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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1902.
Oregon City Courier-Herald
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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
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,..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
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