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EL PASO II ER ALT), THURSDAY, DEO. 14, 3 Gver a Billion Dollar Transfer at National Treasury. ONE PRICE CASH HOUSE LARGEST IN THE HISTORY For the Holiday Shopper H2-H4 S. Oregon St Stnpcndons Sum of 278.R8 2-a Tnrnort Over to Charles Treni, S(a(os Treasnrer, by Ellis il. Roberts, Ills of tlie Money Agreed Exactly With the Hooks.

SOLID GOLD genuine Elgin or Waltham movements, a flfi perfect little time keeper, NICE WATCHES FOR nfi timekeepers, for $5.00. and as low as LADIES' 20 YEAR GOLD FILLED WATCHES, New designs, good timekeepers, for OP $15.00, and as little as Our entire stock of STERLING SILVER GOODS, SIGNET AND PLAIN RINGS, JEWEL RY AND DIAMONDS, CUT GLASS AND 2-TICK NACKS, WILL BE SOLD AT PROPORTIONATELY LOW PRICES. A GUARANTEE FOR RELIABILITY GOES WITH EVERY SALE. On Odd Lots of Clothing, Suits, Cloaks, and Underwear and Waists. This 8s An Opportunity To Save Money MISSES CLOAK SPECIALS OVERCOATS OUTING FLANNEL GOWNS $15.00 Overcoats, come in long and medium lengths, on sale at 0 3 im $12.50 Overcoats, come in full lengths made with belted back.

$10.00 Oercoats, in full lengths, medium and light weight, 7E on sale at 1 $7.50 Long Gray Coats of good quality material, on sale $7.50 Coats, come in blue, castor and brown, sizes 8 to 14 years, on sale QQ at. $6.00 and $6.50 Coats, sizes to 14 years. Come in brown, castor, and blue, 1 for I $5.00 Coats, sizes 8 to 12 years. Come in castor, QE blue and brown, for $5.00 Crushed Velvet Coats, size 4 to 6 come in blue, brown OQ and green. Special $4.00 Coats; size ijg 8 to 10 years, $3.50 Coats; size 6 to 12 years, Coats; size QJJ 6 to 10 years $2.50 Coats; size QJJ 5 to 10 years, $1.75 Coats; size 5 to 12 years, pretty patterns.

ii Special CHAS. W. UHRIG $4 50 Coats, of navy blue A I materials, 011 sale at I CLOTHING ODD LOTS $12.50 Suits, odd lots, come in dif ferent patterns, on sale 0 Q0 $2.00 Quality Fine Ribbed Wool Union Suits in white, on 1 EQ sale at ijy $1.75 Quality White Ribbed Union Suits 011 sale 1 00 BOILER ROLLED FOR NINE MILES $15.00 Suits, come in six or eight different patterns, odd QQ lots, price $16.50 and $17.50 Suits, odd lots, come in several different patterns. Sale -g Trice I uVb $18.50 Suits come in different styles and patterns odd lots price a Could Not Be Carried on Stanton News Budget. SPECIAL BLANKET VALUES 75c Gray or Fancy Cotton Blankets on sale for 85c Cotton Blankets on sale for $1.00 Cotton Blankets.

Sale Price $1.25 Cotton Blankets for $1.35 Cotton Blankets. Special $1.50 Cotton Blankets. Sale Price $1.65 Cotton Blankets SUIT SPECIALS Transportation Committee of Chamber of Commerce to Discuss New Freight Bureau. $12.50 Suits on sale at Suits on sale at $6.50 Suits 011 9 tj $2.00 Cotton Blankets i for 2 0(1 Mixed Wool and Cot- 1 00 ton Blankets for UO $3.50 Mixed Wool and Cotton Blankets on sale 00 for 11 JU $5.00 White Wool Blankets, 9 7E slightly soiled, for ij $5.00 Plaid Wool Blankets A QC OUTING FLANNEL NIGHT SHIRTS $1.00 Extra Heavy Outing Flannel Night Shirts, good pat- QTn terns, on sale at 0 75c Outing Flannel Night Shirts, good quality, good pat- terns, on sale at 50c Outing Flannel Gowns on 'sale at $1.25 Heavy White Oxford Waists on sale at $1.00 Waists, of white and black figured oxfords, on sale at vU 75c White Oxford Waists on sale at $0.00 and $6.50 Plaid Wool Blankets. Sale Price 2riO.OftO,OiV).

Tiiis increase is duo most entirely to the larger amount of securities and bonds for national banks now held in trust and to the larger reserve fund of paper currency. When Mr. Roberts took charge on July 1. 1SH7, the amount of bonds and securities heid in trust was 2-13. This has climbed up to $503,474,020 2-3.

Two thousand more national banks are now in existence than at that time. The currency fund has grown correspondingly. It is now $383,352.500 as against $301.052,000 eight years ago. Some of-the biggest financial transactions of the world are summarized as follows: Franco Prussian War France paid to Germany five milliards of francs as indemnity, lat'd in the treaty of Frankfort on May 10, 1871. Three years were given in which to cancel the debt.

The largest single payment was made thirty days after the treaty was signed, when one milliard of francs was paid into the Gorman exchequer by the representative of the French government. Indemnity to paid to Japan as the price of her disastrous war in 1S02 $150,000,000. Forty Million Panama $10,000,000 check in favor of the Panama republic payable to J. Pierpont Morgan fiscal agents, was signed by Secretary Shaw oti May 0, 1904. This ranks as the largest check ever drawn.

A few days prior to this Secretary Shaw made out a ehcck for $1,000,000 to the same agents and on May 10 signed for $0,000,000. The whole transaction was for $50,000.000. Twenty Millions to Spain. Secretary Lyman J. Cage, in 1S00, signed four Cr.it- ed States treasury warrants of $5.000,000 each as payment to Spain, when the United States took the Philippine Islands.

The warrants were signed in favor of Am- DR. ANNA REUM CASE HAS BEEN AFFIRMED heilig usua toa dollars over or 1111 book iigures. but tins count is in bar mony with the even a fractional part of a cat two thirds of a cent which appears in the total re suits from a form mg par? ol liic treasury holdings covered under heading of bonds ami stocks held in trust. time when Mr Morgan went out of oiMce, which was at the close of the Cleveland administration, people thought it a wonderful thing that the funds of 11 1 treasury should be so near the billion mark. But that now seems a small amount as compared with the present total sum in the treasury vaults.

No one can doubt the pros perity of the nation whose treasury has the resources possessed by our own. last count of the funds in the treasury occurred in and lasted eight months, from July to the following February. The present count was accomplished much more rapidly. The count has also been remarkable for the reason that from tirst to last it has been devoid of surprises. No discoveries of a sensational nature, no queer happenings, nothing whatever out of the ordinary rare in such Following is a copy of the Fnited States receipt for the largest amount of money which ever changed hands in one transaction in history: Treasury of the United States.

Washington, July 1. 1005. Received from Ellis H. Roberts, retiring treasurer of the United States, government funds and securities amounting 2-3. for which receipts in triplicate have been given, as follows: United States notes $6,520,207.00 United States currency in process of .00 National ban's notes in process of 1 Cold certificates 1, Silver certificates 1.012,535 00 Cold coin Standard silver 153,107,591.00 Fractional silver 921,715.33 Minor coin 20 237 04 Decision is Handed Down by the Court of Criminal Appeals.

The case of the state of Texas vs. Dr. Anna Reum has been affirmed by the court of criminal appeals. Dr. Reum was convicted last June in the 34tli district court on the charge of criminal practice and given two years in the penitentiary.

The case was appealed and pending the appeal she has in the El Paso county jail. smart. Of course traveling men have closed their fall except for cases of that sort, and we are now showing for next spring. For that season it is cortain ili the shirt with the detached cuffs will be a thing of the Ponge a and shirt with May )Hars will be more generally worn, and the prevailing pattern in Oxfords will be a large open NEW CITY DIRECTORY IS NOW OUT Argument in Campos Case. Argument in the Campos murder case which began yesterday afternoon will be concluded this afternoon when the case will be given to the jury.

UliyinPK of the ''MHon. When summertime has ended and the to toying with the leaves on all the brilliant colored trees, tb then th hearts grow lighter and the spirits start to rise, the frost is on pumpkin and the in the pies! Goes to the Jury. The case of Sowers vs. the Santa Fe Railroad company for damages, which has been on trial several days in the 41st district court, was given to the jury shortly before noon todav. Lived Under Five Flags.

San Antonio, Dec. Flores de Cordova is citead, aged 101 years. She was born at Presidio, Rio Grande, Mexico, 1804, and came to San Antonio in 1844. She had lived under live flags, as follows: The flag of Spain. Mexico, Texas republic, confederacy and the United States.

Her husband, Jose Cordova, who died in 1891, was born in the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, and was therefore 116 years No joy or pleasure on this earth quite equals that which comes into the home when baby arrives. Who can describe the happiness of man and woman, joined in wedlock, as they look upon the fragile, dclicate mite that is blood of their biood When the days arc growing the birds have prone aw And the corn is growing ripvr from day to day. a rosy slow pervad hazy autumn When the fro is on the pi the in the pies Suit for Divorce. Sa rail J. Syme filed suit for divorce in the district court yesterday after- neon against David A.

Svme. When the hammocks have been put away and the open cars are prone And vou see a tennis player chasing on the lawn, hen the college people gather and you hear the football cries, Then the frost is on the pumpkin and the in the pies. Pray for Lord Mayor. I he religious service which cedes the election of a lord mayor of London has been held every year for years. The first service was held before the election of the celebrated Dick Whittington to the first of his four terms.

bassador Carabon of France, as the representative of Spain in the negotiations. Alaskan large deal In which the United States figured was the purchase of Alaska. For this slice of territory Secretary McCulloch paid to the representative of the Russian government Halifax treasury warrant for $5,500.000 was signed in ls70 by Secretary Benjamin 11. Bristow for the purchase of certain iishing rights from Great Britain, under tiie Halifax award. is by far the largest amount of money ever held by the United States treasury and emphasizes in a striking manner the wonderful resources of the said Treasurer Treat the aggregate amount in the world famous Dank of England reaches a total of only practically PM 00 less than the sum in the United States treasury.

"Perhaps the most extraordinary fact in connection with (lie work recently linished is mat the findings of the committee which for several months has been engag'd in counting money in the treasury agreed to a fraction of a cent with treasury book a most CURED QUICKLY WITHOUT PAIN BY USING PYRAMID PILE CURE. You recall with lots of pleasure all summer days could give. But since the autumn days have started, then you know joy to live; As yruir mouth begins to water and gladness in your eyes When the frost is on the pumpkin and the in the pies. Chronicle. A Trial Package Mailed Free to All Who Send Name and Address.

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Paris, Dec. third Fatal burning of the week here in which the 10-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Alexander, a widow, was fatally burned. She was standing before the fire when her clothes ignited and before help could reach her she had received fatal injuries, dying soon afterwards in terrible agonv. 900,000.00 Strong Japanese Intoxicant.

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I) ASK AM, A. T. 1 X( Ed. Massey, the mining man from Magdalena, Mexico, is in town. Houston City Commissioners.

Houston, Dee. representatives of Des Moines. Iowa, art in Houston studying the new commission government wi the possibility of adopting it in that city. They have already been to Galveston and investigated conditions there. Comm it te i In Collars "We thought the wing collar be the exclusive wear for Vo.