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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1911
Page
2
Train no four from Independence at 6 00 am and Monmouth 6 15 am reaches Dallas 6 40 am. Other services depart Independence and Monmouth at 10 50 am 11 05 am and 6 15 pm 6 30 pm for Dallas. Through connections to Airlie shown with reverse trips and arrival times various between 7 00 pm and 9 15 am.
The schedule shows departures from Independence at 7:50 a m and 3:30 p m with arrivals at the McNary crossing to connect with east bound trains. Return trips depart at 4:49 p m. Fare is 50 cents per trip.
Scranton Pennsylvania announces H V Reed representative at 233 Alder Street. The item records an instructional correspondence school notice with contact details for representation in Scranton.
Will practice in all courts of the State. Probate matters and collections given prompt attention. Office, Cooper Building, Independence, Oregon.
E Van Allen proprietor offers large sunny rooms en suite or single with electric lights bath and piano. European Plan at 243 North Commercial Street Salem Oregon.
The week reviews key items from congressional probes into the sugar trust to uprisings in Mexico and the rise of Madero. Other notes cover a Portland mayoral win, a fatal accident in Ross California, naval events at Portland Rose Festival, a Winnipeg calamity omen, and steel trust testimony from E. H. Gary.
The report lists wholesale prices across commodities including Bluestem wheat at 95c, barley at 28.50 per hundredweight, corn at 29 per bushel, oats at 25.50, hay varying by type and region, fresh fruits with strawberries at 208.75 per crate in Oregon and 1.50 to 1.75 per crate in California, vegetables with asparagus at 60 to 75 per dozen, potatoes at 2.25 per hundred in Oregon, onions several colors per hundred, poultry and eggs pricing, butter at 24c, pork veal hogs and lambs with numerous bracketed ranges, and cattle prices spanning prime to common categories.
Captain Reynolds and Dr. Gibson faced six months to reach Seattle after delivering Premont from Ketchikan Alaska. They dug a canal with improvised spades to move the high dry vessel off Annette Island beach and survived on hunted game while sleeping under sail cloth, taking turns guarding against wolves.
A legal upheaval in Chicago and Cook County questions civil marriage validity. An investigation into the Marrying Justice operation run by William Stacey found that several thousand people who believed they wed under civil ceremony in the last five years are not legally married. Justices of the peace lacked authority to perform marriages in Chicago.
Nice France June 7. Lieutenant Bague of the French army disappeared after leaving Nice by aeroplane bound for Corsica. Naval search by torpedo boats failed to locate him. A fisherman near Cape Antibes reported seeing a monoplane offshore shortly after takeoff, then it pitched lurching and vanished.
A fire at the Hanover apartments 165 King Street yesterday night destroyed surrounding homes and caused about 100000 dollars in losses. J E Montague discovered the blaze and rescued 86 year old Mrs J Blyke from the fourth floor, risking his life as flames spread through the building.
After serving as a hotel for 75 years the Galt House in Louisville sold at auction for 81000 by order of a bankruptcy referee. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. bought the property. Opened in 1848 the house hosted many antebellum social events and is famed in the South.
PittsburgPatrick Whalen a tiller man on a hook and ladder truck died after a storm. He was riding the apparatus when a 64 mile wind and an electric storm struck, throwing him from his seat and fracturing a leg with internal injuries leading to death.
Three balloonists who left Berlin yesterday were rescued at daybreak in the Weser estuary after being forced to drop to avoid drifting to the North Sea. They swam for hours before discovery as nine balloons have landed on the coast.
The Oklahoma City weather station recorded 102 degrees from 3 to 5 pm breaking a 20 year heat record. By 6 pm the temperature stood at 100 degrees and no heat prostrations were reported.
The work of pumping water from the cofferdam around the wreck of the battleship Maine advances. The after-deck is largely visible and covered with marine growths amid the tangled wreckage.
Pendleton reports show Umatilla county farmers optimistic about a record harvest with 5 to 6 million bushels of wheat possible. Fall sown grain heads early. two crops may harvest simultaneously. Separately, Brownsville and Lebanon seen as seed for a thriving fruit district with unions forming to unite efforts in cherries pears and related crops.
Acuma Cement Company of St Louis Mo has bought gypsum deposits near Huntington and will build a 200 ton daily plant on the Buchanan spur of the Northwestern railroad. The project costs over 100000 and will employ hundreds. Land was sold by Major John H Aitkin J P Hannen H C Northey and John L Rand. Frank Nelson of Boise Idaho arranged the deal. The Baker county gypsum industry grows alongside a large lime and cement plant nearby.
Umatilla county alfalfa growers expect the first harvest of the season to be about 20 percent below normal due to a chilly spring. Mower sounds will begin in fields within a week, with full harvest ten days away. Growers anticipate gains from increased acreage and a strong second and third crop to compensate.
Multmonah Camp 77 Woodmen of the World and the Artisans of Polk county spearheaded a project to install a piano and moving picture machine at the Oregon state training school. Governor West, during Woodmen and Artisan events in Portland and Richland, urged lodge support. Woodmen raised 50 dollars with the rest promised, while H S Hudson of Portland, supreme master of the Artisans, reported the machine was purchased and awaiting the governor’s order.
Grants Pase George E. Sanders announces two large pumps can start with two days notice for farmers needs. Farmers petition to form an irrigation district under state bonding laws to fund the project. The Chicago Rogue River Irrigation company is named in the action with Sanders as agent.
Judge John 8. Coke rules Port of Coos Bay bond issue valid in a friendly suit testing $300,000 bond. Decision favors the Port commission and declares the bond legal, a major implication for the harbor project.
Hood River began shipping its first carload of the strawberry season on June 3 by the Applegrowers Union. The berries went to Stacy Fruit Company of Fargo North Dakota. Ripening is rapid and daily carload shipments are planned thereafter.
Corvallis Oregon agricultural officials announce a statewide campaign to eradicate crop pests, with full action by July 1. Dean Cordley will visit Eugene to set up headquarters while professors Wilson, H F Wilson, and others assess hoop and fruit crop diseases across Independence and Salem. Headquarters will be in Portland, Salem and Eugene.
Local farmers report grain crops in Condon area two weeks behind normal because of cold backward weather. Moisture is adequate in most parts, but a hard rain soon would help, especially in the north end. Fall grain looks good and may yield well with rain in June and early July. spring grain sown late needs rain within ten days to secure a fair average crop.
The Curry county coast will soon begin hunting season with local fishermen likely targeting sea lions. The industry has been active in past years, with sea lions present along many points and valued for oil fat and hides used in belting. Gasoline boats shoot and haul the animals.
Weather observer Gilmore reports May total rainfall in Astoria reached 6.88 inches, 8.08 inches above the 3.8 inch May average. Since 1554, only four prior Mays exceeded this month’s rainfall, marking an exceptional wet period in the long running records.
Lakeview-Fifty employs 60 men on the Davis Creek orchards dam which is nearly finished. The company cultivates 60 acres of trees and about 200 acres in grain with an additional 200 acres in alfalfa and timothy. Water for irrigation will be ample this year as the reservoir has been filled to the 12 foot level and released several times.
Since the warmer weather began there is noticeable improvement in salmon runs and gillnetters have made fairly good catches over the past two or three days. The season is seen as generally poor, yet one canner reports the pack to date equals last year at the same time.
In Hood River Valley C H Stranahhan reports his orchard trees are heavily laden with peaches this season. He had to thin more than half the fruit to protect the crop. A twig under five inches bears 10 large peaches, signaling unusually abundant fruit elsewhere.
Muddled report notes a meeting between Bo Eal Mr Tread and Mike Chocolate Cake near a bakery. They were later found in a local cake larder at Mea Good Livers cakery, with evidence of a tainted loaf from the same bakery in Wholepomie.
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