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$2dW070S3LGSS' YEARLY bY RATS Pest Has Become Great Liability THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR anxious tihes for the admiral I AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Weekly at Independence, Folk County, NOT MUCH! A REAL FRIEND uregon, on rriday. -THE ORDERLY WITH OURl IS HE LOOKING FOR THE ENEMY? SUPPLY OF W-B CUT. YES -AND IF HE DOESN'T 5NTI Entered as Second Class Matter August 1, 1912 si the Post Office atlnde pandeace, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. to United States. HUKKT Ll WIVt nin WEEK IN THE BRIO STARTLING ARRAY OF FACTS CLYDE T. ECKEK. Editor NINA B. ECKER. Associate 3 3 1.J suoscrtptlon Rates: One Year 51.00 Strictly In Advance ADVERTISING RATES: 15c. per toco for one Insertion. 12 1-Zc for two oi or Use rt Ions, lOc. on monthly contracts. Headers, 5 and lOt. per line Independence, Oregon, Friday, February 15, 1918 Jt Las always been conceded that Nero, the well-known Human violinist, was the most deduced man who ever lived but it appears from the evidence that is swiftly ac cumulating that Kaiser JJill has displaced him and Nero will have to play the second iiddle for the rest of time. Bill is about the only human wretch of whom something good cannot bo said. You have heard or read severe in dictments of the Hun ruler, even to those who expressed a desire to see him fried in the fires of hell, but you'll never read or hear one that strikes you more personally tiian does the following from the pen of Sam 11. Clark, the North. Dakota free lance: "Know your real enemy. It is Kaiser Bill with his llohenolleru wolf litter and his world guerilla of junker murderers who seek to blight civilization. The German people as a people have no hatred of you. It is no one else just Kaiser Bill, the heinous Hun. "He bred the seahounds whose fangs dyed red the seas with the blood of innocent Americans. He cm ployed the gang of skulking spies who sought to di vide your country. He concocted the devilish diplo macy which sought to make America, lirst his cat's paw and later his prey. His was the buzzard's brain which plotted to finally drive his beak into your heart and to suck its blood. "His is the hand which has stu'e your coaul, brok en down your railroads, bored the huge auger hole of taxes into your bank account, deprived you of your meat, scraped out the sugar bowl, doubled the cost of your clothing, marked up the rents you pay, doubled your gasoline cost, stolen your white bread, halved , your comforts and doubled your expenses. "It is Kaiser Bill and no one else who has really drafted your sons into .war's horrors on land, into slaughter on the seven seas and into battles among the4 clouds. It is the palsied hand of Kaiser Bill which has filched over twenty billions twenty thou sand millions, count them of American dollars from American pockets, and minted them into mountains of woe through the molten furnaces of war. "He is the. world's highwayman. It is Kaiser Bill who touched off the burglar alarm in every American household. It is his pistol at your head, it is his knife at your, throat, and it is his brand of 'Kultur' which d) ea your days with darkness and your nights with horror. "It is Kaiser Bill and his Hohcnzollern litter of. wosrltl wolves and his junkerdom gang of ravening nulitaristic thugs who conceived this world woo. They lit the fires of death, torture, devastation, rape, rapine and pillage." Coming Originally From Asia the Ro dent Hat Spread All Over the World During Campaign Againit Bubonic Plague in San Francisco From 1904 to 1907 tfore than 800,- 000 Wert Killed Increase Rapidly. B. F. JONES Candidate lor Repreaantatlve Polk and Lincoln Counties, May Pri ma riaa. (Paid Advurtlaoinonv) RUSSU TO RECLAIM DESERT Oood Paatura Land Ara Destroyed at tha Rata of Ona Hundred Thous and Acre a Yaar. TELLS ABOUT JOHN RANDOLPH Tha shifting sanda of Aatrakhan and tba Bieaaurea taken by tha KuhnIhii nvernmont to deal with this problem form tha subject of a memoir by J. Q, rtratttr, publlahed In Petrograd, ob serve tha Scientific American. Ten Billion acre of tha province In quoe ttoo are covered wtth ahl ftlng anuda format daring tha nineteenth century and auliao,ueutly. Thfwe aanda have bwu spreading at tha rata of 100.000 acre a yr, tha reault being the trans formation of good pasture land Into a barren waat. Tha principal rauae la Tar grating; flock a and herds ar kept aa long In oue place aa to remit In tha complete destruction of the turf. Poor agriculture methods are also respon sible. About tha beginning of the pres ent century tha gOTerntnent took meae kree of control and reclamation, and between ltM and 1909 aa area of about ,44.000 acres waa brought nnder culti vation. In 1018 a apectai eervtce waa ordered t deal with the question. The province waa pat under the charge of a ctuVf forestry officer and dlvltled tnto all diatrlcta. In each of which a autwdltmte official waa appointed to aupertntend the wtw. At the time of In plauthK soil blndera and growing ' hsrbaceeuR crop, but It waa still prtc jrmeucni wnetner tha province waa Thomaa H. Benton Rslatea Interview With Eccentric Man, In Which Ha Dsplots His Melancholy Mood. Thomna IT. Itcnton In bta Thirty Tears' View" gives an Interesting ac count of an Interview he had with the eccentric John linmlnlph of Kounoke. The Interview was at Mr. Itenton'i room In Crawford's hotel, in George town. It waa In the gloom of the eve- ulug. before the lamps were lit. Mr. Randolph, reclining on a soft, alien) and thoiiKhtful, repeated, aa If to him self, Johnson's lines on "Senility and Imbecility," that ahow his Ufa nnder Ita moat melancholy form: "Iu life's lust ecenes what prodigies aurprlse, Tears of the brave and folllee of the wine, Down Marlhorough'a eyes the stream of dotage flow. And Swldt explrea driveller and a show." When Mr. Randolph finished repeat ing these lines, Mr. Itcnton anld to hlra "Mr. Randolph, I have often heard you repent these aa If they could have aa application to yourself. whIU no one can have less reason than your aelf to fear the fate of Swift." To thla Randolph replied: "1 have lived In dread of Insanity." While Randolph wa not Inanne In the ordinary sense of the word. It la certain that he had oovaslonnl tem porary aberrations of the mind, and It waa during such tlmea that his talk waa most brilliant, a copious flow foi hours of wtt and classic allusion, a perfect eeatterlng of the diamonds of the mind. Hla will waa contented oa the ground but It waa not set aside. To what extent the rat pest haa be come a nntlonal liability, entailing the luwa of more than $l.'00,000.uu0 worth of foodstuffs und other property In the United Stutea every year, la told with a starling urruy of facta In u communication to the National Geo graphical society derived from a coun try-wide survey by Kdwurd W, Nelson the well known biologist, a part of which has been made public In a pre vious bulletin. The following supple mentary bulletin is now Issued : "House rats are extremely numerous and are world-wide In distribution. At the present time they destroy annually hundreds of millions of dollurs' worth of foodstuffs and other property, and IhroiiKli the distribution of bubonic pliigue und other diseases cause the death of untold number of human be- nKH. These facts being known, why should we dcluy In vigorously using known methods, for the elimination from our homes anil communities of these wasteful and loathsome pests T All Come From Asia. "The common house-frequenting rats are of three species, the brown, the bluck and the roof rat. All are be lieved to be natives of Asia, whence they have spread to most purts of the world. In their relations to nmn their habits are so similar that they may be Included In one account. The lurg- er size, abundance, more general dlS' triluillon, und BKi?resslve predoinl nencc of the brown rat, also known as the Norway and wharf rat, huve led to Its being generally known as 'the house nit." "So far as known, these rodents are nlways, everywhere, thoroughgoing pests, with no usefulness to num. "The history of the brown rat la an extraordinary one, one unenunled by that of any other mammal. It was un known In Europe until 1727, when vast hordes of (hem swam the Volga river. A year or two later It arrived In Eng land on ships from the Ortont Since inai time it lias steadily extended Its distribution by means of ships and oth er transportation agencies, and by migrations overland, until It sharea with mankind, nearly all parts of the earth, from (Ireenland to Patagonia and around the globe. Some Weigh Four Pounds. "It Is a sturdy, fierce and cunning animal with extraordinary fecundity. These characteristics have enabled It quickly to overrun and occupy new territory despite the never-ceasing warfare waged ngnlnst It by man and the competition of other mammals. The smaller black rat and roof rat formerly existed iu most parts of the old world. The- preceded the brown rat also Iu America, but when the lut- ter arrived were promptly reduced by It to a secondary position or extermi nated. Pluck rats still exist In some parts of the I'nlted States, and roof rnts are common with the brown rat In the milder climate of the southern states. "The greater size of the brown rat rendlly distinguishes It from either of the other species. It averages from one to one anil a half pounds In weight, and about 18 Inches In length. Occasionally giants of Its kind occur. however, as shown by the capture, near Canterbury, England, of one huge Individual weighing over four pounds and measuring 2'JXj Inches In length. Their Increase Very Rapid. "With n abundant food supply brown rats Increase with almost In credible mpMity They have from three to twelve litters n year, each containing from six to more than twenty young, the average being shout ten. The young begin to breed when leew than three mouth of age. "Rats are nocturnal, ami as a rule keep hidden dining the day Iu holes and other places of concealment about building or In burrows which they dig In The ground. Within their retreats they make warm nests of shredded fibrous material, often cut from costly fabrics. In which their inked and help less young are wifely brought forth. "After careful iuxoiigution the United States public health service es timates that the number of rats living under normal conditions lu ,.,!r rltlos equals the human xphitl,n. but that In country districts they are relatively three or f'ur limes as numerott. "This estimate Is practically the same as thnt obtained some years ago in Great Britain and Ireland. IVn mnrk, France mid Gcrimmv. At later- NOTICE. Scaled proposals, addressed to the County Clerk of Polk County, Oregon, and endorsed, "Proposals for Kuuiiing Ferry at Independence, Polk County, Oregon," will be re ceived by the County Court of said county at its ollice in the court house at Dallas, Polk County, Ore gon, until 10 o'clock a. m., on the 6th day of March, 1918, and at that time and place will be publicly opened and read, for the furnishing of la bor for running the ferry across the Willamette river at Independence, Oregon, for one year; the ferry to be run trom 6 o'clock a. in. until 9 ;ock p. m., free, and the ferryman to leceive, in addition to his propos iti, li e amount of toll collected be-' tvvecn 0 o'clock p. m. and 6 o'clock a. in. at the rates fixed by the Coun ty Court. Each bid to be presented under ; sealed cover and shall be accom-1 panied by cash or certified check J miulo puyable to Polk County, fori an amount equal to at least 5 per cent of the amount of said bid, and I no bid shall be considered unless such cash or chock is enclosed therewith. A corporate surety bond will be required for the faithful perfor- iiiiiicc, according to law und con tract, of running said ferry in the sum of $1,000.00, and should the successful bidder to whom the con- ract is uwarded, fuil to execute the same within ten days, not includ ing Sunday, from the date of the in ailing of the notice from the County Court to him, that the contract is ready for signature, such cash or certified check will be forfeited to Polk County and the same shall be the property of said ounty. All other cash and certi fied checks will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders who submit the same. The right is reserved to reject any or all proposals or to accept the proposal deemed best for Polk County. Dated this 13th tiny of February, 11)18. THE COUNTY COURT OF I'OLK COUNTY, OREGON. E. C Kitkpatrick, County Judge, C. W. Beckett, County Commis sioner, M. Mansion, County Commissioner. Wanted Man and wife to work on farm. Must have experience. Good wages to the right persons. F. M. Knapp, 495 East 21st Street North. Portland. 28 East Through California Costs Little More Scanic Shasta Route, Sacred Siskiyoua, Mt. Shasta, San Francisco, Lot Angelea, Southern California. Cho ce of routes. Let us make an itinerary for your trip showing train schedules, stopovers, etc. Ask nearest agent or write JOHN M. SCOTT General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES Write for folder on the Apache Trail of Arizona THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Established 1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty rive Tears INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R.DeArmond, Cashier W. H. Walker, I. A. Allen, O. D. Butler or It. K. fc. fdantvd to tfe jtJiiiaBttgt fjjf National Dank BuiMlng vhH, us tli rt'Miit ?M cvii'htlnn ft v.tathiT, Ci-riiu r: t I'vvur ov 1 1 o t. ttw l:inijt ty llu-i,. trotisiMt. Their Numbers "A lv t rt';ih,':, ;ill ot v Inch i n nitti!" if ."-In i ii.v . JJuKaune. tli athn, ii- nit i ltu.t ':un lU.U. lu !. t ii i-ln-ll. foo.1 trc i.n i MARSHAL'S NOTICE OF SALE RIAL PROPERTY FOR DELIN QUENT ASSESSMENTS. Notice ia hereby given that the Re corder of the City of Independence, Oiegon, has transmitted to me a war- , rant for the collection of delinquent installments on aaaessmenta for the improvement of Sixth street, in front j of the hereinafter named and describe i real property, and th .1 pursuant to slid warrant, the Chsrter and Ordi-, nances and resolutions of aaid City, 1 1 will on the 25th day of Februaiy, 1918. ! at the hour of two o'clock P. M. of i aaid day, at the front door of the City I Hall of the City of Independence, i Oregon, offer for gale at public auction to the hight-st bidder far cash, subject 1 to redumption, and the installments not yet due on said assessment, the follow- ; ing described real property to-wit: j Lota three and four in block aix in Tatteraon'a first addition to the City of , Independence, Polk County, Oregon. Ase.-seu to Glen E Kibbe in tha sum of I1S5.98, on which the second annual instalment of ia delin quent aud unpaid, with interest to Jan uary i. 1917, $10.04. making tha total aum due $-3.i4. Kaeh piece or parte! of land will be a,n'n t j sold separately, and for a aum not Waa y( rum k- than the aaid unpaid installment and ' interest as aforesaid, cost of advertis ing and reeorder'a fee8 therein, the purchaser thereof will assume any and all of the installments of aaid assess ment not yei due. Dated, January 25, 1918. A. J. Tupper, City Marahal of said City. AT THE CHURCHES BUTTER WRAPS AT THE PRESBYTERIAN Dr. H. C Dunsmore, Pastor 10 a. m. Sonday school, 11 a. m. J Public Worship with, 7-30 p. m. 1 Sermon. "!' fnvur ut'Hy and it (. . ,) ts of :; nil.! ! ..!. a, tmly in ' th utilri as l; si.i'x i:i.-l tt..:n BAPTIST Sunday school at 10. Services every Sunday morning and evening. B. V. P. U. at 7:00. We invite you to all our services. Strangers cordially welcomed. MONITOR OFFICE I VAMAaa. fl.ll..i: at : idiiiuieg uuiicuion Agency McMInnvlUe, Oregon METHODIST Thos. D. Tsrnes, Pastor. 10 A M. Sunday School. 11 A. M. Morning service. 3.tX) P. M. Loyal Temperance Legion. 7:80 P. M. Evening service. BETS RESULTS. TIKES THE BLAME CHRISTIAN Bible School at 10 a. m. N. L. BUTLER ATTORNEY-AT - LAW Practice in all Couio : a