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PAGE TWO.
THE UNJUST RATES
Extraordinary EBargain
DAUT EAST ORF.GONIAN, PE.VDI.ETON', OREGON. TIU'RSDAY, APRIIi 18, 1907,
in
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Friday and Saturday
Everything to Wear and Eat for
Men, Women and Children
25 DOZEN LADIES' SILK EMBROIDERED
HOSIERY, REGULAR 50c VALVE, FOR
35c
S2.50 AXD $3.00 ALL OVER EMBROIDERY,
FOR FANCY WAISTS, PER YARD
$1.50
25c WHITE TURKISH TOWELS FOR
17c
10 TO 18 INCHES
35c WHITE EMBROIDERY
WIDE, AT YARD
I6c
25c WHITE IRISH DIMITY AT YARD
I6c
LADIES' 86.50 TRIMMED HATS FOR
$4.50
CHILDREN'S S2.50 TRIMMED HATS FOR
$1.50
$1.25 WHITE LAWX SHIRT WAISTS, EM
BROIDERY AND LACE TRIMMED FRONTS, LONG
AND SHORT SLEEVES, EACH
SATURDAY
WILL GO
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INLAND EMPIRE PAYS AN
NUAL TRIBUTE OF $2,000,000.
Const llntcs Maintained In the Interest
of Portland and Piiirct Sound Job
hers Hnvo Tnle.cn Millions From the
People Unjustly Insula Fnctfi Mnde
Plitln In the Spokune Rnte Hearing
In Portlnml.
$25.00 LADIES' NEWEST STYLES, ETON AND
HIP LENGTH JACKET SUITS, SATIN LINED, SILK
BRAID TRIMMINGS, BACH
$17.85
The Men's Department
WILL OFFER 75 MEN'S SUITS, ALL SIZES AND
PATTERN'S, GOOD WEIGHTS, EXTRA WELL
MADE, GOOD WEARERS, AT STARTLING RE
DUCTION'S FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
$20.00 SUITS WILL BE $14,95
$17.50 SUITS WILL BE $12.80
$15.00 SUITS WILL BE $10.95
812.50 SUITS WILL BE '. $8.90
$10.00 SUITS WILL BE $7i35
EVENING OUR
FANCY SOX
89c
S1.00 PERCALE WRAPPERS,
FROM 31 TO 41 BUST
ALL COLORS
78c
S2.50 AND 82.25 .MUSLIN" GOWNS, LOW NECKS
AXD SHORT SLEEVES, EMBROIDERY AND
LACE TRIMMED, EACH
$1.85
40o AXD 35c MUSLIN DRAWERS TI CKED AND
HEMSTITCHED RUFFLES, SOME LACE EDGED,
PER PAIR
29c
3 pair for 50c
WE HAVE 37 DOZEN MEN'S GOLF SHIRTS TO
CLOSE, GOOD VALUES REGULAR $1.00 AND
81.25 GRADES, YOUR CHOICE
653
Friday and Saturday.
ANY BOY'S SUIT IX THE HOUSE WILL BE RE
DUCED FROM 10 PER CENT TO 25 PER CENT.
DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Grocery Specials
NO. 1 JAP RICE, PER POUND (J
WALTERS' WHITE SATIN FLOUR DoG
WALTERS' HARD WHEAT FLOUR $1.15
EXTRA FANCY MOUNTAIN' POTATOES $1,70
SACK.
82.50 WHITE UNDERSKIRTS OF BEST QUAL
ITY MUSLIN, DEEP EMBROIDERY AND LACE
I LOUNCES, EACH
DRESSED CHICKEN'S, EACH
7.)C
$1.75
FANCY SWEET NAVEL ORANGES, 35. 40C
AN 50c I)OZEX'
TRY Ol lt CAMAS CREEK BI TTER,
65c
ROLL
The Peoples Warehouse
Save Your Coupons
Where it, Pays to Trade
GENURAL NEWS.
A Jury In the United States district
court at Minneapolis found the Wis
consin Central railway anil two offi-(i.-ils
guilty of rebating. Burton John
F'm, general freight agent, and Q. T.
lluiy, his a!-l."tant, were convicted
n Ith the road on all the 17 counts
named In the Indictment.
Tli Olympic skating pavilion just
erect c) at a cont of $12,000, was to
tally destroyed at Reno, Nev., and the
United Rtate-8 laundry damnged 18000
l.y a fire that started In the rear of
the pavilion. No lives were lost,
though falling electric wires endan
gered the lives of the firemen.
Drifting snows have tied up the
Canadian Northern through Sas
katchewan, and 1200 passengers are
maroone d at Humboldt, a town with
a normal population of 400. Clean-
For Sale I
480 acres adjoin:!)" city limits, Pen
dleton, 360 acre In "vheat. Will cut
two tont per acre. Price, Includ
ing crop, 112,000. Easy terms. Water
on every quarter, Tou had better In
vestigate .this.
I have several desirable stock
ranches In Cames Prairie, for sale.
A hotel at Pilot Rock, very cheap.
Wheat land In large or small tracts.
Suburban homes with fine orchard.
E. T. WADE
Pbone black IUL
Offiee X. O. Bnlldlnc
lines is almost Impossible, food Is
scarce and inferior and there are
several casej of scarlet fyvcr, mumps
and pncumonlu.
Ralph Pattison, a clerk In .the Ta-
coma postofflee, was caught the
nlKht of April 15 rifling the malls.
Postmaster Votaw and Inspectors
from' concealed spot watched his
operations. He broke down and
showed where he had hidden other
money. He was released on 1500
bail. . '
Luke Lee, 75 years old, of Horton,
Kan., has been a locomotive engineer
for 45 years. He is the oldest engi
neer on the .Rock Island system, but
he still retains his position at the
throttle of the engine which pulls
the dally passenger train between
Horton and Falrbury, Neb., a dis
tance of 120 miles.
Governor Buchtel of Colorado, has
vetoed the antlfuslon bill parsed by
the last general assembly, which
made it unlawful for the name of
any candidate to be placed upon the
official ballot as the nominee of more
than one party. The bill was a strict
ly republican measure, and the ma-
nine refuses to be comforted.
According to the New York Her
ald William Ellis Corey, president of
the United States Steel corporation,
and Mabclle Oilman will be married
in that city May"7, If their present
planB arc not changed. Corey's
father does not mince words when he
declares that the circumstances of
his Bon's desertion of his wife and
divorce from her because of his In
fatuation for the actress have been
disgraceful and contemptible In the
extreme.
Rev. Father Van de Vcn has been
installed as Irremovable priest of the
Catholic parish at Walla Walla.
("Irremovable" In this connection
-imply meaning life tenure.) The in-
vei'.ute was conducted by Bishop of
Xoi.quully and attended by 30 priests.
It Is the second time In the history of
Washington that an irre movable pas
torate has been conceded. Three of
the conditions are as follows: The
church must be of brick; it must be
free from debt; the parish must have
a school for beys, and also a school
for girls.
HOW TRUST TREATS DENVER.
The meat trust, which runs one set
of packing houses for Interstate com
merce under federal Inspection, has
another plant, a public slaughter
house, across the Platte river, where
it kills nny old kind of meat for the
people of Denver. It Is like dividing
even two $20 bills by sending the
good one east to a wise banker and
passing the counterfeit off on the un
suspecting Denverlte. Only, the trust
slaughter house for the Denver traie
handles Just enough good meat to
keep the customers from becoming
too Husplclous. It mixes the good with
the bad. A News Investigator found
this to he true. He saw the mixed
goods.
The meat trust desires to have a
monopoly on Bending good meat to
those far away and handling all Its
bud meat to Denver. It does not buy
the bad meat Itself, but Innocently
keeps a slaughter house for those
willing to ply this nefarious trade, and
slaughters their goods without any
money charge. Thus, all the bad
meat remains In Colorado, supple
mented by Just enough good meat to
supply the market. None of the bad
meat Is tolerated In lnteratate com
merce. Denver News.
People of the Inland empire who
have'been paying exorbitant railroad
freight rates for the past 25 years be
cause of the greed of the coast cities
which have held the jobbing trade,
had little Idea of the enormous cost
of this unjust rate, until It was made
plain In the Interstate commerce
commission hearing In Portland this
week. '
Spokane and her Jobbing territory
are paying annually to the transcon
tinental railroads serving them over
$2,000,000 more than the same serv
ice would cost If these goods were de
livered at . Portland or Puget sound
points.
This startling evidence Is complied
from the testimony of the railroads
filed with the interstate commerce
commission at the hearing of the Spo
kane rate case before Commissioner
C. A. Prouty, in Portland.
It was reserved for Chief Engineer
A. H. Hogland of the Great Northern
to give the testimony as to the cost
of reproduction of the Great Northern
road and Its branches In their entirety,
amounting to 8115 miles of track. His
estimate was $415,167,668, or an
average cost per mile of main track
of $62,670.
Judge Glllman submitted detailed
statements showing freight traffic on
the Great Northern, which give re
markable figures as between east-
bound and westbound traffic.
For the entire line for the year end
ing December 31, 1906, the Interstate
traffic was as follows: Eastbound,
10.239.092 tons, total revenue, $14,
63S.317; westbound, 2.947.118 tons; to
tal revenue, $13,004,151. Compila
tions from month to month for both
interstate and local show eastbound
traffic of 12,435.063 tons; total reve
nue, $20,574,166; westbound, 4,645.
617 tons; total revenue, $15,607,078.
In car movement westbound 20,087
loads and 7464 empties; eastbound,
28.991 loads and 851 empties.
Wlint RullroiHls Would Lose.
The Northern Pacific statement
shows total earnings on freight re
ceived nt Spokane from nnd through
eastern terminals for months of June
nnd December, 1906, $255,484; reduc
tion to rallwny If coast rates applied,
$79,523. or 31 per cent; total reduc
tion for year, using those months as a
basis, $477,139.
Similar yearly traffic into territory
within a 100-mile radius of Spokane
(Spokane's present Jobbing territory),
$440,522: loss to railroads If coast
rates applied, $120,115, and for entire
year of $720,692.
The Great Northern interstate traffic
from and through eastern terminals
to Spokane shows a loss of $274,013
for the entire year, or 33 per cent, if
coast rates were applied. Into terri
tory outside of Spokane a loss of $298,
226 is shown, or 28 per cent. The O.
R. & N. would show a loss of $108,000
for Spokane, $157,000 In Spokane Job
bing territory.
The total loss of all roads tor ciey
of Spokane, $858,152; Spokane Jobbing
territory. $1,175,918, or a grana ioiui
of $2,034,070.
These estimates are admittedly low,
as estimates nasea on "
June and November. 1908, place me
loss at Spokane alone over $1,000,000
FENCES ARE REMOVED.
Lnriic Force ol Federal Officers at
Work In Wyoming.
The campaign against Illegal fenc
ing In Wyoming isinow on In earnest
and within the next few clays an in
vestigation, which will cover the en
tire state, will he commenced to as
certain if all Illegal fences have been
demolished and to proceed against
those who have failed to obey the
law in this regard, says the Cheyenne
Tribune.
T.-i,ti five special agents of the
general land office arrived In Chey
enne and reported to Special Agent
W. B. Pugh of this city, who Is In
charge of the work In Wyoming.
Within the next few uays inese
agont will begin the work of Inves
tigating the fercing of government
lands in Wyoming and before they
are through will visit every section of
the state, ascertain If all Illegal fences
hnve neon nulled down and institute
criminal proceedings against those
who have neglected to ao so.
The destruction of fences In Wyo
ming during- the past few months
and the work now being done will
throw onen. t Is estimated, over i,-
000,000 acres of public: land. Fully
160,000 acres of public lnnd was un
der fence In Laramie county alone.
In Nebraska the campaign against
Illegal fencing nnd the restoring of
hundreds of thousands of ucres of
land resulted In the influx of hun
dreds of settlers nnd these familiar
with conditions In Wyoming say that
the notoriety Wyoming will get ns
the result of the fencing movement
and the throwing open of great tracts
of land will prove beneficial by
bringing nbout the moro settlement
of the state.
Many people who would not go In
to a state where they were afraid the
laws were not being enforced will
desire to come when they learn the
government Is enforcing its land
Thi wim the history of the
anti-fencing work of the government
In Nebraska.
WALL STREET has had some bitter
struggles recently and many have
fallen victims to the unsettled market
conditions, which caused panics and
failures in financial quarters. It will not
pay you to speculatee when it comes to
BUYING CLOTHING,
patronize us and you are sure of getting
the best i
Our ALFRED BENJAMIN & CO.
clothing represents all that is meant by
QYALITY, STYLE and FIT.
BOND BROTHERS
Pendleton's - Leading - Clothiers.
UTAH FIGHTING SCAR.
Law Similar t That of Oregon Will
Ba Passed.
Following the example set by Wy
oming, and spurred on by the good
n.-siitts obtained In that stnte, other
states In the wett nre taking steps to
eradicate scab from their flocks, says
then Shepherd's Bulletin.
The Wyoming authorities In two
years' time practlcall yeradlcated
scabies from the flocks of that state.
Outbreaks have occurred from tjme
to time through the Importation or
diseased sheep from other states, nnd
these outbreaks will probably contin
ue to occur so long a scab exists in
anv ol the states from which Wyo
ming imports sheep.
Wyoming has. however, erected a
strong barrier against her neighbors,
which siates now see the advantages
of cleaning up. A year ago Idaho
made important strides In the di
rection of a clean-up, and now Utah
has fallen In line. To protect and
promot'i the sheep Industry in Utah
is the object of a bill now before thes
legislature of that state.
The measure propnses the ceeatlon
of a rheep commission nnd provides
for the inspection of sheep, the con
trol and suppression of scab and oth
er infectious diseases, and repeals the
erlstlng law bearing on the subject.
The commission Is to consist of
three- members, all of whem must be
flnckmistcrs and experienced wool
growers. Their silnrles are to be
$.'00 a yar and actual traveling ex
p. os.'s; they are to he named by the
governor. A bond of $1000 Is re
quired. A secretaiy Is to receive
ClOl'fl a year, and an office must be
maintained at public i-xpense.
Provision Is made for the establish
ment of districts and the applntement
r.f necessary inspectors. The lnr
spectors arc to receive $5 a day and
actual traveling expenses for their
services.
Care In Compounding
1j one of the chief rules of our busi
ness. We don't "get near it" ns some
careless peoplo do. but we make up a
prescription exactly as written. Our
drugs arc always pure and fresh
the best the. market affords. And we
are prompt in putting up physicians'
prescriptions, although very reason
able In our charges.
F. J.DONALDSON
Reliable Druggist
Nine families occupying a Cleve
land tenement had a narrow escape
froin a midnight fire. Several were
slightly burned.
All the white employee of the Che
halls River Lumber compnny, Wash.,
have struck because the company
employed four Japanese laborers. In
nil. 70 men went out at and near
Centrnlla.
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