Pols County Qinmt
BEGAN AT CANYON CREEK
J. C. HAYTER,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER,
Published Weekly at One Dollar
Strictly in Advance.
per
Yeai
DALLAS, OREGON, AOGCBT 14, 1903
The way to build up Dallas is to pat
ronize Dallas people.
AMERICANS OWN AMERICA
London says she is not interested
in the Wall street flurry. She has
no especial need to be. England
owns comparatively little American
properties at the present time.
There was a day, and that not very
remote, when British investors had
very large holdings of property on
this side of the Atlantic. They
owned so many stocks and bonds
in the United States, in fact, that
some timid or blind persons feared
that England would soon dictate
the politics and shape the social
life of this country.
The panic of 1893 led to vast
sales of American properties by
British owners. In the crash at
that time English investors, who
had been rendered especially
nervous by their losses in Argen
tina's smash up in 1890-91 and in
the wreck in Australia in 1892, be
lieved there was to be a general
cataclysm in the financial world,
and they disposed of their Ameri
can securities in 1893-95 at great
losses, Americans, in most instances,
being the buyers. In the con
vulsion, which lasted till the Re
publicans entered power in 1897,
many hundreds of millions of
dollars' worth of American proper
ties thus came into the hands of
American owners, and in the ad
vance that set in immediately
afterward Americans were large
gainers.
Here is the reason why London
is expressing no alarm over the
little disturbance on Wall street.
The United States has nlu a guuil
reason for unconcern. No serious
consequences are likely to come
from the break in stocks. The
crops are good, all the leading in-
Work on the Dallas Water System
Is Now Under Way and Will
Be Rushed to Completion.
of
dustries are busy, and the general
business throughout the country is
confident. Nobody is frightened
at the outlook. The wise owner of
stocks will hold them. At present
prices most of them are u very
good investment. An advance is
sure to come before long, for th
situation has bullish factors which
must soon pssert themselves. No
financial convulsion ever took place
when the general business cotuli
tions were as solid and safe as they
are at this time. St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Work on the water-works was be
gun at Canyon Creek yesterday
morning, and will be carried on
steadily until the plant is completed.
A crew of 20 men, under the super
vision of Contractor H. V. Gates, are
constructing the hettdworks and in
take on Canyon Creek about one-half
mile above its mouth, and as soon as
this work is completed, the digging of
the ditch for the pipe-line to DaPas
will begin.
Mr. Gates says that it is his inten
tion to clear the right-of-way
timber, brush and logs along its
entire length at once, and then to dig
the ditch from Canyon Creek to the
reservoir, one mile West of town. As
soon as the ditch is completed, the
pipe gang will begin at this end of
the line and lay the conduit, finishing
ud at the point of intake. When the
conduit is finished, the construction
of the 300,000 gallon reservoir will be
commenced. The reservoir is to be of
masonry throughout, and water for
the cement work will be furnished
from Canyon Creek. After the con
duit and reservoir are completed, the
laying of the mains and placing of
hydrants in the city will begin.
Two carloads of small pipe to be
used in the residence portion of the
city have arrived, and the large
pipe to be laid between the reservoi
and the West end of Court street will
be shipped from San Francisco to
morrow. The 6-inch and 8-inch iron
pipe to be used in the circulating
system inside the city limits will be
shinned from the East about Oct. 1
The workshop near the public school
buildine: is nearlnp: completion. It is
a substantial two-story structure,
about 30 by 60 feet in size, with a cor
rugated iron roof. The machinery to
be placed in this building will be
shipped from Cincinnati within the
next 60 days. The dipping tank, in
which all pipe will be treated to a coat
of hot asphalt, inside and out, before
beinor placed in the around, has
arrived.
Mr. Gates will remain here, until
the plant is completed, and will per
Bonally oversee the work.
J. S. Talbott was a Portland visitor
this week.
See II. G. Campbell's new list of
land bargains in another column of
this paper.
Mr. Soth's new residence in the
south part of town i9 nearlng com
pletion, and presents a neat appear
ance. Vera Cosper and little Rudolph Pol
ing, who have been seriously 111 with
fever, are reported to be steadily
Improving.
Some person seeing the heavy
smoke arising from the furnace of
the Dallas foundry late yesterday
afternoon, turned in the fire alarm
and called out the entire department
in 6hort order. When the engine
reached Main street, the boys were In
formed that there wus no fire and the
apparatus was taken back to the hall.
This is the second or third time In the
last few years that the smoke from
the Foundry furnace has seared some
one into yelling "fire" and culliug
out the department When an actual
flreoccur3, It is a very commendable
act to give the alarm quickly, but
these "foundry fires" are becoming
a chestnut The alarm last even lug
accomplished about four results: It
gave everybody a scare; it proved that
there are a good inauy people who
have not gone to the seaside or
mountain resorts; It deeply disgusted
a large number of citizens, and it
cost the city 5. Dou't do it again.
Scrofula
i'tw ore entirely frwrfrom It
It nay develop to slowly as to cause
litt'.e if any disturbance during tlte whole
per1...! f rhlldhoixl.
1( i;;i- then produce Irregularity of th-
ill tn-A U, cf.epsiii, cnt.-irr
ni.ir: --d ti-txlt'ik-y to consuniptii.
'i:..i::.Vst!i!2 ::.e!f In inucb cutuM.-c
ii or rlai'fl .'.ir swelling.
bf "i :o ! c:ir that yea are qr.h
)-n !t, and for it cvn.;ibte eradic.
k. can rU ou
Hood's SarsaparillL
The best of ail medicine fur all humors.
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District Attorney J. N. Hart went to
Portland, Wednesday morning.
Send in your orders for hop checks
early and your printing will be ready
for you promptly on time.
T. W. Nordby, of the firm of Nordby
& Finseth, came up from Portland,
Saturday, on a business visit.
Dr. O. D. Butler, of Independence,
and J. B. V. Butler, of Monmouth,
were Dallas visitors yesterday.
,. Master MeohftniQFlynn of.tha
Dallas & Falls City railroad, visited
his family in Portland over Sunday.
Rev. Arthur B. Waltz, of Baker
City, will preach at the Baptist church
next Sunday, morning and evening.
All are invited.
The Jeffrios-Corbett fight will take
place in San Francisco tonight.
Arrangements have been made in
Dallas to receive tho report of the
fight by rounds.
The young people of the Christian
Church will serve ice cream in the
Ellis & Keyt building this (Friday)
afternoon aud evening. Ice cream
and homo-made cake, 10 cents;
peaches and cream, 10 cents.
Miss Ada Sutmeyer, who visited at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Koser
last summer, and who has been at
tending a music school in Salem since
that time, left for her home in Pitts
burg, Pa., this week. She was accom
panied by Miss Hortense Kimball.
Uncle David Cosper has been catch
ing some fine trout in the deep pool
below the mill dam this week. The
old gentleman takes great pleasure in
exhibiting the largest fish in his catch
to his brother fishermen and ther) giv
ing them to the sick poople In town.
Miss Maggie Glaze left for her
home in Prlneville, Tuesday, after a
pleasant four weeks' visit at the home
of her uncle, D. B. Richardson. Miss
Glaze is a compositor in the ofilce of
the Prinevillo Journal, and enjoys
spending her vacations in the Will-
ametto Valley.
Expert Buehanau is checking up
thebooksof the county officers this
week. This is a yearly custom in
Polk county, and, as the books are
kept in excellent shape by the various
officers, tho work of verifying their
accounts is quickly done. Mr.
Buchanan is assisted in his work by
Miss James, a daughter of C. W.
James, superintendent of the Oregon
State Trisou.
E. J. Bryan came out from Newport
this week, and went up to Falls City
esterday. Tho pleasure of his visit
to the seaside was somewhat marred
by an accident which happened to
him while playing a game of base
ball. A swiftly thrown ball struck
him on the lop near the ankle with
uch force as to almost break the
uone, Druising mo imio in sucli a
maimer as to keep him in his room
several days. Later he was able to
get out with the aid of crutches ami
enjoy himself fairly well notwith
standing his damaged ankle. Mrs.
Bryan, who accompanied him to New
ort, will remain several weeks at
that delightful resort
Are 'lie drc- d of those whose lungs are
"weak." Some fortunate people nan
follow the summer as it goes southward,
and escape the cold blasts of winter and
ti'e chill airs of spring. But for the
trujority of people this is impossible.
raumy cares ana
business obliga
tions hold them
fast.
" Weak " lungs
are made strong
by the use of Dr.
Pierce's Golden
Medical Discov
ery. It cures the
obstinate cough,
heals the in
flamed tissues,
stops the iiem
orrnajre, and re
stores the lost
flesh to the ema
ciated body.
"I am a railroad
agent." write I. B.
Staples, Ksq., of
Barclay, Omc Co.,
Kana., "ana four
years ago my work
keeping me in a
warm room and
stepping out fre
quently into the
cold air gave me bronchitis, which became
chronic aud deep seated. Doctors failed to
reach my case and advised me to try a higher
air, hut. fortunately for me. a friend also advised
me to try Or. Pierce's medicines. I commenced
taking your ' Golden Medical Discovery,' and by
the time I had I: ' en the first bottle f was bet
ter, and after t:....nt about four bottles my
cough was entirely gone. J have found no ne
cessity for seeking another climate."
Sometimes a dealer, tempted by the
little more profit paid on the sale of less
meritorious medicines, will offer the
customer a substitute as being "just as
good " as the " Discovery."
You get the People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, the best medical work
ever published, free by sending stamps,
to pay expense of mailing only. Send
21 one-cent stamps for book in paper
covers, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound vol
1x1. to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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State Hernial School
MONMOUTH, OREGON
Training School for Teachera' courses ar
ranged esieclally for training teachera for
all brunches of the profession. Most approv
ed methods for graded and ungraded work
taught in actual district school. The demand
for graduates of this school far exceeds the
supply. The Training Department, which
consists of a niue-Krude public school of
about 'jO pupils, is well equipped in all its
branches, including music, drawing and
Physical training. The Normal course is the
est and quickest way to a State certificate.
Fall term opens September '22. For cata
logue or iufonuatiou, address
K. D. RESSLER,
or J. B. V. BUTLER, President
Secretary
COURT HOUSE NOTES
COMMISSIONERS' COURT.
CLAIMS ALLOWED
R Brunk, road acct $ 4 68
Irwin-Hodson Co., supplies 7 50
Dr L Pfandhoefer, pauper acct, 15 00
C E Seeley, road acct 9 00
J E Sibley, salary CO 65
Ind Lumber Co., road acct 6
E Hayter, salary 65 00
Seth Riggs, salary 24 00
J B Teal, salary 8 80
PROBATE.
Guardianship of Geo. L Gwin, an
insane person report of sale of real
property filed.
Estate of James L. Gwin, deceased
final account set for hearing Sep
tember 12, 1903, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Estate of Ebert W". Thompson, de
ceased final account set for hearing
Monday, September 14, 1903, at
o'clock p. m.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Eleanor and Lewis Zumwalt to Jane
Brown and Maud Butler, lot 2, block
2, Levens' add to Dallas, $1100.
Town of Falls City to Wra Gilson
that portion of Second street lying be
tween Mm tu 4 Main, streets. $1.
Hnd M E Fawk to P B S Miller et
ux, 58.04 acres, 1 7 s, r 4 w, SI.
V C Brown to Matthew Digby, lots
3, 6 and 8, block 6, Germantown,
$120.
A J Haley, adm'r, to Sarah E Fisher,
lots in Monmouth, $1300.
A J Johnson et ux to Willamette
Valley Stock and Land Co., 2646 acres,
1 10 s, r 5 w, $1.
Cora D and James Clark to F G
McLonch, 4 acres, 1 6 s, r 3 w, $108,
D 0 Sherman, trustee, et ux to
Amanda C McLench, lot 2, block B,
West Salem, $100.
M O Plank to August Bittner, lots
in Germantown, $1000.
B F Gwin et al to Mary E Gwin,
tract in 1 8 s, r 5 w, $5.
Watches
. Clocks
Jewelry
Optical Qoods
Kodaks & Photo Supplies
All Goods Fully Guaranteed
Prices lowest consistent
with quality
PFENNIG
JEWELER. &' OPTICIAN
Wilson Block, Dallas
BUILD UP YOUR TOWN
Patronize Home Merchants and Your
Money Will Come Back
To You.
PRUNE CROP IS LARGE
Fully Thirty Million Pounds Will Be
Marketed This Year.
1,
WIFE IDENTIFIES REMAINS
Body Found in Willamette River Was
That of Qeorge Armstrong.
.ir-.
bl.inks f.ir sule at this
The unexplained disappearance the
third of last March of George Arm
strong from his home and family
near Wells, which has ever since con
tinued to bo one of the mysteries that
hung over Benton, has been made
clear by the finding of his body in the
Willamette River. Armstrong, it will
be remembered, attended a school
meeting in the vicinity of his home on
the morning of March 3rd. He re
turned home, changed his clothing,
and went across the field to where his
hired man was working. After a few
minutes of conversation, he left the
man and started to return home. He
failed to appear at the house, and
there was instituted a search in which
the whole neighborhood participated,
and which continued for several days.
During tho search, the river was
dragged, and its banks examined, and
the woods in the vicinity were scoured,
without finding any kind of a trace.
Various rumors of foul play and other
sensational reports were circulated,
but the finding of a stark body in the
cruel waters has set all these question
ings and surmises at rest
Armstrong's body was found by
loggers near Sydney, Marion county,
Sunday last Mrs. Armstrong
and son went to the scene, and
identified the grewsome find as
that of the missing husband and
father. The body was in bad con
dition, but enough was left for the
identification to be perfect The
whiskers on one side of tho face re
mained, the boots were still on, but
enough of the waistband was intact to
show the body to be thatof Armstrong.
The body was buried at Sydney, but
the family intends to exhume and re
inter at Wells. Corvall is Times.
Oregon prunegrowers will do well
this year as the crop is large and
prices bid fair to be good, according
to President Smith, of the State Board
of Horticulture.
"I look for fully 30,000,000 pounds
of dried prunes as Oregon's output
this Fall, and the shortage in the
Eastern states and Europe will cause
good prices to prevail. The Oregon
prune reaches out farther into the
world's markets every year, and this
season they will be sent into Eastern
Canada where a good demand pre
vails." He thinks that pruneraising will
prove a profitable industry one year
with another, where the grower has a
large orchard and has good facilities
for handling the fruit. By a large
orchard he means 40 acres and up
ward. He does not consider a 10-acre
prune orchard large enough to justify
the grower in making prunegrowing
a business. ,
Mr. Smith, however, is not engaged
in prunegrowing, himself, but devotes
his time to apple raising in the Hood
River district. He predicts a con
tinued prosperity for Hood River
orohardists this.yev aa the Hood
River apple has now a name abroad
and the apple crop of the East is near
ly a failure.
Potent Pill Pleasure.
The pills that are potent in their
action and pleasant in effect are De-
Witt's Little Early Risers. W. S.
Philpot of Albany, Ga., sas : "Dur
ing a bilious attack I took one. Small
as it was it did me more good than
calomel, blue-mass or any other pills
ever took and at the same time it
effected me pleasantly. Little Early
Risers are certainly an ideal pill."
Sold by Belt & Cherrington.
The following from an exchange
will interest a small class of people,
(and, fortunately, the number in Polk
county is small and growing smaller),
who send away from home for their
goods :
"Here is the experience of a farmer
near Farmersville. Ten years ago he
put an X mark on a silver dollar and
came to town and spent it with a mer
chant. Before the year was out he got
the marked dollar . back for poultry
and spent it with the home merchant
Four times in six years that dollar
came home to him for produce and
three other times he heard of it in the
pockets of his neighbors. The last
time he got it in change, nearly four
years ago, he sent it to an eastern
mail order firm that has amassed a
hundred million dollars by selling
third rate goods at second rate prices.
He has not seen the marked dollar
since, and never will till the crack of
doom.
"That dollar will never pay any
more school or road tax for him, never
help to build up the town or country,
never bless and brighten the homes of
his neighbors. He sent it entirely out
of the circle of usefulness to him.
"Moral : Send your dollars where
you will get a chance at them again ;
where they will help you pay your
taxes, build your bridges, educate
your children and enhance the value
of your farms."
IF
WHITE
GOO
Shirt Waists,
ILadics' Neckwear,
Summer Dress Goods
and the like are going to be sold and out of the way
before m
0V8
Do you want your
share of these?
A
11.75
Pays for the OBSERVER
and the Weekly Oregonian
one year. In order to take
advantage of this .liberal
offer, your subscription to the Observes
muBtbenaid up to date. Now is the
time to subscribe.
a woman is in love,
That's Her Business.
, If a man is in love,
That's His Business.
liut if the- are both in love",
and want a wedding ring,
That's My Business!
C. II. MORRIS,
JEWELER and
OPTICIAN
BRIQHT'S DISEASE.
The largest sum ever paid for a pre
scription, changed hands in San Fran
Cisco, August 30, 1901. The transfer in
volved in coin and stoctt $112,500.00 and
was paid by a party of business men for
a specific for Bright's Disease and Dia
betes, hitherto incurable diseases.
They commenced the serious invest!
gation of the specific Nov. 15, 1900
They interviewed scores of the cured
nd tried .t out on its merits by putting
over three dozen cases on the treatment
and watching them. They nlso got phy
sicians to name chronic, incurable eases,
nd administered it with the physicians
for judges. Up to Aug. 25, eighty-seyen
per cent of the test cases were either
well or progressing favorably.
There being but thirteen per cent of
failures, the parties were satisfied 'and
closed the transaction. The proceedings
of the investigating committee and the
clinical reports of the test capes were
published and will be mailed free on ap
plication. Address John J. Fclton
Company, 420 Montgomery St., San
Francisco, Cal.
tlcmji
III)
DYSPEPSIA CAN EE CURED BY uMnk
Acker's Dysixpsi Tbiet. On liriU
Tablet will give tmmeuile rellrf or moiivj
refunded. Sold In hai.djome tin boi
t Ii cnts. Belt A Cherrlnston. Di:
Oregon.
PZ
LA12
Oyspop
n n
sia Cure
Digests what you cat.
This preparation contains all cf tb
digestants and digests all kinds ct
food, ltgives instantrelief and never
fails to cure. It allows you to eat all
the food you want. The most sensitive
stomachs can take It. By its use many
thousands of dyspeptics liave been
cured after everything else failed. It
prevents formation of pas on the stom
ach, relieving all distress after eating.
Dietlngunnecessary. JPleasanttotake, j
II can't help '
but da you gocd
Yti (L UxUe cunuuns 34 U K ll joa Hmh
BELT & CHERRINGTON
Ill'S IB
That prices cut no figure.
In a case like this it is not
34 cents and up.
We are going
to sell them
KEYT
Main Street
DALLAS OREGON
Biggest Bars
In Town For
A Nickel..
You can't afford
to buy elsewhere
Main St., Dallas, Ore.
1anOrsdel, Hayes & Co.
DEALERS IN-
IReal Estate
YOU WILL FIND IT TO
YOUR ADVANTAGE TO LI8T YOUR
PROPERTY WITH US.
FARMS, STOCK RANCHES,
TIMBER LANDS and CITY PROPERTY.
1, (upstairs) Wilson Building, Dallas, Ore.
I ROOM
HARNESS RfiD
SADDLES.
I have just received a Fine New Stock
of Harness and Saddles and invite you
to call and examine them as to style,
workmcnBhip and price. I have the
finest line of saddles ever shown in Polk
county. They are strictlv "down-to.
date" in every respect.
HORSE BLANKETS
A biz assortment prices according to
quality all fitted with "Double Sur
cingles," a new feature which every
horseman will readily appreciate. Come
and see them.
HAKXESS OIL, Best Grade.
WHIPS and ROBES.
Frank A. Stiles
MAIN ST.. DALLAS. ORE.
WAGNER BROS.
CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
Single Shovel Plows, Double Shovel Plows, Wing Shovel
Plow., Five-Tooth Cultivators, Disc Cultivators, Peg Tooth
Harrows, Spring Tooth Harrows, Disc Harrows, reversible
with Extension Head. ::::::::::::;
All kinds of Plows, Harrows, Cultivators and everything needed to
cultivate a hopyard or orchard.
COR. OAK and MAIN STREETS. DALLAS. OREGON.
CENTRAL MARKET
Haldeman & Murrell, Prop'rs.
FRESH AND SALT MEATS
of All Kinds.
Fish, Game and Chickens
ICE FOR SALE
Farmers will find it to their advantage to
bring us their Poultry and Eggs, as we pay
the highest cash price for same at all times
EAST SIDE OF HAIN STREET
Dallas, Oregon.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic
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