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Those Good Tailors
G.PALMER & CO.,60 E. BD'WAY
Daily Inter Mountain.
Those Good Tailors
G.PALMER & CO.,60 E. BD'WAY
VOL. XVIII. NO. 263
BUTTE, MONTANA, THURSDAY EVEN I NG, FEBRUARY 2, 1899.
PRICE F1VECENTS
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the goods are in point of elegance 4'
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Jeweler and Optician
221 N. Main St.
Butte
THE BILL WAS
KNOCKED OUT
Fellow Servant Law is Still
In Effect
BUT FIVE OPPOSED IT
Vigorous Speeches Mode in the Senate
—Work of the Two Houses
Today—Biils Introduced.
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Special to the Inter Mountain.
Helena, Feb. 2.—The senate devoted
nearly an hour this morning In commit
tee of the whole considering Stanton's
bill, that if enacted would do away with
what has been called the "fellow servant
doctrine," as relating to damages sus
tained by employes of railroads. The de
bate was spirited, hut the measure was
indefinitely postponed. Senator Stanton
led off with the debate and was followed
by Myers, who opposed the bill on the
ground that it was an anti-railroad and
anti-financial legislation. Connolly f.i
I vored the bill, as did Hannah and Norris,
gj I all maintaining that the bill was no more
w ! than justice to railroad men, who, so long
i as the "fellow servant" doctrine is en
i»j forced, had no recourse in case they
■ÿ I were injured or crippled for life. Myers
was the only senator who opposed the
bill in a vigorous speech. He claimed it
was but the entering wedge, that if en
acted would be followed by legislation
applying the same doctrine to mines and
mills, all of which will act to the dis
couragement of capital and the eventual
reduction of wages of those whom it is
now said to favor. The bill was even
tually defeated, but five favoring it—
Stanton, Connolly, Warner, Courtney
and Hannah. Norris would have voted
for it, but he was paired witli Clark.
Stanton introduced a bill making rent
a lien upon personal property.
Notices of bills:
By Myers—Two bills amending the
license: also relating to attachments; also
to the establishment of a state normal
school at Hamilton.
By Stanton—Creating a board of sink
ing fund commissioners for towns and
cities.
One bill was introduced in the house by
the judiciary committee increasing the
number of justices of the supreme court
to five.
Stephens, chairman of the committee
on investigation, gave notice of a joint
session at 2 this afternoon for the pur
pose of hearing the report. It was made
a special order of business.
Bills passed:
Stone's providing free kindergartens in
public schools.
Day's providing a lien for boarding and
lodging housekeepers.
Murray's relating to app lintment of
administrators of estates of deceased
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Walsh's appropriating money for the
relief of ex-Sheriff Fransham of Gallatin
county.
Clifford's repealing the act preventing
the sale of liquors on Sunday.
O'Brien's appropriating $11,000 for the
state orphans' home.
Senate joint memorial number 1. pre
venting Indians leaving the reservations,
was concurred in.
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Th«> Sugar War
Chicago, Feb. 2.—A special to the
Record from Detroit says: Tlie commit
tee of three Michigan wholesale grocers
who went to New York for the purpose of
making some arrangement whereby the
sugar war might be stopped have re
turned home empty handed. They say
Mr. Havemeyer of tlie American Refining
company would not enter into any sort
of an agreement with Arbuckle, Doscher
et al., and that tlie Michigan jobbers
could buy where they pleased. When |
Messrs. B. Brace, Lemon and Sanger of
the Michigan Wholesale Grocers' associa
tion were in New York they met jobbers
from other western cities and a plan is
now on foot to organize a wholesale gro
cers' trust for the purpose of controlling
the trade in the middle west. A meeting
will be held in Chicago on February 8 to
discuss lhe possibilities of such a com
bination.
Tori Sloane Was T.ucky
San Francisco, Feb. 2.—The Examiner
says that Tod Sloane has received a tele
gram from New York stating that he has
cleaned up $250.000 as the result of spec
ulation in Wall street. It is said that
before coming west Tod left several
thousand dollars with L. B. Bell, a Wall
street broker, with general Instructions
to invest it as he thought best. No details
of how the money was made have been
received.
Several Chinamen Killed
Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 2.—Chinatown,
at tlie big Chemainus lumber mills, near
Nanaimo, in the Colcentre province, has
been completely destroyed by fire and a
number of Chinese burned to death.
Near their work the Mongolians built a
huge fire and proceeded to smoke opium.
A cabin caught fire and the flames spread
rapidly. They rushed blindly into the
flames. Scenes of tlie wildest description
were witnessed by the white settlers who
went to the rescue. The flimsy shacks
burned fiercely and soon they were a
mass of smoking' ruins. It was ascer
tained that at least two Chinese were
burned to death. A number of others
were badly burned, and it is reported
that several others are missing.
Town May lie Humeri
New York, Feb. 2.—A dispatch to the
Herald from Colon, Colombia, says: Ter
rified by threats of strikers to tire the
town, the merchants have asked for
stronger military protection. The rail
way officials are confident they could ex
tinguish a fire if set, and the authorities
have prepared to properly respond to an
alarm. The crews of several steamships
waiting on both sides of the isthmus
to unload have struck. The press hints
that serious international trouble is
likely to arise because the ever zealous
police have beaten some peaceable for
eigners, mistaking them for strikers.
Several complaints of such abuse are
said to have been lodged at the British
consulate.
Cotton and Tobacco
Chicago, Feb. 2.—A special to the
Record from the City of Mexico says:
C. P. McKie of New York, who is in the
City of Mexico on his way to Tlahualelo,
in the Durango cotton belt, says that the
1S99 crop will amount to 3,500,000 pounds.
In quality he says the Mexican cotton is
better than ever, and will range from the
"superior" grade to the "good" and
"middling." Wilhelm Wolf of Hamburg,
Germany, has arrived here on a buying
tour. He says that last year Germany
consumed 2,000,000 pounds of Mexican to
bacco. Since the Cuban supply failed the
German manufacturers have been using
the Mexican leaf.
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WEEKLY REVIEW
OF THE IRON TRADE
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New Yor, Feb. 2.—The Iron Age, in
its weekly review, says: Reports rela
tive to pools and consolidations continue
numerous. The feeling is gaining ground
that the American Tin Plate company
is on the eve of consummating the control
of the tin bar supply through the pur
chase of the plants of the Shenango Val
ley Steel company, the Ohio Steel com
pany, the Buhl Steel company, King, Gil
bert & Warner and the Wheeling Steel
and Iron company, having also made
long-time contracts with other plants
making tin plate bars in the Pittsburg
and Wheeling districts. The sheet mills
are working on a consolidation similar
in its lines to that of the tin plate com
pany and the western bar iron com
binations. Five of the largest ear build
ers are on the eve of fusing, one of the
plans being to establish close relations
with the principal steel car building con
cerns. The cast Iron pipe consolidation
does not seem to be making much head
way, although more powerful financial
interests may yet take a hand in the
undertaking. The wire rope market is
in a peculiar position, being now in com
plete control of the large wire interest,
the understanding being that the entire
product of only tlie large independent
producer is contracted for. In the smaller
branches of the wire industry there is
much alarm over the future.: Although
it is reported that the requirements of
the majority of the smaller works are
covered for some time to come.
In the pig iron markets quiet has
reigned so far as the southern makers
are concerned. In districts in which
northern iron competes, southern prices
are now relatively above the market.
The additional offers nf large contracts
of southern iron for export have been
made, but have not been met. Only a
moderate business is doing in the central
west in Bessemer pig, which remains
very firm. The open billet market is nat
urally restricted through the fact that
lhe large lines are now controlled by the
two consolidations, who have made their
arrangements in some cases for long pe.
riods. Pittsburg reports the sale of one
lot of 10.COO tons, and Philadelphia notes
a 5,000-ton lot. In the rail trade the only
event is the placing recently of an order
for from 12.000 to 15.000 tons of girder
rails by the Metropolitan Traction com
pany with a mill in central Pennsyl
vania.
The l!rugua.van Revelation
New York, Feb. 2.—A dispatch to the
Herald from Buenos Ayres says: A
group of Uruguayans, headed by Colonel
Tezanos, mayor of Isumendi, proceeding
from Argentina, has disembarked at
Colonia. A police force attempted to
oppose the invaders, hut without success.
At various points in the republic have
occurred uprisings without importance,
but the rebels are well provided with
arms and ammunition.
Inrilnns Will Sue
Niles, Mich., Feb. 2—At a meeting of the
surviving members of the Pottawatomie
tribe of Indians held at Hartford, Charles
Pokagon was selected as chief of the
tribe to succeed the late Simon Pokagon.
Charles is the only son of Simon. Chief
Charles declares he will take up and push
the claim for valuable property in c'hi
cago, which his father believed the Pot
tawatomies had a title to.
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San Francisco, Feb. 2.—Fred Hess,
who sued the San Francisco Typograph
ical union to recover $25,000 damages for
having been forced out of employment
by the union, he being a non-union man,
has been awarded $1,200 by a jury in the
superior court.
Supnly Ship Sail»
New York. Feb. 2.—The supply ship
Solace sailed today for Manila, having
on board seven army officers, fifteen
cadets from Annapolis and a large cargo
of supplies for Dewey and the army.
The Solace will touch at Norfolk for
more ammunition.
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DEWEY OUGHT
TO BE ADMIRAL
Reasons Given For the Neces
sity of Doing It.
RANK WITH
Who Now Take Precedence Over Him
--Filipinos Not Capable of
Self Government.
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Chicago, Feb. 2.—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Lee of Richmond, Va., who were tlie
guests of Admiral Dewey on his llagship,
the Olympia, for a week in the early part
of December, are at the Auditorium an
nex. Mrs. Lee is tlie daughter of ox
Senator Davis of West Virginia and the
j report was current a short time ago that
she was the bearer of a message from
Rear Admiral Dewey to President Me
Kinley urging for state reasons that he
be appointed admiral. Mrs. Lee pro
nouneed the story to be absurd and with-I
out the slightest foundation. She was at
q of flr>cf jn 11 Dii pi** 4 tfi ill'll it pniiid
a mss ai ni st io unuostand tnat it count
have originated, hut afterwards said it
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She wrote to a friend in this country, in
which she expressed the opinion that
Rear Admiral Dewey should be promoted
to the position of admiral, both out of re
gard for the best interests of tlie Ameri
can occupation as well as for tlie purpose
of removing what was a source of much
humiliation to him because of his being
outranked by the admirals of other
navies. Because of this fact and because
of the duties imposed by naval interna
I tlonal etiquette, Admiral Dewey was
j made to appear in the light of an inferior
I as compared with Admiral Dietrich of
! the German navy or the admirals of other
I countries, whenever they should visit
1 Manila.
: Mr. and Mrs. Lee said it was the opinion
I of the American officers and other intelli
gent people at Manila that when the
I natives come to a better understanding]
'of the Americans the present prejudice
will disappear and the natives will be
come earnest supporters of American
rule.. They say it is idle to talk of thej
Fütrinos being able to "aintam a gov
i eminent of their own, that outside or
their leaders they are exceedingly igno
! rant and would be the tools of selfish and
i unscrupulous leaders, who would soon
! plunge the Islands into a state of anarchy
through their struggles for leadership.
ARE DELAYED BY
THESNOWSLIDES
Denver, Colo., Feb. 2.—All trans-conti
nentai railroad lines leading through
Colorado are tied up by the snow. East
bound trains from Salt Lake on the
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Colorado Midland and Denver & Rio
Grande railroads are stalled at Glenwood
Springs, being unable to progress further
because of the snow on the tracks. The
westbound trains on these roads have
pushed through the drifts as far as Eng
le Pass, where they are blocked. Train
No. 1, on the Denver & Rio Grande ran
into a snow slide near Shoshone, about
nine miles from Glenwood Springs. The
mail car telescoped the tender and the
baggage car was jammed into the
mail car. the mail clerk and
baggage master were badly injured. Their
nam s have not been learned. The slide
which caused tlie disaster is about 100 feet
long and 15 feet deep. The road will pro
bably be blocked until late this after
noon. The Denver & Rio Grande east
bound train No. 2 and the Colorado Mid
land train No. 6, east bound are lying at
Gleirv.'ood Springs hopelessly blocked by a
heav snow slide in the Grand Canon
about oine miles east, it is snowing very
heavily. The train crews are apparently
prepared for a long wait. The weather is
mild and favorable to snow slides.
FIïb Hoys Arrested
San Francisco, Feb. 2.—Five boys, the
youngest 12 years old, and the oldest 16,
I have been arrested by Special Officer
Thomas Madden of the Southern Pacific
railroad company on a charge of at
tempting to wreck a train. All live with
their parents and claim to he employed at
the glass works. M'hen arrested they
were near a basket of rocks placed on the
I track just before a train was due. The
boys say they were "playing Chinaman."
I They say one of them had the basket of
rocks on his shoulder playing thot lie was
carrying eggs and the others were trying
to throw it off. They say a train had just
passed and they were not near the track
when they were arersted.
I» n Severe Hliezarri
Boise. Ida., Feb. 2.—One of the most
sever blizzards in the history of Idaho, is
raging in Lemhi county. A message from
Red Rock, Mont., the Junction, states
that all traffic over the stage line to Sal
mon e'itv has suspended. Great loss of
stock is reported and several people
caught in the mountains, it is feared, have
perished.
Many Settler» Affected
Duluth, Minn., Feb. 2.—Hundreds of
settlers are affected by the decision
handed down by Judge Lochren involving
the title to about 1,000.000 acres of land in
northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. The
decision gives tire t'<>__ ° the land to the
J Northern Pacific r. 75 ' company. The
suit was instituted Î- government to
have restored to tl A lie domain the
lands in question on o ound that they
had been inadvertei -* itented to the
railroad company. -p efense of the
railroad was that tin % > were a part
of its grant and in tl » 1 nf the ease
tlie matter was hinged «< e interpréta
tion of what was the terminus of
tlie Northern Pacific, iad. Judge
Lochren holds that tl'i inus of the
railroad is at Ashland \ _crefore that
tlie road is entitled to the lands, arguing
i ,hat thp ,itle extends as far as its ter-j
J ; minus. The secretary of the Interior de
partment held that the grant to the
j Northern Pacific road terminated at
j Duluth. This is directly contrary to Judi
Locbren's ruling.
A NOTED CHEMIST
GIVES HIS VIEWS
Cincinnati, Feb. 2.—Prof. John
Lloyd, a noted chemist who lias just re
turned from Washington and who lias
read all the testimony of the war investi
gating commission, says:
"About twelve years ago in searching
for an antiseptic drug for preservation
I was led to experiment with salicylic
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! acid aml SO( i ium boraeie. It is known
salicylic af . ui bas a sweetish taste. That
he I bora ,, ic has an scmi-alkalish taste:
j neither are bitter. The reaction is not a
new digcovery f or> in following it up, li
at found it a mat ter of record but it was not
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it on u n nd it can be found in the Archive
in ! 213-216
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j experiment of years in the hands of tlie
I Cincinnati branch of
T . .ic 7 o\ 'no
Der Pharmacie, volume 23 < lSi.,1 [ pages
If equal amounts of borax and
salicylic acid (or equal weights of each)
are mixed, the mixture is bitter. If the
mixture be dissolved in water the solution
is bitter and yields a bitter product on
evaporation that imparts an intensely
bitter after taste, approaching colocyntli
in persistence. 1 think in view oi the
turn things have taken that, these facts
should be matter of public record in this
the result of my
the
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Senate Proceedings
Washington, Fell. 2.—Platt (New York)
laid before the senate tlie resolution
the i adopted by the legislature of New York
urging the immediate ratification of the
peace treaty. In this connection Chand
be- I j er called the attention of the senators
! tf) s j m jj ar resolutions adopted by the
thej , , of Ncw Hampshire.
' Perkins and Faulkner were
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named as a committee on conference toi
; the senate on the consular and diplomatic
! appropriation bill.
Tillman offered the following resolu
tion, which was adopted:
••That the president be requested, if not
incompatible with public interest, to in
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form the senate whe. her any franchises
or concessions of any character are be
i ing. or have been, granted by any mu
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liieipality in Cuba or Porto Rico since
the military occupation thereof by tHe
United States; il so, what they are loi',
what length of lime and the aulliority
ness Spooner addresssed the senate upon
the Vest anti-expansion resolution. He
began :
"I find no objections, constitutional in
nature, to the ratification of the pending
tnaty. The senators from Connecticut
(Platt) and Colorado (Teller) have fully
presented the views 1 entertain."
Work of the House
Washington, Feb. 2.—Two Dills of
minor importance were passed by the
house this morning and that body then
resumed consideration of the river and
harbor bill.
HAVE RETURNED
FROM MANILA
San Francisco, Feb. 2.—The steamer
Coptic arrived from Hong Kong and Yo
kohama, via Honolulu, today, bringing a
large number of army and navy officers
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j is willing to go into tlie proposition under
; certain conditions
I from the Philippines.
I sengers was John A. Scrymser,
of the Pacific Cable company. In an in
terview he expressed himself as encour
; aged to hope the cable would be main
j tained and operated by the United Slates
I government. He was of the opinion that
I private capital would not take the risk j
of such governmental control. Scrymser I
! was of the opinion no American cable I
j could land in the Philippines or on the !
; Asiatic coast without the consent of |
! English companies, which have control
; ling contracts with the different govern- '
; ments, some of which run until 1949. The j
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Lieutenant C. G. Calkins, who stood on
the bridge with Dewey during the bom
bardment of Manila, was a passenger on
the Coptic, with a number of other officers
of tlie army and navy.
Extent of tlie Fire
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 2.—A few engines
are still pumping water on the ruins of '
last night's conflagration. The extent of
„.c could m it f »u.cd „„mi
light, and then, while the loss was severe ;
enough, it was thought to fall slightly
behind the figures which had been made
up last night. The injured are: Fire
men Donahue. Welch, Kilborne, Duncan
and Beis, and Miss Carrie Johnson, all of
whom will recover. All the missing have
been accounted for.
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Tip-Top Styles in
Silks and
Dress Goods
At Bottom Prices
The other day our dress goods buyer
made an advantageous purchase of sev
eral thousand dollars' worth of Rich
Silks and exceedingly handsome Silk
and Silk and Wool Textures. These
choice fabrics wifi be placed on sale to
■ morrow and marked at about one-half
I of their real value. Without exception
i the y are all strictly imported goods and
ri j of a style and beauty seen only in the
most exclusive stores where money is
little or no object. We paid spot cash
for the lot, secured the biggest kind of
bargains, which we in turn offer to you.
Rich Silks
About 50 Remnants of Fine Silks,
Striped, Checked, Plain Brocaded, Ombre
Stripes and Dolly Vardens, in lengths of
from one and a half to eight yards, for
a j 50e to 75c yard, and worth double,
li Ten pieces Fancy Foulard Silks, new
a ' ld ''r. ,ty , d, ' siKnK an<1 colorings, width
—- id -I inclips, pi'ic 0 ci oOc to i*)C yard, and
worth doublo
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I A 14-yard length of Rich Black Moire
j Vcloui ,. handsome design and fine qual
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thpy canl ' ot all<1 will not be duplicated,
ity, 22Vi Inches wide and regularly worth
$35.00; sale price $17.50.
Crepe de Chine, magnificent quality, 46
inches wide, in Reseda Green ami Cerise,
marked at $2.00 a yard.
NOTH.—These Silks and Dress Goods
have never been shown here before and
Dress Goods .
For Tailor-Made Suits, a rich assort
ment of choice All Wool Imported Ker
seys, Beavers, Meltons, Coverts, Cheviots
and Worsteds, in several colors, widths
to 48 inches, and marked very low.
Fifteen pieces very stylish Novelty
Boucle Cloths, widths 4G inches, marked
at $8.00 to $10.00, and worth double.
Five pieces Real Imported Scotch
. cheviots, 48 inches wide, regularly sold
at $20.00 the pattern, now eight yards for
$12.50.
j Three pieces Camels' Hair Suitings, 48
j L° 50 Inches wide, colors green, brown
ïïlV«"" *? nd green an<1 Wftck ' $10 00 t0
' $l7 '°° pattern '
Grand bargains, every one, and must
he seen to be properly appreciated.
Three patterns rich Basket Weave
Novelties, in black and whites and gray,
width 46 inches, prices $4.50, $5.00 and
j-10.00 each, worth double.
| A handsome lot of extra rich All Wool
am V Silk and Wool Imported Novelty,
_ iTextures, plain and figured, richest de
, slgnf) and all colorings. Everyone
( marked less than half price.
| mack Novelty Dress Patterns, Grcnir
, d j neSi Matelasses, Silk and Wool with
> (Mineille Stripes, Fine Clay Worsteds,
j liouc-lesi and Brocaded Crêpons, at all
| ,, r j ces from $10.00 to $35.00, and worth
double.
Ton pieces All Wool Etamines, several
shades of blue and green, 46 inches wide
and seven yards to a pattern, $8.75 to
$17.00 each, and worth double. -
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Lemons and
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Our new Grocery Department has done
wonders during the few short weeks of
its existence. With a business second to
none in the city, every month will find
us doing better for our customers. Our
commodities are always fresh and good
and our store being always clean makes
it the Ideal Grocery Store for a lady to
visit. We shall be glad to have a call
from those who have not yet favored us
witli their orders. All goods delivered
promptly.
Another Carload of
Fancy
j dozen,
I Fancy Seedling Oranges, $2.25 box.
I Choice Fancy Navel Oranges, $2.75 box,
! medium size 20c dozen; large size 30o
| dozen.
*--xtra Fancy Na\el ( ranges, $3.00 box,
' "® d,u " " ,,c Äc dozen: large o0C; extra
j * ar ß e 4oC dozen.
These High Values Obtainable
Fancy Oranges and Lemons
Just Received Fresh From
California
Retailed at Wholesale Prices
Large Lemons, $3.25 box, 15o
Only at Honnessy's
About the only way you can get over
the slush difficulty is to go right through
it wearing a pair of Hennessy's Rubber
Boots, on which we make a special price
for this week's business.
Children's Rubber Boots ............$1 00
Misses' Rubber Boots ................ 1 40
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' Women's Rubber Boots
Men's Beacon Alaskas ............. 1 ! aO
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Men's Imitation Sandals, in all the
new toes and sizes ................ 1 00
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