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TIIE STOJOp AY . OREGON TAX, .PORTLAND, JULY 31, :1910. INDIAN KILLS TWO state, of a divorce to Mrs. W.. L. David, of Boise, her husband, who "prosecuted the first case In Ohio against the Stand ard OH Company, and aided . in obtaining the first indictment against John D. Rockefeller, married in .Huntington, Ind., a wife to whom he previously had been married. . . Mrs. David charged infidelity and cruel ty. The divorce was not contested. It was said at the trial "that . David wished It to be granted. The court ordered the payment of 1109 a month alimony and granted -the custody of . the 10-year-old son to the wife; The wife-whom David remarried almost immediately after the granting of the divorce was 'One of the women named as corespondent in the di vorce suit. -4) -' Mrs. David charged that, her husband's coming to Idaho was originally for the express purpose of . obtaining-a divorce. She followed him to Boise, and after try ing to live with him for a -time turned the tables by becoming plaintiff in a suit herself. David was a prominent MINES ON MERITS Mourant. mayor of Hoquiam. two Grays Harbor cities only four miles apart, are of the opinion that the pro posal made by Mayor Mourant, -for a committee from each city to unite in some action for a joint water system for the tw-o cities, is the entering wedge towards the consolie -tion of the two cities into one municipality. That this will come within the near future is be lieved by the cltfzts of the two towns, and that the sooner it is accomplished, the greater -the immediate benefit will be is the belief of Mayor Benn. Mayor Mourant, of Hoquiam, says: "I consider the meeting for the appoint ment of the joint water committee the entering wedge for the consolidation of the two cities, and while- the time is not exactly ripe for that movement, the . preliminary steps must be taken and no time better than the present." Mayor Benn. of Aberdeen, expresses his views as follows: "Amalgamation of Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopolis Is inevitable. It cannot be put off much longer, and the longer it is de- Tremendous Additional Price Reduction THEN SHOOTS SELF JUSTIFY WORKING Siletz Red Man Objects to At tentions Paid Woman by Another Aborigine. Properties in Sumpter District Suffer Unjustly From Stock Manipulation. toes SUICIDE FOLLOWS MURDER WORKINGS NOT EXHAUSTED Hobert Felix Finds Martha Metcalf, Squaw, Visiting John Spencer, Married, and Promptly Re sorts to Use of Gun. TOLEDO, Or.. July 20. (Special. A hooting- occurred at the SUeta Agency today, which resulted In the murder of two Indians and the suicide of a third. The dead are: Robert Fllx, ascd 39. John Spencer, aged 41. Martha Metcalf, aged SS. It seem that Mrs. Metcalf, who was a grass widow, had been living with Felix. Spencer, who was a married man, had also been paying her attention. Today Jelfx. on going over to Spencer's place, found the Metcalf woman there. He pv i led out his gun and shot them both, killing them instantly. He then took his ,r8L."n starte 'or his home on this Ide of the river.. On reaching his home .Ur? ?" and hi. run in his left hand, placed the muzzle In .mLUthJ'",d pu"1 the "-'Sger with his right hand, blowing the top of his head GIT. t n2ta WM immediately ratified and he with Deputy Sheriff McESwaln irArJ.0."?" for thn scene of thc crime. izm?J:rzt t,f.,:rsut,hcTd:.depart"re COYOTES HAVE RABIES Wallowa and Asotin Counties Beset With Menace to Cattle. . 'TKRPR-ISK. Or., July 30. Spe Ulf . presence of coyotes afflict ed with hydrophobia, across Snake Ktver. in Idaho, about Pittsburg, along Joseph Creek, in Wallowa County, and in Asotin County, Washington, has caused some uneasiness among the cat- rZIHV1 .f .lhls couty- Along Horse -ieeK. in this county, near Its conflu ence with Joseph Creek, James and Charles Applington have killed a coy ote suffering with rabies. The animal ran Into the kitchen of the ranch house after biting two cows and a ranch dog. neports also come here of rabies among dogs across Snake River, in inn "ar P.lttsbur- 13- B. Wilson ?m Warnlc. both cattlemen rrom that section, report the preva lence of the disease among the dogs, and manifest fear that - the animals ?, ??me y et across the river into Wallowa County. The dogs they say. have bitten many coyotes and the latter add to the menace. ACID RETARDS TIMOTHY Forest Soli Classification Will Pre cede Sowing of Grass Seed. " WALLOWA. Or.. July 30. (Special.) A. Sampson, who Is employed in classifying; lands. In the National for ests for the Government, with a view of determining the acidity of the soil and the proper grasses to sow for pro ducing the best crop of forage, has re turned from Washington. Extensive experiments were made last year with bluegrass. timothy and redtop. The timothy and bluegrass did well for a few weeks, when the roots struck a stratum of acid soil about two Inches In depth. The roots curled up in a mass and the growth was retarded greatly ?( the latter part of August, when this stratum was penetrated and the roots shot rapidly downward, produc ing a fine growth In such plant as had survived the season. The loss had been great, however, and a the redtop did not suffer from the ? S.f.the t,,e area" whr the thJ Ji ? 'V.?'" wlU b determined, the soils classified and redtop sown in the areas of greatest acidity. BANK IS IN NEW HANDS Slock In First National Rank of Leb anon Is Transferred. ' ALBANY, Or., July 30. (Special.) By a deal Just completed the owner Ship of the First National Bank of Ibanon has changed hands. All of the stock of the bank has been pur chased by S. p. Bach. J. c. Mayer and t-amuel I M. Garland, of Lebanon, and Alex Power, of Halsey. The three Lebanon men were alreadv heavy stocKholdera in the bank and Power Is president of the Halsev State Bank JCo new officers have been selected yet. but Mayer and Power have been placed in charge of the bank. P. M. Scroggin and Seymour Wash burn, who have conducted the ban ever since It become a National bank and for a number of years prior there to, both retired from the Institution today. They will devote their time to their sawmill and other business inter ests at Lebanon. GUARDIAN MAKES CHARGE Mismanagement of Insane Man's Es tate Is Allegation. DAYTON. Wash.. July 30. (Special.) J. I, Wallace, guardian ad litem of the estate of William Jibbons, a pio neer farmer, now an Inmate of the State Asylum for the Insane, today filed charges of gross mismanagement (gainst A. Boyer. resigning guardian, demanding that Boyer submit the title papers for the land, which Is valued at $8000. and show why he bought 269 worth of hoR' wire when there has never been a hog on the place, and why he bought . $30 worth of paints nd brushes, when the Jlbbons house had not been painted for years long before Jlbbons became-lnsane. Wallace also asks why no moneys have been placed to the credit of Jlb bons from St200 revenue from the farm, when the expenses have not ex ceeded !000. HUSBAND QUICKLY REWEDS Rockefeller Prosecutor, Iivorccd by Idaho Wife, Marries in Two Hays. BOISE. Idaho. July 30. (Special.) Two dfvs after the granting at Caldwell, this CLATSOP . fOl'KTT PrOTVEEB. CAME WEST- IN 1847. -' I V-,:,' , " - : i J- -.r i ' - I ' . i i ! r " r r. v -' -i Mm. Caroline Vaa Dosea, Deeeased. ' 'ASTORIA. - Or., - July - 30. (Special.) Mrs. Caroline .Van Dusen. who died here ;July 22, was born in New York in 1825. She : married Mr. Van - Dusen in 1845. and with him came West in 1S47, settling on Young's Bay in 1848. The next year they moved into Astoria, Mr. -Van Dusen establishing a store. Mrs. ..Van Dusen . was actively asso ciated with the establishment of Grace Episcopal Church in this. city. ' and was one of. the organizers of the Ladies' Guild. She lert five children,- Mrs.- Flor ence Westdahl and Mrs. Mary Strowbrldge, of. Oakland. Cel.; Mrs. Clara Trenchard and Bren ham and Hustler G. .Van Dusen. of this city. There are several " grandchildren. ' lawyer of Findley, O.,-before - he came to Boise. UTILITIES PLANTS SOLD ASTORIA PROPERTIES . TRANS FERRED. TO NEW COMPANY. Pacific Power & Light Company Files Deed Showing Absorption. Gilmore Remains. Manager. ASTORIA, Or.. July . 30. (Special.) The directors of : the Astoria . Electric Company last night completed the transfer of the company's streetcar line, electric light plant and gas works and all Its other local - holdings, including the franchises- granted by the' city, to the Pacific Power ft' L'ght Company, Maine corporation, and.' the "deed carry ing the transfer was filed for record today. ' . ' This act was in. reality the comple tion of a deal -made three months ago, when not only-the local plant but vir tually all the electric' light , and power plants' in the Upper Columbia River and the Yakima Valley districts were ab sorbed by . the Pacific Power . ni,( Company. ' The name of ' the ' local : company is changed and the business here. as. well as. at all the other plants which the new company owns, will be carried on under the name of the -Pacific Power & Light Company, the president of which 1 Guy Talbot, of Portland. G F Kevin, also of Portland, ;is secretary. G. F. McGee. formerly "of' this city, is the division superintendent.. In charge of all the plants south of the Columbia River, and J. B. Gilmore .'remains as manager of the company's v local inter- AUTO STAGES: CUT RATES Fares May Be Abolished m Fight of , SiiaiUko Line's., SHASIKO, :Or., July SO. (Special.) An automobile .rate . war has broken out here between "the independent au tomobiles and .the Cornett ' Stage &. Stable Company .and the Central Ore gon Automobile . Company, the. latter two being the principal ; companies handling interior ' passenger . traffic from this point. . The rate to Bend from here is now 9. as against 115 a few days ago with correspondingly low. rates to Madras. Redmond. Prlnevllle' and Intermediate points. The prediction is made, by the managers of the two big concerns that it will be a finish fight -and that the fare may be entirely wiped out. before the war Is oyer. . ' On acount of this being -the harvest season In the Northwest.- travel Into the Interior has' dropped ofT consider ably during the past 10 days, and some of the Independent machines have had a more or less - precarious .business, which induced. the rate-cutting. - - Party Camps at Mlnam. WALLOWA. Or..- July 30. (Special.) Mrs. Andrew1 Buckley, wife of the O. Rl & NT. superintendent, and a party of friends are enjoying an outing in this county. They camped and fished for several days at Minam. and later spent a few days at Wallowa -Lake. They are now at Minam again, staying in a private car. Those - composing the party are Mrs. Buckley. Mrs. -William Ash and Mrs. 1 Eugene Selders, of La Grande, and Miss Reglna 'Weir, af San Francisco. ' Enterprise to Hare State Bank. WALLOWA, Or July 30. (Special.) Enterprise Is to have a new - state bank and a charter has already been applied for. William C Hinterman. of Salt Lake City, is the promoter, and the local capitalists named in th applica tion are L. W. Riley, B. B. Boyd, and S. C. Jackson, all of Enterprise. Average Value of Local Ores Han dled by Smelter in Three Years Is Greater Than Average for the Whole Country. -SUMPTER, Or., July 30. (Special.) For some years pat mining In East ern Oregon has suffered from such an unsavory reputation that mining ope rators .and investors have passed it by, forming adverse opinions on w-hat they have heard or may have known of, unfortunate stock-Jobbing transac tions and "wild-catting" which brought It Into disrepute, rather than giving to it that careful consideration which the value and extent of Its mineral re sources so seriously warrant, and it is no unusual thing to hear the state ment made that the district consists of a collection of worked-out mines which never produced anything when they were operating. It can be said truly that there is not a worked-out property In the dis trict today, for with a few noteworthy exceptions the mines of the district have not been developed to a point where there is the slightest Justifica tion for the assertion that the ore is exhausted. It is true that many com panies were formed and that stocks were floated In large amounts, for properties that were not, and never would become, mines, but the propor tion of such floatations In comparison with properties which were of value was no greater than has been Inflicted upon every mining district during a boom period. In many cases the management of the mine, as well as its development, was made subservient to the sale of stock, with the result that the re sources of many companies were In vested In mills and surface equipment, this being of more value as a means of selling stock than the underground development. The result was that with the completion of the surface equipment funds became exhausted, there was' no development to supply the tonnage of ore required for the mill, stockholders refused to contribute further and the mines of necessity closed. In other cases where mines had a small amount of ore in sight the ore was. Immediately extracted, the proceeds were disbursed In dividends to assist stock sales, without the cre ation of a reserve fund for further de velopment. There are many properties of this kind throughout the district to day, which for a. small amount- -of money carefully expended could t placed In a- condition which would per-; mlt of continuous and profitable ope ration. There are In the district at least three properties, which by their de velopment have demonstrated the con tinuity of the ore ' body with depth and established the fact that at such depth there Is little decrease in Its value, other than the almost universal decrease which Is found in passing rrom the oxidized zone into the regions oelow the permanent water level The continuity and uniform value of the ore body having been established, the question of profitable operation Is to be decided by the value of that ore. in three years, from November 15, 1904 to November 15, 1907. there was treated at the Sumpter smelter of the old Ore gon Smeltlnar A. R,nni.. xs,t)68 tons of ore, both crude and con- wmcn at the present price of metals has a total gross value of Jl.278.172.60. The average assay of this ore was CiA o - t, . vuiiucg per ton; silver, 9.870 ounces per ton: cop- ' cui. wim gold at 120 an ounce, silver at S3 cents and copper at 12 cents per pound, the average value of this ore was 67.03 a ton. According to the figures of the United States census the American Smelting & Refining Company smelted in 1905. at its plants In the United States, 2.271,274 tons of ore of all classes with the following average as say: Gold, 0.420 ounces per ton; silver 16.630 ounces per ton; copper, 1.136 per cent; lead, 9.9 per cent. The average value of this ore at the present metal prices would be $27.81 a ton. or slightly less than 45 per cent of the average value of the smelting ores produced by the Eastern Oregon district, and since, that time the average value of the ores smelted by that company has shown a steady - decrease. In the ores smelted by the American Sfneltlng sr Refining Company there is included in the average value per -ton 9.9 per cent of lead, equal to 192 pounds of lead per ton of ore, which at 4 cents a pound Is worth $7.92, or slightly more than 27 per cent of the total average value. As Eastern Oregon produces no lead, or at . least that small amount which comes from one locality Is not saved, it is not altogether fair to compare the value of its gold and silver ores with those which are Included in the metals which make up their total value more than one . quarter lead, but there are no means of eeggregating- the lead ores and Eastern Oregon does not, in any event, seem to suffer seriously by comparison with the full average value of ores as determined in this manner. With mineral veins holding their width with depth and with the. average value more than two and one-half times that of the average of all the ores smelted In the United States In one. year. Eastern Oregon should soon recejve the aerious attention of the mining and investing public. ' MILK TESTS TO BE MADE Washington County Orange Fair to . . Show Best Cows. FOREST GROVE. Or.. July SO. (Spe cial.) If present plans are carried out, one of the features of the County Grange Fair to be held here this Fall will be a milch cow contest. The suggestion was made by M. -S. Shroch, Deputy Food and Dairy Commis sioner. Tests are to be conducted on the grounds to find out the quality of the milk produced and farmers will be shown how to make the Babcock test. CITIES DISCUSS MERGER Hoquiam and Aberdeen May Begin 'With" Joint Water' Plant. ABERDEEN.. Wash..- July . 30. E. Ben n, mayor of Aberdeen, and P. M ON MOUTH HIGH SCHOOL TO BE ('OXDITTED AI.O.NG BUSINESS LINES. ' ? ' i it l : & Si r '3 I i - pjtnm I :l t " "A " ,1 I - a wm omicrt i MONMOUTH. Or., July 30. I (Special.) With the election of f J. B. V. Butler as principal for J next year the Monmouth High Prl.nU.I V B bii cscnooi lias taken on new life, with every indication of build ing up a large attendance of more than local pupils. Mr. Butler lives on his large farm adjoining town, and jbesides his active connection with the nor mal, school for many years, he has also had large business ex perience. In his selection the board had in view to have the study conducted . on practical business ' lines to fit the ' boys and girls for business duties. Mr. Butler Is very popular among the students.. ferred just so much greater will be the loss to the three communities." FISH HATCHERY CLEARED ' Warm Weather Makes for Rapid Production -of .Salmon. WALLOWA. Or.. July 30. (Special.) The Wallowa Fish Hatchery, located 14 miles below this city on the;Wal lowa River, is clear of fish and eggs, all the fry having hatched, reached the feeding age, and been turned into the river. The warm weather of the past few weeks is responsible for this. The water reached a temperature of 71 de grees and -maintained such a high average temperature that the 900 heat units necessary for hatching the eggs was produced in 27 days. Sol Wheeler, the superintendent, says the hatchery will be clear of fry and eggs until the Chinook salmon Fury the latter part of next month. - The 'last fish turned out were the steelhead va riety. DRUNKS WORRY NEWPORT Guards Necessary on Excursion Trains- Bootleggers Are Sought. NEWPORT. Or.. July 30. (Special.) The Corvallis & Kantitrn t? ( i pany sent a special officer on today's train and another will be in charge of me ouuuay excursion tram from the Val ley. This is being done - in hopes of Controllitiar the rirnnlrn . whn v. .i the return trip of the respectable people uw excursion a trying ordeal. . An efTort to ca,tch the Newport Sunday bootle&r&rers la heine- ma(ln 1 ( i i dently easy to obtain on Sunday, judging uj .,' iiumuti- or lnioxicatea people handled by the train . crew on Sunday evening. A number of places are sus pected and detectives are said to be at work obtaining evidence. ' Big Project Nearly Completed. DATTON. Wash.," July 30. (Special.) The largest reclamation project ever un dertaken in Columbia County Is nearly completed. More than 2300 acres on the south bank of the Snake River, . near Starbuck. are to be placed under the ditch. - President Bryan, of the Wash ington State .College, is promoting the project. He. owns 300 acres, and J. L Mohundro, Charles Jackson and other Starbuck ranchers own the remainder. Mr. Bryan estimates that 8000 persons will find . homes on these tracts. Two great centrifugal pumps are being in stalled. It is estimated that the value of the land will be increased from $40,000 to $1,000,000. Diphtheria Threatens Oregon - City. OREGON CITY, Or.. July 30.-(SpeciaU Mary Oman.- the little daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. Oman, is very ill with- diph theria. The house of Oman is used as a boarding-house, where many of the Aus trian! employed at the paper mills board, and all of these . are exposed. County Physician Norris has had them : moved and the house quarantined. Several bad cases are reported in Kansas City Addi tion. Merchant Sells Interest- WALWWA, Or., July 30. (Special.) S. -T. Combs, of Shell-Combs A Co., of this city, has sold his stock to Bruce Cox, of the same firm, and will leave with bis wife in a few days for Roswell, N. M-, for the benefit of bis wife's health. X"ew Schoolhouse Goes L"p. WALLOWA, Or.. July 30. (Special.) Work has begun on Wallowa's new High School building. The contract price is 322,200 and the buUding will be of brick with concrete foundation, equipped with hot and cold air ven tilators. . Cattle Shipments Begin. WALLOWA. Or.. July 30. (Special.) Thirteen cars of cattle was the ini tial shipment for the Fall season of 1910 from Joseph and .Wallowa this wee. I-arge numbers will be ready for delivery August 1. A rare chance for both the man of mighty or small means Commencing tomorrow morning we offer you choice of this season's entire line of Benjamin Fancy' Suits which have sold regularly at $40.00, $37.50, $35.00. $ 30.00, $25.00 Take your pick at Such a reduction as this will crowd our store, so be on hand early and select your size and pattern before it's too late. Straw Hats Sacrificed $6.00 Knox Extra Quality Split Yachts $3.00 $5,00 Knox Extra Quality Split Yachts $2.50 $4.0P Special Quality Split Yachts . . . $2.00 $3.00 Bristol Straws ... . . '. . . $1.50 Every straw hat in the house included in this sale .LADIES' B uffum & Pendleton 311 MORRISON, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE OREGON WOOL BEST Fine Clip Brings Fine Prices East 'of Cascades. HIGHEST BID 173-8 CENTS Enterprise Firm Shows Enterprise in Marketing, Wallowa Yield Aid ing In Bringing: About New Era in Famous Stock Country. ENTERPRISE, Or.. July 30. (Spe cial.) "With the topping; of the Eastern Oregron sales of wool, for both coarse and fine wools. Falconer Brothers of this county- show the possibilities of wool growing from a financial point of rlew. The firm sold its coarse clip of 28,000 pounds at 17 cents a pound, and their fine wool clip of 51.000 pounds for 16 cents a pound. This was the hlirhest bid this season for Eastern Oregon. Alongside these prices were hun dreds of thousands of pounds that-went as low as 13 cents. Although Wallowa County has long been a stock district, and has long depended upon its stock for its big gest monetary returns, a new era is rapidly opening here. Agricultural lands are being developed, from a con siderable portion of the old ranges. This Intensifies . the Wallowa County industries. Grain Hay Abundant. In some localities where 100 acres of wild range could not produce enough forage to fatten a steer, tame forage, well - watered, today produces enough grain hay to fatten many steers'. Where the original sheep or cattleman fol lowed the seasons from the cool Sum mer ranges of the Blue Mountains Journal At Estaca3a, Sunday, July 31st the Journal Band will give free' concert in the park. FARE 75 CENTS Round Trip Trains leave East Water and Morrison streets, 5 :25 A- M., 6 :15 A. M., 6:50 A. M., 7:50 A. M. and hourly until 6 :45 P. M. Tickets must be purchased to obtain this rate. PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT ft POWER COMPANY. $17.50 KNOX SAILORS AT 50 down to the warmer Winter canyons of the Imnaha. and fed at leisure from the abundance of forage growing green there through the cold months, the sheep and cattlemen of today are crowded off the rich bars by the fruit growers. The stockmen thus pay at tention to -Winter forage. At least they pay considerably more attention to it than they did 25 years ago. And the result Is that "feed" is put up in Summer in preparation for Winter; sheep are more protected; more vitality is stored in them; better breeds htl.e taken the place of indifferent breeds, and better-wool has been' the annua' objective point of the up-to-date sheep man. Where more labor has been ex pended by the modern sheepman on behalf of his sheep, he has taken the precaution to have better sheep to be watched. - The outside man or the man just starting into the sheep business may not know that every Boston, New York and Philadelphia, or other Eastern wool buyer has a record of every Wool grower's name, of every wool grower wool, and of the amount of wool every wool grower produces In the country. This la to the advantage of the wool grower as well as to the wool buyer. - Sheepmen Still at Largo. The sheepmen and the cattlemen still occupy the Imnaha and Snake River country. They breed a far bet ter, and more profitable ewe and steer than they did 25 years ago. W. E. Hayes, here from Horse Creek, Imnaha district, has steers that right now will go from 1200 to 1400 pounds each. This is the result, of breed and feed blood and plenty of forage. Wallowa County boasts some 180.000 head of B A Y C IT Y OnTlllamook Bay Terminus United Railways LOTa $65 UP , KKMEMUF.R ' . What the UNITED RAILWAYS wljl do for BAT CITY. What the new r. R. N. Railroad will do for BAT CITT. what the 3S.OOO.OOO.OOO feet of timber will do for BAY CITY. What the Immense dairy products will- do for BAT CITT ' What the big- sawmills will do for BAY C11T. What the Improvement of Tillamook Bay will do for ' B AT CITT - the only possible townslte on the bay. wmr ... AND DONT.FOROKT you wait till trains are running- Into BAT CITT you -will t possibly five times the preent prices for lota. P y BAT CITY LAND CO. Send me particulars of PREE ' transportation offer, also other Information of 'Bay' City. Name Address. E--.L--.A-jL They Mean Something What? REDUCTION sheep, with an annual wool clip that will average nearly 3200,000 In money, all of which goes into the National Bank of Enterprise. This item alon is a neat sum with which to conduct the business of the community. Not to mention the cattle, there are the hogs from the corn section north about Troy, Grouse. Paradise, Promise and Flora. Two loads of hogs arrived from Troy this week. The animals were 11 months old and delivered an average weight of 290 pounds per hog. About four carloads a month of such hogs and about the same -number of cars of cattle are shipped from Enter prise alone to the Portland stockyards and to the Seattle market. In - addi tion two tralnloads of sheep, number ing 24.000 head, have been shipped to thc Montana ranges from Enterprise since the wool clip. And now abldeth in Wallowa County fruit, hogs, cat tle and sheep, but Just at present thi greatest of f.ese is sheep. Wallowa Looks Good to Investors. WALLOWA. Or., July 30. (Special.) Recognizing the rapid growth and brilliant future for this town, com mercial travelers have been Investing in property here. Many who invested in timber lands three years ago have recently sold at a big advance. Insur ance Inspectors and special representa tives have invested In farm lands. Gen eral travelers have bought apple and strawberry lands. But the latest an nouncement Is that a represenattlve of a large hardware establishment has purchased a local retail store and will enlarge the stock of goods from his own house and enter the retail busi fiess In this community. EASY TERMS Bay City Land Co. 31 Lumber Exchange. 2d and Stark. After Aug-. 4. 701-2 8paldtng BId. Phones M. llle. A 7023.