THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND FRIDAY eVeNINO, NOVEMBER 1, 1907.
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ML HURRY
SIEI1I
Delay Caused by Lack of
Crushed Bock The Vast
Amount of Improvement
During Year Quarries
Are Swamped.
Bo great lias been the street improve
ment work in 1'ortlRnd this year that
the rock crushers have been unable to
supply the contractors with sufficient
crushed rock to enable them to finish
their contracts on specified time. This
was brought out yesterday afternoon at
the meeting of the street committee of
the city executive Doarcl when con
tractor llnrry Howard was questioned
ns (o whv he had not finished the work
lie had contracted for with the city.
Mr. Howard explained at length the
eliuatlon in regard to crushed rock and
said, In pnrt:
"Last winter when these contracts
were let the Indications were that there
would be plenty of crushed rock for all
the street work to be done in Portland.
All the contractors believed this and
1 made my bids on this understanding.
'However, the St. Helens Quarry com
pany was late in getting its plant in
operation and the quarry at Mllwaukla
had financial trouble and" is now oper
ating under a receiver. As a result
we have been left without the amount
of crushed rdrk we anticipated and the
work was delayed beyond the. contract
time.
"Now that the rains have commenced
we will be able to carry the work to
rapid completion, because the Warren
Construction company, which haa first
all on the rock, is not aDie to build
pavement in the rainy season. There
will be no more delays. The rock
crusher turns out about BOO yards a
day which will be an ample amount at
this time."
Mr. Howard had contracts for about
20 streets and on many of tbem he was
unable to finish on the time specified in
his contracts. The committee aocepted
the streets finished and allowed him an
extension of time pn the remainder.
The streets finished and accepted were:
Dekum avenue, 1,009; Sixteenth, $688!
East Tavlor, $3,210; Woods. $4,417; East
fcixth, $5,581; Marion, $4,970; Van Hou
ten. $7,21$, and Seventeenth, $2,214.
Bids werajejected for the Improve
ment of Williams avenue, between Al
berta and Klllingsworth, because they
were in excess of City Engineer Taylor's
estimate plus the customary 10 per
"cent, which was $15,658. The bid was
$16,703. The bias on jsasi ourieenm
-KM- wemyeooii w
rejected because
ued proceedings on
last meeting. '
Mlds were also rejected on Hoyt, East
Madison, Broadway, Knott and Lewis
streets, because the bids exceeded the
estimates of the city engineer. All
street improvement will be readvertlsed
where the bids were rejected because of
: excessive bids. , n
i The. committee also allowed the Pa
cific States Telephone & Telegraph com
pany to open up a number of streets on
the east side to allow the installation
of undergrouid cables.
AGED VVOMAfJ RELEASED
FROM STATE PRISON
Alice Roper Is Given Her
Freedom After Serving
Nearly Four Years.
(Cnlted Prtea Leased Wire.)
San Francisco, Nov. 1. Alice Roper,
CO years old, was discharged from the
state penitentiary at San Quontln yes
terday after having served three years
and nine months of a five years" sen
tence for passing counterfeit money
She was convicted in the federal court
at 8enttle. As a fine wns also Imposed
which the woman had not the means to
pay. she was taken berore united States
Commissioner Jlearock and formally
discharged.
UXITED Hi ESS FIRST
TO REPORT HOLIDAY
La Grande, Oct. 31. It was
not known In La Grande until
the Evening Observer appeared
Wednesday that Governor Cham
berlain had issued a proclama
tion declaring five daya holi
days, consequently the circuit
court transacted business all
day. Judge Crawford is of the
opinion that the proceedings of
the day are void and will there
fore be set aside. Morning
Paper.
The Associated Preis did not send the
news of Governor Chamberlain's proc
lamation to many of its Oregon news
papers It would seem. The United Press
association, the Associated Press"
healthy rival, got the news to all of its
evening newspapers in Oregon, of which
the La Grande Observer is one.
The United Press is rapidly adding
new newspapers to its service, which is
an up to date leased wire service, and it
is scoring a great many beats.
TWO HUNDRED HINDUS
LOOKING FOR WORK
(United Press Laaed Wirt.)
San Francisco Nov. 1. Two hun.lred
Hindus arrived here from Nevada this
morning and applied to a water front
employment agency for work. They
say others are coming as many have
been discharged because the white men
would not work with tnem. The bosses
claim that the Asiatics are no good as
workers and have ordered the employ
ment agencies to send no more to them.
The Hindus here went to work on the
ranches or on construction work in the
city but no local dtmand seems to ex
ist for their services.
CURRENCY BASED
ON PROSPERITY
Washington Newspaper Pro
poses Strange Plan for
Financing Hanks.
otncuTisVonTMAN HAVE
n these streets at its
NEW NATIONAL BANK
(Waahlngton Bureau ot Tbe Journal.)
Washington,- D. C, Nov. 1. Permis
sion has been given to organize the First
National bank at Lebanon, Oregon, with
$50,000 capital stock. Bamuni Garland,
S. P. Bach. Franklin T. Griffith, P. M.
Scroggin and Seymour Washburn are di
rectors. (
AT THE THEATRES
Ilwaco Koad's Report.
Olga Xethersole Tonight.
The noted English actress, Olga Neth
ersole, supported by Mr. Frank Mills
and an excellent supporting company
will begin an engagement of three per
formances at the Hellig theatre. Four
teenth and Washington streets tonight.
The opening bill this evening will be
"Carmen;" at the matinee tomorrow
"Sapho" will be given and "The Awak
ening" tomorrow night. Seats are now
Aii4n ttiABtc fhr tha unfrflcrRmftnt.
Ov.ll 9 V I ' V W V. .v.. " O 13 I g
Curtain at 8:10 tonight ,
it.
"My fatharbad been offerer from tick headache
" " Iforths laat twenlr-nra year and Barer found ny
"TIlO Yankee Regent ' .Sunday. lrellef until he beaaatakiDC jour CeicareU. Since
Beginning next Sunday night,
vemher S. the tuneful musical
Tho Yankee Reeent." will be the
traction at the HflUg theatre, Four
teenth and Washington streets, for four
nights. Seats are sellliiu at theatre.
No be has be
'Bu? head
,? tT' Caicareti
hS ttt' will give
"Diplomacy" at the Baker.
Tonight, tomorrow afternoon and to
morrow night Will close the engage
: merit of the famous Sardou play, "Di
plomacy." at the Baker- It is one of
the greatest plays of the age and sel
dom is the opportunity offered to see a
better nerformance of it than the Ba
ker company is giving this week.
Hoyt's "A Jlole in tho Ground."
If you ever waited for several hours
at' some far-away, out-of-the-world rail
road station for a long-delayed train to
come and pick you up, you will fully
appreciate Hoyt's famous .satire on Just
such an experience, called "A Hole in
the Ground," which, will -open at the
Baker nexi eunaa auii
Next Sunday at the Empire.
Sunday matinee tho first presenta
tion of Freda Slemon's beautiful south
ern play, "The sweetest uiri in uixie.
will ha riven in Portland at the Em
pire theatre. It is a realistic picture of
life among the good old southern dark
les and cotton neius jong ago.
Bertha M. Clay.
The Emnire is presenting Bertha M,
Clay's story, "Thorns and Orange Blos
soms," this week to large ana delighted
audiences of readers of this most pop
ular novelist. All the well-known char
acters are made to walk and act as in
real life, by one of tha best melodra
matic companies ever on the cosat.
"The Governor of Kentucky."
There Is no time for delay if you
wuuld B''1TlBevCTnor of Kentucky"
the finest piece of dramatic writing
ever done by Franklin Fyles the groat
- dramatist. It tells a story of socl
; ety, love and politic in the far-famed
bluegrass country. Matinees tomorrow
and Sunday.
"Woman Against Woman."
At the Lyric commencing Monday
night the coming week will be devoted
to a splendid revival of that famous
emotional melodrama "Woman aaalnst
recognised as one of the foremost of
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: - Rare Old Violin Exhibit.
Displayed in the large cprner win
dow of EUera Piano house is a rare
old Violin said to have been made In
1770. It was recently sold by Mrs.
- Craft of this city to John Everest who
considers it one of the finest examples
of the Guernerius make, one of the
world's most famous. It has that
marvelous tons' "over which VIoln ' ex
perts grow enthusiastic, being round
and strong, with all its tone notes even
and mellow. Its name ""Iwck Bess,"
was given to It because Of giving been
.: stained blade at some previous time
of Its history, although Its sombre color
has frecn g reatlr lessened by the flight
of time. It la valued at 5,000, but
is not for sale, as Mr. Everest has
scrured.lt to use for his own nlavinu. ;
;, ' V iollnlsts who srs Interested, ua ex- I
tended an invitation -iot only 4o view)
' it, but .also to .try it, . i
(Special Dispatch to The
Olympla, Wash., Nov. 1.-
-Tnnrnat. t
The annual
report of the Ilwaco Railroad company
lor the year ending June su, luv.
shows that its 16.26 miles nf road had
a net income of $7,267.67, with percent
age of expenses to earnings of 9S.58 per
cent. This corporation is connected
with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company and was organized under the
laws or Oregon. It operates between
Ilwaco and Naheotta.
By John E. Lathrop.
(Waahlngton Bureau of The Jonrnal.)
Washington, Nov. 1. "Has the Pop
ulist party been reincarnated in the per
son of United States Senator Elklns or
of the conservative editor of the ultra
conservative Washington Post?" is
asked here, sequentially to the state'
ments which have been made by them
in the past few days.
Bald proposals for national leglsla
tlon amending the financial laws so as
to broaden the foundations of the na
tion's credit structure are referred to,
and the almost unbelievable feature of
the matter Is that It is purposed to
base currency on other than gold or
government bonds redeemable in gold
Senator Elklns first came forward
Itn a proposal in rather abstract
terms, although squinting at what was
about to emanate from the Post. Then
the) thoroughbred gold standard editor
or the I'ost nr nted the following
double-leaded editorial:
"The Way Out."
"The financial stringency in New
York City can be ended quickly and ef
ficiently by prompt and cooperate ac
tion by the secretary or me treasury
and the national banks of the country.
The banks hold In their vaults hundreds
of millions of dollars worth of gilt
edged securities, as good as government
bonds. The surpluses of the banks are
often represented in great part by such
securities. Those securities are ap
proved by the national bunk eiovmlners
at each examination, and rightly so, for
they represent absolute values.
'Let it be known at onco that tho
banks of the .country will proceed im
mediately with approval or the secre
tary of the treasury, to Increase their
circulation $100,000,000, or, If necessary.
I2UO.000.0OO. these securities to be ac
cepted as basis of such issue, and the
relief will be felt before the issue of
the new circulation lp made.
"The increased demand for money Is
caused by the extreme prosperity of the
country, and in the majority of is
stances is a sound and legitimate de
mand which should be supplied. The
speediest Increase of circulation may be
made through the banks. i hey are
strong in securities. Let these become
the basis of additional currency at ttie
earliest possible moment, and tho
banker, the depositor and the people at
large will all be benefited thereby.
"t'oncerted action by the banks and
prompt publication of tho fact that this
will be done will end the troubles now
local in New York and Pittsburg and
Inspire business men throughout the
country."
Battered as the old Populist party Is,
disintegrate, in faet, remnants remain
here and there, and occasionally one
finds them in gold-standard-dominated
Washington. ,
"I could scarcely believe my eyes,"
one of the Populist old guard said the
other day, "'when I read this morning
the Post editorial counseling issuance
of federal currency based on merely the
prosperity of the nation; for that is
what the Post's proposal really means
gilt-edged securities are gilt-edged sim
ply because they are the promises of
certain strong industrial or transporta
tion institutions which are strong sim
ply because they depend on our 86.000,
000 people continuing to want things in
the abundance for which Americans
have been peculiar.
"But. I recall that 10 years ago I and
my kind were branded as financial an
archists because we advocated what
they then called asset currency or some
other visi name..
Sold Standard JTow.
''I am now a good gold standard man;
I have len tamed and meekly eat out
of the lands of the rulers of tho tui
tion's financial system. I eVen hold of
fice hers, appointed bv the power of
the gold standard senator from my state
a sens tor who was 10 years or so ago
a rampant free sliver howler, who made
speeches and wrote letters to the news
papers 1 ack home in which ho proved
beyond i. reasonable doubt that the gold
standard men were bloodthirsty mon
sters w'to would fatten on the gore of
the peo .le.
"But, I did not exnect to witness the
conversion of such orthodox gold nuvo
cartes as I have mentioned to tho doc
trine that federal currency could safely
be based on anything but the actual
old or gold-guaranteeing government
onus.
"Tho nilserv of the whole affair is
that I. who wns a sincere silver man.
was soundly converted to gold, and now
I see the financial evangelist who
reached me un to the srold mourners
'finch recantlnir in effect, and bowing
down to the idols whlen ne aDnorrea in
those former davs.
.pursuing his reflections, me conven
ed silver man said:
"I rend from the editorial referred to
that . 'the increased demand for money
Is caused by the extreme prosperity of
the country ; and also that the speed
iest increase in circulation may bo made
through the banks." If that Uoesn t
sound like the 'quantitative money
theory" then I haven't good ears. I pre
sume, however, I would be told I do not
understand the abstruse science or
finance and that I had missed some
vitar principle In putting together the
conclusions I have formed from the
writings I have quoted. At least, that
was what we were torn 10 years -ago
when we thought we had scored against
the gold people in our campaign arguments.
'nf course. I concede that me rree
silver question is deader than a nit; but
cannot avoid seeing us gnosi wnen
It Is resurrected and held before me
with the opaque page of the Post as a
background. I - never expected to nei
the form of that old friend, resurrectod
or rather, reincarnated and pis spirit
entered into another belnir of more
nlennlns nature, elevated to higher lev
els of spiritual existence, as Annie H-
sant, the tneosopnist. says transpires in
he esse or the oeain or every sensaie
being."
HEALTHY MOTH
OF CONGREGATION
Beth Israel Jumps Forward
During Year in Member
ship and Finances.
IF YOU WANT TOSJSE THE NEWEST IN WEAR
ING APPAREL VISIT THE STYLE STORE.
The annual report of Adolphe Wolfe,
president Of the Congregation Beth Is
rael, delivered at the recent annual
meeting congratulates the congregation
upon the extraordinarily prosperous con
dition or' their- affairs. His report
shows on Increase in membership since
lastyenr, the congregation now num
bering 211, financial matters In a highly
satisfactory condition, and an unusually
large voluntary contribution for syna
gogue administration.
President Wolfe urges a greater in
terest in the religious school of the
churah, , undor the leadership of Rabbi
Wise and an excellent staff of teachers.
He says "splendid work has been done
by our glftedi young rabbi during his
first year with us and your president
is personally convinced that me present
school torm, just commenced, will ha
most excellent results."
In speaking of the public affairs in
wnich Itaoni wise nns participated men
tlon Is made of his addresses marto dur
lng the past year at the union Thanks-
lvmg services at the unitarian cnurcn,
'ravelers' Protective association annual
banauet. Portland chamber of commerce
annual meeting, Peoples Forum or
Portland. South Portland Library asso
ciation of Third Presbyterian church
Oregon Agricultural coK-go graduation,
Btate Normal school or Monmouth gnad-
uation. First Presbyterian church of
Corvallls. and the graduation of Port
Ul.n . Vi r, 1
President WoJfo recommends a proper
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of the Congregation Beth Israel which
will take place in May, 1908. President
Wolfe was reelected to the oosltlon
wnicn ne nous.
T4U
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California
:i Siisishiiie
in every tin
Folg'er's
Gate Coffee
SOLD ON MERIT'
Jv A. POLCER & CO.
ittabBsha 1630
SAN FRANCISCO
"SIM. - .! a.
vuar
$mm His VMtfc
Confidence Restored
You may have experienced disappointments in
both ready-to-wear and made-to-measure clothing,
but put on one of our STEIft-BLOCH, SCHLOSS
BROS, or BRADBURY SYSTEM SUITS
OVERCOATS or CRAVENETTES and you will
be convinced of the highest degree of satisfaction
these garments offer to their wearers. They fit,
they look and they wear well. They are built to
satisfy. All we ask of you is to call, pick your
pattern and try on a coat or two. The mirrors
will prove that we are entitled to your patronage.
By the way, we want you to know that we extend
CREDIT IF DESIRED
You can open an account with us and have your
outfit -charged to you, arranging to pay for it in
small weekly or monthly payments to suit yourself.
EASTERN OUTFITTING CO.
Cor. Washington & Tenth
The Ctors Where Tour
Credit Is Oood.
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becan taking Caacanta ha ha Barer bad
headache. They bar entirely eared him.
careta do what joa reeommend them to do. I
yoa the privilege of naloc hie name."
Z.U. blckeoD, 11S0 Reainer Si., w.lndjaoepolU, lad.
Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Oood, Do'Oood,
Merer Sicken, Weaken or Gripe, 10c, 25c, Mc. Nerer
old in bnlk. The tannine tablet atamped 0 0 0.
Ouaranteed to ear or your metier back.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 598
ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION BOXES
1000 UMBRELLAS
WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THEM?
Late in the spring we ordered a shipment of Umbrellas to arrive
September 1st. The Umbrellas arrived yesterday TWO
MONTHS LATE. We don't want to carry any of these over
until next season, and to reduce our stock we will close out
500 UMBRELLAS TOMORROW AT COST PRICES
VALUES 50c TO $2.50
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Everything in Men's Wear See Window' Display
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A TREMENDOUS NOVEMBER CLOAK SALE
388-390
E. Morrison St.
Near Grand Av.
388-390
E. Morrison St.
N ear Grand Av.
EAST 4SIDB DEPARTMENT STORE
THE MOST NOTABLE CLOAK SALE EVER INAUGURATED IN PORTLAND WILL BE IN FULL SWING HERE TOMORROW!
NEW YORK IS PANICKY PORTLAND IS PROSPEROUS At
Owing to the stringency of the money market in New York City, many -manufacturers have been forced into temporary embarrassment, and in their desperation have
offered their completestocks at prices that are proving veritable harvests for the merchant with the ready cash.
Tomorrow We Place on Ssfle 600 Misses' and Child
ren's LONG COATS Forwarded to Us by Our Eastern
Agents to be Offered at a Price
That Will be a Revelation to Even
the Most Chronic Bargain Hunters
The values in this -purchase range from $8.00 to $12.00, arid the identical
garments are On sale at these nricftR in niimrrmg stnrpc ahnnt fmn
Your unrestricted choice of the entire lot, choice of styles or sizes, at
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All colors In Cheviots, AU-Wool Kersey and Fancy Worsteds, light or dark effects
oGKll Sale
To-
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S(mofrow
Only
$8.00, $10
and $12
Values
Great Sale of Women's Coats
The season's latest styles in long coats for women at
very ' attractive reductions, giving our customers the
benefit of our fortunate purchase. All colors and
weights.
sir, .in
$25.00 Coats on sale at ... .
$20.00 Coats on sale at ; ... $1230
$16.50 Coats on sale at .... $10.00
$12.00 Coats oil sale at . . $ 8.50
m 8tnpes, checks or -plain cloths.- I