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CITY COURI ER OREGON OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17.1911 No. 41 28th YEAR. MOULU RJUr JAD PROJECT MM Representatives in the City Looking Up Plats. CITIZENS MUST AID PROJECT Committee Appointed to Investi gate the Matter. A representative of the Salem, Falls City aud WeiUrn RaU-ay was iu Ore gon City Monday i.;. the iuterest of a proposed line fry., Oregon City through Beaver Greet ind the Molalla alley ;to Silverton. The representa tive was in search of latsand surveys of some of the papes; lines that have caused a great deal of interest daring the past year. He did not obtain the data however, as all of the original plats and surveys of the Oregon (Jity, Beaver Oreek and Molalla Railroad are in the hands of F. M. Swift, of Portland. It is understood that the Salem, Falls City and Western is contem plating an extension into the rich timber belts along the Molalla. The Live Wires held a meeting on Wednesday and the project was thoroughly disoussed. Grant B. Diniick was the principal speaker. Mr. Dimick says that it rests with the business men of Oregon City to build this railroadj uid he believes that 125,000 oaiAi raised here aud that farther frluial aid oan be secured from othei xes later on. After olratiug the profiles, maps, plats antf5Tir data from V. M. Swift, of feltlaud, who worked sev eral yearf&k -the projeot, it is thoglit the right u'. way oan be secured. Mr. Dimick named the following: George Harding. W. A. Huntley, Frank Busch aud E. G. OaufieW, whom he will interview witli the view of making them directors of the new railroad. Court Square to Have Monument The committee named by the ditfcr ent fire departments in the city held a meeting Friday evening in the rooms of the Fountain Hose Company. George Griffith was elected chairmau of the committee and Al Cox was eleoted senretury. .It was vroposed to obtain a combination moanmeLt and fountain and place it in the court house square. 1150 have already been subscribed by the oompanies, and it is expected that before long the amount will be 1000. A benefit ball will be given some time in the near future. The committee will hold another meeting in two weeks Electric Cooking Pure Food Show THIS WEEK Meier & Frank Store Portland Railway Light Power Company ALDER STREET AT SEVENTH FARMERS TO HOLD REGULAR MEETINGS Fruit and Produce Union Pro duce Good Results. At the Farmers' Meeting held Fri day in the oounty court room at H p. m. a large number of farmers from the surrounding country were present aud many interesting topios were dis cussed and important addresses given by different members that were ot muoh benefit to all pre ent. Geo. W. Waldron, president of the Oregon City Fruit and Produce Union, gave a splendid address on packing apples. B. Kupenbender stated in a speech that several Hood River men were looking up fruit land in this vicinity last week and they remarked that the land was O. K for apple grow ing but that the people needed edu cation along horticultural lines. It was decided by President Wal dron that these meetings be held in the oounty oonrt room every Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. During these meetings for the t ducat ion of the farmers different phases will be taken np and prominent speakers will ap pear at different times. All subjects of interest to the farmers will be discussed and any questions that may arise in the meantime will be an swered. O. B. Freytag, manager J of the Union, will take a prominent part in these eduoational meetings. E. Kupenbender, O. K. Freytag and A. J. Lewis were appointed as a oom mittee to arrange the prugrainjor the next meeting. M. J. Laze lie, the booster man for the Commercial Olub, is co operating with the farmers in these meetings, as the advancement of the country is sure to make au effect on Oregon (Jity. Mr. Lazulle was also appointed to attend to the advertising of these meetings. FIRST WHITE CHILD IN OREON CITY DIES S. D. Richerdson, Born in 1844, Succumbs to Dropsy. Sydney Daniel Richardson died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Theodore Ulark, at an early hoar Saturday morning, after an illness ot six months. Death was caused by drop sy. Mr. RichardBou is said to have been the first white child born in Oregon Oity. He was born February 11, 1844, and has always been a resi dent of this oity and was well known by old residents in this vicinity. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the resi dence of Mrs. Clark. The interment was in Mountain View cemetery. Judge Samson, who has been ill with the grip, is now able to be at the olllce again. DEMONSTRATION OF and Heating Devices at i v!irw GOOD ROADS MEASURE PASSES THE HOUSE Many of the Objectionable Fea tures Eliminated. State Capitol, Salem Or., Feb. 13 (Speoial) Opoonents of the state highway board" and highway com missioner surrendered today but not until they had ganed some conces sions. These included an amendment to the Gill bill prescribing a method by which counties shall issue bonds for improving roads and an agreement by friends of the Good Roads Associa tion not to insist, on the passage of the state-aid bill, appropriating $340. 000, or the measure providing for the working of state and county prisoners on the publio roads. In pursuanoe ot the compromise, the honse this afternoon passed the bill creating a state highway board and providing for the eleotion of a state highway commissioner, and also Gill's bonding bill. Mariner's bill appro priating 340,000 to aid the several counties in road building was put on the table, while the measare for work ing prisoners on the roads 'remains on the desk with a afvorable report from the committee on roads and highways. It will either be postponed indefinite ly or it will be placed on the table with Mariner's stato-aid bill. It was not until late today, after havng a long and determined fight aganst the highgway plan, that op ponents of the bills of the Good Roads Association capitulated. At the opening of the day's session Carter was successful in a motion having all road bills referred to the special committee of five members of which McKinney, of Baker was chairman. Representatives nf the State Grange and the Farmers' Union went before the commttee and renewed their re quest that the highway commission bill be ohansed to aiBpenBe with the Union Banquet Proposed. The Brotherhood societies of the different ohurohes have increase! their membership so rapidly that it is now proposed to hold annual or semi annual banquets of the combined or ganizations. The differaut societies have now a membership of nearly 300 and it is thought that this number will be iooreased in the near future to at least COO. This large number of men working in unison will undoub tedly result in doing much for the betterment of social oonditionsjin Or egon City and proposed commipsiou. They were willing to accept the highway oom missoner, but objected to the craetion of what they termed auohter useless commission. But the committee would not yield another inoh, insist ing that it had granted every, oonoes sion it could consistently and still de sire the enactment of the bill. After further discussion before the oomimttee the supporters of the sub stitute bill providing for the commis sion agreed not to urge the enuotment of the state-aid bill and the bill work ing the prisoners on the roads. At the same time both sides agreed to the amendment of the Gill bonding hill so as to make it optional with the people petitioning for a bond issue as to whether or not the ballots iu the special eleutiou should specify what road or roads were to be im proved and at the same time indicate the beginniug and terminus of such roads to be Improved with the money produced from the issue of bonds, This arrangement met with favor on both sides and the hatchet was buried The state highway board bill and the Gill bonding bill both passed without any debate. There were sixteen votes agaiust the former, while the latter was opposed by only six representatives. Those voting against the commission plan were : Amine, Brownhill, Garter, Chambers, Chapman, v. lyde, Cottel, Cushman, Graves. Libby, Magoue, Miller, of Columbia, Millar of Liun, Pieroe, Shaw and Tigard. Those voting against the Gill bill were: Chapman, Cushman, Miller, Liun, Pierce, Shaw and Tigard. Friends of the state-aid bill were STENER IS No Extravagance in Hos pital Management. COSTS LESS THAN ELSEWHERE Witnesses Contradict Previous. Stories When Under Oath, Complete vindication of Dr. R. E L. Steiner, superintendent of the in sane asylum, was contained in the re port of the investigation committee made Thursday. Ttie committee members declare they have gone thor oughly into the subjeot and have ex amined more than a dczeu witnes es under oath, aud can find nothing wrong with the administration of the superintendent. Several witneses who have made statements reflecting upon Dr. Steiner ohanged their stories completely when put under oath or when questioned revealed their lack of knowledge up on the subjects upon whioh they had been gossiping. Two contractors who had bid upon the oottages ereoted for Or. Steiner and another asylum phy sioian testified that the oottages had been erected at an economioal price, aud that they could not have built them for less and obtained any profits. The oommittee has discovered that Senator Bowerman and the committee which charged extravagance to Dr. Setiner were wrong in the figures they presented, purporting to show Miat the asylum farm was conducted at a big loss. Instead, the report will show that the farm has yielded a greater profit than Dr. Steiner esti mated, Inasmuch as considerable haul ing for other departments had been charged to the farm expense. Members of the committee visited the cottages erected and declare they cannot believe that there was any ex travagance in furnishing them. They bay Dr. Steiner may have been indis creet in spending more than $1200 for furnishings in each cottage, but that it would have been impossible to fur nish them at this price and that the ways and means committee is to be blamed for. attempting to confine him to such comparatively small amount. Data has been obtained showing that the cost per capita in the Ore gon asylum is far below that paid by other states, and the committee may also report that Dr. Steiner is not paid what his srevices are worth to the state. GRANGE NOTICE This certifies that the regular Orange county convention for the county of Clackamas is hereby called to oonvene on Tuesday, March 7th, ut 1 :S0 p. m. in the county court room at Oregon City. Oregon. Said coven tion is called for the purpose of elect ing ne representatives to attend the next annual session of the Oregon State Orange, whioh will be held at Corvallis, Mav 9 to 12, 1911. MART S. HOWARD. Oouaty Dei uty Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, is at death's dcor at a hospi tal in Oakland. VINDICATED willing to abandon the measure after it had been amended in the house and the amount of the appropriation for this purpose reduced trom (40,000 to 1340,000. As amended the bill provid ed that only 15000 annaully should be available to the several counties aud this amount, it was argued, was not sufficient to accomplish much in the war of road building. Advocates of good roads legislation are satisfied with what has been ao oomplished at this session, feeling satisfied ttiat the house amendments to the two measures passed by that body today will be conourred in by the senate. "A foundation has been laid for in troducing a praotical and systematic plan of road building in the state, di rected and supervised by an intelli gent bureau established and main tained by the state," said Chairman McKinney, of the special committee, which considered the good roads bills and effected the compromise. "The question of state aid is one that oan wait two years until the effioaoy of the plan, as it shall be carried out in the several counties through funds raised exclusively by the counties themselves has been demonstrated." The house passed the bill creating the office of state immigration ageqt aud approrpiating $20,000 for adver tising purposes. The house has voted to repeal the single tax amendment aud to restore taxation power to the legislature. The house passed a bill making Moiinoman county a reparate con gressional district. WOULD NOT LISTEN TO FRIENDLY ADYIGE The Police Round Up a Trio of Midnight Marauders. People residing near Seventh street bridge, ou Main street, were disturbed shortly after midnight Thursday night by a half dozen fellows who were carousing around, singing, and who were the worse for drink, and when told by officers Green and Oooke that they could not do that at that time of night they asserted that they would if they ohose, and adjourned to the home lot of one of the orowd and began to sing and carouse there. Officers Green aud Oooke went to the home and insisted that the noise cease, but instead of giving heed to the offlcerg they at once started in to tight. In the melee OtUcer Oooke was given a black eve. Qreen was hit six or eight times, but finally with lib eral use of the olub the men bent on rowdyiem were silenced. 'The heads of Beveral of the men bent on a dis turbance were hard bit with the clubs. Mo arrests were niafe at the time, but warrants were sworn out. Chas. Burns, Jr., Chan. Vaughn, one Hughes and a party whose name is unknown created the distrubaucs, Friday the police swore to warrants charging the defendants with creating a disturbance and resisting an oliiocr. Burns anrt Vaughn were arraigned in court and atter a trial Burns was fined $20 for resisting an otfloer and $10 for disorderly conduct ; Vauhgn was fined $10 for resisting an officer and $3 for disorderly conduct. Y. P. S. C. E. Elect Officers. The Y. P. S, O. E. of the Presby terian churoh held a meeting in the church parlors Thursday evening for the purpose of eleoting officers for this term. Following are the names of the new officers and committees President, Harry Y. Miller: vice pres ident, Miss Blanch Bailey; recording secretary, Hugh Kennedy; corres ponding secretary, Miss Ruth Bright bill; treasnrer, John Mead. Committees in full to be annouuoed in ohuroh next Sunday. Devotional oommittee Miss Blauoh Bailey, ohairman; Miss Mabel Tooze, Ambrose Browuell. Lookout committee Mrs. W. C. Green, Miss Kate Cooper, Joe Al dredge, William Kennedy. Social committee Mrs. Leon Dei Larzes, chairman; Miss Eula Schabel, Miss Myrtle Hamilton, Miss Zeta An rdews, Hugh Kennedy, Kent Wilson, Clyde Green. Missionary committee Miss Mabel Tooze, chairman; Miss Etta Long, Angus Matheson. Calling committee Mrs. Matheson, chairman; Mrs. L. Des Larzes, Miss Lillian Long, Miss Ruth Brightbill, Hugh Kennedy, Ralph Eddy. Sunday School committee Ralph Eddy, chairman; Miss Maude Matt ley, John Mead. Junior work committee Ruth Briuhtbill, chairman; Miss Belle Mattley, Corles Anrdews. To be organized iu the near future Information, temperance and citizen ship committies. Saturday, Judge Beatie committed John Barton to the insane asylum at Salem. The examination was made by Dr. H. S. Mount. Barton is 67 years of age, and is a native of Nor way. About 18 years ago he was struck on the head and has not been of sound mind since. The complaint was made by Noah Christuer. BAPTIST BANQUET LARGELY ATTENDED Eighty-One Guests Seated at Brotherhood Meeting. The second banquet and program meeting of the Baptist Brotherhood was held Friday night. Eighty-one guests sat down to the bountiful feast which had beeu prepared by the Bap tist ladies. The room was beautifully decorated with flags and the tables presented a most attractive appear ance, each plate having a Japanese orange and flag, The toastmaster of the evening was Mr. E. L. rope and he introduced Professor Norman C. Ihorne of Portland as the first speak er. Proressor Throne proved equal to the oooasion and delivered a very fine address on moral courage. He illus trated every point by examples from actual life. This address was greatly appreciated and contained a strong appeal for loyalty to the higher ideals of life. Following Professor Thome, Hon. H. E. Cross delivered some praotical remarks. Judge Campbell and Mr. VV. M. Stone also spoke to the point. Mr. Lnnt, a reader, gave two readings which furnished inspira tion and amusement. The musio was furnished by Leo Burdon and Miss Veda Williams. Rev. Hayworth an nounced that a similar banquet would be held again in about six weeks. DEATH CALLS AN OLD CITIZEN C. D.Robinson, Who Came West in 1853, Passes Away. After a short illneBs of heart trou ble, John Robinson died Satnrday morning between the jhonrs of 8 and 9 o'clock, at the home or his son, V. u. Robinson, on iMolalla avenue. Mr. Robinson was born in the state of Ohio, March 23. 1831. He oameto Oregon n 1853, with Barrett's traiu, and was kuown as the train boy hunter. In the ?year of 1856 he re turned esst ;to Indiana. From there he went to Iowa, "where he was mar ried October 14,11859, to Mrs. May E. Plumber, a widow with two children. With his family .he 'returned to Ore gon, January 24, 1878, and made their home at Uoltou, where he has resided ever siuoe, until a few months ago when he came to this oity and made his home with his son. O. D. Robin son. He leaves four children and two step children to mourn his loss. Mrs W. Garret of Bunker, Oregon; O. D. Robnison ot Oregon Oity, frank Hobiusou of Uolton, ana George rtoD iuson, ot Molalla are the ohilrden anil Mis. Margaret Jennings and Mrs. E, Ingrain of this city are the step child' ren. TRIP TO MOUNT HOOD ON SKIS Quickest Record Climb to Sum mit of the Mount. An interesing i journey to Mount Hood was taxen by Charles Oaufleld and two sons, Raymond and Wallace, last weeK, returning tins weex, mon day. I The deep snow encountered en route presented a beautiful appearanoe and the view of Mount Hood with its heavy mantle of snow was a sight anyone wonld like :to have the pleas ore of seeing. This was Mr. Caufleld's first rip tto JMount Hood "ou .skis, Messrs.- Raymond and Wallaoe Oau fleld, who are .attending the Uulver sity ot Oregon, made the quiokest re cord climb to tiie summit of Mount Hood last summer. The party left here on Tuesday morning of last week for Govrenmeut Camp. They went as lar as uoring on the O. W. P. and from that place stalled it to Welches, making the re mainder of the trip to 'Rhododendron, a distance of about four miles, :on foot. They reached the tavern about 5 o'clook that night, where they re mained nntil the .following morning, starting on their ( crip .to Government Oamp, which is about 11 miles, ou skis. At Rhododendron the snow was 18 inches deep, but farther up on the mountain in the Laurel Hill district the ground was oovered with two feet of fresh snow, which made it difficult to travel on skis, but the party roaoh ed Government Camp that evening boa t 8 o'olock. The following morn ing Mount Hood' showed up in Its glory, and never before presented more attraotive sight than on tlii day. The ;party remained :at this place Friday and Saturday. While at rtno dodendron Raymond and Wallace Can field aoooompanied the old mountain eer. Mr. Yocum, Ito the Salmon river, where thi latter is engaged by the Mount Hood Railway company to read the water gauge. The party went on skis, and oovered a distance of 12 miles, six miles each way. At Government Camp the snow was five feet in depth. Valentine Social Largely Attended The valentine sooial given Monday evening at the Congregational church br the bovs of Miss June Charman' and Mrs. Woodard's classes was large It attended and a neat little sum net td thorn. The program consisted of Solo, Mabel Woodard; interesting talk on "Boys' Day at Chautauqua, '' by Rev. Wm. Proctor ; cornet soio, verne Roake ; recitation, Sam McLarty ; reo itation, Carlotta Pace; club.swinging, Mr. Warner. After the program proper, coffee, cake, candy and valun tines were sold. A valentine post office was the attraction of the even InglandSwaa enjoyed by'al). The dec orations were very attraotive, consist ing of hearts in all colors with ivy and ferns intertwined with the 0EK IF BUSGH'S HALL CommercialClub Dedicate New Ball Room. FINEST HALL IN NORTHWEST he Greatest Dancing Party Ever Assembled in Oregon City. The greatest danoe party in the his tory of Oregon Oity was pulled off last evening in the grand new bait room reoently ereoted by frank Busoh, it being the second annual ball of the Commercial Olub of Ore gon Oity and was the first party to take poBession of the beautiful room. Much has been said in the columns of the Courier descriptive of the structure, whioh last evening was ushered into the use of the social world in all the pomp and glory of the tweutieth century, and festooned walls illumined with dazzling lights, its attraotive lobbys and waxened floor harmonized and oompleted the merriest oocasion, wherein the gay attire Jof the dancers together .with the free care and light step as they whirled about the room keeping time to such stiring strain of musio as Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland," harmonizing in every detail to make the oocasion one long to be'remem- bered. Little more can be said ' than that the affair was replete with interesting features, "every ;number fon the pro gram was entered into with a hearty interest bv the danoers and never De- fore in Oregon Oity was there snob a show of Btyle and beautytogether with that modesty and graoe so character istic of the feminine ooterie. A large number of'guests oame from Portland who were given a private oar to return at a late hour, and these to gether with the Beveral hundred from this oity swelled the attendance and taxed the capaoity of the big hall to its utmost,. A delioous buffet lunoheon was served in the beautiful banquet hall contiguous, fwhere fgreat bundles of red carnations added attraotive beauty and from the opened porticoes breezes laden with the oarnation gems wafted sweet caresses to the reddened cheeks. Like la fairy dream in sylvanedbow- erB the affair reBts today and for aye n the minds ot the merry makers, Musio by Prasp's orohestra oi Port land added muoh to the success of the affair and from the elevated orohestra pit some of the best danoe musio ever heard was doled ou'i, seeming to fairly lift the waltzers into the whirl. The Oonimeroial. Olub com mt tees haying the dance in charge are smil ingly accepting merited praise and congratulation on every hand. MORE TERRITORY FOR OREGON CITY Senator Dimick's Bill Makes Pos- ble Additional Territory. By senate bill No. 20. introduced bv Senator Dimick, ao important amend ment is made to the law governing annexation by munioipal corporations of additional territory. Twenty per oent oi the voters of an existing cor poration made petitiou for a special election to determine whether addi tional territory is desired. The bill is gt neral but it is intended to meet a condition existing in Oregon City. Attempts have been made without suooens to bring into the oitv limits valuable property belonging to the paper mills aud the Portland Railway Light & Power Company just outside of the present boundaries of the city. By the provisions of the Dimick bill the Oregon Oity people expeot to be able to extend their city limits suffi ciently to take in corporation prop erty worth probably 15,000,000. DEUTSCHER VEREIN HOLD MEETING Will Give Masquerade Ball Next Saturday Evening. The Deutsohu Verein met in regular monthly session Sunday afternoon, and despite the inclement weather there was a good attendance. After the close of the business session, ad dresses were delivered by President Schnorr and Vice President D. M. Klemsen, and a short program of vo cal and instrumental musioal selec tions was carried out. At the olose of the program a bounteous German din ner was served, followed by a social hour. The annual masquerade ball of the Verein to be held next Saturday night at Busch's new hall promises to be one of the greatest sooial features of the season. Champ Clark's humorous allusions to the annexation of Canada in bis reciprocity speeoh have oreated a storm of potost both in Canada and Great Britain. J The Goulds have lost oontrol ofjthe Missouri Pacific Railway and ic has fallen into the hands of the Rocke feller interests. hearts. These two classes are con testing with the Beta classes one and two, iu raising money for a piano. On February 24 tiie girls of the Beta classes one and two will give a sooial along the same Hue for the benefit of the piano fund.