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l!ne of Sailors 19c
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NOW
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; Ladies
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Children's and Misses' Wash Dresses
Prices ranging from
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The New Styles in Jumper, Dutch Neck and
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MESSAG EOF LOVE.
LOS ANGELES, April 21. Ac
cording to a dispatch received by the
Times from Chicago, a message,
probably a final one, is on its way
from Chicago to the Pacific Coast in
charge of a 6-year-old girl. It is a
message from a mother who is ill in
New York to a father believed to be
dying in Los Angeles. The little tot
who is bearing it is Margaret Bidwellr
daughter of A. G. Bidwell, a former
Chicago man. Mother and daughter
who had iust returned from a Europ- arrived here to engage in debate to
ean tnnr. received a teleeram in New ; nittht with representatives of ithe law
York stating that Mr. Bidwell was I school of Georgetown College. The
not expected to live. Mrs. Bidwell I subject of bank guarantees is to be
became suddenly ill on receipt of the 'discussed. ''
new sand could not travel. Dictating
a message to her husband, she sent
her little daughter West with it. In
her race with death, railroad officials
say, she is making a record breaking
trip for a girl of her age. She is due
to arrive here Saturday morning.
TO REBATE BANK GUARANTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 21.-
A debating team from Notre Dame
OCEAN.vBAR,
BAY, DOCK
AND RIVER
chinery. .The Undine
business both way.
did a good
Last evening's Portland Telegram Company, accompanied by Mrs.
says: iPlummer, arrived in the city yester-
"Captain Charles F. Pond. light- j day. This official is in Astoria to
house inspector of this district, will .have a look at the company's fine
have command of an armored cruiser tug T'atoosh, now in service here un
in the Pacific squadron within the der lease to the O. R. & N. Corn
next 60 days. She will be of the type !pany, and to size up the situation,
of the Washington or Tennessee, j and prospects, for his business and
larger than many of the battleships, .company, on the Columbia bar. He
and he will have under him from 30 made no declaration of a positive sort
to 40 officers. It is an important as to what his company intended to
promotion which has fallen to the lot la save to intimate plainly that it
of but few of the lighthouse inspec- j was in the towing business and might
tors in recent years. j operate on this bar and river if .it
"In this district Captain Pond will decided to do so. He was greeted
be succeeded by Commander J. M. here very cordially by Captain Bail
ey, of the Tatoosh.
The British steamship Clan Mac
Farlane arrived in port yesterday
from British Columbia waters after t
a cargo of grain for Asiatic delivery.
For a couple of months he will act She had a crew of 68 men, 56 of whom f
in the capacity of assistant to Captain were Lascars, and about the worst )
Pond until he becomes thoroughly set of "lookers" ever seen here; j
familiar with the district. Then he they were of, the very lowest type of ;
will assume full charge, and Captain their race and the master of the ship
Ellicott, who is in charge of the sup
ply ship Solace, which is now at
Charleston, S. C, being converted in
to a hospital ship. Commander Elli
cott is expected to arrive in Portland
from Charleston in about a week.
The steamer Yellowstone arrived in
from San Francisco last evening, and
after a brief stay in this harbor, went
on to Portland.
The steamer South Bay arrived
down at 1 o'clock this morning and
docked at the Standard Oil Go 's dock
where she will take on fuel oil. She
has a full cargo of lumber loaded at
Portland for California. She expects
to cross out at high water tomorrow
forenoon.
Marine Danger.
Pinnacle rock, an obstruction to
navigation, 14 feet under sea surface,
has been discovered S. 19 deg. W.
(true) from Point Tasco, Santa Mar
garita Island, Lower California. John
McNulty, nautical expcj-l.
MAY BUILD TO EUREKA.
President Ripley Will Now Mak An
' Investigation There.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 21. E.
P. Ripley president of the Santa Ft
who arrived at Point Richmond in
his private car from the East yester-
day will make a tour of inspection
over the Northwestern Pacific to de
termine whether or not to complete
that line to Eureka- In addition to
the filling in of a gap between Wil
litis and Shively, the construction of
a line to Albion, on the coast, to
llealdsburg, is one of the mutter that
will be discussed-at a conference to
day. According to the estimates fur
nished RipK'y by his engineers it
would coat $9,000,000 or $10,000,000 to
make the proposed improvements.
"That is a good deal to risk in rail
road building In view of the attacks
that have been on railroads in the last
few years," he said-.
Personal Hontion
EVKRYBODY'S MAG-'
AZINK has come back to
town on a visit, after nearly
two weeks' absence. He
says he hopes to stay quite
a while -with a number of
the best families ; he brings
with him a lot of new
stories good ones ; his
health is much improved.
O. W. WHITEMAN. EVEN
SEN'S BOOK STORE, AND1
UTZINGERS' NEWSSTANJ2T H
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silk hose on sale now. Just the colors
of the season to match the
1 $1.50
summer gown ....
Have you seen our new line of
Dimities and Embroidered Mulls.
89c
University, at South Bend, Ind., has Pond will take the new position was instructed by Inspector Bonham,
awaiting him on one of the armored of the Immigration service here, to
cruisers, the name of which has not be rigidly careful that none of them
yet been made known. . got ashore under any circumstances.
"Commander Ellicott is 46 years of She went up stream almost imme-
agc, and entered the service in 1879. diatcly.
after having graduated at the naval f '
academy at Annapolis. He has been The steamer Alliance arrived in
awarded a, number of medals for from Coos Bay yesterday afternoon,
bravery displayed in the face of great with plenty of passengers and freight,
danger during the Spanish-American a goodly grist of the latter being dis-
war. His predecessor gives him a charged at the Callcnder dock here,:
high recommendation and says he is before the steamer went up the
deservedly popular. Baltimore is his river. '
native city.
On the arrival of Captain Pond at Tile steamshio Breakwater is due
Portland July 1, 1908, to assume tn )! tnr fnns Bav waters from!
charge of the lighthouse district em-the q. R. & N. piers at 4 o'clock this!
Dracing rne coasts 01 uregon, wasn- m0rning; and among her passengers
ington and Alaska, he ranked as a from thj3 port, is J. H.' Harrison, an
commander. in less man tnree 0fficer 0f the department of Com
months later the title of Captain was mcrce and Labor, who is visiting this
conferred upon him by the depart- COast officially.
ment. Since then it has only been
regarded as a matter of time until he ; The steamer Argo arrived down
would be ordered to report for sea rom Portland yesterday morning at
duty, and consequently the news did 5 0.clock and took on reight ad
not come as a surprise. But it is not paMenger, at the Callender, and left
often that a promotion to the com- om oycr the bar at 7 0.cIock,
mand of one of the best ships in the 1. ,
navy comes so quickly. ,. j . x1nAinf .veA f1own
yesterday evening at 5:15 in place of
Captain George E. Plummer, sec- ( the Lurline which has gone into, the
retary of the Puget Sound Towboat shipyard for some repairs to .Tier ma-
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More smart styles in good tailored spring suits and
coats, late express arrivials of the later and better
styles now on display in our suit section and you get
lower prices as well as better style, you had better
drop in and see them.
Sale Continues all This Week.
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