Image provided by: Hillsboro Public Library; Hillsboro, OR
About Hillsboro independent. (Hillsboro, Washington County, Or.) 189?-1932 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1906)
CUot!cl Bee!' wot imwpiemjifliewio Voia mk 33 HILLSBORO. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY t, 190,1 NUMIIER 51 Rillsboro Independent. BY I). W. BATH. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAI'FU. ON K IM)I.I.AK PKKYKAHIN ADVANt'C Republican in Politics. 4DVKHTIMINU It AT Hi I IllMy, 00 CVIlt an inch, single column, for four Inser lions; reading uotii-eii, one cent a word Civil Insertlou (nothing leu than 15 cents) ; professional card, one inch, (1 a month ; lodge card, $3 a year, pay ble quarterly, (notices and reeolutioi free to ad venial ng lodgee). PROFESSIONAL. CARDS. E. B. TONGJE ATTORNEY-AT LAW Hillaboro, Oregon. Office: Rooms 3. 4 and 6. Morgan Blk W. N. BARRETT ATTO RN EY-AT LAW Hillaboro, Ortgon. Office: Central Block, Rooms 6 and 7 BENTON BOWMAN ATTORN EY-AT-LAW Hillaboro, Oregon. Office, in Union lllk., with 8. B. Himton THOS. II. TONGU15 JR. ATTOUN KY-AT-LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Jllioe : Rooms J, 4 and 5, Morgan BlocK Hillaboro, Oregon. 8. T. LINK LATER, M. B. C. M. PHYSICIAN AND SUROEON. Hillaboro, Oregon. Otfke, upBtairs, over The Delta Drug Store. Otlice hours 8 to 12 ; 1 to 6, and in tlie evening Irom 7 to 9 o'clock. J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D. S. P. R. R. SURGEON Hillaboro, Oregon. Knidencd corner Thlnl and Main; offlea 'Up 4tir.orer lelldrug store; hour, i.aiu Ua. 1 to 6 ami 7 to p. in. TWapbou. to rendanc. from IxlitdriiK ior. All nlla promptly ana warad day or uixbl. f. A. BAILEY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hillaboro, Oregon. s Office: MorKan-Balley block, op atalra, rooms li?. 13 and 15. Realdence 8. W. cor. Base Line and Second sts. Both 'phonee. F. J. BAILEY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hillaboro, Oregon. Office: Morgan-Bailey block, up atalra with V. A. Bailey. Realdence, N. E. corner Third and Oak sts. A. B. IJAIUSY, M. D., PUYSICIAN AND SURGEON, IlillsWo, Oregon. Omc oer Builf jr'i Drug Htora. Oftloa houn rrom ,M tat 12; l;oo lott, and 7 to . Knldem third limine nortli of olljr oluotrle lixht plant. Calla promptly alleudad day or main Uoto phuueV. w.pta MARK 3. DUMi', ATTOKNHY-AT-LAW. Notary Public aud Collections. HILLSBORO, ork. Tree Delivery Of the lest Fish, Game and Meats. Our delivery is prompt and in all parts of Hillaboro. We have inaugeratcd a new Schedule in Prices and this together with our de livery system makes thisllills boro's popular market. Housley tF-Corwin, Announcement. Having purchased the Central Meat Market, we wish to announce to former patrons and the public, that vLf have established a free de- euu - livrv and have reduced the prices on all meats. Tor the best cuts and best service possible we res pectfully solicit your patronage. EMMOTT BROS. DR. A. A. BURRIS, jVIagnetic Osteopath, HlLLSBORO, Oregon .-.! . without ilrmra or eur mrr V mannetic osteopathy, the new science ol uriiuiea " tion r. HW over the bakery. ram I am prepared to furnish plans and specifications aim -"" -.i i.:' i r Knil.lines. Now is the time to get your phjns ready for the .... ... THrlir -ar ex- ldmc season. wj j --- perience; satisfaction guarantee S. M. HOLLAND, HlLLSBORO. OREGON. Between 2d and yl St. on VAjoo. Telephone, Taciflc flatee, Main 2.4. Eon tn mi HlLLSBORO 26 YEARS AGO OF INTEREST TO OLD-TIMERS Culled from an Old Copy ef The Hillaboro Independent-. Very Many Deaths Noted.. We have before us a copy of The Hillsboro Independent of the date of February a6, 1880, twenty-si x years ago. It was loaned us by Tames Lamkin. who was at that time a dealer in stoves, hardware, etc., on Main street. He has marked the names oi the men who were doing business here at that time who have either gone away or laid down the burdens and cares of life and crossed to the other side. Counted by years, a quarter of a century is not so very long, but the change in the population of Hills boro has been great, and when the fact is stated, and it is a fact known to Mr. Lamkin personally, that forty-eight persons who were active in the business affairs of this city at the time of which we write, are now dead. The Independent was then pub lished in the old court house build ing by H. B. Luce, and to his credit we wish to say that he gave this city and county a good news paper and in return received a lib eral share of public patronage. The tax question was agitating the public mind at that time as it is now, and in a leader on the editorial page" we find that "honest men, who return their properly for as sessment honestly, and who have no debts, and whose property can not in any way escape taxation, are the men who have to support the burden of taxation." In another paragraph in the same article the editor says that "in this county, taxes have been steadily increasing until now the county and state tax have reached nine teen mills"; and that the supervis ors' bi'Is for their own individual services at the last term of county court, amounted to $1,500." Another item notes that the snow is three inches deep at McMinnville, nine at Portland and two to five feet in the "hills" and going off rapidly. A Union Greenback Labor party convention of Washington county is called to meet in the court house March tt, to nominate a full county ticket, and no proxies allowed. "Buck" Meyer says that "Wappato is to Washington county in the coming election what Oregon was to the Union in the piesidential election." The editor adds, "We are informed by a prominent chief of the "reservation" that "Buck" won't know how he will stand po litically until after the county con vention. He says if the repub licans don't make just the right kind of nominations 'we will beat them sure as ." Whether the prophesy of "Buck's" came true or not will have to be left with people of the '8o's. The paper says that Gov. Thayer has just pardoned another batch oi prisoners and it keeps Judge Cap les working hard to put them in prison as fast as the governor par dons them out. At a meeting of the literary society Dr. F. A. Bail ley read a paper on "Man,' which is said to have been a very able ar tide. The article takes strong grounds against Darwinism. Mrs. Duniway oi the New, North west, is accused of misrepresenting the faculty of the facinc University "when she says that they would not admit a certain boy into the school" because the lad's mother, who lived in Portland, had a shady reputation. The women suffrag ists were in evidence at that time and a half column is devoted to reso lutions passed at a convention held in Portland the week before. A force of fifteen men, says the Ore gonian, is employed at Tillamook rock, preparing the foundation for the new lighthouse. Some fire-bug had attempted to burn the West Union school house, and it is sup posed the "bug" is a resident of that neighborhood. Hillsboro peo ple are solicited to contribute to the fund for the building of the Nehalem road by the way of Man ning's mill, and the paper wants to know if they , will respond. "A pleasant party was held atG. N. Hale's last week." and "Sheriff Matthews has been confined to his house for some time with catarrh.' "Providence permitting, Rev. Wm. Roberts will preach in the M. E. church Thursday afternoon," and the people of the Grove "will please read the notice about the graveyard in our advertising col umns." Willie Brown, a compos itor in The Independent office left for the country east of the Cascades that week, accompanied by Wm. Wiley, and W. II. Bronson, of Uniontown, Pa., whose friends live in Washington Co., died in thatcity after a short illness. He was cared for and buried by good charitable people. A daughter was born to the wife of Alex. Chalmers on the 4th, a daughter came to the home of A. Gordon on the 12th, and on the 23rd the wife of Philips Frakes was made the proud mother of a 1 1 pound son. The paper grows sarcastic and under the head of "The Frightened Bachelors," says: "It is leap year and the bachelors of the county who have long worshipped lovely woman at a distance, are trembling in their boots," and to escape the wiles of the fair sex, a lot of the "boys" commit matrimony among them selves and went to living together, two and two "down on the Tuala tin." Here's the way they are paired off: John McKernan and John McMahon; two bachelors by the name Wedkings; Geo. Camp bell and Al Williams; Lafayette McFadden and L. U. Ingraham; W. Ingraham and W. W. Carpen ter. Also in Tualatin, M. L. Nichols is badly scared." Among the personals it is noted that H. G. Guild, formerly editor of this paper, visited Hillsboro last week, and that he is traveling agent and cor respondent of the Portland Daily Bee; W. D. Pittenger and family went on a visit to Astoria last week, and State Supt. Powell was in town visiting the schools. v In the Farmington items "Mr. J. Hume has reset his house which the storm blew off of its founda tion; the Tualatin river is badly blocaded with fallen timber, and it is hoped the county court will take some steps toward opening it; W. E. Ennis, who was thought to be improving has taken worse and is bleeding at the lungs again. And so it goes through the four teen columns of this paper devoted to Hillsboro and vicinity, all newsy and crisp to the readers of that time, but will be scanned over as an almost forgotten dream by those who were residents of Hillsboro before and since 1880. Among the advertisers in The In dependent at that time were: Dr. G. L. Hord, F. Crang, M. D., E. Brown, physician and surgeon; T. B. Hadley, T. W. Pettinger, Thos. II. Tongue, and Shattuck & Killin, all attorneys; J. Withycombe, vet erinary surgeon, F. A. Bailey, M. D.; F. B. Jolly, notary public; Wil son Bowlby, M. D.; Dr. R. Price; Siegrest & Haugg, meat market; R. I?. Wiley, grocer and liquor dealer; Riley Cave, hardware; A. C. Arch- bold, clothing and general mer chandise; Henry Wehrung, pro prietor Hillsboro furniture empor ium; John R. Potter & Son, nur sery; G. W. Taylort harness shop; D. L. Turpin, proprietor St. Joseph hotel; Geo. W. Axell, house painter; L. L. William, proprietor "the bule tin board''; A. S. Dudley, proprie tor Orient Mills; Chas. McKinney, livery stable; Thos. D. Humphrey, real estate; Mary A. Brown, post mistress; Bowlby's drug and book store; Chas. T. Tozier, insurance agent; Guild & Weatherred, insur ance agents; Wm. Jolly and Wm B. Jolly, pioneer lumber yard; Tu alatin Hotel, D. L. Leathers, pro prietor; W. D. Tittenger, clothing, dress goods, nails, rope soap and saleratus; J. C. Lamkin, hardware; E. M. Brown, drugs, Chas. H. Pio, boot and shoemake; P. B. South- worth, cigars and cigarettes; Miller (Continued on Laat Tage.) S. H. ELLIOTT FATALLY BURNED WAS IN BED HELPLESS. Fire Thought to Have Been Started by a Defective Flue--Houee Total Leea. S. II. Elliott, who lived with his aged wife and son Sherman on a farm about three miles north of Hal vetia, met with a horrible death last Monday. Mr. Elliott was 78 years of age aud was so paralyzed that he bad no control of bis limbs whatever, and was compelled to re main in bed. About 9:30 Monday morning his aged wife and son Sherman were working in a field near by when they discovered flames issuing from the house. They hurried to the scene of confla gration, but were unable to get in to the old gentleman, as the flames had enveloped the whole building, and the poor invalid was roasted to death. A report reached this city that Mr. Elliott had aet fire to the bed- clothing while smoking in bed, but this is said to be impossible, as the unfortunate man was unable to use his hands at all. It is thought the fire started from a defective flue. Mr. Elliott was a native of Ken tucky, coming to Oregon in 1850, and to Washington county in 1854. Seven children survive him, Thos. and Wm. Elliott, of Portland, the latter ex-city engineer; Samuel Elliott, Fisher Wash., Mrs. Mary Wirtz, Portland, Ladd Elliott, Day ton, Wash., Sherman Elliott, who lived with the old folks on the farm, and Mrs. C. W. Redmond of this city. ' The funeral was held on Wednes day from the residence of his daugh ter, Mrs. Redmond, and .the re mains were taken to I. O. O. F. cemetery for interment, followed by a large number of relatives and friends. Rev. Kilpatrick, of the Congregational church, preached the funeral sermon and briefly told of the early life of the old pioneer, payind a worthy tribute to his memory. He had lived a long, eventful and useful life, and goes to the tomb honored by all men. The Marriage of Alice. Charles B. Wolf, editor of the Alton, (Iowa) Democrat, writes off the following about the Roosevelt Longworth wedding: "Alice is married at last. The soil torn up in the scuffle has been replaced. The store teeth and sus pender buttons and tutts of hair that marked the scene are gathered np. The storks that hovered over Washington homes have recovered from their fright and once more are perched upon the chimneytops. The earth has resumed it course around the sun and old Vesuvius has ceased to spout escalloped mud. The polar expeditions which have lain at anchor in the ocean calm the while the moon hung motion less over Washington City are moving north again and the Rus sian rebels have renewed their fight. Perhaps next week our brindle cat may have the kittens she postponed in honor of the great event. Ever since she debutted in to society four years ago Alice has been hopping about like a sparrow on a hot tin roof. There has been constant danger that she would stampede the cabinet with her poodle and pet garter snake or de- demoralize the senate with one of her skirt dances and acrobatic stunts. With proposals enough to paper her bedroom and suitors so thick on the steps that guests naa to crawl in and out of the pantry window, she was fast becomine a menace to the Morman church. The sports who danced about with pockets full of salt while she played sparrow now will get some sleep. It rejoices me that Alice is wed. I trust it will settle her nerves. Her catch is a congressman from Ohio whose maiden name was Nic Longworth, and it is recorded that he oroTJosed to Alice seven times which leads us to suzzest that be should be rebuilt with a throwoff lever at the back like a repeater alarm o'clock. Society has regard ed Nic as merely a necessary ad junct to. the ceremonies, like the corpse at a funeral, and notxxly has ever given him a present except the Apache Indians, who presented him a buffalo vest with the hair on after noting by his picture that he wears a horseshoe stickpin with the sang froid of old Geronimo him self. The top of Nic's head is bald as a singed door-knob scalded in lye water and his square cut mustache resembles the flounces on a mule's tail. Teddy insisted that everything connected with the wedding should be carried out with the simple taste of a Vanderbilt, to harmonize with his love for the common people. He and the hired man built a plat form of planks and beer-keg in the east room and decorated the house in humble style with asparagus and four thousand dollars worth of cut flowers. There was a floral bell with doves on it over the platform and the beer-kegs were covered with cotton batting. Some of the guests tried to blow it off during the ceremony. In keeping with his dislike of ostentation Ted had intended the hired girl play a sim ple wedding march on the organ, but she dropped a flatiron on her toe and couldn't pedal, so he had to get a thousand dollar orchestra from New York. It was hid be hind a bank of flowers, however, so the common folks wouldn't notice the change. Alice and Nic dressed upstairs where it was less crowded and came down the elevator. It was feared to trust Alice on the stairs lest she get nervous and slide down the banister and tear her gown. Among the simple society folks of Ted's set gown means dress and not nightshirt as in the rural dis tricts. Soldiers headed the proces sion and ushers brought up the rear with Alice in between leading her father, who was dressed in a new Buster Brown suit, Press re ports say that the ushers were dressed in light trousers. They were probably made of chiffon. There is no mention of any other clothing, but it is probable they also wore neckties. The trousers may have been light merely in color. An aisle mad of ropes covered with ribbon was construct ed to keep Ted from bolting with a snort in case his plebian soul re volted at the smell of society and also to prevent the Rockefellers and other common folks from hogging all the standing room. Nic's paja mas having shrunken in the wash he spent a restless night and was looking pale in the conventional black. Alice seated her father and led Nic to the altar and the preach er mumbled , something and the simple souls in the audience whis- r. . . - a a t J a.l pered how nice tney looiceu ana mc preacher wanted to know who gave Alice away and Ted said he done it and showed his teeth and Alice felt of her belt and it was over. There's a lot in n el, which wear, needs only polish to "Look like new." You'll find comfort, ease and profit in RHmilLUIrDIUWli oiiugo your children will want something pretty and good. Come and see our School AM!WUl4lJr(fJYjj SHOE US. 0CNIC. LAC 'SH0E THE OUTLAW FATALLY SHOT BY HARRY DRAPER OF SPOKANE Trailed by Bleodhounde--Kllled Two Men While Attempting Eaoap... Burled at Oregon City. Harry Draper, of Spokane, shot the outlaw, Frank Smith, in the neck while he was hiding behind a log near the town of New Era, Tuesday morning. Bloodhounds tracked the outlaw to his place of concealment, and Draper, after asking the poor wretch if his name was Smith, and being answered in the affirmative, fired a bullet into his neck, not waiting to give the desperado an opportunity to add another to his list of three mur ders within a week. On April 20, Smith robbed a store at Parkplace; on the 22nd he robbed the postoffice at Troutdale, was captured and put in jail at Portland, and on the 23rd escaped. April 24th he robbed a store at Oregon City and in an at tempt to escape, he shot and killed Officer Hanlon. On the 25th he robbed a store at Canby; on the 28th shot Sheriff Shaver aud Captain Henderson at Woodburn, from the effects of which both died shortly after, and on May 1, he was shot and killed by Draper. Such in brief, is the history of a man whose record of crime is ex ceeded only by Tracy who defied the whole country, marked his trail with blood, and finally ended his miserable existence by committing suicide. No disposition has yet been made of the $ 1,500 reward of fered for Smith, dead or alive. By an understanding that existed be tween the authorities and Draper. owner of the bloodhounds, one- half of the reward money goes to him. Field, Garden and Flower Seeds for sale at R. II. Greer's. All kinds and a full stock. Weather Report. The weather last week was cloudy and showery up to Saturday, when clearing weather set in, and Sunday and Monday were warm, sunshiny daya. The show ers, although generally light, were well distributed and were very welcome on account of previous dryness, which had parched the soil and caused the roads to become very dusty. During the show ery period very little sunshine prevailed, and the temperatures at night were about normal and in the afternoon they were slightly below normal. Light frosts occurred in the southern and east ern sections on the morning of the 20th. There were no high winds. Huff Orpington eggs for aettlnc, fl.00 for 13. D. L. Shrode, Cornelius. 01 Have you paina in the back, inflam mation of any kind, rheumatism, faint ing spells, indigestion or constipation, Hollister's Rocky Mountain lea manes you well, keeps you well. 85 cents. Delta Drag Store. Ml of Satisfaction after month's ot the jm. Shoes No better made. No better can be made. Our guarantee goes with Our line o GROCERIES is the finest in thecounty. Everything usually carried by aa .p-to-date Orocery House. Our lmmenaesilesmaksitpoair.!foroatocarry strictly fresh goods. Not a shop-worn article ia the eetabliahmeai. JOHN DENNIS. The old Reliable Corner Grocery and Sloe Store Public Iload Not a Ilace Course. Centexville, Or., April 26, 1096. Dear Editor: Last Sunday after noon the road north of Centerville seemed to have quite an attraction for some of our people, and under the circumstances, it is sate to say they were not the cream of society nor our best citizens, for the at traction was a horse race, and on the public highway. I do not know much of the particulars, but have heard that one of the horses belonged to a saloon keeper. This energetic fellow might be an exam ple to us. His enthusiasm in serv ing the devil might well put to shame some of us who in a half hearted way are trying to serve the Lord. This has been called the "wild and woolly west," and some of our people seem to be wild, woolly and lawless, but we are not all that way. Some of us lay claim to being just a little bit civilized, and are neither barbarians nor sav ages, (and we dou't want those out side of the community to think so), but have some regard both for the laws of God and man. There are scores of decent and honorable farm ers aud others around here who are opposed to this kind of lawlessness. And we hope our county authorit ies are not yet dead to a sense of duty. It would seem that our county ought to be improving, but I cannot recall any of the settlers of thirty or forty years ago who would have debased themselves by coun tenancing anything of this kind. Oh, yes, they had their good times, their races and scrub races, but at the county fair not on the public road nor on Sunday. In the name of the law-abidiug citizens of Centerville and vicinity, I am Yours, etc., Francis Chalmbrs. Have you weakness of any kind stomach, back, or any organs of the body? Don't dope yourself with ordi nary medicine. Hollititeri Itocky Mountain Tea is the supreme curative power. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. The Weekly Oregonian and The Hills boro Independent, both one year for 2. THROUGH DTAH AND COLORADO Ca.tl. Cata, Canon th..Crand, Black Canan, Marshall and Tan n.as.a P.aeaa, and th World . .Iimcui Royal Corg. For DencrlptlTa and IlluKtrated I'amphleU writ lo W. C. McBRIDE.Cen. Agt jiiuLuv. b'st YWkM 1 . j.' every pair.