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VOL. XI
THE DALLES, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1899,
NO 237
CKEAT AE!E3UAL IR3EElTORY CLEARANCE SAL!
Continues with greater vim than eyer. We are pleased to note the liberal returns daring the opening week of our Sale, and to remind our customers that 'all lice advertised laf t week,
at eame reduced prices during the entire month of January, This week we add new items, good seasonable items to which, in turn, will be added other lines as we progress.
will continue
Men's
Heavy Ribbed
Underwear.
The value is 75c
per garment. The
weight and color
for warmth and
service. Our clear
ance sale
price is
Our Clearance Sale
of Table Linens
and Napkins at
25
Per Cent
Discount
will be remembered is still on.
Boys' and
Girls' Hosiery.
We have decided to
close three linea of
black- cotton Hos
iery, extra values,
which we advise all mothers to sec.
15c and 20c Miss' and Child's im- n
ported black cotton hose..-. -LUC pair
25s Bovs' heavv black cotton school .
Hose, bes't quality J-OC pair
c J?V Tifir jJc a lifk iftt jAc jrfW 3& dSt nfteiJV jfisJ
Men's
Extra Pants
Made of .a heavy solid
wool kersey cloth; colors
a gray mixed ; seams
warranted not to rip.
Anyone wanting a warm durable pair of Pants sure
ly will be interested in these. The price
of $2 is now reduced to
$1.55
Men's Duck
Coat. Special!
This coat is made
of a heavy brown
or black Duck,
lined with a heavy
wool blanketing and interlined with rubber, making
the garment perfectly wind ana water proot.
The value is $2.45 Our Clearance OK
Sale Price is. ... p.00
"TTTV if n (mrCtimO rr barDer8 butchers,
VV lllbt v-Ucl Lo . bartenders and waiters
wear. An entirely newstock. '
QrOr1 Q 1 We have placed on sale today a
O LIOLlcUL. heavy 36-inch bleached cotton
Towel at $1 per dozen.
Men's Colored
Dress Shirts
68 cents.
These shirts sold
readily earlier in the
season at $1.00 We
bad a liberal lot of
them. We sold a
great many of them.
The balance of some three dozen are now selling at
68 cents. Study ebirt economy in this buying,
there's money to be saved by it.
Mackintosh
Coats
that are cut right, fit right
fit right and look right.
Bhould be quite in demand
in this kind of weather.
That reminds us as having an all-wool Covert Cloth,
light brown, double breasted box Mackintosh Coat,
that is the perfection of style, at only
which is three dollars and a half below real value.
$6.50
BOVS' Long Pants Suits for Boys-
-'KJjf a from 11 to 19 years are in the
r4- A n o majority with ns. To re
VJAJ I JLliJ.g . verse matters we will offer
during our Clearance Sale, four lines of popular
priced, reliable winterweiglit Suits in the above sizes,
at following reductions.
$5.00 Suits For $4.12
$6 50 " 5.35
$7.50 " ' 6.15
10.00 " 7.90
If your hat is turning slightly shabby, it may in
interest you to know that we have a special counter
of fine hats. worth from $2.00 to $3.50, which are sell
ing at $1.25. Costs nothing to look at them.
Fur CollareUes, fine Cloth Capes and Jackets may
be bought now ot us at less their regular price,
S & CO.
PANAMA PROJECT
THE BETTER
Unite! States Colli Sscnre Control of
tlit Frcncn Canal
THE VIEWS OF
GEN. ABBOTT
Cost of the Panama Will Be Much Less
Than That of the Nicaragua, and
of the Two Routes, When Com
pleted, Vessels Will Prefer the
Panama.
der active construccion with 3000 work
men and a large force of engineers.
Thus far about fourteen miles of the
tide water part of the canal cn the At
lantic side have been completed and are
navigable to vessels drawing twenty
eight feet of water. There are a few
bars which only need dredging to make
it passable to ships of great depth.
Beyond that point there has been con
siderable excavating to the twenty-one
miles from the Atlantic. Over four
miles on the tide water work on the Pa
cific side of the canal have been com
pleted.
General Abbott says that the new
plans for the completion of the Panama
canal are perfectly feasible, and that.the
tanal can be completed in half the time
and at much less cost than it will take
to dig the Nicaragua canal.'
FIRE AN A
JAPANESE CRUISER
Nkw York, Jan. 10. Brigadier Gen-
ral Henry L. Abbott, U. S. A., retired.
has arrived here from France on the
steamer La Champagne. He was accom
panied by M. Choron, who is said to be
connected w fth the new Panama Canal
Company. General Abbott, who was a
member of the International Technical
Commission, composed of engineers of
the. United States, France, Germany.
Russia, England and Colombia, which
recently made an inspection of the plans
and work and suggested changes in the
route of the Panama canal, is on his way
to Washington to lay before the United
States government all the information
he possesses regarding the inter oceanic
waterway at the isthmus of the Panama.
i .He eaid that the French government
bad no longer anything to do with the
proposed canal and that the new com
pany could dispose of its interest in the
work to the United States without op
position from any source, provided the
terms offered were satisfactory.
He further Baid that the new canal
com pany with the 65,000 000 francs which
it possessed when it secured 'passesBion
of the big cut has simply been doing the
preliminary work necessary on account
of the mistaken ideas of the old en
gineers. Now all the obstacles, each as
the overflow of the Chagres river during
the period of freshets, have been ar
ranged for, and the old idea of making
the connection between ocean and ocean
a tide water one has been modified so
that the part that is yet to he finished
will be built on the lock principle. Two
fifths of the entire canal work is now
actually completed, and the balance un-
Several Members of the Crew Burned
to Death and Many Injured Ves
sel a Partial Wreck.
FRICTION IS EVI
DENCED AT HAVANA
Disagreement as to Who is in Control
of the Police Force.
Seattle, Jan. 10. News by steamer
from Japan says: The second-class Jap
anese cruiser Kaimon Kan has reached
Amoy a partial wreck, as the result of a
fire that broke out during a-storm at
sea. Several of the members of the
crew of the cruiser were burned to death
and many others badly injured.
The Kaimon Kan was a wooden vessel
of the old style, and had on board a
number of soldiers besides her regular
crew. When a few days out and in the
midst of a gale a fire was discovered in
one of the bunkers to the rear of the
engines.
The Japanese crew behaved with
great bravery, and streams of water were
soon playing on (he fire. At this junc
ture an accident to the machinery made
it necessary tor some one to go down the
alley. It was a case ot almost sure death
but two men volunteered to go down.
Before they got to the machinery in
need of repair the smoke overcame them.
No one would go in after them and the
fire Boon consumed their bodies. The
engines were kept running or the vessel
would surely have foundered. The ves
sel is repairing at Amoy.
The news reached Tokio some time
ago, but has only. leaked out through
letters from home;
UNCERTAINTY
AS TO OUTCOME
Matter Will Probably Be Referred to
Washington for Arbitration Ap
pointment of Cubans to Some Very
Important Offices Will Be Made in
the Near Future.
That Throbbing Headache
Would quicklv leave you, if you need
Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thousands
of sufferers have proved their matchless
merit for sick and Dervous headaches.
They make pure blood andstrong nerves
and build up your health. Easy to take,
Tr them. Only 25 cents. Money back
if not cured. Sold by Blakeley &
Houghton, druggists. 1
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
ROVAL BMtlMO PQWOEB CO., HEW YORK.
'New York, Jan 10. A dispatch to the
Tribune from Havana say's i-' ,- ,
Some friction exists in the army 'over
the government of Havana. It was sup
posed that Washington orders creating
a separate department with Gen. Lud
low in command were explicit enough to
prevent conflicts ofauthority, but this
expectation has not been, fully realized.
The present turmoil relates to the con
trol of the Havana police force.
When General Greene was here Col.
Moulton of the First Illinois was des
ignated as military chief of police at
Gen. Greene's request. He has been
organizing a force with the assistance
of ex-Chief McCullagb, of New York.
More recent plans contemplate placing
the department under the control Col.
Evans, formerly governor of North Car
olina, and now on Gen. Lawton'a staff.
This uncertainty retards the organiza
tion. Appointments of Cubans to offi
ces in Havana will soon be made. . By
placing Cubans in prominent positions
some of the responsibility for minor po
sitions will be shifted. to them. The in
surgents have been complaining that
appointments already made in the cus
tom house and other places have gone
to Cubans who stayed at home during
the fighting. When leading ineurgente
are in the chief positions complaints
will have to be directed against them
rather than against the American au
Cuban officers are holding meetings
daily trying to determine their own sta
tue. A majority of them are inclined to
co-operate with the American authori-
, ties and to facilitate the diebandment of
the insurgent soldiers if any provision
can be made for their payment. They
have gijren notice to Gomez of their
views, and in order to maintain his in
fluence Gomez will have to leave his
camp in Santa Clara province and put
himself iq touch with events in Havana.
Recent reporisT represent him as more
conciliatory toward the Americans.
Sickness among American civillians is
causing uneasiness. Mr. Doane, the
custom house inspector, is the only one
who has yellow fever. The health of
the troops is good.
Evidences of financial speculation
were apparent today when Spanish sil
ver took a jump forward of five per cent.
The amount in the island has not ma
terially diminished, and American sil
ver is getting into oirculation.
SHE C0MMITED
SUICIDE BY HANGING
Despondent Young Woman Hangs Her
self in San Francisco.
San Fkancisco, JaD. 8. Mrs. Charles
McQuenan, aged cbout 32 yeare, com
mitted suicide today by hanging herself
with the trunk strap in ber apartments
in a fashionable family hotel. Her
mother, Mrs. Miner, wife of judge Miner
of Salt Lake, returned, from a shopping
excursion to find the dead body of ber
daughter banging by the neck by means
of the strap, which was fastened to the
top of the wardrobe. - Mre. McQuenan
is the wife of a prominent business man
of Grand Rapids, Mich., and came to
this city several weeks ago with her
mother for the benefit of her health
Her condition improved somewhat, and
the best was hoped for by her friends,
but an attack of melancholia seized her
and, she took her life to escape the tor
ture. She left a letter aeking forgive
ness and praying for the future of her
i child. . .
JUST ONE NIGHT,
MONDAY, JAN. 16,
TUB COMEDY NOVELTY
ON THE
Ma
IT
EP
A PURE STORY OF TRUE SOUTHERN HEARTS.
A SMILE,
- A LAUGH,
A YELL.
A SIG-H,
A SOB,
A TEAT?.
A CAREFULLY
SELECTED
COMPANY.
NEW. AND
FETCHING
SPECIALTIES.
OLD AUNT LINDY IS A WONDER
ALL SPECIAL SCENERY.
Back Seats 50c. Reserved 75c. Children 25c
T f
a narrow escape.
Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada
E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. : "Was taken
with a bad cold which settled on my
lungs ; cough set it and finally termi
nated In consumption. Four doctors
gave me up, saying I could live but a
short time. I gave myself up to my
Savior, determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth, I would meet
my absent cn-s above. ' My husband
was advised to get Dr. King's New Dis
covery for consumption, coughs and
colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight
bottles. It has cared me, and thank
God, I am eaved end now a well and
healthy woman." Trial bottles free at
Blakeley & Houghton's drug store. Reg
ular size 50c aDd f 1. Guaranteed or
price refunded. 1
Mrs. T. I. Teeters.
Arlington, Or., Jan. 9 Mrs. T. J.
Teeteis, wife of Postmaster Teeters, of
Castle Rock, died last merit of paralysis,
Mrs. Teeters was an estimable ludy, and
bas lived at Castle Rock for 15 years.
Her remains were brought to this city
for banal.
Public p
Next to Columbia Hotel.
Open Day and flight.
CoavUous treatment
to all Boulters...
I-Speeial Attractions
For BowIlDg Parties. Patronnge of
the public respectfully nuliciied.
Estebenet & Esping, Props.
Branch Offlc
Oregon Viavi Company,
Room 7, over French ' Bank.
Office hours,
i to 4 p. m-
Chark tte F. Roberts,
Local Manager