folk : Hflpntg (S&minm (THE HOME PAPER) DALLAS, POLE COUNTY, OEEGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1916 (TWIOE-A-WEEK) NO. 58 v. . ESBY of c 3 IN ETJGI 3AGQ Now tx ' i, Saya jf Rock r i Has . Bsen F L - '. talk to - - northwest man the H. '. r, Byllesby Company d cor- .ations in the north '. fiy..tsby said, were Caused j VL M. Byllesby eompany, , Saturday said that the , was on the up grade now conditions, generally, were jr. With Mrs. Byllesby and A his company, X"r. Byllesby i touring the northwest the v weeks. The party was in at week. vnt slow time in the north- Fyllesby said were caused ':irg of the land boom , r A throgh this section - tit ten or twelve years ; . Mr. Byllesby traced i 1 9 the entry of trans railroads into the north e general extension work d in Washington, the i s'utes. The completion Jian roads to the- Pa- ( lry of the C. M. and St. y.ng of the North Bank, 7 of the Deschutes canyon a, nd the general ex 1 improvement of railrmid . About 1900, said Mr. Byl- & period of inflation of values that lasted until ago. Then the process ; out the water began erAng has been pinching it since. "Real estate d Mr. Byllesby, "went and then the boom irse, the holders of the hen lost. But prosper ng back. Rock bottom d and the northwest is -ado. With the close part of the country he impetus of in- vnd the ingress of Northwest ships, ;ive Atlantic trade, 3 the Pacific. war closes wooden iff constructed in ; ids, particularly in g the Columbia rivj i i.,e Pacine, trade and now rt war HI' be call- pr lets, will then r e of the northwest ' i .eluded Mr. Bylles- uunt Mizeraln when visiting in Brussels. The count is a dealer in an. tiques in Brussels and is said to have a business of $400,000 in, moratorium m ins native land. DR. W. S. OARY TO LEAVE. Has Purchased Pharmacy in Rogue River, Oregon. Dr. W. S. Gary, for 21 years a pharmacist and practicing physician of Dallas, has purchased the Rogue River Pharmacy in Rogue River, Ore gon, and will leave within a week for his new home. Mrs. Carv and her mother, Mrs. G. P. Aldrich, plan to leave a week or two after Dr. Curv goes. ' Dr. Cary at one time was a partner of Conrad Stafrin in the drug business. Dr. Cary will keep his 11- acre apple orchard on the Salem road. Rogue River 1s a town ofr about 500 people, Dr. Cary says, but tile towns people confidently expect that the Diamond Match Company will soon build a large mill on the site already purchased. It is thought the pro posed mill will employ from 50 to 100 men. Rogue River, says the doe tor, is situated in a mountain nest and the climate is very nearly ideal. CYRUS HATCH KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE ' i -v : Victim Expires Five Minutes After Being Hit by Ma chine Driven by Weldon Black Coroner's Jury Says Driver Was Careless. LAST UNION MEET HELD ANOTHER SERIES IS PLANNED FOR NEXT SUMMER. Representative of Prisoner's Aid So ciety Speaks at Union Service Last Sunday. :ED YESTERDAY. Will , Enrollment j This Year. tester "of the Oregon i opened Mottday, Sep '. xing to the fact that . year is being dropped je this year, it is ex tha attendance will rank ve as last year, which 8 for the entire year, i an enrollment of . Todd, matron of the v, has returned from iu.d is assuming ner du a addition of the respon yi?ar of the dean of wo- l Normal school is now a good many calls for ;er in various parts of resident Ackerman will y 03 his duties will per tman will devote all of o the institute work ie season, and Miss Ar c is the training school, ie institute at The Dalles ot institute. i r the year 1916-17 e same as last year, i of Miss Elizabeth ice to the Oregon critie of the first s from the State Aberdeen, S. D., milax position for r meeting of the urday afternoon, resented the out tale ensuing year. ii Visits. ""rice, Miss Rose rahi, of Oregon at the Har t M lie rahi is a tided in the orking in the 1 ,. er company's - settled. W. P. 1 Hawley met Rev. T. J. Hazleton, financial sec retary of The Oregon Prisoner's Aid society, was the speaker at the un ion service which was held in the Evangelical church on Sunday even ing. A fair-sized audience was pres ent and gave appreciative and sym pathetic attention to his message. He plead for a square deal for the man who, partly as the result of 'his own discretion, and often more largely through the improper handling of his case, has come to be classed with the " down and onts," Among other things, he said that prisoners would never have a square deal until the management of our prisons became divorced from politics. Politics is largely to blame for the placing in office of incompetent superintendents, wardens, chaplains, and other offici als. The state has a right to punish criminals, but it has no right to de prive them of their health, exposing them to tuberculosis and other wast ing diseases as is the case under the present system of confinement in un sanitary cells, which prevails in so many of our prisons. In addition to his plea for a square deal for those in confinement. Mr. Hazleton plead for a square deal for the man who has paid the penalty of his crime and who is making an lionest effort to make good in society and the struggle for a livelihood. In closing he spoke of the work ac complished by the society during the year lflla. Some items noted were, 83 prisoners eared for. 159 city and county prisoners supplied with tern- norarv homes. 2 returned to their families and friends, some of these as far away as England and Scotland. 47 prisoners' families were assisted, 8 husbands and wives were reunited. 2,000 letters were written to prisoners and their families. 292 investiga tions were made the superintendent and his assistants. 60 religious ser vices were conducted in prison. 56 prisoners received legal advice, 43 were defended. 60 discharged pris oners were provided with work that proved to be permanent in character. 199 odd jobs were secured. This union service will close the series for this season, but the ar rangement has proved so satisfactory to all who participated that no doubt another series will be arranged for next summer. Applies For Citizenship. George L. F. Isenhagen, a native of Germany but now living on Route two, Dallas, has filed papers with the county clerk asking for citizen's pa pers. Isenhagen arrived in Hoboken, N. J January 8, 1900, and has oeen a resident of Polk county for the past few years. His application was signed by Lavton A., James T, James C. and Samuel E. Guthrie. Aged Veteran Takes Trip. Jasper Louper and wife have gone to Hay, Wash., where they expect to spend several weeks with their son, who is an extensive wheat farmer in that section. Mr. Louper is the old est member of the local G. A. R. post, but despite his advanced age of 83, he is still able to travel and get about. Cyrus S. Hatch was struck and al-, most instantly killetl about seven, Sunday morning, at Main and Wash ington streets by an automobile driv en by Weldon Black. Deatft was due to a fracture of the base of the skull. The dead man was 73 years old and was an employe of Plaster's livery stable. The coroner's jury, called to investigate the cause of death, yes terday morning, returned a verdiet that Hatch was killed through care less automobile driving by Weldon Black. With three guests in their Ford wu tomobile Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Black left the 'home of Oliver Chase Sun day morning between 6:30 and 7 a, m. Mr. Black drove east on Wash ington street to the intersection of Main. Mr. Hatch was walking west on Washington street to his work at Plaster's barn. Instead of obeying the ordinance and circling the sema phore Black cut to the left of the semaphore. Black did not take the stand at yesterday's hearing and Dewey Inman, one of the automobile passengers, said on the stand that he did not know at what speed the ma chine was traveling and that his slight experience with automobiles did not give him basis for making a judgment. Automobile drivers who visited the scene of the accident Sun day and Monday say that, from the Jappearance of the machine 'tracks made when Black tried to stop, the automobile was going at 15 or 20 miles an hour. . When struck Hatch was thrown slightly to the right of the machine, the back of his skull striking the pavement. The occipital bone at the base of the brain was injured and Dr. V. C. Staats, the physician sum moned by Dewey Inman, testified thut death was due to a fracture of the base of the skull. ' The accident vic tim lived five minutes after Dr. Staats arrived. Coroner Chapman was no tified and the body was immediately taken to Chapman's undertaking par- lore. The funeral will be held from the parlors today at two p. m., Rev. Howard McConnell of the Christian church reading the service. Interment will be in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. The pallbearers will be: Gus Mar tin, J. A. McCann, W. G. Campbell, Peter Greenwood, Sr., Mike Kelly and Jim Boydston. Miss Myrtle Chase, a passenger in the car corroborated Inman '3 testi mony as to the accident. Both Mr. Inman and Miss Chase said on the witness stand that Black had cut the corner. When asked to take the stand Mr. Black said that he could say no more than already had been stated by witnesses, Miss Chase, Dew ey Inman, H. G. Campbell, who r rived at the scene hcilly after the accident, and Dr. V. C. Staats. Mrs. PATROLMEN CALLED IN COPIOUS RAINS HAVE PUT END TO FIRE RISK IN COUNTY. District Warden Fuller and Efficient Force Continue Good Record. Timber Loss Light Black and Oslia Tate, in the car at the time of the accident, did not tes tify. In charge of Coroner Chapman and Prosecuting Attorney Sibley the jury was taken to the scene of the ac cident from the undertaking parlors. the verdict was returned shortly af ter return. The members of tJie jury were: Oteorge A. Muscott, foreman C. L. Hubbard, Will Tatom, N. Guy, S. M. Ray and- W. R. Coulter. The text of the verdict is as fol lows: "that Cyrus A. Hatch came to his death on Sunday, September 10, 1916 at about seven a. m. bv strik ing the base of his skull on the con crete pavement at the intersection of Main and Washington streets in Dal las, Polk county, Oregon, said fall be ing caused by said Cyrus S. Hatch being struck with the automobile driv en by one Weldon Black. We further find that said Weldon Black did all in his power to avert the accident. but find that said Weldon Black was careless in the matter in not driving his car on the proper side of the street and turning the corner as pro vided by the ordinances of the city of Dallas and the laws of the state of Oregon. ' ' Prosecuting Attorney Sibley said yesterday that the facts would be placed before the grand jury. Local lawyers say that two lactionSi are possible: civil and criminal. The question of a criminal action will de pend upon the decision of the grand jury; the question of a civil action rests with the relatives of the dead man.. ' In the street discussions bf the ac cident opinion is generally that Black was careless but that 'the violation of the ordinance is common among local automobilists. Even city offic ials, people say, cut the corners and yesterday morning a county official violated the ordinance. Residents of Washington street have often said that a majority of the machines mak ing the curve at Washington and TJg- low avenue disregard the speed and corner turning ordinance. Men on Washington street say that automo biles constantly speed past the ordin ance limit in traveling on that street. One man thought 'he could pick up 50 machines w day, on this street alone, for violating the law. Cyrus S. Hatch, the dead man, came to Dallas three years ago from Union City, Pa. He was 73 years of age and had been employed in the Plaster livery barn. He is survived by Mrs. Hatch and children. Mrs. Terry Driscoll and Miss Edna Hatch of this city, Mrs. Martin Ixop of Union City, Pa., and J. B. Hatch ot Rallston. J. B. Hatch arrived' in Dallas yesterday morntng ind the preparations for the funeral were started. Mrs. J. B. Hatch is expect ed today. pense being the employment of that man and a horse the year around with small loads of crushed rock placed at intervals or half a mile or such a matter These he used to fill in and work the road over continually. He received perhaps $2.50 a day for the work." ARE TALKING ROUND-UP. ROADIPATROl PLEASES EUGENE MAN FINDS SYSTEM USED THROUGHOUT EAST. Lane County People Are Interested in Plan for Road Preservation. ' ' Suc - cessful" Says Observer. Because of the fact that copious rains during the past week have prob ably eliminated all danger of forest fires for the balance of the season, District Warden Fuller has called in practically all of the fire patrolmen which are serving under his jurisdic tion in Polk county. During the sum mer season of the present year there have been bnt two fires in Polk, coun ty's magnificent timber, and both of these were discovered before they had reached any proportions. One of these was in Patrolman V. E. Gosso'a dis trict, in the headwaters of the Sick reall and the other was in the bead waters of the Siletz, in Patrolman Art Hays' district There wa no damage in either ease. This year's record is in keeping with that set by Mr. Fuller's dis trict during the past several years, since 1910 in fact, during which time there have been no fires of any con sequence and the fire low to timber in Polk county has been very alight Two years ago me trestles were burned bat no timber was lost Prior to a year ago it was impos ( Continued on second page) Throughout the east the roads are better where road patrol is practiced, according to F. R. Wetherbee of Eu gene, who recently eompleted a 9000 miles tour of 24 states. Mr. Wether bee returned firmly convinced that road patrol is the only successful and economical system of road mainten ance and preservation. "The patrol roads we found in the east," said Mr. Wetherbee, "were distinctly better than others. The pa trol system is gaining friends, too. Where we spend thousands of dol lars to build a road, then let it go until it is necessary to spend thous ands more dollars to replace it the patrol system, at a very low expendi ture comparatively, keeps the road like a boulevard the year around. "We stopped to inquire of a pa trolman the way on a road in Mary land one day, and I questioned him concerning the patrol system. He told me be had a district extending 28 miles. It was like a boulevard. It had been built fiv years before.. and the only work don 0a.1t be Petition of Incorporation Filed by Citizens of McMinnville. A petition of incorporation of the "Round-Up Boosters" was filed in Sadem last Saturday by John I. Knight, D. M. Nayherger and D. E. Wheeler, leaders in a movement for holding the event at McMinnville on October 4th, 5th and 6th. , A eon tract has been signed with R. P. Mc Clelland of Philomath, guaranteeing for each of the three days 20 separate amusement events. The fair grounds are being prepared for seating 6000 to 8000. The slogan "See '5m Buck" has been adopted. On the same dates the Yamhill County Livestock association is plan ning to 'hold a livestock exhibition and the McMinnville Automobile club will stage an automobile show in tlw City Park auditorium. STAMP IS ELIMINATED NEW REVENUE BILL IS NOW IN EFFECT. Became Effective Last Saturday and Does Away With Bothersome " Detail. BETTERMENTS ARE FEW CITY STOPS IMPROVEMENTS UNTIL THE COMING YEAR Thirty - Thousand Square Feet of Sidewalks and Construction of - Curbs on Burch Only Work. Comparatively speaking, Dallas as a municipality has experienced few improvements during the present sea son, a lull coming after the storm, as it were. Last year extensive street betterments were indulged in, some thing like twenty one blocks having been macadamized and concrete curbs constructed on either side of the thoroughfares thus improved. This year the alderinanic body is satisfy ing itself by causing the construction of sidewalks in districts where they have become dilapidated by long use. Early in the spring the council ex tended the area of the concrete side walk distrfct, and later declared its intention to cause the rebuilding of board walks, serving notice upon property holders to this effect. The order met with general approval on the part of those affected, and not only have these laid concrete walks in front of their premises but many others sought, and gained permission to come within the provisions of the ordinance. As a result approximate ly 30,000 square feet of concrete side walk has been completed, the Barham Warehouse & Manufacturing com pany having the contract at 14 cents per foot. In addition to this about 750 feet of board walk has been built, the cost per lineal foot being 25 cents. The only street improvement aside from this has been the construction of cement curbs on Burch street, Holmes & Grant having a contract for the building of 864 lineal feet on this thoroughfare. It is the purpose of the council to macadamize Burch street in the near future. The ex pense of the improvement will fall upon the Southern Pacific railway company. VALUE DOUBLES ENROUTE. Charges on Prunes to East More Than Original Price. A carload of green prunes shipped from Dallas Saturdav to Omaha will more than double in value before the journey's end. Invoiced at 30 cents crate to the grower the value of the shipment to the Polk county orig inator is $300. At $1.25 a hundred the freight rate on the 1000 crates to Omaha or Chicago is $350 and the icing charge on the ear will be $62.50, making a total of $412.50, laid down J in Omaha. In other words, transpor tation to Omaha increases the origi nal valne of he green prunes by 112.5 per cent HOPPKKER JAILED YESTERDAY It is no longer, necessary to attach a revenue stamp to a freight or ex press bill when you want 10 ship goods; it will no longer cost you- an extra penny when you telephone at long distance or send a telegram; you can now lorget to use the odious rev- enue stamp on a thousand and one other things for by provision of the Hew law recently passed by congress, and which became effective last Sat urday, business men have been re lieved of the stamp tax which has been in effect since December, 1914, and which was to have been continu ed until the end of ttie present year. The general revenue bill repealed the emergency revenue bill stamp taxes and the Internal Revenue bureau has ruled that the revenue stamps were not needed after last Saturday, Sep tember 9th. The stamp taxes repealed include those paid on telegraph and telephone messages, parlor-car seats and berth tickets, bonds, debentures, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of stock, transfer bills of sale, promissory notes, express and freight manifests and bills of lading, bonding instru ments, conveyances, insurance poli cies, entry of goods, passage tickets, power of attorney, protests, perfum ery, cosmetics and chewing gum. MAJOR FISKE VISITS DALLAS. . Well-Known Army Officer is Natfve Son of Oregon. Major H. B. Fiske, of the United States regular army, and daughter, are visiting in Dallas with the ma jor's mother, Mrs, C. S. Fiske, his sister, Mrs. Grace F. Bassett, end brother, V. P." Fiske, postmaster of Dallas. Oregon takes great pride in Major Fiske, one of her native sons. , He was appointed from this state to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1893, and since grad uating in 1897, his record has proven , him to be one of the most efficient officers in the American army. Dur ing foreign sen-ice he has been in sev- ' eral important engagements, among which was the taking of Manila. Lat er he was detailed to assist in putting a military road through Mindanao, one of the southernmost islands of the Philippines and he relates1 some thrilling encounters with the savage moras of that island. He has also served in Cuba and Mexico. This summer the major was sta tioned on the Mexican ' border. ' He leaves Dallas in a few days for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to resume his duties as instructor of military . art in the army service school at that post. CHILDREN'S CO-OPERATION. O. H. Miller Charged With Demand ing Moro Hotelkseper. Deputy Sheriff Rae Craven yester day brought O. H. Miller, a hoppick- er at the Wignch ranch, to Dallas. The warrant for his arrest was issued by Justice of the Peace L. W. Ross of Moro on a charge of attempting to defraud an inn keeper. Pending the answer of telegraphic communication Miller was lodged in the eonnty jail last night The young man says he intended to Day the bill and will make an effort to make immediate in- been done by this man, the only ex- sUllmente. School Officers Desire Exhibits by Next Monday Morning. County School Superintendent Rey nolds and County School Supervisor Moore have completed a tour of the county investigating the industrial club work and urging the children to complete their exhibits in time for the opening of the county fair, Sep tember 19. In order to have time to arrange the exhibit in the booth in dividual exhibits will have to be in Dallas by Monday, September 18. The best of the county fair exhibit will be entered in the coming state fair. Last year Polk county carried away the blue ribbon at the Btate fair and the school officers are hoping the boys and girls will make as good a showing this year. Contributions of flowers are requested from anyone who wants to help the schools' booth. "Eats" Man Wanted. Officials of the Polk county fair have been endeavoring for the past week to locate a restaurant man who will put in an eating stand at the fair grounds daring the coming fair, September 19-8L Last year this was one of the things that was much missed by fair visitors and the man agement hope to get in touch with parties who will undertake to supply the "eats" at this year's show. Kiss Robertson Improving. . Miss Mud Robertson is slowly im proving from, her attack of sever throat trouble. Mrs. Will Tatom returned Thurs day night from Newport A r I I : 5 i I 1 i 1 L Li