The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1909, Page 4

4 a Taft, Tex, Sept. 221s Chas. P. Taft going to supply the beef for all | the employes on the Panama canal? That he is fe the talk of the Whole southwest Contracts with the government calling for between 900 and 400) beef cattle a day, to be delivered at Panama, ix the Texas version of “Charley Taft's luck.” But the way that President Taft's brother ts going to carry out that contract is equally sensational with the fact that he got it. Brother| Charley, with nearly a half-million acres of rich Texas land is going | ranching in a way that has never) been done anywhere else in the world. He ts going to do all his packing right om the ranch. No sending to Chicage or Omaha packing houses | no big freight billa to eat into} profits. Charley Taft is going to; do all the work himself right on the | ground. | No Tatk, Just Work | Thoy won't talk much on the big | Taft ranch about their plans for} feeding the Panama canal, but they're rushing work night and @a @ haiémillion dollar packing house, When completed it will be fm a position to throw down the gage of defiance to the present beef trust. Chas. P. Taft, packer—that is the sign of the future. And that isn't all. He's going to other farm products there. e's going to have a cotton mill and turn the cotton from 16,000 / acres into cloth right on the | SUPT. GREEN ON THE PORCH OF HIS RESIDENCE ON THE TAFT ESTATE, SURROUNDED BY ground. Also he'll have slectric| HIS ASSISTANTS, GREEN 18 AT LEFT OF UPPER ROW, Tien Diants, storage houses and fac- Tories for using all the by-products. No ranching like this hi . been seen th the state of Toxas, and | Warranted xenuine”; “Taft's Texas: | the whole southwest {s aghast at/ Boston baked beans”, Taft German | pe the daring of the plan | wienerwurs' “Taft canned sugar |engine, which turns 25 feet at a The Cokeben. Fulton Pasture Co., | COP and “Taft pure leaf lard.” —_ and which wtil plow 2 Chas. P. Taft, president, owns the| _On the two ranches there are now | P* controlling interest in the Taft | 100,000 head of cattle and the year | Patricioco, and “The Enctnal,” {n| packing house, There aré aiso 20,.| nos Encinal and Webb-cos. ‘The former | 000 gia mn ae er eee constats of 116,000 acres and the lat- ter of 240,000 acres, tights for Sinton, arenthek The gigantic ranch {s to be devel-| Portland, the four villages ov the Oped to its highest point of produc-| ynst estate, and for the tanch fn ‘Aiveness and not one single dollar's ‘worth af its products will be shipped or sold in Its raw state. Giant Corporation the acte, or about 12,000 bales per general, bad we Fe good 9 Ape lyear. At an average selling price of pal bi @ fee house and 1350 por bale, the pac Ouse to colontsts. All will be kept in | Mexicans are now busy eleartng off | ket tact and administered by the one ‘the mesquite and cactus, and by| ‘The cotton mill! aa pow planned | church ' salaries of t The Mexican laborers are housed in a different section of are also provided giant corporation. next year the biggest cotton patch} will turn into calico A large ice and cold storage plant in the world will be planted, Thi! j and other finished pr sheeting» note every also will care for the fish caught In| will be 26 miles long, and wil! ex | lock of cotton picked from the bolls. comfortably the guif waters, and the vegetablea | tend along both sides of the San! An off mill is now going wp whieh raised on the farm. Within a short time there will f MacPHERSON-GRAY CO. Correctly Tailored Suits Specially! Priced for Friday and Saturday Not what you pay, but what you get for your money is the pare tmount question when you are buying your Fall Suit We can honestly say that you will save $10.00 te $25.00 on a sult when you purchase here. The department ts new, there fe not an old style anit in the house —not one “sticker”—they were all personally selected by Mr. Mac- Pherson in New York, and you can safely select at these extraordt- the width of one mile, ibulle and off. The moat and hulle MacPHERSON.- GRAY CO. MacPHERSON GRAY CO. $25.00 Tailored Suits for $15.00) Beautifully tailored, made of splendid quality stylish gray striped ma tertal; caffs and collars trimmed with velvet. Satin lining; full clus value for two days’ sale, Friday and Saturday, at ...... 8 man-tailored styles, made of fine quality French Serge In mod- two days’ sale, Friday and Saturday, at... " .00 Tailored Suits for $25.00) __ Welcome! Bray, tan and tobeceo colors; satin lined: 4¢inch long aa 75¢ Ribbon for 25c Reautifal, Wide Silk Ribbons that are worth Tbe @ yard; they come in Dresden and Persian effects; also in plain ae STYLISH NEW CAPES Everybody Is Wearing Them $12.50 Values for $8.75 Capes, just arrived, exceeded even our expectations; they colere;. reawias elaet up to The a yard. Your choice Fridag and Saturday ..25¢ @ thought they would be. The materials are better, These new are better than and the workmanship aiso; made of chiffon broadcloth, from 45 to 48 tnches long, cut circular and full; come in staple shades and the newest pastel colors. $12.50 values for $8 15 $6.00 Values for ot 50 it includes the color © est sl iceablitty of these garments has beon carefully carried out for you that we are $6.00 values for . 4 5Q| selling an elegant $5.00 values for . iP erkeos. $2.75 | Hiack Molre Raincoat fat a price that is 75¢} about one-half of regu $2. oF lar value, They are finely tailored and are absolutely — rainproof. Regular $15.00 values for Friday and Satur. at... G1LOO $1.00 values for .. $3.00 values for, 75c Embroideries for 25c Embroidered Flouncings, § to 14 inches wide, beantiful, new, up-to-date patterns; splendid embroidery for petticoats and corset covers; 25 values up to 75¢ a yard; your choice, spec! TOF sove c Embroidered Insertion, 4 to 8 inches wide, all new, fresh goods; em- brotdered on as muslin; 7 aw values up to Ibe; "your 5c) ChOlOO, por OF ......-ncesseasessertesecsseeeseees a 2 Table Linen Sea Silver Bleached Linen Damask, 64 inches wide, in a number of good Pi. iterns to select from; regular price 50c a yard, Special for Friday and Saturday at 35c Bleached Damask of good in our Bedding Department ring quality, that compares favorably and dot patterns; regular price $1.00 per yard, siglo for full 11-4 size; soft and warm, wool Friday and Saturday at << $eeterd wan 79c, Spec at obs 22inch Napkins to match above; regular price $2.75 a dozen Special for Friday and Saturday at, a $2, 20, Specials for Fr iday and | Saturday | bi $5.00. Special for Friday and Dr. Lyons’ Perfect Tooth Powder; none better for beautifying the | | teeth and purifying the breath; a positive antiseptic; sold in | New (dea drug stores at 26c. Special for two days ...., 17¢ | | Pattnrne and glass jars; sells in oa stores for 25c. ih Jal for | Periodicals, Pond’s Extract. Taleum Powder; antiseptic and soothing; patent cut two days rik STAR- day. An experiment farm Will | sociology ‘The houses are all modern income from the | comfortable | farm alone will be $600.00 per year, | Peasonable In order to utilize every foot of | But not a bale of this cotton or a | excellent Moreover, not an acre will be sold/iand on the ranch thousands of! single seed will be put on the mar. | OP the towns and fAntonio & Aransas Pass railroad) will convert the seed into meal, | with schools and churches t# practically administered MacPHERSON-GRAY co. Comforts You can save fully 26 per cont when purchasing your Fall neods regular price with many of the higher-priced fabrics; regular price G0c a 5 Sutra Larne Mes Maia of heavy yard. Special for Friday and Saturday at 4 SED cred bocdece, Seal Memand twilled? Napkins to match these linens in the 20-inch size; regular 00, Special at values $1.60 the dozen. Special at, dozen fi 1 19 teams Cepek All-lAnen Bleached Satin Damask, 68 inches wide; handsome floral | Strictly All-Wool Blankets, full slzo and oxtra weight Satin-Covered Comforters, of extra filled with white odorless sanitary cotton wool; regular $1.75 sac dete re 513 Silkoline Comforters, In light and dark patterns; Invisible Washable Collar Supnpriprs} six on a card, with pure white cotton; regular price all for pias 5c! Priday and Saturday ..... All Bristle Tooth Brushes, sold ‘everywhere at Abc; special price for two days ...., 15¢ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1909. | be on the market “Taft corned beet, | The most modern méthods prevail | will be used to fatten the enttle for | ywhere, The sod is being | the px an dthe olf will} by a S9-horsepower traction | be used in making by-products * government of this vast « FPR} tate offers an interesting leasqn in tinder the direct com established, under the direction | mand*of the manager Is a p@ule king house, er ly increase is estimated at 26,000. of experts, and the farming wil be | tion of over 7,000, Including four | PP ILI OP PPP PPA PP | se ranches, — Gemta” aghens Na an these will be utilized by the Taft | CONducted along the most aclentific | eoed-stzed population of 1,500, When completed the farm will) Tart 500, and Portiand, 400. joqntatn 16,000 acres in cotton and three latter towns every house and Taf. lion will produce on an average of menaber three-quarters of a bale of cotton to | ployas. . 800 In the bf the ranch The inmates are all em ite 35 ore i the company | Liquor can bé peered in the | stock larger towna, but Intoxfontion and Chas erimé are almost unknow Law: | ranchers any hp exile, for undesira: | the only blew are ordered to move on and) pton puperintendent’s command Low Westbound Colonist Fares company oesteine tts Only the best grades are kept P. Taft's interest fn thene ne by his marringe daughter of Dave Sinton or ranchman of Texan, who ae every door is closed to mat the | quired the land when it could had for only a few cents an acre Daily September 15 to October 15, TO SEATTLE FROM Tickets Prepaid by Mail or Sinton with a) Buildings open for in CHICAGO ., ..833.00 | ST. PAUL 8ST. LOUIS ,.., 30.00 | OMAHA $25 NEW YORK .. 50.00 | KANSAS CITY Similar Aeductions From All Eastern Points, Selograph. Money Back if Not Used. TICKET OFFICE, SECOND AND COLUMBIA See Friday papers for spection today and Fri-}} special prizes for custom day. Market will open 4 ers and displays of fruit, ' vegetables, meats, fish, Saturday, Sept. 25} et. and} rent ts the sanitary confitions corporation tt excellant ; and provides for the MacPHERGON-GRAY CO. j NEW SWEATERS FOR | ne RainComing Have You Seen Our Livery one who inspected them wondered how we sell them so low; Be Prepared they are looking fully dowble the price. Seeing is believing, and we advise you. not to miss these splendid millinery bargaine-——the best offered in Se WESTLAKE MARKET ASSOCIATION MacPHERSON-GRAY CO. oun rg ain | Splendid quality Suitings in fall weight; nobby a Berto | colors; 36 inches wide; regular 65c values, for, yard . | 75¢ SCHOOL SERGE FOR 55¢ Kes pacily moderate prices. For Friday and Saturday's ale we awotion e] TWO New Departments Added to Our Store—We Must Have More Room The new Millinery and the Women's Suit and Cloak Department demand more space; the daily arriv- als from New York-can hardly be accommodated To make merchandise move more quic kly we have cut prices without considering the cost, and you will find in this sale some of the best bargains ever offered in Seattle. - We invite your shopping—we invite you to compare prices and qualities. $22.50 Tailored Suits for $1 9.50 tention, whether you buy or only wish to inspect the new merchandise store pleasant-mannered and most courteous, and we assure you that in our store you will not find the haughty clerk and the nerve-racking hubbub too often encountered in the mammoth department stores. We assure you of our personal attention We assure you the best at- You will find every one in the President Is Coming! He will soon be tn Se | atte, You can have his good-natured, smil- ing face before you on your desk — we have epectally priced for two days the “Hi Taft" statuary—a perfect imi- tation of Italfan alabas- fe Iron Sewed Pants for Boys ‘Lhe most serviceable Corduroy Knee Pants ever made for boys; 4 to 16-yearold sizes; they are guaranteed not to rip, and if they do, they will be re placed. They are just ly called “Iron Sewed"; regular price $2.00. Spectal for Friday and cae 10 Blankets and Bed Our Shoe Store We have a separate, independently situated Shoe Store, with an entrance from the street and from our store. It 1s NOT the usual shoe department” kept up by the department stores, but a store in itself, with all the facilities that only av exclusive shoe store can offer to its customers, The stock we carry is absolu only for show. If you buy your shoes here wiil buy your shoes here again. y dependable and not , It's certain that you For Friday and Saturday Special We have specially priced for two days’ sale our regular $2.50 Viel Kid Shoes for women; have mat tip and are the very latest styles; for Friday and Saturday, special tie Misses’ Kid, Lace, Patent Tip Shoos Boys’ Box Calf Shoe 8% to? Boys’ Box Calf Shoes, 2% to bY ACPHERSON--GRAY = E< STREET NEAR SECOND AVENUE oo 75 $1.50 $1.49 81.75 R. & G. and American | $9.00 Dress Skirts for $3 wn and Tailored Are on display thig at the National, Correct style, best rial and hand make the National the most desirable, Come in now, Make your selection, And pay us as you are The Na- tional Plan Simplifies the Ques- tion of Dress. Watch The Star Want Ad Columns for acPHERSON-GRAY CO. | MacPHERSON-GRAY Dress Goods Ba 650 FALL SUITINGS FOR 39¢ | An excellent grade Serge tn a!) the latest colors; the id for schoo! dresses; 36 inches wide; regular Téc value for $1.50 GRAY SUITING FOR 89¢ Gray Is the most-sought-for color for this season; thisis, wide fabric, in stripes, and a regular $1.60 value, for .. $2.00 CREAM SILK AND WOOL, $1.26 Stik and Wool Grenadines, in cream color; 40 inches wide au excellent quality; regular $2.00 value for .........95 $1.75 NOVELTY SUITINGS FOR 8% Novelty Mixed Suitings in all colors, 46 to 52 inches wide; jar values from $1.56 to $1.76 a yard. Your choice for .,.¥, Phenomenal Silk E 7T5e JAPANESE SILK FOR 49¢ Dependable quality Japanese Silk in fancy patterns; 24 | wide; a good bargain at the regular price, 75c. Sale price , | $1.26 LOUIGINE SILKS FOR 690 | Pretty patterns in striped Louisine Sitks, 21 Inches wide; goed value at the regular selling price, $1.26. Specially marked st | $1.00 FOULARD SILKS FOR 490 | About 600 yards of elegant Foulard Stike in all the wanted — | colors and shades; 29 inches wide. Regular $1.00 values for .. 91.25 PONGEE SILKS FOR 68c¢ i: | Heavy Pongee Sitka {n all colors; 28 inches wide; a splendid | tertal for sults and dresses. Regular $1.25 value for ...«s5 $1.00 BLACK PEAU DE SOIE, 650 An extra good quailty black Peau de Sole Stik, a fabric that i sive lasting satisfaction. Regular $1.00 value for . Remnants at Less Half Regular P; We mention here only a few of the many that you can pick up in this great sale. 6 yards Imported English Suiting; black, 46 inches wide; enough for a dress; for the remnant ......+ 2% yards Black bi patna for the remnant ; coeees 2 yards Black Wate extra "wide; for ‘the remnant | AND OTHER EQUALLY GOOD VALUES, TOO NUMEI MENTION, COME EARLY AND HAVE THE BEST PICK | THE LOT SPECIALLY DISPLAYED ON A LARGE TABLE. A splendid new style Tailored White Waist, made of | Ssohe madras or India non; strictly tailored, with jand detachable collars; just the thing for the season. | lent values at a 50. Special for Friday and Saturday $6 Silk Waists for $3.95 95 Beautifully Tatlored Silk Waists, of taffeta and white, black and tan; the Jatest New York on at the regular price of $6,00. Specially priced for Friday and Saturday etek . $6.00 Silk Petticoats for | Another lot of one hundred just recetved from New ¥ | the sale of Friday and Saturday Made of heavy @ jall lengths; not flimsy, inferlor quality petticoats with this low price, but high-grade, well-made underskirt# lequal for less than $6.00. Special jfor two days’ sale | eeenath The greatest bargain offered in Seattle—these Skirts striped Panamas, worsteds and novelty suitings, plall patterns, in light and dark shados; values up to 0 Your chotce for 5 upis bod suite be: