hill. In the first
place, and believe that if the Southern
forests are to be protected, it would
best be by the respective states, inas
much as the lands are not public lands,
but entirely in private ownership. Then
they criticise the legislation because it
opens the way for the expenditure of
millions upon millions, and possibly
billions of dallars of public money in
the acquisition of private timber lands
everywhere. They point out that once
it becomes known the Federal Govern
ments Intends to buy this land, prices
will be boosted, and present owners,
many of them unable to iind a market
at any price, either because of the poor
quality or inacessibility of their lands,
would gladly unload onto the Govern
ment at a good fat price.
KAISER AIDS EMIGRANT?
Lends Sloney to Poor Baron AVho
Becomes African Farmer.
BERLIN. Feb. 20. (Special.) The
German Emperor has become an emi
gration agent. He Is desirous that im
pecunious aristocrats who cannot make
a living In Germany should emigrate
to German Southwest Africa, and be
come useful members of that l.erman
colony. He has lent Baron de Schmid
$12,600 to enable him to settle in Ger
man Southwest Africa and begin life
as a farmer.