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REAL ESTATE
DRAMATIC
AND SPORTING
SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to lO
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1909
NO. 33.
BILL IKES
CABINET RICKETY
WILL
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VOL. XXVIII.
AUGUST FURMTUR
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bought goods at figures which seemed to you were ridiculously low, but never
before in all your born days have you seen goods of such splendid character "
sacrificed at such prices as we are making on this stock of the Grand Rapids
SPECIAL SALE OF
DINING
TABLES
We Have the Largest Display
of Good Tables In Oregon.
Solid oak Pedestal Table, is
golden oak finish, extends 6
feet long, 43-inch top; heavy
psdestal base, giving the ta
ble strength and d e s i gn ;
Gadsbys' price ....$12.50
Who Can Sell You
Couch Like This for .
Couch is upholstered in two-tone velours, beautiful greens, reds
and browns. Gadsbys' price... $7.50
THIS $30.00 dkO O tLf
GASRANGE yJjJd.UX)
DIRECT ACTION GAS RANGES ALWAYS SATISFY
DIRECT ACTION GAS RANGE IS BEST BECAUSE:
It does not heat oven when you broil
broiler when yon bake or roast.
Broiler fire in plain view
when broiling or toasting.
Oven fire in plain view when
baking or roasting.
All the valves have regulating
orifice for the gas pressure.
Burner caps not cemented, bat
loose easy to clean.
Gas connections free.
Old stoves taken in exchange
for new ones.
We allow you all they are
worth in exchange.
We Can Show You 375 Different Pat
terns in Room -Size Rugs Without Any
Trouble With Our Rug Display Racks
Brussels Rugs, Dunlap, 9x12 $ 9.00
Brussels Burlington, 9x12 $14.95
Roval Brussels Rugs, 9x12 . ...S19.SO
Wilton Velvet Rups, 9x12, guaranteed 20 years S22.50
Bagdad Wiltons, 9x12 $39.75
Axminster Rugs. 9x12 $29.25
Burmah Pro-Brussels, 9x12 $10.80
Extra quality Ingrain, 9x12 $ 9.75
Larger and smaller sizes in proportion.
Regardless of where yon may have looked at rags this is the
one place to buy them. Here are newer patterns, more sizes, hand
somer rugs and more of them than yon'U see anywhere else. Yon
can never appreciate the extent or variety our stock affords until
you visit this great department.
YOU NEVER SAW ITS EQUAL
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Gadsbys' 5 -Piece
This beautiful snit is superb, both in quality and appearance. It consists of five massive pieces,
upholstered in beautiful tapestry and velour; the frame is piano-finished, mahoganized birch, and the
filling and springs unsurpassed. Most attractive suit you can put in your house for price. .$25.00
Where Can You
Beat This
Morris Chair
for
9.Z5
Made throughout of solid oak, beau
tifully quarter-sawed and highly pol
ished; has full spring seat and can be
adjusted to five different positions;
cushions are reversible and come
in selected patterns of
velour. Gadsbys ' ' price .
$9.75
Credit that '1b really helpful to you In furlshing your home, together with the lowest
department store prices, is the magnet that makes this furniture business go forward
with leaps and bounds. The easiest terms possible,- according to your wants, can be
arranged for, and your selections made from a well-chosen, up-to-date stock that is broad
enough to cover all your needs. ONE PRICE, AND THAT THE VERY LOWEST.'TO
EVERYBODY, WHETHER CASH OR PAYMENTS. : . .. "
IN ALL YOUR
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to this in point of values it stands head and shoulders above everything
we have ever before attempted. There hasn't been such a sale held before m
Portland in years no, not in many years!
Parlor Suit $25
Buy a Range
Like This for
Steel Range with high clofeet
and duplex grate, spring-balanced
oven door. This is a
heavy, substantial and durable
range, made of the best quality
cold-rolled steel. . Adapted for
coal or "wood. Oven thorough
ly braced and bolted, asbestos
lined throughout, nickel
trimmed; section-plate top.
Gadsbys' price
is i
$27.50
50
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sale before that would measure up
Here's Another
Sideboard Reduced to
$15
This handsome Sideboard, well worth
$25.00; Gadsbys' price $1500
$15 Princess Dresser
$9.50
Princess Dresser with oval or shaped
French bevel mirror, finished golden;
regular $15.00 value ; Gadsbys ' spe
cial price 99.50
REFRIGERATORS
MUST GO
We are closing out our Refrigerators;
20 per cent discount Monday morn
ing. This Refrigerator for $10.0)
Sill
i
Asquith's Majority Reduced to
Eight on Measure to Help
Emerald Isle.
IRISH FORCES DESERT HIM
BlrreU Boasts Ireland Is Peaceful,
Landowners Says Blrrell's Op
tion Makes Them Losers
Either Way.
DUBLIN. Aug. 14. (Special.) Darin
the committee stage of the Irish land
bill In the House of Commons the gov
ernment majority was reduced to eight.
The method by which it proposes to raise
the money required for land purchase Is
not approved by any section In Parlia
ment. Sir Frederick Banbury moved an
amendment whloh struck at the very root
of the scheme, and found a seconder In
John Dillon. In the division which en
sued the majority of 120 was composed
of Ministerialists alone, while the minor
ity of 122 was made up of Unionists,
Nationalists and the bulk of the labor
party. A week before, the government
experlenoed a similar, though not quite
so decided, a shock.
Mr. Lonsdale discussing the condition
of Ireland, said the decrease In crime
was due not to the absence of the spirit
of lawlessness, but to the policy of giving
the chief secretary a chance. '
Captain Craig complained that the chief
secretary had been coerced Into handing
over hie executive powers to the United
Irish League.
Reducing Irish Police Force.
Mr. Birrell said Ireland waff quiet now
but would not have been if he had fol
lowed the advice of the Unionists. The
peace would continue as long as Ireland
was wisely and . sympathetically gov
erned. Ha did not believe the breaking
up of the grass lands would injuriously
affect the Irish cattle trade, but what
ever the result might be It would be pre
posterous to blame the government for
pursuing a policy which was Inevitable,
If a large number of economic small
holdings were to be provided.
Tie time was rapidly approaching when
the' extra police might be reduced. It
was a regrettable fact that over since
the Land Act of 1903 It had been neces
sary to Increase the police force. He
should do his best, consistenly with the
duty of protecting people In the' different
localities, to effect reductions In the
extra police force.
Landlord Loses Either Way.
The financial clauses of the bill passed
the committee stage without the slight
est change. A critic of the government
sums up the results aa follows: The
government takes power to Issue S per
cent or 2 per cent stock as suits Its
convenience. The 2 stock, guaranteed
at 92, Is to finance the bargains already
made, amounting to atotal of more than
62,000,000; and unless "the landlords who
have sold "choose" this, they take their
chance of getting paid In cash any time
for the next 12 years. In short, their
"option" Is: to remain practically as they
ere, with their land sold and no pay
ment, or to accept the new 2 stock;
but on this. If they accept It, they stand
to lose 6 to 7 from every 100 worth
of their land, on the terms of the bar
gains made. "Excess stock" will be Is
sued to them for 8 in every 100 to
meet the slump; but with the price of
the present stock under 86 a further 6
remains to be lost. Will the- landlords go
through with the bargains at such a loss
on the terms agreed? If not, let them
wait; and Mr. Birrell seems to smile with
pleasure at his cleverness. The cruel
part of it Is that so many of the land
lords can afford neither to wait for cash
nor to lose 6 per cent on the agreements
they have made. It looks as If the gov
ernment had deliberately taken advan
tage of their hardship to give thbill
an appearance of being workable.
The one man who has so far dis
tinguished himself In these agrarian
debates with an, ability which
puts his country under obligations
to him Is Mr. Hobhouse, who, though
not an Irishman, appears to know more
about the measure than all the Irish Na
tionalists put together. He has succeeded
In safeguarding the treasury at every
point In so far as this measure makes
tt possible; and, always with his facts
ready, he has done It without making
himself unpleasant to his Irish allies.
Statistics of Cattle Drives.
A Parliamentary paper which has been
Issued gives a return showing the number
of cattle-drives during 1607 and 1908, and
the first quarter of 1900, with the number
of persons convicted or bound over. The
number of cattle-drives Is given at 1136;
persons convicted or bound to the peaoe,
1385 (lnoluding those who failed to find
bail and were sent to Jail In default):
their occupations were farmers, 643;
farmers' sons, 646; laborers, 160; other oc
cupations, 116.
The correspondent of the London
Morning Post in Dublin says he has
been Informed by an official of the con
gested districts board that it has in Its
pigeon-holes a scheme for dealing with
congestion mainly on the lines of test
colonies capitalized under efficient direc
tion to determine whether the congested
peasants are capable of prosperity on the
prairies.
TECHNICAL INSULT, THIS
Frenchmen Gave Wooden Horse to
General Picqnart as Joke.
PARIS, Aug. 14. (Special.) Before Gen
eral Picquart retired as Minister of War,
a deputation of the "Camelots of the
King" called at the War Office and
banded a wooden hobby-horse to the
usher on duty. The deputation said that
the horse was a present to General Pic
quart in memory of his misfortune of
July 14, when he fell from his horse dur
ing the review on Longchamp race
course. Before the deputation got away
from the War Office an attache caught
them up and asked for an explanation.
The explanation given was that the
camelots were anxious for the Minister's
safety, and had brought him a horse
in which he could have full confidence.
This being a technical insult, the deputa
tion were arrested and taken to the near
est Police Station, where they were set
free after their names and addresses bad
been sal'-