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1 22nd YEAR. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRDAY, No. 4. JUNE 10, 1904. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Dr. George Hoeye DENTIST All work warranted and satisfaction guar anteed. Crown and Bridge work a spec ialty. Cautield Building. Phone 1093. Oregon City, Oregon. C. D. D. C. Latourette ATTY'S AT LAW Commercial, Real Estate and Probate our Specialties. Office in Commercial Bank Building, Oregon City, Oregon. Robert A. Miller ATT'Y AT LAW Will practice in all the courts of the State and before the Land' Department of the Government. Room 3, Weinhard oui Id ing, Oregon City, Oregon. Grant B. Dimlck Att'y and Counselor at Law Will practice in all courts in the state, circuit and district courts of the United States. Insolvent debtors taken through bankruptcy. Office in Garde Building, Oregon City, Oregon. George L. Storey ATT'Y AT LAW Will practice In all the couits of the State. Abstracts of title a specialty. Can fur nish abstracts of tite to any tract of land In Clackamas County at lowest rates. Advice free Charges Reasonable. Commercial Bank of Oregon City. Capital $100,000 Transacts a general banking business. Makes loans and collections, discounts bills, buys ana sells domestic and for eign exchange and receives deposits subject to check. Open from 9a.m. to 4 p. m. D. C. Latourette, Presj F. J. Meyei, cashier. . George C. Brownell ATT'Y AT LAW, OREGON CITY, v OREGON C. N. Greenman The Pioneer Expressman Established I865. Prompt delivery to all parts of the city. Oregon City, Oregon. 0. Sohdibmi, w. s. U'EKN JJREN &, SCHUEBEL ATTORNEYS AT LAW t)tutfdet Stbeotai Will practice in all courts, make collec tions and settlements of estates, furnish abstracts of title, lend you money and lend your money on first mortgage. Office In Enterprise building, Oregon City, Oregon. Spring Has Arrived WE are now prepared to serve you in the following line with Stoves, Hardware & Furniture at greatly reduced prices. Call and examine our stock and get our figures. We will save you from 10 to 20 per cent on all goods. Second-hand goods bought and sold. Goods stored. ' Sugarman & Son Cor, 5th and Main St., Oregon City :The:Fincst Fruit . " 'The very finest fruits of the shoe manufactories have been selected to complete our stock. The swellsst styles In all the varieties ot lasts, tops, toes and trimmings. Every pair a beauty, with solid, substantial wear to beck them and make them sensible bargains will be found at . KRAUSE BROS. uregon uty onoe nouse y Now ii the time to clean house clean your system first, drive oat the microbes of winter with Hollieter's Rocky Moun tain Tea. It will keep yon well all ram mer. 5 cents. Tea or tablets. RESULTS OF ELECTION. The Republican Nominees Cii j - State and Congres- on sional Tickets Elected by Large Majorities. Clackamas County, in Spite of High Taxes, Rolls Up Good Majorities for all the Can didates Except J. C. Zin ser for Superintendent of Schools, who Wins Out by a Small Majority. The result of the election held last Monday was a surprise to no one. As has been expected, the entire State and Congressional ticket went Republican by large majorities. Frank A. Moore was chosen as Supreme Court Justice, and J, W. Bailey as Food and Dairy Commis sioner. Binger Hermann and J. N. Williamson will represent Oregon in the next Congress. In the Fifth Judicial District, Judge T. A. McBride had no oppo sition as a candidate for re-election to succeed himself. Harrison Allen was the only candidate for Prose cuting Attorney in this district. J. E. Hedges, Democratic nom inee fo; joint representative for Clackamas and Multnomah coun ties, polled a very heavy vote in this county, but was unable to over come the Republican majority in Multnomah. His plurality in the county over Holcomb was 441. This result ws5 due almost entirely to the high esteem in which Mr. Hedges is held by the people of the county, but it may have been due, in a small measure, to the disaffec tion in the Republican ranks caused by Multnomah's delegates in the Republican convention ignoring the rights of Clackamas county to a voice in the selection of a candidate for joint representative. I he vote in this county on Con gressman was a surprise to Repub licans and Democrats alike. The vote in Reames a year ago indicated great dislike for Hermann, and there has been but little during the cam paign to indicate any change in sentiment. In spite of this, Her mann has carried the county by about 300 votes. The count on the legislative ticket shows a pretty close party vote, although C. G. Huntley ran ahead of his ticket. Charles Ely, the Democratic candidate for sheriff, appeared at the outset of the campaign to have no chance or election, it was pre dieted by many Republicans that Mr. bhaver, the Republican nom inee, wouia De -nign man" on their ticket. But it speaks much for Mr. Ely's popularity and ability as a vote-getter, tnat he cut down Shaver's plurality in the three Oregon City precincts of 168 two years ago, to 88 in this election. H. G. Starkweather ran the Re publican nominee, J. C. Zinser. a close race for Superintendent of Schools. Mr. Starkweather is very popular throughout the county, but was not quite able tp overcome the very large Republican majority. A lie sprung on the eve of the elec tion was probably .responsible. ior his defeat, It was stated that Mr. Starkweather,' at one time elected county superintendent on the Pop ulist ticket, had tried to secure the nomination' for that office at the hands of the Republicans four years ago. This latter . statement is a brazen falsehood, as . Mr. Stark weather was not a resident of this county In 1000, had not been such for two years, and did not return until 1 901, but was during that time principal of the La Grande schools, in Union county. Nor had he sought a nomination for that office, or any other, in any county, at the hands of any party. The vote by precincts for the var ious candidates will be given as soon as the official count can be obtained. The following are the totals in the county as given from unofficial count: REPRESENTATIVE FIRST DISTRICT. Hermann (Rep.) 1454 Veatch (Dem.) 1151 Ramp (Soc.) 3o7 Gould (Pro.) . 174 JUSTICE SUPREME COURT. Moore (Rep.) 1015 O'Day (Dem.) I072 Mikkleson (Soc.) 338 Bright(tro.) i54 FOOD COMMISSIONER. Bailey (Rep.) 1294 Douglas (Dem.) 584 Ramussen (Soc.) 2o5 Berry (:,.)... us JOINT REPRESENTATIVE. Hedges (Dem.) i78i Holcomb(Rep.) 134o Eaton (Pro.) I76 REPRESENTATIVE. Bramhall (Rep.) 1496 Huntley (Rep.) , 2004 Juggar (Rep.) 1623 Evans (Dem.).?. 95i Hutchinson (Dem.) 1041 Jesse (Dem.) 870 Hill (Soc.) 323 Luelllng (Soc.) 449 Meindl (Soc.) 353 BirkmeiriPro.l 141 Mandeville (Pro.) 116 Roeder (Pro.) 117 COMMISSIONER. KiIlen(Rep.) i7o4 Kitching (Dem.) 1234 Thomas (Soc.) 323 Willey(Pro.) 187 SHERIFF. Shaver , 1691 Ely I388 Graves (Soc.) 260 Marrs (Pro.) 155 CLERK. Sleight 1912 Urissel 107 Howard (Soc.) 342 RECORDER. Stevens (Rep.) ; 1844 Lang (Dem.) 727 Hilton (Soc.) 262 May (Pro.) 157 ASSESSOR. Nelson (Rep.) I692 Sellwood (Dem.) 1059 Heard (Soc.) ' 77 Fankhauser (Pro.) 15o SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. Zinser (Rep.) I5I0 Starkweather (Dem.) 1435 Gintber (Soc.) 282 TREASURER. Cahill (Rep.) 2040 Miner (soc.) 079 Bowerman(Pro.) 287 SURVEYOR. Meldrum (Rep.) 1799 Klrchem (Dem.) I353 CORONER. Holman (Rep ) .2297 Wase,Pro.)w ;..... ..v'63o GRANGERS ENJOY THEMSELVES. Children's Day Observed at Clackamas. Chifdren's Day was observed last Saturday at Clackamas. Four granges, Abernethy, Clackamas, Damascus and Milwaukie, united in a celebration intended primarily fcr children, but which was equally interesting and instructive to the older people. A very entertaining program was presented by the members of the various granges. The principal feature ot the occasion was the ad dress by the Rev. A. Le Roy, Superintendent of the Oregon Bureau of Information. He spoke in the interests of the bureau, of what it has accomplished and what it expects to accomplish for the upbuildiug of the state. The granges were urged to send ex hibits to the bureau at Portland, and to aid in disseminating liter ature advertising the advantages our state offers to homeseekers and capitalists. The whole affair was a very en joyable one. Lunch was served in the I. O. O. F., and the exercises ere conducted in the adjoining grove. . Alter the exercises, the 250 grangers present left for theii several homes, having been highly entertained and greatly benefited by meeting the members of the various granges represented at the meeting. Electricity's Part. The many proiects which are under way for the construction oi electric rail way lines are proof of the great import ance of electricity in the development of the resources of the Pacific Coast States, The electric railroad has reached a stage of development that makes it practi cable, a here, few yean ago, it would never have been thought of. For short routes, and in isolated localities, its ad vantages over the steam road are mani fold. It is possible to install and tanin an electric line at a cost far , less than that of a stesm road, and the expense of maintenance is also less. The Pacile Coast states offer far greater opportunities for electric lines than any other region in the United States, by reason ol the water power which Is present in such great quanti ties. By this means it it possible to provide transportation facilities even in the most remote localities. There is no doubt that, in a short time, the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be a net work of electric lines formic; connected routes, so that dis tant settlements will be brought into communication with the centers of dis tribution, and the ease of marketing products will be greatly enhanced rrom me racinc aiontniy lor June. General News as Gathered From Various Sources. Brief Resume of the More Important Happenings of the Week in Oregon Wholesale Murder of Miners. A little after 2 o'clock on Monday morning, a moat shocking wholesale murder of miners was committed at In dependence, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek district. Twenty-five non-union miners employed on the night shift had left the mines and were waiting on the depot platform for the arrival of a train to convey them home, when an infernal machine was exploded beneath their feet, instantly killing 11, and fatally in juring 8 or 10 others. The Kansas Floods. The great rain storm of the latter pait of last week caused an immense amount of damage throughout eastern and cen tral Kansas. Houses, barns and stock were washed away. The water remained on wheat, alfalfa and corn fields so long that these crops are completely ruined. Train service was demoralized in the southern part of the state. Successful Fire Escape. Eight of the big public schools at Chicago have been equipped with a pe culiar cylindrical fire-escape, which is a source of much joy to the small boy and me smau gin as wen. itie escape was given a thorough test this week and hundreds of youngsters sprang from the fourth-Btory windows into the tube ftnd went shooting down tne turbine incline to the ground unhurt. The escape from the fourth floor was made in 21 seconds and the entire school building was emp tied of its 500 pupils in a trifle over four minutes. As a result of the test, es capes were brdered installed immediate ly upon 16 additional schools and all of them will be so equipped as rapidly as the cylinders can be manufactured. Since the Iroquois fire, there has been much apprehension regarding the safety of the little children on the third and fourth floors of the school buildings, Borne of these old structures were veri lame nretraps until tne public was awakened by the theatre horror. The children are anxiously awaiting a real fire in order that they may again enjoy tb novelty of a rapid trip through the escapes. , . PoeaibiUtie of Corea. "Dr. James Hunter Wells, who has spent many years in Korea, and is quail tied to speak with authority, in writing of the Korean people in the Pacific Monthly for June, has this to say re garding the possibilities of Korea, and its future development : Japan is an example of what may be done, even in so brief a period as forty years, by a modern open-door policy, backed, instigated and supportod by the Christian religion. In Korea, we have as alluring a field and as sturdy a race, though cruehed withal ; and such pro gress as is now undreamed of, in in dustry, education And religion, and civ ilization, is bound to follow. Korea is small, to be sure only 700 miles long by about 150 wide, with some 15,000,000 inhabitants; bnt let the people be edu cated up to modern requirements, and a sturdy nation, with all that it implies, will be the result. The very things that we have here on the Pacific coast in such profusion that is, lumber, wheat, coal, wool, etc. are just what is lacking over there, and the demand is increasing. Qiven the open door, and the commercial benefits to the CoaBt from Korea, ntt to mention Man churia and China, are sure to be of greatest importance. The Longest Wlvarfin tfte World. . The wharf at Port Loa Angeles, which runs out Into the ocean from the mouth of the canyon two miles north of Santa Monica, California, is 4700 feet long, and is said to be the longest wharf in the world. It is built on wooden piles, sat in raws 12 feet apart; and if the trees could be gathered together, standing as they did before they were cut and buried head downward in the bed of the ocean, I hey wonld make a forest of 5000 ever greens. The pisr has double tracks the entire length, and numerous switcbss at the wharf proper, which broadens consider1 ably and is surrounded by a circle of massive, concrete piles to support coal bunkers, offices, warerooms, landing for steamship passengers, refreshment shops, etc. ... A ride down the long wharf is quite a scenic trip; and the pier is a favorite haunt for anglers, who connt up trophies of halibut, many varitles ef bass, benita, sculpln, yellow-tail, mackerel, pompano, smelt, kelp-fish ana countless other fish that roam the clear water and feed off the kelp fields of Santa Monica Bay. rrom lbs racinc Monthly lor June. Oregon , Note. A quantity of the bias granite quarried at Haines, Oregon, is to be nsed in the construction of a bank bailding at Baker City. Tne atone is tnougnt to be of on' sually good quality. The steamer Bailey Gatzart has been converted into an oil burner and for tbe present will carry only passengers. Jacob Kamm ot Portland has been re peatedly ordered by tbe City Council to tear down bis unsightly old buildings at rirst ana Washington streets bat be de Ges the order, Mnltnomah Camp No. 77. W. O. W. expelled a member, E. V. Allen, who at tempted suicide a lew days ago. R. E. Thorn, of Echo, is one of the most extensive honep-producers in East ern Oregon. Mr. Thorn has over 200 col onies of bees on his batter creek ranch and makes a business of producing honey for market. James McCarty, also 01 cutter creek, is another bee-raiser and Elsewhere. and Mr. Thorn and Mr. McCarty will each market about four tans of honey this season. A great boom is on at Bend and nHmr Crook county towns where irrigation is to be applied and where the railroad Is expected to extend. Master Fish Warden Van Dusen has selected a site for a new hatchery on the SiuBlaw river. Seaside is to ha"e a system of water- works in operation by J uly. Judge W. B, Matthews, attorney for Oregon in the Klamath swamp-land case, is greatly dissatisfied with the recent de cision of the Interior Department in its ruling against the state. He intends to file a motion for review, and declares that the decision of the Secretary can not stand. Dallas is to have a national hank with $25,000 capital. Lewellyn Legg, an 0. R. and N. fire man, shot and killed Jack Halated. a ha- loon proprietor in Baker City. Portland dealers in alabwood are said to have a trust and that they have estab lished s price arbitrarily for their Dro. The Portland ball team hangs on to the distinction of being known as the "tailenderB." Frlneville is to have an automobile line to be operated between that Dlace and Shaniko. The demand for the rapid transit of mniU. express and passengers has made the establishment of such a line necessary, Norman Williams, recently convicted of, murder, will be hung at The Dalles and not at the state penitentiary, as the crime of which he is convicted was com mitted prior to June 17, 1903. A Newfoundland dog taken from Omaha to Portland, Oregon, is said to have returned to his former home in Omaha. Ais worn ont condition indi cates that he walked tne entire distance, 1800 miles. Pacific University won the champion ship of the state in a conteet with the Agricultural Oollege. Tbe Columbia is slowly rising again. Work on the Fair buildings Is rapidly going forward. Seven cars of strawberries were shipped from Hood River to Eastern markets June 6. It is reported that the sheriff of Marion county absent-mindedly left a door ajar through which a prisoner make his es cape. Seattle has been suffering from an army of tent caterpillars which ate all ttia vegetation in their path. King Peter of Servia, according to re ports, has set an excellent example to American parents. His eon needed a thrashing and the king saw that the son received it. The prince was paving at tentions to a woman who resented his gallantry, which made the prince appear nuicuious. A large distillery was wrecked bv an explosion in Peoria, 111. June 4, and im mediately burned. The fire spread to other buildings. Ten men were lost, be sides i:w head of cattle in stock Tarda near by. General Xtws Xofes. Floods in Kansas laat week compelled 600 families to flee to higher ground. At the same time Nebraska suffered from a tornado which injured about 20 people. The Nevada Guard will not receive bv (27,000 the amount allowed by tbe National Government on account of its not having the required number of en listed men. Two electric cars met at full speed in Norwalk, Ohio, on the 2nd inst., which resulted In the death of six persons. A man has been robbing slot machines in Cincinnattl and takes only one cent pieces. He bas succeeded in burglariz ing 15 saloons, securing $90 in pennies from one machine. Exports of manufactured goods from tbe United States for tbe fiscal year end ing June 30, 1904, will exceed that oi any former year Yu Chi Yi, commissioner to the World's Fair from the Chinese province of Shan Tung, Is making a special trip from St. Louis to Ban Francisco for the express purpose of having a corn re moved from his little toe by a San Ftu Cisco physician. ' A new sect has been organized in Chi cago called the Bereans.., , They believe in tue iiierai interpretation ol tbe scrip- tuim wiuiwuiui ut aecona coming of the Redeemer. , . n t . . a wmu m jmn 01 age cas Inst eora- pietea over xa.uou miles of walking, which be has done for the purpose of regaining lost health. His name is Oh as. E. Norris. He has found what he sought. An association has been formed In New Jersey with tbe view of arranging to send large number of negroes to Liberie. President Tinsley, who heads tbe association, says he believes that more than 20,000 colored people are ready to leave the cotton belt and make their homes in Liberia If transportation facilities can be obtained for them. The Liberian government offers each immi grant twenty-five acres of land free of charge, besides furnishing rations until the farm are producing. Eastern papers are unanimous in Btat ing that the country's business is sound in spite ol the present inactivity and that early betterment is in sight. Detonations from the test of heavy ar tillery .at the govern Bent proving grounds at Sandy HooJi besides causing minor dsmaues has wrecked a portion of a public echool bailding n Coney Island beven miles distant. The boy pupils were injured by tne fulling of a pait of the ceiling in one of the rooms and the otlfcr children were thrown into a panic. An American youth sojourning in London swam 112yards five inches un der water at a temperature of 75 degrees. He came nearly breaking the world's record. A Letter from St. Louis. The following letter from E. W. Ran dolph, who is attending the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis and incidentally doing something in the way of advertising Oregon and the LouiB and Clark Fair, to a friend in this city, will be of interest to our readers : . My first stop after leaving Portland was at Salt Lake City. I putin the time on the train telling people about Oregon and the Lewis and Clark fair. I had visited tbe office of the fair association while in Portland, where they gave me a big lot of reading matter and 500 cards. I also had my famous Oregon fungus, and some samples of ores that I had gathered up In Oregon City ; so alto gether I was pretty well provided with material to work with. Salt Lake is a beautiful city, having many elegant buildings, wide streets and magnificent Parks, The Mormon build ings, that is, those belonging to the Mor mon church, are especially interesting to strangers. I visited all of them except the temple, which can only be entered by the elect. In the tabernacle, which seats 8,006 people, and which is remark ably arranged in its construction so that the whole building vibrates. I listened to the famed and truly wonderful and grand chorus of five hundred voices, and I am Bure that the claim that it is the finest singing in the world is not with-, out foundation. I disseminated a lot of information here, printed and oral, about Oregon and the 1905 fair, distributed a lot of pamphlets and was interviewed by reporters of three of the leading newe-j papers. At Denver, also, I talked with a good many peopte. Denver impressed me as a fine, big, hustling city; but I didn't see much of it, as I spent only three or four hours there. The train ont from here was heavily loaded and I met an interesting lot of people, mostly from Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. . They thought me very enthusiastic over Ore gon and the Fair, but dozens of them . promised to visit Portland next Sum mer. And so on, through Hastings, Nebraska, where I visited some relatives and broke into two of the newspapers, through Ottumwa and Elden in Iowa to Fairfield on the Hock Island road, where I made final connection for St. Louis, arriving here at 3:20 yesterday after, noon. Oh, what crowds of people are hurry ing and scurrying around in this city, I have been through the Exposition grounds, and it is truly a colossal affair and I think somewhat in the nature of a white elephant. There is nothing com pleted as y-t in the preparations for the Exposition, save the system for taking care of the visitors' money, which seems to be a very elaborate and well greased machine. I will tell you more about the Fair in my next, when I have bad time to ex amine things somewhat. But it will take till July to get tbe buildings and grounds finished and in proper shape. Many will come here early and, because of the present conditions, go home dis gusted, and after that the weather will be so hot there will be but little enjoy ment. Those who came in September will have much the best of it. As to the robbery of high prices, about which we ' have read in the newspapers, I find that it only affects the tenderfoot aud the man who has so much money that he don't care what he pays. Home people don't know how to take care of themselves un- z der such conditions as are met with here at this time, and these the vultnres get. This is bow we happen to hear of rooms costing from seven to ten dollms per day. The easy marks should go west for a wiille before coming to St. Louis, BOB WI1ITE Worth Million of Dollar nually to Uncle Sam. An The ornithologists of the IsMmWmi am at of Agriculture have been making an in- i u ftTiT "-"' .omio value ol toe Bob W bite, as a tetAK ol whlch it now. announced that te bird is "probably Unas " A bundnt,Peci" 00 h 1 Fiel, nbMf yatlons,. experiments ' and! el-mlbtttlons show that it consume arge quantities of weed seeds and dee troys many of the worst . insect pestf With which farmers contend, ftnd n ioti not inure grain, fruits or other crops. 'It is figured that from September 1 to April 30, annually, in Virginia alone, the total consumption of weed seed by Bob Whites smoonts to 673 tons. 8om of the pests which It habitually destroys, the report says, are tbe Mexican cotton wesvil, which damages the cotton crop upward of ,15,000,000 a ytiu. . Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver lets Bettei Thai a Doctor's Prescription. Mr. J. W. Turner, of Truhart. says that Chamberlain's Htmn.xh Tab V.., Liver Tablets have done him more good and man anyining ne cou d ant frnm n... doctor. If any phvsiciun in thi try was able to compound a medicine that would produce such vratift-in suits in cases of stomach troubles, bil iousness or constipation, his whole time would be used in preparing this one medicine. For sale by Geo. A. Harding