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THE 3IOKMNG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, APRIL 3. 1908.
EFFECT OF
NEW
RATES NOTOUR
W. W. Cotton Discusses Re
cent Order of Oregon Rail
road Commission.
RELATION OF SPOKANE CASE
If Pelltlon of Interior Jobbers Is
Granted by Interstate Commerce
Commission, Portland Will
Be Affected Adversely.
Rffeets of the reduction in distributive
rates out of Portland just ordered by
th Railroad Commission are not yet
clrar and depend largely upon the deci
sion of the Interstate Commerce Com
m'ssion in regard to the petition of
Spokane for lower terminal rates. The
two case are necessarily related for if
reduced terminal rates are made to
points In the Interior proportionate to
yhs reductions just ordered. Portland will
rot profit by a widened jobbing territory
ss will apparently be the case if the
reductions in distributive rates are the
only reductions ordered.
The new rates mean a reduction In class
rates to points in Oregon east of The
Dalles of from 10 to 15 per cent. Faker
City has already made a protest against
the reduction throuch one of its news
papers at what it calls rank favoritism
for Portland jobbers.
W. W. Cotton, general counsel for the
Harriman lines in the Pacific Northwest,
ssyg he has not yet decided whether he
will file suit to contest the new rates. .
Just when the new class tariffs will be
effective depends upon when the Com
mission issues its order to the railroads.
Portland Jobbers May Not Profit.
In discussing the new tariffs. Mr. Cot
ton said:
"By reason of the condHions existing
on the Facific Coast as the result of the
competition of sea carriers via the Straits
of Magellan, the Isthmus of Panama and
Tehauntepee routes, very low rates have
been made by the transcontinental lines
from the east of Portland, and the rates
from the East to interior points in Ore
gonT Washington and Idaho, which are
not subject to th same competition, are
generally made by adding to the trans
continental rates to Portland the local
rates from Portland to destination.
"However." as the result of various
causes, the rate from the East to the
interior have from time to time been re
duced, and there is even now pending be
fore the Interstate Commerce Commission
a suit instituted by the City of ffpokane
for the purpose of having the same rates
established from the Kast to Spokane as
are made to the Coast terminals, in order
to enable the merchant.! at Spokane to
compete mo-c successfully with the
merchants at Portland and other Coast
cities for the trade of Eastern Washing
ton and Northern Idaho. Evidence in the
suit was taken in the Winter of 1W5. and
the case was argued before the Inter
state Commerce Commission in June. 1W,
but no decision has as yet been rendered.
"If the adjustment prayed for by the
Spokane merchants is granted, it would
have the effect of materially reducing the
rates from the East to interior Oregon
points, as well as to Ppokane and in
terior Washington points, in which event,
if the present ability of Portland merch
ants to job in the interior is to be main
tained, it would necessitate the trans
portation of Eastern goods practically
free from Portland to a considerable ter
ritory in the interior.
Will Affect Hates rYoni Kast.
"The action before the Oregon State
Commission was instituted by the trans
portation committer of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of
reducing the R. & N. Company's local
rates from Portland to interior points.
Since the local rates from Portland to the
Interior are a factor in the making of
rates from the Est to the interior, the'
order of the Commission will have the
effect of reducing the rates from the Kast
to the interior, particularly on less than
carload shipments and by reason of the
narrowing of the difference between the
carload and less than carload rates.
"It will tend to prevent the shipment
of freight in carloads from the East and
California to interior points for distribu
tion as against shipment in carloads to
Portland and distribution from here, a
situation that will no douht be contested
vigorously by Interior towns.
"But what the ultimate effect of the
new adjustment will be upon business
from Portland to Interior points cannot
be determined until after a decision has
been rendered by the .Federal Commis
sion in the Spokane rase.
"Thus it will spyear from these- two
suits that Spokane merchants, on the one
band, are endeavoring through the Inter
state Commerce Commission to have the
rates from the East to interior points
materially reduced, and that the Portland
merchants, on the other hand, through
the Oregon State Commission, are en
deavoring to have the rates from the
Coast to interior points materially re
duced. "Therefore, there are three parties con
cerned In any adjustment of the rates,
namely, the Coast jobber, the jobber in
the interior, and the Chicago. St. Louis
or Middle West jobber.
Relationship of Kates at Is-mic.
"The question presented fir consider
ation Ik largely one of relationship of
rates, rather than the rates themselves.
Rates may be made upon a very low
basis, and yet fail to be satisfactory to
all of the contending parties. While the
contention between jobbing cities for the
trade of a particular or disputed terri
tory is universal, and in thttt respect the
situation here is no different than in
other localities, it is not within the range
of human Ingenuity to fix any rate
adjustment that will be acceptable to
all the parties interested.
"The progressiveness of the average
merchant influences him to increase his
trade by enlarging his field of operation,
and in doing so he not infrequently grots
Into what the other fellow claims as his
territory, and the result is that compe
tition becomes more keen, the railroad is
drawn into the contest by either one
party or the other, and sometimes both,
and petitioned for a rate adjustment
which will favor one as against the
other.
"If Solomon had been a railroad man.
and was confronted with the conditions
that exist in tha Pacific Northwest to
day, he would have had a greater oppor
tunity to display his wisdom than he was
fortunate, or perhaps unfortunate enough
to have presented in his time.
Old and New Rates Compared.
The following table is a comparison of
the present class rates and the corrcs-
F. X, MATTHIEU, LAST SURVIVOR OF THE
CHAMPOEG CONVENTION IS 90 YEARS OLD
BT ARTHfR A. GREENE.
THIS man is one who saved a state
and remains to bear witness of the
excellence of his work after 65 years.
It is no small distinction to live to a
very exeat age and a far from purely
physical one. The mere act of survival
appears to those who view things cursor
ily to be nothing more than breathing
and eating and sleeping the psalmist and
his "three score and ten into disfavor as
a true philosopher. It is not. however,
and if F. X. Matthieu had done nothing
more than that he would, at the age of
90. with his faculties well preserved, be a
man of achievement- Those who lack
mental and moral stamina die soonest,
the theory of goodness and early demise
to the contrary notwithstanding. The
coward and the reprobate give in to the
Grim Reaper because they lack the virtue
and the courage to oppose him. It is a
truly splendid thir to live to be 90 years
of aee. and when one has done that and
accomplished some one fine deed it is ail
that the human animal could wish.
Yesterday was the K'th birthday of
Francis TCavier Matthieu, last survivor of
that meeting which decided the question
of sovereignty on the Pacific Coast, that
pioneer parliament -which assembled at
Champoeg, Or., on May 2. IMS. A public
reception was held In the afternoon at the
rooms of the Oregon Historical Society,
under the direction of George If. Himes.
secretary of that institution. The splen
did old patriot spent two hours in meet
ing his friends of the pioneer days, and
enjoyed a veritable field day.
I was perhaps the one person among
the hundreds who clasped his hand and
wished htm well, who had contributed
nothing to the upbuilding of the state.
Practically all were tins-d with the un
melting frost of years and not a few had
done brave things for Oregon. I'm in
clined to think, however, that the dis
passionate spectator who looks on at
things that others do. as a matter of his
day's work, gets the perspective better,
somehow.
This last one of the fathers is a sturdy
little man today in spite of his years. He
is well down the sundown side hut has no
complaints. However well he has stu
died men and the written word he has
never learned lamentations. He didn't
know he was doing a big thing when he
voted in that rude assembly that the flag
of these United States should be the flag
of posterity. Neither perhaps did the
champion who signed the Magna Charter
or the Declaration. We better appreciate
the significance of that act now but not
fully, so long as the last survivor lives
nor perhaps for many years thereafter.
Sometime, in the long, never ending fu
ture some far qff future singer will tell
the stories of these men and their deeds
In a new Iliad and a new Odyssey. Then
will history prepare for them a proper
place in the chronicles of a mighty people.
I tried to form a proper estimate of
this rare old man whose eyes still
sparkle as he talks and the conclusion
was that while he has never commanded
the applause of listening Senates nor done
the spectacular, big deeds, he was in
his day a Hampden whose name and fame
should be perpetuated in this state for
which he wrought so well in that older
day.
Do you stop to consider that he was
born in ISIS and that it was 70 years
ago' that he came as a man grown Into
the United States? That's a long while
ago. Not many of us were alive then,
mw-h less old enough to have borne
arms in a revolution and to be ex
patriated by royal decree. Francis X.
Matthieu participated actively in the
Canadian revolt of 1S38, and when the
uprising failed, crossed the border be-
ponding rate, just established by the
Oregon Railroad Commission, from Port
land to the points named, which may be
taken as fairly illustrative of the whole:
Merchandise Special caxlnad
, in oentf. clflffw in cent.
per 10O lb. per 100 lee.
From Portland to t'matilla 12.T4R ABCDTC
OH S5 Tl 60 M 4i 4" 34 25 21 1"
New 75 W M 45 35 38 30 23 19 15
From Portland to I,a Grande
Old is t !U R4 n K2 42 33 2
New 115 08 81 69 ;-8 58 46 35 29 23
From Portland to Baker City
Old 1.15 12" W lift flTi BO 55 40 3 2
New H7 po 7i 63 69 47 35 29 23
From Portland to Huntington
Old r M. 140 irv 35 82 7 65 55 4fi n 26
New . 121 103 8T 73 61 61 4S 36 30 24
From Fortland to Milton
Old if fl 77 fi5 52 46 36 26 2
New SI 67 57 4S 4S 3K 2I 24 18
MUST NOT OCCUPY STREET
Mayor Vetoes Ordinance Granting
Perkins Hotel Permit.
Mayor Tane yesterday vetoed an ordi
nance that was passed at the last ses
siin of the City Council, granting to the
Perkins Hotel Company the right to
use eight inches of the sidewalk space
at Fifth and Washington streets for ex
terior ornamentations to the five-story
structure at that corner. He explains -his
action by the declaration that the street
is narrow and that the space could not
well be afforded.
The Mayor's veto message to the Coun
cil Is as follows:
I hprewit h return ordinance No. 17.667
not approved.
This is an ordinance which jprants pr
misMon to the Ferkinw Hotel company, lo
cated at Fifth and Washington streets, to
erect some hollow pillars above and onto
th sfden-fllk, a distance of eicht lnrhea
from the property line, such pillars to be
used for ornamental ymrposes only.
In reerpei-t to this ordinanr I would ?ay
that the pldewalk at the northwest comer
of Fifth and Washington streets im In the
congested district of the city and every inch
of sidewalk surface t required for the use
or the general public, and the curtailment
of It, which Is authorized by this ordinance,
amounts to a transfer of the property of
the pubUe to private use without any ade
quate compensation to the people, and is
unjust and should not b aJlowed for pur
poses ornamental or otherwtw.
A BUSY OFFICE.
Spantou's Bungalow ProjOoition
Meets Heady Favor.
The Spanton Company are building a
number of desirable bungalows on first
class lots, and are ready to sell them on
easy monthly payments, or quarterly
payments if preferred. We simply wan
7 per cent Interest, and the payments
may be long drawn out.
We have plans, specifications and pic
tures at hand to give you full Informa
tion regarding these bungalows, and
after deriding on one. we wiS have it
ready for occupancy within 90 days.
If you have the lot, we will build the
house without further payment down, or
If we buy trve lot. you may pay us as
little as ofQ. or if you have not the
necessary $500. you may deposit any
smaller amount with us. and when It
reaches $500 we will commence on the
house.
We have already planned for four of
these beautiful homes and are prepared
to build three or four more. Call at the
office for further information. The plan
Is new, novel and extremely liberal.
The Ppanton Company, a live real
estate office. 270 Stark street, ground
floor.
Peninsula Development League.
The Peninsula Development League, an
Organization formed for the purpoee of
promoting the interests of property-own-
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M TTHIEV, IN W HOSE HONOR A HRTEPTIOX WAS GIVEN
BY THE STATE HISTORICAL. SOCIETY YESTERDAY.
cause they were after him. and linked
his destinies with the United States.
In 189 he entered the employ of the
American Fur Company at St. Louis.
and trapped and hunted over the
plains of what is now Minnesota and the
Dakotas". Iater he ranged the savage do
main through Wyoming and Colorado in
what was then a trackless waste, less
known than Thibet of today.
He was the Intimate and associate
of Kit Carson. Jim Brldger and Bent.
He knew the Indians before the mis
sionaries and the traders had made
them hostile, and in September of 1R42
he came to Oregon. His employment,
when once he reached here after inde
scribable hardships, was with the Hud
son's Bay Company, and his wage was
a bushel of wheat a day, with six bits
and "find yourself." He told me yes
terday that the site of Portland was
then so densely wooded that It was
impossible to land a canoe on what Is
now the water front. According; to his
veracious account there was no chance
to get a chew of tobacco between Ore
era and residents between Portland and
St. John, held a meeting at Arbor Lodge
last night and discussed plans for secur
ing better streetcar service from the
Portland Railway,
pany's system.
Light & Power Corn-
HOME COMPANY IN CHARGE
Automatic Plione System Is Turned
Over by Construction Company.
The automatic telephone system of
Portland was turned over to the Port
land Home Telephone Company, a local
corporation, April 1. The personnel of
the company, however. Is not yet
ready to give out, as all the directors
have not been chosen. This will be
accomplished during the next few
weeks. A well-known business man
of the city will be president and there
will be seven directors. William God
frey, acting manager of the Empire
Construction Company, which Installed
the Portland plant, and Robert Tucker,
the attorney who looked after right
of way and legral matters in connec
tion with the local automatic system,
will be directors. The remaining five
will be chosen from the ranks of
prominent Portland business men.
Charles Sumner, former president of
the local company, will retire.
All accounts of the new company
will date from April 1. On that date
the new automatic system was trans
ferred by the construction company in
good operating condition, free from all
debt, save the bond Issue and sinking
fund, with operating expenses, to the
new corporation. As fioon as the new
directorate is organized, various exten
sions to the plant will be made and
service furnished further outlying sub
urban districts.
THREE DAYS FOR TAXES
Delinquency Penalty Will Be Inflict
ed After Xext Monday.
Taxes in Multnomah County will become
delinquent next Monday night aJid after
that, 10 per cent will be added and 1
per cent additional each month. Deputy
SherifT Martin will keep open the tax
department of the Sheriff's office at the
Courthouse until a late hour Monday to
accommodate those who do not pay their
taxes sooner. Persons wishing to do so
may pay. half their taxes, and have the
balance extended to October, In which
case there is no penalty for delinquency.
Taxpayers have been especially prompt
in the payment of their taxes this year.
Of a total tax of 3.2?S,564.25, t.o83.85G.75
had been collected to and Including March
31. This leaves only $643,704.50 yet to be
collected. Of this amount $229,766 Is
covered by the tax levied on the money,
notes and accounts of the O. R. & X.
Company, on which payment has been
contested. The railway companv was
taxed $234.54.27, and paid but $-34,905.27,
this being the levy upon its real property
and rolling stock.
Spring styles Han an shoes at Rosenthal's
Perfect fitting glasses 91 at Me tiger a.
i
gon City and Vancouver, and that
meant a two days' journey. The next
year he was one of those who assem
bled at Champoeg to decide whether
this should be British or American ter
ritory. The division was a narrow
one. There were BO for Great Britain,
and after Joe leek called upon them
for a division there were 62 more who
voted for the United States. The de
ciding: votes were cast by F. X. Mat
thieu and Etlenne louder, and it was
through their efforts that a majority
was obtained for the. Union, although
neither'of these French Canadians was
at the time a naturalized citizen nor
became such for some years.
Lucier and all the rest of them are
dead these long, long- years, save only
Matthieu. the trapper who did the
great deed of his long life that May
day 65 years ago. Time, the insatiate
drill sergeant, has gone down the line
catling; the roll through the many dec
ades, until yesterday, when he
reached the end and called the last
name and Matthieu answered "adsum."
OREGON IN FINE POSITION
A. It, M IIIS DISCVSSES LOCAL
FIXAXCTAL SITUATION.
Says State Is in Better Shape Tlian
Any Other In the "Whole
X'nlon.
"Oregon is today in the best condition
financially of any state in the Union,"
said A. L. Mills, president of the First
National Bank, yesterday. "This state
Is not in bondage to the East. The peo
ple are living easy on the proceeds of
our big crop. Decreases In the bank de
posits throughout the state indicate that
people are drawing on this crop wealth
to some extent.
"There Is every reason to believe that
the coming crop will be even bigger than
the last, when 63.000.000 bushels of wheat
were harvested In the three states, tin
less unexpected unfavorable 'climatic
conditions arise, it is thought that this
year's crop will exceed this figure by 10,
and perhaps even 15 per cent. Prices are
high and our wheat farmers will be mil
lionaires. "Financial conditions get rockier the
further east from Oregon you go. Things
are not altogether happy in the Eastern
money centers. Advices from there are
not wholly reassuring, but it1 can be said
safely that the conditions there are not
worsting us any particular hurt in this
state.
"The banks here are loaning their reg
ular people all the money they need In
their business, but are not seeking new
business that requires advances. The
business of wholesalers is better today
than it was at this period last year. Col
lections are good.
"A somewhat remarkable thing Is that
the bank clearings for Wednesday of this
week approach the highest record of the
clearing-house for any one day s bus!
ness. On Wednesday the clearings were
about $1,750,000, while th best record
made previously In any one day was on
March 18. last year, when the clearings
were over $1,800,000."
DALLES GIRL IS MISSING
Miss Carrie Mesplie Came Here for
Operation and Cannot Be Found.
The local police have been asked to
assist In locating Miss Carrie ilesplie,
of The Dalles, who loft her home at that
place 10 days ago for Portland, coming
here ostensibly to hav.an operation per
formed for appendicitis. Her relatives at
The Dalles have not heard from her since
March 25. when she wrote saying she
had found a satisfactory physician, after
a long search.
It has been learned by the police that
the girl cashed three certificates of de
posit aggregating 69 at Davenport
Brothers' commission house on March
28, but after that date there is no trace
of her whereabouts. Friends In the city
say they have not seen the girl, and her
relatives are very much alarmed, fearing
she may have met with foul play.
Baseball at Salem.
SALEM. Or., April i. (Special.) The
Salem baseball team will play Its first
game next Saturday, when the Woodburn
team will be met on the home grounds,
at 2:30 P. M. On Sunday a game will
be played at 3 P. M. with the Fairmount
nine. " '
Metzger flu glaxzei for fl.00.
WHO IS OWNER OF
FRIGKSONSALODN?
Suit in State Court Seeks to
Settle Mooted Question
Definitely.
PAY FOR GOODS DEMANDED
Cline Oil & Paint Co. Commences
Action for $81.17 Against Hugo
Frlti Company Sheriffs
Jury Fails to Agree.
Behind a suit for si.!7. filed against
the Hugo Friti Company In the Circuit
Court yesterday by C C. Cline. of the
C. C. Cline Oil Paint Company, lies
an attempt to fix the ownership of the
August Erickson saloon at Second and
Burnside streets. A bitter fight over the
ownership question was recently con
ducted by attorneys for the Hugo Fritz
Company and for Hugo Fritz before a
Sheriff's jury. The resulting disagree
ment of the Jury left Sheriff Stevens in
as bad a plight as he was before.
Mrs. Frances Fritz, from whom Fritz
obtained a divorce, was Awarded dam
ages against him n a suit which she
brought in the Circuit Court. Fritz
failed to settle the Judgment and the
Krickson saloon was attached, as Fritz
was the reported owner. Fritz strongly
objected, saying he was not the owner.
Then the Sheriff called a Jury to deter
mine the ownership. It developed at the
trial that the Hugo Fritz Company was
at one time composed of H. V. Iemcke.
George Irncke, John P. Sharkey and
Fritz. When the Jury disagreed the
Sheriff held the goods he had attached.
The present suit alleges that the Hugo
Fritz company purchased glass and other
goods from the Cline. Company in Feb
ruary last, aggregating JS1.17.
"I filed this suit Just for the purpose
of determining the ownership of that
property.'1 said Mr. Cline last night.
"Nobody seems to know much about it.
but this will bring it out. C. Edwin
West, bookkeeper for Sharkey, was up to
see me today, and wanted me to call the
suit off and to make the costs as light
as possible. I couldn't communicate with
A. T. Lewis, my attorney, who was in
the courtroom, so I could do nothing
about it, and I may let the suit go
through as It is anyway."
Sties His Son-In-Lavr.
Juttee Bronaugh yesterday morning be
gan to hear testimony in the suit brought
by William Peabody against Fred H.
Meader and his wife, Ollie Meader, in the
Circuit Court. Peabody contends that he
deeded his home in Wasco to "Meader, his
son-in-law, with the understadning that
he was to have a home for the remainder
of his days. Meader's first wife died, and
he is said to have turned his father-in-law
out in the cold.
Will or D. C. Cnrrie.
The will of David C. Cnrrie. filed in the
County Court yesterday, disposes of a
SSMO estate as folows: To his sister. Eliz
abeth Cnrrie. of Oakland, Cal., ??X: to
Mildred Davidson, a niece, J200; to Myrtle
Baldwin, $100; for missionary work, $00;
the remainder to be equally divided be
tween W. Augustus Currie, Thomas W.
Cnrrie, John C. Currie. Mary Ourrie Wrenn
and the heirs of Alfred Currie.
PEOPLE AS LEGISLATORS
il. Vers tec Thinks That Power of
Initiative Is Abused.
PORTLAND. April 2. (To the Editor)
The sovereign voter Is th artificer by whose
hands will be shaped the future destiny of
our form, of civil iforernment. A proper
knowledge of the value and importance of
our prerogative, the ballot, is the essential
qualification of good citizenship.
Undep the. present and new order of these
2nth century, questions the average citizen,
being Industriously engaged in commercial
and other pursuits, becomes derelict to a
pubMc duty in not considering governmental
matters In the full measure of their Import
ance. Stale and municipal government should
be conducted upon the same logical business
principles governing all great manufactur
ing or other industrial institutions. Faith
ful and efficient service is necessary to the
conduct and successs of any enterprse, pub
lic or private. Unprincipled politicians nave
heretofore sought and secured public office
for personal profit and aggrandizement and
have merely considered the office as a
public snap."
Th recall amendment, aa proposed by the
People's Power League, and which will be
submitted to the voters In June, Is a meri
torious measure, and if adopted would be
an advance step in the cause of better gov
ernment. With such a law, the truckling
officeholder would have his car open and
take ample notice. The people delegated
with the power to give, should also have the
power to take. It Is their province, then, if
the trusting public were betrayed, that the
power of recall could speedily be Invoked.
The advent of the initiative and refer
endum was hurled broadcast throughout the
state as a deliverance from the bonds of
the iniquitous political methods of our
former lawmaking regimes. The practical
application and trial of this law has about
demonstrated the utter incapability of the
people to legislate for themselves. The fre
quent and gigantic abuse of this law
whlJtpTS danger to the caure. and warning
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Indies- 3-cIasp Overseam Kid Gloves, all OC
shades and sizes. J1.S0 value 570C
Women's New "Luce Wrist'" Tape G -f r eS
Gloves, out seam, $1.75 value, pair A0
Women's Fancy Cape Military- Style. S larfre
pearl buttons, white or tan tabs. cn es"
J4.00 value JPOOU
Klbow-length Washable Chamois, extra CO OBS
wide iop 3.53 value P 1 iJ
ladles' and Misses' Hiding Gauntlets. oe
11.31 value T SfOC
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quality vpi.C7J
MEN'S GLOVES
Men s Genuine Mocha and Cape Gloves, Oe5.
1.3S value oOC
Special" Men's Lock-Stitch "Everlast- CI QCS
lna-" Cape Glove, value JJ..Ol
I.nrse assortment of Boys' Gloves and Gauntlets
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"HOSIERY"
Women's Black Lace Mercerized Hose. .
Women's All - Lace Tan, White. Black 8Sc
Hose )aV rf
Women's Plain Black l,tsle Hose, em.51.00
broidered. "very stylish" ( Vals.
Women's Champagne Lisle Tace Hose.. I
Women's Navy Blue Lisle Lace andf" 1
Fancy Hose L it
Women's Plain Gray Lisle Lace Hose'.'.'A 1 I'
Women's Tan (new shades) and Brown II 141
Kmbroidered Hose Ill I II
Women's Oopenhag-en Blue, Lavender.
Pink Hose
Women's Plain Black Lisle, 40c ' r re
value AOC
Women's Split Foot T-ennon'a"Gu'arVnteed Hose,
Hermsdorf dye, 50c value 3 for 1 OO
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to tha friends of the initiative erpr!mnt.
Twenty-one me9iirefl at the last municipal
election, and 19 for the cominir June, this
seems tk an attempt to overlook a
measure that was intended to be simple
and effective. What will th beguiled and
befuddled voter understand about those
numerous 1 problems that will be pre
sented to him this June?
A balance wheel, a refrulator or an air
brake might be considered a. necessary ap
pliance for this kind of lawmaking- ma
chinery, to protect th public welfare and
eecure Its g-enerat safety. Tli gradual but
certain changes In political conditions need
some practical sunrsrestions from our wisest
polns. for the betterment of existing ques-
"Better tlian
The Spoilers"
new book
PRICE
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BY REX
- far surpasses "The Spoilers.
There is a new setting, too, but
still in the virile air of the North.
The new people whom Mr. Beach
makes live before you in the
clean-cut pages of "THE BAR-
R1ER" are intensely human.
More than one of them, will be
come celebrities in fiction.
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which will be given in the warerooms of the Supply
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afternoon from Tto 5 o'clock. Dainties, prepared
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tions and the proper and definite align
ment of parties.
In municipal affairs strict adherence to
partisan politics Is not always observed.
What th community desire Is honest and
capable public servants, whose character
and standing assure ua o-f an honest and
capable administration of public affatrs. Cm
National and state questions, the party lines
should be effectively drawn, because the
party In power becomes responsible for
their conduct to the people.
B. VBRSTEEQ.
Free candy with- children's shoes at
Rosenthal's. Seventh and Washington.
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First of all, this new novel by
Rex Beach is a big, buoyant, brac
ing story of the last frontier-
Alaska a story with the dash
and swing of "The Spoilers."
This is one-half of "THE BAR
RIER. " The other half is its
triumphant love story. Here the
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