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n!itet!cl Bct't?? H 14 Volume 3 IIILLSBOUO. WASHINGTON COUNTY, ORKGOX, FRIDAY. MAY IS, l'JOG. Number 1 Ml fiillsboro Independent. BY D. W. BATH. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPFK. ONK DoI.I.AK Hr.K YKAKIN ADVANC Republican in Politics. Aovkktihinu Katks: Dixplay, 60 cents n inch, single column, (or (our Inner turns; reading notices, one cent a word ewh insertion (nothing Irsa than IS emit) ; professional card, on Inch, mouth ; lodge carda, 5 a year, paya Lie quarterly, (notices and resolutions free to advertising lodges). I PROFESSIONAL CARDS. E. B. TONGUE ATTORN&Y-AT-LAW Hlllaboro, Oregon. Office: Room 3. 4 and 6. Morgan Blk W. N. BARRETT ATTORNEY AT LAW Hlllaboro, Oregon. Office: Central Block, Rooms 6 and 7. BENTON BOWMAN ATTORNEY-AT LAW Hlllaboro, Oregon. Office, in Union Ulk., with H. B. Huston TIIOS. II. TONGUE JR. ATTORN KV-AT-LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Jllice : Kooiui 6, 4 and 5, Morgan Block Hlllaboro, Oregon. S. T. LINKLATER, M. B. C. M. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Hlllaboro, Oregon. Office, upstairs, over The Delta Drug Store. Office houra 8 to 12 j 1 to 6, and In the evening from 7 to U o'clock. J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D. 8. P. R. R. 8URQEON Hlllaboro, Oregon. Rnldonct coriior Third and Main: offles op lairauTar itellaclrug lore: nmira, .ouiuwm. I lu Sand 7 lot p. ui. Telophuue lo reaidoutw from ilrim Mora. All call! promptly au wared day or limb I. r. A. BAILEY, M. O. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hlllaboro, Oregon. Office: Morgan-Bailey block, op atalra, rooma 11', 13 and 15. Realdence 8. W. cor. Haae Line and Second its. Both 'puone. F. J. BAILEY, M. O. PHYSICIAN AND 8URGEON Hlllaboro, Oregon. Office: Morgan-Ualley block, up atalra with F. A. Bailey. Realdence. N. E. comer Third and Oak ita. A. B. HAILKY, M. D., PHYSICIAN ANO SURGEON, Hillsboro, Oregon.. om oyer lUllejr'a Drug Store. Office hour rrom H,;i u U, l:uu lo, and 7 lo . Kwddenor third houiw north of olljr eleolrlo plant. Call, promptly ailendad day or ulnlil. Hotn 'phnnea. pU8-u4 MARK 1). HUMP, ATTORNRV-AT-LAW. Notary Fublic and Collections. HILLSBORO, ORK. Tree Delivery Of the liest Pish, dame and Meats. Our delivery is prompt and in all parts of Hillstmro. We have inaugerated a new Schedule in Prices and this together with our de livery system makes this Hills boro' s popular market. Housley J-Corwin, 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 best cuts and best service possible we res pectfully solicit your patronage. EMMOTT BROS. DR. A. A. BURRIS, jVIagnetie Osteopath, Hillsboro, Oregon Diseases cured without drugs or aiir aery by magnetio osteopathy, the new Science o( dnigless healing. Consult tion (re. Offire over the hakerv. Contractor and Builder I am prepared to furnish plans and specifications and estimate on all kinds of buildings. Now is the time to get your plans ready for the building season. Thirty years ex perience; satisfaction guaranteed. S. M. HOLLAND, HILLSBORO, OREGON. Between 3d and 3d St., on Kdscm. Telephone, Taciflc State, Main Z74. EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCES AS TOLD TO DR. LINKLATER By Twi Washington County Young Ladies Who Were In San Fran, iseo During the Oiaaater. Recently the parents ol the Misses F.va and Alma Lund, who live on a small farm on the road be tween Cornelius and Centerville, were overjoyed at the return ol these young ladies lrom San Fran cisco, where they had gone through a never-to-be-forgotten experience in the great earthquake. Miss Kva was undergoing a course of training in the Methodist National Training School and Deaconess Home in that city, from which institution she did considerable missionary wotk among the poor and the Chi nese. Miss Alma was employed in a mercantile establishment. On Thursday of last week they were the guests of Mrs. Linklate in this city and in an interview Miss Eva said: The first thine I observed after being shaken off my couch bed was the tottering of the surround ing buildings and the crashing fall of a big frame structure next to our Home. There was a rumbling sound and the air seemed filled with a general crashing and crushing of buildings and the shrieks of tern fied and injured people. The streets were lined with people in all kinds of undress, who after their first shock seemed awe-struck and poke in whispers as if in dread of something indefinable. Fires were raging in a few minutes in several places. Only one man per ished in the fallen buildings near us and that was by gas suffocation, though many were badly injured. People were rushing about crying for aid to buried and injured loved onesjand iriends, and not a few such were bleeding themselves One of my first thoughts was for Alma's safety, and after hurriedly dressing I ran in the direction of her resi dence which was beyond the V'alen cia Hotel. The ground was bil lowy and great cracks had opened (chiefly lengthwise) in Valencia street. As I neared the hotel my heart sank for there was the host lery down, crushed, and partly sunk into a great crevice, a heap of ruins, and water was gushing irom broken water mains down among the debris, drowning those in the lower stories. Trobably a hundred men were doing all they could to extricate the victims. As I passed, a man seemingly dead, was being pulled out. Arriving at Alma's home I found she had run to look tor me." "Yes" said Miss Alma, "I ran down past the Valencia hotel on my way to find Eva. Oh, it was awful, the sight of the fallen build ings and men tugging and lifting and trying to save those being killed by crushing and drowning. I heard them calliug out to a man away down in the ruins and I could hear his muffled voice in reply. I could see the burst-water and gas pipes down in the deep cracks in the street." "On my way back to find Alma," continued Miss Eva, "I saw so many people who were injured, and one old lady who seemed in great pain, I just felt I could not past without at least saying a kind word to. She told me her leg was broken above the ankle, but she was drag ging herself along. While we were speaking an automobile from the Emergency hospital came in tight and I assisted her into it. From the Home a Sister and Alma and I went to the Mechanic's Pa vilion, which was being used as a morgue and an emergency hospita1, to see if we could be of use. We found, however, that sternjr hands than ours were doing all the work, and it was much. They soon stopped taking the dead there and shortly after to a. m., they had to leave it to the flames which had be gun to devour the once great and lovely city. Being unable to help in any way, we returned to the Home, but on the way we were impressed J very gratefully at the great service beiug rendered the injured and helpless by the auto mobiles which were darting from all quarters ahead of the flames with their precious loads of human ity. In the afternoon we cookea food in the streets and handed to the never resting chafleurs and to the hungry passing us. When night came we went up into th tower of the Home and sat spe bound, seeing the great city being burned. No lights were in the citv only the one great light of the holocaust. But the following day. (Thurs day) was really the most fearful day of any, as the fire had got beyond all possible control, notwithstand ing the dreadful destruction done by the dynamiters. Smoke and heat were dreadful; thirst was un bearable by the fleeing multitudes and dust from the dynamiting was suffocating. Many fell exhausted none hardly had slept, and so when people fainted it was so hard bring them to, as we found them iu clined to become comotose, and it was very difficult to get cold water for them. We used camphor freely instead and aromatic ammonia We assisted in the case of a gallan tiremau wno was carried on an ex press wagon four blocks before any water could be found. Somebody offered him whiskey as he revived but he swept it aside saying it was against the military law. Hot cinders tell like snow and Alma had a new jacket riddled with little holes. On authority of a Red Cross re lief officer we went into the refu gees' camp nearby and searched for sick women and children and with the aid of the soldiers brought tnose in immediate need to our home. In a short time we had fifty uuder our care. One little boy had a leg broken, but the suf ferings of the infants were terrible. Imagine the sudden conditions of beat, suffocating smoke, thirst. and hunger for nourishment. Oh! I shall never forget their feeble ties pait ing wails as they would subside into oblivion exhausted, while their frantic mothers suffered a heart thrust with every wail. Often do I wish I could forget some of these scenes. I only saw one man shot down and in lh circumstances I think it might have been necessary to maintain discipline. The pres ence of the soldiers gave us a feeling of safety and they were as full of help as they were of stern duty Their thousands of kind deeds have been unfortunately lost sight of un der a lew misdeeds or misunder standings. The city was bright all this night and Friday night from the confla gration. It was dreadful to con template the situation the thous ands of homes being burned in one great holocaust and the hundreds of thousands of homeless people whose all, was being destroyed and really the worst of it was the feeling of helplessness, induced by the origin of the whole catastrophe the want of stability of the very fonndation of the earth. "Many rumors of other dire cal amities were rapidly circulated, such as the destruction of Portland. Seattle, St Louis, Chicago, etc. Many were determined to make you listen to the fact that they had always prophesied the event of San Prancisco s destruction, while oth ers thought it the beginning of the end of all earthly things. There was far more self-sacrifice than self ishness infinitely more. Big, hun gry men, who woked themselves exhausted, to help others would give up their share of bread to those unable to secure a supply. By Friday morning order was be ing displayed in the dealing out of supplies. Our baker had, however, sent out all his loaves to his cus tomers, as he saw inevitable de s'ruction coming to his store. Even yet great hardships exists. We got a letter a few days ago from a friend saying she had sent a loaf of new bread from Oakland to her brother as a birthday gift. "After the conflagration had spent itself, darkness at night came on, thick with the fog of the bay and the overhauling smoke. Thi gloom was very distressing. An omnious silence accompanied it, and people sat and talked in whis pers. It seemed as if everything was gone. One could think that a period had come when only mem ories were left, and that the only things in life of ultimate real value were little good deeds performed, self-denials exercised and tempta tions overcome." Chicken for Sale. One down lull-blood black Minorca hen and rooeter, and half-doten lull blood Harred Plymouth Rock hem an J rooeter. Lastyear' chicken. Particu lars at this otnce. A PROSPEROUS HAPPY LODGE IS BUTTE GRANoc NQ U8 Own Ita Own Hom,, Meeta Every Montn, ."o a.iwaya Haa a Ledge ,,, rul, In the southeast part of Washing ton county, at a country villiage called Tigardville, g00(i many years ago was organized a P. of II. Order called Butte Grange No. 148, the founders, of which in their far sighted wisdom, built their own hall and later added a kitchen with a full equipment of everything necessary tor having a good dinner every meeting day. This Grange lias prospered from the beginning and now numbers 1 10 members in good standing. It holds iu regular meeting on the fourth Saturday of each month, and the latch-string is always hang ing out to all members of the Order. At each meeting the lecturer has a program. 1 ne program for May meeting follows: Song by the Grange. Quotations. Emma Wood, Min nie Shamburg, John Tigard, Geo. Smith. Johanna Pollard and Emma Holmes. Instrumental music, B. G. Leedy and Gussie Tigard. Question: What are the chief reasons for the thorough cultivation of the soil, by A. Gustin. Solo, Clara Morin. Select reading, Lizzie Vincent. History of Oregon State Grange by W. S. M., B. G. Leedy. Recitation, Annie Nicoli Instrumental Music. Question. ."What is the best spray for henhouse.'' Fred Green- berg. Select ReV2,"sa Tigard. . j .1 .. r 1 OUg, -UXQWer UOUUttl Discussion, 'What are tne best and cheapest faclni materials in your locality," bjihe Grange. Samuel Weave Experiences in San Fincisco. Air. w eaver ; sa brother of Mrs. Claude Greear.jc this city, and as stated in Tha Iidependent last week, Is here vising after the San Francisco catastophe. He says My bed was shakn violently about three feet out frra the wall, and the door of my ram opened, though it had a Yale loc. I dressed be fore leaving ray room, making a record for celertv. The back of the house was kit open; the rear of the Iroquois fotel next door was partly torn dott and several peo pie killed. The ruins were ablaze from broken elecsic wires. People crowded the middle of the street, owing to falling walls and cornices; dead people and wounded were soon being hurried in express wagons or automobiles, and the fires soon be- came terrinc. ; ine people wouiu stampede in one direction or an other or back, according as they could get out of reach of fires or blocked streets. At the corner of Fourth and Market streets I heard some one yelling that a large build lag there was coming down. Many people were injured in the wild and needless crush that ensued, for it did hot fall. "At Seventh and Folsom streets I began to notice the dazed, aimless expression on the faces of some peo ple. For example, a woman there was tenderly holding a big doll to her breast, evidently in the belief that it was her own baby. One poor old man was tottering along with a loaf of bread as the only thing he had rescued. I, myself, was less fortunate in that way, as I had only my laundry under my arm, and I would cheerfully have exchanged that for a loaf of bread before 10 o'clock that evening. when in Franklin park I tasted the first food for the day in the shape of a few teaspoonfuls of canned sal mon, given me by a woman, and that had to suffice until noon next day. In this park I saw the body of a man who had been shot by the soldiers, owing to some robbery or attempt robbery. I forgot to ay that about 10 o'clock In the morn ing I saw two men shot at a top window of a five-story rooming house. No chance of escape was possible and they were yelling for help, and this was the only humau act in the power of the soldiers. "I slept on my overcoat in the park that night. It was not cold, for the air was comfortable, only cinders and ashes fell freely. Next day, Thursday, the fire had extend ed for miles, and I may say the re flection of the fire in the bay was grand. "About 3 p. ra. Thursday, I took the ferry to Sausalito and walked to Fort Baker, a distance of four miles. It was a great and terrify ing sight to see the conflagration as I walked along. I got a bed there and was comfortable enough, only it was a rather long distance to go back to Sansilito twice a day for meals, viz , 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. I believe I eat as much here with Claude at one meal as I did in the five, days there, but I was thank ful to get what I did. There was very much suffering among the people with families in their escap ing, and we could do but little to help." Says the Silverton Apieal: lo theae days of itrife between two great politi cal partiea we must remember that, after all, we are just a band of brothers here on earth, traveling from the cradle to the grave. We live aide by aide, our children attend the aame achool, and after the amoke of the battle clean away we will still be friends and neigh- bora. Lei the bitter things go unsaid. At beat, life is short and we get out ot it a full measure of sorrow. There ia a feeling in the air that the republicans of Oregon, with a normal majority of 10,000 votes, are becoming tired of seeing the best offices in the state fillod by democrats, and are wait ing until the June election to place these offices in republican hands again, where they rightly belong. Ia Oregon to he a republican state or a democratic state? Here we have a democrat for governor, a democrat (or United States senator, a democrat (or supreme judge, a demo cratic mayor ol Portland .and a demo cratic alien" 01 Multnomah county, and all elected, directly or indirectly, by re publican votes. Small wonder that the democratic newspapers protent against the republican papers urging a straiuht party vote. The democrats have all to gain and nothing to lose by breaking up party lines in Oregon, and being in the minority, cannot he blamed for patent ing against a straight party vote. It is shrewd politics on the part of the minor ity to pursue such a course, w hich is all the better reason why a republican should cast a straight republican ballot In th. approaching election. The repub licans have allowed themselves to be cat-hopped long enough. Polk County Observer. Olympic Flour, the liest flour on the market, at It. H. Greer's. u'an,l" Gentleman or lady with good reference to travel by rail or with a rig, for a firm ol i.vhj.iiou.uu capuai. Salary $1,072.00 per year and expenses; salary paid weekly and expanses ad vanced. Address, with stamp, Jos. Al exander, Hillnhorn, Ore. Alti-Tone, the new spring medicine guaranteeJ. The Delta Drug Store. I There's a lot of Satisfaction in a shoo which after month s ot wear, needs only polish to "Look . -uRWlWH 1:1... ' ... You'll find comfort, ..iiTflND1" case and ,,roflt in Hamiiton-Druwii oiiuua mm&m g will want something pretty and good. Come and see our School AMI SH0E ; THEIR BUBBLE SMASHED WITHYCOMBE'S CITIZENSHIP. He Haa Voted th. Straight Republl- oas Tlek.t Ever Sine Ho B.cam. f Aga. The following letter frotu'Hon. James Withycombe was published in the Ore gonlan of recent date, addressed to the Editor: "1 observe that an effort ia made on the behalf of the democratic oppoaitii n to my election as governor to show that I resided In Oregon for seventeen year before I became a citizen. I will state the facts, so that the pub lic may understand for all time bow ut terly baseless and unjust this particular fabrication is, and how easily 'confuted by the simple truth. I waa born near Plymouth, Enuland, March 21, 1854. My father. Thomas Withycombe, my mother, Mary Ann Withycombe, my three brothers, John, Thomas and Philip, my sister Mary and myself, constituting the entire Withy combe family, came to Oregon in 1871 to become permanent residents and American citizens. Shortly after bis ar rival my father, Thomas Withycombe, declared bis intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. I was then 17 year of age, and I was informed that the act of my father naturalized all the minor members of the family. Deem ing myself an American citizen I voted for Rutherford 15. Hayes for president in 1870, and I have ever since that time discharged with good conscience and to the best of my ability my full duties as a loyal citizen of the great American re public. About 1HSH, a' question waa raised a to whether Thomas II. Tongue, then a candidate for state senator, who was bora in England and came to this country under circumstances similar to mine, was in fact a qualified American citizen. It occurred to me then that poasibly my own naturalization bad not been regular, and In my great anxiety and desire to posses an absolutely un clouded title to my American citisenshlp I went before Judge Deady and formally took out naturalization paper. I think that there never waa th slightest ques tion that from the time mjr father be But I simply made assurance doubly sure. That 1 all there is to it. If I was not a citisen, I beg to say to all de mocratic gentlemen who are so much concerned about my nativity, after my thirty-five years of continuous residence in Oregon, that I will waive the statue of limitations and submit to pronecution and trial for having cast an illegal vote for the republican ticket In 187(1, and at every subsequent election in order that they may have a clear and conclusive determination of a matter that they now consider of real importance. JAMES WITHYCOMBE. Hoyt has just received a fine lot of men and boys' summer hats. Don't buy until you have seen thera. Use Alti-Tone. Have you weakness of any kind stomach, back, or any organs of the body? Don't dope yourself with ordi nary medicine. Hollistera Rocky Mountain Tea is the supreme curative power. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Field, Garden and Flower Seeds for sale at R. H. Greer's. All kinds and a ull stock. the W Shoes No better made. No guarantee goes with every pair. Our line o GROCERIES is the finest in thecounty. Everything usually carried by aa ap-to-dat Grocery House. Our Immense aales maks it pnaeibl for as to carry atrtetly freeh gl. Not a ahop-worn article in the eatabliahnjMa. JOHN DENNIS. The old Reliable Corner Grocery and SLoe Store A VAI,UABI,B PUBLICATION. A Book for the Farmer, Stock-Raiser, and Fruit Grower, Published Here. An "Agricultural Log Book," prepared at great expense by the Central Publishing Company, in the Manufacturers Exchange Build iug, consisting of reputable "up-to-date" Kansas Cityaus, soon to ap pear, is not only novel in it design, but replete with valuable informa tion, especially for all classes of farmers, breeders and raisers of all kinds of domestic animals; for dairymen, fruit-growers and others; with carefully written instructions as to various civil laws in which all wealth-producing classes are per sonally interested and with many strictly legal, blank and detachable forms of bills of sale, leases, mort gages, notes, receipts, warrantee and quitclaim blanks, etc. One of the most prominent fea tures of the work is its systematic, easily understood, common sense and decidedly complete arrange ments for recording all kinds of business transactions universally common among farmers and stock- raisers, giving inventories of articles owned, and all liabilities at time of commencing business; clearly ex hibiting at the close of each year the results of all kinds ot invest ments, purchases and sales; explain ing how and when entries of all "debits" and credits" are made; how gains and losses are ascer tained; interest and other tables, with much additional information to housekeepers, gardeners, and others. It is evidently a work not only of merit, but ot genius; its whole ' maks up" is methodical. clear, scholarly and attractive; its authors certainly have the one thing required in such an under taking, a complete, comprehensive and practical knowledge of the whole field presented; while their full pur pose is to enable each farmer using it to know just where he Is in hia business at all times, as the mariner does by the aid of his compass and ply a raammon',V.rATa6r1or,, rfcf ''ftt size, but significance, in evidence ot which several of the largest pub lishing companies in the United States presented bids lor its publi cation, but the contract for many thousands of copies was finally giv en to Messrs. Hudson & Kimberly, ol this city, who are regarded by many as the most artistic as well as reliable publishers in the great West. The Central Publishing Company, which owns and controls the work, has ample means to bring it speedily and successfully to the front, and to give profitable employment in its introduction and sale to thous ands anxious and deserving. We wish the company great suc cess in placing the work in the home of every farmer, stock-raiser, dairyman and fruitgrower in this fair land of ours, as a stimulus not only to greater efforts of industry, but, especially to the keeping be fore him a complete history of every business transaction in which he may be interested. Kansas City (Mo) Star. U fo'S. better can be wade. Our E