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7 i v 0 ( NDENCE MONITO INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914 NO. 13 VOL. 3 INDEPE DALLAS SALOON MEfTLAW" DON'T LIKE TO QUIT So They Proceed Into Court And Try For an Injunction But Are Defeated Service was made Wednesday by Coroner R. L. Chapman on the members of the county court, County Clerk Robinson and Sher it Grant in a suit that had been tiled by Attorney B. A. Kliks, of McMir.nville, representing the sa loonkeepers of Dallas. The ac tum, brought in the names of John C. Shu'.tz, Robert Col felt, Frank Colfelt and James V. Chit ty, seeks to enjoin the county court and the other county offi cials named from issuing and en forcing an order declaring that the sale of intoxicating liquor shall be prohibited in Dallas as a result of the local option election on November 3rd. In the complaint it is alleged that the election was irregular and illegal, in that the election wa3 held by precinct? that do not coincide with the boundaries of the city and that, in consequence some of the officials who con ducted the election were not res idents of the city; that non-residents of the city were permitted to vote on the question, and that others who were qualified voters of the city were not given an op portunity to vote upon the ques tion. Objection is also made to the wording .f the proposition on the ballot, it being claimed that the omission of the words "the sale of" in the ballot title changed the meaning of the proposition submitted to the vo ter. The matter of issuing the or der declaring the result of the election was to have come up in county court Friday. By stipu lation of Mr. KlikB and District Attorney Sibley it will be de ferred until after the hearing of the injunction suit on its merits Monday. Dallas Itemizer. Monday Judge Holmes denied the injunction. It is possible that the saloon men will appeal. DISMISSED The circuit court cas2 against Whitney & Walker, charged with selling liquor to minors, was dis missed. A Corvalhs paper re ports the district attorney as say i r i j- that, "iht-re wus not enough t videnco to ct nvict a yedow do. PLANNING A f 1 WILL I THE HOU5E 7A Pi mm mm HUWWCUTT- CASES ARE OVER Harry's Acqoltal last Week Is Final Chapter; Only One Convicted The acquittal of Harry Hunni cutt last week ends the story of the Hunnicutt troubles. In the first place, Ensie, Harry, Clint and Guy were bound over to the 1 circuit court by local authorities, it being alleged that they were responsible for a number of rob beries committed in this locality. Clint was not indicted by the j grand jury, and Guy, because of his age, was placed on probation and given in charge of the coun ty court. Ensie was tried, con victed and is now in the pene tentiary for an indeterminate period. The jury recommended clemency and he probably will not have to stay there long Harry was tried twice. The first trial resulted in a hung jury and the second came out as above mentioned. INJUNCTION SUIT FILED An action has been filed in the circuit court by the Valley & St letz Railway Company to enjoin the Simpson Logins? Company from carrying out its usuiil prac tice of flooding the Luckiamute river for the purpose of fl ating a log drive, claiming that to do so would endanger the biidgps and right-of-way of the plaintiffs across the stream. Dallas Item izer. THANKSGIVING RACES Four good running races are billed for Thanksgiving after nxn on the Independence race track. Fair sized purses are of fered. OFFICIAL MAJORITIES Official majorities in Polk coun ty: Chamberlain 220. Hawley 1122, Withyeombe436, Belt 2391, Robinson 717, Orr 1004, Holman 1011, Canfield 341, Beckett 735, Chapman 4719, Irvin 53. Grier 71, state wide prohibition 853. NO WONDER 75000 of the 125000 bales of hops in the state have been sold at prices of 5 to 11 cents. No wonder the hop growers netd to organize. GRAHAMONA RUNS The Willamette being sufficient ly high at the present time, the Grahamona commenced to run between Portland and Corvallis Sunday. "NOT I," SAYS GEO. W. "Irn not a candidate for may i,nnMlninn. or anv other of- rk'e," declares George W. Con- kty. .No public lire lor me pinochle is more.t njoyable." HOWE INVASION. the coflL.eiNj F-iiiZk i '9 Hooge Ifif' i "MENTIONED" NUMEROUS MUST BEJPUSHED IN Hoffman and Davis Likely For Mayor; Councilmen, There Are Many Talked Of Candidates for city officers are rather scarce. Friends must bring them out or they won't run. But depend on the friends. There will be at least two candidates on the ballot for each job. There is a great deal of senti ment favorable to W. T. Hoff man for mayor and he will very likely be nominated. G. A. Hur ley will make the race for record er and run like a race horse. For councilmen, L. G. Reeves, Wil liam Dungan, M. W. Mix and R. J. Taylor are being boomed. North Independence wants rep resentation and will likely pre sent S. F. Cook. The Bo-called city hall slate is supposed to be Davis for mayor, Swope for recorder and Fenton, Good and Carbray for council men. C juncilmen Walker, Drex ler imd Irvine, whose terms ex pire, probably will be glad to pass it on to others. WANT MONEY BACK Becoming disheartened at the prospects of "the mill" being built within the next one hun dred years, sundry citizens want to pull down the $2000 cash bo nus and the deed to the land pro posed for the site that is laying idle in a bank waiting for the lumber company to take it when the erection of "the mill" was started. The two thousand pot was raised by popular subscrip tion and almost every business man has a share in it. Others among the contributors want it to hang over the head of the lum ber company for some time yet to come. SCHOOL FOR FARMERS Monmouth, Nov. 17-Please announce that the Oregon Agri cultural College will give a school at Monmouth under the auspices of the Monmouth Grange during all of next week. Domestic sci ence work will be a prominent feature as well a3 lectures on soils, crops and dairying. P. O. Powell. "GO-TO-SCHOOL DAY" To tl e Patrons of the Inde pendence Public Sehoo's: I have set apart Wednesday December 2, as a "Go to School Day" and the teachers and pu pils of the Independence public schools im,st cordially invite yur attendance upon that day. Last year the pastors of the various churches in Independence planned a "Go-1 o Church Fun- day" and as a resu't the churc h es were fii'ed on the designated Sundav. Will you not nspond just as heartily on our "Go-To-School Day?" The purpo.se of this day is to furnish every person who is in terested in the public school sys tem an opportunity to observe the work in the different depart ments. There will be no special exercises or programs of any kind to entertain visitors. J he schools will be open to the public for a comprehensive inspection and the regular every da) school program will be carried out with out change. Ushers will meet all visitors in the main halls in each building and conduct them to any desired room or department. Please remember the date and arrange your work so that you can 8i end at least a portion of the day with ua. C. F. Waltman, Supt. BUY OLD SHIP JNDEPEN D ENGE Messrs. Macy, GoeU and Merwln May Co Get It and Bring It Home Editor Monitor-1 hear that some of our citizens wish to with draw the money they have de posited which was to be given to the lumber company if a sawmill was built in Independence. If the money is "pulled down" I suggest that some more be raised and the people of this town buy the old frigate, Independence, fa mous in the history of our conn try, which the government wants to sell and bring it here where ii can er hereafter stand or float to the glory of our country and the advertisement of our patriot ic citizens. -Observer. j As a rule the Monitor does not ' publish communications without ! knowing the author, but in this j instance we make an exception ! because the suggestion is such a good one. The famous ship, ln ! dependence, which was named j after this city in 179S, has single j handed whipped many a foreign . fl-et. is an honor and glory to the ! country and by all means should j be brought here. Then by plant ling a number of mines in the j Willamette and with the In- dependence on guard, our citi zens could slumber peacefully at night fully realizing that Salem or no other foe could capture the city bofore we had time to get the fire department out. The Monitor hereby appoints Presi dent Macy of the Commercial Club, Councilman Goetz and Postmaster Merwin as a commit tee to go to Washington, buy the Independence, and bring it tack with them. MISSALL ft KNAPP MOVE Missall & Knapp and Smith Bros, have swapped stores. Mis sall & Knapp have moved their stock of clothing across the Ftreet and Smith Bros, will occu py the building that Missall & Knapp did. The change must have been satisfactory to all con cerned or else they would not have traded. TEACHERS MEET The Polk county teachers' in stitute is in session at "Dallas with nearly every teacher in the county present. All schools are closed for the remainder of the week. FARMERS' WEEK DATE Farmers and other citixens of Oreron who are planning to at tend Farmers' Week at the Ag ricultural College are hereby no tified that the date has been post poned to i ebruary 1 to G. 1!)15. The changed and enlarged char acter of the exercises have made this change necessary. Many conventions of leaders of the va rious agricultural interests of t ha state will be held at that time in addition to the special technical instruction ar.d demonstration commonly given. LeauVi of Na tii,nal reputation from various nuts of the country and from the U. S. Department of Ag-i- culture will be pre.ientto address hna conventions. It. D. lletzel, Director of Extension. 25 YEARS AGO Word reached this city yester day that the enterprising capital ists of Monmouth and Independ ence had decided to constructand equip a street railway between their respective towns. Proper ty along the right of way is be ing actively sought in the inter est of the promoters of this nine teenth century means of trans portation. A company to build this line was organized and in corporated several months ago but ihe matter has been kept pretty quiet until yebterday. Salem Statesman. KIBBE FINISHES Glen E. KitW finished hlr work in Independence Morula-, and all paving and street work is now completed. WEST HOP MEN MAKING GOOD ORGANIZATION CERTAIN Meetings In Salem Bearing Fruit; On Saturday Oregon Growers Will Organize Delegates from California, Or egon and Washington are in ses sion at Salem this week deter mining the ways and means of organizing the hop growers of the three states into a compact boriy that thev may maintain a living price for their hops. 11. B. Fletcher, of Independence, representing C A. McLaughlin, Fred N. Stump of Suver and C. G. Coad of Dallas are the Polk county growers in attendance. Concerning the m e e t i n g, Wednesday's Salem Capital Jour nal says: "No definite plan of business organition has been fixed upon, but there are two fundi mental propositions which the delegates will consider and adopt at an ear ly stage of the proceedings, after which the details of organization and business arrangement can be built up according to the plan outlined in the basic principles. The initial purpose is for the growers to form a corporation to handle the crops of the members for a period of years, but wheth er it will be formed with three separate organizations, one in ach state to work separately, or with one central organization with branches in each state, is the question to be decided upon it this meeting. Great care must be exercised liy the growers in the formation of this association to keep within the provisions of the anti-trrst laws of the country and not lay themselves liable to attack and prosecution, and ultimate demor alization, under the Sherman anti-trust law. The anti-trust law recognizes the right of farmers ind laborers to organize to pro mote their respective interests and protect themselves against monopolistic and capitalistic in terests, but there is a very deli cate, line of distinction as be tween a "good trust" and a trust organized in restraint of trade, and this is the point which the hop growers will have to bear in mind and keep within the limits of the law. If the three states were to form separate organizations ami then consolidate under one corporation for the government and control of the business of all of the state ussociations, the element of mon opoly and "restraint of trade" might be construed to exist by i ho federal court, if the organi zation should be attacked by hos tile interests and the grower del egates have been warned that (his is just the opening thnt the hop dealers are laying for in the hopes of witching them napping and breaking up the organization. On thh account every detail of t ie propped plan of organization will h-ive to be c ne over very thoroughly and the convention be absolutely sure of its ground m very respect, and that they are safely within the authority of the ar.ti-trust laws, before final ac tion is 'aken. Whatever is done at this meet ing, however, will be binding up on all (t the three state organi zations, already formed and ready for business " The Oregon growers will meet in Salem Saturday to perfect their organization. Every grow er of bops in this vicinity should he present. "United We Stand. Divided We Kail" is no joke. caTholics buy The purchase of a farm south of Independence, by the Catholic diocese of Oregon, has been con firmed. It is said to be the plan to establish an orphan's home thereon and place the same in chart; of the Sistrs of Charity. ''''':y" --!V y5 ii i... """ " v 4 K- -y WEEKS TO CHRISTMAS A Holiday H LLPThe rhoujrht That Your Shopping l Done $1000 FOR EXHIBIT The Polk county court on Mon day at the request of II. G. Campbell of this city, a member of the Willamette Valley associa tion, which is promoting an ex hibit for the Panama-Pacific ex position in 1915, placed the sum of if 1000 in the 1915 budget to aid that county at the big show. It is the purpose of the association to keep one person from each of the eight counties at the fair dur ing the ten months that it is open. The Polk county exhibit will undoubtedly be one of the most attractive features of the Willamette valley display. Mo hair and wool will be the leading features. Salem Statesman. - NEW BRIDGE At a meeting of the county courts of Polk and Marion coun ties held in Salem Wednesday, plans were matured for the build ing of a new bridge over the Wil lamette at Salem to replace the present one which has been con demned as unsate. MOOSE MAY EXPAND The local Moose lodge has long been too big for its hall and an addition to the building has been agitated for several months. It is proposed to extend the build ing to the alley which would give the Moose one of the most com fortable lodge rooms in the Btate, and it would not be surprising if work upon thtB proposed exten sion started at any time. BILLY's'VlCTUUE "Hilly" McAdams called yes- terdav and accused the Monitor of having his "picture." "' ;.he Monitor has a picture ot 15U- ly" we are sure going to put it in the Monitor and say under it, "This fellow needs a wife. THE OLD ... V i .IT-". ' . r :?nL . -'r - 79 v-'i ft riM trtf IV'-aM t ' mi .:' i A i CITY COUNCIL BUSY BOL TAX LEVY C-T 7 MILLS City May Do Some Side Walk Building Itself, "Lid" Is Still On; Other Doings The city tax levy for 1915 will be seven milld, the same as last year. So decided the council at its regular session Wednesday night. The taxable property is given a value of $511,000 and the seven mills levy will bring in about $3800. Tlw half block of paving on C street was accepted and it was ordered that notice of assessment for paving be given to all abut ting property owners not yet so notified. The ordinance taking off "the lid" as to the number of saloons to be licensed next year got as far as third reading where it hung and finally went over until Dec. 2. Councilmen Paddock, Walker and Goetz declared they were ready to vote, but the other councilmen wanted more time for consideration. Property owners who hare not built sidewalks when ordered to do so may soon have the city do it for them at their expense. The council is getting weary of repeated disregards of its man dates and apparently proposes to show what some of them term "back bone." C. E. Long having become de linquent in the payment of pav ing assessment, a resolution was passed instructing the city mar shal to levy on his property to satisfy the amount of assessment duo. L. Damon was given $50 a j r that the city might use a si. . II patch of his land near the riv r for a dumping ground. The petition for the removal of the city marshal was left in the hands of the committee for fur ther "investigation." This is a "Jonah" that will probably be passed on to the next council. A number of bills were ordered paid, among them being $2.10 for having the mayor's "peace day" proclamation published. Tuesday night was the coldest of the year, 21 above. HOMESTEAD. 4a .'. u 1 fifMM in Nw York Tisrani.