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He has lost his way if you find him .
give him our address We have five '
hundred new iall samples to choose ?
MADE TO YOUR MEASURE. FROM |
$18. 00 UP. Our personal guarantee as
to qua'ity and fit with! every garment.
H. J. Lynch
t I ?iiN f uinniifi and Haberdasher of Slag way
GOV. BUCK SAYS COFFEE
CREEK IS THE BEST (KHflE
mouth* >ku by th? l>9inlntoii <uv?ru
U'blto Klver country wait 4 well mill
told discovery Mir. Hluck my*
In the opinion of the Governor
this U by far the moat feasible route
nt the present time, because hornet)
and supplies may be tuken In with
comparative euse.
The Kluaue trull from White
horse la considerably shorter, but
ne.wrl> all of It ha* to be made by
pack trull. From Whlteliorsc to
Klyiano luke tho dlstauco u 146
miles, across the lake 4 o uiIIm, ov
er Ot i< 11 to Canyon City K5 miles,
from there to strike, 00 miles. This
lutfr route hus tho rei'omineudatloii
of ^ lie Uulted States Koveriiinent ge
olvvlcul survey uccordli|K to their re
po^hi of 1008. It Is the general
5 pinion that either the Kluuue or
i>Xfee Creek routes Is far nupretor
(Of crossing the Skolal Klnrlers to
There Is still another way, which
iu?y be made mostly by steamboat,
that Is from Whltehors* down the
Yukou by steamer to Whlto lllver
and up that river. A late report
.viy? that a steamer succeeded In
jP'ttlng within eighty lulled of the
from which place there Is a pack
river Is uncertain and spasmodic
Vfav other two routes are certain
hpth summer and winter.
I
ERS IF COAST
iu- title, Aug. 0 Secrotary of War
L M Harrison, w ltue#??*l the tnak
uhvu a mortar gunner's fired bouibti
turgel it will The placing of the |
bombs iu u nutubor cf eouMCUllve
shots. ahowde marvelous skill lu
men of Kort Worden lu the vory
WIRELESS III
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Seattle, Aug. 6 ? The Northern
Kau as "Xpert have >?slablUhed a
station at the new gold strike on
Sushauna. It is uow possible to get
communication with the boat* and
many of the station* lu Alaska.
I S. MIL TRAIN
lllrmlnghaiu, Aug. 6 ? The mall
car of tho fust Uoulsevllle-Nushvllle
train was looted lust night and all
tho registered mall taken The ex
press car wan also rifled. The ban
dits escaped to the hills and nol
clue has been left to Indicate the]
Identity of the criminals.
SIHJKAXK IX WITH A
FULL LIST OF TOl'ltlSlSl
ing bout Spokane pulled Into Skug
wuy harbor with a hundred and fifty
passenger* who are taking the round
trip to Alaska. A number of not
ables are aboard, among them being
II. L. Ueeman, wife and son. Mr.
Heeinau la the son of the celebrat
ed manufacturer of chewing gum. Dr
Joel E. Qoldthwalt and wife. Ho Is
a prominent physician and surgeon
of Massachusetts, and Prof. John
Trowbridge, the eminent physicist.
Mrs. Mary E. Hart, president of
the Alaska cruise club, anuounces
that there Is a membership of more
than nine hundred, who have Jolu
ed tho order since Its Inception last
Special Prices!
ON FRUIT BY THE BOX*
Following our usual custom, we will waka specially attractive |
prices ou all fruits by the box during the canning season. *
WE HAVE A GOOD SUPPLY OF
JELLY GLASSES
FRUIT JARS
JAR RUBBERS
And are prepared no take care of your orders satisfactorily
P. H. GANTY, Grocer ;
Ml'HDKIlKIl A(iKD FOURTHHN
(JKTg MKK IMIMUSO.XMKNT
Joilet, lit., Aug, 6 ? Fourteen
year* of ugo. uiit) sentenced (or life!
Granting that Herman Coppes, u
mere baby, liven to llio average ugo
of prisoners, thU youth who calmly
Hhol to deuth, for no apparent rea
?urn, the wife of his benefactor and
crushed the "heads of two babies wit
an uxe, today In looking forward to
the fifty year* ho must still nerve
behind prison bur* before death lib
erates lilui.
Herman Coppts U u tousle-hulred
undersized boy, Just like huudreds
to be found on corner lutr playing
baseball or ut the "vwlmmln' holes"
taking a stolen plunge. There will
bo no buseball or swimming, howev
er, for little lleriuuii Coppcs.
"The most baffling study In Juv
enile criminology that bus ever
come to my notice", wus the charucU
eriiutlou of tho Coppes boy express
ed today by Wardott Edmund M. Al
len, of the Illinois suite prison ut
Joliet. And ulleulsts, criminologists
and penitentiary officials who have
examined this strange little follow,
echo the warden's statements. All
uro agreed that It would bo a nion
uce to any community for the boy to
be free in It. All are agreed that
tho boy suffers from homocldul uiun
la of tho worst type. The allenlsta
at loast some of them- say the boy
ahould bo sunt to an iiiuUtution for
i he insane for treatment, but they
admit that hts condition U iiuch that
to be treated at such an Institution,
some freedom would have to bo giv
en lil in At any time, thy 8ay, dur
lug one of the periods of ai>|iaront
sanity, ho might cunningly plan and
succeed lii satisfying what they call
hia lust to kill. l'euitentiury offic
iate admit frankly they havou't tho
slightest Idea what to do with the
boy. Nover before, tlioy say, have
they been forced to "turn a cell In
to u nursery."
"lie Is it Mt'oud l>r. Jekyll and
Mr Hyde", salt! ono of the guards,
in whose cell block ho sleeps. "lie'
(he queerest little fellow I evor did
see, and I have some youngsters of
my own about his ago who are
uot white angels. Ono duy he'll
be us ha|i|>y as a kid with a base
ball bat. The next day he hangs his
head, mopes In hit cell, marches In
to the dinlug room with eyes half
shut, and eats barely enough to sat
isfy tho hunger of u kid one-fifth
Ills nge. lie will refuse to tulk even
wheu wo tulk to him of the things
bo likes. Thou, the next duy, he's
happy and smiling aud cheerful
again."
When he was barely thirteen yoai
old, the Coppes boy was gent to thj>
Washington. Aug. C Senator Kor
aker was ouo of the first to be cull
ed before thu House lobby probe. He
until that he had often met Lobby
ist Mulhttll and had always found
him sociable, and that he had nev
er had dealing with him In the In
terests of anyone. Ho said that he,
himself was never In th employe of
tbe manufacturers orgauliutlon, and
knew uothliiK about Mulhall being
ho employed.
, The lobby Investigation Is proceed
I ntg slowly.
I'llKSIDKXT tJOKS TO
(?I'IKT I'lACK TO IIKST
Crawfordsvllle, Aug. t> ? Presldeut
Wilson arrived here this morning
and will speud a few days In com
plete rest.
St. Charles state reformatory be
cause his father declared hltu to be
Incorrigible. Ten months ago, he
wag parolled uml glvou Into the cus
tody of Muuiiy Step, u farmer living
near Klglu.
One oveulng when Sleep was away
from home, the boy shot the farm
er's youug wife. With au axe ho
dashed the bralim of Uer two bubles,
Sarah, aged four, aud Krtllle aged
two. Removing the cover from ail
abandoned clsterm under the kitch
en he pushed the dead mother and
her dead babies Into the well. Then
he carefully and so cunningly eras
ed all signs of the triple murder that
no trace of the killing showed when
Manny Steep returned home.
Uurlug the five days that Sleep
anU his neighbors engaged In frant
ic search for some sign of the wom
an and her babies, Herman Coppes
went about his minor tasks He
calmly ate his uieuW on a table
which sat on the disused cistern
top. On the sixth day Sleep, dis
tracted. begged the boy to tell what
ho knew of his missing wife and
children.
"I killed them. They are down
there", he answered calmly, point
lag to the old well. Then under se
vere sweating, tho boy confessed ev
erything ? except why he did it
THE CRY OF THE^TIMES
IS FOR
RUBBER SOLED
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