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NOTMtNO, CXCCV* TNC MINT, CAN MARC StWSItV WITHOUT ADVBWTISINQ. OLAOSTONS. VOL. IX. NO. 2. The Dawn is a Representative of Largest hay Producing Valley in the great Commonwealth of Washington. One Dollar per Year. During the . . . Holiday Festivities so close at hand, don't forget to see those flO.oo "tSmcy Worsted Suits, in round or straight front. C olors, blue, black and dark brown, Aye different patterns; are regular •12.50 Suits. »12.r>0 Military Cut, fancy all wool Cassimere, guaranteed, tailored in the best possible manner: you could pay $15 for this < .suit and then be well satisfied. The latest colorings in Cassimeres and Worsted Suitings, perfect fits and latrst cuts at $15. The wholesale price on these goods was $16.50. Blue and Brown Beaver Overeorts at $7.. r )0 —Sizes 35 to 42—these don't require a discount price to make move —Other lines at 99 50, $10.00, $12.50 to *1&G0 in latest styles. These you Should see C. L. Collins CLOTHIER. Cbe ellensburg Dawn, ELLENSBURG, KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JAN. n, 1902. A Government of, by and for the People. fEstate " NEWsgjT) The Fairhaven cannery lias closed down for the season. A large vein of gas has been discov ered at Port Angeles. Stens are being taken to establish a co-operative creamery at Central ia. W. L. Demon will succeed Mrs. K. M. Sperry as postmaster at North Yakima. Aberdeen now has tree mail delivery every morning, two carriers being em ployed. Armour & Co. will shortly build a cold storage plant KM) feet square in Spokane. Charles Stilhvell was killed in Story & Co.'s lumber mill at Nooksack a few days since. The work in the Tenino stone quar ry will be resumed soon with a full force of hands. The Clark county rural delivery routes are expected to begin operation February Ist. The Olympia Capital has changed its form from a seven column folio to a four column quarto. There were 1598 homestead entries made at the Walla Walla laud oflioe during the year 1901. William Axford, one of the pioneers of South Bend, died a few days since at the ripe old age of 80 years. There were 220 fire alarms In Tacama during the year 1901; total loss $41,""!); total insurance paid $30,293. Tho postal receipts for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1!)01 at the Whatcom postottice amounted to $882.82. The pannel and folding box company of Hoquiam recently received an order for 40 car loads of strawberry boxes. Geo. H. Baker of Goldendale, is now being talked of as a candidate for gov ernor on the republican ticket in li) 04. There were 3,047 arrests made by the police in Tacoma during the year 1001 tines $80,365. An increase of 15.1 over 1900. George Woman, postmaster at Way side, near Spokane, shot and killed his six year-old daughter and then shot himself, both dying in a few moments William Seaton was hung in Seattle, Friday, for the brutal murder of his uncle, Dan Richards, December 0, 11)00, braining him while asleep with an ax. There were 1140 arrests made by the police department of Walla Wulla dv- ring the year 1901 with lines aggrega ting $2,2",'!, of which one half were served In jail. W. F. Adams, a farmer at, Almota. near Colfax, nicked ripe tomatoes from his vines January 4th 1908. They are fresh and nice and were grown out of doors without any shelter and were the second crop from the same vines. The oyster beds at South Bend were greatly damaged by the high winds of last week. The sand was washed over the beds so deep as to smother them and those not smothered were piled in ridges by the storm. The loss ia great. Wright-Blodgett Co., Ltd., of Sagi naw, Mich., has purchased 5,000 acres of timber land in Linn county. The consideration paid was $12.50 to $14 an acre. The Curtiss Lumber Co. pur chased 1,000 acres in the same locality. It is claimed that the deep sea chan nel of the Pacific ocean has changed and is 500 miles nearer this coast than ever beforo and that accounts for our very mild winter. If this is true, those in position to know, claim that future winters will be even less severe and our climate become eventually almost tropical. A New Ruling of the Post Office Department. The postal officials at Washiugton,D.C, have just ruled that a subscription to any publication MUST BE DISCONTINUED when the time for which it is PAID IN ADVANCE expires. Subscribers who are in arrears must pay up to date and in advance within the next few days or we shall be forced by this ruling to strike from our books the names of all who are in arrears. This matter is entirely beyond our coutrol. The postal authoriti'".- have us at their mercy for a time, and we must obey their mandates "or be c xcluded from the mails, which means to us a very severe loss. Pay up your arrearage, if behind, and pay in ad vance and The Dawn will be delivered to you if we have to employ a carrier. Seattle is shipping vitrified brick to Manila. The bark Henrietta went aground on a reef of rocks in the harbor at Astoria, on December 27. ! There are Aye hundred and fifty-six prisoners now confined in the Walla Walla penitentiary. Aberdeen is up to its neck in a may oralty contest, that nothing but the supreme court can settle. Mrs. Bamum, of Dope/. Island, was9B 1 years old December 2H. She is said to 1 be the oldest woman in the state. Dnriiig the past, year over .Ii") men gave up their residence in the peniten tiary at Walla Walla. Moran Hros., of Seattle, are success fully operating an Immense new float i ing dry dock of their own construction. Win, P. Baxter, former bookkeeper for the Seattle Brewing and Malting I Co., has run away with $400 of tho linn's money. Andrew Carnegie has refused to as sist Spokane in the building of a new library. Too bad '. Try him again, ho may repent. Dr. M. 11. Stapp. of Aberdeen, has received notice that a patent had been granted him for an automatic sheet music turner. J. J. Hill is one of the principal stock- holders of the American National bank at Everett) which was opened for bus iness this week. John Corbott. a brother of tho pugil ist, was found dead in a hotel in Seattle, ion December 28. Death resulted from j continued use of morphine. | T. W, RathbUQ, a trapper, has been j lost in the mountains near Ml. Adams, ! for over a month, and as yet no trace of him has been found. | The big battleship Ohio, which was I launched in Sua Francisco Ity the lute President McKinley, is coming to the Sound to go on the dry dock. The four masted schooner, Minnie A. Cain, went ashore at the north end of Smith's Island and is a total wreck. No lives were lost. She was owned in Seattle. A highwayman held up Ward Emigh manager of the Walla Walla creamery, the other night, a short distance out of town, secured a cheap silver watch and made his escape. Because of delay in the completion of tho steel bridge across the Lewis river a regular passenger schedule will not go into effector) the Washington & Ore gon railway until next April. Wllraer Mingo, a 14-year-old boy was smothered to death on Dec. 28, in Seat tle, by a sand bank caving in on him. Fie and some other children were dig ging a little tunnel when the bank fell. Seattle and Tacoma both complain of youthful criminals, who roam the streets at night and do naughty things. It is from such ranks that our reform schools and jails are constantly being recruited. The Snohomish county commission ers have granted a franchise to the Northwestern Telegraph and Tele phone Company, giving them permis sion to run long distance wires through the county. J. B. Laundrum has brought suit in the superior court against the city of Centralis for the sum of $110 for ser vices as registration officer during his term as clerk, covering a period of about two years and five months. The people of Aberdeen are agitat ing the question of building a bridge across the Chohalia river to connect Aberdeen "and South Aberdeen, the lat ter being a manufacturing suburb on the south side of Chehalis. To Change the Board. "W T hile I have nothing one way or the other to say at present," said Gov, McUride on Thursday, "concerning the heads of the different departments, I am free to admit that a change in tho political complexion of the board of control is necessary in order that 1 act without embarrassmant. While tin law makes it necessary that the board bo non-partisan, with at least one dem ocrat on it, the present political makeup of two democrats would seriously im barrass me. The governor of the state is held responsible by hi - pa ty for the manner in which he conducts the suite institutions. To conduct them to my party's best interests with a board of tlie present political complexion would be absurd." Thousands Sent Into Exile. Kvery year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly ami not always sure. Don't be an exile when Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption will cure you at hone-. It's the most Infallible medicine for Coughs, ( 'olds, and all Throat and Lung diseases on earth. The first dose brings relief. Astounding cures result from persistent use. Trial bottles free at 11. S. Ellwood Price 500 ami 81.00. Every bottle guaranteed. Struck Oil. Whatcom, Jan. 5.—A Ledger cot respondent visited the oil well of the Pacific Oil Well* company at Happy Valley this afternoon and investigated tho reported oil strike. The drillei Ec I are headquarters Fon Fancy Teas and Coffee, Red Star Compressed Yeast, Snowflake Flour, Uneda Biscuits., Buckwheat Flour, Wisconsin Fancy Cheese, Spring Creek Creamery Butter CHAIRS AND A WARM FlaF. Watch this space next week for Toothbrush Bargains, We Jiave Malt Oats Breakfast Food Delicious in flavor, most Easily digested, Prepared by special process from the best Barley Malt and the Choicest Oats. m. <Bartbokt & Co. I WOULD A 8 SOON THINK OF DOING OUSI NES3 WITHOUT CLERKS AS WITHOUT AO' VERTISING ■ ■ JOHN WANAMAKER-. PRICE 5 CENTS. was interviewed and stated: "At 3:30 yesterday afternoon the drill broke through shale and stuck. It took twei - ty minutes to free the drill. Tho dri 1 was brought out, the bailer run down and tlie hole bailed out, largo quanti ties of oil being brought uj>. We be- • came convinced we were so close to a large body of oil that we decided it would not be safe to drill further until preparations could be made for taking care of the oil when it should come." This afternoon Mr. Spike had the drill inserted and drilled a few minutes. The drill was then withdrawn and the bailor run down. Large quantities of oil were brought up. Tbe odor of gas was very pronounced. The company is so convinced that a large body of oil is close at hand that drilling; will be suspended until prepa rations can be made for taking care of tho flow. Tn spite of the stormy weather hun dreds of people visited the well this afternoon and witnessed the, opera tions.- Tacoma Ledger. A Deep Mystery. it is a my&tery why women endure Backache, Headache, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells when thousands have proved that Electrlo Bitters will quick ly cure such troubles. 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