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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
EIGHT PAGES
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"The Time Is Coming
When The Electric Motor
will Move the World"
Said Thomas A. Edison roc ently.
Certain type of engine have more than 200 reciprocating
parta. The ELECTRIC MOTOR has but one moving or revolving
part.
Many of the prosperous faotorle 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 010
Oregon Power Company
32253
OFFICIALS
II. 1IIRSCIIBEEG, President D. W. SEARS. Vico-ITes.
K. R. DeARMOXD, Cashier
THE INDEPENDENCE
NATIONAL BANK
Incorporated 1889
Transact a General Banking Business
Interest Paid on Time Deposits ?
II. HIRSCHEERG.
B. F. SMIin,
Trying to Break a Record
Trying to Save You Money
OUR RECORD
On for the entire
every thought of the home.
OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Is the center of Independence':) great wheel of busi
ness institutions th pivot nround which all prices
revolve in this city. Keep our store in mind on
every shopping trip.
L. G; REEVES, The Grocer
Sfcft
JjSS the constant use of
GOOD HARNESS
We furnish them "made fo order."
C. D. THARP
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 trad8 with a choice
line of all kinds of meats. Call upon us if you have choice
beef, veal, and other meats for the markets.
A. NELSON
INDEPENDENCE SHOE SPIOP
O. FLOYD, Proprietor
THE BEST EQUIPPED SHOP IN POLK COUNTY. ALL KINDS OF
SHOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
ESSJ
DIRECTORS:
WV H. WALKER, D. V. SEARS
OTIS D. BUTLER
BREAKER SALE
winter, should be linked
with
Sood Dick
with your horses
comes larcrelv fhronah
to ' to
INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
Phone 721
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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
PACKING PLANT PLANNED,
Meat Product JWIII Be Supplied to
Stockholders on Coast,
A co-operative meat-packing plant
to provide consumers in Portland and
San Francisco with meat and meat
products at wholesale prices will be
launched this week in Ashland, Or,
by a number of prominent capitalists
of Southern Oregon, including Benton
Bowers and George Owen, of the Ro
true River valley, and W. A. Shoe
maker, of Ashland. Officers of the
company will be elected at a meeting
early in the week and articles of incor
poration will be tiled as soon there
after as possiblle.
Work will be begun at once on
plant to cost (300,000, fully equipped
for the handling of meats and the)
by-products, and it is expected the
concern win De reauy to commence
shipments early in the fall. Accord
ing to W. A. Shoemaker, who has
been promoting the company, the
money to finance the plant is being
secured rapidly and everything is i
readiness to go ahead with the work
The capitalization of the company
is to be $800,000. with S0OO shares o
the par value of $100. Half of these
have been subscribed in San Francisco
and the other half in Portland. Th
plan, aa devised, is to sell the meat
products to the holders of stock.
limit of three shares has been made
for each stockholder and efforts have
been made to distribute the shares as
generally as possible.
Meat depots will be established in
each of the two cities, at which the
stockholders can secure fresh meats
or any of the meat products daily a
wholesale prices. These depots will
be supplied directly from the packing
plant.
The promoters of the company have
selected Ashland as the site for the
plant, because of its proximity to the
cattle and sheep country and its posi
tion midway between Portland and
San Francisco. The livestock will be
secured from the vast livestock ranges
of Southern Oregon and Northern Cal
lfornia. The livestock owners are
greatly interested in the project, and
have promised support because of the
benefits to be derived by being able to
dispose of their produce so near home.
GOOD YEAR PREDI3TED.
Weyerhaeuser Representative Says
Timber Trade Bettering.
Klamath Falls "I anticipate the
greatest activity throughout this
part of Oregon by timbermen this
summer ever witnessed in the annals
of the country," said Mike Dooher,
one of the leading timber cruisers of
this county.
Mr. Dooher was for many years
with the Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany, operating in many parts of the
United States where Frederick Wey
erhaeuser has holdings. Since that he
has been in Oregon and kept in close
touch with the wood and timber in
terests of the world.
"Activities of the big timbermen
are held back just at this time by the
approaching presidential campaign,
said Mr Dooher. "Just as soon as the
conventions have been held and the
men selected to represent the two
parties in the coming campaign, the
timber men of the United States will
draw their conclusions as to who will
fill the presidential chair for the next
four years. Tbeir actions in so far as
they go toward developing the timber
interests of the country and preparing
for a campaign of activity in the
timber. Every move of the timber
men of the entire country goes to
show that this contention is true.
"Timber men of note from all parts
of the country have been turning their
attention toward Klamath for the past
year more than ever before. During
the past few months representatives
of the big interests have been hover
ing about Klamath county and the
large timber belts of this section
awaiting word from those behind
them to grab every acre of timber
that can be found on the market in
this country."
County Fair Heads Named.
Astoria The directors of the Lower
Columbia Agricultural company,
which is to have charge of the county
fair at Gearharton September 12 to
15, met recently and adopted plans
and called for bids on the erection of
the necessary buildings. L. G. Rees,
president of the organization, appoint
ed the following superintendents at
the fair: Pavilion, F. B. Butler;
livestock, Fred Pool ; horticulture, C.
S. Dow; agriculture, A. Jonhson; art,
Miss Addie Pool; domestic science,
Mrs. H. F. Hurlburt.
Woolen Mills to Be Enlarged.
St. Johns Plans for the enlarge
ment of the Portland Woolen Mills of
this city have been prepared by Arch
itect L. I. Thompson, of Portland.
The plans and specifications call for
two stories high, 85 by 200 feet. It
will be erected adjoining their present
large plant. The lower story will be
used for storage purposes and the up
per story for a loom room, with a ca
pacity of 20 or more machines.
Hood River Water Low.
Hood River Whenever the fire
alarm sounds in Hond River hereafter,
because of action just taken by the
Board of Aldermen, the citizen who
leaves his hydrant running will sub
ject himself to a fine of $50. This
action was deemed necessary by the
council because of inadequacy of the
water system in case of a serious fire.
NEW TOMATO RECORDS SET.
O. A, C. 8tudantt Harvest Unusually
Heavy Crop of Vegetable.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vallis. Two students at Oregon Agri
cultural college, George McFarland
of Sitka, Alaska, and John Franklin,
of Seattle, who are doing special work
in greenhouse vegetable forcing, have
et a .new record for indoor tomato
producers. These students are now
harvesting a heavy crop of unusually
fine tomatoes, some weighing 20
ounces, which are being taken from
plants grown from seed sown January
1. The first fruit was picked on May
20.
"There are six varieties being
tested,' said Professor Bouquet, when
discussing the work of the student
tomato-growers. "The varieties are
Bonny Best, Stoad, Jewell, Lorillard,
Comet and Early Anna. Several
methods of pollination have been em
ployed to test their efficiency and the
yield of every plant is being noted
carefully, so that there will be
fairly accarate test of the behavior of
each of the varieties, for this year, at
least. At the present time the Bonny
Best is yielding fine, large, smooth
tomatoes.
"Ihe seed of this crop was sown
January 1 and the plants Bet in the
bed March 15. The first picking was
made May 20. Fertilizer experiments
are oarried on also, with individual
plants in each row."
COLUMBIA RIVER LAUDED.
Harvard Professor Says It Is Worth
Four Rhlnes and Two Hudson.
Hood River "The Hood River
Gorge looks very much like certain
parts of the river Oar near Berne, in
Switzerland," declared Professor Al
bert Bushnell, who was here visiting
his niece, Mrs. Robert T. Newhnll.
Professor Bushnell, who is a member
of Harvard faculty, is exchange pro
fessor this year for the four Western
colleges, Know, Grinnell, Beloit and
the University of Colorado. He is in
the department of history and has
written a number of well-known text
books. "Nowhere in Switzerland,
Europe or America," says Professor
Bushnell, "is there a waterway to
compare with the Columbia from Port
land to Hood River. This part of
the Columbia is worth four Rhines
and two Hudsons. Few streams in the
world carry such a force of water;
fewer still have Buch a setting of
mountain crags and cascades. The
people of Oregon do not realize how
much their snow peaks add to the at
tractiveness of the state. Th3 Three
Sisters, Jefferson and Hood, are a
part of a series of the most splendid
volcanic snow-capped cones in the
world."
COMAN EXPECTS BIG CROP.
Agent for Hill Lines Predicts Grain
Yield Will Break Record.
Portland W. E. Coman, general
freight and passenger agent of the
North Bank road and the Hill lines in
Oregon, has returned from a week's
trip through Eastern Washington, the
Puget Sound country and Willamette
Valley. He says every district he
visited gives promise of bumper crops.
Industrial and crop conditions in
Oregon and Washington are most sat
isfactory," said Mr. Coman. "In the
wheat belts of Eastern Oregon and
Eastern Washington, growing grain
never looked better. Farmers are pre
paring to harvest the biggest crop
ever grown in .the Northwest
In all fruit districts I visited 1
found conditions excellent for im
mense crops. ine appie yieia proo
ably will be the largest in the history
of the Northwest.
Our lines are preparing now to
meet the situation at crop-moving
time. It will take hundreds of cars
to move the grain and fruit crops this
year. The rauroaas win nave mucn
new rolling stock to handle the traffic. "
Line May Tap Valleys.
Klamath Falls Construction of en
electric railroad between Klamath
Falls and Bonanza is expected to fol
low the return of a group of capital
ists from a trip through the Bonanza
country. The line will tap the Bo
nanza valley, roe valley, where a re
clamation project is expected to be
tarted this summer, Yonna valley and
part of Klamath basin. Each of these
valleys is rich, and it is estimated
enough products are shipped from
them each year to net a railroad at
least $35,000.
State Law Bounty Is Limit Let.
Salem Holding that the state board
of fish and game commissioners have
no power to offer a bounty for cougar
scalps other than that provided by the
regular state law, which is paid by
the county and the state. Assistant
Attorney General Van Winkle fur-
ished an opinion for that body. Ihe
commission desired to know if it could
give additional bounty of $10 from the
funds collected by the commission to
J. B. Hill for five skins.
Motorboats Become Popular.
Hood River During the past week
the first motor boats have ruffled the
surface of the waters of the streams
of the White Salmon and Hood rivers.
The little launches used by the local
ferries, plying between this city and
Washington bank points, are popular
pleasure craft now on the summer
evenings after 8 o'clock, when the
day's schedules of ferry trips are fin
ished. . !
FANCY COSTUMES IN RUSSIA
Qovtrnmsnt Exercises Strict Censor
ship Over Dress Worn by Men
and Women at Galls.
The ierll of wearing fancy cos
tumes In Kussla because of govern
ment consornhtp are many. In one
city, say the AngloRuBalnn, the po
lice ejected two persona from a fancy
dress ball that took place In a local
theater for wearing "Improper" fancy
dresaea. One of them was supposed
to represent Illlodor, the monk of 111
famed reputation, who was upheld as
Dressed Up as a Carrot.
a saint by the champions of the black
hundred, wearing on his breast the
mark of an Interrogation Instead of
the cross. The other represented a
well filled siifk bearing the Inscription.
"Famine Year for Merchants," and
10,000,000.000." An empty bag which
was hold In one hand bail the Inscrip
tion, "A prosiK'roua year for the peas
ants,' 'and "0,000,000,000."
At Tsheboksnr on a similar occas
ion two women were lined 73 rubles
each, one for wearing a fancy dress
which was supposed to represent her
as "the young constitution in chains;"
the other for being dressed up As ft
carrot, which was supposed to repre
sent the famine in eastern and central
Hiusla.
NOVEL EXPERIMENT FOR BOYS
Board Placed Loosely on Table Cov
ered by Newspaper Not as Easy
to Dislodge as Imagined.
Tnko an ordinary board, 2 or 3 ft.
long, such ns a bread board, and place
It on the table so that about one-third
of its length will project over the edge
Unfold a newspaper and lay it on the
tnble over the board as Bhown In the
sketch. Anyone not familiar with ttie
experiment would suppose the board
could be knocked off by hitting it on
the outer end. It would appear to be
easy to do, but try it. Unless you are
prepared to break the board you will
probably not be able to knock the
board off.
The reason Is that when the board
s struck it forces tno oiner cna up
An Interesting Experiment.
and the newspaper along with it. This
causes a momentary vacuum to be
formed under the paper, and the pres-
ure of the air above, which Is about
a lb. to the square inch, prevents the
board from coming up. This Is an
entertaining trick to play at an even
Ing party, and also makes a simple
and Interesting school experiment.
ORIGIN OF AN ANCIENT GAME
nventors or interesting pastime
of
Domlnoee Were Monks In Famoui
Abbey at Monte Casino.
The Inventors of the Interesting
game of dominoes were two monks In
the famous abbey at Monte Casino in
Italy. One day the Inmates of the con
vent were on the lookout for a method
of beguiling their leisure moments
without transgressing the rule of el-
ence to which they were subject Two
of their number hit upon the device of
playing with square stones covered
with dots, which they showed to each
other and combined In an order agreed
upon. The winner communicated the
result to his partner by pronouncing
In a low voice the lines of the vespers,
which commence as follows: "Dixit
Dominus domino meo."
The game soon became a favorite,
not only within the walls of monas
teries, but outside, also. People with
only scanty knowledge of Latin sim
plified the monastic formula, only re
taining the word "domino," and the
?ame Is still known by that name.
That Caught Them.
The newest service rendered by
monkeys to mankind, says an English
paper, was recently illustrated In Lon
don. In one of the school districts
too many parents reported no chil
dren In their families and In order to
ascertain the real number of children
In the district the school officers re
sorted to an Ingenious measure. Two
monkeys were gayly dressed, put in
a wagon and, accompanied by a brasa
band, were carried through the streets
of the district. At once crowds of
children made their appearance. The
procession was stopped In a park and
the school officers' began their work;
distributing candles to the youngsters,
they took their names and addresses.
They found out that over sixty par
ents kept their children from school.
The Ingenious measure brought to the
school about 200 boys and girls.
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I. A M. RAILWAY TIME CARD
From Independence to Dallas.
Train No. GO loaves Independence
dally nt 2:30 p. m. nnd Monmouth at
2:40 p. in. u'ld arrives nt DMUm lit
3:05 p. iu.
Train No. 64 loaves Independence
dally at 0:1S a. tu. and Monmouth at
daily nt 6:00 a, in. and Moumoui'h at
6:31? a. m., and arrives at Dunlins at
7:00 a. m.
Train No. 68 loaves Independence
at 10: GO a. m,, Monmouth at 11:03
m m.. and arrives at Dallas ut 11:30
a. m.
Train No. 70 lemes Independence
at 6:15 p. in, and Monmouth at 6:30
p. m and arrive at Dallas a 6:65
p. m.
From Independence to Alrlle.
Train No. 61 loaves Indeptwidotico
at 6:30 n. in. and Monmouth at 6:45
a. ni., nnd arrive nt Alrjlo nt 7:20
a. in.
Train No. 73 leaves Independence
nt 3:35 P. in. and Monmouth nt 4:10,
p. in., and nrrlvos nt Alrlle nt 4:43
p. m.
From Dallas to Independence.
Train No. 73 leaves Dialing dally at
3:30 p. in. and Monmouth at 3:55.
Train No. 65 loaves Dallas dally at
8:30 a. m. wid Monmouth ut 8:53 a.
iu. and nrrlves at Indepeiideog nt
9:15 n. in.
Trnki No. 69 leaves Dwllas dally nt
1:00 p. m. nnd Monmouth at 1:23 p.
in. and wrrlves at Independence nt
1:40 p. m.
Train No. 71 leavos Dating daily nt
7:20 p. m. mid Monmouth at 7:45 p.
m., nnd arrives nt Independence at
8:05 p. m.
From Alrlle to Independence.
Train No. 62 leaves Alrlle dully ot
7:30 a. in. and Monmouth at 8:05 a.
m., and nrrlvcsat Indopeiidece nt 8: 15
av m.
Train No. "3 leaves Alrlle dully at
5:00 p. iu. and Monmouth at 6:35 a.
in., tuid arrives at Independence nt
D:45 p. in.
From Independence to West Salem.
Train No. 124 leaves Indepuiulmice
d:iy nt 8:20 n. ni. and arrives at
West Salem at 9:00 a. m.
Train No. 120 leaves Independence
at 4:03 p. m. nnd arrives at Went Sa
lem at 4:45 p. m.
From West Salem to Independence.
Train No. 123 leaves West Snlein
dnt'ly at 9:50 a. m. and arrives at In
dependence at 10:23 n. ni.
Train No. 125 leaves West Salem
dally nt 5:00 p. m. and arrives at
Independence at 6:40 p, m-
Chas. D. Smiley,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
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Plans And Estimates Furnished On
Short Notice.
"DWELLING HOUSES A SPECIALTY
Hell Phone 624.
C. W. H INKLE
Funeral Director and Licensed
Embalm vr.
Lady assistant if desired.
Calls attended day or night.
Independence, Oregon.
W. R. ALLIN, D. D. S.
Dentist
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. .
Office, Cooper Bldg.
Independence, Oregon.
SNYDER'S POULTRY PARKS
Independence Oregon
8. 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
HOMER LODGE, No 45
meets every Monday
evening in their castle
hall, Independence, Ore
Visiting Knights wel
come. 7:30 Is the hour.
M. MORAN, C. C.
RICHARDSON, JR., K. R. S.
HARRY NORTON'S
TONSORIAL PARL0R3
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.
G. L. HAWKINS,
DalUs, Oregon
J. W.