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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1CC7.
ARTHUR OUST GUT
OFFER PRICE
Otherwise th City Will Lay
Competing Water Mains in
Mount Tabor District, f
MUCH CELEBRATION, Mh FEW
CLEAN CLOTHES AND TOWELS
SUPPLY SUBURBS WITH
" BULL RUN WATER
Water Board Pecldre to Offer a Lit
tie Ore Twenty-Two Thousand for
rrivato System -Negotiations on
With riedmont Company Alitor, ;
. . Unless J. M. Arthur euts I3S.O0O off
tha mm for which he offered to Mil
the Mount Tabor water plant to the city,
he will find his pip linn duplicate
' within a year. Mr, Arthur offered the
plant to the rHf tot 0O,8. Tti
water board decided yesterday afternoon
to offer htm $11,1 H for It. He may
take that amount If he wlahee. If ha
doea--uott!ia "board -wilt lay -competing
plpea In Mount Tabor and Montavllla.
and supply the people of the two sub-
urba with ftull Run water.
Mr. Arthur aald . the gross earnings
nf his plant." amounted to 11.011 I
month. The Alblna , plant, which waa
sold to the city for 1200.000, earned only
IJ.eOO a month.. The coat ef Its con
atructlcn waa only 1175.000. and at' tha
' tlma of tta purchsso Chief Enlglneer
Clsrke estimated ltvalue at only llT,
72l.lt. The cost of the Mount Tabor
vlant was IIS. 600, but the engineer es
timated tta value at only Jl,lt- '
" Arthurs Wen leased. ''
Commissioners C. H. Raffety.' O. TP.
Allen and R. B. Iamson did not be
Hero an comparison could be - made
, between the two plant; . The Alblna
plant includes a large aupply of watar.
. hut tha aprtnf from which Mr. Arthur
. sots his supply is leased. ". But Mr.
Arthur said that If ho was paid his
.jpricejie; wnulffurnlsh' WeiL .
He don't need the well," aald Allen.
"But getting down to tha subject, I'll
aay that aa public officers wo may not
l pay' the company a higher price than
what we would have to say for tha du
plication of; th plant. People would
" hold ua up for It Alblna waa different.
Alblna la in tha heart of the city, and
the Income is Uodyr- Kotint Tabor and
lion ta vi 11a are in the outskirts, and tha
Income la variable. When there la any
depression tha people lea ve these sub
urb, and the. Income decreases.? . ;
Weodlawa Flast sTeat.
A motion was put that. Mr. Arthur
be offered $22,181 for his plant, and it
was carried unanimously, oven Mayo
Lane voting aye. although it was not
necessary for htm to caat a bailor,
A petition for a water main In Wood
lawn waa laid upon th table, as th
board la negotiating for the plant owned
by a private corporation doing business
in that suburb. If th company will
not sell out on eatiefactory terms tha
1 city ' wilt lay mains in Woodlawn. :, :
, Commissioner La mson " reported that
tit Piedmont Water company had re
jected the city's proposition for the pur
chase of Its plant Th matter will be
taken up at a special lmeetlng to be
held Saturday, afternoon. . ....) "
"A towel a towel, ray 'kingdom for a
towel"
Buck might have been King Richard's
tamest if Chines New Tear a celebra
tions had been a feature of th four
teenth century, but fortunately for Dick
tha bulk of th laundry business waa
not controlled by th On Lungs and Ah
Sam a and unlike existing conditions in.
rortiana, clean linen was not a lux
ury. , u- ..
Casting commercialism to th winds
In their desire to fittingly celebrate the
Sid anniversary of th ascendancy of
Emperor Kwong 8hu to to throne, th
Chinese laundry trust haa abandoned th
soiled linen or th common people o
Portland and the tncenee uan and opium
pip bav taken th plac of tbe wash
tub am) tha flat Iron. , - ,
. Particularly In th local thirst em
poriums is the idleness of th "heathen
Chinee" laundry man most keenly, felt
Th bar,, towels, one of Immaculat
whiteness are now begrimad and dirty.
It Is no uncommon sight to see a white-.
eLM
ifTnli
coated mixologist industriously playing
a rag time selection on a waahtub'and
scrubbing - board cleansing sufficient
linen for the Immediate needs of th es
tablishment. In the residence districts the affects
of th Chinese New Tear is also noted,
Father is now compelled after hi morn
ing ablution to wlp his faca either on
tb lav eurtain or bedspread, and little
JlmmyMn great gle Is able to wend his
way to school without tha customary
fac scrubbing process. .
i Relief Is in sight, however, for it Is
announced in tha Chlnea Quarter that
day the laundries will be again run
ning full bleat. So great la the accumu
lation jof laundry that at least for a
week John Chlnaman'wlll have to labor
overtime to catch up with, hi work.
Threatened with a. fuel famine, suf
fering: from ear shortage, recently In th
grip of a disastrous "silver thaw" and
now . facing a Chines laundry tie-up
Portland still has reason, to P thank.
ful it's alive anyhow.
SIX MONTHS QLD. BUT HIS
HOTEL EMPLOYES
MUST BE CIVIL
Drummers' Association in South
Has Obtained Better Service
and Cut Dqwn Tip Expense! .1
James P. Lucas of New Tork was tell
ing at th Portland hotel yesterday of
a new organisation that has been farmed
In th south Ay commercial traveling
man. which enema to have for Its prin
cipal object tb regulation of tb per
sonnel of hotels where th service la un
satisfactory. ' "
J "The new organisation already haa
SO.DOO members," said Mr. Lucaa. "and
la growing every day. When th mem
bers find a hotel where the clerks, por
ters or other employe ef th plac are
' not civil tha matter 1 reported to th
organisation and Investigated. An indi
cation of th strength of th new asso
ciation was shown when th management
of th Oriental hotel ef Dallas, Texaa,
waa forced to remove a clerk who had
been a thorn in tb side of every guest
who arrived at th hotel.
"It is not only in th replacing of em
ployes that th organisation I strong.
Th members have established a trans
fer line In New .Orleans, and now th
. men can have their trunks carried from
th union depot to th hotels for S la
stead of SO cents. Th expenses ef a
traveling man for tips and . baggag
transfers amounts to a, great sum la
a .year's tlma, and th members, hav
com to th conclusion that they are
entitled to a better service than soma
hotels car to give. , (
NAME IS ON HOTEL REGISTER
. Douglas H, Stuart, six months of age
and fr.m Forest drove. Is at th Port
land hotel. If you don't believe it look
at the register and see his nam In
scribed there. Th writing; Is perfectly
plain and denotes a strong maaoulln
hand. ' But Douglas didn't writ it His
father, a prosperous manufacturer of
the Oregon town, wrote it there directly
beneath that of Mr. and Mrs. W, H.
Stuart .'-
There is not much to say of Donglas
aside from the fact that he is the young-
eat person of all the people who have
registered at the Portland for the past
IS years to nave hi name on the regis
ter. Another noteworthy fact about tu
young man la that h la about th hap
piest, kioklngest, -rosiest and chubbiest
youngster one ever saw.- Another thing
Is that he Is the only child that Mr.
and Mrs. Stuart have, and that means,
a whole lot to them and to Douglas.
Ahe latest report Douglaa H. Stuart
owned the hotel and Its personnel, from
Clerk Na.. inlel K. Clarke to every Jap
anese bellboy in the lobby, ,
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Charcoal Stops Ga
On Your Stomach
Wonderful Abeorbing Power of Char
coal When Taken In the) Form of .
' Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges.
ACCEPTCOriGRESS'
PRICE FOR LAUD
Douglas County. ' People De
termined Southern Pacific
T Shall Sell Grant Lands. .
BELIEVE APPOINTIVE
COMMISSION A REMEDY
Oakland's Mayor Tell "of Improve
ments tolHi,.TownAVhkhHas
Been Growing DeapK ' Traffic
conditions, i , " .'., f,
-A
Douglaa county people are anxious to
draw new settlers to that section of th
state and especially ' to Oakland, says
C. I Chenoweth, mayor -of the , latter
place and one' of the largest hardware
dealer In southern Oregon. H is In the
city attending tha annual session of th
Hardware Dealers' association. - ,
"Heretofore the great bulk of the land
In the county haa been held by private
Individuals," he said, "but the disposi
tion now la to cut this larger aoresg
Into small farms and sell them, - This
ought to prove the means of attracting a
large and wholesome immigration into
the county.
'The better part ef th timber land In
the county la held by the Southern Pa
cific undct th terms of Its grant and
tha people are determined that the cor
poration ahall be forced to sell at the
price fixed by congress when the lands
were given to the company. The people
down there believe, . too, in the appoint
ive commission as a remedy for the rail
road evils from which Douglas as well
as other counties suffered this year and
for years past" .. .. - .
Mr." Chenoweth has served as- mayor or
Oakland for nine consecutive term a Th
town is having a sunatanttai growtn, na
ears, and has recently secured an elec
tric lighting system. Power is gener
ated by an irrigating company which
r.tely .completed three, miles of canal
ns to carry the water down from th
mountains. - . Arrangements are 1 being;
made to use the water which now gen
erates power for irrigation purposes dur
ing the hot summer months, v
Athenaeum Society Elects. ' ,
'Whitman - College, Walla Walla.
Wash., Feb. 14. At the regular nf eat
ing of the Athenaeum Literary society
the following officers were elected to
serve for the second semester of the
college year: President Hsylett O'Neill
'07; vice-president Alfred aarengood.
01: ' - secretary. Paul Brainard, "Of;
treasurer, Ned Bams. ,'10; sergeant-at-arme,
Joe Allen, '07. .. .
Good tea and coffee pay ten,' times
ever. Schilling S Best.
.Hi
DTTT CD Ctttf&XA
mm
Every, on who has arrived at that
stats of nature appreciation demanding
a suburban home Is now "thinking - of
lawns, gardens, flowers, vegetables and
trees, all of which must have attention
at once If next summer la the semi
country is to be as Idyllic as painted.
The Pacific Seed company, corner yront
and Taylor streets, has Just gotten In a
box of Surbank -phenomenal red rasp
berry plants, from California, on . of
Luther Burbank's most notable suc
cesses,' This wonderful raspberry Is a
cross between tha Cuthbert red raspber
ry and the California mammoth dewber
ry, reproducing the shape and sis of
the latter,, averaging three Inches In
langth, and the color and flavor of the
former, with seeds much reduced in sise
and number. This creation of Burbank's
Is firmer and, therefore, a far better
shipper than the Loganberry, and will
be greatly In demand at canneries. It
takes naturally to Oregon soil and is a
thrifty, hardy plant Another Importa
tion , Is . th giant Himalaya - berry,
brought from the Himalaya mountains,
which . produces a very heavy crop of
luscious berries, - black in .color. A plant
from each ef thesexrarletlea will in a
year or so well rpjr th slight troubl
of their car. :
Th D Laval Dairy Supply company,
S. E. Brune, ' local manager, 107 First
street has some , very interesting ex
amples of modern creamery apparatus
that suggest very scientific car of dairy
products that go to make Wp so much
of our dally food. These matters are
given comparatively little thought by the
average person,, and yet no department
of Industry la more important to the
welfare of all th peops - Her are to'
be seen sanitary separators, pasteuris
ers, and all kinds of apparatus for the
handling of dairy products, as wall as
numberless small '. device for cleaning
bottles , and cans, testing mtlk and
cream, etc This is th busiest year in
th firm's history, 10 man being con
stantly employed during this, the slack
season. with prospects of rush times
later on when the , busy season opens.
Many people who have trouble digesting
mtlk and cream find that after It is
pasteurised the difficulty entirely passes
swsy. "All milk should be pasteurised."
said the manager; "it taste better and
la better." .
In regard to, this cry about the but
ter shortage," said Mr. T. S. Town send
of the T. 8. Townsend Creamery com
pany "you ran Just take my word for
U there' nothing in It; there's no but
ter shortagethere's as much butter as
ever mor people and reat' demand,
that is all th difference." hlr. Town
send says the oowa have not gone on a
strike, and cream la ss butter-producing'
WAS ACU.B SSsTT TMXM. .
Charcoal, pure, simple charcoal, , ab
sorbs 100 times jta own volume of gas.
Where does the gas go tot It Is lust
absorbed and there 1 left a pure, fresh.
sweet atmosphsre,. free from all im
purities sod germs. 1
- That a wnat nappens in your stomscu
when you take one or two ot Stuart's
Charcoal Losenges, the most powerful
purifiers science has yet discovered.
Tou belch its in company, some
times, by accident greatly to your Own
humiliation. That la becauaa there ia a
great amount of gas being formed in
yourstomach by fermenting food. Tour
stomach is not digesting your food prop
erly. Gas Is Inevitable. Whenever this
happens. Just take one or two of Stu
art's Charcoal Losenges right after eat
ing, and you will be - surprised how
quickly they will act' No mor belch-
lngs; no mor sour risings, '.Eat ,au
you want and what you want, and then
if there ta any gas going to be formed,
one of these wonderful little absorbers.
sTTstuartCnarebainr
care of all the gas.
And it will do mor than that Every
partiole of impurity in your stomach
and intestines is going to be Carried
away by the charcoal. No one aeems
to know wny ic dees this, out i aoes.
snd does it wonderfully. ' You notice
th difference In your appetite, general
good feeling, and In th purity, of your
blood, right eway. "
You 11 have no more nad tast In your
mouth or bad breath, either from drink-
Ing, eating or smoking.' Other people
will , notice your ' bad breath quicker
than you will yourself. Make your
bresth pure; fresh and sweet so when
you talk to others yon wont disgust
them. Just one or two Stuart Charcoal
Losenges will make your breath sweet
and make you feel better all over for
it Tou can eat all the onions and
odoroua foods you want, and no one
can tell the difference.
Beatdes, charcoal la ths best laxative
known. Tou can take a whole boxful
and no barm will result It is a won
derfully easy regulator.
And then, too. It filters your blood
every panicle of"polson or Impurity in
your blood Is destroyed, and you .begin
to notice th difference in - your face
first thing your deer complexion. - . -
8tuart's Charcoal Losetogea are mad
from pure willow charcoal, and Just a
little honey is put in to make them pal
atable, but not too sweat
They will work wonders in. your
Stomach, and mkyou feel fine and
fresh. Tour bipod and breath will be
purified. '
TIT ,nt (a nmM All etiia A vt& aj.
(oat send for a free sample today. T'fien
fter you gt it and us it, you will
Ilk them so well that you will go to
your - druggist and get a IS box of
these Stuart's Charcoal Losenges. ' .
Sand us your nam and address to
day and we will at once send you by
mail a sample package free. Address
F. A. Stuart Co S Stuart Building,
Marshall. Michigan.- ..
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as ever It waa, only th influx of people
and? the fact that the shortage can't be
pieced out from the eastern markets
makes a seeming scarcity of the west
ern product 'He la taking care of all
his old customers without difficulty, but
haa not been able to supply new ones.
Mr. Townsend did not advance the price
of his butter with the last general rise,
considering fhe established, price a fair
one, and so far as he was concerned the
advance unnecessary. He thinks the
butter situation will be relieved in a
oouple of weeks.'.' '. i
PETTTTHIEF CONFESSES '
x. . E IS A GREATER ONE
--,'., -.
Bpeetsl Dwpetea 'te The yeeeaal.-v
.2 TbDllss, Or, - Fb. - 14. D. M.
Beamer ot Hood River, who is serving
a sentence of SO days in-the county
Jail- for simple larceny, has1" confessed
to the stealing of other goods. In his i
wife's roonf in this city the sheriff
found a bag containing an opera glass,
a silk skirt, a silk knit scarf, a shawl
and other very valuable articles. ' This
may cause Beamer to be tried f er grand
larceny, which will give him a term, in
the penitentiary. . ; , -
BILL PROVIDES DATES V
. ' : BE PRINTED ON EGGS
(Joernil Special Berries.)
Madison, Wis., Feb. 14. Assembly
man Thomas has Introduced a bill to re
quire the atate board of agriculture to
provide on demand for each egg-producing
fowl in the state an automatio dat
ing appliance to print on th egg when
laid its date ef production. -
in v i".
Will;
AJ U li-UJUJ
Till I
iWsj J J
AND AFFORD THE PUBLIC THE ; .
JblKST CHANCE AT Txiri '
2mmi fell ; SIMnromsimfl
A-
01 Golhing, nals, Shoes and Fur nislitafjs, o!
Lindenlhal &Sons oLCnicarjo, which was
daraaflcd.by water and smolie in ihe
" . 1 f
We will be closed all day. tomorrow to mark- down
arid arrange the s
some sensational items. ;! We'll promise you now that
the reductions will be the greatest tver quoted by
f . ; ny reliable store in Portland, ; s O '
WATWTHl HUB FOR GOOD TWNCS-Wt, LOOK AHtAD, HOT KKCXWAkDl , ,
, -' ' rORTLAN0'S MOST ACG3LKSSIVK AND PHOCKBSSIVX STORXI
11 ii mMm&i U I
CORNER THIRD AND BURNSIDE STREETS
B-1
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" i - cotr
Is a violent Inflammation of the mucous
membrane of the wind pipe, which
sometimes extends- to-the larynx and
bronchial tubea; and la one of the moat
dmgeroue diaeaaea of children. It al
most always comes on in th night.
Give frequent small dose of vBallard's
Horehound Syrup and apply Ballard's
Snow Liniment - externally to ths
throat lie, 60e and 11.00. Bold by all
drusKtsts. -
Here ere e few-clippings from the daily press of one year ego. They show how the Bef Trust "turned on the crewe" dufiflf the few' short weeks
it wee in the supremacy. It was then Smith Cams to the rescue of the Portland people. Cattle are half a cent higher than one year ego, but Smtih
has kept the price of meet down. Smith will stand by the home people. Let the people sty with Smith. . . ; r ' - , ' v
FRANK
MEAT
226-228 Alder" Street, Between First and Second Streets
FIGHTINQ THE BEEF TRUST
The Coming of the Beef ,
Trust One Year Ago
Th latest product of th modern
eras of trurts is th combine, of .the
Mat Dealer' Association, th local re
- tail meat trust. Kvery bonseholder In
the dry ia aaected by the move Even-In-
Telegram. Feb. It, 10.
Now tliat it has secured a practical
monopoly of th beef and mutton busl
ns in this ty, th Ileef Trust Is puU
tins the screws on the dealers -who so
sallnnily went to its reocue by voting
to nop buying meats on Front street.
Although there has been no chsngs In
the cat le market to Justify sny ad
vance in the price of beef, the quota-tim-i
given by the trnat oompnntea are
vrurtii ally o a pound hisher than a
lmrt time ao Journal, March K, '0i
'i'ravelins etrictly Incosnlte and fall
Int to register at the Portland Hotel,
where he stayed, Prealdent dwtft," of
Xwift Co., reached Portland early
MT,y morning.-Oregoalan, March
1!. I'M'. .. .
Vh' the Orgnnla.n first published
' the 11 1 i.iat fiwlft A Co. were neeo
t m tine for the rnirchaae of a rontrol
i,k nt least In the 1'nion Meat Co., th
r-iil onld by offW-lals of both
i(t A- to. an.l the l.'nlon Mt Co.
I ater develoi-menta pro e th truth of
I tie rum'T "'I n"W ofnclsls of both
fotfAn-M nr'n.li thst th d'al bIS been
, ..p, .,, .,-ua. Ort-gonlsn, Huy 10, 04.
Liver . . . . . . . . . ... 5c
Corned Beef . . . . .. .'. 6c
Beef Hamburg Steak. t . 8c
Beef Shoulder. Steak. . . . .8c
Beef Pot Roast,.,'. . . .'.'8c
Veal Stew . ; . . . . 8c
Soup Bones ..... . f .Zy2c
Veal Shoulder Cutlets 12c
Beef Sirloin Steak, ..;12p
Small Frhouse Steak' 12c
Sausage . . 10c
Veal Shoulder Roast. 10c
Veal Breast ... . . . 10c
Beef Prime Rib Roast. .10c
Lamb Rib ' Chops . . . . . 1 5c
Lamb Loin Chops . . . . 15c
Our Own' Hams. ... ...17c
Our, Own Breakfast "
- Bacon . . . . . ... . . 17Jc
Beef Tongues,' each.'. . .45c
Beef Rolled Rib Roast 12c
NO MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD IN PORTLAND NEED PAY: TRIBUTE TO
THE BEEF TRUST. NOR EAT EASTERN MEATS. EAT'SMITH'S ABSO
LUTELY CLEAN,, FRESH, PURE,' HEALTHY. ; WHOLESOME OREGON N
MEATS.-..
Beef Plates 5c
Beef Brisket . . . . . . . . ; 5c
Heartsrr."r:.":r. 75c
Beef. Necks 5c
Beef Stew ... i .5c
Pickled Pork 12c
Leg of Vcal.V ..12c
Beef Round Steak. ... ;: 10c
Lamb Frohtquaj-tersj. 10c
Lamb Shoulders . .... .10c
Our Own Pure, Lard.. 12c
Lamb J.oin Roast.. ... .15c
Lamb .Rib Roast . . . 15c
Legs of Lamb 15c
Lamb ShoulderXThops 12Jc
Extra-, Choice Porterhouse
Steak with a large Ten
derloin ..; . .... 15c
Veal Xojn Roast. . ; . .15c
Veal Loin Cutlets, . . . .15c
111)1???
Welch's genuine INVENTORY SALE ; has just
started in which the Boys' Clothing is being sold at
just price. Hurry! First Choice Always the Best
Boys' iO0;SujL
Bo3$3.50:SmtsSale: ; fti&l .75,
Boys' OSuitsSf
Boys' $2.00 Suits-Sale. . : . ; : &i .QQ .
mil:
Men's $10 Suifs Sale .
Men's $15 Suits-Safe.
Men's $20 SuitsSale.
Men's. $25 Suits Sale I
Meii's:; $30 Suits-Sale .
e e e
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e :v e -. 'e
- it
. e ; e
$ s.oo
? 7.SO
$ 1 4.75
:J:9.7S;
$24.75
' IF NOT. RIGHT WELCH MAKLS IT RIGHT
MORRISON
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