SPRING'S CHARMING MILLINERY AT $5.00, $7.50 AND $10.00. All the newest, attractive shapes; smart, exclusive m1odels rlepresenting the latest Paris and New York styles-hats that are really worth nearly double what they are priced at. Every new tendency in shape of brim I nd crown-effective shapes in Neapolitan, Milan and French chip are here portrayed. The new models include the large turbans-large flat shapes and hell models, beautifully trimmed with wings and flowers. All the new spring shade's are included. Exquisite Spring Suits Suits ie& At $23.75 You will agree with us when . we say the suits we are offering You should see these hand- at this remarkably low price are some garments and be con- the best ever. Here is a collec- svoince ga of their lie. tion of jaunty new suits from vinced of their value. ic iny one can ' iake a se which any one can make a so- Here's a large assortment, all lec1 tion - striped serges and entirely new, crisp and beou- satin Prunellas in newest tiful, and all exclusive models. sh•• ades and most correlct styles. EIt is a relief to kno that Easily worth $27.50 to $30. Iwt is a mrelief to know that you Our price ....................... $23.75 won't meet a dozen other pl(o- pie wearing a suit exactly like your own--and then there is Easter Gloves that marked style distinction D I)on't delay the purchase of embodied in every suit that cer- your Easter gloves too long- tainly appeals to the person of \ . there will be a scarcity a little taste. We alter all suits and \ later. The best kid glove ob- tainable, two clasp in wanted shirts without charge. .shades. At, pair..............$1.25 American Lady Corsets Children's Rompers Hair Rolls AMERICAN LADY CORSET 69c 29c 39c The latest, extreme length The new snug hip model, Five dozen children's play style corset, made of finest made of good quality batiste suits or rompers, made of The soft, fluffy, long roll quality batiste, attached hose with attached hose support- good quality blue chambray, so much desired; in dark and supporters and embroidery ers; top neatly trimmed with trimmed with red braid and medium browns and black, tops. $2.25 values lace. Sale price ............. 69 bands. All sises for...... net covered. At, only....39 for ............................. $1.75 MSale Men's Clothing Sc for New Lingerie e Men's Colored Dress Goods, Waist made of fine soft lawn, with good Val. lace insertions Striped suitings in red, me- and embroidered fronts. They dium blue and tans and bright are exceptionally good values Scotch plaid; these are excep- for .......................................... tionally good for children's Ladies' Hosiery, 2 Pairs 25c dresses. Sale price, ard.. Ladies' fine cotton hosiery, There is no exaggeration in our statement that for Table Damask 52e Yard absolutely fast black, stainless, the next few days you will get the best values in men's with double sole. clothing ever Offered by this popular store. We place Full bleached, satin finished Marseilles Bed on sale our entire line of men's new spring suits in table linens, heavy weight and Spread, hemmed s•Prges, imported worsteds and cheviots, representing all handsome patterns; 65 inches or read for use, the latest cuts and pattern effects. All values from $15 wide and an excellent 75c value for 1.9. to $20 on sale at ......................... .................... 12 75 for, yard ................................ 52 THE MARTIN COMPANY I01IYF FOR MURDER PROBABLY ROBBERY Spokane, Wash., March 256.-That "John Saudauski came to his death between March 1 and March 21, at a place unknown, from gunshot wounds inflicted by a party or parties un- known," was the verdict of the cor- oner's jury today at the inquest in the case of the Polish cabinet-maker whose scorched body was found last Sunday on Fort George Wright mili- tary reserve. The evidence indlicated that after the murder kerosene was poured on the body and set on fire. The evidence which led to the arrest of Paul Clein, Saudauski's friend, on the charge of committina the murder was not presented to the jury. Robbery is supposed to have been the mo- tive. TO TAKE OVER SCHOOLS. Chicago, March 24.-1-Definito meas- ures will be under way witliin a few weeks icr the taking over of the Chicago vacation schools by the board of education, making Chicago one of the first cities in the United States to maintain a municipal "all the year 'round" school system. Heretofore 'the vacation schools have been operated by an outside organiza- tion composed chiefly of club women. The Lake shore railroad is exl,~ : - menting with dispatching fast trains between Buffalo and Chicago with wireless telegraphy. Nothing Like them in the world. CASCARETS the . Eler~ -why? Becaume it's the best Sfaor the iver nd bowel. Wt' what they wf 1 for you-not what aid it is all the mdicine need to take. ge so a em fer a wa SOUTHERNERS PLAN TO LAND CONVENTION Spokane, March 25.-Delegates from the southern states to the meeting of the national irrigation congress in Spokane the second week in August probably will make a concerted ef- fort to have the eighteenth sessions of the organization take place some- where in the south. James Cosgrove of Charleston, S. C., secretary of the sanitary and drain- age commllission for C`harleston county, intimates this In a letter to Arthur Hooker, secretary of the local board of control of the semventeenthl congress. He says: "1 would like to have you think over the propoultiion to have the sessions after the Spokane meeting soinewhllre in the south. Personally, 1 believe ('hi.rlhston would he the right place anl I have no doubt that our people would arrange to entel tain the dele- gates royally." Mr. Cosgrove says that it will be a hlasture for him and the residents of Charleston to take upl with their rterevtiltatives in congrl'ess the matter of the invitation to the president to attend the congress in Spokane, add- ing: "1 trust we will be able to have President Taft attend the sessionls, as 1 recognize it will be of inestimable benefit to all who attend to have him delivcr an address." Regarding tha reference to having the 1910 congress in the south, Mr. Hooker said: "The proposition submited by Mr. Cosgrove is a novel and an attractive one and if formally presented to the congress by our southern friends, I am of the opinion that the delegates would give It every consideratinon." One of the most marvelous exhibits ever attempted in the department of fisheries, will be shown at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific exposition when the peculiar illusion of live birds, flitting about among swimming fishes and other animal water life, will be pro- duced. The strange effect is arrived at by cleverly inserting large jars, in- verted, in the bottom of the aquariums and in these jars the various birds will be allowed to fly about at will. Missoula Play Houses At the Bijou. The Bijou entertallied large houses at each of its performances last even- ing. The program, an exceptionally good one, pleased all who were in at- tendlance. The headliners were "Cleo- patra's Lo)ers," a subject intensely dramatic, "The Haunted Lounge" and "The Neighbors' Kids," both of comic nature. The illustrated song, "From Your Dear Heart," was pleasing, as sung by Ed Levassuer. There will be a complete change of program this evening. At the Lyric. At each performance of the Lyric last evening there were e well filled houses. The program 'consisted of three films, each of a different char- acter and very interesting. The "Be- ginning of the Serpentine" was a col- ored tWiln of great beauty. "The Cocoa Industry" took one from the time the HOPE IS ABANDONED FOR GREAT ACTRESS Santa Ana. Cal., March 5.--A con- sultation of physician' was held today over the conditioln of 1ladam Helene Modjeska, who is Ill at her cottage at Bay Island, near this city. After the consultation, Dr. Bloyd. who is the family physician. stated that while Mme. Modjeska's condition was no worse than it has been for several days, she was liable to fall into a state of comatat any time and the end might come soon. lie held out little tope for her recovery, even If shei survived the present attack of heart trouble, combined with Bright's disease. A colony of Alaska Indian basket weavers will have quarters on the grounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exlosition, and during the fair will be seen In the intricate art of preparing thefibres and manufacturing the bas- kets for which many of the northern tribes are famous. tree was planted until it was served on the table, and depicted scenes from life in Trinidad during festive times. "The Two Sons" was particularly pleasing. The illustrated song, "I Never Knew What Love Was Until I Met You," was well received by the audience. The program will be en- tirely changed this evening. At the Grand. Last evening at the Grand theater there was an almost entire change of program. St. Clair. the harpist, was retained to fill out the week's engage- ment. The new acts are the "Ella Garrison Travesty company" and "Billy Baxter." a black-face comedian and clog dancer. The management has secured Fred Potter, who sings the illustrated song "Someone" in a very engaging manner. The moving plc- tures are of new and novel character. EXPLOSION IS FINALLY FATAL TO KIMBALL Fred Kimball, the young man who was badly injured by being struck by rocks from a premature blast at Nimrod two weeks ago, died at a local hosnital at 5:30 o'clock yester- d(lay morning. At the time he was injured, a special train was run to Missoula in order to place him in the infirmary and he has been lingering on the brink of death ever since. No hope was entertained for his recovery, as he had a large hole in his skull, made by one of the flying rocks. No funeral arrangements have yet been made. During the period between the first of June and the first of October the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition peri- od, there will be no burning of forest clearing, or unnecessary fires permit- ted in the state of Washington, the most magnifloant views to be men in the world will be viewed through the clearest atmosphere found on eaith. 'UICANADIA OUTWIT YANKEES WRITER SAYS RAILROAD PRO- MOTER8 MADE $13,068,887 OUT OF NOTHING. New York, March 25,-That James J. Hill, Lord Mount Stephen, Lord Strathcona and a few others associat- ed in the development of the Hill railroads of the northwest have in about thirty years divided among themselves the colossal sum of $407,- 000,000, exclusive of dividents, interest or other emoluments, and that this stupendous fortune has been made from an original investment of noth- ing, is the amazing assertion made by Charles Edward Russell in an ar- ticle entitled "The Heart of the Rail- road Problem" in the April number of Hampton's Magazine. Incredible as this amount is. the present investigator has found it to be "only a part of the colossal profits coined from an investment of nothing by this most wonderful American money-making machine, and when you come to see the full balance-sheet of these operations you will agree with me that never before have there been such marvelous results from a be- ginning so inconsiderable." Tracing the genesis of what is now the Great Northern and allied lines, the court records disclose, among oth- er startling facts, that "When Jesse P. Farley came into the St. Paul & Pacific railroad in 1873 as receiver for the United States district court, the first division of the St. Paul. & Pa- cific, as then known, had the ,line from St. Paul to Breckenridge and the branch to Sauk Rapids; the other company, known simply as the St. Paul & Pacific railroad, had the ex- tension from Watab to Brainerd and the lI e from St. Cloud to St. Vin- cent,n all something more than four hundred miles of track. Farley not only put these in order, but he com- pleted connections with the Canadian railroad at the frontier. He still further proved his capacity when, after three or four years of his re- ceivership, the Minnesota legislature liassed an act providing that unless the road should be completed to a certain point within a certain time it must forfeit part of the rich land grant whereof the people's representa- tives had been so liberal. Judge John F. Dillon authorized Farley as re- ceiver to construct this extension and to issue receiver's debentures for the expense. So the receiver built 112 miles of new road and saved the land grant," says Mr. Russell. The Real Cost of a Railroad. Four facts connected with this op- eration are important, he summar- izes: "First, Judge Dillon limited the cost of construction to $10,000 a mile, and this sum must include station buildings, grounds, side tracks and equipment. "Second, The receiver built and equipped the 112 miles for less than the limit fixed, expending only about $9,500 a mile, some stretches being done for $8,225 a mile. Kindly re- member this. It is a good fact to have handy when you encounter the assertion of gentlemen in the railroad war that it costs $60,000 to $75,000 a mile to build a railroad. "Third, .the receiver filed with the court detailed accounts of every item of expense connected with this work, and every citizen can go now and see in the office of the clerk of the Uni- ted States district court at St. Paul, Minn., exactly What it costs to build and equip a railroad when the work is honestly done. "Fourth, the construction company with the alias, as before noted, ex- pending the money of the lownly and ignorant foreigner, had charged up $30,000 a mile for the construction in the same region and had done the work so badly that when the receiver took charge much of the track was unsafe." J. J. Hill, at that time, was local freight agent of the road at St. Paul. Securing the co-operation of Norman W. Kittson, George Stephen and Don- aid A. Smith, first mortgages were presently and quietly obtained "on more than 500 miles of operated rail- road and 2.580,606 acres of land, on the understanding that they should not be paid for until the road be reorganized. This was done in 1879, the Canadian brotherhood forming the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co., of which George Stephen was presi- dent; Norman W. Kittson and Donald A. Smith, directors and James J. Hill, general manager. Whereupon there was appointed a master in chancery who, on the fourteenth day of June, 1879, sold all the property of the two St. Paul & Pacifies to the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. for $6,780,000-obviously one o$ the most romantic events in railroad his-' tory, and too romantic for those that did not share in it. "For presently came the sale by the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. of the greater part of the land for $13,068,887, followed by the sworn testimony of the receiver that the property sold for $6,780,000 was worth at the time more than $15,- 000,000. "There was also issued by the brotherhood $15,000,000 of St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba stock, for which not one cent was ever paid into the company's treasury, being in fact the purest water that ever gushed and gurgled from the financial rocks. Of this stock Mr. Hill, Mr. Kittson nad Mr. Smith took 28,823 shares each, being about one-fifth. Mr. Stephen took two-fifths, one of which he held in trust for some person or persons unknown. "The $15,000,000 of stock thus neatly created out of nothing by the mere waving of the wand of financial wizardry presently became an enorm- ously valuable possession, and is, therefore, to be added to the spoils secured from the outwitted Yankees." The value of wireless telegraphy was evidenced shortly after the Ital- ian earthquake, when there was con- stant communication Ietween the Eiffel tower at Paris and French *ar- ships at Messina, a distance of about 1,000 miles. By the addition of the salts of Cal- cium, barium or strontium to arc light carbons they can be made to give light tinted yellow, pearl, white or red, wepa vey. The first gives the hlighmt tfCte4hloT. gggg (9 EV1kYTHING BROOKS'THAT ME1N WAR "Get the Habit" of Walking On Our Side of the Street There's always some- thing worth seeing in our windows, and they are only a hint of what's in- side. Our men's suits are up to date and all new stock. And neckwear-well, we can't describe it. But you w just come in and see it. "wm" "" V Plain figures, one price. MATCH IS OFF FOR CHAMPIONSHIP JOHNSON-KETCHEL BOUT A HOT- - AIR SCHEME OF PRESS AGENT WILLUS BRITT. As has been expected since Villlus Britt. began his megaphone press agent spelling about forcing Johnson to fight Stanley Ketchel, the proposed match has fallen through for the rea- son that Ketchel failed to post a for- felt binding the match. Britt has kept .the wires between New York and San Francisco hot with messages detailing what an awful amount of damage Ketchel was go- ing to do to Johnson's Countenence when once they got into the ring to- gethbr. The talk created a lot of amusement on the coast and no one who followed the events of the prize ring in recent years took the match at all seriously. As a matter of fact Johnson is scheduled to fight before the National Sporting club of Lon- don on June 23 and, according to Britt's reports, the fight between the big smoke and the Grand Rapids man was to have taken place about June 9. Such a plan would not allow John- son sufficient time to reach England and recuperate from a long and ted- ious journey. Ketchel and Britt are now aiming telegraphic and newspaper shafts at Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. with whom Ketchel is now matched to fight. This scrap is billed to be pulled off before the National Athletic club in New York tomorrow night. The mill should be a good one if it is on the square and O'Brien is in good physical trim. BATTLING NELSON'S BOOK CAUSES TROUBLE J. Ignatius Finnegan, a St. Louis newspaper man, in a letter recently written to a Chicago daily paper, em- phatically declares that he wrote every word of Battling Nelson's new book. "Nelson did not write or compose one paragraph in the whole book," says Finnegan. "I secured most of the early dope of his career from George Slier, who knew him well. Nelson merely paid my expenses while I was with him. I am a partner with Nel- son in the book, and ever since I turned it over to him, Nelson has ignored me. I have placed the mat- ter in the hands of my attorney, and will ask for an injunction against the publishers of the story." Nelson, when shown the latter, said that Finnegan was merely his stenographer, and that the book was written entirely by himself. "Of course I did not pound the typewriter myself, but every sentence in the book was framed up by me," said Nelson. PAPKE AND FLYNN AQAIN. Billy Papke is loudly clamoring for a return match with Fireman Jim Flynn who recently outpointed the ex- Illinois thunderbolt on the coast. Papke continues to assert that he can whip Flynn and may be given a chance to demonstrate this ability be- fore the Pacific Athletic club of Los Angeles in April. Flynn has signified his willingness to meet Papke and says he will dispose of the Illinois man by the knockout route this time. Papke attributes his recent defeat to Flynn's superior weight. OFFERS BIG PURSE FOR FIGHT AT TACOMA Tacoma, Wash., March 25.-Colonel Andy Mulligan, the well-known sport- ing man, has come to the front with an offer of a $75,000 purse for Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson. Mulligan stipulates that the contest must take place in or near Tacoma on or be- fore October 15, next, and that it must be for 20 rounds. He has placed a forfeit of $5,000 with Biddy Bishop, the local sporting writer, and as soon as Jeffries and Johnson consent to the match, Mulligan will place $5,000 more, and when the articles are signed, he will put up the balance of the purse. Jeffries and Johnson hale been communicated with and an answer is expected from the two big men before the week is out. Good Liniment. You will hunt a good while before you find a preparation that is equal to Chamberlain's Liniment as a cure for muscular and rheumatio pains, for the cure of sprains and sorenesm of the muscles. It is equally valuable for lame back and all deep mates mustM- bay 6 50 cept asise for sale THE NEW Central Market FOR CHOICE MEATS And everything to be had in a first-class meat market. The Sealshipt Oysters are unequaled. City Or Country I handle property of either kind. If you are in the market, either to buy or sell, it will interest you to look over my list. I have some of- ferings in city property that are specially desirable. If you have property to sell I shall be glad to handle it for you. I have some cli- ents right now who want to in- vest; perhaps yours is just the property they want. Anyway, come around and see me. R. W. Kemp. Rooms 6, 7, Duncan & Dixon BIk. Missoula, Montana. Come Around at Noon, Splendid merchants' lunch from 11:80 to 2 o'clock every day at Ye Olde Inn. 40 cents. PLUMBING J. P. GRADY 119 W. Cedar St. Phone 175 Red Residence Phone 510 Blaok WILL SEND HORSES ACROSS THE OCEAN Cleveland, Ohio, "March 25.-An- nouncement is made here that C. K. Billings, the Chicago capitalist and famous amateur reinsman, will send to Europe this season his entire stable of trotters. His horses are now quartered at Billings' private stable in this city. They will be shipped Sur- ing the first week of April and must be sent direct to Berlin, where final preparations for their return per- formances will begin at the West End track. Billings will follow later in his yacht, the Vanadis. The stable will consists of 10 horses. Lou Dil- lon, W. J. Lewis, Tempus Fu- git, Flefing Boy, Turley, Berta May, and Delight. This is not only the largest and fastest collection ever sent across the Atlantic but it marks the first attempt of an American to send a string of high-class trotters to European tracks. Billings will con- sent to have them appear at some of the race meetings, but only for exhi- bition purposes, and for no greater re- ward than a ribbon. BRITT IN LONDON. James Edward Britt, the original native son, is "quite the proper thing" in London "doncherknow." The American boxer recently was elected a member of the exclusive National Sporting club of that city, a distinc- tion never before conferred upon a pugilist. The election of James Ed- ward has caused much dissension among some of the members of the club, who claim that it is a gentle- man's organization and that pugilists, while all right in their place in the ring, and not wanted as associates. All prises won by Washington ex- hibitors in the poultry show at the Alaska-Yutko-Paeflfi expoe•tien will be dUl.ted, by the state esposition commisston.