DRAMATIC,
REAL ESTATE
AUTOS, ROADS
SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to lO
VOL. XXX.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, 3IAY 21, 1911.
NO. 21.
ALASKAN GOAL
PROBLEM
GROWS
Quality, Style afid'-.
This heading" tells the story in a nutshell, what you will always .find at Gadsbys'. Ypu will also find something
new, novel and different from elsewhere. Our big stock is 'now : at its best and every department overflowing
with bargains. For wedding outfits and -gift furniture you 'will find the largest variety, the choicest stock and
better values at Gadsbys than anywhere in the city. Come and. see ourv model four-room outfit.
GADSBYS' FOUR-ROOM OUTFIT COMPLETE-$120
$120
Sold
on I
Easy :
Credit 1
Terms
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If real Furniture value is what you-want Furniture that is durable, artistic and inexpensive we know positively, after 20 years' experience, that yau cannot dupli
cate this four-room outfit for less than $50 more than Oadsby is asking, no matter where you go. Pay us-$20 deposit and $10 per month. When you buy at Gadsbys'
you are buying of an old-established firm, with-plenty of capital to take care of your account during sickness or loss of employment.
HP
Mahogany
China Closet
Ilere is the very latest de
sign of China Closet, fin
ished dull mahogany.
Oadsbj's' price -
$38.50
Mahogany
Buffet ;.
This beautiful 3Ialio
any Uuffet. large and
massive, Colonial de
sign, with mirror full
length of top; the latest
dull finish. Gadsbvs
price $45.00
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Gadsbys' Gas Ranges Always Satisfy
BUY YOUR GAS RANGE WHILE THE PRICE IS LOW
$20 Gas Ranges Special at $15
Want greater comfort in cooking t
Want to get away from working
over a wood or roal fire during
the warm weathert It's none too
soon to be thinking of ordering
jour gas range. This is a model range. It does not beat the oven when
j on broil ; it does not heat the broiler when von bake or roast. All the
valves hare rrculatini; openings for the gas pressure. It tfjl C fC
is of bet eunot ruction. A S'-TO.OO ranire for ifiU.Uu
TZZZ COKTfXCTIONS MADE OK ALL OUR GAS RANGES
GADSBYS' GRAND
OPENING DISPLAY
New Carpets, Rugs, Lino
leum, Oilclbth and Matting
Thin department of our utor la fairTjr bulKtnR with all the best things
thnt the nean haa brought forth all the new weave, the very cream of
the market. The new dealarns are beautiful to behold, and the rich color
romhlnnttona are mont exquisite. The blKKnt variety ever ohown In
herefrom the most ftorfteoun patterns tn the nnftet and mot delicate
hadea. Kujm of e very fixe, rarpeta In endlena variety of patterns, lin
oleums and oilcloths of the choicest styles and most durable qualities, and
every price a money-savins; price.
R y a I Aimlaatrr, Gads
bys' special, per tl "itt
yard ., 1
Saxaay Axmlaaterm, Gads
bys' special, par t j OC5
yard I
Braaaela, good qflalltv.
yaPrdC.'.':.r.r..$1.10
Tapeatryt ela-ht-wlre,
all-wool surface, 7C
at DC
625
RUGS
AI.WATS OX
DISPLAY
HACKS
Madras JateBady
r"'.9r'2:.$9.50
A I I - 1VO I Killed In-
aT".'-:.!:a.:...$9.75
Filn QiialltT Wllloi
rte.we.t..Kr.B". $34.20
Rritllr'n Wool VolTft
x.:... $22.50
ROOM RUGS
$15.85
Dntwli )! tirade (11 ff
Rasa. 9x12. each 0 14.3U
iialnltri, 9x12.
each
Boor Braaaela Rasa. a0f OC
special at OaiT.OO
e.'cT.-.''.'.-.lT.SO
Art Pra-Braaaela, tx at 1 O DC
1!. each 9 la-.OO
5x!2".".v'!ve!.R. "!.":.$ 15.85
$55.00
$48.00
. Aaarla Persia a,
xl2
Orleatal Baadada.
9x12
The following sixes of factory
made rK are In stock here: 11-Sx
15. 10-xl3-6. 10-6x12. 11-3x12. 9x
' 13-S, 9x12. 8-3x10-6, 6x9. 4-6x7-6,
etc.
Our Regular Prices Are Always as Low as Much-Advertised Sales of
Competitors There's a Reason We Fay No Rent.
The Famous Gibson
Cleanable White
Enamel Refrigerators
Keep Tour Food Cool and Clean;
Sara One-third on Tour Ice BilL
We are agents for the celebrated
Gibson Cold Blast Refrigerators,
white enameled. Carload just ar
rived. AH sizes'and shapes.
FROM S9.00 UP
I 1 J
Every Majestic Range We Sell
Makes This Store More Friends
No user of a Majestic is ever
dissatisfied ' with the results.
Every one we sell "makes
sjood" on every promise we make
for it. The Majestic is not a
"bargain" article it is made
for the woman who wants the
best and knows it when it is
pood cooks for careful buyers'
that want lonj and satisfactory 0
seirice. It is the range chosen j
by those who operate-their range
at the least cost for fuel. ,
Now for the best part o' this
storv voiir credit is god on a
MAJESTIC. You may select
any one in our stock and pay for
it by the. month or -week. ,
$40 Leader Steel
Range
$27.50
Equal to any $40 Range in the
market; oven 20x16 inches, asbestos-lined
throughout. You cannot
break the lids. Of- C97 Cft
fered special at... P OU
Sale of
Gadsbys'
Go-Carts
Closed, can be
packed in trunk,
taken on cars; is
light and easy to
handle. Gadsbys'
price is
$6.00
This is a good
cart cheap; nick
el mountings.
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USE OUR EXCHANGE DEPARTMENTS T-IS'tt
more up to date and better, phone us and we'll send a competent man to
see it and arrange to take it us part payment on the kind you want the
Gadsby kind. We'll make you a 'ibera! allowance ior your goods, and
we'll sell you new furniture at low prices. The new furniture will be
promptly delivered and your pieces will go as a first payment., Then
eay terms on the balance. Have furniture you'll be proud of.
Extra Special See This Couch'
$7.85
:V- toxica is upnoisterea
WfV- V-V'" S-T ' -i-sw in two -tone velours;
2''iS-feH il beautiful greens, red
3Ittl&fu&ikH ;$c&&i VwSj and browns; Gadsbys'
price.
$7.85
m mum-mm m
f. V ' ' 1 'I ;l P teSi4ai!SS
Big Mass Meeting Monday at
Seattle Promises to Be ;
"Rouser."
WIDE EFFECT IS DESIRED !
Slain Object of Plan's Promoters Xs j
to Emphasize Attitude Toward '
Patenting of Clalma la Par i
Jforthemi Possession. ;
SEATTLE. Wash May 20. (Special.)
Seattle's massmeetlng Mar 22 on the
question of Alaskan coal promises to
be a big- affair. It has been Indorsed 1
by the joint committee of several com
mercial; orejanizations. all of which are
determined to make the meeting a,
"rouser."
' On this point the Rotary Club baa .
adopted a report reciting- the troubles
in Alaska and saying- that the object
will be let "the people of the United
States understand the attitude of Se
attle toward the development of Alas
ka coal," and in that way to emphasize
the necessity of the Government issuing
patents to coal claimants against whom
no charges have been filed.
"The massmeeting-," says the report,
"Is not planned to Influence the de
cision of courts upon coal filings ;now
in controversy, but to hasten action on
claims against which no contest has
been made and so make available for
development sufficient coal to meet the
needs of the people of Alaska,- that their j
progress ana prosperity way in iokilu-
ed no longer."
Greatly to the relief of transportation 1
men engaged in the Alaska trade, the
Marine Hospital Service has modified
its vaccination order, so that passengers
who believe they have not been exposed
to smallpox will be allowed to make
affidavit as follows: "I hereby swear
that I Intend to embark for a port tn
Alaska, and to my best knowledge and
belief I have not been exposed to small
pox during tne past 14 aays, ana xnai
nave truthfully answerea xne questions
asked me as to my whereabouts during1
the past two weeks.
On this showing the passenger win
be given a certificate. The modified
order will greatly reduce the number of
vaccinations, which for a time threat
ened to deprive Seattle of Its most
profitable Summer excursion trade. .
Tideland Holders Fear,
There is something akin to- conster-
1 nation among: the owners of preferences
to second-class tidelands by the dis
covery that they have only 18 days left
In which to exercise their rights. Un
less thev act before June 7 with ref
erence to lands between mean low and
extreme low tides, the lands may be
Bold as any other tidelands, to whom
ever may apply for their purchase. ;
Owners of extra-tideland property com- .
plain that the state is forcing tnem xo
take all the risk, in demanding a re
lease of all claims in event the courts
hold that the state has no right to sell.
Dissatisfaction and acrimony are no
ticeable among some owners, who claim
that they have learned only through ac
cident of the danger to their property.
They assert that they have had no
notice of the new law; that House bill
253, originally introduced by J. A. Mill
er, carried an emergency clause and the
90-day interval of preference right will
expire before the laws are printed: and
that a way is opened for blackmail by
unscrupulous speculators.
The bill as drafted gave title out
right to owners of the lands in ques
tion on the basis that previous Legisla
tures undoubtedly Intended to convey
as tidelands the lands over which the
tide ebbs and flows. But the bill was
.amended so as to give tideland owners I
a preference right to buy. at (1 per J
lineal chain the extra tidelands, this 1
right to be exercised within 90 days. J
The sweeping effect of the law ap-
pears In the. fact that it will lorce
thousands of owners of Summer homes I
on Puget Sound to exercise their I
rights or take the consequences. Each 1
of them must buy the extra tidelands j
at once, or be liable to be placed in :
competition with speculators in the '
open market. The holder of extra tide- !
lands -could seriously interfere with a
property owner by forcing- him to pay ;
for the privilege of getting to and from
his Summer home.
Seattle Will Have Weed Day.
Saturday. May 7, is to be celebrated
as Seattle's first "weed day," at which
time all citizens are urged to make war
on thistles, burdocks and similar plants.
At the same time an effort will be made
to clear rubbish from alleys. The cam
paign against weeds started with .the
Western Federation of Improvement
Clubs at its meeting in Tacoma last
August, and Seattle is trying to make
its observance general. To that end
Governor M. E. Hay has been asked to
set aside May 27 as a legal holiday and
to Invite the co-operation of the boy
scouts and all school children in the de
struction of weeds. Locally, the im
provement clubs are calling attention
to ordinance 6677 providing a penalty
for leaving refuse in streets or alleys
and the clubs request citizens to report
any growth of weeds on parking- strips.
H. L. - Slzer, author of the resolution
adopted by the improvement clubs,
says: "A general onslaught is requirea.
We hope every man in this city will as
sign to himself a part of this work, and
perform it quickly and thoroughly
There will be a second weed day, for
such .weeds as start anew and run to
seed. -'
Electricians Near Death.
A curious story comes from Bremer
ton of two expert battleship repair men
being accidentally imprisoned on the
Colorado, and escaping death by chance.
They were Dan Sachem, electrician, and
M. J. Holt, a helper. They had" been
sent to repair a wire conduit in the
magazine and lost their way In the
winding compartments. A door through
which they had entered had been closed
and In their search for another door
they became so . confused that they
could not tell one part of the ship from .
another. They then tried to drill their
way out. They were ready to give up
when the point of a drill cut into a
telephone cable, breaking the connec
tion. This fortunate accident started
an inquiry which resulted In finding the
two men exhausted and near death far
down in the ammunition and powder
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