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About Oregon City courier=herald. (Oregon City, Or.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1898)
I ATTENTION- We sell the Bain Wagon from $55 up We sell the Oliver Chilled Plow from $6 up We sell the Oliver Steel Plow from $6 up ojjimg iuuuu xitirrowb irom $10 up Spike Tooth Harrows from $6 up ' ; . Steel Harrow Teeth at Bottom Prices "SUPERIOR" STOVES AND RANGES i- Air-Tight Heaters of all kinds at all Prices BOX STOVES, ALL SIZES ' gtF'The above Stoves we sell below Portland prices FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS .We will sell Granite ware ut cost. T ii and Copperware at a Bargain. Don't fail to see our Union Barn Door Hangers with the Lawrence rail. 36 Clothes Pins for 5c Ammunition a Specialty We have the Best Stock of Cutlery in the Northwest. WELsSOESr & H. STRAIGHT, DeaUr In. Groceries and Provisions. 4 Also Full line ot Mill Feed, Lime, Cement asl Land Plaster, IF YOU insist on having the cheap, glossy, fading Pictures we could make them, but we would be asham ed to stamp them with our name. i We pride ourselves in making THE BEST at a reasonable price. That is What You Want o Near Court house HtHIHHUItllllllllHH We keep all the extras for Oliver Plows and we sell them at just the same as they are sold everywhere. No. 5 Commercial Bank Block, THE LEADING PHOTOG 1 COOKE Oregon City F. C. GADKE, Plumbing and Tinning. Hot air furnaces and. Hop pipe. Jobbing of All Kinds a Specialty. Wilson A Cooke'a vj OREGON CITY OldKi.nd ORKUON. urn m nun Oregon City GUARDING THE MINT. HOW THE PHILADELPHIA INSTITU TION IS PROTECTED. Little Chance For Any One to Get Rich Quickly by Helping Hinuelf to CncU Bam'i Treasure Patrol, Reralreri and Winebeiiten In Plenty. Probably not one person ont or a hun dred who pass by the Philadelphia mint, that grim looking edifloe at Chestnut and Juniper streets, after nightfall real izes what is going on inside. s There is nothing mean about Uncle Sam, but he is determined that any one who gets his money shall get it honestly and by process duly laid down. Therefore he has taken all linds of precautions to properly protect, especially at night, the millions upon millions piled up in the vaults. , The doors of the mint are closed ev ery weekday promptly at 4 o'clook in the afternoon. After that hour no one bat mint employees have any business within the walls which inclose so much money, and no one can either stay in or get in without a speoial permit from the superintendent. Needless to eay, this is difficult to obtain. Simultaneously with the dosing of S the doors at 4 o'clock the first shift of. the night guard goes on duty. The shift is composed of the captain of the guard and 1 1 stalwart men. As the men file out to begin their round each one is handed a big Colt's revolver of the most approved pattern and loaded with big cartridges. From then on till midnight seven of the 11 guards patrol without cessation 1 every floor of tne inside of the mint, from the corridors of the gloomy vaults where, away down in the earth, are stowed eighty odd million dollars in silver and almost as much gold, to the top floor, where there is nothing more valuable than maohinery. Placed at fre quent intervals throughout the corridors are electrical devices for enabling the captain of the guard to keep tabs on his men. Each of these little machines com municates with the rotunda opposite the Chestnut street entrance to the mint. Here it is that the captain 1b sta tioned all through the long hours of his shift. Every two minutes and a half the central maohine in the rotunda denotes the presence of some one of the guard at some particular station in the building. If it doesn't, then the cap tain knows that something is wrong, and he immediately proceeds to discov er what it is. But it has been a long time since the little machine failed to send forth its announcement at the proper time, for the mint guards are. patrolling up and down outside the big building, careful ly watching that no suspicions charac ters approach too near the vast treasure left in their care. Promptly at' midnight the second shift of the night guard puts in an ap pearance to relieve the early shift. It is also composed of a captain and 11 men, and they are split up, as the other squad, into inside and outside details. From midnight on until 7 o'clock in the morning they follow in the foot steps of the first shift, with every fao ulty alert to catch an intruder. The big revolvers are not the only weapons upon which the guards have to rely. On each side of the main cor ridor leading from the Chestnut street entrance stands a walnut caso. Through the polished ghiss front of one frown 20 Winchester rifles. The otter con tains as many ugly looking carbines. To grab these dispensers of death would be but the work of an iustur.t for the guards, aud then woe be unto any man or men upon whom it might bo found neoessary to turn them. For the revolvers there is kept con stantly on hand in the mint 600 rounds of ammunition, and for the riflos and curbines 2,500 rounds. Each of the guards is an export in the use of both the pistol and the gun, and each is en dowed with a plontiful stock of oour ago; henco, a combination capaLle of successfully resisting almost anything less than a regiment. The superintendent and assistant cus todian both talked to the reporter about the methods in use to protect the mint and its contents. Both smiled signifi cantly when the possibility of one get ting uway with a portion of the vast treasure was suggested. "It would be folly for any cue to try it," was the superintendent's only com mcut. To it the assistant uustodian nod ded emphatic assent. "Ihavebeou here for a good many years," the latter said, "and no such attempt has ever been nir.do. It is prac tioally impossible for any one to break into the mint from the outside.'aud no one could secrete himself in the build ing during the hours when it is open to visitors and, hope to avoid discovery. We search every nook and corner of the itrncture carefully as soon as the doors 'ire closed for the day, and you may rest assured if any o:io who had no business within tlicso walls was found he would regret the day ho was born." Iu addition to the two shifts of night guards, the superintendent and assistant custodian have a habit of dropping in at the mint at odd hours of the night to see that everything is going on all right. The mint is connected with the cen tral telephone station, aud should there bo troublo the captain of the guard could comniuuicato with police head quurtors iu a brief space of time. "If you come across anybody' who thinks he can get rich quickly by help ing himself to enr coin," renmrked the superintendent in parting, "just advise him to think it Over carefully first." Iu compliance with the superintend ent's suggestion the advice is hereby given. And it in pretty good advice to follow too. Philadelphia Inquirer. Tho population of Antwerp includes 0,000 Germans, who, it is said, buy their goods of German merchants only. Molalla. Notwithstanding the low price of wheat there has been a larger acreage of of fall wheat seeded this "year in this vicinity than usual. " There is still some improvement going on in our Ivillage. W. H. Davidson is building an addition to his dwelling. Uncle Jake Harless is having his house, recently purchased from John Alex ander, painted. Our school is progressing finely with P. L. Coleman as principal and Miss Zelma Shaver as assistant. There is an attendance of over 60 scholars. O. D. Eby has commenced a term of school at Marquam. . . . Quite a number from here have been attending the mechanic's exposition at Portland. They speak of it as being better than usuaL' - C. 1. Gipson, Mr. Ernest and others started for the mountains yesterday on a hunt. The Molalla people may pos sibly feast on fresh venison when they return. John and Robert Bagby have been hunting in the mountains for some time past and are yet there. They sent out several fine deer to their home folks recently, which was quite a treat to the old folks. Frank and Cad Bagby pre kept busy at their sawmill and have really more orders than they can fill. The diptheria seems to have subsided in the neighborhood of Meadowbrook, and no one took it from the Fry family after the death of their daughter. The dread disease first appeared in that family while at a hop yard in Polk county. Mrs. Fry and four or. five children were there, one of the children took something that Mrs. Fry thought was the mumps shortly after they ar rived there. She returned home with the child, left it with her husband and returned in a few days, two of the boys were taken and they came home. Their oldest child, a girl some 14 years old, was taken with the same diease. They called the doctor, who pronounced it diphtheria. She was very bad from the commencement and lingered a few days and died, Aurora Dickey, who has been quite sick, is now getting better. Mr. Vernon and wife, of Polk county, are visiting their daughter and son-in-law, P. M. Boyles. Also Martin R. Boyles, of Oregon City, was visiting home folks recently. ' Uncle Jake Harless has gone t the mountains to work in his mines. Hi has been so detained here this summer that he did not get to devote as much time at his mines as he had intended, although ha had two experienced miners working on his ledge for soma time this summer. The coyotes have made their appear ance again in this vicinity.' Quite a number of goats and sheep have been killed by them recently and perhaps when winter comes their depredations will be more extensive. Since the law was enacted forbidding using hounds for the purpose of killing deer, people in this neighborhood have ceased keeping hounds and bu; few cayotes have been killed. That perhaps acwunts for their increase around here; iiilss some pro tection is cxlerded U wj'l ba a difficult matr to raise sheep or gouts in a short time. . ' Miss lna flibhle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ThomiiH Dibble, ho has been very low with typhoid fever, is now slowly improving. Rev. Long and wife have moved to llie vinfi ny of Glad Tnl'miN and will oc-i cupy a luce owned ly ex. Sheriff Sam son. It ip 'epcrted that Jelm Vtiughan and John I)i. key, who hae b.en engaged the p is!, M'tntri"'- in nm-eying ill Idaho, will remain there during the winter. There is not much bird hunting being done in this vicinity this season. The birds, especially the Mongolian pheasant seem scarcer this season than usual. They are also very wild, that though is perhaps because they have been hunted so close. Some advance the idea that numbers ot the birds are killed by eat ing poisoned wheat put out by the farmers to kill squirrels. I think though the truth of the matter is, there are too many shotguns at Molalla. Oct 18th. X Y Z Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen A Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Kinjj's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills Hre easy inaction and are particu lary effective inthe cure of Constipation mid Sick Headache. For MahuU and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance nVl to be purely vegetable They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 2 k per box. Sold by Charman & Co., Druggists . v Beats the Klondike. Mr. A. O. Thomas, of M.irysvillH, Tex., lias found a more valuable discovery (ban has yet been made iu the Klondike. For years be suffered untold agony from consumption, accompanied by hemorrh Hges; and nits absolutely cured by Dr. King's New discoveiv fur Consumption, Conuh and Colds. He declares that gold is of little value in comparison with this marvelous rare; would have it if itrest a hundred flollars a bottle. Ast'ima, bron chitis, viid all all throat and luniatfec linrs are positively cured by Dr King'a New Lit wery for Consumption. Trial bottles ir -e at Charman A Co. Drug Store Regular iize SOcta. and ft. - uua:anteed t cure ot price refunued. Death of Hon. John Kruse. Khusb. At his home near Wilsonville, Oregon, October 19, 1898, John Kruse, aged 71 years 2 months and 7 days. Mr. Kruse, an Oregon pioneer of 1850 waB born in Denmark, August 11, 1827. His forefathers we're shipbuilders and were men of ability and influence. Grandfather Kruse lost his property by Napoleon Bonaparte's war. At the age of 15 years Mr. Kruse began the life of a sailor before the mast, sailed for the ports of Denmark until he was 17 and came to the United States in the winter of 1845-46. He made two voyages from New York to Savannah. Then he be came a mate on a schooner and sailed to South Carolina, where he was for a time employed at railroading. After this he went to New Orleans and' was engaged in Bteamboating on the Mississippi river and also worked along shore. From the Mississippi he came West, landing at San Francisco on the 3rd of January, 1850, and in Portland on the 1st of April, same year, in company with Captain John Wolf. At Portland he was first employed as engineer in Stephen Coffin's sawmill. Afterward he aided in building and putting in place the ma chinery of the steamer Hoosier, and was for a time her engineer. Later be and Leonard White purchased this boat and ran her on Willamette river between Oregon City and Dayton . , She was the first steamboat on the river and carried ten tons of freight. In 1852 Mr. Kruse took his donation claim in Clackamas county on the west bank of the Willamette, eight miles above Oregon City, purchasing the right from a Mr. Moffet, who had located it. On the 30th of August, 1852 he married Miss Jantha Geer, a native of Ohio, born Dec. 6, 18116, daughter of JoBeph C, Geer. The day after their marriage Mr. Kruse brought his young wife to their new home. He worked and improved his farm in summer and steamboated in winter and his earnest and well-directed efforts rapidly brought him prosperity, Mr. and Mrs Kruse. have had eight children to bless their union, three of whom survive him. Mr. Kruse was a democrat until the firing on Fort Sump ter, When he joined the republican party and has since been a supporter of that party. In 1878 he was one of the organ izers of the grange, and several times served as master of the order. He was twice elected and has Berved two terms as county commissioner of his county, and while an incumbent of that office he evinced the same integrity and ability that has alwayB characterized his own affairs. In 1837 he was elected as repre sentative to the state legislature. Besides a host of friends, he leaves t widow and three children,' Albert O , J. Loren, and Homer A, Krdse. Card of Thanks. We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our friends, who so kindly as sisted us during the sickness and death of our loved one, and for the many com forting words that were spoken. Also to those who so kindly donated flowers, we express t our gratitude and many thanks, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Darling Miss Ella Darling, Allen E. Fbost. i Mountain View. John Gillett is helping Smith & Burk hart survey this week for a motor line through this vicinity. Joe Ringo, of Molalla, was the guest of Mrs. Ringo and family last Friday evening. The infant Bon of Mrs. S. V. Francis was buried last Friday afternoon Oct. 14. Mrs. Francis is getting along nicely. Miss Ida Francis, who is teaching at Stafford, spent Saturday and Sunday, with her sister Mrs. Laura Miller, of this place. October 15. Salina. Trimmed hats, the latest Paris and New York styles, at the lowest prices. Miss Goldsmith's. Go to A. C. Walls, Oregon City, for Pile and Catarrh Remedies. Cure guaranteed or money re funded. . A Sure Timor for Von. A transaction in which you cannot lose is a sure thing. Biliousness, sick head ache, furred tongue, fever, piles anda thousand other ills are caused by coc stlpation and Blnggish liver. Caacarets Candy Cathartic, the wonderful new liver stimulant and intestinal tonic are by all druggists guaranteed to cure or money refunded. C. C. O. are a sure thing. Try a box to-day; 10c, 25c, 60 Sample and booklet free. All 1! entity ! liluuil. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Caacarets Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean, by slirrinu up the 'iizv liver and dtivingull imiitiri'.ies from the boily. Begin to-day to bnii'sh pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly biiioiis complexion hy taking Cai-carets, beauty for ten cents. Alt druggists, atihfaction guaranteed, 10c, 2dc, out OREGOKIAN F.iSE iX' 1 CiU rieb lilt Unit) at pi you will he sent llie Week ly Oresonian free tor 1 year. This oiler in liruil el. TUriue-a-Week X. V. World at same price. NOTICE IU TAXPAYERS, Notice is hereby givn to the tax payers, of Clackamas county, that the County Equalization Board for said county, will convene on the 24th of Oc tober, 1898, and continue in session for one week. All property owners are re quested to apuear befo. e the beard and examine the assessment roll, so tliat any errors in assessment may be cor-n-cted. L. Stout. County Assestor.