Polk County Observer
J. C. HAYTER,
EDITOR AND PUBIJSHKR.
Publiilied Weekly at $1.50 per
Strictly in Advance.
Year.
DALLAS. OREGON. March 10,1905.
The way to build up Dallas ts to pat
ronize Dallas people.
DALLAS CAN LEAD
Dallas has more substantial public
Improvements than any town of like
sizfe on the Pacific Coast The town
ha3 1 a plentiful supply of pure
mountain water; it baa excellent elec
tric street lights, a good sewerage
svstem. ample fire apparatus, and
good sidewalks and crosswalks on
every street, extending far into the
suburbs. The only important feature
now lacking is well-improved streets,
The streets of Dallas, while far from
impassable, are in many respects a
disgrace to the town, and are far from
what the people of the town could de
sire them to be. No particular blame
can be attached either to the council
or to the people for the existing con
dition of the streets, for the very good
reason that the town has no material
with which to build better thorough
fares. Thousands of dollars of the
public money have been spent In the
last fifteen or twenty years in an effort
to build permanent streets with the
gravel taken from the bed of the
LaCreole river, but the money has
been practically thrown away. The
gravel is not hard enough to with
stand the heavy traffic, and soon
crumbles into dust or mud. Then
follows the additional expense to the
property-owner of scraping up this
layer of dirt and hauling it away.
Every former council has wrestled
with this problem of trying to make
permanent streets with gravel, and in
every instance the effort has proved
futile. The present council has met
with the experience of its predecessors,
and, at last tiring of forcing the
property-owners to waste their money
in temporary gravel improvements,
has decided to submit the question of
purchasing a rock-crusher to the
voters at the coming city election.
The committee on streets is now in
vestigating the cost of a crusher
suitablo to tho needs of a town of this
size, and is also looking into the
matter of securing a sufficient supply
of rock adapted to road purposes.
Every feature of the work of building
rock streets will be thoroughly and
conscientiously investigated, and
should the project be found practicable
and within tho reach of the town, it Is
highly probable that the whole matter
will be submitted to the voters for
their approval or disapproval at the
election to bo held three weeks from
next Monday.
Tho importance to Dallas of clean,
well-improved streets, and of good
permanent roads leading Into the
country in every direction cannot be
overestimated. Such improvements, if
wisoly planned and carried out, would
establish Dallas' commercial suprem
acy for all time to come. With the
lead that would bo gained by such a
movement, trade would be brought to
the town that could never bo diverted
to other centers. If any citizen of
Dallas thinks that the farmers would
not welcomo such a move by the town,
let him ask the first tarmer he meets
for his opinion as to whether or not
Dallas would gaiu trade by putting in
a rock-crusher and assisting the
country people in getting a first-class
road over which to haul their produce
to market, winter or summer. We be
lieve ho will find tho answer so em
phatic as to leave no room for doubt
as to its earnestness. Tho writer has
talked with hundreds of farmers on
this subject in the last thirty days,
and ho has yet to find ono who does
not agree that Dallas could take no
more important step than to in
augurate a genuino good-roads move
ment In Polk county by purchasing a
crusher and beginuing tho work of
building permanent roads. j
We would not have it understood
that the Oiisfkvkr is in favor of
Dallas undertaking to build county
roads at her own expense. Such
move would be impracticable, and no
one exoeeta it of the town. The first
thing to be done Is to put the streets
of Dallas in first-class condition, and
wheD this work is accomplished it will
be time to begin work on the roads
leadinff into town. The city crusher
can be rented to the load districts at a
low rate, or even loaned free of any
charge whatever, and crushed rock
can be hauled and spread on the
county roads instead of gravel. When
the farmers once see the practical
benefits of the use of crushed rock on
the streets of the town, they will not
be slow in joining in the improve'
ment of the countrv roads, and no
trouble will be encountered in secur
ing a sufficient number of wagons
and teams, without cost, to keep the
crusher running to its capacity. The
work will become mutual. The town
will help the farmers, and the farmers
will help the town, and, almost before
we are aware of it, the county will
have several miles of permanent
roads. After the good work is once
under way, it will never cease the
people will not permit it to cease and
even the County Court will at last be
obliged to admit the "error of its
way" and join in the movement by
purchasing two or more crushers for
general use in the county. But, as in
all important enterprises, it is neces
sary for someone to take the lead, and
the Observer sincerely hopes that the
people of Dallas will take this im
portant honor upon themselves by
voting to buy a rock-crusher without
further delay.
INITIATIVE PROPER REMEDY.
Determined to stop the Normal
School graft, even if they have to
abolish the Normal Schools, and put
other state institutions to great iu-
oonvenience, one body of citizens pro
poses to appeal to the referendum.
Another body of citizens, who are not
willing to punish all for the offenses
of a few, proposes a less sweeping but
not less effective measure, through
the initiative. The Oregonian is sure
that a bill can be framed under the
initiative that will meet the situation
The general desire Is to veto the
Normal School appropriation. The
referendum will not do it. It appears
to be clear, from the, attitude of the
state authorities, that they will feel
justified under the state law in issuing
certificates of indebtedness for all the
institutions benefited by the appropri
ation bill now sought to be attacked.
To be sure, if the bill were to be voted
down by the referendum, the public
sense of outrage would be expressed,
but that is all. The next Legislature
might or might not heed it. But if,
under tho initiative, a measure is
offered abolishing the Normal Schools,
or, what is better, prohibiting the
Legislature from creating more than
one school, the dasired end will be
specifically accomplished. Let us,
then, have the initiative, if we are to
have anything. Let the public Bay
what is to be done with the Normal
Schools, and let the state Insane
Asylum, Penitentiary, Keform School
and the others be permitted to escape
the general public wrath. Oregonian.
As a successful indicter, there are
no Hies on Mr. Honey, of Washington,
and other places. With the aid of his
man Friday Burns and the Secretary
of the Interior, Oregon's Congressman
has been made out a terribly mean
man and has been indicted again at
Washington. Isn't it pretty near time
for some of the trials to come off? The
public is really becoming interested
to see if the government has con
vincing proof in all these cases Salem
Statesman.
WIN ONE GAME EACH
Corvallls Defeats Dallas in Return
Basketball Game by Score
of 25 to 12.
HJRMGED
Tie expression occurs so many times in
leu-, s from sick women to Dr. Pierce; "I
c; iT!etelv discouraged." And there
is a.wavs good reason for the discourage
ment. ' Years of suffering. Doctor after
doctor t:kii in vain. Medicines doing
no lasting gooa.
It is no wonder
that the woman
r i j: 1
ME5?Jfot-'j Thousands of
blC-BJthe weak and
sick women have
found health and
courage regained
as the result of
the use of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. It
establishes regu
larity, dries un
healthy drains,
heals inflamma
tion and ulcerea
tion, and cures
female weakness.
It makes weak
women strong and
sick women well.
"In the year 1899
I was taken sick,"
writes Mrs. Kdna
Crowder, of Ripley,
I.audenlaleCo-.Tenn.
'My limbs ached,
had severe pains in
back and lower part
of bowels, with dif
ficulty in urination,
and smarting and
Imrnins? pain after. I tried many kinds of
medicine and four of the best doctors in the
comitrv, until I gave up all hope of recovery.
In Tauiiarv, 1901. I wrote to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of
Buffalo, jf. Y., and received from him a letter,
telling me to try his medicines. I took eleven
bottles, six of Favorite Prescription,' five of
'Golden Medical Discovery,' one vial of 'Pel
lets,' and used one box of 'Lotion Tablets' and
one of ' Healinir Suppositories,' and am now
able to work at anvtliing I want to. Thanks to
you for yourvaluable medicine and kind advice."
Weak aud sick women are invited to
consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, by letter, free.
All correspondence is held as strictly
pnvate and sacredly confidential. Aa
dress Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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DISPLAY OF COLLEGE SPIRIT
It It Highly Developed Among the
Students of the Oregon Agri
cultural College.
C. students
to the
m . .1 j j,.n,i ntorprv turn.
were tauntea auu jt-ci "--"
and as the train pulled out from the
cHifinn A mob Of 0. A
nnrl town hoodlums, Stooping
moral level of sewer-rats, gathered up
mud from the streets and threw it in
to the faces and on the clothing of
passengers on the platforms who had
not yet found seats in the crowded
cars. No city officer was sent to quell
the disturbance, and one Corvallis
newspaper afterwards had theaffront
ery to uphold the rioters, saying in
effect that "mud will brush off when
it gets dry."
The tough element attempted to re
peat these tactics last Friday night,
but were promptly called down by one
or two determined Dallas men and
compelled to behave themselves until
an armed officer arrived and took
them in hand. Had this help not
arrived promptly, Corvallis might
have had a few more hoodlums to
bury.
The Observer regrets to recall these
unpleasant facts, and would not men
tion them here but for the arrogant
attempt of the Corvallis writer in the
Telegram to place the people of Dallas
in a false light. While he was telling
the story of the incidents of the
Dallas-Corvallis game, he should
have told it all.
SKETCH OF JOHN M. SCOTT.
The Corvallis correspondent of the
EveniDg Telegram sent the following
dispatch to his paper Tuesday :
"An amusing incident, andonethat
might have caused trouble during the
0. A. C.-Dallas game, not heretofore
reported, was the fact that the Dallas
rooters brought with them to Corvallis
an illuminated banner bearing the
ascription. 'Dallas. Champions of
Oregon.' It was evidently the inten
tion to unfurl this banner at the con
clusion of the game, ns it was brought
into toe nail snugly wrapped up. nut
the unexpected result of the game
spoiled this part of the programme,
and a crowd of college boys, learning
of the presence of such a banner,
attempted to secure it. The cooler
heads present, however, persuaded
the boys to desist, and the banner re
turned to Dallas intact. Had Dallas
won and then flaunted their banner in
the face of the students, there certainly
would have been something doing.
Spring Humors
Coino to most people and cause many
trouble, pimples, boils aud other
eruptions, besides Kus of appetite,
Unit tired feclingr, fits of biliousm-os,
Indigestion and headache.
T: e stu.tH-r cue et3 rid of them tho
bettiT, and he way to get rid of them
and lo build up the system that has
Buffered from tlieiu is lo take
Hood's Sarsapariila
and Pills
v.. !
i iiiuii iu vuiuui nation mo cpri;i'
Medicine jmr excellence, tf ui:c.;n ill, d
strength in puiifyinir the h' a
howu by unequalled, .-adieu! aim i-immanent
cures of
$crofula Salt Pum
Scald Heed Bolts, Ki.rj.!.3
All Kinds of Humor Psarlayli
Eiood Poisoning -iSUM.ittam
J.rc.M r.o suli'if -:!c, U. bi:. to
get Hood's, and get it tod.;)-,
The O. A.C. basketball team defeated
tho Dallas Colloge team in Corvallis
last Friday evening by a score of 25
to 12. Dallas defeated the Corvallis
team on the home floor a few weeks
ago by a decisive score, and, unless a
third game is played, the state
championship for 1904-5 will remain
unsottled.
The Dallas players were in poor
condition at Corvallis, and were clear
ly outplayed by thoir opponents. The
game was fast and exciting, but Dal
las was unable to score at critical
moments, and Corvallis, having the
advantage of being on its own
lloor, held the visitors down to a de
fensive game. Chester Gates, of the
Dallas team, was painfully injured by
a fall in the last half and was practi
cally out of the playing until the fin.al
whistle blew.
A large crowd of Dallas nennliJ
s j-
attended the game, leaving Dallas on
a special motor iu the afternoon and
returning late Friday night.
The Corvallis Gazette, a paper that
has alwavs had kind words for tho
Dallas team, says : -'After something
more than two years O. A. C. h3 suc
ceeded in defeating Dallas In a game
of basket ball. The game was fast
and furious and some of our people
can scarcely tell yet how we managed
to defeat Dallas as we did. Dallas has
a good team there is no denying this
fact and played a rattling good
game. Honors are now even and a
decisive game is likely to be played in
the near future. The Dallas boys and
their friends accepted defeat grace
fully, and their general demeanor was
the subject of much favorable comment"
The writer of the foregoing para
graph, whoever he is, is just a plain,
ordinary, every-day liar. He isn't
even a skillful liar. The banner
mentioned in his dispatch is a flag or
pennant bearing the word "Dallas,"
and contains no other wording what
ever. This crimson pennant Is the
Dallas student banner, and the
basketball players have carried it with
them on many trips, never thinking
of flaunting it in the faces of the
students of any college. No school
but Corvallis has ever attempted to
destroy it. It appearo that the Oregon
Agricultural College is the only school
n Oregon where this "college spirit,"
as it is called, has been developed to
the point of ruffianism, and both
attempts to secure the Dallas pennant
have been characterized by the most
shameless actions. College spirit
among healthy, active young men is
well enough in its place, but when the
term is used to cover up acts that
would otherwise be punishable as
misdemeanors or crimes against the
law, it is time for this "spirit" to be
subdued somewhat.
The Observer cares little about this
rivalry existing among college boys,
but it has often wondered why the
Dallas College team recognized the
O. A. C. team at all in making up its
schedule of games for this year, after
the disgraceful scenes that occurred
in Corvallis a year ago, after O. A. C.
had been defeated by the Polk county
players, when a large crowd of visitors
from Dallas were attacked and pelted
with stones and mud by a mob of
students and town hoodlums just as
the train was pulling out of town.
There is no particular harm in a lot
of college boys scrapping over the
possession of a school flag, so long as
they keep within the bounds of
decency, but this doe3 not justify a
town in permitting a gang of hoodlums
to assault peaceful visitors from a
neighbor town and escape unpunished.
A repetition of these disgraceful
actions was attempted this year, but
cooler heads," as the Corvallis
correspondent says, "persuaded the
boys to desist." The cooler heads, as
it happened, were on the shoulders of
one or two well-known business men
of Dallas, who called in a Deputy
bnermor lSenton county, and it was a
loaded revolver in the hands of this
officer that served as a "persuader."
Corvallis hoodlums have no particular
for a Sheriff with a loaded cun
By J. L. COLLINS.
John M. Scott was born in Illinois
in July, 1827. . He was a son of Capt.
Levi Scott and Eda Ennis Scott, His
mother died when he was about four
teen years old. He was one of a family
of thirteen children born to Capt.
Scott and his wife between the time of
their marriaere in 1817. and the time
of Mrs. Scott's death, which took place
in 1842.
In 1844, at the age of sixteen, John
M. Scott crossed the plains with his
father, in company with A. F. Hedges,
who settled at Canemah, just above
the falls of the Willamette, and Capt.
Charles Bennett, who settled at Salem,
and was killed in the three days battle
with the Indians, at Walla Walla, in
the winter of 1855-C. While crossing
the Cascade mountains, with horses,
after having been compelled to aban
don their wagon on the plains, John
rode iDto the cold and rushing waters
of Hood Biver to swim across on his
horse, which was carried off by the
current, and rolled over, with the boy
clinging to the saddle. After floating
down stream, over the boulders, for
about a quarter of a mile, the horse
landed safely on the western bank,
with John still clinging to the rig
ging. In 1845, Capt. Scott took up a
claim, about nine miles north of Cor
vallis, which he afterwards sold, and
it was, I think, finally proved up on
by a man named Cahoon. It lies just
a little south of Wellsville, on the
S. P. E. E., which runs across the east
end of the claim.
In 184C, John went with his father,
Jesse Applegate, and twelve others iu
search of a way by which wagons
could be driven into the Willamette
valley, which never yet had been
accomplished. All the wagons, yet,
brought to the Valley, had been
brought down the Columbia, from the
dalles of that river, on batteaux.
They started in the Spring, early, and
carefully examined the way across the
Calapooya mountains, through the
Umpqua valley, and the gieat Ump
qua Canyon, across the Cow Creek
mountains, through the Eogue Eiver
valley, across the Siskiyou mountains
to the Klamath river, which they fol
lowed up to the Kamath lakes. They
passed around the south eud of that
Lake, and of Goose Lake, and pro
ceeded to the sink of the Hurabolt
Eiver, near which they struck the Cal
ifornia emigrant trail, which they
followed to Fort Hall. .This was one
of the most important of the early
explorations of this country. Its value
was little understood, atthe time; and
it brought the explorers neither profit,
nor thanks from the many who were
ultimately benefited by it But it
opened a way for the immigrants to
drive their wagons into the settle
ments; and helped and hastened the
settlement of southern and southeast
ern Oregon.
When the Cayuse war broke out in
1847, John went with his father, who
had been commissioned by Governor
Abernethy Captain of a company of
fifteen to carry dispatches to the Gov-
They started in
toinfl So. tneeuon.-w
Calnia failed, and U.ey re
turned to the settlements the latter
part of January.
In the summer of 1848, Jonn n
took a land claim on Elk Creek at
the foot of the Calai.y. mountolna,
which he nftorwards sold to . Chailos
. ,.... t iRf,r,. he purchased six
S&oflaodfrom John II
Lewis and wife, being the whole of
their Donation Claim, except foity
awls, given by them to help found
tta Creole Academy, at Dallas n
,872, he sold thio lard, and bought the
John Nichols Donation Claim, about
a mile southwest of Dallas. Ho sold
this place about ten years after, and
lived in Dallas a year or two, when
he moved to the Malheur valley n
Eastern Oregon, where he died, Feb
ruary 82, 1905.
He was a man of but little educa
tion He never had an opportunity
to get much help in that line. But he
was a man of good, broad, all-round
intelligence. In all matters with
which he had an opportunity to become
acquainted, his judgment B"""
b-nnwMffn unerring. His ad-
ttUUiUia inivM- o w
n-aa nftnn smicrht.and was always
valuable. He was a man of modest
aud unassuming deportment; always
kind and obliging; and scrupulously
honest. He despised a mean or cow
a rdly action. He was a firm believer
i that fundamental principle of our
l 11 tUUb A 1
Eepublic, self-government. He be
tn,.aA timt Averv intelligent person
knows what is right; and that every
one has a right to do as he pleases, if
he pleases to do rignt.anu to wiui.b u
r . l. ! 1J
other person, tuis was ma men
..if.nnviornmpnt. He was a dinmoi
011 C
in the rough, a typical pioneer, a man
of princely soui.
REALESTATE1!
78 acres Nice Homelike place,
with cond buildinss and fences
t 1 1 oni'AQ in nil Irivntinn lots of fine
timber $1500
5 acres with a good little House
mifl "Rnrn all fenced and under
cultivation, only 650
Nice 13 acre tract, finely sit-
nnrl worth fif0 per acre onlv $ 32
Fine ion acre farm, well im
proved $5000
Well improved farm of 117 acres $2500
Finelv improved farm of 4fl()
acres $9500
Stock Ranch 900200 acres under
cultivation Can't be beat $9000
Nice little Home of 15 acres $1100
Stock and Grain farm of 230 acres
a dick nailing good place at a
bargain.
1G4 acres 30 under cultivation
Buildincs Fenced a good place
cheap as dirt only $1500
Here is the cheapest place in
Oregon 81 acres, House, Barn,
and other improvements worth
$1200 at least for only $ 800
1 nave all classes or itancnes and
Farms for sale I can suit you in
quality or price.
HENRY CAHPBELL,
DALLAS, OREGON
THE BEST
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TOWER CANADIAN CO., LTD., TORONTO. CANADA,
use
since the occurrence of a certain tragic
event in that town a few months ago.
The Corvallis basketball players
have visited Dallas twice within the
last two years, and on both occasions
they were treated with every courtesy
by the students of Dallas College.
(among whom this "college spirit" is
not quite so highly developed,) and bv
the citizens of the town. The visitors
accompanying the team were accorded
the treatment that is due from one
neighbor to another, and every effort
was put forth to make their brief stay
in Dallas pleasant and enjoyable. In
return, the Dallas visitors to Corvallis
roimnoiffirTAR
Ciitm CoJdsi PrvvMt FMeiroaia
FOIIYSnoIJEFTAn
top ixm oougtk. tu&d li4lu&ga
ernor of California
December. On reaching the Siskiyou
mountains, in January, they found
the snow about five feet deep, and so
crusted over, that it would not bear
the weight of a horse ; and in attempt
ing to go forward, it cut the legs of
the horses so badly, that they soon
found it impossible to cross the
mountains with the animals. They
decided to send part of the men back
witn tne horses, and part of them
should cross the mountain on foot and
proceed to the Sacramento valley,
carrying their blankets, arms and
provisions on their backs. The horses
were started back at once, as the men
were anxious to get them to grass,
for they had nothing but the twigs of
bushes to eat now for three or four
days. John Scott and seven men were
sent back with the horses; while seven
men attempted to cross the mountain
on foot The party that attempted to
cross the mountain found it im
possible, and were compelled to nh.m.
don the effort The men with the
horses traveled slowly, to rest the
weary animals and allow them to
graze, wherever they could find grass
The men on foot overtook them on the
Umpqua river, just after passing
through the Great Canyon of the
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This is a bargain that
has not been excelled
in the history of mer
chandising in Dallas, as
it includes all our stock
of fine up-to-date Lace
Curtains all styles and
grades. Then if you
do not need them now,
why here is your chance
to buy" a little ahead
of time and save tne
price of a pair of Lace
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HERE'S YOUR CHAM,'
Our entire stock of Wall Paper will be sold fromnwa 1
is not a bolt left at an
ACTUAL REDUCTION OF 20 PERCt
besides selling side-wall, ceiling and border at the sari'.
OUR WALL PAPER CUT is occasioned
of a choice new lot which will be opened io a short time. i
we frame pictures and carry tacks, cloth, window sb
poles, paints, oils and glasa. Prices right. f
I have two practically new drop-head Singer Semt
traded in as part payment for the White machines, fi
same as new. You can buy them for $25 or $30 cash.ori
ment plan.
L. D. DANIEL, - Dallas, 0
I You Can Buy a Cheaper Shoe
t If Price is the First
lunsiaerauon.
it you are looking for Wear,
Fit and Style it might j)ay
you to look over pur line.
Twenty years of careful shoe
buying has. afforded us the
cream of foot-wear factories.
If you consider the style and quality, then-
will surprise you. 1
Repairing Neatly and Prompt1
Dallas Boot and Shoe.
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WALNUT TREES
FOR SALE
ERDnnviDUt TreeS' to
BROOKS Q SONS,
Walnut Nursery, Carlton, Oregon
HEATH & COR
THE WALL PAPER and PAINT
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Have the only exclusive
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paper ana paint store
county.
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The New Snrina Stock is arriv
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and comprises all the latest no
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Let them figure
Spring work. It will pay )'
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