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VOL. XVI.
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 21, 1903
NO. 23.
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Our
IT Having removed our entire stock to
Falls City, our Clearance Sale will
continue in the departments where we
arc overstocked. Our Bargain Count
ers there will be tilled with things you
can use, You can buy from us at
Wholesale
We Want Your Produce
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,
DeWitt Is the Name.
When you go to buy Witch Hazel
Salve look for the name DEWITT on
every box. The pure, unadulterated
Witch Hazel is used in making De
Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, which is
the best salve in the world for cuts,
burns, bmises, boils, eczema and
piles. .The popularity of D,eWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve, due to many cures,
has caused numerous worthless
counterfeits to be placed on the mar
ket. The genuine bears the name of
E 0. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, Sold by
JJeJt $ Cherringtou,
OREGON'S
BLUE RIBBON
STATE
FAIR
SALEM
September 14-19, 1903
The Greatest Exposition and
Live Stock Show on the
Pacific Coast
High Class Racing every p. m.
$12,000 CASH PREMIUMS
on Live Stock and Farm
Products
All Exhibits hauled free over
the Southern Pacific
Reduced 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
Eat All Vou 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, retenr
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.
DYSPEPSIA CAN BE CUBED BY using
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One little
Tablet will give Immediate relief or money
refunded. Sold In handsome tin boxes
at 25 cents. Belt Cherrlnfrton, Dallas.
Oregon.
Sale
Conti
Prices. : : :
LOW RATES TO SEASIDE
Fast Through Train Service Between
Portland and All Beach Points
After July 6.
Commencing Monday July tjth,
the Astoria & Columbia River Rail
road Company again resumed its
Summer Special Seaside Schedule,
and trains leaving Union Depot
Portland at 8;0Q a. m. daily will
run through direct without transfer
at Astoria to all Clatsop Beach
points, arriving at Astoria 11:80
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 6:50 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
company in either direction be
tween Portland and Astoria.
For additional information ad
dress J. C. Mayo, G. F. & P. A.,
Astoria, or E. L. Lewis, Comrn'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
Yannina Bav. This resort is be-
-1 r
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 Art Taking
When you Uke Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonic because the formula. Is ptainly
on evenr bottle, showing that
It Is simply Iron Quinine la a taste
less form. No Care. No Pay. 60c
tines
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Oregon
The Chattanooga Advertising.
' The Chattanooga Medicine Co.,
with laboratories and general offices
at Chattanooga, . Tennessee, and
brapep houses ap i-;OUi8, ,o.,
ancj San Franpiscp, Cal., has ie
pome one of the largest proprietary
medicine concerns in the world. In
the growth of this great business
two factors have been dominant:
The merit af its products-Wine of
Cardui and Thedford's Black
Draught has been widely recog
nized and the original advertising
methods adopted have excited great
comment. The publicity for these
medicines does not consist of the
catch phrase and extravagant state
ment too often employed in adver
tising today, but instead the plain
story of experience with the medi
cines given in the plain language
of the people themselves. The
following letter is a fair sample of
the thousands of Wine of Cardui
testimonials published during the
past twenty years.
2068 Eastern, Avenue,
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 20, 1902.
I consider Wine of Cardui a most
excellent woman's remedy. It is
certainly a specific as a tonic and
regulator. For eight years I suffer
ed with female trouble. I had in
tense pain in the back nnd head,
leaving me so weak that I was un
able to stand at times. Medicine
did not seem to help me, but after
all remedies had failed me Wine
of Cardui proved my one great,
true friend. What a relief I ex
perienced! It came only a few
days after I started taking it. I
used it faithfully for four months
and gradually grew stronger and
better. I am now regular to the
day and for the past two years have
enjoyed blessed good health. I
certainly wish every sick aud suffer
ing woman could know of "your
blessed medicine, how much pain
and suffering it would prevent, and
what a difference it would make in
thousands of homes where there is
sickness and sorrow todaj', if they
had Wine of Cardui it would bring
relief and joy instead.
MARGARET GREENMYRE.
Pays for the OBSERVER
and the Weekly Oregonian
one year. In order to take
advantage of this liberal
offer, yon r subscription to the Obssrvkb
must be paid up to date. Now is the
time to anfieflrihe.
SICK HEADACHE ABSOLUTELY and
permanently cured by using Mokf Tea.
A pleasant herb drink. Cure constipation
and indigestion, makes you eat, sleep,
work and happy. Satisfaction guaranteed
or money back. 23 cts. and CO cts. Belt
it Cberricgton. Dailu, Oregon.
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HUNTERS HAD GREAT SPORT
Rigged Up "Fake"- Deer and Had
Comrade Shoot At It.
"I 1 l-t tir -m r , .
oionci u. w. Mattnews .a rived
home this week from the uppe
waters of the McKenzie, wherewith
a party of friends, he enjoyed a
splendid outing, feasting on venison
and trout and having a good time
generally. An Oregonian reporter
was a member of the party, and in
Monday's paper he tells of a prank
that was played on one of the boys,
in which the jovial Colonel and
"Slim" McManuB took a prominent
part. No one loves a joke better
than the Colonel, even when the
joke is on himself, and while the
reporter doubtless drew on his fer
tile imagination for a part of the
story, the Colonel admits that the
facts are, in the main, correct. The
story of the "fake'' deer is as
follows:
"A practical joke played near
the junction of Horse Creek and
the McKenzie one night last week,
was not really in violation of the
law, but pretended to be and it re
coiled on one of the perpetrators in
a way that made him think for a
short time that there was 'some
thing doing in that neck of woods.'
In that isolated section of Lane
County it has been the custom of
campers to occasionally stalk deer
in the dark of the moon, using a
bicycle lamp to blind the animal
and also to aid in aiming the rifle.
"A few nights ago Nate Solomon,
of Portland, and C. H. McManus
and C. W. Matthews, of Dallas,
plotted to have W. L. Bentley, of
Portland, go stalking and shoot at
a fake deer. In the afternoon Mc
Manus and Matthews slipped down
to a deer lick in the dense forest
and rigged up a tomato can, many
of which they found lying around,
to represent a deer. This was done
by boring two holes in the can and
placing a lighted candle in it, so
it wpuld look like the eyes of a deer
shining in the dark- It was arranged
that Solomon should bring Bentley
down to the deer lick at dusk and
have him shoot at the supposed
deer, Matthews and McManus
were to be behind logs out of range
and were to move the can by means
of a long string to represent the
swaying of a deer's head. At the
third shot they were to pull the can
down to the ground to convince
Bentley that he had killed the
deer. A general laugh on Bentley
was the last thing on the pro
gramme.
"At dusk McManus and Matthews
went down to the licks to light the
candle and arrange the plot. Half
an hour later Bentley, armed with
a 30:30 rifle, went, guided by Sol
omon, to stalk a deer in the licks.
Less thai a minute before they
reached the scene McManus had
posted himself behind a four-foot fir
ree and Matthews, after vainly
endeavoring to disentangle the line
attached to the can, had jumped
behind a log, but not the one he
had so carefully selected in the
afternoon for cover.
"Bentley saw the fake deer. He
said it looked like a lantern tohim,
as the eyes were too large. Solomon
said it looked like a deer to him,
and Bentley blazed away. The
bullet missed the mark by a mile,
but Matthews thought he had a
dum'dum' somewhere in his car
cass.
" 'Pull the string' he yelled.
" 'There ain't no string,' shouted
back McManus.
" 'Hi, there," don't shoot,' came
from where Matthews lay behind a
og. 'Don't shoot any more, for
God's sake. Is that you, Solomon?'
"Solomon said that was he and
promised that there would be
no more shooting. Tb.ua assured
Matthews came forth and straight-
ned himself out. Then he started
for home. He was bathed in
perspiration when he reached camp,
but his legs would have taken him
a few paces further if necessary to
get him out of the range of a 30:30
rifle. Everybody gathered around
bim and asked him for particulars
and told how they would feed it to
EXPERIENCE 13 THE BEST teacher.
Use Acker's English Remedy in an;
case of coughs, cold or croup. Should it
fall to givs Immediate relief money re
funded. 25 cts. and 60 eta. Belt Cher
rington, Dallas, Oregon.
Bentley for shooting at a fake deer.
"Matthews moved uneasily in
his seat, and waved his hand.
'Leave Bentley alone,' he gasped.
" 'Why?' asked everybody in
astonishment. 'Isn't the joke on
him?'
" 'Not by a jugfull,' said
Matthews. 'It's all on me. Bent
ley fired so wide that I did not
even hear the bullet whiz through
the trees, but I feel as if he had
filled me full of holes."
"Matthews took the morning
stage for Dallas and Bentley is still
looking for deer."
PASSED TO HER REST
Mrs. James K. Sears Died of
Paralysis Friday Morning.
Mrs. James K. Sears, of McCoy,
Polk county, died Friday evening
at 5 o'clock, as a result of paralysis,
after an illness of only a few hours.
Mrs. Sears was alone in her
home in McCoy Friday morning,
her daughter and husband both
being in the grain warehouse about
two blocks away from the house,
and about 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, while she was in the yard
among the flowers she was smitten
with a sudden stroke of paralys.s
and fell in her tracks. Her daughter
in the warehouse heard her Bhrill
scream and rushed to her assistance,
only to find her already writhing
in the agony of death.
A doctor was immediately sum
moned from Perrydale, two miles
distant, but when he arrived he
dispelled all hope by saying that
the woman was dying, and could
ive only a few hours at best. True
to the doctor's prediction, she
passed away at 5 o'clock in the
evening, surrounded by a circle of
heartbroken relatives and friends.
Mrs. Sears was the wife of James
K. Sears, who has been for many
years a prominent warehouseman,
doing business at several Polk
county towns. lhe last few years
a portion of the time they made
their home in Salem, while the
daughter attended school.
Deceased was born in Spring
Valley, on the old Walker donation
and claim, May 24, 1857, and re
mained upon the farm until her
marriage to Mr. Sears in 1878,
after which they went to McCoy,
where they have made their home
most of the timesince. Her father,
Major W. M. Walker, preceded her
to the great beyond several years
ago, but her aged mother still sur
vives, a resident of Salem.
Deceased leaves four daughters,
Maud, Dora, Winnett and Bernice,
and one son, Earl, all unmarried
and living at home.
Mrs. Sears was a noble Christian
woman, who has done much good
n the world, and leaves a host of
friends, besides the heartbroken
members of the family to mourn
her sad and untimely demise. She
has always affiliated with the Bap
tist church. She leaves three
sisters, Mrs. J. L. Purvineand Mrs.
D. G. Henry, of Spring Valley, and
Miss Dora Walker, of Salem.
The funeral services were held at
the Zena church Sunday morning
at 11 o'clock, and interment was
in Zena cemetery. Salem States
man.
Last week a man was in town
soliciting funds for establishing a
ibrary to be placed in the county
ail for the benefit of the prisoners.
This man was earnest in bis solici
tation, thinking that he was doing
a great good, The prisons' and
ails of our lands are too well pro
vided for the comforts of their in
mates now. When some of our
aw abiding citizens cannot afford
the luxury of a library, it looks
ike placing a premium on prison
ife by giving a prisoner more ad
vantages than many persons have
at home. Let our jails and prisons
be what the name implies, a place
of confinement and punishment,
and not a palace. Sheridan Sun.
Legal blanks for sale at this
office.
ACKER'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS are
old on a positive guarantee. Cures heart
burn, racing of the food, dSstrtsa after
eating or any form of dyspepsia. One
little tablet gives immediate relief. 28
cts. and CO cts. Beit Cherringtoa
Dallas, Oregon.
FARMERS ON EASY STREET
All Kinds of Products Find Ready
Sale at High Prices.
With-wheat, oats, hay, hops and
prunes yielding from fair to large
crops, and prices for all these com
modities unusually high, there is a
certainty that money will be plenti
ful in the Willamette Valley this
Fall and Winter. Practically
everything the farmer has to sHl,
from an egg to a load of hay, has
found ready sale at high prices.
Theie has been a big profit inevrry
cord of wood the farmer could cut
and bring to town. The season
has been favorable for grass, and
the heavy flow of milk has been
accompanied by a brisk demand
and record-breaking figures for
dairy products. When the harvest
is over and the net proceeds of the
season's work has been deposited
in the bank, Willamette Valley
farmers will have good cause for
gratitude as they gather about the
festive board on Thanksgiving day.
The success of this year's work
should bring about a great change
in the Valley, which is truly the
garden fpot of Oregon. Some of
the old houses, with their low ceil
ings, moflii-grown roofs and well
worn floors, should give place to
more modern structures such as
may already be found on a large
proportion of Oregon farms. Out
dated machinery should be sup
planted with implements which
will make farm labor more agree
able. The hand-power pump should
be surmounted with a windmill,
whose capacious tank will always
have an abundance of water ready
for use not only in the farm yard
but also in the house, where too
many pails of water have already
been carried by the wives and
daughters. Homes should be made
more comfortable and attractive,
60 that the tendency of the younger
generation shall not be to leave the
quiet, healthful country life for the
rush aud turmoil of the city.
For a number of years following
the last business depression the
way was hard for the farmer,
though no more beset with troubles
for him than for the average
laborer or busineps man in the
city. The last two or three seasons
have served to place the farmers on
their feet again, and many of them
have , good-sized bank accounts.
Upon their success depends the
prosperity of the entire community,
and all will rejoice with them in
the return of conditions which per
mit them to enjoy more of the
luxuries and comforts of life.
Oregonian.
W. B. Duncan, a farmer residing
near Lincoln in Polk county, de
parted on the afternoon train
Saturday for his old home at
Astoria, where he has not been for
20 years, and will spend the regatta
week visiting relatives. Statesman.
Acute
Chest Pains From
"Tobacco Heart."
Valvular Heart Dis
ease Threatened.
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
Cured Me.
The effect of excessive smoking shown bjr
uch symptoms a heart pains, heartburn,
smothering spells, shortness of breath, flut
tering and palpitation, is most serious. If
vour heart is in arv way affected you should
at once begin tl.. use of Dr. Miles' Heart
Cure which enriches the blood, regulates the
heart's action and improve ths circulation.
"I am a local newspaper man and
have been an inveterate smoker sines my
boyhood. A little over a year ajo I first
noticed symptoms of hiart trouble, onlpta
tioa an! acu e piHs and a peculiar, I might
s;y. indescribaole feeling across my chest.
Local physicians said I had 'tobacco hesrt'
1 quit smoking for a while and took regular
de. of digitalis and belladona with some
relief but t!ie same o'i symptoms were still
th-rr-. A lricnd of mine hevi recently died
of what the doc'ir said was valvular disease
of the hear, Knowin? that his symptoms
were similar to mine I felt that my time too
was limited, although I am still a vounf
mm, in my tiurty-ninth year. In Skillman
& Stone's druf store here Dr. Miles New
11 -art Cure wis recommended. I began
taking it and I can positively state that its
rffc.-t is marvelous. I have just finished my
thirl bottle and feel like a 'kid' and believe
I am cured. Th. letter is the spontaneous
utterance of wne who wishes to thank yoa
for benefits r?ceie I." Wt S. Gimht,
Seattle. A'ash, formerly of Spokane, Wash.
A!: druggist Sc-11 and guarantee first bot
I'.e ' r. Mile.' Ke.n-dies. Snd for free h ok
oi Ntvous aii Heart 1 seases. Addreas
Ur. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, lad.
THE OLD REUADLE'
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L'viiaA'i'iJiLai
Absolutely Paro
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
PARSON WAS VENTURESOME
Rev Adams Gets in Deep Water and
Narrowly Escapes Drowning.
Newport had quite a sensation
at the bathing Friday and it was
all caused by a person being too
venturesome in the surf. It might
be remarked that nearly all the
accidents at most surf bathing re- ,
sorts are caused by someone being
careltss and getting beyond their
depth. A report from Newport of
Friday sa)'s:
While surf bathing at the ocean
beach on Nye Creek, Rev. F. H.
Adams, of McMinnville, narrowly
escaped drowning. He swam
through the surf and becoming ex
hausted was unaule to return
ag'iinst the tide which was ebbing
at the time. He succeeded, how
ever, in keeping afloat until assist
ance from shore reached him.
Samuel Dugger, of Albany, and
II. B. McCamish, of McMinnville,
at the risk of their lives swam out
and effected his rescue after a hard
struggle in the breakers.
He was enjoying the swells be
yond the breakers when he dis
covered that he could not make his
way to phore. On account of the
rescuers being in the surf for con
siderable time it was with the
greatest difficulty that the drown
ing man was reached. The waves
were quite strong against them,
and had it not been for great
presence of mind all would not
have been saved. Great credit is
due those who participated in the
rescue. Rev. Adams is lately from
New York and has been pastor of
the Baptist church at McMinnville
since his arrival in Oregon. Albany
Herald.
NO PANIC IN THE WEST
'Plenty of Money and Plenty of
Common Sense," Says Governor
Odell.
A dispatch to the Uecord-IIerald
from Mohawk Lake, N. Y., says:
Governor Odell, who has just re
turned from a tour of the West,
says the people outside of Wall
street are too busy with big crops
and other business to pay any
attention to the recent flurry and
failures.
"There is no sign of panic any
where except in the East," he says.
"In the West there is plenty of
money and plenty of common
sense. Business is good, crops are
abundant and money cheap every
where! have been. The excitement
and demoralization of the East are
regarded with indifference in the
great, busy productive, West." he
continued.
"Of course I found labor strikes
in the West as in the East, but
they were strikea for higher wages
and shorter hours, not strikea
against lower wages, which are
signs of bad times. That is a very
important fact to remember just
now.
Rev. W. T. Wardle, of Dallas,
occupied the pulpit of Mizpah
Presbyterian church, Powell street,
Sunday morning. He was formerly
pastor of this church. Oregonian.
Played Out.
Dull Headache. Pains In various parts
of the body Sinking at the Pit of the
Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Feverishness,
Pimples or Bores are all positive evidences
of impure blood. No matter how It be
came bo, it must be purified in order to
obtain good hea.th. Acker's Blood Elixir
has never failed to cure Scrofulous or
ypfcilitlo ri-crs or any other b!co
diseases. It is certainly a wonderful
remedy and we sell every bottle on a posi
tive guarantee. Beit & Cherrington, tml
laa, Oregon.