OREGON CITY COURIER
By A. W CHENEY
EuteroJ in Ora;pii0lty pjatolBceaa second -clans matte
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
If paidtn advance, per year ,
Six mouths
Taree mouths' trial
1 50
75
25
sTJfThe date opposite your address on the
'paper douoles the time to which you have paid .
PATRONIZE ROME INDUSTRY.
OREGON OITY, AUGUST 5, 1898
People who can't buy things good
enough in their town often are the
poorest dressed.
Fifty cent dollars and 50 cent wheat
o hand in hand and the Bryan theory
is still unexploded. Ex.
How many farmers were benefited by
the dollar-a-buphel wheat deal? One.
' Farmer (?) Geer. Ontario News.
That dollar a bushel wheat which our
republican friends were boasting about
before the June election is only worth
about 50 cents on the dollar in the Port
land market. What caused this sudden
fall? Confidence, prosperity or the war
, with Spain?
A man thoroughly conversant with life
in the Philippines says that in two
years' residence there he observed that
every white man at Manila who knew
enough to superintend a job of any kind,
was drawing from $5 to $8 per day for
bossing, while the natives did the work
for $1 per day.
HIGHER TAXES THE RULE.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
admits that protection is not adequate as
a source of revenve and that hereafter
our main reliance must be on internal
taxation and revenue duties. Protection
' will only yield incidental revenue. This
was being shown before the war began.
It was clear that new taxes must be re-
' sorted to. The war made the change
easy. The new taxes will remain after
the war is over. The increased interest
changes and the cost of enlarged mili
tary and naval establishment and of
maintaining bodies of trops in Cuba
and elsewhere, will largely swe.l the ex
penditures, and the requi-ite money
can only be obtained by keeping up the
war taxes. In this way the war has re'
lieved the party in power from a serious
dilemma. To impose these new taxes
in time of peace would have occasioned
universal, grumbling. Put on a war
measure, they are borne without com
plaint; ,and the people will get ac
customed to paying them. Henceforth
higher taxation is to bo the rule.
Tacoma'News.
THE BANKS AGAINST THE PEdPLE
Hon. George Fred Williams, of Massa
chusetts, has an able article in the July
number of The A rena entitled "Govern
ment by Banks." He states the real
issue between the banks and the people
so clearly that we feel warranted in
quoting a paragraph from his article.
He says:
In the Chicago platform of 181)0 this
question was forestalled in these words:
"OongresB alone has the power lo coin
and issue money ,"and PresidenUackson
declared that iiis power could not be
delegated to corporations or individuals.
We, therefore, denounce the issuance of
notes intended to circulate as money by
uational banks as in derogation ot the
constitution, and we demand that nil
paper which is made a legal tender for
public and private debts, or which is re
ceivable for duos to the United Males,
shall be issued by the government of the
United States, and shall be redeemable
in coin.
Three plana have boon presented to
congress, differing materially, though
having a common purpose, one comes
from a self-constituted conference at In
dianapolis, another from the secretary of
the treasury, and a third from a special
tub-committee of the com mil tee on
banking and cuirency of the house of
representatives. The last named plan
has lately been approved by the execu
tive committee of the Indianapolis con
Ierence. All agree upon the creation of
a separate division of the treasury, to be
called the Division of Issue and ltedeinn
lion, to which shall be transferred gold
coin to the amount of from (125,000,000
to $175,000,000, to lie used lor the re
demption of the legal tender notes, treas
ury notes of 18SK), and silver dollars of
the government. It is proposed to re
tire wholly or in part the notes of the
government, when redeemed, in quan
tities equal to the hank notes to bo issued
in their stead. All propose eventually
to ditspeuse with the deposit of public
bonds as security for bank note issues,
o thut eventually the bank note circula
tion shall be based on the commercial
assets of the bunk issuing the notes.
The Indianapolis plan would dispense
with the security of bonds within ten
years. The house committee's plan
would huso the bank issues upon assets
-wiihin live years. The notes are in all
-cases to be a first lien upon the assets of
the issuing bank, and the peisonal lia-
hiliiy of the bank stockholders is secured.
Kedemption of the notes is to be secured
by deposit with the treasury of a re
demption fund equal to from live to ten
tier cent of the circulation. The govern
ment is to guaranteo the redemption of
the bank notes in gold. Provisions are
made for the sale ol United States bonds
to maintain the redemption in gold by
the government. The issue of hank
notes is limited to the amount of the
capital of each bank.
These ue the substantial features ot
the three plans now before the public.
Without regard to the methods or the
details of either plan, the one purpose is
to substitute banks for the government
in the regulation of the monetary sup
ply, and to make the government ulti-
mately responsible for the redemption in
gold of the entire note issues' of the
banks.
The opposition to this new policy is
confined to the note-isauo power of the
bank. There is no objection to the
banking system as it exists in the coun
try in the form of state banks, private
banks, and trust companies, or to the
general powers conferred by the national
banking system excepting the power to
issue currency.
Mr. Williams justly says that the op
position to these schemes is confined to
the note issue power of the banks. In
dependent of their connection with the
question of the gold standard, the banks
are laboring to obtain the exclusive
right to issue currency. If they can do
this they will have the most profitable
and absorbing business known among
men. The issuance of a million of mon
ey is practically the acquisition of that
amount of ready cash, and institutions
which are authorized to create money
without labor or sacrifice will become
very rich and powerful, and will in the
near future not only govern the country,
but absorb what the masses produce.
Stick to the Chicago platform, and op
pose notes issued by the banks.
COflMENTARIES.
Matters
day
Concerning Local
Affairs Noticed by
Courier Reporter.
Every
the
It took about $57,000 worth of ammu
nition .to enable the battleship Oregon
to da up the Spanish fleet at Santiago.
Oreiton City people are patriotically
assisting to pay this and other war ex
penses in a thousand different ways.
The express and transportation com
panies escape taxation by making the
shipper pay the one cent tax on bills of
lading, and the telegraph companies
require their patrons to put up one cent
for each message sent. The Oregon City
banks are taxed hard, and have to pay
a special tax of $ 2 for each $1000 of cap
ital stock. Brokers have to pay a spec
ial tax of 50 per your, and bowling al
leys and billiaid tables are stuck for $5
each.
Oregon City will soon be pretty nell
supplied with walks and stairways up
the bluff. A new walk on an easy
grade along the new Singer Hill road
will take the place of the "Baptist
slide,'' and the elevated stairway from
Eighth up the bluff to Seventh street,
will soon be completed. Some people
are kicking because the Singer Hill
sidewalk is to be only five feet wide in
stead of six, ami then attain, some of the
kickers are howling because the ele
vated sidewalk is being built at all. But
they should remember that this stair
way will accommodate quite a number
of people, and it don't cost the chy but
a trifle, as the adjacent property own
ers will pay three-tifths of the expense.
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Deniues, it win ue nanuy tor pedes
trians when a passing freight train ob
structs the highway. If there is any
thing that would be better than plenty
of stairways up the bjuff it is n ele
vator.
.
Since the Chautauqua Assembly be
gun to make improvements in Glad
stone park, about $2600 has been ex
pended in that direction. Taking into
consideration the fact that about $100
was expended for an acetelyne light
plant and a similar amount for grading
the athletic field, improvements that
will be permanent, the present small
indebtedness does not cut much of a
figure in the affairs of the association.
The expense of lighting tuture assem
ble s, will now be only about $25. As a
financial investment the sports program
was a failure this year. All the hang
ers on of the sports gang were admitted
free, and many of them worked the
graft for all it as worth. The Chau
tauqua Assembly should have spoits,
and a good program daily, but they
should be conducted in proper way.
V
Oregon Oity people seem more in
clined to go to the mountains this -year
for their annual outinir than to the sea
side. It can probably be accounted for
tiy the lact that people desire a change
occasionally .
School Notes.
Albert Kniirht. of Oanbv. has been
ongaged as teacher of the Union hall
school for the tall term.
Professor T. J. Gary, principal of the
West Oreiron Oil V school, is mwndiuit a.
good portion of his vacation, visiting in
me eastern states .
Charles Hanson, who has tauuht the
Wilsonville school for the past two
years, has been engaged as teacher for
the fall term.
Prof. S. W. Holmes, of University
Park, and formerly city sunerintendent
of the Oregon Uity schools, will assume
the principalshlp of the Grant a Pass
schools this fall.
The teachers of the Parkplace school
were all re-elected as follows: J. V.
Gray, principal, and Misses Margaret
Wihiams, Estelle Bracken and Har
rietta Dotson, grade teachers.
Probate Court.
On Monday County Judge Ryan made
the following orders:
The final settlement and accounting
of the estate of A. H. Shipley, deceased,
Colinda H Shipley, administratrix, was
approved and confirmed, upon the til
ing of receipts for certain final payments
from the attorneys of said estate.
The last will and testament of Mar
garet Will, deceased, with David Will,
of Harlow, as executor, was admitted to
probate. The estate consists of per
sonal and real property to the value of
oyer $l2,0u0. The heirs and next of
kin, of the deceased are Catherine Zim
jiierman and llenrv Will, of Aurora;
Sarah McKaddon, oi Wilbur. W'jishimr-
ton ; Matilda, Lisetta, Carrie, Flora and
lavid Will, of Harlow. Kli liurkhol
der, John Fry and John P. Cole were
appointed appraisers of the estate.
Kate McFarlaiul was appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Thomas Jef-
lerson .Mcbaiiand, deceased.
Ora K. Erion was appointed guardian
of the estate of John Kriou, nu insauo
person.
Everything in our millinery store at
half pi ice to make room for new stock.
iUiss C. Goldsmith.
City Council.
The regular monthly meetine of the
city council was held Wednesday even
ing, Mayor (Jauheld in the chair, and
all the councilmen present, except Lat
ourette and Wilson.
T. S. Lawrence was granted permis
sion to use streets for building material
while constructing the elevated side
walk. A liquor license was granted to Wil
helm's beer depot.
The fire and water committee recom
mended the purchase of more hose, but
the matter was laid over until the next
meeting. -
An ordinance was read authorizing
the purchase of a fire bell from the Port
land Brass Company, not to exceed a
cost ot $300.
An ordinance was read the first time
authorizing a road fund to be formed
out of the moneys received from the
county.
F. B. Williamson was reappointed
sexton of the city cemetery.
Committee on streets and public
. .i i . t .im
properly was auuionzeu vi repair uie
roof of the city jail. 1
The following bills were ordered paid :
B C Curry, recorder's salary and
extra work $30 00
Chief of Police Burns 60 00
E t Shaw, nightwatch .60 00
Oregonian, printing. ..... . . . 3 20
L Dickleman, street sweeping. . . . 35 00
O C Iron Works, sewer covers. . . . 12 13
Insurance premium . . 142 50
Hose Co No 3, repairs ., 4 25
B F Linn, lumber .'"28 40
C N Greenraan, hauling...... 4 50
I Sellings, 1 pair pants 1 00
Wilson & Cooke, hardware. . ... ... 4 50
Courier, printing (advertising)... 6 50
Herald " " ... 5 15
FT Griffith, at'y fees... ........ 38 60
PGECo, lights 171 40
W S Sindow, street work 74 65
Press, publishing notices. . . ... ... 6 20
E G Seol, painting hose hose ' 28 00
G. H. 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
atrial.
Ribbons and fancy goods at the Racket
Store.
COUNT OFFICERS. ' ,
Judge T, F.Ryan
Clerk of Courts Elmer Dixnn
SherlT J. J. Cooke
Recorder T. P. Randall
Treasurer Jacob Snade
Assessor , Lnciene Stout
School Superintendent H. 8. Strange
Surveyor
Coroner M. C. Strickland
Commissioners v
F. Marks
Morton
Deputy Clem ,.
t. H. Cooper
enerin
" Koooriier .'. . .
J. r . JacK
..Ed. Declman
" Surveyor.... -
" Assessor .. .... Mrs. Li Stout
County Court meets on first Wednesday after fire
Monday of every month, .
Probate Court meets ou first Monday of every
month j
Oironlt Court meets on third Monday In Aprtland
first Monday in November ' i
OREGON CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor .. ,.,.y.v...W. -V..
Recorder , .,
Chief of Police .... ..'
Treasurer
City Attorney
Street Commissioner , ,
Sup't. of Water Works ......
City Engineer
.13,0.
Ca,ufleld
. .Bruce C. Curry
... C. E. Burns
.....H. E: Straiitht
..F. T.Orirtitb
W. t. 8nidow
... ..W.H.Howell
..D,W. Kinnaird
Councilmen R. Koerner, C. D. Latourette, Frank
Bunch and R. D. Wilson of First Ward; James
Roake, II. E. Harris, A. W. Mllln and Fred ttsu
ner of Second Ward. '
Council meetsflrst Wednesday of eaoh month.
CHEAPEST. STORE IN TOWN
BEFORE YOU BUY
Get Our Prices
THE BAZAAR
5th and Main Sts.
F. C. GADKE,
Plumbing and Tinning.
Jobbing of All Kinds
u Specialty.
Wilson Cooke's
Old Stand
OREGON CITY,
OREOON.
BOLTON DAIRY
CHAS. CATTA, Proprietor
Oregon City, Oregon
Pure Milk and Full
given; delivered to
part of the city
Measure
any
Try lloltou Dairy mid be Convneed'
W. II. YOUNG'S
Livar & Feed Stable
Cor. Main and 4th St.
OREGON CITY, OREGON
Job Printing at the
Courier Office.
r
For First-Class
BREAD and PASTRY
r.o t
v. F. HENNINQS
Seventh St. Bakery
or stop his wagon
as it goes by.
J
Back to Health
After Long Illness Hood's Sarsa
parilla Restored Good Health
No w as Strong as Ever.
" After an illness of two years, during
which time I underwent several surgical
operations, I at last began to improve, but
my improvement was so slow that I be
came discouraged. I was very much run
down and I did not have any appetite.
I did not care to live. One day I met a
friend who had taken Hood's Sarsaparilla
and who urged me to try it. I consented,
and after I had taken a few doses I began
to feel better and had a better appetite.
I gained from two to three pounds a week
and grew stronger every day. I took two
or three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and am as strong as I ever was in my life.
Hood's Sarsaparilla has brought me back
to health." Emily Biixjngeb, 10 Grand
Avenue, South Portland, Oregon.
HOOCI'S Sapa8raHIa
Is the best In Jact the One True Blood Purifier.
Bold by all druggglats. n; six tor $5.
Hsww1. TOII- cure Liver Ills: easy to
1IVW 9 rill tak..avtanr,t V
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. Bbowneu ' J. U. Cakpbku.
BROWNELL & CAMPBELL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Caufleld Building
Oregon City, Ore
THOS. F. RYAN
Notary Public and Real Estate Broker
Leading Insurance Agency or Clackamas
county
Money to Loan. Abstracts of Title Made
Drawing of Legal Documents a Specialty
Office on east aide of Main street
Between 6th and 7tu
OREGON CITY, - . OREGON
M. C. STRICKLAND, M. D.
( Hospital and Private Experience.)
Offers his professional services to the people of
Oregon City and vicinity. Special attention
paid to Catarrh and Chronic diseases.
Best o( references given.
Office in Willamette Building.
Office hours: 10 to 12 a. m., 4 to ti p. m.
OREGON CITY . ... OREGON
0. H. ISOM,
Civil Engineer & Deputy County Surveyoi
Will be at Court House on each Saturday
mm vu regular sessiou uays or
' County Court
C. N. GREENMAN
(Established 1865 j
THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN AND
DRAYMAN
Parcels Delivered to All Parts of the City
OREGON CITY ' . f OREGON
COMMERCIAL BANK
OF OREGON CITY
CAPITAL f 100,000
Transacts a General Banking Business
Loans intle Itlls lue Milled. Makes co
luctlous. Buys and sells exchange on all points
In the United States and Europe and ou Hong
Koug. Deposits received subject to check.
Bank open from 9 A.M. lo i P. M.
D. C. LATOURETTE, fRlCD J. MEYER,
President Cashier
BANK OF OREGON CITY
OLDEST BANKING HOUSE IN THE CITY
PAID UP CAPITAL, 150,000.00
SURPLUS f !0,8SO.OO
President,
Vice-president
CHAS. H. ClUFLIKD
Gto. A. Babdins
E. G. Cacfiild
Cashier,
a. Geneial Banking Business Transacted
Deposits Received Subjoct to Check.
Approved Bills and Notes Discounted.
County and City Warrants Bought.
Loans Made on Available 8ecuritv
Exchange Bought and 4old.
Collections Made Promptly.
Drafts Sold Available in Any Part of the
World.
Telegraphic Exchange Sold on Portland, Ban
Pranotsco, Chicago and New York.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
Justice court blanks 15 cents ner dnzttn
at Courier office.
DAVIDSON'S
GALLERY
Up-to-Date Pictures
H. STRAIGHT,
DXALXB IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
Mill Feed,. Lime, Cement
and Land Plaster.
Noblitt Livery and Sale Stable
OREGON CITY. OREGON,
Onthe Street betwuen the Bridge and the
Depot.
Double n l single rls atul siuHle horsrt 1.
ways on hand at the lowest rtts,nd scorr
also connected with the barn for loose stock
Anv Information regarding any kind of stock
promptly attended 10 by letter or person.
HORSES BOCGHT OR SOLD
PIONEER DRUG STORE
IF YOU WANT DRUGS OR MEDICINES
GO TO
GEO. K HARDING & CO.
.(.Willamette Building, Opposite Commercial Bank
Their prices are the lowest and their drugs and medicines are
strickly pure, fresh and of the best quality.
Your patronage soliceted.
HARRIS'
GROCERY
Fresh Stock of
First-Class .
Depot for HAT and FEED
HEINZ & CO.
IF WOMEN
VOTED.
fgM I JL CI I Will JL AUUA ...
AA ' Til
TO - G. H.
DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING and BUILDING
MATERIAL.
LOW21T C.H'.i PIU!5 EVER
felt Shop Opposite Congregational Church. Main Street, Oregon City, Ore.
r. A . A.
Have Your Eyes Examined
Bargains
In SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS at
toe PIONEER STORE of
CHAKMAN & SONv
A full line of
Dry Goods,
Clothing, Groceries,
Boots and Shoes,
Furnishings, Etc.
L
WE FIT YOU FEET
With shoe in conformity
or your ideas. There are
at many preferences for
shapes in shoes as there are
for other wearable articles.
Thee are few shapes or
- sizes, styles or prices that
can not be found in our
stock. Come in and give
us your idea.
KRAUSSE BROS.'
SHOE STORE
THE
LEADER
OF LOW PRICES
GROCERIES
Willamette Blook, Oregon City
UNCLE SAMS' B0TS
in the field are not living luxuriously but
the quality of the food is good enough to
enable them to whip the enemy when
they get at him.
On the Groceries we sell you can live
well and cheaply. It our stock 'was sub
ject to government inspection it would be
stamped "Extra Fine. Every article is
pure and wholesome. We buy only from
wholesalers who have a reputation for
putting up the best goods in their respec
tive lines.
We furnish all kinds of bread and cakes
fresh every day and delivered with your
order for groceries if you wish. We have
the best baker in the city.
Opposite Postoffice.
And an election was held to decide ,
which is the best flour to buy what a
rousing majority
Would have. Made in Oregon City
by the P. F. M. Co., and sold by all
groctries.
BESTOW
-FOK-
OFFERED FOR FIR8T-CLASS GOODS.
Barr
Scientific Optician, formerly
of Minneapolis, has charge of
the Optical Department for
A. N. WRIGHT, the Iowa
Jeweler, 293 Morrison St.,
Portland, Oregon.
Consultation Free
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