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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
POLK County observer

+. J. Chapman was Portland visi
tor over Sunday.
Popular novels at popular prices a
Neiser 8 Meiser's.
Chester Gates left Wednesday fol
Newberg, where he will remain unit
school opens in the Fall.
w. A. Wash, editor Of the Itemizer
is spending a few days at his OLD
home in Goldendale, Wash. His fam
lily is visiting in Portland.
w. w. Percival, a prominent stock
buyer, and chairman of the Polk
county republican central committee,
was Dallas visitor, Friday.
J. A. Veness has purchased the in
terest of Prescott & Furber in the
sawmill at Winlock, Washington, and
will conduct the business alone.
Miss Maggie Glaze, Of Prineville,
is visiting at the home Of her uncle,
d. B. Richardson. Miss Glaze is an
employe Of the Prineville Journal,
and will spend her vacationin Dallas.
No preaching services will be held
at the Presbyterian Church in Au-
gust. The Sunday School will con
tinue as usual. Sermon next Sunday
morning on Vacation Blessings" /"
w, r. WARDLE, Pastor.
Mrs. Electa Richardson, Of Falls
City desires to sincerely thank the
people Of Falls City and Dallas for
the kindness shown her in her recent
bereavement, and to assure them that
the same is greatly appreciated.
A hop-pickers jubilee will be held at
Falls City late in the coming Septem-
ber. The event will be somewhat in
the nature of harvest festival, and
will extend over a period of two or
three days. The program will be
made up of games and athletic sports,
and war dances by the Siletz and
Grand Ronde. Indians. Excursion
trains will be run over the new rail-
road every day during the jubilee.
The city council held an uninterest-
ing session, Monday evening. But lit
tie business of Importance comes be-
fore that body for consideration these
Summer days, and the time of the
sessions is devoted almost entirely to
sidewalk and street improvements.
Several old walks were ordered re-
paired Monday evening, and two
property owners were cited to appear
at the next meeting to show cause, if
any, why they should not build new
walks. The next meeting Of the board
will be held on Monday, August 80.
The numbers assigned to the sub
scribers on the Farmers telephone
line, which is now a part of the local
exchange. are as follows: 311, J. r.
Holman; 313, 7. d. Phillips; 314, j.
3. Mum; 315, w. P. Miller; 316, II.
s. Butz; 317, W. H. Boals; 31s, +. III.
Morrison: S19, E. Fl. Hibbard; Six,
James Elliott. New subscribers in
town are W. W. Ullrey, residence,
Main 214, and D. M. Coulter, resi-
dence, Main IA. When the line from
Smithfeld is completed. another large
list Of farmers will be added to the
local directory.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24

Dull Headache, Pains IN various parts
Of the body Sinking at the Pit OF tins
Stomach. Loss Of Appetite. Feverlshness
Pimples or Sores are all positive evidences
Of impure blood. No matter how It be
came so. it must be purified IN order TO
obtain good health. Ackers Blood Elixir
has never failed to cure serofuious or
Syphilitic polsons or any other blood
diseases. It Is certainly a wonderful
remedy and we sell every bottle on 4 posi-
tive guarantee. Belt & Cherrington, Bal-
] las, Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24


Ed Biddle went to Portland on
business GRAND, Wednesday,
All the late magazines and novels
for your Summer reading at Meiser {
Meiser's.
Miss frankie Hayter is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Doc. P. Patterson, in Cot
tage Grove.
John Boyer and family have re-
turned to Dallas from Pitner, Tilla-
nook county.
Mrs. John Nelson, of Lewiston
Idaho, is visiting at the home Of hel
aunt, Mrs. 7. B. Hill.
Mrs. Fl. L. Fenton and son, Carl
left Wednesday morning for Newport
beach. They will return home about
August Is.
Louis Campbell, Of Kansas, accom-
panied by his family, is visiting his
cousins, J. M. Campbell and w. G..
Campbell, in Dallas.
Perrydale is to have new school
building. The contract will be let July
80. A new school house is also to be
built at Buena Vista.
The Epworth League will serve ice
cream on the M. E. Church lawn this
evening from 5 o'clock until 10
o'clock. All are invited.
Hon. G.. G. Bingham. prominent
attorney Of Salem, and J. W. Roland,
clerk OF Marion county, were in Dali
las on business errand, Friday.
Mrs. FL. E. Kozer and her sister,
Mrs. Annie Ayres, are visiting friends
in Portland and attending the Chau-
tauqua sessions at Gladstone Park.
Fred Palmer, of Seattle, is visiting
at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. I. M. Palmer, in this city. His
wife has been visiting here for several
weeks,
Mrs. II. H. Chace desires to inform
the public that, beginning Thursday,
July 80, and through the month Of
August, her store will be open only
between the hours Of a. m. and p.
m.
Fl. L. Fenton, M. d. Ellis and Fred
Toner. Of Dallas, and John Clark. of
Oregon City, left this week on their
annual hunting trip to the Cascade
mountains. They will spend a month
or more in the vicinity of Mt Jeffer-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Murphy celebrated
their golden wedding at their home
near Oakdale last Saturday. They
were married in Saline county, Mis-
souri,, and have resided in Oregon
about twenty years. Only members
of the family participated in the cele-
bration. A splendid dinner was served
and altogether the reunion of the fam
lily proved to be very joyful one.
Floyd Roach died Of typhoid fever
at the home Of his mother, Mrs. Ger
trude Roach, in Salem, Sunday, July
10, 1908, aged II years. He was a
bright and manly little fellow and
had many friends in Dallas, where he
often came to visit his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Elliott. The
funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon, Rev. John Parsons officiat-
ing, and burial took place in City
View cemetery near Salem.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
D. a. Madison was a Portland visi.

4 D. A. Madison was a Portland visi
tor this week.
Read the new ad Of the Central Mear
Market in this issue.
Mrs. W. @. Siefarth, Of Portland, il
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
e. Caldwell.
The Union Revival Brigade have
closed their meetings in Independ-
ence and gone to Woodburn.
Miss Francis Howard, Of Salem, is
visiting her parents, DR. and Mrs E.
y Howard. She will return to the
Capital City, Sunday.
William Grant is making some neat
improvements on his handsome resi-
dence property on the corner Of Main
and Washington streets.
Mrs. d. M. Metzger left this week
for McMinnville, where she will spend
the Summer with her parents, Rev.
and Mrs. Joseph Hoberg.
Among those who went to the beach
at Slab Greek this week are Miss Nan
ME Starr, Miss Bertha Ellis, County
School Superintendent @. L. Starr,
Curtis Tennis and George Richmond.
Painters and carpenters are making
a great improvement in the appear
ance Of the Crider building, which is
to be occupied by Brown & Keyt's
general merchandise store shortly
after August /.
The Southern Pacific Company has
adopted system of paying it's en-
ployes by check, and will run no more
pay cars over the road. The employees
in Dallas received their first monthly
check Wednesday.
Last Thursday Frank Brown, a
we'll known Airlle citizen, met with an
appalling accident. While working
in the field his horses frightened, and
as we understand it, threw him from
the mower seat. He was kicked IN the
back of the head and his skull frac-
tured. He was brought to town on
the evening motor, and thence taken
to Salem to the hospital. The last we
heard he was improving, though his
injuries were most severe. -Indepen-
dence Enterprise.
The court house clock may stop oc-
casionally, but rank weeds In profus-
ion and some sort Of grass continue to
grow, unmolested, on the court house
grounds. Upon the completion of the
city water works system, work on
which will be inaugurated in the very
near future, there promises to be a
different story to relate in regard to
the presence of weeds round about
the court house. County Judge Sibley
says he has made arrangements to
have large quantity Of dirt hauled
to the court house grounds, where it
will be graded and afterwards seeded
for lawn grass. The grading will be
done in a skillful manner under the
direction Of landscape gardener,
that the best results may be obtained
when the grass seeds take root and
thrive. A cement pavement around
the entire block and gravel drive
way to the rear Of the granite build
ing will add not a little in improving
the appearance Of the handsome stone
structure, located in the center Of
Dallas.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
Eor Sale.

Seventy-five acres, in 1C to 20 acre
tracts one mile from Dallas. Apply
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
me FoundatIon OF HeaItI.

Nourishment is the foundation of
health-life-strength. Kodol Dyspep-
sia Cure is the one great medicine
that enables the stomach and digestive
organs to digest, assimilate and trans
form all foods into the kind of blood
that nourishes the nerves and feeds
the tissues. Kodol lays the foundation
for health. Nature does the rest. In
digestion, Dyspepsia, and all disorders
Of the stomach and digestive organs
are cured by the use Of Kodol Sold
by Belt & Cherrington.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24

The Best Prescription for Malaria
ChiIls and Fever Is bottle OF Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. Il is simply
iron and ouinine In a tasteless form
No cure. No pay. Price Soc
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
l.. H. WHEALD0N,
Dallas, Oregon.
Threshing Outfit For Sale.

An Aultman & Taylor $3.50 Separa-
tor, Columbia pattern, only been used
about 80 days; splendid 12-horse
Engine: cook-wagon, stove, water
wagon, cooking utensils, s good bun
dle-beds, 12 pitchforks, in fact, every
thing that goes to make up a first-clasa
threshing outfit VIII be sold cheap.
Come and see the machine and gel
prices. Ask anyone in the neighbor-
hood as to the good qualities Of the
outfit
VAN B. SEARS,
Ballston. Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
Call for Warrants.

Notice is hereby given that all Polk
county warrants endorsed presented
and not paid for want of funds" prior
to June 7, 1902, will be paid upon pres.
entation to my Office, Interest on same
ceases on and after July "a, 1908.
e. V. DALTON,
Treasnrnr Of Polk County
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24

Eor Sale.

Two carts, one small grain cleaner,
one Puyallup hop sprayer, four barrels
of Quassia chips and As cotton hop
sacks. For terms, call at w. G.
Nesmith's farm near Derry.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24
RIackherries Wanted.

Wanted, 5 or 10 gallons Of wild
blackberries apply to
E. s. PIPER,
Dallas. Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24

Mrs. Critchlow died at the home Of
her son, David Critchlow, in North
Dallas at 6 O'Clock yesterday evening.
She had been an invalid for many
years She was about so years old.
The funeral will be held at the family
residence.tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Bu-
rial at Smith graveyard near Lewis
vile.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-07-24

In 1853 the Bowen family Of seven
orphan children came to Oregon and
settled in Marion county, They all
grew up and married. Last Wednes-
day they met at the home Of their sis
ter, Mrs. George Wait, of Salem, it
being the first time they had been to-
gether for forty years. Members Of
the family are; Mrs. George Wait, Of
Salem; Mrs. Frank Egan, Of Silver
ton; Mrs Andrew Siefarth, Of Dallas /;
Joshua, Peter and James Bowen, Of
Silverton, and William Bowen, Of Will
lard. Or.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-10
SAME I'LL STORY.
Billings Bowlers Defeated Again Away
from Home. ,f5e I,

5E. ~ Hf-5
From Mondays Daily Gazette.
Seemingly no matter how easily
the local bowlers go away from home
they invariably return beaten. The
latest to come back in that way are
the men who went to Red Lodge last
Saturday, and the story to be told in
connection with the drubbing they re-
ceived is the same old one. Instead
Of going about the matter of select
ing players in a sensible, reasonable
name personal feelings and petty
j%ealousies appear to have been per-
mitted to crop out and interfere with
the success of what should have been
a communal concern and to a happy
outcome of which. all should have
gladly contributed, no difference at
what cost to personal pride or vanity.
However, it seems that a lesson has
been learned and better things are
promised for the future. If this
should prove to be, the case past de-
feats will probably be overlooked and
henceforth there will be a better I'M
derstanding and a stronger determl-
nation to win, whether al home or
abroad.
The game put up by the coal miners
was not much better than would have
been expected from a lot of tyros,
but poor as it was Billings could not
beat it. Sherman and Richstein for
Billings were not in their usual form,
but they more than held up their end
as concerned ability to outplay any
of the Red Lodge men and had they
received even ordinary support the
story to be told would be a ifferent
one. In the third game of the series
Daniels quit and his place was taken
by Deckert, who could do nc more
than knock over SO pins, Eastman
was substituted in the last game and
he made 1913.
By games the score was as follows:
Red Lodge-451, AIT, 445, 439, 445.
Total, 1892.
Billings-47s, 1888, ASP, 45s, ACT.
Total, 2,234.
The totals made by the Billings
men were, Sherman, IT'S; Richstein,
7f9; Daniels (three games), 463;
Deckert Zone game), 90; Eastman
Zone game), 12S.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-10

overcome the democratic opposition
to the treaty. Senator German said
today that the senate had full power
to sratify this treaty and put it into
effect regardless of the claim of
house members that it must be act
ed upon by that body.
A number of the younger democrats
ir. the senate, including Bailey. Car
mack, Patterson and Dubois, do not
take kindly to the proposed leader
ship of German in the senate to sue
coed James K. Jones, retired
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-10

storms throughout Wyoming, Utah
and Idaho were very severe last week.
The weather moderated, however,
about the 10Th, and, with few excep-
tions, the loss has been nominal and
sheep are in good condition. In Wyo-
outside of a loss of six or seven hun.
| dred in a bunch of t%hirty-five hundred
that were being driven to the track for
shipment east. Reports from Boise,
Idaho, say that the loss in that Sec
ton has been very light. Southern
Utah will probably show more
losses than any other section, as the
snow is quite deep and weather cold
in that section. Corn and hay is be-
ing hauled to sheep as rapidly as it
a be had, and at the present time
no serious alarm is felt over the gen.
eral situation. The abundance OF
snow now in the hills and valleys
should ensure better feed the COM
ing season than for several years
past"
Receipts and Shipments.
The receipts of wool at Boston this
week, last week and for the CORE
spending week of last year were as
follows:
This week, 7,436 bales domestic;
4,4S3 bales foreign. Total, 1913
bales.
Last week, 1884 bales domestic;
1852 bales foreign. Total, 1906
bales.
Last year, 1907 bales domestic;
6,657 bales foreign. Total, 1854
bales.
The total receipts since January l
have been 69,279 bales domestic and
2S,940 bales foreign against 1851
bales domestic and 23,776 bales for
eign for the corresponding period of
1902. This is a decrease of 1888
bales domestic and an increase Of
5,164 bales foreign.
Shipments of wool for the week end
ing March 2 are as follows: Tues
day, February "a, 1866 .905; Wednes-
day, February %, 777,465; Thursday,
February 26, 765,730; Friday, Febru-
airy ~, 1896; Saturday, February
%, 7O3,9 91; Monday, March 2, 372,-
1884: total, 4,286, 841.
This shows an increase of 1928 DOG
pounds over the shipments of $685.
S35 pounds for the previous week.
Since January / the total shipments
amount to 43, III, 1875.
Sales.
The sales of the week amount to
1882, 900 pounds domestic and 425, 900
pounds foreign, making a total Of L.
$4,000 pounds, against a total Of g.
$4,000 for the previous week and a
total of 1912, 900 for the correspond
ing week last year. The sales since
January 1 amount to 31.363. 900
pounds against 34,237,0O0 pounds for
the corresponding time last year.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-10
StOCkWell'S 5s!s:s;
26O7h Mont. A,
Phone No. S9A.
No Charge for Male Help.

Help Wanted.
Woman cook for hotel; Junction.
Second girl, same place.
Waitress private boarding house,
city.
Woman cook for boarding house.
Girls for general house work. city
and ranch,
Positions Wanted.
By middle aged woman as house.
keeper.
Wanted 20 Rent.
Rooming house.
For Rent.
Eighty acres 5 miles west of Billings
with water; fenced.
For Sale.
Lady's Pollard wheel.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-10

Washington, March 6.-Senator
Arthur p. German, Maryland. who
was sworn in again today, is a strong
advocate of ratifying the Cuban
'~reciprosity treaty.
He will, it is understood, attempt to
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-19
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The Rossland-KoOtenai company has
placed several men at the Great West
ern mine at Rossland.
The Great Western has not operated
for almost three years.
Kootenai lake, B. c. was visited re-
Gently by one of the worst windstorms
ever experienced by the Oldest inhab-
liant. Little damage was done but
three small vacant cottages on the
beach were blown to sea and went to
pieces before they could be rescued.
The smelter returns for the last car
of Providence, near Greenwood, ore
gives a net weight of Al ,67S pounds,
and the value, after the customary
percentage deductions by the smelter,
$4,907.46, or a net value of about 1896
per ton, less freight and treatment
charges. The gold value was 500
ounces per ton and the silver about
$50 ounces.
Luther Wagner, mining engineer
of San Francisco, arrived in Spokane
and has been examining a quicksilver
property located in the Kamloops, and
according to the report of Mr.. Wag-
oner, the outlook is very promising.
The owners of the quicksilver mine
have spent several thousand dollars
in development work and have con-
siderable nice looking ore in sight.
Late last fall the placer c,aTm Wild
Duck, owned by Peterson Bros, locat.
ed about two miles northwest of Erie,
B. c., on the north fork of the Salmon
river, was sold to Spokane men for
$4,000. They now intend putting in a
hydraulic plant to work the property.
They have already completed a fine
clubhouse, cookhouse and office on
the property and will have the plant
in operation at the earliest possible
date
Paul Johnson, e. NJ, has returned
to Greenwood from Chicago, where he
met B. d. Brown, a New York capital.
list in the Brown Alaska company
which will develop a mining and smelt-
ing enterprise at Prince of Wales isl
and, Alaska. Mr.. Johnson will next
month proceed to The island to erect
smelter ready for operation by Janu.
airy l. 1t will be built on somewhat
similar lines to the one Mr.. Johnson
built at Greenwood Tor the British Co
lumbia Copper company, commencing
with a single furnace with a daily
treatment capacity of between 400 and
500 tons. He will likely plan a smaller
smelter, to be built at Standpoint
Idaho, before starting for Alaska.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-19
THEY LACKED TACT.
Women Who Make Remarks Better
Left Unsaid.

A woman who would consult her hus-
band on his deathbed as to what mourn
Ing she would wear for him might fair
ly be pronounced lacking in tact You
agree with me? l should not hesitate
to say that she had not proved herself
a perfect wife. "Monstrousr' l hear
you say. Yet this really occurred the
other day. The woman in question be-
longs to that class in which reticence
is a quality almost unknown, and in
which arguments are conducted by
means of lighted paraffine lamps and
sharp-edged tenders. Think of the poor
man clinging to life and cherishing
hope that he would get better, and be-
ing plunged into an abyss of desolation
by the wife of his bosom murmuring
tenderly in his ear: THE doctor says you
are too far gone to recover, AIRY. What
sort Of a widows bonnet will buy?
Several instances of a want of tact
have come before me lately. One was
the case of a wife who had gone abroad
and sent home a foreign postcard to
the following effect:
safely arrived, and have just en-
joyed the first well-cooked meal have
had for months"
Her husband wrote to her:
What madness possessed you to
write what you did on a postcard? You
have bitterly eXasperated my mother
and her cook, and the house is in such
a turmoil in consequence that 1 am
most uncomfortable"
The peccant wife's reply was this:
81 can't forgive myself, and l am sure
you will never forgive me for writing
that idiotic postcard. You will scarcely
believe me when l tell you that writing
in Germany, as l did, some ridiculous
idea possessed me that a postcard in
English could not be understood, for
getting that its destination was Eng
land. "-London Truth.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-19
MINING NOTES.

There are from two to three carloads
OF ore in the Black Tail mine at Re-
public, broken down and ready for
shipment, which will be held until the
returns for lne last shipment come Il
nand.
The foundations for the new Garrett
son smelter OF the Pittsburg- Montana
Copper Mining company. will shortly
be put in place at Butte. A large
force is finishing the excavating. Con-
siderable machinery for the new plant
has already arrived. The works will
employ about 700 men.
The so stamp mill and cyanide plant
located on the Broadway mine at Sill
yer Star, Montana, was totally de-
stroyed by fire recently. The estimat-
ca loss is $4,000 partly covered by in
surance. Inc mill and mine have been
idle for some time and fire is undoubt-
eddy the work of an incendiary.
An important adjunct to the extern
sive mining machinery of Butte is to
be installed by Senator w. A. Clark il
his Original NINE in the shape of a
modern air compressor, built on what
is called the Two unit plan. The con-
tract is said to be one Of the largest Of
its kind to De awarded in Butte for
some time. by means of pipes all Of
the mines belonging to Senator Clark
will be furnished with air.
James Downing and Michael Collins,
two miners in the Sinbad mine, at
Butte, Mont, were compelled to wade
knee deep in scalding water, through
the breaking of the exhaust pipe in a
pump recently. The men were in a
drift at the time of the accident Dense
clouds of steam followed the breaking
of the machinery and nearly suffocated
the miners. Both are severely burned
Recent developments in Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, where the gold mines
are coming forward at a surprisingly
rapid pace, have centered attention of
mining men on that district, and
bumpers feel that this season will be
the liveliest they have known. The
Jumbo is taking rank as one of the big
gold mines of Idaho, and the Cracker