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Nobby New Spring Coats $5.95 to $30.00 Loose Fitting, Belled, Flaring, High Waist ed and Other Styles of Velours, Chinchilla, Checks, Plaids, Diagonals, Gunneborls and Other Materials. . , r 5 i Replenish the fertility (jJPS UM vji juui laiiu uy using (Land Plaster) And All Kinds of GARDEN SEEDS We Buy and Sell Country Produce, Hay, Grain, Mill Feed Etc. PAY US A VISIT IT WILL PAY YOU Brady Mercantile Co. Eleventh and Main Sts., Oregon City, Ore. Pacific 448 Home B 238 Undergrade Crossing on Twelfth Street 1 5 1UU YY 111 gCL IClUlUi) Ilia 11 J UI1IC3 J WU1 lUTOlUlVUI p m We can supply you in carload lots, ton or by the sack J AT RIGHT PRICES S i S E E D S Clover, Vetch, Rye Etc. i - w A Full Line of Staple Groceries at all Times 1 About the State Resume of the News of the Week from All Parts of Oregon W. E. Williamson, former assistant postmaster of Portland, was found shot through the head Sunday in the lavatory of a train on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad en route to Portland from Holbrook, Ore. He died before the train reached Port land. He was alone in the lavatory when the shooting occurred. He was ill and had been despondent. He re tired from the postofflce in 1913 on account of ill health. Officials of the Chinese tongs which have been at war in Portland for several weeks past late last week signed a 30 days' truce. The agree ment was signed in the presence of Mayor H. R. Albee and assurances were given the mayor that the truce would be made permanent before the expiration of the 30-day periad. Un der the mayor's dictation the rival tong representatives shook hands with each other. A full day and half a night of negotiations preceded the signing ofthe truce. The mayor had served notice on the Chinese that un less the action was taken wholesale arrests and as many deportations as possible of recalcitrant Chinese would be made. The Chinese held out and then signed and the tong war was de clfared off so far as Portland is con cerned. . Archie Philip, Coos county commis sioner, went to Overland last week to arrange for the Coquille-Coaledo road. He has about 22 land owners in that district, whom he will see. Commis sioner Armstrong is looking after right of way for the Bandon-Curry county, Coquille-Bandon and Coquille Myrtle Point roads, and Philip is tak ing the Coquille-Coaledo and Glasgow-Ten Mile rights of way. It is estimated that 100 carloads of hay have been unloaded at Robinette and nearby points in Baker county during the past week. Kidwell & Caswell of Portland shipped 47 car loads of hay to Eagle Valley, while two special trains of hay, one made up of 16 cars, were unloaded at Rob inette. Another train of 10 cars is expected this week. Each car is es timated to contain 15 tons. Deliv eries are made direct from the cars at farms along the line to save delay, as stock is endangered. Willis Moore and Haroid Miller of Gold Beach had a little experience driving hogs recently. They brought a bunch of a dozen or more from the vicinity of Brushy Ball, and in one place for some distance had to break trail for the hogs through from two and a half to three feet of snow. The Oregon State Cattle and Horse Raisers' association will hold its an nual meeting at La Grande April 24 and 25. That the program will be one of unusual merit became appar ent when Secretary Correll of Baker last week spoke to the weekly gath ering of La Grande merchants and professional men. He told them what the program would be, and it embrac es a list of high quality. The list of speakers follows: T. W. Tomlinson, Denver, secretary of the American Live Stock asociation; W. W. Web ster, president of the Kansas City stockyards; Duncan A. Dunn, Yakima, president of the Purebred Livestock association of Washington and pres ident of the Northwest Breeders' as sociation; Professor Potter of Oregon Agricultural college; W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian; Governor Withy tombe; George McMillan, Kansas City, Mo., and J. F. Blanchard of Prineville. The first Oregon wool of the 1917 clip to be shiped east went from Echo last week. It was purchased and sent by Thomas Ross, Echo wool buyer, to the Crimmins & Pierce company of Boston. The price was not made pub lic. The shipment consisted of 35, 000 pounds of wool clipped from Lin coln mutton sheep, belonging to Jo seph Cunha and Frank Correa. This shipment was erroneously reported in another paper as having gone ou several days ago. General shearing will not begin until April 10. In an attempt to swat the high cost of living all unused lots and backyards in Pendleton are. being planted to vegetables. The commer cial association is back of the move ment and President Joe V. Tallmar. is offering several lots to people de sirous of growing their own vegeta- bles. It is probable a lower rate for water will be made to vegetable growers as a special inducement. With an eager market for spruce lumber at $100 a 1000, the Prouty company's mill at Seaside is assured of a profitable run, having brought 800,000 feet of logs down the Necani cum river during the freshet caused by the recent storm. The spruce is sold for that price cash, f. o. b. Sea side, and has been going to Europe for the manufacture of aeroplanes for the French, and English armies. For this purpose it is cut in dimen sions larger than for building pur poses, no plank being accepted of less than two inches. The United States government is now a possible pur chaser, having recently sent out in quiries concerning spruce timber. The bodies of the two missing Can yon Creek miners, D. F. Stearns and E. E. Lautzenhiser, were found by the searching party from Kerby last week in the wreck of their cabin bur ied under an eight-foot bank of snow. The men were the victims of a snow slide at least two weeks ago. The bodies were found lying in the bed, indicating that the slide occurred in the night, the men being crushed down and suffocated under the weight of snow. The upper part of the cab in was carried away. Plans for the recall of the county judge and one commissioner of Crook county are rapidly taking shape. For the last month there has been a great deal of discussion about the subject and several weeks ago the movement became so strong that County Judge Springer agreed to resign, but recon sidered his action. It is asserted that the road money has been expended improperly and that little judgment has been used in where it has been spent Too much money has been used for the building of steel bridges, which were erected by the Coast Bridge company, and little has been left to fill up mud holes or to cut down grades. The county commis sioners are accused of acting as road foremen aft salaries of $5 a day, with expenses and mileage, and the entire checking of their own expenditures. The Hood River Apple Growers' union, through the agency of which the fruit of the Hood River valley was given a prestige in world markets, may cease to exist after the annual meeting of the stockholders of the co operative concern April 7, on which date, according to present plans, it is proposed to sell the properties of the union to the Apple Growers' associa tion and dissolve the older corporation. Whether a seed salesman can be held liable for crop failure resulting from impure or diseased seed is the legal question in a suit filed in the Lane county circuit court last week by L. H. Latham against E. H. Mor rison, potato dealer, . of Springfield. Mr. Latham complains that he pur chased 72 sacks of seed potatoes from Mr. Morrison and that he harvested a crop of only 67 sacks, the crop fail ure being due to disease Infected seed. He alleges that his crop should have amounted to 1300 sacks and asks damages in the sum of $1990. The owners of the Bandon ship yard gave a 15-day option on the yard to John Nielson and the latter has gone to Portland to interview parties who offer to furnish contracts for two large barges and probably sev eral other vessels, and also others whom he believes will lease the plant and immediately commence construc tion of at least two barges. Several parties at Reedsport have been engaged catching wild hogs belonging to W. P. Reed: A good many of these animals have strayed away during the past years and have become as wild as deer and as fero cious as those we read about in olden times. The hogs are hunted put by dogs and run down. Many of the hogs are six and seven years old and of large size. One of them that was caught weighed over 400 pounds. While the sport of the chase is ex citing, it is rather dangerous, as the hogs are every ready to fight man or dog, with tusks in some instances three or four inches long, and they can make it very interesting for their pursuers. While no person has been hurt in the chases so far, the dogs have not fared so well, several of which have been badly cut by the long tusks of the hogs. R. L. Holman, Leading Undertaker, Fifth and Main St.; Telephones: Pa cific 415-J; Home B-18. Courier and Daily Journal $4.75. 4 . ANOTHER CANADIAN The fifth Canadian minister . to enter the local field has ar- ! rived in Oregon City in the person of Rev. W. B. Stewart, lately of McMinnville. Mr. J Stewart will relieve Rev. A. i J. Ware in the county mission J, field for the First Baptist church. He is to deliver his J J first sermon at the local J church this week. Mr. Ware . has accepted a permanent . charge at Gresham. &!t (i! i$ t$ i$ tJ MARKO'S DILEMMA. An Old Servian Legend of a Prophecy and Its Fulfillment. I'rllep, in Servla, is dear to the hearts of all Scrviun peasants, for around It cluster countless stories of oue of the nation's most popular leg endary supermen Marko Krallevitch. otherwise King's Son Marko. The ruins of the castle of King's Bon Marko overlook the town, and if the visitor proves to be a sympathetic au ditor the guide will no doubt point out to him iu the slabs of rock which strew the approach to the stronghold the indelible hoof prints of the master's favorite steed, Sbaratz. And if you should happen to be iu Prllcp on the anniversary of Marko's festival, or "slava," you can prove to your own satisfaction whether there is any truth in the widely credited peasant legend that at midnight the' doors of the castle chapel burst open and the hero, fully armed, rides In on his piebald charger, although the Murko of the flesh baa been dead for COO years. In an old Servian ballad called "Mar ko's Judgment" there is recited this prophecy: Krai living; Vukashiue, Mar ko's father, whose chief fortified city was Prilep, speaks Hist: "Son Marko, may God slay thee! Thou shalt have neither monument nor posterity, and ere Uiy spirit leaves thy body the Turkish sultan thou shalt serve." Then speaks the czar, Stephen Dushan: "Friend Marko, may God help thee! Bright be thy face In the senate, sharp thy sword in battle. Never shall uero surpass thee. And thy name shall be remembered so lung as sun and "3oou endure." And here, according to peasant folk lore, is how that prophecy was fulfill ed: Cpon the death of Vukashine, La zar Hrebliauovitch, Count of Sirmium, was elected czar? Bitterly disappoint ed at the failure of his own candidacy, Marko threatened the life of Lazar and was forthwith deprived of his fief. Pen niless and disheartened, Marko turned lo the court of the hated sultan and enlisted in bis army to fight the Mos lems of Asia Minor. (It should be re membered that it was no disgrace for a Servian to light with the Turks pro vided the opposing forces were other' Turks, for a Turk less, in whatever cause slain, was a blessing in the eyes of the Servians.) In time, however, Marko's command was brought west to wage war against the orthodox prince of the Roumans. Loyal to his Mohammedan sovereign, when he came upon the Held of battle, Marko's heart fulled him when he saw the men of his own faith drawn up against him, and, facing the dilemma of choosing between proving traitor to his chief or lifting his sword against those of his own faith, he cried out, "Oh, God, do thou this day destroy all those who fight against Christendom and foremost Marko!" Saying which, he threw his body on the Christiun spears and died without striking a blow. National Geographic Society Bulletin. - ' Beginning of the Drama. The theater In the only sense that la worth considering was born in Athens. Both tragedy and comedy spring from feasts in honor of Bacchus, and as the jests and frolics were found to be out of place when introduced Into graver scenes a separate province the true drama was formed and comedy arose. The father of the Greek comedy was Aristophanes, who had lots of fun lampooning the public men of Athens. The creator of Greek tragedy was Aeschylus, born B. C. 525. In sublimi ty Acschylns has never been surpass ed. He is to the drama what Phidias and Michelangelo are to art Soldiers and Socks. The German soldier does not wear socks, but fuss-lnppen. These are strips of cloth soaked In tallow and wound about the feet. They ore supposed to be preferable to socks, in that they wear more evenly, are more easily cleaned and, when properly worn, are not so likely to wrinkle and cause blis ters. Military authorities disagree, howev er, as to the relative value of socks and tallow, soaked strips. Either covering, though, is considered preferable to the custom of wearing no socks, which has prevailed in the French, Spanish and Italian armies. Outlook. The Absentminded Motorist. "There's an automoblllst In distress. Suppose we stop ami ask him if then Is anything we can do?" "Are you referring to the man who is sitting still, with a faraway look In his eyes?" "Yes." "I know that fellow. He's probably wondering where he's going to get the money to pay the next installment on his car." Birmingham Age-Herald. Quite Possible. "Here's an account of a man's death which said he was in perfect health a few minutes before he expired. Now, that's ridiculous." "Not at all. He might have smoked too near a gasoline tank." Baltimore American. Valued Testimony. The Mistress Does this bat make me appear younger, Mary? The Maid -Yes, mum. When we went to market together yesterday they took yon for my daughter. Puck. Its Endurance. "Does your wife always insist on having the last word?" "Yes, and it lasts all right too." Baltimore American. One grain does not fill the granary, but it helps its companions. Portu guese Saying. RAILROAD SITUATION IS NOW LARGELY IIP TO CONGRESS Must Share responsibility In Future Devalopment. ROBERT S. LOVETT'S VIEWS "Unification of Regulation Is Essential." A Complete, Harmonious, Consistent and Related System Needed Federal Incorporation of Railroads by Gener al Law Favored. Washington, March 20. Responsi bility for the railway development of the country, for providing necessary transportation facilities lo care for the growing business and population . of the country, now rests largely with congress and not entirely with the rail road managers. This was the state nient of Judge Robert S. Lovett, chair man of the executive committee of the Union Pacific system, to the Newlands Joint congressional committee when that body resumed its inquiry into the subject of railroad regulation this week. In making this statement of the changed conditions of the ruilrond sit uation Judge Lovett undoubtedly had in mind the decision of the supreme court on the Adnmson law, handed down last week, which establishes the right of the federal government to fix railroad wages and to. prevent strikes. This decision is regaTded by railroad men and lawyers as marking an epoch in the development of transportation In the United States. "We have our share of responsibility," said Judge Lovett, "but it rests prima rily on congress. When the govern ment regulates the rates and the finan cial administration of the railroads, the borrowing of money und tho issuance of securities it relieves the railroad of ficers of the responsibility of providing and developing transportation systems, except within the limits of the revenue that can be realized from such rates and under such restrictions. "For a country such as ours, for a people situated as we are, to blunder along with a series of unrelated, incon sistent, conflicting stututes enacted by different states without relation to each other, instead of providing a com plete and carefully studied and pre pared system of regulation for a busi ness that is so vital to the life of the nation, is worse than folly." He summed up' the present problems and difficulties of the railroads as fol lows: First. The multiplicity of regula tions by the several states with respect to the issue of securities, Involving de lays and conflicting state policies gen erally dangerous and possibly disas trous. Second. The state regulation of rates in such a manner as to unduly reduce revenues, to discriminate in fa vor of localities and shippers within Its own borders as against localities and shippers in other states and to dis turb nnd disarrange the structure of interstate rates. Third.-The inability of the Inter state Commerce Commission, whoever the commissioners may be, to perform the vast duties devolving upon It un der existing laws, resulting in delay which should never occur in commer cial mutters and compelling the com missioners to accept tlie conclusions of their employees us final in deciding matters of great Importance to the commercial and railroad interests of the country. Fourth. The practical legality that has been accorded conspiracies to tie up and suspend the operation of the railroads of the country by strikes and violence and the absence of any law to compel the settlement of such dis putes by arbitration or other judicial meuns, as ull other issues between citi zens Iu civilized states are to be set tled. Fifth. The phenomenal increase In the taxation or railroads In recent years. Sixth.-The cumulative effect of these conditions upon the investing public, to which railroad companies must look for the capital necessary to continue development. "We believe that the unification of regulation is essential," said Judge Lovett, "and that with the rapid In crease of state commissions iu recent years congress will in time be com pelled to exercise Its power iu the premises. To unify regulation there should be a complete, harmonious, con sistent and related system. We be lieve the best, if not the only practical plan, Is the federal incorporation of railroads by general law, which will make incorporation thereunder com pulsory, thus imposing on all railroad companies throughout the United States the same corporate powers and restrictions with respect to their finan cial operations and the same duties tiid obligations to the public und the jfovernment, so thnt every Investor will know precisely what every railroad corporation mav and may not lawfully do." Judge Lovett contended that the so lution of these problems and dillicul tles rested with congress. He told the committee that under the constitution the authority of the federal govern ment Is paramount, that congress has the power to legislate for a centralized control of railroads under federal char ters and thn' It only remains for that lindy to exen-lse that power. DENNY BRINGS SUIT Charges That Sullivan Appropriated Partnership Funds Charging that Larry Sullivan re fused to divide the profits of the busi ness of the Friars' club and that he misappropriated funds of the busi ness, Martin Denny last Thursday brdught action in the county court to have the partnership between him and Sullivan dissolved. Denny says in his complaint that the two became partners in the Friars' club business on December 21 last and that Denny put $2037 into the capital of the club. Sullivan has fail ed to cover any part of this, Denny charges. Sullivan has failed to make an accounting of the money and has appropriated $500 to his own uses, it is charged. Sullivan has taken in money made in the business, Denny says, and has refused to divide the profits with him. The partnership between the men came to a climax last week when Sullivan is said to have ordered Wil liam Lacy, a club employe, to keep Denny off the premises. Denny ap peared while Sullivan was in Portland and says Lacy attacked him with an ice pick. In the fight that ensued Lacy was hit between the eyes with a glass and Denny was stabbed in the back with an ice pick. The result was that Denny and Lacy were ar rested and are under bonds in the Mil waukie justice court and Sullivan and Denny were held to answer charges of selling liquor unlawfully. The mixup led to the discovery of secret caches of whisky about the club grounds. THE SPIRIT OF 1917 Churches and Schools Evidence Fine Spirit of Patriotism Oregon City is dressing up in her patriotic colors. The spirit has been carried to practically all the business houses ana" to at least three of the churches. The Sunday school ' class, led by C. H. Dye, at the Congrega tional church has donated a fine American flag to the church and it has been raised on the front of the building. The Baptist and Presby terian churches have raised the star ry emblem. The courthouse flag was taken down last week because of the windstorm, but in its place a huge banner has been draped over the front door of the building. Flags are literally everywhere. Into the rural districts the spirit of the day has permeated. Last Thursday at the Henrici school, east of Oregon City, a 70-foot flagstaff was erected on the playground and amid much ceremony on the part of the little fouks a large flag was rais ed. As the flag was being placed the pupils, parents and school board united in singing "The Star Span gled Banner," and in saluting the em blem. The Henrici school board worked for a day and a Half in find ing and erecting the great pole, and the expense of getting it in shape to hold the banner was born by the board, the children and parents. . APPEAL UNAVAILING Tragedy of 1915 Recalled When Court Sustains Judge Campbell The last chapter of the Summer field tragedy was written into the rec ords of Clackamas county Monday when a mandate from the supreme court upheld Judge Campbell in a de cision for the Southern Pacific com pany in the suit brought against the company by Edward Summerfield, ad ministrator of the estate of Alma Summerfield. The case was tried in the circuit court here on June 3, 1915, and was appealed. Alma Summerfield and little sister, accompanied by Melvin Hagen, were crossing a Southern Pa cific trestle south of Canby on Janu ary 7, 1914, when a belated train caught them midway on the structure. Hagen helped the younger girl off the trestle and went back to get Alma when the train killed both. The fath er of the girl sued the company for $2999 and was denied judgment. For the heroic work of the young man who was killed in an attempt to save the life of his friend, his father was given a Carnegie hero medal. Farewell to Ford Bernard Ford, who has been living at the home of his aunt, Mrs. A. C. George, at Oak Grove, left Monday for eastern Oregon, and on Saturday evening Mrs. George .tendered him a farewell party at her home. The game of "500" was played and the hostess served refreshments. Those present were: Marjorie McLean, Vida Cunningham, Ray and Clarence Fry er, of Portland; the Misses Edith and Marion Dunham, Meredith and Stella Hubbard, Hester Armstrong, Edith Griilith and Katherine Kuks, and' Messrs. Vernon Bennett, Earl Yeon, Cornelius Stein, Harold Wood and Lester Kuks, of Oak Grove. 1 Brugger Wants Papers Ulrich Brugger, an Oregon City dairy man, Saturday filed application for final certificate of citizenship. Brugger is a native of Switzerland and came to America from France in 1903. He is 29 years old and has been in Oregon since October 21, 1903. Office phones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524,1715 Home B251, D251 WILLIAMS BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE Office 612 Main Street Safe, Piano, and Furniture Moving a Specialty Sand, Gravel, Cement, Lime, Plaster, Common Brick, Face Brick, Five Brick m s 3 The Old Way J Perfect Glasses For Far and Near Vision If you have to remove or awkward ly peer over your readinn glasses every time you look at distant objects; If you fuss with two pairs; Or if you wear the old-style bifocals with the conspicuous seam or lump; Then you need JLl. GLASS E 3LASSE! THE ONLY INVISIBLE BIFOCAL PK I Iks OPTOMETRIST ThsKRYPTOK Wav 612 Main St.. Oregon City. Ore.