Oruon Historical SsoUty VOLUME 28. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1812. NUMBER 41. FIVE BUSINESS HOUSES ARE EARLY MORNING BLAZE CAUSES TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR LOSS Fire Spreads Rapidly Over the Frame Structures on C Street and Wipes Out Five Buildings. Flra ordinal In la the rear of A Nelson's moat mm ket, which 8 located In the J. 8. Coom building on the north Bide or C si rout, be tween Main and First streets, con sumed t'io building and Cttiiuots and spread to the adjoining buildings on either side with like results. Tho orlg n of the fire Is uukiiow.i, but t 1h s p.:o 1 to hw e started from the furnace used in the bik room, for rendering liird etc. Mr. Nelon had a fine In the fur'we) during the enr ly part of the evening, and when h went liouie tho fire Is said to hc.'e be-n still binning. The furnace had been us d for a number of years, end It w supposed to bo perfectly safe, hut by Home d-ft in the flue or tho brick wai'g ofhte fiiniH the fire, evidently broke out. Before the sflar w.is timed In tha building was entire ly uuveloped In flames rid it looked as if bo h sides of the street would bo destroyed, but by diligent efforts on tho part of tho fire department a serious coii'lasriV.!o:i ws averted. Thi total Iohh 1h uikiiown, but It is eg'mited that It will exceed $10,000. It required but Utile time for the wind to Ivii'l th migry flames into o'her bul billing wh'ch were quickly eonHiimed. Accurdlng to i. stuteiiuriit made by the. m'ght wntch he discovered the fire at roo't 1:30 when It was no liirg r than n wit er pail. A. Ander son, who owned tha building Just east of the meat market, md occu pied a room close to wjere the flra originated, wns awin'cesied by an un usual noise and made the dis covery this', the entire back nud of the building wns enveloped in flames. Before himself Biid wife could dress, the fire rent 'tied the building , they occupied. When Mr. Anderson went out on the street ho saw no one but tin niuht wntch. The alarm wc immediately turned in and people, liv ing In that immediate, vicinity hur ried to tti scone, but the f Irenes, h d reached beyo.id human control and were fimt sweeping over the ro:;f of oth?r buildings, supported by a strong wind from the northeast, which made the situation look sen ds Indeed. Mr. A'ldereon lost nearly every thing, lie conducted a bicycle shop In the front part of the bundling and r s'ded in tha rt'ur, and nearly every piece of property he owned was de s'royed. No insurance was cn-rled on the. stock or building nmd his Kss Is total. Working its way rapidly through ie little vct;ant building west .v of where it originated, the fire Pe" trated the walls of the second-hand store owned by A. M. Brown, and (the building and contents, except a few articles carried out by willing hands, were soon consumed. Another (store was considerably damaged, but the fire department prevented the flames from proceeding farther in this direction' and the bakery suffered ; only slight damage by reauon of wa iter and the sudden removal of goods Jrom the building. On the east side of the meart mar ket the two story building owned by Bem Wh'teaker and occupied by J. M. McCaleb as a photograph gallery, was entirely consumed. Mr, McCaleb's loss is estimated mL. 1500 and was covered by $500 insurance. A. M. Brown's loss was tota"., as he carried no insurance whatever, and it is understood that Mr. Nelson, proprie tor of the meat market, also was without insurance. The Odd Fellows building caught fire several times, as did buildings on the opposite . side of the Btreet, but the firemen were on the alert and prevented losses , other than what has been mentioned, except that windows were broken out of buildings on the south and east sides of the fire caused by the tense heat ' in- To Al Whitney Is due the credit of saivuig the building's on the south side of C street. At a period of the exciting hour when the flames had reached the roof-tops of Fluke & Johnson's store wid J. R. Cooper's sulooii, and the Independence Hotel Wiis In danger, the water pressure seemed to give out and there was not sufficient force to get a stream upon tho buildings. Mr. Wbibuey Jumped Into his w tomoblle and rushed to the power house with great speed to f nd that the pumps were being oper rated, but no wu.er was coming forth. He, having hw considerable experi ence In that department, immediately st ir ed a striwn of water with con siderable force, and It came Just in time to prevent further lot-seg. One discounting feature of the oo .fin rstlc. t was seen In the number of able men who stood around on the str.'et without offering the least as sistance in removing goods from the burning buildings, while frail women and children seemed to overexert themselves in efforts to suve property for tie it ifortiinate. The fire com piny, however, did excellent work from the moment they arrived until the fire had been subdued. Tli3 buildings consumed were at'l fr.me structures and had stood for uinny yiws. When the fire spread over the top of the buildings t tojk but a short time, for the flames to work through the walla and in a little more tluiin an" hour from the time the fir was S' cried, only a huge pile of HS'ies and debris marked the plu-e where the old land marks stood, i Mrs. Uascue, who occupies a room In the Odd Fallows building with her mil inery store, suffered slight loss by water. ,f. s! Cooper, after he went home otn the fire, went to sleep afld drsanied t'e property owners com menced clewing away the debris uofor-j.tho f r'a had hardly become xtlnct, preparat ocy to the erection of fire; proof buildings. He said th-? next mornii g, that he intended to d,o his part to make thrV. dream real. He Intends to erect a concrete building on the lot made vacwit by tie fire, and it Is probable that oth e' s will mini a move in that direct Ion in the near future. This is a good business section of the city md the lots ere more valuable! than the buildings were. With tt new fire , proof block on the north side of C streoV Independence will be a much ' ter city than before. ! A. M. Brown moved what furniture b saved from the fire Into H. Hir- schberg'g building a'id will probably continue business there until he can make arrangements for another loca :io or rebuild. A. Anderson is as yet undecided as to what he will pursue in the fu ture. His capital is limited, haiing lost everything foe owned and it is difficult at present for him to form much of an idea how to proceed in his business. Mr. McCat'eb will prob ably become established in'- the photo graph business in some other loca tion in the near futurq. He has con ducted a photograph gallery1 In Inde pendence for a great many years and will undoubtedly continue. It is rumored aflso that a meat market wll be started in some other part of the city, but whether Mr. Nelson will be identified in the enterprise or not is undecided. ' ,' The. fire ended without! a single ac cident of any importance. One or two persons were slightly- brulsed by tailing timbers, and others were slightly burned, but nothing of a ser ious nature occurred. The Home Telephone was also quite a heptvy loser on account of the fire, and for a couple of days the, city was without the service given by that company. While our fire chief was sleeping, flames o'er our beautiful town were leaping. As the buildings were going down to flry graves; no one thought of poor "Mark Grav3S." The flamee sfwept ove a half a block, but our fire chief never awoke 'til one o'clock Contributed. . , ' ' 1 ' SALEM BANQUETS THE RESIDENT Business Men from Independ ence and Dallas Join Mr. Hirschberg at Lunch. To show their appreciation of the improved train service between Inde pendence fciid Salem and Dallas and SiH m, provided by H. Hirschberg, pregiden- of the Independence & Mon mouth Railway (Co., the Salem Busi ness Men's Leryue Bind Board of Trcle arranged to banquet a delega tion from Independence and Di'las at the Hotel Marlon in thu. city upo.n the arrival of the first train Moadu nior.jing. The coach 1 "ft Independence at 8:25 with a pariy of invited guests of the president of the rol and at the S. P. cross! ng a delegw ion from D;Mws were waiting to Join the Independence party. Upon rer.nhing the st'it'on at West Salm the Polk county delegation was met by repre sen'atlves of the Eo.-d of Trade who had provided automobiles for their conveyttice to the Marlon Hotel. At the noon hour a banquet wu given by the Sai-m people who did everything possible to make It pleas wit for their guests during the day. WordB can scarcely express the ap preciation of Independence people on account of the reception tendered them upon this occasion. It is unfor tuniCe that a larger representation from this city did not attend. Those who represented Independence were H. Hirsrhberg, J. S. Cooper, presi dent of fie Independence Commercial Club, J. G. Mcintosh, secretary of the club, II. E. Browne and Verd Hill. At the banquet Kolm K. Page, an attorney of Salem, aTd formerly sup erintendent of the Oregon Electric Ry Co., tilted as toast master and for mora t'im an hour during the lunch, toasts were given bringing out new thoughts along the line df railroad development aid the development of this Valley in general. More than 100 people a tended the business men's lunch, and nearly so many re sponses were made to the invitav tion of the toastmaster. Before the lunch was served three cheers were given for H. Hirschberg, president of the Independence & Monmouth roal, who had been the means of making Independence a great railroad center aid who install ed the new service between this city, Alrlle, Dai:a43 and Monmouth and the Capital of Or?gon. Mr. Hlnshaw, manager of the Salem Falls City & Western Ry., responded for his company a id stated that they . would do their best to make a first, cli.os service and that a bridge would be built across the river for their traVns during the coming summer. This will land west side passengers In the shopping district of the Clie'ry City instead of West Salem, the pres ent destination of that road. Other railroad offlctatls, represent ing different companies, were present and responded at the toast, among whom were John M. Scott, General Passenger agent of the S. P. Road, S. T. Jones, of the Safiem, Falls City & Western line, Mr. 'Field,, superin tendent of the Southern' Pacific Ry., and Mr. Jlnklns, traveling paosenger agent of the last named company. All responded to the invitation of the toasmaser, and every suggestion indicated that the development of railroads in the valley has by no means reched a climax. P. H. D'Arcy's wag the last respon se made, and it was by no means the least in importance. Mr. D'Arcy was right to the point on the necessities of further development and his speech was exceedingly interesting. Church of Christ New. Everyone in Independence is Invited to attend our services next Lordsday. The morning subject will be "The Dost of Our Redemption," and the evening subject is "Caa we Believe the Words of the Apostle Paul?' We stamd on the. word of God and nothing else. We accept only the doctrine of Christ and place no re liance Tin man traditions. Come and hear the gospel H. Campbell Clark, Minister.. , J CONSUMED DALLAS FARMER MEETS DEATH Team Runs Away and Causes Almost Instant Death.-- Another Injured. J Frightened Horsei Bolt When They Are Hitched With New Harness. Kill One Man. P. A. Odom, for many years Chief of Police of Dallas, was v most Inst antly killed and Joe Trent, a pros perous farmer living neco Dallas, was perhM s fatally injured as the result of a runaway Monday. Odom, who resigned as Chief of Po lice; about two months ago to take up fninlng, had Just bought a new wagon, horses and ha-ness. He hitch ed the horses, using the new harness and buggy for the first time in Col lin's f ed shed in Dallas. The horges immdia ely upon leaving the feed sta ble broke into a run. Half u block from the stable t'ley tried thecorner and, the tugs being too long, the wa- i g-fi tongue dropped to the ground and wan driven into the cement curb. . The horses were going at a great speed and when the wejon tongue came in contact with the curb, Odom 'and Trent who wera sitting on the wa i gon sect, were hurled with great i force forward. Odom struck the ground upon his head 40 feet from the wagon, and Trent struck upn his shoulders 20 feet from the wagon, wh'ch wos practically demolished. The hors's were uninjured. Odom's skull was crushed id he was carried practically lifeless to the hospital where he died in 15 min utes later. Trent a"so was taken to the hospital. It was found that ' his collar bone and severet' ribs had been broken p,nd that he had received in ternet injuries. He has a chance of recovery, though the surgeons in at tendance do not hold out much hope. REPELS ATTACK OF DEATH "Five years ago two doctors told m I had only twoyears to live." This stirtling statement wan made by Still mnn Green, Malachite, Col. "They told me I would die with consumption It was up to me to try the' beet lung medicine and I began to use Dr. Ki- ng's New Discovery. It was well I did for today I am working and believe I owe my life to this great throat and lung cure that has cheated the j prixig'time is To show you the latest in Spring Goods. . Our line of Ladies' Wool Suiting are up to the moment in the color, style and quality, and in ginghams, percales, galatias and wasn goods, say: we have one of the largest and best as sorted patterns to be found anywhere arid at prices that everyone can afford a hew Spring Wash Dress. Drop in and see our new line of men's Dress Shoes, Hats, and shirts: the late things for Spring Wear. When you want anything in the latest come to us. Conkey, Walker & Lehman The Two Leading Stores of Independence. WOMEN ATTEND COUNCIL MEETING CitJFathersJ Tlx,.on Pop-corn Veneers. Oregon Power Co. Contemplates Im mediate Improvements In its Water Plant. ,An uiiubui.: feature of the council me. ting Wednesday evening was the apearu Ce of a half dozen women who came to enter a protest against a proposed ordinance dAling with the sidewalk question on G. street, but the matter wem not introduced and no protests were filed. Moor Eldridge called the meeting to order in the usual manner and Messrs, Mix, Bohannon, Sperling and D'xon were in their proper Places. Under reports of committees coun- cilman Mix made a brief report rela tlve to the work of improving Btreet, and councilman Dixon, G of the fire and water committee made a rsport on the result of the con flagration TuesdEt- morning in which he confessed negligence. An ordinance known as the "dog ordinance," intended to regulate tid tax members of the canine family was ralroaded through on the em ergency clause, a d en ordinance in tended to regulate and license pop- cora venders on the streets went t far as second reading. Bills and clt ims aggregating $279-55 were pre sented and ordered paid. A cUa'm of A. M. Brown, J. M. McCaleb and A Anderson, for damages on account of fire. wa rejected. . Their claim is based on the alleged neglect of the city to provide adequate fire protec tion. '''" . ' '' ' The recorder was instructed to draw warrants on the treasury in payment of bonds, thus saving in terest. " Mayor Eldridge appointed a board of control for the public library as follows: Mrs. S. B. Wo'ker,' Mrs. G. :onkey, Mrs. L.L. Hewitt, Mrs. P. i: Kirkland, A. C. Moore and J. S Bohannon. Ooiwincilman Mix .volun teered the information that he is opposed to the city ha 'ing anything to do with the library, bellevinng that u was Sing to terminate in an exorbitant expense. the grave of another victim." Its folly to suffer with coughs, colds or other throat and lung troubles now. Take the. cure that's safest, price 50cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free at afil druggists. When councilman Bohannon said it was time for the city to demand u more adequate fire protection, he evidently started something, and his remarks were followed by heated discussions on the part of the coun cil tt.id members of the' company. Mr. White, local superintendent of the Oregon Power compu y, stated that tie company intended to meite improvements in the pUnt and he manifested a disposition to do the r.ghfc thing by his patrons. OUT FOR SHERIFF J. W. Orr of Rickreall, Atks for the Support of Republican Voters in the Present Campaign. 1 John W. Orr of Rickreall, was in the city Friday and made this office a pleasant ca;l. Mr. Orr hag lived in Polk county all his life and fought the ttctles of his republican friends in every campaign since he; reached maturity, without even intimating that he would some time like to be recognized in a political way. This year, however, he hf decided, after considerable persuasion on the part of his many friends ia the count;, u become candidate before the re- publican primary next month for the office of county sheriff. Mr. Orr is deserving of the hearty support of Polk county people both '. the pri mary and state elections. He is a menu who will conduct the rVfairs of that office on business principles, if he is successful in the campaign, and there is every netcoa to believe that he will be. Born a little way from Independen ce, he is known by nearly everyone in the county, and almired by as many. To The Republican Voters, Polk County, Oregon. . . ' i .. ' " I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for the office of School Superintendent of Polk County Orfgon, for & second term, subject to the will of the Republican voWs at the nominating primary, April 19, , 1912. ' I w'sh to fe7 that when a candi date for my first term as. School Sup erintendent, I promised that I would ! give my best work for the schools of the county, I have spent my wHole jt'me.in working for he betterment of the schools and ask nomination 'dm the record I have made. If I am nominated and ejected for the sec ond term, I will follow the same poli cy as In the past and will give my best work for the schools of the county. Respectfully, Paid ad H. C. Seymour Before going to bed take a Dr. Miles Laxative Tablet. , 4