CITY COUR OREGON OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRDAY, NOV. 3, 1911.; 29th YEAR. THE BIG GIE AS WEPUY IT. At the Finish the Loser is The Winner. A LITTLE TALK OF BIG THINGS Whether you Win out or Strike out Depends on Point of View When you were a young fellow, and full of thtt self importation that the world need d yon to make it roll around regularly, you med to look around ahead at some fellow who yon thought liad the world - by the Black of the pants anil conclude that if you could ever get that far up there was nothing left to long for. But suooess is a relative proposi tion, you nod that out later. As a boy you have a ten norse power yeain to get up on the top shelf and ait side of the wan you have hong up as vour example, while he is lying awake" nights thinking out how he oan better his present dissatisfying position and pall up beside the fel low a littlle higher up. And the fellow ne is trying to catch is bending his energies and barking his shins trying to get higher np where he can shine brighter. And so it goes, in this age of ambi tion and aerop an s. Within two weeks nn iuetunce, bearing out that suooess is a" some thing in name only, cauie td the writer's observation, when a minister in one of Portland's wealthy ithurclifB wrote to a friend that he wonld be obliged to give np his pastorate and ask for an assignment in a small town where he could make both ends meet. Now ahont uiuety-niue men ont of a hundred would point ont this minis ter's position and career as having made good as success. He had a salary of f50 a week, a beantifnl home, pleasant surround ings, and to one in his audience it wonld seem that he had about all that was coming to him. Twice a week he delivered 80-minnte eermonB and reoeived $25 apiece for them. What more oonld a man ask? ,. thia- minister wrote he oonld Doc maun uuth ends meet and he must have something better. And his idea of Bnuiething better was a pla"e way back down the line the same place lis passed years ago the plaoe from wheie he once Baw success as the place he now tilled. The fellow who does the hunting is about the only judge of the quality of gnooess. It depends altogether on Who measures it. , 'No two of us have the same way of sizing up a matter, and if we had a standard and measured suocess like a cord of wood, there wonld soon be a glut on this market. It is mighty hard for a man to be satisfied, and perhaps it is well so. - The dissatisfied, oneasy, ambitious WE GIVE SERVICE If Every Only WE GIVE SERVICE ii en are the ones who make a coun try. A rolling atone doesu't gather mass, bat we don't need moss. I know a man who has spent the better part of his life bb a rolling stima, and people poiut him out as a fuilure, but this man is the greatest success by his own measure. Born with a gipsy's disposition to roam, he liitB indulged it, and while he is a dismal failure as to piling np money, yet he hus lived and learned. He is bid ani poor, but happy. Life has been full of what to him wm neces sary to uiakn it worth living, and he is yet happy in witioipation of travels yet to come. And I know another man who has always lived in the one place, and who will die there,, a contented, happy, successful man b? his meas ure. His yard stick was a home, a family and money iu the bank Each of tlitse men is a fuilure bv the other's measure, and neither has a right to judge. Happiness and content are success, and these are about all there is to the game. If you oan steer things to make them go as you want them to go, you are getting about all that is laid out for you. If they are oomiug wrong, and you can't make them break right, then yon are a time server, and you might as well put on tiie stripes, or get a new start. in the, western part of the state will act as agents for the company in the sale and distribution. The splendid assets behind theBH bonds and the great success of the company in put ting ttiiH road far bevond the point of uncertainty, make them gilt edge in vestments, and their sale will be no trouble From the starting to the present this railroad undertaking has been a success that will be pointed to all over Oregon as what may he done if you can hitch up the right men to do it. It doesn't need easter i capital aud eastern promoters to build an Oregon railroad where one is ueeded It simply needs men who have faith in the undertaking, faith iu themselves and men whom the people have faith iu then building railroads IB dead easy. Aud, by the way, what these uieu have done in railroads can be applied to other entirprises, and tliev can be brought through to juss aa successful end and ba made to pay good divi dends to the stockholders and big div idends to the city. Get together, pull together, tane the Knives out of your boots and tub i the money you put into advertising Oregon into some labor-providing, farmer-drawi g enterprise, and the work will be its own advertising. You will never have to advertise for men .to come to Oregon City or Clackamas county when you have something they want here, and if yoo haven't the want, yon certainly don't need them. Let's railroad A petition at king Willian Beard ton De a cauillUUlo xui Vliy luuuuiiuiou the third ward is being cironlated and liberally signed in that section of the city. Mr. Beard stands high with the people and he would make a popular oonncilman. WE Knew Storekeeper -Saving he could effect in his light bill by using MAZDA lamps he would never have any inferior illurriinant in his store at any price. HE WOULD PREFER ELECTRIC LIGHT as a matter of economy, to say nothing about the brilliant white light of the the MAZDA Lamps, unrivaled for show window illumination. If you would like to know more about the service these lamps are giving others, ask us. Portland Railway, Light & Power Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH ALDER. PORTLAND WE BOOH THE CLACKAMAS 0 Hustling Both Ends in the Middle. and NEWELL BRIDGE NEXT WEEK, A Little Outline of Progress and a Moral at the End. The Clackamas Southern is going some tlies bl ight days, ani Manager Swift is getting sixty seconds out of every minute and trying to wedge in more. The big trestle bridge from the srade at the point of the hill to the Southern Pacific railroad is almost completed, and it has risen like a mushroom in the night. The big piles are all in, driven frcm 15 to Si5 feet, the frame work and big limbers are down and the structure is prac tical ready for the ties. The bridge is built standard. It is identical in structure ' and strength with the viaducts on the Northern Paciflo, and it. will be permanent un til such future day as the company thinks best to fill the span. All along the line from Oregon City to Molalla every day is being made the most of, for as Manager Swift savs oue dav of this fall weather is worth three of the winter's rainy days. If weather holds favorable, three weeks more will see the grade com plete from this oity to Beaver Creek, and the bed ready for the ties. Next week work will be commenced on the big bridge over the Newell oreek ciuyon, and this will be a big nndHitftkinflr. The canvon is deep and in nlaces the bridge will he 125 feet ' high. It will take 500,000 ffet of lumber for tlrs stracture, or to give yon a better understanding the logs required for the work put end to end would reach distance of live miles. There a e twenty car loads of ties ready for delivery at Hubbard, a con tract under way for ten thousand more, aud a part of the rails will soon be delivered. The nnloading of these supplies will be at this end of the road, where the laying ot ties and rails will start, and the road utilized to deliver the ma terial along the route, building as it goes. About two-thirds of the grade is completed from Molalla to Mulino, and a force is working every day. The bridge at Newell creek, like the trestle in this city,' is not under contract, and ii being built by the company, and it la reported that the directors have saved thousands of dol lars by working out this policy on the entire road construction. The bonds are completed and will be ready for sale and distribution next week. Many hae already been contracted for and the different bank Carried to 2d column, this page. GIVE SERVICE GIVE SERVICE ITS "THROW IP 0 AND S."i A Hold-up Game, East A City of Sun Worship Side or West Side. ers and Dog Eaters. IT'S PUBLIC MONEY, GO TO IT God Made the Falls for Specu lators, Get Your Grab. Under the editorial head "Dizzy Figures" the Portland Journal puts a few straight over. On this matter of government looks in this city, and regaiding the enormous indemnity valnes asked by private interests that paper says : The troth is that a lot of fancy valaea are being thrown in the way of the government project at "Uregou Oity. If private owners were paying taxes thereon the valnes they ask for rights of way and other things needed by the government, there wonld he a perceptible lowering of the ' tax rate. The latest report of damages on the east Bide was somewhere between two and three million dollars. Mind you. the mills and railroads will be there, just as they are now, after the canal is oomploted. These millions are partial damages to prop erties, and we want to oall the' asses sor's attention to this matter, aud have them, determine what these prop erties are worth NOW. And if they are worth these enormous sums, why aren't they paying taxes on tome nhere near the value? As we understand the Southern Paciflo's damage list was simply pinged in to help swell matters and Ecare the government oft the east side a part ot the game. The canal will not touch their prop erty or come anywhere near it, bnt they jump in with a row of dauiase figures long enough to make Morgan bat his eyes. They evidently fear that sometime along about 1045 the snow may -all melt in the mountains in one great dissolve ana the river come over onto their tracks; that the government engineers do not know their business, and that only a Noah's ark could save them. This may be the reason, and there MAY be Others. Mr. Southern Paoi flcis a smooth politician. Of the west side route the Journal says: The prioe of $600,000 set by the owners on ths Oregon City looks is absurd. The company insists that the operation of the looks results in a deficit. If so, how does th! property come to be worth $ti00,000? That isn't the point. The point is the government and the state have a big appropriation, ana it isn i ntsi w have any of it left over to spoil If the owners of the locks were trying to all them to pivate individuals they wouldn't first show that they were running behind on the investment each year and then touch for $600,000. But the government is easy ana doesn't often oome to Oregon Oity. WI.ea he does, give him the gall, throw the hook into him. And again the Journal voices pnblio sentiment: The absurdity of the whole spectaole is revealed in the appar ent belief by these claimants that the Willamette river was originally created for the sole benefit of a few men who set np claims to vested rights at the falls. Three weeks ago in an estimate of damages, one of the mills was report ed to have stated that the proposed canal wonld seriously interfere with the use of the river for logs, bom eta. Aud somehow this makes one ask, for information only, what goes with a water nower franchise at the falls, how mooh or tnj river acove ib thrown in with the rent, and have the mills a right to post "no tres pass" signs as far up as Oanby? Mutt the city pay for what water it nses from the intake and will they forbid the hova to bathe later on? And when one gets to thiuking along these lines he wonders wherein one eets the power to tie np a navi gable river; how it has the right to ton a croverninent's work for an open passage, and how far np or down this publio stream tne interest reany claim rights. In a way the whole shine is amus ing. For twenty years the citizens have worked hard for government aid, and when tliev finally get it, they can't use it. Some oties would have had the route and the details all arranged for when the appropriation came, and wonld have met it with brass bands and a ratification meeting; they would have first got the right of way and been ready to pot the men on the job the minute congress yielded. While we have the money, but can't use it The government must wonder if the state bus house isn't looated at the Willamette falls, and if there hasn't been a general outbreak. FRESH DAILY Salmon, Halibut, Etc. CRA&S, cooked on the premises; OYS TERS, direct from the shell; CHICKEN to order; No Cold Storage Hock in 6th or fowl. Headquarter for OLYMPIA OYSTERS, the best on the Coast. MACDONALD'S MARKET FISH! FISH! Next Weill Fargo IR COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN Z BACK BEFORE COLUMBUS' DAY Living as they Lived before the Conquest in Zuni Today. . Forty-eight miles by wagon road south from the little desert town of Gallup, in a remote and practically unknown corner ot New Mexico, close to the Arizona Hue, is zuni that -j i i, .. . ; .. .. pvramiu ui gray wuu uuubcb, luiuiiug the most wonderful oommunial dwell ing on the western continent. It is wonderful, weird, gruesome, fascinating and revolting. It is a oommunity aDd a people of the far past ages living in the present an In dian pueblo whose inhabitants lived where they now live ages before a white man's foot ever touched Amer ica. Aud yet but few ot we so-called Americans' know anything about Zuni and its strange people, living in oar midst. Neither history nor tradition tells us when Zuni was founded. Some of us know that it is the oldest contin ually inhabited Indian village in our country, aud that is about all we do know. Once it was one of the famous "Seven Cities of Oibola," now it is a community of sun-worshippers, dog eaters and degenerates. Once its in habitants were famous as relentless, blood thirsty savages, missionary bntohers, weavers, pottery makers; now they are spiritless, aepravea, filthy and live as becsts would not live. It was the fabled hidden gold of Zuni that hundreds of years ago blazed a path aoross the desert plains from Mexico to the ltio Grande aud Zuni was an ancient pueblo then. Ooronado found this village ait) years ago, aua now many nunureas oi years it had been occupied before his coming, none know and few oan make a reasonable guess And there it stnndB in the desert sunshine today, and there its 1800 in habitants live just as they lived long hefore Columbus ever tried to pound it into the thick-headed Spaniards that there was another pieoe of the world over here. Let me tell vou something of this unknown odd snot of our oountry tell vou of some of the sights I saw tin re in the closing days or 1H1U oi a peo Die and conditions that you oouid hardly believe exiHtea in una great country of ninety-three millions popu lation. ...... Unlike the oommunity dwellings or Lagnma and Aeoruo Zuui is not clilf built. It is bnilt on a rise of ground nn the bank of that lit'le sluggish Btream called the Zuni river. It is built entirely of dobie snn-dried mud hrick each houBe Joining the other and reminding one of the plans of our modern stock yards. Years ago when the fighting Navajos made life on these Dlains a survival of the fittest the outside walls or tins inaian cny were forts without doorB or windows, but now doors have been cot through most of the outside walls. There is one common entrance, wide enough for a team to pass through, and once inside there are several acres or an loining houses and cut up with nar row, irregular alleys The whole oity is one great communial house, and the Inhabitants one great family. The streets, or alleys, are BUed with Indians, dogs. DigB. turkeys, (luck burros, water. :ars, mnd ovens aud Donies. The filth is something awful, and the first wonder to me was why a pestilence or fever had not long ago wiDed Znni and its people off the United mates man. cue uiey are iui mune to everything bnt suiallpoi they seem to fatten on filth and fara ine. I walked in at the main entrance' and started to 'do Zuni," and the first hoiror that met my eyes started me back to the trading post to get a white man to aocompany me. It was but-a common sight of deparvity and cruelty, but I will long remember it, A little puppy had Dotn legs m-oxen at the hips bv these fiends and it wbb dragging ' its hind quarters as it crawled about the streets, wnne me Indians laughed. That the anima had been in this condition many days was shown bv the Mesh being worn through to the bone, where the legs dragged on the ground. The nost trador told me that I need not have an? fear of the Indians, for he said there was nothing left iu them but cruelty, and that I could tie one hand behind me and drive the wnoie village out. And now let me explain something that will give you a reason for this and many other instances of horrible rroeity ana aepravuv mat i saw iu this village or at least tne reason clven by the few white men who live iu this country. For hundreds of years the Zunis hv lived in this one vilUgo, lived nd lute, married in this one family. nntll ther are all. or nearly all, blood relatives. They have degenerated un til nearly all the old instincts ano arts, executing uofsibly cunning and nrufiltv. have been bred out of them aud they now are debased, cowardly and ft thy defendants or a once la moos tribe of the southwest. I saw an Indian ride into the village and dismount from a burro, and noted a ktreain of bbod running down the aonkev's shoulder The trader showed m the cause. Oil the ani mal's shoulder was an old sore, a Bore keut oonBtantlv irritated by the mas tar. anil when In wanted the donkey to go faster he would prod this wound with-a sharn stick. It was fo mucn easier than twinging the quirt Ion th touun hide, and the Indian enjoyed it so much more. A hog was running the streets with a great sore on its lower iaw. a cart of which an Indian had cut off because It crowded the uii8 away from the street refuse and got more than his share. Farther down the street I rao onto another interesting sight, but this oue while a little repulsive to oar ge and tasi.es, was more humane, in tact an act of mercy. Sitting in the sun were two warriors. One had his blanket off. his back bare, while his neighbor picked from his person and his rags body lice, and ate them, with appar ent relish. This was combining mercy and necessity, and I considered it a sign of progression. There are Indians over six feet tall, splendid figures'of manhood from a distance, but on" does inspection their wrists are not half the size of a woman's. There are squaws, broad shouldered, fat-faced and full-busted, whose legs below the knees are not as large as their arms. But one of the strangest marks of inter-marriage that I saw in this vil lage wan two albino Indians pure blooded Zunis. There are four iu the pueblo, it is said. They are as light as any white man, with straight, white coarse hair, pink oheeks, white eyebrows and almost pink eyes. I could not believe that these men were Indians until close inspection showed the unmistakable features, the high cheek bones and the Indian hair. The Zunis dress and live in the same manner as they did before they ever saw a white man's faoe. They all wear the bright-ootored band about the forehead, the hair, about a foot long, braided and looped np with red yarn ; all wear the Indian blan kets, bought from the Navajos ; the urquoise is worn in ear-rings, brace lets, beads, finger-rings and belts. The turquoise is to the Indians what diamond is to the American, and silver of equal value with our gold. doubt if an Indian would piok up a gold ring if he found one. The tiquaws wear haugs low down on the forehead, many wear them below the eyes, they all wear the blauket, leg gins and moccasins. it is a curious sight to sit on the op posite side of the river aud watch Znni. You will see an Indian ap proach the village from the opposite side from the main entrance. He will go into the first lionsa that has an en trance, olimb up a ladder that pro trudes from the roof, and then run over the tops of the houses to his pen It is so niuoh nearer than following the crooked alleys And at sunset ou will see the aged Indians climb to the tops of the houses and there sit and watch the sun go down. One startling sight that connonteu me ou my slumming trip was the sud den appearance of a nianiao. lie darted out of a mud hovel, stood di rectly in front of me, and glared with his wild eyes. His olothes were al most torn from him, and his long white hair wbb a uibbb of tangle. I began to think that the trader who told me I could drive these men out ike a hunch of tlieep had put one over on me. Hut the lunatio only stared at me and then went back. This man was to the Indians a witch, and while they feared him and hated him, not one would ever dare touoh him, or refuse him food. Nix for the camera in Zuni it is barred. X had a pocket size Eastman, and wore my overcoat to hide it. They were having a sport clay, horse- raciug and suck throwing, and l wanted some pictures. A big Zuni, the only English speaking inuian in he village, soon had me spotted 'Taking pictures," he asked. "No," replied. "Just looking around," he again asaed, and when I nodded he went away, but I noted that he watched me continually. They will not allow a camera or a Mexican in the village if they can prevent, and it s only by oaution and through tricks that one can get a Buap.- -M. J. iirowu. (Continued next week. ) AN EPIDEMIC. " ever has Broken out in Port land and may Reach Here. Uoiu' stark mad. Or gone. Did you ever got astride of a hobby aud ride it to death? Well, the most of us have, and word comes from Cortland that the ladies of that city have sure gone daffy on 'bridge." Now do you know what bridge is? Well, it's a thing that ought to hitch two together, tie 'em up securely, but it s a misnomer, judging from what we hear from our neighboring oity, and bv the way they term it the yueeu oity or tne west." Did you ever play a game and gtt so wiapped up in it that you fcrgot your family and iriends, torgot mat anyone had a right to "pass" but yourself? Well, if you haven't, don't get in; you may lose a your friends aud part of your hair. It appears that the game nas Deconie so interesting, ana mere hub ueuu added a little salt and pepper, that the players are not satisfied to merely beat the other lellow and taue away the "honors," but the desire to get more beoomea so strong that real money has taken the place of an m- signifioant fork or spoon (sterling) aud the hours are whiled away, while the infants are loft to bawl their eyes out, or the husband left to git his own meals, or starve, aud in seme In stances a little something is ottered on the side "to make things look different." It's an innocent game, as far si the game is concerned, but it appeal 8 that serious results follow when one gets to sticking to it real earnest, just like Doker. aud I am told that it leads to all sorts of things. But Portland is an exception, we don't find these conditions to exist in Oregon Oity, that is not in a virulent form. Of course we ouuoc not, tnat bridge is quietly used hore to aninse those who have absolutely nothing to do seven or eight days in the week, and there may be some "wool" pul ling, but it's kept mighty quiet, and, well, those things always remind me of two cats in a bauk yard ; you leave them alone long enough and the lur will fly. It may grow, here in Oegon 0 ty, but we believe there are in this city the best lot of ladies in the world, who would never allow it to be said that their home was being ru ined, their family ties broken, or even a suggestion that they devoted stven-elghthB ot their time to some thing that might lead to well, it's worse than poker-and eventually the mongrels, the low bred story imaginer and carrier, might get hold of it, then good Lord deliver you. 1 Don't play the game. STATE CANAL ' BOARD SEE LOCKS Governor West, Olcott, and Kay Make Visit. REPORT IS NOT YET PUBLIC. State Officials Entertained by the Commercial Club. Oregon City was greatly honored last Saturday by tbe presence of Gov ernor Oswald West, Secretary of State Ben. Olcott, and State Treasurer 'fhos Eay, who met here officially representing the state canal board, to iuvestiag e the proposed government canal and locks. At about the same hour arrived from Portland Maj. J. F. Mclndoe; government engineer E. O. Thompson! advertising manager, W. T. Bu chanan, of the P. K. L. & P. Co., all more or less interested iu where the locks mayb bo located. Sight seeing started off promptly at ten o'clock a. m the guests being met at the station by about sixty citi zens, who escorted the notables about the city in antos, viewing the Clack amas Southern railway grade and trestles, from there going over the proposed canal sites, around the basin in launches, aud along the river banks, giving all an excellent oppor tunity to look into the matter of just where the locks should be located, aud listening to all the arguments pro aud con from those who a e interested financially aud otherwise. - At about the noon hour, luncheon was served in the MaBouio banquet hall by the Oregon Oity Commercial Oluh, at which tune President J. . Hedges called upon diHerent gueBts to give short tulks, Governor west stated that he saw no reasonable objection to locating the looks on either side aud that he came here with an open mind as to where they should he located, but his views ou the matter were only of a personal nature and that the matter should have serious consideration by the board before their views could be given out. He stated that he thought the damages asked by some of the property holders on the east side were exoessive, and that they were uot en titled to receive a cent more than what their property was worth, aud advised getting together, to see if a reasonable figure could be obtained, and stated that there was anothor remedy, the courts, if fairness wm not fliown by the interests. The ,. Governor stated 'further that free locks were uot so far off as one might think, as he stated Unit he believed that It would Iw a good pulley -to put out at interest the state appropria tion, the interest on which would cover the toll now exacted, and that thereby the people would be given the . same nb free service until Bnoh a time as new locks could be built, He also reiterated the opinion of Major Mc lndoe, that the government owns the water power on the yillamette river, and intimated the indemnity might be ever go small if the government saw fit to proceed. Secretary of State Oloott in his talk gave pleasing reminisuenoes of early days iu this city when he assisted in the construction of our streets, com plimenting Oregon Uity people on the present appearance of the oity, oo inoiding with the governor's views that in the government locks propo sition the greatest good to the great est number, which he oited was the apparent policy of Oregon City peo ple. , , State Treasurer Tom Kay has al ways had a warm spot in his heart for people in this oity aud the oounty, and stated that the fire therein was still burning, expressing his detlre that some definite action might be had at once ou the locks question, as the greatest benefits would result to the Willamette valley and people of the state if free looks could be con structed. In his talk lie tossed bou- -quets to our highway commission aud stated that the work of our local commission had done more to bring about speedy action and good results in the start of the highway work than any other body of men or efforts of counties in the state. , Major Mclndoe gave a resume of the government work on the locks question up to the prosent time, ex plaining his position in the uiatter, setting practically at rest the feeling of nuoertaiuty as to where tbe gov ernment desired the locks constructed, mid why, aud stated that he was act ing under government orders to pro ceed to secure estimates of damages trom proporty holders along the east Bide of the river, intimating when he had accomplished htat task, the gov ernment would then proceed with their work, the initial work,' of ooune securing reasonable indemnities. In the course of his talk the Major stat ed that in Mb opinion the plan of Governor West to place the state ap propriation at interest might not work to the best advantage, as the government desired officially to know jurit when aud in what amounts the state appropriation might be avail able, aud placing it at interest might tie it up so that it could uot be ob tained when desired, and would thus make it non-available. After the banquet the guests depart ed for Portland to go over the ottloe work of Major Mclndoe in connection with the plans of the government concerning the proposed canal aud locks. Mayor Petition Presented. The petition signed by about four buudred representative citizens of Or egon Oity requesting him to be a can didate for mayor and pledging their support, was Thursday afternoon pre sented to Wm. Aodresen. Upon beiug questioned, Mr. Andre sen stated that he would take the matter under advisement for a few days before making any announce meut.