4QO Commercial
RAILROAD FIRMS
CONSOLIDATE
The Vanderbilt and Harriman-Goald
Interests Have Agreed.
WILL Yin OUT CUMI'ETITION
The Absorbing of the Wagner Car
Concern by the Pullman Company
a Revelation to Manv.
A special dispatch to the San Fran
Cisco Examiner, dated Chicago, October!
22, says: j
A New York man, well known in the
financial world, now In this city, is au-1
thority for the statement that the next'
few months will witness a sweeping
consolidation of railroad interests that
will wipe out the last vestige of compe
tition between the Vanderbilt and Har-;
riman-Gould interests. i
According to this authority the con-:
solidatlon of the palace car companies
was the preliminary sep towards car
ry in c out a deal which J. Pierrepont
Morgan and his financial allien have
been working for more than a year. j
It has been a revelation to many
railroad men to find that members of
the Pullman Company Hoard of Direc
tors are not only very heavy holders of
stock In other roads of the Vanderbilt
system, but that the Vanderbllts and
their allien have ben for six months
past quietly buying Pullman stock, un
til their Interests are large, outside
the 20,C00,e00 in stock which Is to be
transferred in exchange for the Wag
ner interests. This feature of the
sleeping car combine has revealed a
secret compact which has been In exis
tence for many months, by which the
end of competition between the palace
car companies was to presage a more
sweeping consolidation of Interests be
tween the Vanderbilt lines and their
former enemies. The division of Inter
ests between the sleeping car concerns
was an Important obstacle to .the car
rying out of the Morgan plans for the
consolidation of the railroads them
selves, and Its removal makes compara
tively plain sailing.
Th- p'Mr? "f ,1. Pierrepont Morgan
and lils alll", according to the authori
ty qu-jtcd, aro no ls than the welding
together of the railroad Interests con
trolled by the Harrlman-Gould and
Vanderbilt Interests.
The entrance of Messrs. Field and
other Chlcagoans Into the directorate
of the Baltimore and Ohio, and the sub-
. . - .. . - .. r ..-Ktif-iat- .-ii'if.'i'tVg I.,, 1 i I, III Mil li If
Men's
Clothing
VAViW
You wouM not think it jxwsiblo, but it
is so. We can soli you a black clay woivtotl
suit, lined with the tast of material we know
of we use no other for f 10. These suits
are made with round or square corners.
Ask for lot 7172.
Then we have some fancy worsted suits
also with round or square corners, Jbr $9.75.
These are made as well as our factory knows
how to make cluthes, and if you can't get
fitted in these, no ready-made clothing will
fit vou. Ask for lot 6tWo,
l
llere is a particularly attractive line,
the material is elegant and the workman
ship superior in every way. They are
cheviot suits of winter weight and we ask
only SS.50. Ask for lot 903.
The foregoing is not the only line of
cheviots we carry. Ask for lot 71! and see
what they are. You will be pleased with
them as they are nice enough for anybody
to wear. We have marked the price on
these $10.50 just for a surprise'.
sequent purchase of the Chicago and
Alton by a financial syndicate domi
nated by the same purpose of putting
an end to rate cutting, are said to have
been two steps In the plan Of consoli
dation that has made the reel compar
atively easy.
EXPECT TRUCE TO BE BROKEN.
Eastern Rumor Sas Both Northern
Pacific and O. R. A N. Plan
New Work Soon.
Tacoma Ledgjr.
There is a rumor In railroad circles
at St. Paul that the truce between the
Northern Pacific and the O. R. & N.
may not last until February 4, the date
set a the date of expiration. It Is said
the Northern Pacific has surveyors out
in the Bitter Root country and Is plan
ning to begin work at the most favora
ble moment. This Is In the direction
the road agreed to remain passive. The
O. R. N. Is credited with desiring to
renew Its contracts for construction.
There is little doubt that the North
ern Pacific has surveyors In the Bitter
Root country, and in fact local railroad
men have not made any attempt to de
ny the report to that effect, but North
ern Pacific officials from President Mel
len down Insist the truce will be un
broken. President Mellon Is expected to be on
the coast In a rhort time, and In com
pany v. Ith a party of directors, will visit
and Inspect the work In the Clearwa
ter country. This visit may have an
Important bearing on the fight for the
disputed territory.
BLACKGUARDING THE
DENT.
PRE55I-
New Tork Times.
What Is especially striking about the
procedures of these citizens is the
warm personal animosity to the presi
dent of the United States that appears
to Inspire them, and which is not In
the least res'ralned by any polite pre
tense of respect for the office which Mr.
McKlnley holds. Nothing whatever re
strains the anrl-imp-Tlallnts from mak
ing accusations against the president of
the United Sta.es of a kind which one
would Imagine ordinary decorum would
have prevented them from putting so
very bluntly. Mr. Schurz had nothing
more personal to say than that the
president's policy In respect to the
Phlllplnes was "a criminal blunder and
a blundering crime," and then to de
scribe the war In the Philippines as the
"President's war." Mr. Edward Atkin
son went further, as might be expected,
and accused the president of a desire
to turn this republic Into an empire.
But Mr. Edwin Burritt Smith, the tem
porary chairman of the convention,
went furthest, and seemed to have ac
cused the president of pretty much ev
ery crime in the calendar, including
deception.
I UK MOKNIMi
Young Men's
Clothing
VnYiViS
We an selling twice as muth young
men's clothing this year as vvtj did a year
ago. This must mean that what we sold
last year suited a lot of young men, and
they have beii telling their friends alniut
it. Yes, and it means that our stock this
year is just new and nobby enough to catch
them anyway.
Ask to See Some of These
Single-breasted sack suits, brown mixed
chevift, strong or faint plaid as you choo-e.
Double-breasted sack suit, brown her
ringbone cheviot.
ISingle-biVasted suck suit, fashionable
colbr, double-breasted ve-t. Gray and red
mixed, making a broken plaid.
Single-biv:i-ted sack suit, with double
breast eil v-.-t of gray Scotch plaid cheviot.
Sinyle-brea.-d'd sack suit, with double
breasted vest: gray cheviot with urplaid of
green.
Single-breasted sack suit, line cluck
worsted.
Some of these are pretty guy, some are
quiet just like young men.
Street,
iimTMfilIMIiTWiniffiref
PORTRAIT OF LEE
FOR WEST POINT
ARRAYED IN NORTHERN' BLUE
Picture of the Great Soldier of the
South Will Hang beside That
of (iemral Grant.
Chicago Times-Herald.
A portrait of General Robert E. Lee,
C. S. A., is to be hung in Grant Hall at
the West Point Military Academy.
To every graduate In the army, north
and south, the appearance of the face
of the great confederate soldier on the
walls of his alma mater, side by side
with that of his great antagonist,
Grant, means the end of controversy,
the end of bitterness, the end of all
things (sectional. Lee as he appears in
his place of honor will not be the gray
garbed leader of a lost cause with the
stars of a general shining in the field
on his shoulder. He will appear In the
blue uniform of the old army, with an
eagle on the yellow ground of the
Bhoulder knot, denoting the rank of a
colonel of cavalry, the position
the southron held when he re
signed to cast his lot with the confed
eracy. Colonel Mills, who won promo
tion at Santiago, where he was shot
though the head, is now superintendent
of the military academy. He has been
In correspondence with the association
of te Daughters of the Confederacy,
which has agreed to raise the funds for
the painting of the portrait and to pre
sent it to the academy. Colons! Mills
has s'cured the permission of the War
Department for the placing of the pic
ture. Tne thought Is held and felt
deeply by army officers and army au
thorities that nothing but good to the
coming generations of cadets can come
from the proposed honoring of the
memory of one of the greatest soldiers
who ever owed his military training to
Wcwt Point on the Hudson.
The coming honoring of Lee forces
reminiscences. Since the war of ceses
slon the portrait of but one confederate
leader has hung on the historic aca
demic walls that of Albert Sidney
Join .-ton, of the class of 1R26, and who
gave his life for the South at Shlloh.
The portrait of General Johnston was
put In place long years before the war
on the wall of the army officers' mess
roon. at West Point. It showed him as
a Kubaltern officer of cavalry In the
United States forces. Johnston at one
time was stationed at West Point, and
the officers assembled there as Instruc
tors voted to have him manage their
mess. The quality of the food and
ASKUUaN, RMiM, OOMR 7, BiQ.
cooking Improved so under Johnston's
management that his comrade In-
duoed him to keep the position o man
agvr Instead of having It "rotate," as
was the custom. When Johnston was
relieved the members of the ova voted
to have his portrait palntel and hung
In the mess. This was done und the
I picture stayed there untouched all
1 through the dark days of the, war. In
. the var 1S45, there was sent to West
Point as a 'actieal ofllivr Marcus A.
! Il-mo, who had won the stars of a
brigadier general of volunteers on the
battlefield. Reno had gone buck to
his rank of captain of regulars ut the
I close of hofttltitie ltelio had been at
Won. Point on duty but a few days
, when the picture "of Johnston caught
his eye. War passions were still high
though another excuse was given for
Reno's conduct. He was officer of the
: day and wore his side arms. He drew
! his saber In front of Johnston's picture.
, "A traitor has no place on these walls,"
he said. There was a "right cut" from
I a practiced hand and the encircling
' frame and the picture of the confeder
ate generdl was clft In twain. Reno
was relieved from duty and sent West.
He was dismissed from the service
fifteen years afterward for an offense"
committed on the frontier. At West
Point today, where "time's effacing
finger" has removed the last trace of
, bitterness, the pot-trait ()f wlll hangj
honored and In safety.
The showing of a southern soldier's
! face In the gallery of West Pointers
brings to mind
tlon on the subject of the number of
, .
ti nnnn n. mlomtnrwin.
mllllii-t. o .-ii ,t,.m l, n0 .1 11 n I j.b ffrtm itl..'
South who iff. colors to fight for seces
sion. During the war and ever since,
because the foots are not generally
knoien, it. was supposed by the people
thxt West Point had educated southern
I cadets only to have them turn against
the government. As a matter of fact
on the nuthorlty of General Cullom,
who made the matter a study four
fifths of the graduate held true to
the union, and of those who came
from below the Mason and Dlxen line
! one-half fought under the star and
irli.. SnlNi nr.i.nlnllvu -n'that Were ClllUilC
federal 1udgs born In Dixie almost to a
man threw In their lot with secession.
. Nearly every officer In the army ap
J pointed from civil life In the South
' went with the stars and bars. The stu
dents of Tale, Harvard, Princeton and
i other northern universities who matrl
j eulated from the states that seceded
I went li: mass to the ranks of the con
; t'Merory. The intiuence or ramny ana spreads Itself like oil over the trou
of birthright of statetV rights Influence bled sea of thought, and keeps the mind
! were not aiifflclent to wean from their smooth and equable In the roughest
i union sworn allegiance a majority of weather.
; southern graduates. Lie himself had
a struggle before he dropped the blue
for the gray. No West Pointer doubts
: that he acted as his conscience dlctat-
;ed. His portrait will be honored when
it is put In place near mat 01 tne man
whom he met at Appomattox.
Boys'
Clothing
SomelMtdy's siiimII boy ii going to be
mightily witislied with himself when his
mamma gets him one of those new capo
coats that have just come. We don't make
tiny money to speak of on these, but we have
to do something to stop some pnple from
buying cotton. Now, whether he is three or
fourteen years of age, he shall have one for
$..'15. Don't believe it? Well come in
and sec, and ask for lot 3D32.
Just another word about tin bovs lo
you want your little fellow to look real swell?
If so, we have a line of boys' blue serge
double-breasted suits, ages from 7 to 1 1, that
are positively beautiful. Tln-se uits, in
chilling an extra pair of pan's, we are going
to sell this Week j'or $l.tii' We Hell't tell
vou how we can all'oid it lor the story would
be ton long for our space. A-k p n iieularly
for lot IT is.'..
If lie' above price is too high, ak for
b.t 17 These are suits nf a gray !ii.
ture, includim; an extra p.iir of pints, for
!?"."". They are dressy and are sure to do
light the proud little wearer. Don't fail to
examine them.
CHaMIiERLAIN QUITE A PCRIST.
Or.e of Mr. Chamberlain favorite
VCMt(,ni ttf Uw hu dliU,h,er,
relul French aloud. He U very choice
(if their reading, and likes to be con-
" d 'll,u' '"w boo Comes
Into their hands. He it also very
...... . .. . . . ,,
strut In the matter of their theatrical
. , . , .. ..
aitL-ndunce, and wlll never allow them
to witness any play to which the most
fastidious tuste could object.
A man's nature runs either to herbs
or weeds; therefore Ut him seasonably
water the one and dent ry the other.
Two hearts can makt a love tfuit. but it
Ukcs three, at lcat, to nuke home, und
cue of the m 'met be that of a baby The
young married rotiplen .hat mart out in lift
with the idea that children are ntuani ,
and that tiny do not want and will not
have lliein, are the kind that you ri.ul
about every d iy in the newnpapiTKm the
divorce column. A home without clnldrer.
is not n home. Cod und Nature never in
tended that there ahould lie a place called
honle that did not resound with the palter
of cliildmh footileps
There are tens oi tnourana or nomet
I that am rhl rl pu Ivrflliw of III.. I l.ttf nit li
I o he would-be mother. There
I are tens of t!iouancl of otliei holm scnild
leas becauw the little one have dud al
most as noon as they were born. In liotli
cases Dr. I'ierce'a Favorite Prescription in
a sovereign remedy. It acta directly on
the delicate and important organs that
make wifehood and mothrrliood ponitle.
It makes them well, strong, vigorous, virile,
and elastic, It doe away with the datixetH
of maternity. It haninnen the uxual dis
comforts of the expectant period and
makes baby' advent easy and almost pain
less. It insures the little new comer's
health and an ample aupply of nourish
ment. The prospective mother prepares
herself for maternity by taking tne Fa
vorite Prescription " and give her child a
fair start in life by giving it a stroinr and
well developed body
Thousand of homes
to -flay echo with
babies' laughter, and bless tin great medi
cine. Thousand of women who were
weak, nervous, despondent invalids, are
to day happy, healthy wives and mothers
because of this medicine. Medicine deal
ers sell it.
Constipation kills slowly but it kills.
Or. Pierce's Pleasant Pellet cure it.
That inexhaustible good nature which
Is the most precious . gift of heaven.
loreph Stockford, Hodgdon, Me. heal-
ed a sore running for seventeen years !
and cured his piles of long standing 1
by using DeWItt's Witch Hazel Salve.
it cures all skin diseases. For sale by
Charles Rogers. '
Overcoats
WtViVrt
Our assortment is a surprie. 1'oit
landers would come down In price and pur
chnse these.
LOT 7:U0. McnV covert cloth over
coats $'..50. Styjwh and nstonishingly low
price.
LOT 8010. Men's blue beaver over
coats, $!(.00. I f you say you can duplicate
these for the money anvwhere ebe, it would
be a statement hard to believe.
U'
Astoria,
Proldent King. Farmer's Bank. 1 "If you scour th world you will
Brooklyn. Mich., has used DrWltt's never find a remedy tqusj to On
Mttle Early Risers In his family for ; Minute rough i,ure."yi Editor Fsck
yean. Says thoy srs the best. These Ut. of the Mlcanopy, FIs,. "Hustler."
famous little pills cure constipation, ) t cured his family of LCJrtpps and
bllllousrirss and all liver tnd bowel . vce thousands from phtumonls, bron
troubles. Bold by Choa. Rogers. rhltls, croup and all throat and lung
. -
Toil cannot aream yourm-u uuu
. . fc .
character; you must hammer and forge
"ur"1' ongl
"It did me more good than anything
t ever used. My dyspepsia was of
mont' s' standing; after sating It was
terrible. Now I am well." writes 8. B.
Keener. Holslngton, Kan., of Kodol
DysponslR Cure. It digests what you
eat. Bold by Chas. Rogers, druggist
No man can be provident of bis time
who Is not prudent In the choice of IiIm
company. '
Est plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia Curs
will digest what you eat. It cures all
forms of dyspepsia and itomach trou
bles. K. R. Gamble, Vernon, Tex.,
siivs. "ft relelvsd ms from the start s.nd
cured mo.
tt Is now my ever lasting
friend." Sold by Chas. Rogers.
.1.., I !.., mm vtrlll
that good men pre '!
practice.
"When our boys were almost dead
from whooping cough, our doctor gavs
One Minute Cough Cure. They re
covered rapidly," writes, P. B. Belles,
Arglye. Pa. ' It cures coughs, colds,
grippe, and all throat troubles. Bold
by Chas. Rogers, druggist,
Cleverness Is a sort of genius for In
strumentality. It Is the brain of the
hand.
I wish to express my thanks to thejin 8Upn A nmnner as to bruise It as
manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic, ; veroly. It became very muoh swollen
Cholera and Diarrhoea Romedy, for j and pained him so badly that ho could
h:ilmr put on the market such a won-' not walk without the aid of orutohea.
derful medicine," says W. W. Maa-ie was treated by physicians, also
sliulll. nf Beaumont, Texas. There are ,.4 nveral kinds of liniment and two
ftveTen lvTo aS and - "HM In b.th-
enterv and cholera Infantum who lnb' nothing gave any relief
must nlo feel thankful. It Is for sale until he began using Chamberlain's
hy Chas. Rogers. I'aln Balm. This brought almost a
Conscience Is ths voloe of the soul;
the passions are the voloe of the body.
For many years science has studied
liquors. Result ths whole world uses
whiskey. It has proven the best stim
ulant and does not Injure nerves and
tissues like coca wines and other drug
ged compounds. And Harper Whiskey
Is the Ideal whiskey. Bold by Foard A
Blokes Co., Astoria Oregon.
We are sure to get the belter of for
tune If we do but grapple with her.
Millions of dollars Is the value placed
by Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrlsburg, Pa.,
O'.i the life of hor child, which she sav
ed from croup by the use of One MIn.
ute Cnuith Cure. It cures all coughs,
colds and throat and lung troubles.
For cole by Charles Rogers.
Oregon.
; iron tiles. Hold by Chas. Rogers.
A golden mind stoop not to shows
of dross.
The "Plow Hoy Preacher," Ret. J.
Klrkrnnn, Belle lllv. III., says, "After
suffering from Bronchial or lung trou
ble for ten year, I was cured by Ose
Minute Cough Curs. It Is all that la
cliklmed and mors." It cures coughs,
oolds, grippe and all throat and lung
trouble. Sold by Chas. Rogers, drug
gist.
To live In heurts we leave behind la
not to die.
On the 10th of December, 1897. Rot.
S, A. DotiAhoe, pastor of M. B. Church,
South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., oon tract d
a severe cold, which was attended from
the beginning by violent coughing. He
sajs: "After resorting to a number of
IM-ca,M 'nclnes.' usually kept In ths
house, to no purpose. I purchased a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
which acted Ilka a charm. I most
cheerfully recommend It to ths public."
F ir sale by Chas. Rogers.
Quod, ths more communicated,
more abundant grows.
the
During the winter of 189? Mr. James
! Reed, one of the leading citizens and
j merchants of Clay, Clay Co.. W. V.,-
stiuck his leg against a cake of Jos
cu ii ion cure in a wees urn ana hs
believes that had he not used this mm.
edy his leg would have had to be am
putated. Pain Balm Is unequalled for
sprains, bruises and rheumatism. For
sale by Chas. Rogers.
.HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
wnrd for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Curs.
F. J. CHMNEY A CO.. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F
,T. Cheney for Ihe last 15 years, and be.
Ileve him perfectly honorable In all
business transactions and financially
nble to entry out any obligations mads
by their firm.
WEST A TRATJX.
Wholesale Druggists, Toh do, 0.
WALDING, KINNAN A MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O.
Hall s Catarrh Cure I nk Pn (ntnrnal.
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Tea-
, c m , n A 2T' bot'
Hall's FamV Plllare's best.