Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, August 14, 1903, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextA A VOL. XVI. DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 14, 1903 NO. 22. w 1 Our Tf Having removed our entire stock to Falls City, our Clearance Sale will continue in the departments where we are overstocked. Our Hargain Count ers there will lie tilled with things you can use. Yon can buy iiom us at Wholesale We Want And will pay you for coming to trade at our new store. Remem ber that we carry everything, and always at the lowest prices. BryanLucas Lumber Company Falls City, PAWNING HIS DIAMONDS Clever Swindler Buncoes - people in-JVledfora. Few A itinerant peddler circulated among some of our citizens a few days ago. The man had a few fine diamonds that he wanted to raise a dollar or two on, to "keep him until he could get some money." He didn't want but just a little money, so that he could redeem his jewels the easier. Among the gems were one or two that were the real thing, but although these were the ones he showed, they were not the ones the customer received. His hand forgot it's cunning once, however, and he handed out a ring with a real diamond in it. After he discovered his loss, he was not long in "redeeming" the ring, and soon after faded away into the darkness, seeking pastures new. Several people have his diamonds in their possession, but they are not exhibiting them much now adays. Medford Mail. Legal office. blanks for sale, at this OREGON'S BLUE RIBBON STATE FAIR SALEM , September 14-19, 1903 The Greatest Exposition and Live Stock Show on the Pacific Coast High Class Eacing every p. m. $12,000 CASH PREMIUMS on Live Stock and Farm Products All Exhibits hauled free over the Southern Pacific Eeduced transportation rates on all lines LIVE STOCK AUCTION SALE, held in connection with Fair Fine camping ground free and reduced rates on camper's tickets. Come and bring your families. For further informa tion, write M. D. WISDOM, Secretary Portland, Oregon Continues Prices. ; Your Produce LOW RATES TO SEASIDE Fast Through Train Service Between Oortiand and AH Beach Points ' 1 After July 6.:-- Commencing Monday July 6th, the Astoria & Columbia River Rail road Company again resumed its Summer Special Seaside Schedule, and trains leaving Union Depot Portland at 8:00 a. m. daily will run through direct without transfer at Astoria to all Clatsop Beach points, arriving at Astoria 11:30 A. M., Gearhart Park 12:20 p. m., and Seaside 12:30 p. m., making direct connection at Warrenton for Flavel. Beginning Saturday July 11th, and every Saturday thereafter the popular Portland-Seaside Flyer will leave Union Depot at 2:30 p. m. arriving at Astoria 5:50 p. m., Gearhart Park 6:40 p. m. and Sea side :50 p. m., making direct con nection at Warrenton for Flavel. In connection with this im proved service, round trip season excursion tickets between Portland and all Clatsop and North Beach points are sold at $4.00 for round trip, and Saturday Special round trip tickets between same points, good for return passage Sunday, at $2.50 for round trip. Special Sea son Commutation tickets, good for 5 round trips, from Portland to all Clatsop and North Beach points sold for $15.00. Beach excursion tickets sold by the O. R. & N. Co. will be honored on trains of this be- ad- company in either direction tween Portland and Astoria. For additional information dress J. C. Mayo, G. F. &' P. A., Astoria, or E. L. Lewis, Comm'l. Agt., 248 Alder St., Portland, Ore. Write for the novel and catchy Seaside pamphlet just issued tell ing all about Summer Girls, Sea Serpents and Sunsets at Seaside. Excursion Rates To Yaquina Bay. On June 1, the Southern Pacific Company resumed the sale of Ex cursion tickets to Newport and Yaquina Bay. This resort is be coming more popular every year, and hotel accommodations are better than ever before, and at reasonable rates. Season tickets from Derry to Newport $4.50; to Yaquina $4.00; Saturday-to-Mon-day tickets to Newport $2.65. You Know What You Aro Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula Is plainly printed on every botUe, showing liit It Is simply Iron and Quinine in a taste less form. No Cure, No Fay. 60c Oregon WHITE BLACKBERRIES Fruit Is Fine for Table Use, and Bushes Bear Until Christmas. White blackberries are growing in profusion this summer, on the ranch of R. Hehnbach, at Hills dale. The berry is a hybrid pro pagated from shoots received some time ago from the East. Mr. Heimbach is the first in this part of the country who has been able to raise the berry, which has always been considered a freak fruit. He does not intend, however, to grow it as a novelty, but as a crop, believing that Oregon soil is just the soil for the berry. The half a dozen bushes . will bear until Christmas, when other berries will be gone. Mr. Heimbach brought several , boxes to The Telegram office, and wi'.h the white were quite a number of delicious red blackberries. The berry is of a fair size almost transparent, and the seeds are very small. The flavor is much milder than that of the other berries These white berries are a fine table fruit, but they will probably not stand shipping, as they are quite soft. Telegram. An Independence item in Sat urday's Oregonian says: "The Independence and Monmouth Wa ter & Electric Light Company to day secured control of the water power of Sidney, one of the best waterfalls in the state. Steps have already been taken, whereby the water and electric light plants at Independence and Monmouth will be run by power furnished from this source. Wiring and setting poles will be commenced the com ing week." Eat All You Want. Persons troubled with indigestion or Dyspepsia can eat all they want if they will take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. This remedy prepares the stomach for the reception, reten tion, digestion and assimilation of all of the wholesome food that may be eaten, and enables the digestive organs to transform the same into the kind of blood that gives health and strength. Sold by Belt & Cherrington. SICK HEADACHE ABSOLUTELY and permanently cured by using Mokl Tea. A pleasant herb drink. Cures constipation and Indigestion, makes you eat. sleep, work and happy. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. IS eta. and GO eta. Belt ft Cherrington, Dallas, Oregon. WHERE ROLLS THE OREGON Dallas Boy Writes Ectertalnlngly of His Trip Up Colum bia River. "Lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Orogon, ami hears no sound Save bis own doshings." We weie floating cm the bosom of the majestic Columbia. On the right hand rose towering in their verdant glory the green-clad hills of Oregon. Along the left lay the shores of Washington, pinnacled and crowned with palisades. 'Twas twilight with the fiiit glimmer of a star, as, to me, through the still ness came these noble words of Bryant. To those who have read and en joyed Thanatopsis comes a far greater enjoyment when privileged to feast the eye and foul upon the scenes of which th? poet has so sweetly 6ung. Though the name "Oregon," scented 'with ancient romance, and coming from whence no man knows, has given place to full, majestic "Columbia," the river is still the sama as when God traced its course with His finger, and for an heritage Jgave it king ship over Western streams. For more than a centutj, men have attempted, with brush and pen, pictures that would adequately de- t scribe the Northern gateway to the Pacific. But, as Nature is the one perfect artist, only to those who have, seen with their eyes is it privileged to fully know this match less handiwork of God. Eagles circling in clouds, through which, towering ever upward, rise the snow-clad mountain entinels; cas cades and waterfalls! that shower themselves about thl shoulders of the mountains in a thousand Bridal Veils; gorges that render asunder the eternal hills; forests of emerald, that quench their thirst at the water's edge, there rise to kiss the blue of heaven. If, arru nt is dom said, grt .for a ' 11 's are cuacCivtiU aim uiunv., ua Nature in her sublimity, what a race of giants must one day issue from this Western laud! Our good boat bravely faces the current, pressing deeper and deeper into the Inland Empire, on by Castle Rock and the great mountain face that lies profiled as if slumber ing from the long vigi.' that he kept o'er the river and forest primeval. We wonder what tales that mouth of stone might tell of days long gone: Of Indian warriors, stern and painted, thai sped their bark canoes to scenes of bloody strife; of tawny braves that wooed and won the dark-eyed maiden by the stream. But on we speed; now within the shadows that lie beneath towering columns of granite; now upon wavelets, moonlit, that ride between broad and sweeping shores, until, at length, the river narrows and the waters rush with the fury of unchained demons. Our little vessel struggles like a thing alive in billows white with rage. She fights the throttling grasp as long as handiwork of man may dare to cope with Nature in her madness; then, with the gracefulness of honorable defeat, glides out from thundering turmoil into a quiet haven. The Cascades of the Colum bia, with all their wealth of romantic egend, roll pnd rage before us. We will linger here awhile and isten to the tale that the waters murmur and the red men tell. In the time now many suns ago, before the valley and the forest knew the tread of white men, and the streams the glint of sunlight on a sail where now the Cascades in whirlpool rage spanned the "Bridge of the Gods," and to his dark-skinned children the Father Spirit told that while the Bridge should stand the Indian Brave would roam the land and reign supreme. The wbrd was true. Stalwart sons sprang from noble sires, and first of all the tribes were the Willamettes, and Multnomah was their chief. The game in the hills was theirs and the fish in a thousand streams, and they knew no foe to fear. The great river flowed not as it now flows with EXPERIENCE 13 THE BEST teacher. Use Acker's English Remedy In any case of coughs, cold or croup. Should It fall to give lmmeaiate relief money re funded. 25 cts. and SO eta. Belt & Cher rington, Dallas, Oregon. angry thunderings, but swept in contentment beneath its God- framed archway. Thus, for many suns. Multnomah ruled until the raven locks of youth had changed to wintry locks of snow. Then the spirits of the twin mountains grew angry and their rage shook the vallevs and forced asunder the hills. The brave heart of Mult nomah felt the coming of the red man's doom, yet felt no fear. From his lodge he stalked at midnight, and, guiding from the 6hore his dark canoe, sped through currents throbbing with hidden calamity to the Island of his Dead. In its darkness he sought and found the withered form of her whom he had loved and wooed when the subtle strength of youth was in his heart and arm. He clasped her in a last, ong, wild embrace, and waited fo the end It came. The mountain demons broke their chains and opened forth their vials of awful rage. From their bowels lesser mountains hurled, and molten oceans drowned the valleys and the hills. Light nings rent lurid chasms in the sky thunders bellowed forth ' eterna doom. Then through the chaos came a sound unspeakable, shaking earth and rending sky. The 'Bridge of the Gods" had fallen nd with it had fallen the red man "The Indian race wat doo'nx d to die; In unknown graves the brave would lie; The valley breuk and sandy plain No more would sing the warrior's fumo, Nor ring with shoutings of the hunt; No more would know the battle's front; The Indian race was doomed to die." This is the legend of the Colum bia -the "Bridge of the Gods" and when the aged chieftain's tale is told, his gaze falls to the agitated and disturbed flow of the mighty river, then rises with a wild and pitiful longing to the northern hore, where stands clearly defined the precipitous abutment to the Bridge of the Gods." 'Thus, -through -scenes of tiatr h lasts - beauty, and romance, jwe journey once the kingdom of a mighty race, now the burying ground of a fast dying people. We question "what of those that re main," and in our minds a picture arises of old Multnomah, grim and grand and lordly, with a will of iron, yet a heart that was noble and wrapped in the love of woman. Are the sons of such sires so tall and so stalwart? Alas, they are not. Their ancient glory all lost; forgetful of even the arts that their sires held sacred; steeped in disease, with scarcely the glim mer of an old fire remaining, there are few to remind us of what the red man once was. Our journey is over. We must hasten from the past to the present from romance to reality. But oft we'll redream the legends and remember the evening we floated upon the moonlit waters of the Columbia. And, when body and mind are weary, and soul may be sick and longing for something to feast it, may we lose ourselves in "the continuous woods where rolls the Oregon, and hears no Bound save his own dashings." D. A. P. Weakened My Heart And Nerves. Quickly and Com pletely Cured by Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and Nervine.- If, after an attack of LaGrippe, vour strength does not ret.irn, you cannot sleep, or rest or eat; if you have frequent headaches, if your heart flutters, blood is tiiin, your cir culation poor, you are in more danger than when stricken with fev;r and in the deadly erasp of grip itself. The after effects of La Grippe are terrible. To guard against its dangers, strengthen the heart with Dr. Miies' Heart Cure which, by enriching the blood and improving its circulation, will cure any affection of the heart and strengthen it against fu th r attacks. Tone up the system and revitalize the nerves with Dr. Miles' Nervine, When your nerves are in proper condition, you need never f'-ar the attacks of LaGrippe or its terrible after effects. "From mv personal experience with Dr. Miles Remedies 1 al.vays take pleasure in recommending them to my customers. Six years ago I suffered from a severe attack of LaGrippe which left me with a weakened heart and nervous sy.rtem. I was weak, run down, f.ightene 1 at my condition and miser aiile. I used two b jttles each of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine and New Heart Cure and I was quickly and completely cured, furthermore 1 have never had a return of the tr mble. I am selling vast quantities of your medicine, especially th; Anti-Pain fills. Every customer is thiroughly s itisried with the res ilts." Euoe.nk Marsh, Druggist, Ft. Scott, Kansas. AH drjjgis's sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. M.le. Remedies. Send for free boo on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, lai. rip JOHN VERNON IS DEAD Pioneer of 1853 Passes Away at His Home Near RIckreaM. John Vernon, an old and highly- respected pioneer of Polk County died at his home, three miles east of Rickreal', Saturday evening He had been in poor health for the past two years, and his death re sulted from a complication of ail ments. The remains were buried at Salt Creek, Monday. John Vernon was born in Cole County, Missouri, May 28, 1830. In 1853 he crossed the plains to Oregon. Being without money he drove a team for his board, arriving at Oregon City in the Autumn of 1853. Early in the following Spring he moved to Polk County, settling near Buell, where he re sided until 1863, when he pur chased the farm where he has since resided. In 1858 he was married to Miss S, J. Byerley, a native of Indiana, and a pioneer of 1852. In addition to his widow, Mr. Vernon is survived by eight children, all of whom are grown. They are: Mrs. J. A. Allen, Mrs. J. W. Allen, Mrs. John Young, Alfred and Alice, of Rickreall; Alton, of Ballston; Mrs. J. W. Buster, of Independence, and John H., of Oregon City. Deceased served in the Indian War of 1855, and under the late Colonel J. W. Nesmith. A GHASTLY FIND Decomposed Body of Unknown Man Found in Willamette River. The body of an unknown man was found floating in the Willam ette river, opposite the old Ankeny place, near Independence, Thurs day afternoon. The body was found by C. S. Cooper, who tied it securely to the bank of the river, and at once sent word to Coroner Cafy.'1' rheW)roncr'" enfg""RbaenT from the city, Justice of the Peace Hardy Holman retmiml to the scene and took possession of the corpse. Fridny morning the acting coro ner empaneled a jury and held an inquest, but nothing was brought to light to establish the identity of the dead man. The body had been in the river for several months and was in a bad state of decomposition, all the flesh from the face and head being entirely gone. The body was clothed in a suit of plain working clothes and a pair of heavy leather boots. The pockets were empty, and nothing whatever was found by which the remains could be identified. The unknown corpse was taken to Independence for burial. Later: It is reported that the body was identified by a Mis. Armstrong as that of her husband. The Armstrong family lived near the Willamette River, between Buena Vista and Albany, and about five months ago Mr. Armstrong left home to attend a school meet ing and was never seen nor heard of afterward. How he came to his death in the icy waters of the Willamette River will probably forever remain a mystery. Visitors to the Oregon state fair this fall will witness the greatest racing ever seen in this state. Saletn business men have raised a purse of $2000 for 2:17 pacers to be raced for on Salem Day, which has 30 horses entered. These hortes are from the best stables in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California and Montana, and it is expected at east twenty of them will start, furnishing the largest field of high- class horses ever seen on a track on the Pacific coast. Portland, too, has contributed a purse of $2000 for 2:20 trotters to be raced for on ?ortland Day. This race has 27 liorses entered, of which most of them will start, making two of the greatest racing events ever held this side the Rocky mountains. If you are fond of high-class racing, don't miss seeing these two events. ACKER'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS are sold on a poslUve guarantee. Cures heart burn, raising of the food, distress after eating or any form of dyspepsia. On "ullie tablet fcives kuuitsUiato relief. 3 cts. and 0 cts. Belt & Cherrington Drills. Oregon. THE OLD HSUnCLE. r ' I ' , . 1 1 1 J Absolute! Puro THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FARM HOUSE BURNED Adam Loop and Family Lose Greater Part of Their Household Goods by Fire. A brisk fire occurred at Smith- field early Monday morning en tirely destroying a fiirm residence owned by Hon. G. W. Myer. The house was occupied by Adam Loop and family, recent arrivals from the East. Mrs. Loop was alone in the house when the fire started, and by the time the alarm could be given and help arrived at the scene, the blaze had gained such great headway that it was impossible to check it. ,Mr. Myer, the owner' of the house, was the first toarrive, but owing to a scarcity of water he was unable to stop the progress of the fire. About one-half of the hou ehold goods were saved. Mr. Myer estimates his loss at $G00, an important item of which was a private library which he had left in the house when ha moved to an adjoining farm a few months ago. Neither the building nor its con tents were insured. "1 LLNE8S 1 riG VE IX FATAL" F. A. Kemp Died at His Home Near Airlie, Sunday. F. A. Kemp, one of the most suc cessful hopgrowers in the Southern portion of Polk county, died at his home near Airlie, Sunday. He had been a sufferer from stomach trouble for several months. He was about 55 years of age, and left a wife and four children. LARGEST ADVERTISERS Who They Are and How Much They Are Supposed to Spend. In reply to the question, "Who are the ten largest advertisers in the United States, and what is the approximate amount of money each spends annually in adver tising?" Printers' Ink says: The firms quoted below are con sidered the largest advertisers in this country. Whether theumounts set against their names are correct or nearly correct is a question: American Tobacco Co., $1,000,000; Dr. Pierce, $750,000; C. I. Hood & Co., $750,000; Peruna Co., $500, 000; Castoria, $500,000; National Biscuit Co., $500,000; Force Food Co., $500,000; Procter & Gamble, Ivory soap, $500,000; J. C. Aver & Co., $350,000; Lydia Pinkham, $350,000; Scott & Bowne, $300,000; Royal Baking Powder, $250,000; Postum Food Co., $200,000; total, $6,450,000. The total amount expended for all sorts of publicity in this country has been estimated to be as much as $600,000,000. Probably $200,- 000,000 would come nearer the fact. On August 10, 1903, there were advertised letters in the Dallas po8toffice for Miss Edna Bo'wen, Mrs. M. II. Roberto, Myrtle Hart, Miss Bertha Tripp, Miss Cecil Taylor, Mrs. Clarence Tumidge, Granville Brown, J. Carrington, P. Ellas and Wm. M. Green. C. G. Coad, Postmaster. Played Out Dull Headache, Pains In various parts of the body Sinking at the Pit of the Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Feverishness, Pimples or Sores are all positive evidences of impure blood. No matter how It be came so, it must be purified In order to obtain good health. Acker's Blood Elixir has never failed to cure Scrofulous or Syphilitic poisons or any other blood diseases. It Is certainly a wonderful remedy and we sell every bottle on a p?rt tlve guarantee. Belt & Cherrington, Dal las, Oregon.