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Volumk 33
IIILLSBOKO. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. JAN. 10, l'JOii.
Number 3G
fiillsboro Independent.
BY I). W. BATH.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPFR.
ON K IxiI.t.AK FKB YKAKIN ADVA NX
Republican in Politics.
ADvmriHiNu Rates: Liplay, 60 cents
an hull, single column, for (our Inser
tion; rending notices, 0110 cent word
etch insertion (nothing less than 15
cents) ; professional cards, one Inch, $1
a month ; lodge cards, $5 a year, paya
ble quarterly, (notices anil resolution
free to advertising lodges).
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
E. B. TONGUE
ATTORN EY AT LAW
Hlllsboro, Oregon.
Office: Rooma 3. 4 and 6. Morgan BIk
W. N. BARRETT
ATTORN EY-AT LAW
Hllliboro, Oregon.
Office: Central Block, Rooma 6 and 7
BENTON BOWMAN
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
Hllliboro, Oregon.
Ollke, In Union Blk., with H. B. Huston
THOS. II. TONGUK JR.
ATTORN KY-AT-LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
- JiTu : Rooms d, 4 and 5. Mortian Block
Hllliboro, Oregon.
8. T. LINKLATER. M. B. C. M.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Hllliboro, Oregon.
Office, upstairs, over The Delta Drug
Store. OHiee houre 8 to 12 ; 1 to 6, anil
in the evening from 7 to U o'clock.
J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D.
S. P. R. R. SURGEON
Hllliboro, Oregon.'
Rnlilencr corner Third and Main: offlee up
Uireover lellaitru .tor; noun, i.MIoUb.
lloi ami 7 to W p. m. Telephone lo reudenoe
from l)ell itniR More. Allcll promptly au
wared di or u I Kill.
F. A. BAILEY, M. D.
" rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Hllliboro, Oregon.
Office: Morgan-BaAey block. Bp
atalra, rooms U 13 and 16. Residence
8. W. cor. Base Line and Second tta.
both 'phones.
r. J. BAILEY, M. O.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Hllliboro, Oregon.
Office: -Morgan-Uailey block, up
atalra with K. A. Bailey. Residence,
N. K. corner Third and Oak ata.
a7b. BAILEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGKON,
Hillslxiro, Oregon.
OBIceover llnilejr's Pru Hlore. Offlo hour,
from .: l li; !: toe, end 7 to t. Keildeni
third huuM north of olty eleclrie llxhl plant.
Call, promptly attainted Uav or niht. Hoth
phone wpcaw
C. H. ATWOOD, M. D.,
HKAVHRTON, ORK.,
Confinements given special atten
tion. Calls attended to day or
night. No drug store bills. Office
and residence in Hobart property,
opposite livery stable. Both Phones
MARK B. BUMP,
ATTOKN KY-AT-LAW.
Notary Public and Collections.
HILLSIIORO, ORK.
Tree Delivery
Of the lest Fish, Game and
Meats. Our delivery is prompt
and in all parts of Ilillslwro.
We have inaugerated a
new Schedule in Prices
and this together with our de
livery system makes thisllills
boro's popular market.
Housley tf-Corwin,
...iBiBaBBBBBnaBaiBaaaanBiBanawBiananBaBBBBaniananaanannnnn
Announcement.
Having purchased the Central
Meat Market, we wish to announce
to former patrons and the public,
that we have established a free de
livery and have reduced the prices
on all meats. For the test cuts
and best service possible we res
pectfully solicit your patronage.
EMMOTT BROS.
Contractor
andBuilder
I am prepared to furnish plans
and specifications and estimate on
all kinds of buildings. Now is the
tune to get your plans ready for the
building season. Thirty years' ex
perience; satisfaction guaranteed.
S. M. 1IOLLAN D,
ItlLLSHORO, ORKOON.
Between ad and 3d St., on Edsou-
OREGON EDITORS
HOLD MEETING
AN ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING.
Patent Medicine Ada. Must Go
Fine Banquet-- Mny New Mem
bore Election of Officers.
The Oregon State Editorial Con
vention which met in the Tower
Room of the Portland Comraercia
club building last Friday and Sat
urday, was the largest attended and
most interesting and important ever
held by the association. Quite
number of tne newspaper men ar
rived in Portland 011 the early trains
Friday morning and joined with
members of the Oregon Develop
ment League in one ot the most en
thusiastic gatherings ever held by
that organization, .and if Oregon
does not grow, and its possibilities
and opportunities are not known to
the world, it will be no fault of the
energetic and earnest men who are
banded together for this very pur
poses.
At 2 o'clock the editorial meeting
was called to order bv President
Hendricks, of the Salem Statesman,
and after roll call it was found' that
there were more members in attend
ance than had ever attended a pra
vious meeting, and forty-two new
names were added to the list before
the afternoon adjournment. The
association met for business, and
business galore was transacted, all
of it pertaining to the interests of
the newspapers of the whole state
and of matters which will tend to
build up and make Oregon better
known to the world.
In the evening the Commercial
Club gave the editors and the mem
bers of the Developement League a
banquet, every chair on both sides
of the long table in the ladies' din
ing room being occupied. And
such a jolly crowd, and such a
feast! The enjoyment of that even
ing will long be remembered by
every lady and gentlemen present.
he toastmaster was II. M. Cake.
and Secretary Tom Richardson, as
is usual at all functions oi this na
ture, saw that every guest was
comfortable and happy. As there
is but one Cake and one Tom Rich
ardson, and everybody in Oregon
know and respect them, we have
only to add that lor an hour the
large assemblage was kept in a con
tinual roar. After the banquet a
reception was given in the parlors
of the Commercial club, followed by
a dance in the large dining room
At 9:30 Saturday morning the
editorial association again met in
the Tower room and at once set
tied down to business. The first
matter ot importance to be consid
ered was an iron-clad agreement to
get fair prices lor foreign advertis
ing and to do away entirely with
patent medicine advertisements,
and if auxiliary houses will not fur
nish "iusides" and "outsides" with
out this objectionable clas3 of ad
vertising, to print all the paper at
home. Many other matters were
acted upon, one of which relates to
advertising candidates for public
offices. It was resolved that poli
ticians will hereafter be compelled
to pay for all publicity he receives
through the columns of the local
newspapers at commercial adver
tising rates, nor will the acceptance
of such paid advertising bind the
newspaper to support the candidate
who pays for such advertising. The
report of the committee on uniform
rates was adopted unanimously.
The committees report is as follows:
That atl contracts for foreign adver
tising be made through the advertising
agent ot the Oregon Press Association at
the rates filed by the association, and
that in counties where memlwre of the
association compete with papers that are
not members of the association, this or
ganisation pledgee to its niemleri Its
full protection, and all comp'aints on
this subct must be taken up and vig
orously acted upon by the otTicen of the
association.
All papers (members of the associa
tion) shall enter into a written agree
ment with the advertising agent to abide
by all contracts entered into by him un
der the roles of the association.
We recommend that all member! of
the Oregon Preea Association discontinue
the allowance to the publishers of ready
prints for advertising space, being fully
assured that the profit on such advertis
ing, to say nothing of the additional
newa space, will more than compensate
the publisher for any increased price
that may be charged for their patents,
especially in view of the fact that this
association proposes to protect its mem
bers. On the matter of political advertising
we recommend that space be sold to can
didates on the same basis that it is sold
to commercial advertisers, no contract
carrying with it an express or implied
obligation binding the paper to the sup
port of such candidate, there being
minimum charge of t'2 50 per month for
candidates' cards in advertising column
It is the intention of the associa
tion to ask the legislature to pass a
law requiring the publication of al
new laws, and the more important
proceedings of the legislature in
two newspapers in each county be
fore the adjournment of the legis
lature; also to re-enact the law re
quiring the publication by tue
county newspapers of the officia
tax lists and assessments.
A. Bennett, of the Irrigon Irri
gator, offered a resolution that each
editor present pledge himself to for
ward a copy of his paper to Man
ager Tom Richardson, of the Com
mercial Club, in the interest of pub
licity, and the resolution was adopt
ed with a will.
Geo. II. I limes, of the Oregon
Historical Society, is very much op
posed to tne word Webloot as
used by many newspapers when
speaking of Oregon, and offeret
the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, As representative! of the
newspapers of Oregon it is certain that
our highest Interests as business men
will be best subserved by assisting to
make known to the world the oppor
tumtiee existing In our state with the
development of its latest resources for
the habitation of the human race, and
thus encouraging its settlement along
the varied phases of human achieve
ment; and, -
Whereas, We know that the object so
much desired cannot bo accomplished
otherwise than by unity of action on the
part of all Having the well-being: of our
commonwealth truly at heart, and
Whereas, it Is an eHtabliahed fact that
the unfortunate and persittent use by
our own people to a large extent of the
term "welloot" given to this stste in a
spirit of derixion by the people of a
neighboring state has diverted a laree
number of eople from settlement in our
mi mt ana consequently prevented the
investment of lance sums of money
much needed tn developing the re-
sourceNjwhich we know do exist; anil.
w nereah, w e know that the use of the
opprobrious term alluded to is untrue
nd unjust as can be conclusively proven
by reference to the eovernmnnt weather
bureau records, which show that at
least one-half of the states of the union
ve as much rainfall as Oreiron and a
number of them considerably more:
therefore, be it
ltesolved, That the Oreiron Press As
sociation, assembled in its annual meet
ing this 13th day of January, 1900, in
the rooms of the Commercial Club of
Portland, Or., will from thia data and
henceforth forever cease to use the word
webloot as now generally applied to
Oregon anil discourage all reference
thereto oil the part of others ; and, be it
lurtner
Resolved. That this association will
begin at once the use of the original
term by which the state was known,
amely, "The Heaver State," adopted
uring territorial days and used in early
statehood as emblematical of the habits
f the sagacious and industrious beaver.
as the most appropriate symbol of the
history and People of Oregon that could
have been selected from the treasury of
eraldry and which adorned the first
coinage in American territory west of
the Rocky Mountains, and was also the
crest of the first territorial seal.
The following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year:
President J. J. Hayter, Dallas Ob
server.
First Vice-President C. L. Ii-aUnd
Moro OIserver.
Second Vice-President E. II. Flairs.
St. Helena Mist.
Historian iieo. II. 1 limes. Historical
Quarterly, re-elected.
Secretary Albert Toiler. th linn
World, Portland.
Treasurer Miss F. E. Onii.hall Mt
Talmr, re elected.
Sergeant-at-Arms R. J. lUndrirk.
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
After selecting Newport as the
next place of meeting an4 naming
the following committees, the con
vention adjourned:
Executive Committee F. W. Chausse,
(rant's Pass Observer; J. 8. Stewart,
Fossil Journal ; K. H. Flagg, St. Helens
fliieij r.. r. ioiii, l'emlluton Tribune.
l-egulntive Committee H. t Mrv.
head, Junction City Times: W. J.
larke, Uervaia Star: R.J. II Amir inli m
Oregon Statesman, Salem ; C. L, Iieland)
.nuru umiTier a. Bennett, irriiron Ir
iirator: It. K. Kennnl. IUk.r fit.
Herald.
Finance Committee E. II. -Wood
ward, New berg Graphic; D. M. C.
Uault, Western Otegon, Cottage Grove;
O. W. Briggs, Engene Register.
Immigration Committee Arthur Con
klin, Oranl's Paaa Miniim Jmim.l . n
V. . Soule, Toledo leader; UN. Kel
sey, Shaniho Republican.
Grievance Committee P. W. Path
lillsboro Independent: V P Vi.vJ
Dallas Woodman, A Noltner, Portland
Kurai spirit.
Pot 8ale or Trade.
171 acres of well developed dairy land.
1 .j miles soutn of Tillamook, on theJ
the main road. Inquire at Farmers'
FeeJ Shed, Hillahoro, Oregon.
THE RURAL
EDITORS
AS VIEWED BY A CITY PAPER.
The Daily Oregcnlan Speaka Kindly
of and Also Critlclaea the
Country Publlahera.
The country editor has come
to
learn that the public always accepts
him at his own valuation. Jour
alism is both a business and a pro
fession. So far as it sells news as s
commodity, it is a business: so far
as it endeavors to direct public op
inion and to influence public action,
it is a profession. It is an honest
business to sell news; it Is an honest
profession to mold public sentiment.
if honestly done, tne average
country editor is not always sure of
his own status, because of the un
certain status of his calling. Some
country editors look upon them
selves as semi-public charges, like
many country preachers, and sub
sist largely on donations made
through the good nature and the
charity of their patrons or neigh
bors. This type, we hasten to add,
is rapidly disappearing from the
country press. If weekly journal
ism has not so high a place, in the
respect of its readers or the confi
dence of its advertisers as the coun
try editor thinks it should have, it
is entirely because he has failed to
take himself and his business or
profession seriously, and he has ac
cepted a place in the general esti
mation alongside the village joker,
the corner-gtocery orator and the
street-corner gossip.
The Oregon Press Association is
doing much to elevate the standard
of journalism in the state, and it is
setting an example in independ
ence, self-respect andcharacter that
may well be followed U neighbor
ing states. For example, the pa
pers in the organization have united
in a common plan to sell their space
to foreign advertisers at proper
rates, which is a good thing; but,
what is better, they have deter
mined that the advertising and ex
ploitation which the politicians are
ever seeking and usually getting
shall be paid for as advertising.
Newspapers have an intimate and
inescapable relation to politics, and
on that account they have ever
been used as vehicles to promote
the welfare of officeseekers and of
ficeholders. Under the direct pri
mary, the profession of officehold
ing becomes more than ever, an in
dividual and personal matter with
the officebunter and the average
newspaper, city and country, will
be more subject to the importuni
ties of the persistent man-after-a-job
for notice and commendation. It is
perfectly proper thing to require
pay tor such notice outside, ot
course, of current political news or
gossip; it is especially dishonest to
accept pay for commendation. The
distinction is clear. All newspa
pers understand it; the public un
derstands it. There is no chance
or excuse for anybody to be de
ceived about it. The Press Asso
ciation made it plain by adoption of
the following resolution:
In the matter of political advertising,
we recommend that apace be told to
candidates on the same basis that it is
sold to commercial advertisers, no con
tract for advertising carrying with it an
express or implied obligation binding
the paper to the support of such candi
date.
The Oregon Press Association
the country editor is now definite-
y committed to this correct policy.
Any person who seeks advertising
shall pay for it. Any person who
seeks newspaper favor on that ba
sis won't get it. All this is good
for the candidate, too. For exam
ple, when any office seeker is ap
proached with a proposition to pay
$ 1 00, or $200, or 6oo, or even $Soo
to a newspaper for advertising, it is
proper for him to inquire what
kind of advertising, who is to
write the advertisements, and
whether editorial support or com
mendation goes with it? If he
does not get editorial support, he
will then know whether or not he
really desires so much advertising
in that kind of a paper; and, if
t 1 . ... ...
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solemn and formal obligation to all
other paoers in the Oregon Press
Association. No doubt all the
others will do everything in their
power to heap on the venal journal
all the odium it deserves. We hope
so. We think so. Next year, if
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iucic ia reason 10 tninic that any
newspaper had thus violated the
high ethics of real journalism, and
broken faith with its fellow-journals
and with the public, we shall
expect to see an investigating com
mittee appointed by the association
with authority to ascertain the facts,
and to make them public.
Prom Professor Meyer's Book.
In this book on "Government
Regulation of Railway Rates,"
which was recently issued, Profes
sor Hugo R. Meyer of the Univer
sity of Chicago has written con
cerning the demand of the Inter
state Commerce Commissioners
that their power to fix rates may
be increased:
'"It is obvious that such power
over railway rates should giye the
commission precisely the same
power to check or promote the
trade and the industry of the sev
eral sections of the United States
that would be conferred on the com
mission by a law empowering that
body to establish at its pleasure
anywhere within the United Stales
protective tariff duties, such as the
several colonies habitually estab
lished before the formation of the
United States. It is still more ob
vious that congress never would en
ter directly upon the policy of regu-
ating the commerce among the
several states, bv thus re-establish-
ng customs barriers between the
several states. The power that
congress, for reasons of public pol-
cy, would not exercise in its own
right, should not be bestowed up
on an administrative bureau, the
nterstate Commerce Commission.
"The trade rivalries and section
al jealousies precipitated by the in
crease of completion among rival
producing regions, markets and dis
tributing points, resulting from the
ever-increasing elimination of dis
tance through improvements in the
means of transportation, aie so
fierce that no public body which
undertakes to intervene in those ri
valries and jealousies beyond the
point of guaranteeing that they
shall be settled - with intelligence
and in good faith can hope to es
cape the fate "of having to seek re
fuge behind the stone wall of some
hard and fast system of regulation
which admits of the exercise of lit
tle or no discretion."
For Sale.
Residence property close to business
center; hot and cold water, bath, elec
tric lights; large lots. In the city of
Ilillsboro. Cheap for cash. Address,
J. A. MESSINGER,
HillHboro, Oregon.
ne is to get if, he will understand
that the newsnaner i violatin
There's a lot of Satisfaction
In a shoo which after month's ot
wear, needs only polish to "Look
like new." You 11 find comfort,
ease and profit in the
Hamilton-Brown Shoes
will want something pretty and good. Come and
see our
School
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THIS EVENING
MISS GAIL LAUGMLIN.A.B..LL.B
WillSeeakte Beth Men and Women
n Woman Suffrae--She la
Brilliant Orator.
Miss Gail Laughlin, of New
York, will speak in the court house
this evening. Her subject will be
"The Constitutional Amendment
which will be submitted at the June
election. Miss Lauehlin is one of
the most noted woman attorneys in
this country. She is a member of
the New York bar and has been an
expert agent for the United States
Industrial Commission, and is an
enthusiastic apostle in the cause of
equal political ngnts tor women.
As a speaker she is forceful, witty
and thoroughly conversant with
the subject she has chosen. A
graduate of Wellesley College, she
entered Cornell University, where
she studied law and received her
degree. Miss Laughlin is an ex
ceptionally high grade speaker and
our people are fortunate in being
able to have her come to the city.
Her lecture is for both men and
women and it is hoped the court
room will be filled tonight.
Candidates By the People.
From Sslem Journal.
Under the direct primary law
there is no restriction on the num
ber of persons who may become as
pirants from any place.
The people will perform the sift
ing act in their respective parties
and the one man fot each office
who gets the highest vote will be
the nominee.
There will be a republican and a
democrat nominated for each office
under the operation of the direct
primary law, and then other parties
can nominate by assemblies of elec
tors and by petition.
In this manner a ticket will be
constructed by the people. It is a
new system in Oregon under which
each registered party voter acts as
a member of a nominating conven
tion.
But this system has been tried in
other states and is not found want
ing. It is not a perfect law, but
the principle is sound and will work
out right with some adaptions to
the needs of each community.
This experiment should be faith
fully tried in Oregon. It is as if
those trying it were walking
through a new forest and did not
know where they were coming out.
Still we can afford to trust, the
people in this matter, just as well
as we trust them in voting in the
same manner at the June election.
Their judgment is just as good in
selecting candidates as officials.
The Journal urges all to register
as republicans or democrats and
vour children OHOE..
Shoes
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 usually carried by an up-to-date Grocery House. Our
immense sales make it poaaifile for us to carry strictly fresh goods.
Not a shop-worn article in the establishment.
JOHN DENNIS.
The old Reliable Corner Grocery and Shoe Store
have a voice in making the tickets
of the respective parties. This is
our duty, or else we lose our right
to take part in the primary.
By registering as a partisan at
the primary you lose none ot your
rights as an independent citizen to
vote under the Australian ballot
for any candidate you see fit to sup
port in June.
The alignment cf voters is
changing to greater independence
and it is not the spirit of the direct
primary law to shackle any voter's
mind in making up his ticket.
Neither is the law intended to de
stroy party organization. If hon
estly lived up to it will rather abol
ish factious and make the people
stronger to secure good government
as a result.
Pour Peet ot Snow.
United States Inspectors Kdwards
and Fuller, who returned yesterday
from Newport, Washington, where
they inspected the steamer Elk, re
port that the snow at that point is
four feet on the level. They were
informed that the snowfall in the
Nez Perce and Kootenai countries,
near the headwaters of the Colum
bia river, is heavier than it has
been tor fifteen years.
This is accepted as being a pret
ty strong indication that there will
be unusually high water at Port-
and in June. The spring of 1804
is pointed to as "the year of the
flood" at Portland. During the
precediug winter heavy snowfalls
occurred in the mountains in which
rise the tributaries of the Columbia
and Snake rivets. Extremely hot
weather was experienced alone
about the latter part of May and
the snow melting rapidly, soon,
made the rivers more than bank
full. The backwater from the Co
lumbia caused the Willamette to
overflow and the main part of the
city up as far as Sixth street was
inundated Traffic alone the streets
was carried on by means of row-
boats.
Should a protracted period of hot
weather occur next spring as it did
in 1894 another flood is expected.
Rivermen say that the only thine
which will prevent it will be
changeable weather. In that event
the snow will melt gradually and
no disastrous effects will follow.
During the flood of 1804 much
property was destroyed. Portland
Telegram.
Voting: Women.
English women of the highest
rank and social position are accus
tomed to take a lively interest in
elections, and to vote for all offices
save for members of Parliament.
In the Isle of Man they have long
exercised full enfranchisement.
Australia has given women full suf
frage, as has also New Zealand.
The United States has approved of
much that is good in Australian po
litical methods, and has found it
advisable to copy the Australian
ballot system, it would therefore be '
in line with governmental advance
to emulate the modern, progressive
spirit of the inland continent, and
enfranchise the women of America,
who are surely the peers of their
Australian sisters.
IDA PORTER-BOYER.
V.
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