GUN TOO DAYS
THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
AN INDtPtTUmwr NKWSPAPCH
Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County
Oregon, on Friday.
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Eatered u Second CUa Matter August 1, 1012 at the Post Office at Inde-
pectant, but Not Atlame.
iwndMce, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Ad of March 3, 1879.
CLYDE T. XCKIR, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, April 7, 1916
The Oregon ian played a cruel joke on itself re
cently by taking a straw vote which indicated by
doing a little multiplying that President Wilson
would carry Oregon this fall.
T. R. is after the G. O. P. nomination. Most
men are assured that. If successful what joy it
will bring to those Republicans whom this sami
T. R. kicked in the face four years ago.
, "Stick to the Hog" la the sub
. Jcct of an editorial in the Eugene
Guard. This is just part of
what is said: If there Is an
over-production of hogs in the
Northwest, If the market Is lim
ited, why the present splendid
price for hogs, why the con
tracts for early summer delivery
at even higher prices than are
being paid todny? It la true that
for a short time prices were
lower in the Northwest than in
the East. It will probably never
occur again. The great Euro
pean war came on suddenly,
wheat jumped sky high, eustern
growers dumped their hogs on
the market by thousands, yes,;
by tens of thousands. At the
same time Northwest hog grow
ers, swept off their feet by wheat
prices', turned their hogs, most
of them in an inferior condition,
on the market. This surplus
glutted the market temporarily
Then the price of hogs began t(
jump and today every grower li
the Northwest who continued
In the hog business is reaping
his financial rewuVd. The mar
k"ets of the Northwest are grow
ing day by day; the population
Is en the jump. Hogs from now
on will be in greater demand it
is predicted than ever before lr
the history o$ the Northwest.'
Stick to the hog is the advice o
the Eugene Guard
Everybody Rtady For Any Emergency.
Even the Railroad Brakemen Ara
Armed Funaton Daniaa That Can-
aomhip U Imposed to Taat 8nti-
mant For the Futur.
D. W.' Griffith
fmmmrn $100,000-m-vaw Creator mf Ma
ing "ictfurw
Some i jeer Ones
"A pipeful
of Tuxedo is
a wonder
fully plea$'
ant form of
tobacco en
joyment, mild and
toothing."
Scores of Big
"Movie" Men
producers as well as actors, are
constant smokers and out
spoken frirrdsof Tuxedo. It's
just the soothing, restful, re
freshing smoke men of their
nerve-racking vocation need.
Nothing calms and comforts a
hustler Tike a pipe of mild, cool,
sweet Tuxedo.
lieu that
canary on a
I i i -m it sunrise tike a
ranch near Keikeley, Cal.
After chewlnx nuni slveu tier In Chi
cago, voinaju recovered cotiaclouaueiui
)u few YOl'lt llllllUM hlT $100.
Klsa from briric wna the only fee de
Handed by New York nHlcrnniu for
marrying Chineae couiilu, and abe
paid it
Tuxedo is aged from three
to five years in wooden hogs
heads to make it mellow and
iwcct flavored. Hut the tiling
that takes out all the bite ana
harshness and makesTuxedo
to bland and gentle that it
can't hurt the most sensitive
tongue or throat, is the fam
ous and txcluiivt "Tuxedo
Process."
One week's trial of Tux
edo will ifisw you.
You can buy Tuxedo everjrwhrtfe
Pouch
5c
-.
Fainou.
10c
Tin hu
mm J
il':w-V
fit. Louis woman who taught parrot
to ahout "Hurrah for Toft!" accused
of belug liiMHiit'. Iefeiiae ia she baled
Democrat.
Women students must ent with flu
vr If they don't Mop taking apootui as
ouveulia ut lunch counter of L'ulver
alt of California.
Burglar lu Orange, N. J., ao badly
frightened tiy wuiiinu he full down two
Alghta of em Irs, rammed front door
lrtta tuutj and left M. rohr.
Man of Uoahen Ind.) mint return
aobcr from "ct" town ton milea away
or walk, aa tmetloQ company la pre
Tutd by law from carry lug them.
Wdod Kauiuis City wife Natrr was
aontencetl to year, court pmiulned lib
arty to every prisoner In the work
hniH who thrashed blm during the
term.
How many cattle barons,
mine ownors, oil operators, land
speculators and jingo editors do
you think there are In the hunt
for Villa that la, with guns over
their shoulders, asks the Pentou
County Courier. Scarcer than
chickens' teeth, though they are
the very fellows that ought to
be rounded up and put forward
In the front ranks. Newport
News.
The. Itlo Oruiiriu aud the west Texas
Ixuder district is teuse. expectant
a lined and alert, but to Buy that It U
ulliune over the Mexican situation is
to exi , , i . , ;:cs ouj cmreHpoud
tit thcn He sees Ameriiuna and
Mexicans tand;iiK peacefully together
u the sit.:, in InllorniH. The Mill
cans hold ahMif and are silent, but ap
pear in. i her ti'rrtued nor uieuaciug
J lie Amen mis selise t lie papers as
they ure iluii'4 from the train, eater
for the intent news of developments
Derosa the line. The Mexicans merely
Miami t lii-re.
KveiyUniy Is talking Villa and little
else. The 'olun.litia episode ha quick
ened the pulse c ' the bolder and work
I out a pnrac.ox. It una brought a
new life to the frontier by bringing
back tiie old. Uemingtoii died too
muni. He ahouhl have seen bis aoutu
west today. Meu such as he ao loved
to draw, spurred and booted and wltb
kU shooter on their hips, clumped
aloiiK the station plalforins or waved
huts from behind u barbed wire fence.
It Is uieii of this tyie who are piloting
Pershing's expedition in Mexico.
In the Pullman smoker of the South
ern Pacific train speeding toward El
I 'a ho the briikciuan, C. I). Liisslter, a
Texan. tliinK back his coat and with
pi hie displayed an old single action
Colt 44.
"Babies tiereulxnit used to be bom
with one of these on," he said, "and
the fashion's eomln' back."
This man's wife was lu Columbus
the nhs'ht of the Villa raid, and four
bullets pierced her dress. Her brother-in-law
was killed.
Want For a Souvanlr.
'I went down there riRht afterward,"
said the brakeman. "and I got a souve
nir." He tonk something out of his pocket
and passed It around for inspection. It
whs about an Inch square, and It was
bone a bit of skull from oueo Til
la's men.
Close to, yet far from that strip of
northern Mexico into which the expe
ditionary force lias thrust its way, the
border towns from 101 Paso south know
less of developments across the line
than do others In the rest of the coun
try Without dally newspapers, ex
cept those that arrive from El Paso
or Sail Antonio, they hear of events
only through cowiioy couriers or from
train passengers.
(Jeneral Kunston himself, directing
the expedition from San Antonio, Is
nearly "to miles from the scene of ac
tion, a distance that Is Increasing dally
If the columns push westward. Kitch
ener, In the war otlice in London, was
far closer to the British front In an
dcrs. and to reach the trenches from
KiiKhiud was vastly more simple than
travellni; from Port Sam Houston to
Columbus, N. M.
(ieneral Kunston dented the report
that In clamping a censorship oo news
from the front he was feeling out the
American public with a view to deter
mining how far the army could go ti
the future In the matter of exacting
lournalistte discipline
lit'iicia! Punaton said the censorshil
would lie no more rU'ld than that Im
posed at Vera Crua at the time of the
American occupation
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Tit (MEXICAN TOBACCO CUMFAMT
If the party with an automo
bile who nearly run me down on
Main street as I was crossing
over repeats the act, unless I am
totally disabled, he will need the
ambulance to finish his triiv
This is not intended as a threat,
but simply as a matter of busi
ness. People not possessing
one of these devilish nut nines
do not have to get off the earth,!
I don't think. A. V. A., in Al-i
bany IVmocrat.
EX-TRAMP A MILLIONAIRE.
Hia Ambition One. Wit to Buy 1 1.000, -000
Worth of Cc 'st.ak.
lpslle It. I'rnke of Cciuial America
walked past a Iaw AiikcIcs (Cl.) park
anil, polnrlinr at the tienches and foun
tains beneath the tree, salil:
"Twenty years atro I sat In that plaia
on a bench, ami I had neither a place
to sleep nor anything to eat. I was a
tramp, and as I sat there locking up at
the sky I planned on how many bef
steaks I would buy If I hud $l,s.,0eO."
Mr. Pruke neglected to say that, ae
rordlnit to Unu's and Uradstreot'a he ts
tmlay rated at more than $l.iMi.rt, but
lie Old say that now he had enough
money to buy all the beefsteaks he
would want for the rest of his life.
Mr. Orake has made Ms fortune In
Central America, but he d,vs not ad
vise others that they way hop to d.
likewise.
Shorn of B.ard, Ha Lost Hia Raaaon.
Viuuisb caused by being shorn of a
tieanl which had never tn'fore felt th
niitor's eilc Is believed to hare been
H'lnslble for WIlMatu Hroslus, tweu
t one years old, of Elizabeth. N. J
l'. otniE tetutMrarily deranged to an
extent that tils father caused hta ar
revt. fearing that he mb:!t carry out
tlireiirs to kp, him. Ivspite hia youth.
Il'-.i'siiis had cultivated a long Jet black
ix-anl ntilch liU father insisted be
shaved off. When the shorn youth re
turuetl a short time Inter friends failed
to reoogntie hltn Thou Willlaiu acted
tn such a tr-ini:e manner that he was
committed f r exainluatlou aa to his
menial condition j
No tine over accused a man with side
whiskers with being atllictcd with a
sense of ln,i.: ir, lint w hen Secretary of
t'ouinicii e Uc llleld announced that
American lu-s were of little use to the
manufacturer of paper because the
'America u people wash too much"
there was a hurst of luujjhter which
ran country w ide.
It appenrs that the raw material for
the manufacture of puer Is running
extremely low so low that the niaiiu-
facturers are lieeotulng seriously alarm
ed. The secretary some time ago Is
sued a call to the country to save Its
old rags. This call met with consider
able response, especially when it was j
explained thnt the Kuroeiin war bad i
virtually shut off the Importation of '
rags Into this country I
When thp tlrst consignments of j
American nigs, principally linens and
cottons, reached the manufacturers I
there was a discordant wail of despair .
The product would not do at all. the '
manufacturers said. They had been i
used to the rags of Europe, which
were filthy and contained much or
their original component parts.
"The American rags are too clean."
they said. "The American people an
pareutly are addicted to washing thei
clothes to an extent that destroy the
usefulness of the remnants, so far as I
paper tn::kli:n Is concerned,.
Secretary Kedtleld thereupon Issued
a prave vonrnlng that citizens of the
I'nlted States were washing too much
for the good of the paper makers' In
dustry. He followed it later with a
call, however, for such material. More
than l.OOo.OOO copies of the announce
ment have been sent broadcast
throughout the United States and will
be posted in postotlUvs and other pub
lic places Ohamliers of commerce
and other commercial organizations
also have ben enllsteil tn tit crnsarie
CTHE STEEL WORKER TELLS IT TO THE CoOOO juocg)
otT you not aiNte i 1
afraio or I TUMI urn TO I ''
ATVNlWt I TH HCAL I
1 TOBACCO I
GET the taste ef th richest tobacco (row W-B CUT Chawing1
th Real Tobaooo Chew, ntw tut, Ut tkrti.
Everywhere men ara so flid they louod it that they to ahead and
pass the good word along.
lane a tmall chew beeauia W-B CUT Chawing is rick tobacco.
"Notice kow tt. m brain sol lti rick loeacea Uata"
ay WETMAN-BRUTON COMPANY. 50 Uaioa Saar, Ntw Tor CHy
Mid.
An Invitation!
Wi like to ie ?vrything
ook Fright and Snappy.
Bring in your Ring, Brooch-
s, unaine, utvaiiitre, t,ic.,
and e will
CLEAN THEM FREE
TY1I your fr;rtid to come.
0? course we do all kinds of
Impair Work, Rer-ft 5?toiie
Make to ordtr. Rings, l'rooch-
fs, l niiHtit, rtc
ROWE'S JEWILRT STORE
For Trade!
What have you to offer for
480 acres of fine valley land
near Hay Springs, Nebraska?
Great place for small grain,
cattle and hog. On rural route
six and one-half miles from
town, two miles from school
house and one and one-half
from church. Address,
F. S. T., Careof Monitor,
Independence.