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INDEPENDENCE EN TERPRISE --" " """"" " """""" INDEPEND tNC e7 O R E GO N Vr I DAVtM A Y 27, 1810. NUMBER 52 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY WILL OBSERVE GRAND HISTORIC EVENT AT 0. A. C. NATION AND STATE WILL JOIN IN CELEBRATION OF SPLENDID PROGRESS OF GREAT EDUCA TIONAL INSTITUTION JUNE 14. The Oregon Agricultural college will celebrate tlm twmty-ltftli niiulvcntniy t)f lu eetiiblixhineut a it state llltilltU lluii on June li. Fur this event there will assemble li tint city of Corvulli nicii iIIhIIiikuIhIihI In every walk of Aineriiitu life. together wllli ninny hundreds of Oregon college nlunitil niul former students. Tln function will l both formal li ud ftnllu-. Holde the conferring of degrees and tlio " formal exercises, there will be banquets, uiilllary drill ti.nl puiades. athletic contests, student dramatic and inimical concerts. Koine )f the moHt prominent iiM'U In con temporary public life will deliver nd dresses, niul the bent musical talent available will be secured for the va rlmia iii-iiL'mnin. For this occasion Corvallls will tnhe on a carnival ulr, nn.1 there In no spot In Oregon better titled to Im tlio weiic of ft great hlHtoiic observance. The lieauty which nature Im liestowed upon the great sweep of campus anil , Jts surrounding will be augmented by the efforts of the heft landscape gar deners mill special decorators. The nplcndld new buildings will be com pleted, and everything will be In such Late an to lx-Mt entertain and please the returning graduates and visitor". The railroad have agreed to offer excursion rates and to put oil special trains from various points In the stnte. This will offer u splendid opportunity to the people of the Hint,! to vl.dt the college at this opportune time. . The ex-governors of the slate, for mer president f the college and for nier members of the board of regents will be anions the olllcial visitors. Both the state and the nation will be represented by men prominent In the gervlte of each. Governor Benson and fcl staff will be present as the repre sentatives of the state of Oregon. Men high In the olllelal circles of the Unit ed States will be present to represent the federal government. ' The universities and colleges of the United States will also be Invited to nend delegates to the celebration. This will guarantee a very wide representa tion In educational work and will bring to the college many of the most prominent educutors of the age. ....muu,,totivp of the commercial, p,irt dirrlcultural Interests of the state will ulso be present at the celebration. The experimental wui. -,hi,.i, th colleue has been carrying on for ninny years has put It In close touch with these activities ami the people of the state wno are eu a r.,M.iiii'tliic them. This quarter century celebration Is because it marks the close of a long period of time during which the college has existed, hut be- mnrirn an era of development end progress In the educational work ' of the Institution which Is not sur passed If It Is equaled In the history of ' land grant colleges. In the twenty-five years which have Intervened since the state assumed control of Corvallls college, then a sec tnrlnn sc hool. a marvelous change han The little local school which served as grammar school, high ,..i,i ond colleire for a very limited district bus develop into a great ami Inauence Is uroiiu iiioiuui.vu - tf n ouorv corner of the state and which attracts to its portals young men and young women not only from every part of Oregon, uui uum eral states of the nation and several tlm world. While the quarter centennial proper will be celebrated on June 14, the whole commencement week will be col ored by the anniversary, and special features will continue rroni rnuuy June 10,, until the night of Tuesday Tuna 1i ' The festivities will be opened with ho n mi mi l senior class play at . the lo- ,.,,i Hunter Friday night. This will be oiinwoii on Saturday by a student program, which opens with the class day exercises, Includes reunions of all student societies ana organizations uuu closes with the annual Junior prome nade. Sunday will tie aevoiea to reu glim exerrlw. The biicciilaiireiile wrnioii will Ik delivered ty Hcv. lr. K. V. I'liiiiq ett, ri-tor ot Trinity rliurch, Sun Fr iih Ihco. The iifterinKiii will be devoted to eXerelHe by tu dent orKiinl.atloim nnd the evening l, union Nerrleeii. In which nil the ( huri h en of tlio city will pin Helpuie. Th regular quarter ceiiteiiiilal exer clso will open Moiidny with a unique historical program. Imrlng the day t!ie president of the folleiie will tender a reception to the visitors, and the aluinnl will hold their regular lnisiness inis'tlng. The evening will lie devoted to the nliliniil rieitloll and banqilel and student celebration on the campus. Tuesday will nmrk the close and cli max of the program. The forenoon will be devoted to the commencement exercises and the afternoon to the reg ular Jubilee program. A reception and dinner to the otlldal delegate will lie the final event of the great celebration. HANDLES HUGE TRACT OF LANII BIGGEST LAND CORPORATION THE WORLD. actual aetilcm throiiKh a" ' the cam paign, which, with the rapid railway ; development uow lu progress. ill rre-' ate new fruit and irrigation districts Cpial to many of tlm most famous of, the present Orcguo valleys. The of- J fleers of the corporation left lust; Iweek for tbe west, oiiipu:iiea by. ! Curtis U Mosher. of the St. I'aul IN Consolidated t'ublic'ty liureau, who j will utlliie a vaiatloii.from his office. to accompany them on their Inspec FINDS REST AND PEACEFUL END! MRS, Hon. 800,000 ACRES AND LONG. EXTENDING 800 MILES I FROM AL- Great Northern to Develop Territory. 1'resldent Louis W. Hill of thJ Gnat Northern railway was In On- , , i.......... li,ut on an ii at vi V6 i"v BANY TO ONTARIO, HANDLED tlon trip. The new Deschutes line of I .. . .... ....... ,Via t the ureat 4-oniiern tmi i-" north and south and plans are being J. G. MCINTOSH SUCCUMBS TO TUBERCULOSIS. BY 112,000,000 CORPORATION. r -rr .-wv,! anvi KMlK K. W. I1KSSO.N. OKfcOOK a Of MDIAL BEl'REMKNTATtVE AT gUAHTl-K CENTENNIAL CK1.K11KAT10.N. Transfers were completed In New York this week by means of which a St. I'aul land corporation which, with: Its 112.000,000 capital, is said to Del four times larger than any other In i the world, closes the largest mm deal ever made in America, ouiaiuing . title to 800,000 acres in Central Ore- eon. The Immense tract Is trans ferred eutlre and represents a belt 800 miles tu length and of .varying: width! extending lu a diagonal direc tion from Alhuny Oregon, In the Wil- . t j lamettte valley, southeast to uie iut- i.- n. . u . rtntflpln lit the heau oi m.ii,,..i vallov Of the total 660,000, acres is rich agricultural land, much nf which will be Improved under ir ritation, and 140,000 acres Is heavily timbered, containing 4,000,000,000 ieei of standing pine, fir and cedar. The inH transferred includes some of the richest districts in Oregon and will be developed and settled at once. A St. Paul Company. T handle the tract the Oregon & Western Colonization company wai j . territory. . rt rtn nun to I la t f..rm. uiilh S I Z IIIIU.UUU LaUIlBI. 1U1 lllCUi "i'u " 1 . j - t.i..u u,tu niiwn tin an i -zr II 7 Y 1 N 7 V: , 4 A ft' "ev,, - 1 '' . ' - f ! ' i ' . . t - ' '-'-rjl i DB. W. i. KEB11, PRESIDENT OF OKEUON AOlCt;i.TUHAl, COLLEGE had Seen an earnest and en thusiastic SCHOOL WORK Ef AND FAITHFUL AND CONSCIEN TIOUS RELIGIOUS DEVOTEE. Mary Nichols Mcintosh, daughter of l Abel L. and 1'haila M. Nichols, waa iboru near Monona, Iowa, February 21, 1880. In Septemlier ot uie sam year the family moved to Fayette, Iowa, where she received her educa tion. She graduated from the Upper Iowa University in In the fall of the same year she engaged as teacher in th2 public schools of North Wood, Iowa, at which place she met J. Graham Mcintosh, who. was also a teacher in the same schools. In the summer of 1904 she took post graduate work at Minneso ' ta State University and taught the 'following year as assistant principal 'of the Rushford schools, Rushford, I .., . . xlruio nf the school year, on the 27th of June, 1905, she was united in marriage to J. Grahani Mcintosh at the home of her brother, Alfred E. Nichols, In Sheldon, Iowa. She came to Oregon with her hus band, her brother Ambrose and wife, to the Lewis aud Clarke centennial. Since that time she had been a teacn- BU1LD1NGS AND CAMPUS. Beauty and Utility Combined at the College at Corvsllis. The Oregon Agricultural cellege which will celebrate Its quarter ceil tenulal June 14. Is located at Corvallls. nn the Willamette river and In the hanrt of tlm beautiful Willamette1 val ley. The uearby foothills, with their frreen fields, wooded glens and nioun tain streams afford snlendld opportu nlties for recreation and contribute to tho beauty of the scenery which the itlstniit snow clad Cascades complete. This splendid environment, together with the wenther conditions wnicn usually prevail at this time of the year, will afford an Ideal location ana at mosphere for the Jubilee. The college grounds, consisting of 250 acres, are located within the west ern limits of the city. The campus proper, covering about torty ncres. Is beautifully decorated with magnificent specimen trees, flower beds and groups of shrubbery. Broad drives and walks traverse the grounds in every direction and add to the attractiveness of the place. In plnce of the single brick building which housed the college In 18S5 and which now serves bb the ndrululstra: tlou building there are twenty struc tures, many of which eclipse in every way the original college home. On each side of It Is a beautiful gray stone building, one of which Is now called the chemistry building and the other mechanical hall. The next row of buildings Includes the splendid home of the mechanic arts, the phar macy building, the gymnasium and the mammoth concrete armory. Flunking thoao imiirMnLTs are Waldo hall, the women's beautiful dormitory, the new agricultural ball, the central part 'of which is jnst being completed, and ch.n. hull the stndent buildina. Then there are the mining buildings, the poultry buildings and tho farm buildings, forming a splendid group. All these buildings aud this great Btretch of campus will be decked out In carnival airs. Great flower beds will be prepared aud planted with the flow ers arranged In unique designs. The college colors will be much in evidence, and the buildings will be outlined with thousands of electric lights. Change , of Ownership ' The garage and repair shop at this place changed owners a few days ago when H. M. Edgar sold out to Chest er Zumwalt, a resident of Salem, who formerly resided in Independence. Mr. Zumwalt has moved back to Inde pendence with his family and taken charge of the business. Mr. Edgar will probably remain in this city for the present. headquarters will be in St. Paul and the active management will rest upon President W. P. Davidson, a well known land operator, and Vice-President John E. Burchard, who has been for many years one of the most prom inent of the northwestern land deal ers. About a dozen representatives of this company passed through Indepen dence last Monday direct from these i.,.i i.. -u,r. nutnmobiles on their laiiua in way to Portland. Though it is not definitely learned it is presumed that in the party was president Hill, of the Great Northern Railway, and V. P. Davidson, president of the $12,000,000 land company and John E Blanchard, vlce-presiueia. l" of the party were William Hanley, the land king of Burns; R. G. di vert, staff correspondent of the J?ort innj ri'ao-nnlim ' 1. C. Leedy, general immigration agent of the Great North ern; O. V. Seaton ana u. a. wood, immigration agent of the Great Northern; George Kain of The Dalles and Tex Reed of Burns. Long Inspection Trip by Automobile Notice was made that the transfers nnni,MeH and President David- h vt,.B President Burchard made immediate preparations for an extensive inspection trip including an 800-mile automobile ride over the en tire tract, during which the general condition of the property will be in-.oio-ateH nnd nlans formulated for immediate colonizatlon.The lands will be transferred to the ownership of Within the er in the schools of Webfoot district -.ki..k Bae. t the ownership Newberg and Independence. iho sr Paul corporation are a nuna ber of thriving cities, including Prine vlle wth 5000 population, Burns with a population of 3500, Vale with 5000 population and Ontario, a city of 6000. A large number ot smaller cit ies and towns, now cut off from rail ways, will be given the advantages of new lines and promise to show a rapid, development. Contains Oil, Gas, Minerals and Timber. No decision has yet been reached regarding the plans for opening these innrto tr, settlement. They present a varied catalogue of resources. oi 100 miles along the grant there are signs of oil, and natural gas has been developed with a pressure of l2o pounds to the square Inch. -In several districts which are mountainous there are indications of ore, and much of this land is mineralized. The timber resources of that section of the tract lying east of western Oregon are enormous, and it is probable that a careful cruising wlil develop a heav ier total than that at present accept ed The agricultural lands which form the great bulk of the total, are diver sified, offering- a large number of irri gation projects, several exceedingly rich valleys, of which the Harney valley forty miles wide and eighty miles 'long, is the most notable, great areas of fruit lands and large tracts suitable for cereal crops,, sheep rais- (Contlnued on page eight.) Nomination Blank , "nominate jHE CAPITAL p"" P"NOVTO M VEN AWAV THE 0N BATURDA, JUNE 25, ,910. v GOOD FOR 25 VU its I NAME ; ' fPOSTOFFICE NOMINATED BY POSTOFFICE " DAY OF 1910. AT .... O'CLOCK .. M v.. ..titled to one nomination for each candidate . , One. child was born to this union. Winnifred Thornton, who lived but. four short weeks, being burled in the family plot at Dayton, Oregon.- She united with the M. E. cnurcn early In life and has been an earnest and conscientious Christian worker, both in church and Sunday school, and for several years had sung in the choir. She had a full, rich alto, voice and loved to sing in the Mas ter's service. In the summer of 1909 she was tak en down with hemorrhage of the lungs and .after a few weeks of anx ious care she was restored to nei ious care she was restored to her health and began teaching in the schools of Independence in September . . I I of the same year as 'assistant princi pal. In January she gave up her work and in spite of all that medical skill could do. she was forced to take her bed about the 13th of February from which she never rose, declining: rapidly until her death. She was re moved to Portland to receive treat ment from a noted tuberculosis spec ialist of that city and under whose treatment she showed marked signs of recovery. On the morning of the 18th of May Mr. Mcintosh was sum moned to her bedside from Indepen dence, but the life which was had passed before he could arrive. ' She leaves to mourn her departure a loving husband, a mother, a sister and four brothers and a host of rela tives and friends. The immediate rel atives are George A. Nichols of Min neapolis, Alfred E. Nichols of Sheldon Iowa, Asa A, Nichols, Ester A. Nich nla and mother. Mrs. T. M. Nichols, alf 'of Dayton, Oregon, and Ambrose R. Nichols of South Omaha, Nebras Funeral services were heM from the Methodist church at Dayton, un der the direction of Rev. C. L. Hamil ton of Portland,- assisted by Kev. Mr. Potter of Newberg, Rev. w. j- Weber of this city and Rev. Mr. Cus ter of Dayton. The " remains . were followed to their last resting place in the Odd Fellows cemetery by a host of ., sorrowing menus numbers of relatives from a distance. The funeral sermon was preached from the text, selected from the 15th verse of the 116th Psalm: "Precious in the sight of the Ixird is the death of His Saint". Dr. Duganne, Dentist, pendence National Bank. 121; Independent, 4410. over Inde Bell phone tf