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It Will Pay You to Investigate Our Prices and Examine Our Goods We are putting every effort forward to break all previous sales during December. This means good merchandise and lots of it for less money. There are great saving possibilities here. Every Day in December Will Be a Bargain Day Men's Overcoats Priced for Less We are not going to stop until every Overcoat we have in the house is sold and we are staring early in the season at p.ice in ducements that should cause brisk buying. Never mi: d the rea son why they are offered so low, if you need a coat, come today and two to one you will go away wearing the best Overcoat you ever wore in your life for the money invested. Sample Gloves for Men and Boys Did you see the Glove display Sunday in our window ? Not very tasty in arrangement, but the Gloves were there. They are checked off and ready for you today. Your imagination is not great enough to think of anything in the line of Gloves that is hot in this line. They all go at manufacturers' cost. Buy your Gloves now. Woolen Underwear for Men The Eruption Sale left severelal lines of Woolen Underwear badly broken. .They have all been placed in one lot and go at one price. Here you will find $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 values. Clear ance price ...........................•...........-98 Cents R. C. Beach Co Way in Advance Lewiston, Idaho NO STRINGENCY IN LAND OFFICE HOMESTEADERS WHO COME TO PROVE UP HAVE THE CASH MONEY STRINGENCY IS NOT SHOWN IN FINAL PROOF in I J ; is - I One item showing the fact that | c the money stringency in the Clear-; water country is not so severe as| elsewhere is that the men who come j to the land office to prove up are ! not asking for the time extension j that the government has granted in j the emergency, but can and are pay- ; ing cash. ! Owing to the money stringency j and the trouble in some places'to get the ready cash, the government j passed a regulation extending the time of payment of final proofs 30 , days from the date of hearing. Proof must be made as advertised, but the j applicant has an extension of 30 days to meet the cash payment, but 1 few at the Lewiston office who have come to prove up since the extension | is in force have asked for the time j or taken advantage of the new regu- i latlon. Over 1000 patents have been re- 1 ceived in the last 30 days at the, Lewiston land office, and notices to the entrymen for 1001 patents were sent recently from the office and are now in the hands of the applicants and the patents are being called for ISAMAN CASE BEING Foreclosure Suit Occupies Morning: Session of Court. The case of M. A. Means vs. M. F. Tobin, an action to foreclose a mort gage. was before the district court HEARD this morning. The testimony was submitted during the morning ses- ! sion and the arguments were made) this afternoon. The case of the city of Lewiston vs. S. G. Isaman occupied the atten- j tlon of the court for the greater por-, tion of the afternoon session. j - William Albright and wife of Juliaetta are visitors in the city. PERSONALS. Mrs. C. A. French, who has been in the city a few days visiting with her daughter, Mrs. G. O. McMinni my, left this morning for Troy to visit with her son. George Knapp is in the city from Asotin on a brief business trip. Berry Clemens is in the city from Anatone selecting a stock of goods for the merchandise store which he is soon to open at that place. Bert Sherry of Anatone is in the c lty, registered at the Grand, William Wills of the Walla Walla F,re Insurance company was a busi ness visitor in the city, leaving this morn * n K f° r Bis home, F - S. Loring went to Moscow this morning to inspect the building v?ork his firm has in progress at the state university. | A. A - Hansen left this morning on the Clearwater train for business at; several of the towns of the interior, j John Weiss returned By the boat this morning to his home at Alpowa. j Mrs. W. E. Krebs returned yes terday afternoon from a visit with friends in Spokane, 1 Attorney G. W. Tannahill return ed yesterday afternoon from a busi ! | ness visit to Moscow, j G. Orr McMinimy i terday from returned yes business visit to Peck. 1 A Sempert is a business visitor in the city from Grangeville. E. A. Warren of Mohler is a busi-1 ness visitor in the city. ; T. B. Reed, merchant at Pierce is business visitor in the City city. J. W. Blake, president of the Fl delity State bank at Orofino, is a business visitor in the city. J. R. O'Neill is a business visitor from Greer. F. W. Wooden and wife of Peck i are visitors in the city. Major F. A. Fenn, supervisor °f ' t.he Bitter Root forest reserve, re -1 turned to his home at Kooskla this J ! morning. i Robert .Tones of the firm of Bales & Jones left this morning for his ; home at Grar.geville. j Harold Hurlbut returned this morning from a business visit East, j Contain L. D. Schattner, deputy Fnited States marshal for Trtnho, re turned this morning from a business visit to the Bonners Ferry section. RETURNS SLOW ON ROAD ELECTIONS LITTLE MORE THAN A THIRD OF THE 57 DISTRICTS HAVE RE PORTED YET ON MONDAY'S ELECTION W. E. Daggett, clerk of the board of county commissioners, has receiv ed reports from 21 of tße 57 road districts in the county where elec tions of road supervisors were held Monday. The returns show less in terest in the supervisor elections than ever before, and only in a few precincts were the contests close. In district 48, in the Peck section, John Jones was elected supervisor over A. .1. Bobbitt, the present in cumbent, by a vote of 23 to 22. In district 9, near Cameron, A. J. Schultz was elected over Harry Webster, the present incumbent, by a vote of 31 to 30. The following are the returns re ceived up to 3 o'clock today: District No. 2, Waha—Martin Boyer, re-elected. District No. 4, Leland—C. E. Walker, re-elected. District Mustoe. No. 5, Southwick -c' District No. 6—Herman Winters. Cameron, re-elected. District No. 9, Cameron—A. J. Schultz. District No. 12, Lapwal—J. A. Taylor, re-elected. District No. 16, Lenore— Antone Schwartz, re-elected. District No. 17, Peck—H. A. Whitted, re-elected. District No. 20, Melrose—J. H. F. C. j Kennedy, re-elected, j District No. 21, Culdesac—Charles j Craft. District No. 23—William Phar, ! re-elected. District No. 25, Melrose—Frank : Reed, re-elected. District No. 26, Lewiston—J. A. Vernon, re-elected. District No. 27, Juliaetta—H. Steffen. District No. 31, Spalding—P Nicholson, re-elected. District No. 33, • Forest—J. V. Wilkins, re-elected. District No. 34, Spalding—V. V. Crabtree. District No. 44, Orofino—. M. Sanders. District No. 47, Orofino— H. E. Frey. District No. 48, Peck—John Jones. District No. 40, Culdesac—F. A. Parks, re-elected. _ MOSCOW, Dec. 4.—An unsuccess fu! attempt was made today upon the life of Lieutenant General Guerspelman, governor general of Moscow, who escaped death by a narrow margin, ESCAPES DEATH BY CLOSE MARGIN WOMAN HURLS BOMB AT GOV ERNOR GENERAL OF MOSCOW —GENERAL ESCAPES UNHURT —WOMAN BADLY INJURED A woman hurled a bomb into the general's carriage. The horses were killed and the coachman seriously injured. The woman was severely muti lated by the explosion of the bomb, and was removed to the hospital in a dying condition. The general was not injured. ; Passed Awav This Morning From a Complication of Diseases. DEATH OF A. J. McDONALD A. J. McDonald died at his home on 17th street at 9 o'clock this morning from a complication of dis eases. Mr. McDonald was 56 years of age and had been in poor health for the past several months. i He was a printer by trade and Is 'well known in all sections of the In ' land Empire, where he had been en gaged in newspaper work for the J l>as t several years. For the past i year he has spent much of his time lj n t; le CO ast cities, and returned to ; p| s home a little over a week ago. He leaves a wife and two sons to mourn his death. The funeral will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from the family residence. The roller rink is open every night in the wek except Sunday. Important Store News From Blake's Phenominal Sale of the special purchase from Ely & Walker Dry Goods Co. The page ad told you of many special purchases of Blankets, Outings, Comforts, Hosiery, Underwear, etc., etc. Come today or any of the fol lowing days for one week, ending Tuesday, Dec . 10 Important Announcement Holiday Goods half Regular Price ONE HALF In taking over the Fair Store in January, 1907, we came into possession of several hundred dollars' worth of holiday goods, consisting of toys, dolls, games, books, dolls that open their eyes, and dolls that don't, dolls that cry, and good dolls, etc., etc. We are not going to handle toys in the future . Force of circumstances co mpels us to close them out at once . Our cramped for room condition makes it necessary to sell out this de partment at once. Beginning Today and until all sold you can buy them at Half. Just Half Every article has the price on them put on by The Fair manager. Our in struction to every clerk cut that right in two. Toys are about the same each year, "bar ring the few new additions." And when you consider that we open the season at Half, it's a remarkable offer. Visit our toy section today. Tomor row may be too late. buy here. And most important it will be so low that if you are keen to recog nize values you will delay no longer. Remember it's every Coat, Suit and Waist. BLAKE'S BLAKE'S The final mark down discount in all suits, waists, coats and skirts, for wo men, Misses and children, will take place Tuesday morning. From that hour on it will not be a question of profit SELL THEM is the order to our suit ladies. Not how much you give. Indeed not- The new price, the low price, the price that will move them will be written out in plain figures for you. It will be the price asked when you come in. The price you will pay if you $7.50 is the price we have put on all Men's Suits left over from The Fair stock. Even them they sold at $18.00 and $20.00, and the above price ap plies also to all suits bought by Blake for spring 1907, and they are $10.00 to $15.00 values. It's certainly an opportune time for you, Mr., to buy a suit. Call on them in the Annex. BLAKE'S New Arrivals 1000 pieces stamped linen 50 dozen pillow tops 5 dozen laundry bags