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SCOT OREGON , StTNDAY JOURNAL'. PORTtSND, ,'. SUNDAY MORNINO, AUGUST , 25. ,1907.
BATTLE OF
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very door of the system, excepting
only those which opened to knock htm.
Clothing was done. On the contrary, his
life was threatened; the lawyer at
tempted first to bribe, then to black
mail him; and his church rebuked and
finally twice transferred him. Well,
Father Bchell wrote to Mr. Hitchcock
and lie received an , acknowledgment
from him, but nothing was done. And
tha priest went to Washington to see
the secretary. He saw the "ring-." The
secretary was "busy." To break through
the "ring." Father Sohell appealed :o
Benator Mltrlx'lL of Oregon, and he
.thought ho had the Oregon "pull." But
no, the "ring" said the secretary wis
"out." They referred him to the assist
ant secretary of the interior, who refer
red him to the assistant attorney-gei;-eral's
office, which referred htm on, and
on, and on. r amer ecneu ran round
of hta Jurisdiction, but he said he could
help, lie offered to lend the Interior
department "the star of the secret serv
ice" William J. Burns.
Burns Is a detective. He la a detect
ive of the old school, the kind you read
about tn books; he usee his head.
Burns also makes thieves help him, but
the thieves he uses are those that did
the Job. He 'rets them right," makes
them "come through" (as he calls con
fessing), and his genius appears In the
way in which ha finds out who the
thieves are. He exercises his imagina
tion; he calls It forming a theory, but
as , we follow this detective's story
tnrougn tne land frauds we shall see
inat nis theorizing consists in nothln
but mental seeing aided by reason. An
me oeginnin- thereof is suspicion
Boras Is Suspicions.
.Burns suspicion is almost universal
The president once complained that
Burns thought everybody was a thief
until his Innocence was proven, and
Burns answered with surprise: "Well
they are here tn Washington." Burns
knows hlr Yvashlngton. His suspicion
la 'built up bv insight, but it Is founded
upon facts. Knowing that So-snd-Sols
stealing, ne ;;nows tnat the otner o-and-8os
near the thief must know about
It, and he asks: "Why don't they i."l
ler, ehT What are they irettlng out of
in
Burns determined to make somebody
confess and picked out J. J. Harne:
clerk In the school land division, who
had been 40 years In the service anil
stood high in the esteem of 11 r. Hitch
cock.
He confronted Barnes with a com
plete and graphic account of the manip
ulations of the land frauds. Barnes
paled, and Burns, seeing he was right
rlt.
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-iv.ahlno-tnn nntilhe h.m Vnnwn ,1. Ii"". P'm or accepimg uiiuC.
the "craiv priest." That "crasy priest" I es Broke down and confessed
had the truth and he cried it aloud In
the wilderness; whan he needed help
from on hlrh, he Was disciplined, and
when, at last, Rome fell, and there wis
no man to deny his testimony, then his
superiors, the chnrch in Oregon, boasted
that "It was a priest, the Rev. Joseph
,ScheI, who fiirst called attention to the
land frauds!
Two Cliques la Of floe.
In the land office there were two
cliques. Blnger Hermann, the commis
sioner
called
Barnes Makes Confession.
Barnes turned out to be the clerk
"B." whom Schneider said Dlmond had
hired to keen Hyde and Benson posted.
The confession of Barnes astonished
the secretary, but It did not convince
him that his land office was "corrupt
to the core. Only Barnes was had. Mr.
Hitchcock was just as amazed at each
subsequent confession, once when
certain fine old clerk had expressed a
willingness to tell the secretary some
thing Tlnrna u'aa fallal In t n ViAar th
was the head or one, the so- story. The old man related how when
Oregon bunch." W. A. Richards, ! he. as a special agent in the field, was
the assistant commissioner, was the 1 making an Investigation into some sus-
head of the other, the "Wyoming push.' 1 nicious land operations by United
Richards wanted Hermann's place, nnl 1 Rtutes Senator warren of Wyoming.
Ma aide was the stronger. He had with i Richards had transferred him. The see
litm his clerk, James I'. Macey; the as- J retary listened till Richards' name was
(slstant attorney-general assigned to tho j mentioned, then he refused to hear any
interior department. Willis Van Devan-1 more. "Richards? Impossible! " And
ter; and, best of all, the secretary's prl- ! he turned the old man out of his office.
' vate secretary. . V. Scott Pnlth. Ba-k' But Burns dirt not think there was any-
of the Wyoming clique Vy Senators I thing Impossible for Richards. He fol
Warren and Clark; back 4, "Oregon" lowed the clerk out and he took from
were Senators Mitchell and hulton. Not
all the men on a sld were sf'A the
. I jrame thing, but all were united In U , ,0
V -V: Hermann, the sly. 1 yp
j I Bw and Macey watched the ! an
.1 NMis.i!ner. They knew what he whs
doing. ' They didn't expose him publicly.
They meant onlv to etpose Hermann 10
the secretary. So they worked upon Mr.
Hitchcock quietly. They poisoned his
' ' -mind with doubts concerning his unct
uous land onmmlsslonor till. In 190'.'.
when the orportunlty offered for a bold
-play, Mr." Hitchcock was ripe with sus
picion. ; Bezants; of the Exposure.
The opportunity came In the form of
ta letter from one Jooet R. Schneider.
It was a remarkable comnlnint. Schnei
der charged that F. A. Hyde and John
A. Fen?on, two enterprising land opera
tors on the Pacific coast, practiced
fraud on a grand scnle. The federnl
government. In Lincoln's day, hud ict
r.i!de certain sections of the public land
to be disposed of to raise funds for tho
public schools. When years later some
tof these lands had to be taker, hack for
.. forest reserves (and other fedoral pur
' poses), an act was passed to permit ihe
' states fund others) to make up for their
losses by choosing "In lieu thereof n
- roual amount of unclaimed land some
, where else. Schneider. Benson and
Hyde operated under these laws.
S- Afterttb" creation of ihe sierra -1,
serve the Hyde concern entered actively
4 into the nltatlon in Oreron and Cullfor
' r'n or movements (for the preservation
'of the forests), and In every Instance
" i where a reserve was created they were
tnstrnmentsl In fixing some of the
boundary line so that school lends
would fall within a reserve.
rFehnelder Implicated two government
, arents: Forent Superintendent B. F.
Allen and Special Agent Frior.
' Inyestlgation Ordered.
Once when Hermann was away. Rlch
' ards as acting commissioner received
officially one of these letters. He or- j And since 1
!raered an investigation by 8. J. Holsln- !
V; Ber, a special agent of the land office i
In Arlxona. A pretty bold stroke, but
t Richards seemed to have acted onlv In
' , tha way of routine, so Hermann, upon ;
his return, and before Richards' letter j
reached the agent, sent a telegram dl- I
greeting Hollngcr "to leave at once for,
.Montena and make an examination of1
the Kootenai forest district " This as- j
algnment kent the agent htisv froTn j
t June until Sertember UflO?). But in
,i November he took Schneider's story,
-and the report he sent bock, official
and plain. Is a most Interesting docu
rnent. 1 As to the extnt of these operations
. In the good cause of preserving the for
i ests, the report savs: "Schneider nllges
. that about thre fourths of t!ie school
, entries in the Cnsad? forest reserve In
Oregon were bous. All the school sc-
tlon entiles in the Lake Tnhoe forest
, reserve were ho-'UK. were most of
those in nra laWp. pine mountain and
the ndd'tion to the San J;iclnto forest
reserve."
,' ' Report Caused Exposure.
' Holslnircr's report came like an infer
nal roa r) iv-i a t n f f tha Innrl Office. flnt V.lm ni.ar fha .M-,lt Utnai anil IVicm
as bTiiK It was handled wltn care.; to the president, ho told his story andf
Richards ano Macey saw it, but they , outlined his evidence. The president,
didn't Pay anything. , delighted, slapped the detective on the
As tr" Insiders relate. Mr. Hitchcock , back and, In his vigorous, enthusiastic
"went right ui in the air." Indigannt, way. bade him go and get the men high-
enraged, tne secretary was for sending er up, no matter how high up thoy were.
him the rest of the story.
The time came when the secretary had
let Kicnarda resign, but tnat was
years later. He couldn t believe then
any evil of the commissioner who had
exposed Blnger Hermann, and it was
always hard for him to change his mind 1
; about a man he pnee had trusted.
Boathern Paolflo Bole.
j Now, Burns found In California what
' I h.ive found In every state that I have
I stuflled. that a railroad rules. The
; Southern Pacific railroad, having cor-
1 rupted the state, furnished about all the
I government it had and that government
represented, naturally not the people.
but first, the railroad, and second, any J
olher (non-competing) business that!
! would help pay the cost of keeping the I
I state corrupt. And. having thus the
state, these corrupt businesses corrupt-
! e l also so much of California's share in
the L'nlte.l States senate, the house of
representatives and the executive d
' partinentB as they "had to" to control.
( U'e have seen how Burns followed the
stream of corruption from Washington
down thtough the land office of the in
i terlor department to the state of Cali
fornia. Since the frauds he was after
were operated in part through the land
orflce in California, the states land of
; floy had to he similarly corrupt
Schneider said It was. Burns proved
it. Schneider had Implicated two surveyors-general
of California; the third
was In office now. but It was common
knowledge In land business circles that
the office was still corrupt. "Of course
it was," says Burns.
BallroaJ Corruption.
The railroad, having been granted
land by the government, hart had to go 1
into the land business and. since the 1
surveyor-general's office would repre- I
sent and protect the people of Cali
fornia If tt was honest, it had to be
made dishonest. Herrin, the chief of
cnunsel for the Southern Pacific, was
the boss of the state and he nnmed him
self the candidate for that office.
nson and Hyde were get
ting land ahead of honest men, and In
I quantities not contemplated in the law,
1 they "had to" have, and pay for, an un
I lawful standing In the purveyor-gen-;
eral's office. They had such a standing.
Schneider told Holslnger that he spent
( most of his time there not only fur
. therlns the business of his principals,
1 but hli'derlng that of honest men.
j ProYlng; Detective's Theory.
I Burns' "theory" then was that the
I state government represented corrupt
1 business. He had to prove his theory
I as to the land business. He engaged
detectives to "shadow" the officials and
1 the business men who "must be crooks.
, H Induced honest men that had suf
; fered from the system to tell him their
1 experiences, and he verified or, as he
puts It. Ian out their stories. This all
by way of working up circumstantial
' evidence. To clinch his case, however
he had to "get" as witnesses for the
government the only men that could
testify to a personal knowledge of the
graft-graf tera.
When Burns returned to Washington,
he went as a victor and as such he was
received. Secretary Hitchcock took
at nni'c for Hermann and demanding his
resignation. That was Mr. Hitchcock s
was direct, natural and ruthless. But
that Isn't the Washington way. Judire
Van Devanter, however, won the secre
tary over to send for Hermann, pro
' posed the promotion of B. F. Allen and
' asked If there was anything against
' him. If Hermann was "In With" Allen
and Hyde ard Benson, he would favor
the promotion and conceal the charges.
Hermann Too Cunning.
Hermann, summoned, came rubbln
his hands and bowing,
secretary tried to play
But either he blundered or Hermann was
too cunning for him, for when the secre
tary told what ne proposed lor h. t.
Allen and asked if there was anything
on record against his promotion. Blnger
Hermann searched his "mind.
"Let me see," he said. "B. F. Allen.
It seems to me there is something
against B. F. Alien. 1 may be mis
taken, but B. F. Allen, hum; if my
memory does not deceive me. there is a
report on file that contains charges 1
against B F. Allen." I
Thus Binger Hermann, the sly, de-!
feated the intriguers. But he didn't de
feat the secretary. Mr. Hitchcock want-!
ed to see that report and Hermann had I
to go anu get 1t. And when Mr. Hitch-!
cock tead it (as if he had never read
It before) he ilew Into a fresh passion.
Why was such a report of such a scan
dal kept from him? He demanded the
resignation of Mr. Blnger Hermann.
Hermann Is Keprlered.
Hermann ran to Senator Mitchell and
. the senator applied, the Oregon pull.
The president was seen, and Secretary
Hitchcock; the were both too angry to
listen to anything but an anneal for
' mercy. 80 Senator Mitchell pleaded for
time. There was to be a wedding in
Mr. Hermann's iamily. he said, and It
would be i nlty to spoil the festivities
, by the sudden removal of the father
from office. On this ground a reprieve
was granted. How the president the
. secretary, Heney, Burns and all the oth
' ere did regret this act of clemency!
i Hermann spent the time allowed him to
burn the so-called private letter books
.' ( of his otfice the offense for which he
I u tried this year at Washington and
. acquitted.
But no .nai,i.er great good was ac-
compllshed. Mr. Hitchcock was aroused
it. and so was the president Richards was
' . made land commissioner in Hermann's
'v ' place, Mace became chief clerk, and
, there were other changes and promo-
tlons-
, ', Stuns Xs BeenreO.
The secretary wanted a detective, but
t, wnere do vou go tor detectives? Judge
Van UAvanter bethought him of the se
rret rervloe of the treasury department
" and Chief Wilkie waa called in. - He
heard the atory. The problem Ur out
r , ':. ::'..'. '
And Burns, delighted, promised to go as
high as he could. The prospect for a !
complete exposure, and a thoroughgoing!
reform waa considered The outlook
was bright and there was much rejoicing.
Frauds in Oregon.
But while Burns was working up the
land frauds In California, it developed
that similar land frauds were being
practiced in uregon, Washington, Idaho,
Colorado In all the unsettled states
dng and territories. It will be remembered
and the blunt that Holslnger reported Schneider as
out the game. : saying that Benson and Hyde operated
in Oregon as well as In California, and
Burns had made some Inquiries up
there, but he couldn't "run out" the Ore
gon and the California cases at the
same time. 80 Secretary Hitchcock had
assigned to Oregon a special agent. Col
onel A. R. Greene. A special agent is
not always a detective, and Colonel
Greene had gone noisily about his work.
He has been severely orlticiaed for pro
ceeding with such a delicate task with
one brass band playing In front of him
and another In his rear." But that'j
1 one way of working and it turned out
I to be a good way In this case. For
there happened to be a quarrel among
! the land grafters of Oregon, and when
It became known that colonel Oreene
wss making an investigation for the
secretary of the interior, some of the
insiders called on the special agent and
gave him a peep at the inside.
Hitchcock aets Prosecutor.
The result was a steady fire of re
ports from Greene to Mr. Hitchcock of
facts, rumors and enough evidence to
give the secretary the impression that
Oregon was worse than California. It
looked as if even Blnger Hermann, the
sly, 'might be caught up there, and the
department desired ardently to catch
that man. For Hermann, upon his dis
missal from the land office, haC gone
home to appeal to the people. He ran
for his old seat in congress. Hie party
organization (for some reaaon) gave
him the nomination and luck, or a trick,
did the rest. While he waa running.
President " Roosevelt went touring up
through Oregon. Blnger Hermann
boarded his train, and once when the
president waa standing- on the rear plat
form greeting a crowd. Hermann
tepoed out beside him. Just as the
president glanced about laughing, a pho-
xograpner, wno was. there for tnat pur
pose, took a snapshot of the two to
gether; the president and the land com
missioner he had put out of office. The
people seemed to conclude, as many Of
them said, that they ctfuld "stand for"
Hermann . If the prestdent could, and
they reelected him. Speaker Cannon
ana tne ring that runs the house puti
Hermann (for some reason) upon thel
pupae laaaa committee, and there he
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a. a an bjbj bjbj bBI BL.
r ui
for
$11
FROM A FACTORY IN DISTRESS
WHY IT IS
So cheap. The necessity of
a manufacturer in a pinch
makes money for you and for us. Our buyer on
his last trip to the east found this factory in
urgent need of cash to settle notes in the bank.
As a result we own a car load of tables at half
of the usual cost.
Mail Orders
Send $12.00 if you want a table shipped. This Is
$1.00 extra for packing and burlap. Remember
this price is lower than any dealer can buy them
for.
248 Tables on Sale Worth $18.00 at
$11.00
r-
WHAT IT IS
A pedestal extension
tabic, with split pedestal
concealing leg in the center. The finish is of
Quartered oak, showing a beautiful flakey grain
on hard maple base. The top Is 42 inches in
diameter. Extends 6 feet when open.
Mail Orders
Will be accepted for this table, but $1.00 extra
win De cnargea tor packing.
248 Tables on Sale Worth $18.00 at
$11.00
MISSION
DESKS
We have the strongest line of
Lad las' Desks, golden oak ma
hogany or weathered oak, in
the city of Portland.
Desk and Chair like the above
pattern, made of solid oak,
with marquetry Inlaid work.
Price S29.00
Other Desks and Chairs as
low aa 86.00
IVStay S&tisfcyctory'lsJsj
One Dollar a Week
We can furnish rarioui tyle$
with gas attachments for Monarch
Ranges in any size. Their fire-box
liffings are 1 inch thick and made
in sections. Malleable iron and
steel used in the construction
make the Monarch positively inde
structible. All joints, seams and openings
are riveted air-tight and will never
come loose.
(F ' ess
ji. , i Vli?"!' r--I-I
One Dollar a Week
The tops are polished to a
perfectly smooth condition
on emery wheels and no
blacking is necessary on
them. After use these tops
turn a deep blue color and
match th balance of the
range.
We Pay Thirty Dollars for Monarch Ranges
Roll Top Desks
The Office Desks which we carry are
from the best Grand Rapids factories
and prices are as low as those charged
elsewhere for inferior goods.
Oak Boll Tor Desks Three feet wide,
pedestal with four drawers which lock
when the curtain Is closed ....K20.00
Same style. S ft. 6 In. wide $22.50
Eastern Oak Boll Top Desk Four feet
wide two pedestals, with seven drawers
which look automatically . ...JK28.JS0
Same stylo, 4 ft. 6 In. wide 931.50
riat Top Desk Four feet wide, drawers
on both sides 21. OO
VIBRATING
ROCKERS
A new shipment of
these s;oods has just
been received. The seat
is supported by a con
volute spring; made of
9-16 solid steel. The
seat and base do not
come In contact with
each other, thus avoid
ing any squeaking or
other noise when In use.
It has the softest arid
easiest rock of any
rocker yet put on the
market. Prices com
mence at S12.50
Portier Sale
Oriental striped Por
tieres, fringed on both
ends, 3 yards long, 60
Inches wide; a good,
durable tapestry; re
duced from J3.60
to S2.45
Madras cross striped
Portleres with tinsel
effect, 48 Inches wide
and 3 yards long; re
duced from 3.60
to 82.60
$6.00 extra heavy Tap
estry Portieres, 8 yds.
long, 64 Inches wide
The very latest color
ings ana designs, per
pair 84.85
VIA
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Medicine Cabinets
$3.00 Cabinets in dark
golden oak, slae 16x23,
sale price 82. 85
15.60 Golden Oak Cabi
nets, with French mir
ror 10x14, bevel, brush
and comb aase belowj
sale price $3.95
Sanitary Conches Reduced
86.00 Davenports With Backs $8.00
i ueu uy niEni, ana a mtuou, uuiiiiui muie, iun
Conches Without Back .
A Couch by day or a
sized double bed at that. A oouch that will Took well in the Darlor.
or any other room in the house. No one would suspect that it was a
bed when It was folded up. The frame is made of malleable steel,
riveted together and fitted with guaranteed "diamond" mesh fabric,
supported ty three rows of the best oil-tempered spiral springs. A
perfectly sanitary couch or bed that will last a lifetime.
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This department Is one of the largest of its kind In
the city, occupying a space on the second floor of
6,000 square feet. We have in stock all the standard
makes and many others for which we have the exclu
sive agency.
Sa!e of
Dressing
Tables
Dainty Dressing Ta
bles, worth 117.60,
made of genuine
birdseye maple,
hand polished; has
a heavy French bev
el mirror; special
at $11.00
a is or ron us e.
cieato.
ALWIN GO-CARTS
Can be folded so compact that
they will fit any trunk. We
have them In many style
Prices as low as 86.50-
ELASTIC
CURTAIN
RODS
Adjusted to
any slsed win
dow, new and
much super
ior to the old
style brass
rods ...20
fA OOP
PLATE
RACKS
Many style
of PJf
Raotfa at
prices down
to 904.
D PLJOE TO T
KMDHS
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was, a thorn in the side of Secretary
Hitchcock.
Heney is Secured.
The only hope was in a strong prose
cution that should be also an investiga
tion. Burns had a theory about the
United States district attorneys in the
timber land regions. Since they had
Jurisdiction in land fraud and other
fedoral grafts, which. went on all about
them, he held them guilty until their In
nocence was proven. He was as suspi
cious of the attorney-general's depart
ment as he was of the department of
the interior, and his suspicion had been
f;rounaea somewnai oy nis experiences
n both California and Oregon. He was
for a special prosecutor, therefore, and
that Is what Secretary Hltchoock came
to want; a prosecutor who would pros
ecute not one but all his land cases.
and expose the whole system. And he
got him Frank Heney.
NO M0EE CATTLE IN
ENTERPEISE STREETS
(Speeial Ditptteb to The Journal.)
Enterprise, Or., Aug. 24. The city
counoll of Enterprise has passed an
ordinance prohibiting the running at
large within the corporate limits of the
city of horses, cattle and other live
stock. The advisability of passing such an
ordinance has been frequently consid
ered by prevlftus councils and an or
dinance prohibiting stock from running
at large at certain times of the year
was passed several years ago, but the
ordinance "Just passed is the only one
ever prohibiting stock to run at large
at aJl times of the year. The ordinance
will take effect September 1.
JOURNAL AGAIN
HAS ONLY WIRE
Associated Press and Both
Companies Completely
Tied Up by Strike,
One more week of tied up telegraph
wires has passed and still the sltua
tlon Is Just the same as it was in the
beginning. Managers of the telegraph
companies say there Is no strike so far
as the transaction of their business is
concerned, operators say the whole telt
esrarmic situation is tied -up ana tne
people say words that would not look
well In print.
Last nlsht once more The Journal had
the only uninterrupted news wire work
ing in and out or the city. The Asso
ciated Press was tied up to all prao-
ucai intents wnne tne costal ana
Western Union were struarllnr alona
with the same inadequate force that
has stood bv the kevs since tha trouble
Degan.
Operators Xieavtnff City
Operators are aolna -out of the city
or out of the business at a rapid rate
leaving only a few of their representa
tives on the scene to carrv on the bat
tle. They are confident that the com
panies cannot get competent men to
. 1 .. Z 77T the places of the old operators and
Mainsprings, 1, Metager'a, 141 Waah, o eaa aford to wait for the return of
their old positions when the trouble is
over.
Portland presents the peculiar spec
tacle of being in the grip of a strike
without any of the strikers being vis
ible. Most of the men who walked
out have found other positions and can
only be seen about the headquarters of
the operators at the Esmond hotel. The
regular working men are composed of
the officers of the union and a few
men who have not yet left for outside
points to work or are waiting to leave.
As a matter of fact it would appear
that the strikers have the companies
tied up tight In Portland particularly
while the completeness of the trouble
In the east and south makes this city
as silent telegraphically as any place
within the zone of the strike. As yet
there seems to be no indication either
on the part or tne striKers or or the
companies to come together for a settle
ment or tne trouDie oeiween tnem.
Prepare For Benefit Ball.
Arrangements are ranldlv belnr com
pleted for the benefit ball to be given
for the striking telegraphers in Murlark
hall on Thursday next. Especial Illum
inations have been secured for the hall
and a great success Is being had with
the invltUtions and the (sale of- tickets.
A number of the leading automobile
dealers have orrered the use of auto
mobiles to the committee on arrange
ments In escorting the patrons and pat
ronesses to and from Ihe hall. Mayor
and Mrs. Lane win lead tne granu
march while Air. and Mrs. C. S. Jack
son. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Carroll and
others will act ai patrons for the evening.
Aberdeen's .Water Famine,
(Special Dlltclj to Tie Journal.)
Aberdeen, Wash.. Aug. 24. While the
long-continued absence of rain has given
a summer ox laeaa weatner. it nas
Drought about the gravest conditions In
the city water supply. There teema
If You
Are Wise
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You will buy from tha
factory. You are then sura
f getting full value for
our money.
Our trunks are "Smash
Proof If you own the
ordinary kind, you submit it to the baggage men fearing tha worst If you
own ona of our trunks you hara
the be st made, for they defy the
baggage wreckers. 1,000 trunks to
select from. Two stores.
PORTLAND TRUNK
MFC. CO."
No. 54 3rd 10
Corner Pine Near Si?
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no way of helping the matter until the
all rains begin. No water la allowed
to be used tor sprinkling or Irrigation
purposes, and tha hours of ualng It for
household purposes are limited. It -1
siatea tnat in case oi a lire inert wa
not enough water In the reservoir t
last mors than half aa hour. v ,
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