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OREGON CITY COURIER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1908 ,., Security Electt Officers. Willamette Council, Knights and La dles of Security, met Monday night In Woodmen's Hall, and elected the fol lowing officers: President, W. (J. Green; vice-president, J. Bridges,- sec ond vice-president, Roy Woodward; , Prelate, Mrs. L. Wyman; seciotary, , Mrs. M. P. Chapman; financier. Mrs. Jennie . Boyles; conductor, Mib. Paul- : le Schwartz; Inside guard, Mrs. V. , Donovan; musician, Miss Maude Woodward. These officer will be In stalled at the meeting on October 19. Miss Effle Grace, a teacher at the Stafford school, visited Oregon City friends Saturday and Sunday. - SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT of the County Treasurer of Clackamas County, Oregon, for the six months ending on the 30th day of September, 1908, of money received and paid out, from whom received and from what source, and on what account paid out. Special School Fund. Received from 1907 Taxes Received from Compromise taxes ... Received from Back taxes Received from School Clerk for error Balance on hand Special Amount on hand last report Received from tax of 1907 Received from back taxes Paid out on account special city funds Balance on hand General Fund. Amount on hand last report Amount received from 1907 taxes Amount received from Compromise taxes Amount received from Back taxes Amount received from Liquor and Ferry licenses Amount received to correct error Amount received from County Clerk, fees Amount received from Recorder, fees Amount received from Sheriff, fees ' Amount received from Fines Amount paid out on county warrants Balance on hand County Balance on hand last report , Received from tax 1907 Received from Compromise tax Received from Back taxes ' Paid out on County School funds Balance on hand Amount on hand last report Received from 1907 taxes Received from Compromise tax Received from Back taxes Received from U. S. Land Sales Received from Junk Sales Received from Transferred from General Fund Amount paid out on road warrants State School Fund. 7 ''!!;" i V - ' - Amount paid out Balance on hand .. Institute Amount on hand lastreport , . Received from certificate fees'. Amount paid out . Balance on hand Indigent Amount on hand last report Received .'i.i..- Amount paid out o Balance on hand $ -98 I, J. C. PADDOCK, do hereby certify that the foregoing Is a true and correct statement of the amounts received, paid out and remaining on hand, in the County Treasury of said Clackamas County for the six months end ing with the 30th day of September, 1908. Witness my hand this 30th day of September, 1908. J. C. PADDOCK, County Treasurer. SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT of the County Clerk of Clackamas County, Oregon, showing amount of claims allowed by the County Clerk for what allowed, amount of warrants drawn and amount of warrens out standing and unpaid on the 30th day of September, 1908. What account drawn. Amoun:. County Court and Commis sioners $ 1004.90 Circuit Court 2,566.15 JuBtice Courts . 631.15 Sheriff 1,325.33 County Clerk 1,597.40 Recorder 1,786.82 Treasurer 691.98 Coroner 199.45 Supt. of Schools 746.83 Assessor . .' ,3,331.67 Tax Department 468.38 Tax Rebate 222.77 Current Expense 465.56 Court house expense 1,504.22 Jail , , 635.37 County Poor 2,119.48 Indigent Soldier 90.00 Insane Committments 178.14 Elections 5,132.98 Printing and Advertsing ... 1,209.83 Damages 190.00 STATE OF OREGON, County of Clackamas, ss. Following report of the moneys col lected and turned over to the Treas urer of Clackamas County by the Sheriff, for the six months ending September 30th, 1908: April . 1907 tax ?16,644.34 Back tax 104.19 Fees 14.90 Compromise tax 26.50 Total . $16,789.93 May. 1907 tax Fees ...$ 3,151.79 15.20 Total $ 3,166.99 June. '1907 tax $ 1,030.10 Back tax 158.85 , Total $ 1,188.95 SEMI-ANNUAL SUMMARY. STATE . MENT of the financial condition of Clacka mas County, Oregon, on the 30th day of September, 1908. Liabilities. To warrants drawn on the County Treasurer, out standing and unpaid $ 6,221.62 Interest accrued thereon 75.00 Road Warrants drawn, out standing and unpaid 130,005.17 Interest accrued thereon Rush for niss Goodtellow. MissMargaret Goodfellow was sur prised at the family residence on op per Eighth street last Wednesday night by a "fruit rush" given by a Dumber of members of the United Artisans. The affair, which was de cidedly novel, was very successful, and Jollity reigned supreme till a late bonr. Those present at the rush were Mesdames B. F. Linn, E. H. Uooper, E. Ii. Thomas, J. E. Montgomery, G F. Anderson, Clarence Brunei-, Mary Freeman, Mary Harvey, Frank Donovan and W. 0. , Green; Misses Kosa Marrs and Montgomery. J. ..$ 15,773.73 3,575.75 718 49.91, 20.00 $ 19,426.57 . . 16,737.80 2,688.77 $ 19,426.57 .. 1,052.57 1,321.65 18.39 $ 2,392.61 1,862.73 529.88 City Fund. t 2,392.61 41,638.92 9,722.37 12.30 247.67 1,005.00 6.00 2,199.70 3,089.32 68.80 142.25 $ 58,132.33 42,541.95 15,590.38 $ 58,132.33 i Sohool Fund. ; $ 56,070.01 6,076.41 . 3.10 .158.56 $ 62,308.08 39,426.00 22,882.08 $ 62,308.08 District and Special Road Fund. $ 33,283.70 7,451.42 7.36 163.81 1,344.30 6.00 10,000.00 $ 62,256,59 . . 37,937.47 .. 14,319.12 $ 62,256,59 ..$ 236.55 . . 14,076.80 , $. 14,313.35 !'$ 14,313.35 ..$ .187.37 . . 125.00 $ 312.37 ...$ 312.37 .$ .98 . s Fund. Soldier Fund. Surveys Board of Health Fruit Inspector 1,063.65 334.25 63.00 Total General Fund $27,559.11 Road Warrants issued .... 73,169.61 Total all funds $100,728.72 Amount of warrants outstand ing (General Fund) ....$ 6,221.62 Estimated interest accrued . . 75.00 Amount of road warrants out- standing 130,005.17 Estimated interest accrued. 5,000.00 Total $141,301.79 STATE OF OREGON, County of Clackamas, bs. I, F. W. Greenman, County Clerk of Clackamas County, Oregon, do here by certify that the foregoing state ment of the amount of claims allow ed by the County Court for the six months ending September 30, 1908, and the amount of warrants outstand ing and unpaid. Witness my hand and the seal of the County Court affixed this 5th day of October, 1908. F. W. GREENMAN, (Seal.) County Clerk. July. 107 tax $ 2,097.84 Back tax 45.13 Fees .' 26.00 Total $ 2,168.97 August. 1907 tax $ 1,361.58 Back tax 54.55 Compromised tax 3.44 Total $ 1,419.57 September 1907 tax $ 3,761.95 Back tax 28.05 Fees. 7.90 Total $ 3,797.90 The total amount of money turned over as shown by this report is $28, 532.31. v - I hereby certify that the above is correct and true. ' - " R. B. BEATIE, Sheriff of Clackamas County, Ore. (estimated) , 5,000.00 Total liabilities $141,301.79 Resources. Funds in hands of Treasur- ' er applicable to payment of County Warrants $ -15,590.38 Funds in hands of Treasur er applicable to payment of road warrants 14,319.12 Net Indebtedness to balance 111,392.29 $141,301.79 E Former Secretary Cage and Con gressman Fowler on the De posit Guarantee. ) "" 7 ' : :: ' Ha WALSH FAILURE CITED Clearing Home Action Like Flan Pro poied by Democrats, Guard Against Honaat Bankers Suf fering Runs- Modern System of Credits Bankbook Should Be Worth Face Always ' I By John E. Lathrop. i Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the treasury, may be regarded as suf ficiently "conservative" to obviate fears that he would be "unsafe" In his banking views. Before the house com mittee on banking and currency In Washington Mr. Gage discussed na tional finances and particularly the na tional bank. He Bought an Illustration of the idea he was expressing, which In general was in support of the guar antee plaa. and like many others found it In the Walsh failure in Chi cago.' After erolaining how the clearing house banks took over the assets of the failed Institution, guaranteed all depositors, and prevented runs on oth er banks, Mr. Gage said: Mr. Gage's Statement. . "Well, they learned another lesson and they adopted another principle, a principle provided for in this (the F(vwler) bill. By the vote and vol untary compliance of all the members of the Clearing House association, they authorized the clearing house at any time and at stated periods to act upon Its own volition and on Its own aeocunt, and for the information of the clearing house committee Itself to have full, complete and comprehensive Investigation of each member of the association, and not only of each mem ber, but of every institution that car ries the name of bank over it that is cleared or represented In the clearing house by any clearing house bank; and I can tell you as a safe prophecy that we are at the end of disastrous fail ure 1n the -city -of Ohlcago by clearing house banks, since this regime has come in. I am told that Kansas City has the same thing, and ether cities will eventually adopt It" Representative Fowler, Republican. Charles N.-. Fowler, Republican, of New Jersey,, chairman of the house committee en banking and currency, appears in the Congressional Record with a house speech in support of his bilf which provided for guarantee of bank deposits. He specially answered the assertion that such a guarantee would induce reckless banking, saying:- - . . . t 'V ' ' "Mr. Chairman, we are occasionally met with the statement that guarantee ef deposits would lead to unsound banking. Can you' ' think of a banker, because he bad Insured his de posits, going into the directors' room and saying: . 'Gentlemen, we have In sured eur deposits today. Now let oa proceed to make some rotten loans?1 "Is it not pemlble that it will occur to those directors that their losses must come out of their profits, out of their reserves, out of their capital, and out of their reputations T Will the) not realize that they can get nothing out of the guarantee until the last dol lar ef their capital, surplus and profits has been wiped out, and stock holders have been assessed double the amount of their stock? The Bankers' Reputation. "Until their reputations have been Injured, If not ruined, and possibly some of them have been started on the road to state prison t Can anybody think that any board of directors of any bank would be less sollcltious, anxious and honest and wise after they had guaranteed deposits than they were before? "I assert train, after the most ma ture deliberation, that if there is one reason for Insuring life and home, there are more than a thousand good reasons mere than ten thousand good reasons-s-why the depositors of the banking Institutions of the United States should be Insured." Two Valuable Contributions. These two meu have offered valua ble contributions to the discusson of the proposed guarantee of bank de posts. Mr. Gage has set forth the present trend of bankers towards a closer watchfulness over all Institu tions which accept the people's money in trust, and has Indicated the exact means whereby, under a guarantee law, bankers would do as now they do maintain an association empowered to look sharply Into financial concerns which seem to be departing from sound methods. His reference to the John R. Walsh failure In Chicago was doubtless be cause It was known to the country generally, having been given wide pub licity and therefore most likely to at tract attention as an illustration. - Howerer, there Is scarcely a locali ty wherein bankers in late years have not gone under toppling banks and up held them by guaranteeing deposits wholly or In part, in order to help in the quelling of popular distrust and the undermining of confidence in all banking institutions. No Delay for Depositors. It is quite apparent that under guarantee of deposits there would be no alteration of conditions affecting More Than Enough Is Too Much. To maintain health, a mature man or woman needs just enough food to repair the waste and supply energy and body heat. The habitual con sumption of more food than is neces sary for these purposes Is the prime cause of "stomach troubles, rheuma tism and disorders of the kidneys. If troubled with Indigestion, revise your diet, let reason and not appetite con trol and take a few doses of Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be all light again. For sale by Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon City and Molalla. EVIDENC banks' bow, so far as concerns espion ige maintained by one over another, rhe important difference, however, would be that depositors would not be lubject to the annoying, often disas trous, delays In getting their money which now they experience when banks fail. But, that fewer failures would oc cur surely would be one of the re sults of such a law. Everyone knows that many runs are precpltated on banks which are absolutely sound Many man, faithful, safe, conserva tive, conscientious In caring for the money of his depositors, has suffered runs caused by some rumor started through malice. Many an honest banker has bad his heart broken try senseless ruas, and bas groaned in spirit as he realized that gross Injus tice has been done as reward for ear nest and able keeping of the trust re posed in him by his depositors. The Baring Failure. When a dozen years ago, Baring Brothers, of London, suspended, It was due to .that very espionage by other bankers to which Mr. Gage refers. The Barings had embarked In many ked In many I I ises, some c( unsafe. 1 Bank of Eng- W r, refused to f South American enterprises, which were manifestly unsafe. The governors of the Bank land, sensing the danger, accept securities backed by them as basis for the Issuance of bank notes under the custom of that country: that action never bas been adversly criti cized in any country, although It has been discussed ever since the world over. Modern business is conducted on the tmsis for the issuance of bank notes tie actual money passes from hand to hand. Complications of the System. This complicates business and forces all banks to associate themselves in clearing louses, and probably the pub lic would be amazed were they to know at times how sharply the clear ing house committee looks Into meth ods employed by its members. In the panic that began last October, funds were carried from bank to bank, taken ostentatiously through the front doors, that depositors might know that other bunks believed in the soundness of the Institution which hod been at tacked by a run, and performed al most every essential of the guarantee system. Why? . Simply because the modern business syBtem is so complicated and so little actual money passes current that each bank must know that the others are properly safeguarding themselves and also "that they arc permitting the car rying of accounts by depositors whose paper may always be depended on as worth face value. Beneath the Surface. So beneath the surface, one could witness the ' clearing house associa tions , examining collateral, securities and assets, and often serving notice on a given bank that the association will require some change In metbods on penalty of refusal longer to clear for that bsnk. J . ( ' . Banks Out of the Association. How about banks not in the associa tion? Many perfectly sound banks are not directly in the clearing house. They dear through another bank which does belong. , . Precisely the same rule applies to them, for, when need arises, the asso ciation serves notice on the member bank which clears for the noa-asse-ciatton bank as to what will have to e done; and it is done promptly, too, in every Instance. Bank-Book Should Be Worth Face. The essence of the guarantee plan ii that a bank book should be worth Its face always. An entry in a pass book should not constitute the assumption of a risk by the depositor and the giv ing of wide latitude to the banker. Such entry should be recognized as just as actual an asset as a bank note. Also, proper arrangements must be made for the continued espionage of banks by other banks. Lastly, and quite as Important, banking laws must be enforced: over certification must be stopped; loaning of funds In national banks on obvious ly speculative schemes must cease; and other reforms must be wrought to Invest the banking system of-the country with that complete confidence which, if Induced would put a stop to all nerrousness by depositors. PLANT LICE. A Prize Formula For Freeing Vegeta tiort of the Petti. A government report states that the Practical Counselor For Fruit and Gar den Culture of Frankfort recently of fered a prize for the best method of destroying plant lice, for which fifty' eight persons competed. The prize was awarded to the author of the follow Ing preparation: Quassia wood, two and one-balf pounds, to be soaked over night in ten quarts of water and well boiled, then strained through a cloth and placed, with 100 quarts of water. In a petroleum barrel, with five pounds of soft soap. The mixture is then ready for sprinkling on plants infested with lice. Leaves, even those of peach trees, will not be Injured In the least by the solution, which can be kept covered in the barrel from spring to fall without deterioration. As soon as lice appear the leaves should be sprinkled with the solution. If this is repeated several times the pests will disappear. At the annual meeting of the town of Peabody, Mass.. the proposition to ap propriate $o5,000 for remodeling the municipal electric plant was defeated. The city clerk of McCook,.. Neb, writes that the proposition to bond the city for a municipal electric plant was defeated, If taken patiently and perHlstently will relieve the most obstinate cases of indigestion, constipation, bad blood, bad liver no matter how long stand ing. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 35c Tea or Tablets. Huntley Bros. Drug Co. POLK'S GAZETTEER i a BtiaineM Itrclorr of ch City. Town and Vl)ljt In Oregon and Waahlnftoa. fflvtnf ft crlptlv ktch ( aach place. Location, RhloDlnr Faliltlea and ft Claasl- fied Directory of aaca Buaioeac and Proreaslon. JL L. FOLK B CO ine. BSBBSBBOHflEftaVSSB W. L. BLOCK'S FURNITURE STORE To enumerate here would require and that Expense we prefer giving So by calling at our store Before will be Convinced. Ball Mason Fruit Pints ; - . , Quarts 'Half Gallons' "'. OPPOSITE SUSPENSION MARKET REPORT WHOLESALE QUOTATIONS. Vegetables, Fruits, Eto. Potatoes 90c per 100. Oregon Cabbage, 50c to 90c doz. Oregon Cauliflower B07Bc doz. Oregon Onions per 100 $1.10 Fresh onions, 40c per doz.; horserad ish, 7c lb. TOMATOES 35c box of 20 lbs. SWEET POTATOES 2 c lb. CANTALUPES $1.00 crate. WATERMELON $1.25 cwt. GREEN BEANS 3c lb. YELLOW WAX BEANS 3c lb Butter and Eggs. BUTTER Ranch, 50C9c; cream ery, CCc roll. EGGS 26 to 27 c doz. HONEY 12c frame. HONEY Strained, 7c to 9c lb. HONEY White, in frames, 13c ea. Fresh Fruits. APPLES 30c50c box. GRAVENSTEINS 50G0c PEARS 50c box. PEACHES C05o. . GRAPES 90c(& $1.00 crate Of four baskets. PRUNES 1 c lb. DAWSON PEARS lV4c lb. Dried bruits. DRIED APPLES Quartered, sun dried, 6c; evaporated, 6c; prunes, 7c. Grain. Flour and Feed. WHEAT 90c, OATS No. 1, white $25.00; $1.2u per hundred. Gray oats $27.00. FLOUR Pat. hard wheat $5.00; val ley Hour, $4.40; graham, $4.40; whols wheat; $4.40. ' MII.I.STIIFF8 Bran $28.25; mid- dllngs, $39; Bhorts, $30.25;. hay $8 $15. HAY Valley timothy, No. 1, $15 per ton; cheat, $8.00. Live Stock. STEERS $4.00 $4.25. HEIFERS $3.76 $4.00. COWS $3.50. , LAMBS $3.65 $4.45. HOGS $5.60. Poultry. OLD HENS 10 cents per pound, young roosters 12c; old roosters, 8c; mixed chickens 10c; spring chick ens (frys) 12ftc. DUCKS Be. Dratted Mots. FRESH MEAT Hogs 7c7c per lb; veal 78c; mutton 67c; lamb, spring, 89c lb. HAMS 14c; bacon 16c. II AT i THIS IS A GENU NE SACRIFICE Eveytfiing TO MAKE in Stock ROOM for Reduced! Our HOLI DAY Stock which is arriving daily. Special Mention Jars r 60c per doz 70c per doz 95c per doz AS LONG AS THEY LAST .i:.- . :.;..! 'J - i. ', II i r'. i.U! : .'i'Jt . ' BRIDGE FUNERAL OF MRS. 8CHURERE. Butteville, Ore., Oct. 6, 1908. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Osborne Schurere, wife of W. Riley Schurere, of this place, was held yes terday in the Congregational churcl1 at 2 p. m., Interment In the Butteville cemetery at 3:30 p. m., conducted by a minister of the same church of Woodburn, assisted by the choir, of which Mrs. Schurere was a merabji and wrb one of the largest funerals ever held here. Mrs. Schurer was born in England, Aug. 6, 1858, and died at her home here Oct.) 4, 1908, where she had resided for the past ten years. She leaves a husband and two step-sons, Fred and John Schurere of Portland, a brother In Michigan and another, D. M. Osborn, of London, England. Fifty Years a Blacksmith. Samuel R. Worloy of Hlxburg,, Va., has been shoeing horses for more than fifty years. He says: "Chamberlain's Pain Balm has given me great relief from lame back and rheumltlsm. It Is the best liniment I ever used." For sale by Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon City and Molalla, . Where The Danger I iac i i& neglecting a cold "hen LlCo yOU hav once contracted it. If you get a supply of our Syrup of White Pine and Tar and cure the cold quickly, yon will have the ounce of Jprevention on hand that will save you from grip, pneumonia and plurisy. . . . Jones Drug Co. Main St, Near Suspension Bridge OREGON CITY BLOCK'S i g B1SI1I1 SALE too much space to Our Patrons Purchasing you ' Economy Fruit Jars . Pints - - 90c per doz ;i Quarts -..."'..'' $1.10 per doz Half Gallons . . . , 1.40 per doz ' , OKECON CITY - OREGON A GOOD COOK knows the value of a high grade Flavoring Extract. She knows that the rich ness of the flavor in cakes or cream, or custards, or puddings, depends upon the Quality and not the QUANTITY of Flavoring Extract used, which is the reason why so many good cooks insist up on having VAN DUZER'S EXTRACTS. We have just received from the Van Duzer Extract Co. a number of large trial bot tles of their choicest Van illa Extract. We are anx ious to give them only to those who wish a very ex quisite Vanilla flavor. Ask and we will gladly give you one of these bottles FREE. SEELEYS' "The People Store" ORJCCON CITY ORCCON