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VOL. 26.
(THE HOME PAPER)
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1914.
(TWICE-A-WEEK)
NO. 40.
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PRINTERS TALK PRICES
WILLAMETTE VALLEY ASSOCIA
TION CONVENES IN DALLAS.
San Francisco Exposition and the
. Candidate Supply Material for
Lengthy Discussions.
Although the mid-summer meeting
of the Willamette Valley Press asso
ciation did not call out the attendance
that was expected, the session was,
nevertheless, one of the most interest
ing yet held by the publishers of this
section. The interest manifested in
the session was probably due to the
fact that the subjects discussed treat
ed particularly and specifically with
the future condition of the editors'
respective pocketbooks. The meeting
was held in the basement of the public
library building, the court house be
ing occupied by a democratic meeting
in one corner, a socialists' gathering in
another, a jury trial in another, while
the fourth and last coiner was neces
sary for the regular transaction of the
county's business.
President H. Hb'rnibrook of the Al
bany Democrat presided, and first in
troduced Knc . Allen, dean of the
department of journalism at the Uni
versity of Oregon, who discussed "The
Place ot a Newspaper m Politics and
Its Duty Toward Legislation," saying
among other things that it was the
duty of a newspaper to create the
spirit of the community and not to
tear it down, and when the spirit isj
created politicians will enact laws to
accord with that spirit.
Phil. S. Bates of Portland, secre
tary of the State Press association
and publisher of the Northwest Farm
er, speaking on the subject of "Free
Publicity," took a whack at the pub
licity department of the Panama-Pacific
Exposition, condemning that de
partment for its efforts in trying to
work the country newspapers in this
state for an abundance of free adver
tising. He expressed himself as being
in favor of advertising to a certain
extent this fair, but was opposed to
the country editors being worked for
free space. He took to task those
publishers who are printing illustrated
articles in exploitation of the expo
sition, and held that the newspaper
permitting itself to be thus worked in
the interest of the fair was nothing
more nor less than a sucker. Mr.
Bates demanded that cash for this
publicity should be forthcoming.
Lew A. Catcs of The Observer, ot
the request of the speaker, took a
contrary view of the matter, believing
that through the Panama-Pacific expo
sition hundreds of thousands of east
ern people would be induced to visit
this coast country, affording opportu
nity to them to become acquainted
with its unrivaled natural resources
and wonderful climatic advantages
over their home states, which could
not result in other than good for the
entire Pacific Northwest. The pub
lishers ot this section, he said, are
devoting space to the slogan "Buy
your ticket via Oregon, 1015," sent
out by the Portland Commercial club,
the effect of which is insignificant as
compared with illustrated articles
furnished by the publicity department
of the exposition, in the success of
which institution all arc interested.
While The Observer man expressed a
willingness to accept payment for such
publicity, he deemed it a duty to the
eoast count iy and the state to aid in
making the San Francisco show the
liest success possible, for the reason
that success meant greater develop
ment of a vast section.
And in this contention support was
given by C. C. Chapman, immigration
agent of Oregon, and secretary of the
Portland Commercial club. He did
not consider it within the possibilities
to get an appropriation fiom the ex
position for the purpose indicated, and
were it possible to do so the money
would doubtless be expended with the
large pastern magazines and daily
newspapers. He asreed with the oth
er speakers that the exposition man-
Jgement was working the country
press of the land to a fare-you-well,
yet without the publicity received
from that source the big show could
not succeed.
In a talk following the free adver
tising discussion. Col. h. Hofer of the
Oregon Manufacturer and a resident
of Salem for more than a quarter
century, condemned freak legislation.
and declared that he did not know of
a single measure on the ballot this
fall that is needed by the state. Freak
legislation, he said, is doing more to
drive capital from the state than any
other single agency. He thought the
newspapers of the state should de
nounce these measures to their read
ers, and warn them against their
adoption.
W. C. Pugh of the Lebanon Criter
ion, speaking upon the subject of
"How Much Are Political Candidates
Entitled to Under the Oregon Sys
tem." declared that candidates should
be charged double-rate for their adver
tising since, election coming only once
in two years. With this proposition
Mr. Catcs took issue, believing that
there should be no unjust disenmina
tion simply because a man was un-
fortunate enough to be the nominee of
his party in a political campaign. He
thought the regular short-term rates
should apply to this character of ad
vertising as well as to others, and the
committee on resolutions embodied
this feature in its report, and it was
adopted without dissent.
Mr. Mcintosh of the 0. A. C. ex
tension department was present and
addressed the meeting, as did also
Mrs. Edythe Tozier Weathered, who
but recently severed her connection
with the Manufacturers'' association
of the slate after having endeavored
by pink teas to create favor for
Made-in-Oregon goods. Mrs. Weath
ered is now associated with the State
Fair, and invited the publishers to
spend one day as guests of the fair,
and promised to entertain them right
royally.
W. H. Boyd of the Dallas Itemize r
spoke on foreign advertising, H. E,
Hughes of Silverton on the reader,
D. L. Wood of Falls City on space
rates, G. E. Brookings ot Hubbard on
the pleasures of being present, and
Mr. Trype ofPorlland on the publici
ty man, to which class he belongs.
The committee on resolutions, con
sisting on Col. Hofer, Lew A. Gates
and H. E. Hughes, besides resolving
voluminously along various lines, pro
fusely thanked the Dallas Commerci'U
club and its committee in charge for
the handsome entertainment tendered
the association members during their
brief stay in this city, which enter
tainment consisted chiefly of eating,
and nutoing around the loop. The
place of the next meeting will be de
cided by the ollicers of the associa
tion. Plans Will Be Ready Soon.
City Engineer Taylor will have com
pleted plans and specifications for
the proposed septic tnnk by Tuesday
next, and the nldermauic body will
convene on that evening and make its
arrangements for the construction of
the sewage disposal plant.' Bids will
probably be invited at that time. "
TAPS. A RICH COUNTRY
NEW RAILROAD WILL DEVELOP
UPPER LUCKIAMUTE.
Construction Work Is Being Rushed,
a Large Number of Men Being
Employed.
The construction of the Silctz and
Valley railroad is going to aid very
materially in the development of the
Upper Luckiamute country, a section
which lias heretofore been practically
isolated. While the principal object for
building this railroad is to tap a
district rich in timber in the great Si-
letz basin, inasmuch as it will pass
through a fertile agricultural territory
settlement is bound to follow. This
railroad starts from a point on the
Southern Pacific near Airlie in this
county, following up the Luckiamute
into Benton and then circling back
into Polk county and on into the Si-
letz basin, the objective point of the
road. The road is being well built
with an easy grade. Fifty-six pound
steel is being laid. Steel is now laid
from the starting point to Iloskins a
distance of about fifteen miles, and
the company is hauling its supplies
over the new track.
Work on the road is being pushed as
rapidly as possible, the builders be
ing determined to reach the fast de
caying timber injured by fire as quick
ly as men, mules and machinery can
make the connection. At the present
time about two hundred workmen,
two steam shovels and in the neighbor
hood of serentv-nve mules are engag
ed in construction work, and there is
general activity all along the line.
When the line into the Siletz basin is
completed logging operations will be
inaugurated, and the logs will be eith
er emptied into the Willamette river
at Independence, or a sawmill will be
erected at that or some other conven
ient point. While this territory is not
directly tributary to Dallas, the com
mencement of operations there will
mean no inconsiderable to this city
and the county in general, for the
reason that the interests of all sec
tions of Polk county are practically
identical, and what aids one must
necessarily benefit another.
Make Long Auto Trip.
"Jack" Robinson of Pendleton, ac
companied bv his wife. Leon Cohen
and wife and Harold Smith, all of
Ea-stern Oregon, were in Dallas on
Sundav, coming thither while on an
automobile tour to visit A. E. Thomp
son, who formerly resided in their
neck-o'-the-woods. The party is trav
eling in a big Apperson seven passen
ger car, and the trip was made from
Pendleton to Crater Lake, Klamath
Falls, Medford, Grants Pass, Rose
burg, and on north through the Wil
lamette valley to Portland.
Polk Roads Praised.
Traveling salesmen covering Polk
county in automobiles report that the
roads in this county are better as a
whole than those of any other county
in this state. They commend the
people of the district for oiling their
roads.
PRAISES THIS VALLEY
TRAVELER TERMS IT THE GAR
DEN SPOT OF THE WORLD.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Crider Cover More
Than Thousand Miles by
Automobile.
Mrs. J. C. Crider of San Jose, Cal.,
who is well known in Dallas, when in
terviewed by The Observer reporter
said: "I consider the Willamette
valley of Oregon and the Santa Claia
valley of California the two garden
spots of the world."
Mr. and Mrs. Crider arrived in Dal
las last week from San Jose, having
motored all the way. They were ac
companied as far as Eugene by Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Bailey and little
daughter, Helen, who expect to make
their future home in Oregon.
The motoring party left Sau Jose
June 18, coming through Stockton,
California, Reno, Vevada, and Fallon,
Nevada, at which latter place a visit
was paid to Mrs. Crider's brother.
The Placer'ville route was then fol
lowed at the foot of the mouutains
along American river and out by Lake
Taho, where good fishing was spoiled
by a thunderstorm. Echo Lake, which
has 7500 feet elevation, was visited
June 22, and its beauty was greatly
enjoyed. They then came through
Carson City and Carson Valley, and
the beautiful chain of lakes, including
Eagle lake, and forty miles of ex
cellent roads along the edge of the
awe-inspiring Goose lake to Lake
View, where a sane July 4 was spent,
without even so much as a fire crack
er, although a noiseless day was in
terrupted in the evening by a tremen
dous thunder storm. The route then
came through Susanville, fifty miles
from Mount Lassen, which was seen
in eruption at that time. Summer
Lake and Silver Lake were visited,
and the party predicted a great future
tor land settlers in that district.
The roads are good as far as Fre
mont, but became dusty on nearing
Bend. the only troublesome roads
causing delay were experienced be
tween bisters and the bummit, which
was reached July 9, and where coffee
was made from melted snow, and
where the party was much annoyed
by great swarms of mosquitos. The
Mackenzie river at Belknap Springs
afforded the best fishing on the trip,
and a large number of redsides, speck
ed, and dolly varden trout were
caught. The Mackenzie river in Ore
gon and the American river in Cali
fornia are so alike in beauty and pro
portions that the party believes they
should be called the twin rivers
The party separated at Eugene, Mr.
and Mi's. Crider coming to Dallas,
having covered 1121 miles and using
119 gallons of gasoline in a fifty horse
power, four-cylinder Kissel car. Mrs.
Crider was pleased to note the improv
ed condition of farms in the Willam
ette valley since her last visit here,
and made special mention of the "ex
cellent appearance of the orchards in
the neighborhood of Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Crider have motored
to Dallas, before, coming over the
Shasta route, and predict that many
other California people will avail
themselves of the same pleasures
Thrilling Finish of Great
Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta
Photo copyright, llli. by American Prass
N
EVER was there a mora thrilling rowing race than the coatest at
Poughkeepsle, M. X, for the national championship of the vanity
debts. Columbia won the big event after a heartbreaking spurt la
the last half mile. Pennsylvania came In second. The much tooted
Cornell crew could not make better than third. The photo shews the Colum
bia crew finishing. Pennsylvania following.
RALLY A BIG SUCCESS
POLK COLD WATER ADVOCATES
SPEND DAY IN CITY PARK.
Prominent Illinois and Kansas Tem
perance Workers Deliver Address
es to Large Audiences.
The temperance rally inthis city
on Saturday, at which the first gun
in the Oregon Dry campaign was
fired, was an unqualified success from
every angle, and the cause for which
it was held will now be closely fol
lowed up by the cold water advocates
until the last ballot is cast on elec
tion day next November. The rally
had been extensively advertised
throughout the county, resulting in a
comparatively large attendance from
cities and rural districts. Prof. 1).
M. Metzger, formerly of Dallas col
lege, presided, and the High school
girls' quartet rendered a number
pleasingly at! the opening of the ex
ercises, invocation by Rev. C. C. Cur
tis of the Christian church following.
Mr. R. P. Hutton of Portland, a
temperance field worker who has the
subject well in hand, delivered the
principal address of the morning. The
speaker's arguments for a dry state
wera exceedingly strong, his state
ments being convincing and to the
point. The picnic dinner at the lunch
hour was one of the enjoyable fea
tures or the occasion, and was par
ticipated in by many persons who
were unable to remain during the pro
gram. The afternoon was devoted to
the program as heretofore published
by The Observer: Singing by a quar
tet, invocation by Rev. Owen Day, a
reading by Mrs. Edna Seymour Brown
of Falls City, an address on "Hops
and Prohibition," by Rev. C. P. Gates
and an address by Mr. Regan ot Illi
nois. 0
The Fool Taxpayer.
Backed .by a bookful of facts and
figures taken from the records to
substantiate his statements, that while
the average man pays little attention
to public affairs he must necessarily
pay the increasing burden or taxa
tion while the larger interests pay
a lesser share, Frank S. Regan of
Rockford, Illinois, delivered an inter
esting and instructive address. The
speaker convinced his hearers that
the brewers are not classed among
" fool taxpayers" for many of
tnese llliereswi wuu u t-apiiuiisttiiuu ui
from five to thirty millions of dollars
contribute little or nothing in the way
of taxes, while the little fellow is
taxed to the limit.
Mr. Regan is what is oommonly
known as a tax sharp, and has gath
ered figures from the tax rolls of many
states and in many counties of the
various states, and vouched for their
correctness in proving beyond doubt
that the burden of taxation rests upon
the man who is the least able to
meet the demands upon him. His sug
gestion was that this sort ot thing has
been the rule under men s political
domination, and he urged that the wo
men, now enfranchised, should take
the matter into their hands and see
if they can't save "the fool taxpay
er" from himself and make the larger
interests pay their full share. Mr.
Hogan is a real cartoonist and kept
Association.
the audience interested. He presented
a series of pictures showing the drunk
ard from the beginning to the end
of his career. The pictures were not
calculated to help the liquor cause.
Mrs. Mitchner Talks.
The temperance rally closed at the
courthouse in the evening, when Mrs.
Lillian Mitchner of Topeka, Kansas,
gave an interesting and instructive
discourse on prohibition, relating how
it affected her home state. Without
marked oratorical effort she impressed
her audience with a recital of what
had been accomplished in Kansas, say
ing in substance that Kansas is the
hub of the country's prosperity, be
cause its population is the richest
per capita in the world, while its
children are counted among the best
educated and rank highest in morah
ty. To prove her contention she con
trasted Kansas with other states, par
ticularly Missouri. The latter has
richer soil and greater rainfall as well
as greater mineral resources, and
pet with these natural advantages
is lust ten times poorer per capita
The cause of this is proved to be
because Missouri likes her 4,000 sa
loons better than she does the water
wagons of her sister state. Missouri
is so busy filling the almhouses and
jail with liquor-soaked products that
she is $800,000,000 poorer than
Kansas. The boys of the latter state
like money in their pocketbooks, and
so the second generation since pro
hibition was in force have sent their
young representatives to the legisla
ture to declare that their lathers were
not enough prohibitionists. They
have revised the liquor laws and made
them even more stringent. "No
booze," she says, is the slogan among
the young men of Kansas, and for
this reason the rising generations are
increasing in vitality and mentality.
Mrs. Mitchener pleaded for the inter
ests of the children of Oregon that
they might have the same opportuni
ty to make of themselves clean men
and women, and her message was en
thusiastically received.
INCIDENT MjW CLOSED
ACCEPTANCE OF ARBITRATORS'
REPORT SET ASIDE.
Council Having Purchased Brown Site
for Tank, Passes Resolution
Last Night.
The, acceptance of the report of the
arbitrators named to price the Uglow
tract was set aside by the council
last night, and all things in connec
tion with that transaction were re
voked, every councilman with the
single exception of Alderman Hayter
voting for a resolution introduced by
Alderman Barber. On April 20 last
the council made an order accepting
the report of the arbitrators, fixing
the -value of the Abel Uglow land tor
septic tank purposes at $1500. On
May 6 a resolution was introduced in
the council authorizing the purchase
of the tract at the price named by the
arbitrators, but the resolution tailed
to pass, and the council having re
fused to authorize a consummation of
the deal, it was ordered by the reso
lution of last night that the accept
ance of the report aforesaid be set
aside and in all things revoked.
This closes the incident so far as
the council is concerned, unless the
city is made defendant in an action
to compel it to take over the land
in accordance with an alleged agree
ment to abide by the decision of the
arbitrators as regards price. Mr.
Uglow has informed The Observer
that such action will be instituted,
and that he will, if possible, force
the city to make the purchase.
FALLS FROM SCAFFOLD.
Strikes Timber and Splits Knee-Cap
Into Five Separate Pieces.
A Monmouth carpenter by the name
of Moore is at the Dallas hospital
with a broken knee-cap, which acci
dent he suffered on Friday last while
plying his trade in the school town.
Mr. Moore fell from a scaffold to
the ground, a distance of about
twelve feet, alighting on a piece of
timber, splitting the knee-cap into
five pieces. The unfortunate man was
brought to Dallas by Dr. Mathias and
on the following day Dr. Starbuck re
moved two of the broken pieces and
wired the other three together. The
patient will be laid up for several
months, but that the knee will be
rigid is improbable.
Had Money in Bank.
A. J. Beck, the young man who was
drowned near Buell last week while
driving logs in Cedar creek, bad de
posited $4119 in a Portland bank, and
was planning on attending Oregon or
Washington universities with the
opening of the fall term. He had
been a student at the U. of O., and
had been engaged as a mining en
gineer in Idaho.
Bo wen Tills Bridge.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new Bowersville bridge, and it will
probably be open for traffic about
September 1st.
STREET BIDS OPENED
COUNCIL DELAYS AWARDS UN
TIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
Lowest Tender for Curb Five Cents
Per Lineal Foot, Made by
Property Owners.
The council last night received a
bid of five cents per lineal foot for
300 feet of concrete curb, or a total of
$15 for the entire work, it being the
lowest price for an improvement of
this character ever recorded in this
city. The bid was made by Messrs.
W. L. Soehren and B. J. Werner, and
accompanying it was the required cer
tified check, to be forfeited if the
construction of the curb was not per
formed according to plans and speci
fications within the specified time.
The location of the curb to be built
is on the south side of Ash street,
between Main and Jefferson, and the
improvement is chargeable to the
property owned by the bidders, which,
it is unnecessary to state, is respon
sible for the low tender.
Bids for the maeadaniization of
eight blocks and the building of con
crete curbs the same distance were
opened by the council, but no action
was taken, the whole matter beinjr
deferred until tomorrow evening, to
which date the aldermanic body ad
journed. The Himes Engineering
company 's bid was as follows : Crush
ing 2500 yards of rock at 65 cents,
$1,625; delivering same at 85 cents,
$2,125; crushing and delivering at
$1.48, $3,700; excavation or fill, 4X5
cents; macadamization at 27 cents
per yard, $1375; construction of 4,200
lineal feet of curb at .345 per foot, !
$1,449.
Holmes & Grant submitted the fol
lowing bid: Construction of curb, 35
cents per foot, and $2.60 for turns,
material to be of crushed rock or
washed gravel, or 31 cents per foot
and $2.50 for turns for Independence
river run of gravel.
The Dallas Warehouse & Manu
facturing company bid 28 cents per
foot for curb, and $2.00 extra for
corners, the number of feet considered
by the bid being 4,200.
Further than opening bids compara
tively little business was transacted
at the meeting. Mr. Barber, chair
man of the street committee, report
ed on a number of sidewalks that
should be rebuilt, and the council in
structed the recorder to notify the
parties owning the property to cause
them to be reconstructed within the
time allowed by the charter.
The Ash street improvement was
reported to have cost $141 for grad
ing, but inasmuch as the property
owners objected to having engineer
ing that was not performed after the
improvement had been ordered by the
council included in the bill, $9 for that
work and $1.50 for removing a side
walk were eliminated and the whole
improvement was then assessed at
$130.
The road oiling within the city not
being satisfactory, and the recorder
having heretofore notified the Oregon
Road Oiling company to that effect,
the recorder, on motion of Alderman
Westover, was instructed to notify the
company's bondsmen.
OILING COMPANY SUED.
J. O. Hammer Asks $10,000 for In
juries Alleged Received.
Attracted to the premises in Port
land of the Otygon Road Oiling Com
pany, composed of the Velgus Broth
ers, who did the work in Polk county
this year, to look at an automobile
offered for sale by an officer of the
company, J. O. Hammer alleges in a
damage suit that he fell into the ele
vator well and suffered injuries that
can only be healed by the payment
of $10,000 and costs of the suit. The
company is made defendant.
It was on May 2, 1913, be says in
the complaint, that he visited the
road-oiling concern, and he charges
that, because of the negligence of the
defendant company, the pit in the
basement into which the elevator
drops was left unguarded. Into this
he tell, and he sets forth that his
leg was injured, he was badly bruised,
a rib was broken and one of his
lungs punctured, resulting in hemorr
hages and pneumonia.
Mid-Night Air Is Rent.
On Saturday night last, between the
hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, Dallas was
the scene of wild excitement, caused
by a couple of dozen visiting hood
lums said to have been from Salem
and Sheridan, hooting on the principal
thoroughfares of the city. The night
officers did their best to quell the dis
turbance, but their efforts were with
out avail. Mayor Van Orsdel was
about to take a hand when the bunch
hastily departed. It was simply a
drunken carousal.
Speaker Will Be Present.
At the meeting of the fruit growers.
to be held at the court house in Dal
las next Saturday afternoon, an of
ficial of the North Pacific Frnit Dis
tributors' will be present and explain
to those not already informed the
working of that organization.