THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
AN INDbPIiNOENT NEWSHAPLK
Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County,
Oregon, on Friday.
Entered at Second Class Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Of flee at In de
pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Ufder tbe Act of March 3, 1879,
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, July 27, 1917
A likely entrant into the arena of American
patriotic life will be the Order ot 258.
Congress has passed some sort of a food con
trol bill. If it catches the speculator well and
good, otherwise no relief is in sight.
The popularity of "canning the kaiser" con
tinues to spread. Siam, called a heathen nation,
is the latest to throw its hat into the ring.
We feel quite safe in prophecying that despite a
dry spell of unusual length the Willamette Valley
will make a splendid showing when the crops are
harvested this fall.
After reading the newspapers, we can if we
wish, believe that Germany is paying all the
members of the 1. W. W. sixty dollars a month
and expenses to raise hell.
It is our hope, and we believe the hope of every
American citizen who has not gone war mad, that
not a single man drawn for service last week will
ever get a chance to fire a gun.
The Russians are up to their old trick. Last
week they went forward and drove the enemy
back fifty miles. This week they retreated in
disorder and gave up all they had gained.
The Portland News would "hang on the tree of
Haman every thieving traitor who would fatten by
the extremity of his country." We suppose that if
it was inconvenient to get to the tree of Haman ,
a telephone pole would do just as well.
A New York chemist, who has been experi
menting with hay in an effort to ascertain if it is
fit for human consumption, reports that it will do.
Among the possibilities of the near future will be
to sit down at the table and ask somebody to pass
the hay.
A few days ago, Thomas Edison remarked that
"all rebellious elements are now under control",
and he hasn't said anything since, but when
Thomas locks himself up in a room with an
electric battery and a few wires, another wonder
ot the world is being developed perhaps an anti
dote for the submarine.
We presume that Germauy could hold out for
a number of years against the world if its people are
determined to fight to the last man, but it is hard
to think that a nation would do this when by
turning against its blood craving rulers, a peace
could be secured that would be as honorable as
could be expected under the circumstances.
Several months ago, a Chicago paper sought to
discomfort the poets by offering a prize for the
shortest poem on "The Antiquity of Microbes."
It held most of them, but Strickland Gillilan,
author of "Off Ag'in, On Ag'in, Goue Ag'in,
Finnigin", won the prize by condensing all the
authentic information regarding the antiquity of
microbes into two lines, as follows:
"Adam
Had 'em."
FELL TWO MILES
Three Rescjei Fro i Flaming
Zeppelin, Cr.e Ik; .jred.
SURVIVORS NOW PHI30NERS.
On 8avad Himitlf by Making Para
chuts of Ovarcoat Burning Ship Slip
pad Diagonally, Retaining Sufficient
Buoyancy to Conauma Full Fiva Min
utaa In Downward Flight
London. It I Just disclosed that
when Zeppelin I. -IS wax liruutiht down
in one of tlie 'atin rountrle on June
17 one of It o!lii cm ami two of Us
rrew were found alive.
Tlie officer wiih uninjured. One of
the Mien had Ixitli leu lirwj.i n. Ix-sldea
Inleniiil Injuries, und liotii were taken
to u liospitul ;i.pi.ic;i!ly In a dying
i (jiKiiiioli. hut luive nti;re re overcfl.
( lie of the survivors. It U reported,
nniT! hln.iielf hy iiuUlnjr a paraehule
of I.; i overcoat.
Tint of the wreikinre a iij-'fit In a
tree This was at f!rt thouvht to have
broken the fall and saved t'ie nieu'n
liven, hut a sulwipqiipiit explanation Is
that the burning fchlp llp;'d dlaKonul
ly tliroiiKli the air In falling, retaining
uil'ic; lit buoyancy to consume a full
five minutes In its downward (Unlit.
Tills Is the first occasion any sur
vivors have been found of the crew of
l Zeppelin brought down In flumes.
Tbe Hhlp wan destroyed at a height es
tlmated at 1.1,0") feet.
A naval petty otlleer, who waa ona
of the first to reach the burning wreck
age, aajti:
"JuMt as I Jumped heUe and start
ed toward the Zeppelin I saw one of
her crew walking toward me. He was
a tall, clean ahaveu man. wearing a
fur collared overcoat and till k boots
and leKCiiiK. He was very pale and
seemed terribly nfiaken. I called to
him, and he cntneon. I pulled a piece
of paper out of my pocket and made
ilt us to him l hat I wanted any papers
he m'Klit have, but he simply threw up
his hands and shook Ids bead.
"I asUid'lilm how many men were
on ho:ird the Zeppelin, and he held out
his luiii.is with thumb ami fingers
outstretched twice, which 1 took to
mean twenty. "
WEALTHY WOMAN MINISTER.
Countaaa Sophia Will Help Charltabla
and Social Institution.
I'etrograd.-Jn a workman's hlouse
and a leather skirt Countess Sophie
Tallin has already taken up the office
of assistant minister of social tutelage,
a department of state with the func
tion of administering tbe charitable
and aix'lal Institutions and also tbe
rare of children. The countess la tbe
world's Ilrt woman minister. She la
forty-five je:ns old and wealthy. She
resides In a pnhice, which she trans
formed Into a people's house, a combi
nation of i' rent Ion place and popular
university.
As nu active worker of the Constitu
tional I lenioeralic party the countess
recently wtis elected a member of one
of the newly treated slllalist riots. She
declined tlmt her staff of officials will
consist for the must part of women.
Hhp hopes that her appointment will
be the slgnul lor the transfer of social
Institutions In other countries Into the
hauda of women.
RAVEN CATCHES COINS.
London Miaarly Bird Saiiaa Monay
and Aftarward Hidea It.
Iondon. i:eu a raveu has bla likes
and dislikes At the Cardiff barracks
there Is ouu M-iyeant for whom tbe
bird (sent home by the Second Welsh
regiment some years ago) bcara a pos
itive dislike
When the gentleman in khaki with
three stripes comes along the raven
retires with a hop, a skip and a Jump
to a safe distance of twenty yards.
When the sergeant moves off the ra
veu returns to the spot he retreatiHl
from, but If his pet aversion should
turn he gels ready to ncive off avail!
The dislike wii evidently created by
teasing, for the sergeant often gives
the sable bird his dinner.
The raven is very fond of playing
with a coin. If a person drops, say, a
shilling It is caught In the bird's beak
before the coin eau reach the ground.
Then, having secured his tuouey, the
black old miser seeka an early oppor
tunity to hide it.
ENLISTED AS PRIVATE.
Formar Congraarman Quickly Earnad
Promotion to Rank of Corporal.
lVtrolt.-Kdw i: lenby. aged forty-t-even.
probably the most distinguished
American to enlist In the ranks at the
first call to arms, waa promoted to the
rank of corpornl in the Vnlted States
marine corps Mr. IVuby as a mem
ber of congress from l'4 to 1!U. for;
mer president of the local board of
commerce and a prominent attorney of
this city
Corporal IVnby, who Is undergoing
military training at IVrt Koyi,l. St. C..
headel the list in a couiet itive exam
ination open to all utemtvrs of bla
company. His enl'stiuetit as a private
In the ivai lne v , caused consider
able comment l.ctt he e; ivssed the
belief that he cum! sere In country
best as an enlisted man.
Monal-in Cos at 110 Vra-
Watvrtowu. Ma James M.mahan.
who came t iM ccui.tr. frviu Ire
laud In 1M ts ,c:i I at t,i ! me tier
at the age of 110 jears. He was forty
oi'.a year old w beu La catue her.
I haven't seen genuine
GRAVELY TCSACCO
Af?OUN0 MERE IN YEARS
NO I ALL WE
COULD GET
WAS ORDINARY
I PLUG
1 v I
GRAYELYS
CELEBRATED
Chewing Plu&
BEFORE THE INVENTION
OF OUP PATENT AIR-PROOF POUCH
GRAVELY PLUG TOBACCO
MADE STRICTLY FOR ITS CMEWINS QUAUTV
WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECTION.
NOW THE PATENT POUCH KEEPS IT
FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOD
A LITTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY IS ENOUGH
AND LASTS LONGER THAN A BIG CHEW
OF ORDINARY PLUG.
JJ3 9ravelv$eacxrCo.nuMii:A. TIHT"0
1 J
REAL CHEWING PLUG
BILLY POSTER'S BILL
BOARDS TELL YOU
ABOUT IT j
INDIANS
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SUM FROM
:.J3E
GOVERNMENT
Thraa Pacifio Coast Tribes, Raviving
Old Traaty, Ask $12,000,000.
Marstifleld, Ore On the spot where
the treaty of Empire wits signed Aug.
80, 1855, between the United States
government and the coast Indians, In
cluding the Coos, I'mpqua and Siuslaw
tribes, the remnants of those aborigines
met at Empire and sat In council to
consider the settlement of their claims
against the United Suites government
The council was called to provide a
chief for the Indians of tlie tribes men
tioned, the last recognized chief, Bob
Burns, who was a Coos, linvlug died
five or six j curs ago. Until the at
tempt hy (Jeiirge Wasson. a Coos de
scendant and a graduate of Carlisle,
to secure for the constat tribes a set
tlement of their claims, there has been
no apparent reason for a chief, for the
remnants of tbe tiilies were scattered
and without concentration.
When the treaty of Empire was dug
from the dusty tomes of tbe Congres
sional llhrary and department of tbe
Interior, congressmen who were fair
minded toward Indian claims ordered
an investigation, which, to be present
ed in legal form, demanded the elec
tion of a chief and credentials for the
three tribes who were signatories to
the treaty.
The government after twenty years
lent special agent to their last gov
ernment "corral" at Vachats to sign
another treaty, but the Indians are In
sisting upon their rlghtB under the
original treaty. The claims set up by
tbe three tribes represent something
over $12,non.(XtO. They believe that
they can effect a settlement within the
next two years.
No collections, no expense. We
want your slow accounts. We
assume all responsibility and
take all the blame. Yamoreg
Collection Apency, McMinnville,
Oreg. J. I. Knight, manager. 48tf
Newport
Charming Resort
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Those who seek rest, and sea
shore recreation, will find
abundant opportunity at
Newport.
Ample hotel accommodations,
cottage, or camping arrange
ments.
Low Round Trip Fares
Daily Trains Each Direction
Ask oar nearest agent for folder "Newport." or write
JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES
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