THE SUNDAY ORKGONIAX. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 15, . 1912. 12 om The Moirgae MtcElev Sisiir lilt tuiire 0 p&ny Are Jk ctaally I letMeg Jr rem JiS We wish to emphasize this statement for the purpose of showing a REASON for the enormous reductions we have made on ALL GOODS IN STOCK. The prices we are-now making are in almost every instance less than we would have to pay to replenish our stock. Then why would we make these prices if we were going to continue in business? . However, the public are not so much interested in whether or not we are going to continue in busi- ness as they are in knowing . what they will have to pay. for the goods . - - For Christmas Presents Make $1 Buy Three Times as Many Presents I Shaving Cabinets Beautiful Quartered Golden Oak. French Plate Mirror. Always sold at $12.00. Going at $5.95 Comb. Bookcase and Writing Desk In Golden Oak, Fumed Oak, Early English and Mahogany: - Those usually sold for not less than $27.50 now $17.25 " Those usually sold for not less than $32.00, now ....$19.25 Those usually, sold for not less than $38.50, now $22.75 Dining Tables . Solid Quartered Oak. Regularly sold for $24.00. Reduced to $12.00 Regularly sold for $40.00. Reduced to $24.00 Regularly sold for $80.00. Reduced to $40.00 ; ALL ODD CHIFFONIERS AT one-half the regular price. All others reduced from 25 to 40 per cent. . Carpets and Rugs Park 'Mills Velvet Carpet in large variety of colors and patterns. Regular $1.50 quality ; sewed, lined and laid, for yard.. . '. .. .$1.10 Saxony Axminster Carpet $1.50 quality; well padded and laid, ' for . $1-10 Dobson Velvet Carpet Sold at $1.35; laid; reduced, per yard $1.00 "Wilton Velvet Carpet of the $2.00 quality; laid; per yard $1.50 COUCH COVERS An excellent assort ment; also Portieres; including leather ones ; sroinc; at half price. WOOL BLANKETS Extra wide; usually sold at $12.50; for $10.50 Wool Blankets for $ 6.50 Wool Blankets for PILLOWS AND COMFORTERS All "kinds and quality ; greatly RUGS All sizes, quality, colors and designs. Axminster, 9x12, $25.00, reduced to Axminster, 9x12, $28.50, reduced to Axminster, 9x12. $32.50, reduced to... Wiltons, 9x12, $40.00, reduced to .Wiltons, 9x12, $50.00, reduced to. Morris Chairs ' Luxury, Automatic and the Royal Push Button patterns. Every one solid quartered oak. All imitation leather, guaranteed - by the manufacturer for five years. Some have foot-rests attached. ' Regular priced "ones $16.00, for" $11.25 Regular priced ones $15.00, for $ 9.75 Regular priced . ones $22.50, for $16.25 Regular- priced ones $18.50, ' for $13.75 Regular priced ones $24.00, for $17.25 Regular priced -ones $35.00, for $19.75 Regular priced ones $47.50, for $29.75 Children's High Chairs, Rockers at less than half the price originally asked for them. A Mission Rocker for SJ51.0O. . The regular priced ones $2.50,. for. ....... . The regular priced ones $1 .00, for ............ The regular priced ones $1.35, for ...... .". '. . . A $7.00 Leather Seat, one for ...$1.60 70tf S5 ...$3.50 .$7.95 .$7.25 .$4.25 reduced. $14.75 $18.75 $22.75 $26.75 $28.75 China, Austrian and Bavarian Gold Band, 88-piece set. reduced from $34.00 to.:....- .'...$19.25 125-piece set from $32.95 to : .$18.75 Open stock pieces at 25 per cent reduction. Hand-painted China at half price. Turkish . Leather Rockers In numerous styles and qualities all genuine leather. $27.00 ones for .$17.75 $42.50 ones for. .$28.75 $35.00 ones for ....... . ... .$24.75 $62.50 ones for . .$42.50 TELEPHONE STANDS With folding seat attached; in golden oak or early English. Closing out , for. . ". .. 1". . .$5.75 They could not be purchased from the manufacturer for this price. In addition to above we have six floors filled with a large and complete stock of everything conceivable for the house furnishings, and only ask that you come in and compare our prices with-any other house in the city. Ladies Desks Great, variety in finish and design. Golden Oak. Regular price $8.00. Closing out price $ 5.75 Golden Oak. Regular price $10.00. Closing out price.. $ 7.25 Waxed and Fumed. Regular ' price $14. Closing out price $ 9.75 Fumed. Regular price $15.00. Closing out price. $10.25 Mahogany. Regular price $12.50. Closing out price ... $ 8.25 Waxed Oak. Regular price $22.50. Closing out price. . .$14.75 Birdseye Maple. Regular price $26.00. Closing out price. . .$18.75 Circassian Walnut. Reg. price $22.00. Closing out price... $14.25 Grand Ave. and East Stark St. Open Evenings Music Cabinets In Quartered Oak and Mahogany. Golden Oak. Regular price $11.50. Closing out price.. $ 7.75 Golden Oak. Regular price $14.00. Closing out price. . .$ 9.75 Golden Oak. Regular price $15.00. Closing out price. . .$ 7.50 Golden Oak. Regular price . $17.50. Closing out price. ; .$11,75 Golden Oak. Regular price $32.50. Closing out price. ..$19.75 Mahogany. R e g u 1 a r price $14.00. Closing out price. . .$ 9.75 Mahogany. Regular price $17.50. Closing out price. 7. $14.25 TWahntranv. Regular Drice $22.50. Closing out price... $14.25 The Celebrated Line of BUCK Stoves, Ranges and Heating Stoves for Wood, Coal and Gas. Large Selection and All Reduced Very Materially. Heating Stoves Reduced from $21.50 to $14.00 Reduced from $19.00 to. ............ I .$13.50 Reduced from $16.50 to. .......... . .'. .$ 8.25 Reduced from $15.00 to. .$ 7.50 - The Stoves and Ranges have, enameled lining, ventilated ovens, wide, shallow fire-'boxes. asbestos-lined walls, either on legs or closed bases. ' Re duced from 25 to 40 per cerit. FARM EXPERTS WORK Agricultural Department of 0. W. R. & N. Aids Prospects. C. L. SMITH HEADS BUREAU . E. Clark. "Raised In the Saddle, J- J- Principal Livestock Man. r I. S. Smith and Floyd TV. Z. Rader Complete Staff. With four men constantly at work In Various parts of the Northwest, the O.-W. R. & Company is aiding materi ally In the agricultural development of be territory served by its lines. Although n. B. Miller, traffic man ager for the company, ton? has been a persistent aovocate 01 mcr. men vn mo farms. It was not until--about a year that a systematized attempt was made to induce city people to bo on "t'n land and to help those already on It to success. - Then It was an agricultural, depart ment was started, with C. U. Smith, a practical farmer of many years' ex parlcnce. at l head. "A short while later r. E. Clark, a livestock expert, was placed In charge of the. animal husbandry division of thl. department. The Innovation proved such a success that lr. Smith's son. U S. Smith, was nade Ma assistant. A few months aso, with the co-operation of the Federal Tpartment of Aarriculture. f'loyd V. Jtader. a yonnar man of much technical and practical experience, was place! In charge of plant Industries on the lines f the company in Orejron. These four man now are worklnsc In harmony to in end that all kinds of agriculture, horticulture and stock raisin In Ore aron. "Washington and Idaho will. be. de veloped alon substantial and profit able lines, thus adding to the comfort and happiness of the farmers, to the prosperity and advancement of the en tire Northwest, and to the revenues of the railroad that has undertaken this moveme-nt. Parly TLeaaoaa Practical. C L. Smith Is a native of Ohio, where "ne was born nearly S years a-o. When a. mere boy his family setlted In the wilderness in Mtchltcan. where he ob tained his first lessons In farming Later he worked In an Indiana nursery. He served In the Kleventh Michigan In fantry durlnr the Civil War, partici pating In th campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and fighting in such battles as Stone River, Tullahoma, Chlckamauga. Lookout Mountain, Mis slonary Ridge and In Sherman's Atlanta campaign. At the close of the war he settled in Minnesota, engaging in farming and gardening. Owing to ill health, a re sult of the war, he could not do manual labor for a while, and this period or in activity gave him a chance to study agriculture and horticulture on a scientific basis. He was instrumental In organizing the Minnesota State Hor ticultural Society, the State Agricul tural Society and the Grange. He gave the first lecture In the first Farmers' Institute ever held In the State of Minnesota. His address was an argu ment In favor of diversified farming, which doctrine he has. continued to preach ever sine. Farmer's View la ee. He has an interesting and original way of expressing himself a way that appeals to the farmers and he has never been without offers to appear on the lecture platform before bodies of farm ers and scientists Interested In agri cultural development. H attributes his success to the fact that his point of view always has been from the farmer's side and that he has a habit of saying thinsts In such a way as to arrest the attention and arouse the Interest of the farmers. He alwava has maintained and operated his own farm, where he could conduct personal exVerimenta on sublects that came under his observa tion on bis lecture tours. In spite of the fart that he has devoted most of his time on his own farm to -experimental work he neer has failed to make it pay. Mr. Smith came to Oregon in 1S99 to ive some lectures on dairying. He liked the country so well that he decid ed to stay. He bought a farm In Spo kane County. Washington, where hie family now resides. Although his wife died when the children were small,' he has kept the family together, his five children and IS grandchildren living with fclm on the farm. Hopa Give Attention." D. E. Clark is a native' of Cheyenne, W.VO- a typical livestock city. He was "raised In the saddle" and learned from nature even before he started to learn from books. He early expressed a fondness for cattle and other stock and naturally learned all he could about them. He attended the common schools and the Wyoming State Vnlversity, graduating as a veterinarian. He served two years as state veterinary surgeon for Wyoming and later conducted a vet. erir.ary hospital at Cheyenne. He also engaged in stock raising on his own place near Cheyenne, operating with success. Since coming to Oregon he has been out In the field most of the time, giving the farmers and stockmen valuable as sistance in their work and helping them In marketing their cattle, hogs, and sheep. Because the Northwest has neg lected the hogralslng Industry for so many' years he Is giving particular at tention to this line of work. Ivdwntlim la Practical. U S. Smith la 34 years old. a) native of Minnesota, a graduate of the Min neapolis city schcols and of the Minne sota State Agricultural School where he specialized in. dairy work. -On leaving school he took the position of butter maker' 1n ' the Le 'Se'ur' bfeamery and later operated a creamery at Lexington, Minn. In 1S9D he took up a homestead O.-W. R. & N. COMPANY'S STAFF OF PRACTICAL MEN WHO ARE ASSISTING FARMERS AND STOCKGROWERS OF NORTHWEST. -flaw' X h 1 &:f I 1 (i" V! , .'A . Xan I i mi " iibm . bLiib iiiian-nii' 1 - 1 I I ii. i , . iniLUii.jLm l.Jlllllgys,' l; J mm J gz M ' I, St 1 L3U JTbycf WJga6sr- ln Northern Minnesota and two years later operated the Milton Co-operative Creamery at Milton. Minn., coming to Spokane three years later, since which time he has devoted most of his time to horticultural work. . .He has, been .active In grange work, being a lecturer for two years for the Spokane County Pomona Grange. He is -a ready talker and a student of in dustrial and economic conditions, is familiar with the best-known methods of scientific, and practical farm work, and, as a matter of fact, has done the real work on the farm, in the orchard. in the dairy and in the creamery, and can show the novice how to milk a cow, feed a calf, make butter, harness a horse, hold a plow or run any kind of farm machinery. He not only can tell how to do it, but can go in and do it. , , . - Floyd Rader Native Product. - Floyd W. Rader Is a native of the Northwest. He was born on a large dairy and irrigated farm In the heart of the Kittitas Valley. After finish ing the public school course, he at tended the Washington State Normal School for two years, then took a four year course .in agriculture at the Washington State College, from which Institution he was graduated In 1908. For one year he vm assistant agron omist at the West Washington ex periment station at Puyallup. For three years then, he was agriculturist at the Washington State Training School at Chehalis. He had complete charge of all departments and an In dication of his success is the fact that the- Income from the farm ' wag in creased under his direction from $3000 a year to $13,000 a ear. In his pres ent position he is employed by both Government and the O.-W. R. & N. Co. As Mr. Miller believes in putting practical men In charge of this work he has employed none other. As the department continues to grow he will maintain that policy. BIG ESTATE iS CUIID SEATTLE TVOMAS IS . SISTER OF XETV YORK RECLiVSE. Aged Spinster Found Dead In Poor Quarters In Gotham Ieaves Prop erty Worth Million. County- Commissioner Assaulted.. CHEHALIS, Wash- Dec. 14. (Spe cial.) T. J. Long. County. Commissioner-elect, had occasion to go into court yesterday with his butter maker. R. E. Miller, whom he had discharged in tha morning. When Miller was told that there was a new man there to take his place, he struck his employer and made further threats. According to the testimony of Mr. Long at the hearing before Justice of the Peace Westover. Mr. Long swore out a war rant and Miller, who pleaded guilty, was fined $10 and costs. Mrs. Anna Guenter Sought. - SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 14. Mrs. Anna Guenter, who with, her two young daughters and a son left Calgary. Alberta, December iO for this city, have been reported to the police I here as mysteriously missing by the Hcv. P. tl. Liss, a local clergyman. SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 14. Mrs. Amelle Frederick Chittenden, a resi dent of this city, has come forward as a claimant for the half interest in the $1,000,000 estate- of Miss Octavla Frederick, an eccentric recluse, who was found dead recently in New York, the only other occupants of the rooms being a dozen half-starved cats, .pets of the dead woma.n. The aged woman, who had cheap lodgings above a barber shop, appar ently had been suffocated by the over turning of a stove on which she was cooking her Thanksgiving - turkey. After her death the barber, Antony Oreickento. came forward with a will bequeathing Miss Frederick's estate, consisting of valuable New York real estate, to him. but Mrs. Chittendrn as serts that Miss Fredericks, who was her sister, had no right to dispose of the property. Mrs. Chittenden claims the estate for herself and her brother, Alfonse Fred erick, of Los Angeles, on the ground that the property was left by their parents with the elder sister in trust for the three children. Mrs. Chitten den left today for New York to confer with attorneys there. The latest Information received here concerning the case was that the bar ber had been held by the District At torney In New York pending an inves tigation of the death of Miss Frederick. Mrs. Chittenden is 72 years old and her sister was 74. - Miss Octavla Frederick was an ec centric for many years. From the prop erty left by her parents, which at one time had been, a great fortune, but Ahich had diminished through unfor- 'inate Investments, she derived an in come of several hundred dollars a month and for 25 years she subsisted upon a pittance in a condition of al most abject poverty. Many efforts were made by her brother and sister to reclaim the woman from her strange habits, but without success. Meanwhile the Income derived from the Frederick estate the eccentric wo man invested in real estate with good judgment, and the property, which at the time of her parents' death had greatly diminished, had grown again to a value estimated at more than a million. water, recognised as the equal of any in the West, to be one of the city's biggest assets, is evidenced by a res olution forwarded today to members of Congress asking that body to per manently set aside the township of timber forming the watershed from which the water is secured, j There are several million feet of merchant able fir timber on the land and the resolution was passed for the purpose of preventing the timber from being logged, resulting In contamination of the water. Town TVouId Save Water Supply. ' COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Dec 14. ROSEBURG SHOW SUCCESS Second Annual Poultry Exhibit of - Douglas County Closes. : ROSEBURG. Or., Dec. 14. (Special.) After the most successful event in the history of the association, the sec ond annual exhibition of the Douglas County Poultry and Pet Stock Associa tion reached a close here - late last nighfe - j G. Wi Speight, of Hubbard, won the handsome. $100 cup donated by Drs. Seely, Sether and Stewart for the high est scoring pen of Black Mlnorcas. Mr. Speight also won the Douglas National Bank cup for the best pen of Black Minorcas, the New York Store cup for the best pen of Barred Rocks, and also the association' cup for the largest and best display on points. Mrs. J. S. North rop, of Lebanon, won the Harding Land iCompany cup for the highest scoring pen of birds in the show. Mrs. E. 1 Farrens. of Edenbower. won the beau tiful silver trophy shield donated by Hlmes & Oliver for the highest scoring hen. E. J. McClanalian, of Eugene, won the association's Brown Leghorn cup. E. E. Hardesty, of Eugene, won the association's cup for Rhode Island Reds. V.'. E. Kruse. of Roseburg. was awarded the1 incubator donated by Mr. Clanahan. of Eugene, for the best nd largest display. C. W. Bradford, of Roseburg. won the White Wyandotte association cup. while Franklin Baker was the winner of the association's Silver-Laced Wyandotte cup. The Casa Granda Poultry Company, of Roseburg. -won the handsome challenge cup of fered by themselves for anyone having a higher-scoring pen of Crystal White Orpingtons. In addition to the apove awards mod ern sanitary drinking fountains were awarded to each of the high school' hnvs who exhibited at the show. Ern- ' Hamum. Earl Burr. Fred Peterson And John Young won there prizes. Officers of the Douglas county -oui- trv Association were elected for the ensuing year as follows: E. A. Miller. president: E. A- Jtruse, vice-presiueni; E. E. Wtmberly. secretary: If. B. Church, superintendent; Ernest Bar num, assistant superintendent; H, M. Bullwinkle. chairman; H. E. Gurney, Dr. J. C- Fisk. C- W. Bradford, T. A. Raf ferty, Seth Hamilton and Clayton Neg ley, directors.