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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1906.
PREPARED TO DIG
CANAL RAPIDLY
Commission Announces Com
pletion of Preliminary
Work.
YELLOW FEVER IS EXTINCT
Peath Kale of Negroes Higher Than
of Whites Railroad Is Double
tracked, Harbors Deepened
and Machinery Installed.
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 1!. Tho annual
report of the Isthmian Canal Commission,
tent to Congress today, records the com
jiletion of the preparatory work on the
-anal and tne Deginntng of construction.
Chairman I. P. Shonts, in opening the
report, states the problem and the char
acter of its solution thus:
iJurliiff the year the first atago of canal
work, that of preparation, has virtually
lieen parked, and the Commission finds itself
In position to enter upon the second stage,
that of actual construction of a lock canal
Bt an elevation of Ho feet, authorized by
Congress In June last.
Of these two stupes, the first was at
once the more difficult and the mure im
portant, it not done thoroughly and in
telligently in every part the actual work of
construction ouhl be handicapped from
the start. It was necessary, as in the
launchfns of any Ktoal enterprise, to create
an organization with which to work. i t
was necessary also to make the Isthmus, by
thorough sanitation, a healthful place in
which to work ; to provide suitable quar
ters and fond for employes; to construct
proper terminal yards and railway tracks
and intermediate ardn for the handling of
the vast quantities of materials and sup
lilies; to install a system of railway tracks
through the cuts; to put the various levels
in the cut in proper condition for the in
stallation and operation of the maximum
number of steam shovels; to purchase and
assemble the plant for constructing tho
canal; to work out all engineering problems;
to perfect a government and create a sys
tem of account ft, and to formulate a preliin
Innry plan fr carrying forward the work in
ach department.
Senate Said "Well Done."
Kmphatic testimony to the thoroughness
n iih which the pi eliininary work has been
dnne was borne by the Senate committee on
Interoceanic canals in its majority report,
made to the Jjetialc on May 17, lilOti, after
an investigation which emended over a per
iod of six months.
Yellow Fever Extirpated.
The work of sanitation throughout the
canal zone has been continued with great
energy during the ear. The most serious
problem that confronted the health depart
ment when it was organized two years ago
was the elimination of yellow fever. This
obstacle has been completely removed. Al
though there has never been so large a
number of non-immunes on the isthmus as
during the past year, there has not been, a
single well-authenticated case of yellow
lever during thut period.
The Isthmus is now completely free of
this disease, an achievement which demon
strates the high efficiency of the health de
partment. In combating other diseases the
department has been scarcely less success
ful. Tho average dally sick rate among em
ployes of tho Commission during the ten
months from January 1, 1906, to October
:tt, 1006. was lis per 1000. which is no
higher than might be expected in an equal
body of laborers engaged in construction
work in any part of the world. During the
same period the death rate among the
whites was about 3 7 Vsi per inoo, and among
the blacks nearly 53 per 1000.
Houses, Food, Amusement.
Great progress has been made In provid
ing for the welfare and comfort of tiie em
ployes. The commission now has sufficient
buildings to provide quarters for all its
bachelor employes. These . buildings are
screened, and provided almost universally
with running water and with modern plumb
ing, and are comfortably furnished. In ad
dition, aC5 separate houses and l.'i larger
buildings have been constructed for mar
ried quarters, providing accommodations for
:t7r families. There are still many mar
ried men. however, for whom no quarters
are available, but upon the completion of
the houses now authorized these will be pro
vided for. There are now approximately 1U00
American women and children ou the
istnmus.
Fourteen "hotels and messhousea nave been
established along the line of the canal. The
result of the messhouses has been generally
satisfactory. At the end of the fiscal year
a total 1 net gain for the entire period of
operation of over $3000 was shown. It is not
intended to make any profit whatever, but
that every cent taken in hall be given back
to the employes in the form of the best
food that it is possible to obtain for the
money or in reduction of price to em
ployes. For the amusement and recreation of
canal employes,, a building has been set
aside as a clubhouse at Cristobal, and
lour clubhouses are being built at other
points.
The commission, working hi conjunction
with the Young Men's Christian Association,
wiu manage these and other similar build
ings in the chief labor centers. Authority
lias been given by tne commission for the
construction of buildings to 'accommodate
properly those who wish to attend religious
services, to be available for all denomina
tions, and creeds, the upper floors to be fitted
up as lodge rooms, and the lirst floors to be
need for religious services.
Employes About J 7,000.
The force employed on the Isthmus on
November 1, lOOti, was as follows:
In November, 1903, 'the commission's em
ployes numbered approximately 17,000, and
In November, 1906, the number was practi
cally the eame. Of these 12,612 were under
the department of construction and engi
neering; 1129 under the division of material
and supplies; 2291 under the department of
government and sanitation, and 137 in the
auditing and disbursing offices.
Of the 17,000 men, about 1 ,"700 were on
the gold rolls, virtually all white Americans,
and 13, MOO on the Bilvor rolls, mainly aliens.
This number does not include 4000 people
employed on the Panama Halt road.
The above number .does not Include a
large number of men especially West In
dian laborers who are not continually em
ployed by tho commission, but who pos
sibly work a few month's each year. Includ
ing these men. there' are in round numbers
2."t. 000 men under tne direct jurisdiction of
the Isthmtnn Canal Commission and Panama
Kali road Company. ,
The report reiterates the former un
favorable opinion of "West '"Indian ne
proes as laborers. Jt says they lack both
vitality and the disposition to work, and
do so only until their actual necessities
are supplied. Many of thein settle in the
jungle; build little .shacks. raise' enough
to keep them alive, and only work a day
or two occasionally.. By removing from
the Commission's quarters, they make
eontrol difficult. Nor can . they be in
duced to take enough nourishment to
sustain strength for labor. The report
continues:
The most serious question in regard to
this class of laborers is that of feeding
them, ordinary methods having failed to in
duce them to take sufficient nourishment
to give tnem the physical strength neces
sary to enable' them to work efficiently.
The experiment with laborers from North
ern Spain has proved very satisfactory. Their
efficiency Is not only more than double that
of the negroes, but tey stand the climate
much better. Since January there have
been about 90ft of these at virk on .tho
canal, and of this number not oi has died
from disease. They have malaria In about
eame degree as the white Americans,
but not at all to the extent that the negroes
have it, and there has not been a sing; case
of yellow fever among them. Their general
condition is about as good as It was In their
tiomes in Spain, and they stand the climate
very much better than the negroes. The
chief engineer la convinced by this experi
ment that "any white man. so-called, under
the same conditions, will stand the climate
on the isthmus very mucii better than the
blacks, who are supposed to be immune from
practically everything, but who, as a mat
ter of fact, are subject to almost every
thing." The capacity of the Commission's
steamers has been taxed by the stream
of new appointees coming and old ones
going home- on leave. Of engineering and
construction the report says:
Excavation in Culebra Cut.
.The engineering work of the year has
been almost entirely preparatory. Owing to
the delay in the decision aa to the type of
canal It was Impracticable to locate perma
nent and well-arranged dumping grounds for
the disposal of waste material. The general
plan of the work which has been done In the
Culebra cut has been in putting the various
levels In proper condition for the installa
tion of the maximum number of stcamshov
cls, and the construction of a system of
railways on each level and a doublo track
at the bottom, "connecting with yards estab
lished along the line of the Panama Rail
road. While no special effort has been made
to get out yardage, yet during the fiscal
year the amount of material excavated from
the canal prism was 1,500,000 cubic yards,
as against 742,000 cubic yards the previous
fiscal year.
Notwithstanding the rainy season, which
extends from the end of April to the end of
December, there was during the month of
August, 1906, a total excavation In the Cule
bra cut of 244,844 cubic yards, which was
the largest amount taken out up to that
time during any one month since the canal
has been under American control. In Sep
tember, 1006. the total excavation was 291,
4."rt) cubic yards, and in October 1900, it
was 326,000 cubic yards. A large amount of
the material taken from the cut has been
used for nillng for the double-tracking of
the Panama Railroad. At the close of the
fiscal year, which was practically the date
of the decision as to the type of canal, the
conditions in Culebra cut regarding the In-j
stallation of shovels and consequent large
increase in the output, were generally satis
factory. At the beginning of the fiscal year
there were 10 shovels erected and ready for
work. There was available In September.
1906, a total force of 46 steam shovels, of
which 27 were at work in the canal prism,
two outside the prism, -four on the Panama
Railroad, and the rest set up and ready for
work in various places.
The main receiving and forwarding yards,
one on each side of the cut, which are to
act as clearing-houses for the dirt trains
moving down from the various levels of the
cut to the yards, there to be switched and
forwarded over the main line of the Panama
Railroad for final, disposition, are practi
cally completed at Pedro Miguel on the Pa
cHte side and l-as Casca'das on the Atlantic
side.
Improvement of Terminals.
In improving and enlarging its terminal
facilities the commission has pursued the
polu-y of expending upon such facilities sit
uated within the Republic of Panama oniy
such sums as arc sufficient to keep them
in a proper slate of repair, and of locating
all necessary additions within the Canal
Zone. Two large wharves have been com
pleted at Cristobal, each capable of accom
modating at the same time two ships of the
largest draft. One of these has been roofed
over, and both are equipped with the most
modern appliances. A modern coal-hoiMlng
plant ha been established which will reduce
the cost of handling coal from 2:1 to
cents per ton, and will make it possible to
discharge coal vessels approximately every
live days. The harbor has been dredged so
t hat the largest fhlns can use the new
wharves, and in future all the steamers of
the Panama (hie will dock there. Tho term
inal railway yards at Cristobal are fin
ished and in operation, and they would be
a credit to any railway in the United States.
The I.a Boca yard is advancing rapidly, and
Is about 73 per cent finished, as is also the
double track addition to the steel pier at
that point. The new wharf at I -a Boca is
completed, and is connected with the old
steel wharf, thereby providing berths for
three additional ships.
Panama Made Over Again.
The water system of Panama is complete,
with the exception of the house connec
tions, of which the larger part have been
made, and the remainder are being made
rapidly. Fire hydrants and cranes for the
use of water curts have also been placed.
The sewerage system of the City of Panama
is virtually computed. All the principal
streets have been thoroughly paved with the
best variety of paving brick, laid on con
crete foundations. Other streets, most of
which are short and unimportant, are to
be macadamized, and this work has already
begun, it is believed that the City of Pan
ama is today the best paved, the best wat
ered and the best sewered city in Central
America, or in the- northern half of South
America.
Colon and Cristobal now have an abun
dant supply of pure and wholesome water,
drawn from a receiving reservoir two miles
back from Mount Hope, and which has a
capacity of about 50S.OhO.000 gallons. With
in both placet a system of mains has been
designed and approved and is being laid as
vapidly as possible. All houses In Cristo
bal occupied by whites have been connected
with this system. All other houses, as fast
as they are completed, are being- connected.
A complete sewer system has been ap
proved for Colon and work for its instal
lation has been begun. Front street, the
main thoroughfare of the city, has been
paved with vitrified brick; other streets are
being raised and their surfaces covered
with crushed rock.
Panama Kaiiroad Improved.
Great progrcFS has been made during the
year in enlarging and improving the facili
ties of the Panama Railroad so as to en
able It to perform adequately its double
functions of handling general commercial
business and at the same time serving as
the essential instrument in the construction
of the canal. Evidence of the Improved ef
ficiency of the road and its terminals is
afforded in the fact that during the last
eight months of the present year the steam
ers of the Panama Railroad Company oper
ated out of New York with sailings every
five days have been promptly discharged
and loaded at Colon, and the schedule has
been properly maintained.
The service has continued to improve to
such an extent that on November 9, 1906,
a new schedule cutting off one day from
the layover at each end of the route was
put into effect. There has been no conges
tion of freight on tho isthmus since the mid
dle of December, 1903.
Tho reconstruction of old tracks and the
laying of new ones, and the double-tracking
of the Panama Railroad for nearly its
entire length, has been pressed forward with
all possible energy. Of the 35 miles of ad
ditional track contemplated about 20 miles
have been completed and are ready for use,
and the remaining J 5 miles are about 75
per cent completed. The probability is that
sections of the road will require three or
four tracks. The new railway equipment,
ordered In 1903, has in large measure been
delivered on the isthmus.
Purchase of Supplies.
The practice established in the Spring of
1905 of calling for bids on material and sup
plies on tho basis of the price covering de
livery on the isthmus has been continued,
which gives each section of the country
equal opportunity for bidding on the ma
terials needed, so that the manufacturers,
railroads and steamship lines in each sec
tion and through each port may figure on
the business on a combination of prices and
rates. The general purchasing officer is
located at Washington, with assistant pur
chasing and shipping agents at New York,
New Orleans, San Francisco and Tacoma,
The total amount of purchases made for the
year ended June SO, 1906, was $8,743,482.05.
The work of the division of material and
supplies on -the isthmus has been reorgan
ized and new and modern methods of hand
ling material have been installed. One
general storehouse has been established at
Mount Hope, near the Atlantic entrance to
the canal, which'is the general supply depot
for the entire work on the isthmus. This
consolidation of stock at the general store
house has made possible a reduction in the
quantity of stock carried and has also ef
fected a large saving on payrolls.
The total stock of materials and supplies
on hand June 30, 1906, in charge of the
division of material and supplies, which
have been purchased since the United States
took charge of the work on the isthmus,
amounted to approximately $1,400,000.
Funds are now obtained by shipment
of United States money direct from New
York, which effected a saving of $19,815.39
between May and October as compared
with the old system of paying a premium
to Panamanian bankers. The report con
tinues. Dams and Locks Located.
Since the decision by Congress, In June
last, decreeing the. construction of a lock
canal at an elevation of So feet, the Com
mission has fixed definitely the location, on
the Atlantic side, of three sets of locks
and a grat dam at Gatun, and, on the
Pacific side, of one set of locks at Pedro
Miguel and two sets at La Boca and two
dams in the vicinity of Ia Boca, a large
one between Sosa High and Coroxal, and a
smaller one between Sosa High and San
Juan Hill.
The report recapitulates the plans for
the employment of Chinese labor and the
construction of the canal, which have
been published from time to time.
The report of Chief Engineer John F.
Stevens mainly deals with details of sub
jects discussed in the Commission's re
port. He conveys an idea of the difficul
ties of work on the isthmus in the fol
lowing paragraph relating to topo
graphical surveys along the Chagrea
River:
Surveying in tlie Jungle.
In considering the extent of the territory
covered it should be borne in' mind that
every foot of every line run has been cut
but through a dense tropical jungle, and
during the rainy season, which continues
during the greater part of the year, these
surveyors are working in water from ankle
to waist deep and are subsisted and quar
tered in. temporary camps. Undoubtedly
the engineers and their assistants employed
on this particular work are laboring under
more adverse and uncomfortable conditions
than any other class of employes on the
isthmus, and much credit is due to them
for the splendid progress in the work they
have made.
Of the work in the Culebra cut he says:
"During the year the amount of mate
rial excavated from the canal prism was
1.500,000 cubic yards, at 79.5 cents per
cubic yard, as against 742,000 cubic yards,
at a cost of 58.6 cents per cubic yard the
previous yeaf .' '
He explains the increased cost to the
fact that in the previous year 60 per cent
of the output was taken out in the dry
season, when there was only 7.8 inches of
rain, while in the 1906 dry season there
was 18.4 inches of rain and only 54 per
cent of the output was taken out; also in
li06, 49 per cent of the material was
drilled and blasted, while in 1905 the pro
portion was only 13 per cent; also the
men worked only eight instead of ten
hours a day, and wages have been in
creased 25 to 50 per cent. He continues:
With the completion of the double track
of the Panama Railroad, which is now well
along, so that our trains will not be de
layed in getting over the road to the dump
ing grounds, the cost of transportation can
be reduced at least 50 uer cent, and the
transportation proposition, including the
dumping of the material, is the greatest
problem . connected with the . excavation of
the Culebra cut.
Water Supply of Colon.
Regarding the water supply of Colon,
which Has been the subject of some crit
icism, Mr. Stevens says:
At no time during the past year has
Colon or Cristobal suffered from a lack of
water supply; at the height of what was
called the water famine there was dally
more water In Colon per inhabitant than
was ever known there at any previous time.
And the charge which has been publicly
made that salt water was pumped through
the water muins to Colon, for supplying the
inhabitants of this place with water for
domestic purposes, is absolutely and unqual
ifiedly false. The only salt or other brack
ish water which was pumped at all was
through the old French main leading to tho
baths and water closets at Cristobal. The
drinking and cooking supply was obtained
and always available from rainwater tanks
and water hauled in by the Panama Rail
road. In fact, no possible physical connec
tion existed, or ever did exist, whereby salt
water could be handled by any pumps, or
through any mains, into the City of Colon,
and the statement that such salt water was
pumped was a lie, direct and simple.
Beats Oregon in Rainfall.
Panama can beat Oregon in rainfall.
Mr. Stevens gives the total for the year
at different stations, ranging from 60.64
at La Boca to 104.17 at Cristobal. The
maximum temperature at Naos Island
was 97 degrees, the minimum 67 degrees,
the mean 84.4 degrees, and the mean hu
midity 87.3 degrees.
Of the supply of skilled .labor he says:
Skilled labor has been recruited through
recruiting agencies which have been estab
lished In the United States. Men are being
furnished in most cases in fairly satisfactory
numbers, and an improvement in the grade
of these men Is steadily observed. An in
creased wage rate for all- classes of me
chanics became necessary and was author
ized in December, 1905, but even our scale
of wages Is not, In some Instances, any
higher than that prevailing in the United
States, which makes it difficult to supply
men of certain classes as rapidly as needed.
MINERS WANT INSPECTOR
AVill Ask Legislature to Create Mew
State Office.
A stale mining inspector in Oregon is
proposed by the Bourne Miners' Union, of
Bourne, Baker County, which has tent a
circular letter to members of the Oregon
legislature, urging creation of puch an
ofllce. The union wants also enactment
of an eight-hour law and laws to compel
employers of miners to pay employes
within 24 hours after quitting their em
ploy and to prevent employers from
coercing employes Into buying provisions
or boarding at any particular place.
Dan Evens, secretary of the union,
writes to Representative Beveridge, of
Multnomah County: "We believe these
proposed laws will be very beneficial to
every laboring man, every business man
and every good citizen in the State of
Oregon."
The duties of the Inspector would be to
inspect mines so as to correct their
ventilation and unnecessary dangers, to
make rules for safe working of mines and
to prosecute violators of the rule?. The
miners wish to select the inspector, in
stead of having him pirked out by the
Governor, their reason being that they
want' in the office a practical and well
qualifled miner, selected In competitive
examination.
"The examination should cover all the
underground work especially," says the
circular letter, "but need not require
technical knowledge. Bribery or graft
should be punished by immediate dis
missal and prosecution. The length of
the term of office should not be longer
than two years unless reappointed at the
request of the miners."
The miners suggest that "if any cor
poration or other employer fails to pay
an employe within 2 hours after quitting
employment, the wages must be paid for
every day that the employe waits for
payment-"
Sellwood Board of Trade.
Sellwood Board of Trade received
encouraging reports from street work
and committee on improved car ser
vice last night. It was announced
that East Eleventh street will be
improved with crushed rock. The Port
land Railway Company promised to
take up tho matter of improved car ser
vice as soon as the strike is out of the
way. Progress was reported on the Se'I
wood Bank. Assurances were given t.iat
the concern would certainly open for bust
ness in a short time and have permanent
quarters on Umatilla avenue and East
Thirteenth street as soon as a brick build
ing can be put up on that corner. There
tv as a large attendance. D. M. Donausn
presided.
Accused by License Inspector.
Upon complaint of License Inspector
Hutchinson, warrants for the arrest of
Adolph Wolfe and Isaac N. Lipman. of
the firm of Lipman. olfe & Co., were
issued from the Municipal Court yester
day afternoon on charges of selling liquor
without a license. The warrants were
placed in the hands of Patrolman Barter
for service, and he took Mr. Wolfe to po
lice headquarters, where bail in the sum
of t'200 was deposited for his appearance
in court this morning. It is charged by
the inspectors that Henry Barnhart pur
chased a quart bottle of whisky from the
store yesterday.
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PATRICK MUST LIVE
Granted Commutation Against
His Protest.
WILL CONTINUE THE. FIGHT
Governor's Action Prompted by Di
vision in Appeal Court Believes
Lawyer's Mind Unhinged
by Long Confinement.
ALBANY, N. T., Dec. 20. Albert .T.
Patrick was saved by Governor Higgins
today from the death chair, in the
shadow of which he has stood for nearly
five years. He was convicted in March,
1902, of the murder of William March
Rice, an aged millionaire.
In a brief memorandum laying stress
upon the dissenting opinions of the Judges
of the Court of Appeals, which affirmed
Patrick's conviction by a vote of 4 to 3,
the Governor announced that he had com
muted the death sentence to imprison
ment for life. Later the Governor in
timated a doubt of Patrick's sanity, at
tributing his mental state to. the strain
under which the condemned lawyer has
labored for years in the death cell at
Sing Sing.
' Cannot Choose Penalty.
The Governor was shown a dispatch in
which it was assterted that Patrick would
refuse to accept the commutation and
insist upon his "right to die."
'Patrick cannot determine what his
punishment shall be," said the Governor.
'He is mistaken jif he says he sent me
no application. In fact, I have several,
one in particular, asking for a pardon.
He will have to be careful or he may
find himself in Matteawan. The long
strain seems to have been too much for
him."
Matteawan is the state hospital for
insane criminals. The Governor said he
had nothing further to say as to his
reasons for commuting the sentence.
Governor States Reasons.
In announcing the commutation.
Governor Higgins issued the following
memorandum: '
"Albert T. Patrick has been convict
ed of the murder of William M. Rice,
and the Judgment of conviction has
been affirmed by a divided court. It
is not claimed that Patrick committed
the murder in person, but that he pro
cured the act to be done. He has been
convicted principally upon the testi
mony of Charles E. Jones, who con
fessed that he murdered his master
while he lay asleep, instigated thereto
by . Patrick, and Jones by his testi
mony has purchased his own immunity
from trial or punishment. Neither this
fact alone nor the review of any of
the facts already passed' upon by the
courts at some stage of these proceed
ings would seem to me to warrant in
terfering 'with the Judgment of death
pronounced against the defendant; but
three of the seven Judges of the Court
of Appeals were so strongly of the
opinion that errors were committed at
the trial which were substantially
prejudicial to the rights of Patrick,
that I feel that the death penalty
ought hot under all the circumstances
to be inflicted.
'In view of all these facts, and the
grave doubts expressed by these Judges,
I am satisfied that I ought to .relieve the
defendant from the extreme penalty of
the law and commute his sentence to
imprisonment for life."
Patrick's brother-in-law. John T. Mini-
ken, of St. Louis, is said to have financed
Patrick's tighufor freedom at great cost.
WILL FIGHT FOR HIS PARDON
Palrlck Not Content With Commuta
tion of Sentence.
OSINTNG. N. Y., Dec. 20. Albert T.
Patrick announced tonight that he is not
satisfied with commutation and at once
will begin a fight for freedom. A writ
of habeas corpus will be applied for, it
was said, ' in the United States Court,
making Warden Johnson the defendant.
ACH QUESTIONS BURNS
Detective Says He Has Received Xo
Money From Heney.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20. William J.
Burns, the detective who has been gath
ering the evidence upon which the recent
indictments found by the grand Jury have
been based, was a witness today in the
case of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz and
Abraham Ruef, charged with extortion.
In answer to a question, the witness
stated that for IS years he has been em
ployed as a special agent of the Interior
Department. An attempt was made by
Attorney Ach, for the defense, to show
that Burns severed his connection with
the Government at the request of Spe
cial Prosecutor Heney, but the evidence
was not admitted.
The court also sustained the objections
of the prosecution to questions concerning
when Burns arrived in San Francisco,
whether he knew James D. Fhelan or
Rudolph Sprockets, or whether he had re
ceived money from them. . He stated,
however, that he had received no money
from Heney. In answer to further ques
tions, he stated he had known Ruef for
about three years. He stated he did not
know Grand Jurors Gallagher, Dwyer or
Young. In fact, he stated he knew none
of the members of the grand jury except
in a very casual way.
"Is it not a fact that your sole reason
for being: in San Francisco is to aid the
prosecution in . securing indictments?"
asked Ach.
The question was objected to and the
objection sustained.
Burns stated that he had been intro
duced to Grand Juror Sonntag. but had
never discussed with him any of the mat-
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Signature of
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TO KEEP IN GOOD TRIM
MUST LOOK WELL TO THB
CONDITION OF THE SKIN.
TO THIS END THE BATH
SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH
HAND
SAPOLIO
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$12.50 House Coats at $8.45
$10.00 House Coats at $6.65
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V $8.00 House Coats at $5.35
$7.00 House Coats at $4.65
$6.50 House Coats at $4.35
$4.65 House Coats at $3.10
Cor.
ters under investigation by the grand
jury. He had. he said, talked perhaps
three or four times with Foreman Oliver.
Nothing was said about Ruef, Schmitz,
Nicholas, Duffey or any of the witnesses.
"Did you talk about a conspiracy to in
dict Mr. Ruef and Mayor Schmitz or
about a meeting between Fremont, Older.
Mr. Phelan, Mr. Heney and Mr. Hearst?"
"I never spoke to 'Mr. Phelan in New
York in my life," spoke up Heney.
"Well," said Ach,. "we'll leave your
name out of it."
Burns told of a conversation he had
with Jean Loupe, a restaurant man, at
which time Loupe denied having paid
Ruef for police protection. "I told him,"
said Burns, "that I did not believe him.
I said we knew the facts."
Burns was on the witness stand when
court adjourned.
French Voile Dress Skirts.
Just arrived, the latest and prettiest
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FURS FOR CHRISTMAS
MAKE BEAUTIFUL PRESENTS
What could a woman appreciate more than a Fur from Liebes'? Fur Jackets, Stolls, Scarfs, Ties
and Muffs in wonderful assortment, and in every style, of every fur the world produces, are here
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for furs are most wanted by all women folk. But the best news for all is the wonderfully reason
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CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
Grey Effects Brown Effects
Natural Squirrel Ascot Ties 94.50 River Mink Ascot Tics $3.50
Natural Squirrel Throw Scarfs 5j57.'50 Sable Squirrel Four-m-TianJ $10.00
Natural Squirrel Stolls $15 to $45 Sable Fox Sets, with pillow Muffs. . .$22.50
Natural Squirrel Muffs ..$8.50 to $17.50 Genuine Mink Scarfs ..$15.00 to $75.00
Gray Krimmer Sets $17.50 Genuine Mink Muffs $35.00 to $75.00
White Effects Black Effects
Thibet Lamb Boas $ 3.50 to $15.00 Persian Paw Scarfs $7.50
Thibet Lamb Muffs ....$ 4.50 to $10.00 Persian Paw Muffs $10.00
Mouflon Lamb Sets ....$17.50 to $25.00 Black Fox Scarfs $25.00
Genuine Ermine Neckpieces $20.00 Black Lynx Sets, with larjre full
Genuine Ermine Pillow Muffs $60.00 Muffs $22.50 to $75.00
Children's
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Your choice of any of our large
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PRAIRIE LAND SINKING.
Lake Forms at Base of Sierra Madre
Mountain.
EL PASO. Tex.. Dec. 20. Minlnc men
who arrived here today from the Si
erra Madre Mountains report that a
large tract of prairie land at the foot
of one of the spurs of the ranges is
gradually sinking, -and that a large
lake of pure water has formed. The
lake is nearly a mile in circumference
and the water three feet deep, the
depth increasing gradually within the
last few years.
Two other large lakes have been
formed in the foothills of the Sierra
Madres in the same manner.
Fight for Irrigation. Tract.
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 20. (Special.) To
day before the State Land Board the
hearing was begun of the contest be-
Lieoes
J. P. PLAGEMANN, Manager 135 FIFTH
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Fur Collars
Fur Sets '
Goats
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tween the Twin Falls Land Wator
Company and the Idaho Irrigating Com
pany for segregation of fin.000 acres of
land south of Gooding in Lincoln County.
The contest is very interesting and im
portantthe first one of tho kind that
has occurred in this state.
The tract sought Is right hi the midst of
and a part of a greater tract sought by
the Twin Falls Company. The other
company cannot cover so much ground as
its competitor, its surveys being such
that it can only reach the land in dis
pute. The latter company claims to have
the only valid application before the
board for this land. It develops that the
Twin Falls Company intends to build an
electric railway line from Milner through
the entire tract to Gooding, some 40
miles, generating the power at its own
plant.
Weak, Weary. Watery Eye. Welcome.
Murine Eye Remedy. It soothes. It cures.
For that tired feeling or when you are
weary and worn out, take Hood's Sarsa
parilla. o. rurs
ST., Cor. Alder
$1.00 to $2.50
$2.00 to $7.50