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ACCUSED BY GOVERNMENT
More Indictments Turned Out By The Federal Grand Jury
At Portland, In Connectiou With land Fraud
Investigations Now Pending.
Consplrrcy To Involve The United States District Attorney, F. J. Heney, In
a Scandal With Marie Ware, Inearthed and the Matter
Taken Up By Federal Grand Jury.
LIVERY, FEED AND BOARDING STABLE
I. W. DICMNdum, rrop.
Good Rigs for Commercial "Men a Specialty.
Good accommodations. Horses well fed. tine
rigi. Horses boarded by day, week or month.
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IL D. VHITMAN, Propria
j&A Homo Industry Institution
GOOD WORK. PROMPT DELIVERY
OUR WATCHWORDS
WorK CUd for Tuadr PlirTd Saturday
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Day m Night Calls Promptly atUnd
1 to Fine Parlr In Connection.
An ExpwIeuceJ Udy A-ltlant.
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. . OREGON
NEWLY EQUIPPED, GAS LIGHTS STEAM HEAT
ALL MODERN cunvmichww
On Tuesday afternoon, the Fed
eral grand jury at Portland that
for weeka hat been investigating
the conduct of Oregon's most con
spicuous public men in connection
with defrauding the government
of Hi public lands, came forward
with four new indictments.
One of the four is in effect, amen
datory of a former one charging
Senator Mitchell, Congressman
Herman. Puter. McKinUy et al
of a conspiracy, to defrauc.
The second indictment charges
Dr. W. If. Davis of Albany with
lrjury, in making nfliduvit, rela
tive to living upon, cultivating and
improving a claim taken up in
11-7.
The third indictment makes
Henry W. Miller, Frank E. Kin
cart, Martin C.Ifoge and Charles
Nickell of Medford defendants to
the charge of subornation of per
jury. They are charged with se
curing more than 100 persons to
swear falsely in taking up land
under the Umber and Jne act.
Miller and Kincart are timber lo
cators. Nickell was U. S. Land
Commissioner and Hoge is a knock
about lawyer.
The fourth indictment Is not
made public
Wednesday, the jury indicted
Senator Mitchell on another ac
count and also indicted State Sen
ator Brownell. In this indictment
Senator Mitchell is accused ot 'ac
cepting on seven different occasions
14200 from Frederiok A. Kribs for
services in inducing Binger Her
man, as Land Commissioner, to
make special and approve certain
applications for publio land and
recommending for patent lands lo
cated in the Rose burg district.
The indictment makes the
charges that in consideration of
services Kribs gave Mitchell two
checks for $500 each oo the Rose
burg bank February 13, 1902; two
checks Jane 14, 1902. for $1000
each; ene check January 4, 1904.
for $500, and one check October 8,
1904.
The indictment against Brown
ell involves lind in the same dis
trict in eastern Oregon ia which
forged applications for surveys were
made and upon which ex-Surveyor-General
Meld rum was convicted
last year.
Out of the land fraud proeecu
tions has developed a sensational
plot to involve United States Dis
trict Attorney Heney in a scandal.
Developments have been coming
to light for several days past, and
the alleged conspirators .include
many well-known Portland men,
politicians and officials. The
names of Senator John H. Mitchell
and Congressman Binger Hermann
are associated with the plot, as are
also those of Ex-United States Die
trict Attorney John H. Hall, Ex
City Detective Henry Ford, Major
Harry Rees, formerly of the
United 8tates Army, Deputy Sher
iff John Cordano, F. S. Simpson,
a saloon-keeper, and others.
The plan was to try to arrange
a clandestine meeting between Mr.
Heney and Marie Ware one of the
defendants in the the land fraud
business. Three different attempts
failed and the srrand jury has taken
up the matter of the plotters.
FHOftl THE CAPITAL
tfal tovestta. Erc;y
cell's EiilTcrRSdn
Resourcefulness ot Professor K
k Product cf;Po!k The Blue ,
Rihhcn Ccssty
0. C. T. CO'S. STEAMERS
POMONA, ALTONA, OREGONA
We Indennmlenoa for Albany
. dily, 8 P. M; for Corvallia. Mon
eys, Wednesdays, Fridays, and
Saturdays at 8 P. M.
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Independence for J"oruanu
G. A. HURLEY
Attorney at Law and
Notary Public.
Collections Promptly Made-THles
Investigated.
East Side Main Street,
Obisosi
Independence,
IMPROVING AND SPREADING
A New Pasteurizer and an Additional
Creameay Plant For The
Eldrldge Company
The Eldridge Creamery Com
pany continoaa to spread and im-
. . 1 u
Drove. Anotner cronmoijr, v mo
size of the Independence plant is
to be put in at Eugene, and a Past
eurizer has been put in and is
now in operation at the Indepen
dence creamery.
The Pasteurizer has a capacity
Jor handling 1200 pounds of cream
ner hour. It Is a modern inven
tion and is now used by up-to-date
creameries. The Pasteurizer takes
its name from Dr. , Pasteur the
celebrated French physician known
as a specialist on consumptive
Cises, loo raBicu""B "I'K"-""
consists of a tank in which cream
is heated to 180 degrees." Thence
it is cariied through a series of
copper pipes and cooled. After
going through this process all
germs are killed and left in a pure
state ready to be manufactured
into absolutely pure and whole
some butter.
The Pasteurizer is in operation
every afternoon and its work
tnmcan be seen by calling at
the Independence creamery about
3 o'clock any day in the week.
The Independence business is
till crowing and at this season
when cream is generally scarce, u
tarning out a quarter of a ton of
butter per day.
A dispatch from Eugene says:
K. C. Eldridge, owner of the well
known Eldridge creameries, at
Independence, Dayton and Jef
ferson, has been in Eugene the
last few days completing arrange
ments for establishing a big cream
ere. - He has signed a lease for a
portion of a two-story brick build
ing to be erected at once by F. L.
Chambers, banker and hardware
merchant. The new building
will be 45x80 feet in dimensions,
and will be located on Willamette
street between sixth and seventh.
The creamery will occupy the
lower floor, and the upper floor
will be divided Into living - rooms
or a lodge hall.
MEET IN DALLAS
ON TUESDAY NEXT
The Good Roads Convention
will meet at the County Court
House in Dallas at 10 o'clock next
Tuesday morning February 7. A
special motor will run from Inde
pendence, leaving here at 9 o'clock
sharp.
The road supervisors have all
been requested to be present and a
general invitation is extended to
everybody to attend.
There should be a good turnout
from this locality.
Monroe Mulkey, road supervisor
FOUND AFTER ELEVEN YEARS
Mysterious Disappearance of Jobn
Stantruf of Benton County Has
Been Solved
After eleven vears, the. bones of
John Wesley Stanturf have been
found.
John Stanturf who resided with
his family in the southern part of
Benton county, started on the
morning of January 17, 1894 to
his favorite hunting ground near
the foot of Green Peak.
Toward noon, snow began falling
and a fierce storm was on by th e
middle of the afternoon. Night
came and the hunter did-not re
tnrn. All searching proved in vain.
The first tidings that have been
heard of the missing man since
his disappearance eleven years
aco. was last Thursday when"
J.. JHawkins and Chas. Broomfield;
were looking for new trapping
grounds near what is known , , as
Honey Grove fork of the Alsea
river. The two men were attract
ed by a pile ef bones, over1 "which
two trees had fallen, so that a third
log lying across tbemcirmeci1 a
letter "A." The corofae'i 1 j Was
notified and Saturday hejventi to
the scene with a party ,fti held K1arl
Inauest. and elicited facts
dent to leave no doubt ar to the
There will be no constituional
convention at thjs time. Any
changes desired ia the organic law
of the state will have to be sought
through the initiative and referen
dum. Brownell's pet bill calling
a constitutional convention went
down Wednesday. After one of
the Clackamas orator's most per
suasive appeals, a vote was taken
but the returns showed he was
three shy. The Lewis and Clark
Fair can now be held next sum
mer without any constitutional
convention to worry the people
while entertaining easterners.
of district No. 8, makes some in
teresting remarks on roai . building:
There are seventeen miles of) '
"IfS? f:.l iiTtere BID E3 No testifr
$335 53. Poll taxes would add
about $200.00. The funds this
year will perhaps be a trifle more
than last. My views of road
grading are to grade the road
full weather center from twenty
inches to two feet higher than out
side drains. Grade nniform until
nearirg out side then dropping
out side so as to leave water sur
face about two feet below center of
road bed.
In putting on gravel, would line
up center of road and make beds to
hold gravel about seven inches
deep and seven feet wide. On
muck formation would use gravel
from two inches to five inches in
diameter as fine gravel on sucb
ground is the same as money
thrown away.
It is best to put all gravel in
beds and in center of read, for by
this plan the side surface can be
used for summer traffic thereby
saving the graveled road bed for
winter.
All grading should be done
early in the season so as to become
compact. Monroe Mulkey,
Supervisor.
One of the best kept up roads
in the county is that of the Mon
mouth district. The supervisor if
J. a. Mulkey who writes as ioi
lows: ;
''We have about fourteen miles
of road. For the year 1904 I col
lected $144 on road poll tax, from
county funds $218.70, total $362.70.
And in reeard to road work the
most important thing ia a well
drained road, and in order to drain
a road good it must be well graded
and well rounded in the center of
the grade.
Some leave the grade fiat in the
center and we have to travel all
winter . through mud and slush
from four to eight inches deep on
top of the graveL
We are in great need of a light
grader for a three horse team, so
one man can manage it alone; he
can fill up chuck holes and dress
up from six to ten miles of road
a day at a yery small expense;
also a heavy roller to pack our
grades and graveL"
Yours Respectfully,
J. H. Mulkey,
Supervisor.
, President B. F. Mulkey of the
Ashland Normal made a record
for quick action Wednesday even
ing.1 Senator Pearce was speaking
in behalf of a continuing annual
appropiation of $50,000 for nor
mal schools. In the course of his
remarks the senator mentioned
that be was the father of five child
ren himself. This remark seemed
to impress Prof. Mulkey with a
sense of loneliness. He left the
room of the ways and means com
mittee. Within five minutes he
rushed back displaying a telegram
bearing the intelligence, that there
was born to him in Ashland, the
fifth child. Senator Pearce sub
sided and the telegram broke up
the meeting of the ways and
means committee that had under
discussion the Normal echools of
the state. Mother and child are
doing well. It was in the midst of
the session of legislature two years
ago that Mrs. Mulkey presented
the Professor with his fourth son.
The claims of the four Normal
schools of the state were presented
to the ways and means oom'in'frtee
Wednesday evening. AfUff0(Jhe
Presidents of the different "Icfidbls
had spoken on the nectasittwl of
their respective echcolaUStoifftor
Pearce spoke in behalf 'of the Vaw
ter bill providing for I' ctfnifnuing
appiopiation of 150,000 a'yearcifor
normal schoolpmboseBiipiHfing
the entire amount atv ShftljdisHesal
of a board of nine regents. .gfl
Independence's dhateil isbeing
put through withoH'anJr (change
in th) old boundary liafoThia
assurance comia- fro'tniiRepweepta
tive Cooper ywh JjjaBiiUteivbm in
charge. s 2lJjv(0I jnoifJiw
Senator Petalc!MaysYcwhtt got
excused fiW! attendaSce'i Immedi
ately upo&tb' election 'of la ipiresi
dent of thesenate; !has aot; Appear
ed on the senAtfei; floori sinee.H He
left tpoJpIifnfsijanJifi ex
pected back $x?ag ,this gf aa?on of
theJegielatHrg.,! q-
Dtotagif&ndweat8jH eat the
needs of the normal schools nbef re
tb4)waya&d meinSiPitom.ittee, it
developed, $bt teachers, are ia the
em plqyi;ofgtlfe state; a $5.0(3- and
eenjasjow .aa $400 a, year A rtg
Thr'elis aJmorement fenlamong
certain Members' to have! the' legis
latttTft adj0Ufn ,unUl. September in
stead, ,,!., sine,, die aaUsuali The
purpose is. to,, give. Jhe present legis-,
lature tne opportunity to eject a
successor to Senator Irfitciieil', pro
vided the latter' loses his1 seat in
the United gtaiesnSenate:rjal
IniSho'rt sormans often, come; from
suffi4to8ed8.fJii ol s.ifo ji-Mo
RarA.vfrtn 4f'a tmn. at,: hnmhla
question of identify kf W .daadj tiotagbisi oi teu:a oiotlT
Jily, 9 A. M.