10 WASHINGTON GOUS"' OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1907.
NlIMUKIi 31
Volume 31
IIILLSDOI
fijllsboro Independent.
IRVING BATH, Publisher.
OFFICIAL COUNTY 1'APEK.
OMK DOLLAR PEHYKAKIM ADVANCB
Republican in Politic.
tDVEHTiBiNO Kath : UiHlay, 60 cen t
n inch, aingie column, (or (our Inner
. tioni; reading uoiice, 0110 cent a word
lth Insertion (nothing Ifii than 15
Cttntal ! nrnfMMHUiiiiil parilia. nna inch, tl
OREGON'S
PUBLIC LANDS
MANY QUESTIONS ANSWERED
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
E. B. TONGUE
ATTORNEiY AT LAW
Mill shorn. Oriaoi).
Office: Room 3. 4 and 6. Morgan Blk
W. N. BARRETT
ATTORNEY-AT LAW
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office: Central Block, Rooms 6 and 7
IS
BENTON BOWMAN
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office, in Union Illk.. with S. B. Huaton
a monin ; lodge card, so a year, paya- . .j ,
hit. nuitrtMrlw fn.iti.-ua anil mamt ,1 n til ui I U la sCT,. aulsinrr abfttlt ( IreCOn BUd
-- ...... " 1U49 UUIkk "w O
Ipam Ln ail vwrt iuint hliMfl . I .
, . ivhrt'rr it is TiossiDie luese uum
tions are answered by personal
communication. Most of the in
auiries are about this immediate
section, though some of them are
r( Drep-on in general. "How to
o o
Secure Homes," "Is the Land Al
Taken Up," "What is Land Sell
inz At." etc. The following
from the Pacific Northwest, writ
ten by Max M. Shillock, and ans
wers many of the questions East
em people are sending all over Ore
gon:
"Among the many questions pro'
pounded by Eastern inquirers to the
various commercial and promotion
organizations of Portland, as well as
the passenger departments of trans
portation eomnanies and lesident
, 1
friends of restless residents of the
East, are some that is extremely dif
ficult to answer. To the homeseek-
er these questions, no doubt, appear
simple enough, and yet the informa
tion desired is not so easily sup
plied. Perhaps a majority of the
unanswerable questions relate to the
character and location of public
ands open to settlement. To meet
the demand for information of this
kind, it would be necessary to keep
in daily touch with the records of
the six United States land districts
in the state and make copious ex
tracts lrom the field notes of the
government surveys. Even then
the information in all cases would
THOS. II. TONGUE JR.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
ji&im : Rooms 6, 4 and 5. Mortian Bloc
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
8. T. LINKLATER. M. B. C. M.
PHYSICIAN AND SUROEON.
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office, upstairs, over The lH)Ua Drug
Store. Office houra 8 to 12 ; l w o,
I n the evening Irotn 7 to 9 o'clock.
J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D.
8. P. R. R. SURGEON
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
R.d.nc. corner Thlrd and Malni-omm P
fm".!. X?u,: All U prompt. "
wared daj or nlKht.
F. A. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office: Morgan-Bailey block, up
.Ulfa? room. U. 13 and 15.
8. W. cor. Base Line and Second sts.
Both 'phones.
f. J. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Vlnriran-Tlallev block, UP-
with V A. Bailey. Residence,
N. E. corner Third and Oak sts.
A. B. BAILEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Hillsboro, Oregon.
n.u..'. Drua More. Olfloe hour
rJrm raO U. li U0 ton, and 7 to . Re.llnct
I bird ...an 'd t,r Dlnht. ltlb
Call" prumji" ieuUW-W
phonaa.
MARK B. BUMP,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Notary Public and Collections
HILLSBORO, ORE.
, 889.556, acres have been withdrawn
from entry,
m,. Cwfhur district embraces
ia whole or in part the following
counties: Coos. Curry, Josephine,
r.. Tnn Crook. Klamath,
T inn and Lincoln. There is includ
Forest Reserve,
In Reply to People In the E.st Who ,.m.nt order Sep
l.iifr aS loot. 1.227.559 ncreS-
The Portland district embraces
Clackamas, Clatrop, Marion, Mult
nomah. Polk, Tillamook. Washing
Are Asking About Oregon and
the Best Places to Locate.
Almost every day letters reach
. .
XiculOU, Xyiu ll auv .
small mrt of Wasco and Crook
The entire reserves in the district
t,. r.ranrl Ucmle Indian Reserva
tion in Yamhill and Polk counties
and 1.12.1.84.6 acres in the Bull Run
and Cascade Potest Reserves in the
eastern part of the district.
The Lakeview land district em
braces Klamath and Lane counties
and parts of Crook and Harney
counties.
Onlv recently two more forest re
serves have been created one in
Southern Oreeon. and the other in
South Central Oregon. The new
Southern Oregon reserve, known as
the Siskivou Reserve, contains
about thirtv-one townships, or 700,
000 acres, and comprises about half
of Josephine county and a portion
of Douelas county. This reserve
ncludes some ao.000 acres of unsold
state school lands, and considerable
railroad land in the Oregon & Cali
fornia (now Southern Pacific) land
grant.
The other reserve, comprising
portions of 72 townships, takes in
portions of Crook and Klamatn
counties. It is known as the Fre
mont Forest Reserve.
There are today perhaps 450,000
acres of land under irrigation in Oie
gon. The total area of the state is
r. 4 so. 200 acres. The cultivated or
the formation in an cases womu 1- , i9 about one.
not be reliable, aslhe. de3cr.pt ion of " afca or 2QQ
acres. It is thus seen that less than
The entire reserves in tne uimiw reccived from all parts of the United ernoon there were just seven resi
foot up 1,191.666 acres 64.586 in SutM by the Oregon Development dents of the district present and yei
.v . a Dnniu Indian Reserva-
Tree Delivery
Of the best. Fish, Game and
Meats. Our delivery is prompt
and in all parts of IIillsloro.
We have inaugerated a
new Schedule in Prices
and this together with . our de
livery system makes this Hills
boro' s popular market.
Corwin & Heidel.
Announce ment.
1 1.. fttnfral
Havine purchased iuC
I Market we wish to announce
fo formed patrons and the public,
to tormer y t blished a free de
?at W!nd have reduced the prices
llVerX meais For the best cuts
0Q Lst service po.bl we res-
S&t yor patronage.
EMMOTT BROS.
KURATLBROS.
AND AUOTIONEER.
... iwlr StS.. lU""0
Or, d. r, iuer,0,u'
(Succe..ortiPr.A.Brn..)
id Estate
many sections is imperfect and the
covering of much 01 treelaud has
chanred since the surveys were
o
made. The available government
and is scattered over every county
in the state. Much of it is worthless
being mountainous, and most oi it is
unsuitable for agricultural purposes.
The only way for an intending set
tler to satisfy himself as to the worth
or desirability of a tract of govern
ment land is to consult the records
of the land office in the district in
which the land is situated, and then
make a personal examination oithe
land Even then, the cream of the
desirable government land having
been appropriated lone ago, the in
tending settler in nine cases out of
ten will probably find it cheaper to
buy a farm already improved or par
tiallv improved, than to avail him
self of the generosity of the United
States government. Still there are
doubtless some good tracts lett.
These must be expected in localities
remote from the centers of popula
tion and from transportation
The six United States land offices
in the state of Oregon, where all in
formation relative to government
lands may be had, are located at
Portland, Multnomah county; Rose-
burg, Douglas county: Lakeview,
Lake county; The Dalles, Wasco
county; La Grande, Union county,
and Burns, Harney county. There
is a register and receiver in each of
fice, and the records are open to the
inspection of the public
While there are nearly 20.000,
000 acres of eovernment land avail
able for settlement in the state, these
figures convey no information as to
the worth of this land or the acreage
suitable for the making of homes.
The greater portion of the govern
ment land, not vet taken, is howev
er, not adapted to agricultural pur
poses.
The Dalles land district embraces
Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, and parts
of Crook, Morrow, Grant and Clack
amas counties.
The La Grande district embraces
in whole or in part the following
counties: Baker, Grant, Morrow,
Umatilla, Union, Wallowa.
The Burns district embraces in
whole or In part the following coun
ties: Baker, Crook, Grant, Harney,
one-twentieth of Oregon's crops are
grown under irrigation, the percent
age being about 4 4.
Willamette Valley This is the
principal valley in Oregon, and one
of the gaiden spots of the Pacific
Slope. The Willamette Valley is
situated in Western Oregon, be
tween the Cascade and Coast Rang
es of mountains, is watered by the
Willamette river and its tributaries,
and produces to perfection all the
farm, orchard and garden
A number of months ago we spoke
m th. labels sometimes pasted on
Rpm.mher that it is in Tanuarv 1 f Krearl We at that time
- iuav vi .
that vnn erpt more readers than anv I -a tv.t Katrine nans might bear
" " j b I Ulgcu hunt ism .o f
other month, because the farmers in I tbe stamped name of the baker and
t n rrtn cf-i iiina Jk 1 r 1 11111111 v nii tu iha nr mm v 1 1 1 l v
IlUttL IUC fcumi
els should be forever relegated, v c
i..4 ! m t-iart of the coun
I ha li l viiv j.' a.-- --..w.4mvM I gee mat m ou"j f -nersonal
letter sent today are worth tr .t,- snpirestion and remonstrance
known to the temperate zone. Itis mrtr. than ten durin? the farmer's L. tmcA fruit and that the lab-
I O 1 UM ivaa f
about 1 so miles in length north and ,...,., ,
FACTS WANTED
ABOUT OREGON
Applies to Hillsboro.
In the past few years the State
Press Association has at different
times insisted that the tax payers
would be benefitted bv the n.issape
BY THOUSANDS of PEOPLE, of a law requiring many more legal
notices published in the papers, and
Hillsboro Shul, D its Share Te- imniediately there has been some
wards f''H the . body ready to shout "graft!" Well,
fa,mstion Alk.s for- let us see. 1 nc : school law requires
mat notices calling tor a meeting 01
Special from P"" LhaU ted Qn three ,.gate
-. . , antf tl mP ttina C- I . . .
noman, x oiit, . - - jNever ' "un-sua posts, or something to that enect.
ton, Yamhill; the greater portion ot a state lias there been such Our school board followed the law
widespread aer aeveiop- and what was the result? When
ment, as is e wiu Dy the letters the meeting was held on Friday aft
FRANK BAKER'S
WILL FILED
WAS WORTH OVER $300,000.
sum of $50,000 is sit aMik provis
ionally lor expenditure in improv
ing and amplifying the city p.uks
and erecting additional drinking
fountains. The remainder is then
eiven personally to the common
council as a fund for erecting more
All Goes te His Wife and Daughter drinkine fountains ami otherwise
During
Their
Prevli
Llfe--Other
district present and yet
League. the enrollment in the school is 583.
President ! il- nucox, of the taxahle nrorwrtv has a valuation of
State League, has just authorized 718.53a.50, and aneightand ahall
an increase in tbt advertising in mill tax was voted, which will take
thoroughly reliable agricultural more than $6000 out of the pockets
publications ot large circulation, of the people this year. The Graph
These advertisements are devoted ic is not calling in question the wis
exclusively to the agricultural lands dom of the few who attended the
of the state, for it is an increased meeting and voted the tax. but we
farm population that Oregon needs do insist that fifty cents or a
more than all else combined. Put dollar spent in advertising a 6000
energetic farmers on the vacant proposition in a newspaper would
lands, cut up the large ranches and not be a very big "graft " In small
the cities, towns and villages of Or- outlying districts the publication of
egon will grow and prosper. With such notices may not be necessary,
fi,-t ,,,t in view Orejon is hemtr hut Jn th larger districts in the
L U C h "- O I - ' O
advertised as never before, and the towns people depend on the local
. . . a ! .4 . . a. ' a. r S t a I . A
beautifying the city parks and plaz
as. Portland Oregoniau.
Another Message.
Washington, Jan. 8. Another
red-hot presidential message is be
ing prepared at the Whi e House.
It will deal with the Brownsville af
fair and is scheduled to re icli the
Senate the first of uext w-Xt. Ac
companying the message will Ih- the
new evidence gathered 111 Texas by
Mr. Purdy, assistant to the Attor
ney-General, which will show in all
The will of the late Frank C. Bak
er was filed for probate in the coun
ty court yesterday morning. In it
provision is made for the distribu
tion of a large estate. While various
clauses of the will indicate that the
property involved is extensive, no
statement of the value of the estate
is made. Those in a position to
know, However, My mat air. uax- . , r
..... . probability that there is no need ot
er s total holdings aggregated more 1 . .. .
a s b Prmtrressinn.il investigation.
than $300,000, mostly in real estate T4 , t. . ...
. 1 Ills uuutiaiutm uiai tk i
and mortgages. , . - ,
I nrttr tin-ir nil tlrll l tl V tllllll'S :1S Kir
The bulk of the estate goes to ' , , ...
k . ., . as tue iacts are concenieu ami, un-
. . . less trie senate acts on i.ie mi-
the deceased, and Miss trances liaic- .
er, the daughter. Provision is made .
' n mini (irrlit rf tlii I ill it) senator
for a monument to the Oregon pio- . . , . .
. nrohablv will have leeu 111 vain.
neers and extensive park improve- 1
direct Mrs C. II. Uren. ot Osbotne,
heirs upon the death of the wite and Kan., uieu at 01. josepn s n'
daughter. The monument referred at unicoruia, Kan., iasi w e.mesua
tltrv ct nnt lpe than i ooo as the result ol swallownv; a silve r
nor more than 2i.ooo. and is to be of glass while eating canned peach-
artuprtisea as wwi kiuic. auu iuc towns dciiuic ucucuu uu iuv iuvi 1
i;rv u three times 13 great as it Lar-r, fnr .,rh information and a dedicated to the Oregon pioneers, es.
...rlnrincr the Lewi Clark Ex- little two bv six notice is passed un-1 Au expenditure of approximately Some one SURgests that if you
I - - .... I tf t -vw trr Kan ti fvintr tllP Clt V I . i ni . v imt 'i
position. noticed. It is sate to say tnat two:'. . f ' warn 10 nave a i
Manv comranmties of the State dozen people did not know mai a - -e goouucgiuuinSi3iuwaiv., ,
I . e . t..u toinc u nmvirien in vnt there Ere 1 T. t.r ic run f k Hon
I (JU1UU9, Alt iHV. k, k .3 j
no heirs. Mrs. miser is namea as uie oeat onions nowadaj s, and the
sole executrix, without bonds. verv plebian vegetable ajipears in
The first bequest is to W. W. most unexpected places If one
Baker, lather of deceased. It is pro eats memf however, it is just as well
. - a
are sending out litentare to inquir- school meeting was being held last
n lista c( whorasre beinp fur- Fridav in Newbere. "Graft!"-
nished to each and every one of the Newberg Graphic.
sixty-three organizitionscomposing - ; tn.tur
. - i t . ... Binger Hermann s case, together
the Oregon Development League. " . . , n;
b , . with those of Hyde, Benson, Dia-
Letters ot inquiry are coming in wuu . . . ' ' . '
1 " J -A CVinoior tnav have tO
many v - . d of M tried
man, Swedish and Polish lead; let- n n MM. month.
ters are comings every state in ' At.
the Union, but Peseta. Iowa, - - S7ii.
Kansas, Wiscons,, the Dakota.,, - - - w wreclt
1 V.kM .ka.t nitn in 1 sw . . ...
,DUi,tu,""a1 H" " New Year's day. This accident win
number, and it Jsrom just these Pe -e for ytnl
portions of the United States that . . . ved thathe
WCClia vuu w
sufficiently strong to try the
case of Hermann and the others,
which were set for February 4 and
February 11.
vided thathe receive the sum of LQ gQ jnto rctreat for some tune aft-
$2500 and that he be paid at least crwar(j1 as no specific has been di
.ioo a month durinz his lifetime. I .,i ,uat will lesson the evil cf
V u 1 .wviv.v kuuv n
The second bequest latoj. W. Bak
er, a brother, who receives f 2500.
Charles Baker, ot Honolulu, a halt
brother, and Joseph Hackney, a cou
ain. are given : eu.h
The whole estate is then left to
we want our immigration. An ac
curate conception of the enormous
correspondence can best be had from
the fact that it cost ;?;oo to pay
the outgoing postage for the past
twenty-five days trora the Portland
office alone.
season.
south, with an average width of 60 -7.M. anA nossible cause for disease, and
miles. Portland is at the north end 7 . .. ' Lt.. .u-.amn nn the bakers' pans
.nd C.us. Cove, on ,he to, of I Two ... . ,J7
ra .e 1 n arena t i 11 va w av.Liii ki ouj
me ooumern racinc rauroaa, wnicn " , r fltl
. e . .a -a I Tt n nil 1 V lastTbursdav. were taken man
passes tnrougn it, at tne south end. 1 ' . . : . .,,
The total area of nearly nine of the xmo cuslouy l" ! nnaJ vVhome work. Sal-
mostproductivecountiesinthestate own- iney F.-u Wuu -u.-- $lQ0 . (Uj tor ex-
are embraced in this valley, which ere escorted to their boarding "W'0 w. 46-
. . ' tn etav until mornmcr when penwa. r.i.! Til.
naSJtola amawn f m n7icr uuu ia L.lmn Rnnevaru. t'v
a JI--JIJC-"-- . .,. ... r . I to
Exclusive of the foothills, the Wil- could Set " Uil" 0Ul 01 own
1 ..-T'.ii... t.-- -t.-... . Thev were cautioned not to leave
lauiciic v uucy uas auoui 4,ooo,UOO ' . . .
acres of productive cultivable 1 I the building during the night as they
A It- watched and arrested.
wnicn, auowing 50 acres to a tamily, -
. Ahout 2 o clock in the morning,
lutaua luai 11 tan support aDOUl oo,-1 ,
000 families, or three or four times OQicer Taylor, who was keeping a
' I . . -- thm r,l-i ...1. l..r
its present population.
Mrs. Margaret Baker with the pro
vision that upon her death or mar
riage the remainder pass to Mary
Frances Baker, the daughter.
Should there be no heirs of the latter
upon her death, it is provided that
the estate shall pass into the nanas
of three public spirited taxpayers in
trust, to be selected by the governor
the mayor and the president 01 tne
Oi egon Pioneer Association. They
are to sell sufficient property to en
able the erection in one of the pub
lic parks of a statue in honor ot the
Oregon pioneers.
The will provides that should this
be done bequests of $2500 each shall
also be given to the Baby's Home,
Boys' and Girls' Aid Society, Pat
ton Home tor the Aged, Y. M. C.
A. Y. W. C. A. and Salvation
Army.
Eight drinking fountains to cost
i5oo each are provided for, should
the estate come to this use. A lump
fects in the way of odor.
The London Lancet has au article
in a recent number in which it pre
dicts the passing of the broom and
predicts that its place will be taken
in every household by the vacuum
cleaner. The broom, it says, is
likely to become as obsolete as the
copper warming pan. The reason
for this is that bacteriologists have
decided that sweeping does more
harm than good, and to raise a dust
is to take the chances of filling the
lungs with all sorts of disease germs.
Senator Nelson Renominated.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 8. The re
publican members of the Minnesota
legislature caucus this evening 110111
inated United States Senator Knute
Nelson to succeed himself. This is
equivalent to election on January
22, as the republicans are in an ov
erwhelming majority.
Remember the fireman's 1 u'' l''
day nik'ht, January 12. Tiokois H.00.
Music by Walker's Orchestra.
For Sale.
Young shoata and and a number
of young sows which will be with li'
goon, for sale by Itowlby ios.
CornoliiiH, U.iiitt U'.
The Prayer of the Grafter.
I believe ih Gold, the Dollar Al
mighty, maker of Heaven earth,
1 a to
ana in iegai irust, the natural is
sue thereof, which was conceived
oy rhilanthropists, borne by a Pa
tient People, suffered to exist by a
Loot loving Legislature, defended,
extolled and worshipped; they de
scended into the rvnth
faa W MAaV1 IIVU
Dut rose up on the wings of Legal
Justification, and sit upon the right
"auu ui uie government, from
whence they may expect no moles
tation even forevpr- T s., i,
---1 - in- v 1 11 me
rower of Graft, the educational of
natural Wonders to Commercial
vi.my, me unlimited Advance in
the price of Necessaries, and in the
neauny develcpementof the price of
strife now existing ln-twwn n,i0
ses ana Asses to feud everlasting
Life. 8
close watch on the place where they
were stavintr. saw the men emerge
from the back Qr and start up
town. He accosted the men and
asked them where they were going,
to which they replied they were look-
incr for a drink. He told them they
mnldn't tret a
drink at that time ot
o
the night and tooic them back to
their room. Summoning Marshall
Ganger a search vvaS tnade of the
room with the resun that eight pair
of pants were discovered. The men
claimed they hao wugnt them ana
(T.rA to crtve eacii of the officers a
pair of trousers u mey would allow
thPtn tn depart. The men admitted
that they had recently been released
from the penitentiary, but said that
they had done nothing wrong at
Hood River.
Thev were kept in their room un
til the next morning and forced to
leave town. Il0Od River Glacier.
TolWe of Wepathy Malheur. Wheeler. For the pro-
BIue Mountain Resme" v
For Sale.
t 11 1 .
run uoo.ie.1 mark Minorca, Brown
anorn an.l lUmi Rock cockerelf.
Alao teveral ton of goo,! carroU, auKr
beeta and l2xn and ClarV fi.iii
c - - m 11 11 1
C. RIIOADES.
ColtSkiH.
H0t.
mm
1mA
There's a lot of Satisfaction
in a shoe which after month's ot
wear, needs only polish to "Look
You'll find comfort,
UKO 1
ease anil profit in the
Hamilton-Brown
rv4
i
Shoos
..Aim lillflrfin-
11 want something pretty and gooa. Come ml
wi
see our
School Shoes
Wanted Gentlem81! or lady with
good relerence, to traval by rail or with
. .i tn. . firm of f-AW.0O caiUtal.
m ig a -'a a
ci.... ai riTa 00 r' T'r ami exrnie:
alary paid weHr nd Hnwi ad-
vancl. AiMre" " "lamp. job. a.
iu.,l. Hillitwro. ure. no. ft
N better made. No better oao b. ma.l..
guarantee goes-Hhevery
- n.ir line of
GROCERIES
the finest in the couaty.
! 1 aa -to-ite Orosry 11
Everything .-iptK '7' "
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JOHN DENNIS
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Corner Oak and ScTentb 6U., llilliboro Subtcrlba for T UaeDenaent.
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