! Historical Society, City Hall' ,
OREGON
ITY
CODE
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1903
20th YEAR, NO. 38
C
COMMERCIAL BANK
op OREGON CITY
, capital $100,000
Transacts a general banking business
Makes loan; and collections, discounts bills
trayi ana sells domestic and foreign exchange
end receives; deposits subject to check
Open Irom 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
D, C. LiATOUBETTE,
President
F. J. Mkyeb
. Cashie
Jt N. GREENMAN
THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN
(Established 1866)
Prompt delivery to all partB of the city
OREGON CITY OREGON
Qt D, & D. C. LATOURETTE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Commercial, Beal Estate and Probate Law
Specialties
Office in Commercial Bank Building
OREGON CITY
OREGON
J)R. GEO. HOE YE
DENTIST
All work'warranttd and, satisfaction guaranteed
Crown and BrldRc work a specialty
Canfleld Building
OREGON CITY' OREGON
p H. COOPER,
Notary Public.
Real Es'a'9 an1 I isurance, Titles Exam
ined, Abs r eta Made, Deeds, Mort
gages, T;r , Drawn.
Rocm 16, Guide B'd'g. Oregon City, Ore;
I. SI AS
cxaleb in
BATCHES. CLOCKS, JEWELRY
Silverware and Spectacles
CANBY " OREGON
Q E. HAYES
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Stevens Bu-lding, opp.'Bank of Oregon Cltj
OREGON CITY OREGON
QRANT B. D1MICK
Atiobney and Counselor at Law
Will Braclice In all Courts In lhe State, Circuit
and District Courts ol the United States.
Insolvent debtors taken through bankruptcy.
;Offloe in Gard Building, Oregon City, Or.
(JEO. T. HOWARD
NOTARY PUBLIC
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
At Red Front Court House Block
OREGON CITY OREGON
J C. STRICKLAND, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Does an Up-To Date General Practice
Bpeclal atlention given to surgery and diseases
ol women.
Office in Garde Building, 7th and Main Sts.
OREGON CITY, OREGON
J. W. Nobbis, M. D. J. W. Powell. M. D.
JfORRIS & POWELL,
Physicians and Surgeons';
Calls in city orcountry promptly attended
Garde Building, Oregon City.
JJ F. CAUFIELD
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
All Work Warranted
Watches that others have failed to make
run properly especially solicited.
Main Street, Opposite Huntley's
OREGON CITY.' OREGON.
OSTEOPATHY
DR. C. D. LOVE
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Graduate of American School of Osteopathy,
Kirksville, Mo.
Successfully treats both acute and ehronlo an
Buccesa eJas(jB Ca1 ,or lilerttture.
Consultation and Examination Free.
I 8 to 12 A. M. . '
OfflcejHours: ) i to 4 p, M.
' )Or by appointment at any tlma.
Rooms No. and 5, Stevens Building, Main St
OREGON CITY, OBEOOM.
JJOBERT A. MILLER .
ATTORNEY AT LAW
O. D. EBY, NOTARY .PUBLIC.
Ral Estate bought and sold, mony loaned
Xexlmlnedand abstracts made 1 cash pjJd for
eounty warrants. Probate and commissioner
court business and insurance.
BOOM 8, WTMBABD BOIIDIKO
OREGON CITY, - - - - OB00'
0. SCHUEB.L W. 8. TJ'BEH
JJREN & SCHUEBEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
SDcutfAtt tffbbotai .
Wlll"praotice 3n all conrts, make collections
and settlements of estates, furnish abstracts of
title, lend vou money and land your money on
first mortgage. Office In Enterprise building.
OREGON CITY OREGON
Choicest Meats
AT
R. PetZOlds Meat Market
Opposite Suspension Bridge Oregon City.
DEAD LOCKED.
NO SIGNS OF A BREAK UP
IN THE SENAIORIAL
STRUGGLE.
Fulton Lead! But Can't Win,
Geer's Cliances. Hopeless.
Fellotv Servant Act and Many
Other Matters of Importance
Before the Legislature .
Bulem, Orsgon, January 30th, 1003.
When adjournment of the Legislature
comesion Saturday afternoon, eighteen
tuii dayB of the legislative session will
h ve ended and very little accomplished.
There will remain twenty-two days of
the session, time enough in plenty to
finish the work of the body and to win
the grateful regard of the people of Ore
gon. Up to this time the struggle for United
States Senator has overtopped in interest
etery thing elBe and yet that momentu
ous struggle is seemingly no nearer a
conclusion than it was the first day of
the Besaion. Senator Fulton of Clatsop
county still leads with a total vote of 32
on joint ballot. He is yet fourteen
votes away from a nomination. The
general concensus of opinion is that he
can not win, unless his party will con
sent to a paity caucus and in that e
vent he would likely be named as the
caucus nominee. The fight for Geer is
utterly hopeless and his friends while
apparently strong in the faith realize
the fact that their candidate is a deau
one. Multnomah county with her usual
perversity will only consent to the
nomination of a Multnomah county man
and her 17 votes are being fired into the
air with becoming regularity. It lookB
to "A man up a tree" that if any nomi
nation is made it will be a "dark horse."
There are dark horses in plenty, some
of them are groomed and ready to be
trotted out if the time ever comes, a
mong them is a gentleman irom the
county of Clackamas who in a pinch
would agree to serve the good people of
Oregon in the United State Senate for
the next six years. He ib a brown
horse, twelve years old, can go all of the
gaits, but shows up best as a side
wheeler. This horse will not be entered
if at all, until the field is thoroughly
tired out and the running is easy.
Among the most important measures
before the Legislature is the fellow ser
vants act which was put to sleep quietly
by corporate influences during the pro
ceeding Legislature. This act has be
come the law in a majority of the states
of the union and merely seeks to make
corporations liable in damages for ac
cidents resulting in the injury of em
ployes on account of the negligence and
carelessness of fellow employes in the
same line of duty. It is a good law and
ought to pass, and it looks now that it
will.
Charter bills galore are being intro
duced. It would seem that every town
in the state wanted to have its charter
amended. Very little attention is being
paid to these bills except by the mem
bers from the counties where the towns
are located. They are ground through
the Legislative hopper like grist through
a mill and jutt about as fast.
The bill to put all state officials on a
fat salary is well on its was to become a
law. It strikes a pretty hard blow at
the "grafters club" and of course they
are opposed to it as the bill if paesed
will cut off some good thingB which have
been coming their way. The public
printer wiil suffer the most as his office
has been a private snap for these many
years. In fact it is currently reported
that thb office of public printer in Ore
gon has been good lit $20,000,00 a year
for a good long time.
Now that the Lewis and Clark and
Oriental Fair bill has become a law and
the city of Portland has a new charter
after her own heart it would seem that
the 17 members of the Legislature from
the metropolis of the Btate would be
happy, but not so. Portland and
Multnomah county will never be happy
until they have "swiped" the whole
hoe. If thev could net the united
States Senator and two or there other
little things which they see lying around
loose their cud of ioy would be full.
One of the most important matters be
fore the present session is the proposed
change in the method 01 assessing cor
porations. It is a notorious fact that
the corporation of the state of Oregon
are not paying more than one tenth of
the laxes they ought to pay. More
than that they never will pay any more
until the method of assessment is chang
ed. The average county Aassessor
knows no more about assessing a rail
road corporation or any other large
corporation than "A hog knows about
holiday." The only way to cure this
evil is to create a state board of assess
ment or a rail road commission whose
duty it shall be to assess all of the cor
porate property in the state. The
tendency in the East and in fact in near
ly every Btate in the union is taking the
burden of taxation off the farmers and
laboring classeB and placeing it more and
more on the corporations and all of those
interests enjoying special priviledges.
It is hardly hoped that the Oregon
Legislature will make this character of
a law this session ; but the good people
are keeping "their weather eye" open
and are watching the boys at Salem.
Some good may come out of Nazareth
yet.
The printers union wants a "little
bill" passed making it a very heavy fine
to use any printed matter for the state
unless it has the printers union label on
it . It probably will not paBR.
The Federated TraJes of the state of
Oregon are asking that a bill be passed
making an eight hour day and that all
laborer in mills, mines and factories be
paid every week in cash instead of
monthly. This bill will encounter some
pretty rocky sledding on its way to the
statute books as it touches a great many
conflicting interests in every, part of the
state. It may pass. but the issue ia
auite doubtful.
Mr. Kay'd bill in the bouse yesterday
wrs vivisected before it was allowed to
pass. It concerns the making of the
salaries of state, county and city em
ployes subject to garnishment. At
present the man who works for the
state can maintain any number of debts,
and the creditor has no redress, the
state not being an institution that can
be garnished. Mr. Kay takes the stand
that public employes are worthy of no
more right in that line than the employes
of a corporation or privat" individual.
The bill, when introduced, went to the
judiciary committee, who corrected all
deficiencies and recommended that it
pass, being unanimous in its favor.
Only four people objected to its passage,
but two of them were Marion county
men. Davey andJuJd. The matter ia
not so important elsewhere as in Salem,
for state employes' debts are mostly
contracted here, but the evident justice
of the measure passed it on iis merits,
and the only dissenters, besides the two
Marion county gentlemen before named
were Burleigh and Reed of Multnomah.
Governor Chamberlain baa appointed
L- P. W.Quimby, state fish and game
warden as delegate from Oregon to at
tend a meeting of the League of Ameii-
can Sportmen, to be held at St. Paul,
Minnesota, February 11 and 12.
C. M. MASON,
Enterprising and Energetic
Citizen.
The good-looking gentleman whose
likeness illustrates this sketch. Is known
to nearly everybody in Oregon City and
to the larger part of the people of Clack;
amas county. His name is C. M. Ma
son, and he bas for the past several
years been engaged by G. W. Grace in
his general merchandise store on Mo
lalla Avenue.
Mr. Mason has recently become a
prominent factor in Oregon City from
the fact that at the last election of city
officers hewa,s elected to the .important
position of councilman from the third
ward, Not that he hasn't held im
portant officers before, for he has been
a leading citizen of this city almost
from the time ho became a resident in
it and has at different times served in
more or less important capacities.
Mr. Mason was born in Hardin county,
Iowa, tnd grew up on a farm, as many
other young business men in these parts
have and received such an education as
the rural schools of his state afforded.
Along about the year '85 he shook the
soil of the 1 Hawkeye state from his
shoes and went to Kansas, where he
met Miss Clara Batdorf, and after a
brief courtship was married to her. This
happened in 1886. He lived in Kansas
only a few years when he concluded that
better opportunities were offered to an
enterprising young man with plenty of
brains and muscle in the Webfool state
than elsewhere. Accordingly, he hiked
thither and has been here ever since and
Will likely remain here as long as he is
permitted to live any here.
Six children have been born to Mr.
Mason and his good wifo, five of whom
are yet living, bright girla and boys
about the parental fireside.
Mr. Mason is in no Bense of the word
a politician, but he takes an active in
terest i. the affairs of his town and
county and Is always found fighting in
the front ranks for anything pertaining
to the good of either. He was the first
paid chief of the fire department Oregon
City ever had. In politics he is a demo
crat and one who votes it straight with
out asking any question?. He is an ac
tive and working member of the A. 0.
U.W..and K. 0. T. M . besides be
longing to the International Retail
Clerks' Union. Ab a man and a citizen
he ranks high in Oregon Oity.
"CLIMBING THE GOLDEN
j STAIRS."
COURIER'S LIST OF READ
ERS GROWING IN SPITE
OF THE RAIN.
Will Reach the 2000 Mark Be
fore "Roses Bloom Again."
Notwithstanding the weather condi
tions the Courier is almost daily increas
ing its list of subscribers, reaching out
and broadening its scope of influence.
It ia conceded by all that 1 the Courier
bas more circulation than all other pa
pers in Clackamas county combined. It
pays to advertise In its columns, be'
cause we reach the people and bring re
sults. Here is a list of those who have
paid during the week. The star indi
cates the new subscribers.
R. B. Holcomb, Clackamas,Ore..$l 50
Albert Newkercher, LaGracdi.Ore 1 50
Merrill DaviB, Oregon City, Ore... 1 50
W. M. Shank, Oregon City, Ore. . . 3 00
Joseph C. Hedges, Oregon City. .. 1 50
Hermon Smitbx, Aurora, Ore I 50
M. H. Flanagan, Oregon City 3 00
A. T, Cochran, Hubbard, Ore.... 1 50
John Hammelman, Canby, Ore.. 1 50
Charles Alb ight, Oregon City, Or 1 50
J. H. Eton, Cams, Ore 1 50
Thomas Law, Marysville, Cal.... 1 50
J. L. Stewart, Stone, Ore 1 50
J. M, Marks, Oregon City, Ore. . . . 1 50
MIGHTY FLOOD
8 WEEPING DO WN THE OLD
WILLAMETTE
From the Headwaters to the
Columbia the River lias
Been Bank Full.
Loss of Property All Along the
Line.
The Willamette river, which is usually
a quiet and placid Btream, went en a
rampage Sunday. For twenty-four
hours, preceding 6 o'clock Saturday af
tercoon, more than three and a half
inches of water had fallen in nearly all
parts of the valley and as a result the
the river was coming up at a rapid rate
on Saturday afternoon and evening. Re
ports from Eugene, Albany and other
places up the river indicated that the
water would reach a very high Btate at
Oregon City and the reporto were veri
verified. Sunday morning the highest water
ttiat had been experienced here thii
year came and the river was ont of its
batiks and over the street car line south
of town and still rising. The Electric.
Company ran several cars on to the low,
places in the track, which is really tres
tle work, and loaded them with rails in I
order to kep the track from floating
away. Hundreds of people viewed the
falls Sunday, which weie indeed, a
spectacular Bight. The water continued
rising all day Sunday and Sunday night,
and even Monday morning crept up a
a few inches.- The Crown Paper mill
was forced to lay off a large force of its
men in the wet room Monday night on
account of the high water. Indications
are that the river will not go higher
even if there ib heavy rain and snow in
the mountains. The loci s were closed
Monday afternoon on account of higer
wattr. No damage of any gre t conse
quence haslwen done in Oregon City
and Clackamas county, though dispatch
es from towns up the river indicate that
they have not been so fortunate.
Eugene, Ore., January 2 The big
flood ol rain during tne 24 hours preced
ing 3 o'Uock Saturday, when 3 51 inches
of rain descended on a. Boaked surface of
ground, brought the highest water in
the Willamette river since the well-remembered
fl"oods of 1890 and those of
1881 and 1801. The flood of the present
year is the fifth in number of any con
sidfrable consequence since the coun
try bas been known to the white man.
Sai.em, Or., Jan. 26. The Willamette
at this point has risen to a height of
27.8.feeton account of recent heavy and
wary "itins. The river is several feet
out jrittf bankti, and is creating feat
havoc upon property" along the water
front. People on Water street were
obliged to move to higher quarters Sun
day night. The new fill to the west ap
proach to the big steel bridge across the
Willamette, but recently completed, is
being washed away, and fears are enter
tained for the treatlework.
This is the greatest fl jod since 1890,
when the river attained a height of 32
feet, and from reports of a still greater
rise from upper river points, it is feared
that the river has not attained its apex
yet. All creeks of this section are rag
ing torrents, and great ddmage is being
wrought upon bridges throuhgout this
and Polk counties.
Albany, Or., Jan. 26. The flood at
Albany began tc subside at 2 o'clock
this afternoon At noon the Willametle
river registered 31.6 feet above low
water mark the highest point reached
in 12 (years, and which has been sur
passed but twice in 42 years. During
the forenoon snow fjll, and later it
changed to a light rain, which still con
tinues.
Reports of losses which will amount
to thousands of dollars, are coming in
rapidly tonight. Almost every one
along the Willamette and Santiam rivers
lost some livestock, and in some in
stances individual losses will
amount to several hundred dollars. The
loss to Linn county in bridges alone will
amount to $25,000, as far as present re
ports go. Beside the Sanderson bridge,
which is a total loss, many bridges were
partly wrecked, among them being the
Driages at Jttierson, btajton, Lebanon
and Crawfordsville. A large number of
small 50-foot bridges were washed out,
rendering roads impassable.
As far as the eye can reach on the
Benton county Bide is an immense ex
panse of turbid, rushing waters, freight
ed with trees and drift, dealing destruc
tion wherever they strike. Traffic is
largely interfered with. - Miles of coun
try roar's on the Benton county side are
submerged, while damage to the South
ern Pacific roadbed in Southern Linn
county has shut off all travel south of
Albany.
Corvallis, Or., Jan. 26. The Wil
lamette tonight ia 2i4 feet above low
water. It has fallen three feet since 5
o'clock this morning, when for three
hours it had stood at 27 feet. To the
east of Corvallis is huge lake four
miles wide and five miles long.
In John Beache'a barn are nine horses
that were midside deep in water all latt
night. They have been standing in
water for 36 hours. Thirty to 60 head
of cattle stood most of yesterday after
noon and all lust night huddled together
on the highest part of the same farm,
and were in two to three feet of vater.
The overflow of Mary's river to the
south of town makes another lake two
or three miles long and a mile wide, with
water two feet deep in the county toad
for a mile to the southward. The lower
end of Mary's river bridge is afloat and
has swung lour foet oat of position. Ap
proach to town baa been practically shut
ofr since yesterday afternoon, save by
the railroads. No damage beyond the
desiruction of several small bridges is
reported. 1 '
The water continued to rise all day
Tuesday very alowly and Tuesday eve-
THE OLD RELIABLE
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Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
1
ning the Crown pater mill was com
pelled to close down their eaiiie plan'..
The woolen mills, too, c'osed down
Tuesday and the water n ada it exceed
ingly uncomfortable for tie Willamette
and Wednesday th greater part of that
mill shut down. Navigation has ceased
on the Willamette and will not be re
sumed until the waters recede. '
The Clackamas near its month over
flowed its banks caused by back water
from the Willamette, and all the low
lands between the Abcrrict y and
and Clackamas is under water. Both
Park Place and Clackamas Heights have
been shut off from ' Oregon City by
wagon roads, both roads- being under
water. Some of the public road between
Oregon City and Park Place is several
feet deep in water. The water reached
the tails of th Southern Pacific Rail
road Company's trucks but did not in
terfere with the traffu of the road.
Several of the backyards o( the houses
at Green Point were covered with water
Wednesday and the Chinese gardens
were entirely under water. The barri
cade placed along the trestle by the O.
W. P. and Railway Company, to be
used when the bridge is to be filled, was
washed away Monday evening, as was
also a part of the bicycle path built of
wood.
The water reached its highest stage
sometime in the afternoon Wednesday
and is now slowly receding. The dam
age in this city has! been light.
Ine nu u of tlit latter psrt of the
week was followed 1 by snow Monday
which melted as fast aa it fell and it has
snowed intermittently since Some of
the highlands in sight of the cit are
yet white with snow but norm has re
mained on the ground in the city. This
is the first snow-fall of the season.
.OA8TOIIIA,
Bean the Ttl9 Vou Have Always BodjJIi
Ttia Kind Vou Have Always
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Wilson & Cooke
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
OLIVER
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AND EXTRAS
Also Harrows, Cultivators and Seeders
WE ALSO CARRY
Stoves, Tinware, Hardware, Cutlery, Woodchoppers'
and Loggers' Supplies
We have also added to our stock, a large shipment
of STEEL ENAMELED WAKE. Lisk'a
anti-rust Tinware.
Jit Prices that Cannot
Wilson
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SECRET SOCIETIES.
What Local Lodges Are Doing
for the Betterment of
Mankind.
Robust Tent, No. 92, Knights of Mae
cahees at Molalla, installed officers Sat
urday night. State Commander Sher-
wood, of Portland, and Sheriff Shaver,
of Oregon City, were presenc. After the
installation a program wai rendered by
Mr. Wright, who was also a visitor. In
strumental music was also rendered.
Several amusing farces were given in a
highly entertaining manlier. The eve
ning's entertmn vnl was closed with
dancing. The nilioers installed in the
lodge were L. II Vutighan, commander;
George L'ae. lieutenan commander;
William Mackrell, reco d and finance
keeper; R. W. Lewie, chaplain; George
F. Frazer, sergeant; D. C. Bojles, first
master of guards; H. N. Everhardt,
secand master of guards; B. Perry,
master-at-arms ; A. Moshberger, picket
and N. O. Zweifel, sentinel.
The Knights of Maccabees of Eagle
Creek hold a public meeting last Saturday
night and a very good lime was en
joyed .
The Wai&eno Trirm of Red Men of
Oregon Oity conferred the warriors' de
gree on two candidates last Saturday
night. The chief's degree will be con
ferred next Saturday night. A banquet
was given Saturday night and a general
good time was enjoyed.
OASTOniA,
Boan th Kind You Have Always
The Kind Vou Have Always
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