The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 23

Lace Cartains and Draperies Special lot TAPESTRY PORTIERES. fringed bottom and top, in all the new 0l y er shown for less than $375 and $400. Special 52 75 this week, per pair.......... . TCE LACE NET CUR- 1 new choice patterns, large #0 goo Regular 95 week, per pair. 1 this This week all the TAPESTRY POR- TIERES. worth $20 8 to $27 00, and never sold yfnr less, will go; all new novelties, oS in ' solid cclors.m$l7.50 IRISH POINT LACE CURTAINS, elected new patterns in 50 8. worth $12 00. WHITE COTTON LOOPS. Spe- Tfim BSi"asoo renge of selections Spy bile they last... clal during this week's great Stam- pede Sale .......c.ocevvniinsionncnnes ON _RODS, MUSLIN CUR- . durable mnovel- Cy—Or per TS MONEY % /o IN EXCHANGEFoR £ DOUBLE WALUES & PATTOSIENS Sc| THE N S - Sideboards In variety of patterns from the modest yet commodious style to the mammoth palatial affair, we have them all. Such {a cut in prices makes it worth one’s | while to buy now, even if you won’t | need a sideboard until later. | | | There is an air of elegance and gran- deur about one that we must sell $15.00 cheaper than its value. All the drawers and compartments are arranged in an ideal manner. Finest grain . of Golden Oak. We used to $49 00 | get $64.00 for it. Now. = | It may be that the rest of your furni- ture is more in keeping with a handsome Oak one we carry with a high polish. The design is modern and at- ‘gacli\' ; cut from $28.50. $23.00 AR R It is seldom the privilege is offered to | get the value we are offering in this line ‘ot goods. We have them worth $100.00 | now selling for $50.00 and the $20.00 values go foT...... X | This Creat Sale, rorc:d «n us by cred.tors, has been the mea s «f making one ter-doller bill as big as a 20-do.12r bill in its pur- chasing powe~, Hall Trees Pretty, substantial GOLDEN OAK RACK, 'with mirror and um- $5 15 rella holder, good value ai $6.50, cut to s A more elegant pattern, with bevel- edged French-plate mirror, cut from $8.00 to $6.25 The METAL TREE. in dead black, cut from $4.50 to $2'35 Most elegantly designed and solidly con- structed plece, with wide seat and French-plate mirror, quar- $14 50 o ter-sawed oak, $17.50 to. . The many styles we show range in prices up to $90.00. They have been cut * $15.25 The kind for hanging on the wall have all been marked down to stampede prices. ;1‘]53' ,gsoml;xo;\;]daa low as $17.00, $4.00 Folding Beds With full-length mirror, bevel- edged, French plate, a stately BED has always all to pieces on price. e goes now for. $20.00 value and ornamental UPRIGHT in Quartered Oak, at sold for least real barg: A:-' o Epeantiful SMYRNA RUGS. EAUTIEUL KISH PAT- NS in famous er ain price for sold better, richer Rug, T 7. 2x6 feet. with border wool face, - : Or these elegant $27.50 $oisETE SELS RUGS 2 ? feet, there is a pi € saving to 3 the buyer ust $5 @ WILTON v TS som pattern e price where s 31.50. o 5 gm Suifs 3 eds be along this line 1t will t to your advantage to sec 1= 4 be ioliy to throw away we can du- to y Here tor a MH5 00 suit for a 119 00 suit 87 50 suit 81 00 suit 65 0 suit 45 00 suit 41 00 suit : lower until vou EN OAK suit, " $23.00 Parior Furniture Z11 Made in Cur Own Factory OR SUIT. handsomely $31.00 A$0.00 ?ARLS%SHLB har'lw\i-cur\'el : $22.50 PARLOR SUIT, finely poi- with a ncat iniafd 518.75 upholstered n fine Price BOW....ccceen A $30.00 DIVAN, full sweep back, heavy hand-p ed framcwork, upholstered in Frenc tapesiry. Price now. . 00 &fikRL R SUIT. handsomely ed s, bar $18.00 upholster 4 3220 PARLOR P?C%EB, very nice- olstere polishéd, up, $]6.50 Price now A $119.99 PARLOR SUIT, heavy hand- carved frame, very substantial and up- holstered in best grade of plush. silk velour or panne By $65.00 4 35100 PARLOR ARM CHAIR. band-polished, uphoistered seat in silk damask. Price > BOW «.ocovesrrriorresbesssbins A $6.00 PARLOR WINDOW CHAIR. >, uphoistered $3.7s A $15.00 DIVAN, with a genuine crotch makogany ~back, ~uphol- stered spring seat. ce 5 now e It pays to trade in the Ilission, MORE NOW THAN EVER BEFORE. [ $100, now $85.00 One with quite as much ele- gance, and constructed to give absolute satisfac- $61 75 . A pattern that has always sold tion, worth $75. for $50.00, in black mahogany, with large = g T There never was such a bar- $24.7 3 worth $35 0o } THEIS SIDEEOARD is one of !the GREATEST BARGAINS in |our s‘ore tc-day. It is a better article than ycu can get anywhere for $35.00. We have plenty of | ttem, but we want the money, and a FETCHING PRICE has be:n | put upon them. The drawers are i gragefully bowed in three swells |and the Icckers at the basz are | commodicusly large, The supports of the side and top shelves are | crnamented wiih rich carvinos; | French plate b:ve'ed mirror, 16x | 28 inches; base 22x45 inches. At | this week’ssale oniy ..$24.75 Get your money out of the Savings Bank to-day. You get |} abzut 3 p:rcent for it there. Put |} int> anything we offer tc-day |§ and you make 20to 40p:zr cent. The price of furnitur: is going up in l:aps and bounds. This, then, is a finarcia! problem that ocught to interest you. Metal Bed | .One of our latest arrivals at the Big Store is a line of METAL BEDS right from the factory. You can get what your fancy dictates around $50.00 or more, and | if you must go lower, or the pattern suits better, we can sell them at $4.00, and even lower. Maple Bedroom Suits three pieces and are going to cost. They come in without regard $47.00 for a $54.00 Suit 57.00 for a $68.00 Suit 64.00 for a $75.00 Suit $72.50 for a $85.00 Suit $80.00 for 2 $95.00 Suit £110.00 for a $140.00 Suit $111.00 for a $14500 Suit $157.00 for a $200.00 Suit And they go as low as $24.00, $21.00, $25.00, $37.00 and $19.75, zain as the $35.00 EL BED in_Golden Oak, " which we are selling during this $24 Oo . sale at onl; We have them in every con- ceivable pattern and make, some in the appearance of BOARDS, BUFYETS PIANOS. The Piano pattern is LR i $51“75 Dressing Tables one of these dainty In every put into execution. It is the one heart is set on. These Stampede prices make them within reach. . We show for this $2300 s L " - lovely Birdseye Maple Table, French plate mir- rors,” possessing all requisites in such an article. Former price, $28.50. 1$26.00 | eve maple; marked down from $32.00. { In MAHOGANIZ $14.00 BIRCH, nice enough Ef:tg | the old price. $37.50 nothing looks nicer than . this work; all conven- iences. This Dressing Table always (gold GOLDEN OAK of marked | for $4i.00. beauty. In points of neat- $21“50 ness, material and work- manship it is worth $32.50. Any taste could be suited by “this pretty Table; un- REAL M A HOGANY, Music Cabinets ‘We know of no other means of letting you know just what we are doing in the | way of stampeding the prices on this | line. Most any taste can be suited. They come in Oak and Mahogany finish, some with mirrors, some without and some with writing desk attachments. ill b CABIN. 35.25 it 33:(11 $7.50 | s'] 50 will buy a CABINET worth $10.00 $10.50 will buy a CABINET worth $13.00 $|2‘[] will buy a CABIN?}?s ‘worf 15.00 $'3Iun will buy a GAHINE:‘$ worth $16.00 $2g’5 will buy a CAB;:S::}? < Carpets Smith's best Wiltor! Velvets; usually sell at $1.35 a yard. We sew and lay free. $1.00 Inlaid Tile, Linoleum. The = colors are shown clear through; lasts all your life. Sells everywhere for no less than $1.60. Tapestry Brussels Carpets, with Ssc or without borders; worth at oth- er stores Tac. A superb quality of 60c Worth every bit of T L"gsrfig We have better and even cheaper goods, going as low as Zc. $1'22; Bigelow Lowell Brussels gt“r?ee;rs' tBeaiutn'ul patterns est prints - ings. Others charge $1.50 a )'arfldl:'d o PATTOSIEN CO. Sixteenth and Mission Sts. # S and even ! pieces the highest art ideas are | above all articles that a woman’s | usually nice grain of birds- | any sleeping-room; $17.50 is | FIRE LOS5ES WILL AMOUAT 10 MILLIONG Vast Northern Tracts Are Now Blackened Wastes, Late Reports Add to Lists of the Dead and the Missing. Steamship Columbia Is Still Stranded on the Bar to Which She Drifted in the Pall of Smoke. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Sept. 13.—Absence of wind has stopped the spreading of the forest fires, thereby preventing the destruction of sev- eral towns and logging camps which were | believed to be doomed last night. The | weather bureau report shows that the | smoke-laden atmosphere is almost motion- { less, having moved but twenty-three miles during the last twenty-four hours. Elma and Enumclaw, which were surrounded by fires last night, were to-day out of dan- ger. Matlock, in Mason County, is be- lieved to have been destroyed. The list of dead and 'injured, as reported last night and to-day, is as follows: The dead: Mrs. Hendrickson and two children, and Mrs. August Myers, all near Vancouver; L. C. Palmer, Bridal Velil, Or.; an unknown woman, Vancouver. Burned and injured: D. C. Whitnach, James Lutton, Claud and Lee Wertz, Mrs. Alan White, E. K. Lambert, all of Elma. Small fires are burning along the logging roads near Shelton, but no damage of con- sequence has been done except the burn- ing of one or two small trestles. Trains are patrolling the tracks all the time to ! keep the fires under control. The State | land commissioner has called in all of his cruisers until such time as it will be safe for them to again go into the woods. To the north and east of Aberdeen the greatest damage has been done to lumber | on the upper Wiskaha River. Loggers es- timate that on this stream and the Che- halis at least one hundred million feet of timber has been burned. Two of Pol- son Brothers' camps, including twenty | horses and outfits, have been destroyed. The great dam on the Hoquiam River | caught fire last night and was destroyed. t'is feared many loggers and cruisers in that vicinity have perished. MANY FAMILIES HOMELESS. Dispatches to the Ledger from Elma say that about 100 familles are homeless. The fire in the Coweman country has swept all before it for twenty miles down | the river and across the Kalama River. | Two men escaped death by lying in the | river for several hours. The loggers in | the J. B. Hills camp were awakened at | 10idnight and fled for their lives, leaving everything to burn and the camp was | | destroyed. Many houses have been | burned. Similar fires raged through the primeval | forests of Washington in 1847, according to W. O. Bush, a pioneer of Olympia. At that time there were only seven white settlers in the entire country about the head of Puget Sound. Ashes covered ev- erything for miles around and burning trees and logs filled the streams, Yesterday at Pluma, near Olympia, a bull became maddened by the lurid sky | end smoke. 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Cut out the coupon below now while you are reading these lines and before you lay aside this paper, and obtain fres of charge sample pages and full particulars in regard to styles of bindings, etc., of the ADVERTISEMENTS. Th by an Olympia physician. The latter risk- ed his life in riding a bicycle through the blazing forests to reach Collins’ home. | Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Willey and Mrs. | Hanson were entirely surrounded by | blazing timber at a railroad camp near | Shelton yseterday. Two of them fainted | when they realized thelr situation. A train crew on the Shelton and Southwest- | ern Railroad ran an engine through the | | furnace of fire to a point near the rail- | | 10ad camp and carried these women to the locomotive. Crowding on all steam, | they made a dash for life into Shelton. A. P. Stockwell, an Aberdeen lumber- man, and Captain W. J. Bryant, inspec- | tor of hulls, were caught on Thursday af- ternoon in the blazing forest twelve miles from -Aberdeen. They were driving a team of thoroughbreds, which raced just ahead of the advancing flames until the danger point was passed. SEATTLE, Sept. 13.—Owing to the for- est fires now raging throughout the State a thick canopy of smoke overhung this city to-day. It was so dense that the eyes of the citizens were inflamed and their | lungs congested. Gas and electric lights were kept burning all day and the street cars carried headlights. An incessant din was kept up by their warning gongs and by the whistling of the craft on the bay. On the water the smoke hung so low that it was impossible to make out the outlines of a vessel more than 100 feet | away. All of the Sound steamers ran at a greatly reduced speed and in conse- quence fell far behind schedule time. The steamer Homer started for Portland and on reaching a point five miles from port became lost. The whistle at Five Mile Point was evi- dently out of position and Captain Me- Donald required an hour's time in which to get his bearings well enough to be able to return to port. The Oregon, arriving from Nome, anchored near West Seattle, not risking an attempt to reach her ‘wharf. All trains are from four to eight hours late, being obliged to run slowly in order to avoid the danger incident to rapid trav- eling in the dense smoke. From the news reaching the city to-day it appears that while the fires will do some damage, it will not be as large as was expected from the early reports. Much of the territory has been logged and a great part denuded by previous fires. The timber destroyed will be prin- cipally fir, the destruction of the more valuable cedar being comparatively light. The director of the local weather bu- reau says barometric indications and the direction of the wind are favorable for showers to-morrow. 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PORT TOWNSEND, Sept. 13.—The tug Tacoma, returning this morning from Cape Flattery, reports that the smoke from forest fires extends forty miles out to sea. Northeast winds prevailing pre- vent the approach of in-coming vessel but this is fortunate, for strange ship- masters would jeopardize life and craft by attempting to approach the entrance to the straits, which is entirely obscured. PERISH IN THE FLAMES. KALAMA, Wash., Sept. 13.—The forést fires on Lewis River have destroyed five logging camps and the nomes ‘of more than a score of settlers. D. L. Wallace, wife and two children, Hanley's twelve- year-old boy and Mrs. Graves are known to have perished and many campers are missing. The whole country above Etna has been ravaged. ‘WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 13.—A telephone message to the Union from Dayton.says that forest fires are ragirg along the T on. The fires have gained great headway and are driving shecp from the summer ranges. 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The eager boy can study balloons, kinds of dogs or firearms, locomotives, habits of the house fly or cockroach. _The youth may want information on subjects from geology or_electricity to the settlements of the Fijl Islands, or voicanoces and earth- quakes, or a most fascinating story of Napoleon; and for the still older all the fundamental conceptions of law, medicine, theology, ethics, soeiolo funectiont for eductaion or information, no man wha once has this book wiil ever let himself or his children be without constant access to it. If another deluge came and the ark bad room but for one secular book, this s beyond any doubt the ome.’ BATES, Judge of Court, Cincinnati, Ohlo. town seemed doomed to destruction two days ago, indicate that the danger is past, although fires in the timbered mountain districts continue to burn. PLIGHT OF THE COLUMBIA.- ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 13.—A small launch succeeded this afternoon in finding the stranded steamship Columbia, which lost her bearings yesterday in the smoke and ran out of the channel. Those who went on the launch report that the posi- tion of the steamship is quite as bad as was at first reported, and that she is wedged in behind a long sandbar, fully a mile. from the main channel. An effort will be made to float her by removing her cargo, and the work will be com- menced to-morrow. Should this prove unsuccessful dredging operations will be necessary. The vessel probably will not be damaged by the accident, as she is resting in the mud. Her passengers are still aboard. The big fires which have been raging in the vicinity of this city have about burned themselves out and little more damage will result if rain falls soon, as is probable. The worst fires now are those in the extreme southwestern corner of Washington, between Long Beach and 1lwaco, where consideranie property is in danger. The Tillamook mail carrier says that many buildings have been burned in that town but that the fire will not do any further damage there. HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE, OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 13.—Complete seports received from Springwater this afternoon are that the stores of W. J. Llewellyn and J. F. Lovelace, the post- office, the Grange and Maccabee halls and the schoolhouse were saved. Nearly every farmer in the territory covered by the postoffices of Dodge and Springwater has been burned out. The loss is appalling and cannot be estimated. People are des- itue, homeless and without money, food or clothing, and have called for aid. All Thursday night and yesterday morn- ing the fire raged fiercely down Clear Creek and Clackmas River, crossing Springwater ridge ana stopping at the up- per edge of Viola. Logan and Viola were saved from destruction by the wind dying down. The fires in that section are now checked and there is no danger unless the wind rise again. The damage was great in the Eagle Creek section. Twenty-four places were entirely destroyed. Fires in the district near Shubel, Clarkes, Beaver Creek and Moehnke settlements are now under control. © The Crown Paper Company lost 1500 cords of wood on the Abernathv. . VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 13.—There has been no let-up to the forest fires. Barly this morning the new hotel, postoffi and store at Mount Sticker were bu to the ground. In all parts of the district settlers are fighting to save their homes and crops. —_— DETROIT, Sept. 13.—Judge Phelan, In the RecorBler's Court to-day, handed down a de- cision upholding the city ordinance requiring the street rallway company to operate its cars with electric or air brakes. OB TALGOTT & G0 1140 8t., Opp. " 5. 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