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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
ADDS DIPPING MACHINE
r. L. Chapman Makes Many
Improvements on His Prune
Dryer in North Dallas.

r. L. Chapman is making ex-
tensive improvements and repairs on
his big prune dryer north of town
and will soon have one of the most
completely equipped aporating
plants in the valley. The work is
nearing completion, and the dryer
will be ready to handle the present
years output OF Mr.. Chapman's 40
acre orchard.
The principal addition to the plant
is dipping and spreading machine
of the latest pattern. This machine
dips the prunes in lye bath, rinses
them in running water, and spreads
them on the trays. 1t will dip and
spread 500 bushels Of prunes day,
and is a valuable labor-saving device.
The machine will materially increase
the capacity Of the dryer, as prunes
dipped in lye will dry in about six
hours less time than those not
similarly treated. Heretofore, Mr..
Chapman has not dipped his fruit on
account of scarcity of water.
Another important improvement
added this year is a first-class water
system to protect the plant from fire.,
A two inch main from the city system
furnishes an abundance of water and
good pressure, Notwithstanding the
fact that the dryer is a mile from town
and nearly 100 feet above the street
level Five hydrants are distributed
around the dryer and warehouse, and
water-pipe running through the
furnace is so arranged that the drying
tunnels may be filled with steam at
moments notice, Mr.. Chapman says
that the pressure on the hydrants is
sufficient to throw water to the top of
both buildings. The plant will begin
operations about September l.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
GILPIN IN THE TOLLS
salem Officers Arrest film on Charge
OF Passing Bad Check on
Dallas Merchant.

John Gilpin was arrested in Salem
last Friday on charge Of obtaining
money under false pretenses. The
complaint alleges that he passed a
worthless check on R. B. Mcdonald. a
confectioner of Dallas, few weeks
ago. He may also be brought to face
charge of forgery. Gilpin was
brought to Polk county by Deputy
Sheriff M. A. Ford and placed in the
county Jail.
The check in question was drawn
on the Independence National Bank
for the sum of $50. 1t was made pay
able to u. R. Snyder" and was
signed John W. Gilpin." The check
bore the endorsement Of 81. R.
Snyder" on the back. When Mr.. Nc
Donald presented the check for pay
ment, the bank refused to honor it,
informing him that it was worthless.
AT the preliminary hearing before
Justice Hardy Holman on Monday
afternoon, Mr.. Mcdonald testified
that the prisoner borrowed 500 from
him about the first of June, repre-
senting himself to be J. R. Snyder.
On or about June 81, Gilpin came to
the store and offered him check for
$50 in payment Of the debt. Mr.. Nc
Donald did not have enough money
in the cash drawer to pay the $50
difference, and Gilpin went away.
Later in the day he returned and Nc
Donald gave him the $50 and took
the check. Mcdonald says that Gilpin
at all times represented himself to be
j. r. Snyder. 1t is believed that the
endorsement IS a forgery, as the
handwriting bears strong resem-
blance to that on the face Of the check.
Justice Holman placed Gilpin under
$500 bonds to appear before the Circuit
Court, and the prisoner was returned
to Jail. Judge Burnett's court will
not meet until December. and an
effort will be made to have the trial
take place in Judge Galloway's de-
partment and save the taxpayers the
expense of boarding the prisoner for
four or five months.
The Salem Statesman says that Gill
pin has kept company during the last
two years with Myrtle Wallace, an
Indian girl with shady character,
and has given the police great deal
of trouble. The two were repeatedly
arrested and on many occasions served
time in the city jail. They were made
to leave the city at different times, but
would always work their way back.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28

The earliest threshing reported in
Polk county was done by George
McBee and sons on the home farm
three miles southwest of Dallas last
Friday. A field of oats was threshed,
and an average yield was secured.
Six months in jail and $1,000 fine
was the sentence pronounced upon
Senator John H. Mitchell by Judge
DeHaven, Tuesday morning. Senator
Mitchell gave bond for $4,000 and will
60 about his affairs as usual until
decision is rendered on his appeal to
the United States supreme court. A
decision is expected by next March.
George Mclaughlin, Of Buena Vista,
was in town, Wednesday. He says
the new Buena Vista Odd Fellows
hall is nearing completion and will
soon be ready for occupancy. The
building is similar to the one burned
last winter. The lower story will be
used for a store and the upper floor
for lodge purposes.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
POLK HEADS THE LIST
AngOra Goat Industry Has Been
Brought to Highest Stage of
Development Here.

Speaking Of the Angora goat in
dustry of Oregon, the Oregonian of
July is says:
'Polk, Benton and Lincoln are the
counties raising the largest number
of goats. 1t is astonishing that more
men engaged in clearing upland do
not utilize the Angora goat to aid
them. To put on a clearing machine
which not only does the work but re-
pays over 80 per cent of its cost would
seem to be a good proposition. 1t
cannot be too strongly stated that on
Oregon brush-covered lands there are
few farming industries that will
justify paying out from $50 to $50 an
acre for getting rid at one operation
of brush, trees and roots.
'"To increase the grass and clover
growing area of the farm, on the
other hand, is to enable an immense
increase Of the number of stock that
the farm will carry, and therein lies
the chief source Of profit. The slash
ing and burning of the brush and
sowing the field down in grass and
clover can in most cases be done for
$40 an acre or even less. The next
year sheep and goats can be turned
in on the land. Each sheep on an
average yields $1.10 head for wool,
and each goat $1.25 for mohair. On
land where cherry, hazel and vine
maple are the chief brushes, the
sheep and goats will kill the brush
out in from three to four years, and
do we'll on the feed all the time. The
roots can then be knocked out with ak
or grub-hoe, and then burned. The
land can be plowed and cultivated
and thrown into the acreage of plow
land on the farm. Meanwhile the
sheep and goats will have more than
paid for themselves and be ready to
repeat the work on the next field.
'It is estimated that, in clearing
land. six goats will do the work Of one
man. Before passing on let it be
noticed that in no branch Of stock is
quality more important than when
securing goats. A good lot of grade
nannies at $5 a head, and thorough
bred buck at 500 or 1876, will be very
paying investment, when we'll cared
for"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
LAST ILLNESS WAS BRIEF
Mrs. Angeline Sites Passes Away at
Home Of Her Daughter Near
PrinevilIe.

Mrs. Angeline Sites, one of the early
pioneers Of Marion county, and for
many years a resident Of Polk county,
died near Prineville, after a brief ill
ness caused by indigestion, on Satur-
day, July Is, 1905, at the age of 70
years. The news of her death came
as great surprise to her many
friends in Dallas. While it was
known that she had been in declining
health for several months, her con-
dition had not been considered serious.
Mrs. Sites was the widow of Dr.. ]. r.
Sites, one of the prominent pioneer
physicians of the Willamette Valley.
She was an intelligent and accom-
plished woman of fine social qualities,
and had a host of friends in Polk
county. Speaking of her death, the
Prineville Journal says;
"Angeline May was born in Boone
county, Missouri, April 26, 1888. She
crossed the plains with her parents in
1S49, settling near Salem, Oregon.
She was married to DR.. James r.
Sites, deceased, in Salem on January
80, 1859.
''To this union five children were
born, two of whom survive her, Mrs.
j, w. Howard, Of Corvallis, and Mrs.
G. F. Smith, of Prineville.
Deceased had been a devout
Christian for the past AZ years,
Funeral services we're conducted Sun
day afternoon at the residence of @. F.
Smith by Rev. W. p. Jinnett, pastor
of the Methodist church. Interment
took place at the Union cemetery"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
BLOSSOM BLIGHT APPEARS
Hop Crop In Marion County Said to
Be in Great Danger From
ScOurge.

With the temperance Of pests upon
the blossoms of the growing hops,
growers in this section are confronted
with condition regarded as serious,
says the Salem correspondent of the
Evening Telegram. The new trouble
consists of the effect of the excessive
and extraordinary visitation of lice
and honey-dew, the effect of which has
been to sap the vines so that the bios
SONS, which appearto be in perfectly
healthy condition, except for the lice,
drop off at the merest touch. Another
discovery which is claimed to have
been made only Sunday afternoon, by
a grower who has been in the business
for Is years, is that the leaves of the
vines, when held to the sun, show
unmistakable evidence of mold. This
is condition heretofore unknown.
Inspection of every yard along the
road north of Salem, about 25 in all,
leads to the conclusion that there are
few growers in that district who will
harvest more than two-thirds of an
ordinary crop, while the majority of
them will be fortunate if they succeed
in saving a half crop Many growers
have sprayed with good effect, but the
vermin have come on again in over
whelming numbers, and many are
making preparations to go over their
yards second time with the spray.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
Pays Respects to GOsslpers.
(Guernsev, Wyo. Gazette. J


Gossip is hummingbirde with
eagle wings and a voice like fog
horn. 1t can be heard from Dan to
Bersheba, and has caused more
trouble than all the bed-bugs, ticks,
fleas, mosquitoes, coyotes, grass
hoppers, chinchbugs, rattlesnakes,
sharks, sore toes, cyclones, earth
quakes, blizzards, smallpox, yellow
fever, gout and indigestion that this
great United States has known or will
know when the Universe shuts up
shop and begins the final invoice. In
other words, it has got war and hell
both backed up in the corner yelling
for iceWater
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28

A Tillamook merchant advertises
his place of business as 'the store
that put the mail-order traffic out OF
business in Tillamook county"
J. G. Hinshaw, the Watkins Rene
dies man, has moved his family over
from Salem. He has purchased the
dwelling house just west Of the Baptist
chureh.-McMinnville Reporter.
DR.. Louis J. Wolf, of Silverton,
Oregon. accompanied the Peary expe-
dition as surgeon. He is 80 years old
and a graduate of the college OF
surgery in San Francisco.
Where are you sickl Headache
foul tongue, no appetite, lack ofenergy
main in your stomach, constipation?
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will
make YOU well and keep you well. 35
cents. Belt & Cherrington's.
Beautify your complexion with
little cost. lfyou wish a smooth, clear
creamlike complexion, rosy cheeks
laughing eyes, take HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea, greatest beautlfer
known. s5 cents. Belt & Cherrington 5
Leonard Liyermore and L. L
sbreve drove to Newport this week ior
a few DAYS outing. Mr.. Shreve was
preparing to return to Eastern ore-
gon when he received word that ms
employers had sold their store and
that his services would not De needeu'
He win probably remain in the valley
several weeks before seeking a ne"
location.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
Health Officers Notice.

Parents of children with the whoop-
ing cough are hereby notified that the
law requires a close quarantine Of
infected children during the active
stage of the disease. Violations Of the
law will result in arrest and fine.
w. S. CARY,
Health Officer.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
Change In Evening Service.

Hereafter the Sunday evening SER
vice at the United Evangelical church
will begin at Z AS and continue until
8 100 and, unless otherwise announced,
will include song service, study of
G. E. subject and sermon. You are
invited to this service of one and one
fourth hours. Sunday evening, July
80, this time will be taken up with a
Japan program. Come and enjoy it.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28

Not cent wanted, unless you are
cured If you are sick and ailing,
take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea
A great blessing to the human family
Makes you well-keeps you we'll 35
cents, Tea or Tablets. Belt K Cher
rington's.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-07-28
What is ltp

A buzz-a whirr-
A cloud Of dust
A wild blood-curdling yell
A CHASTITY object flashing by
Then silence-and a SMELL
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
BAN ON THE NUMBER 10.
"HeodOo" stricken From Oregon
Railroads Train Schedule.

"HoodOo" stricken From Oregon
Railroads Train Schedule.
Because Of the number Of fatal acct
dents TO trains bearing the unlucky
No 13 orders have been issued on the
mountain division OF the Oregon Rail
road and Navigation company which
strikes that number from the train
sheet. says special dispatch from
Portland. Ore, to the st. Louis Re
public. The tragic death OF Conductor
Charles +. Brown OF Kamela In No
vember WAS the climax.
The last train order signed by Con
ductor Brown on that fatal trip was
order No 10. which he received at
Bingham Springs aud which in the
usual jovial manner he at first refused
10 sign for. telling the dispatcher to
change the number. After few jok-
ing words over the wires with the dis
patcher Conductor Brown took the or
der and In delivering copy Of 1t 20
Engineer Peter Theisen said in fun:
That's bad one, Pete. Look at the
number and then look out"
II was the last order Brown received.
II being Il meet order" on train No.
at Meachem.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06

so. The right teacher can arouse
any neighborhood. II has been
done hundreds of times and will be
again. The way to do it is to get
yourself aroused first, and then pro-
coed in the same way to arouse
others.
Whether the teacher should be
the leader in social affairs depends
on circumstances. II rhere is plenty
of social life of the right sort, he
should enter into IL heartily as
occasion offers, being helpful to all
and especially helpful to the bashful
or difhdent.
II the social life is Of the kind
that is harmful, he should set about
quietly TO change it; not by any
violent opposition or denunciation,
but by suggesting better things and
helping to carry them out.
Literary societies at the school
house, If wisely conducted, furnish
means for social intercourse, and are
source of much benefit in other
ways.
The teacher should also take an
active interest in the religious life of
the community. IL there is but one
church in the neighborhood he
should unite his efforts with il
cheerfully and heartily, whether it
is the church OF his choice or not.
In the Sunday school he should he
willing to work in whatever capacity
he is needed
He should have nothing to say
against any denomination in which
any of his people are represented or
are Interested. A teacher should
never sacrifice principle for popu-
larity, and may let his preferences
be known when occasion seems TO
require il, but he should remember
that he is the servant of all, the
friend Of all, and should be uni
formly kind and courteous to all.
In his relations with the people
educationally, socially and religious
ly, knowledge of this fact will
keep him from making serious
mistakes.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
CORN TRAIN FOR IOWA.
| Campaign 10 Increase the Crops VIII
he Managed by a Railroad.

Campaign 10 Increase the Crops VIII
he Managed by a Railroad.
Following campaigns In South Da-
kOta, Minnesota and Nebraska by the
Chicago and Northwestern railway in
its prosecution OF a pure seed propa-
ganda. il u announced that special
train for the state Of Iowa will be
placed on the road about the middle
Of February and will reach practical
ly every important grain shipping point
I'm the state. says the Chicago News.
More careful and scientific selection
OF seed corn with view b. increasing
the production OF the stare is the c..
Ject Of the enterprise. Professor +. G..
Holden Of the State Agricultural col
lege at Ames. Ia. Is the demonstration
A total of more than 200 stations and
over $500 miles OF well equipped lines
that reach the finest grain growing re-
giOns IN the state are to be covered
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
The School
JOHN WRIT DrNsMORE. Kaito
Problem. of the District School.

CHAP. v.-THE TEACHERS POSITION
IN the DISTRICT.
The teacher should in the right
sense of the word be the educator of
the district, not only of the pupils
but Of the entire population.
Standards are low; it is his duty
to raise them. All the people need
awakening to the necessity of better
equipment and methods, and the
schoolmaster must have the magic
spell 70 call them to consciousness.
Patrons are likely to think that the
good old ways are the best; the
teacher should be up-to- date, and
convince them that many of the
modern ways are better than the old.
BY his questions and talks to the
pupils he should set the people to
thinking, being careful to avoid sub
jects that lead TO endless and useless
controversies.
He should see that the district
has library of some sort-a few
we'll chosen books-and that they
get into the homes and are read
there. When he visits his patrons
he may carry book, magazine or
paper with him, and read aloud
something especially adapted to the
purpose, or, give an interesting
account of something he has recently
read.
Teachers are prone to think that
their patrons are the dullest or most
indifferent in the world. 1t is not
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
RAILRoAps ro srmrLArE rARMINo.

RAILROADS TO STIMULATE FARMING
That the western railroads are
recognizing the advisability of slim
ulating settlement and agricultural
production along their lines in order
to increase their traffic is evidenced
by several significant moves which
have been made during the year,
radically different from the methods
heretofore practiced by all transcon-
tinental roads Of disposng of their
large land holdings in the most
rapid manner possible without re-
gard TO the size Of the tracts sold or
whether settlement is to follow or
not
One of the big lines is considering
the advisability of providing a home.
stead for all its employees, limiting
disposals TO small tracts and requir-
ing actual settlement and improve.
ment. The Burlington System has
been conducting series OF farm
experiments and establishing model
farms, under the so-called Campbell
Soil Culture System, in the semi
arid region, which have already
demonstrated that lands heretofore
supposed to be fit only for grazing,
are capable Of intense agriculture.
The Union Pacific and the Santa Fe
lines have also recently followed this
lead and taken up the subject, and
it is expected that they will carry
into operation similar projects for
the development Of their tributary
country.
BETTER AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
Our present system of national
eeucation takes little il any account
Of practical agriculture, yet the sue
cessful farmer of today, as is coming
TO be more and more generally
recognized, must possess some tech
nical knowledge OF his business,
more than his father or his grand
father knew. The keen competition
which has invaded farming as well
as commercial occupations makes
Imperative the introduction into our
educational system of practical farm
studies If American farmers are to
maintain their supremacy in com.
petition with other classes, or if
American agriculture is to continue
TO lead the world. Guy Elliott
Mitchell.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
Real Estate In serss.

Anyone wanting to sell or buy
improved or unimproved property in
Berea, KY. call on j. p Bicknell
as he is in the business. | have 40
acres right in the corporation of
Berea, which l will sell to any one
who wants to make money on town
property.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
The Farm
sILAs cHREvER MASON, EaitOr
III 4 sIIIIon Aeres Worth WHO.


II has been estimated from official
reports and compilations that at
least half billion acres Of the
national domain have passed from
the hands of the government, since
organization, into private and cor.
porate holdings. for purposes other
than home building.
In the early history of the govern
ment, when our population was
small and the lands we're looked
upon as source of revenue for
running the national machinery.
there may have been some excuse
for disposing of them in large tracts,
but rapidly growing sentiment
soon indicated the adyisability of
securing a permanent population on
all lands disposed Of, finally culmin.
ating in the passage Of the home
stead act.
While the operation of this general
policy has been to satisfactorily settle
up much of the United States, along
with it has flourished practice of
fraud and evasion OF laws which has
consolidated enormous tracts into
single ownerships. Could the gov.
eminent be repossessed of this great
area acquired largely for speculative
purposes, what safety valve il
would form to-day against the dan
gers Of Capitalization in the East
with which we are coming face to
face. There is little use, however,
in theorizing upon what might have
been. Ii is worth while, though, to
pay some attention to the remaining
half billion acres of the public
domain and TO put a stop to the
present practice of squandering this
national resource, and holding it
until il is wanted for actual settle.
ment, il not now, ten or twenty or
thirty years, may be.
The strong sentiment which is
impatient of delay in the govern
ment's disposals of its lands and
desires TO see it put into private
hands as rapidly as possible, comes
mostly from an interested class
which is pecuniarily benefitting by
this policy.
II the plans which the government
is now vigorously pushing, including
the irrigation of the seventy odd
million acres of land susceptible of
that development and the regener-
alton greater amount of arid and
semi-arid lands which can not be
irrigated, through the introduction
of desert plants from the Old World
and "dry land" methods of agricul-
ture, and allowed to proceed, and
the lands meanwhile held against
speculation, opportunities for home
making by millions of people will be
created in the west where there is
now only waste desert or but scant
forage growth supporting wandering
herds of cattle and sheep.
The time will come, possibly
sooner than the country imagines in
its present headlong race after
money, when such an agricultural
population, firmly rooted to the
fertile western acres, will Be wei
come sheet anchor to the nation.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-04-06
THE SPRING PAINTING

Is task of no little Importance to
owners of proptrty. Up-to-date
painters recommend the use of Green
Seal Liquid Paint, because of its
extreme purity. For Sale by the
East End Drug Store.