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The pirst Invoice of our Large ] _ SPRING STOCK has Rt'f'ived> With a Big Lot more to arrive on next boat Get one of our Shirt Waists before the prettiest our s h.n i been — A new line of Children’s Jackets, ranging in prices from $i to $2.25 We bought early this Spring, and, therefore, saved money, as goods are advancing and merchants who buy now will have to pay these advances. A great many goods we are selling for less than we did last season. We have a big bargain to offer in pure all Silk Ribbons, all the latest shades, very wide at 5c. and 10c. a yard. The regular price on these ribbons is 10c. and 25c. A fine line of Ladies’ Percale Wrappers, from 90c. up. In DRESS GOODS we are showing the Finest Goods that ever was in the city ; the newest patterns and styles in Plaid Goods, imported Black Mohair and many others of the very latest imported goods. As usual, we have an enoimous stock of Fine Calicos, Percales, Duck Goods and Shirtings, which we bought lefore the big advance on cotton goods, and consequently can give you the advantage of our good buy. pretty y f and st>^new L.nes of Neck w can.t in the city. A Fine Stock of the Latest Shapes and colors in Hats, Just/e^lveje and we are Our Clothing Business has been a G”»1 Success i ur’nb ' - haye just paying more attention to it than ever ; uo half-worn goods no old styles, teiived a fine new Spring Stock and it is strictly up^u'm^to^w^- Twenty cases of shoes came in on the last boat and twe . nsllal the Our stook of Groceries was never as complete as it is now, an p 1OWeSt-We are the acknowledged Leaders in the County of Every Line we Carry. Leading RUSSELL "S. High Grade Machinery & co. sufficient touch with active Coast mar- ROBERTS SOON TO ADVANCE, north, with the exception of a body of about 6000, now reported to be going kets. As shown in a letter of William Different toward Bethulic.” William'Reid Relates Several Fail Reid, published vesterday, the question Correspondents Have The Daily News has the following from ures to Build in Western Oregon. of prodding railroad facilities for Til- Story to Tell of Dutch Movements, lamook’s trade was years ago ” thought L ondon , April 17. — At last General Reddersburg, dated Friday: Mr. William Reid gives some informa out,” but, as the public knows, it still Roberts seems to be on the eve of mak “ General Chermiside saw the rear tion in regard to the suggestion of Mr. lacks practical solution. In lieu of1 ing his advance towards Pretoria. Un guard of the Boers disappear southeast C. P. Huntington to extend the railroad trains passing by either of two or three 1 less all usual reliable sources of informa- in full retreat. The enemy appear to be from Sheridan to Tillamook, which is re long-ago-surveyed routes between Port tion and all indications smuggled past in strong force four miles east ofRedders- ferred to on another page, in a letter to land and Tillamook City, tapping rich censor are at fault, the British army, burg. They are falling back before our the Oregonian he says: sections of the country, there is a stage within a lew days, will lie marching north advance guard.” “‘Cast thy bread upon the waters and line across the mountains in the sum ward. it will return to thee after many days’ mer taking such business as it can ac THE FAMINE IN INDIA. There is, even in best-informed circles, PORTLAND, OREGON. seems true of railroading as well as of commodate from Yamhill and Wash considerable hesitancy in settling upon Write for Catalogue and Prices. scriptural affairs. Therefore it is a con ington Counties, and one or two the day on which Lord Roberts is likely Returned Missionary Tells of Its solation to me to think such an exjier- cramped, stuffy, scarcely seaworthy to leave Bloemfontein, but there is a set Horrors. to be made of the person to whom the The Puerto Rico “Outrage.” B oston , April 16.—Rev. Rockwell ienced railroad man asC. P. Huntington vessels plying at irregular intervals I m - tled impression that it will occur either money is paid the practice of keeping it should admit that the railroad proposed tween the two ports, taking in Astoria’s at the end of this week or at the begin Clancy, a missionary at Allahabad, who So much ado is lieing made about the in the family would not be so common, from Sheridan to Tillamook City “might business on the wav. And for all that ning of next. Long, weary waiting in is visiting his brother in Medford, said so-called Puerto Rico outrage that an although Mr. Reed, when speaker, was pay us (Southern Pacific) something,” has been said and published about the the Free State capital has apparently ef last night: explanation is necessary to refute some I courageous enough to turn over to his “The condition of famine-stricken India as he says in his letter to R. Koehler, of desirability of securing Coos County’s fected much-needed rehabilitation,though of the erroneous ideas circulated by anti daughter the money appropriated to April 4. today is something perfectly awful to trade, the same old cry for a line I it is probable that Lord Roberts would administration organs. The island is pay a clerk of the committee on rules, ‘‘When I finished mv railway from steamers capable of doing the actual still further have delayed his advance contemplate. I cannot tell anything suffering from the devastating hurricane and her name apiieared as K. Reed on South Portland to Sheridan I then pro business of that section and building up |ia(j not Boer activity forced him to put about the number dying, but when I left that destroyed crops and homes, which every monthlv pay roll. The speaker posed an extention and made a survey a trade with Portland still goes up, fall- his forces in such positions that, to-dav, Bombay last February there were some left the people destitute. Tens of thou never made any concealment of the thence to Tillamook Bay, making the ing, apparently, upon unheeding ears. 60,000,600 people suffering, and over unless they quickly proceed northward, sands would starve only that the United fact. whole distance 108 miles, Tillamook j This thing of being without a market, the strategic advantage will be lost. 30,000,000 were in dire distress, and of States sent them food to keep • hem alive. It is estimated that a thrifty congress City to Portland, against what is now j or without facilities for choosing lie- The critics agree in the supposition ' these but 5,000,000 were receiving gov They have no monev to pay taxes, to man can add from $1,600 to $1,500 a found to be 165 miles by Mr. Hunting tween markets, is one that is exceed that the advance will be made in parallel ; ernment aid. make roads or to support schools and year to his regular salary, and there are ton’s railway from Portland to Tilla- ingly trying to an energetic people. columns with a broad front west of the J “It is not the cities, but the country maintain local government. The inten many who do not lose the opportunity amook City via Astoria, and thence over Tillamook suffers from the first and railroad, the Third and Eighth Divisions places, which are stricken, and when tion was to give them free trade, as the to do so. ________ the portion I completed to Seaside, and Coos County from the second of these sweeping northward to the extreme you know that it is mostly among the president recommended, but prevented by new line to be built southerly. I know conditions. Isolation was bad enough northwest, the entire force amounting to agricultural classes, and that 80 per cent Irish Anecdotes. the necessity of meeting these expenses. these distances are correct, because I in the Willamette Valley in the pioneer 75,000 men. Exactly what part Gene of the population of India is made up of completed both lines, the one, Portland era, though relatively little complaint ral Buller will take is still a secret which tillers of the soil, you may be able to The last sugar and tobacco crops have “I heard a rather good story yester been bought and are held for the trusts, via Dundee junction to Sheridan, 57 was made at that time, as it was the no one is able to probe. grasp in some slight manner the extent who will profit by free trade, as they day,” said Robert Stinson, of Boston at miles, and the other, Astoria to Seaside, expected condition. It is well remem N ew Y ork , April 17.—Ladysmith dis- of the suffering at the present time. the Murray Hill hotel. “An Irishman 18 miles, and I left a gap between bered how, twenty or twenty-five years ! patches confirm the report that the Boers “When the famine set in, the people bought subject to the full tariff. The fresh from the old country joined the them of 98 miles uncompleted, which ago, a similar condition irked tlie ! have retired from the Eland’sLaagte dis began to sell everything they had, in or small tariff of 15 per cent to be collected ranks of the democratic party, by ad- when made will give Astoria two people of Eastern Oregon. Yet in the trict to their Biggarsherg positions. No der to get a little grain food. They took —together with all that has been collect vice, on first landing and before he was ed since we owned the island — is to be lines from San Francisco and Western case of both of these sections there raiding operations southward have been , the doors from their houses and sold returned as a fund to pay expenses for at all familiar with the politics of the Oregon, first via Albany to and from was at the time good reason in the vast I them; sold their furniture and farming ¡reported, and it is now dear that the | two years at most, until they can raise country and the day thereafter, being in Portland over Mr. Hammond's line, to distances to be covered for the isola j Boer advance was ordered for the sake of: utensils, atid then, when they had no crops, and free trade may come sooner if I a friend’s saloon, he asked what a band gether a distance of 179 miles, and two tion that cramped endeavor and acted I employing the burghers on active duty 1 longer anything to sell, they sold their the island government shall meantime lie of music he heard way playing for. via Albany and West Side Railroad to as a persistent drawback upon their and ot checking desertion. The British J children. The boys don’t sell well, and established. Congress is acting fairly ‘That’s with the republican procession/ McCoy’s station; there construct two development. i inactivity, in one sense, is masterly, since the traffic is largely in girls. miles of new line to Perrydale, and from In the case of our coast counties, cut I it demoralizes the enemy. “I saw in one town just before I came i and kindly by Puerto Rico, but the trusts was the explanation and with this there to Sheridan over the p resent lines, off from the main body of the state, I Sir Red vers Buller’s scouts have re away girls being sold for 30 cents apiece. wont even consent to have one-seventh meager information Pat rushed forth. in all 44 miles; northerly from Sheridan there is no such excuse. Both could be They were bought up bv Mohamme of the tariff deducted from the purchase Wishing to give vent to the enthusiasm .' ported that the Boers have wrecked the price, that deducted the existing tariff. roused by the martial strains Pat, since to Tillamook City, thence to Seaside placed in touch with other sections of I engine-house and shafts of three colleries dans. But they won't buy the boys, This is what some people are trying to in his ignorance he knew’ not w’hether station, where the railway now termi the commonwealth and their interests so when the parents can no longer sup by heavy charges of dynamite. These make political capital out of. the republicans w ere friends or enemies, nates, to construct 98 miles, or 162 miles greatly facilitated by railroad exten-] ! wanton attacks upon private property port their children they abandon them, * * * decided on a middle course, and so, rush from Albany to Astoria direct, against sion of a little more than 100 miles. and henceforth they must get on as best have been characteristic of the Dutch ( Jonathan P. Dolliver, of Iowa, in de ing up to the leader of the band, he 179 miles from Albany to Portland, and Auxiliary to this, a small but stanch campaign. South Africans explain them I they can. These cast-offs congregate fending the Puerto Rico bill in congress, loudly called for three cheers for old via thereafter Mr. Hammond's railway fleet of freight steamers with regular about the doors of the grain merchant on the theory that the Boers nre aware j introduced some information which the Ireland. ‘And three cheers for h—I,’ re to Astoria, as now. sailing dates would perform valuable that claims for damages to property in shops, and the only way the proprietors anti-adininistration organs close their turned the bandmaster, w hose ancestors ‘‘While, therefore, the Astoria people service, at both ends of the line, be can get rid of them is to throw out hand will save 17 miles on freight from Al tween Empire City and Portland, as Natal and Cape Colony, which will lie fuls of grain, scattering it wide. The eyes to. He said : ‘ And yet we hear it hailed from Germany. ‘All right, me presented after the war, can never lie said that the sugar trust and the tobac bye,’ cheerily responded the unabashed bany and West Side points to Astoria well as at the intermediate ports on assessed against the farmers of the two children pick and pick all day, and at co trust are Iwhind this bill. The fact is, Pat, ‘fits aicli w an of us cheer for his ow n (if Mr Huntington constructs over my the route. There is nothing that savors commonwealths, but will be liquidated night they are rewarded by having col- if we may believe the correspondent ot country.”’ survey from Sheridan to Tillamook City), of the boom in this statement. There by the mineowners of the Rand. Accord lected a single handful. the Associated Press, that two crops of and while Tillamook City will then lie is no gold mine, so far as known, to ingly the Boers feel at liberty to inflict as “What!” said the judge, “ you expect sugar and tobacco are now on hand in only 1B8 miles from Portland, yet As lie reached or worked by it. It is a Fighting in Luzon. j Puerto Rico awaiting shipment. There me to send your husband to prison when toria will then lie only 68 miles from simple business proposition of the sub. much damage as possible, since the in demnity will come out of the mining in are 5,000,000 pounds of tobacco and the ; you acknowledge that you threw’ five Tillamook City, or a saving of 40 miles stantial and growing tyjie, and as such M anila , April 17.—General Young : re- sugar crop of two years, not in the hands flatirons at him, and he only threw’ one dustry of the Rand in the Zorin of tax. to the Tillamook County ¡wopie by ship the man or company that works it out i ation based on the profits of the com |>orts that 300 insurgent riflemen and of the people of Puer’o Rico, but piled up I at you!’’ “Yes, that’s all right, judge.” ping their freights to Astoria than to intelligently will find it a paying prop panies. The theory is correct without | bolomen attacked the American garrison by speculators in the warehouses of San ! I said the irate Irishwoman; “ but then, Portland On the other hand it will osition. The case is not one of arrest doubt that Johannesbmg will pay the | at Baroo, province of North I locos, yes Juan and other seaport cities of the is i ! the one he threw’ hit me.’’ give Portland two seaside resorts, one at ed, but of neglected, development, as piper when the war is over. Neither Pre- . terday, but were repulsed, losing 106 land, now chargeable, if shipped to the ! ------------ Tillamook, 108 miles by rail, and ano unnecessar> as it is short sighted. toria nor Bloemfontein has resources for men. The Americans had no casaul United States, with full duties under the A good story is told about Mr. Croker ther at Grimes’ (via Astoria), 118 miles liquitating war indemnities and bills for ties. Dingley law, held there in bulk waiting and Pat Donahue, a prospective power distant, as now. FOR SALE, damages. Captan. Do<.d, with a «quadro . of the for the profit that wi|| accrue fro|n (rf<. j one „f the New York wnr(]s ‘‘Nevertheless the Nehalem Valley will rl it'll i nt'ulr«’ 1 corrnM.i/Iorl ex • — I L ondon , April 17.—The Bloemfontein Third Cavalry, recently surrounded a trade. A gang of speculators, mostly Donahue was from the “ auld sod’’ and not lx.* Iienefited by such railroad exten correspondent of the Morning Post, tele village in Union Province, and surprised Americans, have lieen hounding members Croker invited him to dinner at the Wal sions at all, for without a railway from 200 insurgents living in barracks, it ap of congress for weeks. This syndicate of graphing Monday, says: the heart of the Nehalem to Portland, dorf-Astoria. Fearing that Donahue “Small bodies of Boers are prowling parently being the recruiting center for sugar and tobacco brokers are even now might make a break it allowed to order 48 miles, and from the Nehalem country One acre of land, new house and barn ; the province. The enemy lost 53 men fenced and all under cultivation ; de around, and are even coming within eight J jostling one another in the corridors of from the French menu card. Croker proper to Astoria, distance 38 miles, the sirable location at edge of town, for or 10 miles of Bloemfontein. Three killed. Our troops also captured 4-4 men this capital, pleading, with sordid hypo volunteered to order the dinner and ad Nehalem Valley will remain as now, Johannesburg ‘Zarps’ actually entered aud burned the village. One American crisy, for the people of Puerto Rico. This vised Pat to follow suit and sav noth $.150 terra incognita.” was wouded. bill does not suit them because it diverts ing. A waiter tumbled over himself in Timber for Sale at 50c. stumpage, Land the town one night and escaped without The Oregonian, commenting upon this lieing discovered. The Boer demonstra M anila , April 17.—Twelve hundred from their pockets a portion of the pro his endeavor to lie the first to wait upon situated on Tillamook River. latest railroad gossip, had this to sav : tion vesterday at Karee Siding was de Tagalos attacked Case's battalion head fits which they had hoped to reap, put Croker, and the political magnite said : The difficulties under which the peo Two Lots in Tillamook City, each 50 x signed to cover the withdrawal of an quarters of the Fortieth Regiment at it into the treasury of the Island of ’’Well, Pat, I think we’ll start off with a 11M), all inclosed with picket fence immense convoy of provisions There is Cagayan, Island of Mindanao, on April ple of the Coast counties of Oregon, and Puerto Rico, and devotes it to the press, cocktail.” Pat hemmed and hawed, bit Good five roomed house, for $250. no doubt that the Boer incursion into 7. The Americans had 15 casualties, ing necessities of that stricken and unfor. es|M.viallv of Tillamook County, labor in his lip in vexation that he should be regard to transportation facilities have Fine Dairy Farm, all improved; good the sonth-eastern part of the Free State while of the .attacking force 50 were tunate people." forced to object to his host's first order, been from time to time for many years house, barn, and out house; mile was largely due to the need of replenish killed and 30 wounded or taken pris- but finally screwing his courage to the brought to the publie attention, and from cheese factory and t, mile from ing victuals in the most fertile part of the oners. point of speech, blurted out : “It ye have Perquisites of Congressmen. The enemy, numbering 150 riflemen. country. This explains why the enemy plans as old as the beginning of the school-house. no objection, Mr. Croker, and as I’m not railroad era of the «title have l»een marched south with empty wagons. the remainder.being bolomen, archers The salary of a congressman is $5,000 fond of that part of the chicken as goes formed whereby relief It om these disa- 120 ncrrs—Four miles from Oretown’, Various important movements arc oc and mounted spearmen. swooped down partly improved ; house base and out- curring. which, naturally, it is not de in a howling mass at daylight, surpris year There are many ways in which over the fence last, I’ll take part ot the bilities might l»e secured, The same this sum can be increased, relates the brist.” h o u m •______________ sirable to specify.” story relating to the abundant re- ing and killing three of the sentries. They Washington Post. sources and «tinted I commerce of the Five Acre« of Land—Two miles from The Bloemfontein correspondent of the swarmed through the streets in small In the first place, there is an allowance The retail milk dealers' combination of court house; nearly all de ir land; Times, telegraphing Monday, says: Coos Bay country that was told a parties, some bearing scaling ladders, by <>f $125 for stationery, which can be Chicago has gone to pieces and prices tine orchard and spring that furnishes quarter of a century ago is told to day. “The Boers who have been investing means of which they attempted to enter commuted and taken out in cash. Many have fallen to the rate of 25 quart tick ets for $1—six cents a quart. This is water the year round. Tillamook County, teeming with the Wepener are reported to I* moving in a the houses. The Americans tumbled out congressmen do this. They forage for lower than the price before the combina southerly direction, but the object of of the barracks and formed in the plat is bounty of nature, i makes painful shift letter paper and envelopes in the com-1 tion last fall, when 16 ticket« could I* the movement is uncertain.” to get a tew schooner-loads of butter, and companies began sweeping the town mittee rooms, or buy the cheapest paper had for $1, or 6V4 cents a quart. The lumber and shingles to market each The Bloemfontein correspondent of the The subsequent street fight lasted 20 in the department stores Other mem- rate since September 1. 1899. has been 20 tickets for $1.50 or 7t^ cents a quart. year in partial return for the merchan- Standard, telegraphing Mondav, says: minutes. hers sell their quota of garden seeds All the leading retailers were in the com NOTICK FOH rmt.lVATlox disc earned in on the return trips of ‘The Boers are in lull retreat from ' Twelve of the wonnded Americans are while still others make it a practice of bination. The promoters counted upon Laud office at O efon Citv Ore these little tubs of commerce in re Wepener, hugging the Basutoland hor now on board the hospital ship Relief. disposing of their public documents. freezing out the small dealers during the April iMh. loo.». Nuiice i* hrrehv given that the following S|M>nsc to the most urgent needs ot a named tier. The Basutos nre marching parallel The enemy withdrew to the mountains aettlrr has Sle«l notice of his intentme Another source of revenue is the $100 winter, but the revolt of patrons fro« to make h al proof m «tipport nf his claim the big concerns operating scores of wag growing, chafing population. with them along the frontier, watching in greatcontusion. and th it said proof will be made before the a month which the government allows to ons each was so great that the small The people of Tillamook County have Count) Clerk of Tillamook Co . at TUI tm.tok eagerly lor the slightest encroachment.” each congressman for clerk hire. In very dealers found an expansion of trade that JMh iqoo ria a good deal to sell, ami with such en Orv on <»n Ma* ISAAC The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Ex Speaker Reed is said to have made few instances does this money go out incited them to keep up the fight and to H MOORh, terprise as exists among them, and ft.K Na IITlv for the W \ .*( K % gkv ?. Tp 5 Daily Telegraph, in adbfmtch dated yes a good start toward the acvumulation N K a W side of the congressman's family. No stay outside the combination. At a such energy ns they nre ready to em lie tunic* the following aHiiMwcn to prove terday. says of a fortune with the fees he receive«! for weipt is given except by the memlicr meeting of the combination it was de his continuous residence upon and cultivation cided to restore old prices and return to “The Boers have raised the siege of helping to promote a steel trust. He ploy, they wow hl have active develop of a rd land v a himself, and he can put the amount in a flat rate of six cents a quart The David W. Rh«»doa. lohn H Hart***. Jasper N Wepener. and hare left Rouxville. A can now afford to crack jokes whenever ment along industrial and commercial Leaity sod William H XaBMB «flUlm <»r his pocket or give it to his wife or dargh. dealers, it was admitted, had lo«t from majority of them undoubtedly returned he feels like it. lines, were they put in regular and C ha *. H Mooaas Register. (ter tor pin money It public rexord had 10 to 20 per cent of their patrons. The in» ependent men had been the gainers. BIT OF RAILROAD HISTORY I SAW MILLS THRESHERS STACKERS Farms and Real Estate. W.H. Cooper, Tillamook. i i
