1 ANOTHER BOMBSHELL 9 9 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 () 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. t 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, J t ...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.