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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 177 1908. '
THREE TIMBER SEEKERS
HAVE NOT RETIIRNEI
MUSICIANS DEAF
SECT'Y BEIISOII
III GOOD HEALTH
Exaggerated Story That the
Official Is in Critical
Condition Denied.
MOREIVORK,SAYS
DEPUTY NORTH
TOBAITOPEAl
TOLD BY TRACKS
With a Young Girl's Body
in a Pond at the End
of the Trail.
BATE INCREASE
1 w-
I ii ion Declines to Recon
sider ()rj)heiun . Scale
Managers Will Stand.
Explanation Given for Enor
mous Increase of Cost of
Assessors' Office.
Officials of Eijrht Eastern
Hallways to Meet at Sar
anac Lake Tomorrow.
TALE Of TRAGEDY
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Youthful Locator Confesses to the Mur
der of One Man, and Sheriff Stevens
Finds Watch and Pocketbook of Vic
tim Where They Were Thrown in the.
Bushes in Marquam Gulch.
If I he Oipheum opens tonight with-
Kxaggc rated reports hicamt current
out an orchestra, every I hem re and i today that Secretary Of Htate Frank
dime show In the city will have nnth- ' tJensoa! la In a critical condition. Ilia life
lug belter t.i offer In th musical line ' depending upon the reault of an opera
all wliuei limn a piano This was
Early In July Wi.l'cr M Johnson.
M-year-old llmbe: io.aior b-k a !"
of nix men lull Washington . uuiai to
show them timber ianJ. J. J- FNch.T.
a curio dealer at Sixth sited '
turned within a few days. Later, 11. I..
Talk, an old soldier of Ieimis. Kan..
allowed up. Last niRht Johnfon signed
hi.. m,s fractured and ti e top of the
; .. i ! v a blown off
.' liiis..Ti ; uur.R w !fc -it.. I t heir little
1.. . lia'. " it room In the Saietn lodging
i... g. ni JiiS's I'roiit Mioi t. Mm. Jolm-.-oii
Is a young :lrl not more than IN;
x . -in old Sh, .-veins to have been1
st aimed l.j the 1 ra Kt-il . When she was
unreel iijioii till nfternoon iit h meet
ing of tlie various theatrical managers
f the i lly.
Musician engaged at the lielllg, llrt-
lur, I.vih. Grand. Star mid Hungslow
unit nt 1'iilm'n innl Lewis' dimo shows
! iin.l nlkelodcons a well. have been
atM'ii nntli'o thut their mi vices will not
! hi needed, two weeks from Inst Thurs
jditv. "I'll I a was done at that time In
anticipation of trouble over the Oi
phcutn opening.
I ho iiiiuui musicians had no fixed
i. (,-. fn u t hunt re ot llie urpntiiini
' .1 l - mt U.n"! ITpan.,1.,..
for cancer of the stomach, 'but these
reports appear to be utterly unfounded
At the office of the secretary of state
In Salem It la stated In the most em
phatic terms fhat Mr. Benson Is In his
usiihI health; that he Is In Ban Fran
cIsco for k brief vacation, and that
there is not the slightest cause for the
sensational story that Is In clrcuia
tlon.
8. A. Koser, deputy In Mr. Benson's
office, said tills afternoon
"Mr. Kenson went to an Francisco
S confession admitting that he had mm li.
ii this morning she was holdinn th
niti'sliiK baby In her arms Heated
on
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:,liii-lllt
rty. ,
dered Elmer Perdue.
The other tlnee have
plelely.
Whether an Investigation will reveal
that the missing iiieinb. rs of Johnsons
tartv met with Perdue s fate or nm
mi
n
iinmnde bed In the midst of squalor
onruslwn. pin stared at the floor
liber answered not at nil or in
iS 1 1 a 1 1 i i M.
nobody can tell but It is the b. lief ot i
Will Knows Nothing-.
' Jlv huslmi d told me nothing of his
dn;!-. bhc Paid. "1 don t know what
to think. I don't know whether It's
not. lie was a good husband
when thev were usked to put partly for a vacation and partly to con
suit a physician mere in regara 10 a
sllirht affection Of his nose which has
been troubling htm ror aome months.
His family ale at Gardner. Or., and
there Is not the least foundation for any
rumor that he la to undergo a serious
operation or that his life Is In any dan
ger.
"Pome time ago he underwent the
ittv no more trsn inai. i u..- un miun . --.. - - - - - - -
wh romm.iiil.ai.d to the Musicians' his nosa and received benefit from it
ni,.n with the rvsult that a meeting but when the treatment was suspended
....... .i.i. ,,.iii r,p iii. nurnose for. a time the trouble was renewed.
of reconsidering the rpheuni price lint. He decided to consult a San Francisco
Hut It ns nt rt onsldored. and unless I physician) while on this vacation trip
,, tv..Mii.r U urilllliied for IhlS Brier- rum miumm iiu uuuui. iiii imi
In an or. I.esu.i ot 10 men the noaru or
.1 ri'i'lm" K"1 logejher and fixed Miliu
ms at $!.'. pet week for side rnusLcluns,
the leaders salary to be fixed by the
maniiKOinont and himself.
Ti e Grand Star and other houses
t.liiyinK two performances a day are
niivint li'T a week for side men, Hnd
the Mtilieiiin ninnauerH declare they will
Hut 1 knew nothing of this
thing-
Johnson told the sheriff that his wife
knew nothing of tr.o cane and that he
had told no one else of II
ilo.s not boliuve that Mrs
both Fischer amir Park that the othe
were murdered by Johnson for tin It
money. Owe of them, a prosperous-appearing
pawmin limn, is Known to imsi
'had ii considerable amoui.t of money
on his person at the time he was last
wen. The two others were Swedes and
their names are unknown.
-Johnson- was arrested by Phertff
George C. Hancock of Washington coun
ty while eating omner m me loh, ,..1sp ,,f Kr 1;Ls flrs, ,r.,i Illtttion as
restaurant at Grand and Haivthoi at i t r, y f rom Fischer the Portland
avenues last night. He was taken t sfattoWrr't.o' liaT"1)een one oT'john-
tne county Jan ana alter a tnree-nouis s,,,,'s original partv. Fischer wrote
cross-examination by Sheriff Stevens ,i. rifr B...i i.,id him that lie thought
itne niis.-ing mlllman might ha'e h.en
the iersn whose bodv had been found.
noon by the tmaiil oi uirecioia. inc
pheum artists will have to appear minus
the Hi'coini.unlnient of the strings, reeds,
drums and brass.
The tin at re managers, according to a
The sheriff statement given out this afternoon, will
Johnson was stand united to the last .men in saving
given rise to the story that he is suf
ferlng from cancer.
"The story is not true. Mr. Benson
la in his usual health and spirits and
such false reports about him are un
warranted." Inquiry In other quarters elicited sim
ilar statements from friends who are
awar" or wnal had liappeneo. it 1H uie i i inieun. in;... .ia,.., j - familiar with Mr R.ninn'i rnnriltlnn nt
said, howev,,, that he had planned to. higher scale than the. cheaper houses, j ""' r wltn Mr "enson s condition of
, . . - i. . ,. i. I -T-li.... I Ku I I l,a n 1 1 1, 1 1 P W ill hpll r W ITU I ,i. at
iea nir aiitiiKU uiis weva.
Since the disVov. ! - of Purdue's bad-
i 1- decomposed hodv In the woods nar
. Huxton f iieriff ianeo k of Washlng
' ton counlv luig. ben working on the
and Deputies lonard and Wood made
a confession In which he said that Ic
had Shot Perdue, in self-defense, had
dragged the body several hundred feet
through the "brush and hidden it by
heaping it with brush and rolling a loi
upon it.
Rifled Body of Victim.
Before taking the body from the hnnsi
I he sheriff wrote back a.sklng lor a
description of the millman and sending
one of the recovered nod. Fischer
and Park recognized the description of
1 the height of the body and or a ring
found on one of the fingers which nia.ln
it certain that the dead man was Per-
i due.
Ife said he rifled the pockets, taking J13a
In money and a watch and pocketbook Running Down Murderer.
ith. tSTT 1LUlBo,thlnKS he Pockets ( wm, hj ag garter. Unnco, k be-
VLlSh.b,?i,,ereH't r.",''1 1 K l!'e "rk of tracing down Johnson,
find these things last night and led the. Uu..- ih,.v well ami wan M on
eriff to Marquam gulch, near the ,..,.,,. ' ( .,,-, ..,,. ,k,. na
crossing, of First .street. it was too , Johnson on the street! fol-
dark to find them last night but Sheriff
Ktevens and l'eputy Slierirr Leonard
searched the gulch this morning and lo
cated the pocketbook and knife In a
clump of blackberries bushes. He also
'.found the rifle which Johnson used to
shoot Perdue and which bad been re
turned to its owner in Portland.
lowed her for a while and then asked
the assistance of Sheriff Stevens.
Deputies Leonard and Wood were put on
the case and watched Mrs. Johnson.
They found that at flrt he had been
living at Harrison Court, at Fifth and
Harrison. Thev learned that although
he had been without money when he
DISSENSION Oil
W D Y
' Johnsons only motive for the murder Kinrte,i oui on his locating trln
.appears to have been robbery, although i j,e had paid Fischer and Park's ex
he states in his confession that he and penses on their trip and had spent a
Perdue quarreled a,nd that Perdue good deal tf money since the Fourth of
reached for his revolver, circumstances I July. Then thev lound that he had
point strongly to the young tlmberman j moved to the Salem bouse near Front
having attacked his client while he was i and Madison streets and had later gone
asleep, stunned him with .1 Munt weapon to the enst side.
and then shot him. When the body of Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Hancock
Perdue was found several weeks ago the' was in Portland and met Mrs Johnson.
They trust that the public will bear with
i hem nn.i he satisfied ith the runs and
trills on a piano, the manipulator of
which, the union musicians promise, wfil
have to he nonunion. I'mier the union
rules It will be impossible for the plano
Jil4Jers to retain their positions.
At the meeting' of the musicians
this morning George I.. Baker, presi
dent of v the theatre managers' associa
tion, explained that It would be a los
ing proposition for the urpheuon circuit
to include Portland and for that reason
he thought the musicians should be as
lenient as possible. The musicians,
however, contend that every business
is more or less of a losing proposition
from the start and they can see no
better reason why they should reduce
the valie- of their services since it was
not likely that the performers would
quote the Orphcum special rates be
cause of Portland being now on the circuit.
Possibly ft meeting win oe neiu mis' fi-if.a Pi- ni
Afternoon bv the contesting parties and c. .'', ,.'.,,.
a truce declared to permit of further! San Francisco. Aug. 17. According to
negotiations, although the theatrical j William B. Jack, one of the members of
managers declare that they will not the amateur 'crew that sailed the yawl
arbitrate or recede from the posit on ,., . - .,
already announced. So far as they nr0 Gwendolyn II from flan Pedro to Hono
concer'ned they seem to be. willing to lulu on the trans-Pacific, yacht race and
try the piano 'on 'its merits and fix the hater from Honolulu to Hllo, the little
n'bomimolanwin be thrown '1 will have some rough weather be
out of employment unless the notices fore she gets to Pugct sound on the re
cancelling their engagements be abro- j turn voyage. Jack, who arrived here
Kitedj j today on the Pacific MaiP'Tiner Man-
j i churiu says Captain Redferfr Is respon-
followed her across the Madison I s"" ior ranoi ion oi luuimv
Member of Crew Charges
Captain Kedferd AVith
Swellhead.
Unusual growth of population Iti Mult
nomah county, the Increase of building
and the number of personal taxpayers
are given by "Deputy County Assessor
North as chief factors for the great
Increase In the cost of conducting tne
assessor's office for the last few years.
He expresses the opinion that the a"-)
sessor's work has grown In greater pro
portion than the work of other county
offices, with which comparison was
made In the Sunday Journal.
In explanation of the $4,700 Jump In
the cost of the office for the first six
months over the last six months of 1007,
Deputy North asserts that a greater
roportion or tne worn naa oeen aone
urlng tne first hair or the year man
usual. The record of coat for five years
past shows that the expense has al
ways been greatest In the second half.
but Mr. North has hopes that the last
six . months of 1008 will not be so heavy
as the first six. A big force of field
deputies on personal tax work was put
in tne field earlier than usual, ne says.
Mr. North also explains that the cost
of checking t p Improvements has great
ly grown. He says that plats for the
use of the Sheriffs office force have
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He followed her across
bridgi to the London coffee house,
where Johnson was waiting for her.
Here Hancock arrested Johnson and
took him over to the county Jail.
For three hours Sheriff Stevens cross
examined Johnson, trying to trap him.
Johnson told a perfectly straight story,
said he had gone out with the party,
had showed them the, timber land and
had gone back as far as Forest Grove
w th t'i rclue. wncre ne naa leu nun. ,l. -i..4i . c t-.
Then the sheriff compared some of his ; , before the start of the trans-
Pacific race from San Francisco, July
vessel will get across the ocean with
out muoh trouble.
Jack left the Gwendolyn II at Hllo
after she had made the race down from
Hllo, after an altercation with Captain
Redfern, In which Jack received a cut
over the eye with a belaying pin. He
has his head in a bandage from his ex
perience.
According to ma story, tne trouble on
statements with others, wound the sus
nect no and Kot a confession within a
few minutes.
Murdered in Cabin.
Johnson slated that ho and Terdue
spent the night of July 3 in the little;
cabin near where Perdue' 8 body was
afterward discovered by a farmer's
I bov. He said that berore Perdue got ,
! up' in the morning they had a quarrel
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over monev nm. i.-i .1. . ' I'liio ni'.ftiiifi
that Johnson had tricked him into tak-'
lug up the wrong claim, and that. Per- 1
fue reached behind his bed to secure
ark's revolver. Then Johnson reached
lor his rifle and shot Pm due dead. He
rifled the pockets, dragged the body by.
the feet to a little gi.!rh, secreted it I
and then isvide his wuj back to Port- :
'land by a roundabout p-ine.
There was no remorse in Johnson's
I manner after having told the story, and
i he seemed ..relieved to have 1; ,,ff his
mind. He Mnn taken to liillshnro this
; morning on the 7:1," trait, l.y Sheriff.
I J Iuncock. ,
! Very Hltle is known r. f perdue. John-1
! son's victim. It is fald that lie was a
j young man who had com,, to Portland
! from Spokane, but that his home was
1 In North Carolina. The sheriff is trv
j lug to locate his relatives , r friends.'
Johnson Is the smi of " 'haries M.
I Johnson who kept a saloon jn Cornelius
for some years. He has been a Ri.ionn-
Keeper, nartenuer ami tinnier locator.
: with no fixed homo. Ills wife Is. a
I daughter of Itller Thomas of Xehalern.
; She expects to go back her parents.
4. He alleges that Captain Redfern at
tacked Ed Russell, one of the members
of the crew, who is a cripple, and ho
Interfered. Redfern's attitude resulted
In a state of mutiny on board the yawl,
says Jack, but this was carefully hidden
both on the Pacific coast and in Hono
lulu. Jack arrived on board the Gwendolyn
at the last minute on the day she sailed
from Hllo and was attacked bv Red
fern. After the fight. Jack left the
yawl und Captain Redfern started back
to Puget sound with only Dean and
Fred Johnson and Ed Russell to help
him sail the vessel.
"Unless Dean Johnson makes up his
mind to appoint Redfern absolute cap
tain of the boat and to defer to him in
everything, there will surely be trouble
before the Gwendolyn II reaches Puget
sound," says Jack today. "Redfern Is
put out because Dean Johnson got aome
of the cremt ror navigating tne yacnt
across the Pacific."
been made by a deputy In the assessor's
office, and joints out that the cost of
tne ooara or equalisation is cnargea to
the assessor's office, because that is
the handiest nlaoe to charge It. This
apparently does not affect the compara
tive figures given in the Sunday Journal
as the cost of equalisation has been
charged to the assessor since 1905.
Mr. North states that when there Is
bo exemption on personal property the
cost of the office Is Increased about
threefold while the work is being done.
Every man has to he assessed. If he
has only 15 worth. This also has little
application to the criticism now being
directed at the assessor's office, for the
reason that in the time from 1904 down
to the present time there was only one
year when there was an exemption on
personal property. That was in 1906,
when every head of a family was enti
tled to Immunity on $300 north of
goods.
in spite ot the exemption in i06.
however the cost of the office Increased
nearly $400 dver 1904, when there waaj
no exemption, ana in inuo, wnen there
was no exemption, It Increased about
$1,200 over 1905. This shows that the
exemption for the one year did not
stop the increase of expense, or cause
any large fluctuation. In 1905 some ad
ditional expense was entailed bv the
taking of the census, but this cost was
not all Imposed on the assessor's office.
As shown by the figures given in the
Sunday Journal, the cost of the office
of the assessor shows 199 per cent in
crease for the first six months of the
present year over the first six months of
1903, while In the offices of the sheriff,
county clerk and tax collector the In
crease has been about 60 per cent. Fig
ures can be given showing that within
this time there has been an enormous
expansion in the business done in these
offices, some departments in greater ,
.proportion than In the assessor's office, i
In 1903 there were 3,148 pages In th j
county tax roll. In 1907 there were :
4.148 pages, an Increase of about one-
third, rtr 32.5 per cent. If the Increase
in COTl III LI1C BBOCODMI n "(li-O r- IISU UCTCII j
at the same ratio as in the offices with '
which comparison Is made, It would j
have cost $8,264 to have conducted it '
for the last six months, instead of $16,
474.22. County Assessor Slgler Is out of the
city on vacation, and Deputy North i
spoke for the office today for this rea
son. Mr. North said that he had Just
been congratulating himself on getting
the work In the office so far along, and
he figures that the assessor has done
unusually well this year. He says that
he and many of the deputies have
worked nights on extra time, free of
cost to the county, and he is informed
that Spokane, with haJf the population
of Portland, spends $80,000 per year for
Its county assessor.
(United PreM Leased Wlrs.l
Palmer. Mass., Aug. 17. With
man's footprints as their only clue the
detectives today are trying to solve the
mystery about the murder of Faith
Davis, a 15-year-old girl, whose body
was found In a mlllpond here yester
day.
At first It was thought the girl had
committed suicide, but a careful search
revealed the footprints of a man ac
conipanytng hers along an unfrequented
road leading to the pona.
There are Indications In the foot
prints that the man forced the girl to
accompany mm and s.scrai times tney
apparently engaged In a struggle. Care
ful Impressions aro being taken of the
man's tracks. Th girl probably was
mistreated and then drowned.
CENTURY AND A HALF
FOR NOVA SCOTIA
(Special Dlapatch to Th Journal.!
Halifax. N. 8 , Aug. 17. Todav ush
ered In a week or ceieuration or great
Interest to Nova Scotia In particular
and to the Dominion In general. The
celebration Is to mark the one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the estab.
Ushment of parliamentary government
in Nova Scotia, and is at the same time
an obaervance of the establishment of
the first like government in the Brit
Isli empire. Persons prominent In the
off rla life or nearly all or the can
adlan provinces are arriving here to
take part in the ceienration.
The celebration proper will begin
Wednesday and continue through the
remainder or tne wee. The unveti
ing of a monument commemorating the
event will be one of the features and
thre will be Interesting historical ex
ercises held In the Provincial building.
BANK CHANGES ITS
PLACE OF BUSINESS
The Mount Scott bank has filed a
certificate of change of place of busi
ness from I'nlon. In Union county, to
Lents. August Franke is president of
the bank and J. C Law is secretary.
The Union County bank, also of Un
ion, has filed articles of Incorporation,
with a capita! stock of $5,000. The in
corporators are H. S.. F. N. and M. S.
Iyers.
(United Press Leasad Wlra.)
Saranao Lake, N. y., Aug. IT. Of
ficials of eight railways. Including the
president and vice-president of the moat
Important lines In the United States,
re reported to be en route here today
to attend a conference to bo held to
morrow at the cottage of W, C. Brown,
managing vice-president of the Illinois
Central. The conference was called for
the purpose of solving the problem of
a general advance In freight rates.
Preparations for the conference were
made very quietly and It was not until
today that news of the proposed meet
ing became generally known.
NEIGHBORHOOD ROW
AMICABLY SETTLED
The case against George Pedelty,
charged with an attempt to kill, was
dismissed In the municipal court this
morning and the plaintiff, E. B. Baby,
was ordered to pay the coats of court,
amounting to $5.
Pedelty was arrested on a rh.rr
that last Saturday afternoon he attacked
Mrs. gaby. Her -husbanrl -'drew a'-revolver
In an attempt to mak p.h.Iiv
stop heating the woman, but he kept
on. Mrs. Baby now claims, however,
that she and Pedeltv hnd hsd a row
and both had lost their tempers. Shs
and her husband appeared before the
court this morning and aaked to have
the case dismissed, saying that Mrs.
Saby was as much at fault as Pedeltv.
fhe Sabys offered to nav the coats of
court, and the Judge accordingly dis
missed the case.
YOUTH DIES OF WOUND
FROM AN OLD TIST0L
Martin Schoonover, the 1,7-year-old
boy who was shot by his brother near
Eprlngbrook Thursday morning, died In
St. Vincent's hospital todav of his
wound. The bullet had entered young
Schoonover's groin and Injured ,hlni so
that the surgeons were unable to save
his life. Young Schoonover was shot
while he and his brother were playing
with an old revolver which thev sun-
posed to be unloaded. It was rusty and
had not been discharged for years.
NEW EILERS MUSIC BUILDING
DECLINES TO PAY
FOR CHILD'S KEEP
DAUGHTER TO CONTEST
PRINCE DAVID'S WILL
THUG HAY HAVE
SHOT MILKMAN
(Srerlil I Isrut-h to TtiB Jouranl )
Forest G-.-.e it. A'lg IT- I.ylrg r.
p. pool of l.i- (if. I. ..!. n,.bert Woods
(TnitKl Preaa Leased Wire.)
Honolulu, Aug. 17. Much Interest Is
centered here about the contest of the
will of the late Prince David Kawana
nakoa. who died about three months ago
leaving a large estate. The great bulk
of his property was left In the hands
of John F. Colburn. an attorney who
has charero of the Kaololanl estate.
It Is now believed that Prince David's
daughter. Princess Kawananakoa, will
enter a contest. At the time his will
was filed much comment was excited by
the fal that the daughter was not
made an heir to any portion of the
estate c V. Ashford. also represent
ing the Kaololanl estate, petitioned to
have the will probated and It Is thought
bv frieiv's of the prince that an effort
Is being made to combine the two
estates in one.
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Denton D. Coffey, former county as
sessor of Marlon county, was before
Judge Webster in the county court this
morning on a charge of non-support of
his little daughter. The child Is liv
ing with Its mother, who is cashier In
a down town hotel. Mrs. Coffey was
granted a divorce from Coffey In Feb
ruary, 1 907, and he was then ordered to
pay $10 per month for the, support of.
tne -cnna. ne marriea again witnin a
short time and has never paid anything
as ordered by the court. Coffey did
not take the stand in his own behalf,
and the defense seemed to he directed
to an effort to show that Mrs. Coffey
Is able to take care of the child herself.
Judge Webster will decide the matter
tomorrow morning.
Mrs. J. H. Llttlejohn gave a peppery
account of her husband's conduct In
falling to provide for herself and two
children, 12 and 11 years of age. The
testimony showed that they have had
many Jars and have been living apart
tdnee March. Their home has bn a
scow at the foot of East Main street. :
Llttlejohn asserted that he has been
out of work much of the time and hag
only been able to earn enough to sup- I
port himself.
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W'o,
isln
tltlons asking the county court to
k'a-' the application or H. S. Kelsay
f.o a franchise for water and gas mains
r "he Mount Scott district were filed
w'th the court todav. The names of
f'.'i residents of the Mount Scott ter
t toiv are attached The hearing on the
e .ft- has been set for 8.ntmS.r It
remonstrances are being circulated In ! cabinet would not interfere with the
bo-:
d t 1
KKXTl'CKV XFi.I.'O
SAVED KY JAIU
" position to the Kelsay project and will
I. presented later.
MAGOOX TO TELL .
T. R. ABOUT CUBA
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and p-r- ips a ra. e is: ,r
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manded the ne?rn. Tr.p u
; them that he til Ie. n t.-i'
hioted at hirn and snil
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rts'l'r the n an
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Horxsby and reported th.
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N!t.-i P"ei! n e ::: '
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.United Ifeaa IMnl Wire)
Havana. Cuba, Aug. 1 7 Governor
Maecion with Captain J A. Ryan of
! Fifteenth ravalrv. will leave tr-
YOUNG TURK MADE
lfTVTorrrii fTi if Portland is the home office arrd ead-
MIN1SIEK Or UAI! 1"rltr for ,he filers music business.
which of late years has grown Into what
Is unquestionably the largest and fore
(Unlted Praaa Leawd Wlra ) most ratall business In the United
Constantinople. Aug. 17. Osman Nlz- HtAlea ITilera atoreK are located in CV-
aml Pasha was today appointed by the ery important western Amrlcan city.
aultan aa minister or war to succeed including San Francisco
Redjeb Fasha. wno oieo yeaterday. Th in Portland the firm owna splendid
new minister Is a member of the Young wholesale facilities at Thirteenth and
Turk party. The leaders of the party Northrup streets situated on the rail
announced today that the change In the road trarlts- besides Its retail estab
lishment on Washington street, hut In
;th- liny City th entire business la con
centrated In one building
Before the big fire the fillers Interests
in San Francisco were housed in the
beautiful History building, on Market
street. After the catastrophe temporary
quarters were -"secured by t he firm on
Van Ness avenue, along with nearly
every other tan Francisco mercantile
Institution Now a magnificent flght-
atorv. firerronf. "C lass A building has
Magnificent new building for the Eilers music business to be fot
mally opened in San Francisco next month. The next largest
concern of its kind in the Bay City could be comfortably con
tained below the second floor of this building.
reforms, aa was atated yesterday.
GOVERNMENT TO BUY
BALDWIN'S BALLOON
(Till ted Praaa Leaad WL-a
Washington. Aug. 17. It was an
nounced here today that Captain Bald
ins oingioie nanoon win r pur
o-ua-ere
t.-laj
r rr, eel
re.iH
't p-.r-
'r.d",
kv i' -.r rfaninmeni to i'i.n ben comDletd for the firm on Market
rrow fnr New York and will m n . arH that conrreaa will be aakeH ' t r street, between the two largest depart-
ivster Bay at the Invitation of Pres- fioo.oen with which to build other air- mn' Mores In that city
ahlpe of similar pattern. i n nuiining wuri ine nam- ri in
The announcement by Major Squires bona, ar.d haa a frontage of SO feet and
that Captain Baldwin's balloon has ful- l over 170 fet in depth The main floor
filled all requirements netermined the contains a isrsa srea ior me mspinr or
-.t Roosevelt, who wants to talk over
unan situation with thm.
(HL DIVIDEND
SIX PER SHARE
'frtta Preaa Leaa1 Wlra t
New York Aug 17 The standard Oil
sale.
lUd Man Caught With lawao.
(Ualt4 Prias Leaawi Wtra.l
Ix Angeles. CaJ.. Aua 17 M RuU.
- , . - n la in rrlKrn riara f m m k - .
mpanv oi Nw Jersey today declared Ing leen laas'el tijr a fallow count ri--
d'.!-ie-.l r.' m r.,r share1 for th miir. I man after ahoottng and probebi. fatally
dnd was Ji
1 preceding quarter! ,dl vi-
" iBtoo. D. C, After
v.. TSIo Claims, $o '
Jloiwon. Mrs Kk
Ux Cutoroe,
rtlr R(: uml to
. 'in ' v' " T.'k v.
i Coual" ' Cm t .
. jbnd . . Mr. iio.
l-;orT.abv was . rr-at-l .,
swred the r-'rtr loi f: t r v t:-.'.
girl's f'ther Tie r'- cfni t-'
r oiise snd tHid the ( tu.r, T '.e i . . r
'heard her arwiitii and raaha-i ir. ,r.
j room la time to the regro as h ran.
Hr Horn In W(h-l
Edward M Hob-
- in Rl hmcir.ej P. n.,n A Thun. Ci Grove
., a Wife Fian a Suit ! Orrel liarteeii T.
( Clark L, Par rax, 114 2 B'lront street.
a nd
1 It. akcd rgKaa, Late JsfacltayMs,
Trraanry Statement,
it'iaitee PYvaa Lraaad Wlra I
Washington. Aug 17. The treasury
statement today shows: Receipts, $2 -014.
SIS. disbursements, $1.11,0M.
Stun hj BtMdartL
From the St. Louis Post-Etpatch.
C'nc a year RiandaM Oil awrvea e
jbenirn purpose. wbn petroleum is ud
J te kill off raoewltoee. The rest ef the
L i.M . ' maiiire room. r.urf room.
hV,r.nP TiT. list lHl'rm. tanlng-room. locien
e n erma n lata last ntgnt. waa i h . i.iMkM,.
.me of a dispute ow frd. After t'nT?J .rnA, '''fF'
rrand and upright pianos, also the gen
eral offlclea and various private offices
for managers and officers of th firm.
A commodious Talking Machine Iepirt
ment la also to be found on this floor.
wrilch la lo-ovlng s decided Innpvation.
In that It la built sound-proof and en
tlralr of plate glass
( n the mexsanlne floor Is found the
malllnr rnom. r.lirg-room. stool end
locjters for em-
tlon. ete.
wounding Robert Oercla The shooting
which
near
.a-iM hut was held br Ber-.l lnfri. ma rr Iflc-nt fire and burglar-proof
U.ilrin. n nm fit ahnm car..,,. mA vault
hlrn with the aid ef a laaeo
Arthhort ClleaL
RIchaM Martin Jr has bgtin er1t is
which will srive ample security to
Uie rompeny's books and records.
rfpon the rx floor Is the sxttna
WKere most' ef the retail ptajre awlltng
prorlded for the rariiaiB makes of tn-
the rtrrult court against la y Ixmtnl i wrruinents carried In stock. A separate
for 11.7111. aliased to he du t I rrlT baa nlmn heoai at aside for the
fleas sn4 rcircaUor. for huildinsa I wonderful Welte Mlrnon, and fnr the
it which It la a 1 )d Lombard Sirred par)aas fcleetrle Piano Hre are sjee
a tbT the Sum aeecinsd. lai I art tha ailaaa a-MterjIl inn atlaa
The third floor Is taken up by a large
concert hall, and bv a small recital hall.
The large concert hall la furnished with
a stage .and permanent seats, and Is
equipped with a self-playing Tubular
Pneumatic Kimball Pipe Organ, a Con
cert Grand Piano, a Wells self-playing
home Orchestrion, and the Mlgnon Ar
tist reproducing piano. The smaller re
cital hall la arranged ao that it will
serve as a piano display room when Tiot
otherwise occupied. A hall Is also pro
vided for the display of Orchestrions
and Pipe Organs.
The fourth floor Is devoted to the
wholesale Piano and Organ department,
and the firth floor is for storage. The
remaining floors in the building have
bean sublet to various commercial in
terests. The entire Market street front
age of the building wss arranged Into
suites of magnificent private offices.
The building la supplied with a mod
ern passenger elevator on the Market
street frontage, and a very large freight
elevator on th rear, or Stepheneon
street side, haa been Installed. All de
livery and receiving Is handled from the
Stephenson street, frontage, where also
a sidewalk elevator Is connected with
th basement, which Is ten feet In the
clear, and 1 1 a large stse makes It an Im
portant adjunct for the establishment.
Here sre located the various repair de
partments, varnlahlng-rooms. packlng
rooma and reneral storage ouartera
Evervthlng that Is up to date Is con
tained In this building, and It Is both
feard and hoped bv the Portland estab
lishment that very shortly now the sales
of tha Ban FYannotsco Institution will
erai tbe enormous record that Port
land has road and Is snaking. For many
rear the -Portland establishment haa
fswn far In the lead of all the other
Ellera Houes In point of sales. This
iwmilT obtained, which showed that k-
otm or an in ri i,"ii .oi-iii.iiii nia
r.
r
i
r".
If
ic
;
will K dona Hpeial rooms have berMOrtr last year the Etlers Piano Hue
handled enrer 71 rer cut a rery si ml ft.
raet Indication thst the puWIe renerally
rex-ognfse the tos1tion ef tbe firm to fur
nish ss It advertises, "the most Intrln
etn piano value at the ieweat possible
cye-t t he lm?T.".