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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1902)
J? J? INDEPENDENCE AND WEST SIDE. NINTH YEA 1 1. I N D E 1 'E N I) E N C E , I'OLK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 21, 1902. XUMIJKlt 38 ENTERPRISE DUO.OOO.OOO Tltt'HT. of , History f ! Founder the- Nw Corporation. The (runiKiT of lb People'i Home Building, Employment Investment Associal ion at in th steaming Interior (ll It tug lent itll the corner H ventli and Everett yesterday talking ti several In if rental workmen. Mr, 0 Keller m a hale hikI prosperous looking lit it ol genial countenance Hid blue eye steadied into i riHi nes when lie summed up hi mission. "I nm backing the unde xli'K " lie And hi whole lift Im been consistently teiidinii to ward bis present attitude. (,'. F. Roller was born in Lock Haven, a town in th very center of the manufacturing section of Penn eylvania. 1 1 i'h father was a butcher mid thii trade young Keller learned thoroughly. Hi education here vivfid from th ti 11 i? school and frmii ''rubbing tip aga! nst people," a he put it. In 1H0-I, in the month of Feb- ruary," Mr. Keller continued, '"1 joined the Seventh Pennyl vania Calvary. That I have to confess was more of a frolic; than any thing else, hut I served through the war. Then I went to Calilor iiiu by way of lbs illnniM. binding in Sun Fraiicimo in S(Ji. The first thing I diil alter I got' off the steamer wk to hoy Pnr ii'"'""'' "f hr and for that beer 1 paid '-iff ?: 7! fH I ' - lii 1 Si 23 employer. Truttta are a her.jficent! institution and the man whotriea! HTItL'CK IT HICII. THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK EUILDING, One of the best structures in Polk County. to fight I hem in ailly. Labor pay a more tribute to the fear of want in Hie to innurmiee, fraternal to- cietiea, etc, than would be audi- cient to (oiever put them beyond the ned of employing; capital. Let laborers control their own indus try, intttead of denying the preaent want for fear of future insecurity." Mr. Keller etated that he bad alwayn made hie own money, and plenty oi it. ma whole aim waa a aelfifh one, aimply to advance him elf, and to do that he had to ad vance his fellows. "Self-interest rulea the world, and were I Morgan I would do preciely what he is doing. I would pay the same wages and require the same hours. The only difference would be that the dividends which are the un paid wages of the workman should go to him, the workman." A tremendous megaphone is pat of the stock In trade and a magic lantern is one of the advertising features. Oregonian. ieneo while instructive. Mr. Keller lands for a national park. This ' i .i . i 1 1 1 t . . . uropjea our uuooie oursieu n wide open. We lacked and the considered anything but pleasant. When we were within hailing dis tance of the wharf the jam of men on it yelled with all their lungs, Fresh fish." The poor devils had come just as I hud and were stran- ed there without a cent. Those that could went back, but I'm not that kind. I bought land nd i T l ranched it from '77 to '79. Then I greenback. That witilied my third. Then I went directly to San Bernardino, the worn plnee in th" state. It wn absolutely -without ready cih. for the store- returned to the town of Kureka and opened Ja meat market. During this time my ideas took shape. I rend Henry George's 'Progress and Poverty 1 I began to agitate. 1 KKI)UCKI ItATKS. though we changed tne war cry from opposition to religion to green backs. Yes, sir, I was a Oreen backer. Now, in thost days, Denis Kearney and the sundlotters were advocating Chinese exclusion. I never did believe in that sort of business and I don't now. What I work for is the enfranchisement oflubor. It's not the man that is itl full It but the system. I helped organize the International Work man's League. Among the Sun check system was in vogue. I took j worked under the Liberal League, a contract for builtling a sawmill Iam and with the money went to Los Angeles and ttied to operate a lirewery. My partner hat! the ex perience and J put up the nion-y. When my partner had got my 4h (00, which was prett soon, I left that business. In those days I was a red-hot Uepublican-none tiotter. Why, I cant my first vote lor Abe Lincoln at the ago of 18, ' Well, after I lost the money in the beer business 1 went to ranch ing in Santa Iturbara and in 1870 and 1871 that was good husinesa. It was all home conumption and I got as high as .' cents a pound for toy barley. Then I tried Ilusian Uiyer until the Spring of '7(. Hy that time I was married und so vent buck to Centenniil ami spent n year in old Pennsylvania. Mere it was, .ir, ivei mt hmu, r. ted, "that I got my lii ( 'iht. It was the time of th' Tildcn Hayes cainpaiin and I never in all my life saw business more stagnant. The railroad employes are working in four-hour shift-' at half the usual pu. I figured that .the laborer should not be affected by political conditions to that extent and I saw that the capitalists were using their influence to alter market con ditions by political movements. Wry, Clinton county, where I win born and raised, could not even pay the state tax. I wouldn't have taken the biggest farm in the state to stay. I wasn't clear awake, though, for I voted for Hayes. After this be returned to Califor nia and found that '77 was a dry year in the lower part of the state. So he went to Eureka. His exper- soldiers put us off the place. This was in 1.SS8, and the case is still hanging fire in congress. "When we were tun out of Ka- weah we accepted the invitation of the Government Land Office and took up homesteads. We spent 20,000 on improvements, built a little city and were booming once more. Well, sir, the Southern Pa cifio one day stepped in and took our whole outfit up as lieu land. You eee the railroad gets every other section for so many miles on either side of the right of way, but with the provision that any sec tions previously held by good title shall be made up to them out of the next 10 miles. Ours was the To Mountain the Seaside and ltesorts. Tickets are now on sale at all Southern Pacific and Corvallis & Eastern II. H. offices, through to Newport and Yaquina at reduced rates, southern Pacific trains con heel with C. K. at Albany and Corvallis. All tickets good for re turn until October 10, 1902. Passengers for Detroit, Ureiten- bush and other mountain resorts can leave Albany the same after noon, reaching Detroit in the even ing, tickets are on sale from Al bany to Detroit at Jfo, and from Corvallis at 3.25 eood for return until October 10th. with privilege to get on train returning at any " " " Tk. ...! i.-:c- r, our natenta trnrn th Knited StRts. , uu,w" company it did us no nxxl We were in. ve now on sale round trip tickets f.,r..,...l !, ,i. it. c.i.. puoiio ou meir lines in guaranteed no titles m.der nat., t Oregon to either Newport or Ya That Wi.inn L-imrlieii not. 231! aft- ". : P"vueg return Via hci0.ou Mieoniy recompense was in connection with the C. & K a paltry 200 on each homestead three-day Sunday excursion tickets Francisco unions that I organized I from the government. I wasn't good going Saturday and return- were the tinsmiths, the plumbers j half so gfHd a republican after that ing Monday are also on sale at as l hud been belore. verv low rates from al! S. P. und 'In 1891 I vacated the land and C. K. points spent, a year in San trancisco. I Full information can be obtained farmed in Contra Costa three years, S8 to ratepi time tables, etc., by ap in Santa Cruz three rears, and rn plication to any t. V. or V. iL and the sailors. At this time Mr. Keller also tried the scheme that wai tried be fore in the famous Brook Farm, immortalized by Emerson and Hawthorne. He described this at tempt with a good deal of feeling against the forces that rendered it auortive. "it was a sort ot com muiie," he remarked, reminiscently. ' I had discovered and surveyed a forest out in Tulare county. Fifty six of us started the Kaweah col ony. Kaweah means 'here we rest.' We took up a quarter-section of land and worked it with the idea of dividing the proceeds equally. I was manager of the enterprise, and we cut timber and built a road 18 miles long from the valley into our firest Then w secured right of way for two railroads from Tu lare C'ty. The farmer all prom ised us 1 an acre for all land within five miles of the road, and we were just going to be prosper ous. They held a big ratification meeting full of good California en thusiasm. A week after congress passed an act setting aside our a bakery in San Jose. Three dry years put all the farmers in Cali fornia out at the elbows, and we came to Oregou. I am living now in Tillamook, which is a mighty- prosperous place. The laborers there are not vet divorced from their tools and they haVe no kick coming." From 1892 until 1899 Mr. Keller held a position from the Knights of Labor and was a very active or- agent. Hand Concert Another successful band concert was given Saturday evening. The cool weather kept a larger attendance from being present than usual. The boys furnished good music, however and were enthusiastically applauded. Xext Saturday evening's program is appended. March .."Union Forever". .Sconton ganizer. ow tie is promoting the Overture. . "Brun8wick"...Pu.i;inson People', Home-Building, Employ- March . ."Tenth Regiment" . . Hall me'jt & Investment Company, -i. -i. ..r ri,i t.- I Vl C.4V. ...... ..IV VIU JVITII" which is incorporated with a possi hie capital of 10.000,000. ' When some surprise was shown at the size of this figure it was explained that it was a trust. To this per fectly satisfactory explanation Mr. Keller kindly added: "I am a little different crank from the rest. I believe in trustifying labor, in making the laboring man his own tucky Home." (By request.) Prof. Lucas. Schottische. . ."You and I". . .Hall March "Red Men's". .... Hall Andante and waltz "Troop" Roll in son March . ."The Imperial". .Anthony "Yankee Doodle and Dixie." (Prof. Lucas, musical director.) TJie HerreiiN Have a Fortune In Their Grasp. Salem Statesman: E. C. Herren was showing to some of his friends OU the streets yesterday a sample of coal, and also loineoi the borings of a diamond drill above the point where the coal was struck. The sample of coal came from near Ileppner. Some twenty-two miles east of that Eastern Oregon town Mr. Ilerren and eleven other people have a tract of 1920 acres of deeded land. Mr. Ilerren has one-twelfth interest. They have been drilling there with an 8000 diamond drilling outfit for two years. Finally their labors have been rewarded by finding a ten- foot vein of cannel coal at 700 feet. The quality of the coal is as fine as any in the United States, and the patient twelve of the company have a fortune. It is understood that they have refused 250,000 for their property. They expect to go on drilling until they are down 2000 feet. A ten-foot vein of cannel coal of good quality at 700 feet would be enough to satisfy most people; but these men want to know what else there may be down under the surface of their holdings. At one point t e drill brought out a quantity of stone such as is used in making whet stone.- - - - Mr. Ilerren is the well known hop grower and dealer, and his many friends will be pleased to know of his good fortune. Other members of the Herren family are interested. The surface cropm'ngs 0f this vein of cannel coai in Morrow county are much the same as those found in the Forward mine in the Waldo Hills, where the diamond drill is working, now being at a depth of nearly seven hundred feet; and some of the borings are similar. What a revolution the j finding of a ten-foot vein of cannel coal in the Waldo Hills would ' work in Salem whether at 700 feet or yery much deeper. And much stranger things may happen when people are determined to see what the earth under us is made of. , Shatters All Itecords. Twice In hospital, F. A. Gulledge, Verbena, Ala., paid a vast sum to doctors to cure a severe case of piles causiug 24 tumors. When all failed, Bucklen's Aruica 8a vie soon cured him Subdues Inflammation, conquers Aches, kills Pains. Best salve In '.he world. 25c at Kirkland Drug Co. Superb minstrels. At the opera house, Indepen dence, August 26, Sweeney Alvido Big White Minstrels, an attraction composed of artists of Eastern reputation introducing strong first part, a strong olio and many novelty featu res. The press in speaking of Sweeney Alvido Min strels say they are a success artist ically as well as financially, one of the big winners in minstrelsy. Don't tail to see the Golf parade headed by Prof. Maurers band at noon on day of arrival in this city. Reserved seats now on sale at Locke's drug store, and 50 cents. Prices, 25, 35