TIIE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN. PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 24, 1911.
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DR. B. K. WRIGHT.
Out-of-town Patrons
Will find us in position to handle their work with
' promptness. Delays are vexatious, especially 'when
your time is limited and we have so systematized our
business that your work, no matter how difficult,
will be completed in an incredibly short space of
time. Don't infer from this that we-turn cut any
slipshod or hurry-up work, to the contrary, each case
receives the most careful attention and all of the time
necessary to insure perfect results. Our work is
painless, thorough and cannot be excelled.
Our Prices Are Extremely Moderate.
DR. B. E. WRIGHT
AND ASSOCIATES
342te Wahington Street, Corner Seventh
OFFICE HOURSi S A. M. to 5 P. M,7:30to 8:30 P. M
Sunday: 9 to 1 Phone Main 21 1
MAGIC NAME LURES
Sharper Talks of Hood River
and Banks Give Cash.
WESTERN SLANG ENSNARES
w York Banker mindly Accept
Fftls Certified Check on Ore
gon Institution and Give
Money In Ketnrn.
Uaclc In th word "Hood Rlvr"
mad &a excellent working capital for
a mooth porson striae tho nam Jtmei
1L McCann. posing ax an Or iron orch
ard lit. who mainly upon the popular
uppovltloa that Hood River apple ar
tba 20th rrniury honansa. succeeded in
extracting over HOOO from thw cautloua
and ultra-uplcloua bat; king Institu
tion of little old New York.
How the plausible stranger, with
Western breexe and tnannerUma, "put
It orer" the said money-changer of
the metropolis, la told by the New York
Evening I'oat. which says.
WMU th Nat ton nrty Compaar wtl
Varalnff ail bnka In lh rt y to bar
ft a f-rr who had hQ etn the PMinOi
mt various ankln intitutiur and trw
Ing Binv no boaue chvoka. Ih rry roD
In )v-ftua. rt" th! tm? "Jma H.
MCnn. of KUrr, Or." found It
to xtrart I 17SJ tn t am manner frm
on of lha aiifMl bank a of the city. The
fvl that th rruf.M vhrk on .he Putlor
iaknc ComptDT, of Hxxi R1vT, which
ho hod dpoit4 In; N-w Tor, vm a
frtd. earn to llht to.to.y wha a !
pram from tho Orvn bonk in bouoe
rchd tho bonk tn tale cttv. tho name
of the InatUutloa aot boina dlseloeod.
Tare Baaks "WeeneeV
tneltfoataUv. two ethor banks arore fim
lariy "workl for amallor amount, pro
vmabJy bv tb am man- H got each te
eortifr r hooka for l.iH. then took tho cr
tkfiod chocka to tho Emptr Truet Company,
whlr-h I tho at at nry for tho aoio or
stork-transfer stamp, and bad the checks
-hBs-d for trmaafr a tamp.
Tho apple crop out bt way. he tbotmht.
wwi id b a whoppor. but It was a quoatlon
vhthr th frmra wr kra to a rr-l-wroclty
a throucn. h. ya h knew to-and-m
ut iw Hood HtTr; ud to o
caaaI with htm. yra ao. H waa here
I low oa hualn-. flr-t trip te ih bl
tow tn a Ion time, and It sur wa
rvm tow. Th affable atranror made
good Imprfwl n all around. iM ho ope
n account whtl In town? CerLalnly. II
ttMa't happen t. aeod anv cash just then,
but h mtaht b hui4 tn a day or two.
Th wtth which th man carried
en his eporationa deptt warning that b
wa at lore, wa aurpr1tns. in Thurs
day of laat week be went to vne of th,
tare bnk and tntrtxluod Mmalf a
Jame H. Mi tnn. from Hood Kiver. Or"
H talked of th apple crop out home, and
eeeaored hta convr.a?.n :th enoucn Ut-
r alan to alloy uaput-n. H was her
for a short star, and wiahed to open an
account. Ho had an account out horn I
th Butler Hanking Company, and knew
that th New York bank to which b had
com was tha correspondent In this city of
th firm out Wrat.
Certtriemttwa Tneacbt Crwod.
H the produced a cashier check for
$t 7' oa tb Hutler Comi-aiiy and said h
wotild. Mk to depoatt It ta th New York
bank. Th raihitr certification looked 'X.
K." t th bank officer her and they ae
. cepted It. Th man, by th way. happened
to men t ton that h was stopping, at th
r'laaa whil In town. Ai: thia ha opened en
Thuraday. They saw Both leg of him at tho
bank until TU rMay. a hen he dropped in to
draw out tMT:. H preaeated hi chock
and got th money.
kteanwhlte. of room, the certified chock
e ih lutier tanking t'ompany w as on
tt way t to trtMt institution. "Mr. Mc
lana' did nH appear at the bank any mor
aftev drawtr.g out th t.i7;k. but a tele
gram cam lot lat r!ght from Hihvj River
saying th certified check which bad heen
sent had arrived, and that It waa no good.
Ta New Tora bank prompt iy began a
rrk f r McVann." They ra d up th
Fasa. Waa h ther? n had spent
two days at th hotel last w-ek. but that
waa ai th room-c.vra knew of him.
Tt Mew D W ork.
Tb bank at oac nottflod th National
urety oar. pan y Nw tame at about th
mm rtm that two other banks found ut
that Mr. Mci'ann- bad paid thorn a via;
boni tho deax-riptio. ttiough. the pinkono
aad Bvraa dcectte who are werkiag oa
ih cat think that ther must hav bn
two man In tnes thefts "McCann" and his
helper, very likely. In these two case,
th forger somehow had stolen two .blank
checks from th chock book of Sharaon.
Hammlll 4k Co.. of No. 71 Hroadway. He
dated on September 8 and th othor Sep
tember II. mad ihm out for $15)0 each,
and signed them civrly wtth th firm sig
nature. Each check was presented at a different
bank and by a different man. And ack bit
of paper was duly certified and handed
back, with no queatlons naked. Afterward
It waa a stmpl matter to present th cer
tified checks at th Empire Trust and rt
th stock-transfer stamps In schanga This
wss don on tb following day. The d
tec Uvea bellev thy hav ctuc whlcb will
lead t!im la the end to th man "from
Hood Klver." They ar fairly confident
that he la still In New York, and that h
never visited th apple son. They bet lev
he (s th head of a rang that has found
New Tork fertile around for their own par
ticular crop.
Th National Surety Company announced
thto afternoon that It would safeguard Its
own Interest a In futur by an amendment
to It forgery tnsuraoc policies. "Hera
after. aald William It. Joyce, tb company's
president. w Intend to Issu a rider In our
policte stating that we will not be re
sponsible for ! tn any case nnle a man's
account has stood In the bank at least IS
days '
Joyce addd that the false certification
custom was becoming so popular among
forgers that all that some of them now dio.
was to Invest In a rubber I'unp of some
banking boat and do their own crtlfylng.
A rubber stamp could b obtained by a total
stranger, without presenting an order for It
from th bank In qneition. said Mr. Joyce.
REAL TYPES IN PAGEANT
IMMIGRANTS FROM , MISSOURI
DRIVE IX BOCXD-rP.
ArriTal - of Caravan Over Oregon
Trail Adds Realism to Pen
dleton Display-
TENDLETOV. Sept. (Special.)
Unsuspectingly rldlnr Into th midst
of a frontUr festival, two parties of
immigrants front Missouri bocants a
psrt of Peadleton'a reallstla "Wast,
ward Ho" parade last week and. lit
rally snatched from th Old Oregon
Trail, brought exclamations of delight
and amazement from th thousands of
Round Cp spectators who lined th
city's streets while th bla; pagaant
was passing.
Today, for th first time. It beoam
known that at least one portion of
th wild west pageant was genuine.
Traversing th same trail which
brought Ezra Meeker Into Oregon 6
years ago. two parties of Immigrants
In trplral prairie schooner, contain
ing houshold goods and all the worldly
belonglngi of the two families, seek
ing the Western land or promise en
tered the Pendleton city limits Satur
day. lust-mothered and with the family
dog trotting along behind while a
brood of youngsters pverrd from be
neath the flaps of th canvas-covered
wagons, the caravan entered the city
and when near the Brers' mill. It was
halted by the approach of the pageant
typifying the vanishing frimtler. With
a whoop of enthusiasm. Dsn P. Smyth,
Roy Ktshnp. F. A. Steiwar and Fred
Karl, directors of the Round Up Asso
ciation, deserted their place la th
ranks and gallojed to the home-seeker
e.
Despite their protestations, th lat
ter wer pressed Into servlc and no
on In th vast throngs on the streets
realized as they cheered th reallstlo
pralrl schooners In their progress over
th line of march, that their enthusi
asm was being stirred by th real
thing, and that the creaking wheels al
ready had turned over th soil of
many statea
Although not nearly so common as
they wer half a century ago. such
outfits ar not rare today, but th
Round .Up directors consider that they
mad a singularly fortunate find in
kidnaping the dust-laden tourists for
their frontier parade.
Ontralia Pioneer Dead.
CENTRA LI A. Wash- Sept II (Spe
cial.) J. li. Aust. aged ;. died here
Thursday. Mr. Aust was a member
of th Masons and Grand Army of tb
Republic.
SayeYoul0to25PerCent
: If you had the faintest idea
of the enormous expense of
some of the stores in this town,
you would know that you had
to pay your share when "yu
trade there.- They tell, you
fair' tales of enormous buying,
etc., but the fact is that any
one who has the money can buy
one car of goods just about as
cheap as he can buy five. Our
rent, advertising is only one
third of othersr See what we
save for you. -.
Solid
Oak
$ 3 7. S 0 China Closet
Thu Week for $22.75
This Massive Solid Oolden
Ok China Closet stands S
feet Inches hlx-hf is 31.
feet wide and will , accom
modate an extra large num
ber of dishes. Built for
years of service as well as
for appearance. On sale
this week for 00 7ti
only 0tim I sJ
High-Grade Colonial Brass Bed on
Sale This Week for $22.75
This Colonial Brass Bed Is extra qual
ity, has the beautiful satin finish pre
served with hot process; English lac
quer. The posts are not the small size
usually found In low-price brass beds,
but are the large two-Inch patterns,
with attractive mounts, as shown." A
handsome, well-built, full-sized brass
bed on sale this week for 7S
Other Brass Bed Reduetloma This Week
145.00 Colonial Brass Bed 829.90
158.50 Hellenic Brass Bed. 834.40
$55.00 Cardinal Brass Bed S37.TO
$65.00 Extsa Massive Bed. 844.75
Name Your Own Terms at
Edwards Best on Coast
"We require much smaller
payments than, other institu
tions giving credit because we
have more Confidence in the
people trust them further.
We leave it to you to name
your own terms in' furnishing
your home. Could any credit
proposition possibly be more
convenient than ours? Every
man of limited means who is
ambitious for a home should
make it his business to take
Edwards into his confidence.
Sale
ofPiliows
Pore While
Dock
Feathers
$23 Solid Oak
Bookcase on
Sale for $18.50
This Is not so big a
reduction as you read
about some places,
but If you realized
how good value it
was at $23, then you
would see why wo
cannot red uce It
more. Several other
cases specially priced
this week.
SENT HOME
AT YOUR
OWN TERMS
Be Sure to See This Attractive "October Bride" Three-Room Outfit, $187
"for a Little Less." Young couples who want to be on the safe
side .should deal with a big reliable firm like Edwards, that
has a reputation of 30 years of honorable merchandising behind
it. Then voull be sure of eoods and credit "fit to use." "We,
Keeping young folks in special mind, we have included our
October Bride 3-room outfit among this week's specials. Andt
we will make special easy credit erms on these outfits to
October brides. In selecting specials in individual Furniture,'
Rugs and Carpets we have kept in mind usefulness and econo
my, and you will find these articles always a "Little Better
mark all prices in plain figures and sell you goods on a
days' free trial in yoqr own home, thus absolutely guaranteeing '
you a square deal.
- - An Extra Hlgh-Grade Special Pillow,
filled with new curled duck feathers,
'. steamed and curled. Guaranteed
odorless and sanitary. Heavy fancy
art ticking-. Greatest durability
guaranteed. Worth $3.76. iJO Off
On sale this week. each... tPaieOiJ
i . . -:.v iijAsaie '..li h i iumuji -'ta.stnecoo
This Heater '
Only . . .
See the Famous Duplex Draft
means less money expended for fuel, better cooking and
saving in labor and energy to the woman who does
iking. ...
Your Old Stove Taken in y "
Part Payment -
And we will allow you every cent it is worth. Just ring
up Main 504 or A 2826 and our stove man will -call.
See the Water Front
No pipes for water to hinder the baking in a Monarch
Range: A glance will convince you that pipes in a range
are out -of date.
It Needs No Blacking
It Is Indestructible
Fine Oven Thermometers
Free
A Good PI iace To Tra
Hundreds of Others
for Your Inspection
The Stove Department is our
greatest drawing card. Heaters
and Cook Stoves here at match
less prices, and satisfaction guar
anteed. Wood and Coal
Be sure to take a look at our
new style lump grate combination
Heaters. .
KLAMATH JUNKET BIG
PORTLAND DF.I.KGATIOX TO BE
ENTERTAINED EACH WAT.
Cities Along Ronte Arrange to Wei
conic Excursionists Day- at
Ealr Is Scheduled.
Portland business irn who will par
tlclpate In. the forthcoming; trade ex
tension tour to Klamath Falls will
hav a busy time. They will stop at
many towns of Importance In the Wil
lamette Valley on both the frolng- and
return trips and will be entertained at
eeryplac by local committees.
Th first stop on tha southern trip
will be at Albany, Tuesday evening,
September It. They will remain there
for several hours, arriving; at Graqts
Pass the following morning. Grants
pass. Medford and Ashland will' see
them Wednesday. They are due to
arrive In Klamath Kalis . Thursday
morning and will spend the day at the
agricultural fair there. On the return
Journey th principal feature will be
th luncheon at ' Eugene. President
Campbell, of th University of Oregon,
has Invited them to partake of a meal
prepared by the domestic science class
and the Portland peopl hav accepted.
They will be In Junction City long
enough to see the. pumpkin show , and
perhaps to eat pumpkin pie. They are
scheduled to arrive in Portland at :S0
o'clock Krlday evening. The train will
run between Albany and Corvallls In
both directions, providing for a two
hours' stop at Corvallls on the, north
bound trip.
The complete list of those who will
he In the party Is:
Studebaker Bros. Company, agricultural
Implements, L. F. Weaver; Schwarsscnlld
Bulzberser Companr. packers; O.-W. R.
N. Compsny. -William McMurrar: Portland
Commercial Club. C. C Chapman, manager
promotion department; J. G. Mack a Com
panr. furniture, carpets and draperies;
Lumbemeni National Bank; Fairbanks.
Mors Company, scales, trucks, engines;
John A. Roebllnrs Sons Company, wire
cloth, netting, rope; Kllhsm Stationery a
Printing Company; Brcymin Leather Com
pany. Otto Breyman; Dougherty-Ftthlan
Shoe Company, Paul DHs; M. Seller tt
Company, wholesale crockery, glassware,
tinware; Marshall-Wells Hardware Com
pany; Hart Cigar Company. Sol Hart; O.
N. a E. Walter Company, wholesale carpets,
llnolenm: W. B. Olatke Company, commis
sion. W. B. Glafke; Neustadter Bros., whole
sale men's furnishings: W. . L- Keats Auto
CompuUw Hmry Wetnhard Brewery, Paul
Wesslngar; Imperial Stock Company; Chana
lor L.yon Motor Supply Company; Pack
ard Motor Car Company. Frank C. Rlggs;
pacific Hardware a 6teel Company, A. C
Cailao; W. P. Fuller Company, paints,
olla, glass. C. B. Woodruff, mawager; Pa
cific Coast Biscuit Company. J. L Wicker
ham. secretary: H. Bock with, general agent
Wells, Farge Company; Merchants Na-
tlonal Bank, Wilfred P. Jones; Great North
ers Railway, Archibald Gray; 8. P. 8.
Railway Company, W. E. Coman; Dwight
Edwards Company; O.-W. R. N. Company,
H. K. Ixransbury; Pacific Paper Company.
I. A. Cotton, secretary; Goodyear Rubber
Company. F. 8. West; Ladd & TUton Bank,
E. Cooklngham, vice-president; Llpman,
Wolfe Company: The J. K. Gill Company;
Honeyman Hardware Company; Meier
Frank Company; Flelschner A Mayer Com
pany; Allen a Lewis, L. A. Lewis, president)
Mason a Ehrman Company, Incorporated,
Harry Beck; FKhlan. Barker Shoe Com
pany; A. H. AverlU Company; International
Harvester. Company of America, L. W. Car
nahan; E- Henry Wemme; Arthur P. Tlfft.
attorney; O.-W. R. N. Railway Company.
John M. Scott; McCargar, Bates ft Lively,
insurance, W. E. Pearson; Portland Railway,
Light A Power Company. B. 8. Josselyn.
president: E. C. Atkins Company. G. F. Bar.
ringer; F. H. Rothchlld. wholesale liquors;
Portland Brewing Company. A. I. Blitz; HcJ
msn Transfer Company, S. W. Herrman,
president; Blake. McFall ft Company; Umb
denstock ft Larson Company. J. Fred Larson;
George A. Lovejoy; Plttock ft Leadbetter
Lumber Company. F. W. Leadbetter, presi
dent; Evening Telegram, John F. Carroll,
editor: Ellers Piano House. Hy Ellers; Ore
gon Journal, C. 8. Jackson, president and
general manager; Fisher. Thorsen Company,
president, M. G. Thorsen: Pacific Door Com
pany, president, M. G. Thorsen; Graves
Muslo Company. F. W. Graves, president and
manager; Morning Oregonlan. Addison Ben.
nett; Burrell Investment Company, Walter
F. Burrell, president and manager; Paclflo
Telephone ft Telegraph Company, C. H.
Moore: Albers Bros. Milling Company. W.
F. McKllbon: J. A. Pllklngton, nurseryman.
Guy Pllklngton.
Grants Pas Withholds Action.
.GRANTS PASS, Or., Sept. li. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting of .th city coun
cil this week the Home Telephone Com
pany made application for a franchise
to operate within the corporate limits
of the city. A year or so ago the com
pany tried to come Into the city, but
the opposition was so great among th
business men against a two-fold sys
tern that a defeat was suffered. Whai
the general sentiment of the council
is at this time upon another system
has not yet been expressed, as the
franchise was directed to pass through
the hands of the city attorney befora
baing heard .or atted upon by tha
couhcilmen. ,
21 Drop of Blood
Or little water from the human system when
thoroughly tested by the chief chemist st Dr.
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., tells tho
story of impoverished blood nervous exhaustion
or some kidney trouble. Such examinations are
made without cost and is only a small part of the
work of the staff of physicians and surgeons under
. i i ... l 1 1. u i pt.nw nivinp rne nmr
tne aireciiuu ui ui- jh
medical advice possible without cost to those
wno wisn iu wmo - --
symptoms. An imitation 01 natures metnoa 01
restoring waste of tissue and impoverishment of
the blood and nervous force is nsed when you
take an alterative and glyceric extract of roots,
without the use of alcohol, such as
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
Which makes the stomach strong, promotes the flow of digestive juice re
stores the lost appetite, makes assimilation perfect, invigorates the liver and
purifies and enriches the blood. It is the great blood-maker, flesb-bnUdar
and restorative nerve tonic. It makes men strong in body, active ia miad
and oool ia judgment. Get what yon ask for 1
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