Polk County observer., October 28, 1904, Image 1

County
VOL. XVII
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 148, 1904
NO, 33
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d if you don't like that style,
'11 show you one you do like,
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E HAVE THEM. THE
MART
SCHAFFNER
& MARX
We havo the BLACK CAT HOSIERY for men,
women and children.
The ORTHOPEDIC SHOE is known the world
over for its style and quality.
OLESALE AND
rAIL . . . ....
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We Guarantee the Choicest and Best Cold
Storage Meats.
PAINTS,
WALL PAPER
and . . .
MOULDINGS
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ith a boy's suit or overcoat, we give a nice present
lets, Trunks, Valises and Gents'
Furnishing Goods of
All Kinds.
L Jacobsoii Co.
IfrilpatricK Building. DALLAS, OREGON
alias Ice jj Cold Storage Co.
WHOLESALE. AND RETAIL
Cold Storage Rates are Cheap. Our Ice Is made of Pure
Mountain Water.
MEAT MARKET
ssages over Mutual Telephone at Our Expense
We give a World's Fair Tour Coupon with
every 25c purchase.
Bell Phone 366. Mutual 21.
Dallas, Oregon.
:c Nov Wall Paper & Paint Store.
YTIf & CORNES, Mill street, Dallas, Oregon
m J. HDD
DEALER IN
LADIES and
CHILDRENS FURNISH
ING G00D5.
The largest and best stock of
Materials for Fancy Work
in the city.
COLLINS BUILDING
Dallas, Oregon
ASK FOR INJUNCTION
Dallas Property Owners Allege That
Mill Race Overflows and Damages
Their Premises.
E. H. Levens, Lucy E. Rowell, Frank
Eowell and Mary A. Dougan,
plaintiffs, vs. G. M. Gooch and C. F.
Hoin, co-partners doing business
under the firm name of Gooch & Hein,
and Ed Biddle, defendants, is thi title
of a suit filed in Judge Galloway's de
partment of Circuit Court for Polk
County, Monday. This is a suit for
damages, and further, according to
the complaint, to restrain and enjoin
the defendants from flooding or over
flowing plaintiff's premises with the
water flowing in the Dallas mill race.
Plaintiff for cause of suit alleges
that for more than one year last past
the defendants have wholly failed,
neglected and refused to keep said
water ditch in good repair or to con
trol the waters flowing in said ditch,
and that the defendants have care
lessly and negligently allowed more
water to flow into said ditch through
its head-gate than said ditch would
carry. It is further alleged' that the
water has flowed over the banks of the
ditch and flooded the plaintiffs' lands
to such an extent as to destroy grow
ing crops, prevent cultivation, and
also to destroy one acre of hops.
The plaintiffs pray for a decree of
the court restraining and enjoining
defendants from flooding or overflow
ing plaintiffs' premises with water,
and also that they be required tc keep
the ditch in good repair, and that they
be compelled to desist from allowing
more water to flow into the ditch than
the same will carry; that the rights
of all the parties be fixed by such de
cree, and that the plaintiffs have and
recover damages in the sum of $200
and all costs and disbursements. Ed
F. Coad is the attorney for the
plaintiffs.
DR. DARRIN TALKS
On Deafness A Partial List of
Patients Cured by the Cele.
brated Specialist Follows.
"It is from the throat that the citadel
of the hearing is taken.
The mucus membrane lining of the
throat lines also the passages to the
ears the Eustachian tubes. When
disease sets up in the throat it is likely
to extend into the Eustachian tubes.
The same conditions that cause
swelling or inflammation, or the secre
tion of thick and heavy mucus in the
throat cause the same effect in the ear
tubes.
Phsryngitis, Laryngitis, Rhinitis,
Tonsilitis, Bronchitis and all the
many diseases affecting the membrane
of the throat may result in deafness
or discharging ears.
Scarlet fever, Diphtheria, Typhoid
fever, produce inflammation of the
throat which often extends to the ear
tubes and causes deafness.
It is necessary to use an entirely
different treatment; one that will
reach the seat of the inflammation in
the ear tubes themselves and that can
be done by electricity.
Head noises indicate a condition of
impaired hearing or that the hearing
is going to fail.
Whenever the treatment has gained
an influence over the head noises, it
is a certain sign that restoration of
hearing will soon take place.
Nearly every case of deafness
caused by disease in the Eustachian
tubes can be cured by proper use of
electricity and medicines if skillfully
applied." I
The following list of people cured
and benefited in this vicinity should
be convincing proof of the superiority
of electrtcity over the ills of the flesh :
Judge J. J. Whitney. Albany, deaf
ness and ringing noises in the ear.
Ex-Senator Geo. Chandler's son, of
Baker Cityt who had trouble and gen
eral debility ; cured and gained 30
pounds.
F. H. Hohn, 247 Commercial street,
Salem, catarrh : cured.
Miss. Nettie Dempsey, Waterloo, Or.,
catarrh and ulcers of the nose.
W. W. Parish, Sodaville, Or., deaf
ness cured.
J. L. Oxford, Brownsville, Or., deaf
ness cured in ten minutes.
Mrs. Pet Crabtree, residing at Crab-
tree, Or., reheumatism and catarrh.
Mrs. N. E. Olin, 608 1st st., Albany,
deafness, Kidney and bladder troubles
P. A. Racey, Jefferson, Or., deafness
cured 10 years ago. No return of it.
D. F. West, Plainview, Or., chronic
catarrh, stomach and kidney troubles
of 15 years standing.
Henry Bruer, Turner, Or., deafness
and discharging ears cured.
Miss .D. G. Eeddick, Lebanon, Or.,
discharging ears, restored.
Mrs. Dora Hadley, Sodaville Or.,dis
charging ears, constipation, and
dyspepsia.
G. W. Benight, 105 Pine st., Albany,
deafness.
Mayor S. Tomlinson, of Woodburn,
rheumatism and generally run down,
cured 11 years ago.
Miss Irene Ashford, of Salem, dis
charging car cured.
Hundreds of others might be men
tioned who do not want their names
published.
DR. DAERIS'S PLACE OF BCSIX&S&.
Dr. Darrio can be consulted free at j
the Hotel Gail, Dallas, Or., from 10 to
5 o'clock daily ; evening 7 to 8, Sunday
10 to 2.
The doctor makes a specialty of all
diseases of the eye,ear,nose and throat
catarrh, deafness, brochitis, la grippe,
heart, liver, bladder and kidney dis
eases, or those who suffer from apathy
and indifference; also genito-urinary
and skin diseases in either sex, such
as blood taints, seminal weakness and
lost vigor, varicoceles and stricture.
AH curable chronic diseases treated
at $3 a week, or in that proportion of
time as the case may require. The
poor treated free, except medicines,
from 10 to 11 daily. No cases published
except by permission of the patient.
All business relations with Dr. Darrin
strictly confidential. Electrical ap
pliances furnished, One visit is de
sirable, through many cases can be
treated by home treatment by writing
symptoms. Eyes tested and glasses
fitted.
The Observer Way.
All letter heads, note heads, state
ments and bill heads printed at the
Observer office are put up in neat tab
lets, with blotter attached, making
them convenient for handling and
preventing waste in using. Stationery
put up in this manner costs us a little
more, but there is no extra charge to
our customers. No cheap paper is
used in this class of work. Our stock
of bond and flat paper is the product
of the best mills in America.
HER FATHER'S CRIME
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THE MARGARITA FISHER CO.
open their engagement of one week
at the City Hall, Dallas, on flonday
evening, October 31st, in one of the
strongest plays ever written "HER
FATHER'S CRIME." A story beauti
fully told and filled with strong scenes
and startling climaxes. One who has
seen and appreciated "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" knows the beauty of the south
ern play and this is an exceptionally
clever one. The cruel treatment of a
trusted slave caused by a father ex
changing his child for that of his
master's to keep her from being
brought up in slavery, inheriting
her masters fortune, the patient blind
mother.the revengeful young mistress,
the meek slave ; all tend to make the
story, while the faithful colored ser
vants keep the comedy loving audi
ence in laughter from start to finish.
A play richly staged and costumed
giving Miss Fisher and her entire
cast splendid opportunity to display
their talents. This is undoubtedly one
of the strongest companies on the eoast
this season.
Special Features
THE THREE (3) HOWARDS
MABEL
The Scottish Nightingale
FRANK AND SAM
Comedians. Vocalists and Dancers
Prices 50c 35c 25c. Reserved seats
now on sale at Belt & Cherrington's
Drug Store.
Shylock was the man who
wanted a pound of human
flesh. There are many
Shylocks now, the convales
cent, the consumptive, the
sickly child, the pale young
woman, all want human flesh
and they can get it take
Scott's Emulsion.
Scott's Emulsion is flesh
and blood, bone and muscle.
It feeds the nerves, strengthens
the digestive organs and they
feed the whole body.
For nearly thirty years
Scott's Emulsion has been the
great giver of human flesh.
We will send you a couple of
ounces free.
SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists.
408-415 Pearl Street. New York.
$oc and $uoo ; all drogguUt
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OREGON NEEDS ADVERTISING
Former Portland Man Surprised to
Find the State So Little Known
in the East.
John S. Pinney, a former manager
of the Portland, Spokane and Seattle
branches of the American Type
Founders' Company, who was recently
promoted to a position in the head
office in New York City, writes the
Portland Journal that he finds Oregon
poorly advertised in the Eastern states,
and that no Oregon fruits, labeled as
such, can be found in the Eastern
markets. Mr. Pinney, an able man
by the way, became greatly attached
to Oregon during his few years' stay
on the coast, and when promoted to a
higher position in tho New York office
of his company, left the state reluc
tantly, declaring that he would return
some day and spend the remainder of
his life in Oregon. Pinney has a
forceful, convincing way about him,
and it is pretty safe to say that the
men he meets will learn something
about Oregon if nobody else in the
East does. His letter to the Journal
is not exactly pleasing and palatable,
but it contains an almighty hard dose
of the' truth, as any man who has ever
traveled through the country he writes
of can abundantly testify. Every
Oregonian should read his letter and
profit by it. He says :
May 15 last I left Oregon to make
my business home in New York. I
determined, on starting, to learn to
what extent Oregon is known in that
section of the United States called "the
east," and the result of my investiga
tions is here stated :
During five months I have traveled
about 5,000 miles. I have visited
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago twice,
Detroit, Cleveland.Indianapolis twice,
Pittsburg twice, Philadelphia three
times, Buffalo, Albany, and the dis
tance from New York to Chicago has
been covered three times. I have also
spent many days in New York City,
and in the larger cities near New York.
During all of this traveling I have en
joyed conversation with a great many
business men and fellow travelers.
To my statement that I came from the
Pacific coast, they have all replied,
invariably and instantly, "Oh yes,
from California." I counted tho num
ber of times that reply was made
during the first three months after
leaving Oregon, and the number was
1,283. Since then I have not continued
the count, but I have been surprised
and pained that not a single one of
the thousands of eastern men I have
met and conversed with, appeared to
know that Oregon was on the map,
but every one instantly said, "Oh yes,
from California," when I mentioned
the Pacific coast.
Lately I have been investigating the
"why" of this seeming lack of knowl
edge of Oregon's existence. Here,
again, is the result: I find California
literature everywhere. Railroad
advertising, land company booklets,
city souvenirs, .fruit statistics, and the
fruits themselves, but nothing from
Oregon, or almost nothing.
I have visited several of the largest
groceries in Newark, 250,000 popula
tion, also in Elizabeth, 80,000 popula
tion, Jersey City, 300,000 population,
New YorK about 3,000,000, looking for
Oregon prunes, and othor Oregon
fruits, and tho invariable and unhesi
tating reply has been that they never
heard of Oregon prunes. I have, how
ever, ordered eight boxes from a friend
in Oregon and they will be placed on
the tables of eight well known men
living in New York and New Jersey,
for I am determined that some one
within my circle of business and per
sonal friends must be able to say that
they have heard of Oregon prunes,
and have tasted them and found them
good.
I have still further pursued my
investigations relative to Oregon pro
ducts in the east. My latest effort has
been to discover, if possible, some of
tho excellent products of that great
state advertised in the eastern maga
zines and othor high-class publica
tions, such as the Ladies' Home
Journal, Saturday Evening Post, and
others. I have found one glorious
conspicuous exception to the discour
agingly monotonous failure, and this
single shining example is the Pendle
ton Woolen Mills, with their well
constructed, beautiful advertisement
for the Oregon Indian robes manu
factured at Pendleton. Hurrah for
Pendleton and her enterprising woolen
mill and the Indian robes. I have
found two of the robes in families liv
ing on Staten Island and in Jersey
City.and I felt like shaking hands with
old friends from my beloved Oregon.
(I sent both robe3 east myself to these
families for Christmas presents some
years ago.) I wish it were possible to
send more of them, not. especially to
just make presents, but to let more
families back hero know of at least
one Oregon product.
But what's the matter with Oregon
anyway? Why have thousands of well
posted bright business men In nine of
the largest and most wealthy eastern
states said to me, "Oh yes, from Cali
fornia." Why cannot Oregon products
be found in the big eastern stores?
Why does nobody know of the wonder
ful Oregon? Not because she la so far
away. That isn't a good reason. Cali
fornia is just as far, but everybody
knows of California. At the St. Louis
fair your neighboring state Washing
ton distributed 100,000 magnificent
souvenir books, not cheap ,stuff, but
beautiful books that any one would
take home and read and look at many
times and ponder over. How many
did Oregon distribute at the St. Louis
fair? Today I received a folder done
in most artistic effect advertising the.
Spokane fair this fall. And I have
just learned that thousands of these
folders have been mailed broadcast
by Spokane merchants.
I tell you, friends, its mighty hard
work to holler for Oregon, as I am do
ing, and as I delight in doing, when
ever man you meet says, "Oh yes, from
California," and when oue sees Cali
fornia booklets, fruits, railroad adver
tising, land advertising, everywhere
but never a word of Oregon.
Coming east from Portland I en
countered a" party of eastern tourists,
returning from "the coast" I say
"encountered" for that just fits our
meeting. They were looking at the
Oregon fields and hills, and wonder
ing what varmints could possibly ex
ist there, and when I mildly told them
that tho land they were looking at
could not be bought for from $ 50 to
$ 100 an acre, they jumped me in great
shape. They had been to California
they allowed, and that was the only
country on the Pacific coast. Wo hap
pened to be at Hood River station just
then and when I told them that I had
paid $100 an acre for 20 acres near
Hood River only the day before, they
dropped me right there and the only
words I heard from them after that
was "he's crazy, plumb crazy, to waste
his money that way." If they could
have seen those 20 acres of mine, up
near the celebrated orchards and home
of Mr. Smith, the successful apple
raiser of Hood river, as I had seen
the valley only the day before, I ven
ture to say that instead of crazy, I
would have been put down as being
crazy only in one respect for leaving
Oregon at all.
I am sending you this letter, for the
purpose of telling you the results of
my investigations regarding how well
Oregon is known in the states that I
have traveled over during five months
and also to make this offer : If any
chamber of commerce, or other public
body of Oregon, or any other society
that is attempting to make Oregon
better known, would like to receive
suggestions from an Oregonian in the
east about more successfully carrying
on their work, I would like to hear
from them and they may be suro of
receiving such pointers as I may be
able to give from time to time, for I
love Oregon, and have a little spot
back there that I am going back to
one of these days.
JOHN S. PINNEY.
SELLS GROCERY STORE
T. A. Riggs Will Devote His Atten
tion to His Hop Yards and
Other Outside Interests.
T. A. Riggs has sold the White
Front Grocery store to David Crider,
who, for many years, has been the
head clerk in the establishment. An
invoice of the stock is being taken,
preparatory to turning the business
over to the new owner. Mr. Riggs
will hereafter devote his entiro atten
tion to the management of his hop
yard and to the buying and selling of
hops, wool and cascara bark.
David Crider, the new proprietor,
has probably sold more groceries than
any other one man in Polk county,
having been continuously employed as
a clerk in that business since his
brother, J. W. Crider, conducted a
grocery store in Dallas fifteen or
twenty years ago. He has a wide
acquaintance throughout tho county,
and will doubtless enjoy a prosperous
business.
Mr. Riggs, the retiring proprietor,
owns a large new hop yard near Rick
reall that will require much personal
attention as it comes into full bearing,
and also has other important business
interests in the county. He is a
prominent dealer in cascara bark,
having handled many carloads of this
valuable staple in Polk, Benton, Liu
eoln and Tillamook county in the last
three years. He also handles wool
and mohair, and this year has devoted
considerable attention to the hop
business, buying largely for tho
English market.
DR. FENNER'S
O
Wm
AND
Backache
Also Purifies the Dlood.
Don't become discouraged. There Is a cure for you. If necessary write Dr. Fencer.
Be bos spent a lifetime curing just such canes an yours. AH consultations FKEE.
"I have been a sufferer from rheumatism for 10 years and have often been confined to the
house and sometimes to my bed for several days. I commenced taking Dr. Fenner's Kidney
and Backache Cure when I was suffering intensely. It afforded relief at once. I now feel
as well as I ever have in my life. ADA ULACKWELL, Kansas City, Mo."
"1 suffered from kidney and bladder trouble until life was not worth living. I began using
Dr. Fenner's Kidney and Backache Cure and iu a ohort time noticed a great improvement.
I was soon permanently cured. HOWARD MITCHELL, Kansas City Mo."
Sold by Druggists, 50c. and II. Ask for Dr. Fenuer's Almauac or Cook Book i at.
For Sale by BELT & CHERRINGTON
FEW HOPS UNSOLD
Twelve Thousand Bales Will Probably
Cover Crops Now In Farmers'
Hands.
The 1904 hop crop of Oregon is about
all sold. Well-informed dealers agree
that the number of bales still in the
hands of the farmers at the present
timo does not exceed 12,000, and that
most ot these hops are on the East side
of the Willamette river. Practically
everything in the Independence dis
trict has been cleaned up, and only
two crops remain unsold in the Dallas
district. The number of bales remain
ing unsold in the entire county will
not exceed 800. According to buyers'
reports, fanners who had not sold up
to Wednesday morning were: Fink
Brothers and H. Clanfield, of Dallas;
Thomas Holman, of Eola; Gilbert &
Patterson, (Lincoln yard,) and Allen
& Dunn, of King's Valley.
Present prospects point to a large
increase in the hop acreage next year.
Tuesday's Oregonian says: "Some
indication of the craze for hopgrowing
is shown in the strong demand that
exists for hop roots. Ordinarily these
can be bought for $2.50 per thousand,
but the urgent inquiry this year has
caused growers to advance the price to
$10 per thousand. Even at a cent a
piece the big growers say they have
more orders than they care to fill.
This looks like a great increase in the
hop acreage next year and an immense
increase in the output two years hence,
when hops may be as cheap as hay."
Tho New York Hop Reporting Com
pany has compiled interesting statis
tics showing the opening, highest and
lowest prices in the New York market
for choice "state" hops for the last 42
years. The Observer would like to
reprint these figures in full, as many
farmers would file them away for
reference, but owing to a lack of space
this week we can only give statistics
since the year 1880:
Opening
price High- Low
Crop of iuSept. est. esc
1880 35 35 21
1881......... 25 50 23
1882 55 110 27
1883 ' 32 38 23
1884 ....30 30 10
1885 13 30 10
1880 30 30 15
1887 22 22 13
1888 27 31 1G
188!) ..,.10 28 12
1890 43 48 17
181)1 15j .32 155
18i)2 , 22 J 20 21J
1893 25 25 22
1894 10 22 8
1895 8J llj 7
1890 10 15 3
1897 .14 18. 4
1898 15 19 9
1899 14 19 12
1900 17 21 12
1901 15 21 13
1902 32 38 15
1903 30 37 21
1904 35
A careful study of the hop market
since 18C2 reveals some interesting
facts. Taking the New York figures
as authority, (and thero is no reason
to doubt their correctness,) the averago
opening price in September for the 42,
years is 31 cents ; the average highest
price for tho same period of time is 37
cents, while the average lowest price
is 19J cents. In other words, if the
grower had sold on the opening
market each year for 42 years he
would have received an average of 311
cents for his hops. If he had been so
fortunate as to receive the highest
price paid each year, he would have
averaged 37 cents. Hal he received
the lowest price each year for 42 years
ho still would have realized an
average of 19 cents for tho whole
time.
Quiet Home Wedding.
Married at tho homo of Mr. Oust.
Enkson, on Saturday morning, Octo
ber 22, Miss Ellen A. Erikson and Mr.
Lars Erik Bomau, Rev. W. T. Wardle
officiating. A pleasant company of
relatives and friends witnessed the
ceremony. A delightful wedding
dinner was sorved. Mr. and Mrs.
Boman will make their home near
Albany.
Tho Howards in their specialties.are
alone worth the price of admission,
with The Margarita Fischer Company.
Monday evening, Oct. 31.
All Diseases of the
kidneys, bladder, nd
urinary organs.
Also catarrh, heart
disease, gravel, dropsy,
rheumatism, backache,
female troubles.
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