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w ., OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 1903 NO. 18 21st YEAR PROFESSIONAL. Dr. John Welch Dr. Louia A. Morris yELCH & MORRIS DENTISTS Dr. Welch in personal Attendance at the office on Wednesday of every week. Office next door to Courier building OREGON CirY, OREGON J)R. GEO. HO EYE DENTIST All work warranted and satisfaction guaranteed Crown and Bridge work a specialty Canfleld Building OREGON C1TT ' OBEGON Jt 0. STRICKLAND, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON . Does an TJp-To-Date General Praotlce Special attention given to surgery and diseases oi women. Office In Garde Building, 7th and Main St' OREGON CITY. ORF.GON J. W. Norms, M. I). J. W. Powell. M. JJORRIS & POWELL, Physicians and Surgeons. Calls in city or country promptly attend ed Garde Building, Oregon City. QSTEOPATHY DR. C. D. LOVE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate of American 8chool of Osteopathy, Kirksvtlle, Mo. Successfully treats both acute and chronlo dis eases. Call lor literature. Consultation and Examination Free. Office Hours: iOr by appointment at any time. Booms No. 4 and 6, Stevens Building, Main St OREGON CITY, OBEOOM. 0. BCHUEBEL W. 8. TJ'REN JJREN & SCHUEBEL ATTORNEYS AT LAW , ffieutfcfiet SIbDoIot Will oraotioe 'In all courts, make collections and settlements of estates, furnish abstracts of ' title, lend von money and lend your money on first mortgage. , Office in Enterprise building. OREGON CITY OREGON c. D, & D. C. LATCTJRETTE ATTORNEYS AT LAW Commercial, Real Estato rotate our special Office in Commercial Ban ..uildlng OREGON CITY OREGON OBERT A. MILLER ATTORNEY AT LAW, O. D. EBY, NOTARY PUBLIC.' Real Estate bought and told, money loaned tiles examined and abstracts made, oash paid for county warrants. Probate and commUtoionera' court business and insurance. BOOM 8, WEIMHARD BUILDING OREGON CITY, OREGON QRANT B. DIMICK Attorney and Counselor at Law Will practice In all Courts In the State, Circuit and District Courts of the United States. Insolvent debtors taken through bankruptcy. Office in Garde Building, Oregon City, Or. COMMERCIAL BANK of OREGON CITY CAPITAL $100,000 Transacts a general banking business Makes loans and collections, discounts bills buys and sells domestic and foreign exchange and receives deposits subject to check. Open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. , C. Latoubettr, . J. Meyib rr Mdent t;asnie J N. GREENMAN ' THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN (Established 1866) Prompt delivery to all parts of the city OREGON CITY REGON OASTOHIA. Bear the f llM Vou Haw Always BongM jWe Ijavt Prom To a majority of the 4 . . UUl L1 caci ljjuuu wuii our preauijniuu wuik & Because we do it ourself, and that we are better pre- pared to handle this appliance. Consequently we boast ot naving a lLmw tradt In this line than all other stores in Oregon City com bined." D Realizing thatthe success of this store is due to the Interest X taken by our many customers, We wish to thank you for your T hpartv co-ODeration. and pledge our earnest endeavor to so con- X V ri.ict our business, as to merit HOWELL PRES CRIPTIN After the Council. John Weismantel Expresses Els, Opinon About the Sewer District. Says He Has Been Unjustly and Uufairly Treated by the Powers That Be . Mr. Editor. I hope it will not be aek ing too much ot you to allow an old sub scriberand Democrat a littla- space in your paper to express his opinion about certain goingB on in this little cfty ofours. The new sewer district, known as No. 2, in Oregon City is Bear ing completion and it is a good thing and ought to have been built; but every man in the district ought to have been treated decently. Now, my property is not in this sewer district. The main line of the new sewer run out Jackson street, one block west of my propertv. Not a Bingle piece of property on Van Buren s'reet was put in the new district although some of it is low and on swampy ground, with the exception of my own block. The street and eewer committee run up an entire block to get to my property and singled me out alone, not taking the property ofanyofmy neighbors and compelled me to build a sewer connection to the new sewer line more than a full block aisay, I would not complain at this were it not for the fact that I was so singled out. The cost is very consider able. I did not need the sewer at all as my property stands upon high ground and is well drained.' Had thecommittee taken in the property of my neighbors it would have been all right. But being an old-man and neither a Republican or a Catholic, they bounced upon me and against my protest and over my will they forced me into a district I did not want and for which I had no use. Had I known how to make the right kind of a pull I thind I could have got ten off all right. I was not able to find out who was responsible for this dirty and unreasonable piece of work. I went to Clyde Huntley ind he said Sheehan was doii g it and that he was the man to see. I went to grower .uimica, our ai fable mayor, and Jwho is my good friend, and he said Dan Lyons had it done . Now, Dan Lyonsfo my son-in-law, but lam young enough to know my own business and express my own opinion. When I get too old to do so I will get William and Dan to look after my affairs for me. If Mr. Sheehan and Dan Lyons are go ing to run the affairs of Oregon City it is about time that the people should find it .out, and 1 think tnis fall we Bhould elect' Mr. Sheehan mavor of the city and Dan Lyons for councilman from the third ward and your humble servant will join the Catholic church, and then possibly he can have what he wants or at least a little deceit treatment. ' Now, mind you, Mr. Editor, I don't mind paying my share, but I do object to be ing held up in the middle, of the road and made to deliver. I would also like for tbe common Icouncil of Oregon City to understand and Bruce Curry in par ticular, that I am yet able to run my own business and don't have to get into a sewer district by proxy. I havo got a whole lot more to Bay about this matter Mr. Editor, but won't trespass on you r time any more this week. I will give some of the boy 3 a little hot shot later. ' John Weismantkl, Of Bewer DiBtrict No. 3. people of Glackamas County that 10 is work with our new and modern t t a continuance of your patronage 6 JONES SPECIALISTS James Jeffries. Holds His Title of Champion of the World. He Is the Big Fighting Machine of the Modern Prize Ring. No man can stand before him. Jeffries is again proclaimed the chimpion prize fighter of the world, The following de scription of the battle between him and Corbet was written for the San Francisco Examiner by Ashton Stevens : "The best of it was its brevity. Kip ling couldn't write a shorter, swifter melodrama, barely thirty-eight min utes, including entre acts, and three out of every four of thoBe minutes panting with action such has never been devised bv the dramatist of commerce. It was melodrama that plaved tunes up and down your vertebrae, that had you now as pink as the bared actors, now erup tive with the goose-fiash of shock and surprise; and throughout its ten tense acts there was never a slack in the sus pense, never a halt in your demand for the seauel. It leaped from climax to climax cu tningly, ingeniously and al wins cumulatively. And the crowd the crowd ate it. "In no other place of amusement have I ever seen such a crowd. Suiely, never at Gran opera, whereEames, Sembrieh De Reezke, Flankon and ScoiU were in the bill and millions on millions in dia monds burned in the horseshoe. And I had thought that the grand opera audi eiine ranresented the limit of extrava gance. Beside this gathering in the Mechanics' Pavilion last night an opera crowd is a bargain counter bagatelle. I; Sat among men that had paid forty fifty dollars lor hard-bottomed, weak-backed chairs and boasted of their lucky pur chases. How the sedentary citizen does thrill to this kind of a Bhow I Most artfully modern was the ending, wieh its triumph for the villain. Mr. Jeffries was the ideal villain, patient, gloating, inevitable. The crowd the bit of it in which I sat hated the villain with a fervor rarely found, in a cheapside playhouse. Mr. Jeffries wore make-up to be hated in. Dull, thick and sullen was his face, except when he smiled ; he then coaxed shudders. .- His legs and arms were as the knotted trunks of trees ; his great body, between the shoulders and from his chest to the pit of his stom ach, was shaggy with hair; from head to hoof he looked a fabulous bison. Never was a part more Donsistently buffaloed. Id Jeffries' eyes there glimmered not so much ot malice as of sheer animal lust to slay. I have never seen anything elte quite so primitive and terrible. A thousand generations of civilization seemed to stand between Jeffries and the outer world the outer world of which, seemingly, Corbet was the most graceful representative, in all that throng. Corbett w as the hero without heroics ; at times, the "intense ' cimeaian 01 manners. Form, good looks, the pride of the bath were strong In him. To the epicurean eye he was the diet for dreams. Only his manner so contemporary and so gentle of balance saved him from demigodliness . But it ws hard to real ize shat he had once been a circuit mono loguist. His humor was finer than that. He smiled as the youngest officer smiles when he goes on the forlorneBt hope. He boxed in epigrams. Always there waB wit in the reply of- his lean wbita arm, and always there was hope in his eourageous hope, although it was founded in your fear for him. Yet be never eli cited mere "under-dog" sympathy. He was, indeed, never the under dog that is, never till the last of the last scene, when he doubled an 1 fell and doubled and fell again unde' the ram of the bi son. No: he had your hope stronger than jour judgment. He made the in evitable unbelievable. It would be, you thought, the conventional ending of the conventional melodrama, with the hero high and the bad one low. At any sec ond the heto would shoot out the long arm of coincidence and flnifeh it all in the good old-fashioned way. Tkat would be in keeping with his "aside" to tbe spectators : 'I'm a pretty bard old guy to knock out, ain't I?" The line was colloquial, but sincere, and won applause, if not victory. I did not know that there was so much ap plause in the world as was lavished on the more fortunate adventures of Cor bett, aye, on his very defeat. And I can not recall from any age a more moving, compelling, nerve-beating, bloodless performance than this one in the fistri- onic theatre. It bad the priceless brev ity. , Easeball at Canby. The Baseball club of the Barclay High school will journey to Canby on next Saturday and try conclusions with the Canby easeball clob. The local club of the Barclay school is a good one and will give a good account of itself. Dog Days. Political Prognostic atiois, and Information Abont things of Which We Know Nothing: A Few Impossibilities, and Other Things That Will Probably JVot Happen. With tha temperature up in the nine ties, with everybody out of town, even tbe printer's devil, excepting the editor, who must furnish copy and other things to his readers, we are prone to moralize. News is very "scace" this week.' Noth ing much doing. No fights, no "blud" flowing, everybody gone who can. get away. We are led to believe from what we see and hear that this Fall we are to have an election in Oregon City for Mayor. The Hon. Grant B. Dimick, who has well and truly served the people of this city for the lat three years and whose majority baa grown with each succeed ing election, will not be a candidate to succeed himself. He has his eye on sev eral other things. He is ambitious and cupiible and will succeed. But it is not of Dimick we started out to write. Who is the man who will pick up his job when he is done with it. About the only mean thing a fellow can say about Mayor Dim ick ia that he is a Republican, and while that is about the meanest thing you can say about anybody, we have known quite a number of good fellows however who have made that fatal mistake la life.. There are two things in Texas that hang a mac for, stealing horses and vot- votiug the Republican ticket. Madame rumor on her round has told the Courier office lhat Will Sheehan will be a candidate for Mayor, that Council man Koerner also has political ambitions and will contest the place with Sheehan. It is also whispered that Dr. J. W. Pow ell would not object to the job. That is a pretty good bunch of fellows from which to pick, They are all members of the "common council " ' Inasmuch as there are but nine councilmen in Oregou City and three of them are prospective candi dates for Mayor, if political ambitions run as strongly among the remaining 00 voters of Oregon City there ought to be about 300 more candidates for the - posy tion. The Courier wants to announcy right now that it is against any man for mayor who does not subscribe for this paper. The only thing that is not quite clear to the Courier man, and possibly he "Sees through a glass darkly" is why isn't Clyde Huntley a candidate for mayor? There are good fellows the world over and the "righter" has seen some of them but Clyde Huntley has the bland est smile, the jolliest hand shake of any of the bunch we have vet met It is a "dirtv shame" that he belongs to the Republican party. He would make an excellent mayor. But he wouldn't have it unless it was forced upon, him and he would then obey the Republican maxim "Don't let anything get away ." And fin von know that bov Huntley will be somebody one of these days. He j - the making of a man in him, and they don't grow any belter boys where he came from. But he don't want any. thing. Y u can "jest" leave things laying an und loose. It is also rumored that Charles Al bright, one of Oregon City's popular meat merchants, will likely be in the race for Mayor. Mr. Albright has not yet announced his intentions but may do bo at any time. Politics is some w bat catching in Oregon City just at present. By the way there is also a ruinot afloat that Mr. Ed. Jack who made the race for sheriff on the Citizens ticket last year and was defeated by Sheriff .ohn R. Shaver, may seek the nomination upon the Democratic tickel m vt year and try conclusions with Mr. Shaver aga'n. Mr. Jack is deservedly popular, and while Sheriff Shaver is not an easy man to handle Mr. Jack would make a good showing. However, the June election is nine months off, ao it Is idle to moral ize over the matter. '. w Hon. Harver Cross, 0. H. Dye, George Harding, Mr. W. A. Huntley and all of tbe other gentl nmen who were connected with the managementof the Chautauqua this year are entitled to a vote of thanks from the promoters of the Lewis and . ' a, a A II, 1 nna ot Clark Fair, lor Dringing uui w w-o. Hon. Champ Clark, and the Honorable Senator J. P. Doliver, doiu 01 u"i pledged their support to a large appropri ation by the Federal Congress to aid the Fair. Each of them indicated that they would be willing to give it as much as .1 mm rvin Mn t wo men In the Congress of 'the United States have more influence j than the-e two distinguiBoeu ca. , one a democrat and the other a Republi can one of them a member of the House and the other a member of the Senate. What they have promised will no doubt iu. Aa Th I.wis and Ciark Board of Directors ouiiht to give a banquet to the Management ot the Chautauqua. They builded wiser than they knew. At the Regatta. Senator Rnconich and the Ore gon City Water Boys. Hose Team In Great Shape Aud to Win Some Prizes. Ought It was a jolly good bunch of fellows who went down to Astoria from Oregon City on Monday afternoon.' They com posed the crack hose team of Qregon City and were off for the city at the mouth of the Columbia for tbe purpose of demonstrating to the ide, wide world that they knew a few things about water and how to use it in a hot place. Sena, tor L. Rucouich, the chief of the fire de partment of Oregon City, was iu charge of the gang. He was proud ot his boys and had a right to be and was out for all the good things in sight. The Right Honorable W. H. Howell, chief manipu lator of the water works of Oregon City, was also one of the high muck a mucks of the good fellows. Mr. Howell ex plained that he only went along for a good time, to take care of the "high balls" and to see that none of the boys got water logged. The remainder of th e party was made up of, Harry Trembath , time keeper; Charles A. Pope, captain; L. F. Brown, W. Peter, L. 0. Williams, R. W. Kritz, R. C. Hall, E, Williams, A. C. Cox, O. Thompkins, W. F. Mc Ginnis, Sherman J. Burford. Dr. 0. D. Love and George Heffner. The boys ar rived at Astoria on t the afternoon of Monday in fine fettle and ready for the fray . The programme at Astoria this week is a fine one and will attract a very large crowd. Boat races, yacht races, foot races, hose races and every old kind of a race will be on'the bill of fare. If the boys win in all their races they will char ter a boat and sail up the beautiful Wil lamette and will be met with a brass band and glad hozannahs by the popu lace of Oregon City, . Here hoping they may win, for a better "gang" of boys never went down tbe river. .' RUN SECOND. Astoria, Or.'- August 20, 1903. (Special to' the Courier.) The flret race of the competing hose teams at the ReKalta.alABtaria was run today and the Oregon tt? boys finished ei-ood, just 1-5 of a second behind tbe winning teana, which was furnished jby Astoria. The distance was three hundred yards and three ttams competed, Astoria, Ore gon City and Vancouver. The time was Astoria first, 0:31 1-6 ; Oregon City, sec ond, 0 :31 2-6 ; Vancouver, third, 0 :3? 1-5. The prize won by the Oregon City team was $50;00 in gold. foot races ; 1 In tbe races Oregon City carried ff all of the honors. In the 100 yard dash there were seven entries Tbe wiimers were Heppner, of Oregon City, first, Smith of Oregon City, second j time 0 :10 In the 220 yard race there were five entries. The winners w re He-pnerof Oregin City, with Curtis of Astoria sec ond. Time, 0:22 l-o. . There are more than 100 people here from Oregon City, They are all having a good time, some better than others. Senator L. Rnconich, Hon. W. H. Howell and Mayor Grant B. Dimick are doing the honors and keeping the boys in the "middle of the road." JRikntion The only ic-j t- Class Second-hand dealer in, Furniture STOVES and UTENSILS It Is worth your time to come and examine the stock. You will find a full line of new and Second -Hand Furnituie Stoves, Crockery, Hardware, Etc. Highest Cash Price Paid for Second Hand Goods. T MiAT pAT A t) A ! Ivy I4I J Ll VlV 445t$ Dan Lyons, r - 3 Has Been Offered a Good Job 1 . In the East May Go to Maryland and Take Control of Tunnel Work. That Dan Lyons i9 one of the most competent tunnel builders in the world is testified ta by the fact that he has within the past few days been offered the superintendent's position by the McArthdr Construction Co., of Chicago, at work in Maryland. They have some ten or fifteen tunnels to build in the Cumberland mountains, one of them 4300 feet long. Thy offer Mr. Lyons $250.00 per month and all expenses. Another construction company, in Colo rado, has also offered Mr. Lyons a posi tion of a similar character and at the same price. Mr. Lyons has not yet made up his mind which position he will ac cept, but he will accept one or the other of the places. Watch for a Chill. However allcnl at this time of vear and in this olimate, it is tlie forerununr of malaria. A dis position to yawn, and an all tired out feeling evon comes botore the ohlll. Herblne by its prompt Htimulative aation on the liver, drlvB Hie malarial germs out of the system, purifies the blood, tones up tti system an restores health. 60j at Char man & Co. Your Banking? No matter how small, No matter how large, ZbtBank Of Oregon City Will give it careful attention. This mes- . sage applies to the , ' .rrien and the women' f " alike.; ' . OOOOOOOOOOOfSQtS09CIOOO)9000 g A Positive Statement.! . m Huntley Bros., Druggists, are agents for Oregon City for $ hell oil's Oil of Eden 2 Sweet Spirits of Eden 5 Remedies that will positively cure any case of Rheumatism, no matter how severe or how long standing. In case anyone is not cured, the California Co-Operative Medical Company, of Oakland, will refund the purchase price. Call at Huntley Bros, for free booklet. MAIN STREET, 1 door north Commercial Bank Q 4$444titV0