DAILY CAP ITAL JOURNAL.'SALEM, OREGON. TUE8DAY, DECEMBER 29, 1903. EIGHT trtM atkMfeMtMdtM tockton&Co Now for the ,l ir ' ' January Cleanings ", We have moved nil our dress goods up to the corner atoro and find wo havont -k ' near enough room to put them away. " Our jackets, Skirts and suits are crying for room also. In return we aro moving our immense stock of fur nishings for men, to our old stand 298-300 Commercial. Wo will run two exclusive storos until our new building is com pleted. By having Uio stocks thus classified ho will be bettor able to sorvfl our customers and givo thorn bettor valuos for their monoy. Our Great January Clearance Sales and Sale of White Goods will be tho event of the coming year: Come to us for betfer goods for less money PORTLAND STILL A VILLAGE k Clothing and Slioo store 208-300 Commercial Streets. Dry Goo Is Corner Court and Commercial Streets. mssMmmimwsiuirwBBSBSi Will Fight Reduction. Washington, Dee. 20. Qompers, In tills month's American Fedorntlonist, urges all unions to resist any reduc tion of va8W Tho average age at which a man marrios In the United States li twenty l and a half. WHEAT MARKET8. Chicago, Dec. 20 Wheat, 843 JUtbc. Gold Dust Flour Mde by THE SIDNEY POWER COMPANY, Sidney, Oregon. Mado for family ubo. Ask your grocer for It. Bran and shorts al ways on hand. A. T. Wain, Agt. Oregon Fire Relief Association Oregon's Great Mutual Insurance Co. $15,440,588 Insurance at risk Safe, economical Insurance for the seople. Head office. Mcninvllle, Or. H. A JOHN ON. Arcnt for Marlon Co Salem. Oregon- Aro the Mushrooms tho Cauae? CorvnlllB, Or., Dec. 20. During the Inst 10 days Kdwurd Blake, of Soap creek has lost 36 goats out of a Hock of 200, which he Is pasturing on his fann In the northern part of tho coun ty, which have either died from eat ing mushrooms or boon killed by cougars. Quite a lot of mushrooms grow In the fields whore tho goats roam, and they have hoen seen oatlng thorn. Mr Dlnke sont In this woolc a quantity of the mushrooms to Prof. Pornot, hatorlologlst at tho colloge, for oxamlnntlon, to dotormlno wheth er or not thuy nro poisonous. Moan while he has romoved tho remainder of his Hock to anothor locality, and Is kooplng a sharp lookout for the suspected "varmint." With tho price (V goats nt $4 and $5 por head, Mr, Bnkor's loss Is considerable, o After the Railways. Washington, Doc. 20. A case In volving tho right of railways to charge demurrago on prlvntoly owned enrs was fllod by tho Clarke Oil Co., of Cleveland, against the Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railway today, with tho Intorstato commorco com mission. The decision will settlo the question. Can't Find Accommo dations for its In Yited Guests A Splendid Outlook for Fair Visitors in 1905 Vis itors Must Bring Tents ho will go back to his homo In Win lock. Mr. Rhoados was for years one of the prominent mill men of Wash lngton. Ho has for some years been colsely ldontlfled with tho Christian Science church of Wlnlock, having boon ono of the first membors and al ways ono of tho most loyal support" ors of that church In his home town. Wanted Potatoes We Want Burbank Potatoes. Early Rose Potatoes. Early Jackson Potatoes. Peerless Potatoes. Qarnett Chill Potatoes. James ML Kyle & Co i 75 CommcrcfalSt. Fresh ' NAVAL ORANGES Today AT F&ewide & ,jmHI Cdward Ellis. 144 8tte 8t Annual Taxpayers' Meeting. Iffvorybody nttend the nnnunl tax payers' meeting of school district No. 31, at the city hall Wednesday even ing, December 80, nt 7:30, to levy n tux for the ensuing year. 12-29-2t A sorlou3 dllomma now confronts tho local executive commltteo in charge of tho National Llvostock Con vention. It is a shortago of available quarters for tho accommodation of the dologates and visitors to tho big meeting. The, attendanco will cer tainly joxeeed 3000 and may roach a figure nlmo'st doublo that. Up to this time but 375 rooms havo been listed by tho commltteo, and, based on tho lowest ostimato, about 1000 more will be needed. Tho&o aro in addition to tho accommodations offorod at the big hotels, which aro rapidly bolng resorved by mall and wire. Sonator Mlllls has gono to San Francisco, to bo absent until after tho Now Year, and Max M. Shlllock, of tho pross committee, is acting In his stead. Ho has established an ofllco in tho PresE Club rooms on tho sovonth lloor of the Mniquam building, whoro he may bo found between 11 a. m. and noon, from 12:30 until 1 p. m. and from 4 to fi p. m. each nay. All persons who have rooms to lot in their homos or room ing houses aro requested to communi cate wltli him by mall or tolophono, giving the numbor of such rooms and tho price por day. The committee feels that tho city's roputatlon Is at stako In this matter, and unloss Portlaud promptly re sponds to tho duty of housing its .visitors alio will suffer lrroparalilo In. Jury. Tho convention will do much elthor for good or evil In advertising the city, and ovory cltlzon. should take a kcon Intorost in seeing that only favorable Impressions shall go abroad. It Is absolutely necessary to provide-' a sufficient numbor of sleeping rooms at reasonnblo prices If this result Is to be attained. Tho visitor cannot bo required to sloop in tho streets or horded in undoslrablo lodgings. Oro-gonlnn. New Military Board. Governor Chamberlain this morn Ing appointed his military board, dis placing the ofllcers holding theso po sltlonB since Governor Geer's time. All of tho appointee are residents of Portland. They are: Gordon Voorhlcs, Is Inspcctor-gon-oral, succeeding Col. Jamos Jackson. Cecil II. Bowor, Judge advocate gonornl, vlco Col. S. C. Sponcer. Dr. Chas. T. Chamberlain, surgeon gonoral, vlco Col. A. D. Glllls. Al. Waddle, commissary-general, vlco Col. D. M. Dunne. Gloomy 1'iuil Ivrutccr, Paul Krugcr, once the "Lion of South Africa," Is now living n life of scclu slon nt Mcnton, France. Ho looks old sick and disheartened, and he lives w quietly that he might bo ut Utrecht toi 'nil Mciiton knows about hlni. TIu Boer ex-president has taken two sint", villus, ulinot mean In appearance overlooking the sen. Ho has been our side tho garden only once sluco 1-e ar rived. Although he never goes to any place of public worship dovotloual ex orcises and Bible reading tnko up tho greater part of each Sunday. Dogrce of Honor, No. 10, gives a dance In Holuinu hull Saturday, Jan uary 2d. Sccuro Invitations of mem bers or committee. BasnasaQBiisBnBHBBaaHBaBBci n esolved:! w 111 3 M a m m -IU llettvr to Smile. The sunniest skies are tho fairest, The happitat hours aro best. Of nil life's high blessings (lie rarest Are fullest of comfort and rest. Though futu Is our purpose denying, Lt each )ur his part like a man- Nor sudden the world with his slghlnc: 'TIs better to smile If we cuu Each litmrt has Its burden of sorrow, IBecli soul has lt hudow of deubt: 'TIs sunshine we're yenrnlns to borrow True sunrfilne within und without. Then let us wtnr the faces of pleasure The world shall be happy to scan And H1U to the Wfalth of Its treasure; 'TIs better to smile It wo oan. Nison Waterman In National. s) s Heronftor to place our nccounts for oolleatlon with 3 Van Alstlne, Gordon & Co, m m Phone, Main 801. fi A. R. Morgan & Co., Mors. HBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBiSBBBflBB rKBhl-H4-B4H--IH-fB-l-BSfl-M-fl(4-aBf-BaH-aB4BB4-B4' Happy Heu) Year to all our old mid now customers, to prospective ones wo will sity that wo will continue our roputntion for low ptices, good goods, and good work. If during tho coming yoar you aro in need of anything in our line or need work done, you will flud it to your nd vantage to consult us first. Reuiouabor wo nro tho pioueer optioiaus. C&as EL Hinges? Jeweler and Optician, 88 State Street. KUH8fiBa t$MKMW4rHftft44 A Prominent Waihlngtonian. A. J. Rhoados, Esq., of Wlnlock, Washington, who has been visiting Mr. A. Prosoott of this city for the past wtek, returned to Portland by this .morning's train. After visiting there with bis son Charles, who Is pc-stal clerk on the Northern Pacific. Because women are not angels is no ronson why thoy don't like to have people say thoy are. Second Hand DIED,, SPRINGER. At the homo of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Spring' or, at Brooke, Monday, Decombor 28, 1903, Nottlo May Sprlngor, aged 17, of tuberculosis. Tho funoral was held this morning at tho family homo, and burial took placo this afternoon at the Odd Fol lows' cemotory. DIED. DOLE. At tho family homo, on 18th street, near Mill, Salem, Oregon, Dccomher 29, 1903, Cornello A. Dole, aged 59 years, of paralysis. Deceased has been a railroad man all hisjlfc, and but recently came horo from his old home In Colorado, In tho hopo of restoring his hoalth In tho mtld climate of tho Willamette valley. Deceased loaves a widow and five children, Nina M., Edwin E., Charles C. and Mrs. Elma Skinner, Uio lattor a resident of Colorado. Tho funeral nrrangemonts will be mado lator. Undergoing Court-Martial. Seattle, Doc. 29. Llout. Oscar, C. Haino3, of tho revenue cuttor Man ning is being caurt-raaitlalod today on a charge of conduct unbecoming nn officer. It Is alleged he seduced, tin dor promlso of marriage', Mrs. Fannie Falls, a prominent socloty woman, who has sued Halnos for f!5,000 fo. breach of promlRo." W. W. Johns, the Harness Maker, 9C Stnto street, Is confined to his homo because of sickness, and W. I. Gadwa la conducting tho placo In his stead, and will fill all ordors promptly. It Machines Wo have continued to accummulate so many second-hand sowing machines by taking them In on sales of now machines that wo havo a great many moro than wo wnnt. Wo can mako It worth your while to visit us, for wo will tell you a modem, high-arm ma chlno of most any standard mako at about your own prlco. Drop In, and you'll seo wo'ro right. Needles for all machines, Excelsior and Howards, best mado, 25c a dozen. Bost grades Nyis sporm oil, "3 lu 1" and "Big Four" oils, all prlmo sowing machlno oils, and warranted not to gum. F. A. Wiggins' Implement House. 255-257 Liberty St. Farm Machinery, Bicycles, Automo biles, Sewing Machines and Supplies. N. H. BURLEY, Sowing Machlno Repairing. Treaty Approved. Paris, Dec. 29. The council of min isters today approved the Franco Italian arbitration treaty. -HH-H-W4I-H-H-H' T new Today fH-I-H ! H I I H i H-H-4-f-H-fr-fr-r- For Rent A five-room cottage. In qulro of H. S. Jory, near Uio brick store, South Salem 12-29-3t The White Sale Is a Big Sticcess The store is trimmed n in white from top to bot tom Ladies who came yesterday pronotmced oar showing of muslin, underwear the prettiest ever on display in Salem : I i ; I A J ST JS J W a s r :: n tl, - inmi.iiiiiiiniiiffF Found Near Rosedale a ladles hand bag, containing somo money. Own er enn havo same by calling on A. M. Bllnston, Route 4, nnd proving property, 12-29-3t W. O. V. Ball. Leap yoar party at Tioga hall Nmr Year's night. TIckots and Invitation! to bo had of commltteo. Bost of music and a good tlmo assured. All come. Admission, gentlemen 60c, Ladles 25d ' WM-Jt fw$ wsBOrjamm fJVZfl Vi V '' 1- EEOVXJE&JBAnGAINMMOU&& CLEARING SALE CONTINUED Prices Recklessly Slaughtered, Investigate, it Will Pay You 1 he Cheapest Store in the Northwest M'Evoy Brothers, Court St.,Salem Court Street, Salem. Tin Moxt Ilciuurkntiln Suicide. The most curious miloido In tho an nuls of wlf destruction occurred at Chi quete. N. II.. In tho spring of 18110. Be fore committing Uio deed tho self mur derer, who m as ntimeil W. It. T. Joum, dug hta own gnivt nud placed a rough colllu of Ills own 'inii! work nt tho bot tom. The dirt from the owning was kept from rolling back Into the eiccnvn tloii by boards held in pUieo by u trhs ger to which a string wh ultncheil. Everything lu redlnow, the Oidluomti' Mr. Jones, as Hultsoquont develupmouts revealed, got In the co-fln. took a dose of poison nud then pulled tho string, burying hlmsolf beneath tons of eurth. Thui has been put down as one of the mwt uulque nud successful cases of snlf dostructloc on recent. The i:rly .Mttine Sc-lioola, Tho first Mchools In hoiuo Maine towns have beeu uttunded with romunUc cIp cumstanciw. The first school In Gull ford, for want of n better place lu which to fertilize the youug Idea, was hold "In the loft over Captain Ben nott's open shed." In Dexter the first gathering of urchins for Instruction was In "Lieutenant Stafford's barn." lu Corinth the first school was held In the oiton u Ir under n large tree. The first schoolroom In Uxotar was porhaps as unique as any. Ctptchod, polos were set In the ground back of Mr. llnrker'J burn and on those other polos were laid, whllo around tho slde9 loom boards wore sot up on end to In close the space whoro the school was hold. Scholars of the present day would look uskunco at audi conveu-len'K. ggsaaaBSiaatcaiaaagBsaaBgea Owing to an tinavoidable delay in manufacturing the latge edition of the January number of the Metropolitan Magazine Stibsctihets will probably not receive their copies by mail until about January' 1st. J I