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
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TO
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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.
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It is a solicitor that never becomes weary never stops work costs little.
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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.