The Topeka State Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 1

ALTERNATE PAGE FOLLOWS 'J TEN PAGES. i I TEN PAGES. b' 5 I- i A i I LAST ECiTO MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY 12, 1903. MONDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS.

rt 1 i PRIHGLEJP ACT IT ALARMING. Coal Famine in Topeka Grows More Serious. LOOKS TOJIOUSE. Aldricb Asks Test to Let Up ca His Resolution i I i Select All the House Officers in Caucus. lie Is Inaugurated at 'ocn Today.

C. D. Jones, of Norton, Speaker Gas Company Short and 3Iay Have to Shut Down. Calling for Bill to Put Coal ea Free List. Pro Tern.

Ceeasicm Is Charac terized bj JeSI'ersouian Simplicity. MASON IS CHIEF CLERK THE MILLS RUN SHORT. JUST LIKE ANY OTHER 7 nil1! 3 PEOPLE COME EARLY. Oaly Those With Tickets Admitted to Floor. Outgoing and Incoming Officials tin the riatlorni.

ADDRESS WAS BRIEF. Governor Da Hey Asks for Co-cperation of I'eople. lefers Eloquently to Early Trials of the State. Kelierps in Enforcement Every Law on Statute Books. At ponn today the administration of XV.

K. as governor of Kansas passed into It is now "Governor J. liaiii and "ex-Governor fcSumloy." Long ripfore the timP for the Inaup-ural ceremonies to bsin. the Auditorium began to fill with people. Only those with admission tirkfts were admitted to the floor, while those without ti kcts had to go to the gallery.

As a matter of courtesy to those from out-Fide of Topeka the invitation appointed by the Topeka Commercial club, gave no tickets to Topeka people, but only to the incoming and outgoing officials, members of the legislature and visitors from abroad. Topeka people who wanted seats on the floor of the Auditorium had to secure their tickets from their friends among the incoming state officials, each of whom was given fifty tickets to give out as he saw fit. A large crowd had gathered by the time the governor arrived at the Auditorium. The governor's party was made up of Governor Hailey and the other incoming state officials, accompanied by their wives those of them who have wives the outgoing officials, members of the Kansas congressional delegation who are in Topeka, the ex-governors in attendance, and a few others. The inaugural ceremonies were very simple, John E.

Frost, as president or the Topeka Commercial club, presided. The invocation was pronounced by Bishop Frank R. Mlllspaugh. governor Stanley delivered a brief address as the retiring executive, and then Governor Hailey delivered his Inaugural address. LINE OF CARRIAGES.

A good many people who saw the procession of carriages passing down Kansas avenue at noon today, conveying the governor's party from the Copeiand hotel to the Auditorium, mistook it for a funeral procession. 1'rocessions of Mate are not so familiar a spectacle in Topeka that the unconcerned citizen can distinguish between them and others at first gianre. There were seventeen of the best hacks in Topeka in line. At o'clock they drew up in front of the Copeiand whte the people who composed the governor's party had assembled. The following order was observed in seating the members of the party in the carriages: First carriage chairman Frost and -ife.

Bishop Mlllspaugh and wife. Second carriage Ex-Governors Morrill, Humphrey and Click. Third carriage Governor Stanley and wife. Governor-elect Bailey and Mrs. Albans h.

Four, fifth, sixth and seventh car-I la ges Justices of the supreme court. carriage Lieutenant Governor Ilichter and wile, and Lieutenant Governor-elect llanna. Ninth carriage Secretary of State Clark ami wire. Secretary of State-elect Burrow and wife. Tenth carriage Auditor Cole and wife, and Auditor-elect Wells and wife Eleventh carriage Treasurer Grimes and wife, and Treasurer-elect Kellv and wife.

Twelfth carriage Attornev fieneral Codard and wife, and Attorney Geneial-f'lecr Coleman and wife. Thirteenth carriage Superintendent of Public Instruction Nelson and wife, and Superintendent of Public Instruction-elect Layhoff and wife. Fourteenth eariiage, Superintendent of Insurance Church and wife, ami Superintendent of Insurance-elect Luling and wife. CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION Carriage No. 1.

Hon. Charles Curtis nnd wife. Congressman Bowersock and Miss Curtis. Carriage No. 2 Congressman Calder-head.

Mrs. Forter, Congressman Long and wife. Carriage No. 3 Congressman Campbell and wife and Mr. John MacDonald.

As the governor's party entered in auditorium at the rear of the state the boys' bugle corps, standing in front of the staee, blew a fanfare. It required perhaps ten minutes for the party to become seated on the stage. In the center, next to the aisle on one side sat Governor-elect Bailey' Next to him were Justices Cunningham, Greene, Pollock and Bureh; and then Lieutenant Governor Hanna! Secretary of State Burrow. State Auditor Wells, State Treasurer Kellv. Attorney General Coleman, Superintendent Dav-hoff and Superintendent of lnsui-i Huling.

Next to them came Justice Smith, D. W. Mulvane and II. J. Bone Governor Bailey's secretary.

On the other side of the aisle, beeinning with Governor Stanley in the center were Chief Justice Doster, Justices Smith. Mason, and the retiring officers, Lieutenant Governor Richter, Secretary of Ftate Clark. State Auditor Cole. S'tate Treasurer Grimes. Superintendent Nelson and Superintendent of Insurance On the second row sat the wives of the outgoing and incoming officials, and behind representatives of the city (covernment and members of the inaugural committees.

At the north end ot the stage was the congressional I Willis Joshua Who Was Inaugurated as Governor of Kansas Today. party, and also Chancellor Strong of the State university. As Governor Bailey came on the stage he was greeted with general applause but there was no other outbreak until Congressman Long appeared, when the Long partisans broke out in applause. As a prelude to the inaugural ceremonies Wood's orchestra fittingly played "Bill Bailey." In the front row in the audience was General Hugh Cameron, wearing a silk flag for a cap; Senator Kennedy, Cyrus I.eland, Senator Simmons, Senator Morehouse and others. PRESIDENT FROST RAPS FOR ORDER.

As soon as all were seated Chairman John E. Frost rapped for order and said: "It gives me great pleasure to welcome you here on this occasion, the first time we meet in our new Auditorium to inaugurate the incoming officers of the state of Kansas." After Bishop Millspavigh had pronounced the invocation Governor Stanley was introduced and snoke briefly. "I was told to talk awhile," he said, "but I was not told what to talk about. Speaking only for myself in the closing hour of my four years' administration. I wish to say that whatever success there has been in my administration has been in large part due to the very gen tlemanly members of the executive council who have helped make up this ad ministration.

I also wish to thank Ungenerous people of this state for the very cordial support given my administration. "I don't know what experiences my successor may have, but I have had a great variety, from delivering addresses of welcome before ministerial bodies to trying to sneak before the Saturday Night club; and the most heart-touehiuft experiences of all. the most serious part of a governor's dutv, listening to the appeals for pardons from the friends of those who have been imprisoned for wrong-doing. "It is a great thing to be the governor of a state, it is a great thing to know of its vast resources as one travels up and down its length and breadth; to learn of its great school system with teachers and a half million or school Governor Stanley spoke in terms of Kansas r(l her people, and again thanked the people at lencth for the support given hin in his administration. Then he concluded: "Now as we, myself and my associates lay down the obligations assumed four years ago and put off our official duties to be taken up by our I hope you will give them cordial support as you have riven vs.

You say nothing more for an administration thin you have said for our. for vou have praised all the rood tilings Ave have done and kindlv overlooked our mistakes. I now have the rlesure of introducing my furonr. Willis Raney governor of Kansas." Governor Bailey was greeted with applause as he came forward. He wore a Irmoe Albert coat on the iapel of which was pinned a single red ros-bu-1 en the applause had subsided he his inaugural address.

At the turned to Judg-e W. A. Johnston wd'io today becomes chief justice bv reason of senioritv of service on the snnrern? bench, and who sen ft a iooik ai me iront ot the stag1, and "1 am now ready to tak The ca' of office as governor of the state of Kansas, Chief Justice Johnston administered the oath and Governor Bailey responded in a clear, round voice, do." Ttin he seated himself at the table and signed the oath. The oath was next administered to Justices Lurch, Pollock. Greene, Cunningham, and Mason in a body, and they each affixed their signatures to the oath.

The retiring lieutenant governor, H. E. Richter, then crossed the stage and taking his successor, D. J. Hanna, by the arm, led him forward to take the oath of office.

As he signed the oath a beautiful bouc.net was handed him by an usher. As Lieutenant Governor Hanna is a bachelor, the conclusion of the audience was that the offering came from an admiring member of the gentler sex, and there was considerable applause, which Mr. Hanna acknowd-edged with a bow. The bouquet really came from ex-I lieutenant Governor A. M.

Harvey and wife. The other incoming officers w7ere brought forward one by one by their predecessors and subscribed to the oath. When T. T. Kelly came forward thert was considerable applause from his friends and admirers.

The exercises closed with the singing of "America" by the great audience, which crowded both the lower floor and the gallery of the building. Not less than 4.U00 people witnessed the in augural ceremonies. GOVERNOR BAILEY'S ADDRESS. It Is Remarkable for It3 Concise Argument. In his inaugural address Governor Bailey said: "Profoundly grateful to the people of Kansas for the great honor they have conferred upon me by electing me their chief executive for the ensuing two years, 1 am also conscious of the great responsibility that this honor brings: responsibilities before which a man of greater experience in public life might well pause and hesitate.

Indeed, I would feel myself absolutely inadequate to meet these new obligations did 1 not believe that in every honest purpose to give good government and to build for the present and future welfare of Kansas, I will have the hearty co-operation of every lover of the state. "Forty-two years of Kansas history have been written, and a3 we today turn back the third leaf of the new century and commence to write another page of Kansc.s history, let us re-membtr the hign ideals of the men and women who laid deep and strong the foundations of Kansas character, and let her prophetic motto still be our guide, "To the stars through "Forty-two years in the building ot a state is but the prelude to the great consummation, yet a mighty commonwealth is here, and standing today upon the crest that tells of our grow-t'n and development. I wish to pay this tribute to the men and womn who gave Kansas her character, for states have characters as well as men. When the time came to place Kansas' star upon our country's flag. the public conscience had been quickened to that extent that it declared the extension of human slavery must stop, and it was not her sun-kissed prairies nor her fertile valleys that Invited th Kansas pioneer.

He came as the champion of that great cardiral principle of human liberty that all nir-n are created equal bafore the law. upnn this rock they built the character of a state; When the struggle was over that settled forever the question of human slavery: when the young men who had given the best years of their lives to preserve the Union laid down their arms and returned to the peaceful walks of life, the great undeveloped west invited them to become home builders, and by thousands they crossed the fertile prairies of Iowa and Missouri and came to the state that was the child of the great struggle in which they had played so prominent a part. And they brought with them the same love for the Fnion. the same love of liberty, that bad fired their hearts at the sound of Sumter's guns. These were supplemented by the flower of the young manhood and young womanhood of nearly every one of the older states.

It was not the doubting, hesjtatlng young man who was allured to Kansas. It was the sturdy, self-reliant men and women who had faith in their country and its institutions, faith in their ability to win for themselves a home, faith in their power to make for themselves a place in the great battle of life, who were Kansas pioneers. "These were the men and women who gave Kansas those peculiar characteristics that are distinctively Kansan. These were the men and women who wooed the wdld prairies and won from her the homes they love, builded our cities, founded our splendid free school system and laid deep and strong all the environments of our splendid civilization. "Rut a history of forty-two years in character making and state building would be incomplete if we told of the sunshine and not of the shadow; of the successes and not of the failures; if we boasted of our triumphs wdthout telling of our disappointments, for no state has ever gone more quickly from the mountain to the valley than has in" her brief history.

From a period of unparalleled development and debt creating, we passed through a period of depression and readjustment of inflated values, hard times and discontent. This, supplemented wdth a period of political lunacy that threatened and imperiled our credit and made the name of Kansas a byword, tells the story of a decade familiar to us all. Rut the true Kansas spirit has survived and Kansas with her character maintained, greets the new century with her credit restored and finds herself in harmony wdth the advance of the nation's progress, and like the giant oak that has withstood the storms and tempests of centuries, is stronger for the victories she has won. "And this brings us to the duties and responsibilities of the hour and the occasion, Kansas' great past we owe to you; Kansas' greater present we live with you. and Kansas' still grander future we must help to make Our people have profited by every exnerience and know Kansas better with each succeeding year.

Instead of waiting for climatic conditions to change, they hive adapted business conditions to the climate as, it is. and there is no part of The state today but resents the idea that it needs sympathy and that it is not especially favored. Indeed. I have been told in confidence during the past year by some citizen of nearly every county in Kansas that his special county was one of the very best counties In the state. "This is Kansas spirit and is making Kansas character.

Indeed, I have an abiding faith in the man who believes his home, however humble it may be, the best place on earth, and his town. Continued on Sixth Page.) Steve Care, of Haskell, to Be Sergeant at Arms. J. H. McFarland, of Lincoln, Chief Doorkeeper.

Speaker J. T. Pringle of Osage coun ty- Speaker Pro-tem D. Jones of Nor ton county. Chief Clerk W.

P. Mason of Neosho county. Sergeant-at-arms Steve Cave of Haskell county. Chief Doorkeeper J. H.

McFar'and of Lincoln county. Chaplain Rev. A. C. Pyle, of (he National Military home, Leavenworth.

Postmistress Mrs. Evalyn Bradford of Cloud county. These re the candidates for the chief offices of the house whose names have been decided upon by the nominating committee of the Pringle caucus. The Pringle caucus meets at 3. o'clock this afternoon, and this list will undoubtedly be approved.

The main house caucus will be held at 4 o'clock, immediately following the adjournment of the Pringle caucus. There are now between 6i and 70 members which the Pringle forces can definitely count upon, so there is no doubt but the nominees of the Pringle caucus ill be elected in the general house caucus. The nominating committee of the Pringle forces is made up of two mem bers from each congressional district, as follows; First Leland of Doniphan and Hay-den of Nemaha. Second Jenks of Franklin and Speer of Johnson. Third Shermerhorn of Cherokee and Nation of Neosho.

Fourth Adams of Butler and Dunn of Pottawatomie. Fifth Emmons of Riley and Murdock of Washington. Sixth Jones of1 Trego and Bevington tf Jewell. Seventh Husey of Sedgwick and Kin-kel of Reno. The Third and Sixth districts each had a candidate for chief clerk and two candidates for sergeant-at-arms.

As all could not be accommodated, the Third district was given chief clerk, thereby shutting out Charles Hall of Russell, the Sixth district candidate for that place. The Sixth district, however, was given speaker pro-tem chief doorkeeper. This took care of J. H. Mc-Farland, but shut out Dan Dyer and Hall, who belong to the Burton faction.

As Senator Burton fought Pringle the Pringle caucus did not feci called pon to take care of his friends. The sergeant-at-arms goes to the Seventh district, and Steve Cave, the prairie dog statesman, wins it. Rev. A. J.

Pyle. who will be chaplain of the house, is the blind preacher-politician of the Leavenworth soldiers' home. He was formerly a warm friend of Curtis and made a vigorous speech seconding Curtis' nomination for congress in the Holton convention last spring, but it is alleged that Mr. Curtis made promises to Pyle which were not fulfilled, and Pyle consequently went over to the Curtis opposition. Mrs.

Bradford, who will be postmistress of the house, is the wddow of a former deputy sheriff of Cloud county. Mrs. Bradford herself has been prominent in W. R. C.

work and also in the Rebekah lodge. She has a wide acquaintance on this account end her friends are very enthusiastic in her praise. The Fifth and Sixth district members generally were active in her support. The Pringle supporters held caucuses by congressional districts Saturday night to select their members of the Pringle nominating committee. In the First district there are two active Pringle supporters, Cyrus Leland and George P.

Hayden. In the Second district at least six of the twelve members will go into the Pringle caucus. This is Barker's district. The Pringle members are Perkins of Wyandotte, Speer of Johnson, Jenks and Finley of Franklin, and Baird and Campbell of Bourbon. In the Third district all eleven members, including Schermerhorn, a Curtis supporter, are in the Pringle caucus.

In the Fourth there are four active Pringle men. Evans of Lyon. Adams of Butler. Dunn of Pottawatomie and Crocker of Chase. Billings of Marion is non-committal because of Ed Hoch's candidacy for state printer.

He is also non-committal on senator. In the Fifth district eight of the nine members are Pringle supporters. Peck the ninth man, is non-committal. In the Sixth district Bevinjrton of Jewell, Linton of Smith, Lockwood of Cheyenne, Jones of Norton. Jones ot Trego, Taylor of Osborne, Kramer of Rooks, Woodhouse of Wallace, and O'Donnell of Ellsworth are avowed Pringle men.

and perhans one or two more may vote for Pringle. In the Seventh district 24 of the 2C members were accounted for in the Pringle caucus, and the other two, WTel-don of Clark and Barnd of Ness wilt vote for Pringle. This makes 66 members for Pringle. without counting any non-committal ones who will vote for him. T.

M. Stover, of Allen county, was defeated for chief clerk of the house largely because of the action of John Francis, the member from his county, in lining up for Barker. The nominating committee of the Pringle caucus has decided on the following for candidates for pages in the house: Earl DeFrance. Topeka. Lyman M.

Faulkner, Wyandotte county. Roy Watson. Franklin county. Todd Stivers, Lyon county. Fred Brown, Cowdey county.

Frank Scott, Butler county. Oeorge McK.ee, Marshall county. Fred Tegmire, Shawnee county. George Cole Linton. Smith county.

Ralph Littlefield. Rooks county. BARKER WILL STAT IN. A Barker caucus was held at the Copeiand this morning, and after some discussion it was finally decided that Judge Barker's name should be presented to the house caucus for speaker. No attempt will be made to nominate any ether officers, however, as it was recognized that It would be useless.

The forces now believe that Barker will get 31 votes. Whatever candidates are presented to the house caucus for the minor offices other than those on the Pringle siate wdll be presented by the i Individual friends of the candidates. Inter Ocean Has Enough to Last Till Tomorrow. Southwestern Has Coal but Jfot Enough Teams. The fuel situation in Topeka is even more alarming than Saturday.

Not a coal company in Topeka is able today to fill orders. The Excelsior Coke Gas company can not secure enough coal from the usual sources to make and have importuned many dealers for coal wdthout success. Should the company be unable to secure coal those who use gas will find themselves in darkness. All the smaller dealers Icive nothing but empty bins to show and many of the larger coal yards are practically without coal. The fuel companies which have some coal on "hand are willing: to divide It among their customers in small lots as long as it lasts but thev are unable to secure teams to deliver it.

All the dealers who have coal at all are confronted, with the scarcity of teams. The Southwestern Fuel company has sufficient amount of coal on hand to supply all small orders hut can not on account of the lack of learns. They have 70 teams at work and say that at least 100 more teams could be used. Another dealer had one car of coal on hand this morning. It was Burlin-gnme which he ordered Friday and paid the advanced price of $3.20 for at the mines when the usual selling price in Topeka is $3.25.

He supplied a few of his regular customers this morning with small lots. The Topeka Coal company, which has the contract to supply the city schools, has 200 tons on hand for that purpose. This coal is barely enough to supply the schools during the present month. The same company had a small amount of coal on hand this morning for the regular trade but could not get teams to make deliveries and at nine o'clock refused to even consider further orders. The manager has a guard watching the coal that is to be used by the schools.

The Webster-Tulloch Coal company reported this morning that they were entirely out of coal and could mane no promises as to when they would have a suoolv. A. F. Wessen did not have a pound of coal this morning and could give no premise of a supply soon. The mills and factories which usually burn the cheap grade of slack coal now have to take the more expensive lump coal or anything else they can get.

The Inter-Ocean mills were forced to shut down for a few hours twice last week, and now have but coal enough to last until tomorrow night. The Topeka railwav company has a small supply of coal on hand and is unable to get any large amount. The Wolff Packing company is short of coal and has only enough to last a short time. The coal shipped from the state penitentiary at Lansing to the state institutions is continually being appropriated by the railroads. The Gas company is two weeks behind in orders for coke, and unable to secure teams to deliver what they have at Day by day the coal famine in the city is becoming more alarming, and a severe cold wave would mean much suffering and that many mills and factories would have to shut down for lack of fuel.

NEW SANTA FE LINE? Surveyors Said to Be Working Toward Trinidad, Colo. It Is reported from Dodge City that a party of Santa Fe surveyors is working in that vicinity, supposedly running a line from Dodge City to Trinidad, Colo. The object of such a line would be to shorten the distance from Chicago to the coast, and at the same time to avoid some of the heavy grades encountered on the line from La Junta to Trinidad. The surveying party Is now reported to be in Beaver county, but what they are doing there is somewhat of a mystery if the destination of the survey is really Trinidad. To strike Oklahoma would take the line out of the most direct route.

There is reason to believe that if a new line is being planned, it will not be to Trinidad, but to some other objective point which Is being concealed. When some of the chief officials of the Santa Fe operating department located in Topeka were asked about this rumor, they professed itrnorance that any survey is being made. "Perhaps it is the Santa Fe that is making the surveys," said one of the officials. "They are said to be planning a line out there somewhere." Another stated that if any new line is being surveyed, the work is all under the charge of Chief Engineer Dun and President F-ipley, nothing having been said about the plans to Topeka officials. DOWN TO BOTTOM.

Mercury Reaches Zero but Soon Rises. The mercury in the government thermometer stood at zero at 7 o'clock this morning. But one day this winter has been as cold. Many thermometers registered below zero and the registered thermometer at the home of Director Jennings was 3 degrees below zero at 7 o'clock. Sunday the minimum temperature was 2 degrees above zero.

The snow of Saturday afternoon and night, measured an inch and two-tenths. The government forecast sent out this morning is "fair tonight and Tuesday, rising temperature." The hourly temperatures recorded today by the government thermometer were as follows: 7 o'clock 011 o'clock 8 8 o'clock 112 13 9 o'clock 4 1 o'clock 15 10 o'clock 2 o'clock 17 The wind this afternoon was ncrth-westt, blow ing 10 miles axi hour. Missourian, He Asks for Ocular Demonstration. i Senator Stewart Takes Hand in Prodding the Coal Barons. Washington, J.n.

12. When the senate met today Mr. Mitchell (Ore.) submitted the report of the committee of the senate of Its investigation of affair In the Hawaiian islands. A house bill was passed incorporating the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba. The Vest resolution directing tha committee on finance to recommend free coal bill then was called up.

Mr. Aldrich announced that there were strong hopes that action with respect to a removal of the duty on anthracite will be taken elsewhere and he asked that the resolution go over. Mr. Vest vigorously objected, saying that he has no assurance that any thine: will be done in another place. "Circumstantial evidence," he said, "is strongly against any such assumption." No action has been taken, he said, and no suspicion of any action has been seen anywhere and therefore under existing conditions to allow this resolution to go into the uncertain future would be equivalent to its defeat.

Mr. Vest referred to last Thursday's debate on the subject and declared that the only partisan feature of it came from Mr. Aldrich. In all his experience, he asserted he never had seen such public sentiment on any such subject. He called attention to the action of the legislature of Rhode Island unanimously voting for the removal of ity on coal and had read newspaper reports commenting on the action.

Mr. Vest said he did not want to embarrass the senator from Rhode Island, who was amply able to defend himself, but his desire was to place before the senate proof of the sentiment or coal onw existing. Mr. Vest again reverted to what he called his "unfortunate reference to Mr. Dingley," which had been so vigorously resented and sent to the desk and had read a let' from Congressman Fleming (Ga.) en-losing one from former Representative King (Utah.) reciting a conversation with Mr.

Dingley at the tune the Dingley bill was under consideration in congress in which he is said to have apprehended changes in the bill, which were necessary to obtain foreign markets for American goods and thnt the trend of Mr. Dlngley's mind was In that direction, and therefore bore out the statement contained in the Philadelphia Bulletin and republished in the Washington Post. IN THE HOUSE. Washington. Jan.

12. When the house met today the desk of the late Representative Tongue (Ore.) who died suddenly in this city yesterday, was heavily draped with black and covered with flowers. The chaplain, in his invocation, referred feelingly to the loss the house had sustained and prayed for the bereaved wddow and children. After the reading of the journal resolution was adopted providing for session Sundav, February for paying tribute to the memorv of the late Representative Salmon of the Fourth Nev Jersey district. The diplomatic and consular bill was reported.

The sneaker announced the resignation of Mr. Henrv from the committee on insular ffairs and the appointment of Mr. Robinson tlnd.) to fill the vacancy. Mr. Grosvenor (O.) from the on rules, called un the resolution of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries providing for an investigation by that committee into the coal situation and it was adopted without debate.

Mr. Moody (Ore. then announced the death of his colleague, Rep resentative Tongue and offered the customary resolutions of regret, which were adopted. The speaker appointed (Continued on Sixth Page.) MILLS' STORE NEWS. WHITE COTTON WAISTINGS in large varieties of styles and weaves, just opened.

Among the more prominent designs are the Matelasse, Canvas, Damask Brocade, Checkerboard nearly all of these being of the mercerized finish. They are beautieslatest patterns lust in Saturday, and to th6se wnd' have been anxiously awaiting their arrival will say give them an early look-over. There is nothing coming out for Spring nicer than these for Shirt Waists. PRICES range: 25c, 45c, 50c, up to $1.00 PER YARD. Just opened a line of Alade-Up Shirt Waists.

They are White, of the heavy fleeced cotton material. Showing is of the new Spring cuts, and the line is a very comprehensive one. At the present, all sizes are represented in all style lines. THE MILLS.