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OREGON -CITY COURIER, - FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1904 ORJEGON CITY COURIER. Published Every Friday by SittGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO. . SHIRLEY BUCK H. L. MCCANN )Edltors Intend In Oregon wily Porrtoffloe as '2nd-olaui matter 0BSCEliTION KATES. Paid In advance, per year ISO Blx months 75 Clubbing Bates Oregon City Conner and Weekly Oregonian -$2.25 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courier 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 Cornier and Daily Journal 4.50 The dale opposite your address on the paper denotes I he time to which you have paid . If thiB noticeis marked your subscilption is due. it is pnt. Observation of the writing done in practically all the wholesale houses of Portlaul fails to disclose a (finale instance in which vertical writing is used. The fact of the matter is, vertical writing is not rapid enough to meet the demands of the hard-hearted business world Democratic Nominees. For Representatives O . W. Evans, S. HutcuiriHon, John VV. Loder. For Sheriff Chas Ely. Fr Clerk Millard Uiiwl. For Treasurei-r-N. F Nelson. , For Assessor T. R. A. bellwood. For 8upt. of Schools H. U. Stark weather. For Comnvssioner J. H. Kitching. For Surveyor A. M Kirchem. The law giving a rebate on taxes was passed in the interest of wealthy indi viduals and corporations. It is the capitalist who always has the money on hand to pay bis taxes at any given date, and it is he who benefits by the provis ions of the law. Not only do most of the taxpayers fail. to benefit materially by the rebate, bu1, the tax levy is neces sarily increased by the amount given away in the rebates.. The rebates given in this county on the 1903 taxes, amount to $4936 68. This is sufficient to pav a year's interest on $82,283, a sum greater, according to the uncertified Semi-annual Summary Statement mentioned in an other column, than the net indebtedness of the county. It will be to the interest of the great majority of taxpayers to see that tins law is repealed. KB80I.UTION8 AND PLATFORM. Resolved, That we hold the Republi can party of Clackamas county responsi ble for the present financial condition of our county, wherein our indebtedness has grown from $40,000 to nearly $200, 000 since the last term of Governor White's administration. At the same time property valuations in the county have more than doubled and the per cent of taxation has greatly increased, yet thiB enormous debt hangs over us when it should have been wiped out. We fully believe it time to have a change of administration in county affaire and ask all voters to consider well before casting their ballots. Resolved, Th.tt we favor the election Of road supervisors by the people; also that we favor that good roads after being ' constructed shall be kept in repair by contract work ; also that 75 per cent of the money collected in each road die trict be expended In that district. Morally, there is a vast difference between official incompetency and of' ficlal dishonesty. Practically, the effect on the taxpayer is about (he Hatna. The only weakness the average voter has been able to discover in the Demo cratic ticket is weakness in fixing the primaries, fixing the convention, and fixing their friends with the promise of nveijihi.ig under the inn. Id his address at the banquet at Salem few days ago, Colonel Miller called at tention to the successes of the Japanese against a mighty foe and pointed out that theii victories lie in the fact that the Japanese are a united people. The moral is plain ; will the Democrats of this county heed it? Summary Statement," that there has dropppd from sight the sum of $14,525.53. Of course that is only a trifling amount and has probably dropped into some chink in tne flour of the Bafe, and will re-appear as soon as the people demand an accounting. But the fact remains, unless a. . least one officer has certi fied to a false statement, that the county is short $14,524.53. Japan has only begun. After all the numerous "off" family have been killed she will yet have to contend with the "skys" and "vitches". If Russia were accoramodatirg hIui noulil mivo lime by sending an "Off-sky. vitcli" and letting the result of the war turn on his success or failure. Millard Crisell, residing north of Aurora, has been nominated by the Clackamas County Democrats for County Clerk. The Democrats have shown good judgment in selecting Mr. Crisell. lie is a progressive young man, Btrictly honest and well qualified. If elected he will make an excellent County Clerk. Aurora Borealis. The county school fund portion of the taxes paid in previous to April 1, 1904, amounted to $37141.71. The amount apportioned to the several districts aggre gate $27141.38. Ten thousand dollars of school funds lying idle in the county treasury, while some schools in the county are closing early for want of ironey. Why is this thus? In an editorial the Salem Statesman endeavors to show that President Roose velt ii the embodiment of all that is simple and una'Tected in taste and man. ners. Not satisfied with this It goes on to state that the simplicity of Jefferson wits assumed for political reasons. Well, perhaps It was, but why not be honest about it and admit that it is just by the merest scratch barely possible that President Roosevelt Is not averse to see ing hia nam iu the papers as having done some very commonplace act, and that he is not avers to having a vote on the strength of it. Just why the State Board of Educa tion should decree that pupils desiring to graduate from the eighth grade ol our schools should write by the vertical sys tem, is somewhat difficult to understand. Vertical writing is largely a fad and as such has about had its day. The value of a system of writing, like anything else, is determined by the use to which A TALK WITH TAXPAYERS. National and state politics are of vast importance tiall voter, bin it Mini possible (or tne mass of the people to keep fully posted id regard to the detain of legislative and 'administrative action in our national and state capitals. Gen eral policies only can be watched; and even in these, it is a difficult matttr for the people to secure compliance with their demands. Capitalistic influences often thwart the expressed desires of the people. Investigations, so-callod,are too often but the means of covering up malfeasance in office, or of shifting the blame from the real culprit to some sub ordinate who may, in reality, have acted ouly on instructions from his su perior. Court decisions are obtained, which, like, the notorious "Merger" case appear to be in the interests of the people, but which really point out to the anarchistic monopolists a better and safer method of handling their nef arious schemes. Reports of officials, as iu the case of the Briotow report, are made for the purpose of convincing the people that those iu authority are de termined to rid the various departments of bribery and peculation; but when ever the investigation of such reports leads up toward the top of the official ladder, the rtpo tie denounced as being without foundation, and the investiga tion is either wholly dropped or direct ed in a new channel. If an offender like Captain Cowles happens to be a rel ative of some one high in authority, the offense is overlooked at the request of the influential relative. Bat the voice of the people is unheard by these ante election servants, an'' post-election mas ters. In our own state the voters demanded in the last election that state officers be placed on flat salaries ; but the demand is unheeded. The taxpayers are robbed of thousands of dollars every year to pay for unnecessary printing, and to pay ex orbitant prices for that which is neces sary. A pro: eat against this graft has bteii made year ',er yeari but the legis lative ear is stopped. Public indigna tion has many times been aroused at the spectacle of legislation of the utmost Im portauce to the state being subordinated to the election of a United States fcena tor ; but there is no hope of reform. Such being the case in national and state politics, the good citizen can do no better than to keep himself fully informed on the condition of affairs in his own county ; denounce every scheme that has "graft" as Its foundation; de pose every dishonest or incompetent of ficial ; insist on economy in the manage ment of county affairs, but condemn that false ecoi.omy which neglects the in terests of the people in order to give to some aspiring office holder the reputa tion of having given an economic! ad ministration. In order to act intelligently, the voter should study carefully the proceedings of the county court and the Benii. annual reports of the county officers. Demand an explanation whenever misleading or contradictory statements are made. That such statements are made, the following will show: The semi-annual report of the sheriff of Clackamas county, published in the Enterprise of April 8, 1904, shows "the amount of money and warrants received for taxes, and money paid to the county Treasurer by the Sheriff of Clackamas County, Oregon, for the six months ending on the 31st day of March, 1904." The sum paid to the Treasurer is stated as $190,805.27. The Treasurer's state men' covering the same period of time shows that he has received from the Sheriff the sum of $176,340.74. It is thus seen that there is a discrepancy in the two accounts of $14,524.53. Where is that money? The Sheriff certifies that it is not in his hands while the Treas urer certifies that he has not received it, A "Semi-Annual Summary Statement", published with the reports of the county ollicers, bat signed by no one and certi fied to by no one, states that there was no money iu the hands of the Sheriff, on the 31st day of March, 1904, applicable to the payment of county warrants. Thus it appears by the testimony of three witnesses the Sheriff, the Treas urer and the who failed to sign and certify to the "Semi-Annual AN EXTRAVAGANT PRESIDENT. The United States has the most ex travagant president in its history, a man whose administration in style tends entirely to the imperialisti i order of European nations. Besides asking for ad increase of salary, he wants $90,000 for new stables for his horses, and $140, 090 to cover cost of servants and other luxuries. $475,UOO was spent to change, things around for him, and a complete botch was made of it. Sixty-rive thous and dollars of this alone weut to a friend in New York for furni hing the plans. The government furnishes him with a $15,000 piano, chairs that cost $400 apiece, and in a recent musicale 281 15 electric lights were used in the illumina tion, a c isplay that would have made Queen Eliiabetu lake a retired seat. The painting of Washington and Lin coln have given place 1 1 stuffed bear's heads, bison I eails, and the heads of other animals, aud the whole institution is being tun on the same extravagant plans. Shades of Jefferson and Lincoln, how should the common people like this imperialistic display of the rough rider. Cincinnati Enquirer. A LOOK AT OURSELVES. ' Russia has the sympathy of the Irish because Japan is a sort of protege of Great Britain. That isn't the best rea son in the world, but it were unwise to aiffer with it around St. t'atrick'd Day, Russia needs some sympathy though. She would get more than is now the caee were it not for the Jewish maetacres. Yet we blame Russia for uot preventing Jewish massacres, while we confess our selves to Italy aud China, powerless to punish our own citizei b for mascacres of Italians in Louisiana and Chinese in Colorado. We shudder at Siberia, but we don't mind our own convict camps. We are horrified by the stories of the knout, Out not by our own public burn ing of criminals by mobs. We oppote Rubsia'B grabbing of Manchuria, but we take Hawaii and the Philippines and we wink at a grab of Panama. The Rus sians are no worse than we are, upon the whole. The Japanese, upon the whole, are no better no' no worse than the Russians. We are "with" the Jap anese largely because they have been wise enough to give us their "dope" in generous quantities through various new sources. We are against the Russians, let us record it in all seriousness, be cause so many of the co-religionists of the victims of Kishineff are copious ad vertisers in the daily papers. And that is how we get our positive opinions about war in the tar east. Astoria Her ald. Tariff Trnt Highway. Those big New York Republican newspapers that have advocated high tariff and protection in season and out are getting a doee of their own medi cine, and a good dose, too. The printing paper trust charges $2.50 a hundred pounds for the paper in New York that they Bhip over to England, paying freight and other charges, and sell there at $2.08 a hundred. Figure it out. The trust after paying the freight and insur ance charges'eells the Englishman paper aboutiOne sixth cheaper than to their home people. A most outrsgeous sys tem ol laws under which such robbery can be perpetrated robbery, for they are not selling abroad except at a profit. The New Yorkers could make big money shipping the paper back were they not met at the American port by a custotna collector. Eugene Guard. Death of Hon. L. T. Sarin. Louis T. Barin, who died suddenly on Monday morning of heart failure w is at one time the leader, of the Republican party in this county and a political power in the state. At the time of his death he was coming from his ranch below Portland on the steamer Iralda. When Louis, as bis friends called him, established liiunelf iu the county in 1869, he took up a land claim on the Clackamas river, and then proceeded to study law. Hie means being limited he worked occaaionaly for neighboring farmers, who liked him on account of his good humor. Like the lale John Myers, his doughty political opponent, he was democratic in his intercourse with bis fellowmen. Such a man makes warm friends and keeps them, lie was fond of hunting and fishing and had made a special study of salmon. He was born in I'rovmence, K. ti. on March 14, 1842. In 1862 he arrived in the Oregon territory by way of San Francisco, and enlisted. in Company E, First Regiment, Oregon Cavalry. He continued in the military servic-i against the Indians until August 31, 1S65, when be was honorably discharged. In 1872. having opened a law office In Oregon City, he was elected on the Re publican ticket as a member of the lower house of the legislature, and in ' succession held the offices of prosecuting attorney and mayor. Eight years he oc cupied the position of Register at the Oregon City government land office, and in 1S90 he was appointed U. S. Marshal lor Oregon. The Republican electors of Multnomah county, where bis residence has been of late years, presented him with a solid silver service In recognition of his wise political leadership. At that period of his life he was on intimate terms with Joseph Simon, then the political dictator of Oregon. HOW A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ESOAPED RING CATARRH BY USE OF PE-RU-HA. Nothing Robs One of Strength Like Spring Catarrh - - t ' MISS HELEN WHITMAN. nii,..t,( innitni(..tw , Miss Helen Whitman, 308 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., writes : There is nothing like Peruna for that tired feeling, which gives you no ambition for work or play. After a prolonged illness, about a year ago I felt unable to regain my health, but four bottles of Pe runa made a wonderful change and restored oie to perfect health. As long as you keep your blood in good condition you ere all right, and Peruna seems to fill the veins with pure, healthful blood. I thoroughly endorse it." Have you got nerves? Well, you ought to have nerves. But they ought to be strong nerves, good nerves. Does your hand, tremble? You are living too fast. Does your heart flutter at times? You had -better call a halt. Americans live too fast. They crowd too much Into a single day. They have too little lei cure. The hospitals and insane asylums are filling np. The quiet, pastoral scenes of yore are becoming rare. It's time that we quit this sort of business. flow to Get Strong Nerves. IHrst, repair the injury already done to your nerve. r',-- '. to MISS HELEN WHITMAN. do exactly as did Mattie B. Curtis, See" retary of Legion of Loyal Women, Hotel Salem, Boston, Mass. She said In a re cent letter : " I suffered for over a year with general weakness and debility man ifested In severe headache and backache. I took four bottles of Peruna, and for two months have been entirely free from these maladies." Nervous Prostration. . Thousands of cases might be quoted in which Teruna has been used to rescue people from the perdition of deranged nerves, and put them on the good, solid fonnrliiMo' of henHh. The County Aud itor of Erie county, New York, Hon. John W. Neff, In a recent letter written at Buffalo, New York, stated : " I wa persuaded by a friend to try a bottle of your great nerve tonic, Peruna, and the results were so gratifying that I am more than pleased to recommend it." A Spring Tonic. Almost everybody needs a tonlo in Hie spring. Something to brace the nerves, invigorate the brain and cleanse the blood. That Peruna will do this is be yond all question. Everyone who liua tried it has had the same experience as Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, of Lynchburg, Va., who, in a recent lottor, made use ot the following words : "I always take a dose of Peruna after business hours, as it is a great thing for the nerves. Then is no better spring tonic, and 1 hb-va used about all of thorn." Catarrh In Spring. The spring is the best time to ifsi catarrh. Nature, renews herself ev;ry spring. The system is rejuvenated by spring weather. This renders medrdnea more effective. A short course of Pe runa, assisted by the balmy air of sprint;, will cure old, stubborn ca; esof calxnh, that have resisted treatment for jears. Everybody should have a copy of Dr. Hartman's latest book on catarrh. Ad dress The Peruua Medicine Co., Colum bus, Ohio. Mrs. Lulu Larmer, Stoughton, Wis., Mrs. Lulu Larmer. " For two years I suffered with nerv ous trouble and. stomach disorders until it seemed that there was nothing to mo but a bundle of nerves. I waa very irritable, could not aleeo. ? rest or composu myself, and wan certainly ifnfit to take earn of a household. I took nerve tonics and pill without benefit. When I began taking Peruna I grew steadily better, my nervot grew stronger, my rest was nolonger fit ful, and to-day I consider myself in per fect health and strength. My recovery was slow but sure, but I persevered and was rewarded by perfect health." Mra, Lulu Larmer, If you do not derive prompt and 6tla factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he wilt be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. O. ,tlDni.intl&f rififih.irililiii.. umljUjjg.ijlfil iiiMiiki,.iiiimiiiiiiii jitii,,iiiiii..ii j a.,a.. ,a;,.Aa, .iifi:n..iIlft,HI Important Announcement muffin l,lT!Tm"',rpi,,inTf,l(pN 1 4 J 4 IT has been apparent for some time that Clackamas County was not receiving its just share of immigra tion flowing into the State. This has come about largely from the fact that other localities have made special effort, through local organizations and in the distribution of literature, to. induce and invite new comers into their respect Counties. Clackamas County has to pay a large sum as its part of the appropriation for the Lewis and Clark Fair, and it ought in all conscience to receive its proportion of the rewards in the way of new settlers to buy up our surplus lands and aid in the building up of new industries. For the purpose of helping myself, and directly and indirectly this great County, I have opened a real estate office in Portland, at 233 Washington Street, Labbe build ing, first floor, and will be open for business on and after April 1st. Capt. James P. Shaw, late of Hood River, who was associated with the real estate department of my office some years ago, will have charge of the Portland office, and will be a full partner in the real estate department of the business, both in Portland and Oregon City. Having lived many years in Portland, Capt. Shaw has an intimate ac quaintance with the metropolis and its people. From now on we will have special opportunities for selling real estate left with us. We shall make a specialty of the following properties: Clackamas County Lands. Oregon City Investments. Gladstone Property. , .4s Hood Rtver Fruit and Berry Lands. And shall at all time's try and attract Capitalists to take advantage of the untold resources of thi3 great County. list of farms for sale and can promise We wish to increase our faithful and efficient service. W ould be pleased to have visitors to Portland call and get acquaint ed with our plan of selling lands. The firm name will be r a :-: Cross & Shaw :-: Main St., Oregon City, Or. 233 Washington St., Portland, Or rTTTTTTT1!