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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1903)
TW DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEU, OREOON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1903 ettm i nBMmBnKMmsHmammBOBKa laannmw iarwi i n imiwiBiMuijuBijg Ready to Inventory p I I i t w N On December 28 we shall commence taking our annual inventory We have lots of stock on hand that we do not want to inventory Rather close it out and count the money. We never carry over goods from one season to another, when Low Prices Cut Prices, Cost Prices or any other kind of prices will sell them. So we will now commence a GREAT INVENTORY SALE and continue until that date, Of course you can stay from this sale, if you want to, but you will lose money if you do, Note a few of our prices. Everything CUT, $10.00 Suits 02 Overcoats teduced to $ 7.00 J2.50 " " 8.00 15 " " " JO Remember you have the largest stock in Salem to select from. Don't miss this opportunity son. $ J 7.50 Suits and Overcoats teduced to $12.50 20 " 15 25 ' 16.50 o 257 Commercial Street THE DAILY JOURNAL Bcrlppa Nowa Association Telegrams. 8 and 5 O'clock Editions. OY HOFER BROTHER8. ijy Dally Three Months, $1.00 In Advance. Dally by Carrler( SO Cents Per Month. Weekly One Year, 91-00 In Avance. JOURNAL SPECIAL DELIVERY. One Wcok $ 10 , One Month 36 Tbroo Months 1.00 . At Journal office. At Dauo'a Grocery, South Salem. -At Bewersox Grocery, Yew Park Asylum Avenue Grocery 8torc. Electric Grocery, East State 8L mint iHiiimiiHiiini 4 fr 44"fr 4"fr t'fr 41 4" fr4"fr 'l"fr f" fr'H" OREGON COMING EVENTS. Dairymen's association, Corvallls, December 16-16. Poultry and pet stock show, Salora, Doaombor 1M0. Spoclal sonuton of tho legislature, Bnlotn, Dooomber 21. National.. Uroatoclc. conrontlon, Portland, January 12-15. Aagorn goat show, Dallns, Janu ary IMS. I The Weather. Tonight mul Thursday, oloudy, with occasional rain; cooler. THE SPECIAL 8E8SION. Ton, and olKhty Solons, Flacking to tho foast; Throo hundred cents per dlom, A paw or two, at loast. Forty thousand lady olerks, Sixty sununora down WoiVt Uiero be a Jolly time. In old Saloni town? Bonato Is In aesalon. Fixing up tho tax; Houao haw got tho nortngo bill; Grinding up Its axe. Sntom'it got the hoard hill, Making money fait; Won't Uiero lit a prosperous tlm, Whlla the SMMhfns laitT Goorco In in his otlio. Thinking what lie's dona; Gharloe Is la tho treasury, Figuring up the run. KnrinfrV In hU wheat fifth! Waiting for the levy Won't It bo a dnndy Joke If the tax la heavy T PHle of the country Coating up the cost. ThlKkiHX of ae time that's spent Attd die money lost. Uglier why that ninety men. SuptKHMHl to hav illborviliHi, Otttildu't make a tax law Without a anwlal musIoii It. A. WaUon, lu Kavt Orrgonlau. Food eattn without appe tite remains undigested causing Haertburn Flatulency, Indigestion and Dyspepsia. to ouro most atlmonts tho lllttora is ttrongly recom monrtpd by phy ulalnna. Try It nlo set our 190 Alaiaaao from you drug gist It la free. HOLISM rfy?jkvBiitWBHB tfi3 TAKING THE POPULAR LOAN. Sorao one writes a Salem paper saying that tho popular loan city bonds aro taxable, and holding out the Idea that they should be taxod. The porson writing sign "Reven ue" and if ho worts known probably would bo found to bo somo thrifty porson who Is Interested In dofoatlng tho popular loam To tax the- popular loan Is like tho school board taxing tho school homos, which no lntolllgont person would favor for a momont. Tho writer "Rovonuo" Is an onomy of Uio popular loan, bocauso If the popular loan had to pay tnxos thoy would have to draw seven or eight per cont Intorost to bo doslrnblo. Thoro havo boen throo popular loans In Salem at four por oont, and, by common coiiBont, they havo not been consldorod taxable "Revonue" claims on a technicality In tho charter thouo funding bonds to tnke up old brhlgo bonds aro not men tioned, ns cpmln undor the provisions of tho popular loan. ThiB may be true, but tho charter provides for the application of the popular loan to all Salem municipal bond Issues. Of course, there Is no way to show up the disinterestedness and publla spirit of "Revenue." or It might be found that it was a minus quantity. The city council should not be de terred from giving the people n popu lar loan on those bond, because every popular loan has boen secured for the people of Salem, against the secret opposition of tho big money interests. Tho popular loan should be made oven more "populnr" by reducing the slxe of tho bond to ton and twenty fivo dollar sizes. The ttmo ought to bo past In any Intelligent community when' a few money-grabbors hnvo a monopoly of holding tho public debt. Give all a chance. i HOW TO 8ECURE SIDEWALKS. Cltlxons in the suburbs should push tho construction of sidewalks. The Initiative rests with thorn. If freo mall delivery in the city is accomplished thero must bo walks for the letter carrlors to got around on. Proporty ownora on any street or block In Greater Salem can got side walk construction started by signing a petition to tho city council, Thoso who have walks and thoso who want walks can unlto In a peti tion, and tho petition Is then present ed to tho aldermen from that ward. On such petitions tho city council can order walks built. The owners of abutrlng property must proceed to build. There should be a good sidewalk from the old city to the fair grounds. Let the cltlsens lu each of the su burbs take this up, and many of these Improvements can be made this win ter, when labor to unemployed. A BLIGHT UPON THIS CITY. An Item In the morning paper says Ihe manager of the Salem flouring mill will be In the city aoou to make the necessary repairs ou the North Mill creek tUtclv. That open ditch, standing full of stagnant water la summer, overgrown with treeu ou Us banks, and the old buildings rotting down at the mill site Is a UltV. on the Capital City. About four hundred horse-power Is going to waste, and the city com lulled to get electric lighting and Iower from a private) oorporatlon. sui should be taken by this city to condemn attd buy that water powet for a publie lighting plant, at some tune in tho futura Tht water powwr would run a doi- en factories, but It la well understood that the owners are not willing It should be divided up, or utilised In this way. Tho covering Is continually rotting down, and a menace to travel, and a, drawback to property located, upon It. This Is said without reflecting on Manager Wilcox, who ha a Portland man. and not directly interested in the difficulties this city or Its people havo to coirtead with. CONGRESSIONAL -PROCEEDINGS. There Is no moro unintoresting reading than the proceedings of con gress at presont and yet they nro of national Importance. . Cuban reciprocity and the Panama canal troaty aro mattora of grave in torost to the welfare of tho nation, and of the wholo world. Tho Prosidont and tho Republican administration aro Intelligently and courageously pressing thoso matters to a conclusion. Tho various departments are deal ing with tho frauds and scandals in tho postoulco department In a fear loss and rigorous mannor. Thero Is not tho usual disposition of tho party In power to soreon and protect prominent cases of- malfon sance In tho public service. Rut Prosldent Roosevolt stands al most alono in his warfaro for a high or standard in tho public service. S'lll ono man with tho right spirit and tho patlont llrmnoss to Insist on what is right, because It Is right, can accomplish much. A CHANGE IN THE FEE LAWS. There Is no doubt great and urgent need that the law for collecting fees by the county recorder must be changed, or tho counties can be sued, and recoor!eg take place amounting to over half a million dollars. Dy a defect In the law county re corders hnvo no legal authority to col lect fees for recording deeds and In struments of any kind. Thoy have been collecting and turning this mon ey ovor to tho countlos. Suit could be brought, and doubtless will bo brought, In tho absonco of leg islation, to recover largo sums from tho counties of tho state for feos al ready paid. Without this remedial legislation all tho county recorderu might be stopped collecting fees, and all re cording would havo to bo done freo. This is only 'one lnstanco of tho ne cessity for pnsulng somo laws besides tho remedial statu to In tho assessment and taxation law. Other matters even moro urgont will doubtless como bo fore tho legislature. A Lolpzlc trado paper, In reporting on tho recent fair hold In that city, speaks favorably of a now lino of doll hoads mado of tin and covered with collulold. Tho opinion is expressed in tho paper quoted that this novolty is a deslrablo improvement, as many lines of doll hoads now on tho market aro composed of celluloid and nro of great danger to children on account of the liability to explosion to which celluloid is subjoci. Tho paper says tho uso of celluloid in tho manufac ture of toys is making steady progress. Ayefs Pills Vegetable, liver pills. That Is what they are, liver pills. They cure constipation, biliousness, sicK-neadacne. J.C.ATtrCo., xaweu. Aiasa. If Old Saota Gads Wants Anything in the Line of FURNITURE He will Know just Where to Get it We have had new poods arriving evory day during the last two weeks, and are well prepared to supply the demand for holiday fur nlture. SIDEBOARDS. CHINA CLOSETS. BUFFETS. DINING TABLE3. BOOK CASES. DESKS, LIBRARY TABLES. PARLOR TABLES. IRON BEDS. DRESSING TABLES. CARPET SWEEPERS. FANCY ROCKERS. COMFORT ROCKERS. DINING CHAIRS. MORRIS CHAIRS. COUCHES. LOUNGES. DAVENPORTS. PICTURES. HALL GLASSES. HALL BENCHLS. PORTIERS. RUGS. CARPETS. BUREN & HAMILTON House FtfroishefS A4ennaaicjg-i-ioioiciaiieieeigiaipi(8iPiamfa o a a (t a a ) ii ! ! At cost price. Salo on before Christmas. Embroldory, Slllc, Hani i 1 1 kcrchlofs, Chlnawarc, Toys, Gcnt3' and Ladles Furnishing Goods, Z Heavy Wrappers. All kinds of Garmonta and Ornaments. Court I : ! nirnot. rnrnnp nt nllrvr -.-., vvaHw. w UltV, i I I BHIglBH Htfie Wing Sang Co. All Kinds Holiday Goods ior or alloy. : HOLIDAY GOODSl that are useful as well as ornamental Um brellas, gloria silk, black or colors, handles neatly mounted with sterling silver. Loot; like 25 values, our price $1,75 to $3,00 ttaslf O IT a l tUd t. .Ma ..-i!. r .. l 1 1 ., vjuawii sju cucu iimi arc worm ouc, we nave oiners ranginaj price up to $2 50. Millinery late style and good qualifjj -tw pci uciu icuuuuuu n&t uiii cuMing oniy pi.zu. A S3 Hat costing you only 1.80, A $4 Hat costing you only $2.40. 50c Satins only 25c per yard, bright co'ors. Rostein & Greenbaum 302 Commercial Street I C. CROSS Meats and Provisions :phon:b z&h Established 1884 i i i i - i AwFwNm v " "" P- ' I ll- " M -ZrPWf signs of Renewed Activity In the real estate world lndiaUl creasing building operation! Spring, an prompt ua to remlnl that our facilities for buddIjio! and soft wood, lumber, lath, iWftf, and other building materials art cepUonally good. Wo will be pH to furnish estimates on coduw largo or small. A car of U1U shingles received. GOODALE LUMBER Cfcj . . .... Naar 8. P. P "" Phona (51. a. ' ! :::::::tA. G E N C Y O Fjntjjii I BALFOUR, GUTHRIE & CO. a ' GRAIN BUYERS AND SH1PPERS0F d"R AIN Oats For Sale. HOP GROWERS SUPPLIES. Crude and stick Sulonur. - II I 6. Grata, Agent, 207 Commercial St, Satan, Ori! wwnmmwi