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
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Office over Independence Nation
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Independence, Oregon
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office: cooper si ci k
Independt ue. Oregon
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Independence, Oregon
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Adlal E. 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.
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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
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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.
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