folk Qlamttg -(bmm (TWICE-A-WEEK) DALLAS PAT.TT rinrrwrv rnjrdnw TTTrcr a v rtwnmv no ' . NO. 91 ffIC STILl PUZZLES HAY NOT ALLOW PLANK- H0; FERRY POSSIBLE. Lr Thinks Center Street is Best Courts Will Consider Pro- Lai Tor Ferry Operation. definite action was reached re- to a means ot trafHc across the Ute river, pending the con L of a bridge to replace the laemned structure, by the joint 4; of itho Polk, and' Marion courts last week. Jroval of the Southern Pacific 1 a J fiy oi i" .piupuseu pian 10 the company's steel bridge' is Voted, but there is no certain- 1 the plan will be approved by trials in San Francisco. It necessary to resort to the e bent of a ferry across the riv- it is said that a man is now Im attempting negotiations for aDIisnmeni; ot a ierry. Anotner iieeting of the courts will be kit Thursday, beginning at 11 at which the ferry proposal discussed. ttsfrom the office of the state fir were submitted at the meet- illerday and will receive fur- Irasal at the meeting next week. report of the engineer's office, lion for a new bridge has been red above Court street and no below Center street, and is held to be the "only prnc- ite. The plans submitted ily Court and Center streets. irt street plans are drawn for level concrete bridge of dif- ilypes and for Center street 'ere submitted for low level high level concrete, submitted and estimated it of each follow : For Court Street. Level Concrete Concrete west aproach A-l wood ition, east approach concrete wall and fill; estimate, plus cost of right of way. as above except west ap ilieap pile trestle plus right estimate, $239,730. as No. 1, except west ap- be of concrete; estimate, plus right of way. is on Court street would the east approach a grade ip cent and on the west a per cent. For Center Street. vel Steel With class A cir (laminated floor on A wood approach; es- 69,450. vel Steel Cheap trestle approach; estimate $164,- level Steel Concrete floor, proaeh, east approach no (st approach, .78 per cent; $217,650. ievel Steel East approach wall with fill, concrete via- leet, main bridge laminated wood trestle; estimate, above except main span pete floor; estimate, $175,- i above with concrete floor. "aeh concrete ; estimate, kvel Concrete West ap- 1 wood trestle; estimate, above with east approach Mil and fill, viaduct 102 approach concrete; esti- 1490. I to locations the report tion above Court street msidered for the reason and obstruction to navi s a wide detour were bove the island above the iMunicany tne same limitations and drawbacks as both Court and Center streets without the good points of uiLiier. ' "The alignment of the street with respect to the lira of the river is such that it would he necessary to intro duce a curved approach at the east end. The layout is such that the grade of tho east approach would not be appreciably lower than that at Center street and the length would be about the same, when proper alignment with the current is secur ed. The crossing over the river proper would be wider Shan at Cen ter streets and the grade is not as low as at Court street. There is the further circumstance of right of way to be acquired. There are thus left for consideration the Court street and the Center street sites." Reference is made to the shifting of the river channel as indicated for a period of sixty years, being shown than the channel is gradually en croaching on the Polk county shore. "It seems to this department," says the report, "that the farther down stream it is practicable to put a bridge, the longer will such a structure be removed frotn the in fluence of the changes. It was on1 this same basis that twenty- six years ago before the erection of the existing structure, the United States engineers recommended a down-stream site." R. R. CO. TO BUILD CARS below, Center street has red. The Marion street ssrbt out in other inves- o elose to the present se, that there might be four to its piers and the terests would obiect un lees were opened on the at the same time. Thi' ' additional lost time at her of the two bridges, treet site is further not hieh level bridse for the the distance from the f Front street to the SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL EN COURAGE HOME INDUSTRY. Plans to Use Lumber Crown Along Its Lines: Movement May Prove Car Shortage Panacea. Announcement that the Southern Pacific company had adopted the plan of building all its wooden freight cars, such as box and flat cars, at its own shops and will make them from lumber produced along its lines, was made this week by President William Sproule, who has returned trom JNew York and other Eastern cities. "The plan," said Agent Woods, "is in furtherance of our policy to favor home industry and will provide a good market for a great deal of West ern timber. The construction will be done principally at our Sacramen to shops. We plan to build as soon us possible. 2O00 box, 450 stock and 500 flat cars, these, added to the 2700 new refrigerator cars just ordered Dy the Pacific Fruit Express company, of which about 1,000 will be built in California, will give us 5,boU new freight cars for the coming season, enough to ward off the hardships n,mrh ahortaees of railroad equip ment experienced this season, provid" ed we can get our cars returnen 10 us after they are unloaded at destina tions The Southern Pacific as you know is half owner of the Pacific Fruit Express." Mr. Sproule said that the pros perity of the East and Middle West is not merely coming here, but is al ready here. , "The prosperity we nave nere, u said, "is different in nature from the East but is just as positive. "The earnines of the Southern rM .nmnnnv. which have improved along with other business, are giving us an opportunity to sim. money for betterments needed upon our property. White there are no new extensions contemplated, the shoo forces are working Ml force Bt full time, and the maintenance of way crews are also busy. t look forward to conhnnanc 0f the country's Parity for -me time to come, peace or no peace. GARAGEATWEST SALEM FAIR GROUNDS PLANNEO TEMPORARY TRAFFIC SUSPEN SION CAUSES DIFFICULTY. Local Young People Wishing to Slip Over For a Dance Mast Stay All Night, Now. BILL" HTMES GETS MARRIED. Surprise. TrlenlTa Wjte to Addie Whiteaker Is Bride. William A. (Bill) Himes and Mr Addie K. Whiteaker were married at fiVe o'clock Saturday .ftarm. by nn-nit J'l 1w ffif An elephant, some Shetland ponies and a gaudy-hued gown or two and people would instinctively begin to get out their loose change and as sume the care-free air that goes hand in nana witn the "one and only mam moth three-ring circus," as they ap proach the condemned inter-county bridge. An enormous tent, nearly a block long and about 100 feet wide, with three large center poles, has been erected some 100 yards from the jit ney station. It isn't a circus tent, however, but a legitimate business concern catering to the automobiles that are unable to cross the river until some means is provided. Busi ness is reported to be booming. This is a new wrinkle in the garage world. The condemning of the old bridge has worked hardships, too. The West Salem dairy is reported to be put to an additional expense of $100 a month, since they have to transport their milk and other products by way of the (railroad jitney. And this does not mean that the railroad com pany is getting rich, either. The jitney is not operated with any hope of profit, but merely as a conveni ence to people. Business isn't the only thing that has suffered. Local young people who have been in the habit of periodical iaunts to Salem to attend a dance or theatre are placed at a serious disadvantage. The last jitney leaves Salem at ten o'clock and that is rather too early for a successful ev- . . n i! 3 ening; hence tne aioremennonea amusement seekers are lett the al ternative of staying all night, which is sometimes very inconvenient, or trusting to the mood of the night watchman. Rumor has it that the receipts of Salem dance pavilions ImvA diminished appreciably, as a result. TAX EXTENSION WORK DELAYED Ambiguous Statement From Falls City Causes Week's Setback. The county assessor's office is now one week behind scheduled time in extending the county tax roll. The office received a somewhat ambiguous record from Falls City and the depu ties used 10 mills as the levy in ex tending the taxes for residents ol that city. When they congratulated a few Falls City people on having such a low figure, it was found that Urn levy should have been 11 mills. This is towards the top of the list; Independence is said to have tne Sign- est taxes, so far. The assessor usually tries to have the work done and turned over to the sheriff for collection by Febru ary 1, but this will be impossible this year. There is only one com puting machine in tne coun, uuusc. FIREMAN BANQUET TONIGHT. Annual Event Will Be Held at The Imperial Hotel. The annual fireman banquet will be given at the Imperial hotel tonight. Mayor Stone, Captain Conrad Staf- rin .Turf E. C. KirkpatricK and an the members of the city council have been invited to attend. nmoer at the Dallas Fire depart- will make speeches. They are Lou Muscott, chief; Clyde Gibbs, as sistant chief; Walter Ballantyne. president; Clifford Smith, secretary; and Dick Webster, treasurer. The invited guests will probably respond to toasts. The banquet will be a five-eourse affair and the tables will be decor ated with cut flowers. This is the first banquet for the Imperial since Mr. Murray assumed the management short time ago. PECK WOULD MAKE ASH STREET MAIN ENTRANCE O. A. C. Professor Would Have Fu ture Development Paramount in Making Improvements. .mt -'-"-. Jonn .f hnnse. wr- VT Orr were the only people PL GiTCf Talk at Hi School, ent at the ceremony. p 8(irtressd the students Tt was what "JJZtl ot he Dallas high school yesterday ,,,, , "wfJS, nt- morning at assembly. Mr. Poh Me ni rwora eijwj theme on Henry Van their nurneron, ? , M." . p,e who live at the Hotel Ha . em fo do. ,.w. been the Tf be would make his ,rd tme- -M r,.. I liL .JS without onfusion, clearly, nnr f;r; -v . much shorter than that .rriaw fttrrdav erm Ws f(,oW . -i .i .t. : : .- t. tlirve it. 1"" '"Ju" . kn Maine i man sincerely, ' above that the reqm Heht of roadway over (Mnnot be reached with mdient of the east remaining streets re p!!f. i' (""ems. K7 e " . , m fa, - trt i.Uod ana hcHv Tor OIH - the Imftt OI " vi Ash street will become the main en" trance to the Dallas fair grounds if the temporary plans of Prof. Arthur. u Peck and his class in landscape garaening materialize. This conclu sion was reached at a conference be tween Professor Peck and County ourveyor Kobb at torvallis Friday. Mr. Kobb presented a countour map of the grounds as thev now stand. The ideas of the affricultural college people and the surveyor will be put into operation if the local tair board sees fit to look far enough into the future to have a comprehen sive plan drawn up. Directly facing the proposed Ash street entrance would stand the main pavilion. The approach would be flanked on either side by space for concessions. To the right, where the pavilion now Btands would be erected accommodations for live stock. The now vacant space to the south of the proposed main pavilion would be traversed with a drive, winding through the southern part of the 16- acre tract and coming in between the live stock quarters and the pa vilion. The plans include the planting of many native trees, probably maples, and shrubs, along the driveway, thus making a park-line background for the grounds. Shrubs and ornamental clusters of flowers and the like could be planted from time to time as the buildings and improvements took def inite shape. Mr. Robb's suggestion that the first step would be to fence the tract in order to prevent live stock from running rough shod over ' improve ments, was agreed to by Professor Peck and if the board accepts the recommendations, that will be the first work done. ASSOCIATION WANTS CHANGE. Polk Poultry Raisers Favor Breed ing of Utility Stock. The annual meeting of the Polk County Poultry association will be held at the county court room in Dal las on Saturday, February 3rd. At this time the annual election of of ficers is to be held. The local association, also realis ing the fact that the demand for fancy poultry is on the wane, has asked Prof. Lamb of O. A. C. to at tend the meeting and outline a mod ern poultry show. Polk breeders arc anxious to keep up with the chang ing times, and for that reason the matter of breeding utility instead of fancy stock will be thoroughly dis cussed at the forthcoming meeting. New Homes for Rickreall. A. R. Cadle, the Rickreall mer chant, has started to haul material for a new home he will commence work on shortly. The house will he located near the Burch place and will be of bungalow style. Mr. Cadle ex pects to have it completed this spring weather permitting. Another home contemplated in that section is one to be built by John Monson of this city on his farm just west of Rick reall. The farm was part of the old McDaniel homestead and was pur chased by Mr. Monson about two years ago. Buys Hartley Home. Rov Holloway, who recently ac quired an interest here in the Davis Furniture store, has closed a aeai dus of fishermen from this city 'ere another sabbath has passed. ! Herman Hawkins landed the larg est hsh ot the day, a ld-iuch beauty weighing nearly two pounds, dressed The other six on display averaged a little over a pound and a quarter each. All were over 14 inches long and were picked at random, several ot the largest not getting on display, at all. -Those who confined their ef forts to Rickreall creek, however, were not so successful, but several fair catches were made. Good fish ing seems to be coming on for fair and there promises to be a much larger number of anglers out from now on. SCHOOLS ASK SOLONS MACGREGOR FUNERAL SUNDAY Many Attend Services Body Taken to Portland for Cremation. The funeral services of the late Gilbert P. MacGregor were held Sun day afternoon at one o'clock at the Presbyterian church, conducted by Kev. D, A. MacKenzie. The attend ance of friends at the service was so large that the church would' not hold all. Following the services the body, accompanied by Mrs. MacGregor, Mr. and Mrs. George Gerlinger, Mrs. Louis Gerlinger and Rev. D. A. Mac Kenzie, was taken to Portland, where it was cremated. POTATO PRICES SOAR MANY BUYERS . COMPETE FOR POLK COUNTY SPUDS. Growers Get The Idea and Hold For Higher Prices; Movement Slack ens As a Result. Unprecedented - competition for Polk county potatoes has arisen in the past fortnight. As a Tesult prices mounted little by little until the farmers got the "bee in their bon net" and put the lid on the supply, temporarily. Prices have gone up nearly to 2c a pound as a result of the activity. Eldridge and Aspenwall were first in the field and shipped several cars to Portland and Sacramento. There were six buyers in the field by the fore part of the week. They report that most of the large lots have been plac ed and that there will be little mov ing until the farmers decide that further advances are not forthcoming. Central states people are the ulti mate consumers of most of the ex ports. The weather is such there that they are unable to handle What they 'ave. There are fair erops in Cali fornia and other states but the warm weather west of the Cascades makes handling safe in this section. One of the buyers cites scarcity as the cause for the demand; others think the weather conditions are responsible. One Sacramento firm, which has an agent in Polk county, has 80,000 sacks stored in their warehouse in California. They ship on the average 10 carloads to central states each day. There was an exceptionally good crop of potatoes here this year and the comparative famine in other sec tions is causing the farmers, who specialize on this staple crop, to real ize a greater income than usual. Tncoma and other northwest cities are facing the problem of paying a substantially increased price for the same potatoes they shipped east last fall at from $30 to $35 a ton. Potar toes are now quoted around Taeoma at from $37 to $42 per ton. The Ya kima crop has been nearly exhausted. Some people in touch with the ait nation are of the opinion that a eor- NORMAL AND UNIVERSITY PRE PARE FOR LEGISLATORS. Normal School Students and Mon mouth Residents Go to Salem To See Institutions. Three hundred fifty students of the state normal school and other resi dents of Monmouth will go ttf Salem tomorrow morning at 8:30 to make a tour of the state institutions and visit the legislature. The normal school has invited the joint ways and means committee of the house and senate to visit Mon mouth and the school. The invita tion will probably be accepted as the solons visited the Oregon Agricul tural college Saturday and will jour ney to Eugene this week for a "once over" at the University of Oregon: The present legislature is taking a great deal of interest in schools this session and the several visits are made with the ultimate purpose of making the most expedient and equit able expenditures possible. The university will furnish a spec ial train for their guests and the Ew- gene Chamber of Commeroe will fur nish automobiles for a tour of the city. The legislators will later be taken in hand by a faculty commit tee and shown through the universi ty campus, where the students will be engaged in their regular pursuits, so that an everyday working view may be head of the institution. Out side of a banquet and a general good time there will be no big demonstrar tion, as it is simply the desire of the administration to show the actual needs of the university as they ex ist, so that the legislators may fully (realise what actual appropriations are needed. Members of the legislature found out Saturday what becomes of the money they appropriate every two years to the Oregon Agricultural col lege. To those who had never been on the campus the visit proved a rev elation. They learned that the insti tution really consists of an imposing group of buildings, finely equipped, and several hundred acres of produc tive land, over which the activities of nearly 2000 students and a big staff of teachers are intelligently directed. T. ,l .ha C C Hart eylner of the northwest potato crop is for the purchase of the C C Hartley tfc- rf. place, corner of Washington ann : '. unnj.v Thi ia F.irview streets. The property eon-in jump mprice, Monday Th.s - sists of a large, ten-room house - " " I I VI (' (a " " - growers. Van Orsdel Asks For Manuals. John P. Van Orsdel, professor of Wrinv engineering at the Oregon Agricultural college, has requested nf the state hichway department cop ies of the two manuals on eost aeep- - i T-..a was ine iw Bill, and or eour. ; 7 lrV,. wh;en Mr. Policg h-. seven of the fish. three lots. Mr. Holloway takes pos session about the 15th of February. Mr. Hartley has not announced his future plans. FISHING GETTING GOOD. Trio of Anglers Got 41 Cnt-throate in Rait Crack Sunday. rjridtres. rewmtly iuned hy XSsaC )T 1UIUU Ul UUVU Uft v j .r - , local fishermen. Herman Hawkins, that department, vu -. Ray Thiers and R, U. Steelquist ! senior class in logtnng enrneennr caught 41 cut-throat trout Sunday j These manuaL, known as Bulletins . r. x. ..j ,u -li 9 .nH 3 of the State Highway eom- ln oau "u ""v " . .t . over ten inches. "i-tan. V"? Ztt? Z. This was the biegest eatch of the'.rertion of John H. Lewu, state n , r xi i f .nir i .rinr and re intended to stana- vear ana iroin me " ....- . , - . , . . -j-:.: i i .t . umnle ardiz the practice in road wort oi mat BUIUinupi.f - the soceess- -fvinr at the high school thi-! f-1 trio placed m 4. o. Ii.yier . wm-bee- nving " .- iw. will be a considerable exo- tott keeping and aeeoonting, also the construction and maintenance of bridge. PRUNE LAND CHANGES HANDS. Ward Place Sold to Messrs. White, Stockwell and Grant. Two real estate deals were put through Saturday and both involved prune land. Mrs. Frank ward sold the tract known as the Dallas Fruit farm, situated about one mile south west of Dallas, to ' Messrs. W. J. White, T. C. Stockwell and J. M. Grant. The new owners will clear the land and plant to prunes. The tract con tains 25 acres, two of which are planted to prunes, now. The deal was handled by L. D. Brown. N. L. Guy and W. L. Soehren fin ished up negotiations Saturday which transferred their ten acre prune or chard just south of town to J. N. Conn. The orchard contains four-year-old prune trees. MRS. EDWIN McDOUGALL DDES. Funeral Services Will Be Held a Ballston Tomorrow, Mrs. Edwin McDougall died Satur day night at midnight from the shock following an abdominal operation. The funeral services will be held at Ballston, where the deceased was bora and raised, tomorrow. The Ladies of the O. A. K. in Dal las had expected to attend the funer al in a body but had to give np their plans when it was decided to taM the body to Ballston. Mrs. Donga)! had been active in G. A. R. affairs be fore her untimely death. Mrs. McDougall is nrvived by husband, mother, brother and two sisters. Death eame in her 43rd year. A complete obituary- will follow Friday Observer. Gavt Talk to K. P.'t. C. A. Lawton, of Astoria, -who ia connected with "The Senator," the official publication of the Oregoa grand lodge, was a visitor la UeJisa yesterday and last evening give an interesting talk to member ot the local lodge. Mr. Lawton 'a talk are alway of interest to K. P. lodge men, and hi appearance her last night drew out an nnnsnally law erown, moeh of the nsnal detail work heinf dispensed with in order that h might be give foil tin for hi talk. .tretL I winter. ' ' 'weket street, it has raiding at ls and Center. With