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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1910)
INCREASED SALES ENABLE THE STORES THAT ADVERTISE TO SEIL MORE ChEAPLY THAN THOSE WHO DON'T. VOL. XX. SALEM, OREOON, MONDAY, SEPTEMUEK 10, 1010. No. 210. MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN WORLD 9r - miiTiL .Huiinx AND LET JVERY STREET BE BORDERED W No Other City Has the Wide Streets and the Same Oppotunity City Hall Attracts Attention Always, As Do Many Other Beautiful Private Parkings If Made General So There Would Be Miles of Flour-Bordered Streets Salem Would Be Known the World Over. Hay, there! This means you. The horse editor wants to talk to you for a few minutes. Have you a lovi for and a prido in your town? If you have, would you not like to make it known to the world? Would it not afford you immense satisfaction and a great deal of pleas ure to know that whenever the trav elers, no matter whltire they go, or how many beauties of Europe or the Old World they see, would at once say: "Yes, beautiful indeed, but it does not compare with Salem, uregon, the most beautiful city dn tho world." This can be accomplished, and done so easily that, outside of the satis faction you would get out of it, it would also prove a good business in vestment, from a financial point of view. More than that, Salem is one of the very few cities that can do this one thing. Tho oportunlty is hers, and practically hers only. Never In the history of our store have wo achieved such a marked success in buying the appropriate goods for our customers as wo have this season. The eager customers that visit our store, and tho unusually largo Increase in our business shows clearly that our styles and prices are right. 1910 and 1911 Newest Styles In Ladles' Tailored Suite (like the cut) Now on Solo. Work manshlp and materials the best. Wonderful values for The Greater $8.50, $10.50 and $12.50 The plan is simple, and that is make the parking system of tho city general. The broad streets nnd sidewalk parkings are Salem's alone, and fur nish an opportunity for civic beauti fying that few if any cities in the United States can boast. All we have to do is to take ad vantage of tho conditions. Wo have now a fine start in that direction, and some of the most beautiful sidewalk parkings in the world are hare in Sa lem, but the unadorned, weed-grown and unkept parkings that are sand wiched in among those that are kept up, spoil the effect, and indeed to a certain extent the really beautiful parkings serve but to emphasize tho ugliness of their unkempt neighbors. Let us improve them all, so that the stranger within our gates, no mat-' ter where he goes, will ride through miles of flower-bedecked streets, until his eyes are surfeited with the riot of color and beauty, and ho feels that ho has had a glimpse Into tho Garden New Fall Millinery Tho greatest showing we ever attempted in Fashionable Mil linery is here in all styles, shapes and colors. Styles Like the Cut Now on sale at wonderfully low prices. $1,95, $2.50, $3.50 and up Dress Goods The greatest stock in Salom of fashionable dress goods and silks to make your selection from, and atlowest prices. Yd, 25c, 35c, 45c up. 1910 and 1911 Newest styles in hirt Waists NOW ON SALE The greatest showing over made in WOOLEN, SILK and LINEN. Come here for bargains. Each 40o. 7Eo, 98c, $1.49 and up icaeo Store ? Those Poor Railroads. Chicago, Sept. 19. At tho request of President Taft, In- terstate Commerce Commission- irs Clements, Clark and Lane are attending the hearing of the Western railroads who have re- quested an increase of freight rates. Auditor Kelttell, of tho 111!- nols Central, was on the stand today. He declared that the cost of operation had increased 48 per cent since the 'present general rate was utablished. On the other hand, though there had been some Increase in re- coipts, through enlarged busi- ness, and other sources, the profits, he said, had declined in proportion to thet increased oper- ation charges. ? ! of Eden. . There are rose cities and carnation cities, and- clMes named or known by dozens of other flowers. Salem can be famed for all of them, for be ing tlM one city in the United States where, for at least nine months of the year, her Btreets are bordered with flowers and greenery. True, it would take some work, but this is a labor of love, and, divided among our 20,000 people, it mmns but a trifle of work to each, j Let the ladies organize a society to carry out this idea. Let the busi ness men, the property owners, the renters, everyone within the city, get together and make it tho most beau tiful and one of the most-talked-of cities in the ring of the world. and Silks Salem, Oregon ? ' Eight Balloons Down. H Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 19. With eight baloons already down that sailed in tho national championship , and free-for-all balloon races, .starting at Indi- anapolis Saturday, it is ex- fr pocted nothing remarkable in tho way of now records wllll be made. Only five bags remain aloft, and, white it is not definitely known where they are, it is not believed, judging from the showing made ' by those that havo descended, that tho rec- ord of 1121 miles, made by E. Mix, Is in any danger. ? YOUNfi GIRL Eby Alice Shepherd, aged 13, Tells of Beating Her Fath er's Brains Out With an Axe Because He Had Whipped Her. THEN KILLED HER BROTHER Slipped Up Behind Her Father and Crushed Ills Skull With an Axe, Then, Fearing Her Brother Would Discover Hor Crime, She Killed Him Also Sho Invented a Story of, lieliiK A Mm It o 'Masked". Men 16 Hide Her Guilt, Hut Broke Down and Confesses. Newklrk, Okla., Sopt. 19. Posses seeking tho man who attacked little Eby Alice Shepherd, 13, and beat hor fa'ther, Taylor Shepherd, and hor brother, J. W. Shepherd, to death, were called in today, wheln tho llttlo girl tearful and hysterical, confessed thsit she killed her. rolatlvoe. According to tho confession tho little girl sobbed out todny tho fan tastic story she told Saturday of as sault and murdor was fabricated to hide hor own terrible deed, when angtlred because ho had beaten her, sho stole up behind her father and beat him to death with nn axe, and then, fearing ho,r brother would dis cover the deed, and tell it, sho killed 'him also. The screams of tho llttlo girl brought persons to tho scene of the FIGHT IN MINNESOTA A WARM ONE CONGRESSMAN TAWNEV, ONE OF THE DIG GUNS, OPPOSED HV Pit ATI CALLY UNKNOWN MAN, FACES A HARD DE FEAT. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 19. Inter est in tomorrow's congressional pri maries for tho state of Minnesota, if centorcd in tho fight in tho first dis trict, whore Congressman James A. Tawnoy is fighting for ro-nominn-tlon. Sydney Andorson, insurgent, and beforo tho campaign practically unknown politically, Is conceded an evon chanco to boat Tawnoy. Fran cis J. Honey and Glfford Plnchot were among tho notables who throw themsolves Into tho fight bohlnd An derson. In tho fourth district H. T. Hal bort, Insurgent, is opposed to Fred erick Stevons, present holder of the office, and a standpatter. Another sharp contest Ib expected in the fifth district, where Frank Mellen, In cumlMint. U oppoeed by A. II. Hall. Insurgent Intereet Is at fever heat throughout the state and a heavy vote la expected. ? Important Cabinet. Meeting. ) Washington, Sept. 19. So many questions of government havo Mien held lnnboyanie on account of department heads that tho special cablnot meet- lug on September 2.6 will be of unusual Importance. All tho members have reserved big prob- lems for the closo of tho vaca- tlon period, and tho tlmo when 3 they can get tho benefit of con- sulfation with their collmgues. President Taft will arrivo in Washington Sunday, September 25, to arrango for tho reception of his councilors, who will bo his guests at tho White House. Should tho question of Sec- retary Balllngcir's retirement from tho interior department be raised, as It possibly may be, it will bo the most Interesting subject dn the.cablnet discussion. ? attack Saturday. They found hor un sclous, her father bleeding and semi conscious was lying near her, and hor brother was found not far away. Tho fhther regained consciousness, and the few words ho managed to speak confirmed tho belief that a man had attacked his daughter, and then had beaten him. Those who heard the few words be lieve that Shepherd did not know who struck him, and they think the first blow probably rendered him uncon scious, nnd that tho blows wero rained on his head after ha knew nothing. For hours the girl lay unconscious, then when sho regained her senses she told of-an attackthat had-been mado, on, hen When sho repeated her story tlfero word a number of dlacre'p nncles.'and sho was closoly questioned Under tho cross-examlhation she broke down and told tho story of her ntUick on hor father and brother. She said that they had beaten hor se verely. Sho is hysterical today, and under tho care of a physician. Both father nnd brother llvod for sovoral hours nftor they had boon struck by tho litlo girl. J..W. Shop herd never regained consciousness. Both suffered fractures of tho skull Cholera In Naples. united rnEsa ucised wikb.1 Rome, Sopt. 19. Advices from Naples to tho offect that, there are more than 150 cases of cholera in tho hospitals at that place havo beon received. Tho death rato i about 80 por cent. o "Tho great way," murmured tho grafter, as ho took .another million from tho Indians. KILLED AT CROSSI ELETRIO OAIt STRIKES BUGGY IN WHICH THEV WERE RIDING ONE WOMAN IS KILLED AND TWO OTHERS FATALLY IN JURED, (UNITED VWI1S WISH. Los Angales, Cal., Sept, 19 Mrs. Frank X. Loldol Is dead, Mrs. J. Stephen Knelln, wife of a Southern Pacific employo, Is thought to bo dying, and Mrs. William Sataoublo, wlfo of a Playa Del Roy rancher, U seriously and porhaps fatally In- Jurod as tho rosult of nn accident at tho crossing at Boyors, on tho Los Angeles-Paclflc electric lino to Von Ice. Tho three women woro driving noross the tracks In a buggy whoit they wero struck by a throo-oar beach ox prow. The buggy was de molished and the throo occupants wore hurled many feet. Tho hua bnndB of the women, who were walking ahead of the buggy a short distance, saw the accident. The approaohlng car wero hidden at the crossing by a thlok oluinp of trees. WOMEN ARE imu oirnnMMCiin dcciicm HILL ilLUUIfl.flLiiU !1L! UUfll. TO PAY WARREN COMPANY CLAIM CONCRETE I Special Committee Finds Grounds for the Big Kick against Con crete on Winter Street Dirt in the Sand, It Is Claimed, Prevents Concrete Setting, and Curbings Crumble Like So Much Caked Sand-'uTmTTittee Will Recommend That No Payments Be Made the Company ,and Then the Fireworks Will Start. There will be more fireworks- at the meeting of tho city council to night when tho special committee on investigation of tho character of work performed by tho Warren Bttu llthlc company in tho laying of the concroto curbing and gutters upon Winter street, makes its report. This committee is prepared to roport adversely upon tho acceptance of tho work, on ,tho ground that tho sand gravel and concrete, are of such in ferior quality that they will not bind sufficiently to guarnnteo a per manent Improvement and will rec ommend that the contractors bo not paid a cont upon tho contract price until the whole Job of ovor a mile of curbing and guttor on both sides of tho Btreet Is roplaced with a bet ter character of work. This special Committee, appointed at tho last regular mooting at tho solicitation of tho property owners along Winter streot against whose property tho cost of tho Improve raentMS assessed, is composed of'Al1 dormen Lachmund' and Greonbaum. They made investigation of "the work complained of and found that, although tho Job has been comploto for over six weeks, tho curbing and gutter crumbles and falls almost ot the touch of tho hand or a kick of tho hool and they attribute it to tho sand being mixed with dirt which will not permit tho concroto to form nn adhesion nnd bind tho lngrodl onts together. It is oxpected that thoro will bo a loud howl go up -H M M M t V Our Exhibit Indian Robes From the State Fair are now oh Sale at our Store for a few daya previous to Shipping them Back to rPendIetcn. The assortment affords those who wish to Purchase an unusal opportunity of matching color schemes as well as a great range of designs from which to choose ; Woolen S ROTTI when tho committco makes Its report tonight and It Is more than probablo that the pyrotechnic display Incident thereto will put to blush the elabor ate fireworks which were set off at tho fair grounds this week. There is also trouble brewing over the character of tho same kind of work which is being or has been porformed by Contractor Walter Pugh, of this city, on North Capital street, as a result ot which It Is .un derstood that Ovorsoer John Jeffer son, appointed to loot after the In terests of tho property jowners in the making of tho street improvement, has resigned his Job nnd refuses to havo anything further to do with tho matter upon his own responsibility nnd that Frank B. Southwlck, who Is superintending tho work of Im provement on Winter street has been selected to go ahead with the work on Capital street. Tho property owners on Capital street, It is understood rose up In ftrms"wheH"inlbrm'cd-thttrther,aolde!r Gato cement which Is being used In tho performance of " the" ''concrete work upon that street was of infer ior quality and will not set and Mr. Jefferson refused to go ahead with the work, if that quality and brand of cement was continued in use, but it Is now understood that tho.prop erty owners hnve withdrawn their kick and aro willing that the work proceed. This mnttor, too, may como up for nn airing before tho council at tonight's meeting. , H M H M H t M M of Pendleton ; and Blankets f Mill Store 1