i M. Hn TWICE A WGEiiC We V y .a 4 TTYR 1 TYMT TT TCD "O T ( i j a . n sv .11 THIUTKKNT1I YMAM. iNi)i:ri:Ni)KNci:, roue county, okkoon, auuijst a vm. NUMUKU 21 - -1 POLK COUNTY BANK MONMOUTH, - ORIIQON. PAID CAPITAL $30,000.00 Tnirt..t.cr.llnklnBlm-l-. lV,--.tl- rn-l vr J, 1 nml., Dr.fl. !.. (Will '" """"' nl Blv" " OrH t MS AMt DlltKrTuH J 1! lUwIry, ITw., P. I n..lH ll, VLw Pre.., lr C. 1WII, VMr J. H. V. null.r, l' To well, J..Hu..,P, J. A. Wlthrow, I. M. Hiiiiii. GIVES FRANCHISE R County Court Acts on AppII I cation of Falls Cily and ! Dallas Railroad i Cl lzcns Along the Bouie riled Protest Against Any Interference Willi i the Present Dirt Bond THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK OyvriT7V3L, GTOOK, SSO.OOO.OO. H I!lRB!IBKB(I,l-r;".t;" " A I! It AM M:iN. Vl rre-Men C. W. IRVINE, Culler. DIRECTORS. H. Ihrthterg, D. W. hlT J. E. Kl.odi and A. NiMnon. a nrml buklnir and eadmnw biiliiw. tranarld. Loan, miide. U1IU llroanrt L til!. K Irllit. granted. lH.po.il. record on current account object to check. . tittle Palace fiotel Independence T. tU. Crcanor, Proprietor Carefully Supplied Cables. Special Attention to Commercial trade. & JOCCCCCCCCCC!CCCCCCCtCCC-CCClC-e-CCeCC UNDERTAKING Day or Night Calls Promptly attend ed to. Floe Parlor In Connection. An Experienced Lady AJmltttant. Phcne, main :73 i W. U IHCH. KinbaliiKT and Fmicral Director. Licensed by Oregon Btate Board of Health. INDEPENDENCE BICE & OH-BREATH OREGON 4WH-N rM444 44444- THE fllRLIE STORE Largest Country Store in Polk County iniDSon Pros. POPULAK rmotu oiunu 44444 44444A 444444 444444 444444 44444-H 4444441 44444 GENERAL MERCHANDISE Dry Goods and Groceries, Men's and Boys Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hardware and a general line of merchandise 'country produce:handled Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Wool, Mohair and Farm Produce Generally Bought. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Simpson Bros. Jlirlie, Ore. LIVERY, FEED AND BOARDING STABLE I. W. DICKINSON, Prop. Good Eigs for Commercial Men a Specialty. Good accommodations. Horses well fed. Fine rigs. Hsrses boarded by day, week or month. Telephone ITo. 293 Independence, Oregon W.R ALLIN D. D S. ...Dentist... Painless Extraction Independence, Cooper Building, Oregon E. T. HENKL.E, Barber Shop. MAIN STREET, One door south of Post ; Office. Fine Baths in conneotionwith r hop Independence, - Oregon Tonsorial Artists- Next door to Little Palace Hotel Sharp Razors, Prompt Service. BOOT BLACK IN CONNECTION. W. G. 1SHARMAN Merchant Tailor Bank Building, Independence, - Obeggk An important order was nude by the county court at its Pitting in Dallas this week. It waa an order granting to the Salem, Kail City it Dalian Kttilroud corporation franchise along the county road from Kola to West Salem. , I The corporation wan represented ! before the court by Judge J. E. Sibley. Wm. II. Knower, a citizen living on the route of the proposed road and A. R. Houthwick, super visor of the road district affected, were also present. County Surveyor VanOrsdel, In the employ of the company, has made a number of surveys one of which provided for seven crossings of the county road between Eola and West Salem. The franchise granted permits of changes iii the county road and a final crossing at West Salem. According to the court's order, commencing near the water tank beyond Eola, the county road will be changed for about three quar ters of a mile covering the sharp turn east of the water tank, moving it further away from the river and making room for the railroad be tween the county road and river. The order makes no provision for interference of the railroad through the Chapman place, just east of the strawberry patch, three miles this side of Salenf. The corporation, however, has purchased a right of way through the Chapman place, west of the county road, so the franchise granted evidently con templated either two more cross ings of the county road else, mov ing the county road further up on the hillside at that point, exchang ing its present location for the rail road's right of way. Mr. Knower voiced the objections of the people living along the coun ty road to seven crossings, but he told the court they would prefer that it cross fifty times rather than parallel it at a close distance. The people he stated had been to treat expense by individual contribution besides the county in getting the present county road and they pre ferred to keep it as it is. Judge Sibley took the position that the law permits of a railroad crossing a county road and condemnation proceedings could be resorted to. In the course of his remarks Judge Sibley stated the proposed road would connect with the elec tric line building into Salem. Whether or not the statement was authorized by the promoters, or was merely used as an argument in obtaining right of way, is of interest to Polk county. The conditions of the lranchise thus far granted provide that the petitioning corporation shall secure and deed to Polk county sufficient land for right of way to make the changes in the course of the county road; right of way to be not less than sixty feet wide, and the grades to be as good or better than before the change. To show the court that they are alive to the interest of the traveling public, and jealous of any infringe ment on the county road, the fol lowing petition was filed: "We the undersigued, residents and freeholders f Polk County, State of Oregon, do hereby remon- proi rot against any In of th public travel In io highway hailing from tilt .."alriii, Oregon, to iil. ion ' County, On poii, by rennon of the (HaIrm-FalU City & Wrierii Rail' ' toad company constructing ft 'ail ) ay track longitudinally in said highway, rxept a cro-niig that may be neei-Mary in West Halem. Win. H. Knorr J. W. IH-Up A. Zieleach ' W. T. Pt-arce Tiio. W. lirunk II. H. Ur-phy Jol.ua McDaninl W. T. Kakin S. T. Burch T. A. Allen L. 1). Gibson Andrew Vercler J. O. Chipman A. R. Southwick W. M. Bernard N. Milty R. W. Hogg M. A. Chapman E. Elliott B. W. Allen." HE GOES TO JAIL Wanhing'cij, Aug 1 - . . ... . eu riate i cuihk k John Brown Also swears uai lom-j , . (.mirilrv ,, .,, lljun,n , , " 1 n - - jfn ilitir at hop iblpping point m the Southern Paritif Co. In in Orrjurt we wHl continue to !' r hop in company warehouse, for 'which cur iimia! chf f i' . George italin Makes Can,ip,rn:onih m n;sf II V'UI lv ',' . - . - - - storage." II. E. Loun.bury. Play and Gels a Pommel ing As a Result Nation Itrinka Mure Kerr. -The !'i ',' be 1' T thn Iiitrinitl Uevrrnn I'urrau can 1 a ci i'tel aH an indication. Dur iui( tti li.cal yeir lijrd June Hi', there wa coUtH-ted I " I '."1 ("" on ale, brer and oilier rimiliar fer mented li'itmrs, Tlii is f .yj-'.U'.ilJ more than was produced from the name source in the preceding year. hi a tun i.f 1 iff Imrri I I'irh l.xr- and Umnteous table supply, tt containing 2 gallon-, thut means that there were consumed over 1 00,000,000 gallons moie beer latt year th n the year before, or mi plaint and Justice Wlisun Dues f tie Rest In IMs Drama John Lrown own a smll hop yard two mile north of Indepen dence on the Salem road. lie was. blegHed with a comfortable houiei Mr. Frilcliard Returns From Trip to New York C. L Fitchurd arrived this week from Utica, N. Y., where he has been with his family eince last winter. He is here to look after his hop yards one of which lies north of Independence and another is in Lane county. Mr. Fitchard reports the New York crop as look well. He predicts the market will reach 20 cents. A descriptive ar ticle by Mr. Fitchard on the Ore gon country recently appeared in a New York paper in which h was made to fay Independence is in Lane county. The fact is Inde pendence has been Mr. Fitchard' western home for years and he knows the exact pot where it is located. He selected Independence, Polk county, as his lighting place after quitting New York and flying all over the coast looking for the best town in the richest hop pro ducins section of the United States. It was the reporter who misquoted Mr. Fitchard as trying to move the hop center fifty miles to the south. ' New Departure at Cliemawa Institution Dr. Claude Fryer is spending a few days in Independence, stopping with his parents. Dr. Fryer is the government physician at the Che mawa Indian school near Salem. Dr. Fryer has introduced an open air sanitarium at the school which is an innovation that is attracting the attention of the medical people as well as the public at large. It is Dr. Fryer's theory that a return to their former way of living, dis position to filthiness being cut out, is the best treatment for the In dian. Here any of the pupils who may be inclined toward consump tion are kept in large roomy open tents with every possible .sanitary advantage. Every pupil who has thus far been there has improved wonderfully in weight and health and one young man has already gained 15 pounds in the two months since this has been insti tuted. It may be said here that not a case ot tuberculosis has de veloped at Chemawa since the es tablishment of the open-air treat ment, as the pupils are sent there at the first indication of failing and the treatment has become more preventative than a cure. - The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows that dur ing July the coinage amounted to $6,303,164, as follows: Gold $6, 175,000; silver $123,164, not in cluding 30,000 pesos minted for the Philippine Government. there was something lacking. Ilisi life was one of loneliness. There wai no wife to greet hi home coming evenings, nor children to climb his knee, the envied kiss to share. One dreary rainy evening in the early spring, John Brown met up with George Hoaghn. Hoaglin was a new comer who had not devoted the greater part of his life to the ac cumulation of worldly goods. He had an amiable wife, and all they had to protect the two from the un friendly elements was a tent. It developed that George Hoaglin was from the same part of Iowa as John Brown. The chance acquaintance rapidly ripened into friendship and on the same day Hoaglin came to live at the Brown residence. Yesterday Hoaglin was called on io etand up in Justice Wilson's court and plead to a charge of as sault with a dangerous weapon (penitentiary offense) upon his friend BrowD. Judge Sibiey.de pu ty prosecuting attorney, was present to see that the peace and dignity of the state was not outraged, and B. F. Jones represented defendant Hoaclin. The defenae elected to put no witnesses on the stand, and according to Brown's story Hoaglin had tired of liviug with his Iowa friend and was preparing to leave. He was in bad humor, and in a tantrum frightened his wife from the house. Brown appeared on the scene and was confronted with a gun. Though he'd gone through the civil war, the proprietor of the Brown hop ranch was not ready to have his comrades chanting over his remains "John Brown's body lies moulding in the grave," and he seized the gun. He not only dis armed his antogonist but proceeded to give him a drubbing, and then swore out a warrant for his arre6t. Hoaglin was put under bonds of $250 to appear before the grand jury, in default of which he reposes in the jail at Dallas. The monthly circulation state ment issued by the Controller of the Currency shows that at the close of business July 31 the amount of National bank notes in circulation was $561,481,045, an increase for the year of $57,509,650, and an in crease for the month of $368,685. New Rates For the - 1906 Hop Crop The following notice is given by the Southern Pacific company at this place: "Effective August 25th the rate on hops from Pacific Coast termi nals and intermediate points to eastern common points will be re duced to $1.50 per 100 lbs., car loads, minimum weight space load ing capacity of car, but not less increase of about 2 gallons for evtry man, woman and child in the Unit ed States. The tax on whisy amounted to $130,006,104, ehowiog an increase of $7,247,999. Cigar smokers paid taxes amounting to 13,757,431, an increase of over $410,000. Thosa who prefer their tobacco in plug for chewing or smoking contributed $21,294,929 to the Treasury, an in crease of $1,255,583, which would seem to indicate that the pipe growing in popularity. The report shows that the re ceipts from all sources for the year aggregated $249,102,738, which is au increase as compared with last year of $14,914,762. The expenses of collection for the year ere about $4,720,768. California is Booming San Francisco, July 31. In ita monthly bulletin of progress, issued today, the California Promotion Committee says: "Wonderful activity has been shown in all lines in San J)rancisco during the month of July, and re construction worx has been pushed with vigor. There was a loss of 335,000 of the city's population during the first month after the fire, but it is estimated that more than 200,000 have returned, while 50,000 are waiting in nearby cities for accommodations in order that they may return. The present pop ulation is estimated at 365,000. "The transcontinental railroads report east-bound travel as normal, while the west-bound travel is far above the normal. The number of people receiving relief in th9 city has been reduced from 222,000 dur ing the first week to less than 17, 000. Hotel accommodations are now satisfactory and are rapidly being placed in condition to cars for all who may come. There is a great demand for ordinary laborers, and for workmen in all depart ments of the building trades. "In the state, conditions indicate one of the most prosperous years in th6 history of California. Crops are exceptionally good, especially grain. Labor is in demand at good wages for harvesting the crops of grain and fruit. Reports from the mining districts indicate a greater output ot mineral wealth than for several years past." Separator Destroyed by Fire Gervais, Or., July 31. While en route Monday night with his threshing outfit to make his first setting this season, Joseph Mou lett suffered the loss of bis sep arator by fire. A spark ignited the straw bedding that was on top of than 20,000 pounds, and on the 'the machine and a strong wind above date all arrangements for j fanned the blaze, which in a few free storage and free in transit j moments entirely destroyed it. service heretofore furnished by this j The loss is about $1000, with no company will be cancelled. j insurance. The engine and water "Owing to lacS of private storage tank were not injured.