URIEI
21st'. YEAR.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, t MARCH 25, 1904.
No. 46.
OREGON
CIT
Punctuation
Weans fflucb
Semicolon in Place of Comma
Might Have Cost State
$800,000.
thrown Trom
electric Car
Bryan Journeyed
to Chicago
Where He Was Closeted
With William Randolph
Hearst.
Jude Boreas
Breaks Loose
ROYAI)
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The use of Royal Baking Powder is
essential to the healthfullness of the
family food.
Yeast ferments the food.
Alum baking powders are injurious.
Royal Baking Powder saves health.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Octogenarian
Passes Jlway
Dies on the Sixtieth Anniver
sary of Her Wedding.
Last Monday afternoon Mrs. Julia A.
Parker passed away at her home at
Gladstone at the age of 79 years, 5
months and 14 days. The direct cause
of her death was a stroke of paralysis;
which together with other ailments in
cident of old age resulted in her death.
A remarkable coincidence of her death
was the fact that she died on her wed
ding anniversary, having been married
to Asa Parker just 80 years before to al
mostan hour.
Three children and her husband are
ieit io mourn ner aeparture. They are
A. F. Parker of this city,. Rev. Gilman
Parker of Alameda, Cal., and Mrs.
Julia FiBber of Detnoresi, Georgia.
None were present but the first named
when she died.
Mrs. Parker came to Oregon with her
husband some 12 years ago and has been
a resident of the Willamette valley ever
sim.6. She was good woman, a de
voted mother, and for thirty-fiye years
had been a consistent member of the
Baptist church. The funeral services
were held at the reBidencs at Gladstone
Tuesday afternoon by Rev; J. H. Bea
ven, of the Baptist church, and the in
terment took place in the Mountain
View Cemetery immeaditely after.
A petition is being circulated and
numerously signed, asking the city
council to provide a board sidewalk
across the canyon from the head o(
Seventh street to the cemetery. The
proposed walK will shorten the distance
to the cemetery for foot travelers quite a
bit and should be built.
Ladies cordially invited to attend the
millinery display at Red Front Friday
and Saturday, March 25 and 26. The
prettiest goods. EaBtern prices only.
31 Lenten Tmt
May be had from the Dainty Viands We
have to offer Smoked Salmon, Bloaters,
Finnau Haddies, French Sardines Salmon
Steak, Kippered Herring, Fresh Eggs, Hot
House Lettuce, Pie. Plant and other things
delicious and tempting Headquarters for
the finest brands of
Highest Grades of
JT
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mourm
The Firemen's Banquet Well
Attended and Greatly
Enjoyed.
On W edne sday evening at Willamatte
Hall the firemen and ex-firemen of Ore
gon City aathered and had a right royal
good time. The occasion was the cele
bration of the Cataract Hose Company,
in the election of one of their members,
Hon. Howard Brownell, as chief of the
fire department of Oregon City for the
next year. A good time was enjoyfed
and good fellowship prevailed.
Dr. W. E. Carll was selected as toast
master and presided in his usual fas
cinating manner. The Maccabee Quar
tette Bang in their best voice and man
ner, and possibly they never appeared to
better advantage. In fact it is hard to
beat the Maccabees at any stage of the
game. They are two-minute horses and
can go a full mile. Speeches were made
by Mayor Grant B. Ditiiick, Fire Chief
Howard M. Brownell and others.
flie letrebnments consisted of sand
wiches and other things too numerous to
mention. j
Mr. R. W. Kelsey, the well known
lr-cal option speaker, accompanied by
W. Eugene Knox, the inimitable .inn.,
personator, supported in song by other.,
will hold a meeting in the M. E. church
on Saturday evening, March 26. Th
object of the meeting will be to stir up
sentiment in favor of the proposed local'
option law.
In our millinery display the prices
please and the beautiful Earner huts
more than please. First class milliutry
and djesttinakiug in cliarge oi Mrs. M.
A. Thomas. E. C. Hamilton, Red
Front.
See the Courier's special campaign
offer in another-column. The Courier
two months for 15 cents or Beven months
for CO cents. Don't fail to take advan
tage of the offer.
Canned Goods and the
Teas and Coffees.
A. ROBERTSON,
The 7th Street Grocer.
Salem, Or., March 19. "The follow
ing property, if owned by a householder
and in actual use, or kept for use, by
and for bis or her family: household
goods, furniture and utensils; two cows
ten sheep, five swine, and the tools, im
plements, apparatus, team, vehicle,
harness or library necessary to enable
auy person to carry on his trade, oc
cupation or profession by which such
person earns his or her liying to the
amount of three hundred ($300) dollars,
the articles to be selected by such house
holder; provided, however, that when
the assessed valuation of the personal
property above enumerated shall amount
to less than three hundred ($ot)0) dollars,
then only such amount as the total of
such property herein enumerated shall
be exmpt from taxation."
The above paragraph is section 8, or
the last paragraph of House bill No. 23,
as enacted by the special session of the
Legislature, held in December of the
year 1903, and more familiarly known as
"tb" Shelley tax exemption act."
Whether it whs his intention or not, it
is thought that Mr. Sheliey, a member
or the House of the Legislature from
Lane County, when he introduced this
bill before the Legislature, intended
that the householder should be exempt
from taxation to the extent of $300 only
whether it was household goods or other
personal property, but, by a simple
manipulation of punctuation points, ail
household goods, whether they be val
ued at $300 or $3000, are exempt ,from
taxation under the act as it 'now stands
and $300 worth of other personal
property besides.
This act, not becoming of effect until
March 23, and all property being sub
ject to assessment on March 1, does not
affect the assessment for the year 1904,
and the exemption law not being in
force it will make a difference of about
$800,000 in revenue to the credit of the
state; but if this act is allowed to stand
as it now reads it will operate as a loss
to the state to the extent of more than
double that auiouni'in The total revenue
from taxation for the year 1905.
This condition is brought about
through the simple process of punctua
tion, and the whole effect of this section
of the act, had it been the intention oi
the author to make each and every
taxpayor exempt from taxation to the
amount of $300 in personal property, is
hanged) by the simple insertion of a
semicolon after the clause "household
goods, furniture and utensils," instead
of a comma, 88 it no doubt was iptended
to be. ! -
Qln examination of the original bill, as
introduced in the Hpnse by Mr. Shelley,
reveals the fact that the mistake, if so
it was, was contained therein, and it
cannot, therefore, be charged up to the
committee on enrolled bills nor against
the printer. This bill, crawn' ud as
hurriedly as it was passed b the Leg
islature, has been the source of no end
ot trouble and worry to Mr. Shelley, for,
it will be remembered, he was in such a
hurry to have this bill prepared, having
lost the first bill which he had taken so
much trouble and pains to prepare, and
passed by the t-pecial session in order
that the taxpayer could get the benefit
of it this year, he forgot to attach an
emergency clause of the whole bill.
It is probably fortunate that he did
forget to put in the emergency clause,
for, had the act gone into effect in time
for vhis year's assessment, the state
would have been the loser thereby, in
the amount of revenue accruing from
taxation. As it now stands, the Legis
lative Assembly will convene in January
of 1905, in plenty of time for the punc
tuation to be rectified, simply by in
serting a comma after the word "uten
sils where now exists a semicolon.
Lumber Mills Shut Down.
Seattle, March 22. With lumber sell
ing $5 per thousand lower than it was
year ago, 157 of the mills in the North
western Statea have shut down to
await the decision of the tranecontinen
tal railroadi on the petition for a 40
cent rate into Missouri River territory.
Other mills running are staking np
their lnmber to await a market demand.
Mulmen claim that present market
conditions will not justify their operat
ing plants permanently. IDey are con
fident that the trcnscontinental lines
will grant the rate asked for, and many
of those who claim to be operating at a
loss are piling up their lnmber in the
hope of obtaining a new market.
Snaps Seedless raisins 1 cents.
Oranges and lemons lc, bluestone 6c,
talk oil $1 for 5 gallons. E. C. Hamil
ton, Red Front.
Albert Knapp, Prominent Cit
izen and City Councilman
Sustains Serious Injuries.
Albert Knapp, a prominent saloon
keeper of this city, and a town council
man, was seriously injured last Thurs
day evening ;.n Portland by either fall
ing or being thrown from a car.
Mr. Kuapp was on his way home and
waB nearing the bridge across the Wil
lamette. A discussion is said to have
arisen between bim and a conductor
when the latter seized him by the col
lar and threw him off while the car
was in motion. Mr. Knapp sustained a
fracture and he was taken to a hospital.
He will be detained there several weeks
before he is well.
He caya the conductor was entirely in
fault and he ptopoBes to bring suit
against the Oregon Water Power for
damages just as soon as he gets well
enough.
lr. P. S. C. E. Social This Even
ing. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Presby
terian church will give an entertain
ment and social this evening at Shive
ley's Opera House. The following pro
giame has been arranged:
Selection Cook's Orchestra.
Reading Mrs. Morton Doty.
Selection ....Cook's Orchestra.
Reading.. Prof. W. Gilbert Seattle.
Solo Miss Grace Marshall.
Dialogue, without words
.... .Miss A. Horn, Mr. Geo. CalifT.
Reading in pantomime.... "Her Tailor
made Gown.".
Mrs. A Matheson, Mrs. E. L.
Scott.
Solo.. Miss Maysie Foster.
Read.ng .Mrs. E. L. Scott.
Selection Cook's Orchestra,
Reading Mrs. Morton Doty.
Violin Solo..... Mr. George Anderson.
Pantomime.... "The Cannibal and the
....Skeleton." '
From a Socialist's Viewpoint.
Are the union printers justified in the
strike in the Courier office? If we have
been rightly informed we think the
union's action was premature.
A person told me that one of the em
ployes said to bim that the Courier was
a losing game and that there would be a
strike shortly if the union employes
knew that the manager was running the
paper at a loss. We think it a very
grave injustice to the paper, and to the
union as well. Canit.be possible that'
union men would do such an unjust act?
We are informed that the Corporation's
Auxiliary Company has spies In the
unions, who are . the loudest-mouthed
union men and are continually stirring
up Btnfe. Better examine, boys, and
ascertain if there is one in vour ranks.
What will the result be if the public
finds that the Courier is being exploited
by tho union? It will not only cause a
growing sentiment sirainut the printers'
union, but all unions. The union man
must understand that business under
this Bvetetn is run for a profit, and if
your demands aie in excess of the profit
the business will necessarily Have to be
suspended, and you can go tramping for
another job. or else the business man
will have to look out for gratts to suc
ceed. Oh, my brother, will you never
learn that . this road of competition is
unfit for human progress, that lully 90
per cent fall into the seething abyss and
become wage slaves or tramps?
Let me make an illustration. I am a
farmer on a small scale. Now, I can't
raise wheat at, less than 50 cents per
bushel labor cost.allowing myself $1 per
day for labor and board myself. Sup
pose the laboring man would demand
$1.50 per day and board. We are told
that wheat can he raised by big machin-
ery :
labo
lor lour cents per bushel allowing
or $1.50 per day. What would the
result be to the small farmer? Go out
of business, of course. This rule will
apply to all other small business. Then
when all small business is supplanted
by large concerns, then we will have the
trust in its full glory. When this is
accomplished do you want to be a party
to it? What good will your union do
you? Perhaps you will think I am un
just to the union. Why don't I try my
ballot? Say you shall have the full pro
d uct of your toil. Do you vote that way ?
Stop striking at your neighbor and strike
at the ballot box. Vote for Socialism.
Yours truly,
W. W. Myers.
Land Quickly Taken Up.
Nine and a fractional sections in
township, 10 south, range 11 west, were
thrown open to settlement at the Oregon
Citv Land Office at nine o'clock Tuesday.
The track embraced more than 6000
acres, and all the land was filed on with
the exception of a quarter section bv the
34 applicants who stood in line for an
hoar before the office was opened.
The land, which' is located in the
Siletz reservation, was opened to settle
ment under the provisions of the home
stead law, and was taken almost entire
ly by Salem and Albany people. Two
similar tracts in the same section of this
land district will be opened to settle
ment on April 6 and 13, respectively.
Chicago, 111., March 22. No incident
of this campaign has created more of a
stir among the Democrats than the un
expected appearance today of William
Jennings Bryn. Whether he came to
Chicago for the expressed purpose ot
meeting William Randolph Hearst could
not be learned, but it is known that Boon
after his arrival at the Sherman House
Mr. Bryan joined the candidate for
President and they were together a long
time
The news that Bryan and Hearst were
having a conference quickly spread to all
the Democratic centers and caused spec
ulative comment among the politicians.
All sorts of stories were current at the
headquaiters of the Democratic ' State
Committee and the Chicago Democracy
in the Sherman House as to the objects
of the .conference. It was said that
Bryan came here at the request of Mr.
Hearst to talk oyer the situation and
also to discuss the question of taking an
active part in the general management
of Hearst's campaign. Neither of them
would divulge the subject of their con
versation ; nor would they admit that'
there had been any kind of a conference
One of the stories afloat was that Mr.
Hearst has asked the Nebraska leader to
become his mouthpiece at St. Louis, and
present his name to the National Con
vention. Another was that they are
trying to iortit a combination that will
euable them to control the nomination
as well as the convention.
0:i learning that Hearst and Bryan
were in Chicago, Chairman John P.
Hopkins, of the State Committee, came
out with a denial of the report, recently
exploited,, that he was opposed to Mr.
Hearst's candidacy, and would do every
thing within his power to prevent him
getting delegates' in Illinois. "I have
taken the position," he continued,, "that
the State Committee has no business to
mix in these pre-convention contests. I
said so, two years ago when the Com-1
mittee made me its Chairman. I said
so six weeks ago at the love feast, und I
say so now. I am not opposing any
candidate, nor am I going out to make a
fight against Mr. Hearst. He can nave
the delegates if he can get them."
, I'alm Sundxy.
The services at the Congregational
church next Sundy will he especially
appropriate to Pahn Sunday. The pas-
tors theme for the dav Will rwljra trt
thoughts pertaining to the enterance up
on PaBsion Week. finnil mi,ai i,
OU i BBHlOn VVeelC. 8nC. R mimln I, l,
ina prepared. In the morning the choir
Will Sillg "God's LovB Rhnnm I
Mr.
V. Harris will sing "Palms" at
the
ren.
Far
evening service and the choir will
der Dunks' "The Green Hills
Away."
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ly equal to any $3 or $3.50 hat on the
market. We have just received the Spring
and Summer kind, latest shapes, direct from
Danbury. From the factory to your head.
Comt and takt a look at thtm.
J. ID. Price
Zbt Chtbltr and
Turnisber Oregon City
Worst Storm in Years Visits
Willamette Valley Result
ing in Much Loss.
Last Saturday night was the worst this
part ol the Willamette Valley has ex
perienced iu a good many years. The
elements were in commotion. The wind
howled and shrieked around the street
corners, wrecking awnings, tearing
down swinging signs and smashing
window j.
The storm began early in the after
noon and continued until late in the
evening. Many shade trees on the hill
tops were uprooted, while from all over
the country reports indicate that much
damage was wrought. Houses were
twisted out of shape and in some instan
ces blown down. Fences were wreckot
and roadwayB blocked with fallen tin
ber. '
Not Bince 1S80 has there been such
another wind storm. No lives were lost
but property damage in the county was
considerable. One of the principal
items of loss will be to the county
clearing the loadways of the fallen tim
ber. Ernest Rands, the County Survey
or, drove in from Marquam while the
storm was at its neignts. lie exper
ienced much difficulty iu making the
trip. The air was full of flying branches
of trees while the timber was cracking
and bending all about.
At Gladstone a new house in the
course of construction waB blown down.
At Risley's on the Oregon Water
Power Railway, a big trea fell across the
track, breaking a trolley wire and sus
pending traffic for several hours.
Portland was directly in the storm
center. Fully $50,000 worth of damage
wss done in that city. Other towns in
the valley suffered as much in propor
tion to population and size. People
who were out on the street at a late
hour experienced difficulty in getting to
their homes.- It was a wild, tempestu
ous equinoctial storm, such as visits
this valley but once in a life time, and
while it was considered a terrific storm
here, in some of the eastern states it
would havet been but a Rone zephyr.
Lake May and his crew of men who-
went to Five Islands to plant cotton
wood trees last week, returned Wed
nesday evening, after having about lialt
finished their work. They were forced
to suspend operations on account of the
extreme wetness of the ground. The
trees planted there last year by the pa
per mill are doing well th:ugh under
several inches oi water.
The revival meetings at the Baptist
church continued with undiminished
interest. There have been a large num
ber of converts up to date. Evangel
ist E. W. Neal, who is doing the preach
ing, is a powerful exponent of the Word,
and I'aBtor Beaven and the church are
rejoicing in seeing many turn to the
Lord.
WE have the sole
agency for the
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quality to the kind
you have been pay"
ing $4 and $5 for,
and is absolutely
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OurWaldorf $2.50
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