Show fIA MIL TONS I i SMART I Ii i 4 4 t G G 4 4 e i ii i Specials i iThe The Thc smartest and most practical G Gifts tl can be purchased in our this nt at unusually jow The for Ladies in the Novelty i i f Bel Be s Neckwear Evening Scads also Pearlier Feather Boas Bons and Furs make t beautiful 0 Holiday Waist Display i 6 4 t WAISTS SILl WAISTS AD D CHU FO W Elegant W Waists in all the late Jale models are tl the Creations in t toss 4 0 shown in our Department o Handsome S Goats Coats and Evening i ii i Wraps A this week k all HI be 00 and placed at f Special and Dinner Dresses i iFor For holiday Year Wear Elegant Gowns Gov as in chota and aad fancy tucy I 4 be placed at t t ti i One Third Off oCi i oC flats Off i ii i I i it t i It EC DRESS fO R Ri i SOUTH i o CALVE AND HER COMPANY Tabernacle Friday Evening Jan 12 1906 Direction S Lois Steers Wynn Conan and J 1 J McClellan SALE OF SEATS OPENS JAN 2 AT CLAYTONS MUSIC STORE Mail Orders Filed Now Prices All Reserved Smith and Nixon Piano Used 1 RAYNAR DS REPLY TO SECRETARY SECRETARY ROOT ON ISLE OF PINES DISPUTE Havana Dec of the Isle Islo ot of Pines Pinos thIn issued today by advice ot of hiM hl at attorneys n a lct letter er in reply Secretary to of State Roots communication o of X v 27 in the secretary outlined to toMi Mi 11 Raynard the attitude of the United d States government toward the proposed formation of at the territorial government in the tho island as lart ot of the United States Contradicts Root Mr Ir Raynard contradicts Mr Roots Hoots statement that the Isle of Pines Pinos Is Ii Iu law lawfully fully subject to the Cuban government and says fays the Cuban exists solely by virtue of ac a constitution the terms torms of which expressly exclude the Isle Isla of Pines from tile the domain of the republic The Piatt amendment the United States congress J I Jl l ito e says also remains In III force until it itis I is repealed or and every r of of the AmerIcan government nt no matter I how high is bound under Its terms to consider the Isle of PitIes Pines th the Cuban control alId jurisdiction per personal opinions of such officers to the notwithstanding Opinion The letter says ays that I fl c opinion ns as to ta llio Lh validity of 1 In 1 i States to the Isle of Pines Is t led to the opinions of T McKinley of tatt II Leonard Wood and It some sem official acts and unofficial T r marks to prove this The Tue letter asserts that no dep ri r IT or of the United State t 1 except the state department e r I Cubas d im to th the L I t Pines and aud that It waa wa only c l that department when It va eo co coed ed with the alternative of con I h 11 g wrong or 01 condoning or r Raynard Astonished In conclusion Mr r Raynard 1 ji CF astonishment that the state is sitting against tho those J fending d their lawfully acqui 1 in American deeply regrets that lot Cor fir t tr tran flu an AmerIcan secretary of oC state to abandon American merican t rt nd and American citizens LO an lawless government for no eon d r lion and for which h unwilling to disclose |