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OFFICIAL PAPER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY
L. XXXIV.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915.
NO. 10
UNTY matters
BRIEFLY STATED
RCUIT COURT SESSION
TO BE HELD BEGIN
NING MARCH 8.
ItCH TERM OF COUNTY COURT
bid Work on 1915 Assess-
Jnent to Begin Early Next
Week.
f ha regular March term of Count)
rt will convene on tha 3rd Inst.
ikIko Kukln will convone an ad
h-nml session of Circuit Court In
Helena on Monday, March 8th.
a three day's term at leant, and
iliui will continue throughout the
Beginning tho flrat of next week
Deputy Assessors, Martin White
Hurry Wood, will commence the
id work on the 1115 assessment.
r on Assessor Makes!? will join
fluid force and assist In thai
inch of tho work,
bn February 10th Judge Clark
In an order In probata that ali
kicr of public concern In the es
p of C'lura Johnson, deceased. In
bn hy pouting of notlcea Instead
y publication.' An order was aim
oroil on the tJrd, appolntlnc
nrls I,, lloldorf administratrix ol
ctute of John lloldorf, deceased
ounty School . Superintendent
h'n l outlining plan for better
hit of conditions among the rural
ools where attendance Is small
hopes to be able In the very near
lira to effect sevoral consollda-
tin, which will greatly add to the
Icleucy of tho service. . Mr. Alton
tea that he haa applications from
umber of tha districts asking that
llr schools be standardized, which
pply means the adoption of a coi'u
prescribed regulations to conform
k he state law.
The County Court Is maintaining
few small crews of men on the
Ids In different parts of the coun-
one crew being at work at prea
nar Spltsenberg, another noai
kinkanto and one in the vicinity o'
Helens. Plans are formulating at
fmwt for tho Inntallatlon of a per
nent road Improvement between
Helous and Houlton. The bed of
f proponed Improved road will be
teen foot wide, with a well con
noted foundation and an oil-bound
b of lighter rock construction. The
lurt has In contemplation a good
il of road Improvement work, to
inaugurated Just aa soon as wea-
r conditions will pormlt.
EPAIRS ON STEAMER
ARE NEARLY DONE
Repairs and rebuilding that have
palled an expense of approximately
-0,000 are Hearing completion on
n Oruce Sunta Catallua on the Co-
lnhla river and the vessel, which
almost destroyed by fire last
kvomhor, will shortly be In com-
Halon.
On holiig turned over to her own-
f the Santa Catallua will re-enter
sorvlco from North Pacific ports
Now York via the Panama canal
" tho stoamers Santa Cecilia,
ta Cru and Santa Clara
When tho Santa Catallna .re-enters
rvloo sho will be In as good oon-
Mm as when she caught fire In the
flumhia river several months ago.
o was thon one of the newest vee-
j' of the American fleet of the
ace company. The process of ro
wing the bent and twisted steel
'. which had boon warped by the
Nnso heat, was done by the Wll-
Rfltto Iron & Steel Works, while
nttlng of new staterooms and
Jot Iiouho was carried out by the St.
Plen Shipbuilding Company.
Mr- and Mrs. Jnhn PnrVor nf Kl-
K Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Orover
"'. or Astoria, arrived In St. Hel
" today to attend the funeral of
9 'l0 W. n. Pam Mr. PnrVnr
M Mrs. Davis are daughters of Mr.
THE GRIM REAPER
CLAIMS HIS TOLL
Ex-County Commissioner Dies
and is Buried at
Portland.
Warren Dorlce Caso dlod at War
ron, Oregon, Thursday, February
2G, of chronlo heart trouble. Mr.
Case was a well known citizen of
Columbia County, having located at
Pittsburg twenty-soven years ago,
where he was engaged In the kuwmlll
business, In company with I. W. De
trick and Chas. II. Brlggs. Mr. Cost
was born In New York state August
12, 1847, and came to Portland
thirty-three years ago. Deceased
was elocted county commissioner In
1800, serving four years, after which
he engaged In farming and othet
pursuits, being engagod during more
recent years In caring for the count)
farm, noar Warren. Ilo leaves two
daughters, Mra. Jotin Parker, ol
Kalama, and Mrs. Grovor Davis, of
Astoria. Funeral services will b
held In the Methodist church at St
Helens Saturday morning, under the
auspices of the Knights of Pythias,
interment taking place at Lono Fir
cemetery, Portland, lator In tho day
Mr. J. W. Armstrong, one of the
woll known farmers of tho Coble
community dlod at his Goble home
on the 2th of this month. Mr.
Armstrong ws one or the leaders ol
the Columbia County Orange, having
been organizer and Master for sev
eral years. He was also a member
of the Itedmen Lodge, which organl
tat Ion had chargo of the funeral ser
vices at Goblo this, afternoon. De
coated was 71 years old and had
lived In Columbia County for many
years. Jlo loaves a wife and one
ion.- , -
Charles I .owls Farrls, the Infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. It. Farrls, of
Voll Fohrunry 23, aged thirty-two
Veil, February 23, aged thirty-two
lays. Donth was duo to an attack
of chicken pox. Tho remains wore
brought to St. Helens and Inid to
rest In the family lot In Masoulc
nometery, on Germany Hill. . Mrs.
Farrls Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Mucklo, of this city.
Mr Charlos Stead, a farmer resid
ing near Warren, died at his home
on February 20th, after an Illness ex
tending over several months. Mr.
9tead moved with his family to War
ren about a year ago from Vador,
Wash., and some time lust fall
contracted a severe cold which later
developed Into pneumonia and fl
ually Into tuberculoids. Ho loaves a
wife and three amal children. Fu
neral services wore conducted by
Itov. J. N. Wood, of Houlton, Monday
ifternoon and Intermont was In the I.
O. O. F. cemotery.
TAX COMMISSION
POSTS TREASURERS
The State Tax Commission on
Thursday notified tho county treas
urers that under a law passed at the
recent session of the Legislature pen
alties or Interest will not be collect
ible on second-half taxes In case the
first half Is paid before April 1 thlB
year. Taxes this year will be col
lected under the old law with this
Important change, too bill provid
ing for two distinct periods of pay
ments, also passed at the recent ses
sion, not applying until 1918. Be
ginning next year, the sheriffs will
be tax colloctora, a law passed at the
recent session transferitng tho duty
to thorn.
SALMON DAY DINNER
BY CHURCH LADIES
The Ladles' Aid of the Congrega
tional Church will give a salmon
dinner on Salmon Day,' March 12,
In the Guild Hall, to which tho pub
llo Is moBt cordially Invited. The
menu will not consist alone of this
sucoulont fish, but following out a
state-wide and moat popular custom,
Chinook aalmon will be the principal
foature of Salmon Day dinners
everywhere on that dato. The pro
ceeds derived from this dinner will
bo devoted toward paying taxes and
other assensmonts against the church
property.
CANNERY
IS
NOW
Fruit and Vegetable Producers Assured of Perma
nent and Profitable Market.
STOCKHOLDERS AND PRODUCERS HAVE JOINT MEETING
Institution Will Prove Valuable Aid to the Producers of the
Community and a Lucrative Undertaking
lor the Promoters.
All the stockholders, many persons
who bad subscribed for stock, and
numerous business men attonded the
mooting of tho Columbia Iliver Can
ning & Produce Company at Its plant
In this city last,Suturday the 20th.
It had been plannod by the officers
of the company to have a lecturer
from O. A. C., at that time, but In
this they were disappointed bocauso
jf prior datos for the lecturer, but
somo time later another meeting will
be held, and tho lecturer will be on
hand. A number of farmers of Bach
elor Flat, Warren and Yankton were
procent, and numorous short speech
3j woro made. On every hand It was
apparent that the farmers and gard
enora of the community are going to
heartily co-operate with the new con
cern and from statements and prom
ises made the success of the enter
prise Is assured.. Several business
men of St. Helens also mado ad
dresses pledging support, and a feel
ing was manifest throughout tho
mooting of that establishment In our
city was the fore runner of much de
velopment o f coun try and an assured
market for the products.
The plant of the company is noarly
complete with machinery of all kinds
and they are ready for the business
to begin. The machinery installed
la capable of turning out 8000 cans
of beans dally, and ottier fruit and
vegetables. This means. 333 casos or
667 doten cans each day. Wlion the
plant Is running to Us capacity It will
employ about 25 people. A 35 homo
COAST LUMBER TO
BE SOLD ON ATLANTIC
The Charlos It. McCormlck Lum
ber Company, has opened an office
tor tha sale of St. Ifolens lumber In
New York f ity. Mr. C. E. Bland,
formerly manager of the Los An
golos office for this company, has
been placed in charge of the eastern
offlco and is already locatod. The
Stoamer St. Holons has boon char
tered far the first load of Columbia
County fir and she will begin loading
In tho near future at St. Helens and
will proceed through the canal to
New York, where her cargo has al
ready boon disposed of. Othor ves
sels have also beon cl artercd and
prospects ore very favorable for a
largo business in the east by this
company.
POPULAR COUPLE
IS MATRIMONIAL TEAM
A wedding of Interest to St. Hol
ens poople took place at Vancouver,
Wash., last week when Frank Cole
of St. Holons, and Miss Ollie Tomp
kins, of Scappoose, wore united In
marriage. They returned to St. Hel
ntm after the ceremony and will make
their home near the Columbia County
Mill In South St. Helens. Mr. l.oie
la a eon of Mr. and Mrs. W .W. Cole
and has beon In the employ of the
St. Helons" Lumber Company for Bey,
eral years. He Is a highly respected
young man In the community. The
brldo Is the charming daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins, of Scap
pooBO, where sho has many friends
among the young folks.
Smelt have beon so plonttful in St.
Helens the past week or two that the
market Is overstocked and the
fishermen are having troublo In dis
posing of tholr catches. During tho
past few days 60 pound boxes have
been offered for fifteen cents and
mnv noonle have purchased a sup
ply for salting and smoking.
READY
J
power engine with a 40 horsepower
boiler will permit of added machin
ery as necessity requires. Already
the company has arranged for a mar
ket for all their products and they
are ready to make contracts with the
producers as soon as the contracts
aro prepared, which will be about
March 15th. After that time farm
ers and gardeners will bo able to con
tract their entire crops at market
prices. In addition to contracting
their products the farmers and gar
deners may call upon LouIb Rosasco,
tho most successful and exper
ienced gardener In the ' county,
who will be ready and willing at all
times t6 advise and Instruct any per
son who may desiro any inrormation.
In. addition to the canning of fruits
and vegetables the company will har
dlo all kinds of seeds, fruit Jpiays,
land plaster and fertilizer.
The officers of the company are
all men of business experience and
have entered this business to make
of it success. ' They are dependent
upon the cooperation nf the :.roduc
ers of the community and from the
manner In which they have started
out the people are going to have con
fidence In them and the solution of
a market for the small farmer and
fruit gTower Is at hand.
The business will be a suocosh from
tha start. It means much to the
community. Everybody Interested in
the development of this soctlon of the
county should lend every encourage
ment to the enterprise and they Will
do bo. '
BOY SCOUTS THANK
THEIR BENEFACTORS
The Boy Scouts wish to publicly
thank the members of the Gul'd (or
their kindness In allowing them to
meet In Guild Hall. They have re
ceived permission from the Ftnvnen
to meet one night each week In the
Firemen Hall and have use of the
gymnasium so that It will be an Ideal
place for meetings. The Boy Scouts
of thlB city have quite a thorough or ganization
and each boy Is prmd of
his uniform and equipment. Each
one is looking forward to the time
when camping trips will be In order
and Mr. Meyer, the leader, Is well
satisfied with the worlt accomplished.
COLONY OF GREEKS
INDULGE IN WARFARE
When Greek mot Greek down on
tho street yesterday the rosu'.t was
one badly scratched and bruised face
and ono bitten finger and bruise
and blooding face. Louie Jaras and
Louie Durus, Greek workmen at the
mill, met in combat on the Btreet
with the result as above stated.
Louie Durus seemed to be the most
damaged of the two and consequently
appeared before Justice Watklns and
had a warrant Issued enargtng Louis
Jaras with assault with a dangerous
weapon and the hearing of the case
will lake place this afternoon.
. .. - .- .-, . yj .rrt,.,.!.., ;,. .
John Coopor, who drives ope of
the slab wagons at the mill in this
city, was painfully Injured Wednes
day morning when he was turning
the crank which released the bed to
dump the load and the crank slipped
and struck him on the head, causing
a bad scalp wound. He was taken
to the hospital In Portland.
A delicious roast beef supper was
servod by the ladles of the M.. E.
Church last Friday evening which
wr.s woll attended and thoroughly
enjoyed by all who partook.
OPERA
REDMEN TRIBE
HOLDS-BIG POW-WOW
Initiate Six Palefaces and Par
take of Heap Good
Muck-a-Muck.
An Interesting sight this evening
on the streets of St. Helens was the
capture of the city by a band of In
dlan Warriors. Emerging from the
entrance of the K. of P. Hall about
8:30 o'clock nearly 100 Indians, In
war paint and costumes, carrying
brands of fire and making the night
hideous with their . war whoops,
marched' In stealthy manner up the
street until in front of the Rosenthal
store where they pitched their camp
and Immediately kindled a big- fire.
Two skulking warriors ' slipped
through the crowds until their eyes
elighted on the smiling face of Mar
shal Cbittim when with a bound and
a whoop the brave marshal was capt
ured and literally carried before the
Big Chief at the camp fire, and or
ders were given to burn the captive
at the .stake. Poor old City Marshal
was then tied securely to the stake
and red fire lighted which coloring
was in direct contrast to the white
face or the victim. After doing the
war dance around tho victim one of
the brave warriors took out hie knife
uud proceeded to go through the mo
tions of scalping the pale faced vic
tim. All of this proceeding was
highly entertaining to the crowd of
people who were watching, but per
perhaps not so humorous to Mr. Chit
tim. However, the' Goble team of
Rcdmen who had come to St. Helens
to assist the local lodge in Initiation
work had lots of fun and demon
strated" their ability to put on Red
men work as it should be done.
Altogether there were about 100
Red men. from various tribes around
the county who attended the big
meeting and a generally successful
and Interesting time Is reported.
EXFLOITING THE
HIGHWAY SCANDAL
The following editorial from the
Hillsboro Independent In very per
tinent: "The Portland Journal comments
on tho discharge of Engineer Bowlby
under the heading "Tho Highway
Scandal," and persists in ascribing
the dropping of the engineer to the
influence of disgruntled contractors.
Perhaps if It would dig Into the dls
crepency between the engineer's es
timates for the Columbia highway
and work completed and yet to be
done, and financial conditions In
Columbia county as a result, matter
to Justify the heading would be dis
closed. As The Independent has be
fore said, U is difficult to understand
why this question has not been
frankly dealt with. Conditions In
Columbia county are generally un
derstood and it Is well known that no
extensive highway work will be un
dertaken by the counties until they
aro convinced that different methods
will be adopted. If Mr. Bowlby was
not to blame his friends should have
gone deeply into ah tho facts In
stead of making vaguo charges that
ho was the victim of a conspiracy.
The easiest way to do this would be
to prove that conditions on the Co
lumbia highway are not as stated,
not by contractors but by the tax
payers Interested. But this phase has
been consistently Ignored!"
ELDERLY LADY IS
NICELY ENTERTAINED
Monday afternoon, February 22nd,
Mrs. J. L. Zlpperer entertained with
a lunch at her apartments In this
city In honor of Mrs. N. A. Ashby.
The rooms were artistically decorat
ed with flags, shields and little
hatchets. The color scheme of the
dining room was red and green and
from the cliandeller was suspended aj
shower of flags, shields and hatchets.
In the center of the table was a bou
quet of red carnations surrounded
with candles, prettily shaded. The
place cards were little hatchets and
the favors were potted cherry trees.
Ices consisted of little mounds sur
mounted by a tiny flag In the center
The refreshments were delicious.
Thoae present were Mrs. Ashby, Mrs.
J. George, Mrs. . Quick, Mrs. Cox,
Mrs. Pondergast, Mrs. Wm. Muckle,
Mrs. Arthur George, Mrs. C. H John,
Mrs. Dillard; Mrs. Miller nsslstod
Mrs. Zlpperer In serving.
SENATOR
M BRIDE
IKES
RECORD
COMMITTEE APPOINT
MENTS VERY HELP
FUL TO HIM.
HANDLED IMPORTANT TOBB
Assessment and Taxation Af
fairs Were Ably Lookdd
After.
Salem, Ore., Feb. J6. (Special.)
Although his first time in a law
making body, Senator McBrlde, of
Columbia, Clackamas and Multno
mah Counties, succeeded in. carving
out a rather remattable record at
the session of' tho Leelalature whirl.
Just closed. '
Being aworded the Committee on
Revision of Laws, one of the most Im-
portant in the Senate and a commit
tee which receives aa many, if not
more, blllg than any other commit
tee, he accomplished anmetMnr
which It la doubtful that any chair
man of that committee has ever h-
fore accomplished in an Oregon leg
islature.
There was 64 bills that went be
fore the committee for consideration. .
A vast number of these received un
favorable consideration by the com
mittee and. were reported adversely.
uut not a single report of the com
mittee, adverse or otherwise, went
into the Senate, but what it waa up-
neia by that body,. It la probable
that legislative history in this state
at least, as far as a committee of
such importance as that of revision
of laws is concerned, holds no simil
ar record in Orebon.
Senator McBrlde also achieved
the distinction of not Introducing: a
bill during the session. He intro
duced but one measure of any kind,
this being in the nature of a resolu
tion to place on the ballot a propos
ed ' constitutional amendment. The
amendment proposed would repeal
the section of the constitution which
refuses to Negroes, Chinamen and
Mulattoes the right of suffrage.
This amendment was abrogated
by amendments to the constitution of
the United States. . Nevertheless they
stand In the printed copies of tha
constitution and have been found to
be particularly objectionable to lha
Negro race as they give a false idea
to growing children who read the
constitution in the schools.
Aside from the woik of the Com
mltt on the Revision of Laws Senat
or McBrlde was particularly active
In connection with the work of the
committee on Assessment and Tax
ation. A number of bills were side
tracked by that committee because of
"Jokers" located in them by Senator
McBrlde He also pushed a fight to
amend the tax collection law.
which was passes, to require a two
per cent penalty on delinquency for
the first half payment, believing that
this would relieve the complaint .
made by some tax collector that the
bill as passed would be too lenient
and not secure sufficient funda for
the government on the first half pay
ment .-
This tax collection law. however.
waa approved by Senator McBrlde -as
it stands, with the possible ex
ception of the two per cent penalty
and it la believed that it will prove to
be one of the most popular tax col
lection laws ever placed on the stat
ute books
ODDFELLOWS HALL
SCENE OF INVASION
After the regular meeting of the
Odd Fellows last week the members
of the Rebekahs broke Into the hall
with wagon loads of good things tOa
eat. Several Bmall wagons filled
with pies, cakes, sandwiches and
other things were rolled into thV
hall, while doughnuts, other cakes
and various other articles of food '
were taken into the hall in odd and
ludicrous manners. The men were
surprised all right but proved equal
to the occasion when the tables were
spread