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8 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 19C4 OREGON CHY COURIER Publiihed Every Friday by OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHINGCO J. H. W18TOVEB1 Editor and Buuinese Manager R. Lei Wimoter. Looal Editor. tntered in Oregon City Portoffloe u 2nd-clM matter BOBSCBIPTION KATES. Paid in advance, per year 1 5" Six months 75 Clubbing Haiea Oregon City Conner and Weekly Oregonian .$2.25 Oienon City Courier and Weekiy Courier- Journal '. .2.00 flrAiron Cltv Courier and Weekly Examiner- 2.60 Oregon City Courier and the Cosmopolitan. 2.26 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Twice..a-Wect Journal " 2 Oreeon Cltv Courier and Weekly Journal ... 2.00 Oregon City Cornier aud Dally Journal 4.60 gtfl'he date opposite your address on the caper flonotesthe tlmetownicnyounaepaiu. Ifthisnoticeismarkedyoursubsoiiption is due. OREGON OITY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904 Tub pen picture drawn by W. J. Bry an of the emperor of Russia does not represent a warrior bold but a man of a nature bordering on effeminacy. Mr. Bryan, on bis recent visit to Russia visited him at bis winter residence. He thus describes him : "The emperor is a young man, having been born in 1SGS. lie is not more than five feet seven or eight inches in height and apparently weighs about 160 younds. Ilis figure is slender and erect, his face boyish and tiis eyes a light blue. His hair, wMeh is blonde, is c it rather short and comb, ed upward over the forehead. The i Ziir wears moustache and short beard. The general expression of his face is gentle rather than Bevere and be speaks KngliBh perfectly." The diplomatic appropriation bill was under consideration in the lower house of congress, when Mr. James, of Ken tucky, severely criticised President Roosevalt for favoring international ex tradition, when he gave sanction to the action of the governor of Indiana in re fusing to recognized a requisition of the governor of Kentucky calling for the re turn of W . 8, Taylor to that state for trial. The criticisms of Mr. James open t,d anew the Taylor controversy, and calls to mind the assassination of Wm. Goebel on the steps of Kentucky's capitol building, for which W. S. Tay lor was held primarily responsible. The trail of other conspirators connected with the crime showed conclusively that Governor Taylor elected on theRepubli can ticket, was the chief conspirator and directly responsible for the Goebel's death. But Taylor escaped into Indi aua, and for four yearn the governor of that state has prevented his return to Kentucky for trial. The action of the governor of Indiana has been one of the I niobt high-handed violations of law ever witnessed in the United States, aud it is little wonder that it furnishes a theme for discussion in the halls of congress. J.D. Comus of Grant county, tells the Blue Mountain Eagle that it a mis take about the outlook for cattle in the spring being bright, since there is notb ing at present to indicate that the price for beef and stock cattle will be any higher than last year. Stock growers in nearly every part of the west agree that the outlook during the coming year is anything but bright. It iB the general opinion that there will be a market for stock of all kinds, but the prices will be low, and it cannot be helped. The creation of the independent packing company by the stockgrowers material ly help matters this year, says Mr. Combs, since the concern can't buy all of the beef that there is in the whole country. From statements coming from Con stantinople or from Vienna, it is evident that a war in Manchuria would danger ously increase the chances of war in the Balkans. W riters who are studying the crisis on the Fpot, declare that an out break of war in Manchuria would be f oh lowed by an immediate uprising in Macedonia, no matter what the Sultan's government may do or leave undone. In deed the whole Balkan peninsula is in a state of unstable equilibrium. The present status is maintained solely by the concert ol Europe, and should the concert be broken up or even weakened by a war of Urst-clasB magnitude, the chances are that nearly the whole of the Turkish dominions In Europe would be .uvolved in confusion, loading to war not less portentous than betwuen Russia and Japan. Tub London mail has recently publish ed some extracts from the writings of Lord WolBeley on the Ruhject of China, and prefraed them with a note from biiu saying: "I fuel quite confident know ing from my own experience what a brave and c.ever fellow the Chinaman is that were I accorded the necessary power aud given au absolutely free hand In the Chinese goyemment, 1 could, in the space of two or three years, provide I he Chinese Empire with an army that would be second to none in the world," In his autobiography Lord Wolseley, in commenting upon the possibilities of tho Chinese, Bays : "There is no nation numerically as great as China whose cus toms and modes of hie are so generally common to all parts of their vast em pire, To me they are the moat remark able race on earth, and I have always thought and still believe them to be the great coming rulers of the world. They only want a Chinese Peter the Great or Napoleon to make them so. They have every quality required for the good soldier and the good i.ilor, and in my idle speculation upon this world's fut ure I have long selected them as the combatants on one aide at the great bat tle of Armageddon, the people of the United States of America being their opponents." Catarrh Camnot be Cuied With I.Ot'L AITI.ICATIONS,m they cannot resell tliaHeatof the iliMii. Catarrh li a blood or ooaatinitloual dlsi-asi-, and in ordtM to ,'urt it von lauxt takei Internal romr-illc". Hall's Catarrh ('nrrflt Is taken internally and art rilrvetly on the blood aud milonis s'lrfacca. Hall's Catarrh l ure is not a (luai k mllclii. It wa.s prescribed by one of the Veil physicians In tlii.t eounlrv for wari, and Is a rrgular pitM-rlpilon. It Is foui iwsed of til" beat tonics know ii, couibluxl Willi he best Hood purltlara, acting dliroily on the mucous surface". The perfect combination of the two liigrui'lenla Is wlial pro.liics such w.ui dwful re-nhs 1 Curing Catarrh. Send for tcMl- m minis, free- ...,..ut.Vi .,., . J. I HKNhi v CO., Ulo to, O. Hold by Druggisis. JiairiVaBl'j .i the tot, If the statutes were obeyed there would be few "kids" in this city addict ed to the use of tobacco. The law on the subject of selling cigarettes to minors is as follows : 'It shall be unlawful to sell, barter, trade, give or in any manner furnish to any minor under the age of 18 yearB.any tobacco, cigar or cigarettes in any form, orany component injwhich tobacco,for'ris a component pait, without the written consent or order of such minors parent or guardian, a.id when such minor has no parent or guardian, then in that case consent may be given by the county court, sitting for the transaction of county business, upon proper applica tion in the county in which said minor may have his residence. Any peison violating the provisions of this act shall upon couvictiou be fined in any sum not less than five dollars or more than $50," The law against the use of tobac co by minors under 18 years of age, is aB follows: "It ehall be unlawful for any minor under the age of 18 years to smoke or in any way use any cigar, cigarette or tobacco in any form whatsoever, in any public highway, street, place, square, or resort. Any minor violating the pro visions of this act. shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than $1 nor more than $10, or by imprisonment at the option of the court, two days for each offense." Op the population of Russia of 128,- 000,000, 80,000,000 are faimers. A:l farming is done on the communal sys tem, no peasant owning the land; he tills individually. The interior class of Rus sian soil-tillers, called "muziks," are a dirty, unkempt, ignorant lot, fully 100 years behind ihe times. The agrk-ultur- al implements used in Russia, which are admitted lree of duty, are made in the United Slates. Farming of all kinds is done in the crudest way and the roads are the poorest possible, rough and heavy. There being no inducement to fertilize the land, the soil is badly run down. The people follow after old cus toms, are cursed with superstitious be liefs of all kinds and change but little from age to age. They have the finest horses in the world, a fact to which is due that splendid corps of cavalry known as the Cossacks, who, on many a bloody battle field have sustained the Russian standard with unexampled dash and bravery. POOR SERVICE, Ik is now proposed in the most serious way to pay Colombia ten millions of dol lars, which was all she was to receive in the first place under the negotiations conducted with her for this Panamaright of-way. our does this strike the mind of average citizen, who has been told that Colombia had no rights that tbe Presi dent has done no wrong toward Colom bia that everybody was acting within the law and according to precedent ihpt now Uncle Sam should be compelled to fork over ten milliou dollars to the United States of Colombia? Doesn't iit all come back to this: That Panama had no right of secession: That Colom bia had a right to put down the rebellion in Panama, and would have done so if the United State haJ't interfered ? That our entire couise has been unprecedted high-handed and so contrary to the usages of nations that Uncle Sam finds himself in the position of either backing down completely, or satisfying Colombia by an amplo compensation? If this course were not deemed to be the right one, then Senate of the Uuited States shouldn't adopt it. But it this course be the right cue, then the United States admits that it perpetrated iigrtat wrong against Columbia when assistance was rendered t) tho revolutionist therein, a Republic forced to the front and recogni. zed by all the vild with indecent haste. Eutwith such tlu'l'resident's case falls to the ground comp etely.aud the admission is made that there was no justification in tho beginning. WONDERS OF THERMIT. Humanity, which swt Iters in a heat of i)0 degrees, aud withers and dies if the mercury runs up 10 or H degree s higher, finds it b ird to leiliz a li 'at of 5400 degrees. Yet that is the heat de veloped in the combustion of thermit a heat which welds together pieces of the most ponderous machinery, which makes it possible to mend iron castings weighing tons, which heretofore had to be replaced at great expense of labcr and time; which can unite iron rails so perfectly that the joining can scarcely be teen or felt and a rail can be made miles long instead ol 50 or 100 feet at the outside. This thermit is a compound discovered by Dr. Haua Uoldscmidt of Essen. Ger many, who has been lecturing in this country before chemical aud engineering associations on this chemical discovery ; a discovery is not merely interesting to the scientist, but commercially valuable In the industrial world. Thermit is a mixture of fluely granulated or powered lauminum with some metalio oxide. most frequently oxide of iron. This mixture looks not unlike gunpowder, or to a housewife would suggest mixed tea, the lik,ht granules being aluminum, and the dark ones oxide of iron. In burning this mixture creates a tempera, ture, as lr. Goldschmidt expressed it in a paper read at tbe annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical En gineers, "about equal to that of the elee- GLADSTONE Get a home where you have all the fresh air and freedom of the country, ani 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 t election fur your future home. Remember you are under no obligation to buy, enly come and we will show you the handsomest tract of of land in Oregan. The service which the Oregon Water Power Traction Co., is giving to the peo ple ( f Oregon City between this city and Portland is just about as bad as it well can be. At the present time the most disagreable part of the trip aBide from tbe danger of having to pass over the long trestle between Green Point and the Clackamas river, is the lack of the proper heating facilities within the cars. But very little pretense is made toward making the cars comfortable or suffici ently warm. Men, women and little children for over an hour have to sit bun-' led up in fur and overcoats shiver ing with the cold which permeates every nook and corner of tbe cars. As the regular schedule between Oregon City and Portland is about one hour, and as it oftener takes from an hour and ten minutes to an hour and a half to make the trip it can easily be seen to what discomfortB the innocent traveler is put. We presume tuat the management know what kind of service they ere giv ing these people and that they are sub jecting them to all kinds of danger in contracting colds and pneumonia, n addition to the discomforts and other inconveniencies it takes fully as long again to make the run from Oregon City to Portland as it ought in good con science to do. The traction line be tween Seattle and Tacoma a distance of about 38 miles makes the run in a little less time than it takes the antiquated Oregrn City line to cover the distance from this city to Portland, a distance of some fourteen uiileB. A citizen who is in a hurry to get to Portland would be safer and surer to get to Portland if he would get him a good horse and drive down on the fine gravel road on the west side of the river. On the new line running out from Portland to tbe town in the woods, Eslacada which the Oregon WaterPower people ate booming, fine new cars aie being used with a smoker attachment cut i fT from the main part of the car and a citizen can tide with some comfort and safely. It a business man of Oregon City desires to run down to Portland and at the same time enjoy a rest and a smoke he tnuHt, perforce hang on to tho back platform and have himselftrampledupivn j by people get' ing on aud off of the cm s. If he happens to come home between; four and six o'clock he will have toatar.d j up and be ib lucky if he can even get t e privilege of standing on the rear plt,t-, fn , W(,mu ulwl Mubll-i.ll aliuru tlm ! same fate as tiie men and in many in stances woman who seem.tired aud frail KAli little tots have to stand in a perfect jam, holding on as beat tli y c in for more than half the distance Ik tweeu the two cities. It is out of Oie gon City that the Oregon Water Powir Company is making the end of its money and it owes it to this city ami her good people to give to its citizens not only a safe service but a reasonable comfortable one. The courikii does not care to appear in the roll of a fault finder, but these matters are so patent to even the casual observer that "lie who runs may reed." 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 $ioo per lot, $io down and f to 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 I2miles 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 better 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 me Great Proposition is- 100 lots of your own selection, in the spknJid townsite of Gladstone, on the knks 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. In 1901, the value of all stock owned in the over 200 CDrporations doing busi ness in Oregon, as found by the aBsesf ors of the etate.was but $1,988,740. The property values of the corporations lo cated in Clackamas county alone are double that sum. It has been estimated by statisticians in the states (hat a sentence of life im prisonment averag-s about seven years. At the txpiration of four or five years tbe family and relatives of the imprison ed man begin a campaign against the peace of mind of some governor. Tbe crime has been well-nigh forgotten. The victim has long since;rotted intomothing in his noisome bed and the grave-worms have long left him to batten and fatten on other bodies and his family have re ceived such surcease of sorrow as t he quiet touch of kindly time can furnish. White Rock Eggs. The best is always tbe cheapest. The purest strains of White PlymouthRocks. One setting of 13 eggs $1. They are dirt cheap. Leave your order at the Courier olfice. AFTER ST. LOUIS, OREGON. "Where rolls the Oregou" and hears above his own dashings the hum of In dustry an exposition is to be held in 1905 to celebrate the cen'enary of the Lewis and Clark exposition. It wag this expedition, sent out by President Jefferson in 1803 and reaching tbe mouth of the Columbia two yean later, which blazed a way for the great tide of transcontinental travel. Capts. Lewis and Clark were tbe first Ameri cans to penetrate overland to the point in the lar Northwest reached by the adventurous Yankee (kipper by round ing Cape Horn some thirteen years pre vious. They added to the national do main an area cow comprising Oregon ; Washington and Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming. Oregon alone now buys from New York and the tribu tary manufacturing region goods to the value of 175,000,000 annually. Portland where the exposition will be held, has a population of90,000 aud the State of 431 ,-1 000, as against 13,000 in 1S5 The ollicial invitation extended to the j Empire State to participate in the cele-1 brat on is dcserviig cf a cordial re-t sponse. New lork Worul. Our January Offering 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, Jjats, trunks and traveling Bags which we aim to dispose of at PRICES LOWER THAN THE LOWEST 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. Ai'i-liU'iits cMnf with ilUtrcHiUK (tf'ineiioy on