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ANOTHER
BOMBSHELL
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FROM OUR GREAT REDUCTION SALE.
The Great Event is meeting with such favorable response that we have decided to make a
bigger cut than ever... . . . .
III
And Still They Go Down
III
Despite llio unfriendly elements, Dig happy throng still crowds our place for "plums."
They know the people do that our stokes .ire merciless and our cuts are deep.
When we say "our goods are cheap," we don't mean "cheap goods." There's as much
didorenee hetween the former and the latter as there is between "an ardent lover"
and a "lover of the ardent."
Some Additional Surprises.
Men's Trousers
Your Choice for
$1.15.
About loO pair to select from: the regu
lar values of these Trousers range from
$1.2.", to $2..r,0 per pair.
Mens Overcoats
in blue, black or oxford gray; regular
values ;"0 lo S'tf.SQ.
Special $4.95.
A few HOYS' SUITS in lots J, 2 and
,'5 left. Hotter hurry up before they are
all gone.
Men's Underwear
"andom" wool underwear, shirts or
drawers, regular 7oc values
39c per garment.
SEE WINDOWS.
Men's Suits
Your choice of about 20 different pat
terns, regular values ranging from $5.00
to $8.50.
Special $4.95.
Hats! Hats!!
We are throwing some good bargains
your way in sft and stiff hats, every
right shade and shape. There's music
in our low prices a band goes with
every hat.
At 4
0 Standard Apron
v' Checks, Ging-
4
hams in green,
black, pink, blue and red.
At 14c
At 75
Ladies' Wool
Hose, worth 25c
over any counter.
Ladies' Kid
Gloves, mostly
tans and dark
brown; worth $1.00 and $1.25.
A . Pillow Tops. Just
J T O TQ think! front and
back coverings,
worth up to $1.00, for 31c.
At One-half...
An' garment in the house, for
lady, miss or child.
PEASE & MAYS
This store closes at 0:15 p. m.
Remember that every
article in the house is re
duced, and we are daily
cutting articles lower to
make a "clean-up."
Shoes. Shoes.
Shoes.
The feet, above everything else these cold
da7s, have to be given one's special at
tention. Look at our prices and then
visit our shoe department for a general
inspection.
Men's congress and lace 97c
Boys' calf and grain 97c
Lidies' cloth top and kid lace 93c
" kid welt button $1 53
" kid turn sole, lace 1 93
" spring heel, lace, button, 2.j to 0 93c
Mieee3' kid, spring heel, lace, button, 11JC to 2 1 13
Childa' " " " " " Sjcftoll.... 83c
" " " " " " 5 to 8 73c
" goat, " " " 5 to S .")3c
" " " " " 9 to 12 G3c
kid " " button, 5 to 8 40c
PEASE & MAYS
Thia store closes at 0:15 p. in.
The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
M ON I) AY
JAN. 1-1, 1901
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In ' served i
Oysters
At Anrlrnw Kollnr's.
TKUASIIKER'S NOTICE.
All Wittco County inirrikotM it'j;lMlrtil
irli.i l,, 1i..trniliir I, 1S1I7, will lit. iilll
on ii'iiiiiiitiini hi my ottlnr. Inti'icHi
'nin nrinr NovKinlixr MNIO.
.1 Oil N T. IIAMI'MIIMCK,
Cuuui.v TrmiNiirt'i'.
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
(' mntry buttur -10 uuntH pnr roll at
Muiur A llonton'H. 12j-hv
Tim Ainiiricaii Lady corset can bo
'""id in all Htylou nlThoNcw York Cash
Store.
I'or sain An Kaatmau folding pooko
kodak. Inquire of or address Frank
Sylvester, j 10-tt
Wanted A good, fresh milch cow.
APIly at Polau & Ileislor's intmt mar
ket, in tin Kttat Hnd. jl l It
List An Hlk charm with the initials
'I. S. A liberal reward will bn paid
for its return to thin utlleo. jPJ-lw
Call at T. A. Van Nordon's and get
ImrgaliiH in anything from his atook of
jewelry, watches and clockH. Telephone
-':. jia-tr
Hiiiina J. Cmihh, by her attorney, Ned
(jutMs, has iiiHtituted proceedings in the
iircuit court for a divorce from her
liiH'.mnd, John A. Cress.
li'iuuiiuhiir that you don't have to be
'''Id ; yon can keep your hair by lining
UDcnaimt Cream Hair Tonic. To be
bud at Fin.i'r'H barber Hhop. tf
Charles A. I.ane, by bin attorney,
lolin Liiland lloddernoti, Iiuh instituted
proceedings In the circuit court for a
divorce from IiIh wife, Viola K. l.ano.
'I'll" Skamania County Pioneer under.
HlnmlH that a number of warm mineral
Hlrings huvn been discovered in the vi
rility of HtuvoiiBoii, which will bo de
veloped iu the aprlng.
Young MatliliiH, who is undor bonds
fur stealing fourteen liend of cnttlo from
parties iu Sherman cimity and selling
them to a resident of thin county, had
an examination last Friday at Moro and
was adjudged insane, ile missed through
here fjir Salem Saturday afternoon in
custody of the Sherman county sheriff.
Dock Akin left at this office today a
large jack-knife that ho found in the K.
of I', hull at the close of the installation
services and supper Satuidiiy.uight. The
owner can have it by culling mid reciting
its pedigree, for the weapon evidently
has a hislorj and bears evidence of hav
ing mien considerable active service.
The Salem .Statesman suggests the
inline of Judge Bennett, to fill the va
cancy iu the text book commission. No
bettor appointment could bo made, un
less it would be Attorney John Gavin,
of this city, who recently closed an emi
nently successful term of years as prin
cipal of The Dalles public schools to
enter the profession oi the law.
The state board of tux levy, composed
of the governor, secretary of state and
state treasurer. Snuirtiay fixed the state
levy for 1901 at 5.7 mills. Tim levy for
11)00 was (1.3 mills. The total amount of
revenue to bo raised by taxation for
stale purposes for the llHcal year ending
December III, 1901, which is not pro
vided for by special taxation, is
187.78.
Mi. F. N. Jones, president of the Wool
Growers Asf-ociation.has called a meeting
of the association for early in March.
This) is found to bo necessary iu order
that permits for summer grazing may bo
sunt to Washington and return before
the opening of the grazing season, anj
the meeting is recommended by Captain
Orinsby. Notice of the exact date will
be published later.
The minim! IhihIihhh and social moot
ing ot the Congregational church will bo
held at the church this (Monday)
evening at 7:30. To this galbeiing
all nienihorH of the church and congre
gation and all friends ar.e invited.
Come and enjoy .i good program and an
hour of nodal communion, The literary
part of the program is as follows : Se
lection by the Mandolin (Juartet; solo
by Miss Hattie Cram ; select reading by
Mrp. Maude Kddon ; recitation by Miss
Km ma Honoris,
"What r you crying about?" Rsked
a kind-hearted stranger of a lad stand
ing In front of a newspaper otlhv, weep
ing as if hie heart would break. "Oh,
pa's gone up stairs to whip the editor."
"Well, has he come down yet?" pursued
the gentle Samaritan. "Pieces of him
have," said the boy, with a fresh bjret
of tears, "and I'm expecting the rest
every minute."
Sam Mason is a young populist states
man who studied law iu Goldendale,
and after having been admitted to the
bar, hung out his shingle at I'rosser.
A Pop. statesman is nothing if not
n 1 1 it j lit-, and Sam's professional card iu
the local paper is entirely characteristic.
One paragraph reads as follows: "Many
persons not certain whether or not they
have a case, will come and have me
hunt the matter up and upon tluding
that they can do nothing, walk out, not
ottering tc remunerate me for my time
and trouble. These and like things
have caused me to make theso charges :
All civil matters owing to the extent, 50
cents to !f2; criminal eases, $2 to $5."
Nc;ar Coal Creek, in Cowlitz county,
Washington, a company composed of
i business men of The Dalles is develop
j iug a coal mine, says the Oregonian. It
has sunk several tunnels uud bored with
I a diamond drill, and finds most promis
ing prospects. Cubes of coal measuring
' four feet each way are taken out. The
coal burns with a bright flame, and
I loaves a brownish ash. it is said to run
I about 54 nor cent lixed caibon. it is
j less than four lulled distant from the
'Columbia river, the nearest navigable,
I water of which is Coal Creek Slough,
j T. T. Nicholas, who had charge of the
I work of opening up the Naiiaimo coal
mines, is managing the work on Coal
Crook. Congressman Moody is u mem
ber of the company. Tho plans includo
a good road to the Columbia river.
Himlal Tuli'Kiunli IHniiuIuIicm.
Tiik Ciiuo.s'iei.u Una arranged for a
special telegraph seivico from Salem
during the session of tho legislature,
i This will give our readers earlier inform
Union regarding the important traneae
j tions of that body than they can obtain
j from any other source.
Don't you know that Cocuauut Cream
Hair Tunic will Bave your and your
children's hair? You can get it for 50
and 75 conlB a bottle ut Fntzur's harbor
shop, sole agent. tf
Clutfop'u (.all In Viirnuii Health.
I
A dispatch from Astoria says the Clat
eop county delegation will introduce a
bill in the legislature, the principal pro
vision of which is the abolition of all
fish wheels in the waters of the Colum
bia after August 15. 1901. Another pro
vision declares that the waters of the
Columbia river and its tributaries above
tidewater shall be reserved as natural
propagation grounds, and no fishing for
salmon shall be permitted there after
August 15, 1901, excepting with hook1
and line. The bill fixes the open sea- j
sous for flehint: from February 1st to ,
March 10th, from April 15tb to August)
15th, and from September 15th to the
end of the year.
Tin: Chuoxicij: suggests as a substi
tute for the proposed law a simple
amendment to the existing law provid- i
ing summary capital punishment, with-1
out benefit of clery, for any person not
a citizen of Clatsop county, who shall j
fish for salmon at any time of the year, i
witli any device whatever, at any point
in the Columbia riyer save that part j
that lies along the northern boundary of i
Clatsop conntv, from Columbia county j
to the govern men t jetty. !
l.niuUlllll'H Hllll Wrtsll.lltlM,
The O. K. & N.7foik have had a hard j
time of it since aboit twilight Saturday j
afternoon when the No. I passenger got!
stuck between two obstructions iu the
Mosier neighboihood and laud slides and ,
washouts 6iispended all tralllc till noon
today when tho tlrst passenger passed'
through from the west. As usual it was
next to impossible to get any accurate ,
information regarding the number and'
extent of the obstructions tint they could
not have been as numerous or extensive
as they wero reported to be, else tho
trains could not have got through for u
week.
A washout of a ecent lill in the neigh-
borhood of Mosier is said to have left
many feet of the rails and ties suspended
iu the air. Sixty feet of trestle is re-'
poited to have been washed away in'
tho neighborhood of Shell Kock and '
several lauu siiues are tuna to have oc
curred near Mosier.
lioportthat tho Chouowoth bridge hud
been washed out could not bo confirmed
and is not believed to he true. No. 2.
passenger, that is due hero at 12:15 p.
m,, bad not arrived at 4 :30 although it
had been reported several times.
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We do
Steam, hot water and furnace heating. Estimates
made and contracts taken for heating old or now
buildings.
Do not forget
That we operate a plumbing and tin shop, also n ma
chine repair shop in connection with our hardware
and implement store. Repair work of all kinds done.
ErTAYS CROWE,
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...Given Away...
With every Dollar's worth of goods purchased at our store
during January ami Fehruary, wo will givo Ono
Chance on tho following prizes:
FIRST PRIZE One Alummized Garland Steel
Range.
SECOND PRIZE One Rose Garland Cast Iron
Heating Stove.
THIRD PRIZE One set of Roger's Silver Plated
Knives and Forks.
FOURTH PRIZE One set of Carver's Knife, Fork
and Steel.
FIFTH PRIZE One Nickle Plated Tea Kettle.
SIXTH PRIZE One Niokle Plated Condenser Cof
fee Pot.
SEVENTH PRIZE One Nickle Plated Tea Pot,
In addition to giving away theso prizes wo will
sell goods as low as tho lowest, and will always
ho ready to serve tho trade in the host possible
way. Wo will positively not he undersold by
an' ono. Our prices are right.
St BENTON.