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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1909)
OREGON BRIEFLETS H.ppnnr Wool has trans frr4 la llttrtr tea paat lo tba itnt of ofr 1.000.000 pounds. Tli low-t prlct paid It II tnli and lb highest 10 7-1 eenta. Portland Sorloua r.porla art now coming la Irom tha OraD bP yards and unleaa tbrra I Improwtaaat loon Or.goa mar not b over ball a crop, 1'oriland Tba recall la to b In okd against all tba hldoor mom bert of ib council who voti d fur tba Portland Hallway Light 4 Power Company'a fram-hlae at tbe lait counc il miUng. Albany Albany's big taberoarle U completed and la readiness (or the all weeks' revival services which will opn May 7. Tba building will aest 1600 people and will have a plt form 00 by 31 (( for tbe speak er and a big chorus choir. Portland llrfore be could reach a drowning girl whom be had jumptid Into Iho river lo aave, Mir rll UndHf)', aged 24, auuk in tba watera of the Willamette Saturday pltiht and waa drowned. tiiadya Jacobn'-n, BK'd nine, whom he tried to help met d'a Hi at thu amo time. Salem Governor Benson baa re appointed the following iim'IiiIhtb of tbe aula board of optometry, upon the recommendation of the Slate Op tical Association: 12. O. Mattern, Portland, one )jr; Herman Harr, Salem, two years; C. W. l-ow, Eu gene, three yearn. Portland Senator Itourno hopes to Bwure the eaUbllHhmeut of liial' service between Portland and Eu reka, Cat., by ati-ainer. OfTlclula of tbe pout office department are going Into tbe matter and aay they are. dis poned to grant the requeat If condl tlona make It possible. Lebanon Iebanon wilt bold a atrawberry fulr In June, which, If It proves successful, will become an a Dual event. The Lebanon Business Men'a League recently adopted tbe atrawberry aa an emblem for Ita "booater" literature, and In view of this fact an annual atrawberry fair will be very apropoa. La Grande Tbe La Grande water system la being put on the meter baala and hereafter flat rates will be abandoned. Since tbe Installation o the system people have been allowed to use all the water they wanted a a certain late per mouth. The abuse of the system haa caused the Inatal latlon of meters. Salem J. If. Ackerman, state an perlntendent of schools and director of the National Educational AsBoda tlon for Oregon has Issued a clrculat letter to the teachers of Oregon, re latlng to the annual convention of tbe association, wblcb convenes Ir Denver. July 6, and holds four days In which he states that the railway lines have made reduced round-trip fares which will be In effect on July first. Albany Local merchants are now forced to adopt the almost unprece dented expedient for shipping out side potatoes here for consumption In the local market. Practically all of the potatoes of Linn county have been sold and shipped and tbe small supply now In Albany Is being care fully held by the Durchasers. Pota toes are now selling at SI to $1.20 a bushel. Central Point Fruit men of this section are indignant over reports circulated to the effect that the crops In' many of the orchards In this Juris diction are totally ruined. These gentlemen declare emphatically that the story is without foundation, and that it has had the effect of damag ing their properties in the most im portant section of the Rogue river yalley. Milton Word has been received from H. S. Shangle, financial secre tary of Columbia College, who Is now In the East representing the claims of the Milton College before the edu cational board of the M. E. church, South, in session in Richmond, Va.. that his plea for a $12,000 appro priation for the Milton school had been passed upon favorably and this amount given. This now makes the total subscription toward a greater Columbia College $40,000. for two or tb?M rouada7 Anally atop plag Bear the body of tbe dead mas. fcUelag th bora standing ttUI for aomt time, a msa plowing In aa ad joining fl.ld weal to Investigate and four Wilroi dad. Heart dla.aas ia beiiovH to bate raud Ike d.aia. t . New lUllroail tr Rogue fllver. Central Point Kllaa Ituud, nngla r for an Esstera syndicate, la barn ..curing data, making charts, ete., la I be Interest of hla company, wblrh proposes to build railroad from Rogue River Valley to Crasc.nt City, Cal., la order to connect tbe vaat roal field and tbe timber belt of thla atstloa with water tranaporla-tou. .Many t'nlon Men March In Pntrt. Portland Called together In pro teat agalnat the action of Judge Wright, of Washington, D. C. In sentencing to prison for contempt of court Ramuel Oompcrs. John Mitch ell and Frank Morrison, officers of j the American federation of Labor, j $000 men and women of Portland i Sunday adopted tbe following rvao lution: . ! "We, the rlllxom of Portland, In mass meeting -aitsemblod, protest against Bonding troops into peaceful communities, and we likewise vigor ously protest against tbe un of sol diers at any time when the laboring Clana la endeavoring to Improve Ita condition. We demand the Imme diate reoeal of , the Dick military bill." There were 03 unions represented from ortland and 13 from other citle In the state. William I). Hay wood, of Denver, tbe former scre- tary-treaiurer of the Western Feder ation of Miners, who was accused with . Mover and Pe!tIbone of being accessories In wboleaale murders and bomb outrages In Colorado and Ida ho, was the principal speaker. f ALLS INTO LONG SLEEP Third Time In Two Years Malady Overtake llrulah Hawkins.. Loa Augeloe. May I. Mrs. Be- lah Hawkins fur tbe third time In tbe last two yaara hiu pasted iota aiate of compute coma and ber strange caae la again pooling phyaU clans. She was stricken after feel ing for ieveral daya' that aha waa again about to go Into a long sleep. She fought the strange malady, but at laat It overcame ber and ahi now Ilea at ber borne, aa though dead, aava for a faint breathing and aa oc.a.lonal fluttering of the eyelid. Two years ago Mrs. Hawkins waa overcome and for several weeks re mained In a trance. Exactly ona year ago she waa stricken for the second time and for 85 days lay un conscious. After her recovery from former attacka she recovered her health anl mental facultlea quickly and seemed lo be none tbe worse. Largo Farmers' Meoting. La Grande The farmers of Union tnd Wallowa counties will hold a meeting at this place May 14 and 15 for thd purpose of discussing the problems which confront the workera in the fields of this section, and to outline some plan of aotion relative to the marketing of crops and the purchase of grain bags. The meet ing has been called by the five local unions of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union, which are now the only representatives of the organization in Eastern Oregon, ex cept a few locals near Milton. Farmer Dies on Plow. Pendleton Ed. Wilcox, a farm Jaborer, aged 22, dropped dead while plowing in a field near Adams. His presence from the seat of the gang plow was not noticed by the horses and they kepton around .the field Finds (lues to a Crime. Pendleton That two men who were traveling through the Blue mountains for the purpoae of taking moving pictures had a quarrel which resulted In tbe murder of one of them seems to be proven by the ghastly discoveries made at a lonely apot between Pilot Rock and Starkey Prairie. Late Saturday afternoon Roy Jen nings came across a team and double back at a point near the summit of the Blue mountains. The team showed evdence of having been tied up all night, ao the young man at once began a search. He found the body of a man by whose side waa a pick and shovel. Without making further Investigation Jennlng rush ed to the nearest telephone and sent a message to the officials of Pendleton. 4. v : . (..,: j. f X. t ! t rv ; QUEEN WILHELMINA. To whom a princess and heiress to the Holland throne was born last week. XonlMtrom Convlcli'd of Murder. Tillamook Adolph N. Nordstrom waa found guilty of murder In th first degree for killing John Peter son on Sunday night, February 28 Nordstrom is a Swede. 25 years old He left this city 'on the night of the murder about 9 o'clock, being armed with a large revolver, and went to a cabin where Peterson was stop ping. Here he first attempted to rob Peterson end then beat him to death by Btrlking him over the head with the butt end of the revolver, inflict lng a number of frightful wounds Hean Resigns; McBride Sworn. Salem Justice R. S. Bean Satur day morning resigned his position on the supreme bench to accept the position of United States district judge. Judge T. H. McBride, of the circuit court for the Fifth Judicial district, also resigned and was sworn in as a member of the supreme court by Chief Justice Moore. Judge Bean received a telegram from United States Attorney-General Wlckersham. Informing him that his commission as the additional United Statas district Judge for Oregon, au- horized by the sixtieth congress. had been forwarded April 29. Judge Bean was sworn in Wednesday. Salem The supreme court has de creed that the standard of examina tions for admission to the bar In this state shall be raised and here after candidates will be required to answer all questions regardless of how long the examination may take. There will be an examination held in Salem June 8, and th.e prospects are that a large class will be examined. Portland Henry Meldrum, form er surveyor-general of Oregon, will be pardoned if efforts now being made by his Oregon friends prove successful. Petitions are being sent to the President reporting that Mel drum has served much of his sen tence, that his friends believe he had no criminal intent when In office, that he drifted Into wrongdoing and that strong drink was largely re sponsible for his undoing. The pe tition will be filed . with President Taft by the Oregon senators. F. Little attacks of indigestion are what bring on other ailments, such as acute indigestion, chronic dys Densla and even more serious npr- manent illness. Kodol is guaranteed tlon made by his firm to give relief, xry it today, sold Dyimnnan & Marvin, all druggists. ASSAY OFFICE AT THE FAIR Machinery for tlie Exposition Plant Being Initialled. Seattle, May 4. Seattle will have two fully-equipped assay offices in operation this season, engaged la re celvlng bullion shipments of a record-breaking year of Alaska gold production. Besides the main Seat tle office, a duplicate of the existing office will be in operation at the government building at the A.-T.P. prntin ds. where the Alaska miner or f. . ... j ..i . u i I consignee oi goia uiuy uciwi shipment, have it assayed and weighed, and can receive hla pay check, either at the grounds or at the downtown office. A nart of the machinery for the exposition plant la already on the grounds, iinu is being installed next to the exhibit of the mint bureau. By June 1 everything will be ready for operation, and visitors may watch every stage of the work of assaying, weighing and melting the precious metal. Chorus of 600 Children. Seattle, May 6. Six hundred Se attle children, between the ages of 8 and 14 years, will render th an them "Lift Up Your Heads," at the Epworth League Convention at the armory Sunday afternoon, July 11. CANNER8 CANNOT HAVE A MONOPOLY OF LABEL. Washington, May 4. There can be no monopoly in the use of the word "sockeye" in denominating the species of salmon canned by any of the salmon-packing- interests of the Pacific Coast or of Alaska, nor is a packer required to state on the la bel of his can tbe locality in which the salmon is taken, according to a decision by Solicitor Earle, for the department of commerce and labor, in an informal opinion to the United States fish commission. It was pointed out by the commis sion's communication that the same species of fish packed by the Alaska salmon industries and labeled as the "sockeye" was caught also in Puget Sound and the waters of British Co lumbia and canned under a label Identical with that used for the prod uct of the Alaskan fisheries "sock- eye. But it was Biaiea mai wuno the fish caught in those two locali ties were of the same species, there was a difference in their quality of value, the difference la market price beina 50 per cent in favor of the Puget Sound waters and the waters of British Columbia. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that connot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and flnan cially able to carry out any obllga- Walding, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.J ft rale II f 111?? JIOU need our goods and we need your Y trade and we are always willing to g make concessions to gain new busi ness. We have lately enlarged our stock in all lines and can show you larg er lines from which to select than any other store in the country. Now, our proposition is this: come to Salem if you can. If you can't come, then write us stating your needs and we will send you cuts and quote you prices delivered to your nearest railroad or boat station. In case you can come to Salem we will see 'that you more than make your expenses, provided, of course, you trade with us. Sit Down and Talk it over and then after due consideration come right here arid-we'll show you the best Tan, Oxblood, Patent Calf or Kid $3.50 Oxford a man ever bought for the price. Then we can show you the best Patent, Kid or Colt Skin $3.00 or $3. 50 woman's Tan, Oxblood Ox ford that these prices ever bought. The styles are new and we have all the correct shaped last. It is a fact that is being demonstrated every day, that the best things in footwear always come out of this store. Come to see the new Spring creations. ORES 2N SH 0E The Home of Good Shoes SALEM, OREGON Shoe Repairing a Specialty G0.