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OREO
CITY
24th YEAR
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1906
No 17
EVERYBODY
SHEEP PELTS
ARE STOLEN
PICKS HOPS
? Wliero are tne iorest rangers anu
hst are tliey good for?
f Tlii! is the quostion that the .poople
ilio live in the vioinity of Mount
food aud who camp there are .atiking
jioli other and themnoives without
itisfaotory answer.
f Handieda of thousands of feet of
e green timber iH being destroyed in
b Ball Bun Forest Reserve, and an
Snmense fire is raging between the
ieadffaters of Bull Ron and Zig Zag.
fmj campers are being dosed oat by
e dimes, some of Ltliem haviiig a
light; olofo call in escaping the swift
jewing tonguss of fire.
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The forest lire in the Bull Run Re
irve started more than two weeks
go and has workedunobserved to the
taotward, destroying a consderable
iiuoaot of good greou timber in that
reserve.
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perhaps it would have been prac
tically impoBsiblo to have stopped the
in in that reserve, after it had got
ell under way, during the present
otracted dry spoil, but, with proper
lauagement it should never liave
en permitted to. cross the Sandy
jiver oanyou, which it did nearly a
eek ago, and the flames have ben
jpikally working their way to the
astward until thoy have reached the
ig Zag.
Fire came to the Zig Zag about
ree days ago and has been burning
long the West Bunk of that stream,
mm point in the green timber, just
Jflow Paradise Park, on the north
fert slope of Mount Hood, down to a
Joint near the Twin Brigdes, a dis
lace of about four miles. It has
SSESSMENT
IS REDUCED
put of $3000 a Mile On
the
Southern Pacific.
VALUATION STILL HIGH
Assessor Nelson Claims That
Railroad Corporations Will
Pay High Rates In
Clackamas.
The expected howl from the
Mhern Paoifio Company over the
preaie in the assessed valuation of
F Property happened last week and
pilted in the reduction of the
itinn from 115.000 to $12,000 a
H but aside from this .the figures
mt by Assessor James F. Nelson in
Merraining the valuations are urao-
f ally endorsed. The assessor states
'sen at an assessed valuation of
'a,00 a mile, the taxes of the
wothern Pacific Oomnnnv nmnnnt to
'42 per mile, while in other oounties
' "is state, where the valuation is
"gher. Hm tovot .
i 1110 to SSlSfl nap mila ntirl flint.
f1' corporation will pay higher taxeB
r in than any other oounty in the
Ijfhe Board of Equalization oomplet
i work baturday and adjourned
r- mi extremely quiet seshion. The
Cyalutaion of th assessable prop
ft ? Atn tn. . . r .
' ""'iuvw.uuu, ard this is an in
f6a!8tf about i ma win iat
Cm'011, Wben the tax exemptions
s "Mofore allowed and.amounting to
I urethan 1400,000 are included.
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f Gambia Hook and Ladder
W y' the Fonntliu Hose Com
PtTB 00ncil room, all in the
U aildinR are being repaired
aew 'wnishings installed.
"HE WHO
IRE IN RESERVE
ierce Flames Combine With
Incompetent Rangers to
Destroy Timber.
been burning along tho west bank of
the stream for more than three days,
with winds variablo, mostly neary
calm, with no very strong breezes
blowing at anytime.
The fires have inado very little pro
gress during to past three or foir
days. Two or three good mon, with
any knowlodge about handling forest
fires, is stationed at tfie front, could
have easily extinguished it before this
timo.
But there are no men at the front
attempting to extinguish it und little
fires are still burning atvnriousplar.es
along the west bank of the Zig Zag
to be fanned to fierce flumes by tho
strong northwesterly wind (if it comes
before a good soaking rain,) which
will carry the blazing embers across
the creek and start new fires, which
it will be pract ically impossible to ex
tinguish, and the work of destruction
will continue until a-hoavy rain puts
an end.to it.
Rov. A. J. Montgomery, formerly
of this city but now of Portland, who
lias camped at Mount Hood for several
years, and who asoenued cue mountain
sevou tiuios this season, is strong iu
his denunciation of the forest system
as applied to the vicinity of Mount
Hood. He notified a ranger of a fire
that had been started, and ascertained
two days later that the man had not
even looked after it.
The goneral opinion at Mount Hood
is that the system is rotten to the
core. ' Sixty dollars per month is paid
to rangers, and many of them spend
an enjoyable vacation and outing and
have 110 taste or qualifications for the
woik that is assigned to thorn.
CITY TO HAVE
NEW PHONES
Take Down 'Phones For
Subscribers and Houses
Are Re-Wired.
Oregon City is to forget its moss-
back ways and assume oouvenienoes
that are enjoyed by ' people in large
cities. New 'phones are to be in
stated by the telephone company,
the take-down variety. The sub
scriber will not have to go through
the ordeal of turning a orank along
side the telephone box a hundred
times a day in order to Ret central as
heretofore.
Not only will there be new tele
phones placed at the disposal of tiie
subscribers but it is announced that
each house will be re-wi'ed. All
this expense is to be assumed by the
Paoitio States Telephone Company,
and George J. Hall, who superintends
the installations of this kind for the
oompany, was in uregon uu.v yesioi
day and aunounoed that the work
would oommenoe at once.
For several weeks past the central
offloe of the company, which is lotiat
ed in the Commercial Bank Block, has
presented a busy seen. Cables aud
coils ot wire, with insulators, and
every possible apparatus to installing
the offloe have blocked up the build
ing. This has all been disposed ol
and the office has about been put in
order and the big switch board, before
which the operators will sit. has been
placed in position aud the wires con
nected. Little remains to be done for
the new system to be in operation but
for the new 'lipoes to be put in and
the wires connected which however,
in itself is a considerable job.
The heat of the summer has loosen
ed the paint on the front of the I. 0.
n F. building on Main street and a
number of bare patches of brick are
beginning to show up.
TQfNOTHfs OWN HORN WILL BE TOOTLESS IN THE ORCHESTRA OF SUCCESS"-SIMPSON
In
STAMPEDE FOR FIELD
Shouts and Cn'usion Mark
the Exodus of the
Happy Hop
Gleaners.
It would be interesting to know
now many peopje ot Uregon Uity are
going to tiie hopflelds this season. It
would be interesting to know Imw
many have already left, and how
many are intending to leave. There
are a few persons left in the city,
but only enough to carry on the bus
iness ; all the others have gone to the
hopflelds or are preparing to go.
In every possible conveyance the
gatherers of ihe great crop of the
state are making off for the yards.
Down Main street they come in an
old battered wagon with big bundles
and tents heid on behind by some
miraculous hit of hidden rope.
Squeezed inside the wagon are
usually found a man and woman and
between them the family is squeezed
to a still smaller state of flatness.
Dust covers everything, if they have
been on a long journey, and as a
general rule the equipage is drawn by
a dust covered horse that looks as It
he needed an outing also. Then
there are a great variety of linen
dusters that are worn by the skillful
drivers. Buttoned up tight around
the throat, fitting snugly across
shonldors aud chest, with a pair of
misfit gloves and a shapeless hat, the
hop pioker is not hard to distinguish
from the rest of his brethren who are
driving around the streets.
But the orowds that are leaving
Oregon City by rail are different.
They put on their best clothes and
depart in stylo, though there is a oor-
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Town Is About Deserted
Vacation Time.
CONTEST ENDS TOMORROW;
Mrs. Anna J. Lewis, of Maple Lane,
Leads, and Many Others
Follow Closely.
The sewing machine contest of tlui
Courier that was inaugurated two
mouths ago will terminate ' tomorrow
Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock,
and the name of the winner will be
announced in next week's issue. Mrs.
Anna J. Lewis is now in the lead
with 900 votes, and is closely follow
ed by Mrs. Olive A. Swallow, Mrs.
Martna Hobble, Miss Jennie Akins,
Mra. B. Friedrich, Mrs. Bessi"
Dundas, Mrs. 0. E. Freytag. Mrs. M.
Grisenthwaite and Mis. Lidie Irwin.
This contest has excited consider
able interest among the women mem
bers of Clackamas County Granges
and the men as well, as the husbands
of many of the women have been out
doing some " work in the way of
obtaining subscriptions for the
Coariei, and in that way he secur
ed several hundred vtos.
The largest number of votes in the
whole contest have b polled dur
ing the past week pnd the leaders
will pass the 1000 mark before Satur
day atternoon. The sewing machine
is oa exhibition in the afllce of The
Courier in the Garde building. It
is a standard drop head machine made
by the New Home Company, and the
winner will be a lucky woman, as
well as having the title of the most
popular Grange woman in the
county.
The voU up to yesterday follows :
Maple Lane Grange No. 296.
Mrs. Louise Beard 320
Mrs. Sarah L. Derrick, 55
Mrs. Anna J. Lewis 900
Mrs. Olive A. Swallow 735
Mrs. R. Mautz 105
Mrs. John Darling 25
Richard Petzold Is Robbed
Fides and Tools.
ROBBERS THICK IN CITY
All Kinds of Thievery In
dulged In But No
Clew to Law
breakers. Lawless oharaoters are having free
carnival all ovor Oregon City. There
has been four . attempts to thieve al
ready this week, two of them suc
cessful. Probably none of the cases
have been reported to the city police
force but at any rate the number of
crimes is enough to make the private
citizen fear for his property and
personal safety.
Last Thursday night Richard Petzold,
who has conducted a butcher shop on
Main street for a number of years,
had a number of sheep pelts stolen
from his slaughterhouse on the Henry
Jackson plaoe. This place is just on
the east edge of town and two men
with a light wagon were seen in the
vicinity of the plaoe at about 0 o'clock
of the evening that the theft ooourred.
They were not reoognized or some
due might be obtained as to who the
robbers were.
'., The sheep pelts were valued at
about a dollar each and at least one
bundle was taken and it is thought
by the owner that some more loose
hides might have been added also.
The loss amounts in this case to about
$25. This in not the only thing that
Mr. Petzold has missed from.his prop
erty ; cleavers, sharpening steels and
other'butoher's supplies having been
taken before.
There is no doubt but that there is
a systematic gang working around
Oregon City but the last reported case
is probably the best that they have
tried as the sheep pelts can easily bo
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Mrs. Martha Hobble
Mrs. Olive Warnook
Molalla Grange No. 40.
Mrs. Gertrude Maple
Mrs. E. M. Mallatt
Mrs. Mary Trullinger
Miss Nada Lee
Miss Jennie Akins
Tualatin Grange No. 111.
Mrs. Kate Turner
Mrs Rosa Krube
Mrs. M F. Elligsen
Garfield Grange No. 317.
Mrs. Martha Davis
Mrs. Sarah Palmateer
Mrs. Nora Looney
Warner Grange No. 117
Mrs. B Friedrioh
Mrs. Olive Meindl
Mrs. May Waldron
Mrs. Bessie Dundas
Milwaukie Grange No. 268.
Mrs. John Kelso
Mrs. O. E. Freytag
Mrs. Dora Quant
Mrs. H. U. Starkweather
Mrs. I. S. Mullan
Central Grange No. 276.
Mrs. Anna Spence
Miss Bertha Spangler
Miss Cora Jaggar
Mrs. R. Ginther
Mrs. M. Grisenthwaite
Twentieth Century Grange No.
Mrs. Amanda Jesse
Mrs. O. W. Quint
Mrs. D. 0. FreenjBn
Mrs. Lidie Irwin
Oswego Grange No. 175.
725
75
80
85
25
275
620
90
25
300
85
895
65
890
80
45
785
45
860
40
40
95
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335 1
40
80
85
. 690
841.
80
40
45
945
Mrs. Mary Coon
Mrs. Helen M. Ewing
Miss Amy Nelson
Mrs. E. A. Thompson
Harding Grange.
Miss Ellen Gerber
Mrs. Anna Fullam
Mrs. Matilda Frakes
60
40
310
45
275
550
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PLAY DAYS OVER
Public Schools In Clackamas
County Will Soon Open
For Winter.
Promoters of education are looking
forward to the opening of Olac tamas
Oounty schoo's, the majority of which
will resume active work Monday
September 24, and some of them a
week later. Prof. W. 0. MoKee, the
newly elected superintendent of the
Oregon City schools, is expected here
tomorrow from Eugene with bis wife,
and they will oooupy the Mrs. Koss
Oharman house on Seventh street.
Prof. MoKee will announoe the grade
assignments Boon after his arrival.
Miss Leah L. Lemmon, prinoipal of
the Oak Orove school who taught last
year at West Oregon City, will arrive
here about September 14, from
Missouri, where she has been spend
ing the summer with relatives.
Residents of Oazadero have petition
ed Oounty Superintendent J. 0. Zin
ser for the estabshment of a
school district. There are more than
30 children of Oazadero now attending
the Estacada sohool, some distanoe
away.
An application has also been receiv
BOUNTIFUL
FRUIT CROP
William X. Davis, of
Goes From Grain
Fruit Growing.
Cams,
to
Clackamas Oounty horticulturists
report an unusually bountiful crop
'of all kinds of fruit this year. The
prune orop, especially, will be large,
in some localities being phenomenal.
William X. Davis, of Cams, who has
a 20-aore orchard ot Italians, was in
the oity last week and reports that
the yield from his orchard will ex
ceed that for a number of years. He
says his trees are loaded to their full
oapaoity and the quality of the pro
duot promises to be above the aver
age. For a few years Mr. Davis un.
dertook to raise a small aoreage of
the Petite variety, but he found the
work unprofitable, and be has replao
ed that Dart of hie orchard with the
old reliable.Italian variety.
Mr. Davis was formerly a graiu-pro
during farmer, but satisfying himself
that his land was not suited to the
continuous growing of oerrals with
reasonable margin to the produoer, he
converted a part of his farm into
prune orohard and is more than
pleased with the results. He has
realized each year more from his
prune orop than he did when he rais
ed grain.
William X. Davis, who owns a 20
aore prune orchard near Uarus, re
ports that he will have a record-break-
in crop of exceptional quality this
year. He says his trees are loaded
to their capacity. Mr. Davis trees
are all of the Italian variety, he
taving plowed up his acreage of
Petites, supplanted them with the
Italians which he finds more profit
able to raise.
SCHNEIDER APPOINTED.
Oovernor Appoints Max Schneider
as
Delegate.
A Damascus man will be a member
of the Clackamas County delegation
that will represent this state at the
National Irrigation Congress at Boise,
Idaho. 'Max Sohneider, a prominent
citizen of Damascus, was appointed
by Governor Chamberlain on August
25, to be a representative at the con
gress from this State. Mr. Sohneider
is an active farmer and has always
taken a deep interest in matters ' of
this kind and henoe his recognition
by the Governor.
ed by the oounty superintendent for
the oreation of a new district in the
vicinity of the Molalla River, involv
ing the Molalla, Marks Prairie and
Mundorf schools. Action will be
taken on this application the first
week in Ootober when the district
boundary board will be in session.
County School Superintendent
Zlnser announces the following
teachers that have recently been
elected :
No. 83 Joint, Nina Keaoook.
No. 59 Joint, Butte Creek, Frances
M. Yoder.
No. 52, Cedardale, Jessie M. Fonts.
No. 26, Union, Pauline Heacook.
No. 73, New Era, Mae Strange.
No. 10, Dioky's Prairie, Emily
Spulak.
No. 68, Tracy, Florenoe Buohanan.
No. 25, Dioky's Prairie, Laura
Puroell.
No. 93, Oak Grove, Wilma E. Blair.
Nc. 28, Concord, Lou Albee.
No. 75, Redland, Maud Stone.
No. 108, Estacada, J. E. Stubbs and
May Stevens.
CONSUMPTION
IN FAMILY?
Peculiar
Allegations
Suit For
Divorce.
Made
In
The papers in what is considered a
peouhar divoroe case were filed Tues
day. Fank J. Phelps is the plaintiff
in a suit for divoroe against Maggie
V. Phelps and the chief oause for the
controversy is over the custody of a
ohild, Edna, It is a'.leged that the
wife's family are subject to con
sumption and that nine members have
died from that siokness. The plaintiff
maintains that the ohild would be in
danger of oontraoting the disease it
allowed to remain with Mrs. Phelps
and for this reason asks the custody
of the ohild.
The couple are residents of Bull
Run and were married there .two
years ago. Attorney George 0.
Brownell is conducting the case or
the plaintiff.
FAILS TO SHOW UP.
Judge
McBrlde Sets Dates For
But Doesn't Keep Them,
Court
Judge MoBride was supposed to
show up at the courthouse last week
and hear arguments in various trials
that had been left over from the last
term of the Cirouit Court. Harrison
Allen, district prosecuting attorney,
was in town expecting the judge, but
as he did not show up, left for Port
land. The witnesses in several oases
were here and were patiently waiting
to be called for their testimony, but
the call never came.
In one case, that of Hamilton vsj
Hamilton, applicants for divoroe, the
witnesses came down trom Ostraader,
Wash., and were at no little inconven
ience. The case is a complicated one,
as there is a question ot the custody
of a minor ohild to be fought by the
attorneys.
But the whereabouts of the way
ward judge are a mystery. He is
known to be addicted to the mountain
and trout habit at this time of yoar
and he may have fallen a victim.
Or ho may have retired tojiis randies
near Clatskanie or on Deer Island and
there amid the over hanging Alder
trees and lulled by the flow of the
Columbia, have overslept ; and for
gotten his dates with the attorneys in
OregoD City.
Take your Job work to the Courier if
you want the best for your money.
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