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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
STREET BIDS OPENED
COUNCIL DELAYS AWARDS UN-
TIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
Lowest Tender for Curb Five Cents
Per Lineal Foot, Made by
Property Owners.

The council last night received a
bid of five cents per lineal foot for
300 feet of concrete curb, or total of
$15 for the entire work, it being the
lowest price for an improvement Of
this character ever recorded in this
city. The bid was made by Messrs.
w. l.. Soehren and B. j. Werner, and
accompanying it was the required GER
titled check, to be forfeited if the
construction of the curb was not per-
formed according to plans and speci-
fications within the specified time.
The location of the curb to be built
is on the south side of Ash street,
between Main and Jefferson, and the
improvement is chargeable to the
property owned by the bidders, which,
it is unnecessary to state, is respon-
sible for the low tender.
Bids for the macadamization Of
eight blocks and the building of con-
crete curbs the same distance were
opened by the council, but no action
was taken, the whole matter being
deferred until tomorrow evening, to
which date the aldermanic body ad-
journed. The Hines Engineering
company's bid was as follows: Crush
ing 2500 yards of rock at 65 cents,
81 ,625; delivering same at 85 cents,
$2,125; crushing and delivering at
$1.48, $1,000; excavation or fill, 46
cents; macadamization at 81 cents
per yard, $675; construction of 1900
lineal feet of curb at .345 per foot,
$1,449.
Holmes & Grant submitted the fol-
lowing bid; Construction of curb, 35
cents per foot, and $3.50 for turns,
material to be of crushed rock or
washed gravel, or 81 cents per foot
and $3.50 for turns for Independence
river run of gravel.
The Dallas Warehouse & Manu-
featuring company bid 28 cents per
foot for curb, and $500 extra for
corners, the number of feet considered
by the bid being 4,200.
Further than opening bids compare
lively little business was transacted
at the meeting. Mr.. Barber, chair
man Of the street committee, report
cd on number of sidewalks that
should be rebuilt, aud the council in
structed the recorder to notify the
parties owning the property to cause
them to be reconstructed within the
time allowed by the charter.
The Ash street improvement was
reported to have cost $l41 for grad
ing, but inasmuch as the property
owners objected to having engineer
ing that was not performed after the
had been ordered by the
council included in the bill, SO for that
work and $3.50 for removing side
walk were eliminated and the whole
was then assessed at
$3.50.
The road oiling within the city not
being satisfactory, and the recorder
having heretofore notified the Oregon
Road Oiling company to that effect,
the recorder, on motion of Alderman
Westover, was instructed to notify the
bondsmen.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21

the audience interested. He presented
series of pictures showing the drunk
ard from the beginning to the end
of his career. The pictures were not
calculated to help the liquor cause.
Mrs. Mitchner Talks.
The temperance rally closed at the
courthouse in the evening, when Mrs.
Lillian Mitchner of Topeka, Kansas,
gave an interesting and instructive
discourse on prohibition, relating how
it affected her home state. Without
marked oratorical effort she impressed
her audience with a recital of what
had been accomplished in Kansas, say
ing in substance that Kansas is the
hub of the country's prosperity, be-
cause its population is the richest
per capita in the world, while its
children are counted among the best
educated and rank highest in morali-
ty. To prove her contention she con-
trasted Kansas with other states, par
ticularly Missouri. The latter has
richer soil and greater rainfall as well
as greater mineral resources, and
vet with these natural advantages
is just ten times poorer per capita.
The cause of this is proved to be
because Missouri likes her 1000 sa-
looms better than she does the water
wagons of her sister state. Missouri
is so busy filling the almhouses and
Jail with liquor-soaked products that
she is $800,0OO,000 poorer than
Kansas. The boys of the latter state
like money in their pocketbooks, and
so the second generation since pro-
hibition was in force have sent their
young representatives to the legisla-
ture to declare that their fathers were
not enough prohibitionists. They
have revised the liquor laws and made
them even more stringent. "No
BOOZE she says, is the slogan among
the young men Of Kansas, and for
this reason the rising generations are
increasing in vitality and mentality.
Mrs. Mitchener pleaded for the inter
ests of the children of Oregon that
they might have the same opportuni-
ty to make of themselves clean men
and women, and her message was en-
Enthusiastically received.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
INCIDENT NOW CLOSED
ACCEPTANCE OF ARBITRATORS
REPORT SET ASIDE.
Council Having Purchased Brown Site
for Tank, Passes Resolution
Last Night.

The acceptance of the report Of the
arbitrators named to price the Uglow
tract was set aside by the council
last night, and all things in connec-
ton with that transaction were re-
voked, every councilman with the
single exception of Alderman Hayter
voting for resolution introduced by
Alderman Barber. On April 20 last
the council made an order accepting
the report of the arbitrators, fixing
the value of the Abel Uglow land for
septic tank purposes at $500. On
May a resolution was introduced in
the council authorizing the purchase
of the tract at the price named by the
arbitrators, but the resolution failed
to pass, and the council having re-
fused to authorize a consummation of
the deal, it was ordered by the reso-
luton of last night that the accept
ance of the report aforesaid be set
aside and in all things revoked.
This closes the incident so far as
the council is concerned, unless the
city is made defendant in an action
to compel it to take over the land
in accordance with an alleged agree
ment to abide by the decision of the
arbitrators as regards price. Mr..
Uglow has informed The Observer
that such action will be instituted,
and that he will, if possible, force
the city to make the purchase.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Make Long Auto Trip.

"Jack" Robinson of Pendleton, ac.
companied by his wife, Leon Coher
and wife and Harold Smith, all OF
Eastern Oregon, were in Dallas on
Sunday. coming thither while on an
automobile tour to visit A. E. Thomp-
son, who formerly resided in their
neek-o '-the-woods. The party is trav-
cling in big Apperson seven passen-
ger ear, and the trip was made from
Pendleton to Crater Lake, Klamath
Falls. Medford, Grants Pass, Rose
burg. and on north through the Viii
lamette valley to Portland.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21

fortunate enough to be the nominee OF
his party in political campaign. He
thought the regular short-term rates
should apply to this character of ad-
vertising as well as to others, and the
committee on resolutions embodied
this feature in its report, and it was
adopted without dissent.
Mr.. Mcintosh of the O. A. C. ex-
tension department was present and
addressed the meeting, as did also
Mrs. Edythe Tozier Weathered, who
but recently severed her connection
with the Manufacturers association
of the state after having endeavored
by pink teas to create favor for
Made-in-O Oregon goods. Mrs. Wealth
cred is now associated with the State
Fair, and invited the publishers to
spend one day as guests of the fair,
and promised to entertain them right
royalty.
w. H. Boyd of the Dallas Itemizcr
spoke on foreign advertising, H. E.
Hughes of Silverton on the reader,
D. l.. Wood of Falls City on space
rates, G. E. Brookings of Hubbard on
the pleasures of being present, and
Mr.. Trype of Portland on the publici-
ty man, to which class he belongs.
The committee on resolutions, con-
sisting on Col. Hofer, Lew A. Gates
and H. E. Hughes, besides resolving
voluminously along various lines, pro-
fusely thanked the Dallas Commercial
club and its committee in charge for
the handsome entertainment rendered
the association members during their
brief stay in this city, which enter
tainment consisted chiefly Of eating,
and autoing around the loop. The
place Of the next meeting will be de-
cided by the officers of the associa-
ton,
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
TAPS. A RICH COUNTRY
NEW RAILROAD WILL DEVELOP
UPPER LUCKIAMUTE.
Construction Work Is Being Rushed
a Large Number of Men Being
Employed.

The construction of the Siletz ant
Valley railroad is going to aid very
materially in the development of The
Upper Luckiamute country, section
which has heretofore been practically
isolated. While the principal object fol
building this railroad is to tap a
district rich in timber in the great ST.
letz basin. inasmuch as it will pass
through fertile agricultural territory
settlement is bound to follow. This
railroad starts from a point on the
Southern Pacific near Airlie in this
county, following up the Luckiamute
into Benton and then cireling back
into Polk county and on into the 81
letz basin, the objective point of the
road. The road is being well built
with an easy grade. Fifty-six pound
steel is being laid. Steel is now laid
from the starting point to Hoskins a
distance of about fifteen miles, and
the company is hauling its supplies
over the new track.
Work on the road is being pushed as
rapidly as possible, the builders be-
ing determined to reach the fast de-
caying timber injured by fire as quick
ly as men, mules and machinery can
make the connection. AT the present
time about two hundred workmen,
two steam shovels and in the neighbor-
hood Of seventy-fve mules are engag-
ed in construction work, and there is
general activity all along the line.
When the line into the Siletz basin is
completed logging operations will be
inaugurated, and the logs will be eth
er emptied into the Willamette river
at Independence, or a sawmill will be
erected at that or some other conven-
lent point. While this territory is not
tributary to Dallas, the COM
mencement of operations there will
mean no inconsiderable to this city
and the county in general, for the
reason that the interests of all sec
tions of Polk county are practically
identical, and what aids one must
benefit another.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
PRAISES THIS VALLEY
TRAVELLER TERMS 1T THE GAR
DEN SPOT OF THE WORLD.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Crider Cover More
Than Thousand Miles by
Automobile.

Mrs. j. C. Crider of San Jose, Cal
who is well known in Dallas, when III
terviewed by The Observer reporter
said: ~ consider the Willamette
valley of Oregon and the Santa Clara
valley of California the two garden
spots of the world"
Mr.. and Mrs. Crider arrived in Dal-
las last week from San Jose, having
motored all the way. They were ac-
companied as far as Eugene by Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Bailey and little
daughter, Helen, who expect to make
their future home in Oregon.
The motoring party left San Jose
June IS, coming through Stockton,
California, Reno, Nevada, and Fallon,
Nevada, at which latter place a visit
was paid to Mrs. Crider's brother.
The Placerville route was then fol-
lowed at the foot of the mountains
along American river and out by Lake
Taho, where good fishing was spoiled
by thunderstorm. Echo Lake, which
has 1900 feet elevation, was visited
June %, and its beauty was greatly
enjoyed. They then came through
Carson City and Carson Valley, and
the beautiful chain of lakes, including
Eagle lake, and forty miles of ex-
cellent roads along the edge of the
awe-inspiring Goose lake to Lake
View, where sane July 4 was spent,
without even so much as a fire crack
er, although a nolseless day was in
terrupted in the evening by a tremen-
dous thunder storm. The route then
came through Susanville. fifty miles
from Mount Lassen, which was seen
in eruption at that time. Summer
Lake and Silver Lake were visited,
and the party predicted a great future
for land settlers in that district.
The roads are good as far as FIRE.
mont, but became dusty on nearing
Bend. The only troublesome roads
causing delay were experienced be-
tween Sisters and the Summit, which
was reached July 9, and where coffee
was made from melted snow, and
where the party was much annoyed
by great swarms of mosquitoes. The
Mackenzie river at Belknap Springs
afforded the best fishing on the trip,
and a large number of redsides, speck-
ed, and dolly warden trout were
caught. The Mackenzie river in Ore
gon and the American river in Cali
fornia are so alike in beauty and pro-
portions that the party believes they
should be called the twin rivers
The party separated at Eugene, Mr..
and Mrs. Crider coming to Dallas,
having covered 1121 miles and using
119 gallons of gasoline in a fifty horse
power, four-cylinder Kissel car. Mrs.
Crider was pleased to note the improv-
ed condition of farms in the William
cite valley since her last visit here,
and made special mention of the 'ex-
cellent appearance of the orchards in
the neighborhood of Dallas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crider have motored
to Dallas, before, coming over the
Shasta route, and predict that many
other California people will avail
themselves Of the same pleasures
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Midnight Air Is Rent.

On Saturday night last, between the
hours of II and l O'Clock, Dallas was
the scene of wild excitement, caused
by a couple of dozen visiting hood
lums said to have been from Salem
and Sheridan, hooting on the principal
thoroughfares of the city. The night
officers did their best to quell the dis
turbance, but their efforts were with
out avail. Mayor Van 0rsdel was
about to take a hand when the bunch
hastily departed. 1t was simply a
drunken carousal.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
FALLS FROM SCAFFoLD.
Strikes Timber and Splits Knee-Cap
Into Five Separate Pieces.

A Monmouth carpenter by the name
of Moore is at the Dallas hospital
with a broken knee-cap, which acci-
dent he suffered on Friday last while
plying his trade in the school town.
Mr.. Moore fell from a scaffold to
the ground, a distance of about
twelve feet, alighting on a piece Of
timber, splitting the knee-cap into
five pieces. The unfortunate man was
brought to Dallas by DIR. Matthias and
on the following day DR.. Starbuck re-
moved two of the broken pieces and
wired the other three together. The
patient will be laid up for several
months, but that the knee will be
rigid is improbable.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Plans Will Be Ready Soon.

City Engineer Taylor will have com
pleted plans and specifications for
the proposed septic tank by Tuesday
next, and the aldermanie body will
convene on that evening and make its
arrangements for the construction of
the sewage disposal plant. Bids will
probably be invited at that time.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Had Money in Bank.

A. J. Beck, the young man who was
drowned near Buell. last week while
driving logs in Cedar creek, had de-
posted $439 in Portland bank, and
was planning on attending Oregon or
Washington universities with the
opening of the fall term. He had
been a student at the U. of o., and
had been engaged as a mining en-
gineer in Idaho.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Speaker Will Be Present.

AT the meeting of the fruit growers,
to be held at the court house in Dali
las next Saturday afternoon, an Of
fetal of the North Pacific Fruit Dis
tributors' will be present and explain
to those not already informed the
workings Of that organization.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
RALLY A BIG SUCCESS
POLK COLD WATER ADVOCATES
SPEND DAY IN CITY PARK.
Prominent Illinois and Kansas Tenn
perance Workers Deliver Address
es to Large Audiences.

| The temperance rally in. this cit,
on Saturday, at which the first gur
in the Oregon Dry campaign wa
fired, was an unqualified success from
every angle, and the cause for whicl
it was held will now be closely fol
lowed up by the cold water advocates
until the last ballot is cast on elec
ton day next November. The rally
had been extensively advertised
throughout the county, resulting in {
comparatively large attendance from
cities and rural districts. Prof. D
M. Metzger, formerly Of Dallas col
lege, presided, and the High schoo
girls quartet rendered number
pleasingly at the opening of the ex-
ercises, invocation by Rev. C. C. Cur.
tis of the Christian church following
Mr.. R. P. Hutton of Portland, q
temperance field worker who has the
subject well in hand, delivered the
principal address of the morning. The
speakers arguments for a dry state
were exceedingly strong, his state
ments being convincing and to the
point. The picnic dinner at the lunch
hour was one of the enjoyable fea-
lures of the occasion, and was par
ticipated in by many persons who
were unable to remain during the pro
gram. The afternoon was devoted to
the program as heretofore published
by The Observer: Singing by quar-
tet, invocation by Rev. Owen Day, a
reading by Mrs. Edna Seymour Brown
of Falls City, an address on Chops
and Prohibition" by Rev. C. P. Gates
and an address by Mr.. Regan of Hi
nois. q
The Fool Taxpayer.
Backed by bookful of facts and
figures taken from the records to
substantiate his statements, that while
the average man pays little attention
to public affairs he must necessarily
pay the increasing burden of taxa
tion while the larger interests pay
lesser share, Frank S. Regan of
Rockford, Illinois, delivered an inter-
esting and instructive address. The
speaker convinced his hearers that
the brewers are not classed among
"he fool taxpayers for many OF
these interests with capitalization OF
from five to thirty millions of dollars
contribute little or nothing in the way
of taxes, while the little fellow is
taxed to the limit.
Mr.. Regan is what is commonly
known as a tax sharp, and has gath
cred figures from the tax rolls of many
states and in many counties of the
various states, and vouched for their
correctness in proving beyond doubt
that the burden of taxation rests upon
the man who is the least able to
meet the demands upon him. His sug-
gestion was that this sort of thing has
been the rule under mems political
domination, and he urged that the wo-
men, now enfranchised, should take
the matter into their hands and see
if they can't save "the fool taxpay-
er" from himself and make the larger
pay their full share. Mr..
Regain is a real cartoonist and kept
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Polk Roads Praised.

Travelling statesmen covering Polk
county in automobiles report that the
roads in this county are better as a
whole than those of any other county
in this state. They commend the
people of the district for oiling their
roads.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21
Bowersville Bridge.

Work is progressing rapidly on the
new Bowersville bridge, and it will
probably be open for traffic about
September 1st.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-21

the audience interested. He presented
a series of pictures showing the drunk
ard from the beginning to the end
of his career. The pictures were not
calculated to helm the linuor calse.
Evening star., 1914-10-04

"But if man had danger hanging over him, and knew
what was, don't you think he would the police
for protection?"
"Maybe it danger that he could not be pro-
tected against There's thing you should know. He
always went about armed His revolver never out of
his pocket But, by bad luck he in his dressing gown
and had left in the bedroom last night Once the bridge
up guess he thought he was SAFE"
II should like these dates little clearer" said Mac
Donald at is quite six years since Douglas left Cafor
mia. You followed him next year, did you not?"
"That is so."
"And he had been married five years. You must have
returned about the time of his marriage"
about month before was his best man."
"Did you know Mrs. Douglas before her n,arriage3"
Evening star., 1914-10-04
Continued from page 3

had emgraed to America when he very young
He had prospered well, and Barker had first met him in
California where they had become partners in successful
mining claim at place called Bento Canyon. They had
done very wel but Douglas had suddenly sold out and
started for England He widower at that time.
Barker had afterward realized his money and to live
in London Thus they had renewed their friendship.
Douglas had given him the impression that danger
hanging his head and he had always looked
his sudden departure from California, and also his renting
house in quiet place in England, being connected
with this peril He imagined that secret society,
implacabe organization Douglas track, which
would until it killed him. Some remarks of his
had given him this idea; though he had told him
what the society was how he had to offend it.
H, could only suppose that the legend upon the placard
had reference to this secret society
allow long were you with Douglas in California;" asked
Inspector Macdonald
"Fve years altogether"
"He bachelor you say?"
"a widower"
"Have you heard where his first wife from?'
"No remember his saying that she of German ex-
traction, and have her portrait. She very
beautiful She died of typhoid the year before
met him."
"You don't associate his past with any particular part
of American"
II have heard him talk of Chicago He knew that city
WE'LL and worked there have heard him talk of the coal
and iron districts He had travelled good deal in his
time"
politics?"
"No he cared nothing about politics."
"You have to think it criminal?"
"On the contrary met straighter my
life"
"Was there anything curious about his life in California;"
"e liked best to stay and to work at claim in the
mountains. He would never go where other if
he could help it. That's why first thought that
after him. Then when he left suddenly for Europe
made that it believe that he had warning
of some Within week of his leaving half dozen
men nquiring for him."
"What sort of men?"
"Wel, they mighty hard-looking crowd They
up to the claim and wanted to know where he
told them that he gone Europe and that did
know where to find him. They meant him good-it
easy to that"
"Were these men Observation-Disclosures
"Wel, l don't know about Caifornians They
Americans, all right. But they not miners. don't
know what they and very glad their backs
"That six years ago?"
"Nearer seven"
"And then you together five years in California
that this business dates back not less than eleven years
the least?"
Evening star., 1914-10-04

"No, l did not. I had beer
years.
"But you have seen a good
Barker looked sternly at
seen a good deal of him s
have seen her, it is because y
out knowing his wife. If yo
nection-"
II imagine nothing, Mr.. b
every inquiry which can bear
no offense."
"Some inquiries are offensiv
"It's only the facts that we
and everyone's interests that
Did Mr.. Douglas entirely app
wife?"
Barker grew paler, and hi