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MUST SUBMIT REPORTS.
The Railroad Commissioners After
the Steamboat COMPANIES

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-The Rail-
road Commissioners are after the
steamboat companies.
Representatives OF the Sacramento
Transportation Company and the Cali
fornia Navigation and Improvement
Company were expected to appear be-
fore the commission at its meeting this
afternoon and present blank form of
the making of their annual reports to
the board. They were authorized to do
this at the last meeting of the commits
sion. The commission has determined
that all transportation lines within the
State, whether they be carriers by rail
Or water, shall acknowledge the juris-
diction of the board and file annual re-
ports of their organization and business.
This special form of report which the
steamboat companies We're to submit
for the approval of the board was ex-
pected to smooth all difficulties between
the officers of the river lines and the
Railroad Commissioners, but the Off
GERS of the steamboat companies have
failed to keep their part of the agree
ment, and the Commissioners decided
of the votes of Stanton and La Rue
that the steamer lines should be made
to comply. Instead of allowing the
river lines the privilege of suggesting
a special form of report, as agreed to
at the last meeting, it was decided to
compel them to furnish reports on the
regular blank forms furnished by the
commission.
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GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT.
Proposition to Hold 1t at Rich
mond Meets With Opposition.

RICHMOND Wa), July 2S.-The
proposition to induce the Grand Army
to hold it's encampment next year here
meets with comparatively little sympa-
thy.
The Richmond "Times," the Gold
Democratic paper, whose editor was one
of Mosby's men, to-day says editorial
lv: ut would be worse than affecta-
ton. it would be insincere, to pretend
that the invitation which is to be ex-
tended to the Grand Army OF the Re-
public to make their encampment IN
1898 at Richmond is not prompted by
business considerations. What comph-
cations may be met because of the place
which the colored troops have in the
Grand Army of the Republic we cannot
suggest. because we do not know what
the custom in the matter is. But 1t Is
certain that there will be no change
in our social customs here to suit a
transient demand, should one be made,
and this is no doubt understood, OF
should be understood, by all parties.
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Coal Which Was Formerly Admitted Free
Now Dutiahle.
Four More Boys Make Their Es-
cape From the Whittier Reform
School-Two Criminals Give
Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff
the Slip, but Were Recaptured
and Landed in Jail.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-A
change of immense Importance to the
manufacturing interests of the coast
has been made by the new tariff, if the
understanding now entertained is the
correct one. Its Importance is sug-
gested in a note of instruction given
by Collector Jackson to Deputy Col
lectors to-day in the following commu-
mica ton:
In view of the standard fixed by the
new tariff of 90 per cent. Of fixed car
bon as the line of demarkation between
anthracite and bituminous coal, you
will exact a deposit on all cargoes
heretofore passed as anthracite from
Swansea
Under the old tariff coal that ex-
ceeded SO per cent. of fixed carbon was
rated as anthracite coal, and admitted
free of duty. Most of the coal import
ed here from Swansea ranged from 80
to 80 per cent and so came in free.
Under the new tariff it will nearly all
be rated as bituminous, and will be
charged a duty of 67 cents a ton. The
instructions given were for the pur-
pose of securing deposit equal to
the duty before releasing such coal.
Immense quantities of Swansea coal
are annually imported at this port for
consumption on this coast, mostly for
manufacturing purposes. The kind of
coal with which it comes most directly
In competition is the Pennsylvania an
thracite. Whether the duty is suffi-
cient to cover the difference in the cost
of transportation from Pennsylvania or
not remains to be seen. If it does not,
the result, it is said, will be simply to
increase the cost of this kind of coal
to the manufacturers who use it.
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FEDERAL PATRONAGE.
Another Batch of Appointments
Made by the President.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The Presi-
den has made the following appoint
ments:
State Department-Daniel Swine Of
Ohio, Consul at Cork, Ireland.
Treasury observation-disclosures Fit
chic of New York, Commissioner of I'm
migration for the port of New York;
Warner Sherwood and George w. Wan
amaker of New York, Assistant APP
praisers of Merchandise, New York;
Frank J. Narramore, Collector; Charles
H. Maris, Collector of Customs at Bra
zos de Santiago, Texas; Andrew w.
Francisco, Collector of Customs, Los
Angeles, California; Charles E. Sapp,
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Fifth District of Kentucky; Samuel j.
Roberts, Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Seventh District of Kentucky.
Interior Department-AlvinE Eastman,
Receiver of Public Moneys at St. Cloud,
Mimi: Charles S. McNichols, Agent for
the Indians of the Colorado River
Agency in Arizona; Edward w. Fox.
Register of the Land Office at Clayton,
New Mexico; Jay Lynch, Agent for the
Indians of the Yakima Agency in
Washington; Stephen J. Loughran, Re
ceiver of Public Moneys at Des Moines,
Iowa; Gilbert 3. Pray of Iowa, Sur
veyor- G eneral of the District of Alas
ka; John Dudley of Washington, D. C.,
Register of the Land Office at Sitka'
Alaska; Roswell Sheldon of Oregon,
Receiver of Public Moneys at Sitka,
Alaska; Andrew ]. Duncan of Ohio, In
dian Inspector.
Department of Justice-Charles 5.
Johnson of Alaska, United States Dis
trict Judge for the District of Alaska;
Glen Miller of Utah, Marshal for the
District of Utah.
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PALMYRA ISLAND.
No New Issue Presented in It's
Seizure by the British.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-State De-
partment officials say that no new issue
is presented in the seizure of PALMYRA
Island by the British, reported some
days ago by an incoming vessel, for
Great Britain has maintained a claim
to the island for the past nine years.
The island is said to be in the Polynesian
group, and that although Hawaii has
asserted a claim to its possession, our
Government has not been strongly i'm
pressed with the validity of the claim.
Meanwhile the British, it is said, not
only have asserted a claim to it, but
have actually occupied the island for
some years past. In view of the prob
able annexation of Hawaii by the Uni
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BLOODY BATTLE IN BRAZIL.
THREE THOUSAND GOVERN
MENT TROOPS KILLED.
A Large Force of Fanatics Attack
the Soldiers, Sweeping Down
Whole Brigades.

NEW YORK, July 2S.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Rio De Janeiro says
that information has reached that clty
TO the effect that 5000 soldiers have
been killed in a big battle near the
site of Canados.
The fanatics, numbering more than
10000 men, all well armed, attacked
the Government troops. Whole bri-
pades of the soldiers were swept down
and destroyed, trampled under foot as
the victorious fanatics with Wild,
hoarse shouts of triumph, passed over
them.
The full extent of the loss of life can
not be told. There is no reasonable
doubt. however, that the loss on both
sides is more than 5000. For miles
the ground around Canados is strewn
with the dead and dying. The Gov
ernment troops were compelled to leave
their dead on the field and flee to save
themselves from complete Instruction
by the avalanche of fanatics.
When the report of the awful battle
reached Rio De Janeiro, it was consid-
cred by the President and Ministry,
and it was decided to send the Minis
ter of War to the scene next week with
600 men, who are now gathering.
They will carry with them a great
amount of ammunition. and will en-
deavor to dislodge the fanatics from the
positions they now hold
Fighting has been in progress at Ca
nadas for several weeks. In the mean
time, while the fanatics fought appar-
entity with little heart, they have been
gathering their forces from all direc-
tions The result was the final attack
on the Government troops, which led
to such awful results.
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Racing at Butte.

SALT LAKE, July 2S.-A special tc
the Tribune from Butte gives the
following results of the races:
Trotting, 2:27 class, three in five
Washington takes, 1000 May B. won
Golden Star second, Domitian third
Best time-2: 1914.
Pacing, 2:15 class, two in three, Ar
gotine won, Glen Arthur second, Louise
NJ. third Best time-2:14112.
Running, four and a half furlongs
Belize Denuit won, Bottle Washer Sec
ond Highland Belle third. Time
0:5614.
Seven furlongs, Mollie r. won, Sir
Richard second, Senator Dubois third
Tfme-1 :3012.
Four furlongs, Leora won, Bill How
ard second, Don't Know third. Tlme
-0:4S.
Five and a half furlongs, Tammany
won Zeune second, Sable third. Time
-1:09A.
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INCENDIARISM AT sONOMA.
People Badly Frightened Over an
ATTEMPT to Burn the Town.

SONOMA, July 2S.-This morning at
1:3O a large barn owned by c. Aguilon
of this place was burned to the ground.
AS the firemen were returning to the
engine house another fire was discoV-
cred in the wine cellar of j. A. Poppe.
This was quickly extinguished, and up
on investigation they found a candle
with bottle for its holder filled with
coal oil. This had been placed where
it could ignite the side of the building.
The people are badly frightened over
this fourth attempt in the past few
months To burn their town.
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TWO soNOMA CRIMINALS.
Escape From a Deputy Sheriff, but
Are Recautured

SANTA ROSA, July 2S.-There was
great excitement in the neighborhood of
Glen Ellen this morning. On Tuesday
night Deputy Sheriff Ohm captured two
men on suspicion of being the men who
robbed the railway depot at Sonoma a
few nights ago. They were taken to
the Glen Ellen Hotel, and after their
clothes had been removed they were
handcuffed and put to bed. During the
night they cut off the handouts with a
file, which had been concealed and es-
capped. An alarm was given this morn
ing by the officers, and a number of vol
unteers turned out to hunt the fugi-
tives. They were captured near Gels
ton, and were brought here by Sheriff
Allen In their camp were found many
stolen articles, and among them a coin
sack taken from the Sonoma depot.
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CLARK ROAD LAW.
The Supreme Court Decides That
1t Is Unconstitutional.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-The Su-
preme Court has decided in a case
brought from Alameda County that the
Clark road law is void, having been su-
perseded by the County Government
Act.
The question hinged upon which OF
the two Acts was really approved by
the Governor, both having been approx
ed on the same day. By reference 10
5he printed statutes, it was found that
the Clark road law was printed upon
page 374, and the county government
bill, which repealed all Acts" on ROAD
matters conflicting with its provisions,
was printed on page 452, and the con-
clusion is that the Clark road law was
PASSED prior to the county government
bin. which continues the supervision OF
road matters in the Board of SuperVls-
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HOSTILE TRIBES IN THE CHITRAL.
ENGLAND ABLE TO COPE WITH
THE EMERGENCY.
Reinforcements Are Being Hurried
to the Front From All Parts
of India.

LONDON, July 2S.-A dispatch from
Simla this morning says that the Gov
ernment is taking all steps necessary
TO cope With the emergency in the Chit
raj. Although Fort Chakdara, now cut
off, occupies an isolated position, it is
believed that with two companies OF
the Thirty-first Punjab Infantry and
two guns the garrison can hold its own
The road between Marland and Mala-
kand is blocked with hostile tribes
men who have cut the telegraph wires
Three squadrons of Bengal Lancers
and the Second Punjab Infantry Regi-
ment have started for Mardan. The
Seventh Mountain Battery is on the
way to Malakand and the West Kent
Regiment is held in readiness at Pesh-
ewar.
The Simla dispatch says that Captain
Holland of the TWenty-fourth Punjat
Infantry was among those seriously in
iured during Monday nights attack
on Camp Malalland.
The Times this morning prints q
dispatch from SimIa which says yet
another proof is given of the wave OF
fanaticism which is sweeping along the
Gus as showing how quickly the tribes
men can be gathered and how readily
they respond to the appeal of fanatl-
cism. Since the Chitral campaign end
ed the Swat Valley has been
perfectly peaceful, trade has developed
and the Swatis have been contented
and have shown no sign of disaffect1on
On Monday, however, without the
least warming, the whole population un-
derwent a sudden change. The first
news that reached Malakand was that
the disturbance had occurred at Phana
near Chakdara bridge A few hours
later news was received that the Mol
lah. a priest who is we'll known in that
locality, had gathered a force of armed
men, raising the cry Of ''holy wal"
In the evening it was reported that he
was advancing toward Malakand, anc
preparations were made to send a col
umn in the morning to disperse the
gathering. The tribal levies, who fled
as the Mollah advanced, reported that
Malakand would be attacked at ) a. m
The camp was alert, but the ATTACK
was delivered at / 80 at night. An at
tempt was made to surprise the camp
and a fight ensued, which resulted II
the tribesmen being repulsed. Nothing
is feared now but that the report of the
raising. spreading rapidly, may st1mu-
ulate the tribesmen to attack the eXpe-
dition to the Tochi Valley.
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Crash,
&c ward.
ANGUS-CRAVEN CASE.
Attorney Reuben H. Lloyd on the
Witness Stand.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-When
the trial of the Angus Craven case was
resumed this afternoon, Attorney
Reuben H. Lloyd was called to the
witness-stand to corroborate the testi-
naony of Charles S. Wheeler with re-
spect to the negotiations entered into
with Mrs. Craven about the time OF
the discovery and filing of the pencll
will of the late Senator Fair. over the
objections of the defense, he was per
mitted to relate in detail the numerous
conferences which he and his asSocl-
ates had with Mrs. Craven's repre-
sentatives in relation to reaching some
agreement with that lady. whereby she
might be induced to relinqulsh hef
claims upon the estate of the deceased
millionaire.
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FATAL ACCIDENT
IN UTAH STATE.
Mrs. Joseph Smith Crushed to Death
Near Cedar City,
The Wagon in Which She Was Riding Fall,
ing Over an Embankment.
The Supreme Court Renders a De-
eision Declaring the Clark Road
Law Void, Tt Having Been Su-
perseded by the County Gov
ernment Act.

SALT LAKE, July 2S.-A special to
the Tribune" from Cedar City, Utah.
says Mrs Joseph Smith was instantly
killed and Mrs. Amelia Webster badly
injured in an accident to-day
joseph Smith was hauling timber over
the mountain road, having on the wagon
Mrs. Smith, his wife; Mrs. Daugherty,
Mrs. Webster and five children. Whle
coming down the mountain the brake
beam broke, and the wagon went down
the hill at a terrific speed, and fell over
the embankment. Mrs. Smith was
crushed to DEATH and Mrs. Webster was
badly injured. The five children jumped
off at various places, and were unln-
jured.
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Arrnor Plant Board.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Secretary
Long has taken the preliminary steps
towards the creation of a board of naval
officers to ascertain the cost of a Gov
ernment armor plant. Two members of
the board have been selected, Commo-
dore Howell, commandant of the League
Island Navy Yard, and Captain Nc
Cormick of the Norfolk Navy Yard.
Both of these officers are possessed of
much technical knowledge and may be
said to rank high as experts upon the
subject of armor. The board is to re-
port to Congress at it's next session.
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IRRIGATION SUIT.
Action Brought Against the Col
1eetor of the Jamacha District.

SAN DIEGO, July 2S.-Carlos Oil
vera, T. J. Higgins and many other
heavy property owners in the Jamacha
Irrigation District, this county, have
instituted suit against F. o. Wads-
worth, as Collector of said District, en-
joining him from making or delivering
to his co-defendant, the Jamacha Irri-
cation District any deed or deeds pur-
porting to convey any parcels Of real
property in the district sold to said
district on account of assessment levied
in the years 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895 and
1896 belonging to the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs claim that the ex-
change of $4,000 of the districts
bonds for certain water rights was il
legal, and that the assessment made to
pay the interest on that amount of
bonds was also illegal, and that default
in payment of these taxes and subse-
quent purchase by the district of land
delinquent in taxes does not give the
district a title to the property.
Keen SOap and dust ont of the ewes.
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ted states the matter doubtless VIII re-
ceive closer attention in the future at
the hands OF the State Department, but
1T is not expected that the subject will
prove to be difficult of adjustment, par
ticularly in view of the fact, as stated
by naval officers, that Palmyra Island
is nothing more than barren rock in
the Pacific, distant thousand miles
from Hawaii.
LONDON, July 28.-With reference to
the reported seizure by Great Britain of
Palmyra Island, Polynesia, it is Of
fficiaIly stated that the island has been
British since 1888.
The report is supposed to have arisen
from the fact that H. NJ. S. Wild Swan
called there last May on a periodical
visit
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Fire in Santa Barbara County.

SANTA BARBARA, July 2S.-Fire
this morning at Santa Ynez wiped out
several buildings and did $4,000 dam
age. The fire started in the store-room
of ]. F. Miller's general store, which is
a total loss. Pertica's saloon and Todd
harness shop were also burned. Mil
ler's stock was insured for $1,000. Per
tica and Todd were insured for S40O
each. The cause of the fire is not
In
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Grace Allen Acquitted.

GUTHRIE (Okla-), July 2S-Miss
Grace Allen, the Kansas school teacher
on trial at Chandler, was to-day ac-
quilted Of the charge of poisoning her
rival, Miss Phronia Eckes, and her
mother In the argument it was as
serted that the women were poisoned
with ague medicine which the family
was known to have used. The verdict
receives the commendation of the pub
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Escaped From Whittier.

LOS ANGELES, July 2S.-Four more
boys have made their escape from the
Whittier Reform School. Their names
and places of commitment are as fol-
lows: William Gallagher, Alameda !;
Richard Sterdeff, Placer; William Kel-
liner, Alameda; Newton Edminster,
San Francisco. The last st-named is said
to have been one of the worst boys in
the school, and was one of the ring
leaders of the recent outbreak.
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CARRIED OUT HIS THREAT.
A Young Mar Commits Suicide IN
Sutter County.

YUBA CITY, July 2S.-Frederick
Schroeder, a young man 25 years of
age. disappeared from his father s
place, ten miles northwest of here, last
Sunday afternoon, and nothing was
heard of him until this morning, when
his body was found in barn on the
farm with a gun shot wound in the
head Deceased had threatened sew
eral times to kill himself during the
past few years. An inquest was held
this afternoon, and verdict of suicide
returned.
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MRS. CRAVEN RESIGNS.
No Longer a Teacher of the Youth
at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-Mrs.
Nettie r. Craven, Principal of the Mis-
sion Grammar School, and claimant to
a portion Of the Fair estate. is no longer
an instructor of Children. She rendered
her resignation from the school depart
7nent to the Board of Education at it's
regular meeting tonight, and it was
promptly accepted. The charges pre-
ferred against her by Professor Bar
rington. and which We're to be investi-
gated by the board, now fall to the
ground, as their object had been at
tained by her voluntary retirement.
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AN INSANE MANS ACT.
Tries to Behead a Girl and Murder
a Man.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-During
O. fit of insanity Thomas Kruse, young
man, attacked Miss Esther Mackey in
the cellar of her home on Fourteenth
street. and but for the timely assistance
of some men from a contractors camp
near by, who were attracted by the
girls screams, would undoubtedly have
beheaded her with a hatchet. He then
ran amuck, and threw a stranger down
on Guerrero street, and endeayored to
hold him in front of an approaching
electric car. Young Kruse was finally
arrested and committed to the asylum
Loss of sleep while nursing dying
mother is supposed to have caused his
sudden insanity.
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California Dried Fruits.

NEW YORK, July 2S.-California
fruits: Evaporated apples steady; 9TH
er dried fruits steady, but quiet. Evap-
grated apples-prime wire tray. sc per
pound: wood dried prime, 54c; choice.
5%c; fancy, &c. Prunes, 3Q112c, as to
size and quality. Apricots-Royal, 90
&c; Moor Park. 12c. Peaches-unpeeled,
case; peeled, 11614c.
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from the cruiser Brooklyn, lying at
Tompkinsville, S. c., and will leave at
once for San Francisco to assume COM
mand of the Pacific Station as soon as
he can reach Hawaii
The following ticket was nominated:
For Comptroller, Thomas A. Smith of
Carolina County; for Clerk of Court of
Appeals, j. Frank Ford of st. Mary's.
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Barkentine Run Down and Sunk.

BOSTON, July 2s. = The British
steamer Candinavia, from Liverpool, re-
ports running down and sinking the
barkentine Florence while in a dense
fog twenty miles south Of Cape Race
last Saturday. The Captains wife and
four of the crew of the Florence We're
lost. The Florence was bound from
Sydney, c. B., to st. Johns, n. +.
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Suicide of an Ex-PoIice Officer.

STOCKTON, July 2S.-L. ]. Kuhn,
recently a police officer here, commit
ted suicide to-day in Oakdale by taking
poison He was on his way to the
mountains to work in Tuolumne Coun-
ty mines. He leaves a mother and sis
ter here, and a sister, Mrs. Frank Nj.
Smith, at Haywards.
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Grand Lodge of Red Men.

SANTA CRUZ July 2S.-The Grand
Lodge of Red Men to-day appointed the
following District Deputies: San
Francisco, c. s. Schlessinger; San
Jose. F. Schumacher; Sacramento, O..
r. Wilhelm; Santa Cruz, c. Beck; Los
Angeles, A. Eiser; Alameda, W. Dan
npheiTn
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Campanos, a Mexican, who pleaded
guilty Of bigamy, was sentenced by
Judge Torrance to-day to two and
half years in San Quentin, and to pay
a fine of 81 900. The prisoner, who pro-
fesses to be a prospectOr, deserted his
wife in Chihuahua last March. In
June he married a young girl here
named Rosa.lie Osuna. The Chihuahua
Wife came on, and Campanos was
PROMPTLY arrested
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X-RayS Bauuuefed

Manager krlpp of the X-Rays gave
the members of the team a banquet at
the Saddle Rock restaurant last even
ing 1t is needless to state that the ball
players did justice to the spread
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Sateen,
&c ward.

Henrietta finished Sateens,
black grounds with printed
floral effects to brighten them
up. Splendid for wrappers or
home dresses. Clearance sale
price, IA yards for 81.
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Organdie,
15C yard.

This opportunity represents
our 25c and 35c Fine Imported
Organdies, this seasons best
co1ors and patterns. You'll
want a new one for State Fair
time. Buy it now at sale price,
15c yard.
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PerCales,
7C Vard.

36-inch wide Percales, princi-
pally in light grounds, with
pretty figures, in contrasting
co1ors, perhaps Is styles to
choose from, at 7c yard.
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Uncertain. hut Eager.

"What does the new woman want?"
"She doesn't know, but she's going
to get it."-Demorest's Magazine.
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Unprecedented
Shoe Selling.

True to our prediction, the saving
prices on our Shoes crowded the
shoe store even to an uncomfort-
able degree, and naught but pleased
satisfaction was apparent with the
throng. Many dollar did double
duty, and REMEMBER there's
plenty of those same kind of goods
and prices remaining for another
day.