OREGON
CITY COURI
22nd YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEB. 17, 1905.
No! 40
$2,150,000
TWO YEARS
SOLDIERS TO GUARD FAIR.
BIG MEN UNDER
INDICTMENT
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Major McDonnell Selected to Command
Picked Men at Exposition.
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Oregon
Why did the Big Store succeed in building up the largest
retail business m Oregon City?
Because We Buy and Sell More Merchandise at reta:l than any firm in Oregon City. We buy
more because we sell more, and we sell more because we sell cheaper; and we sell cheaper
because we buy cheaper.
Because We Buy for Cash Only. We are wedded to no factory or manufacturing concerns. We
buy for cash, and where we can buy to the best advantage.
Because We Sell at One Price Only. We give no discounts, no rebates, no private arrangements
of any sort, to anyone. A child can buy here as safely as an expert.
Because We Refund Money. It's your greatest safeguard. Whenever you do not like your pur
chase you can get your money back, quick as a wink, at this store.
Because We Give Quick Service, Quick Deliveries, and are quick in adjusting claims without
lengthy arguments. ' '
Because We Have a Smaller Expense Ratio than any other store that we know of, and can,
therefore, afford to sell cheaper. The larger the business, the smaller the expense per
centage, and that means lower prices for you.
Because We are Attending to Our Own Business. "With malice toward none, and charity for
all," we look straight ahead and attend to our own affairs. We are not jealous of com
peting stores, we do not hnpe for nor do we predict the failure of others; we have no de
sire to plant the ascending star of oar success in place of the descending star of another
store, but are happy to live and let live.
Because We Do Noc Misrepresent, in the store or out of the store, and we dj not permit our em
ployees to do so either. We say what we mean, mean what we say, and live strictly
up to the letter and spirit of our advertisements.
Because We Permit No One to Undersell Us. We consider it our special mission to sell "Better
goods for the same money" than other stores, and, come what may, we will 'ulfill this
promise.
Because WeSill No Eastern Job Lots. Auction Remnants or Factory Seconds.
Because We Sell for Cash Only. Our customers are not asked to pay an additional profit to pay
cost of goods sold to others who never pay.
Economical Bayers who want dependable merchandise come here to Shop
"Black Cat" Stockings
Brine m, Armstrong',
Banner Brand Shirt Waists
Defender Brand Muslin Un-
derwear
Sewing Machines Given Away Every
Saturday, January 7, 1905. , Saturday, January 21, 1905.
Ticket No. 2047 Ticket No. i 55 i 9
Mrs. G. W. Tyacke, Oregon City Miss Rose Chipman, Corvallis, Ore.
Saturday, January 14, 1905. Saturday, January 28, 1905.
Ticket No. 2734 Ticket No. 1 2t 67
Mrs. Thos. Armstrong, West O.C. Mrs. Geo. Taylor, Elyville, Ore.
Saturday, February 4, 1905. Saturday, February 11, 19'. 5
Ticket No. 372 Ticket No. 5943 .
Mr. E. C. Case, Canby, Ore. Uncalled for.
FOUR MEN ARE
NOW INDICTED
Clackamas County Officials In
Deep Water.
CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED
Government Acts On Pre
sumption 'I hat Affidavits
Were Known To
Be False.
Four Clackamas county men have
now been indicted by the Grand Jury:
Ex-Surveyor General Henry Mel
drum, State Senator George O.
Brownell, Ex-U. S. Examiner of Sur
veys D. W. Kinniard and Justice of
the Peace Livy Stipp.
All of these men are acoused of con
s'piring to defraud the government, in
one way and another, of public lauds.
New indictments have been returned
against Congressman Binger Her
mann, Ex-United States District At
torney John H. Hall, Ex Assistant
United States Attorney Edwin Mays,
State Senator Franklin P. Mays, of
Multnomah county, George E. Wag
goner, ex-chief clerk in the office of
Ex-Surveyor General Meldrum,
Frank H. Duncan and George Soren
son, both notaries pa bile.
The last indictment against Mel
drum, Kinnard and Stipp, alleges that
City's Big Cash
AGENTS FOR
Dr. Reed's
Cushion Sole
SiCloU.-
Monarch Shirts
Arrow Brand Collars
Brown's Star-Five Star Shoes
the defendants conspired to defraud
the govern nent by false and fraudulent
surveys on April 18, 1902, by taking
advantage of the fact that there were
on file in the office of Meldrum, at that
time Surveyor-General, a number of
false and fraudulent applications for
survey,
These applioatiouf purported to be
petitions from actual Jsettlers asking
for surveys to be made on lands in
the southwestern part of the state.
It is alleged that these applications
were spurious and that there were no
'ettlers in the districts represented.
The defendants named in the indict
ment knew that these petitions were
fraudulent, so it is allege 1, and took
advantage of that fact to seoure Gov
ernment funds allotted for Oregon
surveys.
Meldrum without advertising for
bias, so it is said, enterel into con
tract wtih Benjamin F. Minton and
Gustave Klaetsch, who were deputy
surveyors, which contracts were signed
on May 23, 1902. Meldrum then, it is
alleged, made up the field notes of the
survey in his office, and these were
signed by the deputies and affidavits
made by them to the effect that the
work had been done to the best of
their ability. On October 24, 1904,
the two deputies subscribed to the
account held by them against the
Government in the sum of $2534.90,
which sum was afterwards paid to
them.
The names of Sorenson, Stipp and
Duncan were brought into the indict
ment by the fact that they, aR
notaries, administered the oath and
took the affidavits of the surveyors,
presumably knowing that they were
fraudulent, or at least were not prop
erly made. Their connection is tne
same as that of Senator George O.
Brownell.
Upon motion of Mr. Heney each of
the persons under indictment will be
required to give $4000 bonds, the
same amount asked of all the people
against whom indictments have been
returned so far by the present grand
jury.
Send yonr job work to the Courier.
Store
Dr. Wright's Underwear
Strauss Bros., Tailors
Selz Royal Blue Shoes
Stetson Hats.
We Sell McCall Dress Pat
terns Saturday Night
THEODORE WYGANT DEAD.
Was a Pioneer Resident of Oregon
City Where He Lived Ten Years.
Theodore Wygant died in Portland
last' week, after an attack of appendi
oitis. He was born in New York in
1831, coming to Otegon in the early
'50's settling in this city. For a
time he found occupation at odd jobs,
served a few months as deputy sheriff
and in 1853 he began steamboating on
the upper Willamette river as olerk of
the pioneer boat Cauemah. Later he
became agfiut for the joint steamboat
companies at Oregon City. In 1863
he came to Portland as secretary of
the Oregon Steam Navigation com
pany. When Henry Villard reor
ganized the company and changed its
mime to that of the Oregon Hailroad
& Navigation company, Mr. Wygant
remained with the company until his
resignation in 1857. Since that time
he has engaged .in real estate business.
He was married in 1852 to Margaret
Glen Rae, who was a grand daugther
of the late Dr. John McLoughlin, Ore
gon's most famous pioneer after Lewis
and Clark. She was born on the ship
Beaver, during a voyage on the Pa
cific Ocean, 5jand was a daughter of
William G. Rae, an agent of the
Hudson Bay company and a brother
of Dr. John Rae, the famous Scottish
Arctic explorer.
They have Jresided in Portland for
the last 41 years. He is survived by
a widow and three daughters : Mrs.
Martin Winch, Mrs. W. M Whidden,
and Miss Marie Louise Wygant and
one son, William R. Wygant, a hard
ware merchant.
He was a Scottish Rite Mason and
several times had served as treasurer
of the Oregon grand lodge. Since the
organization of the Unitarian church
in Oregon lie hag been one of its most
valued members. Mr. Wygant was
formerly the owner of the Koos prop
erty on Main and Eighth streets.
Ice cream and ice cream soda every
day at Kozy Kandy Kitchen.
Oreeon Requires Over a Mil
, lion a Year.
INCREASE IS $250,000
Insane Asylum, Penal and
Educational Institutions
Get $1,000,000.
Appropriations by the legislature
foot up to over two millions. Ir will
cost over $1, (,00,000 a year to ruu the
affairs of the state of Oregoti for the
coming two years. All tho normal
schools have been granted what they
asked for maintenance, but none will
be giren anything for new buildings.
The State University has been given
$(52,000 forj additional maintenance,
library building and women's dormi
tory, but has; been denied $17,000
asked for the engineering department.
Two years ago the total anproprin-
tions were f 2,(500,000 of which $500,000
was for the Fair, $2(!5,000 for the port
age road and cannl.and $100,000 for In
dian War veterans, leaving less than
$1,730,000 for ordinary state expenses.
The extraordinary appropriations at
this session amount to about $150,000,
so that it appears that this session is
spending something like $250,000
more than the last for the ordinary
items of expense.
The largest appropriation bill of the
session wis made up Thursday. It
foots up a little over $1,000,000 add
includes $500,000 for the insane
asylum, the other $500,000 being for
edncational, penal and eleemosynary
institutions.
The first appropriation bill intro
duced was the deficiency bill for
$133,147, and ttia next the bill for
salaries and departments, aggregating
$454,041. There will be one bill in
additon to the bill prepared Thursday,
making appropriations for the chari
table institutions pud Historical So
ciety in Portland, the items of which
will amount to $30,000.
Standing appropriations, and special
acts or tins session add $ouo,uuu more,
the chief idems of which are the nni
versify, $95,000; militia, $90,000;
swamp land warrants, $00,000; Agri
cultural College, $50,000; Portage
Road, $25,000 and Indian War veter
ans, $40,000. The items of the bill
made up are as follows :
Insane asylum $525,000
Penitentiary 125,000
Reform School 64,000
Mute Sohool 41,000
Blind School 21,000
State University, library
building 25,000
University girls' dormitory. . . 5,000
University, additional main
tenance and repairs. . . 32,500
Eastern Oregon Experiment
Station ' 10,000
Agricultural College, dor
mitory , .... 65,000
Monmouth Normal 86,000
Ashland Normal.. 81,000
Drain Normal 21,000
Weston Normal 25,000
Soldiers' Home, additional
maintenance 9,220
Miscellaneous 12,260
FLAT SALARY BILL PASSED.
Bill to Provide Initiative and Referen
dum In Cities is Killed. 1
Kay's flat-salarv bill has passed
both houses. Brownell voted against
the bill in the Senate. It fixes the
salary as follows: Governor, $5000;
se reary of state, $4500; state treas
uier, $4500; attorney general, $3600.
The bill to license stationery engi
neers was defeated in the Houte.
The Senate Friday killed the fol
lowing bills: To establish a bureau
of mines; defining the duties of road
supervisors; for construction of per
manent roads; to license architects;
prescribing manner of levying road
taxes; appropriating $8000 for Lewis
and Clark Memorial tablets; rogu
lation of the ase of water for irriga
tion ; initiative and referendum for
cities; regulating instruction to juries.
The House Friday killed these bills :
To amend fishing laws; to exempt
mining corporations from eorporotion
tax; to provide for protection of
game; to prohibit railroads from min-
mng; to establish state board of em
balming; to protect coal miners.
Tne senate has passed the following
bills: For expenditure of proceeds
from convict labor on countv roads :
forjoniformjeighth grad-exatnjnations ;
for tho appointment of bee inspectors.
xiie Mouse Friday passed the fol
lowing Senate bills: To amend code
relating to protection of wild fowls;
to authorize private sale of real prop
erty by guardians; to amend code
regulating practice of veterinary
medicine or surgery; to protect hotel
keepers.
The Woodmen of the World Chorus.
of Denver, will compete for the
choral prize at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition. Professor Gwilym
Thomas, who has been drilling the
chorus for several months, gained dis
tinction by training Jthe Denver
Choral Society chorus, which won
first prize at St. Louis.
Plans for the organization nf the
Lewis and Clark Exposition Guards
are now completed and men to form
tin' guard are being enlisted. Major
(J. E. McDonnell, of Portland, has
been chosen chief of the guards and
lie will be assisted by three other
officers.
The guard will consist of seventy
five men selected by the company
commanders from the military com
panies of Oregon. A height of five
feet, eight iuches is required. The
command will wear military uniforms
aud carry guns loaned by the state
military authorities. The strictest
military discipline will be main
tained. The band of seventy five men
will be divided into three shifts, each
ootumanded by an officer and each
shift will serve' eight hours, the
schedule being from 8 a. m. to 4 d.
m. ; from 4 p. m. to mi 'inght, aud
from midnight to 8 a. m. The soldiers
will be paid $1.50 per day with free
board aud lodging. They will live in
tents outside the grounds, in a fashion
somewhat similar to that adopted at
annimer encampments. The guards
will begin their duties about the
middle of Maroh and their term of
service will continue until the mid
dle of November, month after the
olose of the Exposition.
Firemen's Election Approaching.
" Chief J. A. McGlnshnn, of Foun
tain Hose Co. No. 1. ; Frank McGin
nis. Ooluml i i Hook aud Lnddur On. .
'No. 1.
Assistant chief E. L. McFarlaud
of Cataract Hose Co. No. 2.
Fire Commissioners E. Crozier,
Hill Hose Co. No. 3; r. S. Finn
cane' Cataract Hose No. 2 ; Henry
Roos, Fountain Hose Co. No. 1 ;
Charles W. Popo, Columbia Hnok and
Ladder Co. No. 1. It is expected
that 150 votes will be oast at the an
nual firemen's elpnr.inn. whin.h will
be held Monday, March 6, in this
city. The fightJwillbeon chief and per
sonal popularity is tne luck of both
ineu, who are known to alinoBt every
member of the department. The bone
of contention will be in the faoo that
Mr. Mciiiums is an employe of the
Willamette Pnln A; Puner ilfinimni
and to this fact is due some opposi
tion, as tne company's mills are on
the west side of the river, outside the
limits of the city and many firemen
fuvnr u ..unrlirluf.a urlwt uill Ka
promptly on hand m the event of a
Are. McGiinis is considered an able
fireman, who would make a good chief
and it may be that the opposition de
veloped from location will not be
strong enough to enoompass his de
feat. In any event, the race will be
a close ore.
HOW ABOUT THE WAGON? 1
A Granger Says the Organization
Strong Enough to Lead.
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Editor Courier: In your, paper of
February 10th I noticed a communi
ottiou from Molalla Grange No. 810,
in regard to ft Pomona Grange ' Hal 1,
"Centrally Located." I would say
that if the grangers of Clackamas
county were as loyal to their own
organization as they are to some
other ideas, the prize wagon need not
be the only way of "rolling up
funds" for a fair and a Pomona hall.
I have heard it asserted, and I be
lieve it true in a large measure, that
there oould be derived from the dis
posal of that much ttilked of wag n,
$1000, were tho funds to go where
some that are interesotd wish them
to go now, if this is so, with the 1300
or 1400 grangers In our county, if
they were properly approaohed I
think they would nearly all subscribe
at least one dollar, hoping to secure
the' said wagon and also to help along
an enterprise for the good of our
order. If even 1000 of them would do
this, I think we would have quite a
respoctable,"bung hole" around which
to build our. barrel. We may joke
about this matter if we will, but it
is up to us to do something in this
line soon to . both propositions! We
have got to niaki some provision in
regard to Clackamas Pomona and as
to the fair proposition, if we do not
take the initiative, some one else will
beforejmany years. I understand that
at the meeting of the Horticultural
Society, held in Portland in January,
thore was a strong sentiment in favor
of holding a countv exhibit and there
is other sentiment along that same line.
Now the question is, do we, of the
1300 or 1400 grangers, want to lead in
this matter or as in the past in too
many instances follow meekly along
behind? A. GRANGER.
"GOOD BY MARY, GOOD BY!"
Attempted Suicide Prevented From
Jumping Off Bridge.
Friday night as Chris Kelly was
crossing the suspension bridge, he
noticed a man on the outside of the
bridge wires holding on to the iron
rods. He had a soldering iron in his
baud and he was apparently trying
to stick the iron down his nock, it is
supposed with the object of making
his weight greater so that he would
sink when he leaped in the water,
but just below him was a pile of rocks
that would have broken every bone in
his body had he leaped to his death.
The man is probably mentally un
balanced, and Mr. Kelly heard him
say :
"Good by, Mary, good by I"
Kelly grabbed the man and escorted
him to the city jaiL
Grave Charges Against Ore
gon Citizens.
MITCHELL TOOK BRIBES
Grand Jury Has Hermann,
Williamson and Other
Politicians In
A Net. .
The Fedoral grand jury adjourned
Monday. A. H. Tanner, the law part
ner of Senator Mitchell, has confessed
to the crime of perjury and will be
used by the government as a witness.
Judge Tanner will be pardoned by
the presidonr after, giving his testi
mony. Harry Robertson, Mitchell's
private secretary, carrind a letter from
Mitchell toJTauner and his letter was
delivered to the grand jury. Its con
tents point to the guilt of Oregon's
senior senator. Threo chocks, hi pos
session of the government, show
plainly time Senator Mitchell recoived
money for his services in expediting
claims before the geuerral land office.
It is considered generally that the
"onfessian of Judge Tanner has dealt
a death blow to the causo of Sonator
Mitchell and that there is absolutely
no hope for anything Unit conviction
in his case when it comes to trial.
There is a growing belief that the
senator will not stand trial.
Monday the grand jury letumod in
diotmentB against John H. Mitchell,
senator of Oregon ; Binger Hermann,
representative in .congress; John N.
Williamson, representative in oon
gress; Franklin P. Mays, state sen
ator and Portland attorney; W. N.
Jones; George Sorenson, ex-deputy
sheriff and timber dealer. - It is al
leged that tho defendants oonnspired
to defraud the United States of land .
to to be obtained in exchange for
school lands fraudulently obtained
the state, and to be included in the
proposed Blue Mountain Reserve. .
m Indictments; were also returned
against John H. Hall, ex-United
States attorney ; Henry Ford, private
detective; Harry L. Rees, ex-major
in United States army; A. P. Cayler,
ft Portland grain merohant; Johu Cor
dano, a deputy sheriff; J. H. Hitch
ings, a Portland lawyer j John North
rop, juror in the Sorenson oase;
Charles Lord, a Portland attorney.
It is alleged that the defendants
conspired together to form a plot
wnioh would cause the removal of
Distriot Attorney Honey from offioe
by blackening his character before
the public and proving him to be a
man of lax morals. Tne conspiracy
was to bring witnesses who would
swear to improper relations between
Mr. Heney and Marie Ware.
Representative John Newton . Wil
liamson, Dr. Van Gesner, the busi
ness partner of Mr W.illiamson, and
United States Commissioner Marion
R. Biggs were Indicted for subordina
tion of perjury committded on June
1 , 1902, by the Fedoral grand Jury.
It is alleged In the indictment
that the men were guilty of having
induood 45 porsons to file on timber
and stone land in township 15 south
of range 19 east in order to preserve
the land as summer range for the
Williamson-Gesuer Sheep Company.
It is also alleged that these claims
were takon up under contract to re
vert in title to Williamson and Gesner
at a future date, and the money for
the filing and other fees was fur
nished the claimants by Dr. Gesner.
In addition to the 45 poraons' se
cured, Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, Dr.
Gesner, two nephews of Mr. William
son, Commissioner Biggs and a num
ber of herders in the employ of the
firm of Williamson & Gesner also
filed on claims.
INDOOR BASEBALL A TIE.
Local Team Wins at Basket Ball By a
Score of 20 to 4.
The Portland and Oregon City
Young Men's Christian Association
indoor baseball teams struggled on
tho floor of the local Y. M. 0. A
gymnasium laBt Saturday for suprem
acy through nine innings of the hard
est kind of playing, but without a vic
tory ior either team. The playing
was even throughout, and at thn nnd
of the ninth inning, the score- was 13
to 13, and the Portlam d men were
compelled to catch the car for home,
and a deciding inning could not be
played.
Orogon City won the basket ball
game by a score of 20 to 4 from the
Albina team. At the end of tiie first
half the score was 13 to 8 in favor of
the home team. Will Telford was
the bright particular star for Oregon
City, and threw six baskets, three of
them from fouls. Goottling secured
one, Bernier one, Parks two and Wil
son two, o ne of theui from a foul.
Uarrell threw two baskets from fouls
and Monnt had to his credit a goal
irom inenoor.
Utah will have a comprehensive ex
hibit at the ;Lewis and Clark Exposi
tion. (It is expected that a state pa
vilionwilljbe erected.
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