GREAI FLOODS
DESTROY CROPS
I» CALIFORNIA
The half price cash Sales on Wash Goods that we were
nducting Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be continued
itil further notice. The quantities of Dress Stuffs carried away
im our store the last three days goes to show that our adver-
ements are relied upon. If you see an article advertised and
:ned by us you can depend upon its being reliable.
he Prices on Wash Goods the Same
5c
6Xc
8c
10c
Lawns and Dimities
1
44
44
44
44
44
44
44
44
44
25c Silks, Mulls and Or&a-.dies
44
♦ 4
30c 44
44
44
4*
35c 44
44
44
44
44
40c
15c
18c
20c
Some Good Numbers Lett in This Departmet
$2.00
3.00
I
$2.75
5 00
$3.75 Dresses tor
6.00
\
Kimonas
White Skirts
Row is the time a KIMONA is appre-
u, when the days are long and hot,
you can buy them at a big saving on
pday and Tuesday.
45c
$1.80
x Short Kimonas _ -
to Long Silk Kimonas
We arc anxious to close out the stock in
this department and have made most liberal
reductions on White WASH SKIRTS.
$1.25 and $1.35 Garments for.
$1.00
Other White Skirts reduced in propor
tion.
1
We have just received 100
embroidered Waist
items, a Pattern that should sell at $1.25 and $1.50 each,
: owing to the lateness of their arrival we will place them on
cial sals Monday and Tuesday at 85 cents.
FOR MEN’S WEAR
Just at the height of the season, and we are all ready for
with just those little fixings that mark the well-dressed men.
buy here though, at a dry goods profit.
The GORDON HAT. the
only hat worthy of a name,
$3.00.
and
Boys'
Work
s50c.
Men’s
Gloves.
e largest assortment of
er Belts in the city.
Cool Underwear for warm
days
-n s
Fancy
and
Work
Stockton, Cal.* July 11.—Over forty
thousand acres of the richest hinds
iu this country are now inundated
from the San Joaquin river.
Last night the levee on the old
Jones tract broke, overflowing six
thousand acres of barley, potatoes
and asparagus. C arles Wore.ng with
his men and thirty horses have been
caught iu the flood aud while tile men
will escape the horses are penned ÍÜ
and must drown.
SLAiN BY YOUTH
MADLY IN LOVE
Seattle, July 9.—Judge Gordon
Emory, shot Saturday night by
young Chestei Thompson, died at
l:3l this moruiug. He leaves a wife
and two small children.
It is believed Thompson was seek-
ing to kill Charlotte Whittlesey, with
whom he was iu love, when he shot
her uncle.
Thompson's coat and bat were
found this morning and the pockets
contained a box of cartridges from
wh'.vh 15 were luisslng. Physicians
say the boy's mind has been unbal
anced by overstudy.
He uervoubly
paces his cell.
“Yes, 1 regret it," he said this
morning, ns tears tilled bis eyes.
“It was terrible.”•
At Seattle. Wash., Saturday night
«Judge G. Meade Ernory, a disting
tlisheil lawyer of that city,was shot at
residence by Chester Thompson, a
uiversity student and son of a well
known atto uey. The cause was the
student’s inlatuation for Charlotte
Whittlesey, a neice of the stricken
man, who had asked Jier unde to
deny Thompson admittance to his
home if ho sought to see her.
Thompson barricaded himself in a
room in the house and resisted arrest
until his father appeared on the
scene, when lie surrendered.
The city council at its meeting last
night unanimously pasted the ordi
nance granting to the Willamette Val
ley Co. a franchise jfor the construc
tion of an electric street railway in
Eugene.
The matter has been under discus
sion for a long thne and there have
been many delays, but the members
of the council Hie very conservative
and no doubt acted upon their best
judgment and waited until a fran
chise entirely satisfactory to the peo
ple «as presented before granting it.
When the vote was taken last night
there appeared to be a unanimity ot
spirit, and when the franchise was
at last disposed of all heaved a sigh
of relief and thesp ctatora applauded.
Every part of the franchise as
granted lias been agreed to by the
company except that portion which
provides for the construction of the
line from the depot to Villard avenue
in Fairmount l»y October 1, 1907. lu
the conference witli the company's
representatives » tew days ago it was
agreed to construct the line as far as
• he sotitbi n t corner of the university
campus on East Thirteenth street by
that date. Attorney A. C. Woodcock,
who represents the company, went
to Portland today to confer with the
company officials in regard to the
matter and it is probnbrle that the
exteusiun will lie agreeable and the
franchise accepted us passed by the
council The extension of tlie line to
Villard avenue calls for the construc
tion of fourjblocks of additional track.
SECTION BY SECTION.
R. B. Henderson, president of the
council, called the meeting to order,
Mayor Wilkins arriving a few minutes
later. A full board of aldermen was
present Me inliers ot the committees
from the Merchants’ Protective As
sociation and the Commercial Club,
who had drawn the proposed oidL-
nance, were also present. The ordi
nance was read by sect ions, and at th«
••nd of each section if there were any
objections to auy of its provi-ious or
suggestions for changes they were
made. No changes of particular note
were suggested until section 8, which
provided tor tlie construction of the
line to the corner of the university
campus by Octobet 1, 1907, was read.
Councilnieu Calkins ami Garrett held
out for the exteli ion to Villard ave
nue mid after considerable discussion
a vote on the matter was taken, re
suiting in tlie Htnendmeut of that
section that the line must be extend
ed as atoresaid.
Sections 14 and It!, in regard to the
operation ot fi eight cars on the
streets, were objected to with the
final result that tlie company won a
point in that regard. The franchise
as drawn up restricted the ruuuing
of freight cars on Willamette and
Eleventh street between the hours of
7 a. m. and 6 p. in. Councilman Hen-
dei-ou objected to the restriction on
Eleventh street if not placed oil other
residence streets, and finally it was
voted to remove the restriction from
Eleventh street entirely.
All other
sections, with minor and unimpor
tant changes, were
unanimously
agreed upon.
Pul ing the discussion of these sec
tions S. II. Friendly, who was pre
sent, addressed the council and earn
estly urged that tlie council place no
obstruction in the way of a couipet
ing freight line, as t at is what Eu
gene aud the upper Willamette valley
lias long needed.
Ills remarks had
the effect ' 1 practically stopping al
arguments on the question and of
bringing the mutter to a point where
it was agreed to allow the uurestriet-
ed use of freight cars on iill streets
except Willamette and on tin J street
during the night time,
——
BRYAN SAYS HE'S
WILLING TO RUN
LAND FRAUD
TRIALS BEGIN
HEIT MONDAY
AFFECTS MITCHELL TRIAL.
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Seattle, July 9.—The jury hi the
Washington, July 7. —Ex I’nited
George Mitchell case is l>eiiig kept
States Senator J a tn as K. J o » es, of
from all knowledge of Emory's mur Arkansas, who
was chklrmali of the
der.
Alienists have testified Hint
Democratic
National
Committee,
Mitchell was insane at the time of
when William J. Bryan made his cam
Portland, July 10.-Prosecutor P.
hie shooting of CrefHeld, and it is
paign for the presidency in 1896 a hr! •L Ileney announces today that the
thought this late crime of an appar
1900, has recieved a letter from Mr. first land fraud trials will ;>e those cf
ently insane man might influence
Bryan, in which be announces that Charles Nickell, Henry W. Miller,
their verdict.
he will accept the nomination for Frank E, Kim-art and Martin Hoge,
President fir the third time if I it is Indicted for conspiracy in connection
tendered to him. The letter is dated with the tiling of timber land appli
June 18, at Stockholm, and in an cations. Their trial is set fur next
follows:
Monday.
“I have lieen watching political
The court today accepted the bill
developements shd have noted with of exceptions in Congressman WH
Cleveland. July 11. Baffljd by its gratification Hie vindication of Dem- liamson's ease, and the appeal will Im
failure to secure the presence for the ocratic principles
You have cor- perfected.
purpose of testifying of M. G. Vilas, rectly stated mj position,
A» 1
treasurer of the Standard Oil Co., of wrote to Colonel Wetmore, I shall do
Ohio., and surprised by the develop, nothing to secure another nomina
ments which may remove the inves- tion. and do n<'t want it unices the
tiagatiou from its jurisdiction, the condition* seem to demand it.
I
grand jury adjourned today tint il maj add that I enjoy the freedom of
Monday. The only chance for iwur- private life aud feel that 1 can do
ing indictments here Is that bawd some good without holding any office
“I need not assure you that 1 em
on the cancellation of charges made
in the Lake Shore railroad offices in more interested in seeing onr prin-
ci pies triumphant than 1 am Io the
this city.
Washington,
July
10.—Admiral
E. E McEwan furnished the Lake [■ersonnel of the ticket. The country
Train, commander of the vessels in
needs
to
hare
Jeffersonian
Democ
Shore records to prove discrimina
Philippine waters, wasted no cable
tion in charges and disputed with H. racy applied to al) the departments of
toile in announcing the arrival of the
the
Government,
state
and
National,
Dodd,a I-ake Shore clerk.
big drydock. Hie dispatch, received
“You're a thief,” said Dodd; “you and I am content to help make this today, reads: “Dewey arrived. ”
application.
stole those records from Lake Shore. ”
“W. J. BRYAN."
McEwan answered: “You're a hat.
STANDARD OIL
I
* DUTCHES TROUSERS s ,
kind that does not rip,
and up.
Most Disastrous in History of S
- Breaking of Levee Causes In
undation of Vast Tract and
Many Work Horses Will Ba
Drowned
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Summer Dresses
Dresses for
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ELECTRIC RAILWAY
FRANCHISE GRANTED
ate
RY CITY COUNCIL
AMPTON BROS
BIG DRY DOCK
ARRIVES SAFELY
IN PHILIPPINES
It i did rteal them it would not la» as
dirty as the things done to tie ”
The men were M-parat. <1 as ILw»
were about to lie struck.
According to a dispatch from St.
Petersbutg the American syndicate of
civil engineers, of which Licoq de
I-ebAl is president, has almost succeed
ed in arranging with the Russian gov
ernment fot the construction of a
tunuel onder the Bering strait, con
necting Sitiería with Alaska.
MELDRUM WILL
FIGHT FOR LIBERTY
CROP ESTIMATE
IS PUBLISHED
Washington, July 10.—The govern
ment crop report give« the average of
corn at 87.5; winter wheat, 8R.fl;
Portland, July 9.- Henry Meldrntn, ■pring wheat. 91.1; oats, M per cent.
former snrveyor-Geenral of Oregon,
The tbemometer reached as high a*
today petitioned the federal court for 100 in the shade in some Eastern
a writ of review. He will carry his Grego u towns, with the mid thrown
case to the Snrpetne court
1 in.