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Incorporated.
MONMOUTH,
OREGON
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Jim C. IWei.i., Calii(.r.
PI4 Caplul, 100,000
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ROOSEVELT ELECTED
TranacU General Hank iK and Km;hinKe bunlne.
yi!t)!t throughout the United Huu-n nt Canada.
Drafts Bold
THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL STOCK, S50.000.00.
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DAVIDSON & HEDGES
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Fine Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies
Twenty-fifth President of U. S.
Receives Largest Vote Ever
Give Presidential Candidate
Gets All Doubtful States, Breaks Into Solid
South and Will Have 343 Votes
In Electoral College
The electoral vote as it will be
represented in the electoral college
follows:
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You art awtyt welcome.
DAVIDSON & HEDGES
C STREET
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
LIVERY, FEED AND BOARDING STABLE
x 1 W. DICKINSON, Prop.
. Good Kig .for Commercial Men a 8jK?ciltjV-
. (loot! accommodations. JIorwB well fed. rino
Horses boarded by day, week or month.
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Independence, Oregon
THE MONMOUTH LAUNDRY
H. a WHITMAN, Proctor
X? A Home Industry Institutions
GOOD WORK, PROMPT DELIVERY
OUR WATCHWORDS
WorK Called for Tuesday DeHred Saturday
Bice & Calbreath,
UNDERTAKERS '
Fine Parlors in connection. Day or night
calls promptly attended to.
Phono 131
Main -St, Independence, Ore
W. I lUCH, Knilnilinor mid Funeral Director.
MKTSCHJtM, !,
KNOWLKJ, Mgr.
Curoptan Plan Only
fl.OO $1.90 $1.00
THE IMPERIAL HOTEL CO.
SEVENTH and WASHINGTON STS.
Portland, - - fc - Oregon
SPERLING BROS.,
who handle the
Finest Butcher Stock V
in Polk County are not giving away meat,
but are selling it very cheap at their : : :
Independence Meat Market
ICLIXOltlAI, COLLKUK
ICcpllblilUlll
California 10 New Ilmupulil
(,ilnr(lo ft .New Jerwy ,.
Connecticut,.. . 7 New York . .
Delaware 8 North Dakota
Idaho aOlilo.lv,
Illinois 27 Oregon
Indiana .......15 Pentinylvania
Iowa .1.1 Rhode InIhihI ,
KariHaa lOHoutb Dakota
Mains 0 Utah
Maryland 8 Vermont
MaMMMcliiisetts. . 10 WanhlnKioa. . .
M Icblgan ...... 14 West Virginia.
MlnnoU . . . . . 11 WUnonidu ....
Missouri 18, Wyoming
Montana 3;
Nebraska 8! Total
Nevada 3!
re 4
..12
..at
4
..23
.. 4
..34
. 4
. 4
. 8
. 4
. 5
. 7
.13
. 3
343
Alabama.
Ark annas
Florida ..
Oeorela .
Kentucky 13:
IuUiana 0
Mlwlsaippl 10
Democratic
,.,,11 North Carolina 12
.... Oouth Carolina 9
..... SlTennesaee 12
..13!Texas 1H
Virginia 12
Total
.133
Though Oregon was conceded to
Roosevelt the vote was a surprise
to both republicans and democrats.
The maxium estimate was 30,000
but he is over 40,000 in the lead.
Exceeded All l'vpictatioti.
The rote for Roosevelt Tussday
exceeded all expectations. Earljr
in the evening Judge Parker, the
dotnocratio candidate wired bis
opponent:
'"The people by their votes, have
emphatically approved your ad-
miniHtration, and I congratulate
you". '
Roosevelt not only carried all
states that bud been listed as
doubtful, but broke into the "Solid
South" and carried Missouri,
along with Folk, democratic can
didate for govenor.
The plurality for the republic-
ian candidate will be in the neigh
borhood of 1,800,000. The near
est approach to thie was in 1896
When jrcKinleyTeceived a plural
ity of 850,000. Grants was the
next higest plurality 762,991, re
ceived in 1872.
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES
AND TERMS THEY HAVE 8ERVED
George Washington .... . 178997
John Adams ...,. 179701
Thomas Jefferson .... 180109
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NEWLY EQUIPPED, GAS LIGHTS, STEAM HEAT,
ALL MODERN CONVENItNUito
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PRESIDENT THEODORE K60SEVELT.
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THE VOTE IN POLK COUNTY.
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Rep. Dem.
Douglas...;.. ........ .. 52 18
Jackson........... 65 23
Salt Lake .... .1 ......... . . . 43 ; . 19
Spring Valley '. 56 22
Eola 87 32
Rickreall.... . 47 30
S. Independence : . . . , 84 45
S. Monmouth 56 19
Buena Vista. 4i ' 25
Suver... 22 11
Luckiamute ............... . 100 53
Bridgeport .... 32 15
East Dallas 139 52
McCoy...... 52 12
S. Dallas. ', 125 22
N.Independence 126 52
N. Dallas.... 79 34
Rock Creek.. . t 7 5
N.Monmouth.:...-......... 57 22
Falls City . . ......... .". . . . . . J14 17
Totals 13S4 ' 528
Pro.
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CHXKJLES WAKREN FAIRBANKS.
The indications with a few counties
yet to hear from are the state is
about 43,000 for Roosevelt. Parker
sentiment was weak in Oregon and
many rather than vote for him sup
ported Debs the Socialist candidate.
Prohibition carried in seven of
the twenty-three counuea tnai
voted on the question in Oregon.
The counties that voted dry are,
Yamhill, Benton. Gilliman, Uooe.
Tillamook, Jackson and Curry.
James Madison 180917
James Monroe 1817 25
John Q. Adams 182529
Andrew Jackson . . 1829 37
Martin VanBuren 183741
Win. II. Harrison ...... .1841
John Tyler .184145
James K. Polk .......... 1845 19
Zachary Taylor 1S49 50
Millard Fillmore 185053
Franklin Pierce. ...1853 57
James Buchanan .1857 61
OIL PROSPECTS
Oil Is Discovered in Well Being
Deepened on Monmouth
College Campus
Would Add Several Hundred Feet
To Polk's Streaming:
Blue. Ribbon.
An oil excitement has threaten
ed in this vicinity the past few days.
The Sloper Bros, in lowering the
well at the State Normal college
observed oil floating on the water
Tuesday. The presence of gas had
been noted before. Paper or any
hard substance saturated with the
oily substance, it was found burn
ed readily. The faculty of the
school and neighbors naturally be
came interested and sample bottles
were sent to Eugene and Corvalli3
for chemical analysis. ., ..
It is possible some joker poured
oil in the drill pipes, then again, i
is not at all improbable that by
boring deep enough oil would be
struck in that vicinity. The col
lege well is only two miles south
east of the well sunk by theHirsch
berg company on the Whiteatker
place. The prospect there are
promising enough that the com
pany has orderedN new machinery
and will soon be sinking another
well. ,
The rpport of the chemists on the
samples of oil forwarded is awaited
with interest. Oil experts agree '
that the indications for oil in the
vicinity of Monmouth are good.
When oil is struck a few hundred
more feet will have to be added to
Polk's blue ribbon.
Abraham Lincoln 1861 65
Andrew Jackson 18G5 69
Ulysses S. Grant 1SG9 77
Rutherford B. Hayes 187781
James A. Garfield 1S81
Chester A. Arthur. 188185
G rover Cleveland 188589
Benjamin Harrison 1889 93
Grover Cleyeland 189397
William Mckinley. ..... .1897 01
Theodore Roosevelt 1901