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We never ask customers to pay us more for an
article just because It's for Christmas trade. 1
It's because our prices are uniformly low every
business day in the year that we are enjoying the best
Holiday trade in our history.
We can't offer you last year's Holiday goods at re
duced prices because we closed them out last year.
We are selling more than usual of the practical
presents in the line of
Clothing,
Shoes, H
Goods aid
W9 believe that such useful presents are appreciated
fully as much as fancy trinkets.
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Is the Plok.ce fori CeLsh Buyers to Tra.de
I Our store will remain open evenings
until 8 o'clock this week
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iJREOMVUES BARGAIN HOUSEr
A GRAND
ASSORTMENT
Of UStriL CI1R1STMS PRESENTS 0W ON EXHIBITION
We have ptt the prices so low that by Saturday night we expect to
have closed out oar entire Christmas
and pick oat what you want.
FINS SILKS
LADIES' COATS
LADIES' SUITS r
FINE FURS
SILK WAISTS
SILK PETTICOATS
WOOL WAISTS
MERCERIZED PETTICOATS
MILLINERY
CHILDREN'S CAPS
EXMONAS
DRESSING SAQUES
WRAPPERS
WAISTINOS
BLANKETS
MEN'S CLOTHING
MEN'S HATS
MEN'S SHOES
MEN'S UNDERWEAA
MEN'S NECKTIES
MEN'S GLOVES
MEN'S SILK HDKFS.
MEN'8 LINEN HDKFKS.
MEN'S SLIPPERS
LADIES' SHOES ;
TOILET CASES
DRESSED DOLLS
KID BODY DOLLS
RUBBER DOLLS
MECHANICAL TOYS
LADIES HANKERCHXEFS
2c, 3c, 5c, 8 1.3c, 15c and 25c.
PILLOW TOPS.
FANCY ALBUMS
OUTING FLANNEL
NIGHTGOWNS
Salem's Greatest
Corner Commercial and
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CHILDREN'S SHOES
LADIES' SLIPPERS
LADIES' SILK HDKFS.
LADIES' LINEN HDKFS.
SILK MUFFLERS
WOOL GLOVES
COMFORTS
KID GLOVES
UMBRELLAS
JEWELRY
ladies' Hand bags
ladies' belts
toys of all kinds
table linens
FINE TOWELS
LINEN NAPKINS
RIBBONS i
FINE LACES
LADIES' FANCY COLLARS
LADIES' UNDERWEAR
LADIES' FINE HOSIERY
CHILDREN'S HOSIER
LADIES HOSE SUPPORTERS
FANCY HAIR COMBS j
BOYS' CLOTHING
BOYS' PANTS
OVERCOATS f
MEN'S PANTS
BOYS' SWEATERS U
MEN'S SWEATERS j
MEN'S WOOL GLOVES
MEN'S SHIRTS j
LACE CURTAINS j
BOYS' SHOES .
RUBBER SHOES
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Growing Store.
BROS.
Court Streets, Salem
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ANOTHER BLOW
IS NECESSARY
THEN WORKMEN BELIEVE RO
. MANOFF THRONE WILL FALL.
COUNCIL APPEALS TO PEOPLE,
Asserts Government Has Declared War
on Proletariat and Challenge
- Must Be Accepted.
Letts Captor Wagon Train i Contain
ing Twenty German Families Near
. Roemershoff After Fierce-Battle With
- Dragon Escort Wants Troops.
ST. .PETERSBURG, Dec. 18. The
workmen's council, . unier i the very
noses of the police, succeeded in print
ing one hundred copies of its paper
announcing that the government de
clared war on fhe proletariat and say
ing that , the challenge must be accept
ed; In its appeal to the people the
eouncil declares I that this is the gov
ernment's last fight, that the throne of
the Romanoffs is tottering and that an
other blow will eause it to f alL The
eouncil adds: .
"While the government at St Pet
ersburg is falling, its own regiments
are rising up against it, and at Riga a
republic haa already been proclaimed.
A few regiments may still be faithful
but th4 army, as a whole, is on our
side. The government wants to fight.
It shall have it."
In spite of the fury o the revolution
ists, however, considerable confidence
is expressed in government circles that
the extreme elements in the present
temper of the workmen will not dare
to call' a general strike, and that if
they do, the chances are it will be a
failure.
Germans Encounter LeCts.
Walck, Livenia, Dec. 18. Details
have been received of a regular battle
between a company of dragoons escort
ing a wagon train containing twenty
German families and an armed band of
4,000 Letts, near Roemershoff. The
expedition was trying to escape south
ward but the ammunition of the drag
oons was running low and the: decided
to reach Riga.' The expedition ran into
a "st rongly barricaded Lett camp and a
light ensued id which the dragoons
were repulsed after exhausting their
ammunition. The dragoons surrendered
with their charges,
j Another band, however, made its ap
pearance an insisted that the' capture
tiras effected in its territory. The mem
bers of this band carried off the cap
tives to Lenna warden Castle, where
they held a regular orgie over the vic
tims, i
Asks For Troops.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 18. Governor
Regensk, of Riga, is still urgently call
ing for troops. He reports that besides
the fact that the armed insurgents sre
disputing the passage of soldiers the
railroad tracks have been damaged in
all directions and be advises that the
troops be sent by water. It transpires,
that half of the reinforcements of
troops on "rrj the train wrecked on
December 14 near Stockmansoff, Li
yonia, su rendered to insurgents.
.; Governor Regensk 's latest! advices
Say that the remainder of the troops
held out for four days. Their position
when last heard from was desperate.
Enraged at Delay.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 16. Telegrams
today say that the troops returning to
Russia over the trans-Siberian railroad
are greatly enrage.l "By the delays t'aev
sre subject to snd are wrecking many
stations and other buildings and indulg
ing in further excesses wherever they
are halted.
Insurgents Wreck Train.
: St. : Petersburg, Dee. 16. The insur
gents in the Baltic provinces hold sev
eral towns and large sections of coun
try and are threatening the larger
cities. The insurgents of Livonia, ac
cording to authoritative news, derailed
on December 14, near t-toekmansof, a
military train carrying reinforcements
from Wilna to Riga and attacked the
survivors ot the wreck. The casual
tie were not stated but it is feared
they were heavy.
Telegraph Briefs.:
Mitau, Courtlanl, Dec, 18, The
troops, in order to avoid annihilation
at the hands of the insurgents have
been forced to abandon the country dis
tricts and concentrate at Riga, Mitau
and Libau, where ; they are actually
standing on the defensive and unable to
make a head against the insurgents. '
,St. Petersburg, : Dee. 18. Martial
law has been declared in several dis-.
tricts of the government of Poland.
St. Petersburg, Dee. , 18. Advices
from Moscow say. the town is quiet and
that the posfs and telegraphs are work
ing almost nornraliy. '
Dorpat, Dec. 18.i The southern part
of. Liven ?s and the greater part ; of
ConrtlanJ are " completely in the pos
aes4ioa of the insurgents. The military
is still much too feeble to cope with the
situation. The region between Riga
and Wenden is a wilderness. ;
i COLORADO OSTEOPATHS.
i Denver, Colo., Dee., 18. The Colorado
Osteopathic Association convened in an
nusl sessnon here today with members
frcscst from many parts of the state
MAINE STATE GRANGE.
, BANGOR, Mey Dec 18-JStnrdy
Maine farmers with their wives and
daughters are the honored guests of
Bangor today on the occasion of the
opening of the annual meeting of the
state branch of the National Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, in whose ranks
are enrolled nearly a million of tha
most practical agricultural experts in
the world.
Today ras devoted chiefly to receiv
ing and registering the visitors. The
formal opening takes place in the city
hall tonight, with State Master Obadiah
Gardner presiding. , The sessions will
continue several days and will be de
voted to the . discussion of numerous
topies of live interest to the sgricul
turists. - . ;
ADDICKS' VILLA FOR SALE.""
NEWPORT, R. I, Dee. 18. Beauti
ful Belvoir, the summer residence here
of J. Edward Ad dicks, the Delaware
politician and "gas" magnate, is to
be put up at auction today unless the
interest on a mortgage note, which is
now long overdue, is paid. The Savings,
Bank of Newport, wtych holds the mort
gage of $80,000, has advertised the sale
to take place. Belvoir was sold to Mr.
Addieks several years ago by John M.
Gloer, subject to the mortgage under
which it is now advertised to be dis
posed of to satisfy the claim of the
bank. The villa is one of the handsom
est in Newport and has been the sum
mer residence . of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt, William K. VanderbUt, W.
E. D. Stokes and other millionaires.
LIKE OLD TIMES
THUS SEEMS .THE PURCHASE OF
STATION SITE IN WEST AF
RICA FOR MISSION.
Missionaries Deal With Indian Tribes
In the Dark Continent and Purchase
Land 'With Trade Goods and Natives
Pleased With Purchasers. 1
NEW-YORK, Dec. 18. One is -re-
minded of the old days when land was
bought in this country from the Amer
ican .Indians with "trade goods" by
the., account of the purchase of a site
in West Africa for the Lolodorf station
of the resbyterian board of foreign
missions. The station has been estab
lished several years, but is to bo moved
four miles to a more healthful site.
Word of the purchase' of the new site
has just been received at the office of
the board in this eity. Miss Jean Ken
yon MacKenzie, one of the missionaries,
sends the report. She says:
"We have bought two hundred and
fifty acres of land, comprising three
towns, some gardens and a tract of for
est. On Saturday of last week the
headmen (of the native tribes) came
to be paid. They had served us to all
torts of African dalliance,, and we
thought that the payment in trade
snoods was to be of a piece with the
bargaining but not so. When the
three head men arrived, followed by
their henchmen and women, they played
in unexpected part. In less than an
lour, and with i no more palaver than
you might heart over the purchase of
basket of food, they were paid, we
think tbey wer daited by their oppor-
tunitv. Certainly they had a tranced
air.
"When I. came out to see the play,
thinking it had just begun, they were
nakmg ready to leave in a kind of
autious silence a comparative silence
be it understood and in much the
spirit of a missionary who is dreaming
of home, and fears to awake. The head
men were in full dress, two wore nats
that were uncommonly grand, still be
ing incased in those cylinders of paste
board in which they had been packed,
id two wore green broadcloth coats,
obablv Dart 'of the uniform of some
regiment and nqt originally intended
for our friends, one of whom was too
waall for bis co:it; the other, not small
,nough.
"They were in a hurry to be off
md presently they started with their
wives and their friends, all laden with
their goods. As a spectacle it was
imposing and of a kind to draw a head
lut of the door of every but by the
wav. There were nests of zinc buckets,
of iron pots, piles of hats perfect tow
ers of hats sheaves of umbrellas and
of cutlasses. There were tin trunks
of a splendor unknown to yen provin
cials, but . familiar to us of the west
eoast very gay, preferably grea with
a lavish belt of red and no scimping
pf gilt. In the trunks were yards and
yards of trade cloth, bars ef soap, pock
et knives, padlocks, matches and many
other perishable articles tnat wm
change bands ia numberless marriage
palavers. N itb some such gutter ol
poil must Tamerlane have ; returned
from conquest.
"Yesterday I passed our new lands
and the town where the goods were
ield for distribution. Sueh clamor and
hum sueh bustling about of , people
ilad in the !. magnificence afforded by
our store such declamations" from a
head mil who was talking the distri
bution - palaver and emphasizing his
eloquence with his staff such an aspect
altogether of a village fair, gilded with
sunshine! Nor was my passing with
out honor The woman of the Mi nisi,'
ind down the street came the dressy
'omisnnity. 'Come' and tell as of th
word of God,' was the cry, for there
was abroad a spirit of indulgence. For
peace sake I ducked into a house and
spoke to some women. Outside all the
eager tumult of tongues, the passion
ate voices of covetoosness filled the
bright air, but in the dark hat were
women at the primeval occupation of
grinding food and not unwilling to lis
ten to the white wontan who. was of so
optimistic a mind abljut the. uncertain
dreadful future." f-
THE
LATE SENATOR
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MR. TELLER NOT YET CONVINCED
OF MITCHELL'S GUILT.
HE WANTS FURTHER EVIDENCE.
Is Not Willing to Accept Word of
Self -Convicted Thief and
.' Perjurer. . . .
Senate Discusses Question Whether or
Not Upper Branch of Congress la
Warranted in Ignoring Convicted
' Member and Leaving Name" on RolL
, WASHINGTON, Dee. 18. Whether
the senate is warranted in ignoring ia
senator convicted in the courts on a
charge, of misconduct and not assign
ing him te places on standing' commit
tees, yet leaving bis name on the senate
roll, was discussed for two hours today
by the senate and then dropped with
out a ruling on the question. Several
senate leaders took up the subject. On
account of the delicacy of the question
the debate naturally was not as open
as would be necessary for a final deter
mination of the matter.
Bailey raised tie point by inquiring
of Hale if when the bitter would pre
sent the new list of standing committees
whether every senator would have been
provided with a place. Hale responded
that every senator except Burton of
Kansas hsd been given assignments and
be had been left off the committees at
his own request until the - charges
against him were disposed of by the
courts. Bailey protested against any
senator's name being kept on the roll
unless he was given work to do, and
argued that it was the duty of the sen
ate to itself, to Kansas and to the coun
try to investigate the charges against
Burton and determine whether he was
entitled to a seat in the senate.
In response several senators called
attention to the fact that congress was
following a precedent established by
the English parliament in not taking
cognizance of the charges against a
member until the charges had been de
termined bjr the courts. Messrs. Hale,
Spooner, Lodge and Daniel were of this
opinion. Bailey, calling attention to
the fact that there had been five sena
tors indicted in the last ten years, all
on charges implying that , crimes had
been eommitted for money,' Said the
time had arrived when the senate should
testify that this is "no place to come
to make .money dishonestly." He com
plained jthat the senators who behave
themselves were compelled to suffer for
those who did not, through being sub
jected to ridicule and jests.
TelIer defended the late Senator
Mitchell by saying it would take more
than the word of ."a self -convicted
thief, purjerer and forger" to eonvince
him that Mitchell had committed a
crime. k
Committee Appointments.
Washington, Dec. j 18. The standing
committees of the senste announced to
day, that every Republican seimtor had
been given a chairmanship except Bur
ton of Kansas, who j is ignored entirely
as to assignments, in response to bis
request that he be not placed on any
committee pending the determination of
the charges against him. Vacancies
were left for Senators LaFolette of
Wisconsin and Gearin of Oregon, I neith
er of whom has "been sworn in. .
Among the assignments1 were: On
commerce, Ankeny; public lands, Ful
ton; territories, Piles; Pacific islands,
Piles; irrigation, Ankeny (chairman),
Fulton; forest reservations and protec
tion of game, Ankeny; interoceanic
canals, Piles; postoffices and post roads,
Fulton; pensions, Piles; claims, Fulton
f chairman): Canadian relations. Piles:
coast defenses, Ankeny; to examine the)
several branches of. the civil service,
Piles and Nixon; railroads, Ankeny; re
vision of the laws of the United States,
Fulton; national banks, Ankeny; indus
trial expositions, Fulton. " 4
Gearin will be assigned to the claims,
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$3.00 to $3.75
$1.00 io $4.45
$50 to .4.95
$5.00 to $5.45
DEFENDS
SALEM WOOLEN MILL STORE
forest reservations ana protection of
game, pensions, industrial expositions
and national banks committees.
Many Topics Discussed.
VTashington, Dee.' 18 Insurance,
hazing, the suffering of the Russian
Jew and immigration were all topics
for discussion in the bouse under a gen
eral leave of talk. The only business
done was to send the canal appropria
tion bill to the conference. - ' -'
PETROLEUM PRODUCTION.!
Enormous Weight of This Product, and
v V How It Is Divided. v;
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PARIS, Dec. 18. According to state
ments published by the Commercial
Geographical Society of Paris, the
world's production jof petroleum last
year was divided as follows: United
States, 15,000,000 tons; Russia, 10,600,
000; Sumatra, Java and Borneo, 1,000,
000; Roumania, 496,000; the East In
dies, 404,000; all others, 250.000. As
tonishment 1 felt ia regard to Rou
manians rapid increase from lan insig
nificant position to one which, if it goes
on increasing, will enable it to compete
with Russia. The Russian papers are
somewhat surprised at the presence of
a rival so near their borders. 1 The pro
duction of 1904 was more than 3.000,
000 tons larger than that of 1903. The
yield of 1905, because of the terrible
losses in Bussia, will hardly reach that
of 1903. It would not be surprising if
the figures should show it much loss
than for any years in the last decade
Tbe effect on the petroleum markets
will be felt in many parts of the world,
for petroleum has long been regarded
even by remote regions as a necessity.
WHERE ZMAS GREENS COME FROM
PHILADELPHIA,! Pa Dec. 18. Car
loads of Christmas greens are now being
shipped from the southern counties of
New, Jersey to markets in various parts
of the country for the holiday trade..
The Jersey swamps, with the mountain
districts of Tennessee, Virginia and
Kentucky, are the largest producers of
greens. Laurel is the principal eVer-l
green gather- in Jersey. It is of a most
prolific growth and great patches of it
are found I in every woodland and
swamp. - The revenue from its sale
amounts to thousands of dollars annual
ly. ' The bulk of it lis shipped to Chi
cago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas
City, Cincinnati, Denver,. Omaha ; and
other large western! cities. At Christmas-tide
many of the leading churches
of those;, western cities will be decorat
ed with Jersey greens.
INTEREST IN FTTZ-O'BRTEN FIGHT
SAN FRANCISCO, Cab, Dee. 18. In
terest in the Fitzsimmons-O'Briett fight
has been livened to a noticeable degree
as the date for the encounter approach
ed and Mechanics Pavilion promises to
be comfortably filled with ring enthus
iasts curious to see how well the veteran
Fitzsimmons can thwart the, cleverness
and assimilate the rapid-fird deliveries
of the Philadelphian. Both men prac
tically completed their worl iff prepara
tion today and will from,ow on take
just sufficient exercise to keep in con
dition until the gong calls them into
the ring to do battle.
SILVER FOR ORIENT. .
SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. lS.The con
tinued high prices of silver, between
65 and 66 cents per ounce, is causing
heavy shipments of Mexican dollars,
melted into bullion, through this port,
Seattle and Vancouver,- to the Orient.
The shipments are being sent by Wells,
Fargo & Co., under heavy guard in the
express company's cars. It is said that
during the past sixteen days 13,000,
000 in silver bullion have been brought
out of Mexico tor shipment to the far
east from this-roast. - In financial cir
cles predictions are heard that silver
is going to 70 cents, because the sur
plus! production is limited, while the
demand is constantly growing.
UNITED BOXBOARD COMPANY.
NEW YORK, D"C. IS. At today's
special meeting in Jersey City the
stockholders of the United Boxboard
Company will authorize a new bond, is
sue of $2,750,0110, .paying 6 per cent,
to expire in twenty years and to take
Up the present lines. An issue of $1,
750,000 collateral trust bonds to re
acquire the American Htrawboard stock,
sold one year ago, will also be acted
upon.
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$ 7.00 to $ 8.75 youths' suits, ages, 14 to 19 ....... .
$ 9.60 to $10.75 youths' suits, ages 11 to 19 ........
$11.00 to $15.00 youths' suits, ages 14 to 19 ........
boys' suits, ages 9 to 10 .
boys' oits, ages 9 to 16
boys suits, ages 9 to 16
boys' suits, ages 9 to 16
bovs' suits, ages 9 to 16
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$5.50 to $5.95 luiys suits, ages 9 to 16 ......
$6.00 to $7.00 bovs' suits, ages, 9 to 16..
- OUR CHILD'S SUITS, AGES 3 TO 8, AT HALF
FINANCIALLY,
EMBARRASSED
WALSH'S BANCS AND TRUST COM
PANY SUSPEND OPERATIONS..
THREE CONCERNS CLOSE DOO
Allied Banks of Chicago Pledge Re
'sources to Secure Claims of
Depositors.
Cause of Collapse Laid to Large Amount
of Money Loaned to" Different Priv
ate Enterprises Liabilities of De-
funct Concerns $26,000,000. ,
: CHICAGO.; Dee. IS. Three of the
largest financial institutions in the weft,
the Chicago National bank, Home Sav
ings bank and Equitable Trust Com-
Sany, all of them controlled by Jolan
:." Walsh of this city, and in a graM
measure owned by" him, suspended oj-
erations today. : Their affairs will be
liquidated as rapidly! as possible and'
they will go out of business. National
Bank Examiner Bosworth succeeded.
Walsh at the Wad of the Chicago Na
tional bank and the places of the direc
tors have beeA filled by men appointed
by the Chicago clearing house. Back
of the new management stand the al
lietl banks of Chicago, whrf pledged
their resources that every 'depositor
would be paid to the last cent and that
no customer of the three institutions ,
hall lose anything by reason of the Mis
pension. Had not this action been txk-'
en by the banks of the eity, a disastrous
panic must Lave followed in the finan
cial ' wor! '.
The immediate cause of the collapse
of the instittuions is said to be the
large, amount of money loaned to vari
ous private enterprises, notably the
Southern Indiana railway and the Bed-
ford Quarries Company of Indiana.
Walsh claims if he ha'd been 'given a
little more time he could have saved
the banks and made enormous profits
for himself and associates. He bi.e
this statement on his estimate of the
value of the bonds of the Southern In
diana Railroad Company, The control
ler of currency, the state auditor and
the members of the Chicago clearing
house place the value of the bonds at"'
one-half the valuation estimated br
Walsh, and it was their refusal to ac
cept his valuation that caused the bus-,
pension of the banks. .
The liabilities of. the three institu
tions are estimated at $26,000,000.
against this amount the banks and trnst
company have resources which on n
conservative estimate are worth $16
000.000. The bonds of the Southern
Indiana Railroad Company are estimat
ed by Walsh as being worth $18,000,000.
They are considered by the controller,
state auditor and clearing house com
mittee Worth About half that' sum.
JTheir valne is a matter to be deter
mined in the future, and the presidents
of . the local banks admit that if the
estimate of Walsh is found to be cor
rect, that the two banks and trust com
pany will not only pay all their debts,
but leave a surplus besides. The di
rectors of the two banks and Walsh,
who, has turned over all his property,
as well ' as that standing to the name
of Mrs. Walsh, have pledged real estate
and securities valued at $5,000,000 and
estimating the railroad bonds at $S,0OO,
OOO more, would make; a total of $29,
000,000 assets against: $20,000,000 lia
bilities. The Home Savings bank had savings
deposits of $3,560,000. The Equitsble
Trust Company -had outstanding certifi
cates of deposit and accrued interest
amounting to $1,289,000, and the depos
its in the Trust are valued at-$2.b9G,-600.
There is no question a to avail
ability of any of the assets of the two
latter institutions.
POULTRY MEN ORGANIZE.
ATLANTA, Oa., Dec. 18. Prominent
poultry breeders to a total of several
score met at thejiedmont hotel today
and discussed the formation of an aspo
rtation of southern poultry breeders..
Texas, North Carolina,, South Carolina,
Alabama, Georgia and several other
states were represented.
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