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( ... v c: IN DEP END E N CE MONI TOR "THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS" VOL.4 INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915 NO. 1 RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT INDEPENDENCE CENTER Electifylng of tbe S. P. and Building of the V. S S. Ry. Benefits This City Greatly Another project that will add to the prosperity of Independ ence will be commenced at once. Independence will be a busy city this fall with the electrify ing of the S. P. and the building of V. & S. A large number of men will be employed and Inde pendence will be the center of the activity. Work on the Valley & Siletz goes on. Grading, leveling and bridge building engage a large number of men. Unless the ' work is abandoned for aome pur pose, the new railroad will "ar rive" in this eity about Novem ber 1. TO RAISE CELERY John R. Cooper of Independ ence, who now conducts a "thirst parlor" at that point, is planning to develop 21 acres of beaver dam land near Medical Springs into a celery ranch af ter his business is closed up at the end of this year. He has another 180 'acres of land near the beaver dam land which he also plans to put into cultivation. He believes that considerable success ean be met with in tne development of the celery ranch. Mr. Cooper also owns one of the best hop ranches in the Inde pendence section. Salem Mes senger. ODD INCIDENT One of the very strange coin cidences happening 50 yrs af ter the civil war occurred at Corvallis last week. General Thorp of the Union army was buried, and Rev. J. R. N. Bell, a 'confederate soldier, was the officiating minister. Bell had fought against Gen. Thorp's army and was capture. Mc Minnville Telephone-Register. FLY a 'TV 1 Si mums LECTURE COURSE ASSURED Business Men Guarantee Payment and There Will Be 4 Numbers This Winter Independence is to have a lec ture course of four numbers this winter thru the efforts of Rev. W. C. Stewart and a few others who made a canvass of the city and secured the signatures of twenty or more business houses to stand behind the guarantees. The attractions all appear to be high class judgin? by their in dorsements and press comment. It is planned to sell season tickets at one dollar each and it is the expectation that 300 will be sold before the first number is given. , OVERLOOKED The , Independence Monitor evidently pins its faith to the old adage, "Its an ill wind that blows nobody good." In the re call now being agitated against the county court, it imagines a division in the Republican party at the next election. There is another trite saying the editor of the Monitor possibly has overlooked, in regard to "cat fights. Falls City News. PAROLED Governor Withycornbe, upon the recommendation of state board of pardons, has paroled Emsie Hunnicutt. Paroled pris oners are released ' as soon as employment can be secured for them. POLK COUNTY ROADS Polk county has received al most as much good advertising on account of its oiled rob ds as from any other one thing. Au tomohilists from everywhere who have toured this country pronouneed the roads the best in the state. Dallas Observer. THE WHITE TERROR (continued from last week) A lossoii of lire l tlmt at rr ijiirut In tennis the things iilxint uliu we care the mont are the flint to aurTer or to be destroyed. On Eleanor's return home from the CjHrlou office the weak ness in her chest, wbk-h he had felt Increasing for da.va. but had concealed from her father, became' more pro nounced. She waa feverish and devel ooed a eouah. She bad? to retire early, (continued on page X) TIME. 'Zr- i f .'' t Weed m Philadelphia Public Ledger IP mm HOP HARVEST NEXTVEEK NOW FOR THE PICKING Portland Telegram" Digest of This Year's Crop and Market Conditions Hod picking will begin in all the yards next week and no shortage of help, is anticipated. Fact is, most -of the yards had their pickers engaged two weeks ago. The price of 40 cents a box instead of the usual 50 cents, ev idently has not made any differ ence as far as labor is concerned and one hears but little grumb ling ever the reduced price. Most of the yards are going to insist upon cleaner picking and the bosses will watch the gather ers closely. There are some oickers who are not very partic ular how they do the work and it is this class that will have to do better, or they will find trou ble in securing work in this sec tion in future years. J. R. Coop er's Early Fugules were picked this week, They turned out well. Lice and honey dew caused 9ome damage in all the yards, the percentage of loss differing according to the work and ex perience of the owners. The hoD man who fought the lice by spraying all the time suffered but little. The Portland Telegram has the following to say about this year's crop and the market: "Previous estimates of the hop crop in Oregon of 160,000 to 165, 000 bales have been reduced, fol lowing a tour of inspection of many of the yards in some sec tions of the state, and it is now believed the crop'will not reach more than 150,000 bales. This figure ib placed as the maximum. Bull interests in the market have flooded the East with telegrams declaring the crop here will not be over 100,000 bales with chan ces favoring even a smaller fig ure. Their efforts were fruitless as no orders resulted. A well known grower, in fact, one of the largest producers of hops in the state, commenting upon the 100,000 report issued by various interests, declared it a joke, pure and simple. He said there was every indication of a vastly larger yield and that unless a cyclone swept over the yards, mighty close to 150,000 bales would be harvested. The idea of spreading the other re port, he said, w&s in an effort to secure business and boost prices. "Everybody who knows any thing about the game, knows why these alarmist reports have been placed in circulation," he said. "The Easterners are not as slow as seme people wish thev were and thty wont bite." Many of the yards which have been poorly cultivated and where spraying was delayed, wilt show a greatly curtailed yield this year. This is what accounts for the reduced estimates on the Or egon crop. Unfortunately there are a large Dumber of such yards but the principal yards of the state where proper precautions were taken will show an in creased yield over a year ago. There is nothing doing in the market in this state. In short, there does not appear to teany market at present. Reports of a eouple of sales at 13 and 13i cents in California have been given publlcty as fresh business. As a matter of fact, one sale was two pass jam eternity Mrs. W. H. Murphy and Charles Mc Cauley Died In Salem Hospitals Mrs. VV. H. Murphy died in a Salem hospital on Friday, after an illness of several weeks. The funeral was held at the home on Sunday, interment taking place in the Buena Vista cemetery. Mrs. Murphy was a pioneer resident of the Buena Vista neighborhood where she haslived for over a quarter of a century, during which time she had gained a legion of friends who will nev er forget her kindly ways and helping hand. She is survived by her husband and one son who have the sympathy and consola tion of the entire community. Charles McCauley, for thirty years a resident of Independence, died in a Salem hospital Tuesday. The funeral was held in the Pres byterian church, of which the deceased was a member, Wednes day, Rev. G. C. Birtehet officia ting. The body was taken to Portland for burial. Mr. McCauley was born in New York but came west at an f arly age and was 49 years old ai the time of his death. He was never married. He has one brother, George, living in Port hind, and three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Richardson of Fallon, Nevada, Miss 'Alice McCauley of Portland and Mrs. Nellie Graves of Independence. CARELESS READING A few weeks ago, the Monitor re-published an article from the Portland Ore gonian of 25 years agi, in which it 'said that H. Hirs'.hberg and D. W. Sears were planning a pleasure trip to Europe. While the Monitor Kave the date at the end of the article, many people overlooked this part of it and imagined that the two men were going to ven ture to Europe at the present time and they have been kept busy dening that they intended to take any chances in tho war area. BIG CROPS Abundant crops in th McCoy neighborhood this year. Henry W. Domer got 4000 bushels of wheat from 100 acres which he sold at 90c. His 40 acres of oats yielded 2950 bushels. ' Fred Rhode had 20 acres of oats which averaged 118 bushels to tht acre. SHOOT SUNDAY Ihe Independence Gun Club will hold a shoot Sunday which will be of more than ordinary in terest because of a contest for beginners. For the event the UuPont Powder Co. have dona ted the prizes. A handsome bronze watch fob will be given to the man or woman making the high score. Only beginners are eligible. Then a beautiful ster ling silver spoon will be awarded to the woman with the high score. All women may compete. CLOVER YIELD Clover threshing is in pro gress. The yield is running from two to three bushels to the acre. made at least two days ago and I he other fully a week agn. The East does not appear to care what is going on here and is manifesting absolutely no in terest at the moment. According to cables from Eng land, the crop there is now show ing some improvement, but. ut that, will not be much more, if any, than one-half of what it was a year ago." the hops choppers NEWS OFJUSY WEEK Number of Pertinent Items Dumped Into a Bunch and Labeled As Above A drifter tried to steal a kodak from Craven & Huff's store Wednesday night but was de tected in the act. He begged so hard that they let him go. The first "hop special" will arrive at noon today. There will be another one tonight, one Sunday and two Monday. A fare of $2.60 is given from Port land. The commercial editor of the Portland Telegram arrived in In dependence yesterday and is making a canvass of the hop yards in order to secure an esti mate of this year's crop and the quality. Th Telegram's com mercial page U always reliable and unbiased. Confident that the fire that de stroyed his drying houses some time ago was of incendiary ori gin, Frank Mitoma installed a night watch on his place north of this city. Saturday night an attempt was made by three men to jburn the rest of his buildings but they were scared away by the watchman who fired several shots at them. Salem Capital Journal: The hop crop this year depends large ly on the weather for the next three weeks more than at any season for the past 15 years. This is the opinion of a promi nent hop raiser who has been in the business near Salem for the patit 18 years. Warm, clear weather is needed to insure any thing like a crop. Wednesday night Wm. McDon ald kindly allowed a drifter to sleep in his barn who repaid him by stealing a tent. On discov ering his loss the next morning, Mr. McDonald, accompanied by "Doe" Mills, captured the cul prit In the outskirts of the city. They breuttht him back and lodged him in the city jail until the sheriff came and got him. Judging by his remarks the thief believes the world owes him a living and threatened to burn VlcDonald out because he caught him. Salem Messenger: That the Oregon hop crop will not exceed 100,000 bales this year is the contention of JJ. S. Cooper, Jr., who has been over most of the yards of the east side of the river the last week in the inter ests of several insurance compa nies. Mr. Cooper says in sum ming up the conditions, "in the Jefferson and Independence din tricts the hops are in generally good condition and are clean al though there are several jards there that will not produce enough to cover cost of raising. In a few cases unless there ia a great improvement in the next lew days the yards will never be picked. The worst district on the east side is in the lower por tion of Marion county, where there are a great many yards that will never be picked. NEW P. M. FOR PARKER A civil service examination will soon bc held for the ap pointment as postmaster at Pur- ker. Tne office only pays a few dollars a month. JUDGE HfcNKlE LOSES LEG Has It Amputated At the Knee To "Cure" Diseased Foot; Doing Weil Justice E. T. Henkle went ov er te a Sa'em hospital where he had a leg amputated at the knee Tuesday. For some time he has been troubled with a cancerous growth on his foot which has gradually grown worse and am putation was necessary to save his life. Mr Henkle went thru the op eration in fine shape and is doing better than expected. In a few weeks he will be back again on the streets and while one of his legs will be wood, it will be more satisfactory than a real one that troubled h;m ut all times. NEW SCHOOL BUILDING Work has commenced on the new normal school building at Monmouih, which will be erect ed, across the street from the main college building. It will be 84 x 128, two stories and the basement. F1REBL1GUT FOUND Within the' past fortnight Prof. Pasey of Corvallis has loca ted fireblight in forty-six places in Polk and Marion counties, several patches being one mile north of Independence on both sides o the Willamette river. Dallas Observer. KNIFE KILLS DEER Frank Whiteaker, of Albany, who has been in camp at the springs for some time past, was walking down the McKenzie from the springs a few days ago, taking an early morning walk. Suddenly he heard something in the brush across the river, and was surprised to see a deer jump out and start swimming the stream, coming straight toward him. A dog had been chasing the deer and the latter intent upon its pursuer, did not see Whiteaker on the bank of the river, coming out within a few feet of him. Whiteaker had no gun, but as the deer looked back to see if the dog was coming, he pounced upon the animal, and with his .jack knife cut its throat. He first slashed the an imal's neck with the small blade of the knife, but this did not seem effective, and still holding the struggling deer, opened the larger blade and succeeded in stabbing it in a vital spot. Eugene Register. THE INLAND EMPIRE CHAMPION. INJURED IN COLLISION MAY RESULTIn DEATH Charles Rathbun Rldind Motorcycle Runs Into Auto Both Machines Going Fast w Charles Rathburn, until a few days ago motor policeman In In dependence, was probably fatal ly injured in a collision with an automobile driven by 0. K. Ed wards of Newberg Wedi esday forenoon, one and a half miles south of Independence. Mr. Edwards appears to be exon erated from all blame as Rath burn was on the left side of the road in making the turn when he should have been on the right. The collision could not be avoid ed. His right arm was frac tured, two bones in his left leg broken, he was horribly bruised on the head and face and re ceived internal injuries that may cause his death. , He was at once taken to a Salem hospital and his parents, living at Lebanon, notified. Later-Rathbun will live. THE "RECALL" Whether the r call has flick ered out or is just sleeping, we don't know, but the animal has not been seen or heard in this section for several days now. Surveyor Cnnrield won a victory in the circuit court Monday when Judge Belt overruled a demurrer in which the defense contended that the plaintiff, Voth, had no legal capacity to bring suit in his own name; that Canfield should have been the plaintiff. This is the action In which the county court is enjoined from paying the Himes Construction Co. for surveying. NEW MINISTER Itev. F. Claude Stephens of Raymond, Wash., has been elect ed pastor of the Christian church and will assume his duties Sept. 1. WANTED After reading this page you will agree with the Monitor that one of Independence's greatest needs is a hospital. Hody in Spokane Bpokoman-Review.