OREGON
COUI
23rd YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1905.
No 17
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GREAT DISPLAY OF WOOLENS IN THE PIECE
WILL BE MADE AT OUR STORE ON
SEPTEMBER 13th AND lUtli
The full line of Strauss Bros., Master Tailors, Chicago, has
been sent to us especially for this event. A special representative
long skilled in the tailoring business will have charge of the display.
Come and see the swell new designs now shown for the first time.
Get posters on the proper thing to wear. Don't miss this great
chance to order your clothes to the best advantage.
AD71MS BROTHERS
CHOICE EATS
BLAYNEY . NELSON
'Free Delivery to All Parts of the City
Tel. Main 1861
SEVENTH AND MONROE STS.
OREGON CITY, OREGON
A New Home Industry
The Cascade Laundry
Does not wear out or destroy your linen
Our Wagon will all for your soiled linen each week and deliver
your laundried goods to your home. Perfect satisfaction assured.
E. L. JOHNSON, Proprietor.
D. C. Latourettk, President.
F. J. Meyers, Cashier
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tht Commtrcial Bank of Ongon C7j
Authorized Capital,
$100,000
Transacts a General banking Business.
Open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Monmouth State Dermal
Begins lis
24tb Vrar
Sept. 26
THREE COURSES OF STUDY, preparing for county and state certificates.
Higher courses recognized iu Washington and other states.
DEMAND rOR NORMAL-TRAINED TEACHERS. Longer Wins, higher
wages and better opportunities or promotion reward the Normal grad
uate for his enterprise School directors appreciate the superior ability
of Monmouth graduates, and the demand far exceeds the supply. Special
attention given to methods work in graded and ungraded schools.
CATALOGUES containing f"ll information will be sent on application.
Correspondence invited. AddresB:
Or J. B. V. BUTLER, Secretary. ' E. D. RESSLER, President.
We Want Your Trade
At Harris Grocery
And are going to make special
inducements to close ouyers.
Cash and Small Profits is Cur Motto.
BRICK I BRICK! BRICK!
Crescent Brick Yard
i G. M. B. JONES, Manager
Large Amount of Brick on Hand.
OREGON CITY
OREGON
It's Difficult
For your boy o succeed in the
business world without being
trained. Why not have a straight
forward, sensible talk with us on
the subject? Call cr write us to
day, and let us explain to you the
benefits to be derived from giv
ing your children a Business or
Shorthand education. Our grad
uates are all employed. We
placed more than 200 pupils in
lucrative positions during the
past year.
Belinke-Walke
Business College
Sixth & Morrison Sts.
PORTLAND, ORE.
Open all the year, day and night.
Call or send for catalogue.
5000 TELEGRAPHERS
NEEDED ANNUALLY
To fill the new positions created by the Railroad
and Telegraph companies. We want YOUNG
Men tnd Ladies, of good habits, to
LEARN TELEGRAPHY
AND RAILROAD ACCOUNTING
We furnish 7j per cent of the Operators and
Station Agents in America. Our six schools are
the largest exclusive telegraph schools In THfl
WORLD- Established '20 years, and endorsed by
all leading Railway officials.
We execute a J&oO bond to every student to
furnish him or her a position paying; from $40
to $til) a month in states east ot the Rocky Moun
tains, or from $75 to $100 a month In states west
Of the Rockies, IAMEDIATBLY UPON GRADUATION,
Students cm enter at any time. No vacations,
For full particulars regarding any of our schools,
write direct to our executive office at Cincinnati,
O. Catalogue free,
The Morse School of Telegraphy
Cincinnati o.
Atlanta, Ga.
Texarkana, Tex.
Buffalo, N.Y.
La Crosse, W;s.
San Francisco. Cal.
On your way from , the big Fair
Stop at the
Palm Buffet
326 Stark Street
Finest Liquors and Cigars in Port
land. Brand new and up-to-date.
Beautifully Decorated."
School Books Cheap!
New and Second Hand. Buy here and save
money. One block from Oregon City car line.
Also, Books Bought, Sold and Exchanged.
HYLAND
BROTHERS
229 231 Yamhill St
Portland
Oregon
The Running Expenses
Of an Electric Plant are lessened by Ihe
tine of the beet supplies and essentials.
We carry in stock ever'thing required
for Dynamos, Motors, Lamps, Switched,
Wiring and Connections. We enn give
yon an et-tunate on any kind of Elec
trical work.
Western Electric Works
Phone Main 1G96
No. (U Sixth Street, PORTLAND, OR.
From 7:00 A. M. to 6:00 P. M.
Is the time when you can
have your picture taken at
LYMP'S STUDIO
He makes good pictures and the
price is low. Artistic Posing and
Lighting. Fine Retouching and
Modeling. The largest and most
complete equipped skylight room in
the Northwest.
LYMP'S PHOTO STUDIO
Cor. Tenth and Main Sts.
OREGON CITY, - OREGON
OPERATIVES
LOSE STRIKE
All But 17 Employes of Mill
Resume Work.
WEAVERS DID NOT AGREE
Wages Will Be Based on
.Scale Paid By Six Mills'
on the Coast, and
This is Low.
The strike in the woolen mills of
the Oregon City Manufacturing Oo.
ended Monday night and the wills
wore running in every department
Tuesday morning. The backbone of
the strike was broken because the
employes could not agree ou concerted
action.
Three loom fixers went back to
work Monday morning on looms. They
are capable of toaohiug greeu hands to
weave on flannel and blankets and
this fact caused uneasiness among the
Btrikers, many of whom were dissat
isfied with the action of the main
body of strikers iu rejecting the com
promise offered by the Oregou City
Manufacturing Company. There are
people living in Oregon City who
have to work in the woolen mills to
earn a living, and these people could
not afford to take the chance of hav
ing their positions lost to them.
The scale to be paid in the weave
room has not yet been adjusted, but
will probably be based ou the average
wages paid in six Facifio Coast milis.
Both the Santa Rosa and San Jose
mills pay 14 cents per yard, and em
ploy Chinese labor, and the average
of these mills will bring the scale
down to the place where the reduc
tion ' was made, that is, 2 cents per
yard on two looms.
Seventeen of the strikerj will not
go back Jto work. Some of the men
have found employment on the paper
mill "construction across the river,
some have gone to Seattle, others to
California and many of the . women
have gone to the hop fields.
Orders have . gone forth from the
office of the company that no more
men "are to be employee in the spin
ning and weaving departments Here
after only women will be employed
there. It is expected that the com
pany will soon be able to replace all
of the employes who did not return to
the mill, which wifl be running full
time in a few dayB.
it is stated by people who keep an
eye on the wool market that tlfj strike
would have .worked no hardship ou
the business of the Oregon City Man
ufacturing Company, that there is no
demand in the market for oassimeres,
and that the company has overstocked
with these goods. It is said to be a
fair indication that business is not
all it should be whenever a firm adopts
the polioy of putting one workman on
two machines, and this is exactly
whatjhas been done here. Suoh a move
naturally decreases the output of the
mill. One weaver on two looms can
not "turn out the work that two weav
ers can on the same number of ma
chines. When anything goes wrong
with one machine, both necessarily
have to shut down. In fact, the Ore
gon City woolen mills, so the story
goes, would have suffered no incon
venience if their mill had shut down
for several weeks or even mouths.
BOUNDARY DISPUTE SETTLED.
Estacada People Call in Surveyor to
Adjust Differences.
, Dispute between William Stubhe
and wife, and D. J'. Warner, of Esta
cada, over the boundary lines between
their respective farms has Deen amic
ably aduB ed by Ernest P. Hands, who
has returned from Estacada, where he
surveyed the property and found tho
lines and corners. Tho two families
have had a great deal of trouble over
the matter, and the result was that
Mrs. Stubbe had Warner arrostod sev
eral months ago, on a charge of as
sault and battery but Warner was
acquitted after a bitter trial in the
justice court hero.
Stubbo built a fence on his land and
Warner connected up to it, and here
the dispute arose. JStubbe threw down
tho fence and as fast af Warner could
rebuild it, it was thrown down.
While the two families are far from
being friends,-the boundary quostion
has been settled to their mutual satis
faction. Mrs. Stubbe will bring suit
against Warner for damages ou ac
count of alleged injuries sustained in
their altercation. The sceno of the
affair is about one-half mile from Es
tacada.
Mr. Cross Raises Tall Cera.
Remarkably large stalks of corn
were taken by County Jurtgo Ryan
Friday to Portland, where they wero
placed on exhibition with Clackamas
county's prodncts at the Exposition.
The com is of the yellow dent field
variety, is nearly 10 feet in heighth,
and was raised by F. H. Cross at
Green Point, within the limits of Ore
gon City. Peaches and cucumbers from
Dr. Ferguson, of New Era, and pears
and petite pronoa from H. O. Kanne,
of Cauby,.were also taken to Portland.
VALUATIONS
ARE RAISED
Assessment of Property In
creased By $175,000.
P. G. E. CO. IS HIT HARD
Board of Equalization Adds
$40,000 to Assessed Value
of Corporation
Holdings.
Pointing with pride to the fact that
the assessed valuation of Clacnainas
county proporty is $175,000 in exooss
of last year, tho county board of
equalization adjourned sine die Satur
day afternoon, but not before thoy had
taken action upon the potitiou of the
Board of Trade asking that corporation
values be increased and reciting special
instances. While valuations of indi
vidual holdings were decreasod by
$10,000 increases in corporation assess
ment foot up close to $40,000. Of this
amount the Portland General Eleotric
Company shares about $30,000, and the
balance is divided iu small amounts
between other corporations.
An attempt J was ' made to increase
the valuation of the roadbed of the
Oregon & California Railroad Com
pany, and also of the Oregon Wator
Power & Railway Company, but these
companies were not disturbed, ou the
showing that their valuation per mile
had been increased $1000 by County
Assessor Nelson, whose figures were
generally sustained.
Application of E. S. Collins for the
reduoiiou of the assessment on 11,500
acres of timber laud to $1.25 an acre
was denied. Collins is assessed at
from $11.40 to $3 an acre oil this prop
erty, and this valuation is considered
reasonable.
MARRIED BUT NOT A WIFE.
L, M. Hawley Married a Woman Who
Had Not Been Divorced Six Months.
Curious allegations are made in a
divorce oomplaint that was filed in
the circuit oourt by L. M. Hawluy,
who seeks for a decree of divorce from
Blanche Hawley, who last April was
the wife of Lew Wright. She pro
cured a divorce from Wright in Uma
tilla county July 18, 1905, and Hawley
states that he was not aware of the
faot that less than six months had
elapsed since the date of her divoroe
from Wright, as he had been informed
and believed that the present Mrs.
Hawley had a lawful right to re
marry. Accordingly he made a swift
courtship and went through the form
of marriagewith the defendant, but
as soon as he ascertained that the said
marriage was void, he ceased to sus
tain marriage relations with his wife
and commenced a suit for legal sepa
ration. Attorney J. N. Poaroy, of
Portland represents the plaintiff in
the action.
Socialists Against Fusion.
Socialists of tho county held a moot
ing Sunday afternoon in Knapp's hall,
with a fair attendance. A debate was
held on "The Difference Between
Revolution and Evolution," and mu
Bio was furnished by Secretary How
ard's phonograph. The aotion of the
national ' organization in expelling
Victor Bergen for ins advocaoy of ru-
Bion, was confirmed.
Barn Burned at Central Point.
Vafuable barn belonging to Thomas
Blanchard, who lives uoar New Era,
at Central Point, was burned to the
ground Friday, the fire starting from
a spark from a threshing engine. Mr.
Blanohard's residenoe was saved only
through the heroio efforts of the
threshing crew, and the wator wagon
was converted into an omergeuey lire
department. The fire that threatened
Gladsrone has been subdued and no
further danger is anticipated from the
slashing firos in that section.
For the
Children
"Now good digostion waits on ap
petite, and health on b'th"
If it doesn't, try Burdock Blood
Bitters..
To succeed these days you
must have plenty of grit, cour
age, strength. How is it with
the children ? Are they thin,
pale, delicate ? Do not forget
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. You
know it makes the blood pure
and rich, and builds up the
general health in every way.
The children cannot possibly bave (rood
health untei the howela art In proper condi
tion. AaliiKK'"" II vf r rIvca a coatud tongue,
bad brnatli. coin tl paten bowel. Correct all
ttiKge by BiviitK laxative donee of Ayer'i
J'iJU. All vegetable, sugar-coated.
Ml
by J. O. Ayer Oo., Lowell,
Alio manufeoturera of
9 HAIR V100R.
01O AUUE CD KG.
C-f O CHERRY PECTORAL.
EXPOSITION
SOON CEASES
Gates Shut n Centennial
October 1 5.
FAIR NOW m ITS PRIME
Stock and Poultry Shows
Ae Late Features and
Great Interest is
Shown.
The program prepared for the dos
ing weeks of thoExposition provides
for 'more attractive features than have-
characterized any period since the
opening. Perhaps the most import
ant of those is tho Btock show, whioh
will be hold from September JlOtli ;to
2!)th inclusive. For this event there
is available nearly $50,000 in prize
money, but the attractiveness of the
western market is a greater induce
ment than the money awards. East
ern stockmen have shown a romark
abble interest in the show, and there
is no question that the exhibition will
be the biggest thing of the kind ever
hold in the West.
The poultry show, under charge, of
Elmor Dixon, follows shortly after the
stock show ana promises to bo unus
ually interesting. The datos ..e from
October 5ch to 12th inclusive.
The Royal Hawaiian Baj 1, now
playing at the Exposition- has made
the biggest hit of any musioii organ
ization which so far has visited the
Fair. Band conoerts, free to all, are
given twiue daily from the bandstand
on the shore of Guild's Lake. The
Hawaiian Baud will be followed by
Ellery's B ud, whioh will play until
the olose of the Exposition, October
16th. " .
The Expositionjis now in its priice,
and late visitorrs will find everything
in the best ot condition. The Trail,
the amusement street, is better now
than at any time during the Fair, the
few shows of doubtful merit whioh
operated during the early weeks have
been dispeused with, so that every
thing to be seen there is first-class and
worth the money ohargod. ' v
Tho attendance at the Exposition,
which has been good from the first,
owing to a large extent to patronage
from east of the mountains, has in
creased steadily , and the mcroase is
expected to continue right rip to the
olosing day, as the end of the harvest
season will permit farmers who have
been too busy to got away earlier to
pay a visit to the biggest fair ever
held in the Paoiflo Northwest.
REUNION OF BROWN FAMILY.
Descendants of Pioneers to the Num
ber of 35 Assemble Here.
Re-union of the Brown family took
plaoe Thursday at the residence of
D. G. Matheny, in this city, and was
the first re-union to be hold in this
state in whioh the Eastern and West
ern branches met. The hostossos of
the affair wore Mrs. D. Q. Matheny
and Mrs. D. O. Quick There are 85
descendants now living of Elias
Brown, who cuiio to Oregon many
years ago, and 30 descendants of John
Brown, who emigrated to California.
Since the separation of the family
there has nevor been a reunion in
whioh the Eastern, Orogon and Cali
fornia branches have met.
The Oregon branch entertained
Thursday, and there wero 'present
members from Now York Jity, Chi
cago, Sisson, Cal., Seattle, Tacoina,
Eugeno, Halsey and Albany, Orogon.
Thirty-five sat down to dinner at
the home of Mr. Matheny, who was
born in Oregon in 1814, and is the
second oldest living child boru to
white parents in this state.
Elias Brown crossed tho plains with
his family in 1847 from Bloomitigton,
111. He owned the farm on which
Bloomitigton is now situnted.
John Brown, brother of Elias,
crossed the pains in 1803, and since
that time there has never been a meet
ing of the Eastern and Western
branches ot tho two families. Five
brothers romainod at homo, and of
those, there are about 12 descendants
now living. Tho 85 present at the
reunion were :
Mary Jane Brcwu, of Chicago, and
her daughter, Belle Gertrude Berry,
of New York ; Martha Jane Quick,
and husband, D. O. Quick, of Ila.soy,
Or., and their children; Elias Brown
Ponland and wife, Lizzie Ponland, of
Albany, Or. j Mrs. Clara Davis, of
Eugene, Or., and Mrs. Frank Starr,
of Albany, Or., and her grandchild
ren, Mabel Peuland, Carl Davis, Elsie
D avis, Wilda, Ruby and Winfleld
Starr; Mrs. D. G. Matheny, and nor
husband, D. G. Matheny, of Oro
gon City, and their children; Cary
Barker, of Champoeg, Or. ; Marietto
Bradley, of Salem, Oro. ; Burt Brown
Barker, of Chicago, and wife, Ella
Merrill Barker; David Claude Ma
theny and wife, Rilla Matheny, of
Oregon City, and Blanche Matheny, of
Oregon City, and her grandson, Burt
Clinton Barker, of Fairfield, Ore;
Charles H. Brown and wifo, Mary E.
Brown, of Sisson, Cal. ; William Wes
ley Brown and wife, Belle Brown, and
son, Hosoa Wesley Brown, of Sisson,
CaL ; Mrs. Frankie Batcheller and
daughter, A. Ethel, of Portland ; Miss
Vera Thompson, of Seattle; Mrs. Ln
oinda Nanan and daughter, Cinetto,
of Portland ; Mrs. Sarah Jane Thorn
ton, of Taconaa. '