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Eugene 1NDEP MONITOR vol. i. INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913 NO. 41 INDEPENDENCE PROMISES GREATER -BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS THIS SEASON City is Just Beginning to Open Up for the Future and We Prophesy Industrial and Railroad Activity in the Next Few Years That Will Mean a Big Center of Trade at This Point. Hops, Fruit and the Dairy Farm Will Also Help NDENCE CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS Opsii Bids for Paving bjt No Decision BICE SUCCEEDS DIXON RESIGNS List Bills Presented 'and Allowed or Referred for Further Consideratoin The city council had a busy ses sion Tuesday night finishing the evenings work about 11 o'clock-. The hall was filled, mostly with paving contractors and 12 bids for paving and curbing were opened by the council. After the council assembled, the roll call showed all present but J. H. Dixon and his resig nation, on the grounds of moving out of town was read and accept ed. The matter of electing anew councilman was taken up and W, L. Bice, W. L. Wetherbee, and A. L. Thomas were nominated, after several ballots W. L. Bice was duly elected and being pres ent, was sworn and qualified. Claims against the city were presented and ordered paid as follows: W. A. James, painting $7.50. Sweeping and sprinkling, $44.24. A. J. Tupper, salary $65.00. Enterprise printing $7.40. J. W. Fetzer, salary $25.00. Oregon Power Co. Light $106.09. Oregon Power Co. Water, $34.00. Oregon Powet Co. Sprinkling, , $5.70 Williams Drug Co. bill, $3.00. Independence Monitor, $7.40. B. F. Swope salary fees, $29.35. A bill of $51.50 presented by Verd Hill for surveying, dedi cating and abstract of street dedicated to city read and referr ed to street committee. Matter of street paving came up and" the bids were opened and read. There were so many and the conditions and specifications so varied that they were laid over for special consideration one week from tonight. The bids were as follows: August Kehrberger $1.08. Bidwell, Hayden & Co. .87. Linden, Kibbey & Co. 1.05. Clark &Henery 1.25. Ore. Paving & Quarry. Co. .90. W. D. Pugh .90. The Arenz Const, Co. .90. Warren Const. Co, 1.45, Montague, Rully Co. 1.12, Coquellette& Johnson and E. Cooper made bids on curbing alone. The highest bids were for dif ferent bitrolithic or asphaltic pavements, the cheaper for ce- rnent From a cursory examination of . the paving contracts we find the cheapest bid is that of W. D. Page of Salem.' his bid being $-26,008. 18 for paving, grading, curbing etc., the taving being 90 cents per square. This is for cement pav- " ing with no surface coating. For a surface coating pavement the Oregon Paving & Quarry Co., make a bid of $30,542.66 or $1.05 per square, this is for an asphal tic covering i inch deep on a 5 inch cement gravel pavement and under a 5 year guarantee. This is the cheapest pavement offered with an asphalt surfac and is the same class of pavement being used in California under the state bond paving system where 150 miles are being built under an $18,000,000 bond appropria tion. The price on this pavement is about 20 cents per square les3 than any concrete pavement with a coating of any kind. The council have as yet made nu uecisiuu as 10 tneir prererence but are looking the matter over thoroughly with a view of tret- ting the best pavement for the least money. A GROWING INDUSTRY The Raising of Chickens at Sanitery Farm Jhe editor had the pleasure Sunday of looking over the finest poultry plant in Polk county, the Sanitary Egg Farm, a part of th? big farm managed by W. H. Patterson, a former resident of Independence. In the suburbs of Eola, the town thut almost became the capitol, on the hill side above the main Salem road, id the location of this plant. It takes two per of the sons time to take car chicken farm alone and this is in its infancy as an industry as a part of this big farms systematic manipulation. A big chicken house, two stories high and an other one story house makeup the buildings, while several yards are fenced off for the care of the birds. In the lower story of the main building are five twelve hundred incubators and one small 240 egg incubator. While looking over the plant we saw 992 little chicks taken off that morn ing which were in the first room, adjoining the incubators where they were so thick you could hardly walk among them. Be yond this room were about 600 .more chicks which were not over one week old. They were in the scratching rooms and their brood er room was just beyond. Upstairs we saw the roost, lay ing ana teeaing room oi ine grown hens. Two candy buckets of wheat in the evening were fed them while the editor was in specting the plant, anjl the room looked like a seaof white chick ens. Un tne niu sides were proD- ably 700 or 800 young fries, all in fine condition. It is the plan of the company to increase the plant to a capacity of 15,000, probably next year and it. is becoming one of the big features of the county. THE DAIRY INDUSTRY John Laugh is improving his dairy farm by the erection of a fine new dariy barn at his place near Buena Vista. L. E. Chase has the contract for building the new building. It will have a concrete basement and will be as good a barn as there is in Polk county. IRE ROOM IS NEEDED Hotel Starts Addition to Bear of Building SAMPLE ROOM AND ROOMS Addition 28x40 Two Story High Now Building The Lerona Hotel is to have a 2x40 addition for a sample room down ftaiis and" six Bleeping rooms above. The building was started thi week The present build ing u not Iarjre as h neeueq , Piamuu- to accomodate, all the travel Frank L B vs. Elda Jones, ...a .1.;- f.A ,nlw..liPartlUon; Asa B- Kobinson, Jr. . I with a new building started this week. nnrinrUT j H K h 1 1 1 h M I IILUIULII STRAHORN Drops Offices in Other Unas in Oregon PORTLAND, EU3ENE & EASTERN The Presidency of the Willamette Electric Sys tem His Mam Position Saturday President Strahorn of the Portland. Eugene, & Eastern electric relinquished his positions with the lines not a part of the Southern Pacific and will davote an nis energy ana time to tho work in the Willamette valley. During his short career as president of this line the electric has secured the street systems of Salem. Eugene and Albany, as well as the short stub lines that were available. He fathered the move to electrify the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon excepting the main east side Portland-San Francisco line and the fight for supremacy in the Willamette val between the Portland, Eugene & Eastern and the Oregon Electric is just begun. The following from the Ore gonian show some of the succeses of Strahorn, "The Man of Mys tery" in the western railroad field: Mr. Strahorn became vice president of the O. W. R. N. Company at the conclusion of the sensational railroad campaign which finally identified themys terious North Coast road of Washington with the Harriman system. The North Coast was an aggressive invasion of the rich territory of the Hill lines and Mr. Strahorn undertook the task in 1905. The silence which surrounded ' his operations soon excited the intense interest of the entire railroad world, and some reporter happily dubbed him the "'man of mystery." His success ful struggles for possession of Marshall Canyon, Union Gap and other strategic points occupied by the Northern Pacific and Greit Northern companies, how he acquired a large portion of the Spokane terminal grounds owned by the latter company, his refusal to break silence when attempts were made to identify his North Coast Company with the Canadian Pacific, the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul and other companies, his great fight for a franchise in Spokane, which in volved the entire Ii.iand Empire on account of the injection of the terminal rate question, are mat ters of recent history. CIRCUIT COURT Matters Were Tried in This Term at Dallas The following appears of re cord on Judge Galloway's docket for the term: Adam Muller vs. Thomas E. Dwier et al; foreclosure, sale confirmed. G. W. Stauleton for plaintiff; S. II. Heltzell for de fendant. D. E. Emmett vs. Ida Haynes. suit to correct deed, demurrer overruled; Brown & Sibley for i . appointed guardian ad litem for minor defendant; Sibley & Eakin for plaintiff. I R. L. Thorndike vs. Bessje Thorndike, action for divorce; de fault entered; testimony taken, decree as prayed for. Sibley & Eakin for plaintiff. Allyn Yocom vs. E. V. Dickey, default entered and decree s a prayed for; Brown & Sibley for plaintiff. L. E. Crowe vs. Delia L. Thom as, et al; foreclosure; sale con firmed; Brown & Sibley for plain tiff. Ella Ellis and F. J. Coad, plain tiff vs. C. G, GrilTa, Win. F. Lutz. etaI;suitto quiet ti tie; default entered, decree as prayed for Ed F. Coad for plaintiff. G. V. Hill vs. L. II. Shultz foreclosure; dismissed on motion of plaintiff; II II. Belt and T. W Vreeland for plaintiff. O. A. Knox vs. Kate L. Coad, executrix; registration of title correction in Decree allowed to conform factf Simpson & Lewis for plaintiff. Arthur M. Purvine and John F. Purvine vs. Jordan Purvine; action to Quiet title; dismissed upon stipulation filed by the par ties to the suit; McNary & Me Nary for plaintiff; Carson & Brown for defendant. D. A. Bent y vs. O. A. Sarff, et al ; recover y of posseesion of lots in Bentiy Townsite, Grande Ronde. Polk Connty Observer. HOP MFN SAY SHORT HOPS Growers Find Many Hills Missing This Yfiar STAND POORER THAN USUAL Young Yards Are Looking Fairly Good This Year The hops are coming on fast and many have their training and cultivating well under way. There is found to be many miss ing hills and in the Luckiamute country some claim there is a third of the hills missing, Oppo site independence in tne rivet- bottom there is also quite a short age, J. R. Cooper, Morrison, Percival and most of the other growers report some shortage. In the yards on this .side of the river there is also a shortage but not so much. The vines are growing very fast and while some are not en tirely through twining their yard, many have their vines well up the twine and are cultivating the soil. Several hundred men are now employed in the yards. L. Damon has one of the prettiest yards in Oregon, his hops now up several feet on the twine. ICE CREAM SO CIAL AT SUVEB The Teacher's and Parent's Club of Suver will give an ice cream social at the school house Fndaj evening, May 2:3, with ob ject of raising money to buy i new organ for the school. IMPROVING HIS DAIRY STOCK Frank Laujrhery Coutlnu ally Getting The Best Tuesday Frank Laugherly had a fine thoroughbred reiriatered Jersey heifer to arrive and he came down to take it home. He secured her from the "Wests" sale ht 5v'fl: iiiioc. " Frnnlf h:,u ben getting better cattle as fast 1 3rd. by St. Paul. Muck Sue, by as he can find them until now he I Handsome Blanche 4th, by St. has as good a line of thorough- Paul, and Chita, by Harold Main breds m can be found in Oregon. 1 top, by imp. Manner. In train- RACE MEET ATTRACTS Others Speak Well of Independence FROM TiiE PACIFIC HORSEMAN Some of Polk County's Best Horses are Mentioned Down here in the center of the hop-growing district of Oregon the thoroughbred horse is King and has been for thirty-five or forty years; Independence is per haps the most prosperous town of its size in the Northwest and the surrounding country is the richest in the farfamed Willamette val ley. Two of the wealthiest hop growers are W. VV. Percival and C. A. McLaughlin and to these two men the thoroughbred horses owes more than to any otheisthat I know of. Roth have been breed ing and racing; thoroughbreds for many years and never a day has their courage and love of the game failed them. Year after year Independence has given the most successful race meeting anil horse show in Ore gon, outside of the State fair; the purses have not been as large as at some places hut every dollar that was advertised has always been paid - and paid on the min ute, which is a lot more than can he said for some of the other places thatmake more of a noise. The Independence Driving Club is the name of the organization that has given these meetings and while Mr. Percival and Mr. McLaughlin are the backbone of the organization they have the support and co-operation of the best business men of the town and the farmers of the urround ing country. This year as usual an excellent racing program and norse snow has been arranged, the full par ticulars of which will be found in our advertisng colums, and just here it is worthy of note that while t he two men above referred to have been particularly interest ed in the thoroughbred they have always, lent all the aid in their power to the breeding and racing interests of the harness horse; through their efforts the Inde pendence Association has always made liberal provision for the hfirnes horso1 on its race pro gram. Any man wno nas ever raced there is always nnxious to go hack again for he knows he is going to get a square deal. The annual snrinr meeting will be held June 18 to 21 inclusive; two harness races and two runs are on the card each day, the harness horses goinjr half-mile heats, three-in-five for $150 and $200 purses, with the program so ar ranged that almost every horse will have an opportunity to race twice during the meeting. The running races are for purses ranging from $125 for two-year-olds to $200 for a Derby at a mile and a sixteenth. A feature of the harness races is that the purse s divided in three moneys, 70, 20, and 10 per cent. The horse show features will be in the forenoon, Wednesday and Thursday. A lot of good thoroughbred horses are in training and in the stud at Independence. Percival has the good stallion, VV. F. Parr, imp. Kismet-Jennie K, by imp. Sir Mod red, in the stud and the three good brood mares, Sister Regis, by IIanJ.some-lnie lielia he has the five-year-old gelding, Carl P that raced well as a three-year-old but was lame last year; he looks as though he would stand up now; he is a well bred horse, hy Commercial Traveler, son of Hanover, dam Black Sue. Juli'i9 Pincus, a two-year-old chestnut colt and looks like a race horse. Two yearlings, by F. VV. Barr, out of Chita and Sister Regis com pletes the string. C. A. McLaughlin ban a grand looking three-year-old chestnut gelding in Mike Kreba, by Kam sack, dam Misty's Pride, by Handsome, Misty-Morn the great est race mare ever bred in Oregon. Wm. MeNames has the good bush racer, Steel. South Tiros, have the old timer, Schwitzler. Leo Robinson has a good two- year-old (illy by St Salvana-Chita that he recent'y bought from W V. Percival. Last, hut far from least, is our old friend, Les Galhreath;he has Tony Faust in the stud and he is unquestionably the best bred stallion and the host race horse that evermade a stud season in Oregon; ho is hound to aire race horses from tho mares he ha? covered this season. Agare, a five-year-old stallion, by Wadsworth-April's Lady, was put to jumping last year at Alan and Vancouver and set a new record for steeplechasers in the Northwest, by running th Van couver course, two and a quarter miles in 4:57 2-5. Les think he can beat any jumper in the west, There is a "dark horse" In this stable that Les wants a killing with this summer; ha is seventeen hands high and the story that goes with him is just as big, but lips would say nothing for puhliT cation at this time, Among the harness horses are two pacers owned by R. C. Staats, Chiquito 2:10, the other is the green pacer, Lo Lo; both of these were raced by Slaats last year and will be out again when the first bell rings. Dr. S. M. Ellsworth, a veter inarian, ha3 two green tour-year-old trotters that are as good look ing aa anybody's horses; their education has jiut started and I did not get their breeding hut there is no doubt that they are well bred. Jim Collins has two colts by Tidal wave 2:0fi? that are promis ing. Independence lays claim to greatness in another respect. She has more well preserved horses of extreme old age than I have everReeti in nny other town. A Mr. Fryer has a family horse known to ho thirty-seven years old he is a nay norse ana nis head has turne'l almost entirely giay, otherwise ho does not ap pear to be over fifteen; he is used almost every day when the weather is good, C. A. McLaugh lin drives a son of the old Orrgon trotting stallion, Rock wood 1107, that in twenty-seven years old and I heard about a number of others. It is rep a few orted that there of er.'liiUI Iliea do in I'niena Vinta. A Worthy Patron in to be elected at the regular meeting of Adah Chapter No. ?, . K. S. Tuesday Mav V. AH members of Chapter are reqqeHted to he present. J. 1L Y"ori, f the Voon Building, John Mack, C. Parker and Thomas Prince of Portland made up a party of four who ftoj ped in tlx city a tlirmi C. A day Ii the while valley travelling . McLaughlin is h in a cement curbing put around his Fifth j-troet re denco property. CITY TO GET NEW BRIDGE County Court Orders New Bridge to River on C UNSIGHTLY STRUCTURE GOES Five Arch, 21 Foot Wide Bridge to be Built at Once The mayor and the members of the city council were summon ed to meet with the county ciurt Tuesday. The court took up the matter of building a new bridge from Main street to the river and agreed to stand 75 prtr cent of the expense if the city would stand 25 per cent toward the construction of a first class ce ment bridge with five cement arches, the bridge to be 21 feet in width. Tho council on Tuesday niffht at their regular session made a report of the county's offer and by resolution accept! the o(Ter. This will be a fine improvement for tho city. PIONEER PASSES AWAY Jacob JofTerson Rurch, one of Polk county's early pioneers died athishomeat Rlckreall. Satur day, Mnv 3 at the age of 75 years, 3 months and 22 days. Mr. Bureh was born in , Chariton county, Missouri, and crossed the plains with bis parents in T847, settling on a donation land claim in the Ri"kroall Valley. The Huron family has boon prominent in the history of Polk conn tv, the late R F. Hurch. an older brother having served ?n the constitution al convention in 1857, as well as in several sessions of the terri torial nnd State Legislatures, and Samenl T. Rurch. another brother who survives,, having served as Sheriff nnd County Judge. Mr. Hurch was married Iri 1SH9 to Miss Angeline Nance, who sur vives him, as do the following children: Alice Rurch and Mrs. Forest Craven, of Rickreal1;Mrs. Georce Schneller, of Sherwood, and ".'arren and Lee Burch of St. Johns. The funeral was h1d at Rick real! Sundav, undsr the auspices cf the Rickronll Lodge of Ma sons. Dr. Dunsmore of Inde pendence acted as master at the ceremony. A large number of Ti(viT'1r wfrp nre!Ant from the surroundinir country. T?ev. Ches ter Gates of DMlas delivered the sermon and the interment was in tho cemetery at Rickreall. Mr. Rurch was a man with many friends and his death is felt throughout the whole com munity. T. O. Sefton bad his team to run awav th first of the week, m akin a a run of about, fi miles to the Ilarnann place, no damago bin done. A Mtilo team took a ipin in Monmouth this weekf broke the wagon, reach pole, and scattering; furniture and stoves from the College ave nue to tho railroad on Main ,-treet. Is it you who wants that hi!k dress or who needs silk for trimming? If so, petit at Cotikey & Walker's. All 1.00 Messalines now 85c. Jim Alderson iJ having an addition built to hi re.M dnee on Fourth street.