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LATH
WOOD, COAL
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Tum-a-Lum Lumber Company
Dealers in Building Materials of all kinds. We have
come to stay and have just completed our improve
ments. We have one of the largest stocks to select
from found in Crook County. We sell the genuine
Rock Springs Coal, free from slate and give 2000
pounds for a ton. We deliver in the city. Phone.
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company
WM. W. ESSELSTYN, Local Manager
Madras - - Oregon
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MADRAS, OREGON
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Your Orders Prompt Attention
Transient Stock Given Best Ot Feed And Gars
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IIE invention of inovnblo
typos occurred n trifle less
tlinn COO venrs ago. These
COO ycnrs have witnessed infinitely.
greater progress than the world
had nindc in all the thousands of
years previous. Printing has been
the most considerable factor in
this progress. i
THE NEWSPAPER OF TODAY
REACHES MORE PEOPLE AND IN
FLUENCES MORE PEOPLE THAN
'ANY OTHER FORM OF THE
PRINTED PAGE.
j It covers the fields devoted to
all other kinds of printing. Thoy
are special. IT IS UNI VERSA L
This is the newspaper age. The
press is the most potent factor in
modern civilization. All the other
factors have existed before in sonic
form. Only the press is new. At
its advent began the modern era.
THE MAN WITHOUT A NEWS
PAPER IS A CITIZEN OF THE
MIDDLE AGES SET DOWN IN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
He is as much out of date as
the dodo, as much out of plaoe as
a bat in the sunlight, as much out
classed ns a Koman galley by a
modern ocean liner, as sure to be
outdistanced as the locomotive is
to outdistance the ox cart.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THIS
NEWSPAPER.
J. L. Campbell.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
ZETZRIESIEa: SSTID OXJjESIEID MEATS
We have the best line of Fresh Meats in the country
ALL KINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON
New line of DOLLS
Mrs. Crosby's.
just received nt
Complete line of optical goods ut Mrs.
Crosby's.
Medicines that nld nature are always
most effectual. Chamberlain's Cough Kcm
edy acts on this plan. It allays the cough,
relieves the lungs, opens the secretions
and aids nature in restoring tin system to
a healthy condition. Thousands have tes
tified to Its superior excellence. Sold by I be Bubinitted
M. E. Snook.
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Revision of Tariff Expoclod lo
bo First Thing on tho
Program. f
Washington, D. 0. Now Year's duy
In tho national capital was inado bril
liant as usual with tho presidents
reception at tho Whlto House, tho
customary breakfast i;lven by tho uo
e rotary or state for tho foreign diplo
mats, and tho exchange of visits by all
persons prominent In otllclnl llfo.
Congress reassembled Wednesday.
The big business of tho Immediate
future promlsoH to bo tho tariff, na far
as tho house of ropresontntlvoH 1b con
cerned. Messages are expected from
the president at an early date dealing
with Alaska, tho cotton schedule and
the report of tho tariff board on that
subject, tho postal commissi ii'b re-
port and probably one on inanciai
and monetary reforms.
The senate interstate commerce
committee, which is investltf'tlug
trust problems, will resume Its car
inas shortly, but the l.orlmer invctl
gating committee, tho Stanley com
mittee that Is Investigating the Bteel
trust and several other committees
of similar nature will not roBiimo
their activities until the next week.
Steel Schedule Is First on List.
Revision of the Iron and steel sche
dule Is likely to be tho llrst thing on
the tariff legislative programme of tho
House. Representative Underwood,
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee, made it known on his return
that the committee would postpone
consideratron of the wool schedule
until every feature of the tariff board'B
report on tho subject had been studi
ed thoroughly. In the meantime it
will press its work on oilier tariff
measures, with a view to adjourn
ment In time for the national con
ventions. After the Introduction and consid
eration of the steel schedule the Dem
ocratic leaders contemplate present
ing to the House a revised chemical
schedule and a sugar tariff bill. It
also is possible that a cotton schedule
will be submitted with tho wool bill,
dependent, of course, upon tho report
of the tariff board. Tills Is not ex
pected till late next mouth. If cotton
is not included in the wool bill, It will
soon afterwards as
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FOKKiaN HXCHANUK ROUOIIT AND Ron
DRAFTS ON ALL PARTS OF Til K Worn
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Cap tnl Stock, $30,000
Dapoalta, $250,000
SHANIKO.ORegm
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TOMMY McCORMACK, Prop.
Pinf Wirt PC I irinrtr ,A r
FURNISHED ROOMS- New and Up-to-DateQuarteJ
New Line to
via the
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OGDEN a SHASTA) I
and
Pacific Railway & Navigation
Company
Trains will run daily, except Sunday, on the following schedule:
Lv. Portland
Lv. Hillsboro
Ar. Beach Points
Ar. Bay City
Ar. Tillamook
Lv. Tillamook
Lv. Bay City
Lv. Beach Points
Ar. Hillsboro
Ar. Portland
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Through tickets on sale at city ticket office, Third and Washington
Streets, or Fourth and Yamhill, to all points on the P. R. & N. Further
particulars from the city ticket agent or agent Fourth and Yamhill streets
John M. Scott
General Passenger Agent
PORTLAND, OREGON
possible-.
Timber Bill Opposed in West.
Western senators and representa
tives aro not Hatisiled with the phrase
ology of the bill, paBsod by tho Houhh
Just before Christmas, providing for
the sale of timber that was killed or
seriously Injured by the forest fires
of 1910, and tho public lauds com
mittee will undertake to redraft this
bill In order to extend greater and
quicker benefits to settlers who woro
burned out a year ago last summer.
As the bill passed the House, it pro
vided that the secretary of the Inter
ior might sell burned timber on tho
public domain, and also authorized
tho sale of timber on unperfected en
tries, the receiptH to go Into a special
"burned timber" fund In tho treasury.
Those homesteaders and other set
tlers who had suffered losses In tho
fires were to be reimbursed by tho
treasury from this fund.
Labor Commission Urged.
Using tho McNamaras as an illus
tration of what might bo expected
ag.-In In this country If labor condl
!ons arc not Improved, a delegation
of social workers urged President
Taft to "create a labor commission."
Such a commission, tho delegation
told the president, would have powers
coextensive with those of tho Inter
state commerco commission and
should bo ul)lo to compel testimony
President Taft promised to do all
possible to creato such a commission.
It was said ho might incorporate a
ruggestlon lor a labor commission In
ono of his post-holiday messages,
National Capital Brevities.
Representative Oscar W. Under
wood, of Alabama, Democratic leader
of tho House ot Representatives, Is
confined to his bed In his Washington
apartments, threatened with appondl
cltls. Tho forest servlco has decided to
make a material cut in grazing fees
to be charged for tho range In nation
al forests during 1912. Tho now sche
dule will reduce tho rato on sheep l
to Vk cents a head, with proportion
ate reduction on cattle,
American pulp and print paper
manufacturers aro bringing prossuro
to bear upon President Taft to induco
him to refuse to yield to tho demand
of European governments for tho free
admission or tholr pulp and print
fmpor on terms of equality with tho
Canadian product,
It was credibly reported at the cupl
tol that tho Democrats of the Hoitso
have determined to eliminate from
tho Sundry Civil appropriation bill
for next year tho $225,000 estlmuto
lor tho prosldont'H tariff board; tho
?7G,000 ostlmato for tho president's
economy and oliloloncy commission,
and tho $25,000 estimate for tho presi
dent's traveling oxiionsca.
Balfour-Guthrie h Co
ROLLED BARLEY
P. W. Ashley, Agt. Phone Yi
our Udeli
Short and Direct Route to Portia
and Other Western Oregon Point
per
From
Bend, Redmon
and
Central Oregor
Via the Deschutes Branch
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigali
Through Car Service Between Bend and Portia
Leave Bend
" Deschutes
" Redmond
" Opal City
Metoliua
" Madras
Arrive Deschutos Jet.
" The Dalles
" Portland
DAILY TRAIN SCHEDULE
Lenve ror'lana
" Tho Dalles
' Deachuted Jet
Arrive Madras
' Metolius
- op I City
Redmond
" Deschutes
" Uend
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For further information call on any O.-W. R. & N. Agent
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WM. McMURRAY,
General Passenger Agent
I'ortlund, Oregon
If Time Hangs Heavy
on your hands you will find It profitable
to look over my I urge and altractive ( as
sortment of hih tfrndo jewelry, inc Jid
inir irold and silvnr wat'dies, wedding
unci engagement rings, chains, chfirmfi.
loci
II. l .ilnliru
cameos, nroocites, iockcih, ww.w'
silver plated toilet mid manicure uei
and military brushes, also a full line ot
Community Bilver knives, forkB, spoons.
A. E. Peterson
Jeweler Madras, Oregon
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