raid Vol. II Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, April 22, 1910 No. 35 B. REGULAR PORTLAND LETTER Portland Sends Business Men Over Oregon DEVELOPMEWT OF RIVERS IS PROPOSED Oregon Has Been Chief Attrac tion to Immigrants for Several Years Portland, Or., April 19th -It's a long time since Portland busi ness men were so thoroughly en thused as they are now over the great Business Men's Excursion ' which will leave Portland Mon day evening, April 25th, with a schedule that is so arranged that every single print on the trip will be visited in daylight and thirty points are visited. Both the East and West sides of the Willamette Valley, the Rogue River Valley, Klamath . Falls and the surrounding count ry, and the Umpqua Valley are included, and all the big jumps that consume time are travelled in the night. Seventy-five representative business men compose the party, and as a result of this four days spent in Western and Southern Oregon they will get a' better idea of the universal prosperity of these communities than they could gain in a year from their offices. The development of both the " - Columbia and Willamette Rivers has been the topic of important meetings during the past week one at Pasco, the other at Albany and both had splendid atten dance. A number of prominent citi zens of Oregon have received in vitations, through Hon. John Barrett, Director of the Bureau of American Republics, to be present at the dedication of the new building at the nation's cap ital April 26th. One of the most beautiful rooms in this attrac ive building is finished throughout with Oregon fir, the mill 'work made right in Oregon from spe cial design and furnished by the Oregon & Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association. Dis- ' tinguished personages to speak at the dedicatory exercises are President Taft, the Secretary of State, Ambassador of Mexico, Senator Elhiu Root and Mr. An drew Carnegie. For the last three years Oregon has been chief among the states in attracting Western immigra tion, and while it is .too early for comprehensive figures on this year's colonist travel it is already certain that the total will be the biggest yet. Trains have been . running in from two to four sec tions to accommodate the travel, and owing to the active work of the Oregon Development League in furnishing advance informa tion through the commercial bodies in dozens of Oregons com munities, these newcomers have their minds definitely made up as to location, and buy their tick et to that point Oregon never got an advertise ment so wide-reaching or so striking as a full page advertise' ment, with Portland as the Cent ral feature, which appeared last Sunday in the New York World, Indianapolis Star, Chicago Record-Herald, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Tribune, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Kansas City Star and Omaha Bee. Universal elation is felt over the assurance of horticultural experts that the fruit crop of Oregon will break all records in 1910. J. H. Hawley and 0. A. Wol verton visited the northeastern part of Polk county, Wednesday, in pursuance of soliciting signers to the initiative petition, to get the State Normal School propo sition upon the ballot for the November election. They met with fair success bringing back some sixty names although the territory covered was sparsely settled being a farming ammun ity. Generally speaking the Nor mal school question is a favorable one, and it grows in favor as the utility of normal instruction is made plain to those who have given it little or no thought. What We Know About Comets Even the head of a comet is either not solid, or if solid, that the size is very small; so that even the greatest comets are very insignificant bodies, except for the immense airy tails they exhibit. A comet's tail is so rare that it has not more than one particle to a cubic mile of space. Hence it is much rarer than the vacum of an air pump. Accordingly, although comets appear large as they loom up in the sky and strike terror" into the minds of the people, yet they are in reality mere airy ghosts of gaseous nature and the most harmless of celestial bodies. Babinet, a celebrated French mathematician, has calculated that, on the average, one comet will colide with the earth every fifteen million years. And if the collision should occur, the harm done would be very slight, and purely local in character. It might damage one locality on the earth, but the effect would not be worse than what we frequent ly observe in the eruption of a volcano such as Vesuvius. And in the case of some comets the amount of matter in them is so slight that they would not reach the earth, but produce only a metoric shower in the atmos phere, like those of 1799 and 1833. In fact, these celebrated star showers were produced by the earth passing through the tail of a disintegrated comet. The dust of these old comets burns up in our atmopshere and gives us simply a beautiful mete oric display; yet in the case of the shower of 1833, the heavens were so full of shooting stars that the negroes in Virginia be lieved the end of the world, had come. Prof. T. J. J. See, in May Pacific Monthly. Thomas A. Ed'son has invented a new storage battery electric street car which it is thought will do away with the trolly sys tem car and also the gasoline motor both in cost of coustruct ing cars and in operation. The storage battery car is said to run 150 miles with one charging of the battery at a cost of one cent a mile. NEWS FROM COUNTY SEAT Court House Notes. PROBATE Estate of Robert Howe, de ceasedwill admitted to probate; Rebekah Howe appointed execu trix without bonds; E. Hayter, D. P. Stouffer and C. G. Coad appointed appraisers. Estate of Henry Flickenger, deceased petition for sale of personal property granted. Guardianship of Robert Travis Farley etal, minors petition for order of sale of real estate filed; ordered that next of kin and all persons interested appear on Monday, June 6, at 10 a. m., to show cause why an order of sale should not be made,1 and that the order be published as required by law. Estate of Susan A Macken, de ceasedfinal account set for hearing on Saturday, May 21, at 10 a. m. Estate of William F 'Muscott, deceased cause continued until April 23, at 10 a. m. Estate of Anna Grow, deceased estate admitted to probate; let ters to issue to John C Brown on executing an approved bond in the sum of $250. Estate of Mary Z Percival, de ceasedsale of real estate ap proved and administrator ordered to make deed. - HOP CONTRACTS. John Munson to Klaber, Wolf & Netter, 20,000 pounds, 1910 crop, 15 cents. Sebring Bros and Byerly to Klaber, Wolfe & Netter, 20,000 pounds, 1910 crop, 15 cents. T A Riggs to Klaber, Wolfe & Netter, 90,000 pounds, 1910 crop, 16 cents. REAL ESTATE. George L and F R Baker to Wesley S Broders, 50 acres, t 6 s, r 6 w, $10. David Knightengall Sr., et ux to Edwin Jacobson, 171.90 acres, t 7 s, r 5 w, $5250. E J Chapman et ux to E W Kearns, part lot in Dallas, $1200. Ollie S Jones and hd to C S Calkins, 89.40 acres, t 9 s, r 6 w, $10. O A Graham to M G Flynn, 10 acres, t 9 s, r 4 w, $400. CADicket ux to F W Cole and E E Tripp, part lot in Inde pendence, $190. William Martin et ux to Edwin Jacobson, 40 acres, t 7 s, r 6 w, $1200. John M Farley et ux to H R Sloan, 167.40 acres, t 8 s, r 6 w, $10. W A Ayres et ux to John M Farley, 50.75 acres, 1 8 s, r 5 w, $4850. Elizabeth Stoner to Minnie Morris, lot in Dallas, $350. Weldon Black et ux to Minnie Morris, one-half lot in Dallas, $125. Andrew H Holmes et ux to Minnie Morris, 50 x 100 feet in Dallas, $300. Mary E Price and hd to F L Price, land in Polk county, $10, Sadie F Dwier and hd to Fred G Meyers, lots in Falls City, $100. Noah Ferguson et ux to Wilbur P Lewis, 10 acres 1 8 s, r 6 w, $10. Myrtle L White to Calvin and Gussie Patton, 33.80 acres, t 7 s. Mrs. Chapman Coming Next Week-Last Concert April 29. The second and last number of the course will be given Friday evening, April 29, by Mrs. Paul ine Miller Chapman, mezzo-soprano. Mrs. Chapman won instant recognition in Berlin in 1906-7, and the press of that great mu sical center was very enthusi astic about her voice. She has appeared as soloist with some of the greatest symphony orches tras, including the Thomas Or chestra in Chicago. She gave a concert in Mozart Hall, Berlin, before a distinguished audience of musicians and critics. On ' his occasion she was presented with a large laurel wreath by her many admirers. Mrs. Chapman is a pupil of Prof. Lamperti, Europe's great est vocal teacher, the teacher of Sembrich, the world's most fin ished singer. He himself de clared that there were not ten better voices in the world than Mrs. Chapman's. Madame Etel ka Gerster, the great coloratura singer, predicted that Mrs. Chap man would become the first sing er of America. Seats may be reserved at the Book Store on and after next Tuesday. Polk County High School Baseball League The High School boys of Polk county have organized a baseball league and will play a series of games for the championship of the county. The officers of the league are: W. I. Ford, presi dent, and B. W. Teats, secretary. The members of the committee on rules, regulations and sched ules, are: County Superintend ent H. C. Seymour, A. L. Clark and J. E. Dunton. M. W. Walker, an enterprising business man of Independence, and a loyal friend to the schools of Polk county, has offiered a handsome cup to the champion team. With this prize as an in centive, some red-hot ball play ing may be expected of the high school boys during the next few weeks. SCHEDULE OF GAMES. April 23 Independence at Dal las; Falls City at Monmouth. April 30 Monmouth at Inde pendence; Dallas at Falls City. May 7 Falls City at Independ ence; Monmouth at Dallas. May 14 Monmouth at Falls City; Dallas at Independence. May 21 Independence at Mon mouth; Falls City at Dallas. May 28 Independence at Falls City; Dallas at Monmouth. K. H. Sickafoose and wife were in town over Sunday having come down from the logging camp some miles above Airlie. Mr. Sickafoose returned to camp Mon day while Mrs. S. stopped in town a few days longer. r 4 w, $2197.50. W D Eoff to Harvey Hill, 30 acres, 1 7 s, r 6 w, $150. S P Kimball et ux to Alice Le- Masurier, 40 acres, 1 8 b, r 5 w, $4000. Emma Ray and hd to II M and Mary E Brown, land in Dallas, $1030. INDEPENDENCE NEWS BUDGET From Our Regular Corres pondent DAILY HAPPENINGS IN OUR SISTER CITY Scan This Column For News on Importance From the Riverside. Peter Cook, of Rickreall, was in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hooper were capital visitors Monday. Frank Masterson is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Frank Wilson. T. W. Brunk and famly, of Eola spent Sunday here visiting relatives. Mrs. C. A. Moore and children are visiting friends and relatives in Portland. Mrs. O. A. Kreamer will go to Portland the last of the week to visit friends. Mrs. Henry Waller has return ed from Tillamook, where she has been for several months. Word Butler has returned from Coeur d'Alene where he went to look after some mining interests. Miss Ida Richardson returned to Portland Wednesday after a week's visit with friends and rel atives. Work is progressing nicely on the Methodist church, which is being moved on to its new foun dation. Miss Scollard, the first grade teacher in the public school has resigned her position and re turned to her home. Thursday evening the I. O. 0. F. lodge of Dallas visited the lodge of this city, and a very pleasant evening was enjoyed by all. Last Saturday evening the boys' class of the Christian church entertained the girls' class in the W. O. W. Hall. All played games until a late hour, when refreshments were served. There were about 35 present. Independence is to have as fine a high school as other towns. It is to be built of reinforced concrete, two full stories with basement. Asbestos shingles will be used, making the building fire proof. . This new structure will be 87 by 67 feet, and will be located on the eight acre tract in the south part of town, which has been purchased by the school board. Hurt In Runaway While driving from Falls City to Salem to meet the lumber men's excursion last Saturday, W. T. Griee, manager of the Falls City Lumber Company, was thrown from his buggy and pain fully injured. The accident oc curred at a point about two miles west of Falls City, where the team became unmanageable and runaway. Mr. Grier was thrown out of the rig and one of the bones in his ankle was broken. He was otherwise bruised by the the fall. A report from his home last night brought the good news that he is resting comfortably. Polk County Observer. Bring us your Jobwork