lure 1 Good Diamonds will always be valuable. 1 a bavi Fon ying ansarcd of getting only the best selected stones. Our Solitaire and three stone rings at ~~ §6000 "Show proof of va- g lues. : : . | SPANGENBERG 5 Jeweler. King St. PAINT noticed at most every . Wo guaran. All newest shades. - quart, Sold le J Valuable Real Estate MIL dl at 'his auction ; ,_ om MONDAY, i > ind 2 13 a Sock haon OW belonging to ; ate DD. C. Hickey: (1) That teaotiful and commodious known as Park Villa, on the raer of je and Stuart streets, Rronaton : lot 'about 53 feet by 70 feet. (3). The tod TCininen on Princess street w_accup a by Thomas MeAuley and y- bel parts of lots 280 and 2 80 Toot on ? of 182 fect. 4 Princess street by One reserved bid om each property. Ton per cont cash: balance within twenty days, when purchaser let into receipt of rents, Far further particulars anply to Kirkpatrick, Rogers Nickle, Ontario strect, or to: T. J. y, Exchange Chumnbery. JOS, A. SALTER, KIRKPATRICK, ROGERS & NICKLE mo ondors Solicitors. Sr ------------ ~ Grand Union Hotel Rooms From $1,00 Per Day Up ows O30 gee' St BAGGAGE: FREE Try Mors' "Home: Made" Head Cheest. ©The Glove, Qak, Tan, roun, Grey, Suede, Dent's best makes, from $1.00 to $1.75. The Fancy Vests, in The from soc, % Scarf. in Pearl, § 5 1% as accura before it. 8 | farewells {| against an portation, from $1.75 to $3 oo. aberdashery Department always reflects v %, | nda expoetations of their nu : that their future ma- trimonial He will be' erownd with happiness prosperity, were escorted to the train by many s. As conch moved from the station super place w the happy pair from the gh was the event of a joyful , the wl wishes and sweet of left behind were showered upon them by strewing the | way with ries for a considerable dis- tance, After their hoheymoon, Mr. und Mrs. Bervard ahods "in Ottawa. ------ Alerts Beat Granites. In a game of baseball, this moming, the Alerts defeatetl the Gramites by the large score of IR to 15. The game was very close for the first three inn- ings, but thé Aleets led easily in the tant six innings. The teams' were : Granites--(., Dick; p., Doyle; 1h, Cavanagh; 2b., Marrison, (captain); se, Brouse: 3b. C. Doyle; 11, Steat- ford; o.f., McMaster; r.f., Birch. Aléeta-C,, Aylesworth" p., Driver; and Gilbert; 1b, Grady; 2h, Gilbert and Driver; ss, Blackehy: 3bh., Grat- tan; LE, Meek; c.f. Thompson; r.t., Lieberman. Will Lose 'An Eye. will take up their Yesterday John Germaine, an em- ployee of W, G. Frost, earriage paint- er, Queen street; met with a very painful injury as a result of which it will be necehsary to remove one of hig eyes. While at work on a speerl rig" he slipped and struck his eye iron bar, inficting such that his surgeon has the above: course, The the Wind- severe injuries decided upon unfortunate mah boards at sor hotel. Two Fire Calls. The fire laddies# have had two calls lately. One yesterday was answered hy the upper station only, the cause being that the comimons opposite Vie torin school had started to blaze. About nine o'clock: last evening an Slarm was cont in from: the Sons 'of glad Kall, over Strachan's hard: ware store. A | an had exploded, and set fi to faine, The made | time and suceeed- ed in extinguishing the flames before any serious resulis gecurred. ---------------------- ! Sales Next Week. J. H. Mhils, auctioneer, has a num- ber of sales hooked for the near fu- sure, On the 28rd he will dispose of the house furnishings of Mrs. Single- ton, Union street. On the 24th the office fixturia of the late R. T. Wal: kem, K.C., will be offered to the pub- lie, and on the 27th the household effects of ex-Alderman J. McLeod will be sold by auction, as that gentleman and his family are moving td Toron- to. $ A Surprise Party. On Wednesday evening, ahobt eighty youn, ple drove out to the Bane of Mr ee. Martin Snook, Bath road. Dancing and games were the feature of the evening. Supper was served at midnight and the plea- sant affair broke up early this morn. ing. = Thursday Market. There was only a fair attendance on the market this morning. With large quantities offered, butter * and ogus took a drop in price; butter, Me. to 2c. a Th; eggs, 18c. and lfc, a doz; maple syrup was offered at 20¢. a quart. | Spruce Up. Our bats will make you look stylish, Style and comfort are combined in our light weight, casy fitting $2 4nd $2.50 derbys, Campbell Bros, the style centre for men's hats. Wo believe that we sell the best 82.95 hat Bibby Co. The best lawns are produced by us- ing "The Best" brand of "lawn grass sed, 25¢c. a pound at Best's. The H. Db, in Canada. ais. he latest effects, direct im- White and Fancy Silks, tely as does the finest mir- New York, April 19.~The Joss of lie © in the great calamity in San Francisco stems to be still Targely a matter of conjecture. Furly yesterday JE was estimitedl at 1,000. Shortly ards it was announced that 400 ) had been collected at the Me chanics' Pavilion. Late in the after thé Associated Press put at over LODO, but at mid- night, astern time, or #t nine o'clock in. the evening, stated that the loss oat least 200, w Still later Oakland papers as estimating the domed at fram 500 to 700 and the homeless at 20,000. Early this morn- ing Gen. Funston reported officially at least 1,000 dead. After such a day of horror heaped upon horror, the people of San Francisco are hardly in a position to humber their dead ac curately. It in to be hoped the small- er figures will prove correct. ---- Brave Telegraph Men. New York, April 18. --That the country and world have recived news throughout the day of the San Fran. cisco disaster is dus in part to the doyrage of the telograph operators there who 'stuck to 'their posts and contibued to send news and other messages, in apite of a great personal danger. The Operators and officials of the Postal Telograph company remained in the main office of the company at Market and Montgomery streets, op- posite the Palace hotel, until they were ordered out of the building be- cause of danger from dynamite ex- plosions. The men proceeded to Onkland, across thie bay, and took possession of the office there. All messages from the city must be taken aeross the bay \ in boats, The Associated Press has established a boat service for its news, W. C. Swain, an electrician. return- ed several times to-day to the main postal building in San Francisco and got in communication with the east. e said he was surrounded by severe explosions of {lluminating and sewer gas. ousaned injured, Anion quoted Fires Still Raging. New York, April 19.~The fires at San Francisco are still raging. The city is practically destroyed. It is téo early in the morning to learn de- finitely at the water front the exact situation. Boats and suburban roads roads are running on schedule time, except in Alamada. Military are do- ing police duty, but the city is not under martial law, Loss $200,000,000. San Francisco, April 19.--This,morn- ing the fire was unabated and thou- sands of persons are fleeing on the ferry. boats to cross the bay. The damage is now believed to have reached $200,000,000 and 50,000 per- stn are thought to be homeless. A Terrible Incident Reported. A.W. Hussey, repbrted at police huninlguuritrs that at the direction of a policeman whom he did not know, he had cut the artery in the wrists of a man pinioned under timbers at the St. Katharine hotel, Chief of Police Dinan directed that Hussey be locked up: The police believe that the amity rendered him insane, and that the incident had no existence. Mavor Schmitz has sent out otders that the physical necessitios of the sufferers be first attended to, -------- To Care For The Homeless. Mayor Schmitz sent out ward to the bakeries and milk stations that their foud supply must be harbored for the homeless. Provisions already have heen 'made to. place cots in every park in #he-city, and those who have lost all will be given food and shelter. » Early to-day the prisoners confined in the city prison on the fifth floor of the Hall 'of Justice were transferred h-irons to the Broadway jail, and, if necessity arises, they will be taken to a. jail 'on the Mission road, . Los Angeles Sends Doctors. Los Augeles, Cal,, April 19.--A spe- cil train of four coaches, with about seventy-five doctors and nurses = on board, left Los Angeles ior San Fran- Gsco, at 10 am., Wednesday, aver the Southern Pacific road. The train is due at San Francisco, Thursday forenoon. Another special will leave to-night, with more nurses, doctors and paslice- men, ---- Great Loss At Salinas. Salinas, Cal, April 18.--A ierrible earthquake occurred here this morhing anc again this afternoon. Loss $1,000 - 000. No lives lost. Spreckle's sugar factory was wrecked three miles from town, loss 81,500,000. San Prancisco, April from cities near San Francisco show the destruction was eeneral. Santa Rosa, sixty miles north, is in flames, and the-damage is over gne million dollars, ! At Napa many buildines were tered, 'and the $300,000. No loss 18.--Reports \ shat- loss will' amount to of life is reported. Insurance Companies Will Pay. Commissioner Wolf gnhounced at noon that the cighty odd fire insur- $100 REWARD, $100: « The readers of this paper will be eas- ed to learn that there 1s at gre Aree ded se that has been able to cure in all its stages, end that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Oure is the only positive cure now known to the 1 fraternity. Catarrh being & con- stitutional disease. requires a constitu. tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is ly, acting di lV upon the in its ers that they offer lars for any Case that it fails cure. Send for list of test nls. Address PF. J. CHENEY & GO TS by. alt D geists, Tc 8 ¥ a TW, 8, THe. Take Hall's Family Pills" for consti- x Pacific coast time, | cal- | that towns all One | much the extent of the loss. But companies affected are concerns, the others hav: offices in the east or in Europe. Opinion Of Science. London, April 19.---Few scintists have as yet expressed an opinion; oir the subject of the earthquake. Profes- sor John Milne, whose scismic ob- strvatory at Shide, Isle of Wight, re corded a disturbance at. 1.30 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon (English time) expresses the opinion that the earth- quake had no connection whatever with the volegno eruption. Professor Milne secured severn! "piotographic re- of life would be |eards E. ° W. Maunder, superintc ndenp of the Greenwich observatory, on the sontrary, considers that in all proba- bility it was a direct conseauence of the activity of Mount Vesuvius, whose eruptions doubtless started a severe wave movement through the crust' of the carth. He ronsidess, however, that there is no suffisient reason fo connect these catastrophes with displays of salar activity, and comments an the comparative rarity of earthquakes in the United States. Cannot Check Fire. San Franciseo, April 19. The fire is still raging, this morning, and is working its way castwaru,- It has reached Nob Hill above the residential seetion of the section. The Fairmont the hotel, new structure ervetted by Mrs. Oelrichs is in flames. The fire cannot be checked and the city is practically destroyed. Hoats and sa- burban roads arc running on. schedule time, except in Alameda. ~ Santa Rosa Destroyed. Los Angeles, April 19.--Sants Rosa City has been destroyed and ten thousand persons are homeless. The dead may reach 'into the hundreds. Not a business building has been left standing. The main street is one line charred ruins. People fled to | the ficlds and 40 the hills and watched the destruction of the city. Messen- gers bring the saddest news of the de- struction of ithe Heeldshurg, Geiser ville, Cloverdale, Nopland and Ukiah. This report takes the country as far north as Mendocino and Lake coun: ties, and as far west as the Pacific ocean. These arc frontier counties and have not a= large towns as far- ther south. In every case the loss of life and property is 'as shocking as here. -- Good Imsurance Risk. Chicago, April 19.--Fire insurance companies had "about $250,000,000 at risk in San Francisco. For years the Pacific coast has been the one section of the country which could be depend- ol upon and year out. -- Direction: Of The Fire. San Francisco, April 19.--The fire is buming rapidly in a diagonal line up the hill, corning at McAllister street and ending at Battery street, and Mission as far as Sixteenth street, There is still an adequate supply of water. The wind is rising. The buildings of University of Cali- fornia escaped <harm in the earth- yuake. The town of Berkley was not 80 fortunate. No lives were lost, but the regate damage from minor in juries to the Dwildings is many thou sands of dollars. Loss Of Life Awful. San Francisco, April 19. There is no possibility. of stopping the fire. It will have to bum itself out. Entire district up as far as New Fairmount hotel on top of Nob Hill, California street, between Powell and Mason streets, all Fone: Reports. from the interior show over suffered terribly. The loss of life will run into the thou sands. INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. ------ Newsy Paragraphs icusa Vp By Reporters On' Their Ro % Kodaks for kodakers. All styles Best's. The Y.M.CA, boys had a four and a half mile road run last night. The Y.M.C.A. juniors give their clos ing gymnasium "exhibition, next Thurs day. Derfeet fitting glasses, the result of a careful, scientieé 'examination. Dr. Chown's drug store, Sweaters." We always have the best that's made in sweaters for men and boys. The H. D. Bibhy Co. The Kingston junior baseball league meets in the Y.M.C.A., Friday, at 7.30 o'clock, : at 25 passengers were brought to over the K, & P, railway this morn g. Mrs. Adam Shortt has gone down to Halifax, and will not be home till the first week in May : In the shade or in the sun, Ken- tueky lawn Tass seed will grow, Phone 230. Gibson's Red Cross drug store. Prompt delivery. The Friday night necting for juniors at the Y.M.C.A,, has been discontinu- ed 'for the spring and summer, : An executive meeting of the Daugh- ters of the Empire, was held at Mrs. A. K. Kirkpatrick's, on Wednesday. "Daughters the Empire" tea, Tuesday, April 24th, 4 to €:30 p.m., at Queen's pesidence, Earl street. Everybody welcome. Free entertainment Court Frontenac, No. 59, LOF.,, at their court rooms this evening, 8:30. All members and their friends welcome. * If you want a truss you can have a perfect fit and save money by going to Gibson's Red Cross drug store. "Phone 230, : By special are ent the captains writing for hein cavtifionton will al- lowed to try their examinations in Kingston, instead of going to Toron- to, : . \ Prot. Brick wave his lass in honor geology, a dinner party, at his resi: dence, last evening. If was a fitting termination to the year's work, and appreciated : It is ramored that an effort will be made to have: Drill Instructor Gray of Toronto, remain in the city some time loner and ail in getting the '14th | for a steady profit, vear in | 19, ma REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF 'TAVERNS, en License Commissioners Met Last Evening--Edwin Beaupre and Charles Lyons Were Refused Licenses. a A meeting of the Hoense commission- ers was held last evening at the office of Inspector Clark W. Wright, AM the members, viz: W. B. Dalton (chair- mah), and Messrs. A. McMahon and James Mallen, were present, Two li censes: were cut off, the ones retiring being Fxwin Beaupre, of the Beaupre Hotel, and Charles Lyons, of the Bay of Quinte House, Market street, The latter is the oldest tavern proprietor in Kingston. Both are liberals: Shop Licenses Granted, McRae estate, Golden Lion Block, James McParland, King street. | George Thompson, Jr,, Princess | street, | Rigney & Hickey, Princess street, Alexander Tyo, Princess street. T. J. Leahy, King street. J. 8. Henderson, Brock, * Tavern Licenses Granted. T. P. Phelan, G.T,R. restaurant. James Sowards, Maple Leaf Hotel, | Montresl street, Joseph P. McKenna, Imperial Hotel, Prin-| cess street, ] George Jenman, Excange. Hotd, Brock street. Matthew Bateson, Russell House, | Princess street. J Saunders © Bros,, Queen's © Hotel, Brock street, Walter Telfer, Club ton street. William Marshall, Princess street. W.""H. "Potter, Brock. street. P. T. Haffner, Anglo-American Hot- el, Ontario street, E. Halliday, Hub street, Lewis Martin, Grand Hotel, Princess street, James Spence, street. Corydon D. Horne, Provincial Hotel, Broek street, Archibald Simpson, Lake View House, Ontario street. Hotel, Welling- | Grimason House, American Hotel. Market Oak Hall, Brock John Gordon, Revere House, King street, John Wardrobe, Randolph Hotel, Princess street. McCue Bros.; Windsor cess street, James Norris, Ottawa House, tario street. Joseph Paradis, tario street. Couper Lennox, Jubilee Hotel, Wel- lington street. William Dunigan, Brock and Ontario, Hotel, Prin- On- Ontario House, On- Kennedy House, street.' Joseph McConnell, Hotel, King street. Jr., Collender tario street. Five other annlications over for consideration at another meeting of the commissioners, which will be held next Monday evening. DISASTER FELT HERE. Frontenac Sailor Among the Lost in Cuba. By the explosion during gun prac- tice on Good Friday--queer day to choose--on the United States warship Kearsarge, seven were killed outright and two diéd on Monday. One of the latter was James Sarsfield McArdle, scn of Mrs. McArdle, housekeeper to Rev. Father Spratt, Wolfe Island. On Saturday he cabled hopefully of re covery to his mother; from Caiman- era, but a change for the worse qc- curred. Mrs. McArdle was in early life a resident: of Brewer's Mills, then moved to Michigan, where her hus- band met his death in a waggon acei- dent. Therefore her life was oeen end dened greatly and she receives in- tense sympathy. Two sisters of the deceased lad survive. Sister St. Thémas, in Guelph convent, and a teacher in Glenburnie. One brother, Mark, is an' assistant in Eaton's de partment store, Torontcg another, #0, i8 in the west, near Calgary. i -------- Barriefield Gaiety. The town hall, Barriefield, was the scene of a 'jolly' dance, Wednesday epening when over one hundred people enjoyed themselves tripping to the excellent music of Crosby & O'Con- nor's orchestra. To Messrs. Sibbitt, Seale and Rogers affair is due. ---- the success of the All smart, up-to-date women of to- day, Know how to bake, wash, sing and to play; Without these talents a wife is.N.G. Unless she takes Rocky Mountain Tea. Make Kingston heautiful, Kentucky lawn grass seed will do. a big share towards it this year, Sold only at Sihson's Red Cross drug store, 25c. >. The Boxers' Club, composed mainly of final year science Atufents. held a dinner in Chinatown las night. Nasturtium seehs, tall and dwarf, at Best's. Your Wisest Course. Is to heed a warning signal. If yon are caught in the wot, got sore Xhroat, 'nenralgia or muscular pain, don't wait for worse troubles. Begin prompt treatment with Pol- son's Nerviline. It drives all trace of cold from. the system. eases rheumas tism and neuralgic pain, saves vou from a lay-up in bed. 2 : No purchase can bring more comfort than a bottle of Polson's Nerviline. Your druggist has it. re -------------- THE FRONTENAC ~~ ESTARLISAED Richard Cartwright TWO LICENSES OFF] McConnell, Sr., Williamsville, | Hotel, Con. Miilan, Iroquois Hotel, Ontario | 8 Louis Langbort, Western House, On- § were held have during the holidays: wear on stockings every minute. Then you and want your new lighter wight hosiery for the w that has come. All this means new hosiery, new all kinds, and weight, and better qual- ity, in a fine even make LACE STOCKINGS, For the 20th of April We Emphasis, HOSIERY "What." you say, "is it possible that « have been marked off our 1906 calendar 2" Truly want right now to impress you- with a summary of pressing needs you and you family will have fo, ) weeks. HOSIERY--HOSIERY--good and neat, serviceable HOSIERY --HOSTERY will be the side. Next week the children will again be will naturally play all the harder out of school plenty' of each. Almost enough to make the thought appalling--if we were not here to serve you. us in mind always, and our motto, "Hosiery for All." It's hard to reallze values from the mere print--not until one arrives in person and "handles the goods, 'is the full understanding attained. Will you visit Our Low-Priced Cotton Stock- will stand good h wear. and ings, guaranteed fast: black, lannder easily, | 6 with seamless feet and proper 49, 45, 39 and 5c, ar length of leg, of excellent an extra. special at the 4) weight for present wear, popular price s are truly marvels of 15 CASHMERE STOCKINGS, for good value, per pr. only * present and summer wear Then we have other Fast Black many priges 906." ome Cotton Stockings, of lighter quality at 45c. or 3 pairs for 20 BE wis dd Graiah daetise . excellent special at . At the generally popular price-- GIRLS' RIBBED CASHMER®: 25c.--we've two exceptionally STOCKINGS, in many quali ood qualities, which wére pur- ties, with a special brand--the chased in large quantities and "Windsor," ie rib and giy- will be on sale togmor- ing the nc t effect of amy row for the first time,, 2 quality we've ever sold. Re POEIpair LL. a member the name and ask for- On up to 35, 39 and 49c., come the "Windsor our genuine Jet Black Lisle BOYS' RIBBED CASHMERE Thread Stockings, of light STOCKINGS, "with sixfold weight, from Chemuitz, Ger- knees and double {oes and many, which is the true home of the best cotton stockings. in white, black or tan, in qualities which -- early tour months 50, and we the most 1€ next few i Strong and call trom ey, at their books gi hours than they You know what that means-- hard the man" will armer weather hosiery --of But kee) reading of cold us to-morrow ? 1.25, anather 3 pairs for 1. and EV! heels, at a very extensive price range, per pair, accord- ing to size from 4%. . down to errs Price, $60. 5 SEPPPPT PESDIPLS SSL POIN If you do not use a Type writer. EMPIRE will please you and draw trade. The visible writing Try one for a month. J. B. C. DOBBS & 60. 171 Wellington St $5558 63S HIEP SAPP $444 -- EE --_--_ 0G ARRIVED 1000 "New Cocoanuts 5c. Each A. J. Rees, 166. Princess St. OGRE GFRGGEICG FGF IVY leathers and for all tastes at oaned on © ap Famm Vro- allowed. 8S. C. Mansging Director, Regiment through their facings. Office, 7 Clarence street, Kingston: Gibson Ties still stand high in Fashion's favor foot with a really correct ones! Our "Dorothy Dodd itself, as this cut will show. Style.is apparent in even wou our full line of "Dorothy Dodd" Smart Oxfords Ay how 1 ir i { us W =.= THE LOCKETT SHOE STORE pretty the i pectass sho¥ them it all £3.00 and 00 @ a YEAR 73. -- FRENCH NATUR WooL UNDERM All from 31 to ment. The softest an to the touch of any 1 you are troubled wi the French-- witish Natural Wool garment Union Wool Seeiio French Balbriggan, al American Canadian. Unde wr to fit all lowest pr possible, B. P. Jenkins © For Construction of C to be Erecte: Victoria Avent Church, Belles Will be reciived up tc dusive, for masonry, br ing, Tinsmith work, pl carpentering, heating an ers will received separately or en bloe. The or any tem Plans and s Stroud . B ly acoeptec Te see Front St Important Au MONDAY, A No. 26 Wellingt h Rocking Tapest and Moderg FF Walhut, Belleville. any Anderson Cor. Princess and | Phone 458. Te our r AIM Open to 8 p.m. possible er, in Andersor TENDERS W SEALED TENDER! ttived Ly the unde rsi oelock, 1 25th of the co n of a Cane: v said © Corp Grahan I not nee MA Bhoces! Material Excolient Workma Mat Appearance -- Featut in our Wear "A Military Boo 84 Brock sv, Sig: iis DIRECT Fre « wilt