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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1905)
t ,M. l!iM'l,in TWICE A WGLSIC INDKI'KNDKNCK, l'Ol.K COUNTY, 0HK(iON, OCTOIJKH 17. 1005. NUMB I'll 41 TWiXTH YKAU. West Side POLK COUNTY BANK . MONMOUTH, OREGON. PAID CAPITAL $30,000.00 Trmui'U a araeral Unking t.u.lon. made, Drafts ld. Capful and courteous IVx.l( rrrrlved, I'o iUriitloii given all nocuutiU. Orru i tm iau Iiiiic.th J. II. Hawly, Pre.., IM.. OmpMI, VI. Pre.., Ira V. Vome), C.Mr J. J I. V. HutWr, K. . PowHI, J. II. Htump, J. A. Wlll.row, I. M. HlmpwHi. THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL OOK,SBO,000.00. II 1IIR8IIBEKQ, Prwident. Pfli ICS WINNINfiS " -uVS I ULIl U II llUlllllIU p,own , IUJU. C0!!rClj01 of frg V teUUSf, honorable ojbuiIoo; Jo Honorable Mention, fetii XtirZ M Diplomas BroagM itillT'v ETtiZZZ Ifftma Fmn FIf l.norble mention; Wm. Finjua, IIUlliC IlUltl Kill JVker. fruits ...I vi-nubl-a. bronie medal; I) 8 t!i!!ia;, I li , tweet corn. honorable mention: i ' i. jnn , wen raietn, imioni honorable mention; J Jones, Inde pendence, walnut, bronte medal; A Verder, Salmi, tihrrr i, brunw medal; P Kurre, Parknr Station, egetahW, honmable mention; V 8 Martin, Monmouth, potatoes, honorable mention; II II Fragillo, tjalem, vegetable, honorable men tion; K Wolfe, FalU City, veg etable, hohorable mention. ills! from ftilch May U Selected Folk County Candidates for ttie Next Oregon Legislature Nine hundred and nlnty styen aaardw including 104 gold, lr'3 ilver ami 84S bronxe medal and 3'.2 honorable mention diplomas, in lh showir a mads by the atate ol Oregon at the Lewis and Cleik Fair. The official lit of awards re- C. W.IRVINE, Cahir. DIRECTORS. II. Ilirschtwrg, D. W. M-arn, B. K. Smith, A. helaoil. J. E. Rhodes and A Mocral banklnf and eidianK baaineao transacted. Ioana made. Bl'! dZZ b Commercial cmliU granted. Depoal mUxl on eorrenl account object to check. DAVIDSON & HEDGES Headquarter For Fine- Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies Pipes la tadltm variety from cob to bikr-root and final Mnchum. Soda Fountain lot th hot days. You ar awayi welcome. DAVIDSON & HEDGES C STREET INDEPENDENCE, OREGON! LIVERY, FEED AND BOARDING STABLE -I. W.- ptoivmocmrTTgpr- Good Bigs for Commercial, Men a Specialty. Good accommodations. Horses well fed. ine Horsea boarded by day, wee Independence, Oregon rigs. fW f a k h AM J THE MONMOUTH LAUNDRY H. D. WHITMAN, rropntior & A Home Industry Institution GOOD WORK, PROMPT DELIVERY , OUR WATCHWORDS Wort Called forTue.day Delivered S.ttird.r UNDE R T A K I N G Day or 'Night Calls Promptly ulteud " ' ' t ed to. Fine Parlor In Connection. An Experienced. Lady Assistant. ' Phone, main 27$ " RJ 461 w L. BICE, Embalnier and Funeral Director. Ltuaed by Oregon Bute Board of Health, INDEPENDENCE BICE CflLPREdTH OREGON fidlowa: Ilfnry Alfxandr, Ilpthfl, fruit, hronie uifdal; C P Anderson, Highland. Hartlett jx'ars, honor able mention; II Putz. Dallas, cherries and prunes, gold medal; E Beeeley, Falls City, strawberries, honorable mention; Mrs. James Cooper. Independence, fruit nd vegetables, brotie medal; Ed Coad, Dallas, fruit and vegetables, honorable mention; E Clark, Hick reall, plums, honorable mention; Henry Campbell, Dallas. Italian prunes, silver medal; Isaao Dicks, Polk Station, fruit, honorable mention. H Alexander, Bethel, Bartlett pears, honorable mention; T J Fryer, Independence, collect ion of cherries, honorable , mention; Frank Fawk, Oak Grove, fruit, honorabla mention; William Fuqua Parker. Damson plums, bronze SOUTHERN OREGON ON REMOVAL OF CAPITAL To be serious about the proposed removal of the capital u Portland, there cannot be the least doubt that plenty of signers can be bad under the initiative law to get ft vote on it, just as the same thing can be done to have a vote of a bounty of two-bits paid on every coou skin or jack-rabbit scalp taken in the state, and there would be lots of votes for both proposi tions. The initiative and referen dum law is a wouderfully accom modating measure when It works to suit you. But it don t always do that and Portland will find that out in some bitter experience yet. Salem is a kind of under dog iu DALLASJBOBBERY Two Saloons end a Sfsre Burglarized Thursday Kerning Snifters Tretcd Ten 3rd Indepen dence and all Trace Lost. Kaf tricirc Heavies! loser Thursday innming a well plan ned robbery w ctrrifd out at Dallas in which' two scloons ar.d one store were robbed of about 12:20 in oath. Matthew' saloon was the heavii-ft lof t-r about I NO Iwinj; tccurfil fro;n it. ?h-riir Ford hit bad two deputies on the track of a couplf of men who had been at Dalhtu a! I of YVrdn-wday and who were suspected ai the parti- who commuted tne robb-rv. Thv had ben traced to Independence -but all track was lost of. throi her . It is thought possible one of them took the 11 o'clocc train Thursday morning toward Corvallis. The parties were well acquainted with the arrangements in the dif furent saloons at pallaa and must have been there for some time. They broke in the big plate windows in order to make their entrance. A FULL FLEDGED PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER the paper war with Portland and I'arxer, uannon p-unm, uiuu j i vi i. n..j... q.lom l i thre are many onlookers who will medal: Vlo la (jarrtner. raiern. ,coi- . J ' ' , i combatants iiiiJli,,J'U-WMU., tion; Mr. Gregg, ISalston, appies, NEWLY EQUIPPED, GAS LIGHTS, STEAM HEAT ALL MODERN CONVENIENCE 3. Conner, Proprietor Oregon Little Pa Special Mention to Commercial Trade Neat Rooms, Carf ally Supplied Tables - T. DONOVAN, Prop. . Oregon. Independtnce, . & honorable mention; IE Guthrie, Monmouth, fruit, honorable men tion; William Gorbut, Dallas, frnit. bronze medal; Mr. Gausence,. Mon mouth. Balwin apples, honorable mention; A B Gibson, Salem, plume, silver medal; Robert Howe, Dallas, fruit and vegetables, gold medal; J R Haselton, Independen ce, fruit and vegetables, silver medal, W T Haley, Independence, fruit, honorable mention; D Hedges Independence, peaches, silver med al; Hugh Hayes", Dallas, silver prunes, bronze medal; Mrs E H Hibbard. Dallas, fruit and vegeta bles, honorable mention; May Jordan, Oak Grove, apples, honor rble mention; J B Knowles, Dallas, vegetables, bronze medal; D L Keyt, Perrydale, prunes, honorable mention; S. P. Kimball, Dallas, silver prunes, bronze medal; H Mott, Independence, fruit and J vegetables, honorable mention; Mr. McAleonthany, Snlem, Bart lett pears, gold, medal; George. Mc Laughlin, Buena Vista, apples, honorable mention; J B Nun, Dallas, fruit and vegetables, gold medal; C D Narion, Balaton, fruit, honorable mention; H S Plumer, Dallas, fruit and vegetables, Honor able mention; C L Parker,- Dallas, collection of frail, bronze medal; Ruth Ruble, Salem, fruit and nuts, bronze medal; George Rockliff, Dallas, fruit and vegetables,' honor able mention; George Rogers, Monmouth, peaches, bronze medal; Cassis Stumps Monmouth, figs, honorable mention; O M Sanford, Independence, -Italian prunes, Bilver medal; P Traglio, West Salem, erapes, honorable mention; Frank Feiala, Salem peaches and vegetables, bronse medal; Mr ver onlar. Salem, berries and cherries, honorable mention: Belle Wolfe, collection of berries, bronze medal; Mrs. F A Wolfe. Falls City, fruit tohlpft. ftilver medal: C P t li va v v j - - Wells, Buena Vista, fruit; and vegetables, honorable mention; N I Wise, Perrydale, apples, honor able mention; J West, Salem, col lection of prunes, bronze medal; com Datamu riUZiJ,J2 'UKlmUiZ but they will not go so far they cannot unite later and may again try to do up the rest of the state under the leadership of a demagog ic governor and Editor Scott in damaging the system of public education and paralyzing the state government, so that it cannot pay its honest debts to JSormal school teachers, as is the case now. Not "everyone knows that Portland is the central point of Oregon." It is less so than Salem, . but both are out of the way and expensive to reach, for most of the state. For the. reasons stated by The Ore gonian as warranting a removal of the capital, when the Btate has the railroads that are sure to be built and with the help of irrigation has acquiied a large population, the capital will be moved to Prineville or some other point really central as to the whole state. That time is a lone way off and in the mean time, if Salem desires protection from Portland, and she needs the help of yotes. let her- square her self with the re6t of the state as to several mattetsv notably in helping to nlace the state in a position to pay its debts and giving reasonable and liberal sapport to the state's educational institutions as they are now located. ABhland Tidings. The Presbytery of Willamette met at Spring Valley on Tuesday evening the 24, to ordain Mr. W. W. Edmondson, who is eo well known in this city. He passed - a amfnalion-"'beforrthe Presbytery, j The church at Spring Valley gave him a unanimous call to the . pastorate of that church, and he j was installed pastor in the presence j of a very large congregation that assembled on that occasion. TheJ bxercises were intensely interesting. Rev. T. B. Griswold of Albany, the Moderator of the Presbytery presided. Rev. W. 8. Burch of Cor- vallis preached the sermon and Rev. Dr. Thompson of this city offered the prayer of ordination. The charge to the pastor was given by Rev. I. Q. Knotts of Albany and the charge to the people, by Rev. Dr. Holt of Portland. " Most excellent musio was provided by a choir from Salem. Rev. Mr. Edmond6on has been eminently successful in his work in that field and is greatly esteemed by the entire congregation and communi- ty- ' An aut'ifnuii !! h h ptm it try i r g to gtl iraJichife lo j ' at in Stlnti following iu.uifduf'--ly lh imprtT-.-ment in U ? of a n buiHipK nd laylrg ol wires undtr groju l by Pjrif'o Ftatea. Thrc i very tin latiifiClory in th Capital City. Maiden i:iT.rt ' The Central Oregon F ar" is lh name of a new paper launched at Fonfil thin" w k . Follow iii!? isone of its rtlVt: A stranger at Condun Hik ing at the bill, after having used the long distance telephone. "Why, in Portland, ' he iJ, "yoa could telephone to h tor Cfly cents. "leu," anf wired the op eratur, "but that's in the city litn-iU" Tute lMk Ulit Dry Out Water and Fortet publi bed by the California Water and Foretl Asiriatioti prints an article de scriptive of the Klamath Basin ir rigation project iu w hich it is 'e lated that upper Klamath lake is all in Oregon, covering an area of 57,000 acres and its outlet is Link river 1 1 Kiamalh Kalis, with a fall of 56 feet in 11 miles to Lako Ewawna, thence into Klamath river. Little Klamath lake is on the boundary line raoefly ia California, fed from Klamath river by a channel through which water flows at flood season, tod returns again at low water to the Klamath, Little Klamath covers an area of 30,0X1 acres, nd the marginal swamps about 50,000 acres. Tula lake is . nearly ell in California, covering 50,000 acres and ban no outlet. Clear lake further east is mostly in Modoc county, and is to be a storage reservoir,, while Tula lake, left without supply by diver- fy fifiet z2 fati ZaJLlx. feet per year. The Autumn Hat You can't help feeling interested, no matter what vour position life, in the tilt oi the autumn hail If you are very emotional ami- somewhat susceptible to beauty in v hats and in their wearers you say the "tilt" of the autumn hat. Some o them are dreams, 60ng and poems, there is no denying. And now and then there is ont that may be more aptly described in the less delicate term "peach." But they tip, they tilt, they dip and bend in a bewildering way. To plunge to the front or to one side while they rear in the back or at the other side is the chief char acteristic of the new hats. In fact, it is by this trick that you know J them, and you must admire then- for it if you expect to remain in tho good graces of the lady wearers. Maverick. in ' MARGARITA FISCHER Official Statement of Polk County's Wealth A request comes to this paper to publish the summary of the asseea ment roll in full. . ' It follows: Acres tillable land, 115,871 . . . . . Acree non-tillable land, 284,875. ... Improvements on deeded lands, ....... Town and city lots,, . .. .. . . .. . . -. Improvements on town and city lots,. . Improvements on land not deeded,. . . . HCRP WCYTWFFK I Miles railroad, 69.59. ., IlLllL ttLAl IILLUL... tiA(yrftnh and telephones, 154.50, vivjj. a ...... Three nights high class amuse ment at the Opera House, Inde pendence. Miss Margarita Fischer and her own supporting company will open a three (3) nights en gagement in the Opera House, starting Monday eve, October 30th. New people, new plays, new spec ialties, new costumes. They will present for your appovoal on Mon niirht. the laughable comedy entitled, "By Wits Outwitted." Change of play nightly. Prices: Adults 35c; children 25c; reserved eeats 50c Now on sale t Locke's drug store. Railroad rolling stock,. Steamboats, engines, machinery,. Merchandise and stock in trade, . Farming Implements etc.,. .-. .'. -. Money, Notes and accounts. . . Shares of stock, 1073,; . Household furniture etc., . . . Horsea and mules, 4179, Cattle, 7960, ........ Sheep and goats, 33161, Swine, 2447, VALUE ,.$1,650,575 ....901,110 ...,262,780 ....134,360 ...313,795 8,720 ....207,730 .7,450 .....27,680 40,870 ....120,740 ".J.. -69.9MI, .....45,940 89.U60 .,,..63,300 . . . .156,510 .....13601Q ......91570 52,475 ..8,765 Gross value of all property .... . Exemptions,... Total value taxable property,. . . j No of Polls; 1265, polls paid, 36. .4,389,420 ...252,570 . .4035,750 V