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CITY COURIE 29th YEAR. OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY, FEB. J 1912. OREGON S THIS FOR A Few Starters for City's Big Year. the BUILDING ON EVERY STREET, This Year will Show Biggest Boom in City's History. Oregon City is 'going to have the iggost boom in its history this year, and it's going to start uext month. This isn't a pipe, it's a fact one of those facts that is substantiated with direct, conclusive evidence. And this coining growth isn't a "boom" in the western boom sense, bnt simply a permanent growth based on present demand and an alluring fa tare prospects for this city. Any man alive above the eais knows this part of Oregon has its knee pants on yet, and that in five years from now the present picture of Clackamas county will compare just about as do the old MoLaaghlin pictures with the present. Great droves are coming from the East on every excursion train, and when the Panama canal clips off the thousands of miles around the Horn and gives the ocean vessels the short ont to this bit of God's country well, the people are simply going to roll in to this section, this valley of the Pa- oifio that has ninety-nine advantages to one drawback. Bat, whoa Bill. We started out to show you direct evidence of things coming. Here are a few, just those voa fall over. ' The Mt. Hood Brewing Co will commenoe work on a Main street bus iness block the first of March, from the corner of Eighth Btreet south. It will be two stories, cement, with a frontagi of 66 feet. The Elks will build a handsome and expensive home on Water street this year a building modern in all details and an ornament to the city. The Episcopal ohurch has the foun dation started for a 40,000 edifice at the end of Niutti ttreet, on the bank nf the Willamette. This church will be of English architecture aud a handsome building. The library association will soon commence the erection of a 113.500 pnblio library building at the head of the Seventh ttreet stairway, and this will be one of the most sightly and attractive plaoes in the city. J'fro.'jtions are under way for the Maia'street property where Williams Bros, transfer office is now located, aud the barber shop adjoining. It in planned to bnild a modern business place there. . Senator W. A. Dimiok will soon commence work on a handsome new rerldence on Center street, on the heights, near the Oaufield residence. William Andresen will build a new 1 6 OPENER? M . "I find that kitchen work is a pleasure, rathe than a drudgery," says the housekeeper, 4 'now -that this wonderful MAZDA LAMP brightens the room like sunshine. This new lamp certainly is a blessing to the housekeeper. It COSTS' NO MORE to burn than the or dinary incandescent lamp and radiates nearly THREE TIMES as much light. And the quality of light is ever so much better. It is so restful to the residence on Jefferson street, on IiIb present site. J. A. Koake will bbuild a new home on Madison street. Frank Moore will build a residence on Washington street. It is reported that Frank Bosch will erect a large building on the lot north of his big store, and there are any number of stories an to what it will be. And Mr. Busoh says he hasn't anything to say just at pres ent. V. Harris is building an apartment nouse at the corner of 14th and Main, and will soon have It readv for ten ants. H. B. Cartlidge, foreman of the Enterprise, will build a pretty bunga low on in men and Washington. A. W. Cheney of Portland, who owns considerable property in this city, will build an apartment house on Ninth street, between Madison and Jefferson. Harry Jones is getting material ready for a new residnoe. Victor Conroe, on Tnird street, will build a new home this spnng Joseph Davenport expects to bnild a new residence on his lot on Warning ton street between Second and Third. Dr. O. A. Stewart has commenced work on a modern bnngalow on Wash ington street betweeu Third and Fourth. inese are bat a few that have come under our personal observation, aud the carpenters and contractors report the prospects are for a big banding growth this year. And beside all tin's, don't forget the big government oanal project, that will expend over $700,000 here, and which work will oommence this sum mer. Then will come dredging approrria tions both above and Leloir the falls, public docks and then this oity will have what most cities would give their hearts to get water trauspovta' tion, direct from the ocean. And then the big lumber mill at Greenpoint will start np tha minute the Molalla timber can be gotten to, so it is reported, and will ran a full force And this year the Clackamas Sooth ern railroad will be finished and one of the richest garden spots of the Willamette valley will have its outlet here. Don't you love this old town? Den t tilings look rosy for its' fn ture, and don't yon feel sorry for any man that has to live anywhere else? Harvey Case is On. The ra of Naihun Harvey, in con nection with thf mnrder of the Hill family, will rome before the grand jury today (Friday. ) The witnesses have benn sahpoenaed and Sheriff Mass will present his evidence. The outcome will be watched with ntmost interest. Treasurers Notice I now have funds to pay Coonty Road Warrants endorsed prior to April 10. 1911. Interest ceases on such warrant on date of this notioe. February 8, 1913 J. A. TUFTS, County Treasurer. azda Lamps Make LIGHT WORK eyes.' tt Portland Railway, Light & Po we Company ELECTRIC STORE SEVENTH & ALDER. PORTLAND IS A SUICIDE A L And are You Qualified to Pass out Judgment? HAVE YOU EYER FACED DEATH Paul Gozesky Played the Cards as they Were Dealt to Him. Were you ever dead broke, hungry and desperate? liver set right down to the last s:I ver dime, see nothing ahead but the ragged edges and the fringe of things? liver look at the fotore through das perate eyes, thinking ot yourself as a drag on those you should be helping as a hindrance rather than a help? You who haven't been down m these ditches of despair are not to judge Paul Gozesky, nor call him coward because he ended life with carboilo aoid. Only yon who have been there and ont the cards with grim death are qualified to judge. Paul Gozesky was handioapped in the free-for-all fight for a living be cause he had but one arm, and the old saying that misfortunes bunch np was illustrated in his life, for he lost what money he had in a business venture and then lost his job. Tilings went from bad to worse with Paul. Married bat five months he found he was a borden rather than an aid to his wife and mother. men he went the road that so many, desperate men go. He tried the cheer ot a false sensation, tried to drown worry with drink and failed Then the remorseful, desperate man played the cards as they were dealt to him. hie soured lonr ounces ol dead ly carboilo aoid down his throat and waited for it to burn his vitals The uoroner's jury went through the usual form and rendered the nsual verdict, aud Paul Gozesky is no more, I heard a man mate this remark on the street: "Any man who will kill himself and leave a family to strug gle on is a coward." I wanted to ask this man if he was ever oomnletelv lost in a forest of dead hop s, and I wanted to ask him Hti had courage enongb to sit down on his bed, raise a glass of certain death to his lips, look at it and drink it Paul Gozesky wasn't a coward he was braver than the man who said he was. The martyr's Bilence is louder than tha shriek of pain. He was down aud ont, crippled, moneyless, drnnken, dispondent and . desperate. He did what be thought was the only brave thins be could do and he did it without flinching. And here's betting that the Uhief Juslioe, when he looks over the ap peal, will nnn extenuating circum stances and parole him. Some people don't like independence, MORA COWARD? WHEN THE BUCKET SPRINGS A LEAK. What Would be the Best Thing to Do? HERE IS A STORY FOR. YOU, Mend it or Let the Leak Grow. It is Up to You. We want to tell the business men of Oregon City a few more things this week after a little we will quit talk ing aud give yon a rest. A man came into the Courier office a few days ago and told a little story It may interest yon. It should. He was in no way con netted with tiny office and we had no knowledge of what he was doiug He said he did it to prove a leak in Oregon Oity Here s the lensy story. He said from Busch's store he watohed the half hour cars pull out for Portland for three hours in mid day. During tins time there averaged sixteen people on every car. They were mostly ladies. They were going into Portland. What for? At night he found out what for, by watching the cars nnload at the Sev enth street corner. Every lady had a bundle. Now that is his little story. Here is ours: A Bhort time ago a man from Van couver was in the Courier office and he had a proposition. lie was promoting a Portland adver tising agency, but Portland mer chants wanted to be shown. 'Ihey wanted to know if the Courier would run the ads as they wanted them run, with a coupon proposition, that return of car fare would be made tu any Oregon Oity resident who traded a certain amount. Another firm wanted readers on the local page, quoting prices and aekiug fnrmers to bring their produce to Portland. You haven't seen the ads, have you? You won't, unless we are forced to take them for this is au Oregon Oity sheet. Now onoe more : The newspaper at Can by, that little town we could hide in the hoopskirts of Oregon Oity, has more advertising than all the busine s plaoes of Oregon Oity. AND THAT TOWN DKAWS TRADE PROM OREGON CITY. It.'g a fact. " Woodburn, another uttia town np the river, one-sixth the size of this oity, has two newspapers, arid either carries more advertising than the Courier. Some sweet day, when the baby wants a new shirt, and when patienoe has qmt the virtue job, there may be a lot more Portland ads in this paper. a lot more ladies going to the oity and a lot more bundles being put off at the Seventh street oorner. . It's a matter of business with you merchants and a matter of business with us. Stop the leak, keep trade at home or help to boom Portland. Think it over. Mil YOU STAND FOR THIS? Will you Let Marion County play the Persia Game on Us? There is rebellion at Woodburn and open talk of secession from Marion oounty. Aud this right in the face of a high state tax, a presidential eleotion and a good roads campaign. Do you wonder that Socialism grows.' Woodburn says she lsn t in right on the Final Wh&ck-up, that she isn't given notice of the Distribution ot Dividends and that unless she is taken in on the Main Divy she is going to start something. Now Oregon City hasn't any objec tion to Woodbnrn making a noise like an eoho, or howling until its citizens get the asthma, if it will only keep its trouble a iotly family affair. But when she comes over the border and proposes to make us line np and fight with her, or confiscate our prop erty if we din't well It Is time to oall off the city couucil light and oall on a. call to arms. The Independent serves notice on the fellows who run things that un less that end of Marion oounty has the political plums passed to it more often, it will secede from the oounty, annex a chunk of Clackamas and es tablish a county ot its own, by gosh. So there. Treason I Judas Iscariotl Benedict Arnold and Col. Henri Wattnrson I Men of Clackamas, w'll yon stand this? Will yon let the north end of Marion county tell you where to head in at? Up and at 'em. Tell them they can't have one foot of Clackamas county to make politios of, and that we will never, no never aid or abet any suoh revolution. So there. Hardin Fets the Limit. Judge Campbell gave William Har din about the limit Monday, when he sentenoed him to serve twenty years in Halem prison, on conviction of criminally attaching his step-daugh ter, Eva Phelps. Hardin is the owner of a large goat ranch near Bull Run and is said to be wealthy. The attack is said to have been made three years ago, and die trial was at the last circuit court. The defendant's attorney, G. B. Dimick, says the case will be taken to the, supreme court and Judge Camp bell has fixed the bail at 110,000. D1SHPANS, highest grade, seamless, heavy, 60c size, very special Saturday and Monday at 25 cents. Be anre and see them. MOUSE TRAPS. Now is tha time to use them. Special two for five cent at PremannV, Molalla. A YOU CAN SPARE? Or do You want the City to Protect Him? SELLING LIQUOR TO MINORS Revokes a License, but Council Doesn't Seem to Know It. Polioenien Frost aud Green saw a saloon man sell liquor to a 17-year-old boy. They did what they are sworn to do, what they are ordered to ' do. aud arrested him. Henry Oppermaun was tried before Mayor Dimick, nued $50 and paid his fine. - The matter ends. Now you mayor aud counoi linen of Ortgou City.you men so busy lighting, diow away tne smoke ana turn to or dinance No. 319, Sec 7 of the oity laws, wniou yon are pledged to eu force. It says any keeper or pronrietor of a saloon who sells nanor to a minor siip.ii De nuea not exceeding 8100 or by imprisonment not more than CO days, or by both AND SHALL FOR- FEIT ANY LICENSE WHICH HE MAY HAVE. " Now if any ordinanoe means anv thing this one does. There are uo two wavs about it it tells you what you MUST do. Why don't yon do it? Why didn't you bring it up Wednesday night? ion knew or the case and vou know one orainanoe. There are enough men over 21 to put their teet on the bar rails and their elbows on the walnut, without the kids. jLvery saioon man who believes in law believes that it should be enforc ed, and 1)9 men and women out of 100 in this oity want to Bte it enforced. They haven t any boys to spare. Last summer Mayor Browuell and the city couucil went after the Log uanin saioon under tue very same or idnance. The proprietor was Sued. given a jail sontenoe and his license revoked. This saloon was found guil ty of having Portland women in its place. Was it worse than selling liquor to a boy ? Let us enforce- the ordinances aud the penalties, or let us bnrn the char ters. Quit fighting and saw wood. Wednesday night's council meeting was the usual row; only harder and more of it, and no doubt the courts will have to separate what should be a harmonious body working for the interests of Oregon City. In brief here are the important points : Mayor Dimick appointed Stephen Green a ohief of police the couucil refused to confirm. The mayor refused to sign the pay warrant of Shaw, removed ; a motion that the recorder draw the order was ruled out of order, and an appeal from the decision was carried. The mayor's veto ot the Water street ordinance, where the retaining wall fell over, was passed over his veto. The mayor appointed Henry Mel drum city engineer and the council killed it. He tLen appointed H. A. Montgomery and he was approved. The mayor appointed Lee French as pol email, the couucil killed him. The mayor appointed Steven Green as ohiet of police and the counoil killed him. Oounoiluiau Altrght stated that the night policemen were off their beats hours at a time and took tarnB going home aud to bed. He refused to di vulge the source of his information, bnt said he would swear to it. Tooze backed these statements. Green and Frost emphatically deuy those statements aud demand an Inves tigation. Gordon E. Hayes as, a cit izen, demanded that the proof be prodnoed. The mayor appointed John Lewlleen street commissioner and Charles Burns ohiet of police: the uouuoil would not oonflrm. And thus the war goes on and the people are getting very, very tired of it. The Date is Feb. 22. February 22 the Columbia Hook & Ladder Co. will give its big annual dance in Bosch's hall, and there will be nothing like it for a big time, tor the Hooks always give a guarantee tor a time of your life with every ticket. Fox's orchestra of Pot thud has been engaged, the dance bill is only oue dollar and everybody is invited. Firemen s dances are always popu lar, for a fellow feels a sort of loyalty to the boys, lie knows where his in surance rates would be if it were not for them. And the Columbia boys have a good stand in. Put the date where you will fall over it Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 22 A TAXPAYER'S COMMENT. Presents a Matter for Taxpay ers and Workmen to Consider To the Editor: Among those who visit the tax collector's office between now and April will be many a man whose ouly assets are a growing fam ily and humble cottage with only the necessary pieces ot furniture. All of this certainly yields not a penny toward paying the year's taxes, which in many cases must come out of the two dollars pet day earned in ten hours or the 12. 28 earned in 12 hours shift work in the mills. At oertain hours of the day he may meet iu the h ills of the court house bevies of gay girls who draw from the treasury of the county f 55 and np per month for six or eight hours' work daily. Their youth readily suggests that they are still unencumbered. wbiob again suggests the probability HAVE BO that their earnings are for pin money, fiumes ana inns. The average pay w buuoD nuu uu Bixuiiur wum iu pri vate offices is less than $50 Der month. There are rich corporations who can afford to pay their girl clerks salaries beyond the dreams of the majority of wage workers or the income of most farmers, but tne average taxpayer is a mau usually in pressed circumstances whom the tax oolleotor puts annually into a nnaucial pinch. A knowledge of the facts iust cited would give him a keener desire to take part in the oivio reforms, and al so a better realization of the truth that justice as well as liberty is the price of eternal vigilance To reduce the salaries of the county employees to the generally accepted standard would be as agreeable to the average ritizeu's sense of justice as it wouiu be to the hard pressed tax payer. A TAXPAYER. LET'S GET A MOVE ON. Farmers Say we Talk too Much and Act too Little. A Molalla man was in the other day and he had something to say. He wauted to know it it will be neces sary for the farmers to organize iu or der to get Oregon City to take hold of the pnb.io dock matter. Aud he says if the farmers DO or ganize to force something for their own good, it may not ba along the lines of what Oregon City may want. And again, he says the Live Wires and Commercial Club have talked a puhlio wharf for just peven mouths, and we are not seven minutes nearer to It. Three is something to this gentle man's compliant, but it isn't all tine. ' The Commercial bodies here are not the whole works. They cau't haud out ultimatums to the oity or oounty nor go down aud make a dock. They can blaze the trail and get interest started, then others must help. But, follows, down at the eud of Twelfth street !b a natural dock, aud all we have to do is to take it. There are no if 's and and's about it, it iB the only natural dock, the only plaoe the farmeis' teams can get in and get out-asd the only place where a little expenditure will make a splen did wharf. Nature has made it. Aud the thing to do is to go tolit go take it. TueWilUinetteOo. is going to organ ize a common carrier rfeight ooniimuv and run boats. We must have a dock Let us talk less and saw a little more wood. The farmers want to come hoie. waut to ship from here, and want to receive from here, aud the move to make is to help them, and do it oheer- fullv. THE CALLS OF THE CLIMES. Oregon and Minnesota Send Out their Appeals. Frank Moore, the veteran news paper man of St. Paul, after freezing tor fifty yeats in Minnesota, came to Oregon City two years ago. Aud like the rest of us Mr. Moore 'got it" and got it bad. He troke out with it, had it in its worst form, and one day when he oonldn't stand it any longer he sat down aud dashed oft the following to the newspaper boys of the Pioneer Press : Come out to the laud of cedar aud vine, Where the birds ever sing aud the flowers ever twine. The laud of the pouch, the prune and ttie pear, The laud where the apple grows everywhere, The laud of the bossie and the land of the sheep, The land where ye sow ye may also reap, The laud of the mountain, the forest aud stream, Where the water is pure aud the grass ever green. (And a few days later Mr. Moore received the following reply, whioh he says he held over a lamp nntil it warmed up a little before he dared read it he was afraid of pueumouiu:) Come back to the land of the ice and the snow, Where the thermometer goes down to thirty bolow, Where there's frost on your whiskers, frost on your nose, Frost on your lingers, frost on your toes, FroBt on the window, irost on the street, Frost on the faces of the people you meet. Then why do yon boast of the peach aud the pear When there's nothing as good as the pure frigid air? , (j DEAD HORSE PAYMENTS. Here's a Way to Dodge them and Yet be Happy. Every mouth we mail to subscribers a notice ot the time their year's sub' acription expires. If your year is up you will get a notice this week. If you put It down in your inside pocket and forget it, we haven t done yon any good and have only made this office a lot of work. When your paper has run on for years aud some day you have to face payment, then you feel as if you were paying for a horse that died before you got him home, aud you don't feel a bit like hugging the publisher. Yon want to tell him to stop the blunkety blauk old almanao; that yea only ordered it oue year, etc., etc There is just one way to handle this subscription business and that is just the way one of our banks .would han dle your note. When it is due, pay it If you oan't pay it, then come in, talk it over, and we'll renew it. But don't ignore the notice, tor when we send it to yuu month after mouth, aud we don't get a stir from you, tlieu we feel just as the merchant or grocer does, and very likely we will do just as they do. AT 001 S An Unknown End of Our Unknown Country. 100 MILES ON MULE'S BACK Wierd, Burned-up Cow Country in Southwest Texas. When you go to west Texas to stop atJr o. You'll have to stoD there, for there is nothiug farthor west. It is the jumping on place. West there is nothing not a postofflce, a grooery or hotel, it is as far west as cultiva tion goes. On your map you will find traoed a rather crooked stream from ISonora to Juno, and it is labeled Devil's Kiver. I drove a mule down its bed tor over oue hundred miles and I do not be lieve that anywhere in the course of sixty miles could a damp stone be found if you dug for fifty feet. Der- i s Kiver it is indeed, if it ever rains out there, for this great draw is the drain for a hundred miles, and when general rains come this channel is a raging, dangorouB torrent. xour geographies tell you that west Texas is a plains oouutry. I wish the man who wrote this misstatement could follow down dry Devil's river from Sutton oounty to the Rio Grande, for west Texas geography would change. This great draw, in plaoes two miles wide, and again narrowing down to three hundred yards, appar ently was onoe a great river. For over a hundred miles it is lined by great bare binds as high as the Cas cade mountains, these bluffs running buok many miles in every direotion, and forming smaller oauyons tribu taries to the big draw. The trip down this river Is one a traveler will never forget, because of its weirduess, its desolation, its dry ness its heat, itB strangeness. Shut in this great valley, and looking up at the walls ot rock and sand on either side, one will occasionally stop and wonder were he is at wouder it he is still in the United States. These hills are different from any hills you ever saw. There is a strangeness associ ated with them, and an awesome feel ing oomea over you. It seems as if the baked buttes had been heaved np from below, pushed np ages ago by some volcanic action, and had ever since been waiting for the moisture that never comes. .. Many of the hills are as devoid of vegetation as is John Rockefeller's head of hair, aores and acres oovered with sand and stones, stones as small as marbles and as large bb houses. Then will come miles of cacti, oat claw, soto, dwarf oak, Spanish dagger and soiaweista. Hundreds of caves are hidden in these bluffs, the homes of coyotes, panthers, loafers and wild oats, and thousands ot pouuds of honey are hidden in those ohambers. Hunting? Well, if you could only find your way baoK yon could go tip almost any of the side draws and start a deer. They abound in these hills and the roughness of the country pro tects them aud will for many years to come. But unless one has one of the old timers for a guide, he had better shoot quail iu the main draw, for the country is a maze, and lie will be oome hopelessly lost in an hour. Every draw looks just like the other draw, orosBing, intersecting and winding, and to become lost in these canyons, with not a ranch house in titty miles, is dangerous, But any tenderfoot is oautioned when lost to climb to the top of the highest peak he can find, make smoke signals and wait for someone to oome and get him. There are panthers on these hills as big as yearlings; wild turkeys are numerous: deer are plentiful; there are a few bears, while wolves, wild cats and oivie cats can be started any where. And after hours of riding through the hot drains we oome to Juno. This cow town iB 135 miles southwest of Sun Angelo a nice little three days' drive. It is probably the most peace ful and the wildest aud wickedest west Texas oow town, and one of the oldest towns of the Devil's Kiver country. Two general stores, a smith hop, a hotnl aud a saloon make up the town. But the saloon should have been named first, for it is the magnet. Without it Juno would long since have been lost from the map. Every Saturday the cowboys oome in from the canyons and until Monday morning there is anything in the way of wild west entertainment one wants to see. And when these common drunks beoome monotonous, a barbe cue is pulled off. The "09" boys come in to clean up for the Tailor outfit and west Texas mates his tory. Why men will live in these desert hills and oauyons I cannot under stand. I talked with a bright young puncher regarding his life, aud found he was juBt home from tiie rioh cot ton lands of Texas, and glad to be back. This is sure 'nough a sorrv coun try, but I wouldn't give one of these little ole sand hills for all the country west or uevu s Kiver." Such is love of home. Almost the whale west half of Tex as from 1 eat smith country to the Bio Gran-j, is dried up. Not since the spring of 1906 have there been generla rains, and the ranches are in bad shape On maay pastures a fourth of the cattle have starved to death, beiug unable to find enough vegetation to keep alive on. Sheep men are drifting out of the country for want of lauge and the price has risen from two cents per head in 1900 to six cents per head now, and almost unobtainable at this price. Oue gets a pleasing surprise on the drive from Juno down the dry Devil's Kiver to Comstock. For miles you follow the winding canyons through a country that seems burnt out, nigau- (Coutinued on Page 2.) DEVIL RIVER