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THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
Published Weekly at Independence, Folk County
Oregon, oa Friday.
rnnA a,,-. Matter Auftust 1. 1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pendence, Folk County, Oregon, Und.r the Act of March 3, 1879.
D. c. BOYD, lluslness Manager ClYDE T. ECKER, Editor
Suoscription Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly in Advance
Independenc- Oregon, Friday, June 5, 1914
a Portland nli; mtier hnH cone iuto bankruDtcv. Chance
for liim to mulo Lie monev if lie will set into the x
hibition pea with the other freaks.
T. II. will come west this fall and speak for Governor
Hiram Johnson. Ah Californiiiri are getting very tired o
Hi. t,hn Ivinir Hull Mooko Una a biu man's iob before hitn
- 1 O " r
The Commoner' best adverti.-er is a grape juice manu
facturer. Ah Uryan put the "drink" into grape juice, it is
a strictly honorable way of i paying in part a debt o
gratitude.
The Dallas Iternizer bwing "the only democratic news
paper in I'olk county" should accept Doctor Smith
as tin tarty candidate and quit kicking about it. I'arty
rimers are bunoosed to "line up" and take to all their
candidates like a calf to its mother's milk.
Nearly a third of the votes lien Jones received in Polk
"county wera cast in Independence which leads us to re
mark that wherever Jones had any newspaper support he
did well. Returns from other sections of the district
where the same condition existed confirms this statement
According to some of the administration's critics, the
loss of a few, fives in feizing Vera Cruz is a very wicked
thing unless the war is waged and many thousands o
lives are lost, in which case all blame would disappear.
This shows how far logic can go if allowed to run wild.
Salem Statesman. Correct.
Ofce republican paper whic. said before the primary
battle that " Wilhyconibe's nomination would be a politi
cal blunder" now declares that he is U.e "riht man for
thd right place." This marching up the hill and then
marching down again that party papers have to do makes
an independent paper like the Monitor enjoy living.
Calamity lfowjer I5ill of the "State Bureau of Industries
and Sttitibtics" nays t at "judging from the returns the
people are doing i heir own thinking instead of the slippery
politician." Thi may be true as tar as most of the people
are concerned but Calamity Howler Bill himself is doing
the "thinking f :r a portion of them who are editing news
papers.
In a running debate in the U, S. Senate, Senator Lane
gave a vivid won! picture of the Colorndo horror in which
even women ant! children were shot down and burned alive
that the Kockekller millions might be served. A email
part of Senator bane' description follows:
"I am tohl by nt-raons who have been on the scene that these little
children and their mothers retrrated into ite which were dug in the ground
under the tents in which they livid, and that after they were fired and '
timime ablnxe tlie mioke and gas acttlt d down and began to mother them.
1 do not know whi ther you hnve ever wen or had anything to do with a
person w ho Iws been mothered to death. An a ihyaician I huve. They die
a ery niiaeiahlu and unhappy death "
'The email veina on their faces and on their ghouWera and necks become
eniforifed and hurMt under tho nkin and form erhymotic apnta. Thoae little
children, 11 of them, (motherings to death, reached up and tried to get out
of tho trap they were in. Over them was thin burning plunk floor, and
when iifterwarda tbcv found them dead in the pita-tho little children
one a bttbe 2 monthi old, and other 5 or 6 or 8 or 10 years old -their little
eundu were burned oil -burned oil' in trying to claw their way out They
died like rata in a trap. One mother wan shot, and after (he died her babe
waa born tnotlierleat Into the world."
All this came about as a result of favorable legislation
in behalf of capital, a puppet governor and a Denver
Chamber cf Commerce controlled by corporation hirtltngo!
a bad as the t liugs paid to do the shooting and kill i n
THE PILL BOX
AND
YESTERDAY, TODAY
TOMOUKOW
Th old town is full of merry
and happy people, the number
we cannot tell, most of them are
lady like, a few are raising
thunder.
Merry-iro rounds are very nice
things and every family should
have one in the front yard but
say, professor, can't you chloro
form the music that accompanies
thorn.
WHEN WE WERE A COUPLE
OF KIDS
Tonight as I sit in my cosy den
My mind runs back to the old
time when
I'd just completed a couple of
Junes
And I'd been presented with
pantaloons.
Brownsville Times.
Tonight as 1 sit in my cosy den
My mind rune back to the old
time when
1 was minus shoes ami stockings
because of h' t
And how I wou ! holler about
washing my uvt.
Tersonai-The i"tty jrirl who
stood across thv street nil !ay
yesterday waving a handkerchief
at the Pill Box man is requested
to call at the Monitor otlice this
afternoon at three o'clock.' The
Pill Box man's wife desires to
see her on important business.
SAD ENDING
Two giddy girls oncelivinjr in
Parkers,
Who were gay and lively larkers
For some fun afloat
lucked the boat,
Their names are on the grave
markers.
CHARLES S. MELLEN
I JS - . s
CAPTAIN IS BLAMED
FGS SEA DISASTER
Responsibility for Sinking of
Steamer Empress of Ireland
Placed on Anderson
THE PROFESSIONS
0 IMi. by American Press Associativa.
Charlea S. Mellen, Ex-President of
the New Haven road, who lays blame
for wrecking the railroad on the late
J. P. Morgan.
TART AMENITIES EXCHANGED
Antla Take Exception to Being Likened
to Polecats.
Washington. The headquarters of
the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage Issued a statement
which charges that the suffragists
called tba antla "polecats" In a reso
lution adopted by the 47th annual
meeting of the New England Suffrage
Association. In their retort the antls
call the auffragluta "social revolution'
Ists" and declare there la nothing In
common between the auifragist ana
true feminist
The antla say the New England suf
fragists passed a resolution at their
annual meeting saying;
"We denounce as a gross Blander
the charge of the antl-suffraglst that
equal suffrage means loose morals,
and we protest especially against
their attributing to prominent women
statements which these women have
emphatically disclaimed.
"These are the antics of the pole
cats when badly frightened."
New Bishop to be Chosen.
Portland. To select a successor to
Bishop Scadillng a dlocesun conven
tlon has been culled for September 16
The convention will be uttended by
members of the clergy and laity. The
clergy, by miijorlty voto, seluct tholr
candidate for bishop, who muut then
be approved by majority vote of the
laity.
MEDIATORS TO IGNORE
REBELS OF MEXICO
Niagara Falls, Out. The South
American envoys, It became known,
virtually have resolved to go ahead
with their plans for a two-party agree
ment between the United States and
the Huerta government and for the
time being ignore the question of rebel
representation.
The Huerta delegates expect to re
ceive General Iluerta's approval of the
essentials of the pence plan, together
with IiIh opinion on some of the names
suggested for the new government.
Consideration of an agreement be
tween the Muerta government and the
United Slates was temporarily Inter
rupted when Juan K. Uruuldl, a rep
resentutlve of General Carrama, laid
before the South American envoys a
note expressing surprise that the me
dlatlon negotiations were continuing
with the constitutionalists unrepre
sented.
After a long debate the mediators
decided not to permit Urquldl to pre
sent the commnnlcROon from h'echM.
Then after a conference with the
American delegates, the mediators de
cided to admit the note carried by the
Carranxa emissary.
Leavenworth Has Fir.
Leavenworth, Wn. Ktre destroyed
the west end of Front street at 2:30
unday morning from the Overland
Hotel building to the bridge.
This was the largest fire ever oc
curring here and only by hard work
was the Great Northern depot and wa
ter tank saved.
THE MARKETS
Portland.
Wheat Club, Stio; bluesteiu.
A little crirf will die and go to
heaven in Independence next
Thursday night
PINING FOU THAT WHICH IS
NOT
If only our whiskers wouldn't
Krow, how; nicely we would look,
we'd appear each day slick and
line like when our "picture's
took"; but the huirs are bound
to grow so what's the use of
t icking, we're oil to the barter's
now, feel the durn things pricking.
red Russian, Stic.
Hay Timothy, $16; alfalfa. 113.
Butter Creamery, 27c
Eggs Kuinh, 21c.
89c;
IWt yoii
women who
ought to wear the whiskers
So do we,
believe that all
wear the imnts
Seattle.
Wheat IMuestem, 89c; club, S6c;
red Kusslan, 85c.
Hay Timothy, JIT per ton; alfalfa.
$14 per ton.
Butter ("rc.iuiery, tin.
Ess 24o.
PurpoM of Knowladg.
All knowledge Is lost which nds In
the knowing, for every truth we know
1 a caudle jclven us tn work by. Gain
all the knowledge J'ou onu and then
ue It for the hlshwit purpo. John
ltixkln.
Rlmouskl, Quebec. Reaponsibiliiy
for the deaths of nearly 1000 persons
who perished when the collier Stor-
atad rammed and sank the great Can
adian Partlfln liner EmDress of Ira-
land, waa placed squarely on Captain
Thomas Anderson of the collier, by
Captain H. O. Kendall of the lost ves
sel.
Captain Kendall, testifying before
a coroner's iury declared failure of
the Storstad's captain to observe whis
tle signals caused the collision. Neg
lect to hold the Storstad's nose In the
hole In the Empress killed the last
hope of rescue.
fcaptain Says Proper Signals Given,
Captain Kendall In substance testi
fied that he had taken all possible pre
cautions against a collision. His ship
had been stopped, he gave the requi
Bite signals when the Danish collier
Storstad, which dealt the blow which
eent the Empress to the bottom, was
still two miles away, but the collier
had kept on through the fog which sot-
tied down soon after the two vessels
Blghted each other, and had rammed
the Empress of Ireland when the lat
ter vessel was virtually motionless,
Then, despite his plea to the master
of the collier that he run his engines
full speed ahead to keep the hole In
the liner's side plugged with the Stor
stad's bow, said Captain Kendall, the
DanlBh vessel backed away, the water
rushed In and the Empress sank.
Crash Occurs Near Shore.
The crash occurred not far from the
shore off Father Point, 150 miles from
Quebec, and 10 miles from this point
on the St. Lawrence. In reality, there
fore, although the liner was heading
for the sea and the collier coming In
from It, the disaster was not one of
the ocean, but of the river.
Accounts agree that in the brief
space of time not more than 14 min
utesbetween the shock of the collis
ion and the sinking of the liner, there
was little chance for systematic mar
shalling of the passengers.
Captain Stood on Bridge.
Captain Kendall stood on his bridge
as the ship went down. One of the
boats from the liner picked hlra up
and he directed Its work of saving
others until the craft was loaded. The I
captain was Injured In the crash and I
suffered from exposure, but his speedy
recovery Is expected.
Few women were among the saved
The lists make it appear not more
than a dozen.
"It all happened so quickly that we
did not really know what was going
on and nohody had time to cry 'Wo
men first,' " one of the passengers told
Captain Bellinger, of the rescue boat
Eureka.
Of the 1387 persons on board only
418 are known to have been saved.
making the probable death list 969.
Dr. R. T. Mclntire
Physician and Surgeon
Office over Independence Nation
al Bank. Phone No. 4412
Independence. Oregon
N. L. Butler G. A. Hurley
Butler & Hurley
Attorneys at Law
Office In Cooper Block
Independence, Oregon
R. E. Duganne
Dentist
Office over Inder ; : dcr.ee Nation'
al Bank. I'horc .No 44U
Independence, Oregon
li. F. Swope
Attorney at Law and Notary Put k
Will practice in all ccnitf of the
state. .Probate matters jnd col
lections given prompt a' jtion.
office: cooper bi ook
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Empress Blamed for Vessels' Separa
tlon After the Collision.
Montreal. With her bows crumpled
in and twisted and a gap showing on
the port side only a foot or so above
the waterline, In mute evidence of the
tragedy in which she figured, the Nor
wegian collier, Storstad, docked here
and a few minutes later a warrant of
arrest, taken out by the Canadian Pa
cific railway, was nailed to her main
mnst.
According to the captain and offi
cers, contrary to what had been said
by the captain of the Empress, the
Slorstad did not back away after the
collision. On the contrary, she steam
ed ahead In an effort to keep her bow
in the hole she had dug into the aide
of the Km press.
The Km press, however, according to
the Storstud's officers, headed away
and bent tlie Storstad's bow over at an
acute angle to port. After that the
Kmprecs was hidden from view of the
other nhip, and despite the fact that
the Storstad kept her whistle golnK,
she could not locate the Fm press until
the cries of the victims in the water
were heard.
Colonel Roosevelt Starts for Madrid.
New York. Colonel Roosevelt sail
ed on the Olymplcfor Southampton,
w hence ho will go to Madrid to attend
the wedding of his son, Kermlt, and
.Miss Ilelle Willard. United States Am
bassador W'illard's daughter.
Radium Cures One Man.
Raltimore. It waa announced here
hat radium had effected a complete
cure of cancer of the throat, for which
A. L, Glass, a railroad official of
G.iinesvi!K, Kia., came here for treat
ment two months ago.
Blobbe Hjones a the most unlnoky
fellow at card I ver met. Siolitw
Theu I suppose he Is Itiiky In Kivo.
too?' BUhh-I Mu;po, so. At any rate, he
. has never Ihvu murri.-d -IHiliadeli'bia
Becord. j
Portland Gets Swedish Conference.
l'aeema. Portland was chosen as
tht next meeting place of the Pacific
Nontiwest Swedish Mission Churches
at the conclusion of a ten days' con-
ferenee hell her-
Jmltfe I.umley Smith telle a story of
two eminent K. C' who happened one
day t see a serious street accident.
Due of them selM the other by the
arm and hurried him away.
Tome away qniik!" he exclaimed
"We mustn't stop. ,r they'll make us
witnesses iu the cs instead of send
ing us briefs to conduct the action for
damagwe." Pearson's Weekly.
With a String.
"I you trust your husband Implicit-
lyT "VVUat a question: vuy.
course I do to a certain extentl
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