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OREGON CITY COUBIER; FRIDAY,' APRIL 24; 1903 ft Tate Advantage of Opportunities to be distributed to subscribers of the Oregon City Courier 9 on June 1, 1903 On Monday June 1st., 1903, there will be held in Clackamas county an election for Congressman to fill out the unexpired term o the late Congressman Tongue.i Td stimu late interest in this election the Oregon City Courier has set aside $107.50, This will be distributed according to the schedule annexed among our subscribers on and after this datejuntil the contest closes who estimate nearest the vote which will be cast for Congress manjin this county. The number of the total votes cast for the office of Congressman will be determined as final and conclusive by the official certificate of the Blord of elections. The prizes to be distributed are as follows: To the one making the neareast correct estimate of the exact total of the vote cast. in Clackamas county for the office of Congressman from the First Oregon District $50 . 00 To the second nearest...... 25.00 To the Third nearest 15.00 , 1 To the Fourth nearest . . . . . . . ...... . .. ... . . . . . . , 10.00 To the Fifth nearest.:.......... i. ........ ,..'.U .V 5-00 To the.Sixth nearest.. 2.50 . All in six premiums amounting to. ....$107.5 If there is a tye in the estimate of two or more persons for ; any oue of the prizes the amount thereof will be equally divided. ' ' ; , . v THE CONDITIONS OF THIS CONTEST For $1.60 on and after this date until the contest closes you can become a subscriber to the Oregon City Courier and this payment will entitle such subscriber to three estimates upon the number of votes that will be cast, to be voted upon the blanks printed in this paper or upou a blanks that will be furnish ed if more are needed. If you are an old subscriber you can renew your subscription for one year and make thiee estimates. If you want more than three estimates you can pay as many years subscription as you please and have the paper sent to your own address for the time or to some friend or relative. All fractions of 3 vote annexted to an estimate will be disregarded. v All estimates must be in the Courier office by six o'clock P. M. on Monday, June 1st, 1903. Write your name and address plainly on each estimate. Cut the estimate blanks from this adver tisement or make application and blank estimates will be forwarded you. Changes will not be allowed after estimates received and registered. ' Acknowledgement of all remittances and estimates received will be forwarded as quickly as pop Bible after the estimate is received. 'The rewards will be made by an impartial committee of award as soon as possible after the cmcial vote is announced. . . '. THE VOTE IN OTHER YEARS 1898. 1900. 1902. 4,046 .3,757 .4,255 1892. 1894. 1896. .3,944 .4,710 .4,643 n Blank with Estimate ith Weekly Subscription Name ... -Address. Estimate . . Estimate... Estimate... No.. .1903. I desire to become a subscri ber to the Oregon City Courier and herewith enclose $ for .... year subscription to same with my estimate upon the total number of votes that will be cast in Clackamas county for Congressman at the June elec tion Monday, June 1st, 1903. I subscribe to all of the conditions of the offer as published. The Courier Profit Sharing Bureau Box 338, Oregon City, Oregon. 1 Mountain View. Geo. Ely is putting up a large water tank. Mr. Du vail has told his property to mi. prwi.i. ,. Mr. Clark and family of Mt Plaant have moved into Mr. Ginthers bouse. Born, to the wife of W. Raj April 17, 1003, a girl, Dr. Stuart is their doctor. J. D. Locke has bought a lot south of his residence and is erecting a nice new house. , Mr. Mulvany and daughter Eliza, of Meadow Brook were calling in this berg last week. The Presbyterian Aid society will hold their annual carnival sale on Wednes day May 6th. Misses Minnie and Caroline Woltring of Portland were the guest of Mrs. Gil lett Sunday evening. Mr. S. Gifford, of Idaho, was visiting here last week with his brother-inlaw, I. Pierce and daughter. Mrs. Taylor is able to sit up again. They will move to Eastern Oregon the middle of next month. . Albert Freidrich is at borne from school this week suffering with the af fliction called the pink eye. Miss Frances Johnson finished a three month's term of school last Friday and returned home Saturday. Theadore Week is tearing down Mrs. Currin's barn anu making other im provement on the place. Mrs. Darling has recovered from her attack of lsgrippe. and Bhe and Ella are both working in the woolen mill again. There seems to have been some pil feres in this berg lately. Maud Moran has lost her bicycle and Mrs. Parish a shawl. Salvia, Beaver Creek. Eeaver Creek is having a nice again at the present writing. Thomas Jones, of Beaver Creek, is looking for a pension soon. O. Moldenhauer and wife have taken up their abode in Beaver Oreek again. L. T. Vanover will soon take the mail route from Oregon City to Mulino via uiarkes. I. W. Jones has hired a woodchonner and expects to get rich in the wood business. Beaver Creek will have a newcomer soon, as an Eastern man is trying to ouy uie v anover piace or tne ihomas place. Charlie Jones will aDDeal to the Old Maids' Club for a wife as soon as the weather settles, and the roads gets dusty aga n. He says he has the starter to gain the bird. Theie is a chance for a new sawmill on Beaver Creek at the corner of James', Vanover's.Martin and Mitchell's Dlaces. aa there are several thousand feet of good timber In there. WILL-COST TOO MUCH. A Taxpayer Whe'a Agalnst;the South End Road. Asopewbohas business interests in the north end of the town, and who also Holland. Spring showers foretells May flowers. Rural free delivery is talked of in this section. B. F. Linn is loading a car with lum. Derior tteuwood. C. A. Sprseue is in Portland under tne physician 1 care. Miss Hazel Commons is visitlnor. her grandfather at Lents. The Linn hill has ' undergone some long needed repairs this week. Gotlieb Schneiter was up from the me. tropolis for a few days' visit with his pareuts. All are waiting for the woik to beeln on the Viola, Redland and Oregon City road. There were two barn raisings this week. Fred Schneiter had one and Wm. Stone the other. There is to be a basket social at the Henricl echocl house on the evening of may a ror me Denenc 01 tne scnool. Miss Millie Collins, who has been vis iting a month with her sister, Mrs. Tom bleson, of Portland, is at home again. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Newkirk. of Rocklin, Cnl , spent the fore part of the month visiting Mrc. 8. 8. Mosher, who is Mrs. Nywkirk's mother. Redland. Smith & Stone are installing a larce new planer. Two barns were rinsed vesterdav. one at Mr. Sniders' and one at Mr. Stone's. Thanks Mr, Editor, fur so kindlv answering my questions in last week's issue. W. H. Bonney intends to more hit mill on the Strouaker place in the near future. E. Rands, A. Kerchem and others are surveying the Vioia and Abernathy road and setting grade stakes. Whats the mat.tr With RarilanH ? Wh. don't you know, we have Just woke up auer inuuigmg in a long siesp. School is Droizressinor nicelv tinder tha management of Miss Msude Stone. While there is not a large attendance in number,but make up In Intelligence. The subscription list for tha marl ! still growing . We now have over $2000 and still more to hear from. Mr. Lenny should have been credited with $50 in- sieaa 01 no as tne paper stated. L. F. Card of Thanks: To those felcnds, myself and family including especially tha Grand Army post of Oregon City and Relief corps we desire to extend our heartfelt thanks for kindness rendered at the funeral of my beloved wife. Gaoaoa O. Kirnst. Socialists Will Open Campaign. The Socialists will open the campaign Id this county next week. M. W. Wil kins, of Lorin, California, J. W. Ingle, Socialist candidate for congrast,and Mr. C. B. Harritt will speak at Oanby op the afternmb of Thurday, April 30, and will iMr th vo- of thi city the tarn, evening in Will -matte ball. has every reason to desire the prosper ity of every part of our city, I do not feel that the editorial in the Record of a late date regarding the south end road should go unnoticed. The e ditorial in question takes occas ion to abuse everybody who does not happen to believe about this 'enterprise, just as the ardent promoters do, and in particular the committe on . streets and public property William Sheahan, C. G. Huntley and E. F. Story. Now, as a matter of fact there are many good citi sens in Oeegon City, wno have no inter ests in the north part of Main street, who believe, and the writer thinks with gcod reason, that the cost of a safe and serviceable road cut of the south end of the city will be all out of proportion to the benefits to be received by the whole or any part of the city. The best eBti mates for a grade crossing road made is nearly $5000, and for a road under the S. P. track is nearly $1000, and this is only for the city's portion, which is a small part. The county's part of the road is a very rough and rugged terri tory to build a ioad over, a considerable part of it beirg along an almost perpen dicular bluff back of Canemab, along wnich it will be both difficult and expen sive to build ;a safe road. The cost of this road will of course come out of the taxpayers, and naturilly many citizens who already feel the burden of probably the highest taxed city in the state, are inclined to question whether the bene fits to be derived from the road will compensate for the large expense neces sary to make a safe highway to travel. The writer concedes the great benefit that the proposed road would be to the people of the Mount Pleasant neighbor hood and believes that they they are entitled to the road provided It can be built within any reasonable price.. The claim that the road will bring any new business to Oregon Oity is not bounded on reason. . The people of the southern part of the county who now trade at Canby, Aurora and Hubbprd will not come to our city in any greater numbers, simply because the distance hs been shortened about a half a mile in the 8, 10 or 12 miles that tbey may be from Oregon City. Abuse of members of the council and citizens who do not happen to believe just as the promoters of this road do is not the proper way to make headway. It would be well perhaps for the editor of the Record to remember that all the virtue and public ipirit of the city is not con fined to the promoters of this enterprise and due credit is' given them for hon esty of purpose from their point of view, and especially is to be commended Mr. E. E. Obarman's everlasting persever ence in the pushing this enterprise at all times and upon all occasions. II is barely possible that some of our citizens are honest also in their opposition. . Referring to the charge of selfishness in the opposition of some of the roads. The writer thinks that perhaps some who oppose it really fear that their busi ness on 7th street on the hill and the North end of Main street will be injur ed, if this road is constructed. This feeling has not been helped by the claims of some of the parties favor ing the same. One of the promote s informed the writer that when completed 75 per cent of the Mclalla road travel would be di verted to this road. It is rather bard to convince some of the business men of the policy of taxing themselves for a road that will bring no new business to the city and divert 10 large a propor tion of business that now passes their doors. The claim is absolute folly, but the promoters of the Sjuth end road have no one to blame but themselves it some of our citizens entertain this notion. As the writer understands, the report of the committee in whose hands this road matter stands and for which the mem bers got so badly abused by the Record was substantially as follows: They recommended that the toad be continued under the 8. P. track, con demned the grade, crossing at that particular place as dangerous, recom mending that the city aseertaln just how much bad been subscribed by citizens, and rather than increase the debt fur ther, have a pecial election for voting a special tax for the purpose of finishing up the road at once. The writer is at a loss to understand why the report of the committee cansed such an nproar for it seems to be parti cularly fair. It is possible that the charge of selfish ness may properly lay at the door of some of the 0 pposit ion to the road, but this cannot be said of all the voters of the city. It is certainly proper that a proposi ti n, involving the expense that thiswill, nnder any plan adopted, should be sub mitted to the voters first. If it is proper and will redound to tha general benefit of the city, the voters will not hesitate to say to, Taipatci, HpirtuaUntt Meeting, At Willamette hall on 8unday, April ( SF-h at 2 o'clock p. nt. Everybody com. . (Dr. Mvlutyre is expected to preside. I tod mm Bseaw THE HALL OF FAME. 1 General Samuel W. Price, the 1 Tllle painter, has lost his eyesight Senator Nathan B. Scott of West fr gtola has gone to Europe on j tour in search of health. Senator Ankeny of Washington I a lawyer, la no orator and la not a 4 dent, but la credited with much . mon sense. Sir John Gorat la at seventy the youngest looking men to the i ef common. He spend nine hootir twenty-four In bed. Frank Hersh of Baltimore claims 1 be the oldest Republican in the Dnttai States, having voted for the early ptta) ciples of that party in 1852. Emperor William has determined $0 have a grouse moor of his own in Gas , royal domain about Eoenigsburg. The grouse does not exist in a wild state fts Germany. Hon. David Wark of Fredrlcton. H. B., entered upon his one hundredth year recently and claims the distilla tion of being the oldest living legislator in the world. Herbert W. Bowen, minister to Ye ezuela; Judge Taft, governor of that. Philippines, and Judge Hunt, governor of Porto Rico, were classmates and. friends at Yolo. Police Superintendent Gee of Man chester, England, who died recent, had a hobby for collecting volume of verse and prose written by uneducated and illiterate authors. The death of the British general Sir Henry Daubeny, removes the last of the Crimean brigade commanders. Shr Henry, who died at the age of ninety two, joined the Fifty-fifth regiment la 1820. President Roosevelt has received from President Zelaya of Nicaragua a tnfC ed eagle which was shot recently hy the sender. President Zelaya is amuaC as much of a sportsman as President Roosevelt. William H. Day of New York tStj, will attempt to o-;anlze at Glan Elrie. a village on the Hudson river, an ait producing community similar In rhav acter to that founded in England under the auspices of William Morris. Justice Shlras, as a result of eaffl ponlng his retirement from the tmn preme court "just to oblige," retires tod $12,500 a year instead of $10,000, tm gresa having raised the judges' jngi It sometimes pays to accommodata, T 1 MODES OF THE MOMENT Box plaits appear on some of thai most fashionable new shirt waist .mot els. An Eton opening over a cloth vest with basque skirts attached, la the jacket shown on several smart spriqg costumes. Turnover collarettes of plaited chif fon having long front pieces of tha) shaped plaited chiffon are among that pretty novelties. The new twelve gored skirt model designed for women of rather full fig ure la very graceful in appearance. It is cut with eleven gores, the -extsa breadth forming an outside box plait at the back. The fad for gold trimmings, gimps braids, pins, lace, nets and buttons seems to have been revived. These or naments now appear on the cheapest gowns and jackets, and black and gold hats can be bought at very low prices. Among the latest French novelties are silk parasols trimmed with flat very deep Vandykes of cream silk em broidery with silk fringe to match and "dress" umbrellas with a border of woven embroidery or Irish guipure In sertion, PLAYS AND PLAYERS. There are four Jewish theaters a the lower east side of New York city. Olga Nethersole has bad mads aa adaptation of Rlcheplu's "Le Masque." In the newest and most popular melo drama on the Paris boulevards the sub ject la child murder. George Alexander, the eminent Eng lish actor, will not come to America, It is said, until the autumn of 1904. George W. Monroe will supplement "The Doings of Mrs. Dooley" the com ing season with "Widow Doolej Dream." Grace George probably Is the self actress In this country who has -' peared in none except plays by Amqtv lean dramatists. "The Holy City," a drama by "W. Jfe Hurst, founded on the biblical story tt Mary Magdalene, will be produced, shortly by Thomas W. Broadburst , At Antotne's, In Paris, recently a gahv performance of "La Bonne Esperaae" realized a fat purse for the. starraqet sardine fishermen on the Britttsf coast s PITH AND POINT. Yon are only doing half as weS 1 you can. Look yourself over. Is your valve in good working order? A too sealous desire to bear ides of the story is really a weak ' for gossip. Of course It is your duty to love 4 around you ail the better for faults, but do you 7 A man carrying a little valise c Woman carrying a big one Is alwaya funny sight on the street Acquire self control or one of thesja) day you will be odd of those idfeia who yell "Klre!" in a crowded housa