INCREASED SALES ENABLE THE STORES THAT ADVERTISE TO SELL MORE CHEAPLY THAN THOSE WHO DON'T.
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VOL. xx.
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTE5IBER 0, 1010.
No. 311r
NELSON ADJ(
ANT S CON
OMRNED MEET NS
TUESDAY
TINUE IN SESSION
Anti-Ballinger Members Will Disregard Chairman Nelson's
Order to Meet in Chicago Will Continue in Session at
Minneapolis and Make Final ReportFive Antis and Only
Four Pro-Ballinger Members Present Committee May
Meet in Two Sections.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9.
Chairman Nelson of the Ballinger
Investigating committee today called
off the meeting of the committee
scheduled for this afternoon. Ho
Instructed the numbers to meet at
the Auditorium Annex hotel In Chi
cago next Tuesday morning.
Inability to secure a quorum is
supposed to be the reason for post
poning the meeting.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9. The
anti-Balllnger members of the Bal-linger-PInchot
investigating commit
tee declared today they will disre
gard Chairman Nelson's order to
meet in Chicago next Tuesday. They
will continue their session here,
they say, and make a formal report.
This action on the part of Ballin
ger's opponents on tho commltteo
makes it possible that the committee
may meet In two sections and that
two reports will be rendered.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9.
With five anti-Ballingeritcs on hand
and four supporters of the secretary
of tho interior In Minneapolis today,
!tho first effort to hold a meeting of
the congressional Investigating com
mittee resulted In "no quorum."
Representative Denby, of Michigan,
Representative McCall, of Massachu
setts, and Senator Sutherland, of
Utah, refused to attend the meeting,
which 'was called to order by Sena
tor Knttte Nelson, of Minnesota,
chairman, at 10:04 o'clock this
j morning.
It Is presumed that the absentees
remained away today to prevent a
quorum attending the session. Sen
ator Sutherland loft the hotel where
the committee is meeting a short
time before It was called to order.
-McCall and Denby could not be
found today. Tho other members of
the committee were present when
Chairman Nelson called the session
to order.
It is reported that if the commit
tee falls to get a quorum today the
antl-Balllngerites will leave for
their homes, allowing the other
Hunting Treasure Trove.
Victoria, B. C, Sopt. 9.
Once again a treasure-hunting
.expedition is to start from Brit-
ish Columbia with Captain Fred
Hackett In command in search
of the burled treasures of Co-
cos Island, tho $60,000,000
of "gold, sliver and precious
stones which tho Nova Scotia
bark Mary Dler is said to havo
run away with from Lima, Peru
and tho additional treasures
which Benit, the pirate, is al-
leged to have burled.
Many expeditions have gone
after this rich treasure, but all
have been unsuccessful. Syd-
ney, San Francisco, Liverpool
and Oklahoma have at different
times sent out expeditions.
members of the committee to meet
later and frame any sort of a report
they see fit.
Senators Flint and Root are not
in the city nnd Representative Olm
sted will not reach here until to
night. At present neither side is
able to securo a quorum.
The anti-Ballingerites threaten to
send the sergeant-at-arms out after
the absentees and compel their pres
ence. If this can bo done a quorum can
bo brought together today. It Is not
believed, however, that the mova
will be resorted to.
Senator Root telegraphed the
committee today and it is expected
he will leave New York at once fo'
Minneapolis. Representative Olm
stead telegraphed that ho had left.
Chicago today.
It Is evident that tho bolters iri-
Brown Is Acquitted.
Chicago, Sept. 9. Leo O'Nell
Browno was acquitted of legls-
latlvo bribery today. Tho Jury
reached verdict of not guilty
shortly before 3 o'clock this af-
tcrnoon.
Browno was not In tho court-
room when the Jury announced
that Us verdict was ready, and ""
tho report was delayed whllo ho
was sent for. The crowd In the
courtroom cheered.
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WE
NO
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TO SHOW YOU THE GREATEST ASSORTMENT OF NEAV FALL MERCHANDISE AVE EVER EXHIR.
ITEI) YOU MAX DEPEND ON TnE STYLE, QUALITY AND PRICES TO BE RIGHT LOOK OCT
FOR THE MERCHANT THAT TELLS YOU THAT HE IS THE ONLY FELLOW ON EARTH THAT
SHOWS FINE MERCHANDISE HE IS ONLY TRYING TO WORK YOU FOR HIGHER PRICES READ
ON
New
FALL SUIT;
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NOW ON SALE
WONDERFUL VALUES
"L:.T3$. 8.90
WZT. $12.50
New Fa
MILLINERY
1910 and 1911
, NEWEST
CREATIONS
NOW ON SALE
Values up to
$6.00, $7.00, $8.00
now
$2.50, $3.50. $3.90
New Fall Coats
Long Coal Strike Ended.
Chicago, Sopt. 9. Tho long
City Council Advertises for
Sewer Bids, But Finds They
Always Exceed the Engin
eer's Estimates Employs
Engineer to Check Estimates
ARE ESI MATES TOO LOW?
Contrnrtors Add 10 Per Cent to Estl-
mates Claiming Hunks Discount
City WuiTttiits, nnd Another 10
l'er Cent us u Mm-gin of Profit
Council Wants to Know If Estl
mntcs'Are Too Low ir Contractors
Holding City Up.
NOW ON SALE
1O0O AND lOlX NEW
EST STYLES LOOSE
SEMI. AND TIGHT
FITTING All Bizos and shades, nl
bo blaok. to select from
we are makers of low
prices.
$9. DO coats now $ 4.b0
112.50 ooats now $ 7.50
$18.00 coats now $12.50
Who is to blame?
Does the city engineer Insist de
terminedly upon making his esti
mates for sewer work and other city
improvements too low for tho con
tractors to make a reasonable pro
fit, or are the contractors for pro
posed municipal Improvements try
ing to hold the city up?
That is the question that is agitat
ing tho minds of tho majority of tho
members of the city council, and the
people in general, when, in nlraost
every instance of tho opening of
bids for sower, bridge and street
work, the JMds of tho contractors
have been in excess of tho estimates
furnished by the city engineer, In
strike in tho Illinois coal fields
was ended today and 44,000
miners returned to work. The
settlement was reached on a
basis of an S per cent Increase
Jn wages. y
It Is represented that the
struggle has cost the operators
$18,000,uo'o and the miners
$12,00,000. A coal shortage es
timated at 20,000,000 tons was
caused by the long shut-down of
the mines.
CINCINN
ATI BOSSES ARE
INVITED. TO THE BANQUET
WILL TEDDY REFUSE T
OEAT?
(consequence of wliich, such bids
havo been rejected by the council
and much city work that shou'd
havo been well under way many
weeks ago is still among tho list of
uncertainties and bids fair to go
over another season.
This proposition came up In an
aggravated and aggravating form at
the speclnl meeting of the city coun
cil last evening, for tho 'steentu
time during the present season,
"when bids were opened for tho con
struction of tho North and South Sa
lem sewers all of which bids were
found to be greatly In excess of tho
estimates of Engineer Parrott and
were consequently rejected. . In the
meantime the city recorder has been
instructed to Invito further bids and,
upon motion of Alderman Eldridge,
W. H. Blrdsell, a civil engineer of
ability, was appointed to investigate
tho proposition, chock up the pro
posed work nnd figures prepared by
City Engineer Parrott and report at
the next meeting.
When the. matter came up at last
ovpnlng's session the council had re
solved itsolf Into a commltteo of tho
whole and devoted considerable tlmo
and expended much physical energy
in trying to arrive at a satisfactory
solution of the difficulty which f3
rap'dly assuming serious propor
tions In every case tho bid of tho
contractor was found to bo greatly
Is excess of tho estimates of City En-
Kirocr Parrott, who placed tho ag
gregate cost of building tho sower
at approximately $C2.000 and Mm
oounoil "got busy" and will try to
forret out tho trouble
Triumvirate That Rules the City, George B. Cjox, Garry Her
mann and "Bud" Hynicka, Are Asked to Dinner at Son-in-Law
Longworth's House to meet the Colonel, and to the
Question "Would He Sit at Table With Them" replied: "You
Should Not Ask Foolish Questions."
(Continued or rage night.)
His Jugular Vein Torn and a
Gallon of Blood Spurts on
Platform Weakened and
Almost Collapsed, on Gallows.
New Fall Dress Goods and Silks
The greatest Bhowlng wo evar made of the new nymnUh mater
ials that are now so fashlonaole for the new fall suits.
We. are makers of low prices. Yd. 20c, .U5c, 10c, 5c and upward
The PUIPAPA CTAD17 Salem,
Greater u 1JU
Oregon
Tho "bad man" dies a coward.
Thus history repeats itself.
Isaac Nowton Harrall, murderor of
Herbert A. and Walter W. Novell,
promlnont and prosperous sheep men
of Lake county, this state, suffered
tho extromo penalty of. tho law for
his crlmo at tho ponltontiary at
12:30 o'clock today by hanging. The
drop was made at oxactly 12:29 Vi
tho spinal wrtobrao was broken,
likewise the jugular vein on the
right sldo of the neck, and doath was
practically Instantaneous.
Ho watt pronounced dead at 12.33
o'clock, the passing of life from the
body requiring only three and ono
lialf minutes, which is tho next best
Salem AsksThatthe Street Car
Line, Be' Extended to the De
potCompany Can Make
Good', by Acceding to Peo
ple!? Wjshes.
The Portland Itailway Light &
Power company is furnishing Salem
a reasonably good service, probably
running its cars as frequently as tho
patronage will Justify. It owns a
valuablo franchise that Js rapldli
growing more valuable nB tho "cRy
grows, and tho cRy's intorosts are
its Interests. Everything that adds
to tho city's growth, adds to the
company's rocolpts, and' to tho value
of its franchise Tho company has
chcorfully met all demands on it for
stroot improvements, putting up 1U
sharo of tho expense wherever street
improvements wero desired on tho
streets its cars are operated on.
This course has boon a wise ono, for
UNITED FBBSB MUSED WISH.
Clncinnattl, O., Sopt. 9. Colonel
Roosevelt is visiting informally to
day nt the hlmo of his daughter,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. At Tor
rence station he left tho train that
brought him to Cincinnati and was
driven to tho Longworth homo,
where ho spent tho morning. '
Shortly before noon Roosevelt vis
ited the grounds of tho Ohio Valley
exposition, whore ho was a guest at
luncheon. Later ho spoko in tho
Cincinnati muBtc linll.
Hundreds of invitations were is
sued a week ago for a reception for
Colonel Roosevelt at th,o Longworth
homo this afternoon.
The trlumvrate that rules tho city
politically Georgo B. Cox, Garry
Herrmann and "Rud" Hynicka
wore bidden to the assembly. What
the former president will say to
them Is causing much, speculation
and scores of Clnclnnatins planned
to time their minutes at tho Long
worth houso in order to bo present
when tho trio arrived.
When Roosevelt's train passed
through Hamilton early today 5,000
persons woro waiting at tho station.
Tho colonel was chcorcd cordially
upon tho completion of a brlot
speech from the platform of his car.
Roosevelt was asked if Cox's pres
ence nt tho reception would make
any difference.
"You must not ask foolish quos.
tlons," wns tho colonol's rosponse.
Roosovolt also rofused to discuss
tho attitude taken by William R.
Hearst in recent editorials in which
he invited tho colonel to come bank
to Now York and holp drive tho
bosses out ot tho state
Politicians hero are speculating
on the possibility of a Hearst-Itnose-velt
alliance. Hearst, they declare,
is anxious to defeat Mayor Gaynor,
who will probably bo the Democratic
nominee for governor of Now York.
Unless he supports Roosevelt, a
four-cornored fight will follow in
Which Hearst, Roosevelt, tho Demo
crats and tho progressives and the
"old guard," will bo tho combatants.
If Hearst and Roosevelt combine, it
Is believed they probably would win
in tho state.
Roosevelt says ho would gladly
accept any "sincerely established
clean politics campaign."
OENERAL bowers
DIED LAST NIGHT
IDMITED ritlBS LEASED WlBR.l
Boston, Mass,, Sept. 9. -United
States Solicitor General Lloyd W.
Bowers died at the Hotel Touralne
from complicated bronchitis today,
Bowers, who recently wa3 men
tioned prominently for a scat on tho
United States supremo bench, con
tracted a severe cough' sqmo time
ago which developed into bronchitis.
He was recuperating in this city.
Bowora was born In Springfield
Mass., CI years ago. After his grad
uation from Yalo in 1879, and from
Columbia University Law School in
1882 ho was ndmjttod to tho bar. For
many years he was chief counsel for
tho Chicago & Northwestern railway,
whioh position lie held when called
Into public life.
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:: The Value of a Wide I
of Choice
(Continued on page eight.
(Continued on Pago S.)
REGISTER
The books close for registration
for tho primaries September 13,
11 days before the primary election.
If you reUter otherwise than as a
Republican or Democrat, you lose
your vote, as there are no candi
dates at the primaries other than
iiKiiubllcang and Democrat and a
REGISTER
man registered Independent cannot
voto at tho primaries. At tho gen
eral election however, you can vote
at you please, but the big battle will
be fought at th primaries so get
out and register. Do not delay, as
the last day for registration before
l the primaries in September 13.
Men who are discriminating
prefer to purchase their Cloth-
1 ' '
ing where a great variety of
patterns are shown at this time.
Our exhibit of Fall Suits is in
111 i . . i . " . ... . .
every way complete. All the
popular shades of browns and
gray in the season's most fay"
ored styles and weaves, from
15.00 to $35,00
; Woolen Mill Stored
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