CITY
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23rd YEAR.
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY V, 1906
No 39
WILL BUILD
NEW PLANT
Portland General Plans New
Station On East Side.
BEGIN WORK THIS YEAR
Develop 40,00p Horse Power
and Supply Manufacturing
Industries That May
Be Located Here.
Early this year, as soon at the stage
of water in the Willamette River
permits, the Portland General Eleo
trio Cnompany will comnienoe work
on a new 40,000 horse power plant on
the east side ot the river in Oregon
City, made op of nnits of 3,500 horse
power. Within two years the company
will be in a position to operate 20,000
horse powei and already have an
nounced that they will famish cheap
power for eight or nine moutlis in the
year for any manufacturing industry
that may be located here. At least
200 men will be employed in construc
tion work, which will be rushed while
the water is low, little or nothing be
ing done on foundation work during
high water. The company is also
planning the erection of another
plant in Portland of similar capacity
to burn oheap fuel, sawdust being
utilized.
UPHOLD THE INSPECTOR.
C. W. Swallow Advocates Destruction of
Worthless Trees.
OREGON CITY, Feb. 7,-(Editor
of the Courier) Grape, peaches and
cherries are the subjects to be dig-,
enssed at the next meeting of the,
Clackamas County Horticultural
Soolety Although apples seem to be :
attracting the most attention in this
Jooality just now, we hope to show
that there are many other fruits that
can be produced to perfection in this
county.
I am very sorry- to se so much mis
understanding in regard to spraying
and the horticultural law. When we
speak of cleaning up, or destroying
old, infested orchards, there are some
that bribtle np immediately and want
to fight. They say they guess they
can do as they please with their own
Men's Suits that ate genuinely worth $1500
At the nominal price of $6.95
CHEVIOTS AND WORSTEDS!!!
All of latest patterns and newest fabrics. 1 Every size, 34 to 42.
SEEfTHEM IN OUR WINDOWS ,j
j And you'will admit thatj
WHEN YOU
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property. I suppose ir someone owned
a gun they would say they could do
as they pleased with it, hecange it was
their own property, aim could shoot
any stock or chickens, or make it
dangerous to live in the neighorhood.
Well, perhaps they could for a while,
but why would not 1 have something
to say about it. . .
We would pretorto have every tree
freed from scale and d.sease that is
worth cleaning up. But, if not worth
it, producing no income, and a detri
ment to the neighorhood, a nuisanoe
and disgrace to the community, why
not have it destroyed, and give others
wno are trying to tafce good care of
their trees a cl.auoe. I hope all Jfroit
growers, the county officials, and all
who are interested for the best in
terests of the county, will uphold any
inspectors who may work along these
lines. O. W. SWALLOW.
HAVE DOUBLE FUNERAL.
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Shindler Laid to
Rest in RlvervJew. '
The remains "ot Mr. and Mrs. Gab
riel Shindler were laid side by side
in Riverview Cemetery Sunday after
noon after simple ceremoniea at Hol-
man's chapel. The funeral servioes
were brief and attended only by the
immediate mends ana litelong ao
luaimanoes of the family. Rev. J. J.
Staab and Dr. E. H. House conducted
the servioes and intimate, .friends
aoted as pallbearers. There was no
music. After appropriate Scriptural
reading and prayer by Dr. House,
Rev. Mr. Staub paid a beautiul tri
bute to the honored couple who had
passed a happy life together and had
gone hand in hand to the Great Be
yond. Mr. Staub waB much affected,
stating that it was due to Mr. Shind
ler that he oame here from their com
mon home in Switzerland, and that
he eventually entered the Christian
ministry.
1 will be memorial sevioes at
the First Congregational church in
honor of this beloved couple February
5. Mr. and Mrs. Shindler were char
ter memberB of the First Congrega
tional church Jand most active in
church work during their residence
here. It was in view of the fact that
the memorial services have been ar
ranged that the funeral services were
go quietly oonducted. Beautiful floral
tributes were sent by friends, both
oaskets being oovered by white lillies
and other flowers. The son and
daughter, D. D. Shindler, of San
Francisco, and Miss Caroline S1 ind
lor, of Lons Beach, were preseut, the,
ofher son, D. A. " Shindler, who lives
in Dawson City, not being able to
reach Portland at this season. Ore
gonian. Every 5 oents paid on subscription
entitles you to a vote on our big
Cream Separator offer. See page 5.
SEE IT IN OUR
PORTLAND, OREGON
MOYER
MEASURES TO
BE VOTED ON
Ten Will Be Submitted to the
People June 4.
NEW LOCAL OPTION LAW
Grange Is Successful In Secur
ing Enough Signatures
For Vote on New
Revenue Laws.
Eleven measures will be submitted
to a vote of the 'people at the general
election June 4. una or these is tiie
$1,000,000 ' appropriation bill upon
which the referendum was demanded ;
Ave are proposed constitutional
amendments and four are laws pro
posed by initiative.
The proposed tax laws of the Will
amette Valley Development League
failed to secure the number of signa
tures necessary for the intiative.
William ' Grisenthwaite of Beaver
Creek, left Friday morning for Salom
taking with him a huge bundle of
petitions for the initiative on laws
levying a lioetise npon the gross earn
ings of telegraph, telephone and ex
press car companies, jfand upon the
gross receipts of sleeping car, refrig
erator ana oil companies. About 900
signatures were seoured in Clacka
mas county.
"We tell down in Multnomah
oounty," he said, fas we expected to
get at least 2000 gnaraes .there, ' bat at
last reports only 1400 'had been ob
tained. Benton and other counties
also fell short of the number oounted
on, but many petitions were filed
directly in Salem, and I find that we
have enough and some to spare. We
did not start in time. Last spring I
was appointed to conduct the cam
paign tor Mgnaturres in Clackamas
J cuonty, but did not receive the peti
tions until last juecemoer.
W. S. U'Ren left Friday night for
Salem, teking with him the petitions
for the initiative on the followng
amendments and law: J
Forjhe initiative and referendum on
local, specal an municipal laws and
parts of laws. ' a. ,
Giving cities and towns exclusive
power to enact and amend their
charters, subject to the constitution
and criminal laws.
To allow the state printing, bind-
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THIRD
&OAK
iug and printer's compensation to be
regulated by law at any time.
Giving one legislative assembly
power to propose and submit to the
people amendments to the constitution
and making it the governor's duty
to proclaim a ioption or amendments,
and requiring people's approval be
fore constitutional convention can be
oailerl.
Bill for, a law prohibiting free passes
and discrimination by publio service
corporations.
These petitions were "prepared and
circulated by the People's Power
.League, 01 uregon, ol which Mr.
U'Ren is secretary. He states tha
the required number of signatures had
been obtained with 500 to spare and
this will insure a vote on the pro
posed measures at the June election.
Following is a summary of the meas
ures that will come before the pople
for approval or rejection : ;
Tim "1 OOO (Wl 'iininni.inf!in kill
T.,vvv,vuu lyjHUJMIHHUU Will
passed by the last legislature and
hem np ny the referendum petitions.
The local option bill proposed bv
the Liquor Dealers' Association as an
amendment to the present looal option
law.
The bill filed by the owners of the
Barlow road, requiring the state to
buy the road for the sum of $4,000. .
The proposed constitutionael amend
ment filed by the Equal Suffrage
League, extending the elective fran
chise to women.
A bill by the People's Pow t League
making it unlawful for publio servioe
corporations . to , give passes or free
or reduced rate servioe to publio offi
cials. !'' ;:
1 A bill by the State Grange, levying
a licensee tax upon the gross earnings
of refrigerator and sleeping cars and
oil corupaines and telegraph, telephone
and express oars.
A, constitutional amendment pro- j
posed by the People's Power League
to amend section 1 of artiole 12 bo
f'at the publio printing will be en-
JOSEPH E.
tirely within the oontrol of the leg
islature, and may be let Jby contract,
or a Printer elected or appointed upon
a salary or other compensation.
An amendment proposed by the
People's Power League to amend ar
tiole 4 of the constitution so that the
referendum may be demanded npon
any item or section of a bill, au ex
tending the rights of initiative and
referendum to municipalities.
An amendment proposed by the
People's Power League to amend sec
tions 1 and 2 of article 17, so that one
legislative assembly may submit con
stitutional amendments and that when
the vote upon an amednment has
been canvassed by the Governor and
a majority found in its favor, he shall
proclaim it adopted, and it shall then
be a part of the constitution, beyond
the power of the courts to pass upon ;
also that no law for a constitutional
convention shall be in force until ap
proved by a vote of the people.
An amendment proposed tby the Peo
ple's Power League to amend section
2 of article 11, giving the lfgal
voters of a municipality power to
frame and adopt their own charters,
and forbidding thejlegislature to create
municipal corporations.
Following is a statement of the
amount of signatures obtained in the
several counties of the state to the
petition to initiate laws tor the taxa
tion of telephone, telegraph and ex
press companies, also refrigerator-oar,
sleeping-car and oil companies, whioh
were circulated by order of the State
Grange of Oregon. For the first meas
ure :
Clackamas, 828; Marion,. 1199;
Washington, 417; Linn, 854; Yamhill,
688; Benton, 250; Columbia, 826;
Wasco. 881;-Multnomah, ,1927; Lane,
239; Umatillri, 220; Polk, 177; Tilla
mook, 148; Coos, 134: Gilliam, 62;
Wheeler, 43; Lincoln. 8. Total, 7906.
Union county sent in some names
too late for fl'ing with the secretary
of state. For the second measure :
Benton, 250; Clackamas, 844; Co
lumbia, 818; Coos. 132; Gilliam, 62;
Lane, 257; Linn, 82B; Lincoln, 8;
Continued onp age three
J. E. HEDGES
FOR SENATOR
Prominent Democrat Has An
nounced Candidacy.
INTEGRITY IN POLITICS
Believes in the Will of the
People, and Opposes De
ception, Political Boss
ism and Fraud.
Joseph Eugene Hedges has filed in
the county clerk's ottioe his deolara
tion to become a candidate for the
Democratic nomination of state sena
tor from Clacnamas County. The an
nouncement of Mr. Hedges c umidacr
is received with unusual interest, as
he is reasonably certain to be the
nominee of Mb party, no other Demo
crat having been prominently men
tioned lor the position, and also be
cause he may have to oppose State
Senator George O. Brownell, who is
seeking another teim in the senate.
Mr. Brownell, however, is antagon
ized by Li. L. Porter, editor ot the
Oregon City Enterprise, the local Re
publican newspaper and Mr. Porter
himself is a candidate for the Repute
lican nomination. The right between
them is becoming very warm, and
will be warmer still before the pri-
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HEDGES
mary election is held April 20. Mr.
Hedges was born in Oanemah, a sub
urb of this oity, and is one of the
prominent numbers of the legal fra
ternity. He is a graduate of Yale
University and two years ago was
the Democratic nominee for joint
representative from Clackamas and
Multnomah Counties, earring his
home oounty by a large plurality,
but the Republican vote iu Multnomah
Oounty accomplished his defeat. Mr.
Hedges makes the following pledges
in his initiative petition :
"If I am nominated and eleoted, I
will, during my term of office, oppose
deception, political bossism and fraud,
the purchase of office, and purchase
and sale of the influence of those in
office.
''Will favor maintaining as high a
standard of honesty, morality and in
tegrity in politics as in business or
society. 1
"Will favor accomplishing the will
of the -people, and believe the safely
and life our government depends upon
this.
"Will maintain a publio officer as
a publio servant clothed with, a trust
whose one great requirement is to ac
complish the people's greatest good.
"Will exercise care in preventing
unwarranted expenditure of state's
money, and will favor less legislation
with greater care.
"I desire to have the following
statement printed after my name on
the Humiliating ballot: Honest, in
tegrity, economy. A minimum of
legislation with a maximum of care."
In reference to his candidacy, Mr.
Hedges has given out the following
statement to the Courier:
"I have filed my petition for the
nomination for the otlioe of senator
from the fourteenth senatorial district
comprising Clackamas Oounty, with
out any mention of whom I shall vote
lor to occupy the seat of United States
Senator from Oregon. Those who are
aspirants may either do so or not, and
there need be no extraordinary or un
usual fooling bocauso ono declines to
tie I) in self so firmly that neither the
people's voice, his party's desire or
h is own inclination, due to what his
desire to do what is r'ght, can anfot
ter him.'
"While some wiii htiwpre in sign
ing the KtHtement chiM No. 1, I
know there uro tHi-m w o have so
little regard in politics !oi' n pledge,
that anything -nay. y thorn .he. prom
ised ill order to 'attain offliin, when
they know that after taking the oath
they may rrpudiate their solemn
promises. If I make a promise, I
shall keep it.
"Personally, I cannot discover how
one who is careful and conscientious
oan promise to vote for any possible
one who may get the largest number
of votes at the next preceding general
election when that one, it may sub
sequently be found, has obtained his
nomination , by purchase, fraud, or
chioanery, and the vote at the general
election may be that of a small
minority of one party only, and
the person may be opposed by m
large majority of the people. Soma
have said they would support suoh ono
under the oircumstances, because the
pledge is absolute..
i "To illustrate Assume that five
Republicans should aspire for nomin
ation for the office of United States
senator, of whom A is notoriously
bad and corrupt, but shrewd. . As
sume, further, that three Democrats
try lor nomination, ot whom B is
likewise bad and corrupt, but astute.
A and B, we will assume, by praotioes
of chicanery and deoeit, and all tha
other evils applicable, obtain the nom
ination by a slim plurality.-, These
two men have their names placed on
the ballot for eleotion. A large ma
jority of both parties are disgusted
and refuse to vote for the respective
candiates and, by a small minority
vote, it chances that B has a plurality ,
and therefore has reoeived the highest '
number of votes for the office at - the
next preceding general eleotion. A
cry of a majority of the people, and '
of members of both parties goes up to
elect someone else to be sent to Con
gress as senator.
' Will then those who siened the
pledge, or statement, keep it? Bat
they have said they would I
"There is no qnalifyin clause, and
those, who, at this time make this
pledge must also hereafter consider
that minority who insisted in placing
them in the legislature, and will have
no choioe they must vote for B.
"This is an extreme oase, but very
possible, and the pledge seems as un
safe as buying a horse on the repre
sentation of an itinerant horse trader. "
John Lewellon has !fila his declara
tion to become a candidate for the Re
publican nomination of couuty "om
iuissioneri and,, like President Rooso .
vlt, says? "A square deul for ovory
man, ' without regard . to location or
fUi (( ' V- v:'
Mr.' Lewellen resides iu Oregon
City and was a Jcbuuty commissioner
several years ago, .but: was , lofjislatod
out of offioa by. a"; .bill,. that reduced
the number of county commissioners
from . three to two, and made the
county judge a member of the board.
F . J. .Harkenrider, of Estaoada pre
cinct, has Jbeen brought forth by the
Republicans of that sootion as their
choice for the nomination of county
com nissioner at 'the primary elction,
April 20. Mr. Harkenrider will pro
bably have the united support of the
Republicans of Eastern Clackamas
county, who have been trying for a
number of years to seoure representa
tion on the board of county commis
sioners. Mr. Harkenrider'1 candidacy plaoes
four men in the field for the Republ
ican nomination, the others being Mr.
Lewellen, W. S. Rider, of New Era,
and W. H. Matoon, of Viola. It
iB possible that William Brobst,
whose term expires next July, may
become a candidate for a second tar in.
Reception to Miss Qall Lauglilln.
From 8 to 5 P. M. on the afternoon
of Lincoln's birthday, Monday, Feb
ruary 12, Mrs. Sarah A. Chase will
give a complimentary reoeption to
Miss Gail Laughlin, of New York,
assisted by her daughters, Mrs. Gilbert
Hedges and MrB. Lewellyn Adams,
and Mrs. O. D. Latourette, Mrs. O.
H. Oaufleld, Mrs. George Harding,
Mrs. W. S. U'Ren, Mrs. O. H. Dye,
Mrs. J. E. Fedgos, Mrs. O. W. Evans
and others. At 7 :80 o'clock in the
evenins Miss Laughlin will speak at
the First Baptist Church, with musio
by the Baptist choir. Miss Laughlin
is a practicing attorney of New York
and although young in years has
already won fame as one of the fore
most woman speakers of Amerioa.
Because we make medicines
for them. We give them the
formula for Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral, and they prescribe it
for coughs, colds, bronchitis,
consumption. They trust it.
Then you can afford to trust
it. Sold for over 60 years.
Ayr' Cherry Pnctoral In remij th
fhnulil he In every home. I hnve lined a great
deal of It for liarit eounh mid colla, and I
know what a aplemlM medicine It I". I ean
not recommend It too highly." MABIt Jfi.
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