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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, ' PORTLAND, 'JANUARY 2, 1910.
Ladies' Writing Desks
$40.00 Birdseye Maple Desks (No.
201). Clearance price. . .$18.75
.$65 Golden Oak Writing Desk (No.
1231). Clearance price. .39.50
.40.00 Weathered Oak Desk (No.
702). Clearance price. . .$29.95
$45 Circassian Walnut Desk (No.
12), Clearance price. . .$29.50
$25.00 Genuine Mahogany Writing
Desk (No. 228). Clearance Sale
priee $18.25
$15 Golden Oak DcsksT .S12.50
NS 2 79,
. Quartered Oak Buffets
$65.00 Golden Oak' Buffet (No. 838). Clearance
Sale price '. $47.50
$48.00 Golden Oak Buffet (No. 108). Clearance
Sale price .....$36.50
$38.00 Golden Oak Buffet (No. 048). Clearance
Sale priee " $27.50
$35.00 Golden Oak Buffet (No. 323). Clearance
Sale price $24.00
50c Table Covers, Cs. Special, each .25
$1.75 Table Covers, 8 Vis, extra heavy grade. Sp'l, ea. 75
$2.50 Table Covers, SVis. Special $1.25
$2.00 Inlaid Linoleum, two patterns. Special.
Sale-price, yard..... $1.40
$40.00 Tnrkish IjrrtierRockers (No. 2S). Clear
ance Sale price $20.00.-
$35.00 Turkish Leather Rockers. Clearance
Sale price $17.50
$65.00 Tnrkish Leather Rockers (No. 64S)
Clearance Sale price.... .-...$47.00
WESTERN FARMER MAKES HIS ADVENT
IN WHEAT PIT AS REAL SPECULATOR
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Grain Futures Dealing Today Takes New Turn, Surprise to Brokers Fanner Says "Man Who Produces Grains
Ought to Have First Chance at 'Velvet "-Chicago Prosperity Shown hy Holiday Expenditure.
BY JONATHAN PAI.MKR.
CHI
ir
HICAGO., Jan. 1. (Special.) It
takes a long-lieaded, wide-think-
ng student of the progress of
invents to deal successfully in grain fu
M 11 res these days. New factors are con
tinually springing mp to be reckoned
frTvith. One of these is the rapidly grow-
Iinjr power of domestic consumption, due
partly to increasing population and
partly to the higher scale of living of
11 he average American citizen. Anoth
er Is the. new piano of prices for near
ly all foods, for which the increased
output of gold is held largely respon
sible by many economists. James a.
Iatten, in his recent operations in
wheat and cotton, had been notably
.successful and accurate as a reader
of these new conditions. Now he has
bucked up against a proposition that
uromises to put even lum to rout.
The Western farmer has come into
the grain markets the speculative end
j-B a disturbing element. Plainly,
. with his daily newspaper delivered at
pits door each morning, with the mar
iket developments of the day before, he
fjiats become convinced that the profes
sional speculator and commission men
1n such trade centers as Chicago have
no right to exploit the grain business
tto their exclusive benefit. The man
'who produces the grain, he argues,
ought to have first chance at the
"velvet."
CoiMt'iied Act Ion Kxpeetcd.
$ Tt a considerable number of farra-
ers to be thinking simultaneously on
this line meant there would sooner or
later be some sort of concerted action.
(What the drift of argument was is not
disclosed, but the conclusion, judging
from concrete developments, was that
(the farmer might find It to his od-
vantage to sell options as well as corn.
(.Farmer-like, he took the natural course
land bought the options first. That
fwas when the price was low, and they
liad reason to believe it should and
twotild be higher. Mr. Patten thought
(the price high enough, and he handed
the farmers corn about as fast as they
cared to accept it for future delivery.
A lot of these tillers of the soil are
I now' disposing of their options at 6 to
10 cents a bushel. Thnt did not seem
bad Christmas economics, inasmuch as
the farmers still have the actual grain
(in their granaries. When they sell
that, as they believe they will be able
ito do at a good figure, they will be in
ipowition to enter into negotiations for
m 1910 automobile to replace the passe
car of last season. Where the farm
??rs are showing signs of leaving the
iame at a profit, anti-Patten cotton
.peculators are taking it up and will
: play out the hand.
Holiday Prosperity Kvidenced.
Prosperity for the new year was
foretokened by the lavish distribution
,f money tor Christmas gifts. Never
(in the holiday season in Chicago and
line Middle west was there such a rush
iof business in mercantile houses, and
never such generous sharing of profits
with the men who create wealth. Three
( million dollars Is the approximate
jumount In cash, stocks and gifts dis
tributed by banking houses and Indus
I trial concerns in Chicago alone. It was
ithe greatest jingle of gold pieces the
J Western metropolis has known, and
kdtspatcnes indicate that spending Tor
the season was on a like opulent scale
I1n other commercial centers.
i Twelve millions went for friendly re
i nierabrances aside from the distribution
i to employes. Hood Fellows" who iin
.personated Panta Claus allowed pre
lious few families to escape some rec
lognitlon of the day. Charity and
fc-hwxvJi organizations gave out fully
fnmm.
$5.00 Down
Vill place in your home one of
our celebrated
Gevurtz Steel
Ranges
Made for us Jbly the "Eclipse"
Stove Co., of Mansfield, Ohio.
Sl.OO A WEEK will soon pay
,the remainder of the cost price,
and you will have the privilege
r-ks?9 of using: the range until
T xmaxiy paia lor. xne
quick-baking range.
50.000 well-filled baskets. Chicago
postal forces were taxed to the limit.
The day before Christmas over 4.000,
000 letters, circulars and postcards
were handled, an increase of 450,000'
over the previous high -water mark.
Bank clearings for th4 week ending
with Christmas were $19, 000,000 in ex
cess of those of the like week in 1908.
This increase is not merely typical of
conditions in Chicago. It means simi
lar prosperity in all contributory cen
ters. Financial students are afraid the
lavish flow of money has resulted in
too much inflation of stock values, and
that a check is in store, but the gen
eral hopefulness of the coming year
lies in such clews as are afforded by
the plans of the United States Steel
Corporation, which will spend upwards
of $100,000,000 for extensions, Gary and
South Chicago to be the chief centers
of enlargement.
Things at
Zion City Not
Were.
as They
f
Things are not like they used to be
In Zion City when John . Alexander
Dowie was the autocrat of the north
shore religious colony. Dowie dipped
his pen in venom against his enemies.
hut he managed always to keep inside
the law of libel. Wilbur Voliva, his
successor, emulated the first prophet
of Zion in bitterness but not in adroit
ness, with the result he went to jail
for not paying a judgment of 910,000
obtained against him for libel by Philip
Aiothersill. He got out in time to spend
Christmas a free man by the grace of
few farmers who provided a bond
pending an appeal to the appellate
court.
Voliva declares that, no matter what
the courts may decide finally, he will
not pay a cent of the judgment, but
will rather remain in jail. The mar
tyr plan does not appear repugnant to
him, and as he is young and- strong
and self-willed, there is a very good
chance of his editing his paper from
a cell for a long time. The fine Dowie
private library has been sold and re
moved from the mansion in the center
of Zion City. It brought $7000, and is
said to be worth thrice that. Glad
stone Dowie, the "great un kissed." is
quietly attending to his own business
and making a living the best he can.
Mrs. John Alexander Dowie rarely ap
pears in the public prints. Voliva lias
not the power over the 'Zionists that
Dowie had, and in a few more years
the whole colony will be merged into
the secular business life of Chicago
and its environs. It is far on the way
already.
Streetcar Revelations on In Chicago.
An interesting life drama in a big,
crowded city lies in the rebuilding of
the surface traction systems of Chicago
imaccordance with ordinances passed by
the City Council two years ago. In that
time $43,000,000 has been spent for new
trackage and equipment in the way
of buildings amk rolling stock. The
number of miles reconstructed is 310.
The number of new pay-as -you -enter
cars in operation or contracted for is
1350. The traction companies are much
ahead of the schedule designated in
the ordinances. Their prompt fulfill
ment of contract agreement under city
supervision has resulted in a renewal
of confidence between the public and
the companies. There used to be no
such confidence, and it was because
the people had lost all hope of better
ment of the service under private cor
poration management that they went
on record for municipal ownership a
few years ago and elected Edward F.
Dunne Mayor.
The city has not achieved municipal
i ownership, but it has virtual municipal
Specials in Carpet Department
$75.00 Hartford Saxony Rugs, "9x12 feet, three
patterns. Special ..$4l.OO
ZJ-OO Anglo-Persian Rugs, 9x12 feet, two pat
terns. Special -.$45.00
$1.00 Lakeside Brussels Carpet, madeby Marshall,
Fields Co.,-of Chicago, cut off the rcfll at, the yard..49
$1.25 3-ru Lace Curtains, 250 in number. Special
price, ftie pair...... 75
Clearance of Music Cabinets
$35 Mahogany Music Cabinets. Clearance priee $22. 50
$22.50 Birdseye Maple Music Cabinets. Clearance
Price : - $16.75
$17.u0 Golden Oak Music Cabinets. Clearance
price . . . . ...$9.00
$lo Mahogany Music Cabinets. Clearance price $il.OO
: ' .
jfj.wi.uu .tsrass r5ed (jo. 6215), all
solid brass tubing. Clearance Sale
price . . . . . .$55.00
$45.00 Brass Bed
(No. 6061), slight
ly damaged. Clear
ance Sale price
only . . . $22.50
$75 Princess Dress
ers, solid Circas
sian walnut and
Mahogany (No.
720). Clearance Sale price. $49. OO
$65.08 Stolid Quartered Oak Dresser (No. 648). X
Clearance Sale price ...$39.0u
$35.00 Mahogany Dresser, large Frenchplate
mirror. Special $22.50
"New Method"
Gas Ranges
Save one-fourth of your
gas bill. Prices from
$16 up. 'Pay $1.00 a
week.
it is
iamous
First and Yamhill
operation, and for the present it is
quite satisfied with that arrangement,
ince it is getting for the treasury 55
per cent of the net receipts and is on
the way to the most complete and mod
ern system in the world. Besides rush
ing the work of construction more rap
idly than the ordinance calls tor, one
of the companies has installed 80 more
cars than iKwas required to install.
Likewise it is taking excellent care of
the pavement between its tracks.
It was in the very small interference
with regular traffic that the work of
rehabilitation took'on the aspects of a
rare engineering feat. In the down
town district the minimum of annoy
ance was procured by doing the work
at night or on Sundays with an army
of men that stood almost shoulder to
shoulder and worked together with the
precision and lack of clash of a cir
cus crew. Often the citixen who. rode
home on a block of old track which
made him seaslcic came down the next
morning to find that the old rails had
been removed, the old pavement tossed
aside, new ties and rails set in con
crete, new pavement laid and the rfars
rolling smoothly along on a brand-ew
bit of perfect track. . In the two years
enough pavement has been "laid to
cover a 100-acre farm and enough brick
put-in new outlying buildings to make
a wall 110 feet high and IS miles in
length. One new river tunnel has been
completed and two others are under
construction.
In those things wHh appeal to the
child's pleasure and Imagination, the
children of Cherry, 111., had the greatest
Christmas of their lives this year. When
the festivities, the gift-giving and the
neighborly greetings ' were over, it was
IMPORTANT ASSEMBLAGE OF LABOR MEN pECLARES
l- . W ,tlr lyn-t .fiTT IpTrij , riff
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NEW YORK Jan. 1. f Special.) This Important assemblage of labor men declared war on the Stel Trust
last week at Pittsburg. The Steel Trust has maintained an "open slop." The labor leaders in convention as
sembled denounced the steel company as the enemy of labor. A big disturbance in the labor world may re
sult and may not. In the picture thojde in the front row are W. D. Mahon, of the street railway workers;
P. J. McArdle, of the iroH steel and tin workers: Samuel Gompers, of the Federation of Labor; Charles F.
Lawyer, of the tinplate workers; James 0Connell of the machinists, and F. M. Ryan, of the bridgeworkers.
j
New Spring Skirts
An advance arrival of new Spring - Skirts,
with tlienew pleats and tunic effect, will be in
cluded in this clearance sale at special and
very attractive prices from $5.95 to $15.
&
SONS Second and Yamhill
clear that the fate of the 200 men who
still lie dead in the St. Paul mine has
not brn In vain. It developed a Christ
mas spirit and a thoughtfulness of others
which made a particularly bright spot in
a bright American Christmas day. The
little folk, only a few of whom realize
the blight that fell on the village a
month ago. saw In one day more gifts
than they had seen in their whole lives
hitherto.
Chicago was very considerate of Cherry
and helped materially in its merriment.
A Santa Claus had to be imported into
the village to play the role of gift dis
penser. Those fathers and husbands and
brothers who survived the mine disaster
were too busy in other necessary ways.
In the church of the village there are
said to be only two men left one the
pastor, tho other the village barber. The
latter, who is called "Barber John,' is
the long-distance hero of Cherry. He did
not risk his life going down into the
burnhig shaft to save his fellow towns
men, but wflile the" grieving mothers
were gathered about the shaft walling
for their husbands and almost forgetting
their children. "Barber John" constituted
himself the Little Father and the Official
Optimist. He gathered the unfortunate
children into the church, and -saw that
they were housed and fed. Ever since
he has been working day and night dis
pensing good cheers
Soundings of the mine with thermome
ters show that the fire is still raging be
low. . There is no forecasting when lc
will be possible to remove the 00 bodies,
but it is feared when the time does come
Cherry will be in for another-season of
acute mental distress. Most of those In
Cherry are in no position toleave if they
should wish to do so. They will bewared
for all Winter and next Spring, and it
is hoped the warm Summer months will
somewhat relieve the tension. "Many
posthumoiW children have been born
since the isastei-. Most of the niothers
are young women. They are being
watched over with particular solicitude.
It also is-TUd two or three of the widows
have remarried.
ar 172 telegTaph and S5 telephone
in Corea.
offices
One- 1 hird iJrf on
Every Suit or Dress
We are offering-the most wonderful Suit and Dress val
ues during this January Clearance Sale of any house ii
the city, for there is no inflation of prices for sale pur
- poses.
$25 Values
for Only
Long-Coat Sui,fs; some hand
some braided models,- others se
verely tailored effects, in finest
quality broadcloth, homespun,
covert, camelshair, serges and
cheviots; blacks, grays, browns,
navy and mixtures; linings of
exquisite Duchess and Skinner
satin; revers of moire; coats 45
to 50 inches; all sizes.
Cash
or
Credit
3 rPr7 :
HEAD FOR PROPOSED GREAT WORLD S
' FAIR NOW WORRIES SAN FRANCISCO
Great Celebration Planned for 1915 When Panama Canal Is Opened, May See General M. H. De Ynng or
William H. Crocker Elected President Governor Gillett's Ambition Believed to Be to Succeed Himself.
BY HARHT B. '-SMITH. (
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1. (Special.)
Who will be president and ex
ecutive head of the great world's
fair tha t is to be held by San Francisco
In 1913 to celebrate the opening of the
Panama Canal? !s the question that is
agitating commercial circles these days.
There are several names under con
sideration just now. General M. H.
De Young, Charles C. Moore. Louis Sloss
and William H. Crocker have . their
supporters and admirers. Moore has a
wondrous energy, as- shown by his
resuscitation of the moribund Chamber
of Commerce and his work in getting
foreign nations to send their battle
ships here for Portola. Louis Sloss is
a popular man in commercial circles.
General De Young has demonstrated his
fitness for the place by the way he
handled the Mid-Winter Fair and there
is no question if he can be induced to
accept the post but that he would make
an able executive.
Plenty of time remains for the selec
tion of a head, however. T"p to date
there has been nothing but the pre
liminary skirmishes and advertising.
Subscriptions have been refused, as the
committee in charge wants to look after
that matter at a later dat In order
to secure some funds' and to determine
the popularity of the proposed fair, the
committee had some 25,000 buttons em
blematic of the fair struck off. These
were sold at 10 cents apiece and the
way they were grabbed up shows how
Sun Francisco in general regards the
fair. In fact, the committee has de
cided upon another issue of tl)e buttons.
Calif ornians noticed for the first time
the other day that when Virgil ia Bogue
WAR ON STEEL TRUST.
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Iu these Dresses we can save you
money and sell you goods that will
prove eminently satisfactory. These
one-pieee Dresses are growing in pop
ularity, and our Clbarance Sale offers
exceptionally good values. Materials
embracing finest broadcloth iu modish
shaTes as well as navy and black:
cheviots, worsteds, camelshair, serges,
homespuns; cluster plaited,
side buttoned, fancy
trimmed, etc; sizes to
Clearance Sale of Long
Coats, $25 Val. $16.70
Made of fjne broadcloth, wide wale diagonals,
homespuns, coyerts, camels hair, etc. lined through
out witli Skinner satin, best of workmanship in
every detail ; coats that have sold all Fall for 25.00;
clearance sale price,
credit .
$12 Hats
$4.95
All our $12.00 Hats
at the clearance priee
of, each $4.95.
married her Italian Count that she gave
the place of her birth as Tacoina, Wash.
And yet. at the time she was selected, as
Queen of the Portola Festival, we were
told that she was a native daughter of
California. It seems that this wae not
fraud" practiced by the stately girl,
but merely a mild deception, on the part
of the committee in charge.
When it had been determined that Mira
Bogiie was- the woman- to select, it sud
denly came up that she was. not a Cali
fornian. That would never do. A daugh
ter of the state should be queen of the
great carnival.
Resourceful Andrew McCarty said he
would fix that all right and he did. He
went to the Bogues and impressed it upon
them that their daughter was born in
Auburn, Placer County. At first they
protested that she was a daughter of the
Evergreen state, but when they caught
the point they went into roars of laugh
ter and then for the benefit of the press,
transferred their daughter's birthplace
to Auburn without the batting of an eye.
GHUett'S Ambition Is Gossip.
Governor James X. Gillett has not as
yet announced whether he will be a can
didate to succeed himself. The . general
opinio among Gillett's closest friends, la
that the Governor will seek the Republi
can nomination.
Gillett la known to have an ambition to
put to a test the unwritten law of the
electors not to return a Goverftor for a
second term. But one Governor of Cali
fornia has been re-elected and that was
John Bigler, ' who was returned in 1SS4
alter having served two years which
was then a term for Rtate officials.
- The reason popularly assigned for the
micoess of Bigler, who by the way. was
a Democrat, is that nearly all of the
male population had been attracted by
the Frazer River excitement and those
remaining, paid- little attention to the
election, leaving the Bigler administra
tion a clear field to reinstate itself. Gillett
thinks he cart break the record. There
Is no question but that he has made a
popular Governor.
Reform League at Work.
The Lincoln-Roosevelt League has been
quite busy in this city during the week
just closed. President Chester II. Rowell
has been here in conference with other
leaders to select a campaign committee to
consist of two members1 from each Con
gressional district. The leaders of the
movement are about the same as during
the last campaign.
. The managers of this machine are now
at work endeavoring to agree upon a
eeris of issues1 of policies and they are
having a good deal of trouble in develop
ing it. In- the first place, each section
I of the state has its local issues, which it
wishes embraced in the new declaration
and ae they are conflicting, the harmon
izing of these various fads is a difficult
task. Among the candidates that are be
ing considered by the reformers are ex
State Senator Charles Belshaw, Francis
J. Heney, W. R. Eavis, George C. Par
dee, of Oakland, and J. O. Hayes, of San
Jose, brother of Congressman E. O.
Hayes.
Night Life Is Scattered. '
The preparations for the New Year's
"festival that has been' going on shows
that San Francisco has lost the old
village concentration. The fire has as
sisted in giving the scattered life of a
metropolis.
Before the fire all the night life was
downtown. Shopping was centered in
the district near Market and Kearny
streets. The New Year's celebration
surged up and down those two thor
oughfares. Now all this Is changed. The Mission
had its own celebration. Fillmore street
had its own glorification on Friday
t
braid
39.
either cash or
$16.70
night and the North Beach celebrated
in true Latin style.
There was tho usual all night outinsr
for people, both downtown and at thn
beach resorts. The cafes as usual were
crowded, and after 11 o'clock there was
nothing but wine parties.
Confetti, 'of course, was one of the
features of- the festivities, but the old
habit of scooping up dirty confetti from
the streets, , mixed with sand, was
changed. The Supervisors fixed this,
and by a simple ordinance, y
The new law provides that the throw
ing of confetti Is permissible, but that
the confetti must be of one solid color.
The authorities don't care whether your
outing party uses red confetti or white
paper, but the minute it is mixed there
is a chance for arrest If some keen
eyed policeman ia at hand. It is a
wise measure, as during the Portola
Festival a number ofvpeople had to
go to the hospitals to have dirt re
moved from their eyes.
Senator Clark Delays Limited.
To exchange " Christmas greetings,
with a colored valet who had been in
the service of the family for more than
30 years, William A. Clark, ex-T7nited
States Senator from Montana and mil
lionaire mining man, kept the Coast
Line Limited, with 1000 passengers,
waiting 30 minutes on Christmas day.
The train was held at San Mateo
while the ex-Senator conversed with
Mr. and Airs. James Collins In his pri
vate car. Clark's private car had been
attached to the limited and the signal
had been given to start, when the Sen
ator' heard his name being called by a
familiar voice. -
Sure enough, it was Collins, and the
Montana millionaire ordered the en
gineer to stop. This was done. A few
seconds later Collins and his wife were
each given a warm handclasp by their
old employer. They were ushered into
the private car and there they re
mained for 30 minutes, absolutely for
getting all about the time schedule of
the Southern Pacific.
Oreen way's "200" List.
Czar Ned Greenway, wine agent and
dictator of San Francisco society, has
decreed a new list of social eligible.
No more will the agile writer be ablo
to speak with accurate ease of "San
Francisco's Four Hundred." Greenway
has definitely cut the number to 200
the selected "brut of society as It
were.
Greenway is to give a ball the mid
dle of January. It is to be the Green
way ball, with Greenway paying all the
bills and having full control of all the
invitations.
"I had intended to giv'this as a
Christmas party," said Greenway, "but
business called me away to the North
and as such things require a great deal
of personal supervision, I had to put
off the date. There will be 200 invi
tations out and just my personal
friends will be on hand."
So there you are. There is no longer
a Four Hundred.
Romance and Realty.
New York Sun.
She planned the man whom she would we-J
Should be both brave and good.
Full six feet tall. with, curly hair.
Adept at sawing wood.
Combining woman's tenderness
With man's Btern hardihood.
IFter husband measured five feet two.
His hair was red and straight. "
He only made ten plunks per week, ,
Cared but for what he Pte,
And yet she truly thought he made
JL hu&band simply great. ;-
VJre-Conaul General Claude "E. Guyant of
Panama reports that a British Inventor ha
been iivinfc tejta on the iwthmu of a nw
exploiuve. which led the canal commission
to order 20 tons of it Tor trial.