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tAKMLKS COLMII KtKtBAXTS , thin Your Product to ilth He Wilt Pay You 1! fur Drej Fri. 10c for Dressed, Imall fat Veal. 15c for Live tprlna CI IckaeS. 14 for Uve Hem. Intermediate piymj". No Cot mission chargsd. , ADIHtfctid PRANK L. SMITH MEAT CO., "FUMlng titu HtMf Trust." Portland, Oragon. The Family Orchard Those Intending lo plain family or chard! this (all will do wi ll to place lhtr order early, as already some vt the good verities are nearly gone already. The Large Planters lira ordering ar!y, too, aa some were disappointed Jaat year by finding that tb! varlotloa of fruit tree they waul ed were gone when thuy wero ready to plant Information cheerfully given by ad dressing ' ' " 0. W. PENNEBAKER EptnUl Baleaman for the company for Polk and Marlon Countlea G L Hawkins ' allHB,Ure. nd Head Mone tlnetery wot etc Launch Independence Wbimm ludenrndeuee nd Hal- Pin dsilv oept Hunriuy. Passenger nd freight bnalnew solicited. Leave Independence : :.ma m. Ieve Salem : 3 :1ft p.m. Geo. Skinner j - Skipper Steele's Ferry Buena Vista, Oregon. The ferry that croBaes the people. Moat direct route to Jefferson, Sclo, Shedburne, Salem and Al bany from all points In South ern aad Central PoMt county. WOOD Large or Small Orders De livered" Promptly. HENRY MOTT Independnece, Oregon. BELL PHONE 0. T. Vaa Allen rteprlevor f hone MMeTaln Mi N.twaa. su THE ELDRIDGE ' European P. I,rgBBBy RoomnKn Suite or Single aieobrle LhrtitnBatta Salem, Ore. H1LLSB0R0 SANITARIUM Mrs. L. R. Hicks Wards nd private rooms. Inspeo Uon Invited. All classes of non contagious cases from reputable physicians accepted. Special at tention to confinement cases un der fhyslclans' care. Trained nurse in attendance. Phone Pacific Main 821. ' ' ' ' NEWS OF OREGON SM IN BRIEF ti:i.:: . . rrr:o.tri.i: i hTATU II VITLMMiH. HOPE TO VOTE STATE DRY Anil-Hln League llnny With I'lan In Make ( ImR hHM'p in 1UIO Klwlloa. EVENTS IN OUR STATE OF MINOR IMPORTANCE J. D. WINN REALTY BROKER Farm Loans and Insurance. Notary Pnbllo. Buena Vista, Oregon. Portland fVate-wlda prohibition la the Issue that will bo submitted lo the temperance people at the general election In November, 1910. Petl tlona are now belr.g prepared for clrrulatton railing for county prohi bition In Grunt and llarrey eouniW. ThU quenilon w ill be aubmltted to a vote at .in election lo be held next November, Th sntl-saloon workers epecl to nuh.nlt the question of county prohibition In atlll another county thin Fall, but are not pre pared to annouuce the name of the county. I'nder the operation of the local option law during the laat Bve years, not one of the 84 counties In the atate la entirely wet. Nineteen are altogether dry, wh'le, with the ex ception of Multnomah the sale of In toxcantt la prohibited In more than 60 per cent of the territory of the other IS counties. In Multnomah County the saloon haa been placed under the ban In about 40 per cent of the area. Fills Vacancy on Commission. Salem. W. T. Wright of Union, Or., has been elected secretary of the Oregon State commission at the A.-V.-P., to siireeed M. D. Wisdom, of the Rural Spirit, who died last week. Mr. Wright Is one of the original c.onitnUnloiiers appointed by Governor Chamberlain. Mr. Wright Is president of tho First National bank at I'nlon and pioneer resident of I'nlon county, having lived there over 44 years. FikmI Ijiw Violated. ""Portland. United 8tates District Attorney McCourt has filed a com plaint airalnst tho Acme Mills Com pany alleging violation of the pure food law. The firm shipped 10 enseg of gluten to San Francisco In February. 1 908. This food is alleged to be nilsbranded as tho complaint states tint the food did not contain enough glutinous property to entitle it to the name of gluten. The In formation on which tho complnlnt Is bused, was supplied by a chemist In the employ of the t'nltod States De partment of Agriculture. Ill Knlry Lint for Local Meet. Portland. Race cntrk's at the Portland Fair tho week of September 20-25, exceed in number and excel In cluss those of a year ago, when tho first annual harness meet by the present ahsoelatlon was held hero. Some of the finest speed contests of the year may reasonably be expected during the course of the six-day pro gramme. Events for all classes are on the card, with prospective con tenders from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California and British Colum I Will Reside In Portland. 'Pendleton. William J. Furnish, the Pendleton banker and former candidate for Governor, has decided to make Portland his permanent home. Mr. Furnish Is one of the best-known citizens in the state of Oregon, and for years he has been an Influence In Eastern Oregon, where he accumulated his fortune. He Is now projecting the Furnish ditch for Irrigating a' big project near Hermiston Greenman Named for New Hatchery. Salem. Master Fish Warden Mc Allister has completed arrangements for the establishment of an experU mental salmon hatchery on Young's River, near Astoria, and has given B. C. Greenman, superintendent of the Salmon River hatchery, charge of the work. Mr. Greenman Is con sidered one of the best Ash eulturlsts on this coast, having been engaged In the work almost continuously for the past 13 years, serving under both the Unted States Bureau of Fisheries and this state. Cargo of Oregon Trees for China, Portland.- Wanting the biggest timbers available in the world for the rebuilding of u famous temple, the Chinese government has come to Oregon for them. These timbers, or rather trees, for they are great logs with the bark still on, are now being loaded on board the steamship Em ma S. Dollar, at Linnton. The logs, 105 feet long and 40xfeet In circum ference at the butt, after reaching China must be towed 200 miles up the Grand Canal and then trans ported overland six miles to the Temple Llrg Yen, the most famous house of worship In all the Celeatlal Empire. Patronize our advertisers. t'Atem. nermn-Amerirn l- J (! from Portland, Kustiie, Ores-m t'i . Moui.1 Auel sml mh-r tou 111 III' purl of ilie .tit v. "e I K-leiu Untidily and Joiiiid ih u-r tuan-Aiiierkan Horlety of Balem ti uliyerve the 100th unlvemary of the d'ath of .Adrian Hofer, b grtai Uernmn soldier and patriot. Albany. l'aclflf l ulverlty limit Htnttut In the Htate Huprenie Court for the bequest ( received from Holi er! McCullongh In 1893. Alorneya for the defendants' have filed In th- Circuit Court a notice of appeal to the higher tribunal In the ra of tho President and Trustee! of rU ParllH Pnlvcrnlty and Tualatin Academy vs. Kniini A. Keene, et al. The value of the bequest la said to be between IIS00 and :oon. Klamath Falli. Contending that much of the land Is worthless, K. T. Hehfleld, of Guthrlo, Okla , Is re oorted to have said he would ak United States Atorney McCourt to prevent the allotment by the Oregon Valley Land Company of about 300, 000 acres of agricultural land In Lake and Malheur counties. The award of the tracts to purrhBHlng sellers Is scheduled for Thursday, September B, at Lakerlcw. Koeeburg. Fire originating In G. W. llano's livery stables and which raged four hours before controlled destroyed 122,000 worth of property In the business district. Seventeen Irorses and two cows perished In the stable. The Insurance covers about one-third cf the Ioms. Two brick and one cement block buildings were gusied. Rend. It now seems probable that the scene of railroad activities may be shifted temporarily from the Deschutes Canyon to the Bend country. " Two survey crews for the Hill line have made their appear ance In nend. About 40 men are Included In the crew. ' Ralorh, The fax-roll of the Asses sor of this county, recently com pleted, shows that there is a material Increase In the valustlon of the property of railroad companies. The Southern Pacific Is assessed $1,4 50, 475, bs against 11,338.900, an in crease of $111,575. The assessment of the Oregon Electric Is nearly double that of last year, the 1909 BsseRsment being $4 24,800, com pared to $278,775 In 1908, a differ ence of $146,025. The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company Is assessed $359,710, an Increase of $12,000 over last year. Eugene. John Mathews, of Co burg, was shot and seriously wound ed by Vlrcrll Clover while hunting In the mountains northwest of Eugene, Clover mistaking him for a deer. Forest Grove. The depositors of the E. W. Haines Bank, at this place, which closed during the panic of 1907,, are to be paid In full some time after September 1. The last dividend Is to be paid with interest. The amount Mr. Haines will pay to his depositors is about $10,000. gaien1i Teachers' Institutes will be held In most of the counties of the state this Fall, beginning with the Lane County Institute, at Eu gene, on September 27-29, and end ing on November '2?.-2 4 at Portand, with the Multnomah County Institute Also there will be a School Board convention at Eugene on October 6 and an educational rally in Jackson County, November 7-13. Independence. Picking was com-' menced in the large Krebs Bros.' hopyard Saturday with a crew of 700. Krebs Bros, expect to have at least 400 more pickers by the first of the week. One hundred pickers came In this morning on the south bound Corvallis passenger for Krebs and about 25 for McLaughlin. Dallas. Miss C. B. Elton, of Dal las, has been appointed stenographer In the Internal revenue office at San Francisco. Portland. After a grilling by Po lice Judge Bennett In the Municipal Court, Ray Travis, a member of the fuel firm of Travis Bros., .was fined $50. E. Bailey, alleged a shortage in a quantity 0f fuel recently pur chased from the firm. After a futile effort to make Travis Bros, rectify th .hortaee Bailey swore to a com plaint accusing the fuel dealers of swindling him out of half a cord of fir wood. ; Marshfleld. Telephone lines by the farmers are being built In dif ferent parts of the county. The Kenwell Telephone Company has Just been organized and will give connections from farms on Haynes and Willanch Inlets and the town of Cooston, across the bay to Marsh field and North Bend. A. G. Raab. principal of the North Bend schools, Is president of the company. Another company just formed ie the Rural Telephone Company to build front points on Catching Inlet. A third company Is putting In a toll line from Roseburg and several farmer lines are being built la the Coquille Valley. - Subscribe for the Enterprise. the i MM Simple but effective novelties and specialties are essential for the artistic and attractive equipment of the Home. Our assortment include the latest and most ap propriate designs in Reed, Rush and Hickory chairs, the famous "Wood Web" shades, and all sizes Rugs and Mattings for your porch. Complete stock of "National" Refrigerators, "Caloricffireless cook stoves, Denaturedalcohol stoves as well as the old reliable "Acorn'' ranges for your kitchens. All sorts of camp furniture also. Your very critical inspection is invited. Send for circulars. Salem, Oregon, pa fill NOW No. 12345 Tender Picker No. No. 12345 Good for One Box Hops Tsnd r- ' -- Picker No Sack Vo Sack Nuniber- 1909 NOT THAKSPERABU Jt. H09CR0WEK. Now is a chance to give some business to your home paper. You won't send it away. 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