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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1909)
CANADA Will HAVE DISPLAY GftttNWOOO I The puople of Greenwood turpi-!! their teacher, Mlsa (lt.nv Miller, j aud pupil at tha arhool house luat f Friday, Miaa Miiirr having closed a' nioat miiTtuMful term of aehool. Thj parent showed iiidr appreciation by lathering In I In' ,rove Hour lite mi but houae with one of (him fins old rouu- try iuntiii-a, wuu-n waa heartily iu joyed by ail of the people living In th neighborhood. The afternoon waa apunt In conversation and Mlsa Miller lft for Halloa, where the will vlalt wllh Mr. and Mm. John Miller, and will leave for her homo In Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday. Mra. Joa Itogcra and Mra, W tl-y j Urooke were Halem vlaltora Tut -way, i GOOD FARMLANDS AM RESIDENCES On of Ibu rrlatltus if the pa.t Bomb In lha development of the Alaa- ka Yukon I'aciflo Exposition haa beu tha auddoQ apuvrauce of two new build tnga, one of thern among th largeat on tha grounda, near tha Mualc Pavil ion on the left aide of the Ralnur VUU at tha foot of the Court of Honor. The two atructures are in to arlae aa If by magic, and a few daya after they were firat observed, the entire frame- work waa In place and acorea of work men wore busy with exterior and In tot lor finishing. The workera on the exposition grounda, who had supposed that all of the large buildlnga were Already constructed, hastened to In flulre about the new buildlnga, and learned that they aro the Canadian Government building, and the Grand Trunk Hallway building. Canada haa erected on the A. Y. P. Grounda a handsome building; that will contain aa large an exhibit aa aomoof the main exhibit palacea, and there re already arrived for the dlaplay, a ahtpment of aeveral carloada contain ing the exhibit of Canada at the Franco-British Exhibition at London laat a u mm it. Thla ahlpment will form the nucleua of the Canadian dlaplay, but the Canadian Commissioner baa gathered from throughout the Domin ion, agricultural, mineral, timber and fishery resource of the country. Canada will mako a strong feature of the facllltlea of her lands for dairy ing purpoaea, and will be a atoong con tender In the live Block ahow, which will bo hi Id at the Exposition In Sep tember, and will be the largest live flock exhibition ever gathered In the west. Canadian breodora of high grado a lock have already made numerous entrka for thla event, and will make a strong showing against the entrlea from thla aide of the line. The Canada Building will be com- fliSltAfl hw lha Anil nf A nrl 1 Inavlmr . . . . . a mercantile establishment at Sil- full month for the installment of ex-1 v. . . ,,,, , ' verton. He waa for many years ed- hlblts. The building occupies one of . ' . . " . , , , ltor of the Arlington Record and at the choicest sites on the fair grounds, t. ., . ., . . . ,, , . . - ' the time of his death was practising especially in regard to the v ew it , . ., , ,, , , . . , , law at Arlington. He was father of C. commands. From the balcony of the . T . , , . . .... . , . . , A. Johns, mayor of Baker City, and building a a weeping view of the Kx- . . . . ' -, . , - ... , Cato Johns, a merchant of Surapter, ywuviiii iimj ua uuiouiuu, mjuu ijiinu Oregon Waahlnglon Ilea at the foot of a slope It a-rr i nilh a from All any, t'. aea In apput, brat irltt.. ala young orchard. Splendid lmprove- mnta, Rolling land. Price 19000 Terms: 12000 down, balance at per cent Interact. 103 acres, mile from Independence well fenced and with beet of 1m provementa. All but IS acres cultivation. Good buildlnga and out buildings. One of the good place near the town. 1 100 an acr. HI acres 4 mile from Monmouth. Good timber on thla place, and gooi farming land. Better took thla up . :s an acr. Ralph Martin and Miaa Nellie Link 1 10 acrea 1 mile from Buena Vlata. came down from AlrlleHunday. W. Shlnn la painting A. W. Vern on'a house . Prof. Orln llyers passed through Greenwood Tuesday. Mra. John Young and daughter and Mlsa Myrtle Brown were In Kalem Wednesday. A. E. Brown waa a Dallas visitor Monday. Mra. Manley Martin and Miaa Rhoda Dickinson were Salem visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mra. J. Osborne are both HI with the la grippe. The Oreunwood baae ball team will play against the Liberty team Sunday Ready for Foundation Wm. Campbell has finished the clearing of the building from the site of the new brick building, next to the Cooper block, and foundations are being laid for the fine two-atory i structure. From thla time on there will be no delay In the construction work. It is expected that the building will bo completed and ready for oc cupancy by the middle of July. Passing of Pioneer Editor. James M.Johns died at his home In Arlington the first of the week from an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Johns was well known In all parts of Ore- J gon, having lived for years In Mar I Ion county, at one time conducting to the eastward, and the Cascades loon; up beyond. Mt. Rainier is Been to the southeast, and Lake Union to tho Southwest," with a distant glimpse of Olympics beyond Seattle's hills. The formal gardens, a feature of the land scape work on the Exposition grounds lie at the foot of Cascade Court, and extend past the Canadian building Nearby is tho music pavilion, where the finest bands in America will play during the nummer. COAST ROAD TO BE COMPLETED Dominion. j Further delay In the completion of the Pacific Coast Railway & Naviga tion Co's line la ended and the exten- The Grand Trunk building, next the 8lon of that line Into the Bay City Canadian structure, is a smaller affair country is made a certainty in the bat very attractive In design, and will appropriation of $2,000,000 by Harri explolt the wonderful region which -man interests, according to B. E. Ly this railroad la opening through the tie, who has charge of the construction of the road. Since the spring season la open better weather la going to see the next six months busy ones In construction work on this line. Grad ing gangs are being increased and it is hoped that the road will be com pleted by the end of the present year. Aa was expected, large appropria tions for the work during the sum mer have been allowed by the Har rlman general office in Chicago. This large appropriation has been set aside for the completion of the road. Now (a house cleaning time, get your lace curtains at Conkey, Walker s Lehman's. Special prices this week and next at 20 per cent less than regular prices. , ' '', The Book Committee is busy se lecting books for the new free library. . o For sale or trade Good driving mare. Enquire Moore's Cash Store o Your subscription to the Free Lib rary is now due. Kindly hand it in. Orchard of 100 treeaofbeat varle tlea. 45 acrea In cultivation. Good Improvamenta, Price (3800. 24 acrea 4 mllea from Monmouth, 1 from railroad; 140 acrea in cultiva tion. Good improvements. A good buy. Price $8000. : 40 acrea S mllea from Independence All in cultivation and in crop. A horn for a poor man. Price 100, 277 acrea 10 mllea from independence ISO acrea in cultivation. Thla ia another of the good buya. Will sell at $32. DO an acre. J3H acrea bottom land near Independ ence. Beat land there ia and tor aale at $3600. 28 acrea joining city limit and a snap for some poor man. All In cultiva tion. $3000. 160 acrea S miles from Lincoln In Polk county. A good piece of land at $33.60 an acre. 600 acrea 4 mllea from Dallas; 60 of it in cultivation. The best deal in Polk county. Will aell now for $20 an acre. 235 acrea, almost all In cultivation at $40 an acre 44 acres mostly In cultivation. 6 miles from Independence. $3200 or will aell H with buildings for $1650. 75 acres, 50 in cultivation; 10 In timber; young orchard. A good buy at $40 an acre. 50 acrea, 40 in cultivation, good houa and barn. 7 milea from Albany. A good buy. $80 an acre. 82 acres, 30 in cultivation. 5 acrea of best varieties apples in bearing. Very rich land. $75 an acre. 8 acres, 3 miles from Independence, all in cultivation, fenced. Some fruit trees. Slightly rolling. Fine fruit tract. Price $50 an acre. 20 acres, about 4 miles from Indepen dence; $600 barn and well; fenced with woven wire; rich sandy loam soil 18 feet deep; ten acres in wal nuts and peaches ' 3 years old; worth $250 an acre. Price $125 an acre. 47 acre; sabout 20 acres in cultivatio House, barn and family orchard; 16 acres hops and hop house. Five miles from Independence. Bargain Good crop will pay for place. Price $2650. Terms. 10 acres, all in cultivation; 7-room house .almost new; frame barn, wood house, wash house, chicken brooder and incubator; young orcb ard; acre in strawberries and raspberries. An ideal home. ZVi miles from town. Farm implements and stock with place at $2650. 20 acres, 3V4 miles from town; nearly all in cultivation; soil very rich. Five-room house, barn and family orchard; 2 acres timber. Price $2500. Terms. 88 acres, 16 in cultivation, balance in timber and pasture; rich garden land; young orchard in bearing, grapes and small fruit; house, barn and other outbuildings; oa connty road and rural route; between Albany and Independence. Price $80 an acre. CITY PROPERTY If you are looking f ir anything it ma un or rinnc or Inrina .u "An find aooutblng t ana you In U VuL Aak to aee property not In cluded la thla list uood houi and barn and t acrea to aell at $550. An acre on Monmouth atret-t and 7 room houia with other buildlnga. Orchard and larga and amall frulu. A good buy for $1000, Two story residence. In North Inde pendence, telephone and electric llfhta, all In good condition. 1 lot with place. A anap. Price $500. I room house, with cloaeta, 14x20 barn, chicken houae, carriage houae work ahop, wood houae, fruit treea and amall fruit. Improvement art worth aa much aa ia asked for place. About a half acre. Price $1000 Tract 90x200 feet In Independence, kouae 14x23, chicken corral, hen houae, wood abed; fenced. 400 atrawberrlaa, aome raspberries, o xanberrlea, gooseberries, pie plant, etc A good buy. Price $450. room houae and 1 Iota, large barn to aell at $3500. Beat houae In In dependonce. 10 room houae and 2 lota with other Improvements. A swell home for $1500. 9 room houae and i Iota with modern Improvement. A awell buy for a party who wanta aomethlng good. For aale for $2500. 8 lota In old town for aale for only $200. 8 Iota and 7-room houae with other Improvements for $850. $2200 buys one of the good homes of Independence with all modern con veniences. Come and enquire more about thla. An acre of land and good six room house with best of improvements; A good home for $850. An acre of land and 6-room house; good improvements, lumber on the ground for barn and other Improve ments and goes with place at $750 Look this up. Some bargains in business chances from $10,000 to $12,000. Residences and business blocks in Indepen dence. uia. E. Hick Real Estate Co. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON !tl ill (A In Case of Accident Yon abould have bottkof aura old wkUkey ia tha bouc. On you can rlv apoo. That you know M rtft. Such ionIi CYRUS NOBLEi for lb int tiro in 44 year now sold direct to you. quart Wttfaa, tlid la lian afl ckarsa nail la Um aarart raaVaad anna affka No danger of refilled bottle when you buy from u. No danger of aome cheap worthlcM tubati tut being palmed off on you. W have been the diatributer of this famoui brand, telling wholesale only, for 44 years. Pure old honest whiakey aged ia wood. Every bottle guaranteed. KCj.lVAN SCHUYVER'cTCO. V DBT1XUU AGENTS 1864 IO)-l07S4SuPi-10raVM ' COT If TIM um waa a, Mr W. J. Vaa SchayMT Ch TmrlU-i oa UMHIoWiLaaiKa mm it CXNUMC CVailt NOBLC. P.O. A. fivERG R EN STTATE I Interesting Item Gathered . EVnm ail ).. rt K l: .... a - - ' ' . V rt w. I .'inn " m i Ancit at Foes to Contest, Seattle- Ohlef Taholah, of the Qulniaults, bag Issued a challenge to his ancient tribal enemy, the King George Indians, of Vancouver Island, to meet his men In contests with the whale lance and in driving the long boat at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition. i One of the contests which prom ises to be most spectacular, will be the whale chase. A log will be set adrift in Lake Washington and the ocean canoes will be manned each by eight men. They will be swiftly driven by paddles until within strik ing distance of the dummy whale, when the harpooners will launch their lances. Chief Taholah is 80 years old. Ha signed the peace treaty with Govern or Isaac A. Stevens in 1855. CIGARS OF QUALITY Smoke the famous La Corona 1 0c cigar -J On sale at the stores of R. H. Knox and Tom Sul livan. Independence boosters, support Oregon made pro duct AUGUST HUCKENSTEIN, Mfgr. SALEM, OREGON 43.62 The Independence Free Library Association wiil meet in the Com mercial Club rooms Saturday after 170 odd acres bottom land for sale at announced trio over the state to ex- noon at 3 o ciock. juverypoay invuea. $iu,tuu. investigate una. Board to Inspect Depots, Olympia The railroad commls sion has announced that it will start Monday, April 19, on its previously MONUMENTS Monuments to be in place before Memorial Day should be ordered now, before the usual rush season. I have a large stock on hand and, besides, a full carload of Eastern Granite coming by rail and a large consign ment of Scotch Granite on the sea to arrive soon. We will gladly show designs and reserve any of this stock. I strictly guarantee my work to be as good as can be procured anywhere and my prices are aa low. Correspondence solicited and promptly answered. Salem Granite and Marble WILTOW W. MJIHTIN, Proprietor Works amine into the station facilities! train service and other matters af fecting the accommodations render ed to the public by the railroads. The commission will cover the Grays Harbor branch of the Northern Pa cific, next the line to Willapa Har bor, and then points on the main line to Vancouver, afterward going north over the Northern Pacific to the Canadian boundary, taking in all the branch lines on that road, as well as the Port Townsend Southern, and In all probability returning south over the Great Northern to Seattle, The commission will then decide upon the Itinerary through Eastern Washington. Nelson's Widow Returns to Tacoma. Tacoma Wearied to a state of ex haustion from her long trip and with no visible signs of emotion on her sad home-coming to view the corpse of the husband who had lost his life through efforts to find her, Mrs. Anna M. Nelson, wife of the late Andrew P. Nelson, arrived in Tacoma Saturday afternoon. "We could not agree. Our family life was not pleasant and I did not care to get a divorce, so I Just ran away and hid," she said. "I am ao glad he did not commit suicide, but perhaps he is better off since he died naturally. Of courae, I grieve for him, but I am necessarily hard Lost Bey May Be Found., Tacoma A new clew to the whereabouts of little Cecil Brittain, who was kidnaped two years ago in Walla Walla, haa been obtained by a Tacoma man, who has notified the Brittain family of the fact. The Ta coma man, however, desires his name withheld for the present. The boy is said to be held in Idaho and ia in the care of an old woman who pre sumably was not connected with the kidnaping. Cecil Britain was 4 years old when he was mysteriously stolen. The place where the boy Is now reported to be is only 20 miles from Walla Walla, but no railroad goes to the place. INDEPENDENCE AND MONMOUTH RAILWAY TIME TABLE FROM INDCPCNUCNCI FOR DALLAS Conductor Shot by Insane Italian. Tacoma Conductor W. J. Hilby, of a Northern Pacific passenger train, was shot twice by an insane Italian just as his train was pulling out of Bristol Sunday morning.. The Italian walked through the coaches flourishing a big revolver and terrifying the passengers. Con ductor Hilby tried to secure the guA and a fight for its possession took place, during which the gun was dis charged, Hilby being shot in the hand and leg, but both are flesh wounds and will not prove serious. The Italian was taken from the train and brought to Tacoma, where he was examined as to his sanity. Train No M leaves Independence dally eriO a. m.; leaves nonmouu o:u a. m.; arrive Dallas tiiO a. m. Train No 68 leaves Independence dally 10:60 a. m.; leaves Moomoutn, 11:06 a. in. arrives Dallas, 11:86 a. m. Train No 7U leaves Independence dally 6:16 p. m.; leave Monmouth 6:30 p. m.; arrive Dal las 6:55 p. m. FOR AIRLIE Train No 7S leaves Independence dally Mt p. in.; leaves Monmouth 2:50 p. m.; arrives Alrlie 3:25 p. m. FROM DALLAS FOR INDEPENDENCE Train No 65 leaves Dallas dally 8:90a. as; leaves Monmouth 6:65 a. m.; arrives Indepen- uenue :jd a. m. Train No 88 leaves Dallas daily 1:00 ID (1 mouth for Alrlie) ti. a leaves Monmouth 1:25 d. m arrives Indtn dence 1:40 p. m. (This train oonnecU at Moi Train No 71 leaves Dallas dally 7:35 p. m.; leaves Monmouth 8 p. m.; arrives Indepead enoa 8:15 p.m. FROM AIRLJC . Train No 72 leaves Alrlie dallv 4:05 n. m t leaves Monmouth 4:40 p. m.; arrives Inde pendence 4:55 p. ia , Anti-Jap Stickers in Pusco. Pasco In every business house in the city where Japanese labor is em ployed, small yellow stickers with the words "Fire the Jap," plaster the walls. . In saloons, beer and whiskey glasses are masses of stickers, and in the Japanese restaurants noodle bowls and tea urns represent gaudy bill boards on which are displayed in bold type "Fire the Jap." Engineer and Fireman Killed. Tacoma A Northern Pacific pas senger train was wrecked Saturday night at Bristol, near Stampede tun nel. Engineer James Hammond, of Tacoma, and Fireman John Johnson, were killed. The mail car and some of the coaches left the track and are in the river. Tha Bribe That Failed. Among Father Dempsey'a steady boarders was a fellow named Delaney. I He was drunk as often as he could I get that way. Father Dempsey tried all manner of means to get Delaney to qnit drinking. At last be said to him: "Delaney, my man, if you'll atop drinking for six months I'll give yon a check at the end of that time for $50." 'Indeed, if I stopped for six months I could write you a check for $100," answered Delaney, and Father Demp sey in telling of it later added: 'And indeed he could, too, for he's a No. 1 mechanic." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Rapid Rhymer. In Illustration of the workine powers of George R. Sims, the dramatist and poet, it is said that one night a new piece was produced at a leading theater In London. Sims sat It out and then returned to his office, where he wrote column and a half of criticism in rhyme. It was near the timo for the paper to go to press when be began, and the boy took the piece Terse by verse from him to the composing room, the boy walking continuously from ne to the other an hour. ened." f