THE OREGON DAILY JQUKNAL, PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1908. H J FIR SA IT TP AiLJtl FIR bJJL 1 1 1 1 o Sensation Follows Sensation Thousands of dollars worth of goods still to go and all day Tomorrow the sacrifice will be merciless in order to sell out with a rush lots of new goods that the adjusters have just turned over to me from the big ftre of a week ago Tuesday night. Makes no difference if I only do get 10c and 20c on the dollar. The orders are to sell, and if any of you attended my sale last Saturday you remember how I cut prices you never can forget it. Well that wasn't a drop in the bucket compared with the way I'm going to make things hum tomorrow. I'm going to show 'em up THE SHAMELESS IMITATORS who try to copy my methods, and I'm going to make them bury their heads in the sand. Every small store on North Sixth street has a Big fire sale sign, but mine is the Only Real Fire Sale, and there is only one entrance. It is on Everett street off of Sixth. Look for the signs. Lee Bertillion. Manager for THE UNITED MERCHANTS FIRE SALE. . W .vs? -.vjt vV. "r", v THE 111 UNITED MERCHANTS FIRE SALE 4 Or Worth of the finest and newest P 1 ZaUUU Men's Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes, Underwear, Shirts, Sox, Suspenders, Etc., on forced sacrificed sale at 10 to 25 Per Cent of Value ' ' J - V X Located one block south of the big fire of Tuesday night, in the Pullman Auto Company's big building. Look for signs. Entrance only on Everett it s. ! r h f vij r k ... ., ..isrss j SALESMEN WANTED APPLY AT ONCE -"'-Tii IT irifWin-iiiMhriiMmiiirt-m-----'- MOST DESPERATE SACRIFICE of PINE WEARING APPAREL EVER HELD UNDER AMERICAN SKIES These goods on sale were saved from Tuesday night's big and dis astrous conflagration of a week ago. The goods must be sold in 10 days and I have paid no attention to original cost. The loss falls on the insurance companies. Owing to the fact that no one mer chant saved enough goods from his store to justify him holding a sale, they were turned over to me by the insurance companies, and I must dispose of five combined stocks, and I have only a few days in which to do it. Read the list below. No other fire sale can compete with my prices. (Signed) LEE A. BERTILLION, Manager for the United Merchants and Insurance Company (formerly Manager Chicago Clothing Company.) SALESMEN WANTED APPLY AT ONCE 600-MEN S FINEST SUITS--600 Consisting of the best known and highest stand- f. ards. Hart, Schaffner & Marx, Fleisher Bros. & Rosenthal's, Rochester, special makes, saved from Tuesday night's big fire; all in perfect con dition. They must be sold and the prices quoted below are what will make you buy them: For choice of about 50 Suits worth $10. to i sizes from 34 to 38. Di-OOSlO to $12: splendid styles and all $2.50 $6.85 The best in the land, finest silk, satin or double-warp serge and Ital ian cloth linings; the latest and most fashion able goods that the world offers, worth to $35. For choice of over a hundred Suits, all colors and styles, worth to Slo. A few blue and black Suits in this lot. 3 ft E or cce Suits worth up to $20, DO00 double and single-breasted styles, dark and medium colors; all sizes, 34 to 42. $JT AA For big lot of high-grade Suits, about 0V 200 in the lot, finest imported goods, full hand-tailored, worth and sell today at reg ular clothing stores up to $25. Abington Building Fire 600 PAIRS SHOES Were in this fire. They are the Hamilton Brown American Gentleman Shoes. I bought them from the insurance adjusters. They are $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes. They go on sale with the balance o this big stock at $1.85 and 32.65 The greatest opportunity of the year to buy fine Shoes 800 PAIRS ODD PANTS 800 d C A For choice of best in the land, worth The highest grade lot of Pants ever sold on bona fide fire sale in America; sizes to fit every bodv. 85 for all-wool $2.50 Pants. (I i T All styles, tailpr-made, worth to $6.00. up 350 Young Men's Suits $10 to $20 values, all colors, all styles, in perfect condition, choice $3.85 50c UNDERWEAR 10 25c NECKTIES 1? up to $10. 5 for men's and boys' 50c Caps. 10 for genuine President Suspenders, sold the world over for 50c a pair. SOCKS 8 Cases of Them 1 a pair for regular 10c Socks. 3 for best 15c black and tan Sox. ' 3 10? a pair for regular 25c to 50c black and fancy silk mixed kinds. $1.00 for men's $3, $4 and $5 Hats, all styles. 25 for $1 black sateen Shirts. l for regular 10c white linen Handkerchiefs. 10 for regular 50c Summer Underwear, fancy striped or plain Balbriggan; all sizes. 5 for 50c silk Armbands. Boston Garters will go at 5 a pair. You know what thev are. This Sale will start tomorrow and continue until goods are sold. Don't get my advertisement confused with other fire sales. It will more than pay you to come a little out of your way to attend this sale. ! LEE BERTILLION, MANAGER UNITED MERCHANTS FIRE SALE SIXTH AIND EVERETT STREETS 111 I I mil HHP m IV. l mil KIIM....I. JMMUHIlPi HW! -M . V ...m. .n,r1 RAILWAY TITANS LOCK HORNS FOR BIG PRIZE Those of Canada Determined to Checkmate Plans for In vasion by United States Roads to Secure Middle Xort Invest Traffic. (('Dltrd rrcm Ied Wirt.) Chicago, Auk. 7. Tills fnll and win ter will witnesH the beginning of an International railroad race between the Vnlted States and Canada with the commercial dominance over Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alt.erta as the prize. Word has Just been received here that Canadian railroads, alarmed at the pos Hlblllty of the, great wheat crop of the western provinces being dlvertwd by American lines through the states to the gulf ports, hav determined to pro vide facilities at any cogt.Jo move this Increasingly larpe croo eastward through Ontario and the St. Lawrence river. The completion of the Canadian Nor thern railroad's new line from Toronto to Sudbury. Ontario, It appear Is only the first step In a comprehensive plan which may call for counter action on the part of our Mg western roads. Re ports that the wheat crop of the west ern provinces will be 125.000.oimi bush pis, or the largest In their history, has helped to precipitate matters. Kashlnf Work. This determination by the Canadian railways explains why the Canadian Pacific Is rushing the double-tracking of Its line from wlnnepeg to Fort Wil liam which Is the "r Ic of the bot tle" through which nearly ell the rraln from the "empire of wheat to the west, north and northwest must pass. Most of this doiible-trackirr now Is completed. From Fort William and Port Arthur, the twin cities of Thun der m.y. most of the grain Is poured out of the bottle to go forward In b-vits through I-sVe Superior Ilec-anee the bulk of the grain c-er.ters upon these pirts. the Canadian -ortnm nut built a! Port Arthur the greatest grain ele xator In the world, ont of a canacltr of 7 nnn oflo. bushels. The first hint of Canida'B new In tention w siren In a speech hr an officer of the Canadian Northern at Sudbury when the line was completed to that point early 1M1 month Tbe spleen was not reported at th t!m but sine then it has heeh hrout to th attention of rmlimad mtti In this rlty, who consider It of rreat sign If I cam-. ins speaker legn his remarks b saying that they had now rror4d more than one-third of the dlstaacw on their march tn ooPeet Port Arthur with the (Astern lines of Te Canadian Nor. I hers, iTstem. a&d that ther wul4 oem M running Into Port Arthur erer thtrfr own ral ta or tmr borrowed rails, thus ClrUf to wostorm CanaJU bw avUet for her wheat. He then took occasion to warn Canadians generally that Teat by year the west was becoming more Important to the east than the east to the west and snid additional raljfl alone could prevent the natural com munity of interest of the western provinces and the western statea from breaking up Canadian national unity. "James J. Hill wltii five railway lines." he continued. "Is tapping at the door of western Canada. If western Can ada is not given sufficient outlet through the east for her wheat. Mr. Hill will be admlttel and the wheat will go south to (Jalveston Instead of east to Montreal. Once It Is allowed to cross the International boundary line en route to the Kuropean markets through the Galveston gateway. Mon treal will cease to be the gateway for our west." Fnlly AHts. That the other Canadian railroads are fully alive to this situation wii brought out hy Sir Thomas G. Shaugh- nessy, tbe president and controlling force of the Canadian Pacific railway. In a recent speech at Toronto. "We must establish such relations between the merchants and manufacturers of the east and the merchants and consumers of western Canada as will make the trend of traffic and social Intercourse In Canada east and est." said Sir Thomas "To do this we must rely upon two things first, a strong anil well thought out transportation policy. Hy that 1 do not mean that we should deny the people the right to build rail ways north and south. That would create dissatisfaction, and we do not want that. Iet who will build rallwsvs railroad buildinp that has left the I'nited States behind. The Canadian Pacific began the record of completing its lines In five years from the time the undertaking was commenced and In half the time allowed under the contract with the government. Its great com petitor In the west, the Canadian North ern, has a unique record of having ex tended at thn rnte of a mile a day for 11 years. Canada now has more rail road mileage per capita than any other country on the globe. In spite of the activity In the I'nited States, only 5,874 miles of new road, were added to the total mileage of 222,283 during the last year, or an Increase of ? 58 per oent. I In Canada the total mileage of 21,35.1 was Increased by 1.492 or b.9 per cent. The ratio to population Is still more striking. Mexico has a population twice as great as that of I anada. but omy S56 miles of railroad were laid in Mex ico In 1907, or one nillc to every 38.218 persons of her sn.ooo.ooo. Canada, with only 6.442,581 inhabitants, constructed a railroad mile for evcrv 4.9S0 It Is this record whloli Canada pro poses in the next 12 months to beat Knglneerlng plans and estimates have been made by the three largest rail roads and work Ih aireudy In progress or will be undertaKen In a dozen dtifer ent directions The Grand Trunk Pa cific Is pushing Its line past Saskatoon towards Edmonton with Its eyes fixed on the new harbor of Prince Rupert as the ultimate terminus of the latest transcontinental j'ro.,ert on the conti nent. The Canadian Pacific Is building a secondary line, has already "double tracked" n large part of tl e way be tween Winnipeg and Fort William and win add nw branches and fieders all the way from eastern Canada to Van- cou ver. The Canadian Northern will complete Its link botween Toronto and Port Ar thur Recently It has built two large bridges, one over the Halny river at Fort Frances, on the direct line from Winnipeg to Puluth, the other over the North Saskatchewan at Prince Al bert, where a short line is to extend to Itat tleford. Meanwhile railroad men here are auraken'ng to the fact that every day Is linking eastern and west ern Canada more closely together and only an exceptional display of activity on tbeir part will be able to divert th enormous wheot crop of westtrn Canada through the states to the gulf and wean Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta wt from their commercial allegiance to Montreal and the east Town of Sudbury. in iown or r-u3nury. wnicn is now an Important factor In the Canadian likely contains large deposits of niln-!r-i to this country by returning to United als itself. States Minister Irew Llnard his ex- The new railroad will bring ore from ! -nuatur. Instead of reopening Idnard'a the Moose mountain mines, about 30 j case as requested by the I'nited States, miles north of Sudbury, to Key harbor, i Iiavila refused to consider the matter, trm the international boundary nortu P "1 ,, .. lnKn'r1rcord . a i, .v,. -... i In raiirnad building, as on.'r 20 dsvs before the last tplke wss driven by the Canadian Northern, the Canadian Pa cific railroad opened a new line from Pudburr to Toronto, so that now the town has Its second direct railroad com munication with the manufacturing me tropolis of Canada within a month. Tha Canadian Northern was originally built In two sections, one rur.n'ng west from Port Arthur Into the western wb-at belt, the ethtr situated In ' Vitarto and the eastern provinces Work on the new line has been In progress for the period of a rear and the rails wr run from Toronto to parrr sound through ths picturesque M .skolra lake region and from Parrr sound, to Pudhury It opeawal up will and nigrd part, that abouaida with rtrers and laJres full of f1h aad Is roamed ever by thousand ef rd cloer. asd as It la hrmvediately south of tha n)kal. copper. Iron and iirr tnjaeu mat r.av itroreri to ward Into tbe western provinces westward through them If ther wish them. But let the men In charge of th transportation interests or anada de vote themselves tn sui"-h an improve ment of their properties aa will enafiie them to carry traffic more cheaplv. If possible, than It can ba carried In any r-iner country. "We must endeavor to shortsn the distance between tha Georgian hay and the seaboard, and Improve tha route so aa to make truffle choaper Tear hr year the requisite work should be don without an atfeinpt at unwls economy, tut efficiently and Intelligently, so thst wt may briag to our own country and commercial rea ters all th bbslrteaa of the west that belong to ua, and send hack our merchandise over the aam route. af band thro gti ttir own national tarmlaaJ all th Imports and exports cf tht our try." i Already Cni fcaa Mt .- par fa)i the port which has boeii established on Georgian hay, with an Initial capacity for handling 8,000 tons per day, and which brings Cleveland and other Iron manufacturing cities 500 miles nearer to mines than they were when they had to depend upon supplies via Duluth. The town at the Moose Mountain mines has been called "Sellwood," after the Vice-president of the Moose Mountain Iron company, of which John W. Gatos of New York and Chicago is president. Shipment will begin as soon as the docks are completed, which. It Is ex pected, will be some time In August. Key harbor Is at the mouth of Key In let, about six miles south of the outlet of French river, which will some day be the channel of the Georgian bay en- nal, taking western grain via Iake I Nlplssing and the Ottawa river to Mon treal, saving about 400 miles haulage to tidewater. History Repeated. It ia remarkable that the French river should receive railway service In the year that the tercentenary of the founding of Quebec by Champlain Is being celebrated. The French river was navigated by the French explorer near- ; ly 300 years ago. on his way to stay : with the Huron Indians, prior to a raid ! with them upon the Iroquois south of' St. Lawrence. Indeed Champlain camped i on the site of modern Key hnrbor, ! where some Interesting relics were dis covered when work on the port began a year ago. The whole French river re gion Is a delight for fisherman, cannlst I and camper, and already many Arneri- i Cans who know something of sport in Canada have arranged to spend their! vacation among the woods and rocks I and waters of this hinterland of Geor- f:lan bay The Canadian Northern On arlo lines make access to the French river easy and with the development of mineral traffic from Sellwood to Kev harbor and to Toronto, where a smelter capable of employing 1 5.0-10 men 1s planned, the wilderness through which Champlain passed may become one of the most profitable localities on the continent. jisniisstiifrT it as impossible. Secretary Root will go to Ovster bay to consult with President Roosevelt, and, although Honduras Is not a nation of enough importanoo to make its acts n .,.nMus- n is n;obal)Ie that the dis pleasure of the United States will be Impressed upon Davlla In some manner. Llnard's exequatur was withdrawn because of his effort for a compromise between the- government troops and the insurgents. "Stub" Anderson Not Hurt. (Special Dispatch to Tbe Journal.) Eugene, Or., Aug. 7.- Lake Rerger, whose right leg was broken above the knee yesterday when a team and camp ing outfit went over a grade above Lowell, was brought to Kugene yester day. The report that "Stub" Anderson was hurt wasTi mistake. It was Andy Tay lor whose shoulder was dislocated. The whole camping outfit was badly broken up, but the horses, though rolling down the embankment several hundred feet, were not injured. I I fflc f I A WEEK ' i r-MM ViMl'H A . Ill III 3 B 111 EH I H l: 1 BBIlBksVA t B 1 1 1 B EI II II II II H 1 I ill HIM FIR5T ST. ALL JUST 501)111 OfHORffiON AH!B nFAIBAIWT C All IP In U Mil i n 11 If M .U Ll I l 11 II 3 ILJ M M 0 r.IG DEMAND FOR HARNEY RANCHES (special Ptspatrb to Tb Jonrhnl t Drewsev. or.. Aug 7 William Pom lap of this place recently purchased the Howard lurch, which is located obr.ut one half mile west of here. The ranch Is a 10 acre tract seeded down tn al falfa. The consideration was $1,400. Mr rninlap sold his stock ranch at Juntura . or about two mil's west of Jtrewsey. jo Ed Stallard of Juntura for 13 ooa The ranch ia a 1n acre tract 8ever,l valuable rajr-hes have changed hands In this section this yer B03IBASTES 31 AY GET A SPANKING (Tirittd ITmbi IiiiiI Tk- ) Washington, Aug T. Diplomats bar today ar of th opinion that th only course left for th I'nited States to pursue is to send a gunboat with few oompanlea of marine to Hor-duras to rantonstrata with President tarlU anion 7 ta tie best f th wwtld. It vsry ' fit trday refused t show court NOW IN FULL SWING And the store is featured with bargains. In every line of men's, women's and children's wearing apparel, price cuts have been made from ONE THIRD to ONE HALF. MEN'S SUITS $22.50 latest creations now. $20.00 latest creations now. $17.50 latest creations now. $15.00 latest creations now. LADIES' SUITS $10 to $12 Linen Suits 95.85 $7.50 Washable Suits 92.85 RARE BARGAINS IN FURNISHINGS AND SHOES .$14.85 .$13.85 .$11.50 ,$ 9.75 ; $5.00 Linen Skirts. j $4.00 Linen Skirts. .... $2.35 ?1.75 $3.50 to $4 Lawn Waists $1.75 $2.25 Lawn Waists 91e25 Now is the time to buy, while you can save money. It is your privilege to select what you want a,nd Jiave it charged. , Remember, It Pays to Shop at ! the N. Y. 0. C.