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TWO DAILY OAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREOON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 19C3. k T' Br m i. U' Geat I will continue until i this sale it you want to, but yot will lose Note a few t I Suits ot i 2.50 Suits ot Overcoats teduced to 8.00 J 5.00 Suits o Overcoats teduced to 17.50 Stiits ot Overcoats teduced to r 20.00 Stiits os? Overcoats teduced to 25.00 Stfits 'O Overcoats seduced to I Remember you have the largest stock in Sa lem to select from. Don't miss this oppofta nity. H VLtaiflLV iflNi jeaaaseBa8os8eoa$60se8e8e8 THE DAILY JOURNAL; 8crlpps News Association Telegrams. '..The Oregon I ail wanted thorn to change tho state portage bill so as DY HOFER OROTHER8. to i,M). Ul0 rlBht of wny for tll0 f0ll. eral government, and got a fodoral Daily On Year, 4.00 In Advance canal at onoe, but will not Insist on Dolly Throe Months, $1.00 In Advance, that If thoy will only adjourn tomor Dally by Carrier, 50 Cents Por Month. ' row and go homo. Weekly One Year, 11.00 In Advance. JOURNAL SPECIAL DELIVERY. Oho YYook t .10 Ooo Month $ .35 Thrco Mouths $1.00 tAt Journal Office. At Daue'a Grocery, South Salem. A,t Oovrersox Grocery, Yew Park. Asylum Avenuo Grocery Store. Electric Grocery, East Stato 8L OREGON COMING EVENTS. Poultry and pet stock show, Salem, December 17-19. Bpoclnl Bosston of tho logtilature, Salem, December SI, NnUonul, . llvoatook.. convention, Portland. January 1246. -Angora goat shoT? Dallas, Janu ary 14-16. The Weather. Qluutly, with occasional rain night and Suiulitj. I GENTLEMEN, WILL YOU PLEASE uu uuuu. Tho I'orllund Oreguulnn has stood up om forty members of this legis lature ami xtrooted a promise from them, to be good. Thar are to meet today nt 10 o'qtock, adopt a llttto verbal amend ment to the nssesoment and taxa tion jaw and go home. The Oregon Inn BterUU in to havo them repeal tho now tax law ami re-enact tho old one, but it will waive that out of pure patriotism, if the legislature will only speedily ndjourn. v Tho Orogouiaa wanted them to ro-1 peal tiio state portngo appropriation HimilHIIIIIIIHmUl lH-H-H I t-M-H I llllllll' Let jfl Evor hour of one? We call it a Determination Sale because wo are determined to carry over no winter good?, if cut fricea will move thorn. Profit is lost sight of, This s your month you get tho profits. Don't think about this sale too loDg wo can keep it going but a short time. A Thnhy Man's Opportunity Cut prices on all suits and overcoats and we are determined, fully determined, that Winter wear ables tn,U8t go. Corao, get your sharo of tho good things. Inventory Sale Dec - 28. Of course of otr prices. Everything CUT. Overcoats teduced to $ 700 1 WT t j onnson 257 Commercial St. , and Biive the taxpayer $1G6,000, but J will nlso waive that out of puro pa triotism if they will only go home. The state Is all right, tho laws and Industrial conditions aro nil in por teot onion, and tho only thins that tlu catena tho poaco and prosperity of the commouwonlth is tho fear that this legislature will not adjourn at onco. It does look as If thero was a a lion; on. DEMAND POLL TAX RE8TRIC TION REPEALED. Tho Salem.' Fodoruted Trados havo adopted resolutions calling for tho repeal of tho polltax restriction on voting in tho Salem chartor. Tho la bor organisations of this city aro op posed to any taxation or property qualification on tho voting franchise. I)y interesting themtelves in such practical matters as this the labor op gnniiattons can do a great deal of good. lly endorsing and promoting poll alee that make for equal rlshUj the labor unions will confer blowings on society. x I Labor .organlantions should turn I tltalr attention to aoMtruoUvexpolt . Diet that oroeto favursblo bmlnti . conditions. ' Polltax restriction on voting works ? "Rr,, 0ft T, N . and nm w wnrHiHiiw IU uiuu iv" tvor t hn8 bftn ir9A CHRISTMAS GIPTS, The period of Christinas shopping le upon us. The holiday atmosphere is the atmosphere, of hurry. It is tho rushing tlmo preceding tine Chrfstin&g cheer. Wo aro in such a stroauoua stato that wo beglu to spell it "Xmas." Tbore IsTno timo to spoil it In full. Let's hold up a spell, It la a time to use common sense. For Instance: You feol that you aro . In duty bound to "remoaiber" some one for 0 elimi nation Sale yo con stay from money it you do. J 0.00 J2.50 f J5.00J 1 6.501 whom yon do not enro very much. Don't! You will succeed In making the doneu feel uncomfortable. You will put him under obligations. lie knows your heart doos not go wth tho gilt. He knows you are only fol lowing a custom. Ho will whht to glVi you something In return. And both gifts will lack tho real spirit of ChrUtmas. As a rule, o'no should giva only whore it will bring real pleasure And - It Is not neooBsary to givo oxnon- sivq things. Such gifts, if tho giver can ill afford them, may not only strain tho ability of tho ouo who glvos, but bring real dlstrosa to tho roclpiont bocauso of his inability to return in kind. Tndead, soma are tompted to givo who had bottor keep. Is that treason to tho Christmas spir it Not at all. It Is wrong to give, mora than ono can afford. Do not give to mako a splurge. Givo w'horo tho gift will do real good. It Is a bloaeed boon to givo to tho children whom you lovo. It blessos both you and tho children. Thoro Is Joy In your heart, gratitude In theirs. It dpn't oost much to make a lot of children happy. And then thero Is that other fine giving tho gift for tho relief ofsflmt real want. Nor should one be ox trwvagant even hero. Thero Is no call. A little goe a long way. You say all this caution means sUnglnfw If you think so. empty your tyurse. Anything but that. Our plea is this: Discriminate. Plan. De MMlble. A Dox Social. A box social ami program wa giv en by tho pupils of Mr. Grace Thomp son, fn West Salem, Saturday night, December 19th. Tho entertainment waa well attended, and the numbers on the prognm well endored. Tho proceeds of the social, which were something ovor $12, -will bo applied to the library fund. The much talked of jack-rabbit will, it conditions dp not change in Eastern Oregon, be only an echo. V APPEARING OLD Aria nil it nor to .Frofliable Employ ment. You cannot afford to grow old. In theso days of strenuous competition It Is necessary to maintain, as loner as posslblo ones youthful appearance. It Is impossible to do this without re taining a luxurious growth of hair. Tho presence of Dandruff Indicates tho presence of a burrowing germ which lives and thrives on tho roots of tho lmlr until it causes total 'baldness. Newbro'a Horplcldo Is tho only known destroyer of this pest, and It Is as effec tive as It Is delightful to uso Hcrplcldo makes an elegant hair dress ing no woll as Dandruff cure. Accept no substitute there Is none. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c In stamps for samplo to Tho Horplcldo Co., Dotrolt, Mich. Daniel J. Fry, Spcclnl Agent. f JOURNAL X-RAYS Cottage Qrovo will ask tho special Session for a new city charter, needed by tho rapid growth of tho city. b Walter L. Toozo can always be re lied on to nupport tho tlckot anyway. a It Is a common mistake of public of ficial after thoy get in to forgot who put thorn thoro, and do things that dis gust the people, as woll as their best friends. It will bo a raco In the county which town will organize Uio first young men's Republican club. . Tho Pcclflc Homestead has an nble article ou how to get oggs in wlnton. How to got thorn for less than 40 cents a dozen Interests mout of us. Oregon llvo stock of rill kinds Is worth ovor $41,000,000, but It don't get onto tho assessment rolls that way. , V In a.i office window In Hubbard, Marion county, may bo seon a 90 pound pumpkin, a 17 pound beet, nnd a tiunflowor C7 Inchon in circum ferenco; also a flno variety of npplos, hickory nuts, English walnuts, black walnuU and osago oranges, all rais ed by farmors noar Hubbard. Albany Herald: Is Sonator Hoar has ontorod upon a careor of going about llko a "raging lion, sooklng whom ho may dovour," It seoms strnngoly sad that his first roarings should bo directed against tho von orablo editor of tho Oregonlan, who happenod to got In tho way. Orogon will rojolco that tho gdntlo Harvey sot aside for tho moment his custom of turning tho other choek, nnd an swered lit kind. Ashland Tidings: "Imagine whftt you or I would havo boon if wa had not beon snvod," said John D. Rock efeller, Jr., to his Dlblo class, in .New York last Sunday. The people of the United States havo reason to think about that every day, and they nevor cease to return thanks that young Mr. Rockefeller hns boon saved, and thnt he romaved In his youth from Rlolford, N. Y., which was n very wicked town, without those rollglous Influences which have Influenced tho whole Rockofollor family. Tho price of crudo oil has advanced only 35 cents within tho last few months. Just think how ,muoh highor it might havo gone If young Rockofolor nnd John D. Rockofollor, poro, had not boon snatched as brands from the burning. Moro Obsorver: In amondlng tho tax law noxt weok tho assembly will do a sorviceablo act for tho tax pay ors by providing for greater publicity of tho ntinual ossossmont roll. Lot tho peoplo know all about it, In somo way, boforo tho board of equalization moot, and tho court houso will not hold tho tax payors who will como to tho motlng with protosts. Tho Salem wator company Is spending $175 a day trying to Im provo tho quality of tho favorite bov ernge of the members of the legisla ture. Roprosontntlvo Hum, tho million aire cannoryman of the Rogue rlvon who has had a llbol suit on his hands the nast yoar, who has nin and ed ited newspapers, and who Is a great admirer of Harvey Scott, Is the od Itor and publisher of n monthly call ed "The Radium." Uko thnt won derful new metal. It evolves light, heat ami power from within Itself In other wonts, Mr. Hume edits, pub lishes and pays for all tho copies him self and sends them to his friends. It is published wherever he hnppons to bo. IJke Its name, Tho Radium is hot stuff. The people pt Court street aro to meet tonight and consider street Im provement That street is pretty good now. It has been summer-fallowed for forty years or mqre and grows good enough grass for several cows. To talk of putting down brick pavement is folly. It would employ too many people and labor would be come scarce at Salem. Besides we havo a. lot of land good for nothing but to mako brick of. SOLONS AVERSE TO WORK But Many of Them Have Pet Measures Up Their Sleeves Two carloads of legislators, clerks and attendants came up from Port land on tho Albany locnl Sunday night, and wont in search of tho hash houses and sleeping roosts. Most of them still had llngorlng on tholr pal ate toothsome reflections of tho good cookery of Salem prlvato boarding housos and hotols, and roturned to their quarters at tho last rogular cos sion. The splons in tho city last evening gathered in tho corridors of tho Wil lamette Hotel, and compared notes on tho proposed work of tho session. Whoh approached tho members gen erally stated that thoy wore in favor of a short session, an'd their destra was to complete tho necessary work as quick as posslblo, but thoro was apparont n.i undercurrent in favor of a long session and a program of gonor al legislation. .AH, or nearly all of the mombers of tho legislature, havo n few pot measures thoy would llko to lntroduco', and seem to bo waiting only for somo ono olso to propose to lot down the bars, wjion thore will bo n flood of bills equal to that usually seen nt a rogular soseion. Many of the members have charter bills to spring, and are anxious to have somo one break tho Ice, though the fear Is oxprossod by a fow of tho Republi cans that such a course would be bad politics. This "much is certain tho work of ilio solons will not be confined to tax legislation, for thore are enough fa voring the correction of tlio recorders' feo law to insuro the bringing of that measure boforo tho logislnturo at this tlmo The Dakor county contingent nlso has bills ready to lay bofore the sosslon to regulate the .oxccutlon of Plonsant Armstiong, which Is now hanging first awaiting tho action of the loglslatvro, and should nothing bo dono, tho case will bo appealed to the United SUtos courts by the friends of tho condemned man, for tho purposo of caving his life. If tho log Islaturo should passman act, howuver, providing for the execution of all mon convicted and originally sentenced tin- der the old law by the sheriffs of the counties in which the trials wore had,jnH as presldont of the sonnto, It Is all ground for appenl would be ro moved, nnd Armstrong would be hanged In Dakor county, In ' accord ance with tho sentoiKO of the court It Is practically certain that such n bill win be proposed. The Republicans all seem to favor a conference this afternoon or tonight. when It will probably be determined what the program will be. Some ob ject to a caucus, for thoy do not wish to bind themselves, but it is oxpectod that at a conferonco, which is sure to be hold, a program will bo arranged, a stooring committee appolntod, mid all arrangements completed for gon oral legislation. Below aro a fow statements made by somo of the " mombors,, showing their positions1 rogardlng tho longth of tho sosslen: W. T. Hume I think tho session should not bo too short Now that wo aro horo, wo should tako ample tlmo for tho full consideration of the tax quostlons. I havo no special bills to lntroduco, bub. If tho flood-gates are oponod, I will havo somo matters1 to propose. No now legislation, but con rectiou of old laws that need It badly. Thoro aro laws on tho statute books that aro unconstitutional, and Bhquld bo corrected. J. E. Hunt I havo no now legisla tion to propose, nnd think tho sosslon should not be prolonged. M. A. Miller (Linn) The session I think will be short, but It may last to tho ond of tho month. Very little will bo dono I think, oxaept correct ing the tax muddle, and a few amend ment may be passed correcting other laws. I have an amendment to the Lebanon charter that I will lntroduco, but that need not take up moro than six or seven minutes of the timo of the senate and houso. Tho re-enactment of the $300 exemption law is one i6)taitieic-HHeaHtgieiti8-tiaciisiefHHi J Three New Shapes In Bluchor and Bal shoos New last, best fitter on earth See our now onamel nnd box calf shoes at OSWALT'S 99 State St, Salem. Oregon. TiuaiBiiftijiicHaiiBmaitttititaiiiaigi- "of tho measures that should bo ca. sldcrodv J. M. Shelloy Wo want to SC through as soon no possible, and j havo no- special legislation to proper in which I am fntorcsted, except tic correction of thd tax law. I have ao bills to propose. E. V. Carter It will bo short, aj I havo npthlng to push forward, m loss tho Lars should bo lot down and gonoral legislation ontorcd Into. in thnt case I will lntroduco somo city dinner amonumonis lor Asliland, and I possibly I will tako up ono or two oth. I or matters, but I will not be tho one to lay down tho bars. Speaker Harris Tho sosslon will be a short one, and I hopo wo can ad journ boforo Christmno. O L. Hawkins In nddltion to the tax legislation thero will bo several matters brought up for cohsidcratlon Among them is tho ono regulating thej recording or transform which is at this timo causing somo discussion and throatoned litigation. Tho $300 ex omptlon law should also bo ro-onnct-ed, and I think will bo at this session. W. H. Hobson I havo no legisla tion to propose, but I think thero will bo enough- proposed to keep us in boj. sion for moro tlinn this week. E. T. Judd I have no bills to lntro duco, unless tho bnrs aro laid down and, gonoral legislation decided upon, when I will havo a fow matters to bring up for consideration. Sonator Rand, of Eastern Oregon, says thore may bo necessity for an amondmont to tho capital punishment law to facilitate a fow hanging's that aro hanging fire. Senator Drownoll says thoro Is great need to amond tho feo law, under Which evory county Is liablo for large sums collected by tho county record ers. The ropoal of. the $300 household ers oxomptlon should bo sot nsltlo, as it Is manifestly unjust to tax the tooli a man work with, tho bod his wife and.chlldron sloop on and tho clothes thoy wear. Owing to tho groat advanco In rail road ratos that taxes offoct on Janu nry 1st, thore is somo talk of railroad legislation. Flvo years ago Oregon ropealod tho railroad commission act. which was a very woak affair and gate tho state no protection wl.atovcr Slnco then thoro has beon a general policy of non-lntorforonco, based on tho groqnd that tho railroads could take bottor caro of tho Industries ol tho stato than tho state legislature could. All wont smoothly until tho past year, whon tho linos in Oregon practically all wont undor tho Harri- man syndlcato. But tho way tho leg islature Is organized, nnd with Brow- not bollovod any bill, oven if intro duced, would ovor como out of the committee, much less stand any show for passage. Indicntlons nre) thero will bo qulto an unovitful sosslon. Notlcfe Change of Time of Street Cars, Beginning Wodnesday, December 23d. All depot cars will leave for de ,.. uv ...... uvea, uuiuib uio iruin is uucmi This applies particularly to car fori c:i!) p. m. train. CITIZENS' LIGHT & TRACTION CO, 12-21-31 Tho legislature should nieot, paw tho little tax amondmont nnd adjourn in Hftcon minutes. What Jf thore aro $750,000 recorder's foes collected by all tho county rocordors in thli stato, that can bo sued for and re covered from each county That li nothing to keep mon horo for, whoa wo can savo $4,050 by having them go homo after flvo days. What do tho Eastern Orogon people want of a state portago railroad anr how Havon't. they got tho Jack-rabbit cannory Industry started ovet thoro A SEVERE COLD Is nearly always followod by ser ious complications. Protect tho syi torn from suddon Colds, Chills or at tacks of Malaria, Fev.er and Ague bf taking Hostottor's Stomach BIttersJ It is tho best safo guard in oxlst nco and at this season of the year no homo should bo without It. It will also euro Dyspepsia, Indigestion Troubles. Bo sure to try It. Ask four druggist for our 1904 Almanac. ' HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS ?f J