SOUR OREGON CITY Jpp 21st YEAR OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1904 NO 37 ! ,1 n i) tbe electoral m Vole Outlook 31 "Sane and Dangerous" Demo cratk Candidate Can Cany the Country. New York "World . Aa the beginning of the Presidential campaign dnws near speculation is rife ae to the probabil ties and poesiblitiea in the electoral vote of 447. Under the ; Jiew apportionment based on the census ' of 1900 the number of Electors will be 476, requiring 239 to elect. New York, Illinois and Texas have gained each three votes, Minnesota, New Jersey and Penntylvania two each, and fourteen states gain one-eacl; . The iace isue as revived by the Presi dent makee sure for the Democrats the , 151 electoral votes of the old solid South. If normal political conditions shall be re store ' by the elimination of the issues now dead which gave ttaeee states to the Republicans, it is reasonably certain that the Democrats will alsocarrv Dela ware, Marjland and West Vi, ginia. This will give the Democratic candidate 169 electoral votes 70 ehort of a major ity Where can these 70 votes be most hopefully looked for? New York, New Jersey and Connecti cut, which usually vote the same way in residential elections, have together 58 votes. This would leave 12 more to gain. Indiana, with 15 votes; Illinois, with 27 or Wisconsin, with 12 (carried by Cleve. laud iu 1892) would make up the re quisite number. Or it would be sup plied with one to spare by Rhode Is land, Montana, Nevada and Utah. Of these small states Rhode Island has been carried two years in' succession by the Democrat; Nevada has vqted against the Republicans steadily since 1888; Montana, after being anti-Republican for six years, was carried by that party last November, and Utah, formerly Democratic, has been carried by the ."Republicans at the last two elections. The obvious policy for the Democratic party would therefore clearly seem to be to select its candidate and frame its platform with a view to carrying the states whose yotes have given the vic tory to the only Democratic candidates . elected since the war Tilden in 187(5and . Cleveland in 1884 and 1892. If there is a Bufflcitnt reaction against the impetu ous personality and the hazardous policies of President Roosevelt to give to a "sane and dangerous" Democratic condidate the three or four debatable Eastern States, it is reasonobly certain that the remaining votes necessary to elect will be given by one or more of the greal states of the Middle Wes t. Dead Man. A very peculiar service will be held at 'the Salvation Army hall next Tuesday night Jan. 26th. A man will preach from his own coffin. All welcome. Come, come, come. W. R. Crabtree, v, Ensign. J)R. GEO. HOEYE DENTIST All work warranted and satisfaction guarantee Crown and Bridge work a specialty CanAeld Building OREGON C1TI OBBOON Jt C. STRICKLAND, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ' Does an Up-To-Date General Practice Special attention given to surgery and diseases of women. Office In Garde Building, 7th and Main St" OREGON CITT, OREGON (t D, & D. C. LATCTJRETTE ATTORNEYS AT LAW Commercial, Seal Estate and Probate oar 2 Specialties Office in Commercial Bank Building OREGON CITY OREGON JJOBERT A. MILLER ATTORNEY AT LAW Real Estate bonght and sold, money loaned Hies examined nud abstracts made cash rkl for county warrants. Probate 'and commissioners' Court business and insurance. BOOM S, W1TKB1ED BUB-DINS OREGON CITY, - - - - OREGON QRANT B. DIMICK Attorney and Cqjcnsklob at Law Will practice in all Courts In the Start, Clreil and District Comrts of the United Bute. Insolvent debton taken through bankrupt! Offlee In Garde Building, Oregon City, Or. a Oregon CitijMaefo:neho) BUCKLEIN& VKL'EINSMITH. Props. Having First-class Machinrey Doing First-class Work eeps in Stock a Line Shafting and Pulleys, frew and Sec ond Hand. Also Engine and Saw Mill Machinery Relics and Wat' ters of distory Jlntique mementos of Hare Inter' est In Possession of the Samson Tamily Henry Samson, father of W. W. H. Sameon, whose death occurred at his home in this county ou December 30, last year, at the ag of 88 years, was a pioneer of 1853, What pioneering a half a cen ury ago impliidweof today cannot imagine. Ha left Iowa on March 3d and iu September, the trip taKing nearly nine months, he arrived in Ore iron City. Though he had food enough when starting, to last h;s party nearly a year, he used up in addition the $1,000 in money he had and borrowed $350 at two per cent a month. All was gone. Much he had given away to starving emigrants he met on theoute. A gold dollar was the entire fortune his family had to begin the battle with in the wildrness, not to speak of the load of debt. jmt- A long lifelike that of Henry Samson embraces a great deal of history ot gen eral interest. Asa boy in Pennsylvania, where he was born, he saw the site of JohnBtown as a hog farm. A fellow named Jones occupied a solitary cabin in tbe bottom, which was a corn Cell, and he had a hog pen built of long poles. As a man Henry Samson worked on the Johnstown '(Jonestown) dam which was washed away with so much destruction of life and property. In the possession of W.W. H Sam-on are a few old lelics left him by his father of no little interest to the curious. They are : A razor, good as new today, though' used for two-thirds of a century, which he bought in Pennsylvania when a young man for 37J4 cente. paying for it wild eggs at five cents a dozen. A short trace-chain made by Henry Samson's father, Richard Samson, in Germany, when he was 12 years old. He waB a gunner in the battle of New Or leans, where he was wounded. A. pen sion was never awarded him. A small enameled pitcher that will hold hardly a quarter of a pint, brought from Germany by the wife of Richard Samson, who received it from her grand mother. In the trip across the plains it spout was broken off. A unique historic relic is the hickory cane used by Mrs. Susan Porter.Mra. W. W.H. Samson's mother, now 90 years of age. Hon. Ben Hayden, who is 80 years old, walked across the plains with it over half a century ago. "I Bay, I say," the old joker never forgot his cane on the route. It was left him by his father, Miss Echo Samson received as a keep sake from her grandf. ther his Masonic apron and gold pin. . Henry SamBon, at first a Whig, was one of tbe founders of the Republican party in chia county. In a pair of over alls he came to the first meeting of the few converts to the new party, and he was so poor that he couid not pay Mrs. Caldwell for his night's lodging. (COMMERCIAL BANK of OREGON CITY capital $100,000 Transacts a general banking business Makes loans and oollectlous, discounts bills snys and sells domestic and foreign exchange and receires deposits subject to check. Open from 9 a. m. to i p. m. D (J. JjATOUBEITE, F. J. MEYEB President Cashie (j, N. GREENMAN THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN (Established 186S) Prompt delivery to all parte of the elry JREGON CITY REGON OSTEOPATHY DR. C. D. LOVE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate of American Fchool of Osteopathy, Klrksville, Mo. Successfully treats both acute and chronie dis eases. Call lor literature. Consultation and Examination Free. Office Hours: jJ2- ,Or by appointment at any time. Rooms over Dr. Morris' Cental Parlors, next door to Courier Ofllce. OREOOX CITT, OIKOOK. 0, Bchoebix W. g. U'RIN JREN A SCHUEBEL ATTORNEY8 AT LAW SDeutfdbet Hb&gfat Will nraMtaA'ln .11 m.. i ,. ; " ' ln- ulnae (Tuuecuocs nd settlements of estates, furnish abstracts of e. lend you money and lend your money on ortgage. Office In Enterprise building. ' . 'TT OBBOON tbe Religion ef'dumanlfy W.W. Wyers, tbe farmer Philoso' pber, Preaches a Cay Sermon" Call 12. T. nelson Down, ToN. E. Nelfon: In your last article you seem to avoid answers. I will try, however, to show up your falacy. You Say I am imagiuary, you try to answer but by doing bo admit mobt all my ar gument. ' , - I do not believe a child is corrupt In infancy, otherwise it is very essence of purity. It is the environments thro n around it that makes the man for good or evil. What iu there in the Socialist demand that would breed evil in 'he miud of the child? What is there iu f competitive system to breed good In tn mind of the child? Now I expect an answer to bother these questions. It is the conditions that breed eelfishness. Socialist dou't believe in lettimr child ren grow up like weeds. Wheat was produced from grasses. Mos of our fruit and vegetables wele produced from wild vegetation that would be very un palatable to civilized people now. 1 If peome are selfish and dishonest natiuaily what good would it do to turn one set of rascals out to put others in? You change conditions that breed selfishness and corruption and the moral disease will disappear. What are they? Usury, rent, pofitand the prodigi ous redouices owned by part of, the peo ple instead from all the people. What does tbe Hible suy about using money, houses, etc. ? ' You say, Mr. Nelson, if I read the Bi. bleaauiuch as I read tbe Appeal to Reason. Well, we have read the Bible enough to know Christ taught Socialism pure and sunple. I have also read law enough to know that when a witness is proven to fail in part of his testimony the balance is discredits. This will also apply to Christian religion. You be lieve Christ in some things, do you be lieve him in all things? You say I own a good faun and other property and ought to be satisfied. May tie you think Iamselflah. Let's see II shall never be satisfied as long as there is a child in this nation over-worked and under-ftd.or one man compelled to keep another; as long respectable but poor women have to eell their body to live, or a poor man has 10 get on his knees to ask a corporation for a job; as long as 83 per cent of my earnings goes to some one else, or in fact, divide up what I earn with tbe tbe man that does no work : as long as for the sake of profit people loBe their lives iu theaters, on railroads, steamboats, in factories, mines and wars until I can take all men by the hand and say "Yon are my Broth ers." 1 , ., If this constiti'tes selfishness, I am really so. How are you? W. W. Myers. At Milwaukie Orange. Milwaukie Grange has placed in the master's chair for the year H. G. Stark weather, a gentleman of considerable force of cbaiacter. He takes a lively in terest in grange matters. All the newly elected officers are to hold a special meeting for the purpose of drill. An in teresting feature of the regular meeting on Saturday was an address by Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, secretary of the Saca jawea Statue Association. She exhibited to the audience a small picture of the statue, as it has been designed by Mrs. Cooper, of Chicago, the artist who has been commissioned to do the work. It represents the Bird-Woman standing on a pedestal of rough stone. Her papooEe is strapped to her back under her flow ing blanket, its. head sticking out at the top. Sacajawea is eagerly looking for ward while pointing the way with the right arm stretchtd out on a level a lit tle above the eyes. The bronze statue to be t,l?"ad in Portland, promises to be no leBS beautiful than impressive. Mrs. Evans stated that the Association had been promised the donations of the cop per and tin to manufacture the bronze. flolalla Mining Company. Tne stockholders of the Molalla Cen tral Mining company had a meeting last night of considerable business impor tance. After a thorough discussion of the matter they decided to withdraw all stock from the market. The vieni and leads recently uncovered have shown up bo rfch that the present owners do not believe they ought to sell any more stock and decided not to ' do so. Just bo soon as the weather will permit they will put in a small stamp mill and develop the property with it, paying for the development work out of tbe profits from the mill. Some of the ore in this mine is Btartlingly rich. George. Died, at George, Jan. 15, Ferdinand Rath, aged 70 years, 1 month and 15 days, of pneumonia. He was the father of nine children, eight sons and one daughter, all of whom survive him. Ferdinand Rati) left New York, June 20, 1855 for Auetralia and landed at Mel bourne Oct. 16. 1855. He came to George, Or., in May 1871, and resided at tbii place until the time of bia death. There was a large attendance at the fu neral. Rev. Anselem officiated . Domestlo Trouble. It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic ruptures occasion ally, but these can be lessened by hav ing Dr. King's New Life Fills around. Much trouble they save by their great work in Stomach and Liver troubles. They not only relieve you but cure. 25c, at Charm an & Co a drug store. trestle in Very Bad Condition don. Gorden E. Tjayes Way Buy a Boat and H each Oregon City , by Water, The citizens of Gladstone and others who daily use the car line of the Oregon Water Power & Railway company to go to their woik in this city and back to their homes, are complaining bitterly about the condition of the long trestle from Green Point within the city limits to the Clackamas river. The trestle is more than a mile long and is an old af fair, aud it is claimed by those in a posi tion to know that it is really dangerous for travel and the passage of cars over it. Last summer the company started in to till in this tre.tle,.aod did quite a good deal of work in' that, direction, but did no; more Uiau one -fourth complete the work. The trestle u now iu worse con dition than ever, and while the cars are allowed to run at a minimum speed over it, it sways to and fro like a ship in a storm, and gives one who is a passenger on the cars the impression that it ma) collapse and precipate the cars into the ditch, some 30 or 40 feet below, at any .time. An accident came near hap pening one evening last week when a heavily loaded car of passengers were on their wav home from their day's work. The car swayed with its load of human freight until the passengers turn eil pale with fright. Judg Gorden E. HayeB, who lives at Gladstone, has made arrangements to et himself and . family a boat to make the trips from Gladstone tj OregonOity and return, is he is fearful that an accident that will endanger hu man life may occur at any time. Other paesengers are equally apprehonsive, but cannot afford the expense or the time to make the trip in a boat. FABK PLACE. Mrs. Brannon is recovering from a Bevere attack ot lagrippe. Airs. Frank Lucas, who has been con fined to her home on account of illness the pass few weeks, is able to oe out again. There was no preaching at the church laBt hunday night. There will be preach next Sunday as usual. Tbe ladies of the Aid Society met at the home of Mrs. Ue. Hamilton last Thursday and a very enjoyable as well as profitable afternoon was passed. Mrs. Ina Kellogg, of Oregon City, was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mri. Bray ton on Friday laBt. Miss Wilson vas a Portlani visitor laBt Saturday . ' , iMr. Goo. Gardner, of Oregon City.was b visitor in our bung last Sunday. Mrs. dpt. Smith is on the sick list the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Divis and child of the lower Columbia, are visiting with his mother, Mrs. Ooff je and family, On last vVcdntBday while Wm. Bray ton was painting the interior of om of the school house rooms, he was over come by the paint and fell from a seven foot scaffolding and was severely hurt but is slowly improving. Mr. and Mrs. Town have arrived and are becoming settled in their new home lately owned by Mrs. Russell. Glen, the little son of Mr. and Mra. G. Hamilton, has been very sick, but is some better at present. Stella and Lyle Kellogg, of Oregon Uity, spent tne uay witn their grand parents Mr. and Mrs. Brayton Sun day. Mr. T. W. Swope, who lies been visit ing hie son, B. F. Swope, of Newport, Oregon, for the past four months, re turned home Monday evening, and is a visitor at the home of bis daughter. Mrs. Chae . Oglesby of thia place. E. French has finished painting the interior ot W. A. Holme's store, which improves the looks ol it greatly. MABQUAM. The first of November the Maccabees of Clackamas Tent No. 40, chose Bides with 15 on a side for the purpose of getting neff members, the losing side to pay for a supper. The contest to close New Years. Three new members ware secur ed and 33 Maccabees and their ladiea met at tbe hall on the evening of the 16th inst, when the following odlcera were installed fo' the ensuing year: A. B. Hibbard, com. ; "C. Judd.L. C. ; A. F. Jack, R. K.; B, Jack, chaplain; Dr, Wrightman, phys; P. S. Adams, sar; Roy Riding, master at arroa ; Clark Mo Kinney, first M of G; Fred Hubbard, second M of G; John Comer, centinei; Wm, Harmon, picket. Past Commander, A. F.Jack, was in stalling officer and did the work ina very creditable manner. After the installation the audience waa favored with several aelectlona on phonograph by A. B. Hibbard. At 10 o clock all were invited to the homea of Sir Knight and J. E. Marquam where supper waa served. Everyone did justice to the supper, but it would take a better correspondent than myselt to do justice to Mrs. Marquam who pre pared such a banquet, and to the boys of tbe loaing aide, who apare no ex pence in getting such a lady to prepare tbe supper. After enpper all again assem bled iu the hall, where games were en joyed until midnjght. Next Saturday night two of the new candidates will be initiated. "Itchlngs htmorrhnl'ls were tlie plague of my ife, Way almost wild. Itoan'eOiiitnient cured mequlckl ud permanently, after doctors lial failed." C. f. Orn well, Valley ritreet.Baugertli N. Y, Oil KNOW WHA. YOU ARE TAKING Wh n jou tke Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic be cause "The formula Is plainly prluted on every ot le Bh owl us uuilt is simply iron and Quinine a taMOiSn Jurm. H . 'Jure, no i; ay oUc, Book Ulan fias trouble People In Southern Part of tJye County Op In Jlrms Jlgainst Book Jt gents, Dee Wright ia a young man of good ad dress and clever personality. He loves to do people favors and never misses an opportunity to do some kindly act. He has been at times in tbe government employ and is on quite good teims with Uncle Samuel. Now it ko happens that Mr. Wright lives at Liberal and tl at he knows every man, woman and child in three or four election precincts. It also happens lhat quite receully the good people of Liberal, 'Molalla and some of the adjoining precincts were pretty well worked by a smoothe set of book agents selling a pretended history of Oregon and Clackamas county. The history would also contain a biographical sketch of the subscriber, and he got the whole "shooting match" for $18, unless he had his picture also in the book in which event it would only cost him $93. When the books were delivered the good people were outraged as they wore not what they were represented to be and the price waa an outrage. It therefore follows that all of the Southern part of tbe county is dead set against book agents at the present time. Well, to thest.ry! Recently Uncle Sam in his kindness of heart sent to Dee Wright about 4J copies of a very fine work on horses and their diseases. The book was large, handsomely bound,, line ma terial and splendid illustratated and really a very valuable publication. The government asked Mr. Wright to do liver the smd books to a few of his iriends at Liberal and other territory, all' of which Mr. Wright tried to do. He found out, however, that it ia hardly possible to deliver books of any kind in that part of the country. He would take a book to the house and leave it with the good houee wife and she would promptly throw it out iuto the road. Mr. Wright tried to explain that the govern ment waa giving these books away free but she would have none of it. Atone place a matron drove Mr. Wright out o f t ie hous i and yard with a broom stick; At another daee he was chased out of the yard by a bull dog being set upon mm Dy an irate mother who thought he was a genuine book agent, Mr. Wright has given up the job and he says that if Uncle Samuel wants any more horse books delivered in the rural districts of this county he will have to send out an other agent or a company of regulars. Wants a Democratic Club. Petitions are being circulated today by the Democrats of Oregan City and vicinity for the formation of a Demo cratic fllub. The initial meeting ot the club will be held within the next two weeka. The promotera of the club are of the opinion that they will be able to or ganize with more than 200 charter mem bers. As it is now only four months until the county election there ia consid erable political activity being manifeat ed. It ia practically a certainty that none of the Republican office holders now in possession of the court house will be re nominated with popsibly one exception. The Democrats are looking around for material and within a few week the fight will be on in earnest. 1904 The Bank' of Oregon City WISHES ITS FRIENLS AND CUSTOMERS A.. HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 1904 AlmiAl a,iiim.i,,.4iil,,iiiilli,ilH j ilm.iif; dl !Bi.,.riffli, SHANK & BISSELL. Undertakers J PhoneMiitulaoj. SPECIAL 30 DAYS SALE At Bradley's Second Hand Store All Goods in Hardware Line Greatly Reduced. We can save you money if you want anything we handle. New and second hand goods kept in stock. Examine our stock before buying elsewhere. W. W. BRADLEY Next door to Heinz Bakery. THE0LD REl IMEEB Jem rSJyv ?. Jo-r Absolutely Pare THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE 31 Scandal at Bubbard, Ore Wealthy Jfesldent of that FXcxt Separates Wan and Wife tn- ried In 187 S. . A couple who were married fnlSTrv. and have grown children, only twu-a.? whom are under the asre of 21 7awK .. yesterday took the steps for a legal wp aration. The suit is brought by husband, O. H. P. Chamnes.i, that. fendant being Viola Chamnesa. In t.w,'; complaint, John R. Hinkle, a weaitiiy.- rancher oi JtiUDoard, is named !)y S.m plaintiff as cor-respondent. The complaint alleges that the deiet;- ant and cor-respondent have been undu. intimate, the offenses having been cc:r -mitted on Elliott Prairie, in theaoafca . end of Clackamas county, within ia.. past year. The Chamneae family Min now separated, the plaintiff living .a.,, Portland. An additional charge whirr. . the plaintiff alleges is that the defeyi? ant called him false and vicious natntn;,.. Among others he states that she un truthfully called him a thief. The pa pers were filed yesterday in theC'.niiil8 Court by Attornev G. B. Dimick, coaai Bel for tbe plaintiff. t Desertion Chaiged In Three Suits. - Three divorce auita, all alleging desty Hon, were instituted in the Olac'kaiattisv.. County Circuit Court Wednesday. A. W. Melton charges Jennie Meltean- whom he married at Pendleton, July 2, 1902, with having deserted him on h -v. lOtht of the same month; Katherine Cornell accusea Olaren'tt- Cornell with having abandoned heraftea five yeara of married life. They were married at Skamokawa, Wash. Decern'--ber, 1898, and desertion followed at Ranier in 1903. Plaintiff asks for th& . custody of one minor child. Lettie Poyser wants to be legally sep arated from Frank Poyser, to whom oil was married in this city in July, 19012.. She alleges that Poyser deserted her ia . January, 1903. 1904: 19C We carrv iha nnlinmnW a Una t - J -aj vvuijivtBslUB of Caskets, Coffins, Robes and Llninvs in f!ln'Unriini Pnimin We have the only First-Claaa Hearse in the County, which we wm lumiHii ior jess wan can be had ileewbere. Embalming a Specialty. Ou. pricea alwaya reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Main St., Opp. Huntley' ,