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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 11107. LET Mi FIGHT . TOUT ON FLOOR SNOW AND SLIDES BLOCK ALL TRAINS This city has received no mail from the. outside world since last Thursday, owing to a washout on the Columbia Southern at Hay Creek Canyon. A message received from Shaniko this morning says Prineville may also ex pect no mail until Thursday or Friday. The roads between this city and Shani ko are covered with snow; at most places a foot deep, and are almost Im passable. FLEE BEFORE SLIOE DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK? Farmer's Family Escapes Clad Only in Night Clothes. Rapid Rise in the Cowlitz. CASTLE ROCK. Wash., Feb. 5. (Spe cial.) The Cowlitz River is again on the rampage, having risen eight feet since yesterday. A warm Chinook wind Is blowing and the rain has been falling In torrents, which Is fast melting the snow in the mountains. The Robin Shingle Company has Just filled its new boom with shingle bolts, preparatory to resuming operations at once, but there is great apprehension that it will be carried away if the water continues to rise. The river Is now rising about half an inch per hour. Railroad Committee Will Re port Two Bills for Recip rocal Demurrage. Service on Northern Pacific Is Interrupted and No Eastern Trains Reach Tacoma. HOUSE THEN TAKES FIRE Barn Is Also Consumed and Six Cows and Ten Sheep Perish in Flames Toledo, Or., Scene of Destructive Landslide. ONE BILL BY LUMBERMEN CHINOOK THREATENS FLOOD leave that exclusively a school for boys and move the girls to some East ern Washington point. Superintendent Reed has urged the separation of the sexes, and some of -the Investigating committees which recently visited that institution have done the same.. Senator Veness, chairman of the Sen ate committee on appropriations, comes from Lewis County, and may be count ed upon to prevent any such plan, al though Chairman Thompson of the. House committee favors it. The board of control has made no recommendation for the removal, but has agreed to submit figures on the cost of removal and the construction of a new girl school at the request of Thompson. The 16-hour labor limit for railroad employes was acted on favorably to night by the joint railroad committee, and the committee on labor, after a hard fight, decided by a majority voto to report for passing the bill limiting to eight hours the employment of women. TO FIGHT COO'TY DIVISION Montesano Will Oppose Any Cut-Ofl for Aberdeen. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Feb. 5. (Special.) Montesano people who fought the re moval of the county seat to Gray's Har bor will make a fight against the pro posed division of the county, and has sent a committee to Olympla to oppose the plan. The people of Montesano, after the defeat of the county seat removal, at tempted to secure from the County Com- Belief ,1s Expressed That If Their Measure Carries It "Will Give Them Favors Over Farmers When Cars Are Short. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 5. (Special.) At a meeting of the joint railroad committees of the House and Senate this afternoon, the Railroad Commis sioners announced they would not op pose thepassage of the reciprocal de murrage bill proposed by the lumber men, though contending" that their own bill, which gives general powers to the Commission. Is probably the better. The committees decided, however, that both bills will be reported for pas sage, and let the settlement of which is to become law be fought out on the floor of each House. As was stated yesterday, the lumber interests want a bill which specifically defines and sets out the powers of the Commissioners, and there Is a well defined suspicion that the bill Is framed so that the lumber Interests, inder Its provisions, will be given an advantage over the wheat shippers In car-shortage Instances where the rule becomes operative. Either that Is the explanation of the lumbermen's opposi tion to the general-power bill the Com mission favors, or else the lumbermen fear the Commission might, under the Commission plan, give the wheat-shippers the better of It. Committees Behind in Work. This was the most Important of to day's committee meetings. Both House and Senate held short morning ses sions, and adjourned before npon, to permit the committees to take up accu mulated work. The committees are far behind in all their work, and the whole legislative proceedings are being delayed because less than half the bills have been print ed so far. This year all the reports of the officers were late, and many of the largest did not reach the Legis lature until after the session began. On top of this the two houses intro duced about twice the number of bills the first three weeks ever introduced in a former session, and naturally the printing has got away behind. There were four House bills today one of the most important being that by" Bradbury, that no person can be convicted of assault on a female on the uncorroborated testimony of the worn, an. Senate Has Busy Day. In the Senate, one bill alone was introduced, which allows surety com panies to do business when the stock is subscribed and before it has been paid in. - Six bills were passed by the Senate after considerable debate. These include the following: , McGregor Exempting sheep from estray law. Booth Repealing law requiring author ity of owner to permit broker to sell real estate; 22 to IT. Allen gave notice of In tention to reconsider. Ruth Deeding tldelanrls at Olympla to that city for park purposes. Jones Authorizing sale of leasehold es tate in state lands to satisfy special Im provement taxes, where state lands He with in .city Improvement districts. Metcalf Deeding tldelands about Point 1 nance Park to City of Tacoma. Committee on horticulture Requiring 5000 bond from commission merchants. Consume Time in Talk. Although nearly all of the commit tees met during the day, most of the sessions were given up to discussions, and no definite action was accom plished on any Important bill. The committee of House and Senate, named on motion of Bassett, Is to meet tomorrow and take up its work of in vestigating the system of bookkeeping in all the state departments. Senator Graves Is still under the weather, so the committee of which he is a member did not meet to investi gate the work of the Land Commis sioner's office. Representative Weber, of Walla Walla County, was In his seat at the morning session of the House. There has been no change for the worse in his mental condition. His friends have urged him to place himself under the care of a physician, but be turns a lcaf ear to all suggestions, and mo rosely broods at his desk. SOLOXS U EAR TALK OX ROADS Address Made Before Informal Ses sion by Good Roads Expert. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 5. (Special.) S. C. Lancaster, a good roads expert and consulting engineer of the Depart ment of Agriculture, delivered a good roads address tonight at a Joint infor mal meeting of the House and Sen ate. A ' large number of townspeople were also present. The address was illustrated by colored slides. The l.iflOO sliver service for the bat tleship Washington, to be presented by tho state, was on exhibit at the Capitol today in charge of Colonel N. K. Llnsley, of Spokane, chairman of the committee named by the last Leg islature to make .the purchase. The service was manufactured by Spokane Jewelers and won glowing commenda tion. At this evening's meeting of the House committee on revenue and tax ation, the committee acted favorably on tho tax commission bill to give that state body full charge of the taxation of railroad property, taking this work from County Assessors. In a'ddltion, the committee tacked on an amend ment to Include street railways. The tax commission urses that the present county assessment plan gets ' but a Dart of the value of the raHway property on the rolls, while with one state board to attend to it all there will be a fair chance to determine the value of franchises and other intangible property and see that it is assessed and pro-rated among the counties. This committee also reported favor ably on tho bill to require all state officers f make daily deposits of state funds collected. Instead of present monthly and semi-occaslonally sys tems. The Joint committee on military af fairs reported favorably the Adjutant General's bill providing for armories at Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle, and turned down Belllngham's request for one. ' Chehalls people are here making a fight against a proposed division of the State Reform School, which will : i HAS CROSSED THE Father John Gribbln. i iS " " - ' another, covering a wide field of labor and acquiring a speaking and writing knowledge of French. Spanish. German and Italian. He spent six years In Rome and seven years in Mexico. His mission to Rome permitted him to meet all of the great prelates of the church. His first ocean trip was made In 1R18 in a packet ship, and It took seven weeks for the voyage. His nrst -oyage on a steamship was made on the old City of Antwerp. Father Gribbln loves diversity and travel and desires to keep on his feet in this way until the end. ' mlssioners an appropriation of J100.000 for a stone courthouse to replace the present wooden structure, but after plans had been drawn and $1500 expended for them and advertising, the commissioners backed down in face of much opposition from, all parts of the county. There Is to be as lively a fight over division as there was over removal. AYERS CASE IS SUSTAINED Supreme Court Holds He Is Guilty of Poolsclling. SALEM, Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) The Supreme Court today upheld the decision of Judge A. L. Frazer, of Multnomah County in the case of the State of Ore gon, respondent, vs. William M. Ayers. appellant. Appellant was accused by an Information of selling for gain pools upon horses at an exhibition trial of their speed on a race track situated about two miles from the Multnomah County Courthouse. The defendant plead not guilty and stipulated that the facts stat ed in the information were true and sub mitted the cause to the court without the Jntervention of a jury, and was found guilty. It was contended by the defense that if section 1930 of Bellingers & Cotton's code ever phohiblted the selling of pools on horse races that the. statute in this respect was repealed by the adoption of the charter of the City of Portland. Upon this point Justice Moore, in concluding the opinion, says: The charter of the City of Portland does not purport to confer exclusive Jurisdiction to prevent gambling houses, and as the crime of gaming was recognized at common law, the Circuit Court had Jurisdiction of the case at bar and the judgment rendered therein Is affirmed. File Trust Deeds to Water Rights. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 5. (Special.) Fifteen deeds were filed at the court house here today transferring the water rights of the Syndicate Investment Com pany. G. W. Waterbury, C. W. Miller, Sandy River Electric Company, Mount Hood Electric Company and others to the Mount Hood Railway & Power Company. These deeds cover the entire water rights on the Sandy, the Little Sandy, the Clackamas, the Salmon and the Bull Run Rivers. A trust deed was also filed by the Mount Hood Railway & Power Com pany on the property thus transferred, mortgaging it to the Union Trust Com pany of San Francisco for $5,000,000. The agent of the trust company who filed the mortgage is understood to be one of the high- officials. He took all precautions possible to keep the matter secret. Red Front Proves a Hoodoo. OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 6. (Special. 1 E. C. Hamilton today made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors to R. L. Sabin. trustee of the Northwest Merchants' Protective Association. The liabilities and assets are as yet unde termined, but it is understood that a few hundred dollars will cover all of the out standing indebtedness. Hamilton was the proprietor of the "Red Front" store, which seems to be a hoodoo, as this is the fourth failure that has occurred since the store was started. Asks Divorce From Jealous Husband OREGON CITY, Or.. Feb. 6. (Special) Mrs. Elizabeth T. Middlebrook, of Port land, has filed suit for divorce from her husband, Jesse L. Middlebrook, alleging that he has hounded her with his jeal ousy and fault-finding till she is obliged to leave him. Louis Gomez a Burglar. ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 5. Louis Gomez, said to be a nephew of General Gomez, was found guilty of burglary to day at Montesano. Gomez Is a. Cuban, and committed a number of burglaries in this city before he was finally caught. Moral Wave at Pendleton. PENDLETON. Or., Feb. 5. (Special.) John Noble, George McClintock and I. Vancone were arrested Sunday night for gambling. They were playing in the rear of a saloon. These are the first arrests made for gambling in several weeks. Unless Cold Weather Sets in, Puget Sound Country Will Suffer Heav ily snow Kight Feet Deep in the Mountains. TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. 6. (Special.) Following the heavy snow which fell Sat urday night, the cold weather moderated ATLANTIC 52 TIMES ABERDEEN. Wash., Feb. 5. (Spe cial.) Fifty-two times, across the Atlantic, with an intention of mak ing the 63d trip the coming Summer, is the record of Father John Grib bln, chaplain at the hospital of the Sisters of the Dominican in this city, to which he has been sent tem porarily by Bishop .O'Bee, of this diocese. Father Gribbln is ; in his 77th year, hale and hearty, and able to conduct the mass and to go about the city as actively as a man 15 years younger. Father Gribbln would be taken rather for a well-to-, do retired merchant than a priest of long and continued work. He was born in Ireland, near Belfast, and went to Canada at an early age. . Besides the distinction of crossing the Atlantic so many times, he also constituted, with the present Arch bishop O'Connor, of Toronto, a class of two ordained by the late Arch bishop Lynch, of Toronto, the cere mony taking place In 1S83. While the young priest, O'Connor, pre ferred to stay in one place and ad vance In the church. Father Grib bln craved travel and has spent nearly all of his life in that pleas ant pursuit, going from one country to another and from one parish to sufficiently to bring a rain last evening, which assumed a steady downpour, melt ing the snow rapidly until the hill streets were marked by busy rivulets. It rained almost continuously through the night, and this, accompanied by the mild Chinook, threatens flood conditions. Heavy snow has fallen in the mountains and if it goes off with a rush, trouble is anticipated. Rivers were running pretty full this morning. The salvation of the Northern Pacific is cold weather. Should the present chlnook continue for another 12 hours, or should it cross the mountains, Tacoma and Puget Sound will be without a Northern Pacific train service. Not a train from the East has reached Tacoma today. The snow lies eight feet deep on the level, east of the Stampede tunnel, and snow is still falling. A huge snowsllde between Borup and CleElum has blocked the tracks.. Such trains as have been able to get through to Ellens burg are delayed by a slide, on which two rotarles have been working since 3 o'clock this morning. At Lester the snow storms of the past few days have turned to rain, under the softening Influence of the chlnook. Rain is falling through all the Green River Canyon. The river itself is rapidly rising, and a flood is threatened west of the tun nel. A snow blockade already blocks the east approaches. The tracks to Portland are cleared, but the snow has been deep even in that direction, and a flood in the Cowlitz Valley is feared.. SANTIAM RIVER IS FALLING At Albany Willamette Stands at 2 9 Feet Bridges Go Out. ALBANY, Or., Feb. 5. (Special.) The Willamette Is now over 29 feet here and still rising. Water street Is inundated. Several factories and warehouses on the waterfront are completely surrounded with water. There has been no serious damage yet in the city. Some stock is reported lost, many fences swept away and rural telephone lines are down. Ten feet of the north approach of the Albany steel bridge was washed away tonight. A portion of Bryant's bridge across the Calapooia River at the head of Third street is submerged and is pounding to pieces. The Santiam River and other small streams are now falling. The headgates of the Santiam Canal at Lebanon were swept away today, and the lower part of that town is flooded. The floors of the big paper mill there were inundated. Some small landslides are reported on the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad and traffic is impeded. HEAVY. GALE AT SEATTLE. ' Ships Set Adrift and Much Damage Done in "the Harbor. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 5. (Special.) With a 65-mlle gale blowing since 4 o'clock this morning, great damage has been done to water-front propery and vessels. The dock at South Alki col lapsed from high winds and waves and the steamer Mariechen went adrift in the harbor, threatening to damage all craft. The French bark Marie tore from her moorings and fouled the Galbraith dock, while a Ashing schooner collided with the Great Northern docks trestle and stopped traffic. A boom of logs was washed asho and destroyed the recently constructecflrestle of the Seattle Electric Company, which connects Seattle and West Side Bay towns. A host of smaller vessels have broken away and are being buffeted by the storm. Very few Puget Sound boats were sent out on their regular rung on account of the storm. Will Fall Soon at Corvallis. CORVALLIS. Or., Feb. 5.-(Special.) The Willamette here Is 26 feet, four Inches above low water, and at 6 o'clock is rising an Inch an hour. The crest of the flood is expected within the next few hours and It is anticipated that a fall will set in by midnight. Prineville Gets No Mall for Week. PRINEVILLE, Or., Feb. 5. (Special.) Insures Water Next Summer.' BAKER CTTY, Or., Feb. 5. (Specials Heavy snow and rainfall during the last few weeks Insures plenty of water for Irrigation purposes next Summer. Snow on the hills Is deeper than any time In several years, and ranchmen are generally jubilant over prospects. The range out look is good and the storm has done no damage. Melting Fast at Arlington. ARLINGTON. Or., Feb. 5. (Special.) A warm wave struck here this morning and the snow is going rapidly. If the Chinook continues, a flood is feared. There have been no west or eastbound trains in the past 24 hours. HARDWARE MEN WILL MEET CONVENTION OF RETAILERS IN THIS CITY, FEBRUARY 13-14. President Henry J. Altnovr, of Wood burn, Assured of Big Attendance. Spokane Charters Special Car. WOODBURX, Or., Feb. 5. (Special.) President Henry J. Altnow. of the Re tail Hardware & Implement Dealers As sociation, has received assurance of a large attendance at the convention to be held in Portland. February 13-14. There will be present from 200 to 250 retail hard ware men and implement dealers, and they will be there principally for busi ness of Interest to every dealer in these two lines .in the state. President Altnow and the officers are working to have every house represented, every dealer having been earnestly re quested to be in attendance. The pro gramme as mapped out promises to be educational, highly entertaining and lively in all parts. Among the subjects for debate will be: "Organization and Co-operation," "Mutual Insurance," "Railroad Rebates," "Business Outlook for 1907." "Live and Successful Salesmen" and mall-order houses, among others, will receive due attention. The association will be banquetted by the manufactur ers and Jobbers of Portland on the even ing of the 13th. Prior to this convention there will be held at the Chamber of Commerce an other and very important one. A call has been Issued for all of the Pacific Coast associations to meet In Portland. February 11-12. and the associations of the states of Washington, Oregon, Cali fornia, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Ne vada will be represented. Spokane has chartered a ear and will come In force. The delegations will be the guests of the Oregon Association. The object is to form a federation of the associations in these seven states, the same as the National association in the East. Two Bills on Same Topic. BOISE, Idaho, 'Feb. 5. (Special.) The peculiar temper of the House was well illustrated today. At the morn ing session the committee of the whole took favorable action on the local option bill, against which there is a furious flght. The recommendation was made without a dissenting vote. In the afternoon, as a committee of the whole, the body made a similar recommendation with rospect to the optional license bill. The latter pro vides a uniform license of $1000, and gives tho Commissioners an option whether license shall be granted. It has been supposed that the local option bill would be supplanted by some Such measure as this optional license meas ure, but the House, without division, has, in committee of the whole, thus recommended both for passage. Abbott's bill admitting veterans of Indian. Wars to the Soldiers' Home, was passed by the House, and a num ber of minor measures. The Senate had a quiet day. MUST ANSWER TO CHARGE HE IS DANGEROUS PERSON. State's Attorney Determined Slayer of Judge Emory Shall Be Sent to' the Penitentiary. TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. 5. (Special.) Kenneth Mackintosh. Prosecuting Attor ney for King County, this afternoon filed an information charging Chester Thomp son, the acquitted slayer of Judge Emory, with being a dangerous person, and asked for his detention as such. In the State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, for an indefinite period. Mackintosh says: "The state will now withdraw from Its stand of Insanity, and simply ask the detention of Thompson as a' dangerous person.' ' This move will be vigorously opposed and combatted by Mr. Thompson.'who will flght for the boy's treatment, care and confinement In an Institution for the insane. At 3 o'clock Chester Thompson was brought into court to hear the reading of the information. Judge Thompson asked that he be given until tomorrow morning before pleading to the charge. This was granted. Judge Thompson will .file a de murrer to the charge, and if that fails he will make his reply to the charge. These proceedings may result In an other trial, to determine whether the boy Is a dangerous person. Much evidence taken in the murder case would be re viewed, and the whole question as to Chester's insanity would again . be brought up. Rural Mall Service Hampered. CASTLE ROCK,- Wash., Feb. 5. (Spe cial.) There has been a change of car riers already on the new rural mail de livery out of this city, Howard Hunting ton having resigned and been succeeded by Chauncey Davis. Since the recent floods considerable difficulty has been ex perienced in giving good service on this route, as the ferry below town was car ried away and has never been replaced, and it has been Impossible to go over more than half the route each day. Radway'a Pills regulate all the Internal organs. Cure all female irregularities. TOLEDO, Or., .Feb. 5. (Special.) The residence of C. F. Altree, one and one-half miles west of Toledo, was de molished by a landslide at 10:30 o'clock last night, and afterward totally de stroyed by Are. The family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Altree and five chil dren and the mother of Mrs. Altree, narrowly escaped with their lives. The slide started at a point on a high timber-covered hill, one-third of a mile south of the house, and the warning was given by the elder Mrs. Altree, who had arisen to get a drink of water, and heard the first crash and rumble of the huge mass of earth, stone and trees. The members of the family, dressed only in their night clothes, had barely left the house when it was struck by the slide. Running before the still moving mass about 200 feet and then a .short distance to a higher point, they reached a place of safety just as the slide bearing their wrecked home crashed into the barn and stopped. Here the ruin was completed. Fire from the stove and a lamp started a blaze, which rapidly consumed house and barn and the contents of each. There were six cows and ten sheep in the barn. Two of the cows and all the sheep were burned to death, and the other cows badly injured, two being shot later to end their suffering. The slide passed over comparatively level ground, and did not move very rapidly. The site of the Altree home and about six acres surrounding are burled under about 26 feet of earth, stone and trees, many of the latter from two or three feet in jdlameter. The slide was caused by the heavy rain which has fallen steadily in this section since February 2. BIG SAWMILL AT TOLEDO. Portland Capital Assisting in Exten sive Enterprise There. TOLEDO. Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) The Fir and Spruce Lumber Company began this morning the work of repairing and remodeling the Toledo sawmill, recently purchased of G. L. Gray. F. R. Stokes, of Portland, is president of the company, and H. C. Jorgenson, secretary. The lat ter has been associated with the .Eastern & Western Lumber Company of Port land, but is now a resident of Toledo. The board of directors consists of F. R. Stokes, of Portland; Martin Foard, of Astoria; H. C. Jorgenson, of Toledo, and C. H. Williams and P. H. Johnson, of San Francisco. The initial additions to the mill will be a machine shop, blacksmith shop and boiler room. A lath miH will be put In later. When completed the mill will have a capacity of 60,000 feet every ten hours, and will give employment to 120 men in the mill and logging camps. The company will soon begin the con struction of a logging railroad from the head of tide on Depot Slough, about three miles above Toledo, Into a body of fine timber which it recently purchased. The company has secured enough timber to keep the mill busy several years, and it is negotiating for more. Held to the Circuit Court. ASTORIA, Or.. Feb. 5. (Special.) The preliminary examination of Frank Hol brook, on an Information charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon, was held in Justice Goodman's Court this afternoon, and the defendant was committed to the county Jail to await the action of the Circuit Court. Hol brook is an 18-year-old boy, who resides A Reasonable Plea forjhe Stomach If Tour Stomach Is Lacking in Diges tive Power, "Why Not Help the Stomach Do Its Work Es pecially When It 'Costs Nothing to Try? Not with drugs, but with a reinforce ment ol digestive agents, such as are naturally at work In the stomach? Scien tific analysis shows that digestion, re quires pepsin, nitrogenous ferments, and the secretion of hydrochloric acid. When your food fails to digest, it is proof posi tive that some of these agents are lack ing in your digestive apparatus. 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The In gredients combine the concentrated juices of ripe fruits with the curative properties of nature's plants, so carefully blended that the confection is delicious and the action most effective. Any one who has suffered from the an noyance of constipation realizes that the condition Is always aggravated after using the harsh and irritating mixtures that come from inexperienced, irresponsible sources. The possible temporary relief they get simply lays the foundation for more serious trouble later on. It Is the result that the ."cure all" Invariably brings. Nothing takes the place of FRUIT LAX but fresh air and' plenty of exercise. There Is no medicinal substitute- for this satisfactory remedy. The p fj ability to hold your urine, smarting or irritation in passing, brick-dust or sediment in the urine, catarrh of the bladder, uric acid, occasional headache, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nervousness, sometimes the heart acts badly, rheumatism, bloating. Irritabil ity, wornout feeling, lack of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complexion. If your water when allowed to re main undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twenty-four hours forms a sedi ment or settling, or has a cloudy ap pearance it is 'also evidence that your kidneys and bladder need Immediate attention. In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp Root is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to tho kidneys that has yet been discovered. If you are already convinced thnl Swamp-Root Is what you need, you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one dollar size bottles at drug stores everywhere. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name. Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghamton. N. Y., on every bottle. tution, of which 977 are male and 458 female. There were 20 deaths during the month. Sewers for South Bend. SOUTH BEND. Wash., Feb. 5. (Spe cial.) The City Council has decided upon a complete sewer system and work on the same will begin as soon as the surveys have been established. price is 25 cents a box. One will estab lish its popularity. Other scientific prescriptions now of fered by this association are remedies for the following ailments. There Is one for each, and every one of them repre sents the combined knowledge and ex perience of this large association of em inent druggists: Headache, 2 sizes 10c and 2Te Indigestion, 2 sizes and SOe Cough Remedy itSc and SOe Rheumatism, 2 sizes SOe and jtl.OO Brain fag and nervous disorders. .91.00 Kidney affections Vl.ofl Catarrh H.OO Female trouble 111.00 Asthma .91.00 Blood disorders . .' 91.00 Cold and grippe 2s,. Piles soe Skin eruptions, sores, etc 25c Quick Healing Salve ; . . .sr,c Liniment 25i? Baby Syrup 2,1c There are many others. Ask your druggist. All druggists should and will sell A. D. S. ready-made, scientific prescriptions. But if your druggist cannot supply you today, write, en closing price, and any of them will be sent post-paid. Address American Druggists Syndicate, 69 Murray street. New York. The following local druggists are members of the American Druggists' Syndicate and handle these goods: A. W. Allen, 241 North Sixteenth street; Arleta Pharmacy, Arleta; E. W. Ball, 355 Seventh street: Blumauer Frank. Drug Co., 144-146 Fourth street; The Brooke Drug. Co., 67 Third street North; Brooklyn Pharmacy, 579 Mll waukie street; W. C. Cable, 255 Holla day avenue: The Duncan Drug Co., Marguerite and Hawthorne avenues; Eyssells Pharmacy, 227 Morrison street; G. II. Hemstock, University Park; The Jancke Drug Co., 2S0 Grand avenue; B. F. Jones Co.. Front street, corner Gibbs; Knight Drug Co., 307 Washing ton street; H. W. Little, 692 East Mor rison street; W. S. Love. 393 East Burn side street: McCommon's Pharmacy, 69 4 Washington street; Woodlawn Drug Co. (McGilllvray Bros., Props.), 459 Durham avenue (Woodlawn); Murphy Bros., 320 Williams avenue: R. Neu bauer. Union and Falling streets; R. A. Preston & Co., 756 Savler street: Redd & Bates, 494 Washington street; J. M. Ricen, 315 First street; H. P. Rinker, S30 Belmont Btreet; J. H. Ru perts, 460 Jefferson street; Simmons & Heppner, 113 Russell street; University Drug Co., University Park; H'. W. Vlets, 420 Washington street; Washington Pharmacy, Fifteenth nnd Glisan streets; Watts & Matthleu Co.. 275 Russell street; J. B. Williams, 579 Milwaukie street; J. E. Worth, 999 Belmont street; Edgar Stipes. 227 Morrison street.