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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1903)
INDEPENDENT E KNTISHPHISE, INDEPENDENCE, OKEGOX J New Spring and Summer SAMPLES I Just Arrived. Ladies Tailonmade Suits. GENTLEMEN'S SUITS , Any ntylo made to order. v - (W- G. Sharman, MERCHANT TAILOR, Hank M otility Court. I'll' ill ATKt I) Smith. J J Wiseman and nuel ('oiui are to lijlHio the it of Mary Sunu Moxh-y. ) F Filher was niml executor :ho Q ( Fisher eute undor (1 atf 10,000 the estate to he riitWI.V lni C Powell, J tvK-y mitl (' C Lewis. 'ho petition to probate the will lanfortl Fowlo wrni eel for hear February T'.h. 'he annual report of guardian of Kietti KobtrtNon was tiled ami rovtwl. f Ult.l.H AI.I.oWKIl ! Kirkpatrick rebate... X :il ii. Ho1hoi Co, etat'ry. 41 80 :i Moulii..; 2 cm) a. rrisb, sauio 2 (XJ rick A Co exr-ense 2 90 l'iiM!itt' iust court. ... 3 00 - ' , Keyt, court Iiouho inn. 01 oo per account rauendener 7 00 A. Tethurow 7 00 GSeld 12 (W Mender 8 00 Huntley 7 00 , Douty 23 00 ) light ... 27 40 Ilyier, printing 4 25 V Wtth, same 2 50 ipit4.it Hubbard 13 50 Walton 02 50 Woods 40 00 Loufthtry 13'.) 08 Jvrd 133 S3 aytef 50 (X) Myer 42 00 Mjtr 54 (X) ;Coper 65 00 t: 83' 78 Sl'.Iey 6 05 da ond highways taxfield 47 00 Hawley 23 55 Quirk 3 00 Stone 3 GO Dickey 4 00 Lady 2 00 Newlin 2 00 Haminun 2 00 Tharp 2 00 round 15 00 Shields 20 00 :rick A Strong. 9 00 Tctier 2 00 r.i-jB 30 00 yielding 500 to the acre, straw berries 1 100 per aero, alfalfa seven tons to tho acre, hops pro ducing $350 to the acre, and many similar incident may be quoted to show the producti vr tliiMtry within a radius of two miles j U).hh of Oregon's noil. These are Independence bout was left in a critical con dition, touching nt no ilir point. Luckily, however, I lie water roso during the night and the atern Hwung clear and float- otli iiro brought into lny. AsJ Grandma Wateas has gcen il tatoif editorially in the Tele- for several days. giant, tho man in Southern Ore- Mj ... , , , gou who inado a Mudy of rail ing onions exercised init Mienee el around, n lievin hr from ; with tho result mentio'ied and immediate danger ixlarteda number -f ottu r men Tho water now Maud about , in tin- business. When the fact seven feet on tho lower deck.) is considered that such small The cargo confuted of a hug" I lotn of land can be made to quantity of lumber and Home, yield handsome returns, scien- Ueneral merchandise for Da vtou. j tint-ally farmed, one gets an idea The lumixT will not bo injured, ' of tho immense population Ore- but tho damage to tho other j gon could bo made to support." freight will be quito heavy, j "" Hallaa mill Xewberjf. IVrtlllty of Orciroii Hull. ... ... j The contcM for league honors Two acres of laud Unit yielded between the Ihilhisand New berg sJlOft worth of prunes, onions basket ball teams at the gynina- ftbout-flulhis. Korteen fruit dryers with a capacity of nhout .'iO(X) bushels per day. Alsiut 5(X) acres which is being laigley incn;aed this season. Mont of llie above ncrenga U Italian pi u lies about ten years old in full bearing and are just a few instances showing Oregon's industrial wealth, which, when spoken of outside the state, gives strangers tho im pression that Oregonians do not emulate (icorgo Washington. 4 r ... r ...t I. jy. lew i at i.i nuitu iciiuiii.iii; H jexpocfd the coming year, to pro-Uis ,jn(, NVon. i,ro,,,,ijt cut re thtce ui east, l,0O0,XHI Kiunds. centlv in a discussion of tin sium at Dallas Friday night wasj beyond i;II doubt the most excit ing ami hotly contested game ever witnessed in Dallas. The crowd was u pack to the doors ami many went away unable to obtain admission. All sections of the league were represented and many outside colleges, among which were Willamette und Corvallis, both teams hav ing many supporters, though the sympathy for Newberg seem ed to .predominate. The lirst half was notable on account of the tremendous ru.-di on the part 51 m m To 01 Our Correspondents. 4- ' On1,y u few issut'H intervene between this issue and the close of the eor respnh'nts' contest. This interval of time should be improved in pushing your points to tho highest possible number. The prizes are well worth the ellbrt required to secure one, and with the liberal Art Calendar offer, new pubscribera should le readily secured. Put forth an earnest effort and fin ish well to tho front. 10 19 GoooooooooooSooooooooooootD Tlio Fruit Jndustry ;llis Feb. 9. (Statesman Spe ) H. C. Camplell, a proud ; fruit grower and business man zlliM, gives the following as a 'ul estimate of the prune in- SIIK STKUCK A HN AO. Ntemiier IClinore Sank In tlie Vnnihin JCIver. The steamer El more of the 0. I!. it X. Co.'a line, running be tween Portland and Dayton, sank Sunday morning about a mile below Dayton, in tho Yam hill river, in about twelve feet of water. M. P. Baldwin, the O. R. N. Co.'a agent at Salem, Monday morning received word of the accident and that the Kuth would not make her regu lar run to Corvallis, as she had been sent to tho relief of the Kl more with a barge from Port land. Another barge was sent from Oregon City Monday and the work of raising the sunken vessel has been commenced. The trouble was caused by striking a sunken snag. The Yamhill was falling on tho last trip of tho Elmore and she passed over the snag without touching, but tho water was not low enough to expose tho snag. The river was narrow at this point and after striking the snag the steamer struck one bank and then floated around till the stern struck the other bank and, as tke river continued to fall, the prune industry between Colonel Dosch, Secretary Lamherson and a Telegram reporter. It is con servatively estimated that the Oregon 1002 prune crop, the bulk of which has been Fold, netted growers close to f 7S0.000. English and French buyers bought most of the crop at from 0 1-8 to ( 5-8 cents per pound, f. o. b. ' The Orville Martin farm, near Corvallis," said Secretary Lamherson, of tho stato board of horticulture, "raised five tons of prunes on two acres that netted flOO." "Why the late strawberries in Grand Hondo valley," observed tho Colonel, "brought $100 an acre. I reuy goon, ear Other instances were quoted. Tho man in Southern Oregon, who raised $1000 worth of onions on two acres, the li. S. & D. fruit and land farm near Ontario that cufsoven tons of alfalfa to the acre in four cut tings, and tho Hood River straw berry land that yields $250 to the aero right alongj "It goes to show," remarked one of the industrial writers, "what can be done with soil and favorable conditions in Oregon, when brains and scientific meth- of the Quakers, who were able to keep the ball in their own territory most of the time, but the splendid interference of the Dallas men prevented a score equal to the effort Intense ex citement and considerable ,bad blood was manifest on the part of the Dallas rooters on account of the decision of the umpire. Nevertheless, the half score was 3 to 5 in favor of Dallas. Carmane, the Newberg center, is a host, and the only man Gol ing, center of the Dallas team, has met that could interest him, which he did in a manner that Gollug will remember for all time to come The second ha'f was clearer and better ball, and was all that could be desired, the score stand ing 8 to 19 in favor of Dallas'. Tho intenso interest was aug mented for the reason that this game was to decide the champ ionship between Dallas and Newberg in the league series. learning to ride her wheel as pat time these rainy days. .Mr. Fuqua's aged tnot))i' has como to live with bun. J. E. Lewi, who is now sixty years of age, bus taken the con tract to cut Marion Smith's win ter w ood, he being too old to cut his own wood. Mis Lydia Abbey is visiting a sew days with Mrs. liagley. D. O. IJronson and son, Hu bert, of Phoenix, Arizona, are keeping bachelor's parlor now. There is to be a masquerade ball at Airlio on the 13th inst. 3J. F. Smith lost thirteen head of goats last week and Mr. Fu qua hail the misfortune to lose a horse. Ancient ICome IJein Modernized Singing begun I.EWISVILLE. school has again after having five days' va cation on account of bad weath er. Mrs. W. W. Smith is ill with la grippe. ' The city of the Cae.-ars, the city of the Popes, the city the Italians, is in a fair way to be inbtlenriml out of all recognition, says a recent visitor to that city. Up to two years ago the following street names were alwolutely indispensable in every Italian town: "Yittorio Emanuele," "Garibaldi" "Gavour" and "Independence," and Home got along without much diffi culty, as she opened up so many new streets. Thou came the terrible event in tho house of Savov, and "Umber to I" was added to the list. What was to be done? There was no new street and still the names muet be commem orated so the oldest street in the city was chosen, given the new name and thus, alas! the Corso ceased to exist. Now Home has bought the Villa Borghese and it will soon blossom forth as Villa Umberto I. Let us hope that the other members of the royal house will, die in their beds if no other reason than to leave the eternal city some of what should be her cherished names. To foreign ers, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the North Pole to the south, the Corso and the Villa Borghese meant a certain street and a certain villa in Rome and in Home only, with unique associations and history whilejo the next generation they will only mean the regretted memory memory of a modern monarch. :- it W. L. BICE, UNDERTAKER.