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THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County Oregon, on Friday. Enured s sr.nd CIm Matter Attest 1. 1912 M the Post Office at Inde pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor SnoRrHntinn Rates: One Year $1.50 StrictJ.v in Advance Independence, Oregon, Friday, June 19, 1914 Mr. Ltfft-i tv ought to be qualified now for a leading role with the Chautauqua yoddlers. O, the scratching that will b done on the first Tuesday after the firwt Monday in November. Several are kicking because it is proposed to abolish the Oretron se.iate. but thev have not vet told ui why in a senate? The Dalia Itemizer takes considerable pride in being a hero in the tiy-swatting campaign. The itemizer is a good Bwatter in whatever it swats. T. 11. will make his first political speech in Louisiana. The three men in that state who voted the progressive ticket in thf last election will attend in a body. Our representative in Congress, Mr. Hawley, will soon be i.ome. There is a steady growing desire on the part of the people to keep him home after he gets here. Thomas li. Marshall was quite prominently mentioned in the public prints a fe days ago. If we rannmber rightly Tom was elected vice president on the ticket with Wood row Wilson a year ago last November. Judging from the rapidity in which characters from the boo if, "Undo Tom's Cabin" are being eliminated from the play that bears the same name, it is safe to estimate that Uncle Tom himself will go in three more seasons. A CongreHaman, heretofore unknown to fame, has intro duced a bill in Congress, which if it. passes, will bar Secre tary of State Bryan from lecturing during hii leisure hours. The Oregonian must bo the only paper this con gressman reads. Democrats and progressives in Utah have united in an florl to boat Apostle Smoot who desires to misrepresent Utah in tJje u. ft. ftenate for another six years. Jtisa fusion in a good cause but democrats and progressives are about as thick m Utah as are prohibitionists m Milwaukee. NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL House Accepts Senate Amend ment Reserving Hay-Paunce-fote Treaty Rights. lhe only difference between the I. W. W, agitator haranguing a crowd on a street corner and Calamity Otate Llireau of Industries and ready signed by Secretary Bryan with Howler Hill of the "i Washington. The long right In con gress over canal tolla ended when the house, after a brief debate and with. out the formality of a conference, ac cepted by a vote of 216 to 71 the sen ate amendment specifically reserving all rlghtB the United State may have under the Hay-f'aurifefote treaty or otberwlfie. Before ending the contest by con curring In the senate amendment, the house voted down, 174 to 108, a propo sal advanced by Representative Mobs, of WeHt Virginia, to attach to the re peal a flat declaration of the right of the United States to exempt Its ves sels from tolls, and of the sovereignty of the United Slut over the Canal Zone. Income Tax Bslow Estimates. Estimates by Secretary McAdoo In dicated that the government Income for the fiscal year ending June 30 will exceed ordinary expenses by about $30,000,000. That Is about $10,000,000 less than last year's surplus. Income tax returns have fallen far below or iginal estimates and failed to offset the expected decrease In tariff re ceipts under the new law, but the cus tom houses turned In about $21,000,000 more thin it was figured they would. Whatever surplus there Is for the year will be absorbed by Panama canal payments, as it was last year. Secretary McAdoo estimated that this year's ordinary receipts would ag gregate $733,OiiO,000 and the total or dinary disbursements $703,000,000. To tal receipts for the last fiscal year were $723,782,921, with ordinary dis bursements of $083,699,692. Wilson Will Open Canal Formally. President Wilson will leave Wash ington on March 6, 1916, for Panama, to attend formal opening ceremonies of the Panama canal at a date to be determined later. The president will leave the capital the day after oon- grjss goes out of session. Pie will make the Journey to Panama on the battleship New York. The date of the formal opening ceremony for the canal will be decided before the president leaves here and the exercises will take place soon after he reaches there. On the old bnttleship Oregon, which attracted world-wide attention on her famous run around the Horn Just be fore the Bpnnlsh War, the preslden with members of his cabinet will make the first official passage through the canal, and then proceed to the Panama-Pacific, Exposition at San Francisco. Treaty Signing Nsare. Secretary Hryun for the United States and Ambassadors Jusserand and Spring Hire for France and Great lirltalu will soon sign on the same day peace treaties modeled after those al ADLAI E. STEVENSON THE PROFESSIONS 4 Dr. k. T. Mclntire Physician and Surgeon Office over Independence Nation al Bank. Phone No. 4412 Independence, Oregon 13. F. Swope Attorney at Law and Notary Huf .c Will practice in all cci !- of the state. Probate mattus -d col lections given prompt ' jiion. office: cooper si ci k Independt ue. Oregon N. L. Butler G A. Hurley Butler & Hurley Attorneys at Law Office In Cooper Block Independence, Oregon R. E. 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Stevenson, Vice President during the last Cleveland adminlstra. tlon, who died in Chicago of old age, EX-VICE-PRESIDENT DEAD Adlal E. Stevenson Passes Away at The Age ef 78. Chicago. Adlal E. Stevenson, for mer vice president of the United States, died here at the Presbyterian hospital, His death was due to gen eral debility and old age. Adlal Ewlng Stevenson had a long and honorable public career. He was vice president from 1893 to 1897, un der President Grover Cleveland. In 1909 he again was nominated by the democratic party for vice president and ran with William J. Bryan, the party's candidate for president, but was defeated. He served as a mem. ber of the 44th and 4tjth congresses. From 1885 to 1889 he served as First AsHlstant PoBtniaster General under President Cleveland. His last appearance as a candidate for public office was In 1908, when he was nominated for governor of Illi nois by the democratic party and was defeated by Charles S. Deneen, repub lican. StatinticB" is that the I. V. W. tjwaks for the "ojipreuBed poor" wliilu Howler liill writt'H "calamity" for the benefit of "down trodden corporations. The Laniont, Alberta, Tribune, a classy and newsy news paper, strayed into the Monitor oilice this week. The Monitor mtenda well wishes to itrj norlhland friend and hopes that the financial returns during the summer wil lusuiy us HUHpeiieion during the winter so the editor can coniw dowu to Oregon and keep warm. i i .i . .... iMmi obk got uuay again Friday and sent a column of steam nearly half a mile in the air. So far, reports of me unci Hinone navo proved wrong, for while the old mountain spouts like a politician, there it nothing to snow it smokes, or eveu carries stogia for it friends. Salem Capital Journal. Mount Lassen is no joke ; lots of poli- iuiuiib are. TllO SO (;i!!r;f "rrai.n inii-j i i i , r..r j,vvululliB lluw U)01is p. winner in t-pite of the efforts of the Standard Oil Company l'.illious Randolph Hearst with his string of yellow news papers and other war cryers. It is probable now that ..of- ju.vtr U.J...WUIUIJ- ii;is prevented the sacrifice of Mindteds or American boya ami savod the country nianv ..t .i.-ii . . . ... v "mMUU! Ul apparently there is some class to di plomacy of the "grape juice" brand. Lieutenant Limlenfeldt of tlie Colorado National Uuard declartd before tlin CDllrf.. 1)1 ,11't i .1 1 ur It.,.. il . I'cmrr mat ,;e was willing to accept the full responsibility for dl that hap penea at ui.iknv, an lie was simply "defending the honor of the llfig". Turning machine guns loose on a tent colony while its denixena wero asleep was one way of "defend im tue Honor ol t:e Hag. 8,tting fire to the tents ocaupied ..ri.uK wuiueu ma cniniren is another peculiar way this brute had of "defend i ri ' "ihm vi me nag , it is now up io u.e members of the c )urt-martial to stand Lieu tenant Lindenfeldt up against a wall to "defend the honor of the tlag", just as he did by turning a machine gun loo.e aiter oc ,K aausne.1 it is for hu ttnd-riff. - Salem Capital Journal. Lindoufeldt W hilt U I, nil., .....1 ' 1 . , " iu u luuruerer was .M?,! .!.b? among the . u tne -nest nociety and profos piety. I hey are the fellow n. r..u,.i, .i ..... .. ., ,,, . , ,, "oi until me r ; '-.HHistble lor this outrage and all others of i it. k,nJ, are forced "to stand up against a wall will such things ceaae to be. 16 nations. The signing of these trea ties awaits only the approval of the British treaty by the British self gov erulng colonies. The Anglo-American and the Fran co-Amorlciin treaties will in a general way follow a Blmllor pnet already sign ed by Secretary Ilryan with The Neth erhinds. They provide that all ques tions arising betweon the United Slates and the respective European powers which cannot be settled by dl plomaey shall be submitted for Inves tigation for a period of at least a year, to an International comml8lon of fiv members. During the Investigation hoKlilitles would not be entered into, hut the finding of tbe commission would not be binding. Secretary Ilryan and Minister Bryn have agreed upon the terms of a slml- r treaty between the United States and Norway, which will bo signed at the stute department within a few days. National Capital Brevities. Vence trnti will !vn be signed by the United States, Grest Itrltuln and France, after plans suggested by Secretary of Slate Ilryan. Acttou on the Hobaon national pro hibition amendment has been post poned by the house rules oommlttee until July 1. Immunity of members of congress from civil and criminal action as re sult of their official duties, has been strengthened as by ruling of the Unit ed States supreme court. rresldetit Wilson chose Representa tive William Graves Sharp, of Elyrla, 0 to be ambassador to France. Impeachment charga were present ed In the house against A. 0. Dayton, United States district Jude for the northern district of West Virginia. The interstate commerce commis sion suspended until October 13, the proposed Increase of the carload min imum weight on mixed carload ship ments of vegetables from California points to points in Ortgou. Hearts will be held before fall to determine the reasonableness of smtuded or der. I Delegates at Niagara Sign Protocol. Niagara Falls. Delegates from the United States and the Huerta govern ment formally affixed their signatures In the presence of the mediators to the first protocol of the series through which It Is hoped to restore peace In Mexico. The agreement reached provides the manner of transferring the executive power from Huerta to the new provis ional government Painti Time Ha ptrireg m is Her S ypETi BUY ONLY THE BEST ITS YOURS BY TEST hen Vou Buy The Famous LOWE BROS. High Grade Faints Theodore III Is Born. New York. Theodore Roosevelt III, first grandson of Colonel Roosevelt to bear the family name, was born at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Fair Weather Forecast Washington. Generally fair weath er is forecast for the week. Toward the end of the week a disturbance is expected to develop in the extreme Northwest , MOUNT LASSEN IN VIOLENT ERUPTION Redding, Cal. Fire, smoke, steam, volcanlo ashes, rocks and deadly gases belched, not only from the crater which opened up near the summit of Mount Lassen May 30, but also from two new craters that burst open more than a mile from the first of the new craters, and the first known toll is one dying, one injured and two de mented. tne outbreak of Mount Lassen Is extremely volcanic in nature, and the peak becomes the newest acUve vol cano In the world. Lance Graham was fatally hurt "by falling rocks. His head was battered and he was found half covered by aBhes and cinders. Rocks hurtled from the spouUng vol cano and broke the arm and gashed tho face of George Tipple, a lumber Jack, and left him demented. George Goodwin, who left Manzanl- ta Lake at 8 o'clock in the morning, was within a half mile of the crater when the eruption occurred, and he also Is demented as a result Other members of the party near the mountain at the time, report that he top of the mountain has been blown off, and ashes, rock and cinders cover territory two miles from the peak. ...Some of Our Leaders... Lowe's High Standard Paint for Outside Work Lowe's Vernicol Stain for Chairs, Inside Finish, Etc. Lowe's Colo-tint for Plastered Walls. Etc. sIZ? Lowe's Barn Paint. Lowe's Roof Stain, Etc., Etc. Everything the Home May Meed in Paints See Window Display Call for Sample Cards, Ask for Prices Sloper S f os ckle THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat Club, Stic; bluestem. Sac red Russian, 86c. Hay Timothy. $16; alfalfa. 13. Butter Creamery, 27a Eggs Ranch, 21c. Seattle. Wheat Iiluestem, 89c; cJub, ic' red Russian, SSc. Hay Timothy; J17 per ton: alfalfa. I $14 per ton. Butter Creamery, 2c. Egsa He. to mi is vim swim socially VUll MONITOR CALLING CARDS TOWN AND FARM PROPERTY -: POP, SALS; :- I have 100 good farms and residences for sale or trade and some of these are fine bargains. Now call and look over our list and let us show you. I make a specialty of renting- your property for you and collecting the rent monthly. If you have a farm to lease I can lease it for you. 2 - R. J. TAYLOR The Pioneer Real Estate Man of Polk Counfy Independence, Oregon ... - rrrriin rreswti. susjuj. Your Place Might Interest a Customer of Mine J IMMMKIIIISMX