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OREGON CITY COURIER ' By A. W. CHENEY. E iteredi n 0 regon Oi ty postofflceas gacond-class matte SUBSCRIPTION RATES. If putdtn advance, per year 1 5? Three mouths' trial fSThe date opposite your address on the paper denotes I he time to which you have paid . PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. OREGON OITY, FEB. 25, 1898. DEnOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION Notice is hereby given that the demo cratic county convention of Clackamas county will be held in Oregon City. Or., at 11 o'clock a. m. on Saturday, March 19th, 1898, for the purpose of electing delegates to the state convention to be held in Portland on March 23d, 1898, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come bsfore the meet ing The primaries are hereby called for March 12th at 3 p. m. for the purpose of electing delegates from the different pre cincts to the county convention. The apportionment of delegates is us follows Abtfnethy ......8 Barlow 4 Beaver Creek . . .5 Milwaukee 6 Macksburg 4 Molalla; 9 Needy 4 New Era 4 Oregon Citv No. 1. 7 Oregon City No.2. 9 Oregon City No. 3. 5 Oswego 4 Pleasant Hill 3 Sievers 1 Soda Springs 2 Springwater 4 Tualatin 3 Union 2 Viola 2 West Oregon City. 7 Boring 2 Canby 5 Canemah 3 Canyon Creek. . .2 Cascades 3 Cherry ville 2 Clackamas H Damascus 5 Eagle Creek 5 Garfield 3 George,...' 2 Hardings 4 Highland 5 Maple Lane 5 Marauam 6 Milk Creek 4 Total 154 Precinct chairmen are requested to look after the primaries ana see that delegates are elected who stand squarely on the Chicago platform. By order of the county central com mittee. J. J. Cooke, Chairman. A. W. Ohknkv, Secretary. A Salbm dispatch says: "It is rumor ed about Salem that Secretary Kincaid, who has always been a silver republican, will abide by his convictions and go over to the silver forces. The recent action of the state lengue of republicans has had the effect of causing many con scientious silver men to leave the old party whore they are no longer given any consideration." Thk Dingley deficit for January was $7,901,484. For the seven months from July 1 to Feb. 1 the deficit (not reckon ing the Pacific Railroad payments) was $51,901,823. It is not strange that Mr. McKinley prefers to talk in glittering generalities about currency reform, rather than to dilate on the beauties of this worse-than-war tariff for bounties and a deficit. N. Y. World. Tub Eugene Register, the organ of the republican party in Lane county, says! "When you take the gold stand ard out of the republican party, you have to take the party along with it." And it might have added that if you take the voters who honestly believe in free stiver out of the republican party of Oregon, you will have but a corporal's guard of bankers, corporation attorneys and office seekers left. Tub present administration, which loves (?) the workingman so dearly that it is pushing a bill through congress to restrict the immigration of hard working, honest and intelligent Europeans, an nounces that Japanese immigration is to be free and unrestricted, and that Japs may become naturalized as citizens. Now, it anyone can toll wherein Jap anese immigration is more to be desired even than Ghinese, he ought to speak out. RoBeburg Review. Somb one has remarked that we live in a grand country. We do. We live in a land of high mountains and high taxes ; low valleys and low wages ; big crooked rivers and big crooked states men ; big hikes, big strikes, big pumi kins, big men with pumpkin heads ; sil ver streams that gambol in the mount ains and pious politicians who gamble in the night ; roaring cntarauts and roar ing orators; fast trains, fust horses, fast young men, and girls fast, faster, fastest ; sharp lawyers, sharp financiers, sharp toed shoes, noisy children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of water; and thou Bauds of newspapers that lie like thunder. Ex. Tub state tax levy has been set at 3' mills, and state taxes for 1898 will be- como due nnd payable on March 1st. 1 u the Btate treasury there are piled up nearly tt million dollars in the various funds. Not a dollar of thia is being paid out, und yet in a few days the state treasurer will be punching the various country treasurers to remit tho state taxes from the first monies received from tax collections in their counties ; and not only that, but thoy will bo charged interest on the taxes from the first of March. Thia is the con dition which confronts the people of the state of Oregon today. By the time tho legislature again meets all tho state taxes will havo again been collected and over a million dollars will have been taken from the avenues of trade and business and locked up to lie idle in the vaults of the state, or to be speculated upon by the Salem and Port laud banks. An Eastern Oregon paper tella of a man who sent to Portland for a chair bottom, paying 18 cents postage on it. The same kind of a chair bottom was being sold in a local store for 12) cents. There is a whole lecture for you. Sqme people want to know what the democrats of Clackamas are going to do with the national or gold democrats. calmer and Buckner received but 32 votes in Clackamas county and these 32 votes will probably be castfor republicans unless the citizens who cast same then are willing to stand on the Chicago plat form and vote as true democrats should. Union or co-operation of populists, silver republicans and democrats in spring campaign will take place in nearly all the counties of the state. .mo uuumies wiucu are uouotiui are Wallowa, Union, Jackson, Josephine and Clackamas. Polk is the only county that has declared against union which was not unanimous by any means, and two sets of delegates ask to be seated at the populist state convention from that county. There is much newspaper talk about union these days, many of the Bilver papers are advocating union while the republican papers are afraid they will unite? What is the different be tween an administration republican and a national democrat? The same as toad and a tadpole. They both believe in the gold standard, and "all the ap purtenancea thereto." While the Bryan democrats, silver republicans and popu lists are a unit on the leading national questions. Unite? Of course they will. You might as well try to sweep back the Mississippi river with the tail feather of a goose as to try to prevent union during the next campaign as above out lined. It will come as surely as the tax collector, and all the howling on the part of any man or set of men cannot prevent it any more than they could stop a Kansas cyclone. Special Corporate Meeting. Okkoon City, Or., Feb. 17, 1898. A special corporate meeting of the shareholders of the Willamette Savings and Loau Association will be held, at the office of the Bank of Oregon City, on Monday, February 28th, 1898, at the hour of 7 :30 o'clock p. m for the pur pose of nominating candidates for direc tors and auditors, to be voted for at the annual corporate meeting to be held March 19th, 1898; alBO for the purpose of electing two tellers to act at said elec tion. By order of . E. G. Caufield, Attest: ,:. ' President. Taos. F. Ryan, Secretary. SPECIAL I SALE 1 1 SPECIAL 11 At the Oregon City Auction House. The loss of one is the gain of another. A Portland merchant retiring from busi ness sacrifices a lot of fine genuine Noth ingham lace curtains and portiers. I bought them and for spot cash too and so will give the general public the bene fit of the sacrifice. Call early for choice patterns. W. L. Block, Prop. The Discovery of the Day. Aug, J. Bogel, the leading druggist of Shreveport, La., says: "Dr King's New Discovery is the only thing (hat cures my cnuuh, and it is the best seller I have." J. F. Campbell, merchant of Kali'onl, Ariz., writes: "Dr King's New Discovery is all that is claimed for it ; it never fails, and is a sure cure for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I cannot say enough for its merits " Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is not an experiment. It has been tried for a quarter of a century, and to-day stands at the head, it never disappoints. Free trial bottle at Charman & Co.'s Drng Store. A Sure Thing for You. A transaction in which you cannot lose is a sure thing. Biliousness, sick head ache, furred tongue, fever, piles and a thousand other ills are caused by con stipation and sluggish liver. Cases rets Candy Cathartic, the wonderful new liver stimulant and intestinal tonic are liy all druggists guaranteed to cure or money refunded. C. C. C. are a sure thing. Try a box to-day; 10c, 2oo, 80c Sample and booklet free. All druggists Robbed the Grave. A startling incident of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: "I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyessunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite gradually grow ing weaker day by day. Three phvsic ians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying "Electric Bitters," and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement, I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved nty life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 50c per bottle at Char man & Co.'s drug store. For Over Fifty Years AnOi.danh Wki.l-Tmko Rkmkdy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best rented v for Diarrtuea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold by Druggists in every part of the World. Twenty- five cents a bot tie. Its value is in calculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup, aud take no other kind. LAXATIVE BR0M0 QUININE TABLETS Move the bowels gently, relieve th Cough curt'i the teverUh condition aud Headache making tt the lwt and quickest remedy for Coughs CoMit, and l. Urlppe. Cures lu Out any. No cure, no pay, Price 2uo. Democratic Meeting. A meeting of the Clackamas county democratic central committee was held at Justice Sehuebel's courtroom on Sat urday afternoon. About a score of the unterrified were present. The precinct primaries were set for March 12th at 3 p. m., and the county convention was called for March 19th at 11 a. m. to elect delegates to the state convention and to transact such other business as may properly come before it. All pres ent were in favor of an honorable union of reform forces but nothing was said about representaiion on a county ticket in case a union was looked upon favor ably by the populists, as well as silver republicans and democrats, andvall such matters were left for the county conven tion to decide. The precinct committee men are as follows. G. Sievers, Abernethy. W. W, Irwin, Barlow. , Beaver Creek. C. N. Waite, Canby. C. W. Ganong, Canemah. L. R. Williams, Canyon Creek. H. McGugin, Cascades. , Cherryville. Albert Holcomb, Clackamas. L. 0. Metzger, Damascus. P. Judd, Eagle Creek. Ed. Crawford, Garfield. F. Rath, George. Geo. Clark, Hardings. H. W. Gard. Highland. A. D. Gribble, Macksburg. A. F. Howland, Maple Lane. J. J. Gard, Milk Creek. John Shindler, Milwaukie. J. E. Jack, Marquam. A. Campau, Needy. J. Burgoyne, New Era. E. D. Kelly, Oregon City No. 1. V. R. Hyde, Oregon City No. 2. W. H. Savage, Oregon City No. 3. D. W. Kelsey, Oswego. W. F. Young. Pleasant Hill. , Sievers. A. V. Davis, Soda Springs. W. J. Lewelling, Springw ' " ' T. L. Turner, Tualatin. ,Sam Engle, Molalla. ' .Viola. B. F. Baker, West Oregon J. J. Cooke, Chairman. A. W. Cheney, Secretary, Bi-Hetalllc Silver Republican Call Notice is hereby given that a mass convention of all republicans of Olacka mas county, Ore., who believe in the Independent free coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, the abo lition of all corporate or private banks of issue and the issue of all money by the government alone, which shall be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and a government of, for and by the people, best attained by direct legisla tion be and is hereby called to meet in Oregon City, Or., at 11 o'clock a. m March 19th, 1898, for the purpose of electing delegates to the state conven tion to be held in Portland, Or., on March 23d, 1898, and for the transaction of any other business that may come before the meeting. Wm. Barlow, County Chairman. WOOD. WOOD. Bids Wanted for 2000 cords, or any part of same, of first growth green fir wood, to be delivered during 1898. We reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Bids will be opened March 1, 1898. Address, Oregon City Woolen Mills, Oregon City, Oregon. LOCAL SUMMARY. Last year's patterns of wall paper at reduced prices. Five and 10c notion counters. At Bellotny & Busch. F. I. Andrews, the market gardener, has always on hand a large amount of first-class apples, vegetables, pure cider and cider vinegar. Give him a trial. Kenworthy's restaurant and con fectionery is now opened and ready to serve first-class meals on short notice. Oysters a specialty. Wheeler & Oram's old stand. Tho most reliable goods at lowest living cash prices are kept by the grocery store of Murr & Mnir. When in Portland drop in and see our immense line of Christmas Chinas. Everything new. Haines', 288 Morrison street, Portland. For best groceries at cheapest price go to Murr A Muir. A complete list of all tho taxpayers of Clackamas county, about 4000, with their postofllce address, for sale by the Coukikk, Oregon City. For the best shave or hair cut to he had go to P.G.Shark'sshop. Shaving 10 cent, A high grade warranted sewing ma chine sells for $25 on easy payments at Bellomy A Busch. L. L, Pickens, dentist, does all kinds of dental work. GoUl crowns, porcelain crowns ana Drmge worn a specialty. Office in Barclay building, corner Main and Seventh streets. D.E. Kenworthy at the East Side Ry office serves meals or oysters at all times. Ho also keeps a line of confectionery, fruits and cigars. Dan WilUans lias added to his stock of groceries and provisions a full line of feed and hay. Goods delivered to all parts of the city free. Corner Seventh and Center streets Remember the Racket Store opposite Charman ,s Drug Store. G. II . Young's second hand store can furnish you with furniture, stoves, hard ware, etc., at less than one-fourth what same would cost new and they are Just as good and will last as long. Give him a trial. Marvelous. Effects System Broken Down and Hope Al most Abandoned Health Re stored by Hood's Sarsaparllla. " For fifteen yeara I have puffered with catarrh and indigestion and my whole system was broken down. I had almost abandoned any hope o( recovery. I pur chased six bottles of Hood's Sarsaparllla and its effects have been marvelous. It has made me feel like a new man. I am able to sleep well, have a good appetite, and I have gained several pounds in weight." James Wilder, Oroville, Wash. "I had a scrofula swelling on one side of my neck and ulcerated sores in my nostrils, caused by catarrh. I also had small, itching sores on my limbs. I bought three bottles of Hood's Sarsapa rllla and began taking it and the sores soon healed. My blood is purified, and the scrofula has disappeared." O. D. McMands, Mission, Washington. Hood Sarsa- O nnrilln Is the best In tact the One True Wood Purifier. HrH'c Dillc cure nausea, Indigestion, I1UUU fills biliousness, 'ifi amits. C. D. & D. C. LATOURETTE ATTORNEYS AT LAW Commercial, Real Estate and Probate Law Specialties Office in Commercial Bank Building OREGON CITY OREGON Geo. C. Bbowniu. J. U. Cahfbku. BROWNELL & CAMPBELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW Caufleld Building Oregon City, Ore THOS. F. RYAN Notary Public and Real Estate Broker Leading Insurance Aorhcy of Clackamas County Money to Loan. Abstracts of Title Made Drawing of Legal Derailments a Specialty vuice on east siue oi main street Between 6th und 7th OREGON CITY, OREGON MC. STRICKLAND, M. D. (Hospital aud Private Experience.) Offers his professional services to the people of paid to Catarrh and Chronic diseases. Best of references given. Office in Willamette Building. Office hours: 10 to 12 a. m., i to 6 p. m. OREGON CITY .... OREGON J. W. WELCH DENTIST WILLAMETTE BLOCK Opposite P. O. - Obeook City, Ori (J. H. ISOM, Civil Engineer & Deputy County Surveyor Will be at Court House on each Saturday ana on regular session uays oi County Court C. N. GREENMAN (Established 1865) THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN AND DRAYMAN Parcels Delivered to All Parts of the City OREGON CITY .... OREGON COMMERCIAL BANK of OREGON CITY CAPITAL f 100,000 Transacts a General Banking Business Loans made. Bills discounted. Makes CO lections. Buys and sells exchange on all points In the United States and Europe and on Hong Kong. Deposits receivea sunvectiocneci. Bank open from A. M. to 4 P. M. D.O.LATOCRETTE, IKBD J. MEYER, Presldeut Cashier BANK OF OREGON CITY OI.DKST BANKING HOUSE IN THE CITT PAID UP CAPITAL, WftOO-OO SURPLUS $i0&OM President, Vice-president Cbas. H. Cavfuid Geo. a. Hardins Cashier, E. G. Cavhild A General Banking Business Transacted Deposits Received Subject to Check. Approved Bills and Notes Discounted. County and City Warrants Bought. Loans Made on Available 8ecuritT Exchange Bought and 4ld. Collections Made Promptly. Drafts Sold Available In Any Part of the worm, Telegraphic Exchange Sold on Portland, 8au Francisco, Chicago aud New York. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. H. STRAIGHT, DEALIR IN GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Mill Feed, Lime, Cement and Land Plaster. Noblitt Livery and Sale Stable OREGON CITY, OREGON, On the Street between the Bridge end the Depot. Double and single rigs and saddle horses a ways on hand at the lowest rates, nd acorn also connected with the barn for loose stock Any Information regarding any kind of stock promptly attended to by letter or person. HORSES BOUGHT OR SOLD TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take T.axattre Bromo Quinine Tablets. Alt druggists Mfund the money if It fails to eure, li TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund theuouey if It fails to eure. 2&e ...Go r.G. H. FOR DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING and BUILDING MATERIAL. LOWEST CA3K PRICES EVER Shop Opposite Congrecntlonal Church, Main Street, Oregon City, Ore. for CHOICE CUTS and BETHKE &, CARLS' CASH MARKETS Successors to R. PETZ0L0 Seventh Street, Corner of Center, on the Hiil. Main St., Opposite Caufield Block. Two Shops, - . . . ... Oregon City, Oregon. HARRIS' GROCERY... Fresh Stock of First-Class. Depot for HAT nnd FEED New Firm... Heinz & Co. have purchase the Grocery and Bakery of Gibson & Lindsey, and will continue to keep a first-class line of STAPLE AND FANCT GROCERIES BREAD AND PASTRY Old Established Bakery, opposite Postoffice. Oregon Citv, Oregon. Discount Prices... We can save you from 25 to 50 cents on the dollar on everything in the line of a drugstores' stock. PATENT MEDICINES at WHOLESALE PRICES SYRINGES and RUBBER PRICES BRUSHES and COMBS AT PURE DRUGS AT LOWEST We buy everything in large quantities and sell them at small profits. We believe in changing our stock often and give our customers the old time profits that drug gists used to charge. We are satisfied with our profits. They are for you to profit by. We make a specialty of prescription work. S. G. SKIDMORE & CO CUT-RATE DRUGGIST 151 Third St., near Morrison, PORTLAND, OREGON What Are We Doing? We have put in a stock of NEW FURNITURE In addition to Second-Hand Stock; where you can buy with confidence in what we say and at prices lower than any other house in town. We make no "leaders" with goods shown in our window with low prices and that when you come in you are told it has just been sold. If agreeable (easy) terms will uc given we miena 10 snow tne public how cheap you can buy goods, as we pay cash and save discounts, OREGON CITY AUCTION HOUSE. .SiSSEr BLOCK, Prop. GO TO MRS. PRIERS' FOR Candies, Nuts, Fruits and Tobacco Main Street , Oregon C Go to... DAVIDSON'S GALLERY Up-to-Date Pictures A MATTER OF TASTE... Every lay has her own ideas in regard to her Shoes. She knows what ehe wants and knows what she expects to pay for it. No danger of dis appointment in our stock. The up-to-date shapes will pleafe the most fastidious people. If the price is inter esting, and no doubt it is, we have a wide variety of quali ties in the newest shapes. KRAUSSE BROS.' SHOE STORE- BESTOW OFFERED FOR FIBST-OLASS GOODS. TENDER MEATS go to THE LEADER OF LOW PRICES GROCERIES Willamette Blook, Oregon City GOODS AT MANUFACTURER'S FACTORY PRICES PRICES OREGON CITY tW?. S. Highest prices paid for Second-Hand Furniture BUSINESS CHANGE O. F. IIENNINGS has purchased the Seventh Street Bakery of Ja cob Kober and the new management is pre pared to furnish you with Bread, Cakes, Buns, Etc., at very reasonable prices. C. F. HENNINQS, 7th St. Bakery WANTED -TRUSTWORTHY AND ACTIVE .VtXil!,? " or '.di? to ,rvl lor responslbl established house In Oregon. Monthly 66 and expenses. Positio. st3y. Reference.7 Knefosi self-addressed stamped envelope. The Doaiaiw Company, D.pL y, Chicago. "i