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YANKEES FIRST RACE SUISIDt
HITS RUSSIA
IN DARING FEAT
TAKE LIVES IN THEIR HANDS MARRIAGES ARE NUMEROUS
Governm ent Offera Inducem ent fo r
Cerem ony by Making Official G ift of
Expensive Cloth to E v e ry N e w ly
W edded Couple— Decree G ra ntin g
Absolute E q u a lity to W om en la
C on trib uting
F a c to r to
F u rth e r
Race Suicide.
Two d arin g A m ericans have p e r
form ed a w orld-beating fe a t— th e de
scent of V ictoria falls, In South A f
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“ Home of the Grafonola’
Scaling a precipice of 369 feet w ith
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PURE DRUGS g climh down th e rem ain in g rocks to
the extrem e bottom of a g re a t p it—a
total of m ore than 400 fe e t—and stood
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F irst to p e n e tra te the pit w ere Pliny
W. H orne and W illiam Stow ell, both
Phone the news to M2113.
CITY AND COUNTRY
of I.os Angeles.
H orne Is a cam era man and Stowell
Word has been received from
Tripp writes fire insurance.
a film d ire c to r for a Him com pany.
Medford that Lawrence Eldridge, They
a re m em bers of th e Sm ithsonian
See F. M. Brown for loganberry who hhs been suffering from an at A frican expedition, a p a rty of scien
tack of pneumonia, is recovering tists and m otion p ictu re men touring
tips.
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nicely and has been removed A frica.
N ever In history, since th e m ission
Huth Milis has entered t{ie Nor from the hospital.
ary-explorer, D octor L ivingstone, dis
mal.
FOR SALE—Brown mare, 10 covered V ictoria falls In 1855, h as any
The great Nazimova is coming years old, weight 1600 pounds, living th in g been a t the bottom of the
sound and true. This is an excel chasm , save baboons and birds.
M arriages, m ade easy b y official de-
cree, a re m ore num erous than ever be
fo re in R ussia, but race suicide la
ram pant, according to a representa
tive of th e Jew ish In te rn a tio n a l W o rk
e rs' union w ho has re tu rn e d to B e rlin
a f te r spending tw o y ears in observ
ing conditions th ro u g h o u t the soviet
republic.
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next week.
lent buy for anybody^ wishing a
Murion Butler was an Independ first class horse. Will sell at a
bargain. See Mr. Stidd at Ace
ence visitor today.
Gurage.
Captain J. S. Cooper was home
from Portland Sunday.
The Baccalaureate service at the
Methodist church last Sunday even
Mr. and Mrs. S. Taylor Jones ing was an enjoyable event. Those
were in Portland last Sunday.
participating in the music did cred
it to themselves and Dr. Dunsmore’s
Dr. H. C. Dunsmore spent yester address was pronounced his master
day with the Macys in Portland.
piece of oratory.
Mrs. Chas .Oglesby of Salem is
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rector are
the guest of Mrs. B. F. Swope this here from New Underwood, S. D.,
week.
visiting Mrs. Rector’s mother, Mrs.
P. H. Drexler, and sister, Mrs. Percy
Lee Robinson, Misses Ivy Stanley Dickinson. Mb. and Mrs. Rector
and Pearl Smith were in Corvallis spent several weeks in California
Sunday .
before coming here.
For Sale—1 horse weight about
1200 lbs.
G. W. WATTENBARGER,
On the Sloper ranch.
Miss Manning is here from Port
land visiting her sister, Mrs. H. L.
Proppe.
Mr. Dougherty is here from Port
land visiting liis daughter, Mrs. P.
M. Kirkland.
Eli Fluke was displaying a fine
string of fish at Craven’s Hardware
store Monday.
Mrs. Dean Walker is visiting
relatives and friends in Independ
ence this week.
Mrs. Robt. J. Clark is here from
Caldwell, Idaho, visiting her sister,
Mrs. Frank Dickson.
Sam Muhleman and family hnve
returned from Oregon City and re
sumed living on the farm.
Miller & Smith receive many
compliments on the way they dis
play their meats at the City Meat
Market
Dickson & Mattison have a full
crew working and are accumulat
ing a good bunch of wood for next
winter's use.
The Baptist Ladies Aid will hold
a cooked food sale at Calbreath &
Jones’ Grocery Store Saturday, Feb.
ruary 21.
GUIDES VESSELS INTO PORT
Device f » r Autom at e Conduct ef Ships
Into Safe H arbor Anchorage
It the L a tc iL
Accurate, automatic guidance of
vessels through any and all weather
conditions into the safe anchorage of
a harbor would unquestionably be an
improvement in ocean navigation,
and the change is promised by an
invention described, the other day,
by the president of a British asso
ciation. Germany is credited with
the initial work, designed to provide
a means for guiding her submarines
through mine fields, and British in
ventors are said to have made it
practicable for surface vessels in
times of peace. To put it briefly, an
insulated wire laid on the bottom of
the sea acts as a guide for vessels
provided with proper electrical ap
paratus, so that the path indicated
by the wire can be followed in the
dark, and the vessel come into port
almost as if she traveled on a track.
That it. has been proved possible to
provide such guidance continuously
for 50 miles makes the invention im
mediately practicable for harbor en
trances ; and the cost is so definitely
a form of insurance against loss of
■hip and cargo that the idea will
hardly be allowed to wait long for
adoption.
W O R M IN T H 1 B U R R .
Mrs. S. E. Owen retumedSunday
Worms have gone np. They cost
from a fortnight's visit in Eugene.
She was accompanied home by Mrs. more by the quart this fall.
The unpleasant tenant of the
Dole Pomeroy and children who are
chestnut is the offspring of a beetle
passing the week here.
with an enormously long snout
The mother beetle crawls over the
Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Arrell are re
ripening
burr, and, by the help of
joicing over the adveut of a son.
The youngster made his appearance her snout, thrusts her eggs dowu
Tuesday. Feb. 3, and has been into i t When they hatch, tiny whits
christened Llewellyn Thomas.
grubs emerge and, boring into the
nuts, proceed to fatten and grow.
Emerging from the chestnuts after
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Robbie had as
their Sunday guests a cousin, Er- the latter have fallen to the ground,
naat McKinney of Albany, and Mr they burrow into the earth, where
and Mrs. I. E. Hooker of Portland. they spend the winter, making their
The Hookers were former residents appearance in the following year as
o f this city.
beetle«.
M. Merwin was here from Port
land last Wednesday. In talking
with Mr. Merwin, he said: “I see a
remarkable Improvement in Inde
pendence and there is no reason
why the town should not go for
ward now with the price of hops
good. We are going to see the old
town coming into its own again
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INDEPENDENCE
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“A lot of us fellow's
in it and more invited.”
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FIXTURES
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Make Descent of Victoria Falls Birth Rate Decreasing Due to
Physical Conditions.
in South Africa.
Accom plish Hazardous C lim b of O v e r
400 Feet and Stand W here N o H u
man Foot H ad E v e r T ro d — N ever
H a t A n y L iv in g T h in g Been at the
Bottom of the Chasm, Save Baboons
and B irds— Ta k e M oving P ictures of
Falls.
beginning life’s journey are indeed fortunate and
4 we wish there were more of them.
il This store has always catered to babies, and if there
4 is anything the baby wants, we have it.
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Ju s t Im agine T h is .
To a p p re c ia te w hat th e A m ericans
d id : Im agine a cleft in th e e a rth 400
feet deep and of a w idth v arying from
250 to 400 f e e t ; sheer, p erpendicular
cliffs, absolutely w ithout fo o th o ld s; the
chasm a t rig h t angles to th e Zam besi
river, w hich cascad es over the one
long side of th e narrow , longitudinal
pit, lenvlng th e opposite cliff hare,
m ist-bathed and fo rb id d in g ; im ngine
the chasm a hole in th e e a rth , with
only one n arro w o u tlet n e a r one end,
a g atew ay w ith rocky slde.s falling ver
tically Into a sw irlin g pool of w ater,
a m aelstrom ap tly called the R olling
Pot.
H ad the rope broken th ere would
have been no escape fo r Stow ell or
H orne from th e bottom of the pit.
They couldn't swim th e w hirlpool cu r
rent. T h e re w as ju s t a narrow ledge
to stan d on, no p ath along th e bottom 's
edge to th e gatew ay front the chasm
Into th e gorge.
And Stow ell and H o rn e m ade not
one descen t—h u t two. P revious to pen
e tra tin g th e full distance, they first
w ent over th e cliff of C a ta ra c t Island
to th e bottom of D evil's c a tn ra c t, the
most w esterly cascade of V lctoriu falls,
a d istan ce of 200 feet.
F o r m axim um safety In d arin g a
sp ec ta c u la r and u nprecedented feat, a
hand winch and 550 fe e t o f rope were
brought from R uluw ayo, 280 miles
nway. T h e w inch w as set up on the
top and w eighted w ith bow lders, the
rope p assing over a log lodged a t the
edge. T he w lneh w as o p erated by
T hom as M cEwen of Ruluw ayo, a vet
era n and exftert “rigger," and a crew
o f R aro tse n atives.
A bonrd sad d le w as rigged up at
one end of th e rope. H orne w as tied
In. T hen, arm ed w ith a stick to fend
him self from th e Jagged side of the
rock wall, he w ent over th e edge of the
precipice back w ard and w as let down.
A fter h e d isap p eared over th e brink
he w as Invisible to th e men a t the
winch.
So o th e r m em bers of the
Sm ithsonian p a rty , led by Dr. J. R.
A rm strong of Los Angeles, stood w atch
on the opposite side of th e chasm.
Recorded by Movie.
H ere also w as posted a n o th e r movie
cam e ra, o p erated by H enry N. K ohler
of Chicago, ta k in g long-distance pic
tu re s of th e descent. W ith binoculars
tr a ln e l on th e descending m an— who
seem ed to he craw ling down the sheer
wall like a fly. fo r only th e sw aying
gidde rope could he seen, and not the
rope b earin g
th e
w eight—D octor
A rm strong w atched fo r sig n als of dis
tress.
A fter H orne reached the bottom and
u ntied him self In a blinding rainstorm
of m ist from th e a d jac en t D evil’s c a ta
ract, th a t left him drenched, dripping
and cold, th e cam era, th e tripod and
o th e r p a ra p h e rn a lia w ere low ered
down to him one a t a tim e.
Then
Stowell m ade th e descent.
T h e slow w ork of lettin g tw o men
down and th e sep n rn te pieces o f cam
era equipm ent and the tedious, p eril
ous clim bing over rocks a t th e bot
tom to set up th e cam era consum ed the
whole day.
N ext day the second and most spec
ta c u la r descent w as made. On the
th ird day. d irectly opposite Rainbow
falls, th e cam era man "sh o t" some
beau tifu l scenes.
T h is stu n t w as a motion p ictu re tri
um ph. F o r th e cam era, set up on the
narrow ledge at th e bottom , covered in
full sw eep th e m agnificent plctnre of
th e cascades of th e main falls nearly
h a lf a mile up th e canyon, the p ic tu r
esque trick les o f Rainbow falls d irect
ly opposite th e place of descent and the
•u p erh c o n tra st of th e n early dry rock
w alls of th e easte rn portion e f the
cataclysm ic chasm.
Prediction D ro ve M any Insane.
T he statem en t by P ro fesso r Porfn
to th e effect th a t the w orld would
come to an end on JV eem her IT. drove
4ft rvshlents of D etroit to tem pom ry
or p erm anent Insanity, aftconllng to
D r H enry F. Vaughan, city health
com m issioner.
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Undernourishm ent the Cause.
Physiological
conditions,
arisin g
from the long period of u n d ern o u rish
m ent, is said to be the cause of 'few
e r children. L iberal m arria g e and di
vorce law s a re responsible fo r the In
creasing num ber of m arriages. O ne of
tile governm ent’s biggest Inducem ents
to m arriage is the official g ift of a p
proxim ately 34 y a rd s of expensive
cloth to each newly «edited couple.
T he g re a te r num ber of R ussians a re
so reduced econom ically th a t th ey
have contracted m arriag es fo r no oth
e r reason th an to obtain th e cloth of
fered by the governm ent. M any of
these couples, a fte r the cerem ony,
sell th eir cloth for sum s varying from
3,000 to 4,000 rubles, sp lit th e receip ts
and then go th e ir s e p a ra te w ays.
No T rouble to Get Divorce.
T he governm ent's decree g ra n tin g
abso lu te equality to women is also a
co n trib u tin g fa c to r to f u r th e r race
suicide. Not only in theory, but in
actu al practice, the R ussian women
enjoy men s lib erties and responsibil
ities. H aving been g ran ted the sam e
w ages the sam e political tre a tm e n t
and the sam e duties, m any of th e
women, being th u s forced to become
breadw inners, a re com pelled to fo r
sak e home duties.
The bolshevikl, w ho ta k e fhe posi
tion th a t m arriage, although a sacred
Institution, should not he m ain tain ed
a fte r husband anrl w ife cease to live
to g eth er in harm ony, have g reatly
simplified the m a tte r of o b tain in g a
divorce. T hey seek, how ever, to m ain
tain fam ily life, b u t a re learn in g th a t
th e ir decrees, w hen p u t Into action,
tend, to fam ily d isin teg ratio n .
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KNEW TEACHER’S WEAK POINT
But Alm ost A nyone M ight H ave 6uc-
cumbed to Such B eautiful
“ B la rney.”
The seventh-grade teacher was
susceptible to praise— also she was
fond of her boys and found it hard
to
refuse them a favor, especially if
STILL WAITS FOR RESCUE
they coaxed real hard. The other
day they asked her to take them for
U n rom antic O hio S h eriff Fo ils B right
Scheme of F a ir Maiden.
a weiner roast From the first she
“W hen th e clock In th e steeple
was adamant in her refusal. The
s trik e s 1, bring a letter, a saw and a
file, com e fo r me.” T h is appeal, w rit boys tried coaxing—they almost
ten on d ain tily scented pink note p a iried bribery, but still she said—
per, fluttered from a window of th e "No.”
w om an’s section of th e county jail
Then the little Irish fellow in the
a t Tiffin, Ohio.
class
tried his hand. “Why, 1 think
T h re e you th s p assin g rescued It
it is your duty to take us,” he be
from a snow drift.
“P ll pay you well, If you’ll only get gan. “The board said—”
m e out of here," the w rite r prom ised.
The teacher's head was tilted high
It w as from a girl who is held for
in
the air. And the little Irishman
alleged forgery.
T he th ree youths
w ere d eb atin g w h eth er to ta k e th e played the card for which he had
risk of a rescue w hen S heriff C harles been preparing. “Oh, Miss M.,” he
J. M utchler pounced on them , m a te ri enthused, “when you hold your head
ally aiding them In com ing to a de
like that you look exactly like a
cision. T he "clock In th e steep le"
stru ck , b u t th e re w ere no signs of genius.”
rescuers.
T hat plea in his blarneying voice
would have melted a heart of stone.
THIS CAT A SHOPLIFTER
And the teacher laughed and went
on the weiner roast.— Indianapolis
C a lifo rn ia T a b b y F ound W ith a Neat
New«.
F u ll of Stolen A rtic le «.
Independence
Studio
now open
For Business
under
New Management
AT THE ISIS NEXT WEEK
Opening the week for Sunday
matinee, Sunday night and Mon
day night, Dustin Farnum makes
a hit in "A Man in the Open.” Said
by the critics to be a good one.
A very clever and interesting
drama, "A House Divided”, comes
on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
The stellar attraction of the week
is oil Thursday and Friday nights
when the great Nazimova is seen in
her newest and most sensational
screen triumph, “Stronger Than
Death.”# Mysterious, colorful India,
where East meets West, where life
is ever subject to new mystries, new
sensations, is the background of
this superb story.
Alive with
tense drama, pulsing with a love
story that grips and thrills.
The big Saturday night show
consists of "Unknown Love" in
which Dolores Cassinelli and E. K.
Lincoln star, a Herold Lloyd com
edy entitled, "Bees in His Bonnet"
and the always interesting Ford
Weekly.
T ootsie, a tabby-cat of San B e rn a r
dino, Cal., h as been proved to be A M elting Silver D ollars to Make Change
T en m illions of dollars, nil In silver,
sh o p lifter.
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being m elted Into silver b ars a t
She Is th e p et of a lunchroom pro
p rie to r and she lives In his lunchroom . the U nited S tates m int, in P h ilad el
phia. L a te r th e b ars a re to he turned
H e saw her e n terin g th e lunchroom
Into dim es, q u a rte rs and h a lf dollars.
early one m orning w ith n shaving
brush In her m outh. H e w atched. She T h e governm ent finds it cheap er to
carefu lly deposited It In h er own espe m elt the d o llars th an to go Into the
cial corner. In the “n est" w ere found m ark et and buy sliver, now selling a t
m ore th a n a dozen other shaving the highest price in m any vear*.
brushes.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
T h e ow ner of a near-by d ru g store
FOR PRESIDENT'
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Identified the bru sh es as his property.
T h e theory h as been a Ivanced th a t
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T ootsie thought the bru sh es w ere k it
American Wonder early seed
tens, w hich would account for her
with the government’s need for in
grent cu re in rem oving them front the potatoes.
come taxes. And through it all the
drug sto re to her “n e st.”
J. C. COLLINS,
public could sit in blissful satisfar
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“ NERO'S HORSES” IN VENICE
Fam ous Bronzes Returned— W ere
Rome fo r W a rtim e Safety.
Phone: Farm 524 tion watching the scenes reelby.
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T h e fo u r bronze h orses w hich
adorned th e facade of St. M ark s ca
th e d ra l have again been p u t in place
a fte r an absence of m ore th an tw o
years, du e to th e ir tr a n s fe r to Rome,
w here they had been k ep t to avoid
cap tu re by th e A u strian s or d e stru c
tion bv a ir bombs. T he horses a re re
garded a s the finest specim ens of an
cient bronzes and according to tra d i
tion. graced the triu m p h arch of Nero.
The Post has more readers in the Inde
pendence territory and publishes more news
of South Polk county than any other paper.
Testified He Kissed 300 G irls.
ie cham pion “Ja c k th e H ugger and
e r " o f Indianapolis. Ind., Is Ez Ma-
v a tvtenty-tw o-year-old a tte n d a n t
sk atin g rink. M aroney. a. w itness
he tria l of a sixteen-year-old girt
th e charg e of delinquency, told
te I j th r In Jnvenlle conrt th a t he
¡nigged and kissed Sftft girls in the
he had been em ployed a t tlM
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Because it is one hundred percent Inde
pendence, does not attempt to build up
another community at the expense of its
own, and is a booster rather than a knocker.
That’s why it receives the support and as
sistance of all progressive people who have
the welfare of the community at heart.