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if OLEC -"1 , , "A r -15 S -1 "4 'WEEKLY. AND SEMI-WEEKLY f s m I -; 1 VOT XIX. ' " ' " ' i . - - DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 1G, 1907. N NO. 21 am bros. & ""d ALTON. $ee US about your Twine Clover Leaf and Standard All kinds of Machine Oils Mica, Hub and Derhokes Axle Grease in 1, 3 and 10-pound packages. Arctic Cup Grease. Cylinder and Engine Oils Special. To every person buying one gallon or over of our Special Machine Castor Oil at 40c a gallon, we wiU give free of charge one of our Machine Oilers (if you ask 'for it). All kinds of Engine Packings, Oil Cups and Detroit Lubricators, Globe Valves and Engine Fittings. A full line of Hardware Plumbing Goods Paints and Oils mg Goods Tents, -Camp Stools, Wagon Covers, CotS and Camp Stoves Everything to go camp ing comfortably. Also the Best Line of HAMMOCKS in the city. We are selling elegant New Furniture today cheaper than ever. We will not be undersold on new furniture. GUY BROS. & DALTON The store where you al ways get your moneys worth. Dallas, - Oregon Binder uampi PORTLAND AUTOS COMING Fifty Scoot Buggies From Oregon Metropolis Will Pass Through Dallas. Lovers of sport are pleased to learn that Dallas has been included in the route of the endurance run to be held by the Portland automobile dealers. It is expected that from 40 to 60 cars will pass through Dallas on the after noon of Saturday, July 27, the date fixed for the great race. Sunday's Oregonian says every dealer in Portland will probably en ter one car of each make that he car ries and quite a number of the Port land Automobile Club members are expected to participate. The rou'e will be up the Willamette river on the eaet side to Salem and back on the west side to Portland. The following towns will be passed on the way: Oregon City, Aurora, Wood burn, Gervais, Salem, Dallas, Dayton and Newberg. The contest will start at 7 o'clock in the morning, and the cars will prob ably travel a minute apart. As this run is to be made primarily for the sake of testing the endurance of the various cars on a long run, no racing win do allowed and no driver will be allowed to run his car faster than 20 miles an hour. No driver will be al lowed to pass a car in front of him without the consent of the foremost driver. Lunch will be taken at Salem, after which the autos will start back to Portland and the competition will be renewed. ARE CRUISING TIMBER Western Washington Counties Have Estimates Made For Assess ment Purposes. W. V. Fuller has returned from a business trip to Gray's Harbor and the Sound country, where he succeeded In purchasing from Washington men some valuable Oregon timber land. Mr. Fuller says the Washington sawmills are ail running in full blast, but that many of the shingle mills have closed down, some for 60 days, by order of the Shingle Manufacturers' Association. Most of the counties in Western Washington are having their timber lands cruised for assessment purposes. The plan of having the amount of timber carefully estimated by expert cruisers seems to meet with general favor with the large timber owners, for while it tends to increase the taxes on the heavily timbered lands, it reduces the valuation on the tracts that have a less amount of timber, thereby fulfilling the object intended, that of equalizing the burden of tax ation. Heretofore, the County Asses sors have had no reliable Information to guide them and have assessed all timber land at the same figure. v COURT HOUSE NOTES Items of Interest From the Records ; In the County Offices. Circuit Judge William Galloway held an adjourned terra of court in Dallas last Friday and made orders as follows : Annie A. Hlnshaw vs. Tilghman TTlnshaw. divorce: J. H. Flower for plff; Oscar Hayter for deft. Dismissed for want of prosecution. Marcraret Horned vs. Wm. Horned, divorce; B. F. Jones for plff; Oscar Hayter for deft. Decree for piamtin, neither party to collect costs. J. M. Mitchell vs. Annie S. Griggs, suit for money. B. F. Jones ror pin. Default and decree. Daniel Hoffman vs. Carrie Hoff man, divorce; L. D.Brown fot plff. Divorce granted. Alexander Cooper vs. Michael and Barbara Strauby, mandate; Frank Holmes for plff; C. F. Martin for deft. Decree on mandate. PROBATE. Guardianship of S. H. Ridinger, an i.,onTroii-T. P. Bevens appointed guardian ; bond fixed at $300; David Simpson, W. I. Bronson and John Strait appointed appraisers. Petition to change name of Lloyd V. English to Frank Edwin Patterson granted. J W Brown to W I Bronson, 324 acres, 1 9 s, r 6 w, $4054. John Calahan et ux to uie r". lots in Independence, $700. Joshua McDaniel et ux to John Middleton, 139 acres. 1 7 s, r 4 w, $2080 t n rw-vprhftm et ux to- James Churchill, 205 acres, t C s, r 8 w, 11. James Churchill et ux to one-half int in 205 acres, 1 6 s, r 8 w, $20. Vnrmill Frank Butler et ux Hamilton, tract in 1 8 s, r 6 w, $260 50 irnhh.nl to J Q VanOrsdel and J L Condron, 240 acres, 1 9 s, r e JKLnnldi et ux to W W Mitchell. trustee, 160 acres, 1 8 s. r 8 w, $3000. Your brain goes on strike when ,ou overload your stomach; both need Eod to do business. Nutrition is that you want, and it comes by tak rngHoniBter'sBocUy Stents, Tea or Tablets. Belt&Cber- rlngton. SCRAP OF HISTORY Correspondent Tells How Mountain atream In Polk County Derived Its Name. DALLAS, Or., July 12-To the Edltor.)-I desire to bring back to the memory of those who knew him the name of one of Polk county's earliest pioneer citizens, and at the same time to give a true scrap of history con cerning the naming of one of the prominent streams in the county. Marquis DeLafayette Gilliam, the subject of this sketch, was the son of Colonel Cornelius Gilliam, who was killed at Wells Springs in Eastern Oregon while in command of the Ore gon forces, March 12, 1848. "Marcus," as he was always known by his companions, crossed the plains with his father's family in 1844, a lad of tender years, but having all the characteristics of an American boy, thoroughly imbued with patriotism, absorbed from his famous father. The youngster's education was of necessity very limited, but In due course of time he became a consider able reader of such literature as Robert Burns' poems. Sir Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake," and the "Life of General Francis Marion." and from his read I nor of thA life of the Carolina Swamp Fox came the naming of Pedee creek in this county. Having read of the General's exploits, and believing Marion the greatest man since Roderic Dhu, he conceived the Idea of cha n gi n g the name of the North Fork of the Big Lucklaraute river to Pedee, in honor of the General, which he did at the same time rehearsing to his com panions the exploits of Marion, and exacting of them a promise to use on all occasions the name Pedee instead of North Fork. This they willingly did, and today few persons know that the stream ever had another name. Young Gilliam was a born leader of boys, and in the early days was the oracle of the Luckiamute countrv among his companions. He always led, never followed, and was as true as steel In his friendships. He was the defender of the weak, kind-hearted and liberal to a fault. The survivors of the Yakima Indian War, to a man, remember Mark Gilliam, with his wonderful fund of cheerfulness, always lively, and at all times ready for the fray. Soon after reaching his majority, he married Miss Sarah Waters and settled down to the life of a model farmer, after having had perhaps as much fun out of life as anyone living. In his early life, he was a great hunter and mountaineer. He knew every hunting ground, peak, stream and forest in the mountains lying on either side of the Pedee. Bald Mount ain had its enchanted precincts, where he periodically went in quest of big game, though he was never known to kill for the hides, or for the meat be yond his needs. His most remarkable traits were his lasting friendships, undying patriot ism, and love of sports. He was kind- hearted and hospitable, and though inclined to be combative, was always the friend of the week. Exciting, fun ny and pathetic Incidents in the life of this marvelous man could be told until your space would forbid, but suf fice it to say that noblemen are not al ways titled, and that a gentleman was always to be found in him, though at tim8 seemingly In the rougn. in nis death in 1868, the country lost a patrl otic citizen, who never shirked his duty and was always ready to respond to the call of his country in tne troun lous times of the early Indian wars In Oregon and Washington. His widow who yet survives him, is a vigorous old lady, and makes her home with her son, Frank Gilliam, on the old home place, surrounded by the comforts of life and honored and .onontwl hw nil who know her. Other iOJvwv j descendants are two daughters, mar ried and well situated in life. May the memory of M. D. L. Gilliam be kept green in the hearts of all lovers of honest, brave, congenial men. It Cuts No Ice. .. i . . - an1 tha "It was tne Digger uunu u best-natured crowd that ever assem bled in Polk county. Not a case of . . ... rliarrWIv conduct drunaenuesB w was reported, and ihe pol oemen had " . . r j i..,. n th lenra- notning w u uu" , i, tion with the rest of the people. The t.'.n.I.J .rimimhlT handled and no acciaenia w"-u' ... . .1 rttMo cAt taken from ine bwo .l. n.n.o ntwPBVFR and goes to show that a dry town "cuts no ice' -Dallas has fourorflve saiooDs. tinel. . - r-. -it -.n fcion Columbus had just landed ; meeting a big Indian chief with a package under his arm, he asked what it was. medicine. Hollister's Rocky . m oaiH thA Tniun. 35 Mountain A"ni Tp or Tablets. Belt & Cher- rlniTton. . .J!..-.,. .hn which exhibited xne meuiuiuo on the streets of Dallas during the week of the iounn, ouu - Falls City, passed through here yes terday on its return trip to Portland. The buzzing of the woodsaws has recommenced, and by its raucons sound we are reminded that we do not have the iceman always with ns. . , . , :. , , ' z i i i NEW , WAREHOUSE FIRM Dallas City Bank Will Succeed Gibson & Simonton at Rickreall. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rowe'll will leave for Rickreall today, where Mr. Rowell will take the active manage ment of the Rickreall Flouring Mill warehouse. The Dallas City Bank has taken over this property from Gibson & Slmonton and will place it In charge of Mr. Rowell. The flouring mill machinery is be ing removed to Bellingham, Wash., but the warehouse business will be continued, and farmers who have here tofore stored their wheat at Rickreall will be able to do so again this year. In addition Jto conducting a general storage business, the warehouse com pany will continue to operate the chop per, and a full supply of feed and flour will be carried in stock at all times. The Dallas City Bank will continue the old name of the Rickreall Milling Company. Rickreall is one of the important warehouse points of Polk county, being in the center of a large and prosperous wheat-growingcommunity. The name of the Dallas City Bank as the suc cessor to Gibson & Simonton Is In itself a sufficient guarantee that the warehouse will be honestly and capably managed and that the interests of the farmers will at all times be carefully guarded. SUMMER EXCURSION RATES Special Rates and Train Service to Newport For Season of 1907 on C. & E. Railroad. Hotels, resorts and attractions at Newport are now open for the season, and indications all point to this famous Oregon "Coast Resort" being more popular this season than ever before. A decided innovation, bound to be a source of great satisfaction to visitors and add greatly to the popularity of this fast-coming only "Oregon Coast Resort," was the opening on July 3rd of the "Newport Theatre," for the summer season by a "High class Stock Company," made up of some of the best Stock actors on the Coast, to Include various members of the well known "Baker Theatre Stock Com pany, or rortiana. a series oi me best stoctc plays available will be pro duced during the season with frequent change of bill. About July 1st, there was opened to the public one of the largest ana best equipped Skating Rinks In the Northwest, containing 12,000 square feet of floor space. The rink will be open continuously day and evening, except during bathing hours. These two attractions will divide honors with visitors In filling a long felt want for some place to while away the evenings after the close of outdoor attractions. This Company, as well as the South ern Pacific Company and Oregon Rail road & Navigation Company, have now on sale season tickets to Newport from all points in Oregon at greatly reduced rates. These tickets can be purchased daily and are good for re turn until October 10th, 1907. In addition to season tickets, this Company and the Southern facino Company have placed on salo at re duced rates popular week-end tnree day tickets, good from Saturday to Monday, for the benefit of those wno cannot advantageously use season tickets, but who desire to make fre quent short interval trips to the "Beach during" the season. This Company will also, commenc ing Sunday, June 16, provide special "Sunday Excursion" trains from Al bany to Newport and return, and have on sale ono-day excursion tickets at reduced rates for this train. Passengers holding season or three hiv tickets mentioned, can travel going or returning on Sunday Excur sion trains. For information relative to rates, trains, etc., see tariffs on file at sta tions for public inspection, or refer to any agent of Corvallls& Eastern It. It, Company, Southern Pacific Company or Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. p General Passenger Agent. The free scholarship in the Capitol Business College was won by Miss Norma Holman, of Dallas. This prize was offered by Principal Staley to the Polk county boy or girl making the beat grade in the eighth grade examination. The winner is the bright little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Holman. The news of her suc cess is highly gratifying to Professor Ralph Hill, her teacher, and to her schoolmates and frienJs. Second Dlace was won by Miss Gladys Chand ler, of Ballston. Miss Chandler will get the scholarship in the event that Miss Holman does not use It. Talk about your breakfast foods, A thousand you can see; I would not have them as a gift, n.if wnulilhave Rocky Mountain Tea. Belt&Cherrlngton The Obsebveb office wants the print ing you are particular about ROADSIDE IMPRESSIONS Airlle Is situated in Center of Prosperous Farming and: Dairying Country. The region about Airlle, Polk county, can be easily recognized as a country of old development. In the newer farming communities of the county, there is not the advanced and perfected appearance that one sees there, but rather more of the unsettled appear ancethe chaos of the formative period and less of the established and mature state of advanced develop ment. In the newer farms, the pro portion of land yet uncleared of . its virgin forest and the land still claimed by the gnarled stumps of previous slashings is in preponderance. In this older neighborhood, there Is a decidedly greater amount of land grown old under cultivation, and the timber and under brushwood is crowded back to the untillable mountainsiuca and the margins of the water courses. Although Airlle is the center of the trade of this territory and the only avenue of export, the people have not congregated to build it into a town of any great proportions, but have pre ferred to spread their settlement out over the broad acres of the surround ing countryside, making the village proper merely a depot for supplies and a means of communication with the outer world. The most of the land holders are the children of the pioneer settlers who originally homesteaded the land, and the names of Staats, Williams, Lewis, Smith, and others predominate. Although the quality of the land is not all that could be desired for hop culture, large hop yards abound. However, dairy farming and the raising of grain are the most general and profitable forms of industry. One of the most noticeable things is the universal application of up-to-date methods in all branches of farming. The most modern harvesting machinery is found on nearly every farm ; silos are built on many of the dairy ranches ; the presence of a cream separator is the rule and not the exception, and windmills or gasoline engines are to be found pumping water at almost every farmhouse. It is claimed that none of the farmers milk less than twelve cows, while some of them have a great many more. The railroad from Airlle provides prompt transportation for their milk to the creamery at Independence. One of the noticeable facts Is that the pro portion of blooded . stock on those farms is greater than that of the scrub breeds a tacit witness to the modern and progressive methods of the dairy men of that nclghbord. The general air of quiet prosperity, the modern and tasteful architecture of the farm houses, and a thousand other obvious signs stamp this neighborhood as one of the most fertile and productive regions in Polk county. CARDS OF THANKS Publishers Will Welcome the Day When They Become a Thing of the Past. The day is not far distant when the card of thanks" will be a thing of the past. When death enters a home, the neighbors never fail to do all Id their power to place a silver lining back of the dark cloud, and they do not expect or desire any thanks through the public press. One sub scriber, however, not to be outdone, sent In the following: "Mr. Editor: I desire to thank the friends and neighbors most heartily in this manner for their hearty CO' operation during the illness and death of my late husband, who escaped me by the hand of death on last Friday morning, while eating breakfast, lo my friends and all who contributed so willingly toward making the last mo ments and funeral a success, I desire to remember most kindly, hoping these lines will find them enjoying the same blessing, I have also a good milk cow and a roan gelding, 8 months old, which I will sell cheap. 'God moves In a mysterious way his won ders to perform. He plants his foot steps on the sea and rides upon the storm.' Also a black and white shoat cheap." . Superintendent L. R. Fields, of the Southern Pacific Company, spent a few hours in Dallas, Saturday after noon. Accompanying him In his pri vate car "California" were W. Bollara, roadmaster, and J. F. Myers, chief of the car service division, wr. iieias was out on a tour of Inspection of the lines of the West Bide and Yamhill divisions. Accepting the Invitation or General Manager Gerllnger, he also took a run ovr the Dallas and Fulls City road before returning to Port land. The advertising clock In the post office Is a good clock when It runs, but for the last two days it has failed of its mission The main thing that can be said of It for the last two days is that it always lands on the right time just twice In 24 hours, namely, at 8 A.M. and at 8 :40 P.M. Legal blanks at this office. ONE WEEK SPECIAL SALE ON and CMdrens All our 25c quality, plain or fancy, safe price All our 20c quality, sale price - All our 15c quality, sale price All our 10 and 12 c quality, sale price The above prices include anything in our Hosiery Stock. CAMPBELL CASH D. 8. McDonald, part owner in the Dallas tannery, had a runaway Sun day evening that threatened to be serious, but fortunately turned out with no worse casualty than a smashed cart. He was driving past the W. P. Miller place when a strange auto presumably from Salem or Albany, tore up behind him and dashed by with a great puffing and snorting, never slackening nor offer ing to stop when the occupants saw his frightened horse break from the road and try to clear the fence. For an Instant It looked like a bad accident. The horse fell in trying to leap the fonce, shattering thecart and bruising himself slightly in several places, but Mr. McDonald fortunately escaped without Injury. The number or the auto and the name of the driver have not been ascertained, CORNER GROCERY Located in the Wagner corner We carry a full line of Staple Fancy Groceries The Best that money can buy. Also a nice line of Candies, Cigars end Tobacco Highest market price paid for produce E. BOYD & SON ' Phones; Bell63, Mutual 314. l TTORMKT AT lAW. Oscar Hayter, Upstairs In Campbell building, Mill St DALLAS, OREGON. A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Sibley & Eakin, The only reliable set of Abstracts Is Polk county. Office on Court St DALLAS. OREGON. TTORNEy AT LAW E. F. Goad, Office in Courthouse DALLAS, OPvEGON, TEN DAYS ONLY, BEGINNING JULY 20th, 1907 CLOSIN.G SALE WAGNER BROS One 8-foot One 12-inch J. I. One (t Barrell Three Buggy Poles, complete . Three " Shafts, " Two 18-inch Lawn Mowers :40 i 3J-foot m wmMmmmmmmmvmmmrim I 1 QnPer -A- impair 3 for 50c ioc per pair 3 for 25c HOLLISTEK STORE JTTOKNEY AT LAW. N. L. Butler, Office over Dallas City Bank. DALLAS. OREGON. TTOnNEY AT LAW B. F. JONES Office in Cooper Building. INDEPENDENCE, - OREGON Attorney at law J. L. Collins Main Street, Near Postofflce DALLAS, - - OREGON J)kntist. M. HAYTER Office over Wilson's f rug Store DALLAS, OREGON. Attorney at Law L. D.BROWN Notary Public; Abstracts Mill Street opposite Uglow Bldg. DALLAS, OREQON. 2hysician and borgkon. L. A. Bollman, M. D., Uglow Building, Rooms 7 and 8. Mutual Phone Main 3G. Main 541. DALLAS, Bell Phone OREGON. qsteopathic physician DR. C. A. CAMPBELL Graduate American School of Osteo pathy, KIrksvIlle, Mo. Chronic Diseases and Deseases of Women and Children a Specialty. DALLAS HOTEL, DALLAS, ORE. Calls promptly answered day or night. R. L. CHAPMAN FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMSALKER DALLAS, Bell Phono 103 OREGON Mutual Phone 1306 -AT- $95 00 I . 57 00 I . 12 50 I . 11 50 . 10 00 . 11 00 . 12 00 . 13 75 . 2 25 8 00 . 47 50 7 50 . 22 50 I . 4 co : . 5 co : . 3 50 : 0 i.) . . io c j ; 7 o . 3 f r 1 75 :