THE OREGON DAILY JQUKNAL, PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1908.
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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.
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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
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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
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j SALESMEN WANTED APPLY AT ONCE
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.