The Best and Largest Paper in Polk County
VOL.
xxxiv
DALLAS
OREGON
NO. 45.
D E C E M B E R 3. 1908
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December Bulletin and Price List!
¡Big ieiuction Sale!
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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.
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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
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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.
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“ 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
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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
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Do not Forget the 20 Premiums to be Given Away December 31st
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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.
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In C U T G L A S S w c ca rry
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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
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