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lute Hlalnrlrnt Soi loty
('(itiimlilii Mo,
48TH YEAR.
OREGON, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1912.
NUMBER 21.
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Four Score and Two.
Tuesday of llils week. Sopl i-ihIkt
LM,Mrs. Mary Curry, (if this city,
reached her 'il birthday, ami her tin
mediate rclatlvcscallcd and congratu
lated her at the homo (if her daugh
tor, Mrs, C. l. YmiU, with whom -he
has resided the greater part of her
widow hood.
She belongs to that coterie nf
niuthiT.s, who has done mi much fur
t he young boys and girls of our coin
iniinity. through her personal influ
ence and example, and through the
Woinjjii rnlon. of which slit1 was a
charter member, and which was or
ganized here .latinary tl, and one
of the three surviving charier mem
tiers Mrs. .lou Italoheller. of St. Jo
seph.and Mrs. Ann K. Irvine being
the others.
In her nearly sixty years of resi
dence hero "Ma" Curry has been u
potent Influence for the koixI and
beautiful, and whatever came loher
to help shape and mould for the good
of society, her hands, her heart and
mind were ready to do the lest that
was In her. Though not us active as
the years that have pine, she is jet
able to do and lie an example for the
good.
QTIiough now si' t of ago, her
mental forces are strong; and active,
reading her papers and magazines
with the mental relish of jears ago,
und enjoys keeping In touch with the
current events. At her leisure, she
enjoys her fancy needlework, some of
which have won premiums, and hut
few superior pieces of workmanship
can he seen anywhere.
In general health she Is remarkably
well preserved, and enjoys an out hit;,
an auto ride, or a romp with her
grandchildren, with the vlgorof those
many years her Junior.
When she and husband located here
Oregon was the only town in the
county, and forest t'llv was laid out
as a town the jear she located hero,
A Bunch OI New Ones. I
Nearly .vooti.ooo new voters are ex-
peeled to appear atthepollsiliUyear,
according to an estimate prepared fori
the Itepubllcan National Committee. ,
Five million new voters who were
mere boys in IMmp, Five million new
voters lo whom the most valuable po-1
lltlcal experience of Hie recent past Is
aclosedhook! Five million new voters I
who have never known the seriousness,
of a great political crisis! ,
And these live million will decide
the forthcoming presidential elect Ion. .
They are to settle the great question
whether we are to have a Democratic
or llepnbllean president.
Four, eight, twelve years after the
Civil War there was little question
about how- the country would go,
The new voters, like the old, were
still under the spellof the tremendous
crisis Just passed. They realized that
voting was no holiday affair, but a
serious business.
Four, eight, twelve years after the
"Itattle of the Standards" in lmxi the
now voters were still sutllclently near
that critical season to understand the
daugersofeatch-voto.llnanelal reforms,
to see that the result of a single elec
tion might be the financial dishonor
of the nation and a wholesale disturb
ance of Its industrial affairs.
Hut half a century lias passed since
the great crisis of Uie Civil war. It
is now sixteen years since the Integrity
of the nation's currency was settled
in one of the hardest fought campaigns
in our history. The llrst is only a pa
triotic memory to the average man.
The second is not even tiiat to the
tsid
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crmiv.
and the population of the county was
11,000. She has lived to see all the ad
vancement and development of our
county, and came heiooverlaud, there
being no railroads In this part of the
world. She can now ilde In an auto
mobile, talk to neighbors over the
telephone, and If on shipboard In
mldocean. could send a wireless mes
sage what wonderful changes have
come to her In these ! ears.
Mary I'hllhrlck was born In Gran
ville. Licking county. Ohio. Septem
her !!. KM. When a little tot her
parents moved to Delaware county
Ohio, where she lived until I'-' j ears
of ace. Her parents then moved to
.MontiK'ller, Blackford county, hull
ana. and from there they moved to
Kokomo, Howard county, Indiana,
where she drew to .voting womanhood.
and on October 17, 18.V, she became
the wife of .lames II. Curry.
The young couple came west audio
cated In Plymouth county, Iowa, and
then to Sioux City, la., and In lSo'
they located In Oregon, where she
has continuously resided, loved and
esteemed by all old and young.
The war coming on, Mio lade her
husband go Unlit for the Hat; of his
country, and he answered the call and
said good-bye, and became a member
of Company F, ilh M. S. M. cavalry.
iter husband died February ID, IKsil
She was the mother of seven chil
dreu, three of whom have died lion
nle, May and Harry. The living chll
dren are Tom, Mrs. C. D. V.ook, and
Aut, of Oregon, and Mont, of Call
fornla -these four have brought her
seven grandchlldicn. She has a half
brother, W. S. Mitchell, of llaiuona
Cal. In her religious belief, she Is an
Universalis!,
Though now her steps aro gliding
down the shadowed side of life s hill
we trust her days may yet be many
and each day left her a r.weet bene
diction to us all.
vast majority of the new voters who
UoM tl,u balance "f lM,f ,M,i,y.
Iftheyliave the questionable ad
vantage of being free from the issues
of the past, they have the tremendous
disadvantage or iHilug without thoex
perlence which a participation In the
settlement of those Issues conferred
They are handicapped, for Die most
part, by the Idea that IhlngR must
come
out all right, no matter how
elect Ions go, because In their brief ex
perlence things have always seemed
to come out right, so easily.
No wonder Mr. Cannon, the most
ancient political philosopher in tin
country today, has declared on several
occasions that no one can tell how the
elections will go this fall because no
one knows how the millions of new
voters will look at the issues present'
edby the platforms of the parties and
1 the personalities of their leaders,
Five millions of new voters who
have known the sobering effect of
great national political crisis, who are
naturally tilled with the easy uptlmlsiu
of experience, surely these present.
problem to which there Is only ono
possible solutlon-a vigorous and well
organized campaign of education.
For the llrst time, in several states
women will vote for president. There
will he ii4 ,:t:i:i ,x men voters. The
numlter of women voters Is estimated
at l.iiifi.oon, making a total of approx
imately twenty-six millions who may
vote for president. In 1WW there were
22,0lH,ri0o voters, and the number of
votes cast was 14,88,442. The vote
actually cast averaged about TO per
cent of the potential vote.
Big Tarkio Canal.
Work of excavating for the new
channel of the Mg Tarkio was coin-
Dieted Monday that Is, the work was
practically completed, for there Is )et
about one hundred feel of land sepa
rating the ditch from the Missouri
river.
Messrs. Ilogers k Mack have moved
their big dredge boat luck to the road
at the Welhnan place and the dredger
Is being taking apart. The machinery
and other ciu!pment of the dredge
Iwat will be hauled to Corning and
there loaded on cars for shipment to
Severance, Kans., where theeontract
ors haveanothercontract that Is about
is large as the one that has just Ih'cii
completed here in Holt county.
It was the Intention of the con
tractors to dig up within about lift
feet of the river, hot the loose, sandy
nature of the soil there caused them
to change this plan. The canal Is one
hundred feet wide at the top and
Ighty feet at the bottom, and as the
water Is from twelve to sixteen feet
leep this naturally makes a heavy
pressure. Thus tne men reared mat
the hank might s'lde out before them
If they went too far with the ditcher.
At the present time there is a drop
of nearly twelve feet from thodltch lo
the level of the water In the Missouri
river, and Messrs. lingers Sc Mack say
they could not risk having the big
dltcliqr suddenly slide Into the river
under such circumstances.
It Is probable that the hank will ho
ill lowed to remain as It Is until the
boat Isdlsmantlod. unless a heavy rain
hould come, which would necessitate
opening out the channel, In order lo
protect the lauds from overturn.
I'Ulinatcly, the remalnlugbank will
he blown out with dynamite, unless
the dam should give away of its own
accord, which Is not uulooked for.
'ralg Leader.
Thlsgreal piece of work which prom
Ises to reclaim -J.".oni acres of land,
was begun by the initial steps being
taken, occurred at ('ralg on Saturday,
Inly 7th, ItNKi, when a number of rep
resentatlve landowners of overflowed
lands In that section of the county
near Mgelow, (-'.ralg and Corning met.
and after some discussion, Ihoconclu
slon was reached by those present that
It was time something was clone lo
redeem and make this largo Iwdy of
laud safe from overturn. Frank K.
Allen was chosen as president, who
named the following committee to
look Into the matter of tl.e consollda
Hon of Tarkio Drainage Districts Nos,
I and AsaSharp, A. D.Cunnlngham
W. .1. Ilaudall, Herman Ohleuselileii
F. W. Waller. J. F. Ilrldgeman. Sam
Kahu and John Hall. At a nieellug
held on July 'Jotli, this commit lee re
ported lll.ooo acres had been pledged
and decided to take up the question
of organization and the following
were appointed a committee to dellno
the territory to be Included hi the
petition: F. W. Waller, .Ino. A. Iluck
. F. Ilrldgeman, W. J. Ilandall, Sam
Kahu, W. II. Illchards.
Al this July meeting a committee
consisting of Sam Kahu, Lot llrowu
John Stadler, Thos. I'ehley, W. .1
Handall, .Ino. A. Iluck and 0. W
Murphy, was named to take action
looking to the employment of an at
toniey, and the pieparatlon of the
legal steps for the formation of the
drainage (list rift.
On October nth, Iihi'.i, thlscouimlllee
met at Mgelow and .selected W. II
lllchards us attorney In chief, with
W. Murphy as assistant. Mr. Murphy
died, however, Nov. l!d, I'.mh.i. On
October mh. IIHf.i, at Its meeting held
at Mgelow, It was agreed that the
name for the proposed drainage scheme
should be: The lllg Tarkio Drainage
District.
At the January term, HUo, of our
circuit court, the petition was Hied
praying for the incorporation. Of
course, there were objectors and these
were represented by II. II, Williams
and Frank I'etree, while the petition
ers were represented by W. II. Illeh
ardsaud John W. Slokes.
The objectors succeeded in obtain
Ing a change of venue to Andrew-
county, where the case was heard by
Judge Minis, and on Saturday, March
.I, mm, a decree of incorporation was
handed down.
Then came a meeting of the land
owners in the proposed drainage ills
trlct, for the purpose of electing Its
llrst board of drainage commissioners
This meeting was held at the Center
school house, on Saturday, April nth
11)10. The meeting was presided over
by Isaac M. Million, with (ieorgo W
Poynter as Its secretary. The election
resulted in the choice of the following
to constitute the board that, would
have the direction, with the advice of
Its attorney, of the greatest and per
haps the most extensive dralnag
project in our stale:
Lot llrown. for one .vear.
John A. Iluck, for two years,
John K, Slater, for three Jears,
Thomas F. I'ehley, for four ears,
F. il. Cunningham, for live .tears.
John K. Slater waschoeii president
of the hoard and Lot Drown, secretary
and treasurer.
At a .subsequent meeting, held at
Craig, April I.'!, lulti, the necessary
teps were taken to secure an engi
neer, and Messrs. I'eterman A hell.,
of St. Joseph, were emplo.ied, who se
cured the aid of Win. M. Morris
They Immediately began their sur
vey, and In the course of a raw
months had their protlles and esti
mates ready. The estimate tlxed tin-
cost at approximately il.Vi.mxi.
John Taylor, of ForU's township:
A. "W. VanCamp. of Million, and J.
. Patterson, of Hickory township.
were named as commissioners to as
sess heiiellts and damages to the laud
owners, and after much labor, trials
and tribulations, they completed
their labors.
Then came the letting of the con
tract for the digging of the Itlg Tar
kio (anal. It was awarded lingers
Mack, on December 1'.'. lulu, at 7
cents per cubic yard. Messrs. lingers
& Mack anticipating the work. began
the construction of their dredgoboats
and laid the keels In August, 'win,
and on the 1st of January, lull, they
were under full steam and at work,
The bonds were ordeied al an elec
tion held In the amount of il.Vi.on.i
and sold al a piemlum of i7.Vi and
bought by the Compton itondlng
Company, of St Louis. They bear it
percent Interest and inn for LM years
They bear the signal tiles of John K
Slater, as president, and Lot llrowu,
as secretary. They are In .V de
nominations.
Postal Delivery.
Within a few weekf the Post.
master General will licglti the estah
llshmeut of experimental carrier de
livery In the smaller cities, towiisaud
villages of the country, the pat runs of
which must now go to the postoHlce
to get their mall. Congress approprl
atcd tioo.ooo to experiment with car
rler delivery al postortlees of tills
class, which do not now have it.
There are Si'i such olllces In this
stale.
The Postmaster General argued the
matter before Congress. He said 4.',-
ooo.ooo residents ofutbaii centers now
enjoy free delivery of their malls dal
ly through l,ll llrst and second-class
postolllces, while the IL'.inni rural car
riers servo .Mi.oiHi.iKHi people living on
I heir routes. This leaves between
.'.VOoo.ono and :ui.im,HKi without de
livery service. It was to III! In this
big gap that Mr. Hitchcock recom
mended an appropriation for expert
mental delivery In small cominunl
lies.
Of these Missouri towns not
having carrier delivery, the expert
incut will come to Oregon, Craig and
Mound City, and wit believe It will
prove practical In every way.
Contentment.
During the recent term of our clr
cull court, we had a visit from one of
our farmers, living In Liberty town
ship far away from the throbbing
heart of commerce, and the gay whirl
of "something doing." lie was, looiir
mind, the very persoulllcatiou of the
contented man. Delias his farm free
of debt, a comfortable home to live In
und actually wants for nothing In the
world. Ho could go to St. .lose pi i
Kansas City or Omaha, monthly, and
see things, If he so desired, hut he
just doesn't care to. He keeps in
oimli with the great big world t h rougl
his daily paper. He Issatlslled to take
daily observations and watch Ids hogs
and cuttle grow Into money; to send
his grain to market when the price I
right; to give his share to the country
church and to occasionally help
neighbor out of the rut. He hasn
seen as much of the world us some
und his circle of acquaintance is llm
Ited. He has lived on the old place
for a quarter of a century, and will die
there. He told us he was perfectly
satisfied and would not exchange jobs
with a railroad president. He has
reared his family well. Ho wants for
nothing. We claim that-ho has solved
a greater problem and won a more
wonderful victory than the mail who
has conquered a nation.
New Orleans has adopted the com
inMon plan of city government, and
liv a tremendous majority. Jn mat
eitv the new nlan will have its llrst
trial on a large scale, and the out
come will be watched with Interest
If successful there, the spread of the
Idea will bo as rapid in large com
munlties as It has for some time been
In small ones.
Sam Crowley Vs. Sam Shull.
lodge F.lllson adjourned court Sat
urday afternoon, after quite a strenu
ous (nearly) three days, In trying (the
liilty side only) of the above entitled
case. i lie case came here, on a
hange of venue, from Andrew coun
ty, and would have been tried at the
regular sitting of the court
here, last month, If the parties had
been ready which It seems, they
were not: and so the same was by
the court set down till September In
Instant.
Therewere.lt seems, two distinct
miscs of action hi the matter: one a
iw case, and the other an equity
ise: and so the court dlncted the
Jur.i to return here at the time the
use was set down lo (September IP).
but. as It turned out, tlieattoihejsln
the case elected to go to trial on the
liilty side of (he case llrst, and con
sequently, the jury was not used: hut
as by the court dismissed.
The facts, as they seemed lo devel
op by the evidence, as we understood
them, were about as follows; In
ihout lliis, or liMi'.i, Samuel Crowley
mil his brother, Thomas M. Crow lev,
both very old, and wealthy residents
of Andrew county, Missouri, bought
iibotit twelve sections of land, In Tex
ts, hir the sum of is H.r jiere. and
paid Into a hank down there. the sum
of iiM.'.'iM. as earnest money-or part
of the puichase price: A deed and an
iihstracl of the title weie to (later)
hai.t been made out and deposited by
the vendors, (styled. The Texas Land
Com pain, or some such name), hut
when the time came iirouud lor con-
iiiimtliigtho trade, matters weie not
In a shape to close the deal up, and
the Crowley concluded that they
wanted to call the. tiado olf, and gel
their money back from the bank, If
possible. So. they consulted the de
fendant In the suit, Mr.SaiuiielShull,
a lawyer, of St. Joseph. Mo., and had
Mm go down there to see what could
lie done about It. In fact, Mr. Shull,
according to the testimony, went sev
eral trips down there, In all; and,
amongst other things, brought suit
down there for that money back, and
won It, hi the Culled States Court, at
Amarlllo, Tex.: alter which the case
was taken to the I'nlted States Court
of Appeals, and decided, at Fort
Worth, Tex., again In favor of the
Crowlcis. Finally, Mr. Shull, acting
for Iho Crowleys (or for himself, as
assignee of the judgment) collected
the whole amount, plus quite a lot of
interest thereon, amounting In all,
to something over tL'l.ooo. He paid
one-half thereof over to SamuelCrow-
ley (Thomas M.Crowley having I here
tofore, before the suit was Hied. as.
signed all his luiierest I o Samuel) and
this suit here, was one. by the said
Samuel Crowley against the said
Shull, for the balance of said money
less whatever sum thecoiiilsshould
determine was a reasonable fee to Mr
Shull for Ids services In the said II 1 1
gallon for the collection of said
money.
Theio were quite a good
many witnesses examined In the case:
inosily, lawyers from St. Jo
seph: and it seemed to he the pretty
general opinion of said lawyers that
If said case was taken by the said
Shull on a contingent basis one-half
of Hie amount was but u reasonable
fee. I 'pou cross-examination, how
ever, they nearly all seemed lo think
as wo understood them, that, as a
straight fee for the work, (without
any contingent element In It) one
half the Judgment was entirely loo
much. There was (Including both
witnesses and spectators) perhaps the
very greatest array of legal talent
present al this trial, that our court
house over contained at one time
We did nut get quite all their names
hut there was one Congressman, Mr.
V. F. Ilooher: one ex-Congressman
Mr. Frank Fulkerson: one Judge of
the State Supreme ('unit, Judge John
Kennlsh; one commissioner of the
State Supreme Court, Judge Slephe
S. llrowu: one circuit Judge from St
Joseph, Mo., Judge W. K. Amick;ouu
ex-clrcult judge from St. Joseph
Judge Charles F. Strop: one nephew
of a former governor of thu stale and
brother of a present supreme court
Judge, to-wlt: llenjamln J. Woodson
and many others of more or less noted
ability, or celebrity, amongst whom
we might mention John Dolman, C.
C. Crow, J. W. Iloyd, L. V. (labbert
James Llmblrd, Perry A. Hrubecker
0. M. Thompson, William lTt., (Jearge
Kastln, "Warren Itogers, Judge Mulr
and the defendant, Shull. I romha
vannah. there were (besides Congress.
man Ilooher) his son, Lloyd, and his
oartner, I. It. Williams. From Craig
there were II. U. Williams and John
W. Stokes, and from Mound City
there was Judge D. W. Porter.
addition to all these (and a few whose
names we did not get) there were,
also, all our home bar members, and
of course, Judge KIINon: and, taking
It all
III .ill. II. mailt, ml It o an nrrixv nf
legal
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tlllotllf Ilia irr..alnt.l tmrliatiA
that
ever
the court house of Holt, county
ui one nine, contained.
The plaint iff, Sam Crowley, and Ills
brother, Thomas, are related to many
Holt county people, being second con-
Insof0eo.il. Allen, William Itlsk,
Mrs. lieu F. Morgan and the late Mrs.
. II. Peacher, of this city. The late
lodge It. II. Iliissel married a Crow-
Icy. Samuel Crowley Is a bachelor,
now KJ years of age, and his brother,
I homas, Is now so.
Samuel Stanton, who was a witness
In the case, Is a sou of John L. Stan
ton, who Is now dead, at one lime
owner of the old Arthur Williams
place. Mrs. John L. Stanton was a
Ister of the plalutltT In tills suit.
James Crowley, an uncle of the
plaintiff, set veil on the Holt county
bench hi Hll-IL'.
ludge Klllson put the case In his
grip, and will lake it under considera
tion, and will hear oral arguments, at
Mary vllle, some time In November.
Little Expensive.
Atlhiir Collins was wauled at the
ugiisi lertuof our circuit court on
the double charge of disturbing the
peace of passengers on a railroad train
In drinking liquor, and also for break
ing the wliidowsnti the train. When
on rt convened Arthur was uoncst,
mid the case went over. In the mean
time our oillccrs were on the lookout
for lit in nud on Wednesday of last,
week, Deputy Sheriff Cu'lvln located
him at the home of his parents, In
the southwest corner of Nodaway
county, south of (iraham, and made
the arrest.
He was arranged before Judge Kl
llson, Thursday, ll'th Instant, and
plead guilty. He was lined i.V) and
L'.'i and costs, which was paid by his
father, and he was discharged. We
hope It will he a lesson to the young
mail.
The young man, together with a
ompanlon named Mazier, were pass-
engors on the northbound Vllllsca
train August 'Jlst, and they liecame
inlte hilarious, and broke some of
theglavdti the car windows. The
llrst line was for breaking the win
dows, and the latter for drinking on
the train.
Didn't Get Far.
Sherllf McNiilty and his deputy,
tieorge Celvln, caught a couple of
negroes Thursday last, and they will
likely do lime down at the slate capl-
tol, Just for taking u lime nuggy rtito
without asking for the loan of the
buggy or the horse.
The oalr was seen to drive In town
with a horse and biiL'UV. Wednesday
evening, and things looked suspicious
to them. Tlioy immeiiiaieiycaiieiiiip
the St. Joseph police chief, hut no
horse had been reported stolen, but
they kept an oyeon the pair neverthe
less. Karly Thursday morning, they
called tin bv theoollcechlef.and
told of the I lief t of a horsoaud buggy,
with description. II answeieii inai
of Iho rig driven through town by thu
two negroes. Al and George got busy,
and located the parlies al the Adolph
place, about noon Thursday, coming
toward Oregon, from Forest City,
where I hey had passed the nigni.
They were lodged lu Jail, and mo m.
Joseph authorities not Med, and In the
veiling a St. Joseph police onicer
:liiii. and took them back to St. Jo-
kopli, where they will lie arralnged
for horsestealing. They gave their
names as Armstrong and Howard.
Lunch Counter Car.
Fat Intr on the diner Is one of the
luxuries of travel. Hut it Is a lux
ury the average family can't afford.
A table d'hote dinner ror a nouar
may bo superlatively cheap-If the
traveler can spare the dollar. Most
people can't.
So the "lunch counter car" an
nounced by the Southern Paclllc Is'
really a big democratic innovation.
Here Is Iho description, reprinted
lest you overlooked II In the press
dispatches:
The counter will stretch tne leiigui
of the car along one side, with an
aisle on the opposite, as lu compart
ment sleepers, and stools in irom oi
the counter. Meals will be served at
all hours.
That Is a mighty practical attack
on the high cost of living. If the
"lunch counter car" should thrive
und multiply It would mean a lot to
those of us who can't afford Pullmans
and extra fare trains.
Henry C. Cook has purchased a
half Interest in the Keoves' Auto
IllllJllftSH. &nri the linn will be known
as the Keevcs'-Cook Automobile Company.
