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VOL. XI
THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1899
NO 297
-THIS WEEK'S STORE NEWS.-
$5.00 to $25.00.
You are invited to attend our
Spring Opening Display
Ladies' TAILOR-MADE SUITS
TAILOR-MADE SKIRTS
SILK WAISTS
SHIRT WAISTS
PETTICOATS
WRAPPERS
A GRAND COLLECTION" of NEW GOODS.
Handsome tailor-made costumes for women, babbling- over with new
ideas in beauty and shapeliness. The art of ladies' tailoring may be candidly
referred to as never having attained so high a degree of perfection as charac
terizes the ready-to-wear suit of the present season. . The marked contrast
stamps the soit tailoring ideas of last season as mere experimental effort. A
parallel of price and worth is noticed at a glance. The earliest blossoms of
spring fashion are on display today in onr cloak room. Every woman will be
interested in the latest decrees of fashion, as exemplified in these dainty new
costumes. These are only the first of a long and brilliant series to come. . .
Ladies who buy their suits at this store wear exclusive styles. We have
no two suits alike. They are certainly worth your inspection.'
The new shapes in SEPARATE DRESS SKIRTS, such a3 the panels, Dewey flounce, bell shape, circular
flare, etc., are very much admired and are exceedingly fashionable. The new styles in Silk Waists must be seen
to be appreciated. They are very rich, beautifully made, entirely new designs, most artistic in general effect. Our
advance shipment of Shirt Waists now on display will give you a glimpse of the moat popular styles for this sea
son. Particularly do we mention our White Duck and Pique Waists. In Petticoats, something entirely new is
shown for this season the "Metallic" Skirting, Silk Taffetta, - Near-Silk, and others, contribute toward offer
ing value and variety. New Wrappers new designs, new finish, new prices. Our spring stock is ready.
'You must not overlook, if money is an otject.
OUR
SPECIAL
SALE
Lace
Curtains
The
Housekeeper's
Opportunity.
The Curtain Department re
moved to lower floor ; in con
nection with Shoe Department.
Entire Stock LACE CURTAINS, including all
Spring Importations, will be offered this week
.At Wholesale Prices
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Positively the most attractive Lace Curtain Sale ever offered the people
of this city. Every home needing Curtains should profit by it.
$ .50 Lace Curtains ... .this week only $ .39
.65 Lace Curtains " this week only .50
.75 Lace Curtains this week only .55
: .95 Lace Curtains this week only .75
1.25 lace Curtains : ; . . .this week only .98
1.35 Lace Curtains r. .... .this week only 1.05
1.50 Lmce Curtains . .tbis week only 1.15
1.75 Lace Curtains . . . . . ; .this week only 1.29
1.85 Lace Curtains .this week only 1.39
2.00 Lace Curtains this week only 1.55
2 50 Lace Curtains ., , '. .this week only 1.85
2.75 Lace Curtains , this week only 1.95
3.00 Lace Curtains this week only 2.15
3.25 Lace Curtains this week only 2.35
3.50 Lace Curtains this week only 2.50
3.75 Lace Curtains . . this week only 2.70
. 4.00 Lace Curtains ..this week only 2.90
; 4.50 Lace Curtains : this week only 3.35
4.75 Lace Curtains this week only 3.67
5.00 Lace Curtains .this week only 3.80
5.50 Lace Curtains '. this week only 4.10
6.00 Lace Curtains this week only 4 35
. 6.50 Lace Curtains this week oirlv 4.48
7.00 Lace Curtains this week only 4.90
7.50 Lace Curtains this week only 5.25
A. SVL Williams & Co.
REBELS LOSS
AT ILO ILO
Mart on the American Oaljists Precij
itates a Hea?y Engagement. .
ONLY ONE AMER
ICAN KILLED
Insurgent Losses Estimated at Two
Hundred Killed and Three Hun
dred Wounded Gallant American
Advance.
New York, March 21. A. dispatch to
the Herald from Ilo Ho, island of Panay,
eays: A battalion of the Eighteenth in
fantry, a platoon of the Sixth artillery'
and the machine gun battery made a re
connoissance in the direction of Mandur
rioaoand Santa Barbara Thursday. While
they were returning the insurgents at
tacked the outpoBts on the right.
Although fatigued from marching in
the boiling sua for two hours, the entire
command proceeded to the assistance of
their comrades, the artillery pouring
shell and shrapnel upon the insurgents,
who were strongly entrenched in large
numbers. Companies C, K and H, of
the Eighteenth, deployed to the right,
driving the insurgents back, and then,
wheeling to the left, made a junction
with companies B and I. A heavy en
' gagement ensued.
Companies B, C, M and I, of the Ten
nessee volunteers. Major Cheatham com
manding, arrived later and formed on
the left, and two more companies of the
Eighteenth marched from Ilo Ilo to .act
as support to the other troops.
Theline advanced by rushes 3000 yards
under a hot fire, pouring in deliberate
volleys upon the ensurgenta' position,
the artillery making good practice.
By the time the forces were within 300
yards of the enemy's final position dart
ness prevented the charge for when the
Tennessee men and the companies of the
Eighteenth on the right bad already
prepared by fixing bayonets. The ad
vance upon Jaro was accomplished in
good order.
The engagement was brought on by
the enemy's persistant attacks upon the
outposts of Jaro Bridge.
Nothing conld be gained by forcing
the enemy back, as it was impossible
with the limited number of troops to
hold the position.
The American troops were exhausted
by the fighting, and having to wade
knee-deep through the rice fields and
sagar cane. There were several cases
of prostration by the heat.
The only man killed was Private Louis
Biehl, of company B, Eighteenth in
fantry. Fifteen wounded.
The severity of the engagement may
be judged by the fact that the Eighteenth
regiment alone fired 62,800 rounds. It
is estimated that the ineurgents, with
their more than 2000 rifles, fired double
our total of ammunition.
' Private Biehl brought in Daly,
wounded, and gave warning to hurry up
some ammunition, as most of the men
were short. He then returned to the
fighting line and was struck in the chest.
He fell, saying:
"I'm done . for," and died in ten
minutes.
It is impossible to tell accurately the
insurgent losses, as the American troops
converged at a given point without trav
ersing the ground shot over, but on the
day after the battle one could see from
Jaro belfry the enemy carting away the
dead. The minimum estimate of their
losses is twenty killed and 300 wounded.
JOHN SHERMAN
IS DEAD
Aged Statesman EiuM on the Paris
While En Route from Kingston.
Potatoes for San Francisco.
Stayton, Or., March 20. Representa
tives of San Francieco commission houses
have been scouring the country here
abouts in search of potatoes. Yesterday
they offered George Custer 65 cents per
bushel for his entire crop, f. o. b. cars at
Kingston, sacks furnished. Custer sold
all. he had. About all .the surplus
potatoes railed in this section last year
were sold In the all at 25 to 35 cents per
bushel, and thousands of bushels were
lost in the Fe binary freeze. It looks
now like holders of this product . will
make a rich strike. -
- . " Kotioe.
Have yon a farm for sale or for rent,
or do you know Of any person holding
farming lands that they wish to dispose
of? If so, please write to any agent of
the O. K. & N. Co.. and be will send
you a circular which will interest yon.
HIS DEMISE
WAS EXPECTED
tellectual giants of the war and recon
struction days. Always a leader, twice
a member of the cabinet, first as the
head of the treasury and then of state
affaire, three times a candidate' for the
Republican nomination for the presi
dency, and for years one of the great
creative forces in congress, his name
was identified with the laws, the law
making and the political straggles whicb
engaged attention for almost half a
century. Few men had more con
tinuous public service in such a diver
sity of fields, and in all of them his
work was conspicuous. -
Hot Weather of the Past Two' Days in
the West Indies Hastened the
End.
New York, March 21. A special from
Caimanere, Cuba, to the Evening Tele
gram, reports the death of John Sher
man " on board the American line
steamer Paris.
It was realized last evening by those
in attendance upon Mr. . Sherman that
the end was near. . The hot ' weather of
the past two days had proved exceeding
ly wearing on the patient, and doubt
less hastened the end, although from
the time he was stricken it was realized
that he would not recover.
. The Paris sailed from Kingston at 6
o'clock last evening with Mr. Sherman
and party on board, for Santiago de
Cuba, where the patient was to have
been transferred to the cruiser Chicago
and carried to the United States. It is
probably bis body will be brought home
on the Chicago. . .
IS IT A TRIFLE?
THAT COMMON TROUBLE, ACID DYS
PEPSIA OR SOUR STOMACH.
Now Recognized as a Cause of Serious
Disease.
' The passing of John Sherman removed
from the public stage about the last of
those towering figures whose public
lives, beginning with the civil war and
covering a period of the last forty years,
were interwoven with the great events
of that epoch. As his illustrious brother
William Tecumseh : Shtrman, shared
with Grant and Sherdian the highest
. place among the military heroes of 'the
nation, so, too, John Sherman stood in
civil life along with Seward, Samner,
Evart, Blaine, and that coterie of in-
Acid, dyspepsia, commonly called
heartburn or sour stomach, is a form of
indigestion resulting from fermentation
of the food. The stomach being too
weak to digest it, the food remains until
fermentation begins, filling the stomach
with gas, and a. bitter, sour, burning
taste in the mouth is . often present.
This condition 'soon becomes chronic
and being an every day occurrence is
given but little attention. Because dys
pepsia Is not immediately fatal, many
people do nothing for their trouble.
Within a recent period a remedy has
been discovered prepared solely to cure
dyspepsia and stomach troubles. It is
known as Stuart's 'Dyspepsia Tablets
and is becoming rapidly used and pre
scribed as a radical cure for every form
of dyspepsia.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets have been
placed before the public and are sold by
all druggists for 50 cents per package.
It is prepared by the F. A. Stuart Co.,
Marshall, Mich., and while it promptly
and effectually restores a vigorous di
gestion, at the same time it is perfectly
harmless and will not injure the most
delicate stomach, but on the contrary
by giving perfect digestion strengthens
the stomach, improves the appetite and
make life worth living. -
Send for. free book on . stomach
diseases. - . .
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7VAfl
BACSQN&
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
WOVAt BAKTNO POWDER CO., HEW VOftK.
Yon need have no boils if you will
j take Clarke & Falk's sure cure for boils.
Suicide Near Walla Walla.
Walla Walla, Wash., March 21.
Samuel Wilson, a young man about 23
years of age, committed suicide laet night
at his fruit farm five miles south of tbis
city, by shooting himself in the bead.
Wilson had been accused of ruining
seveial young girls in the neighborhood,
and though he always asserted bis in
nocence, the charges weighed on his
mind. Last- night on his way home
from the city he met a friend, who
charged him 'with intimacy with his 13-year-old
daughter. Wilson proceeded on
home, wrote a note to his friend saying
he was innocent of the charge, and
hoped he would continue to be regarded
as a friend. Then he went out on the
porch and shot himself. His parents
reside at Nevada City, Mo.
Story of a Slave.
. Te be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
form of slavery. Geo. D. Williams, of
Manchester, Mich., tells how such a
slave was made free. He says : .' "My
wife has been so helpless' for five years
that she could not tuin over in bed
alone.. After using two bottles of Elec
tric Bitters, she is wonderfully im
proved and able to do her own work."
This supreme remedy for female dis
eases quickly cures nervousness, sleep
lessness, melancholy, headache, back
ache, fainting and dizzy spells. Tbis
miracle working medicine is a godsend
to weak, sickly, run down people. Every
bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold
by Blakeley and Houghton, druggists. 6
Cannot Spare Volunteers.
Washington, March 21. The war de
partment has received the following:
Manila, March 21. --Tne transports
Ohio and Senator left March 20. The
Grant starts March 25. She carries all
the sick and wounded it is necessary to
send home. The Sherman is expected
tonight. Cannot commence the' ship
ment borne of volunteers at present.
Hope to do so soon. Will ship addition
al battalion of Californias to Negros this
afternoon. . - Otis,
Mayp & Crowe are now doing Lusineas
in their new store. ' f-
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Bouuling Alley
Next to Columbia Hotel.
Open Day and flight.
Courteous treatment
to all Boculeps...
Special Attractions
For Bowling Parties. Patronage of
the public respectfully solicited.
Harry Esping, Proprietor.
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS.
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Eastern States.
Sight Exchange and Telegraphic
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago,
St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland Ore
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in Oregon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.