II JlllllPHIWI I TT Tl I l" H I i n 4 -S7W. "Hy Library Coerier1T grow CIRCULATION GUARANTEED LARGER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THE COUNTY COURIER ESTABLISHED MAY, 1883 HERALD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1893 CONSOLIDATED SEPTEMBER, 1898 OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1899. 16th YEAR, NO. 3 9 Ore City erald. COMMERCIAL BANK ', , . or OREGON CITY . '. CAPITAL $100,000 Transacts a General Banking Business , Loans made. Bills discounted. Makes col lections. Buys and sells exchange on all points In the United States and Europe and on Hong Kong. Deposits received ml jecl to check. Bank open from 9 A M. to 4 P. M. D. C. LAIOURKTIE, - FEED J. MEYER, President. , -, . Cashier. C. D. & D. C. LATOURETTE ATTORNEYS AT LAW Commercial, Seal Estate and Probate Law Speolaltlei - Office In Commercial Bank Building OREGON CITY . - OREGON Gio. 0. Bbownsu J. TJ. Campbiu BROWN ELL & CAMPBELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW Caufleld Building ' Oregon City, Ore W. S. U'REN , . : i ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jaggar Building, opposite Huntley's, -OREGON CITY - - OREGON C. SCHUEBEL ATTORNEY AT LAW $eutf$et Stb&olat. ' OREGON CITY OREGON THOS. F. RYAN Notary Public and Real Estate Broker LlADINO iNSUBANCl AOKNCT OF OlACKaMAI County Money to Loan. Abstracts of Title Made Drawing ol Legal Dooumeuts a' Specialty Office on east side of Main street Between 8th and 7th ' OREGON CITY, OREGON H. 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 of references given. Office in Willamette Building. . 1 ' Office hours; ICHo la a. m., 4 to 6 p. m. OHEGON CITY . - - OREGON 0. B. Skimann, M. D. J. W. Powsii, M. D POWELL & SEAMANN, PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS. All calls attended promptly. Office hours: 8 to 11 a m.jltoSp.m. Nob. 9 and 10 Ohabman Block. DR. GEO. IIOEYE, .DENTIST. Office In Caufleld Building, Main Street.. Oregon City." Bbiogb and Crown Wore a Spkctalty. All work warranted and satisfaction ! guaranteed. - ,! DR. J. H. MILLER, . ! . . DENTIST, ' Seventh Street, near S. P. Depot, pEBQON City, , Oregon I : DR. FRANCIS FREEMAN 'DENTIST. Graduate of the Northwestern Univer sity Dental School, also of American Col lege of Dental Surgery, of Chicago. WITH JB. WELCH. Willamette Block - Opposite Potloffice Oregon Citt, Oregon. C. N. GREENMAN (Established 1865 j THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN AND DRAYMAN Parcels Delivered to All Parts of the City OREGON CITY . . T . . OREGON BANK OF OREGON CITY ILDE8T BANKING HOUSE IS THE CITY PAID VP CAPITAL, 150,000.00 SURPLUS ftO.SSO.00 I president, Chas. H. CaBAIid floo-presldent " Gio. A. HabdirS lashler, E. G. Cac?iiu A General Banking Business Transacts 4 Deposits Received Subject to Check. Approved Bills and Notes Discounted. County and City Warrants Bought. Loans Made on Available Securitv Exchange Bought and .sold. Collections Made Promptly. Drafts Bold Available la Any Part ol the World. Telegraphic Exchange Sold on Portland, Sal francisco, Chicago an 4 New York. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Noblitt Livery and Sale Stable OREGON CITY, OREGON, Oitht StmtbetwMitha BMifi mtltkt Ospst. Double and ilnde rnrs and sa44te hon a ways on hand at (he lowest ra,nd a oorra auo eonneetea wim ins barn tor ion iwm AoylnfonaaUoa nfardlnf any kind of stook sjtoaplly auended to by letter a tenon. BOUSES BOUGHT OR 89GB. rf?s ;o1 Baking Powder Made from pure ; cream of tartar. . Safeguards the food against alum A.um bating powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. BOYl BAKINO POWDtlt OO., HEW YORK. The Growth of "Bcform" Ideas. What the future of the Populist party, as a party, is to be is uncertain, but there is no uncertainty in the fact that the Populist leaven is working. If any one doubts this, just let him or her com pare the files of even the most servile of the monopolistic prees a few years Hack with the same papers to-day The Ore gonian a few years ago hooted dtvn the initiative and referendum as a "foreign fad ;" yet a Republican legislature passes an amendment embodying these reforms. While according to the Salem Independent the credit for this is largely due to the persistent efforts of two Pop ulist nonmembera, W. S. U'Ren and Frank Williams, yet if it proves popular with the voters, the Republicans will attempt to take all the gloiy for the in troduction of this "foreign fad-" Again, only a few weeks ago the Ore gonian was editorially advocating an other "foreign fad," the Torrens land system, one of the favorite hobbies of Popu.iets and "cranks" in general. And as to the legislative clerk hire abuse and the purloining by members of articles which should oe -permanent fixtures of the state house, our great daily bubbles over in a torrent of right eous indignation almost worthy of L.H. McMahan in his palmiest days. Recently, in speaking of ihe demand by capitalists for Btate, county nd other bonds, in the latter pait of an editorial bearing the "calamity-howling" title of "Mortgaging the Country," ihis same paper srid: "They who complain most of the i grasping bondholder are, for the most purt, the very tmn who create his opportunities and put the power over the whole property of the state, rily, county or district into his hands. It is the general voter who does this business. Will he not see that he is bringing his .own noee to the grindstone, putting a mortgage on the energies of his poster ity, and forcing, indeed, the growth of a system of virtual serfdom?" Such ut terances as these sound more like Tom Watson or Cyclone Davis than the organ of the party that has been telling us that mortgages are an evidence of prosperity and that a national debt is a national blessing. Yet such radical departures from the old line of argument certainly seem to indicate that public sentiment, perhaps unconsciously, is forcing even the most conservative of our so-called "sentiment-creating" new-papers tow ard a higher, morfl radical ground. Notice how rapidly public opinion haB veeied around to the Populist or "so-1 cialistic" plan of government ownership of the Nicaragua canal. Notice the rapid growth of what is now known as"mu-: nicipal socialism," not only in Ibis coun try, but the world over. Even puritan Boston has many socialistic features in its government and Mayor Uuincy is classed as a socialist by some writers. thus the loices in control have been obliged to pay the despised "reformers" the compliment i:f stealing their thun der. The German government exiled Karl Marx, the great socialist teacher, and then pioceeded to enact more socialistic legislation than perhaps any other Eu ropean country. Will the American plutocracy follow Germany's example? as ropuiists, we can well anord to be beaten at the polls if our opponents will "right about face'' and carry out Popu list legislation. But is their education complete or their repentance sincere? I, lor one, doubt it very much, lhey may possibly give us some little "remedial legislation" to conciliate the honest rank and file of their own party, but the handicap of the bosses' whip will prove too Btrong for the spasmodic virtue of g. o. p. to overcome. So let the reform forces keep up their courage, for there is many a battle yet to be fought, and after the forces in charge of our govern mental affairs toy with public opinion and then refuse to do more than toy and talk, the people will realize their own power and the necessity of using that power through a union of forces in which the voters will be the real, rather than the nominal sovereigns. The war cloud and the smell of embalmed beef at present obscure other issues, but this will pass away and the new, living is sues of the future will demand that old animosities among those who are wor thy to be railed reformers be buried. Is this not better than to let our political enemies retain permanent control by pretending to uphold enough of our measures to attract some of our bolters? Of course nothing of importance in the way of partisan politics can be done at present, but the work of education among individuals can go on, particu larly on the lines of the two constitu tional amendments which it is to be hoped we are to vote on some time in the future, ie., direct legislation and equal suffrage. It would never do to let these measures be defeated at the polls if it is possible to carry them. This may De the game ol the e. o. p . . to take ad vantage of the apparent apathy in the reform forces and deal these questions s death blow by getting them defeated by a popular vote at a time when their real champions would be too much occupied with internal strife to make a rigorous ' campaign for their principles. And, on the other hand, if these reforms should carry, the g. o. p. would be in a position to say "We killed the bear." So let lis give a little more time to ! propaganda work, alittle less to person alities, and in the perhaps not far dis tant future our uuited efforts to up building of an organization whose motto i Bhall be, in the closing language of "President John Smith" (a reform novel by. Frederick U. Adams), "The I rights of the majority of a people shall no longer be abridged. Molalla, Ore. Geo. Ogle. A GOOD LETTER , From a Prominent Citizen, Clialrman of Populist Central Committee, and The following letter from H. Thiessen, the chairman of the populist county central committee, was received toe late for publication last week : . ' Milwaukie, Ob., Feb. 7, 1899. Editor Coubieb-Hebald : In answer to a request, asking an expression of opinion on the political situation, will say, that, while 1 can not make any of ficial statement until the meeting of the county central committee, personally I think our course is very clear. We must support, with all our might, the fundamental principles for which we have fought in the past.. We can not abandon the Omaha platform. In m opinion the money question stands first in importance. It is the national issue now before the people that will continue before them until settled right.. It is a question upon which the people are in a measure edu cated; to depart from 'it would retard reform and throw the people's party back years. It would destroy the hard s-ork done by our pioneer reformers, and put us where we will have to make the start anew. A campaign of education upon the money question was made in 1896, and the lessons taught in that campaign, while they seemed at that time poured into heedless ears, are now bearing their fruit. The hard times caused by the gold standard, the utter failure of the present administiation to fulfill the republican promise of prosperity, the war scandals caused by putting reckless and irre sponsible men, men who with equal recklessness - advocate, regardless of consequences, the gold standard, into positions of trust; the abuse of their power by the republican (gold) standard bearers, when in such positions all con spiie to make the money question the all important question, and indicate that it will be settled right when brought before the people for reconsid eration. I believe' ttfie money question, is the first of all questions because It iu undoubtedly the national issue for the next campaign. The mot.ey power will do all in its power to relegate this ques tion to the rear, and to fight the next campaign on another' issue. But the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 the aboli tion of all private banks of issue, and the restoration to the people of that prerogative, is and will be the leading issue. Next in importance comes diiect legislation. I class this second, because it is as yet a local isbue, not having achieved the proportions or importancej to enutieu it 10 ursi uousiuerauon. Direct legislation through the ini tiative and referendum, the imperative mandate, and government ownership of railways and other public monopolies are all important planks in the plat form, and while I put the money ques tion first, I do uot, by any means be little the importance of these reform, or the necessity of obtaining them. 1 think, locally, we can do good work for all these measures ; the agitation now going on in Chicago concerning the municipal ownership of street railways, the tendency toward public ownership of monopolies as evidenced by the elec tion of mayors pledged to such reform by Detroit, Toledo and , San Francisco as well as Chicago, shows seed well sown and not in barren places. I'ublic ownership has lor tne tune being become the local issue of Chicago, where people showed they were thoroughly aroused, voters wearing in lieu of a campaign button a tiny noose, significant of intention regarding the particular alderman who would vote the people s franchise into the hands of a corporation. While all this u very en couraging and points to the onward march of the principles of the people s party, and proves the value of work done by it in the past, it does not rele gate to the rear that principle on which we waged the last campaign and on which we viill fight the next, the money question. It Is to be hoped that all voters in favor of a reformed currency will unite solidly and give the people the much needed relief an American currency ample lor the needs of the American people. Very respectfully, ' H. Thiessen. Notice of Annual School fleeting;. Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of School District No. 62 of Clack amas county, state of Oregon, that the annual school meeting for the district will be held at Willamette Hall, to begin at the hour of 7:30 o'clock p. m., on the first Monday, being the (5th day, of March, A. D. 1899. This meeting is called for the purpose of the transaction of any business which may properly come before it and the transaction of business usual at such meetings. ' Dated the 23d day of February, 1899. W. E. Oakll, Chairman Board of Directors. Attest: fe. M. McCown, District Oterk. FARH FOR SALE. Situated four miles from Oregon City on the Highland plank road, containing 30 acres, 25 acres under cultivation, rest in pasture, new five room house, barn and necessary out building. Terms small portion cash, the rest on easy tArms. Knr luUier information lnauin at this office. COMMENTARIES. Matters Concerning Local Every day Affairs Noticed by the' Courier-Herald Reporter. That gambling device known ah the slot machine must go. The late Oregon legislature has so decreed it, and the flat uas gone torth. And woe be to he who regards not the law. The people in Or egon Oity who gathered the slot ma chines from their hiding places a couple of months ago, and polished their rusty hinges will have to lay them away again. However, it is claimed that the dup icate of the bill war signed, instead of the original. , . The problem : of keening the mud cleaned off Main street has been solved, untess tne noboes conclude to give Ore gon City the go-bv. Still, as this is an important re-lay station for the trail ing tourisis, it is hardly likely that they (..III f-... t V. ,. e .1 " '"'Dgu lilio BbbiauUUllB ut una way- side station. . " The new law regulating the the office of district attorney, provides that in the fifth district he will receive a salary of $4000, but has to pay his deputies out his own income. The law requires that deputy shall receive $700 in Clat sop county, $300 in Columbia, $600 in Clackamas and a similar sum in Wash ington county. The graft of the district attorney has cut down. . According to the provisions of a law recently passed the boarding of county prisoners, is to be hereafter let to the lowest bidder. Sheriff Cooke, however, states that he has lost money at present prices. After a desperate effort the American Book Company was defeated in Salem by the passage of the Daly bill. - This company had succeeded in electing the majority of the county school superin tendents in Oregon, and had matters in readiness to continue inflicting high priced school book 8 on a long-suffering public. Two bovs were arrested in ' Caneraah tms week charged with stealing a measly old hen and three eggs . It was alleged that they had stolen 10 eggs on a former occasion. . The case was thrown out of Justice Schuebel's court on a technicality. 1 - . . .. ' "'-' It cost Clackamas county about $40 to have 10 hoboes arrested outside of the city limits and brought to tonn. They were only on a pilgrimage, and were sent on their way rejoicing. -t uver fiu.iiuu was one of the items in the appropriation bill for a heating ap paraius mr me smte agricultural col lege at Corvallis. This is only one of the items of legislative expenditure for that;institution. This college receives something line if.4U.uuU annually from the government, and besides Ims a fine farm well stocked, and quantities of fruit that should make it self-support, ing. - ' , .. , . The rag and the Enterprise have lain down together evidently from a lauda tory article appearing in the former, which unqualifiedly endorses the sena tor. Does this indicate consolidation? It is evident that there are many honest members of the legislature, who vote for grafts unintentionally. The fact is, they do not understand parlia mentary usages, and some times vote to table a meritorious measure tiiat they want to see passed. They do not comprehend the intricacies of log-roll ing legislation, and oftentimes wake up and wonder how it happened. At one time certain residents of a Southern Or egon county wanted a charter for a railroad. Ihe bill was in a lair way of getting through, when some member moved to indefinitely postpone. The members from the county wanting the charter, all voted for the postponement. The friends of the bill hurried to the capital, had the bill reconsidered and had it in good condition for final pas sage, but just as it was about to reach the third reading some one made a mo tion to lay it on the table. Again the same members voted to kill their own bill unintentionally. tt The next kickers on legislative en actments will be among bicycle own ers, unless the governor should veto bicycle tax bill No expressed serious objection to collect a tax for building bicycle paths is heard now, but the kicks will come the owners have to dig up the $123 per ' capita bicycle tax. tt The JOregon Volunteer Regiment is now on in the thickest of the fight at Manila, and they will cover themselves with laurels. One death was reported Wednesday that of Edwin W, Hamp ton, of Company II, Portland. Many anxious friends' are awaiting the return of the Volunteers from Manila, on ac count of the unhealthy conditions that exist there . Disease is more fatal there than war is likely to be. Notice. Sealed bids will be received at the of fice of the county clerk for all county and legal printing for the period of one year, ouiu uiua nui mo uptHieu uy ma county court on the first day of the lj .. ; i i . i . i .. : 1 1 v i l. . March term, 1899, at 11 o'clock a. m The court reserves the right to reject any or au urns, . By order of the County Court. February 18th. 1899. jlmkb DixoH, Clerk. Lost My shepard dog, Bruce. Any one harboring him after this notice will be prosecuted according to law. L. A. Patterson, The Bazaar. Try Couiibb-Uebalp six months for 75 cents. ; Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of James King, deceased, William King was ap pointed administrator. The estate is valued $150. Mrs Elizabeth Chase was appointed guardian of the estate and persons of her parents. Silas and Abigail Shav. aeed and infirm people, upon filing a bond of iuv. a. citation naa oeen issued as previously ordered, but no objections were filed. The will of the late 0. P. Thore was filed for probate Monday. The will was executed on the 3rd day of November, 1898, and was witnessed by Mrs. S. A. Chase and John D. Baker. The will ap points Franklin T. Griffith executor. and provides that funeral and other necessary expenses shall be paid, and the remainder is bequeathed to his mother, Johanna P. Thore, of Wlken, Sweden. The will of the late Samuel Heinle. who died on January 4th, was filed for probate Monday. The estate, consist ing of 673 acres of land at Eagle creek, including stock, personal property, etc., and real eBtate in Portland, is all be queathed to the widow, Mary Heiple, who is also named as executrix. Thn other heirs are Noah S., S. E., Edgar R., Henry C, Grover C. and Clara F. Andrew Drugler, administrator of the estate of Christian Morlok, deceased, petitioned for three appraisers, and the following were appointed : J. C. Ben son and O. A. Benson and J. C .Bates. Bartholomew Sullivan was appointed administrator of the estate of Michael Lavelle, deceased. The real and per sonal property is vaiuea at fi.uuu, Who Js To Blame. Kidney trouble has become so preva lent that it is not uncommon for a child to be born afllicted with weak kidneys. If the child urinates too often, it the urine scalds the fleshy or if, when the child reaches an age when, it should be able to control the passage, and it is yet aillicted with bed wetting, depend upon tt, the came, of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be to wards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble Is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder, and hot to a habit, as most people suppose. ' ' It the adult has rheumatism ; pain or dull ache in the back ; if the water pass es in irregular quantities; oral irregular intervals or has a bad odor ; if it stains the linen or vessel the color of rust; if the-feet swell ; if there nre pufl'y or dark circles under the eyes ; your kidneys are the cause and need doctoring, i Treat ment of some diseases may be delayed without danger, not so ; with kidney disease. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,' the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, promptly cures the most-distressing cases. Its mild and extraordinary ef fect is soon realized. Sold by druggists in fifty-cent and dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet tell ing all about it sent free by mail. Ad dress Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N. Y. When writing mention that you read this geneious oiler iu the Oregon City Courier-Herald. , , During my absence I have placed in charge of my dental office Dr. W. T. Lyon whom I can recommend to my friends and the public in general as a skillful and reliable dentist.- .. L. L. Pickens. The Most Popular Wheel In America, It is to our advantage1 to handle a wheel that gives the least trouble to the rider and to ourselves. Because we always back up our guarantee. The prices are honest, like the wheel, and you have the satisfaction of knowing that you paid no more for your wheel than your neighbor paid Chain Chalnless Huntley's ALSO AGENTS FOR Cleveland's, $50. Featherstone's, $25 and $30. Carpets and Matting... YOU CAN'T BUY them elsewhere of as good quality or at as low prices aa jou can of us. , Warranted All-Wool Carpet.... Cf . per yard t.- -....wvl Good Chinese Matting... ' - 1'0r per yrd , . l The holiday rush left a number'! of. Carpet and Matting Remnants which . we will sell at a sacrifice. , , - V( Bellomii & Buscli, THE HOUSEFURNISHERS. WASHIAGTON'S BIBTIIDA1 West Oregon City. School Exer cises and Other Matters. Very appropriate, and entertaining patriotic school exercises were held at the West Oregon City school Tuesday evening in honor of Washington's birth day. The board of directors also pre sented the school with a bran new , 15-foot American flag. First on the program was original bi ography of Washington's Boyhood, by Lee Oaufield. Washington's Birthday, was the title of a recitation by Bennie Smith . . ; There was a song and recitations by pupils in Miss McDonald's primary de partment. " George Washington, was a recitation ! by Ailhur Schindle. ' The fan drill to music, was carried out by pupils of Mrs. Norma Fox's in,-, termediate department. The "Brave Boston Boys" was a dia logue participated in by Morton Tomp kins, David McMillan, Earl Smith, Ben nie Smith, Lee Oaufield and Ora Mc Allister. It was historic and patriotic: in character. Walter Gibbs recited Love of Ooua try. - : - - ' Julia Baker recited "Not Georga " Washington. - Some years in Washington's Life, was represented by a number of bovs, "The Old Flag Again," was 'the title of a recitation by Walter Taylor, Miss Maggie Goodtellow sang "Just Break the News to Mother " ' A tambourine drill by little girls in Miss McDonald's primary department. "The Flag Goes By," was a recita tion by Donald-Shaw. Dewey's Brigade, made up of bovs from the intermediate department, went through a series ol military evolutions. "Drifted,; was the title of a recita-' tion-by Miss Bessie Grant, an aluuiui of 1898. , : .. . . I. I. Taylor, of the board of directors, in a neat speech, presented the new . Hug to the school, which was responded to by Frank Shipley., An interesting part of the exercises was the saluting' of the flag by the pupils of the school. Attorney George W. Swope delivered . an eloquent address on "Lessons from iie Lile of Washington." ' Columbia and the thirteen colonies ' were impersonated by young ladies from Principal T. J. Gary's room, t'olum-. bia was i in persona ted by Miss Maggie . Goodfollow. ,". , The drills and exercises ' were all ex- . ceptionally good, and the decoration's were in keeping with the patriotic oc casion. - ' ! The Tarkplace school had interesting program of patriotic literary exercises Wednesday afternoon, which were well attended. Prizes were awarded to the best speakers. ' 1 Ihe county officials had - a holiday Wednesday, as well as the schools. The banks closed in the afternoon The firemen's ball at Weinhard's Wednesday evening, was quite a cessful affair. hall suc- ' United Modern Vigilantes have one payment per month, no more no less. No per capita tax, When you see the , rate opposite your ago on folder you know that's what you pay and you are not guessing what your next payment will t)e. Join the Oeegon Oity Branch. 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