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OREGON CITY COURIER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1909
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PRIZES FOR DESCRIPTIVE ARTICLES
Mutual insurance is growing rapidlv
in all parts of the country, according
to official roportfl issued by various
states. Last year, a sintrle mutual
company produced more new busiuoss
in Washington than all of its 121
stock competitors. In Oregon, the
mutual companies are gaining no
tably, while stook companies show a
falling off. Rhode Island mutual
wrote flvo timos as much as tho
stook companies. Tho secret of this
access lies in tho fact that they re
paid $5,000,000 to policyholders, in
dividends.
If yon take tho trouble to look
about the up-to-date doctor's oilice
while you are awaiting your turn to
be relieved of a phyeioal ache or
pain you will bo surprised to find
tiiat the plaoo looks more liko an
electrical testing laboratory than it
does a physician's oilice. Among tho
eloctrioal doviues scattered about tho
room can usually be found various
sizes of iuduction coils, vibratorsaud
drills run by tiny oleotrio motors,
small motor generator sots, static elec
tric machines, storage batteries, con
densers, inductance coils, lamps of all
sizes and shapes, cantorizers and
umor Menacing uovicos ur course
the X-ray maoiiine stands first in tho
order of value to the modical pro
fession. It a small boy swallows f
tin whistle, if a bullet cannot be
found with the probo, if a difficult
rraoture occurs, the X-ray machine lo
cates.the trouble and provides for i
quick and easy romody. A small but
powerful magnot is also extensively
used to draw iron and stool splinters
from the eye. Electrio heat iB best
adapted for tho medical profession
uucause it is always nmlor perfect
uuHirui ami can De applied in an in
stant. Jior cantorizing operations it
is auexcelled. hdoctrio heat is also
exteusivoly used for sterilizing do
vices, Daudage heaters, not water
heaters and a dozon and one other
tilings. Clinical thermometers, need,
lea, lancets and all other surgical in
strumennts before using have to ho
boiled aud steamed in the electrically
iioacuu storinzors.
Uio common peoplo are not able to
see where the stand pat proposition
comes in. when Judge lironungh of
Portland givts his opinion in tho suit
against County Judgo Webster, that
lie is one of the favored servants of
the people and does not have to ac
count for his'time. Ho cbh just dally
around the state all lie chooses, draw
nis little wad of the peoples' hnrd
earnod moin.y and wlion it comes to a
statement of what he lias done for hie
employers, Judge Iiroiiaugh turns li is
back on the people and winks at
Wobstcr. Their county judge should bo
present when tho occiision requires to
attend to the county's business, and
should be able to show the people
what tliey get for their money.
County oflicials quite often need a lit
tle attention, in Fortland'.get into ruts
and imagino they own the whole
court house. In the Multnomah cane,
Attorney King may have an ax to
grind, but grind well. The pross gen
erally would like to see him follow it
up Neighboring countios might
catch tho fevor.
Organized labor in Portland is look
ing with disgust upon the indicated
union or the forces of tho saloon witli
uie citizens' Alliance. Tho recent
proposals of the oity council to inter-
lore with froo spoeoli and picketing
ui uuiHir piaces uy oruinanc38 that
are intended to bo passed without giv
ing the people a clianoe of rotorondum
by moans of tho emergency clause
will ultimately result in tho emer
gency dodge being crippled with re
strictions that will oonllne it to real
enicrgoncy niousurcs. Meanwhile the
saloon olement is being blamed for a
larger part of tho evident antagonism
to union labor ovinood hv tho mayor
and tho council, and tho "possibilities
of aomo rooalling assuino more defi
nite tone.
Ono ofjjtlie most necessary internal
improvements in the Northwest is
tho opening of Lthe upper Columbia
river. The state of Washington is
now engaged in spending $;0,00() in
the vicinity of Kettle Palls. The
North Central Washington Develop-men1-
League bus called a meeting
in VVonatacheo for the pnrposo of
memorializing congress to assist in
the work. Uy making the entire
stream navigable, an important trade
highway from tho intreior to tide
water, will be opened, on which
trafllo can be oarried clieaplv.
No man of any character or stand
ing, or who hopes to enjoy a com
fortable ilte with his neighbors, can
afford to pay any attention to seeming
slights put upon him by his follow
uicn. In many cases apparent slights
are the rosnlt of thoughtlessness, not
premeditation. Sometimes they are
tho result of nocossity. Thny always
hurt more seriously tho person who
deliberately plans them than thoy do
tho person upon whom tlioy tare im
posed. Dou't pick up every little
uogloot ns a slight. Such may annoy
you for awhile, but cast them out ot
your thought by 'giving place to some
thing larger and better. If von enter
tain these apparent Blights you will be
sure to sour your disposition, culti
vate a small aud mean'view of: life.
and becomo a chronic fgrumbhr and
Bychopliantic parasite.
Jnve thousand dollars win b given
by the Portland O omnieroial Club in
prizes for the best newspaper and
magazine articles on Portland, the
state or the Paoifio Northwe vt
The offer holds good during the
coming year and the one writing "the
best artiole will be rewarded with a
check for flOOO. Second hi st will get
foOO, and a gradually diminishing
scale of prizes will reward so writers.
Tne contest is open to everyone.
The conditions are that the articles
must be printed in a newspaper or
macazine ot gem nil eiicuhitiou,
printed anywhere outside of the states
of Oregon and Washington, jvuirseti
copy of the publication mut then be
sent to tho Portland Commercial
Club, where it will be tunr d over to
three i"dges n imed by the Governor
of OrcL'ou. Tne articler, ni!iy be
printed between the dates ot No
vember 1. lyOi), and Docernher 31, 1910.
Almost any phase of the North
west may be used as subject mntter of
the articles. The leuetli m:u feat,
iiiout is optional with tl o writer,
The nhui of the Commercial Club if
not to have the Northwest "boomed'
in the common meuninsr of the term
so much as at is to have the people
of the United States and give expres
siou to their views in such articles as
will be acceptable to papers through
out the entire continent.
IThe decision of the judges will be
absolutely impartial. There are
prizes for 80 writers and toe cnances
for winning are so many that entries
in the contest should be large. That
the publioity resulting from the prize
offer will be wido and that much
eood will be realized for the whole
Pacific Northwest is assured.
Reductions in grain rates of about
18jjj per cent from ,the interior to
tidewater will go'into effect on the
railroads ot the Northwest on No
vember 1 and will effect a very large
saving for tho wheat growers of the
Inland Empire. ,Tho reduction was
ordered on the O. R. &. N. linos by
the Oregon Hailroad Commission and
on the Washington railroads by the
commission of that stato On the
present year's crop it is believed a
saving of about $;ibO,000 will be real
ized to growers by the lessoned freight
rates.
Groat preparations are being made
for the annual Hood Kivor apple fair,
Oct. 28, 30 and 80. Tho display of
prize fruit will be bigger aud bettor
than over and the attendance from
outsido points promises to be excep
tionally largo. Saturday, Oct. !)0,
will be Portland day. Tho Portland
Commercial Ulub has boon invited
and citizens generally from that city
will view the Hood River show in
largo numbers. Interest in the ex
hibit of line apples at the fair is wide.
AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD
It has been proven that a man in
the United States has a working
nower twice as groat as the German
or Frenchman ; throe times thiat of
the Austrian and five times tnat of
the Italian. America ranks first
place today among the manufacturing
nations of the world and produces
more than tho combined ontnnt of
her three greatest competitors. A
few years ago this coontry ranked
fourth in tho list but today she grows
twelve million dollars rioher with
every setting sun.' "Today," says an
Eucilsh newsnaner. many a foreigner
sits down to his breakfast made of
cereal manufactured in Niagara Falls;
a be.if steak ! from Omaha: a slice of
bacon"from the Mohawk valley; and
his bread from wheat ground in Min-
neanolis. On his way to Ihb oilice he
can ride in a car made in New York,
propelled by machinery made in Sche
nectady ; over a railroad constructed
by American Engineers and largely of
American matorials. Ou reaching his
oilice he sits in a chair made iu Chi
cago ; before a roll topdesk made in
Buffalo; his lettors are written on a
typewriter made in Syracuse; he
signs them with a New York foun
tain pen anddries thorn with sheets of
blotting papor from New England;
the lotters are put away in fllos made
iu Grand Rapids. Looking over his
evening paper he reads ot the placing
in Amerncn ship yards of orders for
American battleships for European
mid .Asiatic nations."
The people of Odessa, Wash., are
sure that patience is a valuable virtue.
When the railway commission investi
gated local conditions, thoy did not
kick for a now depot, but decidod Jto
leave it to the Ureat Northern Kail
way, on the grounds that it would
know best when conditions justified
new station. President L. W. Hill
heard.'of this conservatism and im
mediatev ordered the erection of a
10,001 Ibnillding, as a reward for
their patience.
CITY MAN DRAWS FIRST PRIZE
Oregon City, Oct, 23, '09.
Editor Oregon City Courier:
I found in my paper of the
22 inst. a stamped coupon to the
amount of Ave dollars, and following
instructions in tho paper 1 have trad
ed tho amount at one of the Oregon
City stores. Ptaso accept my thanks
for thd gift. itespoctfully.
W. L. MULVEY.
Use For the North Pole
The nimoBiiremi nt rf the diutile
discovery of tho North Pole by Dr.
Cook and Peary givs to the United
States cue moro terrible territor al
possession. It becomes ours' withont
intention or des're by government,
just a' the Philippines Le.aoie ours
by an I'c.idi nt o( war In llitse days
it is dillirult to imagine anv possible
common inl value iu those friirid, audi
for tho most part, lifeless lands wild I
waters a desert of snow and ce. j
Yet tho ti'i e miiy come, unlikely as
it now appears, that some good ue i
may bo found for the north polnr re
gion. H will bo recalled tlmt Alaska
was purchased chiefly us a whaling I
and Boalinu ground, and holh these !
industries arn already nearly extinct
while the mineral and agricultural
value of Alaska lias proven to be of
very great value.
When Alaska was bought, a railroad
in that country was no more im
probable than tlmt tourists will some
day include the trio to the pole as
one of the essentials to the well
traveled. With few exceptions his
tory reminds us thit where one man
has gone and returned others are
found to do likewise, and each addi-
fional'successful journey makes othtrs
easier andsafer, as routes are selected
aud provision made for shelter. How
ever, there is no likelyhood of any nn-
comfortabley large rush of tourists ic
tnat direction lor eomo tune to come.
H. II. Windsor in November Popular
Mechanics.
The Consumes' Lengno is the title
of an organization which is attracting
great attention in Portland. It pro
poses to take up tho early closinc
movoinent and line nn burhario Port
land with civilized cities where
clerks are supposed to have some hu
man rights and liiolinuti'uis. It sets
after tho unsanitary conditions in
workshops and stores in a ouiet wav.
uad it issues a label which is a irnar-
antee of purity aud healthfulnoss.
There should bo some way devised
to mako the actual snllii:gpriees of
land appear in the public records. It
is only through leases of land, where
the actual rent paid must be nvorded,
that any estimate can he luude of the
value actually placed upon properly.
Tlmt tho'czar of Russia will havo a
royal orohard in Southern Oregon is
the information given out hv the two
nobles of his court. Anton Potrosk
jovieh and Peter l'etorhof, who have
just completed an inspection of tho
i'lieillo NorthwcHt to locate such mi
orchard. They decidod to recommend
tho Hoguo river valley and are expect
ed to close negotiations just made for
a tract near Medford.
A railroad builder offers to build
a branch line from Eugene to Elmira,
15 miles, for a bonus of $10,000. The
laud owners should look carefully into
such olVi'i-s, for if lloimlide tho in
creased values of the land alone will
justify such a bonus. An increase of
an acre for half a mile on each side
of tho ruck would justify a "bonus
of that amount.
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and at the same time draw out whatever amounts
you wish or pay sums to other persons without
coming to the bank.
The check account makes this possible.
It eliminates the risk of carrying money on your
person, it avoids disputes over bills that you have
paid, It turns the responsibility, of keeping your
money safely, from yourself to us. It is our bus
iness to keep the people's money safely, for which
we are fully equipped, having the latest and most
secure safes and vaults. 1
We can tell you more about the check account If
you are Interested. In fact we will be glad to do
this for your personal information.
Brownsville Times: The Times
has beon informed upon what it con
siders the host ot authority that the
Southern Paoifio Company has plans
made to build a new railroad next
year betweon Lebanon aud Browns
ville. Tho new line will come from
Lebauou to'llrowusvillo ou as direct a
line as possible.
Th Bank of Oregon City
Fighting the Bubonic Plague
Imagine a large city covering
thirty equarejmilos of tho most diverse
terraine conceivable, hills and val
leys, plateaus and plains, forests and
sand dunes, ocean lakes and rivers,
a peninsula iu places as thickly popu
lated as the east oud of Loudon, in
parts a rambling country villago and
in other portions simply wild oouutry
bind. Peoplo this territory with
every race too world Knows; wim
white, yellow and black; with ncli
and poor: conceive oue-6ixth of the
total.area comprising the most closely
settled portion as absolutely de
stroyed by fire; picture tho remainder
of the citv as badly shaken'by earth
quake, large distrirts occupied by an
aggregation of hovels crowded witn
refuges from disiastor, and you have
tho background of the picture. Cre
ate a mental image of most insanitary
conditions following the 18 of April,
190(5, and pause incident upon the
period of dislorder and misriue ioi
iowiug the 18 of April, 1900, aud
pauze to realize that the rat, the ac
tive disominator of plague thrived and
multiplied in such surruoudings, and
you are iu a proper frame of mind to
begin the story.
t or perhaps a century plague slum
bored in the Ytuiiiam Province !of
China, waking fitfully to pillage the
immediately contiguous territory, but
in 1894 mousing into now life, it
began its devastating march aloug the
commercial highways of tho world.
It flayed Hong Kong, sacked Bombay,
and estaniwioa a permanent ease in
the Puujap of India. The great sea
ports of the world stormed iu turn,
aud in 1900 it forced its entry into
San Frauoisco. Iu tho four years
which followed, a relentless cam
paigu was required to stamp out the
disease which, fortunately, was
almost entirely confined tothe 'Ori
ental quarter, from which it did not
recede until it had stricken 133 per
sons, of whom all but eight were
claimed as victims. From "Frisco's
Fight With Bubonic Plague," in
November Teelmicul World Magazine.
The old. Pennoyer block on; Mor
rison, West Park, Alder and Tenth
streets iu Portland is to be the site of
an enormous department store and
hotel. It is leased for a sum that
shows a value of $?.r0,000. It is as
sessed, however, for only f 370, 000. It
takes a Rood many farms to equal the
value of this piece of absolutely bare
ground.
The fair to lie given under the
auspices ot Springfield grange will
be held iu Springfield at the Odd
Fellows' hall on Friday, October 24.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS
In some of tho irrigation projocts
the towns are too lariro for the area
actually in cultivation. Unless old
Hayseed is busy the towus languish.
The fellow with tho hoe keeps the
towus alive. We aro often too" hard
ou him and seek to drive him away
by rulos, laws and regulations that
react on the community and the state.
Where too inanv uudortake to pile on
his back aud'ride ho becomes shy and
bashful, hikes to Canada or cuts
down expenses until we don't know
where we are.
Woodburn Independent: With the
increase of rail facilities Woodburn
presents an exceptionally -fine field for
business looatious and especially for
the establishment of factories, par
ticularly those whoso produets can be
marketed iu, the Northwost. The
electrio hue now building will give
an outlet to every point touched by
the Oregon Electric, and when the
Valley Electrio, is extended eastward
probably into Central Orogon, the
held will be enlarged for the indus
tries of Woodburn.
W ilium ina is full of busy brick
makers now, and their product
shipped all over the state. Over 800
men are employed. Naturally the
town is building up as a rosult of the
wage-earning aud industrious tpouu
lation, while building lots a few
years ago inirdiy worth the taxes are
bringing from $150 to aou. fopula
tiou makes laud values in Willumina
as well as everywhere else.
Ihe Joseph Herald lias been ruu
uing a series of descriptive articlos
concerning the natural beautios of the
Wallowa country. Ic is safe to say
that some day the scenery of Wallowa
will be considered the finest lnthe
world, and the thirty land owners will
charge for the best view points so
much a sight, as thev do in Switzor
laud.
Encouraging signs make the oil
prospectors near Dallas keep their
derrick vibrating. The oil well
makes several people ricli who cqu
tribute nothing to its boring. The
land owners all around it, tho pro.
motor who sold the stock and the
transportation company that bears
the fluid to markot By all means
"strike oil," ye Dallas boosters.
Great Values
IN MEN'S AND
BOYS'
Winter Suits
Overcoats
and Cravenettes
Men's Fine Suits - from $ J 5.00 to $25.00
Men's Fine Overcoats " $ J 5.00 to $30.00
Men's" Cravenettes " $ J 0.00 to $2000
Boy's Suits and Overcoats
Boys Knicker Pant Softs from $2.65 and Up
Boys Overcoats and Cravenettes from $4, Up
Southwest cor. Morrison and Foarth Streets
PORTLAND, OREGON
The Dallas Itemizor says that the
meter system ou hydrants kills out
tho l.iwns. Dallas should charge up
son o of its water bills to the empty
lots that abound there as iu every
city, lierinisfoii collects as much
from tho empty lots as from the
beautiful ones, and the result is
some fine lawns and gardens nnder
diseduiaging circumstances otlior
wise.
Pumps have beeu placod at work
iu tho Med ford coal mine and the
owners declare they mean to turn
out a product with a good crew ot
men that shall attract attention in the
fuel markets of Southern Oregon.
Uctwcon loO and 300 engineers and
surveyors are at work on the survey in
the Deschutes country betweou fiend
and the Columbia." The prices of
way are increasing as the
of" a railroad bocomos
rights of
certainty
stronger.
Work on the electrio line between
Albany and Saleui is promised to be
gin within 00 days. The very promise
makes the holders of idle tracts along
the proposed, line perk np thoir heads
aud begin to price autos.
Astoria i the booster oitvof.'the
state. It has spent over 11,000,000
this year in public improvements.
Tho city is growing, aud this in
spite of the efforts of the owners of
empty lots to discourage investments
and frighten weu who would improve.
Many ieople are repelled from the
southern states because fofjthe inhuma
nities of the whites against the blacks.
Here in Oregon we have no slave
labor driven with a whip aud herded
with bloodhounds as are some sections
of the.south.
Eugene Giard: After a couple of
rainy days, wor on Eugeue's
numerous buildings under construc
tion had been .resumed. There will
be pleutyof work for a large force of
carpenter all winter.
Washington County News: Forest
Grove is closing the year 1909 with
the finest record in Tjuilding activ
ities ever experienced in its history.
It has been a great year for the Col
lege Oity, a year of prosperity and
progress and the growth of the home
town has been steady and substantial,
the kind that appeals to the prospec
tive settler and conservative investor.
More than 150 residences have been
built during the year and among these
were some very handsome dwellings.
Governor Benson has announced the
apDointmeut of the following, dele
gates to the Farmers' National Con
gress. 20th annual session at, Raloigh
N. O. , November 3-9 : Tom Richard,
son, Portlaud; William McMurray,
fortiaud; A. H. Avenue, Portland
Stephen A. Lowell, Pendleton ; Wil
liam H. Oolvig, Medtord, and Dr.
W. J.Kerr, Oorvsllis.
Dallas Observer. : The prune grow
ors of the Dallas district will lose lit
tie fruit by the heavy showers which
have been falling for the last three
days. Fair weather prevailed during
all oi tue eaiiy part of the drying Bea
son and only a small portion of the
crop remained in the orchards when
the rain began falling the first of the
week. .
Eugene Guard: The 61st annual
session of the Congregational Associ
ation adjourned uf ter a very success
fnl convention lasting since Tuesday
afternoon. The seveity or more dele
gates in attendance were all pleased
with Eugene and the manner iu which
they were entertained while here.
The 24th annual convention of the
Oregon Baptists was held last week in
Koseburg, beginning Wednesday even
iug and closing with a banquet Fri
day evening Addresses were made
on important subjects by prominent
members.
A farmer residing at Chinook, near
Astoria, unearthed a quantity of
ozocreite, or natural pariffine, while
plowing last week. The deposit re
sembies the "beeswax" which was
unearthed at Newport a few years ago.
The Souhtern Pacific is planning to
put a gasoline car on the run botween
Portland and Silverton, aooordiug to
the Silvertonian Appeal.
A total of five miles of sidewalK has
just been ordered by the city council
of Corvallis. Most of this walk is in
the cement district. '
The Grange Fair at Gresham last
week was one of the most successful
ever given in the state. Uver lo.ooo
people attended.
The advisability nt establishing i
creamery at Harrisburg is being con
sidered seriruslv . by at least two
creamery concerns.
"THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY'
Tenth and Morrison, Portland, Oregon 8 3 A. P. Armstrong, LL.B., Principal
Old in years, new in methods, admittedly the nigh-standard
commercial school of the Northwest. Open all the year. More
calls for help than we can meet position certain. Class and
individual instruction. Bookkeeping from written forms and by
office practice. Shorthand that excels in every respect. Special
penmanship department. Write for illustrated catalogue.
S SEVENTH STREET
I Second Dland Store f
905 Seventh SLreet. New and Second Hand Goods
4 All Second-Hand Goods of Commercial Value bought
and sold. J. H. Mattley, Prop.
Boost Oregon !
Boost Clackamas County
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terest them in this fglorioar West
The Brownsville Woolen Mill
started running again with an
creased capacity.
has
in-
Yon couldn t make money easier
than by reading Price'Bros'. ad.
Coughs of
Children
Especially night coughs. Na
ture needs a little help to quiet
the irritation, control the in
flammation, check the progress
of the disease. Our advice is
give the children Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral. Ask your
doctor if this is his advice also.
He knows best. Do as he says.
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If you think constipation is of trifling
consequence, just ask your doctor. He
ill disabuse you of that notion in short
irder. "Correct it, at once I " he will
;ay. Then ask him about Aver's Pills.
mild liver pill, all vegetable.
JUd 1)7 UM i. O, Aftl Co., LowtU, Mill
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About yottt larder.
It would not
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To stock it up iot fab, -But
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Williams Bros, transfer Co.
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