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CAN'T TOUCH the man who wearg SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR BRAND Slickers SAWV'ER'8 Excelnlor lirand Oiled Clothing. f nest in ina worm, w m I' Tint crfti'k. npp! or pot sticky. Look for trade mark. If not at dealer's Bend for catalogue. H. 91. Sawyer 4 Son, Sole Mf rt. East Cambridge, Mann. steal fink tuhbkk. Idaho Tliieve Have Terrorized (ienuiiie Settlers. Spokane, WaBh., Dec. 9. Investiga tions by government officials show that a reign of terror has existed on the North Fork and Little North Fok of the Coeur d'Alene river in Idaho. Affidav its made by residents of that neighbor hood indicate that settlers have been driyen from their homes and settlement discouraged, while millions of feet of fine saw timber have been stolen from the government and sold to the mills at Harrison and other points along Lake Coeur d'Alene. The matter was recently brought to the attention of Representative Jones, of Vnoiii nirtnn u'hn laiii fho ollocrofl fart. before the interior department. As a result Special Land Ajient Schwartz, of the general land office, arrived recently from Washington and is in the vicinity of Kingston on the Coeur d'Alene river, where the original complaint came from. The special agent has secured a number of affidavits from persons who ha-, e eettled on these lands, which have been forwarded to the authorities in Wash ington. It is reported that a number of war rants for the arrest of these alleged tim ber thieves have been issued and the officers have attempted to serve the warrants, only to find that the men wanted had been warned and had made their way over the mountains into the Tend d'Oreille region. The affidavits secured by Agent Schwartz and for warded to Washington tell a story of systematic robbery of the government which it would be difficult to equal. Several of the settlers who have been instrumental in calling the attention of the authorities to the alleged timber thefts were in Spokane today and told ofthei' experience during ttie past two years. Depredations have largely been the wor of persons who have claimed to have squatted on the lands which they logged, but it has been openly ad mitted by several of them that they tnye never made actual settlement on any of the various tracts of land which they have denuded of their valuable timber. It is not thought that ttie men who actually steal the timber are the main beneficiariea of this system of swindling the government. The prin cipal profit is made by the middle men, who furnish the loggers with supplies, handle the timber in the drives and se 1 the logs to the manufacturing mills at Harrison and elsewhere. Clever Coin Frauds. Sixteen holes bored in a $20 gold piece were discovered by the officials o' the Old National bank. The workman had accomplished a neat job, and had removed about $10 worth of gold. To fill the holes lead whs used with a piece of brass wire. The mutilated coin looked all right at first glance, but had lost Its ring. There is no clew to the criminal. So far this is the only coi j of the kind re ported, but others are expected to Bhow up. Arpirer-tly, the coin had been placed in a vise and a tlemler drill had been u ed to bore out the metal. The holes began on the ede and extended through the coin. After the holes had been filled with th lrad and plugged with bra", the edj:f3 were filed fown to ive the milled ede of the true coin Spoken-nian-Ueview. There have heen an even 1.200 typhoid cases formally reported at! lJutler, Pa. ; It? t?J? & A J Nat Goodwin Has Close Call llrooklyn Bridge. On New York, Dec. 11. Nat Goodwin, the actor nearly lost his life tonight in a manner more sensational than even he most imaginative presB agent could devise. Mr. Goodwin is playing in Brooklyn this week. He left his home in West End avenue, in this city, at 6 o'clock, and started in an electric auto- mobile for the theater across the bridge. The chaffeur was M. M. Chatterton. Mr. Goodwin was driven swiftly to the bridge and started across the river. When the center of the span was reached one of the cogwheels, which are part of the steering gear brokp, and Chatterton, in an instant, lost control of the vehicle, lie apparently lost his head, for the car started forward with increased momen tum, and finally strucR the outer cable which supports the bridge. Mr. Good win was hurled on the front of the auto mobile, heading straight for the river, 1UU ieet below. By good lack, he struck one of the perpendicular supporting cables with his shoulder. Instinctively, he threw both arms about it. Patrolmen James Kent and Thomas Brady, of the bridge squad, rushed up and seized the slipping actor. Slowly but safely they dragged him back to the roadway, assisted by the chaffeur, wbo bad himself been thrown, but without injury. Mr. Goodwin had a bad cut in the back and a 2-inch gash in the cheek. He was taken to a hospital in Brooklyn, had his wounds dressed, and then went to the theater and played in the second act of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which he is how appearing. Vale Building is Destroyed. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 11. Yale University sustained a severe loss early this morning when the Forestry School building was completely gutted by fire The loss involved is estimated at over $100,000 on the building alone, while many fine specimens of plants and trees, which cannot be replaced, were des troyed. The building was formerly the resi dence of Professor Marsh. It was con structed of stone and was three stories high. William Rhodes, colored, died at St. Louis Monday, aged 105 years. He was a slave 65 years. I, OCA I. MARKETS. Ileppnor Quotations on Staples nought and Sold Here. RETAIL GROCERY PRICES. COFFER Mocha and Java, best 40c per pound ; next grade, 35c per pound; package coffee, Lion and Aibuckle, 7 packages for $1. RICE Best head rice 10c per pound ; next grade 8 cjnts per pound. SUGAR Cane granulated, best $6 50 per sack ; do 13 pounds $1. SALT Coa-se $1 per 100; 85c 50 pounds FLOUR $4 25$5per barrel. BACON 1618'! per pound. HAMS 1718c per pound. COAL OIL $1 50$1 65 for 5 gal lons ; $3 25 per case. VEGETABLES. POTATOES lc per pound. California sweet potatoes 4c per pound. CABBAGE 2c per pound. ONIONS 2c per pound. FRIITS. BANANAS 40c per dozen. APPLES 2c perrpound. LEMONS- 30c per dozen. ORANGE?--40c (I 50c per dozen. CRANBERRIES--25c per quart. LIVESTOCK AND POII.TRY. Trices paid by dealer to the producer. CHICKENS $3 50 per dozen. BUTTER Fancy creamery, 5c per roll ; rfuich, 60c per roll. HEKK CATTLE, ETC. COWS $2 50 per hundred. STEERS $3 per hundred. HOGS Live, 5c; dresneJ, Sc pound. VEAL Dressed, lie per pound. SHEEP--$I 50$2 50. HAY AS It KEEP. CHOPPED BARLEY 27 50 per ton ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. The Orthographic Chaol In Which the KnKlUli Lansuntfi Is liivolvtul Some Notable Illustration. We are weltering in an orthographic chaos in which a multitude of signs are represented by the same sound and a multitude of sounds by the same sign, says Harper's Magazine. Our race as a race has in consequence lost the phonetic sense. What can we hope for the orthoepy of a tongue in which, for ilustration, the short sound of e, found in lot, i3 represented by ea in head, by eo in leopard, by ay in says, by ai in 6aid, by ei in heifer, and by a in many? Or of the correspondingly long sound given by us to the same vowel, which is repre sented by e in mete (to measure), by c-a in meat (an article of food), or by ee in the vrb to meet; and furthermore by i in machine, by ie in believe, by ei in re ceive, by.eo in people, and by aeinaegia? Or take the sound denoted by the digraph Bh, seen in ship. It is represented by ce in ocean, by ci in suspicion, by ti in nation, by xi in anxious, by sei in con science, and by s followed by u in sure. There is no object in heaping up further harrowing details, which, indeed, could be multiplied indefinitely. They have been introduced merely to show how hopeless is tn prospect vr attaining under such conditions a uniform stand ard of pronunciation which all will rec ognize at once, and to which all will un questioningly bow. WHAT A COOL SUMMER DOES. Ill Httftct to tl BnUra Duln Com munity, Farmer lnlull Kpa Money from Clrealatlng. A well known business man says that the ordinary observer did not stop to consider what a cool summer meant to the entire .business community, accord ing to the Philadelphia Record. Said he: "It affects everything that depends upon trade for life. I have no doubt that the present slump in stocks is due in part to the cool summer, which has made the crops so uncertain. Let us start with the farmer. He b& had poor luck with his corn, melons and all kinds of truck. The merchants who sell summer clothing and all kinds of seasonable wear have hardly paid expenses; every seashore re sort has been running.light. This means so much money lost from circulation, and all the mechanical trades and in dustries must suffer. Of course, no one is to blame, and the only thing to do is to live and let live until a real hot sum mer comes to push things along again." CHARITY FOR CRIPPLES. Unfortunate Aldod by Sooioty Cnrl ooaJy Hamad "Th Gnllrt of the Draw Poor Tkina." "The Guild of the Brave Poor Things" ts the curious name adopted by a com pany of English charity workers, whose womanly effort are being directed to ward the amelioration of the condition of cripples, young and old. The guild has recently acquired a country holiday home at North Com mon, Challey, Sussex. It is called the Heritage, and was formally opened in June by the duchess of Bedford. Tlu home is picturesquely situated and wih accommodate 50 guild members men, women and children some of whom will become permanent residents and others will ha taken from the various branches of the guild for short vacation periods. As soon as may be it is in tended to start a school of arts and crafis for the crippled and deformed in mates, and the work will be sold for their benefit. GREAT MARKET CF EUROPE. It Abaorba Folly One-Half th Mann factored Products of the Inltod State. "Our Manufactures in the Markets of the World" is the title of an interest ing article by O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, which appears in the North American Review. Among the astonishing facts connected with the BUTrvelous Increase in our exports of manufactures is, that one-half of our ex ports of manufactures wont to Europe; that one-fourth went to that great man ufacturing country, the United King dom, and that nearly one-half of the total went to British territory. The share of the total exports of the United States represented by manufactures has steadily increasedhas increased, in deed, out of all proportion to the preat increase in our export generally. The exportation of manufactures has in creased even in larger proportion than the production of manufactures, hi an effort to estimate the probability of thet United States' rontlr uir. g to export man ufactured products in large quantities, Mr. Austin asks two a'Kstiors rair.ely, whether the manufacture s wp export are of a class which the world wili centime to require as a part of its daily life, ar.d whether these ma.nufr.oturrs arp com posed of a class of material of wh;h wp have plentiful supplies. To both cf these questions Mr. An.-in pive s a re r'y in the affirmative, q'-ntin? thp Matiyt.irs on which relies in Irv mi. .Tr. Aus tin calls aite-rtion to i'-.f- opportunity ly ing before thp United pttts fcr vastly incrca.-in? tho exportation of manufac tured products: "Rut there are Ft ill other worl.V to ,conqiHr. r.J!e wp r.rivp iri-r' t'mn j qua'iru''U-l o;j" r-,T.. r' ;i "on r vfip t;.rcs sii; e 1 s ' a:.u . 'u: .-.v;: i - " r nations of the world in their production during that same period, we are still sup plying but ten per cent, of the manufac tures which enter into the international commerce of the world. The value of manufactures exported from all the countries of production, and in turn im ported by some other country or coun tries, amounts to about $4,000,000,000 annually, the share which we supply of this grand total being only about $400, 000,000 annually. Of this $4,000,000,000 worth of manufactures which enter irto international commerce the United Kingdom furnishes about one-fourth, Germany one-fifth, Frarce one-eighth and the United States one-tenth. About three-fourths of thie rrent mass of man ufactures which enter into international commerop ar corrrioocd of iron and steel, copper rd cotton, of whlh. we are the world's Inrfpe nrnrhf-'-rc. and for the manufacture or "-bir1' w have fa cilities at ppin! o those of any other coun r- while in other elae? of manufacture our productive powers are developing at a rate which promises that we may with ponfidence enter the field of interregional competition." INSIDE OR OUTSIDE. Far-Lined Garment Mny lie More Comfortable, lint They Don't Look So Well. It was after the club meeting. Several ladies were chatting over a cup of tea. The discussion turned to their winter furs, which they had been putting in summer storage, says the New York Her ald. "I don't see how you can have the heart. Mrs. Jones." exclaimed one. "to hide all that lovely sealskin in your fur lined cloak. If it were mine I shouldn't want to hide it under a bushel like that" 'Thank your," laughed Mrs. Jons, de murely, "meaning to imply that my waist is bushel measure, I suppose?" "You both make me laugh.," put in a third, nibbling daintily at a biscuit. "Not at your discussion, which is as old as the stone age, when primitive man gave his spouse the first bear skin still warm from its original wearer." "Then what's so excruciatingly funny about our talk?" demanded the first woman, eying her suspiciously, for she was giggling openly. "Well, I'll tell you. It's a funny story that my father used to tell on himself. You know, he kept a country general store when he first started out to be a real merchant, and it was the upual gathering spot for all the villagers, just like you read about in Mary Wilkins' stories. Well, one cold night ho wa3 trying to sell a big farmer hoy one of those heavy coats lined with buffalo skin. "Papa dilated at length on the advan tages of having the fur side inside how the circulation of the warm air kept you so much warmer than if it was on the outside, and soon. When he got through the boy's father, who had been sprawling all over a big box behind the stove, ap parently asleep, opened one squinty eye, took a chew of tobacco and drawled: 'Wal, now, Si, you do beat all fer book larnin' sence ye went deown ter N'York. Whut a pity the good Lord didn't know about thet fur business when He made b'ars!' Papa didn't sell the coat." "Yes," said the first woman, triumph antly, "that's what I think. If that was the warmest way animals would have had the fur inside. Think of a bear going about" "In his bare skin," added Mrs. Jones, And the party broke up. Sandwich at a Hnnqnet. The young woman who was trying to sing a love ballad at the musical while the guests were chattering like magpies finished the song and sat weari ly down. "O, won't you come out and have an ice?" asked the one sympathetic and appreciative man. "O, thank you," said the young wom an. "But after puch a frost I don't think I care for an ice." Chicago Trib une. Smalleat Typewriter. The smallest typewriter ever manu factured was made in America 14 years ago. It was four inches by three Inches and weighed four and a half ounces. NO MORE BLACK DIAMONDS. Supply Still Bxlat. Hat Electrically Itanafaetvwod Article Ha En tirely Replaced Them. The trade In carbonado, or Brazilian black diamonds, which, so late as five years ago, was worth nearly $4,000,000 a year, is at present practically de ad. These stones, first discovered in 1843, are a kind of black, opaque and imper fectly crystallised diamond, found only in Drazil. They are less dense than the white diamond, but actually harder, and were found of immense value for mounting in the steel crowns of rock boring drills. it was the electric furnace, worked by the trt ii.tndous water power of Niagara, which put an end to the carbonado trade, says Stray Stories. A mixture of sand, coke, sawdust and salt inelnd together in this amaiing heat resulted in the formation of masses of beautiful crys tals, ranging from" blood-red to pale blue. Those have been named carborun dum. They are almost as hard as the diamond, and Indestructible in acids to which the diamond yields. They cost loss th"n a quarter of carbonado, and so have difplaeed it. ... 6o different games all new one in each package of Lion Coffee at your Grocer's. TIib pope find the pa- i se-cr nry "f r-tatn utterh r fi Ke t interpose even a uol of i ndent in behalf of Colombia in her pivH-nt difficulties with Panama and the United States. A fire in the buildings of the state normal nchool at Nf on mouth, on Wednesday uijdit, did eeveral uodred dollars worth of damage. A national bank ban been char tered with $25,000 capital for Con doD, Gilliam county, with J, Frauk Watsoa, of Portland, as president; Edward Dunn, of Portland, vice president, and N. Farusworth, of New York City, as cashier. ma 9 mm SEEDS MEET ALL NEEDS Experience has established it as a fact. Bold by all dealers. You bow they grow. 1904 Seed Annual postpaid fre to all ap plicants. D. M. FERRY A CO. , DETROIT, MICH. JUST STARTED . . . Tlios. Brennan, Practical Horseshoer Entire Attention deyoted to Horse shoeing. No other work. Lower Main street next to Mead ows' Livery Parn. Before You Order Tombstones, Marble or Granite Work You will d well to see Ylonterastelli Brothers and get prices. They have a floe stock on hand. MAIN STUKET, II F I'I'Milt, OKK. visit DR. 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Trmiiti fitted bv an K i pert. Mad!at fare for Ruplitr. A quk-lr and rodioni . i lire for Plla. I lunre and rieioiaa, 07 )r. Jordan's snerlnl iiHliiIeea tnetboda F.VF.HT MAX applying to us will redalr 1 aor VwJit vptriim of hie com r'"'"'- . ' Me will dunrmM o tOSITIVS CCSX 1 'rv ' ""trip- Cons'iitanon rur.n. u tn " '. CHARQES VF.H T REASONABLE Treatment DenvtiiaUy or by letter. HARRIAUE. Mnrn Fsia (A Talnabia ( book for men.) can or writ DR. JOaDAN A CO., I0SI Marfcat SU. F. Heppner Gazette tl per ear