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rtUtorle! nWf HILLSBORO. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON', FRIDAY, JUNK 2S, 1007 Volume 35 NUMBER 8 TWO CAR LINES FOR HILLSBORO THE P. R.4 N. AND OREGON CO Granted Rights of Way Throws This City. .Two Hour Car Sar. vies to Portland an Both Lino The long-lookcd-for electric line to connect Ilillsboro with the fit ture great city of Portland is in sight and within six months rails will be laid over the Oregon Klec- trie line on Baseline street. Inside of a year the P. R. & N., success ors to the United Railways Co will have their line built on Main street, both to connect this city with Portland, and over both roads a two-hour service will be main tained. This news is good, but not too good to be true, aud the action of the city council held last Tuesday evening will be commend' ed by - every person who has the welfare of Ilillsboro or Washington county at heart. The meeting of the council on Tuesday evening was not largely attended by citi . zens, but a lull council was present. and business was transacted from the start. The United Railways' ordinance, passed more tnau a year ago, granting that corporation right-of-way through Ilillsboro, was repealed and a right-of-way given to the P. R. & N. Co., sue cessors to the United Railways com' pany. The line is to run from the eastern bouudary of the city along Main street, across the P. R. & N tracks to the city limits on the west, and rails are to be laid within one year from the time the ordi nance is. signed by Mayor Dennis. Rights of way over First, Second Third and other side streets were also g routed the P. R. & N. people.'- ' t.' ' Mr. Do tin Id, representing the Or egou Klectric Co., the line now building from Salem, and which has its track laid to near Bertha, was present and asked the council to grant a right of way for the Ore gon Klectric Co. along Baseline street, from the east to the west limits of the city. He had intend ed to ask for right over other street but as the P. R. & N. had already requested the use of these thorough fares, his company would be satis fied with Baseline Mrect alone. This liue will also tun from Ilills boro to Portland, giving a two-hour service, and be in operation by De cember 31st. The line will cross the P. R. & N. tracks on Baseliue street west aud land will be pur chased for a terminal, where tracks will be built for turning the cars for the return trip. Mr. Donald said that his company did not wish to stand iu the way of the P. R. & N. or any other improvements for Ilillsboro. His company only ask ed for the right to use a street upon which to operate their cars, and he was willing to abide by any deci sion the council arrived at. The ordinance was read first, se cond and third times and passed, every member of the council voting yes. Both companies are to give bonds of J.s.ooo ech that thecondi tions mentioned in the ordinance are complied with, and the long-talked-of and much wanted street car line into Portland is at last set tled for good, and two roads will connect Ilillsboro with the city of Portland, making every foot ot land in Washington county more valua ble and starting at last the ball roll ing that is sure to make this city a metropolis of many huudreds of in habitants inside of three years. The members ot the council, all of whom have been reading and re reading both ordinances lor days, have doue for this city more good than anyone of them can possibly realize at the present time, but the future growth of this county seat will demonstrate that they had the welfare of the whole community tn !- when they took favorable ac franchises last 1 us- to Condensed Kaowledge. - A ton ot water from the Dead sea will yield 1S7 pounds of salt; that from the Atlantic ocean 81 pounds and from the Pacific 79 pounds. Fishguard, the new Welsh port of the Great Western railway, is 115 miles nearer New York than Liverpool, and 55 miles nearer than Plymouth. As evidence of the decline of tip pling in England it is stated that the number of public bouses 1 83 1 was 96,727, and in 1904 the number was 91,501. The value of India rubber im ported into the United States dur ing the past year in the crude form aggregated $ so, 000. Brazil is the chief source of supply. Mattresses of paper shavings are supplied to the soldiers of the Ger man army. They are said to be more comfortable than those straw. One filling will last three years. The Siamese government has prepared ( specificatious for a very complete telephone installation for the city of Bankok and has request ed bids from a limited number of houses of Europe and the United States. Vienna policemen carry pocket telephones. To communicate with his station the official has only take the instrument from his pock et and thrust the ends of the wire into the boles of a small box, one of which is to be found every few hundred feet along his beat. Diamonds valued at $300,000 have been taken within the last six months from a new diamond field about forty miles from the celebrat ed De Beers group of mines. The field has been worked only partial ly. so that it may prove to be ot great importance. The stones have many distinct characteristics, and many of them have the appearance of cut gems. The average depth of the Atlan tic ocean is 16,000 feet Over 8.000,000 copper coins are issued every year by the English mint. There are 700 railroad stations within twelve miles of Charring Cross. A watch taken to the top of fount Blanc will gain thirty-six seconds in twenty-four hours. Insurance statistics show that where the husband dies first the wife survives eleven years and when the woman dies first the man sur vives nine years. It is estimated that the street beggars of Loudon collect $15,000, 000 annually. Great Britian eats her annual wheaj crop in thirteen weeks. The average length of lite in England is forty-four years. February holds the birth-rate re cord. June is the month in which the fewest births take place. NOW FOR THE IV II V m mm mm I rv 1)1 1, A 11 MIUllCl V TOURISTS GOING TO NEWPORT tioa on both dJAlTmemben. of the council voted toant both rights of way. They Ire John Dennis, mayor. d-&-bu-' mericb. A. M. C.rlile. John Mi ne, L. A. Rood and John . Bailej . Rats a Costly Plague. An infallible method of extermin ating rats would be worth more to the people of the United States in a single decade than the department of agriculture has cost since its es tablishment, a bulletin of the de partment, just issued, declares. It says the brown rat is the worst mammalian pest in existence, and adds: "If for each cow, horse, sheep and hog on the farms of the United States the farmers support one rat on grain, the toll levied on the cer eals by those rodents would reach the enormous total of f 100,000,000 a year. "Their prolifkuess is the chief obstacle to their extermination. If thtee litters of ten each are produc ed every year, a single pair, breed ing without check and without los ses fjy death, in three years would be represented by ten generations and would number 10,145,392 indi viduals. The eleventh generation, due at the beginning of the fourth year, would number over 1 00,000, 000. Aftsr tha 4th Many af Oar Towna- aaata Will Saok Shade Raat at tha Soa Shara. 1776 Soon after the Fourth many of our residents will leave for their summer cottages at the seaside, quite a number having made ar rangements to go as soon as possi ble after the celebration and the G A. R. encampment. A Corvallis correspondent to The Evening Tel egram says of Newport and Nye Beach, where a larze number of Ilillsboro and Washington county people spend several months each year: According to present indications, Newport and Nye Beach bid fair to be the most popular summer resort in Oregon this season. An inspee tion by a Telegram reporter shows much general improvement at these two resorts. Newport has taken it upon herself to cut out and grade several good streets, with sidewalks leading over the bills to Nye Beacb making it very much easier aud more pleasant to travel between the two places. New, modern cottages have been erected during the winter in cozy nooks, surrounded by timber, dot ted here and there, and owners of vacant lots are preparing them for a large patronage of tent campers Several new amusements have been erected, among them being a large skating rink and a dance ball, The opera bouse has also been im proved in preparation for a stock company, wmcn wm put oa a re pertoire of plays during the sea son. Newport perhaps offers one of the most pleasant places for a sum mer s outing on the Oregon coast, since she has awakened to the im portance of her natural advantages s a pleasure resort. Besides th 4 "KOB Ml 1907 Come and Help Us MaketheEagle Scream WILL BE I Celebrated at HILLSBORO, Oregon ti7! m Best and Biggest Celebration ever held in Washington county. The attractions be numerous and the best that can be cured, while the Fireworks will excel ?Y 4--a - -m-wrsmy r--v-- W -St fhlf nOAfrlATl f lllllU WVCl SCVIl 111 tins sttuuu. will Grand R R. Excursion from BUXTON and BANKS 1 f?- ; m Lk 11 ?e t ri rJranrr- -rTtt'ZZLZT'STK. TSS K-fm-Z.-tU T The G. A. R. Veterans will hold their encampment on the grounds the new Shute park from June 29 to July S, at-11 p. m., when the park will be turned over to the Fourth of Julv Committee for the M:ST CELEBRATION ever held in this county. Tell your neighbors and come youself. BIG BILLS SOON. True, Every Word rf It. Tfvou happen to be i howler, -J fin hanh .!. - t is nr . ,iu 119 Sleep OIUIIS, . ' I 1 anrl wwi v,;n- ... i u..j way 01 course uu - ,uli nuuuuiiuce oi sea i . . . . .... fishing, the United States lifesaviug cur ,ne trUSlS' Ti.o held vou . . 6 a snnn as vou eet io shead you siauon is located on a promontory at the entrance to the bay, and a short distance up the coast is the Cajre Foulweather lighthouse. Rimer's Perfume ar recognlieJ ev srywher aa tha beat tnle, to J anyone using tiiam will ba eatisSed with no oth er. Tba Hillaboro Pharmacy rarria in tool "Royal Cherry Bo-la," "PaaaJeca Roe" and "Palo Alto Pink." Call an J get a bottle it you waat something fin and lasting. "Actual Settler" Defined. Congressman Hawley, who has interested himself on behalf of the people in the movement to force the P. to dispose of its lands held by grant from the general government, settlers at j.50 per acre, has cleared up one of the vexing pro- Diems confronting those who are undecided as t what "actual set tler" meant with ho are entitled to purchase said lands under the giant. As a result Fred D. Dennet, assistant commis sioner of the general land office, has lurmshed Mr. Hawley the follow ing information: "In the case of the United States .Jones 10 L. D., aa the de partment has under consideration the act of May a8, 1880, (31 stat 43.) which givea certain actual set tiers the right to purchase lands in -6. muun reservation in Kansas. It was held in said deci sion that the term 'actual settler' refers to one who had made settle ment on the land and followed same t m-m- . 07 resiuence. This has heen the ruling of the office in regard to the meaning of the term 'actual settler, wnen nsea in a grant to a railroad company." from tnis it will be seen that in oraer to make good the applicant's claim to this railroad land at J 2. 50 per acre, the settler must make hi residence upon the land just as he aoes witn tne government under the homestead law. It is quite probable that the rail 1 ... . roau company wm te evea more exacting than the government in mis respect, and nothing short of actual and continual residence on the laud until title is secured, will avail in getting possession of the land under the terms of the grant. Eugene Register. , must at once send to Montgomery Ward, Sears & Boebuck, etc., and though possibly unwilling, you are helping to support one ol the big gest trusts in the country. Get your goods cheaper? well, this is what the trusts claim to do. They crush out competition by their low prices, and if you take the benefit simply sustain them in their you contention. l-.very uuuar scni-iu a mail order bouse is just that much in building up a trust. Never thought of that before? Possibly not, nevertheless, it stands a truth, over which many in our country grieve and yet bold open to them their purse. Each of us personally can do much to crush out such ev ils, if only we will give the matter proper consideration. Vou give to such trusts as above mentioned your ready cash, but when you need a little credit you decide you will riv vour own merchant a lit- ' " J tie trade, ask for the lowest possi ble margin on his goods, want him to wait three mouths 01 possi bly eight months till you get a lit tle cash. Such treatment to your own town and its merchants is un kind; spend your money m your own town, take an interest in build ing it up, and its prosperity. It means as much to y as to the other fellow. Benton Co. Republi can. Wife desertion cowardly thin? and deserves punishment but it is to be doubteJ whether put tin the wife deserter in the peni tentiary, as is sugge11' ould not make the lot of the wife harder than ever. So long a man is at liberty there is a chance of making him auooort his wife, but if he is in the penitentiary that chance van ishes. Of course, tne putting of tew recreant husband in prison mieht exercise a salutary effect up on the others, but that remains to he demonstrated. The problem is to compel men to surPrt the wo man to whom they are married. Putting them iu a position where they have no earning capacity will hardly accomplish the desired end It has long been claimed that buildings constructed 01 concreie and re-enforced concrete, withstand earthquake shocks far better than any other form of structure. An other instance is now put forward by a contemporary in support oi this claim. It has reference to a house in Kingston, Jamaica. Here, although water in baths and tanks was splashed over the sides of these receptacles, not a single crack or fissure is said to have Deen umuu in the concrete of re-enforced por tions of the buildings. Olympic Flour is the best you can get it K. H. Greer There is a mighty wave sweeping the country in favor of the Sunday closing of saloons and greater re strictions being placed upon the li quor business. Reports from north, east, south and west tell of the lid being placed in position and held there by officers of the law. VVhlcbJ denotes that another step has been taken in the march toward the mil lennium. Milton Eagle. In June tha farmer loads hi hay We hope bis crop will turn out well He is the country'! sura main-stay, For without him w naught could sell. Now some sell this, and others that, The wants of people always vary If you want sweet. I'll tell you what Try Palmateer'i Confectionery. L. J. Palmateer, Proprietor. Remarkable Rescue. That truth is stranger than fic tion, has once more been demon strated in the little town of Fedora, Tenn., the residence oi C. V. Pep per. He writes: "I was in bed, entirely disabled with hemorrhages -, of the lungs and throat. Doctors failed to help me, and all hope bad fled when I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery. Then in stant relief came. The coughing soon ceased; the bleeding dimin ished rapidly, and in three weeks I was able to go to work." Guar anteed cure for coughs and colds. 50c and $1.00 at all drug stores. Trial bottle free. Typewriters Attention! I have Just pat in a stock of carbon paper and ribbons for typewriters, and when in need call and see us. K. I.. McCORMICK. Hillaboro, Or. Th lndeoendact. I UPBCU--M. - Xj ft I: k.4L s . 1 There's a lot of Satisfaction in a shoe which after ia onlv polish t comfort, month's ot woar. needs onlv polish to "Look like new." You'll find c ease aud profit in the OuSkiI HDt. Hamilton-Brown Shoes your children will want ioustithing pretty and gooa. Come and see ou Ko fetter made, guarantee goes No better can t mad. with every pair. Our Our line w GROCERIES is the finest in the count. imi aa a e-to-dete Grocery Ho. Our Eyarythin. .al "Vl r iTcrry Slriatlr .r-Mood. JOHN DENNIS. Tim Reliable Corner Urocery and Shoe Store School Shoes llAMILTON-BRmyj, LACK SH0E 1 -