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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1904)
Th SemU Weekly IVest Side Enterprise Only $1M0 a Year. West Bide Enterprise . jJfA'KNTH YKAlt V . . . i ,t 7 INDEPJEN NOVEMBER 29,1904. NUMBER 65 "' "" "' ' ' ' iin-. i ,, - i .i i '' 11 1 " ' " ' ' " .... i . w 1. II .... M m frf . r. ry k. mTiinnn 1 11 a 11 inn ui mo - r- u K K T rtA J'morelh.n a decade and when it ine lower nouse 01 if" imhwuioi - , POLK COUNTY BANK. Incorporated. ONMOUTHf - OREGON 1 ii, Hawi ky, 1. L. Cami ukm., -. resident. Vko President Iha C. 1'owku., CftHhicr. r!4 Cli. 110,000 But! rviuK.TOM J. Hawlry, I. L. Campbell, I. M. Hiropson, J. B. V. John . Htump, J. A. WHbrow, K.8. Powell. Tranaaot General UankUg and Kxclmng buttine. Drafts sold ,TaiIbIe throughout the UniU-d Htalwi and Canada. GETTING READY Dynamite Explosions Betoken An Increase Hop Acreage Next Year .... I 1 reticles at th puce ana nmiwm, . , ; engaged in the hop bu-iinesi, Merely Doom rona wmpiw. Puhu. THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK OAITTAIj STOCK, S50.000.00. itlRMllItFUU, f"riidVC" " AhKAM KEI-SOX, Vice Presides H UlB C. W. IKVISK. Cashier. P1RKCT0UH.-H. llMMi7w. W B?f: SmIU., J. P. Mode and , iyBklB'andiiiaci trammeled. I-oam mtide. Bill f I JXZ I- cS r&l erlliu aflat!. lliu on eam-ot account r- m m m Ji DAVIDSON & HEDGES lUuArUr For Fine Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies , . lu- ..rfrf- cck Sod Fountain for lb bot 4ty. DAVIDSON & HEDGES cxpfft INDEPENDENCE, OREGON J LIVERY, FEED AND BOARDING STABLE ' I W. DICKINSON, Prop. Good Rigs for Commercial Men a SPfJ - Good accommodations Horns well r pT Hone, boarded by day, week or month. Telephone iVo. 29.7 Independence, Oregon THE MONMOUJJAUNDRY H. D, HTTMAT V Proprietor A Home Indu.trr Institutions tn WATCHWORDS WorH Call- for T..-r D.llv.r.d 3atrd Bice & Calbreath, UNDERTAKERS Fine Parlors in connection Day or night calls promptly attended to. l'hone 131 Main St; Independence, Ore ,.. a Funeral Director. W. I RICK, ." t MMTJCMJIM, r C W. KHOWLKJ, Mgr. 0I.OO 91. SO " THE IMPERIAL HOTEL CO. . WASHINGTON 3- PORTLAND. 5PERLING BROS., who hndla i- Fmwr Butcher Stock meat. but are teuw - , .r. r-Mc Meat Market impc'" NFW1Y EQUIPPED, GAS LIGHTS, STEAM HEAT, -NEWLY tguHTtu, on .nNVfNIENCt8 ALL Muucnn csptured the nemocratio party re- Enongh Dynamite In ThU Vicinity to Shake Old Oregon At She Was Ncrer Shaken Before 1 There baa been enough dyna mite No. 2 distributed from Inde- tenderiod tbia fall to level the now-crowned peaks of the Caa- cade mountains and blow western Oregon Into the Pacific ocean. The purpo.e to which the un usually large quantities of this ex. ploolvo is beinu uut, is the blowing out of stump in the clearing of linn land. The tuft enKu hna r demonstrated that he Willunietie river bottoms are the choice hop lands. Id order to Bet some of the best of these lands in readiness for a crop next year, trees and stumps must be removed and with the ex ception of a few stump pullers now at work in this vicinity, the u of dynamite generally has been adopted. Two and a half tons have been sold through Huston & Simon, and the R. M. Wade hardware store has disposed of over a too and a half. On account of the danger at-, tendina the handling of. th ex plosive, the Wade stores have- de clined to handje it direct npr do fluston 4 Simon allow it stored at their place of business awe the disaster near here to young Baker and MoCabe last spring. The hop men merely order it throngn the local firms and the purchaser oulred to reoeiva 'it 't the depot The railroad company, aa if referr- nir all Doseible disasters to a cer tain day of the week, ships dyna mite to this station only on n- days. On no other day of the week can it be had. Amon the heavy users of dyna mite this fall are the Krebs Bros., R. Cooper, John Burton, W. J. Steele, R. D. Cooper, Dave Dove and Horet Bros. Only a few days . isnn nnntainins a ton of dynamite besides cape, was driven tfcmnirh town, me avnamne was protected from sudden jar by straw, and tbere was no. misnap, ete there would he none left to tell the tale. The report or blasts is, ire nnnt in this locality, suggesting the bombardment. of Port Arthur or recalling the accidental explos inn lust snrine. Some very heavy charees are used, particularly on th Krebs ranch where the dyna miters sometimes find it necessary mi t in 30 to 40 rounds to blow .... . .:mu iinmn. The Drice of QUb Ding w v t" j nhniit 14 cents a and the amount useu on single stump sometimes costs $5 to til T. was while thawing out dyna mite preparatory to blasting out .t.nmna that Curtis Baker and Gil bert McCabe blew themselves into -amitw on the 3rd of last March They had about 100 pounds of the explosive and its dweharge snooa tha rth for miles arouna. i , w rt.iiaa m Pnrrvdale. 13 leu i" w""""! awrv. and at McCoy 18 miles III1IV1 J ' Northwest. At Rickreall b north, window lights were Iliaava - - broken out and at Salem and other anross the river, the con cussion was felt. The limbs of the ..r..,r.itA vnnni? men ere torn UUW""""-" J .cr.A thir bodies otherwise mu UU . - r,A blown several rods UittkCU. nr. vnwinir this disaster tnere was i .anti'mont in favor 01 a geuoi - wi.lation regulating the use of explosives and none were more .,n.iin their aeeire ior law requiring handlers of dynamite to obtain license, from eome com petent authority, than the . hop men. A law of prevention it of nc- avail after the thing to be tvoiaea and he may be depended upon to prepare and put through a meas ure of public safety. leading aMerry t'liaae Wylie Williams of the Alrlie neighborhood has been leading Henry Bruer. carpenter at the re form school a merry chase. Will iams and another boy took French leave of the school several days ago. Farmer Loonev, superintendent of the Reform School, dispatched Mr. Bruer to Airlle, where William formerly lived. Mr. Uruer could hear of his quarry in various places bot when he arrived the tad was core. The lielorm &cnooi ouicer came to believe aid was Outlet For Logs From Coast Range Logs Loaded at Falls City May Be Dumped in River Here Without Change of Cars A preliminary urvey, prej ara- tory to the building of a boom pond to receive logs from the gravel bar spur of the S. P. Railroad has been completed. The survey was made by Mr. Haneon a civil engineer in the employe ff the Southern I'nci fic. It provides for taking water from the Willamrtt" river about a mile , s 'und a ntiiirter above town and, f.l being . . ' , ,... extended the boy. Saturday he cam into Monmouth with a boy handcuffed, convinced the captured boy had been lending aid to Will iams. Not a word' of information would the boy give op nor confess he was party to aiding Williams and Mr. Bruer released him. 'We have met the enemv," says the Laddonia (Mo.) Herald (Dem.) "and we are their meat Nine congressman, the state ticket., tbe state legislature, a United States senator, eighteen electors and two judges of tbe court of appeals. TICKET NAMED Strong Ticket For Gty Offices Named at Gtizens Meeting Last , Night , Ail Ready ForGty Election To Be Held in Independence Monday . Next T: For Mayor . W. A. MESSNJBU v Couneilmen ' J. R. CRAVEN, ' AUGUST SPERLIJiG W. W. PERCIVAL W. 11. WALKER C. D. CALBREATH Recorder W. G. 8HARMAN r- Marshal CD. WALKER Tha above ticker is the result of a citizens meeting held in the city hall laBt night for the puTpose ot nominating caudidates for city offi ces. . . The city hall was crowded .with voters and spectators, J. W. Kirk- land called the meeting to oraer and acted as chairman, U. L. Fra- zer served as secretary, and VV ill ?om Pamnbell assistant The tell ers were Joseph Hubbard and John Bohanon. W. A. Messner was the only name presented for mayor and he was nominated by acclamation. The rest of tbe ticket was selected by ballot The ticket is considered a strong one, made up as it is of sepresenta tive men. Th firat three named for coun eilmen, Craven. Sperling ( and Per- civai are dominated to serve iwo years each; the last two, Walker and Calbreath to serve one year each. ! Ion-ins the roiir of th slough passes under the elvatd portion of tbe gravel bar spur and under tbe bridge on C street thence on into the river again. Mr Hanson thinks the plan a very feasible one. The expense entailed will not be groat as the work will consist most Iv of deepening the old slough channel, widening it at a point near where it passes under the railroad. With this boom pond constructed, timber loaded on the cars at Falls City can be dumped into the river here without a change of , cars. This simple con trivance in connection with the newly built gravel bar switch of the Southern Pacific, will afford an outlet for timber that has been readv for the markets fo years The spruce, larch, hemlock and softer woods can be dumped into the river here and they will float ihamMTM to the Duln mills at rMrnn Civ The new mill to be erected here will also be enabled to eet logs by rail aa well as water. DoutyA Simpson have been get- tin their Iobb by water, but witb r w the new boom, pond comjustea there will be added a new source of iuodIv and they will haya double iutnnrance of never running out of f.rVr mint be a very weak man for it does seem, to me any man who is a candidate and re fuses to liive hia views upon the party's policies and principles ia little short of an idiot; and mo who nominate such a man is It. But what of the party's future? The party is now in the hands of the conservativep. (so-called) and with their plutocratic ingenuity it is no easy matter to drive the money changers from the temple; and where it's done thy a'e in position to greatly aid tbe enemy ! as heretofore. Therefore, I am in serious doubt of tbe Bryan plan of reclaiming and re-organizing the party. While the juemocraue party is a name dear to many and they would regret to-ast it a,side for some other, yet under present conditions it would he bet ter to do so. I shall not be sur prised to see the Democracy rally ing under some new name and all opposed to the special-privilege clawp. The trufta and plutocracy will join this new party and the people will see more clearly than for many years which is tneir party, and for good government I predict that four years more of Republican rule will bring trouble both domestic and foreign; trouble within the party and outside it This will bring on the most im portant, exciting, bitter and hard CnnnVifc nmaiH pti in 1 camnaisn in WUfLU, .---r A o i our biBtory. : The people will pre vail under this new name and the old ship of atate will once more sail aright and the people will again sing the songs our Pilgrim Fathers sang, and the Declaration of Independence will be a bound volume in every home. D. W. Sear. NEW PARTY, MAYBE P. W. Sears, Democratic Warhorae of Polk Gives View on Outlook For Democracy Editor West Side Enterprise: The election returns show tnai Democrats refused to support their national ticket and that they either stayed at home or voted some other ticket. The vole for Rooseyelt is but little if any more than the strength of the Republican party; hence there was no great numter of democrats that voted for him. It was plain to he seen shortly after the St. Louis convention that the rank and file would repudiate the convention's action and it is to their honor and credit they did so forcibly. There had been a hard and determined fight for the last four years by the Cleveland plu tocracy faction for control ot the party. There had been money, de- it and trickery used by them in every otate and they succeeded in getting control of the convention which they conducted on tne any thing-to- get- campaign- funds- and- votea plan. But the dishonesty and insincerity of that faction of leaders were so plain and bold that nnnnle could have no faith in them. Had it not been for Bryan and his rolleaeues forcing a compromise platform, I don't think they would have done much , better, than the Paimer-Buckner ticket There is ground lor suspicion that this tick et was put out for the same pur pose to wit: To elect the Repub lican candidate. Mmt republicans all over the i - ; country upheld and talked lor tne 20 Per cent is Not Bad . That twenty per cent and more can be made, on Polk county hop land without turning a hand to till the soil is demonstrated by H. W. Murphy. He purchased 214 acres of the G. A. Wells place for $10,000. H has leased the hop yard of which there is about 28 acres, for $2000 a year which yields ' him 20 per cent and he still has the great er part of the farm left. With onlv 40 acres in hops the pas season Mr. Wells' crop brought him $14,000 at 28 J cents tor his hops. pound avail alter me vuiu8 rtannfl has happened. Fortunately in this a salary of $8,000. A Cabinet of Young- Men Appearances indicate that the intends to have a Cabi- net of comparatively young men. The rumor that Senator Spooner would be made Attorney , General may be disposed of by the fact that that position has been offered to Ex-Governor Black of New York. . 1 .. Sa wnrtVi Knt aS 01S JW ymv i ; . , b.bl. th.t b. .ill Uk. lb. pl. j T- Wong Poo Git Weng Foo Git is a happy China man. 118 nappiness Bpnuo the promise of his father that h may cut his queue off next month. Wone Foo Git is the eleven year old son of Wang Sing proprietor of the Independence Restaurant ex cept on rush occassions Wong Foo Git is the head waiter. .Possessed of all the prankish nature of a boy of bis age and able to speak only broken English he is not only a waiter but entertainer of the res taurant guests. Since Thanks giving the restaurant is out of printed menu cards and it is gooa for digestion to hear the young Chinaman call off the bill of fare-v "You catch em beef steak, you catch em fly chicken." An order given and Foo is off for the kitchen going through a cake walk perform ance with his pig tail almost touch ing the floor. The little fellow has Kfin working from 9 o'clock in the morning till two and three o clock in the morning. He is very anxious to enter school and bas importuned guests to intercede with his father until : Sing has finally told Foo that he may cut on his queue and start to school. He will also cast eff his CbiDeee costume and, what is perplexinjr. Foo now is whether to put on long or knee pants.