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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1904)
TJie Semi-Weekly West Side Enterprise Only $1.50 a Year. West ide . Enterprise KI.KVKNT1I YEAH. I N I) K l'KN DENCE, I'OLK COUNTY, OREGON, OCT015EK 14, 1904. NUMBER 52 POLK MONMOUTH, COUNTY BANK. Incorporated. OREGON J. II. llAWl.KY, T. I, CAMI HKI.L, President, yir l-resident Iiu ('. Powki.i., Cashier. rld Capital, 150,000 J. B. V. pissc-roM-- J. If. Hawley, !'. L r'ampbull, I. M. Simpson, Butler, John U. mump, J. a. v. unrow, r. n, roweii. Traasact General Bankiag and Kichange bunioem. Drafts gold available throughout the United Stat aud Canada. SCHOOL GROWING An Additional Room and Another Teacher Neces sary for Public School. Town Has Outgrown its Present Public School Faculties Tem porary Relief. THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL STOOK, S60.000.00. n HIKHHHKHtf. PwiuUnt. "aUKAM N KLSON, Vice Prwiden 0. W.lttVIXK, CaahUr. DIRKCT0H8. If. Ilirachtorj, D. W. Hotr, II. F, Smith, J. P. Klxxlei and A. Nalton. A rnrt hanking and aiiOiing bmliiiM tranMcted. Loan made. Bill JlMonnlad. Commercial credit grant!. Itopoaitt rclal on current aooounl I. r DAVIDSON & HEDGES lUiiyutUtt Tot Fine Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies 1 Plp In $adltm variety from cofc lobftcr-toul an4 tlna Mwrnliiura. DAVIDSON ScxU FounUin (of lh bat dtyt. Yoiari awri wt tcoma. & HEDGES C STREET INDEPENDENCE, OREGON LIVERY, FEED AND BOARDING STABLE I. W. DICK1NSUIM, rTOp. Good Riga for Commercial Men a Specialty. Good accommodations. Horses well fed. Fine riga. Horses boarded by day, week or month. r.,.i.... v 007 ' independence, Oregon THE MONMOUTH LAUNDRY K. D. WHITMAN, ProprWtor Hpme Industry Institutions GOOD WORK, PROMPT DELIVERY OUR WATCHWORDS WorK ClLd forTdr D.HT.red Saturday Josse & Bice, UNDERTAKERS Fine Parlors in connection. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Day phone 273 Night 393 Main St, Independence, Ore men, w. i Kn.baln.er and Funeral Director. C D. KNOW LBS, Mgr. $1.00 tl.SO 9I.OO mvivw, r. fr THE IMPERIAL HOTEL CO. SEVENTH and WASHINGTON STS. r. - - OREGON Still the attendance at the Inde pendence public school grow and to meet the over-crowded condition it haa been found necessary to Ira proviso another room and try to provide another teacher. Such are the conclusions reached by the school board at a meeting this week. The school opened with an at tendance of 21K). It haa now reach ed. 320. The accommodations at present afforded, are eight rooms with one teacher to the room. If grades could be ignored and the pupils distributed, an qual num ber to each room, each teacher would hare her hands full. But some grades are fuller than others. In the primary grade are 5U pupils which are too many for one teacher. Under these conditions best results cannot be obtained and it was to relieve the situation the board took action Tuesday night. The securing of an additional room is not a matter of great diffi culty. The east end of the hall en the second floor can be partitioned off making a well lighted room that will accommodate 28 to 30 pupils. The board has decided to do this and lumber will be ordered and the contract for such, alteration Jet right away. The board will also endeavor to secure another teacher, go that the present congested con dition will be relieved by the first of the month. The hall of the second floor has been used as a general assembly room and cutting a room out of it will reduce the size but there will still be enough left for general as sembly purposes for the seoond floor. The public school building has never been provided with room large enough for the entire school to meet together, to receive general instruction and have lit nrarv and musical exercises. Nor has it a gymnasium, a very neces' aarv ndinnct to a school in the j j training up of children. A general assembly room and a gymnasium are two things of which the school stands in need. The fact is, Independence has outgrown its public school ouim ine, which is a substantial struct ure and afforded ample facilities for fVin rnmmunitv at the time it was built. The building of an ad dition, or the fitting up of another story must be faced by the school district. SPERLING BROS i who handle th Finest Butcher Stock In Tolk County are not , fing awaj nea t but are selling it very cheap at their Meat Market. Independence Court Hoiims Jiiwi- In probate court final account was filed and guardianship settled in the case of Emma Heal, a minor. Semi-annual account filed by the administrator ofthe Thomas Pearce estate. Final account filed in the mat ter of the estate of I II Robbins, deceased. November 19, at 10 a .i Saturday for hearin;. REAL ESTATE THANSKKKS Geo F Vick to J B V Butler. 40 acres in t 8 r 5 w; 1275. Jacob Smith to Joseph Garrett, lots in Ballstou; $175. Wm J Farley and wife toChailes It Farley, land in 8 6 consideration $500. D B Taylor and wife to Israej Rabume lots 8 and 4, block 2, White's Addition to Independence; $100. Henry Clanfield and .wife to Ralph 0 and Anna Douson. 46 acres in 9-5, consideration $6,000. John R Robbins and wife to Mrs. Alpha A Robbins, 19 acres in 7-6, consideration $1. Ezra Van Riper to Thomas Edgar, lot in Falls City; $400. Geo W Johnson and wife to Nancy E Jones, lots in West, Salem $675. v. Clarence Jory and wife to Geo W Johnson; lots in West Salem, $75. J L Blodgett and wife to E J Wees, lots in Dallas; $75. WILL BUILD BRICK Building Operations Have Started up in the City of , Independence Big Brick Block to be Erected by H. Hirschberg Opposite the First National Bank. HOT AFTER THE DEER Dr. Shaw The Penitentiary Phys ician of Salem Playing Tracy in the Woods Near Roseburg ' - . 1 --. - II. Hirschberg has decided to re place the old buildings at the cor ner of Main and Monmouth streets, with a substantial modern three story brick block. The new structure will cover the entiie corner from the opera house on Main to the alley next to the city hall on Monmouth street. The plans and specifications as pre pared by Mr. Ilirschberg's archi tect, provide for two store rooms on Main street besides a small cigar store room immediately on the corner. The remainder of the block is to be used for a- hotel. Provision is made for entrance to the office and sitting room of the hotel on Main street and also side entrance on Monmouth street. A large dining room will be in the rear of the office and readies room on the first floor. The second and - ftere are 8" eome cnolce D0P8 third floors will be used Bolely ioAm the hands of growert ,n the Inde' and bet at end upon a game of vingt-un or twenty-one which was played and dealt and carried on at said time and place by said defend, ants for their own benefit and at and on said game the plaintiff did lose the full sum of $300 in law ful money, of the United Slates of America. 'That aid plaintiff before the commencement of this action de manded of the defendant, the re turn to him of the said amount of money so lost by him as aforesaid, bnt that the said defendants have not returned or paid the time or any part thereof. "Wherefore plain lift" drmands . judgment against the defendants lor the sum of ICOO. being twice the amount so lost and for his costs and disbursements." This is the first action of the kind ever started in Polk county, and one of the few that haye been started in the state. - IN HOP CIRCLES Growers Holding Buyers Watching Is Situation With Little Now Doing. D e n t i s t p v work will never fail you. Prices most reasonable. My Bills allowed List of bills allowed by the city council at its last meeting: D. B. Boydston $ 25.00 Indep. W. & E. L. Co 103.95 M.S.Goff..... 3.25 West Side Enterprise 3.00 Coast Range Lumbering Co. 120.38 Wm. B. Barnett .40.25 R. J. Taylor 2.00 J. W. Ball 66-75 W. G.Sharman 19-1 S. Muhleman , 5.17 The above includes the extra ex pense incurred on account of the large crowds.in town during hop picking Beason. World's Fair Ratea Extended. Through the efforts of tfie Great Northern Railway, worlds rair excursion tickets will be eold on October 27, 2i, and 29, in addition to October 3, 4, and 5. For full information apply to any Great Northern agent. Dr. Shaw, physician at the Ore eon penitentiary, was nere wiin a party of friends, with whom he has been enjoying a hunt in the moun tains near ' Glendale. The rifle which Dr. Shaw had with him is the 30-30 Winchester used by Harry Tracy, the notorious Oregon convict, in his memorable flight from the penitentiary two years ago, and with which he killed eight men. The stock of- the weapon bears marks of rough usage and on one side is the letter 'H," made by the bandit with a knife during a spare moment in his flight. Roseburg Review., Dr. Shaw had only the stock of the original Tracy gun. The bar rel was thrown away or hidden by Tracy in crossing the mountaine and was replaced by the barrel of a rifle taken from a sheep herder. Tracy's object in destroying the barrel of his gun was to cover up any clue it might affordin learn ing who put the guns over the penitentiary walls. One day, while adjusting tru sight of the sheep herder's gun barrel to his stock. Tracy remarked to the farmer with whom he was stopping near Davenport, Wash., that the barrel was too short for the stock, but he had made it fit by putting on a piece of leather. This incident was related to Governor Geer by an attorney who came over trom vvasnington 10 collect the money for the parties who finally ran Tracy down. The gun having been delivered to the prison authorities, the Governor and law yer went to the penitentiary and called for it in order to see if Tracy's statement could be verified. Taking the gun apart, the piece of leather was found at the end of the barrel just as 'the desperado said. The fact that Tracy did such poor shooting at his pursuers after cross ing the mountains is also corrob orative of the statement that it was not his own gun. This explanation will also proba bly be helpful to Dr. Shaw in afford ing an excuse for bad marksman ship and bringing home no deer. Mr. and Mrs. Dick McCarter of j hotel purposes including parlors, suites and single rooms, bath, hall ways, etc. The hotel part of the building will ' have a frontage ol 148 feet on Monmouth street and there will be 64 rooms. Near the center of the block is to be left an open court so that every room will be lighted and ventilated properly. Mr. Hirschberg has had such a building in contemplation for some time but had not fully made up his mind until now to erect it. The building is directly opposite the First National Bank and will be a handsome structure. A tower similar to the one on the bank will adorn the corner of the new block. It will be a notable improvement to that part of town and qnite an addition to Independence. It will fill to some extent at least the de marid for more buildings in Inde pendence though every department can be leased before the building can be completed. V The new brick block being built by the Masons is now nearing com pletion and it will afford a hand some store room on ine grouna floor, besides rooms up Btairs.. Ce ment walk is now being put down in front of the new building and it extends also in front of the R. M. Wade store, also property of the Masons, and in front of the cream ery, property of J. M. Mitchell. Sidel Walker has let the contract for his new residence. It will be built by contractor Henton at a cost of more than $2000. It will be a handsome residence structure. F. A. Patterson has commenced the erection of his new residence. J. L. Hanna has completed his new dwelling. It adds much to the appearance of that part of town. The long delayed building opera tions in Independence have started up. Therearj other buildings in contemplation. pendence district and though there has been a little doing in the bop market the past few days little anx iety to get rid of , them is shown. Though no one can predict what the market will be in ten days, the grower with a good quality of hops feels sufficient security to take ihmgs easy until greater activity is shown. The Percival and Groves crop of 350 bales was sold a few days ago, with the understanding that the price was not to be made public. It is known however, that better than 30 cents was received. Conrad Krebs came op from Sa lem last night and is looking at samples today. C.I. Fitcbard came up from Portland today where he has been delivering hops. John Morrison is here receiving hops grown by the Chinese on tbe Krebs place- C. A. McLaughlin is look ing alter hops for Durit J. E, Kirkland is ready to buy for Car michael. John Groves iB repre senting Ottenheimer. Walter Roy, who has hops to sell came over from Dallas today. Williams, he reports, is liable to be in the mar ket again this afternoon. -The fact is there are-liable to be hop sales bv the time this issue iB out' KELSO BRINGS SUIT. Action to Recover Money Lost In Twenty-one Gome at the Gob Saloon. H. B. KoIbo, through his attor ney, Oscar Hayter, has brought civil action for the recovery of $300 alleged to have been lost at a game of vingt-un, or twenty-one in the Club saloon in Independence, on the 7th day of October. T. J. Gilpin, proprietor ofthe sa loon, Hiram Buffum, Thomas Buff urn and William Withrow are made defendants. The text of the complaint fol- Horst Bros, calculate to increas, the acreage of their already big yard by 150 acres. They have the land and it is their purpose to have it grubbed off during the win ter and set to hops in the spring. This will make them a, yard of near 500 acres and Independence will be midway between the world's two biggest single hop yards, the Krebs and Horst Bros, yards. Dave Dove has also let the con tract for grubbing 14 acres of land to be set to hops in the spring. The Young and Jones crop grown by E. M. Young and Jimmie Jones, was received by Carmichael Friday. The crop consisted of 249 bales and the price realized was 30 cents a pound. ' This sale was made on Friday of last week, but was kept secret until the hops were received. Newt Jones sold his crop to T. A. Livesley Tuesday, at 29 cents. John Groves sold his fourth of 350 bales, or 87 J bales raised on the Henry Ottenheimer place, to Mr. Ottenheimer. The price ob tained was 30 cents, and Mr. Groves gets a buying commission besides. Clarence and Mrs. Maude Ire land this week moved their house hold goods to Corvallis where they will make their residence. During Thursday Friday DR. NIHRBAS, Monmouth. Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Allin were B ne n a V' st a we re in th cityjf"'- Over Poetoffice. Saturday