INCREASED SALES ENABLE THE STORES THAT ADVERTISE TO SEIL MORE ChEAPLY THAN THOSE WHO DON'T.
VOL. XX.
SALEM, OREOON, MONDAY, SEPTEMUEK 10, 1010.
No. 210.
MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN WORLD
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AND LET JVERY STREET BE
BORDERED W
No Other City Has the Wide Streets and the Same Oppotunity
City Hall Attracts Attention Always, As Do Many Other
Beautiful Private Parkings If Made General So There
Would Be Miles of Flour-Bordered Streets Salem Would Be
Known the World Over.
Hay, there!
This means you.
The horse editor wants to talk to
you for a few minutes.
Have you a lovi for and a prido in
your town?
If you have, would you not like to
make it known to the world?
Would it not afford you immense
satisfaction and a great deal of pleas
ure to know that whenever the trav
elers, no matter whltire they go, or
how many beauties of Europe or the
Old World they see, would at once
say: "Yes, beautiful indeed, but it
does not compare with Salem, uregon,
the most beautiful city dn tho world."
This can be accomplished, and done
so easily that, outside of the satis
faction you would get out of it, it
would also prove a good business in
vestment, from a financial point of
view.
More than that, Salem is one of
the very few cities that can do this
one thing. Tho oportunlty is hers,
and practically hers only.
Never In the history of our store have wo achieved such a marked success in buying the appropriate goods
for our customers as wo have this season. The eager customers that visit our store, and tho unusually
largo Increase in our business shows clearly that our styles and prices are right.
1910 and 1911 Newest Styles
In Ladles' Tailored Suite (like
the cut) Now on Solo. Work
manshlp and materials the
best. Wonderful values for
The
Greater
$8.50, $10.50
and $12.50
The plan is simple, and that is
make the parking system of tho city
general.
The broad streets nnd sidewalk
parkings are Salem's alone, and fur
nish an opportunity for civic beauti
fying that few if any cities in the
United States can boast.
All we have to do is to take ad
vantage of tho conditions. Wo have
now a fine start in that direction, and
some of the most beautiful sidewalk
parkings in the world are hare in Sa
lem, but the unadorned, weed-grown
and unkept parkings that are sand
wiched in among those that are kept
up, spoil the effect, and indeed to a
certain extent the really beautiful
parkings serve but to emphasize tho
ugliness of their unkempt neighbors.
Let us improve them all, so that
the stranger within our gates, no mat-'
ter where he goes, will ride through
miles of flower-bedecked streets, until
his eyes are surfeited with the riot
of color and beauty, and ho feels that
ho has had a glimpse Into tho Garden
New Fall
Millinery
Tho greatest showing we ever
attempted in Fashionable Mil
linery is here in all styles,
shapes and colors.
Styles Like the
Cut
Now on sale at wonderfully
low prices.
$1,95, $2.50, $3.50
and up
Dress Goods
The greatest stock in Salom of fashionable dress goods and silks to
make your selection from, and atlowest prices. Yd, 25c, 35c, 45c up.
1910 and 1911
Newest styles in
hirt Waists
NOW ON SALE
The greatest showing over made in
WOOLEN, SILK and LINEN. Come
here for bargains.
Each 40o. 7Eo, 98c, $1.49 and up
icaeo
Store
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Those Poor Railroads.
Chicago, Sept. 19. At tho
request of President Taft, In-
terstate Commerce Commission-
irs Clements, Clark and Lane
are attending the hearing of the
Western railroads who have re-
quested an increase of freight
rates.
Auditor Kelttell, of tho 111!-
nols Central, was on the stand
today. He declared that the
cost of operation had increased
48 per cent since the 'present
general rate was utablished. On
the other hand, though there
had been some Increase in re-
coipts, through enlarged busi-
ness, and other sources, the
profits, he said, had declined in
proportion to thet increased oper-
ation charges.
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of Eden.
. There are rose cities and carnation
cities, and- clMes named or known
by dozens of other flowers. Salem
can be famed for all of them, for be
ing tlM one city in the United States
where, for at least nine months of
the year, her Btreets are bordered
with flowers and greenery.
True, it would take some work, but
this is a labor of love, and, divided
among our 20,000 people, it mmns
but a trifle of work to each,
j Let the ladies organize a society
to carry out this idea. Let the busi
ness men, the property owners, the
renters, everyone within the city, get
together and make it tho most beau
tiful and one of the most-talked-of
cities in the ring of the world.
and Silks
Salem,
Oregon
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Eight Balloons Down.
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Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 19.
With eight baloons already
down that sailed in tho national
championship , and free-for-all
balloon races, .starting at Indi-
anapolis Saturday, it is ex-
fr pocted nothing remarkable in
tho way of now records wllll be
made.
Only five bags remain aloft,
and, white it is not definitely
known where they are, it is
not believed, judging from the
showing made ' by those that
havo descended, that tho rec-
ord of 1121 miles, made by E.
Mix, Is in any danger.
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YOUNfi GIRL
Eby Alice Shepherd, aged 13,
Tells of Beating Her Fath
er's Brains Out With an Axe
Because He Had Whipped
Her.
THEN KILLED HER BROTHER
Slipped Up Behind Her Father and
Crushed Ills Skull With an Axe,
Then, Fearing Her Brother Would
Discover Hor Crime, She Killed
Him Also Sho Invented a Story of,
lieliiK A Mm It o 'Masked". Men 16
Hide Her Guilt, Hut Broke Down
and Confesses.
Newklrk, Okla., Sopt. 19. Posses
seeking tho man who attacked little
Eby Alice Shepherd, 13, and beat hor
fa'ther, Taylor Shepherd, and hor
brother, J. W. Shepherd, to death,
were called in today, wheln tho llttlo
girl tearful and hysterical, confessed
thsit she killed her. rolatlvoe.
According to tho confession tho
little girl sobbed out todny tho fan
tastic story she told Saturday of as
sault and murdor was fabricated to
hide hor own terrible deed, when
angtlred because ho had beaten her,
sho stole up behind her father and
beat him to death with nn axe, and
then, fearing ho,r brother would dis
cover the deed, and tell it, sho killed
'him also.
The screams of tho llttlo girl
brought persons to tho scene of the
FIGHT IN
MINNESOTA
A WARM ONE
CONGRESSMAN TAWNEV, ONE
OF THE DIG GUNS, OPPOSED
HV Pit ATI CALLY UNKNOWN
MAN, FACES A HARD DE
FEAT. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 19. Inter
est in tomorrow's congressional pri
maries for tho state of Minnesota, if
centorcd in tho fight in tho first dis
trict, whore Congressman James A.
Tawnoy is fighting for ro-nominn-tlon.
Sydney Andorson, insurgent,
and beforo tho campaign practically
unknown politically, Is conceded an
evon chanco to boat Tawnoy. Fran
cis J. Honey and Glfford Plnchot
were among tho notables who throw
themsolves Into tho fight bohlnd An
derson. In tho fourth district H. T. Hal
bort, Insurgent, is opposed to Fred
erick Stevons, present holder of the
office, and a standpatter. Another
sharp contest Ib expected in the fifth
district, where Frank Mellen, In
cumlMint. U oppoeed by A. II. Hall.
Insurgent Intereet Is at fever heat
throughout the state and a heavy
vote la expected.
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Important Cabinet. Meeting.
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Washington, Sept. 19. So
many questions of government
havo Mien held lnnboyanie on
account of department heads
that tho special cablnot meet-
lug on September 2.6 will be of
unusual Importance. All tho
members have reserved big prob-
lems for the closo of tho vaca-
tlon period, and tho tlmo when
3 they can get tho benefit of con-
sulfation with their collmgues.
President Taft will arrivo in
Washington Sunday, September
25, to arrango for tho reception
of his councilors, who will bo
his guests at tho White House.
Should tho question of Sec-
retary Balllngcir's retirement
from tho interior department be
raised, as It possibly may be,
it will bo the most Interesting
subject dn the.cablnet discussion.
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attack Saturday. They found hor un
sclous, her father bleeding and semi
conscious was lying near her, and hor
brother was found not far away. Tho
fhther regained consciousness, and
the few words ho managed to speak
confirmed tho belief that a man had
attacked his daughter, and then had
beaten him.
Those who heard the few words be
lieve that Shepherd did not know who
struck him, and they think the first
blow probably rendered him uncon
scious, nnd that tho blows wero
rained on his head after ha knew
nothing.
For hours the girl lay unconscious,
then when sho regained her senses
she told of-an attackthat had-been
mado, on, hen When sho repeated her
story tlfero word a number of dlacre'p
nncles.'and sho was closoly questioned
Under tho cross-examlhation she
broke down and told tho story of her
ntUick on hor father and brother.
She said that they had beaten hor se
verely. Sho is hysterical today, and
under tho care of a physician.
Both father nnd brother llvod for
sovoral hours nftor they had boon
struck by tho litlo girl. J..W. Shop
herd never regained consciousness.
Both suffered fractures of tho skull
Cholera In Naples.
united rnEsa ucised wikb.1
Rome, Sopt. 19. Advices from
Naples to tho offect that, there are
more than 150 cases of cholera in
tho hospitals at that place havo
beon received. Tho death rato i
about 80 por cent.
o
"Tho great way," murmured tho
grafter, as ho took .another million
from tho Indians.
KILLED AT
CROSSI
ELETRIO OAIt STRIKES BUGGY
IN WHICH THEV WERE RIDING
ONE WOMAN IS KILLED AND
TWO OTHERS FATALLY IN
JURED, (UNITED VWI1S WISH.
Los Angales, Cal., Sept, 19 Mrs.
Frank X. Loldol Is dead, Mrs. J.
Stephen Knelln, wife of a Southern
Pacific employo, Is thought to bo
dying, and Mrs. William Sataoublo,
wlfo of a Playa Del Roy rancher, U
seriously and porhaps fatally In-
Jurod as tho rosult of nn accident at
tho crossing at Boyors, on tho Los
Angeles-Paclflc electric lino to Von
Ice. Tho three women woro driving
noross the tracks In a buggy whoit
they wero struck by a throo-oar
beach ox prow. The buggy was de
molished and the throo occupants
wore hurled many feet. Tho hua
bnndB of the women, who were
walking ahead of the buggy a short
distance, saw the accident.
The approaohlng car wero hidden
at the crossing by a thlok oluinp of
trees.
WOMEN ARE
imu oirnnMMCiin dcciicm
HILL ilLUUIfl.flLiiU !1L! UUfll.
TO PAY WARREN COMPANY
CLAIM CONCRETE I
Special Committee Finds Grounds for the Big Kick against Con
crete on Winter Street Dirt in the Sand, It Is Claimed,
Prevents Concrete Setting, and Curbings Crumble Like So
Much Caked Sand-'uTmTTittee Will Recommend That No
Payments Be Made the Company ,and Then the Fireworks
Will Start.
There will be more fireworks- at
the meeting of tho city council to
night when tho special committee on
investigation of tho character of
work performed by tho Warren Bttu
llthlc company in tho laying of the
concroto curbing and gutters upon
Winter street, makes its report.
This committee is prepared to roport
adversely upon tho acceptance of tho
work, on ,tho ground that tho sand
gravel and concrete, are of such in
ferior quality that they will not
bind sufficiently to guarnnteo a per
manent Improvement and will rec
ommend that the contractors bo not
paid a cont upon tho contract price
until the whole Job of ovor a mile
of curbing and guttor on both sides
of tho Btreet Is roplaced with a bet
ter character of work.
This special Committee, appointed
at tho last regular mooting at tho
solicitation of tho property owners
along Winter streot against whose
property tho cost of tho Improve
raentMS assessed, is composed of'Al1
dormen Lachmund' and Greonbaum.
They made investigation of "the
work complained of and found that,
although tho Job has been comploto
for over six weeks, tho curbing and
gutter crumbles and falls almost ot
the touch of tho hand or a kick of
tho hool and they attribute it to tho
sand being mixed with dirt which
will not permit tho concroto to form
nn adhesion nnd bind tho lngrodl
onts together. It is oxpected that
thoro will bo a loud howl go up
-H M M M t V
Our Exhibit
Indian Robes
From the State Fair are now oh
Sale at our Store for a few daya
previous to Shipping them
Back to rPendIetcn.
The assortment affords those
who wish to Purchase an unusal
opportunity of matching color
schemes as well as a great range
of designs from which to choose
; Woolen
S ROTTI
when tho committco makes Its report
tonight and It Is more than probablo
that the pyrotechnic display Incident
thereto will put to blush the elabor
ate fireworks which were set off at
tho fair grounds this week.
There is also trouble brewing
over the character of tho same kind
of work which is being or has been
porformed by Contractor Walter
Pugh, of this city, on North Capital
street, as a result ot which It Is .un
derstood that Ovorsoer John Jeffer
son, appointed to loot after the In
terests of tho property jowners in the
making of tho street improvement,
has resigned his Job nnd refuses to
havo anything further to do with tho
matter upon his own responsibility
nnd that Frank B. Southwlck, who
Is superintending tho work of Im
provement on Winter street has been
selected to go ahead with the work
on Capital street.
Tho property owners on Capital
street, It is understood rose up In
ftrms"wheH"inlbrm'cd-thttrther,aolde!r
Gato cement which Is being used In
tho performance of " the" ''concrete
work upon that street was of infer
ior quality and will not set and Mr.
Jefferson refused to go ahead with
the work, if that quality and brand
of cement was continued in use, but
it Is now understood that tho.prop
erty owners hnve withdrawn their
kick and aro willing that the work
proceed. This mnttor, too, may
como up for nn airing before tho
council at tonight's meeting. ,
H M H M H t M M
of Pendleton ;
and Blankets f
Mill Store 1