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The Best and Largest Paper in Polk County VOL. xxxiv DALLAS OREGON NO. 45. D E C E M B E R 3. 1908 !----------------- ....■ J .l _____________ 2= December Bulletin and Price List! ¡Big ieiuction Sale! X Owing to a good many late shipments, we find that o u r stock is t o o heavy for this time o f the year, and in order to reduce it b e f o r e the first o f the year, we quote the following prices: n ail Our Ladies and Childrens’ Cloaks. All This Season’s Stiles. 50 Samples of Ladies and Misses Dress Skirts (val ues from f(j to $8) December price $ 4 .8 5 IO, 15 and per cent, discount on all Ladies and es Dress Skirts. IO to 2 0 per cent discount on all our Ladies and Misses Tailor Made Suits. kO to 2 0 per cent discount on all onr Ladies and Misses Cloaks. (O to 2 0 per cent discount on all our Ladies and Misses Furs. 20 S P E C IA L S A L E O N C L O T H ING The entire stock of Childrens Coats at Cost The entire stock of Millinery at 3 3 I-3 off« A Big Deduction on all Ladies and Misses Coat Sweat ers. 65 cent Ladies Union Suita (grey) December price 4 3 cents. 75 and 85 cent Ladies Union Suits (grey) December price 6 3 cent«. $1 Lmlk'H Union Suits (grey) Decemtwr price 7 8 cents $1.50 Bailies Union Suita (grey) December price Men and youths suits will be sold at a big cut in price. If you need clothing, it will pay you to see what we are offering. S I.18 Special Lot Ladies’ 26-in. Umbrellas - 90c Closing out at cost all the Black Cat Ladies and Misses Woolen Hose. f l, $1.15 and $1.18 Ladies Sample Waists, December price 7 8 cents. $1.88, $1.53 and $1.65 Ladies Sample Waists Decem t r a g o o d ber price S I .1 8 12ls cent outing flannel, this seasons, December price 9 cents. 50 cent dress goods, late Novelties, December price 4 2 cents. 65 cent dress goods, late Novelties, December price 4 8 cents $1 dreKg goods, including Blue and Black, December price 8 2 cents $1.25 dress goods, in du cing Blue and Black, Decem ber price 9 8 cents. 2 5 per cent discount mi all Fancy and Figured Silk* To close out a lot of Kid Gloves, values to $1.50 De cember price 8 5 cents. Hundreds cl pood things are still to be had from one line of “ M a n u fa c tu r e r s ’ S a m p le s S a le ” Odds and ends in Shoes at almost your own price. Mens all wool Suits and Overcoats from $ 1 2 .5 0 is buying Clothes or selling clothes, or doing anything else. We have long ago reached the goal of our “ AIMS”—by selling the right kind of mer $15 to chandise. Young Mens Suits from g£> to $ 1 6 .5 0 Childrens Suits from $ 2 .5 0 to $ 7 5 0 The largest stock of Mens Womens and Childrens Shoes in the country. keep our place in the lead by and give the values which can’t be matched elsewhere. BUILDERS, A TTE N TIO N ! In connection with our lumber and shingle trade, we M. smartest line o f BOYS’ and NAYBERCER R. Jacobson & Co. C H IL D R E N S ’ M c M i n n v i l l e OREGON. ed timber land just outside the sion of teaching, acting as prin Siletz Indian reservation and cipal of the Woodburn schools for made the necessary improve some time when he went away, sand. Lowest possible prices on all building material Tom Gilbert, While Drunk, Falls ments, intending to file on the studied law in Troy, Idaho, and land as a homestead as soon as was there admitted to the bar. Into Yamhill River. the survey could be had and ap He then located in Portland, in proved. On June 6, 1900, a few the Mohawk building, where he Mr. C. A. Black informs us months after the settlers located built up a lucrative practice, and that while Tom Gilbert, a well on the land, the same claims was rapidly becoming a noted known Indian o f the Grand Ronde were selected by the Weyerhaeu man. Not many years ago he proportion that was needed to make a FROM 7-9. reservation, was on a bender ser Timber Co. with Northern married Miss Bertha Kay, a complete Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone, from the youngest to the Thursday, he fell into the Yam Pacific scrip. The settlers made ! daughter of T. B. Kay, o f Salem, repeated efforts to have the land and the union had brought them oldest, went away satisfied they bad Thanksgiving up in the Mountains spent the real thanksgiving of their hill river near Willamina and was surveyed, but this service was a chilik a lad o f about a year. lives. of Lincoln County. drowned. His clothing caught not performed until 1904, and His end was a shocking one in C. A. Black, of Dallas, was a guest of every particular, and brought honor at the dinner, having come the on a snag, and in his muddled has never been approved, Becoming disgusted with the suddenly to a close a career 35 miles to spend Thanksgiving with state he was unable to extricate Editor Itemizer: A most enjoyable Hugh and Itov. delay in securing action on the j frought with much promise. He day was a|>cnt at our neighbor l’ nil Mc himself. When found his head survey which was necessary be- j leaves three brothers and five sis HUGH G. BLACK. Gee's today by 24 of our genial home- and feet were out o f water but steaderq. fore the land could be filed on as j ters to mourn his loss. The this is accounted for as happening homesteads, Wonderly and his brothers are A. L. Fisher, Yon- Christmas. The day was clear and crisp, the after rigor mortis set in. As the ground being covered with about, two The nicest remembrance to a friend inches of snow. The most important that loves you is a finely finished photo accident happened on the Polk associates instituted contest p ro -! colla; C. F. Fisher, Portland; G. ceedings against the railroad C. Fisher, Bakerfield. Cal.; and feature of the day was the dinner, which graph of yourself. Now is the time to de o f the river, the coroner company and the Weyerhaeuser j consisted of two of the largest turkeys come and have them ready.—T. J. the sisters are Mrs. Minnie Beck- of this county was called to con obtainable, and everything else in Cherrington. 5t interests, resisting the applica ley, Oakland, Ore.; Mrs. Henri duct the investigation. As Mr. tion o f the lieu selection list by etta Haley, Monmouth; Mrs. Ella Black returned home Friday the which the Weyerhaeusers sought V. Applegate, Drain; Mrs. Lena body was being taken home for to seize the property. The case 0. Jolly, Moscow, Idaho; Mrs. J. burial. was tried before the Portland M. Pember, Oakland, Cal. The death of this Indian brings land office and was decided in ------ ------ to mind an old murder trial of favor o f the railroad company, many years ago, about the time but Wonderly appealed to the BIG BIRTHDAY DINNER. we came to the county, and for General Land Office, and in the particulars we have to thank Jus decision o f the acting commis tice Hardy Holman and Deputy sioner the ruling o f the local o f Uncle Bill Brown Feeds the Wid Sheriff John Richter. While en ficials has been reversed. ows and Widowers. gaged in an altercation in 1882 The Acting Commissioner holds with another Indian laboring un that unsurveyed timber lands Last Monday afternoon the der the cognomen o f Wapato cannot be seized by the use of Dallas hotel, operated by those Dave, Tom Gilbert became great scrip where prior to the date genial and well known caterers ly enraged and struck Wapato scrip is offered the land has been over the head with a hatchet, settled on by a bona fide settler, to the public need in the way of killing him. Hardy Holman was regardless o f whether or not the bed and grub, Messers Farmer & then sheriff of Polk county, R. claim subsequently should be P. Boise, judge of the circuit abandoned. Under this ruling Chipman, set up the feed of the 76 invited court and W. H. Holmes prose all that Wonderly will have to their lives to guests whom Uncle Bill Brown cuting attorney, Gilbert was i do to acquire the land is to re brought to Dallas and underwent I main on the premises until the had asked to celebrate with him three trials. He was indicted J survey has been approved and his 84th birthday. The list of December 8, 1882, tried, foun d1 then file on the same under the widows and widowers invited guilty and sentenced to he hung homestead law and complete the was published in these columns the next March. The case was necessary proof. The claim for a couple o f weeks ago, and you taken up to the supreme court, which Wonderly is contending is can he certain that none were remanded for a new trial in May worth about $15,009. Wonderly absent who could possibly get when the jury hung. In Decem has been living on the land and there. There were 65 widows ber o f that year he pleaded guilty making some improvments annu and 15 widowers. Mrs. Eliza o f manslaughter and was sen ally since he first squatted on it Emmons was the oldest, aged 91, | tenced to one year in the peni and Mrs. Edith Rowland, aged in 1900. tentiary and to pay a fine o f $100. 25, the youngest. At the time of his death he j Uncle Billy has been preparing must have been 70 years o f age, POLK BOY MURDERED, for this event ever since his and leaves a wife and several famous dinner to the widows of children, one married daughter Dallas one year ago. He went being a resident o f Salem. The Ralph Fisher the Victim of an In tliat dinner one better by invit human Assasin. case was a noted one and created ing all the widowers in the city to widespread interest. grace the occasion at this ban Last Saturday afternoon at his quet. GETS HIS LAND lav/ office in Portland, Ralph Uncle Billy had the seat of Weak, Exhausted, Pe ru na Cave New Life. Curtress Fisher, a native son of honor at the head o f the table, Mrs. E. W . Brooks, 5415 8. Steele St., South Tacoma, Wash., writes: •‘I want to recojpmend Peruna to mothers. When my little girl came, I J Land Office Decides in Favor of Polk county, was foully shutdown and responded to the call for a to death by a brother attorney speech in a few well chosen felt very weak and exhausted, and It seemed that I could not regain my . •Robert M. Wonderley. who had some grievance against words. A number o f letters strength. I » “ My mother bought mo a bottle of Peruna. after I had tried aeveral other l him on account o f disbarment j from people all over the United much advertised remedies without relief. I had little faith, as I was very J An important decision has proceedings instituted and car States with matrimonial aspira weak, but within a week after I had commenced taking Peruna 1 was like a , been rendered at Washington, ried to a successful conclusion by | tions, who had written Mr. different woman. « ID. C,, by S! V, Proudfit, Acting Fisher in his capacity as prose Brown about the event, were “ Jicw life and vitality seemed to come each day until In a few weeks I J Commissioner read during the dinner. These o f the General cutor. v ia in fine health and a happy woman. Thanks to your splendid medicine, , Ralph Fisher was born near parties seemed to think that Land Office, respecting the rights I have enjoyed good health for several years. I always keep Peruna on , Smithfield in 1870 on the farm of j some one o f the invited guests o f settlers who have squatted on hand, as a few dose, will set mo right when I am feeling badly.” ................. | unsurveyed timber land which is his parents, Hon. and Mrs. C. G. j were looking for a helpmate and He pronounced him well and for a few sought to be acquired by other Fisher, honored and well known desired to be recommended. Catarrh of Ears. His Mary was the favorite name Mra. G. W . Heard, Hempstead, Texas, weeks he was not troubled, but since interests subsequently by the ap residents o f our county. writes In regard to her son Carl: “ Mv My 1 that tttne the discharge from his ears plication of script thereon. The father served a term in the legis among the widows present, six son's ears had been affected slnee he was was almost constant and very of case decided is that o f Robert lature from Polk, and about 1890 out o f 54 bearing that Christian a baby. He seemed to have risings In fensive. sold his farm and moved to Mon appelation. O f Marthas there “ Finally I began giving him Peruna M. Wonderly against the North his bead. Ho would be very fretful for ern Pacific Company and the mouth to better educate his large were three, o f Amandas three, aeveral days, then his ears would run pro and Lacupla, and after he hail taken family, engaging in the livery o f Nancys three and Janes two. fusely what appeared to be corruption. two bottles of the Lacnpia he was en Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. A jolly time was had by all Early in 1900 Wonderley and business there. “The last year I thought he had ml most tirely enred. “ I cannot praise Lacupla and Peruna several other residents o f Falls Ralph Fisher graduated from present in the discussion o f the lost his hearing and had a local physi City, Polk county, each squatted the normal school at Monmouth many good things set before cian treating him for about six weeks. enough. .pwpto Who Object (o Liquid Medicines Should Buy Peruna Tablets on a quarter section o f unsurvey- in 1899 and took up the profes- them, are now handling lime, CLOTHING outside o f Portland. f your boy is without a good SUIT or OVER I INDIAN DROWNED. plaster, cement, brick and COAT, bring him here with Ederheimer, Stein & C o. THE CHAS. K. SPAULDING LOGGING COMPANY A CHARMING Tust now we’re show ing the newest and J ¡f D. We’re going tc continuing to sell this kind Remember, that every article sold at our store is guaranteed. If not right, we make it right. Before buying your Fall bill, come in and get our prices. FORM Fit PARTNER AND SUCCESSOR TO Whether one $ 1 2 .5 0 II. S. A M., Hand Made Suits and Overcoats $25 good “ AIM.” $ 7 .5 0 to Mens Worsaed Suita and Overcoats from to $ 2 0 bout the best thing in this world is i A Do not Forget the 20 Premiums to be Given Away December 31st *) — S out further hesitation. MAKER S During the next FIFTEEN DAYS, w e will make Special Re duction on all KNEE PANTS SUITS. This includes Coats with Straight Pants ONLY. B E E H I V E Store The DALLAS OREGON A RELIABLE PLACE TO TRADE ir inr DO NOT ALLOW ENTS TO THE TASK ANNOY OF C H O O S IN G Y O U , B U T JU ST C H R IS T M A S PRES CALL ARO U N D A T H A R R IS J E W E L R Y S T O R E W E HAVE PLEASE TH E GOODS TH E M O ST TH A T W IL L F A S T ID IO U S . In C U T G L A S S w c ca rry In a beautiful line— n ot excelled W ATCHES the a n y w h e re in the C ou n ty . P o lk w e carry m ost com plete stock in C o u n ty . We handle the H o w a r d , H a m ilton , Illi n ois, S ou th B en d , H am pd en , W a lth a m , E lg in , and a cheap Just received , a beautiful as S w is s W a tc h . sortm ent o f the fam ou s O n e hun dred an d fifty dif ferent patterns o f G old Filled, ROCKFORD S olid G o ld and N ick le cases S IL V E R W A R E Diamonds, Brooches, Rings, Bracelets, Neck laces, in fact our Jewelry Line is most complete* Nice line of Gold Handled Umbrellas* W e guarantee all goods as represented Do not forget the number A. H. Harris Jewelry Store I E m p lo y on e o f the finest E n g ra v e rs in the State. A ll E N G R A V I N G F R E E d u rin g the H olid a ys 3Œ ---------„ ----- „ ------ ii— |t— "T D C
