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r OREGON "CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1904 JL OREGON CITY COURIER Published Every Friday by OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHINGCO' J. H. Wistoveb, Editor and BiMlnese Manager B. Lk Wtovkb. Local Editor. tutored In Oregon City Portofflce as 2nd-clas matter i en Wood allowed gambling at the Jai Alai game in Havana in deference to tbe alleged "habits of the people" ; and now the Preeident of Cuba has vetoed the lottery bill on the gronnd that a lot tery is a con uoter of public morals. That president ought to be promoted. SUBSCRIPTION EATKU. Paid in advance, per year Six months 1 90 75 , Clubbing llat-ea Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oregonian .$2.25 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courier Journal : 2- Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Cosmopolitan... 2.25 Oregon City Conrier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Twice..a-Veek Journal 2 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Journal .... 2.00 Oregon City Cornier and Dally Journal 1.50 fjy-The date opponlte your address on the paper denotes the time to which you have paia. II this noticeis marked your subsoiption U due. At the meeting of the National Grange which will be held in Portland in Nov ember, the most important subject to come up will be tbe National movement for good roads. This matter will be managed th same as was the orginal movement for rural delivery, many of the same leaders will enlist in its favor. This bill will give J250.00J to this State for road building. OREGON CITY. JANUARY 29, 1904 UNION (&yLABEL Call for Democratic (M Meeting All Democrats of Oregon City and Clackamas county are requested to convene at Willamette Hall, in Oregon City, on next Tuesday evening February. 2d. 1904, for the purpose of organizing a Deny cratic Club. All Democrats and all persons who desire to identify themselves with the Democratic party, and are will ing to work to forward its in terests, are requested to attend the meeting and become mem bers of this club. Meeting will convene at eight o'clock. ERNEST MASS, Ssc'y County Central Com. Hanna knows how to shuttle the cards and cut the trumps. It ia not a bad deal by a good deal. Mb. Bryan will publish a daily edi tion of hiB Commoner in St. Louis du' ing the convention. "All will be treated alike." MciirHY, the Tammany chieftain, says this U a Democratic year and Cleveland would be elected if nominated. So, he thinks, would several others. Word comes from far-off Texas that it will hold nominating conventions with the purpose of entering their very dark horses in the presidential campaign. Tbe more the merrier. Sknatok Gorman, of course, holds aloof from the Senatorial contest in Maryland between Smith and Kay nor, both Democrats . Ether is good enough for anybody. It is a far cry from Alaska to Hawaii, but both of these territories wiil send delegates to Chicago. Filipino and Porto Rican will now stand up and try to read the constitution: Mr. Bryan sayB that Mr. Blank is his candidate for preeident, "some dark horse." Many think this equiuts to warda Carter Harrison. Maybe Mr. Bryan's dark horse is a May'r, The eight enterprising gentlemen who gave birth to the Panama republic, have held a constitutional convention. Sev eral negroes, quadroons, Indians, octo" roons, mestizoes, and Chinaman took a hand. Wm. JuNNimis Bryan is slated for Nebraska to succeed C. II. Dietrich, Re publican, whose term expires March 4, 1', and whone escutcheon has be come more or less stained by tku bribery incident. Several ex-candidates for the presidency have been in the Senate. WiiKTiinR Senator Heed Smooth, Re publican of Utah shall retain his seat is being argued before a Senate committee at Washington. The pro ecution charges that Smoot "knew of and connived at "the polygamy of six apostles. He says he thought he had Bible authority for knowing and conniving. Was the destruction of the Venesuela fleet by Germany and England a vindi cation of the Monroe Doctrine? Or wai it the same sort of vindication we are exhibiting in seizin Panama? Mr, Gor man asks, would President Roosevelt have permitted Spain or Turkey or any weak nation to seise Venezuela's fleet." Hall' Catarrh Cure. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I.tioaa Comity. Krank J Cluney makes oath that he Is the sen ior Dariner of the nrm of K. J. Ohikky A t'o do ,i.lnsln the City of Toledo, county and HiaM olornatd. and that said firm will pay the sum of ONI mwRKii ixniAHs for mob and svery iiw of Catarrh that oanuoi u cureo uj uio i ol Hall . Carrh Cur. J. CHKNEY. anrii to Mors me and siilwrtlwd lu my pre- .CCCim." "''Arw.-OLkASON ' Notary Public, lt.U'a Catarrh Cure U taken lulomally and ants .iirantlv ou tli blomtlanrt mucous surface of th svitMn. Send for Mtimoi.lal., fe. ' F. J. CHKSKI A CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Prugijisi. 7!o. Uall'a Vauj W ,h bc"- In General Wood's skirmish with the Moros more than 300 of them were killed without the loss of an American soldier. This awful result is explained by the revelation that among the dead picked up after the so-called "bat tle" there were many women and child ren who fought our troops and faced our machine guns armed only wi'h knives and sticks. It might be a good plan for tbe Presi. dent to appoint a commission to find out whether the rage to ratify the Panama treaty is in the interest of the transcon tinental railroads who do not wiBh to have any canal whatever constructed at the isthmus. Tbe theory is consider ably more than plausible. Thus ; these railroads are vociferous for the Panama route, declare all others impracticable, and want the treaty satined at once, immediately, right way, toute da suite. But they would give the forty millions that the canal company demands not to have any canal whatever built between the two oceans. How do these facts jibe? Suggestive, isn't it? Espedally as the American engineer Haupt affirms that it would take forty years to dig through the mountains for the Panama canal. President Sciiurman, of Cornell Uni versity, who was McKinley's Commis sinner to the Philippines, declared last week in a speech that action of the ad ministration concerning Panama was tbe destruction of the Monroe Doctrine and the beginning of a policy of violent expansion which would ultimately result in an effort to annex all of the South American Republics to the United States. Whitelaw Reid will consider that optimistic I On next Tuesday night the Democrats of Oregon City have been called to meet at the Williamette hall for the purpose of organizing a Democratic club. It is to be hoped that a goad attendance will be out and that the cl ib may start off under the most favorable circumstances. It is a good work. Let every honeBt man who believes at heart in the doc trines of the Democratic party attend this meeting and lend the Democrats of Oregon City a helping hand. Congress has had two months of dawdling but now promises a busy week. Committees have reported and there is enough work for both houses on the calendar. Executive ousinees has the right of way. But there will be plenty of talk, if not discussion, on the Panama outrage, the postoffice scandals, and other more or lean fragrant topics The Hepburn bill giving the Interstate Commerce Commission custody of pure food transit, is urgent for consideration. We are now promised a business month. A great agricultural discovery has been reported in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. It is that by the aid of the summer fallout it Is possible to save BDongh moisture in the soil from one year to enable a good crop to be raised where this can not be done by depending upon the rainfall of a Bingle season. The fact has been a familiar one for many years to farmers of East ern Oregon and Eastern Washington, who by this plan are enabled to raise every alternate year heavy crops of wheat in districts in which the total rainfall for a year is only from 12 to 18 inches. In fact, good crops have been obtained when the fall of rain was only about lOincheB. "Since time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary" the verdict ol coroner's juries have been the laughinn Btock and the butt:f jocke and ridicule among sensible men the world over. Tne bitrgoBt monument to human folly which a coroner's jury has erected to its general ineompetaticy and failure to roach correct results is to be found in the verdict of coronors jury in Chicago which investigated the Iroquois tueatre disaster. Among other things they held the Mayor of the city to answer the Grand jury for the consequences of the iire. The Mayor was ptomptly discharg ed when taken before a Circuit Judge on a writ of habeas corpus. The idea seems to have been that the Mayor was crim iually responsible for the carelessness of his subordinates iu office. It would be juet as good reasoning to arreat the President of the United States and hold him criminally liable for the slealing of his subordinate appointees. In his probable conflict with the Muscovite faces a different problem from that of the knanates ia Central Asia, which have been overrun, one by one, and quite different from that of China and Manchuria. During the Boxer war when the walls of a Chinese fort had to be breached with dynamite, and those who placed it would surely die, the Japanese geperal aBked for "volunteers who would go and die." The number effering was so great that he had to select the heioes who were willing to die for their country's pres tige. Taking the dynamite they went jocund, to death, and their comrades who cried "Sayonnara." farewell, en vied them the glory of their service. In fighting such people it will not do to put too much trust in numbers, especially when the numbers are ignorant, stupid, brutal and without patriotism, Russia has impressed the military world more by the display of her armies in the an nual parades than by handling them in battle. Her prestige as a military pow er has been achieved at reviews rather than on the field. In the Boxer war her soldiers were distinguished by bes tiality of the lowest order, rather than by conduct in battle. The world, look ing on at the prospective struggle, hails gallant little Japan, and commends her to the favor of all the gods of battle After An extended investigation of European food products, principally in London, Paris and Berlin, under the am picei of the National Pure Food Asso ciation, Professor Robert M. Allen de clares that '60 per cent of the French wines and 80 per cent of their cham pagnes are adulterations or imitations.' 'The American people,' he declares, 'have been drinking labels.' To hun dreds of importers and dealers in this country this is not a revelation com ments the Chicago Record-Herald. To the consumers of 'French wines and champagnes,' however, it is an interest ing and somewhat startliug disclosure. As tbe statement of Professor Allen is based upon the analyses of 10,000 well selected samples of wines and cham pagnes, in much of which was found coloring matter, saccharine and acids deleterious to health, it will be accept ed as a timely and unanswerable argu ment agaiust further delay in the enact ment of a national pure food law. FORM NEW LODGE. Oddfellows Institute a Thriving Camp at Garfield. A number of Oddfellows went to Gar field Saturday night to assist in the in stituting of a lodge at that place. Tbe new lodge will sttrt with 32 charter members, there being 10 members who were members of lodges, and il candi dates were initiated Saturday night. The formation of the lodge took place in 'he i range hall at Gar held, and the session continued all night. The initiatory, as well as the first three degrees, were given to the 22 candidates, and took until 4 o'clock. At that hour a banquet was served, and Oregon City people started on the return at 7 o'clock. The following went form this citv : Emery Noble, W. A. Hedges, T. t. Ryan, Tim Finnegan, Sol Walker,Hairy Trembath D. Waldron, F. A. Sleight, John Cooke, John Fairclough, J. R. Shaver, Alexander Beaulieu and George Brown. These were j lined at Milwaukie by Richard Scott, John Risley and John Wetzler. The party went to Cazadero on the electric line and walked from that place to Garfield, a distance of about four miles. Some troubled was experi enced in finding the trail to Garfield, as itwasdaikand the country was un familiar to the visitors. John Oooke claimed that he knew every mudhole in the trail, and this statement was proved to the entire satisfaction of the crowd, lor it is thought not a single one was missed, Thoee fiom this city state they naa a most enjoyable time, J hey re turned Monday. I()t DtotVU Jamestown is a thriving village and ban numerous industries. One of the most important is Cooper's shingle mill which is doing a line business Dodge's shingle mill is also doing well, runninsj all of the time. Ihey are cutting fir and cedar shingles by the wholsale the cedar pole camp ib also working a good many men, getting out some line telephone and telegraph poles and pil ing. Mutineers saw milt is running up to its limit and ia doing as good work as any mill in the comity. Tl-ey are cut ting ties, posts and bridge timbers for Southern Pacific Railway Co. One o our best industries is Seaver's logging camp which employs quite a number of men and is being operated up to its full capacity. They are getting out a great many tine logs. Kussell brothers saw mill has recently been completed. They are cutting logs by the strinn. They cut bridge timbers, ties and all kinds of rough lumber for building purposes. Jamestown is situated four miles east of Molalla corners and a little south of Meadow brook on what is known as Meadowbrook Creek. Any one wishing to see as good a country as the Lord has ever made and a fine business place snouia pav us a visit. Alice Russell has been very ill during tne past ten uays Dot is now some bet ter. It U rumored that the Standingnr's saw mill has been sold to a gentleman by the name tseason from the Mink settle' ment this week. Snow is falling very rapidly here this week and there is quite a good fall on the ground. Russell Brothers are building another residence near their saw null and this is helping to keep up the boom in James town. When bilious try a dose of Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and realize for once how quickly a first class up-to-date medicine will correct tbe disorder. For sale by Geo. A. Harding. GLADSTONE Get a home where you have all the fresh air and freedom of the country, and 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 s,x minutes. After your day's work you travel home in luxury and comfort. 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. Call In at the office of the com pany and see the map of Glad stone, and an agent will cheer fully conduct you to the prop erty without expense to yourself, and give all needed information In making a selection fur your future home. Remember you are under no obligation to buy, only come and we will show you the handsomest tract of of land in Oregan. PARK 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 $100 per lot, $10 down and $10 per month with out interest, 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 umiles 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 belter 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 Streets, OREGON CITY. H. E. CROSS. Mohair and Wool Pool. At a meeting held at the above place by delegates from several Granges in this county for the purpose of forming a Mohair Pool it was decided to leave that matter to the Molalla Grange as being practically the only one interested. And the matter of pooling wool be refered back to the grange asking them to ap point delegates to meet at Oregoa City March 7th, 1904, (the day of the county Grange Convention.) 1 Each delegate to be instructed to ascertain the number of sheep his grange is willing to pool, so that an estimate of amount of wool to be pooled, can be made. At that time it is intended to take steps to carry forward said pool and elect committed to handle the same. A, J. Lewis. Ladies of the O. A. R. to Reorganize Feb. 3. There will be a meeting of the Ladies of the G. A. R. in Willamette hall on Wednesday evening, February 3, for the purpose of reorganizing. All who are eligible and interested in the order are requested to be present. Nellie M. Cooper, President Qur January Offering MMUHlWIIItMMIllWSWS The holidays are over and the January thaw has effected our prices which are undoubtedly the olwest As business did not meet with our expectations, we are left overstocked with an excellent stock of Stylish Clothing, Shoes, fiats, trunks and traveling Bags which we aim to dispose of at PRICES LOWER THAN THE WEST A little of your leisure time will be well spent here in con vincing you of the money-saving values we . are offering, When you see it in our ad it's So J. M. PRICE, Clothier and Furnisher 6th and Main Sts. OREGON CITY, ORE.