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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1895)
T A .VP fcOO 1'ACIFC LINK -OrrKK .0WEJ3T RATKS A.n BKST SKKVIOK TO ASI FROM ALL POINT IN TIIK VXITKI- STATUS", CANAO.i AXI El'ROPK. f WEST DININU OARS THE MOST COM JWTA.BLK FIRST AND KKCOXD CLASS Sl-KKHNO CAKS-FKKK C0JOX1ST BI.F.KriXll CARS. tgffutAT0R7 ar,-"we",-r " .THROIQH TOIKISK CARS FROM TUK COAST TO 8T PAI L. TORONTO AND RiTOX WITIIOI'T CHANflK. .CANADIAN rUIHf RAILWAY CO fr IAIL STEAMSHIP LINK TO flllXA AM) JAPAN. pifiii STEAM KkS ON PACIFIC COAST. AXAI'IAN AI STRAI IAN STEAMSHIP J. IMC TO HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Aip.NKW JtKAl AND. .Save ivonry bv mlliiK') or wrliluc to ED. CLODFELTEB, Ajrent, Independence. Oregv Allan Pmtwon. Agpnt, 116 Third St, PortlaAd, Ore r, eo. M'L. Buowx, Di-t. Pas. Act, Vancouver, H. C. JIJ-PA-N-S The modern stand ard Family Medi cine ; Cures the common every-day ills of humanity. ol 1 & K lCMcXEILL, Keeiver. TO THE GOOD FOR EVERYBODY Almost evrvbodv takes some laxatlvt meJkine to cleanse the svstem and keep th NooJ pure. Those who take SIMMONS LJVKR REGULATOR lliquid or powder) get all the Dentins or a nwu nnu i-ira-wit f.vtive and tonic that purities the blood I and strenntlien the whole system. And ! more than this: SIMMONS LlVfcR REGU LATOR repulates the Liver, Keeps n active and healtnv, and when the Liver is in cood conditioa you find yourself free from Malaria, Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache and Constipation, and rid of that worn out and debilitated feeling. These are all caused by a sluggish Liver. Cood digestion and freedom from stomach troubles will onlv be had when the Uver is properlv at work- If troubled with any rf these complaints, trv si.w.nos Livt REGULATOR. The KCini of Liver Medi jplnes, and Better than Tills. -EVKUY PACKAGK- Baa (the Z Stamp in red on wrapper. J, II. Zeilin Ov, Jhllv 1'. TIIK IMH.K COUNTY News Menu uiul F.dilorM lircHMloim. From Hi nullaa llr-mlivr. CITY LIVERY SALE nod FEED STABLES. ; F. L. KELLEY, ProprieW. Sueceaaora to A. V. IHakatoudcr. Stvl- i ish Turn- ft r- . outs yr. . r- ;M i -vsi. .4 -AVA hours pood turnouts for Commercial men Horses Untitled by the weeK or nioiUQ. IXDEI'KN D KXCE, OR. Marble Granite G. L. HA WKIXS, Independence, - Ore- EAST GIVES THE CHOll'K OF Two Transcontinental ROUTES GREAT PRTBERXRy VIA SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND T. PAUL Monuments, Headstones, Curbing Etc. Correspondence (solicited. Mark Holim-a thinks he lis rich mining jroHjHtts in Southern Ore gou. On aivount of ill health Mi I-orftt Smith hn rviirmd her kHwitiou in the lnllaa public ichoul, In-ing Bucctsid by Mr. J. A.Crum tr, if K1U Ciijr. KihT Nhi1, brother of our miller, i visiting here. hiut just arrtvetl from the cutiuiwtcn ihUihIs, whew lor uie isi iwo yt'KM he hart boon uttendiug to church duties. The followinir olliuers wer elect- ed at the buxinesa luevting of the Knworlh leuguo Wednenday eve ning: rre.-idont, T. A. Dunn; vice presidents, Will Cobb, .Mrs. II. Biukenso, Theo. Wagner, Kliner Kecd; secretary, Harry Dunn; treasurer. Miss Eva Francis; organ ist, Miss Eva Smith; chorister, Wui-Iwis. The Dtllus Maocaleea had an en thusiastic meeting last evening; initial d a candidate and elected these otheers for next year: Si KWht Commander, T. A. Farley lieutenants C. Elliott: sergean M. V. Woods; chaplain, E.IIayter record keeper, I. N. Wmh1s; finance keeper, . V. riste; master arms. J. D, Heltr physician, J. Belt, first master of the guard; M Haytcr; second master at the guard J. II. Ashbauch: sentry, deo. V Conlfry; picket, 11. II. Turder. From the UmIIuh otwrver. PACIFIC RY. VIA OMAHA AXD Kansas City LOW RATES TO ALL EASTEKN CITIES. OCEAN STEAMERS Leave Portland jayery j days for SAN FRANCISCO. For lull detail? rail on O. R. G. Agent M. O. PrirTfiR, Independence, Ur. or addre8: W. H. HUB1.BURT, Qen.Pa Aeppt, Fortland, fr. Thoi.F, 0k, Henry C. Pme, Henry C. Ronxe, Receivers ORTHERN PACIFIC R, U o 9 BOOr.SHOESHOP P. H. Murphy, Prop Uepairing of nil Kinds will receive prompt attention The best of work turned out ou short notice. A share of - your patronage is solicited. -Main street, - Independence City : Feed : Stable. Eli Johnson, Prop. Horses fed by the day, week or month Tran sient stock left in our care will be well at tended to. Charges reasonable. SL Main St. Independence. fuljman jElegnt Jpurist Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Cars ST. PAUJ, TO MIXXEAPOLIS DULUTH FARGO GRAND FORKS CROOKSTON WINNIPEG HELENA and BUTTE THROUGH TICKETS TO CHICAGO WASHINGTON PHILADELPHIA "NE W YORK F OS TON and all POINTS EAST and SOUTH For information, time cai'dft, map and ticket, rail on or write W. H. HAW LEY, Aprent, Independence, or., on 1. D.CHART.TOX. Asst. Gen. Pa-o.Agt, 'js'o. 255, Moirfnon Street, Corner Third tstl, Portland, Oh. Tired, Weak, Nervous Could Not Sleep. Pr?f. L. D. Edwards, of Preston, Idaho, says: iaI was ail run down, weak, nervous and irritable through overwork. I suffered from brain la tipue, mental depression, etc. I be came so weak and nervous that I could not sleep, I would arise tired, discouraged and blue. I began taking Dr. Miles' Nervine and now everything is changed I sieep soundly, J feel bright, active and ambitious. I can do more in one day now than I used to do in a week. For this great good I give Dr. Miles' Restorative Jiervine the sole credit, It Cures." The attendance at Circuit Court has been unusually large. Our county court is showing spirit of enterprise in ordering some new road scrapers, there is no dancer of doing too much road work. The crand iurv is composed of the following gentlemen: J Mouf- fer, foreman: Joe Jjomeon, Am brose Ball. C. C. Gardner, Fred Loose. E. Evans and L. I. Heece, A iurv taken from the body of Polk county'B citizens rarely fail t be of Bound representative men The present jury, both grand am petit, is composed of good, careful conse ientious men. Such juries are at once an argument in favor of the jury system. County Clerk Mulkey has fur nished the court jury with cushion ed chair?, The appreciated gift was not Ao go without reward, and Thursday morning Clerk Mulkey was not a little surprised to hud neatly carved cushion lying on his chair, and from the general move merit of the clerk when he took his seat, there must have been a pin in it. r FItUIT SHIPMENT FOIt 1893. The Oregron Fruit Union's Sum mary itesults Manifest at 1 Close of Season. Dr. HUec Nervine la Bold on a poaKtv raarsntee that tbe first bottle will oenefit. All arazglsta sell It at IL, bottles (or (S, or it will be lent, prepaid, on receipt of price pj toe Lr. alilca Medical Co., EUiart, Iod. The total number of pounds of green fimt shipped through the Oregon Fruit union the past season amounts to 2,127,558, and the total paidfthe growers amounts to $32,- 182.25 or an average of 1 jcents per pound. The fruit shipments began May 10th with a crate of strawberries. shipped from Milton to Denver. 2569 crates of strawberries were ehipped and the total remitted to growers amounting to $2,312.10 iB an average of 90c per crate. Hood River. 1,92 crates, average per crate realized by growers, $1.73 per crate. Milton shipped 3,925 crate, to tal amount remitted, ?J,4.8J. or 88 2-3c per crate. The Dalles shipped 375 crates, netting the growers an average of $1.09 per crate, Total strawberries shipped, o,b9 crates, or 1 1 car loads. Strawberries were shipped to Montana. Utah, Colorado andWyo- oming points, and a considerable quantity to Omaha. 2,500, boxes of cherries were Bhip ped averaging to the grower 4Qc per 10 pound box, Black Republican proved to be the better shipper for ong distance. Eight cars, containing 7,Uo crates, or 141,140 pounds of peach plums were shipped, netting to the growers, $951.61, or six-tenths per pound. Two of the cars were trom Douglas county, the balance from The Dalles. The Bale of only three cars fas satisfactory, but the sale of these is evidence that, though the peach plum is a tender fruit, it can be shipped to advantage, but it must be handled with great care. The total number of prunes ship ped was 55,443 crates and 10,822 boxes, or a total of 1,345,500 pounds. The bulk of prunes ship-j ped were Italians, amounting to 47,-, 670 crates and 8,970 boxes, qr a to tal of 1.152,500 pounds. The total Pities. 7S7, or trille over lj wnts net J' lutllllil. Of th silver urunes 2.0i crates and V2J boxo" were snippy 4J0 pounds; these averageu thorn. I of a nent per pound. 5,(M crates and boxes or 132,S0 Kundi of Hungarian prune were sin pned, netting to m .row i' '':t:.:.V or i cents per poin d A few crates of French or I'etite nruuea were ehipped by growers a experiment but they will never pay a shipper. Of liradshaw. Yellow Egff, W ash ington and other varieties of plunia and peaches, 2,9(10 boxes and 3,270 emten were shinix-d or 104,600 pounds, averaging tlve-sevenllii o a cent per pound. 7,960 boxes of Pears were ship ped, inostjy Harriett. Tear ship nienta proved unsatisfactory am the net average was 25 cents per box of 40 tiouudn. The pears were very scabby this year. Mot ship ments of Oregon ll.irtletts provetl verv drsiHutointing, notwithstaud- imr the California!! crop was short and cotkl price were realited for California!! Pears. Hut thtu is the hard t fruit to pack and it was al most iiiinsi.ihle t.r the growers to understand that tljey inii-tl ik snip ped when green. Many pears sent to ship when in riper condition than they should have lieen on arrival in Eastern market. Three full carloads of grape am one partial car were shiniHtl, Two tars from Klickitat county did not carry well, the owner of the grapes in Omaha received them. Tin grapes would mould and rot, and much pains weie taken in shipping, care being taken in packing only the firm solid grajns. No actual loss was occasioned, but they were not successful shipjucnts. One car of (ieruian prunes, a car of Italian and NIver prunes; ami one car of mixed plums, crab apples and apples, which were shipped without due knowledge proved Iokh es to the growers. In the instance of the Herman, Italian and Sliver prunes, the fruit was soft and ripe, The car of Italians and Silvers on arrival in Portland showed sign o rot. necessitating the whole car being repacked. When the crates of prunes were full and well packed the growers were able to realize good prices While the inexperienced pack and hauling on the part A a great many caused them to realize considerable less than an average of 1 J cents er pound. The shipment of the Italian prune green has proved bo yond a doubt its excellent qualities hb a shipping truit. i ne last snip ment ol the Italians was niaue Septemlier 25th, but as late at Oct ober 5th shipments were made by others and growers realized as high as 3 cents per pound. The Eastern receivers of Oregon fruits, especially the Italian prune, pronounced our fruit equal to any, needs experienced packing and care ful handling to accompolish much better results. The Silver prune is not bo good a shipper. Being light colored it shows the bruises more plainly and such bruises causing dark spots on the fruit which is a detriment to good sales. However some Bales of good solid fruits were equal to the Italians. But the colored fruit is always preferred. The Hungarian prune is the most profitable ship per. While it has not the ilavor of either the Italian or Silver prune yet it possesses all the keep ing qualities of the Italian besides being much larger and of more at tractive color, which alone sells it, nd shipments of Hungarian prunes always pays well. Ihe necccssary pains and care is not understood by the generality of the fruit growers. 1 he Eastern re ceiving houses who find it neces sary to use large spring trucks with rubber tires in hauling the fruit from the car to the sale rooms, would be horrified to know the fruit at this end was hauled five miles in a dead axle wagon. The grower must also appreciate the fact that Eastern buyers who have bought California varieties of fruit for years packed by profession al packers will buy our Oregon fruit with more caution and at a less price, until he knows by act ual experience the keeping qualities and flavor as compared with what he has been handling. Salem Statesman, M t for Infants and Children. OTHERS, Do You Know ftatroua't I"!. Owlr Cutlll, awoaiwa puwainf ayniia, imI remrdlee fur chlldwa ire cwt -t Muiphlnr nn vouKnnw lhal Hlm ami V"''" ' (ri amMId imtauait Ho Von Kn !h l " ' MN teKUawMfc. vllkuul UUrllHS !" pwl""1 ' nt, Vnm Know lhal run ahuaWl ritt aajr ieU U yw., anlroauryour patriae kaow at wha U ! ""J ' tut Vow Know lhal CaHerla Ua p''r prn-ralU., lal htrf lla lomlleiO la iibtl.lt.t nfj ""' Ho Tom Know lhal Cxlufla U It, preenlpttoe. of Ih. hmau nr. SaM Moxr, ThalXhat be l """y Ihlrty aaU lhal wt CaelacU It aow of aU other reatcdlN for hlldr c,mWfl 1 n Vow Know lhal Ih. rll OrtU-e l,.rte..nl af Ihe Vwlled at.m , rf Cher MUl.tf. h.y.l-e4 .wrt.l rlhl lo lr. MUh.r aad hi. a.l,.o Ihe ww4 ratort " l" tatmoXt. and lll ! IwilaL Ih. M la a .lata i wScnM r no Vow Know lhal e.i.uf Ihe mwM M iralln Ihl. tMwl W"fc w brvau-Ca.i-1. had bee- prew. I.b .ta.ol.lwUr b.rwUa., o Vow Know lhal S3 ! KaaluiU a.e faiUhi fa, M rrule, at ou. cul a Ium r Io Vow Know lhal wha p. "I ulhl. BtrtVI r.Ooe , jwt c h ll.l, b. Unwell, audllulrott ay haw aolmAro (l f Wrll. Ihmr lhln ar. wurth kauwlng. They '"' The rue-elm natnrr Jt wrapprr, Children Cry for Pitcher's Cattorla. LITTLE FtlUKE HOTEL, IiiiU'jH'inliinco, Oregon, Clone to railway .tutioiiH, ntcatnh(at landmig ami thu husimiH part tf the city KooiDsanri xuitf, for both trancient ami jH-nuatH'tit gui'sts. Service un HurpaHsnl. llutca $1 to $'2 JH.T ilftV. 5iiiiii to rarry u IlpHtliifH MtfMMtf W ol'IIai ilwari', Iiiiilm'iitM, Htovon Tiiiwiuo.tJtc, unlock that will moot the wuritsi of our trutlo PLOWS! PLOWS!! $100 Iteward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the, only poHitive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be Ing a constitutional diHease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Cat. arrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly uboii tbe bl'xxt and mucous serfaces of tbe system, thereby des troying the foundation of the diseane, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and atu sisting nature la doing its work. The proprietors nave so much faith in ita curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any cam that it fail to cure. (Send for list of Testimon ials. Addrea P. J. CH EXE Y A Co . Tolndn. O. amount rc-nitted to growers, $14,- jwubold by Drugget, 75c . $ WE HdYE RECEIVED a new lot of those CANTON and SCOTCH CMITER STEEL FLOWS ind BISSELL CHILLED PLOWS, guaranteed equal Ui my chilled plow on the market. . 11 1U ivi o n m o u i n , FRAZER & CATTR0N Oregon, :1 O" FOR- o and WAY LANDING SALEM, PORTLAND Steamer Altona Leave Portland Tuesdays, Thursdays and Raturdayn, 6:00 a. m. Iave Independeu;e Mondays, Wednesday" and Fridays :!50 " Leave Salem " " " 7:45 " Fast Time. 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