TV'" ". - Fall ress GoodS and Novelty. S Anncuncement Extraordinary it 18 wiui pU'umiro that we nnnnumut to our many patrons that we hnvo re ceived and jilaced in stock tliu Inlnds'.mpst collections of FALL PRESS CiOOllS mid FALL NOVKLTIHS ever shown in the city of Portland or north of San Francisco. SCOTCH PLAIDS 8ft pieces of Very Pretty Scotch 43 47 37 411 U7 Kill cv Mixtures, late ViVelty Suiting"), latest I'fic Kreneh I am ies, very latest 45o 1 in poi'tfi I ( olured Nuvrh ies 5 ie Imported Frenrh Novelties extra (3c Extreme High Grade Novelties, 75o to tl.1'5' Till LARG1-ST STOCK OF FINE BLACK ' DRESS GOODS ' EVER SHOWN IN THE NORTHWEST. Children's School Cloak mid Jackets. Children's "School Uinhrellas, 45c find 50c yard. The Largest Stock of (.'apes and Jackets ever shown in the city. The only Exclusive Dry Goods House in Portland. McAuen & McDonnell, Woki Fkom Confkh. A letter has been received City from John A. Con fer, who left for t ho Yukon July 80. It Was dated at Lake Bennett, September 8 nnd said that in Ave or six days iho party woul I he ready to start on down the lakes. The four horses the pariy look died on the Skigitay trail. Confer left near the coast tho provisions he took with him from hero, and at Lake Bennett bought another supply, A boat that would carry about four tons was purchased at the lake for $200. Of the 4000 persons that had landed at Sknguay since July. Confer estimated that about 20) would go through to the mines. Most of those going down the lakes, ho eaid, has gone by way of Dyea and the Cb ltoot pass, which is the best route. He says: "Ican'tsay that I am stuck on this country, but I think it is all right. There is no doubt that this is a mineral country." .' The Hatciiehies. Superintendent . Hubbard reports that a great success is attending tho efforts of get salmon eggs on the Little White Salmon river, in Skamania county, Wash., between 400, 000 and 500,000 being taki n daily sii ce the beginning of the worn. Probably 0,000,000 will be taken there this season. On the Salmon river, in this county, not so many eggs were taken as expected, the season's outpui not much exceeding 1,500,000. There are being transported in wagons to the Clackamas ha chery, about 200 00J being taken at a load. Only about 150,1 00 will lie lurched and turned loose in the Salmon river. At the Clackamas station the t king of .'ggs h:is begun. The prospect is not promis ing for a large number of eggs to be taken there this season. Killed bv Train. Patrick Gibson, a Maoksbnrg farmerwas killed by the Overland train two miles south of this city Tuesday evening The circum stances as examined into by the coroner, Indicate that Gibson stopped his team on the crossing and was himself on the j ground when the train struck his wagon, Gibson's head was crushed. One horse I Was killed outright and the other was afterward shot. The wagon was ground to splinters. Gibson marketed a load of grain during the day, and was in toxicated when he left town, shortly before train time. Gibson was un married and lived with, his father and Was 52 years old. His brother lived near him. The coroner's jury on Wednes day found a verdict of accidental dea th and exonerated the'railroad company. Rattlesnakes, and.. . ? Washington Irving said, he supposed a certain hill was called "Rattlesnake h"ii because it abounded in butterflies. The " rule of contrary 'governs other names. Some bottles are, sup posedly, labeled Saparilla " because they are full of . . . well, we don't know what the are full of, but we know it's not sarsapa rilla; except, perhaps, eiqugh for a flavor. There's only one make of sarsaparilla that cavbe relied on to be all it claims. It's Ayer's. It has no secret to keep. Its formula is open to all physicians. This formula was examined by the Medical Com mittee at the World's Fair with ft,e result that while every other make of sarsaparilla was excluded iiom the Fair, Ayer's Sarsapa rilla was admitted and honored by awards. It was admitted be cause it was the best sarsaparilla. It Teceived the medal as the best. No other sarsaparilla has been so tested or so honored. Good motto for the family as well as the Fair: Admit the best, exclude the rest Any doubt about it? Send for the Curt book." It kills doubu and curea doubter. Address: J. C Ayer Co., LoinU, 3Jut. uitin as 00 Plaids 25ij yard L'oe " effects Cor. !M & Morrison, PORTLAND, OK. TAKE NOTICE. . Owing to Jewish holiday the etore of I Selling will close on Monday, Septem ber 27th, until 6 o'clock, Prices right. Quality lieat. Timothy, clover, alsike, orchard grass, and other grass seed?. E. E. Williams, the grocer. nilllnery Opening. We are prepared to show the ladies of Oregon City and vicinity, at our opening, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sep tember 22d, 23Q and 24th, the most elegant line of imported hats ever dis played in this city. Miss C. Goldsmith. Get your picture frames made at the the Oregon City Auction House at very prices. Furniture upholstered and repaired at the Oregon City Auction . The finest gunpowder tea at 25c a lb in the city at Harris' grocery. Attend the millinery display at Miss Goldsmith's on Wednesday, Thurday and Friday, 22d, 23d and 24th, Septem ber. -- w lien in rortiuna aon t tail to ca'i and see the fine line of millinery kepi at the La Mode Farlors by Miss Rose Scheelaud at . 349li Morrisqn streets, between Seventh and I'ark. Do not fail to attend the opening of Mrs. Sladen's "Millinery parlors next week and see the fine pattern hats. School books and school supplies at" Portland prices at Char.nan & Uo's, the cut-cut price drupylsts. Every purchaser gets a tablet or pencil free. Golden fleeced knitting yarn, saxony and zephyrs, all colors, at the. Racket Store For Gentlemen Only. . J'cLeod l.ucke Co., FashionableTailor, desire to call attention to the arrival of another shipment of fall suitings, over- costings and trowserings. Comprising the latest uovilties of the season . McLeod Lutkc Co., Marquam Building. Parents intending to enter children into the firBt primary grade of the Ore gon City schools this term should do so net later September 27th, as'only one class will be formed in this grade during this term. L. W. McAdams, Supt. Butterflies, m LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Born, on 12th to Mrs. O. A. Miller, a son. Born, to the wife of E. A. Brady on 14th, r girl. Sintnn Payne of Mulino is reported very low. MrH II. E.Smith r.nd daughter left last week for the Eust. . Ernst us A. Smith will attend school at McMinnvillo thisyeur. Mrs. Thos. Campbell returned Monday from a visit to Seattle. Col. Ii. A. Miller left Saturday for a trip to Southern Oregon. 1 H. J. Thorn of Spokane, Wash., 1h visiting friends in the city. John and Miss Ada Moehnke will at tend .Albany college this yoar. ' . Dr. J. M. Wells bus gone to Boston, where he will reside in tho future. Laurence Driggs returned Monday to his law studies at Ann Arbor, Mich. Mis.-t Daisy Lawrence left Saturday to resu mo lier studies at the Corvallis college. Miss Mary E. Oonycrs spent, the past week visiting at her old home in Coin m - tin county. Miss Stella Welch of Silverton arrived Monday and is visiting her brother, Dr. J. W. Welch. Fred It. Cliarman nccoinpanied his son, Fred, to the Corvallis college on Saturday. Web Burns returned last. Thursday from. Eastern Oregon, where he spent the summer. The six-weeks-old son of Geo. II. Young died on .Wednesday nfteratwo weeks' illness. - Ira Dickey of Molalla was in town Friday lust and reports grain all threshed in his neighborhood. Mrs. O. D. Austin returned to her home in Salem, after a visit to her mother, Mrs. GrW. Jones Jas. A. House has moved his goods to Portland and will open a meat market at corner of First and Main. Miss Mamie Baxter returned last Friday from k visit to her cousins in Salem, the Misses Holland. Fred tharman Jr. left Saturday for Corvallis colleg . Fred Smith and Will Beach will also attend the same school. '-Mrs. S. Horn of Washington, D. O., on her way to San Francisco, spent lust Friday with her sisterMrs. W. L. Block. The loss of hops by the rainy weather was not as great as reported. Avery conservative estimate of loss in one-third of a crop. J. M. Clustering, S. E. and E. 0. Huff man, F. M. and J." O. Gill have filed locations on mining claims in Eagle Creek lode. .. ." i , The unveiling of the Woodmen monu ment erected on the grave of J. Pritchard wdl take place on Sunday ufleruoon at the cemetery. Ira Wishart, who has been in the era- poy of Churman's drug store for several years, left Saturday for Corvallis college, to take a laboratory course. The westsiuo school opened Monday with Prof. J. W. Gary of Milwaukee as principal and Misses Norma Fox and Olive Luelling as teachers. Miss Florence Morey and Mi83 Helen Eastlmin of this city and Miss Lillian Morey of San Francisco left Monday for New York to resume their studies. J. O. Linn of Currinsville was in Ore gon City lust Friday. He says that the roads are hard and smooth, the best he had ever seen at this season of the year. Editor Fred Hess of Clackamas Post (German) and Attorney J.E. Marks are now occupying offices next door to the "leading paper," in old M. E. church. Mike O'Kane furnished considerable amusement for bystanders on Saturday by getting into a yellowjackets nest near j depot and trying to' take possession of the same. The Parkplace school will open next Monday with Prof. J. W. Gray as principal and Misses Harnett Dotson, Estella Bracken and Margaret Williams as assistant teachers. The ball given by Junior Dancing Club in honor of Misses Flore nee" Morey and Helen Easthum and Lawrence Driggs on last Friday evening was a very delightful affair. D. W.Kinnaird, J. A. .Moore, Geo. 0. Kinney, Clay Green, Jas. M.Tracy and W. L. Beckner left Tuesday for the Blue River M. & M. Co.'s mines for the pur pose of surveying them. The following papers were granted by state boord of education on Monday to Clackamas county teachers: State certificates Mrs. Nora Burney andJ. C. Zinser; state diploma Miss Bessie Wells; life diploma S. W. Holmes. The new gymnasium and play room now being erected adjoining the Barclay school is fast nearing completion. By another year the same will probably have to be used as a school room to ac commodate the increasing number of pupils. Prof. Swan ton, with the assistance of Mrs. McDonald as musician, will open his dancing acadamy at Weinhard's hall, with a ball Friday evening, September 24, to which all his former pupils and their friends are invited. During this season the school will open only every Friday from 3 to 5 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. for lessons and from 9 to 12 for dancing. New dances will be introduced. Dr. Curll returned Thursday from a hunt up the valley. Nashville Students at Baptist church Saturday, November 2d. Charles Galloway left Monday for Eugene university to continue his studies. J. G. Pilsbury moved into the houso formerly occupied by Mrs. Ackeriuan this week. H. A. Piltiuucr bus moved his real estate ollico from the postollico to the Courier building. Dan J. Moore, clerk of the circuit court of Multnomah county, called on Clerk Dixon on Wednesday. . Lee Harding left Thursday for Cor vallis college.- Ho was accompanied by Ids father, Geo. A. Harding. George Doll lost an eye on Monday at the paper mills by being hit a small sliver from a piece of iron he was work ing on. Itev. Harold Oberg, the new M. E. minister arrived with his family on Wednesday. Rev. T. L. Jones left for his new field of labor .on 'f uesduy. Word has been received from Ernest Rands, who h.is a government surveying contract in Idaho, that he will return about November. He is now surveying land covered with rocks and a few trees and lots of rattlesnakes. Hul Rands will attend Cornell University at Ithica, N. Y., tho coming term. lie will go direct from Idaho, where he bus a large government survey. ing contract. Success to him. He will take a course in chemistry. Licenses to wed granted by county clerk on 16tb. to Ohristiua Agnes Cham bers ntid Geo. T. Silvers; on 16th to Minnie Hoffman and Frank Turney ; on 15th to Anna Feaks and August Peters; on 13th to Id.i Weiriuh and B. C. Esch. The Oregon Hity Y. M. O. A. is re- papering and repainting its new quarters in the Graham building" and will have much better rooms than in the old locution. Men are cordially invited to visit the free reading rooms of the association. , The following Oregon Oityites will at tend Corvallis College this year : Misses Huldah and Blanch HoUten, Daisy Lawrence and Edna Garrow; Ira Wishart, Lee Harding, Wilbert Garrow, N. R. Smith, Fred Cliarman, W. F. Smith and Thompson Meldium. The Oregon City Ohautauquans has organized for winter's course and have elected Mrs.R. A.Miller leader and Mrs. A. S. Dresser assistant, Miss Mina Kelly secretary and Misses Mary Conyers, Mina Kelly and Neita McOown member ship committee. The first meeting will be held the 27th at C. H. Cuufield's. The . fall" opening of Mrs. Sladen's Millinery parlors will take phico next week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 22d to 25th Miss Edith Wishart, who has charge, has secured some of the finest pattern hats to be had and those attending will be conviued that it is not necessary to go out of town to get a first class stylish hat. All are cordially invited toattend. Among the Oregon students at Stan ford university are Miss Dorothy II. Chase of Oregon City, class of 1899, drawing, and Miss Sade II. base of Oregon City, class of 1901, English ; Horace Pomeroy of Oswego, class of 1897, electrical engineering ; J. P. Rusk ofMilwaukie, class of 1900, economics; Miss Hester Kusk of Milwaukie, class of 1901, hygene. ( Take steamer Lorelei for Portland, round trip 25 cents ; leaves Oregon City 9:30 a. in. and 4:30 p. in., returning leaves Portland, Yamhill street, at 7 a. m. and 2 p. m. If business warrants the boat will make three t ips a day. The follow ing will be the themes of the pastor in the Baptist church on Sunday: Morning "Breaking of Fal low Ground ;'' evening the second in the series of Bible doctrine will be, "Regeneration, or How One Enters the Kingdom of Heaven." Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock, while the two sons of T. M. Baker of Sherwood, aged about 5 and 15 years, were handling a gun in the house, it, in some way, was discharged, the entire contents passing through the younger boy's head, killing him instantly. Leighton Kelly returned Wednesday from his mrveying trip in Idaho to ac cept the position of local salesman for the flour mills in Oregon City made vacant by Erastus Smith, who has left for McMinnville College to study for the ministry. W. II. Savage of this city has struck it rich and didn'tgoto Klondike. Abouta year ago he filed on 40 acres of improved land five miles south of Salem on the main road. His filing was first rejected by the land office but he carried the matter up to the commissioner and won and last week was permitted to file a homestead on the land. The land has been occupied 45 years, it being filed on as a donation claim in 1852 and was held as such until 1S76. About 1858 or 60 the present occupants, wlioclaim owhership, bought the land as state school lieu land. Mr. Savage left Tuesday to put in his crop, the land being already plowed by the alleged owners, who will no doubt fight for their land. Rev. R. A. Rowley, state superinten dent of Sunday schools, occupied the pulpit of the Congregtaional church last Sunday morning and gave a very inter esting taik on his work in the state. J-LLLLf I NEW OK UMBRELLAS & CANES At Burmcfctcr & Anteen's i i i i i i 1 Fall and Winter Styles ! FOR SEASON'S OF 1S97-8 Now Open! Overcoats, logs lor man or boy. toe Artists There is. something powerful in viouuer miiii uraws unio useu iiiiu wnen a line appeals convincingly to the masses there must be something in it that is worth the investigation of every buyer. Our prices will suit anv purse, no matter how small or how large it is. 'Suits or Overcoats $10.00 to $40.00. A D Ct rimniiMi ft. u. 01 CIIMLJMOn Fine French Millinery. ...Miss A. OPENING SEPTEMBER I.AniRN OF OREGON CITY AUK COItDIALLV INVITED TO ATTEND 291 Mtrrlsou St., Bet. 4th Jas W. McA.nulty is now employed as clerk in Harris' grocery. ' Wm.Rhoades has taken Mac's former position in Wil-' Haras grocery. Everett Hickman and Ralph Miller expect to open an upholstering and re pair shop about the 1st of November in the Schwan building on Seventh street, next to d''pot. Tho wife of Rev. Buttle'r, accompanied by the two youngeBt children, arrived to occupy the parsonage of tho Congre gational church lust Wednesday. They had spent the summer in Wullti Walla county. A public reception will bo held in the auditorium of the M. h. church on Wednesday evening, September 29th , at 7 :30 p. m. A short musical program will bo rendered; admission free; donations for the pastor will be accepted. Everybody invited. Dr. Buttler's evening lectures on Man are atiracting large congregations at the Congregational church. The subject for next Sunday evening is, "Alun What is He, What is He Here For, and What is His Possibilities?" Being the third of the series. By request, the ser mon given a few weeks ago on "Heavens Perfume" will be repented at the morn ing services, lhe public is cordially invited to all services. Ladies, come and see our corsets, atest styles in short corsets, also child ren's corset waists, at the Racket Store, Customers can leave orders for bottled beer, porter, steam beer or keg beer at Knapp's Bismark saloon. John Q. Wil helm, proprietor Scllwood brewery. Go to l!au in A ISrandefl, 145 First street, right on the Oregon City car lino for your lunches and dinners. We make a specialty of ladies' and merchants' lunches; try them, only 25c. Agency for Mailland's candies. , Don't fail to see our variety of ladies', gents' and children's underwear, wool and fleeced lined, at the Racket Store. The cheapest place in town to buy your hosiery is at the Racket Store. If you want a fine lawn sow our fancy lan grass seed now. E.E.Williams, the grocer. It is reported that Rudolph Bpreckles who owns a poultry ranch in Sonoma county, on which there are 10,000 fowls has added an X ray plant to his outfit to determine which hens are layers and which are not. All hens which have no eggs in them are sent to market. TO CURE A COLO IN ONE DAY Take L.l.Ove Brorno (illume Tablet. All VruH'at reman toe Mouejr II II lain lo cure, ijt i ! . . S PHOTOGRAPHS... SMplII C First-Class ' PfTS 0 ' 1 ) Work VVflfWft V Satisfaction C Only VAJXVVy) w(luaranteed k ...THE LEADING PHOTOGRAPHER... I MAIN STREBT, NEAR COURT HOUSE, OREGON CITY, OREGON f I I I I I I I LINE 1 1 ii ii ii Suits, Hats ad Furnish- Made and Tailored by of tag World. our lines of Perfecting Fitting tne best elements in the trade, 0 ltMorrlon (X UU.. PORTLAND, OR. S, Jorgensen... 21st and 22d & oth, PORTLAND, ORE. We have received a line of silver plated ware, which will be glvbn to our patrons, The quality Is a f extra coin silver plate 1487 Wm. A. Roger. We Solicit you to Inspect the same at the store of I. Selling. If you want a nice steiik, roast or boil call at Albright's shop and got some of his cold-storage meat which is acknow- edged by all to be suporior to the meats commonly sold at butchers' shops. He also keens on hand a f u 1 stock nf Wl . hams, bacon, etc.. made bv himself and warranted purest and wholesomo. Re member the old established shop on Main street. The clieape.-t and best line of crockery in Portland is at Haine's Tea Store, 288 Morrison street. Fine new line of umbrellas and canes at Burmeisters & Andreseus's Jewelry store. Get Peacock flour if you lovo good bread, at Harris' Grocery. """ - "Five years ago, I was taken so ill with rheumatism that I was unable to do any work," writes Peter Chrisl nBen, Slier, wood, Wis. "I took three boxes ol Ayer's Pills and was entirely cured. Since that time, I always keep them in the house." They aro easy to take. What Hood's Sarsaparilla has done for others it will do for you. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures all blood diseaoes. Wise Men Know it is folly to build on a poor foundation. Relief obtained by deadening symptoms is short. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures and gives lasting health. ' Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick headache indigestion, biliousness. All druggists. 25c. JUST THINK OF IT- Only one fare for the round trip from any point on the lines of the Southern Pacific to attend the greatest State fair ever held in Oregon. Ojen8 September 30, closes October 8, 1897. Every department and building will lie filled with the choicest exhibits and displays possible to be seen. Every show ring will be graced by the finest types of the various breeds of animals. On the race track and in the amuse ment park, trotting, pacing, running, hurdle jumping, novel ties .special saddle, and harness classes. New features and new attractions. A rich programme for every day and evening. Only one 'fare for tho round trip. Popular admission of 25 cents. ' LAXATIVE BR0N0 QUININE TABLETS More the bowel, (frntljr. rellerti the r.h, cure the fererWi conditio and Head lit, making II the boat and i)l. kt reinHy (r (Jouglia, Colil. end Le Orlpjie. Cure iu eiia dejr. No cure, do pay. P-kei'. 7