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11 ILLS BOKO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OKKGOX, FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1901
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Rilbboro Independent.
BY D. W. BATH.
ONE IKUXAK lKR YKAKIN ADV-NC(
Republican in Politics.
AuvmriHiNO Uatk: Dinplay, UO cents
n int'li, Mingle column, fur four lnner-
tiont; read i iik uoUt, one cent a word
ech inaertiou (nothing la thiin 15
ceuta) ; professional card, one inch, f 1
uioulh ; lodge card, 5 year, paya
ble quarterly, (notice ami resolution
Ire to advertising lodgea).
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
E. B. TONGUE
ATTOHN&Y AT LAW
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Office : Itooim 3, 4 and 6, Morgan Blk
W. N. BARRETT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Office: Central Mock. Rooms 8 and 7
BENTON BOWMAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Olnoe, In L'uion I'.lk., w itti 8. B. HiiHton
TIIOS. H. TONGUE JR.
ATTOKNKY-A T-LAW
NOTARY Pl'BLIC
Offivs:
Rooiiih 3, 4 and !, Morgan Block
HHIaboro, Oregon.
8. T. LINKLATER. M. B. C. M.
PHYSICIAN AND 3 U HQ EON.
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Office, uiMttalra, over The Delta Drug
Store. Utlice hours H to 12; 1 to u, ami
in the evening from 7 to 9 o'clock.
J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D.
S. P. U. R. SUIMJEON
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Ri(1nt corner Third and Main; o(B op
aum over Helta drug ilore: himri, a. 30 lo M m.
I lo 6 ami 7 to V p. ni. Telephou. lo rewleiit
from 111 drna more. All valla promptly aua-
wrd da; or iiikIh.
F. A. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Office: Mor(?an-Ballpy block, op
atalri. room a 12. 13 and 15. Residence
8. W. cor. Base Line and Second ata.
Both 'phones.
F. J. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND 8URGEON
HHIaboro, Oregon.
Office: Morgan-Bailey block, up
Btalra with F. A. Bailey. Healdence.
N. E. corner Third and Oak ata.
MARK B. BUMP,
ATTORN KY-AT-L AW.
Notary Public and Collections.
IIILLSHOKO, ORK.
The Cent ml 31 eat Market
sells
Freab and Cured Meats, and Lard
Prices Reasonable
V. lll.ltUKV, fr p,
V Mat Yo(i
Three time daily, Morning, Noon
ami Night, with the II neat freah
and cured meat, liive uh your
order for your HneHUchopH, uteakM,
roaxt. etc.. and we can till it en
tirely to your vat inflict ion. fry
ur fancy lard, liewt in HilUlxiro
HodsUy & En)n)ott
Successors to C. Koch
DarQtS & Sinjoi),
Heal Estate Dealers
And Money Loaners,
Partlea wUhlng o buy or ell Furtn or CHj
Property boiiltl ua W. aril at owntn'
priF, do not ehanr Her flv. ami barer ten
per nt comimaHn. are not hrr to nil)
an) eoe, but we ere here t stay, and don't you
onrt II.
DU. W. K. (JAHKKTSON
will riT voi r r
"With glaaaea that are atwolutel correct,
lie don't have to experiment on you, aa
liia modern iualruments detect the
smallest error. No pain, no medicine
or "dropa" used. He does not charge
fancy prices. Call and see him at 133
Fifth street Corner Alder. Portland. Or
fiillsboro City Bakery.
Fresh Bread, Cakes, Tics,
Crackers and confectionery.
Odt-of-towo Trade
Solicited.
TWO DOLLARS
FOR WHEAT
WILL BE THE PRICE BY MAY 1
So It Is Declared by Chicago Bulls
Eaoitement Runs High en the
Beard of Trade.
"Wheat at $2 a bushel before May
i ." is the crv sent up by the bulls
ou the Chicago Board of Trade
At each meeting of the Board there
is an excited demand for wheat
with few traders venturing to sell
The price ior May delivery is from
iyZ to I.I2 and for delivery
fur the piesent month from $1.07 J a
to $1.08, and the quantity that any
one will sell even at that price is
extremely limited. The Agricul
tural Bureau at Washington has
issued a bulletin that, according to
the bulls, confirms the fears regard
ing the loss to the spring wheat
crop by black rust.
Ot winter and spring wheat pro
duced this year in the United States
it is contended that there will be
barely enough for bread and seed if
every bushel ot it was available,
which is not possible; and the
country is therefore face to fac
with the necessity of bringing in
foreign wheat to help keep the
wolf from the door until another
harvest shall have been raised.
What's the Matter With Oregon ?
from tb. Oregon Journal.
The hop harvest will le finished
this week, and if the crop is not the
largest in quantity ever harvested
it is nearly so, and will be the most
valuable. Its market value will
apparently be considerably in t x
cess ot four million dollars, a good
deal of money to divide among a
small portion of western Oregon
farmers.
The wheat crop in eastern Ore
gon has all been successlully har
vested, the crop being larger and
more valuable, at present and pros
pective prices, than ever before.
The large wheat farmers are grow
ing rich, the smaller ones are in
comfortable circumstances.
The fruit crops, except winter ap
ples, have been secured and have
been abundant and of excellent
quality. In what is known as
southern Oregon 111 particular the
fruir crops have been or will be
larger and better than ever belore.
By officially ignoring of the law
the salmon pack will be greater
than last year, and will put a good
many hundred thousand of dollars
in circulation.
The lumber iudustry is growing
in proportion, is generally in good
condition, and the lumber exports
this vear promise to break the re
cord; and Oregon has scarcely yet
begun on her standing timber.
The cattle on a thousand hills
and in many vales including hor
ses and sheep are fat and saucy in
the autumn sunshine. The wool
growers are unusually prosperous
this year. The dairy iudustry is
flourishing.
Calamities have belallen a few
people, in the form of fire or flood,
but for the great majority of its
people Oregon spells itseli this Sep
tember Sabbath with four P's
plenty, prosperity, peace and pro
gress.
So it is in Oregon every blessed
autumn, but scarcely ever has it
been so much so before as now.
The "harvest home" is a hummer
in spite of an unprecedentedly dry
summer and pessimistic predictions.
We rise to remark that if any
body is asking, "What is the mat
ter with Oregon? our cheerful
anrwer is; 'Mie s an right I
Land Inspectors.
For the purpose of preventing
further fraud in the offices of the
west, the public land states have
been divided into nine districts.
over each of which a special in
spector will be appointed. Oregon
and Washington will each comprise
a separate district and will be pre
sided over by separate iusictors
Thomas B. Neuhausen, formerly of
Minnesota, but for the past year
located in The Dalles, will be in
spector for Oregon, and Edward W.
Dixon, of this state will be inspec
tor for Washington. Ihese gen
tlemen will be paid $1,500 a year,
with an additional $3 per day for
expenses, and will 1 auoweu a
clerk at $1,000 per year.
When ordinary working men re
fuse a salary of $5 per day for work
ing on a seining ground, it is am-
le evidence that times are good
and money plentiful. This is the
exact condition in and about As-1
toria, and goes to prove that this is
one of the best locations for a work-
ing man to be found in the United
O
States.
A Blow t Portland.
The Corvallis Gazette of Tuesday
has the following: The Corvallis
& Eastern, a railroad that has had
the most checkered career of all
Oregon roads, is the subject of ne
gotiations between its present head,
A. B. Hammond, and California
capitalists. The Californians have a
plan to extend the road across Hay-
static pass in me cascaues, anu
throueh the country watered bv
the head streams of the Deschutes
river, then make a long curv
southeasterly through the Harney
county lake country, their ultimate
goal being a connection with the
O. R. & N. at Ontario.
A road in which they are now
interested is being built northward
through northern California ana is
nearly to the Oregon state line,
This road would be extended in
northwesterly direction to connect
with the projected Corvallis line at
a point in Harney county. All
this reeion is now for hundreds of
miles without transportation facil
ities. It contains hundreds of
thousands of acres of alluvial soil
that will be vastly productive as
soon as irrigation reaches it. It
has the greatest timber vealth of
the entire northwest, and it is cer
tain to attract railway builders from
some quarter within the next de
cade. The scheme of the Californ
ians has for its central object the
capture of this territory and the
drawing of its product and trade to
San Francisco. Should the project
succeed it would be a blow to Port
land.
The Corvallis & Kastern railroad
is 132 miles long, beginning at Ya
quina bay and extending eastward
to the little town of Idanha in Mar
ion county. Should the road be
pushed across the state to Ontario,
and then a line 57 miles to Portland
from Nehamah, its station nearest
this city, the road would be like a
capital Y, the stem reachiug across
the state, one prong ending at a-
quma bay and the other in Port
land, and the scheme of the Cali
fornians would be reversed.
The Corvallis road is the property
of A. B. Hammond and II. h.
Huntington, but the latter's inter
est in it is not regarded as an ob
stacle in the way of Portland, since
it is known that Mr. Huntington
and "Mr. , Harriman have parted
company. The road was originally
projected by farmers, and after
long struggle against Southern Pa
cific and O. R. & N. influences it
was finally built at a cost ot $$,
000,000, In ten years it went into
bankruptcy and was sold under the
hammer to Hammond and Hun
tington for $ 100,000, less than the
cost of the old iron. It was origin
ally the Willamette Valley and
Coast railway, and was designed to
cross Oregon and connect with the
Un10uPac1ficatB01.se, Idaho. The
promoters, Col. T. E. Hogg and his
associates, secured aid at Washing
ton, and the government spent
$600,000 in constructing jetties at
aquina bay and improving the
harbor. The road when completed
as far as Detroit and equipped, in
eluding two river steamers, an
ocean steamship and a large tug,
cost 4 $8,000,000. Wallis Nash,
now of Portland, was one 01 the
builders.
ST. HELENS IS 111' UN EI).
Fire which originated in the rear
of a hotel caused a $50,000 confla
gration at St. Heltms early Wed
uesday morning. The north part
of the town, including the county
court house was saved. The entire
block of buildings burned were of
wood and will be rebuilt belter than
ever.
A famous rrench chef, visiting in
New York, says he can not under
stand why the American people do
not eat more soup. He ought to read
up on history. Soup was the chief
diet of the American people not so
many years ago. Cleveland was
borrowing money from England at
that time and Coxie's army was
carrying the banner all over the
country. The American people are
not hankering after soup.
The New York Herald declares
that "New York democrats must
wake up." Their chances of sue
cess would be improved if some of
them would shut up.
Fparfnl Odd Against Him.
Bedridden, alone and destitute
Such, in brief was the condition of
an old soldier by name of J. J. Ha
vens, Versailles, O. For years he
was troubled with Kidney disease
and neither doctors nor medicines
gave him relief. At length he tried
Electric Bitters. It put him on his
feet in short order and now he testi
ties. "I'm on the road to complete
recovery, itesi on eann ior uver
311,1 mney troubles and all lorms
ol Momacn and Mowei Complaints.
u'y 5:. ouarantecd by any
1 ! . a,
uncial.
OREGON GRAPE
ALL RIGHT
NO ADULTERATION IN IT.
May Bring Suit for $100,000 Dam
ages Against McDonald, the
Food Commissioner.
When Dr. J. P. lamiesie, presi
dent of the Oregon Condensed Milk
Company, boarded the train at this
station last Monday for Seattle
there was blood in his eye, and the
trip boded no good to E. A. Mc
Donald, the dairy ati4 food com
missiouer, who made the statement
that he had excluded from Wash
ington the entire product of the Or
gon Condensed Milk Company be
cause the cream is adulterated with
annatto, a substance which gives
the milk a rich color. Arriving at
Seattle the doctor lost no time in
looking the commissioner up and
demanding his reasons lor making
the statement attributed to him
saying that he must prove his as
sertious or he would bring action
against the state for $100,000 dam
ages. McDonald hemmed and haw
ed and crawfished, and attempted
to lay the blame of the puplislied
statement upon a newspaper re
porter, when the truth is that he
sought an interview with ' the ex
press purpose of injurihg the Ore
gon Condensed Milk Company.
Dr. Tammiesie demanded that
McDonald should condemn the Ore
gon Urape cream, as he said he
would, and he waited around Seat
tle for two days waiting for him
to do so, but he found it convenient
to go out of the city. Dr. Tatnie
sie would bring action against Mc
Donald direct, but he is not worth
anything, and in view of that fact
an action will be brought directly
against the state if the matter is not
adjusted at once.
Here at home where the Grape
Brand of Cream is manufactured
and used by almost every fumily,
Commissioner McDonald's state
ment has no weight whatever, ex
cept to stamp it as malicious and
utterly false, but wh;e the cream
is less known such a report would
undoubtedly work a great injury to
company.
The Seattle Times of Monday
contains the following:
' The action ot State Dairy and
Food Commissioner E. A. McDon
ald in attempting to exclude from
the market of this state the evap
orated cream of the Oregon Con
densed Milk Company, known as
the 'Oregon Grape Brand.' prom
ises to etitail serious consequences.
Dr. J. P. Tamiesie, president of the
company, came to iscattle immed
iately upon learning of the matter,
and announced himself as ready to
meet the the issue whenever Com
missioner McDonald sees fit to
bring a prosecution.
The fact is, says Dr. Tamiesie,
'that all dairy products are slight
y colored, not for adulteration, and
not with any deleterious effect up
on the goods, but simply to make
the goods more pleasing to the eye,
and this is done because the cus
tomers insist on having it so. The
coloring matter usually employed
is annato, which, as is stated in the
United States Dispensatory, the
official and recognized work on the
subject, is used chiefly for coloring
butter and cheese. According to
the same authority annato not only
is not deleterious but has in the
past been used medicinally as a bit
ter tonic. It is a preparation made
from a tropical tree grown in South
America and is the reddish pulp
surrounding the seeds in the lruit
of Bixa Orellana. If its use ex
cludes one article from the market
as a violation of the pure food law,
the same rule must apply to all
other articles and the cheese and
butter people will find that they too
must change their methods of pre
paring their merchandise ior the
market.
'The fact is however, that the
use of annato, in minute quantities,
constitutes neither an adulteration
nor a compound, and the courts of
other states have so held, as will
doubtless the courts of this state
when the question has been pre
sented fairly to them."
Dr. Tamiesie, who is a graduate
physician and licensed to practice
n this state, as well as in the stale
of Oregon, and who is also a tax
payer of Washington, stands ready
to pay a reward of Jfi. 000 for each
and every case in which it is prov
en that annato as used in the Ore
gon Grape Brand of evaporated
cream, is deleterious or injurious to
the system.
when this subject is well thresh
ed out in the courts, he says, it may
possibly become a very interesting
matter for Commissioner McDonald
explain to the public why he
as selected one particular brand of
airy product for his autocratic ex-
r s
elusion lrom the market ana way
he permits all the other dealets in
that article and all of the butter and
cheese people to sell their goods
without being molested.
Letter of a Cross Road Merchant
to an Advertising Expert.
Got your letter about starting a
store paper, using billboards, street
cars, mailing cards, etc., and I
guess you are alwut right only
this is not a department store in
Chicago but a little cross road store
in a town of 2.000. Joe Carson,
the printer, was in and I read him
yourletter. He said he thought the
paper idea and the mailine cards.
if they were plain, were good ones,
the others were good only he didn't,
own the bill-boards and couldn't
print street cards and he thought
1 should concentrate. The bill
board man came in and said they
were all good but the only one I
could afford was bill loards. and
about that time, the thought came
to me that a business man is be
tween the advice of a correstxm
dence school graduate and the man
who sells him something uuless
he sidesteps.
Did you ever notice how bad the
minister's children are that's be
cause be is so busy telling other
people how to raise their children.
ou 11 find if you turn the lime
light on most of these free advisers
that they are a chip or two shv on
their own proposition in the direct
line of their advice.
I don't mind eivinfcupmy montv
so much as I do hate to have one
of these "side talk with girls" ex
perts separate me from it.
Right next door to us there's a
ittle "tot" that's had the advant
age of a father who learned the
manly art of using profane language
irotn a printer or some other gradu
ate of a recognized school. One
day she was the proud possossor of
tennis ball tor a few minutes.
A young lady of dark shade hune
over the fence, and announced the
ract that "babe" had her "bawl."
Babe was forced forthwith to give
it up, and stood dumbfounded for
sevtral seconds. She then an
nounced in a deliberate manner
that she didn't want the ball any
how, but she did hate to give it lip
to a "damned nigger."
I don t much care for my money.
but I hate to find after I have given
it up that the fellow can't get a I)
raring in a report ou his common
sense.
I have just about concluded that
in your anxiety to give me enough
for my money that you've advertis
ed that I use everything you
probably hope that I will get a lit
tle out of some of it.
No, I'm going to stick to my
newspaper advertising, with a little
direct advertising on the side.
Glad to have you drop in and
spend a week down here fishing
but the first time you try to get me
to go into side issues, I'll have the
boys chuck you off the railroad
bridge down by the swimmin' hole.
. Yours truly,
Zbphriam Dooselx. .'
Now Open for Business with a
Line of Jewelry and Musical Goods
I have just opened, in the new
Bank Uuiltlin, the largest Jewelry
and Musical Merchandise House in
Washington County and respectfully
invite the public to call and see mo in
my new place of business. The stock
is new and up-to-date and consists of
Pianos, Organs, Phonographs, Violins,
Mandolins, Guitars, Banjos, Sheet
Music, both Vocal and Instrumental,
and a complete line of Jewelry of
every description, such as Watches,
Clocks, Chains, Rings and solid and plated ware. A full and
complete line of Stationery will also be added. Give me a call
in my new place of business. Watck roy-airis, done promptly and neatly.
E. L. Mc CORMICK.
HILLSBORO, OREGON
LIFE'S TROUBLES
ARE OVER
STRYCHNINE CAUSE OF DEATH
Mi
a. A.J. Ford Purchases the Poison
to Kill Rats, She Said, and
Kills Herself.
On Wednesday forenoon, about
1 1 o'clock, Mrs. A. J. Ford of this
city went to Bailey's drug store and
asked Charlie Lamkin, the clerk,
for some strychnine, stating that she
wished to poison rats that were
killing her chickens. Mr. Lam
kin did not sell her the drug for the
reason the store had none on
hand. From Bailey's she went to
the Delta drug store and Mr. Brown
the clerk there, sold her five grains
after asking the usual questions
Mrs. Ford explained to Mr. Brown
that only that morning she had lost
three chickens and she was going
to put the poison into the body of
a half eaten chicken the rodents
had left, and thought they woul
return to finish up their meal, and
by this means she could get lid of
a good many of them. Mr. Brown
says she appeared cheerful, spoke
of the smoke that is so dense, and
he did not hesitate to sell her the
drug. After signing the poison
register she went home.
About 1 o'clock Dr. Tamiesie re
ceived a hurried call to go to the
Ford residence, as Mrs. Ford was
dying. When he arrived the
woman was dead. Myrtle Ford, a
child of 9 or 10, daughter of Ford's
by a previous marriage, says that
she and her mother were in the
garden, when the latter went into
the house and laid down on the
bed, saying she was sick. The lit
tie girl followed closely, and notic
ing that her mother appeared to be
in great pain, became frightened
and called in a neighbor, a Mrs,
Southworth. When she arrived
Mrs. Ford was iu convulsions and
frothing at the mouth. Two ladies
chanced to be passing by on the
walk, Miss Hoyt and her sister,
Mrs. Kirkwood, and Mrs. South
worth called them in to help her.but
the poor unfortunate woman was
beyond all earthly aid and died be
fore the doctor arrived.
The case was evidently one of
suicide, but Coroner Brown decid
ed an inquest necessary and em
paneled a jury consisting of A. L.
Long, S. T. Bowser, Dr. A. B. Bai
ley, W. Ringles, E. C. Luce and
C. F. Hayes. The evidence was
practically as given above and the
jury returned a verdict that Mrs.
V a a,- P 3v
I Ford came to her death by a dose
' rf Tiriici 111 n1 in in ictr.il tiv 1i nt.tt
hand.
This is a sad case indeed and the
deceased should not be censured too
severely for the rash deed. Her
first husband, Wm. R. Jackson,
died about two years ago, leaving
her in fairly comfortable circum
stances. Some months ago she
married A. J. Ford, since which
time she has seen her property
growing lcautifully less, until, as
a gentleman put it iu our hearing
the day of the tragedy, the only
thing she could see in the future
for her was the wash tub or poor
house. Ford has an insatiable ap
petite for whisky, and when this
is told the curtain may be dropped.
The world is full of cases, even sad
der than this, brought ou by a curse
that has blighted many a home.
The deceased was 73 years of
age. The funeral will occur to
day at 2 o'clock from the Christian
Church.
None Hetter.
Every community owes the prime
duty of support to its local press.
If a man can afford to take only one
paper, he should take his home pa
per. If he can go further and take
a daily, let it le but the supplement
to his county paper. The old
Greek adage, "Know thyself,"
should le expanded into "Know
thy neighbors," and the way to do
that is to support your home paper.
There is no better or more helpful
asset to any county than a good
newspaper, filled with neighborhood
news and dealing with all issues of
common interest as the weekly
press usually does fairly and hon
estly. Atlanta Constitution.
Getting Scarce.
Good timber, like good farm
laud, is getting scarce and the big
lumber companies are casting about
to get material. The great pine
forests of Michigan and Wisconsin
have been denuded and a raid is
being made on the timlier land of
the south. A tract of 50,000 acres
was purchased by a Chicago lum
ber company- last week by a Chi
cago lumber company for $i,ooo,
000. This southern pine is differ
ent from the northern variety and
less desirable for building purposes,
but it is all there is lett until some
of those syndicate grafters get a
hold on the Pacific Coast states.
To Fight the Local Option Law.
Attorneys at Portland are at work
on the papers preparing to test the
constitutionality of the new local
option law. They will enjoin the
county clerk from submitting the
matter to a vote at the November
election. The temperance people
have already filed their petition.
there being the required number of
names demanding that the question
be submitted to vote for the entire
county. The proceedings under
injunction will bring up the entire
question as to the new law.