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22nd YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 1904.
No. 23.
OREQO
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COURIER.
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n MR,
A WORD WITH YOU
DO YOU KNOW we are opening a book and stationery
store at 253 1st street between Madison and Main streets,
Portland.
0 DO YOU KNOW that vou can save
over every time you purchase goods at our rorrland store,
DO YOU KNOW we have a store in Oregon City, where
we sell Books & Stationery and School Supplies at the
lowest prices in the state.
DO YOU KNOW that high prices are unknown in our
stores.
DO YOU KNOW that during our Great October
Clearance Sale we are selling our goods Twenty-five
per cent lower than in any other store on the coast.
DO YOU KNOW that you are losing
Of lour Life
October Sales.
We are prepared to sell goods to dealers at
the Lowest Wholesale Price West of Ghicago
Our prices speak loader than words
THE WARREN BOOK CO.
253 IstSWr
Q Portland, Oregon
FOR FIRgT CIASS
JOB WORK
CO
the Courkr
We have put in a large amount of new type
and machinery and are now prepared to do
all kinds of work.
Subscribe for The Courier if you want the
news of the County. Note our combination
offers if you wish other papers:
Oregon City Courier per year $ 1.50
Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oragonlan per year..... $ 2.00
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Oregon City Courier and Commoner per year 2.00
ings at same low rate. All work guaranteed first-class.
ft C. fiolman, Undertaker and Embalmer.
Office ona Door North of Courthouse, or at cigar store opposite Bank of Oregon City
OREGON CITY MACHINE SHOP
12TH AND
PHILIPP BUCKLEIN, Proprietor
All kinds of machines built and repaired
dou:
it you do not take advantage 6t our great
Main Street Next to Oregon City Bank
Oregon City, Oregon Q
TO
Best Goods
Superior S:rvic
Lowest Prices
Hearse to Funerals in town $5.00.
All Caskets, Coffins, Robes, and Lin
MAIN STS.
o
vour car fare twice o
at
the One Chance S
Summer Excursion Rates and
Special Train Service Now
on Between Fortlund and
Clatsop Beach.
The Summer schedule of
the Astora St
Columbia River Railroad
has been in
! aueurated between Portland. Astora. Gear-
I imi i auu .jcaoiuc ill luilliciiuill Willi 3JC(.Ial
! round trip excursion tickets to all Clatsop
! and North Beach points, and train leaves
Union Depot 8:00 A. M. daily and runs
through direct, arriving at Astoria 11:30
A. M. Gearhart i2.2o P. M and Seaside
12 30 P. M
The Portland-Senside Flyer leaves
Union Depot every Saturday at 2:3o P. M.
arriving Astoa 5: 50 P. M. and runs
through direct, arriving at Gearhart 6:40
P. M. and Seaside 6:5i) P. M.
In connectionwith this improved service,
special round trip season excursion tickets
are sold from Portland to all Clatsop and
North Beach points at rate of $4 00 for the
round trip, good for return- passage until
Oct 15th
Special Commutatlan tickets, good for five
round trips, are sold from Portland to same
points for $15.00. eood to return until Oct.
! 15th
Saturday Special round trip excursion
tickets from Portland to all Clatsop and
North Beach points on sale every Saturday
at rate of $2 50 for round trip, good to re
turn Sunday.
Tickets sold from Portland to North
Beach points are Issued in connection with
I R. & N. steamers from Astoria and bag
gage Is transferred to and from depot and
steamer dock at Astoria free of charge, and
all tickets sold by the O. R & N. Co.
from Portland to Clatsop and North Beach
points, are interchangeable and will be
honored on trains of this company In either
direction between Portland ai.d Astoria.
For additional information address C. A.
Stewart, Agent, 248 Alder St., Portland,
Ore. or J O. Mayo, G. F. & P A.,
Astoria, Ore. Seaside Souvenir of 1904
will be mailed to your address free upon
application. Write for it.
Columbia river sand for sale. i
C. N. Greenmax.
Beautiful Columbia River Folder.
The passenger department of the Ore
gou Railroad & Navigation Company
haa just issued a beautiful and costly
panoramic folder entitled "The Colum
bia River, through the Cascade Moun
tains, to the Pacific Ocean." From Ar
lington to Portland, end from Portland
to the Pacific Ocean, every curve of the
river and every point of interest are
shown, while Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and
Mt. St. Helena, perpetually covered with
stow, stand out in all their beauty. On
the back ot the map le an interesting
story in detail of the trip from Hunting
ton to Portland, and from Portland to
the ocean, not overlooking the beaches
and the San Francisco trip by ocean. A
copy of this folder may be secured by
sending four cents in stamps (to pay
postage) to A. L. Craig, General Pass
enger Agent of the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation Company, Portland, Oregon.
By lending the address of some friend
in the Eabt, and four cents in postage,
the folder will be promptly mailed.
Popular hats at popular prices.
Miss C. Goldsmith.
POPULATION
NEAR 20,000
Labor Commissioner Reports
on Clackamas County.
HAS 2300 MILES OF ROADS
Total Area is I,189,83o Acres,
Much of Which Is Open
to Settlement for Farm
ing and Grazing.
SALEM, Oct. 11, (Courier Spe
cial) Labor Commissioner Hon has,
in his annual roport, a brief summary
of Clackamas county, as follows :
Population, 19,658; sou is stone,
mineral; land rolling, mountainous,
level ; roads are good and fair ; roads
are kept up by the county ; county lias
2300 miles of roads ; 224 miles in good
condition ; coal is found in the county
and is mined to a limited extent ; tim
ber consists of fir, oak, cottonwood,
ash, cedar, maple, larch; good log
ging streams ; produce is marketed by
railroads, wagon roads and the Wil
lamette river ; wood fuel is produced
and costs about $2.50 to $3.50 per cord
principal crops are wheat, oats, vege
tables, hay, cattle, horses; the
finest teasel in the -world is grown
in this county; health, water, climate,
railroads, scenery and fruit are the
general advantages ; no poorhouse ; poor
are cared for by monthly, payments
direct ; there are 15 male paupers and
12 females, of which 10 are natives of
the United States and 17 are foreign
born ; land office located here ; total
area of county 1,189,830 acres, classed
as follows : Surveyed and unsurveyed
unappropriated lands, 80,922 acres,
of which 53,162 acres are surveyed, and
27,760 acres are unsurveyed. There
are 341,896 acres reserved. The toatl
area of the appropriated land is 768,012
acres. The character of the land open
to settlement is timberland, farming
and grazing.
PIONEER BUILDING DECAYS.
Historic Home of Dr. John McLoughlin
Should Be Preserved.
Joseph Buchtel, a well known pio
neer and resident of Portland, in a
recent visit to Oregon City, noted that
the old building built by Dr. John
McLoughlin, the famous Hudson's
Bay factor, was rapidly passing into
decay and he is anxious that some
thing should be done to preserve this
historic relic. He said: "I think
that the people of this state owe it
to the memory of Dr. McLoughlin to
preserve this relio, and also to erect
a suitable monument to his memory.
I have a very tender feeling for him.
When I had a picture gallery in Ore
gon City, shortly before his death in
1857, the venerable old man, with his
flowing white locks, came into my
study and said he wanted his picture
taken. Naturally, I wanted to please
him and did the beBt I could to get
his likeness. We then took the old
daguearreotype pictures.
"I took one picture and showed it
to him. He said in a rather groff
tone, 'Don't like it. Take it away. '
I was determined to please him, and
made half a dozen in the same way,
and each time he said, 'Don't like
it. Take it away. ' By this time I
got out of patience and told him I
could not do better, and that the pic
tures were the best that any one
could take. 'Who said, they are not
good?' he answered. 'Well you said
you didn't like them,' I answered.
'Of course, I don't like them. They
make my hair white, when it once
was black. Finish them all np and
send them around with the bill.'
"I finished up the pictures and
these are the pictures we have today
of the old man. His old home ought
to be restored and preserved ere it be
too late. All the rotten wood about
the sills could be removed, the roof
prehaps reshingled and the house
painted. But it should be kept as
near lite Dr. Loughlin made it as
possible. Keep the little windows
as they are. The cost of preserving
the building where it stands could be
bought on the spot it stands. The
very thought of the subject appeals to
the sentiment of every one. I hope
something will be done, and that some
body who has the means and the time
will take hold of the matter and Bee
that this relio of this great man is
preserved. I should be willing to
contribute to the cost."
HOME CIRCLE
AT THE TABLE.
The years have sped since first I led
You to the table, dear,.
And you sat over there alone
And I sat smiling here.
A year or two flew past and you
No longer sat alone,
A little one was in your arms,
Your darling and my own.
And then another year or so,
And some one else was there;
And Willie sat near me, you know,
While Trottie claimed your care.
The years have sped since first I led
iou to the table, dear.
And you looked queenly 'at the foot
And I felt kingly here.
Today,, as I look down at you,
On either side I see
A row of hungry little ones
All gazing up at me.
We've added leaves, one after one,
And you are far away
Aye, twice as far, my dear, as on
That happy, happy day.
But though we sit so far apart
You there and I no here
Two rows of hearts from my fond heart
Stretch down to yon, my dear.
Thank God for every extra loaf
That table holds today,
And may we never know the grief
Of putting one away.
"Bettor late than never" is not
half so good a maxiuni as "Better
never late.
How
always
we appreciate a boy who is
on time, now quickly we
learn to depend on him, and how soon
you find yourself intrusting him with
weightier matters. The boy who has
acquired a reputation for punctuality
has made the first contribution to the
capital that in after yoars make his
suocess a certainty.
As the future oak lies folded in the
acorn, so m the present lies onr fu
ture. Our suocess will be, oan be,
but a natural tree, developed from the
seed of our own sowing ; the fragrance
of 'the blossoms and the richness of
the fruitage will depend upon the
nourishment absorbed from onr past
and present. The earth we tread
beneath our feet is composed of clay
and sand and soot and water and if
nature has her perfect work in these
substances, the day will beoouie
porcelain, and may be painted upon
and placed in the king's palace; then
again it may become clear and hard
and white and have the power of
drawing to itself the blue and the
red, the green and the purple rays of
the sunlight, and become an opal.
The sand will become very hard and
white, and have the powers of draw
ing to itself the blue rays of the sun
light and booome a sapphire. The
soot will become the hardest and
whitest substance known, and be
changed into a diamond. The water
in the summer is a dew drop, and into
the winter crystallizes into a star.
Even so the homliest lives, by draw
ing to themselves the ooloring of
truth, sincerity, charitv and faith,
may become crystals and gems "of
purest rays serene. "
Paul once stirred up Ephesui with
some lively sermons about the sins of
that place. Among the most im
portant results of these sermons was
the fact that the citizens brought out
their bad books and papers and in a
public place made a bonfire of them.
One of the wants of this community;)
is a great bonfire of bad books and
news papers. We have in this vi
cinity enough of such fuel to make a
blaze 500 feet high. Take forth this
trash and put H into the fire, and let
it be known in the presence of God
and angels that you are going to rid
your homes of this curse of profligate
literature. We believe it is intended
that the printing press shall be a
means for the world's rescue and evan-
gohzation. The great last battle of
the world will not be fought with
swords and guns, but with type and
presses, purified literature triumph
ing over and crushing out forever
that which 1b depraved. The great
est blessing that ever came to this
nation is that of clean elevated litera
ture, and the greatest scourge has
been that of unclean literature. This
last haa its victims in all departments
of life. It has helped to fill insane
asylums and penitentiaries. The
London plague was nothing to it.
What books and papers do you read?
A newspaper is only a book in a
Bwifter and more portable shape. In
selecting your paper do you make no
distinetion between the tree of life
and the tree of death? Cherish good
books and newspapers. Beware of the
bad ones. Benjamin Franklin said
that the reading of Cotton Mather's
DEPARTMENT
essay on "Doing Good" molded his
entire life. May not the reading of
th Home Circle Column, crude though
it may be, have an influoiice upon
your children in molding their lives
while they are yet easily impressed.
We strive hard to keep the columns of
this paper clean and pure so it can
be warmly welcomed into the best
homes of this community. In our
next issue we will have something
to say about novel reading.
POND OF CONTENTION.
As individuals, as families, counties
and even nations we seem to be com
ing more fond of contentions. It is
contention more than any other one
tiling that takes from the Home Circle
its every charm. Russia and Japan
aUhe present time are only samples
of'the contention that can be found in
too many homes. In this country
where our blue skies are full of rob
biiis and doves and meadow larks, we
select as our national symbol, the
fierce and filthy eagle. In Great
Britian whore they have lambs and
deer their symbol is the merciless lion.
In Russia, where from between her
frozon north and blooming south all
kinds of boasts abide, they choose as
their symbol the growling bear. So
fond are we of contention that we
climb out through the heavens and
baptize one of the other planets with
the spirit of battk and call it Mars
after the god of war. We suppose our
readers have noticed how much in
love dry goods stores are with other
dry good storos, and how highly
grocorymen think of the sugars of the
grocery man in the same block. You
have notioed in what a eulogistic way
allopathic and homeopathio dootors
speak of eaoh other, and you have
notioed how even ministers will some
times put ministers on their beautiful
cooking instruments whioh the Eng- j
lisli call a "spit," an iron roller
with spikes on it and turned by a
orauk before a hot fire, and then if
the minister being roasted cries out
against it, the men who are turninir
him sayi "Hush! brother, we are
turning this spit for the clorv of God
and the good of your soul, and von
must be quiet while we close the ser
vioe with
"Blest be the ties that binds
Our hearts in Christian love."
The musio that was heard at the
laying of the world's oorner stone.
when the morning stars sang together,
is not iieard now. We profer the roar
of the lion, the scream of the eagle,
the growl of the boar. We seem to be
seeking after contention and too many
of our beautiful homes that on the
outside are peaceful with every ap
pearance of June are Jaunary within.
Perhaps only he re and there is a con-
jugal outbreak of incompatibility of
temper through the divorce courts, or
a filial outburst abont a father's will
throuugh the court, or a oase of wife
beating or hubsand poisoning through
the criminal courts, but there are
thousands of families in this old world
with June outside and January within.
COST OF LIVING.
In Four Years the Increase Has Been
14.71 Per Cent.
SALEM, Or., Oct. 19. Labor Com
missioner O. P. Hoff has oompiled
statistics showing the comparative
prioos of articles of consumption in
1900 and 1904, the purpose boing to
show the increasod cost of living.
For this purpose he has taken the
market quotations as published on
June 80 of these two yearB. He has
also ascertained the proportion of the
total expense of living each itom con
stitutes, and the per cent of inoroase
or docroaso in each item.
This shows that in four years the
cost of living has increased 14.71 per
cent. Thus it is shown that house
rent constitutes 28 per cent of the
total cost of living and that the ex
pense of this itom has increased 25 per
cent in the past four years, and that
because of the inorease of this one
item the total oost has increased 7 per
cent.
The proportion eaoh itom bears in
the total oost of living and the per
cent of inorease or deoroase are shown
in the following :
rT1" Percent
Per cont incrnnaa
House rent 28.40 25.00
Wood 7.00 22.00
Light 2.00
Meat 15.80 4 015
Lard 1.60 6.80
Butter 7.00
Sugar 110 6.8
Eggs .50 21.50
Flour 4.00 29.60
Potatoes 2.50 48.67
Other vegetables 6.90 18 00
Fruit 6.80 2l'0O
Miscellaneous 12.40
Total 100.00 '
Decrease.