Image provided by: Oregon City Public Library; Oregon City, OR
About Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1904)
OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAYr JANUARY 8, 1904 8 OREGON CFIY COURIER Published Every Friday by UREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHINQCO' J. H. WxtrrOTEB, Idltor and Builneu Manager R. Ui WiciOTXR, Local Editor. Intend In Ortgon City PortofSoe as id-olM natter 8UB8CBIFTION BATES. Paid in advance, per year 1 60 Six months 75 Clubbing Rates Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oregonlan .$2.26 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courior- Journal 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Cosmopolitan... 2.25 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Twlce..a.Week Journal : 2 25 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Journal .... 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Dally Journal 4.50 f-The date opposite your address on the paper donoteslhe time to which you have paid. If this noticeis marked yoursubseiiption la due. OREGON CITY, JANUARY 8, 19C4 A Tub Democratic: State convention of MaBeachueette will boom Richard Olney for President. Aha! Gadzooks! We now have General Wofd upon the hip. He has begun to write letters. Dkmocratb ousrht to be terribly work ed up because the way in which Senator Gorman leadB them does not please the Republicans. Senator Stone of Mo.. says that Bryan will not get in the way but will do hs whole part towards securing a Democrat ic victory next fall. If Colombia ehall launch against us at Panama as a guerrlla war, it will make of the canal a very expensive jewel to decorate Uncle Sam withal. New York State will try to unite its enthusiasm on a favoiite of its own to put before the National Convention Parker or Hearst, perhaps. Although Chicago, St. Louis, and sev eral olher cities are candidates it seems likely at this writ ng that the Ddmocrat ic National convention will meat in New York. Tiiuke troop ships are being fitted up at San Francisco to be ready to convey troops' to any point of thf compass when calltd for. Perhaps they could even net to Panama. The spirit of war is in the air. The English and Germans are again excited ly discussing the question which won the battle of Waterloo. A descendant of the Irishman, Lord Wellington, Bays "naythur." Tub Christian Party will probably lead off, holding its national convention at St Louis, May 1, to nominate a presidential candidate. It consists of all who oppose war, and govern their lives by the Golden Rule. Whether they will assemble in a room or under an umbrella is not yet determined. It is estimated that the Philippine frolic has cost ihe United States up to this New Year's Day, about $1127,000,000 including the bonds about to be issued for the friar lands, and taking no account of the 10,000 deaths. Whether the oriental game is worth this Occident a' candle, well, they say it is altogether to late to talk about that. Yks, onr diplomatic agents abroad ought to be butter paid.. Our Cotisul General Skinner, eecortedby a regiment of soldiers, has had a Hue time in the Abyssinian capital. Emperor Menelik gave him the freedom of the sacred land and bestowed on him loads of wealth. The only currency of Abyssinia is Bait. Hut Skinner is exceptionally lucky. How many hundreds of thousands of people in the United States have been taken In and done during the year just ended, we ehall never know. In closing out an estate in Philadelphia the other day, 400 shares in certain companies which had a market value of over $:!000 at the height of the boom.brought thirty five cents. Over TOO Bhares in another company at one time quoted as worth 2100, brought $1.10, What shall be said of financial conditions that enabled these pretentious organizations to im pose upon the credulity of hundreds of thousands of honest Americans? And would such "publicity" as Republican physicians prescribe have robbed them ot their meretricious fascinations? 1 ENERGY 1C Your money back if not satisfied. In the spirit of the brilliant old poet of democracy Oliver Wendell Holmes was hovering over Botton town, it most have been gratified at the celebration in his honor the other night. As he himself need to say. "Why can't a fellow hear the good things said About a fellow when a fellow's dead?" Philippines pathetically ask oi Presi dent Roosevelt that one of their own talented lawyers shall be appointed, in one of the Manila courts as some assur ance of an intelligent impartiality. Think of a series of courts to ordian justice, in which the judge does not understand what is being said either by the counsel or the witnesses." Shnator Allison in his recent Chicago speech was unstinted in bis praise of President Cleveland's course in main taining Ihe gold standard during the hard times of 1803-6, which, the Iowa Senator admitted, were due to the Sherman act passed and maintained by Republicans. Lucky man is Grover Cleveland to enjoy his own immortality in the discomfiture of his enemies. Dr. Alexander Dowie, ("Elijah III") haa gone to Australia, pausing at New Orleans and San Francisco on the way, He will Bail January 21st. He says Zion is a straights Republican city. In the course of his last sermon he spoke eulogiBtically of President Roosevelt and in his last prayer ask that God would circumvent and forestall his enemies and prevent them from "carrying out their mischievous plans." The illustrious Herbert Spencer has been cremated, or, at any rate his body has been, t e wished some of the views he had uttered in his blunt frankness would be cremated with him. Thirty years ago he expressed ideas of govern ment perilously near to anaichism, but he lived to recant them and he died in the full assurance of faith in democracy, Shame it is to England that she should tarnish her fame by refusing him sepul ture in Westminister Abbey, EREE TRADE IN BOOTS AND SHOES- One of the leading trade journals of , Boston has taken a sort of census among the boot and shoe manufacturers of the Eastern States. The questions asked them arose out of the incident in the United States sente when Senator Lodge proposed free hides and Senator War ren, of Wyoming, thought to offset the demand by proposing to take off the protective tariff against foreign made boots and shoes. The general feeling expressed by the boot and shoemakers of the East is that they are willing to see both schedules repealed I They want free hides and with free hides do not fear any competition in the home or in foreign markets from the boot and shoe makers of any other nation on the globe. With oar work men, processes and improved machinery we can Btand on a dead level with ihe Crispins of civilization and underbid them out of the market bo far as the volume of our production will reach. Just recently a thoroutsh-going Ameri can shoe store has been opened in Vi enna and is doing a splendid trade in Ehoes and boots of American make only. The mpkera in the EaHt frankly admit that they no longer are engaged in an infant industry and no longer need a tar iff wall to protect them from foreign competitors. This is a Btrong example of how the leaven'of tariff reform Is working. The home market is secure to our manufac turers by reaBon of occupancy and pa triotism. Now they want a free an I fair chance to compete with the world and do not ask for an uttderhold ad vantage. DEMOCRATIC THAT ARE WANTED. It is definitely announced from Bos ton that the Massaehusette Democrats are actively working to consolidate the New England delegations in the national Democratic convention in support of lion. Richard Olney's claims to the presidential nomination. The New England Democrats believe that Mr. Olney is not too old to he considered and they urge that in him and in his record are pointB of strength that at this juncture would make him a peculiarly strong and popular Democratic leader against Roosevelt and the Republicans. Meantime, the New York Democracy is swarming, but hesitant upou whom to settle. Because his newspapers were the only oneB in New York city that had the sand and sense of party loyally to champion McClellan in the recent mayoralty election, the friends of Wil liam Raudolph Hearst are claiming tnat he is entitled to Tammany's support as New York's candidate ior the president ialjnoniination. Of course.tlie friends of Judge Alton B. Parker, and of McClellan himself, are not in favor of the Hearst proposition, and it will probably be some time yet before anybody can tell how the New Y'ork Democratic cat will jump when the state convention shall be held. Delaware Democrats insist upon Judge George Gray as the most promising candidate the Democrats can nominate, while Maryland Democrats, backed by many representative voices in other states, are cauvinced that the man who can without a doubt wipe the earth with Roosevelt In a popular contest is Senator Arthur Pee Gorman. It is enouith to say now that the above noted Democratic activities show that the old party in not without plenty and good representative and popular Demo crats from among whom to pick a crackerjack candidate. JACKSON DAY BANQUET. The Democrats of Clackamas county will meet around the banquet table to night to fittingly celebrate a day in the hiBtory of our country forever made memorable by the battle of New Or leans. That battle was one of the most remarkable in the history of the world and forever will keep the name of "Andy" Jackson green as a military genius of high clase. The English troops under Lord Packingham, fresh from the battle of Waterloo, where they had made fame and won honors as the great est soldiers of the world, were defeated and cut to pieces by the raw troops of Jackson, riflemen from Kentucky and Tennessee. The battle was fought after the treaty of peace had been signed. An drew Jackson has ever been one of the patron saints of the Democratic party. Let us hope that out of this meeting to night much good will come to the faith ful followers of the Democratic party in this county. That their differences may be buried, that their past grievances may be forgotten, and that they may resolve to turn their faces to to the common enemy of the country and in solid pha lanx redeem Clackamas county from misrule. Jackson was both a soldier and statesman. Is is not given to us common mortals to be all statesmen but we can one and all be soldiers in the Democratic army and strike at cor ruption, fraud and knavery wherever we meet it. Let the Democratic party of Clackamas county be true to itself and all good things will come to it. A GREAT PUBLICITY LAW. In an editorial entitled "The Trust Situation." the Atlanta Constitution says : "There is strong reason to believe that Mr. Bryan was not bo far from right when he declared that the peni tentiary yawned for trust violators of the Sherman anti-trust law and the criminal codes of state and nation." After describing some ot tbe methods of the trust magnates, the Constitution adds : "The criminal phases of the trust question and those who have closely t canned the methods of promotion anl wrecking employed In theihlp building ease cannot but be aware that crimi nality is as thick in it an skippers in a bad cheese are yet lo be given their deierta in a criminal court." Has the Constitution observed that while the Republican administration has not employed the criminal clause of the Sherman law in its so-called fight against the trusts, neither Mr. Roose velt nor any of his spokesmen, on the rostrum or in the editorial chair, have undertaken to explain why the very powerful weapon to be found in the criminal indictment has not been made use of? Newspaper dispatches say that the Standard Oil trust intends to make a vigorous fight aeainet the proposition that the representatives of the bureau of publicity have the authority to in vestigate the affairs of a trust ; and just now in many Republican newspapers are found editorials to,tbe effect that the Standard Oil trust magnates display considerable impudence in their efforts to annul a provision of the law creating the depaitment of commerce and labor. Rut is it in the least surprising that these trut magnates have a supreme contempt for the so-called publicity law, when we remher how they have suc ceeded in ignoring the criminal clause of the Sherman ami-trust law? Repeatfdlv.The Commoner has direct ed attention to that clause.a clause which is the chief feature of the Sherra in law. Repeatedly The Commoner has directed attention to thefact thatnoeffo 't hasbeen made by tbe Republican administration to call to account, under the criminal cltui:e, these ititlueutial violators of the law. Repeatedly The Commoner has asked Republican editors and Republi can statesmen to explain why the Re publican administration has not availed itself of the criminal clause. No Re publican has yet undertaken to make this explanation. We have heard much of "publicity, publicity, publicity," and Mr. Roose velt has pointed with pride to the law which undertook to give to the depart, ment of commerce and labor the author to inquire into the affairs of these great combinations: and yet Mr. Roose velt seems to have closed his eyes to the greatest publicity law on the statute books. The criminal indictment, vigor ouslyand courageously pushed, sends even the wealthiest and m:st powerful of rogues to their knees, Fcr the pur pose ol shedding light in dark places, of making public the secret schemes and tbe underhanded methods of violators of law, the criminal indictment possess powers greater than all the so called publicity provisions that could be writ ten upon the statute books. To the ordinary man, criminal pro ceedings would. seem to be the simplest and moat effective. If Mr. Roosevelt and his associates have any good re at on for ignoring that proceeding in their boasted tight against the trusts, why do GLADSTONE Get a home where yau have all the fresh air and freedom of the country, anJ at the same time every advantage of city life. The elegant cars of the Oregon Water Power and Railway Com pany make the run tj Glad stone from Oregon City in six minutes. After your day's work you travel home In luxury and comfurt. The great offer of the Gladstone Real Estate Association made to the people of Oregon, of one hundred lots to be se lected by the purchaser in the handsome townsite of Gladstone, at an even jfioo per lot, $io down and $io per month with out in'erest, has attracted widespread attention. Already lots are being sold to careful, conscientious buyers, who not only know a bargain when they see it, but are taking advantage of the low price to get an elegant property where the location is ideal and the enhancemeut in values is sure to follow. Already Portlcnd buyers are rapidly approaching Gladstone on the north. In two years time the electric cars will not be out of sight of handsome dwellings in the entire run of smiles from Oregon City to Portland. There is no longer any doubt that the moter company will have a double track railway between the two cities by the time of the great Lewis and Clark exposition. Ask any fair man, consult your own good, common sense and there can be but one conclusion, and that Is, that property between Oregon Ci!y and Portland is as safe as stock in the First National Bank of Portlaud. It is far be. ter than money at interest. Again, if you ask any fair and unpreju diced man, who does not own property of his own so situated as. to be a rival for public favor, as to the handsomest suburb of Oregon City and with greatest promise for the future, and he will unhesitatingly say : GLADSTONE. Already there Is a population of five hundred people at Gladstone and not a vacant house. Schools, churches', telephone system and all other modern and up-to-date conveniences rapidly following. Remember the Great Proposition is- 100 lots of your own selection, in the splendid townsite of Gladstone, on the banks of the Clackamas river, a mountain stream famed for its beauty and purity, at $100 per lot, $10 down and $10 per month without taxes or interest. Any purchaser can have his money back with $25 profit on each lot when he has paid for his property, if he is then dissatisfied, provided he give 30 days previous notice to that effect bright, capable agents wanted in every commu nity to whom liberal inducements willbe made to sell Gladstone Property. Write for full information. Main and Seventh Sfrests, OREGON CITY. they not take the people into their con fidence at least to the extent of explain ing why no effort has been made to enforce the first section of the Sherman anti-trust law? Potatoes sacking is the order of the day at, this place. Mrs. Haines and Mr. F. Chinn were visiting Mrs. Dundas Wednesday of last week. Teen e Bowman returned Wednesday from her claim in EaBtern Oregon. Mr. Rettingner who was thrown from a wagon while hauling posts, sometime auo and fractured his collar bone is im proving slowly. Don't lorget the dance In the Grange hall Saturday nigth the 9th. Newt Criteser lost two fine hogs one day last week. Adam Herman, of Beaver Creek, was a guest at the Grieehaber's farm last Sunday, Mr. and Mrs Bradtl and son, Chas. were on the sick list last week, Annie Feaster, of Oregon City, spent Sunday with her mother of this place. D. D. G.M.Elmer Veteto installed the otlicers of the following I. O. O. F. lodges : Canity January lst,Oawego the 2nd, Lone Star of Clackamas the 6th, and Oregon, of Oregon City the 7th. Hattie Spulak was sewing for Mrs, Randal last week. Miss Keil, of Milwaukie, is giving music lessons in New Era on Satur days. , Grandpa Hoffman was on the sic' liBt last week. Mr. McArthur our enterprising feed merchant, had a little experience one day last week worth mentioning. He sold some travelers hay in the evening and to receive pay next morning and be hold when morning came no campers were not to be seen.jLucky Mr.McArthur could track them and did so overtaking them at Canby and the gentlemen read ily paid for the hay and went on much wteer. Chas. Bjwman, Frank Briggs and Aug. Bremer were in Portland Saturday and SunJay. Mr. and Mrs. McArthur and Hattie Spulak attended tbe installation of the Rebecca lodge Tuesday night in Canby. Entries on Public Land. Homesteads were filed at the land of fice the first of tbe week as follows : An drea Wendelin,160 acres in section 4 T, 9 S. of R. 10 W. j Jack Skowronski.160 asres in section 27. T. 6 N. of R. 6 W. ; Alexander Sider, 160 acres in section 11, T. 7 S. of R. 10 W. ; Fred Hart. 40 acres In section 25, T. 3 N. or R. 4 W. ; John Fronk, 160 acres in section 6, T. 4 S. nf lv. 5 W.; Ethan Edwards, 160 acres in section 20, T. 1 S. of R. 10 W., and Stanislaus Ohraszczeweki, 163 acres in section 24, T. 5 S. of R. 3 E. TITLE GUARANTEED Every purchaser of property in Gladstone will re ceive a Warranty Deed, and an absolute title in fee simple, free of all incumbrances. PARK H. Congress Will (Continued from page 7.) Why should the whole nation go head long after the Panama route and declare that if it not adopted there can never by any canal? It eeems to us that even if the Panama treaty should, in the wis dom of the senate be rejected, we are not in a very dire extremity, for we can instantly turn to Nicaragua, which, for more than twenty years has occupied the chief place in every scheme of trans isthmian communication, and has been repeatedly preferred by the highest authority both on political and scientific grounds. Mr. Lewis M. Haunt, a member of the Isthmian commission, and a dis tinguished and eminent civil engineer, says of the Prnama route : "At the rate of progress previously made in the ex cavations at Culebra, with lavish ex penditures and an ample plant.tbe aver age removal has been about tbe 1,000,000 cubic yards annually during the most active years, so that the 43,000,000 cubic yards may make the date for the com pletion of this part of the work a very remote contingency." Will anybody in the United State Senate be alive at the inauguration of the finished work? Between eleven and two on New Year's Day the President and his cabinet and their ladies received in the green room of the White Houso all officers of the government, the army and navy, the Supreme court, veteran soldiers, and all citizens present in the city . They en tered by the west gate and north portico and left, for the first time, by the east exit built two years ago. A good deal of pneumonU is usually developed among those who are compelled to stand long in Hue waiting to be admitted. There was too much o-be-joyful here on New Years. Every cell in every station house in the city was full also the occupants and the police had no time to eat their turkey. Bad weather did not prevent conviviality. Each of the forthcoming conventions to nominate a presidental candidate will be about twice as large as the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives. It fill number 052 delegates. Approxi mately, 180 will be delegates at large. r rimtiii Anr1 NM. If " ; . A II M ' ' I 1 . 1 I wm IT i SHANK & BISSELL, Undertakers Phones 411 ai.l 304. Call In at the office of the com pany and see the map of Glad store, and an agent will cheer fully condu.t you to the prop erty without expense to yourself and give all needed Information in making a selection f.r your fut ure home. Remember you are under no obligation to buy, inly come and we will show yoa the handsomest tract of of land In Oregan. E. CROSS. Perry Heath seems to have made an other slip. As a friend of Mark Hanna's he recently said in an interview: "I saw President McKinley only a few day before he was shot at Buffalo. He was in the White House in Washington, and I had a long talk with him pretaining to the next presidental election. During the conversation Mr. McKinley said: 'I expect to se6 my " friend an I associ ates, Marcus Hanna, the next president of the United States. I believe he wilt be nominated and elected.' Mr. Mc Kinley went to Canton the following day and the next day thererfter was shot while at Buffalo." The President's friends point out that Mr. Heath for gets. They show that Mr. McKinley was not in Washington at or about tha time. He left the White House with Mrs. McKinley for Canton.O., July 6th, never returned to the White House again. He spent Jury and August in Canton and frou there went to Buffalo Sept. 6th. This would seem to leave Mr. Heath in a dilemma. CLASHES. The Bick of this neighborhood are all1 getting well except our postmaster who is in a low condition. Mrs. McGeorge is able io be around again. Our merchant is quite ill at present, rut we hope he will Boon be around. Our plank road advocate has not been heard of for some time. I wonder if he has placed himself in some of the back fields, as a trespass notice. The belfry on the school is complet ed and adds much to the appearance of the grounds. There are quite a number of new gnngers and Shorty appeared on the scene rather dull, but says by getting a few pies and women mixed he thinks he would feel alright. The youths machine is a great thine bnt nothing compared with the coin pressed air machines, that live at Meadowbrook, as it takes awav the greater part of their employment. " OABTOHIA. Ben the j Ita Kind You Hare Alwars foanrtl .aHHrHllllM A of Caskets, Coffins. Robtw .h Linings in Clackamas ctuX. Hearse in the Ooonty. which will famish for less SJ bJ nad elsewhere. Embalming a Specialty. '.Pr'l alvs reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Main St., Opp. Huntley'.