PAGE SIX
THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREQON.
EIGHT PAGES
The Time Is Coming
When The Electric Motor
will Move the World"
Said Thomas A, Edlaon rec ently.
Certain type of engines have mora than 200 reciprocating
parts. The ELECTRIC MOTOR has but one moving or revolving
part.
Many of the prosperous factories of the state are operated
Toda with electricity served from CENTRAL GENERATING
stations
CENTRAL STATION ELECTRIC POWER INCREASES OUT.
PUT AND SAVES COST.
Our power engineers wl II make careful Investigations of
power problems and render dependable, scientific reports, with
out charge.
Telephone 5010
Oregon Power Company
OFFICIALS
II. HIRSCHBERG, President D. W. SEARS. Vice-PTcs.
R. R. De.VRMOXD, Cashier
THE INDEPENDENCE
NATIONAL BANK
Incorporated 1889
Transact a General Banking Business
Interest Paid on Time Deposits j
DIRECTORS:
II. HIRSCHBERG. W. H. WALKER, D. W. SEARS
B. F. SMITH, OTIS D. BUTLER
Trying to Break a Record
Trying to Save You Money
OUR RECORD BREAKER SALE
On for the entire winter, should be linked with
every thought of the home.
OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Is the center of Independence's great wheel of busi
ness institutions the pivot around which all prices
revolve in this city. Keep our store in mind on
every shopping trip.
L. G. REEVES, The Grocer
Willi UUl
4-U f
uic constant use 01
fiftU 'i S"V
GOOD HARNESS
We furnish them "made fo order."
C. D. THARP fDEXCE0RE-
New Meat MarKet
We are pleased to announce to our patrons that we have
recently opened a Meat Market on C street, near our for
mer location and will always supply the trade with a choico
line of all kinds of meats. Call upon us if you have choice
beef, veal, and other meats for the markets.
A NELSON
,, ., ,, ,, ,t
INDEPENDENCE SHOE SHOP
O. FLOYD, Proprietor
THE BEST EQUIPPED SHOP IN POLK COUNTY. ALL KINDS OF
SHOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
SHIP FLEES FROM VALCANO.
Re-
IFIRE AND LAVA
FROM PEAKS
Disturbance Moat Violent Ever
corded In Alaska.
Seward, Alaska Volcanic ash be
gan falling here Monday in great
quantities. Threatening rumblings
that made the ground tremble could be AlL.n Va1. r I J
heard throughout Cook InUt. Tim. ftWOMii iwiuuiwa UUIU
again Arm and Kenai Penlnsult, and
occasionally frightful explosions
the air.
rent
With Stones and Ashes.
Seward, Alaska Like a Dh an torn
ship, in her white covering of ashes,
the mail ship Dora steamed slowly
into me naroor here from the west
ward, bringing details of the great
eruption or Mount Katmai.
The appearance of the Dora testifies
Sea Is Pelted With Hall ot Red
Stones Air Stifling With Sul
phurous Gates.
Hot
Sitka, Alaska Ashes from the
to the hail of aahes which she en- Aleutian range volcanoes began to fall
countered and passengers and crew re- here Sundav. and th ,n .w nv. .
escape ... . . .... . . .
from death bv annhvxi.tlnn .. th- r" OI "ro wugn me cinders.
steamer fled through the !blindine rain Sltk 200 mile direct line
SoriETniN(i
I T? I BMKC
LITT
SPEED OF RAILROAD TRAINS
of ashes to safety
Those on board the Dora believe
that several small fishing villges on the
shores of bhelikorf strait were des
iroyea dv ine eruption, lhe revenue
service at Unalaska has been asked to
send assistance.
from the revenue cutter Manning re
ported all "residents of Kadiak safe.
The Dora was in sight of Katmai
when the eruption began and those on
the vessel witnessed a brilliant spec
tacle. Danger was added to their po
sition when poisonous gases poured
iortn by the volcano tilled the air.
any persons aooara were almost over
come.
The first evidence that the volcano
was preparing to awaken after years
of inactivity came early Saturday
when the Alaskan peninsula was
rocked by a violent earthquake. The
night before the Dora was at Cold
bay, only 15 miles southwest of the
volcano, and across Shelikoff strait
to Kadiak, when the eruption began.
Frequent earthquakes disturbed the
water of the strait when suddenly a
terrific explosion occurred in the dis
tant mountain and a great mass of
rocks was thrown into the air.
from the volcanoes.
Seward, Alaska Four volcanoes In
the Aleutian mountain range have
burst into activity and are throwing
A wireless message 0Dt crcat quantitlea of ,moke nd hot
asnes. ine awaxeneu peaks are
Iliamna, St. Augustine, Redoubt In
the Cook Inlet country, and Katmai.
which overlooks Shelikoff strait. Nu
merous shocks were experienced here
and the sun was almost obscured by
vapor coming from the west
Land and sea for miles in every di
rection from the mountains In erup
tion are covered with ashes. Lava
and rock are pouring forth and devas
tating all in their path.
Ibat all life on Kadiak Island and
the mainland has peribhed in the fiery
rain belched forth is the belief of
those aboard the mail steamship Dora,
plying to points along the Alaskan
peninsula and Kadiak island.
The Dora's master says that 1500
persons engaged in the salmon con
ning business may be dead, as it ia the
height of the cannery season and large
crews are 'employed. The Dora has
arrived at Seldovia.
Mount Katmai's outbreak was de
scribed by the crew of the Dora as
terrible in its violence. Deafenine
subterranen explosions, they said, are
occurring at abort Intervals and the
Surlous May Determine How Fast He
la Traveling by Counting the
Tslsgraph Poles.
Perhaps you have often been curt
oua to know just bow fast you wert
traveling on a railroad train. Many
roads have little white posts beside
the track, marking the miles and usu
ally the quarter and bait miles also
but these may not be on your side of
the train.
There Is another way to tell the
miles: The telegraph poles are almost
Invariably placed tirty yards apart ex
cept whon they carry a very large
number of wires, and If you count
32 v oC3 fo
S, 40 Mites 00'
I. A M. RAILWAY TIME CARD
From Independence to Dallas.
Truln No. 00 loaves Independence
dally nt 3:30 p. in. and Monmouth nt
2:40 p. in. und arrives At Dlia8 at
3:05 p. iu.
Train No, 64 loaves Indepundenre
daily at 6:15 a. iu. and Mommoutti at
dally ott 6:00 a. in. and Muninoufh at
6:35 a. m., and arrives at DuMaa at
7:00 a. in.
Train No. 68 leaves Independence
at 10:50 a. m., Monmouth at 11:05,
w m., and arrives at Dallas at 1 1 : 30
a. in.
Train No. 70 leaves Iudopoiidetice
at 6:15 p. in. and Monmouth at 6:30
P. m and arrives at Dallas nt 6:C5
p. m.
'From Independence to Alrll.
Train No. 6l loaves Indepondence
at 6:30 a. in. and Monmouth at 6:45
a. m., and arrives at Airjlo nt 7:20
a. m.
Train No. 73 leaves Independence
at 3:35 p. m. and Monmouth at 4: 10,
P. m., and arrives at Alrile at 4:45
P. m.
From Dallas to Independence.
Train No. 73 leaves Disllas dully at
3:30 p. m. and Monmouth at 3:55.
Train No. 65 leaves Dallas dully nt
I 8:30 a. m. arid Monmouth at 8:65 a.
m. and arrives at Independece ut
9:15 a. m.
Trnla No. 69 leaves Dallas dally at
DOCTOR FLIES TO PATIENT.
The
Mount
Aviator Carries Surgeon Over Lake
on Hurry Call.
Hammondsport, N. Y. Campers
and residents on Lake Keuka were
surnrised to see an jpmnlan 'nut Sun.
day afternoon. For some time past IasneJ "n" o&m by the plunging of
. .. r I II A. ? 1 1 M a.
nyingatthe Curtiss aviation school reu not missiles nunea irom immars
has been discontinued Sundavs. throat into the seo. The vessel was
The occasion of the flight by Avia- lrucK J nuniDer 01 jsman oouiders
tor Robinson, who is in charee of the and ,ta deck waa banked a foot and a
school, was a hurrv call received bv haIf deeP wlth ashes.
L. Alden, of Hammondsport from aneiiKoti strait, from where the
Urbana. N. Y.. where the H-venr-olH Uora fled. resembled a monster steam-
son of Edwin Petrie, chief engineer of in cau dron- Smoke from the blaz
the Urbana Wine company, had fallen ,nK mountain obscured the sky for
Timing Fast Trains.
thirty-live of thorn It will be a mile, t
you have a watch with second bnndi
on It you can tell Juat how monjr
miles the train Is traveling in an hour.
Note the time from one mile post
to the next. Anything more than s
minute Is slower than sixty miles cn
hour. If the second band gets past ths
minute and down to thirty seconds
you are going forty miles an hour. II
It gets only twelve seconds past th
minute you are going tirty miles an
hour and so on.
You may out this out and take It
with you on the train next time you
ot
nt
P-nt
rt
a.
make a railway Journey, and see If you
hail of hot ashes and monster boulders c" detcrn,lne yur BPeed
has covered the earth four feet deep,
irom a inira-siory balcony or a wine
cellar and was seriously injured,
lhe physician called up Aviator
Robinson, who promptly agreed to fly
across the lake with the doctor. Just
ten minutes after bis call an aeroplane
glided down to the water and ran up
the beach in front of the Petrie resi
dence, and from it stepped the doctor
with his case of surgical instruments.
The boy's injury was a compound
fracture of the thigh, with the bones
protruding through the flesh. If med
ical assistance had been delayed, fatal
results from hemorrhage might have
occurred.
sea in the neighborhood of WtVY JtKitT MAS 1 1 A I BUUIS
Katmai, they reported, was
Children Are Taught to Read by
Linking Names With Objects-
Principle Is Not Different.
A New Jersey woman has designed
new kind of text-hook to teach small
hlldren how to read. Its general
principal Is the same es that of all
books of Its kind, but it goes a stef
tanner. For Instance, a page Is di
vided into four parts and each part
has the picture of an animal In It,
with the name of the animal printed
beneath. Thus far It Is like the old
Hyle book, In that It teaches th
:hlld the name by association with the
object. There are separate sheets ol
paper, however, with perforations
along which they can be torn in part
ind bearing also the names of the
various animals in the Illustrations
The child, therefore, looks at the pic-
1 i ... .
nunureus 01 mues ana tne a ay was as
night So dense was the smoke the
Dora's captain was obliged to steer a
course 50 miles from her usual route
in order to pass Kadiak island.
The wave indications in Shelikoff
strait were such that the Dora's mas
ter did not attempt any landings,
fearing that there had been a eeneral
smiting 01 me ocean Dot torn near
shore. For this reason, as well as
because of the smoke and ashes, the
Dora did not dare to approach Kadiak.
Katmai has always been regarded as
extinct, lhe natives have no tra
dition of any former activity of the
mountain.
Grain With Extra Heads.
Chi co, Cal. Barley and oat-growing
experiments by G. W. Overton, a
rancher on Rock Creek, just north of
Chi co, have developed grains that may
be adopted throughout the United
States.
rrt a .
j. ne experiments are considered so
remarkable that the government has
ordered an inspection of his process
wun a view or establishing bis meth
ods throughout the country. The fea
ture of the new barley is that from
two to five heads grow on each stock.
the principal head ripening first and
being easily twice as large as the
others, which are of normal size,
mi 1 .
ine comoinea neaas are aoout nine
inches long, while the stock is tough
ana aDout as large as an ordinary lead
pencil, standing against a heavv wind
His tame oats has an averge of three
beads to the stock.
DOWIE'S FORTUNE IN BANK.
Two Rear Admirals Die,
Washington, D. C. Rear Admiral
Benjamin Pfeffer Lamberton, U. S.
N., retired, who, as Admiral Dewey's
chief of staff, received the surrender
of the officers of the Spanish fleet
after the battle of Manila, died unex
pectedly at his home here Sunday
night.
Newport, R. I. Rear Admiral Wil
liam Henry Everett, U, S. N., retired,
died at his home in this citv Sundav
morning, tie had been ill for a long
iime wun a complication of diseases
Wife and Babies Burned.
fhoemx, Ariz. With a story of
how his wife and two babies were
burned to death in their home near
lepic by roving bands of rebels,
George Arnold Brown, an English
man, passea inrougn rhoenix on his
way to Los Angeles, where he will lay
a his case before the British consul.
Brown said the rebels set fire to hi
hacienda near Tepic in his absence
and hia entire family perished. The
rebels then drove off his livestock.
Hay Reports Good Crops.
Olympia, Wash. Governor Hay,
who has been in Eastern Washington,
has returned to this city. He says
prospects for a large grain crop were
never better. In the eastern section
of the state the fields are in fino
shape, an abundance of moisture hav
ing been provided by the early rains.
He believes that unusually large crops
will be harvested.
Widow In Want, Ifrnorant of Great
Secret Hoard.
Chicago While Mrs. John Alexaa
der Dowie, widow of the late "Proph
et JMiiah 11, has been living in pov
erty, often in actual want, in her cot
tage in Zion City, watching the grave
01 her husband, for fear his successor,
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, will have the
body removed, a fortune in the name
of Alexander Dowie has been lying
idle in a bank in Edinburgh. Scotland.
Every Saturday afternoon for seve
ral years before his death Dowie
would sit at his typewriter in his pri
vate office, write a letter to his for-
! 1 1 t . mm
eign DBnuer, inclosing a cnecK for a
large sum of money. In all, it is be
lieved, he sent several hundred thou
sand dollars away in this manner
without saying a word to his wife.
Only one servant knew of these pro
ceedings and this servant now has told
the story.
cow pig
Novel Text Book."
ture of a cat, for example, studies the
name beneath it In the book and then
must pick that name from those 01
the separate sheets and place it undei
the proper Illustration.
PLAYTHINGS MADE IN AFRICA
Little Puppies Are Tied to the Backs
of Children, Like Mothers Carry
Their Babies.
Express Hit by Flyer.
Fargo, N. D. The Winnipeg Hyer,
fast Northern Pacific train from Win
nipeg to Minneapolis, while running
4U miles an hour, crashed into the Pa
cific Coast express, running from Chi
cago to Seattle, at Winnipeg Junc
tion, near here, injuring a dozen per
sons, but none seriously. Failure of
the brakes on the flyer to work waa
assigned as the cause of the wreck
m 1 a 1.
ine express train was standing at a
crossing of the two lines, waiting to
make connections. The dining car on
the express was cut completely in two.
Ruef is Not Paroled.
San Quentin, Cal. Abraham Ruef's
application for parole, backed by a pe
tition from Fremont Older, managing
editor of the San Francisco Bulletin,
was denied here by the state board of
prison directors. The board based its
decision, not on the fact that Ruef
failed to win the signed support of
Judge Lawler, who sentenced him, but
on general grounds that this was not a
fit time for the application to be
made.
Fire Coat Totals $500,000,
Tacoma, Wash. With a loss total
ing near the $500,000 mark and throw
ing out of employment fully 600 men,
fire destroyed the plant of the St. Paul
& Tacoma Lumber company in this
city.
Little girls In Africa love dolls: but
such queer ones!
They take little puppies and tie
them on to their backs, Just as their
own mothers carry their babies.
vvuat a wriggling there must bel
But some of them like bettor to "play
baby" with little pigs. Well, little
pigs are real cunning (very little.
white ones) but who would think of
hugging them?
kittle African boys make guns, by
binding together two pieces of cane
for a barrel, putting at one end a lump
01 ciay xor tne stock, at the other
tuft of cotton for smoke.
iney maice spears of reeds, also
bows, arrows and shields. With these
they play shoot" and "going to war."
They make mud pies, and form ani
mals out of clay, while their sisters
"jump the rope."
Like children in all lands, they play
a great deal at "make bellv "
They do as they see older oeonle do
Not playing "keep house." or "bo vis-
ltlng," or "circus," because they do
not see those things done by the older
people;, but they '"tend" they are
building a hut, making clay Jars, and
crushing corn to eat.
1:00 p. m. and Monmouth at 1:25
in. and arrives at Independence
1 : 40 p. m.
Train No. 71 loaves Dallas dully
7:20 p. m. and Monmouth at 7:45
ru., and arrives at Independence
8:05 p. m.
From Alrll to Independence.
Train No. 62 leaves Arle daily
7:30 a. rn. and Monmouth at 8:05
m., and nrrlvesat Independece at 8-'l5
n. m.
Train No. 72 loaves AiHle dally at
5:00 p. in. and Monmouth at 6:35 a.
m., and arrives at Independence at
D:45 p. in.
From Independence to West 8alem.
Train No. 124 leaves Indepeiidunce
daCly at 8:20 a. m. and arrives at
West Salem at 9:00 a. in.
Train No. 126 loaves Independence
at 4:05 p. in. and arrives ot Wont Sa
lem at 4:45 p. m.
From West Salem to Independence.
Train No. 123 leaves West Snlem
dm'ly at 9:60 a. m. and arrives at In
dependence at 10:25 a. m.
Train No. 125 leaves West Salem
dally at 5:00 p. m. and arrives at
Independence at 6:40 p. m.
Chas. D. Smiley,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Plans And Estimates Furnished On
Short Notice.
DWELLING HOUSES A SPECIALTY
Bell Thone 524. '
C. W. H INKLE
Funeral Director and Licensed
Embalmer.
Lady assistant if desired.
Calls attended day or night.
Independence, Oregon.
W. R. ALL1N, D. D. S.
Dentiit
Both phones.
Cooper Bldg. Independence, Oregon.
B. F. SWOPE
Attorney at Law and Notary Public
Will practice in all courts of the
State. Probate matters and collec
tions given prompt attention.
Oflice, Cooper Bldg.
Independence, Oregon.
SNYDER'S POULTRY PARKS
Independence Oregon
3. C. W. LEGHORNS
and
BARRED PLYMOTH ROCKS
Pure Bred Eggs $1.00 per 13 or $6.00
Per 100
P. O. Box 181. Home Phone 7521
J. W.
HOMER LODGE, No 45
meetg every Monday
evening in their castle '
hall, Independence, Ore
Visiting Knights wel
come. 7:30 Is the hour.
M. MOR AN, C. C.
RICHARDSON, JTt.. K. R. S.
Made Realistic.
"Can't you children play without
ringing the door bell so much?" "No,
mamma; Edith and I are playing
house, and Willie Is the collector."
NORTON'S
TONSORIAL
HARRY
PARLORS
Electrlo Shampooing, and everything
In Our Line Carefully Attended
to. Bath In Connection
Main Street, Independence, Ore.
Marble and Granite
MONUMENTS,
HEADSTONES,
ETC.
ALL CEMETERY WORK.
a L. HAWKINS,
Dalliis, Oregon