OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901
Oregon City Courier-Herald
By A. W. CHENEY
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PATRONIZE HOME IMJP9TRY.
OREGON CITY, AUG. 23, 1901.
Tub Manchester GuardUn is authority
or the statement that John D. Rocke
feller wilt make hia future home in
England.
Only b'ix per cent, of the British
wounded die in the South African war.
But of the un wounded child prisoners
in "concentration camps" 25 per cent
die per year.
heating takes place just as with a pre-(
maturely stacked hayrick, and spontan
eous combustion may at any time break
out" in flame, as it has often been known
to do in the farmyard, and of late years
the greatest care and vigilance have been
necessary to guard against it.
It is well to remember that the worst
panics and most destructive financial
crah.'s arson ahead, because of the or
ganization of the immense trusts and
combines, and the large numbers of em
ployes that will be thrown out of employ
ment when the trusts fail. There never
has been a time when it was so danger
ous to purchase stocks, and there never
has been a time when it was so safe to
sell stocks as at present, for stocks prob
ably have twice the average value now
that they will have a few months hence.
That is an advance warning, but it will
be well to heed and remember it. low a
State Register.
Once there was an old man, broken
by yars and wrinkled by worries, who
laid him down to die. Summoning his
seven grown children to his side he de
livered feebly to them with his parting
breath this last message: 'My child
ren, I have lived long, toiled hard and
worried much. But as I look back upon
my life I find that my greatest (roubles
have been those that never happened."
In other words, the good man had spent
much of his time in crossing bridges
that he was never to reach in borrow
ing trouble that he was never to expert
ionce. , Moral: .Keep cool in hot
weather. ' ' '
Cihcaqo men are promoting a hun
dred million dollar pi'uit combine, for
the ostensible purpose of controlling the
paint business of the country. Stan
dard oil interests are behind the scheme.
The Southern Pacific railroad is as
sessed at $38,03.),0)0, in California, but
its property in the state ' is mortgaged
for $158,000,000 becauie it owns the as
sessors and the state board of equalization.
Tub Utah Central railroad cost $7,298
per mile, but the men who built it got
from the government in cash and land
$89,000 per mile. It is dead easy to be
come a multi-millionaire when you can,
by debauching the govorniuent, steal
an eaipire.
Vakndrdilt, Morgun, Rockefeller,
Harfiinan, Gould and Jim Hill control
together 108,454 miles of railway. It is
estimated that these half a dozen men
control in one way and another $3,000,
000,000 in transportation interests and
other businesses a billion a piece.
Tub ultimate logic of . the railroad
trust, which eventually will combine
with other trusts, which, in fact, springs
frOra other trusts, is government owner
ship. And then well, then we shall
to engage in cheap raillery at the "coun
try javs." Never did agriculture stand
on higher ground in the matter of dig
nity or the employment of the best and
brightest minds. Never was there more
profound admiration among thoughtful
people for the atmosphere of the country,
which was common in the old days of
Washington, whose words still , hold
true that "agriculture is the most
healthful, most useful, and most noble
employment of man." Never was there
more respect for "farmer Jefferson,"
for the early presidents and statesmen
who followed the plow.
Under these conditions it is not strange
that evidences may be seen of an ar
rested movement in the tide from coun
try to city and hints of a desire to return
to rural life; better appreciation of agri
culture, the advent of the trolley, the
charms of nature, the many examples of
men who make a business success of
farming all bear upon this. The ques
tion. should the young man leave the
farm, as recently asked by one of the
great daily newspapers, was therefore
generally answered in .the negative by a
number of men prominent in literature,
in municipal government, in the na
tional grange and in agricultural prac
tice. Orange Judd Farmer.
Board of Commissioners.
Continued from page 1.
District No. 29
Elmer Sprop, road fund 3 00
H H Smidt 3 00
Total... $ 6 00
District No. 30
Jos Bichner & Sons, gen fund... .$ 2 30
H Piatt, road fund 13 50
J Johnson 9 00
JEriekson 11 25
E Chuck 4 50
F Yates 6 00
M Welch 3 75
E Rankin 6 00
E Pollard... 7 50
J R Hays 2 25
BHays.., 18 00
A Waldrof 18 00
E Shipley 15 00
O Davidson 6 00
G H Locey 12 00
J O'Brien 3 00
J Cook 18 00
IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE.
A farmer says in a communication in
a California paper: "Ignorance causes
all the misery on earth, and she hath a
devil daughter, prejudice; and it, like a
a canker, blights and mildews many
and makes them obdurate, so that they
will have to be ground to powder; and
the trust is the mill that will grind
them."
The two powerful allies of the trust-the
word trust embraces all the political and
financial forces which have clubbed to
Total ,....$156 05
District No. 31
Baker Bros., general fund, $ 23 88
John Wilken, road fund 2 25
Frank Grosser 8 62
Julius Iderhoff 6 00
Henry Toeddemyer 2 25
LonesToeddetneyer 6 00
John Aden , 8 00
Total $
District No. 32
F Stalnecker, road fund,... $
57 00
ABOLISH THIRD COMMISSIONER
Tun Geary law for the exclusion of
the Oh'nose expires next year, and un
less renewed by congress will open wide
the doors to the Mongolian hordes. It
is high time that the White Boxers
throughout the galaxy of states wake
up to a full realization of the Yellow
Peril.
At Doui.as, Ga., Peter Vickers has
recently subscribed $1,000 to help per
suade a railroad company to buid up to
the town. This isn't remarkable. The
notable fact is that Vickers was born a
slave and that he now owns 9800 Hcres
of farmland, besides other real estate in
three Georgia towns. His bank account
and the esteem in which his fellow-citizens
hold him. are lareo.
It is a well known fact, says the Ohio
Stato Journal, republican, that practi
cally all the rail ways of the United States
have been brought together into four or
live groups and fhese groups are one, so
far as establishing and maintaining rates
are concerned. A little group of Iobs
than huh' a dozen men can virtually dic
tate the tr.uupjitatiou rate which every
pound ot niorchnn lUe and every product
of the farm ami factory shall pay.
A l'oi'i'i.AR story now going the rounds
tolls how a western horse breeder
wrote to a friend in Washington to in
quire whether there was any market in
that city for a lot of very fine horses
that he owned. The friend is said to
have replied that there was none. "Elec
tricity drives the the carriages," he
wrote; "mules pull the wagons; and
jackasses run the government. We have
110 uso for horses here."
Cla.kamas is the only county in the state that has a board of
county commissioners. Multnomah county had such a board,
but it did not prove satisfactory, and the third commissioner
was legislated out of office. Our board has proven unsatisfac
tory, but we still have it. All legislative candidates next
spring should be pledged to work for this reform. We are
obliged to have a county judge, and he can look after county
affairs during the month, and then the court would take but
two or three days to transact routine business, while now it
takes the board from four to eight days, at $12.00 per day, to
accomplish the same work that former courts did in two to four
days. While not agreeing with Judge Ryan, politically, we
honestly believe, for the best interest of the county, a sad mis
take was made when Judge Ryan was shorn of his pdwers by
the Brownell and Porter combine three years ago. If a Brow
nell judge can be elected next year the third commissioner will
no doubt lose his job.
E Jones
John Butson
P Heater .
J Huffman. .
E S Bristo..
L Vinson. . .
A Voss ....
H Her
G Butson 3 00
W Heater.. ft! 14 35
Total $ 38 10
District No. 33
J A Shibley, general fund $ 35
J T Myers & Sons 2 07
A Locey 891 25
John L Myers, road fund 1 60
Total $895 17
District No. 34
Ed Batdorf 73 50
T T Breeding 30 75
Chas. Shields , 6 30
Chas. Johnson 18 00
Jim Watson 15 00
Are Bought and
Appreciated by
THE BEST PEOPLE
of Oregon City
Mobertsou
The 7th St. Grocer
YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
Bat the Best Stock of First-Class
Goods to be Found at Bottom
Prices in Oregon City is at
HARRIS' GROCERY
You Can
Depend Upon
Patent Flour, made from old wheat. It
makes the best bread and pastry and always
gives satisfaction to the housewife, Be sure
and order Patent Flour made by the Port
land Flouring Mills at Oregon City and
sold by all grocers. Patronize
Home Industry
$
have the great burden of an official class
of operatives of government properties;
unless, indeed, everything be national
ized and we be all employes of the gov
ernment, ir, let us say, of the people.
There is not the least doubt that the de
velopment of the consolidation idea ren
ders all protests against ultimate social
ism futile and foolish. Democracy
tends in that direction. Republicanism
tends in that direction. The wealth of
the people will goto the people when
the people shall b fit and ready for the
change. St. Louis Mirror, Rep.
Tun Medford Inquirer names the fol
lowing gentlemen as good and reliable
timber for the democratic state ticket
next year: Governor, R. D. Ionian, of
Portland; secretary of state, Walter M.
Pierce, of Pendleton ; stato treasurer,
John D. Olwoll, of Jackson county; attorney-general,
Sam White, of Baker
Citj ; state printer, F. 1 Nutting, of
Albany; superintendent of public in
struction, John Gavin, of The Dalles. It
would make a strong ticket as they are
among the best men in Oregon.
The sugir trust has the nerve to sta!e
that no one objects to the free a 1 mis
sion into the United States of raw sugar
from Cuba! On the supposition that con
gress will grant that privilege, the trust
is calling upon the stockholders of the
American Suar Refining Company for
authority to issue $15,000,000 of new
stock with which to vastly extend its
operations in Cuba aud Porto Rico.
This is precisely whit the trust is now
doing. It has acquired large tracts of
sugar lands in the tropics at low prices,
and will exploit the cheap labor and fer
tile soil and climate of that region to
supply its refineries in this country with
raw pr.duct. Of course such a policy
will mean many millions of profits to
the sugar trust, so that it does not need
to lie by claiming that domestic pro
ducers of beet aud cane sugar favor this
proposition. Orange Judd Farmer.
1 hk deterioration in tho quality of
paper increases " the liability of fire
wherever waste paper is accumulated in
nn nunntitv. Most modern paper is
made from wood and other vegetable
fibers which, chemically, are not very
different from the component material
of a hayrick. If the waste paper is
stacked in large quantities, aud especi
ally if It liappeni to bo a little damp,
THE ART OF AGRICULTURE.
It is impossible to measure at this
time tho far reaching effect on society
of the strides boing made in farm edu
cation. Certainly there is discernable
in our great cities and t owns, as never
before, an appreciation and a recogni
tion of the claims of agriculture which is
most hopeful. The valuable work done
by the agricultural colleges, the experi
ment stations, the national and state de
partments of agriculture, and the farm
schools fostered and supported by pri
vate enterprise, is beginning to tell in
the mass.
Never was there a more wholesome re
spect for the art of agriculture. Never
loss disposition on tho part of city folk
exploit the producers and the toileri
are the ignorance and prejudice of the
masses. Were ignorance dispelled,
prejudice would vanish and the trusts
would not live three months.
Ignorance of the conditions which
surround them; ignorance of the
thoughts and feelings of those having
the same interests as themselves ; ig
norance of their own interests keeps
millions of the producing masses and
toilers in the ln it ' ill sy n at hy
with their fellows. Such a mental con
dition breeds prejudice and prejudice
breeds hostility, hostility to their own
interests, hostility to themselves. For
he who ia against us is for the political
shylocks who would devour us.
The welfare and perpetuity of the re
public, and the persistence of peisonal
liberty demand that the masses be
wrenched out of the position of ignorance
and prejudice into a position of har
mony with their own class and their
own interests.
The bitter conflict between capital and
labor in San Francisco is indirectly of
great importance. It involves a princi
ple. Capital on this occasion repre
resents tyranny, for its avowed purpose
is to destroy labor unions in that city.
It maintains its own right to organize as
the "employers' association," bin de
nies the privilege of organizing to the
wage-workers. The struggle between
the Steel Trust and the Amalgamated
Association in the Eastern states is in
regard to the same principle: the right
of the wage-workers to organize and to
have their organizations recognizod by
the employers. The issue involved is
momentous. If capital succeeds in its
efforts to destroy labor unions and to re
duce wage-workers to the condition of
helplessness, their wages will be re
duced to a beggarly pittance.
Total....... $143 55
District No. 35
Fred Wagner, road fund, $ 12 25
In vacation after the July term, the
following warrants were issued by E H
Cooper, clerk :
Mrs E Morgan $ 10 00
T M Baker ..: 28 00
Mrs R Davis 14 00
Mrs Rosa Friechler 10 00
Ellen Bridges 8 CO
J W Jones 6 50
W L Davis 5 00
Wm Scott 8 00
Mrs Hattie Woods 5 00
Elias 'Miller 20 00
Mrs S C Harrington 12 00
Paul Frevtag 10 00
Wm Dean 6 00
A M Shibley 8 00
Mrs Landon 10 00
MrsLydia Wineset 10 00
Henry Lewis 6 00
Mr Kruger 7 00
W D Hill 12 00
L Mathewson : 7 00
Mrs LP Clark 0 00
(Jus Pirkle 10 00
C E Burns 5 (10
Mr Heinz 6 00
Mrs Martha Duff 4 00
J J (iorbett 6 00
J M Heckart 8 00
Amanda Wilcox 5 00
E N Foster 6 00
Wm Philips, Ind soldier 4 00
Chas Julow " 10 00
Mrs J M Bacon " 5 00
Jacob Kohler " 8 00
KinaBohall 7 Oo
W F TinBley 5 00
Peter Krouse 8 00
Mrs Wineset 10 00
W&Iva Wilson 12 00
E Austen 10 00
Mrs Wineset 13 00
W T Gardener, Boys & els aid soc 10 20
John H Churchill, Ind soldier. . . 5 00
Eldora Younger 10 00
L Freeman 5 00
John Avins 8 00
Mrs M A Clark 6 00
John Watson, Ind soldier 5 0J
Mrs Ida C Uartman 8 00
Peter Nehren, janitor 50 00
E II Cooper, clerk 125 00
O D Eby, deputy CO 00
J J Cooke. Bheriff 141 67
J E Jack, deputy 60 00
T P Randall, recorder 100 00
A Luelliug, treasurer 83 34
liUelling, deputy 20 00
J C Zinser. supt 83 34
Thos Kyan judge 100 00
Mrs Anna Williams, den assessor 52 00
Norris & Powell, Co. physicians.. 15 75
In the matter of warrants issued more
than seven years prior to July 1, 1901.
and not called for: It is ordered by the
board that the clerk publish a list of said
warrants according to law with a notice
that said warrants will be cancelled
of record if not called for within 60 days
trom July 1, 1901. The names, numbers
and amounts being as follows, to-wit
WrJ lit
Brown & Welch
Proprietors op the-
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O.-U. W.
OREGON CITY,
Building
OREGON
CITY MABKET. KLs?"ps.
Opposite Huntley's
First-Glass fyleats of 11 iids
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Give yirg a Call ai)d be Treated ?ijgljt
Tuk big sewer at Salem, which is be
ing paid for by the taxpayers, could be
used to dispose of some of the state's
politicians it wocld be money well
spent.
OASTOIIIA.
Bean tin 1,19 You Haw Alwavs Baiitt
Name
Gollip Iioater
M C Leei
Frank Bowman
Ike Boles
John Maze
Chas Cochran
R Bitter
Dan Gass
F (irey
M Roberts
B Whitmore
Geo Sandman
Wallace Albright
John Granscro
J W Barker
S II Osman
J M Strickler
Ida L Howard
11 L Barn tun
G McConnell
F Boburg
W L Thompson
C F Weir
Flora McMillan
Mrs A McMillan
Philip Tatro
No.
1330
268
1411
1205
1914
1942
1943
1944
734
649
643
269
13.306
15743
15450
15323
15098
141)28
14901
14766
14410
14327
14027
13622
13620
13362
Amount
$ 1 50
2 00
1 00
75
1 00
25
25
25
1 50
1 50
63
2 37
2 00
1 70
4 50
4 20
1 70
1 70
1 50
2 00
1 75
3 40
1 75
1 70
1 70
1 50
Foresight Means Good Sight
If there ever was a truism it is exemplified in the
above headline. Lack ot foresight in attending to the
eyes in time means in the end poor sight. We employ
the latest most scientific methods in testing the eyes,
and charge nothing for the examination. Dr. Phillips,
an expert graduate oculist and optican, has charge of our
optical department.
A. N. WRIGHT The Iowa
293 Horrison Street, PORTLAND, OREGON
5
For all kinds of Building Material
CALL AT THE
Oregon City Planing Mill
Jeweler
F. S. BAKER, PROP.
SASH, DOORS, MOULDING,
ETC.
We carry the largest stockof Caske s
Coffins, Robes and Lining in Clackama
county. .
We are the only undertakers in the
county owning a hearse, which we fur
nish for less than can bj had elsewhere.
vVe are under small expense and do
not ask large profits.
Calls promptly attended night or day.
R. L. HOLMAN, Undertaker
Phones 476 and 305. Two Doors South of Court House.
4!
Total.
.44 10
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