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OREGON CITY COUI
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The Farmers Society of Equity is
spreading over this county and th
Courier is spreading with it. Its ad
vertising columns are good as gold
Clackamas County Fair
September 24, 25, 26, 27
Canby, Oregon
31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE.,
JUNK 4r 1313.
No. 3
A POINT
WHERE
GREAT MEN DIFFER
THE COURIER EDITOR AND
CHAUNCEY M. FALL OUT
PALTER, PATRIMONY, PRUNES,
Vs. Cornbread, Sowbelly and a Few
Days of Real Life
"I never saw any pleasure in
hiding in the woods and catching
fish nor in tramping with a gun
trying to kill something. I am not
a fsherman, and I am not a
sportsman. But to take a trip to
some new place, or to go to Eu
rope and there meet persons of
strong character, wit, and culture
who control government policies
and create public sentiment, and
talk with them under favorable
circumstances gives me a sense
of pleasure that nothing else can.
The rarest kind of pleasure is to
dine with men and women of
brains and culture, because at the
' table the sparkle of wit, the jest,
the story, and the good things in
tellectually come. out. Under
such conditions one gets real en
joyment and the mind finds pleas
ure afterward in dwelling upon
the recollections. Chauncey M.
Depew.
It's all according to one's taste, I
don't think much of yours, but that's
your business.
You travel hundreds of miles across
the big drink to spend three hours
over a wine supper and talk with men
who have a Sir ahead of their names,
and "get a sense of pleasure out of it
that nothing else can give.
It sure doesn't take much to make
you feel good.
Weeks and weeks before the royal
splurge you practice your piece and
dig for new jokes. You work out fac-
' ial expressions, read up on court et
iquette, and practice gestures. You
try the dignity stunts, pose for dis
tinctiveness and cultivate a royal
crust. . v
Wine, witand white shirts..
Palter, patrimony and prunes.
Sitting three hours around a table
turning your rings, and waiting for a
chance to break in and shine.
Filling up on champagne, slopping
over a little along toward morning
and waking with a hard cider big-
head.
Hob-nobbing with the aristocrats
and getting your picture in the Lon
don dailies.
And Chauncey calls this the rarest
kind of pleasure.
There is a familiar saying that
great minds run in the same chan
nels, but they don't.
When I get a month or two off I
don't go banquet hunting or run
somebody down and spring a late
story on him, but I get as far away
from wit, culture and hobble skirts
as the railroads and a pair of cay-
uses will carry, and have a vacation
that means something.
In August or September I am going
down in Arizona and Mexico for a
vacation, and I will get more out of
the few weeks trip than Chauncey
will with his English snobbery if he
lives until he is United States senator
again.
A vacation to my mind should be
something different, a getting away
from the familiar, a hiking back to
nature getting away where monot
ony does not drip on you.
Give me the odd corners, and the
new scenes; the campfire and the
blanket; the game trails and ruins.
Give me the free life and a chance to
work "off the staleness a change.
But not for you Chauncey. Think of
a New Mexican bed bug fastening his
jaws on your royal legs or an Arizona
chigger digging a hole into your roy
al back.
No culture in rancid bacon and bak
ing powder pones; no intellectuality
or sentiment in sleeping with an un
washed miner in a 'dobie.
But there's change, health, appetite
interest, zest, knowledge.
Better skip a speech and go down
with me Chauncey. The Johnnies can
spare you.
BUNCHING UP
A Crazy Age for People to Want to
, Flock Together
It's strange but the success of
anything these days is measured by
the number of people who attend it.
Our rose festival was a splendid
day's entertainment , People went
home advertising it as a fine success.
But let us suppose that but a hundred
or so people attended, then it would
have been declared a "frost," a fail
ure, tho' the program and entertain
ment were the same.
People like to bunch and touch el
bows. They are like sheep. The big
ger the bunch and the harder the jam,
the better they like it Where the
crowd is densest is where they want
to wedge in.
And not only is this true of a rose
festival, but true everywhere, and
this bunching tendency is a matter
that is attracting serious considerat
ion. It is stripping the farms of the
young fellows; it is killing off the
little hamlets; it is making fewer
and bigger towns and cities.
Men and women crave excitement,
noise and hustle. They dread monot
ony and silence.
We have a bread line in Portland
and farmers searching for help in the
fields.
A farmer is planning to rent or
sell and move into Canby; Oregon
City lopks good to he Canby man;
Portland is the place desired by the
Oregon City man; the Portlander
wants to go to Chicago, Chicago to
New York and New York to London.
And what are we going to do, what
can we do, to change this condition?
Those who are on the pavements
won't leave, and those who are on the
farms want to get to the electric
lights.
What are we going to do about this
matter? Can you suggest?
DON'T RUSH THE BURIAL
The Corpse is Very Healthy and Very
Lively as Yet
Here is an Enterprise "argument'
against the recall of the county court,
It's great stuff. It's so defensive, o
full of "Food for Thought."
Up at Canby the other day they
had a funeral, and the corpse of
the late departed was being
slowly covered with dirt, when
one of the bystanders, who had
been sprinkling dust unto dust,
was seen suddenly to reach
hastily into the partly filled'
grave, and draw therefrom a
sheaf of papers that had fallen
from his pocket. In spite of the
solemnity of the occasion there
was a slight snicker, for it was
seen that the papers that had
sought rest in the sepulchre of
death were the sheets of one of
these recall petitions. Of course
it was just a coincidence, but it
was strange that a thing so near
ly dead should drop into a grave.
his "editorial" . is certainly in
1id taste and place, and it will
u so pleasing to the relatives and
friends; but it's along the usual line
of the Phonograph.
The 'trouble with the Enterprise
managers is the circle they are in.
They only see and hear the things
they want to see and hear.
The Phonograph has another guess
coming on the recall. It will soon
find out that it is the liveliest and
hottest thing hat sheet has ever tried
to stop through misrepresentation.
It will soon firtd owthat hundreds
of taxpayers and the best men of
Clackamas county - are behind the
movement to have a new county court
and that their names are signed to
the recall petitions.
There is an old saying that the man
who laughs last has the longest and
loudest laugh. The Phonograph does
n't know anything about the extent
of the recall nor the number of men
who have signed it. The other side
DOES know.
This "thing" you think is "so nearly
dead" Bro. Brodie, will surprise you.
Just wait a little before you arrange
for its burial unless you can use the
grave for the diggers.
RECALL NOTICE
All recall petitions in circulation
are asked to be sent in to the com
mittee at the Courier office not lat
er than Monday of next week, June
30.
This means every petition in circu
lation in the county, whether filled
or otherwise. Be sure that they are
sworn to before a notary, and be sure
that every sheet on which are sig
natures, is sworn to, otherwise they
are worthless and will have to be re
turned.
Please give this matter prompt and
careful attention.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Why Discriminate?
Courier:
I note the press comment on the
action of your mayor permitting
street speaking by the Socialists.
There is a reason why conditioned
that itrbe free from profanity, obscen
ity, etc.
Recently, while passing through
your city, I had- occasion to stop on
the street for a short time and find
ing a convenient opening, halted in
front of a saloon, leaving my wife
in the car, who was subjected to street
profanity from the men about the
saloon, while I did my errand.
Why is soap-box profanity worse
than street profanity and on what
ground does your mayor allow the
latter and deny the former 1
CITIZEN
Excursion and Picnic
Sunday, June 29th, at Estacada
Park, Dancing, Athletic Sports, good
prizes, Best Union Music, Admission
25 cents to dance. Given by Kirkpat
rick Council No. 2227, Knights and
Ladies of Security. The public is cor
dially invited to come and have a
good time. The best of order will pre
vail. "Jeff will make the coffee."
Will Build Two Greenhouses
H. J. Bigger has purchased two
lots on Center Street between Second
and Third and has let the contract
for the building of two green houses,
work to start in a few days. Mr. Big
ger thoroughly understands the nurs
ery business, and there is a good op
ening here for his undertaking.
BR01E
GOMES
TO BEATIE'5 AID
SWITCHES PIONEER ADDRESS
TO COURT WHITEWASH
"MY POLITICAT RIVAL" BUNK,
Fullsome Praise, but no Defense to
the County Court Charges
That George C. Brownell thinks
the recall movemetnt is becoming
dangerous to his bosom friend Bob
Beatie was advertised to the people
of Wright's Springs Saturday, when
Mr. Smooth with plenty of handy
language,switched a pioneers' address
from, the days of '49 up to a de
fense of Judge Beatie and his county
court of 1913 with so short o cut that
many of his hearer3 thought he
should be arrested for speeding.
Mr. Brownell's scheme was Exhibit
A.for beautiful nerve. Had he adver
tised that his talk would have been a
greasing for Judge Beatie there
would have been few to attend the
process. But he went back to the hard
old days "and dragged in a pioneer or
two for a sitting. He roped 'em in on
the quiet and when he had them
where they had to stand for it, he
set Judge Beatie up as a patriot nan
kering to die for the good of Clacka
mas county, Oregon, U. S. A., and
with all styles of English he took a
man whose virtue is set on a hair
trigger and changed him into
George Washington.
Oh, you George C. Brownell!
Big patent medicine heads in the
Phonograph state that Brownell
"roused to eloquence by attack on
Court praises political rival Beatie."
His political rival!
Wouldn't that make you jump off
the bridge?
Brownell defending his enemy!
Brownell throwing a halo over Beat
ie s head, because he was being
wrongfully and falsely accused!
And while this Discuple of Black-
stone and Other Things, whose rep
utation is not as sweet as violets wet
with Oregon dew, was drawing a pic
ture of Judge Beatier looking as inno
cent as a Madonna, the taxpayers
were busy getting signatures to a re
call petition that means as much the
recall of George C. Brownell as it
does Bob Beatie.
His political rival! George is un
consciously funny. He is embarassing
to himself. It takes sheer gall and a
steel nerve to try to slip this one
over, when 95 per cent of the tax
payers of the county know his pos
ition with the county court; know that
he is the man behind the throne; the
man who deals the cards and that he
became a Judas Iscariot to the Re
publican party in order to run the
layout.
Defending his enemy! Isn't that one
to crack your sides over?
Why Brownell has been the suc
tion carpet sweeper on the county
court since the day he elected Beatie.
He elected him, made him county
Judge and betrayed West Point to do
it, and if you think he doesn't sleep
in the same bed and eat out of the
same spoon with Beatie, just try to
get a little dinkey appointment or
favor from the county, and see who
is king.
But we all know this, so let's joe
along to Brownell's talk and see how
he took up the charges, one by one,
and how he "defended" them. Here's
the opening text:
I want to say right here that
while Robert Beatie is a democrat
and has been a political enemy
of mine, if there is anything in
this county that I despise it is
this same recall movement and
the men who are backing it, and
their motives. . .
Now the men back of it don't care
a yellow darn whether Brownell de
spises them or not, but if this gentle
man will drop over to the Courier of
fice we will show him the names of
over a thousand voters of Clackamas
county, among them the most repre
sentative men and biggest taxpayers.
And when Mr. Brownell says he "de
spises" the men in this movement he
is saying something that will come
home to roost.
Here is another of Mr. Brownell's
telling points:
"When Robert Beatie was sher
iff of this county he had in his
keeping thousands of dollars of
the peoples' money, and he ac
counted for every cent of it The
charge was never made against
him that he was dishonest! Not
even Bob Schuebel ever dared to
hurl that charge at him.
Is this recall movement for sheriff
or county judge? Sheriff Mass has in
his keeping thousands of dollars.. So
has the county treasurer. No charge
has ever been. made that they were
dishonest We aren't out with a re
call for Sheriff Beatie. '
Perhaps as county judge he
has made mistakes. Perhaps the j
county commissioners have made !
mistakes did anybody ever hear
of a county court that did not;
or of a business man that never
made mistakes in the details of
his business? But none of the
mistakes that the county court
may have made have been costly.
They may have let certain jobs
without bidding, but the figures
will show you that when they did,
the county got the work done just
as cheaply as any of the bidders
volunteered to do it
The figures won't show anything
of the kind, and George C. Brownell
knows it If they Would, why didn't
he use these figures instead of a hem
orrhage of halo, and show up where
the investigating committee Heft?
Why didn't he show by figures where
that $7,000 or ?9,000 above the archi
tects' figures went to on the county
court nouse addition, and why did
not he account for that $163,000 of
county expenditures above the for
mer county court, on a same basis?
And WHY did they let contract after
contract for bridge building without
bids or competition when Sec. 627 of
Lord's Oregon Laws plainly states
what SHALL be done ?
Mr. Brownell, didn't you openly
champion Bob Beaty for county Judge
and stand up in the circuit court room
and proclaim him "Honest Bob?"
Before the bridge contracts were
let to the Coast Bridge Co., were you j
not in close communion with the con
tractors for days?
Beore the timber cruising contract
was let to Mr. Nease, were not you
and he in consultation for several
days and did not you and Judge Beat
ie take long walks about this time?
Were you not consulted and did you
not have a part in the framing of all
the contracts of any importance since
the present county court has been in
office?
Will you answer these, Mr. Brow
nell?
Will George C. Brownell explain
this, and while he is at it, will he ex
plain why that big timber cruising
contract was plugged through so si
lently, and without competition, and
will he say what part he had in that
deal?
And here is another defense:
The charges made against
Beatie are outrageous. They are
so outrageous that the people
who make them don't dare to
make them definite; they don't
dare come before you and say
outright that Judge Beatie ever
took a cent that he wasn't right
fully entitled to.
Mr. Brownell is doing the kid act
now. No dne to our knowledge has
ever charged that he has stolen mon
ey, and no one for a minute thinks
that any man advised by George C,
Brownell would be caught with the
goods on him. The investigating com
mittee never made 6uch a charge. The
recall petitions do Mi make it If Mr.
Brownell would read the front page
of a recall petition he would be more
familiar with his case, and would not
appear so ridiculous in his defense.
The reasons given in the recall are
that the county court has been care
less and extravagant in the manage
ment of the county business; that
bridges were built without publicity
or competitive bidding; that the
timber cruising contract was let with
out any public notice or competition;
and that Lord's Oregon Laws have
been ignored by the Court
These are the charges, Mr. Brown-
ell. Aren't they DEFINITE? Why
don't you defend them instead of
spreading white wash ?
And when you get them taken care
of, tell us where that $163,000 melted
away to; tell us why the court house
work wasn't let to the lowest bidder
and from f 7,000 to $9,000 saved; tell
us why the court made a present and
hearafter free franchise of the coun
ty to a Portland gas company. And
when you have these answered, we
will ask you some more.
"Who are these men who are
making the charges? There's Ed
Olds, who is sore, and mad, and
disappointed because he didn't
get some bridge work. There's
Bob Schuebel. Schuebel is a nice
man, but he doesn't know what
the county court is doing his
charges show that. All this stuff
in the newspapers has been mis
representation and lies and slan
der, but in all of it they haven't
dared to accuse Bob Beatie of
taking public money.
It doesn't matter a darn who the
men are who make the charges. The
matter is are the charges true? If
these newspaper reports are "misrep
resentation, lies and slander"why are
not libel actions brought? Why don't
they put Olds, Brown, Schuebel and
the rest of the fellows in jail? Why
don't you bring an action, Mr. Brown
ell, and force us to make good? E"er
think that this was about the easiest
way for an innocent man to vindicate
himself?
"Talk about a recall, why have
n't they tried it on other commis
ioners? Grant Dimick went into
office and promised to get the
county out of debt in two years
or resign. He didn't do either.
Why ddin't they cry for a recall
for him? Why have they picked
on Bob Beatie, who has never
been known to be dishonest, and
than whom there is no bigger,
broader, more square man in pub
lic office in this county today.
By the same reasoning you might
ask why they didn't recall you when
you were senator? This is kid talk.
My six-year-old boy wouldn't put
up this moan. We aren't recalling
past history it's the county court we
are after. We don't charge they are
thieves and can be proven such by
their own records. If this were the
case, it would be a matter for the
grand jury. There would be no need
for a recall. And sometimes when I
read such nonsense I wonder how
George C. ever got his reputation as
lawyer.
I
Brownell has
The fact that Mr,
THIS YEAR GO TO
T
PLACE FOR REST, RECREAT
ION AND EDUCATION
ARE 24 SPLENDID PROGRAMS
Session Audiences Will in All Proba
bility Total 75,000.
The staid old auditorium at Glad
stone park will soon be just about the
busiest place in the country. Promptly
at 10:30 on the morning of July 8th,
the first of the 1913 Chautauqua aud
iences will assemble, and from then
until the night of the 20th, there will
be something doing almost every min
ute of the day in the famous old
structure. During that fime, it is a
conservative estimate to say that i
grand total of about 75,000 lis
teners will fill the benches at the ses
sions. surprising as it may seem,
still it is a fact that each day (morn
ing, noon and night,) the auditorum
shelters an average attendance of 7,
000. Some of these folks, of course, at
tend but one program, others enjoy
two, while hundreds go back the third
time each day. This ability to "come
back" is one of the features of Chau
tauqua life. The slogan of the man
agement is: "All PROGRAMS FOR
ALL PEOPLE." Twelve days of
diversified educational, literary, sci
entific and musical features, so ar
ranged to avoid monotony, transform
the old auditorium platfdrm into a
constantly-changing stage with con
stantly changing players, and inci
dently keeps the monster audiences in
constant interest.
A brief mention of afternoon and
evening programs alone that will be
given in the famous old auditorium, is
made at this time. Mentally sandwich
these 24 big programs with daily band
concerts, solos, daily baseball games,
fifty summer school lectures, some
fireworks on the closing Saturday
night, ideal camp life, and many other
features, and you will have a small
idea of the many things in store for
you at the 20th annual assembly.
Opening Day, July Xh
2:00 Sierra Quartette, the premier
mixed quartette of the west. Silpha
Ruggles, soprano; Carl Edwin Ander
son, tenor; Mabel Hill Redfield, pian
ist and accompanist; Ruth Waterman
Anderson, contralto; Lowell Moore
Redfield, baritone.
8:00 Pamahasika and his Pets A
treat for the children, young and old.
Second Day, Wednesday, July 9th.
2:00 Sierra Mixed Quartette.
8:00 Sierra Mixed Quartette.
Third Day, Thursday, July 10
2:00 Tyrolean Alpine Singers a
high-class organization of ( native
Swiss musicians, vocalists, yodlers
and instrumentalists: native 'folk
songs and peasant garb.
8:00 Tyroleans.
Fourth Day, Friday July 11
2:00 Lecture, Ng. Poon Chew, the
Chinese statesman, on "Modern
China." This should interest all pa
trons, as we are often prone to over
look the good qualities of our-Mongolian
brothers in this great Western
country.
8:00 Lecture, Frederick Vining
Fisher, "The Panama Canal and The
Exposition."
Fifth Day, Saturday, July 12
2:00 Recital, Frances Carter of
New York, "The Blot on the Scutch
eon. Mrs. Carter will head the elo
cution department of the Chautauqua,
and will be on the grounds during the
entire session.
8:00 Grand Chautauqua concert
under leadership of Prof. F. T. Chap
man, violinist; Pauline-Miller Chap
man, mezzo-soprano; Maldwyn Evans,
the Welch bariton; Carmel Sullivan,
harpiste; Prof J. H. Cowen, chorus
director; Miss Goldie Peterson, so
prano. Sunday, July 13 Sixth day
2:00 Sermon by Dr. Hinson of
Portland White Temple. Dr. Hinson,
known as one of the most eloquent di
vines of the northwest, will have
charge of the daily Bible class work,
at 10:00 a. m. each day.
5:00 Sacred concert.
8:00 Maude Willis, recital: "Ev-
erywoman." Miss Willis comes to us
from the East, highly recommended
known Beatie intimately for four
teen years is bad for Beatie. His
chances were mighty slim before
George made this announcement.
Nick Blair can count himself lucky
that Brownell did not say a word in
his favor.
But seriously now, you taxpayers,
what do you think of this line of de
fense bunk? It has a fat lot to do
with the charges and issues eh?
You know how your taxes go up,
up, up every year. You don t believe
there is any real reasons for this
enormous taxation and expenditures
every year. You don t believe that
these hundreds of thousands of dol
lars of hard earned tax money should
be dumped into political mud holes
and be called roads every year. You
don t believe the contracts and fran
chises have been legal or necessary.
You want relief.
Then pick good men, strong men,
honest men and put them in place
of the present county court and set if
you don't get it
GHAU
ADDA
as a dramatic reader of great merit,
Monday, July 14 Seventh Day
2:00 "The Third Degree", Chas.
Kleins masterpiece, read by Miss
Willis.
8:00 Dr. Matt S. Hughes of Pasa
dena, Calif., lecture: "The Penalties
of Progress." Dr. Hughes is one of
the Pacific Coast favorites and will be
one of our finest lecture features.
Eighth Day, Tuesday, July 15
2:00 Lecture Col. Bain, the Ken
tucky orator, subject: "Our Country,
Our Homes and Our Duty." Colonel
Bain is a veteran of the American
lecture platform and is man of nat
ional acquaintance.
8:00 Lecture, Mr. E. G. Lewis, the
tounder of the American -Woman's
Republic, subject: "The Siege of Uni
versity City.'.
Ninth Day, Wednesday, July 16
2:U0 Lecture, Dr. Huehes. "Abra
ham Lincoln."
8:00 Recital, Mrs. Frances Carter,
"The Spanish Gypsy."
Tenth Day, Thursday, July 17
2:00 Miss Grace Lamkin will have
this afternoon for her grand "Pae-
eant." Miss Lamkin's work is an ex
clusive feature of this year's session
and consists of "Supervised Plav."
She makes a personal charge of every
youngster on the grounds, not only to
tne delight of the "kids" themselves,
but also to the hundreds of grateful
mothers on the grounds.
8:00 Lecture, Col. Bain, "A
Searchlight of the Twentieth Cen
tury."
Eleventh Day, Friday, July 18
2:00 Lecture, Walt. Holcomb.
son-in-law of Sam Jones and also
lecturer of national repute. Subject,
"lhe Horse Kace.
8:00 Lecture, illustrated. Prof. B,
R. Baumgardt, noted scientist, globe
trotter and Chautauqua man, subject:
"Venice the City of Golden Dreams."
Twelfth Day, Saturday, July 19
2:00 Lecture, Walt Holcomb. "The
evolution of Humor and Wit'
8:00 Prof. B. R. Baumgardt. "The
I'jields-and Fiords of Norway."
Thriteenth Day, Sunday, July 20
2:00 Lecture, Colonel Bain: "If I
Could Live Life Over."
8:00 Prof. Baumgardt, "An Even
ing With the Stars."
Don't think the above is the full
program by any means. Lack of space
prohibits us from publishing the full
program this week, but the Courier
will, in its next issue, give a detailed
list of some of the many features that
take place on the grounds -ouWide of
the big auditorium.
punMhng
HowJudge Beatie Breaks Even with
Those Who Oppose Him
Henry Henrici, road supervisor of
District No. 14, (Maple Lane) called
up Judge Saturday evening and asked
him what the chances were for get
ting a road roller to roll the road he
is making. The Judge answered he
could not have one, that he had bet
ter call up his friend, W. F. Harris
or Chris Muralt, perhaps they could
help him and then hung up.
Harris and Muralt have een circu
lating recall petitions and the road
supervisor has signed it.
Some time ago some Equity man
sked whose court house this, was, and
now someone will be just horrid
enough to ask whose road machinery
cms 18 7
Someone will want to know if these
rollers and crushers, bought lartrelv
by the farmers of this county, are to
be used by the county court to club
men into line, to be worked on the
roads where the supervisors "play the
game" and to be denied to those who
dare to sign a recall petition.
But these farmers should recall how
the Equity Society forced Judge Beat
iet to eat crow. He told the sheriff
not to let Equity members hold any
meetings in the court house. The far
mers made an issue of it and appoint
ed a committee to wait on the county
court, when Judge Beatie reversed
himself like a jumping jack and voted
let them and all other societies
use the rooms.
Farmers of road district Na 14
should get busy, and see who this
road machinery belongs to.
Civic Committee Should Act
A year ago the handsome bluff
frontage at the head of the Seventh
street stairway was every day used
by many residents and visitors, as it
is one of the finest viewpoints from
tne Blurts. Ihis year it is waist hich
with grass and strewn with timbers
nd boards from the fire alarm tow
er which was never completed. It's
too bad for the city to mar this sight
ly place. Ordinances are framed to
compel private parties to clean ud
and keep curbs free from weeds and
grass, but the city allows its DroD-
erty to become a disgrace.
lhe civic committee had better iro
after the city.
Good Time on Sunday, June 29
Kirkpatrick Council . No. 2227.
will entertain members and the public
with dancing, athletic games, etc., at
Estacada Park. The finest orchestra
n Portland has been eniratred for
this SDecial eymrainn nni ni.n!n anA
pcnty of refreshments will be' sold
on the grounds. Admission to dance
25 cents. Come and spend the day in
Estacada, the beautiful city on the
Clackamas River.
Too Late
We tried to pound it into you last
week that you should got your letters
in a day earlier, as the Courier is
now issued on Thursdays. You didn't
heed, and you were too late for this
week.
LET'S GET AFTER
ITER
MATTER
THE CANBY PROPOSITION
SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED
TYPHOID WILL SOON BE DUE
We Have Waited Nine Months, and it
is Time to Stir
It has been nearly nine months
now since typhoid broke out and gave
this city such a set back, and we are
no nearer a pure water supply than
we were then.
In about three months fall rains
will rinse the Willamette valley of its
filth, bring it down here in a stream
of poison, and we will have to drink
it.
And people are yet boiling, boiling,
boiling.
There has been a proposition made
to the city that would settle the water
matter, settle it quickly and leave the
risk and expense up to the other fel
low. Engineer Robert Dieck recom
mended it. So far as we can learn
there is not a question of the purity of
the source and no question as to the
volume of the supply.
lhe source is the Canby gravels.
The proposition is for outside people
to bring it here and give it to the
city on a per centage basis, the basis
to be agreed upon, and with the priv
iliege of the city taking it over at
certain periods.
This would stop further test wells,
which are pretty much guess work,
and further expense, which is run
ning up daily. It would stop a bond is
sue and further city indebtedness,
and as we understand the matter, the
water would not cost consumers any
more, if as much, as present.
Now if this proposition is what the
promoters state it is, and many who ,
have looked into the matter say there
is no quesion of the waer's puriy nor
its volume, then why doesn't the city
go into it thoroughly, determine these
points and then have a special city el- .
ection and let the people pass on it
if they don't want the responsibility.
One of the . -councilmen recently
stated in a meeting that it would only -cost
$65 to hold a special icty election
and this or double this would be too
small an expense to put between
people and health.
The people are becoming restive
under delay. They dread the fall and
winter rains with conditions as they .
were last year.
They want water that doesn't have
to be boiled, fried, doctored or anal
yzed before drinking. They don't care
rap about retaining the present
water system. They want safe water,
want to have it before they have to
move out
The Courier knows a dozen families
that have left this city because of
water conditions. No doubt scores of
families who would come are kept
back by the same reason. One man,
whose wife had typhoid fever last
fall, moved back to Idaho last week.
He said there was no hope for water
before the fall rains and he would
not take the chances again.
This Canby proposition is one we
should thoroughly look into, and if
O. K., then act.
The citizens should take it up, call
public meeting, appoint a committee
to thoroughly investigate it, and if it
bears out the claim, then they should
go ahead AND GET WATER.
Someone has got to get it pretty
soon.
ENTERPRISE APOLOGIZES
Retracts What it Printed of Mr. Schu-
bel and Case is Dropped
(Oregon City Enterprise.)
On the day before the primary el
ection last year the Enterprise pub
lished an offensive political advertise
ment by Gustave Schnoerr, abusing
Mr. Schuebel, not only of purely self
ish motives in being a candidate for
the legislature, but also charging
him with being corrupt and corrupt-
able. The editor of the Enterprise has
known Mr. Schuebel for many years
and never believed any of the charges
were true. Mr. Schuebel's integrity
and public spirit are unquestioned
among those who know him, and his
seful and consistent conduct while
in the legislature fully justify that
confidence.
Publication of the, advertisement
was one of the unfortunate accidents
that sometimes happen in newspaper
offices, and the editor desires to dis
own all responsibility for itl Thd
only redeeming feature of tho acci
dent is that no one believed the char
ges and the publication did not injure
Mr. Schuebel in the election that fol
lowed. It affords the Enterprise great
pleasure to publish this statement in
justice to Mr. Schuebel.
Mr. Schuebel has dismissed the li
bel suit he brought against the En
terprise because of the advertisement
Remember This One
Frost and Edwards have cards
out for a big dance at Busch's hall
on the night of July 4, and they say it
will be the biggest dance ever held
in the city.