COURI 29th YEAR. OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1911. No OREGON CITY """ ' WIT ISjMEND? There are Every Day and Sunny Day Kinds. THE MAN WHO RINGS TRUE Who Stands by Until tic Last Whistle Blows is the Friend. When things break rinlit for yon, when you oan wear tailor-made glad rags, smoke threo-for-a quarter, drink ohampaane and toll the ohaffour to brieg the benzine bugav around to the club at 8:80 well you won't want for friends. When a man lias a golden hod he doesn't --have to carry it. There are plenty to drink his champagne and help to spend his washers. He's all aces as loug as the golden coins rob together in liis parse and his friends will stay by like dies around the mo lasses barrel. But suoh friends are only the royal flash variety and the niiunto yon hit the clintes they will quit you as rats quit a sinking ship As Klla Wheeler Wilcox says : "Drink and the gang drinks with yon, Swear off aud you go it alone." But once in a while a real friend will bob np, one of those thousand year friends, eighteen knret, solid gold, who will slay with you until there is good ice skating in the warm place; And if you have such a friend, keep lnni, merit his friendship. They are few and you don't want to waste them. In this game from sliufllo to cash in, better known as life, there are times when the most of ns will get up against the rugged edge, up against conditions that will have us facing sideways, and where everything goes dead wrong. And this is the time that separates the fair day and the stand by friends. I'd rather have one man who would come across when I whistled, one friend who would stay by whether it shone or snowed than an army of the champagne guzzlers who fade away like Diaz's friends. The man who stands by when yon couldn't buy a cupful of water if the Willainet'e river was offored for a quarter ; the fellow who goes against the collar with you and helps you to pull out thut's the kind of stuff. The suuny-day friends are; leeches, not friends. They hang around until the drinks and lunch are served and then hike out. Tlioy are of jast about as much weight as a font hur fan in stopping a cycloue or a lunger in a prize fight. It's almost worth goii.g broke to get rid of them. But the man who will always back your plav, who is there with the help when you are trying to come back to life. He's the friend. Keep him. Mr'. A. B. Oonibs, a former resident of this city, is seriously ill at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland. To Yourself? To Your Family ? To Your Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. Seventh and Alder Streets LIKE TO BE FOOLED. A Little Incident that Proves the Wisdom of Barnum. Baruuui never said a truer thing thau that the American people like to be humbugged. Or pernaps 'twas U'lleu who said it, bat it doesn matter. The other day the Courier made an interesting display of Oliff Dwellers relics in the front window a display of gonuine renoi that the writer him sell took from the abandoned Puye Cliffs of the Jamee plateau in JNew Mexico. The diplay attriaoted considerable attention, and one of the wags in the office thought he would break it np, no he grabbed a whisp ot hay from passing wagon, pat it beside the rel ids in tue window ana iaoeiea it "Hoy. over 3.000 yean old." And it went. Man after man and woman After woman stopped, glanced at the genuine historio relies and then lamped from the stone age to com uion old Oregon hay or tue present day with never a question or doubt. Yes, we like to have the spear throwed into ui, but not spears ot grais. We've been brought np so, and we like it. Next time you look at the counter fuit, catch the dtoimal point that the hay is two and no one-thousandths years old, and then laugh at yourself. ALL BUT FATHER. He Doesn't Get a Raise, but He Pays th Others' Raise. Teachers in tht different grades in tliii city want more wags-want a 25 per cent increase and the high sohool instructors want a raise to $00 per month. You can't oritioiie them for asking for the raise. They need it and we all need it. Our dollars hare lost half of their purchasing power and we want more of them to make np the loss. Ordinarily such a condition is met by ndvanciug the price on the output, and granting the raise, but the output of the schools cannot be measured in ready dollars and cents, so trust meth ods can't be applied. And the farmer, the workman, the merchant and property owner want to know where their raise is ooming from to meet the increase in the teachers' wages Eminent Speaker Coming. Sunday, June 18, a noted Christian Science lecturer will be at Shlvely's opera house, Franics J. fluno. M. D., a of Boston, and the society ex tends to all a cordial inTitation to hear the address. The leotore is free and there will be no collection taken. Miss Eula Sohubel will leave short ly for Arizona, where she will ipend her vaoation, viiitiDg with relatives. M Somebody hai propoied an ordinance in favor of whick the people of Portland are asked to vote, Monday June 5. It makes it unlawful for you to board a car in which there is no vacant seat. It makes you liable to arrest if you do so. It sub jects this company to a fine if it permits you to do so. In other words, if you are in a hurry t get home, catch a train, go to your work, attend .the theatre or visit friends, even if you are willing to stand in a car, you will not be permitted to do so. If you and your wife are standing on a street corner, waiting for a car, you must remain there until one comes along that has two vacant seats. Or, she may board a car with one vacant seat and you may get along the bsst way you can. Are you in fator of such frivolous ordin- ces? READY NOVEMBER Trains will Run to Muli no on This Date. TIE CONTRACS TO BE LET. Something Doing all Along the Clackamas Southern. These bright days make things move in railroad work and from now on every week will- mark material progress on the Clackamas Southern Wednesday a gang was put on at Beaver Creek, next week a crew will start at Mulino, and all the while the force of forty men are working from tins end. All that is now need ed is a big start at Molalla, and the beginning of the end will be in sight. ilie Hardest, slowest and most ex pensive part of the grade work is now over, aud Mr. Swift, chief of the con struct iou department, states that the next three miles of grading can be done in about one-half the time and with one third the expense of the grades out of this city. The contract for the ties will be let this mouth and the officials give it out that traius will be running over the road, as far as Mulino at least, by November 1. Interest is daily increasing all along the line, and it will continue to increase. For years and years the people have lived on railroad rumors and when this work was undertaken they took it on trust they hadn't muoh confidence in it. Now they know it is a certainty, that the road will be built and built soon, and every property owner, aud any num ber of real estate speculators, are tak ing all kinds of notioe of the road's progreps. And don't any of yon ever doubt but what this road will be a big card for Oregon Uitv and a big boom for every rod of land between hare and Molalla. Markets for prodnots regulate the price of land and this road opens to the best markets in Oregon. It takes money to build railroads, ut the mouoy alwiys coineB back where the road fills a demand. The Molulla road today promise? far more thin nnv real estate investment. and the wonder is that the project, now a 1-ertniuty, is not over sub scribed. Salesman Wanted To represent "Irrigation and Land Company of Idaho at Oregon City. We offer nn attractive investment and an attractive fales plan, and can make proposition to a man of standing in this community that beats the high est salary paid in Clackamas county. he right deal for the right mau. Give references when answering this ad. Address Fruitland Acreage Com pany, Ltd., Box 588, Boise, Idaho. Miss Nell,Swafford is visiting tives iu Engeu6 this week. rola' Friends ? -BONES AND STONES. Relics of Poor Lo Unearthed on the Williamette's Banks. When Lo, the poor Indian, was the whole works a'ong the Willamette, when the river salmon bit only Iuh hook and only his camp fire lighted the river's banks, little did he think that the coming white man would di up his hones and pass thein around oity for relics. At the end of Twelfth street, where workmen have been excavating, a nest of relics and hnman cones hae been unearthed, and the finds have been very iutemsting to many of our peO' pie. The skeletons were badly de oayed and the bones crumbled on ex posure to the air, but several fine stone pestles and many finished and unfinished Hint arrow heads were found. A large basin-shaped stone "was round nnaer nve or six leet or sand, the use of which has caused consider able discussion. The stone is about three feet by four and around two sidos of it are niches cut two inches apart. Some claim that, the stone was used to crush oorn, others a table on which to pound hides and some think t was used as a shore anchor, be cause of the niches. Mr. Busch had the stone hauled out and he will pre serve it as a subject on which to dig out unwritten history. Doubtless in some dim day of the past the river bank at this place was a village or camping site of the red men. Years of accumulation and wash from the river has bnried it many feet. But what keeps one guessing is that the skeleton was un earthed three or four feet above where the large stone and stonerelics wore found. It would seem that the burial was made many years after the abandonment ot the camping plaee, and perhaps the hones are but those of a oomnion white mau, buried many years later. To those making the excavation time doesn't drag, tor any shovelful of earth may turn up a handsome arrow head or stone implement, and the interest brings out many tales of old Oregon. FULL MEASURE NOW. Short Weights and Measures are Criminal in This City. Monday evening the city council passed the weights and measures ordi nance, and Mayor Brownell will ap point a board of inspectors of three meij, whose term of office will com mence July 1, and whose duty it will be to quarterly make inspection of the weights and measures used in this city, to determine whether or not they are of standard. The ordinance provides that any person who shall sell anything in Ore Ron Oity that is more than one per cent Bhort of the amount represented, or who shall use any instrument or container in his business that weighs or measures more than one per cent short of that which is the true weight or measure, shall be deemed guilty of a misdeameanor and punished by a fine of not loss than twenty-five dol lars nor more than one hundred dol lars, or by imprisonment in the city jail for not less than twelve nor more than fifty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. This is a rigid bnt just city law. Any person has a right to receive all he pays for, and this ordinance guar antees it to him. But troubles will no doubt follow for the dealers who purchase produce, berries for in stance, from outside concerns, and which the home doalor purohaBes in good faith. READY FOR THE FUN. Everything but Business Goes in Portland Next Week. All Portland is given up to rcse talk and carnival arrangements, and from now to the close of June 10 there is nothing doing but festivals. The big carnival begins next Monday and continues a solid week, and the biggest crowds and the greatest car nival in the city's history is looked forward to This year's spectacle promises to sot a new mark, with better displays, more gorgeous pageants and better decorations of city streets and build ings than ever before. Other Oregon cities will participate to a larger ex tent than formerly and out-of-town people have announced their intention of coming in large unmbers. The city election will distract at tention to some extent from the festi val on June S, opening day, but with that out of the way, the remainder ot the vec.k will be given up to enjoy ment. Portland rose gardens promise to produce a wealth of perfect bloom next week. BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL $40,000 Transfer in County this Week. This A $40,000 real estate deal went through Monday when a 1000 acre tract located in the Springwater dis trict in Olackmas county was sold to a syndioate of Minneapolis capitalists. The traot lies about three miles west of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company's power plant now being constructed on the Clackamas river. The soil is of a red shot vari ety and is considered by orchard tuts to be well adapted to apple-growing. R. F. Fike, repre anting the buyers, eaid it is the intention of the syndi oate t j subdivide the tract into five and ten acre tracts. The property will be offered to Minneapolis aud St. Paul Investors and homebuilders seeking places in Oregon to engage in apple culture. Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum sets you crazy. Can't bear the touob of your clothing. Doan'g Ointment earns the most obstinate cases. Why suffer? All druggist sell it, HE OTHER SI. Supervisor Jagger Makes Answer to Charges. INVITES FULL INVESTIGATION, Says Work is for Best Roads and County's Interests. Last week the Courier commented on the matter of the Enterprise mak ing a rather belated answer to the road work and bridge work of the county, which has been under dis cussion, and invited that paper to go a nttie lartner into the matter aud answer some more of the Questions asked. Road Supervisor Frank Jaeger called at this office this week and stated that he was dead willing and ready to answer any questions regard ing the road and bridge work ot the county: that the people had a right to for information and the officials would willingly answer any questions that were fair and courteous. Mr. Jagger says the rook crushers are all running, that they have all been running when May weather would permit, and that the statement that they stood idle was untrue and unfair. Regarding the purchase of the road maohine at Oak Grove he states that it was purchased under bids; that three different companies competed; that the county court went into the matter thoroughly before purchasing. aud that a Reliance orusher, under a five years guarantee, appeared to be the best investment for the county. ine question oi wnether .JoU was paid to a Portland engineer for a re port on the suspension bridge here. Mr. Jagger says the amount was paid, nut mat tue worK ana report covered nearer three weeks than one day; that the report was complete and com prehensive, and that the county saved money by anting on und following same in reminding the structure He states that new bridges in the county have been erected without bids, but in at least two places the bridges were dangerous; that it was necessary for immediate work and that the court had a full right to take the action it has taken He says this won is open to the fullest investiga tion of anyone or to the grand jury lo determine it the work was in accord anee with law. The charge that the road machines are too heavy to cross bridges and that work is necessarily confined to this part of the county, Mr. Jagger says that the county must not buy maohinery to fit the bridges, but rather fit the bridges to the machin ery. He says it is necessary to have heavy machines to do good work, machines that will stand the require ments and prodnoe results; that the bridges are being strengthened for the maohinea; that often it is necessary to go through fields, as it is with a trao tion engine, but that he can and will take any machine to any part of the county when so ordered. He says the country south of the Molalla river is more sandy and does not need the road work that other parts of the county need. As to whether the Commercial Club stands behind the officials in this con troversy he said he did not know, but that many indviduals of the club had heartily endorsed the oourt'a action in the present system of road work. The last question, as to whether the road work and dealings for two or three years had been as the law di rect!!, Mr. Jagger says that is not for the present officials to answer, as they have been in authority only since January, aud that he, Mr. Jag ger, has beeu in oilice only since March 1. Talking with another man not officially connected with the road work, but in sympathy with the pres ent good roads work, he stated that the present controversy was brought about by envy and spite work; that there was nothing to the recall but bluster, and the whole agitation Is being brought about by men who would rather see someone's cornors clipped than to see good roads in the oounty. DEAD BABY FOUND. Abandoned Infant Found on the Twelfth Street Fill. A matter that has been shrowdod iu mystery and kept as silent as the grave that hideB the baby's body, Is leaking oot around the oity, despite the apparent efforts to conoeal it. Sunday morning at abont nine o'clock the dead body of an infant child was fouud on Eleventh street, where the fill is being made. The baby was found by soveral lit tie children, on their way to churoh, and reported to a neighbor. We loarn that the neighbor buried the body, but later on, tnlnking that an investi gation might be made, the matter was reported to the authorities and coro nor, and the body exhumed. For some reason, perhaps to aid in tracing the person who left the child, the matter has been kept very quiet, and particulars cannot be obtained, but it is to be hoped that an investi gation will locate the presou who left the child on the street and determine whether it was dead when abandoned, or whether left there to die. There are no circumstances which would condone such a heartless, un natural act, and the person or persons nhould be located and vigorously prosecuted. The Hello Hold-up It is the claim of our city couuoil that they are able to regulate the schedules of prices which the people will have to piy for gas, whf n that time comes. Why doesn't this same all powerful council start in on the telephone service in this city. No one would make any cry-out if the rate was lowered jast a little bit here. Do you think they will make a move to remedy the evil? I It's a two to one shot the people have had their rights bartered away, in this instance, and will continue to lyjust what tin trail diotates. DOGS OR CHILDREN? The Danger Days are Here and the Choice is Yours. A live child should be worth a thousand doad docs. Oreeon Oitv Iiub a thousand live dogs (1184 at last: census) and about half as many little ciuidren. It is up to our citizens which to guard, The hot days are here, davs when dogs sometimes go mad iu an hour, and a death by hydrophobia is too horrible to contemplate U we must have dogs, if our streets must be flocked by them, hadn't we better ubo a few safeguards? Hadn't we better give our children the best of the chances? Keep your dog at home, or keep a muzzle on him. See that he has plenty of fresh water, and see that he is fed. Dogs are made mad by want oi water during tue not davs. Anyjdog running the streets unmuz zled sliould be shot. Those who pre fer dogs to ohildren will not like this, but some people think more of chil dren. THIS SOUNDS GOOD. Big lut in Electric Prices are Promised June 15. Whether the recent superme court anti-trust decisions, the Mount Hood tranohiso granted, or just pure geuer osity, nobody knows or cares, but the Portland Light and Power Company gives it out that June 15 they will reduce the price of lighting one-third, ironi lou to 100 per kiliowat hour. And before wo recover from this vinsuspeoted generosity, the company further states that it has some more good things for us. a substantial re ductiou in power rates for consumers; that the completion of the Estaoada plant enables them to make a cut. This news comes as a pleasing sur. prise to our people a sort of an un expected present and the results will no doubt be the installation of eleo trio heaters and flat irons in many homes of the oity. The reductiou announcement ot the power couipauy does not speoify Ore gen uity as in on tins deal, but is (riven out for Portland, bnt of course the same rates will apply to all custo mers, and we will be in for our part of the redu. t on. And we are entitled to a lower rate a rate as low as other plaoes. WANTS TO LOCATE. Kansas City Man Would Build Fruit Evaporating Plant. The Oregon Oity Commercial Club has received a letter from Mr. F. Ruoff, in Kansas City, Mo., asking the prospects of establishing a fruit evai orator in Oregcn Oity or vicinity Mr, Ruoff has made a study along this line and has oonducted an evap orator in his own oity for many years. He rceently sold out his business there, and hearing that Clackamas county was one of the best fruit aud berry plaoes in the country, decided to come here if he could. find a good location. This would.bo a fine thing for Oregon City aud vicinity, as the fruit crop injo large that muoh fruit is caused to go to waste every year. By having an evaporator within reach of the fruit growers, this waste could bo easily eliminated. The Commer cial Club will undoubtedly encourage Mr. Ruoff to come here and look over the oounty for a'looation. LIBRARY NEARY READY Will be Opened to Public as Soon as Classified. All the week Miss Topping, repre sentative of the state library board, assisted by a numbor ot volunteers, has been busily engaged in classifying the new books of the Oregon City li brary, aud it is expected that an nouncement of the formal opening will be made in a few days. Al though the limited means of the asso ciation has provontod the purchase of as many books as the association de sired to start with, they hope as soon as they aro in smooth ruuinng ordor, to keep in touch with the chain of libraries throughout the oouutry and by this means uscertain what publica tions are most sought for by general readers, and in this matter will be able to have on hand choice selec tions from the works of the boat au thors, Howover, they start out with o largo number of the very best books historical, fiction, ohildreu'B books, reforenoe books, etc and when the rooms are finally opened the book lovers of Oregon City will discover a rich harvest in store for for them. "The Lily" at The Heilig. King of Statecraft. David Belasco. salutes Rex Oregouus, King of Carni val, and presents his greatest histri onic triumph, "The Lilv," feeling assurod that no more appropriate tri bute can he offer to the feast of roses than "The Lily" immaculate of fiowersl "The Lily" will be the at traction at the Heilig Theatre during all the festival week, couimenoiua Monday night, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. Isn't the city a rose city these June days? Sunday, at Cunemah Park. Pri Bros, ball team will nlav the Wanna of Poitland, and the visitors are said to bo a fast bunch. The Congregational Brotherhood will hold its last meeting of the sea son next Tuesday night, and all mem- Ders are urged to be present with their fumilies. A banuuet will he served. Deputy Sheriff Frost bronulit U'a;. ley Strueken here from Cherryrille. luesday, on a charge of aHsiinltino John Froel with a horse whip. The hearing has beeupoatjoned until Jane iu dj justice uaaison. filGfSTJ STATE. Williamette Valley Leads all Counties. WHAT AN EASTERNER THINKS. This Part of Oregon Bound to be the State's Garden Spot. Russoll W. Shields and Chris. Fan. sett, Jr., of Blue Mound, Kans., have been making a trip of observation through the Northwest states. They are old Kansas friends of W. H. Holsohu, of ClaokauiHS Heights, and after their return to Kansas, the fol lowing letter, in part, was written of their observations : "Land south of Portland can still be seoured very reasonable and seema by far the best investment. The cli mate in western Oregon is ideal a great portion of the year, we are told, and the winterB are very mild. The Willamette valley extending from Portland south about a hundred miles isconsilored the very best for all lines of agricultural pursuits. Good farming lands can still be secured for $40 aud up. in time this valley is dostinod to be the banner portion of Oregon. "A feature of this oouutry that will be very pleasing to easterners is that building material is very cheap. A small but very comfortable dwelling oan be built for less than $1000, while with expending 11(100 to $2000 one can put up a beautiful home. This cheap ness of building material is a great faotor in the growth of the towns out here and yon will find many beautiful homes on every hand. "I believe that Oregon offers more advantages to eaBtoru people desiring to locate in the West than any of the western states we have thus far visit ed. "It is astounding the high piioeB that orchard land in some nl the noted western districts are commanding. The prices range ironi 11000 to $4000 an acre, depending upon the distauce from town and the variety of apples planted. I have seen sworn state ments of owners of apple orchards that they have received from $800 to $11100 au aore, clear of all expenses, from one year's crop. "I had heard a great deal of south ern Idaho and of the groat opportun ities offered to homeseekers there. The conditions, as we found them, were entirely different from what we had beou led to believe at home. Big irrigation projoots have been put in and they are teclaiming thousands of aoros of land that was considered worthless. fJew towns have sprung up, almost over night, along these projects, aud attained populations of from a thousand up to five thousand within throe or five yeara. Twin Falls. Idaho, six years aero was a lit tle hamlet, aud today has a popula tion of bettor than six thousand peo ple. Handsome brick buildings have been erected, streets paved and it is a inodol little city. "However, practicully all southern Idaho towns we visited are at a stand still now. The towns are ahead of the country, and it will take several years for the country to develop enough to support the business of the . towns. 'In regard to land values, they seem to be boomed worst of all. From what we could loarn, nearly every place an irrigated project was in devolopuiout land values were from $100 to $400 per aore. Thousands of tracts of ton acres each have been Bold to eastoru people at from $200 to $500 per acre, and most ot it lies covered with sago brush from three to five foet in height These values are tio titious and I can't see how they oan last. It soeins to me there is bound to be a relapse, aud after that the coun try will gradually recover and the laud will be based on its true Value. There is practically nothing to that old story of going to Idaho und buy ing laud cheap, under the ditch, and making a good living. You could in all probability make a good living but it takes a great deal of money to buy land there." IN SOLDIERS' MEMORY Quietly and Impressively we Commemorate Memorial Day. Decoration Day in Oregon City this year was conducted in a truly mem orable manner, aud the absence of holiday sport was noted with marked appreciation by those who take to themselves the real meaning of the day that has been set aside to the memory of our departed heroes, and for all who have loft tills world of care aud gone to that grout unknown beyond the grave. At niue-thirty the Drum Corps followed by children from the various schools marched to the Willamette hull, where they met witii the O.A.R. and whore a pootion of the day's exercises were condurted. The moetiug at Willamotte hall waB full of sober impressions and was entered into by Mead PoBt Q. A. R., the Women's Relief Corps and chil dren of the publio schools and Mo Laughlin Institute. Addresses were delivered at this hall by Father Ilille brand and F. J. Tooze, after whioh the honored living whose broken ranks speak in strongest terms of the hard ships of the sixties, followed by Co. U., O. N. G., the fifo and dram corps and citizens marched to the suspension bridge and scattered flowers on the rivr in memory of those who mot death at sea, following which the pro ce.-sion moved to Mountain View cem etery, there to once more give recog nition of valient deeds from soldier lieroos, and iu their memory strewed sweetest bloom of nature o'er the sod den pillows that marked the resting place of what was earthly of those who battled that we might live in happiness. Take HERBIN'E for all disturbances in the bowels. It purifies the bowel ohannels, promotes regular niOTonientl ana makes you feel right, vigorous and cheerful. Price 60o. Sold bv Jones Drug Co.