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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
new DISPLAY OF APPLES
PRIZES AMOUNTING TO $27 OF
FERED BY GROWERS.
Quarter Size Box, Commercial Pack
To Be Feature Of Apple Display
at County Fair.

On Friday the Polk County Fruil
Growers association met and an
nounced an important addition to the
apple display contests and posted
twenty-four special prizes for the
winning exhibits. The fair board has
provided for plate and standard box
exhibits of apples, which are fast be-
coming one of the most important
horticultural products in the county
The board turned the exhibit over to
the growers association, which has
now added a quarter box class to the
display. This will consist of single
layer boxes, commercial pack, and
will include entries of King David,
Baldwin, Spitzenberg, Yellow New
town, Tompkins King, Ben Davis
Gravenstein, Rome Beauty, Winter
Banana, Northern Spy, Jonathan and
Wagner apples. The prizes offered
by the association will be $1.50 for
best entry of each variety, and %
cents for second best. The idea the
growers had in making the display in
single layer boxes was to get more
and better class of entries. The
best colored apples are scarce about
fair time and many growers are hin
dered from entering competition be-
cause they cannot pick, at that time,
enough select fruit to fill the require
ments for standard boxes.
,,,hn nyyna1f tn aptn1. ICnl a We
can secure the boxes from N. L. Guy,
at Guy Brothers store, and from the
same gentleman can obtain any de-
sired information regarding the con-
test. The boxes are exactly one quar-
ter the size of the regular apple box.
Contestants are requested by the as
sociation to deliver the apples to the
exhibit place at least two days before
the opening date of the fair. Boxes
and entry privileges are free, and the
only cost to the grower is the use OF
his fruit and its transportation. Ed
win Parker of Perrydale is in charge
of the horticultural display at the
fair and will add the proposed ex-
hibit to his list of charges. The
sponsors of the new contest expect it
to meet growers requirement. and ara
planning on at least fifty boxes for
the display. 1t has been arranged so
as to relieve the grower of any trou-
BILE or expense and apples will be
packed by the association if so de-
sired by the entrants, leaving to them
only the transportation of the fruit
from the orchard to the exhibit place.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07

only in the poorer grade of hops. Five
thousand bales Of hops is the esti-
mate from the Horst yard.
At other representative hop yards
in the Independence district pickers
are being employed as follows: c. L.
Mitchell, 400 pickers; H. Fl. Hanna
and John Hanna, 400; Mrs. J. H.
Burton, 400; Squirting Brothers, 200;
Walker Brothers and Cook Brothers,
Jointly, $50. At the 3OO-acre yard Of
C. A. Mclaughlin, from which 5000
bales of hops are expected to be pro-
duced, 700 pickers are employed, and
at the Wigrich yard of the same area
800 pickers are working. The latter
yard is owned by Wigant & Richard
son of London, England. AT the Krebs
yard the picking is being carried on
by contract, Japs being employed.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
WOULD BECOME CITIZEN
MONMOUTH MAN SURPRISED BY
NOTICE FROM CLERK.
William Riddle, After Residence of
Thirty Years, is Reminded That
Only First Papers Were Out.

Mr.. Riddle, owner of large ranch
near Monmouth, and who is one Of
Polk county's most enterprising and
prosperous farmers, after having held
various offices Of trust within the gift
Of the voters Of this balliwick, finds
that he is not citizen of the United
States, and will hasten the necessary
proceeding to become subject OF
your Uncle Samuel. Mr.. Riddle was
in Dallas last Saturday, coming hith-
er after having received word from
County Clerk Robinson that under the
recently enacted amendment to the
constitution, which denies the right
to vote on first naturalization papers,
his registration had been cancelled.
This notice reminded Mr.. Riddle that
he had never completed his naturali-
cation, the matter having been neg
lected through all these years from
the fact that he had been permitted
to vote under those already taken out.
On his visit here last Saturday, Mr..
Riddle took the necessary steps to
complete what he undertook in 1882.
when he secured his first papers, and
in due course of time he will become
full citizen of the United States,
having made application.
William Riddle is native Of Scot
land. He came to America in 1868,
and shortly after took up his per-
manent residence in Polk county,
where he has become one of its fore
most citizens, and where he has filled
county offices, including that of court
commissioner.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
YOUNG TROUT PLANTED
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FRY
ARRIVE FROM HATCHERY.
Fish Commission Grants Request of
Dallas Club for Closed Season
During Three Winter Months.

Yesterday morning the Rainbow,
the states fish car, arrived in Dali
las with approximately 100000 trout
fry from the Bonneville hatchery for
planting in the waters adjacent to
this city, the request having been
made by the Nesmith Rod and Gun
club, of which organization 7. C..
Stockwell is secretary. The car con-
tanned seventy cans of Rainbow trout
and ninety-five cans of eastern brook
trout, the average length of the ship
ment being about four inches. Some
of the largest fish, if left unmolested,
will span during the months of 0cto-
Der and November, and hence it is in
cumbent upon every lover of piscator-
ial amusement to see that they are
protected. Under the guidance of
Phil Begin the fry were deposited in
the upper La Creole and the Ellen
dale creek, conveyances being at hand
upon the arrival of the car, which was
attached to a freight train that ar
rived early from Salem.
The Nesmith Rod and Gun club re-
Gently petitioned the State Fish and
Game commission, of which Governor
Withycombe, /. N. Fleisehner, Mar
ion Jack, Frank NJ. Warren and C.
f. Stone are members, to close the
season for fish of all lengths in Polk
county between December / and April
| of each wear and that hodV has ae-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
SUICIDE SCARE AT M'CoY.
Woman Found Unconscious, Nearly
Killed By First Aid.

eff | had no children to consider
I believe 1 would end these worldly
woes" said Mrs. LARGE, the widowed
proprietor of the hotel at Mccoy, as
she mourned, before friends, the
death of one member of her little
family. With that expression she re-
tired to her room. A lodger in quar-
tiers nearby heard the lady tumble on
to her bed, sobbing pitifully. Soon
there came a thud-she had fallen to
the floor-and all was silent, with the
quietness of death. The lodger hur-
ried to the room, battered the door
and found Mrs. Lance in a hfeless
heap at the bedside. He cried for
help and the populace of Mccoy
swarmed the place. DR.. Starbuck OF
Dallas was called to the case, and in
the meantime first aid doses of strych-
nine were administered, in all tenth
of a grain, almost enough to kill a
human being. The doctor found that
the patient had tainted, exhausted by
worry, and that she had no intention
of suicide. He took some pains to re-
lieve her from the effects of the
stryehnine and admonished the first
aiders. Had Mrs. Lance died the YER
diet of the coroner would have been,
most likely, suicide. Still the fatal
potion would have been administered
by her well wishes.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
MEDICAL men TO MEET
DALLAS PHYSICIANS TO REPRE-
SENT TRI-COUNTY SOCIETY.
Local Organizations From Through
out Oregon Will Assemble in
Metropolis This Week.

The Tri-County Medical society, the
membership of which includes physi.
clans in Polk, Marion and Yamhill
counties, will be actively represented
at the forty-frst annual meeting OF
the Oregon State Medical association
at Portland on Thursday and Friday
Of this week. DR.. V. C. Stats of
this city has been elected a delegate
from the Tri-County society with DR..
|B. H. McCallon as an alternate, and
they will probably take part in the
discussions which are to feature the
|two-day program. Dr. o. D. Butler
of independence is the president OF
the Tri-County Medical society and
DR.. NJ. J. Clements Of Salem is Sec
retary. Both officers, together with
holders of minor offices, will attend
the Portland meeting.
Two hundred physicians from Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho will regis
ter at the meeting and will partici-
pate in the several functions that
have been arranged for their pleas
ure as well as the business sessions
each morning Each Of the local Or
ganizations in the state will send
delegate to the Portland meeting and
there will be many doctors in at
tendance who are not official dele
gates. The principal discussions in
the program will be those relating
to the two great diseases over which
medical scientists are pondering, tu-
berculosis and cancer. One of the
principal lectures to be delivered will
be that of DR.. K. A. Mackenzie OF
Portland on "The Prevention and
Cure of Cancer" A varied program
of entertainment has been provided
by DR.. W. 7. Williamson, chairman
Of the committee on arrangements,
and includes a banquet on Thursday
evening at the Multnomah hotel, ten
dered by the Portland City and Coun-
ty Medical society. DR.. Mackenzie
will be POSTMASTER on this occasion
and a number of addresses will be
given. At the Waverlv country club
on Friday evening the doctors will
be guests at dance. The ladies who
90 TO Portland with their husbands
will be- entertained with rides about
the city and at luncheon arranged
for by DR.. Katherine C. Manion. Bus
mess meetings begin at 9:3O >each
morning and discussion will begin at
10 80 a. m. and at 2 p. m. each day.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
PEROXIDE REFUSES TO KILL.
Jealousy Causes Wife Of Cook to
Make Attempt on Life.

Jealous of her husband, Mrs. Theo-
dore Vasso, wife Of the cook at the
Imperial hotel, attempted to take her
life on Saturday night last by drink
ing peroxide, but the effort was futile.
The attempt to kill herself followed
a family quarrel, which resulted in
the dismissal of both from the employ
of the hostelry, Mrs. Vasso being en-
gagged as a waitress in the dining
room. The husband departed early
Sunday morning, leaving his wife in
ignorance of his whereabouts, and she
went to Portland on the midday train,
evidently in the hope of meeting him
in the metropolis, from whence they
came to Dallas several months ago.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
RAISING CH|NAS IS EASY
SAYS WILLIAM FINLEY, STATE
BIOLOGIST, WHO KNOWS.
Unprecedent Demand for This Game
Bird Induces Belief That Indus
try Should Be Commercialized.

Owing to the increased demand for
Oregon IS game bird, the China pheas-
ant, by game fanciers and bird breed
ers all over the United States, Will
liam L. Finley, state biologist, has
come to the conclusion that farmers
should be encouraged to breed pheas-
ants for commercial purposes. "The
pheasants are practically just as easy
to raise as are chickens" says Mr..
Finley. However, he is of the opin-
ion that details must be studied and
utmost care exercised to insure sue
cess.
During the current year the state
game farm at Corvallis has reared ap.
proximately 5000 birds for CONNER
cial purposes and for liberation, and
as many more have been provided by
farmers all over the state. Gene Simp-
son, manager of the state farm at
Corvallis, tells The 0regonian that
captivity seems to change the hab-
its Of the China entirely. The hen
rarely ever makes pretense at laying
in a nest, much less sit and hatch a
brood of young pheasants. The cock
becomes decidedly polygamous. He
will instantly kill a young bird. if
placed in the same enclosure. The
percentage of fertility of all pheas-
ant eggs is remarkably great. 1t is
not at all uncommon for every egg to
hatch. and for many years | have
mated from four to six hens with one
cock. the latter number invariably
when the enclosures are sufficiently
large"
In order that the best results be OBJ
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
Marriage Licenses Issued.

Deputy County Clerk Siefarth is
sued a marriage license on Saturday
to Ernest R. Houk of Perrydale and
Frances R. Kurtz. The bridegroom
gave his age at % years and that of
his bride to be as 20 years.
James W. Fry of Sheridan, age "a,
secured license on Monday to marry
Miss Evangeline M. Morris, age IS, of
Polk county. The young folks had
other things than legal holidays to
think about and called Deputy County
Clerk Siefarth from a comfortable
chair at his home to issue the license.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
Petition the Bishop.

Fearing that the Methodist confer
ence, which convenes on September
%, might assign the Rev. George H.
Bennett to another charge than that at
Dallas, a number of his friends have
in circulation a petition requesting
the bishop to return him to this city
for another term, and are hopeful
that it will be given the desired con-
sideration when the appointments are
made for the coming term. The pc
tition is being largely signed, not on
ly by members of his congregation,
but by citizens generally.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
Special Prayers for Schools.

To mark the opening Of the Dallas
public schools, and in response to a
call issued by the National Reform
association, the clergymen of this
city will, on September IL, preach
special sermons and utter special
prayers for the good will of God to-
wards the public schools. The ar
rangements other than given, have
not been fully completed, but there
will probably be special music at the
several edifces of worship.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
Mrs. Allen Stores First Hops.

For a number of years the first
hops to be dried. baled and stored at
the Dallas warehouses we're from the
ranch of Mrs. Fern Allen. near this
city. Mrs. Aliens record was too
good to loose, so she made sure TO lay
claim to the title for this year by
sending in a ton of good hops on Sat
urday.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
Problems.

Farm and Ranch: There are very
few problems too difficult for a united
and determined people. In fact, diff
fculties disappear before a strong
sentiment for self help encouraged by
community cooperation.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-09-07
It PAYS.

Southern Agrieulturist: 1t pays to
keep up appearances. An attractive
package is big item in selling fruits;
vegetables or other farm products.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18
When Lamb Was the Goat

and thus be rid of annoyance. At this
juncture the prospector's oratory became
more irritating and Lambs hand, thrust
into an inside coat pocket to get check
book, was withdrawn empty to empha-
size a positive refusal.
Kirby, who in the meantime had said
nothing, then took hand in the game.
Placing three twenties and five-dollar
gold piece on the table, he remarked to
the prospector, "There's the money. Take
it and leave us in peace"
Whereat the prospector intimated that
he wouldn't accept any mans charity
"Let me lend it to you, then" said kir-
by. "Repay me at your convenience"
Priding himself on being business
man, the prospector wouldn't Conclude
the deal that way" He wanted regular
grubstake agreement. For the sixty-fve
dollars advanced Kirby should have one
fifth interest in any mine or mines that the
prospector should discover. Kirby assented.
At kirby's request, Lamb produced
fountain pen, and on the back of bill of
fare drew up an agreement conforming
to the terms dictated by the prospector.
Kirby and the other man signed the agree
ment, and Lamb, who was notary pub
lie, duly attested their signatures. The
prospector took the money and departed.
Weeks went by, and Kirby forgot the
transaction-until the prospector notified
him of a wonderful find. The upshot of it
all was the development of the Nevada
Hills mine and the organization of FIVE
mllion-dollar company. Things doomed;
stock was quoted above par. Soon it
came to pass that because he advanced
sixty-fve dollars and had an agreement
inscribed on the back of bill of fare,
Kirby was placed in the millionaire class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18

W7ALTER LAMB, remembered in
w Washington as erstwhle secretary
to Senator Newlands, and known
in Nevada as an authority on mining OPP
portunities, was indisposed to respond one
day when Fortune knocked at his door.
In boom times at Tonopah, Lamb and
two associates were operating as mining
brokers. Late one evening in midsummer,
after hard but specially profitable days
work in the Office, Lamb and his senior
partner, big, good-natured, most like
able fellow named Kirby, were finishing
their supper in a Tonopah restaurant
Lamb doesn't drink; but in honor of the
occasion Kirby had INDUCED in small
bottle of champagne.
AS Lamb was slipping cup of black
coffee and Kirby was aiding digestion by
smoking an excellent cigar, a rough and
rather unprepossessing prospector APP
preached the table where the two were
sitting. On the strength of slight ac-
quaintance with Lamb the newcomer
sought to secure a grubstake. TO equip
and finance him for a prospecting trip in
the desert he needed sixty-fve dollars.
After listening to the mans argument,
Lamb wasn't persuaded. The region the
prospector intended to explore had hither-
to been unproductive. Like investments
previously made had resulted only in loss
to Lamb. Willingness to help fellow in
distress is Lambs worst failing; but when
a business proposition is presented to him
he usually applies the acid test.
The prospector, importunate and re-
fusing to take no for an answer, continued
to ply Lamb with reasons why he should
advance the sixty-fve. Once Lamb near
ly relented. Wearied of the conversation,
he was tempted to give the man the money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18

erck by the hands of one of his friends.
Broderick replied with the shrewdness of
the politician. He insisted that Terry
should specify the particular language
that he regarded as offensive. Terry COM
piled, and Broderick sent back that he
had been correctly quoted. "You are the
best judge as to whether the language af-
fords good ground for offense," he added.
The hot-headed Terry Immediately replied
that Broderick 5 answer left him no alter
native but to demand the satisfaction
usual among gentlemen. He also casually
remarked that Calhoun Benham would
make the necessary arrangements on his
part. Broderick accepted the challenge
without further comment and named
Joseph G. Mckibben as his second.
THE duel was now on, and the news
was passed from lii to ear all over the
new town that was rapidly springing up
up at the Golden Gate. 1t was to be
real function; SO the seconds each called
in another person to assist in setting the
stage. Thomas Hayes was to help Ben
ham; while David G. Coulton lined up
with Mckibben. There was also special
functonary dignified by the title of "ar-
morer. Broderick s men had the choice of
weapons. of course; SO they selected pistols
The place of meeting was to be south of
San Francisco, across the line in San
Mateo County; and the time was to be
shortly after dawn on the morning of
September II. The distance was to be
ten PAGES. with the men facing each other
and pistols held downward The seconds
agreed that the words should be, Gentle
men. are you ready" AS soon as each
principal answered Ready" the word
"Fire!" should be given. followed by the
words "One-two!" 1t was specifically
stated that neither party should raise his
pistol before the word Fire! nor discharge
it after the word "two"-and the quick
action necessarily involved in this ar
rangement is important in view of what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18
Completing the dramatic article
When a Judge Shot Senator
Continued from page
Continued from page II

law partner of Terry's at Stockton. To
him Broderick expressed his feelings in
hot words.
"The miserable wretch" he said, latter
being kicked out of the convention, went
down there and made a speech abusing
me! l have defended him at times when
all Others deserted him. paid and sup
ported three newspapers to defend him
during the Vigilance Committee days.
And this is all the gratitude get from the
miserable wretch for the favors | con-
fcrrcd on him! I have hitherto spoken of
him as an honest man, as the only honest
man on the bench of corrupt Supreme
Court but now find | was mistaken.
take it all back. He is just as bad as the
others"
Perley rose in his dignity and told Brod-
erick that he should hold him personally
responsible for his remarks about Terry.
And he actually did challenge Broderick
to duel.
Broderick felt that he had too much at
stake to allow him to imperil it on the eve
of election by fighting Perley. He there
fore took advantage of the fact that Per-
ley was a British subject and therefore
had no political rights to lose by engaging
in a duel. He therefore replied in words
that were two-edged. but with a logic that
could not be refuted:
"If compelled to accept challenge it
could only be with gentleman holding a
position equally elevated and responsible;
and there are no circumstances that could
induce me even to do this during the pen
dancy of the present canvass.
Broderick seems to have been the only
man who ever refused to step out on the
field of honor until the larger business of
politics had been attended to-
The election came off on September 7,
and Broderick's faction was completely
showed under, much to his chagrin The
day following the election Terry (who of
course had heard all about the Perley af-
fair promptly sent challenge to Brod-
The Carlisle independent., 1915-04-08
Henry Grady on Alcohol.

Tonight it enters an humble home to strike the roses from 2 woman's cheek. and tomorrow ii challenges this Republic in the halls of Congress.
 Today it strikes a crust from the lips of a starving child and tomorrow levieth tribute from the Government itself.
 There is no cottage humble enough to escape it. no place strong enough to shut it out
 It defes the law when it car not coerce suffrage.
 It is flexible to caiole, but mer. ciless in victory.
 It is the mortal enemy ot peace and order, the dispoiler o1 men, and the terror of women the clouc that shadows the face of children, the demon that has dug more graves and sent more souls unshrieved to judgement than all the pestilences that have wasted life since God sent the plaques to Egypt and all the walls since Joshua stood beyond Jeri cho.
 It comes to ruin, and it shal profit mainly by the ruin of youl son and mine.
 It comes to mislead human souls, to crush human hearts un der it's rumbling wheels.
 It comes to bring gray haired mothers down in shame and sor row to their graves.
 It comes to change the wife's love into despair and her pride into shame.
 It comes to still the laughter on the lips of little children.
 It comes to stifie all the music of the home and fill it with Sil ence and desolaton.
 It comes to ruin your body ane mind, to wreck your home, ane it knows 1t must measure it: prosperity by the swiftness anC certainty with which it wrecks the world.