IIILLSBOUO. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. JAN. 12, 11)00
Numbeu 35
Volume 33
Rillsboro Independent.
BY I). W. BATH.
OKKICIAL I'OUNTV I'AI'KR.
ON K M)I.I.A I'KH YEAH IN ADVANCE
Republican in Politics.
ADveriiiiNO lUrn: Dilay, 0 cents
sji inch, single column, for four Inser
tion; reading uotK-eit, one cent won
eich insertion (nothing lew than 15
cents) ; professional cards, one Inch, $1
mouth ; lodge cards, (5 ft year, paya
ble quarterly, (notices and resolutions
free to advertising lodges).
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
E. B. TONGUE
ATTORNE.Y AT LAW
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Office: Rooms 3. 4 and 6. Morgan Blk
W. N. BARRETT
ATTORNEY-AT LAW
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Offlce: Central Block, Rooms 6 and 7.
BENTON BOW MAN
ATTORNEY-AT LAW
Hillsboro, Oregon. .
Office, in Union Blk.. with W. B. Huston
TIIOS. U. TONGUE JR.
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Jllice : Rooms Jt, 4 and 5. Morgan BlocK
Hillsboro, Oregon.
S. T. UNKLATER. M. B. C. M.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Office, upstairs, over The Delta Drug
Store. Office hours 8 to 12 ; 1 to 6, and
In the evening from 7 to B o'clock.
J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D.
8. P. R. R. SURGEON
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Kri Jenre corner Third and Min;omo op
liirlorer lulls dru ilre: hourn, .) u U m.
I Sl?nd 7 U.S P in. Telephous to re.idBnt-
frmn rlI. .Vr..sP.u.re: All Mils promptly su
w.rwl iit or niKht.
F. A. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SOROEON
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Offlce: Morgan nalley block, up
stairs, rooms VJ, 13 nd 15. Residence
8. W. cor. Base Line and Second alt.
Both 'phones.
F. J. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURQEON
Hillsboro, Oregon.
nmr: MorKan-Balley block, up
stairs with V. A. Bailey. Residence.
N. E. corner Third and Oak ata.
A. B. UAILKY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Olllr over lulle-v's lr" Huirs. Offlos hourt
f,.n s.ao to U; 1:hS to. "d 7 to . ,,
third h.mw north ' "r electric Ixbt plant.
"IK promptly silsnded dT or Dlsi.l. 1Mb
phon". ""aiH
C. II. AT WOOD, M. D.,
HKAVKRTON, ORE.,
Confinements given special atten
tion. Calls attended to day or
night. No drug store bills. Office
and resideuce in Hobart property,
opposite livery stable. Doth 1'hones
MARK 13. BUMP,
ATTORN KY-AT-I.AW.
Notary Public and Collections.
HILLSHOKO, ORK.
Tree Delivery
Of the lwst Fish, Game and
Meats. Our delivery is prompt
and in all parts of Hillslwro
We have inaugerated a
new Schedule in Prices
and this together with our de
livery system makes this Hills
boro' s popular market.
Housley if-Corwin,
Announcement.
Ifivintr purchased the Central
Meat Market, we wish to announce
to former patrons ana me puuue,
that e have established a free de-
Ihv and have reduced the prices
on all meats. For the lst cuts
n.l best service possible we .res
pectfully solicit your patronage.
EiMMOTT BROS.
t am prepare.! to furnish plans
.i Hf.cition and estimate on
all kinds ot rmiunngs. "
tune to get your plans ready for the
building season. Thirty years ex
perience; satisfaction guaranteed.
S. M. HOLLAND ,
IIILtSPORO,
OKEGON.
Contractor
andBuilder
Xween 2d and 3J St., on Kdson
ONLY "LINE"
MEN CAN VOTE
SECRETARY DUNBAR SAYS
Officially That Independonta Have
No Right to Cast Ballots at
the Primaries.
Secretary of State Dunbar calls
attention to the fact that at the pri
mary election in April, only two
parties can participate, the republi
can and the democratic being the
only ones that cast sufficient votes
at the last election. Official ballots
will be prepared, the republican
printed on white paper and the de
mocratic on blue paper.
No oue will be allowed to vote at
the primary election who has not
registered as a republican or a de
mocrat. An independent republi
can or an independent democrat
cannot be supplied with official
ballots by the judges.
In Marion county a number have
so registered. The law is very ex
plicit on this subject. It is made
an offense under the law for an
elector to offer to vote at the pri
mary election unless duly registered
as a democrat or republican.
Proposed New Tax taw.
From Tbs Portland Telegram.
Voters in Oregon are asked to
consider a proposed new tax law.
An initiative petition has been pre
pared and put in circulation by the
taxation committee of the Farmers'
and shippers' Congress, held under
the auspices ot the Willamette
Valley Development League, that
embodies a bill described in its ti
tle as "proposing assessment and
taxation, indirect taxation on in
tangible property, gross earnings of
ceitain corporations and graduated
inheritance tax." By February 4,
next, this initiative petition must
receive the signatures of eight per
cent of the legal voters of the state,
and be filed with the secretary of
state for Oregon in order that the
electors may vote on the measure
at the election to be held June 4, of
this year. It is, therefore, import
ant that citizens of this state should
be advised as to the terms of this
petition aud bill; and that the mat
ter should be thoroughly discussed
and digested by the time public ac
tion is required.
The purposes of the bill are set
forth in a concise and comprehen
sive manner in the introduction to
the petition as lollows: To trans
fer the county poll tax to the road
fund. To amend the present sys
tem of apportioning to the several
counties their respective portion of
the state tax. To provide for the
publication of the assessment roll
To amend the law relating to pen
alty, rate of interest aud rebate on
taxes. To iucrease the rate of
taxation on the gross earnings of
insurance companies from two to
three cer cent. To impose a tax
on the gross earnings of express.
telegraph and telephone companies
within the State of Oregon, except
farmers' mutual telephone lines.
To provide for the assessment and
taxation of railroads' rolling stock,
cars, equipment and the like; and
to create a state executive council
for the purpose of making such as
sessmenC. To provide for the as
sessment and taxation ot sleeping
dining, oil-tank and refrigerator
cars. To amend the inheritance
tax law, increasing the rate of taxa
tion on a graduated scale, and pro
viding that the state of Oregon
shall be represented at the appraise
ment of estates of decedents.
It is altogether probable that the
most radical changes proposed in
this new tax measure will meet
with vigorous opposition from these
representing large corporate inter
ests; out to the average taxpayer
throughout the state, we believe
the proposed changes will be ac
cepted with favor. The most no
table of these, namely, the publica
tion of the assessment roll, the in
creased taxation of the gross earn-
ines of insurance companies, the
adequate taxing ot express, tele
graph, telephone and railroad com
panies, including special car ser
vice within the state, are sound
propositions iu line with the impo
sition of a just and equitable tax
which leaves no loophole of dis
crimination in favor of the great
money-making and powerful corpo
rate interests.
The men who prepared this
measure have been careful in their
work. It is quite possible that the
product ol their labors is not alto
gether flawless; but in the main
the end aimed at is entirely com
mendable. It is confidently as
sumed that the enactment ot this
aw will mean, at the outset, a re
duction ot at least 50 per cent in
the direct tax levy now made for
state purposes, and that eventually
r
th direct lew will not be neces
.
sary.
This nrnnosed measure de
mands and should receive the most
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serious consideration at the hands
of Oregon electors.
Stability Baaed Upon Ratea.
"The exstinir ad ustment ol
. . . . I
rat twtween ditlereut localities
nA fnr HifWnt classes of traffic."
so writes Samuel Spencer, "is the
result of industrial and commercial
contests between communities,
the
competitive struggles not only be
tween the railways, but between
numerous water lines, and the con
ditions ot domestic and foreign
markets. This adjustment rests
upon a basis so complicated that
.t- .1: 1 - ;r
must almost necessarily create dis-
turbance at numerous otners.
"Is it possible, then, for any sin-
1
gle tribunal sitting in Washington
to decide upon the revision or re-
adjustment of relative rates, with
such wisdom and comprehension as
not to create a hundred complaints
in their efforts to remove one?
It has been claimed that rates
have been lareelv raised durincr the
past few years by changes of classi-
fication or by increase in me rate
themselves. While some specific
cases of increased rates alleged to
be unjust have been cited in the
testimony now before congress,
they have not been numerous.
The chief support ot the claim has
been the slight increase ot less than
four-tenths of a mill per ton per
mile on the average tonnage of the
entire country from 1899 to 1903,
as shown in a response by the in-
terstate commerce commission to a
resolution of the senate, now on
record as senate document 257.
The weakness and fallacy of the
arguments thers presented have
been so thoroughly exposed before of the gentleman you were then ne
the senate committee that I need gotiating or his people had failed to
say only a word to emphasize the
injustice of asking for large and
dangerous increase of power to the
b - .
interstate commerce commission up-
on such a plea."
Prospects for a Railroad Brighter,
If, as we believe, the Northern
Pacific is at the back of the Port-
land & Southwestern Railroad,
which was incorporated in Port-
land last week, then it may be ex-
pected that Tillamook will get
more than one railroad in the near
future, for the Harriman system, as
soon as it finds this county, so long
claimed as its territory, is to be
tapped by another railroad com-
pany, it will push ahead the work
of constructing a road for the pur-
pose of heading off the Northern
Pacific. This, we believe, is the
real situation on the railroad chess
board as far as Tillamook is con-
cerned. We hope the Northern
Pacific will add this rich territory
as a feeder to its main line. Any-
way, there is plenty of room for two
railroads, so we hope there will be
competing railroad for the im-
mense lumber business that will be
done in Tillamook county when
the transportation problem is solved
by the advent of the iron horse to
open up this lonz neelected section
of Western Oregon. For several
mouths we have been convinced
that the Northern Pacific would
play an important part in giving
Tillamook railroad connections
with Tortland, and for the first
time in a number of years we see
bright prospects ahead and the long
cherished hope of Tillamook coun- Oregon, but not otherwise. Tilla
ty getting a railroad materializing m0ok Headlight. 'ft
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in tne near luture. lhen watch
Tillamook grow. Tillamook Head
light.
TO BE TRIED
IN MARCH
HERMANN IN WASHINGTON.
Blnger Hermann t B. Tried In the
Courts of the District of Colum-
bia Last Woe in March.
Washington, Jan
9. Represen-
tative Binger Hermann, of Oregon,
will be tried in the courts of the Dis
trict of Columbia for complicity in
the land frauds in Oregon, begin
ning the last week in March.
. . ... t 1
Francis J. uency, a special counsel
of the department of justice, who
had direct cnarge 01 tne uregon
land cases, maue mis statement 10-
day at the White House. Mr. tie
ney had a conference with Presi-
dent Roosevelt today, in which
me uchim w m 5
.1: t11rminiv tlio Trr.
u iu. -.-. u.
mann trial, the case of F. A. Hyde,
jotin a. uenson, j. it. otuuciuc
and II. P. Dimond will be taken
up. Mr. Hermann just now is ill
at the residence of his son-in-law,
H. Prescott Gattley, in this city
He is suffering from the after effects
of an attack of erysipelas, whicn ne
sustained while in Oregon. His
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condition Is not taougnt to oe sen-
rm. and he is expected to be out
in a few days
Reld'a Latest
William Reid. secretary of the
portland Oregon Seacoast Railroad
Co., has made a proposition, which
hs quite different from what h! is re
ported to have said some time ago,
when he informed the people of this
county that they would get a rail-
road right away without putting up
a subsidy. Now he wants Tilla-
mook City to put up a subsidy of
$40,000 lor tne company mat wui
complete its railroad first, not later
than the end of this yc!r, and if this
is not agreed to, his company will
not build to this city. This is what
Mr. Reid proposes:
The Chairman of the R. R. Com-
niittee of Tillamook.
Dear Sir. Some months ago I
wrote you suggesting that $40,000
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subsidy which your committee ol-
tained should be made payable to
the railway company which should
have its tracks connected to the
town of Tillamook. Your secre-
tary replied this was quite satisfact
0ry, but that until you had got rid
carry out their proposed obligations
to vour committee, you were then
not in a position to carry into effect
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the suggestion I made.
In name of, for the Portland,
Oregon Seacoast Railway Co.
whose head office is in London, I
again write to ask you to submit to
your committee the following prop-
osition:
1st. That a subsidy ot $40,oco
should be paid in cash donated to
the first railway which should
have a railroad completed and a lo-
comotive and passenger car have
run over the same into the town of
Tillamook from any station or point
in Oregon upon the leased lines in
Oregon of the Southern Pacific
Company, and that not later than
the 31st day of December, 1906,
otherwise your committee s obliga-
tion for said $40,000 to be null and
void and of no force and effect,
In this way. if Mr. E. E. Lytle's
Pacific Railway & Navigation Com
panv or our Portland, Oregon Sea-
coast Railway Company s locomo-
1 .
tive should first reach Tillamook or
that of any other railroad to get
there by 31st Dec., 1906, it matters
nothiner to your committee which
line gets there first, your subsidy
then goes to and is payable to that
comnanv first eettinz into TuU-
mook.
ITitidlv let this company hear
whether this pioposition is satisfac
tory to your committee, and upon
hearing from you to that effect, we
will commence work thereafter up
Qn our proposed railroad to Tilla
mook Citv in Tillamook county.
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Boy's and Men's extra.juaiity, Good
year rnbWs for sale by J. C Greer.
A. J. Hembree, whose wife and
1 6-year old daughter were burned
to death in the Hembree house,
near Sand Lake, last week, was ar
raigned this morning charged with
murdering them, and committed
for trial to the circuit court. The
man waived preliminary examina
tion, but the theory is that he com
mitted the crime to cover up one
even more unnatural. It is claimed
there is stronsr circumstantial evi-
dence against him.- The charred
remains of Mrs. Hembree and Opal
were found the morning after the
fire, to which there was few wit
nesses, the home beine isolated.
Hembree's story at the time was
tt wife and child haJ one
baclc into the h after the fire
had sUrted to reCover some more
good3j and mat the roof had fallen
in. Tillamook Dispatch, Jan. 5.
A Modern Miracle.
'Truly miraculous seemed the
recovery ol Mrs. Molhe Holt ol
this place," writes J. O. R. Hooper,
wu.u, iCuu., uC w u
wasted by coughing up puss from
"she
ner lungs, uoctors declared ner
end was near that her family had
watched by her bed-side forty eight
hours; when, at my urgent request
Lr. Kings New Discovery was
given her, with the astonishing re
. 1. .1 t 3
sun mai improvement oegan, ana
continued until she finally corn-
pletely recovered, and is a healthy
woman today." Guaranteed cure
tor coughs and colds. 50c and
$100 at all drug stores,
tie free.
Trial bot-
It invigorates, strengthens aud
builds up. It keeps you in condi-
tion physically, mentally and mor
ally. . That's what Hollister s
Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 35
cents, Tea or Tablets. Delta Drug
Store,
Half the World Wonder
how tt othe oti,er half lives,
Those who use Bucklen's Arnica
Salve never wonder if it will cure
Cuts, Wounds, Burns, Sores and all
Skin eruptions; they know it will,
jjrs Grant Shy, 1 130 E. Reynolds
St., Springfield, 111., says: "I regard
jt one 0f tne absolute necessities of
houtekeeping." Guaranteed by all
drUggjstSi 25C
Three Tittle babes were neatltsd in bed,
I'll name William, Willie and Bill,"
mother said ;
Wide was her smile, (or triplets they be,
She lays her good luck to Kocky Moun
tain Tea. (Great baby medicine.)
Delta Drug Store.
Portland and Return 85c.
The Southern Pacific Is now selling
round triD tickets to Portland from
85 cel9; &f f ,n Jat"T
ds. P. M.. or any train of Sunday, re-
0 nlmr Sunday and Monday, livigr
ign
Uday Sunday and Monday in Portland
The same arrangement applies Irom
Portland, givine all Portland people
a rltance to visit vaney pouns at ijrcnj
reduced rates.
Poo corn and corn iwpiiers, the kind
that pop, at R. II. Greer's.
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Thoro'Q a nt
IIIWiWWM . -
in a shoo which
wear, needs only polish to "Look
like new." You'll find comfort,
ease and profit in
Ham tnn-Rrnwn Shnes mmm
ItUllllllVMI Wis as
your children
will want something pretty and good. Come and
see our
School Shoes
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PROBABLY
A SUICIDE
SKELETON FOUND BY BOYS.
Man Thought to Have Been Dead for
Couple ef Years--Nothing to
Identify Him.
Five boys while hunting on top
of a bare peak, four miles north
east of Beaverton last Tuesday
found the skeleton of a man and
word was at once sent to Coroner
Brown of this city, who went and
took charge of the remains. The
m in had evidently been about 40
years old and 5 feet 5 inches in
height. He had died lying on the
left side, right leg crossed over the
left; head rolled over on right side
and decayed away from the body.
Mr. Brown could find nothing to
identity the body and no evidence
of a crime having been committed.
The remains were brought to this
city and then buried in the potter's
field at the poor farm.
The Daily Oregonian of Wednes
day has the following in regard to
the finding of the bones:
"What is presumably the body of
a suicide was found on Barnes
Heights, about four miles from
Portland Sunday morning. The
body, which was that of a man had
'evidently been exposed for many
months, as the decomposition was
such that only the bones remained.
The bones were taken to Hillsboro,
where they were buried in the poor
farm graveyard.
An empty vial lying close to the
bones is that which gives the im
pression that the man had committ
ed suicide. The supposition is that
he climbed to the top of the hill and
then drank the poison from the vial
He wore a black coat and vest
and his trousers were black with a
white strip running down them.
A raincoat was lying near In his
hatband were the words, "Dreyfoos,
Spokane, Wash.," which is sup
posed to be the name and address
1
of the dealer from whom he had
purchased the hat. The coroner
from Washington county, who took
charge of the body, assembled the
bones, and he says the man was
about 5 feet six inches in height
From the condition of the teeth he
is judged to have been a man about
40 years of age.
Barnes Heights is the tallest hill
in the country for miles around
It is about three miles southeast of
Cedar Mills
The county court at St. Helens
at its last session selected the site
for Columbia county's courthouse.
It will be located on what is known
as the Strand, a broad strip of land
on top of a high bluff on the bank
of the Columbia river, in front ti
the old building, the city to furnish
sw aW
of Satisfaction
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after
month's ot
the
No better made. No better can be made. Our
guarantee goes .with every pair.
Our line of
GROCERIES
is the finest in the county.
Everything usnally carried by an np-to1at Grocery I tonne. Onr
immense sales mak it possible lor us to carry strictly fresh goods.
Not a shop-worn article in the establishment.
JOHN
The old Reliable Corner Grocery and Shoe Store M
the site. The clerk was ordered to
advertise for plans and specifications
for a building within a cost limit of
$J5,ooo, to be submitted to the
court at its next meeting which will
be held on Wednesday, February
14. The site selected for the build
ing is one of the most beautiful im
aginable, and the finished structure
will be a constant token of the new
lite and energy that is to prevail in
the old town of St. Helens.
President Roosevelt shook hands
with exactly 9,053 callers at his
New Year receptiou at the White
House, and said de lighted just
9,o.S3 times.
The merchant endeavors to sell
what the people want. He knows
that they want what is advertised
most successfully and widely. It
is a pretty good argument. Oregon
Tradesman.
Ohio is proud ot a pretty little
school ma'am who cleaned up two
big boy pupils who got gay with
her and then knocked out their old
man with a stove poker when he
came over to "show the teacher a
thing or two.'1
The merchant of the small town
may not be a natural born win
dow dresser. There are not many
such to be had in proportion to the
demand. But every merchant can
keep his wiudows clean, change the
displayr frequently and use ordi
nary common sense and some taste
in their arrangement. Good light
ing is important; clever ideas may
be utilized and the results will be
worth the extra effort.
Beats the Music Cure.
"To keep the body in tune,"
writes Mrs. Mary Brown, 20 Lafay
ette Tlace, rioughkeepsie, N. Y.
"1 take Dr. King's New Life Tills.
They are the most reliable and
pleasant laxative I have ever fouud."
Best for the Stomach, Liver and
Bowels. - Guaranteed by all drug
gists. 25c.
An Arkansas man killed a tele
graph operator because the reply to
his message didn't come quick
enough. What a dearth of rail
road men there would be in this
country if some one took a shot at
the agent every time a train was
late.
In 1 1 months milk dealers paid
$10,000 in fines for selling adulter
ated milk in New York City. In
addition, 28,000 gallons of milk
were poured into the gutters. Did
it pay the milkmen? Dishonesty is
the best policy only when you don't
get caught. The inspectors state
that they consider milk watered if
they find more than 83 per cent
water in samples tested.
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Por Sale.
Several tons of fine carrots at $ lr
ton ; also several thousand Clark Seed
ling and Magnon strawlierry plants, at
H jr 1,000. , Inquire of C. Khodea,
Seventh street, between Kir and Oak.
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