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4 OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1902. Oregon City Courier-Herald By A. W. CHENEY ! In Oregon CitypostolHcea2nd-ola88raattr SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Piid in advance, per year 1 Mx mouths J Pttree months'trial 26 jfKJ-The date opposite your address on the paper denotes (he time to which yon have paid. If this uoliceis marked your subscription l due. CLt'BUING BATES. Willi Weekly Ori'tronian $2 00 l'rl Weekly N. Y. World J " Katmniil Watchman 1 "' ' ppiMil to K'iih in 1 JO " Weekly Kxaiuiner jf J ' Bryan's Commoner 1 "5 AIWRTIMXi RATE. Stiindiiig business advertlicnients; Per month pror-sl .al canlsfl iJ, Pi yar): 1 to 10 inches V)f p-r Incli, VI inchiM for $", 20 inches (column) $8, 30 inches (J4 pae) $12. l.."i?al advertisements: l'cr inch (minion) 82.50, rllvorse summons 7 SO. Attidavits of rmlilica tion will not be InrniaLed uniil publication Ic;es are paid. Local notices; Five cunts pur Hue nor week Per month 20c. Obiiuar es, cards of thanks, church mid Iodize notices where admission foe is oh .-treed or collected half price or 2i cents per line. IMTKONIZK HOMB INDUSTRY OREGON OITY, FEB. 21, 1902. Tub luvorite saying of MarklIanna,"I don't ask a d n thing of my men but success," expresses the political gospel of our o' n republican boss. The police force and the criminals cost the city of New York and its inhabi tants last year $25,000,000. In ten yeaie burglary has increased 113 per cent and population 35 per cent. Last year there were 231 murders. Starting with a capital of $50,000,say, a third of a century ago, the Standard Oil Company hps during the past 10 years declared $300,000,000 of dividends on a capitalization of $100,000,000 a . good share of which is water. Lloyd Gkiiih . '-nates the cost to Great Britain of completing the con quest of the Boers t.t $2,000,000,000. This equals the weight in gold of every Boer in arms during the war. It is $20 an acre for the entire area of the two re publics. Tub question, "Can a man with a family be a good Christian on a salary of $5 a week?" is receiving most thought' ful consideration in the Eastern Btates, AJso in ChtiHtian England, where there are 8,000,000 psople whose family income averages only a pound ($5) a week: one fouith of the population lives iu squalor and wretched poverty. Dun's Review has Bhownby tables covering all leading commodities, that prices were on an average 33 per cent higher in 1900 than in 1897, wliile a cen sus bulletin asserts that wages in 1900 were only 23 per cent higher than in 1S!)0. The claim of the trusts has been that they did throe things: 1, reduced cost of production; 2, increased wages; 3, lowered prices. The trusts have lied. In the report of the Industrial Com mission to Congress, Thomai W . Phil lips, a Pennsylvania republican, makes the statement that of the total capitali zation of ttie steel trust, $r,400,000,000, two thirds is water. As it paid divi dends for the first nino months of its ex istence ol $81,770,203, its income on the ivetu.il investment, about 1-1(1(1,000,000, is at the rate of 22 per annum. These huge profits, taken from the pockets of the people by the ruthless hand oHho titeel monopoly, place on congress the imi'erutivo duty of regulating and con trolling llio great aggregations of capital, Tub duties imposed on Philippine commerce are most iniquitous, A lead- jniTfxnmp.e.H ,ee,i,ei isianilB r.'iw nemp. uur crvn kuvciu liionl" levies an export duty on it of $7.50 a ton. At any of our home ports it is subjoet also to the Dingley import duty of $20 a ton, Total duties, export and import, levied on Philippine hemp, $27.50 which is $7.50 per ton more than we levy on raw hemp from any foreign country. And every cent of these duties, which hit the poor Fili pinos both "going and coming," is im posed and collected without the repre sentation or the consent of the 9,000,000 of Filipino people whose loading indus try they affect. vonsii lawver at Batlimore haB a Snap, llo is a nephew of the assistant attorney-general of the postal depart ment, James N. Tynor, and his name is II. J. Barrett, perhaps a relative of Ore gon's John Barrett, of Oriental fame. Whenever Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden has notithdthe pub lisher of a periodical that it will be do iiieJ further transmissal as second-class matter through the mails, the latter communicates with Barrett, who charges him tt fee ranging from $29 ) to $5000, ac cording to his fatness, for the use of his "pull" with Uncle Tynor to obliterate tl e objections to Ihs publication. Bar rett line ft monopoly of this peculiar graft, which has netted him already $100,000. POLITICAL NOTES. The meeting of the republican county central committee on Saturday devel oped the fact that there were about six candidates for each office to be filled next June. It was amusing to see the "buttonholing" of prospective delegates to the county convention. The republi can primaries will be held on March 22, and the county convention on March 26. Chief of Police Burns and Ex-Sheriff Eli Maddock are mentioned in connec tion with the republican nomination for sheriff. Maddock developed considera ble, strength on Saturday. Levi Stehman, of Liberal, the candi date for commissioner on last citizens ticket and who came within a few votes of election, is mentioned us a fitting can didate for sheriff on the citizens ticket this year. Charles F. Clark, of Clackamas, an independent republican, has been spoken of us a t'ood candidate for tho legislature on the citizens or independent ticket. The socialists will hold a mass county convention on March 8th in Willamette hall. No one will be allowed to partici pate unless he signs the socialist pledge. Socialists will not be compelled to vote their straight ticket unless they wish. The fight for the county judgship be tween T. F. Ryan and G. B. Dimick is growing more interesting each day. If Mr. Ryan should be the successful can didate, some people are wondering if he will accept the poor man's vote. In 1899, when the people of the several road districts petitioned the county court for the appointment of the man for su pervisor whom they thought was the best qualified for the position, Judge Ryan, who was then at the head of the county court, employed an attorney at the expense of the taxpayers to go over several petitions to ascertain the prop erty valuation of each man whose name appeared on the petition, and the peti tion having the largest amount of prop erty buck of it was gr inted. In one case a man with 42 petitioneis was appointed over a man with 73 petitioners who were not bo well offer this world's goods. Said Tom to Grant "You would be county judge But I must say , you can't" Said Grant to Ryan "I'll make it warm for you While tryin' " Communicated. The meeting held on Tuesday in re sponse to call to discuss the advisability of putting out an independent citizens countv ticket was a success in every way. Atl0::!0 about 40 met in the county court r um of the court hoase and aired their views on the subject. The room was so crowded that the afternoon ses sion was held in Willamette hall, when about 100 were present. The vote iu fa vor of a citizens ticket was 41 to 11, and all, with perhaps a halt dozen exceptions. agreed to support the ticket when put up. Four or five democrats who were in favor of a straight democratic ticket walked out. The republicans who too k part in the convention were II. E. Cross, E. E. Charman, O. W. Eastham and C. II. Dve. The unanimous opinion of those present was that the platform should not take up anything but county matters, leaving state and national mat ters out altogether. All present agreed that taxes were enormous and increas ing at an alarming rate and that we had our hands full to look after a reduction of expenses in the county. Many cases were noted where prospective buyers refused to look at laud when told tuxes were 32 mills and the debt $200,000. It seemed to be the sentiment of all those spoken to by the writer that each candi date on the ticket should bo pledged to ask for only one deputy, and thereby save a little of the money thrown away by the commissioners. Although the republican commissio iers havu full sway for another two years it was thought they Bllonk, be robuked in some way by the voters and maybe they would get some of the Bcale off their seeming closed eyes. 0. H.Dye, who stood a spectator at the door for a few moments, iras called on for a speech. He said he thought he did not belong there. The chairman eaid it was a meeting of taxpayers and in sisted he should give his views. Mr.Dyt then eaid he was a republican and a candidate before the republican convetv tion for the legislature, and for that rea sou thought it improper for him to talk He thought the taxes wore too high,nn half more .than they ought to be. He had a a little property in Portland and it took one mouth's rent to pay the taxes. He had some also in Oregon City, and it took two n onths' rent to pay the taxes. He thought taxes ought to bo reduced. Whenever they satisfied him that there was a real heart move ment of the people, regardless of poli tics, to reduce the burden of taxation, without reducing the efficiency of the service, he was willing to sacrifice his own political aspirations for thi gojdof the cause. If they could find any method of reducing burdens on taxation he would bid thom Godspeed. Parties having a farm to rent will do well to call on O. A. Cheney, real es tate and insurance agent, at Oregon City, who has applicants. INCREASED COST OF LIVING. The figures in the following table deal with the unit of Vah average per capita consumption, expressed in values. Advance ic cost of living during four years neailv 44 per cent. : Bread- Dairy and Other stuffs iv eat Garden food Jan. 1, 1898. ...$13 51 $7.31 812.37 $3.31 Jan. 1, 1809 . Jan. 1, 19. 0.. Jan.' 1, 1901 . Jan. 1, 1902 . 13.82 13.25 7.52 11.48 9.07 7 25 13.70 ' 9 20 8.41 15.50 9.5U 9.67 15.25 8.95 .. 14.49 .. 20.00 Clotning Metals Jliscel. Total Jan. 1, 1898. Jan. 1, 1099. Jan. 1, 1900 Jan.l, 19"1 Jan. 1, 1002 ..$14.65 . 14.15 .. 17.48 ... 1B.02 .. 15.55 811.57 812.11 870.94 11 .84 12.54 80.42 18.09 16.31 95.30 15.81 15.88 95.69 15.38 16.79 101.59 In the above table breadstuff include wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, beans and peas. Meat includes lard and tallow. Dairy and garden products include, be anies the usual vegetables of ordinary consumption, milk, eggs and fruit. The other specific items are self-explanatory. Miscellaneous includes a large variety of articles of universal consumption which enter into the cost of living for the av erage family. New York Times. Four hundred trusts control nearly everything that is consumed by the 80, 000 people of the country. They tax us and areour actual rulers. They have raised prices to their present height, but have not raised the wages of their em ployes. A recent investigation in Oregon City reveals the fact that non-drink ing, non-uambling, church-going families in this city the husbands and fathers of which lours years ago could tave a little of tlu ir wages of $1.50 per day, aie now unable, by etr'ct economy, to meet their ordinary expenses. The ti&t egg" saved heretofore has been swallowed up by the, greatly increased expenses of living. When a republican spellbinder orates about the prosperity of the American workingman, he does not tell the truth. Interested in Oregon. A. W. Cheney, Editor, Oregon City, Ore: I have and am now reading your New Year Copy of the Courier-Herald paper that I received from a friend. Please inform me at what pr.ee you will send me two copies of New Year issue and your weekly paper for six months bo I can do a little missionary wont ior Oregon. I want my relatives and friends to read vour JNew Year issue, we oiten get together and talk about our long cold winters, and where would be a good place to migrate to. My family con sists of my wife and two young, strong sons. We want a milder climate. Ore gon, I think, is much misrepresented about its wet and damp climate, and yon all. suffering with rheumatism. I w,sh you would answer the few ques tions I will ask you. PubliBh them or or any other r liitb'e information for us to read a. id know that are trustworthy and reliable as i he public at large has been so badly deceived by the glowing writeups and big gay pictures of Califor nia and many other places. Pcor dev ils would sell out and struggle with a family on their hands to get there and find everything beastly different in real ity when they arrive there and return from the place they left pennliless broken hearted men. Now this is a great crime. Sincere.honest, Christian, good men should publish the dark side and failures as well as the glowing side of success. It is now a common saying, "Oh, you can't depend on what you read in the boooming, blowing papers ; they This is wnat many persons sav to me. My wife's cousin, wife and boy re turned home from California yesterday disgusted. They moved their baggage to live there last fall. He told me yes terday that his trip cost him over $690, and he found things sadly and badly misrepresented there by the California papers. V. are now having a long siege of very cold weather. Any relia ble literature about Oregon Bent here would do good, for I would lay it on my oilice table to ead and discuss. Yours Most Sincerely, g. n. H. Ql'HSTION'S. 1. How does your county compare with ltock and Walworth counties, Wis. with water, (Hire air, home surroundings in general, agriculture, gardening, energy and peaceable intelligence of its people, cost, of living per year for food and fuel, etc? 2. How many clear sunshine days out of the 3(')'i a year do vou about average? Have you much malaria or rheumatism? Can a good, industrious working man get employment there? 3. How are your summers for heat and your winters for cold or raw, chilly weather? 4. Tell us about your insect pests, flies and mosquitos. ANSWERS. 1. Clackamas county and Western Oregon compare very favorably with your section. People are just as healthy. We have good water from mountain stream and there is no place in West ern Oregon that has not a view of some snow-capped mountain. Home sur roundings are good, especially so when consideration is taken of the fact that the people come from every section of the United States The people areas intelligent as the average of those ol the Northern or Eastern states. The native born Oreironians are not quite as ener getic as the climate is nearly ge'mi-tropi-cal, which also makes the moral stand ing slightly lower. Gardening and ag ricultural pursuits are carried on all win ter as the ground seldom freezes. Dur ing a residence of 12 years in Oregon this writer has never seen ice over ?g' of an inch thick. This winter has been one of the coldest when we had about 10 days that the mercury registered below 32 above. I have seen it iu other years nearly to tero once or twice for a day or so only. We have not had a foot of snow altogether in six years. The grass is green all winter and vegetables, such as cabbages and roots, are left in the ground all winter and gathered when needed. Potatoes are sometimes not dug till spring. The cost of living is about the same as in Wisconsin, fuel be- lng cheaper though besides not so much being needed. Fir wood sells for $2.25 to $2 75 per cord and flour from $2.50 per barel up. 2. The number of clear days for 1001 as recorded by a station a few miles south of Oregon City was 144, rainy days 117, partly cloudy 119, cloudy 122. There is no more rheumatism or malaria than in any other section although when you first come here the air seems damper than it really is. An industrious man can always get. work, the common la borer's wages being $1.50 and $2 50 per day. 3. Our summers are cooler and our winters are warmer khan yours. We have no extremes of hot or cold. The temperature for 1901, taken at above mentioned station, was: Annual mean 51; highest 98, August 4; lowest 23, Feb. 11; rainfall 42 52 inches. Wliile the thermometor runs up to 90 in the summer time, the evenings and nights are always cool and you can not sleep without some covering. This coolness and evenneas is caused by our nearness to the ocean. 4. We have .some flies but no mos quitoes. Fruit trees are troubled with insects especially when they are old and have to be sprayed. All Day Long you may have comparative comfort un til laughter, reading aloud or nervous excitement brings on the fit of coughing which racks you until your very bones ache. Do not suffer needlessly. Even wheu a cold on the lungs seems to have you fast in its dreadful power, Allen's Lung Balsam will loosen the mucus, al lay the inflammation, heal the aching throat and finally overcome the enemy completely. A few more New Year Numbers of the Courier-Herald for sale at the office. Brain Food Nonsense. Another ridiculous food fad has been branded by the most competent authori ties. They have dispelled tho silly no tion that one kind of food is needed for bones. A correct diet will not only nourish a particular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yet however good your food" may be, its nu triment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You must prepare for their appearance or prevent their coming by taking regular doseB of Green's August flower, the favorite medicine ol the healthy millions. A few doses aids di gestion, stimulates the liver to healthy action, purities the blood, and makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get Dr. G. G. Green'., reliable reme dies at George A. Harding's drugstore. P. C&O.Ry, Co. 25c is the regulxr Sunday round trip rate between Oregon City and Portland. Get your tickets at Harding's drug store." A Fireman's Close Call. "I stuck to my engine, although every joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain," writes O. W. Bellamy, a lo comotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa, "I was weak and pale, without any ap petite and all rundown. As I was about to give up, I got a bottle of Electric Bit ters and, after taking; it, I felt as well as I ever did in mj hie." Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by G. A Harding. Price 50 cents. Italian Bees For Sale. In new patent hives with super $4 each. For information inquire of Frank Busch, Oregon City, or see proprietor, II. Heit kemper, Oak Grove, on electric car line How's This; We offer One Hundred Doll irs Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. K. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo.O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly hono 'able in all busi ness transactions and financially able to carry out any .obligations made by their firm West & Trdax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldixg, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's CatarrhCure is taken internally, acting directly upou the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system. Price 7oc per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Tes timonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Voffce. Notice is hereby given that the County Convention P. of H.forClackams county will be held at the court houso in Ore gon City, Tuesday, March 4th, 1902,tat 1 o'clock p. m. Mary S. Howard, Deputy, Mulino.Or., Feb. 3,1002. Bucklen's Arnica Salve Has world-wide fame of marvellous cures. It surpasses any other salve, lo tion, ointment or balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns, Boils, Sores, Felons, Ulcers, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores.Cbapped Hands, Skin Eruptions; Infallible for Piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c at George A. Harding's. On Jellies preserve nnd pickles, apread a lliln coating of PURE REFINED PARAFFINE WUl kp tripm bolutelT motetur and acid proof. I'u re lfc'Oned Parafline ia also Ubefiii in ft doien other ways about the homw. Full directions in each package, liokl everywhere. STANDARD OIL CO. riuii iaJTlaaaMaMiM iimil iliui,ii I 1 I f. j ! the 7 street grocer ia1"11 r " Brunswick House and Restaurant neyjcy furnished booms Meals at All Hours Opon Day and Night Prices Reasonable Only First Class Restaurant in the City CHAS. CATTA, Prop. Opposite Suspension Bridge . OREGON CITY, ORE. Don't Hand Out Money For something that is not the best. When you are buying remember that Ue best is always cheapest, and a poor article is dear at any price. If it is grocer ies the best aDd safest wav is to brins or spnd vnnr always aepenu 7ih and Center Sts. ! POPE & CO. HEADQUART1HS FOR , Hardware, Stoves. Syracuse Harrows and Cultivators, Hoes, Spray Pumps, PLUMBING A Cor. Fourth and Main Sts. YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT I Bat the Best Stock of First-Class Goods to be Found at Bottom Prices in Oregon City is at HARRIS' GROCERY CITY MAffiliET SSKEftk Opposite Hnntley's Fipst-Glass Meats of 11 Iirjds Satistaction Give yirg a Kail aijd be Treated ?it s. L. HOLMAN, Undertaker Phones 476 and 305. Two r f 1 .. v- 51 )') jLw&f ,..Wc Can Do Better... By you this year than ever before and would be pleased to nave you give us a trial order. We do not run a department store or a black smith shop, but we do conduct a GROCERY STORE And sell GROCERIES A. ROBERTSON i Bread Is the ? The better the flour, the better the bread; t The better the bread, the stronger the staff! : ... Patent Flour ... X Makes the Whitest, Lightest Bread. It is kept X for sale by all dealers. Demand "Patent" Flour. J Made by. I PORTLAND FLOURING KILL CO. MMm4WMH4MH444aaaaAAA. order to us and then ycu know you are getHng the best there is. The cheap kind we do not handle; it T doesn't pay. No matter what priceB we ask you can I on me quality. ' Mllir BrOS. :: Hllltllll)H Chilled and Steel Plows, Planet Jr., Drills and Imperial Bicycles. SPECIALTY OREGON CITY Guaranteed We carry the lartrest stock of Caskets Coffins, Robes and Lining in Clackamas county. We are the only undertakers in the county owning a hearse, which we fur nish for less than can ba had elsewhere. vVe are under small expense and do not ask large profits. 0 ills promptly attended night or day Doors South of Court House. Brown & Welch Proprietors of the Seventh Street Meat Market A. O. U. W. OREGON CITY, Building OREGON OREGON CITY 2 Staff of Life f