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SECTION THREE Pages 1 to 12 EDITORIAL , AND SOCIETY PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1910. NO. 19 v v Experienced Salespeople Wanted in All Depts., Permanent Positions to Competent People, Apply at Once .Agents Warner Corsets Complete Stock-Royal Worcester, Bon Ton, Marquise and Rerigo Belt Corsets See $1,000,000 Removal Sale Amr!LOviiiLceiiieit Greater Olds-Wortmara-Ilirk g StorePages O and 7 Of TKis Section mpH.l TMmaxWJL 1-3? eon ?5S XU J& J? JB o si O.OOO o c K off Women's amd OHIlclre.xiL's Apparel Incltideci im tHe Great Removal Sale See Pages 6 and 7 for Bis' $1,000,000 Removal Sale Announcement SUITS. COATS, COSTUMES. WAISTS, DRESSES, ETC. $7.50 Sweaters Special at $3.95 A sale of women's pure wool Sweaters, made of extra quality soft finish very strong yarn; knitted fancy, with shawl col lars, double-breasted, pockets on ' sides, trimmed with pearl but tons; all sizes, styled in the long lengths; colors are. white, oxford and cardinal; our regular val ues up to $7.50; re- JJO QC moval price, at, ea. $3.50 to $5 Coat Sweaters at $1.95 A lot comprising about 2o0 women 's coat style Sweaters, in medium length, double or single-breasted, Norfolk styles, in novelty weaves, roll collars, and trimmed with pearl buttons; all sizes; colors are oxford, cardi nal, navy and white; our regu lar stock values from $3.50 to $5; removal price, QC while they last, ea. pl.0 Unrestricted choice of our entire stock of Women's, Misses' and Children's ready-to-wear apparel included in the sweeping Removal Sale reductions. Enthusiasm increases as the sale progresses. The coming week promises many nljargain attractions better and prompter service. Hundreds of new employes have been added to our force. Come to this great bargain feast. Help us to open our beautiful new store with a complete new stock of goods. 25 SilK Dresses at $9.95 $45Silk Dresses for A lot comprising 150 Silk Dresses; all new; this Spring's styles; Taffetas, Mes- salines, etc.; rich, lustrous, two-toned effects or , changeable Taffetas ; styled with accordion plaited skirt, bodice and sleeves, with lace yokes ; plain silks styled with tunic effect, panel front skirts, net yokes and cuffs, trimmed in braids and self -covered buttons; there's Messaline with richly trimmed yokes, plaited skirts, etc. ; a very unusual col lection which space will not not per mit us to describe ; Values to $45.00 for $18.85 Ladies' $40 Coats $16.95 A lot of 250 or more new Spring Coats, in plain tailored and Russian Blouse styles. Made of French serge, cheviots, wide wales, diagonals and mannish materials; all new Spring styles ; plain tailored or shawl col lars, faced with foulard si'-. Remarkable values up to $40.00. our spe- frl C QC cial removal sale price, each P 0J0 A sensational sale of Silk Dresses ; plain colors, two tones, stripes, plaids and fancy patterns; the very latest styles; 250 in the lot, groupdTon sepa rate racks for easy choosing; we say sensational because a state of exciting interest will be manifest; every quick witted woman will be here to takead vantage of the great price concessions Remember the styleB are correct7 the materials are good; are properly and yell made; actual values d rx. to $25; Removal sale )ls,73 All- Siits And Gowns $50andUp Third Off A closing out of every fine suit or gown in the store. Not one will be moved if we can sell it, therefore we offer you an unrestrict ed choice of any suit or gown marked $50 or more at reduction of a third from reg- f ular price. Take advantage and save 3 Removal Sale Bargains irk All Departments of Store Regul'r $3 Waists Special at $1.23 A lot of 500 women's lingerie and tailored Waists. The lin geries are made of sheer lawn in neat tucked or lace - trimmed styles. The tailored waists are made very neatly, styled in dif ferent width plaits or tucked; all are very good values to $3.00.' On sale at special djl OO removal price, each PA0 $5 to S0.5O SilK Waists for $2.95 A rare assortment of fancy waists in taffeta, messaline and Japanese silk, in ajl the newest fancy lace-trimmed and plain tailored styles. Almost any wom an in need of a waist can find something to suit her in this lot. The values range- from $5.00 to $6.50. Removal sale (PO QP price, your choice P"' See Pages 6 and 7 for Big' $1.000,000 Removal Sale Announcement OF 85 ACTIVE WHS. CLEMENTINE MTilNXEY IS STII.L EXPERT SRAVER. Descendant ot Soldier In Lafayette's Army Will Celebrate Birthday Anniversary Tomorrow. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 7. (Special.) -Eighty-five years old, a granddaughter f John Keller, a Frenchman who came to America with Lafayette, and who tfought under his command, Mrs. Clemen ttno Mi-Klnney. of this city, will cele Jbrate her birthday tomorrow hy taking a rest from many years of arduous toil. XThis remarkable old woman is the mother wf 11 children, grandmother of 33 and (treat-grandmother of 21 children. Her arly childhood was spent when John iQulncy Adams was President of the t'nlted States, but she is still able to do a large amount of needle work. Mrs. McKinley's favorite pastime Is Hutu-piecing, and this week she com pleted an order for three which she sold to a neighbor. Several years ago she made 40 quilts, which she cold to the tnlners Vnd bachelors t Loomis, Wash., where she lived. This is a remarkable task, as she is almost blind, being ren dered so by an attack of typhoid fever 36 gears ago. She Is a native'' of North Carolina, fwhere her parents were among; the pio toeer families. As she says. "The first ap file trevs were Just beginning to bear and the settlors had had peaches for one or two seasons when my parents took me to Illinois, whero we again ate. the fruit of the first orchards." When 12 years old she was sent to school In TUtnols and lived there until ten years ago. when she moved west for the benefit of her health. Mrs. McKinney's mother died at the age of 94 years, her sjrandmothcr at the age of 96 years and lier mother's brother reached S years, Svhen he died. State Law Violated? Probe On. SAJEJM. Or., May . (Special.! 'Labor eimmlsslonsr O. P. Hon haa reoelved nnlalnta from St. Helens. Colombia County, that the County Court of that county is allowing men, employed on rock crushers and road work, to work ten hours per day, in violation of the state law, which requires that eight hours shall constitute a. day's labor on public works. Mr. Hoff has taken the matter up with County Judge Jamas Dart and tt Is ex pected that the workday will be short ened to eight hours. MONMOUTH ALUMNI ACTIVE Petitions Out to Keep Normal School State-Aided Institution. " SALEM. Or., May 6. (Special.) The Alumni Association of the Oregon Normal School at Monmouth has filed in the office of the Secretary of State initiative petitions asking the retention of the Monmouth school as a state-aided in stitution. The petitions contain a total of about 13.000 names and it is under stood that additional petitions will soon be tiled containing between 2000 and 3000 additional signatures. Only about SO00 names were required, but it was desired to make as good a showing as possible. The petitions have been circulated in every county and in almost every precinct in the state and no difficulty has been experienced in se curing signatures. The petitions were circulated gratuitously by friends of the school. BUD MOTH DANGER IS PAST Pest Falls to Cover Large Area In Willamette Valley. SALEM. Or., May . (Special.) Profes sors Jackson and Bid well, of the Oregon Agricultural College, after an examina tion of the Wallace orchard and others where the bud moth has been at work, state that the season in which the moth can do damage is past for this year and that there is no danger of a spread of the pest. The moth does not appear to have covered a very wide area in the valley but has done several thousand dollars' worth of damage to pears in the Wallace orchard. The bud moth Is not new, but appears to be more aotlve this season than for several year past. TREES PACKED IN ICE CLEVER MINNESOTA SUN PRO TECTED APPLE CROP. When Blizzard and Frosts Followed Early Spring, His Frnlt Was Xot Far Advanced. LITTLE CANADA, Minn., May 7. (Spe cial.) Lee Brings, a farmer who lives about a mile north of this place, near the shores of Lake Gervais. has successfully tried a scheme for saving his apple trees from frost. The experiment attracted widespread attention and will undoubtedly be widely copied throughout the North west next Spring. Brings has spent many Winters and Summers in Minnesota, not to mention a few "early Springs." Therefore, early in March, he began the laborious task of hauling ice from Lake Gervais and pil ing it a foot deep around the base of every one of his 75 crabapple trees. Neighbors looked on and laughed at what they considered a very foolish trick, but Brings answered that he would have a chance to laugh later. While all the apple and other fruit trees in the neighborhood were blossom ing a week or two ago. Brings" had not even budded, because of the action of the ice on the roots of the trees. Then came a killing frost, damaging all the trees In the state to the extent of many thousands of dollars. But the Little Canada farmer's crop Is all right, for his apple trees had not started to grow. Now the last of the ice surrounding the trees Is disappearing and Brings is jubilant, for his trees will not blossom for several weeks yet. The neighboring farmers lost their entire crops. Speaking of the matter. Brings said: "There are some folks who know all about crabapple trees, and I-don't pretend to know it all. but I thought that I would follow the plans of nature as closely as possible and keep the ground from thaw ing out close to the roots. My trees are fine now. and I'm sure I'll raise a better crop of apples this year than ever before." The crop last year netted Brings a goodly sum. He saved thousands of strawberry plants this year by covering them a foot deep with straw, while other growers merely placed a thin covering of straw over their plants. As " a consequence. Brings' strawberries are growing nicely, although thousands of plants in the neighborhood were killed by the frost. GRANTS PASS WANTS HILL Commercial Club Seeks to Entertain President of Great Northern. GRANTS PASS. Or.. May 7. (Special.) The Commercial Club today wired Louis W. Hill an invitation to visit this city while on- his tour of Inspection of the resources of Southern Oregon and Rogue River Valley for railroad building. The message says: -V " "Grants Pass, r Or.. May 7. Louis W. Hill. Portland. Or. The citirens of Grants Pass cordially invite you and your party to visit Grants Pass and assure you a hearty welcome. This is the Southern Oregon point most needing the developing hand of your venerable father, James J. Hill." Auto Bought; Wants Money Back. That Elam Shaw sold her an automo bile for $1250 and represented it to be fully worth that amount, when it was not worth more than $730, and that a note upon which she is being sued by Shaw was secured by fraudulent means, is the contention set up in answer to the suit by Nellie L Price. She says that in exchange for the machine she made over an equity In certain property at Reed vllle which was accepted as of a value of $750. giving her note for the balance of $500. She says the car was no good and prays for the dismissal of the suit against her. and the return of her equity in the real estate. Draw Decision Is Unpopular. SACRAMENTO. CaL, May 7. Mon tana Dan Sullivan outfought Tim O'Nell in every round but - two In a 20-round bout before the Capital City Club here last night, and had him all but out in the sixth and 15th, but the best he got for his efforts was a draw. The decision was extremely unpopular and was rendered on O'Neil's strong finish. O'Nell could not land on Sulli van and In the entire tight did not put horn more than half a dozen eleaa bwsv TRIBES FIGHT TO FINISH ONE BAND OF AUSTRALIAN NA TIVES EXTERMINATES OTHER. Scotch Trader Sees Fifty Men With Knives and Tomahaws kill Off 100 With Spears. LONDON, May 7. (Special.) News of a bloody battle between aboriginal tribes In Northern Australia has come in. The scene of the slaughter was Rolling Bay and one tribe was practically obliterated. A Scottish trader named MePherson en gaged 50 Junction Bay natives for a fishing expedition, but when they reached Rollins Bay they came Into collision with a tribe of Liverpool River braves out on a marauding jaunt. . Without more ado the two bands' fell on each other, the Junction Bay natives being armed with knives, tomahawks and iron bars, while their savage enemies used their ordinary bush spears. MePherson, who has reached Port Dar win, says he was fascinated by the su preme savagery of the conflict. The bloodcurdling war cries of the natives rent the air and they leaped and dodged the missiles in ghostly fashion. This went on for an hour, but the heav ier weapons of the Junction Bay tribe told by .then, and1 they proceeded to toma hawk the marauders without mercy. Within half an hour of the turning of the battle, over a hundred Liverpool River natives were lying dead, with horrible wounds. MePherson adds that he could hear the battle continuing in the forest after be had sailed, so be is convinced the Liver pool River band was practically wiped out. He himself only escaped by abandon ing his rifle and making for his boat. There is an Immense quantity of roal In the mountainous portions of Colorado and New Mexico. There are vast Quantities of oil taken from tbe different sections of Cal ifornia. In New Mexico little or no oil Is used as fuel for power purposes: In Cali fornia little or no coal ia used. At an Inter mediate point between these two a division will be found where the cost of producJUK IKei. all factors bains- taken into consid eration, will be. the same whether coal or oil is twed as fuel. Ca aster's Macastne, COOK'S FIANCEE IS NOW iN ASYLUM Woman Who Was Engaged to Explorer Becomes Maniac After Eventful Life. HER CAREER ILL-STARRED Frau Schichanowska, of Noble Gcr man Parentage, Whose Youth Was Brilliant, Loses Fortune and Faces Hardships. SEATTLE, May 7. (Special.) Cher ishing a portrait of. Dr. Frederick A. Cook as a priceless treasure, Frau Augusta Schichanowska, German noble woman, who says she was the fiancee of the explorer ten years agA, has been committed by the 'Superior Court of King County to the Steilacoom Asylum. The photograph referred to is auto graphed ewith this inscription, "Faith fully, Frederick A. Cook, M. D.," and Is dated Brooklyn, N. Y., December' 10, 1900. I Tiie career of ti e woman is one of strange and 'Varied tragedy .from Baireuth, where she was" born, to the home of her brother, Herr. William Enders, in Brooklyn, where she met Dr. Cook; to Nome and Council, Alaska, where she sought fortune: and finally to the penury of a little tent near Alki Point, West Seattle, where during the night her mind gave way and she became a raving maniac. "Mrs. Lestar" she called herself in Seattle, and under that name she was known to her neighbors and to the art stores of this city, where from time to time she attempted to sell paintings. Her Career Is Riddle. Her pseudonym Is an index to lier melancholy fate. Spell) it backward and there is revealed the: word "ratsel," meaning in German a riddle, a puzzle. Frau Schichanowska s career is a- riddle that only the gods might solve. A malignant star must bave blazed when she first saw the light of day. During early girlhood, before mar riage to the Polish nobleman whose name stie bears, she enjoyed the com panionship and esteem of noted men and women. In her effects here is a letter of exquisite sentiment written by the actor, Hans Christians. Among her intimate friends were Burgstaller and.. DieppeU". She was received at the home of Richard Wagner, and after the death of the master Frau Cosima Wagner gave the young Augusta a number of relics in memory of the composer. A friend in Seattle who had helped her in distressing poverty one day remarked a long silver chain about her neck, and Frau Schichanowska vividly described a visit of Emperor Wilhelm to Baireuth. On that occa sion the youthful Augusta was present ed to him, and, in token of her beauty and charm, he presented her with the chain, which, until her la'test misfor tune, she wore almost constantly. Remarkably gifted as well as beau tiful, arid- known in art and musical circles of the German capital, Augusta was yet a girl when she attained the distinction, rarely accorded to a woman, of admission to one of the great academies of Berlin; but for some reason, which she never revealed, after separation from her husband she abandoned tbe salon and the exclusive society of Berlin and came to America. Meeting With Dr. Cook. Thus it happened that she visited her brother in Brooklyn and met Dr. Cook. There was deep friendship be tween them, and the Frau has always said that the attachment was Intimate and sincere. Then came the explorer's marriage and his first expedition into the Arctic. Whatever disappointment the Frau may have suffered, she was always Dr. Cook's loyal friend. The fact that he was in the northland probably In duced her to turn to Alaska. At any rate, although unable to speak Eng lish, she joined in the rush to Nome, determined to wrest a fortune from the sands. Reverses came to her at Nome. She had invested her money in a cargo of potatoes. The ship was caught in the ice; the consignment was frozen, and the chance of heavy profits swept from sight. The crowd at Nome was so great that she resolved to go to the interior, and. following the advice of a German, she started to "mush" across the tundra to Council, with pick, shovel, gold pan, blankets and provi sions packed on her back. By day she slept, at night she took the trail, ford ing icy rivers and undergoing the hard ships of pioneer life in Alaska. "What a man can do. I will do," she said. The Frau spent the Winter of 1901 in Council, where she appropriated a deserted cabin on the outskirts. She was . penniless, but engaged in sign painting for a livelihood. Having no stove she took a kerosene can, and for a chimney she patched together tomato cans and the like. When the stove wore out she made another, and often times during the Winter when the thermometer was 50 degrees below zeco the delicately nurtured repre sentative of German aristocracy was seen in the bitter cold chopping her own wood. When Spring came she Wprospected with pick and shovel, and located promising claims always with the result that some claim-Jumper took advantage of her meager knowledge of language and customs and deprived her of her rights. Fortune Smiles Briefly. For a brief interval fortune seemed to favor her. Late in the Summer she was able to move into a larger and better cabin and to this day the mar velous interior of that home is one of the traditions of Council. In all the world, probably, there could not be found a better instance of what a woman. resourceful, ingenious and I trained in art, could do toward making an apartment cozy and homelike. It has been described as a wonderfully harmonious curiosity shop. From ceil ing to floor, on all sides, the walls were covered . witn innumerable products of the northland. There were pictures in strange frames, great ant lers suspended from the ceiling held flowerpots from which trailed vines and plants Indigenous to the Seward Peninsula, odd bits of wood formed chandeliers: all about the cabin were rugs and furs and specimens of ivory and in the center of it all, occupy ing the place of honor and conspicu ous as tha caller entered tbe door, was the autographed portrait of Dr. Cook. During the Winter that followed the Frau fell til. She was taken to a hospital, where ruinous charges soon exhausted her funds. The wonderful cabin was looted, and the end of her Alaskan experience came when a p-urse was taken up and she was given passage to Los Angeles. Out of the wreck of her fortune she rescued the portrait and a few relics of the old life In Berlin. More than a year ago the Frau came to Seattle, and she found a refuge in the little tent. Even there the train ing of the art schools manifested itself. She tried to make the new home on Alki Point a replica of the cabin at Council and here, too, the portrait of Dr. Cook was conspicuous. When the controversy started with Peary the Frau held steadfastly to her faith in Cook. she secured a large canvas and painted an excellent por trait of him. which attracted much at tention when displayed In a downtown art store. She was asked to fix a price on it, and. forgetful of privation and poverty, answered proudlv, "Not for 500." Reports from Steilacoom are to the effect that she is one of the most vio lent patients in the asylum. No pres ent hope is held out for her recovery. LIBEL SUITS ACCUMULATE Members of Klamath County Court Demand $30,000 From Chronicle. KLAMATH FALLS, May 7. (Spe cial.) Three more libel suits have been filed against the Klamath Publishins; LEADING WOMAJf OF" LOB I ROCK DIES. $ ' ' -At ; , v ' 5 - . t Mrs. Mary K. Ilnm. Many Tears Teacher In I'ubllc Schools. CONDON. Or., May 7. (Spe cial.) Mary E. Ham. nee. May Wineland, who died at her home at Lone Rock, April 28, aged 46 years, came to Oregon from Missouri in 1882 and taught school in Lone Rock and vicinity. Mrs. Ham united with the M. E. Church in Lone Rock In 1890 and continued a con sistent member to the time of her death, 'she was married Jn 1893 to P. L. Ham, then a mer chant of Lone Rock, who with two daughters ,v Inona, aged 15, and Gladys. 13 years and three sisters survives her. Fu neral services were held in the Congregational Church and the remains Interred in Masonic cemetery. Company, publishers o; the "Klamath Chronicle, which began publication only a month ago. The1 &uits, for $10,000 each, were filed - br County Judge J. B. Griffith and Commissioner Albert Walker andS. T. Summers, who allege that, the Chronicle libeled them as members of the Klamath . County Court by publishing insinuations that the county court had been bribed by the Klamath Development Company to favor the free site offered to the county by this company for a Court house. This makes damage suits against the new paper aggregating $230,000, as members of the Klamath Develop ment Company had previously filed suits for $200,000. POLAR EXPLORER RUSTLES Captain Scott Finds Men and Money for Antarctic Trip. LONDON. May I 7. (Special.) Captain Scott is back in London, pushing forward his preparations for hie. dash for the South Pole. He intends to leave London in the Terra Nova the first week in June, a month earlier than originally proposed. This hustling policy Is mainly due to the North of England's quick response to his appeal when the subscriptions be gan to flag. In regard to men. his only difficulty has been that of selection from the bewildering army of applicants. Most of his old crew have Joined him, and- in Lieutenant' Evans he will have a very capable second In command. r The competition of the American ex. pedition, though welcomed in a sports manlike way, has also had its influence, in expediting both subscriptions and departure. Oakland Race Results. OAKLAND, May 7. There were sev eral close finishes in the races today. The Hayward handicap resulted In a victory for Chester Kj:um over Raleigh. Gold Finn Just got up in time to beat Thistle Bell by a nose. Thistle Bell was claimed for $1100 by J. T. Strite. Results: First race, six furlongs Rosa mo won, Ellerd second, Passenger third; time. 1 :13 1-5. Second race, four and a half fur longs, purse Jack Stryker won. Salali second. Ban Ann third; time, :54 4-5. Third race, futurity course, selling Gold Finn won. Thistle Bell second. Acquia third; ttmij. 1:09 4-5. Fourth race, mile, Hayward handi cap Chester Krum won, Raleigh sec ond. Eddie Graney third: time. 1:39 2-5. Fifth (jace, mile and 70 yards, selling Follie L won. Redeem second, Whid den third; time, 1:43 4-5. Sixth race, five and a half furlongs; purse Enfield won. Napa Nick second, Silver Stocking third; time, 1:06 3-5. tr. A. Stanley McKenaie. professor of physics at DaJhouals University. Halifax. N. S.. has accepted an appointment to the mmfl chair at the Stevens Institute of Technoloa-y A New York. Professor -McKensis is a grad uate' of Ia.I honsi e and bas beam professor ot jh)'sio0 thera tor five years,