NOW IS THE TIME TO DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. DON'T WAIT UNTIL ALL THE GOOD THINGS ARE GONE AND THEN SAY THERE'S NOTHING IN OREGON CITY QON CITY CO OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 20 1907 25th YEAR. No 32 ORE TO 11 BANK HOLIDAYS OVER AT LAST BUSINESS AGAIN RESUMES ITS NORMAL CONDITION AND COURTS ARE OPEN. SUITS FILED ON MONDAY O. L. Purpear Brings Action Against Mllwaukle Country Club For $1,000, Having Lost Money Blaylng "Twenty-One." No excitement attended the resump tion of normal conditions witb the termination of the holidays. But around the courthouse was a busy scene as warrants were issued totaling about $15,000 in payment of claims that have accumulated during the last seven weeks. Several suits were filed In the office of County Clerk Greenman, and many more are to come. O. L. Purpear haa instituted suit against the Mllwaukle Country Club, .Isaac Gratton, Vie Gratton, S. J. Jones and J. E. Cullison for ?1,000, which is Just double the amount he is alleged to have lost while playing "twenty-one" at the resort. Purpear says he lost $20 October 20, $180 on October $28 and $300 on October 29. A. D. Grlbble has filed as ult against S. M. Long and J. W. Falconer to recover $250 on a promissory note, with interest from December 25, 1906, and $25 attorneys' fee. The plain tiff Is represented by Attorneys Dlm ick & Dimick. John Luscher has brought suit against William Hawkins and Anna Hawkins to quiet the title to 50 acres of land In section 24, township 4 south, range 1 east. PARCELS POST FAVORED. Turner Says It Will Benefit Farmers and Rural Merchants. (W M. Hilleary, in the Oregonlan.) I wish to call the attention of the public, including the commercial in terests, to the fact that there is a large class of citizens of the United States called farmers. They are found on every one of the 36,000 rural mail routes in our country, and they are unanimous in their demands on Con gress for the establishment of a par cels post as outlined in the report of Postmaster General Meyer. Now, are these same farmers the chattels of the express companies and the com mercial interests, having no rights which said interests are bound to re spect? These same . farmers ham mered away at Congress for years and finally secured the enactment of o mittgl mall Hpllvprv . Tt via nnnnflAri by some country merchants and bth ers who oppose all reforms and law making in the Interest bf the masses and who oppose the conduct of the United States povernment for the "greatest good to the greatest number." I live at Turner, where the first rural mall delivery system was start ed in Oregon. We have a rural tele phone hero also, and It was opposed by the same people who opposed rural mail delivery and for the same rea son. The farmer feels the need of a regular dally service, by the aid of which he can send to and receive from the village or town small ship ments, the most important among which are grocery supplies and ex tras for his farm machines In harvest time. He can give and receive orders by telephone, but cannot make deliv ery except by breaking into the reg ular work of the farm. A cheap parcels post Is, in fact, the logical outcome of the rural mail ser vice, and is the one thing needed to make It self-supporting. The carriers, who are now getting $3 per day and carry only 40 cents worth of mall, would doubtless, with the rural par cels post, carry enough additional matter to increase the income of the Government two or more cents dally for each family Bervlce, and thus wipe out the present annual deficit. The rural parcels post will give the country merchant a dally delivery to the surrounding country, free of all cost to him, and under such favora ble conditions as to give him a big advantage over any mall-order house or any other long-distance competitor. If the farmer must buy in quanti ties at long Intervals and provide for delivery at great cost and inconve nience to himself, why not buy direct from the wholesaler, regardless of distance, who will lay down the goods at the farm at the least cost? Con tinue the present conditions and the country merchant is doomed, so far as the larger part of his rural trade Is concerned. Establish the parcels post with dally delivery to the farm and the retail country merchant has at the very least a fighting chance to not only hold his own, but to re gain the position he occupied before the combination between the express companies and the mail-order houses threatened him with destruction. DENVER CHOICE OF DEMOCRATS COLORADO TOWN WILL ENTER TAIN NATIONAL CONVEN TION JULY 7, 1908. COSTS THE CITY $100,000 Louisville Was Close Second On First Ballot Committee Ap proves Publicity of Cam paign Expenditures. STUDENTS ARE DESERVING. Many Attending University Working Their Way Through College. "UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene, Dec. 18. A canvass of the stu dents of the University of Oregon just made shows that between 60 and 70 per cent of the men in the Univer sity this year are either wholly or par tially making their way through col lege. The greater part of the earning is done, of course, during the summer. The canvass shows that, since the vacation la comparatively short, the men get employment in the harvest fields, mills, mines and labor of vari ous kinds paying good wages. It shows also that the engineering stu dents find no trouble In getting work in their line. The engineering depart ment has a large number of graduates In the employ of the Southern Pacific, O. R. & N Northern Pacific, and in the Government Reclamation Service, and the majority of the engineering students are engaged before the ses sion closes in June. A number of students are partly earning their way during the session. The University maintains an employ ment bureau under the direction of the Registrar, but It has not been able this fall to supply all calls made on it for students to work. After deciding to hold the next Democratic National Convention at Denver and flying the date of the meeting for July 7, 1908, the Demo cratic National Committee, at Wash ington, entered upon- a spirited debate on the propriety of accepting more of the $100,000 offered by Denver for the convention than is actually need ed to pay the convention expenses in that city. The opposition to the ac ceptance of the contribution took the I iorm or a resolution oy nepresema- tlve Clayton, of Alabama, declining money not actually needed for the convention, but after a long debate the resolution was laid on the table I by a vote of 31 to 14. ) On the first ballot Denver received i 22 votes as against 17 for Louisville, ; five for Chicago and one for St. Paul, i Before the second ballot was com- pleted Chicago and Louisville wlth : drew and Denver was! selected by acclamation. July 7 was selected as the date for the convention after a very brief discussion. The nominations for convention cities was closed, and Johnson, of Texas, presented the following reso lution, prepared by Perry Belmont, treasurer !of the committee: "Resolved, That the National Dem ocratic Committee cordially approves a movement now under way to assist in bringing about the publicity in the state, as well as in the Nation, of money contributed and all expendi tures made by the committee for po litical purposes." The resolution was adopted ana the committee took a recess until 4 P. M., when It went into executive, session to ballot on the choice of a convention city. CHICAGO WINS CONVENTION. Republicans to Nominate a Candidate for President June 16. Chicago was victorious on the first ballot In the Republican National Committee for the location of the Re Dublican National Convention of 1908 The date on which the convention will meet Is June 16. The committee reached a comprom ise on the proposition, as set forth in the call, for the selection of delegates by primaries in states having laws prescribing that method of election This was accomplished by giving state and county committees author ity to decide whether the primary Keep Bright and You Will Keep Busy KILECTRIC LIGHT i,the magnet that draws trade. The bright store is the "hypnotic eye'' of business. People can no more resist the the at traction of'a brilliant, Electrically lighted store than resist the clarion call of a brass band. - Is your competitor with the Electrically illluminated show windows, bright interior and sparkling Electric Sign getting an advantage over you? The moth never flutters around the unlighted candle 1 Up-to-date stores nowadays consider shop-window lighting a necessity, whether they remain open after dark or not. Competition forces modern methods. A show window brilliantly illuminated with Electric light will make many a sale "the night before." Electric light compels attention, makes easy the examination of your display, shows goods in detail, and fabrics in their true colors. - And don't neglect the Electric Sign. It is soliciting "tomorrow's" business every moment it is lighted burning your name in the public mind. . 1 ; - It is a solicitor that never becomes weary never stops work costs little. . . ' . - Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. e. G. MILLER, Ti&ent Oregon Gity, Oregon election shall take the place of elec tion by convention, as In the past. The call provides that delegates from the state-at-large shall be select ed as scheduled by the several Btate committees; that congressional dele gates and alternates shall be elected by district conventions called by the district congressional committee, providing that delegates and both state and district alternates may be elected under the laws of any state as provided by the state committee. Senators Fulton and Heyburn voted for Chicago as the convention city; Senator Ankeny voted for Denver. Chicago always has been a favorite city for holding national conventions. The following Republican Presidential candidates have been nominated Lincoln, 1860; Grant, 1868; Gar field, 1880; Cleveland, 1884; Harrison, 1888; Cleveland, 1892; Roosevelt, 1904. BOTH TO HOLD CONVENTIONS. Democrats and Republicans Will Elect Delegates to Go East. That Oregon Republicans and Dem ocrats will hold state conventions next year to choose delegates to their respective National conventions and nominees for Presidential electors, seems certain. The direct primary law Is silent on these functions, there fore it is practically agreed among leaders of each party that conven tions are necessary. Republicans will hold, in addition to a state conven tion, a convention, for each Congres sional district, to choose two National delegates for each, district. The state convention will select In addition four delegates at large. The Democratic method has been that of. selecting eight delegates in state convention. The Democratic party has no separate organization for either. Congressional district. Like members of the state central commit tee, those of the district committees are selected by county central com mittees, one man for each county. The members of the county central committees are chosen at county pri maries every two years, one man for each precinct. There is a strong sentiment in Dotn parties against holding the state con vention before the regular primaries, on April 17, when nominees for state offices are to be chosen for the June election. Likewise there is strong sentiment against the state conven tion's recommending candidates for ' nomination, if it should be held prior to the primaries. i Democrats do not abhor the holding of a convention before the primaries or the making of recommendations for primary nominations so much as Republicans. Chairman Sweek, of the Democratic State Committee, for example, thinks it would be well for a representative convention to sug gest or recommend persons for nom ination, and says this method in the past has enabled Democrats to put up their strongest men. It is altogether, likely that each state convention will declare a plat form. This is demanded- by a prepon derating number of the committee members who have spoken on the subject. The opinion seems to rule also that each state committee should prescribe the methods of holding the county conventions, if there shall be any, and of choosing the state dele gates, although Chairman Sweek de clares for the Democrats that this matter should be leftf to the option of each county central committee. BIG ATTRACTION AT CHAUTAUQUA JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, LEADER OF DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE, COMING NEXT SEASON. WILL BE DRAWING CARD Secretary Cross Returns From Coast Meeting at San Francisco, and Engages Great Array of Tal ent for Gladstone Park. JIM ROOT8 WINS SUIT. Boring Junction Lumber Company Loses In 8upreme Court. - Polnnel ' C. H. 'Dye and" Attorney Cross are elated over the declson of the Supreme Court afflrmlpg Judge McBride's ruling In the suit of J. W. Rnnt va Rnrlns Junction Lumber Co. They appeared as counsel for Mr. Root and were opposed by Attorney R. R. Dunlway, of Portland. The Su preme Court decision follows: .t w. Root, resnondent. vs. Boring .TnnrMnn T.nmher Conmanv. aDDellant. appeal from Clackamas County, Hon. Thnmas A. McBrlde. Judge: decree nffirmnrt finlnlon bv Bean. C. J. . This was a sun to enjoin tne oe fendant from cutting certain timber intA nnrdwnnd 11 Don the eround that it was not embraced in the contract t f o, tlmhar The nnnrt liplow held that such words, hi the contract in question, meant only such timber as could reasonably and profitably be converted into mercuauutuio lumuci, and this contention is upheld. In the Supreme Court. Another derision in a Clackamas County case sustained Judge McBrlde and follows: Gfcorge P. McNear, respondent, vs. George Ginstln, appellant, appeal from Clackamas county, Hon. inomas McBrlde, Judge; affirmed, opin ion by Bean, C. J. tmo nil it suit to auict title. The respondent held the title, but the ap pellant defended on the ground that v,o 1.1,1 hppn in the Doasession of it for ten years and owned by virtue of the statutes ol limitations, i ne cum i holds 'that the acts of possession of onnoiinnt were disconnected, at irregular intervals, and of brief dura tion, and not or mat open, noioiiuui, exclusive and continued possession demanded by law. LOCKS PURCHASE IN DOUBT. John Sharp Williams, Congressman from Mississippi, and Democratic leader In the House of Representa tives, will be the main attraction at next year's assslon of the Willam ette Valley Chautauqua Assembly, which opens Tuesday, July 7, and closes Sunday, July 19. This an nouncement, was made by Harvey E. Cross, who returned Friday from a 10 days' trip to San Francisco, where he had been attending a meeting of the managers of the four Pacifle Coast Chautauquas, at Gladstone, Ashland, Long Beach and Pacific Grove. It is confidently expected that Congressman Williams will be the greatest drawing card that the Willamette Valley Chautauqua has had for many years. He will give only one lecture. Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House, Chicago, Is among the probabilities for Chautauqua for next season, and negotiations are now pending for her engagement. The State Federation of Labor, through Its president, Mrs. Sarah Evans, Is making a determined effort to secure her. Dr. R. A. Heritage, who was the musical director at Gladstone last season, has been engaged, as has W. Eugene Knox, professor of elocution at the University of Puget Sound at Tacoma. Dr. Edwin "Cyclone" South ers, the "Florida Cracker," will give two lectures on "If I Were the Dev il," and "The Boss Devil.". He will appear in the full costume of his Sa tanic majesty. Dr. Ira Landreth, pres ident of Belmont College, Nashville, Tenn., who was here last Summer, will come again, and the Chautau quans are particularly elated over the engagement of Alfred Montgomery, the farmer painter, author of "Are of the Mississippi Valley." He will give. two lectures and will bring his $90,000 collection of farm pictures to Gladstone Park, and will paint on the grounds during his three days' stay. ,Dr. Robert Mclntyre, of Los An geles, will probably come to Chau tauqua, where he has been heard before, and "possibilities are Rev. Maurice Penfleld Fikes, of the Bap tist Church, of Franklin, Pa., and Rev. Hiram W. Kellogg, of Wilming ton, Del. Mr. Cross has next year's programme already well In hand and anticipates an unusually successful season. MR. JUNKEN'S EXPLANATION. Tells the Story of Mr. McGlashan's Management of tne cooperative. MEDFORD, OR., Dec. 15. (Editor Oregon City Courier.) Have just reori the article In your last issue re lating to the closing of the Coporea tlve store In Oregon City. As the article In question reflects on Mr f r.nioc,hBn'u renntatlon. and as I am probably better posted than any one else as to conditions in tne store at .the time Mr. McGlashan turned it over to Mr. Myers, I would lige to say a word or two In his (Mr. Mc Glashan's) behalf. in th first n ace. Mr. Mcuiasnan i did not organize the company store.. The idea was first suggested by a Mr. Pearson, an employee or tne w. r. A. p. c,n. After the thine had been worked up to some extent Mr. Mc Glashan was asked to assume the management and accepted the posi tion. Having once taken hold of it, he, as his custom in anything he nn- dertakes, put his whole time and mind to the work of making It a success. It is a well known fact that the store was a success as long as Mr. McGlashan bad anything to do with it, in spite of the fact that nearly every business man of Oregon City, no matter what his business was, gave the store the strongest kind of oppo sition. The first three months or more after opening up Mr. McGlashan worked night and day spending most of his Sundays at the store. The directors of the company, including Mr. Mey ers and Mr. Clark, can tell that what ever credit the company enjoyed from the wholesalers was due to the fact that Mr. McGlashan was man ager. Mr. Clark can tell that the store opened with only $1,750.00 paid in; that this capital was increased to $1,950.00, over $700 of which was in fixtures, leaving, at the most, only $1,250.00 working capital; that during the seven months Mr. McGlashan had charge of It he did nearly a $20,000.00 business; that at the time he left the sales stock Invoiced over $2,000.00, the fixtures over $700.00 and that there was over $700.00 debits Btandlng on the stockholders' books, making the total resources nearly $3,500.00'. There was at that time nearly $1,500 owing to wholesale houses, almost none of which was due November 9, when Mr. McGlashan left the store. As to his purchasing goods amounting to $1,700 In September, that is entirely wrong. He did order canned goods and other things necessary In as large amounts as was practicable, but every merchant knows that that has to be done in order to get the right prices, and he was only working for the best interests of the stockholders when he did it. The total amount of future orders was less than $400, and as prices were advancing very rapidly at that time Mr. McGlashan saved about 20 per cent for the company by ordering when he did. Most of these goods were needed to keep up the stock before he left. Mr. McGlashan's standing as business man was shown when nearly every traveling salesman would ask him how far they should give credit to his successor, Mr. My ers. The truth of the matter is, Mr. Myers was not known to the wnole salers. did not have their confidence and could not hold the trade Mr. Mc Glashan had built up. Anyone with experience knows that the first few months of a new business expenses run very high. It was so with the exonerative store, and while he did not claim ' to have made any great amount for the stockholders, Mr. Mc Glashan did claim to have paid ex penses, to have built up a good trade and to have left the store in good con dition for his successor. When Mr. Clark says there was a Iosb of $100 a month he says what he knows is not true. It Is hardly fair to blame Mr. McGlashan if his successor could not keep up the business, and if Mr. Clark knew as much about the gro cery business as may know about law he would try some other excuse and not belittle a man after he has left the country. Tours very truly, R.'A. JUNKEN. New Dispatching System. a now dlflnatchlns: svstem is being arranged for the Cazadero and Oregon City divisions of tne rortiana nan way, Light and Power Company. The ninvoA nn tlila line are now being educated in the workings of the new plan, which will be put Into ef- foot ,nt intor than Ffihniftrv 1. These two divisions will be operated on the same plan as a modern steam raii rt At nresent the trains are dis patched by telephone. Letter List.1 Letter list for week ending Decem ber 20: Women's List Alfred, Mrs. J.; Thnmnnnn Mr A. W. Men's List Craine, Mr .and Mrs. Charley; Colo, Wm. F.; Draper, Ar thur; Rubarde, G. R.; Sturman, L. . OUR BINGER IS TO FACE TRIAL HAND-SHAKING STATESMAN IS I SAID TO. BE "THE BIGGEST CROOK OF THEM ALL." HENEY TO TAKE CHARGE Famous Prosecutor Leaves for Wash ington to Take Wind Out of the Sails of the Opposition to District Attorney Bristol. 1 Francis J. Heney expects to prose cute John H. Hall, then Blnger Her mann, and after that to give over the prosecution of other land-fraud de fendants to the Oregon District At torney, who will continue to be C. , W. Bristol, if the tangle in Washington Ib In a condition to be unraveled by Heney. The day set by Judge Wol verton for beginning the trials Is Jan uary 13. This will give Heney about three weeks in Portland, possibly longer. After the trials of Hall and Hermann, he will return to San Fran cisco In February, to resume the trial of Calhoun. Heney left for Washington Wednes day and will thence go to Tucson, Ariz., to try a civil case set for Jan- . uary 2. He said that his mission to Washington had nothing to do with the Bristol matter, but did not deny that he would look into it and straight en it out, if possible, the same way as he straightened out a similar tangle early In 1906. Senator Fulton was fighting confirmation of Bristol's nom ination and the President had with drawn the nomination. Heney's reasons for taking charge of the Hall prosecution himself are, as he expressed them recently, that his personal knowledge of details in Hall's alleged attempts to shield Her mann and other persons from expo sure and prosecution fits him (Heney) for the task better than any other prsecutor; besides, he wisheB to prove to the President that the re moval of Hall from the office of Dis trict Attorney of Oregon in 1905, on his advice, was necessary. His reason for retaining the prosecution of Her mann la that he regards Hermann . "the biggest crook of them all," these i words being Heney's own. The Hall and the Hermann cases are closely entwined. As Heney al leges, Hall was engaged in a deal to prevent indictment of Ormsby, Sorenson and others, because their ex posure would let the light in on Her-, mann. Hall was seeking the favor of Hermann for reappointment and succeeded in bluffing Brownell out of the race, on threat of indictment that afterward came to Brownell. 'PHONE COMING INTO CITY. Tigardvllle Farmers Will Connect Early in the coming rear. The Tigardvllle Telephone Company will meet the first Wednesday in Jan uary, New Year's Day, at 10 A. M. Officers will be elected for the ensuing year. The company is a mutual farm ers' line and has phones all over Washington County and a large por tion of Clackamas. A line into Ore gon City is now being constructed and will conneet with the Home Tele phone Company at Winkle's store in West Oregon City. The connection to Oregon City will be completed early In the year. Cheap Mileage Tickets. The Southern Pacific Company is offering mileage tickets in the form of a $30 scrip book, carrying a flat rebate of $4.50. This is a ticket that should be very popular with travel ing men, and is sold with a rebate for $25.80. FRANK BUSGH FURNITURE AND HARDWARE A. Fulton and Hawley May Be Blocked By River and riarbor Measure. a ..- Tr.,.ltnn anil PnnerpHHman DUimiui u-- o Hawley are Interested in securing an appropriation from Congress to pur chase the canal and locks at Oregon City and DOIQ Have imruuuccu uu.d for this purpose. The fact that the i- t il,,(,,r nnnmnrlatod 1300.- Stale iiCBioi""" V. r .;. . i 000 towards this object will be of material help to tne uregon meu, u they will need only an equal amount . funil atiffl.lont in take to mane up --.-v. -----over the artificial waterway, which now collects toil on every vennci yonr ing up and down the Willamette. Whether an appropriation cau ue cured this session depends entirely upon whether or not there is to be a river and harbor bill. Appropriations of this nature are authorized only in general river and harbor bills; never by special acts of Congress. The indications are that there will be no river and harbor bill this ses sion for one vas passed last session, and 'as yet Congress has not adopted this policy. .. A N ViV,1 II ' It I lI I fI " 'I fV f w. Li Vi W I ?T takes years of experience, fine figuring and shrewd manipulation of the mar ket supply to, provide the highest grade goods at tne lowest prices, as well as vorc r4 linnpv;!- pnAfavnr nnrl straicrit forward htisinpss metrinrla t.n Acrn.ri1iri our reliability and superiority as we have done. IT In selecting your holiday gifts this is a safe store for hurried people. U All Toys are sold at a very small margin. You will find that 25 cents will buy' more in our establishment than 50 cents in the high rent district stores. Tl We have very strong lines in Rocking Horses, Dolls, Boys' Wagons, Coasters, Velocipedes, Mechanical Toys, outside of our regular line of Silverware, Cutlery, Scissors, Furniture, Carpets and hardware.