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We have acquired title to a tract of land at Tolleston at a price which will enable us to place upon the market at an early date a sub-division of several hundred choice lots at $200 each, such as others are asking from $300 to $500 for. Every lot in our sub-division is high, dry and level. No litigation about title. Our title is perfect by an unbroken chain from the government. To Advertise our SubDi vision in Advance of its opening, and in order to get people to talk about us to their friends, WE WILL at an advance opening sale beginning today, MONDAY, AUGUST 12th, Sell 50 of These Lots at $100 Each, Ten dollars down and $5 a month. Not more than two of these lots will be sold to any one person. The first fifty purchasers will receive the benefit of this slaughter of prices in Tolleston lots. $5,000 will in this manner be given to our customers as an advertisement. This is a bonafide proposition, and if you are one of the first fifty purchasers it will have been worth $100 to you to read this ad. To show you we mean what we say, read the following additional novel and startling offer: If you become one of these fifty advance purchasers, we at the same time will agree to repurchase the same lot for $150 that we sell you for $100. Can you beat that? Don't fail to grasp this opportunity. OPEN EVENINGS.

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SMITH'S FIRM. BLAST Commissioner of Corporations Tells Further of Standard Oil Depravity. IT GRINDS THE HOME BUYF Sells Its Product Cheaper Abroad Thr.. It Does at Home. Takes Every Advantage of Nbn-Competitive Conditions and Lets Nothing Get Away That It Can Corral. Washington, Aug- 12. In tn business of soiling petroleum products Ju foreign countries the price policy ol the Standard Oil company "has been apparently to sacrifice the interests ol the American consumer for the purpose of securing the Standard's foreign business." This direct charge is made in an official report to Fresldent Roosevelt by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, in submitting to hlra further results of the investigation of the operations of the Standard Oil company by the bureau of corporalions. Tart three of the report, dealing with discriminations in prices has been made public by Commissioner Smith. Wo Have to "Pay the Freight." Commissioner Smith asserts that the Standard, enoying practically an absolute monopoly of the oil trade in this country, has charged "such prices as Jt could thereby extort, and the Amer ican consumer has had to pay these prices. Meeting competition abroad it as given the foreign consumer enormously lower prices, and it has used cantheproffs made at home to maintain position abroad, so that the American consumer has been severely discriminated against for the purpose of maintaining not the dominance of American export trade, but the dominance of a particular combination which has lipod. its power frequently and conspicuously to the disadvantage of the American public." Competition Makes a Difference. Extraordinary statements are contained in the report respecting the varying prices of oil In this country. It Is pointed out that as the Standard - does business directly with the retail dealers it is In position to make different prices on the same grade of oil in different localities, and It actually takes advantage of that position. In localities where the Standard has nc competition it exacts immensely higher, prices &r Jitsroducts, than, it

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the First Fifty Purchasers of Lots in Our New This is an opportunity of a life time for men of small means to increase

charges in localities where it is obliged to meet competition. LETS NOTHING GMT AWAY Standard Seems Up On All Points ol Business Advantage It Is alleged in the report that seven mills per gallon on illuminating oil affords a profit of about ten per cent, on the investment in refining and marketing the oil. "But the actual differences in the Standard's prices Among competitive and non-competitive towns and areas," says Commissioner Smith, "often amount to several cents per gallon. A combination which can command the profits that these figures imply, over large areas, has therefore obviously a tremenduous weapon when it enters on aggressive pricecutting against independent concern." The report gives a "striking" instance of this divergence in the prices cf the same grade of oil in California, where the Standard carries oil from its refinery near San Francisco several hundred miles by water and rail, to Southern California, and there sells for several cents a gallon less than it charges for it in San Francisco. Commissioner Smith declares that the evidence "is absolutely conclusive that the Standard takes full advantage of all non-competitive conditions to impose the highest prices possible and it uses similar means to drive . from the competitive field all would-be rivals for business." Some astonishing statements, too, are made regarding the method pursued by the Standard toward various railroads of the country In supplying lubricating oils. Some lines which have shown a disposition and have the power to compound their own lubricants obtain favorable rates from the Standard, but from all others roads the highest prices are exacted. Simply Forgot My Orders." Raleigh. X. C. Aug. 12. "I simply forgot my orders, that's all." This was the excuse given by Conductor Oakley before the coroner's jury investigating the head-on collision on the Southern railway at Auburn, S miles east of here last Tuesday, which resulted in the loss of three lives. B.joernson Celebrates. Christina, Aug. 12. Bjoornstjerne Rjoernson, the Norwegian novelist celebrated yesterday the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of his first novel. Synnoeve Solbak Ken. He rereived an enormous number of greetings from all countries. Jackson's Grandchild Elopes. Richmond, Va., Aug. 12. Julia Jackson Christian of Atlanta, a granddaughter of General "Stonewall"' Jackson, eloped with W. J. Alexander, a young lawyer of Charlotte, the marriage being performed here.

Fill WIND HITS LA CROSSE Does Damage in the Town Reach ing Tens of Thousands of Dollars. MIRACLE THAT NONE ARE DEAD One Family Just Misses Being Crashed to Death In Its Home. Another Narrow Escape for Hundreds When a Church is Partly Wrecked Some Details of the Havoc Done. LaCrosse, Wis., Aug. 12. The worst tornado ever experienced within the city -of LaCrosse swept through the city at 8 a. m. and in fifteen minutes had done an enormous amount of damage so great, indeed, and widespread that no accurate estimate of its extent can be made, but it will run far In the tens of thousands of dollars at least. In the city of LaCrosse alone. There have been greater storms in tills vicinity within the last few years, many of them causing loss of life and great damage to property, but until this one the city was untouched. This storm worked great havoc to factories, residences, churches and electric companies, and brought to earth thousands of the most beautiful shade trees, making the. streets and walks in places in passable. Came Out of a Clear Sky. The tornado was accompanied by a furious rain, and the storm came out of a clear sky. The day was fair and warm, with no prospect of weather disturbances, and hundreds of people were upon the river for the day, or had gone into the country on picnic parties. The greatest alarm was caused when the savage twisting wind struck the water and the frail pleasure craft on It. Iu many cases the boats wera swamped, the inmates being thrown In the waterand obliged to swim to shore. In other cases the occupants of the boats, unable to get to shore with them because of the wind, abandoned them, and leaping Into the water swam for shore. Unconfirmed Reports of Drownings. There are reports of drownings, and one witness says he saw a boat containing two men overturn and go down with Us passengers, but there ha? as yet been no confirmation of these reports. All along the river front the storm swept, doing great damage to the factory district.. At the Listman mill, where the Foster Constructioa

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company, or Milwaukee, is erecting a big plant, the superstructure of tho mill went down. BIG SMOKESTACK PROSTRATED Fell Against a House Several Narrow Escapes from Horrors. Among the plants which suffered most was the new Mitchell brewery now in process of erection. The steel and concrete chimney eighty-five feet1. high, of such strong construction that it was thought to be impregnable to the elements, was torn off close to tho ground and crashed in a mass of mins across the street. In Its fall the chimney tore the side from the store of William Grams, and had it been a few feet longer it would have crushed this building like an eggshell, killing the people living in the flats in the upper story. The new brewery building proper also suffered, a part of the walls going down. The storm then crossed the streets and ripped portions of the roof from the old brewery building. At this point a!?o a large cottenwood tree, two feet iu diameter, was torn out by the roots and hurled over the cottage of John Fuller, crushing the building. This was one of the most narrow escapes from fatalities. Another large tree fell on the residence of Frank J. Holmes, where it now lies in imminent danger of breaking down the building. The residence of T. J. Farlau, across the street from the Holmes house, was unroofed. The Segelke & Kohlhaus Manufacturing -company suffered heavily, the smokestack being blown down and part of the roof of the big factory going. In the same vicinity the sheet iron roofing was torn from the sheds of the Colrnan Lumber com pany, and part of the roof of the planing mill was carried away. The roof of the John James foundry also went In part. A big warehouse filled with sewer pipe and other merchandise was completely demolished, as though torn down" by wreckers. In the retail district the roof of th Tanberg Auto company's building was torn off anl hangs over the front of the building. The storm swept down on St. Joseph's cathedral, the largest church building in the city, which was at the time filled with people for the early morning mass. One of the high steeples was torn loose, fell upon the shook the structure and terrified the people inside, and fell with a crash upon the walk beneath among a crowd of people rushing for shelter from the wind and rain. It was almost miraculous that none was killed at this point. The German Lutheran church suffered damage which would have wiped out many lives - had the storm been three hours later. Two big chimneys crashed through the roof carrying many tons of steel and bricks down into the auditorium, where the worshippers would h?ve assembled a few hours later.

AT ISSUE ON THE TARIFF Speaker Cannon and a Kansas States man Don't Agree as to a Revision of Schedules. Dodge City, Kans., Aug. 12. Before the old soldiers' reunion Speaker Cannon devoted the major portion of hl3 speech to the tariff and predicted, among other things, that if he is r.V 1 MS Copyright. 1304, by J. K Purdy. SPEAKEB C&JTSOJt. elected speaker of congress next December that body will not revise the tariff. The expression of the speaker was called forth by a speech by Representative Victor Murdoch, who spoke In favor of Immediate tariff revision and who announced that he was not a standpatter. Speaker Cannon said bewas not a standpatter, but he did not believe In revising the Dingley tariff law now. He declared that if he could write a law himself he would raise some schedules and lower others, butin actual legislation a perfect law could not be passed. EXPLOSION WAS TERRIFIC Half a Car of Nitro-Glycerine Lets Go Two Killed, Three Fatally Hurt Town Wrecked. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 12. Two men were killed, three probably fatally injured, and scores of people were slightly hurt by the explosion of half a car of nitro glycerine at the Michigan Central railroad station at Essex, Ontario, 17 miles inland from the Detroit river. Practically every building In the little town of 1,500 people was injured, many of them being blown to pieces The dead are: Brakemen , Joseph McMany and Leo Conlon, of Amherstburg, Ontario. The fatally injured 4 are: Fireman Jame3 Maaag.an of

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Amherstburg; Station Agent A. O. Stlmers, of Essex; Conductor Thomas Rarry, of Amherstburg. Engineer David Cottrell and Mrs. Mary Morton, of Ypsilantl, Michigan, a passenger on the train, were severely but not fatally injured, as was Mrs. A. O. Stimers, of Essex. Literally scores of residents of the little town were cut by flying glass or iniured by falling walls, but none of them, so far as known, "13 seriously hurt Jap Has Troubles of His Own. Victoria, B. C, Aug. 12. Severe fighting is reported from Formosa where the natives are making strenuous resistance against the Japanese troops. At Taikokan the Japanese casualties numbered 200. Sunshine Society Founder Dead. St, Louis, Aug. 12. Mrs. Catallna W. Trowbridge, president and founder of the Missorl branch of the Sunshine society, and one of the best known charity workers In the southwest, Is dead, aged f0 years. BIG BLAST OF DYNAMITE Kills Two Persons, Wounds One Hon dred and Breaks AH the Glass in the City. Boulder, Colo., Aug. 12. Fire ttal started in the Colorado and Southern freight depot here destroyed the depot, with a vast quantity of freight, and spreading a distance of 100 feet enveloped a powder house containing 1, 000 xounds of dynamite, which exploded with tremendous shock, injuring perhaps 100 persons and breaking the plate glass in every business house in the city, as well as that in hundreds of residences. The property loss Is estimated at $250,000. The fire originated from an unknown cause and is believed to be incendiary. Twenty-five of the injured were tak e:i to local hospitals. The others were either removed to their homes or were able to go there themselves. Those fatally hurt who have since died are: Isaac O. Willson, contractor; Leslie Roy La Fevre; II. A. Ramsey, painter; Mrs. D. L. Finch. Others injured were; 1 Jack Livingstone, Denver, three ribs broken, domes burned off; Edward, Cook, side and arms badlv burned, bruised; Alexander Spartell, blacksmith, clothes burned off. hnriiir bnmprt about body; Erble Miller, carpenter, badly hurt by falling timbers; four members of the Ramsey family. PEARTS "DASH" POSTPONED Repairs on His Ship Are Not Complete and He Will Wait Until Next Year. New York, Aug. 12. Commander Robert E. Peary'3 dash for the pole! has been postponed. Failure to com-j plete the repairs on his ship, the "Roosevelt" has compelled the ex--plorer to put off his trip until next jear. Througlithe ParxArctic jCluhj

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the explorer gave out the following statement over his own signature: "Owing to the failure of the contractors for the 'Roosevelt's' new boilera to live up to their agreement, the main expedition of the Peary Arctic Club will be postponed for a year, and the 'Roosevelt,' when the work of repairs Is completed, will go north oa a flying trip to deposit my proposed coal depot at Etah, Greenland, returning the last of September. "In this connection it is proper to state that the contract for the construction and Installation of the two new boilers for the 'Roosevelt' was made upon the assurance of the contractors that the work should be completed on June 1, and this provision was embodied In the contract. As a matter of fact the boilers are only just completed, and the Installation is yet to be done. FIRST RACE GOES TO US Very Light Breeze Shows the Seneca at Her Best In the Canada Cup Contest. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 12. Roches ter Yacht club's defender Seneca defeated the Royal Canadian Yacht club's challenger Adele in the first of the series of races for the Canada'3 eup. The Adele was no match for the Seneca in the Hght breeze, which at no time was stronger than nine miles, frequently dying down to three miles. In the last hour of the contest the wind diminished to meTe zephyrs, so that the last half home leg was really a drifting match. When the Seneca managed to creep over the line the Adele was about one mile In the rear, and did not finish. This race for the Canada's cup was made possible by the courtesy of the Canadian yachtsmen In overlooking tha violation of the agreement by tho Rochester Yacht club In not filing plans of the defender, and in waiving their forfeiture demand. The defender was permitted to be weighed andl succeeded in qualifying. Baby's Share of Blame. She had been fitted for two gownv the total cost or whicn was nearly ' $t0"Now," she eald to the saleswoman, i I want you to do me a favor. "Certainly," was the prompt response. The customer colored deeply. "I want you to make out the bill partly for gowns for me and partly for baby dresses and a baby's cloak." The saleswoman was used to tho whims of fashionable women, but this was something she was a little slow In comprehending. The customer explained. "You see," 6he said, "my husband is very fond of our baby, and if he sees that the bill la partly for dresses for her well, ho won't mind so much." ( Exchange, -

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