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D A LLA S. O REG O N . N O V EM BER 6, 1913
NO. 49
ALMOST TWINS
LO , P O O R INDIAN
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Young Martin Quick. Prize Winner, and
Miss Sibley, Presented to Public
Senator Lane Looks After Needy Indian at
Grand Ronde-Last of Humphreys Dead
C O U N C IL M E E T IN G .
L. M. H U M P H R R E Y DEAD.
Reports Received fo r Sewage
Disposal and City Incinerator.
Another Pioneer of N orthw est
Passes Away at Moscow.
The city council was called to
order last Monday evening by
Mayor Van Orsdall, with all
the officers and members pres
ent, except Councilman Fenton.
The Himes Engineering Com
pany reported that they had run
levels as ordered for the disposal
of the city sewage, and that it
was feasible to drain the whole
city to a point on the creek be
low Abel Uglow’s. They recom
mended the purchase of about
five acres there to accommodate
city stables, and incinerator anti
a septic tank of sufficient size to
take care of a city of 3000 people.
The report evoked considerable
discussion, but no action was
taken, other than to o'tlec the
committee to go ahead with its
work as outlined, providing as
far as possible for all ermi in
genues.
Claims allowed:
Oregon Power Co....... $182.00
City Transfer Co........... 10.00
W. L. Barber, w ood.......
3.50
G. W. Vaughn, la b o r ...
1.00
Lynch & Iloffee, la b or..
1.35
E. F. Coad, salary.........
70 .OC
W. G. Vassall, salary. .. . J5X.40
Crider’s General Store..
150
Himes Engineering Co.. (»6.50
Grant & White, team
2.60
Soehren Warehouse.
7.55
Itemizer, printing...
22.06
S. P. Co., freight. . . .
-6.46
S. P. Co., freigh t___
-7.10
G. W. Vaughn, plumbing 123.00
Hary Marshall, brooms. .
'.’.50
Star Transfer................
5.54
A.B. Robinson, recording
1.00
Smith & Ellison.............
.20
H.
G. Campbell, recording
3.00
60.00
O. P. Chase, salary.......
J. D. Shaw, salary. . . .
6T.00
Craven Bros., sundries.. 615.77
Chas. Gregory, sa la ry .. . 74.35
Fire Department...........
45.00
Fairview street w o r k ... 225.95
A deed was received from U.S.
and Nellie Grant to an alleyway
next their home and accepted by
the council.
A communication was receiv
ed from J. D. Minty asking $50
for a heifer that fell down a bluff
at the quarry and broke her
neck. Referred to street com
mittee.
Tracy Staats appeared before
the council and asked lor a
grade for a contemplated cement
sidewalk in front of the high
J U S T L IK E H A R R Y .
HUNDRED
YEARS
OF
clothes, featured by all leading
men’s shops thro’out the country,
P ric e d $ 2 0 to $ 3 0
N ew stock o f Mallory and John B.
Stetson
Hats in the new
green
shades at $2.50 to $5.00.
A ll the n ft y lasts in Chesterfield and Florsheim shoes at $3.50
to $5.00. W e also have the newest patterns in Monarch and A r
row shirts. Priced $1.00 to $1.50. For the newest Arrow collars
come to us.
O N E ON BRO. T O T T E N .
where he had been disposing of
rights to a farm gate.
He Had Just Left the Pulpit to
D. W. Driskel, of Monmouth,
Ascend the Tripod.
had returned with a bride,whom
he captured in Idaho.
In the Woodburn Independ
Miss Nellie Butler celebrated
ent’s write-up of the state edi
her 18th birthday anniversary at
torial meet Its editor gives Br<j?
Monmouth with a party to about
Totten a previous calling that he
40 of her young friends.
is not entitled to, but which we
S. B. Ritner, an old pioneer,
will wager he could fill with passed away in Kings Valley.
honor should need arise.
A. E. Watson sold his hogs to
“ The two Dallas editors sat L. B. Frazer, of McCoy, for 4
beside each other at one session cents a pound, gross, they aver
of tiie association, calling atten aging 218 pounds.
CLO TH ES SHOP
tion to the harmony that existed
Abe Fisher had a runaway at
between brothers o f the quill Smithfield and broke up his
who so often do not speak as hack, but ail the occupants es
they pass by. One was short
A c ro s s fr o m C o u rth o u s e .
caped without serious injury.
and thin, the other big and fat.
Mrs. T. H. Moreland passed
And the fat man had been a long away at McCoy.
time in the harness, while the
Elisha Starbuck and family
lean one left the pulpit to ascend moved from Eola to make their
the tripod only a few weeks ago. home at Yaquina.
As to what had become of the
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A. K. Wilson and family mov
small man’s predecessors, we ed from Southern California.
could only guess when we view
While returning from Corval
ed the ample proportions of his lis. Charlie Hamlin and family
competitor’s waistcoat.”
had a bad runaway and some of
them were quite badly hurt.
TW E N TY-SIX Y E A R S AGO.
Harry Fiske came over from
Salem to Dallas oil his new rac
T aken From th e Files of the ing bicycle in 68 minutes.
Item izer of Saturday,
Born, on Salt Creek, to the
November 5, 1837.
wife of W. G. Campbell, a son.
Dr.August Kinney and Mrs.
Louis Fleck killed a wildcat
Dr. Owen Adair started the pub on the Big Neslucca.
lication of a prohibition paper at
Dr. Farley and Dr. Loughary
Astoria.
wrote they were much pleased
A Missouri woman gave birth with their quarters at Bellvue
to twins having snakes heads, hospital, New York, where they
H A V E YOU C O T S O M E T H IN G YOU D O N ’T W A N T , T H A T
and who as soon as placed side were taking post graduate
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U W A N T T O T R A D E FOR S O M E T H IN G YOU DO W A N T ?
by side would begin to stick out courses.
their tongues at each other and
Mary Bagley and G. Steele, of
making a hissing noise.
A daughter was born to Prof, Airlie. were married.
Independence was digging a
and Mrs. T.F. Campbell, at Mon
well and was to have a water
mouth.
F. M. Collins and family mov works system.
The Itemizer did not believe i t
ed back to Dallas from Mon
in a proposed constitutional
mouth.
Hon. Ben Hayden had gone to amendment to change the state
elections to November.
attend court at Prineville.
W E C A R R Y IN OUR N E W S T O R E A LARGE L IN E OF T H E
C. W. Dodenhoff sold his meat
Miss L. E. Denny and II. S.
market in Dallas to Henry Brown Portwood were married at Mc
B E S T G R A D E S OF N EW F U R N IT U R E . S TO V E S , R A N G E S and
and William Garron.
Coy.
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R A N IT E and T IN W A R E , R U G S, C A R P E TS , L IN O L E U M S .
Mrs. America Grant was back
M'ss Jennie Rowell and C. O.
from an extended trip in Wash Coed were married In Dallas.
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ington territory.
Superintendent
Ruben
F.
Mrs. Cartwright and Miss Robinson brought to the Item
Smith opened dressmaking par-, izer office from the Hallock
lors in Dallas.
place a raspberry bush on which
Mrs. Anna Newman, the wife there were about two dozen
OUR USED D E P A R T M E N T IS
F U L L OF S L IG H T L Y USED
of a former Dallas jeweler, died ripe berries and many blooms.
in Portland, and the wedding of
GOODS A T B A R G A IN P R IC E S .
her daughter,Veva, to H. S. But
Advertised Letters.
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O M E IN AND SEE IF W E DO N O T H A V E W H A T YOU W A N T
terfield, a Portland jeweler, oc
letters remaining unclaimed
curred on the same date, at the
in Dallas |>OBtoffice Novembers,
mother’s request.
1913.
Horn, to the wife o f J. W. Wil
Bright, Bryant & Ellis.
son, on Mill creek, a daughter.
Bullock, Mr. Harry
Buck, Mr. Charles.
W. H. James went from Mill
Carv. Mr. Robert H.
Creek to spend the winter in
Phone 20
Keller, Mrs. H.
Baker City.
The Reliable
Mille, Mr. Sam.
DALLAS,
Home
J. C. Fletcher and Woodson
Nesblt, Mr. T . S.
ORE.
Maddox, of McCoy, returned
Furnishers
Phelps, I>r. A. H. F.
from a hunt with 10 deer.
Wilson, N.
Win. Mason was bac k in Mon- j
C. G. Coad,
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mouth from a trip to Waitsburg,,
N o t i c e —Special prices remain on all m er
chandise le ft from the Wm. Herzog stock.
<Price$ra$?
tHeir money is not spent lot
their benefit and that the Indian
bureau gives no account of how
its funds are expended.”
When the matter was called to
the senator’s attention lie saw
Commissioner Sells about if and
Sells wired to the agent at Siletz,
who sent a doctor to see the sick
Indian. It has been learned the
doctor never called. The In
dian’s house had burned -own
and he lay, with his squaw, for
seven weeks in a wretched struc
ture 8 by 8 feet with one side
out and the rain beating in
through the broken roof before
he died.
Senator Lane declared that he
would not stand for such con
ditions and the commissioner
has promised to remedy them
whenever he finds that the In
dians are not given decent cave.
— Oregonian.
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school, and the engineer was in
structed to give the same.
On motion of Risser, notu es
were ordered published to prop
erty owners for a sidewalk from
Miller avenue to Washington
stieet on Uglow avenue.
The auditor was ordered to
Albert Lemmon and family,of
notify the Dallas City Bank to
fix up the alleyways they lad "Salem, were visiting J. R. Her
rington’s over Sunday.
torn up.
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Dan. O. Quick, son of Mr. and the recent Oregeon State Eu
Mrs. J. W. Quick, of Ballston, genics contest, with a score of
and Catherine Sibley, daughter! 985 points.
of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sibley, of
Miss Catharine was born in
Dallas, are almost twins, both
Dallas, where her father is a
being born October 8, 1911.
Master DanO. was born on the prominent attorney, and is a
old Stouffer homestead, near granddaughter of Mrs. Alice
Ballston, where his grandfather. Dempsey, and a relative of the
Dau. P. Stouffer, and his moth long-lived Embree family. She
er, Lina Stouffer Quick, were did not enter the State Eugenics
both born. For the past year he^ contest, but had she done so she
has been living witii his grand-1 would, no doubt, have received
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan P. j a good score, as she is a fine
Stouffer, at Dallas. He received j specimen of babyhood and re
the second prize, a handsome j ceived the first prize as the pret -
silver cup, for country boys be ties! baby girl at the Polk county
tween 1 and 2 years of age, at school fair one year ago.
Library Report for October.
It is reported that Henry Pat
ton, o f near Independence, suf
fered a stroke of paralysis Mon
day, and is not expected to sur
vive.
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SriECIAL
OUNCEMENT
Looks A fter Case of Destitution j
at Grand Ronde Agency.
Senator Lane has had Ins at
Death claimed another pio
neer o f the Northwest Tuesday tention tailed to the case o f an
at the Inland Empire hospital in Indian dying in a shack on the
Moscow, when L. M. Humphrey, Grande Ronde reservation in
who had been in declining health | destitution, although he owned
for the past year, passed away | the land his shack stood on and
after an illness of six werks. had some $240 in tribal funds.
“ It serves to emphasize my
His family was at his bedside
when the end came. Mr. Hum contentions,” said S e n a te I. ane,
phrey was well known in Mos “ that the affairs of the Indians
cow, having been engaged in are very loosely managed, that
farming near Moscow since
1907, coming here from Dallas,
Oregon, where he had lived a
number ot' years. He was a na
tive of Colorado and was 50
years of age. He is survived by
a widow and three sons.— Ore
gonian.
Lon Humphrey was a brother j
of the two brothers who i let
their death at the penitentiary
last spring and was the last of
the family, the mother having
been buried here a few months
previously. Lon had lived here
for some 20 years and was a re
spected citizen. He was a mem
ber of the Dallas Woodmen I
camp.
Children’s fiction books loan
ed, 263.
Children’s non-fiction books
loaned, 61.
Adult fiction books loaned.
468.
Adult non-fiction books loan
ed. 62.
Total number of books loaned.
854.
Number o f callers, 2057.
New borrowers’ cards issued,
60.
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the most critical buyer in Men’s,
Young Men’s and Boys’ Wearing
Apparel. W e invite you to come
in and inspect our special selections
o f stylish clothes. The
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