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OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 16, 1907
25th YEAR.
No 14
OREGON
Q
ORGANIZATION
IS EFFECTED
County Fair In Gladstone
Park October 9-10-11.
SCOTT FIRST PRESIDENT
Directors Soon to Meet to
Arrange For Exhibits of
Clackamas Connty
Products.
Clackamas County is to have her
first Fair, and organization of the
Clackamas County Fair Association
was effected Tuesday by the election
of officers and directors. The F'air
will take place in Gladstone Park
October and the Board of Directors
has been clothed -with authority to
make plans for the event and carry
them out. The success of the prelim-
RICHARD SCOTT
of Milwaukie, who was elected President
of the County Fair Association, but
who declines to serve.
lnary plans and organization is due
to the indefatigible work of-Captaln
JamesP. Shaw, who has put in several
weeks time for the public good. He
received a unanimous vote of -thanks
at the meeting. The officers are:
Richard Scott, Milwaukie, president;
George Lazelle, Mount Pleasant, vice
president; Charles E. Spence, Beaver
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Creek, secretary; Thomas F. Ryan,
Oregon City, treasurer; County Judge
Grant Dimick, Commissioners John
Lewellen and Thomas B. Klllen, R. S.
Coe, Canby, J. W. Grasle, Milwaukie,
William Grlsenthwalte of Beaver
Creek, T. J. Gary of Willamette, A.
J. Lewis of Maple Lane and Enos Ca
hlll of New Era, directors.
Richard Scott, of Milwaukie, the
flrBt president of the association, is
a man well fitted for the position,
having more than a state reputation
as a breeder of stock. His large farm
at Milwaukie Is well known and Mr.
Scott has always taken an active In
terest in county, state and district
fairs In Oregon. George Lazelle, the
vice-president, has achieved a reputa
tion for his Red Polled cattle and has
taken many prizes for exhibits fn
state Fairs In Oregon and Washing
ton. Secretary Charles E. Spence Is
a member of the executive committee
of the State Grange and Is a leader in
all that tends to build up communities,
and Judge Thos. F. Ryan has had
wide experience as director of the
Clackamas County exhibit at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition. R. S.
Coe, of Canby, has worked energetical
ly to organize the- association, T. J.
Gary is one of the leaders of the Wil
lamette Development League and A.
J. Lewis Is the county fruit inspector.
Other citizens who were present at
the meeting were D. K. Bill, Otto F.
Olsen, H. D. Shipley, J. F. Sanders
and R. F. Slzer of Willamette, J. H.
Reid, J. H. Grasle and Mrs. Maggie
Johnson of Milwaukie, Captain James
P. Shaw who presided at Tuesday's
meeting, 'County Assessor James F.
Nelson, O. W. Eastham, A. F. Parker,
J. A. iZmmermann of Clackamas, and
George Randall.
BOOMING IDAHO MINE.
Oregon City Men Believe They Have
a Fine Property.
Possessing several gold bearing
quartz claims in the Idaho mining
district near Soldier, Elmore County,
a number of Oregon City men have
organized and incorporated the Wil
low Creek. Mining Company, on a ba
sis of 60,000 shares, which they have
placed on the market at 10 cents each.
Captain Rambo is now making up a
party 1 to go to the district and com
mence development work on an ex
tensive scale. The owners of the
mine believe that they have a fine
property and have assays that are
very encouraging. One block of 500
shares was disposed of Tuesday and
little difficulty is anticipated in dis
possing of enough stock to give the
company a fund for work on a large
scale. The officers of the company
are Dr. C. A. Stuart, president;' C. P.
Farr, vice-president; M. P. Chapman,
secretary, George Reddaway, treas
urer; William Rambo, Amos Wilmot
and George Reddaway, trustees .
Mrs. E. M. Burmeister has returned
from a sojourn at Newport.
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PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT Sh POWER CO.
C. G. MILLER, Agent. Oregon City, Oregon
- -v-
Gentlemen You may deliver to me one Electric Flatiron,
which I agree1 to try, and if unsatisfactory to me, to return to you
within 30 days from date of delivery. If I do not return it at. that
time you may charge same to my account at $4.00. " It is understood
that no charge will be made for the iron if I return it within 30 days.
Name .
Address .
STEEL BANDS
ON WEST SIDE
Rail
Connection to Portland
From Willamette
SPUR TO SALEM RAILWAY
Fast Time Will Be Made By
New Electric Line and
Cars Will Be Running
By January 1. r
Persistent report that Oregon' City
is to have rail connection with Port
land and the upper Willamette Val
ley on the west side. of the river con
tinues to agitate the minds of the peo
ple of the Tualatin and Willamette
sections and it is now stated 'that the
new Portland-Salem line of the Ore
gon Traction Company will be tapped
by the Willamette Falls Railway, a
local system owned, by the Portland
Bounty judce grant b. dimick
a Member of the County Fair Directors
and a Promoter of the Beaver
Creek Molalla Railroad
Railway, Light & Power Company,
running from West Oregon City to
about one mile beyond Willamette.
The line from West Oregon City to
Willamette has been practically re-
'built within the past two years and
not more than iour miles or new track
would have to be constructed.
Many years ago the Portland Gen
eral Electric company, which con
trols nearly all of the property along
the west bann oi me Willamette from
this city to the town that bears the
name of the river, constructed the
little railway line, extending it past
Willamette to the woodcamps that
until two years ago supplied cord
wood for fuel to the paper mills, but
oil burning apparatus was Installed
and the days of the wood camp were
over. Since then the cars have been
run only for the accomodation of the
local passenger traffic and a little
freight and local officials of the com
pany are positive that the parent con
cern intends using the line alone a
greater, scope. The spur extension to
a point near Tualatin would give the
people of Willamette and vicinitv dl-
rect connection with Portland and the
Willamette Valley.
There is no doubt that the Oregon
Traction Company is either owned
by the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company, or that intimate busi
ness relations are maintained. The
new line from Portland to Salem will
be a great factor in the development
of the west side and at the present
time there are men and teams work
ing on every foot of the 48 miles of
the route, which Is four miles shorter
than that of the Southern Pacific on
the east side. The Portland-Salem
line was first broached two years ago
by Henry W. Goode, the late pres
ident of the Portland Railway Light
& Power Company, and he had C. A.
Miller, superintendent of the Willam
ette Falls Railway, go over the terri
tory and select a route with his eye.
Mr. Miller Journeyed to Salem by
train and walked from Salem to Port
land, taking about three weeks for
the trip. He spent his time looking
up possible grades, obtaining statis
tics as to the business to be secured
both freight and passenger, and his
report was favorable. He says that
the road will pay from the start and
will eventually be a fine property.
The run from Portland to Salem
wfll be made In one and one-half
hours. From Wilsonville to Wood-
burn the track is a marvel, being as
nearly level as It is possible for a
track to be, and a straight shoot of
28 miles. The cars will be built es
pecially for rapid service, and a fiO
mile equipment will be procured. On
the lnterurban line of the Oregon
Water Power & Railway Company be
tween Portland and Oregon City the
cars are capable of making a speed of
not more than 35 miles an hour, and
may possibly reach 45 miles on a down
grade.
Cars will be running by November
1, if the present plans of the com
pany do not miscarry, and the line
will be complete by the first of next
year. The steel bridge, 135 feet high,
at Wilsonville, is being rushed for
ward to completion, the west side be
ing practically finished. The bridge
represents an expenditure of about
200,000, the original estimate being
j.u,uuu.
WIFE WAS JUST AS BAD.
Orange L. Barbur Files Cross Bill for
Decree of Divorce.
Orange L. Barbur filed a cross com
plaint in the suit for divorce institut
ed by his wife, Lydla D. Barbur. He
denies they were married In Oregon
City January 10, 1905, but says they
were united just one year later, as
shown by the marriage record, and
he denies each and every allegation
In her complaint. Mr. Barbur says
that his wife is guilty of cruel and in
human treatment, and that she used
profane language in the presence of
several of their children, without pro
vocation. Prior to her marriage to
Barbur, the plaintiff had been mar
ried to John Howlett, from whom she
had been divorced and had after
wards remarried Howlett and again
been divorced. The defendant states
that his wife very frequently between
January 10, 1906, and a year follow
ing, received affectionate letters from
Howlett, requesting her to meet him
at Portland and other places, and she
also received endearing letters from
male friends. Barbur says he has
been a good husband, providing a
comfortable home and clothing for
his wife. He denies owing the prop
erty alleged In her complaint and says
he has no means except a salary of
$75 per month from the Crown-Columbia
Pulp & Paper Company. He
asks to .be awarded a decree of di
vorce, and is represented by Attor
ney Geo. C. Brownell.
Grade Assignments Announced.
City Superintendent of Schools W.
C. McKee has announced his grade
assignments for the coming school
year with the exception of a teacher
for the ninth grade in the Barclay
High School, for which a teacher has
not yet been selected. The assign
ments follow: " . ,
Eastham building First grade,
Frances Myers; second grade, Irene
Carter; third grade, Laura Pope;
fourth grade, Emily O'Malley; fifth
grade, Maude Adair Rutherford;
sixth and seventh grades, Gustena
Randall; eighth grade, Viola M. God
frey. Barclay Building First grade, Mar
garet Williams; second grade, Harriet
Cochran; third grade, Bess Kelly;
fourth grade. Pearl G. Cartlldge; fifth
grade, - Ellen Brobst; sixth grade,
Edith Karr; seventh grade, Ida M.
Smith; tenth grade, Walton C. Mc
Kee. Steamer Altoona Sold.
The steamer Altoona, built 12
years ago at a cost of $22,000, has
been sold by Ihe Oregon City Trans
portation Company for $18,000 to an
Alaska company for service as a
freighter on the Yukon River. The
Altoona has been running as a dally
boat between Portland and Oregon
City and the sale will probably mean
loss of the daily service.
, "Everybody 8hould Know."
says C. G. Hays, a prominent business
man of Bluff, Mo., that Bucklen's Ar
nica Salve Is the quickest and surest
healing salve ever applied to a sore,
Durn or wound, or 10 a case of piles,
il've used It and know what I'm talk
ling about." Guaranteed by Howell &
j Jones, druggists, zoc.
CHILDREN MUST
ATTEND SCHOOL
New Law May Affect Labor
Supply of Woolen Mill.
PENALTY FOR VIOLATORS
Parents of Children Between
Ages of Nine and Sixteen
Must Provide For
1 heir Education.
In educational circles throughout
this state the new truant law is ex
citing considerable Interest, as it is
largely In the nature of an experi
ment that may or may not prove suc
cessful. It is a well known fact that
nearly half of the children of school
age do not attend any school and the
law was enacted for the purpose of
compelling attendance unless the par
ents or guardians of the child have
JUDGE THOMAS F. RYAN
Treasurer of the County Fair Associa
tion.
good and sufficient reason for their
non-attendance. The law provides
that any child between the ages of
nine and 14 years, and every child
between the ages of 14 and 10 years
not regularly and lawfully engaged in
any useful employment shall be re
quired to attend school while school
is in session in the district where
they may reside. Four exceptions are
made, and the law does not compel
children to attend school who are
physically unable to do so. .Neither
does it require children between the
ages of nine and 10 years, whose par
ents lrve more than three miles, by
the nearest traveled road, to some
public school, to attend, unless trans
portation ' Is furnished such pupils.
Children who are taught In private
or parochial schools, or by parent or
private tutor, such branches as are
usually taught in the first eight years
of the public schools, are exempt from
attendance at public schools.
Parents and guardians are liable to
a fine of not less than $5 or more than
$25, or by imprisonment Jn the county
or city jail not loss than two nor more
than 10 days, or both such fine and
imprisonment, for failure to observe
the provisions of the new law.
The neforcement of ihe compul
sory educational law is entrusted to
the care' of truant officers, who shall
be appointed by county district boun
dary hords, consisting of the county
court and the county school superin
tendent, except in districts of the
first class, where the truant officer
shall be appointed by the board of
directors. The officer shall receive
$2 a day for actual service, and It
seems to be the intention of the law
to appoint police officers to these
positions.
The county superintendent shall
furnish to each truant officer at the
opening of the schools a list of teaeh-
ers and principals. District clerks
shall furnish to the city superinten
dent, principals and teachers as the
case may be a copy of the last school
census, together with the names and
addresses of all parents and persons
in parental relation, and the teacher
or principal shall at the beginning of
the school term 'and every four weeks
thereafter, compare the census with
the enrollment of the school and shall
report, to the county nuporintendent
the names of the children who are
not in regular attendance at school,
and also the names and addreHsos of
tholr parents or guardians, and the
county superintendent shall notify
the proper truant officer forthwith,
and within 24 hours that official shnli
serve formal written notice on the
parent or guardian to present the
child or children at the public school
on the Monday following the date or
the notice, with the necessary text
books, for instruction in the public
schools for the remainder of the term.
The truant officer shall at the same
time notify the principal or teacher,
who, in turn, shall notify the truant
officer of the failure on the part of
the parent or guardian to comply
with the notice. Within three days
after having knowledge of such fail
ure, the truant officer shall make a
complaint before a justice of the
peace, who shall Issue a warrant of
arrest and the case shall be heard and
determined in the usual manner..
While the annual enumeration of
children of school age was formerly
take In February, the legislature of
1907 amended the law so that the cen
sus shall be taken in November by
the district clerks, but this feature
was apparently overlooked by the
person who drafted the compulsory
educational bill, which provides that
clerks shall furnish to the principal or
teacher in charge of the school a copy
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of the last census at the beginning of
the school year. This would mean
that the clerk would have to supply
in September, a census that was taken
10 months previously. It is probable,
however, that the November census,
when completed, could be substituted
for the old enumeration.
The new law is of peculiar Interest
!o Oregon Cty, where many children
between the f.ges of 14 and 16 years
ol age are employed in the woolen
mills, and an active truant officer
could break heavily into the labor
marlvi't c? the finery. The Clacka
mas County district boundary board
has appointed 124 truant officers in
every district except that of Oregon
City, which Is a district of the first
class, and as an experiment the clerks
In each district have received the ap
pointments. RAMSBY SAYS "SLUSH."
County Recorder Is Defendant In Ex
ceedingly Novel Suit.
County Recorder Ramsby is the de
fendant In an interesting and unusual
suit filed by Charles R. Hannan and
Matthew Slush, and the plaintiffs
have obtained from Circuit Judge Gan
tenbeln an injunclton restraining Mr.
Ramsby from placing on record a
deed transferring property to the
plaintiffs by the Nehalem Timber
Company; This transfer was execut
ed July 17, 1907, and in the body of
the instrument was written the names
of the plaintiffs, but the -name of
Slush is made to appear as Matthew
Shish, and is Is so plainly Shlsh that
there can be no mistake. The county
recorder has no legal right to make
alterations In Instruments that are
presented for filing and when he was
requested to change the name of
Shlsh to Slush, he declined and the
suit was instituted against him
through Attorneys Piatt and Piatt,
the plaintiffs alleging that the incor
rect spelling of the name of Slush
might place a cloud on the title to
the property.
CHURCH MUST ADVERTISE.
Philadelphia Preacher Says
New
Methods Must Be Used.
The Rev. Dr. Albert C. Applegarth,
pastor of the Chesnut Hill Baptist
Church, Philadelphia, preached re
cently on "Church Advertisement
and declared that the church of to
day could not be succesfully conduct
ed if the methods in use in years gone
by were continued. - The church, he
said, must advertise as well as a
business house to do the work for
which it exists. Taking as his text
Luke's ,words, "The children of this
world are wiser than the children of
light," he said.
"We are living in an age of adver
tising. Business men say their or
ders fall off if they discontinue their
advertisements, and the church
should advertise constantly so that
people will keep up their interest In
it. There are several ways In which
the up-to-date church can advertise.
The daily newspapers Bhould be used,
bulletins boards should be placed in
conspicious places, and church litera
ture should be Issued.
"Another way to advertise, and a
most Important way, is to keep the
church attractive and on a par with
our homes. If we look at the outside
of the average theater we will see
why It is so popular. We niust also
advertise our church by speaking of
it to our friends. That advertising
pays is proved by the fact that an
army of men Is employed writing ad
vertisements that are calculated to
show results." -
Sandy People Sued.
The Sunnyslde Fuel Company has
filed a suit against Bort Jonsrud,
Frank Melvin, James Anderson, et al.,
for $55 damages and seeks to enjoin
the defendants from crossing a right
of way owned by the plaintiff, across
the land of C. P. and C. H. Maginnls.
It Is alleged that the right of way
represents a value of $400, and was
acquired for the purpose of affording
an outlet for a large quantity of
cordwood. The owners of the fuel
state that on August 7 the defendants
and others went over the right of way
with a number of teams, broke down
the gate, and took and hauled away
13 loads of wood, damaging the road,
which had been softened by the
rains.
George C. Brownell
ATT'Y AT LAW
ORECON CITY, OREGON.
Farm For
Our business is to show investors that Clackamas
county farms are better investments than U.S. gold
bonds.
There are many real estate signs in town but the
office over the Bank of Oregon City continues to do
the real estate business of the county.
Get Down to Business
If your farm drags on the market let's talk the mat
ter over. Mayb you need the services of a live
agency. The "con" talk of the amateur agent won't
sell your land. For results see .
Eastham. Patison & Co.
Over the Bank of Oregon City Successors to C, N. Plowman & Co.
BUXTON NAMES
NEW DEPUTIES
State Granee Districts Are
Reorganized By Master.
NEW ROAD COMMISSION
Prominent Patrons to Make
Study of Tax Question
and Report at Next
State Grange.
State Master Austin T. Buxton, of
the Patrons of Husbandry, has started
to reorganize the deputy system, and
has appointed the tax commission
that was authorized by the State
Grange, and the personnel follows:
Mrs. Clara H. Waldo, lecturer; J.
J. Johnson, master of Evening Star
Grange; Thomas Paulson, of the State
Grange legislative committee; H. L.
Hopkins, of Albany College, and Sen-
COUNTY RECORDER RAMSBY
Who knows "Shish" from "Slush."
eca Smith, of Portland. The duty of
this commission Is to make a study of
the tax question and report at the
next State Grange.
The commission will investigate the
question of opening up sources of rev
enue outside of direct taxation In or
der to remove some of the burden
from the shoulders of the small prop
erty-owner and farmer. Some of the
granges have taken up a systmatlc
study of the tax question, from the
ground up. The study of this ques
tion is strongly urged by the Btate
lecturer.
The road commission is composed
of K. Neweil, John B. Waldo, H. M.
Palmer and Thomas Ryan. Another
ex-County Judge will be added to this
list.
Districts and deputies for Clacka
mas and Multnomah are:
Clackamas County District No. 10,
J. D. Chitwood, deputy, Greshnm, ru
ral delivery, No. 4; granges Damas
cus 200, Sprlngwater 2(j3, Eagle Creek
207, City; granges Molalla 40, High
land 201, Central 270, Molalla 310,
Twentieth Century 341. District No.
12, George Kohl, deputy, Oregon City;
granges Harding 122, Milwaukie -208,
Clackamas 298, Abernethy 340,
District No. 13, C. C. Boreland, dep
uty, Oregon City; granges Tualatin
111, Warner, 117, Oswego 175, Maple
Lane 296.
Multnomah County District No. 4,
deputy not appointed; granges Mult
nomah 71, Columbia 207, Gresham 270,
Falrvlew 344, Pleasant Valley 348.
District No. 3, J. J. Johnson, deputy,
Portland; granges Evening Star 27,
Rockwood 323, Woodlawn 350, Lents
351, RuHsellvllle 353.
C. Schuebel W. S. U'Rea
U'R.EN Sl SCHUEBEL
Attorneys At Law
Will practice iu all courts, make ool
lectious and Bottlemeuts of estates,
famish abstracts of title, lend you
money and lend your money on first
mortgage. OMooliu Enterprise build.
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