s ' i i
SLAUGHTERING PRICES IN ORDER TO CLOSE OUT
Dry Goods Department.
Regular
Rrice.
Dress Goods .10 and 12e
20 and 25c
" 30 and 35c
" " 65c
" $1.25
Blk Dress Silks ' 1.15
Blk Dress Siiks 1 75
Blk Brocado Silks 1 50
Plaid Dress Silks 1 50
24 inch Surrah and .-atin 75c
Silk Velvets $2 00
Best Silk Pluthes 1 50
Ladies Wrappers - 1 35
. Ladies Cloaks 7 50
Misses' Cloaks 4 00
Ladies' Bonnets . : 6 00
Ladies' Trimmed Hats at half price.
Flowers and Ornaments at half price.
Ladles' Mackintoshes 4 00
6 00
Misses Electric Circulars 1 50
Pure Silk Ribbons at half price.
Children's Underwear from 15c.
Ladies' Underwear 40c
50c
" 70c
Sale
Price.
7Kc
15c
22)c
50c
75c
85c
$1 17K
1 00 .
95e
Son
$1 50
1 HO
95e
5 50
2 50
2 00
3 25
4 50
95
30c
37c
50c
Dry Goods Department.
Beg. Price. Sale Price
Ladics'.Embroidered Skirts $1 25 85c
" Wool Knit Skirts ..185 $1 35
" Corsets 75 55
1 00 75
Misses' Corset Waists 40 30
Laces and Embroideries at half price.
Ladies' Kid Gloves 1 25 85
. Lies Curtains 85 65
- ." 3 00 1 85
70-inch Pure Linen Table Damasks ,. . . 1 00 75
Linen Napkins. 25 15
Towels 10 IK
Towels 15 2)i
White Bed Spreads 1 25 95
White Bed Spreads 1 75 1 25
Cretons 30 22
Blankets, splendid values, 65c to $4 00.
Peabody Muslins 5
Lonsdale " 7)$
Blackstone " 8
Cabot W " 5
Cabot A " 5M
Outing Flannels 10 7
Outing Flannels 6g 5
White Flannels 25 20
Superior Calicos 7 b
Turkey Red 15 10
' Gents' Clothing Department.
Regular
Price.
Tailor-made Suits $ 6 00
" 7 00
" 8 00
" " 12 00
" : 15 00
Big Suits for large men.
Boys' Knee Pant Suits 2 00
Boys' Knee Pant Suits 3 25
Boys' Long Pant School Suits 5 00
Men's Pants 2 50
" All Wool Pants 2 50
" 3 CO
" . " " 4 00
" Ulsters . 5 00
" 6 50
" Mackintoshes.... ..' 5 50
" " 7 00
Shoe Department.
Ladies' Dongola Kid Shoas $ 1 75
" Vici Kid Shoes 2 25
" Vici Kid Goodyear Welt Shoes 3 00
" Quilted Hand-turn Slippers 2 00
" Velvet Hand-turn Slippers 1 50
" Vici Kid Strap Slippers 2 25
Sale
Price.
$ 4 50
5 60
6 00
9 00
12 00
50
50
75
90
90
25
00
00
25
25
50
45
75
60
75
15
75
Shoe Department,
Regular Sale
, Price. Price.
Misses' Glove Calf Shoes ... $175 $135
" Oil Grain Shoes 160 130
.I?ngola Kid Shoes 175 135
Vici Kid Shoes 2 00 1 65
Mi-t's Satin Calf Shoes 1 75 35
Veal Calf Shoes 2 25 '175
" Cordovan Shoes 4 25 3 60
" Kangaroo Shoes 5 00 4 00
" Dongola Turn Dancing Pumps 2 25 1 85
Boys' Glove Calf Shoes 175 135
Boys' Veal Calf Shoes. . . !!"!"" 2 25 1 85
Boys' Satin Calf Shoes 2 50 2 00
Silver-ware at 40 per ct. discount.
Rare opportunity for securing Christ
mas Presents. '
Tea Pots, Cream Pitchers, Sogar Bowls, Spoon Holders,
Butter Dishes, Bread Plates, Syrup Pitchers, Celerv Dishes
Piukle Casters, Cake Baskets, Salad Sets, Berry "Dishes,
Table Spoons. Dessert Spoons, Knives and Forks. Fancy
Oyster Lad:cs. Fancy Pie Knives, Fancy Cake Knives,
Fancy Butter Knives and Sugar Shells, Carving Sets, Picks,
Napkin Rings, Bous Bons, Childs' Mugs and Pin Trays.
Tea Spoons.
RETIRING
FROM BUSINESS.
SPACE AND TIME WILL NOT PERMIT FURTHER QUOTATIONS.
HON Y WILL, Importer.
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The Weekly Gtooniele.
THE OALXLOS
OKKOOJi
Entered at the postoilice at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class mall matter.
STATS OFFICIALS.
Governor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H R Klncaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Supt. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General CM. Idleman
u.f. )G- W. McBride
Senators J. H. Mitchell
, IB. Hermann
-,""6"ioo"" iw. R. Ellis
State Printer :.W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. Geo. C. Blakeley
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelsay
Treasurer Wm, Michell
Commissioners MowST
Assessor ; P. H. Wakefield
Burvoyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy 8helley
Coroner W. H. Butts
REPUBLICANS M UST
POLICY.
HAVE A
The apparent disposition, says the
American, of uiauy republican members
of congress to do nothing save attack
'the administration, and, while losing no
opportunity to blame the democratic
party and democratic legislation and
incompetency for the continued depres
sion of trade and the deplorable condi
tion of our industries, to propose no leg'
islation, much less endeavor to pass
legislation, looking to the alleviation of
the sufferings of our people and the res
toration of prosperity is most unfortu
nate, while the general lack of policy
and indecision on the part of the repub
lican leaders is unpardonable.
The people expect more than fault
finding cf the republicans in congress.
They look to them for leadership, fo.
a definite policy, for positive action.
They demand that every effo.t be made
to enact such legislation as will lighten
the burdens of our people, protect our
producers from destructive competition
witti degraded Asiatic and European
labor, give -.employment to our wage
earners at remunerative wages, check
the disastrous fall in prices and secure
to our farmers and manufacturers a
market for their produce at fair prices.
Mr. Beed and others in congress may
deem it wise to put forward no definite
policy, may deem it best not to bind
themselves up with any policy, but,
standing for no principles, to hold aloof
and await the turn of events. But vac
illation, hedging, indecision, the effort
- to shift responsibility, is not what the
mass of republican yoters expect, and
republicans in congress cannot afiord to
shirk their responsibilities.
In the campaign of 1894 the lines be
tween ; the protective system and the
Wilson-Gorman tariff were distinctly
drawn, and the large majority, of the
republicans elected were pledged to put
forth every effort to restore a true pro
tective system.
It -la then their duty, when now as-
- eembled for the first time, to present to
the president a tariff bill that aims, not
only to provide ample revenue, but pri
marily to protect our producers from
unequal competition with well estab
lished European manufacturers who
stand ready to use their accumulations
of capital in an effort to crush out grow
ing competition in America by under
selling 'American producers even at a
temporary loss to themselves, if they
see the possibility of recompensing
themselves . for such losses by charging
our consumers higher prices after they
have stamped out competition and to
free pur consumers from dependence on
foreign manufacturers and traders. In
framing such a measure let republicans
keep in mind that the separation of pro
ducer from consumer necessitates a sac
rifice of a large part cf the produce of
labor to pay transportation ' charges,
which amounts to a tax on producers in
the form of lower prices, and a tax on
consumers in the form of higher prices
To adopt a policy that drives us to look
to Europe for a market for our agricul
tural products, and to buy our inanu-
sactured goods abroad, is to subject our
consumers and producers to this tax
But this is not the only tax that such
separation is carried, the more com
pletely are our people placed in depend
ence on foreign traders. To permit our
home industries to be destroyed is to
destroy the domestic market for our ag-
gricultural products and force our farm
ei i to seek a market abroad and to ac
cept what the foreign trader offers, or
keep their produce unsold, for the for'
eign buyer being the only buyer he
would be In position to dictate terms;
while, on the other hand, the foreign
manufacturer finding no domestic com
petition, would be in position to fix the
price on what our consumers bought.
To reduce this separation of consnmer
and producer to a minimum is the aim
of a protective tariff, and a tariff condu
cive of these ends republicans should
make every effort to pass.
Sr. LOUIS'
VIEWS ON THE CONVENTION.
From the Globe-Democrat.
In 1896 for the second time in its his
tory the republican party is to hold a
national convention in a southern state.
Missouri, of course, is really a northern
or western, and not a southern state,
but in a social and partisan sense it
was a slave state, and it has been demo
cratic for many years, like the other
states in which slavery existed it has
been classed with the South. It will do
no harm to defer to that notion in this
instance. All the republican national
conventions along to this time except
that of 1864, which met in Baltimore,
were held in the North. The first
national convention of the party, that
of 1856, met in Philadelphia, as also did
that of 1872; those of 1860. 1868, 1880,
1884 and 1888 were held in Chicago, that
of 1S76 met in Cincinnati, and that of
1892 took place in Minneapolis.
But the selection of a southern Btats
for a meeting-place for a republican
national convention means more now
than it did in 1864. The convention of
1864 held in Baltimore was called a
union convention, and not strictly a re
publican convention. The call was ad
dressed to those who "desire the uncon
ditional maintenance of the union, the
supremacy of the constitution, and the
complete eupression of the existing re
bellion," and the first resolution of the
All the votes received by the first re
publican speaker and all the ballots
cast in the Electoral College for the first
republican president were from the free
states, and, practically speaking, from
the same region has come all the strength
of the republican party ever since until
1894 and 1895, except in the temporary
and artificial conditions of the recon
struction period. But now Mason and
Dixon's line and the parallel of 36-30
have ceased to be political boundaries
and have become mere geographical des
ignations. The solid South has been
abolished. Freed from the obstructions
by which its growth was restricted,
the republican party has crossed into a
new field, and has started out on larger
and grander conquests than it has yet
achieved.
THE
ADVANTAGE
TOWNS.
OF RIVER
Spokane is complaining because the
merchants of Waterville, a town situ
ated in the Big Bend country, forty
miles from the railroad, are enabled to
buy goods cheaper than the Spokane
jobbers can sell them. The facts seem
to be that the Merchants' Association of
Waterville made an agreement with the
Great Northern railroad whereby the
merchants would combine and ship in
carload lots, provided the Great North
ern would provide free steamer service
between Waterville (situated Dearths
Columbia river) and Wenatchee, the
nearest point on the railroad. The ar
rangement was carried out, and resulted
in the Great Northern road securing an
entrance to that portion of the Big Bend
country, heretofore beyond its reach, and
ehipping the supplies from other places
than Spokane. From the latter place
freight must be taken to Waterville
via Coulee City with a wagon haul of
fifty miles.
To a city like Spokane, which aims to
do the wholesale trade for a large area,
of courte the matter is an annoying one
In the very beginning of their efforts to
increase the circle of commercial con
trol, Spokane merchants find opposition
from an unexpected quarter. Com
plaint has been made to the railway
authorities, but those dignitaries dis
claim any discrimination.
The whole controversy, of which the
Waterville merchants have the be6t,
goes to show that a city situated near a.
navigable river has a natural advantage
which artificial creations cannot over
come. Waterville merchants will con
tinue to sell cheaper than the merchants
of towns who are dependent upon one
means of obtaining supplies. It is this
advantage over interior competitors that
the use of the common roads of the
United States. Returns have been re
ceived from about 1200 counties, show
ing the average length of haul from
farms to markets of ehipping points to
be twelve miles ; the average weight of a
load .for two horses, 2000 pounds, and
the average cost per ton per mile, is 25
cents, or $2 for the entire haul. Esti
mating the farm products at 219,824,227
tons in weight, and making estimates on
other articles carried over the roads, it
is calculated that the aggregate expense
of this transportation in the United
states is $946,414,685 per annum. Ke
ports have been asked from the United
States consuls abroad of the expense of
hauling where the roads are good, so as
to render possible a calculation which
will show how much of this large outlay
is due to bad roads. The estimate is
ventured, however, upon information In
the office of road inquiry, counting the
loss of time in reaching markets, the en
forced idleness and the wear and tear to
live stock and hauling machinery
caused by poor roads, that two-thirds of
the cost might be saved by an improve
ment of the roads.
platform declared that "Iavine aside all
differences of political opinion, we pledge wil1 re8ult in the -commercial growth
ourselves as Union meu, animated by a
common sentiment, and aiming at a
common object, to do everything in our
power to aid the government," etc The
object of holding the convention in Bal
timore was to strengthen the Union
cause in the border states, then an ob
ject of great interest to the government.
Many war democrats took part in the
convention, and were expected to vote
for the ticket, which had a war demo
crat on it for the second office, although
of course, most of those in the conven
tion and who supported the ticket were
republicans.
The selection of St. Louis as the meeting-place
of the convention of 1896 has a
profound and lasting significance. It is
a recognition of the fact made plain by
the recent elections that the geograph
ical line erected by Texas annexation
and made hard and fast by the Kansas
conflict, has at last dropped out of poli
tics. The republican party, forced by
the issue which brought it into being
and by the convulsion which that issue
caused, to be a sectional organization for
nearly forty years, has now broadened
and developed into natiopal proportions.
and importance of The Dalles. Since
the instituting of the Regulator line of
steamers the merchants of this city have
received a redaction of over one-halt in
freight rates. This difference represents
profit to the merchant, or saying to the
consumer, or both, and prevents so
much money from going to other places.
When the locks are opened and the cost
of transferring the freight is obviated,
the rates will be still further reduced,
and Dalles merchants will be able to sell
at figures as cheap as those of Portland
merchants. Terminal rates will be se
cured and The Dalles become the whole
sale 6npply point for the country to the
south, east and north of us. This con
dition will cause the establishment
of branches of Portl and wholesale
houses, resulting in the investment of
increased capital and employment of
more labor. This is but one of the good
results the opening of the locks will
cause. OtDere WN be developed when
the event has occurred.
The office of road inquiry of the de
partment of agriculture has completed
an interesting investigation relating to
Dr. Locke, one of Portland's eloquent
preachers, answering the question
"Why do republics die?" in a Sunday
evening sermon, said: "Republics die
from extravagance, lnxury and frivolity.
Nations, like families, are founded upon
simplicity, frugality, economy and seri
ousness. When respect for the founda
tion principles disappear, there is dan
ger in the corner-slone." The sermon
was a prophetic one, and called atten
tion, in an impieeslve manner, to the
dangers that lie in the course of our
great republic. The press and the pul
pit are the greatest agencies for good in
awakening people to a realization that
"eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,
country had passed through only a
"silly season," instead of the period of
insanity that it did. experience.
CONCERNING THE DALLES.
Prineville Review: Teamsters report
trie roaas oecween here ana ine VMles
in bad condition.
FINAL NOTICE TO DELINQUENT
SUBSCRIBERS.
Klickitat Republican: The Dalles has
formed a commercial club. Goldendale
should fall into line. North Yakima has
a wide awake commercial club. In
unity there it strength. Goldendale citi
zens want to get together as business
men and arrange to have a place where
guests to our citv can be entertained
and meet with the leading men of Gol
aenaaie.
Eugene Register: Some time during
the month of January a party of The
Dalles citizens are to visit this city with
a view of becoming better acquainted
witn toe u.ot u. educational advant
age". President Chapman is making all
needed arrangements in the way of pro
viding for their entertainment while
they are here, as well as having secured
excursion rates over the southern fa
cific railroad. The party will consist of
some thirty members. On behalf of the
citizens of Eugene, the Register sends
greeting and a heartfelt welcome.
THE NORTHWEST SENATORS AND
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Politics are booming in the Willam
ette valley. Already a half a dozen can
didates are being mentioned to succeed
Mr. Hermann in the first dietrict. he
list includes H. B. Miller and W. T.
Vawter of Southern Oregon, Thomas B.
Tongue of Washington county, C. B.
Moores and T. T. Geer of Marion county.
There are others who are lingering in
the background waiting for some op
portunity to call them forth. The sec
ond district will not be behind the first
in the number of aspirants, and the two
districts are similar in the further re
spect that all the activity is confined to
republicans.
The heavy storm which has been rag
ing on the coast will, it is feared, settle
the fate of the disabled Stiathnevis.
The storms have raged in the vicinity
where the vessel is supposed to be, and
the chances are that the Strathnevis will
be added to the list which includes the
Brother Jonathan, Pacific, Colima, and
other steamers which have been buried
under the Pacific's waves. The present
year has been a disastrous one to navi
gation, and the list of overdue vessels is
large. '
Pendleton East Oretronian : The
Washington congressmen and senators
also propose to rob the whole people of
tne country tor toe benent of the owners
of land values of a few towns in Wash
ington. Senator Squire has introduced
hills lor public buildines at Seattle and
Tacoma, each to cost Jf200,000. Senator
Wilson introduced a bill for a site at
Spokane to cost $150,000, and for a build
ing at Walla Walla to cost the same
amount. There is no real need for any
of these buildings. Structures to cost
one-tenth of the sums as ted for in these
appropriations would be ample to house
all of the government's needs in these
towns for years to come. To expend
such sums in these places as asked for
would he a criminal waste of money and
laoor. m
- Fossil Journal : If Senator Mitchell
should get all his pension and relief bills
through, Oregon would have flush times
for a while. Serionslv, while we favor
the re-election of Mr. Mitchell to the
senate in preference to any other man,
we would like better to see him practice
less ouncomoe, in the way of introduc
ing bills that he knows can never pass.
and that should not pass, and confine
himself to the good work that he un
doubtedly does for Oregon, without Its
accompaniment of vote-getting taffy and
tapioca. This applies as forcibly to
Congressman Hermann, whose pension
bills likewise fill about a couple of news
paper columns.
A Rector for the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Bayard, our talkative minister to
England, is inclined to treat the resolu
tion introduced into congress regarding
him, rather lightly, and speaks of the
matter as the result of a "silly season"
in American. Doubtless Mr. Bayard
refers to the November election as the
silly season" since, in a sense, the at
tempt to censure Bayard was a result of
that unfortunate event for democracy.
The country has become very tired of
Mr. Bayard and the party he represents,
and the unwarranted statements, made
in all possible bad taste, are exceedingly
odious to the people of the United
States. If a republican victory, over
whelming in its nature, can be called a
"silly season,' those people who wanted
a change in 1892 will wish now that the
Ever since the departure of Rev. Eli
Sutcliffe, some two years ago, the con
gregation of St. Paul's Episcopal church
has been without a rector. The bishop
of this diocese has been for some time
on the lookout for some man whom be
deemed suitable for this charge; but up
to this time no selection had been made.
At last a call has been made to Rev. Mr.
Mercer, who is a member of the Quincy,
Illinois', diocese. No answer has been
received to the call of the church, so it
is not known whether or not Mr. Mercer
will accept. It is understood, however,
that some time ago he expressed a desire
to come to the Pacific coast, and it is
believed he will consider the call favora
bly. In the meantime the church has pros
pered financially. By the careful man
agement of the vestry a steady revenue
has been coming in, which has been ap
plied to the church debt, till it has been
wiped out and the church is free from any
financial obligation. This condition
gives great satisfaction to the members
of the congregation, and they look for
ward eagerly to the coming of a rector
and the resumption of regular services.
Just received at the Wasco Warehouse
a carload of "Byera Best" Pendleton
flour. This flour has no superior on the
Pacific coast. Try it. d7-tf
We are fast approaching the end of
the year 1895, the time fixed for a re
vision of our subscription lists, and par
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that date will know their names have
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Books will be delivered by mail only.
That you may have an idea of the value
these books, the list Includes the
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Help Wanted.
A man or lady to manage distributing
soap samples, specialties, do correspond
ing. Send Sylvan Co., 727 Woodward,
Detroit, Mich., 10c for samples soap,
etc.. receive outfit order.
State Insurance Go.
Policies will be taken tip
and written in the West
ern Assurance Co. of Tor
onto, Canada. Before mak
ing other arrangements,
consult C. E. Bayard, Agt.
Western Assurance Com
pany, west side of Wash
ington Street, "bet. Second
and Third Sts., The Dalles.