OREGON" CITY COURIER, FRIDAY APRIL 21, 1911,
Oregon City Courier
First. Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEJVMAN, Publisher.
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M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
THE GRAFTERS.
Do von remember that little parody
of Ella Wheeler Wilcox that finishes
with these three lines:
"It's the great big thiet
Who gets ont on leave,
While the little one goes to jail."
Steal a pair of shoes in Oregon City
and yon will got six months. Steal a
job from the government and you will
get Into tne "organization. '
The graft disclosures of the past
three years, ami of the past three
weeks, almost make an honest man
wonder if Providonoe isn't off duty,
and the government handed over to
the looters.
As stated in an editorial last week,
seven hundred thousand names are on
the government's payroll.
Let that soak in.
Comprehend, if yon can, t us great
army of place-holders, and conoeive if
yon can the necessity of having one
orib-feeder for every twenty free born
American voters. Tins is thicker
than ward heolers in a close city
ward, and any man who has an nunoe
of grey matter and a pulse that beats
over 82 knows that such a payroll is
rotteu. that it Is thievery that it
stinks.
The press dispatohos from Washing
ton state that 88 policemen are yet do
ing Spanish war duty, to watch for
Plotters: tolograph operators dismissed
three years ago, yet draw their $1400
a year; that a document room that
has not been in existence for 1(S years
draws 5,000 for expenses; that over
it), 000 is paid for a library whiah does
not exist: that a la-year-oid gin
draws lldOO and so on with a list of
Qolden Fleece hunters.
Now you have it figured out that
this is (in attack on the Republican
administration, and the weather indi
cations of coming storm signals from
tne Uonrier.
Guess again.
The Republican administration has
become rotten because of years oi in
trenchmout, because they have had
the hooks to joggle and no inspector
to jack them np. Uive the Demo
crats the same opportunity and they
won Id soon have a system that wonld
make Tammany Hall eat its halo
through envy,
It is simply an inflated age where
public oflloials baok honor and hones
ty into the siding and put their hands
behind them. It's a great game of
graft and politics that even gets the
dead lionost man in an indirect way,
and the result is loss of confidence by
the herd, open orittoism of our high
est conrtfl, and the making of more
Socialists every day than an army of
speakers onuld make in u year,
And the outoome?
Well, a now paity thut will clean
up for both bunches some of these
sweet days.
Now you guess.
CULTURE DIFFERS
In looking over the work accom
plished in the high sohools of the
United Status one may find that it is
hard to get at any facts back of four
years ago. In 11)07 high schools teach
ing various lines of agriculture were
about 25 in number. In the four
years hiuoo the number has increased
nntil it is about 400, or over 1600 por
oent. This simply shows how the in
terest is increasing in practical mat
ters. The fact has been reoognized that
students when thuy got to the seventh
grudo began to have ideas as to wiiat
they wished to follow in after years,
and it was dillioult to keep in line
some who dcHired to take elective
studies with the future especially in
view. It was extremely difllcult to
uonviuco some students where the
benefits were in taking particular
studies and while for a year possibly,
or louger, the youth would follow the
work with reasonable industry they
were still unoouviucud as to its use
fulness. The mind of the seventh grade stu
dent has about reached the stage
whore it wants you to "show him" a
reason that appeals to his judgment.
And in the work of teaching the
trades in the schools the mind is
given a chance to select for itself
what appeals most. The intensely
practical side ut education is coming
to the front more and more. It must
iuclnde that which will bettor lit the
boy for his life work. In the farm
iifo he wants to know when lie starts
farming the best methods to use, how
to bui hi a small building, what land
will raise a certain kind of growth
and what kind of vegetation will
grow on hind that ho has bought.
A Valuable Faculty
(J Determined effort to save develops or strength
ens a valuable faculty; namely, tho faculty of
drawing the line between the necessary and use
less expenditure.
(J Think of it: Isn't it usually the thing one is
better oft without that takes the tnouey he should
save?
(fl Hence the double benefit of the saving habit:
First, learning to deuy oue's self harmful indulg
ences; and scoond, acquiring a property thru little
triumphs over self.
(J Ask yourself now if there is any reason why
you should not become a money saver at
The Bank of Oregon City
The Oldest Bank in the County
This is a great saving in time and
money if the knowledge is learned
while at sohool. The gfris want to
know how to make butter, keep chick
ens and many other kindred subjects.
If these things are not taught in the
sohool life they are learned an gnat
jjossfloe later. The saving of this
saorifloe is an investment for the com
munity. Culture these davs differs from the
past In that then it was sought for
the Bake of it; now for what it will
do toward earning a living. For this
reason education is much more gen
eral.
CRITICISM JUSTIFIABLE
The weakness of the press, the
newspapers and magazines of the uni
is hnnnminsr the Bdbiect of open
comment throughout every higher
lenmed cnmrnntiitv. and from the sub
iects handled with as near flagrant
violation of our postal laws as to ob
scoue literature, smacks of indecency
and Hue words couching all that ib
Immoral, with such illustrations as
one may find in all the gieat papera of
this day where the young minn is uu
on from innocence to a mind of
slavery to coarse passions. What does
the press of today expect to mane out
01 tne Dlaspnomous leaciwig auu umi
inn that arrears to be their main
theme.
It is a known fact that large city
dailies make a practice of coming out
with crenr. head lines, sometimes in
red ink. flaunting cold-blooded mu
dorfl, and all else, as far as they dure
eo before decent humanity, making
the character destroying storing reek
with gore, and the following day
when the truth is known, they de
trnct. in some remote corner ot the
sheot, in small type, as mildly as pos
sible. It is not the public that is
nlumnrina tor such vile stuff. It IB
the vouuk upstarts, the reporters,
who are fiihtina for all the latest
news aud who in their infancy do not
know what real news is. Very little
or the "sensational stuff" ever sees
the managing oditor, or city editor,
and therefore there is no censorship,
and the matter is allowed to run,
many times at the very last niiuute,
and in a majority of cases deals with
much that should not be flashed be
fore the younger mind, not yet strong
enough to withstand its duuinging
influences, building therefrom the
coarser, narrowed minds that will
soon be BBked to take the reins of our
nation, and drive on to that dostmy
the oominar events of which ar6 but
now casting their blackening shadows
even to the hanilots.
THOSE HARD OLD DAYS.
How often we hear people
speak of "the good old
times," or "the good old
days," before the high cost of .
living cut auy figure, whon
there were so many opportun
ities that it was difficult to se
lect from the best among
them, when in every walk and
every vocation auy man of
good habits aud industry
con Id soon obtain a compe
tency. Dalles Optimist.
But who of us would want to return
to the "good old times" of our boy
hood, with their days of hardships,
eoouomy and eaoriiloe'r Those "good
old times ' were barn oiu times, ana
yon oau't make anything else out of
them.
Tmn onmu will rnnnll these old
days and in all sincerity doclare they
were days witnour, mucn care, a liv
ing with little anxiety and the hap
piest of all days. And so they were,
from that point of view.
cut wno or us wouia want to bu
baok? Would the Optimist editor?
We have been educated up to a higher
utiiiirlurrl nr iipi'Iiriih a faster stand
ard, of liviug ;' we cau't go baok to
the old days and old ways aud live
Imiinv. We nnn't nut over father's
clothes for sonny, for the yonug hope
ful will not wear them; we can't send
Mary to school in a pair of cobbler
luade Bhoos, for the girl will back up;
we oau't use rag carpets on the parlor
floor, because we are ashamed of
them.
This is a high gear date, when all
ant to rise aud shine. Dead wrong
1 will admit, but we take very kindly
to the speed and you can never got us
baok in tne siow race again.
Tim "onod old iluvs" are a night
mare, aud the man who advocates
the hike back would be the lirst to
drop out of the hike,
The Democrats propose to even up
that Oauadiau reciprocity treaty,
which largoly effects the farmers'
produots, and they promise to put on
the free list agricultural implements,
dressed meat aud meat products,
flour, rough lumber, boots, shoes aud
saddlery, wire teucing, bailing wire,
cotton bagging, cotton ties, bagging
ties, burlap and salt. Whether the
senate will dare kill those revisions,
after favoring the Canadian bill, re
mains to be seen.
The California justice got weak
knees, clipped eleven days off Jack
Johnson's jail sentence and .let him
off Kaster morning. The (people
would like to have seen the big law
breaker serve full time. Since he
downed Jellries, Johnson has seemed
to think ho and his bank roll could
do abont what they pleased.
There never was a time when it
was more important for the farmer to
be alive to his own interest tnan
right now. The cry for "cheaper
food" has gone up all over the coun
try, and the big interests are prepar
iug to make the farmer bear the bar
den involved in cheaper living by ro
moving all the barriers agaiust a
world-wide competition in food stuffs,
while offering the farmer nothing in
leturn. There are intimations of a
breaking up of old standards aud a
national readjustment, and now, if
ever, the farmer is in need of friends
at court, of representatives ana anvo
cafes on the floor of congress, to see
to it that in this i rocess of readjust
mei't he be not ground between the
upper and the nether millstone, as
has too often been the case. Cheaper
liviug is demanded, but let it be
cheapened all around. If there must
be cheaper butter, give the farmer
cheaper shoes; ir tnere must De a de
cline in eggs, let something be shaved
off the price of binder twine; if we
must have cheaDcr wheat, let us see
to it that the duty on flour is also m
rtovedjif there must be fne wool
there should also be free woolens.
All that the farmers of this country
demand is a square deal. lhey pro
test against being offered up as a eao
rifice to the cry for cheap food, when
already they are carrying the nation
al load by the short end of the stick.
Alfalfa growers of the Northwest
have viewed with alarm the constant
spread of the alfalfa weevil, and hope
that the government will be success'
ful in stopping the pest before it gets
thoroughly established in tins section.
Great damage wrought by the weevil,
which attacks alfalfa, aud whioh has
been coutiued so far principally to
Utah, is oauBing officials oi the de
uarment of agriculture to make plans
for a fight. This c.u.ide probably
will he the most important new work,
according to D. O. Howard, chief of
the bureau, which he aud Ins assis
tants will have on hand next season.
As alfalfa is such an important crop
in many of the states west ot the first
tier beyond the Mississippi, govern
ment olliciats are anxioua to find some
means of extermination of the weevil
Unlike the cotton boil weevil, the
alfalta pest does its work on the out
side of the plant, attacking the leaves
and etc lk.
If one modern battleship costs $10,
000,000, how much will a full-sized
modern navy cost? This is one of
the questions which every govern
ment which aspires to bu considered
a "power" in the world is asking
itself and being asked by its constit
uents. The answer is something like
$110,000,000 or $NO,000,000 a year, with
a large amount in addition to pay for
the men to man the floating fortresses
of the "Dreadnought" type which
this money goes to build. Great
Britain is Beriously concerned about
such questions as poverty among her,
people and poverty in her exohequer
and yet seems to be compelled to pro
ceed along lines which are apparently
financially ruinous in the direction of
keeping up its tremendous navy.
"If the American republic is
to survive it must be saved by
the efforts of the patriotic cit
izens who want nothing for
themselves but the advantages
that accrue from the general
public weal. " Ex-Governor
Folk.
You Btand-patters will say Folk is
a radical and an alarmist, but yon
fellows who haven t any halters and
who read and think, you will know
that Missouri's ex-governor isn't
more than a hundred miles off.
The proposition to issue
bonds for the erection of a
high school in this city was
defeated, the vote being 80
for and 200 against. Wood
burn Independent.
And m view of the reign of terror
the Independent spreads over its'rirst
nages, tins action should have been
expectod.
Frauk W. Benson, secretary of state,
who died in California last week, was
a splendid character, and no man
holding public office in this state
ftood closer to the people. Honor
able, honest, he hold their confidence,
and ho will loug be remembered.
Senator Bourne is keeping his end
up for appropriations. This week he
utroduced bills at Washington calling
for $lf0,000 for a pnblio building at
Astoria, and fIO.000 for a fish culture
station, to be located later on.
It appears that Piesident Diaz has
awakened to the fact that his oouutry
has a war on, ana he is calling for
volunteers. The pay is 60 cents a day
with fair prospects of being killed.
Tho cultivation of Bermuda onions
is being extensively carried on in
Texas. Last year moie than seven
thousand car loads were shipped ont
of tho state.
For Aged People
Old Folks Should Be Careful
In Their Selection of a
Regulative Medicine
Wo have a Bafe, dependable and al
together ideal remedy that is particu
larly adapted to the requirements of
aged people aud persons of weak con
stitution or other bowel disorders.
We are so certain that it will relieve
these oomplaiuts and give absolute
satisfaction in every particular that
wo offer it with our personal guaran
te that it shall cost the user nothing
if it fails to substantiate our claims.
This remedy is called Kexall Order
lies. Kexall Orderlies have a soothing,
healing, strengthening, touio aud reg
ulative aotiou upou the bowels. They
remove all irritation, dryness, sore
ness and weakness. They restore the
bowels and associate organs to more
vigorous and healthy activity. They
are eaten like candy, may be taken at
any time without inconvenience, do
not cause auy griping, nausea, diar
rhoea, excessive looseness, flatulence
or othei disagreeable effect. Price
25o. aud 10c. Sold only at our store
The Kexall Store. Huntley Bros. Co.
Iu a one-sided game, Molalla de
feated Shubel by the score ot 17 to 4.
The features of the game were the
hitting of Grimm of Molalla, who got
one triple, two doubles aud one single
out of six times at the bat, aud the
wonderful catch made by Shingreen.
Hart held the Shubel bunch to five
hits and held them safe at all stages
of, the game, Molalla will play on
their home grounds next Sunday.
THE GRANGE
Conducted b
J. W. OARROW. Chtlhun, N T..
EdUor of the A'tio York Si ale Gvantr
Review
EDUCATING THE BOYS.
New York State Fair Commission
Plans Couris of Study.
The New York state grange is co-op
erating with Commissioner Pearson of
the department of agriculture in a very
Important mutter relating to farm
boys. The commissioner proposes to
have' 100 boys visit the state fair at
Syracuse In order that they may learn
by practical observation many things
that farm boys should know and yet
perhaps do not know. The plan Is to
select boys from fifteen to nineteen
years of age from each county In the
state, boys who are living on furms, to
the number of not more than 100, who
shall attend the state fair during the
entire week. The boys pay their own
expenses, and If they comply with all
the regulations then the expenses will
be refunded. Their sleeping places
and meals will be furnished free, but
each boy Is to take the necessary jed
ding. A competent person will be In
charge of the boys at all times. A lec
ture each day will be given to the en
tire company. The boys will attend In
squads, and they will assist in turn at
the fair morning or afternoon and the
balance of tho time will be theirs.
They may assist In the stock judging
rings, In the live stock parade, ticket
taking, etc. After the boys have re
turned home any one may write an
essay of not over 1,000 words and sub
mit the same for prizes, the best four
to receive a pair of calves each (all of
the same breed), next best four to re
ceive a pair of sheep each, next four
to receive a pair of hogs each, the next
best four to receive one bushel of seed
corn each, the next best four to re
ceive one-half bushel of seed corn.
Prizes will also be offered at the fair
a year later for the best results boys
can show from their prizes for 1911. A
circular letter to the boys appointed
will give all details as to what they
should bring to the fair, etc. This idea
is a good one and was hearUly Indors
ed by the New York state grange. The
practical working out of the plan will
be watched with considerable Interest
by those who believe In giving farm
boya the benefits of such practical ob
servations and education.
GRANGE TO JAKE A HAND.
Organization to Aid In Fight Against
Tuberculous.
The New York state grange is taking
an active interest in the fight against
tuberculosis. At a conference recently
held between F. N. Godfrey of Olean,
master of the organization, and a
special committee on tuberculosis ap
pointed by the grange, with E. A.
Moree, director of the extension work
of the State Charities Aid association,
plans were made for carrying the coun
ty hospital propaganda into the rural
districts of the state. The committee,
which Is composed of W. N. Giles of
Skaneateles, J. W. Scott of Copake and
Charles G. MeLouth of Manchester, de
cided to send a letter to the 700
granges of the state, representing a
combined membership of nearly 100,-
000, urging them to ask boards of su
pervisors to Investigate the question
of building tuberculosis hospitals.
The local granges are urged not only
to get the matter before their super
visors, but to see to it that the subject
Is treated entirely on its merits. The
committee also decided to ask local
granges to employ visiting nurses to
care for tuberculosis patients In the
homes and to popularize the county
hospitals. County physicians will be
asked to comply with the law requir
ing the reporting of every case of tu
berculosis and to disinfect the prem
ises after the death or removal of a
paUent
Busy Grange.
State Lecturer McKeen of Maine in
speaking of the discussions In the
grange says that out of 260 reports re
ceived from 440 granges in the state
it was learned that 10G.041 bad attend
ed about COO meeUngs, bad listened to
over 5,000 speakers, 610 addresses, 459
essays, COS grange papers, over 2,000
recitations, over 6,000 musical selec
Uons and more than 6,000 readings and
recitations.
Grange Newt Notei.
"Are co-operating marketing associa
tions nractlcal and desirable?" Is a
good question for discussion in the
grunge.
The record for charter membership
far as known Is held by a new
grange at Greigsvllle, N. Y.. which or
ganized with 203 charter members.
Eureka cranee of New York offers
$100 In prizes for the best acre of corn
grown this year by any of its mem
bers. That is certainly a practical
way to inspire new Interest in corn
growing.
The national grange legislative com
mittee consists of N. J. Bachelder of
New Hampshire, T. C. Atheson of
West Virginia and Aaron Jones of In
diana. They look after grange inter
ests at Washington.
George T. Towell, a prominent mem
ber of the grange and president of the
Agricultural Experts' Association of
New York, is in favor of Canadian rec
iprocity and believes that, while the
farmer may suffer some temporarily.
In the long run he will not be the loser
thereby. All eyes will be turned on
Washington during the extraordinary
session of congress, as no subject is
now more widely agitated among the
granges than this of reciprocity of
farm products with Canada,
When a meidcine must be given to
young children it should be pleasant
to take. Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy is made from loaf sugar, and the
roots used in its preparation give it a
flavor similar to maple syrup, making
it pleasant to take. It has no superior
for colds, croup and whooping cough
For sale by all good dealers.
Take time to look'into every project
that is suddenly sprung on yon.
Life's greatest successes come oat of
the most careful consideration.
NEWS OF OREGON.
As the result of eating half a bottle
of digitalis tablets, the 4-year-old
rianol.t.T nf H.PV And Ml H. W.
Davis of Euneuo nearly lost her life
last week.
Fred Davis on last Thursday shot
and killed a erar eagle that measured
six feet and ten inches from tip to tip.
He had gone over to the North Fork
of the Clackamas to look over some
land and ha1 a small dog with hiui.
The eagle attached the dog and Fred
shot it. EHtacada Prognss.
Portland will have its annual dog
show April 2tt-2l, when canines ot
high dergee from the whole North
west will ba exhibited. The coming
show will be the biggest ever held
Micro fnr Alrendv more than 200 does
have bene entred and more are ex
pected.
nronnn haa mnrA ar.Anrlina mnrnlinnr-
- n
able timber than any other state in
the Union. There are approximately
three hundred and sixty-seven billion
faat. hnarri mnnnnrA. nf Rt.AndinflT tim
ber in Oregon, eighty per cent of
which is located in western Oregon.
Ti'ivi.ai0hrlia nf Orecnn'fl fnrtv t inn-
.and snnnrn miles nf timbered Area
has been set aside as forest reserve.
Marion F. Locsey of Upper Klamath
Lake has jnpt closed a deal with
M. L. Eriikson, supervisor of the
Crater National Forest, for the pur
chase of ao.000.000 feet of fine timber
ou that forest reserve. The laud lies
on Seven-Mile creek and embraces
a.iOO acres heavily timbered with yel
low and suaar pine, Douglas and
white nr. The price paid for the
timber is: Yellow and sugar pine.
$3.25 per thousand ; Douglas fir, $3.20,
and white fir, $11. So.
J, B. Goodman, one ot the pioneers
ot Benton county, recalls that it
snowed there on the night of the 13th
of April, 1862 He remembers this
particularly because he was camped
out north of Corvallia and when he
awoke in the morning found every
thing covered with snow. Mr. Good
niau came to Oregon iu 1852 and haB
been in Corvallis since 1854. He says
it lias snowed in April at different
times but, with one exception, it has
not before snowed so late in the
month.
(Jnvnrnnr West, has nnnnintad Ben.
W flln.nrr. it. Renn hlipAn. tn hfl Aenre-
tary of state in place of the late
Frank Benson, and the Oregonian
rlnnea it. that, Governor West entered
into a political alliance with Olcott
with the hope ot uicott ODtaining tne
Republican nomination for re-election
in 1913 and in turn planned for Oloott
to swing his foroes to aid in re-eleot-ing
West in 1914.
Tho hnrlr nt Wilhnr Uhilders. who
was drowned in the Clackamas river
the first oi this month, was round
Monday morning by Clyde Schock, a
lunr.rhmun in t,iin hack water of the
Oazadero dam, near Estacada, Ibbs
than a mile below tne place wuere
the young man met death. Schock
saw the body through a water-glass
and recovered it by grappling.
Book Much Sought For.
"T.ifo onr! Tta ffnnntBr Cnrrents. "
from the pen of Rev. George W.
Swope, pastor of Central Baptist
Church, cf Norfolk, Va., is attracting
considerable attention, especially
r-m fha rolioinnH nrpRH onri hv nnm-
potent critios, is considered one of the
best productions iu tne religious lit
eratures of the times.
While strictly classed, Mr. Bwope's
Knnb wnnlrl ha nnnflidarprl a r.hAnlnffi.
cal production, it is not written! in a
foMminAl niAnner And will fAfineal
strongly to secular readers, and it can
easily be graspea ana ' louowea.
Whille "Life and Its Counter Cur
rents' is reading of the "more solid
sort," and for this reason naturally
will not appeal to the "skimmers"
nnri lnvArd nf IliA liirhr.Ar fnrmfl nf lit
erature, the subject are interestingly
handled, snow aeep tuongm, ana me
'tvle is excellent. The book has een
well named, Mr. Swope dealing intel-
lumntlv with life hnth from a reli-
l'F."LV . , . , ... .
giouB and Becular standpoint, pointing
out dearly and distinctly the many
counter currents mankind come in
contact with, their dangerB aud where
they lead. The attention of the read-
ia mn.inrAinp.ri Anrl the themes han
dled quickens the mind and heart to
better things, nobler tnougnia ana in
spires to a better life.
Mr. Swope is ortnonox in ms nanii
ling of the subjects he discusses. The
'new idea " men in tneoiogicai mini
ng will find nothing to bolster up
rlint Urn rnnrn ni-thnrlnx have labeled
as new "thinking symbol", " and yet,
in "Life and Irs Counter Currents"
there ia a quietness to many things
imlri hr fha ri ml t tnrll v narrow in the
ological thinking, and givesjevideuce
of the close student oi religion ior
iimself, along sane ana rational
inpa tha Iiai-itip merlinm between
the dogmas of the Jpast and ;"span
trlai" nf tha new The bonk is at
tractively gotten out by the publish
ers and is a neat volume.
Rev. Swope was a former resident
' Oregon City, having been engaged
i fha law nrartfinp with K V RvflnA.
aud is a brother of Mrs. Chas. Ogls-
by ot tins piace.
The book is meeting witn a popular
tie everywhere, and many are being
lbscribed for in tnis city through
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PLOWS UP A
PETRIFIED KNOT.
Fragment of Vegetable Growth
is Eternal Stone.
An interesting specimen of some
of nature's whimsical handiwork was
exhibited at Dallas, says the' Observ
er. In appearance it was just a frag
ment of an ordinary fir knot, yellowed
by decay, bnt when taken into the
hand its weight very quickly showed
it to be of stone. Otherwise it bore
little resemblance to being of mineral
formation. The grain of the original
wood was distinct and perfeot, aud
the "whorls" and twists and oddities
of growth were as clearly shown as
when it had ben ea part of a living
tree.
When a small silver was broken off
the "line of oleavage," as the geolo
gists oall it, it followed the course of
the fiber of the wood, and instead of
breaking or cracking it siinpl; split
away. It was a very line example or
petrifaction, and was plowed up a
few days ago by Mr. Macomber while
he waB breaking a piece of new
ground on his farm. It weighed two
pounds and one ounce.
On the same spot he also turned np
an anoient Indian pestle, , about eiuht
inches in length, which showed the
marks of long usage in the daily prep
aration of'l;the aboriginal mess of
breakfast food.
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Real Estate
For Sale
"At Live and Let. Live Prices"
INVESTIGATE THIS!
FARMS IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Three miles from Oregon City Court House. Near macadam
road. Two small houses and one large dwelling, new barn,
new tences, stream of water, spring by barn, 60Tacres cultivat
ed, all tillable, family orchard, school mile, north elope,
no rock, wood for household use, sightly location, soil all fer
tile. Price $110 per acre, half or one-third cash, balance
terms.
All tillable, at head of Dickey's Prairie on MoIallaRiver,
trout oteek ruuniug through it, spring by barn, 5 room house,
small orchard. 10 acres clear, some timber, 180 acres level,
fertile soil, good stock range adjacent, good roads, near power
station of proposed Molalla Railroad. Price $25 per acre, half
or one-third cash, balance terms.
All tillable, none cleared, mile east of Needy, good road,
stream of water, good farms adjacent, small brush and timber
easily cleared. Clear land adjoining worth $100 per acre.
Price $30 per acre, half or one third cash, balance terms.
At Mulinn, near Molalla rtad and river, 1 acre clear, small
barn, sightly building place, on macadam road, saw mill and
flour mill i rnilo, all rich garden land, small Btream through
it, part on bench and balance along stream, R. P. D. by door,
timber fir household purposes. Price $0 per aore, halt or oue
third cash, balance terms. -
Adjoining city limits of Willamette, 8 acres dear, 5 acres low
and bulance sloping on bench, no buildinge, all rich fertile
75 ACRES.
200 ACRES.
40 ACRES.
28 ACRES.
14 ACRES.
land, oaiittiiig up mi Hronnd it. Price $250 per acre, half or
one-third cash, bnliuce terms.
HOUSES AND LOTS
5 ROOMS. Falls ipw, sightly corner,
$300, half nr one-third rash,
8 ROOMS. Oregon City. 10th and Jefferson, two stories, good condition.
close in town. Price $1100,
month, 6 per cent interest.
6 ROOMS. Mouta Villa, corner l"t 30x105, outbuildings, all eood condition.
worth $2000. Price $1S00, half or one-third cash, balance $15 a
month.
FOR. TRADE OR EXCHANGE
60JACRES. Near Scio, Linn county, 8 acres clear, old house and barn
spring, two county roads, some timber, good fruit land, all on
north hill slope. Price $25 Der acre.
160 ACRES. Near Merlin, Josephine
a., a,, gooa timoer, no clearing, trice $2000.
160 ACRES. Near Clackamas River, some timber, good soil, near sawmill,
worth $15iX).
160 ACRES. Trinity county. California, 21,' millions Sugar Pine. $2000
The above prices have been tlmrougMy tested and everv itm mnrinnd
is positively a gopd targain and if not
the property cheerfully refunded.
JOHN W. LODER., Owner
Stevens Building. Orezon Citv. Ore.
Dotn ieiepnones
President, TITLE &. INVESTMENT CO.
The Clackamas County Abstracters
MOLALLA VALLEY
PORTLAND SUBURB '
Macksburg Correspondent Sees
Big Things Ahead.
People in this seotion of the coun
try are rejoicing over the progress of
the Clackamas Southern Railway.
There is no other stretch of Jand as
near Portland as this that can com
pare with this valley in soil and other
advanatages for farming. A road
will make the Molalla valley practi
cally a suburb of Portland.
With three roads fighting for this,
and one actually under construction it
is certain that this section will come
to its own. Macksburg Oor. to Canby
Tribune.
The correot treatment for cuts,
burns, scalds, wnnnds, sores, lumba
go, rheumatism or neuralgia is 1SAL
L RD'S SNOW LINIMENT. It is
healing, penetrating and antiseptic
which is everything that is needed to
effect a complete cure. Price 25o, COo
and 11.00 per bottle. Sold by Jones
Drug Go.
were discovered was formerly a por
tion of the old Harris donation land
claim in Oakdale. The immediate
vicinity of the newly cleared land
seems to have been a favorite haunt
of Indians, as numbers of arrow heads
have been found there from time to
time.
new barn, good condition. Price
balance terms like rent.
payable $200 cash, balance $15 a
Co.. stream of water, Smiles of S. P.
found so all expenses for looking at