THE OREGON . DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, THURSDAY T EVENING, JULY T 11. 1007, RESENTMENT RUNS HIGH met AMONG TOWN RESIDENTS TOTAL FAILURE .;. ,v . 1 ' 1 '.. ' ' Siinnysldo Citizens Positive H. E. NIcolai Who Has Been Missing: Since June of last Year Met With Foul Play at Hands of Temperance Enemies. Eraeral Farmers See Com Every woman in Oregon should have "ont of these 'great Sewing Ma- 5 ing: of Another Hace of Landlords. chines. We guarantee it to be a nigh -class macnine, equal to any $60 iHiiuiiiic on mc mancer.. RISK l V Resentment among hla friends tdward the eoeml vi of H. K. Nloolal. who mys teriously disappeared from bis horn In Supnyslde. Washington, on the even ing of Saturday, Juno 19. growe aa eaoh day's Bun seta and truce of tho miss- Inf man is found. Members of tho Oood 1 Cttiiena loa ue openly oharfe foul play aad believe that Nicolal will never ' turn to hie family tn the heretofore quiet little settlement of Sunnyslde, la Yakima county. M. E. Nloolal eame to Sunnyslde In the early Dart of 1906, built for himself a beautiful bom on Snipes noun tain and engaged 1 horticulture. Ha bad ' boon attracted to tha town beoauae it was a temperance community and de- . eldad to make tha place bla homo largely baoauae of thla clreumataneo. Ha at once took aa actlre part In tha mainte- nance of temperance and In tha conse quent legal battles waa the chief morer. Tight Vu Intense. ' The flrlit between the liquor forces and the temperance element became In tense. A league wa rorrnao, wun ni colal its head. It Immediately aat , about aecuring evidence agalnet tha "blind pigs'' alleged to hart been oper atlng In the little olty. Tha league raiaed 11,000 for thia purpose, aeeurad a private detective, eventually aeeurad considerable evidence against tha drug tore and raided on of the placea. . Method uaed by tha prosecutora war trenuoualy denounced by tha liquor men aa hypocritical and unfair. Aran menta arose aa to what oourta should try tha cases and feeling ran high. "Mr. Nicolal waa fearlesa and up- gght.' said Rev. Charles H. Portar. a ethodlst minister and an active tnem x of the Oood Cltlaena' league. In dis cussing tha disappearance. "He was brave aa a lion, feared nobody and bad - the backing of tha batter olaaa of cltl Bens in Sunnyslde. "The night on Which be disappeared. June 29, preceded a big mass meeting of the league In which Mr. Nicolal waa to take a prominent part Ha earns . down to tha town that night from his home, which Is on the mountain aide about half a mile away, to get some little tblnga needed by his family and started to return to his home about 9:10 o'clock. He waa last seen by friend, Dave Houston, and waa In bright "However, ha Intimated that he would Ilka Houaton to accompany him to his home, as ha waa experiencing a strange aremonltlon of Impending diaaater. lany times be prevloualy atated ba waa In danger of his Ufa and had re ceive anonymous letters threatening him with violence unless be should withdraw from .the fight against tha "blind pigs,' "Houaton waa tired and begged off. Nloolal then said that he would choose a different route than the one usually taken and started home. He was never again seen. "When tha news of tha dlsappearanoe spread tha next morning the whole town was aroused and Intense excite ment prevailed. If his body oould have been found I do not doubt but that some ona would bave been lynched. Houston and another friend Immedi ately began a search. TheV traced tha footatepa of Nicolal over tha clrcuitoue route he bad taken tha night before to the bridge across the irrigation ditch over which ha must paaa. Although It waa on his usual way home, he waa compelled to cross thla bridge because there waa none other. "At thla brldce the tracks were no longer visible but instead there were tha traces or a light wagon. Measurements were taken and every precaution re cured a a evidenoe to be used In the fu ture. The wagon waa followed to Zll lah and waa lost while still driving rapidly toward Yakima at dusk on the following evening." "At the time when Nicolal should have reached the bridge over the Irriga tion ditch a- shriek and choking cries were heard by several persons living near. Mr Stevens,' step-son of Judge Lannon. who was lying la bed on ao coimt of injuries received a few hours before from being thrown from a horse, WILL BE W0ESE EVEN, THAN WAS THE LAST Only Sixteen Million Available to Meet Demands of Two Hundred and Fifty Million Farm Sold Far Above Their Real Value. leaped from tha bed and cried: rWhat la thatr when he beard tha ihrlek. "It has been reported alnce that Nlo olal has been aeen in different parts of the country and that he has a habit of mvsterlouslv dlsaDnearlna. But his wife denies all these charges and If he had been aeen In different parts of the state it would seem that the peraona seeing him would aelse the opportunity of securing the 11.200 by bringing him home, for that amount has been offered for hie recovery, dead or alive." PORTLAND MAN HUNTS HIGH AND LOW FOR STATE FIRE WARDEN If there Is a stats lire warden In this city or In Oregon, T. F. Baylls would . Ilka to bear from him. Baylla apent the entire forenoon today hunting for ' ' a fire warden, but could not find one. He went to the county clerk's office and k discovered that the laws relating to burning of alashlnga were entirely re modeled by tha last legislature and the matter placed tn the hands of a state board of forestry. Thla board la given : power to appoint fire wardens, but If 1 any appointments have been made Baylls has been unable to dlaoover them. Baylls desires a permit to burn weeds and crush in Douclas county, along a branch railroad Una. The brush nad grown up along the track and interfered with the operation of tha locomotive, which la run from tha main line to a atone quarry. It was cleared away, and la now dry, and It la feared that aparka from the locomotive may aat Are to It For thia reason a permit to burn tha brush and weeds la sought, but no one can be found to grant it. If there la anyone who has been authorised to Issue Durning permits Baylls wants mm to call at h or call him up office, 820 Falling. building, up at PaolAo 1S87 (Joonul Special Berrlfe.) Dublin, July 11. The total inade quacy of the preaent land purchase act which haa been quoted by British states men as aa example of what England was willing to do for Ireland, waa com pletely oxpoaed by Indisputable figures at a recent meeting In Dublin of tha general counoll of Irish county coun cils, which is today tha only truly rep resentative public body' In Ireland, la a national sense. The figures have re ceived the additional hall mark of hav ing been adopted a few days lata In an answer to a question In the house or lords by Lord Den man, representing the British government The total amount of applications to tha government for advances to finance the aalea of estates by landlords to tenants under the act has been $268. 762,746 up to May 11 laat. Tha total amount of money which has been ap propriated, or otherwise mad available, has been only $17,707,022, and tha total amount actually paid haa been IK, 107, 676. That la to aay, the government has compiled with only a little mora than 9 per cent of the requests by ten ants and landlords to rearrange tha ownership of tha land under the act To yvtea to Boalaesa. It was pointed out at tha general council moating also that the act, ao far aa It had been operative, has been worked entirely In the landlord a favor. Instead of paying them for tha land in land stock, a government security, as would naturally have been expected, the government is paying tne lanmoras on In cash, borrowed on the credit of tha Irish taxpayers at ruinous rates of in terest The utterly unbualness-llke character of tha arrangement la abown by the figures. Tha Irish taxpayer la borrowing the money at a per cent a high rate In this country for government securities, and la advancing It to the tenant farmer to bujr hla farm at H far cent It la alao atated that when ne character of the purchase la con sidered and the prices paid taken Into ray 11 And it will be delivered to your home, and if it proves to be all we claim for it, then you pay us FIFTY CENTS PER WEEK until the small sum of $25 is paid. It will do the work equally as well as a $75 machine. This machine is made for us in carload lots by a manufacturer not in the Sewing Machine Trust. This is the Anti-Trust Sewing Machine. We employ no agents; we go to the people direct, therefore have no big commissions to add to its cost to the consumer. ' . acoount, tha landlord la getting on an average 68 per cent more for Ms land than It would ba worth, reckoning the FAINTS III VAULT IS BURIED ALIVE Body of Jlarehioness Found by Side of Man She Loved Locked in Casket. v (Journal Special terrle.) Florence, Italy, July 11. Falling in a swoon across the body of a dead man. Marchioness Maglen Castellare was se curely fastened Into the casket contain lng tho corpse of Slgnor Roaal and left to smother to death in the tomb, while the whole countryside waa aroused in search for her. The marchioness, a beautiful and ac complished member of the Italian no bility, was heartbroken when Slgnor Rossi died and went to his tomb tha night of his burial to weep bealde his open casket The sight of her dead lover's face proved too much or her and she fainted away, her body falling into tne open coriin. Attendants came Into the vault a short time afterward and closed the caaket In the dark, never suspecting that they were burying a live woman with the dead man. It was not until thia morning that the horrible error was disclosed, when the caaket was opened and the two dead bodies found. The condition of the woman's body shows that ahe regained full consciousness be fore her death and struggled desperately to escape her living tomD. LMD FRAUD are being signed as rapidly aa the va rious farms can ba visited and tho work has been pursued so quietly that prac tically the entire crop of tha country, it la said, has been sold to tha Hill buyers. m ateala a March. Heretofore tha O. R. 4 N. haa han dled a large part of the grain from this district, the crop being shipped both by rail and water after being ferried acroaa the river, but the Hill line this year haa apparently atolen a march on lta competitor and both the wheat which haa heretofore been ahlpped to Seattle and that distributed by the O. R. & N. will enter Portland through the agenoy of the north bank and steamers on the open river. At the offloes of the Opon River xransportation company Superintend ent Frank J. 8mlth said the fact that their company had received no word from the Hill lines relative to the ac commodation f the southern Washing toa wheat crop made certain the fact that the north bank road Intended to handle the output without assistance from the outside. BIG SHAKE-IIP (Continued from Pare Ona.) (Continued from Page One.) the signing of wheat contracts there Is left little room to doubt that tha Hill llnee have well laid plana to handle tha entire wheat crop of southeastern Wash ington this year, save the uphill haul which has heretofore been necessary In order to get the crop into Seattle, and at the same time bar the O. R. A N. from participating in the handling of the Immenae traffic. The wheat crop of the Horse Heaven ItAlmln, Vl 1 U .ma will k. .mAnHrtl,a say those who have been on the ground and looked over the fields. Contracts COULDN'T KEEP IT. Sept It Kid from tha Children. "W cannot keep Grape-Nuta food in the house. It goea ao fast I have to hide it, .becauae the children leve It ao. It- la feist the food I have been looking for ever -eo long; something that I do not bave to stop to prepare and still la nourishing;'' ''. Orajie-Nuts la the moat scientifically ', made food on the market. It Is per- feotlr and completely cooked at the factory: an can be served at an ln . mt mnt'm: notice, either with rich cold ' ram, or with hot milk If a hot dish is . desired. Whan milk or water Is used, a little sngar should be added, but when ' . cold cream Is used alone the natural -grape-sugar, which ean be aeen glisten ing on the granules, la sufficiently sweet to satisfy the palate. This grape-sugar v Is not oured over ...e granules, as some people think, but exudes from tho gran ' tiles In the process of manufacture, when r thm anrrh nf the grains is changed from ..etarch to grape-augar by the ftroeess of manufacture. This, m effect, s the frst act -Of dlgastion; therefore, Grape-Nuts food 1 pre-dlgested and is most periecujr Min"'tu " i weakest stomach. "There's a Reason," Made at the pure food factories . of the rostirm Co., Battls v Creek. Mich. . Tieed tha little health classic, "The Road fiiwV.-eUTUleV la JS Aw.Yv Vfv consideration by the police committee, Kay refuses to report to Captain Pat rick Bruin and with HUlyor and Klenlln turna In hla Information dirnt n i-ut.t Oritamacher. Detectives Jones, Tlchenor Price. Smith. Hill. Mallett and Aider! make their reports to Bruin. The hear ing of Saturday will go far towards settling the Question nf whn i. Of the detectives. It la expected. There la atrlfe between i'hf n macher and Captain of Deteotiva nn,i. and It Is understood the chief has served uuiiuo uini ne win not remain at the head If Bruin is retained at the tlve poaltion on the detective branch of tha department. Acting on this assumption and with the Impression that Orltimacher waa firmly lntrenohed In his preaent position the Spanish war veterans of the city have come to the rescue of the detective ohlef In a letter to Mayor Lane asking that Bruin be retained. The letter waa sent as a result of directions issued t the last meeting of the Portland camp of the organisation. XiOokln for a Police Ohlef. It la the ohlef of police, however, that la causing the wrinkles to grow on the fiolloe committee' brow. Bearoh Is ba ng made for a man who Is big enough to take hold of the situation and make the entire force toe the mark. It Is denied that things are at alzea and sevena tn the police department but it la realized tnat a stricter disciplinarian might put things In mora polished shape. i "What we need down there," aald one of the committee, "Is a martinet; a man who will be rough and talk rough until he makes a well-drilled army of the department. If there Is any man around who fills that bill he can have the Job." Tom Word, sx-sheiiff of Multnomah county, could have the position If he wanted it, but be has no hankering for the place. John Gruasl, one of Word's deputies, has been urged for the place, but It is not believed that he will get It There are others also who have been brought forward by their friends but no selection haa been made either ten tatively or definitely. Until some se lection Is made the present chief will wield the scepter. Whatever happens, however, the next two weeks will see fur flying In the piain clothes department and new names will become more or lesa well-known through the efforts of new candidates i? ,P??5T thel,r. Poaaession of reaaonlng faculties almllar to those of Sherlock ordinary capitalization of his rents un der present conditions. The Irish farmer, too, is not aa en thusiastic as he was about the land J purchase act. i haa a conversation re cently In a train with half a dozen small farmers, aome of whom were just .completing the purchase of the farms under the act, and aome of them were already aorry for what they had done. One man placed hla finger at once on the weak spot. The British govern ment has contracted to aell the farma to the tenanta on from 20 to 28 yeare' pur chase, but no provialon haa been made for financing the farmer In a bad crop year. The machinery of government la automatlo and no aentlment can enter Into Its business dealings. Xioee farm In Bad Tsar. "My landlord has forgiven me the rent twice In 16 years," aald one of my trav eling companions," but the government will not uo that. If I have a bad year I must lose my farm.". . "It won't be 60 years till ws have an otner set of landlords In Ireland," aald another, "and they will be worae than the old onea. Plenty of the old land lords were kind men and gentlemen and wt lid not press a poor man, but now If we get Into difficulties we will have to go to the 'gombeen' men and the banks and they will get our land." The land purchase' act, like most Eng lish legislation for Ireland, lacks an es-J entiai feature to mane it worgaoie. The provialon of government agricul tural banks, by which the farmers could be financed In bad years would have made the act a success, even at the In flated prices at which tha land Is .being sold to tho occupiers. a JtNl"-. A BaaeaaeBBaBBawnaBasBaaSBBB 'T- N aT I 60 Mac Pay $1 Down, 50c q Week All Attachments Lady Instructor for the Inexperienced vurtfca? 1 First and Yamhill Second and Yamhill PRIZE WINNERS ARE Ml HOMED Sweet Pea Contest Held by Multnomah School Chil dren Closes. Pigeon's Long Flight. From the Chicago Tribune. A plgeeon taken to Florida five months ago by Master In Chancery Wil liam F. Cooper haa returned to a ledge on the Merchants' building. La Salle and Washington streets, where it waa hatched. Mr. Cooper from hla office haa studied olty hall pigeons for 14 years. Laat December he took 11 homing pig eons and ona of hla city hall peta to Florida. The homers returned at once, but it was not until yesterday that the other waa seen the first time after Its return. v T. P. Qore. the blind nominee for senator from Oklahoma, owea much of hla success to his wife. She reads to him the dally papers so that he may keep Informed as to current events; his law booka. so that he may remain abreast of his competitors in his pro fession, and auch volumes as the "Con- gresatonal Record so that he may oh taln ammunition for use In his political campaigns. He is of pleasing appear ance, and his affliction Is not obvious to any one who aeea him from a short dlntance. S0Z0D0NT TOOTH POWDER Following are tha winners of the prises in the aweet pea contest con ducted for the Multnomah county school children and held yesterday on the third floor of the city hall: County exhibit First, Constance Davis, city; second, Olivette Mills, Rue sell villa: third. Bertha Baumann. Srca more, and Maurlne Thurmond, St, Johns, tied. Division 1 First. Elsa Rltter. oity second, Emma Bucher, Hillsdale; third. Edna Moultort, city. Division 2 First. Constancy Davis, city; second. Olivette Mills, Ruaaell villa: third. Ruth Carlson. Arista. Division I Firet. Bertha Baumann. Sycamore; second, Gladys Holgate, Oresham; third,, Harry Spatb. Gresham. Division 6 First, Maurlns Thurmond, St. Johns; second, Anna Brice, Bt. jonna third, Kuth Htiaw, Vienna. Sneclal Division (open to pupils aiding outside Multnomah county) Ferol Gibson of Mllwaukle: prise, a year's eubacriptlon to tha School and Home magazine. There were no entries from Division 4, which embraced all of the districts east of the Sandy river. The exhibits were judged on a baals of 12 points, distributed as follows Rioaaom. a. divided as follows: Sice. 2 lenrth of stem. 2: uniformity of color, 2; perfection. 2. The other 4 points counted for the arrangement of the dis play, 2 points each being allowed for color arrangement ana artistio arrange' lnfinL The "bounty prizes were worth 14, 13 and 12. and the division prises were worth 12. 11 and 60 cents. Mrs Cleveland Rothwell. Mrs. B. F. Pad rick and H. C. Krum ware the Judges. MOYEB PBQVE8 (Continued from Page One.) a delicious dentifrice. from acid and grit. Just the thing for those who have an inclination for the niceties of every-day life. Ask your dentist Cotton Dress of wo Team Ago. From the Olle, County Record, v.. "J?.U"U Watson of Bunker Hill Iff ootton which Is 160 vears old and In a clean and neat condition. Margaret Wilson, who narrted, Ben Benson, father of Early Benson, de ceased. The cotton was hand-picked. The dreaa waa uaed by Miss WUaon aa wadding dress. , , COFFEE Don't buy coffee not packed in airtight pack ages; don't buy coffee without the name of the roaster. Toer grocer returns roar money il yea aea't KUfceilUartaeafcaeieJkij stuck absolutely to his original story. Mover's cross-examination closed at nojn. Haywood On Stand. Haywood, cool and collected, took tha stand immediately on resumption or tne afternoon session. He said that he was borri In Salt Lake City, his father was born In Ohio and his mother in England. In early life his father was a pony ex press rider, later he became a miner and died when tha witness was 3 years old. His stepfather was a miner. He worked for him, beginning when ha waa t years old. He had worked aa a miner all hla life, excepting a few years, when he essayed real estate business In Salt Lake City, but tha panic put him out of business. Ha waa married In 1889. His wife bas been a hopeless Invalid since 1897. HOotaad tha Federation in 1899 in Silver City, becoming a charter mem ber of tha local at that city. He was secretary of the union when the trouble occurred In the Coeur d'Alenes. He never knew Steunenberg personally. He had been a reader of the Miners' Maga lne ever since It started. His union and he personally took part In the Coeur d'Alene troubles by sending a committee there to lnveati- Sate the permit system inaugurated by t.nnnnhtrt. ' He -circulated a petition among townspeople and raised f 1,000 fr use in relieving starvation among the miners' families, who were then in the bull pen. Union members were also as sessed for the same purpose. Havwood made a rood witness, his answers being positive aad comprehen sive. He explained the loss of his eye, which mars his face, by Baying that he stuck a knife In It while a very young child. ; . , He swore that the congressional re port on conditions In the Coeur d'Alenes was due to efforts of the Silver City union, which sent a-committee to Wash In ft on to investigate. ' . ,W. 4. uaxwooa .waa pat on us ptaaa ' RESENTED HAVING WHISKERS CALLED "LOVELY LACE CURTAINS" . v "What lovely lace curtaina you wear," said J. Kellocher, a longshoreman Of 693 Vancouver avenue, to H. Bloom, a junk dealer, aa he pulled the tatter's whiskers on a Union avenue car several nights ago, after Bloom had called him to acoount for crowding against him. The second-hand dealer with the Dave Warfleldian hirsute appendage, resented such conduct by rushing to police head quarters and securing a warrant for the arrest of Kellocher on a charge of as sault, hence the police court proceed ings this morning. From the testimony adduced it ap- pear that Kellocher, who weighs In the neighborhood of 260 pounds, was vio lently thrown against Bloom by the car starting too suddenly and the latter thereupon became exceedingly hostile. At the climax of the argument which ensued, Kellocher grabbed Bloom ny tne beard and earcaatically referred to the whiskers as "lace curtains." Bloom testified that his assailant bad lndulaad in nrofane lanaruaae. but Kel locher declared under oath that In all his life he had not used a single "cues word." Judge Cameron, after bearing full details of the affair, round Kei locher guilty, but continued the ease In definitely for sentence. in his own defense this afternoon. Re plying to the testimony of Superintend' ent Stewart of the Silver City mine, who swore Haywood said Steunenberg should ba exterminated, the witness said: "I never said he should be extermin ated. I think I said he should be rele gated, and I helped to relegate htm, po litically, uur union lougni xor nis re' nomination, and he was not renomin ated. I never met nor saw Steunenberg. and had no personal feeling against him. I rasrarded him as any otner politician. who waa swayed by capitalistic lnter eeta. That waa my only Intereat In hlm.' Haywood left Idaho July, lioi, after having been elected a menmer or tne executive board. One year later he was elected secretary-treasurer which office he still holds. He denned at lengtn tne duties of the office. He is under iiq, 000 bonds. redevanoa la roiraoa. The federation has. by resolution, de cided to enter politics and does so. it nnoses all candidates wno oppose laDor. r'It electa lta friends and defeats lta enemies." he said. "We've made fair orogreas. too." he continued. "We have secured real reform In existing laws af fectlnar mines: our local unions have hospitals for members, lodge and read ing rooms, and have paid out thousands upon thousands In sick and death bene fits oaring for dependents upon de ceased members." His testimony rel-mn-mm tA ths enactment of labor laws for Colorado and the manner in which they are set aside by the courts there waa exceedingly minute ana consumed mucn Hmt .it tie not aireear Known wi brought out by this line of testimony. PORTLAND WILL GET (Continued from Page One.) Instead of sending assistants to Mr, i- -.i'. m AttAmev-fianerai uona- carte delayed matters, the revenues of the office were lower than the actual the government's appointed Nathan no v. .v .. . -- . . nt of transacting tne government business, and finally PP?."ff. Nf"1," tr TT..l. Aifav M TlfHf.tnl' HA.d tO 111' veattgate the Southern Pacific land -Zzlr it w.a esnlalned In the press dispatches that Mr. Harlan waa sicr and no more delightful vacation could be devised for him than a trip tp Oregon to prosecute a 150,000.000 suit against onePof the greatist railroad systems In MrT Harlan neref came to Oregon. He nrenared a brief. It is reported, which was sent to the attorney-general re lating to the condition n vi4 nun nt abefflt tbe ar- cliivea i T Washington: It Is beHeved the reoort of Mr. Harlan waa carefully ihoved into pigeonhole tp remain until it could be thrown into the waste paper receptacle. men name Knruma. Then came Mr. Townsend. Unlike Mfq tw.kim Baa am ma . Ninm ma aiiiTai n nni laii. aiv ... . haa been engaged, clo.eiy wnn Mr. Bna- tol in tne wora oi prwu' . -. . -1 J. ri. ,..-. un nut to Oregon to figup theaota Qt-tha land grant, wbloh EAST SIDE H HAS HIGH VALUE John Haak Buys Beautiful Lowell Besidence for Large Sum. TOTB XmvjBJk Is out of order. You go to bed In a bad humor and get up with a bad taste In your mouth. Tou want something to stimulate your liver. Just try Her oine, the liver regulator. A positive cure for constipation, dyspepsia and all liver eomplamta Mrs. F s. Fort Worth, Texas, writes: "Have used Herblne In my family for years. Words can't express what I think about It. Everybody In ray house hold are happy and well, and we -owe It to Hexbtos. Sold by all drogglat 1 Tha Lowell residence and grounds. one or the handsomest piacea on, tne east side, situated on the western slope of Mount Tabor, was purchased yester day by John H. Haak. a wealthy timber land dealer, for 826,000. , The residence was recently built by E. I Lowell at a cost of about 818,000 and Is a fine spec! men of colonial architecture. The grounds contain six full lota terraced down to the Base Line road. It is an nounced that Mr. Haak will at once take possession of the property and oc cudv it aa a home. Napoleon J-. uaraner naa purenased a tnrea-acre tract near nuouiioc rrora John Sullivan for 88.000. This la the first acreage sale In -ne vicinity where the holding Drougm iz.uuu an acre. Mrs. Margaret t. tsauars nas pur chased six Iota In Walnut Park from W. M. Kllllngsworth for 88,000. Mr a. Sallara aold a 60-foot lot at the corner of Sixth and Taylor streets a short time ago for 848,000, It Is understood that the Walnut Park lots just purchased by her win b Improved with, modern up-to-date residences. Joaeohlne Hauirea nas ouronased from George K. Edner 8ft acres on the pen insula west of Piedmont at the rate of 81,000 an acre. Ellen A. Tyler has nurchased from George H. Shinn a resldenoe site on Portland Heights situated on Laurel near Twenty-second street. Considera tion 84,800. K. B. Stlngls has reoently bought a houae and lot on the southeast cor ner of Falling and Height streets from G. W. Priest for 83,ve0. Peter Bartel has cloaed a deal with C. W. Dart for tne purcnase or rour iota in Beiiwood. consideration, is.ooo. 1 . The Quarter blook at the northwest corner or Umatilla avenue and East fifth streets has been purchased by lias Wellborn from Lucetta Fetros for M,uov. It's No Wonder V crit- jMitk ical men UJT like Columbia Tailoring! It never fails to please. Always stylish, correct, de pendable. The fact that our business this year is practi cally doubling that of last is a pretty positive indication that Columbia tailoring is Gaining new converts every ay. IT'S UP TO YOU Come in on our Mid-Sea-son offer extra pair gSri trousers free with every5mt I f : costing $22.50 or more. Get acquainted now. Suits . . $20 to $40 Trousers ...$4to$10 GRANT PHEOLEY, Manager ELKS BUILDINCI SEVENTH AND STARK STS. will undoubtedly result In a suit in volving millions of dollars without so mucn as a typewriter, let aione a stenographer. No retinue of assistants and prying agents accompanied Mr. Townsend, but he has been Industriously at work since bis arrival. About thetlmaMr. Townsend arrived, Henry M. Hoyt slipped into Portland as mysteriously as did the gunboat John Paul Jones, When she came up for the rose carnival. Unlike Mr. Hoyt, the gunboat was on a peaoeful mission. He fired off his heavy guns, landed into a group of Portland's prominent cttlsens, and then deserted after telllns- bow easily It had been done. It la also reported that Mr. Hovt took oecaaion- to refer to Mr.- Bristol tn 'a disparaging way, ' Inferring that the local attorney could have prosecuted the cages against the Portland Coal A Coke oomDanv had he not .been derelict In fela duty. Mr. Hoyt never caUed a ate Bristol while In Portland, thereby showing his lofty diapleaaure over Mr. Bristol's alleged Inaction. In the meantime, Mr. Bristol and Mr. Cola have kept on working. Neither have been advanced In a salary way so. far aa can be learned, neither bave they been given the assistance which the Vork of the people of Portland want accomplished, namely, to prosecute the lumber trust, the wholesale grocers' trust, the laundry trust and several other combinations that have been mulcting tbe people out of their hard money In direct defiance of the Sherman anti-trust law. Including the notorious plumbers' trust Had Mr. Bristol been given rthe Tf per work as easily and Derhaoa with m tanaihla results than will nhtatn h dividing the work, acattering the gov- I ernment forces all the way from Port- J J land to Washington. A A id JaeBlalr la or-what -v- Who McDonald MeBlaJr Is nr what part he win take in the prosecution is unknown to anybody in Portland. . Mr, Briatol never heard of him. neither did Mr. Townsend, neither did Mr. Neuhau sea. ' All of them refuse to discuss his appointment, save Mr. Townsend, who said that he waa glad the government had seen fit to add another naa to the case . .,,. ,- iiv.v, uis-;-.'- '?v-- 5 ,-vy -V.