OREGON CITY COUBIER; FRIDAY,' APRIL 24; 1903
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Tate Advantage of Opportunities
to be distributed to subscribers of the
Oregon City Courier
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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
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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.
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' 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
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.1903.
I desire to become a subscri
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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.
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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.
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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