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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1913)
• —- T h e S T A Y T O N M A IL Published every Thursday by E. M. Olmsted S U B S C R I P T I O N S , $ 1 • >C) p e r v e t i r ttv m l v t i n e e A d v e r t i s i n g K f t t .-ss o n r i p p l l o o t U ' t * O b it v a k ik s — $100 up. C a r d s o f T h a n k s $ .50 Positively all pa/ters stopftetl on expiratio n o f subscript ion ARDLY one person in a million realizes what the modern newspaper repre «ont*. The wireless, the ••able, the telegrnpli. the telephone, the elec tric light, the railroad, rhe print ing press, the typewriter, the lino type. the wood pnlp machine and a hundred other agencies ure called on by the newspaper. H IT IS TO THE WORLD W H A T THE SENSORY NERVES ARE TO THE BODY. BRINGING I N T E L L I GENCE OF W H A T H A P P E N S IN EACH REMOTE NOOK AND COR NER. The second “ p” in pumpkin is silent when the pie is made ol •squash. A man like Mr. Taft can lose 80 pounds without feeling light headed. Oysters digest themselves. Your responsibility ends when you swallow them. The last rose of summer isn’ t half as inspiring as the first dan delion of spring Even cannibals have some no tions of reform, but they have reference to pot-roasts. We have no use for an author ess who lets the hero escape without getting married. l.ike the sensory uerves, too, it People who always have pleas •-ports disturbance and pain more ant thoughts will run no risk by forcibly than ordinary hap|>emngs saying what they think. »o that danger may lie averted or Every man should so live as to correctives applied. THE N E W S P A P E R GIVES ITS READERS A MILLIO N EYES AND EARS. SO T H A T T H E Y M A Y SEE AND HEAR W H A T IS T A K IN G PLACE A L L OVER THE P L A N E T. ORDER T H E HOME PAPE R T O retain the friendship and respect of his own stomach. Talk o f the return of hoop- skirts ought to reconcile almost anybody to the present styles. DAY. Murder Trial Delayed. McMinnville.— The charge of mur der in the first degree, preferred by the Yamhill county grand Jury against James Hutchins, alleged slayer of W alter A. Rodgers, as well as the charge o f assault with a dangerous weapon, also preferred against Hutch ins for alleged shooting of Frank W il bur. have been continued to the De- --m ber term of the circuit court on ■ otion of District Attorney Upjohn. Bachelors To Be Baby Judges. ■ orv-illls.— A baby show. Judged by old bachelors, is to be a feature of the Benton county fair September IS. 19 and 20. The babies are to be un der 1 year of age and Judged on beau- I t alone. Recount of Mint Mltlions Ordered. - Francisco. Cal.— Because seven Ihir have been lost in the nense hoard o f coin stored in the of the United States mint In ..s city, an entire recount of the $61,- 395,000 In silver stacked up in the basement o f the building on Fifth street, ha» oeen ordered by the treas ury department at Washington. D. (X Porfirlo Diaz Ordered Home. Mexico City.— General Porfirlo Diaz, r sident, has been summoned by r department to return to Mex- r active army service. Engineer Had But Little Sleep New Haven. Conn.— T estifyin g at :e public investigation into the New Haven railroad disaster Engineer Mil- 1 r o f the wrecked train said that, for rek before the accident he had covering his own run and that other engineer, who was ill. I did my work without the aid of stimulants. No, I drank no whiskey. I slept when I could." Editor Held In Contempt. South Bend. Wash.— Edward H. Wright, Judge of the Superior Court for Pacific county, has found F. A. Hazeltine, editor of the South Bend I. guilty o f contempt of court s imposed a fine of $36 fo r pub- iiig facts about and making com- on a criminal case pending in court in violation of Rule Til of ie court, adopted August 2. Ranks of Voters May be Doubled Snlem.— That the enfranchisement o f women may be double the total reg istration In Oregon Is the belief o f the men who have made a study of regis tration figures In Secretary of State tt's office. The conclusions are ■ „ f -O-(¡orations from frrm June 3 to I'ty. Astor ie r In the f rst degi verdict rendered bv a Jury the < rcuit court In the p of Ocwald ('. Hansel for the idge t vlor on Sunday morning, September 14. Wood for artifical legs is said to be running short. Perhaps the demand for long legs h-irs been too great. In Mr. Folk, Secretary Bryan has a versatile assistant, who can go out and deliver a Chautau qua .’ecture. if necessary. Lost in Kansas City, a woman seven feet high; weight 300 pounds. Have they looked un der the chiffonier? For a man who had no exper ience, Vice President Marshall is doing nothing as well as anybo dy could do in his position. A fter all the missionaries we have sent to China, many of the males of that benighted country wear garters outside their trous ers. Having nothing to do, and be ing desirous of obtaining a place where the work is light. Gener al Miles would like to run for congress. Two million and thousand yards of quired to run the partment a year. tion the red tape. YELLOW STONE PARK. PATRONIZE W hose Fault? HOME At One Time the Region Was Known as “ John Colter’s Hell." A massive oak tree, 326 years old, It Is probable that few o f tho tour has been cut down on the Whitaker farm, In Polk county. The tree was ists who have vlsltml the Yellowstone National p«ik knew that the place has 19 feet lu circumference, By DOROTHEA HALE Or. B. C. Ollnger of The Halles has aNo hoen known no “ John Colter's H ell." nor were they likely to kuow ( been appointed deputy grand exalted B Y H U YIN G Y O U R ruler o f the Klka lodge for the north hew the name originated. Whllo walking In the country I came After President Jefferson In 1803 ern Oregon district. to n farm and. seeing man at work, made the Louisiana purchase from Oregon CUy uiul M llwauklr nr« In asked him for A glass o f milk. Ilo In Xn|M>leoti Bonaparte, for which |15,- the thick of » "d r y " election. Petitions vited me Into his hooso and set be have been filed culling for uu election tkxl.lNIO was |uild, «It was decided to fo r « uro • pitcher full o f rich milk. send out from St. I ahi I s the Lnwls November 4. "T rim farm you have here, my o f the E lector! of The Dalles » I I I vote on and d a r k ex|H>dltlon for the purpose } friend,” 1 said to him, "mid n good Novem ber 4 to decide whether or not o f muling out something nbout the the sale of intoxicating liquors shall uewlv in quired laud lying between tho ! hou**' MK-Isslppi river and the I* ac W c curst Th" ‘ " " " f,,r " " 1 cuuUI “ ° 10 "•* be prohibited. , ,, , . encomiums, for tho Interior of the John t olter was one o f the privates . , ., , . . , . Pupils of the schools of t'olk county , , s . ,,, . house was In a higgled/ plggledy eon- under I a ' w I s and Clark, lie was a will study dairying. W. A. ltarr of the ho , w > Ilt» Oregon Agricultural college la working ...... adventurer, with an Insatiable cu rloslty and the element o f fear loft out "N o ; not nil. You want a woman.'* out the details of the work. “ You tad 1 don 't I don’t waut lions The Byers flour mill, or properly of Ids makeup. When In 1800 tho ex speaking, the Pendleton Roller Mills, ploring party headed back from the o’ them vipers around.” “ I f you had one everything nlaiut has been sold to a Holland syndicate, roust to St. Louis, Colter broko awuy and nil alone set out for tho headwa you would lie neat and tidy lustend of represented by L. C. Lens, manager of out o f ortler ” ters o f the Missouri river. the Spokane Flour Mills. ’T h a t's the worst part o f It. A mnu Four years later there ap|u<nred at Alberta Dillon, owned by Joe Carson Ml. Louis a worn, ragged. Indian like, ain't no good at Hint sort o’ thing " of Winnipeg, Manitoba, won the Lewis white man. who announced that ho “ W hat bna prejudiced you against A T T O R N E Y -A T -L A W and Clark stake from 13 starters, mak was John Colter ami llunlly succeeded women7” “ Want. I had a gal oncet, and she ing the third heat in 2:10, at the state In Identifying himself as a member of N O T A R Y I’ UBLIC fair at Salem. the U w i i and Clark expedition. Peo wont hack on me. One day wtieu 1 Abstract» and Probat« Work a Sprtialtv Under the Income tax feature o f the ple finally U-lleved that he wns John wont by a farm down the road a hit Underwood tariff bill Oregon will con • otter, hut they would uot believe the that had been bought by n new limn Office O ver Detdrlch’a llanlwuro Flore. named Freeman I anw the purtleet gal tribute at least a quarter o f a tnllllon stories he told One o f Colter's prize stories was a-lennln' over the fence you ever saw dollars annually to the revenues of ulioiit the most wonderful place in the *n Your U «r cheeks were as red ns the Uulted States. world, where steam eirmo from the I tt,cw ro*c" ^rowin' besldo tho porch There is liable to be considerable earth and boiling water leaped clear to and her eyes were Junt spnrklln' In controversy over the recent cruise of the ski Emba'mer There were dlnbollcal fur her head. And you oughter seen that Undertaker a n d It seemed to come the timber lands In Clatsop county, i i : i < e s underground arid bad smells. It smile on her face made by the Neax Tim ber company, would have been the “ abode o f the there natural like. There wan't any Third and Marion Street* under contract with the county court. damned," he said, but for the fact that thing for her to smllw at—only me, a STAYTO N. OREGON Business men of Oregon City arc lie could discover uo signs o f human P*n*n rountry galoot, wnlkln ulong the l>elngN for miles about. *»■* ™n»ehow I couldn’t gtt by. looking into the plan of quitting the It was a good sto ry -to o gmsl to be » n" J ""•‘ " l h<*r whM " ho W!U use o f Bull Run water and obtaining true So the St. Iauilsnus decided that •***Hln’ ntiouL She »«Id she wns lery a new supply from the south fork of the wanderer bad Imagined It all. In •'“ PI’ * “ *■ f," u" * *’ " ‘1, ," * ‘n the Clackamas river. fact, the good people o f St. Loula-and l»o r . ""«• oomelaaly had dlrd nm left More than 300,000 acres of land in her mother soino money, nnd they d everybody else, for that matter-* Crook county, near La Pine, declared laughed over “ John Colter's H ell” fot bought tho farm with It and some new SAMPLES more valuable for agricultural than thirty-four years- until Bridger, thd furniture and a lot o’ good clothes. •Isn't that somethin’ to smllo ntT she forestry purposes, soon will be opened noted scout, rediscovered the place and for settlement on the lottery plan. continued everything that John Colte! asked. •' ’Oh,’ I said, disappointed-ilk*. 'I Dr. Bailey K. Leach, who was de had said nbout It .— Chicago Intel tbort you wns smilin' at me!' ported because of alleged anarchistic Oceau. “ So 1 was.” statements at Coos Bay. has left for “ I didn’t git by that fnrm that time Astoria to deliver lectures on social or other tlmoa without stoppln’ when E X A M IN E TH E GOODS ism. ever Jlnnlo-thnt was her name—wns John Henkel, The Tailor Miss Lottie L. Fleet, who has been Subtle Russ That Enabled Abdul Axis outside, and one dny her mother eouio to Visit Francs. librarian at Pendleton three years, has Stayton . , , Orryon out and asked me If I wouldn't come It is rare that a privilege enjoyed by I In and drink somo buttermilk. I done resigned to accept the position of as the subjects o f n country Is denied to It. nnd the old woman kind a hinted sistant librarian of the public library Its ruler, yet by a law o f the Koran the that her darter, Jlst cornin’ Into tho at Portland. sultan may not leave Ills realm unless When an auto In which they were be goes sword In hand for the purpose place, didn't know nobody nnd found It kind a lonesome I told her there was riding turned turtle at Dallns, George Of conquering new provinces. D a. to „ bu.kln’ pa r t f at Fanner Krebs, Ross Nelson, Genevieve W ilcox Buch fur A lle tell, how Sultan Abdul IU„ hro,,., ncroM Ul0 creek the next Sat and Bertha Potterfield received slight Aziz traveled abroad without break urday nfternoon I wouldn’t mind drtv- Ing the law. Injuries. , , , __. In' jlnnte over tliere In my buggy. Abdul Axis wns very eager to accept , __ , , ____ . . . , . .... . ___ Hundreds of dead female China Rath Tubs, Lavatories ami ....... i n •. ................... . . i . i » ih . 1 Jinnies eyes lighted up at honrtn Hint. pheasants were left in the fields of Napoleon III.'a Invitation to visit the ! nnd she said she'd like to go mighty all Sanitary fittiiiK8--Farni- Linn county, as result o f the slaughter exposition nt Parts In 1307. But be- , well So I said I'd tie on hnnd. tweec Ills desire nnd Its attainment , ere-W e carry u line of on the first day o f the open season. It “ I Jlst had timo to paint my buggy Stood the law o f tbe Koran, which bo pump*, leader water sys nnd git It dry when Saturday come is said. could neither disobey nor set aside. A longer compulsory school term His ministers advised him to come to round, and. gtttln' Into my Huuday suit, tems, etc. Gaaoline engines. Wasn't she and a larger general school fund were an amicable understanding with Na- I l drtv over to git the gal recommended at a conference held I m .I coii and. after announcing that war fixed tip tine! You bet! And when she snuggled down beside me In her ru f under the auspices of the University bail lieeti declared U|>on France, to fles nnd things and the smell o’ vio of Oregon and members of several Journey (o the exposition, sword In lets and roses anil a hull garden full hand This scheme, however, seemed educational leagues, at Salem. o f flowers I Jlst thort I ’d go wild. The first fair ever held at Tygh, o f doubtful advisability, nnd finally n “ At Busbrod's farm I wanted to keep simpler plun wns adopted. southern Wasco county, has Just It up, but I wnn’t so mean ns to net One dny the morning papers o f Con closed. The fair was a success In stnnrlnople contained the startling hoggish nlioiit It, so I Interdoooed n every way, exhibits o f fruits, vege news that Napoleon III. bad made the lot o f fellers, besides some gnls. Tho fe ile n took to her like (lies to honey, tables, horses, sheep and swine being sultan a present o f France. Abdul o f special merit. Aziz wns o f course nt entire liberty to hut the gnls wns Jealous o f her snd INDUSTRY E n te r«! as second class m atter at the postoffice at Stay ton, Marion county, Oregon, under the act o f Congress o f March ISTVt. All fcommumcations should be addressed to T he STANTON M a h .. J MILLION EVES FOR ITS READERS BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON two hundred twine are re postoffice de Not to men A North Carolina man 123 years o f age has been refused a license to marry, probably on the ground that he is old enough to know better. What has become o f the old- fashioned man who used to say nobody would ever see any far mers riding around in gosh-ding- ed automobiles. Scientists say the temperature in the crater of Vesuvius is 690 degrees. I f you do not care to take their word for it, go and in vestigate for yourself A Kansas girl has settled a breach of promise case for two steers and eight bushels of corn in the ear. Another argument in favor of the conservation of calves. Mrs. Belmont thinks it will be a glorious sight to behold hus bands and wives walking to the polls together. Not a word about the grass widows. Will I they have to go alone? | Bread, Cakes, Pies, and Doughnuts BON TON Bakery and R e sta u r nt IN STAYTON HOTEL ANhlo S. H. HELTZEL J. M . R I N G U NEW FALL and WINTER FOR OUR STRICTLY TAILOR MADE SUIT'S THE WILY TURK. Suits $19 up. TIN WORK and PLUMBING JACOB SPANIOL G. A. PRATT Photographer Mrs. H. C. Foster, form erly Miss Hattie Long of Pendleton, a bride of less than a month, has secured a war rant fo r the arrest of her husband at San Francisco, charging him with dis appearing with $1000 which had been given Into his care. Secretary Houston has advised Rep resentative SInnott that he recom mended the elimination of 24.000 acres from the Deschutes national forest. Approval by the secretary of the In terior 1 b needed to complete the ellm lnatlon. Under the terms of Senator Lane's amendment to the tariff bill every American farmer, If so disposed, can enter on the manufacture of denaturti alcohol after securing a permit from the commissioner of Internal revenve In the treasury department. There promises to be a lively cam paign in Marshfield to bring nbout rpform movements. W hile the "w e t” and "d ry " question cannot be brought up for some time, those who favor prohibition and reforms are working hard to get all their followers regis tered for the next city election. Sheepmen In eastern Orpgon are facing a serious problem In what to do for feed for their sheep when they bring them in from the summer range In the mountains, as this summer and fall has been exceptionally dry, and th£re Is practically no grass on the home range. The senate has agreed to Senator Lane's amendment to the deficiency bill authorizing the use of the appro priatlon for the Portland postoffice in the erection of a general office build ing sufficiently large to accommodate the postoffice and other federal o f fices in Portland that now occupy rented quarters. Judge Percy R. K elly of the Marlon county circuit court sustained the de murrer of the complaint filed by A t torney Gencr- I Crawford, on behalf of the Kt;.t< :• -.St Governor West, Sec retary of ' t" O lrott and State Tree- urer K > re-over practically $16, 00b e'i o ! vo hoen unlawfully •xpen ;■ ' the penitentiary rovol Ing fund. visit his new province, and he decided i “ W e was all hnskln' the corn. Bill to do so nt once Parts nnd all France were greatly amused nt the subter Jones wns settln' by Jlnnle. nnd nll o f fuge that their guest had practiced and n nuddent I saw hlm tnko tho husk offen n red enr, nnd ho Jlst throwed lila offered no objections to his approach. A fter n very pleasant visit In Paris nrnis nround her neck nnd glvo her n big klsn. Alsliil Aziz returned to Turkey before lie left he inngnnnimously gave I "Strnnger, dld yoti ever hnve nny France back to Nn|K»lcon. , happen to you like that—a gnl __________________yon wns dead set on kissed by another Up to Dats. 1 feller? Want, the dlvll Jlst riz right Mrs. Gadder—What do you k n o w j "P I " «*>«. " " d I thort I ’d hnve to kill about these people who hnve moved in Bill Jones right there. But whnt made across the wny? Mrs. Homer— Not n mo maddest wns that the gnl didn't thing, except that their name Is Glm- slap his Jaw. Slio Jlst took It easy like pus. the man works In an office down nnd went on huskin', “ When It come time to go home I Jlst town. tile woman gives music lessons, they take tlielr dinner twice n week nt set alongside o f Jlnnle nnd didn’t a restaurant, have their \Vnshlng done speak a word to her nll the wny. She away from the house nnd the plumber i tried to talk, nnd 1 wouldn t answer has been tliere twice In the last four her. When we driv up to tho house days to mend leaks In the water pipes. she climbed down and didn't even That's the way they usnnlly print n thank me for tnkln’ her to the huskin' "T h e next time I went by her moth eonversatlon o f this kind In the pa- pers. you know, nnd I don’t wnnt to } er’s fnrm she wns In the field pullin' nppe ir to Is- a back number.—Chicago up some turnips. Reeln’ me. she riz up | nnd give mo one o f them smiles of Tribune | horn, but I Jlst walked right on nnd didn't notice her. Somehow I ’d got an Kingsley snd His Pipes. The Rev. Charles Kingsley concealed j Idee Into m.v head that she wns try- The pipes all over the pnrish In case the In’ to charm me like n snake. do Ire for smoking suddenly enmo upon next time I went by she left mo nlone. him. W alking one dny with Benson, nnd she’s done It ever since. Some- lie exclaim ed : "It's no use. I know times I wish she wouldn t, but In that you detest tobacco, but I must hnve a ons<! she might tiring me down, nnd If sm ok e" H e w ent to a furze bush, put ^ 8 mnn blss her ngnln Id likely h's arm in a hole nnd pulled out a *l*ra nm* *lor *°° elmri-liwarden, which he flllod. When ‘‘That a the renson, stranger, I don t the pipe was smoked he put It In a bol- wnl)f t® Rpt mixed up with a woman. low tree.—Boston Herald. 1 The n,oro n mnn’" Bet on one o f 'pm __________________ ! the more It riles him If slio don't stick to him nlone.” A Family 8ecret. “ My friend,” I snld when he had Maybe it's nll right for near relatives to borrow from one nnother. But It finished his story, “ what you hnve said sounded funny when Daisy's steady proves nothing whatever. At n husk exclaimed. “ Your hair looks Just like Ing a mnn Is privileged to kiss on find your mother's!" nnd Daisy’s little Ing ft red enr, nnd the girl who would^ brother pljKd up: "Course It does. It ’s object to being kissed on sucb an or- fnslon would be n prude. In my opln the same hair.” —Chicago News. Ion you mnde n hog o f yourself nfter nll. Yon go right down to Jennie, On the Way. apologize and nsk her pardon for your "H a r e you been uplifted?” “ T o some extent,” replied Mr. Corn- rudeneas.” “ You don’t mean, stranger, that It trssel. “ I'm get tin' so It comes almost natural to say ‘agriculture' Instead of wasn’t nil hor fault?" “ On the contrary, It wna nll yours " ■farmin'.’ ’’ --Washington Star. Seizing his hnt he left the house without n word, nnd I anw him mak Abrupt Ending. Rlie My first husband wns an officer, ing nt n quick pneo down the rond. I am happy to any that he was fo r my second a solicitor, aiy third— H e — given, nnd the next time I went Into A w fu lly sorry, but I never could guess hla bouse It looked aplck and ppan. acrostics.—Kllegende Blatter, First Class Work Done At Right Prices Matthieu Bldg., 2d SU Stayton. J. A . Richards {GENERAL AUCTIONEER MEHAMA, OREGON Farm Stock a S p e c i a l t y Phone Farmers Line, Mehama Over Thirty Ycat’s Experience WOOD FOR SALE Old Fir, per cord......... . _. Maple '• " Second Growth Fir cord. . $■'!. 10 3.25 3.00 Vine Maple per tie r ................ 1.60 Maple or Fir " 1.60 " ........... Wood delivered in any size wunted and any amount. C. S. L o w e . If Tnsoc Munita D i s io n s CopvnioHTS Ar.. Anron* sending n «IcHrh mid description nmy lint her A’» invention M prohubiy r»»i*ii»*l>ii >*nntin k •« t ion* Atrlcflycmilld«Mi»lal. MAMDB-,_____ Ol» I'At fill I ■«nit fro*. OM m I Aunncjr fur Acrtirlng pnt Of. f A« rnfoMt« taken tfiroiivh Munn A Co. r I « C B l T l Ip m a l node», without ohnrgo, In the Scknttfic American. A hAnd«on#lf 111it«trA»*d WAAltly. Y.ftr$r<»at iMr rnintloii o f amt ■''lenflfln lonrinil. Ternn, f : • yeiir; four month«, f l . Bold hyull rcwmlonL • MUNN &Co.36,Br(»’1"*’ New Yc:.; llranch Office, 626 V Pt., Washlugt-m, D- L, ---------------------------------------- Rheumatic pains arc Dr. Milos' Anti rain rills. rslli-vnl iy