QON CITY CO OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRDAY, MAY 12, 1911. 29th YEAR. Nof 1. ORE TOH1RO I II VV II II I vT . THIN OUT THE F City is Full of Useless, Worthless Canines. DANGEROUS AS WOLF PACK, City Should do What Poisoner is Trying to Do. Theru is mighty little difference be tween a dog poisoner and a dog, and the distinction is in favor of the am raal. Any city can get along without either, but it is a lot easier to get rid of the dog than the suoak who drops the poison. Kid the oity of dogs and the poiBoner loses his job. What possible use or encase is there " for a drove of animals in a city the ' writor conld never see. There would be as rnuoh sense in opening the doors " of a contagious hospital and turning the patients loose on the people as in having a bunch of n eless, many times vicous and otteu old and ugly mongiola to run our streets. There is hardly anything so awful to contemplate as hvdrophobia, and the terrible resultant death of convul sions The life of one little child is worth more than every flea-ladenert purp in all Oregon, or more than every household pet or blooded canine with a pedigree a tod long. We are not excusing the dog poison erhe is far more dangerous than the dogs and he is more diffioult to catch than a poatoilioe thief. But if we hadn't the dogs, we wouldn't have this poisoner aud we have no use for the dogs. Last week strychnine covered meat wbb thrown out in different parts of the city. The object was to kill dogs, and it whs suocessfol in a measure. But the thought of this deadlv poison scattered around where a littlo child would be as likely to find it, and eat it, as would a dog well, it makes one shudder, aud think of a rope and a telegraph p' le. There should be a dog tux so high and a dog ordinance so rigid that it would be mighty expensive to Keep dogs here, and iu this way thin them out. Our bushier streets swarm with them and on the heights they are about as thick as residents, And the danger is in t'e pet the family dog that has grown old and be comes vicious without your knowl edge. Today the little tot plays with him aud crawls over him, and toinor row he may bite and canso death. And the danger is in the tramp dog. tho hnmclef" va' oud, tlmt comes iuto tiwu, and wh(5 may be inoculated with the dread mad virus. Dng owning aud dog poisoning can both bo easily discouraged in this oity, and those in authority shonld appply the remedy. DOG LOOK UPON OUR COMPANY AS A SOUND ADVICE We have no control over the wires, fixtures, lamps, m tors and other electrical appliances on your premises. But we can advise you as to the best methods of installation and can give you the benefit of the most scientific thought on all electrical questions. Our experts can tell you how to get ths most and the best 1 ght and power for the least money; what appliances are the most economical and ef ficient, aud can otherwise assist you in many , va3's. It costs you nothing to consult the experts of our Contract Department. N Telephone Main 6688 A 6131 Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.. Seventh and Alder Streets SOME THINGS WE MAY DO. A Suggestion or Two for a Bigger City. A movement we believe would do more toward building up our city than all the booster programs you can put on and at the same time be a pay iuor investment to the promotem would be a company or association of local capital, to build houses to rent A oity can't grow without houses, and in a manufacturing city there 1b a Dermanout demand for medium priced tenement houses, or flats. They will never be vacant. Today there are three applicants for every routing house, and there is a daily enquiry at the Courier office for houses to rent. This shortage of houses simply forces people out ot towu, while we snoulel Do giving them every inducement to become res idents here. It does not require a big capital to put a company in shape to build some houses. here. It could be starred in a small way and gradually enlarged, as the undertaking proved an investment, And that'it would prove a profitable investment there is no dount, provld ins that capable men were at the head cf it, and houses were built that could be rented for a reasonable price aud pay a reasonable interest on the investment. It seems to us this matter is one that should be looked into. If con veniently located lots are not to be hHtTreadily, then three is the proposi tion of flat buildiugB. buildings built for a half dozen families on one floor, ml built two or three storied high. While this proposition does not build an a town as fast as single residences, yet as an investment it is far ahead. And then there is yet another prop osition that has proven a big winner to any town where it was ever tried and carried out honestly a building and loan aasociation a company or ganized to build a house for any man who has a little capital, and let him pay it out in weekly installments. Such an organization is a big invest ment for both the city aud the pro moters - Anyhow we need, and mast pro vide, more places for living if Oregon Oity is to grow. Think it over. .We'll Catch On Later Postmastr General Hitchcock gives it out that every money order post office in the United States will be made postal savings banks as fast as thi department can extend the service, and this means that Oregon Oity will have the system later on. La Grande is the in ti st Oregon town to get the bank, and it will be established June 1 Unknown persons broke .into the Armory at Corvallis laet week and carried away a considerable quantity of the equipment used by the members of the cadet regiment. A modern utility organization insists on know ing that its service is satisfactory. Service cannot be satisfactory if a patron uses more electricity than he needs. Therefore we encourage the intelligent and economical use of our service so that the consum er will get FULL VALUE FOk HIS EXPEN DITURE. " MQLALLA PEOPLE ARE GETTING IN Want Railroad Work to Start at That End. SAY THEY WILL RAISE MONEY Looks as if Work will Start all Along the Route. Everything looks bright in the Mo lalla valley for the new railroad and present prospeota are that work will very soon oommenoe at that end and work this way. The people are en thusiastic aud in dead earnest a con dition that builds lailroads. At the meeHng held there Saturday last, the Molalla people sot rielit down to business, and the disposition shown to at once go ahead with the work ib highly pleasing to the aireo tors. Two years ago the Molalla people took hold of the railroad project in dead earnest and came througn witn liberal Btocksnbscriptions. They now state they will do equally will with the present nroiect. and if they do, the dirt will Boon be flying at that end. They have appointed commit tees to see what can be done in the way of stock subscriptions, and at an other meeting to be held next week, the matter will take d unite snare. That the railroad is certainty, there ic no doubt It is organized right and the men behind it are going to see that the. work goes through and that it is done honestly. The matter of when it will be completed is tlje issue. It will not cost a dollar more to push it all along the line at the same time than to commence at one end and build it as luudi are avail able. It is simply a question of one year or live years, and that question ieuD to the farmers aud property owners between Oregon City and Mo lalla to decide. As a business policy there is but one answer. lor twenty five years Molalla has lived on hopes and rumors of a riilroad. Mow t' e reality is at their doors. It is a mat t'T of cash aud labor, ai d there is little doubt that these will be provid ed and the road completed this year. A $25,000 HOME. Elks Have Started Work on Big Undertaking. The Elks are feeling very good over the way stock subscriptions are com ing in, and that Oregon Oity will have a new $ 225.C0O building and the Elks a handsome home, look bright. Already over $5,000 has been sub scribed and the committee is in high spirits. The proposition looks good as an investment and so far funds are coming dead easy. SOURCE OF REBELLION STARTS UP IN ALASKA. Desperate Men will Try Self Protection. Things are looking nasty up in Alaska, and if our vacillating, weak kneed administration does not come out of it and take active steps to straighten things out, there is land prospects of a lively little rebellion in our wing possesions. There are five thousand volunteers kin Alaska openly dotyiug the govern merit, and they state tney will no longer stand for the government's do nothing policy in the matter of tho coal lands and other valuable re sources The leaders cf the uprisini claim the government owns these northern coal htuds and that the gov eminent agents have been a party to a flim-flam game of the big private interests; that tiie government will not enforce the laws; that their re peated requests for justice have teen Ignored lor yearn, aud that if the gov ernment will not protect them they will protect themselves. It is claimed that already over $100, 000 has been raised to bark the in vestors and miners in this desperate undertaking, aud unless the govern ment comes out of its trance and at onoe gets besy with a little justice for Alaska, there ars prrspects of a lively little lebelliou up there a rebellion that will be supported bv unauimous sympathy and a considerable ooin. YOU ARE WANTED AT THE CLUB. The Railroad Men Want You Friday Night. Friday night of this week, at the Commercial Club, the directors of the Clackamas Southern railroad will hoi 1 a pnblio meeting fcr the purpose of showing to the people of Oregon City what this railroad will mean to our city and to the business interests and everv man who has an iuterest in the city's welfare shonld be there right np on the front seat?. The liien interested in this work want to show the Oregon Oity people that this work menus a whole lot to the city; that it will opeu one of the richest sections of the county and make this oity the outlet; that this city will be the market place for tha big timber trscts this road will open; that it will bring trade, produce, lnmbir. wood, logs aud money to thiB citv and that it will boom our oity and add to the value of real estate far more than any factory or industry that could be located. This is just an outline of what the directors want tc jint n to you Fri day night, and every loyal citizen, business man or property owner shonld be there Friday night A Pleasing Success. The cantata, "Rod Riding Hcod," whioh took place in the Shively opera house lost evening was a decided suo- oess, financially and otherwise. About 100 children took part. Uracil one carried out his character splen didly. The different choruses were exoellent and showed good training. The costumes were very elaborate, and helped very much toward making the entertainment sncoessful. This evening "The Gypsy Queen" will take pUce at the opera-house. Both cantatas are nuder the direction of Mr. and Mis. Simpson of Chicago, and are given under the auspices of the King's Daughters of the Episro pal chnroh. The costums were bIbo furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Simpson. "The Gypsy Queen" is composed of an older cast, aud promises to draw as large a orowd, if not larger than "Red Riding Hood." ; About 136 young people are in the cast. City Council Transactions. There was a special meeting of tbe citycounoil Monday "night, presided over .by .President Andresen, in the ab.-euoe ot Mayor Brownell. Tho ordinance recently passed giv ing A L. Beatie a 35 jear gas fran chise was accepted by Mr. Beutie, aud ordinano-rs worn passed providing for the sale ot bonds for the improvement of Twelfih tsreet, swer work in dis trict No. 6 on Ninth and Taylor streets and the improvement of Twelfth street at Water street, and an ordinance Jproviding for a concrete culvert ou John Adams street between Fourteenth and Fificeuth streets was also passed. Honors for Our High School. Tun Orpirnn Oltv hiuh school stu dents won honors at the Clackamas School League contest at Gladstone hall Saturday night, the .essay con test. "The Work of Jacob Riis" by Marion Money, aud the oratorical contest, "The Judgment Day," by Eula Schaebel. The contest was a decided success and highly interesting aud live high schools and four grammar school? were represented. The essay contest of tbe grammar schoools Jwas won by Marry A. French of Farkplaon Hit subject was, "Ancient and Modern Warfare." Roberta 8chubel won the oia'orical fcontest of the rg ram mar schools. Hit subj-ct was "Nauhgty Zell." Catching Suckers The Albany Democrat says tha up on Cedar Flat beyond Waterloo some where there is said to be an orchard proposition, according to reports in the commercial club a treeless affair in which five and tun acre tracts are sold to outside people, out of sight and unseen. If the statement is correct, buyers do not get much for their mon ey. Some Spokane men are said to be at the back of it. The land was bought very cheap and is being sold at a high price. One man who has been up tiiat way said it would be hard to get on tbe property. 1 BUILDING . TO BE ERECTED Contract Let for Main St. Publicity Building. COMMERCIAL CLUB'S WORK. A Movement That will Adver tise Clackamas County. Plans and specifications are ready and the contract has been let by the Commercial Olub for a publicity building to be built ou the Weiuhard lot, adjoining the building ocoupied by the Courier, and work on the bnilaiug will commence within a few days. The building will be a handsome bungalow plan. 20x24, one story, with projecting roof. The street front will have double glass doors, large plate glass windows, single glass deor at end in fact two sides of the building ...111 i n i . , . win I'd pincuciury giuss Hna a nor a xplondid lighting. Inside there will be two loug exhibit tables, three sec tions high, an information counter, a private omoe ana store room. This building will provide what thiB oity sadly needs, a publicity place that people can find, and we predict it will be the best investment the (Jonimeroial Olub ever made. Centrally looated, it cannot holp but attraot attention, and exhibits equal to riooa Kiver can be provided. Then, too, it will be a most conven ient county and oity information nurean, where any stranger can set the information he is looking for, The publicity department of the Commercial Olub has always been handiospped by its present location. A fourth Moor is no place for adver tising, and the best of efforts can make but a poor showing on so high a roost. In the new quarters results arc sure to come, and Secretary La zelle is impatient to get where he ran make a showing. IF YOU WANT TRADE HITCH THE HORSES A Farmer Cives Business Men Few Pointers. The following letter from one of the foremost farmers of this teotion, was received yesterday. It doesn't need any comment The matter is op to the city to bring trade here or dirve it) fl w & y ' Oregon City." May 11, 1911. Eoitor Courier I notice with pleasure your attempt to stir op the oity dads, also the bus iness meu, to the crying need of more hitching room for farmers' horses. It does seem strange to me that the at tention of the business men has to be called to this great litok of aooinmoda tious Cannot they see, or are they bo blind that they will not see the amount of trade that is lost to the oity? Do not the members of the Oommeroial Olob, of Oregon Oity, who are attracting people from all over the onion to our beautiful oity, see the need of keeping us here, now that we are here? Do they not real ize that some little accommodations ought to be shown to the farmers, who are the very backbone of this great country? Oannot the directors of the Olaoka mas Southern Railway, who are reaohing out to attract othei business to our city for fear that some other oity may gobble it up, see that after having seoured business they should strive to keep that business instead of allowing it to go to Portland? Maybe they don't realize the vast amount that does go away from Oregon Oity. Now, Mr. Editor, let us see if our oity dadB, the business men, the Com mercial Club and the directors ot the Olackamas Southern Railroad cannot get together and arrange for more hitching room for farmers' teams, ir some day they may wake op to the fact that the farmers will go and do tlitlr trading at towns that are a lit tie more willing to accommodate their best patrons. Respeotf oily, ANOTHER FARMER. A Graduating C ass of Twenty. The high school has a strong class of graduates fur next month, a class of twenty, and the commencement ex ercises now be ng arranged will be an event looked forward to. Presi dent E. H. Crooks of Albany College will deliver the baccalaureate address in Shively 'g opera hoore. The following students make np the 1911 graduating class: Thornton Wayne Howard, Frederick K. Baker, Kay Stanley Welsh, Milton George Nobel, Maude Alice Park, Hazel M. Tooze, Harold Avery Smith. J. Both- well Avisun, Madge Brightbill, Ber- nioe Dawson, luhel uhoda Hursifull, Ray Leslie Scott. Zeta Mae Andrews, Louise Alvina Matilda Deute, Mar garet Jane MoOulloch, Frank Giltert Olark. Fav O. Batdorf, Evelyn Hard ing, Ethel Kidder, and Bess Warner. Splendid Outlook for Chautauqua Willamette Valley Ohautauqua thh year opens July Fourth and the n an agement have planned numerous good features not only tor the opening day, bat for the days to follow as well. On tne oiiening day Gabriel Maguire of Cleveland will lecture and also Ex Governor Richard Yates, of Illinois, will give a fine discourse. These two are especially good features of the season and old Chautauqua friends will be on hand the very first day to drink in from the fountain of learning all that may be obtainable "I have been somewhat costive, bot Dean's Kegulots gave just the results dasi ed. ihey act mildly and regu late the bowel, perfectly." George B. Krause, 800 Walnut Are., Altoona, Pa. LECTURE COURSE ARRANCED FOR. Strong Cast of Entertain ers are Booked. A representative of the Britt Lyceum Bureau was in the oity Mon day and arranged with the Lyceum Association for a lecture course series for the coming fall and winter, the first unmber starting in October. The Britt lyceum is a high class entertainment bureau, and a hue pro gram will be arranged for this city. There will be one entertainment caoh month, and they will be given in the S hively opeia house. The first number will be the Royal uugiisn uiee Wingers, the original company from England and widely lamea. The second number will be Dr. Ernest J. Sinn, the noted lecturer of Indiana, who is wdl known through oot the eastern states la December Edward Vanoe Cooke, the htunorist and entertainer from Cleveland, will be here. Mr. Cooke is the author of "Impertinent Poems" and a noted writer and fun maker. Next comes the original Virginia Jubilee Singers, a company of colored people from old Virginia, and the best iu their line. Harold Morton Kramer, author and leoturer, and the Edwin R. Weeks ooncert oompany will fill the last two numbers of the oourse. WANT OUR STRAWBERRIES. Buyers Meet Produce Union and Want Entire Crop. 1 The directors of the Oregon City Fruit & Produoe Union met iu their regular monthly session last Tuesday night in the office of the manager. Those present were, President Gio. W. Waldron, O. D Eby, B. Knppen bender, Geo. M, Lazelle, A. J. Lewis, O. W Swallow, Geo. DeBok and M.J. Lazelle. The most important consideration for the directors was the disposal of the strawberry crop. Several buyers were present aud were anxious to ob tain the entire orop( of the Oregon City Union as the berries produced in this section are of a very fine flav or and quality and are Bought after by the dealers. It is understood that with all probability the strawberries of this section will be purchased by the R. F. Honking Co. of Portland.al though as yet no papers have been ex ecuted. Manager H. G. W. Miller reported that the members had used 2000 gal lons of lime sulphur spray already this year and at present he was (lis tributing a senate of lead. ThiB shows that the Union already is having .ef fect opou the methodB of the growers and prospects are that more good fruit will be produced in Clnokamas uounty this year than ever before. The Union has just received a oar load of strawberry boxes from the fac tory and will distribute the same among the growers. Eaoh grower must have his name aud number on the orates and after the berries have been inspected by the manager, the stamp of the Union will also be placed on the orate. This is the first time in the history of Orogon City that strawberry buy ers have been attracted here and, this only goes to show the importance of the Union of thlsseotion. GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Ordinance Before the Council to Compel Full Measure. An ordinance before the city oouu- oil provides for full weights and measures in this oity, and it is an or dinance that shonld be unanimously passed, ana the penalty rigidly en forced. We are not in any way insinuating, but since the high prices started three years ago all over the oountry the dealers tried to meet them by short measure and short weights and the buyer has simply been held up and robbed forced to pay for that whioh he did not get This ordinance before the counoil is a matter that should be taken up by the county, and better by the state. A man should be given that which he pays for, and every household should have a kitchen scales and see that he gets his pounds and ounces. There won't be any recall petitions out II the council passes this orni nance. Entertainment at Clairmont Saturday night of this week the Ulairuiont Literary Society will give an evening full of entertainment' at Beaver Creek Graugo hall. Three short plays will be produced, "Who's Who," "Rosebell's Lovers'' and "Married by the New Justice of the Peace." The Clairmont quartet will furnish muslo and them will be sev eral specialties. The admission is 25o aud 15o. Small childreu free. Race Meet at Canby. Saturday, Jone 8, is the date for a big raoe meet and horse show at Can by, on the county fair grounds. There will be a big parade aud the horse show and parade will be on the streets. Some nf the fastest horses of the state will be entered. Our Soda Fountain Is F.unning. That Means De licious SODA WATER and HAZELVOOD ICE CREAM JONES DRUG COMPANY INCORPORATED THE DEPEXDMiLB DRUG STORE L LS After Judge Beatie and Commissioner Blair. BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY. Here are the Trouble Issues, Pick Your Side. Petitions asking for the recall of County Judge Beatie and County Ooiu missioner Blair are In circulation thru out the county, and it is olaimed by those favoring the reoall that about 2000 have already been obtained, a sutfloient number for the call of a special eleotion for the county. It appears that the dissatisfaction arises over the matter of highway work in the county, aud no doubt lat er developments will preseut both sides of the matter more in detail and the voters will then be able to arrive at conclusions. At present they are waiting. Those against whom the recall is directed state that the trouble arises through disgruntled supervisors, and because of the efforts of Judge Beatie to put Clackamas conuty roadbuilding on a permanent basis. It is claimed that thousands of dollars have been wasted iu this coonty in past years in poor road construction, and that the aotlon of the oonuty oourt inohauging the system, the appointment of Frank Jaggar to direot thelroad work of the county, and other changes and reforms, have caused resentment by the road supervisors, and that they and their friends are making the trou ble. Heretofore the supervisors have had their own way in highway con struction and the claim is that they don't propose to take orders from Mr. Jaggar, and that they don't like his new road construction methodB. The above is on ) side of the story of trouble. Here's the other end: Those favoring the reoall give as one " of the grievances the reckless buying of new road machinery, without com petitive bids, it is said that there are Bix rock crushers now iu the county, only three of which are iu use. Another protest is against spending vast sums of money on roads adjaoent to Oregon Oity, and the porohase of road machines so heavy that they can not be taken over the bridges to the other parts of the county. , It is stat ed that the machines oaunot bo taken south of the Molalla river, and the farmers of that section, who are heavy taxpayers, are compelled to pay heavy taxes for road work that does not benefit. Another protest is that a young man from Portlaud was brought hereto ex amine the suspension bridge and that an order for I860 was drawn to pay him for his work of lees than one day. Another is that new bridges have boen built, oosting over $200 without competitive bids. The recall advocates also make the statement that the Commercial Olob of this oity has not had anything to do with the matter, and is not stand ing behind the county otnoials; that the Live Wires some time ago aked for a practical road engineer to set grade stakes, supervise outs an fills, look over roads petitioned for, look over bridges, and to generally system atize the worn ; that the court refused the appointment and on its own initi ative appointed Frank Jagger as road master to supervise the supervisors. These are both sides of the matter as the Coorier gets it, and the out onme will be watched with interest. PUTTING THE LID ON. Reform Movements in City are Coming Thick and Fast. A petition with several hundred signatures is iu circulation and will soon be presented to Mayor Brownell and the couucil asking for the passage of an ordinanoe prohibiting treating in any saloon in the oity. It Is being circulated by Uarley C. Stevens aud his friends, aud they are sangoiue that the counc il will grant the request. An ordinance now before the city oouuoil provides that the pool rooms shall have unobstructed glass fronts, and that all gambling and games of chance shall be prohibited, whioh to gether with the receut home rule sa loon ordinance, looks as if Oregon City was in the reform work iu dead earnest. Teachers' Institute Saturday A teachers' institute for Clackamas county will be held iu the Barolay school building Saturday of this week commencing at 10 o'olock, About one hundred teachers are expected. A full program is arranged aud a beneficial meeting is expected. The ladies of the Wouiau's Club, assisted by the teachers, will serve a dinner in the Oommeroial Olub hall. Card of Thanks We wish to thank oor many friends for kindness extendod during the ill ness and death of our son. Mr. aud Mrs. Herman Miller. A loose board too often squeaks loudly of loose methods. in COUNTY OFFICII