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THESE PRICES ARE RIGHT
Dress Goods.
Look at our center counter,
for IVifi bargains in Dress goods.
Flannels.
Winter Outing Flannels tit
to 12Jcts per yard.
Muslins.
Cabot V and Cabot A and I.
L Muslins selling away down.
Prints.
We are selling prints at Set
per yard.
Shoes. .
A bargain counter for Shoes,
from oOcts to fJ.OO per pair.
Clothing.
Overcoats, Macintoshes, Rub
ber goods, etc., at lowest possi
ble figures.
A rtrMt Reduction All Over the House. We Have
the Goods We Have the Prices
to Suit Everybody.
EVERYTHING sold on its merits. Satisfaction guaranteed
or vour money refunded.
West Side Trading Go.
Cor. Jrain and C. St., IXDEPEXIEXCE.
p, s. Newberg Never Rip and Bull Breeches are the best
on earth. The newest novelties in Dress Trimmings, Buttons,
Gimp and Furs.
ZERBONI & WILSON, Prop's.
Keep Constantly on Hand all kinds of Fresh Meats and
Sausage. We Keep at the block a Skilled Cutter.
Meat delivered to any part of the city.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1895.
Published every Thursday at Independence,
Folk County, Oregon.
Entered at tue Postotfiw at Independence,
Oregon, us matter ol the second class.
BROWN i BAILEY, Proprietor.
F. M. Brown, Editor.
J. T.Fokd, Associate Editor.
I. Bailky, Buftineu Manager.
anasCBirTioBf rates.
One year $1.50
Hix months 75
Three months 40
Hingle copy (p
PAVABL1C IS ADVANCE.
AnvERTisiNO Bates will be made known on
application.
Job Ppintixo of all kinds done on snort notice
and in a first class manner.
Address all cumniunlcatlons to The Entzb
rajSE, Independence, Oregon.
Oca city contemporary expresses
a doubt as to Binger Hermann's
renoraination to congress. It says
that it "would not be surprised to
see Binger's star set to rise no
more." We wonder if that pessi
mistic prediction had anything to
do with Mr. Hermann's visit here
last week.
The assepssors' census shows a
healthy growth in the population
of this state since 181)0. We have
not seen the returns from all the
counties, but the figures indicate a
gain of about 20 per cent. It is
safe to say that the gain in popu
lation would have reached 30 per
cent if the country had enjoyed its
. usual prosperity.
Editor Doughty, of the Dallas
Observer, who has a good oppor
tunity of feeling the political pulse
of the county, says that 6undry
small and big fry politicians are
beginning to muddle the un whole
Bome waters of the political pool
This is not precisely our contem
porary's language, bat broadly io
terpreted this is what the pulling
of political wires means.
Ocr Webfoot climate is simply
getting in and showing Eastern
visitors how beautifully the sun can
shine here in Oregon in the month
of October, the season of "the
sear and yellow leaf." It is now
pretty generally known that the
most incomparable climate on the
PaciBc coast is found weet of the
Cascade mountains and between
the 42d and 49th parallels. The
old myth about the perennial rainy
season in Oregon is no longer
seriously talked in the East. In
telligent people know better be
cause they have either visited this
state or come in contact with those
who have, or otherwise gained cor.
rect information on the subject.
Oregon climate has its distinct seasons-spring,
summer, autumn and
winter, but the weather is seldom
extreme heat, wet or cold. Come
and see us and then you will know
we speak the truth.
nlso foot the bill, instead of sad
dling it onto the taxpayer! of the
state." There is some ground! for
the biting arraignment set forth by
our Yamhill county content pora
ries. The state fair mansgemen
gives to much attention to the race
course and not enough, to the tut
vaneemcnt of agriculture ad r-took
raising. The people of Oregon are
only incidently interested in speed
contests, but they are practically
and generally interested in the
raising of fruits, vegetables am;
cereals, in increasing the breed of
their hogs, sheep, cattle and horses
and in developing the mineral re
sources of the state. These are the
essential things that should be
given precedence by the members
of the Oregon state board of agn
culture.
Now comes South Carolina, in
the wake of Mississippi, with a con
stitutional amendment making edit
cational ana property quttnnca-
tiona the sine qua non of politi
cal suffrage. While this is special
ly intended as a direct blow at the
colored vote, it will also affect the
white vote, but in the end it will
prove to be a blessing in disguise
to both races. It will stimulate
the illiterate and improvident negro
and his equally unfortunate white
brother to renewed efforts in either
obtaining an education or acquir
ing property or both. This intel
lectual lean-mug will nsult in the
uplifting of both races and go fur
towards settling the much vexed
race problem. Of course, the prob
lem will not be solved by the next
generation or the next, or even the
uext thereafter, but it will finally
be solved.
It is probable that the Willam
ette valley hop crop in 18'.)t will
not equal this year's crop either in
acreage or number of bales, lxcause
the present low prices will cause a
number of small growers to go out
of the business. Renters who give
one-third of even one-fourth of the
crop tor the privilege of trying to
make an honest living cannot come
out whole at 6J cents per pound,
and it is only natural that a large
numher of this class of producers
will become discouraged and turn
their energies in some other di
rection. There has been a marked
shrinkage this year in almost all
the staple products of the soil, and
the hop crop has simply been
caught at the bottom of the general
tumble. Because hops have drop
ped to the lowest mininum price
this year is no reason why they
should not command a fair price
next year. It all depends upon
demand and supply. A short crop
in either Europe or America means
a better price for hops, and a gen
eral revival .in business, also
s
means a better price.
The County Court of Polk coun
ty raised Assessor Beckett's assess
ment of railroad lands one-half and
added twenty-five per cent to his
assessment of the Southern Pacific'e
railroad-beds and rolling stock.
That is to say the county court
raised the valuation from 30 to 60
cents per acre and assessed the
road-beds and rolling stock at about
$5,000 per mile. There is really
no good reason why the tax-payers
of Polk county should kick at the
action of the county court, and we
don't think they have or will make
any complaint about it. When
newspapers kick it is not the
people kicking by a good deal. ;
Our esteemed Yamhill county
contemporaries, the Telephone
Register, and the Reporter, are
both of the same mind in regad
to the uselessness of the Oregon
state fair organization. The Reg
ister don't mince matters, but says
plainly, "Please don't call it other
than what it is. Call it the state
political payment bureau and gam
biers delight. Don't say State
fair," The Reporter is not so rabid
in its outspokenness but it is of
the opinion "that the state of Ore
gon could go out of the horse trot
ting business. Practically that, is
what the alleged state fairs amount
to. If Salem wants an an
nual attraction in the way of a
speed contest, no objection can be
offered to her having it, but let her
It would appear that Oregon
fruit is beginning to attract some at
tention in the East. The New
York Sun in a recent editorial savs:
"If, indeed, the Oregonians raise
such apples and pears as the Or
egon newspapers tell of, they might
not lose any money by keeping the
New York market supplied with
them. It is far from Oregon to
New York, but apples and pears
will bear transportation a long
distance. From a boastful Pacific
coast state, that borders upon Or
egon, lots of poor fruits have been
se'nt here, as well as to London this
year. m " " it is not an tne
time very easy to get even an apple
of the best kind in New York,
though apple trees are plentiful in
all the states." There are only a
few favored localities that will pro
duce first class apples as the seas
ons come and go and the Willam
ette valley stands at the head of
the list. With proper care and
cultivation the apple, pear and
prune crops of this country never
fail to bring good returns in both
quality and quantity. Of course,
it requires labor to produce good
fruit in Oregon as the insect pest has
attacked the orchards, but the same
climate and soil are here that used
to grow the famous big red apples
in the early days It is certain
that fruit culture is destined to be
a great and lucrative industry in
thi country, and the thrifty farm
er, who is abreast with the times, I
will raise apples, pear and prunes
aawellai hops, wheat, pork and
beef. ,
DAMON AM PYTHIAS.
That beautiful ami Impressive play
will be reproduced at the Opera 1 ,
III IiideH iiiWiuHi, Friday evening, On
tola i! by Prof. Win. Rasinua, assist
ed by the Halem lodge of Knights of
Pythian, and under the auspice of
Homer Isslge, No. K. f P. of this
city. This drama, which was played
twice in Halciu last week, during the
mwdon of the grand lodge there, was a
decided succYna, Regarding the play
the tSaleill Toot any:
"Thin Is a piece which appeal to
everyone and shows the possible depth
of friendship one man may have for an
other, but which, a a general rule, la
not universal, ami a ease with few
parallel It In a play which draws
out and displays to good advantage tlio
sterling qualities of two good men,
while It also picture the character of
anotliwr as wicked a meir i gasi
Mr. Win. ltasmua. an hamuli, oorlntv
ed a certain line of acting, w hich Is
seldom seen by a Haletn audience In
HiIhcKv. He Is strong nod forcible la
speech;" ha an excellent voice, and his
gesture are. pe-feet, show ing he has
given the pi ee deep study and also bs
bad stage excrlenei of a high charac
ter."
The Salem Statesman savs: 'Tiof.
ami Mm. William Itnsui us, assisted ly
i l.n Iiu'rtl I'vtlilnn lull-Ill. acorvtl allot It
er mitpiallucd aiicees lust night In the
second presentation of "Paniou and
Pythias' at the I teed. .Not In a long
while have Haleiu lover of (lie drama
had anvthlnir ottered them equal to
this. The real excellence of the whole
atlalr waa augmented by Hue staging
and ac urate continues and those w ho
witnessed the culmination of this en
deavor of the local Pythian to please
iheSulciii oulilto must f a certainty
bear tetltnonv to the sph-iidl.1 no-. in
ure of their achievement. It was alto
gether remarkably well done and am
ply appreciated."
Tick la are on sale nt Patterson Hriw,
Inileendeuce, and at C. L. Hart ley's,
Monmouth. Admission 'Si mid ;t-'i
cents. o extra charge lor reserved
seats.
COUNTY NEWS.
Importaut naiiiulugi ami Eotr
rroni to Various Klttibor
hood Id the County
Oathsr-d by Tot Enterprise' Corp.
of Able Oorreapuudoula.
NOTK.-C.rr... " ''"' '"A"',?,
In LVSI) luwil J t"wl"'
iK.M M IL1TAKY 1 1 II. MAT
!C FKSTIVAI-
A grand military dramatic festi
val will bv given in this city at the
Auditorium on Thursday, OctoU'r
1SU5, nnder the atopics ol
(iilisOII pont, ti. A. U.
Flunk Keadick and Miss Millie
Freeman will play
"AMERICAN ROUN,"
assisted by local talent.
This is one of the most popular
American patriotic plays ever plac
ed upon the stage, and abounds
with dramatic and soul-stirring
incidents.
The play will be before the pub
lic for several evenings with ad
mission fee at popular prices.
Full announcements will be
made in next weeks paper. It is
hardly iiecettsary to my that Mr.
Readick and Miss Freeman are the
leading star actors of the Pacific
coast, and they need no introduc
tion to the people of Independence,
having played here only recently
in the celebrated drama ' Destiny;
or, From Florida to New Mexico".
The pi;ty is given for the special
purpose ol securing suitable stae
scenery for the auditorium build
ing.
DALLAS.
limH.niUiie U Tub Kni'BBI'sisr.
There will be a sensational broth
el started in this city soon.
Mrs. CampMI and family hit
Monday started for Oakland, Dal.
Mr Shaw and Mr. Whilehorn
are building neat resiliences in this
city.
Mr. J. S. Moore n id family, of
this city, moved to Ii.dependen )e
1 riday.
Mr. M. A. Kmbree, of Kinp Val
ley, was doing business in Pallas
Tuesday.
The readmit circle met Monday
evening at lh residence of U 'V. J.
L. Futrell.
Several families fn'in the conn
try have moved to Pallas to school
their child ten.
The members of the liaptist
church have organised a litblo
reading society,
Mr. Anderson Taylor, who has
been in Pallas for some time under
the care of a physician, died in this
city Friday.
From present indications the
Palliis public schools will have a
much larger graduating class this
year than last year.
Owing to the high prices charged
for good by Pal ins merchants, a
goo II)' number of our people have
done their trading in Silcm and
Independence.
The meintiers of the.M. K. church
South, are lad to welcome lv. J,
L rutrell back to his old field ot
cr
Rev. Dr. Park
Is the bloved pastor of (I,, p,
iriiiin'iinirnrgu,, mik ,
unui a nnstor In I'nivl.l, , . H
' '"ill, I V
York City and Troy. N. v i.
III......III..J'. D., J 1 1
blood purifier, and t bavs gllwl
Bin hftt -
- m .
"I wm Bdi I
1""t HrtUll,?
niH bu. .
ft. J. K. rfcr. U. U. du"l laj Wrt
rrs,w. w. a;
lit wbi iHir anil I Mt languid tn4,
dltloii. Having hMrii tiid r4 H
llooil'i HsrstrlMa I rwulrwl
a trial. I follow td Hi llrreinBlW,Jk
for tlia flfth txittl was Oulstwd lir
m. .l.m.l I l.tt 'V
Invigorated and Strong,
Vf rln'Miiwlle difficulty hut smlM;
apiearrtt. 1 e.nnot luil llilnk xvrj aii,
0l Hood srMirUla." J. N. 'iW
Sar$a.
parUk
Hood's
He Sure
to Get Hood
, Cures
Hood 'a Pill mll,oN-.l tsmiljn
s4 ll uwUlciu. ttAfttlle.tt, ttUtta, x
Tin: aa.moli ron:itT.
(uite a larg audience (Wrf,i
Herr Atiinold at the atiiitnri-'
last evening. This tnlenhl ij,;,,
virtu. tu has apiK-ared Mn 13
Iml. ndeuce audience 011 m-rerU
previous iMcasions, but lie tu
in most excellent form on Ut
evening and some of his renJitiuj
sliowinl the delicate totnli of tb
true artist. Musicians are l
not made. Herr Aamold is kSu.J
i of the Norseluttd and lie has
IhIhip 'l bia is the thin! time ln
has been given this work and it i d-ntly inherited some of the
is hoped be wilt U able to do a
great work for the cause of Christ
durinir the coming yeir. Rev. J
L. Futrell has done more for the
Southern Methodist church of this
city than any other preacher nince
that made Ok Hull and Jon:..
I.tiul fiiioous in every land !'
cultivated people apprtniiilrt tfc
hi. 11I and I l autiiul in music. I!,
was brilliantly sustained by Jii
the organization of the church , am Amnold on the piano,
here, 1 lie iiieiniiersmp lias grown
111 two years from thirteen mem.
bers to eighty ami have iimler con
struction one of the linest church
building's in I'olk county.
Two tif our most enterprising
young men left here for Corvallis
Mi? Ella Ueamer, a charmimwi
eal soloist. The talented mtiiicbi
were reientedly encored by the tit
lighted audience. Independents
cluinis a beal interest in Mis Bu
rner as this was her home for
Tuesday to attend the Agricultural jrral years during In r early pA
college,
(iliovrtt.
I'AltK l it.
S1X'0NI EXCUUSIOX.
There will tie another special exctir
slou from Parker, lnileteuilenee. Per
ry, Crowley and MoCoy to the Port
land Industrial Exposition 011 Wed
nesday, October 30, returning the fol
lowing Kuturday. Round trip $2,75,
including two admissions t the Expo
sition. Persona wishing to avail tht-in-selvea
of thisopportuoity ahotild secure
tickets at least three duya in advance.
The excursion launder the inutiuge
ment of R. D. Cooper.
NOTICK.
The Oregon Telephone A Telegraph
Co. have made the following reduction
in their rates from Monmouth to Port
land baaed upon a One Minute conver
sation, and commencing Octubvr 1st,
18!)5:
One Minute, 50 cents
Each additional 30 seconds or frac
tion thereof, 5 cents.
As a majority of Long Distance tele
phonic conversations are finished with
in one minute, the above represents a
substantial reduction.
SPECIAL M EETI NO.
A special meeting of the Polk
county association of the "Sons and
Daughters of the Oregon Pioneers"
will be held in Independence on
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
October 19th, 1895, for the purpose
of adopting by-laws snd transact
ing such other business as may
come before the meeting.
J. T. Fokd, President.
M. L Dorris, Secretary.
('t.rrr.pii.li- loTIIK UNTKH I'HISK.
Pan Atkinson was married in
Portland last week.
Mr. R. T. Iloothbv and wife were
vi dling at Parker Sunday.
Mr. Clarance Calls'iith has "Pet"
on the turf training for the spring
races.
Mr. Thoa. Newton is at Parker
running Wm. Fugua's apple evap
orator. Win. Collins, of Corvallis, was a
guest at Win. Fugua's Monday and
'O. ...... I.. ..
Tuemlay.
The Oregon Pottery Co. is ship
ping clav from P.uena Vista to
Portland via Parker.
Mrs. Julia Madsen, daughter of
Mrs. II. S. Kerr, is visiting her
mother at this place.
School is progressing nicely un
der the able management of Miss
Lora butler, of Monmouth.
Jas. llelinick will have a new
roof put on his dwelling house, and
will then huve the whole house re
painted. The Southern Pacific company
are inproving their grounds here
by having all the shrubbery and
useless material burned.
LlTTI.K JliKKH.
hood. Sho poaseHse a charmi"?
and well cultivated voice Olid !
tracta n much by her tindt I
charming manner n by tlieejcl
letice of her ringing. She i i H
bird of whom Oregonians may M
proud.
FOIl HALE.
The furniture and fixture used in
Loo'h (Short Order Restaurant,' on
east aide of Main street, Independence,
Oregon, H for sale. The restaurant la
uow doing a first elasa buslnea. (lood
reiisoim for aelling. In.julre at He,
taurant.
Marvelous Results.
From a letter written
Gundeman, of Jh'mondale, Mich.' we
are permitted to uiitke this extract: "J
liave no hesitation
Kinu a New Iliseovery, as the result
were almost marvelous in the east! of my
wife. While f was pastor of the llaptint
niirch at Uivea Junction she aaa
brought down with pneumonia aueceed
ing lA Onppe. Terrible paroxysms of
coiitrliinif would last hours with little
interruption and it aeeuied Hs if Mlie
ui.i noi survive ttiem. A friend
recommended Dr. Kind's New Piaeoverv
it wan quiek in ita work and highly satiH
far.t4.ry in results." Trial Isittlea free at
"oo ' Re"ulllr iTA 60c and
Oii (jlun Itelicf.
It is so easy to la- mistaken bwt
indigestion, and think there iw
other trouble. Tim cure is Uij'i
Tubules. One tabule gives relW.
Ask any druggist.
While hunting deer In the m-nii-tali:
a near Oranta l'aaa last Friday,
Francis F.inmoim, at) old ixrlrtio"J
tiii.iintiilio-rr, iiuule the fatal niltk
ofalKsitliig and Instantly killlnjf h
hunlltiH roumauioii, J. Carter, wbom
he mUt.Hik for a deer. There in nan.
cum! for an exericiioed hunter iimkN
such a fatal mistake. There it mm
excuse for an Inexperienced liunW
but none whatever for an old liu0'
taltieer.
-
AlMiut four weeks ago the Anew
school building at Med ford waslairnol
dowu.utid the publhi sehisils Bre n
la-ing taught In the dlilcreiit cliurcli
In spite of these demorali.lliK drcuni
stnne s there are .175 pupils In atteuJ
atice, and It Is said, tlieeurollineiil i'
he largely Increux-d as siu as tlie b
sehisil building la completed.
Chnrlca !YIter,"thc old nuiti vl"1
killed his wife near Grants Pass twvernl
months ago by drowning her In P'10
of water, was sentenced on the lit" 1(1
lie hanged Novemlier 21. It l
that ho showed very little com"
when the henlence was passed.
10 lie ward. HHM-
The reader of this plija-r will
pleased to learn that there Is at Iw
one dreaded disease that science h
biH-n able to euro In all its stage n
that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is the only poHltlve cure now kim"
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh bo
lug a constitutional disease, reoiiirrt
coiiatitiiilaiud treatment. Hall's (
arrh Cure is taken Internally, ai!tla
illrectly upon the blod and iiiuwiM
serfuiva of the system, thereby e
troying the foundation of the u11;
and giving the patient strength 3
building up the constitution and w
sisting miture in doing ita work. TM
proprietors have so much faith ln'w
curat Ive powers, that they oiler 0J
Hundred Dollars for any case that
fails to cure. (Send for list of Testim"0
Address K. J. CHKNKY & Co., Toledo, "
IUHold by Druggist,