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Three Leaders! Ladies' Wrappers J Reduced from 75c to 49c nother lot reduced from 50 tc 97c. M Bl OOnDrQTD Vlf ITTQ Brilliantines reduced to $1.25, Black Mohairs and Figured illiantines redu ,75 and $2.50. BICYCLES SUITS, in cloth, coverts and light-weight wool, will be closed out cheap. . Clearance Sale Prices. Bazar Patterns reduced to 10 and 15c. McAllen & McDonnell COR. THIRD AND MORRISON STS., PORTLAND, ORE. TRADING STAMPS? YES I v OUR NEW TERRITORY. Its LOCAL, SUMMARY. Wonderful Resources and Pro ductions. These are a few of the things about the Phillipinea . that our Oregon City boys, who arrived on July 1st, will learn regarding the country : Ko brooms, No hats worn. Girls marry at 15. ' No knhes nor forks. They sleep at middc.y . Horses are a curiosity. More women than men. Rice is the chief product. Cattle as email as goats. Manilla enjoys electricity. Natives bathe thrice daily. Dewey had a rabbit's foot. The grasshopper is a delicacy. We buy half Manilla's hemp. Laborer's earn 10 cents a day. Cocoanut oil is an illuminant. Manilla was founded in 1571. Buffaloes are used for plowing. Orchids command $1000 apiece. Manilla has 200,000 inhabitants. . Annual cigar output,, 140,000,000. Belles smoke cigars and chew betels. . Cigar factories employ 20,000 women. Cigar makers earn $6 to $10 per month. a yard of cloth is the robe of the poor. Macademized streets; tin-ioofed houses. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, t Girls smoke. Inhabitants, 40,000. Forests of mahogany. No wild animals except dogs. Everybody takes a nap at noon. Here is the highest land in Cuba. Lottery tickets ou sale everywhere. Most of the houses are one-story buildings. Santiago is the Spanish form for St, James. ' The belles plaster their faces with powpered egg shells. Copper mines have been worked since the 17th century. Tobago island was so called from its fancied resemblance to the tobacco or inhaling tube of the aborigines. Our word tobacco is thence derived . PORTO RICO. Width, 37 miles. Immensely wealthy. Poverty is unknown. Area, 3520 square miles. Trees are always green. Every man owns a horse. Older than th 1 United States. Principal sport is cock-fighting. San Juan, the capital, has 300,000 in habitants. ' San Juan has the finest harbor i- the West Indies. Peonle sleeo in the day. and shop and visit all night. Water supply is one of the principal sources of revenue. The Victory rests with America's Greatest Medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, when it bottleB aaainst any disease caused or promoted by impurd oi im poverished blood. Hood's Pills are the favorite family cathartic. Easy to take, easy to operate. Fir and hard wood wanied on accounts by the Oregon City Courier. Money to loan at 8 percent interest on mortgages. Apply to O. D. & D. O. Latourette. , A fine Kimball organ in first-class condition for sale cheap at the Oregon City Auction House. Pure fruit flavored ice cream soda at Prier's. Get your fruit jars and jelly tumblers at Harris' grocery. For best groceries at cheapest price go to Marr & Aluir. s Big reduction on children's wash hats and bonnets, at the Racket Store. Highest cash price paid for second hand household goods at Bellomy & Busch. The pioneer meat market of C. Al bright continues to serve its customers weU and always keeps a large amount uf fresh meats bn hand. Last year's patterns of wall paper at reduced prices. Five and 10c notion counters. At Bellomy & Busch. F. I. Andrews, the market gardener, has always on hand a large amount of tim-class apples, vegetables, pure cider and cider vinegar, Give him a trial. The Dewev restaurant and con fectionery is now opened and ready to serve brat-class meals on short notice Oysters a specialty. Wheeler & Oram's old stand. The most reliable goods at lowest living cash prices are kept by the grocery store ot Marr & fliuir. Justice court blanks 15 cents per dozen at courier oitice, Nottingham lace curtains, balance o lot just received. Will close out at the same old price. Oregon City Auction House. Try Ken worthy's ice cream. Ice cream and cake 15 cents a dish or two for 25c. Ice cream or ice cream soda 10c. Just received, 100 rolls of fine mat ting. Call at once and get choice of patterns. Oregon Uity Auction House. All our bicycles have the nev depart ure brakes, just the thing for riding in this county. Charman & Co., agents for Columbia bicycles. F. I. Andrews, the gardener, as usual has the first young radishes and onions of the season, besides other early vege table. Albright is never "just out" of the kind of meat you want as he knows what his customers desire and keeps a full stocK on hand and you don't need to take "what's left." A high grade warranted sewing ma chine sells for $25 on easy payments at Bellomy & Busch. , A D.E. Kenworthy at the East Side Ry office serves meals or oysters at all times He also keeps a line of confectionery fruits and cigars. When in Portland be sure and call at the Royal restaurant where you can get the best 15c meal in the city. 253 First street, corner of Madison. . Wm. Bohlander, proprietor. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. "WHEELS WITH WHEELS'' RAMBLERS & IDEALS S25-S30-S35-S40-S60 FRED. T. flERRILL CYCLE CO. Branches 105 107-109-111 Sixth St., i SpoKane, lacoma, beame. Portland, or. 1 We Carry in Stock a Large lne of SOLID GOLD, GOLD FILLED, SILVER and NICKEL WATCHES VVith Waltham and Elgin Movements HIGHEST GRADE AT LOWEST PRICES Burmeister & Anfecn, THE OREGON CITY JEWELRRS Mike Huiras, of New Era, wag in town Monday. A, Greenwell, a well known citizen of Damascus, was in Oregon City Monday. W. II. Boring, of Borings, was one of the prominent visitors in the city Monday. Miss Agnes Stephenson, of Vancou ver, has been visiting mends in this city. Miss Edith Curry, of Portland, has been visiting her brother, Bruce Curry, and wife. Han Paulsen, one of the substantial farmers of George, was in Oregon City Monday. f Mrs. Judge F. A. Moore, of Salem, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Dresser during the week. Sam Engle, a pioneer resident of Mo- lalla, was a prominent visitor in Ore gon City Monday. E. H. Burghardt, of Damascus, has gone to Wisconsin on a business and pleasure trip combined. ' Mrs. Judge O. E. Wolverton and her niece, Miss Edna Price, has been visit ing Mrs. R. D. Wilson. . The family of-ff. S. Phelps of Canby, are camped at Gladstone park during the Chautauqua Assembly. Mrs. A. E. King and children, have been visiting the formers' mother, Mrs. A. Warner, at Mt. Pleasant. Captain J. T. Apperson returned Sat urday from Salem, whare he attended a meeting of the board of regents. Miss Estella Noll, of McMinnville, has been visiting Mrs. Weed and attend ing the Chautauqua the past week. Rev. and Mrs. T F. Royal, of Salem, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. H. Oberg, and attending tne Chautauqua. Rev. Richard Hargreaves, who is now located at Grass Valley, Sherman county, is visiting relatives here this week. . Miss Jennie Gray, of Portland, has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Red- dick, and attending the Chautauqua As sembly. Fred Harris, who has beeh employed in Harding's drug store for a few months past, has returned to his home at For est Grove. Mrs. Fred Meyer, and her daughters, Misses Lulu and .Minnie, and Fred Mc Causland left Tuesday for an outing at Long Beach. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Howell, aged 3 days, died last Friday. The interment took place in the after noon of the same day. Carl F. Dittm&r, of the Redding (Oal.) Searchlight, is in the city looking after some blatters pertaining to an estate in which he is inteiested. Mrs. Tom F. Cowing, Jr., and infant daughter has returned from Silverton, where she has been visiting her parents for the past two weeks. Miss Addie Clark, who is spending the summer vacation with' her parents in Polk county, has returned to attend the Ubautauqua Assembly. M!ss Mary Conyers is visiting friends at St. Helens During her absence, her sister, Miss Nora Conyers, is em ployed in the Enterprise othce. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lane left for Or egon City last Tuesday morning, where Mr. Lane will run an engine during the threshing period. Toledo Leader, Mrs. P. H. Hatch and daughter, Miss Freda, of Portland, are visiting the for mer's sister, Mrs. H. L. Kelly, and at tending the Chautauqua Assembly. Prof. A. H, Mulkey, of the state nor mal school at Drain, was in the city Monday, looking after the interests ot the Christian church in Oregon City. A. F. and Barton Jack and their mother, Mrs. Mary J. Jack,-of Mar quam, are attending the Chautauqua Assembly at Gladstone parte this week. The Willamette Fruit Company of Canby, is a recent incorporation. F. A. Sleight and L. Rogers are the principal promoters, and the capital stock is placed at $B,uou. Nello Johnson, who is now secretary to the superintendent of the Astoria & Sea Uoa8t Kailroad at Astoria, was visit ing his patents, W. Cary and Mrs. Johnson, over Sunday. Mr. and Irs. Orestes Pierce, and Miss Amy McKee, of Oakland, Calif., who have been in the Eastern states for the past month, are expected here in a few days to visit Mr. and Mrs. Norman R.Lang. A Portland paper says that another wife from Oregon City is looking for trouble in that city about twice a week and that she may have found it al ready. Her name for these' escapades is "little lawks." S. G. Thayer, who has been carrying on the blacksmith business at Mulino for some time past, has leased J. N. Hoffman's shop, and moved his family to town Mr. Hoffman has accepted a position in the paper mills. Wendell S. Phillips, of Fenton, O .ac companied by his wife and daughter, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lat ourette during the week. Mr. Phillips owns a screen door factory, and employs zU men in the establishment. Ben Smith, of Portland, who has the contract for repairing the East Side railway from Milwaukie to Oregon City, is engaged in repairing the trestle of the line from the uiackamas to Uregon Uity The conti act is an extensive one, and in eludes a thorough overhauling of all th bridges and trestles south from Milwaukie. At the regular meeting of Meade Auxiliary Corps a vote of thanks was extended to all vho assisted in making the lawn social such a financial success Especial thanks are due the Oregon City band, Father Hillebrand, for use of lawn and other favors, Bellomy & Busch, St. Paul's Guild, and the young ladies who assisted during th') evening. The Canby Independent says that the camp meeting services closed Sunday night The last sermon was preached by Campmeeting John in his usual style. Admission was charged. The at tendance on days when no money wag taken at the gate was large, but on other days it was slim. The cottages were oc cupied and a few tents were on the ground. Miss Ethel Blinn, of Astoria, has been i visiting Miss Ruth Cowing. I John Cole, a well known Molalla far mer, was in the city Monday. Charles U. Wilson is now officiating as purser on the steamer Altona. Miss Essie Block visited Miss Athleen Hutchinson, at Highland, this week. Mrs. Frank Baker, of Fortland, was visiting friends in Oregon City Wednes day. Rev. Butler will conduct service in the chapel at 1'arkplace next Sabbarh at 4 p. mv Miss Annie Samuels, of Portland, has been visiting Miss Krma Lawrence this week. , Ed. Allen, now of McMinnville, was visiting friends in the city during the week. Miss Alice Barber, of Portland, has been visiting the Misses Goldsmith dur ing the week. Don't fail to hear the colored singers at the Congregational church next Mon day evening. Charles Holman , of Meadowrook, was in the city yesterdry attending the Chantauqua assembly. Charles A. Fitch and family and Miss Ruby Logan are camping at Clatsop beach for a few weeks. Miss Blanche Sharpstein. of San Fran cisco, has been visiting Miss Lute Mar tin and E. Sadie White. Mrs. B. S. Bellomv returned Satur day from an extended" visit to relatives in Spokane and Idaho. Miss Maud Butler is receiving a visft from Miss Agnes Stevenson, of Van couver, Wash., this week. J. S. Purdom, formerly of this city, has resigned his position as Southern Pacific agent at Gran t's Pass. Charles H. McOausland and Miles Rowe have each been granted an in crease of pensions to $8 per month. W. M, Shank, who is now located at Seattle, is conductor on the East Side Railway during the s.s-ion of Chautau tauqua Assembly. Mrs. E. F. Martin, returned Monday from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. F. P. McDevitt, wife of the editor of the Baiidon Recorder. Julius Schwartz has moved hia stock of clothing, etc., into the storeroom in the Masonic building, formerly occupied by E. E. Williams. Rev. Gilman Parker and wife and Mrs. O. S. Ohlson will leave about Au gust 1st, for Clatsop Beach, where they will take their summer outing. The last game of baseball for the championship between the Butteville and Canby teams was played at Gervais Monday. Dan by won, is to Vi. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cheney and son, Orin, have gone to Clatsop beach to camp a few weeks. Mr. Cheney, how ever, will return In a day or two. Miss Jean White left Wednesday for Vancouver, and will accompany her un cle, E. M. Rands, to Monnt St. Helens, who goes with the McBnde party. County Judge Ryan intends to have the suspension bridge repianKed with 4x8 lumber. It is believed that this will be more durable than the 4x12 plank now in use. . ' ' ' The Congregational church was filled to overflowing last Sunday evening to hear the singing of the Millar-Watson company. All were delighted. There win be the usual service ai tne cnurcn next Sabbath. A party of young ladies, consisting of Misses Ruth Cowing, Lute Martin, Ethel Blinn, of Astoria, and Blanche Sharpetein, of San Francisco, left Wed nesday for Mt. Hood, and will camp for several weeks at Yocum's. B . F. Swope has returned from To ledo, Lincoln county, where he located a few months ago, and will again be as sociated with his brother, G. W. Swope, in the law business. His family pre ceded him several weeks since. 1 Miss Nellie Brown, of Salem, a grand daughter of the famous John Brown, who has been the guest ot Mrs. W. uary Johnson, returned home Wednesday. She played several violin solos during the Chautauqua Assembly, that were well received. The San Francisco Chronicle this week has a drawing of General Oiis and some war scenes, made by Balfe John son, formerly of this city. It ia really artistic work, and indicatea that the Or egon City boya are coming to the front away from home. Edward Fleck, teacher of the piano In the college of music at Salem, and Miss Jessie E. Settlemeir, of Woodburn, will be married at the latter place on August 28th. Both parties aie attending the Chautauqua assem my at G ladstone parn, where they are prominent in the musical department. Immediately after the ceremony they leave for Utica, N.Y., where they will make their future home. A copy of the Roseburg Review came to the Courier office this week, which is nothing unusual ; but between the sheets apparently snugly resting in comfort was a fully developed, live Southern Oregon bedbug. The editor, who is now at the Seaside, assisted by the office devil, tried to kill the animal with some high proof prune juice whiskey, but it still lived. The bug did not surrender until he was immersed in benzine. A. E. Cumins, a prominent farmer of Clarkes, was in Oregon City Monday, and states that many fields of wheat in his neighborhood are prematurely turn ing yUlow from the ravages of a sma'l pin borer. It was noticed a few days ago that the wheat was suffering from some cause, but the presence of the pin borer was not discovered until recently. The little green bug gets into the joint, and extracts the juicea from the stalk. It ia causing considerable damage to the wheat in that neighborhood. The Grand Cabin of Native Sons of Oregon, is now a legal entity, and the foundation is laid forapermanentorgan ization that is certain to become promin ent in the future history of Oregon, the organization having been effected in Portland July Uth. The officers are: Grand president, John O. Leasuae i grand first vice-president, Jos. D. Lee; grand second vice-president, Frank M. Robin son; grand orator, B. B. Beekman; grand inside sentinel, Charles T.Helcher ; grand outside sentinel, Claude Htrahan ; grand marshal, John W. Minto. A woman's auxiliary will be organized soon. 500 SUIT BARGAINS We have disposed of one-half of the men's suits which we purchased at a sacrifice, during the past ten days, and expect to close out the balance in a very short time. This is the grandest opportunity ever offered to the citizens of Oregon City, and every one should take advantage of it ' Positively $12.50 and $15.00 values for $8.50. This lot consists of BLUE SERGES, GRAY CLAY WORSTED, and PLAIN and PLAID WORSREDS, Every one new, and none worth less than $12.50. This week we have also marked ' down many.ofjOur BOYS' AND REN'S SUITS CHILD- Which before the reduction were better value than could be obtained elsewhere. Another Lot of. . . . FIN- BRASS CANNONS t To give away with each Boy's or Child's suit sold mo ye;r CLOTHING CO., The Populai .Price Clothiers ben selling:, Manager Corner Third and Oak Streets. A man wftntnd t.n born well in rock. I Apply at Courier office, Oregon City. Money to loan at 8 per cent interest on morteaees. AddIv to C D. & D. 0. Latourette . Mrs. A. M. Ellsworth, of Portland, was visitina her narents. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Piisbury, Wednesday. I Lost Three cows, two red and white ones and a black one with white star in forehead. Return to Riverdale dairy, Whitehouse road, and receive reward. Miss Mary Lee died at Gladstone hos pital last Sunday morning aged 50 of rheumatism and' other complications. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Alhee on Center street. , Joseph Kuerten, who returned from Pendleton this week, having gone to Eastern Oregon on a business trip, states that the report published that help was wanted at the Pendleton woolen mills at good prices ia fake. Ordinary help are only receiving about $1.60 per day, and there is not much demand tor tnat Kind of labor. Gilbert L. Hedges returned from Yale college Friday, after winning the Town send medal and will locate in Oregon City for the practice of law. It has been nine years Since Mr. Hedges left Oregon City to begin a course of studies in the best schools of Massachusetts, and three vears since he has visited hia home in Oanemah, He has returned to his native home with well earned honors. The grand lodge United Workmen iB in session at Fortland this week, and among the Clackamas county represent atives in attendance are the following: Wilsonville, E. L. Baker; Clackamas, J. B. Cramer; Oregon City, William Shehan, O. H. Dye; Oswego, Henry Gans. J. W. Roots, of Clackamas, was granted inside watchman last year. The Degree of Honor is represented as follows: Osweiio, Emma Smith ; Oregon City, Mrs. Anna Schulpius. Mrs.G.A Hamilton received a letter her husband, dated at ne 20th. The letter states that the fo'lowing members of the Oregon City contingent are now safe and sound at Dawson City : Allen Fair clough, Otis Shelley, Gene Hayword, N. Hoffman, Cox, Schwabauer, Tucker, Al Hodgkin, Pluger, Mead, Hute, Louis Noble and D. J. Collins. Collins and one of the other boys are going up Stew art river prospecting ; the Oregon Oity boya are building a large community cabin near Dawson Oity on a high ridge, near a spring of good water; Hamilton and O. S. Ohlson have gone into the house building business. Mr. Hamil ton says that the country is vastly over rated, and that Schwauber intends to return soon. The entire party are in good health. Portland presbytery met Monday, at 209 Second street, to complete the buai- ness left unfinished last Tuesday. The home mission committee reported in favor of dissolving Trinity German church, of Damascus, Clackamas county. i a, i 1. r anu me ciiurcu was cueu 10 appear in its own defense. Discussion of the case was indulged in at considerable length and with much spirit, but it was finally decided by unanimous vote not to dis solve the church, and the Rev. F. N. Fruiht, its pastor, was recommended to the home mission board for the sum of $200 per year. Oregonlan. The Canby Independent thus com ments on the back pay issue : The En terprise attempts to make political cap ital out of the fact that Assessor Stout drew $540 back pay. One of the Issues between Assessor Stout and his oppo nent waa voluntary reduction of aalary, Mr. Stout offered, if elected, to draw only half of the regular aalary. The majority proclaimtd in favor of im bursement to the full amount allowed by law. In drawing back salary which he had failed to take, Assessor Stout merely acted harmony with the senti ments voted bv the republicans of this county. We do not think County Clerk Dixon and Sheriff Cooke would be cen sured by any but the Enterprise if they drew all they were entitled to, and they are very foolish if they do not do bo. Wednesday fr jm hi Dawson City, Jun Formerly Lived Here. Wednesday evening a follow giving hia name as Harry Mason went to Barker & Oo.'s livery Btabie and hired a team, saying he wanted to go to Cleveland and would be back Thursday. He whs ac companied by Miss Sadie Pilkington, and after their departnre it was suspect ed that they did not intend to return, Thursday evening a warrant was issued for Mason's arrest charging him with larceny, and on inquiry it was found that he had gone to Riddle where he had given hia name as Ellis. He left the team there, and in company with the girl started south on the railroad afoot. Deputy Sheriff Dewey went out there Friday and arrived with the couple that afternoon. The girl was delivered to her parents and MaBon was given a hearing before Judge Miller Saturday, Roseburg Review. Mason lived In Oregon Oity last winter, and pretended to be a prize tighter. A match waa arranged to take place In a barn on the hill between he and voung Austin, but about the time the mill was ready to begin Chief of Police Burna ap peared on the scene and stopped further .proceedings. Mason afterwarda waited on the table in a restaurant. The future ia uncertain, but if you keep your blood pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla you may be sure of good health. "KENNEDYS" 1 67 Fl RST ST., Bet. Morrison and Yamhill Announces retiring from business and in order to quickly dispose of the stock Marked $1.00 Dress Goods to 50c " 50c " " 25c " 25c " " 12c Muslin " " 4c Calicoes '' " 2c HAMILTON BROWN SHOES AT LESS THAN COST Fine line of Men's and Boy's Clothing, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Underwear Save Money and Go There for Bargans irMaVirr.f 1 67 FIRST ST., Bet. Morrison and Yamhil PORTLAND, OREGON