(fciittttg VOL. 27 (THE HOME PAPER) . DALLAS, POLK COUNTY. OREGON. TUESDAY OCTOBER 5, 1915. (TWICE-A-WEEK) NO. 62 fiiiUt FOLK CHILDREN IN LEAD WIN FIRST IN SEVEN OUT OF ' TWENTY CLUB PROJECTS. But in Addition These Industrial Workers Carry Away Many In dividual Prizes Offerejl. Declarations that the exhibits in the school industrial contests at the state fair this year were better than any previous display are veiy pleas ing to 'the large number of Polk county school children who took an active and prize winning part in mak ing these declarations truthful. These statements are especially true con cerning vegetables and corn which show a decided improvement over for mer years. JNot. a lew or tnose wno carried away prizes from the state fair are beginners at the school club work, this being, in many cases, the iirst exhibit they nave made. Among the Polk county children who received prizes with their dis plays are Glenn rladley, Airlie, huh, field corn; Carl Tetherow, Monmouth, first, watermelons, class B; Raymond Hall, Buena Vista, fourth and Man ley Arant, Monmouth, fifth, Hubbard squash; William Mackie, Rickreall, second, class B, on pie pumpkin; Hugh Young, Falls City, third, cab bage; Morris Guyer, Airlie, third, class A, potatoes ; Anna Hardt, Falls City, second, class B, and Waunda Elliott, Perrydale, fouth, class B, po tatoes; Glenn Harmon, Monmouth, first, class A, and Harley Nelson, fourth, class A, bird houses; Carl Tetherow, Monmouth, fourth, class B, bird houses; 'La Verne Myers, Falls City, class A, first, and Monroe Cool ey, McCoy, second, class A, bread; Lota Bradley, FalU City, first, class B, and Mae McDonald, Dallas, see-. ond, class B, bread; Bessie Morri son, Perrydale, first, class A, and Francella Hawley, McCoy, fifth, class A, canned fruits and vegetables Waunda Elliott, Perrydale, first, class B, and Mae McDonald, Dallas, sec ond, class B, canned fruits and veg etables; Bernice Newbill, Dallas, first, and Francelle Hawley, filth, jelly; Bernice Newbill, Dallas, second, and Lorena Treat, Falls City, fourth, ma chine and hand-made dresses; Waun- -da Elliott, Perrydale, -second) Margar4 et Dorman, falls City, third, and Frankie Crider, Dallas, fifth, hand made aprons; May McDonald, Dallas, first, class B, darning; Marie Lee, Falls City, second, class A, and Annis Gilliam, Dallas, third, class A, Indian runner ducks; Mable Lee, Falls City, first, class B, Ardis Gilliam, Dallas, second, class B, and William Mackie, Rickreall, third, class B, Indian run ner ducks; Raleigh Middleton, Dallas, first, class B, Pekin ducks; Henry Alsip, Dallas, first, class B, Barred Plymouth Rocks; Harold Reynolds, Independence, first, class B, White Plymouth Rocks; Emil Ridgeway, Bu- ell. first, class A. Khode Island Keels; William Mackie, Rickreall, fourth, class B, White Leghorns; Mane Lee, Calls City, second, class A. miscella neous; Teddy Ridgeway, Buell, sec ond, class B, and Mabel Lee, Falls City, fourth, class B, miscellaneous. even dozen, with the confinement of two pie-season hunters. Five of the charges are held for the grand jury and the remaining seven are serving time for various misdemeanors. After the session of the grand jury this af ternoon the jail will again be depopu lated for a short time. But little things like a lack of patronage do not worry the sheriff. To the con trary, too much patronage has almost turned his auburn hair to grey. As soon as there is room to accommodate the waiting list that he has prepared the sheriff will arrest a number of miscreants who have escaped atten tion because of the crowded condi tion of the bastile. MEMORIAL TO WOMEN MRS. GERLINGER UNDERTAKES TO RAISE FUND OF $100,000. MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETS. Con- Doctors from Threo Counties vene Here Today. The Tri-Countv Medical society is to meet in Dallas today, the event being its regular monthly meeting, and the doctors from Polk, Marion and Yamhill counties are to enjoy a program of professional papers, tech nical discussions and speeches. This evening the meeting will conclude with a fine banquet, at the Gail ho tel, for which a tempting menu ftas been prepared. At the meeting are gathered the foremost medical men from the three counties represented in the association, and a numbe of these have prepared papers on inter esting cases -that have been under their observation since the time of the last meeting. Last month no ses sion was held because of the convei- tion of the Oregon State Medical as sociation at Portland. Dr. 0. D. But ler of Independence,' president of the society, is presiding at the meeting and Dr. M. J. Clements of Salem occupies the secretary's chair. NEW TRAINS ORDERED REVISION OF SCHEDULE ORDER ED BY STATE COMMISSION. Erection of Building on State Uni versity Campus Under Direction of Dallas Member. Residents of Airlie District Can Visit County Seat and Return Home Same Day. HUNTERS ARE CONFINED. Justice Holman Hears Case of Poach ersJury Finds Two Guilty. Flat contradiction by the defend ers of the evidence of the complain ing witnesses resulted in the confine ment of H. A. Wright and Sam Shaef fer in the county jail on Friday af ternoon. A jury in the justice court found these two men guilty of killing pheasants out of season, aluo t inn, Lee McKee and Roy Allen being com plaining witnesses, rive men were in the party, of which two members killed a bird on Finn's ranch near McCoy, and, according to the com plaining witnesses, they were caught with the goods. The defendants dis claimed the possession of a gun while near the field and so much of their testimony was evidently fabrication that the jury imposed a fine of $25 or corresponding time in jail. One of the poachers started a fist fight with Allen, an uninterested party, when Finn ordered them off his place. This caused the trio to file a complaint against the hunters. . They were ar rested by Deputy Game Warden Hen ry W. Domes on September 27. The testimony of nine witnesses was tak-j en in the trial that lasted nearly three hours. Judge N. L. Butler of Inde pendence appeared for the defense and District Attorney Sibley prow euted the esse. Wright is an Inde pendence resident and Shaeffer comes from Portland. The remaining mem ber of the party live at Indepen dence, John Hinto Elected. John W. Minto, brother of Harry Minto, slain last week by the des perado. Hooker, was elected by the stat board of control Wednesday, to succeed his younger brother as war den of the state penitentiary. Many Jail Birds. The official list of guests in Sher iff Orr's Terr popular hostelry i increased on Friday afternoon to an Approved two weeks ago by the Dallas Commercial club, the tentative schedule prepared by the state public service commission lor the trains run ning between Dallas, Monmouth and Airlie, was given to the railroad com pany on Saturday with orders that schedules over these lines be revised witliin twenty days. The complaint against the road was made by E. E. Hiltbrand, who ap peared before the commission in per son. It was shown that cue present; service does not permit patrons who reside between Airlie and Monmouth to visit Monmouth or Dallas and transact business requiring any ordin ary amount of time and return to their homes on the same day. since Dallas is the county seat it is held that the lack of afternoon trains is a hardship on the community tribu tary to Airlie. The commission finds that the situation can be relieved with a minimum of inconvenience to the Southern Pacific by a re-arrangement of the schedules as follows: That the company discontinue the opera tion of trains Sol and Soi between Airlie and Dallas, and in place of these trains operate a gasoline motor car leaving Dallas at approximately 3 o'clock p. m., to arrive at Airlie at approximately 3 :50 p. m., and return ing to Dallas to arrive at about 4:50 p. m. Both the gasoline motor car and the morning accommodation trains, Nos. 211 and 212, should carry express matter, the order states. Since the service thus prescribed byl the commission involves the running of the motor car backward from Air lie to Monmouth extreme care will be required in the operation. Preferably, savs the commission s order, the rail road company should arrange for a wye at Airlie or Simpson and thus avoid the necessity ot operating the motor ear backward. Mrs. George Gerlinger of Dallas, member of the board of regents of the University of Oregon, will direct a vigorous campaign that is about to be launched for funds Ito finance the erection of a proposed Woman's Me morial building to be built on the university campus at hugene. the tentative plans for the buildingj have already been completed by tills i. Lawrence of Portland, who is head of the architectural school at the univer sity. Any person giving $500 or more toward the building fund will be priv ileged to have his or her name or the name of a relative or mend inscribed on the memorial tablets over the ar cade of the building, which will over look the athletic field. The estimat ed cost' of -the structure is $100,000. It will be located on a new tract of land adjoining the old campus that was purcuased recently by the univer sity officials. The entire tract is to be given over ultimately to athletic grounds, clubhouses, dormitories and gymnasiums. The proposed woman's memorial building will contain a gymnasium with stage and dressing rooms that can be utilized for concerts, a kitchen and supplementary quarters to be used in serving suppers to the faculty and students, rooms for corrective athletes, a suite of rooms for the ma tron and rest and gamerooms. A swimming pool 70x30 feet in area, with locker-rooms, will be located in the basement and a running track will be installed on the balcony floor of the building. After making a study of college buildings in the east Mrs.4 Gerlinger concluded that the men ev erywhere had the better facilities and she determined that the women should have a suitable building of their own in Oregon. The present gymnasium quarters at the university are entirely inadequate, and a large number of the undergraduates, graduates and friends of the university, realizing the urgent need or improved quarters, have premised Mrs. Gerlinger that they will give her every possible help in the coming campaign. ESCAPE FROM PRISON TWO CHARGED WITH THEFT MAKE DELIVERY SUNDAY. Gaining Admittance to Lower Floor of Jail, McGinnis and Carson Slip Away From Sheriff Orr. ABANDONS HIS PARTY. to Ex-Mayor Van Orsdel Refuses Again Vote Democratic Ticket. Calling Mr. Nunn, who was passing his place of business, into his office the other day, ex-Mayor John G. Van Orsdel, in the presence of that dyed-in-the-wood democrat, took a solemn oath that never again would be he sruiltv of easting his ballot for a democratic president of the United States. Mr. Van Orsdel was an ar dent supporter of President Wilson, and also voted for Bryan on divers and sundry occasions, but he has seen democratic mismanagement aplenty during the present administration of governmental affairs and purposes at the next election, no matter who the republican nominee may be, to aid by his vote in returning to power the party with an unimpeachable record. Another Polk county democrat who would desert his party were Taft nominated, is Mr. Cass Riggs, who is a great admirer of the ex-president, but if this is tbe only condition there is slight hope of winning him into tbe republican fold, for it is considered inadvisable, for party somas, to urge Mr. Taft to again become a candi date. I HUNNICUTT GOES TO PEN. Old Offender Goes to Pen for Inde terminate Period. The first criminal case heard by Circuit Judge Belt at the fall term of court on Monday morning was that of Harry Hunnicutit of Independence, who was sentenced to serve an inde terminate period of from one to ten years in the state penitentiary. Hun- mcuct was arrested on July b for stealing and butchering a young steer on the ranch of George McLaughlin, between Independence and Buena Vis ta. Hunnicutt is an old offender, and just before his last arrest was tried and acquitted on a charge of larceny. Other members of his family are of the same trend of character and are constantly in trouble of one kind or another. The father is the only one of the family immune from criminal inclinations. Harry Hunnicutt pleaded guilty before Judge Belt and the in determinate sentence will be his pun ishment. He is partly blamed for the escape from the county pail of two other prisoners on Sunday night. Had it not been tor the deliberate lies he told, the sheriff would have learned of the freedom of his charges in time to have made an effective search for them. Jersey Cattle Club Elects. The Oregon Jersey Cattle club met at the State fair Friday and on mo tion of C. N. McArthur, representa tive in congress, who is a member, de cided to open a campaign for increas ed membership. It developed at the meeting that with more than 200 Jer seys on exhibition there, this is the largest show of Jerseys ever held in the United States. Oregon now has more "registered for merit" Jerseys than any other state except New York, it was asserted. Officers elect ed were R. L. Burkhart, Albany, president; Warren Gray, Corvallis, first vice-president; Frank Doerfler, bilverton, second vice-president ; frank Lough ary, Monmouth, secretary-treasurer, and W. H. Smith, Ore gon City, director. Aged Woman Travels. "Grandma" Howard, aged 92, of Independence, left that eity on Thurs day for Seattle, where she is to make her borne with her daughter. Mrs Howard is making the journey alone and stopped at Salem to visit the state fair. By sneaking out of the open door of the jail two prisoners made good their escape trom the county bastile on Sunday evening, and so carefully was an agreement with other prison ers worked that their absence was un noticed until early yesterday morn ing, when the sheriff took breakfast to the ten men supposed to be locked up there. Those who escaped are William Mclxmnis and h. W. Carson. The former was incarcerated for stealing hop sacks from a building near West Salem, and the latter was taken into custody at Independence tor stealing a tent-fly. Sunday night about ten o clock Sheriff Orr went into the jail to see that tilings were right for the night. He did not see McGinnis and Carson, who were supposed to be in cells, but Harry Hunnicutt, another prisoner, said they were asleep. Unsuspecting ly, the sheriff threw the bolts on the cells, believing the two men to be on the beds therein, and went on about other business, after locking and bolting all other doors. Yesterday morning the sheriff visited the jail to get Hunnicutt, McGinnis, Carson and otlher prisoners whose cases were to be heard by Circuit Judge Belt. Mc Ginnis and Carson were gone, and up on questioning the other prisoners the sheriff determined that they had made their escape the previous evening. The only possible theory of the jau break is this: Sometime on Sunday the prisoners released a heavy board that held a wooden door, opening from the .stairs to the second floor into the lower section of the jail, which is usually used for city prison ers. Uaining the treedom or the nrst floor the men replaced the board against the door, and secreted them selves between the wall of the build ing and the wall of a cell. When Sheriff Orr visited the jail that even ing he left the heavy iron front door cpen, aiid.. went upstairs, ,.Fh ere. All , prisoners were supposed to be. He knew that no one could pass him and get down stairs, but he did not know that two had already made their way to the lower floor. While he was on the second floor the two prisoners calmly walked out and were on their way m a nurry. ine lies told by those on the second floor put the sheriff off his guard, and he did not discover the escape until he went to get the men for trial yesterday. The deplorable condition of the county jail is responsible lor the es cape of McGinnis and Carson, and the only wonder is that a great many more prisoners have not disappeared. The upper floor is built to accommo date a maximum of not more than five, and over the week-end there were ten men locked up. Until late last week there had been twelve men in jail. The door that keeps the pris oners from the lower floor is a mere wooden affair and is insecure. It is held closed by a heavy timber, but by means of a loosened caseing the pris oners who escaped worked this timber away and gained admittance to tflie lower floor. The sheriff has been greatly handi capped by these conditions in at tempting to hold so many culprits. He has been forced to exercise an honor system with the prisoners. The second floor is crowded with cots and beds made on the floor so that to get around one must climb over these. There are only three cells, and two of these were occupied by McGinnis and Carson. Justice will lay a heavy hand upon the escaped charges if they are apprehended. these have been provided. Game war dens carry the tags, and for the con venience of Dallas hunters Phil Begin has laid in a supply. The cost of the shipping tags is five cents each, whether they are purchased from a warden or from Mr. Begin. At his shop on Mill street Mr. Begin will gladly accommodate anyone desiring pheasant stripping tags. COURT IN SESSION. Three Widow's Pension Cases Being Considered This Week. The circuit court is in session today at the court house with Judge H. H. Belt presiding. Yesterday the court met to consider applications for final certificates of naturalizaton, and to day is engaged in disposing of the reg lar court docket. The grand jury will convene at one o'clock this afternoon and will set criminal and other cases for trial. In the meantime the cir suit court is hearing three cases that were appealed from the decision of the justice court. These are Udom vs. Polk county .and Bush vs. Polk coun ty, widow's pension cases; and Clark vs. Irvine. Tomorrow schedule has been arranged and after those cases are tried the court will attend to a number of criminal cases on the dock et. One of the most important cases is the $30,000 damage suit filed by August R. Risser for his charge, Joe Fritz, against the Southern Pacific company. GIVES LARGE RETURNS HOP INDUSTRY MAKES FOR TUNES FOR MANY PEOPLE. Bnt That Was Some Years Ago, When Prices Hovered Around a Dollar Per Pound. ' Fire Prevention Day. Governor Withycombe has proclaim ed October 9 as fire prevention day. Citizens of Oregon communities are urged to take an inventory of their fire traps on this day and set about removing them. A large number of serious fires could easily be prevented by a little care in removing debris. PROJECT IS GOOD ONE MARKET DAY PLAN FAVORED BY ALBANY BOOSTER. Committee Working Out Necessary Details, While Mr. Davis Will Hold First Big Sale. FAIR RECEIPTS ARE LARGE. Taken Suddenly m. Judge John B. Teal was taken sud denly ill at the Imperial hotel Friday night, and Drs. McCallon and Star buck were called to minister to him. He bad recovered sufficiently on Sat urday forenoon to go to his home in Falls City, and u now bark at his poet of duty in the court bouse. Income at Salem is Expected to Ex ceed Other Years. With the exception of the fair two yean ago. the Oregon state fair tbis year led all in the amount of money taken in at the gate, the total being $21,232 for the six days. This sum does not include money received from the sale of campers' tickets, conces sioners, exhibitors, helpers' tickets, automobile tags, team tags, or tickets sold prior to the opening date. When the money from these sources is fi nally included it is believed that the fair's receipts will equal if not ex ceed those of two years ago. Grand stand receipts this year were $2814. 75. In 1913 the gate receipts totaled two davs of the fair this year un doubtedly prevented the attendance from surpassing that of past fairs, ae eording to W. Al Jones, secretary of tbe fair board. Shipping Tags For Gams. Protected game cannot be shipped aniens it carries the taes prescribed by law. In the case of deer these tags are a part of tbe license, but pheasant, rather than deer, are in the sportsman's mind at present. To ship pheasant a tag is required, areordinr to the game lsws of tbe state, and The committee that has charge of the plans for this" ffrsT'puhlic market" day will meet tomorrow .evening ana prepare a report on its plans and am bitions to be read at the Commercial club meeting later the same evening. F. E. Davis, chairman of the commit tee, has had correspondence with A. L. Fisher of Albany, who is the prime mover of the market day enterprise in that city, and has received word that Mr. Fisher will be glad to render any possible assistance to the local committee. Later on the members will meet with Mr. Fisher to discuss ways and means. In a letter to Mr. Davis the Albany promoter says: "It occurs to me that you are on the right track and with the hearty co-operation of your merchants and farmers will be able ito make a suc cess of your market days. We start ed our sale days the last Saturday of last February and have held them every last Saturday in the month since. Our merchants furnish the free hitching racks, stalls, etc., as well as the auctioneer. We make no charges for the services except in cases where farmers wish to dispose of their entire holdings, and in that case we charge two per cent. "Our merchants usually advertise special bargains on sale day, all of which is greatly appreciated by the farmers. Our actual sales run from $800 to $2300 and usually there is consider able property that changes hands that is not sold from the block. You win find after it is once understood that you have a set date for your public sales that farmers will arrange aneaa and bring in their stuff." With so many details to arrange before a successful community market dav can be held it is improbable that the first sale day will be under the auspices of the Commercial club's committee of business men. Mr. Da vis who perfected plans for a sale day last month will earry his origi nal ideas out in a market day on the last Saturday of this month. It will be his own enterprise and will be a successful one, for Mr. Davis is an active and enthusiastic worker. Last month the market day was not held because of the great amount of at tention demanded by the baby show. But this month, without any side is sues, the sale day should be a great success. Mr. Davis Has already se cured entries from a number of farm ers, and they will come in Urge num bers before October 30, the date of his sale day. Moving to Benton Farm. Mr. Wilcox and family, recently of Perrydale, Polk county, are moving to a farm near Corvallis and will soon be at home here. They will reside s short dintance north of Corvallis. Gazette-Times. Children Meet Governor. Sixty Oregon school children, mem bers of boys' and girls' camps st the state fsir, invaded Governor Withy combe 's office at the capital last week With hop prices around 10 eent3 a pound, the Oregon crop this year will bring more than $2,000,000. and half of that will be paid in wages. Taking one year with another, Oregon grows more hops than any other state in the union. One hundred thousand bales is about the average yield, and the crop this year is estimated at from 80,000 to 120,000 bales. When prices go to 15 or 20 cents the indus try is invitingly profitable. There was a time when it was a bonanza for growers who got early into the game. In the rich river val leys of King and Pierce counties in Washington the yield ran from 1000 to 3000 pounds to the acre, and some years the price went to a dollar and even better than a dollar. When Henry Villard was complet ing the Northern Pacific in the early '80s hops were the chief and most profitable crop in western Washing ton and Seattle and Taooma owed their first boom largely to the .fabu lous profits that came to fortunate growers. Fortunes were made in hops in a single season and many growers turned to real estate speculation in the vaunting Puget Sound cities. The industry got its first footing in Oregon 50 years ago, in Marion and Lane counties, and in the inter vening half century has had many ups and downs. When prices mounted to a dollar everybody talked hops and everybody tried to get into the indus try. Overproduction followed, prices fell to a few cents a pound and the scramble to get out was even more in tense than that to get in. Thousands pulled up their hop vines and went into other crops, but enough staved with the business to keep it going and the surviving industry stands now a substantial resource in the Willamette valley m Oregon and the Yakima val ley in Washington. We knew one farmer," says Gas ton's, history , of PorUandr '-wlM did -not sell his hops on account of low prices for three years, and had on hind three crops Ralph Geer of Waldo hills in Marion county. C. H. Lewis of Portland had advanced mon ey to pick all these crops. In the third -year hops went up to a dollar a pound. Mr. Lewis sent a special mes- -senger with a letter to Mr. Geer, tell ing him to sell bis hops at once. Geer thought the price would go to a dollar and a quarter a pound and held on. The next day the price dropped and kept on dropping until it reached J.5 cents a pound. Geer had then to sell under forced sales and was finan cially ruined. In spite of its violent ups and downs hop growing has been an im mensely valuable industry for the Pa cific northwest. In the long course of .50 years it has probably brought into the country more millions than were washed from the rich placer mines of northern Idaho. Labor has taken the lion's share, and the in dustry has been a nne source of rev enue for young men and women. First and last, thousands of boys and girls have found it a substantial aid to their progress through school and col lege. Bonanza prices have gone, never, in all probability to return, but the in dustry has settled down to fairly sta ble conditions. In most years there is a wide spread between high and low prices, but generally there comes a time each season when the grower is offered moderately profitable pric es. The United States year book of agriculture thus tabulates the Chica go prices of Pacific hops, high and low, over the decade from 1000 to 1009: Low Year 6V, 1905. 12V, 1906. 12ia 1907. 19 1908. 28V2 1909. Men come and go, but the industry survives a source of large income to the 1 aoiiic northwest and a broad field of opportunity for thousands of wage-earners. Probably no other pro duct has gone through greater vicis situdes. The industry could not have survived at all in a region less favor ed than the Pacific northwest in rich ness of soil and excellence of climate. At one time or another every sub stantial industry in Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and Montana has suffered from overproduction and low prices. Hops, salmon, prunes, wool, lumber. shingles, hay, wheat, silver, lead, cop per and even live stock and poultry all have a similar story. But faith. hope and courage may ever be drawn from this firm fact that ultimately and always the land that is capable of overproduction is the land to tie to. There large wealth and prosper ity await its people. The hopeless lands are those of meager natural re sources, of thin, poor soil, of adverse climate, of scant water supply. Spokesman-Review. Year 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. High .. 18 .. 19 .. 31 .. 31 .. 37 High Low 34 10 22 9 18 8 11 5 29 9 i i