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NEWBERG. YA M H ILL COUNTY.
OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH
.
22
1906.
NO.
overdue.
McMinnville Given Tw o to One
Fresno, a city o f some 22,000
Decision over P. C. In De*
Fifty Mile people, is located near the center
A Tw o Hundred
bote.
San Joa- o f tne valley and is the principal
Trip Through
city o f this interior country. We
quin Valley.
made a stop o f three hours here,
The United States Senate
waiting for the overland train, should now lose no time in pass*
It is no uncommon thing to and improved the time by taking
hear Californians discussing the an eight mile trolley ride out ing the freight rate bill. The ques­
relative positions o f the cities ot through the great grape grow ­ tion was thoroughly threshed
Portland and Seattle from a pro­ ing district where lar^e wineries out in debate here last Friday
phetic view point and the ma have been built to give color to night and the decision was favor­
jority o f them seem inclined to the juice o f the vine. We saw able to the proposed rate legis­
put Seattle down as the city o f many fine vineyards and tne lation. Therefore, why more de­
destiny in the great Northwest many evidences o f thrift that lay ?
The question debated between
country. After having heard a were to be seen along the line
McMinnville
College and Pacific
good deal o f this sort o f talk it indicated that a market had been
was something o f a satisfaction found, where people had the de College read: “ Resolved, that
to me a few days ago to hear sire to put up the money for the the inter-state commerce com­
Abner Blair say that a company privilege o f looking “ on the wine mission should be empowered to
o f commercial men, who had when ft is red.” Fresno county regulate freight rates subject to
been all over the country and is said to produce annually, revision only by the higher
who were speaking from an un­ brandies to the value o f $250,000 courts.” The affirmative, up*
biased standpoint, made the and wines to the value o f hefd by the visitors, was repre­
statement that in their opinion $ 1 , 500 , 000 . The wineries h ow ­ sented by Earl Nott, W. C. Camp­
Portland would outstrip the ever do not have a monopoly ot bell and T. E. Anderson; the neg­
Sound city in the final race for the grape grow ing industry, for ative by W. R. Miles, L. L. Saun­
supremacy. In speaking o f the tesiae the shipments of table ders and C. M. Brown. B. C.
robability o f Huntington being rapes that are made from this Miles wielded the gavel, while
ack o f tne company that has istrict the raisin growers lead the judges were Deputy Prosecut­
bought the Chamber o f Com­ with sales amounting to $2,500,- ing Attorney B. E. Haney o f
merce building in Portland and 000, annually, bringing in more Portland, Prof. O. W. Menden­
is preparing to make Portland money than any other one indus­ hall ot the Portland High School
the center ot a great electric sys­ try except that o f live stock and and H. F. Wilson, principal of
tem o f railroads, Dr. W. V. Cof­ here it is, where “ Little Jack the McMinnville public school.
Nott, first speaker for the af­
fin, who is well acquainted in Horner,” should he put in his
Oregon, said that if Huntington thumb, would bring out a seeded firmative, spent his time in argu-
proved to be back o f the enter­ raisin and spoil the old nursery ingthatsome change is necessary
prise he would advise his friends jingle. They were just finishing to all of whose speech Miles, first
to keep an eye out and make in­ up the w ork o f pruning and here speaker for the negative uttered
vestments wherever Huntington it is where they don’t spare the a “ fervent amen.” The latter
made them, saying the latter pruning knife, for when they are proved however that the pro­
was a far seeing business man through with a vineyard it looks posed plan is unconstitutional;
and wherever he put money it at a little distance like a piece o f that it would not remedy the
evil o f rebates and rate discrimin­
was put there to bring results.
stump land in Oregon where the
But the principal object o f this stumps are small and a few ation, and that it would result
letter is to tell o f a 250 mile trip small sprouts have grown up in an inelastic system of rates
which would be disastrous to
through the great San Joaauin about them.
commerce. Miles was impress­
valley. Our first intention had
This is a great irrigating dis­
been to go south
by
m
oy the Coast trict, the water being brought ive in delivery and his speech
line but we have Prof. J. J. Jessup from the Kings river through was effective.
Campbell, who followed for the
to thank for the change in our 2500 miles of canals and ditches
plans, for by taking a daylight and watering 710,000 acres o f visitors, took up the contention
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trip through'this valley we were land. “ H o t here?” Well this is on the constitutional phase of
the
question,
in
rebutting,
after
able to get a view o f the great where they m ake “ acres o f dia­
O u r S to ck w ill be Com plete w ith F irst-G lass Goods a t F a ir P rices
grain and fruit grow ing districts monds.” The soil is almost pure which he took up the second
point in the affirmative’s line oi
o f the interior ot the state.
sand and in the drying season
Leaving Oakland at an early the grapes, peaches and apricots battle, viz, that their plan would
hour in the morning, we skirted are spread out by the acre on cure the evils deplored. He con­
around the southern border o f the ground and “ old Sol” does tended that the Commission, as
a national tribunal, has power
San Francisco Bay and were the rest.
soon passing through the great
Bakersfield is the chief city of to regulate and is qu alifW to
wheat fields a t the head o f the the upper end erf the valley with act. In reply Saunders weut
valley where there is sufficient a population o f 10,000. I t was after his predecessor in short
moisture to produce crops with­ in this district that an old pros­ order, maintaining that the work
out irrigation. The farms are pector who had seen the oil ex­ o f the Commission would be in­ chance to answer this, which
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held in very large tracts and it citement in Pennsylvania, in dig­ adequate as it would affect really should require no answer,
it
is
suspected
that
the
decision
as evident that in many cases at ging a well, struck oil instead of neither the private car iniquity
least the owners do not live on water at a depth o f sixty feet or private ways and switches, was somewhat affected thereby.
A t the close o f the debate there
the farms, for there is little ot and now the shipments o f oil which are but another kind o f
seemed
to be a settled impression
the homelike appearance o f the from this region amount to sev­ rebate. He held that the mem­
IN T B ftK S T M I D OM T I M * D EPO SITS
as
to
who
had won, and the
bers ot the Commission would
farmhouse o f the prosperous, eral hundred car loads daily.
surprise with which the decision,
well-to-do tiller o f tne soil who
Tehachapi
pass over the be unequal to the super-human
"‘lives at home and boards at Sierras, as shown in the pictures, labor and vast complexity of tw o to one for McMinnville,
the same place.” We had been looks much like the tw ist to a work now performed by thous­ was received was manifest. The
led to believe that in the matter pig’s tail. Just why a pig should ands o f trained rate makers. He big crowd o f visitors were them­
A GOOD W A Y IS BY
o f good farm buildings where insist on giving that peculiar held too that they would be sub­ selves not expecting ft as their
OPENING A BANK AC­
paint is in evidence, we in Ore- tw ist to its appendage has long ject to bias both sectional and behavior clearlv indicated. H ow ­
ever,
such
is
the
fortune
o
f
such
on were much behind our neigh- been a mystery but the latest partisan. Saunders g o t a good
COUNT W ITH THE
ors to the south o f us, but so version is that Noah, who ex­ bead o f steam on and was plow­ contests, and there was nothing
Bank of New berg
far as we have been able to see, perienced considerable difficulty ing into the enemy’s territory to do but cheerfully abide the
issue. The visiting speakers were
it is about a stand off and there in keeping the porkers in their when time was called on him.
FIRST-BANK IN
For the affirmative the star all fine, gentlemanly fellows, and
is certainly room for much im­ assigned space in the ark, hit
PAIDUP
NEWBERG
riR K
provement along this line in both upon the happy thought o f tying proved to be Anderson. After to be beaten by such the boys
decided
wasn’t
so
bad
after
all.
states. California farmers do knots in their tails to prevent quoting Pres. Hadley o f Yale
not have the brushy under­ them from slipping through the with effect he maintained that it Debating honors are now even
OAPITAL
Recave* d e p o * i* any amount and
ra o o r
grow th to contend with, such as cracks o f the pig sty, and Mr. was the unjust rates only which between McMinnville and Pacific
pvaa you the aeccemary bank book
gives so many Willamette valley and Mrs Porker lived happily would be regulated by the Com­ College, the previous dual debate
and check*. Depoaiton can check out
VAULTS
farms a ragged appearance where ever afterwards, following the mission. He took up the third having been won by Newberg.
their money as they pleaae and each
The vote for the negative Friday
fence rows are neglected.
check when paid by the beak i* a re­
Style adopted while at sea. point in the affirmative conten­
In the San Joaquin valley there Sticklers for orthodoxy will tion, arguing that the system nignt was cast by Attorney
ceipt to the depositor.
seems to be little mixed or di­ probably say that this is the suggested by the question is Haney./
McMinnville showed the proper
versified farming.
I f a man version o f a “ higher critic,” while practical.
rit by being on hand one hun-
raises w heat it is all wheat and others will put it down as a
Brown followed with a strong spirit
Double Time-Lock New
little attention is paid to any­ newspaper yarn, but the tact re­ case for the negative. His points dred strong to cheer on their
Steel Bank Sale. Bur^lai Proof. Mob-
men
to
do
their
best.
The
vis­
thing else. Grain is looking fine mains that a picture o f the rail­ in brief were—to further empha­
Proof, Fire-Proof.
itors
took
one
side
of
the
hall
and with the rains they are hav­ road track at Tehachapi reminds size the unconstitutionality o f
ing, an immense crop seems to one o f the tw ist o f a pig’s tail. this measure and to show that and Newberg the other, enough
energy being wasted by both ag­
be assured.
It is said that when the engineer­ by the use of the injunction, the
Californians keep horseflesh ing party reached that round railroads could stay the enforce­ gregations in yelling to win sev­
for what they can get out o f it topped mountain the chief shook ment o f the Commission’s find­ eral debates if properly focused. r
Follow ing the debate an in­
and the noble horse is indeed a his head and said it was an ings until the case was finally
“ beast o f burden.” In all the impossibility, but his assistant decided by the supreme court, formal reception was given the
-cities and towns as well as in sized up the situation and said causing a delay of from four to debaters and visiting students
the country, everybody drives a that by circling the mountain nine years. He then introduced a by the students ot Pacific Col-
horse—men, women and children, and then slipping out through a plan o f the negatives, consisting lege.
but we failed to see one really tunnel under the track it could o f the three points: First, to leave
N otice to B idders.
good looking, well kept horse in be done, and thus the great the rate-making power in the
the day’s travel through the San engineering feat was accomp­ hands of the railroads; second,
The county court o f Yamhill
Joaquin valley. They are small, lished.
to add to the Elkins law a clause county will receive bids for de­
thin in flesh with a rough coat
A delay o f three hours during making it a punishment of both livery o f 500 yards o f gravel at
of hair and nine tenths ot them the night enabled us to see the fine and imprisonment for its Newberg, Oregon. Gravel to be
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are jammed in • the shoulders. last seventy-five miles o f the violation, and third, to compel what is called the island gravel,
The extremely warm climate route by daylight and at 9.30 in all corporations to file record of of suitable size and quality for
may have something to do with the morning we stepped from all the doings and accountings road building. It is desired that
it but it is likely tnat the fact the train at Los Angeles and of that corporation. Brown put the gravel be delivered on the
that very tew people raise their were soon lost in the great army up a stiff argument all through upper bank at the boat landing,
W HEN YOU notify us by telephone or otherwise to
own feed has more to do with o f pilgrims who were tramping and was generally conceded to as soon as the river is low enough
call for your package, we don’t say, “ All Right,”
the unseemly display o f the fine the crowded streets of the city.
be the star debater o f the even­ that the gravel can be reached.
and then wait about tw o days before we come tor
“ points" o f their horses.
ing..
,
§
Bids to be opened on the second
E. H. W.
it. We call the same day—within a few hours, gen­
Before reaching Fresno we
In rebuttal, Miles did excellent day of the April term o f court at
Los Angeles, March 7.
erally—in a few minutes if you are in a hurry, and
passed through some very large
work in clinching the points the hour o f 10 o ’clock in the fore­
we deliver the laundered clothing at the time
ranches where thousands o f acres
made
by the negative and in noon. Successful bidders must
The Newberg Meat Co
agreed upon.
are held in a body by single
answering the affirmative. An­ furnish bonds to Yamhill county
Good work and prompt service. Does the combination
estates, the ranches extending
Has the best facilities for fur­ derson followed in a final re­ in the amount oi contract price.
r .«appeal to you? Put us to the *«»«♦'___
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clear across the valley and on nishing first class meats and buttal for the affirmative, and Right reserved to reject any and
into the mountain districts on
with good execution. He proved all bids.
B. F. R hodes .
the east. This has been a great butchers’ supplies, and the best a good bluffer, as shown by the
*
County Judge.
drawback to the development o f is none too good for their cus­ fact that he presumed to prove
A. N. P R E S SN A LL, prop.
Saws gummed and all kinds of
the country and several first tomers. Free delivery and both that the private car is a com­
mon carrier.
There being no tools sharpened at Brunson’s.
class funerals are said to be long phones.
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