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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1905)
U!t$t Side enterprise WALTER LYON, Kditoh Enlrrd l lmti.1cno, Or., KMtoRIc aravnuivWIifUMi uiniivr Subscrption, $1.50 Per Year TKI.KHHOXK S4. Kl'HSCmiTlON' IIATK " istrloiiy In advmic) p.r 7wr 1 W Hit month TS ttiuil wnr K!lu( notleci IO,vnU prlUi;lrwlKlit. Hutoaon rlpiay advertising niiul known en application . The Salcra Statesman ob serves the KussoJananeso war is hurting the Hour trade of Sa lem as the mill at the Capital . City caunot export to either of these oriental countries now liut when lue war is over, pre dicts the Statesman, this section of '.country will raise more wheat and Salem's flouring mills will be kept going. The Statesman's prophet is certainly not keeping very closely in touch with the trend of events. The Willam ette valley will not raise more wheat. It would be more near ly correct to say it will raise less. Dairying, fruit and stock raising and diversified farming are taking the place of wheat raising in the Willamette valley. Dairying especially, is growing at a rapid rate in this valley and as dairying, hop growing and other industries increase, wheat raising decreases. It is better so. In diversified farm ing lies the future greatness of this valley. It is not in wheat State University. raising. Nature intended the plateaus of eastern Oregon, Washington and Idaho for wheat raising, and the Willam ette valley and hut few other sections can compete with them in the production of wheat. Nature likewise intended the Willamette valley for diversified farming and few other localities, the world over cau compete with it. As to wheat raising, that industry has seen its best days in thi3 valley. Farmers have : learned that it does not pay to wear the land out trying to raise wheat in competition with the country east of the Cascade mountains. The future picture of the Willamette valley is more correctly described as one great dairy farm rather than as an endless wheat field. Laws passed by the present legislature, and bills likely to Wcomo laws arc herewith sot forth strictly 'local luws Jbeing omitted: - 8ltiXKIHY tiOVKKN'Olt Miller To abolish health :llcos at Astoria, Itordncr, Coos Bay and Yaj'iina. ' " ' Smith To establish '.Third Eastern Orcgou Agricultural Society and appropriate money t'lerefor. Croisnn To reimburse the common-school fund for money loaned the State Agricultural Society. Tut tie To repeal section if code relating to Mark bass. Croisan--To reimburse Mrs. Mary Nibler for meals and lodging to members of Companies V and II, O. N. G., while in pursuit of Tracy and Merrill. pierccL.To amend code so that cities may condemn land for levees. Pierce To authorize transfer of estates in guardianship from one county to another. Croisan To authorize state to purchase lands to enclose monument erected to Old Chanipoeg, Marion county. pierce To empower executors and administrators t exe cute deeds in certain cases. Sichel To prohibit counterfeiting of railroad tickets. Malarkey To amend code defining larceny. . Nottingham To amend code relating to transfer of stocks of goods. Steiner To cede lake lands in Klamath and Lake counties to National Government. Richie To regulate State Library. Newell To appropriate $2.r00 for agricultural institutes. Bingham To extend to all municipalities street and sewer bonding act. Yawter To appropriate $133,000"for expenses of legisla live session, and for claims and deficiencies. BILLS J'ASSED nOTH HorSKS Croisan To guarantee attorneys two hours in addressing juries. Loughary To authorize district boundary boards to con demn lands for school uses. Booth To establish testing plant for timber and J stone at ! R. M. WADE &, Exclusive Agents For American TiEbD fecial 1'iuvH for LnrK" )antitu't. ABEWU SWraB. CO. Pence iiia.ai. 1 Z-ii t4 1 -f-rr-.i tat&EAs tVCRf HOD OUAMNTCCO Independence was honored Sunday with a visit from Dr. E. P. Hill, pastor of the Presby terian church of Portland. Dr. Hill is one of the ablest men in the ministry of Oregon. He delivered a sermon in the opera house Sunday evening and the hall was packed to its limit. The audience was deeply im pressed with the discourse a number signifying their inten tion to lead purer lives. Dr. Hill's sermon was a fitting cli max to the series of revival meetings that are being con ducted here. Rev. Snyder, as sisted by Mr. Soper, is continu ing the meetings this week. These meetings are a part of a general program which contem plates . simultaneous meetings all over the state to wind up with a general crusade in Fort- land on the 22nd of March The meetings here are being successfully conducted. Malarkey To increase penalty for train, robbery. - Miller To require teachers to give oO days notice of resig nation. Malarkey To authorize Lewis and Clark Fair to condemn private property. Croisan To establish amount of tare allowed on hops. Miller To authorize experimental highways. pjeree To appropiiate 125,000 for maintaining portage railway. Pierce To create Fourth Eastern Oregon Agricultural So ciety and reorganize First District Eastern Oregon Society. Vawter To authorize State Land Board to execute certain papers without acknowledgment. ' Linthicum To create State Library Commission. McLeod To appropriate $23,000 for salmon hatcheries. Jaggar To authorize County Courts to appropriate land for road uses. Vawter To authorize state to condemn land and water for state institutions." Burns of Clatsop To prohibit driving of salmon from pro tected waters. Mayger To protect riparian owners on Columbia against fish traps and other abuses of their riparian rights. ., Mayger To punish casting of lumber waste into streams. Bailey To extend term of present Labor Commission from July 1, 1906, to January, 1907. Mayger To abolish fishery bounty fund. Mayger To change time of Lewis and Clark Fair. Graham To pay Susan E. Jones, Edna Tiffany and Cylvia E. Ferrell, each $1000. Burns of Coos To increase license of salmon-fishing gear, canneries and cold-storage plants. Charter bills for Wasco, Ashland, Medford (withdrawn), Gresham, St Helens, Island City, Mount Angel, Jefferson, Tur ner, Springfield, Milwaukee, John Day, McMinnville, lone, Cor nelius, Seaside, Newport, Adams. There were also up to yesterday, the Gth inst, twenty senate bills on third reading in the house and sixteen House bills on third reading in the senate. JWade of the best Galvanized-Bcssinpcr Steel Wire. It is the most uniform fence. Has patent fpinqe staywires. ONCE PROPERIiY STRETCH ED Ali WAYS STRETCHED We poll for on Price, CASH ONLY, hence enn mk the Lmvi-Mt figure, Quality and Weight considered. INDEPENDENCE J. R. CRAVEN OKEGON MANAGER. EVERYBODY'S COLUMN For Rate. 'Root, Wanted or similar notliwsture Hum in (III cuiiimu, lectin: one month 74 cbiiu. FOR SALE Fnh milk cow. Enquire of C. E Tedrow, three miles south of Monmouth. FOR SALE Hop yard imple ment; Reversible Improved dine, sacks and baskets. Call on Saw Irvine. WANTED Half a dozen good men to worfc at the Krelw hop ranch Enquire of Krebs Broa. FOR SALE Good dry red fir. delivered at your door at 1.1.50 a cord. Call on John Burton. FOR SALE W. T. Haley, Inde pendence, baa a few nice young full blood Blue Andilusian roont- era. price 1 1 .00 each. WANTED Young horse, to weigh about 1250 pounds, gentle, not over seven years old. W. W. Black, Indepsndence, Oregon. STRAY HOG A plack barrow, weight about 125 lbs., no marks. Owner call at L. E. Stapleioo's farm. FOR SALE Clover and cheat bay. Address or call on W. S. Campbell, Monmouth. Mrs. L. G. Chipman, represent ing the Via vi system of treatment, Is in the city and has rooms with Mrs. W. Q. Creasy. Mrs. CUp- man will be pleased to meet all the adies who are interested in this system. Wben bilious take Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by all druggists A race cou.se and riding club are matters to consider before the flowers bloom again. The telephone corporations are getting busy around Inde pendence. The more miles of wire stretched and connections maae me ueuci ywm them. The Good Roads Convention in session at Dallas today should be productive of good. Whether a definite policy is determined upon or not, it will have the effect to awaken interest in the subject and good will result from the exchange of ideas. A band marched through In dependence's streets yesterday in extended order and the play ers never got their feel muddy. Po your work today as well as you can, and be kind. KUENA VISTA Mrs. C. E. Harmon and Mrs. Gobat are visiting their sister Mrs. Cryderman at Falls City this week, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and daughter were In Independence Friday. The school entertainment which was given Friday nigbt was a suc cess in every way. lae proceeds amounted to $10.00. t Ibe band boys wiu give a con cert and basket social Thursday night. Come one come all and have a good time. Contracted Clironle Diarrhoea While In the I'ulllpplncs. "While with tie U.S. Army In the Philippines, I contracted chronic diar rhoea. 1 suffered severely from this terrlahle disease for over three years and tried the prescriptions of numer ous physicians, but found nothing that did me any good until I tried Chamberlain's , Colio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, two small bottles of which entirely cured me and I have since had no return of the disease. " Herman Stela, 212 N. Union Ave., Pueblo, Colorado. For sale by P. M. Kirkland the druggist. How to Avoid 1'iieumonla. We have never heard of a simile Instance of a cold resulting In Pneum nla or other lung trouble wben Foley's Honey and Tar has been taken. It not only stops the cough, but hai and strengthens the lungs. Ask fur Foley's Honey and Tar and refuse any substitute offered. Dr. C. J. Blubop of Agnew, MIhcI)., writes: "I have ued Foley's Honey and Tar in three very severe canes of pneumonia with good result in every caxe." Sold by A. 8. Locke. DE. NEHRBAS INTODENCE OHM QVM IMBOTTE NATIONAL BANK c3 MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY Reliable Work Dental At Most Reasonable Prices war ma 1I.IX.JA3PERS0N Undertaker, Euibalmer, and Faoeral Dlreotor. Lady Assistant wben Desired. INDEPENDENCE . - . OREGON C. D. CIcvcncjcr The Independence HHQJlMAKEIt H polled Her itaauty HarrUH Howard, of 209 W. 34th New York, at one time bad nor beauty polled wlib skin trouble. Htis writes: "I had Halt JUieutu or Kcxeiua fur years, but nothing would curs It, until I( used Jiucklen'a Arnica Halve." A quick and sure healer for outs, burns and sort 25o at A. 8. Locks's drug store. , W. G. SHARMAN, Merchant Tailor Rank Building, Indki'B.ndk.ncr, Okboo. W.B ALLIN D.D.S. ...Dentist... Paloleu Extraction BpMlally. Cooper Bulldinf, Iadept ilanea, Or ami JlKVAJIlim motor line v CarrteH the Ctle- TIMETABLE. '"''' INDEPENDENCE & MONMOUTH . Coggers fl$be$to$ Rand made JAY.?. . . lMifi fndrin t Imm Alrlla f sHnFQ dinHi nr Mim- i Moumoiilli ' J I I W U O mouth and Alrll inlrpniitno. Hone Better S.Wpllil! I-U9 p. III.". 1vm1W lfTf.ThlMaS tmin fnr Mini' Monmouln ifGL Hawkins t' "gftT V . i lfi j !. Monmoulh hfi Wl Dallas, Ore. L'vra Monmouth for Jndip.mdeoo 2 "" rwi'tl ' for Alrll. ! :). m. Mm Granite j' rKtl OSCAR HAYTER, " W&l Attorney-at-Law.' i , f " CAMPBELL BUILDING, thickens For Sale Dallas, oregox. Hndotti-n. l..r. gain if sold tl.it month. Mrs. W.LBice. INDEPE.VDE.NXE OREGON. HOM ICR LODQ E No & K of F Meet evrry Wed. night In Mlu hell Hall. Artlr Moore, C Is J. W. Hicliardson. K. of It and 8.