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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1910)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 10, .191 0. TP Tl TT 1 Tifil ClLJi (ClLJiiiv A sweeping Clearance Sale of present stocks, regardless of former prices, to make room for the new Fall Goods. Every department has been drawn upon and furnishes its share of this July harvest of bargains. Now is the time for you to furnish that new house. You'll never buy good furniture cheaper. Liberal credit extended to all the people. No matter how much or how little you need, we are ready at all times to accommodate you. to Iml v f O Tl c Home 1 1 Celebrated Chas. Stickley Rockers These celebrated Stickley Eockers are made like the cut, are in fumed golden oak, steel spring seats, cov ered with genuine Spanish roan leather. $12.00 values .$7.95 $17.00 values ..... .$1200 Solid Oak Chairs and Sewing Rockers We are closing out a miscel laneous lot of Solid Oak Chairs and Nurse or Sewing Rockers, in cane and cobbler seats; many like the cuts shown. Chairs $l-0O Rockers $1.10 Genuine Leather Couches Samples A big. clearance sale of genuine Leather Couch Samples. Over 25 per cent off on the entire lot. You can obtain a mighty good Couch for $25 and $35. A Clearance of Oak Dining Tables Best Lentz Tables Splendid six-foot Weathered Oak Tables for only $15.00 Quarter-sawed and polished Golden Oak Tables, worth $45 for only. .30.00 .Furnish you home complete at a great saving in cost during our July Clearance Sale. 54-Piece Set, $3.90 Semi-Porcelain Dinner Set,' blue and gold line decorations, 54 pieces, worth $7.50, special at ..?3.90 Clearance of Enameled Iron Beds Polished and Satin Brass Beds Mattresses Springs No. 500 $13.50 for.. $7.45 This is a sample of the wonderful bargains in store for you here this month. .We have other bed specials in both enamel and solid. Vices Slashed in Dressers InlHSISEl!'' All present stock of Dress ers must go to make room for new patterns now on the way. A great variety to choose from if you come early. All woods repre sented. . $50 Mahogany for. . . .?33 $35 Oak, quartered. . .$27 $30 Oak or Mahogany $22 Carpet and Rug Department Sweeping reduction have been made in this department and many special bargains will be found in all lines. Just a few reminders : Granite Ingrain Carpet, cut off roll, per yard. 20 Pro-Brussels Carpet, for halls and stairs, cut off, per yard. .50 $1.00 All-Wool Ingrain Carpet, cut off, per yard .65 Axminster Carpet, sewed, laid and lined . . . . . . . ..... . .$1.25 9x12 UNION ART SQUARES, $5.50 ' In assorted colors and designs. Just what you will want for your cottage at the beach. BEST FIBER MATTING, PER YARD, 25 You can wash this Fiber Matting with soap and water without injury. Special this week at only, per yard .25 PRINTED AND PLANK LINOLEUM We are closing out remnants of 12-foot Printed Linoleum at, per yard ". . . 75 Plank Linoleum, a good imitation of inlaid wood, at, per yd. 50 $1.50 Arabian Lace Curtains....... ........ : 65 $2.00 Bolster Rolls, special...... $1.25 Dining Chairs Fine $4 Oak Chairs $2.75 Made with either cane or saddle seats, full box, mor tised and , bolt ed joints, panel backs. Better values were never offered. Best $12 Quartered Oak $7.50 Slip seats of genuine leath er, full box, claw feet, shaped like cut, hand pol ished and rubbed. A lim ited number. Library Table $5.50 No. 2 5 0 Large Fir Library Table, f i n i shed in weathered or golden, 48x28 inches in size, with under- shelf and large drawer, mounted on good casters. i i ; Magazine Racks $7.50 Values for $4.25 No. 546 Made of best Eastern oak, weathered finish, 44 inches high, 24 inches wide, 8 inches deep; very neat and attractive. Oak Library Tables This sale includes some wonderful bar gains in solid quarter-sawed and pol ished oak Tables, made on novel, yet attractive, lines; sizes 21x44 and 26x 48; $26 values for only ..$18.00 Fruit Canning Season is at hand and if you need a new Boiling Kettle or two our clearance sale offers you a saving opportunity. 65c "Royal" Graniteware, No. 06, for 40 75c "Royal" Graniteware, No. 08 45 $1 .00 " Royal ' ' Graniteware, No 10 . . 55 Also 2-quart "Royal" Tea or Coffee Pots, regular 55c value, for .30 Alaska" Family Refrigerators $10 This size will hold 35 lbs. of ice and is large enough for the average family. The "Alaska" is a guarantee of reliabil ity. A good refrigerator pays for itself in a single season. You need one. Buy it during our special jsale and save money. Easy terms if desired. Pay a dollar down and a dollar per week, if you prefer. 1153111 Bill Glass Pitchers Fine imita tion of real cut glass on special sale Monday and Tuesday at only . . 25 Tabourettes in several styles greatly re duced. $4 values now.. $2.75 FIRST AND YAMHILL SECOND AND YAMHILL f OAK WALL RACKS 95d These are in the golden or weathered finish, regular $1.75 values. Special at 95 HOME KISSED 1 $2 Values for 95c These Curtain Stretchers are adjustable, have metal con nections, and are gauged to inches; big sp'l at only Oo PITY FOR QUADRUPLETS FATHER GETS MRS. WILSON SOME CHILDREN BACK Los Angeles Woman Who Perpetrated Grotesque Hoax Finally Wins Victory in Court Majority Loses in Special Election on City Hall Project Wedding of Note. ' OS ANGELES, July 9. (Special.) . J I Next to the fight at Reno and the j special election, Mrs. W. W. Wilson and her hoax babies have held the cen ter of the stage in Los Angeles for J nearly a week. In spite of the indig j nation shouted from the housetops by j the good people of this city when It Was discovered some months ago that the quadruplets of which Mr. Wilson ! was so' proud, thinking- them his own offspring, were bogus and had been gathered here and there from unfor I tunate women by a woman who made 'it her business to furnish babies to : make happy the homes of childless coupVs, there was a sense of pleasure ' when the 'pourt decided that Mrs. Wil son could keep several of the hoax babies both of the "quads" and of twins and triplets that had previously ' made the Wilsons happy. The action was brought by a charl , table Institution, chiefly to get two of m Bet of "triplets" and one of a pair I of "twins" from the custody of Mrs. rvvilson. The three youngsters arrived in the Wilson household several years ago. With Mrs. Wilson it was a case of the mother love predominant a love '.of children that would not down; the :inother instinct that caUed for the soft 'grasp of baby fingers, the tiny heads nestling against her breast and the ' eoft cooing of baby voices. It was ten years ago that the vacancy in her mar irled life was made bright and gay as ieammer by the arrival of two little jgtrls, Vivian Lucinne and Vivine Lu kcille. Mrs. Wilson Arouses City. Tho woman's desire for children was jmo pathetic so- appealing In its inten sity that it moved even the physicians of Chicago and of this city physicians of reputation who filed records of birth in the various cases, although the little ones had been brought from other homes. Mr. Wilson was hoaxed; he thought in every case that the chil dren were his own. And he was proud of his' fatherhood and happy. Triplets once and twins twice had made the Wilsons happy. It was the last and greatest call several months' ago that caused her to have brought into her home the four babies, tiny little ones, whose little red faces and downy heads caused the woman the holiest of joys. She fondled and loved them for a few days and then came the d'sclosure of their- identity and they were taken from her by the courts to be mourned by her as though she had lost her own. Faker Mother Writes Verse. A friend of Mrs. Wilson gave the judge some verses that Mrs. Wilson had written and these verses had their effect. Mrs. Wilson did not know until after the court had said she might keep her little ones that he ' had seen the verses. They were entitled "Two Little Girls," and read as follows: Two little girls are better than one; Two little girls can double Ue fun. Two little eyes each, to open and close. Two little ears end one little nose. Two little lips and one llttlo chin. Two llttlo cheeks with dimples dent In. Two little elbows has each girlie sweet. Two little shoes and two little feet. Two little shoulders, so dimpled and strong. Two little legs run for each all dav long. Two little girls with curls golden and brown. Two little babes the sweetest in town. Two little girls can play "keep house" nice; Two little girls as quiet as mice. Two little girls can help mamma bake; Two little girls for each patty cake. Two llttlo girls, so soft and so white. Two llttlo girls to kiss mother "good night." Two little children to He at their rest; Two little Dalro of arms love mamma best. Two little prayers do my darlings each say; Two times do they kueel at my side each day. Two little angels guarding their bed. One at their feet and one at their head. New Steamer Line Pleases. Business men of Los Angeles are re joicing over the establishment of direct steamship service between this city and Portland, for it means much to South ern California. It will aid greatly in developing the fruit, and .vegetable trade between this city and the North west. Produce jobbers are particularly Jubilant and a canvass of the whole sale district shows the opinion is unani mous. - J. C. Richardson, head of one of the principal produce houses here, said: "Good steamer service between Los Angeles and the Northwest is just what Los Angeles has needed for a long time. It will make possible the shipping of much early fruit and vegetables. South ern California always produces vege tables and fruit earlier than any other section and with good shipping facili ties could build up an immense export ing business with Portland and other Northwestern cities. The same principle applies In the shipping of potatoes South from Oregon. At present It sometimes takes ten days to bring po tatoes from Northwestern points to Los Angeles. If the new steamship line does what It says it will, we can bring produce South in half that time. If the service is quick and frequent enpugh it may be possible to ship our early strawberries North in the Spring by steamer, thus avoiding the heavy ex press charges. The steamship line will handle the bulk of the produce trade between Los Angeles and the Northwest from its first sailing, I believe." This statement is typical of the opinion expressed by every produce man in the city. Special arrangements have been made aryi are being made for the handling of the cargoes from the North and for loading at the harbor. Majority Loses Election. - The result of the election and the "Goo-Goo" victory are history now, but one feature of the election has made many citizens wrathful. 16,474 votes were cast favoring the sale of the old City Hall so that the city can build a new one large enough to house the various departments ' on the ample block recently purchased by the city opposite the new Federal building. Against the proposition were cast only 11,760 votes; but as it required a two thirds vote the majority lost. The Indignation of the public was forcibly expressed when It was learned that the reason for the campaign against the sale of the City Hall was the fact that the city is paying several thousands of dollars monthly as rent for departments for which there is no room in the old City Hall for quarters in the Central Building, an office building bwned by leaders of the city government faction. Stewart & Whif fen were elected to the vacancies in the City Council over Barney Healey and "Doc" Howton. The latter pair have been in politics since they were weaned and have unenviable records in former' Councils. Society is greatly interested in the wedding of Miss Lulu M. Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott, a wealthy resident of Bellingham, Wash., which is to be solem nized on the 20th of this month. The bridegroom-to-be is Louis F". Moore, a Stanford man and an electrician of San Francisco. He is a brother of Dr. E. C. Moore, formerly superintendent of schools of Los Angeles, who has recently been called to a professorship at Tale. The ceremony will be, performed by the Rev. Warren F. Day at the home of Dr. Moore, and society will be well repre sented. Immediately following their mar riage the couple will leave on their honeymoon for Raymond, Wash.,- whence they will go on a camping trip for the Summer. The bride is a sister of Mrs. H. B. Alexander of this city and . has roads her home with her sister for sev eral years. Phoenix, Ariz., is 204 miles nearer Los Angeles than it was last week. The opening of the Parker cut-off and the starting of passenger service by the Santa Fe railroad early this week made the reduction. This line opens a new territory tributary to Los Angeles and with the completion of private and gov ernment reclamation projects will be of immense value to the people of South ern California and the about-to-be state of Arizona. Arizona Brought Xearer. .Word comes from the heart of the Mojave desert of the success of two former Los Angeles school teachers, the Mieses E. Rendleman and Anna M. Gib son, who a year ago were teaching the young Mea how . to shoot. They were struck by the prospects of Government land and each took up 160 acres on the desert. With more fortitude than many men display and the same quality that characterized the pioneers of earlier days they have stuck to their work until now they thoroughly enjoy It. They built their own houses and dug their own wells without man's aid and are as independent as human beings can be. Former Teachers Win Wealth. Their homes, rough on the outside, are as attractive as any city bungalow within. They have been artistically fur nished largely with desert furnishings. Tucca blossoms preserved with wax and pine cones have, been used with pleasing effect. The young women first planted a small vegetable garden to supply their own needs. They worked together, their houses being within a stone's throw of each other, and at pres ent one well supplies the two ranches. Their garden is producing and the young women are now devoting themselves to clearing the remainder of their land of sagebrush and cactus. As yet not a man has done a stroke of work on either ranch. The vaqueros to the north have been anxious to be of as sistance, but their offers have been de clined. No ranchman passes their places without stopping for a call. One whose intentions were suspected was given a delightfully clear object lesson when on the occasion of a visit a hawk swooped down on the chickens about the yard. One of the young women seized her rifle and with unerring aim picked off the head of the intruder. That was. the last visit of the suspected visitor. The feminine ranchers get most of their pleasure out of their work, but oc casionally they take a day off and drive six miles to go fishing. Saturday after noons are also reserved for recreation. They are members of the Valley Country Club at Victorville and are frequent guests at the week-end at the club. These teachers are very much in love with their free life and declare they will never give it up for the restraints of the city. LATINS DOMINATE VATICAN Friendly Critics Find Cause Therein for Triple Difficulty. ' ROME. July 9. (Special.) The triple difficulty in which the Vatican is in volved at the present moment with Germany, with Spain and with Portu gal has drawn attention to the lack of knowledge of other countries which has for some time past been character istic of those who conduct the political affairs of the Holy See. It is pointed out by friendly critics that the great mistake of the Vatican under the present regime has been to concentrate all power in the hands of the Latin element alone, and to take no account of the Teutonic and Anglo Saxon nationalities, which "Latins" can only imperfectly understand. Of the 22 cardinals permanently resident in Rome, 20 are Italians and the other two Spaniards; of the 17 cardinals created by Pius X all but one have been "Latins." Now. for a church which has to deal with men of many races, this almost complete exclusion of the non-Latin representatives is considered unfair. Naturally, under such circumstances, the Vatican authorities take narrow views, and are accordingly surprised when an error of tact suddenly creates a storm. In secular governments a minister who has made bad mistakes has to resign; but Cardinal Merry del Val, despite the criticisms of his policy by other Roman Catholics, goes on un moved, and he and Cardinal Vives y Tuto direct affairs as before. Whether the Vatican has gained by their meth ods, so different from those of Cardinal Rampolla, Is another question. It Is thought here that America should make a strong and insistent demand for two cardinals in the Sacred College. THEORY SCARES ENGLAND Upper Classes Xow Fear Appendici tis Is Contagious. LOXDON, July 9. (Special.) The decla ration by Dr. Donald W. C. Hood in the medical journal. The Lancet, that appen dicitis is contagious and due to a mi crobe, has startled England from Land's End to John O'Groate. It is undoubtedly true that cases are increasing to such an extent that opera tions are of daily occurrence. Some doc. tors declare this apparent Increase is due to the fact that formerly the symptoms were attributed to other ailments and so treated that the patients recovered. As scores of appendicitis cases run a benign course this explanation finds many acceptors, but Dr. Hood and others de clare that cases nowadays are more viru lent and medical treatment Is useless, short of immediate operation. Moreover, there is a very high rate of mortality among young children, the last notable case being that of the handsome Viscount Chelsea, the boy heir to the Earl of Cado gan, who died after surgical treatment. King's College Hospital surgeons de clare modern members of the well-to-do classes are especially prone to the dis ease, for they live too well on rich foods. Sir Frederick Treves, who operated on King Edward before his coronation, holds that all fruits with pips are dangerous, while another expert. Dr. Joseph Kldd, puts all the trouble down to hasty eating and imperfect mastication. So while doc tors differ the public grow more fearful every day and the ranks of the food fad dists are growing fast. One of the fastest trains in England makes the 260mlle run from FLshguaro. to London In less than five hours.