THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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; Good merchandise only Quality considered, our prices are always the lowest
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SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1008.
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For the next 10 clays, hundreds of .money-saving opportunities will greet the store visitor on every turn. It will be CUT AND SLASH on just the kind of goods you
aro buying at this season of the year. We are OVERSTOCKED on many lines of DESIRABLE SUMMER MERCHANDISE, not seconds, shop-worn nor imper
fect, but GOOD DEPENDABLE G(30DS. We are making sacrifice prices in all departments to completely clean up all summer goods and make room for the largest
and most complete fall stock ever offered to the patrons of theis store. '
Opera Coats
i Tailor-Made Suits reduced to alout onc-hal f thei r regu
lar value ; only a few left, but every one a bargain. Sale
price.. . .... ...... .......... . .$8.00 to $21.00
j White Princess Dresses
I Choice assortment of one piece white lingerie dresses,
elegantly trimmed with valencincs and cluney laces
I made from the very finest sheer laungere cloth.
fiy.Ot) Values now on sale . .$15.00
$18.00 Values now ou sale. .$12.60
"$12.50 Values now on sale. . .$ 7.50
Dress Goods
Imported French Voiles -Colors navy, black, grey,
white and champagne; our regular $1.25 value;
special . ... . . .79c
$1.25 Values, novelty dress goods, in all the popular
colors ana weaves; special. . . . ; .9ic
50c to 05c Novelty dress goods; special. 39c
Hosiery
15c Value boys' and girls' stockings, all sizes. 9c
25c Value women's lace hosiery, black and white. . . ,19c
Black Sateen Petticoats
$1.25 value black sateen petticoats, wide flounce and full
skirt; sale price 90c
Lingerie Waists
20 per cent off our entire line of ladies' white lawn and
net waists. 20 PER CENT OFF.
Special lot choice white waists, elegant values for
only... v.- $2.19
Suits
$25.00 Opera Coat .$15.00
$30.00 Opera Coat . ......... .$17.50
$32.50 Opera Coat . .$19.00
$37.50 Opera Coat : ". .. . .$21.00
Beautiful cream and grey broadcloth opera coats;
full satin-lined with skinner's satin and neatly trimmed
an opportunity to purchase a beautiful, coat at abouf
one-half regular price.
Long Fabric Gloves
$1.50 and $1.75 values, best quality, W-button, long
silk gloves, double finger tips, all colors. . $1.39
$1.25 value, 16-button, long silk gloves, black and white,
t only . .98c
$1.00 Value, long black Lisle thread gloves, all sizes, 65c
White Parasols
$2.50 and $3.00 Values, white parasols, sale price. .$2.19
$1.98 Value, white parasols, sale price. ......... .$1.49
$3.00 Japanese hand-painted silk, sale price. .... .$2.49
Children's Straw Hats
25c and 35c values .19c
35c values . ..' .., .49c
Wash Goods
To close out the sheer summer wash goods, consisting
of lawns, Swisses, Batiste,' etc., we have placed on sale:
25c Values for ... 19c
15c and 18c Values f or . . . . . . . ............ .. . 12 l-2c
10c Values for ....................... . ..... ,7c
12 l-2c A. F. C. dress ginghams . .............. ... 10c
Standard double width percales. I 9c
Amoskeag apron check ginghams. . . . ............. ,6c
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25c Belts arid
Neckwear 25c
Having purchased a complete sample line of ladies'
neckwear and white belts at a mere fraction of their
real value. We have them now on sale, your choice, 25c
Sheets and Pillow Cases
72x90 Bleached sheets .......... , 49c
72x90 Bleached sheets, best quality . .63c
42x36 Bleached pillow eases .12 l-2c
84 'Well known brand bleached sheeting 24c
36-inch Bleached Hope muslin, . 8c
TO PREVENT FRAUDS
Bills of Lading Have Been Un
safe Instrument
SO SHIPPERS DECLARE
Committees From Commercial Bodies
Will Appear Before the Commis
sion on Uniform Laws to Ask For
Draft of New Bill of Lading.
NEW YORK, July 18,-When the
commissioners on uniform laws meet
at Seattle Wash., on August 20 they
will be waited upon by committees
representing the great commercial
bodies of this and other cities and
urged to draft a bill of lading to put
an end to what the shippers term the
gross frauds which they declare have
maue mus 01 inning ait unsate instru
ment of credit. The decision to have
committees appear before the com
missioners, it was announced to-day,
was reached as a result of the an
nouncement of the Interstate ' Com
merce Commission that it had not
sufficient, authority to order the rail
roads to revise their methods of is
suing bills of lading to meet the ob
jections which the commercial bodies
liave raised against the Instruments
in their present form. It is the pre
sent plan to have the new bill which
is expected to be drafted by the com
missioners on uniform laws introduced
at the next session of congress. A
decision of the interstate commerce niercial
commission announced early this
week contained recommendations em
bodied in the demand of the shippers
but' the commission decided that it
lacked the power to enforce these
recommendations. It was in view of
this, and the belief that the railroads
would not accept the recommenda
tions of the commission that the plan
announced to-day waa formulated.
transacted on bills of lading is appar
ent from figures of the year 1907,
which show that goods valued at $17
000,000,000 were shipped on the bills
in that year alone.
. The commercial interests have
been trying for the past three years
to compel the carriers to issue them
separate bills of lading forms in
order to differeniate between the
ordinary receipt and the more im
portant "order" bill which is used as
a basis of credit in the transportation
of the country's crops particularly
the cotton and grain crops of the
South and West and manufactured
products. The shippers have de
manded also that the railroads compel
the surrender of the instrument upon
delivery of the property to the con
signee, several extensive swindles
having been perpetrated against
lenders by means of bills of lading
that were not so surrendered. As the
railroads have fought the proposed
changes from the first, representatives
of the commercial bodies of this city
say they do not expect the "recom
mendations 1 of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to change the
situation at all. They believe, how
ever, that whatever action is taken by
the commissioners on uniform state
laws will be approved by Congress,
the commissioners consist of repre
sentatives from the several states, ap
pointed by their respective governors.
L. .Mandel Baum of the Bill of Lad
ing Committee of the Cotton Ex
change; Theodore F. Whitmarsh,
vice president, of the wholesale Groc
ers Association and Chas. F. Droeste
of the Bill of Lading Committee of
the Mercantile Exchange, in inter
views given out today all express the
fear that if the alleged abuses are not
corrected by Congress early in its
session, credits wil be seriously cur
tailed, and in consequence all com-
ntcrests severely handicap-
against Fresjdent Gompers and the
officers of the American Federation
of Labor and fifty officers and mem
bers of the Denver Building Trades
Council, the Trades Unionists gave
first blood in the battle being waged
to attempt to securi damages from
the Union men in the amount of $50,
000 and to jail some of them for al-
of similar tenor, he claims that Cab-
reara is favoring American residents
to the exclusion of Germans and
members of other nations, lit main
tains, that the past representatives
of -the United States have been per
ststently misrepresenting conditions
in Guatemala which he says are more
appalling ' than those which existed
in Cuba during the Weyler reign or
wiuiij. i-iisw his i'iuus ui.wmcn nave Deen recently reported in
Geo. C. Mailcy, attorney for the Hayti the Congo and Macedonia. Dr.
Marble Company, to have Gompers
and the officers of the American Fed
eration of Labor declared in contempt
of court for failure to appear before a
notary public yesterday suffered com
plete defeat.
Papers in the suit were served on
Gompers, John Mitchell, John B.
Lennon and James Ducan of the
American Federation of Labor last
week when they came to Denver to
attend the meting of , the executive
council and appeared before the res
olutions committee of the national
democratic convention. As soon as
the summonese were served Manley
subpoenaed the labor leaders to ap-j
pear before a notary public to make
depositions as to their knowledge of
the case. On advice of counsel they
decided to ignore the subpoenaes
and left the city. Judge Allen upheld
the contention of the'attorneys of the
labor leaders that they were not com
peled to make depositions in a civil
case on the ground that their testi
mony might tend to incriminate them
in prosecutions pending.
Prowe claims the result of Cabrera's
rule or ruin policy will be a protec
torate either jointly wielded by the
United States and Mexico or by one
of the nations singly. Dr. Prowe
names a number of Americans as be
ing implicated in graft in connection
with the recent Honduran trouble.
VOLCANO'S CRATER
ped.
LABOR LEADERS WIN
Ignore Subpoenas Served on Them
While in Denver.
DENVER, Colo. July 18-Throtigh
a decision handed down yesterday by
District Judge Allen in the case . of
AIDED ROOSEVELT FUND
Peculiar Story of Guatemala Presi
dent Giving $10,000.
The tremendous volume of business the Thompson Marble Company
MEXICO CITY, July 18. In a
long article published under the signa
ture of Dr. Herman Prowe, a Ger
man .formerly residing in Guatemala,
the statement is made that -President
Cabrera contributed $10,t)00 in gold to
the Roosevelt campaign fund in 1904.
The statement appeared in the col
umns of Deutsche Zeitung, a Oerman
paper published in this capital. Dr.
Prowe contends with all seriousness
that this sum was paid to American
Minister, Hunter, then representing
the United States at the Guatemala
capital. v '
In addition to columns of matter
The new Crater lake National park,
in Oregon, already bids fair to rival
as a resort for tourists the famous
Yosemite valley. People are begin
ning to visit in great numbers, at
tracted by the unique and spectacular
scenic features which it offers, and the
approach to it, .hitherto somewhat
difficult, is being made much easier
by a railroad now in process of con
struction.
Crater lake gets its name from the
fact that it occupies the crater of. an
extinct volcano. Five miles in dia
meter, and nearly circular in shape,
it is the deepest body of fresh water in
America. Soundings have fixed its
depth at 2,000 feet. Only one lake
in the world, that of Baikal, is deeper
by 400 feet. In ' other respects.
however, it is altogether unique, i
Encircled as it is by almost vertical
cliffs which are reflected in the clear
and brilliant blue of the water, it
presents to the eye a spectacle un
surpassed, ' : - '
As a great natural and scenic feat
ure of this country, Crater lake ranks
with Niagara falls and the Grand
conyon of the Colorado. It is unique
and in its way unrjvaled. There are
in the United States hundreds of ex
tinct volcanic craters, but this is our
only great one, . , 1
Think of it! This mighty hole in
the summit of the Cascade range is J
nearly six miles in diameter and over
two-thirds of a mile in depth. Once
upon a time it was filled with boiling
lava; today it contains a beautiful
lake of fresh water, which is encircled
by a ring o pteciptipus cliffs from
500 to 2,500 feet high, without break
or outlet.,
The extraordinary depth of the lake
naturally led to a widespread popular
b'elief to the effect that it had no bot
tom. It is a familiar kind of delusion
Any small body of water, wherever
found, whose bottom is beyond reach
by the longest fishing lines is sure to
gain the repute of being bottomless,
Within two miles of New Haven,
Conn., is a cleft in the hill that is oc
cupied by a large pond called Lake
Saltonstall. Though considerably
less than 200 feet in depth, it is de
clared by people who live, in its neigh
borhood to have no bottom. No won
der, then, that crater Jake, with' an
actual depth of 2,000 feet should be
imagined to possess no floor what
ever! Technical World Magazine.
LIPTON IS WILLING
Oft Defeated Irishman Wants An
other Yacht Race. ,
NEW YORK, July 18-Yacht chal
lange rumors for ' the American
cup continue to crop out with con
siderable frequency this season but
despite the desires that have been
repeatedly expressed by Sir Thomas
Lipton, the effort to draw the fire ol
the New York Yacht Club, if such is
really the case, toward obtaining some
semi-official modification of the pres
ent rules governing the deed of gift
and a challenge have thus far been
unavailing. The latest statement from
Sir Thomas Lipton is to the effect
that he is willing to challenge with a
ninety footer, the largest size boat
allowable by 'the deed of gift No
communication on the subject in any
way has been received by the New
York Yacht Club.
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We see Shoes at as low a price as quality goes; you
don't want them lower priced than that; if you do we
haven't got them in this store.
Selz Royal Blue Shoe isn't high priced; but it "is
good quality; better than the price; as good a shoe as
can be made. ,-
We sell them because they're good to wear; give
satisfaction. That pays us. -
Selz Royal Blue
$3.50, $4, $5
LUUKINEN a HARRISON
Cor. 9th and Commercial Sts.