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VOL. XI
THE DALLES, OREGON, THURSDAY; JANUARY 26, 1899
NO 250
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"IS NOW ON. In announcing this sale we lay particular stress upon the fact that every broken line or odd lot of Ladies,' Misses' and Children's Fine
Shoes in the house are subjected to a SLASH ING PRICE CUT- deep enough to interest every shoe buyer, and especially those looking for shoes of quality, . Just a few
hints here more in our Shoe Department. . : ; E ' . J - ' " - : .
Misses' and
Children's
Fine Shoes
g at Clearance Prices. Kid
Tr button, with cloth or kid
top j'square and opera toes,
patentip.
Sizes 8a to 11
reduced from $1.50 to $1.05
y Sizes UK to 2
S reduced from $1.90 to $1.15
0 thOhhOhShOe j
A Popular Shoe.
Two handsome toes in lace or -
congress. Have been selling QJ'I Af")
at $2.50; Our clearance price TA,UV'
English.
.Walking Shoe.
A Qri c T"l ' - A Bhoe, fashionable, com-OJ-LCtJ.
stable, seasonable and
; serviceable, : is here offered aC a bargain
. price. Made of box calf; bulldog, toe,
. heavy extension soles, yellow d0 Qt
; silk stitching. v " $4 Shoe, now tptf t7J
Black or Brown.
Shoes made for winter wear; heavy exten
- sioo soles, broad low heels, serviceable
uppers, wide coin toes; regu- d0 fH
larly $3, clearance, price. .... tp.VJ J
Quality, not .Style.
If you are not particular as to the style,
these will suit you. An assorted lot of
Men's Fine Street Shoes in seal and kan
earoo stock, including also fine calf Shoes
with" cork soled. The regular . '
prices are $4 and $4 50; the SiQ
clearance price -
Men's Fine Cordovan Shoes,
Reduced from $5 to $3.30.
Lace or Congress; narrow,' square and
coin toes.'
Ladies' Fine.lDongola; Kid
Rn Ttrm SSTl ftftej 'narrow, square and coin
DU.LCUX1 lO-U. toes; patent tips; genu-,
Ine band-tarn soles,- The; regular price feO
. is ?4.00; elearanoe-price..... p.-J
A. Mi WILLIAMS & CO,
'CRISIS IMMINENT
IN PHILIPPINES
Officials No Longer AWe to Concea
Their Appuensions.
GERMANY MAY
MAKE TROUBLE
Recognition of the So-Called Philipino
Republic by That Government and
Spain is Not - Improbable, and
Washington Would Not Be Sur
prised if It Came at Any Time.
war. This action is imminent, and gov
ernment officials say they would not be
surprised if it took place within 24 hours.
Prom pt ratification of the treaty would
have avoided this entanglement, hut' it
is conceded now that both Spain and
Germany have some grounds for action
to protect their own interests. .
There is an understanding at the
present moment entirely informal, but
none the- less effective, that in case
Spain or Germany, or both, recognize
Aguinaldo as the president of an inde
pendent republic Great Britain wil at
once recognize the temporary sovereign
ty of the United States in the Philippine
islands, pending action on the treaty.
Knowledge of this fact, it is said, is all
that causes Germany to hesitate.
Ambassador White has not ' been di
rectly instructed to make any repre
sentation to Germans, but he conveyed
"unofficially" an intimation that the
United States, pending ,the,. disposition
of the treaty, would consider recognition
of : Aguinaldo by Germany as an un
frienly act, and by .Spain as a direct vio
lation of a solemn pledge. '
QUALIFIED REFOTAL
OF CHARGES
, Chicago, Jan. 25. A special to .the
Tribune from Washington says : It can
no longer be denied that considerable
alarm is felt in administration circles
over the situation at Manila ancIlo IIo,
and the latest advices are not of a re
assuring character. General Otis is of
'' the belief that the insurgents are about
to force the issue, and if this should oc
cur the result cannot be predicted far
ther than that the Ameiicans will be
victorious in the end. ' '
There are two serious contingencies
confronting the troops near Ilo Ilo, one
being a conflict with the natives and the
other a fear that smallpox may break
out among the troops. ' '
Besides this, the situation at Manila
is considered much more grave than that
of Ilo Ilo,' and it Is feared the insurgents
may commit an overt . act which will
bring on a conflict.
While the warlike attitude of Aguin
aldo exciteB alarm at the war depart
ment, that is not considered the most
serious feature of the situation. Those
in a position to know the facts say the
diplomatic situation is even more grave.
Either Germany or Spain or both may
recognize Aguinaldo's little republic for
' interested motives. Germany may to
secure a foothold and Spain to accom
plish the release of the prisoners, of
A Freak Burial.
Amsbuey, Mass., Jan. 25. The wishes
of Reuben J. Smith, an eccentric. man of
71 years, who died Tuesday, are to be
carried out m .detail, and be will be bur
ied in a chair, wearing a slouch hat, and
his costly marble tomb will be sealed up
by brickmasons.
Mr.' Smith came here in 1867 from
Buffalo, N. Y., and nothing is known of
his early life or bis .relatives. Through
dread of being placed in the ground he
built a: marble sarcophagus last fall. He
arranged that his body should be placed
therein in a chair, and under no con
sideration was it to be put m a casket
or pat in the ground. The entrance will
be sealed up with a wall of brick, .the
outer steel door locked and the key de
stroyed. L. T. Bartlett, who has charge
of Mr. Smith's affairs, will have every
wish of this dead man carried out. . '
Warm Weather a Blessing. .
Long Creek, Jan. 24. Daring the
past 60 hours the enow in the Long
Creek valley, which had fallen to such
a depth , as to cause uneasiness among
stockmen, has all melted away, the re
sult of Chinook winds'. This sudden
disappearance of the enow -means the
saving of thousands of dollars to stock
men, as it will reduce the price of hay,
besides saving the lives of many cattle
and e'heep that would otherwise ' have
perished..' Stockmen generally' believe
the. winter is practically over, and that
their losses will be very light.
Commissary-General Hates , It Wb'en
? Arrases Before tts Cmrt-Mariiil ,
STATEMENT BY .
: HIS COUNSEL
Admission That Eagan , . Used ..She
"Language ' Charged, but Claim
That he did it. Under ; Such Stress
. of Mind,, Resulting From Alleged
False Charges Made Against Him,
That He Was Distracted.
Washing'ton, Jan. 24. The board of
army officials' appointed to sit as a
court-martial in the case Ot Commissary-
General Eagan met this morning at the
Ebbit house and proceeded to business.
Afterthe usual preliminaries, the
charges against Eagan were read by the
judge advocate.:
- At the conclusion of the reading, on
being requested to plead to. th'e specifica
tion of the first charge, Eagan said, ''not
guilty," not .denying, 'however, that the
specifications eet forth correctly part of
the language " used. To the ' second
charge he pleaded "not guilty." The
judge-advocate then, 'arose and said
the case in band was a. peculiar 'one, but
presented so unusual difficulties. The
accussed bad seen fit -to '.add to the plea
of "not guilty"' eom'e ' words ..ending to
qualify it, but he did not think the plea
relieved the court from the necessity of
proving the facts alleged:. -
Judge Worthington, Eagan's counsel,
responded briefly, and explained why"
qualifying word's ' had been used upon
Lis recommendation. The specifications
did the accused great- injustice in that it
selected particular expressions without
giving the context, and in one or more
instances the specifications quoted be
gan in the middle of a sentence.' Con
tinuing, Worthington said he desired to
state briefly to the "court the substance
of Eagan's defense.
Worthington werft over tbe testimony
given before the war investigating com
mission by Miles, and said. Eagan had
attempted to bring charges . against
Miles for his statements, but had met
with refusal from Alger. Counsel said
the newspapers then took up the charges
ot Miles $nd goaded Eagan almost to
desperation.' He had . come" to believe
the press, and the country at large had
accepted the accusations made by. Miles
as true, and the condition of his nrjnd in'
consequence grew worse and worse until
he was in a state bordering on distrac
tion. The language which Eagan used
under these . circumstances- wa9 the
natural outburst of an honest . man
suffering under unjust accusations. .
Major C. Mills testified on behalf of
the government. He was ' recorder for
the war investigating commission.': 'Jhe
manner, he said, of Eagan in giving
testimony before the war commission
was that of a man laboring under great
excitement, but trying to control hi m
self . ' C . ' : ' .
" Major-General McCook, retired, was
the next witness. "The impression I
had," he said, "was that- Eagan must
have been laboring under great nervous
excitement." -
At the conclusion of McCook's testi
mony the judge-advocate read at some
length from Miles' testimony before tbe
war investigation commission, which
called for the pbjectionable language in
Eagan's statement:
At the conclusion of the reading of
Miles' statement, Worthington read at
length from Eagan's revised' testimony
before the w ar investigation commission.
At 2 o'clock the conrt adjourned nntil
tomorrow morning. .
GENERAL RABI
TAKES FLIGHT
Report That he is Now in Santa'Clara
Hills, Defying American Author-
New York, Jan. 25. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says: A report
has reached General ( Menacol that
General Eabi with 1500 insurgents has
taken to the hills in Santa Clara in de
fiance of American authorities. Rabi is
a full-blooded Gaantanamo Indian and
bard fighter. Menocal hopes the report
may. prove untrae. 1 s
Colonel Maus, surgeon-general of the
bsoxuieey 'Pure
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Seventh .army corps, complains bitterly
of the-failure of the Washington, of
ficials to supply him with vaccine. ' He
cabled for vaccine points four weeks ago,
and an inadequate supply arrived" after
eighteen days. He then received notice
that 10,000 points Were 'shipped on
January 14. These have not yet' ar:
rived, though urgently needed, v Colonel
Mans explains the failure to vaccinate
the soldiers before they left Savannah
by Baying regimental surgeons, were
negligent and failed to- follow the
simplest. instructions given to them. , ,?
Deafneaa Cannot be Cared '
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is. only one way to cure deafnesp
and that is by . constitutional remed iee
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus
tachian Tube. . When ' this tube is in
flamed you have a rambling sound or
imperfect bearing, and when it Is en
tirely closed, Deafness is tbe result, and
unless tbe inflammation . can be taken
oat and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever;, nine cases put of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing bat an in
flamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. -
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars ; free.
' F. J. Chknby & Co., Toledo, O.
3T"Sold by Druggists, 75c. . 6-10
New School House.
Milton, Janv24. At a school meeting
held in this city today it was decided by
a three-fourth vote of the property own
era to construct a new brick school
building, to cost from $12,000 to $15,000.
The district will be bonded to raise the
funds.. A tax of six mills wa levied to
defray incidental school expenses-for the
ensuing year. :v
- Coughing injures and inflames sord
lungs. One Minute Cough Cure loosens
tbe -cold, allays coughing and heals
quickly. The best care for children,
perfectly harmless. Snipes-Kinersly
Drag Company. -
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$6.50 PER TON
DELIVERED.
For car load lots call on
E. KTJRTZ, Agent,
Tel. 38. The Dalles. Or.
Public
Boualing Alley
Next to Columbia Hotel.
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Open Day and Sight.
Couxtsous treattnnt
to all Botalevs...-
Speeisxl fit t factions
For Bowling Parties. Patronage of
the public respectfully solicited.
Estebenet 8l Esping, Props.
ranch Office
; Oregon Viavi Company,
Boom 7, over French's Bank.
Office hours,
2 to 4 p. m-
. Charlotte F. Roberts.
Local Manager.
FRED. W.WILSON,
ATTOKKEY-AT LAW,
'THE DALLES, OREGON.
Ofllee over First Nat. Bank. .-
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