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Polk County Observer
J. C. IIAYTER,
EDITOR AND PUBIJ8HER.
Published Weekly at $1.50 per
Klrlrtly in Advance.
Veai.
DALLAS, OREGON, JULY 22, 1904.
The way to build up Dallas ts to pat
ronize Dallas people.
SATISFACTORY ASSESSMENT
GRANTS NEW TRIAL
Judge Burnett Sets Aside jury s
Verdict! in Case of Adkins
vs. Monmouth.
Dallas is justly proud of her
sewer system. Few towns of this
size have sewerage, and the prompt
manner in which the city counci
took up the improvement after the
water-works were completed, and
the substantial encouragement ac
corded the officers in their work by
the citizens of the town, speak
highly for the enterprise and pro
gressive spirit of. the people o:
Dallas. Many property-owners in
the business part of town have
alieady put in their sewer con
nections, and the change for the
better is noticeable. It is the in
tention of the council to order the
removal of all vaults and cesspools
in the business district at once.
The apportionment of the assess
ment of cost of the sewers was made
Monday evening, at which time
large number of interested property-
owners were present at the counci
session. No formal objections were
offered to the assessment, and these
citizens almost without exception
declared themselves entirely satis
fied with the manner in which the
cost of the sewers was apportioned.
The cost in nearly every instance
was lower than the property owners
had anticipated, and, as a result,
the councilmen came in for hearty
congratulations instead of kicks.
The business district and a large
portion of the residence district of
Dallas now has a first-class
sewerage system, and the improve
ment was made without burdening
the city with asingleceutof bonded
indebtedness. The cost of the
sewers will be paid by the property
embraced in the sewer district, and
suburban residents and other
owners of property not benefited by
the improvement will have nothing
to pay for but their proportionate
share of the outlet sewer at the
foot of Court street, the cost of
which was small. The outlet sewer
will benefit every street alike, as
all sewers to be built hereafter will
be connected with it. The council
did not deem it necessary to levy a
special tax for the small amount of
money required in building the
outlet sewer, but ordered it paid
out of the general fund of the city.
Now, that a system of sewerage
is installed in Dallas, the work ot
future councils along this line will
bo easy. The portion of the city
most needing sewerage has been
supplied with that important im
provement, and the work of en
larging the sewer district can be
taken up at any time when the
people shall ask for more sewers, or
when necessity shall require that
the system be extended. The vex
ing problem of making a just and
equitable apportionment of cost be
tween busiuess property and resi
dence property will no longer be
in the way. The determination of
rtspective benefits and valuations
will not be a difficult matter in
the residence district of the city,
where lots are more nearly equal
in size and valuation, and where
the benefits to be derived will be
about the same in all locations.
Judge George H. Burnett held an
adjourned term of Circuit Court for
Polk County, in Dallas, Monday, and
among other orders granted a new
trial in the action of Mrs. Laure
Adkins against the City of Mon
mouth. This actiou was brought by
Mrs. Adkins in 1901 to recover damages
for the alleged injury of a limb in a
fall caused by a defective sidewalk in
Monmouth.
The case was first tried at the May,
1901, term of Circuit Court, and result
ed in a judgment of non-suit being
given totheCity of Monmouth. From
this judgment Mrs. Adkins appealed
to the Supreme Court, with the result
that the judgment of the lower court
was affirmed. She then began a new
case against the city, and at the May,
1903, term was awarded damages in
the sum of $800. The attorneys for
the defendant corporation moved for a
new trial, and the motion was sus
tained by the trialJudge. The third
trial of the case was had at the recent
May term of Circuit Court, when Mrs.
Adkins received a verdict for $2112.91.
This latter verdict was set aside by
Judge Burnett on Monday of this
week.
The case has been stubbornly con
tested throughout, and has attracted
much attention in Polk county.
Holmes & Holmes, the well-known
Salem attorneys, appear for Mrs.
Adkins, and the City of Monmouth is
represented by N. L. Butler and Ed.
F. Coad, of Dallas, and M. L. Pipes,
of Portland.
WILL OPEN NEW BANK
Portland Capitalists Have Secured
Building for National Bank
in Dallas.
The First National Bank of Dallas
will open its doors for business about
September 1. The bank will occupy
tho brick building on Main street now
used by Ellis & Keyt for their grocery
department. The furniture, safe and
other fixtures have been ordered, and
and work on the vault will begin
August 1.
Eugene Hayter, now in the employ
of the Dallas City Bank as a book
keeper, will be the cashier of the new
concern. Ho will sever his connection
with the Dallas City Bank on August
15 to take charge of the work of fitting
up the new bank.
The incorporators of the First
National Bank of Dallas are : R. W
Hovt. It. L. Durham, J. Frank Wat
son, Georgo W. Hoyt and S. C. Catch
ing, all prominent bankers and
capitalists of Portland. The capital
stock of the new bank is $25,000. The
application for organization was ap
proved bv the Controller of the
Currency on June 2.
A Halr-Raising Ride.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Chapman aud
little daughter visited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bryan, in Falls
City, over Sunday. Through the
courtesy of the engineer of the Bryan-
Lucas Lumber Company, Mr. Chap
man was given a boat ride in the
company s lumber nume sunaay
morning. Tho run from tho mountain
mill to Fulls City, a distance of four
miles, was made in exactly twenty
minutes. At many places along the
Hue, the flume is fully thirty feet
above the ground and the water runs
very swiftly, while at other places the
flume is low and the current is slug
gish. Mr. Chapman says that the
experience of sitting on a floating
timber and riding down a wild
mountain canyon at the speed of an
express traiu, with the ground thirty
feet below and the tree limbs flying
by ou either side, is one not soon to be
forgotten, and the Coroner of Polk
county has no uosire to repeat the
trip.
PLEASANT COAST RESORT
Toll Road From Grand Ronde
Salmon River Beach Is Now
Open to Travel.
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Mrs. Arvillo Miles Truyn died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. II. V.
Gates, in Hillsboro, Friday afternoon.
Death was due to a paralytic stroke,
suffered the early part of tho mouth.
She leaves three children, Mrs. H. V.
Gates, a daughter by her first hus
band, and Mrs. II. J. Stevens of Well
ington, Kausas, and W. E. Pruyn, of
lleppner, Oregon.
Scrofula
Tivr are entirely frtWmm It.
It may develop to slowly aa to cause
little If any disturbance during the whole
period of childhood.
It may tben produce Irreifularlty of the
Stomach and bowels, dypepji, catJirrb,
and marked tendency to consumption
If fore m.nni rutins lt'if in much cutaneous
eruption or plandular wiling.
It is Ixt to be sure- tout you are quite
fnf from it, and for it complete eradica
tion you ran rely on
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Tbt tot of ail BM&ClfiM A Ail boBion.
Street Improvement Notice.
To D. J. Riley :
Notico is hereby given, That the
City Council of the City of Dallas,
Oregon, contemplates the passage of
an Ordinance requiring the improve
ment of those certain streets or parts
of streets herein described, as follows,
to-wit: A new sidewalk 5 feet 4 inches
in width on the North side of that
part of Washington street adjacent to
aud adjoining that certain lot or part
of lot or parcel of ground described
as Lot3 3 and 4, block No. 12 of the
original town (now city) of Dallas,
Oregon.
That said sidewalk will be con
structed of lumber at tho time and in
the manner to be hereafter prescribed
by said ordinance:
That the cost of said sidewalk will
le assessed to tho above described
property fronting and abutting there
on ;
That the City Council of said City
will sit in the Council Chamber in
said City oc tho 1st day of August
A. D. 1904, at 7:30 o'clock in the eve
ning, to hear and determine objections
and remonstrances thereto, if any
there be; and
mat an owners, ana other persons
In interest, may attend at said time
and place and show cause, if any they
have, why said sidewalk should not
be constructed.
Done by order of the City Council
of the City of Dallas, made on the lith
day of July A. D. 1904.
Witness my hand and the official
seal of the said City of Dallas, this
21st day of July A. D. 1904.
(Seal) DAN T. STOUFFER,
Auditor and Police Judgeof
the City of Dallas, Oregon
Among all the picturesque spots
along the Oregon coast, none is more
attractive than the country at the
mouth of Salmon River. The beach
is firm and smooth, the scenery is
wild and rugged, the streams are full
of trout, game is plentiful, and shell
fish in abundance are found at the
river's mouth. Hundreds of ideal
camping places are to be found along
tho road and at the beach. To those
tired and overworked mortals who
wish to enjoy a quiet outing and to
escape the exacting demands of society
at the fashionable Summer resorts,
the Salmon River beach offers a charm
that proves irresistible.
In the early days of Oregon, the
Salmon River beach was the popular
pleasure resort of the people of the
Willamette Valley, and hundreds of
families camped there every year. In
those days the road across the moun
tains was kept in a good state of repair,
and the trip could be made with ease
and comfort. But after a time, the
toll-road was abandoned, and for the
last fifteen or twenty years it has been
all but impassable. Men with capital
have often traveled over the road in
recent years with a view to restoring
if. t.n its old-time condition, but it
remained for' two Yamhill county
physicians to take up the work aud
carry it through to a successful com
pletion.
Early last Spring, Dr. W. Tyler
Smith, of Sheridan, and Dr. E. E.
Goucher, McMinnville, decided to
build a first-class mountain road from
the crossing of the Yamhill river, at
the tinner end of the Grand Ronde
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agency, to the Salmon River beach
They bought a small sawmill and
moved it into the mountains for use
in sawing lumber to build a plank
road over the marshy places and
bridores across the streams. Men were
put to work cutting the timber and
brush along tho sides of the road in
the shady canyons, and the grades
around the mountain sides were level
ed and widened. The improvement
has been going on for several months,
and the road is now in a better condi
tion for travel than it has ever been
before.
The dirt road from Leno's ranch to
Pheasant creek, a distance of three
miles, is smooth and dry, and no
difficulty is encountered in. hauling
heavy loads over this steepest part of
the mountain. The plank road begins
at Pheasant creek and ends at the
beach, a distance of twenty miles.
Substantial bridges have been built
at all the river crossings, and the
perilous fording of swift and rocky
streams is a thing of tho past. The
entire trip may now be made in perfect
safety in a light buggy, and heavy
teams are driven over the plank road
in a sweeping trot. The toll-gate is at
Round Prairie, and the rates of toll
are reasonable.
That the new road is destined to be
popular with coasters is assured be
yond a doubt. Travel has been heavy
since the road was opened two weeks
ago, and inquiries as to its condition
have been received from all parts of
tho valley. Twenty-five teams passed
through the toll-gate in two days last
week, and the number is increasing
every day.
LEWIS AND CLARK CLUB
COURT HOUSE NOTES.
PROBATE.
F.st.ate of Anna M. Bigler, deceased
inventory and appraisement filed
and approved.
Rstate of Charles G. Fisher, deceas
edfinal account heard and approved
except the sum of $18 disallowed on
expense account.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
S E Lcmmon et ux to Lucinda Bald
win, lots 7 and 8, block 12, Hill's add
to Independence, $550.
G Keller et ux et al to Luckiamute
Flouring Mills, 13 acres, 1 9 s, r 5 w,
$1.
John A Williams et ux to W D Mc
Cabe, 76 acres, 1 10 s, r 6 w, $400.
A R Southwick et ux to J R Chap
man, lot 1, Highland Fruit Farm, S
G G Bingham et ux to James and
Mary Plant, 68.96 acres, t 7 s, r 3 w,
$3500.
Luckiamute Flouring Mills to Gott
fried and Mary Keller, 13 acres, t 9 s,
r 5 w, $6000.
Acnes Campbell and hd to J S Ash
baugh, lot 7, block 6, Levens LaCreole
Hd add to Dallas, $100.
Mary E Moore and hd to Charles F
Fisher, lots In Stanley's add to Mou
mouth, $160.
Mury Smith to Edward T Plaster,
40 ticres, 1 8 s, r 5 w, $1450.
A A Cattron to P H Johnson, lots in
Monmouth, $2000.
Laura Frazer to Eugene Bogert,
tracts in Monmouth, $70.
E A Thorp to C P Coruwell, lots 1, 2,
7 and 8, block 33, E A Thorp's town of
Independence, $100.
J E and Lucy Elkins to V A Heath,
lots 7 and 8, block 13, and 8 feet on
south side of lot 8, E A Thorp's town
of Independence, $400.
Laura Frazer, guardian, to Eugene
Bogart, tracts in Monmouth, $70.
United States to George Hagood,
160 acres, 1 7 s, r 7 w, patent.
COMMISSIONERS' COURT
Petition of William Armitage and
ten others for a chance in the
boundaries of School District No.
granted.
Petition of J. K. Guttry and six
others for a change in the boundaries
of School District No. 37 granted.
Orders transferring money from the
General Fund to the Road Fund were
made, as follows: District No. 4,
59.25; District No. 5, $58.73; District
No. 14, $37.88.
C. W. Lewis was appointed Stock
Inspector, with bonds fixed in the
sum of $1000.
It appearing to the court that Mrs.
Telitha Dykstra is sick and in need
of immediate relief, it was ordered
that Henry Black be allowed the sum
of $1 per day for her care and main
tenance until the further order of the
court.
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Ranch it and rough it and you 1 soon
ret rid of that we k dies and that hack
far cough. ' Tlvit is what the doctor
said to a vo mK married man with a wife
and child to care
for and a modest
salary to supiwrt
them on. tie
muUn't sro West
Love and duty tied
him to his desk in
the city.
People don't
have to travel to
cure coughs or
strength3ti weak
lungi. Dr. Pierce's
fiolden Medical
Discovery cures ob-
stinate, deep-seated
coughs, bronchitis,
ble-'ding of the
lungs, weakness,
emaciation and
disease which if neglected or unsktU-
fullv treated terminate tatany in con
sumption.
.: i.. wVii Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery hai .done fo. -me.-. yi George
K. Belcher, Kj.. uonuu, " . ,i
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OTsES: with shortness of
breath, and it was very easy to take cold ; tM
lightest change of weather would cause the
cough to be so Bad I would have to sit up in bed
a?l night. Could not eat or sleep at times : w.
all run down ; could not worn ... v-"
L,h I he?nn usir-g Dr. Pierce s Golden
two Domes, aim ."" " '' i , ,,!
tul I feet like a new mat. I cannot find wonts
to sufficiently recommend Dr. Pierce 'r uo.
Medical Discovery, or te.l the good it has done
me."
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser in paper covers is sent free on
receipt of 21 one cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. The book has
rooS pages and ever 700 illustrations.
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
VOTING HAS BEGUN
World's Fair Tour Contest Promises
to Be Interesting.
HUNTLEY IS OUSTED
Polk County Court Dispenses With
Services of County Road
Master.
Women Prepare Envelope to Adver
tise 1905 Fair and Polk County.
The Ladies of the Lewis and Clark
Division were very pleasantly enter
tained on Tuesday afternoon by Mrs.
Mark Hayterand Miss Neva Campbell,
at the home of the latter. After the
regular business meeting, an inter
esting program was rendered, and
dainty refreshments were served by
the youug lady members.
The Division is preparing, and will
soon have on sale a Lewis and Clark
envelope, which will furnish a neat
means of advertising Polk County
among Eastern friends. The Division
voted to adjourn during the next two
months and will meet with Mrs. J. D.
Smith, on the third Tuesday in
October.
The ladies who enjoyed Mrs. Hay-
ter's hospitality were: Mrs. C. L.
Barnes, Mrs. J. E. Smith, Mrs. J. D.
Smith, Mrs. J. C. Gaynor, Mrs. Ed
Biddle, Mrs. M. M. Ellis, Mrs. J. M.
Campbell, Mrs. F. J. Wagner, Mrs.
D. A. Madison. Mrs. Murrell. Mrs.
W. Crowther, Mrs. V. A. Heath,
Mrs. F. J. Coad, Mrs. J. G. VauOrsdel,
Mrs. D. P. Stouffer. Mrs. Alvis Lynch,
Mrs. M. D. Ellis. Mrs. D. M. Metzger,
Mrs. Willis Simonton, Mrs. Jennie
Smith, Mrs. H. B. Cosper, Miss Erma
Smith, Miss Mabel Guy, Miss Neva
Campbell, Miss Ethel Craven and
Miss Ruth VanOrsdel.
T. B. Huntley, of Independence,
who has served as County Road Mas
ter for the past four years, was dis
charged by the County Court last
Wednesday. The reasons given for
his dismissal are unsatisfactory ser
vice and neglect of duty. The office
will probably be left vacant, for the
present at least.
The order of the court dismissing
Mr. Huntley is as follows: "Ordered
that T. B. Huntley, county road mas
ter, be discharged, for the reason that
his services are not satisfactory aud
for the reason that he has failed and
neglected to certify or report on the
completion of the concrete arch at the
Hirschberjr place on the Independence
road, and also for his failure and neg
lect to report to the Court or to inform
it of the progress of work done on the
roads."
House and Barn Burned.
The house and barn of Glenn B.
Zumwalt, on the Zumwalt farm near
Perrydale, were totally destroyed by
tire on Sunday, July 10. The fire
originated in the barn and was first
discovered at 10 :30 o'clock in the
morning. Sparks from the burning
barn set fire to the house, 300 feet
away, and both buildings, with their
contents, were soon destroyed. The
origin of the fire is not known, but it
u believed to have been caused by
children playing with matches in the
hay mow. The loss will reach $1000.
No insurance was carried.
Thirteen business firms of Dallas
are giving away coupons on a popular
voting contest, known as the World's
Fair Tour Contest. A blank ballot Is
given with every 25-cent purchase of
goods, and the lady having the highest
number of votes at the close of the
contest will receive free transportation
to St. Louis and return, and $100-ad-ditional
expense money. The ballot
box is at Williams' confectionery
store, and the votes will be counted on
Wednesday evening of each week.
Persons having coupons are requested
to vote them the same week they are
received. The result of the ballot this
week is as follows :
Mrs. V. P. Fiske 92
Miss Emma Dempsey 42
Miss Bessie Muscott 31
Miss Nora Robertson 4
Miss Lilly Baxter 1
Miss Emma Dempsey, who received
forty-two votes this week, requests the
Observer to announce that she does
not desire to become a candidate in
thecontest. While deeply appreciating
the kindly spirit that prompted the
casting of these ballots in her favor,
the young lady asks her friends not
to consider her name farther in con
nection with the balloting now m
progress.
AUGUST MAGAZINES
AT
MEISER & MEISER'S
World's Fair vote with every
25 cent purchase.
DoWIH's KSS Salvo
For Pile Curtis Sores.
Warehouse at Bridgeport.
President Louis Gerlinger, of the
Dallas & Falls City railroad, informs
us that the company has decided to
build a warehouse and sidetrack at
Bridgeport. The work will begin at
once. Bridgeport station is in the
center of a fine farming and hoprais
ing country in the fertile Luckiamute
valley, and a large amount of wheat.
ujpa aua otner iarm products are
shipped from there each month. The
company will make a reasonable
freight rate on w heat and hops. A
warehouse at Bridgeport will be a
great convenience to the farmers, as it
will save them a long haul by team i
over the hills to Dallas or Moumouih
Re-Elected Old Officers.
The stockholders of the Dallas Citv
Bank held their annual meeting in
the Bank parlor last Saturday after
noon. All of the old officers were
elected for another year, and the
board of directors were continued in
office. A semi-annual dividend of five
per cent was declared. The affairs of
iue jianK are in a
dition.
prosperous con-
DON'T WATCH!
your old time-piece to see
it it is keeping correct time,
but buy a reliable Hamilton
Railroad Watch or a Paillard
Non-Magnetic Watch.
ONEIDA SILVERWARE,
made of the best material and
a 25-year guarantee with all
articles of this brand. We
also keep the White Metal
brand Knives, Forks, Tea
and Table Spoons.
Call and See My Line of Coods
CHARLES H. MORRIS
JEWELEK.
DALLAS, - OREGON
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3 J. U. VANORSDEL & SON
DBALKES IS
Ctafccr ana Tarn Eaitfc and City Property.
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Kodo! Dyspepsia Curo
ClgsU what you eat
Office on Court Street.
Dallas, Oregon.
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SPACE
FOR OUR NEW
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Phone 246.
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Haiti Street
O. H. COBB
WWM, Carriages, Buagics and farm macMifli
O. H. COBB & SON
MANUFACTURERS AND REPAIRERS OF
Phone Farm 329.
r)or$e Shoeing and Plow Work a Specialty.
We have one of the best Shoers in the State.
New and second-hand rigs to sell or trade.
North Dallas, Oreg
New Lines....
of Oriental Laces and All-overs, in wh:
cream and black.
New Embroideries, wide widths for con
covers.
New Lines in Neckwear.
Lace Berthasr-the very latest.
You will always find
the newest things at
Pollock's Cash Stor
WAQNER BROS.
CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
Single Shovel Plows, Double jShovel Plows, Wing
Plows, Five-Tooth Cultivators, Disc Cultivators, Peg T-
Harrows, Spring Tooth Harrows, Disc Harrows, reverb
with Tr-s-fo,.: tt- 1 ' .
I) unuu neaa.
All kinds Of PIoa H , nwdsi
I cultivate a hopyard or orchard.
N COR. OAK .d MAIN STREETS. DALLAS. OREOO'
DALLAS IRON WORKj
W. C. JACKSON, successor to Ed. Biddle.
Manufacturing
ana Kepairs
of all
Kinds.
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OF WORK.
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