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ores 011 r V. Historical Sor. 2d Pt- 207 T h * L a r g e s t and B e s t P a p e r in P0II3 Ç o u n tÿ POLK. COUNTY NEEDS f More Canneries DALLAS WILL START 1914 More Small Fruit Raisers With a $10,0OJ Hospital J T h e P a p e r t h a t Ql\?es Y o u W h a t 'Y o u >A/aivt to R t a d VOL. XXXIX. DALLAS. OREGON. FEBRUARY 19. 1914 “NOT GUILTY” Faulty Indictment Clears Lester Stone on Second Trial---Road L aw Knocked Out City Bank Increases Capital --- Lady Stranger Dies H e r e - - To Raise Goats in Texas STONE ACQUITTED. Faulty Indictment Responsible tor Directed Verdict on Second Trial. Shortly after the jury had been empanelled Wednesday morning for the second trial of Lester Stone, charged with sub ornation of perjury, Judge Web ster Holmes, Inthe district court, sustained a motion of Attorney Belt to quash the indictment, on the grounds that it did not allege sufficient facts to constitute a crime. A second motion to di rect a verdict of not guilty was also granted. Stone, who was brought back from California last week, wás placed on trial Monday and the case went to the jury, the regu larity of the indictment not hav ing been questioned at that time. The jury failed to agree, and a new jury was drawn and the second trial started Wed nesday. LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Judge Holmes Holds That Heavy Loads Cannot be Barred From Public Road. loads which are prohibited in the order, it would be valid, but if it does not so apply, it would be invalid. But the law falls short in this particular: in that alter the order is made, it only applies to th,e individual firm, or cor poration, upon whom a certified copy of the order is first served, and another person committing the same violation of the terms of the order, who is not served, is allowed to go free, and with out any liability or being guilty of infraction of the law; and for that reason the act in question is unconstitutional.” Special Vinire Called. Because of the failure of the first jury to agree in the case of the State vs. Lester Stone, ne cessitating a new trial, Sheriff Grant and his deputies were ex ceedingly busy Tuesday, sum moning a new list of jurors to report Wednesday morning. The men drawn were: H. A Web ster, Dallas; F. J. Coad, Dallas; Williard Craven, Independence; John Middleton, Dallas; L. W. Porterfield, Independence; Geo. M. Tice, Falls City; Homer La- liberty, Independence ; Mark Blodgett, Dallas; Frank Friesen, Dalldfs; George T. Richmond, Dallas No. 1; John G. Brown, Dallas; A. W. Fink, Dallas; Ed. F. Plaster, Dallas; J. D. Holman, Monmouth; John W. Orr, Rick- reall; F. A. Stiles, Dallas; I. A. Allen, Rickreall; J. L. Hanna, In dependence. The case of the State vs. W. H. Able, in which the latter had been held for contempt of the county court in having violated an order of that court, was dis missed by Judge Holmes in cir cuit court Tuesday, the judge holding that the law upon which the county court’s order was Train Wrecked Near Falls City. based was unconstitutional. Four cars and the caboose of Some months ago the county the Salem-Black Rock local court issued an order forbidding .. . ,. „ . . . __„.freigh t train overturned near the hauling of loads of over a ^ across the Lucki- Cerla " mute Monday evening, badly ove OI Aj^le yiojd a m a g in g them and their con- near Independence, tents. Four men, including the lated the order and was cited for train crew, were in the caboose, contempt. The case was a p ^ wa8 hurt bey0nd » pealed to the district court, and* . . _ _ „„ a demurrer w a. entered to “ k"«S ,Trafflc county court’s order o , c o - 'A * L ^ n T lU h e l P w t ^ r a * - tempt. In ruling on the m atter,1 hours until the S. r . wrecker ar Judge Holmes said in part: from Brooklyn. “ If this law applies to all of I The accident is believed to the individuals who use the have been caused by spreading county road and draw thereover raUs- RELIEF FOR HAVE INCREASED CAPITAL Dallas City Bank Adds $20,000 to Its Stock and $ti,000 to Surplus Fund. Finding that the steady and continuous growth of the city and community called lor a bank of larger capital than that unuer whic h it had been operat ing, and in accordance witii the well known traditions of the in stitution to meet all ne& condi tions as fast as they arise, the officers and directors of thé Dal las City Bank have decided re cently to increase their capital stock from $30,000 to $50,000, at the same time adding over $8,000 to its surplus account. In taking this step they feel that the local requirements can be well taken care of by the two splendidly managed financial in stitutions which have grown up in our midst. W. G. Vassall, vice president of the bank, further informs the Itemizer that the officers of the bank leel much gratified at hav ing as additional stockholders for a portion of this issue some of our best known and substan tial citizens, in the persons of Dr. M. Hayter, H. L. Crider, R. L. Chapman and I. F. Yoakum, who have secured a competency of this world’s possessions by their energy and industrial activity. By adding these well known gentlemen to the directorate the staff feels much gratified that they will have the assistance of the financial sagacity of these gentlemen in carrying on the business of the institution. The bank will move into new quarters in its own handsome new building sometime during the next few weeks— just as soon as the interior of the room is finished and the fixtures in stalled. City Council Notes. At the regular council meeting Monday night, the fire chief sub mitted a report on the matter of an electric fire and police alarm, and the same was referred to a ALL special committee with power to STATE OFFICER HERE. act. The council decided to visit C. D. Babcock, Member State the proposed site o f the city’s Industrial Commission, in #>» septic tank and place a valuation Town This Week. on the land, preparatory to mak ing Abe Uglow, the owner of the land an offer for it. C. D. Babcock, a member of A resolution to assess the cost the State Industrial Accident of the proposed sewer on Court Commission, was in the city aim Kills streets was jassed. Monday to confer with employ Ordinances regulating skating ers and workmen interested in rinKs and providing for the sale the wokmen’s compensation act. of certain bonds for 1913 street For two years Mr. Babcock improvements were passed. A committee, consisting of was in charge'of the state cor Fenton, Barber and Risser, was poration department, during appointed by the mayor to co which time he drafted and was operate with the Commercial instrumental in having passed Club in regard to securing a per .several important laws bearing manent location for the Polk on the regulation and supervi county fair. sion of corporations, including the Oregon Blue Sky law and an IT IS WHISPERED. act requiring foreign corpora tions to pay a license fee of $100 That it is easier for most o f us ier year, which now puts into to find fault than it is to find the state treasury about $60,000 favor. a year. That a young couple doesn’t Discussing the compensation consider three a crowd— after the honeymoon. That if our city council desire to save their paved streets It vould be advisable to get out the street sprinkler once in a while. That the editor o f the Obser ver intends to have an early gar den. He was seen burning newspapers in his garden to induce the “ sass” to come up. That one of our citizens is mighty uneasy lest he be called on to explain part of his testi mony in a case that was tried in circuit court this week. .. . ot tne in terio r A re P la n n in g to Eetehlieti a U o ve -n m en t O ontrolled P la n t on W n .en Ke diuni Man Be P laced m t n .n Reacn at A ll. . — Evana m B a lt im o r e A m e r ic a n Davis & Horn “T he Reliable Homefurnishers” BRIDGE & BEACH Stoves and Ranges With or Without Reservoir. The name Bridge & Beach on a Stove or a Range is a guaran tee of the highest quality. None better can be made Price $14.00 Liberal Will Raise Goats in Texas. Leslie Riddell left Monmouth last Saturday for Texas with two car loads of fine goats. He had recently visited that section and decided that the country was favorable for the raising of these animals. Mr. Riddell has C. D. BABCOCK purchased an interest in a 4000- act with a representative of the acre ranch not far from ifco Mex ican line. The trip will require Itemize. , Mr. Babcock said: “ The comyansation act was about 12 days. passed almbs ant dmously by A NLW SERIAL. the last legislature, held up by the referendum, and approved Itemizer Will Publish an Inter- by the people on November 4th ing Story by Well Known last by a vote of more than 2 to Fiction Writer. 1. The law became effective immediately after election inso The Itemizer this week prints far as the organization of the the first installment o f a serial ommission was concerned, but story, which will be a feature of the supreme court has held that this paper hereafter. “ The Val no benefits can be paid until July iants o f Virginia” is the latest 1, 1914. « production of the popular fiction “ The law provides for the cre writer, Hallie Ermine Rives, and ation of the industrial accident is one of her very best, at that. Theltemizer has secured the ex fund, to be made up by contri clusive rights, direct from the butions from employers, work publishers, the Bobbs-Merrill men and the state. “ Two classes of occupations Company, to print this novel in the Willamette valley. A sub are defined in the act and are stantial installment of the story designated as classes A and B. In will appear each week in this class A the rate of payment by the employer is 3 per cent and paper until it is completed. by the employee one-half of one Held lor Contempt. per cent. In class B the em City Councilman Henry ployer pays l Y a per cent and Gohrke was found guilty of con the employee one-fourth of one tempt of court by Judge Holmes percent. In class A both the in district court Wednesday at- employer and workmen are en ternoon. Sentence will be im titled to exemption when the in-1 posed Saturday morning. dividual employer has to his Gohrke was charged by A. A. credit 3 per cent of his annual Flesher, a meat dealer with hav pay roll and no accidents have] ing violated a temi>orary re occurred in his plant; while un straining order of the county der class B the amount required, court in that he had continued to be maintained by the employ- j to sell meats at retail after the er in the accident fund is 1 Vi | order had been served upon him. per cent of the pay roll. The case is a sequel to an in “ The law is elective, both in junction suit filed by Flesher its application to the employer I against Gohrke, in which a de- md employee, either of whom ault judgment was rendered may elect to come in or stay out, during the present term o f court. employers in any of the hazard ous occupations who elect not Tax Collecting On. to take advantage of the act, are County Treasurer Tracy deprived o f the common law de Staats commenced tax collec fenses of contributory negli tions March 10th, under the r.ew gence, fellow-servant liability law which provides for taxes to and assumption of risk in a.iy be hereafter collected by the action for damages by their em county treasurer. W. A. Aven- ployees. Workmen who reject secure receipt No. 1 and several the act lose the benefits pro successively following. The vided. first dav’s receipts wete $3 186.- “ The Orégon law provides a 14. and the total to the close of I liberal schedule of compensa business Wednesday night was tlon for injured workmen and 815.863.94. Mr. Staats and , for the beneficiaries of work his deputy have not been crowd men who lose their lives in in ed with work yet, but hone to dustrial accidents. The act also see a larger number visit the o f provides for first aid to injured fice before the first of March. i workmen in any amount not to ¡exceed $250 in any one case.” Passed fc « r » w « r » w N O . 12 Away Discount For Cash Prices from $6 to $40 Sturgis Go-Carts We can sure save you money and give you the most up-to-date Go Cart made. Strong, light, easy to fold up when traveling. OUR SECOND HAND DEPARTMENT | ■BB B BH BB Barham Goes Goods Stored South Lane Barham, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barham, the Dallas boy who has made such a phe- nominal rise in base ball circles the past year, left Tuesday for Alexandria, Louisiana, to Join the Cincinnati Club o f the Na tional league and go into train ing. Barham will pitch for that Club this season, having been drafted from the Victoria '! team of the Northwest league, with which he played last year. - Wo Boy, Sell and Exchange Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Christine David son, a resident o f Halsey, Ore gon, died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. fDr. I L. A. Boll- man, in this city Sunday morn ing. February 15th, after an illness o f some time with valvu lar heart disease. She was brought to this citv a few weeks ago for medical treatment. Fun eral services were held at Hal sey Tuesday. Mrs. Davidson was aged nearly 75 vears. She leaves three sons and one daughter. “ITS C O M P L E T E ” The Reliable Home Furnishers T N f Cs : ; Davis oc H orn 0 Phone 20 ORE.
