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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1907)
OREGON MIST Entered at the Postoffic at St. Helen, Oregon, as second-clas mail matter. Issued Evksv Friday Bv E. H. FLAGG, EDITOR AXD PROPRIETOR. Rates ... - .75 Advertising rates made known on appli cation. Legal notices 25 cents per line. SuuscRHTlOS One year ....... Six months , CIRCUIT COURT OFFICERS ; Thomas A. McBripk. District Judg G. L. HEDGES ..District Attornc COUNTY OFFICERS : R. S. Hattax, Tudpe St. Helen V. A. Harris, Cleric. St. Helen Martim Whitk, Sheriff ...St. Helen Casper Libki., Commissioner Misi H. West, Comtn'r ...Seapp Edwin Koss, Treasurer. St. Helens A. T. Laws, Assessor. .'...St. Helens I. H. Copkiand, Sehool Supt....Houlton Frank B. Frkscott, Surv Rainier H. R. CUFF. Coroner St. Helens NOVEMBER 13. JUDGE HATTAN'S LETTER Hon. K. S. Hattau publishes the fol lowing letter in the last issue of our esteemed contemporary, the ClaUkanie Chief: Editor Chief: AVonld you kind!, famish us space in your paper to make a few statements, to correct the errone oiis impressions made ty the "Oiegon Mist." 1st, tht statement made bv the Mist "That the Neas cruise is a gold brick that is comparatively worthless," greatly exaggerated, w itn the excep tion of Tp. 4 N. R.4 V., the Xease cruise is fast gaining favor. We have talked with most of the large timber owners in the county and are fast becoming con vmcced that the Cruise Is plenty hijh enough, taking as a whole. We ha adopted the Cheldeiin cruise in part only, as in man cases the Cheldeiin cruise aud the Seast are nearly the same for instance; Mr. Blodgett filed a petition charging the Nease era se as being ex evasive, we naa .Mr. uieuielin recruise five quarters of this timber, be got millica to Nease's 81 million, and Iiad Cheldeiin cruised the down timber on four of these raarters, there w ould not have been a million difference in their cruise. We found that the Cheldeiin cruise on the Chapman timber invari ably run under 20 per cent, and aa high as a whole section run as c!oe as 2 per cent. Jennings & McRbae have filet a petition charging an excessive cruise, we have sent Cheldeiin to recroine eight quarters which are in dispute, let as see how this comes out. v The timber has added ten million to our tax roll, and to our surprise there ia very little kicking among the timber men. , For example, the S. E. of Sec. 17, Tp. 7. N. R. 5 W. was assessed at U per acre last year, 12,240. This year it is assessed with 17,500,000 feet, valued at f 2 per thousand or 135,000. As to the Northern Pacific's assessment, they will pay no more taxes this year than last, E. H. Flagg to the contrary notwith standing. R. S. HATTAJf. We are pleased to be in formed that Judge Hattan is becoming eatL-tk-d - with the 'eaee cruise. At the time the article appeared in the Mist finding fault ' with the cruise, Judge Hattan was very far from being satisfied. In fact, he freely expressed, bis opinion that the , county would have to take the matter . .into the courts to compel Nease to con sent to the appointment of an arbitrator, aud there was considerable talk about prosecuting Mr. Jiease's ljondemeu. We believe it was Judge Hattan who ex pressed the opinion, in the presence of witnesses that Nease had taken money from the timber owners as well as from itie county, and that this was the reason . why no great kick would be m.ido by ' - Ml Qzb8 W txt READ THE EEKLY OREGONIAN OF PORTLAND For the general news of tnc vjte for formation about t 4 W tw-w -w - . i 4 J i .jurtw tv3: rcwu in riWrdmf the 'soil. Stock id ! Raising, FruiGrowm etc You can secure litis excellent, 4 paper oy Subscribing for the Mist Two Papers $1.75 Per Year does not ask that corporations should be persecuted, but only that they should j pay their jat share of the taxes, and ! not have the bnrden bear too heavil, upon the residents andhrmie buildeis. HARRIMAN S OPPORTUNITY" SLINGING LANGUAGE. THANKSGIVING APPEAL Mr. Hartimui will pay diar for his brief sortie into the realms of i-uinpeti-tion in steel rails, by w hich he hoped to secure a rail that would not break and send so many of his trains into the ditch. Since Mr. Morgan has made his peace ith the administration aud re ceived permission to perfect his monop oly, the order recently placed by Mr. Harriman with the Teuuessee Coal & I rou Company has been turned back to he steel trust, and w ill be filled bv the Carnegie works, which turned out the inperfect rail that caused so many accidents on the railroad. Now if Mr. Hsrrirxiin will only ioln forces with the the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon. A paper worth reading is the People's j prom Press, of Portland, edited by Dana' Sleeth, son of Rev. Asa Sleeth, the ge n j tleman who does his best to teach the; people of thi) community the straight' To those who are acUAinted with tl and narrow way. We have compli- methods and th xd work accomplish mented Rev. Sleeth occasionally npon ed by the Boys' and Oirls' Aid So- his linguistic ability, and now we see ciety In rescuing and eating for depen where he cot it. He inherited it from dent and delinquent children of the his son. Young Dana was recently lost in the woods of Clackamas County, and, in his last week's issue of the Press, he tells his readers all about it, as follows: "If the editorial outcropping this week seems a bit off Color and the bright gold of genius washes a bit dull and tar ni.-dies before you can win it, there's a reason. Just at present the editorial fingers ate full of briars, the editorial back is full of rheumatism, the editorial , right left is out of commission, aud the j editorial left leg has two or three extra ; corvee twisted into it that weren't ; refoimers who are seeking to break the ' needed. Casual observers who have h du ol the steel trU9t. it n:av be m- ble to bring in foreign steel rails which ill not snap like cat iron as soon as a heavy strain is place I on them. Sooner or later, however, the time w ill come hen the American people will mt sub mit to this kisd of injustice, and tariff reform will prevent the etee! trust, or any other trust from, from killing people uu poor rails or exacting higher prices than are piid by other countries Ore- gonian. If Mr. Harriman wants to manufac ture his own steel rails he should come Columbia County and start a plant. ie iron is tere in unlimited uuan- noticed the editorial gait this week have guessed it was string halt or ring spavin, hut it wasn't. We are not Intruding our troubles on anybody. We don't want sympathy. So long as we have arnica, and if the liniment and the lotions ho'.d out, we will hold our own. but wedo want toex- plain, should the columns seem cut on i "nfl wks U or Birl 'D the bias this week. retains his custody until State, it is unnecessary to mi anything but that the Society needs the atssist ance of the public at Thankgiviug, but as there mar be many w ho have not studied the. work or had occasion to . know of soive of tne g kkI accomplished , it would be well to sav that this Society ii located in the City of Portland but cares for all children throughout the I State of Oregon who are in need. The Society has never been known to refuse aduiUsion to any child provided it healthy ami one that can be place.! out in a private home. Neither has it re fused to accept any boy or girl who through incorrigibility has rendered himself beyond the control of his par ents and for whom, at an early date, the Iieform School, or worse, the Peniten tiary wonld open its doors. But in or der to defend this class and keep them from a penal institution, the Boy and Girls' Aid Society's agent comes along cturg and they have chance for The editorial end of the tai.r irmr. , certainea it there is any neved to the wilds of the Vpt Clacka- '" "tmnuoa, and if so thechild la direct mas last Fridav, but, like the man in -ed iD th Pth ud 90 "veJ 'rora the song, he didn't walk right in and I hv,D the li'Kri,c ofheing committed turn around and walk light out again. t0 P0 '1 intilutio Bu' '' 1 '"""! He walked in. and tumt .rnn.t on tne oiner mtna, that the child 1 tlty. It is within four miles of deep , times in the dark, and walked, and ater on the Columbia river. It is the i walked, and walked, and Anally he roll- best iron in the world and the easiest to : ' and just before he did for the sixth iue. Let Mr. Harriman send respon- be discovered a house and a square ca"nB OT. ln1 clas" .' c""'lrt"n- Me men to investigite Columbia meal. From 7;30 Friday morning until ! . ine ,,'.ly aM on mesM tortian.J iounty's iron resources ar.d be will be Saturday afternoon the editor led thei s c w' " " n""MW tisfied that ail that is claimed fur them i simple life, and if we had anvthimr to i "nu carea ,or uurlnK l"e P"r" ' true. ' degenerate and its association with other j children is hurtful, it is placed in nine j institutio 1 organised for the purpose of Soothing syrnp of some sort is to be administered to Wall Street wheh ed, climbing maple precipitous, marshy. Congress meets. At least that it the bog-ridden, ice-chilled, eternally dla hope of the leading financiers. The ! Wical woods all Friday afternoon and Street has been crying for the remedy all Friday night and all Saturday until and apparently will not be happy until about noon, and we had no matches it gets it. Tne Treasury Department ' that were dry, and had no fire, and no has doi;e all that it properly could in I arub, and no friend, and no dog, end the past fortnight to relieve the situ-1 no nothing, but trapsingaronnd ation. It has put out large deposits of j forsaken darkness, with a leg that went government money in National banks1 wrong early in the game and had to be and has pointed out to the tank how they can increase their note circulation and thus add to the supply of 1 There are a number of briitht thinci money available. AI! this i well eilougl but the Stock Exi-tiat.ge wants some con crete assurance from the White Hons that the g AWnun llt H not "ain it." the timber owners. It is rather remark- j Willi tliH cud in view tuo of tii most "able, if it was an honest croise, that I prominent financiers of New York, 11. 'Mr. Cheldeiin is still out, at the request j (.'. Fiick and 1'rei.idcnt (iary of the Steel of timber owners. Who is to pay Mr. Tnwt ciH-d at the White Houee thh Cheldeiin? If the county uot what it ! week and beL'2eI the President tointcrt eat somebo.Iy else ate it before it got to' Ble"ce' " " uPPorW!a W wle '" us. In short we were lost in the we,j County aW an 1 charitable contributions, dark, stumpy, briar-strewn, rock-eoveM a"d ""''ti ot er " j ."n mil ',iuk ?wrjf firiaon woo la 1 a friend (o the institution or to destitute j children to put their put their hands In ! their pocket and inske a small donation jof money or to send to the Home in roriianu, uregon, some article 01 pro Visions canned fruit, vegetables, or anvthinir thnt vnnM la netful in tl.A in lhe! household. At every county seat there Is an Ad- .flu.-... rrnv.1 .......... I 1 .. I.. , drad along behind, and wet to the ! ' a" ."1TJ. 1 " " T Hide, of course, and-but what's the use? 1 T. I . , niQ uiuv-u "UU 111 111 lit 1 1 V homes. In this county Mr. M. C. Secre- j tary, and any person who has anything ; to donate can find out where to deliver i the same by phoning to this address, j TFie railroad companies and steam j boats throughout the State have co operated Willi the Society no lar as to say that they will deadhead alt suppli Daid for. why didn't it stand oat on the sometime reassurimr in hi. ! liiriat rlt.t ..u i "u;"' "om " wurce aunng Iv ease cruise, and, if the contract was ' when it came to the financial paragra is engageii In writing hi message now and it is well known of course tint he will tmjch on the general financial situation. It is u nder'tnod Hit II - worth the paper it was written on, why grnr h. The President did not the county compel Mr. Nease to comply with its conditions or compel' bis bondsmen to reimbuise the county? j If the cour,ty- interests had b;cn ' properly protected there would have! been no necessity for the work Mr. Chel- j dclin is now doing, for Mr. Nca-e would nave Been to is tliat ttie work was prop erly done in the first iiistanca. That there is so little to dispute a' out the cruise may be due, as Judge Hattnn once surmised, to Mr. Nease having been on excellent terms with the timlxrineii. Standing by itself, without correction, We repeat that the Nease cruise is not only compaiatively but absolutely without brevkirig and in picking out the in 1 briars out of the editorial pf the large busiin-ss -Interests, and it is worthless as a basis tor nsxsiiuent. understood from men with whom these Since the trouble arose Judge Hattan ' gentlemen talkid after their call at the w mitfht. m v attnt lil 1 1 l.m.1 ...li if ...,ru..t u..; :z: ; ,t : - ; l Oregon. u,e . .i.ivvij until kiis jnuin H P could have said them with force and vigor, but we exhausted our vocabulary and dried up the fountains of 0U15 imagi nation out th-re that night alone in the cold, wet oh, very, verv wet woods. and sine- then the editorial mind has been chiefly concerned in gstting that I Thanksgiving. Therefore, it' is hoped thai this city and countv will at least do u unic I 1 1,. - . .. ..( .,,.. i ; . 1., J Wh o(A iinai?, 1 nere are souiH two atlij a ; half Ri'ttioii of epiderm! vt-t to lie being dciiiiitely ) ploughed, and we won't shake hands) It is weil to cons der this fact! that uiirncnil currency ; with anybody, not even an advertiser, the Hill lines have not suspended lm one ol the most ' tor six weeks, and if anvbody thinks 1 provemetiti. That seems to m the dif. j thiM is funny they can do their laughing ference between a railroad builder and (at home we have exhausted all the! a stock manipulator, Harriman, us soon j humor out of the situation that we j as the government came to the assist j think there is in it." j ance on the money question Immediate- .1 I ly ordered alt improvement stopped I v... .,,. 1. . .. ., .. .. and as much repair work ended as enuld Oroller of the Currency, n I.,u.U I . Z ItZ T, . 4- without suspending tram.:. poswwe mat in aworinr.1 the views of ,. ,. 1 , . ' . " " "' Why did he do this? Was the 31 esMa. rn-K nji-i i,ary as representing are I support. deferident upon charity for knonii that he V, legislation. Ti,i pressing nwd-i of the r.ntii.11 from a butj. standpoint. It is well kr.onn that he wants to r.C mmeiid the best line of action po-iiible and to this end lie lus taken th advice of the fieeietury of the Treasury, the Secretary of .State and the 11 cash it is said that J. . P. Morgan has (ecu red control of the .' .'llflH,l!ilhltll,l Kttlftiulli,. '....l'lnn A corati on that started business with a j ,,,ch '' WU''"? 10 " ' . U par value of iO,0U00UO. panic jim uiscovercn iiiat mt. a esse was one o( the proprietots of the famous or in famous Milwaukie Ciul). Hud he I eeu in possession of that information prior to the closing ol the deal, wo have no doubt he would have drawn a much stricter contract As to lhe amount of taxes that will be paid this year by the Northern Pacific railroad, Judge Hattan assures us that they will be 110 greater than they paid last, year, and he may bo corr-cl. If they pay upon their present assessment j Wiiite House they Mere us-ured that uuTi unoiilU he "nothing alarming to the business interests" in the nnssage. Now what the President considers alarming and what the business in tcrests consider alarming may not quite coincide. Probably they will look for something actively pleasant. Probably the President's idea will be to refrain from saying much that is actively un unpleasant, lint whatever form the soothing eyrup lakes, the financial World will have to make the la-st of it. their tuxes will certainly be incicused. i liotwithelandiiig their assessment in no J Senator Fulton announces that he will higher in proportion to that of the rest favor a postal savings bank cyHtem. We o( the county than it was one year ago, ; trust that he will not only favor it, but because of the special assessment for , wil m-cuie its adoption. There should rosdi and schools. The Judge, lnw-; be some place where the savings of the ever, was instrumental in reducing the; people would be absolutely protected. company's assessment by about one j one third two years ago, and he may be Heating stove for sale cheap. Inquire ttAlIjrstti! stock, of the Mr Jjoa-an has also, during the finan cial panic, purchased the properties of the Tennessee C'.,nl, Iron 4 P.allway Company, with a capital slock of OtstyKX). And yet the pe iple wonder at the grow th of socialism. . A 1 ear of Itlood The year VX3 will long be remembered in the home of F. N. Tacket, of Alliance, Ky as a year of blood , which flowed so copiously from Mr. Tackel's lungs that death seemed very near. He writes: "."evere bleeding at the lungs and a frightful couh had brought me at deaths door, when I began taking Dr. King's :w Discovery for Consumption, with the astonishing result that after taking four bottles I was completely re stored and as time has proven permanent ly cured." Guaranteed for sore lungs, coughs and colds. For sale at Houlton, Warren, ScappooM and Deer bland. the actions of Mr. Cortelyou in aiding New York banks? And is he determin ed to make a panic, and if necessary to do so Is he willing to ruin the property he represents to do it? There are many things which make the situation look like lie and his like are on the side of the market where a panic will aid them in picking up a few millions. The evi dence is so strong that these men would willingly ruin the whole country to make a few millions for themselves. All honor to Mr. Hill and to men of his stripe. The people of this country should make it a point In going East aud returning to use any railway but the Harrimsn lines until such time as that individual will be good. And a con certed action of that nature on the part of the people of Oregon would aootl bring Mr. Harriman to time. COLUMBIA'S RESOURCES Impartial View of A Well Known Writer. Fred Lockler representing the I'aclflc Monthly rl Portland Spent Mutlday and Tuesday in W. Helens In the Interest ol that excclletit publieeliolt. When asked what effect he thought the financial flurry would have upon the development ol the West he responded "1 think the cticct will 1 beneficial to the West. la tht first place it will lintinale the wild cat propositions and in the second place hard times iu the Fast will cam the Kasterner and Middle Westerner who feels the money stringency to look to ward the west as a laud ol promise Take this county fur example, where will ou find a section richer iu natural re sources aud where will you find a section where so little has been done In develop ing the wealth of natutal advantages as here. St. Helen ia only 2H miles from Portland, a city that Is destined to be the commercial metropolis of the Pacific Coast. It is the natural distributing point for the whole InUnd I'mpire and the products of that vast region wilt In evitably flow along the lines of least re sistance in other words, along the water grade down hill to Portland. Aa our shipment to the oriental countries in crease Portland will rover wore and more territory to accomodate the warehouses of the exporting house. Population will grow a trade and commerce increase. More and more supplies will be needed to supply the increased population aud in a lew year Columbia County's logged od Unda will beset out to small garden to supply the growing demand of Port land. I have eaten as finely flavored apple here in St. Helen a I have tatted iu Hood River and at Medford, two ol the most famous of Oregon' apple dis tricts, where fruit land sells for front I-1.W to t00 an acre. Loggcd-ofl land can be bought here from to 13 an acre and this land can be cleared for fo0 an acre. Much of this land will make the fiurst kind ot fruit land. An orchard of Northern Spy or Spitenburg apples would pro duce an Income of from f .VO 10 IIU0 an acre within 0 to ten year. Take dairying. Harry West of Scat poose ha shown what can be done in this liue. Harry West's blue nbtun cows have done as much to attract atten tion to this district as any other one thing In the county. The wonderful prosperity of Tillamook countv is due almost entirely to her dairying luduUry. Columbia couuty has neglected her op portunity along this line. There is no good reason why there should not 1 several prosperou creamerie here. If my memory serves me rightly, it was Columbia connty that took the gold medal on ber butter at the Lewis & Clark Kxposition, which i pretty good proof that this is a high clas dairy country. The county judge tells me that you have timber here which runs from 14 to 17 million feet to the quarter section. With J your tiuiber, your stone, your fruit land, your mineral wealth, your land dapted to dairying and truck garden ing it seems incredible that there are lea than ten thousand people in the whole county. Now to come bock to your question, the Easterners, who are land hungrv and tired of working for wage or farm ing on rented lands knew of the wealth of natural resource vou KHrii vnur population would soon double, and. with increased population would come In creased trade and increased orosoeril. One of the things which I believe ha eld the county back has been the hold ing of large bodies of timber and other land by outside capitalist who have en joyed extremely low taxes and have had little incentive for develoninv or ti,. ing of their holdings. If a fair lax is assessed to these speculative the owners will either divrlnn. 11,. property or dispose of it to some one who will There was a day when there was uuicr rivalry between St. Helen 1 . . . . ' i.Miu.u.imiM diuwauace as to which 'jj the three was to I the lesdinir rHi. That day has gone by, that question has neen settled, but the present queuion i uow nest to encourage the building of cii-imc nnes so tnal tne County may be cut up iuto small farms which with your fertile soil and abundant moisture will prove womlerlully productive. With jour ricn iriuiiiary territory St. Helen can wen grow into a city of ten time her present population. Few cities are moro famed from a scenic standpoint and few have so many undeveloped resource at her very door a has St. Helens." DSIDESSSOUEBt TENTH AND MORRISON STREETS, PORTLAND, OREGON A. . ARMtTRONO, LU a, rINCHAt 1 w .. ii.v..u In a short tlma and at small ssncna 4 ... i. , , 1 1 iiv n . i". ... 1 j . roue SSjCS a. dent to a position a soon a cmnUt. Quality la our motto, and rernrUlloa w thorough work bring ua over 100 call per numth for ofUce help, ladlvtdiul l 1 1 ..l.l . U' taai-h. Ilia Lviai -.f (.- . . l run urn inurv i" mm cmrq l&tJt a, voucher ami other modern methods of bookkeeping. Chartler la our sbortlali easy, rajad, legible. Beautiful catalogue, business forma and lniuanakipT"' writ today. Reference! any merchant, any bank, any Mrmpapw Ia C. T. PBK8C0TT K. K. QUICK. V- 1. NtWCQTt" Tun Columbia County ABSTRACT AND TRUST CO. Titlks Examined Abstracts Mad p Non-Rksident Taxes Paid RkalKstatk Loans, etc I St. Johns!! St. Johns!! A GILT EDGED INVESTMENT! ! Situated between the rivers, with deep water frontage Jj ou all sides, surrounded aud crossed by five trausconti- uental railways, it must become the manufacturing and dipping center ot rortiand. MONTHLY PAYROLL S6O.000! Invest how, you will double your money in two yean. H. HENDERSON 10a ,' Philadelphia St St. Johns.Oregoo Q mm aaaaaa juuuijt TTT.Tm iTiTi rrrmiYTmmmn Ooroais O Ihoe I Wk,N.,? You will find St.yle, Wearing Qualities, Sire, and the Comfort You Want Sorosis Fall Shoes Have AH Arriv.sd. Everything, from the Heavy, Flexible Shoe, to the Dainyy Evening Slippera, Sorosis Hosiery epoTcLI KNIGHT SHOE CO., THIRD AND WAr HINOTON. PORTLAND, OHC. CjtAJtMASOUtAlalSIl itciitiitmiit aaai THE J8IG STORE DOWN (3Y THE DIG SAWMILL New Goods Every Day! In the Week. Pics For Sai,k I have twenty six- weeks old pig for sale at fl.60 each Blierwood, Bachelor's flat. N. Evidence is very strum that n.l,.i.,. of tlio Standard Oil I .f sill Mlliu t. brilxid United fsUtes Court iiftlM.!. .1 Chicago o provide tliem with Insldo In foni.atlon as to what Isngo,, i c.. agaiuat them. Isn't it about time ttmt the peopla roue np and did soimdhlng to the Htandard Hint will cause Ita offlcfals to halt? The Htiimlurd la con.i.,itii., all aorta of crlmo, y,;t u,e ,m.oijb ar(l ttkm ed to. ait Idly hy while olllclala sre da haiuthed, lta records itolen nnd )u.tice thwarted. It might not he moially cor- icj-w i cuiiuscaut a few m mm .,f ui- A...A , . "inn iitmriT aim (lesiroy or divide uni 11 tu Htatidard was given a tasta un own medicine It wou Id soon T- - Receiving IB Has a liopuUtiun of Long riladliig lor Only tht Be.t In General Merchandise! Dart & Muckle. to II i. Jit'lens. - ftrpiron. W V -aj - JOB PRIN TING for qunrter. t of rJ out Tlie EnglW, .re dlgcurti.g the propo altion to aholish the Hoiine of Unh Tliere Is no excuse that we know of for' Its farther existence. There Is, too .ttle excuse that we know of for the ex igence of the United BtaU. Benate, out aide of the giving of a lew fnt position, t'j politicians hi their dotnge. The old Idea that the 8nate would prove a Te stralnt on wildcat legislation ,a, pr0v groundless, for of aj wild-eatler. the Senators huve mn the wildest, The evil that those old fossils have done In the past has In no whe hcon cqulleJ hy the good ; and they are n expen.iv. .u r4Ke generally out of re- 18 OUR BU8INE& Wi ''i1 tho best and in mt y fnlly equipped Job Vrl at nig()Hceiu(klumblaCoun ty And we are prepared to do all lands of Printing 011 short notice and at 1,lost reasonable prices . A VRML Will CONriNCE ORECOW win T